Pawn Crossing the River

Qi Xuansu highly recommends a saying, "When the going gets tough, you have to let go." It is also called "When the going gets tough, you have to be bold."

This was undoubtedly a critical moment, and Qi Xuansu had no choice but to act boldly.

In fact, it can be summed up in six words: responsible and decisive.

Qi Xuansu was not an indecisive person. He made a decision immediately and then took the initiative to assume all responsibilities.

If things are done, everything will be fine. But if things fail, Qi Xuansu will have no room for escape, and it will be difficult to turn around. It can be said to be a big gamble.

Qi Xuansu understood the pros and cons and made his choice.

The night was already dark, so Qi Xuansu rushed to the palace of Dayu Kingdom as soon as possible. At first glance, the palace was still the same, heavily guarded. They were all spiritual officials arranged by Qi Xuansu, and they were completely under Qi Xuansu's control.

Qi Xuansu walked all the way through the hall and corridor to the sleeping hall.

Shangguan Ya followed Qi Xuansu.

Xu Jiaorong will be in charge of the water palace, and two first-grade spiritual officers will go to arrest Chen Shuhua. The rest, whether it is Chen Jianqiu, Chen Jianchou, Han Yongfeng, or Lu Yuting, are too weak. If an accident occurs, not only will they not be able to help Qi Xuansu, And it will also become a drag on Qi Xuansu.

The one who can really help Qi Xuansu is Shangguan Ya.

Of course, Qi Xuansu also prepared some means. For example, "Pages from the Book of the Holy Scriptures." ..

In addition, Qi Xuansu had already acted boldly, and he didn't care to be more bold, so he called up 8,300 kilometres of divine power from the reserve of divine power in the water palace to make up the integer of 10,000 kilometres of divine power, just in case of an accident.

When Qi Xuansu left the outer hall, passed through the middle hall, and came to the sleeping hall, it was dark, cold and dead. Qi Xuansu flicked his finger and relit the many candlesticks in the bedroom.

The lights illuminated the bedroom, and the curtains were still drawn on the bed.

Qi Xuansu walked towards the bed without any hesitation. Then he reached out and gently opened the curtain. At this moment, Qi Xuansu's uneasiness reached its peak, making his whole body tense up, as if there was a top assassin hiding behind the curtain.

However, to Qi Xuansu's expectation, there were no assassins behind the curtain, only the Lord of Dayu.

What was different from usual was that the Lord of Dayu actually sat up.

I don't know if it's because of his return to the past, but the Lord of Dayu looks good today. He seems to have returned to the state he was in when Qi Xuansu came to visit him for the first time. At least he can speak.

"Let's all sit down together." The Lord of Dayu spoke first, "I'd like to thank you for taking care of me during this time."

This is said with great irony.

Qi Xuansu sent so many spiritual officials to guard here, but the final result was still one move away from him.

However, Qi Xuansu did not get angry and just asked: "There is one thing I haven't figured out yet."

The Lord of Dayu leaned on the bed, with a smile on his old and withered face: "Qi Cixi wants to know whether I was forced to participate in this matter, or whether I took the initiative."

Qi Xuansu said: "There is no longer a doubt. Judging from the attitude of the king, the king should have actively participated in this matter, and can even be regarded as one of the masterminds behind the scenes. It can be said that the king and Chief Chen sang a good song. Double act, deceived us all."

The Lord of Dayu smiled and said nothing, which was regarded as acquiescence.

Qi Xuansu continued: "Abandoning your wife and children, sacrificing your loyal servants, killing your biological mother, and even getting involved with yourself, what are you doing?"

The leader of the Dayu Kingdom asked: "Qi Cixi is so good at guessing, can't he guess it?"

Qi Xuansu said: "It's one thing for me to have a guess, but I still want to hear it from the head of the country himself."

The Lord of Dayu replied: "Actually, the relationship between us, brother and sister, has always been very good, and we have been like this since we were young. The reason why we have to behave badly, or even stay away from each other until we die, is because only in this way can she join the Taoist sect. Become a Taoist disciple. Qi Cixi just said that we performed a double act, and he was right."

"As Qi Cixi said, I took the initiative to plan this matter, rather than being coerced. As for why I risked my life, there is actually only one purpose, and that is to let her go further. She has outstanding qualifications since she was a child, if not If she was born into a clan, she would have already become the chief of the nine halls or the head of one place."

The "she" here naturally refers to Chen Shuhua.

Qi Xuansu said: "Just to let Chief Chen go one step further, is it worth losing his own life and the lives of so many people?"

The Lord of Dayu raised his head and smiled: "Of course it's worth it."

"Everyone in your Taoist sect is equal, but in fact you say one thing and do another. Qi Cixian, you were born in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace, and you rose to prominence at a young age. You probably don't have any feelings. But we, the little royal family, feel it very deeply. , the Dao Sect is extremely guarded against us. Anyone who comes from the royal family is labeled as 'untrustworthy' and is usually controlled and used. Except for rare cases, the so-called royal family is just a puppet in the hands of the Dao Sect. As long as the Dao Sect is no longer in control. After a few years of operation, it would not be surprising if all the countries in Nanyang were given to the Daxuan court. "

"What kind of king is it? The Taoist sect can be abolished if it wants to be abolished, and established if it wants to be established? Even if you are a dignified king of the country, you must be submissive in front of the people of the Taoist sect. For fear of saying the wrong word, for fear of doing the wrong thing. No matter how good Chen Shuhua's qualifications are, her background determines that her future in the Taoist sect is very clear, and she will never be able to become a Taoist master."

