In the depths of the courtyard, the dark shadows are heavy, the big tree that covers the sky and the sun is like a giant umbrella covering the starlight, at the foot of the big tree, a dilapidated temple looms, the withered old vines, like an old snake crawling all over the broken walls of the temple, the night wind rises, and the whimpering sound comes in bursts.

Ning Xiaoqian's crying voice became clearer and clearer from far to near, and it was also mixed with the messy swear words of the big man.

The big man dragged Ning Xiaoqian directly into the temple, and when the figures of the two disappeared into the darkness, under the shadows of the big trees, ghosts appeared, all of them were women with disheveled hair and hideous faces.

In the temple, at the foot of the collapsed statue, Dahan threw Ning Xiaoqian to the ground at random, and he groped around the fragments of the statue, and finally grabbed a figure.

The long withered hair was scattered on his head, and his face was full of stains, and he couldn't tell whether this person was a man or a woman, and the strong man brushed away the messy hair that covered the person's face with his hand, pinched his chin and said, "Nie Xia, it's still alive!"

The man couldn't speak, and in his still clear eyes, there was clearly visible hatred and murderous intent!

The strong man seemed to be very satisfied with this person's eyes, he held the long hair on the man's head with one hand, and asked him to look up as much as possible, looking at Ning Xiaoqian, who was trembling on the ground not far away.

"Take a good look, look at this woman!Oh no! This female ghost to be exact!" the strong man bared his ephedra teeth and smiled cruelly!

"You've never experienced this woman's hydration. The strong man said, he leaned over and grabbed Ning Xiaoqian's ankle, grabbed Ning Xiaoqian to his side, and his stained hands roamed around Ning Xiaoqian's body.

Ning Xiaoqian never knew that there was a living person in this temple, she was dodging the strong man's big hand, and there was an expression on her face that she wanted to refuse and welcome.

"This is the person you have in mind, you would never have thought she was such a person!" the strong man continued.

On the other side, the old lady walked in with a chain and a man with empty eyes, this person was the man Ning Xiaoqian grabbed from Lijiagou tonight.

Seeing this, the strong man pushed the female ghost in his arms towards the man and said, "Hurry up and replenish the aura, otherwise how will you serve Uncle Ben in a while!"

Ning Xiaoqian took the chain from the old woman's hand, she couldn't help but look back at the man on the ground who looked like a corpse, and at the moment she turned her head, she could see the pain and sadness hidden in the eyes of the female ghost!

The strong man turned his head, he spat on the man's head, and sat on the head of a god statue thinking about the lady Shanyu who came to the mansion tonight.

Yan Chichen thought about it for a long time, and he probably had some plans.

Here Ning Xiaoqian also looked particularly moving as if she had just come out of the bath, she walked to Yan Chichen's side and sat down in Yan Chichen's arms.

Yan Chichen was impatient, he stuck to Ning Xiaoqian's face, and between breaths, streams of pure aura poured out of Ning Xiaoqian's body, and then through Yan Chichen's face, it was absorbed into Yan Chichen's body.

In this process, Ning Xiaoqian was very painful, her face was distorted, and she let out a miserable scream, and the figure not far away saw all this in his eyes, he silently closed his eyes and gnawed the floor with his teeth, leaving clearly visible blood marks.

When all this was done, Yan Chichen was refreshed, he pushed Ning Xiaoqian away, and the aura of his whole body swirled, sending out one fluctuation after another that made people's hearts palpitate.

It's no wonder that Lady Shanyu is not an opponent, this Yan Chichen in front of her is actually a cultivator of the Five-Rank Peerless Realm!

Yan Chichen adjusted the Yin Vein Aura in his body, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Ning Xiaoqian and said, "Xiaoqian, I still need you to act for me next!"

After saying this, Yan Chichen let out a sneer that sent chills down his spine.

Ning Xiaoqian looked at him and asked with some fear, "How to act?"

Yan Chichen touched his chin full of beard, and said slowly: "Don't be embarrassed, you just need to act in your true colors, the plot is like this, you go to the village to find them for help, just say that you were originally a young lady in a nearby prosperous town, because you were caught here in the process of meeting your sweetheart, and finally persecuted to death, and after death, you became my plaything, ask them to save you and your sweetheart!"

