Chapter 274 Changhong Sword Sect
For a person of Zhou Ziyu's status, he is not afraid of you being a lion, but he has nothing to do with those who have no desires or desires.
If you have no desires or demands, he will not be able to coerce or induce you.
As he cannot walk openly and honestly, without the means of coercion and inducement, he is like a tiger without teeth, and is of no use at all.
Therefore, when faced with Chu Tang's statement that "you have to pay more," he smiled very happily and said that if you have any requests, you can ask for them, and you're welcome.
"We made an agreement before that as long as Chu completes two things for you, you can get a Seven Realm Cultivation Technique. This second thing is too dangerous. A mere Seven Realm Cultivation Technique is not enough. Chu also needs A divine weapon of grade seven or above!" Chu Tang put forward the conditions without any hesitation.
"Seventh-grade divine weapon?!" Before Zhou Ziyu could say anything, Miss Lin'er shouted out, widening her cute big eyes, "Kung Fu can be created by humans, but the forging of high-level divine weapons , in addition to needing powerful weapon refiners, it also requires rare materials to complete. It can be seen that divine weapons of the same level are much more precious than skills! You just want to get one thing for us, and you actually want a Seventh Realm Kung Fu and a seventh-grade magic weapon? Mr. Chu, you are too greedy!"
Chu Tang smiled faintly and did not refute, but asked Zhou Ziyu: "Mr. Zhou, what do you think?"
It's a seller's market now, and there's no reason why he shouldn't take advantage of the opportunity to fight for his own interests.
Zhou Ziyu looked at Chu Tang, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and finally said: "Deal! It's settled!"
"Master..." Miss Lin'er called out dissatisfied.
Zhou Ziyu glanced at her and said: "Talents are rare. It's a good deal to have someone like Brother Chu help me with just a seventh-grade magic weapon!"
Miss Lin'er said oh and said nothing.
Chu Tang actually smiled: "Master Zhou is still happy!"
Zhou Ziyu laughed and said: "Don't say it's just a seventh-level magic weapon. Brother Chu, Zhou promises you that as long as you follow us to find the treasure, Zhou will give you an additional eighth-level skill. Eighth-grade magic weapon, how about it?"
The smile on Chu Tang's face froze.
Eighth-grade magic weapon, are you so willing to spend your money?
Is the other party rich in wealth, or is he writing a bad check?
In other words, there are various profound skills and high-level magic weapons in King Liang's treasure. Zhou Ziyu thinks that he can have these things if he finds the treasure, so he doesn't hesitate to give them away?
Taking a deep breath, Chu Tang said with a smile: "The road must be walked step by step, and the food must be eaten one bite at a time. The Eighth Realm Kung Fu and the Eighth Grade Divine Weapon are too far away. Chu should get what is in front of him first. "
"Brother Chu is sincere!" Zhou Ziyu praised, "Then let's talk about the Changhong Sword Sect next?"
"I would like to hear the details." Chu Tang made a gesture of listening.
Zhou Ziyu raised his head and looked around.
As night fell, the scene in the hall became much darker.
The night wind blew away the last heat of the day.
With a sigh, Zhou Ziyu sighed deeply and said seriously to Chu Tang: "Brother Chu, when it comes to being thieves, the people of the Changhong Sword Sect are the biggest traitors in the world!"
"Ah?" Chu Tang was greatly surprised.
Zhou Ziyu thought he was lost in memories, and his voice was a little ethereal: "Actually, fifty years ago, the Changhong Sword Sect took refuge in the forces under my great-grandfather. It was headed by the King of Liang everywhere, in order to fight against the powerful forces in the Liangzhou martial arts world. Valley of the Fallen Gods.”
Chu Tang's interest increased greatly when he heard this. He didn't expect that there would be such gossip about the martial arts past, and he immediately thought of the key: "Master Zhou, King Liang failed in his rebellion, but the Changhong Sword Sect can still survive to this day. What happened in it what story?"
