king array

Chapter 53

The reason why Shenshi Peak got its name is because the walls are neat from a distance, just like a giant ashlar, like a god stone left by a goddess when she patched up the sky.The top of the mountain is submerged in the clouds, and the clouds and mists are lingering.

When everyone came to the foot of Shenshi Peak, Mu Jiu asked the young man again, "Do you dare to climb this peak?"

The young man's expression was no longer calm, and his thin body standing under the giant peak looked smaller and weaker.The silver-haired old woman hugged the boy in her arms like a calf, with tears in her eyes, she asked Mu Jiu, "If my grandson doesn't climb the mountain, what will you do to him?"

Mu Jiudao: "I think he is still young and has a previous relationship. If he refuses to subdue the law, he will leave Qingping Mountain."

When the old woman heard this, she made a decision immediately, and said to the young man, "Fanzi, let's stop climbing and go with grandma. It's better for us to leave here than to die in vain!"

This young man is only fourteen or fifteen years old, even younger than Fang Jue, but he dared to kill people in the middle of the night. He was not lacking in courage and vigilance.He knew that the reason why he was able to survive was all relying on the protective umbrella of Qingping Mountain. Once he was expelled, although he could be exempted from punishment, his fate would not be much better.Those formation masters are all supernatural, since they have offended them to death, can they let them go, old and young?

So the young man raised his head again, looked at the towering and dangerous peak, gritted his teeth, and said to Mu Jiu: "As long as I climb to the peak alive, Qingping Mountain will save my life?"

Before Mu Jiu could speak, Ling Xun interjected at the right time, "It's natural. Don't worry, Mr. Mu has always kept his word. As long as he speaks, he will definitely do what he says."

The silver-haired old woman wanted to stop her again, but the young man pulled the old man aside and explained the pros and cons of it.In the end, the old man was finally persuaded, and silently wiped his tears and ran to the side to kowtow and chant scriptures.

The young man is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but he just thinks that he is dead, leaving an old and dim grandmother with no one to take care of in the world, so it is easy to feel uneasy. Therefore, after avenging his sister, if he can win a chance of survival, he will naturally not give up.

When the boy was preparing to climb the mountain, Ling Xun approached Mu Jiu and asked, "Huaifeng, how confident do you think this kid is?"

Mu Jiu's expression remained unchanged, and he said quite firmly, "Of course he's fine."

Ling Xun raised his eyebrows, "Huaifeng just promised to the magician that he would not intervene in the mountain climbing process. Could it be that he was fooled? I just boasted to others that you will do what you say."

The corners of Mu Jiu's lips curled slightly, and he looked sideways at Ling Xun, "That's not what I said."

Ling Xun became even more interested, "Why, is Huaifeng still an untrustworthy person?"

Mu Jiu admitted frankly: "Soldiers never tire of cheating. Since he is a counselor, he is naturally not a gentleman."

Ling Xun said with a smile: "Huaifeng is not a gentleman, and I'm just a villain. You and I are not the same, so it's a good match."

Ling Xun used to speak this kind of teasing words immediately, but as he became familiar with Mu Jiu, his words became more and more fluent.Mu Jiu was not surprised by this, and Ling Xun got used to it even more.

However, after making this big circle, Ling Xun didn't know why Mu Jiu was so convinced that the boy named Xiao Fanzi could climb to the summit smoothly.

Mu Jiu didn't hold back, and said bluntly: "This kid has a talent for formation."

Ling Xun was taken aback, "You mean, he might be a magician?"

Mu Jiu nodded, and his eyes fell on the young man, "The potential of the array technique is in him, and it still needs an opportunity to stimulate it."

"That's why you let him climb the mountain for an adventure? Is it true that even if he stumbles and falls, his life will not be in danger?"

Mu Jiu didn't give Ling Xun a direct answer this time, but said, "We can just wait and see."

Hearing that someone is going to climb Shenshi Peak, the whole Qingping Mountain spread the word, and more and more people gathered under Shenshi Peak, even Ruan Ji, who was always elusive recently, appeared with his own small bamboo basket on his back.

