Counting the days to the tenth day, Ma Hu arrived at night as promised.
Of course, Qian Chao had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time. When he saw Ma Hu arriving, Qian Chao first asked him to sit down and served him tea, and then took out a drum and handed it over.
"Is this thing the drum?"
Ma Hu played with the small drum in his hand. The drum was not heavy. It could be seen that the drum body was made of monster bones and had been carefully polished. The drum head is made of large snakeskin. The snake skin is tightly bound to the drum body by the sinews of an unknown monster. The drum head is stretched unusually flat and tight, and the scales of the big snake skin on it are still clearly distinguishable.
"Exactly."
Qian Chao has never tried this drum after refining it. This spiritual weapon is different from his horn. There is no way to test it within the sect. If he wants to try it, he must go outside the sect and find something that can be affected by the sound of this drum. The restrained monsters and insects will beat the drum, so that you can know whether the refining is successful.
However, in the "Nine Mysterious Spirits", there is another way to hear the power of musical instruments. This method is called "discriminating the tone and color" in the book. Qian Chao learned this method and started to After listening to the drum, I only feel that the drum sound is low and hoarse, and I feel a little uncomfortable in my ears. If I beat it continuously, I will feel that there is a entangled and pulling force around me. The monk will feel uncomfortable listening to such drum sound. That's all, but it is said that when the monsters or monsters restrained by it listen to it, the bones in their bodies will crack, and their whole bodies will become numb and weak, and they can only collapse to the ground.
With a "dong" sound, Ma Hu brought the drum in his hand to his ear and played it.
"Well, this sound makes people feel uncomfortable. It seems that the refining is correct."
"Senior Brother Ma, I don't know what you are going to use this drum to deal with, but don't beat this drum too quickly, and every time you hit it, this drum will also consume some of your energy. Although there are not many people with spiritual energy, the place where Senior Brother Ma goes must be extremely dangerous, so naturally it is better to preserve one's strength in such a place."
"You don't have to worry about this anymore. With this thing, hehe, I will have an extra level of security there. Okay, Junior Brother Qian, I took the things, let's just say goodbye."
"Senior Brother Ma, please stay." Qian Chao saw Ma Hu standing up to leave and quickly called him, "I have something to give to Senior Brother Ma."
"Oh, what is it?" Ma Hu was a little curious. He only refined a drum at Qian Chao's place. Now that he has it in his hand, what else is there?
Qian Chao took out a piece of paper and handed it over.
"I got the recipe above from the Yuling Sect in Shuiyun Valley. It is said that after making this recipe, we think the smell it emits is just unpleasant, but there are many monster insects, such as Some monster insects such as flies and bees that are commonly seen outside the sect are extremely afraid of this smell. If they smell it, they will try their best to escape. Even more powerful monster insects, such as Zhuanzhufeng, are afraid of this smell. The same goes for the smell. Although Senior Brother Ma has the drum I refined, he might as well spend some time before going out to find someone to prepare some according to this recipe for emergencies. But I heard that it takes a long time to prepare this thing. Sealed, its smell dissipates quickly, but its duration is also short. If it is used, Senior Brother Ma must pay attention and get out of danger immediately while the insect swarm is in chaos."
"Junior Brother Qian," Ma Hu's face became surprisingly serious, "You seem to know where I am going, and what are you going to use this drum to deal with?"
"No, it's just recorded in the book that this frightening drum can restrain some monsters and monsters. If it is a monster, I have no other way but to use force to defeat it. In that case, with Senior Brother Ma's cultivation level, it must be Don’t be afraid. But it is said that monster insects are more troublesome than monster beasts. If what Senior Brother Ma wants to deal with is really monster bugs, this method can be used."
Ma Hu stared at Qian Chao with gleaming eyes: "How could you think of giving me this recipe to save your life?"
"Well, I don't know if I will really ask Senior Brother Ma to help me solve Wen Zhang's troubles in the future. I don't want Senior Brother Ma to have anything happen to him while he is away from home."
"Hahahaha, it's interesting," Ma Hu said, looking up at the stars in the sky, then sitting back down, "I don't want to leave now, come on, Junior Brother Qian, you are quite interesting, let's have a good time Let’s have a chat.”
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At this time, outside the sect, under the same sky full of stars, a dark mountain range looked like a huge beast lurking quietly in the night.
With several roars in the air, several figures came quickly from the air and stopped above the mountain range.
"Here?" One of the people who seemed to be the leader asked suspiciously.
"It's right here. As soon as that guy left the sect, he got rid of the people we were following. Fortunately, we had done some tricks on him in advance, so we later found it after a lot of trouble. It's down there."
After hearing this, the leader stared at the mountains below for a moment and said, "Well, it's really a good place to hide. Come on, the matter must be resolved tonight. Otherwise, if he is really allowed to succeed, where will he be in the future?" Is there still a way for us to survive?"
The figures of those people also followed the leader and fell towards the mountain below them.
"Is there any hiding place here?"
"We have checked several caves, but there is no trace of him. We can only wait for senior brother to come."
The leader was silent. After falling for a while, he stabilized his body and took out a bottle from his body. He seemed to be a little reluctant and said: "After tonight, I will never need these again." When finished, pull out the stopper of the bottle and place the mouth of the bottle downward.
Countless bright white dots were overturned from the mouth of the bottle, and a white trickle fell towards the mountain below everyone. However, after falling less than ten feet, the white trickle drifted away. They started flying like grass fireflies, and many bright white dots flew into the grass and trees and flickered for a few times before disappearing, but more of them followed the ups and downs of the mountains and went further and further away.
"Follow up!"
Those people followed closely behind the glowing white spots.
