Too Reckless

The morning light illuminated the window paper, and the room had just quieted down.

Wu Qingwan's dress was neat and tidy, her hair was re-up, and her fox ears were taken off. She sat in Zuo Lingquan's arms, using her chest as a pillow to avoid falling asleep.

Because the weight in front of her was a bit heavy, Zuo Lingquan raised a hand to help her sleep in order to make her sleep more comfortable. To be honest, the weight was quite heavy, much heavier than the dumplings.

After Tang Jingxun woke up in the middle of the night, she actually hadn't fallen asleep, but she saw something she shouldn't have seen. She was a yellow-flowered girl, so she was too embarrassed to get up first to say hello, but she was still seriously pretending to be asleep at this time.

As the saying goes, "the early bird catches the worm", and the first person to make a sound in the room was the dumpling who was woken up by hunger.

"jiji~"

The dumplings were buried in the bedding, and a furry head slowly emerged from the bed. After calling twice, he asked the master for breakfast.

When Wu Qingwan heard the sound, she suddenly woke up, quietly got up from Zuo Lingquan's arms, and sat cross-legged beside her.

After Zuo Lingquan waited for Wu Qingwan to clean up her demeanor, she said:

"Miss Tang?"

"Huh?...Oh~ the sky is bright..."

Tang Jingxuan raised the curtain and looked at Wu Qingwan sitting on the tea couch in an orderly manner. Her expression was dignified and peaceful, without the slightest bit of smoke and dust. It was a world of difference from the charming goblin who was wearing a bellyband and dangling dumplings last night.

Tang Jing felt strange in his heart, and said:

"I fell asleep for some reason, nothing happened, right?"

"It's nothing."

Zuo Lingquan sat up, took out the small dried fish sent by Shangguan Lingye, and fed a dumpling.

Wu Qingwan also 'received the energy and calmed down', and said softly:

"Sister Jingxun slept well last night? I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I got up and meditated. I don't know if I woke you up."

Tang Jingxuan didn't know what to say about Wu Qingwan, but she could only pretend to be confused about this kind of thing, and cooperated:

"I slept a little dead, I really didn't pay attention."

Wu Qingwan nodded slightly. She had just been repaired for two hours, and her body had not recovered yet. She was a little embarrassed to stand in front of Tang Jingxuan. After a casual chat, she ran outside the room to wash up.

Tang Jingxuan and Zuo Lingquan were alone, and it was inevitable that Zuo Lingquan was tossing people last night, his expression was a little cramped, and he ran out after thinking about it.

Zuo Lingquan finished feeding the dumplings and the little bugs, and after the two girls had packed up, they went out together and continued to inquire about news in the city.

Because the goal of walking together is too big, it is easy to attract attention. Zuo Lingquan walked in front with the dumplings alone, while Wu Qingwan and Tang Jingxun kept their distance together, and the loose cultivators who pretended to be wandering followed secretly.

Burning Smoke City is a place for refining tools. There are many foreign cultivators. The streets are bustling with people. There are small stalls set up by scattered cultivators everywhere, and pedestrians are even more crowded.

In such a large city, to find the evil monks who may be hidden among the crowd is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Although there is news about the sale of ghost locust trees in the black market, it is estimated that there will be no fish for a while. Zuo Lingquan can only temporarily put aside the task of the Monster Hunting Division and concentrate on finding Wu Zunyi, who has been missing for many years.

However, Wu Zunyi is not very easy to find. According to the information so far, the only person who knows Wu Zunyi's exact whereabouts is Lei Hongliang. If you don't know the inside story, you can't go to the door to ask directly. If Wu Zunyi was murdered by Lei Hongliang Now, asking at the door is equivalent to dying.

Leigong Mountain is a private cave, and if you approach it without a legitimate reason, you will be noticed; Lei Hong is a high-ranking Taoist, and it is even worse to sneak in rashly.

Zuo Lingquan thought about countermeasures as he walked. He hadn't thought of the reason for his visit, but he was attracted by a small incident on the street.

In the early morning, the streets were crowded with people, and many people from all over the city walked to the east of the city with their children.

When Zuo Lingquan came over yesterday, he encountered Zhang Zhengye and others, and knew that the Burning Mist Sect was recruiting new disciples in the past few days.

