One night after Wen Zixiao left, Yazhi stared at the nine-sided exquisite box in front of her for a long time. He was the only one in this room.

Suddenly, he reached out and pressed his thumb against the lotus-shaped mechanism on the box. The lotus petals flipped over in an instant, and Gengen Jin was aimed at him, as if he was ready.

Yazhi didn't pay attention to his door, but still pressed the lotus canopy position in the middle, and then he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and pressed it hard. He only felt a slight tingling in his fingertips, and then he only heard a "click" as the lotus mechanism fell off from under the box.

Yazhi breathed a sigh of relief, to be able to unlock this mechanism requires not only intelligence, but also guts. This kind of solution, Yazhi studied it two days after he got it, and he insisted on holding it for so many days. Maybe it's because of Wen Zixiao's worries that he won't let him do this, or maybe it's because he wants to drag it out and stay, so that he can use it as an excuse not to go back.

Ignoring this, he gently examined the box. Hidden under the mechanism is a recessed keyhole, but the length of this keyhole is about an inch.

Yazhi stood up and looked around, there was a sword on the cabinet, he gently picked up the sword, took out the sword and made a gesture in front of the keyhole, and then he aimed the tip at the hole, this sword was wider than the keyhole.

He had an answer in his mind, but he wanted to see if the other swords were useful. This keyhole is really custom-made, Ya Zhi looked at the top and bottom of this keyhole, and pulled out his wind whirlwind blue and white knife with a ghost, and the knife head sucked it with a "clang" before it was close, this size is just right, and it fits together completely.

Yazhi gently held the knife, he twisted it to the left and right, and then turned it one hundred and eighty degrees clockwise, only to see the lid pop open on its own. When Yazhi saw this slit, he put away the whirlwind blue and white knife in his hand, and then he pushed open the beautiful box, and he himself pushed away the sealed memory.

Inside the box is a delicate umbrella and a letter. Yazhi picked up the letter, which turned out to be left to him by Ye Ruying. He immediately opened it and took a look.

"Ah Cheng, I know you will have many doubts, and my achievements today are all my choice. You are the only surviving man in the Ye family, I don't want to put you in danger, I am willing to bear all the injustices and evil words. What you have to remember is that our father's name is Ye Xiaotian, the son of Ye Jinyan, the lord of Dingling Shangcheng City, Jiangsu, and her mother's name is Lu Yinxue, she is the only daughter of the old owner of Luyang in Bayu Wujie Villa. This exquisite umbrella is something that my father gave to my mother, 'thousands of miles by the wind whirling blue and flowers, flowers and leaves falling exquisite umbrellas.' I don't know if you still have any memories.

You're out there, don't trust anyone. Don't stay too long in the Enlightenment Realm Villa, where you have to be careful Fan Tianrui, the young master of the Sixth Heavenly Demon Sect has had some intersections with him recently.

Everything is fine on my sister's side, be careful yourself, don't read it. ”

Yazhi put down the letter and put him away carefully. Then he looked at the umbrella in the box, and suddenly felt a sense of familiarity in his heart...... Yazhi was puzzled. This umbrella is very delicately made, and his appearance is similar to that of Jiangnan oil-paper umbrellas. Yazhi took out this umbrella, and it was surprisingly light.

He was about to reach out to open the umbrella when suddenly a section of the handle fell from the umbrella, each of which was marked with a different color. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple, each color ring is painted with a sesame-sized black dot. At the top of the color ring is a ring that is carved with flowers and leaves, wind and clouds, the top is a black line on a white background, and the bottom is all black, and there is a white dot on it. These are the two most special sections.

It's like turning...... Yazhi thought to himself, he turned the entire umbrella handle slightly to the left, and the umbrella opened immediately with a "boom".

It turns out that this umbrella opens like this...... The whole umbrella is divided into eight sides, the umbrella surface is white with a faint yellow, and the clean plain surface has no patterns. Yazhi gently touched the surface of the umbrella, not feeling a little surprised, is this silk? Or is it something else? Even Yazhi, who is familiar with fabrics, doesn't know what kind of material it is for a while.

