Zhao Yi followed him to a pavilion in the depths of the mansion.

I saw that the pavilion was in disrepair due to aging, and the plaque was hanging crookedly on it, and the surface was covered with dust, and I couldn't see the words engraved on it for a long time.

Pushing open the door, wisps of dust poured down, choking Zhao Yi coughing, squinting his eyes as his grandfather came out with something wrapped in a black cloth from inside.

"At that time, the team that followed your father was all dead, and there was only one wound on their bodies. Without exception, all their internal organs were gone. ”

Mrs. Zhao handed him the thing he was holding in his hand and continued, "This is something that was found from your dead father's side. ”

Zhao Yi was puzzled: "What is this?"

"Lift the black cloth and look for yourself, my grandfather doesn't know what it is. ", Mrs. Zhao said, holding it.

After lifting the black cloth, Zhao Yi's eyes widened slightly, and in front of his eyes were a pair of huge hard shells that he had never seen before.

Shaped like a praying mantis's scythe arms, they were covered with jagged spikes, empty in the middle, and glowed with a ghostly glow that had faded over time.

The edges of the hard shell dragged long white waste skin, like the skin of some creature.

Zhao Yi stretched out a finger and touched the inside of the hard shell, as soon as his finger touched it, the skin was cut, and the blood spilled out, he exclaimed, "What a sharp thing!"

"Judging from my father's wound and the appearance of this object, there is a good chance that it took my father's life!"

Zhao Yi carefully analyzed, "There are no other wounds on my father's body, only the one on his abdomen, and he was killed by the other party's blow." My father is also a military general, and his skills must be extraordinary, in this western land, who can do this without my father even reacting. ”

"Who has that ability?"

Zhao Yi thought about it a little, now that he was a cultivator, his eyes couldn't be one-sided, and he suddenly thought of a certain possibility, "If it's an outsider, such as the person wrapped in a black robe next to Han Tao." ”

During the bloody battle with Wei Bing, he saw that the other party was the same as Brother Zhao Qian, and they were both people with advanced cultivation.

As soon as he thought of this, Mrs. Zhao opened his mouth and said, "Grandson, have you ever heard that there has always been a terrifying rumor in the land of Xixiang. ”

"What rumors?", Zhao Yi couldn't help asking.

"Among the many people in the land of Saigo, there are often people who disappear inexplicably, and it is rumored that those who disappeared were all eaten by monsters. ”

Zhao Yi's heart was shocked, he thought of a possibility again, and thought in his heart, "How did I forget this, maybe killing my father is not a person at all." My father's internal organs were hollowed out, maybe they were eaten, they were killed by monsters like those in Yin Wind Valley, or by demonic cultivators like Wan Qing."

Zhao Yi asked again, "Grandfather, is there anything else suspicious in the place where my father died?"

Mrs. Zhao recalled it carefully, and said uncertainly: "In the place where your father died, there is a barren mountain to the east, and there is a high and narrow cave in it. We had seen several scattered white bones in the cave, mutilated, and these white wastes beside them. Other than that, there is nothing else. ”

After hearing his grandfather's words, Zhao Yi stood aside and stared at the pair of hard shells, groaning in his heart, "It seems that I must go and see the barren mountain that my grandfather said again, where the last clue should be hidden." ”

In the following days, Zhao Yi went to the place that his grandfather had said, and also found the high and narrow cave.

It's just that the entrance of the cave has long been covered by dead branches and waste grass, and it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.

But Zhao Yi was afraid of missing some clues, so he opened the holy pupil of his left eye, and the black pupil was coated with a layer of gold film, and walked in with a sword.

The dark and lightless cave penetrates deep into the mountain, and the interior is quiet, eerie and cold, and a faint golden light quietly passes through the cave with a series of faint footsteps.

Upon exploring the cave, he found it empty. Even the white bones that my grandfather spoke of may have turned to dust with the passage of time.

He then searched around the cave again, but found no clues.

He sighed, "Could it be that my father died in vain, what killed him?" ”

He was unwilling, and once again explored the inside and outside of the cave, and even exaggerated the entire barren mountain, but he still found nothing, and finally went back helplessly.

After another three days, in addition to accompanying his grandfather and Han Yuchen, he stayed in the house to meditate and cultivate, exhaling the essence between heaven and earth.

But he found a problem in his cultivation, as long as he absorbed all the essence around him, there would be no essence in this space for him to absorb, and when this air was filled with essence again, he didn't know how long it would take.

"I've only now opened up to the second spiritual aperture, and the spiritual power water in the spiritual aperture is not even half of it. ”

Zhao Yi opened his eyes and pondered: "How can it be so difficult to draw essence from heaven and earth to cultivate, it seems that the information left for me in that sword is only the tip of the iceberg, and I still have a lot of things I don't know! ”

He finished his previous spitting and lay down in bed to rest. It was late at night, but he found himself unable to sleep, and his heart was full of sorrows.

The murderer who killed his father, how to plan his cultivation, and the information hinted at by Huo Lao, as well as the darkness hiding in all corners of the world. They've been hiding, afraid that someone will find them, or are they waiting for some kind of opportunity?

"I actually started to shake again. Zhao Yi muttered, got up from the bed, got dressed, and walked out of the room.

The courtyard in the dead of night is bitterly cold.

He curled his neck, wrapped his coat tighter, and sat down in the pavilion, staring blankly at the starlight in the sky.

