Chapter 262 Secrets (2)
As Fei Han revealed the secret without reservation, a chess game with Duke Yu as the player and Guhu Town as the chessboard slowly unfolded before Luo Xuanyi's eyes.
Luo Xuanyi had always wondered why the drum soldiers were a separate household and all lived together in one town. It turned out that the drum soldiers were not simply "military drummers" - the drum soldiers were protected by the musical beast Arpeggio.
Legend has it that when the Celestial Beast Arpeggio was a half-celestial beast, it was attacked by evil cultivators but was saved by the powerful Xinghai Palace music cultivator, who remained by his side until his ascension into the Celestial Beast of Music. Because the powerful cultivator was a drummer in the army, using the drum as his instrument, Arpeggio has since protected the drummers.
There are also claims that the Heavenly Beast Arpeggio is the reincarnation of that great man after his death, and that he protects the drummers out of old friendship.
Regardless of their original intention, the drummers who were not monks could now use their drums to induce arpeggios. Although the sound of a single mortal drummer was weak and inaudible, by recruiting two thousand drummers, they could achieve the highest level of musicality and summon arpeggios to aid the army.
Wherever the sound of drums and music reached, those with minor injuries were healed. Blessed by the celestial beast, the army's morale remained high. Under King Yu's command, they never suffered a defeat and achieved remarkable military success.
However, with the unification of Xuancheng Prefecture by Emperor Linwu, most of the powerful armies in the world dispersed. King Yu was sent to garrison the eastern border, allowed only two hundred personal soldiers, and the drummers who could communicate with the celestial beasts were not allowed to accompany him.
From then on, the drum soldiers were registered as drum households and were not allowed to return home like other veterans. Two thousand drum soldiers became a town of drum households, and after several migrations, they finally settled at the foot of the twelve towering mountains.
Settling the Guhu people here was a scheme orchestrated by Duke Yu's staff. Duke Yu's men experimented with the Xu disease, wiping out two towns. Xumu seemed utterly grief-stricken, and though it was discovered once again residing on the Twelve Cloud Mountains, it had completely sealed off its territory, no longer allowing anyone to enter.
Perhaps reporting this to the six alliances might allow them to borrow cultivators to forcibly attack the territory, but this wouldn't be considered a gift from Duke Yu. Knowing that Xu Bing's destruction of the town would make Xu Mu weep, Duke Yu used his power to allow drummers who could ascend to the Tongtian Beast to come and establish the town.
As expected, the Gu Hu, imbued with the aura of a celestial beast, was accepted by Xumu, and the Twelve Cloud Mountains were once again open to the Gu Hu. Luo Xuanyi had previously speculated that Xu's illness was the price of ascending the mountain, but she had underestimated Xumu's compassion for people.
Now that Guhu was able to ascend the mountain, the spread of the town's Xumu disease was entrusted to the town's mayor, Li Zhiyan. The magical instrument to capture Xumu was secretly given to a clan elder of Yu Guogong, an elder of the Blackwood Sect's Poison Saint faction, who Fei Tong had collected from the Zangyao Sect. After acquiring the magical instrument, Fei Tong secretly dispatched her trusted disciple, Fei Han, to Guhu Town.
Fei Tong thought that since she promoted Fei Han from an outer sect disciple whose parents had both passed away to an inner sect disciple, gave him her surname, and raised him like her own son, Fei Han would definitely repay her kindness with faith.
But Fei Tong didn't know that Fei Han was also a beloved son of his family before he fled the war. But on the road to escape, his parents cut off his flesh and cooked it for food, and even sold it at a low price in the vegetable market.
If he hadn't sold his parents to the vegetable market to make a living, and hadn't resorted to stealing and robbing to stay alive, he would have long since lost all sense of right and wrong, good and evil, family and friendship. Later, he went up the mountain to join the Black Wood Sect, simply because he heard the food in the army was not good.
Fei Han, who enjoyed Fei Tong's trust, held the magical instrument, Kindness, in front of Luo Xuanyi and explained in detail, "This is the magical instrument of the Zang Yao Sect that Fei Tong obtained from a man in strange attire. It's said to have been forged by a master named Bei Lian, and it's called Kindness."
Bei Lian, I'm afraid it's not the Bei Lian Zhenjun. Recalling the various magical instruments forged by the Bei Lian Zhenjun, Luo Xuanyi picked up the magical instrument with great interest and examined it carefully.
The Kindness was roughly the shape of a disk. The base was polished from a piece of black bone. Luo Xuanyi didn't know what kind of monster bone it was made of, but she felt that when she held it in her hand, it felt delicate and soft, as if waves of energy were washing over her soul, bringing her a sense of peace and joy.
In the disc, a smaller circular mirror was embedded. The mirror was polished smooth, but it could not reflect Luo Xuanyi or the surrounding peach trees; it was a cold, frosty blank.
Luo Xuanyi carefully felt the side of the plate with her fingertips and indeed felt a small depression. She picked it up and saw two characters of Zang Yaozong, which meant "Zang Yao".
Zang Yao Sect items are never signed with a single person's name, with only the magical instruments produced by Huaxue Ridge being signed by Zang Yao. Of course, this mark could also be forged by someone.
But from what Luo Xuanyi knew, even righteous cultivators only had a passing understanding of demonic cultivation, so Zang Yaozong's calligraphy wasn't something anyone could forge. Furthermore, considering that a magical instrument capable of capturing a half-sky beast was forged from just two ingredients, Luo Xuanyi could be fairly certain that the Master Beilian Fei Han was referring to was none other than True Lord Beilian.
There were even elders in the Heimu Sect who were in collusion with the Zang Yao Sect, and Fei Han, a direct inner sect disciple, was holding a magical weapon with the Zang Yao Sect's calligraphy on it.
Where this can be used...
Luo Xuanyi subconsciously stroked the bottom of the plate as she pondered. Fei Han explained, "When Fei Tong gave me Kindness, she said that when the spirits of heaven and earth weep for the common people, if you shine the mirror towards them, Kindness will be able to capture them in the mirror."
Suddenly thinking of Luo Xuanyi's "proposal" to search the soul, Fei Han added: "Of course, Fei Tong has asked me to give my kindness a blood oath as my master. Only I can use kindness. If I die, kindness will be shattered."
"You are going to capture Xumu and hand him over to me. How are you going to explain this to Duke Yu and Fei Tong?" Luo Xuanyi asked suddenly.
"This..." Fei Han raised his hand and scratched his head. "Let's take it one step at a time. I just want to survive."
Having made up her mind, Luo Xuanyi leaned back gently against the tree trunk and threw the kindness back into Fei Han's hands. Her half-closed gray eyes were clearly looking upwards. In the dim light flickering, she opened her mouth slightly, and Fei Han could not help but bend down to listen.
"No, you won't survive."
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