() After Simon roared, he slowly paced to the table of the Eight Immortals in the hall and sat down, thoughtful.

Everyone looked at him in silence.

"Boy, I advise you to be honest, how did that blue yuan stone come from?" Ximenluo didn't believe Xiao Tianhe's nonsense of "demon fish swallowing stones" at all.

"It was really found in the belly of a fish. Xiao Tianhe had a hard mouth.

Ximen Luo laughed dryly: "There are other demon fish corpses in Ximen Mansion. Don't you have a big appetite and love to eat fish? I'll see if you can eat a demon fish that is a foot long when you see it!"

Since more than 20 years ago, a master of the Ximen family killed a demon fish in the Xiping Sea and found the blue yuan stone from its belly, the Ximen family laid a net in the Xiping sea area, and sent people to patrol day and night, in order to "wait for the rabbit", expecting another demon fish that swallowed the blue yuan stone to crash into the net. So far, the demon fish has caught a few of them, but no blue yuan stone has been found in the belly of the fish. As for the corpse of the demon fish, it had already decomposed, and Ximen Luo said that purely to scare Xiao Tianhe.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Tianhe didn't eat this, he calmly defended: "I didn't say that I ate the demon fish in one meal, I ate it for several days before I got rid of it." ”

"Hmph, the stinky boy has a hard mouth!" Ximen Luojian couldn't ask anything from Xiao Tianhe's mouth, and turned to Nangong Ting, "Which part of the Nangong family are you?"

"Guixi Department, Nanjiang Department. Nangong Ting replied honestly.

"Hmm...... Nanjiang Department, I also have some friendship with your department master Nangong Tong. Forget it, seeing that you didn't bring a blade and didn't do anything out of the ordinary today, I'll stop for the time being. If you want to visit your old friends, wait for the magic treasure conference to end, and come in through the gate with dignity, and I won't be able to spare you if you climb over the wall again. Let's go!" Simon waved his sleeves and opened the hall door with a wave of air.

Nangong Ting was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed deeply to Ximenluo: "Thank you seniors for your magnanimity, the juniors will definitely not do it again." Then, he didn't forget to say to Ximen Jin: "Jin'er, I'll come to see you after the first round of the Demon Treasure Conference is over." Brother Xiao, let's go!"

"Wait!" Simon shouted, "I only said to let you go, but I didn't promise to let him go!"

Nangong Ting was anxious: "Senior, he is also a member of my Nangong family, why don't you let it go?"

"He got a blue yuan stone from the sea area of my Simon family, of course I have to investigate it clearly! Now the matter of the Demon Treasure Conference is even more urgent, everything will wait until the conference is over! You all stand down!" Ximen Luo waved his hand impatiently.

Nangong Ting still wanted to argue, but was dragged by Ximen Jin from behind and forcibly pulled out of the hall door.

"It's really unreasonable!" Nangong Ting complained angrily on the way to the West Gate.

"You, what a fool! Ximen Yuan is such an important place, how can you be allowed to trespass at will? It's a shame that you are still a cultivator!" Ximen Jin counted Nangong Ting.

Nangong Ting suddenly realized: "You mean there is a magic circle here, no wonder Ximen Luo discovered us so easily." But why didn't I feel the existence of the circle at all?"

Ximen Jin pouted: "That's because you still can't cultivate at home!"

"Nangong Ting, for Sister Jin's sake today, I won't embarrass you. But you listen well, Nangong Xue and I are incompatible, and you will not come to disturb Sister Jin again in the future!" Ximen Jue warned coldly.

Nangong Ting scoffed at Ximen Jue's words and said disdainfully: "Don't think that this can cut off the relationship between me and Jin'er." I don't care if there is a misunderstanding or a grudge between you and my sister, that's a matter for the two of you. Imposing your emotions on others, I guess there are few unreasonable sisters like you in the world, right?"

"You!" Ximen Jue, who was annoyed and angry, was stopped by Ximen Jin.

Ximen Jin sneered at Nangong Ting: "What are you still doing here? Let's go back quickly and figure out how to save your friend!"

Nangong Ting patted his head: "Yes, this is the most important thing, Jin'er, we will talk about the love of children later." With that, he rushed to the west gate with a gust of wind.

Looking at his back, Ximen Jin smiled sweetly.

Unexpectedly, Nangong Ting ran out a few steps and suddenly turned back, and said to Ximen Jue: "It stands to reason that I should call you 'eldest sister' like Jin'er, but what you are doing now is not worthy of that title at all." Ximen Jue, let me ask you one last sentence, if your elders didn't allow you to get close to Qiao Suhuai, would you give up that feeling?"

Ximen Jue's body was shocked and he stood on the spot. Qiao Suhuai is the person who once haunted her. Yes, put yourself in your shoes, if it were yourself, would you give up easily?

