The door of the Hall of Ethics was pushed open, and Li Yuanxiao, who was drenched in soup, walked in, released his spiritual power, and quickly steamed his soaked clothes.

Only the Seventh Elder Yu Ruijiang and the Eighth Elder Zeng Kexia were in the main hall. Seeing Li Yuanxiao, both of them stood up: "Sect Master!"

Li Yuanxiao nodded in response and said to Yu Ruijiang: "It just so happens that you are here." Yesterday, I finally found a clue about the murder of the little girl back then, and this time I have to trouble Elder Yu to go with me. Li Yuanxiao had already drawn up a rough plan on the way back. Now I don't know if Chao Zhongwei has a direct relationship with the tragedy of that year, so it is not good to go to Tianyun Sect to dignitaries in a big way. With Yu Ruijiang with him, it is enough.

Yu Ruijiang's thoughts turned, and he guessed before and after he understood that it must be Li Yuanxiao who started from the jade pendant and found out something. He nodded: "Sect Master, when are you leaving?"

Li Yuanxiao said: "This matter is sooner rather than later. Let's set off now and hurry to the Tianyun Sect. ”

Yu Ruijiang thought for a moment and asked, "Sect Master, do you want to tell Tianxiao and Tianyao about this?"

Li Yuanxiao shook his head: "It's still early. Besides, even if they were told that they couldn't do anything, it would be better to wait until the matter was over. After speaking, he turned to Zeng Kexia, "I also ask Elder Zeng to inform several elders such as Gong Chuan, Law Enforcement, and Dispatch that I will continue to handle the affairs of the sect on my behalf during my absence." ”

After the explanation, Li Yuanxiao and Yu Ruijiang went out of the palace gate together and walked into the vast rain.

......

On a small road more than 70 miles away on the outskirts of Cangzhou, two people were running on the road, only covering the rain with a canvas, and burrowed into a pavilion in embarrassment. took off the canvas, it was Xu Yinquan and Zhou Shiliang.

"This heavy rain has been raining for so many days, and it hasn't finished yet!" Zhou Shiliang looked at the gloomy sky outside and complained.

Xu Yinquan took off his already soaked clothes and wrung the water: "After coming out of Jianzhou, the two of us will be unlucky enough, a mysterious person will be a mysterious person and a rain will be poured for a while, and the toss is really choking!"

Zhou Shiliang crossed his arms, inhaled cool air and said, "Speaking of which, it's already autumn, how can it rain like this? Brother, is your velvet still there? Mine is already wet. ”

"There's velvet and there's no dry wood. Take off your outer and wring it out. Immortal cultivators are still afraid of the cold, it's really useless!" Xu Yinquan said.

"Yin Quan, Shiliang!" Zhang Bohuai's voice suddenly came from the air. He rushed all the way from Mangjingzong to Cangzhou, waited in Cangzhou for a day, and then chased to the southeast for half a day, but still did not see the two apprentices. Then Zhang Bohuai reversed and flew back to a low-altitude imperial sword in the direction of Jianzhou, and sure enough, he met the two here.

"Master!" Xu Yinquan and Zhou Shiliang shouted together.

Zhang Bohuai accepted the fairy sword and walked into the pavilion, his aura was agitated, the water droplets on his clothes fell one after another, and it seemed to be a light rain in the pavilion.

"Why are you walking so slowly? I waited for you in Cangzhou for a day, and chased in the direction of the sect for a long time, but I didn't meet you, so I just came here. Zhang Bohuai said angrily. In fact, seeing that the two apprentices were safe and sound, his heart was a little calmer, and what he was most worried about was that the two of them would be taken away by the Taiqing Sect.

Zhou Shiliang complained: "Master, you don't know, we are very unlucky, we originally planned to visit along the way a little, but it suddenly began to rain heavily that day, and we had no chance to visit the mountains and rivers at all." That's not all, but later I met a master in the late stage of the cave and scares people by pretending to be a ghost. The mountain road was waterlogged, muddy, dirty and difficult to walk, and we were pretty fast. ”

Zhang Bohuai's slightly relaxed heart immediately raised his throat again, and he hurriedly asked anxiously: "Wait a minute, what did you just say?

Zhou Shiliang was taken aback by Zhang Bohuai's reaction: "In the evening a few days ago, a master in the late stage of the cave suddenly appeared in front of us, and he brought a ghost mask for children to play with, which scared me and my senior brother a lot. At first, we thought he was going to be unfavorable to us, but then he just asked a few questions about Wen Huayupei and let us go. ”

"Oops!" Zhang Bohuai's heart sank, the master of the late stage of the cave void, the mask, the Wenhua jade pendant, thinking of the Taiqing sect master who had never returned to the sect, he panicked: "What question did he ask you?"

