Chapter 23: Secrets

1.

"Is there anything else you haven't told me?"

It's four o'clock in the morning, and it's still dark in the Wenhua Jiayuan community, but the lights in room 601 of apartment 3 are still as bright as daytime, and it has suddenly become the most prominent suite in the whole community.

Hong Chen sat on the sofa with his arms crossed, his eyes were full of murderous aura, his eyes were blazing at Ye Wuxin, who had a calm face in front of him, and the white clothes who were dozing off with his head hanging on the side.

Bai Yi reluctantly opened his sleepy eyes, touched Ye Wuxin, who was reading beside him, with his elbow, and asked vaguely, "This...... Is that the little friend who was with Kobayashi in his early years?"

Ye Xin raised his head and glanced at Hong Chen: "Yes." ”

"Hmm...... It's very individual!" Bai Yi said and closed his eyes again, looking really sleepy.

Hong Chen's face sank: "Are you listening to me?!"

"Listen. Bai Yi rubbed his eyes, curled up on the sofa in a different position, pillowed his head with his arms, and tried his best to shrink himself into the fluffy bunny pajamas on his body in the 16-degree air conditioning in the living room. "Isn't it just a few clowns who jumped off the beam from a heavy building? Those ghost cultivators who learn the art of shadows are nothing more than those sneaky routines, and they haven't been the same for many years. Now that the illusion has been broken, what are you worried about?"

Ye Wuxin closed the book: "If it's just a ghost envoy, of course don't worry, but I listen to what you mean, it seems that there are still people in the Purple Sun Divine Sect involved?"

"I actually always had a question," Hong Chen looked directly at Ye Wuxin's deep gaze, "Wasn't Lin Xiao the most outstanding head disciple of the Purple Sun Divine Sect back then, why was it the 'Ethereal City Sword Demon' that became famous all over the world later?"

Bai Yi said lazily, "What's so strange about this? He later left the Purple Sun Divine Sect and was taken away by the people of Ethereal City and stayed there. My cousin and I weren't from the Heavenly City before, but now we are not from the Sword Sect. ”

Hong Chen was silent for a long time and continued: "The reason why he left the Purple Sun Divine Sect is because ...... That's right?"

"Back then, in the matter of the Eternal Tribulation of the Dungeon, I made a dead hand in order to snatch the two remnants of the Dark Demon Evil God Record, causing four of his fourteen meridians to break, and you also broke the heart of the sword spirit and fell into a deep sleep. Ye Wuxin said in a deep voice, that incident was a hurdle in her heart after all, and when she mentioned this matter again, she couldn't help but be touched in her heart.

Ye Wuxin took a sip to calm down for a while, and continued: "Actually, not long after my brother took me to escape, Ling Ying and Yunxiao found him with a few people from the Ziyang Divine Sect, but he always felt that the loss of the map of the "Dark Demon Evil God Record" was because he believed me, the Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect, and felt sorry for the Ziyang Divine Sect, so one day after returning to Kunlun Mountain, he fled. ”

Hong Chen was shocked: "You said that he had four of his fourteen meridians broken and was so seriously injured, how could he support him to escape from the ranks of the Purple Sun Divine Sect?!"

"This is also what I heard from Mr. Big after I went to Ethereal City later. Ye Wuxin said, "No one knows how he dragged such a seriously injured body away, the Purple Sun Divine Sect used all the strength of the sect to find it for three months but never found it." ”

"It wasn't until one day three months later, when the major sects of the Sword Sect gathered to hold a hunting ground operation, that the people of Ethereal City found him on Xiaoyao Mountain, and it is said that at that time, only one breath remained. Yan Sheng, the 'iron-handed miracle doctor' of the Ethereal City, used various means to save him for three days and three nights, and he barely saved his life. ”

"And then ...... He joined the Ethereal City?" asked Hong Chen.

Ye Wuxin nodded.

Hong Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Is it because he defected to the original sect after losing the map, and then joined the Ethereal City, so his relationship with the Ziyang Divine Sect has gradually deteriorated to this point?"

Ye Wuxin thought for a while and said: "At the beginning, when he first appeared as a disciple of the Ethereal City in front of the people of the Ziyang Divine Sect, he had a lot of unpleasantness; ”

"But that was during the Cloud Cliff period. Bai Yi on the side opened his eyes and frowned and said, "Later, a few years after Lin Xiao used the ruins to exterminate the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect on the shore of the East China Sea, the Cloud Cliff Immortal passed away and passed on the throne to Ling Ying, isn't the relationship between them getting better again?"

