Yu Hongchen

Northern Continent Demon Palace.A ray of morning light passed through the sea of ​​clouds and shot at the dark palace complex. The magic baby, the god and object enshrined in the magic palace palace, flashed golden light, shining brightly and endlessly.

A slightly old figure with a smile on his face hurriedly walked into the magic palace, and said to the stalwart man standing with his hands behind his back in the palace, "My lord, that person is awake."

The stalwart man turned around, and swept the black cloak that reached the ground, sweeping up smoke and dust all over the ground.

If Xie Liuchen and the others were here, they would definitely be able to see that apart from his handsome face, the man in front of him had a sinister aura, which was roughly similar to that of Zuo Dharma back then.

He said lightly: "Yes."

The Lord of the Black Flag Palace said: "Young Master, one hundred thousand demon soldiers are assembled on the bank, and the people from the 33th Palace and the [-]rd Cave are also on standby at any time. As long as you give an order, my family will send troops to Nanling immediately!"

Zhong Lian said, "Where are those idiots in Huanggu?"

The owner of the Black Flag Palace was a little embarrassed, and said: "Young Master, the group of beasts seems to have a helper recently. The group of beasts built a mountain wall on the mountain to prevent our clansmen from entering. The subordinates think that their beast king may have returned. .”

"is it?"

"Yes, the man also said that the Beast King and the human race have a deep friendship, and the battlefield is changing rapidly. This time, it is not suitable to enslave the beast race to fight."

"That's what that person said?" Zhong Lian said, "That's fine, with this person's power, it's easy to occupy Nanling, and those fools in Huanggu can be ignored."

The Master of the Black Flag Palace said: "Young Master, our clan has been raising soldiers and recharging their batteries for 50 years, and we are just waiting for this moment, so that you can avenge your father."

"Revenge, revenge..." Zhong Lian muttered these two words: "This moment has finally come, but why am I not happy at all?"

He looked dazed, and closed his eyes tiredly. In a flash, everything about his father's death in the Floating Dream Tower appeared in front of his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, there was a bit of determination in his eyes.

"Let's go, I hope this war won't last too long."

The hearts of the demons have been inconsistent for many years, and the palace masters and cave masters have their own policies. Since Zhong Lian came to power for 50 years, he has used strong methods to regain the hearts of the people, making the demons present a heyday that has never been seen in hundreds of years under his hands. He can be regarded as the real head of the clan.

Today, he has full control over the power of the demon clan, and he can finally avenge his father.

……

After Xie Liuchen was sure that all wounds of Shang Lixing had healed, he was finally willing to go to Zhoujia Village with him to find out the mystery of Fu Changning.

"Brother Shang, are we really going to dig the grave?" Xie Liuchen followed Shang Li on the mountain path, stepping on the grass roots under his feet, and asked casually.

Shang Lixing didn't answer, but asked him: "What if he really did it? What would you do?"

Xie Liuchen retorted, "But it doesn't have to be him!"

He still didn't want to doubt Fu Changning. How could such a stupid mortal scholar with no cultivation base have the ability to travel a hundred thousand miles across the sea to build a wooden house in Zhongzhou?

He lowered his head in distress.

At this moment, the light in front of his eyes dimmed, and it was Shang Lixing who blocked his way, and said seriously: "Junior Brother Xie, I'm serious, if all this was really done by Fu Changning, what would you do?"

Xie Liuchen met him with a serious look, and suddenly his heart started beating violently. He felt that this trip to Zhoujia Village was not as simple as digging a grave as he thought.Without hesitation, he said from between his lips and teeth: "If it's what he did, then I will kill him!"

Shang Lixing stared at him closely, not letting go of the slightest expression on his face, and said: "Remember what you said, and don't act emotionally at that time."

Xie Liuchen was eager to prove himself, patted his chest and said, "No way, can't you still trust me?!"

The two rushed to the former Zhoujia Village, only to see that Zhoujia Village had changed its appearance 50 years ago. The plaque on the village gate was replaced by "Anle Village". Watching the children catching grasshoppers, when they saw the two of them passing by, they couldn't help but stop their movements and looked at them together.

Xie Liuchen dragged Shang Li to another mountain path: "Come on, Senior Brother Shang, let's make a detour and don't let them run into us."