"Story? The accident is almost the same!" Zhou Ziyu became indignant, "Fifty years ago, there were nine masters in the Luoshen Valley, and they were still very powerful in Liangzhou. The imperial court named my great-grandfather the King of Liang here. It also has the intention of suppressing the Luoshen Valley. In order to compete with it, my great-grandfather gathered many Jianghu forces around him to rely on."
"That's when the Changhong Sword Sect came under the command of King Liang?" Chu Tang got the general idea.
Nowadays, Luoshen Valley, which has no masters of the Nine Realms, is still in a dominant position in Liangzhou Wulin. This shows how arrogant they were when they had the Nine Realms in hand.
The first generation of Liang King focused more on the confrontation with the barbarians on the border. To deal with Luoshen Valley, he could only use force to fight against force.
The forces of the Changhong Sword Sect came into his eyes and received his support.
In fact, we can understand the choice of the martial arts forces like the Changhong Sword Sect. The Luoshen Valley dominates the Liangzhou martial arts, which is extremely unfriendly to these martial arts forces. Dependence on the imperial court has become one of their paths.
But they certainly didn't expect that King Liang was going to rebel. If they were involved too deeply, the consequences would be serious.
Regarding the reason for Zhou Ziyu's anger, Chu Tang guessed that the Changhong Sword Sect finally chose to betray King Liang and work with the court to strangle King Liang's forces.
"The Changhong Sword Sect are all insidious and cunning people who go back on their word! They were the ones who took the initiative to instigate my great-grandfather to revolt, saying that they would unite most of the martial arts people in Liangzhou to participate in the grand event. Their request was that after success, please invite my great-grandfather to revolt. They wiped out Luoshen Valley in one fell swoop so that they could take their place. Unexpectedly, when there was an uprising, they would instead go to inform them, and together with the Jian Yiwei, they severely damaged many of the masters on my great-grandfather’s side. My great-grandfather had no choice but to start the uprising in a hurry , and ultimately failed."
Chu Tang was dumbfounded. Is there anyone in the Changhong Sword Sect who does such a trick?
However, he was only half-convinced.
This kind of thing has always been done by the public, and the mother-in-law said the mother-in-law is right. You must not believe one side of the story.
I only heard Zhou Ziyu gritting his teeth and saying: "The Changhong Sword Sect has obtained the imperial court's forgiveness because of its whistle-blowing and meritorious service, and has been preserved. Moreover, the imperial court deliberately set a benchmark for them in order to buy horse bones for thousands of gold, and provided support from all sides, making the Changhong Sword Sect the best in the past fifty years." The sect has become the Liangzhou martial arts force second only to Luoshen Valley, calling the shots in the arena, acting domineeringly, and doing whatever they want."
Chu Tang suddenly understood. No wonder Zhou Ziyu hated the Changhong Sword Sect and had not heard of his violent revenge. It turned out that he was frightened by the relationship between the Changhong Sword Sect and the imperial court, so he could only lie dormant.
"Chu heard that the Changhong Sword Sect was taught swords by an immortal, and the Feihong Sword Technique came into being. Only then was he able to control Liangzhou." Chu Tang said calmly.
"Fart!" Zhou Ziyu lost his usual elegant demeanor, became angry, and his face turned red, "Immortals teach you skills? Who believes it? It's just for the sake of reputation, to put gold on your face. These words are all It has only been spread over the past few decades. Maybe it is a deceptive trick to show that they are different from Luoshen Valley and collude with the imperial court!"
Chu Tang smiled when he heard this. Well, it turns out it was all for marketing, which is understandable.
After Zhou Ziyu calmed down a little, Chu Tang asked again: "Mr. Zhou, what did the Changhong Sword Sect take from Prince Liang that allowed you to find Chu to take it out at all costs?"
Zhou Ziyu said without any hesitation: "You have also seen the bronze mirror you got from Huang Longfei and the others before. In fact, in addition to that mirror, it also has a matching set, which is a copper frame. This copper frame Now it falls into the hands of the Changhong Sword Sect."
