Huaicheng is located in the north, and the smoke and rain city like an ink painting is a very different scenery. In the distance is the continuous snow-white mountain top, and in the near distance is the freshly smoked green sprouts, which not only has the vast atmosphere of the north, but also does not lose the gentleness of the south.

After nesting in the carriage for half a month, Bai Yunge, who was born to be happy, couldn't stand it anymore, and pulled Luo Yu out of the car as soon as he entered the city gate.

Even in the twilight of spring, the climate is cold and tight, Luo Yu and Bai Yunge are considered to be martial arts practitioners, but they don't need to be wrapped in thick cotton clothes like ordinary people.

There are a lot of pedestrians on the street, Luo Yu's red clothes are particularly eye-catching, and you can see the spicy eyes falling on him everywhere, the northerners are bold, and they can see people straightforwardly.

Luo Yu's appearance is indeed not as good as Bai Yunge, but the indifference and careless temperament around him is very attractive, he is like a frozen gem, even if he is low-key and restrained, he can't hide the brilliance inside, the weak want to cling to him, and the strong want to conquer him.

The soft and weak Bai Yunge stood with him, and only had the value of being a vase.

Luo Yu directly ignored these gazes, but unfortunately Bai Yunge didn't seem to be immune, he hid behind Luo Yu in a cramped and uneasy way, and his face slowly turned red.

At this time, the two were standing in front of a small stall, there were some rouge gouache boxes on the stall, and there were also some sachets and the like, most of which were women's favorite things, Luo Yu's fingers slid over the many ornaments, and finally picked up a ring to play with.

"Luo ...... Luo Gongzi. ”

"Huh?"

"I ...... Let's go back, there are a lot of people here. ”

Luo Yu didn't answer Bai Yunge's words, but handed the ring in his hand to him, the solid color and almost transparent ring wrapped in a faint halo in the sun, very beautiful.

"Do you like it?"

"Hello...... Like. ”

"Then I'll give it to you." Luo Yu put the ring on the heart of the Baiyun singer, threw the silver to the stall owner, and walked away.

After taking two steps and finding that Bai Yunge did not follow, Luo Yu turned his head suspiciously. I saw Bai Yunge still standing in place in a daze, holding the ring in his hand, and the expression on his face couldn't be said to be disbelief or excitement.

"Didn't you say you wanted to go back? Let's go. ”

"Oh, okay." Bai Yunge carefully put the ring on his finger and hurriedly caught up with Luo Yu, the smile on his face was even brighter than the morning sun in the snowy mountains, dazzling the eyes of passers-by.

“……”

Luo Yu's eyes inadvertently swept over the second floor of the restaurant, and then silently took Bai Yunge back to the inn.

After the two disappeared around the corner, a man appeared in the window on the second floor, blue-clothed and slim, gentle and elegant, it was Xia Mingran who rushed to receive Luo Yu's news.

Xia Mingran looked at the direction of Luo Yu's disappearance from afar, with a complicated expression on his face, he could see that Bai Yunge was special to Luo Yu, but he didn't know if it was because of pure love or because of the power behind Bai Yunge.

Yes, because of Luo Yu's reminder, Xia Mingran has already found out Bai Yunge's identity, and even began to doubt Luo Yu's loyalty, even so, he still hopes that Luo Yu's attitude towards Bai Yunge is the latter, is it really trapped.

Luo Yu has not been by Xia Mingran's side for a long time, and it is only two years to be full, but Luo Yu has been in Yi Xiu for three years, which is really ridiculous, he has less time with his subordinates than his opponents.

When I saw Luo Yu for the first time, the other party was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and he was seriously injured and fell on the road he passed, and seeing that he had the potential to cultivate, he saved the person.

In the two years of training, I didn't have affection for him, and in the three years of being a secret pile, I didn't have anything to do with it, but at the last moment, I couldn't control my heart.

After knowing that Yi Xiu had summoned Luo Yu to sleep, Xia Mingran was very angry, which was what he should be angry about, so he didn't suppress himself, but he thought that after the anger, he would be able to make good use of the opportunity that Yi Xiu sent to him, but he didn't expect that this incident would have a greater impact on him than he imagined.

