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It was still nearly a day away from the Demon Refining Cave marked by Xie Qinghe, and to Wuxing City was another road slightly to the northwest.

The dragon girl was sleeping soundly in the snow, and Fu Chuan didn't want to wake her up and asked her to let the cabin out to rest.Without Xie Qinghe by his side, Fu Chuan could easily live another casual life, not to mention having to soak his feet in hot water and make a high bed every day, he might not even be able to eat and sleep normally every day.

Fu Chuan spread his cloak on the snow, turned over and lay down on it, and put the bag containing Ah Shou beside him.

The four fields were silent.

The dragon girl is snoring.

Ah Shou's body undulated slightly, and his breathing was so light that it seemed to disappear.

Fu Chuan couldn't help but think of the teacher thousands of miles away.So many days have passed, what is the big brother busy with?When we parted, we spoke vaguely, and didn't explain why I had to leave for so long, why I had to split up...

Splitting things up is just to grab time, right?

This made Fu Chuan feel anxious.I can't wait to quarrel the dragon girl and go to the devil refining cave immediately.

Thinking of this, Fu Chuan suddenly sat up.

The dragon girl is tired, and the dragon girl wants to sleep.I'm not tired, I don't have to sleep.

Fu Chuan put away the cloak that had just been laid down, adjusted the position of several burdens on his body, and carried the sleeping Dragon Girl on his back.

Dragon Girl woke up suddenly: "Ah!"

With the perception of Shushu connecting each other, Fu Chuan gave a ray of comfort before speaking, and the alarmed Dragon Girl immediately quieted down.Fu Chuan carried her back and said, "Go to sleep. I'll carry you on my back. I'm in a hurry."

Long Nu was seriously injured by Xie Qinghe, she hadn't recuperated for two days, and she had been on the road for two days and one night to her limit.

Fu Chuan could feel the lovely struggle in her heart, wanting to sleep well but not daring to make her master tired.Can't help laughing: "It's okay, you sleep. I know you are very tired. With such a serious injury, you should have been bedridden for three to five months. It is really embarrassing for you to go out with me."

What else did Dragon Girl want to say, Fu Chuan tried to convey her soothing emotions to her: "Go to sleep. I will call you when I get there."

Physical exhaustion finally defeated Longnu's etiquette. She thought for a while and said, "Then I will become as big as a palm." Fu Chuan's shoulders jumped down, and he jumped into the pocket containing Ah Shou.

Fu Chuan was in a bad mood: "...you can change so much, why don't you tell me sooner?"

The dragon girl has already got into Ah Shou's arms, using A Shou as an animal skin blanket, and began to sleep soundly.

Fu Chuan sighed helplessly, and covered up the draped cloth, and the Muhe Spear made into a ring turned into a cloud shadow, leading him to fly low in the direction of the Demon Refining Cave.

Before dawn, Fu Chuan had already found the Demon Refining Cave marked by Xie Qinghe.

According to Xie Qinghe, 23 years ago, this place should be the place where the Shen family lived together.Along the way, many houses have been in disrepair and collapsed, and there is no trace of farming in the fields. The prosperous Shen family moved to nowhere, and the ancestral halls are in ruins.

In the middle should be a house for supporting the lonely elders of the family. The buildings have traces of burning, and the surrounding fields are extremely clean.

——The so-called cleanness refers to the absence of any wandering ghosts.

Fu Chuan immediately realized that this place had already been cleaned up.It is likely to be the handwriting of the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

Back then, Xie Qinghe went directly from Pangu Mountain Villa to live in seclusion in the dense forest. There is a high probability that this place was ordered by Shangguan Shiyi or Shu Hanyun to deal with the aftermath.It's just that it wasn't the sky fire that burned the Demon Refining Nest, but the common fire.Therefore, Xie Qinghe thought that the involvement was unclear, and asked Fu Chuan to clean it up again.

"Wake up." Fu Chuan stretched out a finger to poke the head of the dragon girl snoring curled up in Ah Shou's arms, "Work."

The dragon girl got up in a daze, went down to the ground along the way, and quickly turned into a human form.

"Do you have Tianhuo?" Fu Chuan asked.

