Under the leadership of Yu Lei and Shen Di, Chen Xinshen and his party successfully entered the ghost city of Xudu. Like ghost towns, ghost towns are not gloomy, but bustling with traffic. Its prosperity is no worse than that of the magic capital in the world, and the antique buildings also add a charm to this ghost town that is not found in modern metropolises.

Everyone walked through the palace of the Emperor of Beiyin and went straight to the emperor's back garden, where there was peace and silence, as if there was a formation to isolate the disturbances of the outside world.

"It's here. Yu Lei said softly.

At his suggestion, Shen Tu said something in his mouth, pinched his hands and pointed at it, and a huge rockery in the original imperial garden suddenly turned into a cloud of green smoke and disappeared. A perfect circle appeared on the ground, and in the hole there was a staircase that led downward, and I don't know where it leads.

"The Emperor's retreat is in the basement of this back garden, so come with me. God, you are guarding here. Yu Lei instructed Shen Di.

With that, Yu Lei took the lead and walked in front.

All the way down, the stairs were too long to see, and everyone walked on the stairs as if walking on a winding dragon, Chen Xinshen estimated that it would take about ten minutes to walk to the door of a stone room. The stone room is simple and unpretentious, and the stone door is closed, which is somewhat similar to the retreat place of Chen Jun's ancestor.

"Open. Yu Lei just stood forward, and the stone gate opened by itself.

"Before the Emperor went into retreat, he left a voice recognition function on the stone door in case something important was reported. Apart from me, only a few other Ghost Emperors can enter, so I suspect that this Great Emperor's retreat may have something to do with several other Ghost Emperors, which is why I asked you to come to help. Now there is an undercurrent surging among the ghost emperors of the five directions, and they are suspicious of each other, which is really eventful. Yu Lei sighed and explained.

Chen Tafa was noncommittal, and covered Chen Xinyan and Mu Songbai with a spiritual power, and said, "Since this is the case, then let's go in and have a look." Be careful, the Emperor's coercion is not something you two can bear. ”

When Yu Lei heard this, he had to smile bitterly: "It's okay, the blame for this matter is that the emperor is not only full of body, but even has no divine power." ”

The stone interior space is extremely spacious, and there is no ornament to be found except for the night pearl inlaid on the stone wall. In fact, most of the people who have attained the Tao or have achieved cultivation among the sleepless people advocate abandoning material pleasures and indulging in materialistic desires are the work of demons and demons, so the retreat stone room of the Northern Yin Emperor is not decorated except for the night pearl for lighting. And the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty sat quietly on the futon in the center of the stone room, motionless.

"Senior brother, do you see anything?" Li Suyi rarely looked serious, and his expression was no longer frivolous.

Chen Tafa shook his head and said suspiciously: "The spirit is stable, the physical body is unharmed, it stands to reason that you should wake up after the retreat, but what is the current state? There is no coercion, not even a trace of spiritual power fluctuations." ”

"Senior brother, maybe ......"

Chen Xinshen was about to speak, when there was a sudden sound of fighting outside, and everyone present glanced at each other, and before he had time to say anything, he hurriedly ran outside.

When the group arrived at the Imperial Garden, they saw that Shen Tu was fighting with a man in a loose white robe. The man was seven feet eight inches tall, bare-chested and uninhibited, and his earth-made skeleton was not self-decorated, and even if his appearance was sloppy, it could not hide his handsome and extraordinary face. Pearls are not buried in the sand and ignored, just as people are unkempt but have their own fairy spirit.

"Stop!" Yu Lei rubbed his eyebrows and shouted.

Seeing that the others were present, the two also withdrew their hands one after another, but they each snorted coldly and did not look at each other.

Yu Lei sighed and said, "Brother Ji Kang, Shen Di, what's going on?"

