Chapter 653: Someone Else

At this moment, Xu Qi’an had a sense of bewilderment as his inherent knowledge was overturned.

The bitterness of the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom being a half-step Martial God was a relatively certain thing, if not quite entrenched, in his knowledge.

Five hundred years ago the Buddhist sect had one superb Buddha, four first-class Bodhisattvas, and a large number of Lohan and Vajra.

To be able to fight back as hard as he could against the siege of such a massive force, fighting to the point of near defeat, the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom had to be a half-step Martial God, only then would it make sense.

If the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom was not a half-step Martial God, then the entire history of the “A Zi Swinging Demon” might be false, and the entire history would have to be overturned.

As for the possibility of the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom being a Superlative Martial God, Xu Qi’an thought that it was zero.

The reason was simple, with the offensive power and endurance of a martial artist, if the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom was really a Super Grade Martial God, then even if the Buddha teamed up with the Witch God and the Compassionate God to besiege them together, what might be exchanged for would be the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom licking his red lips in disdain as he was not finished:

That’s it?

Of course, this speculation was purely Xu Qi’an’s personal conjecture, and the gap between superlatives shouldn’t be that big.

But there was one thing that could be concluded, and that was that it was simply impossible for the Buddha to kill a Martial God.

Absolutely not!

If the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom is not a half step Martial God, then it can only be a first grade ……… Xu Qi an was about to express his doubts when he heard Yuan Guanfa said with a straight face:

“Xu Yinluo’s heart tells me: if the last State Lord had been a Superlative Martial God, she would have licked ……….”

Protector Yuan didn’t manage to finish his sentence as he was slapped to the ground by Xu Qi’an, his limbs convulsing.

“I’m sorry, you had a mosquito on your head earlier and I’ve swatted it away for you.”

Xu Qi’an nodded his head towards Protector Yuan, indicating that there was no need to thank him for lifting his hand.

The shock I received just now was a bit too great, and I subconsciously launched all sorts of cerebral reasoning, unable to collect my thoughts.

Cultivating Tathagata without practicing closed mouth meditation, how have you survived until now, Monkey? Xu Qi’an muttered a wordless sentence.

“Thanks to Xu Yinluo for helping to repel the mosquitoes.”

Protector Yuan climbed to his feet, his azure, clear eyes staring, sincerely thanking him, and attempting to continue listening to Xu Qi’an’s heart.

Protector Aoki reminisced about the past and said:

“The Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom has never said that the Kingdom Lord is a half-step Martial God, who did Your Excellency hear that from?”

It was a difficult question for Xu Qi’an, as if someone had asked you:

Who told you one plus one equals two.

Fortunately, he came to this world, full counting only a year and a half, time scale is so little, quickly recalled that he first heard of the “Demon Kingdom” three words, is the first time as a night watchman, the capital attached to the county of Taikang County, the case of cannibalism by demons.

The demon drove away the gray households in the neighborhood and dug up saltpeter with his accomplices to make gunpowder in secret.

When he and Zhu Guangxiao Song Tingfeng find out the truth and report it to Li Yuchun, Chun speculates that the demonic creature is most likely a remnant of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom.

Xu Qi’an, who was eager to investigate the case, then made a note of it, and it wasn’t long before the irascible martial arts monk, Master Hengyuan, broke into the Pingyuan Burial Mansion at night and killed Uncle Pingyuan, and in desperation, he sought help in the Earth Book chat group.

Xu Qi’an, who happened to be on patrol that night, saved the day.

He then proposed the principle of “equal exchange” and began to seek information about the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom from members of the Tiandi Association.

Yeah, that’s what Lena said.

Lina said that in the Azi Demon Swing, the Buddha made a move because that Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom Lord was a half-step Martial God.

“I was stupid, really, not knowing what Lina was like in the first place, and being backstabbed by her ………”

Xu Qi’an had a mouthful of old blood.

At the same time, he remembered more things, such as when Daoist Golden Lotus implicitly corrected that the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom was a First Grade, not a half-step Martial God.

But at that time everyone thought that Daoist Master Golden Lotus was just a defeated dog of the Earth Sect, what did he know about the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom?

Surely Five, who was also born in the Southland, is more trustworthy.

Who would have thought that the defeated dog was actually the Earth Clan bigwig, the trustworthy number five, who was actually a not-so-smart eater.

