The sky was getting colder. Next to the stone case in the backyard of the Boxing Sect, Zhongqiu stared at the "Kai Tian Bao Jian" in front of him. He had no idea why this ancient book was called "Kai Tian Bao Jian". To be precise, How could it be possible to read these words that looked like ghost drawings? Moreover, I had already checked and found that there were no traces of magic spells on them. In other words, what was written on them were real ghost drawings. Fortunately, I had taken them over without telling Master Xun. Research and research, it seems, there is no progress at all.
A gentle breeze blew by. Along with this breeze, a white figure appeared next to Zhongqiu and shouted sternly:
"You are so bold, Zhongqiu, that you dare to hide important items without turning them over. What is your purpose?"
Zhongqiu drooped his eyes, completely ignored the people around him, and said impatiently:
"Okay, who are you trying to scare? We are preparing to send it to the old man."
As he said that, he looked at Xun Ge who was pretending to be serious next to him. He felt a little funny and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Haha... Xiaoge, you are so cute when you pretend to be angry."
After Xun Ge heard this, he immediately put away the seriousness on his face and said:
"You're still the same as before. You have to satisfy yourself before you hand over anything."
After hearing this, Zhongqiu immediately responded:
"Don't you always take the trouble to come to me for begging? When will I really have enough?"
Xun Ge had no choice but to sit down and casually touched the bamboo slips on the case and said:
"This is the "Kaitian Baojian"?"
Zhongqiu said:
"Well, I should have listened to the conversation between Wu Du and Gui Gu when we were in Gui Valley, but here..."
Zhongqiu pointed to the ghostly drawings on the bamboo slips, looking very puzzled.
Xun Ge obviously understood what Zhongqiu meant and said:
"Are there some incomprehensible words written on it?"
Zhongqiu was secretly surprised and said:
"Can't you see?"
Xun Ge smiled slightly and said:
"I have seen this ancient book before."
Zhongqiu didn't know why, so Xun Ge continued:
"Twenty years ago, I wasn't blind yet."
Zhongqiu said:
"You mean, I saw you before you were blind?"
Xun Ge nodded and said:
"Twenty years ago, when you hadn't arrived in Taoyuan, it was considered a confidential matter."
When Xun Ge said this, he took a sip of tea and looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle. The bandages around his eyes seemed a bit erratic, as if he was about to talk about that past event. Zhongqiu immediately pricked up his ears, thinking of entering Taoyuan by himself. Lately, I have no specific understanding of the catastrophe that destroyed Canngling twenty years ago. Although I am not very interested in it, listening to stories has always been one of Zhongqiu's few pastimes. .
Xun Ge spoke slowly, as if he was telling an era.
At that time, Xun Ge was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and Mr. Xun was only less than forty, but Taoyuan was in its heyday at that time. At that time, Taoyuan had the strongest demon hunting organization that caused a sensation in the three worlds - the "Thirteen Blades of Canngling". The so-called "Cang Ling" is a team composed of the strongest combatants in the human world selected by Taoyuan Pure Land and its subordinate organization Yulingdian. At that time, there were a total of thirteen people in "Cang Ling", each of whom was equipped with It is a peerless sword, so it is called the "Thirteen Blades of Canngling". In fact, "Cang Ling" has existed before. The Yuling Palace will conduct a selection every ten years, but the teams selected in the previous few decades are only slightly famous, but this "Cang Ling" is history. It is recognized as the strongest force, and that kind of strength can definitely stand the test of confirmation. The main task of "Cang Ling" known to the world is to fight against the demon world and prevent the demon world from attacking the human world. It is equivalent to a joint selection between the human and divine worlds. A sharp sword that comes out to fight against the harassment of the devil. Although the previous "Cang Ling" also had a certain resistance to the demon world, it was definitely not as good as the "Cang Ling Thirteen Blades" selected thirty years ago. In the human world where they were stationed, there was not even a demon in sight for several years. Demons, even many years after their destruction, the demons still have lingering fears and dare not take any big actions. This shows how strong they are.
