[Quick Transmigration] Slap System for Snake Essence

Early the next morning, Cang Mo was summoned by the Ninth Prince, saying that there were frequent businessmen missing in the suburbs of Beijing recently, and it was suspected that there were robbers hidden in the nearby hills, and he specifically asked the Ninth Prince to handle this errand.

Cang Mo had never encountered this matter in his last life, because the time when Cang Mo entered the mansion in his previous life was different from this life. When he went to Beijing with the Ninth Prince, the case in the suburbs of Beijing had already ended, and the Ninth Prince had not done anything about suppressing the bandits. If it is done well, it will be Cang Mo's action later to restore the impression of the Ninth Prince in the emperor's mind.

There are indeed robbers in the outskirts of Beijing, who specialize in robbing the money of single passers-by, and killing people to silence them. The methods are cruel. Back then, the Ninth Prince led a thousand imperial guards to suppress the bandits. The fall of flowers and water caused the other princes to ridicule, and the emperor almost exploded in anger. After Cang Mo came, he asked the nine princes to plead guilty and pleaded again. This time, with the help of Cang Mo, only a few people were sacrificed. All the hundred bandits were wiped out, and a large amount of treasure was seized to fill the treasury, so the emperor somehow gave him a good face.

This time Cang Mo was just like last time, he asked the Ninth Prince to order people to find out where the gangsters were hiding, and then silently linked them together.

In fact, without Cang Mo's help, the "Guard Su" beside the Ninth Prince was particularly good. Not only did he not listen to the arrangement, but he went up the mountain alone and wiped out all the gangsters with his own strength, which won the praise of the Ninth Prince. Cang Mo was even more dissatisfied, the plan he made was not only 'inefficient', but also took a long time, and he had to sacrifice soldiers. Compared with Su Huwei, Cang Mo became ordinary, and the Ninth Prince regretted his first glance. The matter of Liang Gu's visit to Cang Mo, he was not so polite to Cang Mo usually.

Cang Mo doesn't care about the Ninth Prince's attitude. The Ninth Prince is a dead person to him, but the time of death is the day when he boarded the Dragon Throne. Now he is almost 80.00% sure of the identity of the 'Guard Su', so The occasional calculation light in Su Huwei's eyes was too similar to the feeling that the main god gave him back then.

After determining the person to deal with, Cang Mo began to plan secretly. The system has not been in touch with him for a long time. It should be that he is still in the vast ocean of libraries, and his consciousness has not come out.

To kill Su Wei, there was a very good opportunity exactly one month later. At that time, there happened to be a chance to go out. The current national teacher was developing an elixir for the emperor. When the critical period came, the national teacher told the emperor that he was still missing the most important thing. The medicinal material, called Qianyecao, grows in the mid-air of the most precipitous high cliff.

At that time, the grass that Cang Mo went to pick in person almost escaped death. Although this incident brought him benefits, Cang Mo was still very upset. He added some spices to the thousand-leaf grass, and the old emperor burped as soon as he finished eating it. Shit, the national teacher was arrested, because there was no will in advance, and Cang Mo was interested in the fact that the prince was abolished, and there was no time to establish a new prince. In this case, Cang Mo smoothly pushed the ninth prince to the throne , He also became a national teacher.

This time Cang Mo wants to use the opportunity of picking Qianyecao to lure Su Huwei away, so as to ensure the safety of his younger brother Cang Tu.

Cang Mo, the place where Qianyecao grows, still remembers that in order to kill the 'Guard Su' as soon as possible and relieve his serious troubles, Cang Mo took Cang Tu and Lin Le to the enchantment he set up for fun to ensure a short period of time. No one can find it.

After making the arrangements, Cang Mo spent seven or eight days non-stop, arriving at the top of the cliff, and began to deploy.

Su Huwei couldn't bear it faintly, and showed hostility towards Cang Mo. After Su Huwei learned about this errand from the mouth of the Ninth Prince, it is very likely that he would secretly come to pick Qianyecao again by himself, so that the Ninth Prince could treat Cang Mo. Mo was even more disappointed.

