readx;? In the depths of the inner courtyard of the Lu Mansion, there was a room that looked quite old, and the cracks in the bluestone floor in the small courtyard were overgrown with weeds, and it still looked like it hadn't been properly taken care of for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was late at night, but the courtyard door was hidden, and there was a sound of 'clanging' wine glasses colliding in the room from time to time, as if there were many people drinking together, but the most strange thing was that there was no human voice from the outside. Aside from the sound of glass clashing and pouring, there was only a cry that was close to a whimper, and nothing else.

"Squeak!"

With the soft sound of the wooden door turning, I saw a white shadow outside the courtyard gate hesitate for a moment before tentatively stepping into the courtyard. This woman is Ji Yi'er, her slender posture is matched with a pair of slightly puzzled eyes, she is wearing a white dress at night, and the green silk man dance is half covering her eyebrows under the breeze, and her white cheeks are exposed between the hairs, which looks extraordinarily clean, and she looks like a fairy descending from a distance, light and soft.

In fact, since she came to Jinling City, Ji Yi'er has witnessed the scenes that happened here, and her heart is even more indescribably depressed, every time in the dead of night, she will always toss and turn and find it difficult to sleep, although Ji Yuan loves her as always, but she has always had a trace of connection with Ji Yuan, so that there is still a layer of estrangement between their brother and sister. Ji Yi'er has always regarded herself as an outsider in the Lu Mansion, except for occasionally getting together with Wu Mei to talk on weekdays, Ji Yi'er has always been that taciturn appearance in front of others, as if she is wary of everyone here, so that she subconsciously doesn't want to get too close to anyone.

The same is true tonight, Ji Yi'er wandered around the Lu Mansion because of the long night, but unconsciously attracted by the movement in this courtyard, so he pushed the door in to find out.

This courtyard was so small that Ji Yi'er could clearly hear the whimpering and clinking of glasses from the room when she stood at the gate of the courtyard, and she could even faintly hear the heavy wheezing of the man in the room.

Ji Yi'er looked curiously at the reflection reflected on the doors and windows, but no matter how she looked at it, there was only one person's shadow in the room, and there was no second person at all.

"Strange, who is he clinking glasses with?" Ji Yi'er muttered quietly, she stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked at it again for a while, then she felt bored for a while, and then she wanted to turn around and leave, "Why are there some inexplicable people everywhere in this Lu Mansion......"

"Who?"

Maybe it was Ji Yier's self-talk that alarmed the drinkers in the room, only to hear a cold shout suddenly sounded from the room, and then the door was pulled open by someone "bang", and then I saw a sharp white shadow rushing out of the room, accompanied by a gust of wind coming head-on, Ji Yier only felt that her eyebrows tightened suddenly, and then before she could subconsciously open her mouth to explain, a bright sword was already pointed at herself, and the tip of the sword went straight to the center of her eyebrows.

"Is that you?"

The two of them blurted out the same question almost in unison, and after seeing each other's faces clearly, the two of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.

"You...... Just living here?" Ji Yi'er stretched out her hand and pointed to this rather depressed courtyard a little crampedly, as if to hide her uninvited embarrassment, "Lu Yifan, he actually treated you like this? How can you say that you are also friends who have known each other since childhood!"

The friend that Ji Yi'er kept saying about and Lu Yifan since childhood is the person who lives in this small courtyard now, Lan Chen.

"Lu Yifan and I are not friends!" Lan Chen stared at Ji Yi'er suspiciously, and replied lightly, "At least not before!"

"Oh!" Somehow, under the scrutiny of Lan Chen's indifferent eyes, Ji Yi'er, who has always been indifferent to people, was a little embarrassed, maybe it had something to do with the fact that she sneaked into someone's residence in the middle of the night, and no matter how she said it, she was at her own fault.

"Why are you here in the middle of the night?"

Sure enough, no matter how much Rao is Ji Yi'er secretly prayed in his heart that Lan Chen would never mention this matter, Lan Chen still couldn't help but ask the words. It's just that compared to Ji Yi'er's embarrassment and crampedness, Lan Chen's tone was still a little cold: "Could it be that Ji Yuan sent you?"

"No!" Ji Yi'er immediately denied, "Even if Ji Yuan wants to spy on you, I won't obey him! I walked here by myself ...... I was idle."

