In two days, it will be the 40th birthday of Shen Zhongxia, the head of the "Seven Star Hall".

The main hall of the "Seven Star Hall", which should be jubilant, however, on this morning, it made people feel the smell of death and the suffocating sense of oppression.

Shen Zhongxia's face sank like water, standing on the spacious and flat stone steps at the door, his eyes were like lightning looking at the thirty-nine rotten and green corpses that were carried in by the disciples of the Seven Stars, including the Great Compassion Monk, one of the four major altar masters of the "Tiangang Hall".

This is the first high-level cadre at the level of "altar master" who died unclearly and unclearly in the nearly five years since he marched into the "southwest" and based himself on the "Miao Xinjiang", and died together with the monk of Great Compassion, as well as thirty-eight elite disciples, including Tang Taizong and Zhan Fei!

In the past five years, Shen Zhongxia and his "Seven Star Hall", in order to create a new world in "Southern Xinjiang", with benevolence and righteousness as the banner, build bridges and roads, help the local poor Miao people, plant mulberry acacia, brew rice wine, quite popular with the people, "Thirty-six Holes" and "Seventy-two Villages" have looked at the wind and voted.

Even half a year ago, in the decisive battle against "one ghost, one Gu, and one witch", Shen Zhongxia personally went out to fight, knew it with reason, moved it with emotion, persuaded the people with national righteousness, and used the well-being of the people to win the public, and all parties did not shed a drop of blood, did not die a single life, and successfully reached an agreement with the three evil sects to stop fighting, recuperate, and coexist peacefully, without causing too many losses and casualties.

However, now, the chief altar master, one of the four major altar masters under the Shenzhong Xia Hall, and the great compassion monk of the "Tiangang Hall", has given his life for no reason. The other sacrificed and fled subordinates have exceeded 100 in recent months, just like these 30 people, who were poisoned and killed because they touched the dead corpse of a dead disciple.

As for the specific poison in these elite subordinates, Shen Zhongxia has no way of knowing or knowing. With this poisoning skill, Shen Zhongxia's palm was already sweating slightly, and the enemy's poison technique was definitely not under his old acquaintance "Five Poison Venerable" Ouyang Chang and his old friend "Poison Phoenix" Blue Phoenix.

Who is the opponent?

What is his purpose and purpose in doing this?

Shen Zhongxia looked up at the "Seven Star Hall" plaque with dark red handwriting on the forehead of the door, and thought to himself: "This plaque should have been erected for almost five years, right?" The paint on it has fallen off, it's time to replace it with a new plaque......

Then, Shen Zhongxia heard a sound of small footsteps approaching behind him. There is no need to look back, Shen Zhongxia already knows that the person who came is his wife, Wen Wan'er, the palace master of the "Netherworld Palace".

Although Wen Wan'er is Shen Zhongxia's second wife, she devotes all the manpower and financial resources of the "Netherworld Palace" to help her husband achieve hegemony and dreams wholeheartedly (see the volume of "Killing Gold"), with a gentle and virtuous personality, she is a rare confidante and 2 virtuous helpers of Shen Zhongxia, she knows her husband Shen Zhongxia's temper and habits very well, and when he thinks about something, she will never interrupt his train of thought.

Shen Zhongxia didn't turn around, he sighed softly and called, "Wan'er." ”

Wen Wan'er held a slightly raised lower abdomen, a pair of black and white eyes, and stared at Shen Zhongxia's side with distracting attention. Fu Jun's knife sharpens the axe-chopping king's facial bones, his cheeks are extraordinarily expanded outward, his nose is like a hanging gall, and his eyes are cold, distributed on his slightly iron-colored face, not angry but mighty.

Wen Wan'er sighed slightly, and then, he also saw the thirty-nine green corpses wrapped in black oilcloth paper in the courtyard under the steps.

“...... These siblings ...... Great Compassion Zen Master, is he also killed......" Wen Wan'er pointed with a shocked face.

"At dawn this morning, I only found out ......" Shen Zhongxia nodded, he used his heavy and warm big hand to put it on his wife's thin fragrant shoulder, Wan'er is six months pregnant, no matter what, she can't let her wife be a little frightened.

