Gui Li looked in the dark, saw the old man's face was thin and thin, he was wearing a gray robe, simple and unpretentious, his demeanor was calm, there was nothing outstanding about him. If he was walking on the streets of ordinary towns, no one would recognize this person as a cultivator.
But looking at the expressions of the two people behind him, not to mention Yan Hong, even Li Xun, who has always been arrogant, seemed to respect this ordinary old man very much, and he dared not show any neglect in his expressions and manners.
Hearing the old man's question at this moment, Li Xun also hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Uncle Mingjian, in fact, the patriarchs of the murloc tribe died unexpectedly, so these monsters went crazy, and that's why..."
At this moment, the three of them just stepped down from the Xuanhuo Altar, and the old man in gray frowned, and said calmly, "How did the head of the murloc die?"
Li Xun smiled wryly and shook his head. Yan Hong said from the side: "Master Uncle, that murloc patriarch was suddenly killed by a master within a mile away from the ancient temple after he met Master Lu Shun Lu Shun at the 'Unknown Ancient Temple' on Hegu Mountain in the north three days ago. .”
The gray-clothed old man let out a "huh", obviously a little surprised, and said, "Who is the murderer?"
Li Xun shook his head, and said: "We have investigated for several days, but we still have no clue." Speaking of this, he seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then continued: "Originally, this matter should have been reported to Master Uncle, but Master Gu thought about it." Uncle Master has guarded the important place of Xuanhuo Altar for nearly a hundred years, and he has long since stopped asking about common matters, so he doesn't want to disturb Uncle Master."
The gray-clothed old man smiled and said: "How can I not know the kindness of the owner of the valley. If it weren't for the fact that these barbarians still have something to use, and the old man still had some prestige when he subdued these barbarians, the owner of the valley would not Please trouble me, old man."
Li Xun smiled awkwardly, and was about to say something, but the gray-clothed old man seemed unwilling to say anything more on this topic, so he changed the subject and said, "Didn't Lu Shun be there at the time? It was less than a mile away, could it be that he also Can't find the murderer? Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you can already find it."
Hearing this, Li Xun couldn't help looking at Yan Hong who was beside him. Yan Hong hesitated for a moment, then said softly: "I think that the murderer is too cunning, his skills are so high, he fled away immediately after he succeeded in one blow, so even Master Lu couldn't catch him."
The gray-clothed old man snorted, but didn't say anything more this time, but in his expression and voice, there was a sense of disdain, obviously he looked down on Li Xun and Yan Hong's Lu Shun Lu Shishu.
The three of them talked while walking, the distance in the open space was less than three zhang, they had already walked a little and half, and they were getting farther away from Ghost Li. Gui Li slowly relaxed his mind, but he still didn't dare to relax. At this moment, he only heard the gray-clothed old man ask from a distance, because he was far away, he couldn't hear the voice clearly, but he could vaguely hear the gray-clothed old man The old man was asking how the rebellious murlocs are doing now.
Li Xun responded from behind, and said: "Now the situation has stabilized, Master Lu led a group of disciples to block those monsters at the entrance of the valley, and used their magical powers to suppress the arrogance of the murlocs. Now the two sides are confronting each other. Those fish people kept saying that they wanted to avenge their patriarch, and the owner of the valley didn't want to completely tear himself apart with the southern barbarians, so he sent us to invite the uncle..."
As soon as the words were said here, suddenly, a scream from the direction of the entrance of the valley in the distance echoed far away, and the sound was extremely shrill. Everyone present was taken aback, Li Xun exclaimed, "It seems to be the entrance!"
Before they could react, the sound of fighting and fighting erupted again in a moment, shouting and shouting endlessly, and the valley that had just fallen silent was once again enveloped by the sound of fighting.
The faces of the three changed drastically. The gray-clothed old man snorted and waved his sleeves. His whole body turned into a gray light that soared into the sky and flew towards the entrance of the valley. Li Xun and Yan Hong hurriedly followed.
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After their figures completely disappeared in the night, Gui Li slowly walked out from under the Xuanhuo Altar, pondered for a moment, then turned around and looked towards the Xuanhuo Altar.
The huge building in front of him stands majestically, even a white jade pillar beside it looks so tall and majestic in the night, not to mention the red palaces and pavilions above it.
Not far ahead is the steps that the gray-clothed old man, Li Xun, and Yan Hong walked down just now. Ghost Li walked towards the steps, only to see that all the steps were also built with the same strange crimson stone as the high place, and it was integrated with the surrounding stone balusters.
