Chapter 376: Unexpected
I didn't expect that after returning to Yuanhefu City after a year, the first name I heard was this.
Zhou Heng was immediately embarrassed.
However, he also recognized who this person was.
This was a young girl who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old. She was very beautiful.
It was Wang Xinyue, the legitimate daughter of the Wang family in Yuanhefu City.
"It's really you!" Wang Xinyue was very excited after recognizing Zhou Heng. She came to Zhou Heng happily and said a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, sir, I was too excited just now and called you by your name."
"Haha, it's nothing. Names are meant to be called. Well, but nicknames are forgotten." Zhou Heng waved his hand and smiled: "How is your ancestor?"
The last time he came to Yuanhefu City, he saved the entire Wang family and was very kind to the Wang family.
At the beginning, the old man of the Wang family wanted to keep Wang Xinyue by his side as a maid to serve him, but he refused.
"The old ancestor is doing well, but from time to time he will talk about you, sir, saying that the Wang family cannot repay your kindness, and he doesn't know what to do, and he often feels guilty and regretful." Wang Xinyue said: "Sir, are you going to visit my house? The old ancestor will be very happy to see you."
"If there is a chance, I will go." Zhou Heng nodded gently and said: "However, I have some things to deal with in Yuanhe Prefecture this time, so I won't go there for now."
"Is that so..." Wang Xinyue lowered her head and was a little disappointed when she heard it, but then she still smiled and said: "Sir, your own affairs are more important. After you have dealt with them, I will invite you again?"
"Haha, that's fine." Zhou Heng smiled.
His impression of the Wang family is not bad. Since the other party has invited him so kindly, it's okay to join in the fun.
Moreover, the Yuanhe Wang family is a branch of the Xuanzhou Wang family. The Jiaoxu of the Zhoutian Xunjie Division is Wang Xueyuan, the eldest branch of the Xuanzhou Wang family. He and his son Wang Xiuye have some friendship with Zhou Heng.
Although this relationship was a little distant, it also subconsciously increased Zhou Heng's favorability towards the Yuanhe Wang family.
After separating from Wang Xinyue, Zhou Heng went straight to the Bai Family Pharmacy.
The reincarnation of Qingxia God is the nine-year-old daughter of the shopkeeper of Bai Family Pharmacy, Bai Yuejian.
To find the soul of Qingxia God that has partially revived, you have to find Bai Yuejian.
However, when Zhou Heng came to Bai Family Pharmacy, he found that only Bai Jingtian was left here to take care of it. He did not see the shopkeeper Bai and his wife and Bai Yuejian.
Bai Jingtian is an apprentice of Bai Family Pharmacy and the adopted son of the shopkeeper Bai. He is seventeen years old this year. Zhou Heng has taught him some martial arts.
"Mr. Zhou, why are you here?" Bai Jingtian was quite surprised to see Zhou Heng. He quickly put down the prescription in his hand, walked out of the counter and welcomed Zhou Heng in.
"Are the shopkeeper and your sister not here?" Zhou Heng looked at the backyard and asked.
"No." Bai Jingtian shook his head and said, "My sister was crying about missing grandma a few days ago, so my father and mother took her to grandma's house."
"Ah?" Zhou Heng didn't expect it to be so coincidental. He paused for a moment and said, "When did she leave?"
"Two days ago." Bai Jingtian was a little confused and couldn't help but said worriedly, "What's wrong, sir? Did something happen?"
"Nothing." Zhou Heng shook his head gently and comforted him, "I just want to talk to your father. In this case, I will stay in Yuanhefu City for a few days and wait for them to come back."
"Okay." Bai Jingtian was overjoyed and said with a smile on his face, "Then I will clean up the guest room for you. By the way, I still have some doubts about martial arts. Can you please..."
"Haha, no problem." Zhou Heng smiled and said, "By the way, where is your grandma's house?"
"It's in Sanqiao Town in the south, about 30 miles away." Bai Jingtian said without thinking.
It was extremely difficult and unsafe for ordinary people to travel far in this era. Marriages were generally not far away, and dozens of miles were considered relatively far.
"Well, thank you for your hard work." Zhou Heng nodded gently, and then a thought came to his mind, and a wisp of his soul flew out of his sea of consciousness, flying south in the precious image of the Supreme Riding a Bull.
He was going to find Bai Yuejian.
Two days ago, it happened to be the day when the evil god Moka Kasyapa tried to descend and a war broke out in Fengzhou County.
Bai Yuejian clamored to leave, probably because Qingxia God sensed something, or recovered some strength.
