Chapter 533: 405. [Cold Scholar] falls into Peach Blossom Spring, sword array covers north and south

405. 【Cold Scholar】 falls into Peach Blossom Spring, sword array covers north and south

"Wei Sir's meaning is, the so-called flood in Prince Xunyang City delaying the Great Buddha is intentional, all fake, right?"

Shoe Mountain, maple forest, inside the main hall.

Snow Candle asked coldly.

Wei Wei Shaoqi nodded, then shook his head:

"True and false, false and true, isn't that the effect the imperial court wants to achieve?"

Zhang Shishiu saw that the golden-haired Great Lady showed a thoughtful expression, while Du Du Shuqing beside him nodded in agreement:

"Wei Sir is right. In a military formation, when two sides fight, this is a move often used to feint. The combination of virtual and real has the advantage of being able to disrupt the enemy's own rhythm, thereby striving for the initiative.

"Now it is also being used against us... The announcement of stopping construction at the Prince Xunyang Grottoes cannot help but make people suspect whether they are deliberately showing us flaws, setting a trap, and waiting for the rabbit, controlling the orientation of the final conflict to the Prince Xunyang Grottoes and its surroundings."

"Exactly."

Wei Wei Shaoqi was a bit emotional:

"Luring the enemy to a preset battlefield and letting the conflict happen at a preset time is itself an artificial creation of time and place... This possibility is not small.

"Furthermore, I know Magistrate Ouyang Magistrate Ouyang Lianghan. I have seen his Twin Peaks Peak water conservancy construction with my own eyes. This time, the Great Buddha of the Prince Xunyang Grottoes is also built under his direction. It is almost impossible for him and his people to overdraw the mountain stones to build the Great Buddha, causing flood worries again. This inferior move is too rough and reckless.

"If this move were placed on other Great Zhou local officials, I could believe it, but placed on him, it is very unreasonable, especially when there is almost no opposition to him in Prince Xunyang City, and no one to curb him, how could he make such a stupid move?"

Zhang Shishiu suddenly spoke:

"But if a flood really comes, and the Twin Peaks Peak cannot discharge the flood and control the water because of the construction of the Prince Xunyang Grottoes, Jiangzhou will really have to stop and fight the flood and provide disaster relief. What should be done? Wouldn't it be a waste of an opportunity to make a move?"

"It's not calculated like that."

Du Du Shuqing shook his head and looked at Zhang Shishiu more:

"Like now, we have been delaying to make a move, and the Prince Xunyang Grottoes side is on high alert every day. After a long time, they will naturally slack off.

"Only a sword that is not unsheathed has the most deterrent power. Once it is truly unsheathed and falls, it is inferior."

"Exactly."

Wei Wei Shaoqi stroked his beard in agreement.

Snow Candle looked at the two more and said indifferently:

"It is similar to the Second Xiao Shimei's view."

"When will the Second Great Lady return?"

"Just do your own things, don't ask too much. No need for us to worry about the Second Xiao Shimei."

"Okay."

Wei Wei Shaoqi was not annoyed.

Snow Candle suddenly walked forward.

Zhang Shishiu saw her come to the huge sand table.

The sand table seemed to be made by the felt-hat youth surnamed Du, very realistic, with detailed details.

For example, at the position of the Prince Xunyang Grottoes on the sand table, there is a wooden carved headless Buddha body.

The felt-hat youth gave Snow Candle a wooden stick for convenient command, but it was ignored by the latter.

In front of everyone, Snow Candle directly picked up the headless small Buddha, touched it gently, and didn't know what she was thinking.

Zhang Shishiu glanced at the Twin Peaks Peak on the map marked with many heavy troop guards.

"Then how do we get close to the Great Buddha? How do we go to the Prince Xunyang Grottoes?"

He suddenly asked.

Snow Candle and Wei Wei Shaoqi looked at each other, without answering.

Snow Candle held the wooden carving and suddenly asked:

"Wei Sir, how is the digestion of the sword art?"

Sword art?

Zhang Shishiu was stunned for a moment, but found that Wei Wei Shaoqi, Du Du Shuqing, and others reacted as usual.

"Thank you for your help, Great Lady."

Wei Wei Shaoqi said with an unusually serious expression.

Snow Candle was a bit impatient.

"I am asking you how the digestion is going."

Wei Wei Shaoqi lowered his voice unconsciously, and Zhang Shishiu also heard it:

"Two chapters, one has been understood, one remains."

Snow Candle had a surprised look.

Wei Wei Shaoqi smiled.

"Can you draw the sword?"

"Mm."