Slowly stepping on it, Gui Li walked up, at this moment the surrounding heat seemed to rise a lot, as if what he was stepping on was not that kind of red stone, but a real burning flame.
The steps of the Xuanhuo Altar go up thirty-six steps, turn a corner, and continue to go up. Gui Li took a deep breath, his face was cold, and he walked up slowly. The surrounding railings and stone walls are all plain and unadorned, without any carvings, which is especially simple.
At this moment, even the wind blowing in the night sky became extremely hot, Xiao Hui lay on Gui Li's shoulder, his eyeballs rolled around, looking around curiously.
Finally, after walking a total of three floors of one hundred and eight steps, Ghost Li came to the Xuanhuo Altar.
Although I have seen the scene from a distance under the Xuanhuo Altar just now, but now I am on the Xuanhuo Altar, standing in front of the tall hall standing in the center of the Xuanhuo Altar, looking at the huge building that is hundreds of times taller than myself Looking at the spire that pierced the sky like a sharp sword, Ghost Li still involuntarily felt small.
The crimson stones of the same material were cut into huge stone blocks of equal size, each of which was almost as tall as half a person, and piled up to form a magnificent palace. Going closer, in the scorching air, Gui Li could clearly see that these stones are so tightly connected, the gap in the middle seems to be impossible to insert even a blade. It is really unimaginable how the ancestors of Fenxiang Valley built such a magnificent palace.
He even almost had an illusion that what was in front of him was not a palace at all, but a huge burning flame. And this flame is so huge, it seems that it will be overwhelmed immediately, engulfing my tiny self.
Gui Li took a deep breath, collected his mind, suppressed the feeling of surprise in his heart, then turned his head, carefully inspecting the path to enter the hall of the Xuanhuo Altar. He found it without much trouble.
The entire tower-like altar didn't even have a window, and it was completely surrounded by huge red stones. There was only a door at the bottom not far from him, which was one foot high and six feet wide.
Ghost Li walked over, and soon found that although this door was painted with red paint, it was still different from the surrounding stone walls, it was a wooden door. Thinking about it, if the entrance and exit are also extremely heavy stone gates, it must be very troublesome!
Gui Li stood in front of the door for a while, but he didn't push the door open immediately, but turned around and looked behind.
Apart from the hot and dry air, the entire Xuanhuo Altar was silent.
"Squeak!"
The next moment, he pushed open the door.
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At the entrance of Fenxiang Valley, blood was flowing like a river at this moment. More than a hundred tall and strong barbarians with fish heads and human bodies screamed, extremely angry, holding all kinds of weird weapons, including guns and knives, swords and halberds, He fought endlessly with the surrounding Fenxianggu disciples. Blood was flowing on the ground in the arena, and stumps could be seen everywhere. Among the casualties were many disciples of Fenxiang Valley, but most of them were murlocs.
As for these stumps, I'm afraid they were all chopped off by those brutal murlocs.
However, although this scene is terrifying, and the murlocs are extremely fierce, the situation is that the side of Fenxiang Valley is gradually suppressing the murlocs, and it seems that there is still room for Fenxiang Valley. Semicircle shape, press inward together.
It's just that these murlocs are really fierce, and their bodies are different from human beings. Even if a cultivator is hit by a sword light from a disciple of Fenxiang Valley, he may be injured, but these murlocs are extremely strong for some reason. Everyone in Fenxiang Valley seemed to have received some orders, leaving room for them. Except for the magic weapons of the sword light of a few masters, the magic weapons of other disciples hit the body, and the murlocs were beaten and flew out at most, and it was extremely rare to see blood.
But firstly, everyone here in Fenxiang Valley has practiced Taoism for many years, and their Taoism is not shallow. One-on-one with the power of magic weapons, they are still better than these barbarian murlocs; The disciple's advances and retreats are well-founded. From time to time, he will fly up and attack from mid-air with his sword, which often causes headaches for the murlocs, but he still has the upper hand.
And among the disciples of Fenxianggu, an old man was in the middle to direct, it was Lu Shun that Gui Li saw in the barren mountain ancient temple that day. At this moment, he was frowning tightly, his face was extremely ugly, and he was obviously extremely annoyed.
When the fight reached a fierce point, there was a scream suddenly, but there was a Fenxianggu disciple who was careless for a while and showed his flaws. He was hooked by a murloc with a weapon that looked like a sickle, and was dragged down from midair ,He fell to the ground. In a moment, several murlocs around rushed up, dancing with weapons, and died in a blink of an eye, even the corpse was not complete.
