Early in the morning on May 11.

Chang An was groggy and woke up from his sleep, and there was a violent knock on the door.

"Sir!"

It was Zhuang Sleeve Yu's voice.

He shook his head vigorously, he was so drunk with Wan Chaoyang last night that he forgot how he returned to Chu's Villa.

He staggered open the door, and Zhuang Zhiyu looked at him with a distressed expression.

"Sir, why are you up so late today?"

Chang An was still groggy and muttered

"What's wrong?"

Zhuang Zhiyu said

"Master Chu is here, he wants to see you."

When Chang An heard this, he suddenly sobered up.

"Okay, I'll be right here."

With that, he closed the door again, quickly dressed up, and prepared to go downstairs.

Downstairs, Chu Yuchao was sitting quietly in front of the door, enjoying the scenery in the courtyard.

Chang An walked down, saw Chu Yuchao, and hurriedly stepped forward apologetically

"I'm sorry, Master Chu Zhuang has been waiting for a long time."

Chu Yuchao's eyes were full of waves, and he said lightly

"The head of the Chang family doesn't have to apologize, it's because I'm early."

Chang An smiled bitterly, and when he saw that there was an empty chair next to Chu Yuchao, he knew that it was prepared for him.

is not hypocritical, and sits next to Chu Yuchao generously.

In the middle of the two of them was a square table, and above the square table, a teapot, two new teas, and three wisps of heat rose.

"This is tea brewed with the morning dew collected from the black coffin forest every day, and the master of the Chang family will taste it to see how it is different from the tea in your Central Plains."

Chang An said with a smile

"Okay, I'll try."

As he spoke, he picked up the teacup in front of him, gently blew away the tea leaves on the surface, took a sip, and suddenly, he felt the fragrance in his mouth overflowing, and the wine on his body was also swept away, and he was refreshed.

"What a refreshing tea."

Chang An exclaimed.

Chu Yuchao also picked up the teacup, but he was not as elegant as Chang An drinking tea, and he drank it all in one go, and he didn't even care about drinking the tea as well.

He seemed to notice Chang An's surprised expression and said

"The mountains and fields are rough, and they are not as particular as the head of the Chang family, so the head of the Chang family can see the jokes."

Chang An shook his head and said

"The owner of Chu Zhuang has his own tea, how to drink it, naturally the owner of Chu Zhuang has the final say."

Chu Yuchao said lightly

"The head of the Chang family is reasonable, so why is it on the territory of my Chu family, but the head of the Chang family wants to attract people at will."

Chang An was stunned, and then smiled bitterly, feeling that this is the Xingshi questioning

"I'm sorry, Master Chu, Chang is here for a purpose, as for my friend, I promise that he will not come out of the black coffin forest."

Chu Yuchao stared at the courtyard slightly.

"I don't know what the master of the Chang family is here this time?"

Chang An said solemnly

"I'm here to ask the owner how the owner plans to deal with Miss Chu's arrest on the twelfth floor."

Chu Yuchao was silent for a long time, stared at Chang An, and said slowly

"I shouldn't be in charge of this."

Chang An smiled bitterly again, meaning that I should take care of it, and then he became more and more suspicious, this Chu Zhuang owner was inevitably too concerned about Chu Guanyu's affairs.

"This tea is so refreshing, it seems to be a hangover?"

Chang An snorted and changed the subject.

Chu Yuchao glanced at him

"The people in the villa have practiced martial arts for generations, and they prefer to drink wine rather than tea, but drinking too much wine hurts the body, so the doctor in the village taught everyone to learn to make this tea, a cup a day, it can indeed relieve hangover."

Immediately, his face changed again, and he said solemnly

"When the gossip is over, it's time to get down to business."

Chang An's face also became solemn

"Listen up."

Chu Yuchao's eyes drifted into the distance and said slowly

"For as long as I can remember, my Chu family has been living in seclusion here, rarely contacting the outside world, and the reason for this is because my Chu family has guarded a secret for generations."

Chang An asked

"What's the secret?"

Chu Yuchao said

"Penglai."

Chang An was shocked, he unconsciously touched his chest, the half of the silk book that Yan Sihai gave him was the map of Penglai.

"Is there really a Penglai Divine Realm in this world?"

Chu Yuchao looked at him

"A while ago, the case of the disappearance of the boy that Miss Chang Sheng solved in the imperial capital has already spread all over the world, and it is not a secret that Mobei stepped on the Queqiao, the head of the Chang family will not tell me now that you don't know these things, right?"

Chang An sneered, of course he knew this, but when he personally confirmed Penglai's existence, he would still be shocked.

"Could it be that the Chu family has a relationship with Penglai?"

Chang An asked.

Chu Yuchao said

"To be honest, I don't know this, it's just that since I ascended to the position of head of the family, the patriarch of the Chu family has been telling me to guard one thing."

"What's that?"

Chang An asked.

Chu Yuchao's face suddenly became weird, and he silently pointed to the sky.

Chang An was stunned

"Starry sky?"

Seeing Chu Yuchao nodding solemnly at him, it didn't seem like he was lying to him, Chang An really didn't know what to say, why did the ancestors of the Chu family speak so out of tune.

