Chapter 148: Night Jade Lion, Hidden Attributes [Subscribe]

The old Taoist priest walked on the roof on tiptoe with a strange posture, like an evil spirit or ghost, without touching the ground at all.

A dozing night bird was squatting on the roof, and it didn't even notice the Taoist, allowing him to pass by without noticing.

The Taoist priest suddenly stopped on the roof.

In the room below where he stayed, lived Cao Song and his fat concubine.

The Taoist priest continued to move and appeared on the roof of the next house.

Cao Song cared about his grandson, and the person living in the next room was Cao Ang.

In the darkness of night, Cao Ang lay on the couch, soundly sleeping.

The Taoist priest entered Cao Ang's room silently.

The moonlight came in from the window and fell on the Taoist's face, making him look even more sinister.

He put one hand behind his back, approached the bed, looked at the sleeping Cao Ang, then slowly raised his head above Cao Ang's face and took a breath:

"It's not him, it's not him..."

The Taoist priest whispered imperceptibly and suddenly reached out to pinch Cao Ang's neck.

Not the person he was looking for.

But if Cao Ang was killed, Cao Cao would definitely be affected and would be in a panic, which might lead to mistakes and give him an opportunity!

However, the moment the Taoist made his move, a ray of sword light cut through the void.

The sword is as strong as a wild goose and as fast as lightning!
The Taoist priest groaned miserably and his head flew off.

But there was no blood.

Immediately afterwards, the Taoist priest's entire body exploded, leaving only a piece of talisman paper wrapped in his robe floating down.

"Taoist substitution technique!"

The light of swords flickered in the room, and a man holding a sword turned into an undercurrent, chasing after a certain aura.

There is a dense forest outside Qiao County.

A Taoist priest stood on the treetop, facing the moonlight, absorbing the moonlight like a demon, as if he was practicing.

A streak of blood suddenly appeared on his neck.

The Taoist raised his hand and wiped the bloodstain, which was now broken, and it healed again.

"Such a sharp sword energy, it actually hurt me through the substitute.

Cao Cao has hidden a good hand in Qiao County..."

A murderous look flashed in the Taoist's eyes as he looked towards the direction of Cao's residence in the city.

"The governor said that if the person in the dark reveals his whereabouts and is caught by us once, he will be finished."

A voice sounded: "You are the man in the dark, right?"

The Taoist priest suddenly turned his head.

An old man with a sturdy build, holding a bronze halberd in one hand and a pancake in the other, acting almost the same as Dian Wei.

"In order to wait for you, that cold-faced guy and I took turns to watch over you. We didn't even have dinner at night. Do you think your sin is serious?" The one who came out was Zhang Huai of Tianji. He put the last bite of biscuit into his mouth and spoke incoherently.

"Cao Mengde was cautious and outsmarted me."

The Taoist priest was caught, but he did not panic. He stood on the treetop, swaying with the wind, with the bearing of a master.

The next moment, he turned around and ran, and in an instant he was more than ten feet away.

Snapped!
Dian Wei's short flying spear technique was taught by Zhang Huai.

He didn't have a short spear, but a handful of stones appeared in his hand that was grabbing the pancake. They flew out with a whoosh and spread across the air like sharp arrows.

As the Taoist priest ran quickly, he released a burst of energy that shattered all the stones into powder.

But it was only a moment's delay. Zhang Huai shook his halberd, and the void was filled with the heroic sound of two armies fighting each other.

Thousands of halberds, like an army of thousands, attacked the Taoist priest from all directions.

The halberd is a ceremonial weapon, but also a weapon of war. It can be opened and closed with great force and is unparalleled in its ferocity.

It can also be as delicate as a sword, with a moon blade in front, hooking, sweeping, chopping and stabbing, with all the wonderful changes.

Zhang Huai is old, and his halberd skills are no longer as powerful and domineering as Dian Wei's.

But his halberd skills are more delicate, and there are countless changes hidden in the halberd's edge.

A halberd thrust out, the tip of the halberd whistling, containing many variables, making it difficult to judge the direction of the next move.

bass!
The void made a sharp tearing sound.

The Taoist threw a punch, and a ray of sword light extended from the tip of his fist, colliding with the tip of the halberd with miraculous skill.

The force of this attack was so strong that it blocked all subsequent changes of the halberd.

Zhang Huai's body shook and he paused for a moment.

The Taoist priest pulled away and ran away as fast as the wind.

And where he was, a ray of sword light appeared and landed in the empty space by a hair's breadth.

Wang Yue chased after him with a sword.

The Taoist noticed that Wang Yue was approaching, and was afraid of being surrounded by the two men, so he did not stop for a moment.

