Chapter 114: Portraits of the Living, Monuments of the Dead

Chapter 114: Portraits of the Living, Monuments of the Dead

Chapter 114: Portraits of the Living, Monuments of the Dead

Before daybreak, two teams of Divine Guards had arrived at the Zhao family mansion and took over the subsequent search and inventory.

The leader of the team turned out to be an old acquaintance.

"Brother Zou?"

Zou Kui was carrying a mace and was still in shock over the demise of the Zhao family. When he looked up he saw Li Yuan and his heart skipped a beat.

"Li, Senior Brother Li!"

Zou Kui felt a little scared. He had only been in the sect for a few days, and yet he was already involved in the massacre of an entire family?

The inner sect Hammer Soldiers Hall is indeed full of ruthless and cruel people...

"I haven't seen you for a few days. Brother Zou has already joined the Divine Guards?"

Li Yuan moved forward.

The other Divine Guards looked at each other and dispersed to do their work. Zou Kui had no intention of staying, but could only respond with a stiff smile.

Li Yuan then realized that on the day of the initiation ceremony, the Divine Guard Army also recruited a number of independent people from the martial arts world.

"The Divine Guards have recruited more than 400 people?"

Li Yuan felt a little nervous.

For more than a thousand years, the Divine Guard has only had three thousand people. When some advance, others retreat, and they always maintain vitality and strong combat effectiveness.

There must be a deeper reason for suddenly breaking the rules at this moment...

"Thanks to Commander Qiu's appreciation, I have been promoted to a platoon leader, and can be considered a disciple of the Divine Weapon Valley."

In the second half of the sentence, Zou Kui emphasized his tone.

"Who is Commander Qiu?"

Li Yuan thought of the heroic woman who held a longbow and shot the Tongmai master to death last night.

"There is only one Commander Qiu in the valley, of course it is..."

Zou Kui was a sturdy and strong man, but he was very cautious at this time and did not dare to mention his name.

"It's Qiu Changying indeed!"

Li Yuan understood.

A sect is not a family, so it is difficult for a family to produce geniuses from generation to generation. The Qiu family has only produced one Qiu Changying in six generations since Qiu Zhengxiong.

He found out some of it when he chatted with Sha Pingying last night.

The proud daughter of the Qiu family, who was born with five shapes, had been soaked in a medicine barrel before she even opened her eyes. Every day, a maid who had cultivated her inner strength would massage her muscles and bones.

Qiu Zhengxiong has been teaching him personally since he was old enough to understand. He had fully grown into the form of a little dragon when he was sixteen, and became a true disciple at nineteen. He was taught the 'Lichen Nine Yin Spear' and the Qiu family's secret 'Soul-Chasing Arrow Technique'.

His talent is better than that of Shi Hong, the most talented disciple of the Valley Master himself and the most talented disciple of the Divine Weapon Valley.

Before I joined the sect, he was the undisputed number one genius in the Divine Weapon Valley.

"I haven't congratulated Brother Zou on his promotion to squad leader yet..."

Li Yuan chatted with Zou Kui for a few words, and the latter left with a laugh. He really didn't want to deal with anyone who had anything to do with Han Chuijun.

"What on earth did Lao Han do to make such a vicious person so afraid?"

Li Yuan did not underestimate Zou Kui.

Few people use maces, but a famous mace is not much cheaper than a sword.

How could it be easy for someone to dare to carry thousands of taels of silver and go out of the city alone to chase a wanted criminal?

"Qiu Changying's bow..."

Li Yuan was a little itchy. Gaoliu County was too remote, and people in the martial arts world rarely used bows and arrows. He had never mastered the use of a bow and arrow before.

"Use hammers for close range and bows for far range. Use flying knives for medium and low range... Well, the Divine Guards probably have a lot of good stuff too!"

Li Yuan felt that he had really broadened his horizons, and he had already started to make plans in his mind, planning to look for Zou Kui more often in the future.

