Zongwu: Eavesdropping on the inner voices, the female warriors have become strange

Chapter 211: Drag into the water?

Lu Xiaofeng is still very capable, and he seems to have a really good relationship with the Ming Dynasty court. He actually has the ability to enter the Heavenly Prison, and quietly entered the ninth floor and met Gu Santong.

Gu Santong is a martial arts enthusiast and a mischievous character. In his youth, his love of martial arts led him to befriend Zhu Wushi. Together, they explored Tianshan Mountain and learned the true teachings of the Tianchi Strange Hero, mastering the Vajra Indestructible Kung Fu and the Qi-Absorbing Technique. Because of his quirky nature and childlike innocence, he earned the nickname "The Unbeatable Naughty Boy" among the Jianghu.

Gu Santong offended many people in the martial arts world because of his naughty character. He was challenged by the eight major sects to a battle on the shore of Taihu Lake. However, he was framed by Zhu Wusi, who turned from love to hatred for Su Xin, and killed 108 people from the eight major sects and the four chief constables of the Ministry of Justice.

A year later, Su Xin dueled with Zhu Wushi on the summit of Tianshan Mountain. After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, the two were exhausted and decided to decide the outcome with a single move. However, at the last moment, Su Xin, feeling guilty about Su Xin, was disturbed by Zhu Wushi's words. As a result, Su Xin lost her focus and was attacked by Zhu Wushi's first move. Su Xin was defeated by Zhu Wushi's full-strength palm strike.

To fulfill his promise, Gu Santong willingly allowed Zhu Wusi to imprison him on the bottom floor of the Heavenly Prison for twenty years. Furthermore, he was forbidden from entering any area inscribed with the words "Iron-hearted Divine Marquis." However, Zhu Wusi was extremely cunning. He imprisoned only Gu Santong on the ninth floor of the Heavenly Prison, leaving it with only one entrance. He erected a stone tablet inscribed with the words "Iron-hearted Divine Marquis" at the entrance. Therefore, even after twenty years, Gu Santong could not escape unless someone broke the tablet.

Lu Xiaofeng met Gu Santong on the ninth floor of the Heavenly Prison, and learned from him that the masters of the eight major sects did not die at the hands of Gu Santong twenty years ago.

Since those 108 masters did not die at the hands of Gu Santong, then it could only be as Chen Liu said, that they died at the hands of Zhu Wusi.

Lu Xiaofeng's face turned grim. This meant that Zhu Wusi's conspiracy to rebel was probably true.

However, Zhu Wusi's reputation was too good. He was also the emperor's uncle and controlled the "Hulong Villa", which was superior to any other institution in the court. In order to prove that Zhu Wusi was plotting a rebellion, he had to find conclusive evidence of his rebellion. And in the process, he must not be discovered by Zhu Wusi, otherwise he would face Zhu Wusi's crazy pursuit.

The most crucial thing was that when Lu Xiaofeng learned from Gu Santong that Zhu Wushi had already reached the peak of the Grandmaster level twenty years ago, and that he practiced the Qi-absorbing technique, and that he had likely absorbed all the internal energy and true qi of the 108 masters of the eight major sects, he immediately felt that he had fallen into Chen Liu's trap. That guy probably threw the trouble to Zhu Wushi because he was difficult to deal with, so he could stay out of it.

This is absolutely not possible. Lu Xiaofeng felt that he had suffered a loss, and he had to drag Chen Liu into the water no matter what.

Lu Xiaofeng went to Chen Liu's home to find him. It was a proper visit. After all, there was a Yao Yue in Chen Liu's home. Yao Yue was a crazy woman, and Lu Xiaofeng was a little afraid of her.

"You've met Gu Santong so soon?" It wasn't even noon yet, but Lu Xiaofeng had already met Gu Santong, which made Chen Liu admire his ability.

"Yes." Lu Xiaofeng glanced at the obedient Yao Yue in her maid's uniform again, and wondered: Is this still the Grand Palace Master of Yihua Palace? What on earth could Chen Liu do to make Yao Yue behave like such a good maid?

After watching twice more, Chen Liu also noticed Lu Xiaofeng's little trick and asked, "Do you like her?"

"No, no, no!" Lu Xiaofeng shook his head and hands. What a joke! Who would dare to like this crazy woman? Only Chen Liu could tame this crazy woman.

"If you like her, just say so. It's okay." Chen Liu said, "Her name is Zhang Yiyue. She's just a maid in my house temporarily. Her father is Zhang Chaochong. It seems he was imprisoned by your court. Don't you have connections in the court? If you can get her father out, maybe you can win her over."

Yao Yue: ...

Lu Xiaofeng: ...

What the hell is Zhang Yiyue? What the hell is Zhang Chaochong?

Lu Xiaofeng looked towards Yao Yue and saw the warning in her eyes. He quickly turned his head away and said, "I do have some connections, but those who enter the prison are all serious criminals. I don't have the ability to get them out."

