We were divided into two seats in the main hall of the city lord's mansion.

One seat is Shangguan Pianpian, Yan Ruolin, Shi Ziming, Jin Yunqiao, and me;

The other seat was Gongsun Wenlong, Jizo Lion and the girl in white named Huo Xingshen.

- Gongsun Wenlong said that she was a disciple of the Star Sect, the upper echelon of Jindan, and the teacher was unwilling to disclose.

Shangguan Pianpian instructed the servants to serve drinks and fruits to the guests, Gongsun Wenlong only drank coffee from the southern country, Huo Xingshen did not enter the drops, and the lion of the earth swept away the vegetables and fruits.

The money soldiers outside the city lord's mansion patrolled as usual, as if nothing major had ever happened.

Gongsun Wenlong broke the awkward silence between the two of us,

"After so much time, Shi Jian Shi must have figured out the situation on the side of the Manying Society, right?"

Shi Ziming's lips seemed to want to argue something, but in the end he nodded with an embarrassed expression,

"Man Ying and I confirmed that they did do a business ten days ago, and the person in charge of that business invited some masters to capture Nangong Shizi - they were too active!

"Hah!" Gongsun Wenlong smiled contemptuously,

"The Taisho Dynasty is the issuing tool of the Sword Sect, and the Demon Sect's Demon Sect is the Discipline Academy that inspects the major sects. The Kunlun Sect and the Dragon and Tiger Sect wanted to compete with the Sword Sect in Middle-earth, and Bai Dao didn't get easy to get started, so they supported the Man Ying Society, an organization that walked between the black and white roads-who would have thought that the actions of the Man Ying Society would accidentally smash their own people's feet. Hah, ha!"

I asked Yan Ruolin with a divine thought

("Does Man Ying really have the background of Kunlun and Dragon Tiger?")

("Ah, nonsense, how can an organization without a sect background survive in troubled times?

The girl in red disagreed,

("But the Manying Society cannot be classified as an evil path - those people and places abandoned by the Sword Sect and the government have always been helped by the Manying Society - the villages and towns where I was entrusted by the Manying Society to kill demons are the slums abandoned by them - Of course, it is said that the things that can embarrass the Sword Sect and the imperial court, the Manying Society has not done less.) ”）

She giggled,

"I don't know. ”

I nodded. Everyone knows these black histories.

"It's just an occasional misunderstanding, aren't we here to solve the trouble caused by the misunderstanding?"

What Shangguan Pian Pian said was similar to what I thought.

"--Man Yinghui is a one-line contact, the person in charge of taking over the business has disappeared, we don't know who his client is, who the person in charge has entrusted -- therefore, the whereabouts of Nangong Shizi still have to rely on our search here -- the families of the thirteen counties of Nanhai are all under the jurisdiction of our Shangguan -- as long as we spend time, we can always find them. ”

She fixed her eyes on her grandson.

"No, things are not as easy as you think. ”

Gongsun Wenlong blew the coffee disapplausively,

"I have fought with Nangong Panshi countless times, and I know his personality in my bones. Nangong would never flinch unnecessarily—yesterday I had already killed everyone who rescued him, and if Nangong was there, he would have fought a decisive battle with me—but he hadn't. Nangong doesn't do the impossible, and there is only one result: he has no hope of killing me in World War I. ”

Speaking of the last few sentences, Gongsun Wenlong's expression showed a sense of loneliness,

"The Jizo Lion listens attentively, and will not miss any words, birds, beasts, and divine thoughts within a radius of a hundred miles, but we have no clue these days, and presumably, your Shangguan family's progress will not surpass ours. The appearance of the Blue Wave Golden Qing Beast in the auction house means that the person entrusted by the Man Ying Society has already succeeded, seriously injured or killed Nangong - that beast is just the killers selling things they don't need. ”

"That's true. ”

Jin Yunqiao told Shangguan Pianpian,

"We haven't missed a single household in the city, but it seems that there has never been a trace of Nangong Shizi in the world. ”

"Nangong Panshi is not dead yet. ”

Suddenly, the girl in white said.

"Why?" I asked, curious.

