The Sword Named No Way Out

The time in the restaurant was stopped, and everyone's expressions were fixed on their faces, talking, laughing, applauding, eating food with chopsticks... even the flowing air froze around everyone.

In this terrifying silence, Yu Chixiao's trembling voice was finally heard:

"Xu...Sect Master Xu..."

Xu Shuangce lifted the curtain and walked out of the private room, and glanced back at them. There was no emotion in those lifeless black eyes, but anyone who touched his gaze felt a sense of fear from the bottom of their bones.

"The ears are cut off without being on the right path," he said flatly.

No one dared to say anything.

Xu Shuangce turned his gaze to Gong Wei, and then glanced at the plate of drunken chicken on the table, without saying a word. Then he turned around and went downstairs, his robe sleeves fluttered without wind, and he disappeared between the wooden steps out of thin air.

The frozen time suddenly began to flow, and the silence lasted only for the blink of an eye. The next moment, the chattering and laughing continued to laugh, clapping and clapping, the wine in mid-air suddenly began to gurgle, and fell steadily into the celadon cup without even splashing a drop.

"Where did you just talk about?" The old storyteller was stunned, and then he smiled with relief: "—yes. I just said that the ghost prince married a beautiful fairy who had just ascended, and the monster greeted Chuicuidao, Huaqiao From the blue sky straight down to the Yellow Spring..."

Some of the audience below applauded, some laughed, and no one found anything wrong in this lively and natural scene. Just now, the romantic affairs between those celebrities of the immortal sect, like water droplets evaporating in the sun, disappeared from everyone's consciousness without a sound, leaving no traces.

Only this private room was quiet, and it took a long time before Yu Chixiao squeezed out a few words:

"I'm still alive..."

Gong Wei put down the chopsticks sadly, and said to himself that luckily I only ordered a plate of drunken chicken, if I hadn't resisted eating the beautiful peony plant on the window sill of the private room just now, my body would have been cold by now. Just as he was thinking this way, he only heard Meng Yunfei tremblingly say:

"Shall we go back to the inn later?"

"..."

The three of them fell silent at the same time, none of them wanted to go back and face Xu Zongzhu's cold face.

Yu Chixiao looked remorseful: "It would be great if you didn't interrupt Mr. Le Sheng's Dongting song."

"?" Meng Yunfei asked: "Why don't you say that it would have been fine if you hadn't interrupted the domineering Sword Master Er Yuetao?"

"How could I have thought that a boss like Sect Master Xu would come out in disguise to listen to storytelling?"

"So why can't we just let him listen to the Overbearing Sword Sect Er Yuetao?"

"..." Gong Wei finally couldn't bear to interrupt them: "You two young heroes, don't you think the contents of these storytelling books are not normal?"

The two looked at each other, and then turned to Gong Wei together. Meng Yunfei suddenly realized: "Young Master Xiang, you have never seen it before when you are young. Don't take it too seriously when you hear such words, they are all fiction!"

Yu Chixiao said: "That's right, the main reason is that the people are more interested in Xu Zongzhu's past love history, so it's hard to avoid some far-fetched speculation. After returning to Cangyang Mountain, don't ask people everywhere, do you understand that fate is important?"

Why should I ask people! I am the Lord!

Gong Wei took a deep breath, and asked with difficulty: "Then that Fahua Immortal... is really with your Sword Sect... and that Master Le Sheng..."

Yu Chixiao almost didn't jump up: "No!"

Meng Yunfei put his hand on his forehead and said: "My master is not a good-looking girl at all, and I don't know Fahua Xianzun very well, it's just that those people who write short stories to make money are far-fetched. The dean of the palace has a mysterious background and There are many legends, and he passed away too early. After he left, the folks began to spread jokes such as a thousand-year-old peach blossom. It was barely normal at first, but then it became more exaggerated and absurd, and finally evolved into various love stories. In fact, serious Speaking of it, it’s just because the dead can’t jump out and argue with them.”

Gong Wei suddenly heard a terrifying word that could not be ignored: "...the love history of 'every way'..."

