Chapter 202 The Condor Heroes World, Bloody Suspicion
Peach Blossom Island.
Without Huang Yaoshi in front of him, the manor looked even more messy and dilapidated, as if no one had taken care of it for at least two or three years.
There is no doubt that this is another Peach Blossom Island.
When Ni Kun used the fragments of the Gate of Reincarnation to travel directly to Peach Blossom Island, he was really a little surprised.
Unexpectedly, Huang Yaoshi's use of semi-science and semi-metaphysical knowledge such as astrology, Yi Li, and Qimen numerology, combined with some knowledge of magic, combined with the "research results" of modern science such as quantum mechanics, actually worked, and he succeeded in one go and accurately located this parallel time and space.
Ni Kun didn't know how he did it.
We can only speculate that perhaps it was his "parallel space-time isotope", that is, the soul of Huang Yaoshi who was unfortunately surrounded and killed by several "unknown people", that gave Huang Yaoshi in the Tang Dynasty world some mysterious inspiration.
It has to be said that if a smart person like Huang Yaoshi, who is proficient in both arts and sciences, were born in an era of scientific prosperity, he might really become a big shot at the forefront of scientific research.
This time when he came to this world, Ni Kun did not bring anyone with him, nor did he go back to the ship to inform Zhu Yuyan and others.
Anyway, no matter how long he stays in this "The Legend of the Condor Heroes World", it is only a moment in the Tang Dynasty world, so there is no need to specially notify them.
He imagined a giant golden Buddha in his sea of consciousness, and his spiritual awareness spread out in all directions like ripples, instantly covering half of Peach Blossom Island.
After concentrating for a while, he did not sense any human presence.
Ni Kun withdrew his spiritual sense and wandered around the manor for a while, frowning and thinking:
"Strange... Why are there no mute servants on this Peach Blossom Island? Could it be that because Huang Yaoshi never came back, all the mute servants ran away?
“But even if the mute servant ran away, where did Zhou Botong, who had been trapped on Peach Blossom Island for many years, go?
"Also, according to Old Huang, Huang Rong had just turned fifteen when she ran away from home. She was angry with Old Huang, and the trigger was that Old Huang was so obsessed with scientific research that he actually forgot her birthday...
"But no matter how angry she is, a little girl who just turned fifteen will definitely miss her old father when she goes out to the wild alone for a while...
"Why is there no sign of recent human activity in the manor? Did Huang Rong run away from home and never come back?"
Wouldn’t something happen to him like Huang Yaoshi?
After pondering for a while, Ni Kun used the "Immortal Steps" and flew out of the manor in a few steps. He came to the peach forest and opened his spiritual sense to sense carefully, but still did not sense any human breath.
After searching the forest for a while, they found a cave that showed signs of human habitation.
At the entrance of the cave, there were some clay figurines and clay bowls that looked like the ones made by children playing house. Ni Kun knew that this must be the place where Zhou Botong had been trapped for many years.
But this cave looks like it has been abandoned for a long time, and no one has lived here for a long time.
"Did Zhou Botong slip away too?"
Ni Kun touched his chin and searched carefully inside and outside the cave, but did not find any corpses, bloodstains or other signs of fighting. It seemed that Zhou Botong had indeed left on his own initiative.
He then used his Immortal Steps to search all over the island, but did not find any useful clues.
Finally, they arrived at the dock and found that the Huang Yaoshi from this world was not there. The large ship that they had prepared looked gorgeous, but was actually unable to sail out to sea.
"Well, it should be Zhou Botong who drove the ship away."
Ni Kun sat cross-legged on the dock and took out a scroll from his mustard seed ring and unfolded it.
On the scroll was a portrait of Huang Rong painted by Huang Yaoshi using meticulous brushwork.
Although he had never met his daughter, Huang Yaoshi had already integrated the soul and memory of his "parallel space-time isotope" and poured in his most sincere emotions as an old father when painting this portrait of the girl.
So the girl in yellow clothes in the painting, standing under the peach tree with a peach blossom in her hand, is smiling sweetly and looks lifelike, as if she is about to walk out of the painting.
"Huang Lao Xie's painting skills are simply amazing!"
