You are such a master

Before Gu Ran recovered from his doubts, he heard Bei Yan's voice continue to speak.

"In that battle, after all, Xuan Chu, the former suzerain of Xuan Jianzong, used the heaven and earth sacrificial sword array to kill the thousands of monsters."

Bei Yan finished the last sentence with some emotion.At the same time, it leads to a person whose impression of Gu Ran is basically zero-Xuan Chu, the former suzerain of Xuanjian Sect.

"On that day, the sacrificial sword array needs someone who sees the array to sacrifice the sword..." Li Luoleng said what he knew, and when he came back to his senses in the middle of the sentence, everyone in the conference hall including himself Everyone fell into silence.

Sacrificial sword.It is to prove the truth by oneself.

"That's right. Later, due to the fall of the previous head, the master who was still in the late Yuanying period was forced to take over the head. Although the chaos of the demon cultivators subsided, people's hearts were unpredictable. The picture. In the end, Master Xuanlan, who was in the advanced Mahayana stage, went out to turn the tide, and cut down those wolf-hearted people with one sword. Under the Xuanjian Peak, the blood was stained with hoarfrost, and thousands of miles went back. So far, it has caused a sensation in Lingchuan. The No.1 theory of Lingchuan Realm."

In a calm tone, Li Lang completed the follow-up sect incident.These things, some young disciples have never known, but as the years passed, under the intentional concealment of other old forces, what happened after Xuan Chu's fall was gradually forgotten as people changed from old to new.

"Do those forces still exist today?!" Gu Ran's voice suddenly broke the silence.

No wonder the original book always said that Xuanjianzong has never been as friendly as other forces except for its own affiliated forces. In the eyes of other forces, Xuanjianzong's sword cultivators are always inhuman and cold.

"Yes." Li Lang nodded, Ruqi's eyes looked too calm. "However, those are all in the past. If anyone dares to offend my sect in the future, he will be punished!"

"Whoever violates our sect shall be punished for his crime!" the disciple of Xuanjianzong repeated this sentence loudly.Among them, the awe-inspiring murderous aura and sword intent shattered all the porcelain displayed in the conference hall.

"..." Bei Yan looked down at the fragments of the teacup that had slipped from his hand, and was a little embarrassed for a moment, he was only listening to Li Lang's words, and forgot that he hadn't put the teacup down yet.

"Everyone... might as well take back the murderous aura first..." Bei Yan only felt that, as a monk with the Nascent Soul cultivation level, he still couldn't bear the murderous aura of this group of Xuanjianzong sword cultivators.

"I hope the Lord of the North Gate will forgive me." Li Lang expressed his apology on behalf of his juniors.

"It's all right, so let's continue talking about the latest magic cultivation?" Bei Yan's tone was filled with discussions.

"Okay." Li Lang nodded.

"May I ask the master of the north gate, are the corpses of those murdered monks still visible?" A faint voice came from the table, and following the reputation, Xiao Rang, who had lowered his head, raised his head.There was some deep inquiry in the black eyes.

"This... After seeing the corpses and inspecting them, let them go to the ground. After all, those monks have been dead in the wilderness for a long time..."

"Then does the master of the north gate know who was the first to discover the body of the murdered monk in the suburbs?" Xiao Rang continued to ask.

"It's the maid of the slut. She came back from picking willow branches in the willow forest. When she passed by Qingjiao, she ran into the corpses of those monks. During the following period, the number of corpses of victims in Qingjiao gradually increased," Beiyan replied. , and at the same time ask someone to call Mrs. Bei's maid over.

"Picking willow branches?" Li Luo noticed a question that made him a little confused, "Why do you want to pick willow branches?"

"It's like this. There is a saying in the secular world that picking willow branches during the Qingming Festival can be used to worship ancestors. Jiannei also wanted to pay homage to ancestors according to the etiquette of the secular world, so she sent a maid to pick willow branches."

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." After getting the answer, Li Luo didn't say anything.

Just as he was talking, the maid who was called had already arrived.

