Chapter 317 The Taoist in Zeyang City Comes
"I am not trying to hide it, but who severely injured Brother Quelong?" Since it was accidentally revealed, Yi Chen was too lazy to be stubborn. He smoothly revealed the matter in one sentence and changed the subject.
Quelong is no weakling. When he was fleeing in Linggui City before, he displayed the aura of a master in the late stage of Taoism. His ability to run was at its best and his escape speed was top-notch. Now that he has the Kirin Holy Armor, he was injured to such an extent, which really surprised him.
You have to know that this place has passed the boundary marker of Zeyang City, and Quelong's injury really made him think a lot.
When Quelong heard Han Jiyue calling Yi Chen "The Hidden Dragon Taoist", his eyes lit up a little. He struggled to straighten up, sat on the ground, and began to tell the whole story.
Listening to Quelong's story, Yi Chen's pupils couldn't help but shrink.
It was Qiaoer's mother who opened the door for Qiaoer, and Qiao arrived home. It turned out that Quelong really came to investigate the disappearance of the monk from Zeyang City.
Relying on his extraordinary cultivation, he found a monk and promised him various benefits, letting him wander in the wilderness, and he followed him, trying to lure the snake out of its hole.
Unexpectedly, the snake was lured out. He used all his strength to escape, but now he is seriously injured and dying.
"Fellow Daoist Yin...Fellow Daoist Yinlong, I am incompetent and was harmed by a villain. For the sake of the fellow practitioners who disappeared without reason in Zeyang City, if you can, please save them."
"This... this piece of armor on my body was obtained from a secret realm. It should be a part of the legendary Qilin Holy Armor. Of course, I am not completely sure, but this armor is indeed extremely useful. Quelong is willing to give it to me as a gift."
"Answer...promise me!"
After the hurried voice sounded, Quelong's spirit could no longer sustain. His head tilted and he fainted again.
Yi Chen was quick to act and supported Quelong's body.
"Master Yinlong, if we place the Ice Jade under the tongue of Taoist Quelong to freeze the last bit of life in his body, maybe he can be saved if he is sent to the Mohist School."
Han Jiyue hesitated for a moment, but still spoke through gritted teeth.
"Haha, I didn't expect you to be such a kind person, Old Han. Don't worry, as long as your granddaughter is still alive, I will definitely bring her out safely. If she is dead, I will tear off the head of the person behind the scenes and give it to you!"
Yi Chen stripped off the jade armor on the Quelong and put it into the storage ring swiftly. It was so funny. How could he not know whether this armor was a part of the Qilin Holy Armor?
How could he allow a person who carries firewood for everyone to drown in the wind and snow? After putting away his armor, the box containing the Bingzhi Jade suddenly appeared in Han Jiyue's hand.
All strange behaviors and evil powers are the cause of disasters in the world, and Master Yi must deal with them.
Anyway, if you drive away one sheep, you can let two sheep go, so you might as well kill two birds with one stone.
"Master, what are you doing..."
"You come and use it! I have time to kill someone!" Yi Chen's gaze did not linger on Han Jiyue's face, but instead fixed his eyes on the skyline of the wilderness.
He stood with his hands behind his back, the night wind blowing the wide sleeves of his Taoist robe, making them dance vigorously, highlighting his strong pectoral muscles.
"ah?"
Han Jiyue placed the Bingji Jade under the tongue of the Quelong. After casting a spell, he turned around and looked at the empty wilderness, revealing a look of doubt.
At this moment, Yi Chen couldn't help but reveal a sneer on his face.
He casually slashed out with force towards an open space in front of him, the air shook like ripples, and a man in black suddenly appeared.
"Oh, I was wrong about you. Your cultivation is not bad." The man in black grinned after he appeared.
"Do you know who this poor Taoist is?"
"Who are you?"
"That's all right."
Yi Chen covered his right hand with his left hand, and a ferocious look appeared on his face.
If you don't know him, it will be easier for him to do things later! The purple-gold tyrant body was revealed to the world, and the expression on the face of the man in black began to become terrified, and he turned around and wanted to escape.
But can he escape?
A few seconds later, a small mushroom cloud rose up. Yi Chen looked at the explosion on the ground, and a look of shock flashed across his face.
He never expected that the black-robed monk in front of him would simply choose to self-destruct when there was no hope of escape.
This is a master who has already stepped half a step into the Jie Dao realm.
"What a big deal! They are so well-trained. This mission is going to be quite interesting." Yi Chen turned around, gathered his energy, and swirled the three golden iron balls in his hand.
"Fellow Daoist Han, if I go into Zeyang City with you, I will be too conspicuous. How about you send fellow Daoist Quelong to the Mo family and then bring the Ice Jade back to me?"
Old people are cunning and old horses are crafty. Han Jiyue naturally heard the hidden meaning in Yi Chen's words. He thought about it for a moment and immediately nodded in agreement.
After Han Jiyue's figure disappeared in the sky, Yi Chen took out the jade armor he had stripped from the Quelong and put it on together with the left and right Qilin arm armors.
