Chapter 354 – The Princess’ Secret

Escape? What he means is that the four of us, the Four Ranks, have no chance of winning against this brat when we join forces? The reckless, bloodthirsty and belligerent giant Zalmuha was the first to be unconvinced, his eyes rolling round in a glare as he locked onto Xu Qi’an.

He, what he saw …….. Why did you let us escape ……. If this kid was so terrifying, why did he bother to tangle for so long just now? Tang Shanjun was suspicious by nature and gazed at Xu Qi’an warily.

Lookout saw something he shouldn’t have? Skywolf put away his contempt, as if he were an enemy.

This kid has problems …….. The white-clothed warlock’s miserable condition was reflected in Hong Ling’s eyes, and in a flash of lightning, a piece of information flashed through her mind, originating from an exchange she had once had with the warlock.

It was on the way to Dafeng to ambush the Princess, and she heard that that Zhenbei Princess had a magnificent weather, and that warlocks could see it from dozens of miles away.

In a moment of curiosity, she asked, “And what if it’s a third, second, or even first rank?”

The warlock answered her, “If it’s a third grade, the Yuan Shen will suffer a serious injury. If it is a second grade, the eyes will be blinded on the spot and the mind will go insane. If it is a first grade ……..”

The warlock didn’t continue, but Hong Ling was able to guess by the other’s expression that the end was death.

Second grade, this kid is second grade? No, it’s that he possesses something related to the second grade, or even at the same level …….. Hong Ling simply couldn’t control her heartbeat, her adrenaline spiking wildly.

Her skin rose in goosebumps, every nerve channeling signals of danger, of flight.

At that moment, Xu Qi’an raised his hand and gently pressed it.

The maidservants fainted in unison amidst the qi fluctuations that were like a breeze.

Escape, hurry up and escape, or I will die ……… A huge fear exploded in my heart, and Hongling held back the urge to flee and smiled forcefully:

“This kid is simply arrogant, Zalmukha, why don’t you get on, don’t you want the Confucian scrolls?”

Zalmuoha was bloodthirsty and warlike, and was inherently unconvinced, and had not sensed that Xu Qi’an had more than the fourth grade of majestic power within his body, and when stimulated by the red diamonds, he instantly lunged at Xu Qi’an with a fierce smile.

The ten-foot-tall giant ran wildly, carrying the ground with it.

Tian Lang and Tang Shan Jun were about to strike when they suddenly realized that something was wrong and turned around violently to find that Hong Ling had actually fled alone, leaving the crowd behind.

This ……. The pupils of the two Fourth Grade experts shrunk slightly as a sense of foreboding surged in their hearts.

Immediately afterward, they heard screams, screams from Zalmukha.

Horrified, he turned around and saw the ten-foot-tall giant kneeling on both knees in pain, his right wrist held by a pitch-black colored arm covered in dark green veins.

The arm was gnarled with muscle, completely out of proportion to his owner, and slightly misshapen.

The aura it emitted was evil and terrifying, as if it came from the abyss, from hell. With just one look, Tian Lang and Tang Shan Jun felt dizzy.

They finally knew why Hong Ling was running away, and they finally knew why the white-robed warlock was screaming about running away.

Click click click ……. With the sound of breaking bones, the “giant” Zalmukha’s body quickly dried up, and his screams stopped.

The two of them no longer hesitated, one leapt onto the feather spider, and the other followed the red diamond, and began to flee.

“When the heart has an epiphany, there is no worry or terror.” Xu Qi’an said aloud.

Buddhist precepts!

This time, he didn’t use a magic book, because it was Shinshu who controlled his body.

In an instant, the fear in the hearts of Hong Ling in the distance, Tian Lang and Tang Shanjun in the near distance subsided, and the thought of running away was taken away from them as they turned back uncontrollably, wanting to fight Xu Qi’an to the death.

The effects of the commandment faded after two seconds, fear and thoughts of survival reoccupied their minds, but it was too late.

