"Yes, Xu Pingxi knows something about us."
After listening to Shu Guan's account of what happened this morning, Li Zhixia nodded.
Li Zhixia was a little surprised that Shu Guan killed a strong man in the fetal movement state alone, but he was not too surprised. He knew that Shu Guan had been practicing some secret method with his senior brother some time ago.
As for the senior brother who has lived in Shanxi Guan for four thousand years and has a mysterious origin, everyone knows that his strength is unpredictable, and they all hope that the senior brother can give guidance on their own practice. When Li Zhixia was young, she also had It's a pity that in the past four thousand years, the senior brother has never seemed to favor that disciple more, and Shu Guan was the first one.
This also makes Li Zhixia more certain that Shu Guan is Lu Zu's chosen successor. Otherwise, how could even his senior brother be so special to him? The only thing Li Zhixia doesn't understand now is why Lu Zu arranged such a successor in Shanji. Watch.
Maybe it’s because Senior Brother is already observing goodness!
A few days ago, Li Zhixia made these guesses while standing on the top of the cliff and watching the man and the monkey practicing by the lake.
And with the training of the senior brother, it is not too surprising that Lao Qi, whose strength cannot be judged according to the realm of normal practitioners, can kill a strong person in the fetal movement realm.
After being slightly surprised, Li Zhixia sighed again, with some sadness in her eyes.
"As for what happened between your senior brother Zhai and Xu Pingxi, it happened during the Northern Expedition fifteen years ago. At that time, Xu Pingxi belonged to the New Army camp and was the commander of the New Army's attack on Jingcheng. And your senior brother Zhai also I helped the new army attacking the city, so I got to know Xu Pingxi."
Senior Brother Zhai actually interfered in the war between mortals?
Shu Guan looked at his master with some confusion.
Li Zhixia shook her head bitterly and said:
"You, Senior Brother Zhai, did not violate the rules of heaven. Although I know that Tianci actually always wanted to help the new army, he kept holding back until the practitioners from the Western Continent in the concession took action, and he finally got the chance."
"During the Northern Expedition, the powerful countries in the Western Continent had always supported the old warlords, but this support had always been limited to the secular level."
"However, as the old warlords were retreating on the battlefield, their practitioners in Great China finally intervened one after another."
"Just like the Battle of Jingcheng fifteen years ago, when the New Army captured Yingcheng and Jiangyang Town, the Western Continent practitioners in the concession directly used magic to kill thousands of attackers under the pretext of protecting the concession. New Army soldiers entering the river mouth."
"As a result, some battles broke out between our Seven Immortals Alliance and those practitioners from the Western Continent. Your senior brother Zhai died in those battles."
"Then what was the outcome of both sides in the end?"
Shu Guan asked curiously.
"In the end, there was no winner. The Western Continent practitioners who were in Jingcheng back then were much stronger in number and strength than they are now. So in that fight, some of us died, and some of them also died. People. But after all, in our land of Great China, we still have a slight upper hand."
"It's just that later the Seven Immortals issued a decree and asked us to cease war with the practitioners of the Western Continent. The Seven Immortals seemed to have reached some agreements with the gods of the Western Continent. Since then, many practitioners of the Western Continent have withdrawn from our Dahua, like us In Jingcheng, the number of Western Continent practitioners left behind cannot exceed a certain number, and their strength cannot exceed the Fetal Movement Realm."
"Since then, practitioners from the Western Continent have never interfered so blatantly in the political situation of our Dahua."
"Okay, Lao Qi, are you sure that the man in black you met today is the same group of people as those at Fuhua Warehouse."
After talking about old things, Li Zhixia frowned and asked in a deep voice.
"Master, I am 100% sure that the auras on their bodies are very similar, and the source of their spells seems to be from the same lineage. They can summon strange beasts from the void to assist in fighting. Moreover, after the man in black died, his body also turned into A puddle of pus.”
Shu Point nodded and said.
"What are the origins of these men in black? The most important thing is that they hid in Jingcheng, ambushed us once, and today they tried to assassinate Xu Pingxi. What are they planning?"
Li Zhixia looked thoughtful and said something to herself.
"If we can confirm their identities, we may be able to know their purpose."
Shu Guan's heart moved after hearing this, and he thought for a while and said:
"If the joint search team still cannot find the hiding place of the men in black this time, they may start investigating from the other two aspects."
Li Zhixia snorted and asked with interest:
"From which two aspects?"
"Those men in black have been very careful to conceal their identities. For example, Master, you said that the weapons they use may not be the weapons they are accustomed to using."
"But spells cannot hide them. For example, spells that summon strange beasts are very rare. Maybe we can start from this aspect. I wonder if the master knows what spells they use?"
Shu Guan replied.
