1.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin followed Ji Yusui up the mountain, and they didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, and smoothly entered the enchantment of the Youxuan clan and came to the mysterious ancestral house of the Ji family in the eyes of the world.

The 24 organ buildings on the "outer floor" of the Ji family are arranged in circles according to certain rules, and they are combined with the 12 ancestral halls of the ancestors on the "inner floor" to form the number of 36 Tiangang, faintly forming the trend of a formation diagram; if you do not understand the law of change in the number of stars hidden in it, it is extremely difficult to enter the inner enclosed ethnic settlements through the outer two floors. Therefore, Ji Yusui led the way in front, while Lin Xiao and Ye Xin followed behind him, quickly shuttling between the twenty-four organ buildings.

Turning around and passing through those organ buildings, Ji Yusui's footsteps began to slow down, unhurriedly led the way in front, and walked towards an old building in the direction of the ancestral hall, and said to the two people behind him while walking: "My Ji family has an ancestral system, and the head of the family stays in the ancestral hall at night, guarding the spirits of the ancestors of the past dynasties, entering from sunset, and leaving until dawn." It's about the middle of the day, and in a day or two, you'll be able to see my eldest brother. He stopped in front of a building.

Lin Xiao looked around and said, "There are a total of twelve ancestral halls in your ancestral house, how can you guard the twelfth floor overnight? ”

Ji Yusui smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "Where is there such a trouble-I have to worry about which building I am guarding every day." The building in front of us is the main building of the 'inner floor', which enshrines the spiritual seat of the first patriarch. ”

"There is a loft at the top of the main building, which is a special wake-up place for the head of the family, and there is a general position in it, which is linked to the golden wire alarm bell inside the rest of the eleventh floor. As long as there is an abnormality in the rest of the ancestral hall, the general office of the main building will get feedback, and the head of the family who guards the spirit will naturally know where to go to solve the problem. ”

Ji Yusui suddenly grabbed Lin Xiao's shoulders and squinted at him subtly, seeing that Lin Xiao's heart was furious, and then he only heard him say: "Boy, you ask so much, shouldn't you have any bad thoughts hidden in your heart?!"

Lin Xiao slammed the spirit, pushed away Ji Yusui's hand, glared at him and said, "I just asked casually, the rest is what you want to tell me, that's none of my business!"

"Haha, it's good that the young man has a bit of a bold idea. Ji Yusui was just joking with Lin Xiao, he knew in his heart that even if the other party really had any unfavorable thoughts about the Ji family, just the information he told would not endanger the foundation of the mysterious vein. The Ji family clan has been able to survive for thousands of years by relying on the technique of "Yang Hell and Hell", but it is not just supported by these few organ buildings.

The three of them stayed in front of the main building of the ancestral hall for more than an hour, during which Ji Yusui couldn't bear it, and ran to drink wine three times, and he didn't know how much wine was hidden in his wine cellar, and it looked like he couldn't finish it.

The third time I brought two pots of wine, gave one of the pots to Lin Xiao, and then took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and when he opened it, it was a piece of braised beef that he didn't know when, and cut it into slices as thin as cicada wings with a dagger.

Lin Xiao hadn't fallen asleep at the vigil before, and then he was tired and laborious because of the matter of solving the "Da Luo Light Smoke Array", and the waiting process in front of this main building was so boring and boring, he was already exhausted, and he had already leaned against the wall on the side and dozed off a few times before Ji Yusui brought the wine.

Ji Yusui's pot of wine can be said to be just right, the cold braised beef has a faint smell of meat, swallowed in the mouth and then poured through the scalded wine, the aroma of the wine mixed with the fleshy piece spread on the taste buds, and suddenly Lin Xiao completely woke up. The winter day is the coldest before and after the dawn, after this pot of soju is poured into his stomach, Lin Xiao only feels that a stream of heat runs straight through the dantian and spreads all over the body, just to dispel this chill, as if the cold poison remaining in the meridians in the body has also dissipated a little bit because of this.

Ye Xin is not addicted to alcohol, and he has no hunger after eating the rabbit leg at dinner, and he has slept for a few hours longer than Lin Xiao, so he is not interested in the aroma of wine and meat at all. She sat quietly cross-legged next to the two of them, the ruthless blade resting horizontally on her lap, staring intently, like an old monk in a trance. If it weren't for Lin Xiao leaning on her closely, he could feel the fluctuations of true qi coming from her body, and knew that she was practicing meditation, otherwise he would have thought that she had fallen asleep again.

Ji Yusui cut the beef very thinly, Rao is so, the taste of beef with soju is really good, once you eat it, it is easy to make people stop their mouths, a piece of braised beef was quickly eaten by the two, and the whole pot of wine gradually bottomed out.

