Panguan

Shen Qiao raised him, but he never returned to his original appearance.

until now...

Zhou Xu asked him: "Then why did you suddenly change back?"

Xia Qiao thought for a while and said, "I smell the seal."

"Ah???" Zhou Xu froze for a moment, then looked around, "Here? Isn't this Songyun Mountain?"

"..." Xia Qiao choked for a moment, and said, "It's not here, I smelled it before, and I haven't been very comfortable since then. I was also groggy after entering the cage."

"Before?" Zhou Xu muttered a few words, then raised his head suddenly and said, "Isn't it the Zhang family's house that smelled it?"

Xia Qiao acquiesced.

Zhou Xu's eyes widened.

He had thought that the ancestor of the Zhang family must be one of the people who coveted the sealed land, but he didn't expect that scumbag to make his home in such a place.

Is it for fear that others will rob you, or for fear that you will not suffer retribution?

"My family?! It's actually in the old house of my family. Damn, so many people in my family come and go, and no one bumps into anything?"

"I've said it all, only Xiao Xia can find the way." Zhang Biling scolded his son.

"Then at least there is a way." Zhou Xu hesitated as he spoke, and asked Xia Qiao, "Is it the way? The way I understand?"

Xia Qiao shook his head: "It means that only I can find it, and only I can bring people closer."

After all, he is connected with that cage spirit.

Knowing the whole story, the room became quiet again. Xia Qiao was about to recover, and things in his mind were still a little messy. Just as he was sorting out his thoughts, someone suddenly spoke.

The person who spoke was Zhou Xu, but his tone was Bu Ning, who opened his mouth and said, "I have a merciless request."

Xia Qiao was startled.

Even if he is Wen Shi's puppet, he has recovered eight or nine points. The person in front of him is also Wen Shi's senior brother, no matter what his seniority is, he has no reason to speak like that.

But he is always gentle and polite, even to puppet.

Xia Qiao: "Huh?"

Bu Ning looked worried, pondered for a moment and said, "Let's not let Junior Brother know about the fact that we can find the sealed land."

Xia Qiao was taken aback: "Why?"

"I'm afraid that once he finds out, he won't care about his own situation." Bu Ning said, "Let me think of something else."

At that moment, the mountain wind whimpered through the bamboo window. Everyone in the room has their own plans, and they are all talking. No one noticed that there was a person leaning against the shadow on the outer wall of the house——

When she heard it, she stood with her eyes downcast, in her hand was the pine branch that could never be thrown away, and the puppet thread wrapped around the base of her finger that was stained with blood.

***

So in the early morning of this day, Xia Qiao got up and adjusted the lamp on the table, and when he looked up again, he found that there was an extra person quietly by the door.

He was about to let out a scream, but his brother blocked it with a puppet thread.

If it was before, he would definitely ask after unblocking: "Brother, what are you doing?"

But today is different.

You don't need to ask him to know why Wen Shi is standing here.

In other words, from the first moment, he knew that there would be such a day. For one day, he wandered around the world for a thousand years.

When Wen Shi retracted the puppet thread, Xia Qiao said: "Brother... Patriarch Bu Ning won't let you go now, he said to think of a safer way."

"I heard." Wen Shi wrapped the puppet thread back to the root of his finger, and said in the calmest voice: "But I can't wait."

God stabbed a knife in his heart, and he waited for a thousand years with that knife.

Then the knife was pulled out, but the blood hadn't drained completely, so it was stabbed back again.

This time, he couldn't afford to wait a day.

Xia Qiao looked at him and said, "Okay, then I'll take you there."

But they didn't go straight down the mountain.

Before going down the mountain, Wen Shi detoured to a place - that was Bu Ning's spirit cultivation formation in the valley, where Qingxin Lake was originally located. Now there are Zhong Si and Zhuang Ye's dilapidated spirit gods in the formation.

There was no water in the interval, but it was full of white mist, like the breath in the middle of winter. In the clean white, two shadows can be vaguely seen.

Wen Shi stood on the platform that Zhuang Ye used to stand on, subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the high rock, but no one would appear behind it again, dusting off the dust and laughing at them was another trick.

Xia Qiao followed and stood on the mountain road, thinking he would say something when he heard it. But he just stood there for a long time, and finally said to the people in the room: "I'll go first."

"...If Bu Ning is angry, you should wake up earlier and go coax him." While speaking, he had already turned around and went down the mountain road.

Xia Qiao suddenly heard the meaning of farewell.

He froze for a moment, and hurried to catch up.

He followed Wen Shi down Songyun Mountain, opened the formation gate, and landed in the boundary of Zhang's house. The house that has already collapsed is as cold as the mountains and forests, and the light blue smoke has the smell of rain.

But for Xia Qiao, the most important thing is not these, but the smell of scorched vegetation mixed with blood in the sealing formation.

He smelled that smell, and while smelling it, he stepped over the collapsed and broken stone beams, through the river pond and the wet woodland, and approached that place little by little.

When he felt that the cage door was close at hand, Xia Qiao stopped for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Brother, what are your plans?"

Wen Shi said: "If the cage is released, I will come out with him."

Xia Qiao: "What if you can't solve it?"

Can't solve...

When I heard it, I looked at the void in front of me, and suddenly remembered the dusty dust thousands of years ago.

Not to mention leaning against the white plum tree and looking at him with a smile, and Xie Wen standing by the dead tree in front of the Shen family's villa after a thousand years also looked at him with a smile...