Lord of Deception

Arriving in the woods outside the city, Yu Ziqing found the young man talking about the green fruit.

He didn't know what kind of fruit it was, but Yin Shen could see a trace of black air swirling inside the fruit, which was present in every fruit.

As far as the eye can see, in this forest, there are at least more than a hundred fruit trees that have already produced fruit, and there are some in each one.

He picked a fruit and smelled it. It smelled like apples, with a hint of lychee. After a closer sniff, it seemed that there was also a hint of green dates.

Throw the small fruit into your mouth. It tastes sour and a little sweet, but tastes ordinary.

The environment near this city is very good, with plenty of rain and a mild climate. Anything you can grow can survive. People here should have no shortage of fruits and vegetables all year round. No wonder no one cares about this fruit.

That trace of black energy disappeared into the belly and went straight to Yu Ziqing's intestines and stomach.

The toad, which had been vomiting, raised its eyelids, opened its mouth and swallowed the black gas.

Then, it was gone.

It was like lying there motionless when a small insect suddenly flew by, and the toad swallowed it without any other reaction.

Seeing this scene, Yu Ziqing breathed a sigh of relief.

Because after the soil toad swallowed that wisp of black energy, it didn't even develop a trace of strength. Obviously, that ray of black energy was not worth mentioning.

The poisonous spiritual energy that was swallowed last time will be spit out by the soil toad. After going around in a circle, it will be transformed by the bodhi tree before swallowing it.

Yu Ziqing waved his hand, and he collected all the fruits here. He opened his mouth and spat out, and a ball of red flames spurted out, burning them all to ashes.

But the traces of black energy in the fruit could not be burned by ordinary flames. Yu Ziqing opened his mouth and inhaled, gathered the black energy together, turned it into a large ball of black energy, and swallowed it in one gulp.

This time, I saw that after the soil toad swallowed the black air, its abdomen bulged slightly. After a while, its abdomen returned to normal.

This guy was eating alone again, which made Red Ape furious, but there was nothing he could do. Toad didn't even raise his eyelids and ignored Red Ape at all.

After a little longer, Yu Ziqing also discovered it.

Even if the soil toad appeared later, and under the circulation of the five qi, the five little ones all grew up together, and the soil toad was still stronger than the others.

Now it is even stronger than the two-headed snake that first appeared.

I had misunderstood it before. This guy was not a Buddhist. He wanted to kill everyone else.

There are soil toads here, and the remaining four little ones are all for me to roll.

The more Yu Ziqing looked at it, the more he liked it. It was a bit ugly, but as time went by, with the addition of good quality, it became somewhat ugly and beautiful.

After scanning the woods again and finding nothing more, Yu Ziqing began to walk back.

"You still remember that young man's breath, right?"

"Remember."

"Pay attention to him." Yu Ziqing continued to recall: "Pay more attention to the yellow dog."

"I understand, brother, I will not let go of anyone who has the slightest suspicion."

Yu Ziqing returned to the city, and Lou Huai went to keep an eye on the young man. He also brought the dog back and tied it in the backyard.

Yu Ziqing didn't know how to leave here, how to resolve the disaster.

He even speculated that he could leave after resolving the disaster.

One day, everything was fine. The person he was staring at had not changed much and was extremely healthy.

He has been staring near the city gate. Yin Shen keeps his eyes open for twelve hours every day, constantly peeking at everything around him to sense what might appear.

Until three days later, Yin Shen suddenly looked towards the east of the city, and Yu Ziqing's figure also disappeared in an instant.

He galloped all the way to the roof of a house in the east of the city and looked down.

In the backyard of a wealthy family, a thin and frail girl, dressed like a maid, was lying on the ground.

A wooden basin fell to the ground in front of her. She lay on the ground, moaning in pain, and seemed to be struggling to stand up.

Yu Ziqing took a quick look and saw that the girl had chapped lips, sunken eye sockets, and loose skin. She looked twenty or thirty years older. Her vitality was like a candle in the wind, about to be extinguished at any time.

She was severely dehydrated and was about to die.

I don’t know how she managed to hold on until now before she collapsed.

Yu Ziqing saw wisps of black energy circulating inside her body, and the amount was at least two orders of magnitude higher than that of the young man he had seen a few days ago.

