In the underground palace, which had been almost reduced to ruins, corpses were lined up in dense rows.
The blown heads, broken limbs, and blackened remains... together created a strange scene in the ruins. Everything is static, only the scarlet blood flows everywhere, like a spiritual blood snake, greedily looking for something to eat in the darkness.
Among the broken walls and rubble, Zhang Linchuan sat on the only large chair that was intact. He was wearing a black robe with white stripes on it. Both his robe and his throne looked spotless.
In front of the Pope's throne, several corpses that still retained a strong aura were scattered on the stone steps.
Among them, the corpse closest to the Pope's throne is that of a strong female. His hair was stained with blood, and he was lying face down, but he still stretched his right hand forward as much as possible, as if to grab something.
With only two steps left, her hand could cross the end of the stone steps and approach the throne of the cult pontiff. Unfortunately it is no longer possible.
Zhang Linchuan probably didn't care about all this. The stone steps were dirty, so he had no choice but to sit here. Holding a handkerchief embroidered with bamboo leaves in his right hand, he was slowly wiping his bloody left hand.
His movements were very meticulous, every knuckle was wiped clean and white, and even the gaps between the nails were taken care of.
"Winggui wants to kill me, I can understand."
he said calmly.
While speaking, dark lightning danced in his hair.
He treated his fingers like a piece of fragile china.
He continued: "But he still disgusts me, and I can't accept it."
It was very quiet in the underground palace.
"When did you arrive?" he asked again.
"When the leader killed the last woman." Lu Yan, the former second elder of White Bone Dao, floated down. There was a wisp of smart black energy surrounding his body, and his feet remained in the air.
"Then why didn't you take action?" Zhang Linchuan asked with interest.
Lu Yan replied in a vicissitudes of voice: "I may not be able to receive the reward. After all, I am also a remnant of the White Bone Path."
Zhang Linchuan had already wiped the blood off his hands, raised his left hand in front of him, and checked it over and over. He said: "I'm asking why you didn't help me. You are my chief protector, my closest confidant...an old friend who has accompanied me in my struggle for many years."
Lu Yan said: "If you can't even cope with this situation, you will be captured and killed by the Sanxing Palace sooner or later. I don't see any need for me to help you."
"You have great confidence in me." Zhang Linchuan put down his left hand and looked at Lu Yan.
Lu Yan said calmly: "If I don't have confidence in the leader, I should hide like other Dharma Kings, or like the Winged Ghost, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and bring some people to find you."
Zhang Linchuan moved his fingers dexterously, carefully folded the handkerchief that had turned into blood, and put it into a special storage box.
"Maybe that's right," he said.
"At least Yigui has proven him wrong." Lu Yan said.
Zhang Linchuan burst into laughter: "Yi Gui almost had someone beat him to death just for drinking breast milk. He was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to betray me, the leader of a cult, to atone for his sins... This is understandable. "
"Do you want your subordinates to check who led this raid on the underground palace?" Lu Yan asked.
"What's the need? The source of the matter is not here."
Zhang Linchuan turned his right hand, and the storage box had shrunk into a very small square and disappeared between his fingers.
On this lonely papal throne, he crossed his legs, intertwined his fingers, and rested them on his knees.
The movement is unstructured and even leisurely.
He looked at Lu Yan quietly, with a smile on his face but extremely indifferent eyes.
Lu Yan is already an old man and a high-level member of a cult. He has experienced a lot in his life. What kind of evil lord has he not seen? It's a little unnatural at the moment.
"What is the leader going to do next?" he asked.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" he added.
I don’t know if it was this nervousness that moved Zhang Linchuan.
"What else can we do?" Zhang Linchuan twitched his lips: "If you can't recruit tens of millions of believers, just kill tens of millions of people. You can still achieve greatness."
The number of tens of millions of people sounds light and airy, as if it were a joke. But Zhang Linchuan's eyes definitely didn't look like he was joking.
Even Lu Yan has done all kinds of evil over the years, killing people like mowing grass, and even participated in leading the sacrifices in Maplewood City... At this time, he didn't know what to say.
There is no need to talk about some illusory divine punishment or anything like that.
Although Wu Sheng Cult is in dire straits now, it is just a street rat in this world, and everyone wants to beat it.
But if Zhang Linchuan really wants to kill tens of millions of people, he will not be as simple as a rat crossing the street, but a life and death enemy of the human race!