At this time, the east began to show a slight hint of fish belly white, the winter night is longer, even if it is the time of the sunrise, it may not be able to see the sunrise scene, this white light is also a loss to the Ji family's ancestral house built on the top of the mountain, you can see the place far, if it is in the valley, I am afraid that at this moment it is still a black hole, gloomy and gloomy. Lin Xiao looked up at the scene in the sky, and estimated in his heart that the time had come to an end, and he was about to enter the time.

The door of the main building still showed no sign of opening, Lin Xiao gradually began to get bored again, and his active temperament couldn't sit there motionless like Ye Xin. He raised his hand, raised the wine jug in front of him, and poured the last few drops of wine into his mouth, and was thinking about whether to let Ji Yusui go and get some smoked chicken and roast duck to pass the time, when he heard a soft "squeak" sound in his ears, and the wooden door of the main building suddenly opened.

Ji Yusui wiped his mouth, wiped the greasy and wine on his sleeve casually, and then said, "Big brother." ”

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin stood up and looked towards the door of the main building. I saw a few candles faintly flickering at the door of the black hole, and through the thin mist on the top of the mountain in the early winter morning, an old man in his sixties walked out with his back slightly bent.

This old man has gray hair, a beard two feet long under his chin, and his eyes are bright, although his face is slightly wrinkled, but he has no intention of being old, but he looks energetic - it is the current head of the "Youxuan Ji Clan", the eldest brother of Ji Yu Sui, Ji Yu Nian.

Ji Yunian walked out of the main building unhurriedly, nodded at Ji Yusui, looked at Lin Xiao and Ye Xin again, showed an amiable smile on his face, bowed slightly and said: "The old man doesn't know that there are distinguished guests coming to the door, and he is not welcome, please forgive me a lot of young men." ”

This Ji Yu Nian was already slightly rickety, and such a bow seemed to be bowing to the juniors. Although Lin Xiao was dissolute and uninhibited by nature, after all, his upbringing as a disciple of the first sect of the Immortal Sect was still there, and when he saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Senior Ji is polite, it is the juniors who have taken the liberty to disturb, how dare you make this great gift, it can be tormented by the juniors!"

Ji Yusui laughed and said, "Little brother doesn't have to be modest, my eldest brother has a bit of a problem with his back, and he is not really giving you any big gifts, you don't need to be so nervous." ”

Lin Xiao knew that he had made a fuss, so he laughed embarrassedly. Ji Yunian didn't care much about it, just patted Lin Xiao's shoulder, pinched it gently, and said with a smile: "It turns out that he is a disciple of the Ziyang Divine Sect, and he is worthy of being a good apprentice taught by the old boy in Yunya, and he is really decent!"

Lin Xiao knew that Ji Yu Nian was using the "method of touching bones" to test his cultivation, compared to the previous way of directly injecting true qi into his body in Moon Song City, and listening to his praise for the sect in his words, he couldn't help but have a little more respect for this elder, so he responded: "I really don't dare to be, the younger generation still has many shortcomings, and I still need to learn from the master and masters like the seniors." ”

"Good, good. Ji Yunian stroked his beard with a smile, nodded his head, and then moved his gaze to Ye Xin behind Lin Xiao, looked her up and down, and suddenly seemed to think of something, his face changed suddenly, his brows suddenly frowned, he raised his hand to her face, and said, "You ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Ye Xin had already bowed and bowed, and said loudly: "Ye Xin, a disciple of the 'Dark Incense' of the Eternal Night Realm Divine Sect, has seen Mr. Ji. ”

"You...... You say you're ...... Dark Incense's disciple?" Ji Yunian's brows furrowed even tighter at this moment—if he remembered correctly, that person should have been from the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect from the Heavenly City!

Ye Xin's heart at this moment was also like fifteen buckets of water, up and down, secretly thinking: "Does this old man know something?" But she was still so casual on the surface, so cold that people couldn't see the slightest emotion, and just said lightly: "Yes, the junior is the closed disciple of the first Li Yinghua of 'Dark Fragrance'." After speaking, he waved his hand, and the ruthless blade was suddenly unsheathed.

