different paths

Late at night, people are quiet.

Inside the huge sword pavilion, it was empty and lifeless.A few bare iron chains hang down from the roof of the pavilion alone, and the candlelight dances, reflecting the deep and shallow ravines on the stone wall. The hot molten iron flows silently along the stone wall, adding a little bit to the bleakness of the sword pavilion. weird.

At this moment, in the stone room on the top floor of the Jiange Pavilion, two weak-breathing people were standing in front of the Bronze Jue, observing carefully.They restrained their aura unintentionally, thinking that invisibility has been their long-standing habit.

"What can you see?" On the left side of the Bronze Jue, a scholar in Tsing Yi stood with his hands behind his back, it was Yan Ku.Beside him, a young man with vivid eyes was about to lie down on the Bronze Jue. He observed up and down, left, right, left, and right, not missing a single detail.

"There is a little problem that I haven't figured out yet." The young man who was looking up and down was Jia Wuchai. He responded, and continued to figure out along the pattern on the jacket.

Why he appeared here, even he himself didn't quite understand.Yan Ku was just an understatement, and let him replace the others in Tiancangu and stay in the Jiange.Since Tian Cangu made it a condition to stay in Jiange, everyone in the valley should look forward to this day very much, but when Yan Ku let them leave, everyone had no objection, and even walked away indifferently. Didn't take this matter to heart.Before leaving, Lin Luanpo actually asked him very considerately, "I heard that Jiange is very cold at night, don't forget to add some clothes."This made Jia Wuyu, who was already in the fog, even more confused.

But if you come here, you will be safe. If you can stay in the Jiange with Yan Ku, you may be able to find clues to Lu Mingshu's case, and maybe follow the vines to find out the lies of the "star picker" who broke into the Jiange privately.Jia Wuzhen always had a premonition that there must be an inescapable relationship between the incident of breaking into the Jiange and the incident of Lu Mingshu's death.

Having figured this out, he began to investigate more and more diligently.

Seeing this, Yan Ku smiled and said, "I haven't seen you so serious in how many years."

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch up with Boss Yan and you to go out to work in the valley. Of course, I have to perform well."

"Oh? Since the opportunity is rare, I'll test you." Yan Ku put away his smile and pretended to be serious.

"No, Boss Yan—" Jia Wujue said with a bitter face, "I've been 'roasted' by you in the valley, now that I'm out of the valley, why don't you let me go!"

Yan Ku was amused by his painful expression: "Forget it, I just said it casually, I think it will make you worry."

"That's good, I know Boss Yan is the most kind-hearted." Jia Wujue immediately said with a playful smile, "Actually, even if you don't take the exam, Boss Yan, I know what you want me to pay attention to."

"Oh?"

"I'm afraid it has something to do with the mountain situation of Longyuan Villa. I have noticed before that Longyuan Villa is on top of a reverse dragon." After speaking, he looked at Yan Ku expectantly, "Why, my The kung fu of searching for dragons and acupuncture points has not been wasted, has it?"

"Proficiency in industry lies in diligence and leisure. If you let it go, no matter how good your talent is, it will not be able to withstand the passing of time."

When Jia Wujue heard this, he wrinkled his nose and said, "Did I read it wrong?"

Yan Ku shook his head, but smiled silently.

"Let me just say, my eyesight isn't perfect, but it's pretty good. There's absolutely no way I could read such an obvious pulse." Jia Wujue immediately regained his confidence.

"It's true that Nilong is correct." Yan Ku finally confirmed Jia Wuhai's conjecture.

"I read that right, why did you say that just now?"

Yan Ku glanced at him: "Although you and I do not have the name of a teacher and a student, we are a teacher and a student. Whenever we have the opportunity, we will naturally beat you up. Besides, you only know one thing about the mountain where Longyuan Villa is located. I don't know the second." Yan Ku smiled slightly, and said seriously, "Longyuan Villa is not only above the Nilong, but from the surrounding mountains, it is exactly where the Xuanwu Zangtou, the Canglong has no feet, the white tiger holds the corpse, and the Suzaku is sad. The place where the four evils cry. In addition, this Nilong's tail is high and its back is bent outwards. It is just like being unwilling to tolerate wind and water, and jealous of the main dragon." He paused, and continued, "Look at this place again. Mingtang, throughout the ages, if the dragon is to be powerful, the Mingtang must be broad, flat, and square. However, the Mingtang here is narrow, long and pouring, and the rocky mountains are piled up with thorns all over the place. The water curtain will scatter wealth by itself, and it is difficult to see the sky sitting in the well and prosper."

What he said made Jia Wujue dumbfounded.Jia Wuhai only noticed that the mountain was strange, but he didn't see that there were so many mysteries hidden in it.In addition to admiring Yan Ku even more, he has more considerations for the location of Longyuan Villa.It should be known that it is not easy to find a place of great auspiciousness in choosing a location, and it is even more difficult to find a place of great evil like Longyuan Villa.The collection of many fierce features in one body is definitely not a coincidence, which can be explained by the word, someone must have done it deliberately.

It's just that who was in charge of the site selection of Longyuan Villa back then?Is it Yue Ouzhi, old man Sikong, or someone else?And why did he choose to build the villa on such a terrible land?

For a while, Jia Wujue couldn't figure out the intricacies of this. He just vaguely felt that there must be a huge secret hidden behind this seemingly "big and fierce" mountain. I'm afraid it's hundreds, thousands, or even more.Under such a big shadow, for the first time, he had the idea of ​​not wanting to delve into it.

