Empty Mountain City, one of the nine cities under Jiao'an, lives next to the boundary of Black Mountain City.

Jiao'an Lingduo Mountains, the main mountain range is the Tianfeng Mountain Range that extends from Tianfeng Mountain, of which the Heishi Mountain Range and the Baifeng Mountain Range are the two largest branches of the Tianfeng Mountain Range. At a point on the left side of the Tianfeng Mountain Range, these two branches are divided into one north and one south, and they are divided into four lower city areas. Among them, Black Mountain City and Boulder City are divided by relying on the Black Stone Mountain Range, while Empty Mountain City and Baifeng City are divided by relying on the White Peak Mountain Range.

Empty Mountain City, unlike Black Mountain City and Boulder City, divides the entire Blackstone Mountain Range equally.

Nearly three-quarters of the White Peak Mountain Range is covered by White Peak City, and Sky Mountain City only divides into the small barren mountain range at the beginning of the branch.

There are no veins in this mountain range, let alone the rarer spiritual mines.

However, this empty mountain city has one advantage, that is, it is big enough.

The city was built on the interior of the beginning of the White Peak Mountain Range, and almost half of the space of the mountain range was hollowed out, which was several times larger than Black Mountain City and White Peak City in terms of scale. And Empty Mountain Castle is the only safe road to the gray forest.

The gray and white forest is connected to the dangerous mountains of the Baifeng Mountain Range in the west, and if you want to cross the Baifeng Mountain Range, you need to face a large number of middle and high-level demon beasts, and even rumored to have demons and monsters living on the mountain. And even if you are lucky not to die in the mouth of monsters such as monsters, it is not easy to go down from this end of the mountain, where there are clouds and mist all the year round, and even if you consume the divine mind induction, you will be too far away, and the slightest mistake will be the end of falling off the cliff.

The east and even the entire northeast to the north are natural quagmire forbidden places. No one knows the specific reason for its formation, but people only know that even a Realm Breaking Monk can't cross this vast quagmire, because this quagmire seems to have a natural rejection of aura, and if a monk accidentally steps into the swamp when the True Yuan is exhausted, then it is no different from a dead person, because this quagmire swamp is not a peaceful place.

And to the south, no one knows where it is or where it leads.

At least, no one who entered the Gray Forest through this safe passage in Empty Mountain City has yet been able to get out of the Gray Forest from the south. Not to mention that the further south you go, the more powerful the demon beasts you will encounter, and the vast majority of people will often disappear suddenly and inexplicably even in the process of advancing south, and no one will ever see their whereabouts again.

So over time, the southern part of the gray and white forest also has the saying that the forbidden area of life is forbidden.

Holding Qingyi, Ye Kong was whispering to her about this knowledge.

Although he can't teach Qingyi any exercises for the time being, Ye Kong thinks it's still necessary to fully popularize these common senses to her first.

However, because there are two people, Zhao Yu and Zhao De, Ye Kong naturally won't say a lot of content that can be regarded as secrets. Zhao Yu, a little girl, has an inexplicable sense of trust in Ye Kong's identity as the second uncle, so in Ye Kong's opinion, she is a relatively easy person to fool.

But Zhao De is not a person who is easy to fool, this old guy Ye Kong is estimated to be at least a hundred years old, and there should be no hope of breaking through the Xuan Realm in this life. However, an old guy with rich life experience like this also has a lot of troubles, and the most important thing is that this old guy is very suspicious, as long as Ye Kong reveals a little abnormal place, this old guy can immediately open his brain, and then start talking.

Ye Kong is really annoyed by this kind of person.

So along the way, he almost didn't bother with Zhao De at all, and only occasionally exchanged a few words with Zhao Yu.

Because the mountain forest where Ye Kong and the others were located was not too far from Empty Mountain City, after identifying the direction, it took less than three days for the group of four to rush back to Empty Mountain City. However, except for Zhao Yu, Ye Kong and Zhao De were very tacitly not to mention the Zhao family guards who died in the battle in the mountains and forests.

Most of those people are just blood refining masters, that is, the so-called first-class masters in the secular world, and it is not impossible for cultivators to enter the Xuan Realm who are regarded as innate levels, but in fact there are not many. Except for the person who was called Lao Ding by Zhao De who was a genuine master, everyone else was only the strength of the first and second layers of the Xuan, and it was obviously impossible for these people to survive when they encountered the ambush that Jiao Anluo's family had prepared.

