Chapter ninety-two, negotiation
Just when a few people were discussing the specific details, they suddenly heard the voice of a monster in the distance: "All the talented people from Tianlong Academy, can you please come over and talk about it? I promise not to attack you." The voice was still that gentle. A female voice, but there is no element of charm in it.
This monster actually thought of getting together with Qingshi and wanted to negotiate? The five people couldn't help but look at each other. Qingshi looked at Shen Feiyun. Shen Feiyun thought for a while and then said to Qingshi: "Qingshi, you can handle it, just do what you want."
"Yes!" Qingshi agreed, then turned to the direction of the Beast Suppressing Tower and said loudly, "Senior Huiyan, please collect the poisonous mist, we will come over now." Since the other party treated him with courtesy, Qingshi naturally responded politely.
"No! You absolutely must not!" Zelda's voice sounded urgently, "That monster has many tricks, please don't fall for it! It is a monster..."
Qingshi didn't let him continue, and with a wave of his hand, he added a layer of shielding to the magic circle, so that Zelda could not hear or make any sound.
Qingshi originally wanted to go by himself, but Shen Feiyun disagreed and insisted on going together.
Chen Tianye wanted to go no matter what, but he didn't listen to Shen Feiyun's orders from his position as captain. He only said that Master Mo Sihai had given instructions and he must not let Qingshi out of his sight, so Shen Feiyun had to obey him.
After a while, the pervasive poisonous fog slowly dissipated. Qingshi, Chen Feiyun, Chen Tianye and the others walked out of the magic circle and ran towards the Beast Suppression Tower. Sure enough, no hell bats came to attack.
Chen Tianye said: "This monster is quite trustworthy. I hope it won't go back on its word."
Qingshi smiled and said: "Brother Amano, don't worry, it is a monster, not a human."
"What?" Chen Tianye asked curiously, "A monster won't go back on its word and be dishonest?"
"That's not necessarily true," Qingshi said, "but generally speaking, their words are more trustworthy than humans."
"How do you know?" Chen Tianye was even more surprised.
"I just know it!" Qingshi didn't explain.
Qingshi knew about the agreement between the old demon of Black Mountain and Xue Rong and the four guards. The monsters' observance of the oath was far more reliable than that of humans.
In fact, Chun Niang, Qinglong, Black Tiger, Hu Bai and Xiaopang are not human beings, so Qingshi knows much more about these beasts than Shen Feiyun and Chen Tianye.
As they spoke, the three of them approached the Beast Suppression Tower. The Beast Suppression Tower was taller than the main trial tower, with a total of seven floors above the ground. Qingshi and the other three stopped when they saw the cordon set up outside the tower.
This line is a circular low stone wall, no more than a foot high. The stone wall is covered with formation patterns. With the Beast Suppression Tower as the center, it forms a circle with a radius of about twenty feet. This is where the monster beast can move. range.
At this time, the hell bat demon was hiding in the tower and could not come out. The other hell bats and Zhu Ping were also hiding in the tower.
The voice of the monster sounded: "Dear talents of Tianlong Academy, thank you for coming to speak. I look ugly, so I won't come out to meet you. Please forgive me." The voice was pleasant.
Qingshi said: "We are humans and you are a spiritual beast. Why do you claim to be ugly? Do you also use human standards to judge beauty and ugliness?"
"Before I became wise, I naturally didn't think I was ugly," the pleasant female voice said slowly, "It's different after I became wise. Humans are the spirit of all things and were created by the Creator according to their own appearance. It is the standard of perfection in life. If you have seen transformed spiritual beasts, you should know that they all transform into human form. If I can transform into human form in the future, I will naturally transform into human form."
"I'm afraid you won't have a chance." Shen Feiyun said coldly.
"Yes, I know." Monster Huiyan said sadly, "I originally thought you were from Jiufeng Sect, but now I know that you are from Tianlong Academy. Of course I know about Tianlong Academy. Even if I can kill you, Even if I can escape from here, I can’t escape the pursuit of the academy.”
"Then why did you ask us to come here?" Chen Tianye said, "You don't want to catch us as a bargaining chip, do you?"
"I have been bound here for thousands of years," Huiyan said sadly, "How can I catch you! I just hope that you will allow me to say a few words before killing me so that you can understand what is going on. The truth. I have no grievances or grudges against you. Maybe you can let me go because I have some connection with Tianlong Academy."
"Do you still have some connection with Tianlong Academy?" Qingshi asked curiously, "Tell me about it!"
"Don't you know?" Huiyan also said a little strangely, "My master Jieyang was once a student of Tianlong Academy!"