"And in the final decisive battle that divided heaven and earth at the top of the Western Heavens, Ling Ying also took the people of the Purple Sun Divine Sect to participate. ”

Ye Wuxin frowned: "If you say this, Liang Zi has already unraveled it, and it really doesn't make sense to say that there are any contradictions now." ”

"Could it be that the mysterious person is not from the Purple Sun Divine Sect?" I was wrong?" Hong Chen wondered.

"No, it won't. If it is really as Yun Mengze said, what that person cultivates is the true qi of the Yang and the Strong, then your inference is correct - the entire Quadruple Building is indeed only the Purple Yang Divine Sect's exercises follow such a path. Ye Wuxin shook his head.

"Although the methods of the people in the first floor are generally not clever, they can be regarded as a great character who can achieve the position of 'ghost envoy', and they should not be blinded. Bai Yi also swept away his previous sleepiness, and his whole person became energetic, "But it really doesn't make sense for the Purple Sun Divine Sect to do this, unless ......"

Hong Chen's eyes lit up: "Unless—someone in the Purple Sun Divine Sect is making a hindrance!"

Bai Yi nodded: "Logically correct. ”

"That's a bit of a problem. Ye Wuxin's fingers quickly twitched on the spine of the book, "Now that I'm in the Triple Building, I can't go to Ling Ying to verify this matter in person." For today's plan, we can only stand still and avoid startling the snake. ”

"You can't solve the problem if you go to Ling Ying. Bai Yi calmly analyzed: "If the Ziyang Divine Sect really intends to attack Lin Xiao, even if you go to them, you will definitely not be able to ask the other party's true purpose; ”

Hong Chen said: "I will be vigilant and always pay attention to Lin Xiao's situation. Now there is another question, how to deal with the ghost envoy and the divine mission?"

Ye Wuxin said lightly: "Don't worry about them." ”

"Don't worry, they're not a threat. Bai Yi also chimed in: "Besides, that ghost envoy sees the problem more thoroughly than us, and will not do such a risky thing." If you really want to be on guard, just watch the gods—after all, we don't know her attitude yet. ”

"Okay. Hong Chen stood up, "I'll solve it." ”

2.

Jinghai Normal University, Room 307, Qinya Garden.

"Yaoyao, your courier. The girl from the foreign language department took a small package and patted the top bunk bedboard. Yun Mengyao was sitting quietly on the top bunk with her knees crossed at this time, and she couldn't help frowning when she heard this.

She had been coming to the Triplex Building with her brother for some time, and naturally she knew that these mortals in the Triple Building had invented a lot of incredible things in the past thousand years of development, including "express delivery" - she still hadn't figured out how those various valuable things could be delivered to the other party intact without the protection of the dart master or the teleporter.

No, the problem now is that I shouldn't have any courier at all!

Yun Mengyao took the small package handed over by her roommate suspiciously, and replied, "Thank you." Then he looked back and forth carefully.

The courier slip on the parcel is indeed written with his name, but it does not write what it is sent, and Yun Mengyao does not know how to ask customer service through the tracking number or the courier's number.

"Where did you get this express?" asked Yun Mengyao.

The roommate didn't notice the abnormality in her tone at all: "I came back from eating and found it at the door, I saw that it was yours, so I brought it in for you......"

Yun Mengyao suddenly remembered: "Aren't all the couriers in our school sent to the express store in the school, and then let the students pick them up through the SMS code?"

"Yes, it seems a little strange to hear you say that, just leave the parcel at the door. The roommate was also suspicious for a moment, but she obviously couldn't consider the problem from Yun Mengyao's point of view, so she waved her hand casually and said, "Someone should help you get it back, but it turned out that no one in our dormitory happened to be at the door at that time." ”

Yun Mengyao closed the curtain of the bed, holding the package, her palm was slightly lucky, and the true qi penetrated into the package, but there was no reaction, depending on the situation, it was neither a spiritual weapon nor a mechanism poison. She hesitated, but opened the package.

There was only a rolled-up piece of 4K paper, which looked like it was used for sketching.

A jet-black sword was drawn in charcoal on it.

The moment she saw that sword, Yun Mengyao only felt as if her whole person had been stabbed in the lower abdomen by that sword, and then pulled it into the painting hard. When I came back to my senses, I was no longer surrounded by the scene of a bedroom, but an endless snow-white, as if I had entered a world of paper.

Yun Mengyao's eyes widened in shock, and the excessive shock even made her forget the pain in her lower abdomen.

"This ...... This is sword intent!"

Could it be that my brother's operation failed, and the people in Ethereal City have begun to clean up the threat?! Think about it carefully, I haven't seen Yun Mengze all day today, is it really ......

Before Yun Mengyao could react, a black shadow suddenly appeared in this snow-white world, looking like a human figure drawn with charcoal, holding a long sword, and handing it to him head-on, vaguely in the posture of "phoenix nodding".

