a moment ago.
The street where Yi Mingxuan was located was still quiet. Not only this street, but also the entire Ruixuan Town was as quiet as if they hadn't woken up.
The figure of an old man in a plain robe appeared on this street. Behind him was the tall and oppressive Chengming Building. The old man looked back, seemed to think briefly, and then stretched out his sleeves from the wide robe. With a somewhat withered arm, after a few hand gestures, there was an explosion like a whip, and spiritual energy fluctuations as strong as a tsunami rippled out from his similarly withered fingers, and then he flicked his robe sleeves. Continue walking in the direction of Yi Mingxuan.
In the huge Ruixuan Town, just after this soft sound that was difficult to attract attention, the formation to protect the town was fully activated in an instant, and at the same time, the entire town fell into a strange freeze.
Although Ruixuan Town bears the name of a "town", it is actually like a big city in the world of cultivation. Countless houses and buildings are lined up in rows, the streets are criss-crossed, and there are countless monks who either live here or come and go. At this point, following the old man's move, Ruixuan Town fell into deathly silence in the blink of an eye.
Although there were not many people on the street in the early morning, all the people walking on the street stopped at this moment. It was not because they heard something or noticed something that they stopped consciously, but They are momentarily still while walking. Regardless of men or women, they also strangely retain their respective postures when walking...but they are motionless. When they lift their legs and take steps, their robes wrinkle with their legs and feet, and the sleeves of their robes follow the movements of their arms. The fluttering hair of women on the road, and even the gazes of passers-by looking back or stopping to watch, were frozen at the same time. Also frozen were the wind on the road, and all the signboards and signs on the roadside were blown away by the wind. Swinging lightly, they all stopped at different angles, as if they were being held silently by countless invisible hands and could no longer move at all.
Originally, many teahouses on the roadside were very busy at this time. Because the weather was a bit weird and gloomy today, the teahouses were brightly lit. However, at this time, the lights on the tables inside the building were no longer burning behind the gauze. Beating; the hall was originally bustling with chatter and laughter, but suddenly it became quiet. Before freezing, people sat opposite each other and talked to each other. At this time, they should open their mouths, listen when they should listen, and drink tea when they should. Tea, each other's expressions were extremely vivid and vivid, but they could not move at all, and they were completely unaware of their gazes, completely unaware that they were trapped at this time; since it was a teahouse, of course someone was pouring tea, and a thin stream of tea flowed from The spout of the teapot flows out and pours into the tea cup. This thin stream of light green tea soup hangs straight and still. The tea soup in the tea cup below is still and tumbling. The faint aroma of tea and heat is still rising, and the mist is the same. Hanging motionless; on the stairs nearby, people going upstairs and people going downstairs passed each other, and the legs raised up and the feet reaching down were also still...
It was as if time had completely stopped at this moment, and as if the entire Ruixuan Town was trapped in a huge piece of amber in an instant!
And all of this only happened in the world of Ruixuan Town. Outside of Ruixuan Town, outside the light curtain formed by the formation, the sound of wind in the world was as usual, and even Qian Qian, who was not sure how far away at this time, The tide is still coming like a stream of light.
This is the method of Yuanying monk.
The powerful cultivator from outside the territory came to Ruixuan Town. Firstly, to keep it secret, and secondly, to protect the people in the town, so the old man in plain robes used magical powers.
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In the small courtyard of Yi Mingxuan, the three people were looking up when they suddenly heard chanting from far and near outside the door. The voice was old and obviously came from an old man:
"The river is dim
The sun and the moon have no light
Tianzhu collapsed
Jade Dragon Wandering
The wind swallows in the sky
Phoenix looking back
Old friend passed away
Heartbroken"
The voice was desolate and slow, getting closer and closer. By the time he said the last sentence, he was already in front of the door. The old shopkeeper had already recognized who the person was and immediately walked towards the door. At the same time, an old man with white hair in plain robes also walked to Yimingxuan. in front of the door.
"Mr. Mo..." Seeing Mr. Zhuang's friend coming, the old shopkeeper said hello and was speechless. He could only sob and salute to the old man who came.
"Alas..." The old man sighed heavily, stretched out his hand to support the old shopkeeper, and said, "He is gone after all."
