On the second day, Xie Qian asked Shi Ran to stay in the place where he lived to do some errands, and he led Tianshu, Ye Yanran, Qing'er, and Su Su to meet the owner of the city. Originally, Tianshu wanted to call Tiantian too, but who knew that it would be there to pretend to be dead!

When I came to the bridge connecting the inner and outer cities, I was naturally stopped by the guards.

"Stop! Is there a token?" Because these guards usually face ordinary people (real masters are all flying), so their strength is very weak, slightly stronger than ordinary martial arts practitioners, so when they face these people with extraordinary temperament in front of them, they are not as arrogant as before, but their eyes are still unconsciously captured by those stunning women.

Ye Yanran took out a token with a golden glow in the black, which looked like iron and not iron, with a sword carved on one side and a hammer carved on the other.

Seeing this token, several guards immediately changed their faces to respect, and said in fear: "The adults forgive their sins, but the small ones don't know Mount Tai with their eyes." ”

Ye Yanran smiled faintly, left two words "It's okay", and left like a character in a dream, so that several guards couldn't tell if it was really a dream after a long time.

To Tianshu's surprise, he didn't expect that with this small card, he could come all the way to the Sword Casting Villa unhindered.

Xie Qian stepped forward and smiled gently at the doorman: "Please tell Master Duan Zhuang on your behalf, just say Heavenly Sword Gate Xie Qian, Ye Yanran asks to see you." Then Ye Yanran handed over the token.

As the core of Sword Casting City, Sword Casting Mountain Villa is not allowed to enter at will if it has not been summoned, even the side clans are not allowed to enter at will. Even if it's just a doorman, it's already a great high position for the outer two floors, but when they see this token, they make the same facial expressions as the people in front of them.

At this moment, an old man walked briskly towards them from a distance in the villa. Although he is also wearing a subordinate costume, the material workmanship is obviously much more advanced than the others.

"Is it Miss Ye?" The old man's voice was very old, and his body was slender, but fortunately, his face was still rosy, and his steps were steady.

Ye Yanran took a step forward, greeted the old man with a smile, and called out affectionately: "Old Duan! I'm really happy to see that you are still so tough." Why don't you rest in there, why do you come out?"

Elder Duan let out a long sigh, didn't answer immediately, looked at the people behind Ye Yanran, and said, "Miss Ye and all the little friends are coming from afar, let's go in first." ”

Under Ye Yanran's recommendation, both parties knew each other's identities. This old man is the housekeeper in the entire Sword Casting Villa, and he is the housekeeper who started from the previous generation of family heads, and he can be described as highly respected in the villa, and even the current family head has to be called "Uncle Duan". You must know that there is an essential difference between this "Uncle Duan" and the "Old Duan" called by Ye Yanran, the latter is just a simple honorific title, while the former contains seniority in it.

Walking on the bluestone paved road, Tianshu raised his head and looked around like a hillbilly. To be honest, the villa looked smaller and more simple than expected, and it seemed to be a notch weaker than the magnificence of the Heavenly Sword Sect, and the legendary sword furnace was not found.

Ye Yanran also looked around, but her feelings were obviously different from Tianshu, "Elder Duan, why does it feel so quiet in the villa today?"

Old Duan's figure stopped, sighed, turned his head and didn't explain anything to her, just praised, "Miss is still so subtle." After saying that, he led the people inside again.

Tianshu couldn't help but ask, "Senior sister, are you very related to Sword Casting Villa?"

"It's not a good relationship. Ye Yanran explained, "Five years ago, when I went down the mountain with a few junior sisters to practice, I met Duan Yun, the young owner of Sword Casting Villa, by chance. We can be regarded as friends who have experienced life and death. ”

"It's certainly more than that. That Duan Yun must have plotted against Senior Sister Ye, otherwise how could he have teamed up with a group of strangers for no reason. Tianshu muttered in his heart.

