Chapter 98 The Female Master and the Change of the Stars (8000)
As King Shengyou finished waving his sleeves, strange changes occurred around him.
The ground began to hum and vibrate at an irregular frequency, and huge cracks suddenly appeared on the wall above.
After the cracks appeared, they did not collapse, but kept moving to both sides, like a door opening.
This is underground, and there is a distance from the ground, but as the cracks gradually expand, this distance does not seem to be that far.
The ground began to rise, dragging Xu Bai and others away from this space. At the same time, King Shengyou and the 10,000 troops were also gradually rising.
The cracks in front of them were like doors, gradually opening, and they did not cause any obstacles to them at all. With this uniformly rising force, in the blink of an eye, a faint ray of moonlight appeared on the wall not far away.
The moonlight was hazy, but it shone in this dark environment, but it seemed unusually soft, injecting a touch of warmth into the darkness.
"It seems that there is a strong enemy above." Xu Bai raised his head, stared at the ray of moonlight, and said slowly.
In the darkness, King Shengyou had not spoken, but looked up with the moonlight.
Yun Zihai nodded carefully after hearing this.
They could feel that something was wrong.
As the cracks on the top grew bigger, they rose faster and faster. When the cracks grew bigger, the speed of their ascent led them to the ground.
The moonlight was bright, and compared to the underground space just now, the ground seemed a little more lively.
When Xu Bai and others appeared on the ground, they looked up at the same time and saw the figure floating in the sky, and they were all stunned.
At this time, there was a woman in the sky who was shrouded in moonlight. The woman was wearing a Taoist robe, her hair was crooked, and her eyes showed a sense of madness.
In fact, the woman was very beautiful and her appearance was stunning, but the madness and confusion made people dare not approach her and feel afraid.
Even the moonlight surrounding her body became blurred and distorted.
This twisted moonlight, combined with the crazy breath and the crazy expression on the woman's face at this moment, is more and more terrifying, spreading in the air.
"Female master?" Xu Bai was stunned.
He recognized her at a glance. Isn't this the female master who left a palm print in Yinyi before?
He still remembered that after leaving the palm print, the female master stepped on the air and disappeared into the distance. Now she suddenly appeared in front of him, which made him feel extremely surprised.
Of course, it was not only Xu Bai who was surprised. In addition to the shocked expressions of Yun Zihai and others, even King Shengyou frowned.
"Jade face?" King Shengyou said in a steady voice: "We haven't seen each other for many years. Why are you like this now, and why has your breath become so chaotic?"
He remembered that when he pretended to be dead, Yumian was still the master of Yumian Temple, but now, what happened to all this?
As the saying goes, when a person is isolated from the world for too long, he will fall behind.
The same was true for King Shengyou at this moment. He was a little confused about the current situation, especially when he felt the confusion of the female master.
The female master was tilting her head and looking at the crowd below, but when King Shengyou said those two words, she suddenly stopped.
The madness in her eyes still existed, not replaced by anything, and the closest to madness was a kind of doubt.
"Jade face?" The female master quickly recovered, tilted her head again, looked at King Shengyou, and took a step forward.
The madness returned to normal again, even more intense than at the beginning. If you get too close, you will even be affected.
"Why is she..." King Shengyou turned his head and prepared to ask Xu Bai, but the moment he turned his head, the female master suddenly launched an offensive.
The crazy atmosphere was gradually spreading. The female master raised her white jade left hand and gently pressed down on King Shengyou and his army.
It was just such a simple action that the madness around them seemed to have taken a magic medicine and expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Not good!"
King Shengyou turned his head and raised his right hand.
A jade-like long sword appeared out of thin air, and then the ten thousand soldiers raised their weapons together.
"Kill!"
The terrifying murderous aura suddenly appeared and hovered in the air, forming an invisible barrier.
At the same time, the barrier also covered Xu Bai and others.
"Boom!"
I didn't see how the two of them started, but I felt a loud noise that shook the earth, and the ground began to collapse crazily.
