Qi Xuansu had a long dream.

In his sleep, Qi Xuansu saw a mountain, a very high and dark mountain, just like the landscape in a splashed ink painting came to his eyes.

He stood at the foot of the hill with a rugged path in front of him, flanked by grass and trees, among which bloomed multicolored flowers, whose names could not be named, and the trees hung with equally colorful silk ribbons, as if some kind of celebration was being held, but the sky was very dark and depressing.

The trail winds its way upwards and disappears into the darkness with no end in sight.

Qi Xuansu stepped on the path in a trance, walked towards the top of the mountain, and there was a whistling wind in his ears, and there was a woman's voice in the wind, which seemed to be whispering and singing softly. The silk silks on the trees on both sides of the path fluttered in the wind, like countless arms dancing wildly, and the path was paved with many flower petals, revealing a strange fragrance.

I don't know how long it took, the woman's voice in Qi Xuansu's ears became clear, it was a language that Qi Xuansu had never heard before, very awkward, obscure, ancient and mysterious, and contained indescribable weirdness.

Qi Xuansu's heart suddenly swelled with great horror, and he heard the master's shout, telling him to turn around.

But he couldn't turn back, his neck seemed to freeze, and his whole body became involuntarily.

He heard Qi Niang's whisper again.

He tried hard to listen to Qi Niang's words, but he couldn't hear what Qi Niang said at all.

Qi Xuansu didn't understand what was going on.

Suddenly, Qi Xuansu saw a woman walking towards him, half of her face was covered by long hair, and the other half of her face was extremely beautiful.

The woman was the messenger of the way, and stood still not far from him, beckoning to him, and leading the way.

Qi Xuansu involuntarily followed behind the woman, walked the long path, and came to the top of the mountain.

At the top of the hill was a large clearing, and in the middle of it was a large fire, behind which stood a tall figure, whose shadow was reflected in the light of the fire.

Qi Xuansu also saw that behind the tall figures, there were many dark shadows hidden in the darkness outside the firelight, and the shadows were full of shadows, whispering.

His eyes widened, trying to get a good look at the tall figure.

But this tall figure was shrouded in a shadow that was so thick that it couldn't be dissolved, and no matter how hard Qi Xuansu tried, he could only see a vague outline.

Qi Xuansu went to look for the woman who led the way, but found that she had disappeared at some point.

At this moment, Qi Xuansu heard the voice of low chanting again.

The light of the fire grew brighter and darker.

The whispering voice gradually grew louder, as if it had traveled through a long and distant river of time to the present world.

Qi Xuansu took a few steps forward, wanting to approach the tall figure.

The eyes of the tall figure lit up with two blood-red lights.

Qi Xuansu vaguely saw that the black shadow had long white hair, a robe that seemed to be decorated with stars like the night sky, and scarlet eyes.

At this moment, the originally dazzling fire suddenly disappeared, the fire was extinguished, and the sky and earth were dark.

The ground under Qi Xuansu's feet shattered, and a hole appeared, and Qi Xuansu fell uncontrollably, drowning in the blood that followed, leaving only a bright red as far as the eye could see.

In an instant, Qi Xuansu woke up.

This was not the first time he had this dream, but every time he couldn't help himself, and every time he couldn't see the face of the tall figure.

At this time, Qi Xuansu was lying in the guest room on the second floor of an inn, Qi Niang sat on the edge of the bed, saw Qi Xuansu wake up, and asked, "Have you had a nightmare again?" ”

Qi Xuansu let out a "hmm" and didn't want to talk deeply.

Qi Niang didn't ask deeply, just smoked a long cigarette, and the curling smoke obscured her face.

Qi Xuansu asked, "Where is this?" ”

Qi Niang said indifferently: "Fengtai County." ”

Qi Xuansu immediately understood: "It's dark under the lamp? ”

"Pretty much." Qi Niang spat out a smoke ring, "The key is that there are some things to deal with." ”

Qi Xuansu asked again, "What's the matter?" ”

Qi Niang glanced at him: "It's not for you to clean up the mess, did you use your real name in the 'inn'?" ”

"Yes." Qi Xuansu was stunned for a moment, and then understood that this inn was not the inn he was staying in now, but the "inn" hidden underground.

Qi Niang knocked down the smoke pot and said: "I have to go to the 'inn' to finish this matter completely, whether it is Qingluanwei or Tiangangtang in the future, nothing can be found." ”

Qi Xuansu didn't ask Qi Niang what he planned to do with it, but said, "Then there is Lao Qi Niang." ”

Qi Niang unceremoniously knocked on Qi Xuansu's head with the long cigarette in her hand: "How many times have I told you, don't expose your true identity at will, let alone let others know that you are a member of the Qingping Society, have you forgotten what you have done?" It's true that your enemy is dead, but he still has friends, masters, and brothers, do you want to invite them to settle accounts with you? ”

Qi Xuansu lowered his head and did not refute.

His master died at the hands of others, Qi Xuansu avenged his master, and it was Qi Niang who cleaned up the mess for him.

He was very grateful to Qi Niang.

