The third day of February, the day of the vernal equinox.

The moon of mid-spring is divided day and night, day and night are even, and the cold and heat are flat, yin and yang are half, so it is called the spring equinox.

Last night, when the wind was calm, Chu Yuanxiao, a poor boy, quietly let go of his dragon lantern somewhere in the town where the Pengying River flowed, and watched it go down the river, enter the red maple forest in the south of the town, and disappear.

When I got up and went out this morning, I happened to meet a group of people who went east from the town, it was the Yunlin Sect Immortal Family who came from East Shijizhou, and the young man named Han Yuanfu, these three people set off from the town today to return to Shijizhou, and the Ten Realms Martial Saint Han Kui, who had asked the Fist Marquis Junchen a few days ago, was not among them, to be precise, Jiang Wusheng did not come back after he left the town that day.

Behind the three of them are the parents of the Han family's young man, Han Kui, a swarthy man, and Liu Yuqing, the female shopkeeper, these two are not leaving Yanguan Town, they will continue to live in the town, so at this moment they are actually just seeing off, but when they think of their son going to the mountains and seas, they have to follow Yunlinzong to close the mountain together, and after the town is closed, will they remember that their son went to a foreign country. So the couple's mood at this time was not very good, Gu Pansheng's charming shopkeeper Liu was teary-eyed, and the middle-aged man walking beside her also had some red circles under his eyes.

According to the original idea of the shopkeeper Liu, since half of the family bottom of the restaurant is to be hung in the Yunhai room and recorded in the name of the young man surnamed Chu, it is better to directly bet the entire food shop to the old shopkeeper Fan in the sea of clouds, take half of the assets and follow the Yunlin Sect and the two to leave the town together, and go to Shijizhou together, even if they can't enter the mountain gate of the Yunlin Sect at that time, they and the couple can also reopen the shop in the crowded place near the mountain gate to do business, so that even if they can't see their son's face, they can get closer, but for some reason, Her husband Han Kui, who has not expressed much opinion for many years, resolutely disagrees with this proposal, and her son Han Yuanfu, who is about to travel far away, also disagrees, so the atmosphere of the family of three in the next few days is not very harmonious.

The shopkeeper Liu couldn't resist the father and son, so he was reluctant to give his husband a good face, and he wanted to ignore his son, but when he thought that he was going to go far away, he was a little reluctant, and the three of them were awkward for many days, and finally they couldn't change the resolute and abnormal decision of the father and son, so they could only send their baby son away with tears in their eyes today.

It just so happened that when he was about to walk out of the town, he met the poor young man who opened the door, and the shopkeeper Liu's face became ugly and gloomy for a moment, and he didn't seem to want to even look at the young man, but instead followed the pair of father and son behind the two immortals of the Yunlin Sect who were expressionless, and they all reacted differently to Chu Yuanxiao's appearance.

The middle-aged man looked at the expressionless traveling boy standing at the gate of the courtyard, nodded at him slightly and said hello, while the young man surnamed Han, who was about to travel far away, went further, not only nodded to the peer, but also had a smile on his face, the smile was warm as if he was an old friend, without the slightest hint of insecurity and resentment, and even the slightest hint of apology.

The poor boy standing at the gate of his yard looked at the father and son, and his heart was a little touched, in fact, before this, even he felt that because of some changes, he and this family might be like the willow shopkeeper showed, resentment against each other, turning a blind eye, it is normal for old age and death not to get along, but he didn't expect this father and son to behave like this today, a little weird, and it seems to... Not very quirky either.

However, despite these changes, the two sides can't be truly harmonious, so there is no intention to talk, Chu Yuanxiao watched a group of five people go out of the east of the town, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw the sloppy man on the opposite side leaning against the door frame of the thatched house, looking at the backs of the five people who were gradually moving away, his expression was a little strange, and he seemed to be smiling.

As if sensing the young man's gaze, Hou Junchen turned his head to look at the young man, beckoned to him with a smile, and when he approached, the sloppy man said with a smile: "I didn't think it before, but now I suddenly find that this Han Kui is really a little interesting." ”

Chu Yuanxiao recalled the eye movements of the swarthy man who nodded at him when a few people passed by just now, and then the night when he was inexplicably robbed of Shui Yun, the few paragraphs that the man who had been silent at the beginning said at the end, the young man inexplicably felt that this man who had never had a sense of existence was actually more like a smart person than the shopkeeper Liu who could speak well.

