Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 44: Being a rebel and still being blackmailed? (Please read on)
Zhao Guanxiang's face changed drastically immediately, the blood and evil in his body rushed out of his body, and the spiritual power in his body circulated wildly.

However, the blood evil that was most effective in eliminating evil spirits had completely lost its effect at this moment. The golden light penetrated the protective blood evil without any hindrance and hit his abdominal cavity.

Zhao Guanxiang only felt a warm current flowing out in his stomach, cold sweat instantly broke out, and he immediately urged all the spiritual power in his body to circulate around his body.

However, the spiritual power in his body circulated in his abdominal cavity and found nothing abnormal, so it returned to his dantian along the trajectory of the small circulation.

"This……"

Zhao Guanxiang was stunned.

He touched his belly in doubt, then felt around his body, looked at the baby statue, and gradually a puzzled look appeared on his face: "Is this thing just a bluff?"

Zhao Guanxiang did not dare to be negligent. He stood there and was cautious for a while, but he did not feel anything unusual in his body.

Only then did he feel relieved, and he walked quickly forward and took out a black cloth bag from his arms.

The Sky Patrol Observatory is bound to deal with some evil things. This black cloth bag is no ordinary thing. It is called the "Demon Sealing Bag" and is made by a master in the Observatory himself. It can seal away sneaky evil spirits, isolate curses, and so on.

The magic-sealing bags come in different colors and have different effects. The black one is the best... but also the most expensive. Zhao Guanxiang spent more than two thousand taels of silver. All the money that Zhao Nishang secretly gave him last time was spent on this.

He opened the mouth of the bag, stood on tiptoe and threw the strange baby statue in the shrine into the bag, then pulled the rope at the mouth of the bag to seal the magic bag.

Zhao Guanxiang tied it around his waist, then lowered his clothes to cover it, and then walked out of the dark room.

……

Inside the Sanqing Palace, two servants and the Astronomical Observatory personnel were guarding the door to the dark room. When they saw Zhao Guanxiang coming out, they immediately went to greet him.

"Sir, have you got any concrete evidence?"

As soon as the servant asked this question, all the people in the palace who were patrolling the sky became alert at once, looking at the Taoists from Baiyun Temple with unfriendly eyes, just waiting for the order from their superior, so that they could invite these Taoists into the palace again.

The prison vans are already ready at the foot of the mountain!

Cang Baizi still had that unmoved wooden expression, but the Taoists beside him all had stern faces and looked at Zhao Guanxiang nervously.

Even they didn't know that there was such a secret room hidden in the Sanqing Hall where they stayed every day.

Could it be that...what these court lackeys said is true?

But when everyone's eyes were on Zhao Guanxiang, he shook his head and said, "Nothing was found. It's empty."

When these words were spoken, everyone in the Astronomical Observatory was disappointed, while the Taoists in the Baiyun Temple all breathed a sigh of relief.

But there was only one person who suddenly looked up at Zhao Guanxiang.

That's Cangbaizi!

There was more emotion in his eyes, and his expression was no longer wooden. At this moment, he was looking at Zhao Guanxiang in great astonishment.

Zhao Guanxiang walked towards him, patted his shoulder, and whispered something in his ear.

I don't know what he said, but Cang Baizi's face became more and more uglier.

Zhao Guanxiang patted his shoulder vigorously, then turned around and laughed loudly: "It seems that we made a mistake. Brothers, retreat!"

……

"Cub Tiger, what did you say to the old Taoist when you left?"

On the way back, Zhao Guanxiang and two servants each rode a horse and walked in front of the team. The more experienced servant rode his horse closer and asked curiously at the right side of Zhao Guanxiang.

Zhao Guanxiang rode on the horse, holding the reins with both hands, and said with a smile: "What can I say? I just said some harsh words. Everyone in the prison knows that I was taken away by those softies in the Ministry of Justice last time. I can't bear this."

The younger servants also rode forward and said sarcastically, "I thought you really had evidence, but in the end you are still abusing your power. When you return to prison..."

"I will definitely go to the general and file a complaint against you!"

Zhao Guanxiang and the old servant spoke in unison, then looked at each other and laughed.