"Hey, Mr. Ruan, you can be considered to have crawled out of the ravine? Why, are you here to collect the corpse?"

This talking bandit is also a two-eyed bandit, and he usually has no guards in his mouth, but today he fired a cannon. That little fan's grandma's eyes are not good, but her ears are as good as a hound. Listen to this bastard here Cursing her grandson, a tiger leaped towards her, and she didn't know where the strength came from that body that was starved to the bone.

"Kill you dog who can't spit out ivory, who are you cursing?!" The old lady hugged the bandit with her two short legs, and put her two short legs on the bandit's waist. , stabilized his lower body, freed his hands, and slapped the bandit's face with one shave.

Although the bandit had a muddy mouth, fortunately he had a good heart and would fight back, but he would not be cruel. He just tried desperately to get rid of the old lady, and yelled in circles: "Ouch, old lady, you But slow down, don't flash your waist again!"

Ling Xun sighed as he watched from the side, and said in his heart that it was really hard to judge by appearances, the old lady would fall down as soon as the wind blew, and she never thought that her fighting power would be so strong.

Mu Jiu watched indifferently from the side, and suddenly said to Ling Xun: "This old man also has the spirituality of formation techniques, but it's a pity that he was not taught by others when he was young, and his own understanding was average, so he buried it."

Could this old lady be a formation mage?

Ling Xun couldn't help looking at the old woman a few more times, seeing that she was dressed in rags, looked haggard, and had a weather-beaten face. Thinking about the hard life, and comparing the current situation where the array masters are becoming more and more popular in Kyushu, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Hey, what a pity. If she had a formation technique by her side, how could she have ended up here, and how could she have watched her own granddaughter being ruined and helpless? That Master Huang really deserves to die!"

There is a lot of commotion here, there are people booing and watching, and the boy named Xiaofanzi over there is ready to climb. I saw that he got a bundle of hemp rope from nowhere and wrapped one end around his waist. In the meantime, he took three long drills that were as thick as the fingers of an adult man, and found a big hammer. He moved his arms and neck, and with a leap of his body, he climbed up a rock as tall as a man like a monkey.

People looked up at him, except for those formation masters who didn't expect him to be good, they all held their breaths, as if their hearts were also suspended. The kind aunt and uncle couldn't help reminding: "Xiao Fanzi, be careful!"

Xiao Fanzi's skill is very agile, and he has climbed one-third of the way in only half a stick of incense, but the higher he goes, the steeper the cliff, his speed gradually slowed down, and he began to use the long spear he brought with him to climb up. Three brazing hammers are nailed to the cliff wall in turn, and they are used to kick on the feet to exert force.

The sound of clanging hammers echoed in the canyon. Several women supported Xiao Fanzi's grandmother and looked up intently, as if the drill was not nailed between the rocks, but nailed to their hearts.

The old lady, who was still rolling around a moment ago, seemed to be rigid at this moment, and she had fixed herself into a stone figure. Every wrinkle on her face concealed tension. She couldn't see her eyes, so she was extremely sensitive to sounds. When the wind blows and the grass moves, you will tremble a little, which makes people feel pitiful when looking at it.

Ling Xun found out from Mu Jiu in advance, so he didn't worry too much, so he had time to look around. When he glanced at the formation masters, he saw them gathering together and whispering, as if they were planning something, so he couldn't help but raise his vigilance and lightly He lightly touched Mu Jiu's arm, motioning him to look over there.

"Huaifeng, beware of these people's tricks."

Mu Jiu just glanced at it, "My lord, don't worry, they don't dare to make mistakes."

As Ling Xun saw, those formation masters were indeed plotting, and the person whose arm was broken by Ling Xun the day before was also among them.This person's surname is Wang Mingqi, but he is actually a formation master, but the level of formation skills is not high, so he can only be a dog's leg in front of Master Huang.He came after Ling Xun left Qingping Mountain, because he was very good at sycophancy, followed Master Huang to pretend to be a tiger, and lived a lot of rampant days. Master Huang's death had the greatest impact on him, so he hated Ling Xun and Mu Jiu even more.

