1.

"Qishan Youxuan Ji Clan?" Lin Xiao frowned when he heard this, "I really haven't even heard of it." ”

Ye Xin pondered for a moment and then said, "I don't know much about this family you said, but I have heard a little. The 'Youxuanji clan' lives in Qishan, and the family history is ancient and extremely mysterious, and few people know about their existence, and even if they do, they don't know where they are. ”

"It was once rumored that the Youxuan Ji clan was a branch of the Lethe clan in the underworld set up in the yang world, managing the affairs of the yang world for Lethe, and some people said that this was actually just a pretext for the Youxuan clan to escape from the world. Now the name of the Qishan Youxuan Ji clan is more of a small number that appears in the classics, and almost no one knows if there is such a family in the world now. ”

Lin Xiao gently rubbed the lines of the word "Ji" on the accessories that seemed to be written on the seal, and said, "So, you are suspicious - it was the people of the Youxuan Ji clan who killed the people of Xiyun Village and then stole the half of the fragments?"

Hongchen raised his eyebrows: "I don't rule out this possibility." ”

"But as you all said, this family has been elusive for thousands of years, and no one knows whether it still exists. Lin Xiao snorted, "And if it is really as rumored that they are a branch of the Lechuan clan, then they should not be involved in this dispute, and they have killed so many people, isn't that directly adding to the blockage of the people in Lethe? I am not afraid that the old ghosts in Lethe will be angry and directly serve them to a pot!"

"Can you believe all the rumors?" Hongchen shook his head and sneered, "The relationship between the Ji clan and the Lechuan clan is nothing at all, it's just that it's too mysterious and it's been involved. The Shadows are not affiliated with any faction, and one of the major problems posed by such a neutral presence is that they will only act in their own interests, not caring about whether they will harm the interests of others. ”

Lin Xiao's eyes became a little subtle as he looked at Hongchen: "It sounds like you know this Youxuan Ji clan very well." ”

Hongchen was silent, bowing his head and playing with his sleeves.

"Hongchen?" Lin Xiao saw a strange look on her face.

Hongchen raised his head and looked into Lin Xiao's eyes: "Because that's where I came from!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was taken aback. Ye Xin frowned and said, "You turned out to be the sword spirit of the Youxuan Ji clan?" Lin Xiao almost jumped up with excitement, and said loudly: "Impossible! You obviously pulled it from the King's Landing Stone in the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb in Xiangxi, how could you have something to do with the Youxuan Ji clan?!"

Lin Xiao really remembered very well that it was the first time he went down the mountain alone to carry out a mission. At that time, there was a famine in Xiangxi, and in order to have enough money to buy life-saving food, a local trend of tomb robbery was set off. The people went to the tombs in groups to steal the treasures that accompanied the burials and exchanged them for food. The local government was already in a state of anxiety because of the famine, and the resurgence of this tomb robbery made the officials even more irritable, so they simply broke the jar and became the shopkeeper, and let the people come nonsense.

In this period when the evil trend was most prevalent, almost every household participated in the tomb robbery, and there is a saying: "Ten households in Xiangxi, eight or nine are upside down." It can be seen that there are so many tomb robbers, and it is no wonder that the government can't control it. The many ancient tombs hidden in the green mountains in Xiangxi were almost all looted by those tomb robbers during that period.

And this is also a score - in addition to those laymen who don't know anything, there are also factions of tomb robbers. If you meet the descendants of the Faqiu Gang and the Golden Gate, it is just that, and you still know a little about the rules left by your ancestors, and you know what it is to "go back to the house when the rooster cries and the lights go out", and there is room for starting;

The Xiaohan Tomb is a large tomb in the many mountains of Xiangxi, who is buried in it, what is the origin of this tomb, usually those who are upside down and have the heart to understand, when the eyes are hungry and green, the idea of eating people has it, where will you care whether you are buried in the emperor and the queen mother, dignitaries or mountain villagers, in short, after entering it is a sweep, whether it is a person or a ghost.

Who knew that the person buried in this tomb was even more extraordinary than the emperor, but a cultivator. The gang of thieves who moved mountains and mountains blasted open the tomb without knowing anything, thinking that they were fierce and unstoppable, and as a result, most of the dead and wounded were triggered, not to mention the death and injury of the organs, and the breath of the living people on their bodies also alarmed the long-imprisoned burial spirits sleeping in the tombs, and the few people who escaped the capture of the organs were directly sucked dry of flesh and blood, and turned into shriveled skins on the spot.

