Chapter 20: The Mysterious Man
There were no stools in the hall, and the floor was covered with soft leather mattresses. In a corner of the hall, a man in dark clothes was lying diagonally next to a brocade table.
This man's face is like a crown of jade, black hair is like satin, the tail of the long Danfeng eyes is obviously raised upward, the black and narrow eyebrows are inserted obliquely into the sideburns, and the thin lips are hooked with a chuckle.
He gently shook the wine in the glass cup in his hand, and a large black ring on his middle finger was very eye-catching.
He squinted slightly at the woman dancing on the stage, and whispered to himself:
"The wax moon in this rejuvenation courtyard is indeed as warm as March in Zhuzhou!
...... The pieces of apricot blossoms are light, the drops are lovesick, and he goes to the sound of the flute, how can he send jade love?"
The man groaned, tilted his head and drank the wine in the glass, and his fair cheeks immediately turned red.
"Heh! what a man is not ignorant and vain his youth...... "He poured another glass of wine, and the chuckle on his face was even worse.
"Childe, aren't you alone when you drink alone, is it okay to let the concubine accompany you?" the dancing woman came over and asked tentatively. This woman's voice is like a yellow bird, with a pink face and peach cheeks, and a graceful posture, which is very beautiful.
The man nodded slightly, motioning for her to sit down next to her.
The woman was overjoyed. You must know that when he first came, the old mother asked many sisters to wait for him, but he refused, and although he was handsome, his expression was very cold, but it was more terrible than those hideous guests.
But in order to envelop the gold owner, she still tried to approach him, but she didn't expect him to really agree, and she was naturally very happy in her heart.
The woman knelt beside her, but she didn't dare to get too close, poured a glass of wine, and said with a smile:
"Childe, concubine toasts you!"
The man didn't drink it, but asked, "Is the girl from Bailu Village, Xingfeng County?"
"Why does Childe know?" the woman was slightly surprised.
"The young men and women of that village like to grind the cores of apricots and plums and make bracelets. The man pointed to a bracelet made of apricot kernels on her wrist and said, "Why do you still carry this when you are covered in pearls and emeralds? ”
“...... If Childe doesn't like this, I'll take it off. As she spoke, the woman took off the bracelet and placed it on the table.
The man chuckled and took another sip of wine, "Although it is not gold, silver and jade, but it is also chic and simple, compared to the other jewelry on your body, is it really cheap?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether the son in front of her thought the chain was good or not, so she had to smile and say: "If the son thinks it is good, it is better to give it to the child." ”
"No, since you don't think it's expensive, why should others think it's expensive? People are like this sometimes, they don't think it's good-looking, but they still can't help but look at it a few more times. The man said.
......
Outside the city, in the small village, the men's lives were hanging by a thread, but suddenly a white light flew from afar, and when it approached, it turned into a woman with a golden mask.
She exclaimed, "Such a strong demonic qi, he has actually cultivated to the realm of the Fa Spirit!"
With a wave of his hand, a white glow rushed towards the blue mist.
The blue mist was like a huge bell jar, and it only trembled a few times when it touched the white light, and then the white light was dispersed.
The woman said: "It's really powerful!", her left hand and into a sword trick, a five-colored bell flew from her wrist to the front, and shouted: "Tongtian Wuji, Gengjin opens chaos, break!"
The white bell instantly turned into a dazzling white light, and it thundered away in the northwest corner of the mist.
"Boom!!"
The two qi exchanged to send out a white thorn of lightning and a deafening thunder, and the blue mist shattered and turned into a drizzle of rain falling from the sky.
At this moment, the men in the nightmare were awakened, and a cold sweat broke out on their foreheads, and they all secretly said that they had terrible nightmares.
A dark red pearl flew out as the blue mist broke, and the woman hurried after it, but it was still too slow.
"Ran away for her...... It doesn't seem to be the demon with the thorn of the Immortal, but its mana should be on par with mine, so why is it so cowardly?" the woman muttered to herself in confusion.
At the same time as the thunder sounded, the man in the rejuvenation courtyard frowned, Huo Ran stood up, opened the window behind him, and his eyes patrolled the night sky like an eagle.
When the woman saw him standing in front of the window silently, she walked over and asked softly, "Childe, what's wrong with you?"
The man did not speak, turned around, his face was even more cold, threw a silver ingot on the table, turned and walked out the door.
......
Yin Tiancheng is on their side.
After Yin Tiancheng went out, Li Daochang felt that something was not quite right, and walked straight to the upstairs guest room.
Miao Xiaohuan asked, "What's wrong with the Taoist?"
Li Dao said: "It's not good! It's not good......
Miao Xiaohuan hurriedly followed: "What's wrong?"
"These rooms, that's not right...... It seems that a lot of people have died here. ”
Miao Xiaohuan looked around, there were no traces of a fight, and she didn't see any blood, and said in surprise: "Is there anything wrong here?"