Shen Tu explained sullenly: "This person is so rude, I am waiting here, but he insists on breaking in, and he also says that among the five ghost emperors, our two brothers are not human cultivators, and this must be to collude with outsiders to murder the emperor." ”

"Nonsense, a bunch of nonsense! What I clearly said is that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, this is an eventful time, and inviting outsiders to come over at this time will not let the news of the emperor's retreat be revealed. The major forces in the ghost city of Xudu have maintained a balance for many years, if the news of the emperor's retreat is passed on by them, won't this balance be ruined?" Ji Kang was also extremely angry and shouted angrily.

Shen Tu immediately retorted: "You are living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and the king of Yama is a great power of Buddhism, how can you fall into the well?"

"Heh, is the king of Yama not, what about the ghost emperor Tubo?"

"But these people we invited are the disciples of Mr. Xiyi, and you can't even trust the people of our own Daomen?"

"Hmph, it's true that they are people from the Daomen, but they are people, and they are immortals. And I'm a ghost after death, and you're not human, we cultivate gods, and those who cultivate immortals and those who cultivate gods have not been a faction since ancient times. ”

Yu Lei's head was big for a while, and he couldn't help but shout again: "Enough! Don't make any noise! Shendi, Brother Ji Kang is one of the Central Ghost Emperors, and if he wants to come down, you have no right to stop him." Apologize to him first. Brother Ji Kang, it is a matter of the emperor's safety, they are all disciples of Mr. Xiyi, so they can naturally be trusted. Don't say that family ugliness can't be publicized, Brother Ji Kang has forgotten Lu An's pain?"

When Ji Kang heard this, his expression suddenly darkened, and he muttered, "Lu An...... Well, I'll trust you for a while. ”

Lu An, a famous man in the Wei and Jin dynasties, was proud of his talents, contemptuous of etiquette, and Ji Kang, one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest", was close friends. The two live in the north and south of the world, but "every lovesickness, a thousand miles of life".

In the third year of Jingyuan, Lu An's brother Lu Xun saw that Lu An's wife Xu Lang was beautiful, so he poured it with wine, and then succeeded. Afterwards, Xu Lang was ashamed and hanged himself. Lu An was resentful and wanted to sue Lu Xun. Ji Kang had dealings with Lu Xun and Lu An's brothers, and Lu Xun begged Ji Kang to mediate for him, so he advised Lu An not to expose family scandals in order to protect the reputation of the family.

Due to Ji Kang's affection, Lu An withdrew the lawsuit, but unexpectedly, Lu Xun was worried about manipulating the handle, so he accused Lu An of being unfilial. Sima Zhao then imprisoned Lü An and exiled him to the border county. Ji Kang was furious when he heard about this, broke off his friendship with Lu Xun, and wrote "The Book of Breaking Friendship with Lu Changyi", which angered Sima Zhao. Zhong Hui used this opportunity to slander Ji Kang because of his gap with Ji Kang in order to frame Ji Kang. Sima Zhao was furious and ordered Ji Kang and Lu An to be executed.

On the day of Ji Kang's execution, 3,000 Taixue students collectively petitioned, asking for pardon from the imperial court and asking for Ji Kang to come to Taixue to teach, but this did not make Sima Zhao change his mind. Before his execution, Ji Kang's expression remained unchanged and he was not afraid of danger. He looked at the shadow of the sun and knew that there was still some time before the execution, so he asked his brother Ji Xi for his favorite piano, and stroked the song "Guangling San" on the execution ground. After the song is finished, he will be killed calmly.

After Ji Kang died, he was unwilling, and Lu An died because of him, which became an eternal pain in his heart. Even if he later succeeded in cultivating with a ghost body and became one of the central ghost emperors under the throne of the Great Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty, this thorn was always in his throat.

Bai Juyi has a poem that says: Brother Lu An doesn't say anything, and the city kills Ji Kang. The Si people have been dead for a long time, and the matter is very clear. Right and wrong are not up to oneself, and disasters can be prevented. so that after a thousand years, I will be full of tears.

Since then, "Guangling San" has become a swan song.