Dragon Girl touched the unhealed wound on her jaw, nodded: "Yes."

"Give me some."

"I can't give it." Dragon Girl pointed at her wound, "I can't control it. Who should I burn? I'll spray it."

Fu Chuan had no choice but to draw a range for her: "This piece will be burned. It used to be a demon refining lair...do you know what a demon refining lair is? It is the place where the demon masters used to create demon energy after the Demon Sealing Valley appeared. "

The dragon girl thought for a while and said, "Isn't it the paradise of your human race?"

Fu Chuan just wanted to refute, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems to make sense: "Is the cave heaven and earth born?"

The dragon girl shook her head: "The world regards all things as dogs, how can one favor the other, so it just so happens that this place is full of aura, and that place is rich in blessings? Tianhai is also where I collected the aura of the four seas after I came out of the shell. Master, why do you Are you going to burn this place down?"

"There will be demon energy here." Fu Chuan realized that what Long Nu said was not good, "Do you know what a demon is?"

"Isn't it good to be angry?" Dragon Girl was also confused.

"Why is magic energy good?"

"You human monks don't enter the grind, how can you break through?" Dragon Girl asked back.

"Wait, wait a minute. I want to stroke." Fu Chuan's mind was a little confused, so he calmed down for a while, "You mean, if a monk wants to break through the realm, become a saint from the ordinary, and reach the sky step by step, he must Enchanted first?"

Longnu felt that Fu Chuan was a little silly: "That's right. How can I break through if I don't enter the grinding process? I have to grind down the old one first to change my skin?"

"Were you born in Tianhai? You haven't seen your parents since you were born? You haven't seen the Central Plains in ancient times, have you?" Fu Chuan asked.Seeing Long Nu nodding, he asked again: "You haven't seen a monk before, how do you know that a monk will be enchanted when he breaks through?"

"I..." Longnu said weakly, "I just know it. I will know it when I grow up."

Fu Chuan already had doubts in his heart.

What Long Nu said is essentially consistent with the benefits he gained from following Xie Qinghe to practice in the enchanted world.

After getting out of the enchanted world, you can get the clear soul power that can free you from the evil thoughts, which can be used to strengthen and widen the profound pool, which is of great benefit to practice.If you practice in an open-minded way when you are an official, you will get more benefits from practicing magic.

But Long Nu said that the Demon Refining Cave is a blessed place, which made Fu Chuan extremely puzzled.Can these two be related?

Fu Chuan lowered his head and saw the Muhe Spear between his fingers.

The yin-yang fish pendant given by Xie Qinghe was hung on the gun. It was basically invisible after shrinking, but it was there.

Cave Heaven and Paradise, Demon Refining Cave.

One good and one evil.

For example, the two poles of yin and yang.Since there is a paradise and a blessed place in this world, there should naturally be a devil refining cave.

Fu Chuan temporarily put the matter aside, and said to Longnu, "Let's burn it first."

No matter what information Longnu provided, carrying out the order of the elder brother should always be the first priority.The rest can be said.

"Okay. Anyway, there seems to be nothing here." The dragon girl puffed up her cheeks and spewed out a moon-white flame.

Fu Chuan had never seen such a flame in the world, and he felt an extremely strong scorching air whistling past, all the buildings in front of him were wiped out, and the snow on the ground disappeared without even rising the water vapor.This fire can't stay at all, because everything can't be used as "fuel" to keep it burning, and there is nothingness where the flame passes.

Seeing that the terrible blue fire was about to cross the circle set by Fu Chuan and continue to move forward, Longnu hurried out to swallow the fire.

"It's a little too much." After swallowing the sky fire, Long Nu touched her chin and explained to Fu Chuan.

With her ability, she can perfectly control the fire, let the sky fire burn everything within the range, and just extinguish it.

——If she hadn't been injured by Xie Qinghe.

Fu Chuan took out the map, drew a circle on the marked site of the Shen Clan Ancestral Hall, and said, "Go to the south of the city first. You can sleep in your bag."

It was the first time, and the dragon girl was not polite, and turned into a three-inch dragon again, slipping into her pocket and into Ah Shou's arms.Fu Chuan was still looking around, and the sleeping dragon girl had already started snoring.

