"It's dry, be careful of the candles—" The husband knocked on the bon, and thoughtlessly dragged out his voice, and walked sleepily through the streets.

It rained all day yesterday, and it will stop this afternoon, and Qingyue Lane is wet and slippery, and if you are not careful, you will fall. After falling on the third big horse, the husband spat angrily, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and continued to walk with a curse.

Suddenly, he seemed to kick something under his feet, and it felt soft. The husband frowned, took two steps back, and took the lantern to see—

I saw a man lying on the ground, his clothes were in tatters, his hair was messy, his eyes were round, and his face was terrified. The exposed skin was covered in scars, and the blood had not yet dried completely.

The husband was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and fled from here with a crawl: "Kill - help - kill !! ”

And the lantern he left in place was picked up by a plain white hand, and the body was not burned to ashes. The owner of the hand chuckled lightly and slowly walked out of the alley with the lantern. At his waist, two jet-black daggers were pinned.

Soon after he left, the husband came in a hurry with someone. Many people are brave, and they are all seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys, showing the image of a calf who is not afraid of tigers to the fullest.

One of them was even more bold, and when the crowd pulled and pulled and didn't know whether to come forward to check, he took the lead and jumped directly to the corpse.

The young man held the torch and crouched down, eager to pestle the burning stick in his hand into the face of the corpse.

"You don't want to kill you!" When the husband saw this, he was so frightened that he stepped forward and slapped the young man on the head, and his tone was very hateful.

The young man groaned, stood up with his head covered, and complained, "What are you doing to hit me?" It's just a dead man, could it be that he can still cheat the corpse? ”

"Still talking nonsense!" The husband was so angry that he slapped him again.

"Hey, don't rush to fight yet." Someone in the crowd stopped, "Sixth brother, you just watched for so long, did you see any doorway?" ”

The young man known as the "Sixth Brother" scratched his head and said, "It looks like a cultivator is fighting, and if this one loses, he will die." But ......"

"But what?"

"The wounds on his body are not quite right, it doesn't look like a cultivator made it, looking at the technique, it looks a bit like an old immortal cultivator." The sixth brother hesitated.

"But...... If it's really an immortal cultivator, why can't you get along with a cultivator? Could it be that there is some deep hatred between the two of them, so that the family would rather fight for heavenly punishment than strike first? ”

"This ...... I don't understand either. "Sixth brother pouted, he is not a fast catcher, how can he know everything?" Hey, by the way, isn't the young master of Grace Xiaozhu here with us? Why don't we go and beg him and let him help see what the hell is going on? ”

"Yes, yes! Let the young master help us check, lest another demon be born and do nothing! Immediately, someone chimed in.

The cultivator was killed for no reason, and it was still on the territory of Grace Xiaozhu. Don't say that the young master is here, even if he is not here, he has to go there in person and investigate.

It's just that it's not a coincidence that the young master of Grace Xiaozhu packed up his things the night before and just left, leaving only two or three rent-collecting entourages here. The sixth brother and his party couldn't find anyone, and they had no idea in their hearts.

The attendants were easy to talk to, but seeing that they were really a little flustered, they followed and took a look.

At this time, the sky was broken, and the east was burned red. A faint light fell on the corpse, illuminating the face full of horror.

One of the entourages observed carefully for a moment, "Huh", and said, "Isn't this the traitor that the young master asked the owner of Jiuyan Building to solve half a month ago?" So he fled here, huh? ”

Everyone was a little confused when they listened: Wait a while, wait a while, who are you talking about?

Jiuyanlou had a big mess five years ago. The old landlord suddenly went berserk, tyrannical and killed many elite talents in the building, and died violently three months later, and the cause of death became a mystery.

However, that period of time happened to be the period of the great exchange of immortal cultivators, so it is not uncommon for all the immortal cultivators in the world to die, not to mention the death of a landlord.

It's just that as soon as the old landlord died, the Jiuyan Building was leaderless, and the sub-landlords scattered all over the country had their own thoughts. They returned to the main building under the banner of condolences, and on the other hand, they fought openly and secretly, eager to hold the power in their hands.

This civil strife lasted for three years, and after an intermittent period of time, it began to fight and kill again. Many cultivators who had just begun to gather qi died because of that civil strife.

Two years ago, an unknown teenager was suddenly born, and with lightning speed, he won the token of the owner of the smoke building and became the new owner.

The other branch owners were dissatisfied with his little doll's leader, but because of three years of fighting, his strength was greatly reduced, not to mention single-handedly finding a duel with the new landlord, even if they joined forces, they might not be his opponents!

In this way, under the reluctant submission of the owners of the sub-building, the young man sat firmly in the seat of the owner of the smoke building. And very capriciously, the name of the smoke building was changed to "Nine Smoke Building".

