After walking for about forty minutes to the northwest, the old wizard led Ye Qi to a dense forest - in fact, he had been walking in the dense forest before, and despite the old wizard's detailed introduction, Ye Qi could only distinguish some of the differences through the [Consciousness of Nature]; And it was precisely because of this difference that Ye Qi was able to understand that the little things that the old wizard told him about were all true.

The old wizard turned around, looked at Ye Qi, who was slightly puzzled, and couldn't help but chuckle: "Why, you seem to have some doubts; As an old man, I will be sincerely happy to solve the doubts of young people! ”

Ye Qi shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's just a little strange, I just feel that you really have some ...... in naming each tree and stone Well, nothing! ”

Obviously, the adjectives in the back, Ye Qi looked at the old wizard in front of him and couldn't speak; However, the old wizard spread his hands without caring at all, and said, "Childish? ”

Ye Qi nodded.

The old wizard laughed, "Thank you for your honesty, at least, it will give me some confidence in our next conversation!" Without continuing to follow the main point, the old wizard changed his words and returned to the previous topic: "Have you ever traveled for a long time, in its entirety, to the places you want, or have you simply taken a trip around the world?" ”

Ye Qi shook his head and said, "That is one of my long-standing wishes, but it's a bit of a pity that some or more troubles keep popping up in front of me, preventing me from making the long-awaited trip - if I could, it would have been about nine years later...... One in his thirties. Almost half of the guys. Not an old guy yet. So, it's not too late, right? ”

The old wizard nodded affirmatively, and said, "Of course, of course, it's not too late at all, after all, I really left the hands of wizards, and the age when I started to travel was already after the age of thirty - sufficient funds, good strength to defend myself." and some necessary opportunities...... After all, in my time, under the reign of the Divine Age, if I was caught, being burned to death was the only end! ”

"So...... In order not to burn myself, I can only strengthen myself and at the same time understand the changes in the outside world - do you know the way? At the time, I was very different from that, and I was nicknamed 'Idiot Lend' at the time, and then 'Fool Lendle'...... Therefore. I had no friends, and this was the only place I could stay; At that time, young wizards were very fond of throwing slugs into your neckline. And if I go to the public bath, I will have some intimate contact with some ice water......"

The old wizard talked about the events of three hundred years ago, and there was no resentment on his face, but more nostalgia, and he pointed to a tree beside him: "At that time, I really wanted a friend, so I looked for my friends here, named them, told jokes, and even wanted to use spells to bring them back to life - although I met a druid master later, and he really had such a solution, but in the end, I didn't do it, and still let my friends remain the same way they were!" ”

Ye Qi subconsciously asked, "For what?" ”

Ye Qi's face was a little puzzled, according to the situation described by the old wizard, the old wizard at that time should be very 'lonely', in such an incomprehensible environment, an object of confiding is what he really needs, if he puts himself in his shoes and thinks about it, Ye Qi will definitely choose to have such a friend.

The old wizard laughed at this question: "Because, I can't guarantee the safety of these friends of mine—the Holy See is preparing to launch another large-scale expedition to the west, and the wizards in the Hailin District are their first target; And as a younger generation, I must have to participate in the resistance of the army, in which these friends of mine will not survive! ”

The Western Expedition appeared eleven times in the entire 150 years of the Holy Age, and on average appeared almost every ten years. In the barren place, the whole of Lorante belonged to them, and they naturally did not allow other powerful and upright beings to exist, so in those days, the army of the Knights of Punishment was mixed with a large number of black-clad deacons and the high priests of the Inquisition, who were constantly looking for the so-called heresy.

The deepest families in the Autumn Forest District, the wizards in the Sea Forest District, the witchers in exile and hidden in all walks of life, are their targets; However, in those days, the real large-scale wars took place only in the Hailin District; The floating of tens of thousands of wizards, the charge of 100,000 punishment knights, all happened only there—and now, there were less than 3,000 wizards left, and only 20,000 punishment knights.

The cruelty of war is always chilling.

