1.

In the vermilion lacquer gate, there were constant crashing sounds.

As Ling Ying had said, it sounded like countless hands were slapping on the door, or someone was constantly banging their bodies against the door. The cacophony broke the eerie dead silence, but it also gave the surrounding environment an eerie color.

"I ...... We are now ...... What should I do?" Yunxiao moved a few steps behind Lin Xiao and the three of them without a trace, grabbed the corner of Lin Xiao's sleeve and asked softly, his expression was completely devoid of the firmness and courage that he wanted to share with the other party.

Before Lin Xiao could answer, the door suddenly moved.

As if it couldn't withstand the impact, the vermilion lacquer door burst open, and then an extremely thick white smoke poured out from the inside of the mansion, and for a while only a white piece was left in the field of vision, and the five fingers could not be seen.

Lin Xiao sealed with one hand, and was about to light an open flame talisman when a sharp ghost crying sound suddenly sounded in his ears, and the sound was so sharp that it made people feel tingling in their eardrums and numb scalps. Lin Xiao hurriedly let go of the hand that was sealed, covered his ears tightly with both hands and squatted down, only feeling bored and vomiting for a moment, and couldn't help but close his eyes together.

After the screaming stopped, Lin Xiao gradually put down the hand covering his ear and gasped a few long breaths to reduce the buzzing in his ears. He slowly stood up, opened his eyes, and for a moment felt the world spinning, and his footing was unstable, so he subconsciously took a few steps back.

As soon as he retreated, his back hit a wall. Lin Xiao couldn't help but be taken aback, reached out and touched behind him, and touched a wet and greasy piece, and when he raised it to look in front of him, he was touching his hands full of blood.

Lin Xiao's heart seemed to sink to the bottom, and he hurriedly fled three steps forward in shock, and then stayed where he was, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't want to believe it. After a while, Lin Xiao closed his eyes again and took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind, he turned around and opened his eyes suddenly......

The back hit was not a wall at all.

It's the always closed, bloodstained door of the Liaoyuan family!

Unknowingly, he entered the interior of the house.

Lin Xiao was shocked and hurriedly looked around. Sure enough, as expected, there was no longer Ling Ying and the three of them around him. At this moment, the sound of banging on the door and the sound of devils crying had disappeared, leaving a dead silence again.

"Ling Ying?"

"Li Zhou?"

"Senior sister?"

There was no reply, which was to be expected.

Lin Xiao looked at the white fog around him, took a few deep breaths and silently recited a few words of "Pure Heart Formula" to force himself to calm down, and then sat cross-legged on the spot and began to analyze the form around him-

Even if there is a white mist in front of you, you can vaguely distinguish where you are, it should be in a courtyard. The murderer of the sect exterminator set up the alienated lock spirit array here, in addition to trapping those soul senses in the house, and may even target some immortal monks who are eyeing the abnormal movement here.

Therefore, in order to completely block the secret of the Liaoyuan family's extermination, according to the meticulousness of the murderer's thoughts, more than one line of defense should be laid here......

Lin Xiao picked up a branch from his side and gestured on the ground:

First of all, the first line of defense was to use the Lock Spirit Array to trap the unjust souls of the Liaoyuan family, but it deliberately exposed a little flaw, so that the souls in the mansion made strange noises, and its purpose was to scare away the people in Ningcheng who had some good things.

And the second line of defense is the circle of fog around the house. The mist was born from the Locking Spirit Array, which contained a backlog of stagnant soul resentment, causing confusion and hallucination. Once the cultivation is insufficient, it is very likely to fall into a maze, which happens to be a big tonic sent to the door, which strengthens the degree of resentment here, and further blocks the news, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!

But if the intruder's cultivation is advanced enough, or if he has a few spiritual weapons on his body, such as Lin Xiao and his party. If this happens, then the outer fog will be useless. Therefore, there will be a third line of defense, that is, - Lin Xiao raised his head and looked around - the environment he is in now.

Lin Xiao thoughtfully tapped the ground with his fingertips, although the surroundings were similar, he didn't think that he was really inside the Liaoyuan Family.

The moment the gate opened and the fog poured out, it should have triggered the third line of defense blocking the house. And he will be separated from Ling Ying and them in an instant and come to this place, thinking about coming here, it should be a place similar to an enchantment.

