In front of the bookshop located a little to the west, a young man who looked to be in his twenties looked up at the plaque on the bookshop and spoke with emotion.
"The affairs of the world have not come in for many years."
He is said to be young, but in fact he is not. Most people would think he is very young when they see his face. But anyone who really knows him knows that he is actually thirty-six years old. He is about the same age as the shopkeeper in the bookstore.
Who is this person! It was the useless scholar who ran away to travel around the world five years ago, and He Moqian who shocked the entire Western Chu with a sword attack on the Daoxian Sect a few days ago. It was that person who commented later that the Western Chu frontier master who could hold off a million troops with a single soldier and an iron horse had already reached the mid-to-late stage of the semi-immortal realm.
Looking at the world, they are also rare existences.
Back to the topic, it is already past Haishi, so it stands to reason that the bookstore should be closed at this time. But somehow, tonight, not only was the door not closed, but it was opened as if to welcome guests, and the lights were as bright as day.
He Moqian thought to himself, maybe the senior brother knew that he would come and was waiting for him on purpose. But with the senior brother's cultivation level, he should not be able to detect his aura, but how could it be?
He felt the aura and understood that it was not just his senior brother, but also other masters.
He stepped in, closed the door and went upstairs.
But when he reached the third floor, the two people in front of him smiled and spoke to him.
"After listening to Senior Lingxu, I knew you would come. Junior brother, long time no see."
"Senior brother, you are well! Senior Lingxu, long time no see."
"Brother He, come here quickly and sit down. Your senior brother has specially made delicious food for you. I can have a full meal if I take advantage of it."
He Moqian sat across from the two people. He was not polite. He took a sip of tea and said. "I went to many places this time and saw the world outside of Xichu. It was very interesting."
"Brother He has seen the big world, and he is no longer like ordinary people like us." Old Master Lingxu laughed. "Pindao actually wants to travel around the world like Brother He, but it's a pity that my uncle's health is getting worse and worse and he can't leave."
"I can't take it for granted in the world, but He has indeed experienced a lot this time and understood a lot of truths. But I won't mention these this time. I am mainly here to see my senior brother."
"You're going north!" Zhao Xi said.
He Moqian nodded. "It is said that the young gentleman has fallen ill, so He decided to go north to help him. Besides, I also want to avenge someone and end the entanglement of the past few years and the thorn in my heart."
Zhao Xi sighed and said. "Sir, if you hear these words from junior brother, you should be happy."
"Are you okay, sir?" he asked.
"Everything is fine, I just won't mention you. But don't take it personally. He actually has you in his heart."
"You guys are chatting about family matters. It's unnecessary for me to watch alone."
Having said that, if you look at his facial features, there is nothing superfluous at all.
He Moqian smiled and joked. "Senior Lingxu, why not join in? It was said back then."
"No, I don't dare. But there is one thing to say. If Brother He really goes north, then Xichu will be in trouble." Old Master Lingxu waved his hand quickly.
He Moqian looked outside and saw a few bats flying by in the dark night. Indeed, the war in Western Chu over the past few years should be settled.
The sky had just turned white when Li Yi and Xu Jinxin were already lying on the roof of Shao Mansion, looking like thieves.
Li Yi should have said goodbye and left last night, but last night, he and Xu Jinxin followed the group of men in black here.
It can be said that I didn't sleep all night.
Thinking back to last night, he felt a little sad. He had already said goodbye to Xu Jinxin.
But he wasn't done yet. Dozens of black shadows appeared on the roof.
The black shadow was so fast that it almost flashed by.
It is precisely because of this that it attracted the attention of Li Yi and Xu Jinxin.
Xu Jinxin put the horse next to the street, looked at each other and followed after Li Yi.
In the end, they came to the place where Li Yi least wanted Xu Jinxin to come.
Those men in black were obviously assassins, and there was obviously a target they wanted to assassinate in the Shao Mansion.
The target, Li Yi could think with his toes, must be Wang Zhihe and Yang Wenyu who were on an assassination mission in Beixuansi.
Unfortunately, this group of men in black locked onto the target in Shao's mansion. In the end, before the target appeared, they met the two of them first.