"Bronze frame?" Chu Tang was surprised, "Didn't you say before that the only thing missing was the picture of the Chen family?"
Zhou Ziyu shook his head and said: "Zhou only has the key in his hand. I remember clearly that he only said that someone had taken the bronze mirror, so I don't bother you, Brother Chu. The same goes for the bronze frame, but there are clues and I haven't picked it up yet." The second thing Zhou asked Brother Chu to do was to go to the Changhong Sword Sect to get the bronze frame."
Chu Tang frowned: "It's just a copper frame, do I have to take it?"
Zhou Ziyu quickly said: "The bronze mirror and the bronze frame were specially made by my great-grandfather by an expert. They were merged into one place and under certain conditions, they could reveal another scene. Later, the treasure was hidden and the object was transformed. So that it can locate the treasure. The bronze mirror and the bronze frame are indispensable."
"Since one is indispensable, why did it split into two back then?" Chu Tang was very curious about this.
Zhou Ziyu explained: "When things failed, my great-grandfather divided the objects that opened the treasure into four parts. The treasure map, bronze mirror, bronze frame, and key were entrusted to four people for safekeeping, so that they could break out. The key was always in his possession. In the hands of his descendants. The treasure map is also well hidden in the hands of the Chen family.
"The two people holding the bronze mirror and the bronze frame were hunted down and eventually destroyed. And these two things fell into the hands of the imperial court and the Changhong Sword Sect respectively. They only knew that these two things were highly valued by King Liang, but they didn't understand The key to it has been kept on the shelf."
At this point, the story came to an end. Zhou Ziyu was thirsty, so he picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Chu Tang nodded, thought for a while, and asked: "Master Zhou came here personally to meet with Chu, and told the ins and outs of these things. He is determined to win that thing, and he must have figured out the Changhong Sword Sect. What’s going on inside?”
With the example of Sima Mansion, Chu Tang did not believe that Zhou Ziyu would ignore the situation of the Changhong Sword Sect.
"Of course!" Zhou Ziyu subconsciously sat up straight with an arrogant expression, "Chu sent people to break into the Changhong Sword Sect a few years ago and have already found out the location of the bronze frame."
Chu Tang was puzzled: "Since we have found out the location, why not just take it out? Is the copper frame too big to move?"
Zhou Ziyu shook his head: "You have seen a bronze mirror before, it is as big as two palms. The matching bronze frame is actually very small, not much bigger than the bronze mirror."
Chu Tang said oh, thinking that the other party would rely on his Qinggong, he couldn't help but ask: "Is the place where the copper hiding frame is placed special?"
Zhou Ziyu sighed and said helplessly: "This has to talk about the terrain of the Changhong Sword Sect."
As he spoke, he stretched out a hand to Lin'er behind him.
Miss Lin'er immediately took out something from her sleeve and handed it to Zhou Ziyu's hand.
Zhou Ziyu took it in his hand, shook his hands, and spread it on the table in front of him.
When Chu Tang saw it, the corners of his mouth twitched - another layout plan!
This drawing is much larger than the previous one from Sima Mansion, and the pictures and words on it are even more densely packed, covering the entire paper.
At first glance, you can see the surrounding undulating mountains and various buildings among them.
Zhou Ziyu pushed the drawing in front of Chu Tang, pointed to a position in the middle and said: "Brother Chu, please look, this is the terrain of the Changhong Sword Sect. Did you see it? In fact, the place where the entire Sword Sect is located can be said to be a depression. Much lower than the surrounding areas.”
Chu Tang nodded while looking, and his eyes fell on a blank space in the upper part of the drawing.
The painting here is very strange, with a round blank space surrounded by straight lines and ripples in the middle.
"Where is this?" Chu Tang pointed his finger straight up and asked.
Zhou Ziyu smiled: "Brother Chu also discovered something strange? In fact, this is a sinkhole."
"Sinkhole?" Chu Tang expressed confusion.
