¹ Changning City has been very quiet for many years, with clear forces guarding their own acres and threes of land, and there are few fights except for a few thefts and night raids on the widow's door.

Near the east gate of the city, there is a classical building more than ten floors high, which is a few points higher than the city wall. At the bottom, there are some daily necessities, pills, food, and the like. The highest floor is a tavern of sorts.

The rice wine in the tavern is cheap and delicious, and people who are idle like to order a pot of wine, a plate of peanuts, is an afternoon, not only can enjoy the afterglow of the sunset, but also the scenery of Changning Lake when night is about to fall.

This is the property of the four major families of the Yu family in Changning City, and the operation of this restaurant has never made money, but it is just the hobby of Yu Chen, the third son of the Yu family, who likes to live a quiet and leisurely life, so he opened this small restaurant.

Usually when he is not there, the people who come to this restaurant are chatting, and it looks like it is not lively, and there is even a storyteller here.

When Yuchen comes here, everyone will stop talking and quietly enjoy the beautiful scenery, or taste rice wine, or polish ink and paint, or play games next to each other. In short, everyone knows that Yuchen Gongzi likes a quiet atmosphere, and he doesn't even dare to speak loudly.

On this day, the tavern was already full, with a bright red tablecloth in the center of the main seat, and a pineapple chair on the table. At this time, a middle-aged man in a white Confucian shirt came up from downstairs, holding a folding fan in his hand. It looks thin, his face is a little sallow, and he thinks that he has been living a difficult life for many years, but there is occasionally some oil between his eyebrows, and he should have lived a rich life recently.

The man walked to the Taishi chair, and the people around him immediately moved their eyes to him, and the folding fan in his hand was unfolded, and five big characters were written on it, "Iron Mouth Ancient Difficult to Complete".

Immediately, a customer said, "Old Gu, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Hurry up and tell me what happened to Widow Liu and Mr. Yang yesterday? It's really a disappointment, I won't talk about it halfway through!"

A bearded man from the other building also spoke: "Yes, we are all very interested in this matter of Elder Yang and Widow Liu, and we have to finish talking about it today!"

The man put away the folding fan and put it on the table, then smiled slightly and said, "Let's talk about Widow Liu and Old Yang later." Let's talk about something new today!"

"What's new? Is there such a wonderful thing about Widow Liu and Old Lady Yang? Gu Nanquan, if it weren't so exciting, you wouldn't want to get a penny reward today!" someone asked, and there was a hint of curiosity in his tone.

"Yes, yes!" said the others around him, agreeing.

Gu Nanquan opened his mouth and said, "Everyone knows that our Changning City has been calm for too long!

"Didn't you say it, the Hou family and the Baili family ......" When it comes to big things, someone immediately thinks of something.

"Gu Nanquan, if you are making up nonsense, don't say it! You are a broken storyteller in the east of our city, what do you know?"

Gu Nanquan said: "I swear, this is definitely the news that I got after a long time, it is absolutely true, if there is a sentence that is not true, I am willing to thunder and thunder!"

"Okay, good, you say. "I have to say that the people who come to this small restaurant to drink are very idle people, and some things in the city that they don't know about are of great interest.

"Everyone knows, our four top families in Changning City, right?" Gu Nanquan first glanced at all the people and asked.

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Our four top families in Changning City, Nanmen, Qin, Hou, and Yu, the four families with big surnames, who doesn't know this!"

"But three days ago, there were only three families. This Hou family disappeared overnight, and those masters who were attached to the Hou family disappeared without a trace one by one!" Gu Nanquan said lightly, with a slight sense of calm in his tone.

Everyone present had a shocked expression on their faces, who could make the top family in Changning City disappear overnight? The eyes of everyone showed disbelief, and they said one after another: "Ah! How is it possible? The Hou family is a big family! How could it be gone overnight? Without any warning?"

"As far as the news I got from Old Gu, the disappearance of the Hou family is all because of a woman! Her name is Baili Lingju, the sixth lady of the Baili family. Gu Nanquan spoke again.