The only thing that made Zhao De feel sorry was Lao Ding.

And the mountain forest is not a safe area, the smell of the blood of those people's death has long been dissipated, even if it is not said that it has been three days now, I am afraid that it will attract many beasts to come that night, and even demon beasts and the like.

Zhao Yu didn't understand, but it didn't mean that Ye Kong and Zhao De didn't understand, but the two didn't say anything.

When the group arrived at Empty Mountain City, they were soon welcomed into a mansion.

There is not much in the empty mountain city, but there is a lot of land; Nothing is big, it's just land.

This mansion, which had been secretly bought by the Zhao family, was no different from the garden in Ye Kong's opinion. There are rockeries, courtyards, small artificial lakes, and dozens of houses are built around these garden landscapes layer upon layer, giving people the first feeling of luxury and dignity, according to the pomp of the Zhao family, this place is indeed very in line with their identity.

However, Zhao De did not immediately take Ye Kong to meet the Zhao family steward who is now here in Kongshan City, that is, the younger brother of the original owner of Ye Kong's corpse and Zhao Yu's father, Zhao Yun.

Instead, he asked his subordinates to arrange a clean and tidy residence for Ye Kong, and let Ye Kong and Qingyi move in first.

Ye Kong didn't have any dissatisfaction with this, but at the moment he wanted to play the role of an amnesiac Zhao family's sister-in-law, so he just stared at Zhao De with slightly vigilant and guarded eyes for a while, and then under Zhao Yu's timely appeasement, he left with Qingyi and the servant.

The house arranged for Ye Kong is worthy of the identity of "the second master of the Zhao family".

A small courtyard with a quiet environment, two entrances and falls, no gatehouse, but a fence to enclose an isolation, which is regarded as an enclosure. The furniture in the front hall is all high-end goods from the secular world, and the cost is expensive, but it is not worth mentioning for the monastic world. The backyard is two wings on the left and right, with a walkway paved with bluestone in the middle, separated by four small gardens, one of which is also planted with some fruits and vegetables.

Originally, the housekeeper wanted to arrange twelve maids for Ye Kong, but they were all rejected by Ye Kong.

The housekeeper obviously knew the temperament and habits of the second master, and he didn't care too much about his refusal to arrange the maid. However, I still made some things clear to Ye Kong, such as meals and the like, which will be delivered at regular intervals, and servants will come to clean up every afternoon.

In this regard, Ye Kong was noncommittal.

"Master, do we really want to stay?" Qing Yi first walked around the house curiously, and then asked Ye Kong.

"Yes." Ye Kong nodded, "I originally planned to go to the Yucaoju to buy you a Wash Pill." But there is no need for this now, just go directly to the Zhao family to get one later. …… Since they want to send us something, we can't afford not to take it, and it will be the reward for saving those two men. ”

Ye Kong said easily.

I didn't want to come before because I was afraid of getting into trouble, but now that I don't come, I don't care, so he doesn't care about the development of the situation. Anyway, he also found an excuse to say that he had amnesia, whether the people of the Zhao family believed it or not, he believed it anyway.

Moreover, when he met the female disciple of the Snow Mountain Sword Sect before, Ye Kong always felt that something was wrong with the situation.

But what was wrong, he couldn't tell.

It is precisely because of this that the matter of teaching Qingyi must be put on the agenda.

Although Qingyi is still young, she is not a person who doesn't understand anything. Although Ye Kong said it easily, there was still a gloom in her eyes.

"It's fine." Ye Kong smiled and rubbed Qingyi's head, "I have my own plans for the teacher, don't worry." …… What I'm more curious about now is what the Xu family and the Zhao family have to do, maybe we can make a profit from it. ”

Although Qingyi didn't understand the meaning of "making a fortune", at least she knew that her master, probably didn't plan to do anything good.

And just when Ye Kong was thinking about how to squeeze the Zhao family's resources, Zhao De also took Zhao Yu to report to Zhao Yun.

After briefly explaining what happened to them, Zhao Yun also let Zhao Yu go down first, leaving only Zhao De.