Li Zhixia glanced at Shu Guan approvingly and said:
"My master has actually discussed this matter with Master Miki, Chief Su Jieshan and the others. The techniques used by those men in black to summon strange beasts are somewhat similar to the techniques used by our Taoist sect to summon gods, but they are just orthodox techniques of summoning gods. Those invited to help are the gods’ Dharma, but those men in black invited some ferocious beasts.”
"There is actually a restriction in order to use the magic of inviting gods. It must have a certain relationship with the god being invited. Only by possessing the unique spell of inviting gods left by that god can the gods be summoned to help. "
"As for why those men in black invited some strange beasts, this is something that I haven't figured out yet, and I don't have a clue yet."
"Then we can also investigate from another aspect, which is the reason why the corpses mysteriously melted. Especially for practitioners in the fetal movement stage, it is not so easy to turn their corpses into a puddle of corpse water so quickly."
Shu Guan said again.
Li Zhixia's expression changed, she nodded and said:
"I have never thought about this carefully. Their corpses will melt. They should have taken certain drugs beforehand. Once the life in the body is cut off, the drugs will take effect and dissolve their corpses."
"Of course, it is certainly not an ordinary medicine that can make the physical body of a strong person in the fetal movement period dissolve so quickly. It is a pity that we at Shanji Guan do not have anyone who is good at the method of alchemy. Well, I will report this matter to Patriarch Liuxia. See Let’s see if the old man can give him some magic.”
Master Liuxia?
Shu Guan was startled at first, and then immediately remembered that Li Zhixia once said that in addition to Master Lu Duanyang, there are two other masters alive in Shanji Guan. One of them is the 19th generation of Guan Zhuoxia Zhenren. It is said that he is already He is a practitioner in the Nascent Soul Realm, and Master Liuxia practices the way of the Alchemy Cauldron.
Shu Guan also saw the statue of Liuxia Zhenren in the Zushi Pavilion. It was a chubby old man with a nice smile.
Listening to what the master said at this time, there is still a way in the temple to proactively contact those ancestors.
The master and apprentice discussed the matter of the man in black for a while, and then Li Zhixia pondered for a while and said:
"As for Xu Pingxi, he actually asked to meet his teacher through Taoist Chen from Taiyi Temple many times. The teacher didn't want to get too involved with the princes of these mortal world, so he never agreed to meet him."
"But this person cannot die easily, otherwise the land of Chu and Xiang will be in constant war, and there will be no hope of settling down in a few years."
"If they were just mortals fighting for power, we wouldn't be able to intervene. But among the people who assassinated him this time were practitioners, we can take care of it. If those men in black failed to assassinate him once, they might do it again, and maybe also Our one chance to find those men in black.”
"I will tell Master Sanmu about this matter. Guiyuan Temple and Xu Pingxi's Governor's Mansion are not far apart, so I will ask Master Sanmu to pay special attention to it."
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Not long after, Shu Guan walked out of Li Zhixia's clifftop residence. After dealing with the man in black in the fetal movement state in the morning, Shu Guan quickly returned to Xiushui Street to pick up all the iron arrows he had missed.
Now the importance he attaches to every iron arrow is no longer just out of nostalgia for the old cripple.
While searching for the iron arrow lost in the alley, he discovered that the men in black who assassinated Xu Pingxi had disappeared, and not even a body was left behind.
For this reason, Shu Guan even made a special prediction and divined the whereabouts of those men in black. As expected, this matter has been covered up.
Then, fearing another accident, Shu Guan finally personally escorted Xu Pingxi to the Governor's Mansion, then hurried back to Shanjiguan and reported the whole matter to his master.
It was already afternoon when he walked out of his master's residence. It was too late to go to Yingcheng District to find his senior sisters and the others. Shu Guan decided not to go today.
The most important thing is that Shu Guan has some confusion in his heart that needs to be solved urgently, otherwise he will always be itchy.
After coming down from the top of the cliff, Shu Guan quickly returned to his half of the building, went directly to the third floor, walked into his bedroom, pulled out a large bamboo box from under the bed, and opened the lid.
Inside the box were a lot of bits and pieces of children's toys, which were all given to him by the old cripple for his birthday.
Shuguan cherishes these things. Although he didn't like most of the toys when he was a child, when he left Taoyuan Village, he took out all the toys that he didn't like but cherished.
Because at that time, Shu Guan felt that these things were the only connection between him and the old cripple.
It was only today that Shu Guan truly realized that these children's toys that the old lame man had made for him when he was a child, but that he despised, might not be real toys for children.
Thinking of the arrow that still shocked him when he recalled it at this time, Shu Guan picked up the centipede kite on top from the box and slowly injected a ray of spiritual power into the kite.
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Will this kite undergo any special changes?
It won't really turn into a giant centipede, right?
At this moment, Shu Guan was extremely curious and expectant.
