Coming out of the teleportation array of the Holy Land, Chen Ning found that he had actually appeared in a garden, fifty meters in front of him, a very obvious pavilion stood there, baptized by wind and frost, giving people a sense of vicissitudes.

This place Chen Ning was no stranger, he had just come here not long ago, and it was here that he met the Eighth Elder and the Thirteenth Elder who were playing chess in the pavilion.

A figure flew quickly from afar, and soon landed in front of Chen Ning, this is a middle-aged man with a weak appearance, giving people a kind of knowledgeable charm, as if he is a scholar who has read poetry and books, the middle-aged man is wearing a white robe, his appearance is dignified, and a pair of plain eyes flicker from time to time.

Chen Ning knew from the ability of the other party to fly in the sky that this middle-aged man was at least a Xuan King, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and when he was about to ask, he didn't expect the middle-aged man to speak first: "You should be Chen Ning." ”

Chen Ning forcibly swallowed the greetings that rolled into his throat, nodded and said, "Yes, I am." ”

"The elder ordered me to take you out, you can come with me." The middle-aged man said in a flat tone, and then with a wave of his hand, Chen Ning only felt that a powerful energy between heaven and earth was so strong that he couldn't resist that he wrapped himself, and then his body actually rose from the ground and was carried into the air by the middle-aged man.

"Could this be the Heaven and Earth Xuan Qi controlled by King Xuan?"

It was not the first time that Chen Ning had experienced such a thing, so he didn't make a fuss, but tried his best to feel the power that wrapped him.

The middle-aged man flew at a very low altitude, only ten meters above the ground, flying over a sea of flowers, and the speed was very fast.

Not long after, Chen Ning was taken by a middle-aged man to a teleportation array, and the middle-aged man landed and said to Chen Ning, "You can just pass from here." ”

Next, Chen Ning returned the same way, and through this teleportation array, Chen Ning appeared in the building complex of the large-scale palace model in Tianxia City, and then was taken to a palace by one person, and saw an old man with crane hair and a childish face.

The old man handed Chen Ning a badge and said: "This is a badge of honor belonging to the king of the trial path, made of many precious materials, and we have carved a formation inside, which can be activated with the power of the Xuan, and after activation, it can quickly gather the Xuanqi of heaven and earth within a radius of dozens of miles, so that the cultivation speed of people will be greatly increased." ”

Chen Ning's heart moved, and he immediately thought that if he put this badge in the Black Panther Mercenary Group or Ouyang Mansion, it would probably be of great help.

Chen Ning took the medal of honor and carefully kept it, then left this temple, and finally walked out under the leadership of the internal personnel of Tianxia City, and came to a street.

Looking at the bright sunshine in the sky, Chen Ning stretched out his body with a comfortable face, he had stayed in the holy land for a long time, he had not seen the sun for a long time, and now as soon as he bathed in the sun, he felt a refreshing feeling from the soul all over his body.

Now half a year has passed since the trial meeting, and the originally lively Tianxia City has also returned to its former appearance, although it has become much colder than half a year ago, there are still many mercenaries or horse-drawn carriages with carts and carts of goods flowing in the streets.

As the holy place in the minds of the mercenaries of the Xuantian Continent, the city of the world is prosperous all year round, and there is an endless stream of mercenaries in the streets and alleys.

Now that winter has passed, it is the hot summer, so the scorching sun in the sky is very hot, the strong sunlight bakes the earth, making the earth hot like a furnace, and Chen Ning's body is contaminated with the dark and damp breath in the holy land under such a strong light, and it quickly becomes dry and hot.

Chen Ning came to the square in the center of Tianxia City, and now this huge square has become a traffic artery extending in all directions, and countless mercenaries and family children riding demon beast mounts pass through it, but it is no longer as lively as half a year ago.

The stone statue of Sedum, the founder of the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce, still stands on the square like an optimus pillar, full of charm, as if it were a real person.

Now Chen Ning already has some fragments of the mysteries of heaven and earth in his mind, and now he looks at the stone statue of Sedum and the result he got is completely different from half a year ago.

In his eyes, the stone statue of his fellow countryman Sedum seems to contain infinite mystery, although he stands with his hands in such an ordinary way, but it gives him a strange feeling, as if this is not a stone statue in front of him, but a heaven and earth, at a glance, this stone statue seems to be integrated with the whole heaven and earth, he is even the sky, the sky is even him.

Chen Ning stared at the stone statue of Sedum for a long time before he gradually came to his senses, and then bowed respectfully to the stone statue of Sedum, and then left here.

As he learned more about Tianxia City, Chen Ning's admiration for this fellow countryman Sedum also reached an unparalleled level.

Chen Ning walked aimlessly through the street, and finally entered a restaurant, ordered a few drinks and dishes at random and began to eat, he had stayed in the holy land for so long, he had not eaten these delicacies of the mountains and seas for a long time.

