Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 46: Qing Ge Returns
Tianji Temple, outside Lianhua Peak.
A flash of sword light stopped.
Lin Yao, with a shy look on her face, flew out from the sword light and bowed obediently to Xia Daoyun who was flying the sword to send her back, "Thank you for your help, Master Jianlai."
Xia Daoyuan waved his hand, and after sending Lin Yao back to Tianji Temple, he turned around and left.
Lin Yao stopped where she was and stood still for a moment, watching Xia Daoyuan's figure completely disappear from her sight before she flew towards Lotus Peak.
As a result, as soon as she entered the Lotus Peak, she saw the master of Shuiyue Temple standing quietly in a pavilion, as if he had been waiting for her for a long time.
"Master." Lin Yao walked forward and said respectfully.
"He's gone?" asked the master of Shuiyue Temple.
Although the name was not stated directly, it was obvious who he was talking about.
Lin Yao nodded slightly.
The master of Shuiyue Temple fell into deep thought, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
After a moment of silence, Lin Yao took the initiative to ask: "Master, Mr. Lu is someone you value, and his trip to the abyss is a life-or-death experience. Why don't you have any intention of stopping him from taking the risk?"
To outsiders, Lu Qingshan's behavior was unnecessary.
Because it is obvious that as long as he waits for a while, his sword will be restored to its original state.
Even if the sword spirit has changed, so what?
It's better than letting a swordsman with a promising future risk his life.
Not to mention, it was just for a sword spirit.
Sword spirits are not human.
Besides, in many cases, sacrificing other people for the sake of some important people is actually a very common situation.
"The Sword Immortal's path can only be walked by himself. If others forcibly interfere, it will only ruin his path."
The master of Shuiyue Temple had deep eyes and said quietly, "If I forcibly stop him, he may grow into a great swordsman, but he will never become a sword immortal in this life."
"Moreover, if he can come back safely this time," Shuiyue Temple's words were meaningful, "it means that he must be a person favored by the great fortune of this world, and his future achievements will be limitless..."
"Master, where does the concept of luck come from?" After hearing what the Shuiyue Temple Master said, Lin Yao couldn't help but ask, "Both the Master and you seem to attach great importance to luck. Is it because we at Tianji Temple are stealing the secrets of heaven that you attach so much importance to luck?"
In her opinion, the concept of luck is too illusory.
"No," the head of Shuiyue Temple shook his head and told his apprentice some secrets, "The concept of luck is not something that only our Tianji Temple believes in. If you want to achieve the ninth level, luck is essential."
"Luck has never been an illusory secret, but a quantifiable constant..."
…
Lu Qingshan looked forward.
A city sits there quietly.
Feather Demon City.
This is the demon city he is about to enter, and it is also an extremely important part of his plan to conceal his true identity.
All things are difficult at the beginning.
He must obtain enough intelligence from Yumo City in a short period of time.
At this moment, Lu Qingshan's body froze and he stopped where he was, not knowing what he was thinking about.
"Lu Qingshan, what are you doing?" Gu Yiyi asked curiously.
"I'm thinking about what kind of performing arts to use." Lu Qingshan said.
In the performing arts, three schools are most respected.
They are experientialism, methodism and expressionism.
The experiential school requires performers to start from themselves and live in the role situation they are going to play.
The Method School originated from the Experiential School and also requires performers to achieve subconscious and real reactions, but the Method School allows performers to replace the communication objects.
The expressionist school first constructs an image of a "character" in one's mind and then imitates it, emphasizing the grasp and design of the situation.
To give an easy-to-understand example, if a sword cultivator were asked to play the role of a magic cultivator who loves magic...
An experiential swordsman is one who digs out the little bit of affection he has for magic in his heart, amplifies it, and truly shows his magic-cultivating side to others - "I am a magic-cultivator."
The method-based sword practice replaces spells by imagining them as one's own sword, thereby transferring one's love for the sword to the spells.
An expressionist swordsman would first construct an image of what a swordsman should have in his mind, and then imitate this image.
Expressionism...
