Pei Ye carefully finished writing the last stroke, handed over the letter to [Liufeng] to send away, and then picked up Zhaoyou again, and once again entered the cold realm of decades ago.

——

Three days after the incident.

In that strange courtyard, Qu Candle sat alone under the starry cold night, his eyes glowing with a faint light in the darkness.

Qu Zhoufu gently pushed the door and entered, bringing a candle flame, Qu Candle did not look back, still leaning on the back of the chair, his eyes reflecting the night.

"Senior brother." Qu Zhoufu screamed softly, but did not get a response.

He took the fire and came to the man and sat down gently: "Master is also for your good. He told me that Hushan Jianmen has been like this for thousands of years, and you don't need any revitalization, and you don't need to put this burden on yourself, your talent is so good, whether it is from the array, from the weapon, from the knife, it is enough to stand to the top layer of Xilong. ”

Qu Zhu didn't say a word.

"Master said, my mind is steady, and my vision is not so high." In the quiet courtyard, the junior brother was silent for a while, bowed his head and said softly, "It's quite appropriate to be a business-keeping person." ”

"I think what Master said is also right. I don't like to go out, and if I want to play on weekdays, I don't want to go to Yangzhou City to be very satisfied. Unlike you, from all over the world, when you hear that there is a sword talk, you go to the foot of the Tianshan Mountain to listen, and when you learn that you are interested in singing and selling, you will go to the south with your legs, as if the entire Xilong Road is just a small city in your eyes. Qu Zhoufu continued, "If you let you go on your way to your future, it won't affect anything anyway, will it?" You still want to go out, go out, come back if you want to come back, and if there is anything to help with Hushan Jianmen in the future, I will write a letter to Ling, and then you must also be a famous and surnamed great master in Xilong."

Qu Zhoufu looked at the man who still didn't speak, and said with some hesitation: "And what do you want Hushan Sword Gate to do, you can still tell me, we can still discuss." ”

Qu Candle finally glanced at him: "Do you want to be a puppet leader?" I can do whatever I want? ”

"Well, that's not going to work." Qu Zhoufu said in a sullen voice, "Master said that the ancestors of the past dynasties taught - Hushan Sword Gate, not out of Hushan. ”

"Huh."

"This is the ancestral training, I don't think you should blame the master." Qu Zhoufu said, "He has to abide by the ancestral teachings, and he has to consider your future. There just can't be more. ”

Qu Candle still didn't speak, and fell into silence again.

After a long time, he said softly: "No, Zhou Fu, I know him." ”

Qu Zhoufu looked at him, the man's cold face turned around, and his gaze was as sharp as a sword: "Hushan Sword Gate, there must be something hidden that only the head of the sect can know." ”

“.”

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Next, Pei Ye watched what happened to Meng Li also happen here.

A simple and visible small sect suddenly cast a huge shadow behind it, and the proud genius who regarded himself as the pillar of the sect would never sit idly by and turn away.

It's just that Qu Candle's road is much more difficult than Meng Li's, and there is no cave that has been suddenly discovered to guide him, but to find some hidden secret in a place that has grown for more than 20 years, when standing at the highest end of the valley and looking down, he will only feel that he really has no way to start.

Qu Candle was groping around in such a dark night, measuring the land of lakes and mountains inch by inch, and flipping through the collection of books in the Book Pavilion, he had been fighting with a sword for nine years, and no one could doubt his determination.

Finally, in the middle of the night, an old footstep came in front of the lone candle in the library.

Qu Candle looked up, and the old man was looking at him a little tiredly.

"You haven't even practiced knives lately." The old man said softly.

"I can practice at any time." Qu Candle withdrew his gaze and continued to flip through the books in his hand.

Why does it have to be like this? The old man sighed lightly, "The Hushan Sword Gate has existed for so long, and it has its own way of surviving. Let it keep its secrets, and you and Zhou Fu can live your own lives, okay? ”

Qu Candle stopped what he was doing.

"It's really something I've only learned about lately." His face was very cold, and since that night, the anger that has risen has not subsided, "In this pavilion, there is a lonely book handed down by Han Wei. How could a sect that had existed for such an ancient time be confined to such a small place? ”

"Everything has its ups and downs."

