If you look down from a high place.
The Liu family mansion on Xiaogushan is one of the few classical buildings in Longcheng County that is brightly lit all night.
However, not all halls and rooms in the Liu family mansion can be lit up until dawn.
The quiet round forest on the west side of the mansion is mostly shrouded in deep darkness.
Compared with the main residential area on the southeast side, it is clearly differentiated.
Not long ago, Nanxuan Xiaoyuan, which suddenly welcomed guests from Chang'an, was one of the former.
Dawn.
Nanxuan courtyard.
Outside the red wall, on the dark path.
The Jade Fairy wears a bronze mask shaped like a fox's head and is hidden in a large black robe as she walks on the path.
Even though she was in the dark, she still habitually concealed herself inconspicuously.
This is the low-key vigilance that he has to develop after being "active" under Yunmeng Jianze's nose for so many years.
It is also the experience gained by the bloody lessons of the senior alchemists who were active on several seashores in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty and were keen on going out to sea to seek immortals again and again.
The Jade Fairy never treats it as child's play.
If you haven't seen Yun Mengze's group of reclusive female cultivators in the Yue language wield swords with your own eyes, you will never be able to understand how difficult and terrifying the Yue Nv Sword is.
What kind of person can be who can make the evil magicians who are clever with their tongues and confuse the common people keep secret.
Fairy Er, the female goddess of jade, has heard such a saying.
Under the Cauldron Sword in this world, there are only two types of swords.
One is Yue Nu Sword, and the other is other.
Regarding this point, the Jade Lady Fairy felt that a certain one-armed swordsman in the dark and quiet courtyard next to her had a deeper understanding than she had.
"Bang~"
The Jade Fairy stopped in front of the courtyard gate.
He looked back at the sword furnaces with blazing yellow flames standing on the river bank in the distance, and the morning glow mixed with the rose, orange and blue in the sky above.
From her perspective,
The sword furnaces on the distant horizon seemed to be struggling to give birth to something, maybe it was the red sun, maybe it was another incredible thing.
The real body has not yet appeared, but the colorful morning glow it leaked has already spread all over the southeast corner of the sky.
The bronze fox face silently watched this dawn scene that seemed to foretell something.
There was a hoarse whisper under the Jade Fairy's mask:
"This is a sign of great auspiciousness."
The Jade Fairy, who was going out today and teamed up with the naturally disgusting swordsman to do a dangerous thing, looked a little calmer on her face covered with strange patterns under the mask.
This is not only an opportunity for the Liu family in Longcheng, but also an opportunity for her, the Jade Immortal.
No one thought that this small Longcheng County actually contained a legendary and rare swordsmith.
The craftsman path of the swordsmith can be traced out, but it is an existence with the same ancient origin as the Yue Nu path and the Shenfang Warlock path.
Born in the pre-Qin Dynasty in ancient books,
Belongs to one of the nine mythological paths.
However, it is different from the mythological lineage such as scholars and alchemists, which have many branches and branches.
It is even rarer than the Yue Nu Dao Meridian, which is a single line and passed down for thousands of years.
As for the reason, some people say that it was a divine punishment that shortened one's life span, while others said that the swordsmith was making wedding clothes for others and had no ability to protect himself, so he was guilty of harboring the sword.
Someone else said.
The single-digit cauldron has been almost completely forged into swords over the course of thousands of years.
Naturally there is no need for a swordsmith anymore.
When all the tripods are merged into swords, what’s the point of the existence of the Craftsman Dao Lineage?
Outside the gate of Nanxuan courtyard.
The Jade Fairy was silent for a while, then opened the door and entered the hospital.
She was called by the Liu family to meet here, but it seemed that she came a little early.
There is a main room directly opposite the courtyard. The door is closed. Looking inside from the window, a candle is lit.
However, after the noise was heard in the courtyard, the main house showed no intention of opening the door to welcome visitors.
The Jade Fairy gave a cold snort and waited quietly at a stone table in the courtyard.
The main house was still not quiet.
After a while, the sky became a little brighter. Although it was still dawn, the sky showed a bluish indigo color.
That is to say, when the insects chirped louder in the morning, Liu Ziwen, Liu Zi'an, and Liu Zilin came to the courtyard one after another.
Liu Ziwen was followed by a lame butler.
"master."
Liu Fu held a tray in both hands, his palms motionless.
There was only a jar of wine and three wine glasses on the tray.
There was also a dagger about seven inches lying quietly.
After the five people in the courtyard arrived, they exchanged glances, and finally all looked at the main room with the door closed.
Liu Ziwen stared at it for a moment, and then tentatively called out in the direction of the main house:
"Your Mightiness?"