"Did Jieyang graduate from Tianlong Academy?" Qingshi couldn't help but be startled, and Shen Feiyun and Chen Tianye also looked at each other. Ordinarily, there have been too many students graduating from Tianlong Academy over the past thousands of years, and most of them will be unknown to future generations.
But for a figure like Jieyang who has made great achievements and once dominated the court, the academy should have records. Qingshi knew that the college had an open course that specifically introduced the elite students trained by the college over the years.
But Qingshi didn't know that Jieyang was among the influential figures who graduated from the academy, and it seemed that Shen Feiyun and Chen Tianye didn't know either. However, after all, Jieyang has fallen for thousands of years, so it is normal for them not to know.
"My master Jie Yang was in Chaoge back then. He was a figure who would shake the entire capital when he stomped his feet," Huiyan said. "Your Tianlong Academy should have records of him. Perhaps he fell too hard. It's early, by the way, maybe it's because he changed his name, he didn't use the name Jieyang in his early years, I don't know what his name was."
"The Imperial Library has records about Jieyang, but it doesn't say that he once studied at Tianlong Academy. From your tone, it seems that you respect Jieyang very much!" Qingshi said, "He took you as a slave and locked you up in this palm-sized cage. , He has been in a dark place for thousands of years, don’t you hate him?”
"Hate him?" Huiyan said, "How could I hate him? If it weren't for him, I would have died long ago. It was he who saved my life and gave me the opportunity to develop spiritual wisdom. He is my master. , my re-created benefactor, I only have admiration and love for him, how could I hate him?"
"Besides, it was not his intention to lock me here without freedom. It was because he died unexpectedly, so he had no chance to come back and release me. It was also because his disciples did not listen to his orders and deliberately imprisoned me. Otherwise, I would have been there long ago. It’s time to be free.”
"Senior Huiyan," Qingshi said, "please explain clearly what is going on."
"Okay!" Huiyan said, "I called you here because I wanted to tell you about the rights and wrongs between me and the Jiufeng Sect, so that you would not be deceived by that despicable Sarda."
"Back then, when I was practicing in Zhongyuan Mountain, I had a life-and-death fight with Teng She. I was defeated by Teng She and was seriously injured and was about to die. Jieyang suddenly appeared and saved me, and killed Teng She to avenge the destruction of my clan. hatred."
"Jieyang saw that I was a flying spirit beast that could be cultivated and upgraded, so he healed my injuries and took me with him for warning and communication. I am willing to do these things for him."
"Later Jieyang brought me here. He used the earth veins to help me practice and promoted me from the sixth level to the seventh level. After reaching the seventh level, I had begun to have some spiritual wisdom, and Jieyang made a promise to me that he would I am tied up in the Beast Suppression Tower to train his disciples and protect the sect’s restricted area for him - this pagoda."
"He swore that if I could transform into a demon in the future, he would give me freedom, but after transforming into a demon, I would have to continue to be a slave for a thousand years. For me, if I could transform into a demon, even if I was a slave for ten thousand years, I would I'm willing too! Besides, tying me here also gives me a great opportunity to use the earth's veins to practice, so I naturally agreed without hesitation."
"After Jie Yang died, this oath was naturally invalidated. I asked his disciples to give me my freedom. I was willing to guard Jiufeng Sect for a thousand years. But his disciples did not agree, and I was not very willing to leave at that time. This is a treasured place for cultivation, so there is no falling out with the Jiufeng Sect."
"Later, more than 300 years ago, I transformed into a demon, doubled my spiritual intelligence, and became able to speak. At this time, my desire for freedom exceeded my enthusiasm for cultivation. So I once again asked the master of Jiufeng Sect. Men proposed to give me my freedom, but I am also willing to abide by the oath I made with Jieyang and protect Jiufeng Gate for thousands of years."
"The name of the leader at this time was Yu Chenglong, and he didn't agree to it. I said I could make an oath to him again to protect the Jiufeng Sect for two thousand years, but he still refused. He wanted me to be his slave forever."
"Under such circumstances, I began to produce little beasts to capture the disciples of Jiufeng Sect. After I captured them, I imprisoned them in the pagoda. I wanted them to experience the feeling of being imprisoned."
"I planned to arrest a hundred disciples before negotiating terms with Yu Chenglong, but it took me two years to arrest only more than fifty. I was not in a hurry to arrest people because I didn't want to use too drastic means. I didn't want to think about it for a while. The children tore their faces apart. But one time, the children missed it."
