Outside the main gate of the City God Temple, the hustle and bustle is still there.

Many people lingered among the various stalls, occasionally stopping to fight with the shrewd vendors, and both sides were satisfied with the money in one hand and the goods in the other.

There are also pilgrims who want to enter the temple to offer incense, but find that the temple has been closed.

Someone asked the nearby vendors what was going on, and the vendors would tell them that there were big people in the temple today, probably because they were afraid of being disturbed, so they closed the door.

The person who asked the questioner heard that there was a big man in this City God Temple, and he immediately became curious and asked what the big man was.

The vendor said, "It looks like a general." In short, the official should be quite big, and when he came, he brought dozens of people with his subordinates, and they were all about to fill the courtyard in the City God Temple.

When the questioner heard this, he became even more curious, and turned around to go to the gate of the City God Temple to take a look at the scenery of this big man.

But before they could get near the gate, someone came out of nowhere, carrying a weapon wrapped in cloth in one hand and stopping them with the other.

There is no need for this person to speak, just a look, and these pilgrims who want to see a lively scene will immediately turn around and leave with interest.

When the pilgrims had gone away, the man who had suddenly appeared would return to a corner by the gate, sit down against the wall, hold the cloth wrapped in his weapon, squint, and begin to bask in the sun and take a nap.

And on this street, there are actually many people like him, all of whom are hidden in the hustle and bustle, and no one pays attention.

No one will doubt the identity of these people, only think that they are the subordinates of the big man inside.

A young man suddenly appeared on this street, and among the ordinary people on the street, a young man dressed in white seemed to stand out from the crowd, very conspicuous. Like a rich boy who had sneaked out, he wandered through the crowd of people on the street with great interest, looking at the various vendors on the street with great interest. Occasionally, when I turned my head, my eyes would inadvertently drift towards the door of the City God Temple.

After walking around, he returned to the gate of the City God Temple, standing in the middle of the street and looking up at the gate of the City God Temple. All the pedestrians who pass by around him will unconsciously walk around him, keeping an arm's length away.

After a few moments, he walked towards the City God Temple.

The man who was sitting on the wall next to the gate immediately became vigilant, and when he saw the young man stepping on the stairs at the entrance of the City God Temple, he immediately got up, took three steps and made two steps, ran up the steps, and stopped in front of the young man.

"The City God Temple is not open today, and I ask the son to come back another day. Probably sensing that this young man was extraordinary, the man, who had never opened his mouth, opened his mouth and persuaded in a deep voice.

The young man smiled, reached out and took a wooden sign from his sleeve and shook it in front of him.

A simple wooden plaque is engraved with an osmanthus flower on one side and a number on the other side - thirty-two.

When the man saw this wooden sign, his face changed suddenly, and he immediately gave up his hand and respectfully let go.

The young man tucked the wooden sign back into his sleeve, continued to walk up, and when he reached the door, he gently pushed the door and walked in.

The door slammed shut again as he entered.

The man raised his hand and wiped his forehead, turned around and returned to the base of the wall, and continued to bask in the sun.

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The third floor of the Fun Tea Building.

In the room called Takeshita, there are two people sitting.

One was Xuan Cheng with a gloomy face, and opposite him was a middle-aged man with an expressionless face. On the table in the middle of them sat a piece of paper.

"Xiaodao Chief, have you thought about it?" the middle-aged man suddenly opened his mouth to break the silence in the room and asked.

Xuan Cheng narrowed his eyes, stared at him, and asked, "Do the Great Sword Sect know about your collusion with the people of Yun Ze Sect?"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he smiled slightly, and said, "The trail is too long." I just don't interfere, so why collude?"

Xuan Cheng sneered, "It's a good one not to interfere! Now you decent monks, are you so shameless?"

It was probably the three words 'shameless' that stimulated the middle-aged man, and the smile on his face was suddenly put away, and after glancing at Xuan Cheng expressionlessly, he said, "I don't need to explain the truth to you." Actually, I could not have come here today. Now that the overall situation has been decided, even if you let it go, you can't change the situation. Even if the Shen family survived today, it would be impossible for them to walk back to the capital alive. ”

"Then why are you still here?" Xuan Cheng looked at him, his eyes full of sarcasm.

The middle-aged man looked at him for a while and said, "I'm for the sake of the head of the Xuandao." You are the only one left in your vein, and the head of the Xuan Channel has some friendship with me, and I can't bear to see your vein cut off in your hands. ”

"I didn't expect you to care so much about our affairs, it's really flattering!" Xuan Cheng's eyes became more and more sarcastic.

The middle-aged man probably couldn't stand his sarcastic gaze, his face turned a little colder, and he snorted, "Xuan Cheng, you don't know what to do." The matter of the empty mountain behind the Baishui Taoist Temple, if I hadn't helped you cover it up all these years, it would have been known to the whole world long ago. ”

Hearing him mention the empty mountain, Xuan Cheng's face changed slightly, but his mouth was still hard: "The whole world knows about it, is it possible that you famous factions still want to dig up people's ancestral graves?"