"yes……"
"I'll go see him first."
"yes……"
This old man in plain robes is the Mo Zu from Yuhu Mountain, who appeared in the previous article. At that time, Mo Zu came specifically to see Qian Chao. When Qian Chao arrived at Yimingxuan, he was playing chess with Mr. Zhuang. Later, Mr. Zhuang He even asked Mo Zu to play a game of chess with Qian Chao as a joke. Mo Zu refused on the grounds that it would be too embarrassing to lose and not show his face even if he won. As explained in the previous article, Mr. Zhuang and Qian Chao were real masters and disciples. The fate was arranged by this Mo Zu.
There was also the short and fat Zhuang Xie and the tall and thin old man in the small courtyard. At this time, their eyes were focused on Mo Zu, but Mo Zu turned a blind eye to these two people when he walked in. His steps were heavy. Then he slowly walked towards Mr. Zhuang, who was sitting in an armchair, and stood quietly in front of Mr. Zhuang for a while. Finally, he sighed deeply, then bowed and respectfully saluted Mr. Zhuang, and then started chanting again after standing up. road:
"Extremely talented
ridicule
solitary hanging shadow
Visitor from afar
The road to immortality is cut off
The Sorrow of Yingzhou
I'll send my old friend off
Worry, anger and melancholy”
Mozu and Mr. Zhuang have known each other for many years, so he naturally knows Mr. Zhuang's past experience. He also sees that these two people are from Yingzhou, so the sentence "The great talent and ambition are ridiculed by the crowd" is actually It was Zhuang Xie and the tall, thin old man, and the two people's faces were a little unnatural after hearing this sentence. The tall, thin old man even glared at Mo Zu with some embarrassment.
Mozu bowed a few more times to Mr. Zhuang's body, and finally said softly:
"The road to immortality is long and the secrets of heaven are unpredictable. If I don't have a chance to be immortal in the future, I may have a chance to do so."
At this time, the tall and thin old man cleared his voice and was about to speak, but Mo Zu looked at the old shopkeeper again and said to him:
"Brother Zhuang, do you have anything to say before leaving?"
The old shopkeeper said hurriedly:
"Yes, yes, Mr. Zhuang left a few letters before his death, here they are."
After saying that, he took out all of them, one of which was for Qian Chao, and was handed to Mo Zu by the old shopkeeper.
The short and fat Zhuang Xie and the tall and thin old man looked at each other after seeing the letters. They came from afar and naturally had some plans, but they didn't expect that Mr. Zhuang had passed away. Their hopes were in vain, so they could only settle for the next best thing. Now The two of them really wanted to know what Mr. Zhuang's last words were, but after reading each letter one by one, Mozu noticed that the two men kept looking at each other, so he stuffed all the letters into his arms, leaving only Zhuang. The letter that the gentleman had written to him was unfolded.
The tall and thin old man saw that Mo Zu was always ignoring him, so he could hold his breath at first, but when he saw that Mo Zu had been looking at the letter in his hand seriously, he couldn't help but say:
"Old man Mo, I haven't seen you for many years, why don't you even say hello?"
Mo Zu snorted softly, his eyes still stayed on the letter paper, but he said:
"When we met before, we always had fights. Why do you want me to say hello today?"
The tall and thin old man said:
"Hmph, I didn't know you were hiding Zhuang Qi here in the past. If I had known, I would have come here a long time ago. Unfortunately, we came here today, and Zhuang Qi passed away today. Well, no matter what, he can be regarded as one of our seven surnames in Yingzhou. , now that he is gone, we want to..."
Mo Zu had already read the letter Mr. Zhuang left for him, so he interrupted him casually, shaking the letter paper in his hand and saying:
"Gongyang Xiushan, don't think about anything. Hey, Brother Zhuang made it clear in this letter that his funeral affairs will be completely handled by me. All the matters will be handled by me. The relics he left behind will also be handled by me. The disposal has nothing to do with you. Brother Zhuang was indeed born in Yingzhou, and it is true that he was once a member of the seventh surname of Yingzhou. But why did he want to come here today? You know better than me. If it weren't for you, how could he have ended up like this? You have been looking forward to his death, and have been sending people to hunt him down. Now your wish has been granted. Why, now that he is dead and his bones are not cold, you still want to covet what he left behind. Does this tea shop also want to die? Move back to Yingzhou?"
