Before dawn, the wind began to blow early in Quling City, and Lan Wuyuan hadn't slept well for the past few nights because he felt guilty about Chihiro. That was the only bloodline of the Snow Clan that Lan Qiumo saved with his life, and he brought him out without protecting people, was he too useless.

Lan Wuyuan still clearly remembered Chihiro's painful expression before he died, and remembered that Mo Jiuzhou dived to the bottom of the river, almost frantically searching, even if there was no hope. The young teacher who doesn't smile seems to be indifferent to Chihiro on weekdays, but in fact, he doesn't care about him in his heart as much as any disciple.

What is the origin of this Earth Demon Clan's night killing? There are very few records of the three major disciples of the Earth Demon Clan's Ghost Chen Seat in the Xuanshui Clan. Lan Wuyuan thought back to the fight with the night killing, he was able to subdue Zu Yi in a moment, and he also trampled Zu Yi under his feet and sneered, it stands to reason that he could have killed Zu Yi easily, but it didn't.

Zu Yi is the hope of the future of the Xuanshui Clan, and he must not die. Lan Wuyuan did not hesitate to break the clan rules and handed over the supreme martial arts of the Xuanshui Patriarch to Zu Yi to cultivate, which showed what kind of sustenance Lan Wuyuan had for him.

Lan Wuyuan thought that if there were any more young disciples in danger, he would be the first to block them in front of them, even if it was death, he would not be afraid, and the Xuanshui Clan would not have no successor.

Outside the window, there was an orderly sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and it was the Long Yan Army guards patrolling again.

Lan Wuyuan pushed open the door, and immediately a cold wind mixed with fine sand blew into the house, there was no one on the street, the sky was overcast, and blue-gray clouds flew north in groups in the wind.

"Every time I come to Quling City, the wind and sand weather are indispensable. Lan Wuyuan let the cold wind blow on his face, "Maybe it's in this harsh climate that you can create a brave warrior like Long Yanjun." ”

Among the oncoming patrol guards of the Long Yan Army, the first person was Huo Lingze.

Huo Lingze looked up and saw Lan Wuyuan standing in front of the window, he was slightly stunned, reined in his horse and asked loudly, "The person upstairs is Lan Wuyuan, Brother Lan?"

Lan Wuyuan replied loudly: "Hall Master Huo has a good memory, I haven't seen him for four or five years, and he can still recognize me, and he personally patrols early in the morning, it's hard." ”

Huo Lingze said: "Patrolling is a matter within our Feng Lonely Hall, why not talk about it, since Brother Lan is here, why don't you go into Yanfu to live, why live in a small shop, that is, it is uncomfortable to live in Baihua and Yinliang." ”

Lan Wuyuan said: "We came into the city last night, and it would be too disturbing to visit late at night, so we will stay at the inn for a day for the time being, and then we will visit the city lord later." Hall Master Huo, I want to ask you something, have anyone in your army been killed in the past two days?"

Huo Lingze was puzzled: "Brother Lan just came, how did he know?"

Lan Wuyuan said: "Yesterday, before entering the city, there were a group of suspicious people on the road. We thought it was the tail of the Earth Demon Clan who was following us, and secretly eavesdropped on their conversation, knowing the ins and outs of their murder in Quling City. When the gang found out that I was eavesdropping, and knew that the matter was exposed, they wanted to kill us, so I cleaned it up. ”

Huo Lingze had been having a headache about this matter for the past two days, and when he heard Lan Wuyuan say it, he immediately shook his spirit and said, "This is true! Those people are already dead, are they all dead?"

