Chapter 334: Only Caution, Old Affairs of the Previous Body

After the samsara travelers left, Qian Chen fell into deep thought, and Si Qingcheng did not ask further. She knew that if Qian Chen felt it was appropriate, he would naturally tell her.

Sure enough, after pondering for a moment, Qian Chen raised his head and said: "These people are samsara travelers!"

Si Qingcheng frowned slightly: "I heard Father say that there are indeed samsara travelers who descend into the Central Lands sometimes. They came to Jiankang, it seems that the matter of Imperial Uncle's serious illness, and even the struggle of my brothers, is not simple. It might cause a big mess!"

"No wonder Yan Yan Shixiong wants to help them!"

"Letting them act on their own is not as good as putting a thread to lead them!" Qian Chen did not deny it.

"Ning Ning Shimei should know about the destruction of my sect, the Supreme Louguan."

Si Qingcheng nodded: "That murderer Miaokong was eliminated with our help... Are you saying these samsara travelers might be related to Miaokong?"

"I am a successor disciple of the Supreme Louguan. After Miaokong and another samsara traveler slaughtered the Supreme Louguan years ago, they seized its inherited spirit treasure... but because the Primordial Spirit True Immortal of the Supreme Dao pursued too urgently, they couldn't take the spirit treasure away. So they sealed the inherited spirit treasure in the body of a person they snatched."

Si Qingcheng was slightly startled upon hearing this, covering her mouth and saying: "That person is Yan Yan Shixiong!"

Qian Chen nodded: "I had my memory and spiritual sense destroyed by Miaokong's seal, as if I were dead, but by chance, I touched the spirit treasure and obtained the inheritance of the Supreme Louguan. Since then, I have entered samsara to pursue and kill the murderer Miaokong who slaughtered my sect."

"Just now, I saw the relics of the previous body in that woman's hand, this should not be a coincidence!"

Si Qingcheng said nervously: "Yan Yan Shixiong is saying that someone in the Land of Samsara is calculating to find you!"

"Before Miaokong died, no one knew if he had left a backup plan, and there was another person who snatched me away with him. Although this person made a Daoist oath before the Lord of Samsara not to plot against that spirit treasure, I don't know the specific oath. After Miaokong died, the Daoist oath might have flaws."

Qian Chen said to Si Qingcheng: "Ning Ning Shimei, help me cover my tracks. Just in case, I must make some arrangements!"

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After leaving Princess Qingcheng's manor, Yuan Hao and the others walked on the street.

Yuan Hao whispered: "The task is indeed not that simple, but this trip to see the Sixteenth Princess was still fruitful."

Luo Tong said: "With that letter, Sima Yue shouldn't come to find trouble!"

"No... we actually want him to come and find trouble!"

Yuan Hao showed a confident smile and said: "Yuchenzi and the Sixteenth Princess, if they only intervene this once, the only bit of favor will be used up. So, we must make them get involved deeper."

"Now this matter is just a trivial entanglement, but if Sima Yue rejects the Princess's face, this matter will become their own business."

Luo Tong suddenly realized: "That's right, helping others, favors always have a time when they are used up, but if you can't hold your face and get involved voluntarily, that is endless."

Yuan Hao nodded slightly.

Du Xiuniang reached out and touched the white jade ring on her arm, sighing: "I've worn it for so many days, and no one has asked about this object. Did we guess wrong? Side task three has nothing to do with the main task."

But just as they walked to the inn where they lived, a waiter came up to them and said: "Guest, the matter you asked me to inquire about has a clue!"

"What clue?" Du Xiuniang asked hurriedly.

The waiter smiled: "Oh! I dare not say this, someone is waiting inside the shop!"

As the few stepped into the inn, He Fan greeted them. Beside him was a Northern official, standing straight, holding a long sword with a scabbard, tall, with an extraordinary momentum, and the sharp light occasionally revealed in his eyes showed that his cultivation was not weak.

This person came in front of them, a head taller than Yuan Hao, looked down at them, and said with an imposing manner: "Are you the ones who have clues about the Young Master?"

He pointed to the white jade ring on Du Xiuniang's wrist. Du Xiuniang took off the jade ring and handed it to him. This person slightly operated his magic power, and saw the jade ring fly up like a light wheel, with a line of text appearing on it.

About to soar, about to fly, wearing jade Qiongju; about to soar, about to fly, wearing jade Jiangjiang!

His expression was a bit excited, and he nervously put away the jade ring and said: "My Lord wants to see you..."

