Pawn Crossing the River

In the end, Maeda Masao let Qi Xuansu leave.

I wanted to leave with Qi Xuansu, but Qi Xuansu declined. After all, the conference was just the beginning, and there were other things to do later. It was difficult for me to leave, both emotionally and rationally.

The two just met by chance and will meet again by chance in the future.

White looked at Qi Xuansu's leaving figure and said nothing.

Masao Maeda took out a box of hawks and arranged for his subordinates to pay the rondos present by the hair. Then he came to White and asked, "Metropolitan White, what do you think?"

White pondered for a moment and said, "I felt the fluctuations of divine power in his body."

The Holy Court is based on divine power, and is an expert in using divine power. From paladins to priests, almost everyone is inseparable from divine power. People in the Holy Court are naturally very sensitive to divine power.

"Divine power?" Maeda Masao narrowed his eyes slightly, "How can an Onmyoji have divine power? It's a bit strange."

White said: "No matter who he is, he can't make any big waves. Even if he informs the Prime Minister and the Taoist sect, what will happen? In fact, even if the Taoist sect's senior officials guess, they can guess pretty well. As long as they don't ??????????????? Being caught red-handed by Daomen, there is room for maneuver in everything.”

Masao Maeda pondered for a moment and said: "I don't think so. I think it's better to act more safely. If he is allowed to leave like this, there will be too many variables and we cannot leave this hidden danger."

White said calmly: "Ghosts are rampant in Ise today. It is reasonable for a lone Onmyoji to die at the hands of ghosts."

A look of cruelty flashed across Maeda Masao's face, and he said: "That's why he can't leave Ise, no, let him leave Isshi County."

White rubbed the Holy Emblem on his chest with his slender fingers and said casually: "I can't come forward, so you can handle it."

Maeda Masao stopped talking and waved.

A masked ninja appeared from the shadows and came quietly behind Masao Maeda, waiting for orders without saying a word.

Masao Maeda ordered: "Bring that Onmyoji's head back to me."

The ninja said nothing, just bowed slightly, and then disappeared into the darkness again.

White asked: "Is this the famous Iga ninja? Or is it the Koga ninja who is as famous as the Iga ninja?"

Maeda Masao did not answer directly: "The Iga Hattori clan is the royal ninja of the Prime Minister. Most of the other Iga ninjas are attached to Buddhism or Tianmen, and the Koga ninjas are loyal to the imperial court. Those who can really look up to our Taoist faction, Actually not much. Ninjas are like cats, they live and eat, and samurai are like dogs. I prefer samurai to ninjas.”

White did not pursue the question further. Regarding the mysterious ninja, he was more out of childhood curiosity and had nothing to do with anything else.

White put down the Holy Emblem in his hand and suddenly asked: "Will Yoshida Yoshiaki hinder our cooperation?"

Maeda Masao's expression changed slightly: "That's not the case, is it?"

White showed the unique arrogance of Westerners and said: "We, the Holy Court, are not giving you assistance so that you can make irresponsible remarks about us. What if you regret it when it comes time to fulfill the agreement? Are we going to lose everything? ?”

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Maeda Masao was silent for a moment and said slowly: "I promise you, such a thing will never happen."

White laughed and said, "Your people don't believe me. They think everything they say is false. You have to give me real gold and silver to believe me. This principle also applies to you. The guarantees you say are false." , I can’t believe it, I want to see actual action.”

Maeda Masao asked with some difficulty: "What practical actions do you want?"

White stretched out his hand to hold Maeda Masao's shoulder and leaned close to his ear: "You know, let him die. This is your sincerity."

Maeda Masao fell silent.

White continued: "As long as I see sincerity, I will immediately provide an additional 600,000 yuan in aid."

Maeda Masao still looked embarrassed: "Yoshida-sensei is very prestigious, and he has a good relationship with Mr. Gui. If Mr. Gui knows about this, I'm afraid..."

White directly interrupted Masao Maeda's unfinished words: "One million."

Anyone who acts as an envoy will have a certain amount of money, which can be used flexibly according to the situation and adapt to changes. Qi Xuansu is like this, and so is White.

Masao Maeda was truly silent this time.

White patted his shoulder: "My dear friend, I have lived in the East for many years and like Eastern learning very much. Oriental people are always rich and philosophical, and people from the Central Plains are always rich and philosophical. There is a saying that there are no two suns in the sky. Don’t you think that thirteen leaders are too many? In my humble opinion, there should be only one sun in the Zhidao Sect.”

Maeda Masao's eyes widened suddenly. He could remain indifferent in front of Jin Yin, but at this moment, his breathing was quietly heavy.

White continued: "Maeda-kun, Gui Shanxing, who is being hunted by Daomen like a lost dog, can't help you. Tianmen and Fenglinzhou court can't help you either. We are the ones who can help you. We don't want to be Fenglinzhou's regent Guan Bai or Zhengyi. General?"

Maeda Masao looked at White, with veins looming on his forehead and his eyes piercing, giving him a somewhat demonic attitude.

On the other side, Qi Xuansu is waiting for the coming pursuers.