"My servant has met the master, I have seen all the honored guests." The maid saluted respectfully.

"Tell me in detail what you saw when you met the dead monk's body that day." Bei Yan waved his hand, avoiding those lengthy and complicated etiquettes.

"On that day, my servant was ordered by my wife to go to the willow forest to pick new willows, so that I can catch up with the ancestor worship ceremony during the Ching Ming Festival..." The maid explained the cause of the incident in detail, and even more so when she recalled the tragic condition of the monks' corpses. He turned pale.

Gu Ran moved his eyes away from the green tea and glanced at the pale maid. It seems that the maid did not get very important news from the perspective of the maid. Could it be that the focus of the "magic cultivator" should not be on the maid... Hmm ?What is that black thing behind this maid's ear?Birthmark?

Gu Ran, who inadvertently saw the maid's birthmark, shifted his gaze back to the teacup, subconsciously shifted his attention away from the birthmark, and refocused on where the breakthrough point of this matter was.

"Then the master of the north gate is sure that what he detected is the devil's energy?" Xiao Rang's voice was somewhat doubtful.

Bei Yan's complexion was a bit uneasy. He is a dignified Nascent Soul cultivator, could he still recognize the devil's energy?The one who questioned him was the junior who had just established his foundation. "It's natural, I'm sure I won't admit it wrong."

Aware of Beiyan's danger, Xiao Rang apologized and stopped asking.

"Recently, we went to investigate around, and if we verified that the incident was indeed caused by a demon cultivator, we would immediately report it to the sect and other forces." Li Lang concluded.

"Okay, thank you Young Master." Bei Yan nodded his approval.

Business is done.At this time, Mrs. Bei came in with a number of maids and servants. The dishes carried by the maids and servants were all attractive dishes, and served with fine wine.

"It's been hard work for the distinguished guests and the master. This is a dinner prepared by me with some maids. I hope you will not dislike it." Mrs. Bei ordered the dishes and spirit wine to be served in order as she spoke.

Such a serious meal, for several sword cultivators who were born in the Xuanjianzong, before they were full of Bigu, it was a bigu pill to solve the problem.After the cultivation base reaches Bigu, there is no need to take even Bigu Pill.So there is no such thing as eating.

However, their uncle Yunran still maintains this habit.Then it shouldn't matter if you eat it once.

Li Luo's eyes scanned the many dishes, and finally landed on a roast chicken and couldn't take his eyes off, but... the person in front of the roast chicken was Senior Brother Li Lang, who really couldn't put his chopsticks down!

There was no talk about eating or sleeping, and there was no such thing as persuading wine and chatting at a banquet in the cultivation world, and everyone finished the dinner quietly.Mrs. Bei kindly and considerately brought some lingo fruit tea and pastries, which made people feel very satisfied.

It turns out that the dishes in the vulgar world are so delicious.Li Luo narrowed his eyes, he didn't know it before.However, the roast chicken on the table earlier was still not as delicious as my little uncle's, and I always felt that the taste was a little bit worse.

Gu Ran took a sip of a cup of tea, but he didn't know what kind of tea it was, the color of the brewed tea was deep and dark, and the richness was a bit inappropriate, it stands to reason that a cup of clear tea would be the most comfortable after a meal.

After eating and drinking enough, Beiyan arranged a courtyard for everyone in Xuanjianzong to rest.Most of the disciples went back to their rooms to cultivate and refresh themselves.

Li Luo pulls Gu Ran and expresses that he still wants to go to the vulgar world. Li Lang stares at him coldly, and they are in a stalemate.Chu Shaoqing and Xiao Rang on the side didn't know whether to bypass this deadlock and return to the room.

"Then go out and have a look." Gu Ran looked at the two people who were in a stalemate, and came up with a compromise, "Go to the suburbs to check on the way."

Now that Gu Ran had said that, Li Lang nodded.And because they were going to investigate in the suburbs later, after thinking about it, Chu Shaoqing and Xiao Rang planned to go with them.

Most of the northern city are monks, and there are also mortals without qualifications, and the atmosphere in the city also has the smell of fireworks in the world.

