In the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, flowers and plants sprout.

Because of the unique extinct volcanic landform, the aura between heaven and earth will be naturally deposited when it flows above it, and in this good season of spring, a patch of white spiritual mist is shrouded in the four fields of Wanhua Valley.

At this time, there was just a spring breeze blowing, gently brushing away a line of white mist, through this line of skylight can be seen, next to the large flower field medicine garden, there are several simple and elegant houses.

In the easternmost house, three people are sitting cross-legged around the tea table.

Zhang Peony, who is eccentric on weekdays, became extremely quiet and dignified today, and got up to add a cup of herbal tea to Huai Caoshi.

"Uncle Master, this is the Eucommia ulmoides herbal tea picked and made by the disciple himself, which is especially suitable for drinking in spring, you can try it. ”

Huai Caoshi smiled and tasted it, only to feel a warmth flow into her throat and then flow to her limbs, and most of the fatigue accumulated from days of running around was gone.

She praised heartily: "Among the hundred grasses, Eucommia ulmoides is precious, Eucommia is up and down, and male flowers are respected." I am afraid that the tea-making technology of peony has caught up with your master, which can not only retain the slight bitterness, but also have a sweet and catchy taste after entering the throat, and the vitality is beneficial to the qi, and most of the fatigue of the uncle has gone. ”

"Hee-hee. Zhang Shaoyao smiled and propped up her jaw and glanced at the master, and the meaning revealed in her eyes was to invite merit.

The corners of Huai Fenghua's mouth curled slightly: "Senior sister, this tea is still my stain on you." ”

Huai Caoshi was surprised: "What's wrong?"

"Master!" Zhang Shaoyao's coquettish voice begging for mercy was useless, and Huai Fenghua explained directly with a smile: "This is what my apprentice prepared for her brother, and all the aura of ten thousand flowers is used when cultivating for this purpose." ”

"No wonder!" Huai Caoshi also smiled: "I said that a cup of eucommia tea will not make me tired and remove most of it, it turns out that the little guy doesn't know how to pity himself and uses the Heart Sutra of Ten Thousand Flowers." ”

When it came to the inheritance of the master, both the sisters fell into a short silence.

"Peony, today the master wants to accompany your uncle to catch up with the old days, you can help the master take care of those few pieces of the medicine garden, good." ”

After Huai Fenghua took away the peony that was tired of being on the side, his expression regained his composure.

She said seriously: "Senior sister, you brought that Bai Jianwen to Wanhua Valley, and you also know if you want to come to Tianjiao." ”

The sadness in Huai Caoshi's eyes was covered by calmness, and he replied: "He is the only one who knows my specific followers, and now it is Geng Jian who is chasing us, so it shouldn't be so fast." ”

"Hey—"

Huai Fenghua looked at Senior Sister quietly, noticed the unconcealable emotional sadness in the other party's expression, and complained slightly: "Senior Sister, after so many years, do you still have any attachment to that person?"

Huai Caoshi shook her head and said indifferently: "No, I only hate my low strength and can't kill him with my own hands." ”

Huai Fenghua's eyes flashed and recalled something, and said coldly: "None of the men are good things, and the master is right when he speaks." ”

Huai Caoshi's thoughts flashed suddenly, and he smiled helplessly: "Don't talk about me, you haven't had a good time all these years." ”

Huai Fenghua smiled but did not speak, the past is like smoke, how can it be pondered.

Huai Caoshi lowered her head and said apologetically: "When I overheard the conspiracy between him and Bai Hao, I wanted to fly back immediately, but I didn't expect to be directly closed and put under house arrest......"

Huai Fenghua's expression was indifferent, and her killing intent appeared, "This is not to blame Senior Sister, if it weren't for that Baihao dog thief shrinking in the inner city of Vermilion Bird City every day, I would have killed this person a long time ago." ”

Huai Caoshi's eyes were also filled with murderous intent, "I know some of the details." ”

She saw that her junior sister maintained a listening posture, and said slowly: "This dog thief used the high-level iron bone refining technique and the mountain-moving heart method to buy off Lin Xiao's personal guard deputy commander, and called the traitor of the Heavenly Hunt, taking advantage of the lax defense of the 100-day banquet held in the Lin family mansion in the outer city, and led thousands of rebels to kill it. ”

"At that time, Bai Hao's strength was almost the same as Lin Xiao's, and they were all second-grade cultivators, but all the masters in the Heavenly Hunt went to ......"

