1.

"Senior Brother ~ Xiao Xiao ~ Lin Xiao!"

Lin Xiao opened his eyes suddenly, and the true qi that was surging and overflowing around his body suddenly contracted, returning to the dantian and the sea of qi, as if thousands of evil ghosts had pounced out of hell and been sucked back by a huge force.

Lin Xiao gasped for breath, he knew that Fang was the luck of the fork, if it weren't for Yunxiao's shout to bring him back to his soul, he was afraid that he would go mad. For a while, cold sweat trickled down, soaking his entire back, and the mist brought by the waterfall in the back mountain made his whole person look wet.

Yunxiao's face was full of worry and concern, the corpse poison on her body had been completely cleared by Yunya, and at this time, she was still a little pale after recovering from a serious illness. However, compared to Lin Xiao, she felt that her face should be considered healthy.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I didn't ...... It's okay...... What about my practice......"

Yunxiao circled his finger and flicked a shudder on his forehead: "Don't fool me, you! Who do you think you can hide from you now? Even I found out - since you came back from solving the Door Destroying Case and the Soul Dementoring Case, your whole person seems very wrong; if I hadn't asked you to return to your soul and breathe just now, wouldn't you have almost gone mad?!"

Lin Xiao glanced at Yunxiao, his gaze moved down, his right hand opened slightly, and he saw a scar on the palm of his hand that had not yet healed-

It was left by cutting the palm of the hand and bleeding when the "blood coating ban" was cast.

"Senior sister, I almost left my life in that uninhabited valley!It's the first time I've been so close to death, and you still don't allow me to have a little shadow on that thing?!" Lin Xiao's shoulders drooped, stretched out hard, and exhaled a breath of turbidity, only feeling indescribably tired.

Yunxiao glared at Lin Xiao: "Cheer up! Are you still the same Lin Xiao who poked a few holes in his body and could still stand up and continue to fight?!"

Lin Xiao raised his hand and let her look at the slightly terrifying scar: "What about poking, the blood is almost gone!"

Yunxiao rolled his eyes and almost rolled to his heels: "I'm just making an analogy......"

"I used to be young and ignorant and ignorant," Lin Xiao leaned against the stone wall, half-squinted his eyes, looked old-fashioned, and said unhurriedly: "When you are really only a little bit away from death, you will know how naïve some of your previous ideas were. ”

Yunxiao said helplessly: "You are not very old, can you not speak in a tone like those old men in the sect." I have been maddened by the fact that such words have come out of your mouth, and I have experienced them before you, and it is not your turn to talk to me about them!"

Lin Xiao silently closed his eyes and remained silent.

Yunxiao rolled his eyes, stepped forward and moved a little closer, and whispered in Lin Xiao's ear: "I'm telling you, you'd better recover quickly." I've heard that my father has consulted with a few elders to let you go down the mountain to follow up on this matter one day. ”

"What are you talking about!" Lin Xiao jumped up suddenly, almost pushing Yunxiao's chin upright.

"Aren't both cases closed, and what else needs to be followed?"

"What do you think you remember - you forgot the half of the remnants you brought back from the Uninhabited Valley?!"

As soon as Yunxiao said this, Lin Xiao only felt that Xi Wanli's voice in the uninhabited valley faintly sounded in his ears again:

"At that time, the patriarch of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect recorded all the supreme exercises he had cultivated in a booklet, which was the "Dark Demon Evil God Record...... He drew a map of the place where he hid the treasure and passed it to the second sect master of Mingzong...... The founder of the Liaoyuan family was originally an undercover agent of the Xianmen hidden in the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect...... During the civil strife, he infiltrated the Forbidden Vault and stole the map and fled...... When we searched through the entire Liaoyuan family to find this picture, we found that only one fragment was left - and the other half was missing. ”

Lin Xiao muttered, "How could you forget!"

"I guess they want you to go down the mountain this time to let you find out the whereabouts of the other half of the remnants. ”

Lin Xiao frowned and said, "These dead old men are full of food and have nothing to do, and they want to make fun of me." "He has always been dissolute and uninhibited, ignoring those red tape and rules of etiquette, so even if Yunya is his master, he is often unceremonious when he speaks in private. Fortunately, Yunya is not a rigid person, and he often loses money with his disciples, and he seems to be quite happy with it.

"The Demon Sect has lost half of the fragments, so the Dark Demon Evil God Record will definitely not be able to get it. In that case, why bother to find the whereabouts of the remaining half of the remnants?