This didn't develop to this point in a day or two.

Yu Ziqing felt that he was wrong. It was not that the disaster on his side had not happened yet, but that it had already started before he discovered it and thought everything was peaceful for the time being.

It might have started half a month ago, or even a few days after he landed.

Before Yu Ziqing could do anything, the fire of life in the girl suddenly went out, and the wisps of black energy were swirling in her body, waiting.

Yu Ziqing understood that it would be useless to do anything now.

Lou Huai was right. The disease was indeed sinister enough. He had already started taking action before he even knew about the disaster.

Then, maybe the movement that the girl made when she fell attracted people. Two maids came to see the situation. After they saw the girl lying on the ground, they rushed over.

As they came into contact with the girl, a wisp of black energy entered their bodies, waiting to take root, sprout, and continue to grow.

Yu Ziqing began to explore the surroundings with this house as the center. He wanted to explore every household in the entire Dinghai City.

Just take the east side of the city as the starting point.

The family below is definitely not the original one.

Three hours later, Yu Ziqing stood on the roof of a medical center with a sullen face, looking at several patients lying inside. All the symptoms were diarrhea, and the symptoms were so severe that they were dehydrated.

The doctors at the medical center seemed to be very experienced. They had prepared separate wards to house the patients so that no one could come into contact with them casually.

Everything the patients came into contact with, whether it was clothes or other items, was burned.

However, the effect of these measures is already very small.

He found that there were patients in at least a dozen households, and they were the kind that he could see through at a glance without touching them.

Draw a map from the lightest to the heaviest. The most central place is this medical center.

Yu Zi walked into the medical center and directly found the doctor.

"I advise you to seal off this place immediately. The disease has already spread."

Yu Ziqing walked into the ward and came to the seriously ill patients. He stretched out his hands and grabbed them, and wisps of black air kept flying out. He forcibly grabbed them out and fed them to the soil toad.

But as he got rid of the disease, one of the patients suddenly died.

Several other patients did not improve immediately.

They were already seriously ill. He couldn't save them by removing their illness. He just gave them a little chance of life, turning them from certain death to having a chance.

The doctor behind him could not see that Yu Ziqing was sick, nor did he say that Yu Ziqing had harmed a patient. He began to examine several other people.

After a while, the doctor came up and saluted.

"I am a student of Xia Xian Medical School. I wonder who you are?"

"I'm just an ordinary doctor, a person who eliminates demons and protects the Tao. You'd better report to the superiors here immediately that there are demons and diseases raging. I think you are quite organized when you deal with them. How come you don't know that doing this is actually... You can’t control it at all?”

The doctor smiled bitterly.

"I have limited strength and limited skills, but I can't just ignore them and shut them out.

Of course I understand that it is difficult for me to save them, and I have done everything I should do to deal with their symptoms.

But if I don't accept them, they will die outside, and the situation will be out of control.

When I found that the number of patients increased, I reported it. "

Yu Ziqing sighed secretly, not knowing what to say.

“Where did the first patients come from?”

"People from Liujia Village in the east of the city and the county government should have already passed there and sealed it off."

Yu Ziqing's body swayed and disappeared.

The doctor looked at the few seriously ill people who were still alive.

"You are lucky. You have met the devil-killing guards who have helped you get rid of your illness. Don't give up. Think about your family. What will you do if you die and there is no labor at home? Hold on. "

The doctor arranged for people to give those people water and some food, and continued to observe them.

Yu Ziqing had already rushed out of the city and ran towards the outside.

A hundred miles away, a small mountain village has been sealed off.

When Yu Ziqing arrived, he happened to see a person trying to rush out. From the perspective of Yin Shen, his body was almost completely infected by the disease. The reason why he was still alive and not dead was because of the disease. As if he was conscious, he did not suppress the fire of his life.

Before Yu Ziqing arrived, he was stopped by a monk.

"Those who came from above found that there is disease raging here. I'm afraid there are monsters."

Not far away, a man in official robes looked back at Yu Ziqing, immediately waved his hand and let Yu Ziqing pass.

"I am the governor of this place, Mu Shouchang. Are you here for that monster?"

"good."

"Everyone here is infected. There is no cure, so we can only ban it."

