Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

Xuankong Mountain is a famous mountain in the northwest of Yingzhou. It is the ancestral home of the Ouyang family, one of the four great families in Yingzhou. It is also the location of the Ouyang family’s sword pool. The mountain has been heavily guarded by the Ouyang family for generations!

That night, the breeze was light and the moon was waning, the brightness was unpredictable.

Outside the valley where the Xuankong Mountain Sword Pond was located, a figure suddenly appeared. Under the dim moonlight, it seemed to be an old man with white hair and light yellow clothes. He looked at the quiet valley and shouted:

"Ji Wuque of the Ji family is here to meet Brother Ouyang!"

The sound echoed in the valley for a long time.

After a long time, a one-armed old man with white hair hanging down to his shoulders appeared on the floating stone above the sword pool.

"Brother Ji, why are you here at the Ouyang family's sword pond instead of guarding the Ji family's ancestral hall in Zhongzhou?"

The one-armed old man looked at the old man outside the valley and said quietly.

"Brother Ouyang, you are still brooding over what happened back then!"

Ji Wuque outside the valley looked at the one-armed old man with an unhappy face and said.

"I lost an arm and returned empty-handed. It's better to be more careful when dealing with the Ji family!"

It seems there is a story between the two.

"The Ji family felt guilty about what happened back then, so they married Ouyang's daughter into our Ji family. Now our two families are in-laws, so we should put aside our differences and work together to achieve great things!"

Ji Wuque said softly outside the valley.

"Brother Ji, what do you want our Ouyang family to do here? My Yingzhou Ouyang family is not your appendage!"

The one-armed old man seems to be very hostile to people outside the valley!

"Brother Ouyang, please don't be so hostile. The Ji family is here to help your Ouyang family eliminate the various forces in Manghuang and Yingzhou, so that the Ouyang family can become the leader of Yingzhou as soon as possible!"

"What do you mean by this?"

"In the vast desert, the Ji family left behind a phantom killing formation. This is the formation's activation stone. As long as this stone is placed in the formation, the phantom formation will turn into a killing formation! It will kill all enemies in the formation!"

Ji Wuque of the Ji family outside the valley said this as he threw a golden stone at the one-armed old man on the floating stone.

"As for whether your Ouyang family will use it and how to use it, it depends on whether Brother Ouyang has ambitions and how big his ambitions are!"

After Ji Wuque finished speaking, he disappeared in the Hanging Mountain.

"What tricks is the Ji family playing this time? Are they really trying to help my Ouyang family dominate Yingzhou?"

The one-armed old man looked at the waning moon in the sky and muttered to himself.

"Let Masao come see me!"

Not long after, a voice was heard at the foot of Xuankong Mountain.

Zhengxiong, Ouyang Zhengxiong is the current head of the Ouyang family!

The next day, in Ouyang Villa, Ouyang Zhengxiong stood quietly in a pavilion, watching the clouds in the sky, gathering and dispersing, dispersing and gathering again.

Last night, Uncle Jianchi summoned him. After knowing his intention, Ouyang Zhengxiong was very hesitant.

The news that there was a Sea Crystal Pearl in the Vast Sea Desert was spreading like wildfire in the cultivation world. He had already guessed that it was the Ji family's doing. The Sea Crystal Pearl had been obtained by the Ji family back then, and his uncle had lost an arm because of it in the Vast Sea Desert. Outsiders didn't know about this at all. He only found out the whole story after he became the head of the family and his sister married into the Ji family. Now that the Ji family had spread the news, he didn't know what it meant, nor did he care what the Ji family meant. It had nothing to do with the Ouyang family!

Ouyang Zhengxiong can be said to be a patriarch without ambitions. He does not want to compete with the other three major families and sects in Yingzhou. In his heart, the Ouyang family is a sword-making family, not a sword-using family. That's why he did not agree to the marriage with the Ji family. In that case, the other families and sects in Yingzhou would have a sense of crisis, and the Ouyang family would be targeted and excluded. But the marriage was the idea of ​​Uncle Jianchi. He said that the Ji family owed the Ouyang family.

Just as Ouyang Zhengxiong expected, after the marriage between the Ji family and the Ouyang family, the Ouyang family was restricted everywhere in Yingzhou and encountered obstacles in everything. Although the Ouyang family had no ambition to compete for hegemony, they had the background and strength to become a leader! The various factions in Yingzhou and the other three major families were very wary of the Ouyang family. They did not want Yingzhou to become another Zhongzhou!

Ouyang Zhengxiong reminded everyone in the Ouyang family to be careful when they were outside and not to cause trouble. He also tolerated many things and backed down again and again, not wanting to fight. But even so, in the eyes of outsiders, the Ouyang family was still a huge threat, after all, they had the support of the Ji family!

Ouyang Zhengxiong looked at the clouds in the sky, thinking about the troubles in his heart, and sighed after a long time:

"Since the Ji family wants to disrupt the situation in Yingzhou, there is no way to hide!"

"Come here, send a message to Yingzhou and Manghuang, and tell them that the Sea Crystal Pearl is in the Hailing Lake at the end of the Vast Sea Desert. If anyone gets it, the Ouyang family is willing to exchange it for the Seven Star Sword!"

Outside the domain is a general term for all places to the north and west of the Yanquan area. The territory here is vast, but the population is relatively sparse because the landforms are mostly deserts and Gobi, which are not suitable for human habitation. Except for some ancient ethnic groups living in specific areas, the area is basically inhabited by people of the magic path. Traitors or criminals of the righteous path also flee here.