Hou Junchen seemed to be able to see the young man's thoughts at a glance, and said with a smile: "The things you think of are actually small things, and the most interesting thing about him is actually to stop that Liu Yuqing and not let her sell the shop, and then the two of them left with Han Yuanfu... The real face of this person has always been different from the Han Kui you see in your eyes, and even the Han Kui you see in Liu Yuqing, he has many interesting stories, but few people know about them. ”

The meaning is referential, ambiguous.

After the previous days, the boy has long been accustomed to these guys who have the word "master" engraved on their heads, and they always say half and leave half when they speak, and only give an introduction but never say through this way of expression, seeing that this old monkey doesn't want to say more, he doesn't bother to ask, many things, there is always a time when the water comes out, look at it.

After the topic between the two of them was chatted, they both sighed for a while, and then Hou Junchen turned his head to look at the direction of the Wufang Pavilion, and reminded the young man in a low voice: "It seems that it should not be peaceful today, I estimate that it won't be long before someone will look for you, you had better prepare in advance, so as not to be caught off guard when you get it, and then scare out that a soul does not possess the six gods and no owner, so that others want to settle things and not say anything, it will not be good to have to summon you a spirit." ”

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Twenty miles west of Yanguan Town, Liangzhou City.

Recently, there have actually been a lot of people in this state city, and many of them have come directly through the city of Yanguan Town, so this Liangzhou border city, which was originally only lively, has become much more lively on the basis of the past since the New Year.

The crowd in the city was crowded, shoulder to shoulder, mostly outsiders wandering around, as if they were not coming to the town where the door was open to talk about business, and it didn't seem to be necessarily not.

In the month after the beginning of the year, whether it is the merchant storefronts that open their doors to do business, or the small traders who can only set up stalls on the streets, no matter what their ability to do business is, basically all of them have earned more copper plates and broken silver than usual.

Today, the sun is on three poles, just after the hour, the city gate has been open for a long time, the street has been very lively for a long time, in the gate of the largest and highest restaurant in the city, out of a handsome, delicately dressed young man, white skin and beautiful, difficult to distinguish between male and female.

This person is dressed in white clothes and white boots, the brocade white robe with moire trim, and there is a complete landscape pattern outlined by the same snow-white silk embroidery thread, the whole person is full of a noble and elegant, born out of nowhere, walking slowly and unhurriedly, if others observe carefully, they will be surprised to find that the length of his stride between each step is surprisingly consistent, one inch more is too long, one inch less is too short.

In addition, the man in white also carried a folding fan that had been spread out, and held it flat to cover his forehead to shield him from the sun, but there was something peculiar that the fan surface of the folding fan was pure black, without any variegated embellishments, and even the fan bones were black.

Because this person is too beautiful, and it really makes people unable to distinguish between male and female, say that he is a man, that flawless face is really beautiful, with a moth eyebrows, a clever smile, beautiful eyes, and a look forward to life, but if she is a woman, the tall and tall figure, and the protruding Adam's apple between the throat, do not look like a woman should have, so such a stunning appearance on the street, so that passers-by, whether male or female, are all as if they have been hooked away, and even he has gone far away, but he can still leave the long road of bystanders-by, The soul is given by color, and the heart is happy on the side, and it is not possible to return to the gods.

A black folding fan that acts as a parasol blocks most of the daylight, so that more than half of the handsome face of the young man in white is covered in the shadows, it seems that he has long been accustomed to this scene along the way, he just hooked a faint smile on the corner of his lips, and he didn't care about the inquiring eyes of others, and he went out from the restaurant, and slowly walked towards the tall and deep city gate under the city wall in the east of the city. It is as if in the face of such a heavenly beauty, everyone is ashamed of themselves and ashamed to see people.

At the east city gate, a group of Liangzhou border troops with knives and guns in armor and armor stood on both sides of the city gate in two columns, carefully checking the identity documents and luggage of passers-by, and only after confirming that they were correct would they let the city gate pass.

The leading captain in charge of the garrison at the east gate of Liangzhou was standing not far from the crowd of people coming and going at this time, and when he saw the young man in white from far and near, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised, but he was a soldier in the army and a cultivator, so he didn't have a gaffe like ordinary people, but he was released after the usual check.

When the man in white walked away, a centurion under the captain sneaked up and whispered curiously: "General, do you say this person is a man or a woman?" What do you think is weird? ”

The lieutenant squinted at the white-clothed figure who had gone out of the east of the city and gradually drifted away without speaking for a long time, until the centurion thought that his captain might not answer his question again, he glanced sideways at the robe of his subordinate who was also staring at the figure, and slapped him on the helmet without hesitation, which shook the helmet on the centurion's head, and then didn't care that the man was dizzy by him, and directly opened his mouth and scolded: "It's your business whether people are men or women!" When you are a soldier and eats food, you go into battle to fight, and you are so lenient after only a few days of idleness? Missed practice, huh? Do you want Lao Tzu to send you to the scout camp for a few days? ”

All the soldiers at the gate of the city originally pricked up their ears to hear what their captain had to say, but they were confronted with this roar, and they shrank their necks one by one and didn't dare to be distracted, so they hurriedly went to their own places.

