The next day, at noon.

There are several waves of heroes not far from Qingcheng Mountain who have arrived at Shangqing Palace in advance, and after worshipping in front of the spirit, they were arranged by Wei Qingshu, the elder brother of Qingcheng Sixiu, to live in a room near Xiaoding.

Xiaoding and they live in the East Chamber, and Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu live in the West Chamber, but at this time there are already some nuns from the Emei faction.

When Xiao Ding walked out of the door, he already saw some more martial arts people in the courtyard, but fortunately, he didn't know any of them, so he didn't need to greet them.

He slept dizzily and prepared to go to the pavilion last night to sit and blow the cold wind.

When he was about to arrive at the pavilion, he had already seen Zhou Ziheng sitting in the pavilion from a distance, spitting smoke leisurely from his mouth.

There was also a person sitting opposite Zhou Ziheng, a Taoist in Tsing Yi.

Liu Changfeng, Changfeng swordsman Liu Changfeng.

Xiao Ding never imagined that he would meet Liu Changfeng here, it seems that Xiao Yezi didn't know that Liu Changfeng had arrived, and he knew that he had just called her over.

"Liu Daxia, what kind of wind blew you here, don't come here unharmed!" Before the little Ding people arrived, the sound came first.

Liu Changfeng didn't look back, and said with a smile: "TOEFL, there is a young man of Laoding who cares." “

As he spoke, Xiao Ding's people had already walked into the pavilion and sat down.

Xiao Ding picked up a cup of tea, drank it all, and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect it to be you." “

Liu Changfeng's expression was a little gloomy: "Wudang and Qingcheng are not far away, and Zai and Zhao are also friends outside the party, so they should come to see him off for the last time." “

Xiao Ding suddenly understood that this was the case.

The Wudang faction and the Qingcheng faction are both cultivators, and Zao Wou-Ki and Liu Changfeng are also masters of using swords, so they are naturally indispensable in normal times, no wonder when he saw Zao Wou-ki's corpse, Liu Changfeng's expression was a little miserable.

"Uncle Feng! It's really you. Ye Rongqiu had already rushed over, so excited that he couldn't speak.

"Well, it's me, are you okay?" Liu Changfeng's voice was also a little excited.

"I'm fine, no, not good, you didn't say goodbye that day, but you saddened people to death." Ye Rongqiu showed her daughter's appearance at this time.

It's no wonder that when she was only eight or nine years old, Liu Changfeng was always by her side, although Liu Changfeng usually didn't smile, but in Ye Rongqiu's heart, his feelings for Liu Changfeng were better than relatives.

"Phew!" A coquettish anger broke the warmth of the reunion.

A figure swooped into the pavilion, snatched the tea from Xiao Ding's hand, raised her neck, drank it all in one gulp, she glared at Xiao Ding and said angrily: "Are you still in the mood to drink tea here?" ”

Xiao Ding pinched his brows helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Miss Tang, what kind of madness are you doing?" ”

Tang Qingqing shouted: "Crazy, you actually said that I was crazy, hum, I'm not crazy, but the Qingcheng faction is going crazy." ”

Xiao Ding smiled: "Why are they going crazy? Are they like you, jumping up and down all day long, doing nothing and going crazy? ”

Tang Qingqing sneered: "Not only jumping up and down, those Taoist priests of the Qingcheng faction are about to explode." ”

Xiao Ding frowned and asked, "Oh, you should talk about it." ”

Tang Qingqing blinked and said with a smile: "The more you want to know, I won't tell you, who told you to murder me just now, hum." ”

Xiao Ding sighed deliberately and said slowly: "Okay, since you don't say it, I have to stop asking, anyway, I don't want to know, I'm sleeping dizzy, it's not bad to drink tea here." ”

After speaking, he didn't pay attention to Tang Qingqing, poured another cup of tea in his hand, blew it gently, and tasted it leisurely.

Tang Qingqing also poured himself a cup of tea angrily, drank it all, turned to look into the distance, and ignored Xiao Ding.