The young servant's face suddenly showed shame and anger, and his lips trembled with anger: "I am ashamed to be associated with you, a crude warrior."

There was another round of laughter, and the atmosphere became harmonious for a moment.

But at this moment, Zhao Guanxiang suddenly felt nauseous and covered his mouth with his hands and retched: "Ugh..." "Cub Tiger, what's wrong?"

The servant named Gao noticed his abnormality and asked him with concern.

Zhao Guanxiang frowned, put two fingers of his right hand together and secretly touched the pulse point of his left wrist, and relaxed his brows for a moment: "Nothing, maybe I drank too much last night and I haven't recovered from the alcohol yet."

The young servant snorted, "You'll die from drinking and having fun every night. Sooner or later, you'll die from drinking and having sex!"

Zhao Guanxiang ignored him and shouted to his men behind him: "Brothers, you have made a wasted trip today. I will treat you to a drink when you return! Except for General Zhang (Note: 1)!"

The young servant was immediately enraged, and cursed through gritted teeth: "Young tiger!"

Zhao Guanxiang laughed loudly and spurred his horse to faster speed.

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That night, in the princess's mansion.

The black cloth bag has been handed to Zhao Qian'an.

Along with this thing, a packet of medicine and a secret letter were also handed to him.

The letter described in detail what Zhao Nishang and Zhao Guanxiang did in Baiyun Temple during the day, and also described the origin of the things in the black cloth bag.

Zhao Qi'an was not in a hurry to look at the other two things. He first carefully read the contents of the letter.

The act of "accidentally meeting" the imperial concubine and disguising herself as the imperial concubine to enter Baiyun Temple was a bit risky, but the result was good.

After knowing the existence of the dark room, it is safer not to act rashly or be greedy for credit.

Zhao Guanxiang came forward on behalf of the Astronomical Observatory and opened the secret room in front of a group of Taoist priests from the Baiyun Temple. This was tantamount to putting all the blame on the Astronomical Observatory. This move of diverting trouble away... might have alerted the enemy and easily startled the group of people from the Salvation Sect hiding in the Baiyun Temple.

The most likely scenario is that after realizing that they might have been exposed, the Salvation Cult suddenly attacked and killed the group of people from the Astronomical Patrol who were tracking down Baiyun Temple, and then immediately disappeared from Kyoto City.

Although there is still a "bait" like Yu Zhen, once something like that happens, it will be difficult to catch all the people from the Salvation Church in Kyoto City in one fell swoop.

"But... Guan Xiang should be aware of this."

Zhao Qian'an looked at the last few lines of the letter and his expression became a little strange.

His four sons were actually using the strange statue they got from the dark room to blackmail the people from the Salvation Church!

And it costs 20,000 taels of silver!
He made an appointment with the people from Baiyun Temple to trade at the west pier in three days, otherwise he would have to hand over the statue to the Astronomical Observatory.

"Nine out of ten people from the Salvation Church thought they had encountered a greedy person, and they would mistakenly believe that there was still room for maneuver in this matter."

Zhao Qi'an knew clearly that Zhao Guanxiang was using him to fish.

Even if the Salvation Sect, which secretly controlled Baiyun Temple, really gave it to him, the temple would definitely continue to blackmail him until they could no longer tolerate it and sent people to kill him.

It's really like... a rebel meets a rogue official.

I can only say that it has the style of a young tiger patrolling the sky.

When Zhao Qi'an thought about the scene, he found it somewhat funny and shook his head with a sneer.

Regardless, both of them did a good job.

He burned the letter in his hand on the candlestick, threw it into the copper basin, and then untied the black cloth bag.

When the black cloth bag was untied, the strange golden baby statue covered with tumors revealed its true appearance.

"Bang bang..."

Zhao Qi'an seemed to hear a faint heartbeat, and his eyes fell on the chest of the infant statue, only to see its chest heaving.

He couldn't help but let out a sigh:
"Is this alive?"

Note 1: Brigade commander is an official title, not a person’s name.

The reference prototype of the Xuntianjian in this book is the Jinwu Guard of the Tang Dynasty. However, this is not a historical text, so please don’t delve into it. It is just a reference to the framework.
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