“The Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom is a First Grade?” Xu Qi’an asked after him with a slightly hurried tone.

“Yes!” Protector Qing Mu nodded his head.

“That half-step Martial God is ……..”

Xu Qi’an asked, holding his breath.

Protector Qing Mu slowly said, “Grandmaster Shenshu, the same character we are trying to save this time.”

As expected,……… Xu Qi’an’s face revealed a complicated expression, from the dazed “I’m sure it’s so” to the stunned “it’s actually him”.

After overturning the conclusion that the “half-step Martial God” was the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom, the truth immediately emerged from Xu Qi’an’s heart.

The three clues have never been clearer:

One: Shenshu was sent to the capital to be sealed five hundred years ago, and the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom was destroyed five hundred years ago.

The timing is so coincidental, but Xu Qi’an was not sure that Shenshu “died” five hundred years ago, and may have been split up long ago.

Two: The Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom attaches great importance to Shenshu’s stumps, and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox not only sent the severed arm to him, but also repeatedly came to his aid.

But valuing Shenshu doesn’t mean having an affinity with Shenshu. After all, the enemy of an enemy is a friend, and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox might be trying to foster an enemy against the Buddhist Sect.

Three: the immortal character of Shinshu.

Broken Arm was sealed in Sampo, out of ammunition for five hundred years, with no external power to replenish him, and he was still alive.

Not even a Super Grade Buddha could completely kill him, such a terrifying vitality was clearly impossible for a first grade martial artist to possess.

Although Xu Qi’an had never seen the strength of a first-grade martial artist, the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demons Kingdom was a first-grade Demon Race, and the paths of the Demon Race and the martial artist were the same, with the difference being that Demon Race cultivated innate aptitude at the fourth-grade level, while the martial artist cultivated “intent”.

History proved that the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom had fallen, showing that the Buddha could kill a First Grade Martial Artist.

The Confucian saint divided the major systems into nine grades, and the only existences that transcend the grades are the Buddhas, sorcerers, and gods, which can be seen from the fact that the super grades deal with the first grades, and have an absolutely crushing level of superiority.

“Then, that relationship between Master Shenshu and the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom?”

Xu Qi’an took a deep breath.

Protector Qing Mu shook his head, “My level is too low, how can I know? However, the State Lord and Master Shenshu are bound to be acquaintances, dao friends with good relations.”

Well, in the Buddha Sect’s battle to exterminate the demons, Shenshu won’t be on the side of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom either ………. Xu Qi’an nodded, pondering over the respective details when he suddenly heard the White Ape Protector say in a deep voice:

“Protector Aoki’s heart tells me: the old man suspects that the State Lord and Shenshu are old concubines.”

There was a steep silence in the grotto.

The White Ape Protector was taken aback, shocked by this message, and busily said:

“This is what Protector Aoki said, it has nothing to do with me!”

The green wood protector’s face reddened, his dark green hair stood up one by one, each hair filled with green energy, his hand holding the vine cane, tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened ………

After struggling for a moment, Protector Aoki let out a breath:

“The old immortal does not see eye to eye with you. Heh, that’s right, at that time, a group of us little demons did bellyache about the relationship between the State Lord and Master Shenshu.

“It’s just that the Little Kingdom Lord is the best proof that the Little Kingdom Lord is a Nine-Tailed Sky Fox with a pure bloodline.”

White Ape Protector’s azure eyes, clear and free of dust, looked at Greenwood Protector and faintly said:

“Your heart tells me: so the old man suspects they are old concubines.”

The old concubine would have been unnamed and unseen.

…….. The grotto was quiet again.

Protector Aoki silently gripped the vine cane and opened the moment of the hunt.

Two streams of light, one white and one green, chased and rushed out of the grotto, disappearing into the sky.

“Protector Yuan’s natural aptitude itself is able to see through people’s hearts, and after stealing the Buddhist sect’s Tathagata, it went beyond the fourth grade realm, which made it a bit difficult for him to manage. That’s why from time to time he talks nonsense without regard to the occasion.”

Floozy, no, explained the night girl in a low voice.

Is he talking nonsense from time to time, he is letting himself go ……… Xu Qi An “hmm” a sound, did not make much comment.

The Night Lady instructed the demonesses inside the grotto, saying:

“All of you go out and stand guard, and do not enter without permission.”

