After the dinner, Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing were a little red-faced, drunk-eyed, such a feast, Gu Qingfeng naturally wanted to drink some wine with them.

Compared with tasting tea, there is no doubt that wine is more tempting for Xu Yan, because although the body is drowsy after drinking, the hazy sense of chaos and the drunkenness in his mind always seem to make people bolder.

This is Xu Yan's second time drinking, but it can't be said that he is already drunk, the wine that Gu Qingfeng gave him and Gu Xueqing to drink, compared to the wine he drank at Lao Qiao's house in Songyang Town, the degree is much lower, not so spicy and hot, but this kind of wine has a hint of sweetness when drinking, which makes people have an endless aftertaste. The most important thing is that Gu Qingfeng is a wealthy man, and the drinks provided by him are naturally among the few best wines in the world, and after drinking, they are like a throat, and they don't feel dry at all.

After the banquet, Xu Yan was arranged by Gu Qingfeng to rest in the guest room, but he did not fall asleep, and stood alone in front of the window, admiring this unique hazy moonlight.

At this moment, for falling asleep, the time is still early, only six o'clock in the morning, although the days are in the autumn, the length of the day begins to gradually become shorter, but tonight there is a bright moonlight all over the mountains and rivers, therefore, the night of Gu Jiaao will naturally not be as dark as ink when the new moon is reached, and the five fingers cannot be seen.

After Xu Yan finished drinking, his mind began to recall the many experiences he had along the way, which could be described as very bumpy, not only were ambushes frequent on the road, but also those who came to intercept and kill seemed to have a great background in identity.

Among them, one of the men who set up an ambush on the side of the road with the two sect masters of the Danxia Sect near Danxia Mountain is the most mysterious, and he is also the most powerful and profound person among all the enemies Xu Yan has encountered so far, and in addition to this man, it is the man in brocade who died in the hands of the silver aunt's mother-in-law.

Of course, Xu Yan couldn't recognize where these people came from, but for some reason, they always gave Xu Yan a feeling of being a great enemy.

"Who the hell sent them?"

Xu Yan whispered to himself in his heart, but he couldn't get an answer at all.

But no matter what, the four major families in Wangchuan City all have a lot of festivals with him, so he has already reached the point of being embattled.

"After separating from Senior Sister Gu, I specially chose a quiet mountain road to walk, and by the way, I dressed up again, as long as I was away from the public's sight, I expected that those people would not be able to keep an eye on my whereabouts. Xu Yan thought in his heart.

And while he was thinking, in the hazy moonlight outside the window, he suddenly saw a familiar figure, walking towards the outside of Zhuangzi in the dark night.

"Senior Sister Gu, it's so late, where is she going?"

Xu Yan, who was standing in the room, was not only a little worried when she thought that the other party had also drunk the pot of tea provided by her uncle this afternoon.

"No, I have to go out and have a look. After thinking about it for a while, Xu Yan made up his mind in his heart, and then quietly left Zhuangzi.

As everyone knows, in this manor, in an independent courtyard where Gu Qingfeng himself lives, he is talking to a man secretly at this moment.

This man was undoubtedly the man surnamed Shi who had asked Gu Qingfeng for many matters in the Gu Yu Teahouse before, only to hear him ask Gu Qingfeng: "Brother Gu, it is really abrupt to visit at night, please bear with me, but I don't know what Shi entrusted before, but it has been done?"

When Gu Qingfeng heard the other party's question, he didn't answer immediately, but asked rhetorically: "It seems that Brother Shi has been keeping an eye on this matter, but forgive Brother Yu for saying more, what kind of relationship exists between Brother Shi and this Xu Gongzi?"

After hearing this, the man surnamed Shi hesitated for a moment, and did not intend to continue to conceal it, and said in a cold and straightforward tone: "I don't dare to hide it from Brother Gu, in fact, this young man has a blood feud with one of my relatives, and I came to Yanxi this time to kill him." ”

Hearing the man surnamed Shi say this, Gu Qingfeng Huo Ran got up from his seat, and then looked at him with a cold face.

