As soon as Chihiro returned to the hut, Qin Tao came to ask him to go to Mirror Lake, there is a small lake in front of Xuanshui Village, although the scale is not large, the scenery is very beautiful. Now that the spring is blooming, it is the season to play, how can Qin Tao stay in the medicine house.

Chihiro couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the piano, so she had to follow out.

Qin Tao picked up a pebble by the lake and floated in the water. "Don't be stupid to practice all day long, you can combine work and rest, I'll pull you out for your own good, don't look reluctant. ”

"I don't know what you're thinking, but you know how to play. Chihiro picked up a shiny stone and put it in her hand, but didn't throw it.

The scenery of Xuanshui Village is indeed beautiful, there is nothing else on the snowy mountain except the vast white snow, and I am used to seeing a single white, and then looking at this colorful world, it really makes Chihiro have a special touch.

"Well, pretty, it's the most fun part of the village. Qin Tao pointed to a pavilion in the center of the lake and said, "That's the meditation pavilion, I'll take you over to have a look, hey, it seems that someone is there." ”

Chihiro looked up and saw that there was indeed a person sitting in the pavilion, and it was still a woman.

"It's Fanxi, the big beauty of our village. Introduce you to the past. After Qin Tao finished speaking, he trotted all the way, not caring whether Chihiro followed or not.

Walking across the wooden bridge three or four hundred meters long, Chihiro found that the girl in front of her was indeed a beauty, the loose white dress could not hide the Miaoman's figure, and the white skin seemed to be as clear as a snow lotus. Fan Xi saw Qin Tao Qianxun coming, just glanced at it casually, and then turned his head to look at the lake again.

"Xi'er, why is it alone, no one accompanies you?" Qin Tao greeted cordially, he seemed to be full of enthusiasm for anyone.

"Be cleaner alone. Fan Xi didn't look at Qin Tao, still staring at the lake.

"You can stay alone. Qin Tao leaned on the half-meter-high railing, squinted her eyes, and let the breeze gently blow on her face, "If you were me, I wouldn't be able to stay, it's fun to have someone to share a good time like this, Chihiro, am I right." ”

"That's for you, some people still like to be alone. Chihiro walked up to Kototao's side, and when she looked at Fanxi from this angle, she happened to see her most beautiful face.

Fairy, such a word suddenly popped up in Chihiro's mind, because Fan Xi has a temperament that does not eat fireworks in the world.

"Turnip greens, each with his own love. Qin Tao suddenly turned around and pointed at Chihiro and introduced to Fan Xi, "Xi'er, he is the young man of the Snow Clan, Chihiro." ”

"Yes. Fan Xi Chong Chihiro nodded politely. He didn't seem to want to speak.

"You look so handsome, don't you want to get to know him?" Qin Tao said with a smile.

"What does it have to do with me?" Fan Xi glanced at Qin Tao, and spoke mercilessly.

"Don't be so direct, it's too face-saving. Qin Tao pouted at Chihiro, looking helpless.

"Oops!" Qin Tao suddenly covered his stomach and said with a distorted face, "Why does my stomach hurt, it's too bad, I have a bad stomach." ”

"Are you alright?"

Chihiro stretched out her hand to help, but was opened by Qin Tao's raised hand, "You wait for me for a while, I'll go conveniently, oops, no, no, no......"

Qin Tao clutched his stomach and jumped and ran towards the forest by the lake, humming and chirping all the way to disappear in the dense forest.

"I wanted to come out alone and be quiet, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult. Fan Xi stood up and muttered, "Meditation on Xiaohu has long lost the meaning of meditation." ”

"Qin Tao just loves to play, and nothing else. If you don't like it, I'll just leave. Chihiro saw Fanxi's indifferent attitude and was a little angry in her heart.

"I'm not talking about Qin Tao, don't get me wrong. ”

"That's me?" Chihiro seemed even more angry.

"I didn't say anything about you. Fan Xi's fingers touching the railing suddenly stopped, and his gaze stopped in the northwest direction.

Chihiro was about to speak, but she couldn't help but follow Fanxi's gaze.

On the main road leading to the outside of the village, three young people walked side by side to the village, and the leader of them was wearing a white shirt. On the left is a girl, and on the right is a teenager dressed in tight black.

Because of the distance, the faces of the three of them were not very clear, but Chihiro vaguely felt that the girl on the left seemed to be Lan Yixue.

