There is still a cold in the middle of winter in the shadow of the city wall outside the south gate of Jiankang City, and the grass on the roadside not far away is already very lush, but on the ground shrouded in the shadow of the city wall, the dead grass has not yet revealed half of the green.

A young Taoist walked out of the south gate, holding several silk books in his hand, and walked along the shadow of the city wall towards a Taoist temple not far outside the city.

That Taoist temple is called the South Gate Taoist Temple, because Xiao Yan respected the Buddha Sect before, so this Taoist Temple has long been cold, and it has even become a warehouse for the city gate garrison to pile up grain and grass. However, after Xiao Yan closed himself in the Huxin Meditation Courtyard and Qi Zhuji and others returned to Jiankang, this situation changed.

Some Daoist practitioners also returned to Jiankang, and some Daoist practitioners who had previously stayed in the Southern Dynasty and could not be reused were also treated fairly.

Although the South Gate Taoist Temple has long declined, several old Taoists of the South Gate Taoist Temple have secretly preserved some of the classics of the South Gate Taoist Temple.

The South Gate Taoist Temple was returned to the hands of these old Taoists, and was soon repaired accordingly.

Even Tie Cejun also allocated some spiritual ice containing the aura of heaven and earth to the South Gate Taoist Temple, which suddenly brought this declining cultivation place to life.

This young Taoist is the disciple of those old Daoists in the early years, in the years of the decline of the Dao Sect, this young Taoist has not changed the court, he is the same as those old Daoists, he was originally familiar with many defenders of the South Gate City Gate, before the arrival of the Spirit Waste, he sometimes did something for the city gate guards, and the work was also very effective in the eyes of those city gate guard generals.

After Qi Zhuji and Tie Cejun entered Jiankang City very strongly, the military seemed to have handed over the case books of all the cultivators in the city to Qi Zhuji, and later Tie Cejun specially transferred some spirit ice to this Taoist temple, and some generals of the city gate guards also speculated that it was related to this young Taoist.

The selection of talents by Tie Cejun was completely different from that of any of the magnates of the Southern Dynasties before.

They seem to pay more attention to the person's character and whether they have some of the qualities they need, and they don't care about the person's cultivation potential and origin, or even the person's age.

In the time since Qi Zhuji returned, it is said that many people have been recruited from all over the Southern Dynasty to directly enter the old land of the former Qiyun Academy, and then provide them with cultivation.

It is said that most of those people were not cultivators, and some of them were not young, and before that, those people would not have entered the sight of the various cultivation sites in the Southern Dynasty at all. Because according to a fixed way of thinking, or according to the verification and experience of the past many years, if one's own family is too poor and has no support, if one has not been exposed to cultivation at all at a certain age, then there is very little room for this person to grow in the future, and even if he can become a cultivator through diligent study and practice, the entire dynasty and all the places of cultivation will naturally be more willing to use the precious cultivation resources on younger cultivators who are more promising than them.

But Tie Cejun is completely different.

Some of those who were selected to enter the old land of Qiyun Academy were even close to forty years old, but they had not really been exposed to cultivation at all before the arrival of the Spirit Wilderness.

However, Tie Cejun didn't care about this, and Tie Cejun constantly consumed the extremely precious spiritual ice that had been transported from the party for thousands of miles.

In this regard, many people feel that young people like Lin Yi and Qi Zhuji are a bit willful and nonsense.

But on the contrary, many low-level generals who had not been able to look at this dynasty from a certain height before felt that there was nothing wrong with Tie Cejun's approach.

Many generals who have had experience in the border army have always believed that the Northern Wei Dynasty has become more and more powerful in the Southern Dynasty over the years, not because the land of the Northern Wei Dynasty is richer than that of the Southern Dynasty, but because the bravery of those "Northern Barbarians" seems to have become a fixed trait.

They all feel that sometimes a certain quality is more important than being well-armed.

Tie Cejun has very different qualities.

It seems that this practice of theirs may also tell the people of the Southern Dynasties some unique truths, and can also form some characteristics that they did not have before.

This young Taoist is called Jiang Yun, and he knows better than these generals of the city gate guards what kind of preferential treatment he and the Nanmen Taoist Temple have received, and he doesn't know whether the cultivation classics kept by his division commanders have any effect on Tie Cejun, but after Tie Cejun returned those classics, Tie Cejun also gave back some cultivation classics in addition to Ling Bing.