"Such a little thing, and the snoring is so loud." Fu Chuan tightened the cover, not wanting to attract attention.

By this time the sky was completely bright.

Leaving the old place of the Shen Family Ancestral Hall, approaching Wuxing City, you can gradually see the farmers in the village.

In winter, the frozen soil is covered with snow, and few people tend to the crops, not to mention that it is still in the first month, which is the time when every family visits relatives to hide from laziness.

Along the way, Fu Chuan met many farmers who went out with tools. Judging from the things they carried in their hands and pushed on the carts, they should be craftsmen who took up small jobs in winter to earn extra money.

Fu Chuan lamented that the hard work of the common people was the result of EMI's education.

——He is very familiar with Wuxing City.In his life as Fu Caoniang, the imperial capital was in Wuxing City, and he lived here for half his life.

In that life, Xie Qinghe was basically doing support, going to the imperial city to give lectures to the little emperor, and didn't care about things.On the other hand, Fu Cao Niang worked hard as a prime minister for decades, taking charge of major affairs in the world.

At the beginning, Fu Chuan thought that traitorous officials and corrupt officials were more difficult to deal with. After he came to power, he found that the most difficult thing to solve was actually the education of the people.

Two words, numb.

All generations are poor, all generations are humble.

Born in a daze, grew up in a daze, died in a daze.Parents and relatives are ignorant, ignorant of reason, without any ideas and hopes for progress. They eat when they have a mouthful of food, and they are hungry if they don’t have that mouthful of food. Not to mention ideas, not even superfluous desires—I haven’t seen it, I don’t know it, I don’t understand it.

Put green shoots and eat them.Made good seeds and ate them.Teach the craft personally, no.Command diverted, dare not.

Disobedient, beheaded!

The other side would just kneel down and kowtow silently, and even the words "My lord, spare my life" had to be shouted before they foolishly yelled.

Fu Chuan was never afraid of fighting powerful officials and corrupt officials in the court, but he felt endless frustration when facing the people at the bottom.

Of course he knows that it is not to blame for the numbness of the people-for thousands of years, the bottom has no hope, so what is the use of making progress?Do you work hard from being a pariah from a young age to become a big pariah that is more exciting and fun for gentlemen?

Therefore, today Fu Chuan is very happy to see the farmers who get up early in winter to make money.

No one should live in a daze and die in a daze.People are like seedlings in the field, with soil, water, and a ray of spring breeze, they will grow tenaciously and bear fruit.If the seedlings cannot grow, it must be because the soil is not good, the water is not enough, and the frost and snow are too harsh.

However, Fu Chuan was not happy for too long.

After walking on the road for a while, he found that the situation was a bit strange: the farmers on the road didn't seem very happy.

In such cold weather, the first month has not yet come out, and when it is time to go to relatives to hide from laziness, and have to work hard to earn money, it is reasonable to be unhappy.However, it doesn't matter if one person is unhappy, or if two people are unhappy, how can it be possible that everyone you meet along the way is unhappy?

Fu Chuan felt strange, and he had no time to care about him at this time.Eldest brother has been dispatched, and the rest of the things have to take a step back.He was thinking about burning down the remaining two demon refining caves, and then see what's going on here.

After walking to the south of the city for another half an hour, Fu Chuan discovered that there was a large piece of limestone here, and there were lime pools everywhere.

The Demon Refining Cave marked by Xie Qinghe was near an abandoned lime pond, and signs were erected around it to warn against entering.

However, less than three feet away from the Demon Refining Nest, a new lime pond was dug up, and the workers were burning the lime.What made Fu Chuan feel weird was that all the lime-burning workers here also had sullen faces, as if they had nothing to love.

"Old man is polite." Fu Chuan had no choice but to greet him, "Dare to ask old man..."

Unexpectedly, the old worker who was stopped by him stirred the pool slowly, as if he didn't hear him, and walked away quietly.

Fu Chuan glanced sideways. The other workers who mined limestone and burned lime were also the same as this old worker. They worked slowly and quietly, with a hint of worry on their faces—quiet!In the huge limestone workshop, there are seven or eight workers seen by the photovoltaic transmission, but no one speaks!

