I come to see Bai Yujing today

Chapter 229: Demons and ghosts everywhere, endless killing

A ray of sunlight from the Young Tiger Monument illuminates the Chitian Pagoda in Xuantianjing.

Until the Tiger Cub Monument disappears.

Wei Liyang stood on the fifth floor of the tower, his eyes bloodshot, his bright red tongue covering his lips, staring at the place where the Tiger Cub Monument disappeared.

The name was still reflected in his mind.

Chen Zhian!
"Chen Zhian, Chen Zhian..."

Wei Liyang repeated Chen Zhian's name, and his gaze finally fell from the sky to the many human skins on the fifth floor.

These human skins are either already covered with paintings or have just been dried. When the dim light falls on them, you can clearly see how exquisitely they are made.

The true energy fluctuations emanating from it mostly glowed with a cold blue-gray light under the lights, which was strange and powerful.

But the admiration in Wei Liyang's eyes no longer existed, instead it was filled with disgust and disdain.

He was still repeating Chen Zhian's name.

It seems like he is using these human skins to compare with Chen Zhian.

After a few breaths passed, Wei Liyang turned his eyes to Xuantian Palace again.

Princess Linglong took advantage of Shang Lingling's stay in Yufu Palace.

They are obviously husband and wife.

But they had never seen Wei Liyang since he came to Xuan Tianjing, as if he were a stranger.

After taking a look at Yufu Palace, Wei Liyang's eyes suddenly showed a bit of violence.

"Chen Zhian!"

He uttered these three words fiercely, and seemed to chew them in his mouth and swallowed them deeply.

He walked down the stairs slowly.

There was an extra layer of human skin on the head.

The human skin was suspended in the air, and when it was spread out, it turned out to be a map.

The bright light on the map had already gone down Xiuba Mountain and was heading southwest.

Wei Liyang took a step forward, the accumulated snow made a crackling sound under his feet, and the wind blew from all directions, blowing his dark yellow robe.

It made his figure look a little weird.

Just as he was about to walk out of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion, Wei Liyang suddenly stopped, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

It was because the light on the human skin map above his head that originally represented Chen Zhian had disappeared without a trace.

After being surprised, Wei Liyang couldn't help but frown.

This human skin map of his is a genuine first-grade mysterious treasure.

By locking onto the Qi source, you can track down the person thousands of miles away.

Not to mention the method of restraining breath, even the mysterious treasure that conceals the aura cannot escape the detection of this map.

But in just a moment...

Chen Zhian just disappeared like that, as if he had evaporated into thin air, leaving no trace at all.

"what happened?"

Wei Liyang tilted his head and thought for a moment, his expression returned to normal, and he continued to walk out of the house.

"It doesn't matter. He will show up eventually."

He thought so in his heart.

But when he reached the ceremonial gate, a chill suddenly crept up his spine and spread throughout his body in an instant.

Wei Liyang's body stiffened, he stopped and turned to look.

The Chitian Tower pierced through the low-hanging clouds, and the bronze bells chasing the icicles trembled, just as he had heard for the past thirty years.

A phosphorescent blue light flashed across the sixteenth floor of the tower.

That's a pair of eyes.

Wei Liyang has reached the Tianque level of cultivation and is a true figure on the Whale Riding Monument, with unparalleled combat power.

But at this moment, when his gaze met those eyes, he still felt as if his body was falling into a cold cave.

"Come back, Chen Zhian is still useful..."

Wei Liyang's eyes were calm as he bowed respectfully towards the tall tower.

"Yes, Father."

When he stood up, the phosphorescent lights on the tower had disappeared.

He was sweating profusely, and the bloodshot in his eyes became more and more frequent.

Hidden beneath those bloodshot eyes, Wei Liyang was trying hard to conceal unimaginable resentment.

"You want him?"

"Then I will skin him alive."

-

Two hundred miles north of Lianhua Prefecture in Lianxia Prefecture, in a dense forest.

Wang Que, a member of the Wang family, was sitting cross-legged in a bamboo forest, drinking tea with Yuan Zao, the prefect of Lianhua Prefecture.

This bamboo forest is quite magical.

Deep inside most ordinary bamboos, there are hundreds or thousands of bamboos with blood-red lines on them.

These lines may seem ordinary, but they emit wisps of aura, which fall into the void and fly into a gourd.

Maybe it’s because of these blood-colored bamboos.

This bamboo forest was still filled with a strong smell of blood.

Yuan Zao, who is in his forties, has a beard and looks quite capable.

At this moment, he smelled the blood, his face remained expressionless, but he put the teacup in his hand on the table.

