Fengmou in troubled times

"Ah! Ahh!"

Because he couldn't sleep, he simply put on his clothes and sat on the bow of the boat watching the stars at night. Ling Yan suddenly sneezed twice, which made Tan Keer, who was leaning on the side of the mast and looking up at the sky with his chin resting on his chin, couldn't help but look back at him: "Senior brother , you didn't catch a cold, did you?"

"No, no." Ling Yan rubbed his nose and said with a helpless smile, "I guess someone is scolding me."

Glancing at him with a smile, Tan Ke'er wrapped the thin blanket tightly around her body, sighed and said, "Yes, yes, I guess it must be your good apprentice." Many years have passed, but she still has a delicate appearance of twenty-eight years old. Now that she has taken off her veil, she is a little less noble and indifferent as the patriarch of Ike'an's spiritual world, and she is like a little girl next door. Kind and lovely. "Senior brother," looking at the stars in the sky reflected in the sparkling river, Tan Ke'er showed a trace of melancholy, "I hope we made too much fuss, the person who is causing trouble in northern Xinjiang is just It just so happened to be called that name... I really don't want to repeat that scene..."

Standing up and coming to her side, Ling Yan stretched out his hand to support the little junior sister's head as he used to do when he was a child, letting her lean on his shoulder, patted her on the back and comforted her softly: "Whether the person who makes trouble is It's not him, we must get rid of the person who murdered people with the spell of the spirit world."

"But..." She closed her eyes tightly to prevent tears from streaming out of her eyes. Tan Ke'er curled up on Ling Yan's shoulders like a kitten, revealing a weakness and helplessness that the people of the clan had never seen before. "Eldest brother, he once treated us So good... without him, we might be dead long ago..."

"I know...I know..." Ling Yan murmured, not knowing whether to tell Tan Ke'er or himself.In the spirit world of Ike'an, which is across the sea from Rongshao Kingdom, their spirit clan has always admired the special spiritual power that ordinary people cannot possess in a lifetime. Although the descendants of several major factions have different special abilities, if you are born without With supernatural powers, he can only become the lowest-level slave of the family.The faction that Ling Yan and Qin Keer belonged to was called Lingxi, and the selected disciples were all young men and women with the ability of divination and stargazing. Before officially becoming disciples of Lingxi, they had to go through life and death like purgatory one after another. The test, before leaving the teacher, it is even more necessary to challenge the ghost formation jointly set up by the venerable masters, so as to ensure that all the successors of the Lingxi school are one-in-a-million geniuses of the world.Wen Maochang, who was in the same class as Ling Yan and Qin Ke'er, started earlier than them. He was their senior brother and always took good care of them.It's just that no one thought that their most respected and beloved elder brother would do such things as bullying the master, destroying the ancestors, and mutilating the same sect...

It was a doomsday day...Looking at the circles and ripples in the river, Ling Yan couldn't help but think of that night 20 years ago, when the senior brother who had fallen into the devil's way stood outside the main hall of the Consonance Sect, under his feet was There were piles of corpses, those people were from the same family they used to get along day and night, and behind him, the huge Lingxi Villa was slowly engulfed by raging fire... No matter how long it has passed, Ling Yan will never forget that scene. Father's elder brother, at that moment, was like a ghost who escaped from hell, bringing death along with him to the world...

"Over the years, I have often dreamed about those days. I dreamed that the elder brother was punished by the master for us, dreamed that the elder brother took us to the market to watch juggling, and dreamed that the elder brother took me to sneak away to think about the past. Ya will send you food... But no matter how happy the day I dreamed of, I still inevitably saw the scene where he became a demon... I saw him kill everyone in the Consonance Sect with his own hands..." As if falling into her own nightmare again, Tan Ke'er curled up on Ling Yan's shoulder, trembling uncontrollably, "I always see the youngest little Ru'er crying for help from senior brother before she dies...but when she arrived I didn't even understand that the devil who strangled her so cruelly was the elder brother..." This beautiful woman who was usually as immaculate as a fairy is crying like a helpless child in Ling Yan's arms, " Senior brother...I have never understood...why did Senior Brother degenerate into a demon..."