He paid attention to the crowd, followed for a while, and gradually came to the end of Main Street.

Burning Mist City is just outside the main gate of Burning Mist Sect, and the end of the main street is naturally the gate of Burning Mist Sect. The great formation of protecting the sect obscured the scenery inside the sect. From the street, only a dense forest that stretched for several miles could be seen.

There are many monks dressed in sect costumes standing under the archway in the square, and there are people with children outside; the elders of the Burning Smoke Sect are groping the bones of the children in turn, and the parents are waiting respectfully beside them.

Zuo Lingquan's eyes swept around the crowd, and he really found the people he met yesterday among the adults; because he came from a township, more than 20 people stood together in a group, not speaking, just Quietly waiting for the immortal master on the mountain to call his name.

Zuo Lingquan remembered that there were seven and a half children in the carriage yesterday, four boys and three girls, but at this time, only six children were being held or held by adults, one less.

The lesser one is a girl, who seems to be the one who was not accompanied by her parents yesterday.

Zuo Lingquan thought that he had already been selected, and his eyes moved to the bottom of the archway. The selected children were standing in front of the sect disciples. Their parents were negotiating with the sect steward, and there was no girl in it.

Wu Qingwan and Tang Jingxun also walked up to them, and after finding that Zuo Lingquan's expression was wrong, Wu Qingwan asked in a low voice:

"What's up?"

Zuo Lingquan looked carefully in the crowd: "When I jumped off the boat yesterday, the little girl who was brought back from the hillside didn't seem to come with me today."

Yesterday Zuo Lingquan recounted the inquiries in detail. Wu Qingwan knew a little and asked:

"Is that the girl you were talking about who wasn't accompanied by her parents?"

"right."

Tang Jingxuan stood beside him and thought about it:

"My parents can't accompany me when I go away, so I'm sure someone will be arranged to take care of me. Is the person taking care of me?"

Zuo Lingquan shook his head. He carefully recalled what happened yesterday, and then he remembered that when he asked why the little girl was not accompanied by an adult, Zhang Zhengye explained one sentence and then changed the topic.

At that time, he was focused on inquiring about the news, and did not notice this little detail.

Zuo Lingquan felt that something was not right, he raised his hand and signaled the two women to wait there. He squeezed into the crowd in the square and came to the front of more than 20 people.

Yesterday, I helped to kill the beast and walked with me for a while. The adults naturally recognized Zuo Lingquan, and when they saw him coming, they said hello:

"Xianchang Tang, you are here too..."

"Call Xianchang quickly..."

Zuo Lingquan's expression was easy-going. After standing in front of him and asking about the child's groping, he looked left and right in confusion and asked:

"Why is that little girl gone? I remember seven babies yesterday. Where did the other one go?"

Aunt Wang, who carried the little girl into the carriage yesterday, shook her head and said:

"I don't know, Zhang Xianchang is an **** hired by the government. When we were on the road, the little girl was on the carriage, and I didn't know it was the girl from that village. After arriving in the city in the middle of the night last night, Zhang Xianchang took the girl away."

Zuo Lingquan frowned secretly, thought about it and asked.

"After touching the child's bones, you still have to go back to your hometown, and Zhang Xianchang will also **** you?"

"Yeah, I have to leave tomorrow, and I have to go back to harvest the crops..."

"How do you contact Zhang Xianchang?"

"Zhang Xianchang seems to be a person in a carriage and horse shop. We lived in the carriage and horse shop last night, just on the other side of the street. We can go back later..."

...

Zuo Lingquan nodded slightly, and after chatting for a while, he said goodbye to a few people, turned around and walked west of the city with the two girls.

What the common people refer to as chariots and horses, strictly speaking, is the **** of Xianjia. A large amount of equipment refined in Burning Smoke City and a large amount of materials that come in from outside all need to be transported and escorted by people. If you go to large places, you can take the Xianjia ferry boat, but to go to the sects and cities outside the waterway, you can only rely on the two legs of monks. Or flying swords.

As the saying goes, 'the feet and teeth of the car and boat shop, the innocent should be killed', the experience of the world is placed on the practice path without the restrictions of the king, and it will only be worse than that; if in the world, the worst thing is to take a child and sell it A slave and a prostitute, but in the practice of Taoism, a mortal child is worth less than a white jade baht, and if you can abduct it, most of your life is worse than death.