Zhou Ziyu said: "Actually, if you look carefully, you can find that the Changhong Sword Sect is built around this tiankeng. The surrounding courtyards, pavilions, and these martial arts arenas are all around the tiankeng. Looking again, these buildings look like Not like the guards of Tiankeng?”
"Guard..." Chu Tang's heart moved, and his eyes were fixed on the sinkhole in the drawing.
Zhou Ziyu said in a deep voice: "This Tiankeng is the core of the Changhong Sword Sect! Why? Their scripture cave is located on the cliff of the Tiankeng. It has been the place where they have collected treasures of secret books throughout the ages."
"Tibetan Scripture Cave?" Chu Tang was even more curious.
Zhou Ziyu continued: "The tiankeng is five to sixty feet high, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. At the bottom is a small lake. The widest part of the pit above is more than 30 feet. There is a cliff below the pit, which is inaccessible to apes. In the sky There is a natural wide cave on the cliff more than thirty feet down from the southwest corner of the pit. Based on it, the Changhong Sword Sect built a scripture cave to store its sect's scriptures, secret books, and magic weapon treasures. As an important part of the sect, The most important thing, the place of inheritance.”
"So, the bronze frame is in the Scripture Cave?" Chu Tang asked.
Zhou Ziyu hummed and said: "Exactly! After several years of inquiring, Zhou's people are sure that someone has seen the copper frame in the Sutra Cave. However, the procedures for going up and down the tiankeng and entering and exiting the Sutra Cave are very cumbersome. , It’s extremely difficult. The Changhong Sword Party is also extremely strict with its care.”
Chu Tang's face turned dark: "Master Zhou, you have many capable people under your command, but none of them can do it, let alone Chu, right?"
"On the contrary!" Zhou Ziyu said decisively, "It is really difficult for the Chu brothers to achieve this."
"Um?"
"Actually, the reason why they guarded the tiankeng closely is because they took advantage of the topography of the tiankeng. First, they arranged a ropeway ladder, which is the only way to go up and down the tiankeng. And they have people guarding the ropeway up and down the tiankeng, so ordinary people cannot go up and down the tiankeng. Go up and down the sinkhole without alerting the guards.
"Secondly, the path up and down the Sutra Cave is not the same as the cableway up and down the Tiankeng! They built another cableway at the entrance of the Sutra Cave leading down to the Tiankeng. Note that there is only a way down to the Tiankeng, not up. Road. In other words, people from the Changhong Sword Sect must first go up and down the tiankeng cableway to the bottom of the pit, then walk a while, and then use another cableway to go up and down the scripture cave.
"As a result, the procedure is cumbersome, and you have to go through several guardianship levels. People who are not the core of the Changhong Sword Sect are not qualified to enter and exit the Scripture Cave, let alone outsiders!"
At the end, Zhou Ziyu smiled bitterly, spread his hands and said, "Brother Chu, don't you know how difficult it is for Zhou? No matter how many people are sent to break into the Changhong Sword Sect, unless he becomes the leader, he wants to bring out the bronze frame through normal channels. , is nothing more than a fool’s dream! But Chu can’t attack the Changhong Sword Sect on a large scale just because of that thing.”
Chu Tang also sighed: "So I can only steal it? But if Chu goes down the cliff dozens of feet high, I'm afraid he will be shattered to pieces, right?"
Of course he would not admit that now he was walking on flat ground going up and down cliffs.
Zhou Ziyu hurriedly said: "Of course I won't let Brother Chu go down with bare hands. Zhou has made careful arrangements. Brother Chu can use some auxiliary tools to climb on the cliff. In addition, Brother Chu's lightness skills are unparalleled in the world. Among us, Under the cover of the enemy, we can definitely reach the entrance of the Tibetan Scripture Cave silently."
Chu Tang paused for a moment and asked, "It's such a child's play to guard the Sutra Cave. Opening the door so that anyone can come and go as they please?"
Zhou Ziyu silently took out a handful of metal objects from his sleeves and placed them on the table with a clatter.
Chu Tang was shocked when he saw it, and the corner of his mouth twitched again - it was a key made of iron!