() Among the mountains of the Wuling Mountains in the eastern part of Xianglong County, there is a "Senying Mountain" that immortal cultivators do not want to approach, and this is the territory of the second largest Poison Refining Sect in Xianglong County.

A few days ago, Tianyun Sect Master Ye Shenrong came to visit, and he has never left since.

In the morning, there was a rare heavy snow in the sky, and the sudden bad weather made the Poison Refining Sect Master Peng Xinwei anxious. The winter here every year is a warm winter, warm and humid is also the best environment for cultivating poisons, I don't want the weather to be unusually cold this year, the poisons in the miasma poison garden, grass poison garden, insect poison garden and flower poison garden are unbearable cold, and many have been frozen to death. In order to reduce the losses, the entire Poison Refining Sect has been busy.

But Ye Shenrong never had the intention of leaving, he was waiting for something.

In the middle of the night, the disciple leaned against the door and fell asleep, and was suddenly awakened by a quick knock on the door. "Who's coming?" the disciple asked.

"Jin Xianzong Xie Xiaolian, please see my master!" a female voice came from outside the door.

The gatekeeper disciples didn't know Xie Xiaolian at all, but they had heard of the name of the Golden Immortal Sect. The Golden Immortal Sect suddenly appeared a few decades ago, and then rose rapidly, and its reputation spread throughout Xianglong County, and soon, its status was close to that of the Poison Refining Sect, and it had a great tendency to replace it. What puzzled the disciples was that Sect Master Peng Xinwei had personally told him that if a disciple of the Golden Immortal Sect came, he must not be lazy.

He hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Xie Xiaolian in. Xie Xiaolian's clothes had been wet with snow and clung to her body, outlining her graceful body. A few strands of wet hair hang down on the cheeks, embellishing the delicate face. The frowning eyebrows and a slightly worried look made the gatekeeper look stupid.

"Take me to see your sect master, I have something important!" Xie Xiaolian turned her head, but saw the male disciple's dull eyes, and couldn't help but start a fire, "What are you looking at!" She punched the guard disciple's chest.

The disciple came back to his senses after being punched, rubbed his chest, and said embarrassedly, "Girl, you come with me." He took Xie Xiaolian around the main hall and stepped on the path leading to the Seven Poisons Garden. At a fork in the road, he pointed to a mountain road on the far right and said to Xie Xiaolian: "Girl, if you follow this road to the end, it is the Flower Poison Garden of my sect." When you get to the door, you just have to shout loudly, don't touch anything, it's poisonous on the door and on the wall, remember. ”

"Why are you Poison Refining Sect so troublesome......" Xie Xiaolian complained and sped away along the path.

The disciple who guarded the door watched her back until it disappeared, sighed lightly, and continued to guard the door.

Peng Xinwei was in the main hall of the front mountain during the day, and returned to this flower poison garden at night.

"Sect Master Peng!Master!" Xie Xiaolian's shout interrupted Peng Xinwei's meditation, and he knew the identity of the person who came from calling him. He hurriedly walked out of the room and opened the door of the Flower Poison Garden.

"Sect Master Peng, Golden Immortal Sect disciple Xie Xiaolian has something important to report to Master!"

Peng Xinwei looked at it and recognized Xie Xiaolian's face: "It's you, come in." He led Xie Xiaolian into the room, pointed to a door, and said, "Your master is inside." ”

Xie Xiaolian gently pushed the door open, the room was brightly lit, and a woman in a yellow robe was facing away from the door, sitting at the table and busy with something. The table was large, filled with all kinds of large and small medicine bottles, and the whole room was filled with a pungent smell.

"Xiaolian, why are you here in the middle of the night?" the woman asked without looking back.

Xie Xiaolian knelt on the ground with a "poof" and cried: "Master, several junior sisters who stayed in the sect, as well as their Taoist companions, were all killed overnight! Even the main hall and the side hall were set on fire by the murderer! The disciples returned to the sect late, and the sect was not effective in protecting the sect, please punish the master!"

"What?" the woman in yellow looked back in surprise. Her appearance is even better than Xie Xiaolian, but her temperament is very different. Xie Xiaolian is charming and charming, and this woman is beautiful and elegant.

"What's the use of scolding you, even if you go back early, you will only be sent to death together. Get up. The woman in yellow frowned slightly.

Xie Xiaolian stood up: "Master......"

"Who the hell is it that dares to be the enemy of my Golden Immortal Sect...... the woman in yellow muttered to herself, and asked Xie Xiaolian again, "Did you guys make any trouble outside?"

"No! The apprentice and several junior sisters all strictly followed the master's teachings and never provoked other immortal cultivators. ”

The woman in yellow glanced at Xie Xiaolian and asked, "Who have you cultivated with?"

