At sunset, Yangcheng, the capital of the Xia Dynasty, was shrouded in darkness under the night. However, the mansion of Mu Xiaochuan in the city is also brightly lit after nightfall today, and the inner and outer courtyards are as bright as day.

All the lamps in those mansions have been filled with the ointment of the black-scaled mermaids that had just come from the East Sea, so that every oil lamp can always shine without blowing it out.

The house inside the door is lively and lively.

The mansion of the dragon lock is very peculiar, and it is unique among the many princes and nobles of the Xia Dynasty. There is not a single slave or slave in the courtyard, and only the apprentices and brothers of the dragon locks live here, so there is no class for the elderly. When it was time to eat, except for the disciples who had to guard the door, everyone else gathered in the main hall and dined together.

In the mansion, it is naturally more lively than other homes.

And Yu Fei and Ruo Zhuo were also left behind. Yu Fei has been drinking with Mu Xiaochuan and chatting.

From how they met in the past, to how they worked together in the past to control the water, they all chatted happily at the wine table.

Not only did they chat happily, but both of them drank freely, and they got drunk after a while.

Both of them had red cheeks under the smell of alcohol, and they both spoke with big tongues. Whether it is Mu Xiaochuan or Yu Fei, their tongues are like knots, they stammer, and they often can't make their words clear.

When most of the people had left the table with their fill of food and drink, they were still drinking and chatting.

Yu Fei is also an old friend who Mu Xiaochuan hasn't seen for many years, and it is rare to meet again today, and Mu Xiaochuan doesn't care about any image issues.

Drinking happily, as soon as his body was hot, Mu Xiaochuan simply took off his green robe, bare-chested and bare-backed, and continued to drink with Yu Fei.

However, he came out with his chest and back exposed, and the shocking wounds on his body immediately made Ruo Zhuo, who was not far away, stunned just by taking a look.

On Mu Xiaochuan's chest and back, there are dozens of large and small scars.

The long foot is a few feet, and the short one is a few inches, this kind of scarred scene, Ruo Zhuo, who has always been calm and composed, suddenly held his breath and was frightened.

Especially in addition to those long ugly wounds, there are also a lot of burns and penetrating wounds, which are even more terrifying.

The burns made Mu Xiaochuan's skin and flesh scars all over his body, penetrating the wounds on Mu Xiaochuan's body, embellishing the ugly scars that bulged up.

"What has this person experienced before this?" In addition to being frightened, the muscles at the corners of his eyes continued to twitch, and he couldn't help but guess in his heart.

Who knows, Mu Xiaochuan is not a sage who casually leads the dragon locking people. It's not simple, it's got Dayu's reliance and trust.

In the past hundred years, this dragon-locking man, who is still very young in appearance but is over 100 years old, has also crawled through blood and fire.

I don't know how many times I've been through life and death.

The scars on his body fell after every time he wandered between life and death.

After seeing these shocking scars, Ruo Zhuo waited for Yu Fei in surprise and secret conjecture.

By the time Yu Fei and Mu Xiaochuan had talked enough and had drunk enough wine, it was already midnight.

If you clumsy and walk, Yu Xu, who would stagger, left Mu Xiaochuan's mansion and walked away on the silent street in the dark night.

The bustle faded, and in the main hall of the mansion of the dragon lockers, only silence and desertion remained.

Mu Xiaochuan, who was full of food and drink, sat cross-legged on the ground alone, concentrating, and when the luck was flowing all over his body, his pores spread out together.

Thin white mist erupted from his body along the pores.

In the white mist, there is a fragrant smell of wine.

Mu Xiaochuan used the real Qi in his body to take away the smell of wine and the drunkenness.

After a while, Mu Xiaochuan was completely awake from his drunken dizziness. His eyes were no longer blurry, and his face was no longer flushed with the smell of alcohol.

Mu Xiaochuan, whose eyes were bright, grabbed the green robe on the ground next to him, and put it on himself again, covering the ugly and hideous wounds on his body.

Mu Xiaochuan, who had regained his composure, stood up and walked towards the wall behind him.

His eyes were as bright as the stars.

When he walked over to the wall and stomped his foot slightly, the message of the trap hidden under the tiles was triggered. Immediately, the wall in front of him slowly slid open to the left and right like a door that had been pushed open, revealing the room behind him.

This solid stone brick wall divides the hall in two.

The room at the back is exactly the same size as the front. It's just empty, and there's a dreary silence in the silence.

After Mu Xiaochuan walked in slowly, the wall closed again, becoming the same tight as before.

Mu Xiaochuan, who walked into the back room, raised the index finger of his right hand, and his lips moved, as if after chanting a mantra, a bean-sized flame rose from his fingertips, tearing through the surrounding darkness and illuminating the surroundings.

Then the flame flew away from his fingertips, drifted with the wind to the bronze lamp on the copper pillar not far away, and landed on the wick in the lamp tray, lighting the oil lamp.

