Extranodal branches

When Qing Ming was fast asleep, I quietly went out the door.

Xue Guike found Yin Xun's trail, and his subordinates were waiting for me outside the door, but the first thing I did after getting on the horse was not to find Yin Xun, but to go back to Feisheng Pavilion first.

The quilt Sang Mingxing mistakenly thought You Fangting made me suspicious. I couldn't help but think of my vague childhood memories. In the past, I took it for granted that the memories of young children were blank, but when I think about it carefully, the beginning of all my young memories , only the father.

Only my father took me to travel to the Central Plains, and the memory started from witnessing the people from the rivers and lakes put down the bandits.

And there is no trace of her mother's existence in the family, and even Ash has always kept silent about it. She always said that since she was adopted, she has never seen her father have a wife.And every time the uncles urged my father to continue, he pushed me out as a shield, saying that Feisheng Pavilion had a successor, and he didn't want to worry about it anymore. He said this until he died of illness, so I never doubted whether I was his son .

But in the whole world, if there is really no relationship at all, how can two people look so similar that even familiar people can hardly tell them apart?

If the real You Fangting is also his father's son, then his father has no reason not to bring back his younger sister who is alone in a foreign country, and even let her take care of another son for him; if You Fangting is not, his parents who died early are due to some kind of For some reason, I was handed over to my father.

But no matter which one, Ash will know.

She was always there, my father taught me silently for him when he was alive, and he silently took care of the funeral after his death. She kept everything secret, which meant that my father would never hide anything from her, and asked her to investigate. You Fangting, who was full of flaws when he first entered the rivers and lakes, did not need to spend so many days.

Because she already knew.

And You Fangting's delay in showing up is very likely to be her handwriting.

But I believe that she is protecting me, and she will never betray me. This does not come from loyalty, nor is it from fear, but the family affection that only she has and only shows to me in the entire Feisheng Pavilion—since she saved me from Losing an arm with a broken leg is always on my mind.

Feisheng Pavilion was empty.

I have never seen it look so dim. In order to deal with the news from north to south, it is always brightly lit even in the middle of the night. The black and white spies serving it take turns, and it never rests.So much so that I was away for ten years, and when I rode my horse back, I never felt that this place was so strange, it was as dark as a cannibal cave deep in the snow-capped mountains.

Xu is not here, and no one is here.

The men sent by Xue Guike followed me all the time, and they couldn't help being surprised at this moment: "What's the matter...how about you go to the snow mountain first?"

I can't find Ah Xu now, but Xue Guike has been listening to me to search for Yin Xun's trace. He is waiting for me in the snow mountain. I believe Ah Xu also knows.

Whether it's a trap or something, I have to go.

"Boss, why did you come here? This place is terribly cold..." Seeing my solemn expression, Xue Guike gradually stopped talking, "What's wrong?"

He didn't know Ash's actions either.

This guy is as good as a quail in front of Ash. If there is any change over there, he must report it to me if he knows. The smile is disguised, and there are unfathomable calculations hidden under the skin.

Only the cold wind from the mountains whizzed through the jagged cliffs and frozen rocks, and we stood at the downwind, the snow air carried a faint smell of medicine, coming from the extinguished firewood at the door of the dilapidated stone house in the distance.

"Are you sure it's Yin Xun?" I clenched my knife tightly and asked Xue Guike.

"I've seen the face."

"Go back and guard the way up the mountain for me, especially you, the farther you go, the better."

"Ah?" Xue Guike was taken aback, "Boss, he is very powerful, you want to fight one-on-one? Don't you still want to press Yin Qing about it? A person is a bit..."

"Because he is strong, you and I are not an all-in-one enemy. You go far away to induce Zigu—bring a group of people to find Ah Xu and find out what she wants to do."

"...Apprentice, who are you?" Just as I finished speaking, a familiar sigh was suddenly blown by the cold wind.