In two seconds, it was enough time for the Divine Distinction-possessed Xu Qi’an to complete the Triplekill.

He drew out the long black and gold sword at his back waist and flung it out with a huff, while not going to look at it, he flashed to the Sky Wolf like a ghost, pinched his neck, and his qi suddenly spewed out.

The head came off with a click.

Immediately afterward, Xu Qi’an leapt up and landed from a height, stomping Tang Shanjun into the ground with one foot and slamming his palm towards his head.

Bang!

Tang Shanjun’s eyes instantly rolled white, and his vertical pupils slowly dimmed.

At this time, there was a “pfft” sound from the distance, the black and gold long knife penetrated through Hong Ling’s chest, pinning her into the ground.

The fleshly body of a Fourth Grade Martial Artist was like papier-mâché against the weapon that Monk Shenshu was struggling to throw.

“No, don’t kill me, don’t kill me ……..”

Hong Ling begged for mercy, spitting blood foam from her mouth, looking pathetic.

Intense remorse welled up in her heart, if she hadn’t participated in this siege, if she hadn’t come to Da Bong, she wouldn’t have encountered, encountered this monster at all.

The most terrifying thing in the mission was not Yang Yan, but this silver gong, this demon hiding in the crowd.

She knew now, but it was too late.

“The poor monk did not kill you, the poor monk is sending you to reincarnation.” Monk Shenshu folded his hands together and looked towards the impostor princess who had her essence blood drawn, and said gently:

“As she is.”

Hong Ling’s face was desperate as she screamed, “Who are you, who the hell are you.”

“Da Bong Yin Gong, Xu Qi An.” Shinshu said.

Xu Qi an ……. Hong Ling muttered.

Those were her last words, and the next moment her head was off.

After killing the people, Monk Shenshu ingested the essence blood of the three fourth-grade powerhouses one by one, turning them into dried corpses.

“If you have this kind of opponent in the future, remember to summon me …….” After saying that, Monk Shenshu returned control of his body to Xu Qi’an.

Is Master Shenshu so loud-mouthed now …….. What an uninteresting fight, I completely failed to comprehend the divinity of a fourth ranked martial artist, they fell before I even exerted any force …….. Xu Qi Xin said.

He wasn’t surprised by the results of such a battle, and even thought it was the way it should be.

When Shenshu’s severed arm was sealed for 500 years, and he ran out of ammunition for 500 years, he was able to repel four Golden Gongs, as well as a Yang Qianyue, the moment he was born.

And now that it was warmed up in his body for half a year, and was nourished by the qi luck in the ancient tomb, if he had to deal with a few fourth grades but also make a big deal out of it and fight in the heat of the moment, it would be too much of an insult to the position of the Divine Shrew.

I don t know if he has the ability to fight hard against the king of Zhenbei …… Well, the king of Zhenbei is a third grade, and the difference between a third grade and a fourth grade is like mud, Shen Shushu can kill a fourth grade, but he may not be able to kill a third ……. grade. Xu Qi An carried the knife and looked around, there were two survivors present besides the female servant girl.

Chu Xianglong and the White Warlock.

“You’re about to die, what are your last words to explain?” Xu Qi’an walked up to Chu Xianglong and asked.

“Who the hell are you?” Chu Xianglong only had one breath left and looked at Xu Qi’an with a cloudy gaze.

He was pierced through the heart by an arrow, death was inevitable, and the only reason he was still alive was that Wulf’s powerful physique was holding him up.

“Didn’t I say, Da Bong Yin Gong Xu Qi An.”

“That’s not your voice.”

Xu Qi’an didn’t answer.

Chu Xianglong stared at him, looked at him for a few seconds, and asked in a hoarse voice, “I have always had a question I wanted to ask …….. You, you gave me the stone Buddha ……..”

“It’s a fake, cobbled together from the east, and it’s missing pounds.” Xu Qi’an snorted.

“………” Chu Xianglong cursed, “You shall not die.”

Psst!

Xu Qi’an swung his long black and gold sword and chopped off his head.