All three Dharma Palaces will be dispatched, and the three Dharma Palace leaders will personally take action to arrest the murderer. Even the Three Holy Lands of Dao Sect and even Shushan, all have people coming!
It was really heaven and earth, there was no place to hide.
"Okay, I'm just kidding you." Zhang Linchuan chuckled.
In Lu Yan's eyes with complicated emotions, he added: "Maybe there is no need to kill so many."
His eyes carefully scanned the corpses on the ground: "It would be nice to kill more people at this level."
The expression on Lu Yan's face went from stiff to relaxed and back to stiff again.
Finally, he grinned unnaturally: "So the leader deliberately gave Yigui a chance, just to let him recruit more masters for you to kill?"
Zhang Linchuan looked at him quietly and said nothing.
Lu Yan was silent for a moment and then said: "If you kill too many people, I'm afraid it will harm Tianhe."
He felt awkward saying this.
Is this still what the cult leaders should say?
How had he ever cared about killing people? What kind of peace had he cared about?
"I mean... if you kill millions or tens of millions like this, you may be targeted by God's will. The leader is a person with great potential..."
Zhang Linchuan smiled: "You are the senior in practice, many years ahead of me. But do you understand God's will?"
Lu Yan said hurriedly: "I am just a little older. The leader is a scholar of heaven and man. Naturally, I am not as understanding as the leader."
"Don't be so serious." Zhang Linchuan smiled and said: "We all should know that when people live in this world, they have to fight against God's will. Otherwise, thunder, rain and dew are all God's grace. Why would you dodge or avoid it?"
"Practicing this kind of thing is going against nature. Birth, old age, illness and death are the cycles of heaven. But you don't want to grow old, don't want to get sick, and don't want to die. You actually want to continue to break the life limit... Is this what God wants to see? ?
The life span is a big limit, but practitioners don't think about the big limit.
The higher the level of cultivation, the more one swallows the Tianshan Mountains and spits out the Divine Sea. Move mountains and fill rivers with every move of your hands. How much vitality can be mobilized in one breath? What benefit are these to heaven and earth?
If I kill these people who are against God's will, and kill these practitioners who are disobeying Heaven, isn't that just following Heaven's orders? Wouldn’t more be better? I deserve God's favor. "
Lu Yan had already cut these words into pieces in his mind, and did not dare to really listen to them.
Because he knew that Zhang Linchuan had his reasons. Zhang Linchuan's path is really among them!
If he listened to it, he would easily lose himself and lose his own path. And he is not one of those people who has no ego and only seeks strength.
He didn't even dare to listen to it, so naturally he couldn't object. Finally, he reluctantly said: "The leader has his own reasons for being a leader."
Zhang Linchuan spread his hands indifferently: "And you see, there is nothing I can do. My junior brother Jiang is too cruel. I just want to leave a bad seed in his friend, but he actually wants to kill my whole family. Oh no, Quanjiao .”
He lowered his eyes and said in a strange tone: "But it's almost the same. My whole family is gone a long time ago. The sect is my home... and now it's all gone."
The corners of his mouth curled up: "In this case, Junior Brother Jiang and I have a grudge to destroy our family!"
Things finally returned to a part that Lu Yan was relatively familiar with.
Of course the upper echelons of the cult kill people profusely and do all kinds of evil. Of course they should engage in some conspiracy and conspiracy. It is not a big deal to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of people. But the number "tens of millions of people"... is simply too much. He didn't even know how Zhang Linchuan was going to do it!
In order to plan the incident in Maplewood City, he, as a high-level executive of the White Bone Path at that time, had been planning for an unknown amount of time. In the end, Zhuang Gaoxian, that thing with a human face and a beast's heart, plucked the peach, and the White Bone Path also died.
He would never dare to commit such a serious sin.
"How does the leader plan to deal with him?" he asked.
Compared with the goal of massacring tens of millions of people, dealing with Jiang Wang is more specific.
Zhang Linchuan said softly: "It's not your place to ask."
Lu Yan then understood that Zhang Linchuan had his own ideas. He really couldn't figure out how Zhang Linchuan could make a comeback in this situation, with Jiang Wang overwhelming everyone with his powerful force, like the blazing sun turning into residual snow.
But this person is Zhang Linchuan after all...
He just said: "Then is there anything I can do for you?"
"Let me think about it..."