Ling Yan sighed, as if going back to that night 20 years ago, only Shishu, Shifu and the two of them were left in the Lingxi faction, and they hugged and shivered as they were still young, watching helplessly how Shishu was doing. He seriously injured the eldest senior brother... "I have always wanted to know why, let alone how he escaped from death, and where has he been hiding all these years?" He suddenly paused as he spoke, and Tan Ke'er beside him also had a look on his face. As soon as it got cold, he stood up with him tacitly, looking at the wide river in front of him, with a vigilant expression, "Since Senior Brother Wen is here, why don't you answer Junior Brother's questions face to face?"

"It's really hard for Junior Brother Ling Yan and Junior Sister Ke'er to still miss me, Senior Brother." A gust of cold wind blew by, and a black shadow like smoke suddenly appeared in front of Ling Yan and Tan Ke'er, with a black cloak covering most of his face, With the moonlight behind him, he couldn't see anything clearly except his eyes.Looking up and down at the two people standing side by side, the man in black chuckled, "Sure enough, they are the two most talented disciples of the Lingxi Sect in the past century. I haven't seen you for 20 years. You have far surpassed the old stubbornness of Master's generation." The breeze blows With his hood on, it is impossible to tell whether the tenderness of remembrance on his face is real or not, "If you hadn't been punished by Master to kneel under the mountain gate because of begging for me, you would have died by my hands long ago. Let's go to the underworld together with our classmates..."

Because the time was too long, Ling Yan only remembered seeing the tragic scene of senior brother Wen Maochang massacring the sect that night, but he forgot the cause of it.Now hearing Wen Maochang mention it, Ling Yan's mind flashed, and he suddenly thought of something.

Wen Maochang, who was staring at him, saw his stunned expression, nodded his head with a sneer and said with a sneer: "Don't you guys want to know why I am possessed? It's very simple, it's because of you two!" Before the two could react, Wen Maochang He continued: "From the moment I entered the teacher's school, I have worked tirelessly to inherit the position of head and even the future patriarch. Obviously everything is going well, but you two appeared!" With a dim memory, Wen Maochang's figure hanging in the air trembled involuntarily, and slowly said word by word: "You are rare spirit clan wizards, and from the day you entered the door, Master and the elders of the clan have decided One of you will take over as the next patriarch! It's ridiculous that I have worked so hard for so long, but only because I am not talented enough... It was also at that time that I saw the dusty ancient book that Master brought out from the forbidden area! "Wen Maochang laughed wildly: "In order to obtain the power that everyone can recognize, I finally did not resist the temptation and chose the evil method that is almost demonic. Unfortunately, just when I was about to succeed, I finally I was found out by my master, and I was locked in a dungeon!"

Wen Maochang lowered his head slightly, unable to hide his bloodthirsty aura, "It's ridiculous, I still hope that the master will be merciful because of the relationship between master and apprentice..." He shook his head with a strange smile, A bit mad and a bit sad and indignant, "Who knew that our pious master would personally abolish my spiritual power, making me the laughing stock of the whole clan and a slave for life!"

"Is this the excuse you made for yourself? Did you rely on this excuse to kill so many fellow disciples who had been with you day and night with peace of mind?"

Wen Maochang, who was smiling strangely, was startled when he heard the words, and looked up to meet Tan Keer's bright and clear eyes, just like the cute junior sister who always pestered him, loved to cry and laugh, appeared in front of him again 20 years ago ...It's just that even though the junior sister back then had a smile in her eyes, now she is cold, not even the slightest emotion of disgust, which made Wen Maochang's heart feel as if he fell into the bottom of the lake all at once.Squinting his eyes slightly, Wen Maochang looked at the two fellow students who were standing side by side in front of him, and suddenly became vigilant in his heart, "You deliberately lured me out by recalling the past?!"

Ling Yan smiled casually, and there was still a bit of sadness on his face, "Then I have to thank the senior brother for giving me and the head junior sister such a chance to perform, right?" He stretched leisurely, Wen Maochang felt a chill in his heart because of his self-confident and casual appearance, "Brother has secretly sent someone to monitor us for several days, and I don't want to find a way to lure you out. My junior sister and I don't know when we will be able to see you."

