Middle Earth, twenty miles outside Heyang City.
The sky is gradually getting dark, and the pedestrians on the ancient road are gradually disappearing. In troubled times, monsters are prevalent. Although it is said that it is at the foot of Qingyunmen Mountain, the giant of the righteous way, no one knows whether there will be any monsters or ghosts suddenly.
Everyone has only one life, even ordinary people cherish their own lives, not to mention that after the catastrophe of beasts and monsters just passed, people who survived the catastrophe naturally cherished themselves even more.
However, after all, there were still a few figures, very conspicuously walking on the road, an old man in the front row, a bone fairy, holding a bamboo pole with an old cloth hanging on it, with the words "immortal guiding the way" written on it . Followed by a man and a woman, the man covered his face with a headscarf, and the woman is delicate and cute. Although it was dark, she seemed to be concentrating on reading a black book with a letterless cover in her hand.
This is of course Zhou Xian, Xiaohuan and Wild Dog Taoist and his party.
Along the way, they procrastinated, and Zhou Yixian would find passers-by to pull aside from time to time, beaming and talking nonsense, Xiaohuan and Taoist Yegou naturally couldn't see it, but those who were dragged by him to tell fortunes People, but really, as Zhou Xian said before, after being told their fortunes by him, everyone's spirits were greatly lifted, and after paying the money, they seemed to be revived and left happily.
Later, Zhou Yixian was earning enough money, but Xiaohuan didn't bother to care about it at all, and just read books by herself. Over the past few days, Xiaohuan has become more and more fascinated by the book that Mr. Ghost left behind that day, which records the strange and mysterious techniques of ghosts. She often reads it not only when she is resting, but also when she is walking. . It was getting dark now, but she didn't seem to notice it at all, and she was still devoting herself to the book.
The wild dog Taoist next to him greeted Zhou Yixian and said, "Senior, it seems that we will not be able to reach Heyang City today. If we can't find someone, I'm afraid we will have to sleep in the wild."
Zhou Yixian looked at the sky, nodded, and then looked around, but all around was dark, not to mention any people living outside this wilderness, not even ruined temples or houses that had been in disrepair for a long time.
Zhou Yixian coughed, but he saw Taoist Wild Dog looking at him, his granddaughter Xiaohuan didn't respond at all, and followed Taoist Wild Dog, focusing on reading the black ghost book. Zhou Yixian has always felt that it is very wrong for his granddaughter to read this book of ghosts, but it is hard to say what is wrong. Every time he said that ghosts are cruel and innocent, it is a vicious and evil art, Xiaohuan would use one sentence and sent him away.
"There are so many ways to save people with this demon technique, it's better than your physiognomy!"
Every time Zhou Yixian heard this, he was sweating and speechless, but he was thick-skinned and refused to admit defeat, but he couldn't continue talking about Xiaohuan throwing away the ghost way.
No matter what, Immortal Zhou was not pleasing to the eyes looking at Xiaohuan and reading this book, so he shouted slightly angrily at this moment: "Xiaohuan, what time is it, why are you still reading that ghost book?"
Only then did Xiaohuan lift her head from the book, looked at Zhou Yixian, and said impatiently: "Grandpa, we walked so slowly, I didn't read the book, it was you who told people fortune-telling to cheat money. So slow."
Zhou Yixian choked for a moment, his old face turned red, coughed twice, turned his head away, and said with a dry smile: "Forget it, forget it, let's not talk about this, I mean, we have no place to live now, we have to find a way !"
Daoist Wild Dog shook his head and said: "I really can't find anyone to stay here. Senior, you are more familiar with this place than us. Think about whether there are any ruined temples nearby, so we can deal with it overnight."
Zhou Yixian snorted and said with a sneer: "How do you know that I am familiar with this place? Although the old man was born in Heyang City, he has always wandered around the world. When did he become familiar with this place... Uh!"
He was thoughtful suddenly, and stopped halfway through his words.
Xiaohuan and Taoist Wild Dog were a little strange, Xiaohuan said: "Grandpa, what do you want to say?"
Zhou Yixian frowned, as if he remembered something but couldn't be sure, slowly turned around and looked ahead, as if he was trying to remember something.
"That... I seem to remember that there is a fork in the road not far ahead. Although it is a bit far to enter from that small road, there is indeed a house there."
Both Xiaohuan and Taoist Wild Dog became happy, Xiaohuan smiled and said, "Really! Then what are we waiting for, let's go!"
Zhou Yixian didn't know why, but he seemed a little hesitant, frowning all the time, trying to remember something, and said: "But I always feel that something is wrong, it's been too long, I only vaguely remember this direction outside Heyang City There is indeed a house, but it doesn't seem like a good place. But what it is, I can't remember..."
Xiaohuan gave him a blank look, and left to ignore him, saying: "Okay, let's go, at least we have a house, it doesn't matter how broken it is, at least it's better than sleeping in the open!"
Xiaohuan left first, and Taoist Wild Dog naturally followed.
Zhou Yixian walked at the end, followed involuntarily, but kept patting his head with his hands, frowning tightly, muttering, "What kind of house is it? I just can't remember it!"
