treacherous world

The man in white walked through the streets and alleys, moving quickly and seemed to be quite familiar with the road.

Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and others chased all the way, and finally stopped in front of a house.This is quite a big house, there are quite a few people guarding the gate of the house, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang recognized at a glance that they were from the Hundred Flowers League.

A few guards from the Hundred Flowers League blocked Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "You two, it's late at night, please go back."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, Zhan Zhao said, "Where is Xie Baihua?"

The gatekeepers of the Hundred Flowers League looked a little guilty, but they still shook their heads, "I didn't see it, our leader hasn't come back yet."

"We saw him go in." Zi Ying said, "Xie Baihua killed innocent people in the street, we want to take him back to Kaifeng Mansion for questioning!"

All the members of the Hundred Flowers League said, "I didn't see the leader, if you don't believe me, go in and search!"

When Zhan Zhao and the others entered the villa, they realized that it was quite big... At first, they thought that Baihuameng didn't have another courtyard in Kaifeng, but they didn't expect to rent such a big house, and many helpers came.

After all, it is the head of the four martial arts sects, and the Hundred Flowers League has too many disciples, and they all say that Xie Baihua has never been here.

Zhan Zhao and the others searched for nearly an hour, but still found no one.This is someone else's land, of course Xie Baihua is more familiar with them than they are, so maybe he has hidden somewhere.

Zhan Zhao and the others had no choice but to leave a few shadow guards behind to keep watch, and they all returned to Kaifeng mansion first.

The watchman Xiaowang's body was also carried back to Kaifeng Mansion, and the family members came to collect the body, and they couldn't help crying for a while.Recently, many people have come and gone in Kaifeng Mansion to identify corpses, and it feels very depressing.

Zhan Zhao felt very aggrieved, that Xie Baihua was like a cockroach, if he couldn't kill him, he would still harm others!Hide and can't find anyone.

Bai Yutang was even more aggrieved than Zhan Zhao, if he knew that killing him with one palm would be the end of it all!It would be a disaster to stay here.

The two returned to the room, only to see that the room was full of cotton wadding... They glanced at each other and ran to the bedside to have a look, and saw that the quilt had been torn in two, and Yin Lanci and Lu Xueer were holding half of a sleeping incense stick. In the middle, the big tiger and the small tiger were next to each other, squeezed between the two mothers, sleeping on their backs.

The two looked at the sky and sighed, and pulled two rattan couches into the yard, lay down and looked at the stars.

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The next morning, when Zhan Zhao woke up, he heard someone chatting next to him, and he was secretly startled—there's no reason why he didn't notice someone chatting!Looking up and opening his eyes, he saw Yin Hou sitting in the courtyard at some point, and it was Tianzun who was chatting with him.

Bai Yutang also woke up, looking at the sky, it was just getting dark, and sat up with Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang asked Tianzun, "Where did you two go?"

"Go get something." Yin Hou said, throwing a small narrow box to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao reached out to take it, and opened it with some puzzlement.

Bai Yutang was about to get closer, when he heard a sound from the ground, he was slightly taken aback... He moved to the other side and looked at the ground, only to hear a "crash", a layer of soil was raised under the ground, and a hole opened beside his rattan couch. In the burrow, Chedishu Han Zhang poked his head out and scraped the mud on all sides, "Old Five!"

Bai Yutang was surprised, "Second Brother, why are you here..."

Han Zhang climbed up from the hole and pulled Xu Qing out.

"Third brother?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Did something happen to the empty island?"

"No, we were called by Tianzun to help." Han Zhang said, and took out a piece of sheepskin wrapped in charcoal from his arms, which was obviously just painted, and handed it to Tianzun, "Tianzun, you want picture."

Tianzun took it and thanked him, and gave the blueprint to Bai Yutang.

"What picture?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

"There are several forks in the secret passage leading to Tianya Valley from Kaifeng Mansion. You can go to the dock or go to the suburbs." Han Zhang said, "I have been here for several days, and I dug these passages with the third child according to the instructions of Tianzun. .”

Tianzun nodded with a smile, "It's been hard work."

Han Zhang and Xu Qing quickly shook their heads, "It should."