Wang Que of the Gulan Wang family sat cross-legged, with an alluring aura, he did not look like a member of the Wang family who was famous for his calligraphy and painting.

"The [food] here is almost used up, but [dyeing paint] is still a little short."

Wang Que was wearing tight clothes and had short hair. One of his eyes seemed fine, but it was tightly closed. It was unclear whether he had an illness or did it on purpose.

Yuan Zao had not yet put on official clothes. When he heard Wang Que's words, a look of embarrassment flashed in his eyes.

"Two groups of four hundred people have been sent here. Lord Wang, how many more are needed?" Yuan Zao asked.

Wang Que said, "Sending another batch should be enough. If it's still not enough... please don't bother the prefect. I, Wang Que, will solve it myself."

His tone seemed a little stiff.

Yuan Zao was not a fool and understood the hidden meaning behind Wang Que's words.

He sighed.

As the prefect, what he feared was naturally not a nobleman like Wang Que, but the Gulan Wang family.

The Wang family of Gulan wrote to him several times, asking him to cooperate with Wang Que.

Yuan Zao relied on the Wang family to rise to prominence and was promoted step by step. At the age of 45, he was already the governor of a state.

He certainly wouldn't be so foolish as to think that it all depended on him.

The Wang family has spent a lot of effort on him, and now it's time to pay back.

only……

"How did the world become like this?"

Yuan Zao lowered his head, feeling confused.

He caught a glimpse of the bamboos with blood-colored veins growing on them, and couldn't help feeling nauseous.

So Yuan Zao, who had originally planned to please Wang Que, remained silent at this time, pretending not to hear the stiffness in Wang Que's words.

"Besides this bamboo forest, in addition to my Qinglan armored soldiers, you should send thirty Lotus Palace armored soldiers over to prevent any loss.

The refining of this treasure has reached a critical stage.

If the treasure is refined but not lacquered, then the other five places of refining will be useless.

I will also be punished by the master for this...

Master Yuan, the master's anger... is no small matter."

Wang Que put down the cup in his hand and glanced at Yuan Zao casually with calm eyes.

Yuan Zao immediately lowered his head and responded in a deep voice.

"The northwest is suffering from a disaster now, but there are only a few refugees... no one will ask about them." Wang Que spoke slowly.

Yuan Zao was silent.

Wang Que stood up, put his hands behind his back and looked at the bamboo forest.

"In troubled times, people will be like grass. It is better to become part of the treasure than to die on the roadside being eaten by vicious dogs, or to die at the hands of other refugees or bandits."

Wang Que said: "The whole country is in chaos. Not to mention that Dali is pressing forward step by step, the north has Qin Wenzhou and Fu Yan to support it.

But Daqian is already powerful, and the emperor of Daqian wants to sweep the world. The wolf-like and tiger-like Xuanmen of Daqian have long been eyeing our Dayu! Daqian and Dayu must have a battle!
Now you and I are just preparing for war. These people died for their country and their people, so it is a worthy death and it cannot be considered a bad thing. "

The prefect of Lianhua Prefecture nodded slightly, but no one knew what he was thinking.

Wang Que didn't want to completely convince Yuan Zao.

In his eyes, even the prefect was dissatisfied.

But since the prefect had sent two batches of [food supplies], he had to do many things in the future.

"Has the most crucial paint primer been delivered?" he asked again.

Yuan Zao nodded: “The Lotus Mansion has been sent from Nanhai [Chu Yu], and the lord Qilinzi and the two retainers should have set out to send them off by now.

It will be delivered in a few days at most."

"only……"

Yuan Zao’s prediction came true again.

Wang Que looked at him.

Yuan Zao said: "The cost is huge... Chu Yu wrote to me and asked me to add another 500 people."

"Add another 500 people?" Wang Que frowned and snorted, "He is so greedy. Since the lacquer seal is already in hand, why should we care about him?

Or is it the 1,500 people that were agreed upon before... Have you sent a letter asking them to come and escort them themselves?"

Yuan Zao replied: "I have already written the letter, but Chu Yu is quite dissatisfied, so he raised the price. However, if I think about it carefully, Zhuo Weiyan, a strong man under Chu Yu, should have set off by now, and will be able to reach Lianxiazhou soon."

"One thousand five hundred people..." Wang Que seemed extremely distressed.

But he finally shook his head and asked one last question: "Have you given me the town I promised Xie Minglei?"

Yuan Zao's breath finally stagnated, and his eyes seemed a little evasive.

Wang Que frowned and looked straight at the prefect.

He didn't say anything, but it seemed as if he was asking him: "Do you know how you got the position of prefect?"