Ni Kun admired the girl in the painting who was prettier than a peach blossom. He also wrote down the date of birth of Huang Rong written at the bottom of the scroll. Using the painting and Huang Rong's date of birth as a medium, he performed the art of divination and calculated Huang Rong's whereabouts.
The reason why he dared to accept Huang Yaoshi's request and come to a completely unfamiliar world to look for someone was because he was good at fortune-telling.
Before setting off, he asked Huang Yaoshi for advice on the "Plum Blossom Yi Li". Huang Yaoshi simply gave Ni Kun a book he had written on his experience in studying the Plum Blossom Yi Li.
Naturally, the Plum Blossom Yi Li appeared in Ni Kun's [Skills] column. He learned it without hesitation, and combined it with Xu Fu's fortune-telling skills. In addition, he had practiced the Amitabha Sutra in the past, and his spirit was much stronger than Xu Fu's. He also learned the Plum Blossom Yi Li and the divination skills, which had far surpassed Xu Fu.
With his current deduction skills, and with Huang Rong's portrait and birthday as a medium, the deduction went extremely smoothly, and he quickly figured out Huang Rong's approximate location.
After figuring out the result, Ni Kun summoned the Nightmare Horse without hesitation, jumped on its back, and with a thought, the horse spread its four hooves, stepped on the sea, and galloped towards the land at lightning speed.
When approaching the land, Ni Kun saw a large sea ship that was nearly twice as large as his own.
He was not surprised by this.
The Southern Song Dynasty had developed maritime trade and quite advanced shipbuilding technology. It is not surprising that its ships were far superior to those of the Tang Dynasty.
Ni Kun originally wanted to avoid the ship to prevent the passengers on board from being frightened by the fear aura of the nightmare horse.
But unexpectedly, the deck of the ship was empty, without a single person in sight.
Ni Kun used his spiritual sense to sweep around and sensed a strong aura of death and a faint smell of blood.
"Everyone on the ship died? Did they encounter pirates?"
After a moment of hesitation, Ni Kun urged his horse to gallop towards the ship.
When he was approaching the ship, he put away his nightmare horse, used his Ascension Steps to ascend to the bow, raised his eyes, and immediately frowned.
There were more than a dozen bodies lying on the deck.
There were sailors wearing short-sleeved shirts or bare-chested, merchants dressed in silk, and even two warriors wearing tight clothes and holding long swords.
Ni Kun was used to seeing life and death, and he had even seen scenes of hundreds of thousands of zombies. Logically speaking, a mere dozen or so corpses would not be enough to make him frown.
But the problem is that the deaths of these dozen or so corpses were too strange.
There was not a drop of blood on the deck or on the bodies.
All the corpses looked like they had been weathered in the desert for many years, and they were all just skin and bones.
Ni Kun lightly flicked his fingers, and a gust of wind came out, hitting the back of a shirtless dried corpse, which actually made a dull bang sound, like hitting the surface of a drum.
“This is extremely dry!”
Ni Kun touched his chin and murmured to himself:
"This kind of death feels like all the blood in my body has been drained in an instant... a vampire? Or..."
He thought of the "Blood Killing God Sword" that he had wielded before.
It is also a magical skill that can drain the enemy's blood and vitality in an instant, turning the person into a mummy.
Ni Kun focused his eyes and observed carefully. Sure enough, on each body, he found a very thin cut caused by a sharp weapon. Some were on the neck, some on the face, and some were even only on the wrist.
But even if it was just a wrist injury, even if the wound was extremely narrow and thin, like a cut by a sharp blade as thin as a cicada's wing, the injured person still died instantly and turned into a dried corpse.
Ni Kun squatted down in front of a corpse, gently stroking the faint scars on its face with his fingers. He imagined the golden body of Buddha in his mind and concentrated his spiritual sense highly. As expected, he sensed a very faint, yet very familiar remnant of demonic energy.
He tested several corpses in succession and sensed more or less residual demonic energy on their wounds.
Ni Kun stood up, exhaled a long breath, and looked a little serious:
“It is indeed the Bloody Evil God-Slaying Sword! There is actually someone in this world who has cultivated the Bloody Evil God-Slaying Sword!”
Even Ni Kun kept his distance from the magical skill of Blood Evil Killing God Sword, and only used it for a period of time.
