Flag flags on the long street swayed gently in the wind, and orange cats meowed and chased flying dragonflies on the rooftops.
Near the long street leading to the city gate, as pedestrians passed by, a group of two men and one woman came in from outside the city leading horses, wearing brocade cloaks and holding ancient swords. Among them, the woman was dressed in white and covered with a green shirt, with a hint of coldness hanging on her brows and eyes.
, not too interested in the hustle and bustle of the street. When his companions spoke to him, they only responded briefly.
"How far is Xinghua Lane?"
"We're in the west of the city. When we get to Li's Mansion later, remember to call me uncle. Even though I'm an outside disciple of the sect, I started here earlier than you and I, so I still have to respect you." Among the two men, the older one,
With a dignified appearance and gentle words, Qi Qi looked at the woman beside him and said with a smile: "Junior sister, when you become a master, you can rest for a few days and wash yourself off. After that, you can return to the sect."
The woman looked at him with a heroic and cold look, said "hmm" in her mouth, and stopped talking.
On the other hand, another man came up and nudged his companion with his elbow: "Senior brother, senior sister, I won't pay attention to you. You must be embarrassed."
"Mind yourself."
The three of them led the horses and searched for the address in their hands. They inquired all the way until they came to the so-called Xinghua Lane. It was no different from the previous market. The only difference was that there was only a large house nearby, with simple blue bricks and green pine trees.
The branches and leaves hang outside the wall, showing tranquility and gentleness.
"Good place."
The leading man sighed and knocked on the door, but no one responded for a long time.
"Stop knocking and look up." The woman in white looked up at the top of the door. The door plaque had been removed.
"Did they move?"
The younger man looked at his senior brother in confusion, and the latter frowned. He didn't know anything about it. He only knew that there was an uncle from the outside in Qingshan County. If he passed through this place, he could stay at his house temporarily.
At the moment, the three of them were hesitating to go to the inn to stay temporarily. At this time, at a street tea shop not far away, an old man in Tsing Yi looked at them. Seeing the three of them descending the stone steps, he quickly put down his tea cups and hurried over to stop the three of them.
"Are the three of you here to look for Li Mansion?"
"Who are you?"
"Old man, I used to be the steward of the Li Mansion, but now... I've been kicked out. I come here every day to stop for a while and take a look at the house."
The person who spoke was the old servant of the mansion. He quickly invited the three of them to sit in the tea shop. The two men and one woman looked at each other and followed. The waiter filled the tea and left, and the old man asked the names of the three of them.
"Old man, all you need to know is that my surname is Chu. The three of us have some relationship with Li Yuanshan of the Li family. We passed by here today, so we came to visit." It is rare for practitioners to give their full names in order to be on guard against unexpected events.
Over there, the old man was not surprised. He had been in the Li Mansion for many years and knew something about his master. When he saw the other party mentioning it in a vague way, he couldn't help but sigh.
"You three are late."
Then, the old man told the three people everything that had happened recently, from the fight between the two young masters to the cheating and the slaughter of the Liu family.
This made the two men sigh. The woman sipping tea next to her blew away the hot air and raised her eyes slightly.
"Then why did the mansion become someone else's?"
"That's exactly what the old man is going to say later." The old man looked around and lowered his voice: "...Miss Zhou was engaged to my young master, and the whole family was gone, so the mansion fell to her alone.
, she even took off the door plaque, and the old man tried to stop her, but was beaten up by her servant... The result was unexpected. I heard early this morning that the Miss Zhou family and his cousin, the county magistrate, were all suffering from madness.
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Having said this, the old man grinned and touched the corners of his eyes without trace.
"I see... it must be my master who has appeared... and made them crazy. It must be like this..."
The three of them fell silent, listened to the chatter for a while, then stood up to say goodbye, and left the teahouse. The old man chased them out, and there were still three people on the street wherever people were going.
County government.
On the side of the blocked street, not long after the patrolling government officials passed by, three figures flew across the roof, descended quietly to the courtyard, and quickly dodged against the courtyard wall to a row of wing rooms on the right side of the courtroom, where the autopsy was conducted.
It is tall and blocks the sun. Once inside, it is obvious that the temperature is slightly lower than outside.
Most of the corpses of the past few days have been parked in the wing, covered with white cloths and lying one by one on the wooden table.