"Could it be that a month ago, the Hou family suddenly launched an attack on the entire Baili family and killed the people of the Baili family, and the revenge of this Baili Lingju made this Hou family disappear? However, how can this Baili Lingju have such great ability, and the Hou family is sitting on the masters of the six Mingxin Periods! When the realm of the masters of the Mingxin Period is furnishing?" said someone who was quite involved in cultivation.

"This matter, it has to start from a month ago!" Gu Nanquan said, "This Hou family has an only son, named Hou Yuanjue, who has no ability, and often goes to the small towns around our Changning City to bully men and women, speaking of this Hou Yuanjue's matter, it is also extremely exciting, let's not talk about him today, just talk about the destruction of the Hou family." ”

"A month ago, Hou Yuanjue went to a small town, and when he came back, he was demented, and that thing was also cut!"

Hearing this, some people exclaimed: "I'll go! There is still such a story? This thing of the eldest young master of the Hou family is cut, and the patriarch of the Hou family, Hou Chuang, can bear it?"

Gu Nanquan continued: "This Hou family naturally can't bear it! So he sent the master of the Ming Heart Period, Zong Guan, to arrest the murderer. In the end, it didn't succeed, but the realm of this crown was gone! Only one Prisoner Soul Bead was brought back. ”

"Wait! Soul Orb, what is this?"

Gu Nanquan smiled, with an expression of incomprehension, and then said: "It turns out that this Young Master Hou's soul was pulled out of his body, so the whole person will become demented. The Prison Soul Bead can imprison a person's soul, and this Prison Soul Bead brought back by the Sect Crown is the soul of Young Master Hou!"

"Speaking of souls...... Therefore, the soul shearing master is the only one who can have a way! So the Hou family invited the sixth lady of the Baili family, that is, the Baili Lingju, who is a mysterious soul shearing master......

Gu Nanquan was talking about the story in his mouth, and everyone listened attentively, everything he said could be regarded as an increase in knowledge for these ordinary people.

Some people don't even drink rice wine, and listen carefully to Gu Nanquan's words. Everyone in the store, including the shopkeeper, looked at Gu Nanquan and listened with relish, and even a man in white walked up from downstairs without noticing.

The man in white was dressed very brightly, wearing a precious silk brocade robe, a high-quality jade pendant pinned to his waist, a pair of red phoenix eyes, and with his handsome face, he was a beautiful man.

He sat quietly on a stool on the side, crossed his legs, and listened with great interest to what Gu Nanquan said.

“...... Although Baili Lingju's father's body has been cured, but he was deprived of the inheritance of the Baili family, and the death of his wife and son has become a knot in his heart, as long as the Baili family does not destroy the clan for a day, he will not be able to break through this realm! If he can't break through the realm, he can't open the secret book of the soul shearing master, then, the soul of the young master of the Hou family can't go back!"

"Hou Chuang heard Baili Lingju's explanation, and directly said domineeringly: 'What should I do! This Baili family treats your father and daughter like this, even if you don't take revenge, my Hou family can't look past it!' So, the Hou family easily destroyed the Baili family! As soon as you say this, everyone knows why a month ago, the Hou family suddenly attacked the Baili family, right?" Gu Nanquan picked up the fan on the table, unfolded it gently, and slowly fanned it with a smile.

"Oh! This hundred-mile spirit ju, at such a young age, is really unbelievable!" someone around him said, and he didn't know whether to praise or degrade.

"Then of course, I haven't finished talking yet! The rest of the matter, you won't have this opinion about this Hundred Miles Spirit Ju after you hear it, she ......" Gu Nanquan said again, and suddenly he saw the man in white who had just come up in his eyes, and the words in his mouth stopped abruptly.

Seeing that Gu Nanquan suddenly stopped talking, everyone looked anxious, urging him to continue: "Gu Nanquan, what's wrong with her?

Gu Nanquan still didn't speak, and when everyone saw his eyes looking in the direction of a corner of the staircase, they all looked over very curiously, and the figure of the man in white was reflected in everyone's eyes.

The people who were discussing and urging noisily just now, when they saw the man in white, suddenly closed their mouths and sat down quietly, like a mouse seeing a cat.

The air was suddenly quiet, and the man in white stood up with a smile on his lips.