Heaven above heaven, Shizhou City.
In the front yard of a slightly dilapidated sect.
Tao Ziming, who was once the legendary swordsman of Tianshangtian, was leaning on the recliner, closing his eyes and concentrating.
The young apprentice Zhao Laosan is beating his legs.
Tao Ziming is now old, his hair is gray, and he has become an old man.
As for the head on the shoulder, it is that of an old lady.
Since reaching a consensus with his other head many years ago, his strength has also increased rapidly.
Hundreds of years have passed, and the Qingshan Sect he used to belong to has long since ceased to exist.
But he established his own sect and only accepted three disciples.
The eldest disciple Ning Ci is extremely intelligent and is now an eighth-level occultist.
Mystics range from one to nine, with level one being the weakest and level nine being the strongest.
After the ninth level is the realm of destiny.
The Realm of Destiny is divided into four major realms, the lower level of Destiny Realm, the middle level of Destiny Realm, and the upper level of Destiny Realm.
After breaking through the shackles of the upper level of the Destiny Realm, you will reach the Destiny Perfection Realm!
If you break through the realm of destiny perfection, you will reach the supreme realm.
And Tao Ziming's current strength has long been mysterious.
The second disciple, Lin Qiaoyue, looks beautiful and fragrant because she is a demon and a rose.
At the same time, she is the only one among Tao Ziming's three disciples who has reached the ninth level, and she is the one who will soon break through the ninth level.
The third disciple is the young man who is beating Tao Ziming's legs. He just broke through yesterday and is a fifth-level mystic.
"Master, I want to go down the mountain to practice." Lin Qiaoyue, who was dressed in a white dress and looked stunning, walked out of the room and looked at Tao Ziming and said quietly.
Tao Ziming's old man narrowed his eyes: "What? Can't you break through in the sect?"
Lin Qiaoyue hummed: "Master, I'm stuck at the bottleneck now and can't break through to the lower level of Destiny Realm, so I want to go out alone to do the trial, and take a look at the great rivers and mountains in our sky."
The old lady's head on Tao Ziming's shoulder opened her eyes and said coldly: "You want to leave Shizhou City?"
Lin Qiaoyue nodded again: "That's right, Master, I want to visit our ancient city in the sky, the Golden Cloud Realm."
The Realm of Jinxia is the largest city and the most prosperous area in Tianshangtian, and is governed by three major sects.
These three major sects are all secret arts sects.
They are Guoshan Sect, Tengyun Sect, and Five Poison Sect!
The old lady nodded and said, "Okay, then go ahead."
Zhao Laosan, who was beating Tao Ziming's legs, groaned: "Master, I also want to go with Second Senior Sister."
"Get a hammer and stay here to practice well." The old lady glared at him.
The old man looked at Lin Qiaoyue and warned: "Xiaoyue, you are a mystic and a demon at the same time. Although you have completely concealed your demonic aura, I still hope that you can change your appearance and pretend to be a woman." Men’s clothing, this will save you a lot of trouble.”
Lin Qiaoyue saw that both master's heads agreed to let her go to the trial, and she quickly handed over her hands and said: "Thank you, master, I will go and disguise myself."
With that said, he happily returned to the house.
After a while, Lin Qiaoyue walked out. She was now dressed in white and wearing a black headscarf.
In addition to her fair face, her chest was also wrapped in cloth, so she couldn't tell what she looked like.
At the same time, she was carrying a long sword on her back.
Tao Ziming smiled and said: "Go ahead, I'll give you three months. If you are in danger, remember the talisman I gave you before, just crush it and I will save you."
Lin Qiaoyue nodded, and then said goodbye to her master and junior brother.
Senior sister Ning Ci has not been in the sect these days because she went to the mountain to collect medicine.
Outside the sect is a cliff of ten thousand feet, and in the distance is Shizhou City.
Lin Qiaoyue jumped up and flew down the mountain.
The speed was so fast that it disappeared among the mountains in an instant.
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"If you want to reach the Golden Cloud Realm as quickly as possible, it seems that the only way is to go here!"
Lin Qiaoyue, who was disguised as a man, was standing on the top of a giant tree more than ten feet high, looking down at the ground beneath her feet, and chose the best route.
Shizhou City is not that far away, but the realm of Jinxia is far away.
Before going down the mountain, Master once said, give yourself three months.
Lin Qiaoyue frowned secretly and thought, if she only had three months.
At the moment, the only choice is to go through Lingzhou City (the city with the same name as the underworld, but later due to the invasion of evil spirits, the city was destroyed, and the Lingzhou City in the sky no longer exists), and choose the shortest route, maybe within a month , reaching the realm of golden clouds.
After choosing the route, it took Lin Qiaoyue seven days to reach Lingzhou City.
But just as he stepped into the city gate, he discovered that a demonic aura rose into the sky on the west side of Lingzhou City. There was a hint of evil aura hidden in the strong demonic aura, which was completely undisguised.
As a demon clan, Lin Qiaoyue can naturally understand what the evil spirit hidden in the demonic aura actually represents?
It seems that some monsters do not follow the rules and do some evil things in private.
