Saying goodbye and returning at night is the law that many wanderers follow when they go out to travel far away. The common denominator of the farewell and the return of the evening is to avoid rushing the night road, and both are for safety. Smooth and smooth profit is gold, peace and security is blessing, and before the sun sets, it welcomes the relatives who return far away, which is the warmth and happiness of the tired bird returning to the nest. And the farewell brings to the wanderer a blessing as good as the morning sun.

The rising sun is red like fire, the clear sky is as blue as an orchid, what a beautiful morning, but, in the face of parting, even if the scenery is beautiful, it is difficult to hide the strong sadness in the eyes of the wanderer.

Under the sun, Ye Heng stood quietly at the exit of Fenghe Ranch, his eyes swept across the endless grassland, looked at the distant mountains bathed in the glow, and looked at the rows of low houses...... So emotional, so attached, as if to carve this picturesque scenery deep in the bottom of my heart.

After a long time, turn your head, turn around, take a firm step, your eyes become resolute, and move forward into the distance!

It wasn't until Ye Heng's figure turned into a black dot that the old stone suddenly appeared where Ye Heng was standing just now, slowly raised his hand, waved his hand gently, and waved his hand......

Ningfeng City, as the main city of Fengxin Prefecture, is the most prosperous city in the entire Fengxin Prefecture, even if you look at the entire western part of the Shuntian Empire, it is also famous.

It's noon, and the road is full of traffic. After half a month's trek, Ye Heng finally came to this famous main city.

Along the way, I slept in the open air, and now that I came to the destination, I was naturally not in a hurry to find Xiangyunzhuang, I found a hotel first, and then I said that I was full.

If you want to know about the things on the rivers and lakes, there are some places that you must not miss, such as taverns! Taverns are definitely one of the fastest ways to spread news in the rivers and lakes, and there are often people from all walks of life and sects gathered here. No, while eating, people gathered together in twos and threes, and many people talked about the famous events in Ningfeng City while drinking.

The third young master of the City Lord's Mansion robbed the daughter of a certain shopkeeper's house;

A certain hall master of the Zhongyi Gate was assassinated;

What Jin Yulou invited a martial arts powerhouse to sit on one side;

......

However, what is most talked about is the selection of four generations of disciples that will be carried out in Xiangyunzhuang two days later!

The disciples of Xiangyunzhuang are divided into one generation for ten years, ten batches per generation, and this year's selection is the third batch of four generations.

After three years of rapid development, today's Xiangyunzhuang is in full swing, and various industries are thriving! Xiangyunzhuang as the first force in Fengxin Prefecture is the status of no one can shake, and the prestige is far and wide, and even in the imperial city of the Shuntian Empire has also set up a branch, and now the situation can be described as hot, Pengcheng is famous!

Therefore, there are countless heroes and civilian disciples who come here. Powerful martial artists naturally have high-level reception, and ordinary martial artists who want to join Xiangyunzhuang with their own efforts to have a good future will be arranged to test, and those who pass the test can become the fourth generation of disciples of Xiangyunzhuang. If you want to go further and join the Xiangyun Guardian Group, you have to go through a stricter selection!

Now the Xiangyun Guardian Regiment is also famous in the western part of the entire Shuntian Empire! The Xiangyun Guard, which has the lowest strength, is also the existence of a peak martial artist. Moreover, in recent years, the Xiangyun Guardian Regiment has made outstanding achievements and has also won the exclusive title promulgated by the Shuntian Empire. Now the members of the Xiangyun Escort Regiment all wear exclusive badges. Exclusive badges are honors that can only be earned by those who have reached a certain level of strength and have been recognized by the Empire.

Don't look at the difference between the Xiangyunzhuang guards and the Xiangyun guards, the status, strength, and fame are worlds apart! The Xiangyunzhuang guards, especially the guards in Xiangyunzhuang, to put it bluntly, are the ordinary guards in Xiangyunzhuang; and the Xiangyun guards have risen to a kind of honor, born in the Xiangyunzhuang Guard Corps, but they are higher than the Xiangyunzhuang guards! For example, for example, the palace guards and the palace guards, the former is only one of the thousands of soldiers who protect the palace, and the palace guards refer specifically to the guards who protect the emperor, that is, the emperor's bodyguards. The responsibilities of these two are the same, but their strength and status are not the same! The acquisition of this exclusive title itself is a microcosm of the improvement of the overall strength of Xiangyunzhuang.

