Nightwatcher

As the box was opened, the contents inside were revealed to everyone.

This is a torso without legs, arms or head, but it is the most complete body of Shenshu Xu Qi'an has ever seen.

It is worth mentioning that the crotch of this body is wrapped in a miniskirt of animal skin, which reminds Xu Qi'an of that thunder-mouthed monkey on TV for no reason. .

"The ten-year period has not yet come, why wake me up!"

The torso came to life, and it slowly "stands up", suspended in front of everyone, and then restrained its breath.

"Master Shenshu, this servant has opened the seal at the order of my mother, and asks for help."

Ye Ji's pressure eased, and she saluted as if relieved.

Shenshu's torso slowly turned half a circle, as if scanning the people in the cave, until it saw Xu Qi'an

The two black beans on the chest split open violently, turning into a pair of eyes, and the terrifying aura escaped again, Ye Ji and Bai Yuan backed away again and again, their faces turning pale.

"You have my breath on you, and part of my body is parasitic in your body."

The torso and breasts stared at him scorchingly, and there was a thunderous sound in his chest.

"That's a right arm!"

Xu Qi'an replied calmly, he did not feel any strong hostility or malice from this torso.

This means that the character of the other party is "mild", just like the right arm that resides in his body.

"Magic Nail"

Shenshu looked at him and said, "Are you an enemy of Buddhism? Well, that is my friend. He has a good cultivation and a solid foundation. He is a good fighter. Let's drink together when we have time."

Drink together. Xu Qi'an glanced at the bowl-sized scar on its neck, and for a moment didn't know how to reply.

But his personality is okay, a little heroic, not like the crazy one in Tali, who yells about killing and killing every day.

"Master, he is the helper invited by the empress."

Ye Ji told Shenshu's body about the deal between the two parties, and said:

"Asuro is guarding the Nanfa Temple. His strength is terrifying, and we cannot deal with it. Therefore, I would like you to help him remove the magic nail in advance."

Shenshu's body readily agreed: "No problem, but removing the magic nail will greatly reduce my strength, and I need a batch of blood to replenish the depletion afterwards."

Ye Ji nodded: "I understand."

Among the 100,000 mountains, beasts are the most indispensable thing, and they can even surprise small towns and towns to plunder the blood of those people from the Western Regions.

Xu Qi'an's heart moved, and he asked:

"Master, can you stay on me? It's like a broken arm."

In this way, he can prostitute the supernatural power of Shenshu's torso for nothing.

"No, you have a magic nail in your body, so I can't board it."

The divine body gave a negative answer.

Well, there really is no way to take advantage of the loophole. Xu Qi'an shook his head in disappointment, it seems that he has to go to Gang Asuro himself.

"Which two magic nails can senior remove?"

The double ruts stared at him for a moment, then laughed in his chest and said, "Those two ruts are still on you."

Very good, I am indeed the child of luck. If it happens again this time, I will have to suspect that the luck in my body is a fake. Xu Qi'an turned around and told everyone, "Exit the grotto."

Then he looked at Shenshu's torso: "Senior, please help remove the magic nail."

When Sun Xuanji, Ye Ji, and Yuan Hufa led the banshees out of the grotto, Shenshu's torso collapsed and a cyclone appeared.

The whirlwind was rolling, causing strong winds to blow in the grotto, causing Xu Qi'an's long hair to dance wildly.

Crackling~

The cyclone jumped into a golden arc, illuminating the grotto in flickering light and dark.

Zi. The golden arc shoots out from the center of the cyclone and splashes on Xu Qi'an's lower abdomen, which corresponds to Ren Mai's magic nail.

From the perspective of a bystander, the golden arc turned into a long rope, connecting Shenshu's torso with Xu Qi'an.

The cyclone turned faster and faster, and the suction force became stronger and stronger, driving the long cable formed by the golden arc to tighten, pulling the magic sealing nail.

The Sanskrit sound echoed in Xu Qi'an's ears, and he knew that this was the mantra for unlocking the magic nail.

In the first two times when the magic nail was pulled out, the love-saving Arhat and Shenshu's left arms were assisted by chanting mantras.

Xu Qi'an secretly wrote it down, but unfortunately after trying it, he found that chanting the mantra alone could not undo the magic nail.

Pulling out the magic nail little by little, his face twitched violently, and beads of sweat rolled down like rain.

Once again tasted the pain of being torn apart.

Puff. Accompanied by the sound of the magic nail being separated from the flesh and blood, the qi in the dantian surged out uncontrollably, like a rising tide, without vomit.

