When Chu Zhiyuan left, Jun Wanbai and Li Xin had exchanged swords for dozens of rounds.
It was said that it was a one-on-one duel, neither of them used their true energy, they just simply used their sword moves and saber techniques.
After sensing Chu Zhiyuan's departure, the two of them stopped at the same time. Jun Wanbai put the sword back into its sheath, and looked sideways at Li Xin, who was still dressed in black and always pale.
Li Xin also put away the knife.
It was rare for them to stay together without mocking each other or fighting. At this time, for some unknown reason, the two of them each withdrew their knives. When they stood facing each other, the atmosphere was inexplicably uncomfortable.
Jun Wanbai actually wanted to talk to Li Xin about the "seed", although after she returned to Jiuxuanmen, she herself explained it to her master, and she also learned that the head of the sect had always known about it. However, Li Banfeng really didn't report on her, and instead hid it for her at that time.
Jun Wanbai felt that no matter what he did, he still owed this guy a favor.
But I don't know where to start with this.
They fought more and were less friendly, and their ten and nine and a half sentences were mocking each other, and it seemed awkward to say something else all of a sudden.
"Is there any movement outside Mengguan?"
While Jun Wanbai was hesitating, Li Xin put away his knife and walked over, and spoke first.
Jun Wanbai raised her eyebrows, and looked at him with some surprise: "You can actually see that the sun is coming out from the west?"
"... It's you who's in the head, not me." Li Xin looked at her with a straight face, "Anyone who is not blind can see that you are as abnormal as taking the wrong elixir these days."
"A half-crazy guy doesn't have the right to say that, right?" Jun Wanbai sneered. A half-crazy person said that others were abnormal, and he didn't know where he got the courage. But she didn't refute Li Xin's words.
After a moment of silence, Jun Wanbai sighed and raised her head, looking at the stars scattered in the sky, she spoke quietly.
"I always feel like...something is going to happen."
Moreover, she didn't know if they could survive in the future. It was precisely because of this that she quickly drove Chu Zhiyuan to meet his elder Ye Yi who had been betting against him for so many years.
The world is impermanent, Baiyun Canggou.
During the chaotic years, who of them could know what would happen next? Maybe once you miss it, it will be a lifetime of regret and regret.
Jun Wanbai has regretted enough things, and she doesn't want to see others regretting so much.
"If the war is over, what are you going to do?" Li Xin asked Jun Wanbai abruptly.
"Me?" Jun Wanbai thought for a while, she really hadn't thought about this question, she always felt that she was a person who was carrying the lives of others, and was destined to die on the battlefield one day, or by someone under the sword.
But when Li Xin asked, she couldn't help thinking, what would she want to do if everything was really over.
Probably this is the deepest desire in everyone's heart.
Hope everything will settle down, hope everything will end.
"Set up a small shop in the Zongmen's market, and then give advice to the little bastards behind when you have nothing to do." Jun Wanbai thought for a while and said.
"Is there nothing wrong with being idle?"
Jun Wanbai gave him a cold look.
"What do you want to do again?"
"Someone wants to mislead someone's younger generation, so I'll set up a place next to it. When I see some juniors who don't know the dangers of the world are going to be unlucky, go over and grab a hand." Li Xin said.
Jun Wanbai pressed the hilt of his sword, and wanted to pull it out again. In the end, he thought that he owed this guy a favor, so he endured it.
"I'm going to see what the boys are doing."
Jun Wanbai patted the clothes on her body, turned around and walked towards the barracks, ready to go to inspect it, anyway, it's useless to stay here anyway.
After two steps, Jun Wanbai heard Li Xin calling her from behind.
"The surname is Jun."
"What?" Jun Wanbai looked back at him.
Li Xin stood there holding the knife, the starlight was a little dim, he was wearing black clothes, standing there, Jun Wanbai couldn't see his expression clearly, only felt that he seemed to want to say something.
"It's nothing, let's talk about it later."
After a moment of silence, Li Xin shook her head.
"Crazy." Jun Wanbai cursed softly, turned and left, her steps were a little lighter than before.
Li Xin stood on the spot and watched her leaving back, a slight smile appeared on the dead man's face that was always rigid.
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Yanmen County.
Lou Shidao stepped on the stone steps step by step, walking up slowly.
It wasn't the first time he came to Jiuxuanmen to separate the sect, but it was the first time that he walked up the stone steps step by step with such a complicated mood, without the disciples of Jiuxuanmen leading the way. Behind him, a man with a golden mask and a black cloak followed silently.
As he walked up step by step, Lou Shidao thought of a lot.
When he became the only fourth-rank official who was born in civilian clothes in the Manchu Dynasty, the new emperor ordered him to guard Yanmen. On the rice paper, it is written "Yanmen is an important place, and it is famous as Zhongding".
For some reason, Lou Shidao wanted to laugh slightly.
