There is no wind tonight, and there are no stars. Dark clouds cover the sky, making the whole world feel extremely depressed.
A figure rushed quietly into the darkness, moving around at an extremely fast speed.
With every step he took, numerous shadows were dragged out behind him.
In just a moment, they arrived in front of a village.
There is a monument at the entrance of the village with three big characters...Sunjiazhuang!
The man raised his head and pulled off the mask from his face. It was Jiang Ran.
"The third family at the east end of the village..."
He murmured to himself, identifying the direction, and then counted them one by one.
When I clicked on the third door, I jumped in.
No one lives in this house, but the yard is not overgrown with weeds, but is kept very clean.
It can be seen that someone takes care of it on weekdays.
Ye Konggu and Liu Wenshan hid something here, so naturally they would not really leave this house unattended.
Otherwise, a day or two would be fine, but if it goes on for a long time, it will be taken over by others.
You have to ask someone to take good care of it and let people know that although no one lives here, there is always an owner, so as not to make people covet it.
The house is not big. After a little exploration, I found the study room.
"Liu Wenshan said that behind the bookshelf in the study room is a secret passage.
"In the secret room below, hidden is the Jiaowei Qin.
"But where is this mechanism?"
Jiang Ran pondered and looked at the bookshelf in front of him.
This bookshelf is not placed in front of the wall, but is entirely embedded in it.
Jiang Ran's fingers touched it inch by inch.
He possesses the Seven Skills of Heavenly Craftsmanship. At this moment, when his inner breath turns, every place touched by his fingertips will receive extremely detailed feedback.
"This bookshelf is not made of wood."
Although the feedback hardness and temperature were not enough for Jiang Ran to distinguish the specific material.
But it's obvious that this thing is made of metal.
Suddenly, when Jiang Ran's fingertips crossed a horizontal board on a bookshelf, his expression paused slightly.
"I originally thought it would be a candlestick or an ornament... but this one is a bit surprising."
He murmured in his mouth, placed his palm on the horizontal board, and pressed down hard.
There was a sound of a card scratching and the sound of an amplifier running. Immediately afterwards, the entire bookshelf rolled to one side.
The sound is extremely thick and deep.
A secret passage appeared in front of Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran casually took an oil lamp from the table, took out the fire stick and lit it. The huge brilliance shone around, pushing away the darkness.
He lowered his head and took a look, and he appeared in front of him on the slightly sloping steps.
After going down the stairs and turning a corner, after walking about a few meters, another door appeared in front of us.
The mechanism of this door is not difficult to find, it is just on the candlestick on one side.
As soon as he broke it open, a rumbling sound was heard, and the stone door was lifted up naturally.
Light emitted from the room. Jiang Ran looked inside and saw a luminous pearl placed on a candle stand in the middle of the room.
"...Does this thing contain radiation?"
Jiang Ran muttered something in a low voice and walked into the room.
There were a lot of gold and silver jewelry piled randomly all over the room, and they were even more gleaming under the light of the night pearl.
And under the luminous pearl wax stand in the middle is a table.
An inconspicuous-looking guqin is placed here upright.
"Is this Jiaowei?"
This was not what Jiang Ran said.
The old, deep and hoarse voice came from behind Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran suddenly turned around.
I saw an old man with messy hair and poor clothes. He looked at Jiao Weiqin behind Jiang Ran with strong curiosity in his eyes.
He licked his lips:
"There is no place to be found after wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there.
"I thought it was Ye Jingshuang who knew the location of Jiaoweiqin.
"But I didn't expect that it would be you...
"How did you know this thing is here?"
He looked at Jiang Ran with a little surprise in his eyes.
Jiang Ran suddenly realized:
"You thought it was Ye Jingshuang who knew where this thing was, so when you wanted to kill Cheng Tianyang, Shuang'er and I appeared, and you left quickly.
"The purpose is not to hurt her?"
"If I hurt her, where should I look for Jiaowei?"
Shi Pingzhang nodded:
"After all, she is the only descendant of the Ye family."
"Then why did you kill me?"
"You are good at martial arts, but you are prone to bad things."
When Shi Pingzhang said this, he suddenly raised his hands and bowed:
"I just didn't expect that it would be you who brought me here in the end..."
"Thinking about it this way, what I did before was really sorry for you."
