When the day came, the small city of White Emperor City had already fallen silent and fell into a deep sleep. The Yangtze River flows through the foothills outside the city, and the sound of light waves crashing on the shore can even be heard in the silence of the old city.

Ye Boyu and Zi Yan packed up, walked out of the inn quickly, and went straight to Ma Xiaotianfu in the south of the city according to the instructions of the shopkeeper.

Ma Xiaotian's mansion is at the foot of the White Emperor Temple in the south of the White Emperor City, and Wang Xijiang is one south and one north, forming a trend of resistance. The White Emperor City was very small, and the two of them soon arrived at the White Emperor Temple, and at this time, they could already overlook Ma Xiaotian's mansion from the halfway up the mountain.

Observed from a distance for a while, only to see that the lights in the house have been extinguished, leaving only a few lights for night patrol, faintly can see the night patrol disciples divided into two teams, every once in a while around the house around the week, it seems that the mansion is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, the guard is tight, Wang Xijiang died, Ma Xiaotian was also afraid of being killed by the pond fish, and secretly strengthened the vigilance in the house.

"How, when will you go in?" Zi Yan looked at Ye Boyu for a long time, but did not say anything, and asked hurriedly.

"Nothing was found. It was too far away, and my dark eyes couldn't see the depths of the house, but I could feel bursts of murderous aura coming out of the house. Ye Boyu frowned.

"Let's go, haven't Ma Xiaotian and Wang Xijiang been fighting openly and secretly, winning and losing each other. It is estimated that there will be no powerful people in the house to defend it. Zi Yan pulled the sleeve of Ye Bo's raincoat and walked down the stone steps quickly.

Ye Boyu thought about it and made sense, and was about to lift his feet down the mountain, when he suddenly saw more than a dozen points of sword light in the distance in mid-air, quickly and incoherently through the starry sky, and headed towards the hinterland of Shu Mountain in the southwest.

"It's a flying sword. Zi Yan looked up, and said with envy on her face: "Shushan is really a lot of sword masters." I'll be able to fly when I'm able to fly. ”

Ye Boyu said: "The flying of the sword is at least in the late stage of refining and refining qi, if the flying sword itself is psychic, then the person in the middle stage of refining and refining qi can also force the sword to fly." Once my "Eight Desolation Sword Qi Technique" reaches the third realm, I can possess the sword and fly with the sword. It's the time of day, so many kendo masters are walking together, there must be something important, maybe something big happened in Ershu Mountain?"

Zi Yan pursed her lips and said, "Okay, okay, Ye Daxia." If there is anything important, you can't control it now, let's hurry up and get down to business. ”

Ye Boyu nodded, and the two of them unfolded their bodies, and after a while, they rushed outside Ma Xiaotian's mansion. The two of them were already very skilled at this time, and they easily avoided those patrolling disciples and came to the inner mansion.

Ma Xiaotian's mansion is very luxurious, with a large courtyard with five entrances, and I don't know how many rooms there are in the dark. The two of them turned around before Ye Boyu stopped in front of a big house, pointed his finger into the house, and signaled that this was the place.

Zi Yan nodded, and was about to lean over to enter the house, when she suddenly heard a soft "snort" from someone in the room, the voice was light and urgent, as if it was cut off by someone in the middle, and it seemed that the person who made the sound was suddenly choked by someone, and only half a sound was made.

"Oh no, it's been preempted again. Ye Boyu didn't care much, slammed the door in one step, and flew inside.

Sure enough, I saw a huge black shadow standing in the inner room, lowering his head and not knowing what he was doing, when he heard someone coming outside, he turned around and slapped Ye Boyu with a palm.

Ye Boyu didn't have time to dodge, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to palm it, only to feel that the opponent used it vigorously, Ye Boyu's body shook and took a step back to unload this huge force. The black shadow wanted this result, and took a step back with Ye Boyu, and one side of his body flashed out of the crack in the door.