For two fixed hours, imperceptibly for half a month, Xia Mingran noticed a lot of things, knowing that Luo Yu prefers sweets, even the sweet and greasy Cheng Dù, knowing that Luo Yu is afraid of cold, because his body temperature is lower than ordinary people, knowing that Luo Yu likes to be in a daze, and when he is in a daze, his eyes are like a silent galaxy......

He was used to seeing the wisps of bright colors by the river at the same time, and in the days when he suddenly couldn't see Luo Yu, Xia Mingran arranged the tasks in an orderly manner, but on the other hand, he forcibly suppressed the anxiety in his heart.

There were several times when he wanted to go directly to Feihualou, even if he was startled, he wanted to know why Luo Yu didn't go to see him? Was it forced or ......

However, Xia Mingran is a person whose reason is better than emotion after all, there are too many things that bind him, and he must plan to deliver the strongest blow.

But before that, he unexpectedly received Luo Yu's news, which became the last straw that crushed his reason, and almost instantly disrupted his arrangement, he put down the affairs in his hand and rushed to Huaicheng non-stop, but he didn't expect to see such a scene.

Xia Mingran smiled bitterly and walked downstairs with his feet up.

Xia Mingran walked to the stall, picked up the sachet that Luo Yu pointed at the top and paused, and then paid and left, the content of the sachet was also very concise: Zhong Xue was thirteen feet.

Zhong Xue's thirteen feet is also a location, in the snow-capped mountains outside Huaicheng City, but everyone in the rivers and lakes knows it. Zhong Xue is the name of the mountain, but thirteen feet is the name of a sword. Legend has it that a famous swordsman died on Zhong Xue Mountain, and the place where he inserted his sword turned into an ice peak, which did not melt for thousands of years, and then this ice peak was called Zhong Xue Thirteen Feet.

Xia Mingran waited in the inn for the evening, but Luo Yu did not come, which made him a little disappointed.

There are some things that Xia Mingran wants to ask clearly, but without waiting for Luo Yu to admit in person, he is lucky after all, no one knows the rules of Yanyulou better than Xia Mingran: betrayer, no mercy!

Just as Xia Mingran was about to take the initiative to see Luo Yu, his subordinates reported that Luo Yu and Bai Yunge had entered Zhong Xue Mountain.

Whether it is for a ruthless reason, or for the sake of hooking up the picture, no matter what Luo Yu's idea is now, Xia Mingran plans to go to the place on the letter to take a look.

At this time, Yi Xiu also rushed to Huaicheng, which happened to be about half a day later than Xia Mingran.

Luo Yu really angered Yi Xiu this time, he almost mobilized the ability of the whole sect to find Luo Yu, no matter how Luo Yu hid, as long as he was still on the mainland, he would be found by Yi Xiu sooner or later, not to mention that Luo Yu had not hidden his whereabouts much, it was normal for Yi Xiu to catch up so quickly.

After Xia Mingran stepped into Zhong Xueshan with his front foot, Yi Xiu's back foot also followed.

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Zhong Xueshan has a cold climate, snow all year round, and the mountain road is steep, so they had to give up the carriage after walking a few miles, and it was precisely because they saw the carriage parked at the foot of the mountain that Xia Mingran and Yi Xiu were sure that Luo Yu had really entered Zhong Xueshan.

Yi Xiu was obviously not surprised to see that Xia Mingran, who had gotten out of the car one step ahead of him, habitually hooked the corners of his lips.

"I didn't expect to see the Xia landlord in such a desolate place, and the landlord really has a sense of leisure."

Xia Mingran found Luo Yu earlier than himself, it must have been Luo Yu who sent the message, Luo Yu, Luo Yu, who gave you this courage?

"Each other, the scenery here is very good, it seems that Sect Master Yi is also a person who knows how to enjoy."

Yi Xiu's fingers unconsciously brushed the dark lines on his sleeves, and his voice was a little careless.

"This seat is not like the lord of Xia Lou who has the literati to come here to watch the snow scene, this seat is here to bring back the concubines of this seat. It's rare to find one so kind, the days he left this seat is very tight, speaking of which the Xia Mansion Lord should know, Luo Yu also mentioned to me the name of the Xia Mansion Lord. ”

Hearing this, a wave of anger rose in Xia Mingran's heart, and his face was still calm and light.