After lunch, Ye Heng inquired about the location of Xiangyunzhuang and went straight away. Although the selection of the four generations of disciples was officially carried out two days later, the registration time began a week in advance. Thinking about the selection of the first batch of disciples of the fourth generation, the number of participants was only more than 200 people in total, and the number of people who signed up now is by no means less than 2,000! In order to meet such a large number of applicants, Xiangyunzhuang had to start accepting applications early.

Now Xiangyunzhuang has been expanded, and has become the manor with the largest construction area in Ningfeng City, and its area has been expanded to three times the original size! The architectural style is also very different, the old manor is simple and unpretentious, solemn and elegant, giving people a feeling of solidity and heaviness; the new attic is carved and painted, and the flying phoenix is walked, which makes people feel magnificent and luxurious. This kind of change began gradually after the old owner of Zhou and the elder Zhou retreated one after another, and Zhou Jun, the eldest son of the owner of Zhou, became the acting owner.

To say that this Zhou Jun does have a great strategy, since taking office, in the industrial management of the drastic reform, the use of new people in the management of the eclectic, just two years to the development of Xiangyunzhuang like the sky, so that the Quartet admired! This also makes some of the elders of Xiangyunzhuang admire him to the extreme, and the new generation of disciples respect him even more like a god!

The owner of Zhou Jun believes that the big forces must have the grandeur of the big forces, so not only the entire Xiangyunzhuang has a new plan, but also has a new system in the management of personnel. This change has extended to the entire Xiangyunzhuang force.

Originally, there were only two guards guarding the gate of Xiangyun Village, but now they have been replaced by two teams of Xiangyun guards wearing three-color Xiangyun badges on their chests. This is a kind of pomp, but also a kind of show-off! Now in the entire Fengxin Prefecture, there are only two forces with exclusive titles, the City Lord's Mansion and Xiangyunzhuang. As the administrative body of the empire, it is not surprising that the Castle Lord's Mansion has this honor. But Xiangyunzhuang is just a private army, and if you win this honor, the significance is far-reaching.

And Xiangyun is the exclusive badge of Xiangyun Village, and according to the status of each person in the Xiangyun Escort Group, the color of Xiangyun is also different, among which the most ordinary Xiangyun Guards wear three-color Xiangyun. Among other forces, high-level martial artists are definitely elite combat power, but in Xiangyunzhuang, the guards guarding the gate of the village are all of this level! This is the gap, this is the strength, this is the grandeur of the big forces!

As soon as Ye Heng walked outside the Zhuang Gate, he was stopped, and an auspicious cloud guard said coldly: "Xiangyun Portal, idlers are not allowed to enter!"

"Brother Lao reported it, I will look for Chu Tian to laugh, Brother Chu. Ye Heng made it clear what he meant.

"Who are you looking for Deputy Regiment Commander Chu, who are you, what are you looking for him?" the guard's expression was obviously suspicious.

Ye Heng was unfamiliar with the word Deputy Head Chu, and thought that Chu Tian had risen with a smile, so he replied, "Yes, I will find Deputy Head Chu." I came from Fenghe Ranch, my name is Ye Heng, Chu Tianxiao is my eldest brother, annoying big brother to report!"

"Get out! Another liar!" The guard immediately turned his face and scolded angrily: "Who in the whole village doesn't know that Deputy Head Chu is an orphan picked up by the old owner, where did he come from? If you don't learn well at a young age, you will start to cheat and cheat at such a young age, so don't get out quickly! If you don't roll Lao Tzu and break your legs!"

Ye Heng knew that what the guards said was the truth, so he patiently explained: "Big brother, you misunderstood, Brother Chu and I are not brothers......

Before Ye Heng finished speaking, he was interrupted by an arrogant voice: "Where did the wild boy come from, do you understand the rules?" The one who spoke was a young man dressed in white with a pale face. This young man didn't know what spices were sprinkled on his body, and he could smell the pungent fragrance from a long distance, and he walked out of the village step by step, and said with an arrogant expression as he walked out: "If you want to join my Xiangyun Village, go over there to sign up, don't stand in the way of this young master here!" Ye Heng couldn't help frowning, and looked in the direction of the young man's finger, only to see the people who signed up in a long line, and they could see the head, but they couldn't see the tail!

After the young man finished counting Ye Heng, he turned his head and looked coldly at the guards who asked Ye Heng, and said in a strange manner: "Captain Liu, you are not allowed to leave your post without permission during your duty, and you are not allowed to talk to outsiders, you don't know the rules of our escort group, right?"

"Second Young Master, the person who came is looking for Deputy Head Chu, I'm just interrogating. Liu Wuchang raised his chest and raised his head and replied loudly.

