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The east entrance of the town.

The Confucian scholar in blue shirt bowed to the huge bronze bell hanging at the entrance of the town and said slowly: "Cui Jue, the younger Confucian scholar, has met my predecessor."

The bronze bell was silent, with only circles of golden halo swaying continuously. When it gradually touched the sealing light curtain arranged by the Confucian scholars around it, it created circles of ripples, and then canceled each other out, and the ice and snow melted. Or it can be said that the bronze bell had no intention of forcibly breaking through the sealing water curtain arranged by the Confucian scholars, and allowed its halo to be obscured and eliminated.

The slovenly man and the scholar in blue shirt standing at the door of the hut looked at each other. Both of them focused on the circles of light. To be precise, it was not just a golden soft light, but also composed of countless densely packed lights. The scriptures are composed of small characters, and the fonts are constantly changing. They include the numerous and vast types of fonts produced in Jiuzhou from ancient times to the present, changing in turns, starting over and over again, endlessly.

After reading for a long time, Hou Junchen, a slovenly man, rubbed his eyes, waved his hands and said dejectedly: "I don't want to read anymore. I know many words, but when they are put together, I can't understand them at all. Not only can I not understand them, but I can't speak them either." I can’t remember anything except being dizzy, and I’m afraid I’ll vomit out all the dinner I just had if I read any more.”

The sloppy man suddenly shut up after muttering to himself. He took a careful look and saw that the scholar in green shirt was not affected, and then he felt relieved.

He simply sat down on the bamboo rocking chair behind him. He no longer looked at the bronze bell or Cui Jue. Instead, he held his chin and looked around at the isolation seals arranged by Confucian scholars. After a moment, he couldn't bear it anymore. He shook his head and softly tsked in admiration: "Sure enough, in terms of methods, Qi practitioners and spiritual cultivators are more fancy. If a martial artist alone can achieve such a skill, I'd probably have to have the master himself to do it!"

After about half an hour, the Confucian scholar Cui Jue, who had been raising his head, lowered his head again, and then raised his hand to rub his brow, looking a little tired.

Hou Junchen, who had been observing the movement, looked at the Confucian scholar with curiosity and said with a smile: "Mr. Cui, I once heard a saying by chance that the contents of the heavenly books contained on the four ancient artifacts can be understood at first glance. The more content there is, the closer it is to ascending to immortality. It seems like you understand a lot?"

The Confucian scholar in green shirt stood with his hands behind his back. Hearing this, he turned his head and glanced at the watchman in the town. He smiled warmly and did not answer directly. Instead, he turned to look at the giant clock and then said softly: "Upon the mountain and down the mountain, immortals There is no shortage of various opinions in the world."

His speaking voice sounded a little ethereal to Hou Junchen, making it unclear whether he was speaking to himself or to the huge bronze bell, but the words did not stop and the content continued.

"Many years ago, it is said that there was a scholar in Tushenzhou who read the Book of Heaven in one night. Then he changed from just an ordinary Confucian scholar with no cultivation one day to a Qi practitioner after dawn the next day. The ten realms, that is, the great monks in the Tao realm.”

"As soon as this news appeared, almost all the sects, aristocratic families, and empires above the third level in Jiuzhou knew everything they needed to know in less than three days. Within ten days, all the immortal forces who knew the news We sent all the people to reach the Middle-earth Divine Continent.”

"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Hou Junchen sat up from the bamboo chair with great interest, looked at the Confucian scholar in blue and asked curiously: "Third grade or above... my little sect has been in despair for too long. Xiaohu, it seems that he is not qualified enough to know that there is such a thing, no wonder he has not heard of it, but what happened next?"

"Later..." The Confucian scholar said this with a smile and shook his head, "When everyone arrived and started looking for the person, they found that the scholar had disappeared. Those who were looking for the person were not even sure whether he was the person. Really existed."

"How is this possible?" Hou Junchen was a little surprised, "You three religions don't know where people have gone?"

After saying this, the slovenly man realized that he had made a mistake, so he added with a slightly embarrassed smile: "Of course, I'm not saying that you... have a problem, I'm just saying that with the ability of the three religions in Jiuzhou, you shouldn't be able to find anyone. Bar?"

The Confucian scholar in blue didn't seem to pay attention to some of the sloppy man's words. He just smiled and continued to explain: "Actually, you are not the only one who has had this idea. After all, it happened in the Middle-earth Divine Continent."

"When the news first appeared, the three religions just waited and watched what happened without interfering or specifically verifying it. All the third-grade and above forces from the other eight continents who sent people to Central Continent also let them go without stopping them until they could not find anyone. Later, I had the same idea as you and turned my attention to the three religions, so Linyuan Academy arranged for an inspection team to go and investigate, but the result was still the same, nothing was found."

"Linyuan Academy has come forward?" The sloppy man couldn't help but twitched his lips, "The reliability of the results is naturally guaranteed, but this result... is a bit weird."