"Well, it's a bit of a gain."

He looked back at the Zhao family mansion, which was brightly lit but still looked gloomy.
"The six major families collapsed in an instant. Old Han was really ruthless."

A large family in a prefecture was wiped out overnight. Li Yuan was deeply shocked. During the day, he was still sighing about the family tradition of the Zhao family...

"It's also thanks to Zhao Yunsheng that he came to my house during the day, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten these three deeds."

There are rules for suppressing rebellion in Shenbing Valley.

Seventy percent of the spoils seized from the city were returned to the valley, half were sold at the government office, and the last ten percent was shared among all the disciples tonight.

Among them, 80,000 li is the bulk, and the rest is shared by dozens of people. He estimated that it would be at most 180 taels?
After all, land deeds, house deeds and the like are not included in the profit sharing.

"I can earn a hundred or eighty taels just by walking around. This is a good business."

Li Yuan yawned and prepared to go back to the yard to catch up on some sleep.

At this moment, the night was fading away and the east was getting whiter. Li Yuan prepared to have breakfast on the way and then go back to take a nap.

"what?"

Just as he walked out of a street, Li Yuan's heart suddenly moved. He lowered his head and a white light suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"This is?"

After his Weapon Control Talisman was promoted to the fourth level, he could sense the light from any weapon within ten meters with just a little attention.

Under the ground within ten meters, there is a first-level long sword, and the control effect is "Little Green Snake Sword Great Perfection".

"The Zhao family's little green snake knife?"

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly: "The Zhao family's secret passage?"

With a change of mind, Li Yuan was no longer in a hurry to have breakfast. He walked along several streets in front and behind, and he really felt the light of the weapon again.

"It's the Little Green Snake Knife again! It's the Zhao family's underground tunnel!"

It was not a single piece of evidence, but as it continued to appear, Li Yuan was certain of it.

"There are four streets in front and back. This secret passage is really well connected... There won't be any fish that slip through the net, right?"

Li Yuan didn't want to turn back.

Sha Pingying and his companions had been chasing for almost half the night, and they thought it was almost time to kill or capture them.

However, he still wandered along a few streets. If he happened to find some famous artifacts left in the tunnel, he would make a fortune.

Li Yuan's mobility was amazing. He made his way around until dawn.

"Is there really something?"

Outside a courtyard wall somewhere, Li Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly and he caught a glimpse of a blood-red light, which was something related to the method of worshiping gods.

and……

【Portrait of a Living Person (Level 2)】

[The blood of nine kinds of spiritual beasts, mixed with the Five Yin Secret Mud and the Red Blood Essence Stone... Stone statues are cast in batches. They are tempered by the blood of relatives and influenced by incense. They gradually become spiritual. If you worship them all year round, there is a danger of distorting your mind...]

[Control conditions: Second level of God Worship, Zhao family blood]

[Control Effect: God Worship Method Triple, Bewitching People, Divine Foot Sutra (Incomplete), God Worship Method (Incomplete)]

It’s the evil cult again!
Li Yuan frowned. The Zhao family was in collusion with the Evil God Cult. All the disciples of the Divine Weapon Valley who participated in the extermination of the Zhao family last night heard it.

But this image of a stranger still made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Casting statues from the living, tempering the hearts and blood of relatives... This seems like another evil way no matter how you look at it.

"This stuff comes in batches..."

Li Yuan shook his head in his heart.

He looked around. It was just daybreak and there were no pedestrians on the street. He turned over and entered the yard.

The gate of this house was covered with cobwebs and the yard was full of dead leaves. It was obvious that no one had lived there for a long time.

After taking a quick look around, he took out a shovel and started digging at the right spot.

Whoosh!

Li Yuan was so strong now that he swung his arms, causing dirt to fly, and soon he dug five or six meters underground.

During this time, there were many large rocks, which he cut one by one with the Autumn Water Sword and threw away.

