At the foot of the mountain on the eastern side of Cangshan Mountain, on the edge of the enchantment of the Nine Rounds Array.

A group of embarrassed monks in different clothes and ornaments gathered here, all running and desperately slashing the resentful spirits and skeletons that were clenching behind them, those resentful spirits and skeletons were scorched by the fire, and the already hideous inhuman appearance was crawling with burn marks, missing arms and legs, and the smell of scorched corpses, and some monks who were caught by them could even hear the scorching sound coming from them after they touched them. Disgusting and chilling to the spine.

In the crowd, a young man dressed in a yellow robe with a golden chrysanthemum pattern carried an unconscious girl in red on his back, staggering forward while pulling the hair of his clothes that had been bitten by the resentful spirit.

The young man was covered in blood at this time, there was no place on his clothes intact, the lifelike noble chrysanthemum embroidered on it was soaked in blood and stained dark red, the crown of his head was also loose, and a few strands of broken hair fell on his sideburns, scattered on the sideburns, and his embarrassed state was like a beggar on the side of the road, and he obviously didn't even have the strength to stand up at this moment. But he still touched the ground with his sword, gritted his teeth and frowned and shouted angrily, "Get up!", a golden sword light dazzled, and suddenly forced back more than a dozen resentful spirits pressing on his back.

He put down the woman on his back with one hand and held it in his arms, and with the other hand holding the sword on the ground, his body shook twice, but he was also shaky.

The resentful spirits that were forced back by a blow had no intention of flinching, and they surged up again, but this time there were more than a dozen more than just now, and they didn't seem to be deterred by the sword of the young man just now, and the attack only increased. The young man wanted to lift his breath again, but there was a sudden pain in the dantian, and the spiritual power in his body collapsed in an instant, and his eyes were white, and he only felt that the whole person was heavy as if he was about to fall into hell.

That sword had obviously consumed the last of his strength.

Rumble!

The young man was knocked out of the air, his body drew an arc in the air, fell heavily to the ground, dragged more than ten zhang away before he could stop, and immediately vomited two mouthfuls of blood, but the woman who was holding one arm was reversed by him at the last moment and smashed on himself, without falling at all.

Is it going to die?

Die to die, I did my best. The boy suddenly closed his eyes, and many figures and past events flashed through his mind.

In a wide courtyard with floors of pavilions, a little boy sat on the steps with his head bowed, his eyes slightly red, staring at a broken eagle wood carving in his hand, and curling his shoulders without saying a word.

This yard is very large, very beautiful, but he is alone, occasionally the wind blows, the leaves will make a rustling sound, and then a few fallen leaves scattered scattered, there is no other sound, quiet a little sad, so although this yard is gorgeous, but at the moment it always gives people a feeling of loneliness and emptiness, and will not be attracted by those gorgeous decorations at all.

I don't know how long later, a crisp and pleasant voice suddenly broke the silence: "Hey, are you the master of this courtyard?

The boy looked up and saw a girl in red with a double bun standing at the door, staring at him curiously. The girl was about six or seven years old, dressed in a peach-colored dress very bright, a pair of crystal eyes were clear and clear, as bright as stars, I don't know what she thought, suddenly she bent her lips and smiled at herself, her eyes were curved like a crescent moon, as if the bright moon spirit also overflowed.

The girl stared at him for a long time, but did not see him answer, and couldn't help but be a little impatient, and urged: "Hey, I'm asking you, are you dumb?"

The boy came back to his senses and muttered, "I...... I guess it's the owner here. ”

"Yes, yes, no, no, what do you mean?" the girl had a cheerful personality, and she didn't quite understand his vague phrasing.

"I ......" the boy lowered his head again, not knowing how to answer.

The girl frowned when she saw him wilting and drooping: "Why are you bowing your head again, how can a boy be as cowardly as a girl?"

Before she could finish speaking, the girl sat down beside the boy, her eyes sparkling and her eyes full of excitement as she looked at the wood carving. But the boy took a few steps back as if he were facing a great enemy, and guarded the wood carving with some fear, for fear of being looked at by the girl.