Yan Chichen said it lightly, but Ning Xiaoqian listened to it heartbreakingly, this is completely to tell her what happened these days, and say it again.

Ning Xiaoqian tidied up her clothes, she got up and left the temple, and before leaving, Yan Chichen said: "Xiaoqian, if you do this well, I will let you and Nie Xia leave!"

Ning Xiaoqian, who heard this, obviously trembled.

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In the southeast corner of the imperial capital, in a large mansion that is not very richly decorated, and some years old, an old man with gray temples is drinking tea in the garden at the moment.

The garden is not big, there is a rockery fish pond, there is a small bridge and flowing water, it looks delicate and moving, the east and west north and south corners of the yard, each planted a locust tree, it is almost autumn now, but the four big locust trees still look vigorous and verdant.

The old man was holding an ancient book with dark blue skin in his hand, and he was so engrossed in reading it that he had even forgotten the tea that was about to be cooled next to him.

Here, a man in a military uniform walked in slowly, the old man did not look up, he was still immersed in the world of books, the man did not bother, he was very patient, as a soldier, the most important thing is patience.

The old man sat for an afternoon, and the man also stood next to him for an afternoon, during which the man also took the initiative to add water to the old man's teacup three times, and the water in the teapot was changed four or five times, the man was not impatient, he did it very carefully, and he was also very skilled, because of these things, he has been doing it since he was a child.

It wasn't until the sun fell that the old man stretched his waist, and he rubbed his eyes, looking a little tired.

The old man took a sip of water, and the water temperature was just right, which showed that the person next to him was very attentive.

Tea is the most ordinary tea, and the water is also ordinary well water from the well in the yard, but the old man is very satisfied with it.

It wasn't until this moment that the old man said slowly, "You're back?"

The man nodded, "It's back!"

The old man got up and patted the man on the shoulder, there was a kind of kindness that a father only has for his son, they were not father and son, but they were better than father and son.

"Isn't that good, boy?" asked the old man after a polite conversation with the man.

"Not bad! Now he is a small local rich man!" replied the man.

The old man's expression was a little abrupt, but also a little relieved, he came back to his senses, stared at the man, and finally said, "Next, I will transfer you back to my side." ”

The man looked at the old man, he pondered for a moment, and then said, "After the desolate king asked me to finish my work for you, I will go to his account!"

When the old man heard this, he was a little stunned, and he subconsciously wanted to ask the other party if he already knew what he had explained, but when he saw the man's eyes, the old man changed his words and said, "Then what do you mean?"

"The prince is very strong, so I want to go and see his soldiers!" the man said, this is something he has been thinking about for a long time, so he did not hesitate to say it now.

The old man nodded, didn't say anything, he watched this child grow up, and he also knew his temperament, there was no superfluous instructions, the only requirement was that no matter what, coming back alive was the most important thing!

The man nodded, he was a little hesitant, although he had thought about this matter many times, but he still didn't know how to speak.

He was raised by the old man in front of him, everything in this yard was very familiar, and all this time, the old man had never told him anything about the truth about his father, and he had never even mentioned his father.

But this time, he had to muster up the courage to ask what had really happened back then, why was his father, who was the marshal of one side, so rebellious, that he was beheaded all over the house.

"Father-in-law, I want to know the truth!" the man said slowly, his tone was a little low, and it took a certain amount of courage to say this.

The old man trembled a little, his face tried to remain calm, but his heart was mixed with various emotions, he had been silent to Xia Yi about his father's case back then, there were many reasons.

Because this is too much involved, the ultimate source is the one on the throne of the Great Xia Emperor today, the more you know, the faster Xia Yi may die.

But now he knew that he couldn't hide it, because the child had grown up to the point where he desperately wanted to know the truth, and he had no excuse to continue to hide it.

The old man took a breath of talk, he didn't look at Xia Yi, he turned around and said, "If you want to know the truth, you come with me!"

Xia Yi's heart suddenly became excited, and he quickly followed the old man in front of him and walked towards the depths of the mansion.

