old grace

Yun Chaoshan ran up and down the mountain, and brought the two cultists he brought from Longcheng to the observatory, where Xie Qinghe was capping.

"Master, people have already arrived. Would you like to rest for a while?" Yun Chao was happy to do it for him.

For a first-class expert like him, he may have to learn some professional knowledge to build a brick house. Isn't building a wooden house like building blocks?Now that Xie Qinghe has cut all the parts, only the splicing is left, Yun Chao thinks it is not difficult.

Xie Qinghe turned from behind the wooden house, was about to speak, and suddenly frowned: "Shi Qin?"

Yun Chao brought up two people, both of whom were seriously injured.The person on the left looked listless and motionless on the ground, while the person on the right raised his head as much as possible so that Xie Qinghe could see his face clearly.It wasn't until Xie Qinghe asked, that Yun Chao tapped his vest with the scabbard and unlocked the acupoints.

The blood vessels opened up, Shi Qin took a deep breath and coughed up a few mouthfuls of bloody phlegm: "Brother..."

Yun Chao felt a little surprised in his eyes, and explained: "Master, this person once argued that he was a member of the Hanjiang Sword Sect. He infiltrated the Swallowing Star Sect's undercover investigation and tried his skills. The way he learned is very different from that of the master. I think he's a liar..."

Xie Qinghe appeased Yun Chao first, and said: "The lineage he studied is different from mine, so it's not surprising that you admit it wrong. It's not your fault."

Only then did Yun Chao shut up and take a step back, feeling a little grateful.

He was actually a member of the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

Fortunately, at the time, I felt that this person was quite skilled and could withstand a long journey, so I didn't stab this person to death with a sword.

Xie Qinghe helped Shi Qin, let him sit on his recliner, felt the teapot was still warm, poured him a cup of tea, and asked: "Where have you and Uncle Yan been all these years? After parting with you, I went back to the mountain to report to Master Ming. He knew that I had seen you, and told me to go find you and come back to the mountain. When I passed by, you had already left, why didn't you wait for me?"

"He..." Shi Qin looked sad, "He has passed away."

Xie Qinghe handed him the teacup, was silent for a moment, and asked, "Where is Master Shu Xianzi buried?"

"He said that there is no place for Hanshan Qionglin anymore, so I don't have to carry the coffin back to the mountain to be annoying. I obeyed my will, burned him to ashes, and threw him in the tributary of the Hanjiang River." When he said this, Shiqin's eyes were dark. A tear, "In this way, the local area will be free from the evil of water for 30 years."

Burning corpses to ashes will surely kill souls.If it is not necessary, everyone in the world will be buried in the ground for rest.

Shi Qin scattered Yan Buqie's ashes on the tributaries of the Hanjiang River, obviously considering that there are outside disciples sealing the demons along the Hanjiang River, and only the tributaries are difficult to take care of, so he used his ashes to suppress the demons.

However, after Xie Qinghe devoured the demons, the water monsters gradually withered away. In places where humans often lived these years, monsters almost disappeared.

Calculated in this way, Yan Buqie has been dead for at least 16 years.

Now the person is dead, and the ashes have been scattered.Xie Qinghe said that Shangguan Shiyi had regrets a long time ago, and that he wanted to recall his uncle, besides making Shiqin's apprentice sad, what's the point?Xie Qinghe changed the topic and said: "It's okay. You go wash up first, eat something, if you are tired, it's okay to take a nap first. I will take you to meet the real master tomorrow."

Shi Qin seemed to want to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, he didn't speak. He just nodded, "I'm bothering you senior brother."

Xie Qinghe asked: "If you have any questions, just ask me."

"Just now when I went up the mountain, I saw white hangings everywhere, I wonder which fairy leader it is...?" Shi Qin asked cautiously.

"Junior Brother Han Yun has gone." Xie Qinghe didn't want to talk about this matter, pointed to the kitchen, and told Yun Chao, "Shi Qin is injured, you can help him take care of it, and he can rest on the bed in the lounge."

Shu Hanyun was young and had a high status, so he died so suddenly, Shi Qin was very surprised.

It's just that Xie Qinghe didn't want to talk more, and he couldn't ask questions, so he followed Yun Chao to the kitchen to find bath water and food.

