After only a few steps, Chen Rui's voice came from behind, "Xu Daoyun, you are really bold." ”

Xu Daoyun was stunned for a moment, turned around and said, "I've seen Lord Zongqi." ”

Chen Rui looked at him with a smile, raised his eyebrows and said, "With Lao Wei's stinky temper, I didn't throw you into the stargazing lake to feed the fish, which is already a great blessing for you." ”

Xu Daoyun smiled bitterly.

Chen Rui took two steps closer and chuckled, "Guess what I would do if I told Lao Wei that you were a Red Flag Guard?"

Xu Daoyun was startled, immediately swallowed his saliva, and hurriedly said: "Lord Zongqi, please open the net." ”

Chen Rui hooked his red lips and asked, "Are you going back to Longnan Peak?"

Xu Daoyun shook his head, "No, I'm going to Swallowing Tiger Mountain." ”

"It's to see how your brother is tested?" Chen Rui stepped forward and said, "Just by the way." ”

Xu Daoyun gritted his teeth and followed.

Walking on the quiet mountain road, Chen Rui suddenly raised his hand and pointed into the distance, and said, "Look there." ”

Xu Daoyun looked at it and saw that on the valley between Longnan Peak and Swallowing Tiger Mountain, there was a stone pillar, seven or eight zhang high, three or five zhang round and thick, standing still, looming. He looked at it carefully, and said curiously: "How does this stone pillar look like a sword?"

Chen Rui said: "The eyes are good, this is indeed a sword, as for the origin of this sword pillar, it is a long story." ”

Xu Daoyun was curious, and hurriedly asked, "Lord Zongqi, what is the origin of this sword pillar?"

Chen Rui pointed to the sword pillar in the misty place in the distance, and said leisurely: "The first generation of my Miao Xuanmen Confucian family master, named Shen Haocang, until now in the Tianhe Hall of Wensheng Mountain, there is still a portrait of Shen Haocang, as well as the half-truncated sword he left behind, as well as a copy of his autobiography, the reason why we know his past experience is also from this autobiography. ”

Xu Daoyun listened carefully, extremely curious.

Chen Rui also walked to sell Guan Zi, and continued: "Senior Shen was born in an ordinary family, but he was born in a peasant family, and his life had nothing to do with cultivation, but when he was fourteen years old, an accident happened, and after that incident, his life changed drastically and he was forced to embark on the legendary path of cultivation. ”

At that time, Shen's predecessor was only fourteen years old, and he also had a happy family, and he was not rich and wealthy when he rose and sunset, at least he could fill his stomach, and the house could also shelter from the wind and rain, but it was also calm and peaceful. ”

"That day in winter, heavy snow fell, Jiangzhou rumored that the south was full of aura, causing a vision of heaven and earth, and there must be a spiritual creature born. The value of spiritual objects is immeasurable, and the temptation of the monks is fatal, just because of an ethereal spiritual object, many forces have gathered in the small village where Shen was located at that time, as for the name of the village, it is not written in the autobiography, I guess it should be afraid of seeing things and thinking about people, so I deliberately ignored it. ”

"As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves, there is a mountain in the southwest of the village where Shen predecessor is located, called Julu Mountain, the mountain has been foggy for many years, since ancient times, the men who went up the mountain to hunt and chop firewood, only went in and did not go out, and it was called the ghost mountain by the locals, and no one dared to approach. ”

The monks didn't dare to go up the mountain easily, and only searched in the surrounding mountains, but there was no trace of the spirit for half a month, and finally locked their eyes on Julu Mountain. After some discussion, the various forces decided to put aside a truce for the time being, and first go up the mountain to find a side, and when they find traces of spiritual objects, it is not too late to fight to the death. ”

"Senior Shen said that the monks went up to Julu Mountain for seven days, and no one came down, and the people in the village said that they offended the mountain god, were punished by the mountain god's grandfather, and stayed in the mountain. There were also some people who were timid and did not go up the mountain, so they immediately turned around and went back, and when they landed, rumors spread in the rivers and lakes, saying everything, and soon a group of monks with more and more powerful people came to come, and after some discussion, they gathered people to go up the mountain. ”

That night, the black dogs in the village barked non-stop, and the chickens, ducks, cows and sheep were even more restless, and the villagers only said that the mountain god grandfather in the mountain appeared, and killed the monks who dared to boldly enter the mountain. Unexpectedly, after that night, someone came down from Julu Mountain, and it was a person, but it was a dead person. ”

"Dead man?" Xu Daoyun was puzzled: "How can it be a dead man, Elder Wang, what is going on?"

Chen Rui was very satisfied with his impatient expression of eagerness to continue, snorted proudly, bought a pass, and lowered his voice and said: "It is indeed a dead person, it turns out that those villagers and monks who went to Julu Mountain were not punished by some bullshit mountain god grandfather at all, they were obviously killed by someone and refined into a corpse puppet." ”

"What is a corpse golem?"

