Let's say that Xiao Tianhe was led by the man who was driving, walked through the streets and alleys, arrived at an inconspicuous mansion in the east of the city, pushed open the door and walked in.

This mansion does not even have a plaque, and the high walls and deep courtyard are extraordinarily quiet. After entering the compound, there are no flowers and trees, no pavilions and corridors, only a very spacious open space. The floor is paved with large square bricks cut from limestone, and it is clean. A bluestone-paved path runs through the yard and leads to a small gate on the inner wall. When you enter the small door, you will be greeted by a small inner courtyard. There is only one large house in the inner courtyard, and there are two transepts on either side. The style of the house is simple and elegant. The wooden edges of the doors and windows are old, and at first glance they have experienced many years of wind and rain, but they are very clean and do not shed a trace of dust. At this time, the door of the main house was open, and the light inside the hall was slightly dimmer than outside, and there seemed to be no one.

The man stopped at the door and reported, "My lord, Xiao Tianhe brought it." ”

"Let him in. There was a sound from the ear chamber. Xiao Tianhe could hear that it was Marshal Xin's voice.

The man leaned sideways and made a "please" gesture. When Xiao Tianhe stepped into the room, he closed the door at the back.

There are main seats and guest seats in the room, calligraphy and paintings are hung on the walls, vases are placed in the corners, and a red carpet embroidered with double dragons playing with pearls is spread in the middle of the ground. Looking at the back wall of the main seat, there was a painting drawn, Xiao Tianhe glanced at it hurriedly, but couldn't help but be attracted by the painting.

The painting is a morning view by the pool. The lotus red in the water and the willow green on the shore are bright colors, but the painter's colors are very light, as if shrouded in mist. The surface of the water is dotted with ripples with a thin brush, and the willow branches are slightly oblique to one side at a gentle angle. The lotus leaf is slightly tilted, and the painter deliberately leaves a few blank spaces on the leaf. At the top of the painting is a light to dark blue color, symbolizing the early morning sky.

Xiao Tianhe doesn't know how to paint, but he knows the subtlety of the artist's intentions. Although the painter does not directly put the object he wants to paint on the painting, he can make people understand the object he intended to express at a glance - rain.

"The morning is hazy, and the night is not gone. The wind drizzled and the fog filled the pond. A little bit into the water, layers of ripples. The willows swing with the wind, and the lotus leaves accumulate beads. What a picture of the dawn rain. Xiao Tianhe praised sincerely.

"It's just a clumsy pen, but it's just a leisure time. Hehe, Xiao Daoyou, we meet again. The curtain of the door of the ear room was lifted, and Marshal Xin walked out of it, followed by General Yong.

"Meet Marshal Xin, General Yong. Xiao Tianhe bowed and saluted, "If you are a junior cultivator, you dare to call each other a friend with Marshal Xin?" ”

"Hmm. Marshal Xin nodded, "Please be seated." ”

After taking his seat, Marshal Xin asked, "Xiao Tianhe, I don't know what the result of this trip to the Sect Drifting Realm is?"

"Thanks to the marshal's blessing, I was lucky enough to get together three demon spirit orbs, and I barely qualified. Xiao Tianhe replied modestly.

"That's your own ability, what does it have to do with me? And said that thanks to me, heh, I almost broke your business. Marshal Xin quickly got to the point.

Xiao Tianhe didn't answer, thinking, "Let's see how you ask." ”

General Yong said: "Xiao Tianhe, do you know that since I recommended you to Marshal Xin last time, Marshal Xin has always appreciated you. ”

"Thanks to the marshal's wrong love, he gave me the 'Golden Phoenix Chaoyang Dagger', which I have always remembered in my heart. ”

Marshal Xin waved his hand and said: "Alas, don't mention the fake anymore, I was a big shame in front of the marshals that day." After a pause, Marshal Xin said again, "By the way, I heard from the Feiyun City Lord that you have been adapting to the triple house for less than twelve years. Let me ask you, how many years have you been in the triple house?"

"Originally, I thought it was thirteen years, but after being reminded by the city lord, I found that I had made a mistake. I don't know exactly when it happened, but it should have been about 12 years. "Xiao Tian Dao.

"Hmm...... Even if it's twelve years, the qualifications are not bad. You are the long-lost ascendant of my demon clan, and the treatment you enjoy is naturally more generous. Marshal Xin suddenly clapped his hands, "Come on!"

The man guarding outside the house responded, "What do you command, Lord Marshal?"

"Go to the Feiyun City Lord and get a storage magic weapon, don't take too much, and put the money in my account. Marshal Xin said. Even if he is the generalissimo of the demon army, he has to trade fairly with the city lord of the immortal clan.

"Yes!" the man's footsteps ran away.