It is thought that it should be connected to the maze of the outside world, showing a trend of echoing. If you can't crack it, you will definitely be trapped in this place forever, and even your soul can't escape from this place after death, just like those souls in the Xu family's murderous mansion and Liaoyuan family. The viciousness of the murderer's intentions can be seen.

2.

Lin Xiao finished analyzing and stood up.

If there is a formation, there must be a way to break the formation, like this kind of maze that connects the inside and outside, there must be a formation eye to support the operation of the entire formation. As long as you find this formation and break it, you can break free from the shackles here.

It's just that with the murderer's intentions, it's not so simple to find the array, and I don't know if there are other dangers hidden in this thick fog.

Lin Xiao waved his hand to light an open flame talisman, a blue flame appeared in his palm, he raised this flame high, walked a little around within ten steps around his body, and found that the fire light of the open flame talisman could not penetrate this layer of fog barrier at all;

The murderer has planted this fog barrier in the blockade, as if he is hiding some unknown danger.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao inexplicably felt some palpitations, as if he felt that something was wrong, waved his hand, scattered the fireworks in his hand, and then turned around.

Suddenly, he saw a figure lying on his stomach where he had been sitting, wrapped in a wide black cloak, trembling slightly, as if he was crying.

Lin Xiao's eyes widened, and he tried his best to restrain himself from shouting out loud. Rao is that he is very courageous, and this sudden scene still scared him into a cold sweat.

The figure didn't seem to feel Lin Xiao's movements beside him, and still lay on the ground as if no one was around, hiding his entire figure under the cloak.

There is a living person with strong blood here, Lin Xiao has no red dust by his side at this time, if it was a fierce resentful spirit under normal circumstances, he would have pounced on him all at once. But the figure remained motionless, just lying silently, as if dead.

Lin Xiaoqiang calmed down, untied the scabbard of the red dust on his waist, slowly took a few steps forward, paused to look at the figure's reaction, and then took a few steps forward, walked and walked to its side, slowly squatted down, and asked softly: "Who are you?" He hadn't spoken for a long time, and he was just taken aback, and as soon as the words came out, his voice was slightly hoarse.

The figure was under the cloak and seemed to whisper something, too small to be heard. Seeing that there was no change in it, Lin Xiao's heart that had been hanging was lowered slightly, and he poked his hand out and placed it on the figure about his shoulder, and tried his best to help it up.

When he fell into his hand, he only felt that this figure was a little delicate, like a woman. The figure didn't make any struggling movements, and slowly rose up directly following Lin Xiao's coming, and then turned his face towards him.

As a result, a miserable white and bloodstained face and a pair of eyes with no pupils and only a dead white pair fell into Lin Xiao's eyes!

Lin Xiao was shocked, and hurriedly let go and took a few steps back.

The next moment, I saw a flicker in front of my eyes, and the ghost figure had already jumped up in an instant, with five fingers stretched, and grabbed straight towards Lin Xiaomian's door.

Lin Xiao hurriedly slid backwards with his strength, to avoid this move; he thought that his light skills were definitely not bad, but the speed of the ghost was really a few points faster than him, and his skills were not like ordinary people, like a fierce ghost, obviously seeing that her grasping posture had not changed, but the speed did not decrease, as if floating, and rushed forward, so that Lin Xiao could not avoid it.

Lin Xiao cried bitterly, the ghost figure was really fast, so he had no chance to fight back. Seeing that the grasp was about to pierce through his face, suddenly a sword light flashed, and the ghost screamed, retreating like a shock, staring at Lin Xiao's front with miserable white eyes.

Lin Xiao's saber - red dust.

At this moment, Hongchen's sword blade was trembling at the ghost, and the ghost seemed to be afraid of Hongchen's sword, and he didn't dare to step forward for a while, but let out a few roars of unknown meaning.

Red Dust was suspended in the air, and the tip of the sword pointed forward, and the long sword shot out, rushing towards the ghost's chest. The ghost's skill was really fast, and when he dodged, he could avoid the blade of the red dust.

