After Vajra Baru escaped, Gu Liubai finished drinking the cooked tea and packed up his things and left.
When Xiao Zhenwei left, he realized that Gu Liubai had a few more bags of things on him.
He was a little curious, "Where did these packs come from?"
Gu Liubai said, "The horses from Xinghu were on horseback last night."
Xiao Zhenwei hesitated and said, "What are you doing with those cavalry? Is there any knowledge?"
Seeing his uncle so unconfident, Gu Liubai almost laughed out loud. He suppressed his smile and explained seriously, "This is to use war to support the war. Some food and drinks carried by these cavalrymen, as well as some things to deal with practitioners, are useful. Sometimes, the two armies will use many evil means of fighting. For example, if the other party knows that we are roughly in a certain place, it is possible that we will poison the water source and food everywhere in that place. Sometimes a practitioner consumes a lot and finally hides and rests, and they will be in poor condition if they can't find food or drink in one meal or two."
Xiao Zhenwei frowned and said, "It makes sense. If I had traveled, I wouldn't have anything to bring. If I couldn't find food when I was hungry and thirsty, it would be really troublesome and it would be difficult to be as full as you said."
Gu Liubai smiled and said, "Master, sometimes what you lack the most and what you want the most is, the enemy will often put those things somewhere, leading you to fall into the trap."
"Yes." Xiao Zhenwei learned very seriously, and he pondered, "So it is best to collect some essential things in every battle. You can flip through the people you kill."
Gu Liubai couldn't help but smile and grinned, "Master, when you were practicing in Canglang Sword Sect, did your teachers and commanders not teach you this at all? They didn't teach you, and you didn't think about it yourself?"
Xiao Zhenwei shook his head, "They only teach me sword skills, and I only consider the practice of true qi and sword moves. It turns out that there are so many knowledges in fighting against the enemy and fighting, and I am too far from my junior brother."
When Gu Liubai heard his master say that he was junior brother, he thought of Guo Beixi, but he unconsciously curled his smile.
My master was a true ignorant of practicing. Along the way, my master was the majority when he was alone in thinking about things. He thought that his master was just thinking about sword moves and practice, but when Xiao Zhenwei took the initiative to ask him if he had to wait for them to go to Famen Temple, he started to fight with the group of Western Regions cultivators. He realized that his master had been struggling with his uncle's state that he had not protected his junior brother.
In my master's mind, the reason why Guo Beixi died back then was because these Western Regions practitioners were causing trouble, so other people could be killed or not. The Western Regions practitioners gathered here must be killed.
The reason why he is so studious is because he wants to fight more than Guo Beixi.
Gu Liubai felt extremely emotional in his heart.
Xiao Zhenwei was very satisfied. He followed Gu Liubai, shook his arm again, and muttered to himself, "I have learned another trick. You have to hold all the useful things on others."
Gu Liubai did not laugh this time, he just said seriously, "Yes, Master, the enemy may poison all the places we pass by. We cannot eat things randomly, but we can also in turn poison the places where they will definitely come. We can also give antidotes to people or animals who are active in those places in advance, so they will be fine if they eat them, and the enemy will be even less careful. They will be unlucky if they eat them."
Xiao Zhenwei sighed, "I have a lot of knowledge, I remember it."
"Master, the supernatural powers of Vajra Baru just now seem to deceive my perception and prevent me from feeling dangerous, but also let my consciousness control the blood in my body to stop flowing. If ordinary people cannot compete, then their vitality will soon be cut off." Gu Liubai looked at several villages in the distance, picked a path forward, and asked at the same time, "If he uses this supernatural power to deal with you, can you deal with it?"
Xiao Zhen nodded slightly and replied seriously, "If he uses this magical power to deal with me, then once my blood stops flowing, he will die."
Gu Liubai was stunned and said, "What's the point?"
Xiao Zhenwei said: "It should be that when I felt the blood flow stop, my sword energy was stimulated and slashed over."