Xiao Tianhe hurriedly got up and thanked him: "Lord Marshal doesn't have to give me any more things." Before I left for the Zongpiao Realm, the leaders had already pooled their money to buy a storage magic weapon for me. ”

"Oh, those guys have a deep friendship with you. Well, anyway, after the evaluation competition is over, several of them will also be transferred out of the leading team, and I will tell them to go down and let them be assigned to the same place as you. General Yong said, "The marshal wants to give you a magic weapon for storage, you can take it, the quality is definitely much better than the one that the team bought for you." ”

Xiao Tianhe no longer refused: "Yes." Thanks to Marshal Xin. ”

Marshal Xin smiled and nodded, motioning for Xiao Tianhe to sit down. "I didn't finish my sentence. If you are dedicated to serving my demons, then the treatment will naturally be very generous. But if you have a different heart, I can't protect you. Marshal Xin put away his smile and said, "Let's talk about it, what is your relationship with those demon clans in the Zongpiao Realm?"

"Don't dare to deceive the marshal, as I said before, we are friends. Xiao Tianhe was calm.

"Friend?" Marshal Xin slowly got up and paced around the room with his hands in his hands, "I have to warn you, even if I want to believe you, you will be sad to pass the other marshals." The last action was an order ordered by Emperor Lingwei himself, which was originally a matter of nine out of ten, but because of those demon clans, the emperor was very unhappy, and the marshals were also holding back the fire. If you tell me the truth now, I can excuse you a few words as appropriate. You have to think about it. ”

Xiao Tianhe cried and said, "What I said is the truth, but all the adults refuse to believe it, how can I be good?"

Marshal Xin saw that Xiao Tianhe didn't let go, so he still broke it: "Alas, you are just a junior cultivator, and it is enough to be friends with the demon clan."

Haven't you seen it in the palace at that time? Those friends of yours fought against our five generalissimos, but we didn't take advantage of it! If you want to say that you are friends, how can I believe it?"

Xiao Tianhe pretended to be surprised, his eyes widened: "Marshal Xin, you misunderstood." Among those demon clans, only three women are my friends, and those demon clans who are competing with the marshals have nothing to do with me at all!"

"Oh?" Marshal Xin paused, frowning and carefully recalling the situation.

Indeed, Xiao Tianhe's original words at that time were: "Marshal Xin, these three girls are my friends, I don't know if there is any misunderstanding between you?" Judging from this, he was not lying.

However, there were still many doubts about the matter, and Marshal Xin threw out two other questions: "Xiao Tianhe, if it is really as you said, only those three demon clan women are your friends, then why did you appear in the lair of the demon clan in the Zongpiao Realm, and why did those demon clans stand out for your friends?"

"It's a coincidence. Ever since I entered the Bright Forest, my three friends have been with me. Unexpectedly, he suddenly met the demon clan who made a double hook. The demon clan was so powerful that he could have killed us all, but he was attracted by the beauty of the three girls, and left us alive and taken captive to the Lair Basin. I believe the marshal still remembers that the appearance of my three friends is peerless. Xiao Tianhe made up.

Marshal Xin nodded: "Although I don't have time to take a closer look, I vaguely remember that the three of them do have good faces." You go on. ”

"After being brought to the basin, I realized that the demon clan of the Zongpiao Realm was not just the guy who made the double hook. The men who fought with the marshals all coveted the beauty of my three friends. Seeing that there was no escape, the three girls sacrificed their lives and were willing to commit themselves to the men, but on the condition that they would let me live. Speaking of this, Xiao Tianhe pretended to be heartbroken, showing his heartache and unwillingness to the fullest.

"Those three girls have a lot of affection for you, which is touching. Marshal Xin applauded.

"Indeed, I don't know how to repay their kindness. Xiao Tianhe, "It stands to reason that I am a man, and everything should be in the forefront, but ...... At that time, the situation was really unavoidable, those men were outnumbered, and all of them were strong, and hard work would only send me to death in vain, so I had to swallow my anger. There were five of them, but there were only three beautiful girls, so they locked the four of us in the main hall with a magic circle, and they went to the open space outside the hall to compete and decide where the three girls belonged. Xiao Tianhe still had injuries on his face because he had just finished the test with Lei Xiaoyan, and this lie sounded very true.

"I see, no wonder we felt in the cave that there were occasional shocks and eruptions in the basin, and the feeling was that they were competing to choose wives! Sure enough, it was a group of beasts!" Marshal Xin said angrily.