"Oh? When did that flourish? ”

“.”

"In the eight hundred years of the rivers and lakes of Xilong Road, there is no trace of 'Hushan Jianmen'!"

“.” The old man sighed, "We are the Hidden Sect—"

"You can't be promoted to Xuanmen, can you?"

“.”

Qu Candle looked at him coldly: "Less than sixty, the body is withered and decimated, and it is crumbling. You entered the eighth life thirty years ago, why are you still stumbling before the Xuanmen. ”

“.”

"I know the symptoms now, Master." In the quiet, Qu Candle lowered his eyebrows for the first time, "True Qi is the second kind of blood of a person, if the meridian tree is always drained, it will always absorb the energy of the body to produce, day after day, if you can't make ends meet, you will have the opportunity to open the gate of heaven and earth, and now your life is still difficult to protect, how can you enter the Xuanmen." ”

"I don't know why you're wasting your life so much." Qu Candle said coldly, "But you leave such a fate to Zhou Fu. Did you even say that he was allowed to live his life well? ”

The old man was silent for a long time.

Not everyone has the same ambition as you, no obscurity. Not every darkness should be exposed. He said softly, "Don't go any further." I'm not worried about it. I'm worried about you. ”

The old man looked at him: "Master begs you, okay?" ”

Qu Candle's face was tense, and at this moment his eyes flickered sincerely, but when he looked directly at the old face again, the water light condensed into ice again.

"Nope." He said.

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Qu Candle insisted on advancing his investigation.

Pei Li watched him become more and more straightforward from the vast sea of information, he no longer searched the bookshelves in rows, nor walked around the land inch by inch, he began to look for and draw some ancient books, began to accurately go to some calculated points, and occasionally went out of the valley, always bringing back some books and magic weapons.

His eyes grew brighter and brighter, and finally, after the last complicated calculation, the man looked at the result of the perfect kickback, slowly stood up from the top of the mountain pass, and quietly looked at the ring-like valley.

"It turns out that it's a formation." He muttered.

When he put all his energy into this field of outstanding talent, Qu Candle showed a breathless talent, and there were almost no problems in front of him, and the problems he had written down the night would definitely be solved in two pages the next day.

Pei Ye couldn't understand the man's work these days, but as he advanced step by step, it was no longer bright confidence that appeared, but more and more silence.

In the silence of the night, he often stared at the scattered papers without saying a word, and stayed for half an hour.

For the first time, Pei Ye saw a faint heaviness in him, and when some steps were verified, there was even a flash of disbelief and fear in it.

But he continued to push forward, and on a clear autumn night, the man finally completed the formation he had envisioned.

Designing a Xuan array according to the purpose, like creating a sword technique in order to defeat an enemy, is an absolute act of genius, which cannot be done without the simultaneous possession of brilliant talent and profound insight of the old man, but here, the result of this genius is only a window to peek into miracles, a light bell to wake up from sleep.

Under the cold and boundless starry sky, the windless lake is like a black jade mirror, Qu Candle stands by the lake, and behind him is the high and lonely woods.

He outlined the formation pattern on the surface of the lake, Pei Ye looked at this dreamlike scene, the man slowly bowed, his fingers tapped on a cold-soaked microstar, and all the reflected starlight was involved, and it was connected by the winding thin lines.

The Starlight Array, on the entire high mountain, is also one of the most difficult peaks to climb.

In the silence of the night more than 20 years ago, only two people were lucky enough to see this beauty.

At the moment when it completed the hook, the surroundings were still silent, and Pei Ye subconsciously looked back at the motionless peak cliff in the distance, and thought that nothing had happened.

But when he looked back, he saw this scene that he would never have seen in Meng Li's life.

Inherited for thousands of years, guarding the [Buried Star Mound] hidden by the immortals. Intact and intact.

The "lake" occupies a quarter of the land in the valley, one hectare is one hundred acres, it is nine hectares large, seven or eight small boats are tied to the shore, from small to large, every summer they go boating and playing, the lake reflects half of the valley of lakes and mountains.

Now, a simple and majestic head rises silently from the surface of the lake, and the boat is like a sunflower seed in its shadow, and the stars and the moon are blocked by it, and the high forest is like a withered grass.

