The years I was in the human world

Chapter 123 Wen Huai Preface

Kong Que accidentally let the cat out of the bag. At this time, Master Mingjing had not yet died in Lu Zhouxue's hands. She paused and continued as if nothing had happened: "The terms of the deal we agreed on before should be changed. I want half of the divine bone."

Last time, she fell into Yaoguang's trap and didn't get any of the divine bones. Her mother couldn't be resurrected, and she was almost discovered by Baili Changqing for backstabbing Lu Zhouxue.

If her irresponsible father had not been tied up at the critical moment, Yaoguang would have been forced to cover up for her. I'm afraid she would have been punished by Baili Changqing for her ungratefulness. The last lesson taught Kong Que a lesson. Yaoguang cannot be trusted, and she must make plans for herself.

"Half? You have a big appetite, little girl." Yaoguang smiled, her eyes slightly cold, a warning, "The divine bone is a treasure, many parties are fighting for it, I dare not monopolize it, you ask for half, who gives you the confidence?"

Peacock didn't believe her lies at all. Yaoguang didn't dare to monopolize it, but this woman had a way to steal most of the divine bones, and then use other means to fool other people who were fighting for the divine bones and conceal the truth.

"Yaoguang, if you are sincere in your cooperation, I will also respect you as the Queen Pojun. If you want to cross the river and destroy the bridge, I am not afraid to use force against you." Kong Que is no longer the naive little girl from two hundred years ago. She summoned the Zhaoyang Sword and pointed the sword at Yaoguang's face.

"Master is in seclusion, but he will come out eventually. My mother died unjustly, and the Beidu court has been investigating closely recently. Although the Dongshan disaster was a conspiracy that everyone knew about, if someone came out and took the blame, I think no one would mind."

"I don't think Lady Pojun wants to be the one giving the 'explanation' to the Grandmaster, right?" Peacock threatened Yaoguang with a smile. Over the years, she had learned a lot of tactics of coercion, inducement, and flattery from Ye Yunzhou, and now it was just right to use them.

As for the things she said, no one had told her, but she gradually understood them. Later, when she cultivated her subordinates on a large scale, she also knew a lot of the tacit secrets of Zhongting. Naturally, these things were of no importance when Yaoguang was in power two hundred years later.

But two hundred years ago, Yaoguang was still a fledgling and could still threaten her. As expected, just as Kong Que finished speaking, Yaoguang, who originally didn't take her seriously, suddenly changed her expression. Her smile faded, and her expression became a little cold and mean, obviously wanting to kill her: "Who told you this?"

Yaoguang did not hide her killing intent. Kongque's expression remained unchanged. He casually swung the hilt of the sword, and the sword energy brushed Yaoguang's face and left a deep sword mark on the pillar next to her: "I know something else. Don't think about killing me. You can't touch me. Besides, Lu Zhouxue will wake up."

Zhu Huang Yuzhao is already extremely talented, and Kong Que is even more so. She has also been instructed by Xiao Jin. She is also cold and ruthless. Her sword skills have improved by leaps and bounds over the past two hundred years. Now that she has returned with her skills, she naturally has the confidence to challenge Yaoguang.

Yaoguang really didn't dare to fight with Kongque. Firstly, she might not have a chance of winning. Secondly, the noise of the fight would certainly wake up Lu Zhouxue, who was unconscious due to the attack of the heartbreaking poison. She had seen Xuefeng's strength before. In the early stage of the poison attack, her abilities were not weakened much. She was definitely not her opponent.

"Half is not enough. I can only give you a rib." Yaoguang compromised. Peacock was not a soft bun that she could flatten or knead. She had to change her original plan of crossing the river and destroying the bridge. She seriously discussed the business with her. Peacock frowned, so she added,

"Don't think it's too little. In addition to Zhongting, the Ghost Palace, the Demon Clan, the Demon City, and the Wuxian people are all fighting for the divine bone. They take at least 70% of it. The other cultivators in Zhongting want to divide it further. This is all I can decide. Besides, Lu Zhouxue has done you a favor, so openly, you shouldn't take the divine bone."

What Yaoguang meant by this was that there were too many people and too little porridge, and there was no share for you. Now that I have taken the initiative to give you some, don't be so ambitious. Just take the food and shut up.

Peacock understood her implication and laughed: "Yaoguang, do you really think I'm a fool? Do you want me to make your conspiracy with Goddess Wuxian public? If your plan to exchange demon bones for divine bones gets out, let alone others, the one in the ghost palace will make you pay for it, right?"

Lu Zhouxue listened quietly to the two people plotting to get his sacred bones. Peacock had a brief conversation with Yaoguang again. Finally, both sides gave in. Peacock ended the conversation on the condition of taking away all of Lu Zhouxue's ribs.