"I said he didn't die, he didn't die. Huo Xingshen said lightly.

"Are you practicing the Deduction Technique in the Star Sect?" Yan Ruolin scoffed, I secretly thought that she probably hadn't forgotten the shame of being immobilized by the girl in white.

"It was a whim. ”

Huo Xingshen said.

"A woman's whim is sometimes very accurate, and you will understand when you become mature, little girl. ”

Gongsun Wenlong replied lightly, and the girl in red drew her sword in anger.

Shangguan Pianpian held her hand, and Yan Ruolin retracted her sword angrily.

A corner of Gongsun's case fell, the bone china tea set split into two petals, and the brown coffee liquid splashed on his brocade clothes.

Gongsun Wenlong snorted, took out a handkerchief and wiped it while saying,

"Senior Sister Chenghuo Ji Yan, I still have the luck that a glimmer of rock is alive - assuming that he is only seriously injured and not dead, he will either try to stay away from the mixed city, or go to the city lord's mansion. Either way, I need the assistance of the Shangguan family: for the former, I need your guidance to enter the counties of the South China Sea, and for the latter, I will naturally wait for him here. ”

"Let us take a look at that. Change tea for Gongsun Shizi, Miss Huo, En, and this Jizo Lion King. ”

......

Shangguan Pian led our people to a small hall.

Shi Ziming inserted the scepter into the middle stone steps of the small hall, and a vast clear light rippled out, covering the hall, and then said to us with a sigh of relief,

"I used the Tiangang spell 'Dome' to shield the Dizang Lion's truth. As long as we don't leave this palace, no one can steal our talk in the palace unless we are the primordial infants--however, the Shangguan Marquis is in retreat in this city, and no primordial-infants dare to enter the city-now, you can speak freely. ”

"Elder Shi, the sect only asks for Nangong Shizi to get out of danger, and doesn't ask for Gongsun Shizi's life?"

Shangguan Pianpian was the first to ask Shi Ziming.

"Definitely. The Nangong family and the Gongsun family are both inherited from the Star Sect, and if their power in Middle-earth is stronger, the Sword Sect will be weaker. Therefore, the attitude of the sect is to protect the South Palace and release the grandson. In terms of the imperial court, I only need to report on the merits of the Shangguan family in rescuing Nangong, and the Gongsun family's participation can be hidden. ”

"Then I just need to focus on finding Nangong Panshi. Before we find Nangong, Gongsun won't be with us for the time being-it's really a headache to deal with the two forces. ”

She smiled wryly,

"Let's wait until the evening, and if Nangong Panshi can't enter the city lord's mansion yet, we will start searching for him from the nearest county. ”

Shi Ziming said solemnly,

"There are some things I didn't say in the chamber just now. In fact, Man Ying will tell me that the body of the person in charge has been found, only an empty shell is left, and there is no soul at all, so it is unknown who entrusted him; ”

"Only one?"

The expressions of the crowd were either puzzled or surprised.

"That means that the damn master found by the head of the Manying Society is the Yuan Infant."

I say.

- I have witnessed the scene where Nangong Panshi's thought clone beat Ao Miao to tears without tears, and I have also witnessed how he manipulated the puppet to make hundreds of demon beasts commit suicide en masse.

In this way, the best of the Jindan is not something that any Jindan can seriously injure and kill alone. If I were the person in charge, unless I found the Yuan Infant, I would be able to confidently announce that I could get Nangong Panshi.

"I have fused the martial arts experience of his generals, and I have seen the battles of Nangong Panshi, many, many battles - only the Yuan Infant can kill him, Nangong Panshi is very strong - I think Gongsun Wenlong is inferior to him a lot, probably that girl in white gives me the feeling that it is closer to Nangong's combat power. ”

I added to that.

All eyes turned to me.

"No wonder you are a lot stronger after a day, little thief, and you can block Gongsun Wenlong for so long. Yan Ruolin snorted.

"Congratulations to Senior Brother Yuan for getting the opportunity...... Why do you say that about the senior brothers of the sect. "Shangguan Pianpianla pulls the girl in red.