It seems that Ling Yan and Tan Ke'er have been prepared for a long time... Wen Maochang frowned, the drooping cloak covered the murderous intent in his eyes, just when the two people on the boat thought he was about to attack in anger, they heard him With a smile, he said slowly: "Junior Brother Ling Yan was joking. As a brother, I not only care about you two, but I also always think about your two apprentices." I was even happier: "I remember that among the few teenagers I met just now, there was one named Feng Yinran. As a brother, I didn't pay attention to it, but someone was injured, and I don't remember if it was your little apprentice."

The smile on his face was completely replaced by Frost, Ling Yan raised his hand, and Qingshuang, the sharp sword that had been by his side since he practiced martial arts, was already in his hand, "Senior Brother, why don't you make it clear today, What do you intend to do when you come to Northern Xinjiang?"

"Originally, I was going smoothly in the Fanbo Demon Realm, but recently I heard that you have taken in two good apprentices, brother. I was curious for a while, so I came to Rongshao to see it with my own eyes." Wen Maochang said casually, and also I don't know which is true and which is false. "Since you have tried your best to lure me out, I would like to learn how you can compete with the devil?!"

He said that he was about to start the move with the lift of his hand, but he saw Ling Yan casually smiled, and only raised the Qingshuang Sword without even a defensive posture. Tan Keer took out a small clay pot from somewhere, It was filled with a jar of loess.But seeing the two of them looked at each other and smiled, they suddenly kicked and threw the wind lamp placed on the bow of the boat towards Wen Maochang.

……Dividing line……

The small change was only in an instant. With the flickering light of the lantern, the pot of loess in Tan Keer's hand was blown up by the river wind, and the icy long sword in Ling Yan's hand flashed. The surface of the river at the end of the wave suddenly became choppy, and the huge waves rolled up, beating their small boat swaying.Seeing this posture, Wen Maochang's face suddenly changed, and before he could react, the originally bright moon and star-sparse night sky was instantly shrouded in dark clouds, and a thunderbolt struck down to Wen Maochang's floating position impartially.

Damn it!They didn't expect them to launch the "Four Elements and Five Elements Formation"!Wen Maochang cursed secretly, his figure moved and wanted to escape, but the lightning was approaching in front of him, so he had to turn over and narrowly escaped, before he could stand still, a cloud of fog faced him, he had stepped on the wrong direction and was trapped in the formation among.

"I underestimated the abilities of the two of you." Anyway, Wen Maochang couldn't see through the layout of the formation for a while, but he laughed calmly, "Could it be that Junior Brother Ling and Junior Sister Ke'er plan to be brothers forever?" He said with a cold gleam in his eyes, "Or do you want to imitate those pious old guys and ruin my cultivation?"

Wen Maochang in front of him seemed to be staying here honestly, so he had to draw materials, using candles, loess, long swords, river water, and wooden boats with the help of wind and thunder to form the four-element and five-element formation. He made several moves without expression, and was able to resist the wrath of thunder with a mortal body. His strength should not be underestimated.Ling Yan glanced at the junior sister who was the head of the sect beside him, and saw that she also had a solemn expression, and couldn't help thinking about how to resist his counterattack if the two of them couldn't restrain the devil with their combined efforts.

Tan Ke'er and Ling Yan stood firmly on the boat that was swaying from side to side, but the more violent wind blew their clothes flying, as if they were exiled immortals.Holding the clay pot filled with loess in Su's hand, Qin Ke'er's pretty face was neither sad nor happy, just like a finely carved jade statue: "Back then, Master worked so hard all his life to cultivate and finally killed you, even the body was burned. Turned into ashes, how did you come back to life?"

Arrogantly looking up to the sky and laughing, Wen Maochang waved his sleeve, and a strong internal force pierced through the formation that trapped him and hit the lantern hanging in mid-air, and also dispersed the thick fog that surrounded him. . "You think I've fallen into the devil's way, and I can't withstand that old man's full blow?" At the same time, he raised his hand to condense into a black shadow knife and slashed at Tan Ke'er and Ling Yan. Shuttled back and forth in the five-element array, "That's because I just became a demon, and my skill and cultivation base are not enough to withstand the calamity of the demon trial, so I used the old man's hand to protect my primordial spirit first." Extinct." He gave a strange laugh, raised his hand to condense his energy into a blade again, but instead of attacking Tan Ke'er and Ling Yan, he hit the cabin behind them.