The speed of the collapse was spreading to the surroundings. As long as it passed, the trees and soil disappeared and turned into ashes.
This was just a casual palm from the female master, but there was no living creature within a radius of ten miles.
Fortunately, this is a wilderness. Apart from them, no one is willing to come here, so there are no casualties.
"Yumian, crazy?" King Shengyou frowned.
At this time, he also saw that the female temple master had no clear consciousness at all.
At this moment, the female temple master was completely a mixture of various chaos gathered together.
"Then kill her."
King Shengyou held the long sword in his right hand, raised it horizontally, and wiped the blade of the long sword with his left hand.
As he finished speaking, the soldiers around him began to stagger their positions, and in a blink of an eye, a unique military formation was formed.
The power of King Shengyou lies in the military formation.
Even ordinary soldiers can slaughter all living beings.
What's more, now there are 10,000 elite soldiers, and it is even more extraordinary when they gather together.
This military formation is like a sharp spear, flashing with cold light. As long as you see it, you will feel creepy.
"Kill!"
"Long snake!"
The terrifying murderous aura suddenly appeared, condensed into an extremely huge long snake, and rolled towards the female temple master.
Compared with the long snake, the female temple master is like a small ant, insignificant.
The long snake carried a terrifying murderous intent, as if it was going to shatter the heaven and earth. The clouds in the sky were dissipating, and the moonlight was blurred by the murderous intent.
The female master raised her right hand, made a palm knife shape, and chopped at the long snake below.
The air around her became scorching hot, and a ball of fire appeared from the female master's palm, and then spread along the sky.
In the blink of an eye, within a hundred miles, it became a sea of fire.
The flames and the long snake collided, rolling in the air, and fell into a stalemate.
At this time, King Shengyou raised his long sword and pointed at the female master.
"Change!"
As he finished this sentence, the soldiers began to change their formation again.
A strange shape appeared on the ground, like a drop of water.
Due to the scorching heat of the flames, the surrounding air became hot, and at this moment, the hot air was descending at an extremely fast speed.
Snowflakes floated down from the originally clear and cloudless sky.
The snowflakes were extremely cold, and when they fell on the head and clothes of the female temple master, they instantly formed pieces of frost.
After the temperature of the flames dropped, the long snake broke free from the flames and once again rolled up the female temple master.
The fierce flames rose up, and there was no life for a hundred miles.
The female temple master was swallowed by the long snake and disappeared into the sky.
But this situation did not last for a breath. The long snake suddenly broke apart, and the female temple master escaped from it.
After escaping, the female temple master had blood at the corner of her mouth, and she was obviously injured.
But even though she was seriously injured, the madness still did not disappear.
The female temple master raised her hand again, bent her middle finger, and flicked it towards the sky.
The next moment, murderous aura suddenly emerged, and a long snake exactly the same as before appeared in the sky.
The Infinite Dao Sutra!
It can simulate all things.
After the long snake appeared, it rushed towards the army of King Shengyou.
King Shengyou snorted coldly: "The Infinite Dao Sutra is just a simulation after all."
He raised his sword, and the same snake appeared, but it was much more powerful than the one simulated by the female master.
The two snakes collided with each other and fought in mid-air.
"Although I don't know why you are insane, I will not let an insane master live in the world." King Shengyou said slowly: "I know you are kind-hearted, but I need to consider the people of Dachu. After you die, I will bury you personally."
The formation changed again.
The murderous intent suddenly surged, more than ten times higher than before.
"Tutian Army Formation!"
King Shengyou said coldly.
"Boom!"
Between heaven and earth, a loud noise penetrated the sky and all things were subdued.
In front of everyone, the sky and the earth seemed to lose color.
The next moment, the female master spit out blood from her mouth, staining the sky with blood, and fell from the sky.
King Shengyou was about to continue, but he didn't expect that a strange formation appeared in the air.
The female master landed on the formation and soon disappeared.
"The Taoist Qianli Inch Formation, the Wuliang Daojing is really a strange technique." King Shengyou frowned.
