Winter is gradually moving away, spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and mountains and rivers thaw.

Today, the sun is shining, it is a rare good weather since the beginning of spring, perhaps because of the good harvest, the fishermen outside the mountain city are full of smiles.

It's just that no one knows how deep the undercurrent is hidden behind this bustling small city at the moment.

......

Yanagiso.

In the quiet room, Zhao Ting was sitting on a white futon with his eyes closed, carefully feeling the process of the killing crystals in his body spontaneously absorbing the killing power from heaven and earth.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, and a faint black light flashed in his eyes, and then disappeared.

"It's such a wonderful feeling," Zhao Ting seemed to have some aftertaste, "This piece of killing crystal, as if it is breathing, this feeling is so familiar...... It's exactly the same way I feel in my dreams. ”

His mind moved, and his entire left arm was instantly covered with cold black light, and then the black light slowly dissipated into the air, as if it had never existed.

Send and receive freely, advance and retreat freely.

After a few days of repeated attempts and familiarization, Zhao Ting had completely mastered the use of killing power and mental power, but he also discovered the sequelae of a "killing crystal transplant operation".

Well, I don't know if it's a good or bad sequelae.

Zhao Ting found that he had no appetite for the food sent by Zhao Si!

No matter what kind of meal Zhao Si sent.

Up to now, he hadn't eaten for four or five days, which made Zhao Si anxious, and he tried to change his tricks every day, wanting Zhao Ting to eat some food, but unfortunately he couldn't get his wish.

However, Zhao Ting's own family knows his own affairs, although he has not eaten for such a long time, he feels that his body is much better, and under the subtle strengthening of his body every day, his spirit is getting better and better day by day, and his body is getting better day by day.

He even felt that he could already fight a tiger in the flesh.

Of course, this may be a delusion.

......

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

There was a knock outside the door, and at the same time, Zhao Si's voice came in from the door.

"Eldest son, the eldest young master of the Jiang family is here. ”

Zhao Ting sat up from the futon when he heard the sound and said, "Okay, I'll come out immediately." ”

For a moment, the green pine welcome hall.

When Zhao Ting walked in, Jiang Ruhai was already drinking a cup of hot tea, and Zhao Si was standing aside and talking to him.

"The eldest prince. ”

With Zhao Si's greeting, Jiang Ruhai also raised his head to look at Zhao Ting, and at this glance, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face: "Ting Shao, I haven't seen you for a while, you ...... Why do you look so mature?"

Zhao Ting's changes were so great that Jiang Ruhai didn't dare to confirm his identity for the first time.

"Haha," Zhao Ting smiled and didn't explain much, "I just had a serious illness some time ago." ”

"Why do you have time to come to me today?

He casually made a joke, but Jiang Ruhai immediately poured bitter water: "Hey, don't mention it, it's hard to do business these days." ”

"I poured a batch of goods from Nanhai County a few days ago, and I wanted to transport them back to Linshan City along the waterway, but I didn't know that the waterway on the way was temporarily blocked by the government, and my goods could not arrive on time, hey!"

"My auction brochure was sent out in advance, but now the goods haven't arrived, isn't this a sign that smashes me Jiang?"

"The most infuriating thing is that the officials of the Min'an County Government, the reason they gave for closing the road was actually "the Canglan River has broken off"! It is said that a few days ago, a white-clothed sword fairy fought with a black turtle on the Canglan River, and the turtle's body that only surfaced was as big as a small mountain, and as soon as it came out, the river was suddenly a little shallower. ”

The official also said that this big turtle is nothing, the white-clothed sword fairy is really powerful, he holds a three-foot long sword with blue light in his hand, and the sword aura is like a rainbow when he wields it, and the sword is ten zhang long, covering the sky and splashing everywhere. ”

"The black turtle doesn't look big, but it is not the opponent of the white-clothed sword fairy at all, it was beheaded in less than half an hour, and the blood flowed into the Canglan River, and the water of the entire river was dyed blood. ”

The Canglan River channel ahead was also affected by the battle between the two, the river channel was cut open, the river was cut off, and it is estimated that it will take some time to recover. ”

Saying that, Jiang Ruhai said indignantly: "Hehe, Ting Shao, listen, is this official talking about human words?"