They are all border soldiers who have been on the battlefield, and no one is not carrying a few lives on their bodies, and it is not much to say that they are afraid of death, but although there has been no war in the border areas in recent years, the scout camp is still not a place where ordinary people can stay, but whoever enters the scout camp, maybe it is common to go out one day and not be able to come back, and it is better not to go if you can't go.

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The young man in white, who had already walked far away, had excellent ears, and he could still clearly hear the two sentences of conversation at the city gate from a distance, but he was not angry about it, and he hooked the corners of his lips surprisingly, and he was in a good mood with a smile on his face.

Raising his eyes to look at the cliff stone that was nearly a thousand feet high twenty miles away, and the towering sword mountain farther away, he looked up at the rising sun above his head from the edge of the folding fan, and the smile on the corner of the white-clothed man's lips was even stronger, and he muttered in a low voice: "Soon, it will be dark this day!" ”

If there is no accident, the last step before he approaches the cliff rock is the moment when this round of bright sun sets on the western mountain!

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In a hurry, the wind and smoke are gone, and the sunset of Spring Mountain is getting dusk.

I don't know why, sitting under the old locust tree at the east entrance of the town and watching the sunset, I inexplicably feel that today's round of slanting sun is not like the past, as if it is covered with a layer of shadows, blocking the last ray of sunlight from the heating, making people feel cold, and there is a layer of fine and dense goosebumps crawling up the arms, which can't help but make people feel bad.

What worries him even more is that since the sloppy man first reminded him to prepare early, in the past half of the day, he almost like a marquee, and met all the immortal masters who belonged to the local and foreign visitors of the town that he had contacted before, Mr. Cui, the master of the town, the old Taoist of Beilingguan, the shopkeeper of Fan between the sea of clouds, Mr. Lu, the storyteller, Li Yuyao, the girl in white, Jiang Shenyu, the girl in red...

Some of them would come up and say a few words to him, while others would just stand at the corner and look at him a few times, not knowing if they were looking at the old bronze bell behind him or at him as a person...

Each time one of these people came, the shadow on the boy's heart increased, and when the last two girls came one after the other, and said almost the same thing to him, the sense of foreboding in the boy's heart was already like substance.

The girl in white was still dressed as a sword and saber on her back, and her face was still a little awkward when she walked in front of the young man, probably because she hadn't lost her anger yet, she didn't think that she was arranged by that Zhao family, she should blame the young man in front of her, she just felt that how long did this guy in front of her endure before he would get used to that bastard surnamed Zhao daring to have such an unscrupulous stinky problem?

Obviously he has a tiger in his heart, but he has to do that compromise, and in the end, even his friend who has just met has to accompany him to be slandered, which is the so-called anger and indisputability, but it is nothing more than that!

So see you today after many days, although the girl can probably understand some of the difficulties that belong to the teenager, but it is still inevitably awkward, and I always feel that this guy is always like a soft bun, which makes people look angry, so the tone of speech is a little hard, and only said a word and left.

"If the situation is not right, you can use that fish and dragon pendant to block the disaster, you don't have to care if it is precious or not, or there is a relationship with the side, you can save your life before you can have something to say, and it is really useful to make the best use of it, otherwise you have to keep it to give birth?"

……

The girl in red is still the same smiling expression, walking without changing the habit of jumping, from the west of the town to the far away, when she arrived near the old locust tree, she also rubbed her white and delicate chin and carefully looked at the silent old bronze bell, a pair of bright apricot eyes full of care, as if she was thinking about how to steal this bronze bell home...

In fact, the young man has always had a question that he didn't dare to ask in person, that is, why did this girl in red named Jiang Shenyu reach out to help everywhere and speak up?

He didn't feel that he had any profit on him, and he didn't feel confident enough to think that a good girl would fall in love with him without even meeting him a few times, the girl in white was because she had done two deals with him before and after, and some of her love debts were not paid off to each other, and she became friends after seeing a few more faces, but why did this girl in red have no evidence?

It's just that this sentence is not easy to ask directly, and the young man is also a little uncomfortable.

The girl Jiang Shenyu doesn't seem to care about some of the teenager's hesitation and stopping, if there is any question when he wants to ask, he will definitely ask it, if he can hold it back and not ask, it means that it is not yet the time to hold it, since he is willing to hold it, then hold it back, and it is not this girl who is uncomfortable.