It's afternoon now, and it's past noon time, so the restaurant is very quiet, and only Chen Ning is a guest.

At this moment, three middle-aged men also walked in from outside, and then walked straight to a table and sat down, "Xiao Er, bring some good wine and meat." ”

Chen Ning's gaze swept lightly over the three of them, and silently began to solve the food on the table.

"Kuroko, after completing this mercenary mission, our mercenary group can also be smoothly upgraded to a B-level mercenary group." One of the middle-aged men said to a dark-skinned man beside him.

The dark-skinned man nodded, and said: "Yes, our mercenary group was B-level three years ago, and we have completed so many mercenary tasks in the past three years, and the accumulated honors are almost the same, and when we complete this mission, it will indeed allow our mercenary group to be upgraded to B-level." ”

The three middle-aged men were all old mercenaries, and while eating, they talked about some mercenary things, and their eyes also glanced at Chen Ning who was eating with his head stuffed from time to time.

After a stick of incense, Chen Ning was full of wine and food, patted his stomach with satisfaction, and said, "Little Er, do you have a good room here, prepare one for me." With that, Chen Ning directly put the ten Xuanshi on the table.

"Okay, objective, I'll arrange a room for you if it's small, you wait!" Xiao Er accepted Chen Ning's ten Xuanshi with a smile on his face, and then began to get busy.

Chen Ning looked at the three middle-aged men, with a meaningful smile on his face, and then slowly walked over and said, "Three, I don't know how to call them." ”

Chen Ning's sudden arrival made the three unprepared middle-aged men stunned, but they quickly recovered, and one of them immediately stood up, and said with a smile on his face: "In Xia Jianhua, these two are my iron buddies, respectively Heizi and Baole, I see that your little brother is extraordinary, and at a glance, I know that he is not an ordinary person, and I don't know what to call the little brother." ”

"Under Chen Ning!" Chen Ning said with a smile on his face.

Hearing this, the three middle-aged men were taken aback, and then stared at Chen Ning with an incredulous expression, and the middle-aged man named Jianhua immediately said with a surprised face: "Could it be that the little brother is the same Chen Ning who won the first place in the trial Dao conference half a year ago!" ”

"It's down there!" The smile on Chen Ning's face looked weird.

"Ah, it turns out that the little brother is Chen Ning, what a disrespect! Disrespectful! The reputation of the little brother is like thunder, but I didn't expect to be lucky enough to see it today, which is really a blessing for the next three people. Jianhua's attitude immediately became complimentary, and the other two also greeted Chen Ning with a surprised face, very polite.

Seeing the three of them look like this, Chen Ning finally showed a sneer and said, "Three, don't act with me, tell me what you mean." ”

Hearing this, the three of them all stared at Chen Ning with a stunned expression, their faces were full of confusion, and Jianhua was even more confused, and asked suspiciously: "Little brother Chen Ning, what are you talking about?" ”

Chen Ning snorted coldly: "The three of you have followed me for several days, do you really think I don't know?" Say what you mean, I don't like to waste time. ”

Jianhua's face was stunned, and then he smiled and said; "Little brother said that it was funny, how could we follow you, maybe because of a coincidence, we happened to be on the same road."

"If my expectations are correct, the three of you should be from the Miyamoto family or the Shi family." Chen Ning's gaze became sharp, and he stared at the three of them as sharply as a sharp sword.

The three of them were still at a loss, and Jianhua was even more innocent, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Chen Ning, we don't understand what you're talking about, I think you recognized the wrong person." ”

Looking at the looks on the faces of the three of them, Chen Ning also knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he simply stopped wasting time and went straight to the second floor.

After Chen Ning disappeared, the blank look on the faces of the three of them suddenly dissipated cleanly, and turned gloomy.

"I didn't expect him to be quite alert, we were all discovered by him when we followed so far." Jianhua said in a low voice.

"So what do we do now?" Kuroko also asked in a low voice.

"What else can I do, of course, inform the elders."

Then, after the three of them threw down a dark stone, they quickly left the place.

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In a luxurious restaurant, an old man was staring at the three middle-aged people kneeling in front of him with an angry face, pointing at the heads of the three and scolding: "Waste, waste, it's just a bunch of waste, let you follow one person and even be discovered by the other party, what are you all eating, so useless." ”

These three middle-aged men are the three of them Jianhua and Heizi, and at this moment, the three of them are kneeling there with pale faces and trembling, and they don't dare to take a breath.

"Elder, we can't be blamed for this, we have been very careful in tracking the target, but the target's vigilance is too strong, so we were discovered." Jianhua quibbled with some horror in his tone, exonerating the three of them.

