The sun is high in the sky and the white clouds are thin.

If someone looked up at the sky at this time, they might be able to see an immortal rising into the sky above the clouds, heading north with a sword.

Mountains, rivers and rivers all fell behind his feet, and the white sword energy gathered in an arc in front of him, so even if the strong wind roared in his ears like thunder, it only made his robes flutter lightly and his beard and hair move slightly.

Ji Xiao had seen so many scenes of the sun and the moon hanging upside down and mountains and rivers behind him that he had long lost the excitement he felt when he soared into the air with his sword for the first time.

He looked down at the ground beneath his feet with a calm expression. When the outline of the most conspicuous city, which was as big as a cattail fan, appeared, his feet sank slightly, and the tip of his sword was slightly slanted, and then it fell diagonally towards the ground.

Swords cannot be wielded freely in the sky above the capital city. This is a rule of the imperial dynasty, and the makers of the rule naturally have no intention of breaking it.

Beside the avenue a few hundred feet away from the south gate, Ji Xiao put down his momentum, straightened his robes, lowered his head and walked towards the city gate.

His face was slightly tired, and he was still thinking about things in Shule City. In his sight, the smooth official road paved with bluestone swept back with his footsteps, and a black robe falling to the ground suddenly appeared.

Someone blocking the way?

Ji Xiao was wary, but before he could raise his head, the voices in his ears faded away, and it was like sea water pouring in around him.

The incomparable feeling was like an iceberg throne pressing down on the realm, and the cold and biting strands of Taoism were like ice picks, burrowing into Ji Xiao's body in an instant, freezing the infuriating energy he had just aroused.

"This is the Dao realm..."

Ji Xiao's whole body was stiff, and he was horrified. Just the emanation of the Dao realm could make him, who had been a swordsman for many years in the early stage of transcendence, not even a trace of room for resistance.

The other party should not be in the realm of transcendence. Ji Xiao immediately began to think of the old and new enemies of the dynasty in his mind.

"You have too many thoughts, don't struggle and move..."

Ji Xiao felt a chill in his back, and felt the tip of a sword made of an ice pick pressed against his neck. The black robe that had fallen to the ground was still on the ground in front of him, but the sound sounded behind him.

"Don't look up. I'll ask you questions and I'll spare your life."

This time, the cold, illusive, and unpredictable voice came from the black robe. Ji Xiao felt a little at ease, "Senior, please ask."

"The major events that have happened in Jinguan City recently will be explained clearly one by one."

Ji Xiao's heart tightened, no wonder the other party would come to find him, he kept talking about bad luck in his heart, while speaking out his caution.

"The eldest lady of the Liu family in Jinguan City, Liu Weirui, is the granddaughter of the Lin family in Xishan. This is a secret that I only learned a few days ago. Does the senior want to know this?" Ji Xiao probed carefully.

The mysterious man in black robe was noncommittal, his illusory voice became more real, and he said with a joking tone: "Is the service of your Mugina royal family so useless now? Can't even catch a woman?"

Ji Xiao's eyes flashed with gleam, and he knew the other party's true intention. Thinking that he was responsible for tracking down the female swordsman named Ye Yun, and he still didn't know whether the black-robed man was an enemy or a friend, he became more cautious and said: "That female swordsman Xiu’s pseudonym is Ye Yun, but he is a truly extraordinary early stage sword cultivator.”

"Sword cultivator..." The voice of the man in black robe was low and inaudible, with a hint of unspeakable loneliness.

"She killed three of you first-class trash, and you came to Jinguan City to clean up the mess. Do you want to save face for your little emperor?"

Ji Xiao looked at the black robe on the ground, considered it again and again: "It's just a show. I want to intercept and kill a sword cultivator in the early stage of extraordinary. It is actually very difficult for me to do it. I won't be so desperate."

The man in black robe smiled and said: "You are self-aware, so have you found any useful clues?"

Ji Xiao said helplessly: "I'm just on the run. I've only come to Jinguan City not long ago. I just learned the whole story and haven't started to investigate it yet. If senior wants to stop it..."

The man in black robe interrupted him coldly, "Why stop?"

"Uh..." Ji Xiao's voice was choked, and he quickly promised: "I will try my best to find clues next time."

"What happened to the Tantai family?" the man in black robe asked abruptly.

"Ah?" Ji Xiao looked at a loss, and the man in black robe snorted coldly: "Tantai Feiji didn't hide his aura. Didn't you go there? I had to wait for you for a while."

If Ji Xiao was pricked by a needle, if the other party came for a female sword cultivator in the early stage of extraordinary, Ji Xiao still felt that he could deal with it appropriately, but if it really rose to this level, no matter who had an accident, he would probably be the one to settle the accounts afterwards. .

Ji Xiao's persistence and silence could not last him more than a few breaths. The man in black robe snorted softly, but Ji Xiao responded by vomiting blood.

The man in black robe said coldly: "It seems that you haven't figured out the situation yet. Do you know that your talent is not good enough and are you anxious to reincarnate and practice again?"

"If not, then stop hiding it. If I don't tell you what happened today, will you tell me?"

Ji Xiao lamented in his heart and said truthfully: "Mr. Fei Ji from the Tantai family came to see his young lady. She should be the daughter of the head of the Tantai family."

"Oh?" There was something inexplicable in the voice of the man in black robe, "Have you found it?"

"No."

"Where is that?"

"Mr. Fei Ji should be in Qingchuanguan Town now."

The man in black robe said in a low voice, "I'm not talking about him."