It turns out that this tall and thin old man from Yingzhou is named Gongyang Xiushan. When he met Mr. Zhuang, Gongyang Fu once told him about his family background. Among the seven surnames in Yingzhou, the Gongyang family was the first, and the Gongyang family was the first. The Yang family is divided into several branches, the strongest of which is the Gongyang Xiushan branch. Gongyang Xiushan is naturally the head of this branch and an important figure in the entire Gongyang family. After Gongyang Fu returned to Yingzhou, he immediately reported the news that Zhuang Qi had been found in Zhongzhou Wuling Sect to Gongyang Xiushan. At that time, he wanted to rush to Zhongzhou immediately to find Mr. Zhuang, but later gave up. If he sets out on his journey, he will definitely be able to meet Mr. Zhuang.
The reason why Gongyang Xiushan gave up was because he felt guilty.
He had a very good relationship with Mr. Zhuang in his early years. The two were once like brothers, but something happened later. Gongyang Xiushan wanted to do it for the benefit of the family, or for him, so that the Gongyang family could have a dominant family in Yingzhou. situation, and eventually became enemies with Mr. Zhuang.
Gongyang Xiushan suddenly turned against him. He carefully arranged a killing situation and then relied on Mr. Zhuang's trust in him to lure him into the trap little by little. Mr. Zhuang was almost killed that time, but he narrowly escaped death thanks to someone who rescued him. , escaped with multiple fatal injuries. From then on, Gongyang Xiushan completely turned against Mr. Zhuang. Later, in the pursuit of Mr. Zhuang, the Gongyang family contributed the most, and Gongyang Xiushan even chased and killed him himself several times. , he and Mr. Zhuang had been friends for half their lives and fought for half their lives. For the rest of their lives, they both wanted to kill each other because of their hatred.
Later, Mr. Zhuang, who was hiding in a deserted island, met the wandering Mozu during a nearly fatal chase. It was Mozu who rescued Mr. Zhuang, and the two got to know each other. Later, Mr. Zhuang followed Mozu. He arose and came to Middle-earth and remained here ever since.
The reason why Gongyang Xiushan came to Mr. Zhuang was not to continue to hunt him, but because he had very urgent matters that required Mr. Zhuang's help. He really had no choice but to worry that Mr. Zhuang would not see him or have an affair with him because of past grudges. They met but refused his request, so he brought Zhuang Xie, the great elder of the Yingzhou Zhuang clan, with him.
As mentioned before, Yingzhou is drifting northward almost all the time, and will eventually drift towards the extremely cold sea like an ice prison. The Yingzhou monks from ancient times to the present have tried their best to stop it, so they have to think of other places. They went to Zhongzhou to settle down and finally chose Zhongzhou. This led to the two wars that happened in Zhongzhou in the past, the "Millennium War" and the "Cross-Sea War". Of course, the Yingzhou monks failed in these two wars. They The idea of capturing Yingzhou has also come to nothing, and Yingzhou is still drifting northward all the time, but the speed is very slow.
From the discovery of the fact that Yingzhou is moving north to now, although Yingzhou has been moving north, long years have passed, and Yingzhou still has not entered the sea of extreme cold. Perhaps for Yingzhou, it has drifted into the sea of extreme cold. The end of the sea will happen after an unknown number of years. In addition, after experiencing the defeat of two wars, the monks of Yingzhou seem to have greatly reduced their confidence in defeating the monks of Central Continent and seizing Central Continent. Therefore, from the "battle across the sea" "From now on, they have not invaded Central Continent for the third time.
But what has to be said is that the Yingzhou monks are really ill-fated. In addition to the terrible fate of the land under their feet, they also face new dangers. The new crisis is more dangerous and deadly... They also encountered an invasion!
But it was not the monks who invaded Yingzhou, but the terrifying monster-like things from the sea and the air. Those things were not only ferocious and cruel, but also in countless numbers. Every time they appeared, they swept over Yingzhou like a monstrous black tide and wreaked havoc in Yingzhou. After a period of time, he suddenly left like an ebbing tide, but each time it brought considerable losses to Yingzhou.