After Xu Jinxin dealt with the last man in black, he carefully jumped onto the roof, and Li Yi followed him. This was what he looked like now.
When Li Yi was about to pull Xu Jinxin away, a voice suddenly came from below.
"Wenyu, how's it going? Have you packed everything properly?"
Li Yi was stunned because the voice that spoke was that of a woman. Judging from the voice, she was a young woman.
What's more, the words in that woman's mouth were extremely harsh.
Xu Jinxin was stunned when he heard the voice, but his face instantly showed a somewhat happy look.
When he was about to jump to the yard to meet Wang Zhihe, he was grabbed by Li Yi, who shook his head.
Li Yi knew very well that it was Wang Zhihe who spoke.
He didn't know why he wanted to hold Xu Jinxin back. After all, it was his private matter.
But when he thought that the two people below were a couple, Xu Jinxin was left alone, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Probably I feel sad for him too!
Li Yi smiled weakly and thought to himself, let him see him for the last time! It should be the last one anyway.
He let go of his hand, but was a little surprised because Xu Jinxin didn't want to jump down.
At this time, Wang Zhihe was heard speaking again. "It's time for us to set off. I've replaced the horse with a good one. But since it's an assassination, why are you still dressed so conspicuously?"
"It's always for you to see. Of course you have to dress nicer."
The woman sighed and said. "This task is difficult. Don't do it like this next time. If we don't do it well, the consequences will be disastrous."
"I know, I mainly want to make you happy. But you also promise me not to worry about these rumors in the future. If you worry about it anymore, wrinkles will appear, which is really unsightly."
"Okay, it's a deal. I can see clearly. You will be so beautiful that you will be charmed by it."
Yang Wenyu poked his forehead with his hand. "Silly girl. You are everything to me, and I never want you to get hurt. When did you stop being beautiful?"
"In that case, let's go quickly! If you are late, you will miss it."
Yang Wenyu said with a straight face. "You said you don't worry about these trivial matters anymore, but I don't believe it. There are crazy rumors outside. Do you really like that Xu Jinxin? Unless!"
Wang Zhihe ran over, hugged Yang Wenyu, stood up on tiptoes, and gave Yang Wenyu a small kiss on the face.
"As far as you like to joke, you know, he is just a friend of mine, but I have never liked him. At first, I thanked him for his life-saving grace and helped him many times. Last time I let him travel around the world, I just wanted him to know It’s just a matter of retreating from the difficulties. Now, he should have someone he likes! It’s someone on two sides after all, so it can be considered as saving him!”
Xu Jinxin clenched his fists. Li Yi was afraid that he would do something stupid, so he stretched out his hand to hold him.
However, his hands were as cold as water, and his eyes were full of sadness, as if a wild beast was about to pounce.
Li Yi opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Xu Jinxin turned around, jumped off the roof, and ran to the other side of the street.
Li Yi jumped down and quickly followed.
But Xu Jinxin’s speed was too fast. With Li Yi's cultivation level, he almost lost him.
But he still stopped in front of the stone stairs in the northwest section, because Xu Jinxin just stood there and refused to leave.
He was finally afraid that Xu Jinxin would not be able to think clearly, so he opened his mouth to comfort him. "Xu Jinxin, please don't do anything stupid. You deserve a better future."
This sentence is really like saying you have a bright future, but it is often just bullshit. In reality the opposite is true.
Xu Jinxin turned around and looked at him from the front, sighed deeply, and said. "Li Yi, do you have someone you like?"
This sentence stunned Li Yi, and he felt as if he had been slapped with a sap after he had prepared his words. I was at a loss for a while and thought for a long time before speaking. "There will be more in the future."
Xu Jinxin smiled miserably. "When I was traveling, I met a friend further south in Quling. That friend was also trapped by love. But he could have lived, but he still gave up and was killed by the person he liked! I saw him lying in a pool of blood. , I wanted to save him and asked him why he did this, but he refused. He said that if he likes someone, he would do anything in the world for her, including life. At first I didn't understand, but later, I thought, he said There's nothing wrong with that, I'm the same as him."
He pulled out the Taiping Sword and raised it high, and a spiritual energy that seemed to be able to crush everything was instantly coiled above his head. "That's all."