Su Su asked enviously, "Brother Xie, Sister Ye, you must have been to many places, right? Tell me something." ”

Looking at Su Su's expectant gaze, Xie Qian smiled and said, "Then I'll tell you something that ordinary people don't know first." The continent is endless, there is a huge forest to the west of the Nine Heavens Mountain, and beyond that is the boundless desert of death, no one knows what is on the other side of the desert. There is also the extreme arctic ice field in the northernmost part of the continent, the 100,000 mountains in the southernmost part of the Nanban, the barren forest in the east, and the sea outside the continent, which is said to be many, much bigger than the mainland. ”

"I know all of that. Qing'er answered.

"So you're not an ordinary person. Xie Qian's smiling look was indeed charming to be honest.

Everyone chatted while walking, and followed Duan Lao all the way to a room. It wasn't the living room!!!

"It's really unfortunate that the owner of the village has not been in the villa recently. Duan Lao said straight to the point.

Seeing the old man's solemn face, Ye Yanran couldn't help but ask, "Old Duan, has something happened?"

Duan Lao's eyes were cloudy, and he also revealed a trace of tiredness, stretched out his hand to them, motioned for everyone to sit down at home, and sat down under Ye Yanran's support, sighed long, and said heavily: "It's normal that Miss Ye doesn't know, this matter is very important, so only a few people know about it." ”

The others didn't speak, quietly listening to Duan Lao's words, "The incident originated a year ago, when the young master returned from a trip. In the past, after the young master came back, he would stay in the villa and rarely go out. But after coming back that time, the young master changed, and he ran out from time to time. The old man also thought it was very strange, and after investigation, it turned out that the young master rescued a girl named Xiao Jiu on the road, placed her in the outer city, and often ran out just to have a tryst with the girl. The old man also turned a blind eye to this, after all, the young master is not young. Half a year passed like this, and one night half a year ago, the young master's soul card suddenly 'crackled' and was full of cracks. When the old man arrived at the woman, it was already too late, and the woman was already gone, leaving only the young master who was angry and unconscious. Later, after an inspection by a friend of the master, it was found that the young master was missing one soul and one soul among the three souls and seven spirits. According to the situation a few days ago, the old man concluded that the young master must be the 'soul dementor * method' of the fox demon. ”

"Fox demon, is there really a demon in this world?" Qing'er couldn't help but ask. Since she was a child, she had only seen the word "demon" in books, but she didn't expect that there was such a thing in this world, and she couldn't imagine what her tree would look like when it suddenly walked.

Xie apologized and looked at Qing'er like a child, and said with a smile: "We can cultivate immortals, why can't other creatures cultivate demons?"

Xie Qian's words made the chubby figure appear in Tianshu's mind for the first time, "I don't know if I can cultivate demons every day?

Qing'er seemed right to think about it, and just wanted to ask a few more questions to satisfy her curiosity, but first heard Ye Yanran say to Duan Lao: "Duan Lao, forgive me for taking the liberty of it." With Yanran's understanding of Yun Gongzi, Yun Gongzi is upright and firm-minded, and he is by no means a person who is greedy for beauty, how can he be"

Duan Lao sighed and said helplessly: "The girl doesn't know, I have seen the fox demon once, and even the old man was shocked at that time, not because of its beauty, but because of her" Duan Lao glanced at Ye Yanran with a complicated look, "She and you, the girl, are at least eight points similar." ”

When Tianshu heard this, he secretly said in his heart: "Sure enough!"

But hearing a soft sigh, Ye Yanran said to herself: "Why bother" turned her gaze back and asked Duan Lao: "Can we meet Yun Gongzi?"

Elder Duan glanced at everyone, pondered for a moment, and nodded, "Come with me." ”

Under the leadership of Duan Laodi, everyone took a detour and came to a cave house, "This is the place where the owners of the village have retreated. Seeing the doubts in Tianshu's eyes, Duan Lao explained: "The young master's current condition is very bad, and the owner of the village doesn't know when he will be able to come back, if the young master is allowed to stay in an ordinary place all the time, it will be difficult to protect his body for a long time, so he moved here, after all, this is the place with the strongest aura in the entire mountain villa." The old man's voice carried a hint of desolation, "Everyone, please come in with me." There are traps inside, so please follow in my footsteps. ”

The inner walls of the cave are inlaid with many luminous stones, which illuminate the place clearly. Luminous stone is one of the gemstones, which is very valuable among mortals, but it is only a good sword-forging material for their immortal cultivators, so it is not surprising that a large number of luminous stones appear here.