When Chen Yanyu first came to the throne, he was just a new emperor who was checked and balanced by the family. Looking at the entire court relying on the power of the immortal sect, there are countless people who look down on the king's law.
At that time, Chen Yanyu remembered the seemingly ridiculous agreement they made in Taixue.
— Who knows what will happen in the future... So, what if you can become a high official
—Do your best to be famous.
At first they asked and answered.
Chen Yanyu fulfilled the question for him, and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility when his own strength was still weak, so now he has come to answer Chen Yanyu's "do my best, and be famous as Zhongding".
When they were in Taixue, they were young and frivolous and wanted to make the clouds that obscured the sun dissipate in the sky, and now they are doing so.
The stone steps under my feet feel very long and short.
He came to a place not far from the archway made of basalt in the branch of Jiuxuanmen in Yanmen County, and stopped.
Someone is already waiting there.
The man stood silently under the basalt archway, his figure tall and straight like a solitary bamboo and a green hill. The man was wearing a black cloak with gold embroidery rolled around the edge of the cloak. The weather tonight is very good, the sky is cloudless, and the light of the stars in the sky is falling from the sky, falling on the man's black cloak that was blown up by the wind.
On his head, the word "Jiuxuan" engraved on the plaque was as sharp and sharp as ever in the dark night.
"Elder Ye."
Lou Shidao raised his head slightly, and greeted the person standing at the end of the stone steps with his usual tone.
"Master Lou."
Ye Yi folded his hands in the wide sleeves of his robe, and greeted Lou Shidao in the same way as usual. He looks like he's been waiting here for a while.
"Elder Ye doesn't seem surprised." Lou Shidao said with a slight sigh. The wind blowing from the northeast corner swept over the mountains outside Yanmen County, and the cold air from the peaks swept over the clothes of the two of them. robe.
At the beginning of the war, the states and counties of the three dynasties of the Southern Chen, Jin, Tang, Qi, and Qin Dynasties clearly delineated their own camps. With the Longshui-Guanshan line as the boundary, most of the states and counties to the north were out of the control of the dynasty. With the support of the famous family, they took refuge in Xianmen, and in the south of Longshuiguan Mountain, most of the famous families were purged by the dynasty and controlled by the dynasty.
The states and counties on the Longshui-Guanshan line fluctuated with the situation of the dynasty and the Xianmen battle.
However, Yanmen County is far away from the Longshui-Guanshan line, and it is a state city in the north.
It shouldn't be a swing state capital.
But it's not vacillating, it's just that this has been the core of the Nanchen Dynasty from the very beginning.
Yanmen is an important place, and it is famous as Zhongding.
When the first emperor was still alive, the building "Yinggong" passed by, winding on the land of Bingzhou, like a dragon wagging its tail on the ground. It was only at that time that something happened before Yinggong was completely completed and could not realize the function of changing the spirit veins of heaven and earth. People in black robes walked into the city of the Southern Chen Dynasty on a snowy night, and the first emperor died in the palace. middle.
But Ying Long did not die just then.
It just lurked and waited.
Now the time has come.
"It's nothing to be surprised about, but it's something to be feared by young people." Ye Yi sighed lightly, "Have you worked hard for a long time?"
Since Lou Shidao became the magistrate of Yanmen County, he has struggled with the aristocratic family overtly and secretly, but on the surface he only acted like an official from a poor family was suppressed by the power of the aristocratic family.
No one thought that this young poor official actually came here with important secrets of the Southern Chen Dynasty on his back. Long before the war started, he had used unimaginable patience and perseverance to eliminate the prominent families in Yanmen County that were related to Jiuxuanmen little by little.
It's just that at that time, the fairy gate was already high above, and no one knew what was hidden in it.
Immortal cultivators are just immortal cultivators, not proficient in politics.
Before the Qingming Pagoda incident in Bingzhou, Ye Yi vaguely sensed something was wrong, and tried it before, but he had to spend most of his time suppressing the Tianzhu underground in Yanmen County, so he couldn't be distracted too much. Guo had no choice but to give up.
After the war broke out, Yanmen County didn't do anything else.
Even Jiuxuanmen can't cleanse the officials of an entire county for no reason at this time.
"It's been a long time."
Lou Shidao said softly.
For a long, long time, from the former Chen to the southern Chen, from the blood of the last emperor of Chen, to the blood of the first emperor, to the blood of more people who have been shed today.
They prepared for a long time, so long that their anger could no longer be suppressed.
"Let's do it."
Ye Yi was silent for a moment, and said.
The author has something to say: the foreshadowing planted a long time ago has finally been brought forward.
Ah, you may have forgotten that Lou Shidao appeared in the part where Bailishu and the others arrived in Yanmen County. He was the sheriff of Yanmen County and was also appointed by Nanchen Emperor Chen Yanyu himself. He used to have a relationship with Ye Yi. Had a short conversation.
In that conversation, Ye Yi mentioned the famous family, which was the first time when the contradiction between the dynasty and the immortal family was written positively.