1.

Lin Xiao tightened the silkworm rope tied around his waist, lifted his breath as lightly as possible, and then gently rested his feet on the coffin. As soon as the toes touched it, the golden silk nanmu coffin began to sway, and the iron cables tied to the four corners also shook with the back and forth of the coffin, making a palpitating sound, as if it might break at any time.

Ye Xin tried her best to pull the rope above, she leaned her body slightly, leaning back, dragging the heavenly silkworm rope wrapped around her hand with one hand, and holding the ruthless blade inserted in the ground with the other, with the strength under her feet, she stabilized her figure, and minimized the impact on Lin Xiao's movements caused by the swaying of the rope.

Lin Xiao let out a few breaths, and after confirming that his feet were standing firm and no longer slipping, he gradually bowed down and put his hands on the lid of the coffin. In this way, he took on a prone posture on the coffin, with only his limbs focused on the coffin board, and his waist was suspended in the air to remove the strength of the downward pressure, and he finally stabilized his body on the top of the golden silk nanmu coffin.

With such a suspended posture, not only Ye Xin, who was pulling the rope above, had to exert great strength, but Lin Xiao himself was also extremely difficult. Sweat continued to drip from his forehead, but he didn't care to reach out to wipe the sweat, and let the sweat rain down on the coffin in front of him; anyway, there was no burial here, and he was not afraid that any "bitter master" would come to investigate his mistakes if he soiled the coffin, but he saved some guilt in his heart.

Lin Xiao freed up a hand, quickly took out an open flame talisman from his body, waved his hand to the wind to shake it up, and through the faint blue light of the talisman, he suddenly saw that there was a lifelike human figure carved on the top of the coffin board, which looked like a real person at first glance.

Lin Xiao was caught off guard, and for a while he thought that he had been lying on the body of a dead man without knowing it, so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his chest, and he almost fell into the water with a shake. With such a trembling force, the iron cables on all four sides began to shake again, and the whole coffin hung in the air and looked crumbling.

Ye Xin had always felt the movement from below through the tightness of the rope in his hand, and at this time, he felt that there was a little change from Lin Xiao's side, and he hurriedly pulled the rope again to stabilize the silkworm rope. The hand she was pulling the rope was already blood-red, and the tough silk cord kept rubbing against the open wound in her palm, and the blood had soaked the silk cord in her hand, flowing down the palm edge to her wrist, staining the sleeves of her shirt red.

Ye Xin was afraid that he would lose strength if his palm bleed too much, and if he accidentally loosened the rope at that time, it would undoubtedly be a catastrophe for Lin Xiao below. She gritted her teeth vigorously, let go of the hand holding the Ruthless Blade, clasped the wrist she was holding the rope, urged the true qi to pour in, and sealed the "Neiguan", "Waiguan", "Daling", "Yinxuan" and other acupoints at the wrist with internal force, preventing the blood from flowing too quickly, and at the same time enhancing the strength of the rope in her hand.

On the other side, Lin Xiao had already settled down, he leaned on the coffin board with his feet as the base, and his hands supported both sides of the coffin, regaining his figure. He adjusted his mental state slightly, shook his head and shook off the dense beads of sweat on his forehead, and then reached out and began to grope on the golden silk nan wooden coffin, looking for the seam of the coffin.

Ye Xin could sense Lin Xiao's movements below through the shaking of the rope, but after so long seeing that he had never said a word, his heart was always a little uneasy, and he couldn't help asking: "Lin Xiao, how is the situation below?" This place is surrounded by stone walls, and there is no need to shout loudly if you want to communicate between the upper and lower ends, as long as you make a normal sound, the sound will naturally spread from one end to the other through the echo, but it takes a little time for the sound to be transmitted.

After a while, Lin Xiao's voice came from below: "I'm fine, but the situation on this side of the coffin is not very good-someone used molten iron to seal all the joints on all four sides, and I couldn't find a way to open the coffin for a while." Listening to this echo, I can't tell that there is any different emotion in these words, but judging from the content of the words, he should be in a hurry now.

Ye Xin said, "Can you try to open the lid of the coffin with palm force or a 'blasting charm'?"

"I'm afraid it won't work. Lin Xiao's answer came immediately, "Not to mention that neither the coffin nor the iron cable can withstand the attack of these two forces, even if the coffin can be successfully opened, it can still ensure that it does not fall into the water, in case there is any trap hidden in the coffin, once the mechanism is triggered, I can't hide in mid-air!"

