The Insect Army of Chuzhou

Chapter 172: The Insect Army of Tuzhou

The three Heavenly Kings of the Sect tried their best to break out of the Xiaolei restricted area, only to see Qin Mu's figure flashing away again and again, getting smaller and smaller, and getting farther and farther away from them.

All three sighed.

"If I had known this mission was so difficult, I would never have accepted it..."

King Lu wiped the black ash off his face and murmured, "This generation of Saint Master is so unexpected."

The other two elders felt the same way. Master Tianwang said: "It's finally over. The Holy Master is still young, but he has already made a name for himself. This is a blessing for our Holy Church. Now that the matter here is over, we should go investigate the matter of Gan Tianwang."

Lu Tianwang and Yu Tianwang were awed and said solemnly, "We must go and find out who is attacking our Holy Church!"

Master Tianwang looked solemn and said in a deep voice: "What I am most worried about is not this, but whether the transmission flag I taught will be leaked. It is a troubled time... Look below, it seems to be the territory of Quzhou!"

"Tsunzhou? My holy land has moved to the sky above Tsunzhou?"

Jade Heavenly King was slightly shocked, and he exhaled a breath of foul air, saying: "There is a rebellion in Quzhou, the royal family is rebelling, and the momentum is not small. If the Holy Master falls into Quzhou, I am afraid..."

Shenglin Mountain is hidden in the Xiaolei restricted area and hangs high in the sky. This holy place is not motionless, but is in motion all the time. There is a place called Wangyuan on Shenglin Mountain. Standing there and looking into the abyss, you can see the scenery directly below Shenglin Mountain, and even the ants on the ground can be seen clearly.

However, they were in a hurry this time and did not have time to go to Wangyuan to check. As a result, Qin Mu left the holy land when it arrived above Quzhou.

"I hope the Holy Lord doesn't fall into the battlefield." King Lu murmured.

Qin Mu fell from the sky. Hu Ling'er urged the evil wind, and Qin Mu walked on the wind. Not long after, he finally landed on the ground. Most of his energy was lost, but at least he was safe.

"I haven't been to the Imperial Academy for a long time. As the first doctor of the Imperial Academy, I was also given an official title by the emperor, but I have only attended a class once."

He looked around and asked Hu Ling'er to take out the Yankang geographical map from the bag. Qin Mu identified the terrain of the mountains and found similar ones on the map.

"It's Tsunzhou. But it's still far from the city."

At this moment, he saw a ship flying slowly in the sky. Qin Mu's heart moved slightly, and he immediately activated his Heaven-Stealing Divine Leg and chased after the ship along the foothills.

That building ship was flying the flag of a caravan and was a ship used for both merchants and passengers. Although the country was in chaos and war, there were still many merchant and passenger ships, and there were ships even in the rebel areas.

Qin Mu ran faster and faster, and suddenly he stepped on the air and flew into the air, running wildly in the sky as if he was walking on flat ground. In a few breaths, he caught up with the ship and landed on the ship in a flash.

Vast, vast, vast!

The sound of swords being drawn was heard, and as soon as he landed on the boat, dozens of flying swords were pointed at his neck, everywhere in front and behind him.

"Don't be nervous, everyone. I just want to take a boat." Qin Mu quickly raised his hands and said carefully.

There were dozens of people on the deck of this ship, most of them looked like merchants, some of them were psychics hired by the merchants, and some were officials. The ones who pointed flying swords at his neck were the officials and the supernatural beings.

"Young man, where are you going?" The captain came over shirtless, with tattoos all over his body. He looked Qin Mu up and down, showing a look of surprise, and asked.

Qin Mu asked: "Is this the ship to the capital?"

The captain nodded and said, "To the capital, the fare is one hundred Dafeng coins."

Qin Mu was shocked and said in a lost voice, "So expensive? It only costs ten Dafeng coins to get from Jiangling to the capital. How come it has increased tenfold in the blink of an eye?"