"The black turtle that is still the size of a small mountain, what about the deceitful ghost?

“......”

Seeing his look of disbelief, Zhao Ting didn't know what to say.

After a long time, he held back a sentence: "Eh...... Maybe they're telling the truth. ”

"Really? Jiang Ruhai waved his hand, not wanting to talk about it anymore, so he changed the topic, "By the way, there is another matter." ”

"It's those black-scaled troops who came down from Xiling County, tell me, what are they going to do in our Linshan County? It's been a few months, and they haven't left, and they have stayed in Niushou Village to investigate individual cases, and they haven't seen any results from their investigations, but they have asked our two families for a lot of food and drink. ”

"I have to send a large amount of money and food every month to feed them, who can withstand this for a long time?

"Haven't left yet?" Zhao Ting frowned when he heard this, "What are they doing in Niushou Village?"

Jiang Ruhai spread his hands: "Who knows? No, I have to go to Niushou Village to send them grain on behalf of the Jiang family in the afternoon, eat and drink for nothing, hum, do you say that our two families are wronged?"

"Also, the leader of the Black Scale Army also said that they have investigated some eyebrows, and asked our two families and the Linshancheng County Ya to help them go to Niushou Village to assist them. ”

"I'll help him with a hammer, listening to his tone, it's obvious that he will eat and drink for nothing for a long time. But it's a bit unspeakable to drive people out directly, after all, we are all people with status, how can we be as faceless and skinless as them?"

"Help...... Zhao Ting muttered to himself, a contemplative look on his face, "In this way, I'll go over with you in the afternoon to see what the hell they are doing?"

Jiang Ruhai nodded and said, "Okay, it's not a matter for you to be bored in the Zhuangzi all day, it's just right to go out for a walk." ”

......

......

Outside the city.

Canglan River.

Two government ships with the word "grain" engraved in bright red characters on their hulls were slowly sailing on the river, and the boats in front of them were not carrying grain, so they were traveling briskly.

In addition to the four or five county officials in the cabin, there were Zhao Ting, Jiang Ruhai, and the county government Master Xu.

Lord Xu heard that the Black Scale Army had investigated the case of "Niushou Village was slaughtered", so he specially brought the catchers of the county government to come to help.

"Uncle Xu. ”

"Hello Uncle Xu. ”

After the two greeted Lord Xu, they sat down honestly.

Today, the west wind was blowing, and the boat sailed with the wind, so it took less than half an hour to arrive at the pier of Niushou Village.

After everyone got off the boat, seeing that there was no one waiting at the empty dock, Jiang Ruhai was suddenly unhappy.

"What does this mean? Ask us to deliver the grain, but there is not even a single sergeant waiting at the dock to carry the grain, how can we drop it?

Hearing this, Lord Xu turned his head and glared at him, and said in a low voice, "Be cautious." ”

After reprimanding Jiang Ruhai, Lord Xu took the lead in approaching the entrance of the village from the dock and watched from a distance.

"Eh, there are two sentry posts over there, like the sea, go and ask them to call someone to carry the grain. ”

"Yes. Jiang Ruhai replied reluctantly and walked over slowly.

"Brother, the food has arrived, please call someone to move it. ”

"Brother?"

"Brother?" Jiang Ruhai waved his hand in front of the two puppet-shaped black-scaled army sentries at the entrance of the village, "No, what do you two mean?

After a while, Jiang Ruhai went back again.

"Uncle, those two sentry posts at the entrance of the village are like ...... There is a disease, the two of them look stupid, deaf and dumb, and they really can't communicate!"

Hearing this, the faces of Lord Xu and Zhao Ting both sank instantly.

Before Zhao Ting could speak, Master Xu was already the first to ask, and his voice was hurried: "Those two people are like puppets, and their faces are pale?"

"Eh, it's exact, uncle," Jiang Ruhai nodded in surprise, "The little nephew screamed for a long time, and those two buddies were like puppeteers, and they didn't react." ”

Lord Xu suddenly chuckled in his heart, turned his head and left, and said in a low voice and in a hurried voice as he walked: "Something's wrong, go quickly, you can't stay here." ”

"Something's wrong?" Jiang Ruhai was stunned, "Then ...... these grains?"

