On the gentle slope of the lake, the green bamboo becomes a forest, and when the wind passes, between the ups and downs of the bamboo sea, some cornices are faintly visible and occasionally show sharp corners. At a glance, the exquisitely made glazed tiles, in the sun, refracted a brilliant light, dazzling.

The courtyard of Sanhemen and the courtyard of the Great Ming Sword Sect are all in this bamboo forest, one east and one west.

Shen Muzhi followed the Sanhemen people winding through the bamboo forest, and it didn't take long for him to arrive at a place with white walls and black tiles.

Above the high gate, there is a plaque that reads: Yin and Yang Days.

As soon as you enter the door, there is another cave, which is very different from what you have seen from the outside.

Large pear trees, flowers are better than snow. The two-story wooden buildings are scattered among them, which is very elegant.

Shen Muzhi and the others followed the Sanhemen people, shuttled through the pear forest, and walked towards the depths of the pear orchard.

In the depths, there is a blue lake. Bihu Lake is not big, there are a few lotus plants in the lake, and under the lotus leaves, there are a few colored fish. By the lake, there is a gazebo, above the gazebo, there is also a plaque, on which the words yin and yang are written.

The pavilion was originally empty, but just when Shen Muzhi and the others were about to walk here with the Sanhemen people, suddenly a wind blew from the bamboo forest outside and blew into the pear orchard. In the midst of the flowers, the ripples on the surface of the lake are flickering, and the swimming fish are slightly startled and hide in the deep water.

In the pavilion, there was a sudden sound of jingling bells, and the crisp sound of the bell broke the silence of this pear orchard, and also attracted the attention of the three people who had already walked to the vicinity to this pavilion.

Under the originally empty gazebo, I don't know when, there was one more person.

Black long-sleeved shirt with gray hair.

Although Shen Muzhi had never seen this person, at a glance, he recognized that this person was the master of the upper realm.

Just when Shen Muzhi looked at the old man, the old man also looked at Shen Muzhi's side, his sharp gaze was like a sharp sword, and after a cold glance, it fell on Lin Changying next to Shen Muzhi, and then his brows frowned slightly.

"Disciple Zhang Yuan has seen Elder Qi!" Zhang Yuan, who was walking in front of Shen Muzhi and the others, stopped on this side of the lake, and across the lake, bowed down and saluted the old man in the pavilion respectfully. Then, he continued: "Disciple ......"

It's just that as soon as the words were spoken, he saw that the old man who was called Elder Qi by Zhang Yuan waved his hand coldly, signaling Zhang Yuan to leave without saying much.

Zhang Yuan didn't dare to object, and immediately retreated.

As soon as he left, Elder Qi looked at Lin Changying and asked lightly, "Are you Zhao Zhengguang's disciple?"

Lin Changying shook his head: "He is my uncle." ”

"Surname Lin?" Elder Qi suddenly asked after staring at her twice.

Lin Changying nodded.

Elder Qi narrowed his eyes, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "He does look a little similar to Lin Qingfeng!"

Lin Qingfeng's three words, like a thunderbolt, suddenly smashed into Lin Changying's heart lake. She looked at Elder Qi in the pavilion opposite in amazement, and couldn't help but ask, "Do you know my father?"

When Shen Muyi began to hear the name Lin Qingfeng, although he felt familiar, he didn't react for a while, and it wasn't until he heard Lin Changying ask Elder Qi that he suddenly remembered who this Lin Qingfeng was. It's just that, like Lin Changying, he was just as surprised that Elder Qi actually recognized Lin Qingfeng at this time, and actually guessed that Lin Changying was Lin Qingfeng's daughter.

Regarding Lin Changying's question, Elder Qi thought for a moment before replying, "I don't know each other, but I've seen it from afar." Your father was a man of heaven, amazing and brilliant, and he was very famous back then. After speaking, without waiting for Lin Changying to ask more, his mouth suddenly changed and he asked, "Why did you kill the kid surnamed Yuan of the Great Ming Sword Sect?"

Lin Changying hadn't recovered from the surprise and shock just now for a while, and stood there, stunned, as if he hadn't heard Elder Qi's question clearly.

Seeing this, Shen Muzhi hesitated for a moment before taking over the words: "We didn't kill the people!"

As soon as the words fell, Elder Qi's gaze moved, and the moment his gaze fell on Shen Muzhi's body, a powerful momentum followed, like a mountain flying towards it, slamming into Shen Muzhi's body.