Seeing him like this, the man surnamed Shi also got up from his seat and explained: "Brother Gu, please rest assured, although Shi is here to seek revenge against this person this time, he will never make it difficult for Brother Gu, let alone do it in your manor." ”

When Gu Qingfeng heard this, his face softened slightly, but he still asked puzzled: "As far as I know, this Xu Gongzi has been practicing on the mountain before, how did he become the enemy of your relative, isn't it that your relative is also a disciple of the Lotus Sect, and the two of them have also formed a festival in the sect?"

After hearing this, the man surnamed Shi sighed and replied: "This matter is a long story, but if Brother Gu really wants to know, I should tell you everything." ”

Cloth Gu Qingfeng waved his hand and replied: "No need, I still don't know these things, the reason why I asked about these is just because this son and my niece seem to have a lot of relationship, so I asked more, but Brother Shi and I have been friends for many years, how can I stand on his side, as long as Brother Shi doesn't do it in my Zhuangzi, otherwise if my niece knows, I won't be able to explain it clearly." ”

When the man surnamed Shi heard this, he arched his hand and replied: "How can this be so, Brother Gu can rest assured, my thing can not only last for twelve hours, but as long as he doesn't use his luck, he can't find out, didn't you say before that he will leave Zhuangzi early tomorrow morning, I will wait for him to completely leave Yanxi before I do anything to him, and this matter will never involve Brother Gu." ”

When Gu Qingfeng heard this, he nodded and replied, "I see." He paused before adding: "Brother Shi, don't worry, I have already mixed that thing into the tea, and I have watched him drink it, of course, my niece and I also drank it at that time, otherwise I am afraid that he will be suspicious." ”

When the man surnamed Shi heard this, he bowed his hand and thanked him again and said: "Brother Gu's great kindness, Shi will keep it in mind, if Brother Gu has a request in the future, Shi will be on call and will never give up." ”

When Gu Qingfeng saw him like this, he immediately replied: "Hey, Brother Shi is serious, but it's just a gesture." ”

The man surnamed Shi still gave him a heavy salute, and then said: "Since most of the matter has been successful, in order to avoid exposing his whereabouts and being detected by the scholar, Shi will leave first, and after the matter is completed, Shi will definitely come to Brother Gu for a small gathering again." ”

Gu Qingfeng nodded and replied, "Okay, then I wish Brother Shi all the best." ”

......

The person walking under the moonlight at this moment is undoubtedly Gu Xueqing, but it can be seen that her steps are still a little staggering, obviously she is not strong enough to drink.

Xu Yan, who was quietly following her, always maintained a distance of about twenty zhang, because according to the other party's cultivation, even if her mind was muddy, if he got closer, he should be able to detect his existence.

After Gu Xueqing left the manor, she walked along the path on the right towards the mountain, and walked out for nearly five or six miles in the blink of an eye, completely away from Gu Jiaao, but in the end, she stopped in a low mountain forest.

The mountain forest here is a miscellaneous forest, and there are many kinds of values in it, but they are not tall, because even if they are separated by a distance of about twenty zhang, they can still see Gu Xueqing not far away, but when Xu Yan really saw the truth, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

There is no accident, what is built in front of Gu Xueqing at this moment is a very simple tomb, if it is not bad as expected, this is the tomb of her parents. And the reason why this tomb is simple is that it is an empty tomb inside.

According to what Gu Xueqing said before, she did not see the corpses of her parents with her own eyes, but naturally, when the grave was erected later, everything was simple, unlike when someone died in a normal family, everything was according to customs and cumbersome rules.

Although the mound is shabby, it is clean, and there are no overgrown weeds around it, and it is clear that someone has taken care of it every year.

Gu Xueqing knelt in front of the grave, crying, and then took out incense candles and sacrificial wine from her storage bag, and began to worship her parents.

