Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 13 Hidden Plot
Lu Qingshan took the King of Western Rat and quickly left the rocky forest.
"Where are we going?"
Looking at Lu Qingshan, who had remained silent since leaving the rocky forest, the King of Western Rat hesitated for a long time, but couldn't help but ask.
"Yuanshan City!"
The King of Western Rat actually wanted to ask Lu Qingshan if he could let him go since he had confessed everything he should.
It was so scared to be with Lu Qingshan.
But seeing Lu Qingshan's solemn expression, he didn't dare to ask.
Being a rat is so hard!
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After walking for a while, a majestic city appeared in front of Lu Qingshan.
Yuanshan City is one of the 108 county cities under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang Prefecture.
As a county town, there are dozens of large and small immortal cultivation families and three first-class sects stationed near Yuanshan City.
Standing outside Yuanshan City, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but be reminded of some memories.
The 108 county towns of Zhenjiang Prefecture are where the players of "Jiutian" are first born. In other words, it is the novice village.
Although the novice village in his previous life was not Yuanshan City but another county town, he couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy when he saw the familiar scenery.
Lu Qingshan went straight into the city. He was not questioned at the city gate and was not charged the so-called entrance fee. However, the black rat on his shoulder surprised the city guards.
Are there still people raising mice these days?
The roads in the city are paved with bluestone slabs and are clean and tidy. Countless pedestrians, merchants and snack stalls make the originally spacious streets bustling and lively .
In this world of demons, monsters, magic and sorcery, human towns are far more prosperous than the ancient world of science in terms of economy and other aspects.
Lu Qingshan randomly found an inn, asked for a room upstairs, ordered some wine and food, and started drinking alone in the room.
The King of the Western Rat looked around for a moment, and finally couldn't help but jump onto the table and join in.
Lu Qingshan glanced at the King of the Western Rat, but didn't say much.
He needs to calm down now, put aside all distractions, and organize his thoughts.
The blood pool that appeared ahead of time but was never mentioned in the plot records made Lu Qingshan feel that something was wrong.
He could feel that there was a layer of fog shrouding the history before the outbreak of the Corpse Puppet Rebellion.
What he needs to do is to break through this fog using the vast amount of information he possesses.
First of all, the existence of the blood pool must have its meaning. It is impossible for a magic cultivator to build a blood pool without a purpose.
Since there is a purpose, there will be a result whether it is success or failure.
The beginning and process of an event may be hidden very well, but the result cannot be hidden, because no matter what the result is, it will inevitably have a huge impact.
Just like the princes forcing the emperor to abdicate in ancient times, if it is carefully planned, everything may be silent before the result comes out. However, as long as the result is settled, whether it is failure or success, it will be recorded in the history books and written about in great detail.
However, looking back at the historical records, there is indeed no evidence of any incident related to this blood pool thousands of miles away from Zhenjiang City.
Then, there is only one possibility, that it exists in the records in a relatively obscure way.
Then we have to work back through the results to figure out which incident is related to the blood pool!
Lu Qingshan dipped his finger in the wine and started gesturing on the table.
He wanted to review all the major events that had occurred near Yuanshan City this year.
When he first checked into the hotel, he asked the waiter to confirm the current time.
Chang'an for twenty thousand years.
This was also the last year of this era. A few months later, the Corpse Puppet Rebellion broke out.
After the Corpse Puppet Rebellion ended, Tianji Guanguan took the initiative to use the Tianji Mirror to detect the secrets of heaven.
In an instant, the master of Tianji Temple, who had white hair and had reached the Mahayana realm, lost his lifespan in an instant. He left his last words before dying: The abyss has arrived, and from now on, the sky will fall into chaos.
The next year, the royal family of Daxia changed the reign title to Xianwu.
This year, everyone's attention was attracted by the corpse puppet rebellion and the passing of the master of Tianji Temple, so many other details were not paid attention to by many people and were just drowned in the long river of history.