Shen Muzhi was not unprepared, but despite the huge disparity in strength, under the gritted teeth, he still retreated several steps in a row before he could barely stabilize, but the qi and blood in his body surged, and he didn't suppress it for a while, and a little blood spilled out of the corners of his mouth.

Fortunately, Elder Qi didn't want to kill him on the spot, and his momentum was immediately relieved. However, looking at Shen Muzhi's gaze, the original indifference became intriguing.

"How old are you?" Elder Qi asked suddenly.

Shen Muzhi raised his hand and wiped the corners of his mouth, and said casually without changing his face: "In a few months, it will be fifty." ”

When Elder Qi heard this, he snorted slightly, and then said, "The old man has basically seen the pride of the heavens in the Great Sword Gate. But in my impression, it seems that there is no you. It seems that you are not from the Great Sword Gate. ”

Shen Muzhi was about to nod and say yes, but Lin Changying, who had already come back to his senses next to him, suddenly replied at this moment: "He is my uncle's disciple." ”

"Your uncle's disciple?" Elder Qi glanced at Lin Changying unexpectedly, and asked with a little confusion, "You mean, he is Zhao Zhengguang's disciple?"

Lin Changying nodded hurriedly: "Yes." ”

Elder Qi looked at Shen Muzhi again, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "Are you Zhao Zhengguang's second disciple?"

Lin Changying was probably afraid that Shen Muzhi would not cooperate, so he replied hurriedly: "Yes, his name is Zhao He." ”

When Elder Qi heard this, he looked at Lin Changying, and then at Shen Muzhi, but he didn't know whether he believed it or not. After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked Shen Muzhi again: "You just said that you didn't kill the person, is there any evidence?"

Evidence?

How could Shen Muzhi have evidence!

He raised his eyes to meet Elder Qi's gaze and replied calmly, "There is no evidence. We have no reason to kill him, though. He and ...... Many people know about my sister's duel outside the city. He is dead, we are the most suspicious, why should we do such a thing! Moreover, even if it is because he is a disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect, we will not kill him!"

Hearing this, Elder Qi nodded slightly, and said, "There is some truth!" As he spoke, his eyes suddenly jumped to Lin Changying on the side, and after taking a look, the words changed again, and said: "However, the person is already dead, and you are the only one who is most likely to attack at that time! If you can't come up with evidence to prove yourself, then you can only bear the charge of murder!"

Shen Muzhi was silent.

He is not completely without evidence, but if he says this, it may not be useful, and he may even shoot himself in the foot.

After thinking about it for a while, he pretended not to know and asked, "In addition to the disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect who was present at that time, there was another person. May I ask my senior, how is that man now, but he is still alive?"

Elder Qi nodded: "It's still alive." ”

After Shen Muzhi saw it, he said: "If we really want to kill someone, there is no reason to let one person go, only kill one person!" ”

Elder Qi looked at him, was silent for a while, and then said, "He said, the murderer is you." ”

"Impossible!" Shen Muzhi immediately retorted.

"Why?" Elder Qi asked coldly.

Shen Muzhi met his deep gaze, his heart suddenly jumped slightly, and a thought immediately jumped into his mind, and he had already reached the answer on his lips, and when he spoke again, it was no longer the original answer: "At that time, I found that when my junior sister was in distress and went to the rescue, she did use her sword to injure the disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect, but the other person just repelled it, he didn't stop at the slightest, and immediately ran away." After that, I heard someone release an arrow, and I was worried that someone would entangle me again, so I knocked out the disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect, and then left there with my junior sister. After that, we found a random place in the mountains to rest for two hours, and when my sister's injuries were better, we went to the direction of the border pass. Until we met Zhang Daoyou, who had brought us just now, we hadn't seen anyone again, including that disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect. Therefore, it is impossible for us to kill. Now that the person is dead, another person says that the murderer is me, but when I took out the sword, I didn't show up directly, how did he know that it was me? In the middle, did he lie, or did he mistake the murderer for me?" After Shen Muzhi said a lot of words at once, he directly asked this Elder Qi: "The junior has a request!"

"You say. Elder Qi looked at him with interest and nodded.

Shen Muzhi said: "The junior wants to see the other person alone. Didn't he say that the murderer was the junior? It can be seen that he should be able to recognize the junior, and the junior wants to see if he can really recognize the junior!"