The scholar in blue shirt nodded and said: "Yes, the result is very strange, but there is no other way. In the end, everyone can only think that the initial news is false news, and then let it go."

"Good guy, a piece of false news has deceived all the third-level and above immortal sects in Jiuzhou. The person who spread the news can keep him bragging for several lifetimes!" The sloppy man grinned, showing his big yellow teeth, and said half-jokingly. One sentence.

The Confucian scholar in blue shirt smiled, without comment, and then said: "In fact, in the past many years, there have been many rumors about the Four Heavenly Books. Some of the news spread widely, and some of the news was short-lived, but in the end they were all verified as It’s fake or it’s hard to tell the truth from the fake and it’s nothing, and the statement you mentioned earlier is also one of the pieces of news that’s nothing...”

Having said this, he turned his head and looked at the sloppy man with a smile, and said: "Because no one has really understood the Heavenly Book, and no one has really ascended to immortality through it, it is unknown whether it is true or not. "

The sloppy man nodded when he heard this, with a thoughtful expression on his face, but said no more.

Seeing him like this, the Confucian scholar in green shirt did not continue the conversation, but turned his head and looked at the bronze bell that slowly returned to calm.

It seemed that this senior had no intention of showing up, and had no intention of speaking.

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Xuannv Lakeside.

The poor young man watched in surprise as the silver bell-like voice of the girl opposite said the malicious words. He had not previously known that there was a conflict between the two families.

The girl who was still murderous just a moment ago saw the surprise on the young man's face, so she reluctantly calmed down and began to look at the young man and said, "Do you have any other plans?"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Yuanxiao was stunned and asked, "What does Miss Li mean by this?"

"You said you wanted to trade that knife for a helping hand, and you also wanted the buyer to accept you into the Immortal Sect. This is true, but not entirely true." When the girl said this, her eyes were sharp and touched people's hearts.

The young man smiled, without admitting or denying, and asked again: "Why do you say that?"

"You deliberately provoke Ke Yuzhi in order to make him target you, and then you find a way to defeat him. In the process, if you are bright enough, you can get into the eyes of many immortals who come to recruit disciples. This is what you really want to achieve. Purpose?"

The young man whose intentions were exposed shrank slightly, and he was a little embarrassed: "I didn't even tell the old monkey, but I didn't expect you to see it, Miss Li, but can you tell me how I saw it?" Li Yuyao He waved his hand casually and pointed to Xuannv Lake next to him: "It's just a guess. A person who can guess that there is something wrong with Xuannv Lake based on one or two rumors is not a fool. You keep testing it with me." What are the chances of you changing your sword and entering the Immortal Sect? You asked me twice why I used the sword to change my sword and go back. You actually want to know what is so magical about that sword, right?"

The young man pursed his lips and said nothing, but he did not deny it either.

"So you are actually not as harmless as you appear on the surface." The girl looked at Chu Yuanxiao with a half-smile, "You have made so many twists and turns in your heart, but you said that you were angry for a moment, so you couldn't help but deliberately angered Ke Yuzhi. , I don’t believe it, and you deliberately look at every foreigner coming here at the entrance of the town, but you actually want to look familiar. Everything you do is to prepare for the same purpose! Of course, these reasons It’s not particularly sufficient, I just made a casual guess, but I didn’t expect that you didn’t even refute it and just admitted it.”

After Chu Yuanxiao listened to all the girl's analysis, he took a deep breath, smiled bitterly, and said: "I thought that as long as I didn't tell others, no one would know, but now it seems that Old Monkey and Mr. Lu have already He made it clear to me, but he didn’t say it clearly.”

When the girl heard this, she just raised her eyebrows and smiled without comment. She casually jumped on the stone next to her that was much higher than the ground and sat down.

The young man saw the girl's movements, so he took two steps back and found a stone not too far away. He sat down sideways facing the girl, looked at the bright or dark stars on the lake and stayed silent for a moment. Speak slowly.

"To be honest, before you came, I always thought that people in this world were like the folks and neighbors in Yanguan Town. They only had to worry about having enough food, clothing and clothing to make more money every day. Let's chat after dinner, Zhang The parents of the Liu family are short, and it doesn’t matter who is good or who is bad, in fact they are all pretty good.”

As he spoke, he casually picked up the stones on the shore of the lake, threw the stones into the lake with his arms flat, and continued: "Miss Li, you should have heard that many people have always said that I am a god. I used to believe that evil stars can only defeat relatives, so I didn’t dare to get acquainted with people, and I didn’t dare to go to crowded places, for fear of offending others, and also for fear that it would really be like the legend and it could really defeat my life. Kill others... I am a person who has been saved many times, so I know that life is not easy."

"But then someone suddenly told me that it was not the case. I was just being targeted, so the people around me had to keep losing their lives... When I first heard this statement, I felt a little uncomfortable, very uncomfortable. I didn't understand why those people Can someone from a high position take the lives of people like us?"