"Walk into my yard?" Lan Chen didn't seem to believe Ji Yi'er's words, his eyes were still staring at Ji Yi'er.

"Your courtyard door is hidden, I thought no one lived here, so I came in and took a look, who knew that you actually lived here!" Ji Yi'er prevaricated indiscriminately, and then she hurriedly changed the conversation and asked suspiciously, "Lu Yifan let you live in this kind of place?"

"I picked it myself!" Lan Chen's answer was very crisp and neat, "Just because this place is remote and quiet, I don't like to be disturbed!"

Ji Yi'er nodded as if she didn't understand, and then she glanced curiously into the room, and asked puzzledly: "You are alone here?" I just heard someone clinking glasses......

"If you say a living person, then I'm the one!" Lan Chen replied lightly with a lonely face, "But for me, my father and my eldest brother are drinking in it!"

"Your father and your eldest brother ......" Of course Ji Yi'er knew what a tragic past Lan Chen had experienced, and even Lan Shixun and Lan Jin were killed by Xuanzong, plus she herself was also a person from Xuanzong, so her face couldn't help but look a little ugly now.

"But none of this is your business!" Lan Chen seemed to be aware of the change in Ji Yi'er's mood, so he said rather coldly, "I know very well who killed them!"

"No wonder I just heard you crying......"

"What I said is none of your business!" Lan Chen didn't seem to want to be discovered for his cowardly side, so he couldn't help but look a little annoyed after hearing Ji Yi'er's words.

"I'll just ask casually, you don't want to say it, why are you so angry?" Ji Yi'er was also aroused by Lan Chen's cold attitude, and then she turned around angrily and wanted to raise her feet and leave.

"Wait a minute!"

However, just as Ji Yi'er was about to leave here, Lan Chen subconsciously stopped her. Ji Yi'er turned her head with a displeased face and asked coldly, "What are you doing?" Do you still want to arrest me and report to the official, saying that I can't trespass on your yard?"

"No...... Isn't it ......" Lan Chen was asked by Ji Yi'er, and his face looked a little guilty, "How can I, Lan Chen, be the kind of person with a small belly?"

"Then why did you stop me?" Ji Yi'er's expression softened slightly.

"I want to ......" Lan Chen seemed to be a little embarrassed, holding the sword in his right hand, but his left hand was clenched tightly into a fist, looking a little hesitant.

"You Lanchen is not a small-bellied chicken intestine, is it a mother-in-law?"

"Of course not!" Lan Chen suddenly looked up and denied, "I mean...... If you can't sleep at night, can you come in and have a drink with me......

Hearing Lan Chen's words, Ji Yi'er couldn't help but be stunned. She couldn't help but glance sideways at the empty room, and suddenly a sense of loneliness and loneliness came to her heart. Today's scene touched her memories of the past, and once upon a time she dreamed of having someone to drink with her. But even so, Ji Yi'er still sneered unrelentingly: "Aren't there your father and your eldest brother in it?"

"...... here" Lan Chen didn't directly answer Ji Yi'er's words, he just opened his mouth lightly and said to himself, "Everyone guards me like a thief, although Lu Yifan is willing to take me in, but the people of the Soul Sect don't have a good impression of me...... Since the death of my dad and eldest brother, I have lost everything, even someone to talk to...... Although the world is big, there is no place for me Lanchen......"

How could Ji Yi'er not understand Lan Chen's words? How similar are the fates of the two of them, they were both tragically destroyed, they are both alone, and even their current status and status in the Lu Mansion are half a catty? Lan Chen feels lonely, how can Ji Yi'er not realize it? This slightly sad resonance makes Ji Yi'er have no sense of rejection for Lan Chen in his heart, it can really be said that they are on the same road at the end of the world, Pingshui's bosom friend.

"If you don't give up, can you have a few drinks with me......"

"Okay!" Ji Yi'er agreed to Lan Chen's slightly nervous invitation, only to see her chuckle and nodded, and then muttered thoughtfully, "You say you're alone, but why shouldn't I?"

Facing Ji Yi'er's face full of sadness, Lan Chen's face was also solemn and bitter. In the end, the two just looked at each other and smiled, each thinking in their smiles, and they were extremely sentimental.

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In the blink of an eye, another month has passed.

The New Year Festival is approaching, and the surrounding areas of Jinling City are gradually becoming lively.