His smoky figure melted into the white snow, like a demon spirit traveling in the wind, passing me behind him in an instant, knocking on the stone house.

Qing Ming pretended to be asleep and followed me all the way.

"Go!" I pushed Xue Guike away and caught up with Qingming.

The door of the stone house opened.

Qingming didn't have time to ask me any more, he looked at Yin Xun behind the door, slightly dazed.

Yin Xun didn't wear a mask, and the face that had been covered before was revealed again. His left cheek was deeply sunken, his skin was as thin as a cicada's wing, and his bones and teeth were translucent. At first glance, he looked like a half-faced skeleton.

"your face……"

"I let you find it here." Yin Xun leaned on the door frame, looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and didn't even give him a straight look. He sneered, "You ask this? Remember five years ago, the man who sold you cigarettes look like?"

Without waiting for Qing Ming to answer, he continued talking to himself: "I covered my face at that time, but luckily you didn't find out, otherwise I wouldn't have thought about it for five years."

He picked up Qing Ming's outer robe with the tip of a knife, and saw the dark blue jade flute. He frowned and said, "Where's the cigarette rod? You didn't bring it?"

"Healed of your nasty and disgusting problem?" Yin Xun caught a glimpse of me, and a creepy and vicious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Oh yes——you have an apprentice."

Qingming was silent, rubbing the jade flute anxiously with her fingers, I remembered the uneven layer of off-white soft leather on the cigarette stem, and suddenly understood what it was.

"All these years of working as a pharmacist, when I think of that face in your hands every day, I feel nauseous day after day. Whenever I can't hold it anymore, when I touch my face, I will rely on killing you again. Desire survives. For so many years, cold and hot, but whenever your conscience is disturbed, it sticks to your fingers. Whether you realize it or not, it will always witness the dirty, arrogant, treacherous and malicious heart in that innocent and clean body, extending What a relief to my endless curses!"

Qingming's fingers trembled slightly as if they were being burned: "If it's because of what the Yin family did, I'll let it go."

"Why are you pretending to be a good person at this time, no! I said no!" Yin Xun suddenly became agitated, grabbed Qing Ming's loose hair, and said against his head, "Have you lost your mind yet! Waited so long Years, isn’t it all right!?”

"Let go of my master." I struck his arm with a knife, but halfway was blocked by Qingming's flute. The jade is hard and has internal strength, and I backed away a few steps. He said: "I don't know who you are , stop meddling!"

"Hahaha...you don't know, you little apprentice has an extraordinary background, you can even find me in the wilderness, no wonder you have been fooled around, how does it feel to believe in a liar?" Yin Xun let go of his hair, "It's like I believed in you back then, just as I believed in your family."

He laughed loudly: "After living for a long time, I can still see good things!"

"I never lied to you..."

Yin Xun interrupted him, and said indifferently: "I have never lied to you... You said we are 'good brothers for life', told me not to care about our background, and said 'brotherhood is not bound by blood'" no one underestimates I'... But once the memory disappears, giri is bullshit, and you become like them! No, it's the same! The first show of favor, I'm afraid it's just a frivolous falsehood! Just like all old things say, The children of thieves and thieves will eventually follow the same old path as their parents. You raised me, but you never really treated me as a family, like tidying up and playing with pets, giving me small favors, and kicking me away if I made a mistake. Punishments are like livestock!"

"I didn't remember you at all... and I forgot the murderer who killed Xiao He. I didn't know that I killed him..." Qingming was in a daze, "It would be great if I didn't get hurt when I killed him It's..."

"Well said, forget it! Do you think I can forgive you today if you kill the murderer?" Yin Xun pressed the handle of the knife against his forehead, gritted his teeth, "Think about it, think carefully about that! Who carried you back from the river at that time! And who was covered in blood with you, but he was the only one who became a sinner?!"

Qing Ming has no excuse for the prejudice against the Yin family for many years.