He only had these 10,000 elite soldiers. If he had more soldiers, he could have directly wiped out the female master just now, and even left her no chance to escape.
What a pity...
King Shengyou shook his head.
After returning, he must talk to his emperor brother. This unstable factor placed next to him must be eliminated as soon as possible.
"Brother Xu!"
Just as he was thinking this, a shout came from the side.
King Shengyou was stunned, then turned his head and found that there were only Yun Zihai and three people on the field, and Xu Bai had disappeared.
"What's going on!"
He walked over quickly, grabbed Yun Zihai's collar, raised his eyebrows, and was furious.
"Just now, when the female abbot disappeared, an identical formation appeared under Brother Xu's feet, and then disappeared." Yun Zihai looked at the place where Xu Bai disappeared, his face dull.
He already understood the situation.
Xu Bai's sudden disappearance was obviously caused by the female master who took him away.
And the reason why the female master came here was perhaps... not for King Shengyou, but for Xu Bai.
Yun Zihai was sad when he thought of this.
"Everything was coming to an end, but this happened. Brother Xu, I'm sorry for you."
He felt very uncomfortable.
At the same time, he also knew that Xu Bai... was probably in danger.
If it was a normal female master, she would be kind-hearted, but she was crazy!
No one knew what a madman, or a powerful madman, could do.
"Asshole!" King Shengyou pushed Yun Zihai to the ground with force and said angrily: "No one has ever been able to take my people away, generals!"
"Here!"
"Set up the formation! Search the souls of heaven and earth!"
"I obey your orders!"
The military formation changed dramatically again. At the same time, King Shengyou closed his eyes, but opened them again after just one or two breaths.
"Chase!"
He just said a simple word, but the soldiers seemed to be in tune with him. Without saying a word, they changed the formation and soon disappeared into the corner of the sky with King Shengyou.
The surroundings fell into silence. Only Yun Zihai and the other two were left at the scene, and everyone had a different expression.
Yun Zihai said dejectedly: "I killed Brother Xu."
This was the second time he said this. The first time was when he met the ghost sculptor.
But can the ghost sculptor compare with the female master?
Not even a finger can compare.
Xu Bai fell into the hands of the crazy female master, and I'm afraid it would be really dangerous.
"Lord Yun, you are really worried." Qingxue said with sorrow between her eyebrows: "It's obvious that the female master just took him away. If she really wanted to kill him, she would have done it long ago."
When she said this, Qingxue was not very sure, but it was at least a hope.
"Are we... still waiting here?" Zhou Qing asked.
Among them, Yun Zihai was the one who had the deepest friendship with Xu Bai, followed by Qingxue. Zhou Qing did not have much contact with Xu Bai, so he did not suffer much.
"Go back to Sheng County." Yun Zihai said, "Let's go back first. If Brother Xu is fine, he will return to the escort agency. After all, it is his property."
This is still in the wilderness. If we stay here by force, there will be no news. It is better to go back to the county first, so that there will at least be a place to receive news.
Yun Zihai almost forced himself to be energetic and took Qingxue and the others out of the wilderness.
...
On the other side.
Xu Bai was confused and looked at the people below.
That's right, it was below.
He was riding on the back of the female master and was being led by the female master.
To be precise, he was being carried by the female master.
At that moment just now, he only felt a flash in front of his eyes, and then he became what he is now.
Are you kidding me!
I'm just a bystander, I'm just here to eat melons!
How did you eat yourself into a melon?
Xu Bai was speechless.
And most importantly, can't you change to a more special running posture?
Being carried by a beautiful woman always feels weird.
Xu Bai felt the surrounding scenery quickly retreating, and the whole person was up and down with the running of the female master.
Very... uncomfortable.
"Wait a minute!" Xu Bai couldn't stand it anymore and shouted.
The female master turned around and still kept running. She tilted her head and looked at him. The madness in her eyes did not change at all.
Then, Xu Bai felt a visual shake, and when it returned to normal, it became a posture of being held horizontally by the female master.
Xu Bai: "..."
I said wait a minute, not change the posture!