Yazhi turned the umbrella, and he looked at the eight umbrellas by himself, which was quite large enough to accommodate two people underneath. On one of them, the imprint of a small seal was found. Yazhi touched the uneven surface, "Ding Ling Shangcheng?", he muttered in his mouth.

This piece of fabric is stamped with the steel stamp of Ding Ling Shangcheng, didn't my father grow up in Wujie Villa? He went home, but he never mentioned the matter of his grandfather and Ding Ling going to the city......

Ya Zhi thought about staring at the umbrella bones, especially the umbrella frame that supports the umbrella in the middle, which is as thick as Cardamom Girl's wrist, which is completely different from the principle of umbrella making, and this open umbrella bone is long and thick, with an umbrella surface in the middle, and there are small grooves up and down. Is there a different umbrella inside and outside? There are three layers?

Yazhi glanced at the extra nine-color ring on the handle of the umbrella again. What would be the effect if it was turned individually? Ya Zhi pondered for a while, and noticed the color of each ring, turning to the left will change the shape of the umbrella, and turning to the right will not have any reaction.

The two ends of this color, black and white, plus the seven colors in the middle, are exactly the synthesized yang number nine, and the umbrella surface is eight. He has rotated the nine rings, only the white background and black line on the top of the flower and leaf wind and cloud carving ring no matter which side it turns, no matter which way it turns, so calculated, the seven colors in the middle plus the bottom end of the black, a total of eight changes, and the number "eight" on the opposite umbrella surface. This is somewhat different from its name, "Nine Faces Exquisite".

Yazhi silently put these eight points on a line. What do the eight dots on these colors mean? What is the other side of the color?

And although this umbrella can change in eight ways, what does it have to do with the Wind Whirlwind Blue and White Knife? Everyone thinks it has something to do with this magic knife, but ......

"Thousands of miles ride the wind to spin blue and white, flowers and leaves fall exquisite umbrellas. A voice appeared in his ear.

Yazhi had a flash of inspiration, and he raised his eyes to see the carved four elements of "flower", "leaf", "wind" and "cloud".

"Clever, I'll understand as soon as I say it. "This is the sword soul of the blue and white knife, speaking in the consciousness of Yazhi.

"Senior, you ......"

"I really didn't expect that I would be able to see something from Dingling Uptown thirty years later. The materials used for this umbrella are all from this city. Because of the special craftsmanship contained in the special materials, only this city has it in the entire Central Plains. ”

"How do you know, senior?"

"When I was alive, I was the lord of the city, Ye was silent, and the words were cautious. I really am your grandfather. ”

Yazhi was silent for a while before saying, "How do you prove it?"

"You're here again, kid. Suspicious, really...... Didn't I teach you to use Xuantian Gang Qi last time? This thing is something that only my Ye family can ...... You turn your face and deny me?"

"I haven't heard of ...... in Upper Town"

"Of course you haven't heard of it, it was destroyed thirty years ago. At that time, your father was only eleven years old, and now it should be a ...... in a deserted city."

"So the Wind Whirlwind Blue and White Knife was snatched from someone thirty years ago, right......? Is this an imitation on me?", Yazhi was very surprised, and her heart was also a little excited.

"......", Ye Jinyan didn't speak for a while.

"Senior ......"

“......”

"Grandpa, are you there?"

"The Wind Whirlwind Blue and White Knife is a ...... that I spent ten years forging with him", Ye Jinyan changed his hippie tone, with a hint of sadness in his words.

Who is he? Yazhi's curiosity became stronger and stronger, and he forgot for a while that he still had something to understand about the "nine-sided exquisiteness".

"The mechanism in front of you is from my toy for your father, it's called the 'Eight-Sided Exquisite Box', and it has eight short cylinders on it that can be rolled, each with a pattern on it, or none there. Each time you turn this box, it will change its appearance, and through the arrangement and combination of different patterns, observe the regularity of the box's changes, until it is arranged to a certain pattern, and the box will return to its original shape, and it can be opened. Ye Jinyan replied seriously: "Your father solved it in one night, do you want to try this?"