"Is that girl Lan Yixue?" asked Chihiro.

"That's right. A hint of gloom flashed across Fan Xi's face.

"Those two men are also from the village?"

"You've been here for so long, you don't know them?"

"I haven't seen it. ”

"Zu Yi must know that. ”

"Zu Yi!" Chihiro looked at the three people in the distance again, "That person in white is Zu Yi?"

"Well, the other person is called Frostfeijue. ”

The distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, and Chihiro could already faintly hear their conversation, Zu Yi glanced over here, his gaze did not linger too much, just a casual glance.

"Genius boy, is he really that powerful?" Chihiro muttered.

"It should be better than you think. ”

Qianxun turned around and saw Fan Xi silently looking at Zu Yi, with a hint of tenderness in his indifferent expression.

"You ......"

Chihiro had just spoken, but was suddenly interrupted.

"Xi'er, it turns out that you are here. ”

A young man in brocade clothes walked on the bridge, and when he saw Chihiro beside Fan Xi, his face immediately fell, "Who are you?"

"My name is Chihiro. Chihiro sensed the hostility of the other party.

The brocade-clothed young man stepped forward and put his arm around Fan Xi's shoulder, and said to Qianxun horizontally: "It turns out that the person from the Snow Clan is you, I tell you, stay away from Fan Xi in the future, otherwise I will not be polite to you." ”

"Xiao Mufeng, what are you doing?" Fan Xi took his hand away from his shoulder with a slight displeasure.

"Xi'er, I'm for your good. Xiao Mufeng said softly.

"Do you need to take care of my business?" Fan Xi walked coldly past Xiao Mufeng.

"Xi'er, wait for me. Xiao Mufeng followed closely behind, and when he walked on the wooden bridge, he didn't forget to turn around and say to Chihiro, "You will remember my words in the future!"

Chihiro looked at Xiao Mufeng's departing back and sneered.

Qin Tao came out of the woods, watched Fan Xi and Xiao Mufeng leave, and wondered in his heart: "Why is Fan Xi with him?"

Chihiro walked out of the pavilion, and Qin Tao asked, "What's the matter? I see that Fan Xi is a little unhappy? Why do you have a black face? Did you provoke her?" ”

Chihiro didn't answer, but asked, "Who is that Xiao Mufeng, quite arrogant." ”

"He, it's not an ordinary drag, his grandfather is the archdeacon of the village, and the patriarch is a senior brother, his grandfather has such a high status, and there are a group of uncles and uncles who spoil him, of course he is angry. What, did he provoke you?"

"No, I'm just curious. In the past few days, I have found that the people in the village are very characterful, and Master Jiuzhou is unfathomable, although he has a smile on his face, he always knows what he is thinking. Fan Xi is as cold as frost, and this Xiao Mufeng is an arrogant and domineering master. I really don't know how to get along with the people in the village. In the past, no matter who we met, we talked and laughed, and we were close to ...... like family" Chihiro recalled the past when she was happy in the Great Snow Mountain, and couldn't help but show a wry smile, "It's a pity that those days can't go back." ”

"Mr. once said that different environments will create different types of people, and the continent of the jungle cannot survive without skills and scheming. It's a little better in the village, the outside world is more cruel, it's good to get used to it. ”

Chihiro nodded thoughtfully, sighed and looked at the small lake, the breeze came slowly, the lake surface was flooded with layers of subtle ripples, and the spring scene reflected in the water also lost its original appearance.

The dim hut, quiet only a thin breath, an old man sleeping peacefully on the bed in the shadow of the room, this old man looks ordinary, and he is wearing simple and simple clothes, if you see him for the first time, you will mistakenly think that he is a perennial farmer, but this old man is not a farmer, but the respected Xuanshui patriarch Lan Zhan.

The door creaked open, and the midday sunlight poured in, bringing some life to this gloomy room, and then a middle-aged man entered, this person had an elegant appearance and gray beard, and it was Bu Yougui, the first military master of the clan.

Lan Zhan woke up when he heard the sound, saw the person coming clearly, and said astringently: "It's Mr. who is here." ”

Bu Yougui came to the bedside, "How is the patriarch's body feeling?" ”

Lan Zhan's face was yellow, his body was getting thinner and thinner, he was already ill a few days ago, and he used the technique of returning to the Yuan Realm to think about time and space to receive Qianxun, and his vitality was even more injured, after Guan Heluo's careful conditioning, he has recovered a little these days. But Lan Zhan is old, and it is impossible to fully recover.