"Master, he didn't ask his junior brother, he only asked me alone. I first asked if Wen Hua's jade pendant was on me, and then asked about the origin of the jade pendant. I guess he stopped us because he wanted to take the jade pendant, and when he learned that the jade pendant was no longer with me, he let us go. Xu Yinquan replied.

Zhang Bohuai was angry: "You know a fart! Such a master would want to snatch a jade pendant that you don't even need?" In the late stage of the cave void, I am ...... better than the master" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, thought for a while, and asked, "By the way, how do you know that his realm is in the late stage of the cave void?

Xu Yinquan carefully recalled the situation at the time: "At first, we thought that he was going to be unfavorable to us, so we reported the name of the Poison Refining Sect, but the man sneered and said that with his realm in the late stage of the Cave Void, he was not afraid of my Poison Refining Sect at all. ”

Zhang Bohuai thought in his heart, the mysterious figure said that he was in the late stage of the Cave Void realm, and he didn't know whether it was true or false. If he was the Taiqing Sect Master, how could he only have a mere Cave Void Late Stage? If he wasn't the Taiqing Sect Master, why did he just ask Xu Yinquan about Wen Hua Yupei? Wearing a mask, it showed that he didn't want to show his true face, and only asked Xu Yinquan to show that he knew that Wen Hua Yu Pei was originally on Xu Yinquan. Who is this person? Zhang Bohuai's figure of "Wang Zimu" suddenly appeared in his mind, so he hurriedly asked: "Have you ever heard the voice of that mysterious master?" Is it someone you know?"

Xu Yinquan and Zhou Shiliang glanced at each other, shook their heads and said, "That person's voice was hoarse and low, as if he hadn't heard it." ”

Zhang Bohuai nodded and continued to think. The voice can be deliberately disguised, and what the mysterious master said cannot be trusted, in short, it is still the Taiqing sect master who is the most suspicious.

"Master, what is so precious about that piece of Wenhua jade pendant? You are in such a hurry, and an unknown master has come to ask, is there any secret on the Wenhua jade pendant?" Xu Yinquan asked puzzled.

Zhang Bohuai sighed: "I don't know the secret. It's just that on your fifteenth birthday, after your senior brother Chao gave you the jade pendant, he repeatedly told me that this jade pendant should not be left for a moment, and it must not be seen by outsiders, especially the people of the Taiqing Sect, otherwise, it may bring ruin to my Poison Refining Sect. I never expected you to trade it out so casually, if it was obtained by the people of the Taiqing Sect, then ......" He didn't say any more, what would happen if it was obtained by the people of the Taiqing Sect, he didn't know, but judging from Chao Zhongwei's serious tone, it was a big deal.

"Master, I don't know, you just told me not to leave the jade pendant back then, I thought it was to let the jade pendant play a calming role for a long time. Now I don't need to, I didn't think about it that much when I traded with Gongsun Yang. We...... Wouldn't it be so unlucky, wouldn't it be so coincidental that the jade pendant would be obtained by the people of the Taiqing Sect?" Hearing that it might bring ruin to the Poison Refining Sect, Xu Yinquan finally began to panic a little, and he had always felt that Zhang Bohuai was so nervous about a piece of jade pendant, and he made a little fuss.

"Alas, I have visited several sects, but I have not heard from Wen Hua Yupei. I came to Cangzhou to find you in a hurry because I heard that Taiqing Sect Master Li Yuanxiao has not returned to the sect since the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference, and I was worried that he would be unfavorable to you if he learned the news of the jade pendant, so I hurried here. The mysterious master you have met is most likely him. Zhang Bohuai expressed his guess.

"Master, what should we do now?" Zhou Shiliang asked anxiously.

Zhang Bohuai sighed: "That's it, that's it, if it's really him, it means that he already knows about the jade pendant, and it doesn't make much sense to pursue the whereabouts of the jade pendant, and it can't be avoided after all, but fortunately, that piece of jade pendant is what I asked Chao Zhongwei for, and it's a big deal to push the matter on him at that time." Behind him is the dignified Tianyun Sect, let them carry this matter!"

Zhang Bohuai's thoughts went back to the winter five years ago, that day when there was heavy snowfall. At that time, Chao Zhongwei brought a group of disciples of the Tianyun Sect to the Poison Refining Sect as guests, and Zhang Bohuai warmly received them. Then in the chat, Zhang Bohuai occasionally saw Chao Zhongwei playing with a milky white jade pendant, he recognized at a glance that it was a precious Wen Hua jade, which has the benefit of stabilizing the mind for novices who have just entered the path of cultivating immortals, and it coincided with the fifteenth birthday of his beloved disciple Xu Yinquan, so he asked Chao Zhongwei to ask for the jade pendant. Chao Zhongwei refused at first, but when he heard that Xu Yinquan had just completed the foundation building and entered the Qingling realm, and it was his birthday that day, he had to give away the jade pendant because of his feelings, and repeatedly told Zhang Bohuai not to let Wenhua jade pendant leave Xu Yinquan's body.