Lan Wuyuan said: There are only seven people, and these seven people are all dead, so there is no need to show mercy to the Earth Demon Clan. ”

Huo Lingze said: "They didn't die in my hands, it's really cheap for them!" said and saluted Lan Wuyuan, "I thanked Brother Lan on behalf of the dead brothers, Huo has official business, and when the patrol is over, I will definitely come to the door to thank you." ”

Lan Wuyuan waved his hand and said, "Hall Master Huo doesn't need to be polite, the Flame Clan and the Xuanshui Clan have always been good friends, and taking care of each other is what they should do." ”

Huo Lingze said: "Brother Lan is refreshing, what is the use of brothers in the future, even if he is instructed, Huo will definitely die." ”

Lan Wuyuan smiled, "I haven't drunk in many days, why don't you go to your house and ask for a few pots to drink?"

Huo Lingze said: "It's okay to drink, but there is one condition. ”

Lan Wuyuan asked, "Oh, what conditions." ”

Huo Lingze said: "If you don't get drunk, you won't return!"

Lan Wuyuan smiled: "Okay, good, of course, if you don't get drunk, you won't return." ”

Huo Lingze said: "Then Huo will go on patrol first, and I will prepare a good drink at home, and then we will have a good drink together." ”

Lan Wuyuan said: "Hall Master Huo is busy first, after visiting the Yan City Lord, he will definitely come to the door." ”

When Huo Lingze led the team to leave in the gale, Lan Wuyuan closed the window, and when he looked back, Zu Yi and Frost Feijue were sitting at the table eating breakfast.

"When did you two come in?"

"Hurry up and close the window, the rice porridge is about to turn into sand porridge. Frost Feijue took a big bite of the beef pie, "Don't say it, the breakfast in this shop still tastes pretty good, isn't it Zuyi." ”

Zu Yi slowly peeled an egg in his hand and did not speak.

Lan Wuyuan sat down at the table, took a bowl of porridge and took two sips and said, "You two brought it in?"

Frost Feijue stuffed the pie in his mouth and said vaguely, "Did it fall from the sky?"

"Ah, who did you learn from, you talk no big or small. Lan Wuyuan gestured and patted Frost Feijue on the head.

Shuang Feijue hurriedly dodged aside with the porridge bowl, swallowed what was in his mouth and said, "Uncle Wuyuan, I brought breakfast for you, and you still want to beat someone, so you can do it." ”

Lan Wuyuan took the pie and took a bite, "If you have the ability, come over and see what I can't do." ”

Zu Yi put the peeled smooth egg into the porridge, slowly mashed it and said, "Feijue, even I want to beat you, do you think Uncle Wuyuan can't do it?"

"Come on, I'll surrender. Fei Jue drank the porridge in two sips, patted his stomach and said, "It's so full." ”

"Let's eat enough, go back and clean up, and we'll go to Yan's house in a while." ”

"With such a strong wind, you still have to go out?" asked Frostfeijue.

Lan Wuyuan said: "Yes, we are here on behalf of the Xuanshui Clan, and we can't miss the number of courtesies." ”

"Okay. Frost Fei Jue put the bowl back on the table, and Zu Yi just finished drinking the rice porridge mixed with hard-boiled eggs, and there was not a single grain of rice left in the bowl.

As soon as Frost Feijue left, there was silence in the room, Lan Wuyuan looked at Zu Yi's face that had been bad recently, and asked casually, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Zu Yi said: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

"Well, it's okay. ”

Lan Wuyuan had already discovered that Zu Yi was trampled under the feet of the night killing, and after being fiercely ridiculed once, Zu Yi, who was originally silent, became more and more silent, he was conceited, arrogant, and high. But the higher a person's position, the worse they fall.

After suffering setbacks, Zu Yi kept cultivating the Returning Yuan Realm day and night, he was a genius and did not allow himself to fail, he thought that any failure was a stain on his life, failure was so shameful for him, and the way Zu Yi tried not to let himself fail was to desperately improve his exercises.

But the Great Yin and Yang Technique Earth Kunjuan has no clue since he took over, so Zu Yi was a little discouraged, and for the first time in his life, he began to question himself.

"How heavy is the cultivation of the Returning Yuan Realm now?" Lan Wuyuan asked.

