"God forbid, it's indeed dangerous..."

I barely suppressed the urge to shiver in my body, "It's just Duan Ming, that night I remember that woman had obviously already sent out her sword to kill you, why did she immediately stop and leave as soon as I went up to protect you?" And after she's gone, I'm no longer able to move, and you're seriously injured and have no strength. How did the two brothers learn about us in the city of Kazhou, more than ten miles away, and rushed to carry us back in time? ”

"—naturally because of this." Duan Ming sat straight and pulled it out of his waist, and then put a small milky white stone python bone on the table. "Do you remember that I told you that day that this stone python bone has the effect of detecting internal forces, and can be used for thousands of miles of communication?"

"This is natural, after you left, I used it alone once, and I summoned the axe to ask about Gong Hao." I didn't hesitate to say, "It's just that you also said that this thing is difficult to control, and there is no one in the world except me and the sect master. Don't you ......?"

"Not bad." Duan Ming nodded, "The reason why the stone python bone contains endless wind internal power is because it has the power to devour the true qi of the weak. For thousands of years in the rivers and lakes, how many people who want to become stronger have tried to ascend to the sky in one step with the power of stone python bones, and in the end, no one has not been exhausted by the backlash. Although I knew the danger, there was really no way out that night, and if we didn't think of a way, we would be frozen to death in the barren mountains and snowy mountains. I made a desperate bet and injected all the internal force I had left into the stone python bone, so that the axe brother who was far away in the city of Kashu sensed our position. ”

"You're crazy," I said, dumbfounded, "aren't you going to die?" On that day, your internal strength was already greatly damaged, if one of your inappropriate intentions was counterattacked, wouldn't you lose all your martial arts in the future, and you would be like a wasted person! ”

"Naturally, I thought about the consequences." Duan Ming's eyes narrowed with a smile flashed sincerely, "Although it is serious, if you want to exchange my martial arts for our lives, this is a bargain deal, what a good deal I have, what reason do I have to refuse?" ”

"That being said, you're too-"

"-Oh, okay, okay, I'm measured. Although the stone python bone is dangerous and difficult to control, I also entered the tail sect early in the morning and worked hard under you for ten years. It's just that it's not as good as you and the sect leader, looking at the rivers and lakes, I'm afraid that I can't find a person whose internal strength is stronger than mine. Duan Ming chuckled and patted my back gently, "Besides, I'm not fine!" I swear to you today that I will never act in such a dangerous way in the future. ”

"You don't have to swear to me, just take care of yourself in the future and don't let yourself get hurt again." I retracted my complaining gaze, lowered my head and frowned, and replied, "It's just that even if you are so good at martial arts, you can't even parry it under the woman in red." I really don't know who she is, and why she is eyeing me......"

"This matter is indeed strange, our Tail Sect began to implement the plan of slaughtering all the rivers and lakes as early as when the Yuxi Heavenly King was the master of the Gangfeng Banner, and then this plan was taken over by us, and it was completed until this year. How can there be such a crouching tiger, hidden dragon on the rivers and lakes, and the martial arts path can be compared with the master of the Five Banners of the Tail Sect......"

Duan Ming also frowned and pondered, "This is not the most terrifying. Gui Ying, don't you really remember when you offended her, or offended anyone else during the time you entered the Hou Mansion and returned to Taopinlou? ”

"Not really." I shook my head again and again and said, "When I was in the Hou Mansion, the Hou Ye was afraid of drawing me into the court disputes, so he always hid me tightly, except for the servants and maids in the mansion, I couldn't see any outsiders." If you say that you have offended for so long, it is nothing more than Xiaoyao, Fulin and Ji Sarong. It's just that Xiaoyao has died, and a few days ago, I listened to my brother Wen Zhao's investigation, and his parents died at an early age, and there is not a younger brother left, and he is also an ordinary person in the age of a weak crown, and he will never know such a powerful character. Not to mention Fulin, he has been raised by Aunt Hua since he was a child, and he has no family background to speak of. However, he is greedy for power and wealth, and he is short-sighted. It's Ji Sarong, I was really suspicious a few days ago, so I asked Yu Yue Axe to check for me. But they followed the vine and chased all the way to the Western Regions Fire Seeking Country, and they didn't find anything abnormal. ”

"If the axe doesn't find out the clues, then she really has nothing to check...... If it weren't for these, then it would be really necessary to send someone to investigate. Duan Ming pondered, "It's just that I have another thought in my heart, that woman's golden sword...... But it's impossible, she said clearly......"