He stuck the Taiping Sword hard on the stone staircase paved with bluestone slabs by the roadside, and poured all the spiritual energy from the top of his head into the Taiping Sword. A bitter smile. "Then let's do it! I'll give you back everything you gave me, and I'll be settled. If you're lucky enough to live, don't see me again!"
Li Yi rushed over and shouted, just like the words spoken by the immortals during the Northwest War a few months later. "Xu Jinxin, are you crazy?"
However, in the sky, as Xu Jin's new long sword was inserted into the ground, dark clouds were already shrouding the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye. Thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, crossing crisscrossing ravines day by day.
It seemed like a heavy rain was about to fall.
Time went back a few quarters of an hour to the Little Sword Sect far north of Quling City. Su Wanli sat on the roof of the building, facing the east and looking at the ring.
Yes, it was the ring he brought from Nanmu named Qianlisong.
However, just as he was about to take back the ring, a bolt of lightning from the southwest broke his thoughts.
He looked up at the dark clouds coming from the southwest, and slowly put the ring on his hand, feeling a little stunned. "This is the fall of the Sword Immortal!"
He smiled bitterly and pinched the ring on his hand. "Forget it, just be a good person and have been here for the past few years."
He pressed somewhere on the ring and spoke calmly. "Thousands of miles away, northwest of Quling City."
As soon as he finished speaking, a vortex slowly rose in front of him. He walked into the vortex and was instantly absorbed by the vortex.
He Moqian, who was on the third floor of the bookshop, had just taken a sip of southern Xinjiang's oolong tea when the thunder above his head interrupted him.
He put the tea cup on the table, stretched out his head and looked out, his face instantly turned ugly, and he murmured to himself. "In the northwest, someone has lost his luck in life, and the Sword Immortal has fallen."
Zhao Xi also looked over with his gaze, his expression equally ugly.
He Moqian bowed his hand to Zhao Xi. "Senior brother, I'll go take a look first."
"good!"
He jumped out from the window on the third floor, and countless books suddenly appeared in the void, floating at his feet from all around for him to step on temporarily. His whole body flew towards the northwest like a gust of wind.
In front of the foggy school, a middle-aged man looked up at the sky and slowly spoke. "If you take away the luck of your life, the Sword Immortal will fall."
At the gate of Langya Pavilion, several elders of Langya Pavilion flew from various pavilions on the mountain. They all looked up at the gate and looked at the dark clouds and thunder and lightning above their heads.
My mind is full of doubts, which sword immortal is seeking death?
In the Taoist Immortal Sect not far to the south of Quling City, the old Taoist named Ling Huai and several of his juniors also raised their heads and stopped to watch, as if what was happening in the northwest of Quling City was a major event that could change the direction of history.
"Junior brother, I am afraid that there is a Sword Immortal who has fallen in the northwest. Please help me take good care of the Dao Immortal Sect. Senior brother, I will come as soon as I go."
"good!"
Several people responded, but he had already landed on the huge fly whisk and flew towards the northwest of Quling City.
Sikong Zhuoyun and Baili Feige, who were returning, were sitting on the crane transformed by spiritual energy. When they heard the thunder behind them, they both turned around and looked over, sighing. "Will you still take that path? It's a pity, he is extremely talented."
On the Yunqi Mountains at the junction of Xichu and Nanmu, a big blue bird and a woman in white turned their heads to the west on the side of the stream. "Is that the little brother named Xu Jinxin? What a pity."
On Jiugong Mountain, a woman in a green shirt stood on the top of the mountain behind Jiugong Mountain, looked up to the south, and slowly spoke. "If you take away the luck of your life, even if you survive, you will be considered half a useless person. Today's young people are really cruel to themselves."
Liu Yanchang, a Sanren who was in charge of Pengzhou, the imperial capital, once again stood on the roof of the first martial arts building, looking at the dark clouds above his head like an immortal. Mouth of regret. "Pity."
In a mysterious sect somewhere on the river in Southwest Xincheng, the female disciples turned their heads to look east.
One of the leading women named Lu Xi suddenly said. "It's going to rain heavily. Please inform Master immediately. It's time to put the rituals on hold."
"yes!"
