Chapter 512: Tyrant Lotus

"It's enough if his subordinates are sensible. We rely on them to investigate those towns." Cen Boqing pursed his lips towards Hegong, "Wait until Lord Fan finishes his work, and then you can see how the surnamed Tian flatters him."

"I just hope Fan Sheng won't fail again this time."

Cen Boqing smiled heartily: "What are you afraid of? Time and advantage are on our side. Every day that passes, He Xiao will be more passive."

Zhongsun Mou thought about it and felt relieved. According to the current situation, the surnamed He has nowhere to bite them.

Identity is the best barrier.

Even if he is the special envoy of the prince of Chiyan, he can't move them at all without real evidence.

"That's right." He glanced at the black crystal on the table, a little regretful, "I have to thank him for giving me a big gift. It's just a pity for the mirror shield."

The magic weapon is an excellent defensive treasure, just right for him as a fragile skin. If Fan Sheng kills He Xiao, the mirror shield will become someone else's trophy, and it has nothing to do with Zhongsun Mou.

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He Lingchuan is not an all-rounder, and his rowing skills are very poor. Fortunately, the soldier who cooperated with him was Jia Yu, a soldier under Lu Dutong. Before he joined the army, he was a local fisherman in Tangmi Township. He could row a boat through rapids, and walking through the Lotus Palace was no problem at all.

Jia Yu taught him the tricks while rowing. After trying a few times, He Lingchuan gradually got the hang of it and the speed of the boat increased greatly.

The water here is calm, and the test is nothing more than the contestant's ability to recognize the road.

Of course, the most important thing is luck.

But He Lingchuan has a cheating tool in his hand and decided to win by strength rather than luck-

He can determine the location of the treasure based on the heating condition of the God Bone Necklace.

Assuming that the treasure identified by the God Bone is the "Overlord Lotus".

When approaching the Lotus Palace, He Lingchuan realized what it meant to have endless green lotus leaves connecting the sky. This is indeed a forest of lotus leaves.

The lotus leaves formed one green wall after another. The boat drove in and lost its way in a short while.

Not to mention the people in the boat, even the spectators on the Chaohu Tower can hardly see the specific situation in the maze from a high position.

"How did you find the Tyrant Lotus in the past?" He Lingchuan asked Jia Yu, "Can you ask for help from the aquatic creatures?"

"No." Jia Yu said, "For the sake of fairness, all the aquatic creatures must leave after cleaning the duckweed. Only at this time will the Tyrant Lotus grow. And the lotus chip collection competition is only open to humans."

"Can't these aquatic creatures leave?" Fish and turtles are hiding in the water, so they are not easy to be discovered, right?

"The local water spirit is a lotus monster that is more than 200 years old. It will pay close attention to the situation on the field." Jia Yu tried hard to row the boat. "In the past, sixty or seventy people cheated, all of them were unconvinced, but they were all caught by it and severely punished. No one will be so arrogant in the future."

He Lingchuan shrugged: "That's good."

This lotus monster has powerful magic power. It can grow such a dense lotus palace on the water surface in a few days.

The waterway in the maze is less than two meters wide at its widest point, so the boats can only row forward and have no place to turn around; and the narrowest point is only five feet wide, so the boats have to squeeze together to pass through.

Once you enter the maze, it becomes quiet all around.

Only the paddling sounds of other boats and the voices of people come from somewhere.

"Go east." He Lingchuan suddenly said, "Yes, go ten meters forward."

Jia Yuqi said, "Do you know what the Tyrant Lotus looks like?"

"Uh, I don't know." He only knew that he hadn't reached the location because the divine bone necklace was still quite hot.

"That's a huge blood-red lotus bud with golden stripes on the surface."

"Blood-red..." He Lingchuan looked around and found that there were lotus buds waiting to bloom everywhere, and they were soaring into the sky, also called lotus arrows. In addition to the most common water red, there are also light pink, light purple, pink-white, and light blue, which are really colorful.

Finding a blood-red lotus among these tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of lotus buds is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. You should know that the lotus has not yet bloomed, and most of the buds are green. You may miss it if you only look at it once.

Jia Yu looked around and hated himself for not having a few more pairs of eyes.

"Generally speaking, the Tyrannosaurus Rex rarely appears in the outermost and the center of the Lotus Palace." He murmured, "We have to look for it more in the middle layer of the maze. Can you remember the waterway?"

"Just barely." He Lingchuan asked curiously, "How do you know that it rarely appears in the middle?"

"In the past few decades, it has only been found in the middle seven times."

"Really?" He Lingchuan looked to the north, "Don't worry about it, follow me."

"Do you have a way?"

"Yes." He Lingchuan smiled, "I can calculate, it's better than you looking aimlessly."

Jia Yu was happy: "Okay! Wherever you point, I'll row there."

The boat went a little further and was deeply trapped in the maze.

The setting of this Lotus Palace is also very unethical. The scenery at both ends of the channel is often exactly the same, so you can't find the north at all after rowing back and forth a few times.

Especially on such a cloudy day, you can't even use the sun in the sky to locate.

It was quiet all around, with only two silly frogs occasionally jumping out of the water.

The divine bone necklace suddenly heated up, and He Lingchuan exclaimed.

Their boat was rowing very slowly, and they were about to turn around in a small circle, so why did the necklace suddenly heat up so much?

Was the target farther away?