Seeing Ye Qi's frowning and thinking appearance, the old wizard stomped the staff in his hand, and he smiled: "This topic is a little serious, come, please take a look at my nest at that time!" ”

Click, click, click......

In a slight frictional sound of gear turning, five yards in front of Ye Qi's side, two boulders the size of a single-family two-story house were slowly removed; After making a gesture of please, the old wizard took the lead and said, "Although I have been trying my best to keep everything here in its original place, the gears will still rust under the invasion of time, even if they have been carefully maintained!" ”

"It's a fact that can't be changed!"

Ye Qi nodded slightly, and at the same time, his eyes looked at the hole in front of him, or the underground corridor; The steps that descend to the Lu layer by layer are completely okay to say that they are the steps to the Lu; There were about twenty steps, about ten yards into the ground, and a door opened on both sides, and a door was one and a half high and three people wide.

Walking down the steps, Ye Qi looked at the door, there was a very peculiar lock on it—this lock, everything was no different from an ordinary lock, at most it was a little bigger, three times the size of an ordinary lock. And where the real difference. near the keyhole. There was no key for a lock that it should have, just a small and inconspicuous inlaid crystal; Judging from the above fluctuations, Ye Qi could be sure that this was a magic crystal.

"The lock was a little trick, but it helped me a lot...... It was my teacher, who guided me to complete the first real magic item! "As he spoke, the old wizard stretched out his staff and gently touched the place where the great lock was set with crystals, and lightly touched it; With a click, the magic lock jumped up automatically. And the door slowly opened.

The old wizard stretched out his hand and pointed inside, and said with a smile, "Please! ”

Ye Qi nodded, walked towards the inside, looking at the door, Ye Qi knew that the inside of the road was not too small, in fact, the inside was far bigger than Ye Qi expected; Look at the empty bookshelves, two lab tables, and a few chairs, as well as beds and kitchen utensils in the corners of the room. Ye Qi was sure that the old wizard must have spent a considerable amount of time here.

The old wizard raised his hand. The two chairs flew automatically in front of the fireplace in the room, and the unburned dry wood in it quickly sparked, dispelling the sense of yin and tide that existed in the room because of the long absence of the owner; The old wizard sat straight down on one of the chairs, and stretched his legs in front of the fireplace.

He smiled and said: "Although I say that I am old most of the time, I am a little unconvinced in my heart; However, there are always facts that remind me that I am old! ”

Ye Qi sat opposite the old wizard, picked up the dry wood on the side, added heat to the fireplace again, and dispersed the yin tide in the room at a faster speed, judging from the previous walking posture, Ye Qi could conclude that the old wizard in front of him had an injury on his leg, although it was already healed, but it fell into some lifelong diseases, although ordinary people can't see anything when they walk, but it is obvious to Ye Qi.

And such a disease is always unbearable in a place where the tide is shining; The reason why most elderly witchers like to drink heavily on rainy days is not because they are obsessed with alcohol, but because they want to use alcohol to anesthetize the painful and itchy old wounds on their bodies - once, Ye Qi thought that his teacher was also like that, so most of the time, Ye Qi had a tolerant attitude towards his teacher's alcoholism; And as it turned out, he was really thinking too much...... There really is that kind of existence in the world that is completely obsessed with alcohol, at least, his teacher is one.

The old wizard nodded gratefully, and said slowly, "Before I actually traveled all of Lorante, I participated in two wars; The first time I was a teenager, an ignorant type, with wild imaginations all over my head, and I took care of the injured logistically...... Luckily, not only was I not injured, but after that war, I met my teacher, a high-ranking wizard; The teacher helped me build this place, and you can't imagine the simplicity of this place in the first place: 'The monkey lives better than here!' At that time, the teacher commented on the nest I had spent a summer building, and in fact it turned out that my teacher was very correct! ”

The old wizard had a smile on his face, but soon it was replaced by sadness: "Ten years, when I was a young man, war broke out again; My age allowed me to be drafted into the regular army, stationed at an avant-garde outpost...... with my teachers; It was a past that I didn't want to remember for a long time, and suddenly, the Holy See attacked the guard post where we were stationed, and in an instant more than half of them died in the blades and arrows, and I was shot in the leg, and then I was hunted down by a High Priest of the Holy See for a long time, until my teacher and the High Priest died together! ”

"That war didn't last long, but in my heart it was like a lifetime...... I went to my teacher's funeral on crutches, and then, on crutches, I left and came back here - for five years, I did nothing but increase my strength; At the age of thirty, I received permission as the Grey Robe (as the sorcerers of the time were called the Grey Robe) and began to wander all of Lorante; Until the war broke out again, I came back here and participated in the war again......"

