Seventeenth

In the red dust, the Qin State, one of the vassal states that divided one side for power and interests, had a rich and luxurious capital - Yongcheng. The Hexi Corridor, not far west of Yongcheng, is where Jingxia Villa, a powerful sect in the righteous camp of the Immortal Cultivation Realm, stands.

In a certain street and alley of Yongcheng, there is a dilapidated inn with a broken signboard and a broken threshold, which looks very inconspicuous among the many market shops.

However, a scheming, calculating young cultivator lived here so as not to arouse the suspicion and attention of outsiders. He has exhausted all his calculations and has no last resort.

A few months ago, on a beach on the coast of the East China Sea, he came across the carcass of a recently dead whale, and out of curiosity, he dissected the whale and dissected it to see its internal organs. After all, whales are still rare, and when a blind cat finally bumps into a dead mouse, someone else will do some experiments with the whale carcass.

What he did not expect at all was that someone had placed a board made of special metal in the belly (intestines) of the whale in advance. For the sake of reference, for the time being, the metal plate will be called "iron sheet".

The "iron sheet" is very large, about four feet long and two feet wide, full of elasticity, and can be rolled into a scroll, which can neither break nor be restored and spread. The "Iron Tablet" has a treasure map drawn on it, but it is not accompanied by any relevant text, except for the four characters in the picture.

At that time, this cultivator carefully observed and studied the treasure map on the "iron piece", and from the map, he saw a majestic underground labyrinth, and at the top of the labyrinth was an endless desert. In the labyrinth, there are horizontal and vertical paths, some roads are connected with other roads, and some roads are dead ends. Eventually, at the end of the target to which a certain road leads, a door is drawn, and on the door is engraved four characters carved in large seal script - "Shou and Tianqi".

This cultivator, who has always had a far-sighted and insightful person beyond ordinary people, understood the doorway at a glance, and the content recorded in this "iron tablet" is likely to be the secret of the immortal legend that has been circulating in the cultivation world for thousands of years - the secret of the "secret of longevity", it seems that immortality is not a rumor, but a real existence.

The name of this cultivator is called Tang Dangyang, who has no door and no faction, and is idle and wild. Dressed in a simple Taoist robe and cloth, he had dabbled in all kinds of immortal cultivation classics, and originally planned to comprehend and cultivate alone by himself. When one day you achieve positive results and become immortals, you will help the poor and help all sentient beings.

Unbeknownst to him, he found the "iron piece" from the belly of the fish and rolled it up and took it away, and was seen by a fisherman on a fishing boat in the nearby sea. It is also amazing to say that the fisherman's eyesight is amazing, almost a realistic version of the "clairvoyance", far above the sea, you can clearly see the content drawn on the "iron plate". So the fisherman told everyone about it, and as the days went by, it spread ten, and ten to hundred, and everyone knew it, and the secret was thoroughly spread.

From that moment on, for several months, all the cultivators in the world have been searching (seeking, finding) Tang Dangyang's traces. It wasn't until recently that someone released the news, saying that they saw Tang Dangyang hiding in Yongcheng.

Finally, on a cloudy day when black clouds were overwhelming the city and wanted to destroy it, Jie Zitui, who had driven many heavenly roads, entered Yongcheng in order to find the whereabouts of Tang Dangyang, the insider. Walking all the way. On his shoulder, he also carried a bamboo basket-shaped basket, which was tied to Jie Zitui's shoulder with rattan, and in the basket sat a little boy about seven years old, who was the heir of Jie Zitui.

On the street, ordinary people come and go, the river is endless, vegetable sellers, solicitors, restaurants, post station errands and messengers, all kinds of businessmen, are all selling or shouting about the goods they operate, a lively urban scene.

After walking for a long time, tired of walking, Jie Zitui planned to find an inn to live in, rest first, who knows, the large inns all over the street are full, every time I ask a shopkeeper, I answer that there is no empty room left.

"Hey, this shopkeeper, hello, I'm a cultivator from Youfang, and I want to stay in your inn for one night, I don't know if it's convenient? Jie Zitui, who was actually more than 100 years old but had a young face, found another inn, rushed up the steps, walked to the counter, and asked politely.

"No, no, it's too late for my brother! It's strange to say, a huge Yongcheng, the inns in the whole city have basically been (almost) full recently, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is simply full! I really don't have it here, you can look elsewhere!" The shopkeeper who stood in the cashier counter responded.

Jie Zitui nodded in disappointment, and had to go out and walk down the steps to leave.

This person is going to sleep and rest after all, it's getting late, and it's not a matter if he doesn't find an inn, even if Jie Zitui wears out his mouth, he is willing to continue to search for inns with empty rooms. His own practice is profound, and it's a small matter for a child to stay up all night and not sleep, but Jieyin is just a child, and children who don't sleep will hurt their bodies, so it's a big deal.

Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and Jie Zitui found an inn with a spare bed in a remote alley. In front of the door, I looked up and found that a large piece of the word on the signboard of this inn was missing, and I could only vaguely see the word "restaurant", as for "what restaurant", God knows.

Coincidentally, the inn with the word "restaurant" written on the signboard is the inn where Tang Dangyang, the owner of the "iron piece" that records the secret of "longevity". It's just that Jie Zitui didn't know that the person he was trying to find was here.

"Shopkeeper, do you have any spare rooms here?" asked Jie Zitui.