"At that time, there were more than fifty Nine Peaks Sect disciples in the trial tower. As a last resort, I had to release all the children in the hope of catching them all. As a result, in the melee, I only caught twenty-four disciples. There were six The disciples hid in the trial tower, one escaped back to the ground, the others are dead, and most of my one hundred and twenty children are also dead."
"Yu Chenglong and Sarda organized nearly thirty masters to come and try to kill me. I wanted to tell him that I had more than seventy disciples, including his son, and I wanted to negotiate terms with him. , I am willing to let go of all his disciples and only ask for freedom, and I am even willing to continue to abide by the oath with Jieyang and guard the Jiufeng Gate for thousands of years."
"But they didn't give me a chance to explain. They only wanted to kill me. After a big battle, I was seriously injured, and all the children in my group died. Only three of them survived, the great elder. Salda and the sixth elder, Uncle Jin Zhong, hid in a trial tower respectively, while Yu Chenglong escaped alone."
"Nearly three hundred years have passed, but the bloody smell of that war is still fresh in my memory. Alas!"
At this point, Huiyan sighed and stopped, as if recalling the bloody battle that year.
After a while, Qingshi asked, "What you said is basically the same as what Salda said, but Salda said that you captured the Nine Peaks Sect disciples to eat them and gain energy. The more than seventy people you captured successively As for the disciples, were they all eaten by you? And the seven people in the two trial towers, including the Sixth Elder and Yu Chenglong’s youngest son, were they also captured and eaten by you?"
"Not entirely," Huiyan said, "I ate all the disciples I captured in the Beast Suppressing Tower, but I only ate them after the battle, and I didn't eat any of them before. And I ate them all. I ate them because in that battle, they wanted to cooperate with Jackie Chan to break through my restraints and kill me, so I had to poison them all with poisonous mist. As for the other seven people you mentioned, I have no ability to eat them. They, they are hiding in the trial tower, how can I catch them?"
"But Zelda said that it was you who cut off the connection between the two trial towers," Qingshi said, "and then you sent your little beasts to break through the tower doors and capture them."
"Hmph!" Huiyan sneered, "Do you believe that? You're still an formation mage! If I had that ability, I would have broken the connection to the Earth's veins of the Beast Suppressing Tower that bound me and gained freedom."
"You are right about this!" Qingshi said, "But you and Zelda both mentioned the seven people in the two trial towers. It was not you who did it, so who could it be?"
"Of course it's Zelda," Huiyan said, "This guy is the most despised bastard I've ever seen. I know he cut off the earth veins of the two trial towers, but the reason why he did it is unclear. It’s not hard to guess.”
"Senior might as well say it clearly," Qingshi said, "What did he do to those seven people? And for what?"
"You are all talented people from Tianlong Academy," Huiyan said, "You should be able to guess it. I only know through monitoring their children that Sarda cut off the earth connection between the two trial towers and cracked the tower The door entered it. As for what he did after entering, I have no way of knowing, but I can imagine it, and you should too."
Qingshi and the other three people all had their own conjectures. The three exchanged glances and roughly understood that the other party's thoughts were the same as theirs. However, they still did not want to believe their conjectures.
"Hmph!" Huiyan sneered again, "Of course you have the answer in your heart, but you can't believe it, right? Let me tell you. In that battle, Sardar was seriously injured and poisoned. He must get Cultivate resources to heal wounds and detoxify, and others also need resources.”
"There are a total of eight people in the three trial towers. They all need resources to maintain their own consumption and maintain their lives. This earth vein energy is not spiritual energy. Only people with both yin and yang attributes and true energy can directly absorb and utilize it. We spiritual energy There are only a few species of beasts that can directly absorb and utilize it.”
"Jie Yang is a peerless genius with both Yin and Yang Qi. He can directly absorb the power of the earth's veins, but his disciples and disciples cannot, and neither can Zelda."
"So, Zelda cut off the earth connection between the two trial towers, and then opened the tower door and went in to kill people and seize resources. This is my guess. If my guess is correct, those people were not only killed, but all the resources were taken away. I'm afraid that even the corpse will be eaten by Zelda! Three hundred years is not a short time! He can survive until now, what do you think he deserves?"
Qingshi and the other three exchanged glances again. It was obvious that what Huiyan said was reasonable and could withstand scrutiny. What Sarda said has been proven to be a lie. At this point, they have believed Huiyan's words.
Qingshi thought about it and said: "I basically believe what you said, but I have to go back to see the situation of the two trial towers and confirm it again. In addition, there are a few things I don't understand. Please answer."
"It's good that you want to believe me," Huiyan said. "If you have any questions, just ask."
