[Thunderbolt Tobacco City] Ren Pingsheng, Nine Layers of Smoke and Snow

The author has something to say: This chapter is extremely uncomfortable to write.According to my personality, I shouldn't let the grand master return non-stop to prepare for a rainy day. No matter what, I have to wait for Dan Gong to wake up and take his hand to explain everything.However, the master seems to be one should be one, and the other should be two. At this point, he should do it without any delay... But I feel that any conspiracy and calculation are so boring, and any power struggle is so false. I don't even think that half of the country is so great, it is not worth every minute and every second when the two apprentices are by my side.Ahhhhhh, but that is the great master.Hurry up and get what you want, and then hurry up and reunite with the apprentices!It's really boring to write about you fighting alone!

Bloated black clouds piled up over the arched sky of thousands of trees. The dry and old forests that have not received sunlight all year round seem to be oppressed and make a pitiful sound of falling apart from time to time.

The suffocatingly thick black shadow is like splashed ink, becoming an excellent shelter for evil spirits.The parasites lurking in the dark night quietly gathered around a path that had long been deserted and could not see its true colors.The fresh smell of living people provoked their abnormally developed nerve endings, stimulating pairs of bright eyeballs to flicker in every gap in the scattered vegetation.

The figure who was walking slowly and calmly so incomprehensibly did not seem to be aware of the strangeness long after he set foot on this sneaky area. The arty folding fan was pressed against Xiuya's right palm and closed little by little. It was made of Xiangfei bamboo. The bones of the fan are particularly fine and smooth due to years of playing with it, and there is no sound at all.

"Oh, where have I been?"

The ghosts in the dark couldn't help being stunned by this question, which was comparable to the low-pitched chants on the stage.Fearing that the prey would escape, a few clever kicks on the ground turned into streaks of black lightning, and in the blink of an eye, the trespassers were surrounded with no way out.

Facing this sudden threat, the man remained motionless, only his crumpled white clothes lazily watched the wind move.

"Yo, are you really enthusiastic?"

Hearing the sound, the monster rushing forward raised its head, and met the amber eyes with narrow eyebrows. In the dark night, there was still a bright color like molten gold, flowing and bewitching.

Three bloodthirsty monsters stared in vain at the white and noble neck exposed from the green collar with their night vision eyes. One of them even swung its sharp claws, but barely stopped at a distance. Half an inch of the cyan blood vessel was immediately stopped by an invisible barrier.Not only these three monsters, but also the elves and ghosts surrounding here were overwhelmed by this man's aura, and stood frozen in place.

The night wind blew by, rustling the sluggish vegetation.

——The fleeting time is unfavorable, and I bumped into a piece of fat, but I can't eat it!

It's a pity to find that the limelight is not right, they also seem to be stuck by something, and all the monsters are locked in an invisible circle, unable to retreat.

The young man who looked like a rich man who couldn't lift his shoulders or lift his hands spoke again: "I have a mortal body, and eating it will only satisfy your temporary appetite. It will neither prolong your life nor ascend to the sky." Xia Ju. You can be regarded as born spirit bodies, but they are always feared and excluded by the ignorant world, and they have to cling to this dark and chaotic world. Today, I strayed into the treasure land, but I don’t want to lose my life in vain. offended."

The pleasant sound, like fine wine being poured into a white jade cup, came to an end, and the spell disappeared immediately. The monsters, big and small, only felt their bodies lighten, and their tense bodies relaxed.

"You...what's your background?" A few bold people fell to the ground and asked weakly.

With a well-bred, modest and graceful attitude, the man spoke resoundingly: "I am not a famous figure who has shaken the rivers and lakes. If you report your name, you still don't know anything about me; and when I go, The future will be indefinite, and it is useless to know the name of a person who will never meet again in his life. It is just lucky to meet you, and it is also considered destined. You are committed to this mountain and wild forest, hiding your head and showing your tail. It is by no means a long-term plan. If you come today Not my subordinates, but those well-known and upright people, I’m afraid they will be wiped out and their bones will be gone.” He leisurely opened his fan, and benevolently looked at the aliens lying at his feet, “Besides, this abnormally dark night Natural disasters, it is destined that the righteous way of the Central Plains will not be left unattended, there is always a time limit, and then you will be destroyed when you touch the light, so what should you do?"