Fu Chuan stopped the old worker where he was, and touched his forehead with his fingertips.

The old man's face changed abruptly, his hands covered his temples with lime-stained, blistered and frostbitten hands, and he let out a painful hoo hoo sound.

Fu Chuan still had to dig through his luggage to find a jade talisman written by Xie Qinghe, and shook it directly in front of the old man's forehead. The effect of the French seal was used.The old man's three souls stabilized and finally calmed down.

Before Fu Chuan could speak, the old man looked furious, turned around and ran out.

"Please stay." Fu Chuan stopped in front of him, "Old man..."

The old man jumped into a rage, and threw away Fu Chuan's arm blocking him: "No time!"

Fu Chuan was not good, so he stopped him because of his kung fu, so he had to give up a step, and the old man ran out angrily, his feet slipped, and he fell to the ground.Without waiting for Fu Chuan to help him, he got up by himself, limped and continued to run out quickly.

Fu Chuan had no choice but to continue to look for another worker who was working slowly with the Jade Talisman of Peace.

This worker was a little younger, in his early thirties, and his hands were covered with frostbite and burnt lime blisters. Fu Chuan thought to himself, if it was a worker who relied on this kind of livelihood, he probably wouldn't be so unskilled. ?One burns the handle, and the other also burns the handle?

He shook the jade talisman on the worker's forehead, and the worker also covered his temples and calmed down for a while, slowly recovering.

"This big brother is polite." Fu Chuan greeted.

The man ran away without turning around, fixed his eyes on Fu Chuan's attire, and asked with some fear and hesitation: "Your Majesty... Xia Shaomeng... Young Xia?"

Fu Chuan and Xia Shaomeng have a good relationship.The previous leader of the Xia Shaomeng was Bai Ruyi, and the successor leader was Su Wenzai, the third son of the Su family in Miancheng, who was also the husband of Hua Qing, a female disciple of Zizhu Villa.People like Yan Shaoying, Yan Baoer and others all joined in the fun and joined the Xia Shaomeng.

——This is a very loose alliance, Jianghu Baidao's young disciples of the right age will join, and they will walk together in the rivers and lakes to get acquainted.

Fu Chuan has a special status, so of course it is impossible to join the Xia Shaomeng.However, he has a good relationship with many people in Xia Shaomeng.

It's just that the person in front of me mentioned that the Xia Shaomeng had hidden fears, and Fu Chuan refused to make extravagant problems. He shook his head and denied: "No. Brother, I think you seem to be under a magic spell. Did you encounter any strange things before? Did you bring something from outsiders?"

"Brother is an outsider, right?" The man sighed, "It's a long story."

Fu Chuan originally thought that he was going to talk about things slowly, but he didn't know that he didn't intend to say: "Thank you for your help, brother. There are still trivial things that need to be taken care of at home, so I will leave first." He actually planned to turn around and run away .

"Are you the one who is afraid of using spells to harm you?" Fu Chuan understood, "A member of the Xia Shaomeng?"

The man shook his head again and again: "No, no!"

"I can protect you. Just answer with confidence." Fu Chuan released the Muhe Spear from his fingers, and quickly turned it into a stick in his hand. Except that the tassel of the gun turned into a string of concentric knots, which was slightly funny, the tip of the gun Han Feng was rather terrifying, "Tell me, who harmed you? Did you force you to burn lime here? I don't think my elder brother knows much about the craft of burning lime."

"Oh, this matter... It's true, the family is unlucky." The man smiled wryly, but still shook his head, "It's hard to say."

"Have something to do with the family?" Fu Chuan thought.

There are monster clans in Xingcheng, and the harm is the "outsiders" outside the family. On the contrary, it is the various disturbances in Xingcheng, which cause harm within the Xiaoqiang, and it is the people's hearts that are bad.The troubles in the two cities, the troubles in Xingcheng are demons, and the troubles in Xingcheng are actually demons.

Thinking of the strange incidents of killing and mutilating corpses in Wuxing City, Fu Chuan couldn't help but wonder, could there be another evil thing?