On the way, being tossed and tossed by Yun Chao, and Yun Chao kicked him every now and then, Shi Qin was very angry at first, but after seeing Xie Qinghe for real, the strong desire to sue him disappeared.Thinking of Yan Buqie, Shi Qin suddenly loses interest.

Xie Qinghe brought a chair, sat in front of another evil person, and asked, "What is your name?"

The man has been curled up on the ground, as if asleep.

"What's the use of stealing a wedge in your hand? Are you trying to sneak attack me?" Xie Qinghe picked up a plate of green dates and put them on the ground, "They are all martial arts practitioners. You should know that it is not easy to get a whole body of kung fu. Day and night Rest, the cold and heat don't stop, since you have such perseverance and patience, you don't think you are willing to be a lowly person. I don't intend to humiliate you, or you will not live well, but you will die well."

After being exposed by Xie Qinghe, the talent slowly sat up, spread out his palms, and as expected he was holding a wooden wedge.

Unable to speak, he pointed to his throat.

——Yun Chao took him and Shi Qin on the road, thinking that they were too noisy, so he immediately sealed their dumb acupoints.

Xie Qinghe flicked his left hand lightly, volleying away his acupoints, the man looked at Xie Qinghe with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Although Xie Qinghe has detoxified the phantom poison, most of his cultivation base is still suppressing the group of demons in his body, and he looks like an ordinary person who is not in class, so it is naturally surprising to show this hand suddenly.

"You clearly heard me call me 'Big Senior Brother' and you also heard me say 'Brother Han Yun', why did you show such a surprised expression?" Xie Qinghe didn't want to get used to this group of liars. Can't we just smooth things over?

"I heard that the chief disciple of the Hanjiang Sword Sect swallowed demons and died in the countryside long ago." The man spoke as if he had a mouthful of thick phlegm in his mouth, and his voice was sticky, which made people feel extremely uncomfortable. alive."

"A hermit?" Xie Qinghe asked.

"You don't have to ask me where I came from. My name is Yu Muhua, and I am homeless and homeless. I got my kung fu from an ancient book. I used to rob my family to live, and I wanted to vote for the Henan branch of Tunxing Sect. They spent money Hire me to fight for them once every three to five months, and spend money to enshrine me every day, so I put on their cassock and become the elder of the Swallowing Star Sect." The man spoke frankly and began to explain his background.

Xie Qinghe nodded: "You and the Tunxing Sect are all connected by money, and have nothing else to do."

"You sent someone to arrest us, because you want to ask about the Tunxing Sect? It's also simple. All the members of the Tunxing Sect have secret instructions. They take two coins of tea leaves, one coin of japonica rice, and boil three bowls of water to make one bowl of water. This tea rice soup is applied on the wrist or ankle, and there will be a special emblem. Those who have this emblem are disciples of the Tunxing Sect, and those who do not have it are not." Yu Muhua said.

Xie Qinghe drew an imaginary circle around him with his finger, then turned and entered the door.

"The ground is a prison?" Yu Muhua stretched out his hand to touch the circle that Xie Qinghe had drawn, but he didn't feel anything, "Is it just to warn me?"

He knew in his heart that this would be a dangerous act, regardless of whether he was warned or not, Xie Qinghe and Yun Chao were both in the house, and no one was restraining him for the time being.Although all kung fu is blocked and cannot be used, the instinct to survive is still there.If you fight hard, you may die.If you don't fight, you will die.

When Xie Qinghe came out with the written talisman papers, Yu Muhua was still crawling slowly on the ground.

"I've drawn circles before." Xie Qinghe said.

Yu Muhua even turned his head so slowly that it made people collapse, Xie Qinghe directly dragged him back into the small circle of Xuhua.

Yu Muhua, who had been in slow motion, returned to normal in an instant. Looking at Xie Qinghe, his eyes were full of disbelief and horror, as if what he saw was not a person, but a monster: "What did you do to me? Why... can't I move?" ?”

This is a little trick that Xie Qinghe found after years of obsession and going back to the past.

He can temporarily put a person into an extremely tiny small world, such as a small circle, and this person will be temporarily isolated from the big world.

Xie Qinghe's ability is not very strong, therefore, people in the small circle can break through the barrier between the two worlds with their own strength.But after leaving the small world, the body and soul trapped in the small world are incompatible with the big world, and every move will become extremely difficult-like an impenetrable membrane, the farther you go, the more difficult it is to move .

The mysteries involved here are too astonishing, Xie Qinghe may not even disclose it to those close to him, so how could he tell outsiders?