Qi Niang stretched out her hand and pulled the sunglasses on the bridge of her nose down slightly, raised her eyes to look at Qi Xuansu, and continued: "I think about it, you should have a pseudonym, in the future, in this case, you will use a pseudonym, your pseudonym is 'Wei Wugui', remember?" ”

Qi Xuansu nodded to note it.

Qi Niang pushed her sunglasses again, covered the beautiful Danfeng eyes again, and chattered: "You are not lightly injured this time, I have prescribed medicine for you, and the prescription is in your satchel, you must remember to take medicine on time, one meal a day, for half a month." Within half a month, try not to do it with others, when you have nothing to do, you should pay special attention to the acupuncture points of the Purple Palace, Yutang, and Atrium. ”

Qi Xuansu felt that Qi Niang was very nagging, but since the master left, he was unaccompanied, and he was not very willing to interrupt this nagging, so he could only keep nodding his head in response.

After Qi Niang finished speaking, Qi Xuansu diverted the topic and asked, "Qi Niang, since you are here, why don't you do it yourself?" ”

Qi Niang said confidently: "The old men of big families can dress and eat by themselves, why do you want to do it for you?" If you do everything yourself, then what do you need a maid to do? Do you want to be a young lady? ”

Qi Xuansu smiled dumbly.

Qi Niang paused for a moment, and then said: "This time, there are people from the Taiping Dao, the Quanzhen Dao, and the Zhengyi Dao, and I can't do it alone, just take that Quanzhen Daoist as an example, if you didn't attract his attention, I wouldn't have been able to easily sneak attack." ”

Qi Xuansu had seen Qi Niang's move, and he didn't believe her excuse, but he didn't break it, and asked instead: "What about 'Xuanyu'?" ”

Qi Niang said: "You take it first and go to the contact point in Fucheng." In addition, I paid for the opening of the house this time, fifty wishful money, remember to pay me back, and there is a life-saving money of one hundred Taiping dollars, none of which can be missing. ”

With that, Qi Niang stood up, took out a black cloak from the Sumeru treasure, draped it on her body, and turned to leave.

Qi Xuansu took his satchel from the bedside, took out the prescription left by Qi Niang, and the delicate hairpin flower in one hand made people think of the gentle and demure lady, and couldn't believe that it was from the hand of a woman who killed people and lent money.

Qi Xuansu put away the prescription, got up and came to the window, and pushed the window to look.

God finally stopped being gloomy with a black face, and the rain passed and the sky was clear.

Qi Niang, who was wearing a cloak, sat sideways on a donkey and staggered out of the city.

After Qi Xuansu sent Qi Niang away, he walked out of the inn through the back door.

Although Qi Niang went and returned this time to play a dark light, Qi Xuansu was still cautious. With Qingluanwei's style of acting, so many people have died, even if it is determined that the so-called "chaotic party" has escaped from the city, it will still be under martial law in the city, and it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, which will not cause too much panic to the people in the city, but also prevent the lights from getting dark.

However, before Qi Xuansu entered the city, he had studied the layout of Fengtai County, so he did not go to the city gate, picked a section of the city wall that was rarely visited, and waited until after dark, climbed along the city head like ants, jumped over, settled down at the root of the outer wall of the city, and quietly left Fengtai County at night.

Fengtai County belongs to Huainan Prefecture, and the "Mansion City" in Qi Niang's mouth is Huainan Mansion City.

Qingping will have a contact point in Huainan Mansion City, and Qi Xuansu can stay there for a while, which is very safe.

……

Maoxian Mountain, broken temple.

Zhuge Yongming's body has disappeared, I think it was disposed of by Qi Niang, and even the traces of last night's fight were erased by Qi Niang one by one, but the means were very rude, and most of the dense forest outside the broken temple was cut off, so that there seemed to be traces everywhere, but in fact, there were no useful traces.

Moreover, this can also disturb the local atmosphere of this place, making it difficult for others to trace the past with local atmosphere.

In this regard, I have to say that Qi Niang is old-fashioned and does not lose to the veteran Qingluanwei.

Outside the ruined temple, there was an old man holding a white paper lantern with a solemn expression.

Not far behind him, Jiang Beiyun said slowly: "Zhuge Yongming is the disciple of Shenxiao Zhenren, although they are both Quanzhen Dao, but Donghua Zhenren and Shenxiao Zhenren are not all the way. It's about Donghua real people, no matter how small things are, it's a big thing, we think people are lonely, but in fact, people still have helpers, and the reason why Zhuge Yongming died is already very revealing. ”

The old man did not want to dwell on this matter, so he avoided the topic and asked, "Who is the person who made the shot?" can put Zhuge Yongming to death, and he will not be a nameless person. ”

Jiang Beiyun said coldly: "Not to mention that it is also the cultivation of the Jade Void stage, that is, the stage of returning to the truth, and it is not impossible to do so." ”

The old man nodded and said, "Since Donghua Zhenren is involved, I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to get right." ”

Jiang Beiyun did not speak.

The two are old acquaintances, but the relationship is not so good that they can say anything, not to mention that the two of them are their own masters, if it weren't for Zhuge Yongming's death, the two would not have met.