Chapter 1722: Mutual Bait and Mutual Hook

In the underground palace, which had been almost reduced to ruins, corpses were lined up in dense rows.

The blown heads, broken limbs, and blackened remains... together created a strange scene in the ruins. Everything is static, only the scarlet blood flows everywhere, like a spiritual blood snake, greedily looking for something to eat in the darkness.

Among the broken walls and rubble, Zhang Linchuan sat on the only large chair that was intact. He was wearing a black robe with white stripes on it. Both his robe and his throne looked spotless.

In front of the Pope's throne, several corpses that still retained a strong aura were scattered on the stone steps.

Among them, the corpse closest to the Pope's throne is that of a strong female. His hair was stained with blood, and he was lying face down, but he still tried his best to stretch his right hand forward, as if to grab something.

With only two steps left, her hand could cross the end of the stone steps and approach the throne of the cult pontiff. Unfortunately it is no longer possible.

Zhang Linchuan probably didn't care about all this. The stone steps were dirty, so he had no choice but to sit here. Holding a handkerchief embroidered with bamboo leaves in his right hand, he was slowly wiping his bloody left hand.

His movements were very meticulous, every knuckle was wiped clean and white, and even the gaps between the nails were taken care of.

"Winggui wants to kill me, I can understand."

he said calmly.

While speaking, dark lightning danced in his hair.

He treated his fingers like a piece of fragile china.

He continued: "But he still disgusts me, and I can't accept it."

It was very quiet in the underground palace.

"When did you arrive?" he asked again.

"When the leader killed the last woman." Lu Yan, the former second elder of White Bone Dao, floated down. There was a wisp of smart black energy surrounding his body, and his feet remained in the air.

"Then why didn't you take action?" Zhang Linchuan asked with interest.

Lu Yan replied in a vicissitudes of voice: "I may not be able to receive the reward. After all, I am also a remnant of the White Bone Path."

Zhang Linchuan had already wiped the blood off his hands, raised his left hand in front of him, and checked it over and over again. He said: "I'm asking why you didn't help me. You are my chief protector, my closest confidant...an old friend who has accompanied me in my struggle for many years."

Lu Yan said: "If you can't even cope with this situation, you will be captured and killed by the Sanxing Palace sooner or later. I don't see any need for me to help you."

"You have great confidence in me." Zhang Linchuan put down his left hand and looked at Lu Yan.

Lu Yan said calmly: "If I don't have confidence in the leader, I should hide like other Dharma Kings, or like the Winged Ghost, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and bring some people to find you."

Zhang Linchuan moved his fingers dexterously, carefully folded up the handkerchief that had turned into blood, and put it into a special storage box.

"Maybe that's right," he said.

"At least Yigui has proven him wrong." Lu Yan said.

Zhang Linchuan burst into laughter: "Yi Gui almost had someone beat him to death just for drinking breast milk. He was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to betray me, the leader of a cult, to atone for his sins... This is understandable. "

"Do you want your subordinates to check who led this raid on the underground palace?" Lu Yan asked.

"What's the need? The source of the matter is not here."

Zhang Linchuan turned his right hand, and the storage box had shrunk into a very small square and disappeared between his fingers.

On this lonely papal throne, he crossed his legs, intertwined his fingers, and rested them on his knees.

The movement is unstructured and even leisurely.

He looked at Lu Yan quietly, with a smile on his face but extremely indifferent eyes.

Lu Yan is already an old man and a high-level member of a cult. He has experienced a lot in his life. What kind of evil lord has he not seen? It's a little unnatural at the moment.

"What is the leader going to do next?" he asked.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" he added.

I don’t know if it was this nervousness that moved Zhang Linchuan.

"What else can be done?" Zhang Linchuan twitched his lips: "If you can't recruit tens of millions of believers, just kill tens of millions of people. You can still achieve greatness."

The number of tens of millions of people sounds light and airy, as if it were a joke. But Zhang Linchuan's eyes definitely didn't look like he was joking.

Even Lu Yan has done all kinds of evil over the years, killing people like mowing grass, and even participated in leading the sacrifices in Maplewood City... At this time, he didn't know what to say.

There is no need to talk about some illusory divine punishment or anything like that.

Although Wu Sheng Cult is in dire straits now, it is just a street rat in this world, and everyone wants to beat it.