He pasted the talisman paper on Yu Muhua's forehead, pinched the formula and chanted the mantra, and performed the backtracking technique again, flying into Yu Muhua's memory world.

■

Yu Muhua didn't lie.

He really came from a simple background, his family was poor, his mother was sick, his father died early, and he relied on his sister who worked as a maid in a wealthy family to help. In addition to buying medicine for his mother to continue his life, the family could barely eat enough.The good times didn't last long, the elder sister who had always been in good health died of a sudden illness, the master's family gave a few taels of funeral money, and a young master came to cry twice, the biggest source of income for the family was gone.

When her sister died, Yu Muhua was still young, and her mother forced her sick body to make money by washing clothes for people, and died within half a year.

Yu Muhua had no food to eat, so he had to sell himself.

However, a boy who is already sensible is worthless at all, and it is not easy to sell himself.

These days, people who buy incense have to be one or two years old and don't know what to do. They only know how to honor their parents when they are raised. Most of those who are already sensible are white-eyed wolves.

Rich families are also unwilling to buy boys, and girls can be brought up to be maidservants from an early age. It is also an elegant thing to pretend to be adopted daughters and send them out as concubines.What use are boys?If you grow up, you will be a coolie, why not just buy an adult coolie?Also saved a few years of food money.

When Yu Muhua was dying of hunger, he nestled by the wall of a private school, and was rescued by the old school teacher and returned home.

At that time, under the rule of Emperor Qianyuan, the official government was the darkest and the government was the most absurd. Corruption was rampant, the people were in dire straits, and few students could afford to study. The old school teachers were not good at urging the students to study, and life was very difficult. poor.

Yu Muhua survived on the rations saved by the old school teacher, studied with the old school teacher for several years, and learned martial arts from an ancient book.

In the 20th year of Qianyuan, there was a severe drought in Yongxing.

Relying on the martial arts he has learned, Yu Muhua sneaks out every day to steal something to eat, to feed himself, and to honor his teacher.

However, when a disaster strikes a place, there is always less and less food to eat.He can manage himself and the old school teacher, but he can't manage the villagers in the nearby villages and towns.The victims began to eat grass roots and bark, and exchanged seeds for food.In the tragedies of confusion and death, people seldom maintain reason.

It was soon discovered that the old school teacher who had no real property and always relied on the relief of the students did not have to worry about food and drink at all in this catastrophe.

There are rumors that the old school teacher has countless rice noodles in his home.

Crazy hungry people even dare to break into the county office, let alone the undefended small courtyard of the old school teacher?Yu Muhua left a bowl of gruel for the old school teacher when he went out, but when he came back, the courtyard was trampled to the ground, the only two bags of millet in the kitchen were gone, and even the old school teacher was gone!

——It turned out that the hungry people who broke in did not find the "countless hoarded rice noodles", so someone tied up the old school teacher and asked where the rice noodles were hidden.The old school teacher only said no, and the angry hungry people beat him to death, tortured him for an entire hour, and beat the old school teacher to death.

"They said, they were beaten to death anyway, and they couldn't survive. This meat can't be wasted." The four-year-old boy who had witnessed everything still didn't understand what death was, so he gnawed on the rough flour pancake Yu Muhua gave him, Gobbled it up and whimpered, "Just give the old man a share. It should be all eaten by now, right?"

That was Yu Muhua's first murder.

He carried the children who had witnessed everything on his shoulders and asked them to recognize people one by one.

The child pointed to this: "It's him."

He twisted people's necks, or crushed people's throats.

Whether the child denied it wrong, Yu Muhua didn't know.Later, the ignorant child thought it was amusing, and pointed at innocent people casually, and Yu Muhua didn't know the difference, so he killed them.The old school teacher is dead, how can there be innocent people in the world?All sinners!

From then on, Yu Muhua started wandering around.

Xie Qinghe felt that he might have lived the life Shu Hanyun dreamed of.

With good martial arts, bullying ordinary people is like playing.If you don’t have money, you go to rob houses. If you don’t like it, you drag it to the dark alley and kill it. If you like beautiful women, you go straight to the house, and when you get tired of playing, you rush back to the street...

The only time he was deflated was when he met the fledgling Zijian Lin Xiaowen.

