Chapter 35: Déjà vu
Tang Yan returned to the guest room, but opened the window crack again, and continued to look at King Zhou Ling and his guards in the hall, his eyes were somewhat strange and vigilant.
"Haven't you seen enough, is she so good-looking?" Tang Yingqi's little face flushed.
"Don't you feel that the woman is a little familiar?" Tang Yan looked at Tang Ying seriously, when she followed Tang Qiong out just now, she was attracted by the appearance and temperament of the sisters, but she soon noticed a sense of familiarity, this feeling came from the eldest daughter of King Zhou Ling.
"I'm not familiar with it, you must be familiar with it!"
"Why?"
"When you see a beautiful woman, you see a loved one, you must be familiar. ”
Tang Yan rolled his eyes angrily: "Am I so shameless?"
"Don't you know yourself?"
"Okay, you've won, let's get down to business. What is the relationship between Tang Qiong and King Zhou Ling?"
"It's not too clear. ”
"Then say you clearly partially. ”
Tang Ying thought hard: "Uncle Tang Qiong came to our Tang family in six or seven years, and it is said that he seems to have been picked up by his grandfather. ”
"And this secret?"
Tang Ying said while reminiscing: "I heard that Uncle Tang Qiong used to be a soldier with a military rank, and it seems that he served as the captain of a thousand people in the Falcon Group Army. When King Zhou Ling was still a prince, he once entered the Falcon Group Army for training, and was the first to serve in his thousand-man team.
The border war is very chaotic, often encountering crises, Tang Qiong saved King Zhou Ling at least twice, King Zhou Ling and Tang Qiong are called brothers, and later King Zhou Ling came to the Northern Wilderness to claim the king, and secretly controlled the Falcon Group Army, intending to promote Tang Qiong as the captain of 10,000 people, just at that time Tang Qiong's martial arts broke through, officially stepped into the realm of King Wu, and King Zhou Ling had an excuse to promote.
However, the appointment has not yet been issued, the Falcon Group Army was ambushed by the northern Suo Luo Empire in a military operation, with heavy casualties, Uncle Tang Qiong's thousand-man team was wiped out, but he himself escaped by luck, planted in the Hengshui River and floated away along the river, and was later accidentally rescued by his grandfather Tang Yanshan, and taught him the flame trick of the Tang family, Tang Qiong thanked his grandfather for saving his life, stayed in the Tang family, and served as an offering. ”
"King Zhou Ling didn't look for Tang Qiong?"
"Uncle Tang Qiong was seriously injured at the time, and it took half a year to recover, and later changed his name, and no one knew his original identity. It wasn't until later that King Zhou Ling went to the Giant Elephant City to do errands and accidentally discovered Tang Qiong, who had worked hard at that time, but Uncle Tang Qiong refused, and has stayed in the Tang family since then. What are you asking for?"
Tang Yan was noncommittal and continued to ask, "Do you know those two girls?"
"Of course, Zhou Linglu and Zhou Lingxue, the two daughters born to the main house of Zhou Lingwang. Zhou Linglu is only 20 years old this year, but she has already reached the realm of a second-order martial sect, and she can be regarded as the leader of the younger generation of the empire. Zhou Lingxue is twelve years old this year, and she has just completed her baptism, and her spiritual vein activation rate is 70 percent, five percentage points more than Zhou Linglu back then. Tang Ying looked at Tang Yan fixedly, and said in an unkind tone: "You can't really be interested in them, right?"
"She's twenty, I'm fifteen, do you feel like a match? Don't think nonsense, little head, let me ask you again, do you feel that Zhou Linglu is very familiar?"
"Nope. ”
"Think about it, have you seen it anywhere?"
"I've only heard of it, I haven't seen it, and today is the first time we've met. What the hell are you trying to ask?"
Tang Yan thought hard, shook his head again, and didn't say anything else.
The sky gradually darkened, Tang Qiong and King Zhou Ling were drunk and unconscious after drinking the six altars of fine wine, and the inn was calm. Maybe it's because the major academies and families have left Shenquan Town, this night ...... Exceptionally peaceful.
Tang Yan lay on the bed and tossed and turned, never able to sleep, and there was always a feeling of uneasiness lingering in his heart.
Familiarity?He can vaguely make a judgment, this familiar feeling comes from the girl in white in the dense forest, Zhou Linglu and the girl in white are too similar, and the spiritual power that the other party inadvertently revealed when deliberately tempted during the day is also a cold attribute, is this just a coincidence?
But the deeper I think about it, the more I feel contradictory, Zhou Linglu is the lord of the palace, and it is unlikely that she will personally do this kind of vicious killing, and then Zhou Linglu looks at her indifferent eyes very naturally, which is completely different from the coldness and killing intent of the woman in white in the dense forest.
When I think about it, the familiar feeling seems to have become unreal.
The next morning, King Zhou Ling led everyone to bid farewell to Shenquan Town, and the team entered the psychedelic forest in a mighty way, and under the influence of the powerful aura that was deliberately emanated, almost all the demon beasts chose to avoid it.
For the next four consecutive days, the qiē and qiē were very calm, King Zhou Ling was hearty and kind, without the slightest prince shelf, and even hunted and barbecued in person many times, which was supposed to be a little more angry and energetic on the journey.
Along the way, Zhou Linglu, who was vigilant by Tang Yan, and the guards also had no abnormal behavior, and the guesses that were already a little hesitant began to waver, and from the third day, they no longer paid attention deliberately, and began to concentrate on studying the martial arts given by Tang Qiong - Flame Jue.