Those burial spirits themselves were very evil, and they had absorbed so much flesh and blood, and their ferocity was immediately stimulated. The outer seal of the tomb had been destroyed when the tomb robbers had blown in with gunpowder, and the formation had been abolished, so the ghast spirits and undead took the opportunity to run out and began to plague the nearby mountain villagers, causing many deaths. Famine and chaos caused the people to live in a difficult situation for a while.

After the turmoil, the Ziyang Divine Sect received the relevant information of the peripheral eyeline in time, and just when Lin Xiao had reached the time when it was time to go down the mountain for the first time, Yunya sent him to the Xiangxi area to suppress the evil and solve the problem of the undead in the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb.

Lin Xiao started from the entrance of the village near the periphery, swept away the evil spirits that were wandering outside one by one, and pursued them one by one, and directly entered the interior of the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb. However, due to his shallow experience, he mistakenly hit the mechanism in the mausoleum and was seriously injured. Finally, he was successful in his studies, and his sword skills were all excellent, and he retreated into the burial mausoleum while fighting.

That was the first time he had seen Hongchen, when she was still in a spirit sword state, and was sealed as a sacrifice in the King's Landing Stone for the burial mausoleum. After Lin Xiao entered this place, there was no way out, and his sword was broken, and he tried his best to collect those evil spirits. Blood from the wounds on his body flowed onto King's Landing, activating the seal, causing Red Dust to break free from its shackles and transform into a sword spirit again.

What happened later, there is no need to repeat it - Hongchen left the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb with Lin Xiao, and since then it has become his sword, until today.

Hongchen naturally remembered this past, but she still didn't change what she had just said: "I know that you took me down from the King's Landing Stone in the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb, and I also appeared in front of you for the first time at that time. But now I ask you - do you know who is buried in the ancient tomb of Xiao Han?"

Ye Xin frowned slightly: "Could it be the Ji family?" ”

"The Xiaohan Ancient Tomb also has another name, which is called 'Tomb of King Shenyan'. Hongchen said, the light in his eyes flickered, "The title of this 'Shenyan King' only represents a small state lord in the place, but one thing worth mentioning is that although Xiangxi and Qishan are separated by thousands of miles, the ancestor of the 'Shenyan' lineage, the Jiang clan, is indeed a branch separated from the Youxuanji clan." ”

Lin Xiao couldn't help but be surprised: "The person buried in the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb is a cultivator, and 'Shenyan' is also a small city-state, and the state lord will actually be a person from the cultivation world!"

Hongchen said: "Before the 'Shenyan Jiang Clan' broke away from the 'Youxuan Ji Clan', they were indeed part of the cultivation world. It's just that later, I don't know why, so I joined the company. ”

"Moreover, this is also very easy to explain—if the Xiao Han Ancient Tomb is buried with a simple cultivator, how can it take so much effort to build a mausoleum, and there can be so many people to bury him?

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin glanced at each other and shook their heads silently together.

"The Shenyan Jiang Clan has been extinct for many years, and although the Youxuan Ji Clan has not walked in this world for a long time, judging from the past situation, it is very likely that they are still cowering in a corner of Qishan. Hongchen continued, "This group of people is elusive, and it may not be so easy to find them on their territory. ”

Lin Xiao let out a long breath, with an irritated expression, it seemed that this opponent who suddenly appeared and was still lurking in the shadows made him feel extremely headache. Ye Xin still had that cold look, so that people couldn't tell what her emotions were from her expression, but she had been sitting there motionless for a long time, obviously in deep thought.

Song Wenyuan didn't know anything about these things in the cultivation realm after all, and he couldn't say a word when Lin Xiao and the three of them discussed these things, so he seemed to have a very low sense of existence. At this time, none of the three of them spoke, so he took the opportunity to ask weakly: "So...... What is the origin of this Qishan Youxuan Ji clan in your mouth?"

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin set their eyes on Hongchen together, and said in unison, "Ask her." ”

Hongchen rolled his eyes helplessly, pondered for a moment, and then looked at Lin Xiao and said, "Eh~ Actually, you are the party concerned, and it should be more intuitive to ask you." ”

Feeling Ye Xin's cold gaze from the side, Lin Xiao said in a daze, "What kind of person am I?"

Hongchen said: "Although the Shenyan Jiang clan is a branch of the Youxuan Ji clan, what they inherited is the orthodox doorway on the Qishan side. You're the only one here who has ever entered the Xiaohan Tomb, tell us how that tomb makes you feel - you won't forget it, right?"

"Dry corpse array, corpse floating slaughter, thousand machine bricks, ghost eye holes, there is no way back......" Lin Xiao listed the names of those tomb mechanisms, and said with a wry smile, "Just kidding, how could I forget." I still remember the mechanism in that tomb/I still remember it vividly, it was so dangerous that the slightest mistake would put my life there. I've been to the tombs of other criminals since then, and I haven't seen any of them be more troublesome than this Xiao Han Ancient Tomb!"