"Even if you are covered in blood, no one will doubt you. Even if you are really related to the murderer, if you admit your mistake, you can return to Yihua to be your happy fairy. If you don't want to be locked up for a few years, you will still be happy when you come out. Disciples of the Eight Desolations of Light, what about me? I was buried by them, and sank into the poisonous swamp together with the corpse. It is here, but it seems to disappear!"

"For revenge, I sacrificed my life as a pharmacist for six years, and now I am finally free—what kind of freedom is there? I have to kill you to be free." Disciple is ruined, he can always kill you!"

Facing his scimitar piercing through the air, Qing Ming remained motionless and let him chop, but Yin Xun was dissatisfied again: "Blow your beautiful flute! How about palming? What about intoxicating flowers? You disciples of the Eight Desolation, don't you rely on Do these cute and beautiful things claim to be righteous?! Use them all!"

Qing Ming raised his hand with difficulty, but the sound of the flute he played was obscure and hoarse, the sound was not melodious, and it could not exert its due power at all.

Yin Xun pointed the scimitar at me impatiently: "What about you? Sleeping master, addicted to sleep? The owner of the Feisheng Pavilion is just a jerk with a big brain. When blocked by your master, he dare not even pull out the knife Already!"

I'm waiting.

Xue Guike has gone far.

Yin Xun's already pale skin suddenly turned blue, the tip of the knife in his hand trembled slightly, his pupils dilated for a moment, as if he was enduring extreme pain.

"I heard it just now—is that Xue Xue playing tricks..." He stared at me fiercely and swung the knife, but the internal energy of the knife was scattered, and only the weight of the blade was left to chop, and the power was not as good as before. Together with a dark sapphire flute to hold its momentum.

"Master, you..."

"Don't call me Master anymore, I'm not qualified to be your Master." Qing Ming also sensed my sudden surge of inner strength of the magic sword, this block was completely out of instinct, blocked it, but regretted it, withdrew his hand and looked at me with complicated eyes , "This matter has nothing to do with you at all. I have no money to pay the owner of the Feisheng Pavilion—this disgusting habit, you probably have enough—this secret, will you sell it?"

"I said that I will keep your secret forever, and my uncle still wants you to protect me, so I won't leave."

"Senior brother... I don't know what you gave him. Do you need my protection? Let's go!!" His flute hit my saber, making my arm numb, and Yin Xun's scimitar was released Falling down, changing the angle and sweeping again, his vision was distorted due to pain, he staggered and indulged his inner force to swing at us randomly, the knife Qi leveled the uneven cliffs on the snow surface, and the sound of gold and stone was endless.

Qingming avoided me while driving me away. Maybe it was because of his anger and disappointment that he had no time to care about himself. I took the initiative to touch his skin, but he didn't respond. He just blocked my knife with his flute without saying a word. Hit after hit, I couldn't cut Yin Xun, but my arm was sore and numb.

Until I heard the sound of the first crossbow bolt breaking through the air.

More than a dozen warriors hired by Feisheng Pavilion hid in a hidden area in the distance, surrounded the three of us, arrows quickly pierced the night sky, and all of them hit my direction.

Qing Ming also recognized it: "Isn't that your person?!"

"Someone in the pavilion betrayed me." I told the truth, and retreated and blocked.Qing Mingben stayed close to Yin Xun and blocked many arrows for him.Because I retreated and took away a large number of arrows, his pressure suddenly dropped, and he ran towards me again.

"Thank you, Master." He was always a soft-hearted person.

"Cover your ears."

The music of Qingming's flute is like the sound of screaming arrows permeated by the sea tide in the night. The majestic internal energy that he usually restrains and does not release seems to ripple with the sound of the flute. The sound fell, and Yin Xun was also affected, and he fell to the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

He lifted Yin Xun from the snow, turned his back to me and said in a deep voice: "Thank you, Pavilion Master, for finding the criminal for me. From now on, you don't have to be wronged in the county government anymore. I wish you peace as soon as possible." Civil unrest."