Gu Liubai's heart moved, "Master, is your statement just because the sword is just before I think about it. When I want to stab the other party, the sword has actually passed one step earlier?"
Xiao Zhenwei nodded as usual and said, "Did the Lord of Frost Sword beside you tell you this truth?"
Gu Liubai said, "Yes."
Xiao Zhen nodded slightly and said, "I think so, she has indeed reached this level."
Gu Liubai was a little ashamed and said, "I have not yet achieved the cultivation of sword unity, and I still cannot reach the real realm that the sword has already stabbed when the sword intent is reached."
Xiao Zhen turned his head slightly and glanced at him, saying, "Your true qi cultivation has not reached the eighth level. When your true qi cultivation reaches the eighth level, the combination of your body and true qi will naturally change. At that time, you will definitely be able to do it easily. With your talent, since you have realized that this sword originates from the first place of Mind, all you lack is the fire of practice. Moreover, whether it is the Lord of the Frost Sword or the person who teaches you the sword skills, they each have their own shortcomings. If you can understand it, you will definitely be better than me in the future."
As he spoke, he looked at Gu Liubai, and was extremely satisfied with his junior nephew. He also felt that Guo Beixi was better than him. His Canglang Sword Sect recruited so many disciples every year, but who could compare with Gu Liubai?
Gu Liubai knew that his master was honest, so he couldn't help asking, "Master, then do you think if you and Yin Shiniang really fight, which one of you will win?"
Xiao Zhenwei thought for a while and said, "Maybe I will hit her with a sword, but she will die."
Gu Liubai said: "Both losses are hurt?"
Xiao Zhenwei said, "I feel that her sword intent is unrestrained, and it may mislead my perception. If she takes the lead, I may hit her with a sword, but when she draws a sword against me, I will definitely fight back. The biggest possibility is that I can't avoid it, but try to avoid being stabbed in the fatal place, but she may not be able to withstand my sword."
"It's very likely that you seriously injured her and died. What if my senior brother really fights with you?" Gu Liubai continued to ask curiously.
Xiao Zhenwei said, "Which senior brother?"
Gu Liubai said, "Zongsheng Palace is Chongqian."
Xiao Zhenwei was stunned, and then he remembered that Gu Liubai had this identity. He thought for a while and said, "Your senior brother has a magnificent sword energy. It should be far better than me in this kind of battlefield fighting. But when facing the enemy alone, my true energy is strong enough and should be able to withstand his sword energy. It may be possible to fight in real battle. If I find an opportunity to attack him, he will be killed by me, and I will not be injured."
Gu Liubai and Shen Ruoruo, Shangguan Zhaoyi looked at him.
This is a good idea to compare swords against the enemy, but it actually said it would attack the enemy.
It seems that this master has indeed been damaged by Gu Liubai. In his opinion, the real fight has caused the least damage, and he is going to hide and attack.
Gu Liubai was also helpless and said, "Master, what if he didn't attack him?"
Xiao Zhenwei said, "That should be because I was injured internally, and he was going to be killed by me."
Gu Liubai remembered Yin Shiniang's judgment and couldn't help but sigh and said, "It turns out that my master is still powerful, and my senior brother is really not."
Chen Ruoru laughed out loud, and she felt that if Master Chong Qian heard it, she would be angry to death.
...
Following the trail into the selected village, Xiao Zhenwei was not used to showing up in public, so he naturally walked behind Gu Liubai and others.
He looked at Gu Liubai and talked to the two villagers, and then arrived at a workshop with a slightly sour taste.
This workshop is made of candied fruits. There are many fertile fields in the Xinghu area, and some places that are not suitable for paddy fields produce large quantities of dates, apricots and peaches.
There were many such candied fruit workshops in some villages they passed by before. At this time, some blue peaches as big as thumbs were pickled in the ponds in the workshop.