"There are still many matters that need to be handled by me personally. I will leave now. The divine bone will be completed. You will take good care of Lu Zhouxue." Yaoguang said before leaving, and pointed to a person and said to her, "This is Tianquan beside me. He has infinite power and can shake mountains. I will leave it to you to help."

The taciturn man silently bowed to Peacock without saying much. Peacock looked at him for a while, then smiled and said, "With the help of Uncle Master, things will definitely be twice as effective with half the effort. Thank you, Madam, for giving me this person."

Tianquan is of the same generation as Yaoguang, and Yaoguang is of the same generation as her mother. Kong Que was not wrong in calling him uncle. Yaoguang kept Tianquan, not necessarily to help her with things, but more to monitor her. She was not successful last time, so this time didn't happen.

This time, Yaoguang put someone next to her for the first time, which showed that she was serious. However, she was still a little lax and kept Tianquan.

Tianquan, as Yaoguang said, was a man of considerable ability, but also unusually upright. As Kong Que put the Zhaoyang Sword back into its sheath, she lowered her eyes and thought that if she could find a way to get him to her side, it would be much easier for her to train more people in the future.

But Tian Quan had seen her and Yao Guang's intrigue, and he was probably impressed by her scheming. He needed to think long and hard to win her over. Kong Que thought as he said politely, "Uncle Master, please help me move him into the sedan chair in front."

Lu Zhouxue was carried into the bridal sedan by Tianquan. The maidservants with white-faced paper figures and the matchmaker who were waiting beside her hurriedly changed her into wedding clothes, painted her eyebrows and lips, combed her hair into a bun, and pinned a pearl flower on her head. With a big red veil, she became a beautiful bride.

"Uncle, has the formation been set up?" Kong Que asked softly. They had set up the formation long ago. For a powerful person like Lu Zhouxue, the Heartbreak Gu alone was not enough to control him. They also needed to destroy his heart. "Is all this planning led by the Ghost King?"

"Yes." Tianquan replied.

That's right, Peacock curled her lips and smiled. After Lu Zhouxue's death, she learned about the arrangements made by various parties to seize the divine bones. The goddess Wuxiang once let it slip that the leader was the Ghost King. At that time, she was thinking about how Xiao Ling calculated every step of Lu Zhouxue.

Later, she eroded the power of the Ghost Mansion and captured Gongsun Wuyin, but was unable to make Xiao Ling reveal the truth. Now she understands what is called foresight?

If she were to say, Xiao Ling was still a soft-hearted person. If she had been asked to come, there wouldn't have been so many twists and turns.

As Kong Que was thinking, he left with Tian Quan. At the same time, Lu Zhouxue sat up straight in the sedan chair, quietly lifted the curtain and looked outside. It was no different from last time. Outside, a paper-made dowry maid was walking slowly beside the sedan chair, with her mouth painted bright red, which was terrifying.

Lu Zhouxue lowered the curtain of the sedan chair and sat back in his original seat. He didn’t know how long he had been unconscious last time, but when he woke up, the intestinal poison in his stomach had grown very large, so it must have been quite a while.

Now he was different from last time. The evil spirit entering his body had already shown signs of exhaustion, and the Heartbreak Gu posed no threat to him. He was thinking about what Kong Que and Yao Guang had just said. From what they said, it seemed that they had already set up a trap in the old capital and were waiting for him to fall into it.

Xiao Ling is capable. That person dared to plot against the Heavenly Dao when he was in Buzhou Mountain. It is not surprising that he is plotting against him now. What Lu Zhouxue is suspicious about is Peacock. What does she want the divine bone for? There are other forces competing for the divine bone. Are they really creating gods as they appear to be?

The divine bone was broken into pieces when it was intact. Lu Zhouxue found it hard to believe that these forces would be willing to put the things together again to forge the road to heaven after taking their respective parts. What on earth did these people want to do? What was Xiao Ling's plan to stir up trouble?

While she was thinking, the sedan chair suddenly stopped. Lu Zhouxue put down her veil and sat upright in her seat, but her attention was focused on the door behind the sedan chair curtain. The matchmaker's sharp voice sounded as if in her memory: "Please ask the bride to get off the sedan chair——"

Lu Zhouxue held the veil and lifted the curtain to get out. There was no one outside and it was unusually quiet. Only the cold wind blew the corners of her clothes. Suddenly, she heard a slight sound of clothes rubbing against each other behind her. The man approached silently and Lu Zhouxue pretended not to notice anything.

When the sound beside his ears got closer, Lu Zhouxue suddenly drew his sword. The sword light cut through the air with a whistling sound. The moment he turned around, the veil on his face rose up, and he and the visitor saw each other.

