A mansion somewhere in Wangchuan Castle.

An old man was sitting in his backyard drinking tea, but his face was solemn.

About half a month ago, he had learned from a certain letter luan that had flown from the south that the person he had sent out on a mission had failed, and that the person who had carried out the mission might also die.

When the old man heard the news, he was greatly surprised, and even if he sent the message back and asked the people over there to find out the reason, but now that half a month has passed, there is no movement over there, which can't help but make him angry, and at the same time a little upset.

The old man would come here to drink tea almost every afternoon, which was a habit he had developed over the years, and the sun was just right today, and nature was no exception.

The tea had just been brewed, and before he could take a sip, a middle-aged man came directly to the courtyard, and before the latter could come to him, he was already calling out in a fiery tone: "Father!"

When the old man saw him like this, he immediately put down the teacup in his hand that was about to be handed to his mouth, and then stood up, until his eldest son came to him, he said with a somewhat dissatisfied face: "What kind of body is it to be so impatient, shouting and screaming!"

After hearing this, the middle-aged man reached out and took out a roll of letter paper from his cuff and handed it over, and replied with some disdain: "Isn't this the last reply from there, I know that my father must have been waiting anxiously, so after the child received the letter, he immediately sent it to you." ”

The old man took the good letter paper handed over by the other party, and did not make too much harsh criticism, knowing that his son was Mo Ruo's father, he knew the character of his two sons, and the eldest son was now approaching the age of not being confused, and his personality had long been stereotyped, and no matter how much he said, it would be useless.

While the old man opened the letter, he asked in one more move, "What did the letter say?"

The middle-aged man spread his hands and replied bluntly: "I didn't watch it." ”

When the old man heard this, he didn't say anything more, he opened the letter to check it, and then found that there was only one sentence written on the paper, "Death confirmed, their bodies have been found!"

Seeing such a sentence, the old man's whole person trembled instantly, and muttered to himself: "How can this be, with the strength of the two of them, as long as the young man does not step into the seven-grade realm or the seven-story building, how can he kill them, isn't it the one in Songyang Town, who has been following him in secret to help him?"

The middle-aged man also saw the handwriting in the letter at this moment, and couldn't help but turn pale.

Most of the reason why Cao Haiping agreed to him to take on this thankless drudgery was because he had saved the other party's life, and later, he also supported the former to support the Yunxia Sect. If there is no favor, the other party will never be able to do the interception, after all, as long as you set out to do this, no matter what the final outcome will be, there is no turning back, because the person who acted is destined to give his life to this matter.

However, what made the middle-aged man very depressed was that after Cao Haiping traveled with Gao Yuan, who went south to exterminate the Danxia Sect, not only did he fail to complete the interception, but he also lost his halberd in this mission, which made him feel very depressed and even a little uneasy.

Cao Haiping was born in Caomang, although he can be regarded as half of his friends, but in fact, he is still trying to use the latter mostly, so he dies and dies, he doesn't think there will be any psychological burden. But Gao Yuan's death will inevitably be a big and difficult trouble for him, and even for their entire family, because the latter's identity is too sensitive, which not only involves his current position, but also his original identity.

"Father, this ...... How can this be good, with the strength of the two of them, if they join forces, even a martial artist who has just entered the seventh rank should be able to barely fight, right?"

When the old man heard this, his face was extremely gloomy, and after thinking for a while, he said in a cold tone: "The matter has come to this, it is impossible to hide it, that person is in charge of the entire Lingzhou instead of His Majesty today, and his eyes are all over the sky, if he wants to find out about this matter, it is only a matter of time, therefore, instead of waiting for that person to take the initiative to come over and ask for the guilt, it is better for us to take the initiative to go to his mansion to ask for the guilt, maybe there will be a turn for the worse on the way." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he was a little inclined to speak, and he hesitated for a moment before saying softly: "That...... I heard that that person's temperament is very difficult to deal with, and he doesn't eat soft and hard, and besides, can we let the Wu family help ......?"

"Shut up!"

The old man directly interrupted the eldest son's words, and suddenly reprimanded him angrily: "How can you be so ignorant and put your fate in the hands of others? Although the Wu family has agreed to some of our needs on the surface, our family has not been able to replace the Li family for a day, do you really think that the Wu family will offend that person for us?"

When the middle-aged man saw that his father was really angry, he immediately didn't dare to talk back, but just lowered his head.

Seeing that he was so soft and glutinous, the old man hated iron more and more, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Look at you, how can you be so short-sighted when you are old? If I die, with your current appearance, how can you take over the burden of the family? I think this family will be ruined for you sooner or later." ”

The old man's words are undoubtedly a bit of a generalization, after all, the idea of befriending Cao Haiping and then using the relationship between Cao Haiping and Gao Yuan to intercept and kill the young man originally came from his eldest son, and it may be said that he does not have a too mature overall view, but it is far from the level of a loser.