Although those cultivation texts were only transcriptions, he could definitely come from Qiyun Academy and Sword Pavilion back then.

These classics are better than their counterparts in the South Gate Taoist Temple.

At this time, walking in the shadow of the city wall, he was still thinking about yesterday

He was studying a book every day, but suddenly, he felt an inexplicable chill.

This chill was countless times colder than the accumulated cold in the city walls, and it made his heart feel like it was going to freeze and stop beating in an instant.

This chill seemed to be only due to the fact that on the road outside the city, someone's gaze stayed on him for a short moment.

He turned around in shock and looked out into the road.

He saw an old horse.

There was a man on top of the old horse.

The man didn't seem to be anything special, and he was even a little lonely.

But he felt that the man was somewhat familiar.

Then, in the next moment, it occurred to him who this person might be.

He thought of this man's face, and he should not be unfamiliar with most of the people in this city.

He was too shocked to describe in words, and his whole body seemed to be frozen and unable to move.

The gatekeepers were quick to notice the man as well.

It's just that no one was able to disturb the man.

Nothing happened.

Because even the sergeants at the gates of the city were rendered unable to move at all by an inexplicable force.

As the old horse and the man passed through the gates, time seemed to freeze for the people around the gates.

It was only after the old horse and the man's figure disappeared from all of their sight that the bodies of all the sergeants and generals of the gate guard seemed to regain their control.

Everyone began to gasp violently and sweat like rain.

Demon Sect, the last time he appeared in Jiankang City, his name brought more disgust and hatred to the people of the Southern Dynasty.

A cultivator who had taken refuge in the Northern Wei Dynasty for many years became the biggest enemy of the Southern Dynasty, because of him, there were countless Southern Dynasty practitioners and sergeants who died at the hands of the Northern Wei people, but he suddenly returned and became the arm of the Southern Dynasty royal family.

This was unacceptable to almost all the people of the Southern Dynasties.

A beast with the blood of its loved ones dripping from the corners of its mouth suddenly becomes a docile watchdog, so that it can completely ignore what it has done before?

At that time, this was what many people in the Southern Dynasties thought of themselves.

However, when he reappeared, the name brought to everyone in Jiankang City not hatred, but more deep fear.

......

"Sure?"

Qi Zhuji frowned deeply, looked at a cultivator of the Tie Ce Army, and asked.

"Sure. ”

This Tie Ce Jun cultivator was also very nervous, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, but his voice did not slow down at all, "After entering the city from the South City Gate, thirteen cultivators have already seen him, and at least seven of them must be him. ”

"I don't know where he went now?" Qi Zhuji nodded.

"He didn't fight anyone. The sergeant said, "I didn't kill anyone. ”

"Don't have any conflict with him. ”

Qi Zhuji took a deep breath, and in just one breath, he had already made up his mind, "Let Wang Pingyang and them hide quickly, and even if he starts killing, all our cultivators should stay away from him as much as possible, and let those people in the military be the same, even if he wants to go to the palace of the Southern Dynasty and burn the palace, let him do it." ”

"Good. ”

This cultivator of the Tie Ce Army didn't have any nonsense and was ordered to leave immediately.

"Demon Sect ......"

After the sergeant of the Tie Ce Army left, Qi Zhuji's face quickly turned pale, and his hands began to tremble slightly.

In the eyes of Lin Yi and the rest of them, the Demon Sect was always the most terrifying enemy, especially after Lin Yi, Chen Ziyun and the others were in the deserted garden for a while, they, the top cultivators of the Southern Dynasty, all felt that the Demon Sect was more terrifying than those descendants of the Emperor You.

Therefore, these days, all the actions of their Tie Ce Army are waiting for the reappearance of the Demon Sect, and all their preparations are preparing to deal with this enemy who seems to be unable to cope with it for the time being.

The Demon Sect disappeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The descendants of Emperor You, who once controlled him, were also in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

At this time, the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the descendants of the Emperor You had a decisive battle in Guanlong, so in their plans and imaginations, even if the Demon Sect suddenly reappeared in the world, the place where he should appear most should be the Northern Wei Dynasty.

