By the time Li Changan returned to the Longmen Inn in Qingyun City, it was already dawn.

At the door of the Dragon Gate Inn, the two brothers Hao Ren and the Lu family stood at the door, waiting eagerly.

Hao Ren looked at the depressed Li Changan and said, "You are finally back, we have been looking for you for a long time, but I am worried about death." ”

Li Changan's eyes were red and swollen, his face was pale, he showed a reluctant smile, and said to the three of them, "I'm fine." Seeing that Xie Youyu was missing from the three of them, Li Changan asked with some concern: "What about Xie Youyu......?"

When Hao Ren heard Xie Youyu's name, he was angry, and he scolded: "That wolf-hearted thing has already run away, and he also took the spar of the Qingyun City Lord, which is really a loss of face for the Nine Heavens Sword Sect." ”

Lu Zihao said: "Don't talk about him, the province is disappointed." ”

Lu Zizhen said: "I may know the identity of that black shadow. ”

Hao Ren asked, "Who is it?"

"If I'm not mistaken, that person should be the black impermanence of the Corpse Yin Sect. ”

"Corpse Yin Sect?"

Lu Zizhen said: "Black impermanence is just his nickname, no one knows his real name; black impermanence was the cultivation of the Jindan period before, and later in a fighting method, the Jindan was shattered, and the cultivation fell to the foundation building period, and then disappeared; ”

"Black impermanence! He's not easy to deal with, otherwise, let's wait for the senior brother of the sect to come over and help." Lu Zihao said.

Li Changan sighed and said, "No need, that black impermanence is dead." ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this!

"How did you die?" the three of them asked in unison.

Li Changan said with a gloomy expression: "Died under the self-explosion of Fan Qingman's fellow Daoyou." ”

"It turns out that yesterday's loud noise was a self-detonation, no wonder there was such a loud noise. ”

Li Changan said to the three of them: "I'm a little tired, there are still some zombies outside Qingyun City, so I will trouble Senior Brother Hao Ren and the two Brother Lu to clean it up." ”

Hao Ren patted Li Changan on the shoulder and said, "You just have to rest, and we'll take care of the rest." ”

Li Changan returned to the room silently.

He lay on the bed and mourned silently: "I'm sorry I didn't catch you." ”

Li Changan raised the fragment of clothes in his hand, all of Fan Qingman's belongings were wiped out with the self-explosion, this fragment was the last relic she left in the world.

Obviously, they only met in Pingshui, and the number of times they met was only three times, but looking at the fragments of Fan Qingman's clothes, Li Changan still felt self-blame.

"It's all my fault!" Li Changan clenched the fragments in his hand, his spirit was sluggish, and a sense of increased weakness spread throughout his body, and Li Changan's eyes couldn't help but leave tears again.

If at that time, it was Fan Qingman's hand that he grabbed instead of this fragment, maybe Fan Qingman would not die, the young man naively thought.

In the midst of self-blame and guilt, time passed day by day, and what recalled Li Changan's thoughts was a knock on the door.

"Senior Brother Li, someone has come looking for you. Hao Ren's voice sounded at the door, "You don't know what's wrong with this Senior Brother Li, as soon as you come back, you slept for a day and a night, Senior Sister, you wait." ”

"Knock knock. There was a knock on the door.

"Who?" asked Li Changan as he opened his eyes.

A gentle female voice said, "It's me." ”

Li Changan heard this voice, got up and opened the door.

Hao Ren saw Li Changan open the door, and couldn't wait to say, "Senior Brother Li, this fairy is looking for you." ”

Li Changan said to the woman in front of him, "Sister Ouyang." ”

Women's hearts are much thinner than men's, looking at the mentally depressed Li Changan, Ouyang Qian wanted to ask something, but seeing Hao Ren present, she resisted the urge to speak.

Before the meeting, the beautiful senior sister seemed to have something to say to Senior Brother Li, and Hao Ren politely withdrew.

Ouyang Qian closed the door.

"I'll come over when I get your flying talisman, but what's the matter?"

Li Changan shook his head, "I'm tired of Senior Sister Bai for a trip, the matter is almost over." ”

Ouyang Qian shook her head and said, "It's okay, I'm just bringing Qingyun City this time." Looking at the sluggish Li Changan, Ouyang Qian asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Li Changan sighed, put away the fragments of clothes in his hand, and then told Fan Qingman about it.

After Ouyang Qian heard this, she was speechless for a long time.