"Turning the umbrella to the right and there is no movement, I'm afraid this is much more difficult than your box, grandpa. ”

"Yes, it's hard because it's irregular. I already know the answer, though. Ye Jinyan laughed.

"Can you give me some hints?"

"What do you think of when you see this mechanism?"

"A lot, more?"

"Well, you can say everything you can think of. ”

"This left and right direction, with the table left yang and right yin. My father and mother are all from the Enlightenment Mountain Yang School, plus the name is nine numbers. To use its morph to turn left...... Is that right?", Yazhi said far-fetched, and he asked timidly himself. Although he is talented, he is still a fledgling compared to Ye Jinyan.

"You're very imaginative, that's better. Ye Jinyan said gently.

"Grandpa, you haven't answered me yet. ”

"You're being very serious. It's possible, but not quite. When a person holds something in his right hand, he is accustomed to moving the shaft from right to left, and the thumb of a person who is used to his left hand will instinctively move from left to right. ”

As soon as he said this, Yazhi suddenly realized...... I see.

This is not a riddle, it belongs to human behavior. The author will inject or create a new meaning into it, which will make the object have connotation and a poetic feeling. I think the dots on the color axis are the real riddles. ”

"This reminds me of a galaxy map, Spoon Star?", Yazhi said, and then turned into a position similar to the Big Dipper, but nothing happened, "but this galaxy only has seven stars, and there is one more here." ”

"You're the same as I thought. ”

Yazhi looked at the Big Dipper with the handle of the spoon facing downward, and always felt that something was wrong.

"It's true that there are only seven spoon stars, but there is one star not far from it. He once told me that the star was always bright, and that the first pivot of the spoon was facing it, and that the whole spoon revolved around it. One rotation is a year, and the star is called Polaris. He also told me that there are many continents on the other side of the world, and that people over there call this eight stars Ursa Major. Not only that, but it is surrounded by Ursa Minor, Leo, and many more. He'd seen the spoon turn four hundred times. ”

Who is he, who is she? Ya Zhi became more and more curious, as if this person had a good relationship with his grandfather, could it be his grandmother?

"He's a man who's as important as your grandmother. ”

Yazhi's back stiffened, it turned out that he knew what he was thinking.

"You should know how to read the heavens in the Nalan family. The people of the Nalan family are all very good at one. ”

"Yes, but I'm not old enough to study...... Why is there still no response?", Yazhi still did not see any movement after correcting according to what his grandfather said.

"The North Star isn't in the middle, you move to the right of the Celestial Hub. ”

Yazhi immediately did so, as the white dot turned into place. With a "click", the entire extended handle of the umbrella detached from the front of the black line of flowers and leaves on a white background, revealing a metallic color. The rotatable handle of the umbrella immediately locked.

"Wow, grandpa, you're amazing. ”

"The handle faces south, which is for the summer. Ye Jinyan said softly.

"Summer? My sister was born in the summer. ”

"On summer nights, there are meteor showers in the sky. Ye Jinyan said softly.

"Grandpa, this friend knows the stars very well, who is it?"

"Yes, all things in heaven and earth are in the way of heaven, birth, old age, sickness and death, all things alternate, and the cycle repeats. The plant breaks buds and grows, blossoms and bears fruit, withers and dies, and it will continue to sprout the following spring. People are pregnant in October, and they grow old after decades in the world, and generation after generation after generation is endless. At the rate at which everything is changing, we are a drop in the ocean relative to the sky. However, relative to us, the starry sky in this sky can be said to be eternal and unchanging. ”

Yazhi was stunned by these words, this style of speaking was so familiar, it was very similar to Nalan Rongque.

"This is the whirlwind blue and white knife they are fighting for at any cost. Ye Jinyan then said to him and never spoke again.

Yazhi was reminded of his words, and he gently pulled out the knife hidden in the center of the umbrella stand, and the pattern on it was exactly the same as the one on his body, except that the pattern of this knife was on the left side of the blade, and the pattern of the second knife was on the right. When he completely drew the knife, it was a broken knife, and the blade was only a third of it.

"Why the broken knife, and where are the remaining two-thirds?"