Zu Yi replied, "The Pluto is superior. ”

Lan Wuyuan said: "Once the Guiyuan Realm reaches the Hades Superiority, it will be reincarnated back into a new foundation building period, and during this time, remember to be impetuous and impatient. Don't have other ideas, as long as you concentrate on cultivation, the Yingtong level pays attention to following the trend, and does not deliberately pursue the Yingtong level in order to reach the Yingtong level. ”

Zu Yi asked: "I understand the truth, but how can I do it without deliberately pursuing?"

Lan Wuyuan smiled, pointed to the dishes and chopsticks on the table and said: "Eat when you are hungry, drink water when you are thirsty, this is human instinct, you don't need to learn to be born with it, what you have to do now is to forget about the Yingtong step, as for how to let go of the obsession in your heart, it depends on your own efforts." ”

Zu Yi nodded thoughtfully.

Lan Wuyuan patted Zu Yi on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much, don't put too much pressure on yourself." Remember, you will always be the best genius Zuyi, and you will always be now, and that will not change. ”

The three of them settled the money and left the inn, and there were already many passers-by of different shapes on the street, and some women wore veils on their heads, afraid that if they were not careful, their delicate faces would be blown by the wind and sand.

Frost Feijue is a person who can't be idle, looking left and right on the road, and when he meets a shop selling new things, he wants to go in and take a look, just out of a weapons shop, turn the street and see a puppet shop, the store is full of puppets of humanoid beast-like wood, and he can't help but raise his feet and get in.

Frost Feijue admired while watching: "It's really wonderful to confuse the real with the fake." As he spoke, he poked the arm of a puppet that looked like a beautiful woman at the door, and his skin was as elastic as a real person. "Boss, your puppet is really realistic, what a good workmanship. Yo, your eyes are rolling and you're glaring at me?"

"Little rascal, are you going to touch me again and beat you up or not?" the beautiful woman spoke.

Frost Fei Jue jumped two steps away and shouted, "Alive!"

The shopkeeper at the counter walked out with an embarrassed smile and explained: "Little young man, you misunderstood, this is not a puppet, but our proprietress." The puppets in the store are all made by her. ”

Zu Yi leaned into Frost Feijue's ear and whispered, "Can you stop embarrassing me?"

Frost Fei Jue rolled his eyes at Zu Yi, "What's the matter!" and then smiled at the beautiful woman, "It turned out to be a living beauty, forgive me for not seeing it." ”

The beautiful woman stared at the three of them with a smile, and then said to Shuangfeijue: "You little slippery head, don't pretend garlic with me, if you want to buy a puppet, go into the store, if you don't buy it, leave quickly, the old lady has no time to fool around with you." ”

Shuangfeijue smiled: "What a big temper, it's the first time I've seen a bullish proprietress like you, I came to your store, of course I want to buy something." He swaggered in.

The proprietress did not stop her, leaning on the door frame with her hands around her chest.

Lan Wuyuan is also extremely helpless to Frost Feijue, this guy's personality is three points similar to Huang Quan, and he causes trouble everywhere.

Frost Fei Jue walked around the store, and then swaggered out, the proprietress stretched out her hand to stop him and asked, "Just left empty-handed, didn't you want to buy a puppet?"

Shuangfeijue said: "I didn't like it, and suddenly I didn't want to buy it." ”

The proprietress leaned over and whispered, "You're kidding me?"

"What, the guest doesn't want to buy, are you still going to buy and sell?" Frost Feijue pushed the proprietress by the arm and was about to walk out.

The proprietress grabbed Shuangfeijue's wrist with her backhand, pushed the person back into the store and called: "If you don't buy it today, don't want to go out of this door!"

Lan Wuyuan and Zu Yi glanced at each other, a gloating smile appeared on their faces, this boss lady is not easy to mess with, look at how Frost Feijue ends up now.

"Master, I'm going to go, see how you can stop me. "Frost Feijue will never take the initiative to bully women, he can't afford to provoke him, but he can always afford to hide.