Zhang Linchuan looked up at the dome above. There was nothing there. After thinking seriously for a while, he said, "It seems not."
Looking at the young patriarch in front of him, Lu Yan almost forgot about the Bone Messenger who was respectful to him. The memory of the past is as long as a wisp of smoke, sinking into the gray and white picture.
But he has always known how to maintain his posture, just like his devotion to the Bone Evil God.
"Then I won't disturb the leader...I'll take my leave first." He then said.
Zhang Linchuan said nothing.
After Lu Yan saluted, he flew out cautiously.
"Wait a minute." Zhang Linchuan suddenly said.
Lu Yan paused.
He slowly turned around and said, "What are the orders from the leader?"
At this moment, he regretted very much. Why did he come to the underground palace? Why do you have the idea of waiting for an opportunity? He should have found a place to hide and remain anonymous, like several other Dharma Kings, until everything settled.
Having been with Zhang Linchuan for so long, this person is still like a ball of ghostly thunder, unreal and extremely dangerous. How could he be so lucky?
"Don't be nervous." Zhang Linchuan reassured her again, and then said: "Do you still remember the secret method I promised you? The secret method that allows you to safely enter the nether world to find your dead wife."
Lu Yan almost suspected that he had heard wrongly, and said with surprise and joy: "Of course I remember!"
"At this time, you still think of coming to see me, which makes me very happy and deserves a reward... We are old acquaintances!"
Zhang Linchuan said in a friendly tone, and with a flick of his finger, a wisp of lightning exploded in the air, revealing a thin black book that flew into Lu Yan's palm.
"This secret method should be able to do it."
He smiled and said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, and just when I was sitting here, the final inspiration suddenly came to me."
If this was Zhang Linchuan's temporary idea in the short period of time, Lu Yan would not be surprised, because he was very aware of Zhang Linchuan's talent in Taoism.
The reason why Wusheng Sect has been able to develop so fast is that Zhang Linchuan personally wrote the Taoist scripture "Wu Sheng Jing" and created a complete set of "Wu Sheng Xuan Shu".
But he believed even more that Zhang Linchuan had already completed this secret technique long ago. Just threw it out today.
He took the black book and said sincerely, "I'm sorry for the trouble, Master!"
When he first joined the White Bone Path and later joined Zhang Linchuan, weren't they all to find the soul of his deceased wife who had no idea where to go? He only knew that his wife's soul failed to enter the source pool, and he did not know where it was suffering. Although it is said that death is like a lamp going out, he still has the obsession to see him again.
It's just that he originally thought that Zhang Linchuan, like the Bone Evil God, was just using that incident to hang him and drive him to work for his life. He had long since given up hope on those things. From the day he betrayed the Bone Evil God, all he wanted to do was move forward on his own strength, and he had been working hard for this. The process of developing Wusheng Cult is also the process of him constantly strengthening himself...
Unexpectedly, when the Wusheng Sect was about to be completely destroyed, he waited for the secret technique promised by Zhang Linchuan.
This gave him some mixed feelings.
Zhang Linchuan, who was on the throne, just waved his hand indifferently: "We owe nothing to each other anymore."
Lu Yan bowed and saluted: "May the leader succeed in his great deeds, and may we meet again in the underworld."
"By the way." Zhang Linchuan added: "Before you go to the Netherworld, remember to help me find the Moon Rabbit."
The current Wu Sheng Cult Yue Rabbit is the former White Bone Dao Rabbit Bone Masker, and is naturally an old acquaintance of Lu Yan.
He just said: "Okay, what instructions does the leader have for her?"
Zhang Linchuan said quietly: "Kill her for me."
Even though Lu Yan was a person who had long seen through human nature and asked himself how cold-blooded he was, he was still a little stunned.
Because Yue Tu is definitely the most loyal person to Zhang Linchuan in the entire Wu Sheng Sect!
At first, Zhang Linchuan dared to take the initiative to attack and kill Long Mian in order to show his strength. The people who betrayed Zhang Linchuan all had their own desires. Only Yuetu was purely loyal to Zhang Linchuan.
Now that Wusheng Sect is almost destroyed, she is the only one among the top management of Wusheng Sect who is still struggling to maintain Zhang Linchuan's last meager faith.
But Zhang Linchuan wanted to kill her...
"Why?" Lu Yan knew he shouldn't ask, but couldn't help but asked: "She is loyal to the leader."