At this moment, a shout came, "Grandson!"

Mrs. Zhao walked over from a distance and sat down beside him.

Zhao Yi was a little surprised: "It's all this hour, why hasn't my grandfather fallen asleep yet?"

"Because I'm worried about something like my grandson, I haven't slept either. Mrs. Zhao looked at him with a certain sad look.

"I don't know why my grandfather is worried. ”

Zhao Yi looked at the other party's kind face, and for some reason he was a little depressed in his heart, and continued to ask: "If the grandson can help his grandfather solve it, he will do his best." ”

"Don't overdo it, read it first. Mrs. Zhao took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to him, "This is a letter from Your Majesty to you." ”

Zhao Yi opened the letter, and after reading it, his heart was heavy, and he asked again, "Grandfather has read it all?"

Old Lady Zhao nodded, "This letter was sent when you were out, and you haven't returned for a few days, I'm afraid that something important will be delayed, so I opened it." ”

After speaking, his cloudy eyes were already full of crystal, and he said a little reluctantly: "When are you going to leave!"

"Now that my grandfather knows about it, my grandson is going to get up tomorrow, and staying behind will only add to his sorrow. ”

Zhao Yi took off his robe, draped it on the other party's body, and prayed: "Grandfather, grandson has one more thing to trouble you." ”

"Needless to say, I will tell her about you after you leave, lest she cry so much that you can't bear it. ”

"The grandfather is the only one who knows his grandchildren, and he has worked hard. Zhao Yi was grateful, and he was helpless this time.

The world he knew had begun to change, so how could he remain the same......

Then the old and the young stopped talking, and they all stared blankly at the night sky, each with their own thoughts.

The next day, the sky in the distance revealed a trace of fish belly white, and the sky was gray, and Zhao Yi rode out of the leafless city alone.

"The letter was delivered a few days ago, and I have been delayed for a long time, so he must have been waiting a little anxiously, and he has to hurry up to Brother Zhao Qian's side. ”

Drive~drive~

The steed brought up a gust of wind and galloped quickly into the distance.

In Yancheng, after the last battle of Zhao Qian, dumb servant, and Wan Qing, many buildings and houses were destroyed. And looking at it like this, there is no trace left by the war.

In this month's time, all the destroyed things have been rebuilt and renovated, and brand new houses have been erected in Yancheng.

Under Zhao Qian's methodical rule, the people have lived a stable and happy life.

At the same time, the Gaoyan Palace, which had been reduced to ruins, was also rebuilt, and the magnificent hall was even more brilliant and atmospheric.

At this moment, there were three people standing on the top of the temple talking about something.

"Senior brother, you have been procrastinating for time, although I won't say anything, junior brother, I can't guarantee that Master won't be in a hurry. ”

A strange man dressed in a dark robe with a jade flute pinned to his waist said to Zhao Qian with an expressionless face: "The palace seal of Tianshu Palace is on Senior Brother, and Senior Brother is here, Senior Brother doesn't understand what you are waiting for?"

"Senior Brother Luo Jinghuan, don't worry, wait. Zhao Qian smiled kindly, and suddenly looked out of the city, "He's here!"

The man called 'Luo Jinghuan' showed a puzzled expression, followed Zhao Qian's line of sight and looked out of the city, saw Zhao Yi on the horse, and immediately said: "Senior brother, you have dragged on for so long, just ~ just to wait for him." ”

"Not bad!", Zhao Qian replied.

"Senior brother, isn't he joking with junior brother, he is a kid who enters and exits the threshold and wastes me so much time?"

Seeing Zhao Qian's straight face, he snorted coldly and stopped talking, but said secretly in his heart: "Look what tricks you are playing. ”

Zhao Yi walked all the way to the front of Gao Yan Hall and shouted, "Brother Zhao Qian, I'm sorry, I'm late." ”

"It's nothing!" Zhao Qian's fingers raised slightly upward, and the invisible sword qi condensed under Zhao Yi's feet, slowly carrying him towards the three of them.

"Xiao Yi, have you thought about what I said to you in my letter?"

"I'm willing to go. ”

"Okay!", Zhao Qian nodded and said, "Just think about it, you have to remember one thing, where you can learn top-level supernatural powers that you have never seen, but you will also encounter a variety of setbacks along the way of cultivation, you have to stick to the belief in your heart." ”

Zhao Yi remembered Brother Zhao Qian's words. But listening to Brother Zhao Qian's voice, aren't you going to go out together?"

"Well, I changed my mind. ”

Zhao Qian walked to the edge of the top of the hall, looked around at Yancheng, which was gradually moving towards prosperity, and said leisurely: "I want to stay and take care of it and the land under my feet." ”

"Is that so?", Zhao Yi was in a trance in his heart.

"You don't have to be worried, and when you finish your studies, it's not that you can't come back. ”

Zhao Qian pointed to this piece of land and said, "When the time comes, you will definitely see a different land of Xixiang, a holy land full of cultivators. ”

"Is Brother Zhao Qian going to hand over what he has learned to them?"

"Xiao Yi really understands me, I am ready to open a martial arts academy and start cultivating from the younger generation. ”

"I thought my eldest brother had forgotten all the promises he made when he was a child. ”

Zhao Yi said with a smile: "It turned out that it had been planned for a long time! It's just a different way to achieve it." ”