At this time, the door was opened, and another old man walked in from the outside, the old man looked at the three middle-aged men kneeling on the ground, frowned slightly, and asked, "Fourth, what happened." ”

"It's not these three wastes, Chen Ning just came out of the holy land, and finally discovered his whereabouts, and when these three wastes followed him, they were discovered by Chen Ning, which ruined our big deal." The old man, known as the fourth child, jumped like thunder and scolded angrily.

After hearing the words of the fourth child, the old man's face became a little solemn, and he said in a low voice: "It's bad, although I haven't seen Chen Ning, but since he can find out about our tracking, he must also be a shrewd and cautious person, since he knows that he is being targeted by us, unless he has the absolute certainty of dealing with us, it is absolutely impossible to leave Tianxia City." ”

"But it's not, we could have waited for Chen Ning to leave Tianxia City and make a move on them to take back what belongs to us, but at this critical juncture, these three wastes actually ruined our good deeds, and now it's okay, Chen Ning knows that we are secretly staring at him, and he will definitely not leave Tianxia City." The old man, known as the fourth old, said emotionally.

"Alas, we knew that kid was so vigilant, we should have followed him ourselves, so that what happened now would not have happened, and now it's troublesome, if Chen Ning has been staying in Tianxia City, then we can't do anything about him at all." The old man sighed with remorse.

"Third Elder, you have a flexible mind, tell me what we should do now." The fourth child quickly calmed down and looked at the old man as if he was asking for help.

The third elder frowned and thought for a while, and muttered: "This Chen Ning can win the first place in the trial dao conference at a young age, or this person is even more difficult than we thought, presumably he already knows that we are sending people to follow him, and now there is no point in continuing to hide, the third elder, let's go meet this young man for a while, and see if we can let him hand over the Heaven Turning Seal through other means, as for the third young master's hatred, we can only let it go first, and the top priority is to recover the family treasure." ”

The fourth nodded and said: "It seems that it has to be like this, alas, the head of the family is too greedy, and he actually asked the third young master to use the special terrain of the contestant's space to seize the Lin family's sun and moon bow, but the sun and moon bow was not obtained, but instead lost our family's earth-shaking seal, and the third young master was also killed in it, it was really a loss for the lady and the soldiers." ”

"Forget the fourth, what is the point of saying this, now we will meet this Chen Ning for a while, I hope to recover the soldiers of the ground level, and eat this thing." The third elder said, then took out a red pill and handed it to the fourth.

The fourth elder was very trusting of the third elder, and he didn't ask what it was, and swallowed the red pill in one gulp.

Subsequently, the two old men came to the restaurant where Chen Ning lived according to the specific location given by Jianhua and found Chen Ning.

At this moment, Chen Ning was sitting cross-legged on the bed and contemplating the instantaneous thousand phantom bodies, and when he saw the two old men, he didn't get out of bed, just sat on the bed and stared at them calmly.

The third elder stared at Chen Ning with sparkling eyes, and said approvingly: "It is worthy of being the person who can win the first place in the trial Dao conference, and it is really a talent, Chen Ning, we are from the Shi family, and our third young master of the Shi family, Shi Kai, may have offended you somewhere, and I came here to apologize to you, I hope you don't take this matter to heart." ”

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Chen Ning also replied with a smile: "The seniors are polite, it's just a trivial matter, I Chen Ning has long been out of my mind, as long as others don't trouble me, I won't make enemies indiscriminately." ”

Hearing this, the fourth child rolled his eyes, and scolded secretly in his heart, you killed the third young master of the Shi family, and also robbed the heirloom of the Shi family and tried to take it for yourself, so it's no wonder that the Shi family doesn't trouble you.

The third elder smiled and said: "Hehe, little brother Chen Ning is really a big belly, I don't know if the little brother can return the Heaven Turning Seal to our Shi family, how about we turn the war into jade silk, after all, the Heaven Turning Seal cannot be used without the bloodline of my Shi family with a special secret method, and it is useless for you to put it on your body, but it will make our Shi family very dissatisfied with you, which will have a great impact on the relationship between you and our Shi family, you can see if you can consider it." ”

"Of course, if you are willing to return the Heaven Turning Seal to our Shi family, our Shi family will never treat you badly, and will definitely give you a considerable amount of remuneration."

What the three elders said was to move with each other and understand reason, without the slightest threat, it was completely like the two sides talking on an equal footing, and the tone was flat, without the slightest anger and arrogance.

It's a pity that Chen Ning didn't eat his set, and sighed with a disappointed face: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint the elders, I have already given away the Heaven Turning Seal, and it is no longer on me." ”

Chen Ning's words made the faces of the two elders of the Shi family change suddenly, and the three elders could not keep their faces calm, and exclaimed: "What, you have already given away the Heaven Turning Seal, not on you, this is true." ”

"Before I entered the Holy Land, I had already given the Heaven Turning Seal to Qin Ji, and it was indeed not on me." Chen Ning said with an affirmative face.

