The bamboo leaves are gently swaying, and the night dew is condensed.

The moon in the sky has already slipped far to the west, and if the weather is clear, it will not be long before the first rays of sunlight will shine over the mountains to the east and fall on the earth.

It's the darkest and coldest time of the day...

The small bamboo house on the top of the mountain is dim and cold. The air outside cannot enter the house, the air in the house is still, the new air does not flow, the old air does not pass, it is like a pool of silent stagnant water, cold, dull, and the fish cannot survive here.

"What do you see?"

The old man at the desk had been silent for a long time.

I don't know if he knows if he doesn't want to say it, or if he doesn't know if he can't say it, but in short, he doesn't say a word about the shadow, and he looks at the moonlight moving west outside the windowsill, and he looks a little fascinated. The shadow didn't seem to be in a hurry, standing still in place like a blackened stone monument in the dead space.

Green clouds and green dew white frost.

Insects chirp and smoke moonlight.

The moon moves westward, and the clouds churn.

A flickering night mist gradually rose from the earth, enveloping Yueyang City. It was also at this time that there was something unusual in the Yingshui River in the north. A few beams of light suddenly bloomed in the dark night fog, and then a few more rays of light and shadows bloomed near the beams, and more and more of them continued one after another. From a distance, it is as thin as a needle and thread, colorful and colorful, and you can faintly see the phantom of some beasts roaring, or the phantom of the sword shaking, holding and intertwining with each other. It was the phantom of the battle soul of the cultivator's internal qi being released, and there was only one reason for the cultivator's internal qi to be released, and that was to hurt people.

At the same time, the gates of the east and west of the city were opened one after another. Countless ironclad sergeants poured in from the east and west gates like a flood! Iron horses galloped, breaking through the night fog and rolling mud and dust. These ironclad sergeants were a little different from the sergeants who were standing guard on both sides of Yingshui, and the biggest difference was their equipment. Although they were both wearing chain armor, red tasseled iron helmets, and holding black iron tiger knives, the armor of the two groups of sergeants who were entering the city was embroidered with bright purple orchid patterns, and the cloak behind them was embroidered with a violet flower totem. Compared to the iron blood of those sergeants on the Yingshui River, the sergeants who suddenly poured into Yueyang were even more gorgeous. They entered from the east and west cities, and rushed to the north of the city, but when they reached the junction of the two cities and the north of the city, they all stopped in unison, and did not advance an inch.

"Eh, old is old after all. ”

Looking at the north of the city, the beam of light was bright and extinguished, and the old man on the top of Tianshan Mountain sighed deeply: "I think back then, our senior brothers were just on the holy throne for the first time, but who dared to take it seriously when they spit it out of their mouths? Hey..."

The meaning of the old man's words was very deep, and the shadow seemed to hear the meaning. He turned his face sideways, and also looked north: "The immortal oath, the heavens punish the saints, no one dares to disobey, but many things are not necessarily immutable." Penglai has not lived in immortals for a long time, and the brothers and sisters of the year have also come to the end of the holy realm, and everyone wants to cross that hurdle, go up to the upper floor, and stand in a higher position to see the world. ”

"Then you can tear up the master's edict as waste paper?" The old man's eyes filled with a slight anger.

"It's not a tear up, it's just a change, otherwise we, who have spent our lives cultivating the Fa, what's the point of living? ”

“......”

Perhaps thinking that what the shadow said was not unreasonable, the old man did not find a suitable statement to refute it for a while, and the two fell into a silent atmosphere again. After a long time, seeing that the old man was still speechless, the shadow said again: "Whether it is Xia Yin, Yuan Tiangang, or Li Chunfeng and Lu Fengxian, they are all great hermits who are planning for half their lives to take the last step. They are senior brothers, and it is natural that they will be one step ahead of us, but it makes no sense for the same immortals to only allow them to seek a living, and not allow me to find a way to ascend, right?"

This passage was said very tactfully, even if the speaker spoke in a dull tone, he could still feel the helplessness. The old man squinted slightly, and then looked at the shadow seriously.

I have to say that the "person" in front of me has changed too much. At least twenty years ago, he didn't talk so much, let alone reason with others, even if it was a conversation between fellow disciples and brothers, he would only say a word at most. I never thought that when we met again after twenty years, such a dead and heavy person would actually say so finely for some purpose. For a moment, the old man began to have some doubts, the shadow in front of him was not his "lonely junior brother" after all.

"Ahem..."

Coughing lightly, the old man pulled himself back from his past memories, looked at the shadow and asked softly, "Is this the meaning of Feng Shui, or the meaning of the old witch?"

After being silent for a while, the shadow coldly spit out six words: "It's what everyone meant." ”

"Who are you?" asked the old man.

“......”

The shadow was silent again.

If you retreat and I advance, if you enter and I will advance further, the old man's problem is like a sharp sword approaching step by step. And the shadow, it's not that he can't answer this question, it's just that the price of his answer is really big. Although the old man is not an insider, as long as he is in the game as soon as tonight is over, he is likely to be on the opposite side of him on a subtle level. Therefore, in this kind of situation, as long as you are not a friend or an enemy, it is undoubtedly foolish to reveal your chips to someone who may become your "enemy" early.