"Chase!" Wang Yue said.

Zhang Huai roared angrily, and his muscles swelled up, as if they had grown a circle bigger.

"Big Throwing Halberd!"

He hurled his halberd with all his might, with a force as powerful as thunderbolt.

The halberd was entangled by the energy, and the moment it slipped out of his hand, he reached out and grabbed it again.

The tail end of the halberd that was thrown out with great force was grasped by Zhang Huai.

He soared into the air as if flying, driven by the halberd, and instantly caught up with the fleeing Taoist priest.

Boom!

The Taoist turned around and attacked Zhang Huai. A ball of light formed by the collision of forces burst out in the void and exploded with a bang.

Wang Yue then rushed up and joined forces with Zhang Huai.

The Taoist's robe was torn into pieces, and he also disintegrated as if in pieces. Four or five figures appeared at the same time, running in different directions.

"Taoist body-dissolving technique!"

Zhang Huai and Wang Yue took action and crushed two of the figures.

But the other Taoist priests uttered a sharp cry and walked away: "Tell Cao Mengde that I will come again."

"Set, use the ground as a prison!"

Wang Yue threw out a bamboo slip, which turned out to be a treasure given by Cao Cao, dug out from a tomb.

The sacrificial magic engraved on the scroll was activated, and the Qi merged with the heaven and earth.

The figures of several Taoist priests that had separated suddenly slowed down.

Swords and halberds came flying across the sky.

Wang Yue and Zhang Huai pursued relentlessly.

The two sides fought all the way.

The Taoist priest continued to use tricks, fighting and retreating.

"You two are chasing me, but have you ever thought that I still have people in Qiao County who can kill the entire Cao family!" the Taoist threatened.

"Go ahead and try. If you go again, someone will beat you up." Zhang Huai laughed. The two sides continued to fight until dawn.

Before dawn.

A hundred miles east of Qiao County, a Taoist priest was sitting on a large rock, gasping for breath.

A Taoist priest dressed the same as him appeared beside him.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the Taoist priest who appeared later was younger.

There are two strange Taoist priests!
"If I hadn't come, it would have been difficult for you to escape from their attack."

The Taoist priest who was blocked was about to speak when his neck was cut with blood again and energy exploded on his back.

Those were the attacks launched by Zhang Huai and Wang Yue one after another, and the remaining force remained.

The Taoist touched the scar on his neck and said, "The two of us will join forces and fight back. No one in the Cao family will be left alive."

"Cao Cao is a man of great cunning. Who can see through his mind? Cao's mansion may have other arrangements. I don't want to expose my identity and take the risk of going to Cao's mansion."

The Taoist priests who appeared later:

"Let's go. Yanzhou and Yuzhou are both under Cao Mengde's control. Since we have revealed our whereabouts, we must not let the people he has recruited find us again."

"What are your plans next?"

"Cao Cao's men injured me. The time has come to send him a gift in return."

"You want to push the arrangement?"

"That's right. Let's borrow the commander of the Qingzhou Army, Guan Hai, to deliver the message. This is a good opportunity."

The two Taoists flicked their sleeves together, made some Taoist gestures, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

On the way to Daye Lake, Cao Cao woke up in his tent and took out the message bead.

When he was in Qiao County, he had a feeling that he was being spied on. He tried several times but failed to find out what was going on.

He was going back to Changyi, so his family would naturally not be unprepared.

Stay in Qiao County, my hometown, and cast a net to see if there are fish or not.

So Cao Cao left openly, but secretly left Wang Yue and Zhang Huai behind.

The ones who delivered the message at this time were Zhang Huai and Wang Yue.

"The governor's judgment is correct. Someone appeared and attacked Cao's mansion. It was a Taoist priest."

Zhang Huai, who was at the other end, sent a message to Cao Cao with a message bead. He looked up at a big tree in the courtyard of Cao's old house and asked, "Cold-faced man, did you see anything?
If the governor asks me about the Taoist's identity and origin, what should I say? "

The next voice came from the tree:
"I was planning to follow the governor's orders, hide in the dark, and try to uncover the Taoist's identity, but he wanted to take action against the young master."

"Before he took action, he muttered something, saying that it wasn't him... It was obvious that he was looking for someone, wanting to confirm whether the young master was the one."

"Before he made his move, he even sniffed the young master. Now that I recall, it was like the Taoist Qi-absorbing technique, stealing his luck."

"Yes, he wants to steal the luck."

Zhang Huai passed the news to Cao Cao in detail: "Also, they are two people, two Taoist priests, very similar. If another one hadn't come out, the Taoist priest wouldn't have been able to escape."