Zuo Lingquan's face turned completely cold when he was halfway there, but after a short while, he came to a courtyard full of carriages in the west of the city. From the street, you could see many monks who were not high in realm, escorting their carriages in and out.

Zuo Lingquan hid his voice and jumped up to the roof, trying to find a suitable target to ask Zhang Zhengye's whereabouts; but after waiting for a while, he found Zhang Zhengye and his partner, carrying two jars of wine, talking and laughing walking from the alley back door...

"Old Zhang, the nine sects will start in a few months. After this trip, let's go over to see the excitement..."

"Let's finish the run first. If we encounter two furry beasts again, it's a question of whether we can come back alive..."

Zhang Zhengye suffered some skin trauma from killing the bear yesterday. He raised his hand and rubbed his shoulder. He was about to scold the beast for being ruthless, but he saw a figure fall from the roof next to him.

Zhang Zhengye's face changed slightly, and when he looked up, he saw that the person was wearing a blue robe, a hat, a sword hanging from his waist, and his figure was a bit familiar.

"Friend Tang?"

Zhang Zhengye was slightly surprised. He stood there without stepping forward, and said in a friendly manner:

"Why are you here? Have you found a suitable refiner?"

Zuo Lingquan raised his hat with a smile on his face:

"Not yet, I was wandering around, and I didn't expect to meet Brother Zhang again. What a coincidence. Where is the uncle and aunt whom I saw yesterday?"

Zhang Zhengye raised his eyes and signaled to the east of the city: "The Burning Mist Sect recruited people in the morning, and they all went to the square. They went straight to the road, and I didn't need to accompany them."

Zuo Lingquan walked towards Zhang Zhengye and said with a smile: "The girl who was crying yesterday, the lord didn't follow, can you go alone?"

Zhang Zhengye blinked: "Let that sister-in-law of the Wang family help you watch..."

bang

As soon as this statement came out, the wine jar that Zhang Zhengye was carrying exploded.

The cool wine scattered, but it did not land, but turned into a 'water curtain' in the air.

Zhang Zhengye and his partner's expressions suddenly changed, but what about the tenth-level qi-refining cultivator?

Zuo Lingquan didn't lift his hand, walked slowly, and controlled the water curtain to wrap the two of them, covering the whole body, and then a thought, the water curtain condensed into solid ice.

Zuo Lingquan refined the black dragon carp. This hand of 'holding water into ice' is considered a bloodline talent, and there is no need for a trick, but in an instant, two more icemen appeared in the alley.

There was only a thin layer of ice on the surface, but it was obviously impossible for Zhang Zhengye to break free. He was so dead that he couldn't even move his eyelids, and there was only consternation and panic in his eyes.

Zuo Lingquan walked in front of Zhang Zhengye, his eyes were sharp as sharp knives, scratching his eyes:

"Give you a chance to confess yourself. If you don't say it, I have a hundred ways for you to speak."

Zhang Zhengye couldn't even move his eyes, he could only show awe and obedience in his eyes. He had never seen Zuo Lingquan move, and the ice cubes on his mouth had melted away.

"Tang...Xianchang Tang, misunderstanding...misunderstanding..."

The temperature of the ice cubes condensed by the black dragon carp was terrifyingly low, but after a while, Zhang Zhengye's words could not be said.

"Speaking of the topic, at most half a quarter of an hour, your limbs will be frozen."

The only thing Zhang Zhengye can move is his mouth, and he trembles:

"Shen's Thatched Cottage, the storekeeper of the Thatched Cottage, is an old doctor. I want to take an apprentice and ask our owner to find a good seedling; that girl is the daughter of a tenant family in the north. We bought it for 200 taels of silver, but her parents can't support her. We are happy, we have never done anything inappropriate.”

"Since it's upright, why did you deliberately hide it and lie to me?"

"Keeping secrets to employers is the rule in this business. When I first met Xian Chang, we couldn't say everything."

"..."

Zuo Lingquan pondered for a while, and it seemed to make sense. If it was a misunderstanding, it would be better than a real accident. He was about to remove the ice when he thought about it and asked again:

"Let you pick a good seedling, and you just buy a girl?"