As a veteran, he can roughly judge Maeda Masao's thoughts. He doesn't want to kill people in public, which will affect unity, but he can't rest assured. The best way is to let him go on the surface, and then secretly send people to hunt him down and let him die quietly. It was silent and could not be traced afterwards. After all, in the environment of Ise, dead people are a common thing.

It can be said that the moment Masao Maeda decided to let him go, Masao Maeda had already had murderous intentions.

If Qi Xuansu is really a Harima-ryu onmyoji, then his only way to survive is probably to show his loyalty on the spot. No matter what method he uses, he must be with the majority of people, or he must take the initiative to imprison himself and find out the truth, so that he can win to a glimmer of hope.

However, Qi Xuansu is not an Onmyoji, but a Taoist priest. The man named Hyojiro actually guessed it right after accidentally bumping into him. He was a member of the Taoist sect.

Didn't Masao Maeda want to use the harsh environment of Ise to cover up his murderous act? Then he can also let those who pursue him die from the mouths of ghosts.

While waiting, Qi Xuansu used the method of an alchemist to draw a formation on the ground. It was not complicated or clever. It was a very common alchemist formation. Anyone can learn it. There is no threshold. It is mainly used to block arrows. Arrows or hidden weapons, after all, the alchemist emphasizes the soul but not the body. If the body is too strong and the blood is strong, it will suppress his soul and affect the power of the spell, so he cannot be as thick-skinned as a martial artist.

Soon, two of the fastest ninjas appeared in Qi Xuansu's sight. One of them held a fire blunderbuss and fired directly at Qi Xuansu, while the other ninja shot out many "Qianben", thin and dense, in the night. , like a cloud of misty rain.

Whether it was the projectiles of the fire gun or Qianben, they were all blocked by the formation.

"It's Onmyoji's barrier!"

The two ninjas knew that long-range methods would not work. One of them drew his ninja sword, and the other drew a chain gun from his waist and attacked Qi Xuansu from both sides.

Behind them, seven or eight ninjas came one after another, and the sound of breaking through the air was endless.

Qi Xuansu did not want to expose his true identity, so he did not kill him. Instead, he opened a "Yin Yang Gate" that connected the ghost country and the cave.

Onmyoji has a way to fight the enemy, called Shikigami, which is to take ghosts and gods for its own use and enslave ghosts and gods to fight for itself. The level of cultivation that can control ghosts and gods is closely related to one's own realm.

This method was created by the ancestors of the Tsuchimikado clan. It is the signature method of Tsuchimikado-ryu onmyoji, and other schools of onmyoji can also learn from it.

Qi Xuansu naturally cannot summon shikigami, but he can pretend to summon shikigami.

But to deal with these small fish and shrimps, there is no need for the three evil creatures to come forward in person. After the previous three attacks, Qi Xuansu discovered that the three evil objects can judge the enemy's strength through the "Yin and Yang Gate". For example, Master Wan judged that the enemy was just an ordinary heavenly being, so he Just one punch.

As expected, what came out of the "Yin and Yang Gate" this time was not Master Wan, Mrs. Bai, and Mr. Yin, but a little girl with pink makeup and jade makeup. She looked about eleven or twelve years old and was very cute.

It was none other than Mr. Yin’s granddaughter, Miss Yin.

In fact, this little girl Yin just looks young, but is actually much older than Qi Xuansu. Moreover, Mr. Yin is a yin creature, so where can he have children? If you don’t have children, how can you have a granddaughter? Most of them were picked up.

If you look carefully, you can see that although Miss Yin is cute, her skin is as white as translucent, and her big black eyes have no white in them, which is a bit weird.

When the little girl saw the two ninjas attacking, her mouth immediately grew, and then her head became ten times bigger. All I saw was a small body, a big head, and then a huge mouth with a grin from the corners of the mouth to the roots of the ears. The teeth inside were as sharp as knives. In just one bite, it bit a ninja in half, and his legs fell to the ground. The upper part of the body is still in the mouth.

The little girl vomited out the half of the body and made a few noises, disgusted by the taste.

In just this moment, the half of the body had been corroded by the corpse energy.

The other ninja was so frightened by this scene that he turned around and tried to escape. The little girl opened her mouth and sucked in again, creating a huge suction force like a bottomless black hole. No matter how hard the ninja struggled, he was still sucked in, first his legs, then his The waist, then the arms and the head were finally swallowed whole. I don’t know how this small body could accommodate it. It may be that it just reached the mouth and was corroded before it could be swallowed.

The little girl jumped up, her speed was extremely fast, and there was even an afterimage, as if she had obtained Madam Bai's true message, and she killed all the ninjas without giving them a chance to escape.

In this way, no one who comes to examine the corpses will think that these ninjas were killed by humans. Even if the top Onmyoji personally examined the corpses, they were still killed by ghosts.

The little girl returned to Qi Xuansu and was about to speak when she couldn't help but bent over and vomited.

Qi Xuansu had a strange look on his face and could only pat the little girl's back and comfort him: "You must have eaten something bad. Just spit it out and it will be fine."