Zi Yan outside the door didn't know the situation, and only had time to stretch out his sword to block it, the black shadow suddenly rushed with force, like a white horse passing through the gap, and flashed out more than ten zhang away in a flash, and the outside of the listening sounded a few times, it was the black shadow that hit the blades of several night patrol disciples one by one, and disappeared in an instant.

Ye Boyu and Zi Yan didn't have time to catch up, so the two of them went into the inner room to check.

By the light of the moon, I saw a short man and a young woman lying on the bed, their eyes closed and their faces peaceful, and they must have died unconsciously. Ye Boyu quickly checked, and there were still no scars or blood stains on the two of them, which was almost exactly the same as Wang Xijiang's death.

"Another poisonous hand sent by Qingcheng?" Zi Yan asked in a low voice.

Ye Boyu didn't have time to speak, just shook his head. But he pointed to an ink landscape painting hanging in front of the bed.

Zi Yan was slightly surprised, turned around to look, and saw that the landscape painting was a piece of lofty mountains, dozens of peaks on the picture rose from the ground, Gu Bai Sensen, giving people a sense of intimidation from the mountains, although the painting style is simple and lofty, but there is nothing special. Zi Yan was feeling strange, Ye Boyu pointed to the lower right of the picture with his hand, Zi Yan looked fixedly, the lower right of the picture is a small cave, the cave is dark and can't see clearly, but in the ancient wood forest outside, you can vaguely see a golden hair, the head of the two-horned giant beast is looking up and roaring, as if dissatisfied with those peaks in mid-air, although it is a few strokes, but the power jumps on the paper, lifelike.

Zi Yan suddenly remembered something, and was about to speak, Ye Boyu stretched out his hand and grabbed her, raised his hand to take off the landscape painting and a town house sword next to him, pulled Zi Yan, and hurriedly rushed out of the palace.

As soon as the two returned to the room, Zi Yan couldn't wait to ask, "Is that black shadow a member of the Qingcheng faction?" Ye Boyu shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be." The aura of this black shadow is very strange, completely different from that Ling Feng, it seems, it seems to be ......"

Zi Yan asked, "It's like something, say it quickly." ”

Ye Boyu smiled bitterly: "It doesn't seem to be a human being, I always feel that there is a demonic aura, or a demonic aura, in short, it doesn't look like a human aura." ”

Zi Yan looked at Ye Boyu angrily and said, "So, it was the Qingcheng faction and the demons who came to this White Emperor City together to kill the gang leaders of the two small gangs?"

Ye Boyu also knew that what he said just now was too whimsical, so he didn't speak, turned around and opened the landscape painting he took from Ma Xiaotian's bedside, the situation was urgent just now, and he didn't take a closer look, and now Ye Boyu and Zi Yan looked at this painting carefully, and saw that there were more than 100 peaks floating in mid-air on the picture, among them, the peak in the middle of the picture was particularly tall, and the huge mountain top towered into the sky. And the monster looked closely, the body of a lion head and a tiger, covered with golden scales, with two horns on its head, and two wings hidden on its back. The two of them couldn't see what it was after looking at it for a long time, they only felt that this monster was obviously trying to challenge the immortals in the high mountain peak, and they couldn't see anything else.

Ye Boyu slowly put away the landscape painting and said to Zi Yan: "Zi Yan, you just reminded me that Wang Xijiang and Ma Xiaotian are just two small gang leaders in the White Emperor City, how could they be killed at the same time overnight, and the murderer Whether it is the Qingcheng faction or someone else, in short, he must be a powerful person." How could such a small person provoke such a powerful enemy?"

Zi Yan pondered for a while and said, "Wang Xijiang was motivated by the people of the Qingcheng faction because of Pan Longjue, and killed people to seize treasures, but what was the reason for that Ma Xiaotian?"