Qiao Suhuai's kind smile and gentle demeanor all appeared in Ximen Jue's mind. When he heard that he was executed by the Nangong family, Ximen Jue's liver and intestines were broken and he was in pain, although Qiao Suhuai never accepted her feelings, but Ximen Jue always loved him without regrets.

"Sister......" Ximen Jin gently shook Ximen Jue's arm.

Ximen Jue came back to his senses, and his eyes were already full of tears. Turning his head to look at Ximen Jin, he muttered, "Sister Jin, do you resent your sister?"

Ximen Jin was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

Ximen Jue let out a long sigh and said no more.

The three of them were silent all the way back to their lodgings.

......

At this time, Nangong Xue was meditating in her room in Wanghu Pavilion, and seeing that Nangong Ting and Xiao Tianhe had not returned for a long time, she was a little uneasy.

Suddenly, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor, and someone rushed in with a slam push on the door, and when he looked closely, it was Nangong Ting, but there was no trace of Xiao Tianhe behind him, and suddenly, Nangong Xue had a bad feeling in his heart.

"Sister, something is wrong, Brother Xiao was arrested by Ximenluo!" Nangong Ting recounted the story like this.

"What, Brother Xiao even has a Blue Yuan Stone?" Nangong Xue was taken aback.

"Probably also

It's his mother's relic, right? Now Ximen Luo has to force him to tell him the source of the Lan Yuan Stone and detain him in Ximen Yuan. What should I do?" Nangong Ting was anxious.

"I don't blame you yet, what a bad idea you came up with!" Nangong Xue didn't know what to do for a while.

Nangong Ting said with annoyance: "I really blame me, but now is not the time to be held responsible, first think about who can rescue Brother Xiao!"

"Didn't Ximen Luo say that he had a friendship with Grandpa Tong? You and I immediately went back to Nangong Mansion to find Daddy and Grandpa, and asked them to ask Grandpa Tong for help!" At the moment, we can only hope for the relationship between the elders of the family.

The two of them didn't even have time to pack their luggage, so they rushed downstairs with the magic knife on their backs. went down to the second floor, but met three people going upstairs.

The man at the head has long hair hanging down his shoulders, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a plain face and lips, and an elegant atmosphere. The two behind him are Nangong Xi and Nangong Hui.

"Sister Xue, Brother Ting, where are you going in such a hurry?" the man asked. His voice is neither thick nor thin, his pitch is neither high nor low, his speed of speech is neither slow nor hurried, his tone is neither light nor heavy, leisurely as snow, and smooth as the wind, as elegant as his appearance.

"Brother Wei, we have a friend who is trapped in Ximen Yuan, and now he is about to go back and beg Grandpa Tong to come forward and ask for someone!" Nangong Xue replied.

"Is that the foreign slave? Tsk, I must have done something unseemly, I guess I was caught by harassing Ximen's wife late at night, right?" Nangong Hui gloated.

"Brother Hui!" Nangong Xi on the side frowned and scolded, and then asked Nangong Xue, "Is that Xiao Tianhe?"

Nangong Xue nodded.

"Brother Xi, it's the person you said about in the early stage of the cave. Nangong Wei said unhurriedly, "Then I'll go with you, it's easier to talk with me." ”

Nangong Xue's eyes lit up, waiting for Nangong Wei's words, because Nangong Tong was Nangong Wei's grandfather.

"Without further ado, let's go!" Nangong Ting, who was in a hurry, grabbed Nangong Wei's sleeve and ran downstairs.

Seeing the backs of the three of them disappear into the night, Nangong Xi turned around and reprimanded Nangong Hui: "What nonsense are you talking about in front of Brother Wei? If you have the ability, you can defeat others with your strength at the Demon Treasure Conference, don't just play tricks! It's not ashamed!"

"But the Ximen family won't detain our Nangong family for no reason? Nangong Hui said.

Nangong Xi knocked on Nangong Hui's brain: "It's really a person with questionable character, how could Xue Mei and Brother Ting invite him to join? After a pause, he added: "The contestants of the Simon family in this year's Demon Treasure Conference are also old faces, and there is nothing worth seeing. I'm going back to Nangong Mansion tomorrow, are you going to come with me or stay?"

"I haven't had enough of it, and I'd like to stay a few more days. Didn't Sister Qiu and Sister Yan leave either?" Nangong Hui said.

"Whatever you want. Nangong Xi went upstairs with an expressionless face.

......

Ximen Luo tied Xiao Tianhe with heavenly silk and imprisoned him, and after going to the other three overseer elders to explain, he hurriedly left Ximen Yuan, and then went directly south out of the city, and the sword rose into the air, and flew towards the southeast at a rapid pace.

Ever since he heard Ximen Jue mention Lan Yuanshi, Ximen Luo endured the excitement in his heart and started his wishful thinking.

