This seat is a villain

Xue Yao invited Shen Zhaobi to sit in the Qingxin Hall, and Xue Yao never mentioned why Shen Zhaobi appeared in Jiutianmen along the way, as if he had no doubts in his heart.The two walked slowly along the path to Qingxintang. Xue Yao briefly told Shen Zhaobi about his origin with Jiutianmen, and introduced a few scenery along the way to her from time to time.

"In short, it is at the invitation of your little sect master to go to the mountain to recuperate." Xue Yao summed it up in one sentence.

Shen Zhaobi listened absent-mindedly, Xue Yao's attitude at the moment made her a little confused, and Shen Zhaobi became more and more uneasy.

After returning to Qingxintang, Xue Yao asked Shen Zhaobi to rest and wait in the front hall for a while, and went into the backyard to visit Chongxue.As soon as Xue Yao entered the door, he saw Chongxue sitting under the window embroidering. His head and wrists were all painted, but he was fine.

"You are so bold and reckless." Xue Yao poked Chongxue's forehead and said, "If you really fell off Zuowangya, let alone Jinyi, even the immortals will not be able to save you."

Chongxue's head was still wrapped with thick gauze, and he didn't take Xue Yao's words seriously.She approached Xue Yao with joy and asked for credit: "How is it? Is it going well? Did I help you today?"

"Don't do these unnecessary things in the future." Xue Yao patted her head away, went to the window and closed half of the window, turned around and said to Chongxue solemnly: "Nothing is more important than your own life."

"I have my own measure." Chongxue said with a smile: "I'm still waiting for the matter to go down to the capital to have a look."

"Look, you can do it." Xue Yao walked back to Chongxue, took the needle and thread from her hand and put it aside, and said, "If you are injured, you can just rest."

With that said, Xue Yao left Chongxue's room.

As soon as Xue Yao entered the front hall, he saw Shen Zhaobi still standing aside.

"What are you doing standing up?" Xue Yao said puzzledly, "Sit down."

Shen Zhaobi dared to take the seat after seeing Xue Yao took the main seat.

Xue Yao poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of Shen Zhaobi, and casually lit a stick of agarwood.If Jinyi was present, she would definitely make fun of him for having acquired Lin Jinhuan's young master's habits.

The blue smoke slowly rises, and the aroma spreads along with it.Xue said casually in the smog: "You are from the Jiutianmen."

The moment Xue Yao saw Shen Zhaobi, he had connected all the details of the past. Not only was Xue Yao sure that Shen Zhaobi was from the Jiutianmen, he also concluded that Chaochaolou was the hidden stake of the Jiutianmen in Jinling City.

Shen Zhaobi raised his eyes and secretly looked at Xue Yao's expression, feeling more and more uncertain.She didn't know how to answer Xue Yao's words, and she didn't dare to take Xue Yao's tea.After hesitating for a moment, she had no choice but to stand up and come to Xue Yao's side, leaned over and saluted, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry fourth brother, Zhaobi didn't hide it on purpose."

Xue Yao lowered his eyes and drank the tea in the cup, noncommittal to Shen Zhaobi's words.Shen Zhaobi took the initiative to go forward to fill the teacup in front of Xue Yao, took his own teacup and held it in front of Xue Yao, and said, "Zhaobi uses tea instead of wine to apologize to Fourth Brother, and I hope Fourth Brother will forgive me."

"I don't blame you." Xue Yao sighed, raised his hand to press the cup in Shen Zhaobi's hand, and said, "I'm just a little surprised, please sit down and talk."

In terms of concealment, Xue Yao concealed no less than Shen Zhaobi, and he had no position to accuse her again.

Shen Zhaobi returned to the chair opposite Xue Yao and sat down. This time, Xue Yao didn't need to ask any questions. She took the initiative to explain: "I was born in Chaochaolou, my parents died since I was young, and I have been following one of the four elders of Jiutianmen. Exit Huo Qingquan."

Presumably Shen Zhaobi's memory started from Chaochaolou, she didn't know why she grew up in Chaochaolou since she was a child.However, Xue Yao has already made his investigation clear.

Shen Duo died shortly after being imprisoned, and the young Shen Zhaobi became seriously ill and was dying in the Bijiafang without any care.Seeing that the child was dying of illness and was about to be useless, the steward of the Bijiafang wrapped it in a mat and threw it beside the city gate, and happened to be picked up by a passerby.

Fortunately, Shen Zhaobi's life should not be lost, and she gradually got better under the medicine of tiger and wolf that Renyazi took every time along the way.Ren Yazi brought a carload of children to Jinling, and Shen Zhaobi was sold into Chaochaolou after several twists and turns.

Speaking of Huo Qingquan and Xue Yao, she also had some impressions. Before Shen Zhaobi came to prominence, she had always been the top card in Chaochaolou.The Privy Council had investigated Chaochaolou when she came into Xue Yao's sight. Huo Qingquan's identity was extremely simple, and he was really not special among the prostitutes by the Qinhuai River.

I don't know what people like Xiao Pei do for food.Xue Yao arranged Xiao Pei in his heart.Chaochaolou is so big that the dark spot of Jiutianmen is so blatantly stuck in the eyelids that it can't be found out.