"That's it, live one day at a time. Lan Zhan smiled, as if he had already anticipated his situation.

"What are these words, I believe that Heluo will take care of your body, it's just a matter of time. ”

Lan Zhan sat up, took the cup at the head of the bed, slowly drank two sips of water, leaned against the head of the bed and asked leisurely, "Isn't there any news of Qiu Mo yet?"

Bu Yougui shook his head, "I'm afraid ......"

Lan Zhan sighed and asked, "What have the Earth Demon Clan been doing on the continent recently?"

"No, since the Snow Clan was destroyed, the Earth Demon Clan has kept a low profile, and there has been no movement. ”

"Oh, the Sword of Destruction didn't succeed, how could they give up? ”

"I suspect so. Bu Yougui took out an old book from his arms, the writing was shabby and gray, and there were several broken places, and three big characters were written on it, which was absurd and ancient. "Patriarch, do you remember the wasteland that collapsed twenty years ago?"

"The wasteland collapsed, of course I remember, the great wasteland collapsed out of a hundred-zhang deep quadrangular pit, and the whole continent knew about it, how did I think of it. ”

"I suspect this has something to do with the Oni Clan. ”

"How is it involved in the ghost race, the ghost race was wiped out thousands of years ago, where is the ghost race. ”

Bu Yougui turned a few pages of "The Ancient Chronicles", "But I feel more and more that things are strange, there are not many records about the ghost clan, although there are only a few words, but I can also see some clues." ”

Lan Zhan took the book, which tells the story of thousands of years ago the ghost clan and the immortal clan fought for the overlord of the absurd continent in the Heavenly Boundary Mountain, both sides were killed and injured tragically, and in the end, both sides were defeated, the Immortal Emperor found someone to negotiate with the Ghost King, and made an agreement to use the Heavenly Boundary Mountain as the boundary, the ghost clan in the south and the immortal clan in the north, and achieved the pattern of the two clans standing side by side.

The short-lived peace was just for both sides to regain strength, and two years later, the Ghost King created the Ghost Gate Forbidden Technique to open the Ghost Gate Pass in order to mobilize 100,000 Hell Yin soldiers to defeat the Immortal Clan. And the masters of the immortal clan found another way, combined with the power of heaven and earth, and developed the formation of the debut sect. When the ghost king's ghost door forbidden technique was not yet mature, the great array of the Immortal Dao Sect was opened, and the ghost clan suffered countless casualties, and the legends of the lucky escapees were sealed in hell. Since then, the ghost clan has been removed from the mainland. Decades later, the immortal people disappeared from the continent and became a great mystery left to the world.

If it weren't for the ruins of the ghost clan and the immortal clan that still remain on the continent to this day, the existence of these two clans might be questioned.

Lan Zhan had long known about the records of the war between the ghost clan and the immortal clan, and he had already read the records in "The Ancient Chronicles", and he had read them carefully, but he didn't see what the ghost clan had to do with the collapse of the wasteland.

"Sir, you can tell me if you have any clues, the old man really didn't see it. Lan Zhan shook his head and handed the book back.

Bu Yougui didn't take over, but turned a few more pages of the book, "Look at the introduction of the formation later." ”

What is recorded in the "Ancient Chronicles" is some ancient history, formations, legends, and some geographical knowledge. Among them, a large part is the formation, the ancient and complicated rare formations are recorded in it, and the page opened by Bu Yougui records the formation of the four elephants.

"This is just a set of theoretical formations, this formation needs to be based on the qi of the four directions of the southeast, the northwest and the northwest, but the qi of the four directions is invisible, how can a stable formation be formed?" Lan Zhan looked at the records in the book and frowned slightly.

Bu You returned: "This set of formations has not only been implemented a long time ago, but has also been broken. ”

"Oh, is there such a master in the world? Who laid it down, and who broke it?"

"Of course, the people who laid this array are not mortals, they should have been laid when the immortal clan existed, and when the wasteland collapsed, this array was broken. ”

"What do you mean? The more I listened, the more confused I became. ”

"The Dao Sect's array is the head of ten thousand arrays, no one has been able to find its trace for thousands of years, or someone knows it but doesn't say it, the reason why this is so is because the Dao Sect's array is not a array, but a super large array formed by the combination of three formations. The Four Elephants Wasteland Array, the Three Light Divine Tree Array, and the Qiankun Array. ”

"Three formations combined?" Lan Zhan sat up straight and said, "The collapse of the wasteland means that the Four Elephants Wasteland Formation has been broken, and someone is cracking the Dao Sect Formation?"