Daochang Li inspected room by room, room by room, and said:
"There may be several people here who have been sucked into the souls of demons and died silently...... No wonder it was seized. ”
"Isn't it?" Miao Xiaohuan was a little nervous.
"I remember that the Taoist chief told us that in the initial stage of demon art cultivation, because of the shallow mana, they can only rely on the formation and the demon weapons they have refined to harm people, and their cultivation can only absorb people's essence and blood day by day, and people will not die all at once, but slowly lose weight and wither. Only demons who have cultivated to the highest level of 'Fa Spirit' stage have the ability to directly extract people's souls and make people die instantly!"
Li Dao said: "The son can be taught, you are not mistaken." ”
"Isn't it, we're not going to be so unlucky, ......?" Miao Xiaohuan cried, "The last time Ouyang Ning and they were only in the primary 'Spirit' stage, it was difficult enough, and the demonic mana in the Faling stage was enough to compete with the fairy, so how can we deal with it this time?"
"Oops......" Li Daochang glanced at her helplessly: "Don't be too nervous, the demon has already left, but I can still detect some residual breath." ”
"Oooh...... That's okay!That's good!" Miao Xiaohuan patted her chest and exhaled two breaths, and her heart just fell when she mentioned her throat.
Li Daochang smiled: "You girl, when I first saw you, you were still like a little tiger with your teeth and claws, why are you like a timid little mouse now?"
"I ...... Do I have it?" Miao Xiaohuan immediately straightened up.
At this moment, they heard a strange noise outside the house, Li Daochang and Miao Xiaohuan made a look, hurriedly extinguished the fire, and each dodged and hid.
As a result, two figures came in through the window.
One of them lit the fire and twisted it, and felt out half of the candle and lit it. He was tall and thin, in his thirties.
"Grandma's, it's so cold! Another man wrung the rain at the corner of his coat and complained. This man was born burly, in his forties.
"That's right, in my opinion, even if you rush overnight now, you will have to get to Jienuo City after noon tomorrow, so it is better to rest here for the night and leave tomorrow morning. The young man chimed in.
"Fuck you! Don't dream, hurry up and eat something to rest and continue on your way, according to the footsteps of our horses, it will not take more than three minutes to arrive." The older man took a loaf of bread from the parcel and handed it to the young man, and took one himself and nibbled on it.
The young man took over and said, "I haven't just said that, how dare I disobey the order of the Lord of the Du Altar...... But second brother, is Nie Mobei really that powerful? Do you need all our outer altar disciples to go back? Anyway, he is only one person, can he still grow three heads and eight hands?"
When Miao Xiaohuan heard this, she couldn't help but "grunt!" in her heart.
The old man said: "Uncle Qiu knows! But no matter how powerful he is, he can't escape the hidden weapon in the altar. ”
"Hmph!" Miao Xiaohuan sneered, and flew out to block the window: "How powerful are the hidden weapons in your altar?" ”
The two men were startled at first, and when they saw that the other party was a beautiful little woman, they suddenly laughed and said, "Where did you come from, little girl?
"Hmph!" Miao Xiaohuan snorted coldly, and the long whip shook out......
Daochang Li also shot from behind.
After only three or five strokes, the two of them were lying on the ground and could not move.
Under Miao Xiaohuan's interrogation, the two explained the whole situation.
The two said that they were all disciples of the outer altar of the Jienuo County Branch of the Netherworld Sect, and the two of them received a message from the flying pigeon at noon, asking them to quickly go back to deal with the eldest of the three heroes of Shenpeng, and those who did not arrive before noon tomorrow would be severely punished. But the exact details of the matter are still unknown.
Miao Xiaohuan didn't know why the eldest brother had left so many days earlier, but he was still in Jienuo. And knowing that others have set a trap to harm him, it is likely that he will do it tomorrow afternoon, so he can't help but be anxious.
This place is still far away from Jienuo City, and the time is so tight that he will leave immediately, Miao Xiaohuan saw that Yin Tiancheng had been gone for a long time and did not return, so he said: "Dao Chief, we don't wait for the second brother, let's go to Jienuo City first, I will leave a message for him to come and meet as soon as possible." ”
Li Daochang had no choice but to do so, so the two of them took these two men and hurried towards Jienuo City on horseback.
......
Let's say that Yin Tiancheng came out of the inn at that time, came from the street to the end of the street, and patted the doors of two restaurants but no one answered. Although the weather is cold now, it will be the Chinese New Year's Eve in a few days, and I don't know why this town is so deserted.
I couldn't buy anything to eat, and I was about to return, but suddenly I heard the sound of a fight. Yin Tiancheng gathered the internal force in his ears, and the sound of the fight was heard vividly.
At this time, in a ruined temple next to the grove on the south side of the street, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy and a masked man were fighting fiercely.
The masked man showed a pair of old eyes and gray eyebrows, and he was afraid that he was over fifty years old.
The young man's clothes were stained with blood, his hair was half scattered, and his eyes were bloodshot, like a mad lion cub, roaring and making the sword in his hand unusually fierce.