Tang Ping originally wanted to come today to ask what Shen Weiqian had told her, but now that it was past noon, she didn't know if there was something that stumbled on this girl, and she didn't know if she would come in the afternoon.

But whether she comes or not, Qian Chao always has something to do.

On Qian Chao's bookcase, there were several maps spread out, and a few books were casually buckled on the table by him.

One of the maps is the one obtained from the ruins, there is no Five Spirits Sect on that map, Qian Chao is struggling to find the current location of the Five Spirits Sect on it, but from the map, the terrain and topography are completely different, at least there are no five reckless mountains in the sect, there is no Tianshui Lake in the vast smoke, and there is no Jade Pot Mountain in the air, only an ordinary mountain forest signs.

If you look at today's maps, it's very different.

Many towering mountains were bulldozed like piles of sand, and then the sand was re-piled in other places, even higher!

But there will always be some places where some traces of the past can be seen!

Qian Chao stared at the two maps, his eyes kept moving from one map to the other, and after looking at it like this for a long time, he only felt that his eyes were a little astringent.

Qian Chao stopped, rubbed his eyes, then looked at the sky in the courtyard, and said secretly, At this time, Tang Yatou estimated that she would not come today.

Then I put my mind on the map again.

What kind of power can make five huge mountains rise out of thin air here, and there is also a Tianshui Lake in the middle?

On the map obtained from the ruins, the original location of the Five Spirits Sect had mountains and rivers, but the mountains were not high mountains, the water was not big rivers, and the mountains and water were naturally not arranged as they are now.

However, there is one thing that Qian Chao can confirm, that is, on the map obtained from the ruins, the farther away from the location of the Five Spirit Sect, the closer the trend of the mountains and rivers is to the map used today.

You should be able to see something, even if the change on the ground is too big, but the change below the ground should not be too big.

Or...... Like that ruin, because of the uplift of the mountain peak, it suddenly reached the height of the mountainside from the foot of the mountain, so is it possible that there are mountains or peaks that sink into the ground or underwater with the collapse of the ground?

The underground is either hard to find, or ...... Underwater?

Qian Chao determined a location, and a small area of water was marked on both maps, but on the map of the ruins, the water area was not large, and there were hills adjacent to the water, which should have been a beautiful place at the beginning, and seemed to be a habitable place, but on the current map, the water area has obviously become larger, and the original hills are gone, if there used to be any family or sect there, it must be under the water now.

But the next thing is to see if there are any spiritual veins that have traveled there in the past, and if there are, then it is possible.

This step is a bit difficult, and sometimes even depends on guessing.

On the map obtained from the ruins, the location of some families was marked, and a small courtyard was drawn with a few strokes, which probably meant that there were monks settling and practicing there, and Qian Chao looked for such small courtyards on the map one by one, and scratched between them with his fingers, thinking about the direction of these families built on the spiritual veins, and the spiritual veins that passed through them.

It's still like that, far away from the Five Spirits Sect, it seems that the spiritual veins have not changed much from now, even if those families are gone, but the spiritual veins that flowed there are still there, which can be seen on the map drawn by Qian Chao himself, just by what has been produced there, you can judge, if there is no spiritual vein, there are no such things.

And near the Five Spirits Sect, those small families that used to exist, and those former monks who used to rely on the spiritual veins of the sect to establish a sect, have changed a lot, such as the ruins opened by Qian Chao, there used to be a spiritual vein, but now it is gone, but the question is what was the direction of that spiritual vein in the first place?

The spirit veins will not disappear, they will only be diverted.

This is what Qian Chao believes, so where is the closest spiritual vein to the ruins, and what is the direction?

Qian Chao simply took out the pen and began to sketch on the map.

But even when twilight fell, Qian Chao couldn't confirm whether there were ruins under that water area after all, but it wasn't without gain, he was confident that at least seven or eight places that might be ruins were marked on the map, and the location of that water area was obtained, although there was no small courtyard marked in the map, but it is estimated that most of the families or sects that could be marked were relatively large families, and there was no need to mark the smaller ones, just like getting the ruins of this map, The families that were there were not marked on the map.