When the middle-aged man saw his father accusing him, he didn't dare to refute anything on himself, but just whispered: "I can't be a family, so don't I have a second brother......"

When the old man heard this, he trembled with anger, but then he just pointed at the latter, said the word "you", and didn't say anything more.

The old man picked up the cold tea on the table and drank it all, at this moment, only the coolness of the tea could calm his emotions, and after a while, he continued to ask: "By the way, speaking of your second brother, has he had any news recently?"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he shook his head and replied, "Not really." ”

When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Hey, you two brothers, you have their own problems, you are too important to immediate interests, and the second is too feminine, what is so good about that mountain and wild woman that he can be so obsessed with it, and even ignore the family business?

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly, but he didn't want to say bad things about his brother behind his back, even in front of his father, he didn't want to, so he was silent.

Seeing that he was silent, the old man waved his hand in disappointment and said, "You can take care of yourself, and I will handle the affairs over there myself." ”

......

In another mansion in Wangchuan Castle.

At this moment, a man with a very resolute face was sitting in his study and performing his duties.

Looking at the mountains of letters on the table that had been uploaded from various towns and villages in Lingzhou for him to review, the man's face was always as calm as water. It can be said that in the nearly ten years since he took office (exactly ten years to the end of the year), he has never had the slightest concealment or complaint about the position he is currently invoking in.

As always, he opened the letters one by one to review and review, and if there were any references to letters that required him to make decisions or make ideas himself, he would put them aside for a while, and only after he had read all the letters and calmed down his emotions before he would make his most rational and objective solution to them.

But today, he was destined to break this habit that had been maintained for nine and a half years and more than a month, because he picked up a letter from Jingning Town at this moment.

There was very little content on the letter, only a few lines, but when he read the brief description recorded in the letter, he stood up from his seat, and then the man with a very calm face said directly to the waiter waiting outside the room: "Chunzhi, you go and call Qinghuan, if he is busy, say that I have something important." ”

After hearing this, the boy replied respectfully: "Yes, second master!"

About half an hour later, in this mansion, a man surnamed Su Mingqinghuan came to this study.

After Su Qinghuan saw the man with a resolute face but a slightly gloomy face at the moment, he directly saluted respectfully and said, "Uncle, you are looking for me." ”

Su Tang nodded when he heard this, and then handed the latter a piece of letterhead, which was the one that made his mood change slightly, and only after Su Qinghuan finished reading the contents did he speak: "What do you think about this matter?"

After Su Qinghuan finished reading it, his face also became very ugly, and he asked with some doubts: "Didn't Gao Yuan say before that he went south just to exterminate that Danxia Sect?

When Su Tang heard this question, he said coldly: "I'm also very curious about this, but no matter what, he is dead now, and the Gao family has entrusted him to work under me, no matter what, I have to give them an explanation afterwards, so let's go and find out the reason for me first, and after I understand the ins and outs of this matter, I will find a way to reply to the Gao family." ”

Su Qinghuan smiled bitterly and sighed, and replied, "Yes, nephew will do it." He hesitated for a moment before he continued: "But Uncle is really ...... seeing that the deadline for inauguration is coming soon, but such a bad thing still happens."

After Su Tang heard this, a trace of sharpness flashed in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "It's indeed a bit of a headache, but this matter has nothing to do with Your Majesty's side, and it won't affect me, but the Gao family's side, it is estimated that I have to spend some effort to comfort them, after all, Gao Yuannai is the most beloved grandson of the old man Gao, and it is okay to say it in front of his father, but the old man is notoriously unreasonable." ”

Su Qinghuan was still seven years younger than Gao Yuan, so naturally he didn't dare to criticize too much on this topic, so he listened quietly on the side.

Su Tang paused for a moment, and then said to him: "Okay, the way things will end, it depends on what the specific process is, I will not send this matter to the Gao family in a short time, but I can only give you a maximum of ten days, you must find out the cause of the whole thing." ”

Su Qinghuan nodded heavily and replied, "Yes, uncle!"

......

After the stunning woman on the opposite side broke the three strings again, thus forcibly using three fierce sword qi, Xu Yan's face became very solemn.

The previous sword, although he relied on his martial arts true qi to forcibly take it on the surface, but in fact, the real situation was that the sword qi still made him feel a little tightness in his chest and shortness of breath, and he suffered some internal injuries.

And at this moment, any of the three sword qi galloping from the front was undoubtedly more powerful than the previous sword qi.

Xu Yan didn't dare to hesitate, when he controlled the martial arts true qi in his body, he directly launched a palm to destroy the mountain, and then resisted the remaining true qi in front of him.

A palm smashed the mountain and turned into a huge golden handprint more than ten zhang in size, successfully blocking one of the sword qis, and then turned into countless star points, quickly dissipating in the rain curtain.

Immediately after, the second sword qi came as promised.

