Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

The sky was dark, and the rain was falling harder and harder, washing the earth and cleaning the blood on the city head.

In a rouge shop in the city, the sound of conversation rang out.

"Hearing the noise outside, it's our army coming in."

"What?! No, there's an ambush in the city. We must notify Duke An Guo and the others immediately."

And the staff in this rouge shop are all spies of the surveillance guard.

In order to hide themselves, these spies are just ordinary people with excellent skills. If they get the upper hand, they can also kill the warriors who have just entered the level.

After all, low-level warriors do not have innate spiritual energy to protect their bodies. They are just flesh and blood bodies with greater strength than ordinary people. And these spies are proficient in assassination methods and can quickly slit the enemy's throat and kill with precision.

A few days ago, they detected an army in the city, ambushing people's houses and restaurants in the city.

However, due to the blockade of the whole city, it was difficult for even a fly to fly out. There were no forbidden troops patrolling the city, so they had no chance to send the information out. They could only pray anxiously, hoping that An Guogong and the others would not be fooled.

But judging from the current situation, An Guogong and the others have fallen into the trap.

"Lu Xuan, Lu San, after we go out later, the three of us will go separately. We must tell the army about the ambush in the city. Do you remember it?" the leader of the secret agent team said.

The two people who were called Lu Xuan and Lu San licked their chapped lips and said, "Brother, I haven't been this nervous for a long time. I don't know if I can cope with these old arms and legs."

"Even if we risk our lives, we still have to deliver the news. Those of us who are secret agents have a pension of thirty taels of silver." The team leader laughed and eased the tension.

The whole city was under lockdown before, so they had no chance to send the message out. Now that the army has invaded and the city is in chaos, they have a chance.

The message must be sent before the army penetrates deep into the city.

"promise."

Zhuque Street is the main road in Luonan City.

Chen Jun's vanguard team has arrived here. Facing the defeated troops who did not lay down their weapons and surrender, they directly took out their crossbows and shot them.

The screams were endless.

One after another, the defeated imperial troops fell into a pool of blood.

Zheng Guozhu is the captain of one of the four vanguard teams. He was originally a subordinate of Yang Minggui, one of the thirty-six commanders of the Tianshi Army. After Yang Minggui died in Xialin City, he defected to Chen Mo.

Now he can be regarded as a veteran of Chen Junzhong.

His cultivation level has also reached the eighth level.

He made a gesture, and the four soldiers immediately left the team. Each two was in a group, back to back, holding a crossbow in one hand and a dagger in the other, approaching the houses on both sides of the street, while the team was responsible for keeping vigilance around them.

Soon, the soldier who walked in front kicked open the door of the house. The teammate who was leaning behind him immediately stepped into the house to check, while the soldier who was walking in front looked behind him.

They carefully searched around the house, knocking and checking to see if there was a darkroom or cellar. Then they went out and shook their heads at Zheng Guozhu.

The team continued to move forward, and then followed the same method as before, checking every house in the city to prevent enemy troops from hiding in these houses and waiting for Chen Jun to pass and stab him in the back.

They work well together.

Soon, they came to a large building. Judging from the plaque on the building, it was a restaurant. At this time, it was no longer suitable for two people to search.

Zheng Guozhu divided the team into two groups. He took one group into the restaurant and the remaining group stayed outside the restaurant.

The door to the restaurant was closed, making it harder to open than the door to the previous house.

In the end, Zheng Guozhu kicked it open in person. There were a bunch of tables and chairs blocking the door. There were many messy and wet footprints in the hall on the first floor. Seeing these footprints, Zheng Guozhu immediately became vigilant. The soldiers following him did not need Zheng Guozhu. After talking a lot, he divided himself into groups and searched the lobby on the first floor.

Soon I found the trembling shopkeeper under the tent.

After being discovered, the shopkeeper kept saying "spare my life" and his body was wet. He was so scared that he peed. Zheng Guozhu asked him if anyone had come in before, but he didn't answer. He kept saying "Don't kill me." ".

Zheng Guozhu looked at him briefly, then let him go and searched the backyard.

Just then.

"Don't move, don't kill until you disarm!"

"Don't come over"

There was a lot of noise from the stairs on the second floor of the restaurant.

When Zheng Guozhu arrived, there was a confrontation between the soldiers below and the defeated soldiers hiding in the restaurant.

Chen Jun kept saying words to ask the defeated soldiers to lay down their weapons and surrender.

But these defeated soldiers didn't know whether they were frightened or too panicked. They kept holding their weapons and told Chen Jun not to come over.