Set up traps here in advance, and after Su Huwei arrives, Cang Mo's chances of winning are relatively high. It's really hard for Cang Mo to judge the strength of Su Huwei now. In the past, Cang Mo was sure that he could kill the opponent, but now The former main god has absorbed the energy of the system, and the system is obviously stronger than him, so in order to ensure nothing goes wrong, he can only deploy it first.

What Cang Mo is worried about now is whether 'Guard Su' can be resurrected after being killed by him. If he can be resurrected in the same way, it will become very difficult. As long as the direct descendants of the former main god are still there, the former main god will Like weeds, they grow again when the spring breeze blows.

The system has disappeared for a long time, Cang Mo understands that it must be because the system has no clue, so he has not bothered him for the time being, and believes that the system will contact him when there are clues.

The god-binding array was placed near the cliff, in order to ensure that the three souls and seven souls would not drift away after the death of 'Guard Su', but would slowly dissipate between the heaven and the earth, so as to prevent similar situations from happening again. In the formation, it is uncertain how long it will take to ensure that the three souls and seven souls can disappear. If it takes hundreds of years, and a direct relative of the former main god accidentally activates the restriction with blood, then everything he has done now It became useless, which is what Cang Mo is most worried about.

After setting up the divine formation, Cang Mo was not afraid of the abyss, so he jumped down to the bottom of the cliff and set up several chain formations at the bottom of the cliff. In this way, as long as he stays on the cliff for a long time, he can strengthen his soul. strength, and can weaken the opponent's strength.

This formation was figured out by Cang Mo himself when he was doing a mission when he went to practice, and it happened to be useful this time. Since the formation is really complicated and there are no auxiliary tools such as high-grade spirit stones, the effect is greatly reduced, but it is better than nothing. .

After spending a few days setting up the formation at the bottom of the cliff, Cang Mo focused on writing an article on Qianyecao. There is also Cang Mo's attack consciousness on Qianyecao. Once the 'Guard Su' touches Qianyecao, he will Inadvertently slandered Yuanshen, coupled with the attack formation around Qianyecao, before the fight, Su Huwei will have one-third of his vitality removed.

After slandering 'Guard Su', it will be easier to deal with him next time. Even if Cang Mo's strength is weaker than before, he won't have to worry about his life.

After finishing the last one, Cang Mo didn't know why, but he had some ominous premonition in his heart. With Cang Mo's current strength, he was equivalent to a high-level monk who was about to cross the catastrophe. He always had a premonition of his own bad luck. Cang Mo Mo has always been cautious, let alone a sudden ominous omen, so he was not afraid of trouble, and added an energy-consuming large formation on the outside. All creatures that step into the large formation will be trapped in it for at least half a year without him withdrawing the formation. above.

After doing all this, Cang Mo went to pick up Cang Tu and Lin Le. He was relieved when he saw that they were safe and sound. He wondered if the ominous premonition had something to do with Cang Tu, and he could only confirm the ominous situation after seeing the person. The premonition should be related to him, this Cang Mo is very optimistic, he believes in his ability.

Back at the mansion of the Ninth Prince, Cang Mo was summoned again before the chair was warmed up. The Ninth Prince hadn’t been able to contact Cang Mo recently, and he became more and more dissatisfied with him in his heart. No.

When they came to the Ninth Prince's study, Su Huwei was also there, and he had an attitude of watching the show. Cang Mo knew why after thinking about it for a while. He was nothing more than blaming him for leaving for more than half a month without a trace. , It's even bigger than the emperor.

Cang Mo allowed the Ninth Prince to show dissatisfaction with him and remained indifferent. This attitude almost made the Ninth Prince angry. He had already made a secret decision to send Cang Mo to handle the matter when he had the next opportunity. Opportunities drive each other away.

This opportunity came quickly, and half a month later, the Ninth Prince was summoned into the palace by the emperor, and gave the Ninth Prince the picture of the most difficult-to-find Qianyecao among the medicines refined by the national teacher, and ordered him to give it to the Ninth Prince within a month. must be found within.

The national teacher has already calculated the approximate location of Qianyecao. The Ninth Prince thinks that this is the best time to get rid of Cang Mo without leaving a bad reputation. Only then did he realize that Su Huwei is almost omnipotent. There is no need to keep the tasteless existence.