Yunxiao said: "You are serious. I think they're just thinking that it's better to get both maps than to have the other half in the hands of the Demon Cult. At that time, if they deduce the location of the secret note based on the remnant map, won't we still suffer?"

Lin Xiao looked at her coldly: "If they are really as smart as you say, how could that half of the fragment fall into our hands?"

Yunxiao was a little impatient: "Then you just made up your mind not to go, right?"

"I don't know, let's think long when those old old-fashioned ones come to me. Lin Xiao said and stood up with the stone wall, and leaned down to pat the hem of his clothes and pants by the way.

Dusting off the moss marks and dust on his clothes, Lin Xiao was about to get upright, and at a glance, he had seen a reflected shadow from the edge of the deep pool under the waterfall, speculating that its location should be on the rock wall above himself and the clouds, and he didn't know when it appeared.

Lin Xiao was slightly startled, his cultivation was now at the peak of the Sixth Heaven, and he was about to break through the realm of the Seventh Heaven. Even if he is injured and has not healed, and has not opened the "Heaven and Earth Net Technique", it will not even be impossible to perceive the sudden arrival of a person. If this situation occurs, it can only show that person's cultivation is far above his own.

He is already the pinnacle of the Sixth Heaven, and the person who can come and go around him without a trace, how high will the realm be—Eight Heavens?!Nine Heavens?!......

Lin Xiao didn't dare to continue imagining. He vaguely felt that the other party should have no malicious intent, otherwise, with the other party's high cultivation, if he really came to target himself and Yunxiao, the two of them would have died a long time ago, I don't know how many times.

From Lin Xiao leaning down to dust off, to when he found the figure, to when he straightened up, the time it took for several movements to be connected was only a few short breaths. With more than a dozen thoughts already in his mind in such a moment, he pulled up the clouds and walked with her towards the discovery of leaving the back mountain.

"Senior sister. Lin Xiao used the method of "transmitting sound into the secret" to transmit the sound into the ears of Yunxiao.

Yunxiao looked back at him suspiciously.

"Did you bring a hidden weapon?"

Although Yunxiao didn't know why Lin Xiao communicated with him in this way, he thought that something was going on after all, so he responded in the same way: "Bring a few bone nails." ”

"Wait until I'm counted to three, and you'll throw these bone-piercing nails in the direction of the southeast diagonal corner rock wall. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Don't ask, just do it. ”

Yunxiao's sleeves flipped over, and a few bone-piercing nails were secretly clasped in his hands.

On the other end, Lin Xiao has already begun to count down: "Three, two......"

Yunxiao held his breath and concentrated, transporting his internal force to the palm of his hand, nailing his bones under the attachment of true qi, flashing with a dangerous cold light.

"One!"

Lin Xiao and Yunxiao clasped their hands, and directly turned half a circle in place, changing their positions in an instant. Yunxiao raised his hand, and four piercing nails shot out, nailing them in a square arrangement to the limbs of the man on the rock wall.

The peg flew a few inches in front of the man, and then stopped in mid-air and no longer moved forward, as if it had crashed into an invisible wall. Yunxiao's palm was condensed, reaching out to face Lin Xiao's right palm, and his luck was pushed out; Lin Xiao took advantage of the momentum to jump up, and the Ziyang True Qi in his body was naturally raised, and his palms were pushed forward flatly, and a move of "pushing the window to send the moon" hit in front of the person.

As he got closer, Lin Xiao noticed that the man's face was covered with a layer of white mist, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly, obviously using a blinding method.

I saw that the man stood motionless in place, and it wasn't until Lin Xiao's palm reached the door that he took a step back......

Lin Xiao slapped his palm, and his face changed fiercely.

It's just one step, and the distance between the two has been widened!

Under the drumming of the true qi on the mysterious man's body, the four volleying and stagnant piercing nails suddenly bounced out and flew upside down towards Lin Xiao's limbs.

As soon as the incident started, Lin Xiao subconsciously raised his hand and waved, and a thick sword aura came out, and the red dust sword flew up and smashed the four bone-piercing nails. Then the sword weakened, and the blade plunged into the rock wall.

Yunxiao, who was watching the battle below, frowned.

Lin Xiao's face changed again, and his right hand trembled slightly. He forced himself to settle down, reached out to seal the seal, and threw a punch on the ground. The earth and rocks under the mysterious man's feet piled up under the waves, causing his feet to sink tightly into them.

The mysterious man seemed to let out a sneer, the internal force was everywhere, and the earth and stone prohibition under his feet had collapsed. At the same time, Lin Xiao had already taken a step forward, and the yellow and clear talisman in his hand was directly lined up on his chest.