Shang Lixing was about to act in a low-key manner, when he heard the words, he was noncommittal, and let him lead them. The two walked on a hidden mountain road, and they didn't meet anyone else on the road.

Xie Liuchen dragged him up the mountain road familiarly, and said, "Senior Brother Shang, I used to come here with my friends before, so I am very familiar with this place."

Shang Lixing was a little confused: "Your friend?"

"Yes," Xie Liuchen counted, "There is Miss Qiu'er, Uncle Saturday, and the Fu Changning I told you about."

Shang Lixing said with a smile: "You know a lot of people here."

"Hey," Xie Liuchen smiled sarcastically, and sighed again: "However, the current Anle Village is much more prosperous than the previous Zhoujia Village, and I don't know what happened in the past 50 years."

Shang Lixing asked casually: "Was the Zhou Family Village in the past very desolate?"

Xie Liuchen said: "Yes, some strange things happened in Zhoujia Village, the villagers moved away overnight."

Shang Lixing said, "Oh, what happened?"

Xie Liuchen thought of the little girl with a peaceful smile, and said with some disappointment: "Some people have died, Miss Qiu'er and her father both died inexplicably."

Shang Lixing frowned slightly: "All the dead are your friends?"

"That's right, here! It's right there!" Xie Liuchen suddenly stopped, pointing to a thick tree not far in front of him: "Miss Qiu'er was hanged on the tree at that time, and the villagers said she was bewitched by evil spirits. , hanged himself.”

"Nonsense," Shang Lixing said with a smile, "How could there be such a thing as evil spirits? You, a cultivator, also believe in this?"

Xie Liuchen curled his lips and said, "Of course I don't believe it! But they all say that, what can I do? I have no proof."

The forest they were in was exactly the place where Qiu'er hanged himself that day, Xie Liuchen looked up, and vaguely reproduced the scene of Qiu'er's death in front of his eyes, thinking of such a talented little girl who died young, he was still very sad .A gust of wind blew in, and the leaves fluttered down, as if something evil was really doing evil from it.

"It's nonsense, mortals are just scaring themselves," Shang Lixing said first, and walked down the mountain: "Let's go, time is limited, and I will visit the little girl again when I have a chance. Take me to see the cabin you mentioned."

Xie Liuchen said: "Okay!" He quickly followed Shang Lixing, passed him, and took him to the destination of Zhoujia Village this time.

Because they took a shortcut from other mountain roads, and the place they wanted to find was just behind the village, so they didn't see anyone along the way, which relieved them of many scruples.

They came to the ruins of the wooden house at the foot of the mountain. There was only a ruined wall left on the bare wasteland. Xie Liuchen pointed to the rotten wood: "Senior Brother Shang, this is it."

Shang Lixing leaned slightly and looked intently, trying to identify any similarities with the wooden house under the Zhongzhou Ice Valley. However, the remains of the wooden house were eroded beyond recognition by the years, but there was no trace of the past.

Xie Liuchen went to the back of the wooden house again: "Senior Brother Shang, here is the tombstone."

Shang Lixing walked in the direction of his finger, and saw a small mound of earth piled up behind the house, and in front of the mound stood a wooden board with the words "Tomb of Fu Changning" written crookedly on it.

Shang Lixing was a little puzzled, he didn't know what kind of person this Fu Changning was, but from Xie Liuchen's few descriptions, he should be a rather elegant person, and he didn't want the place where he lived after death to be so sloppy and desolate.

Shang Lixing took a few steps towards the tombstone, when Xie Liuchen grabbed his sleeve: "Senior Brother Shang, I can't bear it."

He really couldn't bear to see his old friend in peace after his death.

"Don't worry, I'll just take a look first." Shang Lixing comforted him a few words, broke free from his hand, and walked forward again, Xie Liuchen hesitated to speak, but followed him up.

Shang Lixing looked at the rough wooden tombstone, looked at it, and suddenly asked, "Junior Brother Xie, do you know who erected this tombstone?"

Xie Liuchen shook his head behind him: "I don't know, he was already dead when I woke up."

"Really?" Shang Lixing said to himself, "This is really strange."

He turned his gaze to the mound behind the tombstone, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

After a while, his eyes flashed, and he recited a mantra silently, centering on where they were, and setting up a magic circle to isolate this place from the outside world.At the same time, his subordinates used a blasting spell and hit it on the mound.