"Brother Chen, if that brat survives, how will us formation masters hang around on Qingping Mountain in the future? Wouldn't everyone be able to step on our heads? No matter what, he must die today!"

The "Brother Chen" that Wang Qi said was the formation master who took the lead in making trouble this time. The reason why he had an outburst about Master Huang's matter was that he was really angry on the one hand, and on the other hand he was instigated by Wang Qi. Wanting to make Ling Xun, Mu Jiu and others look good, they turned Qingping Mountain into a pot of muddy water.But they never expected that Mu Jiu would think of such a method, leaving them with no countermeasures.

"Then what do you say! Things have come to this point, and we can only depend on that kid's life. If he really deserves to die, there is nothing we can do about it if there is someone surnamed Mu."

Wang Qi rolled his eyes, and offered advice in a low voice: "Why don't Brother Chen use some tricks secretly to let a mere mortal fall off the cliff first, or is it difficult?"

The array mage known as Brother Chen didn't buy it, but instead glared at Wang Qi, "You said it lightly, the array technique surnamed Mu is unfathomable, and it's full of intentions. I didn't see that Huang was killed yesterday." What did he look like? In the final analysis, if the blood on Lao Huang's body hadn't been drained, he was so weak, how could he act like a brat! He's here today, you asked me to use dark hands, yes Do you want to kill me!"

Wang Qi felt ashamed, so he could only say embarrassingly: "How could I, Brother Chen, don't be angry."

At this time, another formation master spoke up and said to Brother Chen: "I don't think this Qingping Mountain can stay any longer. It was an expedient measure to come here before. Now it's no different than half a year ago. The princes are divided and fighting is constantly raging, and formation masters are being recruited everywhere. , why don't we find another place, rather than wasting time in such a broken bandit den."

After this person finished speaking, the other formation masters responded immediately, showing interest one after another, but they were not interested in the life and death of that little fan.

Only Wang Qi shrank in the crowd with a gloomy expression.Most of the formation masters who came to Qingping Mountain came from the capital, and they all had some real skills. Otherwise, they would not have easily solved the crisis in Qingping Mountain.But Wang Qi is different from them, he is just an ordinary refugee, only because his comprehension is better than the top, he has shown a little formation ability, plus he can cater to people, he is favored by Master Huang, and he can be a dog Dangdang legs.Others left Qingping Mountain to go elsewhere, but what about him?This man in chaos, he might not find his next home, and he would die on the way.

If these mages are going to leave, how should he deal with himself in Qingping Mountain?

Master Huang's body was still hanging outside Mu Jiu's courtyard, probably not yet completely cooled, but this loyal pug had already started to find a new backer for himself.Wang Qi rolled his eyes, his eyes fell on a person not far away, and then glanced at Mu Jiu and Ling Xun, secretly smiled in his heart, and unknowingly withdrew from the queue of formation masters, and turned to Qing Wu Qing, Pingshan's second head, walked over.

Unexpectedly, just when all the people who wished Xiao Fanzi to die started to slip away and be indifferent to his life and death, the young man who was already halfway up the mountain suddenly had an accident.

A gust of wind suddenly blew up without any warning, Xiao Fanzi had just driven a chisel into the rock wall, and was about to step on it, but his body was blown by the wind, he suddenly swayed twice, his feet slipped, and he didn't step on it firmly. The body lost its balance and fell directly from the cliff.

"Ah!" The women screamed in shock, even those bandits who had seen the wind and waves on Qingping Mountain couldn't help shouting.

"What's wrong! What's wrong with my Xiaofanzi!" Grandma Xiaofanzi's face turned ashen when she heard the voice, she called out these two sentences, and before anyone could respond, she didn't bring it up in one breath, and just turned away.

Ling Xun hurriedly stepped forward, because he studied the gossip formation chart given to him by Mu Jiu, and later got Engong's advice, and he has a little understanding of the fusion of human body acupuncture points and formation techniques, so he quickly found a few big acupuncture points on the old lady's body. I ordered it once, and the old lady soon lost her breath, and she didn't just die like this.

