Sir, this sword is a keepsake

"Shen Fang."

……

"Zhuang Li!"

"Ah?" Shen Fang stopped suddenly, just now a hideous woman's face flashed through his mind, and when he turned around, he saw that Zhuang Li was just waking up from a dream.The moonlight cast a watery white on his face.

"What are you two thinking?" Nangong Fuyun squeezed to Zhuang Li's side against the hard stone wall, trying to see their faces clearly, "Going faster and faster, I called you for a while and didn't hear. "

"Ah, I've been looking at the road ahead, and I'm a little fascinated."

"Me, me too..." Zhuang Li said casually.

What Shen Fang said was also true.About half an hour ago, as the stone dome above suddenly disappeared at a certain moment, they saw the sky again and found that it was already dark.Although it is still in the corridor that can barely accommodate one person, the front and back are empty and hazy, but at least there is no sense of oppression brought by the stone wall above.A crescent moon peeked out in the ray of sky above their heads, illuminating the tops of the smooth, knife-sharpened stone walls on either side.

Walking in such a gap for too long, there will be a terrifying illusion that the stone walls on both sides are constantly squeezing inward. Shen Fang walked in the forefront, with nothing in front of him, only the continuously extending and winding black narrow road. It is necessary to stabilize the mind so as not to fall into fantasy, or be caught off guard when encountering an accident.

"One is preoccupied, and the other is restless." Nangong Fuyun stared at the two of them, crossed her arms and sighed, "For me, I always feel that this journey is full of ghosts... I really want to see Guixuzi as soon as possible. He is an old man, who asked him why he has to toss up the peak like this. The broken road is getting steeper and steeper, and the air is cold and pungent——

"I said, we haven't already reached the peak, have we?"

Shen Fang turned his head suddenly, staring at the small section of the moon exposed in the gap of the stone wall. The moonlight was still pale just now, but at this moment, a transparent water red appeared.

"What's the matter?" Nangong Lingyun yawned impatiently.

"This month is weird, haven't you seen it?" He said in a deep voice, his speech speed unknowingly quickened, "The white shadows that flashed across the rocks before were the clouds that were blown... "

"There's no wind." Zhuang Li added, "I haven't heard any insects for a long time."

Nangong Fuyun fixedly looked at the part of the moon, "Could it be that Guixuzi has cast a spell to lock Wu Youfeng?"

Seeing the two looking at her suspiciously, she said again: "The reason why Wuyoufeng is called Wuyoufeng is because of the word 'Zixu Wuyou'. If Guixuzi is not happy, he will block the guests with the wind and hide the peak in the clouds. Erase this place from the world. It seems that this secret passage is the only way up to the peak. However, I don’t know who he is hiding from so carefully? Who in this world can tell him to be so careful... ...Could it be that the High Priest of the Spirit Snake Marsh is superior to him?" She paused, then smiled, "Suddenly regretted it, and came here with you."

"However, it's all here. If there is a real fight, the three of us will join hands to return to the ruins, and we should have a chance of winning against the high priest."

"Take it easy, don't bite people when you go up."

Nangong Fuyun was stunned, and said sarcastically, "You, who are afraid of snakes, turned to speak for them, it's really evil."

She squeezed forward, her chest almost touched Zhuang Li's back, Zhuang Li had no choice but to push Shen Fang forward.

"Nangong Fuyun."

"Ok?"

Shen Fang half warned and half exhorted, "If something goes wrong later, don't use your brains."

Nangong Fuyun choked on Shen Fang's light words. She raised her eyebrows, put her hands on her hips, and was about to talk to Shen Fang, but suddenly heard an old man's deep and hoarse voice ringing in her ears.

"Three juniors, the old Taoist is talking with this distinguished guest who came from afar. It is inconvenient to welcome you. Please feel free to watch."

The three of them showed horror at the same time, and they knew at a glance that they had heard the voice.

"This..." Shen Fang thought about it, and saw that the stone walls on both sides collapsed sharply, and the ground seemed to have opened a huge hole, swallowing the stones together with the surrounding sand and gravel.For a while, quicksand billowed and gray smoke burst out.After the rumble sounded and the surrounding barriers disappeared, the three of them were startled by their situation—they were standing in the center of a smooth stone platform with no guardrails on the edge, and the clouds on the top of the mountain passed by like water, floating like tulle. In the distant night sky.