Ye Boyu couldn't figure it out, shook his head and said, "There must be a big thing here, which we don't know about at the moment." We'll have to find a way to keep looking into it. ”

Zi Yan pursed her lips and said, "Nonsense, if we all know, what are you still figuring out here with a lamp? ”

Ye Boyu was robbed for no reason, and he was not angry, as soon as he reached out and took the town house sword that he had just come by the way, he made a slight effort in his left hand, the long sword was unsheathed, and the sword body was cold and dazzling, but it was also a good sword.

Ye Boyu couldn't help but praise: "This Ma Xiaotian's cultivation is not very good, his eyesight is okay, and the town house sword is also a good sword." ”

Zi Yan glanced at it and said, "What kind of good sword can this kind of person have, I don't think you have seen any good sword." But it's okay, you can just use it, anyway, with your swordsmanship, I think it's more than enough. ”

Ye Boyu has been practicing the Blood Shadow Sword Technique with Zi Yan since the first battle in the Blood Clothes Hall, but the time is short, there is no foundation, and the progress is very slow, except for the amazing strength on the sword, the moves are a mess, and the strange and unpredictable subtleties of the Blood Shadow Sword Technique have not been learned at all, and it is no wonder that Zi Yan makes mockery whenever she has the opportunity.

Ye Boyu didn't seem to hear it, and said to himself: "If you find a way to get some jade materials and re-quench it, in time, this sword will be my talisman flying sword in the future." ”

Zi Yan said angrily: "What should I do now? Ma Xiaotian is also dead, the clue is broken again, and the Qingcheng faction can't afford to provoke it, so we will sit here and wait to be killed?"

Ye Boyu said: "Wang Xijiang asked Gu before leaving, and wanted to move his family to Qingcheng Mountain for refuge, which shows that his relationship with Qingcheng Mountain is extraordinary, but he was killed by the Qingcheng faction, which must be strange." Let's have nothing to do, it's better to go to Qingcheng Mountain and talk about the truth and reality. ”

Zi Yan was startled when she heard this, and stared at Ye Boyu for a long time before she said: "Ye Boyu, have you been confused by these many things in the past two days, talking nonsense? What kind of place is Qingcheng Mountain, with your and my three-legged cat kung fu, going to Qingcheng Mountain is not to die?"

"I don't think so. Ye Boyu said with a smile: "Zi Yan, how majestic you were when you broke into the Blood Cloak Hall, and now you are too timid to be afraid, haha!"

"You!" Zi Yan snorted, turned around and didn't speak.

"Zi Yan, what do you think, didn't that Ling Feng of our meeting just now ask us to go to Qingcheng Mountain for a while? We happened to be invited, besides, we went to Qingcheng Mountain to explore the wind, not to provoke, how did we send us to death. ”

Zi Yan has been with Wind Beard since she turned into a human form, after Wind Beard was placed in the Seven Star Array, Zi Yan was also near Xiangxi, living in a simple place, never going far, this period of time, followed Ye Boyu to some places, eye-opening, although the revenge was not avenged, but Fang was actually very happy in his heart.

"Okay, we'll go tomorrow. Zi Yan cheered.

As soon as she heard Ye Boyu say that she was going to Qingcheng Mountain, in fact, Zi Yan had already heard that Fengbeard had described the famous Taoist places in the world back then, but she hesitated a little because she was jealous, and when she saw that Ye Boyu said that she was fearless, she became happy.

"It's going to go, but it's not in a hurry, we still have one more thing to do before going to Qingcheng Mountain. ”

Ye Boyu still had other plans, before going to Qingcheng Mountain, how could he re-quench his long sword, so as not to make a fool of himself again.

At dawn the next day, the two left the inn, stepped on the thousand-year-old plank road walked by countless literati and scholars, and went straight to the hinterland of Shushan. Shu is foggy and sunny, and the road under your feet is faintly straight to the sky, illusory and ethereal, and you can't see whether the distance is auspicious or evil.

Readers are encouraged to watch the next chapter, "Ambush"