"My Lord?" Yuan Hao and Du Xiuniang exchanged glances. Southern Jin upheld the Han tradition and did not like to call people "My Lord."

Only the Northern Dynasty, which intermarried with the grassland barbarians and was invaded by Northern Hu customs, liked to call high-ranking people "My Lord"!

What could a Northern Dynasty official have to do with the aristocratic youth clothing found in Guanglingcheng and the task target of the samsara travelers?

The four boarded the carriage parked at the entrance of the inn. On the way, Yuan Hao probed the man's words without revealing his intentions. Although the Northern Dynasty general looked down on them, seeing that Yuan Hao and the others grasped the whereabouts of the "Young Master," he still revealed some things.

The "My Lord" who wanted to see them was the Northern Wei envoy who had arrived in Jiankang not long ago.

Yuan Hao and Du Xiuniang exchanged glances, both feeling that the task suddenly became clear. Side task three was indeed related to the main task. You must know that the Northern Wei envoy could also meet the Emperor.

Moreover, now that the North was strong, if the Northern Wei envoy insisted, he should be able to help them get closer to the Emperor better.

But why did the clues of the Northern Wei minister's juniors appear in Guanglingcheng in the Jiangzuo, and how did they become the task target of the previous generation of samsara travelers? Were the relics left by the samsara traveler in the hands of that Young Master, or were there other clues?

Most importantly, to get the help of this Northern Wei envoy, it seemed they had to find that Young Master first.

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The Northern Wei envoy was a middle-aged man seven feet tall, with a five-strand long beard under his chin, and an elegant temperament. His eyes were bright and spirited, and his momentum was solid. Yuan Hao sensed slightly, and his heart trembled—another great Yin Spirit cultivator.

Are Yin Spirits nowadays so worthless?

He took the white jade ring, stared at it in his hand for a long time, and then sighed: "That's right, it's Ran'er's personal item!"

Then he raised his head and looked at Yuan Hao and the others: "Where did you find this?"

Yuan Hao cupped his hands and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "We just happened to get it by chance. Someone entrusted this item to us, asking us to find its owner..."

Only in this way could they explain why they would borrow the item to find the person with great fanfare.

The middle-aged man stared at Yuan Hao for a moment. The powerful pressure brought by the Yin Spirit cultivator's spiritual momentum made Yuan Hao and the others feel a bit uneasy, but samsara travelers had seen the world and did not lose their composure.

"Let's assume what you said is true!" The man said: "I don't care why you came, help me find the person, and I can give you whatever you want. But if you are playing with me, don't blame me for not letting you walk out of this Jiankang City!"

Yuan Hao said in a deep voice: "My Lord, we also want to find the Young Master, but relying only on this item and the few clues we know, it is difficult to do so. If My Lord can tell us how the Young Master was lost and what characteristics he has, we will have a greater chance!"

The middle-aged man stood up, paced with his hands behind his back for a moment, and then said: "Do you know who I am?"

Yuan Hao lowered his head: "I don't know My Lord's name!"

"I am Li Chong, the Secretariat of Northern Wei, a native of Longxi. I was raised by my eldest brother since childhood. The eldest brother is like a father! This item is the personal item of my eldest brother Li Cheng's youngest son—Li Er."

"Three years ago, Li Er returned to Taiyuan Wang family to visit relatives with his mother, but was snatched by two monsters on the road. The two Core Formation cultivators, the offering who protected him and his mother, were actually not their match."

"Two great cultivators, actually went to snatch a young man who had not yet reached adulthood!"

Li Chong snorted coldly, obviously not trusting Yuan Hao and the others.

But he respected his eldest brother extremely, and after hearing that this nephew was snatched, he inquired in every possible way, and his heart was also very concerned. For three years, his eldest brother Li Cheng had gradually despaired, feeling that perhaps Li Er's birth date was special, his root bone talent was too good, and he was chosen by demonic monsters as a sacrifice for refining magic treasures and practicing demonic arts.

Now that there was such a clue, he was also unwilling to give up.

"As long as you bring back my nephew, I don't want to pursue all this. This item is also your reward..." Li Chong took out a jade belt hook from his sleeve. Under the shining spiritual light, it was actually a magic treasure of good essence and extremely high grade.

Li Chong's meaning was self-evident!

The samsara travelers looked at each other. These few words were basically equivalent to having no clues. Before, at least there was a jade ring. Although I don't know why, relying on the aura on the jade ring, all the magic talismans for tracking people failed, and divination results were even more chaotic.