Lin Xiaowen came from a famous family with a very solid foundation, but also had a desperate and stubborn temper. He drove Yu Muhua to kill for three days and three nights, and he lost both sides in the fight.Yu Muhua was afraid of him, so he pretended to be dead to deceive the fledgling and inexperienced Lin Xiaowen, and then ran away.

Since then, Yu Muhua has restrained himself a lot, and started to inquire about the news of Jianghu sects, avoiding the influence of various famous families.

When he commits crimes, he often kills and silences his mouth, and then he plays the appearance of Jiangyang bandits and copycat bandits slaughtering wealthy businessmen. He deliberately avoids the jurisdiction of famous families, so he rarely attracts the attention of the world, and perfectly avoids the attention of the Hanjiang Sword Sect.

Such a first-class expert has been robbing houses, murdering and raping in various places, but Xie Qinghe is completely unaware of his existence.

As for his relationship with the Swallowing Star Sect, it is not much different from what he said.

Because of the old school teacher, Yu Muhua hated cannibalism the most in his life, and he didn't have a good impression of Tunxing Sect.However, he took the initiative to find the Tunxing Cult and asked to join the group-at that time, the Tunxing Cult was extremely arrogant and domineering with the support of Fu Wei, and there was a thousand riders behind it as a backer.

Yu Muhua still remembered the pain of being kicked out by Lin Xiaowen for three days and three nights.

He learned from the painful experience and firmly believed that if the Baidao is organized, we villains should also be organized!

Therefore, he hurriedly ran to Star Swallowing Sect and recommended himself to join the group.

■

Xie Qinghe came back from the backtracking technique, and knocked him out with one finger.

Such a crazy bastard whose brain is mostly broken, it is absolutely impossible to expect him to go to the entrance ceremony to avenge Fu Chuan's grievances.Even if the conditions are agreed with him now, he will probably regret it when things come to an end, and deliberately talk nonsense in front of Tianxia Baidao.

It is impossible for Xie Qinghe to joke about Fu Chuan's reputation.Fortunately, he has a lot of means, and he is not dogmatic in doing things.

"Yun Chao?" Xie Qinghe greeted.

Yun Chao, who was carrying water for Shi Qin, came out immediately: "Master?"

Xie Qinghe drew a circle with his fingers, and Yun Chao put down the bucket, trotted out, and stood beside Xie Qinghe with his head bowed, very close.

Xie Qinghe pointed to Yu Muhua who had fallen asleep, and then pointed to Yun Chao: "Do you understand?"

Yun Chao nodded: "Understood."

"Let him take care of himself these few days, give him enough food and drink, and heal his injuries. Tomorrow I will take Shiqin to see the master, and I will give you a confession when I come back. Just remember it." Xie Qinghe looked at him Pale face, "Thank you for your hard work."

Yun Chao couldn't help but smile: "It's a servant's honor to be able to serve the master."

Inside, Shiqin was taking a bath and eating, Xie Qinghe didn't stop his physical work, and took advantage of the moon before the mid-heaven, to do the finishing work, and even nailed the doors and windows up.Outside the wooden house, he left a small terrace for him, and originally planned to nail a small fence.

Thinking of Fu Chuan's temperament that likes to toss and turn, he might hang upside down on the balcony and shake his head...

Then forget it.

What if the kid flips around and gets his head stuck?Xie Qinghe amused his brain.

Joy is only for a moment.

Xie Qinghe still had a smile on his face, and his consciousness was suddenly pulled away to an extremely high place, as if looking down on the earth.

He saw a piece of solidified land, saw himself standing on the ground, saw the gradually shrinking observatory, and even the entire cold mountain became extremely small... Only a cloud and the suddenly huge moon disk remained in front of him.

Traveling in the void.

Xie Qinghe lowered his head and looked at himself, and found that his whole body was a phantom, but what was pressing on his heart was densely packed phantoms.

It's this kind of mysterious and mysterious, suddenly connected feeling.

He was not told anything.

Seeing his own appearance, he immediately understood his situation.

After many years of cultivating into demons, he could go a step further and go boating in Xuanchi.However, the phantom poison has been dragging down his mood and preventing him from being free.Now that the phantom poison is gone, and the hard work has made his dry and withered spiritual roots thrive and grow again, he should have broken through.

— but couldn’t break through.

There are so many demons sealed in his body, which curbs his growth.