"I guess they will tell you, whether to use the money in your hand to see your own choice, but I think, 'if you have a cheap don't take advantage of the bastard' the phrase is not rough, as long as you don't rob others of the opportunity, what's wrong with having a powerful master? Only when you are alive will there be a future, and even your life is gone, do you still have a chance to interject in the later stories? ”

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Soon, it was getting late, and when the last ray of daylight on the western side of the sky disappeared, the man in white who came out of Liangzhou City happened to have completed the last step of the eastward journey, and when he looked up, he could see that the cliff stone between him and the town was indeed like a roadblock squatting in the middle of the road, eyeing and choosing people to eat!

The man in white smiled playfully, first looked up at the sky above his head, and then lowered his head to look at the square stone cliff that was more than a thousand feet high, raised his eyebrows and said: "Although tonight is the day of the spring equinox, but the stars and the moon are not visible, the sun sets and there is no last light, it is a blind night that you can't see your five fingers, who else can you bite a toothless tiger?" ”

Between heaven and earth, a cold wind suddenly rose.

As if to respond to the joke of the man in white, the last ray of daylight in the sky completely disappeared, and within a radius of ten miles from the entire Yanguan Town in Liangzhou, it seemed that someone was instantly detained at the bottom of the bowl, the night was dark, and the ground was dark and dark!

At this moment, above the heads of the four elephants in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the town, a figure appeared in each of them.

Dongfang stinging dragon's back, a closed-eyed old Taoist holding a bamboo pole, suddenly stood on the top of the sword peak that has been uninhabited for nearly 10,000 years, a pair of eyes that have not been opened for hundreds of years suddenly opened at this moment, both eyes are white and black, during which there is electric light and flint, such as thunder!

Xuannu Lake in the north, a scholar in a green shirt holding a paperweight, slowly appeared above the lake overlooking the copper ring, wearing a Confucian shirt with wide robes and large sleeves, no wind automatically, and the paperweight in his hand had bursts of ink-colored light and shadow slowly blurred, shining on the entire lake with the wind, and the waves were boiling like water!

The red maple forest in the south, the red leaves in the forest do not fall all year round, but the cold and summer turn from red to green every year, and then from green to red, today's spring equinox, red and green, when the white-haired old man who holds the bladeless sword appears in the sky above the maple forest, there are countless maple leaves under his feet, without exception, the red light is flourishing, like a nirvana phoenix feather, burning the whole long night like day!

Zhenxi Jinzhu Cliff, a bald monk with his upper body covered and his abdomen exposed, and his muscles around him are as strong as a dragon, holding a string of one hundred and eight white jade Buddha beads, and a string of eighteen Buddha beads as big as a child's fist and shaped like a lion's head are hung around his neck.

The next moment when the four people appeared, the entire square Yanguan Town was divided into seven streets vertically and horizontally, like an ink-colored stroke drawn out by a large brush, dividing the entire Yanguan Town into eight hundred and sixty-four pieces inside and outside.

There are six courtyards in each small block, a total of 384 courtyards are lit up one by one, and there are two separate courtyards that are larger than the other courtyards, namely the small town township school in the northeast of the town, and the north spiritual temple in the southwest of the town, like a pair of eyes on the yin and yang fish, merging into the three hundred and eighty-four courtyards, gathering three hundred and eighty-six numbers, three hundred and eighty-six for easy counting, and deriving from all directions!

Pengying, the small river that flows out of the Xuannu Lake in the north of the town, flows through the town into the red maple forest, and flows through the town, like a dragon turning back and turning back, dividing the circle formed by the four four spirit objects in the four directions of the town, and dividing it into yin and yang fish on the east and west sides!

The outer circle is a gossip, the inner side is sixty-four, the outer circle is inside and the inside, and it is easy to count the world!

At this moment, the entire Yanguan Great Array is the first time that it has appeared in the world in its entirety since the fall of the battle 10,000 years ago, supplemented by the Eastern Green Dragon, the Northern Xuanwu, the Southern Vermilion Bird, and the Western White Tiger.

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At the east entrance of the town, the poor boy who was originally sitting under the old locust tree had already stood up at this time, looking at the golden light around him, reflecting the entire bowl upside down town for ten miles as brilliant as the sun volley, only his heart was shocked, and he couldn't add more!

The next moment, he heard a slightly dry and old voice ringing in his ears.

"Take me to the Wufang Pavilion with me, so that some people can open their eyes and take a good look at what is real..."

The voice seemed to pause at this point, and then slowly finished the last three words.

"The dragon looks up!"

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