Meng Yunfei said: "Oh, that's okay too. Master Xu of Cangyang Mountain, Master Wu Yuan Zunying, the three sects of Sword, Medicine, and Ju, the four immortal saints of Xuanmen, the revered masters of the six great families, the heads of the eight sects, ghosts There are a few famous big ghost cultivators...that's all. In fact, there are not many dramas between the dean of the palace and Sovereign Xu. After all, it is well known that Sovereign Cangyang mourned his deceased wife. People prefer to listen to Sovereign Xu The various story books of the two of you and the leader of the alliance, because most of them have happy endings, many theater troupes have been lined up."

"..."

"..."

The air was subtly quiet for a moment, and Yu Chixiao said implicitly: "Yunfei, you really understand these things."

Meng Yunfei was unusually unnatural: "Not really, haha."

Yu Chixiao said: "That...Yunfei, I heard a rumor before that Lord Le Sheng likes to collect drama and story books, and every time he listens to a storytelling, he claps his hands and laughs, feeling happy..."

Meng Yunfei immediately said: "Shut up! At least my master didn't pay someone to write about Nian Nujiao!"

Gong Wei: "..."

Gong Wei took a deep breath again, stood up and said politely: "Excuse me, the two young heroes, I will be back later." Then he lifted the curtain and walked out of the private room without looking back.

The two turned their heads and watched him go out in unison, Yu Chixiao asked in a low voice: "The shock he received seems to be a bit big, you can see that they are all in the same hands and feet..."

Meng Yunfei: "After all, he is a disciple of the Cangyang Sect—I said I shouldn't interrupt Er Yuetao, the domineering Sword Sect at the beginning!"

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Gong Wei silently recited the mantra of clearing the heart, went down to the end of the stairs, beckoned to the waiter and said in a low voice, "I'll tell the two people upstairs that I'm going back to the inn first." Then he turned around and went straight out of the restaurant door. Looking left and right on the busy street, I saw a bookstore on the corner of the street, so I walked past it casually.

Although the bookshop was small, it was full of books and operas of all kinds. He turned around with his hands behind his back, and the shopkeeper asked, "Do those famous scholars from the immortal family have their own words?"

The shopkeeper said with a clear face: "Yes, yes, may I ask which master do you admire more?"

Gong Weixin said that you all express your admiration in this way. He massaged the twitching eyebrows with his knuckles, and said, "Actually, I... I don't know much about it. Do you have anything to recommend?"

"Oh my lord, you have come to the right place!" The shopkeeper got excited, "The new books we have published here are very complete, including the complete works of Fahua Xianzun from ancient to modern times, have you heard of "Undying Love in the Underworld"? Sovereign Yang went to the underworld to quell the chaos, and it has been less than half a month since the news came from the capital! The drama "Dongting Opera" just reviewed by Kaiyuan Zabao last month also originally existed, but the price is relatively high, because Master Yuesheng of Yanchuntai has sent an order The world is not allowed to publish printed copies, and I am afraid it will become a masterpiece in the future! In addition, we also have "Daishan Supplements", "Recalling the Peach Demon", "The Secret History of Yingmengzhu"..."

Very good Liu Xuzhi! When you listen to other people's words, you are happy, but when it's your turn, you will issue an order to ban copying!

Gong Wei forcibly interrupted the shopkeeper who recommended to him the secret history of the leader Ying, and finally asked the question he cared most about this trip: "Don't you guys have any normal scripts? There are so many female disciples in the Medical Sect, and there are eight sects All the fairies of Zhongqionghua Xiaozhu..."

The shopkeeper was shocked: "That's not normal, young master, those are all girls' homes!"

Gong Wei: "?"

"Although everyone has a need for Fengyue's storybook, how can you destroy the reputation of the girl's boudoir!"

"..."

Gong Wei fell silent under the condemning eyes on the other side.

The shopkeeper said displeasedly: "Young master, do you want it or not? If you are not interested in "The Secret History of the Leader of the League", "The Underworld" is actually pretty good. If one day it is banned by the Cangyang Sect, the book you bought will be fine." It can appreciate in value, and maybe it can be used as a family heirloom as a gift to your descendants! Don't you think about it? Are you sure you don't think about it? Otherwise, I'll give you a 10% discount on the price of "The Secret History of the Leader of the League..."