"Do you care or not?"
Just when Lin Qiaoyue was struggling, she saw a woman covering her face and crying, and stopped many mystics along the way.
"Hero, can you help me?"
The woman at this moment was standing in front of a young man wearing a blue gown.
The young man glanced at her casually from the corner of his eyes, looking at the coarse linen shirt on the woman's body, a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes: "Go, go, don't bother me, I have other things to do." .”
No matter how hard the woman begged, the young man still turned a blind eye, waved his sleeves, and walked away.
The middle-aged woman asked many occultists with magic weapons on the street, but she was rejected by them all.
Most mystics reject women for only one reason, and that is that the reward she gives is too little, only five taels of silver.
Lin Qiaoyue looked at the woman with a hint of unbearability in her heart. After seeing her being rejected many times in a row, she sighed and walked towards the woman.
"Sister-in-law, what difficulties are you having?"
Lin Qiaoyue stood in front of the middle-aged woman. The latter had a sad look on her face. She looked up and saw the long sword behind her, and a glimmer of light rose in her eyes.
"This young hero, I, my daughter can't be found. I, she has to have three advantages and two disadvantages. How will I live in the future?" The middle-aged woman said, becoming more and more sad as she spoke, and her tears never stopped.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry. I'll help you find her."
When Lin Qiaoyue said this, the middle-aged woman stopped crying. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then she knelt down towards Lin Qiaoyue: "Young hero, for your great kindness, I I really don’t know how to repay him.”
Lin Qiaoyue quickly stretched out her hand to support her. After asking about it, she found out that such a strange thing had happened in Lingzhou City recently.
The middle-aged woman who asked Lin Qiaoyue for help was named Wang Jinhua.
Her husband has been dead for many years, and it is not easy to raise the only daughter in the family by herself.
When the child grew older, he understood that his mother was very hardworking, so he thought of finding some odd jobs in the city to supplement the family income.
Isn't it a coincidence that just to the west of Lingzhou City, the local wealthy Hu family is recruiting a large number of servants.
Wang Jinhua's daughter Zhao Yue'er has been smart since she was a child. She is good at all kinds of needlework and is also a good cook.
Especially her small oval face and curved willow eyebrows. Although she is not a lotus, her fresh and beautiful face is rare. Zhao Yue'er also successfully entered the Hu family.
As soon as she reported in, the housekeeper gave her ten taels of silver, saying that this was her year's salary.
Let her take it back first, and then be a personal maid for their young master.
Zhao Yue'er didn't know what a personal maid was. She thought she was just an ordinary servant, who usually only needed to be responsible for cleaning, serving tea and pouring water.
After sending ten taels of silver home that day, he said goodbye to his mother and entered the Hu family smoothly.
At the beginning, Zhao Yue'er would go home every day and have dinner with her mother, but it was just a month ago.
That morning, after Zhao Yue'er left home, she never came back.
For a month, there was no news from Zhao Yuer, and her life and death were unknown.
Wang Jinhua's eyes were red from crying and she tried her best, but could not find any information about her daughter.
This made her anxious. After all, mother and daughter had been dependent on each other since childhood, and Zhao Yue'er was the most important relative in her life.
In the past month, Wang Jinhua went to Hu's house several times, trying to find news about her daughter.
However, Hu Sanye, the housekeeper of the Hu family, claimed every time that on the day Zhao Yuer disappeared, she did not come to the house at all, and no one in the house had seen her.
Hu Sanye completely shirks his responsibilities in just two or three sentences.
Over the past few days, Wang Jinhua had traveled almost all over Lingzhou City in order to find Zhao Yue'er, but she had never received any news from her.
Later, the neighbor's Aunt Zhao gave her an idea, saying that she should take her family's savings and ask for help from the disciples of the secret art sect. Maybe they could help find her daughter.
Wang Jinhua didn't know what to do. This was the only way things could be done now. However, because Zhao Yue'er mysteriously disappeared, Butler Hu took back another five taels of silver from her.
Wang Jinhua was reluctant to spend the reward she was given at the beginning, and now she only had five taels of silver left, as well as a silver bracelet that she had left as Zhao Yuer's future dowry.
Five taels of silver and a silver bracelet were all her savings.
This is what happened to Wang Jinhua, but in addition, in the nearest Lingzhou City, when Wang Jinhua was looking for her daughter, she found that not only her Zhao Yuer had mysteriously disappeared, but also the daughters of several other families had also disappeared. Miraculously disappeared.
Wang Jinhua has always felt that there must be some connection between these things.
It's just that she is a woman, so no matter how much she thinks, what can she do?
In the past month, Wang Jinhua has asked for help from so many disciples of secret arts sects that she has lost count. How many people have she asked?
However, without exception, all were rejected.
In the low and simple adobe house, Lin Qiaoyue was sitting at a rough wooden table. She took the coarse tea from the woman and drank it in one gulp.
Finally understood the whole story.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I will definitely help you find her."
When the middle-aged woman heard what Lin Qiaoyue said, she was moved to tears again.
Put the five taels of silver and the silver bracelet into her hands...