These green peaches are at least two or three months away from ripening. If eaten raw, it will be sour and hard to take. However, after several marinating and drying processes, they can be made into several flavors, some are sweet and sour, some are salty and sweet, and some are purely honey-flavored.
This workshop covers a considerable area. In addition to a few pools, there are also many fire rooms for fumigation and a large drying yard.
After Gu Liubai came in, several people in the workshop retreated, as if they had left the workshop completely. Gu Liubai began to flip through the bags he carried with him, pulling a leather rope in some places, and some places had the bullet nets to deal with practitioners.
Seeing Gu Liubai constantly fiddling with him and even starting to dig a hole, Xiao Zhenwei couldn't help but be curious and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Gu Liubai explained, "Based on this time, the pursuers should arrive soon. This is the place I chose to fight with them."
Xiao Zhenwei's eyes lit up again and became knowledgeable!
Gu Liubai knew what he was thinking, and didn't need him to ask questions, and explained softly, "If both parties pursued and fugitive suddenly encounter a place where neither party has arranged, it is a 50% digit. If we escape and break into the ambush they have arranged for a long time, then we will suffer a lot. On the contrary, if we wait here and make arrangements early, then they will suffer a lot."
Xiao Zhenwei immediately understood, "Anyway, the enemy is about to arrive, and if you want to fight, you can choose a place that is beneficial to you first."
Gu Liubai nodded and said yes.
Xiao Zhenwei pondered again, "Then you choose to fight in such a village, don't you be afraid of the army surrounding it, and then rush out and waste more energy?"
Gu Liubai said, "I have carefully looked at this village. There are many canals and paddy fields around it, and it is difficult for the cavalry to move freely. If you want to come so quickly, at most it will be the cavalry."
After pausing, he glanced at Xiao Zhenwei and added, "When we left the shed, I added a lot of wet wood to the fire pit. There was a lot of smoke burning in that place. Even if the Vajrayana master did not reveal our traces quickly, someone would check it out. They must also know where we are going, so I would not be in vain if I arranged it here. Qilian Canglan was so angry that she felt that my cultivation was not as good as hers, and she wanted the magical power in my hand. She would definitely not have much patience to make any arrangements that would not leak."
Chen Ruoruo smiled and said, "She is not as good as you, and she is not a serious general. Judging from her arrangements last night, she knows that she doesn't have the ability to arrange them patiently, but she doesn't have the ability to do it without leaking water."
Xiao Zhenwei looked at Gu Liubai's decoration and found it very interesting, and asked again, "Then why did you tell those people to give this place to you?"
Gu Liubai smiled and said, "Just buy the goods they have roughly calculated at a price. These villagers also know that it is about to fight, so it is better to ask for more money than to stay in this workshop. Master, most of the time, he will just buy them with money, but you have to negotiate the price seriously, and you can't take it casually, otherwise people will think you are stupid and the deal will not be done."
Xiao Zhen frowned slightly and said, "Then I have to bring more money when going out in the future."
Chen Ruoruo and Shangguan Zhaoyi were about to laugh when they heard this, but they heard Xiao Zhenwei say, "You can also kill the enemy and take it from them."
After saying that, he stacked several large tanks in the corner of the wall again, which made Gu Liubai feel a little confused and couldn't help asking, "Master, are you?"
Xiao Zhenwei said, "You have done a good job of calculating. Some practitioners are almost here, so I'll hide first."
Only then did Gu Liubai realize that his master was hiding behind these big tanks, so that he would not be able to detect him for a while, and if he wanted to take action, he would wait for an opportunity to attack.
"This?" Gu Liubai always felt that his master seemed to have learned a wrong job, but he couldn't say what was wrong with his approach.
Xiao Zhenwei hid behind the stacked large cylinders, but was very satisfied. He felt that these large cylinders were round and hollow, and some breath would be eliminated, which would better conceal the aura.