Shen Zhongxia looked at Wen Wan'er's plump figure, soft and well-behaved round face, full of steadfastness and affection, but he had a pair of wise eyes, like a guiding light on his way forward, giving himself light and warmth...... He said softly: "Wan'er, you don't have a good rest in the house, what are you doing here?"

Wen Wan'er's slightly pale face showed a faint worry, and she was about to open her lips to speak, when the female disciple Jin Hua under the steps reported loudly: "The main hall master, the lady, the two altar masters of 'Qinglong' and 'White Tiger' ask to see you." ”

Shen Zhongxia immediately preached to the female disciples below: "Please ask Xuanyuan and Tian to come in." ”

Hearing the disciple's announcement, Shen Zhongxia secretly breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "The order I passed down two hours ago, the two altar masters are coming so quickly!." Murong Heishan, the other 'Earth Demon Altar Altar Master', should also be arriving soon...... However, with Xuanyuan Kaishan and Tian Ling'er here, it is enough, even if there are big things, they can deal with the past!"

The reason why Shen Zhongxia has such self-confidence is because the two altar masters who are about to obey King Qin are both in the "Southern Xinjiang" area, and there are two people standing by his side, no matter how terrible the enemy, there is no need to worry.

Shen Zhongxia is a person who does great things, he has always been suspicious of people, and he is not suspicious of employing people, since he marched into the "Miao Jiang", he knows that it is difficult to make his rule long-term peace and stability only by force, so he vigorously buys the hearts of the locals, and even disregards the opposition of his cronies, and overrides public opinion, and the four major altar masters under his own hall, "Tiangang", "Disha", "Qinglong", and "White Tiger", two of which are the position of the altar masters, are given to the important people in the "southwest" who do not belong to their own lineage and are newly recruited, so as to show that they treat everyone equally. A thirsty mind. This initiative alone has made Shen Zhongxia famous and well received in the martial arts in the "southwest".

These two newly appointed altar masters are themselves in the "Miao Jiang" area, and they can be regarded as top masters, but in their hearts, compared to the other two Shen bosses who were in the same position as the altar masters, the descendants brought by the other two bosses Shen from the "Central Plains", the "Murong Family" boss Murong Black Mountain and the "Shaolin School" monk Dabei Monk, whether in terms of prestige or seniority, it is still a big step behind.

Therefore, the two new altar masters in the "southwest" are also grateful to Dade and do their best for the appointment and reuse of the master of the Shenzhong Hall, and they have also made the "Seven Star Hall" unite inside and outside, and within a few years, it has been in the "southern Xinjiang" with a flourishing and unrivaled limelight.

The reason why Shen Zhongxia can have such a big personality change is not only because he has experienced a series of ups and downs in his life of losing office, resignation, marriage change, betrayal, distress, and escape, which makes him more and more mature and stable after entering middle age, but also because the reality is urgent, he can't help but rely on the side people of the "Netherworld Valley" and the local forces that rely on the "Southern Xinjiang" -

At the beginning of Shen Zhongxia's development, relying on the "rich group" of Chai Ruge, a "named" disciple "Xiaoliang Wang", he vigorously developed and expanded his "Seven Star Hall", and his subordinates were like clouds, and they were prominent for a while, only the "Seven Star Monarchs" in the hall: "Wenqu Star Army" He Shishi, "Wuqu Star Jun" Lei Laohu, "Tianji Star Jun" Qiu Ying, "Lian Zhen Xingjun" Tang Bao, "Greedy Wolf Star Jun" Qu Wolf, "Broken Army Star Jun" He Wenlong, "Seven Killing Star Jun" Guan Tugou, for him to attack the city, It is a pity that these masters and generals have all loyally sacrificed their lives to protect themselves and their families; Shen Zhongxia has no other way to consolidate his family business without resorting to collateral and peripheral forces.

The two altar masters of "Tiangang" and "Disha", Murong Heishan and the monk of Great Compassion, are all long-famous martial arts predecessors, and the "grandmaster" level boss Zen master is even more deservedly than the "Seven Star Monarchs" of the past years, and their abilities are naturally beyond doubt; Seven Star Monarchs", more than that!