When you go out and take a look there, you will know if there is anything underwater.

Thinking of this, Qian Chao's heart moved, if only he could have a pair of eyes that could see through the time, standing there for a moment, the evolution of mountains, rivers and lakes, the vicissitudes of life can be seen, as long as he sees it, he doesn't have to make such a painstaking guess, how good it would be!

He shook his head self-deprecatingly, where could there be such a thing, his blue eye technique was also unintentional, and now he has benefited immensely, people still can't be too greedy.

But are there any other spells that resemble your own "blue eye"? Qian Chao has always been curious about this question in his heart, he has not heard of it among the qi refining disciples in the sect, so are there any such spells in other big sects or small families that are secretly circulating? The world is so big, maybe there really is!

Thinking about all this, Qian Chao put away the map and lit the light.

……

The night was quiet and the sky was cold, and Qian Chao was holding a book in the room.

Qian Chao knew that it was unlikely to find a book that recorded the "cross-sea battle" among the ruins that could be found outside the sect, because almost all the families or sects near the Wuling Sect were almost destroyed in the "cross-sea battle", and the fate of those small sects and small families basically came to an abrupt end when the "cross-sea battle" began, so there would be no follow-up records, if you want to find information about the "cross-sea battle" will have to look elsewhere.

(Here the author wants to say, according to my setting, I don't know how many years ago the millennium war, if you cut it carefully, the words in the books will inevitably evolve, just like the evolution of the oracle bone inscription we found in reality to the current simplified Chinese characters, but here is a novel, it's a story, if I say trivial, it's not interesting, so as long as everyone knows, no matter how old the book is found by Qian Chao, the text in it is the same as now.) ）

However, Qian Chao also found one thing, why there are not many books about the "Battle across the Sea", even if it is old, but you can also see a few books about the "Millennium War" in the library, but there are few, but there are, why the content of the "Battle across the Sea" seems to be lost, he may be able to hear a sentence or two from the mouths of others, but that is also a legend that is not recorded in the record, which is a strange thing.

Just as he was thinking about this, the wind sounded in the courtyard, and a figure fell from the sky.

"Senior Brother Qian!"

Qian Chao smiled, put down the book in his hand, and secretly said that he had been thinking about this person for the past few days, and wondered why he didn't come to find him, but he really came today.

Ma Hu strode towards the house in the courtyard, and said as he walked: "Senior Brother Qian, did you go to see the white-haired beautiful lady yesterday?" I'm going, obediently, that face is really beautiful, and the white hair on my head is even more stylish, but unfortunately, I don't have that blessing, ha! ”

Qian Chao smiled helplessly: "Senior Brother Ma is joking." ”

"Eh, it's not a joke, you don't know, today the sect will call me and other people who have a teacher, well, and those half-hung gentlemen, saying that they are getting acquainted with this Yanshuang, so that we can take care of one or two in the future regardless of whether they are inside or outside the sect, I am also close to look at the woman a few more times, well, it is really different from other women in the sect, although it is always cold, but it is such a woman, if you can make her smile at you, haha! That's what makes it a different taste! ”

Only then did Qian Chao know why Tang Ping didn't come today, and he was afraid that he was also recruited to see that Yanshuang.

Seeing Qian Chao pouring tea for himself, Ma Hu took it up and drank it all, and then said:

"That woman's matter is secondary, Senior Brother Qian, I came to you this time to talk to you, the idea you gave me last time really made me ask something, but I don't think it matters much, so let you help me think about it."

Qian Chao knew that this Ma Hu had been running around for the reason for Senior Brother Xun's death, and he did give him an idea last time, but he didn't expect him to make progress there, so he put down his own affairs first and asked, "Oh? Do you have some eyebrows about Senior Brother Xun's affairs? Brother Ma said let's hear it. ”

Ma Hu took another sip of tea and said: "The last time you said that I should restore my original appearance, I listened to you, and I went around outside the sect for several days in a row, just a few days ago I met a kid outside the sect, his name is Zhao Shunyi, this kid is not a good thing, he is flattering if he is stronger than him, and he is not as good as him, he is thinking about calculating others, when I met him, I saw him tidying up a few little guys to obey the ......"