Xu Yan, who was in the distance, saw this scene, and his mind couldn't help but think of the tomb where the husband and wife were buried together in Xujia Village. Soon after, he will also face this scene, and like Gu Xueqing, he will say his final goodbye to his deceased parents in this life.

Gu Xueqing cried very sadly, this is a rarely seen side, on weekdays, she is silent most of the time, and her personality is self-reliant, and she rarely shows a weak side to Xu Yan and them, until she walked into Yanxi, she couldn't control the emotions in her heart, and began to turn back into a woman who would secretly grieve and cry for her hometown and her deceased parents.

Of course, this cannot be said to be a weak character, because it is human nature.

Xu Yan lurked in the darkness like this, silently watching for a long time, but he never appeared, because this was a space that belonged to her, if he appeared rashly, what would it be? As long as he was sure that nothing would happen to her, it would be enough for him.

However, Xu Yan did succeed in making sure that nothing had happened to Gu Xueqing, but under the cool breeze, just as he was about to go back in advance, he was keenly aware that around the woods, there were several uneven auras that quickly gathered around him from all directions in a huge circle, obviously to prevent him from escaping from this certain direction.

"Well, how many of them are there?"

At this time, Xu Yan directly woke up Xiao Cai, who was sleeping and cultivating, and was her absolute strength in perceiving enemies.

After Xiao Cai heard Xu Yan's transmission, he immediately spread his own perception, and then replied: "There are six people in total, but their strength is average, and the highest is only the fourth-grade realm, and four of them are only in the third-grade realm, it seems that those people think that after you eat poison, you are vulnerable." ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he smiled and replied: "That absolute spirit is colorless and tasteless, it is indeed impossible to prevent ordinary people, I estimate that Senior Sister Gu should also be poisoned, and within twelve hours, she will be no different from a mortal." ”

Xiaocai didn't care about Gu Xueqing, but just asked, "What are you going to do next?"

After Xu Yan heard this, he replied in a calm tone: "What else can I do, naturally I will clean up these clowns, but what I didn't expect is that Senior Sister Gu and his uncle will also be involved in this matter." ”

Xiao Cai regained her dark nature, and then asked, "What I'm asking is how you want to deal with him." ”

After Xu Yan pondered for a moment, he shook his head and replied: "Forget it, he is just a mortal, read on Senior Sister Gu's face, let him go." ”

After Xiaocai heard this answer, she replied with an evil smile: "Xu Yan, you have changed. Xu Yan raised his eyebrows, only to hear Xiao Cai then say to him: "You weren't such a person before. ”

Xu Yan smiled slightly sarcastically and asked, "What kind of person was I before?"

Xiao Cai replied in a cold tone: "In the past, as long as you were a person who was not good for you, you would never spare his life, but you would kill them all and prevent future troubles, but now you have become a bit of a woman's kindness, or do you like your Senior Sister Gu, so you can't bear to kill that Gu Qingfeng?"

Xu Yan listened to her nonsense, and suddenly said angrily: "You are a snake, so many crooked intestines, is it due to your body?"

When Xiaocai heard him taunt her, she was immediately angry, and after echoing "hum", she went back to sleep.

And between Xu Yan and Xiaocai's conversation, the six people who came to ambush him were completely close to him, and only thirty-four zhang were left.

With today's cultivation, within this distance, Xu Yan can naturally clearly perceive them, but he is still silent, and even in order to successfully attract them, he deliberately walked out from the dense forest to the periphery for more than ten zhang, and came to a relatively empty forest, but don't look at him, he is only more than ten zhang away from the original position, but this place is completely away from Gu Xueqing's sight, as long as he doesn't make too much movement, it is expected that Gu Xueqing, who is still immersed in sadness, will not be able to notice it.

The silver moon is no longer round, after fifteen or sixteen, the moonlight is no longer so dazzling, but because the weather during this period of time is too good, the day is always blue and cloudless, so the night sky is naturally extraordinarily clear, even if the moonlight in the sky is no longer full at this time, but the light emitted by it is very bright and beautiful.

