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Gray hair and sideburns are raw, and the years are like water!

The ghost king took his eyes off the mirror-like water, sighed slightly, turned his head, and smiled: "I haven't looked in the mirror for a long time, but when I saw it today, I saw a little more white hair." ”

The ghost standing behind him was expressionless, and said lightly: "You are too careful." ”

At this moment, on the shore of a small lake in Huqi Mountain, a stone pavilion is built in the middle of the lake, and only an old wooden bridge is connected to the shore of the lake. The Ghost King and the Ghost Li were standing in this stone pavilion in the middle of the lake at this moment.

The Ghost King put his hands behind his back and looked calm, and said, "I heard that this time I went to Kongsang Mountain, although the Blood Refining Hall was subdued, but the only remaining Wild Dog Daoist who refused to surrender was saved by you, but is there such a thing?"

Ghost Li glanced at the Ghost King, but seeing that his face was peaceful, he didn't know what he was thinking, so he nodded slowly and said, "Not bad." ”

The ghost king smiled, turned to look at the green and jade-like lake, and said lightly: "In the past, you led people to attack, and you have always killed everything, why did you show mercy to this person today?"

Ghost Li was silent for a moment and said, "Although the Blood Refining Hall is in decline now, after all, eight hundred years ago, it was the gatekeeper of the leader for a while, and it was not more than an ordinary small faction. ”

The Ghost King stood there, not seeing any reaction, and not knowing whether he was satisfied or dissatisfied with this explanation. After a while, he suddenly said: "Speaking of which, on the magic weapon in your hand, the Blood Devouring Bead is originally a relic of the black-hearted old man. ”

Ghost Li slowly raised his eyes and looked at the Ghost King, but the Ghost King just turned around and looked at him as well.

The eyes of the two of them collided in mid-air, the ghostly gaze was gloomy, but the gaze of the ghost king was deep and peaceful.

The Ghost King suddenly smiled and said, "Recently, it is rumored that in the Western Death Swamp, a strange treasure was born, do you know?"

Ghost Li nodded and said, "Yes, I heard that." ”

The Ghost King said leisurely: "I heard that not only are people in the righteous path flocking away, but even the masters of the Ten Thousand Poison Sect and the Hehuan Sect are also planning to intervene, and as for the Immortal Hall, which is near the Death Swamp, the main hall is even more deserved. He paused for a moment and said sharply to the ghost, "What do you think?"

Ghost Li didn't speak immediately, he was silent for a long time, and the ghost king seemed to be very patient with him, without any anxious look. After a while, Ghost Li said slowly: "This time, we subdued the Blood Refining Hall, and in addition to the four major factions in the sect, the last more powerful faction was also divided. ”

A smile appeared on the corner of the Ghost King's mouth, and he nodded, "Not bad." ”

The ghost said sharply: "Among the Demon Sect, there has always been a mountain, and the four major factions do not want to encroach on each other. In the past, we were forced to resist foreign enemies together because of the external forces of the right path, but now it is naturally different from that year. And now that the forces in the sect are gradually arranged, and if they go further, the four major factions will be fighting fiercely, but I don't know who will make the first move?"

The Ghost King clapped his hands and smiled, "Good, good! ”

Ghost Li glanced at him and said lightly: "In the past ten years, you have not only passed on the two volumes of my Heavenly Book, but also passed on what you have learned and made in your life, and your decisions one by one. ”

The ghost king smiled and looked at the young man in front of him, as if looking at a perfect and precious object made by himself, and there was a faint pride in his joy, only to hear him say: "That's not true, I pass on your things, but you also have to rely on your own understanding." I thought that with your qualifications, you would have to cultivate for at least thirty years or more, but it only took ten years for you to achieve great success, which is rare, rare!"

After receiving such praise from the Ghost King, there seemed to be no smile on Ghost Li's face, as if it was not something to be happy about for him.

But the ghost king doesn't care, over the years, the person in front of him has changed from Zhang Xiaofan at the beginning to today's ghost, and his temperament in the past has long been turned upside down, except for his appearance, there is almost no shadow of the past. He paused for a moment and said, "Then in your opinion, since the four major factions in our Holy Sect are inevitably fighting, do you think it is better for us to strike first!