"Is Deputy Head Chu someone who can see him if he wants to? When I encounter this kind of garbage in the future, I will be sent away directly from afar, don't be embarrassed at the village gate, and tarnish the face of our Xiangyunzhuang. The young man commanded, with an arrogant expression.

Liu Wuchang's face changed and he was about to say something, but suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of him, and before he could figure out what the situation was, he saw the second young master's frightened expression, a black long knife was on his neck, the blade flashed with a cold light, it had already cut through the skin on the second young master's neck, and the blood slowly flowed down the blade, and the person holding the knife was the young man who was looking for Chu Tianxiao just now.

Ye Heng stared at the Second Young Master expressionlessly, without any emotion in his tone, and said slowly: "Say what you just said again." ”

Looking at Ye Heng's indifferent eyes and feeling the pain coming from his neck, the second young master lost his confidence in a blink of an eye, and felt a chill from the bottom of his heart, but he still gritted his teeth and shouted, "What can you do again?" You, do you dare to kill me? This is Xiangyunzhuang, kill me, you don't have enough to cut off ten heads! Don't let me go quickly!" The second young master said more loudly, and in the end, he was a little violent.

After waiting for a few breaths, he didn't hear the kidnapper respond, but the knife around his neck went deeper! The force on the knife was very skillful, and the nerves around the blood vessels were all broken, but the blood vessels were not injured at all. This not only made the second young master's pain worse, but also did not endanger his life, but also made the second young master completely understand that his life and death were now completely in the hands of the other party!

Ye Heng's meaning is very simple, he doesn't want to talk nonsense with him anymore!

After all, it was in front of the gate of his own house, and the second young master wanted to be tougher and more heroic, so he gritted his teeth and looked at Ye Heng, but the violently trembling legs completely betrayed him.

Although Ye Heng's knife only stayed on the second young master's neck for less than a minute, the pampered second young master had never encountered such a scene, and before Ye Heng could use any more means, his psychological defense line would completely collapse! The second young master felt as if a century had passed, and finally his legs were weak and he fell to the ground, and at the same time he cried and said: "Brother, brother, brother spare your life, brother spare your life! I was wrong, please take the knife away, I was wrong, I don't dare anymore!"

The performance of the second young master made all the Xiangyun guards present feel ashamed, and they were even more extremely contemptuous in their hearts, and in addition to contempt, they all blushed a little: The second son of the dignified owner of Xiangyun Village, how can he be such a soft egg?

The movement here soon alarmed many people, in broad daylight, and at the gate of Xiangyunzhuang, this kind of thing can happen, it is strange if it does not shake! Immediately, someone ran in in a panic to report, and the people who came to sign up outside also looked over, pointing and pointing from time to time. This also made all the Xiangyun guards present not know what to do! Let's do it, our second young master is in the hands of the other party, and he doesn't dare to act rashly! Don't make a move, the second young master is being coerced by others in front of his own group, and his face is not honorable! It is really a dog biting a hedgehog, and he is in a dilemma, and he doesn't know what to do!

"Who is your brother?" Ye Heng said coldly: "A brother like you, I can't climb high! Get out!" As soon as the words fell, the knife was already put into the sheath.

The second young master immediately covered his neck with his hands, fled into the village gate in a hurry, and when he left, he turned around and glanced at Ye Heng resentfully. It's just that the body of the second young master was knocked out as soon as he entered the village gate, and a long arc was drawn in the air, and then he fell to the ground with his back facing the sky, and before a scream was issued, he heard a sudden explosion in the village gate, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day: "Where did the bold madman come from, he dared to come to Xiangyun Village to spread wild!"

As soon as the words fell, a big man rushed out of the village, with a red face, eyebrows, short sideburns and beards, five big and three thick, and only a thin black shirt in winter. When he got out, he swept around, then stared at Ye Heng with a pair of bull's eyes, and asked, "Boy, is it you who bullied the second young master of the Zhou family in front of my Xiangyun Zhuang?"

Ye Heng was about to answer, when a few wind-breaking sounds sounded from inside Xiangyun Village, and in an instant, there were five more people at the gate of the village. One of them was in his twenties, tall, with broad shoulders and slender eyes. As soon as these five people appeared, their eyes focused on Ye Heng.

The six people on the opposite side, whether it was the red-faced man who appeared first or the five people who appeared later, from them, Ye Heng smelled the smell of danger. His gaze swept over the six of them one by one, and finally met the eyes of the tall young man.

"Brother Chu!" Ye Heng exclaimed in surprise.

The young man's pupils suddenly dilated, and he wondered, "Are you Ye Heng?"