For the peace of the fairy world

"That was about 200 years ago, and I can't remember the exact year. At that time, I was a mediocre Taoist in Kunlun, and I had two apprentices who were as mediocre as me. Kunlun is the most favored son of heaven, and we may have great scenery outside, but inside, we are really inconspicuous at all."

"But I'm still the luckiest of these people. My master passed away more than 100 years after I started apprenticeship. He only had me as an apprentice. Before he left, he entrusted me to an old senior with a very advanced cultivation base. The Taoist name of the old man is Dongling, you must have heard of it."

"The heavy snow that year sealed off the entire Kunlun Mountain Road. The snow mound on the west side of Kunlun Mountain is the place where the corpses of real people above the Kunlun Transformation Stage are buried. Because of the heavy snowstorm, it is impossible to detect the surrounding situation with spiritual weapons. , And in those few years, it happened that the barrier of the snow mound gradually became loose due to the age, and the spiritual power of the formation continued to lose, so in order to prevent accidents in the snow mound, 24 people were dispatched to guard the eight directions of the snow mound respectively. "

"My two juniors, Xuanjiang and Xuanyou, are responsible for guarding the Kan Palace of the barrier, which is the formation eye on the west side of the formation. Logically speaking, Kan Palace is the easiest to guard among the eight formation eyes, because It loses the least amount of spiritual power, and at the same time, from the snow mound to the west, it is an extremely cold place in Kunlun Mountains, even if there is a small night, it will not come from the west."

"That night, my two junior brothers and I were meditating in the palace room of Kan Palace. When we arrived at Yomozi, Junior Brother Xuanjiang suddenly said that he felt movement in the mausoleum near Kan Palace."

"Although Xuanjiang entered the school later than me, he is the one with the highest cultivation level among the three of us. He said so, so he naturally planned to go to the mausoleum to have a look. Although Junior Brother Xuanyou and I didn't notice any changes, we just wanted to be on the safe side. For the sake of it, I also agree to go to investigate. But the formation is located in the underground of the palace, and must be guarded at all times, so Junior Brother Xuanyou and I stayed in the palace, and only Junior Brother Xuanjiang went to the mausoleum."

"Junior Brother Xuanjiang went for an hour, and there was no news. Junior Brother Xuanyou and I couldn't sit still. Junior Brother Xuanyou asked me to stay in the palace, and he went to look for Junior Brother Xuanjiang."

"At that time, I faintly felt that something was wrong. But this is Kunlun, even if a real person of the stage of transformation came here, he would not dare to be presumptuous. Besides, the bodies and golden cores of real persons above the stage of transformation in Kunlun were buried in the snow mounds. , The power of these real golden elixirs is terrifying, and the reason we guard here is mostly to prevent the spiritual power contained in the golden elixirs from running wild and hurting the disciples."

"As for stealing... the golden core of a real person at the transformation stage can instantly destroy a real person at the Nascent Soul stage by the backlash when it is taken out of the body. If you want to steal it, it depends on whether that person has this ability."

"Because of holding such an idea, all three of us miscalculated."

"After Junior Brother Xuanyou left, I was alone in the room and continued to meditate. I can't remember how long it took, but I just remember that it wasn't very long. Suddenly, I felt a special wave from the formation eyes under the palace. This kind of fluctuation will only appear when there are strangers in and out of the snow mound."

"It was only then that I realized that someone really dared to sneak into the snow mound to steal! I hurried up from the window to the roof, only in time to see a blurry figure from the back in the snowstorm. I was about to catch up, but I thought of the palace. I am the only one staying in the house, and I must never leave the house."

"I stayed in the palace all night. After dawn the next day, when the wind and snow subsided, the door urgently sent a group of new recruits to take over the 24 of us. Because Junior Brother Xuanjiang was killed last night."

Outside the gate of the palace was already full of moonlight, and the palace of Chu State had fallen into complete silence at this time. The guards in armor walked around the palace corridor and the long street, and the collision of armor made a slight sound.

Only this brightly lit hall seems to have been forgotten by the entire palace.The conversation between the two people in the hall was blocked in the barrier, and no one knew about it except them.

Fang Huai took a deep breath, the turmoil in his heart was no less than that of Taoist Yaoguang who learned of the tragic death of his fellow disciple in the narrative.

He didn't expect that under such an opportunity, he would be so close to the truth about the theft of the golden core in Yu Xiao's body.

And the Yaoguang Taoist who lived in the mortal palace for some reason in front of him was actually a disciple of Kunlun, and he was actually a witness to the theft of the golden elixir 200 years ago!

Although it was just a plain narration, the narrator only told it as a story.But all the details are consistent with the original novel.If it is fabricated, then the deception is too big and the loss outweighs the gain.

In the original text, regarding the plot of the golden elixir being stolen, the author only used various hints to outline a rough outline, so those who knew it all seemed tacit.Fang Huai did not expect that he could hear a detailed version from a Taoist who met by chance.

Master Yaoguang stopped when he mentioned that his junior brother was killed, but it was not that the story was finished, but that the next part of the story was more difficult to say.

Fang Huai suppressed his inner thoughts and said, "Is it because of this incident that senior left Kunlun?"

Master Yaoguang said: "I am an abandoned disciple of Kunlun."

Fang Huai was stunned and said: "Just because the guards are not effective?"

"The guards are not effective." Master Yaoguang laughed lowly, "Should it be said that the guards are stealing?"

