In Kaiyuan City, Shi An walked on the street.

In order not to attract attention, he deliberately suppressed the aura of the consummation period in the early stage of foundation building, and he was wearing the only set of loose cultivation clothes. An An is now like a strong leopard, if you let her follow her, it will be strange if she is not noticed.

couldn't stand her repeated pleas, Shi An agreed, and when he returned to the vicinity of Monkey Gorge, he would let this Sichuan cutter come out to breathe.

It was a little different from the last time he came to Kaiyuan City four and a half years ago, but he couldn't figure out what the difference was.

Is it more depressed than before? It seems that there are indeed a lot of shops closed, even the shops that are still open are also crowded, and there seem to be more people moving out, just at the gate of the city, Shi An saw several convoys full of household goods leaving the city;

Is it because the mood of the residents of the city is generally not high? It seems that there is also a little, all of them are yellow and thin, but their tempers seem to be extremely bad. Gunpowder-filled quarrels can be seen everywhere, and there are many people who fight over small things like small bumps.

What the hell is going on here?

It wasn't until he had walked around the city for a long time that he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Cats, yes, cats, not a single cat in this city.

More than twenty years ago, when he and Motomiko first came here, there were a lot of cats. Not only are there a lot of stray cats basking in the sun under the sunny city wall, but even the later "Fang Cun Pavilion" also raised two to catch mice, Shi An remembered very clearly, those two cats were very friendly to others, but when they saw themselves, they ran away.

When I came to change the spirit stone for more than four years, it seemed that there were not many cats. Shi An thought about it carefully for a long time, there were indeed not many left, at least there were no more people running around the city wall, and there were no more people running in the city, but in the end, there was still a kitten sleeping on the counter of the shop that exchanged spirit stones.

When there are fewer cats, there will naturally be more mice.

In broad daylight, there were indeed many rats that could be seen on the streets, all of them huge and fat, and many of them still had food stolen or stolen from various houses in their mouths, which provoked many brooms and wooden sticks in the hands of many mortals to hit them.

It's a little strange, although Shi An is curious about it, he doesn't think much about it.

After buying more than a dozen sets of loose repair clothes in the ready-to-wear store, Shi An did not put in the Dongtian Stone, but threw them into the storage bag hanging on his waist, which was more like an ordinary loose repair.

It was almost evening when he walked near the west gate, and he looked up and saw the cyclamen teahouse.

This is the place where he and Yuan Miaozi learned about the Worm Beast Pill, and the old man bothered a lot about his physical problems back then, and even changed his original life. Now Shi An has become a monk in the consummation stage of foundation building, and Yuan Miaozi has also become an elder in the middle stage of Yudan.

More than 30 years are like a world away.

There was no one on the second floor, Shi An still sat in the position leaning against the railing back then, and still ordered a pot of green seedling tea from that year. After savoring it, the tea still tastes the same, but the mood has already changed.

When I was melancholy, I heard the sound of "Boom" going upstairs from the stairs, and a guy came upstairs with two customers.

"Why are they?" Shi An saw the acquaintance he didn't want to see, lowered his head, hid his face in the darkness, but slowly followed them with his senses.

The two of them also found a quiet corner and sat down, ordered a few refreshments, and began to whisper.

"Old Yu, how are you going?" the middle-aged man asked softly.

"Hall Master Zhan, in the past nearly thirty years, I have traveled to most of the Zhao Kingdom, but I can't find that person's master at all, and there is no trace of that person. In the end, I went to the Twin Towers and stayed there for another half a year, and then I got a reward. Sanxiu, surnamed Yu, took a bite of snacks and said slowly.

"Oh, what kind of harvest? But with the news of that kid's whereabouts?" This Zhan Hall Master was the hall master of Wuluobao Xuanwu Hall back then, and the one surnamed Yu was the shopkeeper of Fang Cun Pavilion back then.

"I didn't find it, but I learned the formation. Shopkeeper Yu still said unhurriedly.

"In this case, you can solve the problem of a certain family, if you can help me repair the mountain protection formation as soon as possible, a certain family will fulfill its promise. ”

"Then thank you, hall master. Shopkeeper Yu picked up the shelf and said, "In addition, I also have some eyebrows about that kid." ”

"Come on, I'll listen, a certain family has been miserable by that kid in the past thirty years, although he is still the hall master, but he has lost face in front of the castle master, he can't help but talk about the big array back then, and he also put the responsibility of not daring to join forces with the Yin Demon Sect on a certain family. Say quickly, and a certain family will catch him at any cost. ”

"There is a 'Yizhi Pavilion' in the Twin Towers City, and the big shopkeeper is called Shi Yizhi, which is exactly the same as the name of the kid in my shop, and there is also a hidden formation with the same effect as my shop, so I suspect that this Shi Yizhi is the Miao Yizhi in my shop back then. ”

"It's not easy, don't you just catch it and ask?"