"Ah, what the original nephew said is not bad at all, it is indeed a primordial infant. A loose cultivator Yuanying outside of our four major sects, who has a great relationship with Patriarch Zhou of the Dragon and Tiger Sect, is a guy who is unrestrained and acts arbitrarily in the Five Continents and Three Realms. ”

"Martial God Zhou Jia?"

Shangguan Pianpian blurted out.

"Exactly. That's why I said that the people of the Manying Club were too active this time. ”

Shi Ziming paused.

-- After Zhou Chunan crossed the ashes, his bloodlines were either interrupted or ignored, and only one of his bloodlines unexpectedly produced another Yuan Infant three hundred years ago. But this Yuan Infant did not join the Dragon and Tiger Sect according to the sect's conventions, but wandered the world alone. He either cultivated in seclusion in the fierce wind and thunder and the fire of the Ming Yi, or drifted around, fighting the heroes and strong of the world for the sake of a momentary interest.

――There are countless people in the world whose name is Zhou Jia, but there is only one martial god named Zhou Jia.

This is Shangguan Pianpian's explanation to me.

- The person in charge who took the line of the Martial God Zhou Jia is really a talent, and it is a pity that he died. I think.

"Then it all comes together. It is impossible for that Yuan Infant to enter the Lingya Gate of Shangguan Hou Ye to attack Nangong Panshi, and he must have done it at the moment when Nangong Panshi will enter the city. The result was undoubtedly that Nangong Panshi was defeated, and at least seriously injured. The Blue Wave Golden Beast is a clear proof of his defeat, and the murderer can find someone to dispose of the beast in the city at will. So we don't have to wait for Nangong in the city - if I am Nangong, since I don't have the ability to fight with Gongsun in my spare time, then I should try to stay away from this Lingyamen City and hide like a beast to recuperate from my injuries - assuming he is still alive. ”

I sighed,

"Let's search for him outside the city. Like the girl in white, I also think that Nangong Panshi is not dead, and I always feel that such a character will not die silently in the ditch and in the wilderness. ”

I built yì.

-- Heroes don't necessarily die in their nests. But I'd like to believe he's not dead.

Otherwise, wouldn't our actions in the past few days be meaningless?

How can I fulfill the commission of the deputy commander of the Blue Dragon Soldiers?--I won't go back to this vitality and martial arts experience that I have obtained for nothing.

I don't have a good idea.

"Hmm. The original junior brother is reasonable. The populated places in Nanhai Province are all under the rule of our Shangguan family, assuming that Nangong Shizi is alive but seriously injured, he will inevitably obtain a large number of pills, well, a large number of pills to recover, then he can only go to the nearest county town to take it. Manager Jin and I went to search for counties, and there was a transfer formation in the city that connected the counties, and a few people would arrive in an instant. ”

- Well, the Falling Star Cave Heaven also has such a transfer formation.

I jumped to sign up,

"Senior Sister Pianpian, let me also join the team to search, I think among us, I can gain the trust of Nangong Shizi the most, I saved his subordinates, and he has also seen me through his own thoughts. He might show up because of me. ”

- Although those Qinglong soldiers later died for Nangong.

"Then I'll join too, anyway, there's nothing fun these days, I also want to appreciate what kind of character the Nangong Shizi everyone wants to get. ”

The girl in red also came over.

"Good, it is best for the new generation of disciples of the two sects to cooperate selflessly like this. You can skip the counties I visited a few days ago. Start from a little farther away. ”

Shi Ziming thought for a moment, and said,

"I'll go to the hall first to stabilize Gongsun Fang's three golden pills. After you found Nangong Shizi, you secretly sent him into the cultivation tower of Shangguan Marquis. They did not dare to enter, and naturally retreated. In this way, it will be possible to protect the South Palace and release the grandson. Hopefully, with the blessing of God, Nangong will be safe. ”

I can't help but secretly admire Shi Ziming's courage and responsibility.

-- Our search may not yield results in one day, if Gongsun Fang's three golden pills suddenly come to their senses, Shi Ziming will have to face their attacks first--which person's combat power is not inferior to his, let alone the three flanking attacks?