After a pause, he said again:
"The time has come, it's time to leave... I think my servant brought the message last night and informed Your Excellency."
The voice of a one-armed young man suddenly came from the main room: "If no one informed you in advance, do you think you can just walk in like this?"
Liu Ziwen and his two younger brothers looked at each other, their eyes a little helpless, but they seemed to be used to the character of this weird swordsman.
Ajie’s voice continued to come from the main room:
"Send a shady guy to supervise the young master. Is this how your Liu family does things?"
"Your Excellency has misunderstood."
Liu Ziwen shook his head, "The Jade Fairy is not here to supervise you, but to assist you."
"Oh, do you want to go over and take a look at the situation? If you find that the target has no guards and is easy to deal with, I won't let you take action and let her solve it by herself, saving this new sword?
"You guys, the Liu family, are really good at doing business."
Liu Ziwen frowned, then relaxed, and smiled:
"Your Excellency has really misunderstood. This Donglin Temple operation is led by you, with the Jade Lady as the assistant. It is you who should kill the person.
"The main purpose of the Jade Lady Fairy is to help you and deal with some possible troubles. After the beheading, she has other important things to do and will stay at the scene. You can take your beloved sword and leave on your own.
"The terms we negotiated at the pavilion that day are still valid, and we, the Liu family, are committed to it."
The closed door of the main house was quiet for a while. For a while, there was no movement, and the atmosphere in the yard was a little solid.
The Jade Princess Fairy frowned. She felt a little unhappy after being called "something" by Ajie in the room. Now she saw no reply from the room for a long time.
The Jade Fairy glanced at the silent Liu Ziwen and Liu Zian. She took off her bronze fox mask and raised the corner of her painted mouth into a sneer:
"Forget it, Master Liu, I think this person just likes to pretend, and he is so unhappy.
"You have already fallen below the level, and you still think of yourself as some kind of genius swordsman. Most likely because you are afraid that after I follow you, you will see clearly the fact that he is fierce in appearance but strong on the inside, strong on the outside, and strong on the outside. He is so guilty that he cannot deceive you of the Liu family's sword."
The swordsman in the room asked: "Please shut up, or get out if you can't."
"You tell me to shut up, and I will shut up? You tell me to get out, and I will get out? Who do you think you are?"
The Jade Fairy sneered at each other, but the posture of her right foot under the black robe quietly changed. The front foot touched the ground and the back foot arched.
The swordsman in the room clicked his tongue: "You should be slapped."
"Paper mouth? Is one hand enough for someone, but don't even..."
"Bang~bang~"
The door of the main house was opened from the inside twice in succession.
The three Liu Ziwen brothers noticed the Jade Immortal beside them, and their words suddenly stopped, but before the three brothers had time to react.
The next second, the entire field of view of their eyes was instantly filled with silver-white light.
The light was very much like moonlight.
If someone looks down from high altitude at this moment, they will find that the entire Nanxuan courtyard is filled with moonlight.
It is doubtful whether a bright moon fell into the courtyard.
This scene was like a bright moon suddenly appearing in a dark courtyard in the middle of the night. In an instant, the bright moon and its silver light occupied every corner.
Liu Ziwen and the others had no time to close their eyes, and immediately fell into intense blindness and dazzling.
Before they had time to panic, they heard a "cang" sound, like the long roar of a blue dragon, after the moment of "moonlight filling the courtyard".
The sound of drawing a sword came belatedly.
It turns out that the moonlight is the sword light.
The light of the sword spread through the air faster than the sound of the sword being drawn.
It was too late, but soon, in the small courtyard filled with moonlight at dawn, several inexplicable sounds rang out one after another.
After Liu Ziwen and the others rubbed their eyes or put down their covering sleeves, they gradually regained their vision.
Turn around and take a look.
The female fairy Jade who was making a sound beside her disappeared.
The door to the main house was open, but no one was inside.
On the wall closest to them, ten feet of green tiles were shattered into powder.
I don’t know what happened in the yard during the short breath of moonlight blinding just now.
Liu Ziwen and the others looked at each other in surprise. They turned around and looked for the figure. They immediately saw a strange scene of confrontation...or suppression at the entrance of Nanxuan Small Courtyard:
The Jade Fairy, her hair disheveled, stepped out of the courtyard gate with one foot, and most of her body stayed inside the door, stopping on the spot.
It wasn't that she didn't want to leave, but that the neck under her chin was facing a sparkling silver horizontal sword at a hair's length.
This long sword, whose blade seemed to flow like water from the moonlight, was held in the hands of a young man in regular clothes whose right sleeve was empty.
The moonlight that almost blinded everyone's eyes and temporarily blinded them seemed to come from it, as if it was forged by melting countless night-light pearls of excellent quality.