Zhang Zhengye hesitated a little.

Zuo Lingquan's eyes were slightly cold, he raised his finger, and the fingertips condensed the ink-colored cone, which directly pierced Zhang Zhengye's chest.

"Wait! The person was found from the official roster. Before the roster was sent to the Burning Smoke Sect, our boss crossed out the girl's name. In order to hide the public's eyes and eyes from the local officials, we brought it along with the local children. Come back; I thought it was a rare good seedling, and I secretly showed the girl a photo when I picked up someone, but there was nothing special about it, that is, the eight-character pure yin, which is relatively rare."

Zhang Zhengye finished speaking in one breath, his lips were already frozen purple.

After Zuo Lingquan made sure that he didn't hide it any more, he asked the location of the Shen Family Pharmacy Hall, and then casually squeezed his true qi and hit the two of them:

"I left a mark on you. Today's events reveal half a word. You can't escape death if you flee to the ends of the earth."

After speaking, the two of them were stunned and stuffed into a deserted house in the alley.

Wu Qingwan and Tang Jingxuan watched the wind together, and only then did they come to the front and said:

"Ling Quan, it sounds like there's nothing wrong with it. It's just that small forces rob the seedlings of the big sects. This kind of thing actually happens in Great Dan."

Zuo Lingquan thought so in his heart, but he didn't understand the meaning of the seedlings who specially picked the "Bazi Pure Yin". He took out the Tiandun card and called out:

"Senior Ling Ye, are you there?"

The Tiandun card returned almost in seconds:

"Water and wood are yin, gold and fire are yang, and earth is in the middle. The eight characters are pure yin, and if the five elements are close to water and wood, it is the body of Taiyin; too much yin qi makes the body weak and sick, and the normal practice methods are waste materials, but there are some special ways to cultivate. Numbers, and they belong to different talents, there is no such genre in the Nine Sects."

After Zuo Lingquan heard this, he ignored the meaning of the words, but looked up at the surroundings and said strangely:

"Senior Ling Ye, did you put a surveillance thing on me?"

"right."

"..."

Wu Qingwan's expression froze, and she subconsciously tightened the placket of her clothes, feeling a little apprehensive, apparently remembering what happened last night when she was repaired.

Tang Jingxuan also widened her eyes, feeling a little scared in her heart, secretly said: Fortunately, I held back and didn't go out to join in the fun yesterday, otherwise... I will be ashamed...

Zuo Lingquan couldn't bear the scene where he licked Wanwan and said rude words. If the concubine saw it, wouldn't the image of a decent gentleman be completely ruined?

He lowered his head and touched his body to find it.

Shangguan Lingye's voice came again:

"You can't find it. This is for your safety and won't spy on your private affairs."

Zuo Lingquan really couldn't find it, so he had to stop angrily and continue talking about the business:

"Senior means that the shopkeeper Shen was looking for an apprentice of 'Bazi Pure Yin' because he walked the other way?"

"It's possible. Yang is high and longevity is short, while yin is serious and sick, and the lifespan is no longer than that of a normal monk. Ninety percent of the schools that rely on the body of the yin or the sun to cultivate will go to extremes to gain time."

"Then I'll take a look at the situation, if there is a problem..."

Zuo Lingquan wanted to say "I'll let you know if there is any problem", but remembering that Shangguan Lingye was behind the "supervisor", he changed it to:

"Senior Ling Ye remind me if there is a problem."

"Um."

A slightly cold response came, and the streamer of the Tiandun card disappeared, and there was no movement.

Zuo Lingquan put away the Tiandun card, and led the two girls to the Shenjia thatched cottage outside the city.

Wu Qingwan was in a state of turmoil and felt like she was sitting on pins and needles. She followed behind, she couldn't help but walked to Zuo Lingquan and carefully looked for the monitor on Zuo Lingquan's body.

Zuo Lingquan also looked for a while, but couldn't find it, so he could only comfort Qingwan with his eyes...

Like Leigong Mountain, Shen's Thatched Cottage is located along the Kutuo River outside the city. It is not too far from Leigong Mountain, and it is separated by two hills.