"Why did you go to Mount Jialou this time?" Xue Yao asked.

Shen Zhaobi hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth: "This time I went back to Jiutianmen with Elder Huo, one is to escort the sacrifices back to the mountain, and the other is to celebrate the birthday of the gatekeeper."

As soon as Xue Yao heard the word "sacrifice", he paid attention to it. He took advantage of the situation and said tentatively: "I saw that there was an endless stream of teams sending sacrifices up the mountain recently. It turned out that they were all from different altars. I heard Jin Huan say that next year will be On the day of the big festival, these 3000 people are not a small number, maybe they will be ready before the big festival?"

When Shen Zhaobi saw that Xue Yao knew the inside story of the great sacrifice so well, it could be seen that he and the little sect master really had a deep friendship, so he immediately felt relieved.The only contradiction in Shen Zhaobi's heart was also put aside, she raised her hand and propped her chin and complained: "It is not easy to prepare these [-] school-age men and women with horoscopes and full yang before the fifth day of May next year. Hurry up and make preparations, because of this matter, Chaochaolou will not have a single day of peace in the past six months."

The fifth day of May next year.Xue Yao noticed this time sensitively.Kaiyun Temple is located between the cliffs, the terrain is dangerous, and it is extremely difficult to capture, let alone rescue the people imprisoned in the temple safely.The terrain of Lianxi Hall is flat and open, if you can catch it by surprise during the ceremony, it will be an easy opportunity to succeed.

Shen Zhaobi hasn't seen Xue Yao for a long time, so naturally he has a lot to say to him.Xue Yao has always been very conniving towards Shen Zhaobi. While listening to Shen Zhaobi's recent anecdotes about Jinling, he was thinking about a feasible plan, and it was dusk before he knew it.

Before Shen Zhaobi left, Xue Yao called her to stop, like countless times before in Chaochaolou, Xue Yao asked, "Zhaobi, do you want to leave?"

Shen Zhaobi pursed her lips and smiled brightly when she heard the words, she raised her eyes to look at Xue Yao, and smiled softly: "Brother Xue, the world is so big, where can I live?"

***

Jin Yi hurried to the Liuxiang Palace, only to see three corpses placed in the center of the hall.These three corpses were all covered with white cloth, apart from the fact that their statures were different, there was no other reason for that.

"What happened?" Jin Yi whispered to Ting Lan who was standing at the door, Ting Lan shook her head.

Today's Liuxiang Palace has changed from the usual cold and cold scene, and the huge hall is neatly filled with disciples from various schools.On the stone steps made of white jade, there are four armchairs carved from golden nanmu.The elder, Situ Kun, sat on the chair chaired by the leader, looking defiant.Situ Kun was leaning lazily on an armchair with a gorgeous face in a red dress. The woman turned her head from time to time and joked with the tall man sitting beside her.In front of such a beauty, the man turned a deaf ear to him. He silently looked at His Highness's corpse, frowning without saying a word.

The rest of the lower seats were also full of people, except for a chair next to Situ Kun that was still vacant.

Lin Chao sat alone on the throne at the top of the steps.He was dressed in a black nine-dragon black robe, a crown on his head, and a gold and jade belt around his waist. He looked like a human emperor.

Lin Chao looked ahead, his dark eyes narrowed slightly, and he kept playing with two Wenwan walnuts in his hands.

The atmosphere in the hall was solemn and frightening, all the disciples in the hall were watching their noses and noses, no one dared to look directly at Lin Chao.Seeing this, Jin Yi hurriedly sneaked into the disciples, so as not to touch the sect master's brow.

Sitting on a high place, Lin Chao had already seen Jin Yi's small movements.He leaned on the throne, slowed down and said, "If you have any ideas, please tell me."

The hall was completely silent for a while, except for the annoying clashing sound of the two walnuts in Lin Chao's hands, there was no sound at all.

"Yanqing, you go first." Lin Chao looked around for a week and called by name.

Yan Qing came out from the crowd, raised his hand in salute, and then he said sternly: "Recently, three corpses were found on Jialou Mountain. The dead were a cleaning lady, a kitchen worker, A low-level disciple of Qiuting Academy. The cause of death was the exhaustion of meridians. The three corpses showed no signs of fighting, and there were no obvious trauma on the surface, except..."

Yan Qing paused here, raised his eyes to look at Lin Chao, and stopped talking.

"Except for what?" Situ Kun, who was sitting at the top, cast a glance at Yan Qing, and said impatiently, "We didn't come here to listen to your mysteries."

Seeing Lin Chao nodded slightly, Yan Qing ignored Situ Kun's provocation.He continued to say calmly: "Except for the vertical pupils appearing in both eyes of the deceased, everything else is normal."

As soon as Yan Qing's words came out, there was an uproar in the hall, and even the casual woman opposite Situ Kun sat up straight when she heard the words.

Vertical pupils, as the name suggests, means that the pupils of a person become a narrow line after death, just like the eyes of a civet cat in the sun at noon.Throughout the ages, no one knows the exact cause of vertical pupils.But as a monastic sect, vertical pupils are a bad omen.There are more than a dozen sects in Kyushu that were destroyed due to the appearance of vertical pupils.