The tea in winter is cold quickly, and she is not afraid of being burned.

She calculated that Xiao Ding would definitely not be able to hold back first, and she asked Xiao Ding to beg her to speak.

It's a pity that Xiao Ding seems to have forgotten about it, and no one mentioned it at all, but there was no match and Zhou Ziheng chatting with them.

Everyone seemed uninterested in what she had just said.

Tang Qingqing almost cried angrily, but after thinking about it, you obviously want to bet with me to see who can calm down, okay, I'll let you see, my Miss Tang is not easy to mess with.

"I heard that Qingcheng Sixiu's uncle is missing, it is the old man named Yue Wuhua who is a bull-nosed old man, at this time he should have been in the affairs of the abbot in the palace, who knew that he would not be seen for a day." Tang Qingqing said slowly and leisurely, talking to herself.

Xiao Ding poured another cup of tea and didn't say a word, he knew in his heart that if he asked now, Tang Qingqing would stop and not say anything.

Sure enough, seeing that no one answered, Tang Qingqing continued: "Others thought that he might be overworked and oversleeped, but the person who went to call him to eat at lunch time found that he was not in the room, which is really strange." ”

This thing is indeed a little strange, the Shangqing Palace is doing Dharma affairs, he has to preside over all important affairs, and also receive visiting guests, at this time Yue Wuhua will never go out for no reason.

No one dared to take Tang Qingqing's words, everyone knew this Miss Tang's temper, she had been annoyed by Xiao Ding just now, if they showed that the more they wanted to know at this moment, the more she would not say it.

"How could a good person think of jumping off a cliff to commit suicide, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out." Tang Qingqing deliberately shook his head and sighed.

Jumping off a cliff and committing suicide?

Xiao Ding really couldn't help it.

He smiled: "You won, I apologize to you, Miss Tang, I shouldn't have murdered you just now, please make things clear quickly." ”

Tang Qingqing turned her head and glared at him, winked and smiled, "What do you call me?" When did your memory become so bad, do you want me to remind me? ”

Xiao Ding had a smile on his face, and whispered flatteringly: "Okay, Qingqing, okay, you quickly explain this matter, this matter is not a joke." ”

Tang Qingqing knew that she couldn't joke about this anymore, and Ye Rongqiu also knew it, otherwise she would have left in a bad mood, and the way Xiao Ding and Tang Qingqing flirted in front of her just now really made her angry.

Tang Qingqing said: "I just heard from a few nuns in the courtyard of the West Chamber, the Taoist priest of the Qingcheng faction has been looking for a few hours and still hasn't found Yue Wuhua, I also felt curious, so I went to find a little Taoist priest to inquire, he said that the people arranged by Qingcheng Sixiu found a scabbard on a cliff in Peng Zufeng, and the scabbard was Yue Wuhua's. ”

Xiao Ding got up and said, "You go to the main hall first, and I'll come when I go." ”

After speaking, he unfolded his body, and disappeared as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

Tang Qingqing was so angry that she stomped her feet, stinky Xiaoding, and left others to run alone, but she couldn't help it, although the trauma on her chest was almost recovered now, but if she wanted to chase Xiaoding, she still couldn't do it, that kid's light skills were not something that ordinary people could catch up.

Xiao Ding tossed and turned several cliffs, and finally stopped on a peak wall near the top of the mountain, although it is a cliff, but the terrain on the cliff is flat, there are no weeds and trees on the ground, it seems that people often meditate and practice swords here.

I faintly heard a voice coming from under the cliff, presumably someone had gone down to search for Yue Wuhua, and the place where Yue Wuhua's scabbard was found should be here.

Xiao Ding carefully checked the ground and confirmed that there were no traces of a fight, and there were some dry and hard footprints on the ground, which were obviously left by people who came up to the mountain to practice on weekdays, but there was a group of footprints that were very strange.

That group of footprints was deeper than other places, and the footprints walked towards the cliff step by step, Xiao Ding reached out and took a small handful of soil from the footprints, and pinched it with his fingers.