When the demoness left, she saw her lover’s thoughtful and deliberate appearance and softly said:

“What’s wrong?”

Xu Qi’an wrapped his arms around Night Ji’s tight little waist, but he was not in the mood to feel her wonderful petite body, and said with a grave expression on his face:

“You may not know that the Buddha, long ago, was sealed by the Confucian Sage.”

“What?!”

The night ji’s face stagnated, her pupils slightly dilated, and Xu Qi’an could hear her heart suddenly speeding up at this moment.

Why did the Confucian saint seal the Buddha?

If Buddha had already been sealed by the Confucian Sage, then who was the one who struck back then?

A chill ran through Nightime’s heart, and an inexplicable coldness rose up her spine, causing her to shiver.

“Then couldn’t it have been sealed later by the Confucian Sage.”

Shirahime, who was trying to get used to the cushions, sniffed and interjected.

Although it was still a cub, its intelligence was at least over the top, and it could hear the terror contained in this secret story.

The Nightjar shook her head slightly:

“The Confucian Sage’s lifespan was only eighty-two, and he has been deceased for more than a thousand years, while the battle between Buddha and Demon was five hundred years ago.

“Xu Lang, you’re good at this, what do you think?”

Having her lover boy by her side made her feel supported and subconsciously ask for help.

Xu Qi’an analyzed:

“I have three guesses, but all have paradoxes and lack sufficient clues.”

After a pause, seeing the night concubine’s pair of bright eyes gazing softly, he slowly said:

“Either the Buddha has broken free of the seal; or there was someone else who struck back then; or Shenshu single-handedly led the destruction of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom.

“The Buddha and the Witch God were sealed together, and the Witch God has only recently gradually broken free of the seal, and being of the same superlative, it shouldn’t have been possible for the Buddha to have broken free of the seal five hundred years ago.

“If it’s someone else, then it’s a bit finicky. But this is unlikely, because now that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains have been incorporated into the Western Region, it has become the territory of the Buddha Sect. The qi fortune is added to the Buddha Sect, if the one who struck back then was a certain being, what was his purpose, it wasn’t simply to give the Buddha Sect a handout, was it?

“As for the destruction of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom dominated by Shenshu, well, if that’s the case, then by whom was Shenshu’s body split? The Buddha is sealed, so which other existence can split a half-step Martial God’s body?”

The Night Lady nodded, worried:

“Does Your Highness know about the matter of the Buddha being sealed by the Confucian Sage?”

Xu Qi’an mused:

“It’s hard to say, your mother is unfathomable, I don’t know much about her. But the matter of the Confucian Sage sealing the Buddha, there are very few people in the nine states who know about it, and if it wasn’t for the Confucian bearer telling me about it, I wouldn’t have known that there was such an inside story.”

The battle of “Koshi Swatting Demon” 500 years ago is full of mists, hiding a deeper secret.

“Baiji, contact your Maiden.”

Xu Qi’an said.

Bai Ji lazily unwilling to move, the tender childish voice said:

“Sister Nightime can contact the Queen as well, so you can put her to work.”

In a family, of course, the older one does the work, and it, as the youngest sister, is going to be responsible for just being cute.

Sisters would scream “wow, baby” and love it, throwing all kinds of food at it.

Floating incense can also contact the nine tailed fox ……… Xu Qi An raised his eyebrows and scrutinized the old phase.

……….

As the sun rose, Miao Youfang sat cross-legged in the valley, facing a roaring bonfire, biting grass roots in his mouth.

In his hand, Red Tassel was roasting two large birds, which he had hunted by hand when he went to pick up Miao Youfang.

“You’re so, so welcome ……..”

Miao Youfang was a little embarrassed as he enjoyed the VIP level treatment.

“Should be should be, Brother Miao is Xu Yinluo’s disciple, that’s also an honored guest. Entertaining the honored guests and letting them eat and drink well is our unshirkable obligation.”

Red Tassel didn’t have the demeanor of a fourth rank master at all, like an old bureaucrat who was good at socializing.

As he spoke, he saw Miao Youfang’s gaze constantly scrutinizing the two female demons at the entrance of the cave, and immediately beckoned:

“You two come here.”

The two banshees hesitated and stepped over:

“What is the order of the Red Tasseled Protector.”