"Yes, she is loyal to me." Zhang Linchuan looked at him indifferently and said: "That's the reason."
At this glance, Lu Yan did not dare to say anything more, and just lowered his head: "I accept your orders."
"Go." Zhang Linchuan waved his hand.
Lu Yan turned around and flew away quickly, this time he really left.
He quickly flew out of the underground palace, eliminating traces along the way. Following the route that had been planned long ago, we ran into the rolling mountains. It flew close to the ground for a long time, and finally passed through the formation and landed in a valley.
This place is not beautiful, the scenery is very mediocre.
It was the hiding place he found in his early years.
He landed on the bank of a clear stream with gurgling water and looked at himself reflected in the water.
Only then did he finally let out the breath he had been holding in for a long time.
Phew~
The gray-white turbid air skims across the water lines and moves away.
He was a little stiff and took out an exquisite puppet from his arms.
He tapped the puppet's chest with his fingers, and the puppet's chest split open and a living heart jumped out.
He calmly pressed the heart into his chest. This is what I got in exchange——
That was naturally another heart that had just stopped in his body.
And this heart... has been manipulated into a state of disarray.
Zhang Linchuan is simply an expert at playing with people's hearts, making him, a seasoned guy like him, feel happy, sad, scared and frightened by turns. He knew very well that in that state, Zhang Linchuan had ten thousand ways to do something to him.
Fortunately, his years of life were not in vain. Before going to the underground palace, he used such a secret technique to protect himself.
The human heart that Zhang Linchuan plays with from beginning to end is just the human heart of the puppet. Even if there are any means, they should only be used on dolls...
Lu Yan's eyes turned white at this moment, and he carefully checked it again with his natural dark eyes, and then pressed the fragile heart into the doll's body.
Plop!
The doll was thrown into the stream.
He also used his hands and feet to struggle for a moment, like a drowning person.
Finally fell into silence.
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…
A swimming fish jumped out of the water, made an arch in the air, and then fell back down.
After a while, the ripples dissipated.
Reflected in the water are two figures, one fat and one thin.
In fact, the thin one cannot be said to be thin, and the stature is relatively suitable.
It's just that most people in this world would find it difficult not to look thin when standing next to the current Bowang Hou.
On the stone bridge in Bowanghou's mansion, only Bowanghou and Wu'anhou now stand next to each other.
"The emperor intends to help you settle the old affairs of Zhuang Guo and win your heart completely, so he deliberately left a button. But Jing Guo's response was very timely, and Zhuang Guo's response was even more decisive... We must now concentrate on strangling the Wu Sheng Cult. I really don’t have time to argue with Zhuang Guo. But just ignore them, it will be more difficult to become famous in the future."
Chongxuan Sheng held his hand on the stone railing and sighed: "Why are there no fools in this world?"
Jiang Wang said calmly: "The hatred between me and Zhuang Ting cannot be explained by words. It would be best if they can be ruined. If not, there is nothing. In the end, there is only life and death."
He once wore the mask of King Bian Cheng and participated in Yin Guan's revenge battle.
Youguo Zhao Cang and his son, despite their lack of strength, took advantage of all the available factors.
Of course he would learn a lesson.
He never expected the lower limits of Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui, because he knew that this pair of wise kings and wise ministers could do anything.
But no matter how wise Zhuang Gaoxian is and how wise minister Du Ruhui is, what reputation they have and how loved they are. None of it would affect his killing intent.
All reputation, status, power, background, and interests cannot be a talisman for these two people.
In this matter, he has no overall view and no other considerations.
When all hatred comes to an end, there are only two words: life and death.
Just like his answer to Ku Jie at the beginning - "If you kill Jue, I will die."
Chong Xuan Sheng knew how difficult this matter was, and it would not be difficult to deal with just an enemy in the Cave Realm. It was nothing more than pestering his uncle to cut him more times. But as the leader of a country, Zhuang Gaoxian was also listed in the Tao vassal system. Standing behind him was the most powerful Central Empire in the world.
The herding country was experiencing heavy cutting, but it was still disgraced and suffered heavy losses.
How could Jingguo allow others to interfere with Zhuangguo?
Just like this time, Qi Guo only left a slight opening to vent his anger for his own prince, but Jing Guo immediately blocked it.
The attitude is not unyielding.