It turned out that Ma Hu met this Zhao Shunyi by chance outside the sect, when Zhao Shunyi was playing the idea of a few little guys, he followed all the way, and when these people walked to no one's place, they suddenly appeared, and then they made a means to suppress those people, and then scared and threatened to force those little guys to hand over the storage bags on their bodies, otherwise no matter what, those little guys were naturally frightened to the soul, in order to go back alive, they could only endure the pain and give him their storage bags.

Ma Hu is most accustomed to doing this kind of black and black thing, and he doesn't show up when he sees these in secret, and after this Zhao Shunyi succeeds, he followed, found a secluded place and took action to restrain this kid. Naturally, what Zhao Shunyi had robbed before, plus his own, had all become Ma Hu's.

This Zhao Shunyi naturally knows Ma Hu's name, and knows that it is useless to beg, although this Ma Hu rarely harms people's lives, but if he provokes him and tosses people, it can also make life worse than death, in order to get rid of this scary guy as soon as possible, he obediently handed over all the things on his body.

Ma Hu was satisfied with Zhao Shunyi's attitude, but he was a little disappointed when he checked the bags in his hand, there were not many things in those bags, and he was a little dissatisfied, but after all, it was black and black, and since he got it, he couldn't pick the fat and the thin, so he was ready to send this Zhao Shunyi away.

But just before Zhao Shunyi left, Ma Hu's unintentional question made him suddenly feel nervous.

"Why are you the only one today, didn't you always come out with Na Jia Si to do this kind of thing in the past? Then why didn't Jia Si come today? ”

Ma Hu's original intention was that he felt that today's black and black business was a loss, and it was not worth it to get such a little thing after making a move, and he knew that this Zhao Shunyi and a guy named Jia Si had always been in cahoots and inseparable. If Naja Jia Si is also here, he can also get an extra benefit.

But Zhao Shunyi's answer was beyond his expectations.

"Senior Brother Ma, you don't know, Jia Si, I don't know how I was taught by the dead Senior Brother Xun last time, and I have never been with my junior brother since that time, it seems that I want to change my mind and be a good person from now on."

In fact, Zhao Shunyi's words were also blurted out unintentionally, he didn't know that Ma Hu had been running to find out the cause of Senior Brother Xun's death, if he said that Jia Si couldn't come if he had something, even Jia Si felt that it was not a big deal to always do this kind of thing, so he changed his mind and changed his face, and only thought about being a good person, and no longer did evil, Ma Hu didn't care, after all, people will change, and what kind of changes in the heart of an insignificant little person are even more insignificant to Ma Hu, however, Zhao Shunyi mentioned Senior Brother Xun, or the 'dead Senior Brother Xun', this is different!

"Oh?" Ma Hu continued to ask quietly, "Senior Brother Xun still has such a method, when did that happen?" ”

"That's it...... Well...... The time when Senior Brother Xun went out and died outside. ”

After listening to Zhao Shunyi's words, Ma Hu knew that the person named Jia Si had actually seen Senior Brother Xun when he went out for the last time, so Ma Hu continued:

"That's interesting, tell me what's going on."

Although Zhao Shunyi didn't know why this Ma Hu was interested in this matter, he didn't dare to refuse, so he said it one by one:

"That time, Jia Si and I intercepted a few little guys who came back from outside outside, and we did it, but it was at that time that we met Senior Brother Xun......"

Ma Hu interrupted him and asked:

"How many people were together with Senior Brother Xun at that time?"

"Uh...... There are two people, Senior Brother Xun and another senior brother who seems to be surnamed Wei. ”

"Well, you go on."