He then looked again at the insane warlock, who was no longer able to communicate, his eyes bleeding, his mouth muttering and repeating, “Run away, run away ……..”

Hands up and decapitated the warlock as well.

After killing all the survivors, Xu Qi’an took out a Confucian scroll and tore out the spell recording the Taoist “Yin Gathering Formation” and ignited the qi.

The sun seemed to lose its temperature as the overcast wind gusted through the dense forest.

Seven unrealistic shadows that weren’t real enough manifested and condensed in mid-air, their expressions dull and somewhat mute.

Before traveling north, Li Miaozhen had told Xu Qi’an that after a person’s death, the Heavenly Soul and the Earthly Soul left the body, and the human soul would remain within the shell, only to overflow after seven days. When the three souls did not come together, the soul was mute and dull.

Whatever he is asked, he answers truthfully and does not lie.

“How did you learn of the news of the crown princess’s journey north and set up an ambush in advance?” Xu Qi’an swept over the souls of the four northern experts and asked calmly.

“Seo Seung-Jo told us.”

“Giants,” Zalmukha replied with a dull expression.

“Who is Xu Shengzu.” Xu Qi’an said in a deep voice.

“A warlock ……” Zalmukha had asked, very honestly.

Warlock? Xu Qi’an’s gaze whirled to the white-clothed warlock’s soul in thought as he continued to ask, “Why did you ambush the princess.”

When people die, their souls are dull and mute, and the questions have to come one by one or they will not be able to answer them.

“Stop the King of Zhenbei from stepping into the second rank.” Zalmukha replied.

Stopping the King of Zhenbei from stepping into the second rank, so he wants to intercept the Wangfei? This, is there some sort of inevitable connection, without the crown princess, the Zhenbei King would not be able to advance to the second rank?

This reply was completely out of Xu Qi’an’s expectation, so much so that he paused and thought for a long time.

Originally, in Xu Qi’an’s speculation, the Princess’ trip to the north had a hidden agenda, perhaps related to Emperor Yuan Jing or the Zhenbei King’s schemes.

Well, that was indeed the case, it was just that he couldn’t have imagined that a woman in the district would be associated with the Zhenbei King’s promotion to the second rank.

After pondering for a long time, Xu Qi’an asked Hong Ling, Tang Shanjun, and Tian Lang the same question, and received the same answer.

Their purpose of intercepting the Wangfei was really to stop the Zhenbei King from being promoted to the second rank ……… He asked again, “What is so special about the Wangfei?”

Zalmukha murmured, “Legend has it that the princess contains a world-rare spirit energy within her body, and by drawing on her spirit energy, one can easily step into the third grade.”

This …….. Xu Qi’an’s pupils contracted slightly, feeling that he was talking nonsense.

If a fourth grade martial artist was still called a human being, then a third grade was transcendent and could not be measured as a mortal, this was a difference in the level of life.

As a result, the number of fourth to third grade martial artists had almost fallen off a cliff, and Xu Qi’an hadn’t counted how many fourth grade martial artists there were in Da Feng, but it was definitely not a few.

But the third grade is only one of the Zhenbei King, which is difficult, can be imagined.

How could a mere princess promote a fourth rank to a third rank?

Thinking of this, Xu Qi’an could no longer hold back and twisted his head to look at his old aunt.

No wonder that after she learned that the official ship had been ambushed, her emotions were a little out of control, trembling and insecure all the way, very different ……… from her arrogant performance a while ago She must have known that she was special, and she knew what kind of fate she would meet if she fell into the hands of the barbarians.

In a whirlwind, he thought of another implausibility.

“That’s not right, if the princess really smells so good, how did she get through all these years unscathed? The lure of the Four Jinn Three, not to mention the northern barbarians, even the fourth ranked experts in the Great Feng Capital, I’m afraid that they wouldn’t be able to resist this lure, such as Yang Yan.”

