Chapter 1: The Altar of Life and Death
Late at night. Daizong Jianzhuang.
"Do the people in the life and death platform have the ability, and they all broke under my nose?" The woman in red looked at the black-clothed man who was hanging up in front of her, her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and her eyes were full of cold murderous intent. The man, who had obviously been tortured, with whip marks on his body, his head hanging to the side, and his breathing weak, trembled slightly at the woman's words, and his mouth was tightly pursed.
He knew he wouldn't make it back alive, but he would never say a word.
"This seat asks you one last time, what is the purpose of your coming to Daizong Villa?"
The silence to be expected. The man still didn't answer.
The woman in red sneered and raised her handβthe sharp sound of the whip piercing the air rang in her ears, and the man frowned fiercely, as if he had made up his mind, and bit his tongueβ
Poof. The man in black spat out a mass of flesh and blood, and his head hung down completely. The woman frowned, and was about to have a seizure, but she heard a small guy hurriedly run in and say, "Sword master! The old man is here!
"How can you alarm the old man in the middle of the night? What I say is for the dog?" The woman scolded fiercely, glared at the dead corpse, and threw the torture whip in her hand: "You dispose of the corpse, don't let the blood rush people." β
"Yes!"
The woman in red tore off the black cloak she was wearing, cleaned her hands in the copper basin outside the door, and walked quickly towards the door of the dungeon. Sure enough, there were two small servants standing at the door, and there was an old man with white eyebrows sitting in a wheelchair, it was Shangguan Mingfu.
"Old man, it's late at night, why are you still here for a trip? It's just a man in black who broke into the village, can Junluo still handle it?" Seeing the old man, the woman seemed to have changed as if she had changed her body, and her tone was still a little helpless: "You have been suffering from the problem of old cold legs for the past two days, and the night is cold, why don't you go to this dungeon for a trip?"
Shangguan Mingfu smiled, patted the blanket on his lap, and said, "It's okay, the blanket you brought back last time was warm enough." I didn't want to go on this trip, but I heard that I was angry in the dungeon, and I was afraid that you would be angry, so I came to take a look. β
Jun Luo was stunned for a moment, and was about to speak, when he was interrupted by Shangguan Mingfu: "You came back from the beach, and your injuries have just healed, and Dr. Lu told you not to move." It's good for you, you think about me and Ah Ning one day, but you don't pay attention. I've lost my son, and I don't want to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person again. β
These words seemed to hit the woman's weakness, but her eyes dimmed, and she responded: "Junluo remembers." The old man and Aunt Ning raised me, like my parents, Junluo was entrusted by the master to take care of Jianzhuang, and I just wanted to do more, and do more, so that I could repay the favor...... What the old man said is that after the monarch falls, he must pay attention and not let the old man worry about it. β
Shangguan Ming regained his head, as if he wanted to say more, but the woman grabbed his shoulder: "Okay, old man, Luoluo has already admitted his mistake, and I promise not to make it in the future, so the old man will go back and rest quickly." If you don't sleep anymore, you just wait for the sky to be white. Ah Qing, Ah Lu, take the old man back. β
"Yes, Sword Master. β
Pushed around by the little girl, Shangguan Mingfu looked at Jun Luo who waved at him with a smile, and said helplessly: "You little girl is eccentric, she just likes to drill the tip of the horns." The rise of the power of life and death is too short, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, so don't be too persistent. Next month is the Lost Valley Immortal Sect Meeting, which is more important, you can handle it yourself. β
"Luoluo knows, thank you for waking up. Good dreams in the middle of the night. The woman in red smiled and watched the old man disappear into the night before turning around.
On the side, a small guy cautiously asked: "Sword master, then this life and death platform, should we investigate or ......?"
"Check. Jun Luo looked at the deep dungeon, and said coldly: "I want to see what kind of storm a group of small fish and shrimp want to set off in Qilu." β
The avenue gives birth to all things, and all things respect the three clear. Heaven and earth first people, people have spirits, so there are immortals; immortals divide all products, the beginning can condense qi for the sorcerer called mortal immortals, the spell is quite familiar with the sword and the person who walks is the immortal, the spell can be refined and can resist the qi and walk not limited to the earth for the earth immortal, and can gather the top of the three flowers, the five qi dynasty yuan, is the heavenly immortal. Mortals have been chasing immortality since ancient times, and the way of cultivating immortals has flourished.
A hundred years ago, demons were rampant, causing chaos in the world, Ling Yunzi, the head of the Ling family in Weishui, led the immortals to set up seventy-two lock demon towers, and the Ling family was hidden as the head of the immortals. However, the merit is high and arrogant, the Ling family is becoming more and more arrogant, and finally being defeated by the Xianmen, and there is a fire on Taibai Mountain, and no one in the Ling Mansion is spared.
