In the darkness of the night.

Yun Songzi stood for a long time.

Thinking that the man and the woman were able to meet the owner of the blacksmith shop just by virtue of the sentence "Late in the sky and snow", Yun Songzi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This day, Snow City, it's really not easy!

……

In the courtyard behind the blacksmith's shop.

The lanterns are hung high, and the shadows of the lights flicker in the night.

When he saw the blue-robed young man who walked in like a leisurely stroll, the man in the cloth robe was stunned for a moment, and his eyes were slightly strange.

As for Youxue, who was following behind Su Yi, she didn't let the cloth-robed man care too much.

"This place, as before, is still depressing, dull, and boring."

Su Yi swept his eyes around and looked at the man in the cloth robe.

An unprecedented smile appeared on the unsmiling grim face of the cloth-robed man, and he said, "It is better to respond to all changes with the same than to go with the flow." ”

As he spoke, he made a gesture of please, "Sit." ”

Su Yi naturally sat opposite the cloth-robed man.

Youxue stood on the side, this girl with a cold and arrogant temperament, was rarely slightly restrained at this time.

Because from the moment she entered this old courtyard, she felt an indescribable sense of oppression.

Lingering, dissipating.

And the one who brought this invisible sense of oppression was the man in the cloth robe!

His figure is thin, his posture is straight, his temperament is like condensing cold iron, and he has an invisible charm that will not change through the ages.

When people see him for the first time, it is as if they are not facing a person, but a lonely mountain standing in the vast world, looking down on the passage of time, fearless of the ups and downs of the world.

The snow itself is transformed by the spirit of the machine, and it has the most acute sense of qi.

She realized immediately that this middle-aged man in a cloth robe was an extremely terrifying character!

Su Yi knocked on the wooden table: "Where's the wine?" ”

Seeing Su Yi so polite, the burly young man who had also entered the courtyard couldn't help but say, "My master never drinks, how can there be wine?" ”

The cloth-robed man waved his hand and said, "Ah Cheng, you are wrong, I only deal with those who can be seen." ”

As he spoke, he turned his hand and took out a jar of wine and two wine glasses, and said, "Do you remember this jar of wine?" ”

Su Yi laughed, showing a look of remembrance, and said, "It turns out that you still have it." ”

Back then, when he returned from a trip to the dead city, he had a drink with the man in the cloth robe, and he also sighed that life was like a reverse journey, and he was happy and drank a thousand bells!

And this jar of wine was left by Su Yi at the beginning.

The cloth-robed man opened the wine jar that had been sealed for many years, poured a glass for Su Yi and himself, and then said, "I knew you would come back, so I kept it." ”

He raised his glass and drank it down.

Su Yi smiled and drank all the wine in the cup.

The two talked and drank with each other, plain and casual, but they gave people the feeling that they were like a pair of old friends reunited after a long absence, without any estrangement and alienation.

Youxue was stunned, and she became more and more curious, who was the cloth-robed man who could sit and drink with the Xuanjun Sword Master.

The burly young man was stunned.

He couldn't imagine how a young man in a green robe could become an old friend with his master.

What's even more incredible is that although Shizun looks as unsmiling as before, everyone can feel it, and he is very happy in his heart!

"I remember you once said that in this life, you will not accept apprentices, but how can you break your word?"

Su Yi said.

This sentence made the burly young man's heart tighten.

But he saw the man in the cloth robe and said, "This."

Probably the fate, in the past years, I have seen many kinds of wizards and geniuses in this Heavenly Snow City, but only Ah Cheng has the roots and bones that can inherit my lineage. ”

After a pause, he continued: "If that's all there is to it, it's not enough to make me think of taking disciples. The key is that this kid Ah Cheng is very similar to me when I was young. ”

Su Yi looked at Ah Cheng, who was burly and tall, and frowned: "Where is it like?" ”

Ah Cheng was a little uncomfortable and scratched his head.

The cloth-robed man said, "Don't you think he's very honest?" ”

Honest?

Su Yi was stunned and couldn't help laughing, "You said you were very honest when you were young?" ”

Ah Cheng's cheeks flushed, and he said, "Guest, what's so ridiculous about this." ”

The man in the cloth robe said disapprovingly: "What I said is that I am honest on the road, skillful and not working, wise and foolish, only with such a temperament can I inherit my mantle." ”

Su Yi nodded, at the first glance he saw Ah Cheng, he also saw that this young man seemed to be simple and honest, but his Shenhua was deep and his Taoism was solid, and he was indeed far from being ordinary and comparable.

He asked casually, "By the way, who was that demon monk just now?" ”

The cloth-robed man said, "A long time ago, he was the protector elder of the Garan Temple, and now he is the high priest of the Xuan Hades Divine Court, and he can be regarded as a disciple of the 'Hades King'. ”

Su Yi was stunned and said, "How can there be such a change?" ”

He clearly remembered that a long time ago, the Garan Temple was the top Taoist system in the Styx region, with the mission of sweeping away the demons and evil in the world, and had the grand wish to help the common people.

Moreover, it is rumored that the one who destroyed the Garan Temple in the first place was the strange power from the city of vain death!

But now, the guardian elder of the Garan Temple has become a follower of the Hades, and this change is too great.

Youxue was also shocked in her heart.