In this regard, everyone in the building has no objections, after all, they all know the origin of the name of the smoke building, and they will not oppose the landlord's decision because of this.

"The name of the smoke building, and the origin?"

"Not really! It is said that the first owner of the Smoke House liked to smoke, so he named his strength 'Smoke House'. Later, there were eight landlords who loved to smoke, and the name of the smoking building was changed again and again. No, the new owner is the eighth smoker, and it's not strange to change it to 'Nine Smoke Building'! "It's strange that he doesn't change!

The origin of the name sounds familiar. The sixth brother touched his chin and meditated, feeling that he had heard of it somewhere.

"Sixth brother, what do you want? Let's go! Someone called back to him.

The sixth brother hurriedly responded: "Hey, it's here!" ”

As for the traitor who died in Qingyue Lane, they have their own entourage to deal with, so it's not something they have to worry about!

The sixth brother happily carried the hot meat buns that had just come out of the oven and put the matter behind him.

Maybe I was too relaxed to pay attention to the road. Accidentally bumped into a person while cornering. The sixth brother didn't care about the bun in his arms, and apologized one after another: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you're okay, right?" ”

The man waved his hand, pulled his hood, and hurried away.

The sixth brother touched the bun in his arms, but fortunately it was not squeezed. He was a little strange, how could anyone wear such a thick hood on a hot day? That's got to be ...... Mink's, right? Aren't you afraid of prickly heat?

Of course not. Because the hood is bought temporarily, you don't need to wear it all the time.

Gu Xiangcheng easily blended out of the city, took off his heavy hat, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Three or four miles away from the city gate, there was a carriage parked, which looked very inconspicuous. Gu Xiangcheng looked left and right, bent down and got into the car, opened the curtain and looked at it, and laughed: "I still want you to take a step first, but I didn't expect to really wait for me to come out here." ”

The people inside were still closing their eyes to recuperate, but when they heard the words, they also opened their eyes, and said with a smile: "I'm not at ease." ”

"Don't worry about what? I? Or that traitor? Gu Xiangcheng got in, unceremoniously poured himself a cup of herbal tea, and poured it into his stomach.

He chewed peonies like this, and the man was not distressed, it was not a rare thing to be left and right, and he wanted as much as he wanted. "I'm worried." He replied.

Gu Xiangcheng shook his head and said with a smile: "Then Young Master Ye has lost this deal. Leave such a big matter to the next fledgling boy, and you are not afraid that I will spoil your business? ”

It turned out that the person waiting in the carriage was the young master of Grace Xiaozhu, Ye Fangping.

Ye Fangping's expression was faint, but she still nodded without hesitation: "Yes, I'm also worried about this." But now, it seems, I don't need to worry about it. ”

"Of course you don't need to worry." Gu Xiangcheng picked up a piece of dim sum from the plate again, threw it into his mouth and chewed, "Because, in this world, there is no one I can't kill, and there is nothing I can't do!" ”

That's a bold statement. But Ye Fangping just looked at him quietly for a few seconds, and silently spit out two words: "Shen Yan? ”

The very heroic Gu landlord was instantly deflated: "...... Feed! ”

"Just kidding." Ye Fangping seemed to smile.

Shen Yan's ability is not outstanding, if it is really compared, at most it can only be regarded as a first-class master, and there are super masters on top of him. But he has survived until now, not only by strength, but also by luck.

For them, strength is not particularly important sometimes, but luck is more important. After all, Heavenly Dao will not open up to you just because you are strong, damn it or have to die.

Gu Xiangcheng didn't speak. Everyone said that Shen Yan could not be killed. This sentence is actually wrong, only he knows that Shen Yan has not died so far, not because he can't kill him, it's just that the people who killed him didn't find his weakness and couldn't beat him.

There are few people in this world who can kill Shen Yan, and he may be one of them. However, he didn't come here to kill Shen Yan.

"How long are you going to stay in the car?" Ye Fangping was stunned for a while, came back to her senses, and found that this person was still there, the snacks on the low table had basically entered his stomach, and there was not much herbal tea left, so she couldn't help but be very dissatisfied.

"Half a month later," Gu Xiangcheng bit his snack and said vaguely, "I'll be waiting in the building." ”

Ye Fangping frowned slightly. His frowning appearance is very good-looking, some people say that his appearance fully satisfies everyone's conjecture about the scene of "Xi Shi's heart", and he looks very pitiful.

…… Of course, the person who said this sentence would have been pulled out to fill the pit and feed Wang Ba.

Gu Xiangcheng clapped his hands, turned over and got out of the car a second before Ye Fangping made a move, and disappeared from sight in a few ups and downs.

Ye Fangping was left alone in the car, gritting her teeth and staring at the mess.