"Let me try..."

Yu Ziqing always felt that the county magistrate looked at him a little strangely.

After he finished speaking, the county magistrate directly ordered the blockade to be released, allowing Yu Ziqing to enter.

Yu Ziqing felt even weirder.

The disease was eradicated and fed to the soil toads, and the progress was very smooth.

Only this time, it seemed that the soil toad couldn't swallow it. After swallowing, it could only separate out some and circulate among the other four little ones.

After eradicating the illness in the entire village, most of the people were dead.

Those people are actually dead. Their fire of life is like a small flame falling into the sea. If it is not extinguished by the surrounding water, it is actually dead.

Yu Ziqing eradicates the disease, and their vitality will also be destroyed.

When Yu Ziqing walked out of the village, Mu Shouchang held the big seal in his hand and looked at Yu Ziqing with extremely complicated eyes.

He was certain that Yu Ziqing had indeed neutralized the power of the monsters here. Likewise, he was also certain that Yu Ziqing himself was not affected.

When Yu Ziqing walked up to him, he spoke slowly.

"Shen Dynasty, have you finally found a solution?"

Hearing this, Yu Ziqing was slightly shocked and glanced at Mu Shouchang in surprise.

At this moment, Yu Ziqing understood why Mu Shouchang believed in him so much.

The first time he saw him, Mu Shouchang knew that he was an outsider.

Mu Shouchang even knew where he was now.

"you……"

Yu Ziqing didn't know what to say.

"Let's talk as we walk." Mu Shouchang waved to his men, then turned around and took Yu Ziqing towards Dinghai City.

"I am the county guard of Dinghaicheng, and I have your majesty's trust. I am the guardian of the area. In the area under my jurisdiction, monsters have appeared and are raging, but I have never found where the monster is.

I know that if it is not sealed, the evil of the monster will spread in all directions.

I felt guilty and didn't want to leave them behind, so I sealed myself with the monsters.

Waiting for the divine dynasty to one day find a way to resolve it and destroy the monster.

I don't know how long I've been here, but I still haven't found a way.

Now, I have recognized everyone here, except you, so I know that you are a foreigner.

The Divine Dynasty finally found a way and never gave up on the hundreds of thousands of people in Dinghai City. "

Yu Ziqing didn't know what to say.

Mu Shou always performed his duties faithfully, sealed himself in the seal, and never gave up.

He still doesn't even know that Datui has disappeared long ago, and there aren't even many records left.

But Yu Ziqing couldn't say these words.

After pondering for a while, Yu Zi said clearly.

“There is indeed a solution to the scourge of monsters, and I can also eradicate those illnesses.

Now the only thing left is how to find the monster.

However, let’s treat illnesses and save people first, and then talk about other things. "

"Great kindness." Mu Shou showed a smile and seemed to relax a lot.

“When I sealed everyone in the entire city together, I had already put life and death aside.

If I can save them now, they will be worthy of the seal in my hand.

I don’t know how much time has passed outside. Here, I have forgotten the years, but I dare not forget who I am.

I'm afraid that one day I won't remember the seal or the monster, and I'll slack off. "

"Your Majesty's devotion to duty is admirable. I wonder if I can't do this." Yu Ziqing bowed his hand.

"There is nothing admirable about pursuing his own political position. In fact, it is because of my lack of ability.

If I had the ability, I wouldn't let things develop to this point. This is the only way it can end up.

If it can really be resolved this time and they hate me, I can accept it calmly. I just hope they don't involve my family.

I don't know how long it has been. Their relatives and friends may have passed their lives, and there is no family member left as far as the eye can see.

I actually don’t know how to face them anymore…”

Mu Shou often walked on the road and kept talking to Yu Ziqing.

It seemed that he hadn't told anyone this for a long, long time. When he mentioned his children, he would smile.

Mentioning the people in the city also makes them smile.

Some things about Dadai will also be mentioned, some will be praised and some will be criticized.

Yu Ziqing just listened quietly, feeling a little uncomfortable.

He now somewhat understands Mu Shouchang's mood.

He knew a lot of things, but he just couldn't say them out. Seeing a smile begin to appear on Mu Shouchang's face, he felt even more uncomfortable.