"You bastard, you actually gave away such a precious thing as the Heaven Turning Seal, you....you bastard boy, are you looking for death, then the treasure of our Shi family, how can you give him to others."

The fourth child, who had a somewhat irritable personality, couldn't help it anymore, pointed at Chen Ning's nose and scolded angrily, if he didn't dare to do it in the city of the world, I'm afraid he would have slapped Chen Ning a long time ago.

The third elder's face also became a little gloomy, his eyes were staring at Chen Ning tightly, the light in his eyes flickered, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and then his fingers were depicted in the air with blood, and soon, a complex blood-red pattern took shape in midair.

The third elder burst into a shout, his fingers suddenly clicked on the center of the pattern, and shouted: "Turn the sky over, return to the position!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Chen Ning's face changed, because he suddenly found that the Heaven Turning Seal that he had placed in the space ring actually began to tremble, as if he was about to break free from the shackles of the space ring and break through the air.

Chen Ning was shocked in his heart, he didn't expect this old man to have such a ability, he could summon the Heaven Turning Seal, fortunately, the power of this summoning is not strong, otherwise, I am afraid that his space ring will really not be able to trap the Heaven Turning Seal.

Chen Ning immediately sealed the space ring tightly to prevent the Heaven Turning Seal from escaping from inside.

The blood-colored pattern suspended in mid-air quickly faded and finally disappeared, and the three elders' originally ruddy faces also turned pale at this moment, it seemed that casting this secret method had caused a lot of consumption to him.

"Chen Ning, you can't deceive us, the heaven-turning seal is on you, you better return it to us, let us go back and have an explanation." The Third Elder's tone became much weaker, and he still spoke sincerely.

So far, Chen Ning has nothing to hide, and said categorically: "Both, you better please go back." ”

"You really won't return the Seal, this thing will only cause you trouble." The three elders were still not giving up, and seemed to be trying to convince Chen Ning.

"It's none of your business." Chen Ning didn't think about returning the Heaven Turning Seal at all, he would rather give the Heaven Turning Seal to someone else than give it to the Shi family, because he knew in his heart that even if the Shi family got the Heaven Turning Seal back, they would never let him go.

The Third Elder sighed, took out a bag from his body, and said, "Chen Ning, do you want to know what this thing is?" ”

Without waiting for Chen Ning to answer, the third elder continued: "This is what I bought at a great price from an old man who is good at using poison, and it contains a kind of poison called Hundred Poison Powder, which is very poisonous, it is made by the fusion of hundreds of various toxins, it is colorless and odorless, it can spread along the air, as long as you inhale a little, it can make people highly poisonous, even King Xuan is not immune, except for the antidote of the characteristics, there is no cure at all." ”

Hearing this, the fourth child's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "Third Elder, it turns out that you still have such a high skill, admire, no wonder you let me eat that pill when I came, presumably it is the antidote." ”

The third elder nodded with a smile and did not speak, but stared at Chen Ning with a confident expression, he believed that he had controlled Chen Ning's life and death.

Chen Ning stared at the three elders with a smile and said; "Third Elder, you won't tell me that I am now highly poisoned."

"Not bad!" The third elder nodded and said, "Chen Ning, since I entered this room, this five poisonous powder has been taken out by me, and the toxin has already spread to every corner of the room for such a long time, and you have already inhaled a lot of poison, but you yourself are not aware of it." ”

Hearing the words of the third elder, Chen Ning suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, laughing very heartily, and the three elders and the fourth elder who watched it were inexplicably wonderful.

"Third Elder, I forgot to tell you that I have a poison-avoiding holy relic on my body, and the poison in your hand is not effective against me at all." Chen Ning said with a laugh, looking at the two old men with a playful expression.

The third elder's originally confident appearance suddenly suffered a heavy blow, and his face instantly turned the color of pig liver, how ugly and ugly it was, he originally thought that this time he was going to eat Chen Ning, but he didn't expect that he had a good plan, and Chen Ning also had a ladder over the wall, and he couldn't help him.

"Fourth, let's go!" The three elders flicked their robes, put all the poisonous gas that permeated the room into their robes, and turned around to leave.

The fourth child stared at Chen Ning with a cold face, and said in a deep voice: "Boy, you just wait to stay in Tianxia City forever." As soon as he finished speaking, the fourth child threw off his sleeve robe and turned away.

That night, Chen Ning found that there seemed to be many uninvited guests to the inn where he lived, and at the same time, countless pairs of hidden eyes began to stare at him day and night.

Chen Ning knew in his heart that he had been monitored by the people of the Shi family and the Miyamoto family, and they did this just to prevent themselves from disappearing from under their noses, and then leave with the soldiers of the ground level unnoticed.