When night fell, Liu Hunkang had already rested in his room early.
Liu Guang's mansion was really big. Even though half of it had been destroyed and many usable things had been taken away by Liangshan's soldiers and horses, the remaining part was still enough for the Taoist officials to live in.
Suddenly the wind blew slightly, and the moonlight outside the window flickered.
Liu Hunkang turned over and sat up, and when he looked closely, he saw a young man wearing a white Songhe robe sitting at a round table in the room. Although he was wearing a Taoist robe, he didn't look like a Taoist priest at all.
This person's demeanor gives people a strong sense of tranquility and openness, as if they are not meeting each other in a small bedroom, but in a wild wilderness with high grass and thousands of horses galloping.
"The big dragon head of Liangshan?"
Liu Hunkang said softly, "I have been famous for a long time, but this is the first time I have met him. I am so polite."
According to what Gou Ying and others said a while ago, Guan Luoyang was under siege, retreated in embarrassment, and fled back to the Liangshan military camp.
However, I only watched one side today, and Liu Hunkang already knew that the claims Gou Ying and others promoted in the military were too many and untrue.
"I have heard about Master Liu of the Qing Sect on Maoshan Mountain many times."
Guan Luoyang picked up the teapot, and when he poured out the cold tea, it had already brought steaming steam, a line of green jade-like jade, into the porcelain cup that was azure after the rain.
"There is a female general in our army. Thanks to Master Liu's advice, I was able to be on guard against the hidden dangers of practicing Taiqing Tianxin Theory in the past. She talked to me about Master Liu many times, which made me consciously aware of Master Liu before I met him. I have some understanding.”
Liu Hunkang smiled and said: "It turns out that the little killer has arrived in Liangshan, but she may not be very familiar with Pindao. Your Excellency, you are taking risks and coming here rashly. Aren't you afraid that it is too hasty?"
Guan Luoyang put down the teapot: "What the real person said is that if you listen to both, you will be enlightened, but if you believe partially, you will be dark. So in addition to chatting with her, I also sent someone to visit Qingzong on Maoshan Mountain."
He paused, looked at Liu Hunkang's expression, and said, "Oh, I should say please. After all, the old Taoist priest I invited has a very arrogant temperament and is extremely decisive in doing things."
After hearing this, Liu Hunkang lowered his head slightly, his facial features hidden in the shadow of the gauze curtain, and sighed after a long time.
"If you ask Lin Lingsu to go to Maoshan, the imperial soldiers who are responsible for guarding the disciples in Maoshan will naturally not be able to find out. But Lin Lingsu can find out that the people on Maoshan only have paper puppets and some fake bodies transformed from copper beans. .”
After shaking his head, Liu Hunkang raised his eyes and said, "Children of Maoshan, where are you now?"
Guan Luoyang smiled: "Lin Lingsu followed the clues and found them all. Although he did not find them all, he invited 50% to 60% of them to be guests in Liangshan. Mr. Liu can rest assured that they are very respected among the people of Liangshan and they are happy and happy. They all live happily.”
Guan Luoyang's words were true. Although everyone in Maoshan was in a smoking coma when Lin Lingsu brought them back, Guan Luoyang did not treat them badly.
These Taoist priests are very knowledgeable and can be used to continue to hold literacy classes for the people in the mountains and increase the scale of teaching people to read.
It's just that as the lord of Liangshan, he ran to Liu Hunkang in the middle of the night and said such words.
It's hard to say what Liu Hunkang will think after hearing this.
"Alas! It took them eight years to slowly escape from the supervision of the imperial court. This is because I knew that the corpse was about to be exterminated, and the people of Maoshan should not continue to be involved in the imperial court's affairs."
Liu Hunkang's expression suddenly became relaxed, "However, Emperor Tianming has restrained me for many years. It's not a bad idea to cause some trouble for him before escaping from the world. If you have any ideas, you can just tell me."
Guan Luoyang smiled and flicked the cup of hot tea steadily towards Liu Hunchang: "I just want to ask Master Liu to help the soldiers of the imperial court to eliminate evil and cure diseases..."
After a while, Liu Hunkang was the only one left in the room.
"He is so elusive that he will be feared later in life. If he were younger, he would at least have to arm-wrestle with him before talking about anything else."
Liu Hunkang held the teacup and had only drank half of the hot tea when he heard someone shouting outside the door, asking him to go discuss matters.