When Huai Fenghua heard this, she said softly: "It's all my fault, the master and the senior sister could have left." ”

She lowered her head and tucked up the white skirt, and the crystal droplets of water fell silently.

Huai Caoshi recalled that when she was sad and sad when she was a child, the master would always hold herself in her arms and comfort her softly.

She learned the master's posture and hugged Huai Fenghua in her arms, and comforted her softly: "That's your sister who is your fellow sister, and the master has no reason not to save them." ”

When I think of my teacher, the sadness when I miss us together will always become greater.

Huai Caoshi's eyes fell into confusion, and she said: "I have been wandering around with Bai Jianwen and them all these years, and I always wonder if I can have the cheekiness to come back to worship the master and them? I am a sinner of the Shimen, and I never thought that it would be the person I loved and admired so much that led the Heavenly Hunt to send the Shimen to a dead end......"

Huai Fenghua recalled that day, and always felt that his soul followed his master, sister, and him to die on that day.

She is now called Huaifeng Hua, but her name was White Wind Flower when she was green cardamom.

Born in the royal family, there would not have been any brother and sister harmony, but the two sisters who were born twins were completely different.

Their parents met under the spring breeze and planted flowers and trees, and gave birth to them on a bright moonlit night in the winter snow, so they gave the two sisters such a beautiful name as "Wind Flower Snow Moon".

Originally, "Fenghua" would be her sister's name, but when she was a child, she felt more like an older sister, so she snatched the name from her strong nature.

When she was a child, she seemed to be better in front of her sister, but when she came, she still lost to her gentle and kind sister Xueyue, and she didn't even have the slightest chance of winning a game.

Because she and her sister fell in love with the same man, but that man only had his sister in his eyes......

So she later left home to practice and had the same surname as her teacher, so she didn't go to their wedding later, so she was not involved in the civil strife that affected her family because of the change of power in the dynasty, and she didn't go to the 100-day banquet that day.

Is it a blessing in misfortune that she survived?

In the first few years, she lived every day more than dead, until the arrival of the two little ones.

Thinking of this, Huai Fenghua silently covered her chest, there was a piece of jade pendant that had been completed together, and the half of it belonged to her sister was displaced, but it took six years to return to her hands like a ghost.

Maybe it's really my sister who has a spirit in the sky, otherwise I wouldn't have gone out to collect medicine and wander around that day, let alone meet the group of people in the Hidden Valley Spring Mansion. And if the two brothers and sisters of Peony didn't want to run away, they wouldn't have been met by themselves, and the various experiences in it still feel wonderful in retrospect, maybe this is the faint connection between the bloodlines.

Huai Caoshi watched her sister fall into the memories of the past, and found that the other party's emotions gradually detached from the depression.

Only then did he cautiously ask the question that had been hidden in his heart: "Senior sister, in the sixth year of Tianjia, you became the fourth elder of the Hidden Valley, and the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers has also become the pharmacist of the Hidden Valley, is there any secret in this?"

Huai Fenghua pursed her lips and smiled, and asked, "Senior sister, are you blaming me, blaming me for failing to keep the inheritance of Wanhua Valley?"

Huai Caoshi replied seriously: "No, how dare you blame the disciple who turned his back on the teacher, the senior sister just wants to know that it is not easy for the junior sister to support all these years." ”

Huai Fenghua broke away from her senior sister's embrace, stared at each other's eyes and said sincerely: "Senior sister actually didn't know that I only came back to life that year. ”

Huai Caoshi pondered for a moment, and a hint of abruptness flashed in her eyes, "Is it because of that little guy Peony, I remember that she just said that she became your apprentice in the sixth year of Tianjiao." ”

Huai Fenghua smiled and said, "Sort of." ”

Huai Caoshi looked at her junior sister's smile, but still expressed her worries: "Senior sister, are Peony and her brother orphans who have been looted in the Quanfu Mansion? ”

Huai Fenghua asked with a cold face for the first time, "Senior sister, what do you mean?"

