Sir, this sword is a keepsake

The old boatman took off his bamboo hat, revealing his glistening head.Shen Fang couldn't really see his movements, only saw his left hand swaying in front of him, and suddenly, his featureless facial features began to change.The eyes are elongated and widened, the eye sockets are gradually sunken, the bridge of the nose is raised, the tip of the nose becomes larger, and the wrinkles on the face fade and become thinner—a mature appearance with a big nose and a white-haired child is revealed.

"Daoist Guixuzi, you also know illusion?" Shen Fang asked in surprise.

"I once had a meeting with Xu Yiwei from Yanzhi Mountain, and bargained several times, exchanging the evergreen mentality for the fragments of his Dream Butterfly Technique. I am ashamed to say that today, the old Taoist can only slightly change his appearance in front of people That's all."

Gui Xuzi went back to the thatched shed and sat down, "When my junior brother pretended to be me, he was far away, so he didn't dare to look at you?"

Shen Fang nodded, thinking to himself, it turned out that the person pretending to be the Taoist priest of Guixuzi was his younger brother, wait, the Taoist priest of Guixuzi actually has a younger brother?

"My junior brother Piao Miaozi is an abandoned baby. He was already dying when he was picked up by my master in the cold winter months. When he was brought back to the peak, he miraculously survived."

"Junior brother has suffered from the cold and has been weak since he was a child. It takes him five days to complete my one-day homework. Perhaps it is because of his physical weakness that his mind grows the fastest."

"Without the knowledge of Master and I, he has already tried his supernatural powers and wandered around the world."

The rain was falling more and more heavily, and the river was filled with mist.Shen Fang also walked back to the thatched shed and sat against the side of the boat.

"Kui Niangzi, don't get caught in the rain!" Gui Xuzi yelled towards the stern of the boat.Kui Niangzi ran to the bow of the boat, rushed into the thatched shed and stopped abruptly, stared at Guixuzi without speaking, and sat down next to Shen Fang.Shen Fang turned his head and saw that her jet-black hair was still stained with crystal raindrops, and a trace of wet breath of rain came over her face.

It suddenly occurred to him that this Lady Sunflower called Gui Xuzi "Grandpa".Kui Niangzi, what is the meaning of this name? Is this little girl really the granddaughter of Guixuzi?

Gui Xuzi chuckled and continued talking about his junior brother.

"If the old Taoist could have noticed it earlier, he wouldn't have watched his junior turn his back on his master and the rift between him and his master would grow worse."

"Here, did Piao Miaozi discover something during his fugue?" Shen Fang tentatively asked.

Guixuzi's deep-set eyes glanced at Shen Fang, "My mind is turning very quickly, and I have lost the dullness I had when I practiced swords in Yongxia Mountain Villa."

Kui Niangzi sneered from her nose, Gui Xuzi and Shen Fang looked awkward for a moment at the same time.

"My master has never been a kind and weak person. The birth, old age, sickness and death of others are natural to him. The reason why he brought the abandoned baby back to the review was because he saw a wooden sign with the boy's name engraved on it. , Lu Hongyue."

The red moon... the red moon on Wuyou Peak... Shen Fang frowned.

"The red moon is not from this world."

Shen Fang was taken aback, "Isn't it something from this world?"

"A more popular way of saying is, Yaoxie. The so-called Yaoxie is not what people say. It is just a beauty in the empty mountain that tempts passers-by. Yaoxie is a stone or a flower that appears out of thin air, born from nothing, and goes to nothing. Just get out, in this world, evil spirits have no fate, no luck."

"It's like, a chess game, is it a leaf that accidentally fell on the chessboard?"

This time even Kui Niangzi couldn't help but look sideways at Shen Fang.

Gui Xuzi smiled approvingly, "Brother, he has finally discovered the mystery of his life experience, and he also understands that Master has hidden selfish motives in saving him back to Shangqing Temple."

"At that time, I was also young, and I was indulging in my own practice. It wasn't until the irreversible tragedy happened that I realized what it meant to be unrecoverable from yesterday."

"The younger brother insisted on going down the mountain to enter the world, but the master was naturally unwilling, and even wanted to destroy his body, so the younger brother who was forced to die committed a heinous crime and killed his own teacher."

"In the morning light, I opened the door and left, and what was left to me was the dead body of my master on the ground, and a blood-stained back that resolutely went away."

Shen Fangzheng was shocked when he heard that a small stone suddenly rolled to his feet, he picked it up, Kui Niangzi lowered her head, took the stone from his hand without saying a word, and then started playing with it.The stones in her hands were all polished smooth, it seemed that she had been playing with them for a while.