Chu Yuchao explained

"Although I don't know what it means to protect the starry sky, my ancestor left a sentence, the burly ladle is extremely prosperous, and the road back to his hometown is followed."

"Then what happened to the Chu family?"

Chang An asked.

Chu Yuchao drank another cup of tea

"Three years ago, when the master of the Chang family fought a decisive battle with the sword god, the old scholar in the village looked at the sky and found that the Big Dipper was extremely bright, and for some reason, it seemed to be responding to something, which caused the old scholar to be uneasy, he thought that the road to his hometown that the ancestor said had been illuminated, and the person who returned to his hometown that the ancestor said was probably about to return."

Chang An frowned, this was very similar to what Yan Sihai said in the letter.

"The one who has returned to his homeland, but the one who has returned to his homeland has not been heard from so far, and seems to be lost in the darkness, how can he find his way back."

Chu Yuchao shook his head slightly

"I don't know, three years ago, the Big Dipper was extremely prosperous, and my clan was shaken, and I couldn't find why the Big Dipper mutated, so I had to go out of the mountain to form an alliance with the outside world to fight against all the unknowable in the future."

"Originally, two years have passed, nothing has happened, everyone thought that all this might be just a coincidence, gradually, they all forgot about it, and Zhuangnai returned to the usual appearance."

Chang An frowned slightly

"A year ago, the Gu family's tragedy was wiped out, is it related to this?"

Chu Yuchao looked at Chang An appreciatively

"The master of the Chang family guessed well, the second change was in the Gu family extermination case a year ago, after I went out of the mountain three years ago, I made a lot of friends with the heroes of the rivers and lakes, among them, and Gu Wangye was even more familiar at first sight, at that time Gu Wangye had been canonized as the quasi-emperor, and he was the future human emperor, and at that time I was worried about the things prophesied by the ancestors, and after intersecting with Gu Wangye, I thought, if I can join forces with the emperor, perhaps, it will be easier to find the reason for the sudden change in the stars."

"So, I gave the half of the Penglai silk book left by the ancestors to Gu Wangye, I don't want to, this half of the silk book has caused Gu Wangye to kill him, causing Gu Wangye to be destroyed, I learned that Gu Wangye died, so I rushed to the north overnight, who knows that it was still a step late, and when I arrived, the Gu family was already ......"

Chu Yuchao's eyes were full of melancholy, and he said with self-reproach

"If I hadn't given that half of the silk book at the beginning, or maybe Gu Wangye's family would still be alive and well."

At this time, Chang An was shocked, he touched the half of the silk book on his chest, and his face changed greatly

"The twelfth floor has worked so hard, and I don't hesitate to destroy the Gu family, but the thing I have to find is half a Penglai map? The so-called secret treasure escorted by Qu Fengzhi is the Penglai map that was lost back then? ”

"But wasn't Natu taken to the imperial capital by Gu Jingshi? How could it appear on Gu Yuanwu's body? ”

Chu Yuchao nodded

"It should be that Penglai Diagram, but why that Penglai Diagram is on Gu Yuanwu's body, I don't know."

Chang An's eyes froze

"No, the killer on the twelfth floor assassinated Gu Wangye in the capital, but he still went to the north to destroy the Gu family, it stands to reason that they should have got the half of Penglai Map in the hands of Gu Wangye, so why did they go to the north, unless, Gu Wangye didn't take Penglai Map to the imperial capital at all."

"He knew it was a conspiracy from the beginning!"

Chang An suddenly shouted.

Chu Yuchao said lightly

"But he still went to the imperial capital."

Chang An looked sad and said in a low voice

"Therefore, Gu Yuanwu was able to escape with Penglaitu, and from the beginning, he planned to protect Penglaitu with his family's life."

Thinking of this, Chang An couldn't help but secretly admire, this king of the northern realm is really a generation of heroes, even if he dies, he must keep his promise to his friends and protect the treasures of the world.

"Master Chu, I have one more question for you."

Chang An said suddenly.

"Excuse me."

"Fu Rushui's assassination of Qu Fengzhi, are you also involved?"

Chu Yuchao was silent for a long time, looked at Chang An's eyes, and nodded

"The master of the Chang family is really smart, why can he think of me."

Chang An said

"Because the Chu family's door-to-door courtship is too strange, I even thought at first that it was the Chu family and the twelfth floor who joined forces to calculate me."

Chu Yuchao said

"Naturally, it can't be."

"Shot the rope in front of the city gate that night, but the head of the Chu family did it?"

Chang An asked again.

Chu Yuchao shook his head

"Why should I do such a thing that causes strife in the rivers and lakes?"

Chang An nodded slightly, indeed, doing this kind of thing doesn't make any sense to Chu Yuchao.

Chu Yuchao added a little tea to Chang An and said

"If the master of the Chang family is fine, you can stay here for a while, there is still a period of time before the March appointment on the twelfth floor, just ask the master of the Chang family to save the little girl."

Chang An nodded solemnly

"Chang will definitely bring Miss Chu back to the villa unscathed."

Chu Yuchao stood up and slowly walked out of the courtyard.

