Chapter 686 Watching the Fire From the Other Side
Meng Qi held an oil-paper umbrella, as if walking in the rain, slowly walking on the bustling and lively streets. Peddlers, vendors, and pedestrians in ordinary clothes were like waves, sometimes condensed and sometimes moving.
The capital of the gods has always been known for its many experts, so Meng Qi didn't think it was wrong before, but after hearing Yuan Lihuo mention that the matter of the Nine Heavens Relics was secretly circulated in the capital of the gods, he looked at it again and felt very different. There seemed to be many strong people hidden in the crowded crowd. They came and went in a hurry, with solemn expressions and surging undercurrents.
"It's really a stone that stirs up a thousand waves..." Meng Qi looked around with a relaxed mentality, without extending his spirit. Anyway, no matter whether the news of the Nine Heavens Relics was true or false, and whether there was any weirdness and conspiracy behind it, he didn't intend to wade into this muddy water. It had nothing to do with him, unless Gu Xiaosang took the contract and asked for cooperation.
Therefore, he now has a sense of superiority as a bystander. Seeing the raindrops falling, he held up an oil-paper umbrella and smiled at the pedestrians passing by.
It feels really good to watch the fire from the other side of the river!
Raindrops bloomed on the bluestone slabs. Of course, Meng Qi would not go to Antai Building to join in the fun. He casually found an inn and asked for a relatively quiet guest room.
This is an independent courtyard, divided into three rooms on the left, right and middle. As soon as he stepped in, Meng Qi's smile became even stronger.
Sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard was a Taoist priest with a wooden hairpin. His face was wrinkle-free, his hair was a mixture of black and white, his breath was long, his eyes were half open and half closed, and he ignored Meng Qi, as if he was immersed in the Taoist book in his hand, and the falling rain was just blocked by the dense tree.
The window of the right wing was propped up, revealing a face that was happy and angry, with willow eyebrows, a straight nose, and a beautiful face. She was beautiful but also a bit cool. Her red dress was bright but not gaudy. She was obviously a good girl in the martial arts world.
Her breath was just at the level of enlightenment, but her drooping eyes seemed to be hiding something. She didn't even look at Meng Qi, as if she had sensed it and didn't care much.
"It's really stormy from all directions to the capital of the gods. There are two strong men hiding in the small guest house..." Meng Qi stayed out of it and was too lazy to spy on the other party's true strength. He walked under the eaves, put away the oil-paper umbrella, shook off the raindrops on it, and leisurely opened the door of the middle wing. After entering, he lit the lamp to illuminate the darkness and took out his own "Tao Te Ching" to study.
This book is a bit weird, and he doesn't trust Liudao at the moment, so he doesn't want to identify it for the time being.
The red-dressed woman and the wooden hairpin Taoist priest remained the same. The whole yard was only filled with the sound of dripping, and there was a sense of quietness and depth.
With the green lamp shining on the book, Meng Qi held the Tao Te Ching in his hand, shaking his head and reciting, paying no attention to what was happening outside the window.
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The next day, the wind stopped and the rain stopped, the sky was clear and the air was fresh. Meng Qi changed his clothes and walked out of the inn, intending to meet Su Ziyue and Gu Changqing secretly.
People were coming and going on the street. Meng Qi walked slowly, wandering among them, his heart was calm, and he appreciated the beauty and ugliness of the world.
Suddenly, a woman in a red skirt who lived in the same courtyard hurried past, brushed past Meng Qi unconsciously, and turned into a fork in the road.
After a few breaths, the Taoist wearing a wooden hairpin caught up lightly. After seeing Meng Qi, he smiled and nodded as a greeting, and then turned to another road.
"They are all roads that lead to Antai Tower." Meng Qi laughed slightly, walked straight forward, and went deep into the inner city.
As soon as he passed the fork in the road, the red-dressed woman and the Taoist with a wooden hairpin, who had already left this place, looked back at the same time in the crowd, and both exhaled, as if they had let go of some doubts.
