Now this matter is very clear, no wonder no matter how hard he tried at that time, he couldn't remember the mysterious scripture, it turned out that there was still this one, could it be that if you want to study this mysterious scripture that can keep a party peaceful by just relying on a myth, you really have to go through the permission of the old thing, or is this mysterious scripture a great use of the old thing at that time?

He couldn't figure it out for the time being.

So he flipped through the golden scroll that the old thing had given him, and looked at it in his hand for a long time, flipping it open for the first time.

His eyes were on the jade slip, and he looked at it carefully, but he felt that the rune mark in the center of his eyebrows was getting hotter and hotter, as if there was a fission force in it, constantly oozing out, constantly nourishing his thinking, but he was unmoved by this hot feeling, because his thoughts and his spirit were all in a strange following at this time, following the unknown trajectory in the dark, and then painting an incomprehensible picture.

It was like a rune, only much more complex and esoteric than the one at the center of his eyebrows.

"I don't understand the text, why is this happening? This is ......"

His gaze moved back to the frontispiece of the jade slip, stopping at the first ancient character, and the mysterious rune formed in his heart after reading the ancient scripture was exactly the same as the first ancient character!

"Is it possible, whether I can read these ancient words or not, as long as I read the scriptures once, I can remember an ancient word in my head? But even if I memorize all the scriptures, I can't understand them, isn't it still useless? Then why do I still remember these broken scriptures? Could it really be as the sages said, read the book a hundred times and its meaning will come to itself, I'll pull the skin of his ancestors!"

Xiao Cong closed the bamboo slip abruptly and raised his head, his small eyes looked at the ceiling in a daze, his face was full of lovelessness, he slowly pursed his small mouth, and slowly pursed his lips, and after going back and forth a few times, the lower lip came out of the upper lip and blew out a long breath, so the bangs in front of his forehead were slowly blown up and slowly fell, he chirped a few times, and whispered:

"Pull the skin of his ancestors, just pull the skin of his ancestors, but I feel that after reading it, I feel a lot better. ”

So he lowered his head again, gently unfolded the jade slip between his hands again, and read it carefully.

I wanted to look at this jade slip thousands of times in one go, and memorize all the ancient characters on it, but unfortunately it backfired, because he found that after reading it more than a hundred times, he couldn't read it anymore, obviously it felt like something was already very familiar, but inexplicably there was an extra wall, a thick and strong impenetrable wall, hindering the continuation of his thoughts, after a few fruitless attempts, he helplessly looked away, raised his head, but suddenly found that it was already dark.

It was not easy for his eyes to adapt to the change of light, he rubbed his eyes, looked straight ahead, and saw Hongxiang sitting at the table at some point, looking at him with a stunned gaze.

The candle flame trembled slightly, the breeze caressed the face, and the silence finally showed a faint ripple, as if the two of them suddenly accelerated their breathing a little in an instant, and then a stream of air swirled away, and everything was alive again.

Xiao Cong smiled,

"How did you get here, when did you come, and how long have you been waiting?"

Hongxiang was a moment late before he replied softly:

"It's been two hours. There was caution in his voice.

Xiao Cong laughed a few more times, and slowly lowered his head and said to himself:

"Oh, it's been two hours......"

Then Fu raised his head again and asked with a smile:

"Is there something wrong?"

Hongxiang's face was a little sluggish, and Mu Ran replied:

"My brother said today that he was going to take me shopping, but when I came here to look for my brother, I found that my brother was reading, and I couldn't bear to disturb him for a while, so I waited until now. ”

After a pause, he added:

"My brother is really serious about reading this time, it's the first time I've seen my brother read so seriously!"

Xiao Cong couldn't help but shake his head and let out a wry smile when he heard this, and he didn't shy away from it, and said truthfully:

"Which is that I read the book too seriously, it is clear that this book is too evil, alas, I don't know how to tell you, anyway, I missed the appointment, I apologize. ”

Hongxiang was flattered when he heard this, and his two little white hands swayed again and again.

"No, no, brother, I didn't mean to blame you. ”

Xiao Cong couldn't help but laugh when he saw it, and said with a smile:

"Don't react so much, I missed the appointment, and the apology should have been!"

"But my brother is reading. "Hongxiang" argues with reason.

Xiao Cong smiled dumbly,

"A no-show is a no-show, there is no excuse to find, and it is normal to apologize. ”

Hongxiang wanted to say something, but Xiao Cong didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore, so when Hongxiang was still snorting and preparing to refute, he took the lead:

"Has Yin Nuo never come back?"