The mysterious man stiffened, and Lin Xiao took the opportunity to hit several acupuncture points in front of him, such as "Divine Seal", "Pylorus", "Walking Corridor", and "Juque". Just as he was about to seal the other party's true qi, the mysterious man suddenly took a step forward, strangled Lin Xiao's neck with force, and grabbed him as a whole.

Yunxiao anxiously shouted: "Lin Xiao!" At the same time, he jumped forward, and four piercing bone nails were issued, hitting the arm of the mysterious person holding Lin Xiao in a straight line, and the opposite position was exactly the direction of the acupoint of the "Qing Leng Yuan".

The mysterious man made another simple move, avoiding the clouds that flew up and the bone-piercing nails she sent.

"Why don't you use a sword? Fu Dao is not your forte, avoid the long and short, how can it be done by a wise man?!"

This was the first time the mysterious man had spoken since just now, and his voice sounded extremely ethereal, and he couldn't make out the specific vocal lines.

Lin Xiao's right hand trembled violently, and the scabbed scar on the palm seemed to crack again, and the pain made the entire right arm feel numb.

"Wherever the sword goes, it not only kills demons, but also kills gods and Buddhas. Holding the sword in hand is just to cut off the demons in your heart, do you want to avoid them?!"

2.

Lin Xiao knew that something was indeed wrong.

After returning from the uninhabited valley outside Fuyao Town, he found that he could no longer hold a sword in his hand. As long as he picked up the sword, his hand would tremble uncontrollably, and in such a state, he couldn't even use the most ordinary moves, let alone play a complete set of swordsmanship.

At first, he thought it was caused by the wound on his hand, but when the wound began to heal and scab over, the situation still did not improve, and even worsened - when he picked up the sword, in addition to shaking his hand, the wound that had obviously scabbed over would be inexplicably painful.

When the true qi began to stagnate, waking up from the nightmare every night, Lin Xiao finally realized how much of an impact the incident that happened in the uninhabited valley had on him.

Before this incident, Lin Xiao had not experienced other experiences. He alone has leveled a group of mountain bandits who have been demonized by taking pills, he has gone down to a corpse cave to find a corpse in the pile of dead people, and even his sword Hongchen has been brought out of the ancient tomb......

It is precisely with such rich experience that he can calmly analyze the case when facing the sea of corpses and blood of the Liaoyuan family.

Lin Xiao knew in his heart that there was only one reason why the experience of the No Man's Valley would cause such a big psychological shadow to himself-

Never once was he so infinitely close to death!

The feeling of nothingness of blood draining from one's body, the coldness of blood loss, and the immediacy of hordes of corpses rushing up and preparing to bite one...... Even though more than a month has passed, these feelings will always be accompanied by nightmares, like maggots attached to bones, entangled Lin Xiao to death.

However, at this time, the mysterious man's question sounded in his ears like thunder:

"Holding the sword in hand is to cut off the demons in your heart, do you want to avoid them?!"

Slash ...... Demons!

Moved by his mind, Hongchen's sword blade rose from the ground, turned into a red ray from the air, and fell into Lin Xiao's hands.

His hands subconsciously began to tremble, Lin Xiao gritted his teeth, and Hongchen's sword qi lingered along the blade, echoing with the true qi in his body.

The anxious mood gradually subsided, Lin Xiao endured the pain in his palm, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:

"Thank you for your advice!"

After speaking, the sword came out. Lin Xiao held the red dust in his hand, and made a move from the bottom to the top to "clear the clouds and see the sun", and the sword qi swept out. The mysterious man let go of the hand that was choking his throat, took three steps back, and the pure inner family qi condensed in front of him, slowly dissipating the sword qi into invisibility. Lin Xiao jumped backwards, twisted the sword trick with his left hand, and the three sword shadows slashed out as quickly as thunder, and the dust flew for a while.

The mysterious man nodded in satisfaction, and waved away the three sword shadows. Wherever the true qi went, all the dust raised was settled, and suddenly the sword light flashed, and the tip of the sword of the red dust had reached the front door.

The smile on the mysterious man's face froze, and he retreated again to move away. After standing still, he saw that Lin Xiao and Yunxiao were looking at him with ghost-like expressions, and he suddenly felt bad in his heart, so he subconsciously raised his hand and touched his face. Sure enough, the obstacle on his face had been broken by the sword qi.

Yunxiao's face was full of disbelief, and he said dumbly: "Dad?!"

Lin Xiao even threw Hongchen directly into the scabbard and began to scold: "Dead old man, are you sick!"