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao felt that Tianzun was very thoughtful, and that this tunnel was the most convenient for the people of Tianmo Palace to use.

At this moment, Zhan Zhao also opened the box in his hand, and saw a picture rolled inside, like the texture of silk, as thin as a cicada's wing, and after unfolding, there was a scroll of painting, which was surprisingly large.

The silk base is thin and transparent, and it is impossible to see what is painted on it.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and pressed Bai Yutang beside him to lie down.

Bai Yutang didn't understand yet, but saw Zhan Zhao spread the painting on his body... Sure enough, once the white background set off, he could see what was painted on the painting.

"Are people fighting?" Zhan Zhao leaned his elbows on Bai Yutang's lap, staring at the picture carefully, "Grandpa, this person looks a bit like you!" Bai Yutang's ribs are on the fork.

Bai Yutang sighed, and simply leaned his hands behind his head, even though the cat didn't know if it was on purpose or not, poking around on his body.

While everyone was talking, the fourth son from the backyard ran over. He didn't sleep well all night, and he was thinking about whether Yin Lanci's idea succeeded in the end?Has Meow Meow and Bai Bai made any progress?He got up early in the morning and ran out before Gongsun could wash his face.

He ran ahead, and Gongsun chased after him with a hot handkerchief. Turning around the yard, he saw a lot of people here.

"Second uncle and third uncle!" The fourth youngest rushed over to hug Han Zhang and Xu Qing when they saw Han Zhang and Xu Qing.

Xu Qing jumped out of the pit with a "chiliu", like a steel tower, lifted the little four into the air, let him ride on his neck.

Gongsun hopped around for a long time but couldn't reach the face of the fourth son, the handkerchief was cold, and he was so angry that he ground his teeth.

"Is this the picture of weeping blood at the Mausoleum?" Bai Yutang held the end of the silk to look carefully, then raised his head and asked Tianzun.

Tianzun reached out and made a four, "One of the four."

"Is it true?" Zhan Zhao was surprised, not to mention, that Lin Chanzi was really skilled at painting, such a beautiful painting, and the characters and scenery were so lifelike.

"This one is definitely real." Yin Hou replied, "It was left by Lin Chanzi back then."

"If the one intercepted by the Lotus Tower is true, the one from Shaolin Temple is also true, plus this one..." Gongsun calculated, "Is there a last one?"

"Is that card in the hands of a Jianghu sect?" Bai Yutang asked Tianzun, "Not in the Tianshan sect?"

Tianzun smiled, "There is another one, and I have already found it."

"Where is it?" Everyone asked in unison.

Tianzun smiled slightly, "In Kaifeng mansion."

Bai Yutang frowned, "You said it was with Mr. Bao?"

Yin Hou laughed, "How is that possible."

While talking, everyone in Kaifeng Mansion also got up, Xiaoyu was busy preparing breakfast, Tang Shitou and Yue Yang also ran in.Seeing the picture on Bai Yutang's body, Yue Yang was stunned.

Tang Shitou was dazzled for a moment, and asked stupidly, "Master, are you wearing new clothes today?"

Bai Yutang poked Zhan Zhao, "Cat, roll up my new clothes."

Zhan Zhao obediently took the scroll, and asked Yin Hou beside him, "Who's there?"

Tianzun and Yin Hou looked at Yue Yang at the door together, "Where's the heirloom your Master Zeng left you?"

Everyone was stunned.

Yue Yang's complexion changed slightly, and finally he had to sigh, walked to the table, took out an identical wooden brocade box from his close-fitting pocket, put it on the table, and took out a roll of exactly the same The picture scroll is also as thin as a silkworm's wing, and the picture on it is connected to the one given by Yin Hou.

"How come..." Zhan Zhao was startled.

Yin Hou patted Yue Yang's shoulder, "As soon as I saw him, I knew his surname was Lin and not Yue, and he looked too much like Lin Chanzi."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought for a while, recalling Yue Yang's never-forgotten ability and special painting skills, and asked together, "Are you a descendant of Lin Chanzi?"

Yue Yang shrugged, "Well, my real name is Lin Yueyang."