But seeing Hongchen turning the blade of the sword in mid-air, a red breath flowed out of the sword, turning into a beautiful woman in red out of thin air, reaching out to hold the hilt of the sword, floating to the ground, bringing a burst of fragrant wind;

Lin Xiao is already very familiar with this stunt of "Rain in the Sky", but it is not enough to move like Hongchen like a flying fairy and sway his sword intent freely.

The ghost shadow didn't dare to directly confront Hongchen, so he roared sharply, and fought to receive a few swords, but he also tore a gap in the sword shadow, as if he jumped up and flew away from here. Hongchen didn't fall in love with the battle, turned around elegantly, and handed over the spirit sword body in his hand to Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao took the sword in his hand: "Fortunately, I have you!"

Hongchen nodded to him slightly, and said, "That person doesn't have the breath of a living person, and his skills are very secretive. ”

Lin Xiao touched his chin and nodded: "I can see it." There are only a few moves in the body, and she has exceeded the limit of the human body in terms of movement, but she has no sense of lag in her actions, and she still has white eyes, as long as she is not blind, she can definitely see that she is a dead person. Most of them are walking corpses catalyzed by murder weapons. ”

Hongchen walked towards the ghost and said, "It's not a walking corpse. ”

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why?"

"Although the corpse is not decomposed, and its movements are swift and ferocious, it remains in the state of the deceased at the time of death, and the body is stiff, and it is by no means as agile and flexible as it was. Hongchen said: "And although she does not have the breath of a living person, she has preserved the spiritual power of a living person in her body, and it has not been dispersed, so it can be seen that she is not a pure dead person." ”

Hongchen turned to face Lin Xiao: "There is one more point, I don't know if you have found it." Among the tricks used by Fang Cai's figure, there are some of them, including Aoki's way. ”

"What?!" Lin Xiao's eyes widened in surprise and said, "How can you have anything to do with the Aoki family again?"

The Aoki family, along with the light, Xuanshui, and the current Liaoyuan family, is known as the four major families of the Xiuzhen Realm. This generation of family heads is the first female head of the family in the history of the Aoki family, and one of the few capable people in the family, named Yu Yuntong.

Yu Yuntong is not only in his own line of exercises, but also famous for his vigorous and resolute Iron Lady style, and has an excellent reputation in the cultivation world.

Now, in this tragic case, traces of Aoki's involvement have been found, which is unbelievable.

Lin Xiao seemed to feel that this sudden information was too big for him to digest, and after thinking for a long time, he finally shook his head in disbelief: "Could it be that you are wrong?"

Hongchen also shook his head: "The moment she grabbed you just now, although it looks like a kung fu on the claws, but after I blocked it, I found out that the strength and fortune of that move are indeed the path of the Aoki family's 'heart-shaking palm', and it won't be wrong." ”

Lin Xiao sighed softly, he believed Hongchen's judgment in this regard, but he didn't believe - or couldn't believe that the people of the Aoki family would be involved in this tragedy.

Of course, it is also possible......

Hongchen seemed to see through Lin Xiao's thoughts: "Although this move can be identified as Aoki's move, it may not be Aoki's person who made the shot." We all believe that Yu is in charge, and there must be other problems in this. ”

3.

During the time when the ghost was sneaking up and talking to Hongchen, the fog around him unconsciously thickened a little more.

Lin Xiao stretched out his hand and held it by his side, looking at a thick mist like cotton wool lingering in his hand, and asked, "You say, what kind of environment are we in now?" According to my guess, this should be the third line of defense used by the murderer to block the Liaoyuan family. ”

Hongchen nodded: "That's a good point." This is the 'Miluo Illusion' formed by the alienation of the Locking Spirit Array, and it is connected to the fog barrier, and these mist should be refined from mirage. ”

"Those who enter the formation have no feeling at first, but if they enter the formation for a long time and inhale too much mirage, they will be delusional, and their hearts will be full of demons, if they can't break the formation as soon as possible, they will definitely die of exhaustion. ”

Hearing this, Lin Xiao hurriedly held his breath and used the "Turtle Breath Method" to control his breathing, and asked at the same time: "Then how can this formation be broken? I remember that a formation like this that is connected inside and outside must have an array eye as a support point." ”

"Yes, but it's different from the usual maze. Hongchen looked around, "This Mira Illusion is not a pure maze, but is formed by changing and alienating according to the formation style of the Soul Locking Array, so half of its function also plays the role of trapping the soul here." ”

"So it's not difficult to imagine that the scale and form of this formation is supported by the four directions, so in this way, where do you think the formation should be located?"