"The situation is bad, there are wars every day, and the roads are not peaceful, so the shipping fee will naturally increase. Hehe, ten times is already a small increase. This is a job that requires your head to be tied to your belt, so you have to pay more for your hard work."

Qin Mu said yes.

If he went to the capital by himself, it would take him more than ten days to reach the capital due to the chaos and war along the way. It takes extremely deep cultivation to perform the Heaven-Stealing Divine Leg. If you run for a short time, your cultivation will be exhausted, so it is more convenient to take a boat.

"The world is not peaceful. I heard that Qiu Dieyi from Linzhou has also rebelled."

While Qin Mu was paying for the boat, he heard a few merchants chatting. An old gentleman said, "Qiu Dieyi is no small matter. Before he defected to the court, he was the Grand Master of Liqing Palace, and his cultivation was earth-shattering. Liqing Palace is very powerful, and there are many disciples in the palace, many of whom are generals in the border army. The Grand Master of Liqing Palace rebelled, hehe, the world is even more chaotic."

"I heard that the Liqing Palace is the largest sect founded by a woman. It is extremely powerful and is not much inferior to the three major holy places. Many of the female generals in the court are from the Liqing Palace."

"Sanqi Fort has also rebelled. Sanqi Fort was once the most favored fort by the emperor. Concubine Che was born in Sanqi Fort. I heard that she is the granddaughter of Che Zhengli, one of the three great emperors! This time, Sanqi Fort rebelled, and Concubine Che was directly banished to the cold palace."

"Why are so many sects rebelling?"

"Don't you know? Three months ago, the Taoist disciples went to the Imperial Academy to block the door. Imperial Master Yankang went to the Imperial Academy to give a lecture on swordplay, and then people saw that the Imperial Master was seriously injured. I heard that the Imperial Master's wound had already started to stink, and he deliberately used fragrance to cover it up, but it couldn't cover up the stink of the wound."

"When this news came out, some sects didn't believe it. Later, an accident happened. The leader of the Yulong Sect visited the Imperial Master's residence at night, fought with the Imperial Master, and actually left alive! The leader of the Yulong Sect's ability is not top-notch. He raised a dragon that was transformed from a snake. He can barely be considered a master of the sect leader level. But the Imperial Master couldn't even defeat him, which shows how serious his injuries were."

"Hush, stop talking, those officers are looking over here."

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Qin Mu's heart moved slightly, recalling the scene when the Imperial Master lectured on sword in front of the Imperial Academy that day. Imperial Master Yankang was indeed a little sick, but Qin Mu himself was proficient in medicine and often accompanied Granny Si to buy rouge and powder, so he was sure that Imperial Master Yankang's flushed face was not due to illness, but because he had put on rouge.

As for what these merchants said about using fragrance to cover up the stench of rotting wounds, Qin Mu did smell these two odors at that time, but he did not take it to heart.

He had learned how to identify and recognize medicines from a pharmacist since he was young. These two smells are the smells of common medicines and spices.

Qin Mu frowned: "The Imperial Master's injury has healed, but he still took advantage of the opportunity of the swordplay lecture at the Imperial Academy to make people outside think that he is still seriously injured, thinking of ways to make those who want to rebel but dare not rebel. This scheme is too terrifying."

It was three months ago that the Imperial Master of the Imperial Academy gave a lecture on swordplay. In the three months, the situation became increasingly chaotic, with sects and officials rebelling everywhere. Qin Mu felt that he could no longer understand the Imperial Master Yankang.

The Imperial Master has messed up the situation to such an extent that it has become difficult to clean up. Even if he can quell the rebellion, it will cause great damage to the vitality of the Yankang Kingdom.

Moreover, Yankang Kingdom also had external enemies, the Mandi Kingdom in the western border and the Langjuxu Kingdom in the northern border, which meant it was facing internal and external troubles.

"Could it be that Imperial Master Yankang is plotting to usurp the throne?" He looked doubtful.