"It's right for a headache. Hongchen smiled slightly, "Because the Ji family has studied this since their ancestors. To tell you the truth, it was completely out of luck that you were able to run into the burial mausoleum before, if you really explore step by step, let alone the main burial chamber or the burial mausoleum, you can't even touch the door of the outer ear chamber!"

Song Wenyuan said: "What does the girl mean - this Ji family's gatekeeper skill is to specially design all kinds of mysterious and mysterious mechanisms in this tomb?"

"Not bad. Hongchen nodded and said, "The ancestor of the Ji clan has devoted himself to studying the secret art of the institution, immersed in it for many years, and is well versed in the gossip of Qimen, the way of the five elements of yin and yang. ”

"Therefore, the Ji clan is considered to be the master of the world's tomb armor organs, claiming that they are in charge of the tomb of the world, that is, the guardian of the 'sun and hell'. This is the origin of the word 'Youxuan' in front of the Ji clan's name, and it is also one of the reasons why they can be involved with the Lethe clan in rumors. ”

"So......" Lin Xiao said, "Do you think the Qishan Youxuan Ji clan is the murderer behind the slaughter of the entire Xiyun Village and the removal of the half of the fragments?" Speaking of this, it was obvious that Song Wenyuan's face suddenly became gloomy.

Hongchen replied: "The Youxuan Ji clan is both good and evil, and nothing can absolutely determine whether they are good or bad. But there is one thing to say, you have already seen the ghost eye hole in the ancient tomb of Xiao Han - 'the ghost eye hole is opened, ten thousand ghosts are easy to open', once the demonic poison hidden in the ghost eye is released enough to fill the entire tomb road, how many people will die! If you want to say that poisoning and slaughtering a village, they still have such a ability. ”

"Then there's not much to say. Lin Xiao sneered, "It seems that we have to go to this Qishan!"

2.

In the middle of the night, Ruofeng Village, Yunxi Pharmacy.

Lin Xiao, who was asleep, suddenly woke up, only to feel a piercing chill rising from several meridians on his body, making him feel extremely painful all of a sudden. He struggled to sit up, crossed his knees, turned his heart to the sky, mobilized the Ziyang True Qi from the dantian and the sea of qi, and slowly moved along the veins of his body in the order of Zhou Tian, slowly pressing down the cold poison in his body, and inadvertently sweating profusely.

He was hit hard by the vine corpse demon in Xiyun Village in the middle of the night, and the long-term battle made the Ziyang True Qi in his body run sluggishly, so he relaxed the suppression of the cold poison. After he returned to Ruofeng Village, he was tired and sleepy, so he fell asleep directly, and did not breathe again, and his body was in the weakest state after falling asleep, and the cold poison took advantage of the weakness.

Lin Xiao wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and the sweat-soaked clothes were wet and sticky to his body, and the night breeze blew in from the open window of the room, only to feel extremely uncomfortable.

Lin Xiao grabbed the single clothes and shook it, carried the Ziyang True Qi, and steamed the sweat on his body, but he always felt that there was a chill around him, as if there was an invisible person secretly staring at him tightly, making him feel like a man on his back, and goosebumps straightened up one after another.

Wait...... Something seems wrong?!

Lin Xiao turned around abruptly, just in time to meet Ye Xin's expressionless face and unheated gaze.

"Wow!" Lin Xiao was caught off guard, and jumped up directly, but forgot that he was sitting on the edge of the bed when he just turned over, and almost fell down this time, but fortunately, Ye Xin reacted quickly enough and grabbed his shirt, which didn't let him really fall off the bed.

Lin Xiao's cold sweat that had just dried out scared a lot at once, and he felt that his heart was almost about to jump out of his chest. He looked at Ye Xin, who was sitting on the inside of the bed, and desperately restrained his desire to burst into foul language and asked, "Are you sick? Why don't you sleep in the middle of the night, why do you come to my room?

"It's you, not me, who is sick. Ye Xin replied coldly. "You overused your True Qi tonight, and you were injured by the vine corpse demon, I expect you to be very sad after you fall asleep, so I'll see if you're okay. ”

"When did you come?"

"Hmm~ It's been a while. It's just that you first slept like a pig, and after you woke up, you were disturbed by the attack of cold poison, so you didn't notice me for a long time. ”

Lin Xiao couldn't care if Ye Xin was scolding him in a different way, he squinted his eyes subtly, and turned his head to look to the side. I saw Hongchen leaning on the edge of the bed, and at this time, the entire sword and even the sword sheath were trembling constantly, even if she did not transform into the body of a sword spirit, as long as her eyes were not blind, she could see that she was now in a state of laughing to the point of being unable to help herself.