After walking for a while, the sky was completely dark, but with the help of some faint starlight in the sky, the three of them found an almost hidden path by the road, leading to the depths of the wilderness.
Both Xiaohuan and Taoist Wild Dog nodded, and walked up the path, Taoist Wild Dog even quickened his pace, walking in front of Xiaohuan, while watching his surroundings vigilantly. Only Zhou Yixian still followed at the end, grumbling from time to time in a complaining manner, as if he still couldn't remember the origin and purpose of the house in his memory.
The path was actually very long. The three of them walked for half an hour, but they still didn't see any sign of a house. Xiaohuan became a little suspicious, and turned to Zhou Yixian and said, "Grandpa, do you really remember correctly?"
Zhou Yixian was glanced at by Xiaohuan, felt a little guilty, and said with a dry smile: "This... this... You know that people are getting older, and sometimes they will inevitably remember things wrong, but I really remember that there is a house on this road , but what the house was for, I couldn’t remember it for a while. Besides, it’s been so many years, it’s not impossible that the house was demolished, even if no one demolished it, I’m afraid It might even collapse!"
Xiaohuan was speechless for a moment, shook her head, and turned around.
Suddenly the wild dog Taoist in front of him stopped, and then he turned his head and shouted loudly: "Come quickly, the house is here."
Xiaohuan and Zhou Yixian were startled, Zhou Yixian was overjoyed and laughed loudly: "Aha, I just said it! With my immortal intelligence, how could I not remember that there is a house here, how could I remember wrongly!"
Xiaohuan ignored him, walked quickly to Taoist Wild Dog, looked forward, and saw a house at the end of the path, which occupied a lot of land, but from a distance, the courtyard was barren, the walls were damaged, and there was little popularity. None, apparently abandoned for years.
Zhou Yixian walked slowly, shaking his head, tsk-tsk, and seemed to be boasting.
Xiaohuan rolled his eyes at him and said angrily, "Let's go soon! Grandpa."
After Xiaohuan finished speaking, the three of them walked towards the house, the night wind was blowing, and it was a bit cold above the wilderness, and the three of them shrank their necks.
When I got closer, I could see it more clearly. It was really a dilapidated house. The original wall was collapsed and broken. Even the courtyard gate was left with an extremely dilapidated door frame. All gone. As for the courtyard, there is only one room, and the roof above seems to be half missing from the outside, even the beams are exposed. There seemed to be another door in the house, which was ajar. The whole house looked like it was built with wooden boards, which had been eroded by wind and rain for a long time, and a musty smell wafted in the wind.
Xiaohuan frowned, but Zhou Xian was quite happy. He walked into the yard slowly, looked around, and saw that although weeds were overgrown, there was nothing weird about it. It seemed that although he still couldn't remember where What kind of house, but at least it shouldn't be dangerous.
He turned around and called Xiaohuan and Taoist Wild Dog to come in.
Xiaohuan walked up to Zhou Yixian, hesitated for a moment, then suddenly turned to the wild dog and said humanely: "Master Taoist, do you feel that we have seen the layout of this room before?"
Daoist Wild Dog was stunned, looked around, looked around for a long time, so he couldn't understand it, so he shook his head, expressing that he didn't know.
Zhou Yixian said impatiently: "What do you remember? This house is so old that I can't even remember your grandfather. Have you ever seen it?"
Xiaohuan shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's right, forget it, let's go in and have a look!"
Zhou Yixian chuckled, waved his hands, and said, "Let's go." After finishing speaking, he led the two of them up the stone steps in front of the house, and pushed the door open with a "squeak".
Just as Zhou Yixian was standing at the door, looking into the dark room, Xiaohuan suddenly felt his feet move and bumped into something. He looked down and saw that it was a dilapidated black card with handwriting on it. Momentarily curious, he squatted down, pulled the black wooden sign out of the ruins, pushed aside the debris, and looked carefully.
After a while, Xiaohuan's body trembled suddenly, and he took a few steps back, his face turned pale and angry, and he said loudly, "Grandpa, what is this place?"
Zhou Yixian turned around in astonishment, obviously although he looked around for a long time, the inner room was too dark, so he couldn't see clearly for a while, and said, "What! Xiaohuan?"
Xiaohuan pointed at his feet and said angrily, "Look for yourself."
Zhou Yixian looked down, looked carefully at the wooden sign, was stunned suddenly, shook his head, wiped his eyes with his hand, looked again, suddenly yelled "Ah", came from the stone steps Jumped down, with a strong hand, not at all like an older person.
On the black card, although the handwriting was somewhat blurred, it was still possible to make out the word "Yi Zhuang".
Xiaohuan was angry and frightened, and said to Zhou Yixian angrily: "You... what road did you take, and you brought us to this kind of ghost place again. Last time in Heyang City, you did this once Something happened."
Zhou Yixian's face was red and white, and he was extremely embarrassed, and said: "Didn't this, this old man also say that, I really only remember that there is a house here, but I really can't remember what it is for. So, it turned out to be …”
Xiaohuan let out a "bah", interrupted his words, and said: "You are the only one who talks a lot, and what more to say, hurry up!"
