229, the first puzzle(1/2)
The arrival of Yao Changtian gave everyone hope of solving the mystery of a hundred years ago.
Together they came to the valley behind the courtyard and successfully found the entrance to the stone chamber.
As expected, he ignored everything and walked in without hesitation. He really made it to the inside of the stone chamber smoothly, not to mention the poisonous fire and miasma flow sand pit, without even touching a trip rope.
When they arrived at the end of the stone room, everyone found a broken skull on the ground. They didn't know who it belonged to, but it had been trampled to pieces.
Yao Changtian groped for a while on the wall and found a hidden compartment. It is said that it was He Wanfeng's habit of leaving some short words to explain the purpose of these traps, and also to facilitate future generations' verification.
Yao Changtian successfully opened the secret compartment, and there was a small iron box inside. When he opened the box, there were two well-preserved letters.
One was written by He Wanfeng, and the other was written by someone to He Wanfeng, and the signature turned out to be - Lingyin Temple, Daoxin.
Everyone read both letters, and finally the mystery that happened a hundred years ago was solved.
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It turned out that as early as the early days of the war, He Wanfeng had roughly calculated the future direction of the war - in a few years, the Central Plains and the Western Regions should both usher in long-lasting peace.
He Wanfeng has no intention of proclaiming himself emperor. He has arranged a home for his subordinates, and they will retire together and return to a plain and comfortable pastoral life.
However, even if the majority agrees, it is inevitable that some will oppose He Wanfeng's decision.
Among them, there is a deputy leader of the Frost Knife Clan, Li Tu, who is one of the people who strongly opposes it.
At that time, the leader of the Frost Knife Sect had died, and Li Tu took over as leader. However, this man was unwilling to do so. Seeing that there would be no benefits after the war, why bother to participate in the war again?
In fact, He Wanfeng planned the future in advance, which also served as a reminder to those who have greater ambitions. If they have other plans, they can leave early or even switch to other camps, and he will not stop them.
But unlike other people who left openly and honestly, Li Tu chose to deceive. On the surface, he was benevolent and had no desires, but in his heart, he had other plans.
One time, he found an opportunity and together with his fifteen masters, robbed a batch of military pay, left the Western Regions with millions of gold and silver, and fled to the relatively peaceful Jiangnan area to hide.
If this matter was announced at that time, it would probably shake the morale of the military, so He Wanfeng did not pursue the matter and suppressed it for the time being.
But the nature of what these people did was completely different. Stealing military pay before a battle was a capital crime. Naturally, He Wanfeng would not let it go.
After Li Tu led his men to Jiangnan, they happened to meet Li She on the way.
During the chat, Li Tu learned about Li She's identity and his plan to escape into Buddhism.
After arriving in Jiangnan, Li Tu assumed Li She's identity.
Because these people's escape and theft of military pay are both capital crimes, and they are afraid of He Wanfeng's pursuit, so they cannot use their true identities.
After Li Tu assumed Li She's identity, he legitimately explained why he had so much money, which was equivalent to laundering all the stolen military pay.
And those fifteen subordinates were all under Li She's name, and they became stewards, guards, and subordinates who protected the royal family...
But the military pay will eventually run out. There are so many people who can't just sit there and have nothing. They have to do something.
Li Tu was a very quick-witted person. He had participated in some special battles under He Wanfeng and learned a set of tactics that He Wanfeng used to deceive people. Li Tu learned and used these tactics flexibly.
He began to pretend to be various characters with his subordinates, and jointly defrauded wealthy people of their money.
Once tactics are used to deceive, they are different from ordinary deceptions. Deceptions are mostly about cheating money, while tactics are usually fatal.
Moreover, Li Tu was very afraid that He Wanfeng would discover him, and he acted ruthlessly without leaving any consequences. The people who were deceived were basically driven away and killed.
Even so, he was still uneasy, even dreaming of being caught by He Wanfeng and being dealt with by military law.
Li Tu became more suspicious day by day. He got rid of everyone around him who might know his secrets, and was always wary of his subordinates. This caused dissatisfaction among some of his subordinates. Without the military camp and the sect, there was no relationship between everyone.