This time, Ghost Li did not hesitate at all, and immediately said: "First strike!"

The Ghost King stared at him and said, "Okay, which faction do you think you should deal with first?"

The ghost said sharply: "Immortal Hall!"

The Ghost King frowned, but there was already a look of appreciation in his eyes, and said, "Why?"

Ghost said: "Now the Ghost King Sect and the Ten Thousand Poison Sect are the strongest, and the Hehuan Sect and the Immortal Hall are slightly inferior. The Hehuan faction has always been low-key, but although the master of the Immortal Hall, Yuyangzi, is high-minded, he is arrogant and arrogant, and he has always regarded himself as the host in the battle between the righteous and demons of Qingyun Mountain back then, thinking that he is the only one in the demon sect. Such a stupid person, who else doesn't choose him?"

The ghost king smiled slightly and said, "Yes, that's a good point." So if you're presiding, how do you do it?"

Ghost Li groaned slightly, and said, "This is a good opportunity." There is a strange treasure born in the swamp of death, and Yuyangzi must regard it as a thing in the bag, and it will never be touched by outsiders. But the righteous path crowd flocked, we can wait for the Immortal Hall and the righteous path to merge, and then when both are defeated, and then secretly connect with the Ten Thousand Poison Sect and the Hehuan Sect to attack together, they will definitely not shirk such things. This battle will be successful!"

The Ghost King looked at him and did not speak.

Ghost Li slowly raised his head, looked at the Ghost King, and said lightly, "What?"

The ghost king seemed to be a little distracted by him, and after a while, he came to his senses, slowly withdrew his gaze, as if sighing in the depths of his heart, and said lightly: "No, what you said is almost the same as what I think." ”

The ghost stopped talking.

The Ghost King smiled indifferently and said, "You rest for two more days, and then go to the Death Swamp!" As he spoke, he took a sealed envelope from his arms, handed it to Ghost Li, and said, "I have already written clearly in this letter about the specific arrangements." After arriving in the Great Swamp, all the characters of the Ghost King Sect are at your disposal. ”

Ghost Li slowly took the letter, received it in his arms, was silent for a moment, nodded to the ghost king, and then turned to leave. But just as he had only walked a few steps, he suddenly heard the ghost king behind him say: "There is one more thing ......"

Ghost stopped.

The Ghost King's voice came slowly, and he said, "Between you and me, how do you call us the Holy Sect, or is it a 'Demon Sect'?"

Ghost Li was silent for a long time, and said coldly: "I have been in the religion for ten years, and I have been fighting bloody battles all day long, and there are even more deceit and intrigue all the time, how can I match the holy word?"

The Ghost King laughed, and then said, "Oh, what about the righteous path from which you came from?"

The ghost's body seemed to tremble slightly, and after a while, he only heard him say: "The evil things done by people in the righteous path are no worse than those in the Demon Sect!"

The ghost king looked at him with interest and said, "That's not it, that's not it, what do you think in your heart is 'positive'?"

Ghost Li didn't answer, he was silent for a long time, and then raised his head to look at the sky.

Blue sky, white clouds.

"I don't know!" he said in a low voice, as if to himself.

After the lonely figure that looked a little lonely from behind faded away, the smile on the ghost king's face slowly disappeared. In his deep eyes, there seemed to be a mysterious light, shining non-stop, I don't know what was going on in my heart?

At this time, a voice came from the other side and said, "Sect Master, I ......"

The Ghost King interrupted him and said, "Qinglong, come up!"

"Yes. Qinglong walked over from the wooden bridge, followed the gaze of the ghost king and glanced into the distance, and said, "Was the deputy sect master also here just now?"

The Ghost King nodded and said, "What's the matter?"

Qinglong said: "That old monster from the Ten Thousand Poison Gate sent someone to come secretly again, and ask the sect master when he will send people into the Death Swamp, and everyone will do great things together?"

The Ghost King sneered and said, "You reply to them, and three days later, the Ghost King Sect will enter Ze together with the Ten Thousand Poison Sect and the Hehuan Sect." ”

Qinglong nodded and said, "Okay." ”

The ghost king groaned for a while, and suddenly turned his head to Qinglong as he seemed to think of something: "Qinglong, what do you think of the ghost?"