In these lamps, which also contained the ointment of the black shark man, the fire lit up.

As soon as it is lit, a second light is lit, then a third, a fourth... Like dominoes, they are coiled around the copper pillar, and a series of oil lamps that rotate upwards from the bottom to the top of the column are lit one by one.

In this room, it is getting brighter and brighter, and the whole picture of the room that was previously immersed in darkness is gradually revealed.

The bronze lamps that surround the few copper pillars in the room are all the same. The lampposts resemble branches on the trunk of a tree, and the green jade ornaments adorn them like the leaves. As for the lamp plate, it is all a person covered with long feathers holding a lamp with both hands, making a gesture of rising to the sky.

The floor in the house is also paved with square stone bricks, and the floor tiles are carved with landscape patterns, which are combined to create a huge picture of three mountains and five mountains, four seas and eight rivers.

On the left and right, there are rows of simple shelves made of wood, the highest has five layers, and the lowest and shortest has three layers, all of which are stacked with heavy rolls of bamboo slips.

In addition to these furnishings, in the middle of the house, there is also a rectangular stone monument that crosses over. The stele is jet black, without any carving, and there are natural traces of the edges and edges.

On the front, there are nine lines of lettering, and each line of nine characters is like tadpoles and birds and insects. In every word, there seems to be some mysterious meaning and magical power, restrained and not leaking.

Mu Xiaochuan came to the stele and stood still, silently staring at the stele in front of him.

Mu Xiaochuan, who didn't say a word, his eyes became deep. He seemed to want to see something through the few dozen symbolic words on the stone tablet.

Every time he encountered any big action, Mu Xiaochuan tried to come to some future things through the stone tablet and with the help of the mysterious power in the stone tablet.

The same is true today; Because, starting tomorrow, the dragon lockers will be busy for the Xia Dynasty again.

That's another big operation.

"Senior brother." Just after Mu Xiaochuan was engrossed in staring at the stone tablet for a long time, the door opposite Mu Xiaochuan slowly opened.

Mu Xiaochuan's younger sister Yuxi, when she walked slowly into the house, gently flicked her sleeves, and the breeze she brought up blew towards the door, pushing the door and closing it.

Mu Xiaochuan's gaze regained his calmness, and when he slowly looked up, Yuxi had already walked to the opposite side of him, and he was only separated from the stone monument.

Mu Xiaochuan glanced at the pair of bracelets that Yuxi was carrying. The jade bracelet was crystal clear under the light, like two cyan halos, ringing around Yuxi's wrist.

"Qiankun bracelet, is it still easy to use?" Mu Xiaochuan put his hands behind his back, continued to look at the pair of bracelets, and asked slowly.

"It's very useful, I know it doesn't belong to me, I'm just keeping it for Senior Sister Xiao Yu for the time being. If you ...... Senior Brother" Yuxi didn't finish speaking, he stopped talking, and the look in his eyes became complicated when he looked at Mu Xiaochuan.

"There's no more ifs." Mu Xiaochuan seemed to guess what Yuxi was going to say next, and after sighing, he said, "Since she handed it over to you, it's yours." ”。

"Yes." Yuxi didn't say anything more, and slowly lowered his head in response, a little sadness appeared in his eyes.

"Have all the people who will act tomorrow been arranged?" Immediately afterwards, Mu Xiaochuan asked Yuxi again.

Mu Xiaochuan obviously didn't want to talk about his deceased wife, so he diverted the topic.

"According to my brother's orders, everything has been arranged." Yuxi raised his head again and looked at Mu Xiaochuan with a calm expression, already worried: "Senior brother, don't you know how many forces from all sides are staring at Yangcheng in secret." They have hatred and anger towards Dayu, the Xia Dynasty, and even our Suolong people. Now that Dayu has inherited the throne not long ago, most of the people who refuse to obey the Quartet are disobedient, why did you secretly let me arrange so many elite disciples to go out of the city at the banquet? In case this news leaks out, and those forces that are trying to subvert the Xia Dynasty attack, what should we do to resist their elite soldiers? ”。

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Xiaochuan gave Yuxi an answer she didn't expect: "King Yu and I both want them to call, if they don't call, how can they be convicted of treason!" ”。

When Mu Xiaochuan said this, he seemed to have changed into a different person, his eyes were a little more gloomy, and his face was full of indifference and ruthlessness.

Yuxi knew at a glance that it was not indifference and ruthlessness to the people of Suolong, nor was it to the Xia Dynasty, but to the forces of all parties who planned to overthrow the Xia Dynasty.

Treat them, Mu Xiaochuan can even be inhumane. In private, the people of Suolong secretly speculated that Xiao Yu's death had taken away the last bit of mercy that the man had for the enemy.