Hongxiang shook his head,

"Nope. ”

Xiao Cong shook his head and smiled,

"This guy, if he doesn't come back so late, he shouldn't have run away. ”

The tone is lighthearted, even with a hint of humor.

"Aren't you worried that he's betraying us?" asked Hongxiang.

Xiao Cong raised his head suddenly and said with a smile:

"There's nothing to worry about, first, he has an immortal oath and a lamp spell on him, I want him to die, it's a matter of thought, he will definitely not easily take his life as a child's play, second, I have an immortal artifact in my hand, and I want to take you away It's also a matter of thought, third, it's still that sentence, suspicious people don't need to use people without suspicion, since we feel that we want to win him over, this basic trust should still be there, what do you say?"

Hongxiang nodded vigorously and swore solemnly:

"Everything my brother said was right. ”

Xiao Cong was speechless when he heard this, so he could only laugh.

The night is already deep, Hongxiang felt hungry in his belly, so he called Xiao Er to bring food, the two of them sat at the table face to face with the moonlight pouring down from the window, while eating, there was a pair of chatting nonsense, the atmosphere rose and fell, intermittently, like an old man who saw through the world before dying, although he was still breathing, but after all, it was quiet and peaceful, but after all, it was still slowly moving towards death.

When they were about to have nothing to say, the door was pushed open, and the two turned their heads when they heard the sound, and saw the seriously injured Yin Nuo leaning on the door frame, coughing up blood, while staggering inside, so the dying "old man" returned to the light in this instant.

Xiao Cong Chong Hongxiang Nunu mouth,

"Go and give it a hand. ”

Hongxiang nodded, then moved the stool, walked to the door, gently picked up Yin Nuo, and helped him slowly walk to the table and sit down, and then returned to close the door.

Xiao Cong's face was expressionless, his tone was calm, and he asked:

"What's wrong? I only went out for half a day, and I came back with an injury. ”

Yin Nuo coughed a few times and laughed at himself:

"Don't mention it, I went out to pick up a job, but I didn't expect to be put on a show!"

At the end of the words, I almost gritted my teeth.

Xiao Cong was still expressionless,

"What's going on, let's hear it. ”

Yin Nuo shook his head and sighed,

"Careless, today I went to complete the task I promised others, but I didn't expect it to be a set set for me by the ghost dart gate, and I almost couldn't come back, and I don't know how they knew!"

As he spoke, Yin Nuo slammed the table, and the tableware on the table was shaken and fell, making a rapid and crisp sound.

"Why don't you call me on a mission alone?" Xiao Cong asked.

Yin Nuo shook his head again and smiled bitterly,

"I didn't go out to do this, but I happened to meet it, and now that I think about it, it's really a coincidence. ”

"What are you going to do, do you want to destroy the Ghost Dart Gate?" Xiao Cong then asked, his tone still couldn't hear the slightest fluctuation, but he vaguely felt that the atmosphere in the room had become a little sluggish and frozen at this moment.

Yin Nuo sneered and shook his head, and said seriously:

"No, it's not the time yet, the old ghost dart will be of great use to me!"

"Does he have to be?"

Yin Nuo smiled slightly,

"Maybe there are other people who are more suitable than him, but it's a little difficult to find, I don't want to wait any longer, it's him, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and if I can't bear it, I will make a big plan, anyway, his life will be mine sooner or later!"

Xiao Cong looked at Yin Nuo quietly, and clearly saw the restless frenzy in his eyes, and after a while, he asked:

"What's of use to him?"

Yin Nuo raised his head, looked at Xiao Cong for a long time, and asked:

"What's of use to him, with Xiao Sigongzi's talent, can't you see it?"

Xiao Cong remained motionless and replied:

"I can't see it, and I ask Brother Yin to give me advice. ”

Yin Nuo smiled slightly,

"Since Xiao Sigongzi is interested in this, let's listen to it carefully, the ghost dart has a long history with my demon knife, and this matter is a long story, but it is certain that all along, it is my demon knife that has the upper hand, but the previous generation of demon knife palms before me did not end their lives, but was assassinated, so the demon knife mastery was lost, what I want to do is to help the ghost dart old man to cultivate to the peak, so as to find the lost demon knife mastery. ”

"How can I get it back? You are not afraid that he will kill you after he becomes a ghost dart!"