According to the words of the cloth-robed man, this Xuan Shen Divine Court is really related to the Hades King who is trapped in the city of death!

This also just confirms Su Yi's previous inference that the Xuanming Divine Court, a behemoth that has only risen in the world recently, is actually the "Hades King" standing behind it!

"It's complicated, but it's simple, he's betrayed."

The cloth-robed man said calmly, "Back then, before the Jialan Temple suffered a catastrophe, a kind of Emperor Realm Buddha Lord in the gate had joined forces to enter the city of vain death, but none of them were returned. Some of the Buddha masters went to the death to fight, unfortunately died, and the Dharma body was refined into evil devil monks. ”

"Some of the Buddhas chose to betray and become disciples of Hades."

"The old monk in black before, the Buddha's name 'Bitter Willow', is now the high priest of the Xuanming Divine Court's 'Liberation Monk'."

Su Yi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "To make the Taoist cultivator with a resolute heart rebel, this is a very difficult thing, this 'Hades King' is really so powerful?" ”

The cloth-robed man shook his head slightly, and said, "I don't know, but I speculate that this should be inseparable from the 'Wheel of Fate'." ”

Wheel of fate!

Su Yi vaguely understood.

It is rumored that the Hades in the ancient period held nine forbidden artifacts, known as the Nine Forbidden Hades.

Among them, there is an artifact, which resembles a divine wheel, engraved with six secret maps, and printed with nine shadows, which is called the wheel of fate.

It is said that this treasure can be unpredictable, can crush the cause and effect of the past, and can also resolve the calamities of the present world, mysterious and powerful.

When Su Yi killed the Nine Nether Crows with the Dao of his previous life, he was escaped by the latter with the power of a "Wheel of Fate".

After thinking about it, Su Yi asked again: "What is this demon monk coming to you for?" ”

The man in the cloth robe picked up the wine jar and poured it for Su Yi and himself

After a glass of wine, he said, "The Xuan Ying Divine Court is planning a big event, trying to rescue the trapped Hades King from the City of Death. ”

Su Yi suddenly understood, and said, "They want you to move that tombstone?" ”

The cloth-robed man nodded: "Yes, as long as the tombstone suppressed in front of the gate of the Vain Death City is still there, it will be difficult for the terrifying evil spirits trapped in the major forbidden places in the Vain Death City to get out of it in the years from ancient times to the present." ”

After a pause, he continued, "And they already know that I have the ability to remove this tombstone. ”

Speaking of this, the cloth-robed man remembered something and said, "On the night of the Ten Thousand Lights Festival not long ago, the person who defeated the Nine Nether Crows in Violet City should be a fellow Daoist, right?" ”

Su Yi smiled and didn't deny it.

The cloth-robed man said: "That little crow tried to snatch the Cui family's Zhen clan artifact 'Judge Pen', and used this treasure to change the origin rules in the city of vain death, so as to achieve the goal of getting the Hades King out of trouble, but unfortunately, in the end, it fell short." ”

Su Yi said: "So, they hit your idea again and tried to let you move the tombstone." ”

The cloth-robed man said, "I didn't agree. ”

Su Yi thought thoughtfully, "They shouldn't just give up like this." ”

"Not bad."

The cloth-robed man nodded, his brows furrowed on his grim face, "However, they already know the reason why I have been here for years. ”

Su Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "They threatened you with the oath you made at the beginning?" ”

The cloth-robed man said calmly, "They don't dare to do this yet, because they know how serious the consequences will be if they annoy me." But later...... Not necessarily. ”

Su Yi couldn't help but sigh lightly.

Few people in this world know that in ancient times, there was another name for Heavenly Snow City:

Drunk!

One of the core lands of the Netherworld!

And the cloth-robed man in this blacksmith shop has another identity, "the night watchman of the capital"!

Although, as early as the ancient period, the behemoth of the Netherworld has been destroyed, and now, the capital has also become the prosperous Tianxue City in front of you.

But the vein of the cloth-robed man has been silently guarding this city.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the past years, if it weren't for the cloth-robed man in charge, Tianxue City would have been erased from the world.

According to the rules of the night watchman's lineage, each generation of night watchmen needs to swear to guard the Heavenly Snow City for 60,000 years.

The city is in the people, the city is ruined!

This is the Avenue Oath of every night watchman.

If the Xuan Ying Divine Court used the method of destroying Heavenly Snow City to threaten the cloth-robed man, it would be a big trouble.

However, Su Yi also knew that with the man's deeds, if the Xuanming Divine Court really did this, the consequences would not be something that the Xuanming Divine Court could bear.

It is not an exaggeration to say that if it weren't for the Great Dao oath he had made, with the strength of the cloth-robed man, in this netherworld, I am afraid that few people would dare to threaten him!

"But it's okay, you're back."

A smile appeared on the grim face of the cloth-robed man.

Su Yi was stunned and couldn't cry or laugh, "Don't you see that I only have a spiritual level cultivation now?" ”

The cloth-robed man said calmly: "Cultivation is just an appearance, in this netherworld, if someone can help me, then this person is destined to be you." ”

When listening to the conversation between the two, Ah Cheng, who was full of confusion, was almost stunned when he heard this.

He really couldn't imagine how Shizun could value this "old friend" who seemed to be younger than himself so much.