"Who's to say it's not? But fortunately, the heavens favored it, and at this juncture, the marshals were like divine soldiers, and they were taken by surprise. So the four of us worked together to break the magic circle and walked out of the main hall. ”

Marshal Xin said: "That's right. When we were outside the temple, we really didn't feel that there was anyone in the temple, it turned out that it was because of the magic circle. ”

Xiao Tianhe was secretly happy when he heard this, and he matched another detail. The more details he can match, the more credible his words will be. He continued: "But who knows, the marshals actually regard my three friends as the targets of hunting and killing, and those demon men naturally don't want to see the beauties in their hands killed, so they fight with the adults. At that time, I didn't have time to explain so much, but I was mistaken for an accomplice of the demon clan, which really made me speechless! In the end, I was almost poisoned by Marshal Liang!"

"Liang Feilian is just using you as a hostage to scare and scare your friends, and he won't really kill you. Besides, with me here, how can I let him kill you?" said Marshal Xin.

Xiao Tianhe secretly laughed in his heart, among the five marshals of the demon clan, Bi Huatian was undoubtedly the leader, and Liang Feilian was the marshal of the immortal clan, and he was alone. The immortals and demons are already quite good if they don't buy each other, how could Liang Feilian obey Xin Zhenyu's orders?

"At that time, I thought about it again and again, first, I wanted to intercede with the marshals for my three friends, they could not be the targets of Lingwei the Great and the Hualin Maharaja, there must be some misunderstanding, and secondly, I was worried that after the misunderstanding was resolved, the marshals would leave, and then we would really fall into a place of no return. Xiao Tianhe shook his head and sighed, "It's really a dilemma, a dilemma!"

General Yong interjected: "How can Lord Marshal be such a ruthless and unrighteous person? If the misunderstanding is cleared up, you will definitely be rescued." ”

"I know this, but it's not enough for me to be rescued! At that time, I thought about it, but unfortunately those three girls are demon clans after all, if I want to save them, it will inevitably involve the marshals and those vicious demon clans to have a vicious battle, how can I be so selfish? After thinking about it for a while, I decided to take a risk first, and bring those demon men to say that they were my friends, so that not only could I clear up the misunderstanding, but also made those men have a good impression of me, even if I couldn't be saved in the end, at least they would treat the three girls well for the sake of this matter. Well, that's how it happened. If there is anything that offends the marshal, Xiao Tianhe will make amends. I have no complaints about how to punish him!" Xiao Tianhe bowed extremely sincerely.

Marshal Xin pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, you finally got out of the hands of the demon clan, why should I punish you again? Was it the mysterious master who didn't show up in the end who rescued you from it?"

Xiao Tianhe nodded and said, "Exactly." After the marshals left, the master who 'only heard their voices, but did not see them' reprimanded the demon men again, forcing them to let us go. ”

"Just as I expected. Tell me how you got acquainted with those three affectionate and righteous girls, and why there is such a deep friendship between the human race and the demon race? This is the last suspicion that Marshal Xin wants to figure out, and it is also the most important key, because "Xiao Tianhe befriended the demon clan" is the strangest part of the whole thing.

"Speaking of our acquaintance, we have to talk about the time of being in the Nether. Xiao Tianhe raised his head slightly and looked at the top of the mural, as if recalling the distant past, "At that time, I was still a cultivator of immortals......

"Have you cultivated immortals?" Marshal Xin and General Yong exclaimed in unison.

Xiao Tianhe seemed to expect the two of them to be so surprised, and said with a smile: "By the way, everyone who has heard my story has such a look. Although I am in the Immortal Dao, what I yearn for is the domineering and majestic Demon Dao. Therefore, I am regarded as an alien, and even the Sword Immortal will take my life. ”

"Sword Immortal, heh, it's just a junior immortal cultivator. General Yong said.

"That's right, but in the Great Red Realm, with the strength of a primary immortal cultivator, he is already a dominating and dominating existence. Later, I was lucky not to die, but I was destroyed in my dantian and couldn't cultivate demons. Fortunately, those three demon women did not hesitate to consume a lot of energy to reshape the dantian for me. They have been kind to me, and I will repay them one day. Xiao Tianhe's words are true or not, and they are not false, although they are indeed his personal experience, but they disrupt the order.

"I don't understand, they have no relatives with you and have no reason, so why bother to save you?" asked Marshal Xin again.

Xiao Tianhe took two steps forward and said in a low voice: "This is the real reason why the demon clan has not had an ascendant for hundreds of years. ”

Marshal Xin and General Yong glanced at each other, they never expected that these two seemingly unrelated things would be connected. The demon clan has not had an ascendant for a long time, it is already a well-known "secret", everyone in the Yuyu realm knows it, but no one can say the reason, even the immortal cultivators who have ascended up are not clear. After Xiao Tianhe soared to the Yu Yu realm, Marshal Xin really planned to find a time to ask, but he didn't expect it to have anything to do with what he was talking about today.