The messenger led Liu Hunkang out of the courtyard and straight to the military field in the center of the city.
The compacted loess formed an open and flat field. Thousands of soldiers had gathered in the field. Many of them were not wearing neat clothes and armor. It was as if they had just gotten up from the tent and rushed here in a hurry. Every one of them had a little something on their face. An uneasy look.
When they arrived at the ordering platform, Chen Xizhen immediately greeted him, looking so enthusiastic for the first time.
"Mr. Huayang, the people of Liangshan did not know what means they used to make many soldiers in the camp lose their shadow. You are the master of Maoshan and have profound Taoism. Do you know how to crack it?"
Liu Hunkang turned around to look. Sure enough, there were no shadows under the feet of the soldiers in the field. The moonlight shone on them, on their frightened faces whispering and looking around, and then on their feet. The land was covered with silvery sand. The moonlight shines brightly.
The whole scene has a strange sense of absence.
Chen Xizhen practiced the Longhu Mountain True Taoism, but he concentrated on swordsmanship and Qi Luck. He also dabbled in the Five Elements Movement and Wind and Thunder techniques, but he didn't have any profound insights.
Wang Laozhi only focused on alchemy.
Gou Ying and others also came to see it, but they had no clue and couldn't decipher it.
"If Mr. Huayang can't think of a way to crack it, he will have to send these people out of the city first and find a place to temporarily station."
Chen Xizhen looked calm, but there was a hint of gloominess in his face, "But no matter what, we must find out how the people in Liangshan cast spells as soon as possible, otherwise, more and more people will fall under this kind of spell."
Liu Hunkang waved his hand and said: "Don't be anxious, wait for me to take a closer look."
He called a few soldiers at random and asked them if they had noticed anything unusual about themselves recently. When did you realize you had no shadow tonight?
Then he asked Chen Xizhen and others, what is the difference between these soldiers and other soldiers who have no abnormalities?
Feng Hui said: "These people seem to be the weaker ones among the officers and soldiers, and some of them are even private soldiers who were mixed in not long ago. Recently, they often attack the Liangshan military camp."
"now it's right."
Liu Hunkang said, "When Chen Daozi bombarded Quancheng Mansion with artillery fire, all the paper men and horses defending the city were blown to pieces and scattered in the city. These are the first layer of medium for casting spells, but they are still too weak. And this When they went on an expedition for a while, they were all fighting with the colorful paper people, and they were infected with the opponent's aura. This is the second layer of media."
"With these two layers of media, Zhang Wanxian can perform the "Three Forbidden Methods of Heavenly Spiritual Light", which is an undisclosed secret in the Zuodao Dharma Book of Three Mountains and Nine Lords. I also saw it from a fragment of the manual."
"If a person who has been affected by this kind of spell cannot find his or her own shadow before the rooster crows for the third time tomorrow, his soul will be lost and he will sleep on the spot."
Feng Hui asked curiously: "There are still chickens in Quan City now. Doesn't it matter if you can't hear the chicken crow?"
Liu Hunkang coughed lightly.
Gou Ying explained: "It is said that the lights are on at the third watch and the rooster crows at the fifth watch. Whenever the rooster crows in Taoism, it actually refers to the fifth watch."
An orderly soldier rushed over and reported urgently that many people in the military camp found themselves missing.
Chen Xizhen sent someone to count and found that more than ten thousand people had been hit by this spell. He couldn't help but be surprised and angry: "Zhang Wanxian actually has such a method, which can kill tens of thousands of magic soldiers at the same time?!"
Liu Hunkang said: "This is almost a desperate move. Even if he succeeds, his vitality will be severely damaged. If someone breaks the law, he may die on the spot."
Chen Xizhen's eyes lit up and he quickly handed over his hand: "It sounds like Mr. Huayang has a way to crack it?"
Liu Hunkang said: "Please gather all those who have been cursed, count their numbers, and then go to the military camp to find an equal number of people who have not been cursed."
Chen Xizhen complied with the law.
Liu Hunkang also asked the more than 10,000 people who had not been cursed to take off their shirts and wrap red strips of cloth around their arms and heads to dress like jitong.
Authentic Taoism does not recognize the identity of "jitong" who can communicate between people and ghosts and gods. However, Liu Hunkang now wants to break the forbidden techniques of left Taoism, and he must use partiality to control deviation.
This kind of behavior made Chen Xizhen and others feel that it was right.