Lin Xiao knew that he had to fight quickly, otherwise delaying any longer and waiting until his physical strength was exhausted would not be good for himself or Ye Xin. It was impossible to open the coffin normally, so he quickly fumbled back and forth on the coffin, hoping to find a mechanism hidden in the shadows.

Finally, after groping three times, Lin Xiao found a small bracket behind the human-shaped ear carved from golden silk nanmu. He secretly penetrated with his true qi, and there was no abnormal situation of spiritual power fluctuations, and after confirming that it was good, he grabbed the machine and gently squeezed it. Only a few soft sounds of "Titicaca" were heard, and the wooden carved figure on the top of the coffin suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a black hole, making it impossible to see the contents of the coffin.

Lin Xiao saw that the wooden human-shaped mouth suddenly opened wide, and thought that it was going to spit out some poisonous water, flying arrows and other things, so he hurriedly raised his palm to condense his qi in front of him, and was engrossed in his defense.

Unexpectedly, after a long time, there was still no movement, and Lin Xiao was convinced that the person was really just making a simple opening in the coffin, so he stepped forward to look at the hole in the humanoid mouth.

"Huh, is this ...... 'whistle coffin'?!" Lin Xiao looked at the wooden carved figure with its mouth wide open on the top of the coffin, and suddenly "chuckled" in his heart.

Lin Xiao has also heard a little about this "whistle coffin" - when the things in the coffin have been raised by the corpse gas for a long time, there is a mutation, in order to avoid the popularity of the coffin when it is opened, and stimulate the riot of the walking corpses, the person who opens the coffin will seal the coffin with molten iron, leaving only a hole on the top of the coffin that is only large enough for an arm to reach, and then the person who opens the coffin enters the hole with his hand and grabs the things in the coffin from the hole. Because the coffin that has been treated in this way will leave a hole in it, and it will eventually turn into something similar to a huge iron whistle, so it is called a "whistle coffin".

But Lin Xiao quickly denied this idea, firstly, there was only half a scroll of remnants stored in this coffin, and no corpse was buried, unless the jade silk was cultivated into refinement, otherwise why should it be suppressed with a "whistle coffin";

Now it seems that the Ji family cast the coffin lid and the coffin itself with molten iron, and left a hole here, which should be to let the coffin opener reach into the hole and poke into the coffin to take out the remnants. It's just that no one knows what is going on inside the coffin except the person who laid it out, and if you hastily reach in and touch it, triggering the mechanism set up inside, or if you really touch something unclean, it will be really troublesome.

But now there is only one opening in the whole coffin to enter the inside of the coffin, if you don't dare to try, I'm afraid that half of the fragment will never see the light of day again!

Lin Xiao crouched on the coffin board, his fingers kept tapping the wooden coffin lid, and after a long ideological struggle, he finally gritted his teeth, put his hand directly into the hole, and began to grope for it.

Reaching into an unknown environment to grope around, he was still a little nervous, and Lin Xiao's heart began to beat wildly again. He first briefly probed shallowly, and after not touching anything, he stretched down a little, and after touching back and forth for a long time, his fingertips finally touched something, judging from the touch, it looked like a leather thing. He stretched his hand down a little more, and traced the outline of the thing carefully, and found the shape of a human face!

Lin Xiao was shocked, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, this eternal calamity dungeon only hides the remnants and does not bury the dead, so what is the matter with the face in this coffin? He took a few deep breaths to ease his mind, thinking that he had just reached out and touched it for a long time, and the thing did not see any reaction, so it should not be harmful to himself; he was bold, and reached in again and touched the face.

This time, Lin Xiao felt it seriously, and realized that it should be just a leather maid, not a real corpse, but the leather maid should be made lifelike, and even the details are made and depicted in great detail, so it will make people feel that it is a real corpse at first glance.

Lin Xiao groped around the face of the leather maid for a long time, but did not find anything, and was about to reach out to the sides of the coffin to see if there was any place where the remnants could be hidden, and inadvertently brushed over the lower half of the leather maid's face, but his fingers touched a hole again.

