The Southern Zhou City, which was nurtured by the scorching sun, was still lifeless as usual. The people are looking around, aimlessly, like the walking dead, this place has already become the boundary of the inner dynasty and the three regardless of the territory, and it is impossible for anyone to interfere, especially the Revenant Soul Pavilion, the Blowing Snow Pavilion and the Xiahou Family, the three forces are criss-crossed, even the chivalrous people who come and go, they are all trembling in their hearts.

The bearded man walked decadently on the street, he straddled the wine jug at his waist, wore a straw hat on his head, a scimitar in his left hand, and led a horse in his right hand, constantly searching in the Southern Zhou City. Knocking down nearby diners, people, all took out the portraits in their arms and interrogated, like this, the man has been going on for three days.

The woman in the portrait has dark skin, bright eyes, wearing hemp rope on her head, a beautiful face, a pair of thick hair scattered on both sides, her eyes are flowing, and her red lips are slightly open, which makes people can't help but look at it twice.

The woman is Hu Yixue, who sells wine in Southern Zhou City, and the man's name is Shen Wanqian.

Since Shen Wanqian and Hu Yixue went to Ten Thousand Ghost City separately, it has been more than a week, and until the day before yesterday, the two still exchanged letters. Hu Yixue came to Ten Thousand Ghost City this time to uncover the true face of Xiahou's family, avenge herself, and find the cause of death of her missing daughter and deceased husband. Who would have thought that the Xiahou family had moved out of Southern Zhou City early, and even Hu Yixue was gone.

Shen Wanqian asked around about the whereabouts of the tavern proprietress, but the people of Nanzhou City, large and small, didn't seem to know this person, and they all shook their heads and denied it.

This is later.

Things have to start from the day Shen Wanqian and Shen Zhiyao rushed into the forbidden land of ten thousand ghosts.

Shen Wanqian entered the Shen family's compound, and saw her mother-in-law and Shen Zhiyao talking, so she expressed her thoughts, and her mother-in-law was very worried, but she understood Shen Wanqian's thoughts, so she had no choice but to lead Shen Wanqian to the gate of the villa. Shen Zhiyao had a misunderstanding with Shen Wanqian because of yesterday's incident, and in order to resolve the embarrassment, he also proposed to join Shen Wanqian's team to find the secret of the forbidden place together.

Shen Wanqian directly refused on the grounds that the forbidden land was too dangerous. Shen Zhiyao had no choice but to follow up secretly. There was another person who came with him, Nangong Chengfeng, so there was the next thing.

The three of them stood at the gate of the forbidden land of the Ten Thousand Ghost Villa in a daze, everyone knew that the Ten Thousand Ghost Villa of the ghost mother-in-law was the foundation left by the ancestors, and the villa in all directions was very open. But they didn't expect that after walking through the corridor and coming to the backyard, Yishan still had this unique situation.

The forbidden place is on the back hill of the villa, and the two ghost heads on the left and right stand on both sides, and the entrance to the cave in the middle is very large, like the blood mouth of a divine beast, constantly emitting green light. There were several swords stuck in the rocks outside the cave entrance, and the three of them took a closer look and found that the cave entrance was only half a foot away from the backyard of the villa.

Shen Wanqian silently read the inscriptions on both sides of the cave, and when he finished, he glanced at the two of them, and the three of them picked up their weapons and walked to the depths of the cave.

Walking inside, through a narrow corridor, the three of them came to the depths of the cave. Although the cave glows green, the light is not bright, and there are still starry torches hanging on the walls around it, but because of the oxygen, the light has long been gone. Nangong Chengfeng picked up one of them, shook it in his hand, and the torch lit up in an instant.

Only then did the three of them see the appearance of the cave clearly, the inside of the cave is a spherical square, or a scripture pavilion, with bookshelves soaring to the sky, and it is full of ancient books. There are knights who come here to seek martial arts secrets, most of them have died, Shen Zhiyao looked at the white bones around him, and he was covered in a cold sweat.

