Chapter 1296 Zhou Zhiruo
Chapter 1296 Zhou Zhiruo
'How did it become like this?'
Zhang Wuji seemed to be watching the chickens fighting seriously, but in fact he had already been absorbed in thinking about how to break the current awkward atmosphere.
A few hours ago, he had just accepted the mission to go to the World of Beasts to observe the ferocious beast players.
And it was on the way to the teleportation array that they accidentally met the envoy group sent by the Cihang lineage to the Ghost Market.
He happened to be a member of this envoy group and had some fateful entanglement with me. Of course, it could also be described with a bizarre word, that is, a fateful reunion.
It was also because of this neither-close-nor-distant relationship that Zhang Wuji was forced to be caught and go to listen.
After he became a secondary authority, his intelligence authority level in Ghost City was adjusted to the same level as the four major stewards. He only learned a lot of important information when he was looking through the intelligence database in recent days.
For example, Hua Zhenzhen, who has become the new owner of Cihang Jingzhai, is actually a spy sent by the Ghost Market.
Qin Mengyao, the strongest person in the Cihang lineage, had already reached an agreement with the Ghost Market during the previous war in the Desire Realm that she would fully support Hua Zhenzhen in taking the position and help her to completely control the Cihang lineage.
The benefit she gained was a guest official order.
This token not only protects your identity, but also grants you the benefits of the Ghost Market.
At the same time, the great war in the Desire Realm, which is little known to the world, is the key to the current stability and balance of the situation in the Mountain and Sea Realm.
It was only after his authority level was raised that Zhang Wuji learned that in this battle, Ghost Market indirectly recovered the entire Buddhist land. Now the leaders of the Zen sect, Black Tathagata and Black Randang, were in a similar situation to Qin Mengyao.
In addition, there is the Wutan Demon Sect, which controls the Desire Realm. Because of the failure of their plan in this battle, the Ghost City Military Strategist Yun Hongce took the opportunity to seize the Second Day of the Desire Realm. On the one hand, it is used as the basis for a cooperative alliance, and on the other hand, it can also be seen as a check and threat to it.
Of course, the most important fruit gained in the Desire Realm War is that all the top local forces have reached a true unity in how to deal with the aliens from outer space. This is not just a high degree of agreement in intention.
It was a thorough joint crime in which the two parties had evidence against each other.
The alliance thus formed is more solid than some promises or even interests.
As for the Cihang lineage, after the end of the Desire Realm War, and during the days when the Great Xuan Emperor declared a full-scale war on the Buddha's land, they have been completing an internal reform under the cover of this fierce war.
Among them, those disciples who were hostile to the Ghost Market and were so foolish as to intensify their hatred have all been dealt with.
As for the older generation with greater prestige, especially Yan Jing'an, who was sent to the Taoist domain to watch the ceremony during the Great Demonic War, because of this trip, Hua Zhenzhen and Qin Mengyao took the opportunity to join forces to take power and completely suppress the older faction.
Then a mad woman launched a purge.
That person's name is Bi Xiuxin.
A woman who has always lived in hatred.
The person she hated the most was Shi Zhixuan, because as far as she knew, he had teamed up with his family to deceive her into giving birth to a doomed fetus, causing her irreversible damage. He also used her identity as a saint in the Cihang lineage to slander and attack Fotu.
Of course, in reality, she and Shi Zhixuan were both involved in the game.
Yunyue Shi did take advantage of the relationship between the two and took a huge bite of the benefits from the Buddha's land.
Hidden in this conspiracy is the suppression of Buddhist beliefs by the Daxuan Dynasty, the struggle for the position of the Saint within the Cihang lineage, the secret struggle of the dynasty to suppress and abolish the geniuses of the aristocratic families, and the balance tactics of the aristocratic families in the court.
A seemingly beautiful encounter that gave birth to the most beautiful fruit of love had actually been deprived of too much nutrients and vitality by countless black hands in the quagmire.
This conclusion was also drawn from the reunion of Shi Zhixuan and Bi Xiuxin during the battle in the Desire Realm, as well as from searching the memories of Fan Qinghui, the leader of the Cihang lineage at the time, who replaced Bi Xiuxin as the new generation of saint more than ten years ago.
Bi Xiuxin did not come along in this delegation.
After her investigation, she confirmed that some of the older generation of Cihang who supported Fan Qinghui had indeed contributed to this tacit arrangement. So, after Qin Mengyao and Hua Zhenzhen succeeded in joining forces, she was willing to act as a black glove.
