After the Ming Dynasty, the flames shine on the fleeting years

After Xi Ming threw him to Tartar, he went to retreat on his own.

Liu Nian followed the pitcher, took care of the medicine field during the day, and studied the soul-eating furnace at night, and lived there day after day.In the first few days, he was still thinking about the day when Jin Chongyan would suddenly come to the door again, but after thinking about it for a long time, it faded away.Just like before, he was also looking forward to it, and then the anticipation faded away.

The Soul Eater Furnace can cause fierce fights among Moyunya's disciples, so it's not easy. He has studied it for a long time, but he still can't find a way. Seeing the days go by and Wenying's time inside is getting longer and longer, he finally can't hold it back. Stopped, put the stove in his arms, and walked towards the quiet room where Ximing retreated.

The quiet room is built behind the bamboo house, and a curved corridor is built in the middle, passing through the medicine field.

Liu Nian was standing at the end of the curved corridor, in front of the quiet room.

When he got here, he hesitated again.For the fairyland ice crystal jade, he specially investigated Xi Ming.Ximing this person is moody, cloudy and sunny.When you are happy, you can spend a lot of money and transport food for disaster relief all the way.When angry, he would run to secular sects for no reason and beat up everyone from the old to the young, without reason.When he asked about Sanwei Xinhuo, he already had doubts about his identity. Back then, he swore never to step into the valley of never giving up, and no matter what the reason was, he always broke his vow.Once Xi Ming confirmed his conjecture, his own life was a minor matter, and it would be a crime to implicate all the beings in the soul-devouring furnace.

Thinking about it this way, he gave up the idea of ​​asking Xi Ming for help, and when he turned around, he saw Tartar staring at him curiously with big eyes.

"what are you doing here?"

Liu Nian was stunned and said, "I, I want to ask the owner of the valley when he will let me go."

Bitumen said: "You want to leave? Why do you want to leave?"

Liu Niandao: "I am not from the valley, I will leave sooner or later."

Bitumen was astonished and said: "How come you are not from the valley? The owner of the valley gave you the name Garcinia, which means you are tacitly allowing you to stay."

Liu Niandao: "I...have my parents waiting for me to go back."

Asphalt tilted his head to look at him.

Liu Nian felt that his eyes were a little weird, as if he was looking into something.

"It's great that you have both parents." Li Qing said, "When I was three years old, my parents encountered a plague and both died of illness. I was raised by my uncle until I was six years old. I was sold to a toothmaid and became a servant of a rich family. "

Liu Niandao: "Then how did you get to Buqigu?"

Li Qing smiled and said: "It's good luck, I met the owner of the valley. If not, I'm afraid I would have become an unknown corpse on the Moyun Cliff. Even Mou Tianqi, who was favored by the ancestors, dared to kill him, let alone someone like him. People like me."

Liu Nian thought to himself: If I hadn't been taken away by Xi Ming that day, my fate would not have been so good. In the end, maybe even the last golden core would explode.

Bitumen asked, "What do your parents do for a living?"

Liu Nian didn't know much about the Wen family, so he had to make up something random: "It's a rice business."

"Oh."

Liu Nian looked at his gloomy face and didn't know how much he believed it. Just as he was about to change the subject, he heard the door behind him open with a "Yiya".A starling stood on the threshold with one foot, raised its head, and looked at the two menacingly.

Bitumen hurriedly saluted: "Elder brother."

Starling glanced at him contemptuously, and said to Liu Nian, "You, come in."

Liu Nian looked at Bitumen suspiciously.

Bitumen twitched the corners of his mouth and forced out a smile.

"Stupid, who are you looking at? It's about you. Come in!" Mynah flicked his feet, turned around and walked in with arrogance.

"Go." Asphalt whispered.

Liu Nian entered the quiet room, and the door closed automatically.Starling stood on the screen opposite the door, condescending and majestic: "What were you doing sneaking around outside just now?"

Liu Niandao: "I want to ask Gu Zhu, when will you let me go?"

The starling stretched his neck, lowered his head, his eyes were piercing: "Where are you going?"

Liu Niandao: "There are old parents waiting at home..."

"You don't need to make up a story, you are the face of your parents who died early." A clear and cold voice came from behind the screen.

Liu Nian was secretly surprised, he didn't expect that Xi Ming was not only proficient in refining, but also good at physiognomy.He opened his mouth and said after a while, "I want to go."

"What's the reason?"

"Can't stay."

Xi Ming chuckled: "There are many people who are not allowed to stay in Buqigu, but there are only a handful of people who cannot stay in Buqigu. Unfortunately, the few people who are not allowed to stay in Buqigu are either dead or disabled."

The starling suddenly screamed strangely, grabbed the screen with sharp claws, dragged it down abruptly, flapped its wings, smashed through the window and flew out.

The screen fell to the ground with a splash, revealing Xi Ming sitting on the stone bed behind him.Xi Ming remained calm: "Don't worry about it. Come here."

Liu Nian took two steps forward hesitantly.

Xi Ming stretched out his hand, palm up, and his white palm extended a silent invitation.