And as a big man, being held like a princess by a beautiful woman like you, doesn't it seem a bit inappropriate?
Xu Bai put his arm around the female master's neck and sighed.
Forget it, just treat it as a mount.
...
He thought about resisting, but he suppressed this thought for the time being.
After all, with the ability of the female master, resistance is useless.
And looking at the current state, it seems that the female master does not intend to kill him, but wants to take him to a certain place.
Riding on the "mount" all the way, it is already very far away from Sheng County.
Xu Bai heard the sound of the wind in his ears gradually weakening, and then the surrounding scenery gradually stopped, and he found that he had come to a hidden cave.
"That... Senior, can you put me down first?" Xu Bai thought about it and tried to communicate with the female master.
Because the distance between the two was very close, when he looked up, he saw a pair of crazy eyes.
The female master was still crazy, and even if she was holding Xu Bai, she did not recover.
Xu Bai only felt his body loosen up and found that he had been put on the ground by the female master. He immediately turned over and held the ghost-head knife at his waist.
"Are you here?"
Since he had been put down, this was the destination. He didn't know what would happen next.
But vigilance was necessary.
The female master suddenly stretched out her hand and slapped Xu Bai's chest.
The speed was not fast, and the power was not strong, but Xu Bai did not relax, and a black light rose from his body.
Then, Dou Zhuan Xing Yi was used.
This palm was completely dissolved, and it attacked the female master at the same time.
The female master tilted her head and endured this palm, without shaking her body at all.
Xu Bai raised his eyebrows, not understanding what the female master meant, and even felt very puzzled.
The palm just now was not the strength of the female master at all, and it was only about the seventh rank.
But why did she use the power of the seventh rank?
Xu Bai couldn't figure it out.
But he seemed to have touched a trace of unusual clues.
The female master seemed to be crazy, but she always felt that something was pulling her, making her act according to some rules in her madness.
Just like just now, she suddenly weakened her own strength to attack. In this case, how could a mad person do it?
And she took him away inexplicably, as if there was a purpose.
He now seriously suspected that the female master was not here to find King Shengyou, but to find him. It was just that King Shengyou was there, so the two had a fight.
Of course, this is just a guess. As for how to confirm it, there is no way yet.
Xu Bai thought, while on the other side, the female master took action.
The female master took two steps casually, and then the power in her body began to operate in an unusual way.
Xu Bai was stunned, and then reacted.
When the female master was operating her power just now, he felt very familiar, but now he realized that this was actually his Dou Zhuan Xing Yi.
Wuliang Dao Jing simulated his Dou Zhuan Xing Yi.
But... what is the female master moving?
Xu Bai has a very clear understanding of the operation method at this moment.
It was indeed using Dou Zhuan Xing Yi, but no one attacked the female master. She was fighting herself.
That's right, fighting herself.
In front of Xu Bai, the female master's expression was gradually becoming clear, but compared with that kind of madness, it was like a drop in the ocean.
That's all, only a trace of clarity.
Xu Bai touched his chin, he seemed to know who the female master used Dou Zhuan Xing Yi just now.
If he guessed correctly, it was to move all the crazy consciousness out, but it was obviously unsuccessful.
Maybe the quality of Dou Zhuan Xing Yi was not good enough.
Soon, the trace of clarity on the female master disappeared, and she stopped using Dou Zhuan Xing Yi, tilted her head, looked at Xu Bai, and a crazy expression appeared on her face.
Xu Bai held the ghost head knife and stared at each other.
Time did not last too long, the female master turned around and left the cave directly without any hesitation.
Xu Bai: "..."
This was something he didn't expect.
He thought something bad would happen next, but he didn't expect that everything would just pass by like this.
"What exactly is his purpose?" Xu Bai frowned and thought.
After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure out what the other party was thinking.
Could it be just for Dou Zhuan Xing Yi?
It seems that there is some clue in this way.
Using Dou Zhuan Xing Yi to transfer the madness from her body, this idea seems to be established.