The relationship between superiors and subordinates has become equal cooperation, and trust has become a very important existence. Once trust is gone, the team will not be able to maintain it.
Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu are the two younger leaders besides Li Tu in the sixteen-person group. These two people often cooperate with Li Tu in acting. As they accumulate more and more wealth, their strength begins to develop. He
The two were very dissatisfied with Li Tu's cautious and timid behavior. They felt that He Wanfeng was fighting in the Western Regions. The sky was high and the emperor was far away. There was no time to care about them. Why not take this opportunity to deceive bigger people, such as
Speaking of the Xie family in Hangzhou City and the Bai family in Jinhua Mansion, these are the real big families.
Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu did try the Xie and Bai families, but they hit a wall before they even got started. Let’s not talk about anything else about the Xie family and the Bai family. The two girls in the family are powerful characters that even gods can’t mess with. Xie Wanqin
His martial arts skills are extremely high, and Bai Yueyun is extremely intelligent. They almost got exposed, but they quickly retreated into their "shells".
After this time, Li Tu became more cautious.
Once, he discovered that both Xie Wanqin and Bai Yueyun had close contacts with Master Daoyuan of Lingyin Temple, and they also had some friendship with He Wanfeng. When he thought that the real Li She was in Lingyin Temple, the more he thought about it, the more
I’m afraid, what should I do if the secret is revealed?
After much thought, Li Tu felt that Li She was a hidden danger, but there were so many masters in Lingyin Temple that it would not be easy to kill Li She. Moreover, after Li She ordained his Taoist alias, he did not go out for many years.
After some planning, Li Tu pretended to be a pilgrim, and after entering Lingyin Temple, he "accidentally met" Master Daoxin, and coincidentally recognized him as Li She.
After Master Daoxin saw Li Tu, he chatted with him very cordially.
Li Tu was planning how to harm the master, preferably by tricking him out, but the master asked him if he had joined the army before and what the current war in the northwest was like.
Li Tu answered casually, saying that he had joined the army but retired due to injury.
Master Daoxin told him that he had a deep friendship with He Wanfeng in the past, and He Wanfeng owed him a favor, saying that if he needed it in the future, he could just write to him directly.
When Li Tu heard about this, he immediately had an idea in his mind. Instead of guarding him day and night, why not think of a way to kill the real He Wanfeng, so as to avoid future troubles forever?
Because of this, Li Tu wrote a letter to He Wanfeng under the guise of Li She. The letter mentioned Yu Qian's scam. His original intention was to borrow a knife to kill people, and it was best for He Wanfeng to catch Yu Shuang and Qian.
After a long time, he took advantage of it and got rid of them all.
But He Wanfeng was surrounded by many experts, and Li Tu also knew this. It was not easy to kill him. It was best to use the people around him.
Everyone around He Wanfeng was loyal to him, and it was impossible to instigate rebellion or bribe him. But after all, Li Tu was once the second-in-command of the Shuangdao Sect. He knew a secret of the Shuangdao Sect that many Shuangdao Sect disciples knew.
Don't know.
The forging of the frost knife requires a very complicated process. To create the pattern of the frost knife, three different chemicals need to be added. The box containing the medicine is three small boxes of the same size put together, similar to a "mesh"
word. Therefore, the medicine added to the frost knife is based on "mesh". Adding one portion is called a first-mesh frost knife, adding two portions is called a second-mesh frost knife, and so on. The frost knife with the highest added amount is called
Five-eyed frost knife.
When this agent is added to the knife, it will form a pattern on the blade and make the blade light and tough. Usually adding one portion of the agent is enough, and the blade will show a beautiful frost flower pattern, which is the pattern of Tianzun's pine egg.
.The reason why Frost Knife Gate got its name is because of the pattern on the blade...
The more agents that can be added, the more the patterns on the blade will gather together. When you add more than three eyes, it will no longer be a frost flower-like pattern, but a pattern similar to eyes. This frost knife is extremely confusing and
Toxic, the person who uses the knife needs to take an antidote, and then using this kind of knife against the enemy can poison the opponent... But this kind of five-eyed frost knife is a forbidden technique for the frost knife sect.