The Jade Fairy would move her head if she walked even a hair's length further.
She didn't even dare to swallow hard.
Ajie nodded, as if talking about something commonplace:
"I have fallen to the seventh level, but it is still more than enough to kill you, not to mention that I still have a good sword in my hand, so why not give it a try at the sixth level.
"Is this enough for you to shut up?"
The general expression on the face of the Jade Fairy, painted with strange patterns, cannot be clearly seen, but you can roughly see that it has swollen into pig liver red, and her body is stiff in place.
She didn't reply, and looked at the one-armed young man in front of her with complicated eyes.
His sword was too fast, almost unbelievably fast.
And now there is another moonlight sword that can help him go faster.
Even more powerful.
After confirming these, the Jade Fairy did not look at the sword in front of her neck, but turned to look at Liu Ziwen and others not far behind her.
But before the people behind him could come around, Ajie suddenly said:
"Next time I don't care if you are trying to find out my details for them."
He paused for a while, looked into her eyes and said:
"Next time, the head will fall."
"Haha, Your Excellency's skill is really like a swordsman banishing himself to the mortal world. A sword coming from the west will astonish the ghosts and gods."
Liu Ziwen led his two younger brothers, and Liu Fu, who had been carrying the plate honestly from beginning to end, came forward.
He applauded with both hands, smiled and praised, and came to the rescue of the ugly-looking Jade Fairy.
Ajie did not look at Liu Ziwen, but silently sheathed the slender sword that emitted the hazy moonlight.
Liu Ziwen glanced at the sword and said with a smile:
"A sword matches a hero. The ancients will never deceive me."
Ajie turned around first and walked forward:
"Let's go, don't just talk about these things.
"By the way, you can send someone to follow you, whether it's supervision or assistance, it's up to you, but don't be a fool.
"According to the agreement we made that day in front of the pavilion, I must kill that man, and no one can rob him."
Speaking of this, Ajie whispered softly:
"Besides, I really like this sword. I've already chosen a name. Let's call it Yueniang."
He once had a Guiniang, which was taken away by the eldest lady in the Nujun Palace when Taogu asked for a sword, and was left in Yunmeng Jianze.
"No problem, you can do whatever you want."
Liu Ziwen nodded and said:
"Let the Fairy Yuxi go with you. You only need to be responsible for drawing the sword. The other matters will be handled properly by the Fairy Yuxi."
Ajie held her sword and remained silent.
Liu Ziwen glanced at Liu Fu behind him.
The latter came forward with a tray in hand. Liu Ziwen rolled up his sleeves, gently picked up the dagger on the tray, handed it to the Jade Fairy, and explained carefully:
"Take it, the dagger is quenched with a strange poison. You first steal it, and then when the ribbon-cutting ceremony is crowded with people, put it into Shen Xisheng's chest, and then dive into the water to escape. Mr. Wang and I will tell you what happens next. You finish.”
The Jade Fairy took the poison-quenched dagger, hid it in her sleeve, and nodded.
Ajie stood alone on the edge of the crowd and turned a deaf ear to this.
Liu Ziwen turned his head to look at the rising sun in the sky, and smiled heartily at the two Qi practitioners in front of him:
"It's getting late, it's time to set off, and I'll be here to help you two have a smooth sailing and return smoothly.
"Here, this is your favorite sweet-scented osmanthus brew. I propose a toast to you!"
Liu Ziwen smiled, pinched the thin stem of the wine glass, and gestured to Ajie and the Jade Fairy.
However, only the Jade Fairy grabbed the wine glass on the tray and followed her.
The one-armed swordsman, who had been so drunk in the past, shook his head:
"If you kill people today, you won't drink."
Liu Ziwen was slightly startled, looked at each other with Liu Zian, straightened his head, and said:
"I didn't expect that Your Excellency is so dedicated and principled. Liu will have no worries about today's trip."
After saying that, he raised his glass to the Jade Lady Fairy.
The two had a symbolic farewell drink.
The three brothers Liu Ziwen, Liu Zi'an, and Liu Zilin sent Ajie and the Jade Fairy all the way to the archway at the foot of Xiaogu Mountain.
Before going down the mountain, Ajie asked the Jade Princess without looking back:
"Where are we going?"
The Jade Lady Fairy replied directly without even thinking about it:
"Dagushan Donglin Temple, Beitian Almshouse."
"Bei Tian Almshouse, it sounds familiar... What a coincidence, we will meet there..."
On the mountain road in the early morning, the one-armed swordsman sighed.
Here it is, I didn’t sleep, it’s 4,000 words, so I spent a little more time typing, sorry guys... Finally, it’s the end of the month, so I have the audacity to ask everyone for votes... (Pouts)
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