Send Su Huwei and Cang Mo together, let Su Huwei make sure to win the Chiba Grass, make some stumbling blocks along the way, let Cang Mo make mistakes, and then it will be resolved easily.

As for Cang Tu and Lin Le, the Ninth Prince is out of sight and out of mind. He will drive Cang Mo and Cang Tu Lin Le away after Guard Su returns. The mansion is not short of those meals, so let them be chic for the time being. a few days.

"Brother, Xiao Tu will miss you, will brother miss Xiao Tu?" Cang Tu sent Cang Mo to the side of the chariot and horses, stood on tiptoes and hugged Cang Mo's waist. Although he was a child, Cang Mo was the closest He could feel the mood swings, and he could vaguely feel that something was wrong with his brother this time.

"Well, Xiao Tu is my brother's treasure. Of course, my brother will miss Xiao Tu. When my brother is away, you have to listen to brother Lin Le, you know. If my brother comes back and finds that Xiao Tu has done something wrong, my brother will spank you. Cang Mo rubbed Cang Tu's head, half threatening with a smile on his face.

Hearing this, Cang Tu immediately covered her buttocks and muttered: "Brother, stop talking so loudly, Xiao Tu has grown up, brother can no longer spank Xiao Tu's ass."

This sentence made Cang Mo and Lin Le laugh out loud, and Su Huwei sat astride his horse and showed a sarcastic smile.

"You are not allowed to laugh, and I will ignore you if you laugh any more." Cang Tu blushed and shouted: "Brother, I want to eat rock sugar cake, pineapple cake, snowflake candy, chestnut cake, if I don't bring them back, I will eat them in the future." Brother is not allowed to spank Xiaotu's ass again."

Cang Tu has a good idea about where to get chestnut cakes in this season, as long as Cang Mo doesn't bring back chestnut cakes, he won't have to be humiliated to be spanked in the future.

Cang Mo looked at Cang Tu's witty and erratic eyeballs, and his heart softened. His younger brother was indeed his natural nemesis: "Don't worry, Xiao Tu, my brother will definitely bring back the chestnut cake." The system can 'smuggle' some chestnuts to other worlds.

If Cang Tu knew what was going on in Cang Mo's heart, he would have wailed loudly that his brother cheated.

"Lin Le, I'm going to trouble you to take care of Xiao Tu again during this time." After Cang Mo instructed to get on the carriage, in the eyes of most people, Cang Mo looked like a fairy, and he should take a carriage instead of being like Su. The guards ride as indecently as they do.

Along the way, Su Huwei looked for several opportunities, but Cang Mo was not recruited. In fact, Su Huwei had already moved to kill him. This time when he went out, not only Cang Mo had the intention of killing the other party, but Su Huwei also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity. To avenge the original revenge, but he will not kill Cang Mo so easily, he will slowly torture the other party, making the other party's life worse than death.

After searching for half a month, he finally came to the foot of the mountain, where Cang Mo set up his formation, as long as he climbed the mountain, he could see the high cliff, and there were Chiba grass on the cliff.

When Su Huwei stepped into the formation, Cang Mo knew that the opportunity to kill the opponent had come, and when Su Huwei saw the cliff, he felt that this was a good time to subdue Cang Mo.

"Guard Su, I have surveyed the surrounding area. If my deduction is correct, the Qianyecao is under the cliff." Cang Mo and Guardian Su stood on the edge of the cliff, letting the strong wind blow their hair.

"Idiot, haven't you discovered who I am yet?" Su Huwei looked at Cang Mo with contempt, and at the same time released his own breath, his clothes fluttering.

Cang Mo just raised his eyebrows perfunctorily to express his surprise, but his tone was nonchalant: "Oh, it turns out that you, a street mouse, still have Xiaoqiang's life, so you are not dead." The guard's teeth itch.

"You only have one sharp mouth now. With your strength, you are vulnerable in front of me. When you plotted my revenge, I must get it back a thousand times and a hundred times." Even at this time, the former Lord God is still arrogant Big, always thinks that he is the strongest, and the failure last time was entirely due to his own carelessness. This mentality destined him not only to fail last time, but also to fail and even die this time.