Ye Qi recalled the memories in his mind, and then the old wizard's words said, "That was the first time you were active in the eyes of the entire Lorante, four cardinal archbishops, and a presiding judge of the Inquisition. There was also the director and deputy director of the Inquisition, who was the conductor at that time. Achieved your prestige - Flame Lendl! ”

Obviously. This title had not been mentioned in front of the old wizard for a long time, and the old wizard couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "Reading the history of nearly three hundred years ago is not something that a young man like you should do!" ”

Ye Qi shrugged his shoulders and said, "Reading is one of the few hobbies I have, and if I put aside the cultivation of plants, it can be regarded as something I can love and do...... As a wizard, you have an unimaginable hobby of reading! He said. Ye Qi pointed to the empty bookshelves around him, there was no doubt that if he was just learning spells, he wouldn't need so many books; And the old wizard who smiled and nodded also proved it.

Ye Qi smiled: "It's really nice to be able to meet someone who has the same hobby...... And in order not to discourage us, you would like to continue with the previous topic - the conversation that gave you 'confidence'! ”

The old wizard smiled and nodded, "Of course, of course, I won't delay you too much...... If I could, I really wanted to talk while eating, but it's a pity for the ingredients. It was completely emptied two hundred years ago, even if it was leftover. It's already decaying! ”

Ye Qi nodded and said, "Thank you for your kindness, if you don't mind, I have some of my ...... here Well, the food made by a lady who is very important to me is just a few small pastries, if you don't mind, just try it! ”

Ye Qi took out some pastries and snacks baked by chameleons from the [Dimensional Bag], and the old wizard immediately raised another chair and beckoned him, and directly pulled out a tablecloth with silver on a black background from his sleeve and pounced on it; Obviously, as an old wizard who is one of the seven strongest in the world, it is impossible for him not to have such an item as the [Dimensional Bag] on his body.

Casually putting a piece of cake in the shape of a crown into his mouth, the old wizard immediately complimented, "What a clever lady, well, what a nice sweetness...... Van Les always limits my sweet tooth, a meticulous assistant who can never understand the charm of sweets that can make him build spell models a third faster! ”

After putting another piece of snack into his mouth, the old wizard said abruptly and in a very formal tone: "I would like to ask Your Excellency Shak the Dragon to help the wizard's hand get through this difficult time!" ”

Ye Qi was stunned, looked at the old wizard with a straight face, and couldn't help laughing: "Master Lendall, please don't make such a joke, if you are here, the wizard's hand doesn't need the help of others at all; You, as the strongest seven in the world, are already enough for all beings to understand what kind of existence the wizard's hand is! ”

The old wizard reached out and took out a porcelain teapot with hot steam, placed two teacups in front of himself and Ye Qi respectively, and poured fragrant milk tea while saying as if to himself: "What if, I'm gone?" ”

Ye Qi frowned: "You're only three hundred years old now, right?" The gap between the legendary powerhouse of the transcendent realm and immortality is only one step away, even if you can't reach the immortal realm, if you live past five hundred years old, it should be very easy, right? ”

The old wizard nodded, acknowledging Ye Qi's statement: "That's right, five hundred years old is a very easy age that can be achieved for a strong person who has entered the legend; But that requires a premise – health! ”

Ye Qi looked at the old wizard in surprise and asked, "Your body?" ”

The old wizard nodded unabashedly: "So many wars have already made my health extremely bad, even a little miserable...... My assistant has been suggesting that I transform into a lich, but I think it's better for me to sleep like this! ”

Ye Qi looked at the old wizard in front of him very seriously, he didn't know where the other party got his trust in him, he could be so blunt with him - everything must have a cause, and there must be a country; Especially after it was about himself, Ye Qi couldn't help but ask, "Do you trust me so much?" Aren't you worried? ”

Ye Qi's words were not finished, but the implication was obvious.