The imperial court and the rebels fought fiercely, and both sides suffered heavy losses. Imperial Master Yankang took the opportunity to usurp the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

However, although Qin Mu did not know much about Master Yankang, he did not think that someone with such a broad mind and character would use such means to usurp the throne.

Suddenly, the building ship shook violently. Qin Mu's heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly leaned over the side of the ship to look out. He saw that the building ship had sailed into a battlefield.

This battlefield is in the air. In addition to a number of warships, there are also flying cars, flying clouds, flying horses and other strange flying treasures or mounts.

Fortunately, the ship they were on was at the edge of the battlefield. The boatman saw that things were not going well and immediately turned the rudder to the left. The ship almost tilted over, narrowly avoiding a warship and sliding past the battlefield.

Qin Mu stood firm to avoid falling. Suddenly, a team of cavalrymen riding golden-winged eagles came charging towards him. From a distance, he could see flying swords from sword cases behind the cavalrymen soaring into the sky, drawing arcs and charging towards the people on the boat.

The captain of the boat shouted: "We are merchants passing through, not soldiers!"

The cavalry turned a deaf ear to the attack, and flew onto the deck with sharp swords, killing everyone on the ship. Some swords slashed at the sails, cutting the ropes of the sails, and the speed of the ship suddenly decreased greatly.

Everyone on the boat felt their scalps tingle. This was a battle between regular armies. It was obvious that one side of the fight was the Yankang Kingdom's rebellion suppression army, and the other side was the local rebels. It was not a simple rebellion by a sect.

When sects rebelled, except for large-scale sects such as the three holy places, it was difficult for other sects to muster the strength to compete with the country's regular army.

The reforms of the Yankang Imperial Master not only reformed elementary schools, universities and the Imperial College, but also reformed the military. The soldiers in the army had standard spiritual weapons. One-on-one, they might not be the opponents of the disciples of the sect, but when they were in large numbers, they could also control the swords with Qi. When many soldiers joined forces, it was like thousands of swords were fired at the same time, with amazing power!

In addition to joining forces, the army also has various other fighting methods such as ground and air combinations, magic alliances, etc. Ten soldiers in the Five Stars realm can easily kill a person with supernatural powers in the Six Harmonies realm when they join forces.

The well-known sects in the martial arts world were unable to resist the imperial court's encirclement and suppression, and faced with the army's tactics. In the history of Yankang Kingdom's annexation of other countries, many sects were destroyed in this way!

On the ship, Qin Mu calmed his mind and was about to activate the sword box, but suddenly he remembered that all the flying swords in his sword box had been destroyed in the Golden Palace of Loulan, so he threw away the sword box.

"Use Shao Bao Sword!"

Qin Mu dodged the flying swords that were stabbing at him, and his vital energy rushed into the Taotie bag. With a crisp sound, the Shaobao sword was unsheathed and flew out of the Taotie bag. With a light movement of the Cloud Sword Style, all the flying swords that were stabbing at him from all directions were cut off by him. The sword body fell on the boat, leaving only the hilt.

His swordsmanship was profound, and coupled with the sharpness of Shao Bao's sword, it could be said that he was invincible.

Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly saw the soldiers on the backs of the golden-winged eagles opened the cloth bags around their waists. A buzzing sound was heard immediately, and countless insects flew out of the cloth bags, shining with golden light.

"It's the insect army!"

The faces of the other passengers on the ship changed drastically, and they screamed in shock: "The insect army from Sanqi Fort!"

The soldiers pointed their fingers, and countless flying insects formed a team and rushed onto the ship like poisonous dragons, drilling into and biting anyone they saw. Not far from Qin Mu was a pot-bellied merchant who also had strong cultivation, but those insects drilled into his body through his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The next moment, the whole fat merchant seemed to have lost his energy, and only a piece of human skin was left lying on the deck.

Countless insects squirmed beneath the human skin, crawled out from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and then flapped their wings and flew up with a buzz.