In an instant, the disciples of Fenxianggu were in an uproar, and many people couldn't control it any longer. They stepped up their hands, and the magic weapon flying swords flying all over the sky suddenly screamed again and again, and they attacked them in groups. But after a while, screams of misery resounded again and again, and several murlocs had already been hacked to death by magic weapons.
It's just that these murlocs are really fierce by nature. Seeing these scenes of blood flying everywhere, not only did they not show any signs of fear, on the contrary, they rushed into the fight frantically, showing no fear of death.
Lu Shun flew into the air with his sword, and shouted loudly to stop, but both the murlocs and the Fenxianggu disciples below were all red-eyed, and no one took his words to heart, watching a bigger massacre It is about to unfold.
At this moment, the night sky where the lone moon hung high suddenly darkened. Lu Shun frowned and looked up to the sky, only to see a mass of gray clouds sweeping towards him. Lu Shun's complexion changed, and he couldn't help snorting.
The gray cloud was coming so fast, it flew in front of you in the blink of an eye, and its power was getting bigger and bigger. I saw the wind whirling rapidly in mid-air, gradually turning into a tornado with a diameter of several feet, mixed with a sharp voice, "Woo!" With a bang, it rushed down from the night sky.
Almost at the same time, all the surrounding flowers, plants and trees on the ground were turned outward by the strong wind, sand and stones flew on the ground, and the disciples of Fenxianggu with low skills and some murlocs were even swept up by the strong wind and thrown out.
Everyone was shocked, and before they could react, the tornado had already fallen to the ground, amidst the sharp wind, there was a loud "bang bang", and dozens of murlocs were beaten flying like they were caught by giant hands. He got up, flew back, and fell heavily to the ground.
Those murlocs squeaked and screamed, their voices were high-pitched and harsh, but they could be heard to be quite frightened. The strong wind turned for a while, separating all the murlocs from the Fenxianggu disciples, and then it slowly stopped. The sound of the wind gradually subsided, and the huge wind gradually dissipated, and an old man in gray clothes appeared.
All the disciples in Fenxiang Valley were stunned, and then fell to the ground one after another, bowed to the old man together, and said respectfully: "Uncle Shangguan."
At this moment, Lu Shun also slowly fell back to the ground, walked over, glanced at the gray-clothed old man, the veins on his face twitched, and then said with a fake smile: "Senior brother Shangguan, how can you give such a big man such a trivial matter? Startled?"
The gray-clothed old man glanced at him, smiled faintly, and said, "The owner of the valley ordered me to come, so I have no choice but to come."
Lu Shun's expression changed.
At this time Li Xun and Yan Hong also arrived and fell from the sky. Li Xun walked up to Lu Shun, lowered his voice, and said softly, "Uncle Lu, Lord Gu ordered me to invite Uncle Shangguan."
Lu Shun snorted, and his face became even more ugly, but after all, he didn't say anything, and turned his head away.
The gray-clothed old man didn't look at him, turned around and looked at the blood-splattered ground, his expression darkened.
At this time, all the murlocs gathered in one place, and their eyes fell on the gray-clothed old man. It's just that at this moment they seem to recognize the gray-clothed old man. For some reason, these murlocs, who are not afraid of death, are a little afraid of this ordinary gray-clothed old man, and they dare not rush forward for a while.
The gray-clothed old man withdrew his gaze and said in a deep voice, "Where is Sun Tu?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man ran out from among the disciples of Fenxiang Valley. It was Sun Tu who went with Lu Shun that night and knew the language of the barbarians.
I saw him running to the side of the old man in gray, with an extremely respectful expression on his face, he said: "The disciple is here."
The gray-clothed old man glanced at him, and saw that this man was ashamed. It seemed that he had suffered a lot in the fight just now because of his lack of knowledge, but he was lucky that he didn't die. After all, he could understand these barbarian languages There are not many people.
The gray-clothed old man immediately said: "Come here and translate what they said to me."
Sun Tu responded cautiously and stood aside.
The old man in gray looked towards the murloc, and said loudly: "This old man is Shangguan Ce, come out and talk alone."
There was a commotion among the fish crowd over there, obviously they understood Shangguan Ce's words. And this name seems to have a kind of magical power to them, which is very extraordinary. After a while, a tall murloc came out.
Shangguan Ce looked at him twice, and said slowly: "Do you know me?"
The murloc hesitated for a moment, and said "Chi Chi Chi Chi".
Sun Tu next to him immediately translated: "They know."
Shangguan Ce's face remained unchanged, he said: "Why do you attack my valley, are you deceiving me that there is no one in Fenxiang Valley?"