"Legend has it that a long time ago, there was an immortal cultivator from the Yuyu realm who came to the lower realm...... Xiao Tianhe had just started when he was interrupted by General Yong: "No, as far as I know, it should be a group of immortal cultivators from the lower realm!"

Xiao Tianhe pretended to be surprised: "Ah, it turns out that the batch of sword immortals who suddenly came out of nowhere are all from the Yuyu Realm! That's right, that's right! The two realms of immortal cultivation and demon cultivation in the Great Red Realm are located in two continents, and there is an insurmountable fog barrier between them, can the two adults know?"

"I've heard of it, but it's all from a long time ago when the demons still had ascendants. Marshal Xin said.

"Well, that's right. There is such a rumor in the Demon Cultivation Continent: A long, long time ago, there was a group of sudden sword immortals who set off a catastrophe in the Demon Cultivation Continent, although it ended in the disappearance of the sword immortals, but one of the most powerful immortal cultivators - it is said that he came down from the Yuyu Realm, but stayed on the continent, concealed his identity and became the master of the Demon Cultivation Continent. For the sake of his future safety, he hid in the shadows and quietly killed demon cultivators. So since then, there has not been a single ascendant in my Demon Path. ”

"Bang!" Marshal Xin slapped his palm on the table and said angrily, "It's really hateful!

"Yes. But most people would die before they could cultivate to the point where they could match him, so his rule over the continent was very solid. Not only demon cultivators, but all those who may threaten his life, he will kill, including the rising demon clan. The more Xiao Tianhe spoke, the more mysterious it became, but it sounded more and more like the truth.

"You were originally a demon cultivator of the Immortal Cultivation Continent, why do you know about the Demon Cultivation Continent?" Marshal Xin's heart was very careful.

"I was originally a damned person, but I was rescued by my fellow junior brothers and sisters, but there was no place for me in the Immortal Cultivation Continent, so I had to cross the ocean, planning to live in seclusion on a desert island. By chance, I happened to meet those three demon women who came to the Immortal Cultivation Continent to find a suitable candidate so that they could defeat the demon lord in the future. That's how I met them. ”

"No, why were those three women able to break through the fog?" Marshal Xin thought of a question.

"Because they are demons, they are not restricted by the fog. ”

"Then why didn't they stay in the Immortal Cultivation Continent to cultivate, why did they have to go back and kill that Immortal Cultivator?" Marshal Xin quickly threw out the second question.

"Because the Great Red Realm is also the same as the Yuyu Realm, the human race and the demon race are incompatible. And the Cultivation Immortal Continent has always been relatively peaceful, so there are sword immortals. As a demon clan, it is more and more dangerous for them to stay there to cultivate. Xiao Tianhe also replied without thinking.

Marshal Xin's third question followed: "Then why did they go to great lengths to reshape the dantian for a wasted person, instead of finding a sound immortal cultivator?"

Xiao Tianhe seemed to have guessed that Marshal Xin would ask such a question, and smiled lightly: "Let's not talk about whether the immortal cultivators will believe their words, just if they set foot on the Immortal Cultivation Continent, they will be regarded as aliens and their lives will be in danger." Moreover, they only have weapons, classics and other demonic cultivation items obtained from the Demon Cultivation Continent in their hands, which are not applicable to immortal cultivators. ”

"Then tell me, since they have them, and they only have demon cultivation items, why don't they find a suitable candidate in the Demon Cultivation Continent, and instead devote themselves to going to the Immortal Cultivation Continent to find a demon cultivator?"

Xiao Tianhe sighed: "Alas, who let the entire Demon Cultivation Continent be under the control of that heinous Sword Immortal? Any gifted Demon Cultivator was listed as a target for killing by him. The three girls were so helpless that they had to travel thousands of miles to the Immortal Cultivation Continent to find a suitable candidate. ”

"I see. Marshal Xin smiled with satisfaction. The tension that suddenly erupted in the room finally dissipated, and even General Yong, who had been listening, let out a long breath.

"So, in the end, you killed that immortal cultivator?"

"It's a couple of us working together. Xiao Tianhe also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone hanging in his heart fell to the ground. During the Q&A just now, he not only had to keep up with Marshal Xin's thinking speed, but also had to figure out how to answer so that there were no loopholes and justify himself, and more importantly, he had to avoid all information that might be speculated about Meng Zhangpei. So don't look at Xiao Tianhe's calm and calm answer just now, in fact, he was already shocked into a cold sweat. In this case, I am most afraid that I will "say too much and lose it". Fortunately, there was no danger and I passed the test smoothly.

At this time, someone outside the house came to report: "Lord Marshal, the Lord of Feiyun City asks to see you." ”

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