The stone platform is a whole natural big stone pier.The north and south sides of the stone platform are narrow and winding mountain roads. Shen Fang and the others walked up from the south, facing north.Beside the mountain road on the north side, there is a stone monument.Engraved with the words Shangqingguan.

Nangong Fuyun murmured, "I didn't expect to have reached Fengyun Terrace."

While the mountain wind was stirring, the flowing clouds that were within reach swung from west to east.Going down the stone steps, you can see a very strange and unpredictable scene at the end of the mountain path - under the steep cliff with strange rocks, two figures, one black and one purple, surround a green and simple stone platform, standing still in the wind, They seemed to only have each other and the chess game in their hearts, and they were not disturbed by the three approaching people at all.

The outline of the two gradually became clear.The sitting one was wearing a tall crown, with gray hair and beard, and his side face was sunken, as if there was only a shell left on the skeleton, looking extremely old and frail.The standing one was tall and straight, with deep facial features, coquettish eyebrows and eyes, and a suit of purple clothes, exuding a domineering aura.What was even more peculiar was that he was actually barefoot.

The two are still talking.

"Dao Chang has passed a hundred years, but his inner strength is still strong and free, as if he has just stood up, I admire you."

"I am old but not talented, and I have useless cultivation. I am very happy to wait for the high priest to come to the cold place when I am immortal." The black-robed Taoist stroked the gray beard hanging on his chest, and said gently, "Your Excellency I have watched this game of chess for a full hour, do you have any insight?"

"Guixuzi is an old man! Why are you so old?" Nangong Fuyun interrupted rudely.

However, the old Taoist Guixuzi seemed to have never heard of her, and he didn't even look at her, but the man in purple turned his head and looked over. His strange and sharp eyes looked straight at Zhuang who stood at the end among the three. Leave.He didn't open his mouth, just looked Zhuang Li up and down brazenly, Zhuang Li was subconsciously avoiding it, but gradually a voice in his heart stopped him from doing so.

Why should we be afraid, why should we avoid?You don't know him!But this person has plans for you everywhere, shouldn't you ask him what plans he has!

Zhuang Li glanced back at the man in purple, but was suddenly startled—the pupils of the man in purple shrank into a line in an instant, and in the white of his eyes, a blue light flowed like water patterns.

The next moment, he was stopped by a white robe - Shen Fang stood between the two of them with his body.

The man in purple calmly withdrew his gaze, turned his head, continued to look at the chess game in front of him, and said calmly, "I just want to ask for advice on the illusion of Yanzhi Mountain, and I have no intention of doing harm."

"Just now the Taoist priest asked me if I had a good opinion on this astrolabe. I have been in seclusion for many years, far away from world affairs for too long, and I don't have the talent in this area. Therefore, I thought about it and thought about it, but I just feel it is a pity."

"It's a pity?" Gui Xuzi raised his head slightly, the wrinkles on his forehead appeared, "How do you say that?"

"I heard that 20 years ago, the weather in my Spirit Snake Swamp was not in this astrolabe. Unexpectedly, 20 years later, it still doesn't exist." Something is drilling out.

The three of them were shocked. Seeing that Guixuzi hadn't noticed it, and were hesitating whether to remind them, they also saw the protrusion on the robe slide down the back, and finally, a mass of green and faint things emerged from the garment like a mass of water weeds. The robe fell off and piled on the ground.Immediately afterwards, the cyan moved and formed separately, revealing two bright pupils. Only then did the three realize that it was a tiny green snake.

The green snake circled its waist lazily, raised a pair of snake heads, and slowly turned towards the three of them.

"Good boy." The man in purple said softly without turning his head.

The snake understood the words, although it was looking at the three of them, it crawled back to the feet of the man in purple and gently wrapped around his clean ankle.

"This should be the snake." Nangong Fuyun whispered, "Zhuang Li, look, the snake is looking at you."

"Nonsense." Zhuang Li blurted out his retort, but in his heart he knew that Nangong Fuyun was right.He suppressed his disgust and looked at the snake cautiously, but the snake was still looking at him curiously.The pupils narrowed for a while, and opened for a while, and they were a little cute...Zhuang Li was taken aback by his own thoughts.

"Aren't the high priests satisfied with avoiding the edge and growing wings?" Gui Xuzi sighed, "Think about Xiliang..."