"There are some and there are many......! Guest officer, please come in. Oh, maybe my store is too shabby, and the location is not good, instigating...... Didn't you notice, no one at the door hit me here, and the ghosts usually don't come to live. Instigate...... Recently, all industries in the city have been prosperous, and there is still such a hairy man who has come in to live. Hey, hey, instigation...... I'm a rough country man, it's not easy to do a small business, it's not easy to open a shop, and the landlord likes to slaughter me, and the rent is expensive. Sou...... I'm rude and vulgar, if my words are not good, please don't mind the guest officer!" The shopkeeper greeted the Taoist guest warmly, and at the same time, the nasal puss bag came out and went in, and he finally sucked it in, said a word, and it flowed out again, and then sucked it in.

"I've got some money here, help me clean up my room, and I'll go in later." In addition, I will serve a few plates of good vegetarian dishes, as long as it is not meaty, I can eat any dish. Jie Zi pushed.

"Okay! The empty rooms are all upstairs, I'll clean up for you later. I'll fry the dishes now, and the guest officer will wait a while!"

"Grandpa, why did we have to come all the way to Yongcheng in the Qin Kingdom?" At this time, Jie Zi pushed the immature child voice in the vest basket and asked angrily.

"Oh, in this Yongcheng, there is a very important person hiding here, and grandpa needs to talk to him about something. In the future, when grandpa learns a new cultivation method, he will teach it to you. Let's not talk first, let's eat first, and then we will talk back to the room after eating, okay?"

"Well, well!" replied Kakuin, sitting in the basket, meekly.

Soon, several plates of hot meals were brought to the table.

But just when Jie Zitui was about to put down the basket and take out the basket to eat, "Di Da Di Da", a vigorous running footsteps came from outside the door, saying that it was too late and that was fast, and a man and a woman outside the door broke in with lightning speed, the two were wearing robes of the same color (orange and yellow), and both of them were holding swords in their hands.

"Hmph, that's the last inn left to search! I don't believe he doesn't sleep at night! Sister, you are guarding the door here, not a single fly can let it fly out, I will go into the house and go upstairs to search. A young man with erect hair scanned the store with sharp eyes and shouted a wave of dehumanizing voices.

"Okay, brother, be careful, in case you fall for his plot to ambush him. A tearful woman next to the man replied.

The young white man was just about to rush up the stairs, but his attention was suddenly attracted by a man in Qing monastic clothes who was sitting on a bench eating in the lobby on the first floor of the store.

"Eh, something is wrong, there are still people from the cultivation realm eating in such a dilapidated tavern!Sister, draw your sword quickly, I think this person is abnormal!" The young white man suddenly changed his mind and didn't go up the stairs, but stared at Jie Zitui, who was pinching his chopsticks and preparing to eat.

The young white man held his sword and pointed at the man who was wearing a Taoist uniform and carrying a basket from a distance, and asked, "Hey, you are eating, turn your face around and say, who are you?

Jie Zitui obviously heard the young white man's question, but he deliberately didn't answer, raised his chopsticks and put a mouthful of green vegetables into his mouth, and ate silently. The basket on his back, out of prudence, did not dare to let go of the vest.

"Hey, what are you talking about, are you deaf? I am the young owner of the famous and decent Jingxia Villa, Yin Taibai, and the famous Yin Fengsan is my father. If you know each other, be honest and answer my questions seriously. Yin Taibai forced with a look of no one in his eyes.

But Jie Zitui still didn't make a sound, and ate the dishes wholeheartedly.

"Yo, I see that you don't die if you don't see the Yellow River, and you don't shed tears if you don't see the coffin!" Yin Taibai roared angrily, and at the same time drew his sword and prepared to stab the man from behind.

"Brother, slow down! Don't hurt anyone! Before leaving, my father told us not to easily engage in evil with others. What's more, I don't know if he is the person we are looking for!" the woman in orange hurriedly stopped Yin Taibai and reminded kindly.

This woman is the daughter of Yin Yueyue.

Although these two people were born in the same sect (family) of cultivating immortals, they have completely different personalities.

"Sister, what are you talking about? We've found hundreds of inns, this is the last possibility. If this person wasn't him, why would he sit here sneakily eating, don't you think it's strange? Besides, I didn't say that I wanted to kill him, I just tried to find out his details, why did you react so much?" Yin Taibai was angry in his heart, and he was angry at his own sister.

With that, Yin Taibai continued to stretch out the blade of his sword, preparing to stab at the basket behind the man, and there was a child in the basket, to test the assassination of the child to see if he would dodge.

At this time, Yin Yueyue screamed again: "Brother, don't! That's just a child, don't hurt him!"

However, to no avail at all, Yin Taibai's sword was already unsheathed and could not be recovered.

Jie Zitui, who has been facing away from these two people, although he didn't use his eyes to look at them, but he can grasp every move and blade position of their every movement and blade with the back of his head alone.

At the moment when Yin Taibai's sword blade stabbed, Jie Zitu's earlobe trembled, and he heard the clues of every detail of Yin Taibai's movements. Just when Jie Zitui was about to cast a powerful soul power with a century-old foundation from behind to shock Yin Taibai, with a "swish", a small flying knife shot out from upstairs, "Ding Dong", and accurately hit Yin Taibai's blade. The flying knife took the lead, so that Jie Zi Tui withdrew the soul power back into his body,

Immediately afterwards, a gloomy word came from upstairs: "You don't have to go crazy below, what kind of ability is it to injure innocents, the person you are looking for is me, I am here, if there is a kind, come up!"

Yin Taibai and Yin Yueyue looked upstairs at the same time, but they only heard their voices and did not see them.

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