But if Zhang Linchuan really wants to kill tens of millions of people, he will not be as simple as a street rat, but a life and death enemy of the human race!

All three Dharma Palaces will be mobilized, and the three Dharma Palace leaders will personally take action to arrest the murderer. Even the Three Holy Lands of Dao Sect and even Shushan, all have people coming!

It was really heaven and earth, there was no place to hide.

"Okay, I'm just kidding you." Zhang Linchuan chuckled.

In Lu Yan's eyes with complicated emotions, he added: "Maybe there is no need to kill so many."

His eyes carefully scanned the corpses on the ground: "It would be nice to kill more people at this level."

The expression on Lu Yan's face went from stiff to relaxed and back to stiff again.

Finally, he grinned unnaturally: "So the leader deliberately gave Yigui a chance, just to let him recruit more masters for you to kill?"

Zhang Linchuan looked at him quietly and said nothing.

Lu Yan was silent for a moment and then said: "If you kill too many people, I'm afraid it will harm Tianhe."

He felt awkward saying this.

Is this still what the cult leaders should say?

How had he ever cared about killing people? What kind of peace had he cared about?

"I mean... if you kill millions or tens of millions like this, you may be targeted by God's will. The leader is a person with great potential..."

Zhang Linchuan smiled: "You are the senior in practice, many years ahead of me. But do you understand God's will?"

Lu Yan said hurriedly: "I am just a little older. The leader is a scholar of heaven and man. Naturally, I am not as understanding as the leader."

"Don't be so serious." Zhang Linchuan smiled and said: "We all should know that when people live in this world, they have to fight against God's will. Otherwise, thunder, rain and dew are all God's grace. Why would you dodge or avoid it?"

"Practicing this kind of thing is going against nature. Birth, old age, illness and death are the cycles of heaven. But you don't want to grow old, don't want to get sick, and don't want to die. You actually want to continue to break the limit of life... Is this what God wants to see? ?

The life span is a big limit, but practitioners don't think about the big limit.

The higher the level of cultivation, the more one swallows the Tianshan Mountains and spits out the Divine Sea. Move mountains and fill rivers with every move of your hands. How much vitality can be mobilized in one breath? What benefit are these to heaven and earth?

If I kill these people who are against God's will, and kill these practitioners who are disobeying Heaven, isn't that just following Heaven's orders? Wouldn’t more be better? I deserve God's favor. "

Lu Yan had already cut these words into pieces in his mind, and did not dare to really listen to them.

Because he knew that Zhang Linchuan had his reasons. Zhang Linchuan's path is really among them!

If he listened to it, he would easily lose himself and lose his own path. And he is not one of those people who has no ego and only seeks strength.

He didn't even dare to listen to it, so naturally he couldn't object. Finally, he reluctantly said: "The leader has his own reasons for being a leader."

Zhang Linchuan spread his hands indifferently: "And you see, there is nothing I can do. My junior brother Jiang is too cruel. I just want to leave a bad seed in his friend, but he actually wants to kill my whole family. Oh no, Quanjiao ”

He lowered his eyes and said in a strange tone: "But it's almost the same. My whole family is gone a long time ago. The sect is my home... and now it's all gone."

The corners of his mouth curled up: "In this case, Junior Brother Jiang and I have a grudge to destroy our family!"

Things finally returned to a part that Lu Yan was relatively familiar with.

Of course the upper echelons of the cult kill people profusely and do all kinds of evil. Of course they should engage in some conspiracy and conspiracy. It is not a big deal to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of people. But the number "tens of millions of people"... is simply too much. He didn't even know how Zhang Linchuan was going to do it!

In order to plan the incident in Maplewood City, he, as a high-level executive of the White Bone Path at that time, had been planning for an unknown amount of time. In the end, Zhuang Gaoxian, that thing with a human face and a beast's heart, plucked the peach, and the White Bone Path also died.

He would never dare to commit such a serious sin.

"How does the leader plan to deal with him?" he asked.

Compared with the goal of massacring tens of millions of people, dealing with Jiang Wang is more specific.

Zhang Linchuan said softly: "It's not your place to ask."

Lu Yan then understood that Zhang Linchuan had his own ideas. He really couldn't figure out how Zhang Linchuan could make a comeback in this situation, with Jiang Wang overwhelming everyone with his powerful force, like the blazing sun turning into residual snow.

But this person is Zhang Linchuan after all...

He just said: "Then is there anything I can do for you?"