Liu Nian stopped.

The two confronted each other in silence for a while.

In the end, it was Liu Nian who took the lead and walked up to him, but did not touch that hand, and saluted respectfully: "Master Gu."

Xi Ming flipped his palm over, nimbly slipped into Liu Nian's arms, and pinched the Soul Eater Stove out with two fingers.

Liu Nian came back to his senses and was a step too late to grab it, and was pushed out five or six steps by Xi Ming's palm.

Xi Ming dragged the Soul Eater Stove with his left palm, and gently stroked its uneven pattern with the index finger of his right hand: "Wei Xiaoren always likes to mention "The Record of Ten Thousand Souls", and the Soul Eater Stove is ranked No. 55 in it. Someone refined it. It's a pity that we only got its shape, but not its spirit."

Liu Nian asked in surprise: "Could it be that this Soul Eater Furnace is fake?"

"It's not fake, and it's not true." Xi Ming held the stove and turned it over and over in his hands, "This is for demon cultivators. What do you want for a Taoist cultivator?"

Ximing knew its origin, and Bao Buqi also knew how to use it. Up to now, Liu Nian didn't care whether Ximing was testing him, and said truthfully: "A friend of mine may be locked inside."

"Oh."

Liu Niandao: "I don't know if the owner of the valley has a way to rescue him?"

Xi Ming said, "No."

The answer was so straightforward that it left no trace of hope or reverie.Liu Nian was sad.

"I don't, but Jin Chongyan does."

Liu Nian frowned.Xi Ming's temptation was too obvious, and he had to wonder if it was the same this time.

Xi Ming said: "Wannian Hanyu can not only keep the corpse from rot, but also freeze the magic weapon. In addition, Tongtian Palace is the largest school of Taoist cultivators, and it is very good at dealing with magic weapons. If Jin Chongyan helps you, your friend There may be a chance. But the question is how to get Jin Chongyan to help you."

Liu Niandao: "Please advise the owner of the valley."

Xi Ming said: "He never leaves the jade coffin, which shows that he values ​​it, why not start with it?"

Liu Niandao: "How to do it?"

"This is your business." Xi Ming's complexion changed suddenly, and he snorted coldly towards the direction of the window, "You knocked over the screen and broke the window, how dare you come back?"

The starling stomped his feet on the window sill angrily: "What are you doing with him in the room! Why don't you allow me to come back?"

"Presumptuous!" Xi Ming waved his sleeves, drove the starling off the window sill, looked away, and said coldly to Liu Nian, "You go out too!"

Liu Nian got used to his moodiness, asked for it and returned to the Soul Eater Stove, and obediently withdrew.

Bitumen was waiting for him at the door: "What did the owner of the valley say?"

Liu Nian said, "I'm thinking about it."

Bitumen said: "Never abandon the valley is a sacred place on earth. If you leave this time, you may not have a chance to come back in the future. You should think twice."

Liu Nian vaguely agreed.

On the second day, Bitumen took him to Ximing's study, saying that Ximing allowed him to use it temporarily.

It is said to be a study room, but it is like a utility room. All kinds of books are mixed in one place, piled up like a mountain.

Liu Nian continued to study the Soul Eater furnace while reading and tidying up.The hard work pays off, but he has developed some tricks. For example, if you burn it with fire, its temperature will rise, and you can hear ghosts crying in the furnace.If it encounters water, the ghosts will curse.Liu Nian tried to talk to them, but they could hear them.From then on, Liu Nian had another task to appease the ghost in the furnace.

It's a pity that they talk too much and often can't understand what they are talking about, let alone find Wenying.Through their mouths, he grasped a lot of the situation in the furnace, including that as long as he didn't use the fire, the furnace would be very peaceful.

In this way, he also let go of his worries, and immersed himself in Xi Ming's study wholeheartedly, looking for answers.

One day, while he was finishing a book in his room, he heard movement at the door. Looking back, he saw Jin Chongyan standing in the courtyard carrying a jade coffin.

Sunlight poured down from above his head.

His fair face was plated with a light layer of gold, standing high like a god, making people only dare to look at it from a distance, but not to approach it.

Jin Chongyan gently put down the jade coffin, and looked at him with a silly face coldly: "Gamboge?"

Liu Nian was startled, and it took him a while to realize that this was his new name.

Jin Chongyan threw a bag to him: "Are you satisfied?"

Liu Nian picked up the bag and poured the contents into his hand.When he saw something clearly, his outstretched palm trembled and he clenched his teeth.

Jin Chongyan asked again impatiently: "Are you satisfied?"

……

satisfaction.

How can you be dissatisfied?

The last time he begged Jin Chongyan to look for it was the Bai Kunlun Stone.He originally wanted to inlay it on the unicorn jade armor and use it as the center of the formation to set up a defensive formation, but unfortunately, Jin Chongyan did not agree.In fact, that was the last time they saw each other before he blew himself up.

Broke up unhappily.

It was also that time that he finally understood the reason why he was increasingly alienated by Jin Chongyan.

But four words, insatiable greed.