Although "Cang Ling" is strong, Taoyuan's prosperity at that time was definitely not only because of "Cang Ling". In Taoyuan, the seven uncles in their prime, known as the "Seven Sons of Taoyuan", were also famous. In the world, the "Seven Sons of Taoyuan" refers to the seven disciples who were extremely talented and prestigious in Taoyuan at that time. They were also the seven most proud disciples of Ling Xiu, the founder of Pure Land, and Mr. Xun was one of them. Unfortunately, in the eighth year after the destruction of "Cang Ling" twenty years ago, the demon world launched a large-scale attack on the human world. The first one to bear the brunt was the Taoyuan that gave birth to "Cang Ling", which the demons had been afraid of for many years. After fighting fiercely with the demons for several days, although the Taoyuan was finally preserved, the "seven sons" withered away one by one in the battle, leaving only one Xun Kuang, and this incident became the fate of Xun Kuang's life. Painful, from then on, Taoyuan never regained its former glory.
What Xun Ge was talking about happened twenty years ago. At that time, "Cang Ling" was ordered to perform a survey mission in a place called "Blood Crystal". There was no news for several months after that, and everyone was silent. I had a vague feeling that something was not good, but because this task was extremely involved and very confidential, even in the Pure Land, except for a few senior officials of Yuling Palace and the then owner of the village, Ling Xiu, almost everyone knew nothing about that task or that place. I know it, so even if I search hard, I can't find it anywhere.
Later, Yulingdian seemed to sense something was wrong, and ordered Ling Xiu to lead several people from Yulingdian to secretly go to the "Blood Crystal" to carry out rescue operations. However, when they came back, they only brought back eleven swords and There was a lot of discussion about a secret ancient book at that time, but the Yuling Palace kept the matter secret. They destroyed almost all the information related to that mission, and did not give any explanation to the outside world. It seems that the thirteen people in "Cang Ling" and Among the thirteen famous swords, Juzi and Shaoshang disappeared inexplicably, and the only clue to this incident, the ancient book, became the focus of people's attention.
Xun Ge was a teenager at the time. According to his own statement, he was a fanatical admirer of the "Thirteen Blades of Canngling" at that time, so he secretly began to investigate the matter. At that time, he used Because of his identity, the old man had the opportunity to take a look at the ancient book. It was densely packed with strange patterns or words that could not be understood. After that, Xun Ge also carefully checked the few remaining files and records about that incident. Files, in those dozens of days, he spent almost every day in the Qixing Pavilion, the attic where Taoyuan collected files.
Finally, the hard work paid off. He found a fragment of Canngling's mission notes in a file. From the above description, it was concluded that the ancient book should be called "Kaitian Baojian", and the words recorded on it were They are some secret texts, most likely written by a great god or saint in ancient times. However, these investigations have made no substantial progress. In addition, the demon world launched a massive attack on Taoyuan twelve years ago, and almost all the information in ancient books has been lost. It has been burned in the flames of war, and it is even more difficult to check it now.
After listening to Xun Ge's story, Zhongqiu said:
"Cryptotext? What is that, a password or something?"
Xun Ge said:
"I consulted many people on this matter at that time, and I finally came to the conclusion that the cipher text should refer to words that are incomprehensible to special people in this world."
Zhongqiu couldn't understand it even more and said:
"Since it can't be understood, what's the point of writing that ancient book?"
Xun Ge said:
"I think there are two possibilities. The first is that the person who wrote discovered something or a theory that was not recognized in his time. He could not write it in a common language and did not want what he discovered to be buried, so he created his own He wrote what he discovered in a code that no one could understand."
Zhongqiu touched his head and felt that it made sense, and asked again:
"What about the second possibility?"
Xun Ge said:
"The second is that this ancient book records some things that absolutely cannot be seen by people, such as prophecies or some ancient secrets."
Zhongqiu was puzzled and said:
"What's the meaning?"
Xun Ge said:
"Let me give you an analogy. If this book is a prophetic book and it predicts everything that will happen in the future, then as history cannot be changed, should we know the content?"
Zhongqiu thought Xun Ge’s idea was a bit funny and said:
"How is it possible? How can there be such a thing as a prophecy book in the world?"
Seeing that Zhongqiu didn't have a cold, Xun Ge sighed and said:
"It seems that it is really difficult to fool a simple-minded person with complex ideas."
Zhongqiu heard that these words were scolding him, but he didn't mind very much and continued to ask:
"Since you have read that ancient book, it shouldn't be in Taoyuan, so how can it appear in that ghost valley again?"
Xun Ge said:
"The old man saw ghost Gu the day before yesterday. According to what he said, the "Kai Tian Bao Jian" seems to be divided into two volumes. One of them is in Taoyuan, and this volume seems to be the other volume."
As he said this, Xun Ge picked up the ancient book on the table, put it into his sleeve, and said:
"The tea has been drunk and the words have been spoken. I will take this thing back and return to life."