I believe Mu Shouchang is the same. When he sees the peace in Dinghai City, he will probably feel very uncomfortable.

Upon entering Dinghai City, Mu Shouchang immediately ordered the city gates to be sealed, no one was allowed to go out, all shops were closed, and those that had to be opened were all taken over by people sent by the county government.

Mu Shou often sits in charge of the county government and mobilizes the entire city's manpower.

And Yu Ziqing began to use the stupidest but most effective method to start a carpet sweep.

The city of Dinghai is not small. There are also villages outside the city, with a combined population of hundreds of thousands of people.

Yu Ziqing stayed awake and started sweeping from the east of the city, bit by bit, sweeping through the entire city, including everyone and everything that moved.

Seven days later, Yu Ziqing left the city and began to raid the nearby countryside.

Hundreds of miles away, one village after another was swept over according to their household registration.

A lot of disease qi has been eradicated, and at least thousands of people have become ill.

But there was never a trace of the disease.

Lou Huai followed Yu Ziqing, his eyes almost turned into rabbits, but he didn't find any trace.

After finishing sweeping the outside of the city, Yu Ziqing returned to Dinghai City and stood under the city head, looking at the words and already having some guesses in his mind.

Returned to the county government office.

"All of them have been removed, but no trace of the monsters has been found."

"It's impossible. I'm very sure that I sealed the monsters together. If I didn't seal the monsters, but just sealed the people here, the Divine Dynasty wouldn't have unsealed it for so long." Mu Shou said with great certainty.

"Then you know why you are so sure that you have sealed the monsters together?"

"Of course I..." As soon as the words came out, Mu Shouchang froze on the spot.

Yes, why can he be so sure?

With this certainty, there is only one possibility. He sealed the monster with his own hands and even saw the monster.

But at this moment, he was stuck. He couldn't remember what the monster looked like or how to seal it.

Yu Ziqing's expression was a little complicated. Looking at Mu Shouchang's appearance, he said slowly.

"I personally confirmed it. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Dinghai City, and all of them are missing. But there is one person. I haven't personally confirmed it. Does Master Mu know who that person is?"

The confusion on Mu Shouchang's face slowly faded away. He sat there, looked at himself, and suddenly laughed.

"it's me."

"Hahaha, it turns out it's me. No wonder I'm so sure. I sealed the monster. Turns out I sealed it into myself."

"It's okay, it's okay. It'll be fine if it's really sealed."

"No wonder I still remember that I sealed this place. So that's it, that's it..."

Before Mu Shouchang could stop laughing, he saw magic-suppressing cones suddenly appearing around him.

The demon-suppressing cone was controlled by himself and pinned him in place. Then he raised his head and looked at Yu Ziqing.

"I have always forgotten to ask, what do you call your Excellency?"

"Qing Ziyu."

"Good name. Your Excellency, take action. Don't let my subjects in Dinghai City go to waste for so many years of wasted time and such a high price."

In Yu Ziqing's eyes, a black vortex began to appear in Mu Shouchang's abdomen. A large amount of black energy was swirling there. The black energy seemed to want to escape, but Mu Shouchang used his body to imprison him and used the demon-suppressing cone. Repressed in his body.

"Brother, it's here, it's in his body." Lou Huai reminded him immediately from the side.

"You're right. The disease is really good at hiding. It can be hidden until you can't find it. Even if he doesn't struggle, I can't see it either."

Yu Ziqing walked up to Mu Shouchang and patted him on the shoulder.

"Master Mu, you don't have to do this, as long as I find him, he will be dead.

Don’t you want to know how to deal with monsters in the future? Let me show you today. "

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Ziqing's face showed the appearance of a hungry ghost, and a yin energy suddenly emerged from his body. The strange and ominous aura turned into wisps of black oil and swayed continuously.

Yu Ziqing stretched out a hand, and his palm slowly turned into a skinny and dark shape, and he stretched it directly into Mu Shouchang's body.

As Yu Ziqing retracted his claws, he saw a mass of black energy churning in his palms.

The black energy turned into a face, and it was useless to struggle without waiting for him to say anything.

Yu Ziqing opened his mouth wide and swallowed it in one gulp.