"Really? Are all the people imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison serious criminals?" Chen Liu was a little confused. He turned to ask Yao Yue, "By the way, Yi Yue, what crime did your father commit?"

"rebellion."

Chen Liu:......

"Involved in a conspiracy." Yao Yue saw that Chen Liu's face looked even more puzzled, and she immediately realized what was happening. If it was a conspiracy, she wouldn't be immune either. She quickly added, "My father was wrongly accused."

"If your father is wrongly accused, you can ask Lu Xiaoji for help. He is very good at investigating cases." Chen Liu pointed at Lu Xiaofeng.

Yao Yue looked at Lu Xiaofeng with a forced smile, knelt slightly and saluted, saying, "I beg you, Master Lu, to save my father."

Lu Xiaofeng was so scared that he almost jumped up.

"Master Zhang Chaochong? I'll help you check." Lu Xiaofeng nodded repeatedly and said, "If your father was wrongly accused, he must be fine."

"Thank you, Mr. Lu."

"No thanks, no thanks."

"Yue'er." Wang Yuyan realized that if Lu Xiaofeng continued to be frightened by Yaoyue like this, he would be exposed. She quickly sent Yaoyue away and said, "Go and get me my box of Dahongpao."

"Okay, sister!" Yao Yue turned and left. Lu Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Wang Yuyan, who smiled at him.

Lu Xiaofeng thought to himself, "From the looks of it, Madam Chen knows that Zhang Yiyue is Yaoyue, and it seems that only Chen Liu is kept in the dark. Why is that? Why are they hiding this from Chen Liu? What's their purpose? What is Chen Liu after? Money? If it's money, then Yihua Palace shouldn't be short of it. If it's not money, then it's martial arts. Could they be trying to steal the Dugu Nine Swords? No way! Madam Chen knows that person is Yaoyue. She can't help an outsider steal her own martial arts, right? Could it be that Madam Chen is from Yihua Palace?"

Lu Xiaofeng's reasoning nature kicked in, and he couldn't help but push it along. After a while, Lu Xiaofeng came to his senses and said, "Why should I care about this? I'm here to drag Chen Liu into this."

"Chen Liu, do you know that Tiedan Shenhou can absorb the energy?" Lu Xiaofeng asked.

"Absorbing Qi?" Chen Liu showed a puzzled look on his face and asked, "What kind of martial arts is this?"

"A technique that can absorb a person's internal energy." Lu Xiaofeng said, "I asked Gu Santong, and he definitely didn't kill those over a hundred masters from the eight sects. He also told me that Zhu Wusi practiced a technique called "energy absorption." Therefore, it's very likely that he drained the energy from those over a hundred masters."

"Moreover, twenty years ago, Tiedan Shenhou was already at the peak of Grandmaster level. After so many years, he might have already broken through to Grandmaster level."

Lu Xiaofeng looked a little depressed.

There is a huge difference between a Grand Master and a Grand Master. Even if more than a dozen Grand Masters siege one Grand Master, it would be difficult to defeat him.

Gu Santong is also a grandmaster now, so Lu Xiaofeng deduced that Zhu Wushi might have broken through to the grandmaster level long ago, but Zhu Wushi has only shown the strength of a grandmaster so far. There must be a conspiracy, otherwise why would he hide his strength?

Chapter 212 Tian Fragrant Cardamom

"You threw this thing to me, you have to help me."

"I help you? Are you kidding? You said Zhu Wusi is very likely a Grandmaster, how can I, a small innate Karami, help you?"

Little Karami? What does that mean? Oh! It probably means a minion. You are Little Karami, but your wife and maid are not Little Karami!

"I don't care. If you don't help me, I won't take care of this matter." Lu Xiaofeng acted like a rogue. He just wanted to drag Chen Liu into the water.

"I don't care! Zhu Wusi is rebelling against your Ming Dynasty anyway." Chen Liu said with a smile: "The worst that can happen is that I leave the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Wusi can't do anything to me."

Lu Xiaofeng: ...

Chen Liu's words made a lot of sense. Lu Xiaofeng was speechless.

"Actually, you can ask Gu Santong to help you. Didn't you say he is also a grandmaster?" Chen Liu said.

Lu Xiaofeng was somewhat helpless and said, "He can't get out."

"Why can't you get out?"

"There's a stone tablet at the entrance to the ninth floor of the Heavenly Prison. Inscribed on it are the words 'Iron-hearted Divine Marquis'. In his bet with Zhu Wusi, he stipulated that if he saw the words 'Iron-hearted Divine Marquis', he wouldn't be able to move forward."

"Why don't you just smash the stone tablet?"

Lu Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly slapped his thigh, gasped, and rubbed his hands. Yeah, Gu Santong couldn't break the stone tablet, so could he not do it? Why is he so stupid?

Lu Xiaofeng suddenly stood up, turned around and left.

"Wait." Chen Liu called out to Lu Xiaofeng.