In the early morning, the streets are full of red and prosperous couplets, but Lu Mansion is still hanging white everywhere, quiet and scary.

"What day is today?" Liu Sandao, who was flushed with drink, took out an empty wine jug from the table full of wine jars, shook it gently in his ear, and then threw it aside with a disgusted face.

"Chinese New Year's Eve!" Kihara burped with one mouth.

"How many days has Yifan slept?"

"It's been three months!"

"Not awake yet?"

"If it's past today, he's really slept for a year!"

"Hehe......"

Liu Sandao and Ji Yuan were drunk, in the past two months, in addition to drinking, the two of them chatted, and when they were sleepy, they lay on the stone table and fell asleep, that is, the two of them were strong enough, if they were other people, they were afraid that they would freeze to death the next day after sleeping in this cold winter month.

"Your sister......" Liu Sandao stretched out his hand to Ji Yuan with drunken eyes, and said with a wicked smile, "I heard that she has been very close to Lan Chen recently......"

"It's the same person who has fallen to the end of the world, she doesn't want to talk to my brother, it's rare that someone can chat with her, which is a good thing!" Ji Yuan replied with a sneer.

"Good thing, I think you don't care about being an older brother, then the two of you really have to have a good thing, haha......"

"Nonsense! Punish a glass of wine!" Ji Yuan picked up the empty wine bowl on the table and handed it to Liu Sandao, who unceremoniously took it and put it to his lips and drank it several times, before he complained again and again with a puzzled face, "What kind of broken wine is this, it doesn't taste good at all......

"Haha......" Ji Yuan laughed when he heard this, "There is wine in the heart, but there is no wine in the bowl, this is called no wine is better than wine......"

"Bullshit!" Liu Sandao shook his hand and laughed, "Ji Yuan, are you still going to leave when you come back this time?"

"Unless Yifan drives me away, I won't go anywhere!" Ji Yuan staggered to his feet, carrying a large wine jar in one hand, and patting his chest heavily with the other, and said vaguely, "No, even if Lu Yifan drives me away, I won'......t leave this time!

"Yes, you can't go......" Liu Sandao also stood up with a smile, staggered to Ji Yuan's side, and put his arm around Ji Yuan's shoulders and laughed playfully, "Who will accompany me to drink when you leave?"

"Yes, if you don't go, you won't leave if you drive me away......" Ji Yuan put his backhand around Liu Sandao's shoulder, and the two looked at each other and laughed.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, an extremely subtle sound of breaking the air suddenly came from mid-air, and then I saw an extremely fast purple lightning suddenly fall from the sky, without giving Liu Sandao and Ji Yuan time to react, this purple lightning 'slashed' heavily on the stone table in front of them.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the stone table was shattered by purple lightning in an instant.

"Whew!"

Then a vague black shadow flew in front of Liu Sandao and Ji Yuan like a gust of wind, and the purple lightning that was deeply embedded in the ground was also pulled out by this person, and then the purple light turned, and two sharp qi struck straight towards Liu Sandao and Ji Yuan. The speed was so fast that Liu Sandao couldn't see who was coming, so frightened that the two of them suddenly lost their alcohol, and they also flew out left and right in a hurry, although the action was slightly embarrassing, but it was able to avoid this blow sneak attack.

"Who?"

Liu Sandao's expression was straight, and then his face was ruthless, and he picked up the long sword of the moon slashing that was poking next to him, and with a flash of silver light, he slashed mercilessly towards the black shadow behind Ziguang, so fast that even a slight crack appeared in the air around the blade.

"Khooth!"

This is a pure hard hit, a person who has the courage to be so hard with Liu Sandao, if it is not a reckless man who does not know Liu Sandao, he must be a top master who is full of confidence in his own strength. And this black shadow obviously belonged to the latter, because after he collided with Liu Sandao's hard-hitting sword, his body only stopped in place for a moment, but it was not shaken back. But taking advantage of Liu Sandao's surprised kung fu, this black shadow actually pounced on him again, and the purple light like a storm turned into a sky full of stars, whistling towards Liu Sandao, who was full of shock, and Liu Sandao could only swing his knife hard to meet in a hurry, and the sound of "ping pong" suddenly resounded in the courtyard. All of a sudden, Liu Sandao was chased and beaten by the black phantom who couldn't see his figure at all, and what the two of them used was a fierce attack with a big opening and closing, and it was already a hundred rounds between you and me.