"Since then, Lingxu Peak has been renamed Wuyou Peak by me. Hongyue is Zixu Wuyou, and that day, Zixu Wuyou was also Zixu Wuyou. The 63 disciples of Shangqing Temple have all started the three prohibitions of not hearing, not seeing, not speaking."

"Many years have passed, until your father wandered down the mountain and came to Yaoshan, and a sword from the sky forced me to open the mountain gate." Speaking of this, Guixuzi Fuxu said with emotion.

"Daoist, your junior brother..."

"He entered the palace and became the Imperial Teacher of Daliang," Guixuzi said with a smile, "I want to leave traces of his presence in this world."

"After the incident of Chunfengyao, I only knew that his physical body had died, and he was busy searching for his magic tricks in the world. Who knew that he lied to me by cheating his death, and let his dumb sparrow bring a letter, which completely misunderstood me. Afterwards, I even wanted to secretly go up the mountain to plot against me, but I noticed something was wrong, so I took Hualongzhan down the mountain in advance."

Shen Fang frowned, thinking of what he had talked to the wild guest monk that night.

"After the rebels in Xiliang Fanzhen were killed, Qi Di hosted a banquet one night, and he saw Ying Huo guarding his heart. Thousands of miles away, I saw the astrology in the sky, so I never doubted it. Now it seems that it should also belong to the red moon." question."

"The Daoist is saying that all of this was set up by Qi Di? As soon as the agreement with my father came to an end, he would use the omens of troubled times as an excuse to attack the Jianghu sects, and at the same time attract people from the grass and grass, so as to catch them all at once. ?”

"This step has been prepared by my junior brother many years ago." Guixuzi fanned the wind, and a small flying insect was blown away as soon as it landed, "The year you were born, I have never looked back." Wu Youfeng suddenly took Hualongzhan to the peak in a hurry, and told me that Shangqing Temple was the safest place in the world he believed, and I was the last person he trusted, so he left Hualongzhan, which carries the fate of the country, here .”

"At first glance, I knew there was nothing in the Hualongzhan, but I was still willing to hide it for him."

"Why?" Shen Fang blurted out.He had already figured out that Hualongzhan was Qi Di's bait, and it was used to attract people like the High Priest of Spirit Snake Marsh to go up to the peak to snatch it.

Guixuzi didn't answer.At this time, the boat gradually deviated from the center of the river and swung towards the mountain wall.He lightly picked up the wooden pole, flicked it into the water, and adjusted the course.

"Qi Di has been in power for 20 years. He has been responsible for the world. He has tried his best to be pious and streamline the administration. Taoist priests practice Taoism, swordsmen practice swords, and the society, the people, and the land tax system have ever been carefully studied? Who deserves to judge his merits and demerits? That he is not a good emperor?"

"As for the eternal selfishness of the Qi Clan's land forever," Guixuzi threw the wooden pole back to its original place and shook his hands, "What does Lady Kui think?"

"Childish." Kui Niangzi stared at the two stones in her hand without raising her head, and said without thinking, "However, it's human nature."

"It's human nature..." Shen Fang repeated.

"Furthermore, it's not that there are no martial arts criminals. It's just that Yongxia Mountain Villa is the leader in the Jianghu, and they dare not make mistakes. If the martial arts number one changes hands in the future, it will be hard to say. This kind of risk has happened once in the past 20 years. It's just that Qi Di cleaned up Yongxia Villa without disturbing it."

"This is……"

"Gushan Jianting didn't practice swords but piano. It's a pity that the chaotic mountain piano score, which was entrusted with the hope of revitalizing the martial arts, was destroyed in one fell swoop."

Shen Fang frowned - he had never heard of these things.

"Destroyed? Did Qi Di do it again?"

"When we heard about this later, we all thought that Qi Di was the only one who would make a move. Qi Di hadn't set up the Shenwu Pavilion at that time, nor had he sent anyone to search the rivers and lakes. Therefore, how exactly did the chaotic mountain piano score enter the palace and be burned? I have never been clear. Also, that year, Fang Yuan, the eldest son of Gushan Sword Court, has disappeared since then."

Gui Xuzi showed an unfathomable expression, "So, many people guess that Fang Yuan has something to do with the piano score, and it is even possible that he sent it to the palace."

"Fang Yuan?" Shen Fang's thoughts turned for a long time on the words "Fu Yizhu", and he said in a deep voice, "I have met the young master in Gushan Jianting, his name is Fang Di, and he has a younger sister. I forgot the name for a while. They never mentioned that they have an elder brother. By the way, Daoist, do you know how the Gushan Sword Court is doing now, and have you been implicated by this matter?"