The black energy fell into the hands of the Yin God, and was held and gnawed by the Yin God. The original disease energy circulated among the five little ones, and was divided and devoured by the five little ones.

After swallowing part of it, Yu Ziqing grabbed another part.

After a stick of incense, Yu Ziqingyin's belly swelled slightly, and the five little ones all gained weight. There were still a lot of undigested things on the Bodhi tree, which turned into demons. The head looks like a skull, hanging on the treetops.

Yu Ziqing pulled out the demon-suppressing cone on Mu Shouchang.

Mu Shou often looked at Yu Ziqing with a somewhat complicated expression.

"This is no longer an ordinary method, but a new path of practice.

There are also some accents and words you use when you speak, which are not what Da Dui has.

Can you tell me, has it been a long time?

Are you not a Dadui person at all? "

Yu Ziqing was silent for a moment and nodded.

"Yes, I'm not from Dadui."

"This seal cannot be touched by someone other than Dadui. Is Dadui already... gone?"

"You are wrong. Whether Datu is here or not does not matter. As long as people like you are still there, Dadai will still be there."

Mu Shou often sat there and smiled.

"That's right. As long as I am still here and these people are still here, then Dadui will still be there."

As the two of them talked, they saw that the world around them was like a scroll, rolling towards the middle.

Lou Huai immediately got into Yu Ziqing's boots. Mu Shouchang looked at Lou Huai's appearance, a little shocked.

"Don't worry, in my era, there are demons who have begun to take the right path." Yu Ziqing explained casually.

"That's great..."

Yu Ziqing's figure floated, and Mu Shouchang's figure also floated. Everything under them seemed to have melted into a painting, becoming flat and then shrinking.

After a while, there was nothingness around them, and everything that was sealed turned into a page of book, hanging quietly in front of them.

It says.

"In the 820th year of Jiazi, in Dinghai City, monsters were wreaking havoc and many people died of illness.

At that time, the county governor, Mu Shouchang, used his body as a prison to seal demons into his body. Later, he and the people of Dinghai City sealed themselves into seals. "

Mu Shou often looked at the short sentence above, and then looked at the big seal in his hand.

He stepped forward, pricked his finger, and continued writing under it with blood.

"There is a god named Qing Ziyu who swallows a demon into his belly and destroys both his spirit and his form."

After finishing writing, he stamped it with his official seal.

Then he handed the big seal to Yu Ziqing.

"Take it, what I should do and what I can do has been done. Now, as the county governor of Dinghaicheng, I will pass it on to you."

Before Mu Shouchang could finish his words, he saw that his body began to dissipate bit by bit as if it was weathered.

"I think about it. In fact, I should be dead. I am unwilling and obsessed with it.

Over the years, I have been fighting the monster in the seal with the intention of destroying it.

I have forgotten many, many things. I even forgot the names of my children.

It's just this thing that I never dare to forget.

Take it, you will use this thing, you deserve it. "

Mu Shouchang's hand turned into powder and disappeared silently.

Yu Ziqing caught the falling seal, and the seal absorbed a wisp of his breath and automatically recognized its owner.

"Thank you very much."

"Next, if you want to leave, you only need to use the big seal, and the big seal will take you away. There are many things that cannot be solved with your current strength. You should be careful in everything and take care of yourself first."

After Mu Shou Chang said this, more than half of his body had turned into powder and dissipated.

He looked at his body and laughed.

"Your Majesty, I am here."

Yu Ziqing put away the seal, bowed his hands and saluted to show respect.

Amidst the laughter, Mu Shouchang's figure turned into nothingness and disappeared without a trace.

Yu Ziqing stood in the void, quietly looking at the lines of words on the page.

Just one line of words encapsulates Mu Shouchang's life.

He took out the official seal, and with a thought, he saw pages after pages emerging from behind that mere page.

Finally, all the pages close together and become a book.

A dark book with two large bloody characters written on the surface.

"Anshi."

Yu Ziqing stretched out his hand, and the big seal on his other hand immediately lit up with a ray of light, which hit the book of Anshi.

The book of Anshi flew by itself and fell into Yu Ziqing's palm.

This can be said to be the history book of Datu.

Mu Shou often regarded Yu Ziqing as his successor and asked the official seal to recognize him as the master. He is now the county guard of Dinghai City.