"Sure enough!" Lin Xiao cursed in his heart. Ye Xin said that she had been here for a while, and with such obvious aura fluctuations, how could Hongchen, who was a sword spirit, not react at all. Obviously, she deliberately didn't give a warning, just to see how she looked when she was startled.

Lin grabbed Hongchen angrily, and wanted to throw her out of the window, but he couldn't bear to think about it, so he simply stuffed her under the bed with his backhand, out of sight.

"Have you finished reading it, I'm fine now, can I go?!" Lin Xiao said angrily.

Ye Xin didn't answer, but slowly got up, changed into a sultry posture and slowly climbed forward, put his knees on Lin Xiao's crossed legs, put his hands together, and the whole person was already lying in front of Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao's brain went blank in an instant, even if there was no candle in the room, he could see that his face turned red as soon as he "poofed", and his body temperature rose instantly. He opened his mouth slightly, but he felt that his mouth was dry, and he couldn't even say half a sentence.

Ye Xin's face was so close to his neck that he could smell the bursts of Qiluo fragrance emanating from her, and he could even clearly feel every warm breath she exhaled. Her long hair hung down softly, the ends of her hair brushed his face, and some of them were draped over his shoulders, and that slight, itchy feeling made Lin Xiao feel that a certain part of his body was subconsciously about to move.

"What are you thinking?" Ye Xin chuckled in Lin Xiao's ear, which was very different from her cold performance in the past few days, as if the cold ice of winter suddenly melted into the warm sun of spring.

The slender hand silently pressed Lin Xiao's chest, Ye Xin chuckled and whispered, and suddenly exerted force in his palm!

In an instant, Lin Xiao's flushed face receded and turned into a miserable pale. Ye Xin's palm power was compressed through the "inch strength" technique and directly sent into Lin Xiao's body through the "atrium acupoint", forming a turbulent momentum. Lin Xiao only felt that the qi and blood were surging for a while, his throat was sweet, and with a "poof", a mouthful of almost black blood erupted from his mouth.

Ye Xin's eyes were quick, and at the moment when the blood was about to spurt out, he grabbed Lin Xiao's face, and quickly tilted it to the side, so that the blood perfectly avoided him and sprayed onto the ground next to the bed.

"Okay, it's okay. Ye Xin moved his body away from Lin Xiao's body, sat back in his original position on the inside of the bed, and changed back to the cold, rejecting appearance of thousands of miles away on weekdays, and the gentle and charming scene just now seemed to have never existed.

Lin Xiao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth in a daze, stunned for a while, obviously not reacting at once.

Ye Xin said coldly: "You have been hit hard by the vine corpse demon, and the blood caused by the internal injury has not been spit out, and the cold poison in your body has not been removed, and you have been holding it for a long time, and you will have something to do sooner or later." Now that it's spit out, it's easier to heal or something. ”

Lin Xiao understood now, it turned out that the frivolous and sultry actions she had just made were aimed at stimulating herself, making the blood in his body surge, and then cooperating with the palm power to force out the blood stasis in her body.

Merely...... In this way...... It's too ...... What's that?

It seems that only people from the Demon Dao can think of such an alternative method! Lin Xiao froze there, not knowing what to say for a while, and the rising desire just now had not completely subsided, and some kind of evil mood was still stirring, so that he didn't dare to look at Ye Xin more now.

"Thank you. Ye Xin's voice suddenly came into his ears.

Lin Xiao was still distracted, and he couldn't react: "Huh?"

"Hongchen has already told me about the cold poison you dealt with on me before, so I have to thank you. Ye Xin said, although her tone was extremely flat, making people unable to hear the meaning of gratitude, but her serious look was enough to see her sincerity.

Lin Xiao wanted to say something, but before he could finish speaking, Ye Xin had already gotten up and got out of bed and left the room, just leaving a sentence lightly: "It's late at night, I won't bother anymore." You have a good rest and heal your wounds, and I will go back to sleep. ”

Lin Xiao looked at the direction of Ye Xin's departure, and a slight smile involuntarily appeared on his face: "This girl from the Demon Sect doesn't seem to be so bad;

3.

After Ye Xin left Lin Xiao's room, he didn't feel sleepy.

Those deliberate actions just now, although they successfully induced Lin Xiao's blood to surge, also made her involuntarily have some strange thoughts that she had never had before.