The bookshelves were lined up on three sides next to the cave, and the three of them decided to split up so that they could move faster.

"You'd better be careful and pay attention to your surroundings, lest there be any foreign objects in the cave~ hurt yourself" Nangong Chengfeng proposed, handing the two of them two torches.

Shen Wanqian took the torch and shook it around, the firelight illuminated the bookshelf transparently, and the sandalwood bookshelf was stained by the moisture in the cave, and there was no reaction, which couldn't help but make Shen Wanqian curious.

From top to bottom are the magic weapons of the Inner Dynasty tribes, and then down are some ancient books of medicinal materials, Shen Wanqian shook the torch and rummaged carefully.

Because the bookshelf was too high, Shen Zhiyao had to find a wooden ladder and climb it to see. Nangong Chengfeng was also flying, jumping to the top of the bookcase and rummaging down.

"Persona of the Nine Kingdoms, Agarwood Record, Soshen Record..."Shen Zhiyao rummaged through it, and recited silently in his mouth. Finally, after tireless searching, I found three fragments of the Qiankun Sword Book at the lowest end of the bookshelf.

The knife has been weathered, and a lot of dust has accumulated, and in some serious places, it is no longer possible to see the handwriting. Shen Zhiyao wiped the dust off the knife book, excitedly picked up the fragment and waved at the two, Shen Wanqian hurriedly jumped off the bookshelf and looked through it carefully.

"Thank you so much, my father only taught me the first form of the Qiankun knife when he was alive, but I didn't expect that there are still any remaining fragments of the page! Presumably, these locations in the picture must be the other styles of the Qiankun knife, as long as you find all the knife scores, you can practice the Qiankun recipe~" Shen Wanqian said excitedly.

Shen Zhiyao also nodded happily. Everyone was still immersed in joy, and was about to go outside the cave, when suddenly three dark arrows shot at the three of them.

Nangong reacted quickly to the wind, stretched out his prosthetic leg and grabbed the arrow with his bare hands.

"There is an enemy, lie down quickly~" Nangong shouted in the wind.

When the three of them looked back, they didn't know if some kind of mechanism had been triggered, and the three rows of bookshelves with oral characters were actually divided into characters, and the bookshelves were braked by the mechanism and embedded in the cave, and a path was split in the center of the square, and they walked straight into the depths of the cave.

When the three of them looked at it again, they saw seven or eight swordsmen covered in green light, staggering towards them, and behind them was a one-eyed knife resistant, presumably a bandit lurking here.

"My Yuan soldiers have been guarding the pavilion here for 3,000 years, and the number of people who break into the pavilion is increasing year by year! I didn't think about it, I let you steal something today~ If you want to take it, let's win first! One-eyed said, wiping his beard and exposing his chest muscles.

"Oh no, it's a ghost soldier! It seems that today's war is inevitable. "Nangong riding the wind is not good.

Shen Zhiyao was puzzled, "Ghost soldiers? Isn't that the mother-in-law's army? ”

"Of course, there are some exiled ghost soldiers who do not obey the discipline, they will become lonely ghosts, and I don't know where the branch came from, and they actually made trouble in the forbidden land of the villa~" Nangong rode the wind and reprimanded angrily.

After a night of cultivation, Shen Wanqian's body finally recovered a little, but he couldn't make big moves. Seeing the situation, Shen Wanqian took out the Qiankun knife and crossed in front of the ghost soldiers.

"You wait for a thief, you dare to steal ancient books, watch me take your head~" The one-eyed bandit jumped up with a shout, and flew to cut Shen Wanqian.

Shen Wanqian had already taken precautions, and a dodge made One-Eye flutter into the air. The force of the one-eyed was so great that the blade shattered into the ground and cracked. Holding the knife in both hands, One-Eyed reflexively lifted the machete stuck in the ground and slashed it at Shen Wanqian. Seeing this, several sword soldiers behind him also hurriedly stepped forward to help.

Shen Zhiyao could only use basic exercises, so he could only take out his sword and constantly block the enemy's attack, and he was forced to retreat to the corner for a while.

