Ask Sword

The junction of Xingzhou and Sizhou, in the outskirts of the city, in the countryside.

The children returning home from delivering food to their busy parents on the river dam were walking on the mountain road back to the village, talking and laughing.

The children don't know what kind of sea beasts have been rampant recently. They only know that in recent years, everyone's life has improved a lot.

What kind of fertilizers and pesticides can be sprinkled into the ground to make the crops grow wildly; the road to the town has been rebuilt, so you don’t have to walk all day to go to the market as before; Medicine, as long as a little can cure various diseases;

The word starvation became blurred in my mind.

The only unhappiness is probably that the cloth woven at home is not very easy to sell, right? After all, because of the workshops along the river, cloth and ready-made clothes are cheaper than in the past.

Just as they were discussing whether they should go catch crabs together or catch cicadas after finishing the housework such as cutting pigweed and collecting firewood, a sharp-eyed child quickly raised his hand to signal everyone to keep their voices down.

On a hill not far away, an old man sat quietly.

He was wearing a black robe, sitting cross-legged under a tree, facing a tomb, wondering what he was thinking about. On the tombstone in front of the tomb, the word Lian can be vaguely seen.

Unnatural expressions appeared on the faces of the children, and everyone subconsciously quickened their pace and fled from here.

The old man whose name he didn't know would come to the mountain in the village at this time of year and sit in front of the tomb for a day or two.

As early as a few years, more than ten years, or even before the village was established, someone had seen him worshiping that tomb.

The strange thing is that he obviously has a similar accent, but no one in the nearby villages and towns knows him. No one has seen him enter or leave the village.

It is said that several decades ago, someone with good deeds went to the city and reported to the Zhen Fusi.

The soldiers from the Zhenfu Division came over to look, but did not reveal the identity of the old man, but solemnly warned the villagers not to disturb him.

It's really strange.

Not long after the children quickened their pace and left, the clouds in the sky broke through, and Li Ang plummeted down, landing on the hillside.

call.

He straightened his collar that was blown by the wind, strode up the hillside, walked through the pine forest, slowed down, came to the two tombs, bowed and cupped his hands and said respectfully: Master of the mountain.

Lian Xuanxiao didn't look back, and said slowly: ...Ah Ti asked you to come, right?

yes.

Li Ang paused for a moment, wondering if it was because he had only told Ati about the whereabouts of one person, but he deduced the reason why Li Ang was able to find him.

It was still the head of the mountain who kept in touch with Ati.

Is there a problem?

Is such that.

Li Ang succinctly explained how he discovered Siyouren Temple through Mosi's avatar.

The focus is on the four murals in the temple that are suspected to be prophesied, and Zhaoming is likely to have mastered the secrets of the Siyou clan through Shi Xingseng, or the current Harvard.

I see.

The head of the mountain nodded, but without any unnecessary movements, the pine leaves next to him were blown away by themselves, clearing an open space, Sit down.

ah? Isn't the Siyou clan's prophecy and Zhaoming's matter not important?

Li Ang suppressed the worries in his heart, and imitated Shan Zhang, sitting cross-legged on the ground.

The head of the mountain turned his head slightly, and asked: During this time, are you doing well in the academy?

good.

Li Ang answered truthfully subconsciously, then paused, scratching his head embarrassingly, It's just a little... uncomfortable. It's too deserted.

Knowing friends, or going to the frontier, stationed in the army, always ready to meet the enemy's sneak attack,

Or go to the East China Sea to participate in sea beast hunting.

Instead, Li Ang himself, who had been very busy before, was left in the academy.

Is it?

The head of the mountain didn't say anything, turned around, looked at the tomb, and said calmly: This is my family's tomb.

Li Ang didn't know what to say, so he simply kept silent.

During the Fengyi period, there was a rumor about Zhenhe Chi beast in the rivers and lakes. It is said that as long as you take the dragon ball that the Chi beast is still gestating, you can prolong your life, improve your cultivation, and even glimpse the realm above Zhuxiao.

People and horses from all walks of life had ulterior motives and besieged and killed Zhenhe beasts, causing the embankment to burst, floods, and thousands of miles of land to be wiped out of the country.

This Tao'an Village was once completely submerged.

The head of the mountain pointed to the peaceful village at the foot of the mountain, and said slowly: In the face of the flood, the house is like a building made of sand, and it will collapse if you push it.

When a person falls into the water and is swept up by the undercurrent, he will disappear from the surface of the water in an instant, and will float back lifeless after drifting out for several tens of feet. A distended belly is often filled with water.

The bodies of many floating corpses were covered with colorful worms. It wasn't that maggots were born so soon, but that the worms also wanted to escape the flood.

A reminiscence expression appeared on the face of the head of the mountain, and he said: My house was washed away, and my father, brothers and sisters were all washed away.

My mother put me into the wooden tub and tried to push me to the low hill, but she really had no strength, so she pushed me away with all her strength and disappeared under the water.

I floated all the way to the boundary of Caozhou in a wooden basin, was rescued by the Academy, and survived.

I was admitted to the academy and learned faster than anyone else. Listening to the rain in the first year, patrolling the clouds in the second year, and in the third year, I will kill all monks suspected of participating in the killing of the Zhenhe Chi Beast and causing the flood, whether they are good cultivators or demon cultivators.

Among them, it also includes the doctor of Xuegong, court officials, palace priests and royal family members.

ah?

Li Ang's eyelids twitched. He knew that Shan Chang's temper in the early years was not as gentle and generous as it is now, but he never thought that the old man would kill so many people, even the Academy's own people.

And it's really okay to commit such a big crime in only the third year of school?

Perhaps those monks who participated in the killing of Chi beasts had their own ideas, or they just wanted to get a share, or they listened to the orders of the big shots, or they were encouraged by others, but in my case, they all deserve to die.

Guessing what Li Ang was thinking, the head of the mountain said indifferently: During the day, I was studying in the academy, deliberately pretending to be dull, with poor endowment, and only feel the atmosphere.

At night, I put on night clothes and went out of the city to kill people with a knife, using the most cruel and brutal methods.

Even if a classmate, teacher, or sergeant of the Zhenfu Division noticed something abnormal, I would easily prevaricate it—no one would doubt that a gentle and elegant disciple with a sword who only had a sense of aura would fight with a famous killer. on the association.

That

Li Ang hesitated to speak, no wonder the head of the mountain had a flat face when he found out that Li Ang was parasitized by a demon, feeling that he was more ruthless than himself when he was young.

It's just that although the academy has teaching without discrimination, it will definitely not allow its disciples to kill, and it is even more impossible to choose him as the head of the mountain. Certainly not many people know about this. Why did you tell Li Ang at this time?

Why am I telling you this?

The head of the mountain turned his head and said with a smile, Because I'm about to die.