Ji Xiao took a breath and said hoarsely: "That young lady should be with the Liu family's caravan in the Xingchui Forest in front of Qingchuan Pass. She will probably arrive at Qingchuan Pass at noon tomorrow."

The man in black smiled slightly and said: "Yes, it was very detailed. You also know that if what happened today is exposed, you will definitely die."

Ji Xiao quickly lowered his gaze, looked at his toes and said, "Junior has never seen senior today."

"Very good." The voice was still there, but the pressure and confinement like an iceberg disappeared completely like snow meeting boiling oil.

There were no black robes on the ground in front of him. Ji Xiao's face was calm. After walking a few steps, he raised his head and suddenly found that he had reached the city gate.

But he was still hundreds of feet away from the city gate just now. The corners of Ji Xiao's eyes twitched twice, and he touched his stamina socket with his hand, lowered his head and entered the city quickly with a stern face.

…

…

"Why don't you rest, madam?" Mu Qing threw a new piece of firewood into the fire. Although the green smoke was a bit confusing, the fragrance of resin soaked into the night and drove away the crawlers on the summer night.

"Resin wood?" Wang Yeqing picked up a piece of wood and threw it in. He smiled and said, "This is a good habit. There are many poisonous insects in the Tiannan Marsh Forest. At that time, if I wanted to stay in the wild, I would check to see if there were any poisonous insects around. Incense and medicinal plants.”

Mu Qing nodded and sighed: "In the two years since I was captured, I always felt that the poisonous insects and beasts and swamps in the Tiannan Marsh Forest were scary. Later, I gradually got used to it, and then I realized..."

"Humans are scarier, right?" Wang Yeqing had already started to meditate cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Mu Qingxing's eyes were dim as he looked at the forest behind him. The forest under the night sky was densely covered with trees and looked like the earth. The boundary with the earth under his feet was blurred, making it even more ghostly. But how could it compare to the human heart?

Mu Qing didn't want to recall the past, so he looked at Wang Yeqing aside and said, "Senior, you have become an assassin on the Heavenly List, can't you retire?"

Wang Yeqing opened his eyes and said softly: "Why do you ask?"

"Uh..." Mu Qing scratched his brows, looked in the direction of Qingchuan Pass, and said slowly: "I also know a senior who is also an assassin on the Heavenly Ranking."

Wang Yeqingzhu’s eyebrows were slightly raised, looking much softer, “You’re talking about Butcher Hu, right?”

"Senior, have you guessed it?"

Wang Yeqing said in a calm tone: "You occasionally say something, but the unspoken intention is probably to compare me with someone you know."

"Have you seen him in Qingchuanguan Town?" She followed Mu Qing's gaze.

Mu Qing didn't expect that the other party could guess who Butcher Hu was with just a few words. He admired him from the bottom of his heart. After thinking about it for a moment, he asked, "Does Senior have any conflicts or old grudges with him?"

Wang Yeqing pursed his lips and asked, "So what if I have it? What if I don't have it?"

Mu Qing was a little puzzled: "Actually, I think senior also has the desire to go into seclusion, so he should be able to have a conversation with Senior Hu."

"However, if there are old grudges, this junior will not do anything to persuade them."

Wang Yeqing said a little strangely: "Don't you have a position?"

Mu Qing replied seriously: "If you are not a person in the game, there is no right or wrong. Of course, if the seniors can tell the old grudges, I will naturally try my best to resolve them for you."

"You are keeping your body upright." Wang Yeqing blinked and reminded: "I should have told you about my cultivation. I am going to rest in Qingchuan Pass for half a day to visit an old friend."

Old friend...

Mu Qing was overjoyed and said, "Senior, you can join us. Let's escape from the Hidden Valley together."

Wang Yeqing looked at Mu Qing with a strange look on his face, shook his head and said: "It's better to sleep. There is no moon tonight, so it is not suitable for practicing breathing."

She stood up and walked to the carriage not far away. Mu Qing saw her off with an embarrassed look on her face.

Liu Yueshan was also in the carriage, and Mu Qing said, "Is it too crowded for four people? How about I ask someone to set up a tent?"

Wang Yeqing walked in front, shaking his head and saying, "It's early summer now. There are a lot of crawlers at night, and there's also humidity. Your sister Yueshan is already weak, so what else are you going to do?"

Mu Qing confessed, "Then I'll trouble Madam."

"The carriage is very big, and four people are not crowded." As they talked, they also came to the carriage.

When Wang Xiuwei heard Wang Yeqing's voice, he opened the car curtain and revealed a fair and beautiful face. The girl Tantai Jing also got her head out of the gap in her creaking nest. The big eyes on his face blinked, looking at the two people outside the car.

"Sister Yueshan should be sleeping." Both girls in the car were wearing underwear. Mu Qing guessed it, smiled, and looked away. He was about to say goodbye, but he suddenly raised his head, his eyes were round, and his scalp was numb. , the back of his neck and lumbar spine trembled, and he threw himself towards the car with all his strength, while shouting loudly: "Be careful!"

Everything happened so fast that Mu Qing's wide eyes could still see the smiles on the corners of their mouths and the doubts in their eyes. In the rush, it was too late...

Not far behind the carriage, in the forest that Mu Qing thought was a bit ghostly, a man shrouded in black robes stood quietly on a branch. His black robes hung naturally without any swing, melting into the depths. In the darkness, he looked like a messenger from hell.

Mu Qing didn't see any movement from him at all, but an unstoppable cold attack that emerged from the deep darkness had already been shot at the carriage.