Although this destination may not be true, it is also a clue, and we can chase it and see.
The soul will track, and the body will wait here.
Both are correct.
...
For Zhou Heng now, the distance of thirty miles is almost the same as the average person walking from the house to the outside of the courtyard.
However, in a moment, he, who showed the precious image of the Supreme Riding a Bull, had arrived at Sanqiao Town, thirty miles south of Yuanhe Prefecture.
This place got its name because it is adjacent to Yuanhe River and has three bridges. The water transportation is quite developed. It is a place for passing merchant ships to repair before entering Yuanhe Prefecture City. It is quite prosperous.
In order to avoid shocking the world and causing riots, Zhou Heng did not land, but spread his spiritual consciousness above the town to find the whereabouts of Bai Yuejian's family.
But even if he searched the entire Sanqiao Town, he found nothing.
Bai Yuejian and her parents are not here.
"Did she really run away like this?" Zhou Heng frowned and thought to himself: "Could it be that she has further recovered and is trying to cancel the Dao Seed oath to me?"
In fact, after learning that Qingxia God was one of the thirty-six gods who dominated the Dark Age, he was mentally prepared for this.
Qingxia God, as a hegemon who once stood at the top of an era, could never be completely conquered by him so easily.
Even though Qingxia God's recovery level was still very low at that time, and she was fooled and reduced in intelligence, she would definitely try to get rid of the control of the Dao Seed Oath again after she woke up further.
"Moreover, she chose to let Bai Yuejian's family leave and hide from me, which means that she has a relatively sufficient confidence that she can get rid of the constraints of the Dao Seed Oath in a short time."
"If she can't break the Dao Seed Oath in a short time, then she doesn't need to leave Yuanhefu City at all, let alone deliberately hide from me.
"Anyway, if it can't be broken in a short time, it can be completely delayed slowly. If you leave early and hide from me like now, it will make me suspicious and notice something wrong.
"But the Dao Seed Oath was sworn by her own Dao Seed. How can she break it? What methods can she use?"
Zhou Heng looked at Sanqiao Town below, and at the townspeople who were protecting each other. Suddenly, he thought of a possibility in his mind. "It may not be easy to break the Dao Seed Oath with her own power that has not yet fully recovered. But what if someone helps her?"
As a former epoch overlord, as long as Qingxia God recovers some of his memories and power, it should not be particularly difficult to reach cooperation with some of the current strong men.
"So, who is more likely to help her?" Zhou Heng's mind flashed the names of some forces.
The Thirty-Six Heavens is definitely the most likely. This organization's ultimate goal is to unseal the Thirty-Six Gods and let them revive and return. It is reasonable to do such a thing.
But the members of the Thirty-Six Heavens are mainly scattered immortals from the East China Sea. Those scattered immortals are tired of living in the mortal world and have been overseas all year round. There are also large sects and families on the coast to monitor them. If the scattered immortals come to the mainland, they will be very conspicuous.
This situation is not suitable for Qingxia God to secretly plot to unseal.
In addition, there may be people from the evil ways who intervened. After all, judging from the incident in Yuanhe Prefecture City a year ago, the Thirty-Six Heavens have long been mixed with the masters of the evil ways.
If the power of the evil gods of the evil ways can be used, it may not be impossible to solve the Dao Seed Oath.
In addition, Zhou Heng also thought of one thing, that is, the mysterious celestial being who tried to save Liu Gaoyang during the battle in Yuanhe Prefecture City.
At that time, Liu Gaoyang was almost certain to die under the "Sword Out of Hongmeng" slashed by You Ziheng, but suddenly a celestial being who entrusted himself to the Qingmu Avenue shot him from a distance and saved him.
Later, Zhou Heng also asked You Ziheng and the Five Emperors' Inner Seat who that celestial being might be, but there is still no definite answer to this day.
There are only a few suspects -
The hidden celestial being of the Five Elements Sect, the celestial being of the Qingdi Palace, and the powerful scattered immortals of the Thirty-Six Heavens.
"Could it be the Qingdi Palace?" Zhou Heng frowned slightly and looked towards the direction of Huangtong City. If going from Yuanhe City to Qingdi Palace, Huangtong City is the only way.
"If it is really the Qingdi Palace, will Qingxia God bring Bai Yuejian and the others through Huangtong City?" Thinking of this, the expression on his face suddenly became interesting.
Jiang Tafa, the Fengjue Daojun who suppressed Qingxia God for thousands of years, is the doorman of Chunyang Martial Arts Hall in Huangtong City.
If he met him, it would be really "seeing a ghost".