Ruan Ji, who was waiting beside him, had been idle for a long time, and finally rushed over with glowing eyes, put his pannier on the ground, examined the old lady's wrist for a while, and began to heal the depression that he never knew. The rotten tree roots and rotten leaves that were taken out of the bag were poured out, mixed with mud, rubbed out a big pill, and stuffed it straight into the old lady's mouth.

The people on Qingping Mountain must have been familiar with Dr. Ruan's healing methods for a long time, even the old lady swallowed the pill without any resistance, but Ling Xun was dumbfounded.

"Thank you, Lord Feng, for your rescue! Lord Feng is really a living Bodhisattva!" The villagers who had a close relationship with the old lady next to him thanked him repeatedly, and almost kowtowed to him.

Ling Xun is so big, he has been praised by many people, but no one compares him with the word "living Bodhisattva". Cover up that selfish black heart so that no one can see it.

Ruan Ji finished feeding the old lady the medicine, clapped his hands and carried the small back basket, looking for the next target of medicine with great interest.

"Oh, I'm stuck, I'm stuck!" Someone over there yelled.

"Look! Xiao Fanzi didn't fall off! He's hanging on the rock wall! My god, my heart is about to pop out!"

Ling Xun raised his head, and saw Xiao Fanzi climbing the rock wall with one hand, hanging on the cliff wall like a dry leaf, swinging in the wind.

"What's the matter? Didn't you say that he is a formation master? Why hasn't he used the formation technique yet?" Ling Xun saw that the young man was in a dangerous situation, but he didn't show any way to protect himself. He was a little bit impatient, and went to ask Mu Jiu again. .

Mu Jiu gave Ling Xun a strange look, "My lord, do you think that being able to perform formations is equivalent to being able to perform formations?"

Ling Xun was dumbfounded, and stared silently.

"How did the lord get into the way of formation?"

Ling Xun's eyes dimmed.

It was naturally his benefactor who led him into the Tao.It is hard for Ling Xun to imagine what it would be like if he had not been enlightened by the Enlightenment Formation, and lived alone in a foreign land with an ordinary body, from the age of four or five to today.

Mu Jiu saw what he was thinking, so he stopped asking, and continued, "Unless he is extremely talented and able to learn without a teacher, otherwise, if he wants to become a formation master, he must be enlightened. That child has never been exposed to formation techniques, I'm afraid If you don't even know the spirituality of your formation technique, how can you use the formation technique to save yourself?"

"But didn't you say he couldn't die?"

Mu Jiu smiled, "My lord was just in a hurry to save someone, so I didn't notice. Just now, the child instinctively activated a bit of formation technique potential in a crisis, and stuck to the cliff, so he didn't fall directly to his death."

"So it has already been exposed?" Ling Xun looked up again, disappointed, "It's a pity, I have never seen what the passive activation array looks like, it would be great if it fell down again."

Mu Jiu shook his head helplessly, "If it falls down again, it may not be effective again."

Ling Xun lowered his eyes and pondered, and suddenly an idea came to his mind; "Huaifeng, why don't you wait for this child to come down, and you can point him out?"

Mu Jiu glanced at Ling Xun, and an inexplicable smile appeared on his lips, but he didn't say anything.

Ling Xun didn't understand what he meant, but his heart was tickled by that smile, and he really wanted to continue to ask, but it was not easy to entangle him in broad daylight, so he had to give up and continue to look up at the sky in a daze.

Xiaofanzi fell like this, although he was holding onto the mountain, he was too far away from his previous position, the three iron chisels could no longer reach him, and the hammer also fell into the valley just now, so he could only use his bare hands. climb.He himself moved with great pains, and the spectators below were also thrilled to see it, and they all dared not breathe.

The close-knit scene tensed everyone's heartstrings, and time passed quietly like this. When Xiao Fanzi finally climbed to the last rock and climbed to the top of the peak, all the people below breathed a sigh of relief, feeling no longer I have never experienced such a difficult and long suffocation.