Tang Shitou was a little dissatisfied, "How can you lie! Thanks to me, I treat you as a good brother, and even share the room with you."

Yue Yang was embarrassed, and muttered, "I didn't do it on purpose, and you didn't ask me carefully."

Everyone thought that Yue Yang once said that he joined the Tianshan School and wanted to learn martial arts to become stronger. He had only one purpose, which was to find out a secret, which made him lose everything—whether he would be with Lingshan? Is it about the weeping blood map?

When eating breakfast, everyone came, all staring at Yue Yang in unison, and a group of maids at the door stared at Tianzun and Yinhou inside.

Zhao Pu was the last to enter the door. Seeing the girls chattering about Tianzun and Yinhou, he frowned, "The two old men are over 100 years old. Don't you guys like Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang? When did your taste change?"

"My lord, you don't understand, Mr. Zhan and Mr. Bai are beautiful young men." The eyes of the girls were shining brightly, "Yin Hou and Tianzun are beautiful uncles!"

The corner of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, and he thought that he was old enough for both of your grandfathers, and you are still an uncle? !

Pang Yu and Bao Yan also came, and Pang Yu held a list in his hand, "The time for the Tianya Valley Martial Arts Conference has been set, and it will be the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. This is the list of all the Jianghu sects that will participate at that time."

Zhan Zhao took it over to look at it, and saw that the list was not a single sheet, but a book with a thickness of hundreds of pages, which recorded in detail the main characteristics and martial arts styles of each sect, and the personal information of almost every martial artist, even the ancestral home. Hometown, personality and temper are all recorded in the book.

Yin Hou took it over and flipped through it, "This is enough to make a book about Jianghu, who made it?"

Pang Yu patted Bao Yan, who had two dark circles under his eyes, "The steamed buns have been made for several days, and the information was dictated by Yue Yang."

Everyone laughed—as expected of Lin Chanzi's descendants.

Bao Zheng also expressed his appreciation, and then asked Yue Yang why he kept his name incognito and what secrets he wanted to investigate.

Yue Yang thought for a while, raised his sleeves, and let everyone look at his left arm.

On Yue Yang's left arm, there is a circular imprint, I don't know if it is a birthmark, it looks like it grows in the flesh, dark red, a gossip-like shape.

Gongsun stared at it carefully, and suddenly smiled, "So there really is... I thought it was a legend."

Zhao Pu wondered, "What legend?"

Pang Yu smiled and asked, "What is this? Shou Gongsha?"

Bao Yan whipped him a drumstick, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"I've seen it before, this kind of gossip carried on the body from birth is very unlucky, it's called heaven curse." Gongsun studied the gossip on Yue Yang's arm with great interest.

Yue Yang looked at Gongsun in surprise, "Mr. Gongsun, where did you see it?"

Gongsun thought for a while, "Let's have some fragments. I live in Jinghu Village, Shaoxing Prefecture. A boat sank in Jinghu Lake. Many people salvaged utensils that year, and some stone tablets were piled up by the roadside."

"What do those steles look like?" Yue Yang seemed a little excited.

Gongsun smiled, "A piece of gray stone stele, one zhang square, engraved with characters from the Western Regions." As he spoke, he asked the little four who was still playing with the two mice, "Little four, do you still remember the place next to Jinghu Lake?" the stairs?"

"Yeah!" The fourth son ran over, and was finally caught by Gongsun and stuttered, "There are so many words on the stone tablet that I can't understand it."

Yue Yang was thoughtful, and Zhan Zhao asked Gongsun, "Sir, what is the heavenly curse? Why is it unlucky?"

Gongsun shook his head, "On the fragmented scroll, it only said that it was an omen of great evil, and nothing else was written. I have consulted some ancient books, but there is no relevant explanation." As he spoke, he looked at Yue Yang.

"My Lin family, ever since my great-grandfather caught a glimpse of the heavenly secrets and died, I have suffered from this heavenly curse for generations!" Yue Yang couldn't eat anymore, so he put down his sleeves, "People with heavenly curses can't live longer than 30 years. At the age of 30, together with his blood relatives and relatives, there will be accidents. My relatives, grandparents, parents, brother, sister, and even uncle and sister-in-law all died before the age of [-]. I am the youngest descendant of the Lin family and the only one left , even the old servant who took care of me from childhood died a few years ago.”

