Taiping Inn

This man was wearing an indigo robe that looked extremely worn out. His face was pale and haggard. He walked unsteadily on the mountain road, which looked very difficult.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier. A servant couldn't stand it anymore, so he hid under a big tree to avoid the rain. He was originally a servant of Lingxiu Villa. After Chen Guhong occupied Nanshan Garden, he still worked in Nanshan Garden. Now he saw everyone rushing down the mountain, so he packed up his things and ran with them. However, those farmhands who came from the rivers and lakes were at least in the solid state and strong, but he didn't have that kind of physical strength. In addition, the heavy rain made it almost impossible to open his eyes. The sky and the earth were all white. How could he dare to run on the slippery mountain road? He could only stop to avoid the rain.

When he saw the man in blue, he saw that he seemed to be unable to move, so he called out enthusiastically: "Brother, hurry up and come here to hide from the rain."

The man ignored him and continued to stagger.

The servant was surprised and shouted again: "Don't go to the mountain, there is no one there."

The man finally stopped and turned his head to look at him.

This look was not a big deal, but it scared the servant. It turned out that the man's eyeballs had been dug out, leaving only two black holes, like two bottomless ancient wells, sucking people's souls in. Coupled with his pale skin and haggard face, he looked like a walking corpse, without a single life.

The man spoke slowly, his voice hoarse and unpleasant, "No one?"

The servant was terrified, but he didn't dare to run away. He answered with a stiff face: "Yes... a few guests came to the manor before. I don't know why they had a conflict with the owner of the manor, but they beat the owner and Yang Guanshi to death. The people in the manor were afraid of being implicated, so they fled."

The man in blue made a few unclear "hissing" sounds from his throat, then turned his head and continued to stagger up the mountain.

The servant stood there blankly, watching the man's back gradually go away, until he completely disappeared in the wind and rain, and then he suddenly came to his senses and found that there was a lot of cold sweat on his back, mixed with the rain, soaking his clothes. He suddenly remembered that the man was walking in the heavy rain, but his clothes were very dry. In addition, the ghostly aura in the man's words made him feel cold on his back and numb on his scalp. So he didn't dare to stay here any longer and went down the mountain in the rain.

The higher you go, the fewer people there are.

When the man in blue finally came to the gate of Nanshan Garden, there was no longer the lively scene of yesterday. There was no manager welcoming guests in front of the gate, and no wanderers waiting to visit. The gate was just open, and the mess in the yard could be vaguely seen through the door.

The man in blue stood in front of the gate, looking up at the plaque of "Nanshan Garden" hanging above the gate, stunned.

In his memory, it should be "Lingxiu Villa" hanging here. When did it become "Nanshan Garden"? Although that plaque is not as good as the one hanging in the back house in the north, it is also handwritten by an elder of Taiping Sect, and every word is worth a thousand gold.

Lingxiu Villa is a sect whose ancestors were rich but fell into decline. It was once prosperous, otherwise it would not have allowed the great Taiping Sect leader and Xu Shisong to visit it. It had decades of glory. Even if each generation is not as good as the previous one, it is still famous in Jiuhe Prefecture, especially the old owner, who has the Xuanyuan realm cultivation and is highly respected. He is an unquestionable Jianghu celebrity.

It’s a pity that the old owner met Chen Guhong, a powerful dragon crossing the river, and was seriously injured and died. The new owner He Jin is neither good at literature nor martial arts. Not only can he not take back the foundation of the villa, but he is also struggling to support the other half of the foundation, which leads to the current miserable situation.

If it were in the past, there would be a Xiantian realm master in the villa, with a deep foundation and a large number of people. Let alone a Xiantian realm foreign master, even if there are more, there is nothing to be afraid of.

After all, there is Taiping Sect behind Lingxiu Villa.

What kind of sect is Taiping Sect?

If we have to choose the four major sects from the twelve sects of the righteous path, then in addition to the Taoist Zhengyi Sect and the Buddhist Jingchan Sect, the Taiping Sect and Qingwei Sect are the most worthy. In terms of the legal system of the twelve sects of the righteous path, the Taiping Sect is second only to the leader of the alliance, Zhengyi Sect. Even though it has been silent for decades and even closed its doors, it is still not to be underestimated.

If we go back a few decades, there are too many things that Taiping Sect can say. It has played an extremely important role in all the battles between good and evil, and even in the change of dynasties. There is a Tianji Pavilion in the sect, which is said to have a collection of one million books, which is the best collection in the world, even better than the Daozang Pavilion of Zhengyi Sect and the Sutra Pavilion of Jingchan Sect. It contains Taoism, Buddhist scriptures, medical skills, miscellaneous studies, numerology, poison techniques, astrology, divination, mechanisms, and Qimen. It is a place that all people in the world yearn for. So how can Taiping Sect, which owns the Tianji Pavilion, lack masters?

It’s just that Taiping Sect is now closed, and disciples are not allowed to move around without permission. Even if Taiping Sect has many masters, they are like gods and Buddhas in the sky. If they can’t come down to earth, they are useless clay puppets.

So after Taiping Sect officially closed the mountain, all kinds of immortals and demons came to Luzhou. Some fished in troubled waters, and some took the opportunity to seek revenge.

The man in blue hesitated for a moment and walked into Nanshan Garden.

He walked all the way to the front door of the main hall. At this time, Chen Guhong's body had turned into a pool of rotten flesh and blood in the heavy rain, and it was no longer in human form. This was also one of the sequelae of practicing the "Thousand Hands Boneless Art" of the Zhenchuan Sect. First, the bones in the body, then the meridians, and finally the acupoints, all melted and turned into flesh and blood. Once dead, it was just a pool of rotten meat. It can be said that there was no complete corpse.

The blue-clothed man stopped in front of Chen Guhong's body for a moment, then stepped over the threshold and entered the hall.

The body in the hall had disappeared, and no one knew who took it away, but the traces of the fight in the hall were still there. The blue-clothed man looked over inch by inch, carefully examined it for a long time, and a heavy and doubtful expression appeared on his face.

So he slowly squatted down and pressed his hands on the ground.

Although he no longer had eyes, he used his hands to replace his eyes, connected to the earth's energy, and recalled the past, so that the scenes that had happened here before appeared in his mind.

After a long time, he lifted his hands off the ground and slowly straightened up. Perhaps because his body was too broken, he made a series of slight noises like soybeans popping.

But if Li Xuandu was here, he would never regard the man in front of him as a disabled person, because the blue-clothed man's magical power had already touched the threshold of the Return to the True Realm, and his realm was even higher than that of the injured Chen Guhong.