The Qingshuang sword in Ling Yan's hand was as light and soft as the white silk in Tan Ke'er's hand when he swung it, but the attack was dense and fierce, not inferior to the thunder and lightning, and he was able to protect Wen Maochang's murderous aura in a short while. With a lantern that symbolizes the movement of fire, his backhand looks like he is flicking his sleeves and blocked Wen Maochang's knife attacking him. His moves are quick but his gestures are as elegant and leisurely as dancing.

Compared with him, Tan Ke'er's moves, holding Yun Tianling in her hand, are really like dancing. Such a soft and thin white silk seems to have life in her hands, tumbling around her body, setting off the sleeves of her clothes The fluttering Tan Ke'er is as noble and beautiful as the Nine Heavens Profound Girl.Although Wen Maochang's vigor was ruthless, it was easily resisted and neutralized by her Yun Tianling, and there was not even the slightest scar left on the seemingly fragile silk.Wen Maochang didn't feel angry when he missed again and again, suddenly he hit Tan Ke'er with all his strength like the wind, but when she dexterously avoided it, he immediately slashed on the cabin with his palm like a knife.

Ling Yan and Tan Ke'er saw that his palm was glowing with red flames, and they were in a bad mood, but they were a step too late when they wanted to stop it.We can only watch helplessly as Wen Maochang succeeds in his blow, the palm called Flame Knife hits the top of the cabin and immediately burns up, the blazing fire engulfs the boat in a short time with the help of the river wind .

Hanging opposite Wen Maochang while Tan Ke'er was casting a spell, Ling Yan looked at Wen Maochang who was hidden in the cloak and could not see his face clearly for a long time, with a smile on his face. "Senior brother is really good at tricks. Now that the wooden boat is being burned by you, and the fire is exhausted, the four-element and five-element formation really made you break out." His sincerity seemed to be praising Wen Maochang's ability. However, the Qingshuang sword kept pointing at Wen Maochang's direction from a distance, as if he would be cut down by the sword as long as he dared to make the slightest movement.

Wen Maochang calmly adjusted the magic power in his body, and he didn't even have a smile on his face when he heard his compliments.It was really hard for him to launch his skills repeatedly and resist the attacks of the formation. If he hadn't just recovered from his injuries before leaving the demon world, he wouldn't have fallen into the way of the two of them!Under the current situation, I really want to get a bargain with the two of them working together, I'm afraid it won't be easy.Speaking of which, if he hadn't seen Feng Yinran, that special little guy at the mass grave tonight, and couldn't hold back his surprise and wanted to use Ling Yan's words, all these troubles wouldn't have happened.If the Demon Lord knew how impatient he was, he might not easily let him go for arbitrariness...

"Senior Brother Ling, why bother to talk to him?" With a raised hand, Tan Ke'er's Yun Tianling has already entangled Wen Maochang, "I would like to know what kind of superb skills Brother Wen has after hiding in the devil world for so many years !"

"Junior Sister Ke'er wants to compete with Brother Wei, so let's wait for the next time." The two of them tried a few tricks while talking, but they couldn't figure out the real strength of the other party.Wen Maochang sideways let Tan Ke'er attack again, turned his head and smiled at Ling Yan who was watching coldly: "Junior Brother Ling is so determined, I really can't wait to see if your little apprentice has also learned the calm demeanor of junior brother I won’t play with the two of you anymore.” As he spoke, he didn’t care about Ling Yan’s face, he threw out a handful of green powder, and the black figure disappeared into the night, and on such a wide river, it was impossible to see Ling Yan again. There was no sign of him.

Scattering the poisonous powder around, Tan Keer frowned and said, "Guess that the devil said he was interested in your little apprentice, is it to provoke you or does he really have some kind of plot?" Stained with blood, Ling Yan flew towards the shore with Qin Ke'er, and said with a bad face: "Whether he is true or not, he is making trouble here in Beijiang, we should go ashore early and change land to Jingchuan as soon as possible." Go." Couldn't help pinching his fingers and calculated again, Ling Yan sighed restlessly and fell silent.He had already calculated that his little apprentice Yin Ran would be in catastrophe within a month, it was extremely dangerous but there was still a little room for change, maybe he could turn the calamity into good luck if he was rescued by a nobleman, and he didn't know if it should be on Wen Maochang.It's a pity that although he can spy on the celestial phenomena and give warnings, he is not an omnipotent god after all, but only adds to his troubles...