"Young Master Luo has a lot of 'personal friends' with Zaixia, but he hasn't mentioned the matter of Sect Master Yi to me."

Luo Yu and this seat talked on their knees during the day, slept together at night, and had a lot of time to talk. On the contrary, I haven't been with the owner of Xia Lou for a long time, and it's normal to forget it. ”

Whether it is for Gou Huai Tu or Luo Yu, sooner or later the two will have a fight, and now is not the time, before seeing Luo Yu, a qiē fight is meaningless, so the two can only fight, with the idea that others should not want to be happy when they are unhappy, and spare no effort to block each other.

There are not many people with the two of them, but they are all their own henchmen, plus they travel lightly, and they braved the wind and snow for half an hour to reach Zhong Xue's thirteen feet. The ice peak in front of him is several zhang high, and it looks like a sword blade, and the tip of the sword points to the sky, which makes people proud for no reason.

"Bang ......"

A loud sound interrupted the two of them, and almost the moment the two of them stepped into Zhong Xue's thirteen feet, the iceberg that had not melted for thousands of years suddenly collapsed, starting from the peak, it shattered in sections, and huge ice blocks rolled down.

The faces of the two of them changed, and they immediately began to retreat rapidly, but it was also fortunate that the ice fell into the surrounding depression after rolling down, and did not cause a large-scale avalanche. Yi Xiu's face was a little ugly, looking at Zhong Xue's thirteen-foot collapse from a distance, he didn't expect Luo Yu to make such a big move, what did Luo Yu want to do? ――

The second update -

After a few minutes, the place where the ice peak stood was completely flat, and a dark hole was revealed at the base of the ice peak, and a bright red spread out at the entrance, which looked very conspicuous.

Almost the moment they saw this scene, Yi Xiu and Xia Mingran rushed over, and the two of them landed in front of Bai Yunge at the same time. At a closer look, the faces of the two changed slightly, and at this time, Bai Yunge fell to the ground, his face was pale, and there were a lot of blood stains on his white clothes, but Luo Yu was nowhere to be seen.

Xia Mingran crossed a little internal force into Bai Yunge's body, and found that Bai Yunge was not injured, but he was out of strength, so the blood on his body could only be someone else's, and this person didn't think about it except Luo Yu.

"Where's Ayu?"

"Young Master Luo......" Bai Yunge was a little delirious now, he muttered in a low voice, and then desperately wanted to crawl towards the entrance of the cave.

Yi Xiu and Xia Mingran had already noticed which line of blood at the entrance of the cave spread along the stone staircase into the depths of the dark passage, and then looked at Bai Yunge's reaction, could it be ......

"Go in and have a look."

Yi Xiu waved his hand, and immediately two secret guards walked into the dark passage, Yi Xiu did not wait for the dark guards to come out to report, but immediately followed. Even if there are dark guards in the lead, such a danger will undoubtedly be much higher.

Xia Mingran handed Bai Yunge over to a secret guard who came with him, and asked him to stay outside the entrance of the cave, and when the situation was not right, he sent a signal, and he immediately followed Yi Xiu in.

When the first guard passes by, he will light the candles on the wall with torches, making it easier for those who come in behind. Xia Mingran and Yi Xiu walked side by side and walked in the middle of the team, on the one hand, to contain each other, and on the other hand, to deal with sudden crises.

The staircase of the dark passage is not narrow, enough for four people to walk side by side, and there is enough room for two people to play.

The stairs are very long, Yi Xiu estimated that the two of them should have gone dozens of meters deep into the belly of the mountain, and now this depth is still increasing, and I don't know who built an underground passage here.

"It's ......"

Xia Mingran walked in front of the stone wall, looked up at the top, and thoughtfully, there was a dark red flower-like mark in the corner of the stone wall, like a tulip flower, but there was an extra symbol like a moon in the center of the flower.

This mark is very special, and Xia Mingran has a sense of déjà vu.

Yi Xiu paid attention to Xia Mingran's pause, his gaze swept over the corner, and the moment he saw that mark, his pupils shrank sharply.