"The time for the old corpse to be exterminated is approaching. This should be my last move. Let's use this little weapon platform as a platform."
Liu Hunkang said, "You must protect me. No matter what you see, you must not rush to help, and no one can disturb me."
Chen Xizhen nodded repeatedly and immediately invited many generals to arrange internal and external defenses. At this time, he did not relax his vigilance around the city. He still asked many generals to guard the city carefully, and sent a large number of warlocks to take care of the gunpowder and baggage.
As for the dianbing platform, he, Wang Laozhi, Gou Ying, Wang Tianba, Feng Hui, Haransheng and others personally guarded it.
Liu Hunkang looked up at the sky and saw that it was already the third watch. He took off his hair crown, took off his boots, walked to the center of the ordering platform with his hair spread barefoot and a jade ruler in hand.
I saw a slight tap of the jade ruler, and the center of the Dianbing platform immediately sunk. Countless water mist in the air gathered and formed droplets, which fell into the pit and quickly gathered into a small pool.
The more than 20,000 soldiers in front of the commanding platform all chanted in unison the short spell that Liu Hunkang taught them just now, which was less than ten syllables. They chanted it over and over again, over and over again, and again and again. Repeatedly.
The dull sounds gradually converged into a huge hum. When Liu Hunkang waited for the wave of sound to reach a certain limit, he drew a circle in the air with his jade ruler and pointed toward the pool.
The hazy water surface suddenly seemed to be blown away by the strong wind, becoming smooth as a mirror, revealing a clear figure.
It was Zhang Wanxian who was standing on a high platform somewhere, carrying a wooden stick and doing magic.
The eyes of the two Taoists met across the water, and the jade ruler and wooden staff each traced mysterious trajectories, creating a strange sense of synergy.
The sky was filled with wind and clouds, and the empty and lonely mood descended from the changing moonlight clouds onto the battlefield. The soldiers all felt that the people around them were suddenly far away from them.
The sounds of those spells became more vague, resounding in every corner of the surrounding area. Everyone's eyelids began to fail to hold up, and they gradually became drowsy.
Suddenly a wave of waves exploded in the pool.
Liu Hunkang's face became solemn, full of magic power, and shouted: "He can't defeat me in a fight, someone must come to disturb the altar."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a blue stream of light slowly rising in the night sky.
The cyan brilliance, dragging a slender tail flame, cut through the night sky, penetrated the wind and clouds, and quickly approached Quancheng.
"Well done!"
Chen Xizhen looked up to the sky and screamed, "You are finally coming to fight me for real!!"
Amidst the roar, he pinched the sword finger in his left hand and raised it, and the female sword of the two swords behind him unsheathed and flew out.
The mighty sword blade roared loudly, resounding passionately around the entire military field.
I saw that the color of this sword was like black jade and crystal. It was carefully carved and the hilt was rounded. Only the four-foot-nine-inch blade had sharp edges and corners.
If any ordinary person dared to look at this sword at this time, they would probably feel completely selfless, their limbs and bones were all broken, and the sword energy was emanating from thousands of pores, and their body and mind would be shattered!
It was broken into pieces in the vast sword intention, and became a drop in the ocean of the sword intention of this flying sword!
There are three or five male and female evil-killing swords in Longhu Mountain, one is a magic sword and the other is a flying sword.
Legend has it that Zhang Daoling, the ancestral heavenly master, received the True Inheritance from the Supreme Being and used the flying sword technique to subdue the six heavenly ghosts and the eight demon kings. His murderous intent was too strong and his danger was revealed. Later, he suppressed the female sword Flying Sword in Heming Mountain. In the ghost well.
Later, Zhang Daoling used the Xiongjian method to set the twenty-four rules for the governance of the Tao Kingdom. This sword became the symbol of authority of the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain and was passed down from generation to generation.
Back then, Chen Xizhen took advantage of Emperor Tianming's influence and surrounded Longhu Mountain. Not only did he seize the Heavenly Master's magic sword, he also forcibly opened the Jiegui Well, took out the flying swords, made a pair, and wore them with him.
For many years, he had to appreciate these two swords every day, and he felt happy and satisfied.
Jinxi's flying sword was unsheathed and penetrated the sky. The moonlight in the sky was penetrated to form a trail of black crystals, which was ethereal and hazy, clear and beautiful.
Under the sky, the azure meteors that exploded and flew unscrupulously collided with the trajectory of the black crystals that shot diagonally into the sky from the ground.