He was answered by a commotion of uneasiness. These lowly spirits acted on bloodthirsty instinct, which naturally did not expect to go so far.At this time, when someone reminded me, the panic and panic that had no way out fell from the sky and spread rapidly.

In the end it was the one who boldly asked him: "But, but I'm asking for advice from an expert."

"Don't dare," the man shook the fan again, swaying gently, and walked out of this area as easily as when he came, "I am going to the northeast for more than thirty miles, and there is a place called 'Dark Yin Jueyu'. It is an extremely fierce place that is rare in a difficult situation. Its geography is very different from the common world, and it is naturally a place for you to resist the restraint of the king and avoid the obliteration of the immortal Cao, why don't you go with your family?"

After a short silence, an old voice replied: "It's easy for you to say, don't talk about them, but I know that the Dark and Absolute Territory has long been occupied by the new bloodthirsty emperor Shulou Longsu, and his subordinates are all over a thousand years old." Blood royals, we are just low-level monsters with low morals, and we will not only be bullied and slaughtered when we get there!"

The man paused, and the slanted fan half covered the beautiful face, revealing a bewildered expression: "Everything that comes easily in this world is usually worthless. You can be counted in the dark and dark realm." There are very few chances of life, and naturally they are not within easy reach, whether you stay here and wait for death, or seize the opportunity and fight for your way out, it all depends on your own choice."

Poor these cold-blooded creatures were once again bribed by the facts and reasoning in these words, and the surroundings became quiet again obediently.

"If you can trust me, you can set up an ambush in the Obscure Territory. In the near future, Long Su will be in serious trouble, and then it will be a good opportunity for you to put all your eggs in one basket."

As soon as Tantai Wuzhu left behind an unfathomable figure and escaped from the area that smelled bad, he began to run wildly, going to the dark and dark realm to meet the traces of the ancients.

It is hard for him to look forward to the return of the great master from Yandu with uncontrollable excitement, and he has a lot of questions in his stomach, such as "Is the great master of Yandu staying behind without heirs very happy?" Beautiful?" Questions like that.But the great master came and went as before, with no ups and downs, and he didn't even look at him, he just left behind the task of planning for the next step, and didn't leave any gaps in his mouth.He tried to struggle in vain, but was dragged away by Hen Qiangu who received the order at the same time but wanted to go elsewhere.

He was completely absent-minded, but he still patiently went through the process. At this moment, he just wanted to meet up with Hen Qiangu as soon as possible, so that he could go back and ask hundreds of thousands of people what to do.

And what he never imagined was that at this moment, Hen Qiangu was in a hard fight.

Shulou Longsu, whose bloodthirsty factors are fully activated, stands under the shaky chandelier in the main hall of the dark and imperiled castle. 39 huge white candles spit out bright and strange light, shooting blood emperors from all angles like an abyss. long shadows.Zi Longying was held behind him with ease, dripping blood meanderingly.

The original owners of these rust-like, sweet-smelling liquids were trying to calm down their gasps after receiving a huge blow from their opponents.Several places on the light-colored clothes embroidered with four-clawed dragon patterns had been stained red with blood, especially the sword on his right knee, which seemed to have injured his muscles and bones, and was trembling uncontrollably.

Even so, the fighting spirit remains undiminished.The expression of this deep-browed swordsman was always as indifferent as the dew that dissipated in the morning sun in the morning, but he persevered in urging a wave of abundant internal force again, and the strangely shaped Shenrui immediately spun at high speed and let out a sharp neigh.A strange frequency shakes the entire land and the buildings above it.Tick-tick-tick... It was clear that there was no wind and no rain, but the ominous sound of water sounded everywhere, and the sound fell on the heart of a weak person, full of terror.As soon as the center of gravity fell, the dark figure rose from the ground and leaped into the air. The invisible sword path was coiled in the light and churning movement, scattering thousands of rain like silver strands, piercing through the forest and beating leaves. .

"Master..." The injured maid lying on the side forced herself to stand up and shouted anxiously.