At night, the lights on both sides of the long street dimmed.

Li Luo had a mask in his right hand and a bunch of candied haws in his left. Gu Ran and others followed him and brought a lot of things for him.

"Little Martial Uncle, Little Martial Uncle, look at that!" Li Luo yelled, pointing to the stall selling river lanterns at the bridge.

"Ah, what's the matter?" Gu Ran followed his gaze, first saw the stall selling river lanterns, and then saw the river lanterns flowing down the river, quiet and peaceful.

"Guest officer, do you want to buy a river lantern to make a wish? It's very effective!" The owner of the stall selling river lanterns at the bridge saw that Gu Ran and others stopped in front of his booth, and quickly put out his own river lanterns.

"Really? Then get us..." Li Luo became interested when he heard the words, and turned around to look at the other four when he mentioned the number, "Give us five!"

"Write the things in your heart into the wishing paper, then put the wishing paper into the river lantern, and put the lighted river lantern down along the river." The stall owner prepared a pair of pens and paper for each of them.

"..." The few people who were dragged by Li Luo to serve as river lanterns looked at each other, saw that Gu Ran had already started writing, and sighed in their hearts, and then they all wrote down their wishes on the paper.

Put down the river lanterns one after another, and the lights going downstream are burning like flowers in the dark night.

"Little uncle, what wish did you make?" Li Luo's eyes were full of curiosity.In fact, he wanted to know what kind of wish Senior Brother Li Lang had made with that paralyzed face that hadn't changed for thousands of years, but he had no guts. Compared to him, Senior Uncle Yunran was more gentle.

"What wish do I make?" Gu Ran turned to Li Luo, just about to answer something.

The owner of the small stall hurriedly said to Li Luo while waving his hand before Gu Ran could speak. "Young master, if you say your wish, it won't come true. I'd better wait until your wish is fulfilled before coming here to fulfill your wish."

Hearing what the owner of the stall said, Li Luo stopped being curious. "Okay then." Wait until the time when the wish comes true, and then ask the uncle and the others.

"It's about time to go to the suburbs." Gu Ran suggested, they spent a lot of time walking along the way, and now they can almost go to the suburbs.

"Okay." The others didn't object. Except for Li Luo, the remaining three came here to investigate the anomalies in the outskirts of Beicheng.Although Li Luo was more playful, he also knew that the business was important.

A group of people turned around and walked out of the city, and their figures quickly disappeared into the bustling crowd.

Under the bridge, the ever-flowing river went away with a series of river lights.When the river lantern floated to an inconspicuous corner, a black figure quietly picked up one of the river lanterns. The bright light illuminated his facial features, and he seemed to be a rather handsome man.

"Will it be very effective?" The man's voice was too hoarse, and after saying this, he put back the river lantern in his hand.Let it continue to flow quietly along the river.

***

Compared with the bustling urban area, the suburbs of Beicheng are much cooler, and sporadic fireworks can be seen occasionally.

"Has no one dared to go out at night recently? It seems that they haven't encountered any popularity along the way." Li Luo was holding a night pearl in his hand to explore the way. With his cultivation base, it was still difficult to achieve unimpeded night vision. .

"It should be... Has the master of the North Gate informed the public of the news that a monk has been killed recently?" Gu Ran suddenly noticed a problem from Li Luo's words, which seemed to be a missing point in their discussion today.

Li Luo froze for a moment, and answered the conversation somewhat uncertainly. "Should I say it?"

"But just now we walked around the northern city, and the attitudes of the people and the monks inside are very peaceful. The whole northern city is still in a harmonious atmosphere, and there is no fear of the corpses of the monks that have been appearing recently." This is Xiao Rang's first It's the first time to say such a long speech, but the subtle insight in it is shocking.

"Do you think—the Lord of the North Gate is hiding something?" Chu Shaoqing frowned. It was true that the people in the North City were not nervous at the place where they were hanging out just now.Moreover, when they came to Beicheng during the day, many outsiders rushed into the city, and they did not know that there was a great danger lurking in the suburbs of Beicheng recently.