Yun Mengyao didn't have time to think about it, leaned back in a "iron plate bridge" posture and dodged with her waist, and at the same time raised her left foot and kicked hard at the position of the humanoid wrist, but the shock made her instep feel a faint pain. The move "Feng nodded" but did not see the trend, and directly slashed down and intercepted the waist.

This humanoid shot extremely fast, and the murderous aura in the sword moves was restrained, but it was hidden with a majestic momentum, and it was obvious that the swordsmanship of the person who drew the sword had reached the pinnacle.

This sword slash looks like the chapter of "splitting the giant mountain alone", but it seems to hide the internal strength of "Changhong through the sun" and the back move of "Falling Wood Xiao Xiao", whether it is dodging or returning the move, the opponent's sword energy will hit him first.

Yun Mengyao gritted her teeth, and directly rolled on the spot several times in a row to escape from the enveloping range of the sword moves; such an indecent evasion posture, if it weren't for the fact that there was nothing to be done about it, no one would make such a move, let alone a dignified soul chasing pavilion god.

Yun Mengyao rolled out, her back was lifted by the momentum, and at the same time, her right hand was sealed, and a "trapping talisman" accurately fell on the body of the humanoid; she clenched her fist, and the light on the talisman shone brightly, and it contracted and levitated violently, firmly encircling the humanoid in mid-air.

A sneer suddenly sounded in her ears, Yun Mengyao broke out in a cold sweat, and was about to ignite the talisman to burn the human form, and there was a heart-piercing pain in her lower abdomen.

I saw that the human figure was still in the shackles of the rune, but the sword shadow in its hand had already disappeared from its hand at some point, and the next moment, the sword shadow drawn by charcoal instantly pierced Yun Mengyao's body.

"Ethereal Streamer Sword Technique...... You're really from the Ethereal City!"

Yun Mengyao only felt that her body was cold, and her consciousness was gradually withdrawn. She grasped the sword shadow and tried to pull it out, but what she held was nothingness.

The sword shadow inserted in the lower abdomen suddenly advanced a few points and flew out of the body directly. Yun Mengyao's body was thrown up by the force of inertia, and her whole feet flew off the ground, and then everything around her snow-white gradually swallowed her, and the next moment it returned to the scene in the dormitory.

Yun Mengyao was lying on the bed, panting heavily, cold sweat soaked her underwear, and her lower abdomen was still aching. She straightened up, grabbed the unopened parcel on the bed and covered her mouth, and vomited a mouthful of blood.

After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, I felt a slight decrease in the feeling of tightness in my chest. Yun Mengyao looked at the sword drawn on the paper, and knew that the scene was the world in the sword intent, if it was a real scene, I am afraid that I would have become a ghost under the sword a long time ago.

Yun Mengyao took the painting, and didn't dare to look at the sword on the painting, so she turned it over to the back, only to find that the back of the paper was still written with charcoal:

"The ghost envoy has confessed, so it's easy not to make a mistake!"

Yun Mengyao's pupils contracted in horror, and she hurriedly rolled up the painting again, got out of bed and took out the blood-stained package and crumpled it and threw it away, and then quickly went downstairs.

...............

"I said, you guys should be a little more ruthless!"

On the roof of Qinyayuan, Yun Mengze looked at his sister who ran downstairs, and said distressedly: "That's my sister after all!"

Hong Chen sat carelessly on the top of the water tower, swaying his legs while trimming his nails: "It's okay, the severity of that sword intent is something that the sword idiot has already grasped." It was quite painful at first, but after a while, the sword intent that remained in her body would automatically transform into a part of her true qi, and it would also be beneficial for her to improve her cultivation. ”

Lin Xiao also leaned on the edge of the rooftop, listening to the song while looking at Yun Mengyao who was going downstairs in the direction of the playground: "Why didn't you say that if she acted rashly, that sword intent would directly tear her internal organs before she was transformed?!"

"If that's the case, even if she deserves it, this ethereal city won't carry it. ”

"I'll go! I said that you can't speak tactfully in front of your brother?"

Yun Mengze waved his hand: "Don't worry, this matter is also what she did after I gave permission." ”

Lin Xiao touched Yun Mengze with his elbow: "Have you ever thought about how to explain this matter to the Soul Chasing Pavilion when you go back?"

"If it's really the idea of the Purple Sun Divine Sect, then they plan to kill people with a sword—not only to get rid of you, but also to cause a struggle between the Ethereal City and the Soul Chasing Pavilion. Yun Mengze said, "This kind of thing is not good for us, I just need to report it truthfully, and the pavilion master will weigh the pros and cons." ”

Lin Xiao asked again, "Then what is the next plan?"