But now even this only jade ring was gone.

It seemed that if they couldn't find the person, this Northern Wei Secretariat would probably hold them accountable. The samsara travelers felt that they were looking for trouble, but when it reached this point, they could only bite the bullet and agree.

Anyway, if they couldn't find that "Young Master," they would just drag it out until the task was completed. They would return to the Land of Samsara. Even if Li Chong was a Yin Spirit cultivator, or even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal, could he break through this realm to find them?

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On Xuanwu Lake, Qian Chen held an oil-paper umbrella, dressed as a green-clothed scholar, and took a hired small boat to sail on the lake, like a scholar who came late to take a boat to tour the lake.

On the lake surface, water vapor curled, and under the shroud of fog, this small boat lay quietly on the water surface. Qian Chen stared at the lake, as if seeing through the depth of the lake, seeing a water eye pierced by extremely sharp sword qi under the hundred-zhang deep lake.

"So it's here!" Qian Chen muttered.

Xuanwu Yin and Yang help each other, Zhong Shan is like purple gold!

Standing on the lake, seeing the surging water dragon coming from the Great River, turning into the Vermilion Bird Soaring trend in the Qin Huai, and merging into Xuanwu Lake, Zhong Shan is towering like a green dragon. The images of dragon and phoenix, one hard and one soft, one yin and one yang, merge in this Xuanwu Lake.

The formation seals left by Master Zhang in the past were unobstructed in the eyes of Qian Chen, who had already merged the four strange formations of the Eight Formations Diagram.

He held the Mysterious Xuan Huang Ruyi and threw it into the lake. The mysterious yellow light split the formation seals and went straight into the water eye...

In the Imperial City's Astronomical Bureau, a bell rang, and the officials in the bureau ran a few steps hurriedly to the water-transport astronomical observatory in the bureau building. Looking at the rotation of the armillary sphere, he said in astonishment: "I seemed to see the formation move just now, why is it gone now?"

A spiritual platform official beside him smiled: "Perhaps it was caused by the fluctuation of the earth's qi... Come, come, let's continue to calculate the stars."

"Recently, the Mars star has gradually scattered and stayed in the Heart Mansion. This is the image of Mars guarding the heart, a sign of great inauspiciousness! It may lead to chaos in state affairs, and the Eight Dragons fighting for the throne."

"Are you crazy to dare to say this? If the Prince of Donghai knows, won't he peel your skin?" The Xia official spiritual platform official said: "If you ask me, the Five Emperors' Seat in the Taiwei Wall guards the Crown Prince star, and the Crown Prince star is bright and goes straight into the screen, which is a sign of the Crown Prince in the country!"

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Qian Chen took back the Mysterious Xuan Huang Ruyi. Moving hands and feet in the Four Symbols Zhou Tian Formation that suppressed Jiankang was not a one-day task. Acting at this time was mostly to probe whether the cultivators guarding the formation in the Jin Dynasty were vigilant.

Now it seems that the astronomical officials of the Jin Dynasty had little vigilance.

Then he was relieved!

The movement of Qian Chen's later actions was smaller than today. Today was just a rough action, mainly to observe the terrain and atmosphere of Xuanwu Lake, Zhong Shan, and the Imperial City.

To sort out the general veins of a formation.

Later, he would truly spend a few days to set it up slowly.

Qian Chen took a boat to Zhong Shan. On the way, he saw a handsome man with a cold expression and a long sword on his back also taking a boat, passing through Xuanwu Lake and heading to the Qin Huai River.

The two small boats crossed each other on the lake surface.

Both sides sensed a trace of extraordinary aura. Qian Chen stood at the bow of the boat, holding a wooden oar, and thought: "What sharp sword qi! It can almost be compared with Yan Yan Shixiong Yan, but he is not a pure sword cultivator. Interesting!"

The man also had some doubts in his heart: "That person carries a trace of the Dao aura of Yin and Yang perfection, his style and demeanor are natural, but he does not lose his human aura. Why have I never heard of such a person?"

"Forget it!" He threw this doubt to the back of his mind and thought: "This time the family called me back, saying that Uncle Grandfather was humiliated again. I don't know how many families to pick? I have already picked those eight wastes of the Sima family once. Could it be that this time I have to take action against the few Commandery Princes of the older generation? Also, Grandpa Rong also wrote to say that this person is not easy to deal with this time..."

"Sigh! Always saying so, I hope this time it can be stronger!" ===== CHAPTER 335 =====