Kou Yucheng has practiced hard in the Barbarian Bone Forest for ten years and is good at tracking. He searched Guimenyuan carefully. The traces left by Hou Jiangcheng could not escape his sight. The clues missed by Ji Hongru and others could not escape his sight. It pieced together a complete picture in his eyes.
There are various indications that after Hou Jiangcheng withdrew from Xiandu, he stayed in Guimenyuan for a while. Before leaving, he hastily arranged a disguised corpse to confuse the audience. During this period of time, he hid in a hidden tree hole, going in and out day and night, only killing birds and beasts when necessary, and eating them alive to satisfy his hunger.
After that, he disappeared out of thin air without a trace.
Disappearing out of thin air sounds very bizarre, but for sword cultivators, it is nothing more than flying into the air with a sword, and there is nothing unusual about it. But the problem is that Hou Jiangcheng is just a man who failed to condense the Tao embryo. Even if the outer disciples have flying swords in their hands, they are invincible.
Kou Yucheng just held the tea bowl with three fingers and drank bowl after bowl of hot tea, leaving all the troublesome things to Chu and Zhang to think about.
Zhang Guanfeng pondered for a moment and considered: "Sword cultivators must break through the sword control barrier. Only when they have achieved great success in sword control can they fly with the sword. If Hou Jiangcheng really flies through the air, there are only two possibilities, either Someone is taking the lead, or he is carrying a treasure..."
"That's not the key," Chu Ge interrupted him, "Uncle Qin ordered him to withdraw from Xiandu, why didn't he join up with Junior Brother Zhou instead. Staying in Guimenyuan?"
The junior brother he was talking about was Qin Zijie's apprentice Zhou Ji. The two hidden lines laid by Qin Zijie in Xiandu were always connected by Zhou Ji. Hou Jiangcheng should have left the mountain with an excuse and sneaked to a mountain depression by the Ximin River to meet Zhou Ji and return to Liushi Peak together. However, Zhou Ji and others It was more than half a month later, but he still didn't show up, so I became alert.
Zhang Guanfeng hesitated and said: "Is it possible to stay in Guimenyuan to absorb the energy of Lihuo and break through the bottleneck?" If he didn't absorb it earlier, he didn't absorb it later, but he found it difficult to absorb it at this moment. It said.
Kou Yucheng suddenly interjected, "I killed a monk from Taiyi Sect in the Barbarian Bone Forest and found a jade slip. It seems to be called the Lihuo Cleansing Technique, which is quenched with the energy of Lihuo. The magic weapon of the magic weapon can be roughly refined and can be controlled to exert its power..."
Zhang Guanfeng's eyes lit up, "Where is the jade slip?"
Kou Yucheng? He said nonchalantly: "It's of no use, throw it away."
"Alas -" Zhang Guanfeng sighed, feeling disappointed.
"Lihuo Cleansing Technique? This is possible..." Chu Ge thoughtfully thought about it from beginning to end, and speculated, "Before Hou Jiangcheng left the immortal capital, he might have obtained a The incredible magic weapon was not willing to fall into the hands of others, so he secretly came to Guimenyuan, refined it with the energy of Lihuo, and then set up a trap to escape into the air. Well... this magic weapon must be extraordinary. , can fly into the sky and escape from the earth, he would rather give up the opportunity to become a disciple of Kunlun to keep this magic weapon..."
"Regardless of whether there is a magic weapon or not, where did Hou Jiangcheng learn the baptism of fire?Artifact? "Zhang Guanfeng couldn't help but want to laugh. Senior brother is really good at joking and whimsical.
Chu Ge glanced at him and said leisurely: "Before Hou Jiangcheng was introduced to Xiandu by Liu Baizi, Senior Uncle Qin met him first. He had all the subsequent plans. How could he know that before Master Qin met Hou Jiangcheng, he had not been captured by Taiyi Sect first? Maybe he was the hidden pile buried by Taiyi Sect in Kunlun first, and then the hidden pile buried by Uncle Qin in Xiandu. "
"This...how is this possible..." Zhang Guanfeng's mind couldn't turn around for a while.
"The Kunlun Branch is not in the eyes of Taiyi Sect at all. Hou Jiangcheng is After living in the Immortal Capital for so many years, it can be considered that the pearl has betrayed him secretly. He was dissatisfied, and coupled with the temptation of the magic weapon, he became greedy for a moment and planned to take it for himself. He would move to the East China Sea or the Southern Barbarians, and there was no telling where he would stand out. "
At first glance, it sounds unbelievable. But when you think about it carefully, the more you think about it, the more reasonable it becomes. If it were you, I would probably make the same choice. Zhang Guanfeng murmured to himself: "What kind of magic weapon could it be? ”
“You have to ask Deng Yuantong. "
"I'll go find him! "Zhang Guanfeng was so itchy that he jumped up and rushed out of the door.
Chu Ge smiled and said: "He has such a temper. If it comes to wind, it will rain! ”
Without any delay, Zhang Guanfeng led the acting head of the Xiandu Sect around and asked him questions repeatedly. His behavior seemed reckless, but Deng Yuantong did not show anything unusual. Because he has the city in mind, but he knows his situation and position, which is part of the price that must be paid.
When it comes to Hou Jiangcheng, Deng Yuantong has no need to hide it. In a few words, he said it. After explaining the whole story, it turned out that the so-called magic weapon was the Seven Birds Sword left behind by Xi Huzi.
Chu Ge repeatedly interrogated the details of the lost Seven Birds Sword, and seemed to have something to say. Deng Yuantong was not a subtle person, and he vaguely felt that there was something wrong in it. , but he didn't take it very seriously. Instead, Kou Yucheng noticed something and looked a little strange.
After drinking a few bowls of tea, Deng Yuantong said goodbye and left. After a while, Chu Ge sighed: "I didn't expect it. , really unexpected! "
Zhang Guanfeng was confused and asked curiously: "Brother, the Seven Birds Sword -"
Chu Ge said: "During Hou Jiangcheng's stay in Guimenyuan, he absorbed the power of Lihuo. Qi, he refined the sword seed that Xi Huzi left in the Seven Birds Sword and took it as his own. There is a question here. With his cultivation level, how can he control the flying sword? If what I expected is correct, Hou Jiangcheng must have used the magical power of "The Universe in the Sword" to escape into the air. , willing to give up the great opportunity to return to Kunlun! "
"A flying sword with magical powers? No wonder..." Zhang Guanfeng was filled with envy, but Hou Jiangcheng was nowhere to be found. Although he knew that the Seven Birds Sword fell into his hands, the world was so vast that there was nowhere to find him.