But even when he used this magic knife, he did not dare to use it to "eat people". Later, when he got the fragments of Thor's hammer, he simply cleaned it and completely washed away its ability to eat people.
The reason for this is, on the one hand, because of Ni Kun's own character, and on the other hand, because behind this magic skill, there is a "world-destroying" extraterritorial demon.
After learning from An Wuji that the "blood river" was truly the Holy Son of the Blood Demon Sect.
Ni Kun is already certain that after practicing the Blood Evil Killing God Sword and using this magic sword to eat humans to quickly improve his cultivation, once he reaches a certain level, he will definitely come into contact with the "Blood Evil Saint Son" from outer space, be corrupted and infiltrated by him, and become a pawn at his disposal.
Even this Blood Demon Killing God Sword might have been deliberately thrown in by the Blood Demon Saint.
Ni Kun lowered his head and looked towards the sky.
The sky was azure blue and cloudless, with no signs of a catastrophe to come.
But Ni Kun knew that in this world, there were already people who practiced the Bloody Slaughtering Divine Sword and were already slaughtering people wantonly, devouring their essence, blood, and soul to refine the sword...
Then the catastrophe is probably not far away.
Once the evil cultivator who practices the Blood Evil God-Slaying Sword is completely corrupted and fallen by the Blood Evil Saint Son, and launches a "blood sacrifice" and succeeds, the azure and cloudless sky above his head will immediately be covered with bloody streaks, and giant blood-colored hands that cover the sky and the sun will fall down, devouring all living things in the world, and finally crushing the entire world into dust.
"The few 'unknown people' who killed Huang Yaoshi might be evil cultivators who practiced magic!"
Ni Kun held his chin with his hand and murmured to himself:
"This world is very dangerous! We must find Huang Rong as soon as possible and bring her back to her old father."
Although Huang Yaoshi in the Tang Dynasty world is neither married nor has a daughter, since he has merged his soul with that of his "parallel time and space isotope", there is no doubt that Huang Rong is his daughter.
Ni Kun went to search the cabin again and found that the property on the ship was intact, but there was no one alive. All the sailors, boat workers, passengers, and bodyguards inside and outside the cabin were all killed. They all died of their blood being sucked out and turned into mummies.
"After killing people, he didn't even destroy the ship, but just let it drift on the sea. That evil cultivator whose identity is unknown is really arrogant!"
Ni Kun shook his head, walked out of the cabin, rolled out a fireball and threw it into the cabin, setting the boat on fire.
Soon, the entire ship was on fire. Ni Kun walked to the bow and used the Blood Evil Killing God Sword's mental method and the demonic energy he had just sensed as a medium to deduce and determine the location of the murderous evil cultivator.
It was exactly the same location as the one calculated for Huang Rong, so Ni Kun didn't need to change the route and rode straight there.
A moment later, Ni Kun stepped onto the coast, put away his nightmare, and used the Immortal Steps to fly on foot.
In less than half an hour, he arrived at Lin'an Prefecture, the temporary capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Although it was only a separatist regime, Lin'an Prefecture was extremely prosperous.
Inside and outside the city, industry and commerce are developed, all businesses are thriving, there are many households, the roads are wide, buildings are lined up, and there is a constant flow of traffic.
The location of Huang Rong and the evil cultivator calculated by Ni Kun were both in Lin'an City.
When entering Lin'an City, Ni Kun suddenly had an inexplicable thought in his mind:
"That evil cultivator who devours people...could it be Huang Rong?"
Ni Kun never believes that the protagonist must be a good person.
If we carefully recall the original novel of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, we can see from many details that Huang Rong is a cruel and ruthless child with a very weak sense of good and evil.
Whether she is good or bad, righteous or evil, all depends on who she follows.
If she had not met Guo Jing, and had ended up marrying Ouyang Ke, who was a good match for Dong Xie and admired by Huang Yaoshi, Huang Rong would never have become the leader of the Beggars' Sect, a heroine with a world-renowned reputation. She would have become a villain.
Today, reincarnation is in chaos, and the existing reincarnation worlds are full of chaos, and anything can happen.
"If Huang Rong is really an evil cultivator..."
Ni Kun shook his head, thinking that if she was really an evil cultivator, then the situation would be a bit bad.