"Do you think you can turn the clouds and cover the sky by stealing a little energy from me and my lover? Alas, no matter how long you have been the main god, your brain is not long at all. It's really hard for your mission envoy to treat a head The pig will never leave." Cang Mo deliberately angered 'Guard Su', as long as the former Lord God was angry, he would easily lose his mind.

"Hmph, I wanted to keep you for a while, but since you want to die, I'll let you go." 'Guard Su' charged forward with a ferocious face, stretching out his hands and claws, his aggressive posture as if he wanted to kill Cang Mo's mouth. Tear it apart to relieve your anger.

Cang Mo stood there quietly, waiting for Su Huwei to disappear when he got close, and appeared behind Su Huwei in the next second, condensed nine air needles, and swung his sleeves to pierce them into corresponding acupuncture points.

Su Huwei's body froze immediately, and Cang Mo condensed another sword to cut off Su Huwei's head. When the sword energy reached his neck, 'Su Huwei' broke through the acupoints, narrowly dodging Cang Mo's head. sword, but there was still blood on his neck.

"How dare you!!" The former Lord God touched the sticky neck and the smell of blood, and stared at Cang Mo with cold and vicious eyes.

Under the fury of 'Guard Su', his sanity was almost washed away, and he only knew one person to attack Cang Mo. Cang Mo didn't expect that the former main god was so stupid that he consumed energy recklessly in his formation, and within a long time, He can kill himself.

At that time, Cang Mo thought that he would spend at least a few days with the main god, but the next day, the main god was covered in scars and his face was pale. Blessing, so now he looks leisurely and carefree.

At this moment, there was a wave of someone breaking into the formation at the foot of the mountain. Cang Mo looked at it with his spiritual sense, and his eyes immediately became sharp. He stared at the guard Su in front of him, and said coldly: "It seems that your Ninth Prince I hold you in the palm of my hand, but even if he comes, you have no value in existence."

After speaking, he raised his hand in the Void Transformation Talisman to disperse the three souls and seven souls of the former main god to prevent the opponent from resurging.

"Stop, if you dare to touch him, I'll kill them now." The voice of the Ninth Prince came not far away. Standing on the necks of the one big and one small, the two being held were clearly Cang Tu and Lin Le.

Cang Mo did not expect that the scene in the last life would happen in this life no matter how he guarded against it. He thought that this time he was only dealing with the former Lord God, and that the Ninth Prince would not take action against him before he ascended the throne. Unexpectedly...

"Brother, that's great. I finally saw you. They were good or bad. They arrested brother Lin Le and me, and said you were dead. I'm so sad." Cang Tu, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, saw When he arrived at Cang Mo, he twisted his body excitedly to break free from the shackles of the guards, but unfortunately his strength was too weak to be of any use.

"Cang Mo, are you okay?" Lin Le felt relieved seeing that Cang Mo was safe and sound, and Cang Tu was heartbroken along the way, thinking that Cang Mo really lost his life as the Ninth Prince said, but luckily Cang Mo was fine.

"Ninth Prince, what do you mean by that?" Cang Mo put his hands behind his back to hide his worry, and looked at Ninth Prince with a calm face and eyes, but his eyes were filled with frost.

"What do you mean? Of course it means to kill you." The eyes of the Ninth Prince were exactly the same as the sinister eyes of the main god at this moment.

Cang Mo secretly contacted the system, but there was no response. He faintly felt that this was unusual. He hadn't contacted the system for more than a month, as if the connection to this world had been cut off.

"Okay, you can take my life away, but if you dare to hurt a hair on them, even if I lose my mind, I will pull you as a backstop." Cang Mo's voice was not loud, but the ruthlessness in his tone made them subconsciously Believe that the other party will do what they say.

"Brother, I don't want you to die." Cang Tu struggled harder.

Cang Mo has no choice now, he can only say this, he dare not risk his brother's life, although if he kills the 'Guard Su' with one blow and then teleports to the Ninth Prince's side, there is a chance to threaten the two guards to release him, But even if there is a [-]% possibility that Cang Tu will be in danger, Cang Mo will not do this. In this life, he cannot let his younger brother die again before he grows up.