A sword slammed into his shield of light.

Boom!

Without the slightest surprise, Xu Yan was once again swept out by the sword qi, but this time, the results he suffered were obviously much more tragic than when he suffered the first sword qi.

After smashing ten green bamboos in a row and sweeping them out for more than twenty zhang, Xu Yan stopped in embarrassment, however, before he could take a breath, the third sword qi struck again.

"Boom!"

In the face of this third sword qi, Xu Yan had no extra means to resist at this moment, and could only rely on his martial arts physique to make a forcible hard carry.

As a result, a large splash of flesh and blood instantly exploded from Xu Yan's chest and blasted his body out again.

Bang bang!

Xu Yan was like a bloody man, and he fell extremely miserably not far from Gu Xueqing, and at a glance, at his chest, not only the flesh and blood were blurred, but the white bones hidden in the flesh and blood could be vaguely seen. Xu Yan felt this pain and smiled bitterly, as if he felt that he was back in the refining body of the red wind.

However, fortunately, although this sword qi broke through the surface defense of his body, it could not take his life in the end.

"Wow, Xu Yan, why have you become so miserable again, tsk, I told you not to drive ducks to the shelves, why don't you take a lesson, you were almost killed by those two last time, hey, if you let me help, how could you end up in such a field?"

Hearing this schadenfreude voice from Zhihai, Xu Yan couldn't help but roll his eyes, and he didn't know if it was because of his nature, or if she had mutated and her mouth was so stinky.

Xu Yan slowly got up from the ground, forcibly endured the pain in his chest, and began to use the healing method in the long Bible, ignoring her at all, however, as soon as he closed his eyes, Xiao Cai continued to say to him: "Xu Yan, don't heal yet, it seems that something has changed." ”

Xu Yan thought she was playing a prank, but still ignored it.

After Xiaocai saw this, she said anxiously: "I didn't lie to you, there are really changes in this bamboo forest, I feel that there are many, many insects that are crawling in your direction, I don't believe you can open your eyes and see it yourself." ”

Xu Yan heard her tone for the first time so serious, he could only slowly open his eyes again, and then he found that as she said, in this bamboo forest, there were dense black insects constantly crawling in his direction.

"What are these things?" Xu Yan stood up with pain, his face solemn as he watched the reptile approaching, and couldn't help but ask Xiao Cai.

Xiao Cai's perception is much more extensive than Xu Yan's current cultivation, this is her natural advantage, the latter is completely incomparable, but for these insects summoned by that stunning woman, she is also unheard of, so she replied bluntly: "I don't know, I've never seen this kind of thing, but I can feel that there doesn't seem to be any life breath on them." ”

When Xu Yan heard this answer, he was puzzled: "No breath of life?"

After hearing this, Xiao Cai sensed it for a while, and then replied with certainty: "Yes, there are at least tens of thousands of reptiles here, but none of them have the breath of life." ”

Xu Yan muttered, "How can this be. ”

However, regardless of whether they had the breath of life or not, there was at least one thing that Xu Yan could clearly feel, and that was that their current goal was obviously towards him and Gu Xueqing.

Xu Yan had noticed the escape of the stunning woman before, but at that time, because he was restrained by the other party's three sword qi, and he couldn't leave Gu Xueqing who was still trapped in the illusion alone, he could only let her go, but before leaving, she actually created this kind of move to deal with him with a number of insects, and he couldn't help but make a sneer suddenly appear on his face.

You must know that after learning the sword qi record, the last thing he is afraid of is fighting in quantity.

So, Xu Yan immediately slammed his palm on the green bamboo next to him, shaking off the bamboo leaves on the entire bamboo, and then, without making any stops, he directly ran the sword qi record, controlling the bamboo leaves in the sky to turn into thousands of sword qi, aiming at the insects on the ground and blasting away.

One sword is seven thousand two hundred sword qi.

And each sword qi stabbed one of the reptiles on the ground, but then Xu Yan found that when his sword qi stabbed these reptiles, they turned into a puff of green smoke, and then dissipated.

"Sure enough, they're not real beings. After seeing this scene, Xiaocai said to Xu Yan beside him.

Xu Yan was expressionless when he heard this, for him, whether they were living or dead, there was actually not much difference, because it was absolutely impossible for him to let such unknown things really get close to him, let alone let them get close to Gu Xueqing's side.

Using the sword qi in the five sword qi records one after another, Xu Yan's entire face looked even whiter than he looked after he was injured, but fortunately, after almost exhausting all the qi in his qi mansion, he finally had no one left, and all the reptiles on the ground were eliminated.

Xu Yan looked at the bamboo forest in front of him that was filled with green smoke after he killed all the reptiles, with a hint of tiredness, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, in his sea of knowledge, Xiaocai's voice suddenly sounded again.

I heard her exclaim in surprise: "No, there is a worm in it that is alive, but it flew towards your Senior Sister Gu!"