As soon as Zhongqiu came to his senses, Xun Ge had already left, and there was only half a cup of unfinished tea left on the table that was still steaming intermittently.
"It's so cunning."
Zhongqiu was helpless.
Ghost Gu room.
Gui Gu looked at Xiao Wu who was lying on the bed. There was no emotion in his eyes, and his pale face was expressionless. Suddenly, a wisp of black air came out of his body and formed a black butterfly in the air. That was Gui Gu. Gu's summoning spirit beast, the black butterfly.
Ghost Gu looked at the black butterflies flying around him and said helplessly:
"Why did you come out at this time? Someone is watching you outside."
Black Butterfly said in detail:
"Compared to this, I still think it's more important to come out and remind you. Besides, others can't understand what I'm talking about."
Ghost Gu was noncommittal. Indeed, only its owner could understand the words of this black butterfly. After a moment of silence, he said:
"Is there a problem?"
Black Butterfly said:
"I have been observing your body these past few days, and the poison in your body is getting heavier and heavier."
Ghost Gu sneered a few times and said:
"Isn't this something that can't be helped? If it weren't for Xiao Wu, I might have died."
Black Butterfly looked at Xiao Wu on the bed, feeling a little distressed and said:
"The magic seal you formed when you were in the Ghost Valley was to summon the Ghost King Child."
Ghost Gu looked at the black butterfly and nodded.
Black Butterfly continued:
"You should know that you just absorbed the Ghost King Child not long ago and you don't have enough ability to summon it. In addition, you were poisoned at the time. If the spell had been successfully activated at that time, you would probably have been killed on the spot. If Xiao Wu hadn't discovered it. Your intention took over the spell in time and changed the Ghost King's spell to White Tiger. I'm afraid you are the one lying here now."
Gui Gu was silent without any reaction. In fact, there was one thing that he had been hiding from Shui Han and Richu. In order to further control himself, Wu Du gave himself a chronic poison before he came to Taoyuan. After getting rid of that kind of poison, you need to take temporary antidotes regularly and eliminate the poison from the body regularly, so that the poison in the body can be controlled at a low level and the poison will not develop. At that time, Gui Gu thought that with his knowledge of pharmacology, he would be able to develop a complete antidote once and for all. The night he met Shui Hanri, he was researching the antidote, and even made Wudu aware of it in order to save them. Unexpectedly, it was because of that meeting that he got out of control today. Now that he has betrayed the five poisons, there is basically no hope for the antidote. And now he has no clue about this poison. In a short time, It is impossible to develop an antidote, and we can only wait for death.
Black Butterfly looked at Ghost Gu and felt a little distressed. In fact, in its eyes, its master had always been a seemingly powerful and cold-blooded person who was actually careful and warm. He owned the most powerful native spirit beast in the world but deliberately hid it. To satisfy his own ambition, he maintained a good relationship with his not-so-powerful companion spirit beast; he was able to kill his brother without blinking an eye and absorb his powerful spirit beast without thinking, but the blood marks in the corners of his eyes were mixed With tears in his eyes; he can make the most correct judgment in any critical situation, but always gives up all reason when something happens to the people he cares about, and would rather sacrifice himself to let those people live well.
Ghost Gu didn't know what Black Butterfly was thinking. He just felt sorry for Xiao Wu. For her with weak spiritual power, it was basically a taboo to use the spirit summoning technique. Moreover, her original creature was a spiritual beast like White Tiger, so she could It is said that every summons is a test of life, and Xiao Wu doesn't know it. But as smart as she is, she has already seen through Gui Gu's thoughts at that time. It is estimated that even the poisoned object under Gui Gu's pale face is holding on. The full body was also clear in her mind, so she must have had the same idea at the time. What a silly girl. Didn’t you know that your brother would be worried?
Gui Gu touched Xiao Wu's forehead and brushed the tip of her nose with his fingers. His breath was still smooth and steady. He breathed a deep sigh of relief. Fortunately, nothing serious happened this time. Xiao Wu's life seemed to be saved. To be honest, Gui Gu He also didn’t understand why Xiao Wu’s body would be fine after he forcibly summoned it, but he didn’t want to think about these things anymore. He just wanted to watch Xiao Wu wake up with his own eyes. Ghost Gu turned around and said calmly. Said to the black butterfly:
"How long can I live?"
Black Butterfly said helplessly:
"At the current rate of spread of poison, you will die from poison at the earliest in three months and at the earliest in half a year."
Gui Gu smiled calmly, there was still a lot of time.