The old wizard immediately laughed: "As a wizard who is good at prophecy, it is not difficult to distinguish between good and bad in a person; It is not difficult to know who is trustworthy...... What's more, I have great confidence in the disciples taught by Old John; He's a fool in some ways, but he's admirable in others! ”

Ye Qi was taken aback and asked, "Do you recognize my teacher?" ”

The old wizard smiled and nodded: "It's an old friend, he came here to visit me some time ago; And then I had a fight with the Lord Alcatel on my turf, and it was really the same as when I was young, without a little change, and I was still so impulsive! ”

Ye Qi asked again and again: "What is the specific time?" ”

The old wizard was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "What specific time?" Well, it should be two years...... No, no, three years, or more years ago! ”

Although the old wizard couldn't be sure, Ye Qi could clearly recall that when he was the first president of the Witcher branch in the Bay Area, he encountered a battle in the druid camp that he thought was a 'solar level' - when facing the inanimate king, Ye Qi already had some guesses, after all, the breath of the inanimate king is too easy to recognize, and the person who can fight with the other party, and the sword qi seems to be the person who wants to split the heavens and the earth, in hindsight, Ye Qi thinks about it, there are only a few people, and among them, His teacher is the best he can.

Those are speculations, though, and there is no real evidence to support them; It wasn't until this moment, after getting the news from the old wizard's mouth, that Ye Qi had a real complete grasp.

The teacher at that time, I guess I still didn't worry about me being alone outside, right? And because of the Lord of the Tower of Wisdom, he can't appear in front of me, or he simply doesn't want me to know about his existence, so he has been hiding behind me, right?

Thinking that he thought he could see through his teacher's whereabouts, Ye Qi couldn't help but smile bitterly at this time - where can he see through it, it was completely his teacher who deliberately revealed his whereabouts in order to give himself a little confidence, so that he could know the Tao.

Even Ye Qi's current strength is not completely sure that he will be able to find his teacher's whereabouts; And with his strength at that time, if he wanted to find his teacher's whereabouts, he was more than a hundred years away.

Ye Qi took a deep breath, quickly adjusted his emotions, he looked at the old wizard in front of him and asked, "Do you know the whereabouts of my teacher?" It's been a long time since I've been in contact with a teacher, or a profiteer; And my other elder confirmed that they had gone to the depths of the Sennuma District...... If you know, please tell me the whereabouts of my teacher! ”

As he spoke, Ye Qi was about to bow straight away.

However, just when Ye Qi's upper body had just moved, the old wizard on the opposite side raised his hand and flicked it, and immediately, the aura with force field fluctuations filled Ye Qi's surroundings, causing his body that had just made a move to stop there, feeling the force brought by the fluctuations of the force field around him, Ye Qi was slightly startled.

Ye Qi could see that this unknown spell with force field fluctuations was completely changed by the force field shield; However, it is more than several times stronger than the spells of the ordinary force field shield; Even Ye Qi, without using the Enma Knife, would need to spend about fifty percent of his strength to be able to return to his 'free state' in it.

And, it is clear, this is not the state of the battle; Once you enter the state of battle, I'm afraid that this spell with force field fluctuations will be more than twice as powerful, right?

The strength of the seven strongest people in the world is really not to be underestimated!

With such thoughts, Ye Qi did not forcibly break through the surrounding position fluctuations, but sat up straight; The old wizard seemed very satisfied with this, and he smiled and said, "This kind of salute is really too annoying for me...... It always makes me feel an inexplicable pressure, especially when I want to ask you, but you treat me like this, will make me think that you are deliberately refusing or, when I really ask you, do you still want me to kneel? ”

The old wizard blinked sharply as he spoke.

PS First Update~Timing~ (To be continued......)