Although he is the owner of the Zhenyue Demon Knife, Ximenluo's root bone qualification is not high. Half of the reason why I was able to cultivate to the current Mahayana realm was because of my own hard work, and half of the reason was because of the sword intent in the Zhenyue Knife. In fact, the real top geniuses of the four major families will definitely stand out in the Demon Treasure Conference and enter the core through the opportunity of the Fengyun Conference, so they have no chance to become family elders.

It has been one hundred and twenty years since Ximen Luo's cultivation has been completed, and it has been almost thirty years since he entered the Mahayana realm, and it is still unknown when he will be able to break through to the realm of tribulation. In the past, there were also precedents of elders wearing peerless magic swords who were still in the Mahayana realm and fell when their life limit came, and the more Ximen Luo cultivated, the more anxious he became, and the more anxious he was, the more difficult it was to break through. So, he pinned his hopes on another method, that is, to find a way to enter the core and accept the guidance of the demon lord.

But it's not so easy to enter the core, the method of "cultivating to the realm of tribulation" doesn't work, and after the age has passed, he can't participate in the Demon Treasure Conference, and Ximen Luo can only hope to find a blue yuan stone.

But how rare the blue yuan stone is, Ximen Luo has been secretly searching for many years without results. More than 20 years ago, a long-lost blue yuan stone in the world was born, Ximen Luo was overjoyed, and begged the patriarch Ximen to set a few days, hoping to give the blue yuan stone to him. But Ximen thought about it again and again, and for the sake of the future of the entire Ximen family, he finally rejected Ximen Luo's request and gave the blue yuan stone to Deng Xianjue, the master of knife casting.

There is no time to lose. This opportunity, Ximen Luo will not let go easily no matter what. For the sake of the blue yuan stone, he couldn't even care about the supervision of the ring the next day, and rushed to Xiqing City overnight.

Xiqing City is located at the southern end of Zhenyue Department, at the junction of Guixi Department of Nangong Family. It was the branch to which Ximen Jue and the others belonged, and Xiao Tianhe was imprisoned in the Ximen Garden of the city after he was caught.

"It's really 'stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, it doesn't take much effort to get it', haha!" I thought I was just grabbing two bold stunned youths, but I didn't expect it to involve the baby of my dreams, Ximen Luo was so excited that he was about to sing. According to his speculation, the blue yuan stone should not have been delivered to the patriarch Ximen Ding, otherwise the news would have spread all over the world long ago. However, this also shows that some people have selfish intentions and want to take the blue yuan stone for themselves and personally sacrifice it to the demon lord.

"Fortunately, Lan Yuanshi did not fall into the hands of the Water Breaking Department and the Lin Jia Department, otherwise the two old guys Ximen Shou and Ximen Ding would definitely not be willing to give Lan Yuanshi to me. Hahaha, God really helps me!" The more Ximen Luo thought about it, the more excited he became, who let Xiao Tianhe be caught by Ximen Jue? Who would have thought that Ximen Jue was a person from the Zhenyue Department? What is this not God's favor?

"As long as Lan Yuanshi is still in the Zhenyue Department, it will be easy to do. Simon said in his heart. He planned to pocket the blue yuan stone first and block the news, and then personally present it to the demon lord on the occasion of the Fengyun Conference, and even if Ximen Ding knew about it, he would have nothing to do. "After entering the core, there is a demon lord who personally guides the cultivation method, why can't you cross the tribulation and ascend!" Seeing that the sky in the east was getting brighter and brighter, Ximen Luo felt that his path of cultivating demons was as bright as the dawn of the morning.

The sword flew for four hours, and the outline of Xiqing Castle finally came into view. In order not to attract the attention of others, Ximenluo did not go through the main gate, but landed on the seaside of Xiping. It's not far from the back door of Ximen Garden, and there are no other people nearby.

In the early morning, the seaside is foggy and the view is not good.

"As the saying goes, 'If you go well, you will go well.'" It's so foggy, it's just right for me. Ximen Luo thought as he approached Ximen Yuan along the path. The guard at the back door saw a man dressed in white coming over, with gold letters shining on his waist card, presumably an important figure of the Simon family, so he stepped forward to greet him. When he got closer, it was actually Ximenluo, the head of the Zhenyue Department, who hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Ximen Luo nodded and asked, "Ximen Jue lives here, I have something important to look for his father and master." ”

The guard was respectful: "Do you mean Ximen Pavilion and Fan Xiaoyun's seniors? They are in their own room." Seniors, please come with me. ”

"No need!" Simon crushed the guard's throat and plunged into the woods beside him.

Entering the West Gate Garden, the West Gate scattered and explored the mysteries. No one here can be higher than him, so he is not afraid of being discovered. Within the scope of metaphysical knowledge, the person with the highest realm is only in the early stage of the cave void. Simon jumped on the roof, the wind under his feet, and he traveled quickly along the ridge, but Simon Garden was too big, and he still did not find a master above Silence.