"That Senior Brother Xun and Senior Brother Wei saw that the two of us were robbing others, so they came over to take the two of us, hey, Senior Brother Ma, you also know, how can we be the opponents of Senior Brother Xun and others, seeing the two of them coming over to meddle in their affairs, they were about to flee at that time, but I fled, but that Jia Si was caught by Senior Brother Xun, I fled back to the sect and hid for a few days, and then I saw Jia Si, that kid got a body injury, but said that he was injured by a demon beast outside, and after a few days, the news of Senior Brother Xun's death came, Then that Jia Si didn't pay much attention to me, and now I'm the only one who comes out. ”

"Jia Si got a whole body injury?" Ma Hu asked with a deep groan.

"That's right, the injury is not too serious, but it is not light, and it really made him raise for a while." Zhao Shunyi replied.

"Where is Jia Si now?" Ma Hu asked again.

"It should still be in the sect, cough, that Senior Brother Xun died outside, which frightened him, and he didn't dare to go out at all, he was still hiding in the room after his injuries were healed, and I don't know what he was afraid of?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Shunyi suddenly understood something and looked up at Ma Hu.

"Senior Brother Ma, it can't be that Jia Si who killed Senior Brother Xun and the others when he was escaping, right? He was wounded in the fight...... It's not right, with that kid's cultivation and methods, wouldn't it be a joke to want to kill Senior Brother Xun! ”

"Humph! Whatever! It's a pity that Jia Si is not here, otherwise he can rob that kid easily, since he is not here, then even if he picks up a bargain, it's none of your business, get out! ”

Ma Hu was afraid that Zhao Shunyi would hear something, so he deliberately said so, and then sent him away.

……

Qian Chao heard Ma Hu say this, so he also asked: "This Zhao Shunyi said that when they met Senior Brother Xun, Senior Brother Xun was a total of two people, but I remember that Senior Brother Ma said when he told me about Senior Brother Xun, they went out a total of three people, two people, including Senior Brother Xun, unfortunately died outside, and there was a senior brother surnamed Wei who escaped, when did Senior Brother Xun have one more person outside?" Later, when Senior Brother Ma asked him, what did he say? ”

Ma Hu said: "I didn't think it was right when I heard it, so I immediately rushed back to the sect, inquired about the residence of that Jia Si, and went directly to the door, Senior Brother Qian listened to me first." ”

(Author's note: The death of this Senior Brother Xun is a relatively loose and long dark line that I buried, and the officials may have forgotten about it, for details, please refer to Volume IV: Test Feather, Seventy-two: Ma Hu's Plans.) There is a plot designed in the story.,It's not a plot that will be used right away.,It's used as a dark brush.,It's like tying a knot in a rope.,If you don't untie it.,It's always there.,And then slowly through this knot.,It will pull out some follow-up important story lines.。 In addition, the characters in my story, just like the NPCs in computer games, as long as they have names and surnames, they will inevitably be used, no matter how early or late they appear, so the characters whose names I have mentioned before and after will naturally have their own endings later. ）

……

After Ma Hu sent Zhao Shunyi, he hurried back to the sect, and after a little inquiry, he found Jia Si's residence, and did not knock on the door, but went directly inside, and sure enough, Jia Si was blocked in the room.

When he saw this Jia Si, Ma Hu looked at this person carefully, and sure enough, the whole person was a kind of person who had just struggled out of the scabies but still hadn't gotten rid of that sick look, his face was a little pale, and his eyes were also a little panicked, and after seeing Ma Hu, the panicked look was especially great. However, in Ma Hu's opinion, this person seems to be more pleasing to the eye than that Zhao Shunyi, at least when looking at people, it doesn't seem so obscene.

Jia Si was very surprised by Ma Hu's arrival, he naturally knew about this Senior Brother Ma, everyone in the mouth of black and black, but the panic was only for a short time, and then he asked about Ma Hu's intention.

Ma Hu is not good at doing things, so he directly asked about Jia Si's encounter with Senior Brother Xun outside the sect.

But Jia Si didn't answer him at first, but looked at Ma Hu with a suspicious look.

"Why don't you speak, what are you doing looking at me like this?" Ma Hu asked unhappily.