"If the Lord of the North Gate tells the people in the North City what happened in the suburbs, the state of those people in the North City tonight is not at all frightened by the demon cultivator's chaos, and we have not heard anyone except the City Lord's Mansion say In other words, the master of the North Gate did not spread the news."

Xiao Rang's reasoning made the other four nod their heads.

"However, if the head of the North Gate speaks out this news, it will only cause panic among the people in the city, and it may cause troubles, so wouldn't it be better not to speak out?" Li Luo was puzzled.

"That's the reason. Usually, you will tell the news to those common people only when the paper can't contain the fire." Xiao Rang did not refute Li Luo's words, but shifted the topic to the beginning, "But you see, now There is no one in the suburbs at night, isn't it too illogical?"

Yes, that's weird!

Gu Ran understood Xiao Rang's meaning in an instant. If the suspected disappearance of a demon cultivator in Beicheng was not reported, even if no one from the city came out at night, how could there be no one in the endless stream of people who wanted to enter Beicheng at night? None?

"Everyone, be careful, there must be something weird in the suburbs at night." Li Lang reminded aloud.

At this time, there happened to be a cold wind sweeping through the branches, and the sound of the whirling willow branches was a little indescribably weird in the silent night.

Seeing this, Li Luo silently moved a few steps towards his little uncle.He casually drew out his natal spirit sword and held it in his hand, just in case he needed it.

Seeing that everyone was on alert, Li Langcai continued to lead the team to investigate in the suburbs.After walking around Beicheng for more than half a circle, it was so quiet that nothing happened.

Until they saw a lit wooden house courtyard far ahead, it looked very peaceful.

"I feel that the house must be weird. No one lives in the vicinity, so why did this wooden house appear?" Li Luo's nerves were already on high alert for the wooden house in front of him.

"Go up and ask." Two Nascent Soul cultivators, Li Lang and Gu Ran, scanned the wooden house carefully with their spiritual sense, and couldn't really feel other breaths except the breath of mortals.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk-!" The regular knock on the door broke the silence, and after a while, I heard a question from inside the wooden house, "... who is it?" The owner seemed to be asleep and was woken up , the voice was a little hoarse and impatient, "Come to disturb people's dreams at night!"

"Squeak!" The wooden door was pushed open from the inside, and then a middle-aged mortal man's face was exposed. The anger on his face had not faded away, and it looked like there were some black scars on his face. It looked a little hideous.

Chu Shaoqing was the first to knock on the door, but he was not frightened by the owner's impatience and appearance, and politely explained the reason for their knocking, "Excuse me, we are passing monks and want to ask Issues."

"Oh... so it's a monk..." Hearing the identity of the person, the middle-aged man's drowsiness was completely awakened, and his attitude softened. "I don't know what's important for the monk? I'm really sorry for the rude words just now among the grassroots..."

"It's nothing, it's ten miles around, why are you living here alone? Has something weird happened recently?" Chu Shaoqing asked.

The middle-aged man smiled wryly when he heard the words, "It seems that you monks don't know the geomantic omen of the land near me."

"Fengshui is pretty good, but the yin energy is a bit heavy." Li Luo couldn't help muttering when he heard this, although all of their Xuanjianzong disciples are sword cultivators, they still have the ability to distinguish Fengshui, okay?

"That's right, because I'm a cemetery keeper, and the ten miles behind me are full of graves. How can anyone dare to live in such a place, and I, the cemetery keeper, are the only ones staying." Fen melancholy, "I have lived for most of my life, and no daughter-in-law would like to live in such a place with me. It's strange. Recently, there has been a lot of wind at night, so I simply slept with the lamp on. I haven't seen any other weird things. .”

"Do you know that there is a monk's corpse in the suburb?" Xiao Rang asked aloud.

"Hey, the monks are all supernatural, how can I, a mere mortal, know this." The middle-aged man shook his head.

"So, excuse me." Knowing the answer he wanted, Gu Ran and the others left from the wooden house.