In a while, the sky will be bright, and Simon Luo did not want to delay any longer, so he turned back to the front of the man's room in the early stage of the cave and kicked the door open.

"Who is ......it?" the big man who was meditating in the room was already in a different place before he could see the appearance of the comer.

Ximen Luo withdrew the Zhenyue Demon Knife with an expressionless face and took out a square stone from the big man's arms. This is the Heavenly Flame Continent's communication tool communication stone, which has the same effect as the Spirit Breath Jade of the Blue Dragon Continent.

"Ximen Pavilion, Fan Xiaoyun, I am Ximen Luo, the head of the Zhenyue Department, hurry to the fifth room on the west wall of the back door!"

Ximen Ting and Fan Xiaoyun, who received the message, were startled, shouldn't Ximen Luo be in Xilan City to supervise the Demon Treasure Conference? Why did they appear in Xiqing City? The first reaction of the two was that something had happened to Ximen Jue and them! As the father and master of Ximen Jue and Ximen Rui, the two of them had no time to think about it, and went straight to the room designated by Ximen Luo.

As soon as he pushed the door open, a thick bloody breath hit his nose, the light in the room was dim, and he couldn't see it really, Ximen Pavilion hesitated at the door.

"But it doesn't hurt to go in. Simon's voice rang out in the room.

Although he couldn't see his face clearly, Ximen Ting's slightly hoarse voice was still recognized. When the two entered the house, they saw a headless corpse on the bed behind Simon's fall.

The deceased is also a disciple of Simon, and the murderer is undoubtedly Simon Luo in front of him.

Ximen Ting frowned, not knowing why Ximen Luo's move, he bowed down and asked, "I don't know what the ministry master is looking for the two of us?" But Jue'er or Rui'er had an accident at the Demon Treasure Conference?"

"I heard that you found a blue yuan stone a few days ago, but is there such a thing?" Ximen Luo didn't want to be verbose, and went straight to the point.

Ximen Pavilion immediately understood Ximen Luo's intentions: "Master of the Ministry of Gifts, last month, Fan Daoyou did find a Blue Yuan Stone from a spy who trespassed into Xipinghai, which should have been sent by the Nangong family to steal the treasure." Blame me for my poor guarding, and finally let the spy get away with it. Lan Yuanshi originally wanted to hand it over, but at that time, because the Demon Treasure Conference was about to be held, he wanted to wait for the conference to meet the patriarch before offering it. ”

Simon commanded him: "It is not too late to give it to me." Go and get it. ”

"Yes. Ximen Pavilion responded, and then asked suspiciously, "I wonder if it was the patriarch of Ximen Ding who asked the head of the department to come and get the Blue Yuan Stone?"

"Yes. Simon Lok lied.

"Then you don't have to worry about it, I immediately set off to Xilan City, wouldn't it be better to hand over Lan Yuanshi to the patriarch in person?" It can be seen that Ximen Pavilion is already suspicious.

Simon Luo shouted, "If you are told to go and get it, go and get it!"

"Yes. Ximen Pavilion didn't dare to slack off, nodded to Fan Xiaoyun, and walked out of the room. In fact, he is also selfish. During the conversation between Fang and Ximenluo, he had already calculated it in his heart.

According to the rules, this magic treasure conference should be supervised by Ximen Luo, and his task should be more important. Why didn't Ximen Ding come in person, but let Ximen take it on his behalf? Back then, everyone in the clan knew that Ximen Luo asked Ximen for Lan Yuanshi, and Ximenluo's sudden visit and inexplicable murderous behavior made his thoughts clear.

For Ximen Ting, although he didn't dare to hide the Blue Yuan Stone privately, who exactly would give the Blue Yuan Stone to would lead to a completely different result.

If it is dedicated to the patriarch Ximending, the patriarch will give a rich reward to the Nanqing branch.

If it is handed over to the head of the ministry at this time, Ximen Luo will definitely hide it privately and hand it over to the demon lord in person in the future. At that time, the patriarch will be furious, and if he investigates it, Ximen Pavilion will not be able to afford it. But Ximen Pavilion didn't dare to report to Ximending, because Ximen Luo had already killed a person in the room, and someone entered Ximen Yuan but didn't see the guards to report, and it is estimated that the guards were also poisoned by Ximen Luo, so it can be seen that Ximen Luo has been mad in order to kill people.

Ximen Ting now just wants to hurry up and escape with Lan Yuanshi, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. He returned to the room, lifted the cushion on the bed, and gently flicked several positions of the bed board, with a soft "click", a dark box popped up in the corner of the bed, and the blue shimmer inside was blue, which was the blue yuan stone.

Suddenly, a magic knife emitting a yellow light lit up behind Ximen Pavilion, stabbing straight at the back of his heart.