Yang Yan, a martial arts nerd, would definitely go crazy for it ……… But I asked Yang Yan when I was on the official ship, and he obviously didn’t know about the peculiarities of the Wangfei ……… Well, if I were the King of Zhenbei or Emperor Yuanjing. I would definitely not expose the secret of the Wangfei either, but how did the northern barbarians know about it?

Xu Qi’an asked this doubt.

Zalmukha answered truthfully, “Xu Shengzu said so.”

Warlock again ……. He asked the same question to Tang Shanjun and Tian Lang, and came up with the same result as Zalmuha. They were certain that the crown princess had the so-called Spirit Embrace in her body, which could help them break through to the third rank.

However, when it came to Hongling, Xu Qi’an had an addition to his question.

The demonic woman’s gaze was dull as she whispered, “The Lord was salivating over the Princess and ordered me to come and intercept her, I was jealous in my heart so I asked him what was so special about the Princess, he said that the Princess had a Spiritual Embodiment in her body and also told me a poem.”

…… Lord? Chu Xianglong said that she was the favored concubine of the leader of the Qingyan tribe, and that lord was the leader of the Qingyan tribe? Xu Qi’an did not care about this, the thought flashed by and asked, “Which poem?”

The demonic woman instinctively revealed a jealous look, said: “Out of the world shocked the soul of the pressure of all the fragrance, graceful pouring all the Mu Xi Yang. Ten thousand people respected to become a national color, the soul is tied to the earth to cause the emperor.”

Isn’t this the poem Floating Fragrance told me about, supposedly when the Princess was still in her **stage** and was surprised by the Abbot of some temple and composed a poem for her ………

“There must be no problem with this poem because it’s widely sung, or perhaps, there’s a deeper meaning behind this poem that most people just don’t know about. When we return to the capital, I’ll ask Dean Zhao Shou.”

Now, most of the mystery is solved.

The King of Zhenbei wanted to be promoted to the second grade, so he needed the Consort’s spirit to break through the last layer of the barrier for him. What Emperor Yuan Jing and Chu Xianglong were guarding against were the “enemies” of the Dafeng court, and there were people who did not want King Zhenbei to be promoted to the second rank.

However, because of Xu Shengzu, and the mysterious warlock behind him, the barbarians knew about it, and thus set up an ambush in advance to take away the princess.

That’s why it caused the current situation where there was a huge gap between the ambush masters and the escorting force.

That means the enemy on the court side has not struck so far?

No, they’ve already struck …….. Xu Qi’an’s eyes lit up furiously as he remembered some more details.

Zhou Xianping, the former minister of the household department, led the tax and silver case, which involved a mysterious magician, and this case told Xu Qi’an that that mysterious magician secretly controlled a part of the court.

Zhou Xianping is the proof.

How did the barbarians know about the Princess’s divine powers? It was this white-robed warlock named Xu Shengzu who told them.

The two-fifths inside the court must have colluded with the northern barbarians because there is a bond among them: the Mystic Warlocks.

“Day dog, warlocks are fucking old silver coins, the supervisor is secretly plotting, that mysterious warlock is also secretly plotting, one is more sinister than the other. Wait, the supervisor is 80% aware of the existence of this warlock ……..”

Xu Qi’an opened his mouth with a slightly dumbfounded expression, and a thought came to his mind in a flash: Supervisor is gaming this mysterious warlock?

Everyone is a pawn for both of them, including me and also Shinshu ……..

Xu Qi’an exhaled slowly, deciding to ignore the matter of the Supervisor and the Mystic Warlock for now; that was something he would have to deal with in the future, but it was beyond his ability to sway at the present time.

Pawns have the benefit of pawns, and can grow through the gifts of their players, and when he is strong enough in the future, he will lift the game.

But until then, he would have to bide his time and get sustenance from other sources; after all, he certainly couldn’t grow and prosper enough to lift the board by just absorbing the gifts of the players.

He turned to ask about the main purpose of this operation, “The blood slaughter of 3,000 miles, was it you barbarians who did this?”

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PS: Thanks to “Mo Bei Bei” for the alliance reward, mwahahahaha.