The girl couldn't help but be stunned: "I'm not trying to rob you of your things, I'm just looking at it, I don't even want to show it, you're too stingy, right?"

The boy raised his head slightly, and said with some surprise: "You...... Not grabbing?"

The girl blinked: "What? Could it be that someone really robbed you just now?"

The boy withdrew his gaze and fell silent.

The girl looked at the boy's lonely expression, her expression changed slightly, but she no longer urged him, just held up her cheeks and looked at him steadily. The boy felt her gaze and looked up at her with a little unease, but every time he touched her gaze, he immediately retracted, and he was a little nervous for no reason. He didn't know why the girl kept looking at him like this, thinking that she wanted to see her own wood carving, plus her big watery eyes really made people can't bear to refuse, so he hesitated for a long time, and finally opened his hand easily, revealing the corner of the wood carving.

The girl couldn't help but be overjoyed when she saw him suddenly open her palm, but when she saw the corner of the wood carving, the smile on her face froze again: "Why are its wings broken!"

I saw that the eagle wood carving in the boy's hand did indeed have only one wing, and the other one was broken off by the roots and separated from the eagle's body.

"An eagle with only one wing is not pretty. The boy's voice was hoarse.

The girl cautiously approached, looked at it, and said, "Whoever said that, I think it's still very beautiful, I like it." ”

"Do you like it?" The boy didn't expect that someone would like the broken wood carving, so he couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at the girl with more and more curiosity.

The girl nodded: "Is this what you carved?

The boy sighed softly and sat back down on the steps, looking sadly at the broken wing, as if remembering something: "I didn't carve it, but my father gave me a birthday gift." He once said that as long as the goshawk has wings, then whether it is soaring for nine days or playing with landscapes, it can fly freely, and no matter when, no matter how far, as long as it wants, it can go home at any time. But now......" he stroked the severed wound lightly, and laughed to himself, "its wings are broken, and it will never be able to return home." ”

The girl listened very seriously, her big eyes blinked and blinked, and she nodded as if she didn't understand: "So you're sad because of this?"

"Fixed?" the boy froze.

"Yes!" the girl snatched the wood carving from the boy's hand, and regardless of the boy's stunned expression, she used her spiritual power to form a peach-colored bow phantom on her hand, and the bow phantom that emitted a faint red light was like a real butterfly, flying up from the girl's palm and landing on the broken edge of the wood carving, the girl gently attached the broken wings to the broken wing, and the red light of the bow disappeared in an instant, and when the spiritual light completely faded, the broken light was intact and adhered together, and there was no trace of fracture.

The boy's hand, which was about to be snatched, froze in the air, and looked at everything in front of him in astonishment, is this what they call spiritual power? This is the first time he has seen such a strange scene, a little girl can have such a skill, there is really such a magical thing in the world!

"Na, it's fixed, although you speak strangely and have a submissive personality, it's quite interesting, especially your expression now, it's so cute, I like you. The girl cupped her cheeks and tilted her head and smiled.

"Like me, but all the people here don't like me, they all say that I am not from the Gu family, I shouldn't stay here, and they all let me go. The boy lowered his head the more he spoke, and his voice became quieter and quieter, until at last it was as thin as a mosquito.

The girl didn't care much about this: "I like you, whatever your last name is, they hate you and it's their business, and it has nothing to do with me." And my aunt told me that making friends depends on the character of that person, not on that person's family background, although you are not a member of the Gu family, but you are much more polite than those Gu family boys. A-Niang also said that in this world, if someone likes you, someone will hate you, no one is so hateful that no one has a friend, and no one is so perfect that no one is disgusted, we just need to care about the thoughts of the people we care about, as for other people, why should we take it to heart? So you don't need to be sad at all, no matter what your surname is, who you are, as long as you are still you, there must still be many people in this world who like you, such as me. ”

The boy was a little stunned and asked uncertainly, "Really?"

"Of course it's true!" said the girl.

The boy's face was slightly red, and he turned his head a little shyly, and was silent for a long time before whispering, "Thank you." ”

"Thank you for what I did, I just told the truth. But if you really want to thank me, I really like your wood carving, I've never seen this thing before, can you help me carve one?" The girl looked at the wood carving in his hand with her eyes shining, obviously really liking.