At this moment, a Chen Jun soldier could not withstand the pressure and pulled the trigger of his crossbow, killing a defeated soldier who had lost his armor.

The confrontation was broken instantly.

The remaining broken troops were greeted by dense crossbow bolts and spears thrust one after another.

In just a moment, the stairs were stained red with blood.

Zheng Guozhu said nothing and continued to let them investigate the restaurant.

As for the bodies left behind, they didn't have time to deal with them.

After checking the restaurant, the team moved on.

The heavy rain did not stop them.

A hundred steps behind them, the main force of Chen Jun followed slowly.

Prime Minister's Mansion, in the study.

Lu Sheng was confirming matters related to the Spirit Devouring Array with Xu Zheng.

Xu Zheng was still persuading: "Prime Minister, please think twice. Once the battle begins, there will be no turning back."

"There is no turning back for me. The winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit. This is the day." Lu Sheng's voice was cold. The initial battle with Chen Mo at the East Gate made him more determined.

"Prime Minister, the Chen army has passed Zhuque Street." At this moment, a voice sounded. It was Lu Sheng's housekeeper. Facing his master's excited face, he pondered: "But this is only the vanguard of the Chen army, and they have searched the houses on both sides carefully. It won't take long for them to find our ambush."

"What?!"

Lu Sheng's face changed and his expression became extremely ugly.

In order to lure the enemy deeper, he didn't even tell the Luonan defenders.

He didn't "help" the Chen army in the loss of the four city gates. They were actually attacked by the Chen army. Those deserting soldiers did retreat. Lu Sheng didn't give them any orders to retreat.

This was just to let Chen Jun relax his vigilance, so that he could pursue the victory and keep close behind.

In addition to the previous defense of Jushan Pass, Lu Sheng was telling Chen Mo that he had run out of tricks.

Lu Sheng's face changed, and then he sighed.

He was not completely unacceptable to this point.

After all, there is no perfect plan in this world.

Just as he was pondering, the voice of King Chong in a rage sounded outside the study: "Lu Sheng, what are you doing? Chen Jun has already entered the city, and the four city gates are blocked. Now even if we want to escape, we can't escape."

King Chong walked in wet, leaving a string of footprints behind him, his battle robe was still dripping with water, and his face was stained with the blood of Chen Jun soldiers. He didn't have time to wipe it off, and looked at Lu Sheng angrily.

The sudden arrival of King Chong made Xu Zheng have no time to hide. At this time, he wanted to escape, but there was no chance. King Chong had already seen him.

But at this moment, King Chong didn't care about him at all.

Lu Sheng's housekeeper frowned.

Hearing Lu Sheng's question, Lu Sheng's eyes slanted, and suddenly said sinisterly: "Your Majesty, don't you want to know what I have hidden from you? Today, I will tell you."

"The formation starts!"

As soon as the words fell, the bookshelves, tables and chairs in the study, and then the entire study, suddenly trembled.

Before King Chong could react to what happened, he suddenly heard a loud "boom" in his ears, thunder in the sky, lightning flashed, and a bright white light flashed outside the study window.

The instantaneous change of light and darkness made King Chong's eyes narrow slightly. At this moment, Lu Sheng's figure merged into the darkness, almost without making any sound, and his big hand tightly pinched King Chong's neck and lifted him up.

In just a moment, King Chong was filled with blood, and the innate spiritual power in his body instinctively surged out to resist. King Chong kept struggling: "Lu Sheng, what are you going to do? My spiritual energy."

King Chong fell into a huge panic. At this moment, he felt the innate spiritual energy in his body being drawn away bit by bit.

It became more and more difficult for him to breathe, and he spit out with difficulty: "What did you do to me?"

"Why, doesn't the prince know about this Emperor Taizu's soul-devouring formation?"

The study was shaking more and more violently, and the innate spiritual energy of the entire Xiangguo Mansion all gathered towards the "formation eye", and the range was still spreading outward towards the Xiangguo Mansion.

It's just that the innate spiritual energy between heaven and earth is too "mixed" and not pure enough. This kind of innate spiritual energy, ten thousand strands, is not as good as one strand in King Chong's body.

And King Chong cultivated dragon energy, which is exactly what the soul-devouring formation needs. Without any transformation, it can be directly absorbed by Lu Sheng.

Feeling the changes in the breath in his body, Lu Sheng's face also turned red.

When King Chong heard the words "Soul Devouring Formation", he turned pale.