"What's going on?"

At the same time, Xie Yun, Yin Xi, Chu Ding, Qin Qingyu and others who rushed over when they heard the sound also rushed to the inner courtyard, and when they saw that Liu Sandao was fighting with an extremely fast black shadow in the middle of the battle, a look of shock appeared on everyone's faces.

"His grandmother's, there is really that fateful, find fault and find a home!" Yin Xi suddenly pulled out the Wuji Knife, and shouted angrily at the erratic black shadow, "Today, Lao Tzu let you have no return!"

"Let's go together!" Ji Yuan also reacted from shock at this moment, only to see him pick up the wolf's head copper stick, and said coldly with a solemn expression, "This person is too fast, let's surround him first!" Ji Yuan shouted loudly, and Xie Yun and the others surrounded Liu Sandao and the blurred figure in the battle, showing their blades one by one, staring at the blurred black shadow in the battle.

"Who the hell is it?"

"Could it be that someone from Xuanzong has come to take revenge?"

"That's just in time!"

......

"Stop!"

Just at the last moment, Lu Yifan's door was suddenly opened, and then I saw Han Ling'er, who was displeased, striding out, and then shouted with anger on his face: "You just woke up and you are messing around, beware of fainting again!"

"Haha...... I don't feel like I've been able to stretch my muscles in a long time!"

Accompanied by a familiar laughter, the black figure shook with a move, and then it was separated from Liu Sandao, leaving Liu Sandao with a stunned face on the spot, and was also shocked by this familiar laughter and did not react for a long time.

The black figure finally turned into a storm of wind and swirled rapidly in the courtyard, and when the black wind gradually dissipated, a thin and tall figure was gradually revealed, and when everyone in the courtyard saw this person's ruddy and spiritual face, they couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yifan!"

"Sect Master!"

Yes, the person who suddenly attacked Liu Sandao was Lu Yifan, who had just woken up from a big dream, and that purple lightning was the Dark Sword that Lu Yifan was now carrying in his hand. Compared with before the injury, Lu Yifan's whole person now looks more stable and restrained, and even his eyes have become more calm and deep than before, a little less sharp and decisive, and a little more heavy and peaceful. The most surprising thing is that at this moment, a lock of white hair fluttered slightly in front of Lu Yifan's forehead, which formed an extremely sharp contrast with the black hair around him.

This lock of white hair represents his repentance and guilt towards Lu Jun.

"Yifan?" Liu Sandao rushed forward with an excited face and carefully looked at Lu Yifan from head to toe, the ecstasy in a pair of tiger eyes was self-evident, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay!" Lu Yifan said and stretched his arms slightly at Liu Sandao and the others, so that everyone could see clearly. After that, he deliberately turned his head to look at Ji Yuan quietly, and smiled softly, "Ling'er told me, you've worked hard for three months!"

"Yifan ......" Ji Yuan was already full of tears at the moment, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to say. And Lu Yifan was even more direct, he actually reached out directly to grab Ji Yuan's shoulder, and Ji Yuan had a big bear hug.

"Ji Yuan, what is going on in the Western Imperial City...... I'm sorry!"

"Don't say it again, we are brothers! I left in a fit of anger, it's me who is wrong, and the person who should say sorry is me!" Ji Yuan burst into tears, there is nothing more gratifying in the world than solving the misunderstanding between close friends, and then meeting with a smile and a grudge, "It's great that you're okay now......"

"Who said he was okay?"

At this moment, Mu Dan, who was belated, was taken aback by Lu Yifan's current momentum, and with the innate keen perception of the Spirit Clan, Mu Dan saw at a glance how terrifying Lu Yifan was now.

"Sect Master...... What's the matter?" Yin Xi hurriedly asked with tears in her eyes.

"You guys take a good look! Now standing in front of you is no longer the same Lu Yifan as he used to be!" Mu Dan looked at Lu Yifan quite mysteriously and smiled slightly, under Lu Yifan's rather helpless expression, Mu Dan put away the mentality of selling Guanzi, and broke Lu Yifan's mystery today.

"Standing here now, it's the youngest Soul Emperor powerhouse in the history of your Sacred Domain!"

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