This time, Yuan Zao seemed to have finally shown some strength, and said, "Lord Wang, the northwest has suffered a disaster, and there are many refugees. Let me go and look for them, and I may be able to find two to three thousand people.

But Qingyuan Town is under my jurisdiction after all. Even though it does not produce much and is located in a remote area, it is close to Lianxia River after all.

He hid in the river and devoured the fish and the people under my rule, and I turned a blind eye to it.

But if we give him Qingyuan Town as well, I'm afraid there will be trouble."

Wang Que said nothing, just stared at Yuan Zao.

Yuan Zao gritted his teeth and said, “Although Qingyuan Town is located in a remote area, it is rich in daughters like water.

In the entire provincial capital, there are countless families who have married the daughter of Qingyuan Town.

Even Qi Yin, who came from the South China Sea, was married out in Qingyuan Town. What a coincidence.

If a mountain town is destroyed like this, many people will be dissatisfied, and rumors will spread, and will surely reach Xuantianjing."

"What's more... Lu Cikuan of the Shangyuan Lu family is a very good example. He swallowed up thousands of people from the Linjiaguan in exchange for a head... The Linjiaguan is even in the territory of Shangyuan Prefecture..."

Yuan Zao seemed to really want to preserve Qingyuan Town.

He spoke in a hurried tone, giving out many reasons.

But Wang Que shook his head at this moment and looked directly at Yuan Zao: "Sir, since the disaster in the northwest, many such things have actually happened.

Do you think the big shots in Xuan Tianjing don’t know? Or do you think the saints are really so stupid that they don’t care about these… methods of cultivation?”

Yuan Zao's eyes narrowed slightly.

Wang Que's eyes alone shone with brilliance.

He laughed and said, "For many years in the past, the six surnames and even many noble families have supported the Cheng family's Great Yu Empire.

The Cheng family is becoming more and more powerful, and it seems that they are in charge of many cultivation resources in the world of Dayu. However, people from aristocratic families like me know that... many profits in the world of Dayu still need to be divided up by the Xuantian Palace.

If the Cheng family does not agree, even a pill will not fall into the hands of the world's noble families."

"But now, the saints have refined the Azure Dragon Mirror and the Luwu Mirror and established the position of the seal holder in order to curb the aristocratic families in the world. Do you know the reason?"

Yuan Zao lowered his head and his breathing became a little rapid.

Wang Que said: "It is nothing more than Daqian's understanding of the truth of Taoism, and realizing that the best cultivation resources and the most precious things in the world are not actually some kind of heavenly treasure or innate treasure.

It’s people!”

“There are people everywhere!”

Wang Que's eyes were blazing: "Human beings are the most precious thing in the world, but also the cheapest thing.

Now, there are 800 million people in the world of Dayu, which means 800 million great pills!

In the troubled times to come, if so many people are not used, it would be a waste of nature's resources.

The reason why I say that people are cheap is because it is too easy for ordinary people to reproduce... After a chaotic era, all it takes is a prosperous event, and within just a few decades, the population can increase several times, or even ten times."

"With so many precious things scattered everywhere...it won't be that easy for the Saint's Xuantian Palace to divide them up at will."

Sweat broke out on Yuan Zao's forehead.

The light in Wang Que's eyes grew brighter.

“The more chaotic the world is, the more difficult it is to govern it.

I guess the saint in Xuantian Palace wants to curb the aristocratic families at this moment.

He also wanted to use the methods passed down from Daqian and other countries to enhance the strength of each family in order to deal with the upcoming attack from Daqian.

Want to maintain the royal dignity.

He also wanted to allow the major families to practice the rituals and collect the merits and disadvantages of the methods, and keep them for later use!"

"So... Mr. Prefect, even if Qingyuan Town is really gone, what's the harm? Even if the news spreads to Xuantianjing, what can it do?

The Qinglong Mirror and Luwu Mirror have not yet been completely handed over to others."

Yuan Zao was breathing rapidly until the sun rose high and shone a beam of light on him. He took a deep breath and lowered his head to answer: "Yuan... understands."

Wang Que nodded slightly and turned to look at the bamboo forest.

A few white bones can be vaguely seen under a blood-red bamboo.

-

Su Wenying held her daughter in her arms and moved back and forth in the prison.

The baby, who was only a few months old, was shivering in the cold wind.

Su Wenying was also trembling.

There were a few streaks of blood on her pale face.

The clothes on his body had already been stained with blood.

A strong pain came from her abdomen, making her feel weak all over and her mind dizzy.

She lowered her head.

Through the gap in the blood-stained swaddling clothes, he saw his daughter's chapped lips.

The baby girl is already barely breathing.

