Doe

"Master has many secrets that I don't know." Xie Xunwei touched the curly grass pattern on the bronze mirror, "It's really unpleasant."

"Maybe he doesn't know it himself." Mu Zhishen said lightly, "Forgive me, Master Ling doesn't seem like a deep-rooted person."

"It's like this after death, not necessarily in life." Xie Xunwei shook his head lightly, "Have you heard about my teacher's deeds before his death?"

"I don't know when Ling Shi became a ghost."

Xie Xun lowered his eyes slightly to make tea, "Master's memory is counted from 58 years ago, so Master's memorial day should be 58 years ago. I searched through the records of 58 years ago, and Baochen Mountain lived in seclusion. There are not many records about world affairs, but most of them say that Shizun is the younger brother of the great master, the elder of the elixir of Baochen Mountain, who inherited the innate fire method of the master, and is proficient in medicine and medical skills. Although the master died, he forgot All I know is pharmacology and medical skills..." Xie Xun smiled wryly, "How to prepare the most powerful Dali Pill in the world. These records are fine at first glance, but they are extremely crude when you look closely. Compared with Grandpa Wudu, who is accurate to one According to the historical records of the three meals a day, my master is almost a transparent person. However, the status of the master in the Taoist sect is second only to Grandpa Wudu, so it is impossible to be ignored to such an extent anyway."

"Unless...someone erased Lingshi's records." Mu Zhishen frowned and pondered, "Why do you want to do this? Someone who can modify historical materials without anyone noticing must be a person with a very high status in the fairy sect. However, he The historical records can be erased, but the memories of everyone cannot be erased. 58 years is not long, if you ask the elders of the Xianmen, everything buried in the past will come to light. Modifying historical materials is tantamount to deceiving one's ears and stealing one's bell."

Xie Xunwei's smile was meaningful, he stood up, and nodded politely to Mu Zhishen.

"Is Senior Brother Mu courageous enough?"

Mu Zhishen looked up at him, as calm as an ice sculpture.

"I think it is enough, then come with me. You will see the biggest secret of Xianmen so far, and all the secrets are not worth mentioning in front of it."

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Mu Guanguan nodded and smiled at the female disciples in the same courtyard, and carried the box into his room.The status she used this time was the youngest daughter of the Lord of Mu Family Yang Xia, and before she came, she specially greeted the Zongmen and gave her a separate hut.She closed the door with her foot, threw the cage on the ground, opened it, took out the mirror case and placed it on the table.Then she fetched a basin of water, dipped her face into the washbasin, wiped it gently with a cloth towel, the water was stained with a shimmering rouge color, the makeup on her face was removed little by little, and her original face was reflected in the mirror - fair complexion , with a handsome appearance, and an indescribable affinity with his swarthy eyes, which makes people like him.

This face belongs to Xie Cenguan.

Xie Cenguan took off his skirt, tore off the trembling false breasts, sat in front of the mirror case, and applied a thick layer of ointment to his face.This thing looks like the balm used by his daughter's family to put on his face, but it is actually antiseptic. He has to wear this to sleep every night.

The heart lock in his arms was shining blue, he drew it out with his little finger and put it on the small case.

"Old Xie, did you see Baili Jue Ming?" Ying Buzhi asked.

"I see, the old man has bad eyesight, he won't recognize me when I put on makeup."

So far everything is going very smoothly, Baili Jueming is very deceptive, he has been calling him "Senior Brother, Senior Brother" for so long, that idiot didn't realize that he is Xie Cenguan at all.You are right, the identity of a girl is easier for people to relax their vigilance, especially a beautiful girl.

"It is rumored that Shura Esha who burned Baochen Mountain into ruins, I really want to see what he looks like. Before I met you, he was a role model in my heart." Ying Bushi sighed.

"I advise you not to meet," Xie Cenguan smiled, "It will ruin his image in your mind."

"Don't underestimate Baili Jueming. He has profound Taoism, and he might realize that you are a ghost. Don't get too close to him."

"Just for fun," Xie Cenguan's smile became very vicious, "otherwise it would be boring."

"Worthless." Should not be disdainful of his behavior.

"When people are dead, what virtue should we pay attention to? The sky is big and the earth is big, so I am the happiest." Xie Cenguan said indifferently.