This was different from the previous digging at the Weapon Forge, not only because it provided more support, but also because he could clearly sense the direction.

There is no need to hollow out the entire yard.

laugh!
Soon, Li Yuan felt that the shovel was empty and he had dug a tunnel.

"It's more than eight meters deep. If it's three or five meters deeper, I won't be able to detect it..."

Retracting the shovel, Li Yuan leaned over and crawled in.

The tunnel was very narrow, he had to lower his head slightly to avoid hitting his head, and it was not spacious enough for one person to barely pass through.

Of course, it does not include 80,000 miles. …

"what!"

In the dark tunnel, footsteps could be heard quickly and faint screams could be heard from time to time.

In the pit of the earthen wall that was barely big enough for him to live in, Zhao Yunsheng's face turned pale as he held the package that Butler Liu had stuffed into his pocket.
Sometimes he trembled, sometimes he gritted his teeth.

"It's over, it's over..."

Zhao Yunsheng was covered in cold sweat, and his heart was filled with despair, fear and anger.

He was pushed into this secret passage in a hurry and did not see what happened last night, but when he saw Ba Wanli, he knew that everything was over.

The five halls in the Divine Weapon Valley each have their own duties. Among them, once the Hammer Weapon Hall takes action, it is often the case that entire families are exterminated and people are killed.

The Zhao family is finished, and so is he...

"There should be no one left, right?"

Zhao Yunsheng heaved a sigh of relief only after hearing the footsteps fade away and the surroundings quiet down.

Not long after they escaped last night, he fell behind. It was not because he couldn't keep up, but because he didn't dare to keep up.

How powerful is the Divine Weapon Valley? He knew that the place outside the secret passage could not be safer than this secret passage that leads to all directions.

As long as he could avoid the first wave of pursuit from the Divine Weapon Valley, he would have a chance of escaping...

“This package…”

Zhao Yunsheng dug hard into the pit, and piled the soil he had dug previously at the entrance of the hole, leaving only a small gap.

He then took out a tinder and, in the dim light, opened the package that Butler Liu had stuffed into his hands.

This heavy package contained some scattered gold, silver and banknotes.

There was only a stone tablet the size of two palms, a stone statue the size of a fist, a parchment scroll, and a thin secret book.

"You old man didn't even prepare anything for me to eat?!"

Zhao Yunsheng's face changed, and shock, anger and despair filled his heart.

After a long while, he finally pulled himself together and began to count the contents of the package.

"The basic diagram of the Little Green Snake Sword Technique, this booklet..."

Zhao Yunsheng moved the fire stick closer to see the large red characters on the booklet:

"Worship God and practice the Fa..."

After turning a page, Zhao Yunsheng was so frightened that he almost pointed at the booklet. On the second page of the book, there was a portrait.

It was none other than my own grandfather...

"What, what is this?"

Zhao Yunsheng flipped through the book, and despair almost gave rise to anger. He flipped through the booklet for more than ten pages, and all he saw was his grandfather's gloomy old face.

Just the angle and the movement are different.

"Give me this, it's useless!"

The fire started to go out, Zhao Yunsheng's heart tightened, and he heard the rustling sound of digging the earth.

“Is there anyone digging nearby?”

Zhao Yunsheng shuddered and looked up, then he remembered that he had another way to escape.

Yes, you can dig the soil and dig it out!
Zhao Yunsheng's eyes lit up slightly. He guessed that one of his cousins ​​might be hiding here like him, so he carefully lifted the soil at the entrance of the cave and looked out.

The tunnel was dark, but as the dirt fell, light appeared. Zhao Yunsheng widened his eyes and shrank back:
"Li Yuan?!"

……

"The body is stiff."

Li Yuan looked around vigilantly and soon saw a corpse in the tunnel not far away.

The body had been looted, leaving only a fist-sized stone statue thrown aside.