She was surprised to find that after this period of coexistence, she had some feelings for this young man who was supposed to be an enemy, and even she couldn't explain it. However, this kind of emotion is extremely dangerous for an assassin like her who has a mission on her part!

Ye Xin walked downstairs, came to the courtyard, walked out of the medicine house again, and walked on the road of Ruofeng Village. It is not as dense as Xiyun Village, and the clear moonlight falls down, illuminating the path between the villages. The cool night breeze blew on her cheeks, and her slightly chaotic mood calmed down a lot.

Once the mind is calm, the power of perception will increase correspondingly.

Ye Xin suddenly stopped his steps and said coldly: "Since you are here, what are you still hiding, get out!"

As soon as the words fell, a cold light pierced the calm moonlight, and a black shadow slashed out from the oblique stab, and the long knife slashed through the night wind and fell straight towards Ye Xin's neck.

Ye Xin stood motionless, looking like he didn't even have the slightest willingness to parry. It wasn't until the sharp blade was less than an inch away from her neck that I saw her right hand swaying slightly. The next moment, her two fingers had firmly clamped the blade of the chopping blade, and no matter how much the force of the blade pressed downward, it could no longer get close.

Ye Xin sneered, his true qi naturally rose, and his right hand was raised, shaking the long knife. The black shadow rose from the momentum, swaying in midair, and was seven paces away when it fell. I saw that the man with the knife was dressed in black clothes and black dress, with a slender figure, and obviously a woman, and her face was covered with a veil, so that people could not see her face.

But what attracted Ye Xin's attention the most was the other party's eyes. Those eyes were completely radiant, hollow as a bottomless pit. Different from Ye Xin's cold indifference, there was a heavy death intent in those pupils, and there was no aura in the eyes of the living, as if the owner of these eyes had been drained of his soul.

Ye Xin couldn't help frowning, but although the other party's pupils were weird, his skills were ordinary. Seeing that the man rushed forward with a knife again, Ye Xin took a step back, and suddenly raised his hand and waved, and three shadowless needles quietly sent out, hitting the middle palace position on that person's body.

The shadowless needle was silent, and the woman with the knife did not notice it in time, and only when three extremely subtle strong winds were about to reach her body, she hurriedly swung her knife to block it.

How do you know that Ye Xin secretly used dexterity when he made a move, and after the three shadowless needles were hit by the blades that were blocked in front, they suddenly took advantage of the situation to change a strange and tricky position, two of which hit the man's hands, and one went straight to her face.

The shadowless needle stabbed the acupoint on the wrist, and the woman in black suddenly felt a numb wrist, and the long knife fell to the ground. At the same time, the third shadowless needle pierced the curtain on her face, and before her strength was gone, she directly removed the veil, revealing her true face hidden behind.

Ye Xin looked at that face, and his face suddenly changed: "Tan Rui?!"

This mysterious woman who attacked with a knife was actually the eldest lady of Tan Mansion in Lanzhou City-Tan Rui?!

Tan Rui didn't listen to Ye Xin's voice, she turned her wrist slightly, as if she didn't feel the pain, she directly pulled out the two shadowless needles that were pierced on her wrists, and then leaned over to pick up the fallen long knife and pounced on Ye Xin again.

Ye Xin's face sank, a cold light appeared in her hand, and the ruthless blade in the form of a short knife appeared in her hand, slashing through a dazzling arc of light.

She was born in the Demon Sect, so she didn't have Lin Xiao's pity and cherishing jade and the various worries of being a decent child. Although Tan Rui's current situation is obviously problematic, since the other party is attacking her, then put her down and deal with it; if the other party still dares to resist, then first break her hands and feet!

Seeing that Ye Xin's "arc flash" was about to fall on Tan Rui, the latter suddenly withdrew his knife and stopped the attack, dodging to the side. Ye Xin couldn't help but be stunned, and then he noticed the strong wind blowing in his face, and another long knife flew from the darkness behind Tan Rui, meeting Ye Xin's knife move.

The long knife was extremely thin, and when it flew in mid-air, it was almost a thin white line that was faintly visible, and it was obviously not an ordinary weapon. Ye Xin's heart sank, and he immediately pressed the bracket on the handle of the knife. The Ruthless Blade suddenly flicked away, and the blade instantly stretched out more than three feet, just in time to meet the flying blade.

The narrow long knife was struck back the way it came, and a figure stepped out of the shadows, raising his hand to catch the long knife that was flying back in a whirlwind.

The other party held a knife and shook it in the wind, the blade was like snow, reflecting the moonlight.

"Leaving the knife?!" Ye Xin looked at the person who came, and it was difficult to hide the surprise in his tone: "It's actually you!"

【To be continued】