A gust of breeze swept through the courtyard.
The window lattice at the back of the house creaked slightly, and soon, three more figures appeared in the room where the corpse was parked. They followed the wooden sign placed on the white cloth to identify the name, and finally found the body they were looking for in the corner.
"Uncle Li..."
After removing the white cloth, Li Yuanshan's body was exposed upright in front of the three people. It was quite swollen and had been sewed up again in many places.
There are many bruises on the chest, waist, ribs, shoulders and neck.
Looking at Li Yuanshan, whose face was distorted and almost unsightly, Qin Shouyan's fingertips shimmered with magical light and touched the forehead of the corpse. He closed his eyes and whispered: "Uncle has taken the Black Mysterious Pill... He has surpassed the Foundation Establishment, and his physique is comparable to the Golden Pill."
To be able to hurt him, you must at least have a golden elixir cultivation level..."
"You missed one thing, and my uncle was injured and died."
The woman spoke coldly, and jumped out of the window with a long sword in her arms. The three of them came to the backyard, and saw the magistrate and his niece who were guarding the atrium from a distance. The two of them were crazy and looked frightened when they saw each other.
When he was waiting, he found the puppet that had been messed up and dropped in the corner in the woman's room. Qin Shouyan's face became heavy.
"The method of suppressing victory seems to be an evil practice..."
With a strong force on his hand, the puppet instantly broke into pieces and scattered all over the floor. He threw away the remains, turned around and walked out the door, "Go and have a look at the Liu Mansion."
The woman remained silent. It had been many years since we had heard of any evil cultivators in the Canglan River area.
I'm afraid he's still in the Golden Core realm.
However, when they arrived at the Liu Mansion, they found nothing. The three of them had no choice but to leave the city and go to a pavilion in the suburbs to straighten things out and make new plans. But it is not difficult to see that the county's uncle and nephew, who were planning two properties, were confused by each other.
Unclear, he avenged Li Yuanshan and Liu Hui.
"Then is he considered evil or righteous?" The younger man leaned against the pavilion with a dog's tail grass in his mouth. "He uses evil methods but does righteous things. What should we do?"
"Huh, evil cultivators are evil cultivators. Just because they have done a good deed, it cannot be judged that what they have done is righteous." Qin Shouyan pressed the sword head with his palms and had a complicated look on his face. He was from a well-known family and had been listening to this since he was a child.
The distinction between good and evil has arrived. At this point, what the other party did can be regarded as revenge for his Canglan Sword Sect.
"This person acted in an orderly manner. He first defiled the county government office with a bat and broke the dragon and tiger aura, and then he used the evil spell. Such an experienced person must have done many things, some good and some bad. Who can tell clearly. However, it must be
Find the person and look at him before talking. Junior sister, what do you think?"
The woman opened her palms and sprinkled the remains of the previous puppet on it. At the same time, a paper crane appeared in her palm and flapped its wings.
"Find him first."
The cold voice said, and the woman blew out a breath. The paper crane flew away from her white palm, jumped up, and rushed out of the pavilion. As if she felt something, she flew towards the west.
The two people opposite looked at each other, stood up and followed.
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at the same time.
Dozens of miles away from Qingshan County, on the long official road, when the sun is shining brightly, the bullock cart stops at the roadside. The old cow lowers its head, sticks out its tongue and rolls the grass on the roadside to chew.
Chen Yuan was hiding in the shade of the tree, leaning against the trunk of the tree while flipping through the book and chanting the spells on it. He was holding the fingers of his other hand and slowly lifting a branch from the ground into the air.
"Apprentice-"
Behind the tree, a crazy old man suddenly jumped out with a ring of branches, his hands on both sides of his face like claws, and he roared in a ferocious manner.
"Hey, are you scared by being a teacher?"
Seeing that his apprentice didn't respond, he threw the ring of branches above his head to the ground in frustration and stepped on it a few times.
"It's not fun, it's not fun!"
"Master, don't make trouble."
The figure reading the book whispered something and waved his fingers, and the branch floating in the air flew out with a swish and landed in front of the old cow's hooves.
The green cow twitched its ears and stopped chewing. It looked at the owner under the tree and was stunned for a moment. It quickly turned its horns, pretended not to see him, and continued to eat grass with its head down.