rented an upper room in the most luxurious inn in the town, took a comfortable bath, Shi Xiaole changed into a new pale green shirt and sat cross-legged on the bed.

For more than two months, his martial arts have not slackened, and although there is no sign of a breakthrough in his cultivation, he has also improved by three points.

Compared with cultivation, the progress of martial arts is much more obvious.

The fifteenth sword of death, the first thirteen swords were practiced by him to the seventy percent realm, the fourteenth sword was practiced to the fifty percent realm, and even the most unlikely fifteenth sword was faintly figured out by him.

The current Shi Xiaole, not to mention the Xuanqi Sevenfold, even if he kills the Xuanqi Eightfold Master, if he is allowed to fight Guan Qingying in the same realm, he can easily deal with the other party within ten swords.

Late at night.

The lights on the street flickered on and off, making the town a little lonely.

A young man walked into the inn, about twenty years old, dusty, and opened his mouth to order two roast chickens, a roast goose, and three catties of bamboo leaves.

When the food and wine came up, the young man used both hands and mouths, and after a while, he ate cleanly.

"Brethren, we have a rice bucket in town. ”

There were several big men at the next table, and one of them made a sarcastic voice, which made the drinkers laugh.

The young man looked indifferent.

After a while, slightly cramped footsteps sounded from outside the inn, and several more people walked in.

"Brother Lin, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. ”

The man in brocade at the head looked apologetic and walked towards the young man respectfully.

The young man waved his hand: "It's okay, I just came here too." ”

"That being the case, please also ask Brother Lin to move a little, my father has prepared a banquet for you. ”

Seeing the residue on the table, the man in brocade was even more polite and stretched out his hand to invite.

"Well, I'm worried that I haven't eaten enough. ”

By the time the group left, the few strong men who had just laughed at the young man were already trembling with fright.

"Who is that kid, who deserves to be personally invited by the young gang leader of the Zihua Gang?"

"No matter who it is, it's not something we can mess with, but fortunately people didn't care about it just now, otherwise how could we have good fruit to eat. ”

Zihua Gang, one of the three major gangs in Xuanfeng Town. The young gang leader should be right, and the Xuanqi six-fold cultivation is one of the best in the town.

A few strong men still seemed a little scared, put down the silver and hurried away.

By the window, taking in everything, Shi Xiaole smiled and beckoned the shopkeeper.

"Little brother, may I ask if there is a half-moon pool nearby?"

Shi Xiaole took out a silver ingot and handed it over, but he didn't expect it in his heart. After so many years, the place that the nameless monk said may not still exist.

The shopkeeper smiled happily, hurriedly took it, and said, "Childe, the place you said is small, and it is at the foot of the Wanggui Slope, three miles west of the town. But don't go, Childe. ”

As soon as he heard that there was a play, Shi Xiaole was overjoyed, and when he saw that the shopkeeper was full of nervousness, he couldn't help asking, "Why?"

"Childe doesn't know, that is the range of the ghost castle, and anyone who goes there is only a dead end. ”

Under the introduction of the shopkeeper, Shi Xiaole learned that since five years ago, a very strange thing had happened in Xuanfeng Town, but anyone who entered within 100 meters of Wanggui Slope would disappear for no reason, without exception.

Later, some people claimed to have seen a stone castle, with a gloomy atmosphere, and long-haired ghosts floating in the castle, and since then, there has been a legend of the ghost castle.

It's not that no masters have explored there.

But first, the authenticity of the ghost castle still needs to be verified. Second, Xuanfeng Town is too remote, resulting in very few Lingguan Realm masters coming here, and they can't find anything when they check it.

"Childe, don't go there. ”

Probably seeing that Shi Xiaole was very friendly, the shopkeeper repeatedly instructed.

It's a pity that Shi Xiaole came to Xuanfeng Town to look for possible strange fruits, how could he be frightened by this matter. After eating, he went out of town alone.

It didn't take long for a lonely cliff under the moon to be in sight.

Transporting all his strength, Shi Xiaole carefully walked to the edge of the lonely cliff, and soon saw a deep ditch that had long dried up and was in the shape of a crescent moon.

According to the nameless monk, there is a cave in the deep ditch, and there is a strange fruit seed that exists until it is about 400 meters underground.

After so many years, the strange fruit may have been removed, but Shi Xiaole still wanted to go down and take a look.

But what surprised him was that he couldn't get close to the half-moon pool, every time he thought he had arrived, and when he looked closely, there was still a lot of distance.

"This place has been set up in formation. ”

Shi Xiaole didn't panic, remembering the words of the shopkeeper, but closed his eyes for a while. He believes that something will come out of itself.

Woo......

Sure enough, a ghostly howl suddenly sounded, as if it was on the left.

Shi Xiaole pulled out his sword, but stabbed to the right, and the tip of the sword stabbed a pile of black mist, and the black mist dispersed, and then took shape in the back, conjuring up a claw.

Unexpectedly, Shi Xiaole seemed to have expected it, his right arm moved slightly, and the long sword slashed back, cutting off the black claw shadow again.

Sou!

The claw shadow shattered, it turned out to be just a false move, and a strange smell poured into Shi Xiaole's nose. But his movements did not slow down in the slightest, and this time he finally stabbed the entity.

"You're not afraid of poison?"

The black mist vanished, revealing a slightly hideous face, holding the sword in his left hand, and blood was flowing from it.

"You're the one in the Ghost Castle?"

Shi Xiaole didn't answer the rhetorical question.

"Hehe, I want to know, go down and ask Hades. ”

The man opened his mouth suddenly, and a stream of black blood arrows shot out at a rapid speed. The two sides were less than three feet apart, and with the internal force of his Xuanqi fourfold, even the Xuanqi sixfold master would be hit.