Lin Xiao suddenly stopped his movements, he didn't dare to rashly stretch out his fingers into the hole, so he drew a circle around the hole, and touched its surroundings, feeling that this hole should be the mouth of the leather maid, and he didn't feel a little strange: the Ji family put a leather maid in this coffin, probably thinking that it was a bit undesirable to directly put an empty coffin here, so they put it in instead of the body of the son who hated the ancestor.

But why did the leather maid make it into the image of a mouth wide open when it was manufactured, could it be that there was some mystery in it?

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao reached out and put two fingers into the open mouth of the leather maid and groped carefully. The leather maid had fixed his face with a brace during the production, and he was not afraid of being bitten by a finger when he put his finger in its mouth. It only took a brief probing to reach something as hard as his fingertips.

Lin Xiao further stretched out his fingers and used his fingertips to touch the hard thing that appeared in the mouth of the leather maid, only to feel that the thing was a long strip, narrow in front and wide in the back, like the tongue of the leather maid, and then touched it deeply, and found that a thin silk thread was connected to the bottom of the tongue-like thing, which led directly to the body of the leather maid.

Lin Xiao's heart moved: Could it be that what is connected under this thin line is the half of the fragments. He stretched out his fingers to hook the tongue-like object, and pulled it upwards with force, but instead of pulling out the thing at the bottom of the thin line, he heard a "click", and the tongue-like thing was pulled with a vibration, as if it had triggered some mechanism in the body of the leather maid.

Lin Xiao scolded a little in his heart, hurriedly pulled his hand out of the coffin, supported his hands and feet at the same time, and jumped away from the golden silk nanmu coffin. Ye Xin, who was dragging the rope above, felt that the rope suddenly bent and lost strength, so he vaguely expected that Lin Xiao had jumped away from the coffin, and hurriedly took two steps back, pulled out the ruthless blade with one hand and hooked it behind his feet, stood firm, and at the same time pulled the heavenly silkworm rope tightly with both hands to prevent Lin Xiao from jumping up and falling into the water.

At this time, below, Lin Xiao had just jumped off the coffin board, and saw that the whole golden silk nan wooden coffin was shaking violently, he grabbed the rope and hung himself in the air, looking down at his feet. I saw that a raging fire suddenly appeared in the four sides of the coffin, melting the molten iron of the coffin. Immediately afterwards, the coffin board was lifted by a wave of air with a "bang", and it swept under Lin Xiao's feet and fell into the water of the hidden lake, which was swallowed up in an instant.

At this time, the scene in the coffin had been fully revealed, but I saw a life-size leather maid lying in the coffin, with his mouth wide open, and the tongue-like mechanism in his mouth had just been pulled outside by Lin Xiao. In the arms of the leather maid, holding a black box, it should be a remnant.

Lin Xiao was about to let go of the rope and let himself fall, but he heard a tooth-aching trembling sound from the iron rope tied around the coffin, and the force of the air waves that burst out of the coffin was too strong, obviously exceeding the load-bearing range of the iron cable. I saw that the iron chain behind the right side of the coffin suddenly sounded a fine cracking sound, and it was suddenly broken, and the whole coffin suddenly sank, and the two iron cables in front of the left and right sides were also instantly straightened, looking overwhelmed.

Lin Xiao saw that a quarter of the coffin had fallen into the water, and the other three iron cables obviously couldn't last long, and the situation would only get worse and worse if it was delayed any longer. At that moment, he simply turned his heart sideways, and let go of the silk cord that was originally tightened in his hand, and no matter what was not strong, he jumped directly onto the coffin.

As soon as he jumped up, the single rope on the lower left snapped, and the coffin tilted instantly, half of which was immersed in the lake, and the two iron cables in front of him also made a small cracking sound.

Lin Xiaoqiang calmed down, first stabilized his figure, and then leaned down to scoop the box in the leather maid's arms into his hand. At the same time, the remaining two iron cables could no longer support under the pull of the suction of the lake, and they broke off together with a "snap", and the entire golden silk nanmu coffin sank into the water and disappeared.

Lin Xiao jumped up at the moment when the rope chain was broken, hugged the box tightly with one hand, grabbed the silkworm rope with the other hand and swung it to the side, kicked on the mountain wall next to him, took advantage of the momentum to take three steps, and shouted: "Pull me up." Ye Xin had already made preparations, pulling the silkworm rope hard, Lin Xiao kicked all the way up the cliff, and under Ye Xin's pull, he returned to it smoothly.

