Zhao Ning looked at the little girl, imitating the old man's posture, bowed slightly, and said in a tone of doting from an elder to a younger one, "Okay."
Along the way, the little girl held Zhao Ning and talked a lot, but most of the time she spent asking Zhao Ning what Shang Xia's hometown was like.
It seems that the little girl is quite happy with Shang Xia.
The moonlight gradually faded as the night lengthened, and the small courtyard fell into silence.
A black shadow suddenly appeared in the yard. He walked so quietly that there was no way to detect him.
The black shadow went straight to the east room. When he reached the door of the room, he seemed to pause for a moment, the breath around him moved slightly, and then he sneaked into the room.
This room is where Shang Xia rests.
He pinched the spell all over his body and turned to approach the bed. The bed curtain was lowered and a figure could be seen faintly meditating on the bed.
The black shadow paused, then quietly touched the bed, slowly opened it, and then raised his hand to touch the person with his back to the bed.
Until he touched the man, he suddenly felt that his hand was empty. The black figure was startled and turned around suddenly.
He saw a shadow flash behind him, and a person stood in front of him, slowly raising his head. Under the dim light, the lower half of his face was covered in darkness, except for a pair of eyes that were very bright.
"Your Excellency, we are finally here."
The black shadow was startled. The next moment, Shang Xia rushed straight towards the black shadow. After a few moves, the black shadow used a dodge technique and moved from the bed to the outside.
But at this moment, all the candles outside were lit.
The shadow's appearance was revealed, and it was the stall owner selling spiritual weapons.
But I saw a person standing on each side outside.
At the gate is Shan Shu, on the left is Zhong Wenyan, and on the right is an angry Yanyu with arms akimbo.
When he turned around again, he saw an old woman sitting sideways on the Taishi chair, slowly lighting the only unlit candle.
Yanyu stared at him, "What are your intentions? Why, seeing that Brother Xia was injured in the Demonic Wasteland of West Ji, are you going to take action?"
Shang Xia walked out step by step, with a very serious expression on his face.
"Three years ago, I met fellow Taoist Lu Ju by chance in Guiyuan City, and then mistakenly took your obsidian crystal in Black Wind Forest. I paid for it with spirit stones, but I didn't know that fellow Taoist Lu actually followed Shang all the way to Xiyuan Town."
Lu Ju's initial nervousness actually relaxed, and he even raised his hand to shake his sleeves, as if he was about to take something out of his sleeves.
Shan Shu said nervously, "I advise fellow Taoist to be more honest. There are so many of us here, four against one. If we attack hard, we won't be able to keep the whole body of fellow Taoist."
Lu Ju chuckled, "Fellow Daoist Shang looks very good, I guess I was overly worried."
Shang Xia frowned slightly, understanding Heiying's words.
At this moment, the candle directly in front finally lit up.
The candlelight happened to shine on Lu Ju, making the object in his palm extremely bright.
Zhao Ning raised her eyes and took a look. Everyone also saw it, and Lu Ju showed his calmness.
But he saw that he was holding a compass, and there were several streaks of blood swimming in the compass.
Everyone was shocked, and the blood light made people feel the bloody mark.
"what do you want to do?"
"I don't want to do anything. Lu came here to see a doctor for fellow Taoist Shang. It is my fault that the demonic energy entered my body because of the mark of ghosts and gods."
Lu Ju's words made everyone stunned. They never thought that he came here for such a purpose.
He smiled again and said, "It seems that Lu is not needed anymore. The mark on Fellow Daoist Shang's body has been removed. I think there are experts around Fellow Daoist Shang."
His eyes wandered around everyone, and finally landed on Zhao Ning. He could not see anything unusual about Zhao Ning, but he had a very keen intuition that there was something strange about this slow old woman.
At this moment, Yanyu walked over from the side and directly blocked Lu Ju's sight. She scolded, "You don't have to be rude and you don't have to be pretentious. Who would believe that you, the person who set a strange mark, would go out of your way to Come here to treat Brother Xia, do you think we will believe you?"
As she spoke, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in her hand, and the spiritual weapon was already in her hand.
Lu Ju was not in a hurry. He said to Shang Xia, "I don't hate Fellow Daoist Shang, but I want to give Fellow Daoist Shang an opportunity. I just don't know if Fellow Daoist Shang is willing to accept this opportunity."
Everyone exchanged glances very quickly.
Shan Shu said on behalf of Shang Xia, "If you really wanted to give me a chance, you would have come to the door openly and openly, so there is no need to beat around the bush like this."
"I'm afraid you're delaying time by talking so much."
As he said that, several people looked at each other from a distance.
The next moment, the four of them rushed directly towards Lu Ju in tacit agreement, but Lu Ju moved very quickly, and an afterimage quickly appeared between the four of them.
So at the very beginning, Shan Shu attacked Zhao Ning who was almost approaching the front seat with one attack.
Zhao Ning did not move at all on the seat, only holding her cheek with one hand, her eyes narrowed slightly, like a sleepy person who is approaching his life expectancy.
Shan Shu was alert in time and immediately retracted his offensive, shouting hastily, "Auntie, I'm sorry, but I hurt you."
Zhao Ning straightened up slowly and leaned on the back of the Grand Master's chair, "It doesn't matter."
Who would have thought that just as she stood up, Zhong Wenyan's offensive was directed towards Zhao Ning. Zhao Ning still didn't move, but Shang Xia was one step faster. When he attacked Lu Ju, he used his wind blade to block the attack. Down.
Zhao Ning nodded slightly towards Shang Xia and sighed, "Good boy."
Shang Xia froze slightly, but quickly reacted and attacked the opponent.