"Leave it alone, let's go......"

Just when Jiang Ruhai was reluctant and a little hesitant, an indifferent voice had already resounded in everyone's ears.

"Where are you in a hurry?"

Jiang Ruhai turned his head, only to see a burly man in a black brocade robe appear behind everyone at some point, and he was only less than a zhang away from him.

"Hiss......" Jiang Ruhai was so frightened by the burly man who suddenly appeared that he gasped, "Dude, why don't you make a sound when you walk?"

The burly man glanced at him and pulled out a stiff smile that didn't smile: "Since you're here, let's all go in and sit down, it's almost time to eat." ”

"It's almost time to eat? It's just past Shen Shi!" Jiang Ruhai was a little puzzled by his strange words.

The two of them were talking without saying a word, and Lord Xu, who was about to walk through the dock, turned back again.

Because at some point, two black-scaled soldiers with dull eyes and abnormal iron-blue colors appeared on the dock, both of them were majestic, with big shoulders and round waists, like a wall blocking the front.

When I saw this scene, Lord Xu knew that I couldn't go!

His face turned white in an instant, and it was extremely ugly.

"Go in and sit down. ”

The burly man repeated with a cold face.

As soon as the words fell, the dock, the entrance of the village, and the puppets in the village all slowly approached here.

"Go in and sit down. ”

At that moment, a voice rang out at an inopportune time.

"Okay, I'm hungry. ”

The burly man was stunned for a moment, and then he noticed that there was a person standing behind Jiang Ruhai's huge body, a familiar person.

"Eh, why are you?" the burly man's pupils suddenly doubled as he said this, obviously a little panicked, "You ......"

Halfway through his words, the burly man suddenly remembered that this time the situation was different, and he was no longer the Wuxia Amon who was trapped in the west wing like a headless fly.

What is there to be afraid of?

Thinking about it like this, his courage strengthened a little, and he stared at Zhao Ting tightly, with a demonstrative look on his face.

Zhao Ting smiled, took two steps forward and crossed Jiang Ruhai, came to the burly man's side, put his hand on his shoulder, and asked with a smile: "Where do you want to invite me to eat?" ”

Being held by Zhao Ting like this, the burly man suddenly felt a burst of discomfort, he broke free with all his strength, but it turned out to be in vain, Zhao Ting's arms seemed to grow on his shoulders, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move at all.

Not only that, but he also felt that Zhao Ting was completely different from the last time they met, as if he was a different person.

There was an extremely dangerous aura hidden in Zhao Ting's body now, like the feeling brought to him by a fellow person of the same rank and cultivation who was far more advanced than him.

"You...... What are you going to do?" the burly man was so frightened that he couldn't speak well, "I'...... I warn you, the water from the two wells of us does not interfere with the river water, don't force me. ”

Zhao Ting put his arms around his neck and forcibly pressed him to bend down, while whispering in his ear: "Don't scream, be normal, I don't want to make you lose face in front of so many people." ”

"Hurry up and take me in honestly, otherwise don't blame me for making you unable to get off the stage. ”

“......”

Seeing that Zhao Ting let go of himself, the burly man swallowed a mouthful of saliva, restrained the frightened look on his face, and said in a trembling voice: "It's all ...... All go in and sit...... Have a seat. ”

When everyone behind Zhao Ting saw this scene, they all looked at each other.

Especially that Lord Xu, his expression was extremely strange.

"Xiao Ting, this ...... People, they seem to be afraid of you?"

Zhao Ting smiled and said, "Uncle Hui, it's not that I'm afraid, he respects me." ”

"Eh, who is that, don't you say?"

The burly man smiled and nodded: "Yes, respect." ”

“......”

Under the leadership of the burly man, the group smoothly entered Niushou Village and walked into the handsome tent rooted in the west of the village.

"Uncle, you guys rest here for a while, I still have something to talk about with this friend," Zhao Ting pointed to the burly man in front of him and said to Lord Xu.

Lord Xu glanced at the burly man strangely, then glanced back at Zhao Ting, and then said softly: "Okay, let's go." ”

got rid of everyone and came to another big tent, Zhao Ting sat on the golden chair in the tent for a long time, and said lightly: "Say, how did you get out?"