"Sect Master Yi recognizes this mark?"

Yi Xiu didn't answer Xia Mingran's words immediately, he lowered his head and pondered, according to the information he got, Bai Yunge was a person from Furuo Pavilion, so it was very likely that he would get the remaining one-third of the Gou Huai diagram from him, he originally thought that Luo Yu took Bai Yunge away for Xia Mingran, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Since when did Luo Yu become so mysterious?

"This is the imprint on the Gouhuai diagram."

"What? Are you sure? ”

Looking at Yi Xiu with an inexplicable smile, Xia Mingran made no secret of his doubts, according to his understanding of Yi Xiu, the other party would never reveal the information of the Gou Huai diagram, and his behavior is really abnormal now, could it be that the other party found something?

"There's such an imprint on the map I got of it."

Yi Xiu didn't explain much, but this sentence was enough, and he continued to raise his feet and walk inside.

Xia Mingran clearly knew that there was no such mark on his part of the diagram, could it be that there was something special about the one that was easy to repair? Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Xia Mingran silently followed Yi Xiu, and the atmosphere in the secret passage began to stagnate.

As the two of them went deeper, more and more marks appeared on the stone walls of the dark passage, and almost every ten meters, a Tu Yi mark appeared, perhaps it should be called the Gou Huai mark.

Not only that, but there are also some patterns that appear, the characters in the picture are dressed in costumes, as if they are performing a sacrificial activity, and each picture has different characters and scenes, but the content is all sacrifices.

The mural is very delicately depicted, the faces of the characters in the painting, the brilliance is all very clear, vivid, and vivid, even if Xia Mingran has not seen the ghost Fang clan, but he also knows the legend of the ghost fang clan.

It is rumored that the people of the ghost tribe are eternal in their youth, immortal, their color is like spring flowers, their faces are like autumn moons, and they are gorgeous and moving......

The two walked for a few minutes, and finally finished the dark passage, and what appeared in front of the two of them was a small stone hall, and the four walls of the stone hall were still full of murals, but it was not a sacrifice, but a war, which told the story of the collapse of the ghost country thousands of years ago.

The rise of the Ghost Fang Country is sudden, and the destruction of the miè is also sudden, like a spark born at the beginning of history, gorgeous and short-lived, this is a mysterious to weird country, and there are many speculations about the Ghost Fang Country from the outside world, but no one knows what the truth is.

Xia Mingran looked at it with interest, the mural said that thousands of years ago, the Ghost Fang clan was just a small clan, and the clan was beautiful but not good at martial arts, so they were bullied.

Later, a genius saintess was born in their clan, and the saint borrowed divine power from heaven to improve the physique of the clan, and many people with strong martial arts and brave fighting began to appear in the clan, they repelled the enemy, opened up the territory, and established the ghost country.

The saint never married in her life, led the ghost country to become strong, and was very loved by the people of the ghost country, decades passed, one day, the saint suddenly disappeared, and soon after that, the ghost country was destroyed.

It was an earth-shattering war, all the countries of the Quartet came to attack, the difference in strength was huge, and the people of the Ghost Fang clan resisted hard, but in the end they could not escape the fate of destroying the country.

Xia Mingran looked at the people on the mural, and always felt a little disobedient, many of those who died in the war were people who had appeared in the previous sacrifices, and their expressions before they died were not sad or hopeless, but a kind of relief, who would feel relieved because of the destruction of their country?

And the Ghost Fang Kingdom was rendered so strong before, even if it faced many enemies, it shouldn't have perished so quickly, why did the saint become vulnerable as soon as she disappeared?

"How?" Yi Xiu looked at Xia Mingran and asked his own questions when he stopped pausing in front of the mural.

Xia Mingran shook his head.

"No clues."

Although there are many doubts about the demise of the Ghost Fang Kingdom here, it has nothing to do with Gou Huaitu, and this stone hall is closed, and they have not seen Luo Yu's figure, if Luo Yu really comes in, there must be some place in this stone hall that can be opened.