But there are too few clues in front of him, no matter how hard he thinks, he can't guess more reasons.
Xu Bai shook his head and shook off these thoughts.
"Let's go back first."
There is too much information now, and he is in this situation again, so he should go back to a safe place first.
Thinking of this, Xu Bai stopped thinking about it and got up and left the cave.
As soon as he walked out, he happened to meet King Shengyou and his troops.
When more than 10,000 soldiers rushed over, the scene was very grand, and the surrounding trees were flattened in an instant.
"Xu Bai, where is Yumian?" As soon as King Shengyou appeared, he looked around, as if he wanted to beat the female master to death here.
"Let's go." Xu Bai shrugged, without saying anything nonsense, and directly told the reason.
"Simulation ability?" King Shengyou frowned, as if he was thinking carefully about the cause and effect.
"Any clues?" Xu Bai asked.
King Shengyou shook his head and said, "I want to return to the capital as soon as possible and find a way to kill her directly."
Good guy.
Xu Bai called him a master.
He actually agreed with this way of solving the problem.
Finding clues is a very troublesome thing. It is better to find the person directly and kill him, so that all the consequences will be gone.
"Okay, since you are fine, I will leave."
Logically, King Shengyou still wanted to communicate with Xu Bai. After all, it was rare to meet such a talent. But at this moment, such a thing happened. He had to hurry up and go back to talk.
But before leaving, King Shengyou still gave a warning.
"What I said is worth a thousand gold. No matter when and where, as long as you are willing, my door will always be open to you."
After leaving this sentence, King Shengyou left with his army.
Xu Bai rubbed his eyebrows and looked up at the moonlight in the sky.
The moonlight was like silver, shining on the place below that had been razed to the ground.
"It turns out that there are interesting people like King Shengyou in the royal family." Xu Bai said secretly.
From the time they met until now, King Shengyou gave him the impression of being a very heroic person.
No wonder he spent half his life in the military.
If such a person were to be a prince in the officialdom, it would be estimated that in a few days, he would have chopped off many heads of those pedant officials.
"Let's go back to Sheng County."
Everything has come to an end, and Xu Bai doesn't want to stay here any longer. Taking advantage of the moonlight, he rushed to Sheng County.
...
Sheng County, outside the escort agency.
Yun Zihai and Qingxue have been standing on the street outside, waiting for Xu Bai to return.
"I...may have to go." Zhou Qing looked at the sky and said this with a stiff upper lip.
With such a big thing happening, he must go back and report to the Sixth Prince, otherwise if he delays the opportunity, everything will lose the initiative.
Yun Zihai didn't speak, and Qingxue didn't speak either.
The two of them seemed to have acquiesced and let Zhou Qing leave.
Zhou Qing thought about it, gritted his teeth, and finally left in the dark.
At this time, Yun Zihai and Qingxue were the only ones left on this street.
"I'm not leaving because I want to wait a little longer." Yun Zihai said hoarsely, "Brother Xu and I hit it off right away. If he really can't come back, I'll build a tomb for him, but why don't you leave?"
Qingxue stared at the door of the escort agency and said, "He saved me twice, so I must wait for his news here. This is the first reason. Second, he is valued by King Shengyou. For the sake of the Ninth Princess, it's worth waiting here."
She is not like other people who make some issues vague. She is straightforward.
This is her true thought. First, Xu Bai saved her twice, and second, Xu Bai's identity is different now.
There is no need to hide, and there is no need to hide. Sometimes, those little tricks are disdainful to smart people.
"Heh..." Yun Zihai smiled bitterly, "You are really direct. It's a pity for Zhou Qing. If Brother Xu really comes back, he will lose his favor with Brother Xu."
"Everyone has his own choice. If you make a choice, you have to pay the price for the consequences of this choice." Qingxue said.
Yun Zihai stopped talking and stared at the location of the escort agency, his eyes full of guilt and sadness.
The street was quiet, so quiet that it was scary. At this time, even the night watchman did not pass by the escort agency.
As time passed, the night was getting darker and darker, and every time the night got darker, Yun Zihai's mood became heavier.