The Flame Technique is far more complicated than Tang Yan imagined, not only is the way of the knife is limited, but the corresponding spiritual power operation also has to match the corresponding frequency and strength, it is really difficult to swing the knife in the way recorded by the Flame Technique, let alone use it smoothly and quickly.
In Tang Qiong's words - hard practice!
The flame recipe is not difficult, it is not easy to say, there is only one purpose - practice makes perfect to the extreme!
On the first day of contact with the Flame Technique, Tang Yan had spent half a day familiarizing himself with the trajectory of the sword swing and the operation of the spiritual power, and by the time he was able to swing a coherent sword, it was already the same night, and it took a full three minutes.
According to the description of the Flame Technique, if you want to perform the 'Flame Double Blow', you need to slash out two knives in a row within two seconds, and the spiritual power runs for two weeks, which is simply out of reach for Tang Yan, who took three minutes to slash for the first time.
In order to unleash the 'Flame Triple Strike' with triple power, you need to slash three times in a row in one second for three weeks, which is simply a limit compared to Double Strike.
The time required for the 'Flame Quadruple Strike' is also one second, but from three to four knives, it is another extreme leap, which needs to be honed again and again, continuously, and there is no relaxation at any time.
Tang Yan did not spend money because of difficulties, but in the continuous contact, he became more and more proficient in the use of spiritual power, and became more and more clear to understand the principles and methods of spiritual power derived into martial arts.
Again and again, again and again, Tang Yan relied on the assistance of the Immortal Heavenly Technique, and almost reached the sleepless self-forgetfulness of the night, and sometimes in order to digest the occasional inspiration, he might even sit still for half a day, and the harmful team had to stop and wait.
This tenacity and persistence not only made Tang Qiong nod secretly, but even Du Yang was a little surprised, and some questions flashed in the minds of the palace guards-this little guy is not tired?
On the evening of the seventh day after going deep into the dense forest, everyone relied on the stream to set up camp, Tang Yan was immersed in the cultivation of the Flame Technique, and he practiced non-stop for four consecutive days, so that his comprehension of the Flame Technique deepened again and again, and the speed of swinging the knife was compressed from three minutes at the beginning to five seconds, although there was still a lot of room for the barrier of two seconds, but the four days could be compressed to this kind of Cheng dù, which had already made Tang Ying's small mouth become O-shaped.
"Wake up. Elinda suddenly found Tang Yan and sat down with him.
Tang Yan woke up from his realization, and looked at Elinda who was close to him in surprise, the two almost touched skin to skin, and they could not only smell the light body fragrance, but also hide the fine fluff in their ears, and look down their necks......
"Where are you looking!" Elinda glared at him in disgust.
Tang Yan smiled: "I moved subconsciously, don't mind." Mentor Elinda, you're ......"
"Something. ”
"You have something to say, this kind of ambiguous action is easy to cause misunderstanding, you know, I am not strong-willed, in case I make an out-of-the-ordinary move, wouldn't you ......" Tang Yan was unceremoniously, grabbed Elinda's fragrant shoulder, and took a deep breath recklessly.
It's just that...... The proud Elinda only stiffened slightly and then didn't react.
"Something on your mind?" Tang Yan felt strange, and looked at Elinda carefully, and found that she was obviously a lot haggard, and the complexion on her face was very bad.
Elinda leaned over Tang Yan's shoulder and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito fly: "You must believe me, the people who are chasing us in the dense forest...... It's King Zhou Ling!"
"Huh?" Tang Yan's face changed slightly.
"Do you remember the woman in that group of white-clothed people? I had a guess at the time, she was probably Zhou Linglu, the county lord of the palace! When I saw her in Shenquan Town, I was even more sure of my judgment. ”
"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Tang Yan and Elinda leaned lightly, communicating with only the subtle voices that the two of them could hear.
"Without conclusive evidence, how can I say? I said it, who will believe it? What will they do with me? She is the imperial county lord, and her father is the master of the Northern Wasteland!" Elinda's face was a little bitter, her judgment was just speculation, in the absence of conclusive evidence, accusing Zhou Linglu was tantamount to accusing King Zhou Ling, accusing the real master of the Northern Wilderness!
If the other party is framed in turn, he is likely to be directly destroyed.
"Why are you suing me now!"
"From the time I left Shenquan Town, until now, King Zhou Ling's guards have surrounded me and don't give me a chance to speak at all, starting this evening, they will no longer monitor me, I think...... It should be time to make a move. ”
Tang Yan's brows became tighter and tighter, almost twisted into a pimple!
It turned out that the speculation was true, that woman was Zhou Linglu!
The front and back are organized, and everything becomes coherent and smooth.
King Zhou Ling suddenly appeared in Shenquan Town, not to find Tang Qiong to catch up, but to use Tang Qiong to take the Giant Elephant Academy away, leaving Tang Yan and other people who might know, and then design a frame-up. Even King Zhou Ling deliberately gave Du Yang a heavy promise, just to give him an excuse.
Tang Yan's eyes changed uncertainly, if he was King Zhou Ling, what would he do next?
The most likely scenario is...... Arrange for a group of white-clad men with fanged masks to attack the team, causing chaos and killing Elida, herself, and Du Yang in the chaos.
In this way, it can not only eliminate hidden dangers, but also use Tang Yan's 'seeing' to confirm to the world that he has nothing to do with the man in white.
If King Zhou Ling can be injured, then the effect will be even more perfect!