After applying the ointment, the face is sticky and greasy, which is very uncomfortable.There was a sudden flash in the corner of the eye, Xie Cenguan moved his eyes to the cage.Inside is the ice cicada jade box he brought, the one that Wudu left for the ghost country, bathed in the evening sunlight from the window lattice at this moment, the cyan jade reveals secret and complex patterns.

"Huh? I found something."

"What?" Shoulder asked.

Xie Cenguan narrowed his eyes, bent over to pick up the jade box, and looked at it carefully in the sunlight.

The light flows in the jade, and the water ripples like waves.He slowly turned the jade box, looking for a proper angle.The light completely filled the jade, and the magnificent and complex patterns inside finally appeared.

"It's a map," Xie Cenguan Shuiche's eyes reflected the green light flowing map, "So this is what Wudu really left for Baili Jueming."

This is a map, extremely detailed, even the canals and alleyways are exactly the same.Xie Cenguan didn't know what the destination on the map was, but his intuition told him that this was where he was going.

"Where's the map?"

Xie Cenguan turned the jade box and found three small characters at the bottom.

"Sinanda."

"It's not a good place when you hear it." Ying Bushi sighed.

"I can't help it." Xie Cenguan put down the jade box, his face was reflected in the mirror, without a smile, "My soul has been greatly influenced by the ghost mother, if I don't act, sooner or later I will return to the ghost. Kingdom, to become the sacrifice of the ghost mother. Wudu is the one who understands the ghost country best in this world, and I must follow his path."

Lian Xinsuo was silent for a long time, and asked unconsciously, "When do you plan to leave?"

Xie Cenguan returned to his foolish look, humming a song while painting his fingernails with bright red impatiens juice.

"Don't worry, the fun isn't over yet."

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Climbing down the stairs, it is getting colder and colder.Mu Zhishen's fingertips were cold, and frost formed on his eyelashes.This is Xie Xunwei's ice cellar, where he stores corpses and makes meat puppets.The last body of Baili Jueming was also here, and it was preserved by Xie Xunwei, like a treasure.The last time Yu Tingqiu came here, Mu Zhishen knew about it, but she only found the first floor, and there is actually a second floor in the ice cellar.

Xie Xun turned the ever-burning lamp slightly, and the light twisted and swayed, and an ice-built staircase appeared behind the ice wall, and they continued to descend.

Even Mu Zhishen had never been to this level before. When the ice steps reached the end, the front suddenly opened up, and Mu Zhishen's iron-gray eyes trembled unconsciously.

He always knew that Xie Xunwei was a lunatic. He grew up in a place like Hanshan Dojo, and walked with ghosts since he was a child. Xie Xunwei had no reason to become a normal person.This was nothing to Mu Zhishen, because normal people would not be friends with Mu Zhishen.However, Mu Zhishen now found that even he underestimated Xie Xunwei's terror.

This layer is full of human heads.

Highly rotten human heads were soaked in huge glass bottles.The soaking liquid is an embalming liquid prepared by Xie Xunwei, light brown, without any foul smell, but exudes a bitter smell of medicinal herbs.Passing through the heads of those people through the glass bottle, all the faces were horrible and miserable.This is always the case after death, no matter how beautiful they were in life, they all become hideous after death, as if all the pretense faded away, revealing the true heart.

Xie Xunwei looked distressed, "Excuse me, I've tried many ways to preserve them, but it's been too long, and I can't stop them from rotting."

"It's too ugly, I don't want to see it." Mu Zhishen said.

Xie Xun smiled slightly, "Does Brother Mu know who they are?"

"Your enemy." Mu Zhishen commented coldly, "Collecting the heads of your enemies, you are disgusting."

"Be safe and don't be impatient," Xie Xun shook his head slightly, he walked forward slowly with the lamp in his hand, the light illuminated the sunken eye sockets of the head, "Mu Shixiong, do you still remember that when I was in the Hanshan Dojo, I used visitors to test my silver needles?" , studying their bodies and acupoints. That period of time was painful, but it also taught me a lot. Among the human body, the human brain is the most complicated part. The brain is also the middle palace. This place is closely connected with the soul. My Acupuncture skills cannot stay in the skin of the flesh, I want to affect their souls more. So..."