Hongchen already has a charming face, and when he laughs, the whole person becomes more and more sweet, and Lin Xiao can't help but be stunned.

After a moment of coming back to his senses, he stammered, "Four...... Quartet, do you mean to say—where the eye of the array is, is the soul suppression stone in the four corners of the Soul Locking Array!"

"Exactly. ”

"However, if the Soul Suppression Stone is destroyed, it will not only disintegrate the Mira Illusion Realm, but also the Soul Locking Array. And once the Locking Spirit Array is broken, the fierce spirits trapped inside will not ......"

Hongchen said: "You don't have to worry, the Spirit Locking Array is just something that can trap everything with spiritual sense, and it may not only refer to fierce and evil spirits. Moreover, the Liaoyuan family is a big family of immortals, and the children of the family have been influenced by the 'requiem ceremony' since they were young, which can ensure that they will not turn into evil spirits and ghosts after death. The murderer set up a lock spirit array here, just using it as a guide to weave an illusion. ”

"Quartet Town Soul Stone...... It's full of demonic fog, where are you going to find it?"

"Actually...... All we need to do is find the nearest Eastern Soul Stone to us. ”

"Why?" Lin Xiao couldn't help but be stunned and asked.

Hongchen's expression seemed to be a little reluctant to answer this question, but after a while, he still spoke: "Before I came to you, I had already informed Ling Ying of the fortunes of the three of them in this formation, and guided them to the other three directions to break the Soul Suppression Stone. ”

"You actually went to find them first!Hongchen ...... You've changed, you weren't like this to me before!" Lin Xiao's eyes widened.

"But...... Didn't you hand me over to them?" Hongchen glared back with an "innocent" face, and Lin Xiao was speechless for a while.

Fact...... It seems like...... That's true......

4.

Outside the Liaoyuan family's mansion.

The surrounding mist had dispersed, and Ling Ying and the three of them looked at Lin Xiao who was sitting cross-legged, and their faces were gradually showing anxiousness.

"Why is it so long, this kid won't be planted in it!" Li Zhou frowned.

Yunxiao raised his hand and was about to fight: "What are you crow's mouth! Where can the great disciple of the Purple Sun Divine Sect be so bad, besides, with Hongchen by his side, it will definitely be fine!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw Lin Xiao frowning, showing a trace of pain on his face, and then with a "wow", a mouthful of blood spurted out, his face turned blue, and the whole person fell backwards.

At the same time, a sword flashed, and Hongchen's spirit sword body swept past the three of them, and autonomously inserted into the scabbard on Lin Xiao's waist.

Yunxiao and Li Zhou hurriedly rushed up to help Lin Xiao sit up, only to feel that his pulse was weak, his breath was like a gossamer, and it seemed that there was only one breath left, and even tears came out when Yunxiao landed, and shouted to Ling Ying, who looked indifferent to the side: "Ling Ying, what are you still standing there stupidly for, why don't you come over and think of a way!"

At this time, the surrounding fog had dissipated, and it seemed that the last Soul Stone had been broken by Lin Xiao, but I don't know what kind of danger he encountered in that Miluo Fantasy Realm, and he actually made this half-dead appearance.

After Ling Ying heard Yunxiao's shout, he silently looked at Hongchen, who was inserted in the scabbard and did not move at all, and said impatiently: "You surnamed Lin are still endless, if you like to pretend, just pretend for a while, and it will be boring to pretend again!"

Yunxiao couldn't help but be stunned, and the next moment he felt that the breath of the person who fell in his arms was much smoother, and then he slowly stretched his waist and sat up, and his appearance was full of a sense of underbeating.

"It's really, this warm jade is warm and fragrant, and you won't let me enjoy it for a while. Lin Xiao wiped the blood from his mouth, automatically ignored the murderous eyes of Yunxiao beside him, and asked Ling Ying, "How can you see it?"

"Shut up, you!" Ling Ying scolded angrily. "If something really happened to you, Hongchen would have jumped out and gone crazy, where would it be so quiet as it is now. ”

Lin Xiao patted Hongchen's scabbard.