Chen Rui said: "There are countless secret methods in the world, thousands of strange things, some people are not good at fist and foot spells, so they find another way, and they can also be extremely powerful." However, among such people, there is no humanity and those who do whatever it takes to cultivate become evil cultivators, and they are the type of people who are righteous and punished. ”

Xu Daoyun said: "Oh, then in Julu Mountain, it is the evil cultivators who refine the villagers and monks into corpse puppets?"

"Exactly. Chen Rui nodded and said: "That evil cultivator is called a ghoul Taoist, and he is famous in Jiangzhou, and he was also on the wanted list of my Yun Wei Division at that time, don't underestimate this wanted list, those who can be on the list, even if they are the bottom figures, are by no means ordinary." ”

"In order to avoid the pursuit of the Cloud Guard, the ghoul Dao hid in various effects and concealed his whereabouts. But the evil cultivator is an evil cultivator after all, and he can't bear the evil nature in his heart, if he can be honest and divide the rest of his life, it shouldn't be a problem to spend the rest of his life safely, but the ghoul Taoist doesn't dare to be mediocre, he does evil everywhere, and kills an unknown number of people to practice the art of corpse puppets. ”

"At that time, there were not many famous sects, and the ghoul Daoist was like a fish in water, but he didn't know that what he did had attracted the attention of the Beiwu Sword Palace, although it was thousands of miles away from the place where he slaughtered innocent people, but the Beiwu Sword Palace, as a righteous sect, naturally would not sit idly by. happened to meet the first person of the eighty-seventh generation of the Beiwu Sword Palace, Ning Zhengyang, who came out of the customs, and he learned that the notorious ghoul Daoist dared to act so unscrupulously under his nose, so he went down the mountain with one sword to eradicate this scum who caused trouble to the rivers and lakes. ”

Xu Daoyun exclaimed: "This ghoul Daoist is on the wanted list of Yun Weisi, and even Yun Weisi can avoid the character, Senior Ning is alone, how can he be his opponent?"

Chen Rui smiled: "Boy, this is your ignorance, don't underestimate the Beiwu Sword Palace, the Beiwu Sword Palace has been inherited for thousands of years, and each generation of disciples is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are many dragons and phoenixes, just wait for the time to come, you can soar into the sky." Ning Zhengyang was the first person in the eighty-seventh generation at that time, and his understanding and talent were all unique geniuses through the ages, and he was in retreat for thirteen years, and finally crossed the obstacle of cultivation, and the realm was unfathomable. ”

After Ning Zhengyang went down the mountain, he searched for traces of ghouls and Taoists, searched for the places where he made trouble, and finally found his traces in Quhe City. Quhe City is surrounded by water on all sides, and the residents in the city all drink the clear water of the Qinghe River for daily use, and the ghoul Daoist intends to do tricks and feet in the water, intending to poison the people of a city, refining them into corpse puppets, and casting a ghost city. ”

"Ning Zhengyang's predecessor learned of his conspiracy, naturally he would not let his treacherous plan succeed, in the middle of the night, while he was doing something in Qinghe, the thunder shot, the two fought less than fifty moves, the ghoul Taoist could not catch Ning Zhengyang's predecessor's sword, he is an evil cultivator who mainly attacks the refining of corpse puppets, he is not good at fists and feet, mainly relies on manipulating powerful corpse puppets to fight against people, but where can he be the opponent of Ning seniors who are brilliant in swordsmanship? Originally, he also had many corpse puppets, but unfortunately when he was chased and killed by Yun Weisi, there was not one left. ”

"The ghoul Taoist fists and feet are rough and clumsy, but he is extremely cunning, and there is also a secret technique of concealment, seeing that he can't fight Ning senior, he will die under his sword, and he doesn't want to fight an arm, use blood to stimulate the secret technique of concealment, and escape. Ning Zhengyang's predecessors tracked all the way, but it was difficult to find his traces, so he had no choice but to give up. ”

Unexpectedly, the ghoul Taoist was greatly injured, and he was on the verge of dying but his life should not be extinguished, so he fled to the Shulu Mountain next to Shen Senior's village to live in seclusion, recover his vitality, and use the magic circle to make the mountain fog, first, to cover his breath from being exposed and be detected, and secondly, to facilitate the attack and kill the villagers who went up the mountain to cut wood and herd sheep. ”

"Senior Ning is a master of swordsmanship, one sword cut off the left arm of the ghoul Daoist, this is quite light, the sword qi that penetrates through the body is really deadly, or the sword qi of the ghoul Daoist who uses all his strength to resist the sword qi that rushes into the body and kills everywhere at the moment when the arm is cut off. Otherwise, even if he escaped for a while, he would not live long, so he recuperated in the mountains, but this recuperation was ten years long. ”