And Long Su's eyes were only filled with sneering, the drizzle blowing on his face fell into the eyes of the overwhelming, ancient and modern Dragon God, it was really not worth mentioning.He took one step steadily, one step after another, raised the sword in his hand and dropped it, rolling up gusts of kamikaze, fighting hand to hand, disintegrating the surging sword net in an instant.

The changes in the hands of the swordsman seemed to have come to an end, and he was forced to retreat step by step.

However, just as Long Su leaped forward, he took a deep breath, emptied his right path, and retracted his sword. Taking advantage of the moment when the opponent was extremely close to attacking, he twisted his wrist extremely quickly, and the blade opened several times instantly. An arc-shaped sword aura, with a powerful killing edge, surrounded the figure in purple at once.

Long Su sighed with an indescribably pitiful tone: "You can't do what you can."

The purple dragon shadow danced flutteringly, sending out bursts of chant-like long tunes, dissolving a circle of purple beams of light from the sword edge of the previous feint attack, blocking the opponent's last bit of trickery when he returned to the horse and killed him impartially .

The pair of purple eyes, which are used to condescending and looking at people with laziness, opened wide, seeing that the right side of his risky opening was hit by the palm of the thousand-year-old king full of inner strength.It was half a beat too late to gather internal strength to resist.He only felt a blank emptiness and coldness in his chest.There was no sound in his ears for a while, and the broken scene in front of him was quickly moving away, and then a rock-hard pain came from his back, paralyzing his whole body along his spine without any buffer, that feeling was like his own Already smashed to pieces, floating in the air, falling weightlessly.

Almost lost his mind.

Fortunately, at the end of his slide down the wall, the injury on his knee caused a sour tingling pain when his right leg was unconsciously bent, which brought back part of his conscious consciousness.Leaning hard on his sharp edge, he said solemnly, mixed with the blood gushing out in the turbulent blur like thousands of white waves: "In order to break the disaster of the dark night for the common people, we are bound to win the Dark and Absolute Territory. Today, he is inferior to others in his skills, but can Longshou really fight against the power of the entire righteous way with his own strength?"

After finishing speaking, he dragged his wobbly body and turned into a scattered light cluster that dissipated in the murderous aura that was still boiling.

Tantai Wuzhu smelled a bloody smell from a long distance away, his heart was shaken, he put all his strength on his feet, and quickly rushed up to catch a black shadow that jumped down from the castle.

It never occurred to him that just after a moment of separation, Hen Qiangu would reunite with him in such a scarred way.He hurriedly dragged the man around and ran wildly for a while, until he thought it was safe, then he found a secret place to put him down.Apart from anything else, with the palm of the hand on the person's shoulder, a burst of real power was poured in regardless of the loss, and finally protected the meridians of the body so as not to destroy the foundation.

"Qiangong..." Tantai Wuzhu was sweating all over his head, he carefully supported the person, and stared closely at those eyes.

Hen Qiangu's breathing slowly recovered, and he was shaken gently a few times before he gradually regained consciousness. His cat-like eyes that used to catch people's eyes dimmed a lot now, but they still shone brightly. Colleagues showed weakness in front of them. "It's okay... I can't die..."

He closed his eyes again, and adjusted his breath alone for a long time.

Tantai Wuzhu was really worried, and silently accompanied him, his palms were wet and sticky, and his veins bulged when he grasped the handle of the fan too hard.He waited until Hen Qiangu looked better, then asked with a trembling voice: "The master asked you to provoke the relationship between Shulou Longsu and Zhengdao, but you shouldn't be so stupid as to do it yourself? This kind of thing is left to your subordinates to secretly Ting’s people can just do it!”

Unexpectedly, Chen Qiangu didn't appreciate it at all. With his eyes closed, he spit out a ridicule from his nasal cavity: "Zhugong is so innocent and cute. To Shangshulou Longsu, the most important thing is what you want to say and how much you want to provoke. ——Can you hurt Mu Xianfeng, there are so many links, but there is only one chance, how can you rest assured to the people below? Even you, Zhu Gong, are unreliable."