He pondered, could it be that Yue Wuhua jumped from here, and what heavy objects were still on his back? Otherwise, how could he have stepped on such deep footprints.

He poked his head over the cliff and looked into the abyss, where the naked eye saw a green patch and a heavy forest at the bottom of the cliff.

Shangqing Palace, outside the main hall.

The Taoist priests of the Qingcheng faction all showed grief and indignation.

Yue Wuhua had been found, and of course what he found was only a corpse.

To be precise, this is no longer a corpse.

Yue Wuhua fell from a high altitude, the clothes on his body had been torn by branches and rocks, ragged, up and down his body, there was no complete skin, his limbs were broken and twisted, his internal organs were damaged, and he was unrecognizable.

The corpse was placed on a white cloth, and the scene was extremely tragic.

Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and twisted their heads to the side.

Qingcheng Sixiu knelt on the ground, his eyes red.

At such a sad moment, Xiao Ding was unmoved, he walked step by step to the corpse on the ground, leaned down, and squatted on the ground.

He straightened Yue Wuhua's head, and sure enough, he found that there was a wound on his throat.

A sword wound, a sword through the throat.

This is the second person to die under this kind of swordsmanship.

Both of them are quite prestigious people in the martial arts, and both of them are from the Qingcheng faction.

Zhou Ziheng sighed: "Another sword pierced the throat, who is this person?" ”

Liu Changfeng said coldly: "No matter who it is, I only know that there are not many people in the rivers and lakes who have this kind of swordsmanship. ”

Xiao Ding said lightly: "You are wrong, there are many people with this kind of swordsmanship." ”

Liu Changfeng frowned and said, "Am I wrong again?" ”

Xiao Ding chuckled, looked at Liu Changfeng and said, "Yes, you guessed wrong again." “

"Oh? Tell me what I was wrong with. Liu Changfeng said calmly, he was not as excited as he was when he was in Shaolin Temple this time.

Xiao Ding stood up, wiped his hands, and said, "Because Daoist Yue also died at the hands of an acquaintance!" “

"How so?" Liu Changfeng asked.

Everyone looked at Xiao Ding, and Liu Changfeng's question was exactly what they wanted to ask.

Xiao Ding paced a few steps lightly and said solemnly: "The martial arts of Master Zhao and Daoist Yue should be between the best, but this time, Daoist Yue pulled out his sword. Judging from the scabbard found at the scene, Daoist Yue should have been very angry at that time, and after he pulled out the sword, he threw the scabbard on the ground, which was a sign of murderous intent and preparing to fight to the death, rather than competing with others. “

Liu Changfeng was puzzled: "What does this mean?" “

Xiao Ding said indifferently: "Just because I have been to the cliff of the back mountain, that is, the place where Yue Daochang fell off the cliff, there is no trace of a fight at the scene, it can be seen that when Yue Daochang pulled his sword, the murderer did not fight with him, but used some method to stabilize him, so that Yue Daochang felt that he was not in danger, and then he took a surprise shot and pierced his throat with a sword." “

Liu Changfeng said: "There are no traces of a fight at the scene, doesn't it mean that the murderer shot extremely quickly, and Daoist Yue didn't have time to react at all?" “

Xiao Ding looked at him and said: "Do you remember Master Zhao, he was the first person to chase him out, he also had a sword in his hand, but he didn't pull it out, but Yue Daochang's sword was set out, which proves that the murderer didn't dare to formally fight with them." Maybe he chose to surprise the sneak attack just because he didn't want to alarm others, and it didn't mean that his swordsmanship was not high. But when others are not on guard, the tip of the sword enters the throat for three points, and the sword qi seals the throat, I believe that there are many people who can do this. “

Liu Changfeng said coldly: "It's a pity that all this is just your guess. “

Xiao Ding smiled and said, "I also hope that all this is just speculation." “

On Qingcheng Mountain, the wind is roaring, and the grass and trees are soldiers.

Everyone has felt that in the darkness, there is a lot of murder.