"Let me think about it..."

Zhang Linchuan looked up at the dome above. There was nothing there. After thinking seriously for a while, he said, "It seems not."

Looking at the young patriarch in front of him, Lu Yan almost forgot about the Bone Messenger who was respectful to him. The memory of the past is as long as a wisp of smoke, sinking into the gray and white picture.

But he has always known how to maintain his posture, just like his devotion to the Bone Evil God.

"Then I won't disturb the leader...I'll take my leave first." He then said.

Zhang Linchuan said nothing.

After Lu Yan saluted, he flew out cautiously.

"Wait a minute." Zhang Linchuan suddenly said.

Lu Yan paused.

He slowly turned around and said, "What are the orders from the leader?"

At this moment, he regretted very much. Why did he come to the underground palace? Why do you have the idea of ​​waiting for an opportunity? He should have found a place to hide and remain anonymous, like several other Dharma Kings, until everything settled.

Having been with Zhang Linchuan for so long, this person is still like a ball of ghostly thunder, unreal and extremely dangerous. How could he be so lucky?

"Don't be nervous." Zhang Linchuan reassured her again, and then said: "Do you still remember the secret method I promised you? The secret method that allows you to safely enter the nether world to find your dead wife."

Lu Yan almost suspected that he had heard wrongly, and said with surprise and joy: "Of course I remember!"

"At this time, you still think of coming to see me, which makes me very happy and deserves a reward... We are old acquaintances!"

Zhang Linchuan said in a friendly tone, and with a flick of his finger, a wisp of lightning exploded in the air, revealing a thin black book that flew into Lu Yan's palm.

"This secret method should be able to do it."

He smiled and said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, and just when I was sitting here, the final inspiration suddenly came to me."

If this was Zhang Linchuan's temporary idea in the short period of time, Lu Yan would not be surprised, because he was very aware of Zhang Linchuan's talent in Taoism.

The reason why Wusheng Sect was able to develop so fast is that Zhang Linchuan personally wrote the Taoist classic "Wusheng Sutra" and created a complete set of "Wusheng Xuanshu". It can be said that they have made great contributions.

But he believes that Zhang Linchuan has already completed this secret method. It was only thrown out today.

He took the black book and said sincerely: "Thank you for your trouble, Master!"

When he joined the White Bone Sect and later joined Zhang Linchuan, wasn't it all to find the soul of his deceased wife who didn't know where to go? He only knew that his wife's soul failed to enter the source pool and didn't know where it was suffering. Although it is said that death is like the extinguishing of a lamp, he still has the obsession to see it again.

But he thought that Zhang Linchuan was just like the White Bone Evil God, just hanging him with that matter and driving him to work hard. He had long since given up hope for those things. Since the day he betrayed the White Bone Evil God, he wanted to move forward on his own, and he has been working hard for it. The process of developing the Wusheng Sect is also the process of his continuous strengthening...

Unexpectedly, when the Wusheng Sect was about to be completely destroyed, he waited for the secret technique promised by Zhang Linchuan.

This made him feel mixed emotions.

Zhang Linchuan on the throne just waved his hand indifferently: "We don't owe each other anything."

Lu Yan bowed and saluted: "May the great cause of the Sect Master be accomplished, or we can meet in the netherworld."

"By the way." Zhang Linchuan said again: "Before you go to the netherworld, remember to help me find the Moon Rabbit."

The current Wusheng Sect Moon Rabbit is the former White Bone Taoist Rabbit Bone Face, and naturally an old acquaintance of Lu Yan.

He just said: "Okay, what instructions does the Sect Master have for her?"

Zhang Linchuan said indifferently: "Help me kill her."

Even though Lu Yan is such a person who has long seen through human nature and asks himself that he is cold-blooded and ruthless, he was also a little stunned.

Because the Moon Rabbit is definitely the most loyal person to Zhang Linchuan in the entire Wusheng Sect!

At the beginning, for Zhang Linchuan, who had not yet shown his strength, he dared to take the initiative to attack Longmian. Those who betrayed with Zhang Linchuan all had their own desires. Only Yuetu was purely loyal to Zhang Linchuan.

Now that the Wusheng Sect is almost destroyed, she is the only one in the entire Wusheng Sect who is still struggling to support it and maintain the last bit of faith for Zhang Linchuan.

But Zhang Linchuan wants to kill her...