Huai Caoshi shook her head and said, "Senior sister, you may have misunderstood, I don't suspect the peony them, but the hidden valley them, because the civil strife in Vermilion Bird City back then also had their shadows." ”

The glint in Huai Fenghua's eyes flashed, and he asked calmly, "Is it the Assassin Pulse and the Quanfu Mission?"

"Yes. Huai Caoshi nodded and said, "I'm sure you've already discovered it when you're in it, and the current Hidden Valley is no longer the assassin organization that scared the wind just by hearing the name." ”

"For the cultivators of my generation, strength, power, wealth, there are too many desires in this world that will cause the strong to get lost and degenerate. Hidden Valley has long since ceased to be cold-blooded, but has become slippery, some of them will live a more nourishing life, but Hidden Valley will only slowly lose its own characteristics and eventually fall apart, I say these words now, I just hope that Senior Sister, you will not be too involved in it. ”

Huai Fenghua remembered the various reasons that had happened recently, and couldn't help but feel that a shadow had shrouded Wanhua Valley.

......

In the Tiannan Marsh Forest, fifty kilometers away from the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, there is a towering cliff, on the cliff there is a majestic hall made of marble with a pitch-black surface, and the tall green pine is only a short servant in front of it.

In the hall, there are candles flickering even during the day, because the owner of this palace does not like daylight, so when he built it, he did not leave a window for daylight to pass.

At this time, Jiang Shangxiu, the archdeacon of the assassin lineage, was standing tall and straight, quietly looking at the elder wearing a hooded black robe hidden on the black jade seat, waiting for the other party's answer.

A low voice like the friction of a golden stone slowly sounded in the hall: "You mean that kid may have broken through to the third grade?"

Jiang Shangxiu replied calmly: "Although there is no specific information about that battle, it is certain that Cao Mo died and Geng Jian was poisoned, so I concluded that Mu Qing was among the third ranks." ”

He paused before continuing to add: "And it seems that his strength in these three grades is quite not weak. ”

"Huh-"

The old man hidden under the hood sneered: "Even if he is already able to convert all the internal force in his body into true qi after his third-grade cultivation, what can he do?

Jiang Shangxiu didn't refute either, and said to himself: "I'm just worried that Elder, your plan will fall through, and letting Yuejiu collide with Mu Qing may not have the desired effect." ”

Jiang Xingyuan looked at his righteous son and said slowly: "Two disobedient swords, I never care how many gaps there will be when they cut each other, and I don't care if they are even combined into one." ”

He paused and asked his son, "Tell me, what do I care about?"

Jiang Shangxiu lowered his head for the first time today, and said slowly without changing his title: "What the elders care about is when they will become scrap metal and when they will be melted back into the furnace. ”

Jiang Xingyuan's long, cold eyes flashed with a little satisfaction, and he said softly: "As for what you just said that Deacon Lu Fei of the Quanfu Mansion may have exposed the relationship with our assassin lineage, I will explain this matter clearly to that fat man, the Hidden Valley has been developing for many years, and it has long been common for several veins to take what they need and infiltrate each other, this time it is just to penetrate deeper, you don't have to worry too much." ”

Jiang Shangxiu hesitated: "Can we assassins really decide where the assassins will belong......?"

Jiang Xingyuan raised his forearm lightly, stopped Jiang Shangxiu from continuing, and replied coldly: "The rules of the Hidden Valley, whether the assassin defects or not, it is not our responsibility to leave or stay, you know, what else do you want to ask?"

Jiang Shangxiu thought of the terrifying Great Elder, and said thoughtfully, "Then aren't we breaking the rules?"

Jiang Xingyuan looked at him with a little disappointment and said, "Dead people never speak. ”