Nangong took advantage of the wind to throw away the torch, shook the bone fan in his left hand and attacked the sword soldiers in turn. I saw that he spread out the bone fan, and swirled left and right around four or five sword soldiers, and the knife soldiers were dizzying by the fan. Listening to the sound of "pop", the bone fan was synthesized into a single force, Nangong Chengfeng took advantage of the situation and shook his wrist, and there was another "pop", and many spikes were instantly revealed on the bone fan.

Nangong rode the wind into the air and slashed the spikes through the thick necks of the sword soldiers, and a cold light flashed, like falling meteors, and the necks of the soldiers were cut several times, and blood gushed out. Nangong was not in a hurry to ride the wind, he was flexible and changeable, dodged left and right, and killed several sword soldiers in a short time.

Shen Zhiyao had already retreated to the corner, unable to move, so he could only swing his sword and slash into the air, Nangong took a few steps with a sharp gaze, and put down the three sword soldiers who surrounded Shen Zhiyao in turn, which could be regarded as the siege was lifted. The two of them fixed their minds, and then looked at Shen Wanqian, but there was already a splash of fire over there. The twin knives collided, startling a burst of white light in the cave.

When I looked at it again, in the deeper part of the cave, a group of ghost soldiers rushed in batches! Shen Zhiyao saw the wave of ghost soldiers, afraid that he would lose his physical strength if he continued to fight, so he gave Shen Wanqian a look, and the three of them retreated while fighting, and walked towards the outside of the cave. Not to be outdone, One-Eyed picked up the treasure knife and rushed forward, seeing that the ghost soldiers were about to catch the three of them back into the cave, Shen Wanqian jumped backwards, grabbed the two and jumped out of the cave.

There happened to be a few swords inserted on the rock on the left side of the cave entrance, and Nangong Chengfeng thought that it must be some kind of mechanism in the forbidden land, so he flew over and uprooted the sword with his prosthetic limbs. The cave seemed to be under a spell, and after a loud sound of gears, the door closed instantly.

The ghost soldiers were locked inside by the huge stone gate, and they kept knocking, trying to rush out, but the stone gate was extremely hard, and everything was in vain. The three of them listened to the hellish sound inside, and they all had palpitations. Suddenly, a sour pain welled up in his heart, and Nangong Chengfeng realized that because he was too hard, when he pulled out the sword, the broken side of the prosthetic was left on the sword.

Nangong Chengfeng smiled bitterly and took off his prosthetic leg, and returned to the backyard of the villa with the three of them.

"You... It doesn't matter~" Shen Zhiyao glanced at Nangong Chengfeng, her cheeks were unnaturally flushed, and she said softly.

Nangong Chengfeng saw Shen Zhiyao's thoughts, and joked with a smile, "It's okay, it's very convenient for me to take this prosthetic, just go back and repair it!" ”

Shen Zhiyao thought of something and lowered his head as he walked.

"Okay, we helped Brother Shen get the knife book, shouldn't we be happy? Don't think about those things in the past anymore~" Nangong Chengfeng comforted Shen Zhiyao.

It was noon when they came out, and Nangong Chengfeng suggested that the three of them go back to Feixian Pavilion to eat something first. Only then did Shen Zhiyao realize that after a busy night last night, his stomach was already hungry.

Walking into the store, the ghost mother-in-law was busy explaining some things in the back kitchen, and the big boss and the thirteen knives were gone, so the ghost mother-in-law appointed a new head chef to be in charge of the store's affairs. At noon, there are more guests who come, there are ordinary people, businessmen and nearby knights, everyone drinks and has fun, and Feixian Pavilion has restored the scene of the past.

When the ghost mother-in-law saw the three of them coming back, she smiled and asked the back kitchen to add a few more dishes, and the four of them found a table where no one was there and sat down.

"That being the case, after eating this send-off meal, I'll leave! There is also a friend of mine in Nanzhou City, I am afraid that I will be delayed on the way to go late~" Shen Wanqian poured a pot of wine and said with both hands.