"Is there anything else?" Lu Xiaofeng asked.

"Can you help me get some passes to enter and exit the Forbidden City?" Chen Liu asked.

"What do you want to do in the Forbidden City?" Lu Xiaofeng asked.

"Of course, we're going to watch Ximen Chuxue and Ye Gucheng duel!" Chen Liu said matter-of-factly, "They're dueling on top of the Forbidden City. Do you think the palace will be open to people from the martial arts world to come and go as they please? The Forbidden City will definitely be under martial law that day, and people from the martial arts world won't be allowed in. I can't just barge in, right? I'd have to have the skills to do that."

Lu Xiaofeng thought about it and said, "I can't help you with this."

"If you can help me get five passes to the Forbidden City, I can tell you a piece of news." Chen Liu said.

"Six." Wang Yuyan interrupted.

"Six?" Chen Liu was a little confused.

"Shui Sheng, Fei Xuan, Meng Yao, Yi Yue, and the two of us, isn't that six in total?" Wang Yuyan said, counting on her fingers.

"Is Yiyue going too?"

"Go."

"Six, then."

"What news? You tell me first."

"It's related to Zhu Wusi's rebellion."

"Tell me what the news is first. If your news is valuable enough, I will find a way to get you a few passes." Lu Xiaofeng thought for a while and said.

"Hasn't there been a rumor recently that Princess Toshihide of Izumo is coming to the Ming Dynasty to marry your Ming Emperor? You can go and check out the wedding delegation. There must be something wrong with that delegation." Chen Liu said with a smile.

If I could get Lu Xiaoji to get me some passes to the Forbidden City, I wouldn't have to rescue the Ming Dynasty's Empress Dowager. Let Lu Xiaoji investigate this matter. The people at "Hulong Villa" couldn't find anything wrong in the original novel, but that doesn't mean Lu Xiaoji can't. If Lu Xiaoji can find out that the Yun Kingdom's envoys have been replaced by Zhu Wusi with the intention of kidnapping the Empress Dowager and assassinating the Emperor, it will definitely be enough to make Zhu Wusi suffer, and he might even be brought down.

"How do you know so much?" Lu Xiaofeng was surprised.

Even if Chen Liu was very capable, it was impossible for him to find out so much in such a short time, right? In fact, Lu Xiaofeng had been somewhat suspicious of Chen Liu yesterday because the information Chen Liu had told him was too much and too secretive.

For example, there was news about Zhu Wusi's rebellion, his connections with the Ten Generals, his collusion with Japan, and the Gu Santong incident. Now, there's news that the Izumo Kingdom's envoys are involved with Zhu Wusi. How did Chen Liu know all this secret information?

"I know the Clay Buddha, have read the 'Heaven's Crying Sutra', and know a little bit about arithmetic."

Lu Xiaofeng: ...

Lu Xiaofeng left in a hurry.

Lu Xiaofeng came rushing over.

"What's the matter again?" Chen Liu asked when he saw Lu Xiaofeng coming to his house again.

"Gu Santong said he'd been imprisoned for only one month, less than twenty years." Lu Xiaofeng was extremely depressed and said, "He told me to come back to him in a month."

"You can tell Gu Santong that Su Xin gave birth to a son for him." Chen Liu said, "He doesn't know about this yet."

"Did you calculate this?" Lu Xiaofeng was surprised.

"Yeah! Is that not possible?"

Lu Xiaofeng: ...

This time, Lu Xiaofeng left and did not come back for a long time. It seems that he has successfully persuaded Gu Santong to leave the Heavenly Prison.

[Since Gu Santong left the Heavenly Prison, didn't his son's chance come to an end?]

Chen Liu didn't go out today. After finishing his training, he sat leisurely in the garden, drinking tea and watching Wang Yuyan, Shi Feixuan, and Qin Mengyao playing chess and chatting. Sometimes his mind wandered, thinking about something.

[I don't think it's going to end. After Gu Santong escapes, he'll definitely want to find his son's whereabouts, but now only Su Xin and I know Cheng Shifei's whereabouts. Su Xin's meridians are severed, and she's fallen into a coma. Zhu Wushi fed her a cardamom seed to keep her alive, and then placed her in a thousand-year-old ice coffin.]

Heavenly fragrant cardamom? Shi Feixuan and Qin Mengyao couldn't help but feel a little moved when they heard this.

Legend has it that the cardamom fruit is a magical fruit with resurrection powers. Consuming it will prevent even the most serious injuries from worsening, but the eater will fall into an eternal sleep until someone finds and feeds a second cardamom fruit. Furthermore, it's said that consuming three cardamom fruits will grant the person eternal youth and eternal youth.

"So if he wants to know where his son is, he has no choice but to come to me. After all, it was me who told Lu Xiaoji that Su Xin had given birth to a son for him."

What does Gu Santong have? The Vajra Indestructible Divine Art? Using it will turn you into a golden man. Too ugly, too boring.