Finally, in front of an inconspicuous low wall, those white dots flew here and landed on the low wall one after another. As the white light dots became more and more, there were all the white spots within a few feet. It was illuminated, and several figures fell down one after another. In the white light, the gloomy face of the leader was clearly visible.
The leader looked up and saw that there were still countless bright white dots flying towards here and falling towards the inconspicuous low wall. He nodded and said, "It seems like this is it. "
Then he stopped talking and just signaled to a few people around him.
A few rays of cold light suddenly came and aimed at the low wall and rushed towards it. Amidst the whistling sound, those few rays of cold light flickered on the low wall. After a while, they heard a "rumbling" sound, and those white lights The spot suddenly boiled, and after the rocks rolled down, a hole appeared behind the low wall, and there was light coming out of the hole.
"Senior Brother Bian," the leader said to the cave, "It's not easy to find you. We are all here. Why don't Senior Brother Bian come out and talk?"
A figure in the cave blocked the light coming from inside. Following the sound of footsteps, a man walked out of the cave. As soon as he came out, the small white dots of light in the sky suddenly became excited, although they did not turn towards the man. It fell, but kept spinning around the man's body. Dots of white light gathered and illuminated the face of the man walking out of the cave.
The man called Senior Brother Bian looked to be in his thirties, with an ordinary appearance, except for his eyes, which seemed to be brighter than the light spots flying around him.
He looked up at the countless bright white dots flying around him, seemed to smile bitterly, then looked at the few people standing in front of him, and said: "It was just a thought back then, but I didn't expect that it will cause disaster to this day. Junior Brother Qu, you tonight He came to me with his men aggressively, and it seems that he doesn’t intend to keep me, right?”
"There is nothing we can do. Senior Brother Bian is too ambitious. We originally agreed to advance and retreat together, but unfortunately Senior Brother Bian always wants to leave us alone. That is really a pity. Since Senior Brother Bian does not want to be with me, When brothers become friends, we must get back what we gave you in the first place, so that we don’t owe each other anything."
"Well, you're right. I do think you guys are a little stumbling. But don't rush to fall out. Junior Brother Qu, tell me how you can let me go?"
"Hmph, all you can give is a few pills that I made a few days ago, but after killing you, those will still be ours. Senior Brother Bian, why do you think we should let you go?"
"Otherwise, Junior Brother Qu, your numbers are greater than the number of pills I can refine. Even if you kill me, you won't be able to get one pill per person. Then there will be a few who can't get it. Then between you brothers Isn't there going to be a dispute? How about this, you let me go, and I'll open the furnace to refine it for you again, and I'll make sure you get one each."
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"Tell me, Junior Brother Qian, how do you know where I am going?"
"Senior Brother Ma, it's not difficult to deduce this. It was written in the book you gave me that the drum can restrain several kinds of monsters, and it has a better restraint effect on many monster insects. Speaking of which, the last time I saw Ma After Senior Brother took out the pile of storage bags, I felt that Senior Brother Ma must not be collecting spiritual herbs or killing monsters like ordinary disciples when he went to the outside of the sect to earn spiritual stones. Senior Brother Ma was just robbing them, not To rob is to rob, I’m right.”
"Well, that's it, eh, I haven't received an assignment at Jingshiyuan for a long time."
"Yes, it is with this in mind that I feel that Senior Brother Ma is definitely not hunting any powerful monsters with this frightening drum, let alone the monsters that can be restrained by this frightening drum. If Senior Brother Ma wants to kill them, It’s easy to do without this frightening drum, so when Senior Brother Ma asked me to refine the frightening drum, it must be to deal with some powerful monster insects.”
"Well, it makes some sense, go on."
"The rest is actually based on Senior Brother Ma's character."
Ma Hu laughed and said, "Haha, I don't seem to be a very good person!"
"Otherwise, as I said before, you, Senior Brother Ma, are a wicked person, but you are still a wicked person who dares to take responsibility and behaves honestly. Although I have not known Senior Brother Ma for a long time, according to my judgment, Senior Brother Ma, you are a wicked person. People who have clear grudges and enjoy grudges, right?"
"Well, that's about right. But few people who really make me angry will get good results."
"According to Senior Brother Ma's temper, if someone is kind to you, will Senior Brother Ma never forget him?"
"Well... you should tell me who I will never forget."
"Junior brother, the time I have been in the sect is still too short. I don't know many things. But recently, if there are any major events in our Jiuxuan, there is one thing. That is what happened to Senior Brother Xun outside the sect. Something unexpected happened. It is said that Brother Xun’s master, Elder Jin, was suspicious of the cause of his beloved disciple’s death, and sent several of his foundation-building disciples out to investigate. But the news I heard in the Chengqi Hall , those senior brothers who built the foundation did not find anything suspicious at the place where senior brother Xun was in danger."
"Senior Brother Ma, that Senior Brother Xun has a very good reputation among our Nine Mysteries and is very popular. Many people have benefited from him. Moreover, the place where Senior Brother Xun's accident occurred was at the mouth of Guanxi. There is a powerful monster insect there. The place where Zhuanzhufeng lives, and this frightening drum can restrain monsters like Zhuanzhufeng. Therefore, junior brother, I boldly guess that Brother Ma may have received some help from Brother Xun, but he has never been able to repay it and remembers it in his heart. Now Senior Brother Xun died outside the sect, and the cause of death was still in doubt, so Senior Brother Ma wanted to go to the place outside the sect where Brother Xun's accident occurred to investigate and see how Senior Brother Xun was in danger. If he was really plotted against, Ma Senior brother must avenge Senior Brother Xun, right?"