"Those who cultivate corpse puppets need qi and blood the most, so that they can improve their cultivation or repair their injuries as quickly as possible, which is why the ghoul Daoist has just avoided the pursuit of Yun Weisi, and immediately rushed to kill, this is the reason. ”

"Those Jianghu monks who were attracted by spiritual objects were the elixir that the ghoul Dao people needed the most at that time, and the vigorous qi and blood of hundreds of monks successfully helped him recover from the injuries he was strangled by Ning Zhengyang's sword qi ten years ago, but that arm could not be severed anymore, and the hurry of the secret magic envoy at that time was too late to pick it up, and he didn't have that thought. ”

"Seeing that the time had come, the ghoul Daoist manipulated the hundreds of corpse puppets that had been refined in the past ten years to descend the mountain, and the target was Ancestor Shen's village. ”

Xu Daoyun asked: "What about later?"

"The village is full of croppers, although there is a handful of strength, compared to the monks, they are as weak as a three-year-old child, how can they resist the number of corpse puppets as many as hundreds? For a while, the village fell into hell on earth, the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, the village was very large, there were hundreds of families, fortunately, Ancestor Shen's house lived far away, and he was not immediately poisoned, but it was only a matter of time. ”

When the villagers found out, it was too late to escape, Shen senior ran for his life, and his father and mother put him in a bamboo basket and hid him in the well in order to save him, and since then, Patriarch Shen has never seen his father and mother again. No one in the village survived, not to mention people, not even chickens, ducks, cows, sheep and other livestock, all of them were sucked dry of blood, and their deaths were extremely miserable. ”

"The yin qi at the bottom of the well is extremely heavy, those corpse puppets have no sight and sense of smell, they all rely on the yang energy and breath attack on the sensing person, and the yin qi in the well just covers the yang qi of Shen senior, and he escaped the catastrophe. ”

Xu Daoyun frowned and thought about it, and suddenly said: "I think the birth of the spirit object of Julu Mountain is simply a pretense. ”

Chen Ruiliu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You are really smart, you guessed well, the birth of the spirit object of Julu Mountain is indeed a disguise, it is the ghoul Dao people who see that the lock is imminent, and they need a lot of qi and blood to consolidate the foundation of Peiyuan, so they released this fake news, attracting many Jianghu monks to throw themselves into the net, he can use the strong qi and blood of these people to repair his injuries, and discharge the last sword qi that Ning Zhengyang left in his body ten years ago." ”

"Those monks who came to look for spiritual objects for the first time and didn't have the courage to go up the mountain went back and told the strange things about Julu Mountain, and this matter spread ten, ten and hundred, and somehow it reached the ears of Ning Zhengyang of the Beiwu Sword Palace. He immediately knew that something was wrong, and immediately went down the mountain, but he was still a step too late, the villagers under the Julu Mountain had been murdered, and the originally peaceful and peaceful village had become a ghost village, hundreds of corpse puppets were swaying, and even the two large villages thousands of miles away were not spared. ”

"The ghoul Taoist has been refining hundreds of corpse puppets for ten years, although he knows that Ning Zhengyang's cultivation is superb and his swordsmanship is unpredictable, he is not afraid. appeared in front of him openly, and threatened to refine Ning Zhengyang's predecessors into the most proud corpse puppet in his life for his use. ”

"The ghoul forgot one thing, he spent ten years repairing his injuries, expelling the sword qi, and refining the corpse puppet, but he didn't know that Ning Zhengyang's predecessors had also cultivated for ten years, and now his ability and means are far from being comparable to those of ten years ago. ”

"Ghoul Dao people fight against people, half of their combat power comes from corpse puppets, if there is no corpse puppet, even if it is a realm of cultivation that is one and a half times lower than him, it will be difficult for him to match, let alone Ning Zhengyang's seniors?"

Xu Daoyun hurriedly asked, "Then Ning Zhengyang has killed the ghoul Daoist?"

Chen Rui nodded, "Well, even the corpse puppet army that the ghoul Dao people are proud of is vulnerable, how can he be the opponent of Ning Zhengyang's predecessors? In this way, the ghoul Dao who had been rampant for nearly a hundred years and slaughtered countless living beings died under the sword of Ning Zhengyang of the Beiwu Sword Palace. ”

Xu Daoyun asked again: "What about Senior Shen?"

Chen Rui said: "Senior Shen stayed in the well for three days, he was young, the yin qi in the well was heavy, and he knew that his father and mother could not come back, so he was in pain, and no one knew that he was about to die in the well, but Ning Zhengyang's predecessor found him. Knowing that he was the only surviving child among the heroes, and had the talent of cultivation, he thought that meeting was fate, he was also old, and he would be buried in the earth after dozens or hundreds of years, and half of his life was spent in retreat and cultivation, and there was no disciple to inherit the mantle and kendo, so he chose Shen Senior as his close disciple to inherit his lifelong learning and kendo spirit. ”