Looking around at the stone wall, Xia Mingran fell his gaze on the copper lamp hanging on the top of the hall, after years of erosion, the surface of the copper lamp was as smooth as a mirror, which was a little unusual in itself. Moreover, the swords on those murals were faintly pointing in the direction of the copper lamp, Xia Mingran didn't believe that it was a coincidence.

Xia Mingran took a step back and began to walk around the copper lamp, after going around for half a circle, he suddenly saw a faint light flashing, Xia Mingran took a step back, and sure enough, he saw a very small sequins on the wick of the copper lamp, and the light hit it stronger than the surroundings, and following the light from the sequins, Xia Mingran finally noticed a mural.

It was the side of a woman, that is, the extremely mysterious saintess in the ghost country, it can be seen that the woman is very beautiful, this mural is carved with the last bow of the saint in the temple before disappearing, that is, the prologue of the war, and the place where the light falls is the woman's eyes.

Xia Mingran made a gesture to Yi Xiu and the secret guard, put on gloves and walked to the mural, his fingers touched the eyes of the saint, and after a slight sound, the sound of the wheel wheel turning suddenly remembered in the stone hall......

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Outside the entrance of the cave, a quarter of an hour after Yi Xiu and Xia Mingran entered, Bai Yunge, who was originally weak, suddenly looked at a dark guard beside him, and the moment his eyes met the dark guard, the dark guard's expression quickly froze.

At the same time, on the other side, Luo Yu just withdrew the dagger from the neck of another secret guard, and after solving one, Luo Yu did not let go of the one who was hypnotized by Bai Yunge, and gave it to the king of Hades with a knife.

Wiping off the blood stains on the dagger and retracting his sleeves, Luo Yu looked at Bai Yunge, this was the first time Luo Yu had killed someone in front of Bai Yunge, the attitude that was so cold that he regarded human life as a mustard made Bai Yunge's face a little pale, but he quickly adjusted.

"Young Master Luo, are you okay?"

Bai Yunge was naturally referring to the wound on Luo Yu's wrist, in order to disguise himself as if he had entered the secret passage, Luo Yu really let his own blood go, after all, even hypnosis was available, and there were no other secret methods, so it would be bad for Xia Mingran and Yi Xiu to see what was going on.

"Nothing" used hemostatic powder and wrapped gauze, even if the mouth was a little big, it didn't affect anything.

"Hmm"

Bai Yunge fell silent after answering, although he had a bunch of questions in his heart, such as why did Luo Yu know that there was a hole here? For example, how did Luo Yu make the ice peak collapse? For example, why did Luo Yu bring Yi Xiu and Xia Mingran in?

Bai Yunge is not smart but not stupid, he knows that Luo Yu must have his own plans to do this, and even he is part of Luo Yu's plan, but Luo Yu is unwilling to say, he will not ask.

It was rare to see such a silent Bai Yunge, and when he saw Bai Yunge's abnormal cheeks, Luo Yu frowned, took off his coat and put it on Bai Yunge. The other party's internal strength is not comparable to his own, and it is normal to stay cold in the snow mountain for a long time.

Luo Yu's concern made Bai Yunge a little overwhelmed, and his bloodless face, which was still white, suddenly turned red, especially after feeling the temperature of Luo Yu coming from his coat, he wanted to explain to Luo Yu that he was not cold, but the joy in his heart dispelled his behavior.

Luo Yu didn't notice Bai Yunge's careful thoughts, at this time his whole body was focused on the hole in front of him, thanks to Bai Yunge's help, his plan was very successful.

"There is a carriage waiting for you at the foot of the mountain, you go back to Huaicheng first."

"What about Young Master Luo?"

"I'm going in."

"But ......" Bai Yunge was a little reluctant to Luo Yu, of course, he was more worried, he didn't know what the situation was in the cave, not to mention that Yi Xiu and Xia Mingran were both inside.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

Seeing Luo Yu's resolute attitude, Bai Yunge didn't say anything to follow, except for hypnosis, his martial arts really didn't have anything to do, even the sequelae of hypnosis were too great, he didn't want to be a burden to Luo Yu, so he bit his lip and nodded.

"I ...... I'll be waiting for you to come back. ”

Stunned by Bai Yunge's appearance holding back tears, Luo Yu patted him on the shoulder for the first time.

"Good"