"Is it really an ancestral tomb?" the middle-aged man suddenly sneered and said, "Two years ago, someone in the court found some clues from an ancient book. There is indeed a tomb in that empty mountain, but the person lying in that tomb is not the ancestor of your lineage, but an elder of the Qiling Sect who suddenly disappeared three hundred years ago. You say, if the news gets out, will anyone believe it?"

Xuan Cheng's face couldn't help but change suddenly.

"Three hundred years ago, the Qiling Sect was the first sect at that time, and the only sect with ancient law inheritance. You say, if those people knew that there might be ancient laws hidden in the empty mountain, would those people be crazy?" the middle-aged man said with a sneer.

Xuan Cheng's face became more and more ugly, squinting at the middle-aged man, his killing intent was drumming, and the long sword wrapped in strips of cloth behind his back was buzzing, as if it was about to be unsheathed at any time.

The middle-aged man looked at Xuan Cheng like this, snorted, and then changed his words, "Back then, I suppressed the news because of my relationship with Xuan Cheng, and I didn't report it. Today, I still miss love. As long as you leave a sword mark on this and promise not to interfere in the affairs of the Shen family again, I guarantee that within a hundred years, no one will come to fight the idea of the empty mountain. As for a hundred years later, presumably with your qualifications, you should have already entered the upper realm. ”

Xuan Cheng lowered his head, looked at the document, and after being silent for a while, he said, "In other words, if I don't agree, you plan to bring someone to dig out the mountain, right?"

The middle-aged man shook his head, "You're thinking wrong. If you don't agree, I won't do anything. It's just that I won't cover it up for you anymore. Moreover, Shen Muzhi, the third son of the Shen family, had been to the Great Sword Gate before, and someone in the door had already found some clues, if I didn't stop it, they would find the empty mountain, but it was just a matter of time. ”

After Xuan Cheng listened, he was silent for a while, and suddenly, he looked up at the middle-aged man and asked, "You just said that you didn't interfere in this matter, so why did you help that old thing come to me?"

The middle-aged man couldn't help but look embarrassed, and then said, "I'm not helping him, I just don't want to see you die here!"

"Do you think that old thing dares to kill me?" Xuan Cheng said, and suddenly there was a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man was slightly stunned, and then frowned.

"If that old thing had dared to kill me, he would have done it a long time ago. Xuan Cheng said, reached out and took the paper from the table, glanced at it with a sneer, and said, "This kind of thing is really like his style!" The voice fell, a faint light flashed in his hand, and the Chinese book in his hand suddenly turned into powder.

"Tell me, what did that old thing promise you?" Xuan Cheng looked up at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man's expression changed, and he snorted, "I don't know what you're talking about! That's all for yourself. After that, the middle-aged man pulled his legs and was about to leave.

Xuan Cheng raised his hand in mid-air, and suddenly pressed it on the table. The long sword that was already about to move behind his back suddenly let out a clear roar, turned into a green light, disappeared behind him, and instantly appeared in front of the middle-aged man's eyes. The tip of the sword was facing his eyebrows, and the sword qi was swallowed, making people shudder.

The middle-aged man's face turned pale, his eyes stared at the tip of the sword in front of him, and his spirit was tense to the extreme.

"You...... Are you already in the Cloud Sea Realm?" his voice trembled slightly, his eyes could not hide his surprise, and there was a little panic that he tried to hide.

Xuan Cheng looked at him and smiled, "You all know that there is an elder of Qi Lingmen buried in that empty mountain, so why did you forget, what was the most famous thing about Qi Lingmen back then?"

The middle-aged man was reminded by Xuan Cheng like this, as if he had thought of something, and his face changed again, "Ti Ling Dan?"

Xuan Cheng didn't answer, but the expression on his face had already answered him.

"It's really a Ti Ling Pill!" The middle-aged man looked at him in disbelief, "Are you crazy? Just for an irrelevant person? This Ti Ling Dan can help you temporarily improve your realm, but the consequences are also very serious, you ......"

Xuan Cheng suddenly sighed, interrupted his words, and then said, "I'm not for the Shen family or Shen Muzhi, I just can't get used to the ugly faces of you people." It's clear that bad things are done, but I still have a face that has nothing to do with me. As he spoke, he raised his hand and made a move, and the long sword aimed at the middle-aged man returned to his hand. After grasping it, he said again, "Don't worry, for the sake of the face of the Great Sword Gate, I won't kill you." But you've got to tell me what the hell that old thing wants to do!"

The middle-aged man was about to open his mouth when he heard this, but Xuan Cheng interrupted again, "I don't want to listen, I don't know these four words." I know, you know something. Besides, I'm sure that the Great Sword Gate shouldn't even know about what you're doing here, right?"

The middle-aged man stood there looking at Xuan Cheng with a gloomy expression. After a long time, he returned to the table and sat down, his complicated gaze wandered over Xuan Cheng's young face for a while, and then he said, "Then what Liu Guan's real purpose is, I really don't know very well. He was involved in the affairs of the Shen family, but not much. The most important thing that murdered the Shen family was Jing Xiang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom. The second prince is unwilling to just be a prince and wants to take the throne. Shen Wei holds the military power, but he is only loyal to the Emperor of the Jin State, and the Shen family has too close contacts with the three princes, so if Jing Xiang wants to take the throne, the first thing to get rid of is the Shen family. ”