The Ninth Prince pulled out the sword from his waist and threw it at Cang Mo's feet, rolled his eyes and said cruelly: "You first cut off your two hamstrings and the tendon of your left hand, goug out your eyes, cut off your tongue, The last thing you do is kill yourself, if you dare to wipe your neck directly, I will immediately torture your beloved brother to death, and then send him down to be your companion."

"You're a villain, brother, I'm not afraid of death, you don't listen to him, I don't want my brother to be troubled." Cang Tu cried, tears fell like he didn't want money.

"Xiao Tu, don't cry. Didn't you say that you have grown up? Adults don't shed tears casually. Like my brother, I never shed tears. Neither can Xiao Tu." Cang Mo comforted, The man also slowly descended to the ground, casually picked up the sword on the ground and gave the Ninth Prince a blank expression.

"Cang Mo." Lin Le couldn't say anything. If he was alone, he would definitely stop Cang Mo, but everyone can see that Cang Tu is Cang Mo's weakness. As long as he holds Cang Tu, Cang Mo will definitely stop him. compromise.

"What do you look at, if you don't want them to have an accident, do it right away." The Ninth Prince was frightened by him for a while, and shouted for courage.

Cang Mo raised his sword, and under the tension of Cang Tu and Lin Le, pressed the cold blade against his left wrist.

"Hahaha, it really is a lowly human being who would risk his life for the so-called family love. It makes people sick to see it." The "Guard Su" who sat on the ground weakly with his hands on the ground laughed mockingly. He didn't Conscious, it was his mission messenger who gave him one soul and two souls, so he became conscious.

Later, two souls and five souls were pieced together, but because the souls were not from the same person, they could not be fully integrated, and he could not experience true love. This is why Cang Mo's system could not find his direct lineage, because he only One of the souls is the ancestor of Su Huwei, and one soul happens to be the ancestor of the Yan family, but his soul is special, and he only has one chance to use the forbidden technique. If he dies again, unless the other two souls and six souls happen to use blood As a guide, otherwise he would not be resurrected.

When Cang Mo was about to attack, a familiar breath came, his expression relaxed, and taking advantage of the moment when 'Guard Su' relaxed, he chopped off the opponent's head. At this moment, Cang Mo saw a ball of light on the Before he could react, he entered the body of the Ninth Prince and took over the body of the Ninth Prince. The 'Ninth Prince' pulled Cang Tu in front of him and grabbed Cang Tu's fragile neck.

"It's really despicable. If I hadn't saved my hand, the three souls and seven souls have already been murdered by you. Since you repent, I will kill him and disperse his soul, and let you spend the rest of your life in the abyss of pain." .”

Cang Mo's face suddenly turned pale, and he shouted: "Stop!" But it was too late, the Ninth Prince tightened his hands, as if Cang Tu's neck would be broken in the next second.

"Ah!" At this moment, the Ninth Prince suddenly yelled, let go of the hand that was holding Cang Tu's neck, and fell heavily on the ground, and at some point in Cang Tu's hand appeared a silver hairpin with intricate patterns, dripping Blood, 'Ninth Prince' had a hole poked on the back of his hand, and the blood was gushing out continuously, and he couldn't stop it no matter what.

Seeing this, a ball of light floated out of the Ninth Prince's body and wanted to escape, but his body lost consciousness and limp on the ground. The ball of light was surrounded by something before it ran tens of meters, no matter how rampant it was, it couldn't escape.

And Cang Tu's body also floated a light ball, the light ball slowly materialized, and the appearance of the system gradually appeared, Cang Tu's body fell limp, Cang Mo teleported over to catch him, hugged him, and felt the pain on Cang Tu's body. After the breath of life, I almost cried with joy, but fortunately, fortunately, Cang Tu did not die in this life.

The system put the ball of light in his hand, and the silver hairpin that was originally in Cang Tu's hand also appeared in his hand. He used the silver hairpin to pick out colorful transparent light balls and pierced them one by one until ten of them were broken. , the light cluster slowly dissipated, and a huge energy was divided into half by the system and introduced into Cang Mo's body, and half was absorbed by himself.

The ancient silver hairpin engraved with complicated runes is the nemesis of the soul. Anyone stabbed by this silver hairpin will immediately dissipate the soul, and it will never be possible to condense again.