Su Wenying bit her finger for the sixth time, squeezed out a few drops of blood, and placed them on the baby girl's lips.

The baby, who was only a few months old, no longer had the strength to suck.

Su Wenying tried hard to drip blood into her daughter's mouth.

Blood slid down the lips.

The baby girl's body trembled and she stretched out her little tongue to lick.

There was some color on Su Wenying's pale face.

She wanted to cry loudly, but she had neither the strength nor the tears.

She looked down and saw mountains below her feet.

The cage actually flew into the air.

She raised her head again.

Two giant eagles were pulling a carriage high in the sky.

From the carriage, there was a faint sound of women playing and a lazy male voice.

And behind the carriage, there were two middle-aged men walking in the air.

One of the middle-aged men turned his head to look at her from time to time and licked his lips.

Su Wenying never dreamed that... she and her husband were just going to the Guanyin Temple on Nanzhong Island to fulfill a vow.

I actually encountered such a disaster.

My husband was shot through the head by an arrow.

The splashing blood dyed her face red, and also dyed her daughter's swaddling clothes red.

There even seemed to be a ray of light shooting out from the arrow, which easily pierced his stomach.

She hugged her daughter tightly.

Until a woman in armor lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at her.

The armored woman was extremely beautiful, but her eyes were as vicious as those of a snake.

Su Wenying still remembered that the armored woman just glanced at her daughter in her arms and said casually: "Kill the child and send her to the Lotus Palace!"

Killed the kid?

When Su Wenying heard these five words, she felt like her heart was about to explode.

Blood spurted out of her mouth, about to spray on the armored woman.

The blood flew away and just hung in the air, never getting close to the armored woman.

It was this mouthful of blood that made the armored woman frown slightly.

“Forget it, there’s no need to kill them if they’re dead, let them go together and keep their lives.

Wang Que wrote to me... I need to make her despair a little so that I can be a good match for her."

Then it was a long journey of eight or nine days, passing through the hands of several waves of people.

When they arrived here, the people who escorted Su Wenying were the same people in front of them.

Su Wenying looked down in despair.

At this moment, the clouds and mist converged, and a long river was flowing below.

At the bend of the river, a small town with beautiful mountains and rivers came into her sight.

Su Wenying could no longer bear it and started crying loudly.

But he only cried once, and perhaps because he was afraid of scaring the daughter in his arms, he tried to suppress it.

"Qingyuan..."

Su Wenying's body trembled.

She didn't know what her fate would be.

I just feel that I will return to this lotus palace.

She came from Qingyuan Town to marry Nanhai... She longed to go home to see her parents, her brother, and her young son.

But she never dreamed that she would return to her homeland in this way.

"Sir, this wine is very sweet, try it..."

The prison van whistled in the wind.

But for some reason, Su Wenying still heard the coquettish voice coming from the carriage.

Her eyes gradually became blurred and her heart was dead.

Until the cry of the child in her arms woke her up suddenly.

She quickly hugged the child in her arms tightly.

After a few breaths, Su Wenying seemed to suddenly think of something.

She looked down at the mountains, the lush trees, and the flowing water.

at this time.

As a mother, Su Wenying vaguely felt that her daughter would just die if she followed her.

Might as well...gamble on a way out.

Su Wenying tore off a piece of her dress and used all her strength to tie the swaddling clothes.

Her eyes were filled with struggle, and after a few breaths, her trembling arms finally pulled the tiny baby through the cage.

"Man'er."

"Live."

Su Wenying finally let go.

The swaddling clothes fell from the sky and were instantly obscured by clouds.

Su Wenying stopped struggling and her eyes became increasingly empty. She bit her tongue hard and blood flowed out of her mouth.

She closed her eyes tightly, feeling her life slipping away...

"If there is an afterlife, we will still be mother and daughter."

As Su Wenying thought this in his mind, his consciousness gradually became blurred.

Until a calm voice came to my ears: "The heart pulse is not broken, feed her a heart-protecting pill."

A pill was roughly fed into her mouth and turned into a ball of clear air.

Su Wenying opened her eyes and clearly saw a young man in brocade clothes sitting in a carriage, looking at her from the rear window.

Several women looked at the man with dazed eyes.

Su Wenying felt a little desperate.

But what made people even more desperate was what the young man said next.

"Did you find the baby girl?"

Su Wenying sat up immediately.

The voice of the sinister middle-aged man who had always been looking at him greedily came from behind the cage.

Su Wenying quickly turned around to look.

But I saw the sinister middle-aged man's big hands covering the swaddling clothes and throwing them into the cage.

"Qi Yin, the more desperate the better."

"Once we get to the bamboo forest, this baby girl will still be useful."

(End of this chapter)