"This?oh......"

"Yun'er, Yun'er, where have you been? Come out, we're going home. ”

Before he finished speaking, a gentle female voice came in from outside the wall, the girl's face was happy, and she immediately stood up and wanted to run out, but when she turned around, she stopped suddenly, she took out a golden incense sachet from her arms and handed it to the boy, and said with a smile: "I'm leaving, my family is in the Fengling Qin family, if there are still people bullying you in the future, you come to me, I will help you bully back, how to say that you are also a boy, you can't be so cowardly! Also, remember to bring the wood carving with you next time you go, and I will take you to play in Fengling when the time comes." The girl said with a smile, her crooked eyes full of childlike innocence and kindness.

The boy nodded knowingly, and by the time he came back to his senses, the girl had been gone for a long time.

The boy had been in this place for a long time, but the girl was the first person willing to enter his gorgeous courtyard, and the first friend he had made here.

"Boom!" the excited laughter of the wraiths rang out again, replacing the silver-belled girlish laughter of the memory.

However, when the boy heard the laughter, he suddenly opened his eyes.

No way!

Can't die!

She must live, I can't let her die!

The young man was instantly full of fighting spirit again, and with great difficulty he reached the long sword that fell two feet away from him, and the dozen or so small wounds left by the entanglement with the resentful spirits on his body burst open, and the blood flowed in an instant.

The originally excited resentful spirits were stunned when they saw this scene, and they looked at each other, as if they also thought that it was incredible that he could still get up, and they didn't dare to act rashly for a while.

"Although I don't want to kill, but for her sake, I'm sorry, I can only let you die!" The young man fell twice before he stood up, his legs trembling and moving forward step by step, walking extremely slowly and unsteadily, no one would doubt that if a gust of wind blew now, he would definitely immediately fall down with his head down, but it was such an imposing move, but at this time, it showed a little bit of arrogance, and even those resentful spirits were stunned for a moment, as if they were a little stunned.

The young man stood a foot in front of the woman, slowly raised his hand, and pointed his sword straight ahead.

"Break!" the boy shouted angrily.

Another golden light rushed up, but the power of this sword was clearly inferior to the previous one, the light only shone dazzlingly at the beginning, and the next moment it instantly dimmed most of it.

The boy spurted out a mouthful of blood.

The resentful spirits' sharp teeth with cold light suddenly squeezed, and the fierce light on their ugly faces was revealed, and with a few hoarse roars, they immediately formed a huddle, and dozens of resentful spirits gathered into a large ball, carrying the surging black gas to meet it.

The sword light dissipated instantly.

This fictitious attack didn't even hurt a single tooth of a resentful spirit, and even the resentful spirits were quite surprised, and after a moment of stunnedness, there was a sneer, which seemed to be a naked mockery.

After the sword light dissipated, a black gas slashed at him, and the young man raised his sword to block, but it was too late, and the whole person was knocked out again.

This time it's really over, the boy thought.

At this moment, he heard an angry shout from the air: "Animal!

The young man heard this familiar voice, and opened his eyes in surprise, only to see that among the golden sword lights flowing in the air, an older yellow-clothed young man was standing on a flying sword, leading dozens of yellow-clothed monks behind him to form a golden sword net and step on the clouds.

That person is also dressed in a golden chrysanthemum, and his face is like a crown of jade.

"Big brother!"

The man raised his hand slightly, and the young man's rapidly falling body suddenly stopped, and then slowly fell, until he landed steadily, and then smiled heartily: "Don't be afraid, there is a big brother!"

Most of the dead spirits died in the melee, and a small half were also wounded, and the resentful spirits who knew they were invincible naturally would not rush over to find death, so they immediately saw the situation clearly and fled in the chaos.

Seeing that the pursuit was too late, Gu Qinghong immediately put his sword into the sheath, stepped forward and squatted beside the young man, and held his hand: "Qinghao, how are you?"

Gu Qinghao hooked his lips slightly at him and shook his head: "I'm fine, why did you come here, big brother?"