——Is it a fallen demon from the ghost path?Or a fallen demon?

The man obviously had a lot of worries, and he was very unwilling to tell Fu Chuan about the inside story.Since Fu Chuan saved him, he was too embarrassed to turn around and run away.

Fu Chuan woke up Longnu from her pocket, put it in the palm of her hand, and said, "Look."

The dragon girl is different from Ah Shou, who changes species at will when she is weak. She becomes the size of a palm and is also in the shape of a dragon.The dragon has four legs, beards and horns, and even the claws are different from ordinary animals. The five claws are sharp, cold and elegant.Even though she is only three inches long, she is still majestic.

"Dragon, dragon, dragon..." The man was startled, he knelt down and worshiped after a moment of silence: "My little one pays homage to Master Dragon King!"

"You burned the lime pond that was sealed over there." Fu passed on to the Dragon Girl to send work.

Seeing him flaunting his identity, the dragon girl didn't change into a human form, and directly maintained a three-inch dragon body and swam into the air, aiming at the abandoned lime pond, and spouted a burst of sky fire.Fu Chuan happened to help the kneeling kowtowing man up, so that he could look up and see the dragon girl breathing fire.

Although the dragon shadow is small, it is like a fire from the sky.

The moon-white sky fire whizzed past, and the entire abandoned lime pond was instantly burned to white ground, leaving nothing behind.

The most up-to-date thing is that this time the dragon girl controlled the fire very accurately, and the sky fire burned the lime pond and disappeared instantly.There is no need for the dragon girl to fly out to swallow the remaining sky fire - that would be a bit useless.

At this time, the dragon girl only needs to swim back to Fu Chuan's palm arrogantly, proudly lift her two dragon beards, and look down on mortals.

"Go back." Fu Chuan put the tool dragon back into his pocket and covered it with a cloth.

"Can you trust my ability now?" Fu Chuan asked.The reputation of the Hanjiang Sword Sect is not as good as Longnu among the people. If he wants to say that he is a disciple of the Hanjiang Sword Sect, he probably has never heard of this person.

Now this person has no worries at all.The swindlers who walk around the streets can play a trick, but they can create a phantom dragon.However, which liar can spray out the haunted lime pond in the south of the city with a single fire?It was literally burnt to white ground, and I couldn't accept it.

"Let the master be the master!" The man knelt on the ground, "Avenge my little old parents!"

"Brother, please get up. You just tell me the ins and outs of the matter, the truth is on you, and I will naturally make the decision for you." Fu Chuan has been doing things for others and reasoning as soon as he came down from the mountain, and he has seen a lot of weird things.It looks like a victim, but it doesn't necessarily make sense.

"This matter will fall on my second brother who is not up to date..."

According to this person, his name is Guo Ying, he is the eldest in the family, and he has a younger brother named Guo Ye, the second of the line.There are three other sisters, all married.The parents are in the church, and the two brothers have not separated. They have been serving their parents and living on the West Street of Wuxing City.

When Guo's father was young, he worked as a clerk in a north-south commercial firm. Because of his cleverness and diligence, he won the favor of the shopkeeper, learned some accounting skills, and could read a few words.Later, the shopkeeper was excluded in the business and moved to the south. Father Guo had no choice but to change his job and work as an accountant for a drugstore he knew well.

The Guo family did not live very well. Guo Ying went to be an apprentice since he was very young. He was taught by Guo's father to read and calculate accounts. He also worked in a firm since he was a child.In order to win him over, the boss gave Fangliang's maid to be his wife, and promoted him to be a small housekeeper.

Father Guo and Guo Ying are both earning money at home, so the pressure is not so great, and life is getting better gradually.

As the eldest brother, Guo Ying naturally wanted to share the worries of his parents, so he took the initiative to discuss with Guo's father, find a job for his younger brother Guo Ye in a firm, and take a wife.There is no need for the father and brother to discuss this matter with the parties involved, just do it directly.Who would have thought that Guo Ye would explode at this moment.