The women wept with joy, and the men also applauded. Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Xiao Fanzi's grandmother knelt down straight and kowtowed to the ground, thanking the Bodhisattva and the gods and Buddhas.

But just when everyone relaxed their spirits, Xiao Fanzi, who had already climbed to the top of Shenshi Peak, suddenly poked his head out and shouted loudly: "It's not good! There are soldiers! Lots and lots of soldiers, come to our side!" It's coming!"

This voice sounded like a thunderbolt, and immediately turned Qingping Mountain into a pot of boiling water.

How come there will be soldiers?Whose pawn?What to do?

Ling Xun suddenly thought of the villages they passed by when they came to Qingping Mountain. Those villages abandoned their homes and fled to avoid the strong soldiers crossing the border. At that time, he wondered how there were soldiers passing by there.

Thinking about it now, it becomes clear.

That must be Chen Bing's vanguard.

It was not good for Chen Bing to go east, and he ran into a wall at Wei Zhao, Marquis of Nanyang. Now it is the coldest time, and the food and grass are not available. It is not beneficial to continue to stick together. Chen Bing may consider retreating.However, the retreat of hundreds of thousands of troops is not a simple turn around and run. The retreat route and follow-up supplies must be carefully planned.That's why Chen Bing sent people to the rear to collect food and grass.

Counting the days now, it is probably time for the main army to return to their nests, so it is self-evident what these hungry and defeated Northwest wolves will do when they pass by Qingping Mountain, which looks fragrant and tender.

The other bandits on Qingping Mountain are not stupid. Although they can't guess who came by connecting the cause and effect like Ling Xun, they also know that the person who came is not good, so they immediately ordered the villagers to hide on the mountain, closed the gate of the cottage, and activated the mechanism. Gather good hands, set up guard posts everywhere, and prepare for battle at any time.

Mu Jiu said to the group of mages: "Since you are destined to gather in Qingping Mountain and have been sheltered by it, it is reasonable to see that death is inevitable. I also hope that you will do your best to protect Qingping Mountain and everyone."

Although those formation masters already had their own thoughts, they were still somewhat apprehensive when facing Mu Jiu, an evil god who was not visible, so no matter what their real thoughts were, they were polite to Mu Jiu on the surface. Lian claimed yes and promised to help Qingpingshan.

So Mu Jiu led these formation masters to guard the main road leading to Qingping Mountain, in the name of setting up formations, but in fact, they were monitoring these people who had already given birth to dissent, in case they would turn against each other and cooperate with the enemy inside and outside.

However, in just an hour, Qingping Mountain has changed from a plate of loose sand to a state of facing an enemy, with strict defenses. Apart from Mu Jiu's good command, Yuan Xi also owes part of the credit.The guards he brought were all the best of the elite of Yuan's army, it is not an exaggeration to say that one enemy has a hundred.They are well-trained and must do what they do, which really taught these mud legs in the mountains who have never seen the world.The bandits followed suit, and their movements were much cleaner than usual.

The sentry posts kept coming to report, telling where the army was going at any time.

At dusk, the army finally marched to the vicinity of the gate of Qingping Mountain.

Everyone held their breath, waiting for the moment when the sound of the charge sounded.

However, after waiting for a quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour, an hour, two hours, it was dark, but there was no movement outside.

The people on Qingping Mountain didn't dare to sleep, they kept watch all night, and when it was daybreak, those troops stationed outside Qingping Mountain unexpectedly withdrew slowly.

"His grandma's, what's going on? He stayed in front of our house in the middle of the night, and it's over? Is there something wrong with this ice thing?" Wang was so angry that he scolded all eight generations of Chen Bing's ancestors. But he still didn't dare to relax. It wasn't until noon, when Chen Bing's army was gone, that he had dark circles under his eyes, and carried his sword on his shoulders to take people back to sleep.