Going in the opposite direction of Antai Tower, Meng Qi gradually approached the Su Mansion. At this time, his smile became even more intense, because Su Ziyue walked out with a brisk pace. Her appearance had grown up, she was less immature, more gentle in her liveliness, and her emerald green dress exuded a bit of freshness.
Meng Qi pretended to be a young man shopping, and walked slowly towards Su Ziyue, secretly using the Eight-Nine Techniques to raise his alert.
When they were less than five steps away, Meng Qi's spiritual platform suddenly shook, and he seemed to be able to feel a series of "attentions" falling on Su Ziyue and the people passing by her.
There is surveillance... Meng Qi's expression did not change, and he looked at the stall on the left with a smile, letting Su Ziyue pass behind him, and the Eight-Nine Mysterious Skills, Yuanshi Jinlian, Yuxu Shensuan, etc. were quietly fully activated!
The crowd seemed to thin out from near to far, and a few vague positions appeared in Meng Qi's mind.
"One, two..." Meng Qi counted silently, and there were about four independent monitors. Some of them were powerful and difficult to distinguish the specific situation, while others were relatively weak and revealed every detail.
Four forces, Su Nu Dao, Mie Tian Men, Ku Lao Ren and Jie Sha? Meng Qi sneered in his heart, did not expose, and went straight forward and left from the street on the left side of Su Mansion.
There was no need for me to start a fight now. I had to wait for another two or three years. After I had the level of a master and could face the peak for a moment, or withstand the half-step attack for a short time, I would ask Abbot Kong Wen and Ling Bao Tian Zun for help to eliminate the hidden dangers in one fell swoop. Even if the long-standing evil ways such as Su Nu Dao and Mie Tian Men were difficult to eliminate, I would still give them a heavy blow!
Of course, Meng Qi was well aware that he would soon reach the half-step Dharmakaya after the four tribulations. His enemies knew this even better. The longer the delay, the crazier the enemies would become. They must get rid of him before he grows up. Therefore, Meng Qi believed that the next one or two years would be fine. After two years, there would be many desperate things, such as kidnapping relatives and letting him go alone.
"Wait and go to the Six Gates to send a letter to my family, telling them in detail about the enemy's brutality, asking them to keep the formation open and restrict my little sister from going out, and then ask Uncle Wang and others to help take care of her..." Meng Qi had already made up his mind.
It was difficult to "commit crimes" in the capital of the gods. With such an arrangement, I believed it would be foolproof.
In theory, there is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thief who can guard against thieves for a thousand days. This level of vigilance is really difficult to sustain, but Meng Qi does not need the Su family to maintain it for long, at most three years.
This is the confidence of the world-famous "Kuang Dao"!
After doing all this, Meng Qi returned to the inn as usual. It was already night, and he continued to light a lamp to read, studying the "Tao Te Ching", and wondering what was so unusual about it.
At the same time, he sighed in his heart, it was really troublesome to regret at the entrance. The master had been in the stupa for a long time, and there was no sign of nirvana and rebirth. It was impossible for him to take him to comprehend the Buddha's Palm. As for the junior brother, his breath was hidden and he was still in a deep sleep, but his face was ruddy, and his flesh and blood were pregnant with terrible power. According to Abbot Kongwen, the junior brother's state was similar to the content of the "Great Dream Sutra", but he had always been focused and had never read the "Great Dream Sutra". It might be the result of comprehending the general outline of the Buddha's Palm.
As the night deepened, a Taoist priest with a wooden hairpin in his hair walked in slowly with a pot of wine. He looked up at Meng Qi's figure reading on the window paper, smiled slightly, and walked back to his room.
As the night deepened, Meng Qi put away the unreadable "Tao Te Ching" and blew out the green lamp.
"It's late at night, be careful of candles..." The night watchman passed by, and the woman in red floated into the courtyard, showing only the level of enlightenment, because the Shendu formation monitored the larger movements.
She looked up cautiously and looked at the left wing room. Seeing that the Taoist priest was drinking by himself, her eyes suddenly darkened.
She glanced at the middle wing room by the way and saw that the lights were off. The room was dark and the young man in green seemed to have lain down and fallen asleep.
Taking a breath, the woman in red quietly returned to her room.