The outside of the domain has been the territory of the demonic sect for thousands of years. No matter whether it is the Ji family in Zhongzhou or the Murong family in Youzhou, they dare not go deep into this place. After all, after the great battle between good and evil thousands of years ago, this place has been governed by the Wanmo Sect of the demonic sect!

For thousands of years, the righteous sect led by the Ji family and the evil sect led by the Wanmo Sect have been fighting each other, winning and losing, and the situation of no winner has lasted for thousands of years. Moreover, neither side has unified the righteous path or the evil path, not only because of insufficient strength, but also because the major sects and major families have their own heritage. How could they be willing to be annexed and swallowed? It is said that when the battle between good and evil ended, the Ji family had the opportunity to unify good and evil, but unfortunately something interfered with it, resulting in the current situation. Of course, this is just a legend.

After Xuantian Pavilion came into being, the Wanmo Sect also became restless and continuously infiltrated Yanquan with its power. However, the Yanquan area has been the natural dividing line between the righteous and evil paths since ancient times, with both good and evil in the area, so the infiltration of the Wanmo Sect did not attract much attention.

But the Ji family discovered that there were more and more demons who were quietly infiltrating into Zhongzhou from the border areas of Yanquan and Zhongzhou. At first, they didn't take them seriously and killed them one by one when they saw them!

However, with the increasing number of demons pouring in in recent days and the increasing levels of cultivation of those who infiltrated, the Ji family became alert. They arrested a group, interrogated a group, and killed a group, but they still couldn't find out what the demons' intentions were.

All I know is that these people seem to have come to Zhongzhou to inquire about someone or to look for something, but I don't know the details.

Today, the elders of the Ji family captured a demon from the Linxian Realm who attempted to infiltrate the imperial city, and took him back to the imperial city. They were going to use the Ji family's greatest treasure, the Soul-Searching Mirror, to explore the memories in this person's mind, so as to find out the intentions of the demons who were constantly infiltrating Zhongzhou!

The Soul-Searching Mirror is the Ji family's most precious treasure, placed in the Elders' Hall. It is a sacred instrument that can detect the consciousness and mind of a cultivator. Over the past thousands of years, it has performed countless feats for the Ji family, and a great deal of information has been obtained through it.

The Elders' Hall is one of the core forces of the Ji family. Most of the people in the Hall are members of the Ji family from one or two generations above Ji Qingfeng. These people are also the backup force for the guardians of the Ji family's ancestral hall. When the guardian of the ancestral hall is vacant, people with profound cultivation will be selected from the Elders' Hall to fill the position.

At this moment, there were six elders in the Elder Hall, and they were working together to activate the Soul Searching Mirror. After the six people input a lot of true energy, the Soul Searching Mirror slowly rose up, and the whole body was shrouded in the true energy of the six people. A light ball on the top of the Soul Searching Mirror gradually brightened, emitting a dark green light, covering the person of the Demonic Path. Countless memories of the person of the Demonic Path appeared around the Soul Searching Mirror, rotating in circles, and finally disappeared into the hole at the bottom of the Soul Searching Mirror.

After a long time, the six people withdrew their power and sat on the chairs panting, with sweat on their foreheads. It turned out that activating the Soul Search Mirror consumes a lot of true energy, and the true energy required varies depending on the cultivation level of the soul-searching object. The higher the cultivation level of the object being searched, the more true energy is consumed!

After the six people had almost recovered, the elder sitting in the middle spoke:

"Alas, we have wasted our energy in vain. We don't have any useful information. We only know that the Ten Thousand Demon Sect sent people to Zhongzhou to look for someone, and there is only one name, and we don't know anything else!"

Other elders said:

"The Ten Thousand Demon Sect has no intention of invading or starting a war. Do we still need to report this to the Patriarch?"

"Something is not right. So many people are constantly infiltrating and coming to Zhongzhou to find someone with the surname Ji. It's very strange!"

"It's very strange, very strange, could it be that someone in our Ji family has fallen into evil ways?"

"I think we should check the family tree to see if there is anyone named Ji Yichen in the younger generation! The Yi generation is the next generation of Qingfeng, and I have never heard of this name! It is impossible for the Demonic Path to find an unknown member of the Ji family, right?"

In the Elder Hall, only one person remained silent, his brows furrowed, and his heart was filled with turmoil! He was the only one among the six people in the Elder Hall who supported Ji Qingyun as the head of the family. At this moment, he was thinking:

"Ji Yichen, wasn't Qingyun's child called Yichen? But didn't that child disappear with Qingyun more than ten years ago?"

Then he said:

"No need to check, Qingyun's child is called Ji Yichen!"

"What did you say?"

The other five asked in unison!

"I remember Qingyun's child was named Ji Yichen!"

After that, the six of them were silent. No one knew the details of what happened more than a decade ago. Now the people of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect kept coming to Zhongzhou to look for the son of the former head of the Ji family. It was a bit puzzling! Could it be that Ji Qingyun was kidnapped and taken outside the domain?

"You guys wait here, I'm going to go find Qing Feng, this is not going to be easy!"

The elder sitting in the middle left the Elders Hall after saying this.

When Ji Qingfeng heard that the Ten Thousand Demon Sect was constantly infiltrating Zhongzhou to find out about Ji Yichen, he exclaimed:

"Yi Chen is still alive?"