Xu Qi'an shook his arms out violently, "Boom", the Qi machine raged in the grotto, and the whole mountain shook violently.

Ye Ji, Sun Xuanji and others outside the cave could clearly feel the ground shaking under their feet.

Huh~

The terrible gust of wind rushed out along the passage, "spraying" the torches and gravel out of the passage.

Sun Xuanji stretched out his right palm, and gently pushed it forward.

A tortoise-shaped formation composed of clear light stood in front of everyone, blocking the strong wind that could "blow" to death a warrior below rank six.

Such a strong Hongtao protector, Qingmu protector and other monster clans were secretly startled.

In the grotto, after this round of venting, Xu Qi'an calmed down the energy in his dantian, followed by the power of recovery.

Boom!

He clenched his fist hard, as if grabbing the air.

"The strength of the qi mechanism and the strength of the physical body have been greatly enhanced. The qi mechanism from the double cultivation with my aunt finally has a place to use. Well, with my current strength, combined with Dacheng's vajra magic, I can hit the speed Any one of Difficulty and Dufan. Two-on-one can also remain invincible."

After devouring the blood of Shura Vajra Dufan, his vajra supernatural power was so perfect that he was able to single-handedly defeat vajra.

Now it can hang King Kong.

"In terms of physical strength alone, I will not lose to Asuro. Even if it is slightly inferior, the gap will not be too big. After unlocking another magic nail, my strength can go further. But Asuro At the same time, I'm an Arhat, well, I don't have other means. It's not a problem to pester him."

Concentrating his thoughts, Xu Qi'an cupped his fists towards Shenshu's torso, whose breath was much weaker, and said:

"Senior, please continue."

Shenshu's torso untied the second magic nail for him in the same way, and after Xu Qi'an calmed down his disordered energy, it praised:

"Your background is stronger than I imagined. If all the magic nails are removed, your strength will be close to Dacheng. I think you are in this realm in the first place."

It means that Xu Qi'an himself is a third-rank master, but was sealed by the magic nail.

"Buddhism seldom uses magic nails. Your status is unusual. You have been practicing martial arts for hundreds of years, right?"

The practice lasted for half a year. Xu Qi'an clasped his fists together:

"It's a full year and a half."

Shenshu was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "Don't make such jokes with me."

"This junior doesn't need to joke with you like this." Xu Qi'an said.

Shenshu's tone became confused: "You didn't lie, but it's impossible."

Xu Qi'an told the truth: "The younger generation bears half of the national destiny of the Central Plains dynasty."

Shenshu's torso asked back: "Then?"

Do I need to say that... Xu Qi'an muttered in his heart, and said:

"Those with great luck are uniquely blessed to be able to transcend the ordinary and become holy in a short period of time. Although it is an exaggeration, it is not a big deal."

Apart from his own talent, hard work, and the care of some elders, his current achievements are inseparable from his relationship.

Xu Qi'an attributed all the adventures to luck.

"I only know that those who have good luck will not live forever. Well, to be precise, it is the fate of the country. So there is no emperor in the world who can live forever."

Shenshu paused, staring at him with milky eyes:

"Those who have not heard of luck can be promoted to extraordinary within one and a half years."

Xu Qi'an frowned and said:

"Perhaps it's because of the difference between national luck and personal luck?"

Shenshu asked again:

"In this way, the emperors of all dynasties can become extraordinary in one and a half years. Why can't others, but you can?"

Xu Qi'an was stunned: "This, this..."

He subconsciously wanted to say that the same is true of Dafeng Gaozu and Wuzong Emperor.

But later it was found that something was wrong, because although the two emperors were later promoted to the first rank, it was many, many years later.

And they started from the third grade.

He collected himself, clasped his fists and said:

"The younger generation doesn't know, but the younger generation has something to ask."

"explain."

"The founding emperor of the Dafeng Dynasty in the Central Plains, proclaimed the first three ranks of the emperor. After proclaiming the emperor, he achieved the first rank. A hundred years later, his grandson rebelled and usurped the throne, and the same is true." Xu Qi'an spoke extremely fast:

"What's wrong with it?"

"There's nothing wrong with it, but why do you think that their success is due to luck?"

Shen Shu said: "You have a problem with your understanding of the luck added to the body, it is too one-sided, and the luck added to the body is different from ordinary people in every way, and it manifests in all aspects.

"But in your eyes, it seems that if you have good luck, you will definitely be able to step into the realm of the extraordinary, and your cultivation will surely advance by a thousand miles.