His cultivation has been growing.Now it seems that it is no longer necessary to use all our strength to suppress the group of demons.However, with the growth of cultivation base, it was still unable to break through to the next level.If the group of demons in the body cannot be eliminated one by one, there will be no breakthrough in this life.

"If this goes on like this, after one day of surviving all the demons, can it be said that my cultivation base is so high that I can directly ascend to immortality?"

Xie Qinghe is very open-minded.He originally wanted to swallow the devil with the heart of death, but now he not only survived, his body has also recovered, and he can also increase his cultivation base.What's not to like?

With a thought, his consciousness returned to his skin, and everything in front of him became clearer.

Although it is impossible to break through, the growth of cultivation level has made the five senses stronger.

Xie Qinghe closed his eyes and used his ears so hard that he could hear most of the movement in Hanshan clearly.He heard that Shangguan Shiyi was still reading medical books in Feixian's grass hut, and in Jianshan Pavilion, Fu Chuan seemed to have sensed something, opened the window from the corridor and looked up at the moon.

...At the moment when Xie Qinghe returned to his body, the passing brilliance of the moon flickered for a moment.

Did the junior brother actually feel it?Xie Qinghe was slightly surprised.

Remembering that Fu Chuan Tao was in Fu Wei's memory world, and because of his zither music, Xie Qinghe took out three ancient coins and took a divination.The three ancient coins stood up together.The secret cannot be occupied.

Xie Qinghe didn't feel flustered, nor did he feel anxious.It's not a bad thing after all.

Originally, he wanted to scare the junior brother away by urging him to do his homework, but Xie Qinghe has become serious now, and he will have to ask the junior brother about his homework tomorrow.

When he was supposed to break through, he couldn't break through, and his wandering cultivation was roaring in his body, making Xie Qinghe so energetic that he didn't want to rest at all.Anyway, he was idle and bored, so he took out the wooden rope, pulled the foundation of the planned large Langxuan on the line, and started - digging the foundation!

Shi Qin and Yun Chao heard that the voice was wrong, and the two who were cooking the hot pot ran out with the bowls and chopsticks.

Xie Qinghe has already dug a small hole and is digging out the dirt.

Shi Qin was stunned.Is this the big brother I know?

Yun Chao hurriedly put down the bowls and chopsticks, and stepped forward to ask, "Master, it's so late, you should rest first, and this servant will dig the soil."

"I'm free, I'll relax. You two should go to sleep after eating. Don't bother me." Xie Qinghe waved his hand impatiently, signaling Yun Chao to get out of here.

Yun Chao always felt that the master was a bit weird.

It's not normal to be lazy and not eat or drink, and it is not normal to dig the soil and not sleep...is it not normal?

Yun Chao knew very well in his heart that in today's world, the only person who can control Xie Qinghe is probably the Shangguan Shiyi.He decided to sneak to the Feixian Caolu to meet the real head of the sect master tomorrow, and discuss Xie Qinghe's "illness" with him.

Unexpectedly, after waking up with Shi Qin on the couch in the diverticulum all night, the whole observatory has changed.

Originally, the observatory was a clear and high cliff. In order to observe the sky, there were only a few rooms.Xie Qinghe built a wide-sized wooden house next to the house. The buildings are all next to each other, and there is still a large open space.

now--

On that large open space, there are stretches of wooden corridors and pavilions!

Overnight, the foundation was dug, the frame floor was assembled, and the small fence was installed!

Xie Qinghe not only repaired the porch, but also took a bath, changed his clothes, combed his hair meticulously, and was on his newly laid porch, crunching and grinding soybean milk with a stone mill... Seeing that Yun Chao woke up, he didn't Politely ordered: "Go and boil the soy milk, then use the bean dregs to make pancakes, and add some minced meat."

Yun Chao was surprised, he had been frightened too much these years, and he gradually became numb, so he brought a porcelain basin to boil soybean milk.

Shi Qin looked at the porch that seemed to rise from the ground, opened his mouth, raised his hand, and stumbled out after a long time: "Da, senior brother... Did you... you built it last night?"

Xie Qinghe got up and put on the clogs, walked leisurely down the porch, and said, "Does it look okay?"

Shi Qin showed a frightened smile.

Xie Qinghe walked around the observatory, and then built a house, the scenery of this place will not be good.It's a pity, there are so many squandered cultivations in the body, what should I do?Help the master repair the Feixian thatched cottage?Repair the plank road up the mountain?