He knew too little information about Qingge's identity and was unable to construct a reasonable image of Qingge, so he ruled him out first.
As for the method school, because it will be a long-term performance and the replacement communication objects will be constantly changing, in this constant repetition, he will gradually lose the freshness and finally lead to rigid performance, so it is also excluded.
Then only the experience-oriented ones are left.
Experientialism is the most difficult of the three performing arts and also the one that requires the most talent; it pursues authenticity.
Talent?
Have you heard of "An Actor's Self-cultivation"?
Lu Qingshan made a decision in his mind.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes for a few breaths, and then slowly opened them again.
"What are you doing?" Gu Yiyi asked without understanding.
"Try to get into the state," Lu Qingshan replied, "Okay, Ai Xuan."
"Love to show off... what are you showing off?"
"It's time to show some real skills."
Lu Qingshan moved and flew towards Yumo City.
…
When he was approaching Yumo City.
A beam of light flew out from the city and stopped in front of Lu Qingshan.
This is a guard from Yumo City.
"Who is coming?"
After seeing Lu Qingshan's face clearly, the guard's face suddenly changed, and he looked panicked, "Greetings, Your Highness Qingge, I am blind, please don't blame me, Your Highness."
He was panicking because it was common knowledge that His Highness Qingge had a bad temper.
I didn't recognize Qingge immediately just now. If Prince Qingge was unhappy and killed me directly, it would be unreasonable and I would have no way to complain.
Lu Qingshan narrowed his eyes and looked at the guard, and asked, "Is the Yumo City Lord in the city now?"
The guard said cautiously: "The city lord went to Tianmo City to report on the recent battle situation in Yumo City. It will take some time for him to come back."
Lu Qingshan's expression didn't change much, but he was happy in his heart.
When the tiger is not at home, the monkey becomes king. At least he can act without restraint until the Lord of Feathered Demon City returns.
Moreover, in the brief conversation just now, he also got the information that the people of the demon clan should be very wary of Qing Ge.
This shows that Qingge usually has a bad temper, and when you think about how he bossed his subordinates around outside Luoyan Pass, he did so in a bossy manner.
Lu Qingshan first labeled Qingge as arrogant.
This is good news.
The more arrogant Qingge is, the more others are afraid of him. They dare not contact him and the less they know about him.
"If Lord Yumo City is not here, then no one will come to greet me?" Lu Qingshan suddenly became furious and shouted.
"Your Highness Qingge, it's not..." The guard's face changed and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Your Highness Qingge, please calm down." At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded.
Lu Qingshan turned his head and saw a feathered demon with a pair of wings on its back but in human form, coming towards him with a smile on his face.
"Young City Lord Yu Luo." The guard said respectfully as if he had seen a savior.
Young city lord?
That is the offspring of the Lord of Yumo City.
Lu Qingshan thought in his heart.
"You step back first." Yu Luo waved his hand.
The guard felt relieved and quickly retreated obediently.
During this process, he didn't even dare to look up at Lu Qingshan, for fear of accidentally offending the moody Prince "Qingge" again.
"Your Highness Qingge, why are you here?" After sending away the guards, Yu Luo asked politely.
"Why, no?" Lu Qingshan looked at him coldly and said coldly, "Does this mean that you don't welcome me?"
Why are you being so arrogant? It’s just that you have a good father.
Even having a good father is of no use. He led the army given by the Demon Lord to attack the human city gate, but still returned in defeat despite the huge disparity in combat power. The story of Qingge's defeat at Luoyan Pass has become known to everyone in the past few days.
Yu Luo felt contempt and jealousy in his heart, but he still smiled and said, "Of course not. Your Highness's visit to Yumo City is a great honor for Yumo City. It's just that Your Highness didn't tell us in advance, which made us feel bad for not welcoming you."
"Humph," Lu Qingshan said lazily, "You can talk."
He turned around and looked around, then asked, "Are you going to let me talk to you here?"
"I was negligent," Yu Luo was startled, and quickly apologized with a smile: "Your Highness Qingge, please come this way first."