Qinglong was stunned, raised his eyes and looked at the ghost king, only to see that the ghost king's eyebrows were peaceful, but his eyes were deep and invisible, and he was cold in his heart for no reason, and he forgot to answer for a while.

The Ghost King smiled and said, "What's wrong?"

Qinglong woke up and then groaned, but his expression was a little hesitant. The ghost king looked at it in his eyes and smiled: "Qinglong, you and I have been friends for many years, and it doesn't hurt to say something." ”

Qinglong shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then said: "Let's say so! When I was his age, my Taoism was not as high as his, and the city government was not ......as deep as him."

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, and the ghost king frowned, and said, "What's the matter, what else, just say it!"

Qinglong hesitated for a moment, looked at the ghost king, and said, "The means are not as ruthless as him!"

The ghost king glanced at him, but didn't say anything, and slowly turned around and looked at the blue water of the lake. Qinglong said slowly behind him: "Over the years, especially in the last two years, the ghost's methods have become more and more fierce and ferocious, killing people at every turn, and even more ruthless in the power struggle. Moreover, among the younger generation of our Ghost King Sect, the more outstanding talents such as Killing Monk, Yan Hui and others have all gathered under his disciples. ”

The Ghost King said lightly, "Do you think this is bad?"

Qinglong shook his head slowly and said, "It's not, it's just that he was ...... back then Why did you become like this now?"

The Ghost King was silent for a while, and then suddenly said, "Actually, I also looked away at the beginning. ”

Qinglong was taken aback and said, "Sect Master, what did you say?"

The ghost king said: "When I passed on the second volume of his Heavenly Book, I thought that with his qualifications, it would take at least thirty years to succeed, but in the past ten years, especially in the last five years, the cultivation of the ghost has advanced by leaps and bounds, and it can be said that it is a thousand miles a day, but I am afraid that he is an inner show, and even I have never seen it!"

When he said this, he seemed to have an unknown cold light flashing in his eyes that had been facing away from Qinglong, but his tone did not change at all: "He has a stoic, persistent and persevering character, which is really beneficial to the path of cultivation, but I still suspect that there are other reasons for this." ”

Qinglong frowned and said, "Could it be that he still has any secrets?"

The Ghost King shook his head and said, "You should know that he has the true Dharma of the Qingyun Sect Daoist and the Great Brahma of the Tianyin Temple, right?"

Qinglong nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

The Ghost King said slowly: "From my secret observation, not only has he achieved great success in our Holy Sect's Heavenly Book True Method, but he is also the Taiji Xuanqing Dao of Qingyunmen and the Great Brahma Prajna True Law of Buddhism, and he has also advanced by leaps and bounds. Could it be that these three true methods secretly have the miraculous effect of complementing each other?"

He turned around, smiled at Qinglong, and said, "With his cultivation at this time, coupled with the strange magic weapon 'Soul Devouring' in his hand, even if you have the Qiankun Clear Light Ring, I am afraid that there is only a fifty percent chance of winning." ”

Qinglong smiled slightly and said, "I'm old, but I can't compare to the young man." ”

The Ghost King suddenly laughed, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "How can this be?" he smiled and said leisurely: "I saw that this young man must not be a thing in the pool, but now his achievements are even more than I expected. If the Ghost King Sect has this person to succeed him, the future in the future will definitely be limitless. Just ......"

The ghost king stood with his hands in his hands, but suddenly stopped talking, walked to the edge of the pavilion, and looked out.

Qinglong stood quietly beside him, looking towards the ghost king, the body that held the power, but at this moment, there was a faint sense of depression, silently conveying the unspoken words.

Baguio ......

Three days later, Ghost Li left Huqi Mountain and headed southwest, along with the monkey Xiao Gray, and in addition, the wild dog Taoist also followed him. Originally, the Wild Dog Daoist didn't want to go to the dangerous place of the Death Swamp, but Ghost Li only said lightly: "After I leave, I guarantee that this place in Huqi Mountain is a hundred times more dangerous than that swamp, do you believe it or not?"

As soon as these words came out, the wild dog Taoist immediately turned pale, and his mouth was still very hard, but his feet had already followed.