Because he knew that the longer the time, the less safe Xu Bai would be.
Unknowingly, time passed slowly again, and there was a faint light in the sky.
The street became lively, and at this time, the people who had been preparing to work since the morning saw the parents of Sheng County and a woman standing in front of the escort agency.
"Let's go." Yun Zihai stood up and looked at the increasing number of people around him and the sun rising in the sky.
His face was full of dejection, and he was obviously desperate to the limit.
Qingxue said nothing, just sighed silently.
Is that man really dead?
What a pity.
Such a charming person, if given time, will definitely be able to dominate, the accident is really too sudden.
The two looked at each other, ready to part.
But at this moment, they heard a voice, turned their heads hurriedly, and then, the expressions of the two froze on their faces.
"Hey? What are you two doing guarding at my door? Why don't you go back to the yamen? I waited for you all night in the yamen and slept in your room all night."
Xu Bai held a paper bag in his hand, and was using his other hand to take out a white bun from the paper bag and put it in his mouth, his mouth full of the fragrance of the bun.
Yun Zihai: "..."
Qingxue: "..."
"Do you want to eat?" Xu Bai handed it over.
Yun Zihai and the others looked at each other in silence.
It turned out that they were worried here and guarded all night, and Xu Bai fell asleep directly in the yamen. When he got up in the morning, he even had breakfast very considerately.
Qingxue gritted her teeth and said, "I knew he wouldn't die."
Yun Zihai recovered and was about to walk up to Xu Bai and give him a warm hug, but was stopped by Xu Bai.
"Stop it, don't talk about life and death. Sister Qingxue can hug me, but you, a grown man, can forget about it." Xu Bai walked towards Qingxue.
Qingxue naturally took out the remaining silver thorn and played with it in her hand.
Xu Bai looked up at the sky and felt that he had joked enough and it was time to talk about business.
After eating the remaining buns in a few bites, Xu Bai winked and asked Yun Zihai and Qingxue to follow him, and then walked directly into the escort agency.
Yun Zihai and Qingyun didn't understand what was going on, but seeing Xu Bai's intention, they followed behind.
It was very early at this time, and there was no one in the escort agency. After entering the escort agency, several people followed Xu Bai and went to the room in the backyard.
After opening the door, Xu Bai stepped in first, asked the two to sit down, and closed the door.
"I thought about it all night yesterday." Xu Bai closed the door, turned around, looked at Yun Zihai, and said, "This matter has come to an end, and there is basically no follow-up."
Yun Zihai nodded and said, "I will write a letter today and go directly to the capital to tell His Majesty what happened."
No matter what happened in the middle, no matter how His Majesty planned, Yun Zihai also knew that he was calculated by the emperor, but now he has completed his task, and the so-called promise will be fulfilled by the emperor.
At the end, Yun Zihai added: "I will also fulfill what Brother Xu needs as soon as possible. Brother Xu can come to me at that time and we will discuss what skills are needed."
Xu Bai's contribution to this incident cannot be underestimated. Yun Zihai is a man of integrity, and he will naturally fulfill it to Xu Bai.
"I will also send a pigeon to Princess Nine in advance today to let her prepare. In addition, I will leave today." Qingxue stared at Xu Bai thoughtfully and told him the news of her departure today.
She should have left long ago. She got involved in this inexplicably and has not returned until now.
But it was all worth it. At least the Ninth Princess will be better off because of this incident.
As for Xu Bai...
Qingxue sighed silently.
If it were in the past, she would have wanted to recruit useful talents for the princess, but now, she has given up.
How dare the Ninth Princess interfere with the talents that even King Shengyou dreams of?
Even if Xu Bai really agreed, the Ninth Princess would not dare to accept him.
You dare to accept someone your uncle likes, are you not afraid of death?
So Qingxue has given up this plan.
"Ahem." Xu Bai pretended to cough and said, "Actually, I thought about it all night yesterday. Although our matter has been resolved, I have to consider my future, so I have a plan and need Brother Yun's help."