Unknowingly, he had collected the parts of three pieces of Kirin Holy Armor. Now only two pieces of leg armor and the Kirin helmet were missing.
As soon as the arm armor and body armor were put on, they automatically expanded to fit Yi Chen's body and wrap it up. At this moment, something strange happened. The three major parts of the arm armor and the body armor actually resonated slightly. Above the shoulders of the body armor, two towering shoulders actually extended out, looking extraordinary and heroic.
The inverted triangle area on his chest became harder and harder. The force fields of the Kirin body armor and the left and right arm armors overlapped to form a transparent force field, which provided another layer of protection for his body.
“Haha, I didn’t expect that after obtaining the three major parts of the Qilin Holy Armor, there would be such a change, forming a small cycle.”
"I have accumulated virtue and done good deeds all my life, and this is the result I deserve."
Carefully experiencing his own surging strength and the defensive boost brought by the armor, Yi Chen suddenly laughed out loud, and the Holy Halberd suddenly appeared in his hand. A dazzling beam of energy shot up into the sky and slashed towards the bright moon in the sky.
At this moment, the Taoist's back was straight.
With this halberd, he was not cutting off the bright moon in the sky, but his own destiny.
Relying on the enhancement of his armor, Yi Chen realized that his own strength had taken another small step forward and entered another world. For a moment, his confidence soared, and the hidden dragon was about to show up in the wind.
…. ….At noon on the second day, the sun shone brightly on the earth. A man holding a banner with a wine pot in his hand walked into Zeyang City with staggering steps.
At this moment, Yi Chen was already cursing in his heart. He had pretended to be weak, pitiful and helpless, but no one came to rob him. They were really blind.
He is very easy to rob and can be robbed in one go, but unfortunately it doesn't work.
Several thousand meters ahead of the main road of Zeyang City, there is a large lake called Youmengze. It covers an area of dozens of acres and is covered with clouds and mist, which is very beautiful.
The lotus flowers in the lake were in full bloom, and from time to time there were girls in colorful clothes paddling on the lake. One of the girls stretched out her arms, trying to pick a lotus flower, but unfortunately she failed in the end because of her lack of strength.
Yi Chen saw it carefully and was immediately moved, with a beautiful couplet popping up in his mind.
The lake is calm in summer, and the water is clear and misty.
Although the girl's strength was small, the waves shook Zeyang City.
By the Youmeng Lake, there stands a huge restaurant called Youmeng Tower. The girl picking lotus is the special scenery of this restaurant, which is comparable to the virgin cigar and girl drinking wine in the previous life.
The lotus in the lake is of a different species, and the taste of lotus leaf chicken is unique.
"But now is not the time to appreciate such a beautiful scenery. I still have to go to the Han Mansion to take a look." Yi Chen's mind moved, and he walked towards the direction of Han Jiyue's mansion reluctantly.
Half an hour later, Yi Chen cursed the rich man inwardly and walked out with a gloomy face.
This time he got nothing. Although he had already prepared himself for such an outcome, he was still a little frustrated when the time came.
Feeling depressed, Yi Chen picked up the flag and walked towards Youmeng Tower.
The lotus-picking girl and the like are secondary. The main thing is that Taoist Yi wants to get some information from Youmeng Tower.
As for the idea of relying on the power of the Han family, Yi Chen had never even thought about it.
If he was the mastermind behind such a big mess near Zeyang City, he would definitely send people to focus on the actions of the Han Mansion.
Since the person behind the scenes was able to sneak away with his granddaughter without being noticed by Han Jiyue amidst the numerous formations, he must have extraordinary skills.
However, the fact that this person did not touch Han Jiyue made Yi Chen have some guesses in his mind.
Although the Han family is now in decline, if they were wiped out, the waves that would be caused would be too great, and even the power of the person behind the scenes could not be easily suppressed, so they let Han Jiyue go.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
There was even the fact that Han Jiyue was very old and his vitality was about to end, so he was of no use.
"I always feel that this matter is not that simple. The person behind the scenes went to great lengths to kidnap Han Xinyue. It is impossible that he really has his eyes on a small fifth-level True Person Realm cultivator. Most likely, he has his eyes on this person's Treasure Moon Divine Body."
"Is that you? Purple Human Devil."
For a moment, Yi Chen's mind was full of thoughts. He held the flag, looked around, and swayed towards the direction of Youmeng Tower.
"Drink a pot of wine, drink a bowl of sunset glow, play finger-guessing games with the King of Hell, challenge the gods, have fun here and then walk around the world, eat at a hundred families' food, solve a hundred families' problems!"
After performing the entire play, humming an unknown folk song loudly, and curing the illnesses of several common people, Yi Chen came to the bottom of Youmeng Tower amid a chorus of praises. No one noticed the inexplicable look in his eyes.
Two days later, Yi Chen changed his appearance, wore a long gown, carried a medicine basket on his back, and walked leisurely from outside the city through the city gate. He came to a medicine shop, handed the three hundred-year-old astragalus in the basket to the clerk, and after exchanging them for two hundred taels of gold, he went to a crowded tavern to drink.