After the Tyrant Lotus grew out, it should have stayed where it was. Could it be that the divine bone necklace was pointing to something else?

No, don't trick him, the three black crystals are still staked on the Chaohu Tower!

He Lingchuan suddenly felt a headache.

But he had no other choice but to call Jia Yu to turn around again and head due north.

This envoy often asked the boat to turn around, and Jia Yu was used to it, so he just obeyed and didn't say much.

Fortunately, the divine bone necklace didn't cause any more trouble, and the direction was very clear.

The further He Lingchuan went, the lower its heat.

"Keep your eyes open." He reminded Jia Yu, "It should be nearby."

Jia Yu really looked around, afraid of missing it.

At this time, less than three quarters of an hour had passed since the start of the race. He Lingchuan and his companions had already walked to the northeast corner of the entire maze, and the boats they met on the way were getting fewer and fewer, and now only the sound of insects and frogs were left.

As Jia Yu said, everyone didn't like the edge, thinking that the possibility of finding the Tyrant Lotus here was too small.

But the divine bone necklace just led here.

"There!" Jia Yu suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed, almost jumping up with excitement.

He had participated in the competition for six years, and he had never found the Tyrant Lotus in the maze every year.

"Hush!" He Lingchuan pointed to his lips and told him to be patient, "Go over there, hurry up."

There were hundreds of lotus arrows of different sizes in the layers of lotus walls, and one of them was blood red with two thin golden lines on the surface. Because it hadn't bloomed yet, the lines were particularly inconspicuous.

It was hard for Jia Yu to find it.

He Lingchuan's heartbeat also accelerated by two beats, this thing was worth 50,000 taels of silver.

Mirror laughed twice: "Have you thought about it a long time ago? If someone else finds it first, you will snatch the lotus?"

If this kid didn't get it, the loss would be 100,000 taels!

How could a poor family afford such a disaster?

"No." He Lingchuan whispered, "Even if I lose, Zhongsun Mou can't take my money."

He laughed so confidently and sinisterly that the mirror shuddered, as if it had returned to the time when He Lingchuan was calculating it.

The boat was moving fast, and Jia Yu dived into the water without waiting for it to stop, with a knife in his mouth.

The essence of grabbing lotus chips is just one word:

Quick!

He went to find the Tyrant Lotus, and He Lingchuan also held his breath waiting.

With two puffs, the lotus leaves suddenly swayed left and right, startling both of them.

It turned out to be a black-headed duck rushing out of the lotus wall, quacking at them angrily, and then running away quickly on the water.

"Dead bird!" Jia Yu cursed. If it were normal, he would have roasted the duck.

At this moment, a few ripples suddenly appeared on the water surface ten feet behind He Lingchuan.

A short reed stick silently poked out of the water - this thing is common around - aimed at He Lingchuan, and suddenly shot a blow arrow!

Then a shadow broke through the water and went straight to He Lingchuan.

Although the wormwood stick was perfunctory, the blow arrow was not. When halfway through the shot, the speed suddenly doubled, and the arrows changed from one to three, in a shape of a Chinese character, hitting the back of He Lingchuan's head, back of the heart, and tail vertebrae.

The arrowheads were all made of tempered steel, with a faint white light attached, which had the effect of breaking the barrier. With the added protection of Yuanli, it was no problem to penetrate the protective Qi.

Once hit, if not dead, half crippled.

The man who jumped out of the water was extremely fast. Although he was late, he had already chased three feet behind the arrow and swung the axe like a crescent moon.

This attack was accumulated for more than three quarters of an hour until the spirit was full of energy. The moment he attacked was really like thunder descending to the world. No matter whether He Lingchuan avoided or blocked, he could not avoid his full-strength attack.

The strong wind on the axe blade was so strong that even the air was scratched with a sound of tearing silk. The violent air wave pushed towards He Lingchuan, and the feeling of facing it was no less than a tornado directly sweeping across the face.

Not to mention that he couldn't open his eyes, even his body was suppressed.

With this person's status, if he doesn't make a move, then it's fine. Once he makes a move, he will make a final effort.

As soon as the blow arrow came out, He Lingchuan seemed to have eyes on his back, and fell forward like a tiger.

He had waited for so long, and the other party finally attacked.

How could the small boat withstand his strength? The bow sank and the stern of course lifted up high, just in front of the three blow arrows.

Ding Ding three times, the blow arrows passed through the wood and hit the lotus wall in front.

The force is so great that you can imagine it.

The man behind almost caught up with the blow arrow, which means that the lifted stern also blocked his way and hit him directly in the face!

With a click, the stern broke into several pieces, and wood chips flew all over the sky.

The power of this axe was not reduced. The seven-foot lotus wall in front was chopped down by the axe wind, and the tall stems fell into the water.

Fortunately, Jia Yu had just poked his head out of the water and had not yet climbed up the lotus wall, otherwise he would have been cut in half.

He shrank his head in fear, and He Lingchuan's voice rang in his ears: "Blow the lotus, quickly!"

The lotus wall was cut down, and the stem of the Tyrant Lotus was also broken in half, and was blown all over by the wind from the axe. I was really afraid that it would break in the next second.

Jia Yu had been a soldier for many years, and obeying orders was almost an instinct. He hugged the Tyrant Lotus when he heard it. In his opinion, the attacker also wanted this lotus, and as long as he grabbed it first, the overall situation would be settled.