Cao Cao held the message bead in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Two Taoists, stealing luck?

Qi is invisible and intangible, but I have heard of the Taoist practice of stealing qi, which is a very profound method.

If the Taoist priest who appeared in Qiao County was Shi Zimiao, who threw Emperor Liu Bian to Dong Zhuo.

It was secretly said in the palace that Shi Zimiao had taken care of Liu Bian for many years, and it was very likely that he had stolen Liu Bian's imperial luck.

Stealing the emperor's luck to nourish himself, what is this Taoist going to do?
Who is the other Taoist priest?

Are they looking for Liu Bian?

Cao Cao's thoughts fluctuated.

"Great and Good Master, Zhang Jue started the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Taiping Dao and caused unrest in the world. Some people said that he died because he went astray while practicing martial arts, which damaged his internal organs and led to the invasion of external evil, and he eventually died of illness. Do you know about this?"

Cao Cao passed the message on, and Zhang Huai responded:
"I also suspect that the Taoist priest is related to Zhang Jue. Perhaps he is Zhang Jue, or at least a fellow disciple of his?"

"Zhang Jue's cultivation was claimed to be from heavenly books, and he was taught by gods and immortals, in order to fool the people.

But I know that he is from the Taoist lineage, and he practices Taoist heavenly weapons techniques, and can use Taoist power to transform into weapons.

I just fought with him, and the force of his punch evolved into a piece of heavenly sword, which blocked my halberd.

Cultivation cannot be faked. Zhang Jue knew this kind of heavenly soldier Taoist technique back then."

Zhang Huai: "His body movements are very similar to the Taoist's free and unrestrained body movements, which are also Zhang Jiao's methods."

Back then, Zhang Jue was known as the walking immortal on land.

Cao Cao suspected at that time that Zhang Jue had faked his death to escape...

If there was a Taoist priest like Zhang Jue, it would make sense that his Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed by the imperial court and failed, resulting in heavy losses, and he would turn around to retaliate against the court and plot to overthrow the Han Dynasty.

"It's a pity that he got away." said Zhang Huai on the other side.

"You can't run away. Do you remember when the Qingzhou army attacked Yanzhou and we chased them, you said you saw a Taoist priest appear."

"He rescued Guan Hai because he must be useful to him. Since he has made a move, there must be traces to follow!"

A hint of coldness appeared on Cao Cao's lips. If his guess was correct, Zhang Jue had revealed his whereabouts, and there were plenty of ways to deal with him.

Cao Cao wrote on the bead: "You will stay in Qiao County for a while."

"Okay." Zhang Huai responded.

It's daybreak.

This time when Cao Cao went to Daye Lake, he was leading his close civil and military officials to carry out team building in Cao's camp, and there were quite a few people accompanying him.

The two great doctors Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing were also there, and they gave us a physical examination.

Family members and concubines also accompanied him.

But Cao Cao slept alone in a tent, and when he went to the women, no one wanted him.

Cao Cao originally lived in the same tent with a pregnant woman.

The pregnant woman thought he was dishonest, so she asked Cao Cao in a very tactful way if she could live alone, on the grounds of protecting the child.

Cao Cao felt that there were many candidates, so he went to find Bian Mei without taking it seriously.

But Bian Mei and Diao Chan both felt that if they were the only ones staying overnight with Cao Cao while everyone else went with him, it would easily arouse hatred and would be detrimental to the relationships among the women in the inner house, so no one wanted to take the lead.

Cao Cao was eager to accept the offer, but since no one wanted him, he thought about asking Jia Xu to stay with him tonight.

Daye Lake is located in the center of Yanzhou, and Liangshan Marsh in later generations is located in Daye Lake.

However, the Daye Lake at that time had shifted in location due to the Yellow River bursting, and was different from the Daye Lake today.

Oonose Lake has been a land of lush grass and abundant resources since ancient times.

Cao Cao came to see the horse farm and went hunting at the same time.

At the beginning of May, the emperor arrived at his destination, escorted by his personal army, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

A newly built horse farm is located here.

When Cao Cao got off the carriage, he saw a magnificent sight of a handsome white horse leading more than a thousand horses galloping.

[The leading horse is named Zhaoye Yushizi: one of the ten best horses in the world]

[It is a young horse less than one year old, with a silvery white body. When it runs at night, it looks like the moon shining on the earth. The mane on its neck is as dense as a lion, so it is named the Night-Shine Jade Lion]

[Historically, it originated from Bingzhou, was captured and ridden by foreign tribes, and eventually became Zhao Yun's mount]

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