Tang Shitou's eyes widened, "Then you only have ten years to live?"

Yue Yang nodded, pointing at the curse birthmark, "It's dark red now, when it turns black, I'll die of vomiting blood and die. You also try to stay as far away from me as possible, maybe you'll be troubled by me."

Everyone frowned, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other - no wonder Yue Yang was so anxious!

Tianzun put the two pictures of Weeping Blood at Mausoleum together, "Lin Chanzi also said back then that the secret lies in this picture of Weeping Blood at Mausoleum."

"Now that I think about it, he risked the catastrophe of the heavenly curse and the danger of cutting off his descendants to draw the picture of weeping blood on the Lingshan Mountain. There must be a reason for him." Yin Hou stuffed a steamed bun into Jin Zhao's mouth, frowning, "How old are you, don't always look sad."

Zhan Zhao guessed that he was frowning again, subconsciously touched his forehead, and ate the buns.

After breakfast, Bai Yutang saw that Han Zhang was having fun with rock-paper-scissors, and suddenly remembered something, so he said to him, "Second brother, can you help dig another road?"

"Where to dig?" Han Zhang asked.

Bai Yutang told him that they dug to the forest outside Kaifeng, which is the forest where the blood demon appeared.

As soon as Han Zhang heard that there was no problem, he took Xu Qing to dig a hole.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao exchanged an exchange of color and understood that there must be something wrong in the forest, so it's better to sit on the sidelines and wait for rabbits.

It wasn't until the sun was high that Lu Xueer and Yin Lanci got up. They fought all night last night and couldn't get enough sleep. Yin Lanci got angry, with blisters on the corner of his mouth, and acted like a baby at Yin Hou, saying that he wanted to eat iced pears After getting angry, Yin Hou really went to the kitchen to cook for her.

Everyone was stunned.

Letting go of Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and the others preparing for the Martial Arts Conference and investigating the blood demon, let's talk about Xie Baihua who ate the guts of the blood demon.

Everyone in the other courtyard of Baihua Villa is in danger now, and all the congregants of the Hundred Flowers League feel that Xie Baihua may be crazy.

Xie Baihua became afraid of light after returning home, and knew that there must be a large number of spies from the Kaifeng Mansion nearby, so she quietly hid in the underground secret room.

Last night he asked two of his followers to go to bed, and when he got up this morning, Xie Baihua himself was shocked. There were only two mummies left among those two followers, and the room was full of blood.

Although she felt her internal strength soar, Xie Baihua was still worried that she seemed unable to control her body.In addition, the internal strength is somewhat beyond the body's load, and the blood is still a little swollen... If it continues like this, won't it become a real demon?Don't get lost and go crazy one day, you don't even know it!

Xie Baihua always felt something was wrong, so she waited until it was dark, slipped out of the other courtyard through the secret passage, and went to the dense forest.

It was pitch black in the forest. He groped around the cave and found no trace of the Gorefiend, so he lowered his voice and shouted, "Master? Master!"

After shouting for a long time, no one answered.

Xie Baihua looked back dejectedly, but saw a person standing in front of him. He was so startled that he took a step back, only to realize that it was the masked man who gave him the blood demon guts.

"A master..."

The masked man waved his hand without waiting for him to speak, "Do you know why so many people who ate the blood demon gall went crazy and finally died?"

Xie Baihua shook his head, he just came to ask this.

"Because of eating the blood demon gall, you must practice the blood demon kung fu, otherwise you will die of severed tendons!" the masked man told Xie Baihua while walking with his hands behind his back.

"Then teach me the Blood Demon Art!" Xie Baihua said eagerly.

"I can't." The man said slowly, "There are only blood demons in the world who know how to do blood demon skills."

"Wu is not evil?" Xie Baihua frowned, "He is already dead..."