"Senior Brother Ma isn't here to kill me?" Jia Si asked.

"Kill you? This is the sect, besides, if I had the intention to kill you, I wouldn't have come over to talk to you at all, do you know anything? It's better to say it all obediently. ”

"So...... Is Senior Brother Ma investigating the cause of Senior Brother Xun's death? Jia Si asked again.

"What the hell do you know?" Ma Hu didn't answer, just looked at Jia Si and asked.

"Alas, Senior Brother Ma, how did you know that I had been with Senior Brother Xun for a few days before he died?"

"Zhao Shunyi told me."

"Sure enough, it's him, hmph, if you don't stop his mouth, he's bound to die because of it!"

"Don't sell Guanzi, Lao Tzu is impatient, hurry up and tell me everything you know!"

Later, in Jia Si's words, Ma Hu learned that this Jia Si was born in a small family surnamed Jia, and the Jia family had some in-law relationship with Senior Brother Xun's Xun family, and the two knew each other before coming to the sect. However, this Jia Si is far inferior to Senior Brother Xun in terms of cultivation qualifications, and the benefits of cultivation are naturally inferior; Second, this Jia Si is still an assertive and self-defeating temper, feeling that being sent to the sect by the family is equivalent to being abandoned, and his heart has been depressed, so his efforts in cultivation are far inferior to Senior Brother Xun. Therefore, Senior Brother Xun's cultivation talent far surpasses that of this Jia Si, and Senior Brother Xun was like this before he apprenticed.

However, Senior Brother Xun is enthusiastic, and he can't see this Jia Si messing around with a group of fox friends and dog friends, so he will persuade him when he has time, Jia Si is upset when he hears too much, and he has been avoiding this Senior Brother Xun since then.

Later, he mixed up with Zhao Shunyi, and the two often went to the sect together to do evil. These things were naturally known to Senior Brother Xun, and it is said that Senior Brother Xun was very angry, and said that if Jia Si was caught and did evil, he would definitely teach him a good lesson.

Later, Jia Si and Zhao Shunyi happened to meet Senior Brother Xun when they were doing evil outside.

For Senior Brother Xun, he didn't put that Zhao Shunyi in his eyes at all, but Jia Si can be regarded as a relative after all, if this person doesn't learn well, he will have no interest in the future, but if this person continues to do nonsense, there will definitely be no good end in the future, with such thoughts, Senior Brother Xun was very angry when he saw Jia Si blocking the road and robbing him, and took a junior brother surnamed Wei with him to take Jia Si together, as for Zhao Shunyi, that person saw the opportunity early, and escaped even faster, but it was cheaper for him.

After Jia Si was caught, Senior Brother Xun reprimanded and persuaded him, and later he was not allowed to leave, anyway, he came out to earn spirit stones, so he took him with him.

For Jia Si, there is also a little admiration for this Senior Brother Xun, as mentioned earlier, this person is an unassertive, what kind of person will naturally learn what kind of person, after some persuasion by Senior Brother Xun, his mind was loosened, and he also knew that it would be difficult for him to continue like this, so he agreed to walk with Senior Brother Xun all the way.

On the second day of their journey, when dealing with a demon beast, Jia Si was negligent for a while, in fact, it was not negligence, after all, his cultivation was still not a small gap compared to the three of Senior Brother Xun, and he was injured by the demon beast, and the injury was not serious, and it was not light, in short, he could not continue to be with Senior Brother Xun, and he had to return to the sect to heal.

And the dispatch received by Senior Brother Xun has not been completed, and they still have to continue to stay outside the sect, so they can only let Jia Si go back alone.

For this reason, Senior Brother Xun also gave Jia Si a spirit stone, telling him to recuperate his injuries after he went back, and not to have any more dealings with those bad old friends, and said that he would go to see him when he went back.

In this way, Jia Si simply applied the wound medicine and returned from the sect alone.

And a few days later, the news of Senior Brother Xun's death also reached his ears.

Jia Si's thoughts are the same as Ma Hu's, that is, Senior Brother Xun shouldn't die like that, there must be something strange about this matter!