The reason why Yingzhou provoked the invasion was also related to themselves. After two failed invasions of Central Continent, the Yingzhou monks had lost confidence in capturing Central Continent. Therefore, they continued to accumulate strength while sending people to continue to search for places that could replace Central Continent. In the past, The Yingzhou monks searched all over the world, but only found Zhongzhou. Therefore, when they continued to search, the monks who were sent out went further, and finally they encountered that kind of terrifying existence like a monster!
It can also be said that those monster-like things discovered them. After the monks were defeated and escaped, those things followed their tracks.
The first invasion occurred after Mr. Zhuang was hunted down by the Seven Surnames and had to flee Yingzhou. Therefore, Mr. Zhuang did not know what happened in Yingzhou.
Yingzhou suffered heavy losses when it was invaded for the first time. The strange thing is that those monster-like horrors left inexplicably after wreaking havoc for a while. Then after a period of time, they swept in again. The interval between the two invasions was several minutes. For hundreds of years.
Why they came, the Yingzhou monks didn't know, why they retreated, the Yingzhou monks didn't know, and most of the Yingzhou monks didn't even know what those things were. But every time those things would bring huge losses to Yingzhou. The most obvious thing is that those monks with advanced cultivation skills in Yingzhou died one after another in the resistance. Although they had a few hundred years of breathing room after leaving, A hundred years, for ordinary people in the world, there are countless generations of people, but for the Yingzhou monks, these short few hundred years are just the transition from childhood to youth.
Moreover, the monks with advanced cultivation in Yingzhou are those with relatively pure so-called "immortal blood". There are not many such people in themselves, and if they die, one will be lost. Even if there are descendants with pure blood, but when they grow up to be able to The characters who are on their own have no idea how many times they will have to experience the ravages of this kind of monster. Whether they can persist until that day is anyone's guess.
Of course, the situation has not reached such a desperate stage yet, but in order to deal with the invasion of those monster-like guys, the Yingzhou monks have paid a heavy price, but the terrifying things that invaded are really extremely powerful. After experiencing many times, After the failure and tragic loss, some monks in Yingzhou thought of Mr. Zhuang.
What if... people didn't dare to talk about it publicly at first. After all, Mr. Zhuang is the common enemy of the seven surnames in Yingzhou. People started to talk quietly in private. If Mr. Zhuang's method of allowing Yingzhou monks to break through the bloodline restrictions can If it is spread widely and everyone in Yingzhou can practice it, will it allow more people to break through the limitations of bloodline and become stronger?
In this way, Yingzhou will be able to protect itself a little more when dealing with such a crisis, at least it won't have to pin its hopes on those characters with pure blood.
Later, this kind of discussion even started to occur within the Seven Surnames. Those big shots didn't talk about it on the surface, but they began to think seriously about it in private.
Mr. Zhuang has been in Zhongzhou for more than two thousand years. Although he lived a very stable life in Zhongzhou and was away from the pursuit of the monks in Yingzhou, the monks in Yingzhou have been released again to look for him everywhere. , not to kill him, but to get his method. Although the attitude of the seven surnames in Yingzhou towards Mr. Zhuang is not unified, each of them secretly sent people to find Mr. Zhuang. His method was previously regarded as Disobeying the law of disaster, but now it is possible to save Yingzhou!
But what is very ironic is that the seven surnames all think the same thing. Mr. Zhuang's method may be useful, but it is best not to let everyone practice it. The safe way is to only spread it among your own family. This will be good for your family. It is beneficial...
This is also the purpose of Gongyang Xiushan's visit to Zhongzhou this time. He wants to find Mr. Zhuang and tell him about the new dangers that Yingzhou is facing. He hopes that Mr. Zhuang can temporarily put aside the past grudges and hand over the method to him. Take it back to Yingzhou.
It's a pity that they arrived late. Mr. Zhuang's front foot had just passed away, and they only arrived here with their back foot.
Precisely because of this, when Gongyang Xiushan saw the faint smile on the face of the deceased Mr. Zhuang, he always felt that it was Mr. Zhuang's most bitter sarcasm and ridicule to him!
