Hengyang City is located on the border of Kuozhou and Qingzhou, with countless trades and trade, and is the largest shopping mall in the vicinity.

When the first rays of sunlight swept across the land in the morning, the sound of roosters was already coming from the city, and the people in the city began to be busy every day. The sound of the "squeak" gate pivot sounded, and several officers and soldiers defending the city walked out of the city, standing on both sides, checking the passing population.

Ji Yan and his entourage came out of the mountain, along the official road all the way, several people practice in the mountains all the year round, nourished by the vitality of heaven and earth, the men look vibrant, the women are just like fairies descending to earth, and only the children of the official eunuchs in the world have such a look. They were still discussing the mysterious three people last night, giving people a sense of tension and oppression, but the night was peaceful, whether it was friend or foe is still unknown, in short, it is indispensable to go out to defend against people, and it is right to be vigilant.

After a short time to arrive at Hengyang City, the officers and soldiers guarding the city saw that they were all like dragons and phoenixes among people, and the swords were precious, thinking that they were the prince's heirs playing the rivers and lakes, and the two women behind were noble and beautiful, and they were really fairies in the world.

"Why is the city of trade so strict with the people who enter the city?" Luo Xingxi turned his head to look at the officers and soldiers behind him, making it difficult for a few ordinary people who were picking goods into the city.

"It must have something to do with the rumors that the demons are raging in there. Murong Bai looked at the merchant travelers on the street, observed carefully, and continued, "Their expressions when they look at us are full of curiosity, but they are still a little cautious and afraid, it seems that the people in the city are already panicking. ”

When Ji Yan and the others heard what the senior brother said, they observed the surroundings, and the merchants looked at them in amazement for a moment, but then they were afraid to dodge, as if they had experienced some terrible encounter.

"Senior Brother Murong, what are we going to do next?" Wu Qi asked Murong Bai after looking at it for a long time, and glanced sideways at Yu Shiji.

"Let's go to the 'Yuelai Inn' and meet up with the informants of my Heavenly Sword Sect in Hengyang City, see what information they have collected, and investigate at night when no one is around. Murong Bai told everyone what he had planned in his heart, and led the way for them in front, as if he was slightly familiar with Hengyang City.

As time passed, the city's wide streets were crowded with people, filled with hawkers' cries and prosperity. At the intersection of the two trade roads, there is a three-storey courtyard, white walls and black watts, surrounded by green trees, and a plaque with black edge and red background is hung on the wide courtyard, inlaid with four big characters in gold: Yuelai Inn.

The six of them walked towards the inn, and there was a junior second in front of the door to greet them: "A few guest officers, please come inside, dare to ask if you are playing a sharp child or staying in a hotel?"

Murong Bai saw Xiao Er groveling, a little embarrassed in his heart, and said politely: "We live in a hotel, but we have to wait for someone here, arrange a table for us to sit down first, as for the cost, as for the cost, ......" Talking about the cost, Murong Bai didn't bring much silver taels when he went out, but he seemed to have a spectrum in his heart, and took out a jade plate from his sleeve robe, with a relief in the shape of a sharp sword.

Xiao Er saw that these people squeaked when they talked about the cost, and the people behind them also looked around left and right, about to get angry, and they came to eat the overlord's meal emotionally, and they didn't want to shake something in front of them. Xiao Er took a closer look, and hurriedly ran into the back hall with this thing in his hand. After a while, a fat, short, middle-aged rich gentleman came over, respectful: "I don't know if the immortals are coming, I am the shopkeeper, staying in our store, it is not glorious!"

After a few polite greetings, Murong Bai and the others followed the shopkeeper to the private seat on the second floor, and settled down at the wine table near the window where a lake could be seen.

After the shopkeeper went downstairs respectfully, Murong Bai looked at the people staring at him and explained these awkwardly. It turned out that the owner of this shopkeeper was a scholar, and he was robbed by gangsters on the way back to his hometown, and when he fled for his life, he was blocked by a tiger again, and his life hung by a thread, and he was found and rescued by Murong Bai and several brothers who traveled here. Murong Bai escorted him to Hengyang City, gave him a silver two subsidy, picked a place of feng shui, and built this inn, the scholar was grateful for his kindness, and promised that as long as a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect came to visit with a token of the sect, he would not take a penny to entertain him, so there was the scene just now.

Soon, the table was filled with the special delicacies of Hengyang City, which feasted their eyes on the temptation of food. Looking at the food anxiously waiting, finally a young man wearing a turquoise cloth shirt came up from the first floor, bowed his hand to everyone, and said with a smile:

"Brother Murong, you are in the dust, even if you come!"

Murong Bai also got up to salute in return, and said politely: "Senior Brother Julai, don't come unharmed, we are also under the order of the master to investigate, and we can't delay." ”

This young man's name is Huang Julai, and he is a senior brother who knows Murong Bai from the past, but his qualifications are limited, so he was placed by the sect as an informant, collecting intelligence, and answering the senior brother who went down the mountain to perform tasks.

"Senior brother, please sit down, I will first introduce you to the junior disciples in the door, and then talk about the demon in detail. Murong Bai introduced Senior Brother Huang into the seat, introduced them one by one, and then talked about the rumors of Hengyang City while eating.

A few months ago, many villages outside Hengyang City had a series of tragic incidents, the deceased did not have scars, just a body of blood was sucked dry, at first there were only a few, but then every night there were people killed, not far from here Lijiatun did not survive, and several large towns around there were also tragic incidents. The local officers and soldiers in the city also checked, but not many people came back alive, and those who were alive seemed to have been met with terrible things, and were frightened to the point of insanity, and from then on, the people in the city closed their doors early every night and stayed at home.