Zhou Yixian hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, let's go quickly, every time we encounter... a place like this, we will be unlucky... Uh!"
He was turning around in a hurry, and when he was speaking, he suddenly stopped in shock, and Xiaohuan and Taoist Wild Dog who were following him almost bumped into him.
Xiaohuan poked her head out from behind and said angrily, "Grandpa, what are you doing..."
Her voice suddenly stopped.
At this moment, on a dark and stormy night, under the light of a few stars, in front of the haunted house in the wilderness, Zhou Yixian and the other three stood in place in astonishment. They saw a figure standing in front of them, at the gate of the courtyard they had just entered.
The man was quite tall, and the fabric of his clothes seemed to be quite good, but his whole body was extremely dirty, and even his clothes were torn in several places, and he could barely see that it was originally dark green, but the style seemed to be a piece The Taoist robe worn by monks.
For some reason, that person's face seemed to be in the shadow all the time, Zhou Yixian and the other three couldn't see his face clearly, but this person appeared behind them quietly, almost like a ghost, with a chill Gas rose from behind them.
For a long time, that person was like a stone, standing there motionless, but Zhou Yixian and the others were even more terrified, they could not feel the breath of a living person from this figure.
"You... who are you?" The voice trembled slightly, but finally it was Xiaohuan who asked slowly.
The man didn't respond, let alone answer, but after a while, the shadow that shrouded his face suddenly ignited two dim red lights, like a pair of strange eyes, like a will-o'-the-wisp. He stared deeply at the person in front of him.
"ah!"
Suddenly, Zhou Yixian uttered a soft cry, Xiaohuan and Wild Dog Taoist were startled, and when they looked around, Zhou Yixian didn't look at the man's face, instead, he looked at the man's face Arm, said: "Then, that is the mark of Qingyunmen..."
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One Hundred Thousand Mountains, Zhenmo Ancient Cave.
The darkness seemed endless, standing in front of Gui Li and Jin Ping'er. They have walked for a long time, but this road seems to never end. But the strange thing is that there seems to be only one road in this ancient cave, and there are no other forks, which avoids the worry of getting lost.
Ever since the black bat passed, there will be one or several tyrannical monsters guarding every certain distance in Zhenmogu Cave, and some of them even moved Jin Ping'er. But at this moment, Gui Li has shown a strength that has never been seen in the past. He is so powerful all the way, he goes straight in, and there is almost no monster that can block his attack. Even the three-eyed spirit monkey, Xiao Hui, was so powerful that it was shocking. What happened to the black bat also happened to several other tyrannical monsters.
Jin Ping'er didn't make any moves along the way, but looking at her along the way, her face became more and more ugly. Gui Li's high level of practice and fast progress far exceeded her imagination, and even at the end, she thought to herself, is there anyone in the Demon Cult who can compare to this person
That talented and bold ghost king? Or the hidden Mr. Ghost
At this moment, Gui Li had just knocked an extremely ferocious two-headed leopard into the air in front of Jin Ping'er, and the huge animal's body hit the hard stone wall heavily.
Gui Li didn't look at the leopard too much, his expression remained unchanged, he continued to walk forward, Xiao Hui lying on his shoulder seemed to be full of energy, looking around. Jin Ping'er followed behind them, passing by the double-headed leopard, and turned her head to look, and saw that on top of the leopard's body, the originally thick body was completely shriveled, as if the essence in the body had been sucked away. Naturally, it was caused by the monster power of the Blood-devouring Orb.
It's just that this kind of monsters are extremely tyrannical creatures in themselves. Even though Gui Li has the sharp weapon of the Soul-Eating Magic Rod in his hand, he can kill such huge monsters in an instant. up.
Since when did this man start to improve his skills by leaps and bounds!
Jin Ping'er became more and more startled, and the eyes watching Gui Li's back became more and more complicated, at this moment, suddenly, Gui Li's body stopped, and a somewhat vigilant look gradually appeared on his face.
Jin Ping'er was stunned for a moment, although there were many monsters guarding him along the way, he had never seen Gui Li with such a cautious look, and immediately concentrated his attention on vigilance, and found that something was wrong around him.
After the death of the two-headed magic leopard, the surroundings returned to the usual silence, but at this moment in the invisible darkness, there was a deep and deep singing:
〖Xiaosonggang, the moon is like frost,
People are like floating flowers and they are also hurt.
Ten years, three thousand years,
I hope we will never forget each other...〗
The song was sad and sad, although it didn't sound very loud, somehow it got into my ears, and I could hear every word very clearly. When I first heard the song, it seemed very desolate, and then my mood became sad, as if I followed the singer through three thousand years in the dark, reliving the unknown but poignant tenderness.
Time is as ruthless as a knife, but what warms your heart is only a pair of faintly smiling eyes
Did you forget
Years later, or another cycle of vicissitudes
What do you remember
That blank emptiness is like a memory, staring blankly at the darkness and the distance.
Once, did I ever hug you
and you.
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The monkey Xiao Hui suddenly gave a "Zhi Zhi" cry, seemed very happy, jumped off Ghost Li's shoulder, and rushed into the darkness with a whoosh.