But even with such speculation, Zhou Heng still couldn't determine the specific whereabouts of Qingxia God. Even if he looked for it along the way to Qingdi Palace now, it would probably be nothing.
Qingxia God is unlikely to make the mistake of not hiding his tracks.
"In that case, there is nothing we can do." Zhou Heng smiled helplessly and had to choose to cheat, "Use the 'tracking card'!"
"Tracking card: The sky and the earth are boundless, tracking for thousands of miles! Concentrate your mind and describe in detail the things you want to track, and you can track their detailed location and current information within a radius of 100,000 miles."
"Track 'Bai Yuejian'..."
"...Location: Huangtong City..."
...
Not long after Zhou Heng entered Yuanhe City, someone in the city left the city.
This is a middle-aged man who looks to be in his thirties. After walking far out of the city, he changed his appearance, flew into the sky, turned into a green rainbow, and flew towards Pingzhou.
His name is Yi Kangan, a fifth-grade master of the Qingdi Palace. He was ordered to come to Yuanhe City two days ago to monitor the entry and exit of people here.
Especially to see if Zhou Heng will come.
If Zhou Heng comes to Yuanhe City, he must return to the sect to report as soon as possible.
Although Yi Kangan himself did not know the significance of such monitoring, since this was a task given by the high-level officials of the Qingdi Palace, as a disciple of the Qingdi Palace, there was no reason for him not to complete it.
But he did not expect to see Zhou Heng so soon.
This made Yi Kangan feel a little flustered. Wouldn't something big really happen?
It is said that wherever Zhou Heng goes, there is no peace. There will most likely be a war, and the results of the war are basically tragic. At the least, the master and the top will die, and at the worst, the heavenly man and the Taoist will fall.
"It's fatal. I don't know what will happen." Yi Kangan was worried in his heart, while flying towards Pingzhou, and secretly calculated in his heart, "After I go back to report this time, I will apply for seclusion and stay in the palace."
Thinking of this, he flew a few points faster, leaving Yuanhefu City, a place of trouble, as soon as possible.
He didn't notice that an old man riding a cow was slowly flying not far away.
This old man has immortal Taoist bones, full of brilliance and strong Taoist charm. He is the treasure of Zhou Heng's manifestation of the supreme emperor riding an ox.
After confirming that Bai Yuejian was in Huangtong Fucheng, he returned from Sanqiao Town. He planned to use this soul treasure to incarnate to go to Huangtong Fucheng to find Qingxia God.
The main body still remains behind the original Hefu City.
Although the essence of Taishang's Niu Baoxiang is only the secret sixth grade, the Tao charm displayed on it is unpredictable and obscure. It will not arouse doubts if it is said that it is the incarnation of the soul of a heavenly being or even a Taoist king.
It is most suitable for finding ancient overlords like Qingxia God.
It will work wonders.
But Zhou Heng didn't expect that he would meet a fifth-grade grandmaster full of Aoki's magic power on the way.
Moreover, seeing that this grandmaster was in a hurry and leaving at this time, it was difficult for him not to doubt whether this was the spy planted by the Qingdi Palace in the original Hefu City.
"It seems that there is really huge suspicion in Qingdi Palace."
…
Huangtongfu City was as peaceful as ever.
Chunyang No. 1 Martial Arts Hall is still a place that people talk about. It is a favorite place for people who travel here from other places to visit. At the same time, they ask people about Zhou Heng's martial arts practice here.
The old man who called himself Jiang Er was sitting in front of the martial arts hall, waving the cattail leaf fan and looking leisurely at the passing crowd. Xie Chong was standing beside him, making tea.
On the street not far away, there was a family of three walking in a hurry. They were a couple with a nine-year-old girl.
But if you look carefully, it looks like the girl is leading the couple on their way, and the girl seems to be the main one among the three of them.
"Yue Jian, where are we going?" Shopkeeper Bai couldn't help but ask his daughter. He felt that Bai Yuejian had become more and more strange since he left Huangtong Fucheng two days ago.
"Yes, we have arrived at Huangtong City." Shopkeeper Bai's wife also asked.
"Go to a safe place." Bai Yuejian's little face showed a mature expression that was not for her age. At the same time, she glanced around, "I heard that this is where Zhou Heng once practiced martial arts..."
Suddenly, her voice got stuck and stopped abruptly, as if her throat was blocked by something. She opened her mouth wide and looked in the direction of Chunyang No. 1 Martial Arts School in disbelief.
His originally calm face suddenly turned pale and full of panic.
"Ginger, ginger, ginger... you, you are..."