Including Yan Jing'an, who returned from the war with demons and found his own lair turned upside down. He was also strangled to death by her.
After completing this stage of revenge, she began to retreat.
Logically speaking, based on her old relationship with Shi Zhixuan, she was the most suitable person to lead the diplomatic mission. However, both she and Shi Zhixuan knew that seeing each other again would only make the other more miserable.
Not to mention, the former has hated Shi Zhixuan for more than ten years due to misunderstanding, and there is still an indelible guilt in his heart.
Until they can overcome the invisible obstacle in their hearts, neither of them will choose to meet each other actively.
Zhang Wuji also heard this information from Yao Wanqing, one of the four stewards and the person in charge of receiving the diplomatic envoys.
The other party told him this to show that the current relationship between the Cihang lineage and the Ghost Market is not stable, even though the other party's nominal boss was sent by their own family, and the boss in reality still holds their own offering order.
But this is not enough to eliminate the long-term vigilance and fear of the Ghost Market among the disciples of Cihang.
So now a completely new relationship is needed to serve as a bridge connecting the two parties, so as to completely infiltrate and influence this faction, and then allow them to be truly used by the Ghost Market.
This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Wuji now has Zhou Zhiruo by his side.
As for Xiao Zhao
She accompanied Zhang Wuji to Wuyou Villa, and was given a copy of "Tai Su Yin Gong" by Qin Zun, which was specially suitable for women to practice. She then began to practice in seclusion.
The huge gap in strength between him and Zhang Wuji made him feel very anxious.
But no matter how panicked and terrified he was when he learned that Zhang Wuji was going to stay in the World of Ten Thousand Beasts for a period of time, and that he would be accompanied by a beautiful woman, a disciple from the Cihang lineage, a demon place that was particularly good at seducing men.
At the same time, she is also one of the heroines in Zhang Wuji's destiny.
Xiao Zhao also didn't expect that after the first female protagonist Zhao Min died, the second female protagonist would suddenly jump out and steal the house when she was away.
Even in this situation, she is still practicing well!
When the special code magic skill is perfected, even her master's children will be able to help out with the cooking!
So he decisively came out and joined the team.
The team of three people and one dog was caught up in a strange atmosphere of tenderness, sweetness and confrontation.
"We can't keep being so stagnant!"
Zhang Wuji was no longer focused on the fight between the pheasants. His gaze shifted to Zhou Zhiruo, who was still staring at Xiao Zhao.
He actually didn't quite understand the other person's thoughts.
When Xiao Zhao was at Wuyou Villa, she dared to express her love to him boldly. In addition, their first meeting did have a bit of a hero-saving-a-beauty feel to it, especially since he later made a small effort to save Xiao Zhao's parents.
Because of the fateful body, the feeling is no longer pure and one starts to crave one's own body. This is normal.
But how come this woman, who seemed so calm and gentle when they first met, directly confronted Xiao Zhao?
"Miss Zhou."
Zhou Zhiruo stopped making eye contact with Xiao Zhao and looked towards Zhang Wuji calmly.
Her eyes are completely different from those of the love-struck Xiao Zhao, they are very pure.
"That's really unnecessary." Zhang Wuji didn't know what he was saying, but Zhou Zhiruo understood it.
"Mr. Zhang, you don't understand women, and how do you know that this is unnecessary?"
"You're not right. I really don't understand women, but I can see that you and Xiao Zhao are different."
"Then can you see, sir, that Zhiruo still has a good impression of you?" Zhou Zhiruo deliberately winked at Zhang Wuji, and when her gaze passed over Xiaozhao, whose face had become chubby with anger, a hint of teasing flashed in her eyes.
She was telling the truth.
It's pure nonsense to say that you fall in love with him at first sight, but because of the fateful relationship, there must be an innate affection, not to mention that Zhang Wuji is a strong man.
As a disciple of the Cihang lineage, he must know how to invest his emotions in the strong in advance.
The psychology of admiring the strong is engraved in their blood.
In comparison, the memory of her fateful body had relatively little impact on her, because the original owner, a poor creature who looked like a little white flower and then turned evil into a big peony, could not arouse any emotional resonance in her.
If I let them come to Cihang to take a few classes, all the people like Zhao Min, Xiao Zhao, Yin Li, and Zhu Jiuzhen will just be waiting for me to give birth to their third child!
So childish!
And Xiao Zhao, who seemed doubly childish in his eyes, came up to him and showed a protective attitude towards him. Even when he lowered his posture and took the initiative to show goodwill, the other party still stared at him viciously.