As a member of the royal family, King Chong had naturally heard of the Soul Devouring Formation, but had never really seen it.

Because the Soul Devouring Formation was related to the foundation of the royal family.

The Soul Devouring Formation was a formation that had absorbed the dragon energy of the underground veins and the innate spiritual energy within a certain range as energy, and fed back to the cultivators at the center of the formation. The price was that the land where the formation was set up would be barren and crops would not grow.

This would lead to the people having no food to eat. If the people had no food to eat for a long time, it would cause riots and disrupt the stability and order of a place.

If the emperors in the future used the Soul Devouring Formation to improve their cultivation, there would be more and more barren lands in the Song Dynasty, thus affecting the stability of the dynasty.

Emperor Taizu had anticipated this long ago, and for this reason he separated the Soul Devouring Formation.

The formation diagram of the Soul Devouring Formation was handed over to the royal family for custody.

The method of setting up the formation and setting up the formation were handed over to the Imperial Observatory.

Until the moment when the country was destroyed and the mountains were destroyed and foreign races invaded, even the emperor was not allowed to use the Soul Devouring Formation.

Of course, in the nearly four hundred years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there have been emperors who have used their power to forcibly use the Soul Devouring Array to practice, but none of them have succeeded.

First, it is difficult to find a place with dragon veins.

Second, setting up the array requires large-scale construction and consumes a lot of money.

Third, the ministers will strongly dissuade it.

After all, this precedent of activating the Soul Devouring Array for no reason cannot be set, otherwise people behind will follow suit.

Fourth, the royal family will also oppose it.

Under these heavy obstacles, they can only give up helplessly.

"What did you do to King Zhao?" King Chong found it increasingly difficult to speak, and his consciousness became increasingly blurred.

King Zhao Chuyue, now the head of the royal family, keeps the array diagram of the Soul Devouring Array.

Although Luonan has the formation base left by Emperor Taizu, it is impossible to restart it without the formation diagram.

And King Zhao would definitely not give the formation diagram to Lu Sheng easily.

But what King Chong didn't know was that the emperor who wanted to forcibly activate the Soul Devouring Formation at that time, Song Zhongzong, although he prevented this idea under many obstacles, had already taken the first step before he gave up.

That is, the people of the Imperial Observatory had seen the formation diagram of the Soul Devouring Formation, and there were also people with ulterior motives who reproduced the formation diagram.

This made the formation diagram of the Soul Devouring Formation no longer unique.

Otherwise, Xu Mu, who was Yang Minggui's military advisor at the time, could not have set up the Soul Devouring Formation in Xialin City, Qingzhou.

The Soul Devouring Formation in Xialin was only a small one.

It was only enough for a middle-grade warrior to break through to the upper grade.

The Soul Devouring Formation in Luonan City was a real large-scale Soul Devouring Formation.

"He will be with you soon. Now, let the prince be the first person to offer sacrifices." After saying that, Lu Sheng strangled the neck of the king Chong and threw him to the ground casually.

Although the king Chong was dead, the soul-devouring array was still extracting the innate spiritual energy in his body.

Xu Zheng on the side was already shocked.

He never expected that Lu Sheng would kill the king Chong in front of him.

After all, he is also a prince, and you are just a minister.

Lu Sheng did not look at Xu Zheng, and said to the housekeeper: "No more waiting, do your best to delay the Chen army in the city, so that this prime minister can absorb more."

"Yes."

The housekeeper retreated.

In the dungeon of the prime minister's mansion.

Zhou Qin and a group of officials who wanted to escape from the battlefield were imprisoned here. Their cultivation was not abolished, nor were they tortured. They were imprisoned in the dungeon, tied up with special ropes that bound the innate spiritual energy.

But even so, after only a few days of detention, Zhou Qin looked vicissitudes of life and unkempt.

Just then, there was a noise outside the dungeon, and the butler Le of the Xiangfu appeared in front of them.

Zhou Qin seemed to have seen a savior, and banged the prison door loudly: "Butler Le, Butler Le, I know I was wrong, really wrong, please help me ask Lu Xiang to let me go, I will never dare to do it again, Butler Le, I beg you."

The officials in the cell next to him followed suit, and for a while, there were tears in the dungeon.

And the next move of Butler Le also made them bright.

Because Butler Le actually opened the door of Zhou Qin's cell and untied the rope on Zhou Qin.

Just when Zhou Qin was about to express his gratitude, Butler Le suddenly slapped him with a palm, and Zhou Qin instinctively mobilized his innate spiritual energy to resist.