"Elder Shi take care. ”

Shangguan Pianpian and I said in unison.

There was a sudden commotion outside the small hall, and a pair of captains of the foundation building realm money soldiers guarding outside the hall were thrown away by Gongsun Wenlong like two straws.

Outside the temple, he suddenly turned red, and then shouted,

Even the people and the Jizo lion collided with the dome cover, and the blood-colored halberd in his hand split a big crack.

His face turned pale, and he swaggered in.

After that, she followed the girl in white who was floating in the air.

"Haha. You're having a great time, I'm the one who can't sit still. In the hall, I suspect that you have finished discussing Nangong and started to discuss how to plot against me, so I want to come over and participate. Questions?"

"No problem. ”

We were all embarrassed

――It seems that the plan to get rid of Gongsun Fang has failed. We had to keep them glued to us.

"We judged that it was very likely that Nangong Panshi was outside the city, so we prepared to search in the lower counties. It's best if Gongsun Shizi comes, we can divide into two teams to find it, it's faster that way. ”

Shangguan Pianpian glanced at us and said to the two of them,

"Shi Jian Shi sits in this city. I, Chief Jin, Gongsun Shizi, and your pet searched for the counties east of Lingyamen, and Princess Lin, Senior Brother Yuan, and Senior Sister Huo Xingshen searched for the counties west of Lingyamen. How?"

-- Under the truth of the Jizo Lion, we can't even communicate our thoughts within a hundred miles. Why did she arrange it that way?

I swept to everyone.

1. Shi Ziming is in the middle of the strategy, as long as we get Nangong first, we can transfer him to the tower of Shangguan Tianquan first.

Second, Senior Sister Pian Pian and Jin Yunqiao deal with Gongsun and Lion. The other party can't defend against the circle of fame and fortune, and two circles are enough to trap two Jin Dan - but before Pian Pian makes a move, Jin Yunqiao has to fight to the death to earn a chance for her to make a move.

Third, Yan Ruolin and I partnered with the girl in white. Yan Ruolin's combat power can actually be compared to that girl, but it is difficult to defend against it.

- However, I know that the girl in red also has a doppelganger technique, and judging from past examples, Huo Xingshen can only fix one target at the same time. As long as you trick her into fixing a clone, and then use her real body to sneak attack, you may be able to win.

So what is my role?

- I looked at Sister Pianpin, who bowed her head and did not make eye contact with me.

Ah, I know it all

- She put her hope in my group. She hoped that Nangong would show up in front of my search team. So she took the initiative to separate the Gongsun who was most likely to kill Nangong from my group.

- I won't let you down.

"Excellent! ”

Gongsun Wenlong pondered, and suddenly applauded,

"It's so challenging. That's it. ”

"Okay!" we all agreed with Shangguan Pianpian's decision.

......

The transfer formation of the main hall of the city lord's mansion was opened. Jin Yunqiao transferred the household registration books and fish scale books of each county, and contacted the civil and military generals who guarded each county, and prepared for us to investigate one by one.

"Every county and every county under the rule of Shangguan is built around the spiritual veins and spiritual fields of Nanhai Province, and there are city walls engraved with runes and elite soldiers patrolling around the periphery to prevent outsiders from stealing and excavating; every household and every household in the city has a road guide issued by our Shangguan family to prevent demons from mixing in and eating people; there are Jindan retainers in the county to press the formation, and there are Zhuji retainers in the county to suppress the formation, and the living and masters will break in, and there will be no rumors - we will search one by one, and the effort will pay off. ”

Pian Pian encouraged, and the two groups of people entered different transfer circles, each facing east and west.

With a feeling of dizziness similar to that of the Falling Star Cave Heavenly Transit Circle, I arrived at the first county that this group searched.

We were separated by 800 miles from Shangguan Pianpian's group in terms of actual distance.

"I want to tell you something. ”

The girl in white suddenly spoke to me.

It's rare for her to come out of her mute state.

"Hmm, what do you think?" I asked the little mute beauty.

"If Long Shao finds the rock before you, I will kill you. ”

Ignoring Yan Ruolin's eyes that wanted to devour her alive, Huo Xing said calmly.