The ghost mother-in-law nodded, "Be careful on the way here, when you arrive in Nanzhou City, remember the non-reproducible incident!" ”

"Don't worry, mother-in-law!" Shen Wanqian nodded.

"What about you, Yao'er, do you still want to go to Qiankun Pavilion?" The ghost mother-in-law looked at Shen Zhiyao.

"Hmm!" Shen Zhiyao nodded, and took out Li Changwei's letter, "Dad is no longer there, in order not to worry him, practicing martial arts may be the best place to go~"

As they spoke, the food had already come up. The four of them explained the next situation, ate a few bites casually, and got up to separate. The mother-in-law was not easy to keep, so she arranged Shen Zhiyao's clothes while instructing something, as if the married daughter was going to travel far away.

"This is for you~" Shen Zhiyao took out the osmanthus sachet he was carrying and handed it to Nangong Chengfeng, "You must wait for me to come back!" ”

Nangong Chengfeng squinted and took the sachet and quipped, "Don't worry, my sister Yao has embroidered the sachet by herself, I can't let my sister worry~"

Shen Zhiyao wanted to explain something more, but when the words came to his lips, he paused again, and tears crossed his cheeks, revealing light. Shen Zhiyao didn't stay any longer, got on the horse, and went out of the city with Shen Wanqian.

Nangong Chengfeng knew that the little sister he loved the most had grown up after all, and looked at Shen Zhiyao's distant back and showed a relieved smile.

Walking to the gate of the city, Shen Zhiyao turned around slightly to say goodbye to Shen Wanqian, the light around her flowed, stretched out her hand, waved her sleeves, and the sunlight shining on Shen Zhiyao looked particularly good.

Seeing Shen Zhiyao walking away, Shen Wanqian ran in the direction of Nanzhou City without looking back! First meet with Hu Yixue, and then go to Qiankun Pavilion to find Shen Zhiyao. Shen Wanqian thought about it, and the speed of the horse increased again. The flask swayed up and down with the sound of the horse's hooves smashing.

When he came to the city gate, Shen Wanqian didn't have time to catch his breath, so he asked Hu Yixue's whereabouts. The scorching sun shone on the soaked cloth, sweat dripped down the grass hat into the collar, and the sun formed a perfect arc against the scabbard. Shen Wanqian inquired left and right, guards, traders, people, soldiers, and many shops in Southern Zhou City, but he had never seen this woman.

Shen Wanqian had no choice but to find a painting boat, took out a few taels of silver, and invited a painter to paint. The painter followed Shen Wanqian's words, and after a while, he came up with a painting. Hu Yixue's appearance is vividly reflected in the painting. Shen Wanqian praised again and again, and went outside the city to inquire.

Until the sun set in the west, there was still no trace of Hu Yixue. Even those who have seen the portrait seem to not know Hu Yixue, and even the original restaurant has disappeared.

Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Wanqian hurriedly found an inn to rest, planning to continue the operation the next day. Xiao Er led Shen Wanqian to a private room in the north and explained some things. didn't eat, Shen Wanqian cleaned up indiscriminately, and went to bed early.

Nothing happened overnight~

Shen Wanqian thought that he would meet the person who assassinated him like before, so he paid more attention. But the people of Southern Zhou City said that they didn't know themselves, and even the wanted notices that had posted them before were withdrawn. This can't help but make Shen Wanqian wonder!

It's already the third day, and if I can't find Hu Yixue again, I'm afraid there will be other incidents. Thinking of this, Shen Wanqian hurriedly grabbed one of the aunts who was buying vegetables, "Auntie, do you know what the situation is in Xiahou's family?" ”

It turned out that as early as when Shen Wanqian passed by Xiahou Mansion, the door of Xiahou's house was already closed, and Shen Wanqian, who wanted to find a breakthrough from Xiahou's house, was even more difficult.

As a last resort, I had to ask other people.

After hearing this, the aunt shook her head again and again, claiming that the Xiahou family had already moved out of Southern Zhou City.