Having said this, he looked up at the full moon in the sky, which was appearing and disappearing in the constantly flowing clouds, and said with an unclear smile: "But when that Ke Yuzhi came to see me, I saw the two masters and servants looking at each other. When the eyes looked exactly the same, I understood... Ever since I was a child, I have been the best at reading people's eyes."

The girl listened to the boy's somewhat low tone and turned her head to look in his direction.

The rock the young man was sitting on was much lower than the boulder she was sitting on, so when she looked over, she could just see the top of his head and half of his face that flickered in the moonlight.

She was silent for a moment and said, "Can I think that you are explaining to me?"

The young man smiled. He did not look back at the girl sitting high up. He just shook his head and said, "That's right. I've just finished talking here. It doesn't seem to make sense without an explanation."

Li Yuyao thought for a while after hearing this, "What if that Ke Yuzhi didn't hit him? What are you going to do?"

The young man was sitting by the lake. Hearing this, he still didn't look back. He just shook his head, "I don't know. I originally wanted to get acquainted with each other first, and then see if I could get in touch with anyone, and do business. There are other things. The conditions are met, and the method is always thought up by people, but I didn’t expect that Ke Yuzhi would send a pillow by himself, that’s..."

He looked at the sparkling stars on the lake and smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, "It's just that this pillow is a bit too uncomfortable. I'm not used to it."

"Speaking of Ruo Ren, I think you probably don't quite understand who you are going to face."

The girl who spoke did not delve into the mentality of the young man sitting far away to provoke Ke Yuzhi. She just made a deal because she lacked a reason. As for the grudges between them, in the final analysis, it had nothing to do with her. big.

So she naturally turned the topic in another direction and continued: "You are an ordinary person without cultivation, and that group of people are from the Immortal Family. The gap between you is so big that it is incalculable. That's why I The reason why they say you are unwise is that you don’t even know what kind of methods they have.”

Speaking of the gap in strength, the expression of the young man who was still a little melancholy became serious. He once again cast his gaze towards the center of the lake, and couldn't help but think of the one he saw in the lake before, which made his soul tremble. Huge vertical pupils.

Then he shook his head and didn't even dare to think about it further. He laughed at himself and said, "Miss Li, can you tell me in detail what the practice is about? To be honest, I'm about to fight with someone, but I don't know what he is." How awesome."

The girl sitting high behind the young man shook her head and said: "The complete cultivation system is too complicated to explain in one sentence or two. To put it simply, the two people in Shuixiu Lake are both Qi practitioners. I heard that I am the same as them. There is a third person who got up, but I haven’t seen him yet, so I don’t know who he is or what his level of cultivation is.”

"Currently, it seems that Ke Yuzhi is in the third level of Qi training, also called Xiao Zhoutian. His abilities are not very powerful, but only relatively speaking. His perception and reaction abilities have surpassed those of ordinary people. To put it simply, if he closes his eyes and allows you to sneak attack, you may not be able to hit him."

"That old woman is in the Sixth Level of Qi Cultivation, also called Da Zhou Tian. She is much more powerful than Ke Yuzhi. She can release internal energy and retrieve objects from the air. And since the last time I talked to her Judging from the brief encounter, she may have also acquired some evil abilities."

When talking about the old woman with a cold face, the girl's expression and tone were somewhat disdainful, "She's just a little devil who thinks she can be powerful with a few cunning tricks. It's just a wishful thinking."

The young man who had been trying to listen carefully was a little confused, but he still asked: "What is a Qi Practitioner? What is a Demonic Way?"

"There are generally three types of cultivation paths: warriors, qi practitioners, and spiritual cultivators. Martial arts practitioners focus on cultivating the physical body and pursue the immortality of the physical body; qi practitioners absorb the energy of heaven and earth and turn it into their own use, supplemented by enlightenment and pursuit of enlightenment. Elevate into immortality and live forever; spiritual cultivation is mainly based on cultivating spiritual power. They use methods such as mouthing the Heavenly Constitution and speaking out the Dharma. However, this path is somewhat special. Currently, the most practiced ones are Confucianism, and occasionally Buddhism and Taoism, but few people outside the three religions practice this because it is too difficult."

"As for the demons... ha!" the girl sneered, and added: "You can think that they are not good people, but compared to the real ancient demons, these people are all rubbish! Although I have never seen the real The ancient demon clan, but I heard from the master that among the demons in Jiuzhou today, except for their ancestor who is indeed very powerful, the rest are all impure in their intentions and poor in practice. You’re not even worthy of carrying your shoes!”

Chu Yuanxiao grinned as she listened to the girl's introduction. It could be heard that she really had a bad impression of that evil spirit. After all, she didn't use this tone when she said she didn't like Ke Yuzhi and wanted to kill him.

The girl didn't pay attention to the change in the boy's expression, but asked: "So how do you plan to deal with them? Do you have any other plans besides looking for help?"

The young man was silent for a moment, then looked up at the huge lake in front of him and said with a smile: "Didn't I just come to explore the bottom tonight? I was thinking about these gods and monsters that have been circulating in Yanguan Town for a long time. I wonder if I can be of any help?"

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