According to the records in ancient books, the appearance of vertical pupils indicates that a sect will be exhausted.These sects will only have a few dead people sporadically at the beginning, and soon more and more people will die due to the exhaustion of veins, and finally they will quietly take everyone's lives overnight,

"Then...then why hesitate." Situ Kun stood up abruptly from the chair and knocked down the tea on the table. Facing the seat, he said sharply: "Among the subordinates, we should arrange for everyone to evacuate from Jialou Mountain as soon as possible."

"Hey, Elder Situ is really heroic in front of you."

Before Lin Chao could speak, a female voice came from not far away.It was the woman in red gauze who was sitting opposite Situ Kun who spoke just now. At this moment, she was concentrating on examining her bright red nails.The woman raised her eyes and glanced at Situ Kun, and said lightly, "This millennium foundation can be lost at will. Qingquan admires her generosity."

"Huo Qingquan!" Situ Kun was ridiculed by the woman's yin and yang, and immediately became furious.He waved his palm at the short guy next to him, and said angrily, "After the sect master's birthday, you will slap your butt and go back to Jinling. Of course you won't have back pain while standing and talking!"

This woman is Huo Qingquan, one of the four elders of Jiutianmen.She was born with bright eyes, bright teeth, and white skin. She should have been a beautiful woman with a natural beauty.But her pupils are extremely black, her lips are extremely red, and there are two blood-like red moles on the left and right corners of her lips, giving her a dangerous and coquettish aura in her beauty.

"I want to stay in Jialou Mountain." Huo Qingquan finally put down his hand, and reluctantly gave Situ Kun a straight look: "Why don't I give up the position of Chaochaolou's head card to you, an old bacon?"

"You!" Situ Kun was extremely angry. He raised his hand and swung a hidden weapon to attack Huo Qingquan, who was stopped lightly by Huo Qingquan.

"Stop it all, how decent it is in front of the sect master." Yan Qing shouted decisively.

Although Yanqing is only a disciple of Lin Chao and has no official position in the sect, his words still have some weight.Hearing this, Situ Kun raised his head and glanced at Lin Chao who was sitting on the seat, and retreated embarrassingly.Huo Qingquan looked at Situ Kun with a half-smile, threw the silver needle that had been stopped just now on the ground, and brushed his bun indifferently.

Lin Chao didn't care about Situ Kun's statelessness, he looked sideways at the other person seated, and asked, "Qi Ying, what do you think?"

Qi Ying, who was sitting next to Huo Qingquan, immediately got up when he heard the words. He took a step forward, knelt on his knees and kowtowed: "Forgive Qi Ying for the crime of being unfavorable to the guards."

Qi Ying is one of the four elders of Jiutianmen. He is seven feet tall, has a stern face, and is usually not good at speaking.Has been in charge of guarding the Jiutian Gate.

Qi Ying went on to say: "According to what I know from looking through the classics, all sects from the first appearance of the vertical pupil to the extermination of the sect have no rules to follow in terms of time. Moreover, most of the sects that have been exterminated are small sects with little power. In my opinion, this matter is caused by human beings." Qi Ying paused, and continued: "My subordinates sorted out the testable records overnight, and found that most of the dead who appeared at the beginning were mortals, or low-level people with low cultivation. Cultivator. As time goes by, people with advanced cultivation are gradually killed. It can be seen that the power of the vertical pupil gradually increases with the cultivation of the victim, and it is not something to be afraid of at the beginning."

Situ Kun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words. He also realized that he had lost his composure just now, so he pretended to be nonchalant and sat back on the chair.

"Right now, we should focus on investigating those who have recently gone up the mountain. The high-ranking disciples of all sects will join the patrol, enforce the curfew system at night, strictly prohibit disciples from acting alone, and try to find the reason before the situation gets out of control." Qi Ying continued.

"Very good." Lin Chao nodded approvingly, motioned Qi Ying to stand up, looked at the empty seat next to Situ Kun, and said thoughtfully: "If Qiaohe is here, I wonder if there is a way to solve it." Thinking After thinking about it, Lin Chao said, "Forget it, don't disturb him to retreat."

When Situ Kun heard Qi Ying talking about investigating people who had recently gone up the mountain, his mind became active.He rolled his eyes and said, "Speaking of outsiders, I think of one, the one in Qingxintang..."

"Speaking of Qingxintang, I remembered one thing." Lin Chao looked at Situ Kun, and said nonchalantly, "I heard that Ayao got a beautiful maid, thanks to Elder Situ, you helped me through it?"

When Situ Kun heard this, he quickly fell silent.He wasn't sure what Lin Chao's intentions were, so he could only sneer and say, "It's easy, it's easy."

Lin Chao looked around, and said, "Everything will be done according to Elder Qi's instructions." He waved his hand lightly, and a wave of true energy flew out, hitting Situ Kun's feet impartially .

A crack instantly appeared on the marble floor, and cold sweat climbed up Situ Kun's back all at once.

"Those who leave the mountain without permission will be punished as apostasy." Lin Chao looked at his hands and said lightly.