"That's right. As soon as the wasteland array is broken, I'm afraid the next step will be the Three Light Divine Tree Array. ”

"What kind of array is this?" Lan Zhan flipped through the "Ancient Chronicles", but there was no record of the Three Light Divine Tree Formation and the Qiankun Array.

"It's not clear, it seems to be related to the Aoki Clan's Babel Tree. I've sent someone to investigate. ”

"The gates of hell are wide open, and the consequences are unimaginable. Lan Zhan sighed faintly.

"The situation is not grim now, it has been twenty years since the collapse of the wasteland, and the Three Light Divine Tree Array has not yet been cracked, so the difficulty can be imagined. ”

"The Three-Light Divine Tree Formation is not broken, how do you know?"

Bu Yougui smiled and said: "These three formations are formations created by combining the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and there will be relevant celestial phenomena after they are broken, and after the four elephant arrays are cracked, the yin qi of the four directions of the continent is becoming stronger year by year, ordinary people may not have paid attention to it, but I found it after I noticed it eight years ago and continued to observe." ”

"So you already knew, why haven't I heard you mention it all this time. ”

"It's not that I deliberately concealed it, it's just that all the previous things were just suspicions, and I wasn't sure at all, and recently I received news that the Hell Monk was going to send a night kill to the Black Desert, so that such a powerful person could go deep into a deserted place, such a strange behavior should be related to breaking the formation. ”

"Didn't you find out what they were doing?"

"No, but I've already sent someone to follow it up. ”

"It seems that the matter is much more serious than we imagined, the Earth Demon Clan snatches the Excalibur on the one hand, and releases the Ghost Clan on the other hand, it seems that it is going to premeditate a big move, so what should we do now?"

And so on. ”

"Wait, wait, what?"

"When the time comes, the Flame Patriarch Yan Aofeng can't hold his breath anymore, Fang Tuo led a Dragon Flame Forbidden Army to rebel, so that this old guy really got a heel, how could he give up? Fang Tuo is now serving the Hell Monk, and he is also a member of the Earth Demon Clan, if Yan Aofeng really goes to find trouble with them, the Hell Monk can't sit idly by, and the two clans will inevitably fight each other at that time. ”

"Sir, do you want the snipe and the clam to compete and the fisherman to profit?"

Bu Yougui chuckled: "Yan Aofeng and the Hell Monk are both treacherous and cunning people, it is difficult to get benefits from them, but now that the situation on the mainland is tense and the future is uncertain, the best way is to respond to changes with no change." ”

Lan Zhan looked at Bu Yougui and said slowly: "The situation on the mainland is changing, if I am ten years younger, I will definitely stir up this situation, but the years are not forgiving, hey, people are old, and this body and bones can't withstand the toss......"

......

"Sir, in the past two days, I plan to give up the position of patriarch to Wuyuan, and the future history should be created by their young people. Do you think Wuyuan can sit well in the patriarch's seat?"

Bu You returned: "Wuyuan is incomparably intelligent, of course there is no problem in inheriting your position, but if you give way now, will it be too early, wait for your body to recover ......?"

Lan Zhan waved his hand and said: "Don't comfort me anymore, I still know what my body looks like, it's hard to say whether I can survive this year, I think clearly, I will have a meeting in a few days and officially announce my abdication." ”

"Now that you've decided, I'll take care of the rest. ”

Lan Zhan looked at Bu Yougui's gray hair and sighed: "Sir, you have worked hard all these years, and you have to work hard to deal with all the big and small matters in the clan, but you are not yet middle-aged, and your hair is already gray." ”

Bu Yougui smiled: "You're serious, I'm just doing my own thing." I usually use my brain, where to talk about hard work. ”

"You are just modest, hey, Wuyuan is on top, there must be a lot of troublesome things that you need to help deal with in the future, I didn't want you to work hard, but there is no way, the Xuanshui Clan can't do without you. ”

"These are the things that should be done. ”

"Thank you for your hard work......"

Lan Zhan showed a tired look, and Bu You got up to say goodbye: "Patriarch, you can rest, I'll go back first." ”

Well, Lan Zhan handed the book to Bu Yougui and watched him go out, and the dark room returned to quiet again.