Xie Xiaolian was secretly shocked in her heart: "Master can see that I have cultivated with others just by a glance, it's really amazing......" She replied honestly: "Master, the apprentice got acquainted with a disciple of the Taiqing Sect, the middle realm of the void and the underworld. He also had four junior disciples in the early stage of the void and the underworld, and they also formed Taoist couples with several junior sisters, but unfortunately they all died in the sect. ”

"Taiqing Sect? Hmm...... Aren't your sixth and seventh uncles in the sect?" asked the woman in yellow again.

"Yes, the sixth and seventh uncles and Zheng Liyang were all killed by the murderer. ”

"Zheng Liyang is also dead?" The woman in yellow was very surprised, Zheng Liyang was the old man who hugged left and right, it was not low in terms of his realm in the early stage of the cave void, it seemed that the murderer was a master, which also showed that it was definitely not the enemy provoked by a disciple of Xie Xiaolian's realm.

Huo Ran, the woman in yellow, got up: "I'll go back immediately, you hurry up and inform a few senior uncles, so that they can return to the sect as soon as possible without delay!"

"Master, there is still something to be done about the apprentice. The disciple found a row of handwriting on a pillar that read, 'Murderer, He Tianxiao', which the disciple speculated was left by the murderer. Xie Xiaolian said.

The woman in yellow thought for a moment and asked, "How were those people killed?"

"They were all killed by having their necks broken or their bodies cut off. ”

"He Tianxiao...... Do you know who he is?"

Xie Xiaolian thought back to what Yan Luoting had said, and replied: "According to the disciple double cultivators, He Tianxiao used to be a disciple of the Taiqing Sect, but he had already given up cultivating immortals and left the Taiqing Sect eleven years ago. All these years seem to have disappeared and disappeared. When the apprentice arrived at the back mountain, he met He Tianxiao's younger brother He Tianyao and their two senior sisters, and the apprentice mistook them for murderers. Later, another elder of the Taiqing Sect appeared, saying that he wanted to send someone to investigate the matter thoroughly. After that, the apprentice hurried to report to the master. ”

"What realm is that He Tianyao?"

"He's in the middle realm of the void. It is said that when He Tianxiao left the Taiqing Sect, he was just in the late stage of the Harmony realm. Xie Xiaolian guessed what the woman in yellow was thinking.

"The murderer shouldn't be that He Tianxiao. After only eleven years, even if he didn't give up cultivating immortals, it would be impossible to kill Zheng Liyang. However, why would a master frame an unknown person? This is a strange matter, and it must be carefully investigated. No matter who it is, if you dare to be the enemy of my Golden Immortal Sect, you are killing yourself. The woman in yellow said in her heart.

"Do as I tell you!" she said to Xie Xiaolian.

"Yes. Xie Xiaolian bowed her head and exited the door.

The woman in yellow walked out of the back room and found Peng Xinwei and Ye Shenrong both outside. Ye Shenrong touched his mustache: "Wu Daoyou, I heard what you just said, how about this sect go with you?"

"It's okay, I don't know which elder Taiqing Sect has gone, and I'm not very familiar with Taiqing Sect, so there is Lao Ye Sect Master. The woman in yellow said.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay. Ye Shenrong smiled, his slightly chubby face squeezed his eyes into a line.

The woman in yellow made a gesture of please, turned around and nodded to Peng Xinwei, and then left with Ye Shenrong.

On the way, Ye Shenrong suddenly said: "Wu Daoyou, I came to the Poison Refining Sect this time to wait for the final top-level finished product of the 'Dream Soul Incense'. Since you haven't been out of the house, I didn't dare to disturb. I wonder how it's going?"

The woman in yellow replied, "Sect Master Ye, I can only say that it is nine out of ten, and I am missing one point. In the past ten years, I have been researching the use of various poisons and drugs to match the Dream Soul Incense, but after all, I am one step short of Sect Master Ye's 'colorless and odorless' requirements. ”

Ye Shenrong was slightly surprised: "How can I say this? I received a message from Sect Master Peng, saying that Wu Daoyou was about to succeed, so I came here on purpose. ”