Although Zhao De was arranged by Zhao Kang to Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun has always trusted Zhao De and has not been disliked because of his low strength. And all the time, Zhao De's performance is also very satisfactory to Zhao Yun, although the low strength is always a shortcoming, but Zhao De's rich experience and experience often benefit Zhao Yun a lot, and because of this, Zhao Yun will arrange Zhao De to follow Zhao Yu.

is not to protect Zhao Yu, but to teach Zhao Yu the ability to deal with people.

Zhao Yun's name was originally chosen by Zhao Jian for his second son, which means "Yun Conglong", alluding to the meaning of the two brothers working together.

But unexpectedly, he was intercepted by Zhao Kang, and after that, Zhao Kang's second room was also the third son of Zhao Jian's third room, and Zhao Kang took the meaningful name of "Wind from the Tiger" - this is also the reason why the two brothers Zhao Jian and Zhao Kang are not very harmonious now.

However, although Zhao Yun took such a name as Si Swenwen, in fact, Zhao Yun was born with five big and three thick, and he and Zhao Hu are also half-brothers. For a long time, he has a lot of opinions about Zhao Hu, after all, many times Zhao Hu caused trouble, Zhao Yun is responsible for cleaning up.

After hearing Zhao De's suspicions at this time, he also had some concerns about Zhao Hu in his heart: "Uncle De, what do you think about this matter?" ”

For Zhao De, Zhao Yun is still more respectful.

Knowing what Zhao Yun was asking about, Zhao De was not ambiguous: "No matter whether the second master is true or not, we can only treat him as true." ”

"What do you mean......" Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted.

"The Xu family's goods have been robbed this time, if I and the fourth lady are also dead, then naturally no one will know the situation, but now it's different." Zhao De opened his mouth and said, "The Luo family must pay for this. In this case, if the second master is there, as long as it is not in the third realm, then no one can stop the second master's knife. ”

Zhao Yun nodded with a gloomy face, and said, "How dare you hurt me Yu'er, these miscellaneous pieces of the Luo family!" I'm going to make them pay! ”

Zhao Yu is the daughter of Zhao Yun and the only heir of Zhao Yun, ranking sixth in the fifth generation of the Zhao family's genealogy, and fourth among the women of the fifth generation of the Zhao family, so she is called the fourth lady of the Zhao family. The natural ability shows a good side, but perhaps because she is the pearl of Zhao Yun's palm and the only heir of Zhao Yun's house, she has been spoiled by Zhao Yun since she was a child, so her actual combat ability is very worrying.

"So ......"

"Uncle De, not recently." Zhao Yun knew what Zhao De meant, but he shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice, "You haven't been back for a while, so it's not clear, Tushan County, which is under the jurisdiction of Black Mountain City, has caused a big mess recently, and someone from Muwangfu has come to investigate." And Changshengmen also sent people, obviously planning to attack the people of Mu Wangfu, it is said that in Wanzhulin before, Changshengmen was killed by several disciples of Mu Wangfu, so this time it must be here to take revenge. ”

"This ......" Zhao De's face changed slightly.

"If the woman you mentioned before is really a disciple of the Snow Mountain Sword Sect, then this Jiao An ...... In other words, in this Black Mountain City and Empty Mountain City, the two cities under the jurisdiction of the Xu family's sphere of influence, there are three top sects in Chizhou gathered. Zhao Yun's brows were also furrowed very tightly, almost becoming a single eyebrow, "So now don't say that the Luo family and the Xu family are just a leading family, even those wealthy families in Anfang are trembling now." ”

"It's a pity." Zhao De sighed.

"There's nothing to worry about, although it's not too peaceful here, but let alone two idlers, even if there are ten more, it's not a problem." Zhao Yun said lightly, "The specific situation, let's see what these giants say." …… But now that my brother is back, I can't let him be too idle. ”

Zhao Yun stretched out his hand and gently knocked on the table, and said with a smile: "The side branch of the Luo family on the side of Baifeng City has recently extended his hand to the side of Kongshan City, and the Xu family has to deal with the trouble over there in Tushan County, and they really can't spare their hands, and the 'city lord' here is begging for us, and I am worried about who to help." ”

The word "city lord", Zhao Yun accentuated his tone, and the smile on his face seemed meaningful.