When Elder Qi heard this, after a little hesitation, he responded: "This is a good idea, then let you see it as you wish." ”

After speaking, he summoned Zhang Yuan just now, and then instructed Zhang Yuan to take Lin Changying to rest first. After the two of them left, Elder Qi's figure appeared beside Shen Muzhi in a flash, and before he could react, he suddenly reached out and grabbed his shoulder.

Shen Mu subconsciously wanted to resist, but just as the spiritual power in his body was about to surge, an incomparably powerful force forcibly broke in, and for a moment, his whole body stiffened, and he couldn't move at all.

Fortunately, the force only made a quick turn in his body, and then immediately left again.

Shen Muzhi didn't have time to anger Elder Qi's rude behavior, and that powerful force took him and turned into a fresh wind, swept across the lake, and blew into the surrounding pear groves.

The other person was also in the courtyard at this time.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Muzhi was already standing in front of a simple wooden house.

There are only two wooden houses, one side house and one main house.

The door of the main room was open, and after Elder Qi coughed lightly deliberately, someone in the room suddenly walked out, and when he saw the figure outside the door, he was startled and hurriedly came over and bowed.

After Elder Qi had waited for him to salute peacefully, he asked him, "I heard Zhang Yuan say, you saw that murderer last night?"

"Elder Hui Qi, yes!" The disciple in a gray-blue robe lowered his head and bowed his waist slightly, extremely respectful.

Elder Qi said again, "Then tell me, what does that person look like?"

After thinking about it for a while, the blue-shirted disciple cautiously and carefully described the appearance of the 'murderer' he saw that day. While listening, Elder Qi occasionally glanced at Shen Muzhi's face beside him.

After listening, Elder Qi asked again, "Did you see that person kill that disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect with your own eyes or did you just guess?"

The blue-shirted disciple stood up, and after a while, he replied in a low voice, "But it was just the four of us at that time. Except for the woman from the Great Sword Gate, there is only that person!"

"Okay, the old man is clear, you can continue to recuperate!" Elder Qi knew that he couldn't ask anything anymore, and after saying lightly, he grabbed Shen Muzhi again and took him back to the lake in the depths of the pear orchard.

As soon as he stood still, Elder Qi stared at Shen Muzhi and snorted coldly: "Say, who are you!"

Shen Mu's heart was slightly startled, but after a moment of thought, he understood how this Elder Qi found out that he was not Zhao He. The moment Elder Qi grabbed his shoulder before, that powerful force turned into his body, and he probably knew his true age.

From the fact that this old man was able to recognize Lin Changying as Lin Qingfeng's daughter just by one surname, he could know that this old man should be quite familiar with the people of the Great Sword Sect. How many disciples does Zhao Zhengguang have, and the general situation of each disciple must be very clear to him.

However, his identity was exposed, and Shen Muzhi was not afraid. Although he is not Zhao He, the identity of Zhao Zhengguang's disciple is not unusable, but he wants to use it or not!

Thinking about it, Shen Muzhi said to Elder Qi: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that I am not a murderer. Elder Qi probably knows this too!"

Elder Qi suddenly laughed, shook his head, and said, "You are wrong! Jin Guan's words just now can only prove that he did see a person, and that person is not you. But his words didn't prove that it must have been that person who killed the kid from the Great Ming Sword Sect. In other words, your suspicion still can't be washed away!" As he spoke, Elder Qi's gaze suddenly swept towards Shen Muzhi's body, and the meaning of inquiry in it made the thought that had previously jumped into Shen Muzhi's mind resurface.

Sure enough, Elder Qi immediately said, "How do you feel the old man, you seem to know very well that there was another person who appeared around there at that time!"

"The seniors are wrong, and the juniors don't know, they just guess. After all, we know very well whether the person was killed by me and my sister. Since it wasn't killed by us, and the person died, it couldn't have been a suicide, so if the murderer wasn't from your family, then it could only be someone else!" Shen Muzhi said, raised his eyes to look at Old Man Qi, and asked, "I don't know if Elder Qi knows, can this disciple of the Great Ming Sword Sect offend others?"

When Elder Qi heard this, he didn't answer immediately, but just looked at him with interest.

Shen Muzhi was a little weak by him, but he could only bite the bullet and continue to pretend to be calm and ignorant.