This was only the first evil thing, Huang Ju came to see everyone, drank a few sips of tea, and then began to tell another strange thing.

Not long after this series of murders, the people in the city could hear the howl of fierce beasts coming from the mountains not far from the northern Qingzhou border every night, the voice was hoarse, like crying, like an angry howl, and occasionally mixed with the chanting of women, which made people tremble in the dark night. A bold woodcutter went to the mountains to explore the truth, and found countless corpses of ordinary beasts in the mountains, and even saw white-clothed ghosts shuttling through the forest. Under word of mouth, people's hearts are shaking, and they only dare to move around during the day, and the door is closed at night, and they categorically refuse to visit the living.

After saying for a long time, everyone present was silent, Murong Bai played with the wine glass in his hand, as if he was thinking about a problem; Yu Shiji was still expressionless, as if nothing was enough to shake her face, but Luo Xingxi, who was sitting on the side, listened to these terrible rumors, her eyes showed panic, and a jade hand tightly grasped Yu Shiji. After listening to this, Ji Yan carefully pondered the connection between these two things, and suddenly heard Wu Qi's eager voice.

"Senior Brother Huang, didn't you say that it was the people of the Soul Devouring Palace, where are those demons, do you have any clues?"

Wu Qi pressed Long Yuan on the table, his five fingers looked extremely white because of too much force, and he was very excited at the moment, his eyes were fierce, and everyone present was frightened by his behavior. Ji Yan stood up, patted Wu Qi's shoulder, looked at him thoughtfully, and shook his head. Wu Qi also realized his gaffe, took a deep breath and sat down.

"Obediently, before I was frightened by those demons, Senior Brother Wu stunned me. Fu Ji held a bamboo shoot and a deer leg in his hand, and said vaguely, but he also asked curiously: "If these two things are related, don't make any moths, if you can't do it, you don't have to think about the reputation of the Heavenly Sword Gate, it's important to save your life, how about it?"

He made a few jokes, had vegetables in his mouth, and spoke a little high-pitched, but he attracted the number of others.

"Huh...... It is said that the Taihe Mountain Heavenly Sword Sect is a leader in the righteous path, and I don't want the disciples in the sect to be a group of rabble, greedy for life and afraid of death, it's really a joke!"

When the people heard it, they followed the prestige. But I saw three people sitting on the wine table opposite, all wearing scarves and linen clothes, one black and one gray, and the man in black glanced at the young man Meng Lang who had just spoken, and continued to eat the peanuts on the plate.

The gray-clothed young man who had just spoken, with sword eyebrows and small eyes, and a one-person-high gold-inlaid wooden box on his back, glanced at Fudge defiantly.

Fuji was about to have a seizure, but Murong Bai stopped him, got up and said:

"Presumably, the two of you are also cultivators, my junior brother has some jokes, if you take it seriously, I have nothing to say, it's just that my Heavenly Sword Sect disciple has his own rules to deal with it, and it's not the turn of outsiders to intervene!"

Murong Bai saluted first and then soldiers, and the number of courtesies came first, but in the end, he gave a warning, neither humble nor arrogant, worthy of being a talented man who has experienced a lot. The black-clothed young man stopped the chopsticks in his hand, glanced at Murong Bai unhappily, and then looked at the sword in his hand, was silent for a moment, and then said with a smile:

"Fellow Daoists, forgive me, my junior brother went down the mountain for the first time, he didn't hold back, don't take it seriously, I apologized to you on his behalf. ”

"Oh, I don't know where Your Excellency came from, I'll go to the mountains to visit your sect and make a good fate. Wu Qi endured it and said politely.

"The small gate of the mountains and fields, I can't help the talents of the Heavenly Sword Gate to visit, I will say goodbye, farewell. With that, he put the money and silver on the table, pulled the gray-clothed young man and walked downstairs.

After Huang Julai saw the two of them leaving, he said again: "What Senior Brother Wu Qi said is right, I and several junior disciples did investigate and found that this first thing is quite related to the Soul Devouring Palace, the deceased all had signs of soul loss before his death, his eyes were rolled up, his limbs were tense, it was very similar to their methods, and he also saw a black-clothed ghost-faced person in Lijiatun. ”

"It's them, the ones I will never forget for the rest of my life, the people of the Soul Eater Palace. Wu Qi was very excited when he heard the description of the ghost face in black.

"As for this second thing......" Huang Julai thought for a while and didn't finish.

"The second thing should be related to the first thing, the haunting in the mountains is after the bloody crime, and it didn't appear before, so there must be some connection between them, we can check it together. Ji Yan also said his thoughts at this time.

"Senior Brother Ji and I have the same opinion, take a short rest for a while, tonight we will go to Lijiatun first and then go to that mountain to investigate one or two. Murong Bai discussed with everyone, and seeing that everyone had similar ideas, he immediately made a decision and arranged everything with Huang Julai.

......

Two figures walked on the road.

"Senior brother, why don't you let me argue with them, isn't the Heavenly Sword Gate amazing, and our Bagua Palace is not afraid of him!"

The young man in gray was still complaining about what had just happened.

"Nonsense, Master confesses, if they strayed into the forbidden land of the Demon Seal, we will act at the opportunity, and we will not care about anything else; besides, Murong Bai is here, I can only rely on many magic weapons to fight with him for a few rounds, you are still here to speak out and be ashamed, and if you are disobedient, go back and punish you for confinement!"

The black-clothed senior brother threatened with words, but the young man was not afraid at all, made a grimace, and said disdainfully:

"This time you must kill a few demons when you go down the mountain, who dares to underestimate me again, hum!"