Only a long whistle-like roar was heard.
The extremely rich green vitality was split and peeled off piece by piece, making a hissing sound, and was wiped out out of thin air under the sword intention of the Tianshi Flying Sword.
But the Heavenly Master's Flying Sword also trembled wildly after being hit. The flexible sword body danced in all directions, like a huge black crystal lotus blooming, blocking Guan Luoyang's body.
Every petal, every edge, is the edge of the sword energy that can easily cut through the body of Vajra and destroy the spirit of ghosts and monsters.
Guan Luoyang leaned forward and pressed down, spreading the five fingers of his right hand. The swallowing vortex formed by distorting gravity suddenly emerged, swallowing up all the messy sword energy. Even though many deep bones were cut between the five fingers, no blood was shed. of scars.
In an instant, of all the chaotic sword energy in front of him, only the original sword body remained.
Guan Luoyang changed his gesture, flicked his fingers wildly, and struck heavily on the sword spine. The sword energy that had just seeped into the wound on his palm was forced out by him with cyan lightning, and was blasted back into the sword body.
When the flying sword was trembling, Guan Luoyang grabbed the hilt with his left hand, used the sword as a knife, flew down into the city, and struck the military platform with one sword.
Chen Xizhen unsheathed the magic sword in his right hand and faced him with a sword.
This magic sword is like an ordinary iron weapon. The sword is silver-white and has some astrological inscriptions carved on it. The hilt is made of ebony. One side of the hilt has the image of a scorching sun and the other side has the image of a crescent moon. There is an apricot-yellow sword tassel hanging down from the end of the hilt.
When the magic sword and the flying sword were about to collide, the Tianshi flying sword in Guan Luoyang's left hand suddenly dispersed.
The flying sword refined by the Ancestral Master is not so easy to be captured by others.
This flying sword has been refined from form and substance to formless and substanceless. It has been refined from the elite of hardware and minerals to the point where only a pure Taoist vitality remains that does not increase or die. When gathered, it becomes form, and when dispersed, it becomes Qi. It can go in and out of metal and stone without any hindrance, and it can pass through water and fire without leaving a trace.
No matter how clever Guan Luoyang's left hand was when grabbing it, the force of wind, thunder and gravity could not restrain the flying sword from escaping.
The flying sword suddenly disappeared, and Chen Xizhen's magic sword lost its obstruction within a short distance and drove straight in.
Guan Luoyang turned like lightning and avoided Chen Xizhen's magic sword within an inch.
Instead, five afterimages were left around Chen Xizhen, shaped like plum blossom marks.
Five-step plum blossom, Zhoutian Dojo, big stone thrower!
Five rays of violent energy were combined above Chen Xizhen's head, forming an unavoidable giant hand to press down. He raised the tip of the sword, and the magic sword thrust straight upward, making a sound like cracking silk.
The vitality was torn apart, the five figures dispersed, and Chen Xizhen's feet sank half a foot.
Guan Luoyang has already rushed towards the dianbing platform.
Gou Ying, the real person who binds evil, has mastered the Six God Binding Soul Cable. With a thought, he can appear out of thin air and pull the target's wrist, ankle, neck, and waist from six directions.
He had the experience of fighting Guan Luoyang before, and he was ready to go. With a flash of thought, six golden chains were tied to six parts of Guan Luoyang's body.
The other ends of the chains were all hidden in the air, but there was a huge pulling force. Even a five-hundred-year-old dragon monster would be powerless and at the mercy of these chains.
However, there was almost no obstacle in Guan Luoyang's movements. He pulled the six chains back and continued to rush towards the training platform.
The other Taoist officials' spells collided with Guan Luoyang, who was exploding with all his strength, like earthworms shaking a tree. They only added a little more colorful light to his body, which was immediately dispersed by the boundless vitality thunder and lightning.
Feng Hui slashed at his shoulder with a knife, but it failed to penetrate. Haransheng, who was still injured, picked up the one-legged bronze man and hit Feng Hui on the back of the knife, causing Guan Luoyang to stutter.
The weapons of several other generals were thrown at him.
Wang Laozhi walked between Feng Hui and Haransheng, stretched out his hands, and pushed Guan Luoyang gently.
Guan Luoyang had both hands free, just to watch out for him. He raised his palms to fight with him.
Boom! ! ! !