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Shi Jin sat in front of the cliff of Tianshan Mountain, and next to him stood a young man - Sima Yi.

On the top of Tianshan Mountain, there are mostly the kind of broken huge stones, and time has left the wind and frost of the years on the surface of the stones, and the man touched the rough stone surface with his hand, and he was a little trance.

It was not easy for the boy to leave, and he left early one morning, when the sun was just right! Suddenly found that the child had reached the age where he could leave home, and Shi Jin was still a little unaccustomed to it.

The boy next to him used a stone to play a game of catching stones, which is a very common game, that is, to pick up a stone in his hand, and then when the stone is thrown in the air in his hand, he quickly picks up a stone on the ground, and then catches the one thrown in the air.

The young man was having a lot of fun, and Shi Jin glanced back at it on the side, feeling ridiculous, and turned his head to continue to look at the sea of clouds in front of him.

An existence that calls for wind and rain in the Great Xia, as one of the four heroes of the Shangqing Dynasty in the past, would like to play this kind of children's game.

The boy skillfully grabbed the stones on the ground, and finally threw the stones into the sea of clouds, clapped his hands, and pretended to look at the sea of clouds in front of him to see if there would be waves.

Shi Jin looked at the other party's actions, a little stunned, and then shook his head, he couldn't figure it out.

Could it be that the last thing that Yu picked up was to make such a mentally retarded thing?

With his understanding of the middle-aged man who was barely called a colleague, he would not do such a meaningless thing.

The young man turned his head and happened to see Shi Jin's contemplative expression, he said lightly: "Don't think deeply about why my stupid junior brother did this, what he did, except for himself, it is estimated that no one knows the reason." ”

Shi Jin was a little embarrassed, he showed his trademark smile, but the boy scolded in a low voice: "Idiot!"

Shi Jin's face changed rapidly, "Do you think I can't kill you now?"

The young man waved his hand, showed a smile and said, "Look, Sect Master Shi, what are you talking about, why can't you two joke yet?"

Shi Jin sneered, and suddenly found that the boy actually had a similar smell to himself.

The young man showed a mouthful of white teeth, "Sect Master Shi, now in Qingshui Village, in addition to you, the head snake, there are still a lot of miscellaneous fish, right now, as the largest mountain figure in the northwest of Great Xia, you have to be long-hearted!"

When Shi Jin heard this, he was inexplicably shocked in his heart, he could not take it seriously when others said this, but now that the young man said this, he had to think a little more.

"Maybe in the eyes of many people, Great Xia has just eaten the fat of the Heavenly Sin Ancient Land, and it will take three or five years to digest it, but you and I both know that Great Xia's plan to advance eastward is inevitable! For the one on the throne, it is enough for you to sit in the southwest!"

Shi Jin rubbed his cheeks, and he suddenly asked, "Have you arranged it a long time ago?"

The boy pretended not to know, and said innocently, "What have I arranged?"

"The Tiantong Sect sits in the southwest of Great Xia, and then dominates the forces in the southwest mountains, so that Great Xia can rest assured that it will advance eastward!"

However, the young man shook his finger, pointed to the mountains and rivers in front of him and said: "Actually, our initial plan was not like this, but maybe he didn't expect that the figure in Tsing Yi could really reach this point, so after that, I had to adjust the layout!"

"Why did you choose us?" Shi Jin understood, of course, and asked a question that he had always wanted to know.

Great Xia is a well-deserved overlord of Cangzhou, really, it has a lot of forces in its own country that can be supported, why did it choose a new mountain force to cooperate?

The young man opened his eyes wide and looked at Shi Jin, looking like a fool.

"Do you know if there's anyone above you?" said the boy lightly.

"I'm not the only one up there!" Shi Jin muttered, he didn't think he was teasing him!

"Although there are very few great cultivators of the human race, there are still a few, and among them, everyone who can take root in the Jedi all year round is worthy of praise! And it just so happens that the person above you is one of them!" the young man said seriously.

Shi Jin heard some flavor this time, but he still didn't think it was the real reason.

The boy shook his head, looked like he didn't make a head, and threw away along the mountain road.