Kou Yucheng has practiced hard in the Barbarian Bone Forest for ten years and is good at tracking. He searched Guimenyuan carefully. The traces left by Hou Jiangcheng could not escape his sight. The clues that Ji Hongru and others missed were in his eyes. pieced together into a complete picture.
There are various indications that after Hou Jiangcheng withdrew from Xiandu, he stayed in Guimenyuan for a while. Before leaving, he hastily arranged a disguised corpse to confuse the public. During this period of time, he hid in a hidden tree hole, going in and out day and night, only killing birds and beasts when necessary, and eating them alive to satisfy his hunger.
After that, he disappeared into thin air without a trace.
Disappearing out of thin air sounds very bizarre, but to sword cultivators, it is nothing more than using a sword to escape into the air, and there is nothing unusual about it. But the problem is that Hou Jiangcheng is just an outer disciple who failed to condense the Dao embryo. Even if there is a flying Even with the sword in hand, there is no way to control it.
Kou Yucheng just held the tea bowl with three fingers and drank bowl after bowl of hot tea, leaving all the troublesome things to Chu and Zhang to think about.
Zhang Guanfeng pondered for a moment and then considered: "Sword cultivators must break through the sword control barrier and achieve a small degree of success in sword control before they can fly with the sword. If Hou Jiangcheng really flies through the sky, there are only two possibilities, either someone is holding him or he is pregnant. The most precious thing..."
"That's not the key." Chu Ge interrupted him, "Uncle Qin ordered him to withdraw from the Immortal Capital. Why didn't he join Junior Brother Zhou instead of staying in Guimenyuan?"
The Junior Brother Zhou he was talking about was Qin Zijie's apprentice Zhou Ji. The two hidden lines laid by Qin Zijie in Xiandu were always connected by Zhou Ji. Hou Jiangcheng should have left the mountain with an excuse and sneaked to a mountain depression by the Ximin River to meet Zhou Ji and return to Liushi Peak together. However, Zhou Ji and others It was more than half a month later, but he still didn't show up, so I became alert.
Zhang Guanfeng hesitated and said: "Is it possible to stay in Guimenyuan to absorb the energy of Lihuo and break through the bottleneck?" He himself found it difficult to justify whether he had absorbed it earlier or later, but he had to absorb it at this moment.
Kou Yucheng suddenly interjected, "I killed a monk from Taiyi Sect in the Barbarian Bone Forest and found a jade slip. It seems to be called the Lihuo Cleansing Technique. It uses the air of Lihuo to quench the magic weapon. It is thick and thick. Refining, being able to control it, and exerting great power..."
Zhang Guanfeng's eyes lit up, "Where is that jade slip?"
Kou Yucheng said casually: "It's of no use, throw it away."
"Alas -" Zhang Guanfeng sighed, so disappointed.
"Lihuo Cleansing Technique? This is possible..." Chu Ge thoughtfully thought about it from beginning to end, and speculated, "Before Hou Jiangcheng left the immortal capital, he might have obtained an incredible magic weapon. Falling into the hands of others, he secretly came to Guimenyuan, purified it with the energy of Lihuo, and then set up a suspicious situation to escape into the air. Hmm... This magic weapon must be extraordinary. It can fly into the sky and escape from the earth. He would rather give up worshiping it. If you have the chance to join the Kunlun sect, you must keep this magic weapon..."
"Regardless of whether he has a magic weapon or not, where did Hou Jiangcheng learn the Lihuo Cleansing Technique?" Zhang Guanfeng couldn't help but want to laugh. Senior brother is really good at joking and whimsical.
Chu Ge glanced at him and said leisurely: "Before Hou Jiangcheng was introduced to the Immortal City by Liu Baizi, Master Qin met him first, and then all the subsequent plans were made. How could he know that before Master Qin met Hou Jiangcheng, he Wasn't Taiyi Sect captured first? Maybe he was the hidden stake buried by Taiyi Sect in Kunlun first, and then the hidden stake buried by Uncle Qin in Xiandu."
"This...how is this possible..." Zhang Guanfeng's mind couldn't turn around for a while.
"The Kunlun side branch is not in the eyes of Taiyi Sect at all. Hou Jiangcheng has been in the immortal capital for so many years, and he can be regarded as a secret supporter. He was unhappy, and coupled with the temptation of the magic weapon, he became greedy and planned to take it for himself. If you choose to join the Eastern Sea or the Southern Barbarians, you will not be able to stand out."
At first glance, it sounds unbelievable, but when you think about it carefully, the more you think about it, the more reasonable and reasonable it becomes. If it were you, I would probably make the same choice. Zhang Guanfeng murmured to himself: "What kind of magic weapon could it be?"
"You have to ask Deng Yuantong."
"I'm going to find him!" Zhang Guanfeng was so itchy that he jumped up and strode out the door.
Chu Ge smiled and said: "He has such a temper, if it comes to wind, it will be rain!"
In no time, Zhang Guanfeng led the acting head of the Xiandu Sect around and asked him repeatedly. His actions seemed reckless, but Deng Yuantong didn't show anything strange. It wasn't because he had a big heart, but because he knew his situation and position. This was part of the price that had to be paid.
Speaking of the incident in Hou Jiangcheng, Deng Yuantong had no need to hide it. In a few words, he explained the whole story clearly. It turned out that the so-called magic weapon was the Seven Birds Sword left by Xi Huzi.
Chu Ge repeatedly interrogated the details of the lost Seven Birds Sword, and seemed to have something to say. Deng Yuantong was not a subtle person, and he vaguely felt that there was something in it, but he didn't take it very seriously. On the contrary, Kou Yucheng noticed something, and his expression was a little weird.
After drinking a few bowls of tea, Deng Yuantong said goodbye and left. After a while, Chu Ge sighed: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it!"
Zhang Guanfeng was confused and asked curiously: "Senior brother, that Seven Birds Sword——"
Chu Ge said: "During his stay in Guimenyuan, Hou Jiangcheng absorbed the energy of Lihuo, refined the sword seeds that Xi Huzi left in the Seven Birds Sword, and took it for himself. There is a doubt here. With his cultivation level, how can he Driving the flying sword? If what I expected is correct, Hou Jiangcheng must have used the magical power of "The Universe in the Sword" to escape into the air. I got greedy and was willing to give up the great opportunity to return to Kunlun!"
"A flying sword with magical powers? No wonder..." Zhang Guanfeng was envious, but Hou Jiangcheng was nowhere to be found. Although he knew that the Seven Birds Sword fell into his hands, the world was so vast that there was nowhere to find it.