"Why?" Lu Yan knew he shouldn't ask, but he couldn't help asking: "She is loyal to the leader."

"Yes, she is loyal to me." Zhang Linchuan looked at him indifferently and said, "That's the reason."

At this glance, Lu Yan didn't dare to say anything else, just lowered his head: "I will obey your order."

"Go." Zhang Linchuan waved his hand.

Lu Yan turned around and flew quickly, and this time he really left.

He quickly flew out of the underground palace, eliminating traces along the way. Following the route that had been planned long ago, he crashed into the continuous mountains. He flew close to the ground for a long time, and finally passed through the formation and landed in a valley.

This place is not beautiful, and the scenery is very mediocre.

It is the hiding place he found in his early years.

He landed on the bank of a gurgling stream, looking at his reflection in the water.

He finally let out a breath of turbid air that he had been holding for a long time.

Huh~

The grayish-white turbid air swept away over the water ripples.

He took out a delicate doll from his arms with a bit of stiffness.

He tapped the chest of the doll with his fingers, and the chest of the doll cracked, and a fresh heart jumped out.

He calmly pressed the heart into his chest. He got an exchange in his hand -

That was naturally another heart that had just stopped in his body.

And this heart... had been manipulated beyond recognition.

Zhang Linchuan was simply an expert in playing with people's hearts, making a guy like him, who was experienced in the world, happy and worried, afraid and shocked. He knew very well that in that state, Zhang Linchuan had a thousand ways to do something to him.

Fortunately, he had not lived in vain for so many years. Before going to the underground palace, he used such a secret technique to protect himself.

The heart that Zhang Linchuan had manipulated from beginning to end was only the heart of the puppet. Even if there was any means, it should only be used on the puppet...

Lu Yan's eyes rolled back at this moment, and he carefully checked it again with his natural eyes, and then pressed the heart that had been manipulated to be very fragile into the body of the puppet.

Plop!

The puppet was thrown into the stream.

It struggled for a while with its hands and feet, like a living person drowning.

Finally, it fell silent.

…

…

A fish jumped out of the water, drew an arch in the air and fell down.

After a while, the ripples dissipated.

Reflected in the water were two figures, one fat and one thin.

The thin one couldn't actually be called thin, and his body was more suitable.

It's just that most people in this world would hardly look thin standing next to the current Marquis Bowang.

On the stone bridge in the Marquis Bowang's mansion, only Marquis Bowang and Marquis Wu'an stood next to each other.

"The emperor intends to help you settle the old affairs of the Zhuang Kingdom and win your heart completely, so he deliberately left a button. But the response of the Jing Kingdom was very timely, and the response of the Zhuang Kingdom was even more decisive... We have to concentrate on strangling the Wusheng Sect now, and we really don't have time to argue with the Zhuang Kingdom. But ignore them, it will be more difficult to justify the teacher in the future."

Zhong Xuansheng held the stone railing and sighed: "Why are there no fools in this world?"

Jiang Wang said calmly: "The hatred between me and Zhuang Ting cannot be resolved by words. It would be best if they could be ruined, but if not, it doesn't matter. In the end, there is only life and death."

He once wore the mask of King Biancheng and participated in Yin Guan's revenge battle.

Zhao Cang, the father and son of Youguo, used all the factors they could when they were not strong enough.

He would certainly take this as a lesson.

He had never expected the bottom line of Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui, because he knew that this pair of wise rulers and virtuous ministers could do anything.

But no matter how wise Zhuang Gaoxian was, how virtuous Du Ruhui was, what kind of reputation they had, how loved they were. It would not affect his killing intention.

All reputation, status, power, background, and interests could not be amulets for these two people.

In this matter, he had no overall view and no other considerations.

When all hatred came to an end, there were only two words, life and death.

Just as he answered Ku Jue at the beginning-"Kill them all, and I will die."

Chong Xuansheng knew the difficulty of this matter very well. If it was just an enemy in the realm of Dongzhen, it would not be difficult to deal with. It was nothing more than pestering his uncle to cut a few more times. But Zhuang Gaoxian, as the ruler of a country, is listed in the system of Dao vassal states, and behind him stands the strongest central empire in the world.

The Mu Kingdom was defeated and suffered heavy losses.

How could Jing Kingdom allow others to interfere with Zhuang Kingdom?