And today there are many immortal sects, such as Chang'an Yu clan and Migu Xia clan, and there are famous people in the immortal sect such as Shushan faction and Wudang faction. The Xianmen is headed by Shushan, Yu, and Xia, and they stand on three legs, but they are also safe. Although Daizong Sword Village has quite a lot of qualifications in the immortal gate, the sword masters of the generations do not ask about the world, and they have the taste of a hermit in the immortals. In addition, the sword smelted by Jianzhuang is famous all over the world, and most of the immortal sects use fairy swords as magic weapons, so under the entanglement of interests, although Daizong Jianzhuang has no quarrel with the world, no one comes to find trouble.
Jun Luo was originally an orphan girl adopted by Shangguan Lin, the previous Longquan sword master, Shangguan Lin accepted her as an apprentice and taught her the Tao of the Immortal Law; Jun Luo was gifted, and his cultivation was a thousand miles in a day, and he cultivated into the earth fairyland at the age of twenty. Shangguan Lin had an old wound on his body that had not healed, and he had a seizure in one day, and since then he has been unconscious and has become a living dead; Shangguan Lin's father, Shangguan Mingfu, was still there, but he let a woman with a foreign surname take charge of the villa, which caused a stir in Xianmen. And Shangguan Mingfu did not question his son's decision, he was quite optimistic about Junluo, and the disciples of Zhuangzhong were not convinced in the slightest, so there were many other people talking about it, and in the end, they were bored and no longer cared.
Until today, Junluo has been in charge of the villa for four years. In the past four years, the sword of Daizong Jianzhuang has been sold into the world and even the royal family, and the disciples of Jianzhuang are no worse than any other party in the fighting method of the Xianmen meeting, and as the youngest head of the Xianmen, Jun Luo is neither humble nor arrogant, and has also won a lot of praise.
Daizong Jianzhuang. Sharpening the Blade.
"Sword master, my subordinates know! My subordinates checked for a day yesterday, and no one knows where this life and death platform is, and no one in the Xianmen has ever heard of this name, it must have been yesterday's kid who was talking nonsense!" A man in orange walked in quickly, and said as he walked. I saw that behind the screen, the woman was writing something on the desk, and she didn't look up after listening to his words.
Printed with the seal of the Longquan Sword Master, Jun Luo blew the half-dried ink, and said lightly: "Life and death, no one knows about the immortal gate, but it is quite famous in the mortal world. Often active in the East China Sea, every demon will come out, chivalrous and unparalleled, deeply respected by the people of the East China Sea, calling them the gods of Penglai. β
"Uh......" Ah Cheng lost his voice for a while, looking a little embarrassed. I checked it for a day and almost broke my leg, but I didn't know as much as the sword master without leaving home, which was really embarrassing.
The woman in red shook her letterhead and looked at him, her eyes calm but she didn't dare to look at each other: "How many times has this seat told you that the matter of Xianmen is not only related to Xianmen. The life and death platform is not active in Xianmen, you check for a day, check for a year, and you can't find anything if you find out the head. You look like this, how can I rest assured that you have a 'sparrow'?"
Lingque is the branch code name of Daizong Villa that specializes in sorting out ancient books and searching for news, and Ah Cheng has just taken over this class from his brother Ah Hong. There are seven swords in the village, and they are named after red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, and the strength is ranked by the high and low, and it is actually a bit of a waste for Ah Cheng's strength to let him bring the sparrow, but Junluo has always had his own considerations, and Shangguan Mingfu didn't ask much.
"The subordinates knew that they were wrong and accepted the punishment. Ah Cheng bowed happily and said. Because there is no room for mistakes in forging swords, the ancestors left rules, and mistakes should be punished, regardless of identity and matter.
Jun Luo glanced at Ah Cheng, who was five or six years older than him, and casually threw the folded letterhead: "Send the letter to the Migu Xia family first, and then go and pick up the broken charcoal that burst out of the sword furnace." β
"......" Ah Cheng looked at the confidence in his hand with mixed feelings: "Sword master, the spirit of our 'spirit sparrow' is not a carrier pigeon......
"Is that a meat pigeon?" Jun Luo glanced at him: "The fat ones are going to die, I can't understand the news, and I won't send the letter?"
"If you can send it, you can send it, you can definitely send it. Before today's time, I will definitely send it to the head of the Xia family. Ah Cheng said again and again, for fear that the two sparrows in his hall would really be stewed and eaten.
Jun Luo smiled helplessly, and then heard Ah Cheng ask: "Sword master, the old man said that you should not be obsessed with the platform of life and death, if you don't go to the Misty Valley Immortal Gate Meeting, how can the old man explain it?"
"You know again?" the woman sneered.
"Subordinates retire!" Ah Cheng smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran away.
Seeing the orange figure disappear at the door, Jun Luo lowered his eyes slightly, thoughtfully. After thinking for a moment, he picked up the pen and wrote something, and recited the syntax in his mouth, and the note ignited by itself, and the faint purple flame was reflected in the woman's clear black eyes, adding a little chill.