Ji Yusui whispered in Ji Yunian's ear: "Big brother, this is indeed Li Yinghua's 'Demon Blade'. ”

Ji Yunian still had some doubts in his heart, but since the ruthless blade had been placed in front of him, he was somewhat relieved, so he smiled and said: "Girl, don't be nervous, the old man also dealt with many people in your Demon Realm Eternal Night Realm in his early years, and the environment is dim at this time, and the old man is old and dizzy, so after mistaking you for an old man for a while, please don't blame the old man for his faux pas." ”

Ye Xin smiled indifferently: "Mr. Ji is polite, the seniors are highly respected, how can the younger generations be blamed." ”

"Okay, the two of them came from afar, and they must not have come to chat with the old man. Ji Yunian twisted his beard and smiled slightly, "Since the two of you have passed the checkpoint according to the ancestral system and come to my Ji family's ancestral house, then the old man should also abide by the promise left by the ancestors and solve problems for the two of you." ”

Lin Xiao arched his hand and said: "The two of us do have something to worry about, and I ask my seniors to give me advice......

Ji Yunian interrupted Lin Xiao's words with a wave of his hand, and then said slowly: "Don't worry, follow me to the main hall and talk slowly." ”

2.

The group left the ancestral hall of the main building and came to a mansion. Ji Yusui went to light the lights in the hall, and instructed a few subordinates to bring a few bowls, which were hot tea soup.

Ji Yunian sat down in the main seat, turned his back and gently slapped his back a few times, and secretly sighed that he was really old, and he felt a sore back even after walking such a short distance. He beat his back a few times, picked up the bowl and blew it lightly a few times, took a sip, and then said to Lin Xiao and the others, who were already seated in the guest seat: "I don't know what happened when the two of you came to my Ji's house thousands of miles away?"

Lin Xiao put down the bowl in his hand, took off the Qiankun bag from his waist, drew a few strokes in the void to untie the sealing talisman at the mouth of the bag, and carefully took out the half of the jade silk book from it—it was the map fragment that pointed to the location of the "Dark Demon and Evil God Record".

This is the first time Ye Xin has seen this half of the fragmentary picture, she straightened up all of a sudden, her hand on the arm of the chair beside her clenched very tightly, and she couldn't help but want to take the picture in her hand and take a good look at it, and even had the idea of snatching it directly and then escaping in her mind. But then I thought that the relationship between myself and Lin Xiao had finally eased, and at this time, I had to calm down so that it would not affect my follow-up plans, so I slowly calmed down.

Lin Xiao held the remnant in both hands, gently handed it to Ji Yunian, and asked, "I wonder if Senior Ji has ever seen a jade silk book similar to this half of the fragment before?"

Ji Yunian took the remnant picture, Ji Yusui also came forward to take a look, the candle flame in the hall illuminated the stroke lines on the remnant, the two Ji brothers looked at each other, looked at each other, and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

"It's ...... Point to the fragment of the map where the Dark Demon Evil God Record is located!" Ji Yusui said in disbelief.

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Ji Yunian's body leaned back, leaned his back on the back of the chair, twisted his beard, and muttered, so that his face was just hidden in a dark angle, so that people could not see the expression on his face clearly. After a long time, he sat up straight again, and said to Lin Xiaozhengse: "This little friend, according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, you can't investigate the cause and effect of the matter too much, but after all, this matter is very important, so forgive the old man for asking one more question - where did your remnant picture come from?"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly: "What the seniors said is not unreasonable, and the juniors can certainly understand it." This fragment was originally collected by the Liaoyuan family, and later Wansheng Mingzong used the grievances between Yunsheng Jiehailou and the Liaoyuan family, so that Xi Wanli, the 'King of Ten Thousand Laws and Talismans', led the Jile Hall to slaughter it all over the house and took away this half of the fragment. The younger generation was ordered by the master to investigate the murder case and eliminate the demon sect, so that he could get this half of the remnants. ”

Ji Yusui frowned and said, "This is not right-you, a disciple of the Purple Sun Divine Sect, how could you walk with her, a girl from a dark fragrance." ”

"Second master, you're too worried. Ye Xin said coldly beside him, "I'm acting with him, it's just that he has the clue of the half fragment, and I have materials about the Divine Sect and cooperate with each other." When I found the remaining half of the map, he and I were still enemies, and it was up to us to decide where the map belonged. ”

Lin Xiao took a sip of tea from the bowl, and without saying a word, it was regarded as a tacit acquiescence.

Ji Yunian looked at the remnant picture and asked again: "How did the two find the head of our Ji family?"

Lin Xiao put down the bowl and asked lightly: "I don't know if you two still remember - Xiyun Village in Wushan outside Lanzhou City?!"