"But our forces are scattered." Yuxi turned a blind eye to this, and still asked worriedly: "You know, among these surrounding Fang Guo clans, there are also many warriors and warriors composed of strange people. In recent years, they have also raised more alchemists and strange beasts, and their strength is not what it used to be. With only a few dragon lockers left behind in the city, it would be easy to defeat one or two enemies from Fang countries and tribes, but what if they swarmed up? ”。

After a pause, Yuxi hurriedly suggested: "Let's let Senior Brother Huang Yu not go out of the city; After all, his cultivation, as well as the Shadow Inheritance Sword in his hand, are all indispensable strength for us. ”。

Mu Xiaochuan walked to the copper pillar on the side without saying a word, standing in front of the bronze casting, deep in the index finger of his right hand, gently playing with the flames erected on the oil lamp in front of him.

The flames shook under his plucking, and when dozens of red sparks were spewed out continuously, they began to change endlessly, sometimes turning into a soaring fire dragon, opening its mouth and baring its teeth, and sometimes turning into a flying phoenix with wings spread, flying in the wind.

Under his fingers, the flame turned into a toy to pass the time.

"Huang Yu is still in the city, and the enemy doesn't dare to make a mistake." After a while, Mu Xiaochuan spoke again and said slowly: "When he leaves, the enemy will think that Dayu and I have relaxed our vigilance." ”。

But Mu Xiaochuan never explained, and he was not completely sure of this secret plan. As Yuxi said, Huang Yu has an unfathomable cultivation, and he also has a divine soldier Chengying Sword in his hand.

If Dayu and Mu Xiaochuan are defeated this time, the Xia Dynasty will be overturned, and all the dragon lockers left in the city will be wiped out. Mu Xiaochuan hoped that this junior disciple, as well as those elite disciples who were assigned out, would live for them and pass on the supernatural powers and incense of the dragon lockers from generation to generation.

"You and the kids, don't go out lately. If anything happens, go out of the city at once, and then go away, far away. After pondering for a long time, for the sake of safety, Mu Xiaochuan instructed Yuxi again: "If such a thing really happens, don't come back when you leave, never come back, and tell the children not to think about revenge again." But remember, be sure to bring a stone tablet. ”。

Mu Xiaochuan said, turning his head to look at the stone tablet standing quietly in the middle of the room......

The moonlight slowly moved out from behind the white clouds in the sky and sprinkled onto the earth.

On the hillside not far outside the city, the treetops of the plane trees were planted with the silvery white of the moonlight.

Further down, there are dense foliage and darkness.

In the darkness, the deserted hillside shimmered with green light. It was the cold light emanating from the eyes of the beast in the night, without exception with a bloodthirsty desire.

Suddenly, the mountain wind was blowing, and the plane trees in the mountains shook their branches and leaves violently.

The beasts hiding in the darkness smelled the slightest hint of danger in the wind, and they all panicked and fled in all directions.

In the darkness, a tall man in a black robe walked slowly up the hillside.

The barefoot man made a clicking sound when he stepped on the dead leaves and broken branches under his feet.

Around this person, there was a cold wind whirling. Whistling sounds, coming from the wind.

It was also accompanied by a faint smell of strange blood, which also gushed out and dispersed all around.

It was this faint smell of strange blood that frightened the nocturnal beasts in the mountains and fled.

In this smell of blood, there is a dangerous smell and smell.

After a while, the man came to the top of the mountain. In the dark, I couldn't see what was on the top of the mountain. It's just that I can vaguely make out that there are seven or eight dark shadows around this person.

And those black shadows of different heights also seem to be humanoid.

The man in the black robe, after looking around at the black shadows around him, stopped moving, and continued to stand still in the darkness on the top of the mountain, holding his hands behind him naturally.

"Is there anything going on in Yangcheng?" At this moment, in the darkness not far from this person, a hoarse voice began to ask questions.

The black-robed man nodded slowly, and replied in a low and indifferent male voice: "Today, Dayu summoned Mu Xiaochuan, they talked with each other in the palace for a long time, and it was not until the afternoon that Mu Xiaochuan left the palace. Before he left, Dayu asked the palace priests to start preparing healing pills, and let the palace cook be the dragon locker and start making a large amount of dry food. I did everything possible to find out a little news, that is, tomorrow Dayu will send a large number of dragon lockers, tens of millions of countries from all over the world to ask for gold, iron, copper and other things. At that time, there will only be a small number of dragon lockers in the city. ”。

It seems that this black-robed man is from the Xia Palace, and even such confidential matters have been investigated clearly.

"That is to say, from tomorrow, the defensive strength of Yangcheng will become empty and weak." After a pause, the black-robed man added.

And the dark shadows around him didn't say a word in the wind. It wasn't until a long time after the black-robed man finished speaking that in the darkness opposite him, a hoarse voice came again: "What about Mu Xiaochuan, is Mu Xiaochuan out of the city?" ”。

This time, the voice was no longer calm, but a trace of excitement and anger mixed with the tone of the words.