Along the way, the careful Xie Qian found no less than ten mechanisms, and he expected that the number of mechanisms here must be far more than that. After about a quarter of an hour of marching, they came to a stone chamber, very rudimentary, with nothing but a stone bed. There was a thick mattress on the stone bed, and a man lay straight inside, and if he hadn't felt the faint breath, he would have thought it was just a corpse.

Presumably he is Duan Yun.

Several people walked to the bed and looked at the man in front of them, with an angular face, a straight nose, and thick eyebrows like a sword, just lying quietly, they could feel a heroic aura.

Such a man, at the age when he should have been high-spirited and scolded Fang Xuan, could only lie here motionless like rotten wood, and it was likely that he would only be like this for the rest of his life. How can people not sigh!

"Huh??" Elder Duan broke the silence for a long time and said slowly, "The young master was raised by me with one hand. I remember when he was very young, he rode on my neck, and guess what, he actually peed and wet my neck. ”

He chuckled twice to himself, and continued: "Later, I remember that the young master was only ten years old that year, and he had already practiced the Heaven Splitting Sword Qi, which is equivalent to the fifth layer of your human realm, but due to the particularity of this Transmission Method, its cultivation difficulty is more than twice that of yours. Therefore, the young master is regarded as the first genius of the Sword Forging Villa in the past hundred years!"

Duan Lao's cloudy eyes flashed with undisguised pride. "When I was twelve years old, my wife passed away due to illness, and the young master hid in the room and cried all night, and we were all worried, but when he came out again, everyone found out that the young master had changed and matured, and he grew up overnight.

Duan Lao slowly recalled, slowly narrated, as if the whole world was his audience, and as if he was the only one in the world. The old man's tears are a little muddy, they are full of too many memories and emotions, experiences and vicissitudes!

As he spoke, the stone room fell silent again, leaving only the old man's heartache and sobbing.

After a long while, Duan Lao finally calmed down, and apologized to everyone: "I'm really sorry to let a few people see the joke." It's old, it's really useless. ”

"Don't say that, Duan Lao's true temperament makes me and other juniors feel it deeply. Xie Qian bowed to Elder Duan and said.

Elder Duan sighed, his eyes regained clarity, and said, "We have always claimed to the outside world that the young master's matter is that something has gone wrong in the practice, and the master is in retreat to help the young master recover, so I hope you will keep this matter secret after you go out." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but there were also doubts in their hearts: "At this time, shouldn't we recruit talented people from all over the world, and the possibility of solving it is more likely?"

Seeing their expressions in his eyes, Duan Lao said helplessly: "The master has invited the master to take a look, and the only conclusion he has come to is to recover the lost soul and soul." So the old man took all his capable disciples to search for the fox demon together. But the master never thought that people's hearts are unpredictable!"

Speaking of this, Duan Lao's eyes were full of anger, but he still tried to remain calm, "I think you all know something about the rules of Sword Casting Villa, the Divine Sword is the owner of the village, theoretically all the children of the Duan family have a chance, and the first few generations of the owner of the village have indeed proved this." However, since the last generation of owners, there have been three consecutive generations from the same family. Originally, with the qualifications of the young master, four consecutive generations were basically a foregone conclusion. Of course, this is certainly a scene that many people do not want to see. What happened now just gave them an opportunity to take advantage of. ”

"Are you afraid that someone will get in the way?" said Tianshu worriedly.

"I'm not afraid to get in the way, I don't think they dare to face the master directly. What I'm afraid of is ......" Duan Lao couldn't stop looking at Duan Yun who was lying motionless, with a sad face.

"Are you saying that they will be unfavorable to Duan Yun, how dare they!" Ye Yanran couldn't control her emotions a little.

Duan Lao's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and he said sadly: "What don't you dare! Although this matter has been kept secret, there is no impermeable wall in the world. They've already started to act, and the young lady has been missing for more than a month!"