Two days ago, he listened to other people's nonsense in Youmeng Tower for a long time, but gained nothing and did not find out any useful information. However, he saw a lot of big-breasted lotus-picking girls, but he was not moved at all by this.
Because he is really not hungry!
Since the high-end route was not feasible, Yi Chen changed his mindset the day he arrived in Zeyang City. He took the mass route and became a casual cultivator, starting to settle down in Zeyang City.
He just didn't believe that no one was targeting him.
He wants to tell the mastermind behind the scenes that it is really easy for him to get it and he can get it once he gets it.
In fact, he already had some guesses about the person behind the scenes, and now he just wanted to verify it.
Fengyun Tavern is a relatively high-end winery in the eastern district of Zeyang City. In their spare time, casual cultivators from the eastern district like to come here to have a drink and exchange information.
As soon as Yi Chen entered, bursts of laughter were heard from the tavern.
"Brother Yi, did you go to Fairy Wang to have fun again today?"
Everyone in the tavern started to joke. With Yi Chen's personality and scheming, he became familiar with everyone in the tavern in just a few words in two days.
Of course, he also used some low-level means, such as the ability to bewitch people, to let some low-level cultivators spread news about him. For example, two or three people "recognized" Yi Chen's identity, and told a very convincing story, making up a complete set of his origins.
Now he is an elderly cultivator who is refining his essence into energy.
The trajectory of life is: you are still young, give it another try, and after you die, you will sit on the grave and look back. You were poor in your youth, rotten in your middle age, and decayed in your old age. You have no children or daughters, and you go to the grave with a lantern, a typical image of a "five-guarantee household" in the spiritual world.
I used to hang out in a small town, but now that I’m old, I heard that the fairies in Zeyang City are good, so I came here to see for myself.
The so-called Fairy Wang is actually a half-closed door Kun cultivator in the gathering place of scattered cultivators. As for cultivating the hundreds of arts of immortality, she neither steals nor robs. She just starts working with a small bed. Even if the radishes are pulled out, the holes are still there. She washes and rinses them and continues to sell them. This is the real Kun cultivator.
Although ginger can reduce internal heat, Yi Chen naturally cannot take advantage of such a blessing. Instead, he uses the secret method of bewitching the fairy Wang to make her unconscious and let her play by herself while he goes to the side room to meditate and practice real skills.
"You...how can you defame someone's innocence like this? Fairy Wang and I are innocent fellow Taoists. We both love drama. I went to Fairy Wang's house to look at the playbill!" Yi Chen immediately became furious.
Is there anyone who wouldn't be tempted by a lonely cultivator? According to the information revealed by Old Han, there are many such people among the wandering cultivators in Zeyang City who are missing. This is the information he found out after his granddaughter disappeared.
Putting himself in her shoes, Yi Chen now feels moved when he sees himself.
"Old Yi, I heard that you blew out the lights as soon as you entered Fairy Wang's room."
"Your playbook will surely shine."
The big man grinned when he heard that, and even laughed loudly. Yi Chen laughed awkwardly, shook his gown, and paid out ten taels of silver.
"Madam, the old rules apply. Warm up a pot of wine, a plate of fennel beans, and a plate of pickled pig ears."
"Old Yi, you're down and out. The luminous playbook is expensive, right? Why don't you go out of town with me this afternoon and make a fortune?"
The bearded man suddenly sat down in front of Yi Chen's table and poured him a glass of wine. "Don't say that I, Black Panther, don't take care of you. I have been targeting the demon tiger in Qinglian Mountain for a long time. How about giving you a share this time?"
"What's the point of half-closing the door? There are many beautiful fairies in Zeyang City. I guarantee you will never want to leave."
Upon hearing this, Yi Chen glanced at the bearded man, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, the fish was hooked.
At this moment, he had already sensed the malice emanating from the bearded man.
This person must have bad intentions, but these small-time people are mostly single-line contacts, and it is not uncommon even if they have several layers of distribution networks. He still has to be patient.
People are in different positions and have different strengths, so even if the same method is used, the final results will be very different.
For example, Quelong's strategy of luring the snake out of its hole looks old, but it is actually very useful. The only difference is that he hooked a great white shark while fishing, and he himself became the bait.
But Yi Chen was different. He really didn’t believe that there were any cultivators near Zeyang City who could keep him.
As soon as he thought of this, Yi Chen's face immediately showed an 'embarrassment' expression.
"Master Leopard, is this trip safe?"
"Hehe, Master Bao has been wandering around in the wilderness, and he is a master of refining Qi and transforming into a spirit. Going to Qinglian Mountain is like going back to his own home. Do you want to go or not? Be quick. It's rare for Master Bao to show kindness."
"Well, then Old Yi and Master Bao will go and see for themselves."
Yi Chen gritted his teeth and agreed immediately.
With his camouflage ability, he can move up step by step from the lowest level. This time he will definitely be able to understand the cultivator distribution network in Zeyang City. By then, if he finds the mastermind behind the scenes, will he still be afraid of not being able to find Old Han’s missing granddaughter?
This is a good deal that kills two birds with one stone.
Done!
(End of this chapter)