The four hands were connected together, and the sound coming out was not particularly loud. There was only a layer of spherical hot wind blowing away, but it caused the surrounding Feng Hui to wait for several generals to feel pain like needles all over their bodies. Their skin was so dry that it turned white and had dandruff. , lips are chapped and bleeding.
In an instant, everyone was shaken and dispersed.
Guan Luoyang was also beaten and fell back.
Wang Laozhi swayed, his breath stuck in his chest, and his voice became a little hoarse: "What a heavy hand, more vicious than the last time. It seems that he really wants to kill the person who broke the curse!"
Chen Xizhen held the magic sword and rushed to Guan Luoyang again. The flying sword freely changed between the visible and the invisible, circling around.
Guan Luoyang just had a palm fight with Wang Laozhi and was overwhelmed, and there was a blood mark on the side of his neck.
His right hand pointed like a knife, and he hit the flying sword. His left hand caught the magic sword with one hand, and the back of his hand was pierced by the sword tip. The damaged palm force, but accompanied by blood, still hit Chen Xizhen's arm.
Chen Xizhen only felt that the muscles in his forearm were pulsing and the bones were brittle, but when he saw the other party bleeding, the excitement in his heart overcame the pain. He also pressed the hilt of the magic sword with his other hand and pushed forward with all his strength.
"Guan Luoyang, you Liangshan have been forced to the point where you are at your wits' end. If you are defeated again today, the situation is over!"
"Just you?"
Guan Luoyang said coldly, but couldn't hide his anger. He threw away the magic sword, changed his fists and palms, and used his bare hands to fight the sword. They attacked within a short distance, shooting with random shadows, and repeatedly suppressing the sword moves.
However, Chen Xizhen's two swords worked flawlessly. Every time the magic sword had any shortcomings, the flying sword could make up for it.
The two fought so hard that they flew up from the ground into the air, getting closer and closer to the military point platform.
Wang Laozhi added another palm from the air, a colorless fire dragon, with overwhelming arrogance, forcing Guan Luoyang to respond with his palm, and once again moved away from the point of force platform.
On the ordering platform, when Liu Hunkang's spell was at its critical moment, he threw a jade ruler and shot it into the pool, and a scream came from the pool.
There were tens of thousands of maidens around the military command platform, and suddenly their whole bodies trembled, and a shadow floated above their heads.
"Shadowless person, quickly take the shadow and swallow it!"
Liu Hunkang seemed much older. After shouting this, he fell down on the stage.
The soldiers who had lost their shadows didn't have time to think too much and stretched out their hands to grab them. They actually seemed to be able to catch the shadows, which felt like cotton wool.
They pulled out the fluttering black shadows from the heads of the charlatans, stuffed them into their mouths three times, swallowed them, and lowered their heads to look. Under their feet, thick black shadows spread out, forming their own shadow.
Guan Luoyang roared sadly and stopped fighting. He turned his palms and hit the ground. The military field roared and shook, the ground was torn apart, and smoke and dust rose suddenly. He took this opportunity to leave Quancheng.
"You don't have to be proud, Liangshan will not admit defeat so easily!"
Chen Xizhen didn't chase him, but just stared at the blood on his sword for a while before smiling.
The shadow in his heart had been swept away, his swords were sheathed, Liu Hunkang and others were placed in place, and many soldiers were ordered back to camp.
"The bandits of Liangshan are just around the corner."
Chen Xi sighed with satisfaction and said to his confidant general, "Guan Luoyang is indeed respectable, but these grassroots bandits still don't understand. Since the revival of the devil's way, the people no longer have any foundation to fight against the imperial court."
Liangshan is indeed strong enough, but Liangshan does not have the soldiers, horses, and food that can really support them. If they start this kind of war of attrition against each other, they will definitely lose.
Even if the foundation created by the Emperor of Destiny collapses in the future, it will only be the result of the struggle for power by the upper class and the mistakes of future generations. The winner will still be a natural noble relative and a powerful official from a famous family.
Grass people and grass people, in the next ten generations and hundreds of generations, they will be nothing but grass.
"tomorrow!"
Chen Xizhen clenched his fist into a fist and said, "Tomorrow is the time of the general attack."
………………
Between the mountains and fields, I walked and stopped in Guan Luoyang. Looking at the moonlight in the mountains and forests, I felt a little more relaxed.
"good."
He smiled happily, snapped his fingers, and said, "The second game, completed."