Just like this time, Qi Kingdom only left a small loophole for its own state marquis to vent his anger, and Jing Kingdom immediately blocked it.

The attitude is not weak.

Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui are both shrewd people, and it is really not easy to peel off their shells. Just look at Zhuang Kingdom's response this time, both defense and attack, wonderful, where is the flaw?

"This matter still needs to be considered in the long run..." Chong Xuansheng sighed.

Jiang Wang certainly understood, and only frowned and said: "Speaking of which, why didn't Yong State take the opportunity to speak out this time? Zhuang Ting has been unclear with the White Bone Dao since the time of Zhuang Chengqian, how could Yong State not notice it? Isn't now a good time to strike Zhuang Gaoxian and his ministers?"

Zhong Xuansheng said: "Yes, it is indeed a good time. But it is a good time deliberately left by Zhuang State. Sometimes you can't just look at the opportunity, but also the situation. Yong State has now obtained the support of Mohism. It is the first attempt of Mohism to participate in the national system. Jing State is worried that there is no excuse to suppress them."

"Now Jing State is protecting the Dao vassal states below, and has blocked the loophole for our Qi State to attack Zhuang State. Once Yong State participates in such a dispute, it will definitely Will be met with a relentless attack from Jing State. That is exactly what the king and ministers of Zhuang State are happy to see. How can Yong State interfere in the game between the great powers? "

"As for the unclear relationship between Zhuang Chengqian and the White Bone Sect... They have been dead for many years, but it is just a verbal battle. How much harm can it do to Zhuang State? I believe that Zhuang Gaoxian and Du Ruhui must have prepared a way to prove themselves. They deliberately mentioned the history of fighting with the White Bone Sect, just waiting for someone to take the bait..."

He glanced at Jiang Wang: "Han Xu is a very smart king, and he will never bite the bait so easily."

Jiang Wang understood this tactful advice: "So you stopped me from going to Yanyun Mountain because you think it is also a bait?"

Yanyun Mountain is between Dan State and Song State.

No one had ever thought that the Wusheng Sect built an underground palace there.

Yesterday, in that underground palace, more than ten powerful gods, together with more than 200 extraordinary cultivators, were slaughtered by Zhang Linchuan. The scene was horrible.

This incident shocked the two regions of the southwest.

The news also reached Jiang Wang's ears.

Chong Xuansheng said: "People plot against tigers, and tigers also plot against people. For Zhang Linchuan, we now have an absolute advantage, and the Wusheng Sect will never rise again. The son of a rich man, you don't have to sit in the hall, you are already a marquis of the Great Qi State, you don't have to take risks yourself."

Zhang Linchuan's sect has been destroyed, but Jiang Wang's career in Qi has more possibilities. Chong Xuansheng is right, time is on Jiang Wang's side.

But they all know that Zhang Linchuan's special numerology-related magical power may still be inhabited by other people, so if they wait, the future is not so clear.

They also know... Although there are many people who want to kill the Wusheng Sect, most of them are here for the bounty. When the danger and reward are no longer so different, who else but Jiang Wang is determined to kill Zhang Linchuan?

Apart from Jiang Wang, who destroyed the Wusheng Sect, who can arouse the greatest killing intention of Zhang Linchuan, who is now hiding from place to place?

If Jiang Wang had been hiding in Linzi, he would have only offered a bounty to drive people away and ordered the whole world to search for and kill the Wusheng Sect. The battle at Yanyun Mountain might be Zhang Linchuan's final move.

And he couldn't bring a real person with him, or let any top strongman watch him all the time. First, no one has the time, and second, if there is no hope of killing him, Zhang Linchuan will never show up.

Jiang Wang is both a fish and a bait. He left Qi State, and he and Zhang Linchuan would be fishing for each other.

Of course, Jiang Wang also understood these.

But he looked at Zhong Xuansheng quietly for a while, and just said: "You stay in the mansion, collect information from all parties, and dispatch the encirclement and suppression. If there is anything, contact through Taixu Illusion."

He pressed his hand on the long sword, turned around and stepped on the stone bridge away.

"The world is too big. If I miss this opportunity, I don't know when I can find him again. I don't want to give him a chance anymore."

"If this is the bait Zhang Linchuan prepared for me, then let's see how sharp the hook is, how hard the fishing rod is, and... whether he has the same determination as me!"

Today's 6,000 words, one of which is an extra chapter for the Ashi Creditors Committee. (3/10)