The three walked along the avenue, and it could be seen that there were many caves built between the mountains along the two sides of the river. Occasionally, the monk Yujian could be seen passing through the sky.

After coming to the Shenjia Thatched Cottage, there is a field covering an area of ​​nearly 100 acres. The crops grown in the field are not ordinary crops, but various spiritual grasses and spiritual fruits. Rich aura.

The Shen's Thatched Cottage is located on the edge of the Lingtian, facing the river, with a canal next to it, which diverts the river water to irrigate the fields.

The road between the spiritual fields was densely populated with people, including monks and commoners, either injured or ill, and a long queue formed outside the compound.

Practitioners generally do not get sick, but are only injured, and most of them rely on medicinal pills for treatment. Therefore, among the true immortals, they all concoct pills in the cave, and few people will open a hall for consultation.

Zuo Lingquan saw so many ordinary people coming to see a doctor, and his footsteps slowed down. Immortal family members have a detached status. They go out to dig for heaven and earth treasures. If they don't work hard, they can get a lot of money. Seeing a doctor is purely for charity.

Wu Qingwan is also considered half a doctor. Seeing so many people outside the cottage, she felt a little emotional:

"There are so many monks who come to treat wounds, which shows that they are very accomplished. The monks who are highly accomplished in medicine and Taoism also open a hall to consult the people. I'm afraid they don't charge money, so they can't make a difference."

Zuo Lingquan's thoughts were the same. He didn't get too close. He just stood at a high place and glanced at the courtyard where a lot of medicinal herbs were drying. An old man dressed in sackcloth was sitting behind a table in the open air, taking a village woman's pulse. In the house at the back, several apprentices were taking medicine and making medicine.

In addition, Zuo Lingquan saw the little girl from yesterday at a glance.

A little girl who is almost six years old, wearing a new floral dress, squatting on the steps, holding a small porcelain bowl in her hand, which is full of meat; A big yellow dog with a slap in the face was lying on his back.

When the three of them saw this scene, it was really hard to be suspicious.

Tang Jingxuan glanced at a distance, shook his head and said:

"If this is a demon, then we don't deserve to be human, right?"

"It's good to be wrong."

Zuo Lingquan smiled, and he was relieved that the little girl was fine. He turned around and wanted to leave with the two women.

But Tang Jingxuan admired the exotic flowers and plants in the spiritual field. Before she left the spiritual field, she slowed down and looked at the soles of her feet in doubt.

Seeing this, Zuo Lingquan turned around and asked:

"Sister Tang, what's wrong?"

Tang Jing folded her hands on her waist, looking at the road under her feet, her brows furrowed, and after a long hesitation, she said softly:

"There seems to be something down there."

Wu Qingwan didn't feel anything, and stepped on the loess ground with her embroidered shoes:

"what?"

"I don't know. It's almost the same as the last time I encountered the fire underground. I felt it was gone again. I don't know if it was an illusion."

The dumpling made two "jiji" sounds and looked at it with a probe, meaning "Where is it? Why didn't the bird feel it?".

"The monks in the Spirit Valley will not have illusions, and if they feel they have it, they have it."

Zuo Lingquan felt that it was strange, so he took out the treasure-hunting compass to check, but the surrounding spiritual fields were full of heaven and earth treasures, and the pointer on the compass was spinning, making it impossible to locate.

Seeing this scene, Wu Qingwan also felt that it was not right:

"There is a magic circle on the spiritual field, and prying will be discovered; many spiritual grasses can interfere with the detection instruments. If these are all disguises, this method is really powerful, and I am afraid no one will be able to detect that there is something hidden underneath."

After Zuo Lingquan looked around for a week, he looked at the thatched cottage in the distance:

"It's not a simple thing to hide like this. Let's go and find out the origin of the Thatched Cottage."

Wu Qingwan nodded slightly, looked back at the countless people who went to see a doctor, and sighed again:

"Hopefully it's a mistake this time."

……——

Across the river, Leigong Mountain.

Behind the villa, Lei Hongliang sat cross-legged in the hot cave, and the flames beside him trembled slightly.

Lei Hongliang opened his eyes, glanced at the flames, raised his hand slightly, and a boulder fell from the entrance of the cave, blocking the entrance.