At that time, the system had been searching for the clues left by the former main god in the system space. When the former main god used the forbidden technique, the system guessed that the former main god did not generate his own consciousness but borrowed the soul of others, but he did not expect that the former main god His soul is not one person's, but a mixture of different souls, so it took him a long time to go back to the world where Cang Mo was, only to find that his system space was temporarily blocked by external forces, it took him some time Only then did the connection between the two be re-established, and Cang Mo's trace was immediately found.

When the system saw Cang Mo, he was being forced to self-mutilate. He released his breath at the right time to let Cang Mo know that he was back, and then entered Cang Tu's body while Cang Mo was killing 'Guard Su', because at that time Fortunately, when studying the forbidden technique, I found a method and tool (ancient silver hairpin) to break the forbidden technique, so there was no danger.

Cang Tu was still in a coma, and the system had no choice but to forcibly enter Cang Tu's body, which caused some damage to Cang Tu's original body and body, causing Cang Tu's body to become weak and unconscious. For this, the system felt very guilty. It's not an emergency, how could he hurt the person Cang Mo valued the most.

Cang Mo knew that if it wasn’t for the system this time, Cang Tu would still be the same as in the previous life. Every time he thought of that possibility, Cang Mo couldn’t help being afraid, and even more so, he guarded Cang Tu’s side day and night, for fear that his brother would disappear in the blink of an eye. up.

The Ninth Prince forgot about the cliff when he woke up. In fact, he was already a controlled puppet at that time, but he remembered that the 'Guard Su' controlled him before going out, so when Cang Mo told him that the Guard Su intended to murder the Ninth Prince , the Ninth Prince also believed it completely, and praised Cang Mo who had found Qianyecao. Regarding the previous prejudice against Cang Mo, the Ninth Prince thought that it was fortunate that he did not have time to turn his face.

As soon as the Ninth Prince woke up, he went into the palace to present treasures with Qianyecao, but he didn't know that it was his life-threatening herb.

Sure enough, as soon as the national teacher offered the elixir to the emperor, the emperor died after eating it. As the main suspects, the national teacher and the nine princes were the first to bear the brunt and were imprisoned. Because of Cang Tu's matter, Cang Mo decided that it would be better to kill the person as soon as possible, so he didn't take action, but instead made things worse.

He hypnotized a confidant of the Ninth Prince, and asked him to report all the deeds that the Ninth Prince did behind his back, from as small as assassinating his colleagues for the sake of a salt well to as big as killing his father and brother. All the people sighed and sighed.

On the day when the Ninth Prince was sentenced to be executed in the autumn, Cang Tu finally woke up in the anticipation of everyone. The happiest thing was Cang Mo, who hugged Cang Tu and never let go. Cang Tu was also very happy, but all the while After waking up and being hugged for a whole day, and stuffed with countless chestnut pancakes, I felt bad all over. Cang Tu felt that he should not sleep for so long in the future, otherwise he would suffer this kind of crime every time he woke up. I can't stand it, if Cang Tu were a modern person, he would have yelled that a brother who has a younger brother really can't afford to be hurt.

After the Ninth Prince was involved in the crime, Cang Mo bought a mansion, Cang Tu recuperated for a few days and regained his former vivacity, still a picky eater, dragging Cang Mo around, looking for delicious food.

During this period, Cang Mo went to the sky prison where the Ninth Prince was. At this time, the Ninth Prince had lost the vigor and vigor of the past. Only then did the Ninth Prince know that this catastrophe was Cang Mo's revenge, but he had no chance of regretting it. If he had known that there would be today's consequences, even if he was afraid of Cang Mo in the last life, he would not have attacked Cang Tu, otherwise he would end up in the end It can't be worse than it is now.

Pretty chic, when Cang Mo led Cang Tu to the school, Cang Tu's mouth was so pouted that he could hang a bucket, but there was no way, the children still had to study, when Cang Tu was the number one student in high school, Cang Mo left far behind. The system, which is thousands of miles away, flew back overnight. When the system woke up the next day and found that his lover was not around, his face could not be darker, but because of the guilt for causing harm to Cang Tu, he could only knock out his teeth and Xue Tun, the system regrets for the n1st time why he spent so much effort to connect this world to the system space to please his lover. This is the only time he made a calculation mistake in his life.

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