"It's true that people with good luck will gain benefits in their practice and have good luck, but it will always only play a supporting role, so that you can avoid detours on the road of practice.

"But if you think that you can achieve extraordinary, even first-rank, by adding luck to your body, then you think too much about luck and take the first-rank too lightly."

Xu Qi'an's pupils dilated slightly.

"You still have secrets that need to be discovered. It's a pity that my memory is not complete, so I can't give too many opinions.

"But there are two questions to think about. One: How did the luck of the country come from? Two: Compared with those emperors who are also haunted by the same luck, how is the luck on your body different?"

The luck in my body was infused by Xu Pingfeng. Unlike ordinary emperors, it has been refined?

Yes, Shenshu is right. For a long time, Xu Pingfeng has been worried about the speed of my cultivation promotion.

Just imagine, if he knows that those who have luck are destined to become a saint and achieve first-class achievements, with Xu Pingfeng's ingenuity, what would he do to support the lineage five hundred years ago, wouldn't it be better to support me directly.

A first-rank warrior is enough to push the copy of Dafeng horizontally.

What does this mean? This shows that he knows that luck can increase his cultivation base, and he has many adventures, but it is not so exaggerated.

Therefore, compared to a martial arts prodigy, Qianlong City's thousands of troops are more suitable for cooperation.

That is to say, luck does help improve my cultivation base, but there are other reasons for my current cultivation base.

This reason should still be a matter of luck, but it's not just a matter of luck.

Xu Qi'an was silent for a long time, and slowly let out a breath:

"Senior, do you know the inside story of the battle between Buddha and demon five hundred years ago?"

"forget."

Shenshu's torso said in a deep voice: "I only remember the time spent with the king, it was wonderful."

The old tree spirit guessed right, Shenshu is really the concubine of the Queen of Wan Yao Country? Xu Qi'an was startled.

"Besides this? What else do you remember?"

His answer was a long silence. After a while, Shenshu said slowly:

"We have a child, a very cute little fox. She is the current leader of the Southern Demon."

Fuck it, Xu Qi'an hasn't sweared for a long time, this news is really shocking.

Is the nine-tailed fox the daughter of Shenshu? It's actually Shenshu's daughter? !

But it's not right, Qingmu protector said that the empress is a pure-blooded nine-tailed sky fox, how could she be the daughter of Shenshu.

No, Protector Aoki was just a little monster back then, no matter how senior he was, he was still a little monster, he might not know too much inside information.

But Shenshu didn't have to lie to me.

Shenshu and the Lord of the Wanyao Kingdom are old mistresses, and they gave birth to a daughter; Buddhism destroyed the Wanyao Kingdom, and Shenshu is a Buddhist; Shenshu and the Buddha had a deal that no one knew about. Terrible!

Xu Qi'an's heart was beating wildly.

"Senior, do you still remember your identity?" She tentatively asked:

"I mean, your status in Buddhism."

"I do not remember."

Shenshu's torso murmured: "I only remember the time with her. I only remember that Buddha killed her back then. I can't remember anything else."

This may be the reason why he has a relatively gentle temperament and doesn't have so much negative energy. Xu Qi'an didn't ask any more questions.

On the canal, a three-masted warship.

After lunch, Xu Erlang sat at the desk, holding a pen, and seriously wrote his first letter home.

Afraid that his son would have an accident, the aunt asked him to write a letter every two days.

"Mom, life on the canal makes me uncomfortable."

Writing this kind of vernacular family letter also made Xu Erlang a little uncomfortable, but considering the education level of his parents, this kind of family letter is easy to understand for them.

"On the contrary, Lingyin likes boating very much. Apart from her lack of intelligence, she seems to have no weaknesses.

"I heard from my colleagues that the situation in Qingzhou is very good, and the rebels defeated by the imperial army are retreating steadily, so you don't have to worry, the boy will be victorious soon.

"You take good care of yourself in the capital, don't miss me, and Lingyin will be taken care of by her elder brother, so nothing will happen.

"If you encounter trouble at home, remember to discuss with Lingyue more, Lingyue's wisdom is not as good as yours, but you have more people and more ideas.

"Lingyin was not wronged on the ship. The soldiers liked her very much and praised her as the elder brother's younger sister. She is brave and brave, and she is the only one who should be judged by others."

Xu Erlang thought about it, crossed out this line, and re-wrote:

"Praise her as worthy of being the elder brother's younger sister. She is ice and snow smart, and she will definitely be a well-educated lady in the future."