The man's face was covered by a veil, so Lu Zhouxue couldn't see his face clearly. He didn't care, and continued to attack with his sword. The man opposite was surprised. He drew his sword to block the fierce attack and asked hesitantly, "Sui Miao? Are you still alive?"

It's not a paper figurine? Lu Zhouxue's fingers tightened, but she still slashed the sword out, then looked up at the woman in plain clothes and a green veil covering her face in the distance. The veil was blown up and slowly fell down. Lu Zhouxue directly took off the red cloth on her head and asked cautiously, "Who are you?"

"Sui Miao, don't you recognize me?" The woman lifted the veil covering her face, revealing a beautiful face. Lu Zhouxue had never seen it before and was silent for a moment.

He stared at the woman's face for a moment, and actually felt a sense of familiarity - she looked a bit like Peacock, but she also knew the Taoist name she had used when she was experiencing tribulation. Who exactly is this woman?

Seeing that he was still confused, the woman realized something belatedly and raised her hand to touch her face. Her facial features suddenly changed, as cold and clear as a goddess in the sky. It was a face that Lu Zhouxue recognized. He asked in surprise, "Wen Huaixu?"

"It's me." Seeing that Lu Zhouxue recognized her, Qinghe returned to her previous appearance. She was naturally happy that her old friend was still alive. She was a person who was always self-sustaining and dignified, and she spoke with a rare excitement. "It has been two hundred years since the Yuluan Palace collapsed. Cangwu said that the Snow God was dead. I never thought that you were still living well in the world."

Two hundred years? Lu Zhouxue was stunned for a moment, then reacted. Yes, the years in the human world could not affect Mount Buzhou. He went back to the past this time, but for the God Realm, he was actually away for two hundred years.

"Why did you come to the mortal world?" Lu Zhouxue asked. Qinghe was very young and decisive. Gods did occasionally come to the mortal world to deal with disasters and troubles, but these were mostly the jobs of acquired gods and should not be done by a powerful Four Seasons God like her.

"The Jade Luan Palace was rebuilt, and the new god ascended, but he has not returned to his position yet. The divination of the Flower Dynasty said that the new god was tripped up in the human world, so he failed to take office on time." Qinghe and Lu Zhouxue were close friends, so he did not hesitate to tell him this.

"It just so happened that Cangwu was investigating an old case and found out that a mortal had stepped on the corpse of a god to climb Mount Buzhou. Fearing that the disaster would happen again, Taihuang planned to send someone to help. However, it was not a small matter after all, and the God of the Later Heaven might not be able to handle it, so he asked me to handle it."

"I didn't expect that the new god is you. This saves me a lot of effort. Come with me now." Qinghe likes Lu Zhouxue's personality very much. Now that her friend is alive and can return to the throne of god, she is naturally happy. She was about to set up a formation on the spot to lead Lu Zhouxue back to Buzhou Mountain, but the latter stopped her and shook his head and said, "The new god is not me."

Qinghe stopped moving and turned to look at him in confusion: "If it's not you? Then who could it be?"

The innate gods are born and raised in nature, not from the human world, and the acquired gods have not been replaced for thousands of years because the road to heaven was destroyed by Xiao Yueheng. What's more, the new god this time is the Snow God among the innate gods. If it is not Lu Zhouxue, could it be a mortal in the human world?

"I am indeed not a new god." Lu Zhouxue also found it strange. The road to heaven had not yet been built, and it was impossible for a cultivator to become a god. And he did not become a new god, unless - Lu Zhouxue suddenly thought of the Wuxiang people's plan. Perhaps this was their real purpose in creating gods.

The suspended throne is more practical than any other method of ascending to the divine realm. The destruction of the road to heaven is not so much a blockage of the path to ascension as it is a closure of the channel for the expansion of the divine realm. But what if the place where the divine realm originally existed is vacant?

The innate gods who originally did not come from the human world are also trapped in the human world. Even if there is no way to ascend to heaven, the gods will promote new gods from the human world. No matter what method is used, it can change the situation where no one has ascended for thousands of years.

If you think more deeply, the long-vacant throne will attract the inspection of the gods from the lower world. If Cangwu did not happen to find out the old case, perhaps the one sent down would not be Qinghe, but an ordinary acquired god. After all, who would have thought that the gods would be detained by mortals?

In fact, ordinary acquired gods are not much different from top cultivators. If they are determined to set up a trap, it is possible that they will die in the mortal world, just like him two hundred years ago.

Lu Zhouxue suddenly felt a chill, and he suddenly wondered, was the conspiracy that caused his tragic death two hundred years ago aimed at him or at the God Realm? After his death, the vacant God position belonged to the innate God.