Meng Qi stood by the window with his hands behind his back, hiding in the darkness of the room, watching their actions with a smile, his mood was peaceful and calm.
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Another day passed, the Crown Prince's Mansion.
Zhao Heng finished his training today, and paid a brief greeting to Yuan Lihuo, the "Blood Fang Divine Constable" who secretly "protected" him, and then returned to his room.
He closed the door of the room, and the forbidden method was automatically opened, isolating the inside and the outside.
At this time, Zhao Heng let out a long sigh. Although the entire mansion occupies a very large area, only in this small room can he feel at ease and feel that it truly belongs to him, without being peeped by outsiders!
——The prince has privacy after all, and he will definitely not let people other than eunuchs "watch" during sex, so the Political Affairs Hall tacitly agreed that Zhao Heng's bedroom has anti-spying arrangements.
Just as he relaxed, Zhao Heng suddenly felt nervous, as if there was a thorn in his back. He turned around abruptly and saw a mysterious man in a wide black robe sitting opposite the table. He wore a mask of "Yuan Shi Tian Zun" in the drama on his face, and played with a verdant ornament in his hand, with a chaotic and deep gem inlaid in the center.
"Yuan Shi Tian Zun? Are you from Xianji?" Zhao Heng quickly calmed down.
Meng Qi laughed and said, "That's right."
Zhao Heng's thoughts turned rapidly, speculating on the other party's strength. He could actually enter his room without anyone noticing under the strict surveillance of the Political Affairs Hall!
"Why are you here?" Zhao Heng remained calm on the surface.
"King Wei, you are in a difficult situation and are alone. I'm afraid you need external help?" Meng Qi rarely talked to his companions in other identities, and it felt a bit fresh.
Zhao Heng's face changed slightly, and then returned to normal. He smiled and walked to the opposite side of Meng Qi and sat down: "You want to pull me into Xianji?"
"Of course, after joining Xianji, you can obtain the skills under the title, buy cheap elixirs and utensils, use the exchange power of the six paths at any time, and exchange items and information with companions all over the world, such as the reincarnation talisman. What you need to do is to complete a Xianji mission every year. Under the premise of not endangering the interests of your own family or the people you care about, even if other members of Xianji have a mission to deal with the Zhao family, they will inform you in advance..." Meng Qi simply said the benefits and costs.
Zhao Heng listened seriously, thinking carefully, and did not answer for the time being.
Meng Qi added: "And all this requires you to have a certain degree of freedom. We hope that you will retreat to advance and temporarily give up the position of the crown prince. If there is a chance in the future, we will do our best to help you ascend to the throne."
Zhao Heng was silent for a while, and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air: "I am practicing the new world-shaking book that combines the human way of cultivation. The more respected the position, the faster the cultivation. Once there is no crown prince, the improvement of cultivation will be slow, and sooner or later I will die in reincarnation. As long as I ascend to the throne and become the honor of humanity, I can immediately break through the current shackles..."
The premise is that there are items such as the real imperial seal to assist in cultivation.
Zhao Heng's meaning is clear and understandable. He will not give up his current position, no matter how difficult the situation is.
Meng Qi looked at him as if he had just met him for the first time. He always knew that Zhao Laowu was ambitious, but he didn't expect him to be so persistent.
Is there a side behind every companion that he doesn't know?
He sighed: "Do you know how much help you have given up?" Zhao Heng smiled confidently: "I wonder if there are any external members of Xianji? I have my own skills, so I don't need a title, as long as I can exchange items, etc. Although I can't complete the task, I can help in the court." Meng Qi thought about it and said calmly: "Okay." ………… Back in the yard, the wind was strong and the rain was light. Meng Qi sat in front of the window, thinking about many things. Taoist Mu Zan and the woman in red had not returned yet. Gradually, the night was deep and quiet. Suddenly, a figure fell into the yard and crashed into Meng Qi's room. The pretty face of the woman in red turned pale and she said anxiously: "I am Sun Yuexiu of the Jade Moon Sword Sect. I need to heal my wounds immediately. Help me remove the blood stains outside. There will be a big reward tomorrow!"