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The whole village was shrouded in a shadow, and it was too quiet.Several disciples in Xuanyinyuebai robes struggled on tiptoe one by one, and were tied to the wooden stakes at the entrance of the village.

"Are you standing here as punishment?" Xie Yan looked at their clean and new clothes and clicked their tongues twice, and they still didn't forget to apply the cleansing formula after being tied up like this.

Yun Xi frowned, his small face was wrinkled, and he looked very anxious: "Senior, let us down first - everyone still has injuries."

While speaking, Jian Suyu raised his hand, and everyone suddenly felt lighter, pulled the rope on their body with force, and threw it on the ground fiercely.Someone stepped on it a few times in disbelief, and a group of people stood obediently beside Jian Suyu, lowering their heads in silence, like students who made a mistake and were punished by a private school teacher.

"Senior brother Yun, how are you doing?" Lan Yin took out a lot of elixir from his universe bag.

"Fortunately, it's just some skin trauma. Uncle, we--" Yun Xi looked at Jian Suyu's face, and seeing that the uncle had no objection, he took it and distributed it to the brothers behind him.Then, when he was about to explain the ins and outs of the matter to Jian Suyu, he suddenly saw the dark purple figure behind Jian Suyu, and he was so surprised that he forgot what he said next: "The sea of ​​clouds in the sky?!"

"The sea of ​​clouds in the sky?!"

"Why is he here?"

The disciple behind him lowered his head and muttered dissatisfiedly.

... Has the relationship between Tiandu Yunhai and Xuanyin been so bad all these years?Xie Yan looked at Liu Minghong speechlessly.

Facing these whispered accusations, Liu Minghong stood there fearlessly, not speaking.Seeing Xie Yan look over, he showed an innocent expression: Don't look at me, I don't know anything.

Hearing the whispers in his ears, Xie Yan covered his face and coughed lightly twice: "Don't worry everyone, I and your uncle can assure that although he is from the sea of ​​clouds in Tiandu, he has no malicious intentions." Thinking of Xie Yan I also feel heartbroken, I should have asked Pu Xinjiu what he said to Liu Minghong before he left, what a pity...

As soon as the words fell, the voices of the discussion continued to become more enthusiastic, even overshadowing the voice of Xie Yan.

"They just like to read jokes about our sect..."

"Before the last sect competition, they fought with us in the training ground."

"Yeah, he even injured Senior Brother Yunxi—"

Xie Yan: "..."

This sounds so familiar... Is it possible that history is always so similar?

At this moment, the sword sounded "Shu——", and Xiao Lian, who was out of the sheath, chopped off the nearest green bamboo in front of him.The tall and straight bamboo wailed and fell heavily on the ground with a loud noise. Everyone immediately lowered their heads and fell silent like cicadas.

Looking around at all the disciples, Jian Suyu had a cold face, and said with a cold air, "Listen."

Xie Yan: "..."

All right, since someone is willing to make a bad face, Xie Yan is not afraid to make a bad face.He tilted his head, slightly bent the corners of his eyes, and smiled like a quack Taoist who sold exorcism talismans on the street: "Everyone is here to track down, or——let's let go of our grievances with Tiandu Yunhai?"

Yun Xi, who was surprised that his uncle was so angry, stared blankly at Xie Yan for a moment, then repeated, "...Me, us?"

When did senior Xie become "us"?

The question marks on Liu Minghong's head almost overflowed his forehead.He pointed at Xie Yan with trembling fingers, then pointed at Jian Suyu and the group of disciples behind him, and finally his eyes fell on Xie Yan's embarrassed smile, startled and angry: "...You, you? They treated you like this before , you actually - thanks to my elder brother still treat you as a brother, hmph!"

He originally thought that if Xie Yan had nowhere to go, he could join Tiandu Yunhai's sect.Anyway, these years, Tiandu Yunhai and Xuanyin have always been at odds with each other, and they don't care about one more reason to make each other hate it.As a result, Xie Yan had already gotten up with "we" in this room, and Liu Minghong mourned his misfortune and angered him for not fighting, and even walked away angrily.

"Ming Hong! No, you listen to my explanation—" Xie Yan restrained the unruly smile on his face, moved his footsteps slightly, and was about to catch up to explain.Suddenly feeling his sleeves tighten, he turned his head and looked into Lan Yin's firm eyes.

"...Is it 'us'?" Lan Yin carefully tugged at his sleeve.

As soon as he raised his eyes, Xie Yan saw Jian Suyu's eyes fixed on him all the time, as if he had been quietly waiting for him to speak.In fact, the young man's strength is not very strong, as long as Xie Yan struggles lightly, he can escape, but Lan Yin...is different from others after all.So he could only sigh heavily, and reached out to touch the top of his head.

The moonlight is bright outside, the tea is fragrant indoors, and the vast white mist washes away the dust along the way.