As the second head of the Shuangdao Sect, Li Tu naturally knew this secret technique, but he did not tell his subordinates, but made up a set of lies.
Li Tu told Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu that the best way to deal with He Wanfeng was to use the five-eyed frost knife.
To refine a five-eyed frost knife, you need five frost knives, plus the blood of five people who use the knife, and the five eyes of the person who uses the knife.
The eyes cannot be used immediately after being removed. They must be soaked in an antiseptic potion for a period of time, and then stored in the Five-Eyed Phoenix. Use the Five-Eyed Phoenix to find the "Soul of the Sword". Complete a complete sacrificial ceremony and find the "Soul of the Sword"
"If you refine the sword again, you can forge the Frost Sword Sect's magic sword - the Five-Eyed Frost Sword.
It's interesting to say that the medicine used by Frost Knife Gate to refine the Frost Knife will form a very useful preservative when soaked in water.
Li Tu tried his best to exaggerate the effect of the Five-Eyed Frost Sword, so much so that Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu, two disciples of the Shuang Sword Sect who did not know the inside story, really thought that the Shuang Sword Sect had a secret technique that could kill He Wanfeng.
In other words, Li Tu not only deceived outsiders, he also deceived his own men.
The real five-eye frost knife is actually a five-eye medicine in the frost knife.
In the lie fabricated by Li Tu, the five-eyed frost sword became a weapon that needed to be forged with the sword and eyes of the frost sword holder.
Li Tu's plan was quite vicious, because every disciple of the Shuangdao Sect held two frost knives, which is why the descendant of the Shuangdao Sect who went to repair the sword would give a sword to Tianzun.
If there is a potion in each knife, then if five knives are forged together, there will naturally be a potion of five eyes. It doesn't matter whether you put it in your eyes, but if you put it in your eyes, it means killing five people.
Disciple of the Frost Sword Sect.
This was actually Li Tuzai's attempt to provoke Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu to kill the thirteen disciples and take their eyes to refine the sword.
Li Tu's original plan was to kill two birds with one stone by forging a frost knife after Yishuang and Qian Chongjiu had eliminated his subordinates, and bewitched the warriors around He Wanfeng to assassinate him.
But before his plan was fully designed, he heard about the outbreak of war... Not long after, news of He Wanfeng's death came out.
Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu, who had planned to conspire with him to kill He Wanfeng, were overjoyed and immediately gave up their plan and continued to make money from them.
But Li Tu still didn't believe that He Wanfeng was really dead, and he became more and more suspicious. It may also be because he often carried the medicine for sword refining with him, and was affected by the poison, and Li Tu became very abnormal.
Yu Shuang and Qian Chongjiu couldn't stand him anymore, so they teamed up to kill him. Qian Chongjiu pretended to be Li Tu and became Li She... To put it simply, Li She's identity was actually used twice.
But the result of the matter proved that Li Tu's prediction was not wrong. He Wanfeng was indeed not dead, and he did not intend to let go of those who used his tactics to do evil.
It was not easy for He Wanfeng to find them, and they changed their names in the huge crowd, but it was precisely because of the letter that Li Tu pretended to be Li She and wrote to He Wanfeng that they were exposed.
The real situation is that He Wanfeng did not know Li She at all, and there was no friendship between the two. Li Tu was deceived by Master Daoxin, the real Li She.
Although Master Daoxin escaped into Buddhism, he had a clear mind. He had long discovered that there was a person pretending to be his identity in Hangzhou. Originally, the master did not find out what bad things those people were doing, so he did not pursue it. Until Li Tu
The master came to see him. He wanted to persuade him, but he discovered his hidden murderous intention and knew that this person was not a kind person.
Master Daoxin specifically told Li Tu that he had a friendship with He Wanfeng. As soon as Li Tu left, the master wrote a letter, including all the general information he knew, and asked someone to send it to the Western Regions.
Gave it to He Wanfeng.
He Wanfeng actually received two letters. The one he left behind and was discovered by He Yihang was written to him by the liar Li Tu.
What Zhan Zhao and the others found in the stone chamber was a letter written by Master Daoxin, the real Li She, to He Wanfeng.
To be continued...