However , Lu Qingshan is different. He has studied the plot of "Nine Heavens" in depth.
One name after another flashed through Lu Qingshan's mind.
He is sifting through useful information.
Suddenly, a record that seemed very inconspicuous in the vast historical records quietly appeared in front of Lu Qingshan.
According to historical records, on July 15th in the 20,000th year of Chang'an, the supervisor of Tianji Temple, one of the seven major Taoist sects, stationed in Zhenjiang Prefecture, lost a mirror of the Tianji Mirror near Yuanshan City.
Due to the passing of the abbot at the end of the year, the entire Tianji Temple was in mourning.
During the Xianwu year, major events happened one after another, so this matter was dragged on and on until it came to nothing.
The missing Tianji Mirror became an unsolved case.
The Tianji Mirror is the Taoist instrument of the Tianji Temple. It can understand the spiritual inspiration of heaven and earth, the cause and effect of the human world, and has the ability to detect the secrets of heaven and avoid disasters.
In addition, the Tianji Mirror has another very important ability, which is that it can split into many mirrors, and the mirrors can also possess a small part of the power of the Tianji Mirror itself.
Because of the magic of the Tianji Mirror, the royal family of Daxia reserved a guard position in each prefecture, and assigned a disciple of Tianji Temple who was equipped with a copy of the Tianji Mirror to guard the prefecture.
Tianjiguan monitors the world!
Lu Qingshan has never been able to understand this historical record.
The warden of Zhenjiang Prefecture was a fourth-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. Why did he appear in the small county town of Yuanshan City without any reason and lose such an important mirror of the Heavenly Secret Mirror here?
Something is wrong!
Thinking of the blood pool that appeared near Yuanshan City, Lu Qingshan already smelled a conspiracy.
A hidden plot?
Lu Qingshan's eyes gradually brightened, and he thought secretly in his heart, and his thoughts became clearer and clearer.
[Heavenly Secret Mirror] The ability to detect the secrets of heaven, such a mysterious creation, actually has many limitations. For example, many times, the secrets detected by using the Heavenly Secret Mirror are often just a specious picture.
This requires monks to analyze and study the meaning of these pictures.
This point can often be exploited by people with ulterior motives, who deliberately create some illusions to mislead those who use the Tianji Mirror.
Yes.
The blood pool is such an important thing, how could the illusion array hiding it suddenly become ineffective, and there is not even a single guardian?
It was obvious that the demon cultivator deliberately removed the formation, allowing the blood pool to appear in the Tianji Mirror and attracting the guards of Zhenjiang Prefecture here.
In order to avoid revealing their identities in the Heavenly Secret Mirror, demon cultivators need to stay away from the blood pool.
Even though this matter seems extremely strange, as the guardians of the world, how could the disciples of Tianji Temple ignore it? They will definitely come to find out what is going on.
The purpose of doing so is very simple. What the Zhenjiang Prefecture guards lost is the purpose of the magic cultivators.
Tianji mirror storyboard!
If the branch of the Heavenly Secret Mirror was still there, how could the city of Zhenjiang be defenseless and massacred by the demon cultivators!
Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan's eyes became deep, and he remembered something else.
After losing the Tianji Mirror, Zhenjiang Prefecture dispatched a large number of cultivators from the prefectural capital and stationed them in various county towns.
Therefore, when the Corpse Puppet Rebellion was on the rise, the Corpse Puppets used them as a cover to attack the major county towns. Although the attack was massive, the actual killings they caused were not horrific.
However, the city of Zhenjiang was filled with bones!
Now Lu Qingshan understood why this result happened.
The Zhenjiang Prefecture's guards were most likely misled by the blood pool that appeared near Yuanshan City.
It is believed that the target of the magic cultivators is only these small county towns.
But I didn't expect that this time, the demon cultivators would be so bold as to prepare to attack the city, and even succeed.