Wei Wei Shaoqi nodded, laughing and coughing violently, covering his mouth with a white cloth.

Seeing the smile at the corner of his mouth, Snow Candle sneered:

"Hmph, crooked path."

Wei Wei Shaoqi seemed to misunderstand that she was talking about the former, and said with emotion:

"It cannot be considered a crooked path. Tao Gong was brilliant and talented. If he hadn't opened this path, how could ordinary people or ordinary Qi refiners touch such mythical objects and control such mythical power?"

"You 'half-sword-wielding people' still have some talent and opportunity. Although it is not the most orthodox path of sword-wielding, and the upper limit is locked, you are considered people of great spirit in the tripod sword, not ordinary people."

Snow Candle rarely praised him slightly, only to see her wave her hand casually:

"However, I still say that, people like Tao Li Qian are just thieves. Being conquered by this, that is your ignorance, knowing too little about Qi refiner knowledge."

Wei Wei Shaoqi nodded:

"That's true. Listening to the Great Lady's meaning, the path opened by Tao Yuanming borrowed and imitated a certain Qi refining technique of your sect. The Great Lady is indeed qualified to say this."

Snow Candle frowned:

"However, I have one thing I don't understand. Since he is so worried about the Southern people and the Southern Song Dynasty, why didn't he take 【Cold Scholar】 out and hand it directly to the Liu Song royal family, or the subsequent heroes of the Six Dynasties, but chose to live in seclusion in Lady Yunmeng and leave 【Cold Scholar】 in that Peach Blossom Spring?"

Du Du Shuqing suddenly said: "Maybe both expectation and disappointment."

Snow Candle glanced sideways: "What do you mean?"

Zhang Shishiu saw that on Du Du Shuqing's originally wooden face, a trace of melancholy appeared, and he didn't know if he had substituted himself into some things.

He speculated softly:

"Having expectations for the Southern people and the Southern Song Dynasty, but after floating and sinking in the temple for many years, he saw through the essence early on, knowing what kind of wine-bag and rice-bag group the Liu Song royal family and noble families who held the power of the Southern court were, knowing that the expectations held were a bit unrealistic, but...

"What if? If someone could really stand up later, continue the Northern Expedition, just like the Emperor Wu of Song he had witnessed, with golden spears and iron horses, swallowing the world like a tiger... If so, what kind of scene would it be to add another 【Cold Scholar】 help this time."

Snow Candle listened, and the originally cold and disdainful expression loosened slightly.

"Exactly."

Wei Wei Shaoqi continued.

Zhang Shishiu saw him take out a bronze scroll painting from his sleeve with emotion, and while touching it gently, said:

"So three hundred years ago, Tao Gong left 【Cold Scholar】 in the ethereal Peach Blossom Spring, and with the help of your sect's blood bronze and special Qi refining technique, built an array, made a scroll, and left it in Jiankang City. It is nominally the manuscript of "Peach Blossom Spring Record," but it is actually the eye of the array.

"This array is exquisite, with 【Cold Scholar】 in the Peach Blossom Spring as the core, using mysterious blood bronze to suppress, and then using the "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript as the eye token to mobilize it...

"Wherever the "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript goes, the sword edge of 【Cold Scholar】 can sweep across.

"However, if it were just like this, the "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript would be no different from 【Cold Scholar】 itself. The interesting thing is another point, which is also what Mr. Wu discovered back then."

Wei Wei Shaoqi was in awe and sighed:

"This great array constructed by the mythical tripod sword and Peach Blossom Spring does not need the spiritual energy maintenance of any Qi refiner, but uses Tao Gong's literary energy as firewood similar to lighting a stove, running almost endlessly.

"Therefore, the "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript can only be used south of the Yangtze River, because at that time the North and South were separated. As a famous scholar, Tao Yuanming's poetry was only sung in the Southern Kingdom, and literary energy filled the Jiang Nan. In other words, once the "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript was carried across the Yangtze River and walked north, it lost the firewood of Tao Gong's literary energy and naturally could no longer use this manuscript. Falling into the Northern land, it was no different from a piece of waste paper."

Du Du Shuqing pursed his lips and couldn't help but interject:

"From this point, one can see Tao Gong's thoughts at that time even more, probably having long expected that there would be such a day when the manuscript would be left in the North."

Wei Wei Shaoqi nodded in agreement and said to Snow Candle:

"So I said that day that the scholar surnamed Cui in Northern Wei was powerful, recognized the "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript, played against Tao Gong, dismantled the manuscript, and put the three hundred and twenty characters on it into the three hundred and twenty Buddhist temples that survived after the Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu destroyed Buddha, and the Buddhist temples were distributed in the Northern land. Each Buddhist temple could serve as a branch array eye to mobilize the sword array...