The vast land of Shenzhou is vast and vast, among which the Central Plains is naturally the richest. Outside the Central Plains, the north is the bitter cold ice field of the extreme north, which is inaccessible to people; the east is the vast and boundless sea; as for the south, there are 100,000 mountains outside the Central Plains, towering on the border, endless, where the barren mountains and bad waters, the miasma and poison are innumerable, and the legend is that there are strange and strange wild barbarians, who drink blood and are extremely ferocious.

And to the west of the vast land of China, there are two fierce places. In the northwest direction, is the endless desolate Gobi, the world calls it "the wild land", its hundreds of years without rain, the climate is extremely dry, occasionally a little oasis, but also mostly occupied by fierce beasts and fierce things, naturally ordinary people enter is a dead end. And it is rumored that in the depths of the wilderness, there is a grand temple, which is the birthplace of the Demon Sect.

As for the southwest, it is the great swamp of death that the world talks about changing color. The climate here is diametrically opposed to the wilderness of the northwest, where it rains seven or eight out of ten days of the year, and all kinds of exotic plants grow luxuriantly. This cold and damp place has always been the place where the world's great poisonous beasts and poisonous insects live, and the unique and highly toxic biogas here rises from the rotten soil in the swamp every rainy day. In addition, the bodies of animals, trees and flowers that have been soaked and rotted by rain for thousands of years have turned this place into a dangerous place, and if you accidentally take a wrong step, you will be sucked into the bottomless swamp, never see the light of day, and die miserably.

In such a dangerous place, no one will come on weekdays. But not long ago, there were sudden rumors in the world that in the Western Death Swamp, a huge golden pillar of light suddenly rose into the sky, and it was day and night, even in the middle of the night, the sky was as bright as day. After three days, the golden light gradually dissipated, and from then on, there always seemed to be a loud roar in the Death Swamp, faintly heard, making those who lived on the edge of the Death Swamp terrified.

Once the news spread, it caused a sensation all over the world. From the perspective of a cultivator, spiritual artifacts have always had their own spirituality, and such a huge golden light is naturally a precursor to the birth of rare treasures, summoning destined people to go. And judging from this golden pillar of light, the magic of this strange treasure is really extraordinary, and the world shook for a while, and the masters of good and evil gathered.

And under the chaos on the surface, there is an unknown undercurrent, turbulent flowing.

Half a day's journey from the Death Swamp to the east, there is a desolate and withered village called "Dawang Village", named after the villagers who believe in a mysterious god called "Dawang". It's just that this god has never been very effective, neither bless the villagers here to be promoted to become wealthy, nor bless them with a bumper harvest of grains, food and clothing.

In fact, if you think about it, living on the edge of such a death swamp, from time to time a monster suddenly sprang out of nowhere, or a poisonous insect ran out, biting and killing domestic animals, and there are not a few people who die on it every year. Now the people who have some ability have already left this ghost place and gone to the Central Plains, and most of the people who stay here are also lifeless people.

But in the past few days, Dawang Murakami suddenly became lively, and the people who came and went were all masters of cultivation. Although Dawang Village is not the only entrance to the Death Swamp, it is the closest inhabited place to the Death Swamp, and before entering the Death Swamp, most people will come here to buy some dry food and water.

At the same time, because this is the closest place to the Death Swamp, the golden pillars of light and strange whistling sounds in the Death Swamp were also the first to be discovered by the villagers here, and they spread from there, so many people also came here to inquire about the news.

It's just that after there are more people, there are naturally good and evil, and after a few days, in the small place of Dawang Village, I don't know how many fights have happened, and some unlucky guys have died here inexplicably before they have entered the swamp of death, which is really wronged.

Without further ado. On this day, Ghost Li and wild dogs also came to Dawang Village, standing at the entrance of the village, only to see people coming and going in the village, it was actually quite lively, contrary to the lifeless scene of the past.

Walking into the village, the wild dogs looked around, frowning and muttering something.

Monkey Xiao Ash saw so many people for the first time in the past few days, he was a little excited, lying on Ghost Li's shoulder and squeaking, Ghost Li patted Xiao Ash, glanced at the wild dog, and said, "What are you doing?"

The wild dog Taoist said angrily: "I'm looking for an inn, and I've been walking for so long and haven't found a place to rest?"

Ghost Li said lightly: "What, do you think there is an inn here?"