Zhuang Gao, Xian and Du Ruhui are both sophisticated and calculating people. It is really not easy to peel off their shells. Just look at Zhuang Guo's response this time. It's a combination of elimination and attack. It's wonderful. Is there any flaw in it?
"This matter still needs to be discussed in the long term..." Zhongxuan Sheng sighed.
Of course Jiang Wang understood, he just frowned and said: "Speaking of which, why didn't Yong Guo take the opportunity to speak out this time? Zhuang Ting has been at odds with Baigu Dao since the time of Zhuang Chengqian. How could Yong Guo not notice it? Isn't it time to attack Zhuang Gao now? Is it a good time to envy you?"
Chong Xuansheng said: "Yes, it is indeed a good time. But it is a good time deliberately set aside by Zhuang Guo. Sometimes you can't just look at the opportunity, but also the situation. The Yong State now has the support of the Mohist family, and it is the Mohist family's participation in the national system. The first attempt, Jing Guozhengchou had no excuse to suppress them."
"Now it is Jingguo who is protecting the Dao Kingdom below, blocking our Qiguo's opening to attack Zhuangguo. Once Yongguo gets involved in such a dispute, Jingguo will definitely attack without leaving any room. That is Zhuangguo. It is what the king and his ministers like to see. How can Yong be allowed to comment on the game between great powers?"
"As for whether Zhuang Chengqian and the White Bone Dao are unclear... People have been dead for many years, and it's just a quarrel. How much harm can it do to Zhuang Guo? I believe Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui must have prepared a way to prove themselves. Specifically mentioned with The history of the struggle in the White Bone Path is just waiting for someone to take the bait..."
He glanced at Jiang Wang and said, "Han Xu is a very smart king and will never take the bait so easily."
Jiang Wang understood this euphemistic advice: "So you stopped me from going to Yanyun Mountain because you thought it was also a bait?"
Yanyun Mountain is between Dan State and Song State.
No one would have thought that Wusheng Cult built an underground palace there.
Yesterday, in that underground palace, more than ten powerful divine beings, together with more than two hundred extraordinary monks, were slaughtered by Zhang Linchuan. The scene was horrific.
This incident shocked the southwestern regions.
The news also reached Jiang Wang's ears.
Chongxuan Sheng said: "People seek tigers, and tigers seek people. As for Zhang Linchuan, now we have an absolute advantage, and there is no possibility of the Wusheng Sect to rise again. Son of a rich man, you can't sit down in the hall. You are already a prince of Da Qi, so you don't need to personally get involved." risk."
Zhang Linchuan's sect has been destroyed, but Jiang Wang's career in Qi State still has more possibilities. Chong Xuansheng was right, time was on Jiang Wang's side.
But they all know that Zhang Linchuan's special numerology-like magical power may still be possessed by other people, so if they wait patiently, the future will not be so clear.
They also know that... although there are many Wusheng Cultists in the world, most of them come for the reward. When danger and reward are no longer so disparate, who else but Jiang Wang has the determination to kill Zhang Linchuan?
Besides Jiang Wang, who single-handedly destroyed the Wu Sheng Cult, who else could arouse Zhang Linchuan, who is now hiding in Tibet... his greatest murderous intention?
If Jiang Wang had been hiding in Linzi, he would only offer a reward to drive people away and order the whole world to hunt down the Wu Sheng Cult. The battle at Yanyun Mountain may be Zhang Linchuan's last move.
And it is impossible for him to take a real person with him, or have an extremely powerful person watch him all the time. Firstly, no one has that spare time, and secondly, if there is no hope of killing him, Zhang Linchuan will never show his face.
Jiang Wang's trip was both fish and bait. When he left Qi State, he and Zhang Linchuan were fishing with each other.
Of course Jiang Wang understands these.
But he looked at Zhong Xuansheng quietly for a while and just said: "You sit in the mansion, collect information from all parties, and dispatch encirclement and suppression. If there is anything, contact me through Taixu Illusion Realm."
Holding his sword in his hand, he turned around and walked away from the stone bridge.
"The world is too big. If I miss this time, I don't know when I can find him again. I never want to... give him a chance again."
"If this is the bait Zhang Linchuan prepared for me, then let's see how sharp the hook is, how hard the fishing rod is, and...whether he has the same determination as me after being knocked down from the level of a true god!"
Today there are 6,000 words, one of which is an update for Ashigan Creditors Committee. (3/10)
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