Gu Liubai walked around the earth wall of the workshop and felt quietly that he could not hear the sound of horse hooves of the cavalry. After dozens of breaths, he felt a faint fluctuation of the energy.
"My master's perception is still much better than me, after all, I have been practicing for decades more than me."
Thinking about the fact that this person who had been practicing for decades more than himself was still hiding behind those big tanks, he found it funny, but when he thought that Luang Po liked to hide even if he had nothing to do, he suddenly felt that he was a truly powerful master like this.
What he didn't expect was that Xiao Zhenwei, who was hiding well behind the big jar, couldn't help but speak out.
"Where do you... come from so many magic weapons?"
He was asking Chen Ruoruo and Shangguan Zhaoyi.
Chen Ruoru and Shangguan Zhaoyi had already taken a package and arranged it each.
Some of the things Gu Liubai had taken before were only obtained from the cavalry last night, but the ones they took out from the packages were all magical tools such as Taoist talismans.
Xiao Zhenwei was isolated from the world for many years. Even after leaving Chang'an, he almost only talked to Gu Liubai alone. However, when he saw Shangguan Zhaoyi even pasted a few Taoist talismans to better cover up the energy in the large vat in front of him, he could not help but see that there were many stacks of Taoist talismans packed with oil wax paper tapes in the large cloth bag that Shangguan Zhaoyi was carrying.
Shangguan Zhaoyi was so flexible that she immediately followed Gu Liubai and called Master sweetly, then said softly, "The Mingyue Pavilion was exchanged with the monks from the Five Dok Rice Sect and Taiping Road."
Xiao Zhenwei was used to being called by Gu Liubai. When Shangguan Zhaoyi called out to Master, he lost the psychological barrier to talking to her, and he couldn't help but say, "How to change it? Do you use money?"
Shangguan Zhaoyi explained softly, "After registering the Taoist foundation, everyone talked carefully, asked what they lacked the most and wanted the most, and some of them could be satisfied directly, so they arranged it directly, but they did not give it in vain, so they asked them to exchange it with some extremely simple magical instruments. In fact, most of them, the monks who were aside and left-minded, had incomplete methods and forced practice. Although their realm improved, they had suffered many hidden diseases, and many needed some Taoist qi regulation and healing methods. Some were missing after practicing. I don’t know what to do next. These things are not difficult to solve. There are many small methods used by our Shishan Academy alone. There are many magical tools that can be used quickly on these side and left-minded monks. Many of them have incomplete martial arts and their true qi is sometimes ineffective. They need to make many magical tools that can be used immediately in advance. So before we set off, we exchanged a lot of these magical tools from them. Moreover, Princess Huaizhen also sent a batch. Maybe the emperor guessed that Gu Shiwu was going to follow the army."
Xiao Zhenwei nodded silently, sighing again that this enemy had a lot of knowledge.
It seems that daily accumulation is also very important.
He had previously thought that Shangguan Zhaoyi and Shen Ruoruo would become a burden in this kind of battle, but now it seems that just like an army needs Xuanjia soldiers and archers and sword and shield hands, Shangguan Zhaoyi and Shen Ruoruo can also play a considerable role.
"You guys save some money."
Seeing Chen Ruoruo and Shangguan Zhaoyi pasted several valuable Taiping Road wind and thunder talismans on a wall, Gu Liubai felt very distressed, "This is also something that a large group of people has accumulated for half their lives. They can't be saved up by just using it."
"How could you do that? You want me to play these things and not let me have fun!" Chen Ruoruo was very unconvinced, but then he carefully considered whether there was really a place to put more places.
...
Holding a bone staff, Vajra Baru stood at the back door of a small courtyard where he could clearly smell the sour vinegar smell of this candied workshop.
Jibei-maru stood under a locust tree dozens of steps away from him.
Jibeizhenlu is the leader of these dark hoists.