"This really doesn't work, because this man disappeared twelve years ago. His formation skills have been passed down, and he has not deliberately concealed his peers, so I have the opportunity to learn. In addition, this person is very mysterious, and it is said that he has a good relationship with the Four Elephants, and the current sect leader Yuan Chunzi often sends people to take care of Yizhikaku. And," shopkeeper Yu paused and said, "If this person is really Miao Yizhi, it would be too strange, you think, when he was in my shop, he was still a second-level junior of Qi cultivation, and when he left twelve years ago, he had already advanced to the early stage of foundation building, and there must have been extraordinary experiences in the middle." ”

"Eighteen years of advancement, how is it possible? It's Sun Lang of my castle, and it took sixteen years for the Sanlinggen to advance. Don't be mistaken, are you?" said Hall Master Zhan disapprehensively.

"But if you add that the formation technique is also to arrange the stone slabs, and the tools that come out also have the slate talisman he used back then, and the name of the hidden formation is called the 'Square Inch Array Talisman', which is the same as the name of my shop?

"This ......" Hall Master Zhan pondered for a moment and said, "This is a strange thing, it seems that this kid has indeed had an adventure." Twelve years ago was the early stage of foundation building, and now it should be the middle stage of foundation building, even I may not be able to hold him, it seems that the matter of looking for him will have to be put back on the ground. Fortunately, you have learned this formation, help me set up the fort as soon as possible, and prepare a countermeasure, and it will not be in vain that I have funded you for thirty years and worked hard to make you an inner disciple. ”

"Why, do you want to attack the Four Elephants?" asked the shopkeeper in surprise.

"It's not, it's just that there have been a lot of things in the castle in recent years, anyway, you will become the inner disciple of my castle, and it doesn't hurt to talk to you. Lord Wu Bao" He clasped his hands into fists to show respect: "Now that he is old, he has no hope of getting a baby, and his health is getting worse and worse, especially in the past few years, you can see his obvious aging, I am afraid that he will have a life span of twenty or thirty years at most." ”

"It's been six and a half years since the eldest prince went to the Yin Demon Sect to practice, and the second prince also left that year, saying that he was looking for an outer disciple, and he hasn't come back yet. The two sons who are the heirs are not there, and the castle lord is not in good health, which makes many elders moved, if it weren't for my master, Elder Luo, who suppressed it with an iron fist, he might not have made some mess. If God favors him, the eldest prince will be able to return as a monk in another four years, and then he can return to the castle to gather all the elders to assist the castle master, even if the castle lord is not in good health at that time, it can also be passed on to him, so as to ensure the peace and stability of my castle. Hall Master Zhan said with a solemn face.

"Therefore, it is urgent to strengthen the mountain protection array, this is an external defense, and I also hope that you can add a more reliable formation to the castle master's mansion, which is an internal defense. My purpose in finding that kid is not as simple as revenge, in fact, if he can set up a formation to ensure the safety of the castle master, I can write off all the grievances with him. ”

"This surnamed Zhan is really a loyal person, but it's a pity that he mistook Luo Jue's character, and no one can say what Wu Luobao's tomorrow will be now. Wu Jian is already dead, and Wu Wei can't find it, even if he finds it and inherits the position of the castle master, how can he suppress a cadre of elders as a foundation builder? If I can kill Sun Lang, I will help Wu Wei to some extent. Shi An thought secretly.

"It turns out that the castle is so complicated. Shopkeeper Yu muttered, he originally wanted to enter Wuluobao to cultivate the condition of finding Shi An or learning the hidden formation, but he didn't expect that the contradictions in the sect were no less than those in this scattered cultivation room.

"Where there are people, there are grievances, and where there are grievances, there are rivers and lakes. Hall Master Zhan also muttered this.

The atmosphere was a little depressing, so the shopkeeper Yu hurriedly diverted the topic and asked, "Hall Master Zhan, when I returned to the city, I found that there were so many mice in the city, but there was not a single cat?"

The answer to this question was exactly what Shi An had always wanted to know, so he listened more intently to Hall Master Zhan's explanation.