Li Changan covered his face, "It's all my fault." ”

"Why do you blame you?"

"If I had ...... then"

Ouyang Qian shook her head and interrupted Li Changan's words, "Manpower is sometimes poor, everything in this world has a fate, no wonder you." ”

Looking at the decadent Li Changan, Ouyang Qian explained: "The master asked me a question back then, she asked me why I was holding a sword, I was still young at that time, and I didn't know how to answer. ”

"After the master's death, I found the answer. Ouyang Qian held the sword in her hand, "Because with a sword in your hand, you can protect your loved one." ”

Ouyang Qian patted Li Changan's back, "The dead are gone, and the living are like this!"

"Sadness and self-blame can't be exchanged for regrets, and the regrets in this world are not as good as they were at that time. ”

"My generation of sword cultivation only has a sword in my hand. ”

"If you don't want to have regrets, you can only become stronger. ”

"That's why Senior Brother Liu Bai will retreat, that's why the Lord of Haoran Pavilion will be empty, so you can only become stronger!"

Li Changan's eyes were red, "I ......"

Ouyang Qian shook her head and said to Li Changan, "Don't talk about it. At the end of the autumn of next year, the Nine Heavens Sword Sect will hold a once-in-a-century sword ceremony; in Cangzhou, there is a senior of my Nine Heavens Sword Sect who lives in seclusion here; I came to Cangzhou this time to send an invitation to that senior. ”

Li Changan asked, "Who is this senior?

Ouyang Qian let out an "um" and said, "The senior I'm looking for is named Lu Gou, who is the younger brother of the Wang Pavilion Master and the son of the Lu Old Pavilion Master, and his sword-forging skills can be ranked in the top five in the world. The Nine Heavens Sword Sect has one million swords, the ninety-third Heavenly Curse, the one hundred and five Three Changes, and the two hundred and ninety-six Xiao Long's three swords, all of which are from the hands of Senior Lu. ”

Lu Bufan is the former pavilion master of the Sword Casting Pavilion, Xiao Yichen's senior brother, and one of the nine personal disciples of Fusangzi. And Lu Gou is his son.

After Lu Bufan returned to the Nine Heavens Sword Sect, he did not pass on the Sword Casting Pavilion Master to his son Lu Gou, but passed it on to his eldest apprentice Wu Zong. It is said that Lu Gou also left the Nine Heavens Sword Sect in a fit of anger because of this time.

Li Changan said: "However, my task ......"

Ouyang Qian smiled: "You don't need to worry. Hao Ren and the two Daoists of the Extreme Yang Sect have already cleaned up the zombies in Qingyun City. ”

"Then, Sister Ouyang, you wait for me, I'll go and say goodbye to the two Daoists of the Extreme Yang Sect. Li Changan said.

"Okay. ”

Li Changan stood at the head of the city, looking at the people coming and going in Qingyun City, and a hundred flowers blooming.

Early this morning, after the news that the Qingyun City Lord had cleaned up the zombies was announced, Qingyun City, which had been shrouded in haze for more than a month, began to come to life.

Looking at the smiling faces of the residents in the city, the sun was shining, Li Changan felt so comfortable for the first time.

Lu Zihao said to Li Changan: "We are also going to meet the sect, if you have time to come to the Extreme Yang Sect to find me, I will invite you to drink." ”

Lu Zizhen said: "When the mountains and rivers meet, let's say goodbye." ”

Li Changan hugged his fists and said, "Two, take care!"

"Take care!"

Finally, after talking to Hao Ren about the situation. Li Changan and Ouyang Qian went to Renqiu in Cangzhou together.

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Ren Qiu's aura is even thinner than that of Qingyun City.

Li Changan followed Ouyang Qian's footsteps and soon found Lugou's residence.

The two of them stood at the door of a dilapidated weapons shop, the decoration of the shop was very old, and there was a lot of dust accumulated in the room, which looked like there should be no business, and an old man of about sixty or seventy years old, holding a small chair, sat alone in the corner of the room and slept.

The old man looked weak, the hair on his head was sparsely lost, and the tall man was half leaning on a small chair, squinting and enjoying the peace of winter. The shabby cotton jacket wrapped the old man's thin body, perhaps the appearance of the two of them made the old man feel uncomfortable, "Nine Heavens Sword Sect's?"