As he spoke, Yu Luo led the way and introduced Lu Qingshan into the City Lord's Mansion.
At the same time, he was constantly pondering Qingge's intentions.
Their Yumo City is under the command of the Black Sand Demon Lord.
Qing Ge is the offspring of the Demon Lord Xuan Blade.
There was a dispute between the Demon Lord of the Beast Blade and the Demon Lord of the Black Sand.
Back then, there was a rift between these two demon lords due to issues regarding resource allocation. After that, although they could not be called enemies, their relationship was not very harmonious.
The two veins will never have any contact with each other until they die.
His Highness Qingge is the third son of the Demon Lord Xuanren. Why did he suddenly come to Yumo City for no reason?
For a moment, Yu Luo was a little confused and had difficulty figuring out the situation.
But he was sure that Qingge's sudden visit must have been for ill purposes and not a good thing.
…
After a moment.
In the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion.
"Your Highness, please take a seat." Yu Luo looked at Lu Qingshan who seemed to be looking around, and frowned secretly.
Lu Qingshan sat down slowly.
"Your Highness, I don't know why you came to Yumo City. If you have encountered any troubles that are difficult to solve, Yumo City is willing to help Your Highness." Yu Luo said politely.
Lu Qingshan, who was so arrogant outside just now, pretended to yawn and waved his hand at this moment.
"Your Highness is a little sleepy now. I see that the environment of your City Lord's Mansion is quite good. I would like to take a rest in the mansion first. We can talk about anything later."
Before you have enough information, it is better to speak less. The more you speak, the more mistakes you will make.
Lu Qingshan decided not to talk to Yu Luoduo for the time being and leave him aside. He would take advantage of this time to find out the situation.
On this side, Yu Luo's expression changed slightly when he heard this.
Sleepy? Are you kidding me?
How could a demon of their level feel sleepy?
However, His Highness Qingge visited his own Yumo City for no reason, and proposed to rest without saying a word. What was going on?
Yu Luo felt confused.
He definitely didn't dare to let Qingge live in the City Lord's Mansion directly.
This is because the Black Sand Demon Lord has countless subordinates, and the phenomenon of fighting for power and profit among them is extremely serious.
If Qing Ge stayed in his own house, Yu Luo was afraid that other people would take this opportunity to slander his father in front of the Black Sand Demon Lord, saying that their Yu Mo City had secretly defected to the Hound Blade Demon Lord.
Even if their Yumo City is innocent.
But after all, it is difficult to prevent rumors in such a situation.
But Qingge's status was extremely noble, so he couldn't just drive people away.
Very angry, but useless.
You can only suffer in silence.
"Wait, this isn't Qing Ge's intention, is it?" A terrible thought suddenly flashed through Yu Luo's mind, "I don't have to do anything. Just stay in our City Lord's Mansion for a few days, and my father will lose his position in front of the Black Sand Demon Lord..."
"But why? My father is just an ordinary demon commander, why would Qing Ge target him like this?"
Yu Luo overturned his idea again.
"No, it's useless to target us, but what if he has other intentions?" Yu Luo remembered something, "I heard that the three sons of the Demon Lord of the Blade have been at odds with each other for a long time. Although the Demon Lord of the Blade loves Qing Ge the most, many people in the Blade lineage look down on Qing Ge as a mixed-blood. He was defeated miserably at Luoyan Pass this time, and once he returns, he will definitely lose face."
"That's right, he definitely can't just sit there and wait for death, he has to find a way to make up for the losses of the defeat by performing other merits.
He first threw dirty water on our Yumo City to solidify our reputation as "traitors", and then tried to recruit us from Yumo City. With no other options left, we had no choice but to join him.
There is a rift between the Black Sand Demon Lord and the Beast Blade Demon Lord. If he can successfully instigate a rebellion against our Feather Demon City, he can more or less save some face for himself."
"Oh, right, he just said that the City Lord's Mansion has a nice environment, so he wants to stay in the mansion to rest... The architectural style of our Feather Demon Clan is obviously criticized among the demons because it is primitive and exaggerated. How can it be said to be good?"