"Thank you!" Qingshi said, "Who is controlling the maze in this cave, you or Zelda? I think it should be you!"
"It's me," Huiyan said. "This maze includes the entire underground cave. It was arranged by Jieyang. He taught me how to control it. He set up the control hub in the Beast Suppression Tower. Only he and I can control it."
"Well!" Qingshi continued to ask, "In that case, why did someone escape from this cave twice? The first time it was an ordinary disciple, and the second time it was Yu Chenglong."
"I deliberately sent that disciple back to report the news," Huiyan said. "Yu Chenglong carries the universal formation order of all the Jiufeng Sect's formations."
"What happened to Zhu Ping?" Qingshi continued to ask, "Has he been adopted as a demon slave by you?"
"Yes!" Huiyan said, "This kid was caught by my children as soon as he came in. He was afraid of death, so he easily became my demon slave. He has the formation order, and he has been bringing me the order for this period of time. A lot of people came in, but unfortunately these people have very low cultivation, and they won't be of much use if they eat it." After saying this, Qingshi chuckled seductively, and the three of them almost thought it was going to use its charm technique again.
"Ahem!" Qingshi coughed twice, interrupting Huiyan's laughter, and said, "Senior, is there anything else you want to say?"
"Of course there is," Huiyan said after stopping her laughter, "I have told you all this just to make it clear that I have no grievances with your Tianlong Academy. The grievances between me and the Jiufeng Sect are also the disciples and grandsons of Jieyang. They have betrayed their trust first. I would like to ask you all to let me go. You are here to arrest Zhu Ping. I can hand him over to you right away. You can also make any other conditions, such as letting me guard your college. A thousand years or whatever."
"Tianlong Academy does not need you to guard it," Qingshi said, "please hand Zhu Ping to us, and we will leave immediately."
"But what will I do if you leave?" Huiyan said, "I can no longer use the earth veins to practice. According to my estimation, if I wait for the Beast Suppression Tower to naturally collapse to the point where I can escape, it will take at least five thousand Years or more. But if I can't continue to practice, I won't live for five thousand years at all. Are you cruel enough to let me be tied up in this small circle for thousands more years, until I die? You are pitiful and pitiful Me! Give me freedom! I will definitely repay you well!"
Hui Yan's voice was so sad and sincere that Chen Tianye and Chen Feiyun had the urge to agree.
"That's enough!" Qingshi shouted, "If you use charm again, we won't have to talk."
"Yes, yes!" Huiyan said, "Let's continue talking. If you have any other requests, feel free to ask."
Chen Tianye and Shen Feiyun looked at each other and couldn't help but feel ashamed again. They also couldn't understand why Qingshi was not affected by the monster's charm.
"I can give you freedom!" Qingshi said, "But I also have conditions."
"You say it," Huiyan said eagerly, "I will agree to whatever you want. I can be your slave for a thousand years."
"I don't need you to be a slave," Qingshi said, "First of all, give Zhu Ping to us alive, as well as all the items including the formation order on him."
"Okay!" Huiyan said, "No problem."
"Second," Qingshi said, "you must leave here after you are free. The grudge between you and the Jiufeng Sect should also be wiped out. You can no longer use this earth vein to practice, we have to hand it over to the academy."
"That's no problem! I can go back to Zhongyuan Mountain." Huiyan said.
"Third," Qingshi continued, "I want you to promise that you and your children will never take the initiative to harm humans in the future."
"I swear," Huiyan said, "Except for self-defense, I will never harm humans. I will also restrain my children and never allow them to harm humans."
"Well!" Qingshi said, "That's good, that's it."
"That's all?" Huiyan said in surprise, "That's all?" It almost didn't believe its ears. It thought that Qingshi would put forward very harsh conditions, at least to make it a slave for more than a thousand years, but it didn't expect It's so simple.
"Wait a minute!" Chen Tianye said loudly, "I want to add one more thing. You have to give us all your cultivation resources, including the Beast Suppression Tower you are in, which is all the items in the forbidden land pagoda you mentioned."
Chen Tianye ignored the surprised looks of Qingshi and Shen Feiyun, put on a ruffian look and said with a smile, "Give us whatever treasures you have, otherwise we will be at a huge loss, don't you think?"
"Okay!" Huiyan replied with a smile without hesitation, "I didn't expect you with a mustache to be quite smart! This pagoda was originally Jieyang's treasure pavilion back then. There are a lot of cultivation resources in it. I don't have any of them. Take it away and give it all to you.”
"Okay!" Chen Tianye stroked his mustache and smiled from ear to ear.