"Wind whirlwind blue and white knife, there are indeed two. Originally, it was created to agree to the invitation of the Enlightenment Mountain Villa to eliminate the Sixth Heavenly Demon Sect. Because Wujie Villa is divided into yin and yang, there are two knives. Due to the repeated urging of the Enlightenment Realm Villa, he could only hand over the cast yang knife. But what no one expected was that the various sects fought to act as this 'exorcist hero', and this knife was stained with the blood of countless people with desires and innocent people, which was extremely angry. ”

"The people of the world are unwilling to bear a responsibility, so they blame this on Ding Ling Shangcheng and push it to me. I had no way to explain to the Enlightenment Villa, so I confessed the second Yin Knife. However, the people of Wujie Mountain Villa said that Ding Ling Shangcheng broke the contract, turned a blind eye to the second knife, and said that it was a copy. ”

"But there are still people in the rivers and lakes who even want a 'copy'. I was very angry, so I used my blood to open this yin knife, and only the Ye family, who knew how to use Xuantian Gangqi, could exert its true power. In the eyes of others, it is just a very ordinary weapon. This result disappointed everyone, and the knife was retained. But it angered those who were hungry for profit, and the hat that Ding Ling was buttoned up to the city became more and more black, and it became darker and darker. This led to a steady stream of killings in the city. ”

"In the end, the Enlightenment Mountain Villa agreed to Master Myora's method of Guixin Temple, and let me accept his 'kind help' to stop the disaster in Shangcheng, so I had to compromise in order not to implicate innocent lives. Master Miao Liang's 'Fazi Seal' given to the Ye family will continue to the three generations of the bloodline. The human heart is unpredictable, and my compromise means that I have acquiesced in my own incorrect intentions, intending to give birth to the Demon Knife and conspire with the Sixth Heaven Demon Sect. Although I am alive, I can't stay in the city anymore, and even if there are people who believe in me, I will let them leave quickly. I dismissed everyone in the city, including my wife and children, and handed them over to my friend. In the face of the empty city, I broke this 'magic knife' and used this knife on your body to cut myself. I don't know why this knife is here, and why I call it the soul of the knife. ”

When Ya Zhi heard this, he immediately put away the magic knife and disrupted the eight reels. He said angrily: "No, why did Enlightenment Mountain Villa ask Grandpa to make weapons? Who entrusted you?"

"Your grandfather Lu Yang. ”

"Don't they have the Liangyi Sword left by their ancestor? Thirty years ago, this sword was not broken!", Yazhi was stunned, this relationship made him sweat on his head.

"They were trying to force my friend to strike the sixth day. ”

"Grandpa, don't sell it. ”

"He was a Taoist priest I picked up when I was ten years old, and he was dying of hunger, so I gave him some food to eat and he stayed. After a few months, I found out that he was the No. 1 'white-clothed Taoist priest' in the rivers and lakes, named Li Xue and Zirui. He is a sword wizard, but he doesn't have a suitable sword, maybe it's too strong for ordinary swords to break. I cast him a handful of 'Frost Falling Snow', and gradually his title changed from 'White-clothed Taoist Priest' to 'Frost Falling Snow Li Baiyi'. A sentence 'The frost falls and the sword cuts down the snow, and no one in the world is better than the white clothes.' That's how he was to describe him. ”

"Is he your sword slave?", Ya Zhi listened, this is exactly the same as what Wang Yiqing said.

"yes, I think you do. He said that he was a little hermit and couldn't control these worldly things. Later, Lu Yang decided to cast a knife after discussion. ”

"Grandpa, you are so powerful, you can make the number one in the world as your sword slave. ”

"I have entrusted my wife and children to him, and since I came out with you, I have not heard from him in the rivers and lakes. And didn't your father grow up in the Enlightenment Mountain? If something hadn't happened to him, he wouldn't have broken his trust with me. ”

"I don't think he's easy. Let's go find him, maybe after some mountain retreats and retreats, my father will be forgotten, and all cultivators are like this, and they can sit for years at a time. Yazhi said seriously.

"This ...... Found it?"

"Hmm. ”