He believed that Shi Xiaole was no exception.

Laugh at.

A cyan sword qi sliced the black blood arrow in the center, and in a flash, the man was shocked to find that the long sword stopped above his head.

What a fast sword!

The eyes of the young man opposite lit up with a strange color, making the man's spirit seem to be hooked.

"Where is the ghost castle?"

"It's right above the half-moon pool. ”

The man's answer made Shi Xiaole stunned.

"How do I get in?"

"I don't know, Granny Ghost doesn't trust anyone, I'm just in charge of monitoring, sweeping away the little ghosts of trespassers, usually if something happens, someone will pick me up and enter the ghost castle. ”

After asking a lot of questions, the other party knew very little, and the only useful news was that the three gangs in Xuanfeng Town seemed to be somewhat involved in the ghost castle and would regularly provide medicinal materials to it.

Shi Xiaole didn't talk nonsense anymore, killed the other party with a sword, and walked away. Since he couldn't enter the formation, he simply went back and studied it first.

A quarter of an hour later, two black shadows walked out of the formation. To outsiders, it looks like it appeared out of nowhere.

"Imp No. 6 was killed, with a sword. ”

"To be able to kill the No. 6 imp with one sword, the strength of the person who came is at least at the seventh level of Xuanqi, and Xuanfeng Town seems to be only able to do it by the leader of the Zihua Gang. ”

"He doesn't dare! It should be an outsider, go and tell your mother-in-law. ”

The two of them lifted the corpse of Imp Six and walked back into the formation.

The next day.

Shi Xiaole, who returned to Xuanfeng Town, directly found the Zihua Gang, the largest of the three major gangs.

"I don't know if the young man is here, what are you doing?"

In the hall, Ying Xiong, the leader of the Zihua Gang, secretly looked at Shi Xiaole.

Although Xuanfeng Town is remote, Ying Xiong also traveled through the rivers and lakes in his early years, and judging from his eyesight, Shi Xiaole should be the one who is more outstanding among young people.

"Dare to ask the helper, do you know the strength of the master of the ghost castle and the ghost mother-in-law?"

Ying Xiong's pupils shrank violently, and immediately returned to normal, and he laughed: "I don't know why Shaoxia asked this question?"

"I've heard that the ghost castle has killed a lot of innocent people over the years, so I want to eradicate it. ”

Shi Xiaole said lightly.

When he came, he inquired, Ying Xiong was already forty-nine years old, and his cultivation was sevenfold Xuanqi, so his strength should not be very strong. When they met, the other party did not give him a sense of threat.

So Shi Xiaole was too lazy to be vain and wronged.

If the other party is the assistant of the ghost castle, just take it down and ask it, if not, then make another calculation.

"Shaoxia, you should be self-aware, it's better not to get into trouble, take back what you just said, I can pretend not to hear. ”

Ying Xiongpi smiled and didn't laugh.

"I'm sorry, but I never take back what I said. ”

Shi Xiaole was unmoved.

Smack.

Ying Xiong clapped his hands, and ten masters immediately rushed outside the hall, and without commanding, they directly killed Shi Xiaole.

These ten people, each of them are Xuanqi Fivefold Masters, and they cooperate very tacitly, and it is effortless to kill two or three Xuanqi Sixfold Masters.

The energy spread, pressing towards Shi Xiaole who was sitting on the side like a mountain, until the ten people approached, and Shi Xiaole took out his sword.

A sword slashed and the sword was sheathed.

Bang bang bang......

The weapons in the hands of the ten people were broken in two, and they were all stunned on the spot.

"What?"

Ying Xiong was also stunned, his eyes widening slightly.

"How about helping?"

Shi Xiaole sat in place and did not move, drinking tea leisurely.

Ying Xiong waved his hand and retreated from everyone, and said an astonishing sentence: "Don't hide it from the young man, Ying Mou has long been unaccustomed to what the ghost castle has done, and he has been planning to eliminate the ghost mother-in-law all these years." Fang just wanted to see the strength of the young man. ”

Shi Xiaole didn't show surprise, because the other party didn't have a murderous aura from beginning to end, but just asked, "Aren't you afraid that I was sent by the ghost mother-in-law to test you?"

Ying Xiong said with a smile: "First, the young man just came to Xuanfeng Town yesterday evening. Second, the ghost mother-in-law didn't have to send someone to tempt at all, because she had all played a very powerful trick on the gang leaders of our three major gangs, so that we had to submit to her. ”

"But recently, by chance, we were rescued by a certain Gu master and got rid of the Gu poison. In the past few years, the ghost mother-in-law has refined her Gu arts, used our three major gangs to collect materials, take what she wants, and often capture our subordinates to experiment, we have endured her for a long time!"

In the end, Ying Xiong changed his smile and his face was full of murderous energy.

"Are you sure you'll kill her?"

Shi Xiaole asked.

"The ghost mother-in-law's cultivation has reached the sevenfold level of Xuanqi, and with the addition of Gu techniques, the ninefold masters of the idle Xuanqi are not opponents. However, we have also found a lot of masters, plus Shaoxia, with the combination of many people, we will be able to take her down in one fell swoop and defeat the ghost castle. ”

In Ying Xiong's eyes, Shi Xiaole's strength is at least the seventh level of Xuan Qi, if he is willing to join them, although he cannot be regarded as the main force, he is definitely the backbone, and he can increase his chances of winning.

Thinking of this, Ying Xiong was a little helpless.

In fact, if it weren't for the level of the three major gangs, they couldn't get in touch with the masters of the Spirit Pass Realm, and they couldn't afford to pay too much, why would they be so troublesome.