It's just that no one knows that under this rare silence and silence, in a low forest not far from Gujiaao, it is suddenly full of murderous atmosphere.

A breeze blew through the mountain forest, blowing the dark green leaves, swaying slightly.

Xu Yan stood alone in the moonlight, as if he had become a straight green pine in the forest, his body was straight, his hands were standing, and as far as his eyes could see, it was the moon that was getting darker and darker.

It was when he was bidding farewell to Gu Qingfeng that he happened to see Xu Yan leaving Zhuangzi, and then immediately gathered his subordinates, and the man surnamed Shi who followed him all the way here, saw that the scholar he was going to kill on this trip seemed to be completely unaware of the approach of himself and others, and he looked indifferent, and he couldn't help but have a cruel smile on his face.

"It's really heaven that you don't have a way to go, you have to come here alone to die, originally I thought of keeping you until tomorrow, it seems that you are destined to die tonight. ”

The man surnamed Shi muttered to himself in his heart, at this moment, he was only about ten zhang away from Xu Yan, and the closest to him by his side was a henchman who had been with him for many years, and he was also a cultivator of the four-rank realm.

Ten zhang distance.

For any fourth-rank realm martial artist, it was definitely a very dangerous distance, because if they wanted to close this distance, they only needed to do it in just a few breaths.

However, just as the man surnamed Shi was about to raise his hand to signal the other four to kill Xu Yan, who seemed to be unaware, he didn't know that in this dense forest, another gust of wind blew in front of everyone.

The breeze rolled up thousands of green leaves, and in the night sky, it was like a swarm of moths passing through the dense forest, and then densely and frantically flocked towards the four martial artists of the Three Lives Realm, and by the time they reacted, these leaves had already turned into thousands of fierce sword qi.

Snort sneer~

All the sword qi pierced through these four third-grade realm martial artists in an instant, and their flesh and blood were blurred, and they didn't even make a sound, so they died violently in the mountains and forests in an instant.

The man surnamed Shi was shocked when he saw them die instantly, but he found that the scholar who was standing at the end of the ten zhang opening always maintained a posture of admiring the moon, as if he had never moved at all.

"It's not good, there must be some master hiding around him, we have to retreat quickly, otherwise we won't be able to leave tonight. The man surnamed Shi couldn't help but say to his companion beside him.

is also in the realm of the fourth grade, but he has never even seen how his brothers died, this is undoubtedly a rather terrifying thing, so the man who followed the man surnamed Shi also nodded gloomily after hearing this.

However, just as he turned his head and was about to retreat, in the dense forest behind him, an almost negligible black shadow approached in an instant, and the speed was like lightning.

This was also a leaf, but in an instant, this leaf turned into a sword qi.

A sword went straight into the center of his eyebrows, and there was no way to avoid it.

He was nailed to the spot.

The man surnamed Shi heard a slight muffled sound behind him, and he who was staring at Xu Yan with his eyes on him, couldn't help but turn his head and glance behind him, only to see that his companion was actually facing away from him, motionless.

He stretched out his hand and gently probed the other party's shoulder, and asked, "Brother Zhai, ...... you?"

However, before the words fell, the man surnamed Shi, who had just touched the latter's body, saw the other party's body, and fell weakly in front of him, and at the center of his eyebrows, a leaf was inserted upside down.

It was a leaf that couldn't do anything in normal times, but at this moment it made a person die without seeing it.

"Brother Zhai!!"

The man surnamed Shi had sad and angry eyes, he only dared to shout in his heart, but he didn't dare to make the slightest sound on his mouth, and just when he was about to endure the pain and want to escape alone, he felt in a trance that the moment he turned his head, there seemed to be an inexplicable aura behind him that made him feel infinite fear.

In the end, although the man's movements were a little stiff, he still turned his head to look back.

As a result, just as he expected, a figure suddenly appeared behind him.

Xu Yan reached out and locked his throat, lifted it up from the ground, and asked with a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "It's all here, and you still want to run?"