“… Duan Ming? ”

"Nothing, I'm just skeptical...... No, I don't have any evidence yet. Duan Ming muttered in a trance, "If you talk about the evidence, you still have to say that it goes back to this stone python bone." ”

"—what are you talking about," I asked, confused, as I swept away the stone python bones lying quietly on the table with a faint milky white halo, "I don't understand." ”

"Gui Hotaru, do you still remember, Shi just asked me that the woman had already drawn her sword at me that day, why did you rush to stop her sword together, and then inexplicably let us go and left by yourself?" Duan Ming picked up the stone python bone as if unintentionally, and looked at it carefully in the sunlight, "I don't think she suddenly couldn't move, and she definitely didn't feel compassion when she saw you pounce on me." What really forced her to retract her killing move was the stone python bone that you accidentally slipped out of your arms and rolled in front of her eyes. ”

"What... You, why do you infer that? ”

"It's not an inference, it's just that if it's not, there's really no other explanation."

Duan Ming put the stone python bone back on the table, and sighed as if he was tired, "The five banner masters of the Tail Sect each have their own unique skills, and each of them has an ancient artifact with the same attributes as the flag master's token to lead the banner people. Gangfeng Banner is a stone python bone with infinite internal force; The thunder flag is a wolf tooth that hides terrifying thunder poison; The Xin Ao armor of the Feiyan Banner can fix the soul and protect the body; The dragon pond beads of the water flag can call the wind and rain; The phoenix feather of the Red Flame Banner is rumored to be the tail feather of the Celestial Vermilion Bird mount, which has the magical energy effect of distinguishing the truth from the false and exposing the lie. Some of the identities in these artifact martial arts are known to everyone, so if you meet a strong person when you walk the rivers and lakes, although you don't know your appearance, you can also know that the other party must be a certain banner master of the tail sect when you see the token. Then they either begged for mercy or slipped away. That day, the woman saw your stone python bone, so she believed in your identity as the owner of the Gangfeng Banner of the Tail Sect, and withdrew her killing move in time, so as not to offend the most powerful sect in the rivers and lakes. ”

"I see... I didn't expect that it was Wen Ling's Gangfeng Banner Master who saved my life. I stroked my chest and said, "It's just Duan Ming, you are also the deputy flag master of the Gangfeng Banner, and you have also proved your identity with superb martial arts." Why didn't she dare to kill me, who was low in martial arts, but dared to do it to you? ”

"I'm just your deputy, and I don't have the support of the stone python bone, so she knows that I don't have a big role in the tail sect." Duan Ming smiled dumbly and bitterly, "What's more... What's more, in recent years, who in the rivers and lakes does not know that the Tail Sect Leader is the sole favor of the Gangfeng Banner Leader, and I, the deputy flag master, just have a 'red fragrance and green green' prestige with you, but in fact, I am just a high-ranking dead man who does things on his behalf, and I am not valued by the Banner Master and the Sect Master. I named that woman that day, and it was already her demeanor that I did not mock her, so why would I ask her to spare my life? ”

Duan Ming's face was divided, and he obviously recalled the embarrassing past, so he could only hang his head and drink tea in disguise.

That's a strange thing. You played beautifully that day, and you forced her to mess up a few times. If she is wise, she should know what kind of position she has in the Tail Church with your cultivation. I said with concern, "But then again, Duan Ming, how could you suddenly appear in Lianyue Mountain that day and save me in such time?" ”

"Oh, you didn't mention it, I forgot to say..."Duan Ming's expression froze, put down the teacup, straightened his body slightly, and said, "Since I left Taopin Building that day, I have nowhere to go, so I went back to the Lingguang General Altar of our Tail Sect." I have been idle on the mountain for a long time, but I seem to have heard the rumor that the two flag owners of Bishui Feiyan have not heard from me for a long time. Not only these two, but even the Red Flame Banner Banner Master and the Thunder Banner Owner, who were originally stationed at the main altar all the year round, were not on the mountain. Counting you, who were seriously injured and lost his memory, the owner of the Five Banners of the Tail Sect, he didn't know his whereabouts for a while. This matter is really strange, I can't figure it out, so I decided to go down the mountain and go north, and return to Kaju City to inform you of the situation in the sect. ”

"How so... What other rumors have you heard? ”

"Gathering intelligence is Feiyanqi's housekeeping skill, but I'm really not good at it."

