Chapter 4: The Man Who Stands in the Way
The backyard of the palace of Nuoda was also clean after the Jinguan slept, but the Changqing Mountain outside the palace was a little uneven.
Recently, there have been rumors in the city that there is something strange in this mountain, which specializes in intercepting pedestrians in the middle of the night, sucking their essence, and even digging out their hearts and stealing kidneys to take out bones, which is very mysterious. So, these days, almost no one goes out at night.
But at this time, in the quiet Changqing Mountain, in the noise of insects, birds, fish and beasts, there was a sudden sound of the soles of shoes rubbing the fallen leaves, which made the night more and more weird.
A man dressed in white and snow walked slowly through the mountains, looked around a few times, and was a little disappointed when he saw that there was no one. He put away his saber boredly, carried it casually on his shoulder, and said, "It's boring!"
"I think you're stealing!"
The sudden voice behind him made the expression of the man in white ripple, he turned around with a smile, looked at the man in plain clothes who stood behind him at some point, and was full of smiles, "Lao Chen, don't come unharmed!"
"Zhuge Ang, return the Void Sword!" The plain-clothed man was furious, his eyes widened, staring directly at Zhuge Ang.
"Why don't you just play with it, stingy ghost!" said Zhuge Ang, reluctantly throwing the sword in his hand, "Give it back to you!
The plain-clothed man threw the simple-looking cast-iron sword in his hand to Zhuge Ang, "Help you fix it." ”
Zhuge Ang took the sword, walked to the plain-clothed man, leaned close to him and whispered, "Lao Chen, have you heard the recent rumors of Changqing Mountain?"
"I've been in the city all year round, so naturally I know more than you! But your apprentice should know it too, so you didn't ask him a few words?"
"That boy is only a mortal, and it is useless to ask too much, so as not to involve innocent people. ”
"Mortal?"
"It's not just a mortal!" said Zhuge Ang with some smugness.
"That's right. Chen Zhixuan nodded, but secretly said in his heart, "Now he is a mortal, and he can't say for sure in the future! After all, he ......."
"Old Chen, let's go, go to your place to drink!" Nothing was found tonight, Zhuge Ang felt that it was not enough to have fun, so he simply wanted to take Chen Zhixuan back to his carpenter shop to have a drink.
Although Zhuge Ang and Chen Zhixuan do not deal with each other on the surface, in fact, the two were a pair of best friends who cherished each other hundreds of years ago, but because of some things, there were some contradictions, and some hearts couldn't get over.
But time has passed, although Zhuge Ang said that he would not get along with each other in old age, in fact, whenever something happened, the first thing he thought of was Chen Zhixuan. But externally, he still claimed that he and Chen Zhixuan had already broken off their righteousness, after all, he had cut off his robe in front of everyone in Xianmen, and if he told the world what he had already repented about, wouldn't it seem that he was capricious.
What's more, the person who first admits the cowardice is himself, and it is shameless to say it.
And Chen Zhixuan had never blamed him for that matter, so no matter how Zhuge Ang dealt with it, he didn't complain. After all, there is a person who has told him to take good care of him.
The two of them walked in Changqing Mountain one after the other, the full moon hung high, and occasionally a few night crows returning late crossed the air, and a few noisy cries resounded through the night sky. As he walked, Zhuge Ang suddenly remembered something, and turned his head to look at Chen Zhixuan, "Old Chen, in more than a month, but it will be a new period for Tianyuan Pavilion to recruit, do you want to go back with me to have a look?"
Tianyuan Pavilion is located at the top of Tianyuan Mountain, the four major immortal mountains, it takes 9,990 steps to climb from the low level of the mountain, and the mountain road is rugged and winding, and the road is even more rocky along the way, and it may take several days for ordinary people to go up the mountain. But for the cultivators in the Heavenly Abyss Pavilion, it was only a moment's work to resist the sword.
Tianyuan Pavilion will open the mountain gate every five hundred years, recruit talented and talented people, and cultivate them to be able to slay demons and maintain justice in the world. Five hundred years ago, the Demon Dao was in turmoil, and the name was boring, in order to suppress the Demon Dao, Tianyuan Pavilion lost a large number of people, so this time it was a "grand event" for Tianyuan Pavilion to open the mountain gate to recruit new people.
"What does the matter of your Tianyuan Pavilion have to do with me, a person from Linxi Valley?"
"Don't you want to go back and see Si Chentian?"
"The man who has been dead for five hundred years, will you let me go back and see if he has rotted into a pile of bones?"
"That's what I said!" Zhuge Ang thought about it carefully, and felt that what Chen Zhixuan said was right, everyone was dead, why were they still worried, it only added to their troubles.
The two of them continued to move in the direction of the imperial city, and when they reached the halfway point, they suddenly felt something strange. The two looked at each other and laughed together.
"It seems that tonight is not for nothing!" Zhuge Ang seemed to be ignited with passion, gearing up and eager to try.
"Northwest direction!" Chen Zhixuan was calm and composed.
"No, no, no, more than that!"
"The second place on the list of the sons of the Immortal Gate, Zhuge Ang of the Tianyuan Pavilion, the sixth place, Chen Zhixuan of Linxi Valley, the second place, don't come to harm!" The voice that came out of the darkness was somewhat familiar and somewhat unfamiliar. But with the appearance of the black shadow and the red mark on the cloak, Zhuge Ang and Chen Zhixuan smiled.
Actually, the Devil's Way.
"Hey, Lin Heigou, what are you pretending to be a ghost again?"
"Zhuge Ang, if you call me Lin Hei Dog again, don't blame me for being unkind!" The person who came seemed to be angry with Zhuge Ang's name for him, "Don't think I'll be afraid of you!"
Zhuge Ang didn't think about it, and continued: "Lin Heigou, what are you doing with so many people in Changqing Mountain? Are you also responsible for the recent incidents in the Imperial City? You are really dogs who can't change their! The big battle five hundred years ago was not lost badly enough! Do you want to make a comeback now? I can leave the words here, don't think about it!"
"You're sick, Lao Tzu just came, just passing by, don't put any on Lao Tzu's head!"
"It's not you?" Zhuge Ang wondered, "This is strange, is it really a rumor?"
"No, it should be someone else who is making trouble!" Chen Zhixuan said slowly, "Lin Chuan doesn't have any human breath on his body, so he said that he just came, and there is no doubt that he is passing by here. But who else could it be besides the Demon Dao?"
Who would it be to stir up this peaceful and prosperous era once again in 500 years?
Because Lin Chuan and his entourage had just arrived, they happened to meet Zhuge Ang and Chen Zhixuan halfway, and the three of them had a lot of connections, so Lin Chuan followed them back to the city with a dead face, and also took his entourage with him.
Chen Zhixuan's carpenter shop was already crowded, and after standing with more than a dozen people, it became more and more cramped. And the three of them, sitting around a small wooden table, actually drank happily.
Zhuge Ang was greedy for a cup, and he didn't know how to restrain himself when he drank it, so he must be the first person to get drunk. Moreover, he also has a bad habit, that is, he likes to take off people's clothes when he is drunk.
Lin Chuan was also a little drunk, and in a trance he felt a pair of hands across his neck, and after a while, he felt a chill in his chest, and then a chill hit his whole body.
And Chen Zhixuan, who was drinking on the side, looked at the embarrassing scene between the two and had a headache.