An angry look appeared on the murloc's face, and he began to say "Chi Chi Chi Chi", his voice was very angry.
Sun Tu translated while listening: "He said: 'Our patriarch was killed when he met your people, and you said that you couldn't find the murderer. It's clear... It's clearly you who did it. Although our murlocs are not yours, Opponents, but also desperate to avenge the patriarch!'”
Shangguan Ce frowned, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes. He is a top figure in Fenxiang Valley, his knowledge is unfathomable. In a secret fierce battle with the barbarians in southern Xinjiang a hundred years ago, Shangguan Ce displayed his supernatural power and frightened the barbarians. This is the reason why Yun Yilan, the owner of Fenxiang Valley, asked him who had stopped asking about common matters for a long time to come forward today.
Moreover, Shangguan Ce has lived in southern Xinjiang for a long time, and his understanding of these barbarians in the Shiwan Dashan is by no means comparable to others. He knows that this barbarian murloc tribe is fierce and fierce, and the death of the patriarch is even more important to them. An unprecedented shame and humiliation, it is really possible that the whole family will die here regardless of everything.
If it's just this alien race, Shangguan Ce naturally doesn't care about it. It's just that the barbarians in southern Xinjiang are fighting each other on the surface, but the internal relationship is intricate. That person is afraid that Fenxiang Valley's century-old plan will be ruined.
Li Xun, who was at the side, saw Shangguan Ce bowing his head in thought, and said softly to Sun Tu: "Didn't I already control the situation when I left just now? The two sides are confronting each other, and the murlocs have no intention of doing anything. Let us Is the owner of the valley coming out to speak? Why did they fight again?"
Sun Tu had a bitter face and said with a wry smile: "We are also wondering! It was fine at first, although I was a little nervous, but neither side wanted to continue fighting. Unexpectedly, there was a scream from the murloc, and a murloc at the edge didn't know what to do. He was actually killed by someone, so those murlocs turned red all of a sudden, and rushed up like crazy..."
Shangguan Ce heard it in his ears, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "Did our people do it?"
Sun Tu was speechless for a moment, but Lu Shun who was beside him said coldly: "It was a mess at that time, who knows?"
Shangguan Ce's face turned cold, he suddenly raised his voice, and said loudly to the disciples of Fenxiang Valley: "During the confrontation just now, did someone kill the murloc?"
Everyone in Fenxiang Valley was silent, all the disciples looked at each other, but for a long while, no one came forward to admit it.
In the distance, there was a commotion among the murlocs, obviously out of anger.
Shangguan Ce frowned, and suddenly said to the murloc standing in front, "I'll go and see that man's body."
After all, without waiting for the murloc's answer, he walked over.
The murloc's face changed, but seeing Shangguan Ce's expression, he finally turned around, led him to a corner beside the crowd, identified it, and then pointed to a murloc corpse, and said "chichi" A few words.
At this time, Lu Shun, Li Xun, Sun Tu and others also came over behind Shangguan Ce. Sun Tu whispered, "The one who died was this murloc."
Shangguan Ce stood next to the corpse, looked carefully, his complexion gradually became ugly, and after a while, he murmured to himself, "Amazing, amazing."
Standing behind him, Li Xun also looked at the corpse, and couldn't help frowning too. I saw that the murloc corpse was still holding a big knife in his hand, but the head on the neck was gone, and there was a murloc head not far away, which seemed to belong to him.
The murloc was beheaded cleanly and neatly.
Li Xun's eyes fell on the neck unexpectedly, and he saw that the wound was extremely smooth, obviously killed by the extremely sharp blade.
"Huh!" Suddenly, Lu Shun who was beside him whispered softly, walked up, knelt down and looked carefully at the murloc corpse.
Shangguan Ce frowned and said, "What's wrong?"
Lu Shun looked at it for a while, then stood up slowly, but his face was already very ugly, and said in a deep voice: "This wound is exactly the same as the wound left by the murderer when he killed the murloc patriarch. The wound is smooth and the muscles are not twisted at all, but Deep in the blood vessels, it has a lavender color for some reason."
Everyone was shocked, and looked closely, and it was exactly as Lu Shun said.
Shangguan Ce's heart was shocked, he suddenly turned his head, his eyes brightened, and said: "The murderer is right here!"
Shangguan Ce's eyes were like knives, extremely sharp. At this moment, an ordinary old man suddenly seemed to have an irresistible sharpness all over his body. He slowly looked at everyone around him, but no one dared to look him directly.
There was a sudden silence in the field, only the night wind blowing from nowhere, rustling the tops of the branches.