Both of them involuntarily sat down on the ground, and Fang Cai's action, no matter who it was, consumed a lot of physical strength and energy. The two of them sat on the ground and gasped for breath, weakly untying the entwined silkworm ropes on their bodies, and gulping water with water bladders.

"Is it there?" Ye Xin asked, tilting his head.

Lin Xiao took out the box he was holding in his arms, opened the lock on it, and took out half of the jade silk from it, which was exactly the same as the half they had mastered before, and it was indeed the other half of the remnant.

"Great!" Ye Xin said, looking at Lin Xiao's figure slowly standing up, a trace of gloom suddenly appeared on his face.

Lin Xiao propped himself up, turned over and supported his knees, and wanted to stand up. Suddenly, a huge force hit the back of his heart impartially, and the ruthless palm force was directly urged into his body through the "Shinto", "Center" and other acupoints on his back, and in an instant, the five organs and six organs were displaced, and all the bones around his body hurt, and the meridians in his body seemed to be twisted together at this moment, and there seemed to be something quietly broken in the body......

Lin Xiao only felt that his brain was blank for an instant, and blood was surging from his mouth and nose. His whole body was weak, he couldn't support it anymore, and the whole person collapsed to the ground, looking at Ye Xin, who was sneering and taking the half of the remnant picture from his hand, his eyes were red, and he asked in a low voice: "...... Why?!" He actually wanted to shout out louder, but now as soon as he spoke, the sharp pain from the broken meridians in his body would make his consciousness directly blur or even scatter, this short sentence and four words, he actually tried his best to say it!

"Let's get acquainted again. Ye Xin looked at the two remnants that had already arrived, and the smile on his face was strange and cold, "My name is Ye Wuxin, and I am the daughter of Ye Wuxin, the 'Tiansha' of the Heavenly City!"

2.

On the night when Lin Xiao and his entourage set off for Moon Song City, deep in Wushan outside the city, there was an ancient road in Ruofeng Village.

A long knife flew from the darkness behind Tan Rui and met Ye Wuxin's knife move. Ye Wuxin pressed the bracket on the handle of the knife, and the ruthless blade suddenly bounced open, 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 Wuxin looked at the person who came, and it was difficult to hide the surprise in his tone: "It's actually you!"

Out of the night came a young man in a green coat and a black cloak, this person had a cold and cold breath all over his body, and the hood on the cloak concealed most of his face, so that only his sharp chin could be seen, and his complexion was pale.

The young man took off the hood covering his head, revealing a fairly handsome face, but his face was pale and bloodless, and he always had a sinister smile, which made his face look extremely cruel, and people couldn't help but want to retreat.

Ye Wuxin knew that the person who came to him had no ill will towards him, so he put the ruthless blade into the sheath, tilted his head to the side, and said angrily: "What are you doing here?!"

That young man is the "Leaving the Knife" Ye Wuru, Ye Wuxin's brother, at this time, after listening to his sister-in-law's question, he couldn't help but smile and said: "What's the matter? As an elder brother, can't I even come to visit my sister?"

Ye Wuxin couldn't help but sneer when he heard this: "Your 'Leaving the Human Sword' is under one person and above ten thousand people in the Heavenly City, and you have to deal with all the affairs in the sect every day, when will you still have such leisure?" and ......" said and looked at Tan Rui, the eldest lady of the Tan family, who was standing behind Ye Wuru with a blank face and blank eyes, "...... What did you do to her?!"

Ye ruthlessly played with his fingers nonchalantly: "It's nothing, it's just a little puppetry." Since that puppeteer of the Tan family dares to hurt you with a rune, then I will use the daughter of the old man of the Tan family as a puppet for me! Anyway, I am bored alone along the way, and she can accompany me to relieve my boredom. ”

As soon as the words fell, Ye Wuxin suddenly rushed out, and the next moment, the Liren Knife was already flying out of its sheath. In the blink of an eye, Ye Wuxin returned the long knife into the scabbard in Ye Wuru's hand, and then looked at Tan Rui's neck, there was an extra wound that could be seen deep and bone-like. Tan Rui covered the bloody wound on her neck, and her godless eyes seemed to have regained some brilliance, but the next moment she closed her eyes and fell straight down, and she died.

Ye ruthlessly glanced at Tan Rui's corpse, without the slightest hint of anger or pity, just lightly "tsk", and then said casually: "You broke my 'toy'!"