Frost Feijue's body shook, and two figures, one real and one imaginary, broke out from the left and right of the proprietress.

The proprietress waved her hands slightly, and she unexpectedly grabbed the wrist of Frost Feijue, and the real person was thrown into the store again, and the phantom turned into a puddle of water stains that wet the proprietress with a pair of embroidered shoes.

Frost Feijue flipped his head and hung upside down on the hanging beam, and shouted: "Stinky woman, you are not finished!"

The shopkeeper shook his head, picked up the abacus and fiddled around on the table, and kept muttering, "The proprietress was in a bad mood today, but you kid with no eyesight came to provoke her again, but you can bear it." ”

"It's not over!" the proprietress snorted, and a humanoid wooden puppet behind the door made a loud noise, and the head rushed into the frost flying lord.

Frost Feijue had the intention of giving the proprietress a dismount, and slapped the puppet's head with a palm, only to hear a muffled bang, and the puppet's wooden skull cracked like a flower, and seven Mitsubishi-shaped darts quickly ejected from it.

With such a close ejection, if it were an ordinary person, it would definitely be splashed with blood on the spot, but Frost Feijue's reaction ability was always one step faster, and he dodged four darts with one step forward, and caught three in his hand. After landing on the ground, Frost Flying shot the dart at the boss lady with a backhand, but avoided the vital parts.

The proprietress grabbed the dart with her hand, and instead of getting angry, she smiled, "You have two strokes on your slippery head." ”

Lan Wuyuan saw that there were hidden weapons in the puppet, and he was afraid that Fei Jue would make a mistake, so he called out: "Fei Jue, don't make trouble, quickly apologize to the boss lady." ”

It was simply impossible for Frost to apologize to a woman.

"The hostess is so beautiful, how can she bear to make me apologize and go out immediately. Frost Feijue wiped the corners of his mouth with his thumb, and was about to perform the Waterfall Flow Technique to break through, when suddenly a subtle voice came from the side of his ear, "Flying needle!"

Frost Fei Jue closed his eyes and concentrated, and immediately felt that more than a dozen thin needles were shooting from all around, and it was difficult to detect the existence of fine needles with the naked eye.

Zu Yi saw that Frost Feijue was flying up and down in the house for some reason, and wondered in his heart, but he didn't see the way out for a while.

Frost Flying Dodged more than thirty flying needles, and suddenly his arm was grabbed by someone's hand, and then his back was pressed against the hard metal. A faint fragrance penetrated his nostrils, and the proprietress exhaled in his ear, "Don't move, if you move again, you will die." ”

The change happened so quickly that neither Lan Wuyuan nor Zu Yi could see how the boss lady had captured Frost Fei Jue, and immediately broke into the point and surrounded the boss lady.

Lan Wuyuan hurriedly shouted, "Be merciful, his subordinates have mercy! He just wanted to make a joke, and he had no malicious intent. ”

"I know. The proprietress smiled and patted Shuangfeijue on the shoulder, and said, "Hasn't anyone in your Xuanshui Clan taught you, don't talk about your back and despise others?"

Shuang Feijue squinted at the proprietress beside him and said, "Do you know my master Mo Jiuzhou?"

"If you weren't from the Xuanshui Clan, then this dagger would have already been inserted into your heart. Mo Jiuzhou is your master? The proprietress let Frost Fei Jue go, pulled over a chair in the store and sat down.

Frost Fei Jue didn't move, just sneered, it was indeed disgraceful to lose to a woman, but the boss lady's movements were so strange that Frost Fei Jue couldn't see how she caught herself, and there was no reason to be unconvinced.