"You really don't know where Jiaoweiqin is hidden."
Jiang Ran sighed:
"This time is it just a matter of throwing bricks and mortar?"
"You're pretty smart."
Shi Pingzhang nodded:
"Not many people know that the Ye family has Jiaoweiqin.
"I thought at that time that if I wanted to find this piano, I couldn't hurt Ye Jingshuang.
"Otherwise, the whereabouts of this piano may disappear.
"But I didn't expect that the person who really knows the whereabouts of this piano is actually you...
"Secondly, I have to let you know that I don't have a piano in my hand right now.
"The Funeral Chapter of Luanxin is driven by music. Although I don't play the piano alone, I only know how to play the piano.
"Therefore, I used this merit to cause a fight between the four factions in front of the Red Maple Villa, not just to kill you.
"It's also about losing the piano.
“It’s just a broken string, it’s definitely not difficult to renew, so why abandon it?
"Of course it's because there are better alternatives.
"But where does this replacement come from?
"I have been hiding in the world for decades, and now I am reappearing. Why don't I go anywhere but come to the Red Maple Villa?
"If you are a descendant of Hongfeng Villa, you also know that there is a Jiaowei hidden nearby.
"How can his heart not be confused and how can he not panic?
"I came here to check if I couldn't help it... to show me the way."
Jiang Ran smiled when he heard this:
"This is not a clever plan. Many people have used it before."
"so what?"
Shi Pingzhang smiled:
"As long as it works."
However, when he said this, he tilted his head and glanced at Jiang Ran:
"Speaking of which, the first time I met a young man like you, I had doubts.
"I just explained my confusion to you, maybe you can also explain it to me?
"You...why are you so weird?"
"eccentric?"
Jiang Ran was stunned: "Where do you start talking about this?"
Shi Pingzhang said:
"Why does your body smell like the Demon Cult?
"It just so happens that those who practice Xuanmen are authentic.
"Weird, really weird.
"If this [Unkind Book] hadn't been created by me, which is a unique skill in the world, I might still not be able to see the mysteries of your internal demons and outsiders."
Internal demons and external evils?
Jiang Ran smiled hoarsely:
"You are talking nonsense..."
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Ran suddenly became speechless.
Because he suddenly thought of Li Feiyun’s Blood Cauldron Sutra from the Cangzhou Heroes Association that day.
Why does the strange knowledge of the Eighteen Heavenly Demonic Records of the Demon Sect have no effect on me?
Internal demons and external evils...
Is this really nonsense?
Or is it that there is something mysterious in my body that I don’t even know about?
"Looking at you, it seems that I am blind."
Shi Pingzhang shook his head slightly: "That's all, there are thousands of unexplained things in this world. We have searched high and low and worked tirelessly, but it is still difficult to solve all these questions.
"The way of heaven and earth is vast and ethereal...it cannot be grasped by human power.
"It's okay if I don't understand this question today."
After saying this, he suddenly thrust out his palm and pointed it directly at Jiang Ran's face.
With this palm strike, the surrounding area suddenly surged.
His murderous aura filled the sky and struck people's hearts.
However, that's all. When Jiang Ran raised his eyes, he saw the word 'kill' written on the old man's palm!
This word seems to have an indescribable magic power. As soon as people see it, they can't help but focus their eyes and even their minds on this word.
For a moment, it felt like being outside the independent sky.
Looking down at the world in silence, I feel that evil is everywhere and the land is filthy. Only the word "kill" can stop this great sin in heaven and earth!
At this moment, the Right Heart Meridian of Creation suddenly rotated.
Everything around him fell apart instantly.
Jiang Ran suddenly raised his head and extended a palm.
The two palms met each other, but there was no sound.
Not only was it silent, but what was even more terrifying was that Shi Pingzhang's palm penetrated directly through Jiang Ran's palm, as if Jiang Ran was not a hand, but just an illusory phantom.
There was a hint of astonishment in Shi Pingzhang's eyes.
Lowering his head again, Jiang Ran's palm was less than three inches away from his heart, and his palm turned into claws, as if he wanted to gouge out his heart.
"I see!"
Shi Pingzhang seemed to have a sudden realization. He suddenly turned around and struck Jiang Ran with his fingers.
His moves were weird, and he took action one after another to resist Jiang Ran's attack.