"He's back to his senses." Yan Ku flicked a hand in front of him, finally pulling him back from the bottomless speculation.Seeing his bewildered expression, Yan Ku smiled knowingly: "Are you scared?"

"No, no." Jia Wuyu was stunned for a moment, and immediately denied, "It's just that the intention of the person who chose the site is too difficult to figure out, which is really puzzling."

Yan Ku chuckled lightly: "Actually, it's not that I have no clue."

Jia Wukai's eyes lit up: "Could it be that Boss Yan, what did you see?!"

"If you don't see anything, why did you stay in Jiange?" Yan Ku asked without answering.

Jia Wujue suddenly realized: "The place where the Jiange is located seems to be—"

"The head of Nilong." Yan Ku responded, "This entire villa is located above Nilong, and the location of the Jiange is exactly on the dragon's head. But according to the words of the 'Ten Hearts of Heaven', the dragon's head must break ground, and it must be with the dragon's head. The distance between the left and right mountain guards is moderate, if it is too high, it will hurt the dragon, and if it is too low, it will lose its breath. But this sword pavilion rises from the ground and is impressively independent. Looking down on the peaks, it is the appearance of "high and fighting evil" that hurts the dragon."

"So that's how it is." Jia Wujue said with a slap of both palms, "Although Longyuan Villa was built on top of the fierce Nilong, and the Jiange was designed to injure the dragon, but when these two are put together, the injury to Nilong is lessened. The evil spirit of this place."

"That's right." Yan Ku gave Jia Wucha an appreciative glance, "Whether it's good or bad, it all depends on how powerful the sword pavilion is for injuring dragons. For Longyuan Villa, the sword pavilion is by no means just as simple as casting soldiers and forging weapons."

"That's right." Jia Wujue looked around, "But the layers of the Jiange are only connected by iron cables, and each stone room is independent. Lu Changqi took us to visit once, and there seems to be no mystery. "

"Since it's a mystery, how can it be easily discovered by others." Yan Ku said lightly.

Jia Wujue searched around to no avail, scratched his head, moved to the pool of blood, and said to himself: "Since there is no other place, why is this mechanism hidden in the pool of blood?"

The pool surface of the blood pool was calm, glowing coquettishly red under the candlelight.At the intersection of light and shadow, the Zhuanpo sword, which makes all the heroes in the world yearn for, is stuck in the center of the pool alone.The Yue Wang Shenjian, which was supposed to be congratulated by the heroes, was completely left behind by its master because of Lu Mingshu's death.Compared with the previous one, the turning soul after casting has a more simple and majestic feeling.Facing it, people can hardly feel obscene and playful, and even restrain themselves a little bit involuntarily.Jia Wukai's eyes fell on the pattern wrapped around the sword body, he wanted to confirm whether the blood climbing up the sword body along the pattern he saw before was just his own illusion.

However, there was no trace of blood among the patterns.

Maybe I was wrong, Jia Wujue lowered his head, his gaze inadvertently landed on the tip of the sword hidden in the pool of blood——

swirl!

Where the blade of the sword is, there seems to be an invisible mouth constantly sucking blood, and only a small vortex appears here on the calm surface of the pool.However, the blood did not flow up the sword, so there is only one possibility——

This invisible 'sucking mouth' must be hidden under the surface of the pool!

"Boss Yan, come and take a look!" Jia Wuchai immediately waved to Yan Ku excitedly after realizing this.

Yan Ku walked to him unhurriedly, his gaze swept from the Bronze Jue to the pool of blood, a gleam of understanding flashed in his eyes.

"How is it? There must be something hidden under here!" Jia Wujue vowed.

But his discovery seemed to be within Yan Ku's expectation, Yan Ku just nodded without much reaction.Suddenly, Yan Ku pointed to the Bronze Lord and asked, "Do you know what the Bronze Lord is for?"

"The Bronze Jue is connected to the blood pool, which seems to be used for blood supply." Jia Wu bullied.

"If it's for blood supply, why does Jue's belly stick out two bronze tubes, and one is enough?" Yan Ku continued to ask.

Jia Wujue thought for a while: "That long tube was extended into the blood pool, and it was naturally used to guide Jue Li's blood into the pool. The short one..." At this point, he paused, as if he had fallen into the trap again. in thinking.

The sealed bronze jar only has two openings in the belly of the jar, which are connected with two bronze tubes of different lengths. If the longer one is to drain the blood, the shorter one is just suspended above the surface of the pool. Could it be? Is it also to export blood?

Thinking of this, Jia Wujue walked to the belly of Bronze Jue and touched the two bronze pipes.I don't know if I don't touch it, but I have a new discovery after touching it.It turned out that the connection between the long pipe and the belly was cast by molten iron, and the two were closely connected and integrated into one.But for some reason, the joint of the short pipe was a little loose, and some metal debris remained at the joint. Jia Wujue pulled out forcefully, and the short pipe was pulled out from the belly of the jue.

Jia Wujue held the bronze tube in one hand, and still maintained the posture of pulling out the tube just now, he couldn't react for a while——

The quality of this utensil is really poor!

He looked at Yan Ku with a "what to do" expression on his face, and Yan Ku could not help but say, "Just plug it back in." Then he pointed to the Zhuanpo sword in the pool, "Come here, pull it out this time." this."