"You're a scoundrel, and you're talking about giving me a chance, so you're going after an old man who thinks he's approaching his age. It's obvious that you have good intentions."
Shang Xia scolded, saying that he pinched the magic weapon and kept his pace. A spiritual bow appeared behind him. He hooked back and the spiritual bow was stretched in his hand. Every inch of the stretching stirred up a powerful arrogance.
The other party was shocked and frowned slightly, as if he was assessing the power of the spiritual bow.
Until the spiritual bow flew out wrapped in aura, and several people turned around with tacit understanding. Lu Ju was completely exposed to the offensive of the spiritual bow. He backed up at an extremely fast speed until he was close to the wall, seemingly unable to retreat. retreat.
At this moment, his figure disappeared into the room.
When the spiritual arrow hit the wall, the next half of the wall began to collapse, setting off layers of fog and waves, blurring the vision for an instant.
Shan Shu and Zhong Wenyan hurriedly took out magic spells to freeze the collapse.
I just heard a voice from Lu Ju from a distance, "Good boy, tonight is exciting enough. Lu is indeed right about you. If you have the courage, come to the Red Maple Valley in seven days to get together, and Lu will take you to get a great opportunity."
Shang Xia frowned and chased a few steps outside, but could not find the direction in which Lu Ju disappeared.
"He ran away!" Yanyu said angrily.
"This person comes and goes without a trace. He doesn't look like any other family in Kunxu." Shang Xia said hesitantly.
Yanyu said, "It doesn't matter whose family he belongs to. I think when he comes tonight, he says he is treating Brother Xia, more like re-marking you. We must not let him go, otherwise it will be endless." ”
"Brother Shang, in that case, it's better to confront him for a while and see what his methods are." Shan Shu also walked up to him and said.
"Let's go and have a look." Zhao Ning's slow voice suddenly came from behind them.
Shang Xia turned around in surprise, only to see Zhao Ning still sitting firmly on the chair. The ruins around him did not affect the chair at all.
At this moment, Shang Xia felt a little strange. This old cultivator had very little breath and looked like he was about to die. But the starlight shining on her made Shang Xia feel a different impression, as if the person sitting in front of him was not An old woman, but a transcendent and pure woman.
But in the blink of an eye, that feeling quickly dissipated.
He came back to his senses and raised his hands to Zhao Ning, "Auntie, what did you notice?"
The wrinkled face showed the unique peaceful expression of the old man, "I have traveled a lot and seen many people. Although my cultivation is not high, I can see people quite accurately. He has no malicious intentions."
Shang Xia was slightly stunned, and really thought about Zhao Ning's vague answer.
Zhao Ning didn't say anything more. She stood up from the Grand Master's chair and slowly walked out of the ruins. The dust scattered everywhere seemed to deliberately avoid her, but the road she walked was as clean as water.
"It's getting dark, let's go back."
Zhao Ning said slowly, and Yanyu trotted over with a smile, holding up one of Zhao Ning's arms, "Grandma, I'd better take you back."
Zhao Ning pretended to be teasing, "You little girl, are you going to quietly tell me when and where to watch a show tonight?"
Appearing here tonight is a tacit understanding between Shang Xia and the three of them. They all guessed that the guy would take action because the mark was destroyed, and Yanyu whispered to Zhao Ning on the way to her room.
"How can there be two in one night?" Yanyu said with a smile, "I was not worried that my great aunt and grandma would not be safe alone. It is safe if everyone is together."
"You." Zhao Ning acknowledged with a smile.
Until she arrived in the room, Zhao Ning sat at the table, still maintaining her old appearance. The night had fallen. She slowly lit the candle, and with the help of the candle's flame, she stretched out a finger.
At this moment, a drop of blood appeared on Zhao Ning's fingertips.
The smell emitted by the blood beads was exactly the same as the smell that came from the people running away from Zhao Ning at that time.
That's the smell emanating from here.
Her posture was as if her eyes were not clear, and she carefully looked at the blood drops, until finally, Zhao Ning suddenly realized, then she pinched slightly with two fingers, and then closed them, and the blood drops dispersed instantly.
But at this moment, Zhao Ning was even more impressed.
In the world of Yangzhou Cultivation, when Tong Zhiyue and others assassinated Yue Lingfei, the mask shattered, and the melted flesh and blood under the mask was exactly the same as this.
And as the summoning force invaded inch by inch, the blood bead could not be hidden after all, and the hidden essence inside it was exposed.
I saw two auras contained in this blood bead. They were spirally entwined, one dark and the other clear.
It's not an ordinary blood, but the blood of gods and demons.
Zhao Ning paused, then waved his hand, the blood drops completely dissipated in the air, and the candlelight in the room was immediately extinguished.
The dark clouds in the sky passed by, revealing a small patch of starry sky. Zhao Ning raised her eyes and looked up, her thoughts gradually becoming clearer.
Was the Yue Lingfei who died that year really the person they were looking for?
Seven days later.
In the Red Maple Valley, a strong wind passed through, and the wind swept through every corner of the valley, even the gaps in the rocks.
The strong wind dissipated, and then a figure was revealed, it was Lu Ju.
Lu Ju glanced far away from the valley, smiled slightly, and was not in a hurry. He just crossed his legs and meditated directly in the air, closing his eyes to rest.
After a long time, a strong wind rushed in from outside the valley.
Until he was three feet in front of Lu Ju, the dark eyes suddenly opened, as if there was an invisible collision of energy.
The next moment, a figure appeared three feet away, it was Shang Xia.
"You're really here. Okay, good."
Shang Xia ignored this man's attitude and only asked, "I came here today to have an end with you. Did you follow me from Kunxu to the Demonic Wilderness of the West just to give me a chance?"