And when he took action, the finger wind swept across the void, seeming to make a hook, a dot, a horizontal one, and a vertical hook.
"Is he writing?"
This word has already been written halfway, and the force of the fingers has already shattered the surrounding area.
The gold and silver jewelry were scattered everywhere, and there were dozens of marks on the walls.
The night pearls were so beaten that they flew out.
Jiang Ran frowned slightly, and at the same time, Shi Pingzhang cut off his finger again and wrote a stroke.
Following him closely, pointing like a sword or the tip of a pen, he stared at Jiang Ran and reached out a little.
This point seems to condense all the previous moves into one place.
Above the fingertips, there was a faint condensation of brilliance, the point was very slow, but it happened just below this point, and even the surrounding air became burnt and sticky.
And every inch of strength he exuded seemed to be filled with soft words, explaining the principles of heaven and earth, and speaking of small words and great meanings.
Every word, every word, is leading people to kill.
It gave people a feeling of having to kill.
With the blessing of this finger, Jiang Ran even felt that he was facing death.
It's like there are thousands of voices, constantly telling Jiang Ran... you must die!
It even made Jiang Ran feel that no matter what kind of magical skills he had, how profound his inner strength was.
Once this finger falls, he is bound to die!
It seems that what is cut off is not life or death, but an inevitable result.
In this world...there is such martial arts?
Is this an unkind book?
Jiang Ran watched the changes in this finger quietly, and felt that this move, with all its extreme changes, was the most exquisite martial arts he had ever seen since he came out of the martial arts world.
And at this moment of life and death, Jiang Ran's hand was already holding the handle of the knife.
The golden color shines all over the sky!
Shi Pingzhang's finger seemed to explain all the reasons why Jiang Ran had to die.
But Jiang Ran's sword... never makes sense.
The blade mixed with the brilliance of broken gold never made this secret room more gorgeous.
But the spilled blood adds new color.
A finger that forced Jiang Ran to die quietly flew out.
Shi Pingzhang looked at his severed finger, but did not see how it was severed.
It was as if he didn't see how Jiang Ran's sword was executed.
He only saw the golden color all over the sky, and didn't even notice the pain!
The next moment, the cold sound of the knife started again.
Only then did Shi Pingzhang feel the sharp pain in his fingers reaching his heart. He followed his footsteps and walked as if he had shrunk to an inch. In one step, he had moved from Jiang Ran's front to the steps outside the door.
As soon as I waved my hand, I heard a crash.
The stone door suddenly dropped.
But before the stone door completely fell to the ground, he felt that his eyes were blurred, and Jiang Ran was already standing outside the stone door.
Shi Pingzhang didn't dare to delay for a moment. He changed his steps again and he was already in the study.
I looked back, trying to find a mechanism to close the bookshelf.
Just now, he also realized that the bookshelf was heavy and the material must be special. If he could use this to trap Jiang Ran in it.
You can escape today.
However, after glancing at it twice, I really don't know where this mechanism is.
The mechanism that originally opened the door has been moved to the wall along with the bookshelf.
I want to close the door, but I don't know how to close it.
Shi Pingzhang only glanced twice.
There was someone chasing behind him, so there was nowhere to look. The two glances took less than a breath. The next moment, there was a crash and he had already flown out of the study.
But before he could stand upright, he felt as if he was trapped in a fog.
Smoke and clouds filled the sky, and something strange happened everywhere.
The sharp edges lingered in all directions.
"This is……"
Shi Pingzhang's heart moved, he raised his head suddenly, and saw a flash of light appear, then disappear again.
Taking another step forward, two long swords reached three inches directly from his feet.
He flew up and shouted softly:
"There is no mercy in heaven and earth, only killing is the way!"
As soon as these eight words were written, the surrounding clouds and mist suddenly rolled, and it was faintly visible that hidden in the clouds and mist were a group of disciples of the four sects with their eyes covered with black cloth and holding long swords.
"It's them……"
Shi Pingzhang's heart skipped a beat and he suddenly turned back to look in the direction of the study:
"It's you!?"
Jiang Ran's voice came from beyond the clouds:
"it's me.
"Although I feel that I can do this alone and I won't have to go through a lot of trouble.
"After all, we are dealing with the inner demon Shi Pingzhang.
"Your martial arts are too dangerous for others...
