Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 20: Viper Tide
"As long as the situation is under control as soon as possible, there will be no shortage of witnesses and evidence in Wanchun Palace."

"What we saw tonight is enough to prove General Gu's innocence." Pei Nian said, "Now it seems that the Liu Heng case was just the tip of the iceberg."

You Gui said, "General Lu, we can go on our own."

Lu Yanning let go of his hand. In front of them was the side door of Wanchun Palace. The palace gate was in chaos at this time. Looking around, there were scenes of snakes and leeches eating people.

"Rush over."

"it is good."

Gu Jingnian, who had been silent the whole time, finally spoke up and said, "I'm in front."

After saying that, he ran straight towards the palace gate.

Lu Yanning was about to stop him when he saw a figure rushing out, so he had to quickly follow.

The four men ran hard, but it was impossible to avoid the leeches at the palace gate. The guards around them were already dead. More than a dozen two-headed and three-headed leeches could not find any flesh and blood, so they directly bit the leeches with only one head. At this moment, they smelled the scent of flesh and blood, and bit over with their bloody mouths.

Gu Jingnian was instantly stabbed by the blade. Lu Yanning rushed forward and cut the knife to save him, but the next moment he was bitten again.

"Go! You go first!"

The palace gate was already open. It must have been that at the beginning of the turmoil some guards wanted to open the gate and escape.

Lu Yanning rushed out without hesitation, and turned back to meet his companions, but saw Gu Jingnian slashing the leech with his sword and rolling on the ground, running in the opposite direction.

He was about to turn around to catch Gu Jingnian, but was stopped by Pei Nian and You Gui.

"Go!"

"Oh!"

A leech crashed out of the palace gate...

Gu Jingnian didn't look back. He ran in this hell on earth where monsters were rampant. He was not even as uneasy as when he first arrived at the Gu family.

In the limited few times he met Gu Beiming, he always asked how to see the strange people, but Gu Beiming never told him. But tonight, he had a premonition that he would see more strange people, and he wanted to see how they lived.

It seemed as if a bloody rain was falling in Wanchun Palace, with people fleeing and leeches screaming everywhere. Gu Jingnian had a clear goal and ran towards the palace attic where Liu Heng was.

Gradually, the front became quiet.

When the entire Wanchun Palace was in turmoil, this palace was the only one that was quiet in the midst of noise, and no leeches came here.

Torn bodies could be clearly seen on the ground, which showed that leeches had appeared but had already left. Just as Gu Jingnian was feeling puzzled, he smelled a strange fragrance. He couldn't tell what the smell was, but he just felt his throat becoming dry and he had lost his appetite.

Continuing forward, he saw an old man at the entrance of the palace, sprinkling medicine powder on the ground with a sack.

The old man was wearing a loose green robe, especially the sleeves were so big that they almost dragged on the ground. When he saw someone coming, he was still busy with the work at hand and sighed, "Run for your life somewhere else."

Gu Jingnian continued to move forward and said, "I'm looking for Liu Heng."

"go with!"

The old man became impatient and suddenly raised his hand to fan.

Only then did Gu Jingnian notice that the man's palm hidden under his sleeve was extremely large, much larger than an ordinary round fan.

The next moment, a strong wind blew the medicine powder on the ground towards him, and he was blown back more than ten steps and fell to the ground.

"Are you from Fei?"

Gu Jingnian quickly got up and said, "Beyond the East China Sea, where the wind blows, there is a big river called Hexu. There is a Fei tribe in that place who use their hands as fans to create wind."

This is also what Song Zhang had told him, and today he finally saw it with his own eyes.

The old man poured out the last of the powder in the sack and said, "I won't kill you myself, so go on your own."

After saying this, he walked into the palace and was about to close the door.

Gu Jingnian quickened his pace and asked, "Why are you willing to be driven by them and raise snakes to take their hearts?"

Seeing that he was still pestering him, the old man was about to wave his hand, but suddenly an arrow shot out and knocked Gu Jingnian away.

It was the woman who came back and said, "Pu Bo, why bother talking to him? Everyone here will die anyway, so just kill them."

"Qin'er is back, why is Liu Ziyan not here?"

"I killed him. I don't need him anymore."

"You are just anxious. Such a big mess happened suddenly. You have to help Master prepare for taking out the heart. I am afraid that there is not good material and the six-headed snake cannot be produced."

"Then push the silver armors down. I think Cao Ju is a good material."

The secular woman named Qin'er turned around halfway through her speech and saw that Gu Jingnian had stood up again and was walking towards them.

The young man pulled out the arrow from his body as he walked, but no more blood flowed out.

"It's you?"

Qin Er then remembered that she had just seen him in the hall and asked, "Are you also an alien?"

"Yes."

"What race are you from?"

"You do not know?"

Qin Er put her hands on her waist, pointed at Gu Jingnian with one hand, and waved the other hand in the air, saying, "Why should I know what tribe you are from?!"

"Then ask your master."

As he spoke, Gu Jingnian quickened his pace and rushed towards them.

He knew they couldn't kill him, but he could kill them.

The old Feiren man named Pu Bo waved his hand and another gust of wind came, blowing Gu Jingnian down.

"Let's go. We can't kill him."

"It just takes too much time." Qin Er said disdainfully, "Let's do the business first."

The two of them entered the palace and closed the door.

Gu Jingnian got up again, used a knife to pry open the bolt little by little, and saw that the palace was still quiet.

After passing through the corridor, they arrived in front of the attic, where several bodies of men in gray robes lay. A candle was lit behind the screen, reflecting a strange and bloated figure. Occasionally, she turned sideways to face the candle, revealing a graceful woman. However, the cloak on her back was too big and didn't fit her well. She was busy packing books. She must be the maid in green that Gu Jingnian saw during the day.