Gu Qinghong said while holding his hand to convey spiritual power to him: " I saw a natural vision here at home, and I knew that there must be a change in Cangshan, so I immediately brought someone over, but I didn't expect that we arrived, but we were blocked outside the barrier and could not enter, so I have not been able to enter to find you, until just now a large number of monks are pouring in this direction, we only listened to the movement and came to see, originally thought that there was an enchantment to block, even if we came it was useless, but I didn't expect the enchantment here to suddenly break under their impact, although I was puzzled but did not dare to delay, and quickly came in. Fortunately, it came in time, if it is a step later, I am afraid you will ......"

Gu Qinghao immediately nodded: "It's Shangguan Gongzi, it was he who found the exit of the Nine Rounds Formation and told everyone to break out from here, he should still be in there now, we have to help him quickly!" Gu Qinghao was about to get up after speaking, but the injury was too serious, so he tore open the wound on his body after he moved, immediately hissed in pain, and sat down again.

Gu Qinghong hurriedly supported him: "You are too seriously injured to stay here, I will send someone to send you back first, leave it to me here, and I will bring someone in to save people." ”

Gu Qinghao shook his head and forced himself to calm down: "I'm fine, there are so many people inside, it's always good to have one more person to help, and I know where they are, I can take you to find him quickly, but it's ......" He turned his head to look at Qin Chuyun who was unconscious, "Chuyun is injured and needs to be treated quickly, if the eldest brother wants to help me, why don't you help me send Chuyun back." ”

Gu Qinghong looked at Qin Chuyun, then at Gu Qinghao, and sighed helplessly: "You kid, how much better are you than her......" He wanted to say something more, but the words suddenly stopped when he reached his mouth.

Because, he saw that there were snowflakes suddenly falling from the air, and it was very large, like the goose feather snow in the middle of winter, there was no wind or rain around, and even the sun was still hanging in the sky, but everyone suddenly felt a chill all over their bodies at the moment they saw the snowflakes, as if a cold air penetrated into their bodies from the soles of their feet, necks and cuffs, and suddenly felt like falling into an ice cave.

What a spooky snow.

"It's the middle of spring, how can there be snow, let alone snow that has such a strong chill, and these snowflakes alone can freeze people like this. "They are all monks with Jin Dan by their side, not to mention a few snowflakes, even if they meditate in the winter night of the wind and snow, they will not show half a point of timidity, but now they can't help but shiver. And this snow, without warning, fell so big all at once, as if it came out of thin air.

A green mountain was covered with a layer of whiteness in an instant.

Everyone was wondering, but suddenly there was a huge explosion in the distance, shaking the ground under their feet twice.

"What's that!" said one of the monks, staggering, pointing to a mountain peak in the distance.

Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that there was a huge black-purple vortex in the sky in that direction, and there were large expanses of cyan phosphorescence pouring down from the whirlpool, and after the phosphorescent light fell, it turned into red firelight, and the stars were dotted all over the mountain, and from a distance it looked like stars in the night, shining and vast. The next moment, those red fires suddenly and slowly floated up, condensed towards one place, and gathered into one red flower phantom after another, flying with the wind between the rolling mountains, cyan phosphorescence and safflower phantom fell and rose, blending and mixing in mid-air, which was beautiful.

Gu Qinghong and the others were simply stunned, and some people couldn't help muttering: "Could it be the stars in the sky that exploded just now, right?"

But before they could say a word, the shining beauty suddenly dimmed, and all the peaks covered by them turned black in an instant, from the peak to the mountainside, from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, it was like a black swimming dragon, flowing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and those peaks that were completely dead collapsed one after another, flattening and depression.

Rumble!

Another explosion sounded, and even if everyone was miles away, they couldn't bear the power of the explosion, and they all fell to the ground, and some even spilled blood from the corners of their mouths, and the black-purple vortex and the endless dozen peaks disappeared in an instant, leaving only skyrocketing sparks and flying dust!

Everyone looked at everything in front of them in a daze, and was silent for a long time, and finally a monk whispered, "There, razed to the ground?"