Are you afraid that I’ll snatch it away?
I'll tease you and show you how Zhang Wuji plays!
Then Zhou Zhiruo ignored Xiao Zhao's gaze that was bright enough to kill her, and said to Zhang Wuji with a smile.
"Master Zhang, these pheasants seem to drop some strange things."
She exerted her strength in her hand, and after a ferocious beast player was pecked to death by another pheasant player, a piece of chicken that the beast player dropped was caught in Zhou Zhiruo's palm.
When she saw the pheasant flapping its wings and flying towards her, she changed her palms into claws and lightly crushed the pheasant to pieces in the air. She looked at the ground with a little regret as the pheasant turned into light and disappeared. After its death, it did not drop any chicken meat.
"It seems that not every pheasant will drop this poisonous meat."
After Zhou Zhiruo handed the chicken to Zhang Wuji, she used the surrounding vitality to roll away the remaining taste in her palm.
She was right to call the chicken poisonous.
Because in Zhang Wuji's information interface, this piece of chicken was marked as having no grade, and after eating it, it would cause a certain diarrhea effect on warriors with weaker constitutions.
Diarrhea is nothing.
The key is no grade.
What does this mean? For example, Zhang Wuji picked up a handful of sand. The residual vital energy contained in it was evaluated as mid-grade yellow grade in the information query interface.
Even a small stone on the roadside or a blade of grass picked up casually are rarely found to be without rank.
Today's Shanhai Realm has been reborn after six increases in vital energy concentration. Based on this piece of meat, Zhang Wuji can also analyze some information. For example, this is chicken, which means it comes from the original body of the corresponding ferocious beast player.
At present, these players' chickens have gathered under the city wall and started fighting mindlessly. Obviously, none of them has reached the first level of the ferocious beast level standard, so they cannot be called ferocious beasts, but only a kind of walking birds.
It seems that the only drops at the moment are meat. I wonder if these players can complete the transformation into first-level ferocious beasts by eating each other's drops.
In addition, there is an important message.
That is, the ferocious beast players cannot speak human language.
They can only make clucking, chirping, or cooing or ooohing sounds, and they seem to be able to communicate with each other. I don't know if this is limited to the same species.
Seeing more and more pheasants coming from all directions, Zhang Wuji confirmed that this starting place would only give birth to pheasant players.
"Mr. Zhang, look."
Under Xiao Zhao's eyes that were almost flashing green light, Zhou Zhiruo grabbed Zhang Wuji's hand in a rather ambiguous and provocative manner, and then the man and the woman moved to the other side of the city wall, and looking down, they saw a corner.
Those wild players were originally fighting in a group, but for some reason, one, two, three of them suddenly gathered towards this location.
Now they were still fighting down there, but while they were fighting they were scrambling to get the slightly moist sand in the corner.
"This is."
Zhang Wuji frowned slightly, then looked at Dahei with a strange expression, who was standing beside him with an embarrassed smile.
Don’t mention it, it’s really embarrassing for a dog’s face to make such an expression.
Zhou Zhiruo, who had inadvertently let go of Zhang Wuji's right hand, pointed at a large rooster with a particularly black crown.
"It must be a first-level beast."
"This just broke through? Because you ate the sand that was stained with big black urine?"
At the same time, Zhang Wuji also noticed that a wild chicken player was chattering, and then his whole body twitched, and then he exploded on the spot before turning into light.
"Is it a characteristic of unlimited devouring? It also carries certain risks. However, for this group of people, death is the least worth mentioning thing."
Zhang Wuji touched his chin.
Then he flicked his right hand, and a drop of red blood oozed out from his fingertips and fell directly below. Just this one drop of his blood killed a pheasant player, and the high temperature emitted from the blood caused seven or eight pheasants around it to start spontaneously combusting inexplicably.
But even so, because of the appearance of this drop of blood, those wild players who were already crazy to death seemed to be completely furious!
A loud clatter sounded the battle horn!
The black chicken, which was the first to break through to a first-level ferocious beast due to the gift of fate from Dahei, was directly besieged by pheasants on all sides.
At the same time, as the temperature of the blood continued to drop as it spread outward, a small and exquisite chicken with a brown body and white spots took the opportunity to crawl out from the flock of chickens and decisively rushed towards the blood.
He did not swallow the entire drop of blood, but only left some of the aftertaste, which made his fur brighter and the comb on his head particularly red.
A fireball less than the size of a fingernail burst out of its mouth!
He broke through!
This is the second wild chicken player to reach the first level! (End of this chapter)
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