What value does Jiankang of the Southern Dynasty have to him?

How could he suddenly appear in Jiankang with such a posture after he was reborn?

"What the hell do you want to do?"

Qi Zhuji gritted his teeth, and he heard the sound of his own teeth rubbing against each other.

He couldn't predict what the Demon Sect wanted to do, but in addition to Lin Yi, in their plan, Wang Pingyang, Huang Qiutang and Wang Xianrui were also the most important part of dealing with the Demon Sect in the future.

At this time, the three of them had made amazing progress in the pharmacological research of the true element of the Demon Sect, could it be that the Demon Sect had already known this secret, so he rushed to Jiankang as soon as possible?

If he had already determined the whereabouts of these three people, with the strength in Jiankang City at this time, there would be no way to stop him from killing people at all.

The whole Jiankang City looks the same as usual, there is no difference.

However, as the news spread, all the important people in the city trembled.

Everyone was terrified.

If the Demon Sect started killing people, maybe they could start to deduce what the Demon Sect was doing when they arrived, but the city seemed to have been calm all the time, and even as this panic spread, as everyone avoided and hid as much as possible, the whole city was even calmer than usual.

......

The sound of horses' hooves sounded on the mountain road outside Nanten-in.

A lazy old horse, carrying a somewhat lonely and lonely man, appeared outside the door of the South Heavenly Temple.

The number of defenders around the Nantian Courtyard has been reduced a lot, but there are still more or less garrisons, these sergeants and the cultivators in the Nantian Courtyard have already received the news before, looking at the Demon Sect that appeared in the Nantian Courtyard, none of these people dared to go up to face the Demon Sect, and none of them dared to go up and ask the Demon Sect what it was going to do.

If this city and everyone here were like this last time they came to Jiankang, the Demon Sect might have felt extremely powerful and would have been in a particularly good mood.

However, walking in the largest and most prosperous city in the south, and coming to one of the most important spiritual places in the south, the fear and avoidance of these people made him feel like walking through the road of empty cities and dead silence, but made him feel that this world was more unreal and farther away from him.

But was that what he had been trying to achieve?

The Demon Sect couldn't give himself an answer.

It's like he doesn't know why he wants to be here.

Is it because this is the place where his very naïve junior sister has been cultivating for many years after leaving the Bright Holy Sect?

He wanted to see where his junior sister really lived and practiced after leaving the Bright Holy Sect, and wanted to see her life?

Or is it because this reminds him of Ye Duyu, a cultivator who is a bit like his junior sister, and is also very stupid and naïve?

Or is it because it's a unique deserted garden?

......

The Demon Sect dismounted.

The old horse didn't seem to have much interest in the courtyard, so he naturally stopped outside the mountain gate and happily nibbled on the fresh blades of grass on the mountain path.

The Demon Sect entered the Southern Heavenly Courtyard.

He walked slowly, stopping many times to take a look.

He sensed some of the breath and traces left by Wu Guzhi.

In his mind, he thought of how Wu Guzhi taught here in the past, and how he continued to practice hard here.

Still want to deal with him at any moment?

Demon Sect laughed.

He smiled bitterly.

Then he also entered the deserted garden.

He stopped in the deserted garden on the ground that had been deprived of grass by the battle, and his gaze fell casually on his surroundings, on the stone house.

This place seemed to be very ordinary, but in his eyes, a layer of graceful qi began to emerge everywhere, as if there were layers of transparent water curtains constantly flowing in this garden.

"What a powerful method. ”

"It's so powerful, He Xiu and Shen Yue. ”

He couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

And yet that's all.

These qi machines, which were enough to cause him to vibrate and be vigilant in the past, only attracted his heartfelt admiration at this time.

He didn't even frown.

He thought that after many years, all the qi here would be worn out, and his junior sister's breath would disappear faster than the aura in this deserted garden.

Maybe it won't be a few years, even if his cultivation becomes stronger, he will no longer perceive the traces of his junior sister's existence here.

He sighed softly.

He slowly walked out of the deserted garden, feeling those breaths again, perhaps a final farewell.

Then he was a little dazed, not knowing where he was going next.

It wasn't until the old horse outside the gate of the Nantian Courtyard came happily that he thought that maybe he could go and see the Huxin Meditation Courtyard.