Gu Qinghong nodded: "That's half of Cangshan." ”

Gu Qinghao had a pair of scarlet eyes, and said with a sad face: "The people inside ......" Before he finished speaking, he fainted from exhaustion, Gu Qinghong stepped forward and hugged him, he looked at the ruins and sighed, "Alas, it seems that we don't have to save it." ”

In an open space in front of the entrance to the trial, hundreds of monks who had been shaken were on their backs, all prostrate on the ground in agony.*

"Why is it still blowing up here!Is there an accident?" one of the sect masters shouted with a confused expression on his face, and just after shouting, there was another shock under his feet, and he fell headlong again.

"It's so shaking outside, isn't it going to thunder all over the inside! What are they doing inside! Are the people inside still alive?" Another sect master next to him also shouted in the wind.

"Obediently, Qianqiu Pavilion is really down this time! Fucking Lao Tzu can't afford to mess with it, so he slipped away!"

Seeing this scene, a small sect with little power finally didn't have the courage to continue staying, and they didn't care that their disciples hadn't come out yet, so they patted their butts and fled.

In the crowd of fleeing people, Shangguan Ye stood with his sword in his hand, frowning and staring at the direction of the explosion, his face was gloomy and about to ooze water, and he suddenly shouted angrily: "All Shangguan disciples follow me in!"

"Yes!"

A long line of white swirled against the current and disappeared into the crowd in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Gu Xiaoqian, Duan Mocang, Qin Sheng, and Xiao Hanshan each glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment, and then led someone in.

Jiangyin, Liangwan City, on the high pavilion of the drunken evening building, a man in black with a black mask is standing in front of the window, holding his chest with one hand, holding a cup of tea in the other hand, twisting the mouth of the cup with his fingers, and indifferently looking at the black air in the sky above Cangshan.

"He has been a killer for so many years, and he has killed many people, including enemies, benefactors, brothers, fellow disciples, teachers, and even women and children, but there are two kinds of people, and he has never done it. The man in black shook the tea cup in his hand and said with a faint smile.

"What person?" said the gray-clothed man sitting behind him.

The man in black turned to look at the man in gray, the man in gray was wearing a particularly wide robe, and his body was hidden in it and the outline could not be seen, so he could not see the figure of this person, he carried a hat, covering all his face, and his appearance was naturally not clear.

"Loved ones and twenty-four blades. The man in black replied simply.

The man in gray paused when he stroked the hand of the teacup, but he didn't speak, only heard the man in black chuckle lightly, and said, "Do you think he will do it this time?"

The man in gray put down the teacup gently: "I don't know if he can't move, but one thing I know is that if he doesn't do it with you, it won't be because he cares about brotherhood." ”

The man in black was stunned when he heard this, shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "Yes, as a killer group, in order to achieve the realm of cooperation, the twenty-four blades ate and lived together and trained together, and they were inseparable for five years. Now I feel very painful when I think about it, and I don't know how I survived it in the first place, and I have suffered such a painful experience together, plus five years of getting along day and night, it is indeed not too much to say that we are brothers. ”

The man in gray was stunned at first, and then chuckled.

"What are you laughing at?" the man in black was puzzled.

"I didn't laugh at anything, I was just thinking, people say that the killer is ruthless, but you can still send someone to kill him, and at the same time say that you are brothers without blushing, I really don't know if you are a killer or not, or do you want to be shameless?"

When the man in black heard this, he was not angry, but he laughed out loud and responded: "What is our emotional entanglement? Compared with your uncles and nephews, it is far behind! At most, we will gather if it is advantageous, and disperse if it is not profitable, anyway, we have nothing to do with it, but you blood relatives can still make trouble with each other to the point where you are using each other to the death, that is really embarrassing!"

The gray-clothed man's hand holding the teacup tightened suddenly, his bones clicked, and his tone of voice suddenly became gloomy, with undisguised anger and threat: "It's been a long time since anyone said this in front of me. ”

The man in black didn't seem to take his threat seriously at all, and said in a joking tone as usual: "Yes, it is true that no one has mentioned the two-day competition on Flowing Fire Island back then. ”