In the dead of night, there was peace in Chu's Villa.

Chang An's figure once again appeared at the height of the villa, he kept jumping, as if he was in a no-man's land in the villa, although the masters in the Chu villa were like clouds, Chang An's current skills could easily avoid the eyes and ears of all the sentinels.

But tonight, instead of going to the Black Coffin Forest, he went the opposite way and came to the back of the villa.

Behind the villa is a stone wall more than ten zhang high, Chang An's face is calm, he gently steps on the wall, and constantly jumps up along the stone wall of the vertical ground, the almost unclimbable stone wall seems to him to be walking on the ground.

In just a few breaths, he jumped onto the stone wall, but as soon as he jumped onto the stone wall, his face was slightly distorted by a strong wind blowing by.

Chang An looked at it, but saw that there was an unfathomable cliff in front of him.

The wind howled incessantly, and the unfathomable cliff was like the bloody jaws of an ancient beast, as if it was about to swallow him up at any moment.

Chang An frowned slightly, staring at the deep cliff, he always felt that the Chu Clan Villa would have some deep meaning when it was built on the edge of this cliff.

And the evil name of the Black Coffin Forest also made him feel uneasy.

At this moment, a flying knife pierced the night sky and struck from Chang An's back.

Chang An's ears trembled slightly, his eyes became cold, he jumped high, easily dodged the flying knife, and then landed steadily on the stone wall.

Then, with a slight tip of his toes moving forward, the whole person jumped backwards and landed firmly on the ground.

He slowly turned around and looked at the three men in black standing behind him with fierce eyes.

"You're on the twelfth floor? I actually chased it here. ”

Chang An said lightly.

The three of them seemed reluctant to talk to him, one of them held a spear in his hand and stabbed straight towards Chang An, Chang An smiled coldly, turned sideways slightly, and easily dodged the shot.

"Bang!"

The spear pierced into the stone wall, three thirds into the wall, and raised a faint lime.

Chang An's fingers lightly hit the body of the spear, but he saw that the person was shocked as if he had been electrocuted, and then let go of the spear as soon as his hands were released.

Chang An struck a blow, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Kuofu? Which landlord are you? ”

The man snorted coldly and still didn't speak, but at this moment, another person attacked.

I saw that the man was holding a short blade in his hand, stabbing straight at Chang An's door, and on the other side, there was one person left, holding a launcher in his hand, Chang An looked at it intently, but it was the launcher used by Chu Muhe when he was in Liangzhou that day.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" ……

Several thin needles of dark iron shot towards Chang An, and on the other side, the black-clothed man with a short blade had also come to Chang An.

said that it was too late, but he saw that Chang An's face was calm, and the wall of internal strength slowly stretched out, and he rushed directly towards the black-clothed man with a short blade.

But the speed of the Xuantie fine needle was extremely fast, and it reached Chang An's eyes first, and the long sword in Chang An's hand stabbed out violently, and the sword shadow Qingkui bloomed again in the dark night.

"Bell!" "Bell!" "Bell!" ……

There were several sounds of metal clashing, and all those dark iron needles fell to the ground, and on the other side, the black-clothed man with a short blade had an evil smile on his face, and had already stabbed in front of his face, but he saw that the black-clothed man ignored the protective qi wall outside Chang'an's body and stabbed straight down.

Chang An secretly said that it was not good, he looked at the short blade in the man's hand that actually exuded a dark light, and the short blade turned out to be made of dark iron, just when the short blade pierced the wall of Chang An's internal strength, Chang An quickly retreated, and narrowly dodged the fatal blow.

But the battle was far from over, on the other side, the man in black with a spear came to his back at some point, and had already drawn his spear and stabbed him in the back with a spear.

Chang An was flying back at this time, there was no way to avoid it, he was in a hurry, and the sword of the sword god in his hand flew behind him, hitting the face of the man in black with the gun, the man in black was shocked, and quickly put away the gun to avoid the sword.

"Bang!"

Chang An plunged his sword straight into the stone wall behind him, kicking up heavy dust.

Chang An showed a cold smile on his face, and saw that his figure stopped steadily in front of the stone wall, his right hand stretched back slightly, holding the sword of the sword god, and then, his feet just landed, but he put his right foot on the stone wall.

"Smack!"

His right hand and right foot were exerted at the same time, and the sword of the sword god pulled out of the wall, and then, with the reaction force of the stone wall with his right foot, the whole person shot out at once.

He already has unparalleled light skills in the world, and at this moment, he has borrowed the power of the stone wall to push back, and the speed is even more difficult to kick.

"Gollum!"

The sword rose and fell, and in the blink of an eye, the man in black with a short blade had already been beheaded.

"What people!"

At this time, the sentry post in the manor had already noticed the sound of someone fighting, and quickly dared to come here.

Seeing this, the two of them looked gloomy, quickly took out two hook locks, hooked the stone wall, climbed the stone wall with the hook lock, and then, under Chang An's gaze, they actually jumped off the high stone wall and fell under the cliff!

Chang An didn't stop them, just looked coldly at the falling backs of the two and muttered to himself

"What the hell are you guys up to?"