The wild dog was taken aback and said, "What?"

Ghost Li turned his eyes to look at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, and saw that most of these people were brightly dressed, obviously not people who lived hard in Dawang Village, and said, "Have you been here before?"

The wild dog snorted and said, "Who came to this hellish place when they were full!"

Ghost Li glanced at him and said, "Yes, there are no outsiders here, and the local villagers are poor and white, what is the use of asking for an inn?"

The wild dog was dumbfounded, and the face of a dog was a little bitter.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a shouting sound from the street in front of me, and someone said loudly: "Predict the future of fifty years ago, be able to break the fortune of three hundred years, iron mouth god, pen judgment yin and yang, want to know the future days, and come to see the previous phase!"

Ghost Li and the wild dog were stunned for a moment, and looked at the sound together. I saw that on the side of the street, there was a dilapidated wooden table, next to a bamboo pole, on which hung a canvas, with the words "immortals guiding the way" written on it. On the side of the bamboo pole, an old man with an extraordinary bearing shouted loudly, the voice just now was made by him, and next to him, there was a sleepy young woman, with a rather pretty appearance, lying on the edge of the table at the moment, with a helpless expression.

Needless to say, these two people are Zhou Zhou Xian and Xiaohuan. Zhou Zhou Xian took Xiaohuan to wander the world, his ability is not high, but he likes to go to lively places, some time ago he heard the rumors of the Death Swamp, and immediately ignored Xiaohuan's objections, and pulled her to this Dawang Village.

At this moment, in the words of Zhou Zhou Xian, it is the end of the entanglement, the hero is at the end, and he has no choice but to look at the street, but he shouted in his mouth, but he gradually changed his appearance in the back: "...... All the past guest officials, this immortal has the true inheritance of the ancestor, and can restrain the poison of the world. In the dead swamp today, the biogas is highly poisonous, as long as you are equipped with this sachet I sell, it will not be poisonous, and King Kong will not be damaged......"

Xiaohuan sighed in a low voice beside him, and sat here for a few hours, and his grandfather screamed vigorously, but in fact, not a single sachet was sold. The locals believe it but can't afford it (Zhou Zhou Xian opened a black-hearted high price), but the outsiders are all people who cultivate the truth, all of them are well-informed, and their eyes are all written with the word "liar". It's also fortunate that all the righteous heroes are busy grabbing treasures and don't bother with this Xiangshi, otherwise if the blood of a high-ranking disciple suddenly boils on weekdays, and they want to eliminate harm for the people, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat and go around.

Seeing that Zhou Zhou Xian was still screaming energetically, Xiaohuan was a little impatient, stood up, and was about to stop his grandfather, when suddenly there was a flower in front of him, but there was a person standing in front of the wooden table at some point, it was a young man, wearing a light blue shirt, with beautiful eyebrows, but his face looked a little pale somehow.

"Miss, I want to see the face. There was a faint smile on the corner of the young man's mouth, and he said peacefully.

Xiaohuan frowned and looked at him, at this time, Zhou Zhou Xian also found out about the situation here, and hurriedly walked back, with a smile on his face, and said: "Guest officer, what do you want to see, fortune or marriage?

The young man groaned slightly, and said, "I'm going to go into this dead swamp too, so help me see how this fortune is!"

Zhou Zhou Xian smiled and said, "No problem, no problem, come, guest officer, please take a seat." Well, let's talk about it first, we are the true inheritance of the ancestors, and our physiognomy is unparalleled, so it costs ten taels of silver to see it once......"

The young man was stunned and said, "So expensive?"

Zhou Xian smiled but did not answer.

The young man then rolled his eyes, looked at Xiaohuan again, and smiled, "Okay then! Ten taels is ten taels." You can test the word for me first. ”

Xiaohuan glanced at him, took a piece of white paper from the side, handed over a thin pen, and said, "Then please write a word in the ...... first."

Unexpectedly, the young man took the pen and said with a smile: "No need, I will write my name, you can help me test, what is the fortune of my name?"

As he spoke, he wrote three words on the white paper and handed them to Xiaohuan.

Xiaohuan was stunned for a moment, took it, looked at the white paper, and heard the young man smile slightly: "My name is Qin Wuyan!"