From the small window on the second floor, Qin'er stuck her head out and shouted, "That undead ghost is chasing us!" After she finished speaking, three more arrows shot out, pinning Gu Jingnian to the corridor.

The maid behind the screen remained calm and unhurried. She held many books in her hands and threw them all into the brazier.

Gu Jingnian hurried forward, and suddenly, he felt a burning sensation in front of him. The flames instantly broke through the screen and attacked him. He had no choice but to stop and retreat.

The maid in green was no longer in the attic. Only the raging fire began to devour everything. The first thing to be burned out was the screen, revealing the bookshelf, desk, tea table, and a guqin behind it.

Then the flames began to climb up the attic.

Gu Jingnian suddenly looked up.

Under a bright moon, he saw a flying car made of yellow wood, with a simple design and shaped like a flying bird with wings.

There were three people standing on the flying car.

Two of them were wearing blue clothes. They were Pope and Kam Yee. Pope sat at the rear of the car, fanning it with his hands, while Kam Yee sat at the front, controlling the two wings of the car with her four hands, making them flap up and down like bird wings.

The other man was wearing a white robe, standing with his hands behind his back, his long hair fluttering in the wind. He had his back to Gu Jingnian and never looked back from beginning to end.

The flying car looks clumsy from close up, but as it flies away it becomes graceful, like a yellow crane, making the figure standing on it look ethereal.

Gu Jingnian was watching in fascination when suddenly, another figure rose into the air.

The snow-white wings spread out and a few feathers fell off.

It was a person with wings on her back, a maid in green behind the screen. She didn't fly very high, and she even landed on a roof to rest for a while before flapping her wings again and flying towards Wanchun Mountain.

Gu Jingnian then also ran towards Wanchun Mountain. Behind him, the attic collapsed with a loud bang, burying the secrets inside in the flames.

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On the high observatory platform on Wanchun Mountain, Master Ma also saw the ball of fire in the palace.

For him, it was too small and not enough.

“Burn! Burn!”

He raised his hand, pointed at the distance slowly passing by, and murmured: "You have to start burning from the surroundings, burn them over here, come on, I believe in you."

As if following his command, a wall of fire suddenly appeared on the north side of Wanchun Palace, followed by the east and west.

Like a wandering fire dragon, it surrounded its prey.

"That's right." Master Ma smiled and said, "Everyone rush over here, come here, my magic medicine, come quickly."

Suddenly, he looked up and saw something like a big bird in the sky coming towards him. His neck immediately shrank and he subconsciously became afraid.

But he didn't say anything cowardly.

"Tsk, it's still unclear who the Heart of the Six Snakes belongs to. Old man, I'm leaving first."

Muttering this to himself, he rushed down from the observatory and disappeared into the dark forest.

Soon, a flying car landed on the observatory. Pope stopped fanning, and Qin Er stopped controlling the wings.

The man in white robe stood on the flying car with his hands behind his back. Looking around, he seemed to see a huge tide of leeches rushing towards him.

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In Wanchun Palace, a strong laborer was running wildly.

What was twisting in his stomach was a leech with two heads.

Perhaps it sensed the danger from the fire in the distance, it looked anxious and crazy, and suddenly straightened its body, bit the leech in front of it that was sucking human blood, shrank its body, and instantly dragged the host's body to the front, then continued to run wildly, leaving behind two bodies that had been sucked dry.

Looking around, Wanchun Palace was filled with such scenes.

Gu Jingnian was running in this torrent of monsters.

He could no longer see many living laborers, and occasionally he could see groups of guards gathered around the campfire, trying to light more firewood.

"Come here quickly!"

Whenever a guard saw his tattered silver armor and waved for help, he would just go over to rest for a while, avoid the leeches that kept attacking him, and then continue to run towards Wanchun Mountain, trying to get as close to the fire as possible.

Suddenly, Gu Jingnian was hit again. He raised his knife to chop, but saw that the leech that attacked him was quickly sucked dry. When he moved his eyes again, he saw Huang Hu.

Huang Hu looked increasingly taller and stronger, with muscles bulging out of his temples, but his eyes were expressionless.

Thick leeches grew out of his stomach and were dancing in the air, looking for flesh and blood, but they often ignored the one-headed and two-headed leeches and only liked to suck the big and strong three-headed leeches.

Gu Jingnian counted and found that the yellow tiger had turned into four snakes.

Before he could react, the sturdy body had passed by him, and the surrounding leeches all dodged.

Gu Jingnian was stunned for a moment, then actually followed Huang Hu with big strides.

The flames in Wanchun Palace grew bigger and bigger, and the rushing leeches became denser and denser. They were running in the front and gradually ran to Chunchi, which was very close to the top of the mountain.

Sudden.

Flames shot up into the sky ahead, blocking the way towards Wanchun Mountain.

The leeches didn't know where they were going, but they were naturally afraid of fire, so they immediately rushed in the only direction without fire.

Gu Jingnian stopped and turned to look. It was a steep hillside in the southwest. If he rushed down the hillside, he would reach a valley - the valley marked by Master Ma on the map.

At that moment he understood.

Wanchun Palace had made preparations for what was happening tonight. They used a big fire to drive all the leeches into the valley and let them kill each other.

When the most powerful leech has sucked all the other leeches dry, perhaps a six-headed leech will grow.

"Oh!"

The next moment, a leech that was fleeing in panic because of the fire let out a terrifying hiss, crashed into Gu Jingnian, and knocked him off the steep cliff.

Gu Jingnian rolled down and hit the rocks and trees. His body was cut by the sharp rocks and pierced by the trees.

He saw the leeches swooping down like snakes and felt their fear.

At this moment, the horrible monster that killed thousands of people has become a trapped beast.

(End of this chapter)