It was cast in bronze, and it was neither a dragon nor a dragon, and it had no eyes or ears, because the whole array was its ears and eyes, and all the shapes on this skull were cast for battle or decoration. When it looks down, it's like a python looking down at a young mouse.

In the farther distance, some huge arcs emerged from the cliffs, and the top of the mountain pass arched a spine more than ten feet high, and the dark image of the pang was an arch cast for the giants, and in the farther back, such shapes protruded from the cliffs in more than a dozen places.

The lake and mountain are indeed like a ring ring, and now a thin worm is entangled in it.

It was less than eleven years old, and after a few moments, as if to confirm the complete safety of the mound hall, it slowly submerged back into the mountain lake.

It was as if nothing had happened, only the young leader raised his head stiffly, and in the uncontrollable trembling of his body, it seemed that he had seen the first enemy in his life that made him worthy of his life.

——

The sword gate of Hushan changed in the eyes of Qu Candle, those pure nights all became cold and dangerous, in the past countless days, Qu Candle never liked to burn candles after sunset, but in the later days, many times the man who did not light the candle flame could hardly sleep.

He always dreamed that the mountain had become a fence, and that they were kept in it, and every once in a while, huge insects would poke their hideous, cold mouthparts in, and chew up one of them.

After he finally wrote a few lines of angry words to Qu Zhoufu, the master called him into the main hall.

Qu Zhoufu sat there quietly again, but this time he did not lower his head, but looked at his senior brother with a sad calm. Qu Zhoufu looked over, and the note was in the old man's hand.

"Qu Zhoufu, Master's life is prematurely senile, and the Xuanmen is blocked, just because every fifteen days, the star insects have to eat gas once! Tomorrow is Bailu, if you don't believe it, try to give him a palm, see if he has eight lives, and can catch your seven lives! ”

Turns out you already knew.

Qu Candle looked at this junior brother quietly, and at this moment suddenly realized that there were some things that could never go back to the past.

"Don't be tempted." The old man said softly, "What you found is true. ”

"You call it the chain, I call it the mission." The old man looked at him, and whispered everything to this disciple who shouldn't have known about it in the flickering candle flame, "That's it, we have guarded this immortal object for generations, and it is nothing to consume some future and life for it. ”

"That's it, no obscurity." The old man lowered his eyebrows and said tiredly, "I told you everything you need to know." ”

“.” In the silence of only the sound of fire, the man's voice was slightly hoarse, and his tone was simply ridiculous, "So just for such an unknown thing, for an unknown 'savior' to come and use it at any time, we will feed our thousands of years of life cultivation to the insects?" ”

"What kind of thing is he?! ——We are Hushan Jianmen! I'm not obscure! The man's voice was hoarse, glaring at the two people in front of him, almost pouring out all the fear and anger he had been in for days in this sentence, "Why the are other people's watchdogs?!" ”

As the old man looked up in astonishment, Qu Candle said the last sentence in a dumb voice: "This is the thing of Hushan Sword Gate. Why don't we use it ourselves?! ”

——

Qu Zhu paid for this sentence and paid thirty days of confinement.

When he came out of the dark cave, he only became more silent, and the fear seemed to have settled, and the man never stopped what he was doing.

He continued to measure its movements by various means, and after countless verifications, those trajectories were finally implemented as a ring drawn on paper.

This is also one of the results that Pei Ye can only understand.

The outermost part of the disk is divided into 24 solar terms, the inner circle is divided into 12 stars, and then the inner is the four directions of heaven and earth.

He believed that this was a unique ancient formation, and it must have come from the sect saint who left his name on the formation path thousands of years ago.

He summed up the law of this array, looking for its energy to come and go, "the mountains drink the lake, and the popularity attracts the stars"; Sorting out its circulation, "winter is not dry, summer is not full, the lake is the heart, and the forest is the vein." ”； He wrote down its most easily found tail, because it was always upturned, "swimming in the precipice, and seeing the tail in two days; The winter solstice is in Ding, and the summer solstice is in Ding. ”

Wait a minute.

Pei Ye knew what he was going to do, because in countless lonely nights, he muttered nervously and softly: "As long as it's a formation. can be disassembled. ”

(End of chapter)