"Forget it, don't think about it, no matter how Wen Huayu Pei got it, it won't be on my head of the Poison Refining Sect anyway. Zhang Bohuai thought to himself. At that time, I asked for the jade pendant because Xu Yinquan had just built a foundation and needed such items to stabilize his mind. Listening to Chao Zhongwei's tone, Zhang Bohuai roughly guessed that Wen Huayupei's origin was not right. As for Chao Zhongwei's statement that the jade pendant might bring ruin to the Poison Refining Sect, he always had some disbelief in his heart, although there were not many people in the Poison Refining Sect, but the strength was there, and it was not easy to make trouble for the second sect of Xianglong County.

"Alright, let's leave for the sect!" Zhang Bohuai said.

"Master, it's still raining heavily, why don't you wait for the rain to stop before leaving?" Zhou Shiliang didn't want to be drenched by the heavy rain again.

When Zhang Bohuai heard the word "rain stops", he suddenly remembered that since he left Mangjingzong, it had started to rain, and it had not stopped for several days now. Moreover, the scope of this rain is extremely large, from Kanglong County to the central part of Xianglong County, it is raining, which is too strange.

Zhang Bohuai ordered: "It's been so many days, how can the heavy rain stop signing? Don't waste time here, return to the sect quickly!"

The teacher's order was difficult to disobey, Xu Yinquan and Zhou Shiliang reluctantly took up the burden, covered the waterproof canvas, and followed Zhang Bohuai into the heavy rain.

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Tianyun Sect is located in the Miyu Basin in the southeast of Xianglong County. The basin is surrounded by extremely low mounds on the west, south and north, and to the east is a rising mountain called "Longclaw Mountain", which winds its way to the majestic Wuling Mountains. At that time, Tianyun Sword Immortal Ding Ruohai was born in a small fishing village at the southwest end of Feilong County, so he liked warmth rather than cold, and liked tide rather than drought. He had always wanted to find a peaceful place in the southern part of the Qinglong Continent for his own retreat. So he set out from his hometown and traveled east along the Starwind Coast, but there was no place along the way that satisfied him. Seeing that he was about to reach the southern end of the Wuling Mountain Range in the southeast of Xianglong County, and that he was about to approach the annoying misty East China Sea further east, Ding Ruohai had almost given up his original idea. Luckily, he finally found this basin near the Wuling Mountains.

Ding Ruohai is proficient in Feng Shui, and he can see at a glance that this is a blessed place. The Wuling Mountain Range is a dragon that runs through the entire continent, and at the southern end of the southern part of Xianglong County is the dragon's head, showing the posture of plunging headlong into the Starwind Sea. The mountain area connecting the basin and the Wuling Mountains is one of the dragon's front claws, so Ding Ruohai named this mountain "Dragon Claw". And this roughly circular basin, is a pearl held in the dragon's claws, this is the auspicious feng shui treasure land, named "氤氲", one is to vividly show that the treasure here is dense; the other is because there is more water flow here, there are actually three rivers, two lakes, "氤氲" is to take the water mist hazy meaning.

All three rivers originate in Longclaw Mountain, and flow from northeast to southwest along a slightly sloping terrain, eventually emptying into the Sea of Starwind. The two lakes are located to the northwest and southeast of Longclaw Mountain, and are sandwiched between a wide flat area. According to Ding Ruohai's observation, the three rivers are the three long toes of the dragon's claw, and the two lakes of the same size are the two short toes of the hind paw. Together, it is the appearance of the "five-clawed golden dragon".

As the saying goes, "The five-clawed golden dragon is lucky." This "five claws" does not mean that the dragon has five claws, but that the dragon's claws have five toes. Therefore, Ding Ruohai imitated the alias of the five fingers of the people, and named the three rivers Zhongyan River, Changyang River, and Yusun River respectively, and the two lakes were named Fuqin Lake and Jilan Lake.

Strange to say, Fuqin Lake is warm and warm even in winter, while Jilan Lake is the opposite, cold and cold all year round. Ding Ruohai was very happy after discovering this, these two lakes turned out to be rare Yin and Yang Qi Associated Lakes, according to the theory of Feng Shui, the flat land between the Yin and Yang Two Qi Lakes is an excellent Feng Shui treasure. So, Ding Ruohai built a thatched hut on the flat land between the two lakes and devoted himself to meditation. After the end of the Great War of Immortals and Demons, Ding Ruohai founded the Tianyun Sect, which has used the Misty Basin as the foundation of the sect for generations, until now.

