Wu Dongfang's mood was very complicated when he returned, he was anxious and anxious, nervous and sad. He knew that the Jin people would be persecuted by the Tu people, but he didn't know how serious the persecution would be.
Afraid of seeing it but eager to see it, I set off in the afternoon and returned to the capital of the Jin tribe in the evening.
He originally expected to see corpses strewn across the fields and ruined walls, but he didn't expect that the Jin tribe's capital was not burned down by the Tu tribe, and the Jin tribe's people were not massacred by the Tu tribe. There were still people in the city.
Since the situation was unclear, he was not in a hurry to show up and observed in secret. The battlefield where the previous battle was fought had been re-levelled, and some of the city walls that had been overthrown by the Tu Celestial Master had been built up. The houses in the city were also intact, including the royal palace and The Jin Sheng Tianshi Mansion was not damaged.
The sky gradually darkened, and lights began to be turned on in the city. There was no light in the houses and courtyards where the wizard lived, but there was light in the palace.
He was slightly relieved that the Jin clan members were not persecuted, but he observed from a distance for a long time and found no trace of the wizard, which meant that the wizard was probably killed or captured.
After it was completely dark, Wu Dongfang sneaked into the palace. He had no intention of showing up, and just wanted to come to the palace to investigate the situation. When he arrived at the palace, a group of Jin clan ministers were coming out of the main hall, and King Jin also left the hall and went to the harem.
After a brief pause, Wu Dongfang did not follow King Jin to the harem, but followed two ministers who were leaving the palace. One of them invited the other to be a guest in the mansion, and the other party agreed. Since he was a guest, he would definitely drink. After drinking, they Will definitely talk about political affairs.
Following the two of them to the mansion of one of them, Wu Dongfang lurked down from the roof of the house where the two of them were. He could hear clearly the conversation between the two in the house.
These two people were officials in charge of people's livelihood. They wanted to be officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Qing Dynasty. After they sat down, they discussed whether to capture the slaves who had been released. This was an issue that King Jin asked them to consider. One of them He advocated returning the old system and capturing the slaves and returning them to the King of Jin and officials and generals. Another person advocated leaving it alone and dividing and conquering it.
After a short conversation, the food was served. After drinking, the two expressed their thoughts. The consensus of the two of them was that the disaster of the Jin tribe was all caused by his incompetent leadership. He wanted to be the cause of the Jin tribe's wizard. He was fully responsible for the annihilation of the entire army.
Wine can make you brave. The more they talked, the angrier they became. They began to scold him and called him a coward. He killed the Jin clan wizard and ran away.
Although he had already expected that the Jin tribe might misunderstand him, Wu Dongfang still felt chilled when he heard the two men's abuse, because the truth was not what they thought. He did not run away from the battle. He left not for himself, but to protect Jin. clan from being harmed.
After listening for more than an hour, everything I wanted to know was clarified. After he left that day, Yun Ping and others also left, and went to the tribes and villages belonging to the Jin tribe to kill all the Jin tribe wizards.
The Tu Celestial Masters easily found King Jin who was hiding nearby, but instead of embarrassing him, they asked him to come back and take charge again.
Si Shaokang and the female heavenly master named Si Ruo separated from King Jin after they left the capital. They didn't know where they went or whether they were caught by the Tu tribe.
The two men knew nothing about the whereabouts of Ming Yue and Wang Ye Tong. They only knew that they left the Jinsheng Tianshi Mansion before the war started.
In addition to these, Wu Dongfang also heard a very important piece of information from the conversation between the two, that is, they were not only sad about the fact that the wizards of the Jin tribe were killed by the Tu tribe, but also a little bit happy subconsciously. They had always been wizards before. Managing the Jin clan together with the royal family means, to put it bluntly, the coexistence of divine power and royal power. In the minds of the people, the status of wizards is higher than that of ministers. Now that the Jin clan has lost its wizard, the status of the minister has been greatly improved.
Wizards have a dedicated cemetery, located at the southern foot of the mountain where the Holy Land is located. Knowing that the slain wizards were buried there, Wu Dongfang quietly left and headed to the cemetery north of the capital.
He went down when passing by Jinsheng Tianshi's Mansion. No one was in the Tianshi Mansion, and no one entered the bedroom. From the scenery in the bedroom, it could be seen that Ming Yue left in a hurry that day.
Wu Dongfang put a few changes of clothes into the Qiankun bag and went out to leave.
A large number of graves have been added to the cemetery. At this time, there are no words and no tombstones. The dead tribesmen will erect a stone sword stuck in the ground in front of the grave, and the dead wizard will place a stone tiger in front of the grave. , because there were too many dead wizards and there were not enough stone tigers, craftsmen carved them on the spot. At this time, there were still many graves without stone tigers.
Counting the graves, there are one hundred and thirty-four piles. There are one hundred and thirty-seven wizards of the Jin clan, including those children who are of pure gold blood but have not yet practiced magic due to their young age. There are more than one hundred wizards, and now only There are three left, except for him and Ming Yue, only one of them has not been found by the Tu tribe.
The fact that the Tu tribe did not kill all the Jin tribe was not because the Tu tribe was merciful as the two ministers thought, but because the Tu tribe did not find his body and did not dare to attack the Jin tribe.