Lei Hongliang stood up with his upper body naked and walked to the center of the cave; the ground under his feet lit up with a circle of magic circles, and then the entire ground sank rapidly, turning into a shaft that went straight into the depths of the ground, with a passage at the bottom. the end of.

Ding

Ding

Ding

At the other end of the dark passage, there was a knocking sound.

Lei Hongliang quickly passed through the passage, and a huge space with a radius of nearly one mile appeared in front of him, directly below the spiritual field.

The underground space is lit with dim firelight, and one hundred and eight giant pillars are faintly visible, supporting the dome; golden incantations are densely covered on the giant pillars, each character is larger than a human being, and they are connected in series with each other, flowing all the way to the ground, until they converge on the ground. center.

It is unimaginable how much effort it takes to build a magnificent building with a radius of nearly one mile, and there is only one person who has built 108 giant pillars.

Lei Hongliang looked up and found the figure in the southwest corner of the formation.

He rose with his sword, flew over the huge array, and landed near the figure.

The figure was not wearing a shirt, his long hair was loose, and he looked a bit sloppy, but this is what the refiner looked like when he was working.

The figure is less than 30 years old, looks handsome, and even has a somewhat refined face; holding a two-handed hammer in his hand, he stands directly in the huge alchemy furnace with a height of three people. golden scrap.

Ding

Ding

...

The alchemy furnace fell to the ground, and the golden stains flowed all over the ground. Next to it were the treasures of heaven and earth that were piled up into hills, which was also Lei Hongliang's wealth accumulated for nearly a hundred years.

Lei Hongliang walked to the alchemy furnace, looked at it carefully, and asked:

"Zunyi, what's wrong?"

Wu Zunyi swung the hammer and sighed:

"The fryer is out."

Lei Hongliang thought it was a big deal, shook his head and smiled:

"It's only a problem if the refiner doesn't fry the furnace, but it's really unusual for you to fry the furnace. I forgot when you last fried the furnace."

"I'm fine, there's something wrong with the fire, something is pulling it, and the fryer is out of control."

Hearing this, Lei Hongliang frowned, walked into the alchemy furnace, and squatted down to examine the traces carefully. Judging from the color of the waste, the flame in the furnace shifted to the left, causing the temperature to be uneven between the left and right, causing the explosion.

This kind of mistake would not be made by a normal-minded craftsman, let alone Wu Zunyi. It could only be caused by external forces.

Lei Hongliang has been refining tools for so many years, and this is the first time he has encountered such a thing. He said blankly:

"The rootless fire is the fire of the sky. Only the divine fire can affect it. The only divine fire in Yuyaozhou is under the barren mountains. How could it affect this place?"

"The Emperor Di Zhao also has a divine fire on his body, maybe it's nearby."

"The emperor's lord..."

Lei Hongliang's face turned pale, he stood up, looked left and right, his eyes cautious.

Wu Zunyi was very calm: "Don't panic if you don't find it, it's useless to panic if you find it."

Lei Hongliang thought about it too, then looked at the huge array outside the tripod, and thought about it:

"Can this thing deal with the Emperor Di Zhao?"

Wu Zunyi shook his head: "I won't know until I finish it, but according to my estimation, if you can't kill the Emperor's Emperor, you will be able to resist for a while at most; if it is discovered in advance, we can go directly to accompany the ancestors, and there is no chance of escape. Must have."

Lei Hongliang sighed softly: "I want to rescue the ancestor from Leichi and send him to Samsara~www.wuxiahere.com~ You have a bright future, you don't need to take your life, just leave if you feel something is wrong."

"I'm gone, you can't finish this last stroke in your life."

Wu Zunyi put down his hammer and looked at the formation that was about to take shape:

"You can't repay the kindness of teaching. It's yours. After I finish this, I'll leave."

Lei Hongliang was silent for a while, and sighed softly:

"Although the world is big, there is no place for you and me. I should have sent you to Tiandi City and left you privately. I don't know if I hurt you."

"When there was no way to go, it was Leigongshan who gave me a step. You treat me with sincerity, and I will repay it with sincerity. Even if you really hurt me, I will sacrifice my life for righteousness, and I don't have to feel guilty about it."

"Ugh……"

After watching for a moment, Lei Hongliang didn't say more, turned around and left the ground...——

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