It's possible that he would have to go back on his word to Huang Yaoshi.
Of course, this is just a worst-case guess.
Because of the death of Huang Yaoshi, Ni Kun also suspected that it was the work of evil cultivators.
No matter how naughty Huang Rong was, it was impossible for her to murder her own father.
On the contrary, if anyone harms her father, she will definitely stop at nothing to take the other person's life.
"So Huang Rong and the evil cultivator are both in Lin'an. Maybe it's just a coincidence..."
Ni Kun pondered in his heart as he walked into Lin'an City, wandering around aimlessly like a scholar who had just arrived in Lin'an.
Deduction and divination are not omnipotent, or in other words, with Ni Kun's current level, he is far from being able to calculate everything.
We can only roughly calculate the locations of Huang Rong and the evil cultivator, but cannot accurately locate their specific positions in such a big city.
The telepathic search doesn't work either.
The soul of the Yangshen system, when it does not reach a certain level, is not only afraid of sunlight and thunder, but also afraid of masculine energy and blood.
Even if there were no warriors practicing the immortal martial arts in Lin'an City, with so many people, even if everyone's yang energy was only at the ordinary level, the human popularity gathered in the city under the accumulation of streams into a sea was enough to seriously interfere with Ni Kun's spiritual perception, preventing him from freely using his spiritual perception to conduct a large-scale search.
So he could only wander around aimlessly, searching in small areas bit by bit.
However, he did not have a sample of Huang Rong's breath, and his spiritual perception was unable to distinguish Huang Rong's breath, so his search was mainly to find that evil cultivator.
As for Huang Rong, she can only try her luck.
After strolling for half a day, when they arrived at the famous scenic spot "Wansongling" outside the Fengshan Gate, Ni Kun suddenly stopped, stood by the roadside, squinting at a group of knights coming down from Wansongling.
They were a group of young men riding tall horses, wearing luxurious clothes and gold and jade ornaments.
The leader was a handsome, tall young man, who looked to be in his early twenties. He was surrounded by a group of young masters, looking arrogant and in high spirits.
The young masters were accompanied by a dozen or so attendants, all of them had a deep aura and were majestic and impressive, and it seemed that they all had very profound martial arts skills.
From Ni Kun's point of view, the cultivation levels of those dozen or so attendants were actually not inferior to Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng in the Tang Dynasty world.
As for Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng from the Tang Dynasty world, if they were placed in the original world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, they would probably be qualified to compete for the Five Greatest Masters.
At this moment, more than a dozen masters of the same level as Chen and Mei appeared, which was obviously very wrong.
But these are not actually the point.
The point is, Ni Kun sensed a trace of demonic energy from that young man.
It was the same bloody evil energy as the evil energy remaining on the wounds of the mummies on the ship!
The young man concealed his aura very well.
However, Ni Kun had already practiced the Blood Killing God Sword and was very familiar with this magic skill. He also practiced the "Past Amitabha Sutra", so his soul was strong and his perception was sharp. With the cultivation level of that young man, it was far from enough to restrain the demonic energy to the point where Ni Kun could not perceive it.
Ni Kun stood by the road, with his hands behind his back, looking calmly at the group of young men riding their horses.
Lin'an is originally a port city.
After the ship sailed out of Lin'an, the young man sneaked onto the ship and killed everyone on board. Then he let the ship drift downstream with the sails hoisted, and he returned to the shore in a swagger...
Tsk, this little devil is so arrogant!
After committing such a bloody crime, he acted as if nothing had happened, and swaggered out for an outing surrounded by people...
In order to facilitate his enjoyment, Ni Kun claimed to be a bad guy to prevent moral gentlemen from holding themselves to the standards of saints.
He also didn't feel that he had any responsibility to this world.
But since he has run into this, he has no choice but to do his best to enforce justice.
By the way, I would like to ask clearly whether Huang Yaoshi’s death has anything to do with him.
To be honest, Ni Kun felt a little relieved when he found out that the young man was the owner of the evil spirit.
He was a little worried before, because Huang Rong was the evil cultivator who practiced the art of devouring people.
In that case, he would really have no choice but to say sorry to Huang Yaoshi who was waiting for his daughter to come home.