In addition, to destroy a nation, you don’t need to kill all the people. You only need to destroy their beliefs and kill their leaders. Although the Jin clan members are still there, the Jin clan has perished because it Lost the wizard, lost the magic, and lost the pure gold bloodline. These are the souls of the Jin clan.
Wu Dongfang knelt down on one knee and paid tribute to these dead wizards. He thought that one day he would be able to lead them to dominate the world and pacify the world, but now this grand ideal has completely come to nothing.
After a long time, Wu Dongfang stood up, took out a meteorite arrow from his quiver, and inserted it into a piece of bluestone that was about to carve a white tiger but had not yet started. This arrow was his last protection for the Jin tribe. , someone will find this arrow tomorrow, and the Tu people will hear the news and know that he is still alive and has come back.
The quiver can store twelve arrows. Wu Dongfang condensed nine stone arrows into the quiver, lifted them up into the air, and flew eastward.
At four o'clock in the morning, he rushed to the bamboo forest where he and the prince lived that day. The bamboo house was still there, but Ming Yue and others were not here. He had stayed in the valley where the Fangfeng clan was located for more than a month, and it was only half a month away from the Jin clan. Why hadn't Ming Yue and Wang Ye Fan Tong arrived yet
With doubts in his mind, Wu Dongfang began to carefully observe the situation inside and outside the bamboo house. He did not find anything unusual near the bamboo house, but he found a footprint by the stream to the west of the bamboo forest. It was the only footprint of an adult man.
There shouldn't be anyone here. To say the least, even if there were people, there shouldn't be only this one footprint. This footprint should have been left by the Tu Celestial Master who could fly through the air when he drank water.
Previously, the Tu Celestial Master had chased him and the prince all the way. He probably discovered this hiding place in the bamboo forest after they left. He guessed that they might come back here again, so he came here to stay after not finding Ming Yue.
Even if Ming Yue was not his opponent, he would have left traces of a fight before he was caught. There were no traces of a fight around the bamboo house, indicating that no fight had taken place here.
Wu Dongfang raised his head and looked around, and based on the angle of the bamboo house, he found an area on the top of the mountain in the south, where the bamboo forest could be clearly seen.
After finding the suspicious location, Wu Dongfang flew over and found lotus leaves and rice dumpling leaves behind a cluster of shrubs. There were still corn grains on the lotus leaves and rice dumpling leaves. The rice grains had been dried, and most of the dried rice grains had been The ants have moved away, which means that the people who were squatting there have been gone for a long time.
Judging from the traces left here, there was only one person squatting there before.
After pondering, Wu Dongfang reached out again to compare the angles. From this position, he could clearly see the bamboo forest and the situation on the west side of the bamboo forest. If the prince took Ming Yue and Fan Tong on the old road, they would definitely be seen by the people squatting on guard.
But it is unlikely that the prince will follow the old path, because the two of them had made a lot of troubles along the way in search of spiritual objects and offended many different people. If the prince comes back, he will definitely choose a new path.
There is a swamp more than three hundred miles to the west, extending to the south. The prince knows that it cannot be to the south, it should be to the north. If it is to the north, they should come northwest of the bamboo forest.
The lack of fighting meant that they had discovered someone squatting here in advance. After comparing the angles, Wu Dongfang raised his energy and swept towards the northwest. There were two places in the northwest where he could find the Tu Celestial Master squatting there. After more than half an hour of searching, He finally found a clue in a poplar forest. There were traces of being chewed on a poplar tree. The bark of the poplar tree was astringent and wild animals would not chew it. It was possible for a rice pail to be eaten.
Because poplar trees lose their leaves in autumn, the forest is covered with fallen leaves. There is no way to find footprints. It is impossible to confirm that Ming Yue and others have really been here simply based on a bite mark.
After frowning and thinking, Wu Dongfang walked south. It's not like he gnaws at the rice pail all the time. He only gnaws when he is bored. When he is bored, he is bored when Ming Yue and Wang Ye ignore him. , if nothing else happened, Ming Yue and Wang Ye should have been munching away while Ming Yue and Wang Ye were observing the situation in the distance.
Walking to the edge of the woods, he found footprints on the soft soil behind a piece of bluestone. When he saw the footprints, he also saw the words engraved on the bluestone, "The natives are here, don't live with bears, and Wang Ax is looking for a girl." Full site."
Ming Yue had not been learning writing for long, so he made many typos, but he could understand the meaning. They discovered that the Tu Celestial Master was squatting here, and they could no longer live here, so they followed the prince to find a safe place.
There is an arrow engraved behind this sentence, pointing north, but the arrow has been scratched a few times randomly. These cuts were also made by Ming Yue, indicating that they are not necessarily going north.
The situation seemed complicated, but in fact it was not. They should have gone north, but the prince did not have a clear destination and did not rule out the possibility of changing directions midway. He was worried that Ming Yue's arrow would mislead him, so he asked Ming Yue to Crossed out.
I don’t know how long Ming Yue and others have been away, so I can’t estimate how far they are from here. There are currently two options, one is to chase north, and the other is to light a fire. If the prince and Ming Yue see the light of the fire, there are Maybe turn around and come back.
After careful consideration, Wu Dongfang decided to light a fire. The prince had lived with him for a long time and knew that he liked to light fires. As long as they saw the light of the fire, they would definitely turn around and come back... <