As soon as the three words "Xiyun Village" came out, the Ji brothers were stunned. Ji Yunian shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Providence, providence! When the old man sent people from the clan to do that thing, he already thought that sooner or later someone would come to the door for this matter, and everything was just a matter of time." ”

Lin Xiao said: "Mr. Ji, although the incident that happened in Xiyun Village back then was indeed extremely disgraceful, we did not come here to investigate the responsibility of previous years, but to ask the seniors to tell the truth - what is the whereabouts of the half of the remnants that appeared in Xiyun Village back then? ”

Ji Yu Nian was silent for a long time, just quietly watched the sky in the patio outside the hall gradually become brighter, and the sound of human dogs barking began to faintly come from outside the courtyard, and the popularity of the people who had been silent all night gradually increased.

"The two young heroes can know why my Ji clan went out of the mountains to participate in the map search back then, and why did I order the people of Naxiyun Village to be wiped out?" Ji Yunian said suddenly.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin both shook their heads and said in unison, "I don't know." ”

Ji Yunian sighed and said, "Everything the Ji family has done is fulfilling their promises - the previous things were also entrusted to us by others. Our Ji family only looks at the results and ignores the process, even if it is a heinous thing, as long as we agree to come down, we will also get involved, which is why there was the incident in Xiyun Village back then. ”

"Then who asked you to do that back then?" Lin Xiao asked in a deep voice.

Ji Yunian looked into his eyes and said a name that no one could have imagined: "He is the founder of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect - the 'Leaving the Hate Ancestor' is a farewell son!"

For a while, Lin Xiao was completely stunned, unable to say a word, only felt that this answer was far from all his previous conjectures, and it could even be said that it was not touched at all.

And Ye Xin's face on the side instantly turned pale, and the hand holding the bowl trembled vigorously, splashing most of the bowl of tea on his hand.

After a long time, Lin Xiao came to his senses a little and questioned: "How is it possible?!The case of the slaughter of the village in Xiyun Village was just something that happened more than twenty years ago, and at that time, it had already been a hundred years since the ancestor of hatred, how could a dead man entrust your Ji family to do things?!"

Ji Yunian smiled slightly: "It's true that a dead man can't do it, but the old man didn't say that he only accepted this entrustment twenty years ago." Long before the death of the absolute son, the ancestors of the Ji family had already received a secret will that even the people who hated the Heavenly City did not know. ”

Lin Xiao frowned and said: "The more I listen, the more confused I become, and I also asked Senior Ji to give guidance to the younger generation." ”

"This matter is indeed a long story, so the old man will start from the beginning for the two of you. Ji Yunian touched his beard and began to talk about a past that spanned several generations-

3.

"The founding patriarch of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect is a separate son, and his real name has never been known. From the time he founded the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect and built the Heavenly City of Hatred, he has always been this name. Before this Absolute Son, a Dao Master of the Demon Realm Eternal Night Realm, he was extremely talented, and he created several Demon Dao Supreme Exercises, and recorded them all in a booklet, which is what we now call the "Dark Demon Evil God Record". ”

"Jue Beizi is the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect founded with this secret book, he himself is famous, and because of this exercise, many demon monks have tried their best to enter the Heavenly City of Hatred to find this secret book for themselves, and there are even many disciples within the sect. Of course, these people all died at the hands of the Absolute Son. ”

Ji Yunian took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and then continued: "Many years later, Jue Beizi contracted a serious illness, and he felt that his end was approaching, so he began to think about his future, and the most worrying thing for him was this "Dark Demon Evil God Record". ”

"If it is destroyed, it is the hard work of many years, and I can't bear it after all, but if it is passed on directly, I am afraid that everyone will compete for self-harm and harmony. So he found a place that no one knew about and hid the secret note, and then drew a map of the hiding place with the power of his soul into ink, set it as the 'Treasure of the Sect Master', and passed it to the Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect on behalf of the generation, and instructed him not to find the secret secret book to cultivate without authorization. ”

Ye Xin asked, "These can also be regarded as the internal secrets of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect, how can Old Mr. Ji know so clearly?"

Ji Yunian seemed to have expected this question, so he touched his beard and smiled: "These things are all told to the ancestors of our Ji family by the absolute son himself." ”

Lin Xiao couldn't help but be taken aback, and asked, "Could it be that this absolute son still has any friendship with the ancestors of your clan?"

"It's not about friendship or anything, it's just an employment relationship. Ji Yusui smiled and waved his hand, and asked another question, "Do you know the origin of the word 'Youxuan' in my Ji family?"

Lin Xiao nodded, this was said by Hongchen when he was in Xiyun Village before: "It is rumored that the ancestor of the Ji family has devoted himself to the study of the secret art of the institution, immersed in this way for many years, and is well versed in the gossip of Qimen, the way of the five elements of yin and yang. ”

"yes, you're right. Ji Yunian nodded in agreement with Lin Xiao's statement, and continued: "And the mausoleum of the ancestor back then was entrusted to our Ji family to build. Therefore, the relationship between this absolute son and my ancestors is not an employment relationship. ”

Lin Xiao suddenly realized and said, "I see. The senior just said that the Ji family had received a secret decree of the will that even the Ten Thousand Saints Mingzong didn't know, but what was it?"