"The matter of Xiliang, if Shen Yucheng hadn't intervened, it wouldn't have ended like that..."

"Am I right?" Before the words finished, the man in purple suddenly took a step, raised his hand in the direction of the three of them, and shook it lightly in the void.

Shen Fang, who hadn't reacted yet, only felt an oppressive force coming from behind, and his whole body was pushed towards the man in purple. The next moment, there were needle pricks on both sides of his lower back, and the oppressive force disappeared immediately. , looked up, but it was Nangong Fuyun who raised two fingers and looked at the man in purple.

"What a powerful embroidery needle." Seeing that Shen Fang was on guard, with his sword in hand, he stared at him with a somewhat surprised and somewhat cold expression, and an indifferent smile bloomed from the corner of the purple-clothed man's mouth, "I don't know this Who is the young man with extraordinary skills from Yongxia Villa?"

Nangong Fuyun ignored him, just smiled, and rushed to Guixuzi, half coquettish and half complaining, "Old Taoist priest Guixuzi, you don't care if your so-called guests are attacking and bullying us on your territory !"

Guixuzi still didn't look at her, Fuxu shook his head and said, "What a fuss, what a fuss! The high priest went up to the peak to fight against you juniors for the sake of Lao Dao's Hualongzhan. It's just for fun, let's see what you have. "

"Master Guixuzi, why don't you hand over the Hualong Zhan right now, I got the Zhan, and I will leave the Shangqing Temple without delay."

Shen Fang was startled, and at the same time felt Zhuang Li's gaze on him.If this person wants to transform the dragon cup, how should he deal with his foggy cocoon? Should he immediately tell Gui Xuzi about his request to transform the dragon cup?But judging from the tone of the man in purple, this Hualongzhan is of great importance to him, and it seems that there are hidden secrets in it that he doesn't know.

"Your Excellency has already told me these words, I just..."

"It's just that you still can't believe it?"

"The Hualongzhan is of great importance. Letting someone outside the astrolabe take it without authorization. If the accumulated luck is destroyed, it may cause natural disasters..."

The man in purple was silent for a few seconds, took a step forward, stared at him seriously and said, "What Xiliang wants is only to restore the country, and I, Spirit Snake Marsh, will not take an inch of land from Daliang."

"Taking the Hualongzhan was just under the guise of National Operations as a threat. The Cuncao man didn't kill innocent people indiscriminately. He just wanted to kill his real enemy."

Between the two, both the speaker and the listener were extremely calm, but the three people on the side were each horrified - what the High Priest of the Spirit Snake Marsh said completely confirmed their previous conjectures.Ye Keseng only mentioned to himself that the "Hualongzhan" was related to fate, but he didn't say that "Hualongzhan" was actually related to the fate of Liang Guo!This sounds too mysterious!

"Could it be, what are you thinking..." Gui Xuzi didn't know what information he captured in this passage, and his old and cloudy eyes flickered a little.

The high priest had a half smile on his face, "You guessed it, but dare not say it? Could it be related to your so-called secret?"

Guixuzi closed his eyes, and he was lighting something with a trembling hand. After a while, he opened his eyes, "It is God's will that you can come here."

"It's God's will, and it's just artificially fueling the flames. Everything related to Xiliang was unlucky 20 years ago. You said that it's the end of life. Twenty years have passed. The so-called time is turning, and now luck is on us. Here it is. Guixuzi, a person like you who is obedient to the destiny, why are you still unwilling to hand over the Hualongzhan?"

The man in purple glanced at his outstretched palm, which was covered with complex lines of purple and black. He turned his head to look at Zhuang Li, feeling a little more sad amidst his madness.

"Besides, I have waited until he..."

What kind of words are these... Waiting for me... Why did he have such a sad expression when he saw himself... Such thoughts flashed through Zhuang Li's mind.

"You are the High Priest of the Southern Border Spirit Snake Marsh, right?"

The man in purple smiled and answered.

"Why do you want to leave a shadow of a snake in the mirror lake? Do you know me? Or, do you know my master?"

The man in purple shook his head and asked, "Are you afraid of snakes?"

Zhuang Li's eyes were full of confusion.

"Don't be afraid of it, it is your destiny."

"My destiny...?" "It is also our destiny."

At this moment, the green snake let out a long hiss, as fast as a ray of blue light, and swam towards Zhuang Li.