"Qinglong Altar" altar owner Xuanyuan Kaishan, male, now Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old, nine feet seven inches tall, weighing 226 pounds, the weapon is a long-handled mountain axe, the handle is six feet three inches long, weighing 89 pounds, brave style, born with divine power.

It is said that this Xuanyuan altar master is the son of an honest Han woodcutter, and his mother is a Miao girl. Born and raised in a dense forest in the savage mountains of the "Yunnan-Guizhou" border region, he was able to lift his father's axe for chopping wood at the age of three, and he was already able to use his father's heavy axe to chop down a tree the thickness of his arms by the age of five.

When he was seven years old, Xuanyuan Kaishan's father vomited black blood and died for no reason, and six months later, the young Xuanyuan Kaishan used his father's axe to hack to death his mother and his lover who fell in front of his father's spirit, avenging his father who was poisoned by the adulterer and adulterer.

Since then, Xuanyuan Kaishan has carried an axe, causing trouble everywhere and making enemies everywhere to seek revenge.

Xuanyuan Kaishan had never learned any martial arts, and his cutting down people was as simple and casual as cutting down trees, and he had to be injured at least thirty or fifty times a year, and he had to lie in bed for at least a hundred or eighty days.

Fortunately, because of these countless vicious fights and injuries, he has also trained a pair of copper tendons and iron bones that cannot be beaten to death and cannot be smashed, honed a fierce and indestructible spirit that is not afraid of death, and studied a set of "36-style mountain axes" that swallow the indestructible rivers and mountains. This set of axe techniques is an actual combat trick that Xuanyuan Kaishan has refined from the experience of countless hardships and bloody battles and life and death, which is more effective than the flower fist embroidered legs that any martial arts master can teach him.

At the age of twenty-six, Xuanyuan Kaishan has been recognized as the top three warriors in the "Miaojiang" master of the "Southwest" martial arts!

Now, the thirty-nine-year-old Xuanyuan Kaishan, whether in character or axe technique, is not only strong, but also calm, and more and more has the prototype of a generation of martial arts masters;

Tian Ling'er, the owner of the "White Tiger Altar", female, thirty-three years old, widowed. Legend has it that she is a Bai woman, has been married nine times, each time after getting married, less than a child, she has become a widow, her husband is either dead on the street, or dead in a foreign land, is a reluctant "white tiger star".

Including Shen Zhongxia, I don't know how many men have seen Tian Ling'er's body, but there is not even one man who can forget her body, as long as she looks at it, she will never forget it.

Tian Ling'er's life story is almost a legend, and legend has it that her father was a "Fusang" ronin who wandered to "Middle Earth" and raped her Bai mother and gave birth to her.

Tian Ling'er's mother is a female disciple of the head of the "Nujiang Sword School", and her swordsmanship is already quite high, but her father uses an extremely strange and strange "Oriental" swordsmanship, because Tian Ling'er's swordsmanship is light and agile from the "Nujiang School" and weird from "Fusang Island".

Subsequently, the nine husbands Tian Ling'er married were also the best of the rising generation of masters of the famous sword school, and she naturally absorbed the essence and essence of her husband's swordsmanship.

Therefore, whenever a young swordsman from the rivers and lakes saw a very gentle and beautiful Tian Ling'er walking towards them with a very lovely smile, they would usually die under her sword in an instant.

Xuanyuan Kaishan and Tian Ling'er, one is fierce and the other is feminine, they are both Shen Zhongxia's right-hand men, they were in the early hours of the morning, as soon as they received the order from the main hall, they immediately rushed from their respective altars-

Shen Zhongxia felt the unfinished meaning of his wife Shen Zhongxia, he held her soft and asked softly, "You ...... What's wrong? Wan'er?"

Shen Zhongxia asked softly, Wen Wan'er, who was trying her best to hide it, closed her eyes helplessly, and let two lines of tears flow from the tips of her eyes.

When Shen Zhongxia saw it, she was so anxious that she shook her arms lightly, and asked anxiously, "What happened to the bottom?"