Even though the reward from his subordinates was confirmed that the master of Xitianzhu did not lie, the aristocratic prince who possessed magical powers was hiding in the candied fruit workshop in this village, he would unconsciously distance himself from this person whenever he saw the unconcealed fanaticism and greed on Vajra Baru's face.
He intuitively felt that he was not the same as this Vajrayana master.
Everything he did was not driven by his own desires.
In the past thirty years, the former Japanese sent seventeen missions to the Tang Dynasty, of which thirteen successfully arrived in Chang'an, and four missions encountered storms and disappeared on the sea forever.
The visits of these thirteen missions won some respect from the Tang Dynasty. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty thought it was not very nice to call it Japan, so he changed it to Japan.
The small country on the sea was eager to learn everything about the Tang Dynasty, practice health preservation methods, manufacturing of military weapons, construction, etiquette, and everything.
However, the results were minimal.
The clans who truly hold power in Chang'an always seem to be extremely kind on the surface but secretly maliciously make things difficult for a while. There is even a member of the mission who worked hard in the kiln factory for several months but never learned how to fire qualified bricks and tiles.
When he needed to cooperate with a practitioner and an ambitious governor like Zheng Zhu, he stood up with his disciples without hesitation.
He passed through the storm and quietly entered the Tang realm.
Just like what Qilian Canglan said, if he was in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, he would not be able to return to his hometown, and he would probably not leave any name in the history books. Their king would not risk angering the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so that the world would know that such a group of practitioners were smuggled into Fufeng County.
These people used the method of serving the Fufeng County military to exchange for skills that the regiment wanted to learn but could not learn.
He is very credible.
He would follow Sheng Ying's orders as previously agreed, but he still had irresistible points.
His place of practice ranks third in Japan.
The reason for being third is that the two places before his sect have supernatural powers.
Although the things that the Japanese delegation wants to learn play an extremely important role in a country, the significance of a magical power to a sect like them is unimaginable.
From nothing to something.
Understand what magical things are.
However, even so, when the Vajrayana master said he would directly hide it from Qilian Canglan, he still decisively chose to refuse.
It was not that he felt that he needed Qilian Canglan's help, but because the news about this magical power was told by Qilian Canglan at the first time.
The first one to cooperate with them was Qilian Canglan.
So he must wait for the arrival of Qilian Canglan now.
Before the Qilian Canglan arrived, an uninvited guest appeared at the entrance of the village road to the north.
A man wearing a straw hat and still wearing a sheepskin coat suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village in such early summer.
A dark harrier appeared not far in front of him, bowed to him first, and then asked, "Where is sir?"
The man smiled, but said directly, "You are the Dark Harrier under Sheng Ying? Don't worry, I am not your enemy. I am from Dashi."
Ji Beizhenlu soon appeared in front of this man. He looked at the man wearing a hat and asked seriously, "Who is Tieliuzhen?"
The man wearing a hat said, "I am his junior brother Du Gaoxian."
While speaking, the man saw Vajra Balhu not far away at first sight. He was immediately surprised, "Are there monks from the Buddhist sect in the Western Regions here?"
Ji Beizhen Lu bowed and asked, "Where are you here?"
Du Gaoxian said, "I originally went to Famen Temple and was temporarily invited here."
Ji Beizhen Lu asked, "Is it Qilian Canglan?"
Du Gaoxian said, "It's her master."
Vajra Baru immediately said unhappy: "Why do you attract more and more people when you kill a junior?"
Du Gaoxian glanced at him and asked seriously, "This master, with your cultivation, it is more than enough to kill a junior. Could it be that you have met this junior?"
Vajra Baru immediately shook his head and said, "I'm just afraid that this person will escape."
Du Gaoxian smiled and didn't say anything.
At this time, a dark hawk in blue came to the back of Jibeizhenlu and said softly. Jibeizhenlu said, "Qilian Canglan will arrive soon, so be careful not to be impatient."
After a moment, two figures appeared in their sight.
Chapter completed!