With a low bang, the clods of soil flew away, and a deep pit was formed at the mound.A black lacquered coffin appeared in the pit.

Shang Lixing waved his right hand again, and together with his two fingers, brought a bone-piercing cold wind.

Seeing Shang Lixing wave his right hand, Xie Liuchen knew that he was about to make a move, so he said in a panic, "Senior Brother Shang."

"You don't dare to look?" Shang Lixing stopped halfway out of his outstretched hand, and turned to ask him.

Xie Liuchen was about to speak, but Shang Lixing said again: "Well, you close your eyes, and open them after I open the coffin."

Xie Liuchen couldn't think of any other way, so he closed his eyes helplessly. After closing his eyes, he only heard a low "squeak" sound, and the breath of Shang Lixing beside him became heavy. After a while, the surrounding became inexplicably quiet. Didn't hear it either.

He panicked and shouted: "What's going on? Brother Shang?"

"Thank you, brother, you can open your eyes now."

He opened his eyes and saw that Shang Lixing was staring down at the pit with his mouth clenched.

Xie Liuchen followed his gaze and let out a cry.

The coffin was actually empty, with nothing in it.

Shang Lixing looked back at him and said, "Brother Xie, your brother Fu seems to be not a simple person."

Xie Liuchen still hasn't come to his senses: "How is it possible, did he really do it? Why?"

Shang Lixing shook his head and said: "It's too early to make a conclusion. Whether he is the mastermind behind the scenes or one of them, whether he did the destruction of the Tianzhu and the invasion of the monk's sea of ​​consciousness, we don't know all of this. clear."

After changing the subject, he asked again, "Do you know where else he often goes?"

Xie Liuchen pondered for a while, then lowered his head in distress: "I don't know, I only know that he is from Zhoujiacun. Cheng Ming has no merits except for his knowledge, he failed the imperial examination and his health is not good, so he can only rely on the relief of the villagers."

Shang Lixing listened carefully to his narration of Fu Changning's life, but from the beginning to the end, he felt that there was almost nothing special about Fu Changning except for being a bit bookish.He was a little discouraged and said: "As for the origin of this person, it seems that we need to start from other places. Let's go back and send the casual cultivators in the sect to investigate this person."

Xie Liuchen responded, "Okay."

Shang Lixing stretched out his hand to withdraw the magic circle, but before he waved it, he stopped suddenly: "Wait."

Xie Liuchen also stopped along with him, and asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

"Did you hear any sound?" Shang Lixing said solemnly.

Xie Liuchen found it strange, and listened intently for a while, and said, "It seems that there are singing sounds on the mountain. However," he said doubtfully, "it should be the folk songs from the nearby mountain people, which is normal!"

"That's right, it's singing," Shang Lixing nodded, "But I've just set up an isolation circle. Logically speaking, we can't hear anything from the outside world, and the outside world can't hear our voice either."

Xie Liuchen didn't know anything about the magic circle, so he just shook his head when he heard this.

Shang Lixing's expression became more and more dignified, and said: "Unless, unless there is a magic circle here, and it is bigger than the magic circle I set up, cover the magic circle I set up." He pulled Xie Liuchen to Behind him, "Close your eyes."

He pinched the algorithm with one hand, and ignited the fire spell with the other. He quickly measured the position of the array in his mind, and the fire talisman floated into the air with his thoughts. When Shang Lixing put his five fingers together, the fire talisman had a specific direction, floating and falling slowly. To the eye position.

The breakthrough point is the formation eye.

The fire talisman ignited when touched, and exploded behind them.

The eye of the array is the coffin in the pit.

Xie Liuchen also opened his eyes at this time.

The two turned their heads to look, and saw that the wooden planks of the coffin were torn apart after being blasted by the fire talisman, and a downward black hole was blasted out. The hole was not too big or small, just enough for the two of them to enter. The soil ladder made of mud, with a neat and smooth surface, is obviously man-made, winding down to the darkness of nowhere, as if welcoming them to enter.

The other party is so magnanimous, if you don't go down and take a look, it seems that the two of you are timid.

"It seems that it's a plan to invite you into the urn, Junior Brother Xie," he smiled confidently, and looked at Xie Liuchen tenderly, "Would you like to come down with me to have a look?"

"Of course!" Xie Liuchen said without hesitation.