Duan Ming shook his head, but the smile faded from his face, "Listening to the gossip of the sect members, the old man of Qiu Xianyun and Qiu of the Water Banner as early as a month ago had already said goodbye, and although the Flying Rock Banner Banner Master had also been away for a long time, it seemed that he had been summoned by the sect leader to go down the mountain. As for the Red Flame Banner Master and the Heaven-shattering Stone Predecessor Su Ri, they don't have any major tasks, and they also go down the mountain occasionally. It's just a coincidence that leaving at the same time is a bit weird. ”

"Hmm," I pondered, "so what do you mean to investigate this?" ”

"—Listen to me, it's not the weirdest thing." Duan Ming blinked again and again, and his face showed infinite embarrassment, "Gui Ying, this time I came back not only because of my own intentions, but because the sect leader ordered you and me to work together to carry out a task." ”

As soon as these words came out, my body was a pang.

The most worrying thing is still here in the end - I am now in Wen Ling's body, if I want to not cause trouble in this world, I have to follow Wen Ling's original life trajectory. But she is not an ordinary person, but she is the leader of the Gangfeng Banner of the Tail Sect of the No. 1 sect in the rivers and lakes, with outstanding martial arts, and she lives a life of licking blood from the knife edge.

I was originally a college student who was not diligent, and now I am asked to carry out those dangerous tasks with my sword, but how can I not be afraid? On the grounds of illness before, and the sect leader has never been called, it is still safe and smooth. Now that the order has been issued, I have no reason to resist refusal.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but become more and more frightened, barely suppressed the faint tremor on my body, and asked in a deep voice, "What task?" ”

"Go south immediately, go to Pingcheng Flying Dragon Valley, and kill the apostate rebel Qiu Xianyun."

"What?" I was stunned to the extreme, and my mind was a little dull for a while, "Qiu Xianyun... That's not ......! ”

"Not bad." Duan Ming nodded solemnly, "It's exactly what I mentioned to you, the owner of the Water Reclamation Banner who has been loyal to the Tail Sect for more than a hundred years, and the old man who is Qiu Xianyun and Qiu Xian. ”

"How so," I was still shocked, "didn't he disappear before?" How can you be convicted of apostasy—tell me the details! ”

"I don't know, Gui Ying..."Duan Ming looked at his arm that was tightly held by me, and said with a look of shame, "This matter came so suddenly, and the sect leader clearly ordered us to do it as soon as possible, so as soon as I received the task, I rushed back to Kazhou non-stop." ”

"What kind of path is this sect leader, he doesn't even let go of the founding of the sect."

For some reason, there is always an intuition in my heart that the old man in Duan Ming's mouth is not guilty. In addition to protection, he couldn't help but have some cold fear, "If you ask us to kill, why can't you tell us the reason for slaughtering our fellow disciples?" Even if we want to kill, but now that we have not recovered from our serious injuries, how can we be the opponent of the old man? ”

"There's no need to worry... Although the sect leader still doesn't know what happened to you, I heard that his old man has seriously injured him after learning about the apostasy of the enemy. Now there is information that Qiu Weng has fled to the Flying Dragon Valley in Pingcheng, and he is so injured that he can't move. I believe that with the strength of the two of us, it will not be difficult to kill a centenarian with only half of his life left......"

Duan Ming said this, but the more he spoke, the more unbearable he became, "Actually, don't say that you don't believe it, even I, a junior who has never seen Qiu Weng's face, don't believe it." It's just that I really don't have time to find out the truth about this. If the sect leader wants to eliminate dissidents in the sect, we are the banner master, the sword in his hand, and there can be no hesitation; You can't ask anything else. Twelve years ago, Qiu Weng killed the Yuxi Heavenly King in Zhenjiang, and now we ...... him The same is true. ”

Only then did I suddenly remember that Duan Ming had told me that Bai Shayu, the former owner of the Gangfeng Banner, had been sentenced to death for apostasy. It's just that I didn't know that it was the old man who killed the people back then.

The owner of the Bishui Banner killed the old Gangfeng Banner Owner, and now the new Gangfeng Banner Owner, is he going to kill the Bishui Banner Owner again......

The thought of this makes my hairs stand on end. The cunning rabbit is dead and the lackey is cooking, what kind of calculation is the tail sect leader playing, to kill the henchmen around him for many years one by one? In this way, in the future, the Water Banner will set up a new master, and Duan Ming and I, as part of the participation in this cycle of slaughter, will not be the target of the next sect master?

"Nope." I shouted, "We can't just blindly follow the sect leader's orders and rashly kill the old man for him. Duan Ming, think about it again, there are still traces to follow in this matter, but there is still the slightest room for turnaround? ”