The woman in yellow smiled helplessly: "Sect Master Ye, I'm sorry. Xinwei just likes to be happy. Now I have found three things in countless poisons and drugs that can be added to the 'Dream Soul Incense', but the effect is not satisfactory. The first, although it can make the 'Dream Soul Incense' volatilize when it is opened, is a kind of crimson smoke, the second is colorless and volatile, but it has a pungent and spicy smell, and the last one, although it is colorless and tasteless, but the effect is greatly weakened, and in order to make a third-level immortal cultivator unconscious, it will take at least five hundred bottles of Dream Soul Incense. I've tried to get rid of the color and smell of the first two Dream Soul incense, but nothing has come of it. So I pinned my hopes on the third Dream Soul Incense. In my opinion, the weakening of the medicinal effect is due to the problem with the ratio of each ingredient, but there are a total of eighteen kinds of materials for Dream Soul Incense, counting the last poisons added to it is nineteen, and the ratio and combination of various materials are countless, and if the proportion is not right, it will be turned into other poisons, drugs, or non-poisonous and non-medicinal things. So you can only try slowly. ”

Listening to the words of the woman in yellow, Ye Shenrong couldn't help frowning and touched his mustache, which was his habitual action when thinking about important things. "Wu Daoyou, there are still a few years before the Immortal Cultivation Realm is about to start a war with the Dragon Clan, I wonder how sure you are that you will succeed in developing it during this time?"

"I can't say well, it depends on luck. If you're lucky, you'll succeed in a moment, and if you're unlucky, you won't be able to do it for decades. In conclusion, success is unlikely in less than five years. ”

"Alas, Wu Daoyou do your best!" Ye Shenrong sighed.

The woman in yellow answered. In fact, she knew in her heart that although Ye Shenrong's tone sounded helpless, with his temperament, the meaning of that sentence actually was: "During this period of time, it must be successfully developed!" Thinking of this, she felt very uncomfortable. Originally, Ye Shenrong and Peng Xinwei should be equal and mutually beneficial, but now it has become a situation in which Ye Shenrong dominates his husband and wife. The power of the Poison Refining Sect and the Golden Immortal Sect is not comparable to the Tianyun Sect, and Ye Shenrong is a scheming, ruthless and vicious character, if he offends him, there is absolutely no good fruit to eat, and he will die at the least, and destroy the sect at the worst. The woman in yellow now only hopes to develop the top-notch Dream Soul Incense as soon as possible.

The two didn't say anything all the way, and after half a day, they arrived at Luping Mountain, where the Golden Immortal Sect was located.

The woman in yellow looked at the two halls with broken bricks and tiles from a distance, and she was worried. The main hall is still enough, and the side hall is where the greatest wealth of the Golden Immortal Sect lies. Pills, secret medicines, sword books, fairy swords...... "That's right, fairy sword!" The woman in yellow suddenly sped up her flight speed, jumped down from the sky, and went straight to the side hall.

There was also a new elder of the Taiqing Sect, Lu Baifeng, standing in the courtyard. Just now he was meditating and suddenly noticed that someone was coming, it was estimated that it should be the sect master of the Golden Immortal Sect, and he was about to get up to say hello, but he saw the woman in yellow sweeping by his side like the wind and rushing into the side hall.

While he was wondering, another person flew in the sky.

Lu Baifeng looked at it and was very surprised, not knowing why Ye Shenrong came here. "Could it be that the Golden Immortal Sect has anything to do with the Tianyun Sect?" he said secretly in his heart. "Sect Master Ye, Lu is polite. ”

Ye Shenrong nodded with a smile on his face and asked, "I don't know what friends are?"

"I am the new elder of the Taiqing Sect, my surname is Lu, and my name is Bai Feng. ”

"Ah! It turned out to be a new elder, Taiqing Sect is really full of talents, it has only been more than ten years, and there is one more elder. Ye Shenrong praised in his mouth, but he had some doubts in his heart, the new elder in front of him seemed to have a sense of déjà vu. Since he was a newly promoted elder, he should have been a disciple of the Cave Void Realm before, but Ye Shenrong didn't know the ordinary disciples of the Taiqing Sect at all. "Elder Lu, I look at your appearance, it seems to be a little familiar, could it be that we used to have a relationship somewhere?" Ye Shenrong couldn't help but ask.

"Sect Master Ye really has a good memory. At the beginning, the six major sect masters had gathered in the Taiqing Sect for the matter of the Seven Star Sword, and I was one of the disciples who went to the Green Cloud Swamp at that time. Lu Baifeng replied. At the beginning, he only answered Ye Shenrong's question, but now after many years, Ye Shenrong still has an impression.

After Lu Baifeng said this, Ye Shenrong immediately remembered that Lu Baifeng was the one with the highest realm among those disciples.

"I don't know why Sect Master Ye is here?"

"Oh, I have some friendship with the Golden Immortal Sect Master, so I'll come and take a look. Ye Shenrong said.

Lu Baifeng understood wrongly. The person who rushed into the side hall just now was clearly a beautiful woman, thinking of the dead disciples of the Golden Immortal Sect, he couldn't help but be stunned, the woman of the Golden Immortal Sect didn't seem to be a serious person, could it be that the dignified Tianyun Sect Master couldn't withstand the temptation of beauty?