And that book of Anshi has never been in contact with Dadai officials for who knows how many years.

Yu Ziqing is currently the biggest official, and he has to keep this book of Anshi.

Yu Ziqing put the official seal into the sea of ​​blood to warm it up, and he opened the book of Anshi.

The paper inside is gray and the text is red. Many of them cannot be opened at all, and the content inside cannot be seen.

The only page with white text on a black background and a large seal was the page that Yu Ziqing had just seen.

This means that that sentence has become real history.

Every page in this book is a seal.

Every page is history.

An unresolved seal, a history that has not yet been settled.

Looking at this thick bloody book, Yu Ziqing no longer knew what to say.

He used to think that Dadui's magical power was very strong and could seal disasters that could not be solved in time. He could resolve the disasters when it was best to prepare and find a way.

This will save many lives and avoid many disasters.

But now, he feels that Dadui may have perished because of this.

Everything is left to future generations to solve, but more and more things accumulate, so much that one sentence is a disaster, one sentence is a seal, and it turns into a book that can be called a disaster book to be precise.

That will crush future generations.

Even Yu Ziqing felt that maybe the magical power of sealing disasters was so useful that in the later stages, when Dadai encountered problems, he might not even think about how to solve them, but would seal them first, and then slowly Consider how to solve it.

Of course, it may be that the parts that have been solved have been eliminated, and the rest are unresolved.

Unfortunately, when Yu Ziqing saw the only page with white text on a black background, he knew that after the book was written, not a single problem was solved.

There may be many reasons for the demise of Datu, but this book must be one of them.

Yu Ziqing continued to look through it, but most of them could not be opened, and there were very few others that could be seen.

There was one page, and the words on it were filled with blood.

"In the eighty-eighth year of Ding Mao, strange fire fell from the sky, thousands of miles of scorched earth, and countless people were burned to death.

The strange fire is treacherous, the rain does not extinguish it, the wind does not extinguish it. Some gods and men came from the South China Sea and dropped strange treasures in the valley.

The Milky Way fell to the ground, blocked its path, extinguished its fire, and turned into a silver lake to remain in the world. "

This is what Lao Yang told him before.

But in this book of Anshi, there is another sentence at the end.

"The fire is gone, but the strange fire is not extinguished. The faceless man Yi San Er draws the power of the gods and seals it until it can be resolved."

Seeing this sentence, Yu Ziqing immediately contacted Lao Yang.

But this time, after summoning for a long time, after the old sheep arrived, it was so stuck that no one could see clearly, and the text that was typed was stuck on the screen.

Yu Ziqing thought for a while, then left a message for Lao Yang, copied the sentence and told him, and added more later.

"Be careful. The strange fire has not been resolved at all. It is still there. Even the Silver Lake cannot extinguish the strange fire. You must not get involved.

Also, where you are now is both a seal and a page in the history books, so be careful.

I'll try to figure out how to get you out. "

After leaving the message to Lao Yang, Yu Ziqing looked at Lao Yang. He flashed and stayed there for a long time, then flashed again and appeared in front of the message wall.

After waiting for a long time, Lao Yang's figure disappeared, and two words suddenly appeared on the wall.

"clear."

Yu Ziqing shook his head, turned and left the seventh floor.

Before, when everyone was on a page in the history books, the connection was already very stuck.

Now it is even more difficult to communicate face to face.

After reminding Lao Yang, Yu Ziqing continued to read the Book of Anshi.

Most of the parts that can be opened are silent and have blood words on the gray background. If someone is inside, the blood on them will start to flow, which means someone is breaking the seal.

After turning over and over, he found three pages with blood-colored writing on them.

He and Lao Yang were each assigned one of the pages.

Then Feng Bujue and Prince Xiang should each be assigned a page.

Those who entered before, those who brought the Yin family in, should all enter on the same page.

Therefore, they must have a way to choose to enter a specific page.

They just don't know, do they know that what they entered is the Book of Anshi, not a normal seal.

Also, the guy before didn't know that when entering this seal, a specific method was needed to enter the page of the Yin family.

Or was he that guy who actually knew it and deliberately told only 99% of the truth, the most crucial truth, but concealed it and deliberately deceived them?