“...... Ghost voice...... "Wen Wan'er's voice was almost moaning and sobbing.

"What kind of ghost?!" Shen Zhongxia said with a change of color.

“...... I do not know...... I don't know anything......" After only two words, Wen Wan'er seemed to be afraid of touching the terrifying memory, so she couldn't say any more.

When did your wife hear it? Where did Wan'er hear it?

Although Shen Zhongxia felt that his wife might just be hallucinating and uneasy during pregnancy, and was affected by the recent rumors in Tangkou, he still tried to ask his wife what happened.

Wen Wan'er's pregnant body trembled, but she tried her best to suppress the fear and sadness in her heart, and at the same time, because her husband's concern and greetings could be relied on, making her invisibly more vulnerable.

“...... There are a lot of scary ghost sounds...... It started from the roof of my bedroom, and there were ghost voices saying that when I gave birth to a baby, it was when I died...... He also said that I didn't have time to give birth to a baby, and that the dead baby would bite me to death...... There are so many terrible nonsense......" Wen Wan'er fell into her husband's arms, crying bitterly.

Shen Zhongxia raised his eyebrows and said in surprise: "There is such a thing?!"

Wen Wan'er cried and said, "...... And then ...... And then the ghost voice...... It's in my stomach and I'm smiling...... It's a child's voice...... He also said a lot of horrible things...... Zhongxia, you don't know...... These nights, you don't stay with me for the sake of the church...... All night, I saw ......"

"What do you see?" Shen Zhongxia couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his heart when he saw Wan'er's scattered and helpless eyes due to fear.

"Baby ......" Wen Wan'er's mind has obviously become very confused.

"Baby?" Shen Zhongxia subconsciously repeated.

“...... Wan'er saw our unborn child...... Our children...... Our child" Wen Wan'er's eyes became more and more distracted, and her expression became more and more frightened.

"How is our child?" asked Shen Zhongxia anxiously.

"Our children...... Child...... He...... He cried loudly ...... "Wen Wan'er", said very sadly, and cried even more sadly: "...... Child...... The child is so small, so small...... But...... The child's head is so big, so big...... His face ...... Good...... Old...... The face is full of wrinkles...... He bared his fangs...... Smirked...... to devour his mother......"

"Don't be afraid, Wan'er, it must be you having a nightmare, it's okay, it's okay......" Shen Zhongxia held his trembling wife Wen Wan'er with his arms, and saw a man and a woman walking in together, kneeling together, touching his left chest with his right palm as a salute, and knocked on himself and said: "'Qinglong Altar' altar master Xuanyuan Kaishan, 'White Tiger Altar' altar master Tian Ling'er, greet the head hall master and say hello to Mrs. ”

Shen Zhongxia swept his eyes at the green corpses in the courtyard, then stretched out his hand to signal the two assistants to get up, and said, "You all know what happened last night and this morning?"

Xuanyuan Kaishan and Tian Ling'er both replied: "The subordinates know it." ”

Among them, Xuanyuan Kaishan, who was tall and imposing, took a step forward, hugged his fists and saluted: "Report to the main hall master, there are some rumors outside in recent months, which seem to be very unfavorable to your old man and the hall......"

Shen Zhongxia shrugged his iron eyebrows again, and asked in a stern tone, "What kind of rumors are there outside?"

Xuanyuan Kaishan glanced at the delicate and weak Wen Wan'er before he said: "Master of the main hall, because recently, within a radius of hundreds of miles under the rule of the subordinate 'Qinglong Altar', strange things have occurred frequently, which really makes people's hearts boil, rumors are spreading, and subordinates have to report the truth to the ......."

Xuanyuan, the altar master of the "Blue Dragon Altar", did not finish his words, and Tian Ling'er, the female altar master of the "White Tiger Altar" who came with him, also stepped forward and secretly glanced at his wife Wen Wan'er, before he said in a strange tone: "The master of the main hall, under the jurisdiction of the 'White Tiger Altar', has also happened a lot of unbelievable strange things recently, and I am about to report to the main hall to learn about ......it."