Yunxi stood respectfully at one side: "We noticed in Lin'an that every time a murder occurred, a man with strange behavior appeared nearby. When the investigation so far, the man has disappeared. Apart from him, We don't seem to have seen anyone else in the village either."

"How could it be a man?" The tea was just out of the oven, and the fragrance was overflowing.Xie Yan took a sip of tea by himself, and when he looked up, he found that everyone was looking at him, a little strange, "...Why are you all staring at me?"

A group of disciples shook their heads again and again.

Lan Yin stared at the hot teacup in his palm, and said with difficulty: "...Aren't you hot?"

"Oh, are you talking about this?" Xie Yan smiled with his eyes bent, like two crescent moons.Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he put his hand into the creaking stove, and moved his slender fingertips like showing off: "I am not afraid of fire when I was a child, and I even picked chestnuts from the fire. So in the past, Liu and I—" When a name was about to be blurted out, he suddenly stopped talking, and the smile on his face faded a little.

"Stop making trouble..." A white hand suddenly grabbed Xie Yan's wrist and pulled his hand out of the fiery red stove.Jian Suyu's eyes fell on Yunxi, encouraging him to continue: "Why are you tied up at the entrance of the village?"

"Later—" From the always indifferent words of the uncle, Yunxi actually heard a hint of tenderness.His eyes paused for a moment on the overlapping hands of the two, and suddenly he realized: it turned out to be "you".

"When the disciples came after them, they were trapped in the formation in front of the village. The disciples were so ignorant that they couldn't break through the formation, so they were stunned by something. When we woke up, we found ourselves tied at the gate of the village. On the wooden stake, surrounded by green bamboos. Everyone has a lot of small wounds, it seems that the person wants to drain our blood, so he left us there to fend for ourselves."

"At first I was a little scared, but I have never seen that person, and the superficial spiritual power in my body is still there, so I healed the wound on my own and waited for rescue." Yunxi hesitated for a moment, and added, "However, some juniors claimed that they were in Lin'an. I saw that person from a distance. The man seems to have practiced some kind of sinister and strange method, which is specially used to take people's souls for cultivation."

"You did a good job." Jian Suyu nodded with rare approval.

It turned out to be a man... Xie Yan felt thoughtful when he heard this, and lightly rubbed his temples: "It's really strange that you didn't kill him on the spot without the Seven Kills Bewitching Formation..."

Yunxi: "..."

"Brother, it looks like there were people living in this village not long ago. Haven't you seen any other villagers?" Lan Yin asked while holding her teacup.

Yun Xi shook his head: "No, it's really strange. If I didn't guess wrong, everyone in this village might have been killed."

"Thank you for the banquet!" Just as he was speaking, a dark purple figure rushed in from outside the house, it was Liu Minghong who had left in anger before.His hair was disheveled, but his face was filled with uncontrollable surprise: "I——I saw my elder brother just now! The new wine really didn't lie to me——Elder brother is still by my side...he is still... ..."

"Who?! Who did you see?!" Xie Yan's expression froze, he stood up suddenly, and the teacup on the table fell to the ground with a "bang" and shattered.

"My big brother!" Liu Minghong jumped up excitedly, "I just saw him under the moonlight!"

"Impossible! It can't be him! His physical body has been destroyed, and he can never turn into a monster that sucks people's souls." Xie Yan was determined on the face, but his heart was in a mess.Pu Xinjiu said personally that Liu Gudeng jumped off the mountain of swords and sea of ​​fire, and has already turned into a sword spirit without water.Then his physical body should have been destroyed in the sea of ​​swords and flames long ago, how could it be used by someone with a heart?First, the uncle who flashed by in Yecheng, and then the Liu Gudeng that Liu Minghong saw—everyone is dead, why not let An Sheng?Xie Yan clenched his fists, his face was a little gloomy, it is best not to let him catch the real culprit behind the scenes, otherwise he will have to pay the price.

Liu Minghong paused with a smile on his face, and his mind went blank for a moment: "...What are you talking about? What sucks people's souls?"

"Senior." Yun Xi still remembered what Xie Yan said earlier.He bent down and cupped his hands, and saluted him: "We were just discussing the evil cultivator who recently extracted the living soul, and we just mentioned that this monster is in this village."

"You startled me." Liu Minghong patted his chest and let out a long sigh of relief.He looked at Xie Yan, his eyes full of seriousness: "Xie Yan, I really saw my elder brother under the moonlight."

"Minghong, you miss him so much, and I miss him too." Xie Yan patted his thin shoulder comfortingly.When he was in Yecheng, Xie Yan also thought that he really saw his uncle, but it turned out that it was just a phantom.

Liu Minghong grabbed his hand on his shoulder and put it on the water knife around his waist: "He still talked to me."

As if feeling something, the water cutting knife flickered.

Feeling the icy touch of the first-class weapon in his palm, perhaps Liu Minghong's tone was too sincere, Xie Yan almost believed it.He walked down the steps and asked, "What did he tell you?"

"He said let me stay with you, it's safer. And—please be merciful."