"Could this sculpture be of the Zhao family's patriarch?"

In the dim light, Li Yuan recognized it.

It’s not that he has a good memory or sharp eyesight, but the stone statue is so lifelike and even colored.

At first glance, doesn't he look the same as the old man in black coat last night?
"This thing..."

Stuffing it into his arms, Li Yuan walked deeper into the secret passage, ready to collect all the broken weapons and blades he had seen before.

Mosquito meat is still meat.

……

"Li Yuan!"

In the earth pit, Zhao Yunsheng had a ferocious look on his face. He hated the disciples of the Divine Weapon Valley very much, but he still held back.

For a moment, he wanted to kill the genius of Shenbing Valley, but he was afraid that someone would follow him.

After a long time, seeing that he was the only one around, his mind finally became active.

"Han Chuijun and Gong Yangyu must be heartbroken for the death of a true disciple, right?"

Zhao Yunsheng murmured, anger and murderous intent rising in his heart.

Call ~
After waiting for a long time, Zhao Yunsheng carefully used a knife to dig open the soil at the entrance of the cave.

"If you want revenge, why don't you look for Ba Wanli? Why do you look for me?"

Almost the moment he leaned over and heard the sound, Zhao Yunsheng shouted "Oh no" in his heart, but it was too late.

He just raised his head, without even seeing anyone, when he was hit hard in the face by a hammer.

"Zhao Yunsheng?"

Li Yuan picked up the hammer and looked down to identify the person. He recognized the man from the clothes on the corpse. After all, he had just met him yesterday.

"This is really unfortunate."

He had just received three house deeds from the man and then immediately beat him to death. Li Yuan was a little speechless, but he didn't feel upset.

Zhao Yunsheng might be mentally ill. He muttered to himself but actually cried out...

But that didn't stop him from reaching out and taking out the package.

He walked around and found a lot of broken weapons and blades, but this was the only real good thing.

[Incomplete Monument to the Dead (Level 5)]

[Using the Yin corpse mud from the mass grave, the blood of spirit beasts and humans, the red blood essence stone... and other nine kinds of Yin materials as supplements,

The thousand-year-old statue is made of incense ash and mud, and gradually it becomes spiritual and evil...】

[Control conditions: Third level of worship of gods, bathing in the blood of spirit beasts]

[Control Effect: Sixth level of God Worship, Bewitching People, God Worship (Incomplete), God Foot Sutra (Incomplete), God Palm Sutra (Incomplete), God Organ Sutra (Incomplete), Life Extension (Incomplete), Death Substitution (Incomplete)]

"Level five!"

After putting away the package, Li Yuan was still a little shocked. He was shocked when he saw it when he walked around in circles just now.

A tombstone for the dead is actually a top-grade famous artifact?

Whose death is so grand?
He changed his mind and didn't want to stay any longer. He picked up Zhao Yunsheng's long sword and punched the pit to collapse.

Seeing Zhao Yunsheng's body buried in the mud, he silently recited a few verses of scriptures for saving people before turning around and leaving.

……

……

Returning to the yard, Li Yuan took out a shovel and filled the soil back in before turning around and walking away.

This alley was relatively remote, and Li Yuan moved quickly, so no one noticed that he had already returned to the yard where he rented.

"Squeak~"

The little mouse was spinning around with its tail in its mouth.

Li Yuan tore off two pieces of meat and threw them over. He then returned to the inner room and took out Zhao Yunsheng's package.

Anything that can be placed together with that fifth-level tombstone shouldn’t be an ordinary thing, right?
"The basic picture of the little green snake is not bad... It also has a human figure? Hmm, is this the worship of the gods?"

When Li Yuan saw the words on the book, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Worshipping the gods is the right way. No, there are statues of living people and tombstones of dead people. Can this be the right way?"

Muttering to himself, Li Yuan opened the book and saw a gloomy old face.

"..."

(End of this chapter)