"It's better for me to deal with you myself, I'll be more confident.
"But... everyone thinks that when it comes to slaying demons, there is strength in numbers.
"Just let me take the lead, and the guys will set up a formation outside to ambush you.
"Brother Huang told me that their Liuyun Sword Sect's [Yun Hai Wave Formation] can, to a certain extent, restrain your murderous intention stickers and disturbing funeral symbols.
"Oh, by the way, there's no need for the Chaotic Funeral Chapter. You can't get the Jiaowei anyway."
"...You already knew what I was planning?"
For the first time, a look of astonishment appeared on Shi Pingzhang's face.
Cuofei already knew it, how could Jiang Ran arrange it like this?
"I just told you."
Jiang Ran smiled and said:
"This plan of yours is not very clever. Many people have used it before...
"In other words, this routine is too old and too easy to see through."
Tonight evening, Jiang Ran gathered the leaders of the five major sword sects together and asked them if they dared to fight Shi Pingzhang.
In fact, it is for now.
Jiang Ran knew where Shi Pingzhang was going, but the time of his departure was not decided by Shi Pingzhang himself.
It was Jiang Ran who ordered it for him.
Whenever Jiang Ran leaves, he also leaves.
Therefore, as long as the five major sword sects dare to come, the time will be after Jiang Ran leaves.
While Jiang Ran was chatting casually with Shi Pingzhang in the secret room, the disciples of the five major sword sects could set up formations outside.
Of course, what Jiang Ran said about the [Cloud Sea Wave Formation] was actually not complete.
This formation relies on the Liuyun Sword Sect's mental techniques to communicate with each other's internal energy to forcibly achieve the vision of "self-generated clouds".
This 'Yunxia' is Qi, which can block vision and attack and kill people.
But if you want Shi Pingzhang's magic power to not affect everyone present, you not only need to create waves in the sea of clouds, but you also need the protection of the Danyang Sword Sect [Danxin Sword Formation].
Of course, combining the two formations is not that simple.
The Liuyun Sword Sect and the Danyang Sword Sect have been friends for many years.
Many years ago, the two families came up with ideas based on this formation.
I have tried it more than once and have already gained some results.
But tonight is the first time I use it.
Use Liuyun Sword Sect and Danyang Sword Sect as defenders, Qingsong Sword Sect, Yunshan Sword Sect and Shuiyue Sword Sect as attackers.
It means you can advance, attack, retreat and defend.
This formation is powerful, but the only problem is that I don't know what method to use to introduce Shi Pingzhang into it, and it lacks the power of the cauldron to determine the universe.
But Jiang Ran made up for this.
From this, Shi Pingzhang is already a caged bird!
However, this is a preparation just in case.
If Jiang Ran could directly kill Shi Pingzhang in that secret room, all this would be useless.
And this time... Even if this formation couldn't kill Shi Pingzhang, he couldn't even think about escaping from here.
Shi Pingzhang was not ignorant, he was just overconfident, thinking that he could make the people of the five major sword sects run wild with just a few tricks.
But he didn't expect that he would be treated like a caged bird, and he would find himself in such a situation by taking advantage of the situation and taking advantage of the situation.
He was furious for a moment and looked around with a sneer:
"You want to trap me with just a formation?
"Don't you know that I am a scholar of heaven and man??"
Having said this, he turned around and began to explore in all directions.
However, at this moment, long swords were attacking from all directions.
Some sword edges are as heavy as mountains, some sword edges are vigorous and vigorous, and some are as soft as water...
Many years ago, Shi Pingzhang had already experienced these five schools of swordsmanship.
I know what sect the people who draw the sword belong to.
His face turned pale for a moment:
"roll!!!"
As soon as his sleeves were rolled up and his inner breath was released, small words of righteousness could be heard.
The long swords that came came and retreated one after another.
From the gap in the formation, return to a safe place.
Shi Pingzhang wanted to continue looking for flaws in the formation so that he could break through it, but suddenly he looked up and saw a trace of gold falling from the sky.
His face immediately changed. He knew it was Jiang Ran who made the move, so he didn't dare to take the initiative.
He had just used all his life's learning to point out the finger, but it turned out that one finger was missing.
How dare you make a mistake in this meeting?
Unexpectedly, as soon as he retreated, the blade that was originally in mid-air suddenly came to his side.