Tantai Wuzhu was actually not angry, judging by the deep frown and the sad face, he was really anxious: "Anyway, Qiangong's status is precious, let alone the elder who has been following the master since before he succeeded to the throne, This point is unmatched in Yan, and it is too dangerous to perform this kind of task, what should I do if there is a mistake?! What does the great master think!"

Hen Qiangu was a little dazed.He scanned the familiar face up and down, left, right, left, and right for a few times, and finally he didn't hold back, covering his wound and laughing, the laughter was full of his unique bewitching air, and it was unheard of. Feeling hairy for no reason.

"...Zhu Gong, I saw that you have been in love with Fang Cong for more than ten years without touching a single leaf. I thought you had seen through it long ago. I didn't expect...hehe..."

Tantai Wuzhu was baffled: "If Qiangong has something to say, please speak up."

Hen Qiangu finally stopped laughing, but the knife marks on his lips still had a mocking arc, and he asked, "Does Zhu Gong remember the time when he met the old man?"

Tantai Wuzhu choked when he was asked, and couldn't figure out where he came from, so he simply said in confusion: "How can there be any impression of such a long time ago."

Hen Qiangu didn't say anything about his guilty conscience, but changed his tone of emotion and said: "Zhugong doesn't need to be humble, I know the family background of you and Jin Wuzhen very well. But you know the gap between us and those two people. Is it?"

Tantai Wuzhu blinked, his breath congealed.

"Not to mention Gong Wuhou's reckless background, even Xigong Diaoying, although he is a descendant of a powerful family, was involved in the rebellion case of the four major surnames in Yandu that year, resulting in the disappearance of nine clans and no one left. A hairless phoenix. It just happened to be spotted by the old man. It was not only to cherish his talent, but also to express a little regret, so he took it back and raised him. All in all, these two people have no roots and roots. When they met the old man, they were nothing but a piece of paper But it is precisely because of this that the old man can splash ink on the two of them, from their names to the fortune of their lives, and can influence them at will. Along the way, what the old man admires on them is himself How can such a sense of accomplishment be comparable to that of you and me I met in the middle way. In addition, when I calculated that there was no queen, the old man didn't mention this account, but he kept it in his heart That’s right, the more I hurt, the more he will lose his anger.” He laughed at himself again, “—it’s nothing.”

Listening to this narration, Tantai Wuzhu vaguely recalled how he felt when he was so angry by Nishinomiya Diaoying that he chose to leave Yandu without hesitation.In the first few years, he still wondered why the master let himself go with the flow, but later he thought about waiting and gradually forgot about it.It's a pity that momentary forgetting is not a great realization. One day, falling into the same pain of losing the way again, it seems that it will only be more desolate. "In the heart of the master...does he really only care about the two apprentices he taught himself?"

Hen Qiangu talked for a long time, his strength was a little weak, he closed his eyes and rested for a while, thought for a while, and then sighed: "But even the disciples I taught, in order to create the ball for Yuansheng back then, it would be okay for Gong Wuhou to change it. Changed; Nihai Chongfan came to attack, and Nishinomiya Diaoying said he would leave it behind..."

"Qiangong!" Tantai Wuzhu yelled, as if a sharp sword had pierced through his chest, the pain made him feel his heart was torn apart, and the blood gushing, "Don't say it..." In the blink of an eye, People are like haggard and powerless to the extreme.

Hen Qiangu looked at his face that was about to turn pale, with a certain pleasure, and finally concluded: "Don't you know that Zhugong doesn't know that you and I serve the most ruthless person in this world.——You, after all, What to expect?"

He let out a long breath, groped the rocks beside him and stood up.

Tantai Wuzhu's face was as dead ashes, but he also swayed and came up to help him, and said sullenly: "Qian Gong is seriously injured, I will help you go back and get a good rest."

Hen Qiangu had accumulated the words for many years, and he let it out all of a sudden. Although he also felt sad, he felt an indescribable sense of relief.Looking at the appearance of his colleagues, he was finally moved with compassion, and comforted him: "Sometimes I really envy Jin Wuzhen, but I never think of anything else when I want a high official and a generous salary."

In exchange, the other party sighed again.