Ye Wuxin's expression was cold, and he said coldly: "It's better to be driven and toyed with by you like that, it's better to die directly." ”

"I find that you are getting closer and closer to your name now, and you are really 'unintentional'!"

"I agreed, but brother, how can you be a loving person, it's not the same as your name, 'ruthless'!"

"If you kill her, you will kill her, why do you use my knife?"

"The dirty thing you've played with, don't come and stain my knife!" Ye Wuxin's tone suddenly became impatient, as if he was tired of talking like this now. "Did I say you came all the way from the Eternal Night Realm just to talk nonsense to me?!"

Ye ruthlessly put away his joking look: "Of course not, my father asked me to take care of you, and by the way, let's take a look at how the task assigned to you is going." ”

"Take care of me?" Ye Wuxin's face sneered even more, "Our dad is really getting better and better at talking, isn't it just that he doesn't worry about me so he asked you to spy on me, what are you doing so tactfully, what is he thinking about in his heart is a few catties and a few taels, can't I be clear?!"

"Don't say that. Ye ruthlessly said in a deep voice, "After all, that's our father, he just cares about you." ”

Ye Wuxin suddenly turned his head to look into his brother's eyes, and said in a cold voice: "Do you think I don't know-just because my mother gave birth to me and died, he has always blamed me for this matter! Since he was a child, when has he ever treated me with a smile?! All the good things are all yours, he asked you to help him take charge of the Heavenly City of Hatred, and personally passed on your kung fu, and I could only be sent to Dark Xiang to learn art." Now he finally sent me an important matter, and asked you to spy on me, since he was so worried about me, he just didn't send me at the beginning, and now this is a few meanings!"

Ye ruthlessly laughed and said: "But all the good things, I won't give you half of them - you are my sister, mine is yours! This time I really didn't come to spy on you, I came to help you clear the obstacles, if you successfully get the complete map, I guarantee that all the credit will go to you." ”

Although Ye Wuru is ruthless to outsiders, he loves this sister in every way. He also knew in his heart that what Ye Wuxin said was the truth, and his father was indeed slightly biased towards her, so from childhood to adulthood, he would give half of what he got to Ye Wuxin, and lied that his father rewarded them with two brothers and sisters, exactly one and a half. He did this out of concern for his sister, and on the other hand, he was also mediating to avoid conflicts and divisions within the family.

Ye Wuxin was only annoyed by her father's "Tiansha" Ye Wushu, she had always had a good impression of her brother, at this time, hearing Ye Wuru say this, her face softened a little, and said: "Half of the residual picture is on Lin Xiao's body, sealed in the Qiankun bag, and protected by the 'Parallel Talisman', I can't start, but I'm still thinking of a way, it will take a little time." As for the other half of the fragments, we have an important clue and will set out to find it in the near future. ”

Ye Wuru nodded and said, "That's the best." By the way, there is one more thing - after this mission is over, that disciple of the Purple Sun Divine Sect must die!"

Ye Wuxin only felt that a heart fell to the bottom in an instant, her eyes widened, staring at Ye Wuxin's face, and she asked in a lost voice, "Why do you want to do this?!"

"Since ancient times, good and evil have not been opposed, and in their eyes, we will always be evil and evil, and it is impossible for us to coexist. Ye ruthlessly said in a deep voice, "If you succeed in getting the map, and your identity is the Holy Maiden of the Divine Sect, do you think that kid from the Purple Sun Divine Sect will not kill you?!"

Ye Wuxin couldn't help but be silent, his hands behind his back, nervously twisting his ten fingers, and the expression on his face was cloudy.

Ye Wuru looked at his sister's expression, and suddenly stepped forward, raised his eyebrows and asked in a low voice: "Sister, you tell the truth to your brother, do you have a crush on this kid?!"

A hint of dodging suddenly appeared in Ye Wuxin's eyes, and a faint red appeared on his face, which would not be so obvious under the cover of the night: "Nonsense...... Nothing!"

Ye ruthlessly did not doubt him, so he said: "If you really can't kill him, then you just have to concentrate on how to get the map in your hands, and leave the killing to my brother." ”

"Don't interfere!" Ye Wuxin suddenly said fiercely, startling Ye Wuxin, "This is my business, I'll solve it myself, so I won't bother my brother!"

【To be continued】