"But the picture of weeping blood at Lingshan Mountain is still there." The man said, smiling, "If you get the picture of weeping blood at Lingshan Mountain, you can learn the Blood Demon Art, and you can even unify the martial arts world!"

Xie Baihua's eyes lit up, and after thinking about it, she felt a little embarrassed, "The Weeping Blood Picture of Keling Mountain was stolen...who stole it?"

"Hehe, it's up to you to find it yourself." The masked man said as he wanted to leave, but suddenly stopped and looked back at Xie Baihua, "The martial arts conference will be held in a few days, kill Yin Hou for me."

Xie Baihua was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "Are you making fun of me? I can't even beat Bai Yutang, why kill Yin Hou?"

Behind the dark mask of the masked man, red eyes were exposed, "It is not necessary to use any peerless martial arts to kill Yin Hou, you just need to know his weaknesses."

"What weakness?" Xie Baihua's eyes were filled with surprise. If he could kill Yin Hou, then the throne of the martial arts leader would really be a dream!

"Do you know why people from the Heavenly Demon Palace get preferential treatment from the Kaifeng Mansion?" the man asked Xie Baihua back.

Xie Baihua frowned and thought for a while, "I also find it strange? Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao have repeatedly opposed me for the Heavenly Demon Palace... Could it be that they have some special relationship?"

"Because Yin Hou's daughter is Yin Lanci, and Yin Lanci's son is Zhan Zhao." Xie Baihua was completely dumbfounded by the masked man's words.

After a long time, he laughed loudly, "So that's how it is! That's how it is!"

"Then what are you going to do?" The masked man continued to ask, "This secret is the best bargaining chip, so make good use of it."

"Don't worry." Xie Baihua was full of confidence, "Use this secret to kill Yin Hou first, and I don't need to kill him. In order to keep this secret, he must have suffered any kind of framing and will not justify it. When the time comes, the world will naturally prevail." The martial arts crowd set out to kill him. As for Zhan Zhao, he can reveal this secret to the public on a special occasion, so that his reputation will be ruined and he will never be able to find a place in the world."

The masked man nodded in satisfaction, "I'm waiting for your good news." After finishing speaking, he was about to leave. "Do you have a grudge against Zhan Zhao and Yin Hou?" Xie Baihua suddenly asked, "Why do you help me?"

The man glanced back at him, "What I want is what you want—Yin Hou dies, Zhan Zhao's reputation is ruined, and he will never be able to enter the world." After speaking, he disappeared in a flash.

Although Xie Baihua didn't learn the Blood Demon Art, she still felt that she had gained a lot today. She never expected that Zhan Zhao was Yin Hou's grandfather. This is news worth tens of thousands of dollars, so she must make good use of it.

After both of them left, the forest became quiet again, only the mountain wind whistling.

In the midst of this tranquility, there was a sudden "poof".A layer of soil was arched under the ground, and a deep pit appeared that could accommodate two people in and out.

Han Zhang poked his head out and looked around, Xu Qing squeezed up, "Second brother, did you hear that just now?"

"That insidious villain!" Han Zhang nodded, his face was not good-looking, "Do you think Yutang is the lucky star who develops kittens? If he didn't let us dig a hole here, I really wouldn't have heard of Xie Baihua. picky idea.”

"Who is that masked person?" Xu Qing asked, "How did he know the secret of Zhan Kitten?"

Han Zhang also shook his head, "But it can be seen that his kung fu is very high!"

"Then what should we do?" Xu Qing asked Han Zhang when he saw the darkness around him, "Someone bullied Kitten Zhan, how about we go and kill that Xie Baihua?"

"Stupid, what's the use of killing him, since the masked man already knows the secret, and Xie Baihua is dead, he can still tell Xie Qianhua and Xie Wanhua!"

Xu Qing opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Xie Baihua still has two brothers?"

Han Zhang was speechless, this idiot, and stretched out his hand to grab him, "I mean, you have Gongsun and Mr. Bao in your head, are they good at it? This time, of course I have to think about it! It's better to act first, and the deep one surnamed Xie It's a dirty trick!" After finishing speaking, Han Zhang grabbed him, blocked the entrance of the cave, and carried Xu Qing back to Kaifeng mansion together.