Yin Nuo smiled,

Xiao Sigongzi asked two questions in a row, and Rong Yin answered one by one. ”

After a pause, he continued:

"Ghost darts and demon knives, in fact, there are commonalities in some fundamental things, you must have thought that ghost darts and demon knives, rather than confrontation, it is more appropriate to match, in fact, this is indeed the case, but then the two pioneers turned against each other, and it became such a situation today that is almost incompatible with fire and water to fight for a high and low, and I am just following the tradition. ”

He smiled and continued:

"Regarding my plan, to put it bluntly, it's just a gamble, but I really have no choice but to do this, even if I don't provoke the ghost dart gate, do you think they will easily let me go? I don't think I can't, so I choose to bet with my life, the continuation of the demon sword, to make this bet, even if I lose the bet, I have no regrets. ”

"What is the relationship between the demon knife and the ghost dart, and how do you want to use the hand of the ghost dart to find the demon knife mastery, can you tell me about it?"

"The founder of the demon knife and the founder of the ghost dart are actually a pair of brothers, just because the demon knife in my hand was passed to the senior brother by his teacher, the younger brother felt unfair, so the two turned against each other, so the younger brother left the division's court, started another mountain, opened the door to teach, this is the origin of the ghost dart door, when the two brothers are still there, the demon knife and the ghost dart have always been well water and do not violate the river water, and they are safe, but since the death of the ghost dart ancestor who was the junior brother, the ghost dart has been consumed with my demon knife, saying that the ghost dart ancestor was obsessed with the things of the year, and he died with hatred,So the non-stop provocation of the ghost dart disciple has been ignored,Since he also passed away,The friction and contradiction between the ghost dart door and the demon knife have gradually increased,The two sides can come out in large numbers,Constantly sharpen their own exercises,Always want to overpower each other,Unfortunately, in the end, the ghost dart door skills are not as good as people.,I was pressed by my demon knife and couldn't raise my head anymore.,It's a pity,Alas~"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Since the ghost dart and the demon knife were originally from the same school, and the demon knife mastery came into being to suppress the ghost dart, if I can follow the old path of the ancestor and continue to learn from the ghost dart sect, maybe I can really get the demon knife mastery back, and then it will be considered a non-insulting teacher. ”

Xiao Cong was silent for a long time, and then asked again:

"Do you know how the previous generation of masters was assassinated by whom?"

Yin Nuo nodded and said with a slight smile:

"Yes. ”

"Don't you want revenge?"

Yin Nuo nodded again,

"Yes. ”

"Do you want to seek revenge on them after recovering the Demon Sword?"

"It's not. ”

Xiao Cong tilted his head slightly when he heard this, seemingly puzzled by this, and at the same time swallowed his prepared rhetoric alive.

Looking at Xiao Cong, whose face was a little sluggish, the corners of Yin Nuo's mouth raised slightly, and he seemed to smile and said:

"After finding the Demon Sword Peerless Sect, I don't have to take revenge on them anymore, what they wanted to do back then was to cut off the inheritance of my Demon Sword, and now I will take the Inheritance back, isn't it the best counterattack for them? Besides, even if I kill them all, those who died will not come back, what I have to do is to carry forward the Demon Knife Peerless Sect. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Cong couldn't help but be in awe of Yin Nuo, grasping the essence through appearances, doing the most meaningful thing, and living so clearly in the face of right and wrong, but it was not easy.

"Do you think that what happened back then has anything to do with the Ghost Dart Gate?"

"I've checked this matter carefully, and it has nothing to do with the Ghost Dart Gate. Yin Nuo replied with an oath.

After being silent for a long time, Xiao Cong spoke:

"You've been talking about the Ghost Dart Sect just now, but you haven't said the Demon Sword Sect or the Demon Sword Sect, I'm afraid your previous master has something else to hide. ”

Yin Nuo smiled, lowered his head and said:

"You can see this, but the past has passed, and the past that has passed away with the wind, if you don't mention it, don't mention it, it's meaningless to say it, it's just a laughing stock, it's better to bury it in your heart until you forget it. ”

Xiao Cong also laughed a few times, and then stopped talking, but Yin Nuo looked at Xiao Cong with a slightly drooping face, and instead asked:

"What, Fourth Young Master Xiao still has any doubts?"

Xiao Cong raised his head when he heard this, feigned a few laughs, and said:

"Then the matter of the old master passing the demon knife to the senior brother, I'm afraid there is no hidden reason. ”

When Yin Nuo heard this, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he said with a straight face:

"Fourth Young Master Xiao is right, back then, the ancestor passed on the demon knife to the senior brother, not because of preference, but because there was a problem with this knife, and it was a big problem, he could affect the mind of the cultivator, and even turn into a demon, and then control the cultivator, it was precisely because of the calm heart of the senior brother and the impetuousness of the senior brother that the old ancestor passed this demon knife to the senior brother, as for the strangeness of this knife, I won't say more, when I fought with the ghost dart disciple that day, the fourth young master Xiao should have seen it very clearly. ”

Xiao Cong pursed his lips lightly, nodded slightly, and continued:

"Why do I feel that there is a soldier soul in this knife, but it is broken?"