Fortunately, it’s not…
Just as he was thinking this, the young man and his entourage were less than a hundred meters away from Ni Kun.
The sounds of the young masters' laughter also continued to reach Ni Kun's ears.
"Master Murong is still the best, but that young lady is..."
"Nonsense, Brother Murong is a man of both literary and martial arts. Who among the courtesans in Lin'an Prefecture doesn't admire Brother Murong? They're willing to pay him money..."
"Master Murong, when will you take me there?"
As he was speaking, a roar suddenly sounded:
"Murong Fu, return my brother's life to me!"
Amidst the shouting, a burly dark-skinned man, holding a huge wooden barrel, rushed down the hillside nearby. When he was still twenty feet away from the road, he threw the barrel with all his might.
Ni Kun could see clearly that on the side of the wooden barrel, there was a fuse that had been lit and was emitting smoke. At the same time, he also smelled a familiar smell of gunpowder.
That big wooden barrel turned out to be a powder keg.
But what surprised him even more was that the handsome young man with demonic aura was actually called Murong Fu!
Time has passed, and Murong Fu of Gusu Murong has returned?
Who was the burly man who shouted "Give me back my brother's life" and threw the powder keg?
While he was pondering, the powder barrel rolled over and flew over the knights' team.
But just as the gunpowder barrel was about to fall, Murong Fu sneered, flicked his sleeves, and a soft force from a distance supported the gunpowder barrel, which immediately bounced back intact and flew towards the burly man.
All the young masters praised in unison: "What a great move!"
As he spoke, the gunpowder barrel flew back over the big man and exploded with a loud bang. Scorching flames were thrown in all directions, and billowing black flames rose into the sky.
Although the burly man dodged in time, he was still affected by the explosion and knocked to the ground by the shock wave. He coughed up blood and his hair and clothes were ignited with sparks.
Murong Fu waved his hand lightly:
"Capture the thief and take him to the government for punishment. By the way, he is Nan Xiren, the fourth of the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan. He has a strong arm and a body of hard training. He can barely be considered a good fighter. Let's destroy his skills first, so that those useless officials in the government won't be unable to control him."
"Yes, sir!" A guard clasped his fists in response, rode out on his horse, and ran towards the burly man.
"It turned out to be Nan Xiren!" Ni Kun thought to himself, "We can't just sit back and watch. The Seven Freaks of Jiangnan are all rare heroes!"
Just as he was about to rescue Nan Xiren, he saw Nan Xiren grinning, revealing his bloody white teeth, and laughed at the guard who was riding a horse. He took out a metal cylinder from his arms and pointed it at the guard.
clang!
As the mechanism started, a brilliant halo bloomed from the metal cylinder, as gorgeous as a peacock spreading its tail.
The guard's martial arts skills are at the same level as Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng in the Tang Dynasty world. In the original world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, he would be able to compete with the Five Greatest Masters.
However, when the gorgeous halo like a peacock spreading its tail bloomed, the guard was almost unable to make any effective response. A muffled puffing sound came from his body, and then a large puff of blood mist burst out.
In the blink of an eye, the guard turned into a bloody sieve, blood spurting out of his body, and fell off his horse without a sound.
Ni Kun raised his eyebrows and looked at the metal cylinder in Nan Xiren's hand, wondering if this was...
Peacock feather?
If it really is the Peacock Feather, then it would not be surprising if it could kill a master who is capable of competing for the Five Greatest Masters in one strike.
Because the Peacock Feather is a terrifying hidden weapon that is enough to enable a noble family to stand firm and dominate the world for many years.
But why didn't Nan Xiren use the Peacock Feather to deal with Murong Fu?
Does he know Murong Fu's true strength and understand that even Peacock Feather cannot kill him?
This sudden change not only surprised Ni Kun a little, but also the group of young masters and the remaining dozen or so guards were all stunned and in disbelief.
Even Murong Fu frowned and stared at Nan Xiren.
Just when everyone's attention was attracted by the hidden weapon in Nan Xiren's hand and the guard who was killed instantly after the first contact.
Ni Kun suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked sideways and saw a crescent-shaped scarlet sword energy rushing out from the pine forest behind the young masters, silently and as fast as lightning, slashing towards Murong Fu.
It was actually the Bloody Killing God Sword!