In his opinion, Senior Brother Xun must have been killed!

However, Jia Si is also a timid person, Senior Brother Xun is a disciple of Elder Jiuxuanjin, it is said that the master and apprentice are very compatible with each other, and it should be two years at most to build a foundation, such a character will be killed, so how bold and cold-hearted should the person who started it be? Moreover, there were two other people who followed Senior Brother Xun together, one died, and the other returned to the sect without even half a life, which is said to be difficult to practice in the future.

And he, Jia Si, is also the person who followed Senior Brother Xun when he went out with him, will he be targeted?

Because of this timid worry, coupled with the fact that he was indeed injured, he kept hiding in his residence, and he didn't dare to leave the sect for half a step, and even after the injury was almost healed, Zhao Shunyi came to him and went out together again, but he refused.

Ma Hu asked, "That means you weren't there when Senior Brother Xun had an accident?" ”

Jia Si laughed miserably: "If I am also here, then where can Senior Brother Ma ask me now?" My cultivation is far worse than that of Senior Brother Xun. ”

Ma Hu asked again: "When you were by Senior Brother Xun's side, there were several people in total, I heard you say that Senior Brother Xun was two people when he arrested you, so why did there be one more later?" ”

Jia Si said: "That person's surname is Zhang, it seems to be called Zhang Jing, when Senior Brother Xun took me, it is said that the person surnamed Zhang saw an old man, so he chased him over and spoke, and only came over later." ”

Ma Hu asked: "What kind of old man is Zhang Jing chasing, have you seen it?" Can you recognize who that person is? ”

Jia Si said: "No, I was held by Senior Brother Xun, and after talking for a while, I saw that Zhang Jing flying back from afar, and I didn't know who he was chasing, but that Zhang Jing seemed to be a little unhappy when he came back, and said something 'That smiling man, in less than two years, he didn't even recognize me, it's like a different person, it's really unreasonable'." ”

Ma Hu noticed something, and immediately asked again: "Less than two years, what does Zhang Jing mean by less than two years?" ”

Jia Si said: "I didn't understand it at first, but then they chatted and I learned that this Zhang Jing was selected by their family to enter the sect, because there were some things at home, so he asked the sect to leave and returned home halfway, and then stayed in his house for less than two years. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Si stared at Ma Hu and said, "Senior Brother Ma, I can see that you probably have a good relationship with Senior Brother Xun, and after finding me and asking this, you must want to find out the real murderer behind the scenes to avenge Senior Brother Xun, right?" Not only did you come to me, but one of Senior Brother Xun's senior brothers also came to me to ask, how did I tell you what I said to Senior Brother Zhuji, I was with Senior Brother Xun, and then I was injured by the demon beast and returned to the sect, during this time, there were only four of us, and I didn't meet anyone on the road, as for what happened after I was injured and left, Senior Brother Ma, then I really don't know. Moreover, Senior Brother Ma, you don't have to be suspicious of me, if you want to kill Senior Brother Xun with my cultivation, can you believe it? ”

Hearing Jia Si's words, Ma Hu was silent for a moment, and as soon as he entered Jia Si's room, he saw that this Jia Si's cultivation was only at the intermediate level, and there was really a big difference between him and Senior Brother Xun, and it was okay to scare and scare those low-level disciples outside, but it would be too self-conscious to play any tricks in front of Senior Brother Xun, not to mention, there were two monks with high-level cultivation around Senior Brother Xun.

However, Ma Hu didn't give up, and continued to ask: "After you came back, did you find anything abnormal, such as someone who always revolves around you, thinking about the idea of beating you, is there such a person?" ”

"Senior Brother Ma, I'm worried about this, Senior Brother Xun's identity, his death will not be simple, who knows what should not be involved in people like me, if the murderer knows that I have been with Senior Brother Xun, maybe he will kill me, so since I learned the news of Senior Brother Xun's murder, I have never dared to go out of the house, and I can't even sleep with my eyes open, for fear of being killed, where do I dare to go out?"