"Plop"!

The burly man knelt down directly and begged: "My lord, bypass me this time, I promise, as long as you let me go, our father and son will immediately go away and fly high, and we will never do evil in Xiling County, no, Qingzhou, never do evil in Qingzhou, we will run far away, and run to a place where we can never hit you again." ”

"Oh," Zhao Ting nodded slightly, "but I'm hungry, I want to eat you." ”

This is not Zhao Ting's burly man in front of intimidation, but it is true.

At the moment when he just saw this burly strong man appear, Zhao Ting, who had not eaten for a long time, suddenly moved his index finger, and an irrepressible appetite appeared in his stomach, and he noticed that this burly strong man had the body of a "shadow nightmare" hidden in his body.

And the smell of this "Shadow Nightmare" is like the most delicious delicacy in the world, seducing the insects in his stomach.

There was only one voice in his head now, eat it, eat it!

Zhao Ting had a hunch that eating this "Shadow Nightmare" should bring great benefits to himself.

It's that he can't help it.

......

The burly man was frightened by his words, and the forced expression on his face collapsed directly, he kowtowed and begged, snot and tears flowed out: "My lord, I'm really not delicious, I'm very thin, I have no meat, and I ...... I'm ugly, I'm ......."

There is a great fear between life and death, and in the face of this fear, he is already a little incoherent.

"Okay, okay," Zhao Ting glanced at him disdainfully, "Answer my question honestly, I won't eat you, otherwise I will ......"

Before he finished his words, the burly man grabbed the aquatic plants that survived like a drowning man, and promised again and again: "My lord, just ask, I will never dare to lie and deceive." ”

Zhao Ting nodded and said, "How did you get out?"

"I was let out by my son, oh, the bull iron," replied the burly man without thinking, "my son was let out by these two-legged sheep...... Oh no, humans, my son was released by the leaders of these humans stationed in Niushou Village. ”

"My son said that the human wanted to subdue him by relying on the bottle of Chong Xuan San in his hand, and then the human failed, and my son escaped and released me too. ”

Hearing these words, Zhao Ting's face suddenly darkened, and before he left, he had told people not to go near the two West Wing rooms and cellars where the "Shadow Nightmare" was kept, but the leader of the Black Scale Army just didn't listen, and he really did a good job.

It's just a matter of dying by himself, because Zhao Ting often dies, but the death of this little leader has affected all the other black-scaled troops stationed in Niushou Village with him.

Zhao Ting was sure that these black-scaled troops should have died by now, otherwise these two "Shadow Nightmares" would not be in a hurry to deceive people from the outside.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Ting asked again, "What about your son?"

"My son ......" The burly man hesitated for a moment before he said, "After I sensed your breath just now, I immediately informed my son to flee from the south of the village entrance, and he should no longer be here." ”

Zhao Ting stood up from the golden chair, stretched his waist, and said with a smile: "You are quite smart, so in this case, you are useless?"

"It's useless...... the burly man peeked at Zhao Ting, and said worriedly: "My lord, you just promised not to kill me, you don't know how to speak, don't count?"

Zhao Ting grinned, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth: "I was just joking." ”

“......”

As soon as the words fell, the body of the burly man had fallen softly, and a black shadow came out of his body, sticking to the ground and quickly crawling out of the tent, with a flying pace.

Zhao Ting smiled faintly, and did not set off to chase after him, but seemed to be waiting for something.

Half a day.

"Ahhhh

In the big tent, a dark shadow lying on the wall in a strange posture moved its lips and let out a desperate roar.

Zhao Ting took out a small porcelain white jade bottle from his arms, and said with a smile: "Do you know what it means to be a "ghost hitting the wall"?"

After speaking, he pulled out the cork, and the brown powder in the jade bottle floated out, and the smell was faintly fragrant, and soon spread throughout the big tent.

Then, the black shadow on the wall gradually solidified, and then solidified, and finally manifested in the air.

Well, like a black paper figure.

After Zhao Ting glanced at it slightly, he couldn't hold back his inner desire anymore, and pulled the black paper figure off the wall, crumpled it into a ball, and sent it towards the mouth that had been wide open.