After writing the home letter and drying the ink, he stuffed the letter into the envelope.

At this time, two clear lights rose in the room, Zhang Shen and Li Mubai, who were wearing Confucian robes and square scarves, suddenly appeared.

"Teacher, Mr. Mu Bai?"

Xu Nian was stunned, surprised and delighted: "Why are you here?"

Zhang Shen stroked his beard and said:

"The situation in Qingzhou is not good, Yang Gong wrote to the dean to ask for help, and the dean asked Mu Bai and I to go to Qingzhou to serve as Yang Gong's staff."

The joy of reunion suddenly dissipated, and Xu Nian said in a deep voice:

"What did layman Ziyang say in his letter?"

Li Mubai said: "The first line of defense on the border of Qingzhou has been broken, Ziqian ordered to fortify the walls and clear the country, gather the refugees, adopt a strategy of not being able to hold on, and wait for reinforcements."

Xu Nian immediately unfolded the map of Qingzhou, inspected it for a moment, and said:

"This plan is very clever."

Qingzhou spans thousands of miles and has sufficient strategic depth. It is of little significance to stick to the border.

And the strategy of the Dafeng garrison occupying a favorable location, fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, and defending the city without leaving the city is also the correct choice.

Zhang Shen shook his head and sighed:

"Don't forget the old days. The monks and soldiers from the Western Regions haven't entered yet. If not expected, in the near future, Buddhism will send a large army to attack Leizhou and other places to contain the court. Force the court to fight on two fronts.

"At that time, Qingzhou will face the situation of "no one can do it alone"."

Li Mubai added: "Furthermore, refugees and bandits are everywhere, internal instability, and the situation is worrisome. Ziqian had already expected this step, and tried hard to find a solution to no avail, so he wrote to the dean for help."

Xu New Year's expression sank.

In the evening, the sun sets.

Wanyao Mountain is the core area of ​​the 100,000 Mountains in Southern Xinjiang. The mountain is not high, but it is extraordinarily majestic, like a giant lying on its side, stretching for dozens of miles.

And this is only the main peak.

As one of the blessed places in the southern border, Wanyao Mountain has a sensitive and beautiful clock, full of aura, and has bred generation after generation of monster clans.

Today, the number of monsters in the mountains is still huge, but with the passage of time, they have changed from masters to slaves.

Buddhism ruled here.

Nanfa Temple is built on the top of the mountain and is the tallest building in southern China.

After the Buddhist sect occupied Wanyao Mountain, they built a large-scale construction project, felled trees to clear the way, and built a majestic city here.

Xu Qi'an, who was wearing a cloak, was walking on the streets of "Nan Guo" city, surrounded by Ye Ji, Sun Xuanji and Miao Youfang.

They all wear the same cloak.

"Squeak."

The shrill monkey cry caught Xu Qi'an's attention.

There are people playing monkey games on the street. A little yellow-haired monkey bows to everyone and asks for money. If passers-by don't give it, it turns somersaults, makes faces, or kneels and kowtows.

"It's all unformed little demons."

Xu Qi'an took out a piece of broken silver and threw it over. The little yellow-haired monkey picked up the broken silver, kowtowed and knelt down, his forehead banging loudly.

There was sadness in Ye Ji's eyes:

"Because the unformed little demon is the best to control."

There are two types of monster races, one is the beasts who are enlightened, and through self-cultivation, they become great monsters step by step.

And the offspring they reproduce are born to be monsters, just like human beings, as they grow older, they will naturally become enlightened. This is another kind of monster race.

The monster clan in Wanyao Mountain are basically descendants of the big monster back then.

Although they are beasts in shape, they possess extremely high intelligence.

Bai Ji is an example.

"Should there be monster races with transformed forms?" Miao Youfang asked.

"Of course there are, but the number is rare. Most of them are slaves or mounts in Buddhist temples. Or, they are controlled by dignitaries in the city."

Ye Ji said: "The dignitaries of the Western Regions raise the monster race, usually as war slaves, with very few exceptions."

"With very few exceptions?"

Miao Youfang asked.

Ye Ji sneered and said, "For example, a beautiful girl from the demon tribe will become their plaything. This is still good treatment. Those who are not well treated will be sent to the army."

She didn't go on, but Miao Youfang could guess.

He was silent for a while.

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On the pagoda of Nanfa Temple, the burly and tall Asura stands on the top of the tower, overlooking the magnificent city under the night.

At a certain moment, he withdrew his gaze and looked at the shadow under the tower.

A figure in a cloak and a hood appeared silently there.