With a reproachful look on her face, Red Riding Hood said:

“Elm brain, of course we’re entertaining our honored guests for dinner. Brother Miao has fought along with Xu Yinluo in the south and north, he is a great man among the human race, you must entertain him properly, if there is any lack of care, see how I will punish you.”

This bird demon is so good at things …….. Miao Youfang immediately drifted a bit and waved his hand:

“I’m flattered, I’ve only killed a few vajra along with Xu Yinluo. I’ve mainly played a handful, it’s Xu Yinluo who’s too powerful.”

Hong Ying’s eyes lit up, “Brother Miao, this is something to talk to us about.”

The two demonesses who were originally not too happy, also quickly sat down and served Miao Youfang with one on the left and one on the right.

………..

Same early morning.

Xu Lingyin put on her traveling bag and followed her second brother and teacher, walking up the deck along the wooden planks sticking out of the warship.

Three warships, carrying the same soldiers and generals totaling three thousand men.

The military system of the Dafeng was the guardhouse system, which was derived from the government soldier system of the previous dynasty, the Great Zhou, and the advantage of the guardhouse system was that it greatly reduced the state’s military expenditures.

And it ensures that the troops are spread out across the continents, so that they can quickly gather people to quell the rebellion, but also to curb the situation where a certain general is in charge of the army and has his own army.

That is why the imperial court has sent only 3,000 troops from the capital territory for this deployment, and the rest of the troops are drawn from other continents.

“Suzume, be safe!”

Auntie yelled at the top of her voice from the dock:

“When in trouble be, be ………”

I was going to say that I should listen to my master more, but then I suddenly remembered that a master may not be more reliable than an apprentice.

Uncle Xu was busy saying, “We need to find a way to contact big brother.”

Xu Lingyin nodded her head vigorously as she carried a traveling bag larger than her person:

“Mother, I’m going to war.”

The surrounding soldiers, the pedestrians at the pier, looked on in consternation.

Having a little kid mixed in with the war ship is attention-grabbing in itself.

As soon as I heard it was going to war ………

Uncle Xu Er was shocked and said angrily, “What are you fighting for, you are returning to your hometown with your master on this trip, don’t talk nonsense.”

The little beaner always thought he was going to war.

A questioning gaze scrutinized Xu Lingyin from afar.

The veiled Xu Lingyue said in a loud voice, “Suzaku, as Xu Yinluo’s younger sister, you must not fail everyone.”

All of a sudden, the questioning and disgruntled gazes turned into warmth and friendliness.

After some pestering, the master and disciple were led back to the cabin by Xu Erlang.

When the hour was up, the warships sailed away with their sails raised.

Xu New Year’s arranged his young sister and Lina in the next room and instructed them:

“Stay well in your room, don’t wander off and make trouble.

“Lina, don’t eat what is given to you, and don’t accept kindness from an officer.”

Although Lina was a Fourth Grade expert, her gluttonous and naive character would definitely not be able to defend herself against some underhanded tactics.

“Uh-huh!”

Lina nodded vigorously.

She actually wasn’t afraid of poison, as a girl who grew up in the Southern Border, even though she wasn’t from the Poison and Compassion Department, she still excelled in poison identification and poison resistance.

Besides, poisons that could stun or poison the Fourth Grade were too precious to be taken out by ordinary people.

Lina felt that Xu Erlang was a scholar with little insight, and there was no need to explain this to him.

After settling the two ladies, Xu Erlang went back to his study to study military books and analyze the battle situation in Qingzhou.

On the other hand, Lina twisted her head and took Suzume out and skipped all the way to the deck.

Facing the cold wind, the master and disciples had little stars in their eyes.

For the first time in their lives, they sailed away.

“Who is the girl Xu Yinluo?”

A questioning voice came from behind him.

Lina turned around and saw a middle-aged man with a cloak of armor and a square face, short and stout, staring at Lina and Xu Lingyin with burning eyes.

“Who are you?”

Lina spoke an unstandardized Chinese official language.

“Forbidden Army Battalion Infantry Centurion Chen Snap!”

The middle-aged officer cupped his fists and said, “In the summer time, I had accompanied Xu Yinluo northward to investigate the case of the blood massacre of 3,000 miles. Just now, I heard that this little girl is Xu Yinluo’s sister?”

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PS: Change before you change.