"Why, don't you dare to say it?" the old man looked at the shadow and said nothing, and asked coldly.

"I can't say. The shadow said verbatim.

"Oh. ”

The old man replied gently, and then he withdrew his gaze from afar, and began to press the medicine foam on the desk into a thin layer, and then put the potion that he had prepared on the side in the morning. Because the candles in the room were extinguished, it was dark and I couldn't see the changes of the medicinal foam clearly, but the medicinal fragrance volatilized by the medicinal foam dissolved in the water broke through the "time and space circle" of the shadow in an instant, and instantly permeated the entire study.

While applying water, the old man said lightly: "Since you can't say my question, then why should I answer your question? This is obviously unfair to me. ”

"Oh?"

The old man is really very knowledgeable.

He talked for a long time, as if it was just for the foreshadowing of this sentence.

Shadow's question, he didn't want to answer and disdain to lie, but since there were friends from afar, it was reasonable for him to refuse. So he subtly turned this question into a bargaining chip in the previous conversation between the two, and if you don't say it, I won't answer, invisibly in exchange for a more important information. If the shadow answers his question, then he earns it, and it doesn't hurt to answer the shadow's question again. If Shadow didn't say anything, then he wouldn't have to answer Shadow's question anymore. Therefore, for the elderly, this business is a good deal.

The shadow also seems to find herself trapped.

Although he couldn't see his facial features, it was certain that his face would not look good at this time, because at the moment when the old man finished speaking, the air around him seemed to be a person's mood suddenly became depressed, and then the temperature dropped a lot, and even the aroma of medicine that had just filled the study was stagnant.

"Senior brother's wisdom is better than back then. ”

The shadow was unwilling to stop the conversation, and after being silent for a long time, he still chose to clasp his fists and salute the old man first: "Since the senior brother asked, it would be rude if I didn't say it, but there are some things that I really can't say at this time, and I ask the senior brother not to mind." ”

The old man raised his hand and waved: "You say yes, I'll listen." ”

Shadow lowered his hands and said, "There are a lot of people, much more than you think." ”

"How many?"

"A lot. ”

The shadow replied: "Not only those senior brothers who have never entered the game back then, but also many capable people who have never been born have also helped, and even dozens of big * valves who hold real power and Chao Wen Valve are also secretly shooting." In order for him to enter the game one day, the time for my senior brother to ambush the game is not necessarily shorter than Li Chunfeng, and the means are not necessarily less than Xia Yin. Therefore, if the senior brother has already decided to enter the game, then he has to be careful when the game starts. ”

"Big * valve, towards the upper valve?"

"Yes. ”

"To say it is to say nothing..."

The old man smiled disdainfully: "You mean Li Chang'an, right? Since you people missed the opportunity back then, and now you want to strike later, you must choose to conspire with him. Li Changan has the courage and forbearance, as well as the ability and qualifications, and it is indeed a good strategy for you to join forces with him. But everybody knows it, and you're saying that, is that interesting?"

"Senior brother Takami. Shadow didn't explain much.

The old man waved his hand again: "Since you are talking nonsense with me, then I might as well tell you some hints, lest you be sold and help others count the money." ”

"Please also ask my senior brother for advice. Shadow said.

The old man condensed slightly, and said, "Be careful of Feng Shui, don't put all your eggs in one basket." Xia Xun's flesh and blood did seal something, and this thing was indeed sealed by Lao Yin and Fengxian back then, not Chunyang's sword soul. It's just that with the supreme Taoism of Lao Yin and Feng Xian, you still need to join forces to seal things, you can imagine how great this must be. So, in the same way, I also advise you, when the game starts, you can also be careful. There are some things you don't know, but Feng Shui and Lao Wu definitely do. ”

“......”

Both of them said ambiguously, like two scoundrels touting each other about how beautiful their daughter-in-law is, but they said it in a very deep and intriguing way. Especially the old man, he described the things under Xia Xun's cover of the sky in a mysterious way, which didn't sound so real, more like a perfunctory shadow with a dispensable thing. However, the shadow did not seem to doubt the authenticity of the old man's words, and when the old man finished speaking, he continued to ask impatiently, "What is that?"

The old man waved his hand: "I said, this thing is terrible, if it is allowed to come into the world, it is very likely to destroy the common people, otherwise when that kid covers the sky and is damaged, I will not be reduced to the point of sacrificing the entire Wentian to suppress it." You don't think so?"

"It's true dragon blood, right?"

"Heh, hehe..."

“......”

The old man laughed several times as he spoke, and then stopped talking to the shadow. The shadow must have wondered, the conversation had just gotten to the point, and before he could talk thoroughly, he didn't think that the old man had set up an ambush for him again, so he hastily passed it perfunctorily.

But just as the shadow asked...

"Buzz!"

"Whew..."