Ouyang Qian smiled at the old man and said, "Senior Lu has good eyesight. ”

Lu Gou moved his body unhappily, he tightened the padded jacket on his body, and said: "The sword momentum that pierces the dead person is lifeless, I can feel it from afar." ”

Lu Gou glanced at Ouyang Qian's sword pinned behind his waist and said, "You are from Taiyuan Pavilion......" The old man looked at Li Changan again, and the old man frowned and asked, "Don't you wear a sword?"

Li Changan bent down at the old man, "Senior Lu is polite, I am Liuyun Pavilion......"

Hearing the three words of Liuyun Pavilion, Lu Gou couldn't help but be curious and hurriedly asked, "Xiao Yichen has accepted apprentices again?"

"Yes. ”

Lu Gou looked at the two of them and asked, "Why can I hide in Renqiu, and you can find it?"

Ouyang Qian pursed her lips and smiled: "We have known about your seclusion in Renqiu for a long time. At the end of autumn next year, it will be the sword ceremony, and Sect Master Wu asked me to invite my seniors back to watch the ceremony. ”

Lu Gou pursed his lips and said, "Why didn't he let the disciples of the Sword Casting Pavilion invite me?"

"Pavilion Master Wu said that if the disciples of the Sword Casting Pavilion were allowed to come over and invite the seniors, I was afraid that the seniors would be unhappy. ”

Lu Gou snorted and said, "He is still afraid that I will be unhappy? If he is afraid that I will not be happy, he will not inherit the position of the master of the Sword Casting Pavilion! If he is afraid that I will not be happy, he should persuade the old man not to wade into the troubled waters that year." ”

Looking at the old man who was as angry as a child, Ouyang Qian said, "Since losing his cultivation eighteen years ago, Old Pavilion Master Lu's health has been deteriorating day by day......

When Lu Gou heard this, his eyes dimmed, and then he couldn't help but be angry, and said: "I told him not to go back then, he is still ignorant at a great age!

When Li Changan heard this, he shook his head and said: "Old Pavilion Master Lu ruined his family to relieve the hardships back then, which was a righteous act, not a child's play in the mouth of his predecessors. ”

Hearing this, Lu Gou asked expressionlessly, "Others think that I failed to inherit the Sword Casting Pavilion Master, so I left the sect in a bad mood, do you know the real reason why I left the Nine Heavens Sword Sect." ”

"I don't know. ”

"I have three senior brothers, seven junior brothers, and dozens of junior nephews, because of the old man's insistence, because of the so-called righteous deeds in your mouth, in the end, only Wu Zong and my junior brother Mu Ziyin were left alive;

Li Changan nodded, "It's worth it!"

"I don't want to talk to my predecessors about the great truth that 'the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband', but after the Heavenly Dao Kingdom broke through the Great Wall of the Heavenly Trench, if the eight thousand monks did not come forward, the south of the Central Plains would have been ambushed for thousands of miles, and the mortals who died under the iron hooves of the Heavenly Dao Kingdom would have increased by tens of millions!"

"Ridiculous!" Lu Gou snorted coldly: "The two countries are at war and the world is rising and falling, that is the worry of the Emperor of the Han Kingdom, what is the matter of the Nine Heavens Sword Sect in the safety of mortals? In the final analysis, we are sword cultivators, and sword cultivators should place their affection on the sword and not ask about the world; if they can't let go of their seven emotions and six desires, how can they cultivate the Great Dao! In my eyes, their behavior is simply extremely stupid!" Lu Gou said at the end, as if he was roaring.

Li Changan turned around, "Those who stand up when the country is in danger, can we laugh at them?" The young man replied to himself, "Can't you?"

"When the mountains and rivers are broken, they do not love their bodies and die generously. They're the loveliest people!"

"I haven't met my father, but he is a hero in my eyes, not a stupid person as my predecessors said he was. The boy said this, turned around and left in a bad mood.

Ouyang Qian gave the old man a look, trotted two steps, and caught up with the young man.

The old man stopped Ouyang Qian's footsteps, "Who is he?"

Ouyang Qian sighed, and after being silent for a long time, she replied, "His surname is Li, and his father is Li Yunfei. ”

When the old man heard this, he looked up at the sky, and wondered if the young man had ever blamed Li Yunfei, blamed him for accepting the Han Dynasty Talisman and three-fiber golden wire, blamed him for inheriting his ancestor's Tiance title, and blamed him for choosing to lead the army to fight again.

When the old man thought of this, his heart was full of mixed feelings and emotions, and he sighed: "It's not easy for anyone." "Whether it's Li Yunfei or his son. The old man just thought of this sentence, but he couldn't say it.