"If you don't hear it, cooperate with it in the future. Hongchen vibrated violently in the scabbard, and the blade hummed as if in protest.

Yunxiao had already rushed up and grabbed his ear and shouted, "It's very comfortable, isn't it? When did you still want to enjoy it, is this enough for you to enjoy!"

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, I was wrong!"

"Alright, don't make a fuss. Tell me, what's the situation now?" Ling Ying said.

Lin Xiao rubbed the tips of his ears that were pinched red by Yunxiao: "What else can it be, now that the Miluo Fantasy Realm has been broken, after passing this door, it will be the real Qiwu Feather Residence." ”

"It's just that there is another problem, the murderer planted the Miluo Illusion here to trap the people inside the Liaoyuan family so that they could not spread the news, but after the door was destroyed, this illusion still existed and was not removed, I am afraid that it is not just to stop the people who come to investigate, it is possible that there are still some invisible things hidden here. ”

"Then let's go in and have a look. ”

Lin Xiao and the four of them took a few steps forward together, and walked to the vermilion lacquer gate of Qiwu Yuyiju again.

Lin Xiao let out a sigh, stretched out his hand, and pushed the door open, letting out a series of creepy squeaks.

At the same time, a strong smell of blood came to my nose.

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

Even if they were fully mentally prepared, Lin Xiao and the four of them didn't think about how to accept the picture in front of them.

Lin Xiao, Ling Ying, and Li Zhou's faces turned blue and became extremely ugly in an instant, and Yunxiao turned around and rushed out, lying on the steps of the door and vomiting.

This is - Shura Field!

Among the four people present, even Lin Xiao and Ling Ying, who had been training for the longest time, asked themselves how many terrifying and bloody pictures they had seen, they were not as miserable as the scene in front of them, like hell on earth.

As far as the eye can see, the Qiwu Yuyi Residence of the Liaoyuan family has become a sea of corpses and blood.

The head of the family, Hua Chengcheng, was wearing a vermilion bird robe that represented the identity of the head of the family, and hung it on the main hall with a fairy rope around his neck. His inner dan had been destroyed, and the meridians of his whole body had been shattered, and his face was a blur of flesh and blood, covered with marks of slashing with sharp weapons.

"Who would do such a crazy thing!" Ling Ying clenched his fists in anger and gritted his teeth.

Lin Xiao first calmed down and pressed on several acupoints on his face to seal his sense of smell. "Li Zhou, you go out to see how the senior sister is doing, and by the way, stay outside in case someone ambushes us. Ling Ying and I went inside to take a look. ”

Li Zhou heard that he was amnesty, originally Lin Xiao had always been particularly disgusted by his behavior of being so evasive, but now this situation is a little beyond his bearing, but his psychological quality is better than Yunxiao, so that he will not lose his temper like her, but to tell the truth, it is not much better. Therefore, when he heard Lin Xiao's arrangement at this moment, he hurriedly ran out.

Ling Ying waited until Li Zhou went out and said, "Now it seems that the murderer has set up an alienated lock spirit array here, and it is really just to stop outsiders. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the people of the Liaoyuan family had more or less been influenced by the requiem ceremony, otherwise the resentment that erupted according to such a scene would not be able to be controlled by a mere miraculous realm. ”

That's a good statement. Lin Xiao nodded in agreement, "In the past, when investigating the annihilation incident, we always had to try to find out if there was a surviving mouth, but the life star of the Liaoyuan family has fallen, and there will definitely be no survivors." ”

"Then we are here for only one purpose - to find out the reason for the destruction of the Liaoyuan family, and to find out the murderer. ”

Ling Ying touched Lin Xiao with his elbow: "In your opinion, the Liaoyuan family was destroyed, what could be the reason?"

Lin Xiao frowned: "It's really hard to say. If you want to destroy people, no matter how novel this excuse is, there will always be something you want to find. However, in my opinion, according to the status and style of the Liaoyuan family, there are two situations that account for a large level of possibility......"

"Like a person, or a thing...... Right?" Ling Ying and Lin Xiao had not been training together for a day or two, so they naturally understood what he was thinking.

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "The situation ahead should be like this, I'll take a look around here, you go to the backyard, we will act separately, maybe we will find some other clues." ”

【To be continued】