Before I could answer, he had already performed lightness kung fu and disappeared in the boundless snow wind between ups and downs.

I have withstood several waves of surprise attacks, but I have never met with Xue Guike. Feisheng Pavilion is no longer trustworthy, and the news he received may be deceived and false.And compared to Xue Guike in the Three Caves of the Rabbit, I am more worried about A Xu. Except for the uncle in the pavilion who planned this operation, if they want to dispatch troops, they must first pass A Xu.

As for why they suddenly chose to betray me——

In order to keep the secret, Ah Xu restricted You Fangting from appearing in front of everyone. If he borrowed the secret prison in the pavilion, it is impossible to guarantee that it would not be heard by his uncle.

They have always been only loyal to their father, because I inherited my father's blood, and I can maintain peace and tranquility when my rights are truncated. If I find out that I am not my biological son, I will immediately replace it.

I hid in a small lamasery near the snow-capped mountains. I disguised myself every day, pretending to be a new disciple of the nearby Shendao Hall, inquiring about the news of Feisheng Pavilion.

To my surprise, Ash took the position of Pavilion Master.

With great fanfare, she entertained all the uncles and Xu Hai's big and small sects with the reason of "recapturing Feisheng Pavilion from foreigners", and even invited Sun Haoran, the abbot of Tianlong Ancient Temple and the former leader of Shendaotang, to sit in the battle, intending to slaughter the thieves After that, the chaos in the pavilion was quelled, and all news from Feisheng Pavilion was circulated again, and it opened up auspiciously.

——However, this was a surprise Hongmen banquet.

I mixed into the team of the Divine Sword Hall, and looked at each other when Ash suddenly brought out Fang Ting's body.

"Everyone." Her voice spread throughout the audience with internal force, and the crowd fell silent.

When she spoke to me, she always whispered softly, and I had never heard her roar so boldly and confidently.

"Today, in order to punish the people who stole the pavilion, I was fortunate enough to invite the abbot and commander in Xia Ningxu. Every sentence I say below is related to the future of my Feisheng Pavilion."

The uncles who were in the upper ranks had known what she was going to say, and calmly recounted the old days with the abbot. The abbot just smiled, looked in the direction of A Xu and did not answer.

"This corpse is my brother."

what did she say?

Not only did my heart tighten, but the faces of the uncles also changed slightly, and they all commented, "Why is it different from what was agreed?".

"More than ten years ago, the uncle in the pavilion never agreed with his father to hand over the Feisheng Pavilion to his subordinate because of his status as a woman, but now he has evil intentions, fabricated the rumor that the current pavilion owner is not his father's son, and brutally besieged and murdered him. In the depths of the snowy field. The wolf's ambition is clear from the heavens. Fortunately, the abbot and the commander jointly testified, and now we can crusade!"

The abbot said loudly: "Not bad! You are worthy of being Ning Qi's daughter!"

Sun Haoran, the commander of Shendao Hall, raised his long sword suddenly, and his snowy owl blew along with the wind of the sword and pecked at the eyes of all the uncles. The abbot's Zen staff stretched like a mountain on the top of the mountain: "Please bear witness!"

Ash flew up and took the head of his uncle's neck with a long knife. In an instant, the blood on the seat soared, and the crowd was commotion.

Ash had such ambitions.

I took advantage of the chaos to leave the banquet full of blood, not knowing where to go.

She took You Fangting's body as me and displayed it in front of everyone.In this way, even if I don't die, I can no longer shake her position as the cabinet master. She wants "I" to shut up forever, and can neither continue to explore her past nor return to the cabinet. It is best to go to Yihua Island , Maybe he can succeed the real You Fangting and live on.

I regard her as my own sister, but she has never understood that I am not from the Ning family.

I noticed that Xue Guike and his subordinates were not present. If he is found, there may be a chance to make a comeback.

【Go find Xue Guike immediately】→Next chapter 13

[A comeback...? 】→Chapter 14