Most of the bandits on Qingping Mountain were puzzled and didn't understand what the army was doing, but people like Yuan Xi, who came from a family of officials and eunuchs, understood the truth.

It is said in the book of war that siege is the bottom line. It means that the two armies are at war, and the most unfavorable thing is to attack and plunder the city. number of troops.

Qingping Mountain was originally defended according to the danger, and Chen Bing's army returned in a big defeat. If it was unexpected, it would not take much effort to take down this group of bandits. For the city, you really have to pay some price.

Chen Bing aimed at Qingping Mountain, just wanting to get some free money. It is good to be able to rob something, but if you want to kill or wound people, it is not worth it for such a small mountain, so they came here in a hurry. Seeing that Qingping Mountain is heavily guarded, He just rested outside Qingping Mountain for one night, and then continued on his way.

"It's really dangerous this time. Just imagine if it wasn't for Xiao Fanzi who happened to climb the Shenshi Peak and found Liangzhou soldiers to prepare for it earlier. How could we mobs defeat the Northwest Tiger and Wolf Division?" Ling Xun lay on the tower of the mountain gate, After staying up all night, he was also in poor spirits.

Yuan Xi stood beside him, saw that his clothes were thin, so he took off his cloak and wrapped it around him. Hearing this, he suddenly smiled, and looked at Ling Xun meaningfully, "Are you sure it's a coincidence?"

Ling Xun was stunned.

"How could it be such a coincidence that they were punished to climb the Godly Peak, and on the day when someone climbed the Divine Stone Peak, a large army invaded and was seen?"

"Do you think it was Huaifeng who expected this earlier?"

Yuan Xi twitched the corners of his mouth with an unfriendly expression, and said sourly: "Yo, Huaifeng is so affectionate. Feng Wuge, I remind you, this Mu Jiu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, you have to be careful."

Ling Xun was not happy to hear him say bad things about Mu Jiu, so he turned around and left impatiently, "Haven't you heard of 'Separate kiss'? Don't let me hear such words from now on."

Yuan Xi widened his eyes in disbelief, grabbed Ling Xun's wrist, and pulled him closer to him.

Ling Xun stared at Yuan Xi's face that was close at hand, frowned and said, "Yuan Zijin, why are you crazy?"

Yuan Xi laughed back angrily, "You say I'm not close? Who are you close to and who are you distant from? How many years have you known me, and how long have you known him?"

It was only then that Ling Xun realized that he had accidentally said something hurtful, so he patted Yuan Xi on the back with a rare good temper, and said softly, "Okay, I made a mistake, can't I compensate you? It's just that Huaifeng was the one I tried my best to invite back. Without him, this Qingping Mountain might have been turned into a mess by that Master Huang and his ilk. I'm too worried."

Yuan Xi looked at Ling Xun's playful and smiling face like coaxing a child, and his heart became more and more panicked. His heart was full of words, but eventually turned into an unspeakable silence.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Ling Xun thought that he had calmed down, so he wanted to withdraw his hand, but he didn't expect that Yuan Xi's grip on his wrist would not relax at all, making him unable to withdraw at all.

"Hey, Yuan Zijin, are you finished?" Ling Xun said patiently, his face darkened.

"Wuge..." Yuan Xi suddenly raised his eyes to meet Shang Lingxun's, but he didn't say anything when someone came from behind him, and Lingxun's eyes that briefly met him were immediately diverted.

"Ah, Huaifeng, you came just in time!" Seeing Mu Jiu walking up the tower, Ling Xun suddenly glowed, his face changed faster than turning the pages of a book, and he simply threw away Yuan Xi, and rushed to Mu happily like a baby swallow throwing a nest Nine and go, "I'm about to discuss something with you, come and talk!"

"I also have something to discuss with the lord." Mu Jiu's eyes swept across Ling Xun, and seemed to linger for a moment on the cloak Yuan Xi put on him.

"Success, let's go down and talk!" Ling Xun took Mu Jiu's hand, and the two left hand in hand.

Only Yuan Xi was left standing where he was, watching the evildoer's back, his lungs were about to explode.

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