At this time, the woman in yellow walked out of the side hall, her face was quite ugly. The east and west parts of the secret medicine room, the pill room, and the sword book room were destroyed by fire, and when she walked into the sword room and found that the attack formation had been broken, she secretly said bad in her heart, and hurriedly opened the mechanism to go down to the secret layer, but found that most of the fairy swords were there, but the five best quality fairy swords were missing. There are also three medium-grade immortal swords on the ground, one of which is Zheng Liyang's.

"Let me introduce, this is the new elder of the Taiqing Sect, Lu Baifeng, this is the Sect Master of the Golden Immortal Sect, and the double cultivator Wu Suying of the Poison Refining Sect Sect Master Peng. Ye Shenrong said. In fact, he didn't want to reveal the relationship between the Poison Refining Sect and the Golden Immortal Sect, but he could see from Lu Baifeng's expression that he had been misunderstood, so he simply said it clearly.

Lu Baifeng naturally understood Ye Shenrong's words, and his expression was slightly embarrassed. He gestured to Wu Suying: "Sect Master Wu, this time the disciples of your sect were killed together with the disciples of our sect, we should work together to track down the real culprit, one of the predecessors of my sect and another elder of the Tribulation Realm are rushing here, and they will arrive soon." ”

Wu Suying nodded: "I didn't expect this matter to alarm the master of your sect's Tribulation Realm." Let's go to the scene to investigate first, and listen to the disciple that the murderer left his name, as if he was a disciple of your sect? ”

The three of them walked together towards the back mountain.

Lu Baifeng said: "Sect Master Wu, this matter should be framed. That disciple of my sect had already given up cultivating immortals and left the sect eleven years ago. At the beginning, he was in the late stage of Hehe, and he has not been heard from for so many years, and it is impossible for him to kill people. ”

"Well, I didn't expect it to be him. Killing a disciple of the same sect and leaving his own name seems to make no sense. Wu Suying said.

Ye Shenrong touched his beard: "Unless...... This person has a grudge against the Taiqing Sect. ”

Lu Baifeng shook his head and said, "Then it's even more impossible." Do you know, this person's name is He Tianxiao, he is the grandson of Sect Master Li, and he is also the beloved disciple of Elder Yu, and he was still a high-profile immortal cultivation genius in the sect at the beginning, and the sect has always treated him preferentially, how could he have a grudge against the sect?"

"He Tianxiao...... Then I don't understand, since he is a genius in cultivating immortals, and your sect treats him well, why would he give up cultivating immortals?" Ye Shenrong asked.

"Alas, it was because of the failure to conceive a baby, unbearable, and discouraged. It's a pity that he has not been heard from since he left the sect, and the sect master has sent people to look for him, but he has returned in vain. Lu Baifeng sighed regretfully. After turning the corner, he pointed to a house not far away: "I have stored the body in the house. ”

Wu Suying pushed open the door, and the room was full of bones, none of which were intact. "It's so ruthless!" Wu Suying said angrily.

"It looks like everyone was killed on the spot. Ye Shenrong said.

"Yes, it is precisely because of this that the apprentice deduces that the handwriting was left by the murderer. Wu Suying turned and walked out of the room, came to the handwriting of the pillars, and carefully observed every stroke.

"I came early yesterday morning, and I looked closely, but I didn't find any clues. Lu Baifeng said.

"The murderer should be a master of the Silent Realm. Wu Suying speculated.

"Oh?

"There are two reasons for this. First, there was a person in the early stage of the Cave Void among the dead, if it weren't for the Silence Realm, he would never have killed so easily; Wu Suying explained.

Lu Baifeng asked puzzledly, "Then why are you sure that you are not a master above the Silent Annihilation Realm?"

"That murderer also took away my sect's five good-grade immortal swords, if it is a master of the Mahayana or Tribulation realm, how can he covet a mere good-quality immortal sword?"

Lu Baifeng nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "I don't know if the murderer is to kill people and grab the sword by the way, or to kill people to kill people in order to seize the sword." ”

"It's a pity there are no clues. Our sect is weak in manpower, and we still need your sect to send more people to investigate everywhere, so that the murderer has nowhere to hide. Wu Suying arched his hand.

Lu Baifeng also returned the salute: "Sect Master Wu rest assured, this person dares to kill the disciples of the Taiqing Sect, and also intends to blame the trouble, provoke the relationship between the two sects, and categorically forgive him." ”

At this time, Ye Shenrong in the room suddenly spoke: "If you want to talk about clues, it's not that there are no clues, it's just ......"