If outsiders heard this sentence, they would definitely be shocked, who would have thought that Yun Ya, the sect leader of the Purple Sun Divine Sect, who was famous outside the country, would be called "dead old man" by his own apprentices! But Yunxiao on the side had long been accustomed to it -- in front of other people, the old and the young were one "master in charge" and "good apprentice"; when no one was around, they would become full of "dead old men" and "stinky boys," which made people embarrassed.

"If it weren't for your stinky boy who was lifeless all day long, this seat wouldn't have bothered to bother with you!" Yun Ya reprimanded angrily, "Look at what you can, a little injury will make you look like this, are you still worthy of saying that you are the eldest disciple of the Purple Sun Divine Sect?!"

Lin Xiao said with a smile on his face: "Yes, yes, what the master said is extremely true, I am embarrassed to your old man!"

"Stinky boy, it's really 'brave to admit mistakes and resolutely not change'. Yun Ya scolded with a smile, waved his hand and threw a white object into Lin Xiao's arms, "Take it." ”

Lin Xiao picked it up and looked at it carefully: "Qiankun bag, what is it in here?, what are you doing for me?" said and went to unseal the mouth of the bag.

Yun Ya said: "Don't look at it, it's the half of the fragment." ”

Lin Xiao's eyes widened: "Are you really going to let me go?"

"Since ancient times, the Demon Sect has not died in the heart of my righteous path. Even if they lose half of the fragments, they will do their best to find the remaining half. If they really find it, it cannot be ruled out that they will find the "Dark Demon Evil God Record" based on the information on that half of the fragment. Yunya Zhengse said, "This matter is closely related to the fate of the righteous path, since we know it, we must pay attention to it." ”

"Then you can take this half of it, what are you doing for me?"

Yun Ya said: "According to Xi Wanli, this map was drawn by the founding patriarch of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect with the power of his own soul, so there will be traces of soul imprints on the map. The origin of spiritual power on the two remnants is the same, and it will inevitably resonate when they get closer. It's better for you to hold this half of the picture than to look for it with your eyes black. ”

Lin Xiao said helplessly: "Even if there is resonance, don't I have dark eyes? The world is so big, and these two fragments can't resonate thousands of miles apart, where do I start looking for it?"

Yun Ya turned his head and gave him a blank look: "If I knew where to start, I would just send someone to fetch it, and I still need to ask you to go down the mountain to find something?"

Lin Xiao laughed angrily, and for a while he was so choked that he couldn't even answer half a sentence.

Yunxiao raised his forehead and said speechlessly: "Dad, you should always point him in a general direction, otherwise do you want him to take this half of the remnant picture to go all over the world to find the so-called 'resonance'?

Yun Ya touched the beard under his chin and said, "You want me to point me in the direction?" But I don't know where the half of the fragment is. But if it were you, I'd go to the place where this half of the fragment came from. ”

"Place of Origin?" Lin Xiao repeated, his eyes suddenly widened: "You don't want me to go to the Heavenly City of Hatred to find clues, right?!"

Yunya was silent, looking up at the sky without saying a word.

"What are you kidding! You really think that 'Tiansha' Ye Wushu is a dry meal! Not to mention that I am away from hating Tiancheng, I think it is a big question whether I can see the gate of the Eternal Night Realm alive!"

Yun Ya finally spoke: "Who told you to leave the Heavenly City?" At the beginning, the ancestor of the Liaoyuan family took away the complete map, but now his descendants have only preserved half of it, indicating that something must have happened during the escape of the Liaoyuan Patriarch back then, resulting in the mutilation and loss of the map. As long as you find the escape route from Lihattian City to Nanyuan Ningcheng back then, you can find clues by touching the vine. ”

Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief: "This is about the same. By the way, there's one more thing......"

"Why are you so much going on, kid? If you have something to say, let go of a fart! ”

"Can you go down the mountain this time...... Give me some more money?"

"How much do you want first?"

Lin Xiao pretended to be contemplative: "If you don't say anything, you have to get five hundred taels." ”

Yun Ya was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "Five hundred taels?!, you kid might as well go and rob directly, I won't be hungry to death anyway - hurry back and pack my luggage, and get out of here on time tomorrow morning!"

3.

Outside the city of Shanzhou, Wushan, black pine forest.

"Big brother, I didn't expect to be able to hit Miss Tanfu's convoy today, rob this trip, and take that chick to ask for a ransom of a few hundred taels with Old Man Tan, then you will make a lot of money!"

The smell of blood filled the air, the wreckage of the carriage had turned into a pile of char in the flames, and the corpses of the servants and guards were strewn everywhere. The gangs roared, celebrating the victory of today's operation.