Shen Fang saw Guixuzi's calm expression, and his heart sank suddenly.

"A month ago, people from the Shenwu Pavilion went to Gushan. I heard that there are all over the family..." Before Guixuzi finished speaking, Shen Fang's eyes suddenly became dull, and he only said that Shen Fang had friendship with the children of the Fang family.

For a while, the two were silent, Shen Fang's head was slightly lowered, his eyes avoided the scar on the back of his hand, and he fell on the wet ship board absentmindedly.

"It's all over. The choices and regrets of the predecessors are a foregone conclusion. Let's look forward."

"Okay." Shen Fang replied.

Guixuzi shook his head, "Speaking of regrets, my junior brother destroyed the ingeniously crafted spirit peak, and buried all my Qimen Dunjia's painstaking efforts in it for many years. Although the old Taoist accepted it painfully, but thinking about it, he was so embarrassed that he just wanted to sigh. "

"Wuyou Peak is ruined?" Shen Fang sat up straight all of a sudden, "What happened to the people on the peak?"

He realized that since Lu Hongyue belonged to Qi Di, she was willing to let the High Priest of Spirit Snake Marsh get rid of her. It was obvious that Qi Di had the intention to kill someone with a knife--it seemed very ominous to go to the palace to send the sword manual.In retrospect, the voice he heard when he fell off the cliff was indeed the voice of Lu Hongyue pretending to be Guixuzi. The reason why he raised his heart to obstruct him should be because he still had the sword manual of Chunqiu Nineteen on him.

"He wanted to bury Su Wei under the rocks by closing the mountain, but I saw a wisp of black smoke rushing eastward at the foot of the mountain, and he didn't even bother to search for your body. It seems that someone foiled his plan. And This is also something I can't figure out for a while."

Seeing Shen Fang's worry, Guixuzi said again: "Don't worry, Xu Yiwei's apprentice should be fine. When you were unconscious, a jade pendant fell out of your body. He gave it to you. There is a dream on it." Butterfly mark, did he use illusion to suppress the evil mist in your body? Since the mark on it is still there, the caster is fine."

Shen Fang was stunned, nodded, and then hesitated: "Master Dao, Zhuangli has another identity, the high priest mentioned it on Fengyuntai..."

"His father is Sue from Spirit Snake Marsh, and he has the blood of the Spirit Snake in his body. It's true. Bei Mingyuan saved you. It stands to reason that he should have followed the trail to catch up. It seems that Feng Shan's influence cut him off. The connection with Beimingyuan. Beimingyuan has a spirit, but it is playful by nature, and it can't understand the priorities of people."

Shen breathed a sigh of relief, "When we came, there was actually a girl named Nangong Fuyun who belonged to the Nangong family of Wuxianglou—"

Kui Niangzi's giggling laughter sounded beside him, interrupting his words.Kui Niangzi squinted at Shen Fang who didn't know why, covered her mouth, and threw the stones into the river one by one, leaving none.

"Nangong Fuyun." Gui Xuzi repeated the name, his eyes became cloudy, as if recalling the past, "She died of a serious illness when she was ten years old, and the Nangong family brought her coffin out I went north of Yushan City and entered Yaoshan, buried her body next to the ancient road on the peak, and then Nangong took his son up the mountain to meet me."

"This--"

"Nangong Fuyun"'s every move, every word and every smile flashed through Shen Fang's mind, his eyes were full of astonishment.

"I have seen Nangong Lingyun with my own eyes, and he has never denied the identity of that woman. If she is not Nangong Fuyun, then who is she?"

Kui Niangzi covered her mouth again, giggling, she seemed to know what was going on, but she would never tell Shen Fang.However, she was suddenly attracted by something, stood up in a daze, and looked at Jiang An solemnly.

A gust of cool wind moved the hull of the boat, and it floated towards the direction she was looking at—in the dusk, there was something entangled in water plants floating up and down on the surface of the river in the halo.

The boat's fourth day on the river was coming to an end, and the spring rain was still floating like needles, reflecting orange light.In the afterglow of the setting sun, the corpse soaked in the river glistened.Shen Fang felt dazed and powerless for a while, and before he knew it, he had walked out of the thatched shed into the rain, walked to the other side of the boat, supported the side of the boat with both hands, opened his mouth, and gasped heavily.

"Don't panic, that's not Nangong Lingyun's body."

The extra "heart" on Shen Fang's right chest shrank suddenly at this moment, as if it had been pierced severely by a sharp weapon.In an instant, he was so painful that he lost consciousness that he crooked and fell into the river.The bone-chilling river water poured into his mouth and nose, and he shivered, realizing that Guixuzi's words just now answered his doubts.