Among the seven major sects of the Qinglong Continent, the best water feature is the Tianyun Sect, the three rivers are all turned into snow water, and the two lakes of Fuqin and Jilan have a clear water color and a blue water color, which is very good-looking. There are many water veins in the basin, often misty, shrouded in clouds and smoke, such as yarn and feathers, dancing lightly and flying, like a fairyland on earth, Qiongtai Yuyu.

As the saying goes, people who live in an elegant place must have a gentle personality and have no quarrel with the world. However, Tianyun Sect Master Ye Shenrong was the opposite. He looks kind and gentle, but in fact he is quite narrow-minded. Especially when it comes to the interests of himself and the sect, his desire for profit far exceeds that of the other six sect masters, and can even be described as "insidious and cunning". Ye Shenrong's image is short and fat, with a big face and small eyes, and he often squints, so he has always jokingly called Ye Shenrong a "fat fox" behind the back of Yeli Sect Master Guo Yunchao.

This "fat fox" is a difficult character, his cultivation has reached the middle stage of annihilation, he has the Tianyun Sect's Zhenzong Immortal Sword - Gongbu in his hand, and his personality is ruthless and cunning, so the other six sects are not very willing to provoke the Tianyun Sect. In the past, when the relationship between the two sects of Chisun and Lengyue and Taiqing and Yeli was the worst, the Tianyun Sect had always been unhelpful, and it was boring to develop, and it once faintly surpassed the two sects of Chisun and Taiqing. Later, the Chiri Sect and the Taiqing Sect became aware of it, and gradually stopped the serious attrition. In fact, since Ye Shenrong took over as the master of the Tianyun Sect, the Tianyun Sect has developed even stronger and faster, and the status of the third largest sect in the Qinglong Continent is unshakable.

"I really don't want to deal with Ye Shenrong......" Li Yuanxiao thought to himself. Beside him, Yu Ruijiang flew side by side with him.

"I haven't seen such heavy rain in years. I really didn't expect that the range was so large, from Tiandao Mountain to the southern tip of the Qinglong Continent, it was actually raining heavily. Yu Ruijiang helped the hat that was crooked by the wind.

Li Yuanxiao retracted his thoughts: "Looking at this situation, there may be more than that. When I left the sect, I glanced to the west and north, and it was gray and I couldn't see the edge, and it was probably raining heavily in Tenglong County and Qianlong County. ”

"Heavy rain covering several counties...... Yu Ruijiang felt that this was too terrifying, how could there be such bad weather in autumn. Suddenly, he was taken aback by a thought that came to him: "Sect Master, will this heavy rain cover the entire Qinglong Continent?"

Li Yuanxiao nodded: "Very likely." This rare weather is very strange, and it has been raining heavily for several days, and if it continues like this, the people will suffer, and the crops will surely be destroyed. In addition, I am more worried that the heavy rain will cause flooding of the two major rivers Lanyue and Qinxue, so I don't know how many villages and farmland will be destroyed. ”

Yu Ruijiang frowned slightly and didn't speak again.

Flying, the two of them had already seen the hazy Dragon Claw Mountain in the distance, and the Tianyun Sect was about to arrive. On the way here, Li Yuanxiao had already told Yu Ruijiang about the clues of Wen Huayupei a few days ago. Yu Ruijiang finally understood why Li Yuanxiao would exchange the precious medium-grade immortal sword for a useless jade pendant. Seeing that the truth of the murder case was about to come out, Yu Ruijiang was also quite emotional, in the past five years, his two beloved disciples, Tianxiao and Tianyao, have always hidden unsettling wounds in their hearts, and in their rooms, they have always enshrined the spiritual seat of He Yunwan and his wife. Every year on the parents' sacrifice day, Tianxiao and Tianyao will go down the mountain to cry in front of the grave. Li Yuanxiao is far less cheerful than before, fortunately, Tianxiao and Tianyao are very competitive, and they are not depressed because of the death of their parents, and the increasingly refined speed of cultivating immortals really makes Li Yuanxiao and Yu Ruijiang very pleased.

In addition, Li Yuanxiao has been exploring the clues of the tragedy of the year for the past five years, and he has never stopped, but unfortunately he has found nothing. Unexpectedly, in an unexpected place, an unexpected person, and unexpectedly took out an unexpected jade pendant, Li Yuanxiao was able to follow the vine and gradually get close to the real murderer behind the tragedy that year.