He turned his face away, flicked his middle finger, and sent a burst of fireworks into the sky.Soon, a dark sedan chair was carried on the shoulders by four people dressed in the same line as the dark pavilion, and it fell on the wind.Hen Qiangu turned around gracefully, lifted the curtain to enter the room, and as if overwhelmed by alcohol, put his arrogant and expensive body on the seat piled with thick velvet cushions, reclined gracefully to one side, separated by the light Zisha said to the staring Tantai Wuzhu: "Zhugong's kindness will be remembered through the ages. It's just that the sedan chair is narrow, and I'm afraid it will wrinkle Zhugong's fine clothes, so I won't invite Zhugong to ride with me." Then he buckled the armrest.

The expressionless four people were ordered to quickly lift the delicate shoulders and walk away in the wind, leaving the lonely Tantai Wuzhu on the hill who cursed Chen Qiangu in his heart thousands of times.

As a result, he rushed back to Gushe Mountain in a hurry and had to return to Huae Xianghui Building first.

Trying not to lose his composure, he reported the progress of his relationship with Hen Qiangu in a few concise sentences.Thinking of the questions that were still fermenting in his mind before, and now his heart is full of vicissitudes, if he can still ask without changing his face and heartbeat, he will feel humiliated.

"Is there anything else going on, Bamboo Palace?"

It means that if there is nothing wrong, there is no need to stay any longer.

The tone that passed by Tantai Wuzhu's ears was the most familiar tone in his life, gloomy and restrained, when he heard it in the past, he would unconsciously be fascinated by the tone that resembles the smile of heaven and man.However, now, he only felt cold, and he looked at the somewhat mean lips, which were smacking into a line at him casually and uncontrollably.Then I turned to look at those sharp eyes—it turned out that they were not the pure light blue as I always thought, but the ashes like the embers left after everything had been burned.

He remembered what Hen Qiangu had said to him before: "What we serve is the most ruthless person in the world. ——What are you expecting?"

What were you hoping for?

"Your subordinate will leave." He also greeted his lord with a kind of indifference and alienation that would never lose to the person he imitated all his life, and withdrew without delay.

Naturally, Gu Ling Shiyan couldn't notice his abnormality today, because he was full of thoughts on the handwriting.

He picked up the "Smoky Light Pulling the Rainbow Calligraphy" that had been set aside—the copybook had been flipped through and studied for years, and the spine and margins of the book had been worn out with fine rough edges—and repeated the words on the page he had just written. After comparison, finally, there are eight or nine points of resemblance.

I remember that I didn't think much of Nishinomiya's handwriting when I saw it for the first time. The brushstrokes are as delicate as human beings, and if you don't look carefully, you can easily confuse them with willow fonts.But pay a little attention to appreciation, but you can feel the fortitude different from the delicate and graceful willow style in every bend and pause of the brush, but this consistent vigor is carefully suppressed in the horizontal and vertical straightness.It is different from Shoujin's obsessive dryness, but it seems to be hidden under the half-closed eyes, and it seems to be restless.

Staring at the copybook for a long time, the subtle and delicate brushstrokes seem to have vitality, and the strokes of each stroke are connected to gradually outline the scene of the past.

What impresses me the most is that it was the sweltering heat at that time, and there were endless noises outside the Red Chamber at night, and Diao Ying was still kneeling on the stool and practicing calligraphy. If the number of words was not enough, he refused to stop writing no matter what, and the drops of sweat flowed down his The face that was scrunched up by the unbearable heat rolled down, down.

Wuhou next to him couldn't bear the tiredness, and fell asleep again, holding the pen loosely in his hand, breathing evenly, occasionally leaving a ball of ink on the paper.

It was a bit difficult to remember, and the copybook fell from my fingers.

Xuxuan's hand stopped, and he picked up the paper he had just written to read it carefully.Unsatisfied after all, it was still gently kneaded into a ball in the palm of your hand.

He recalled what Tantai Wuzhu reported just now.

Are you fighting endlessly with your Righteous Dao?Or let the group attack of those low-level monsters you despise become the last straw to bring down the dark and desperate realm?

Gu Ling has taken great pains to entertain so many distinguished guests for you, Wanwang Longshou is good at entertaining and making the guests and hosts happy.

The thin lips slowly stained with a transparent smile.

Anyone who violates Yandu will be punished even if he is far away.