"If there is no other deeper meaning, why would he say it in such a sarcastic way?"
Yu Luo thought to himself, "So, this is actually a hint that he has set his sights on our Yumo City and is planning to take us under his wing?"
Yu Luo began to analyze word by word what Qing Ge had just said in his mind.
Even though this was just a polite remark made by Lu Qingshan because he did not understand the customs and aesthetics of the demon clan, Yu Luo derived many meanings from it.
Yu Luo then brainstormed.
He had heard that His Highness Qingge was of mixed blood, unlike the other two princes of the Xiren lineage who were both pure-blooded soldier-demons and had a very powerful mother's family. Apart from the support of the Xiren Demon Lord, His Highness Qingge had no other connections behind him.
In this case, Qingge must also want to build his own team.
However, it is not very possible to poach talents from his two brothers.
If I were Qingge, what should I do?
The only wise choice is to take advantage of the favor of the Demon Lord Xuan Blade and convert it into tangible benefits.
In this case , finding another way and poaching talents from other demon lords becomes a very good option.
Moreover, it would not be possible to undermine the power of any other Demon Lord except the Black Sand Demon Lord, because even the Hound Blade Demon Lord would certainly not want to offend other Demon Lords.
The only way to succeed is to undermine the Black Sand Demon Lord.
After all, there has been a rift between the two Demon Lords, so they don’t care if they offend each other more.
With this premise, the Demon Lord Xuan Blade will definitely help Qing Ge to cover for himself, so that he will not have to worry about the revenge of the Demon Lord Black Sand afterwards.
Yu Luo was imagining things wildly in his mind.
His imagination seems accidental, but in fact it is inevitable.
The most fundamental reason is that Qingge's identity is extremely special, so his every move can easily be given other meanings and interpreted in various ways by others.
The same thing done by different people often has completely different meanings in the eyes of others.
Even if their original intentions were the same.
Just like when the sentence “it’s raining” appears in an article, if an ordinary person writes it like this, then it really is just raining.
If the great writer surnamed Lu had written in this way, others would have been able to write an appreciation and analysis of at least two hundred words from the aspects of artistic conception, emotion, foreshadowing, etc.
"No, isn't it rumored that His Highness Qing Ge is extremely 'brainless'? How could he be so scheming?"
Here, Yu Luo thought of something deeper and became a little uncertain, "Could it be that this was not Qing Ge's own idea, but the suggestion of the Demon Lord of the Demon Blade?"
No, I still have to test him.
Yu Luo felt suspicious and uneasy.
"The battlefield outside the domain is so dangerous. His Highness Qing Ge is worth a million dollars. Why did he come to our Yumo City alone this time? Did something happen and he got separated from his men?"
Yu Luo did not dare to ask directly, so he could only follow Qing Ge's previous words and ask in a tactful way: "Do you need me to pass a message to your subordinates and tell them where your Highness is now?"
Seeing Yu Luo asking this, Lu Qingshan said calmly in a commanding tone: "That's right, I'd like to trouble you to notify my subordinates and ask them to come and pick me up as soon as possible."
He just didn't know where Qingge's base camp was, so he could only stay in Yumo City temporarily and wait for Qingge's men to come to him.
At the same time, he also planned to get more information before his men came to him.
After all, Qingge's subordinates should know Qingge very well.
If he knew nothing, it was only a matter of time before his identity was exposed in front of his subordinates.
What Yu Luo asked was exactly what he wanted.
How thoughtful.
…
On the other side, Yu Luo was shocked.
As expected, I was wondering how he could be so cunning, it turns out that everything was the result of the instruction of the Hound Blade Demon Lord!
According to the rules of their demon clan, Qingge, as the descendant of the Demon Lord Xuanren, is strictly forbidden to lead the army to invade the cities under the command of other demon lords unless there are special circumstances.
This was seen as an act of provocation. If not handled properly, it would anger the Black Sand Demon Lord and cause considerable trouble for the Beast Blade Demon Lord.
If Qing Ge had not received the signal from the Demon Lord Xuan Blade, how could he dare to act so boldly?