"He only said that the job that the villain got for him was hard and humble, and he couldn't get ahead. He also asked if the villain deliberately used him as a stepping stone to support the business. The most unhappy thing was the marriage that his parents told him— — Said that my sister-in-law is not good-looking, with thick arms and round waist, and asked me why I didn’t wait for him to enter the firm, but also asked a good maid from the owner’s house to be his wife. Is it because I am worried that he will also get the owner’s maid and take away the little girl? People's errands..." Guo Ying said helplessly.

Guo Ying said it more politely, Fu Chuan has been passed down for a long time, how can he not understand the unfinished words he has hidden?

If Guo Ye had the ability, he would not have to wait for his father and brother to arrange errands.Obviously, he has no skills, so he depends on the affection of his father and brother for a living.How can it be so easy to get the favor of the boss?Guo Ying has been an apprentice in the master's house since childhood, and because of his special affection, he won the trust of the master.Guo Ye would not have gained this trust without this hard work.

As for the maids released by the master, it is impossible that there will be maids who want to come out so precisely, and it may not be all the way they want.

Guo Ye disliked what his father and brother said about his wife being unattractive, obviously Guo Ying's wife was pretty.The pretty maid was released to marry someone... There are many things that are hard to say, only the husband and wife know.

"The villain's father was furious, and the second brother was making a lot of noise, so the mother hit the second brother on the head with a broom, and ordered the villain to take down the second brother and use the family law." Guo Ying's expression was gloomy, mixed with some distress Understand, "At that time, the second brother struggled a lot, and he would never kneel down and admit his mistake. The villain and his father pressed him to the ground, and asked his mother to beat him a few times."

Fu Chuan thought to himself, since this stubborn and disobedient child refuses to accept the family law, he should let him get out of the house and leave him alone.

Unexpectedly, Guo Ying burst into tears, choked with sobs and said: "After a few days, the villain's parents... were killed, the body was cut into dozens of pieces, put together into human shapes, and lay on the bed together."

This coincided with what Fu Chuan knew about killing and dismembering corpses.He was amazed that, as far as he knew, murders and dismemberments were not frequent.If this person was on a killing spree, killing and dismembering corpses at every turn, I'm afraid he would have been heard by Datian long ago-even if the Hanjiang Sword Sect didn't know about it, the Dragon City Emperor's office should have known about it long ago.

Guo Ying continued: "The villain didn't know why such a tragedy happened until two months ago, the villain's six-year-old son, holding a small sword in his hand, pointed it at the villain's face and said,' What kind of relationship should a father have with a son? As far as the original intention is concerned, it’s really a slap in the face. What is the relationship between the son and the mother? It’s like putting things in a sack, and when they go out, they will leave.’①”

"Six-year-old boy?" Fu Chuan confirmed the details again.

Guo Ying nodded, with tears in his eyes: "The villain's son has only read one Mongolian book. If no one taught him this, he would definitely not say it."

"What Confucian Confucianism said, Confucian Confucianism was also punished for this crime." Fu Chuan shook his head, "After that?"

"The little man heard a voice ringing in his ears, buzzing like a bell, and the voice said, "Nian you are also tortured by your parents, and you treat your youngest son kindly, spare your life, and earn money for your son—" "Guo Ying still had a somewhat scared expression when he said it, his lips trembled, and he was very nervous, "The villain comes here every day to burn lime, and he gets ten dollars a day, and he doesn't go to work until dark."

Guo Ying herself is relatively smart, able to calculate and read, and because what happened that day is so unforgettable, she has not forgotten all the details.

"These days, villains come here to work every day, and the company's errands are also lost. Parents' funerals have not yet been completed, and the children at home are even more lawless, yelling at the villains all day long." Guo Ying used his burned hands. Wiping away tears, "It seems like a villain has become a son, he is the father!"

Fu Chuan thought for a while and asked, "Can you confirm that your father Lingtang was killed by your younger brother?"

Guo Ying raised his head, but still couldn't stop the tears from falling from the corners of his eyes. After holding back for a while, he choked up and said, "The villain's second brother admitted that he came to the door and pointed his sword at his parents that day and said that' If father is to son" and "son is to mother", the father and mother will be cut into corpses by a sharp sword and die. It is also he who taught the sword and the 'spell' to the son of the younger son, and ordered the younger son to do it and harm the villain!"