He paused in front of a skull, holding the lamp close to his rotting face.

"I cut open the head of a visitor." Under the candlelight, Xie Xunwei's face was beautiful and indifferent, "I saw the blood-red meridian, the blue spiritual flow, and..."

Xie Xun moved his finger slightly, and a silver needle with the length of his index finger pierced through the scalp of the human head, rose slowly, and hovered in front of the two of them.

"A needle."

Mu Zhishen frowned.

"This is what I want to show you. A person has a silver needle buried in his head? This discovery surprised me. Brother Mu, do you remember? My experiment killed many people. The Ghost Attendants left the Cold Mountain Dojo wearing their skins. Because the Ghost Attendants are limited, and the corpses will rot, I let these people 'die' from serious diseases, operations to clear the ghost domain, and various accidents."

"I know this." Mu Zhishen said.

"That's right," Xie Xunwei continued, "but what you don't know is that when they were buried and lay in the family's ancestral grave, I recovered their heads, and I was surprised to find that almost all of them had a root buried in their heads. Needle."

Xie Xun waved his hand slightly, and a silver needle emerged from all the skulls, hovering above the glass bottle.The light illuminates the sharp points of the needles, making them glisten.

Mu Zhishen fell into silence. This is indeed a huge secret, enough to shake the foundation of Xianmen.Because all the people who entered the Hanshan Dojo back then were elders and principals of the aristocratic family.They are the ones who hold the power in their hands, and money like water flows through their fingers, and the decisions they make every day affect the lives and deaths of countless people.They constitute the powerful and powerful centers of Xianmen, but no one knows that a silver needle is buried in the brains of these centers.

"The people here are all over fifty, Senior Brother Mu, this is a whole generation." Xie Xun said softly, "On the contrary, all the immortals over fifty have silver needles buried in their brains. Jiang Ruoxu, your grandfather, are you among them?"

Mu Zhishen felt bursts of cold, and there was still frost covering his heart.What kind of person can do such a thing?That person must have all-hands and eyes, stronger and nobler than these so-called elders and principals.

"What is the function of the silver needle?" Mu Zhishen asked.

"They are located in the center of the marrow sea and affect the memory of the human brain." Xie Xun said slightly, "Someone modified their memory."

"It's just like he revised the history of Taoism." Mu Zhishen frowned, "Who is that person, and what is he trying to cover up?"

"Maybe I know who he is." Xie Xunwei looked at the silver needles with dark eyes, "Look carefully at these needles, what did you find?"

Mu Zhishen picked up a needle and rubbed it between his fingers.The silver needles are uneven, with fine patterns engraved on them.He squinted his eyes and looked carefully, the pattern was extremely fine, this craft is rare in the world, to engrave patterns on such a slender silver needle, the skill of that craftsman must be unparalleled in the world.Using his eyes, he finally saw clearly that the patterns were cassia and honeysuckle.

"Cassia, Honeysuckle," Xie Xun sighed slightly, "This is the emblem of my master."

Mu Zhi finally had a look of surprise in his deep iron gray eyes.

"The one who erased Master's records is Master himself." Xie Xun said in a low voice, "When he was alive, when he was not a ghost. He covered up his own death, making everyone in Xianmen mistakenly think that he was still alive. Alive. Baochen Mountain is far away from the world. If you want to cover up the news of a person’s death, you just don’t report the funeral. Why do you have to bury silver needles in so many people’s heads? There is only one explanation. A big event happened in Xianmen 58 years ago , this incident shocked the entire Jiangzuo, and made Master pay the price of his life. Everyone who participated in that incident knew that Master's respect was hard to heal, and his life was not long. But for some reason, perhaps Master knew He is about to become a ghost, or maybe that incident can never be kept in the annals of history, in short, he buried silver needles in the heads of the Xianmen generation to cover up his death and make that incident an eternal secret."

Back in the alchemy room, the boy bowed his hands to them from afar outside the window of the moon cave.

"Tianshi convened a court meeting, please go to Tianshu Palace with Mr. Mu and Senior Brother Mu."

Xie Xun nodded slightly, "It seems that the news of the Shanyin Chu family's extermination has spread to Tiandu Mountain. Brother Mu wait a moment, Rong Xun puts on his makeup."