"Wash and sleep!" Hong Chen said

"Are you serious?" Lin Xiao said speechlessly.

Hong Chen gave him a blank look: "Nonsense! I didn't sleep all night after tossing and turning last night, and today I practiced walking for another day, if I continue like this, even a cultivator can't stand it!"

Yun Mengze also echoed: "The enemy is dark and you are clear, anyway, if you want to defend now, you don't know where to start, it's better to go with the flow, maybe you can still lure him to make a move." ”

Lin Xiao looked up at the night on the campus, silent, and nodded after a long time.

3.

Feeling a thrower on her side, Yun Mengyao still sat on the railing next to the playground stand unmoved, until the bottle of mineral water was about to hit her face, she stretched out her hand and grabbed it steadily.

Yun Mengyao looked at the visitor coldly: "Where is my brother?"

"In order to show his sincerity to stand on the same front as us, he chose to avoid suspicion for the time being, and you may not see him for a while. ”

Lin Xiao casually walked over with a smiling face, as if he was just walking by here, he pointed to the mineral water in Yun Mengyao's hand, "I don't know what you like to drink, and your brother doesn't say it, so I just bought a bottle of mineral water to make do with it." As he spoke, he unscrewed a bottle of Coca-Cola and took a big sip of it.

"I've never seen a single prey that saw a hunter and took the initiative to come up. ”

"Then I'll show you today. Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Having said that, how many years have you Soul Chaser Pavilion not been in contact with a high-level and high-value hunting target like me?"

"It's been almost a thousand years...... Do you think it's an honor?"

"To be honest, it's a bit of a loss. ”

Yun Mengyao suddenly smiled: "Although I am from the first heavy building, I also know that people like you must be single based on their strength!"

"It's okay, anyway, the people who tried to kill me aren't dead yet, and compared to them, this issue shouldn't be very important. Lin Xiao propped himself up on the railing with his backhand, and sat down beside Yun Mengyao.

Lin Xiao was completely defenseless at the moment, if Yun Mengyao wanted to take his life, he only needed to seal the "Jade Pillow Acupoint" behind the other party's head with one finger, and then inject it with internal force, he would definitely die. But for some reason, she doesn't feel the urge to kill now.

It's not because she is in the position of "God" that she can't put down the shelf and plot a sneak attack, after all, what she originally ate was the assassination of this bowl of rice. The reason is that on the one hand, the sword intent that Hong Chen sent her gave her a certain psychological deterrent, and on the other hand, Lin Xiao's performance did not make her feel any special threat, which aroused her curiosity to some extent-

What Yun Mengyao wanted to know was: What was so outstanding about the person in front of her that it was worth asking people to apply for a red soul chasing order to reward him.

"I guess you yourself know how long it has been since no one has applied for a red-level soul chasing order from the Soul Chaser Pavilion, so it's rare that you haven't thought about what kind of entanglement exists between the people and you behind this big move?" Yun Mengyao unscrewed the cap of the bottle, took a small sip of water and said.

Lin Xiao sat on the railing, learning Hong Chen's legs to swing back and forth when his feet were in the air. As the old saying goes, "Men shake poor, women shake cheap." "Neither of them took the older generation's scaring words to heart about scaring children. He said as he swayed, "I don't want to think about it. ”

"Why? It's about your life. ”

"One part is because I'm too lazy to think about it, and on the other side - have you ever seen anyone who has just lost his memory and immediately remembers who he used to hate the most?"

"The enemy is dark and you are clear, and the other party will definitely use your amnesia to hide your identity......"

"Well, that's theoretically true. ”

"You're really not worried at all. ”

"That person is here to kill me, not just to make me unhappy, it's rare that I'm worried, won't he kill me?" Lin Xiao smiled lightly, "Anyway, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will cover it; ”

Lin Xiao drank all the drinks in the bottle, screwed the cap of the bottle and threw the empty bottle into the trash can next to him, then jumped off the stands, and continued: "And I have just recovered a little bit of memory, and the other party is willing to let you 'ghosts and gods' take action against me; It's all like playing a game, if I can't even get through the first level, how can I continue to fight monsters and upgrade in the future?!"

"Everyone is bronze at the beginning, and sooner or later they will be able to play the king, and no one will stay in the novice village all the time, they will always accumulate experience to upgrade and go out to farm all kinds of dungeons!"

Lin Xiao left the playground without looking back, just simply waved his hand back and said, "See you later." ”

Yun Mengyao looked at Lin Xiao's departing figure, with a relieved smile on her face, and muttered to herself:

"I now know why he deserves that red soul chasing order!"

【To be continued】