The scene was a mess, some people wiped the blood-stained blades, some people dug pits to bury the corpses or clean up the bloodstains, and some people forcibly pressed the handmaidens of the Tan family, tore their clothes and kissed and touched them......

Tan Rui, the young lady of the Tan family, was hit by the acupoint and was tightly tied to the tree by the hemp rope. The leader of the rogue stepped forward with a lewd smile, reached out to touch her already crying face, and said in her ear: "Don't worry, it will take some time for your father to redeem you with money, and Uncle Ben can play well with you, a little beauty......"

Before he finished speaking, a sound suddenly sounded behind his head. The leader of the rogue was not a good person, so he quickly turned around and reached out to catch the incoming object. I could only hear a muffled sound of "poof", and a heart-piercing pain came from the palm of my hand, and when I opened it to look, I saw that a stone had been embedded in the flesh and skin, and blood was gushing.

When did the leader of the rogue suffer such a big loss, he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "Which rat who is not long-eyed, dares to sneak attack Lao Tzu in secret;

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden push in the back of the heart. The force was actually not great, but it just made him stumble and almost fall into the mud. The anger of the leader of the rogue had reached the limit, and he turned around in anger, only to find that the hemp rope on the tree had been cut and Tan Rui was gone.

"Fool, look here. ”

The leader of the rogue looked up, only to see that on a tree not far away, a black-clothed young man with a long sword was half-leaning on the branch of the canopy, swaying Erlang's legs. Beside him, sitting was the disappeared Tan Rui.

Tan Rui's outer shirt and long skirt have been torn by the rogue, leaving only a close-fitting coat and dirty pants, and most of the skin on her body is bare. In this case, he was so close to a teenager he didn't know, even though he was in danger, he was still blushing.

The leader of the rogue sneered: "Your body is good, it seems that you are also a practitioner." It's a pity that the brain is not very good - snatching things from under Lao Tzu's hands will end up with the word 'death'!"

The leader of the rogue thought that this could have a certain deterrent effect, but unexpectedly, an extremely mocking smile appeared on the face of the young man in black, as if he had seen a ridiculous thing that was the best in the world.

"Chasing the Wind - Luo Zhenyu, a famous rogue from Wushan to Qingling, I heard that you once learned a few tricks of talisman from your teacher, killing people, overstepping goods, setting fire and robbing, and even officials can't do anything about you. ”

Luo Zhenyu's face changed slightly, this young man looks like he is only eighteen or nineteen years old, and he knows a lot, but I'm afraid it's really weird.

The black-clothed young man admired the change in Luo Zhenyu's face, and sneered: "It's just a pity, this little trick is okay to deal with the official trapper and ordinary guards;

As soon as the young man's voice fell, a red light suddenly flashed in the woods. Luo Zhenyu only felt a flower in front of him, and when he came back to his senses, the young man had already put his sword into the sheath.

There were bursts of liquid splashing and dull sounds behind him, Luo Zhenyu only felt that his heart was skipping several beats, and an inexplicable sense of fear enveloped his whole body from the bottom of his heart. He turned around abruptly, only to see that dozens of his men were dead, each with an extra wound in their throat. A few of those who molested the maidservants were even cut off their heads, hands and feet, and died in a miserable state.

Because of the agitation of the sword qi, the wound was opened to the maximum, and blood was splattered in all directions. Where had Tan Rui seen such a bloody scene, her face turned pale in an instant, she couldn't even scream, she fainted directly, and was firmly supported by the black-clothed young man so that she didn't fall from the tree.

Luo Zhenyu was already colorless: "You...... Who are you?!"

The black-clothed young man jumped off the tree with Tan Rui, helped her sit down against the trunk, and then turned to Luo Zhenyu and drew his sword out of its sheath.

"I'll tell you when you're down!"

The black-clothed young man said with a smile, and after finishing his words, he rushed forward, his body was like a ghost, and he was already in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Luo Zhenyu was shocked, turned over his hand and took out a few rune papers, used the greatest strength in his life, and slapped it directly on the chest of the black-clothed young man.

After the power of the talisman struck the boy, it disappeared like a mud cow into the sea. The next moment, the young man's long sword had already penetrated Luo Zhenyu's body, and the sword qi suddenly exploded in his body, instantly smashing his internal organs and six internal organs.

Luo Zhenyu burst red and was killed on the spot. His bloody face was full of horror before he died, as if he had seen the most incredible thing in his life.

The young man in black pulled up his corpse and leaned into his ear:

"Remember, my name is Lin Xiao!"

【To be continued】