Lan Wuyuan saw that the proprietress put away the dagger, and since he knew Mo Jiuzhou again, it seemed that he was a friend rather than an enemy, so he put his heart down and asked: "It turns out that you are a friend of Jiuzhou, and you are disrespectful, and you dare to ask your wife's name." ”

"My name is Wen Yan. The proprietress said to Shuang Feijue again: "It's better for young people to be restrained when they go out, too flamboyant will suffer sooner or later, don't think that you can see no one in your eyes after a few exercises, you must know that there are people outside the world." ”

"If you win, you win, what do you say, this is the first time in my life that I have lost in the hands of a woman, and it is also the last time, I said that I would do it. ”

Wen Yan said: "I remember when I met Mo Jiuzhou on the first day, he also said the same thing to you, I haven't seen you for many years, I don't know if he did it or not." ”

After hearing this, Shuang Feijue was surprised, with the ability of his master Mo Jiuzhou, he would also lose in the hands of this woman?

The shopkeeper took out a cup of tea from the inner hall and handed it to Wen Yan, "Boss, you take a sip of tea to dissipate your anger." ”

The proprietress took a sip of tea, held it in her hand and did not put it down, the shopkeeper turned around and took the wooden puppet on the ground and put it back in its place.

Lan Wuyuan looked at the shopkeeper on the puppet's chest and pressed a thumb-sized bump, the puppet's head quickly closed automatically, and then there was a loud noise, and the adult-sized puppet shrunk into a villain only half a meter high, the structure was extremely exquisite, without decades of accumulation of carpentry skills, the puppet was afraid that it would not be able to do it to such a precise degree.

Lan Wuyuan said: "Since Jiuzhou has been defeated in the hands of Madame, you don't remember the villain, don't worry about a child." ”

Wen Yan said: "Why did I bother with him? Now he can leave." ”

Lan Wuyuan said: "I'm not busy, since I've come to the store, it's better to buy some things." I see that these puppets in the store are well-constructed and cleverly made, so it's good for you to recommend one. ”

Wen Yan put the teacup back on the counter and got up and said, "I don't need you to speak, this is polite, I can't stand it." As he spoke, he removed a dagger-like short stick from the wall. "This puppet is not big, easy to carry, it can be used as an ornament for playing, and it can also be used as a hidden weapon. ”

Wen Yan pressed the end of the wooden stick, and the wooden stick turned into a palm-sized puppet with a few crisp clicks, and the puppet held two silver needles in its hands, which could be swung at will. "This puppet's name is Bee, and it can hide up to seventy-two silver needles in its body, and if you are skillful in manipulating it, it can kill people silently. ”

Wen Yan's five fingers on his right hand flicked slightly, manipulating the bee puppet to make various movements, and the softness of a wooden puppet was no different from that of ordinary people, and its flexibility was much better than that of ordinary people.

Frost Feijue and Zu Yi were also stunned for a while, there was such an exquisite carpentry skill in the world.

Lan Wuyuan watched the puppet swing at will in Wen Yan's hand, and suddenly asked, "Madame is from the Flame Clan?"

Wen Yan put away the bee puppet and put it back in Lan Wuyuan's hand in the form of a dagger, "I'm not from the Flame Clan, but I live here all year round, and Quling City is half of my hometown. ”

Lan Wuyuan asked again, "Then what kind of clan are you?"

Wen Yan smiled: "Which clan I am is important to you?"

Lan Wuyuan smiled slightly, "I'm sorry, how much does this bee puppet cost, I bought it." ”

Wen Yan said: "Ninety-nine taels of silver." ”

Lan Wuyuan said, "Why not a hundred taels?"

Wen Yan said: "Because you are friends of Mo Jiuzhou, you can discount one or two silver." ”

Lan Wuyuan said: "Then I have to go back and thank Jiuzhou, it turns out that his name can actually save a tael of silver." ”

Wen Yan smiled and didn't speak, Lan Wuyuan paid the money, took the bee puppet in his arms, and walked out of the store with the ancestral wing frost feijue.

Before leaving, Lan Wuyuan glanced up at the signboard hanging at the entrance of the store, and the black plaque had five large gilded characters, "Visit Jinzhai." ”