"This makes people wonder, does the royal family have the final say in today's Yu Kingdom in Nanyang? Or does the Taoist clan have the final say? For the sake of Yu Kingdom and future generations, even if it costs my life, I am willing to do so, which is enough to comfort me. The spirits of our ancestors in heaven.”

Qi Xuansu probably understood.

The Fenglinzhou royal family used to rebel openly, and the current Dayu royal family secretly rebelled. Their goals are the same. It means getting rid of the control of Dao Sect.

Qi Xuansu said: "Even if you go one step further, where can you go? Today's world is still the world of Taoism. Even if you reach the realm of immortals, it will still be the same."

The Lord of Dayu smiled and said: "If one immortal can't do it, what about two? If two immortals can't do it, what about three?"

Qi Xuansu's expression changed slightly: "You are trying to lure the wolf into the house."

The Lord of Dayu corrected him calmly: "It's to drive the tiger away and swallow the wolf."

Under Chen Shuhua's residence, there is an altar with a square tower structure, with a large base and a small top. The layers are stacked on top of each other, and it is ten feet high. There are ninety-one steps in each direction of the altar leading to the top of the altar. All the steps plus the top altar are exactly the number of days in a year.

Chen Shuhua walked into the area of ​​the altar and climbed the steps.

Chen Shuhua walked like an ordinary person, his footsteps making a crisp sound on the steps, which was extremely clear in the night and carried very far.

After walking up the ninety-one steps, Chen Shuhua climbed to the top of the altar. There was a stone platform in the center of the place. On the stone platform hung a rhombus-shaped eight-sided stone that exuded faint fluorescence. The material was almost translucent and appeared blood red. The time is slowly rotating on its own, continuously absorbing the bloody aura from the altar below.

The wind rises from the flat ground.

Chen Shuhua opened his hands, and the crane cloak on his body was blown by the wind. Then he heard her murmuring: "When thunder falls from the sky, the sky turns into chaos. In the thunder, there is infinite power. When Yin and Yang meet, At that time, the flames of heaven and earth changed instantly, and the Immortal Heaven descended, mastering great power and governing all things."

"When it arrives, thunder resounds in the sky, flames descend on the earth, and the blazing wind turns living things into corpses. All people praise it. It possesses great power and must control the life and death of all things."

As Chen Shuhua chanted, the blood-red stone emitted a light that seemed to be substantial, and faintly revealed a black and yellow aura, reflecting Chen Shuhua's crane cloak into a bloody suit. At the same time, rolling thunder sounded from the sky and the earth, and purple thunder and lightning passed across the sky like long snakes.

Chen Shuhua's eyes became deep, like two deep wells with no bottom, but in the deepest part there was a blazing flame, as if it was going to burn out everything in the world.

At some point, there was no longer any coolness in the night wind, replaced by a strong scorching heat, which was more pressing than the heat during the fire season. It was as if I were standing on the edge of a volcanic crater, and the ice and snow melted wherever I passed.

Chen Shuhua reached out his hand, broke through the red halo, and grasped the bright red stone that was hanging in the air.

At this moment, veins popped up and wrinkles appeared on the back of Chen Shuhua's hand, but Chen Shuhua ignored it and let his palm gradually dry up, like a dead branch, and began to slowly recover again. If it were an ordinary person, holding the stone At that moment, it will be firmly absorbed, and then watch in despair as it is sucked dry little by little, turning into a skeleton. Unless a strong man cuts off his wrist at the first time, there will be no luck.

Chen Shuhua held the stone tightly with one hand, and began to impose various restrictions on it with the other hand to isolate its terrifying suction.

The sound of thunder gradually faded away, and the light illuminated the altar again. The blood-red light gradually faded away, and finally disappeared completely. The stone in Chen Shuhua's hand has lost all its luster and strangeness, just like an ordinary crystal.

But Chen Shuhua knew that was not the case.

This is not a crystal, but the famous shamanistic "stone of longevity".

The so-called "Eternal Life Stone" of shamanism is a variant of the elixir of immortality. This so-called elixir of immortality is similar to the "Golden Pill" in the Taoist classics of the Central Plains, so it is also called the "Eternal Life Stone" by the Golden Tent Shaman. "Stone of Heaven" and "Stone of Life" are sacred objects of shamanism.

Shamanism believes that the "Eternal Life Stone" is the oldest, most mysterious, least known, and the most unreasonable in nature. It is also immortal, blessing and sacred. Therefore, the "Stone of Life" is real and more certain than certainty itself, the mystery of mysteries.

It is the power of the Immortal Heaven, but it is secret to the ignorant. It is the limit and purpose of all things under the sky, and the final and incredible result of all shamanic operations. It is the perfect essence of heaven and earth, an indestructible object that cannot be damaged or destroyed, a dual and living stone that possesses a spirit within itself. It is the eternal glory, the elixir that can cure all diseases, the phoenix of Enze Grassland, the most precious treasure of all wealth, and the most important treasure of the entire grassland.