"Thus, the Peach Blossom Spring sword array, which originally needed Tao Gong's literary energy as firewood, was transformed into a new array with Buddhist incense energy as firewood. The core of the new sword array was still 【Cold Scholar】, suppressed in the Peach Blossom Spring where no one could find it.

"It's just that it changed from being like waste paper when leaving the Southern Kingdom to being permanently stationed in the Northern land, unable to return to the South..."

Du Du Shuqing remembered something and opened his mouth:

"It's like, oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and those born in Huaibei are trifoliate oranges."

Wei Wei Shaoqi nodded while coughing, his expression full of longing and admiration:

"Well, in short, this sword array system pioneered by Tao Gong was cracked, or rather... improved by Cui Hao of the Qinghe Cui clan. The sword array system is more perfect, and it is the culmination of the knowledge of two top scholars in the North and South... However, few people know about it. Most people think it originated from the Northern Wei royal family, not knowing it was the achievement of the two people before."

"And this sword array used by Cui Hao to suppress the Northern Wei's national destiny influenced many major events in the Northern and Southern Dynasties later, and is the source of many muddled accounts in history."

"And in the words of Mr. Wu that day, from the moment Cui Hao stole this map and turned the Southern array into the Northern array, the national destiny of the Southern Dynasty had already begun to be suppressed by the Northern Dynasty in the dark. A certain balance had long been tilted, it was just a matter of time."

Snow Candle suddenly said:

"Actually, what Wei Sir said is only one of the 'Tripod Contention' level exchanges in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which can be considered a dark move."

Wei Wei Shaoqi was stunned, looked at her, and found that the expression on the face of this golden-haired Great Lady was not surprised, but rather... as usual.

"How to say this, are there other winning moves?"

She narrowed her eyes and said:

"There are some bright and dark moves, but the past is already past, no need to mention it again."

Snow Candle glanced at the "Peach Blossom Spring Map" in Wei Wei Shaoqi's hand and nodded lightly:

"This matter you mentioned, the Great Lady Hall and I really didn't know about it before, but these two people are interesting. Later, the Great Lady Hall's secret library seems to have recorded a matter involving this person, with his name..."

Speaking of this, Snow Candle stopped and shook her head.

Wei Wei Shaoqi continued to smile:

"However, nowadays, Mr. Wu has been exploring many old Northern Wei Buddhist temples in Chang'an and Shenjing Luoyang for ten years... The "Peach Blossom Spring Record" manuscript has finally been restored."

Zhang Shishiu, who was listening, became more and more silent.

After a long while, Wei Wei Shaoqi and Snow Candle chatted again.

Zhang Shishiu looked at the sand table in front of him and interrupted:

"Great Lady, Wei Sir, Young Master Du, what should we do about the flood and the Great Buddha? Are we going to make a move?

"What if the Prince Xunyang Grottoes are prepared in advance? But if we don't make a move, and this is really a smokescreen, and the Great Buddha lands during this period, that would be absolutely unacceptable..."

Everyone fell silent, and all eyes were cast on a tall golden-haired Hu Ji.

Snow Candle lowered her head and played with the Great Buddha wooden carving she picked up from the sand table. After a while, she gave a light laugh, "Painting a tiger without success, it's like a dog." At the same time, her two fingers picked up a golden Buddha head restored on the sand table and pieced it onto the headless Buddha carving.

The palm-sized statue fit perfectly.

Snow Candle didn't answer the previous question, held up this Great Buddha wooden carving, and signaled to Zhang Shishiu:

"Daoist Zhang, didn't you keep asking me and the Second Xiao Shimei how to preserve Lady Yunmeng's substance while maintaining Lady Yunmeng's face?"

"It is like this..."

Before the stunned Zhang Shishiu could finish speaking, he was interrupted by her again.

"Very simple."

Zhang Shishiu didn't even hear the sound, his eyes saw a stream of fine powder mixed with gold sand flowing from the fingers of this Lady Yunmeng Great Lady, dissipating in the air.

Turning his head again, he saw the Prince Xunyang Grottoes mountain and water terrain restored on the sand table being swept into powder by an unprovoked snowy white sword energy. In silence, it vanished into ashes.

A piece was missing on the sand table, as if it had been completely erased by some kind of violent force that was unquestionable, without any reason.

Without looking at Du Du Shuqing, who was looking at the sand table with his eyelids jumping.

The golden-haired Hu Ji nodded indifferently:

"Isn't it just like this." ===== CHAPTER 534 =====