Fang Huai frowned, not to mention that he already knew the ins and outs of the theft of the golden elixir, just looking at Yaoguang's situation, no one would believe that he stole the golden elixir.If he really has the ability to steal the golden elixir, why is he so downcast that he hides in a mortal palace?

Master Yaoguang continued: "Junior Brother Xuanjiang was killed, and Junior Brother Xuanyou was also seriously injured. I was the only one who stayed in the palace and escaped. After the thief stole the golden elixir, he fled westward. If you go one mile west, even a Nascent Soul Daoist can’t stay for more than an hour. The person who stole the golden elixir just disappeared.”

Fang Huai took it for granted, because the ones who stole the golden elixir were your own people, most likely they didn't enter the extremely cold environment at all, but took some small path and ran away. "So did they punish you, senior?"

"No." Master Yaoguang said, "Xuan You and I reported the situation that night to the elders together with Xuan You who discovered the body of Junior Brother Xuanjiang at that time. Then we went back to our own caves."

"At that time, the door began to thoroughly investigate the whereabouts of the thief, but after digging three feet into the ground, no outside thief was found hiding. After discussing with the elders and real people, the head of the door decided that it was impossible for the thief to run into the extremely cold environment with the golden elixir. By some means, I avoided the eyes and ears of everyone inside the door, and left Kunlun in other directions."

"To be able to do this, one must be very familiar with Kunlun, so there should be an inner ghost." Master Yaoguang's tone became low, "The rumors of the inner ghost were widely circulated in the door. On that day, Junior brother Xuanyou sent his disciples to invite me to his cave to discuss about the theft of the golden elixir. He said he remembered some clues he saw in the mausoleum at that time, and asked me to confirm it before reporting it to the elders. .”

"I don't doubt that there is him. Besides, at that time, there were rumors of 'guarding yourself' from the door, thinking that if there is really an insider, it should be one of the 24 people who were guarding the snow mound when the golden core was stolen. Near Kan Palace, so among the 24 people, the most convenient ones to do this should be me and Junior Brother Xuanyou."

"People's words are terrible. I believe that Junior Brother Xuanyou and I are already unbearable. If Junior Brother Xuanyou can think of any clues that can clear up the suspicion between the two of us, that is exactly what we wish for."

"Thinking like this, I immediately set off to go to Junior Brother Xuan You. The injury he suffered that night hadn't completely healed. I walked into the room where he was recuperating, and there was a strange-looking disciple guarding the door."

"I went into the room and saw that Junior Brother Xuan You was lying on the couch in the inner room alone. I felt strange, since I have invited guests, why are you still snoozing in the inner room? Junior Brother Xuan You is not such an impolite person. "

"I was worried that his condition had changed, so I went into the inner room. Brother Xuan You was lying on his side with his back to me. I immediately noticed that his breath was not right, so I went up and turned over his body to see that his chest was bleeding. , eyes wide open, has been killed."

"I was so stunned that I couldn't recover. At this moment, I heard the disciple behind me come in and take a look. Then he shouted, 'Killed, my uncle killed', and ran out."

"I'm going to chase him back immediately. At the same time, I want to catch the trace of the killer nearby, but I can't find any. And the disciple ran to someone, shouted that I killed Xuanyou, and then fell to the ground, The seven orifices bleed to death."

"Afterwards, I realized that this was a game. But it was too late."

Taoist Yaoguang's heavy tone spread out in the hall, and Fang Huai felt a chill in his heart at the same time, setting up such a vicious trick just to cover up his identity as a thief?

Taoist Yaoguang let out a long sigh of relief, and stretched out his hand to lightly stroke the "Poppy" sword on the table: "I was imprisoned, they forced me to torture me, and I survived, after all, I ran into it head-on." If you fall into a net set by others, all you have done is deny it to death."

"According to the elders, the sword technique used to kill Junior Brother Xuanyou is indeed exactly the same as mine. The evidence is convincing. If I deny it again, it will only make me more cunning and inferior, and no golden core was found on me or in the cave. Most likely colluded with outsiders."

"In any case, just killing my fellow disciples is enough to sentence me to death."

"I also feel hopeless. It's not because I'm about to die, but until then, I can't guess who framed me. The weak prey on the strong, and with mediocre aptitude, I am a complete weak."

Listening to the long sigh, Fang Huai asked, "Then how did senior escape from Kunlun?"

Taoist Yaoguang said: "It was the disciple of Elder Dongling who finally spoke for me. So I survived and became an abandoned disciple of Kunlun. After leaving Kunlun, I have been hunted down."

"Chase?"

"I walked out of Kunlun alive. Of course, it's not what those people want to see. From the fairy world to the human world, I fled for nearly 200 years. Until ten years ago, I was rescued by Princess Lanzhao and hid in the palace of Chu State. "

Fang Huai was surprised, not because Taoist Yaoguang was hunted down, but because he just confessed everything.

Seeing his surprised face, Taoist Yaoguang raised his eyebrows and laughed: "I already knew your identity when I saw the dagger in your hand. Fortunately, you are honest and didn't play those clever tricks."

"My dagger?" Fang Huai couldn't help rubbing the pattern on the handle of the dagger with his fingers.

"300 years ago, the proud daughter of the White House went to Kunlun Mountain to learn swordsmanship and defeated dozens of disciples of the twelfth generation of Kunlun. I was the one who lost the worst, so I remember." Taoist Yaoguang said, " The lotus leaf pattern on the saber of the real Hongqu is exactly the same as the dagger in your hand."