Ji Yunian said: "This is what I will talk about next. Although this absolute son hid this secret and drew a map for the followers to leave a thought, he still couldn't rest assured, for fear that after a long time, someone would be greedy, so he specially asked the ancestor of my family to do one thing - he asked our Ji family to keep an eye on the movements of the Wansheng Ming Sect, and once the sect master of the descendants ignored the will or an outsider got his hands on the map, he killed that person and all the people involved with him, and then moved the map to the tomb of the ancestor. ”

Lin Xiao frowned: "The ancestor of the Ji family agreed?"

"Of course not. Ji Yunian sneered slightly, "If this matter is done, the Ji family will be responsible for this matter for generations, and it is likely that they will have to fight with people from the outside world." In order to refuse this matter, the ancestor of my family took out the ancestral teachings of the Ji family, saying that the son of the Absolute Farewell must pass the test before entrusting us with this matter. ”

"At that time, the condition put forward by my ancestor was that everyone flocked to the 'Dark Demon and Evil God Record' of the Absolute Farewell Son, and it could be described as the 'treasure of the blood river', so it was based on blood; if he could release a urn of blood, then he would have passed the test! What the ancestor thought in his heart back then was that the Absolute Son was already in the last years of his life, and if he really released an urn of blood, he would definitely die; this person had a wish that had not been fulfilled, and he would never have lost his life like this. ”

"Who knew that the son of the absolute other had already made up his mind, and cut off his legs and one arm with a knife on the spot, and for a time the blood flowed all over the ground, more than the amount of an urn! On that night, the Absolute Son died on this Qi Mountain, and the ancestor sent someone to mend his limbs, and sent his body back to the Heavenly City, where he was buried in the mausoleum that my Ji clan had built in advance. ”

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin's faces were bloodless when they heard this, and they couldn't help themselves in horror - they never imagined that they would still have such courage to hate the ancestor for such a thing, and they would be willing to cut off their limbs for such a thing!

Ji Yunian took a sip of tea, sighed and said: "These things are also told to my brother by my father and my grandfather, and they can be regarded as stories passed down from generation to generation in our Ji family." Ever since the ancestor of my family agreed to the Leaving Hate Ancestor, every year he would send someone to pretend to be a disciple of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect to infiltrate the Heavenly City of Lihate and secretly observe the movement of the map. ”

"Later, there was a civil strife in the Myriad Saint Ming Sect. That year, it happened to be my first head of the family, and the spy Feige, who was hiding in the Heavenly City, sent a message to his home informing him of the theft of the map. I gathered the major elders of the family overnight to discuss countermeasures, and quickly deployed to search, and finally found that the person who stole the map came from the innocent family in Lanzhou City. But by the time we got there, the people who hated Heaven City had already taken a step ahead of us, and they had slaughtered all the Innocent Family. ”

"I thought that this time I would live up to the ancestor's order, but I didn't want to get the fact that the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect was still looking for this map, knowing that this map had not yet fallen into the hands of the Heavenly City, so it must have been taken away by the survivors from the Innocent Family. I sent people back to Lanzhou City to look for clues, and after many investigations, I finally locked the target on the village called 'Xiyun Village' in Wushan outside the city. ”

"You all know the rest of the matter: according to the secret order left by the ancestor of Lih, I will kill the person who holds the map and the people involved. But in the end, we only got half of the fragments, and if it weren't for the two of you arriving today, we really don't know where the remaining half of the remnants were. ”

Ji Yunian's story has come to an end, and Lin Xiao and Ye Xin were embarrassed when they heard it - now the stories behind these two fragments are connected intact, and no one would have thought that there was such a tortuous story hidden behind these two pieces of jade silk.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin glanced at each other, got up together and bowed down and thanked, "Thank you Senior Ji for your guidance for us." ”

Ji Yunian waved his hand and said with a smile: "That's it, I just don't want the Ji family to be involved in this matter of leaving the Heavenly City, it would be good if this remnant map had a home earlier, anyway, my Ji family has taken back the map and moved it underground as promised, which can be regarded as an explanation to the predecessors of the absolute son." ”

Lin Xiao said: "In other words, the remaining half of the remnants are hidden in the mausoleum of the ancestor who hates it." ”

"No!" Unexpectedly, Ji Yunian denied this answer, "The remnant picture is not in the tomb of the Absolute Son!"

【To be continued】