The old man raised his head weakly and looked down at the young man three feet away, and an ugly smile opened at the corner of his mouth.

He didn't even feel the slightest surprise, and he didn't ask the other party how he got to the ground and found his own.

Because at this time, his heart was already like ashes.

Now that this teenager has found this place, presumably Tang Zi'an and Wei Qiuyue will also appear soon, right?

The old man thought so, and his eyes were full of relief.

After exactly five hundred years, he finally accepted his fate.

And the person who appeared in front of him was naturally Xia Sheng.

The reason why Xia Sheng was able to break the formation of the Twilight Cloud Cave was of course inevitably related to the nearly 100 chains that the old man broke free.

But what the old man didn't expect was that Xia Sheng came here without notifying Tang Zi'an or Wei Qiuyue, and he didn't even alarm anyone.

Because he was keenly aware of a very familiar aura.

This aura did not come from the old man, because even at this moment, he looked at the old man's hideous face like a ghost, and still did not recognize him.

After all, after five hundred years of torture, the old man was unrecognizable and no longer human.

What really brought Xia Sheng here was the dark spring water.

I still remember that when he first entered Luoyang, Xia Sheng asked Ning Zheng to inquire about the location of the living springs near the capital, but the news that Ning Zheng brought back was that most of the springs within a radius of 100 miles had been destroyed, and only two remained.

One is in Luoyang City, called Yuehua Spring.

The other one is in the back mountain of the Spring and Autumn Academy.

It is precisely because of this that Xia Sheng came to the Spring and Autumn Academy, but accidentally triggered the wonder of the moon in the three springs and opened the academy's mountain guarding array. Nearly exposed one of his most important cards.

Before today, Xia Sheng had always been very curious about why the emperor of the dynasty would order people to fill up all the springs outside Luoyang City after the change of Chengtianmen, but he left two.

And today, Xia Sheng has finally solved some of the puzzles.

It turns out that there is a spring in the mountain behind the academy. It's not that Emperor Jin doesn't want to fill in, but he doesn't dare to fill in, and he can't fill in!

Because it's a companion spring!

Because five hundred years ago, Emperor Taizu once laid an anti-heaven magic circle in the belly of Buju Mountain!

If the living spring in the back mountain is exhausted, then not only will the mountain guarding array of the Spring and Autumn Academy be completely destroyed, and this old man who is imprisoned here will be free, but more importantly, the evil qi in the black spring will dye this area of death within a radius of a hundred miles!

At that time, the entire Buju Mountain, including Luoyang City. All living beings will be destroyed, all things will be destroyed, and not a single grass will be born!

Xia Sheng was able to know about this because in the depths of his soul, there was such a black power seed, and the spring water planted by it was no different from this spring!

And this is the source of the terrifying evil aura that Xia Sheng perceived in the Twilight Cloud Cave. It is also the place where he feels extremely familiar with the atmosphere.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Xia Sheng probably wouldn't have believed it. Emperor Taizu actually created a ghostly black spring here that only he could grow!

But what Xia Sheng didn't expect was that the reason why Emperor Taizu went to great lengths to lay this spring was to imprison an old man.

Who is this person?

Xia Sheng frowned, looked at the hideous and terrifying face, and the chilling smile, and slowly clenched the three-foot long sword in his hand. The body is full of righteousness and is eager to try.

Although Xia Sheng was a step late and didn't see the terrifying appearance of the old man struggling frantically here, he could still feel from the iron chains scattered all over the ground and the terrifying energy left in the air that the old man's strength realm should be very terrifying.

So he was careful to keep a distance of three feet from the other party. The aura of spiritual martial arts on his body is hidden.

Immediately after, Xia Sheng asked the most important question.

"Who are you?"

I don't know why, listening to Xia Sheng's extremely unfamiliar voice, the old man's heart swelled with a burst of sourness, and the long-lost tears slowly flowed, so that a burst of heart-wrenching sadness suddenly filled the air.

Even the old man did not understand why he had such a physiological reaction, as if everything was natural and everything was taken for granted.

Unfortunately, half of the old man's tongue had been cut off, and his throat had long been eroded and rotted by venom, so he could only let out meaningless whimpering.

"Ho...... Ho...... Ho ho ......"

Perhaps infected by the sadness in the field, Xia Sheng's brows gradually relaxed, but there was no understanding in his eyes, and then, he took a step forward and walked forward.

Closer to the old man.

He looked carefully at the old man's face, looked at the ten chains that ran through the old man's body, and the bamboo pipe that pierced into his heart, and unconsciously, let go of the long sword in his hand.

Then he asked the second question: "Do you know me?"

With tears in his eyes, the old man shook his head slightly.

After a lapse of five hundred years, even Xia Sheng doesn't know him anymore, how can he know Xia Sheng?

He had been imprisoned here for five hundred years, and Xia Sheng was only a sixteen-year-old boy, no matter how you looked at it, there was no way that the two would have anything to do with each other.

But he never thought about it, Xia Sheng didn't give up, but asked the third: "Should I know you?"

This time, the old man neither nodded nor shook his head, but just looked at him silently, and a little light seemed to burst out from the pair of blue-gray vertical pupils that should have been extinguished.

I don't know if it's because Xia Sheng recognized some kind of trace that has been covered by the years, so as if a ghost has sent a god, he finally asked the last and most critical question.

"How long have you been locked up here?"

Hearing this, the old man seemed to become excited again, he gently shook the chains on his body, and then nodded at Xia Sheng.

He clicked a total of five times.

Not much, not less.

So Xia Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

The next moment, Xia Sheng suddenly had an inexplicable temperament on his body, making him feel like a different person in an instant.

It is a kind of arrogant bearing, a kind of rebelliousness that looks down on the world, and a kind of natural king's style.

It seems that Xia Sheng at this time is no longer a sixteen-year-old boy, but a great king of the past and the present, a super strong man who is proud of the sky!

At the same time, Xia Sheng repeated his second question, but turned the penultimate word into a name that had not been seen for five hundred years.

"Do you know Locho?"

Rumble!

A loud bang exploded in the hole, the last ten chains on the old man's body rang out in unison, and a bloody tear came out of the old man's eyes, the old man's face became extremely terrifying, he opened his mouth wide, as if he was shouting something, but in the end, it was just a meaningless syllable.

"Ho...... Ho ......!"

The old man seemed to have exhausted his last strength, his body trembled violently, stretched open the chains that had grown into the bones on his shoulders, and motioned Xia Sheng to look up at the sky, one hand clenched into a fist, one hand was all opened, and five fingers were stretched out vigorously in front of Xia Sheng's eyes.

Xia Sheng looked at this scene, thoughtful, and muttered two words: "God...... Five......"

The next moment, Xia Sheng's eyes suddenly widened, and he asked urgently, "Tianwu! Are you Tianwu!"

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PS: Thank you for the 888 reward of 'Biluo Huangquan XII.', thank you for the 100 reward of 'Xiaoge Que', thank you for the 100 reward of '9' in the next world, and I will go to my mother-in-law's house tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings, today Mo Yu is still ready to go to bed early, and tomorrow will be added to the wind and rain sect master! )