Yin Nuo's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he sighed with emotion:

"The most outstanding Xiao family in the past ten thousand years, Fourth Young Master Xiao really lives up to his reputation, just with this spiritual trick perception that is enough to crush the peak of the River Crossing Realm and even the Moon Realm, among the peers, no, he is the leader in the prime of the various sects, and there is absolutely no one who can stand out, Yin admires!"

As he spoke, he bowed to Xiao Cong.

Xiao Cong's face was expressionless, and his tone was unfazed,

"Getting to the point. ”

Yin Nuo breathed a sigh of relief, seemed to calm down his emotions, and then decided:

"This is the biggest secret of the demon knife, another strange thing about this knife is that every time the owner changes, a new soldier soul will appear in the knife, and the whereabouts of the old soldier soul are unknown, but this new soldier soul will continue to grow with the improvement of the new master's cultivation, and when it grows to a certain extent, it will become a metamorphosis, and the real human sword will be integrated!"

When Xiao Cong heard this, his face was gloomy and he fell into deep thought.

The candle flame in the room is flourishing, has burned to the root, faintly there are some signs of increase, the red wax under the candlestick flows into a puddle, from top to bottom, more and more thickly wrapped on the candlestick, half a street away the hustle and bustle of the nightless hall still can not be transmitted here, and the atmosphere of the room is in line with only the cold moonlight and the light singing when the cool breeze blows through the branches in the middle of the night.

After a while, Xiao Cong slowly spoke:

"Haven't you ever thought deeply about that?"

Yin Nuo frowned slightly when he heard this,

"Pondering what?"

Xiao Cong's right index finger lightly clasped the tabletop, and said slowly:

"Your demon knife has the ability to absorb the essence and blood, vitality and even soul of cultivators, and these things will be fed back to you through a certain way, so you can achieve the cultivation of crossing the river realm at a young age, but everything in this world has already been clearly marked in the underworld, you have ever thought about the consequences by relying on a demon knife to get a corpse vegetarian meal without working hard? Don't you think that all this is too easy?"

Yin Nuo's already snow-white face became even paler at this time, his lips trembled slightly, and after a while, he laughed miserably, sighed, and then said:

In fact, in my opinion, the secret of this knife is far more than these, not to mention where the soul of the old soldier goes, just say that the last man and knife are one, is the achievement of the man or the knife? This is a secret that has never been verified by anyone for thousands of years. ”

Xiao Cong didn't react much when he heard this, because he had already thought of what Yin Nuo said.

"A sect that has been inherited for thousands of years, capable of producing many people, should not be helpless against a knife, if your ancestors are really helpless against it, I am afraid that it will be destroyed long ago, have you missed some special method? Or ......?"

Xiao Cong wanted to speak and stopped, looking at Yin Nuo's face, which was still very pale reflected in the burning candle flame, motionless.

Yin Nuo also looked at Xiao Cong, Gu Jing Wubo, kind and calm, and said with a smile:

"Xiao Sigongzi is right, I am indeed not the heir of Zhang's favorite, the so-called inheritance is just a deathbed entrustment, but I am the only survivor, I don't have to take over this stall, who else can there be?"

As he spoke, he laughed at himself and continued:

"Anyway, with my talent, it is impossible to achieve the legendary unity of the human knife in my lifetime, if I can find the demon knife mastery, I am already very satisfied, and the rest will be handed over to the descendants to do, there must be a road before the car to the mountain, and it will be natural to the bridge, and the future generations will have their own people who can lead the way, but after the efforts of dozens or hundreds of generations, it is possible to understand the method of restraining this knife, what do you say?"

"But what if you can't find it?" Xiao Cong said aggressively.

Yin Nuo looked at Xiao Cong for a long time, and then smiled,

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, you and I were born in the world, but it's good to have a clear conscience, it's useless to think too much. ”

The two looked at each other, Xiao Cong was silent for a long time, and suddenly smiled coldly and said:

"Forget it, it's okay, there's no point in pursuing these if you think about it carefully, since you are my slave, then I am somewhat responsible for what you did wrong, rest assured, it's just a demon knife, if something happens, I will definitely settle it for you." ”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and patted Yin Nuo's shoulder twice.

The latter's face was still pale, and he smiled slightly:

"Then thank Fourth Young Master Xiao in advance. ”