Gong Wei threw away his helmet and armor in the shopkeeper's barrage of cannonballs, and it was really difficult to face the twenty-odd secret love histories of his own brother who straddled the yin and yang worlds, took all the demons and ghosts, and finally retired hand in hand with Xu Shuangce. The book "No Love in the Underworld" was tucked into the sleeve, and he left with his forehead behind the money. It wasn't until I walked out of the store and stood on the street that I opened the seemingly ordinary thread-bound book. I glanced at ten lines and saw that Xu Shuangce had carved a tombstone for him while coughing up blood—the inscription "The Tomb of Beloved Wife Gong Wei"— I closed the book with a snap, thinking: My eyes are going to go blind.

In the previous life, Xu Shuang had spent so much effort to get rid of his "bewitching and inhuman" right eye, but now it can be done with ease and effortlessly!

He wanted to throw the book away, but looking around at the people coming and going, he was too embarrassed to throw it on the road, so he kept tucking it into his sleeves, hired a bullock cart and walked slowly to the inn. Shaking all the way and being bored, I couldn’t help but take it out to read. I felt hot after reading a few lines, and I closed my sleeves and covered my face with a long sigh. After sighing for a while, I couldn’t help taking it out to continue reading. Even more irritating, and then "snap!" He closed it again, thinking that this book is too much edited!

Xu Shuangce, back then in the Xuanji Hall, reacted so strongly when he tried to kiss him, and he couldn't stab me with the sword of Naihe. How could he hold my dying hand and touch his own face!

The bullock cart wobbled back to the inn, and it was nightfall. Gong Wei rolled up the book that was so eye-catching from thousands of miles away, stuffed it into his arms, jumped out of the car lightly, and pushed open the closed inn door with a squeak, only to hear Yu Chixiao's resentful cry : "—Where did you go!"

Gong Wei was taken aback: "What are you doing, you two young heroes?"

I saw that the lobby of the inn had been emptied, only a black candle was lit on the long table in the middle, and the green light flickered faintly. Yu Chixiao and Meng Yunfei sat opposite each other on both sides of the long table, their faces turned blue by the candlelight.

In the huge space around, there are pieces of high and low, large and small objects hanging with red threads, round or square in shape, all of which are covered with thick blood-red cloth, so that no light can be seen.

Gong Wei guessed what it was after turning his mind: "Mercury mirror?"

"Don't touch it!" Meng Yunfei hurriedly stopped him and said, "Sect Master Xu asked King Linjiang to collect all the mercury mirrors in the city and hang them here. Imprisonment charms are drawn on each mirror. , will be immediately imprisoned in the corresponding mirror space.”

There were at least a hundred mirrors covered with blood-red cloth, and there was no wind and slight movement in the dark green halo. Each mirror faced the three of them from different directions. The surroundings were dead silent, the night outside the door was as dark as ink, everyone from the shopkeeper to the waiter in the inn was driven away, so quiet that a needle could be heard falling on the ground.

This scene is comparable to the underworld.

Gong Wei shuddered under the strong Yin Qi: "There will naturally be strange noises when the ghost Xiu comes, why don't the two young heroes go upstairs and wait in the room?"

Yu Chixiao said firmly: "It's cool here."

"..." Gong Wei said sincerely: "Young man, cool off slowly." He said as he raised his foot and was about to go upstairs.

Meng Yunfei covered his mouth and whispered, "Sect Master Xu is upstairs..."

Gong Wei's foot was dangling above the steps forcibly, and it took a while to take it back calmly, straightened the skirt and cuffs, and agreed: "It's really cool downstairs!" He said, walked to the long table, and opened a bench like the two of them Sitting down, he shrugged his shoulders and shrugged.

The three of them sat around the table and looked at each other, and the time passed bit by bit in the night. When the hundreds of blood cloths were shaking, they couldn't help making a slight rustling sound, as if countless invisible figures were constantly shuttling through the mirror.

There was no change until late at night, and the cold air emitted by the black candle became more and more intense, as if the ground under his feet was about to freeze. Gong Wei finally couldn't take it anymore, and respectfully returned Meng Yunfei's cloak to him, and Yu Chixiao's outer robe, rubbing his hands together and said, "You two young heroes are cooling down slowly, I'll go upstairs and wrap myself in a quilt. First!"

Meng Yunfei hesitated to speak: "Sect Master Xu..."

Gong Wei resolutely said: "Sovereign Master Xu has a lot of people, so he will definitely not care about this inhuman thing like me!"

Yu Chixiao immediately praised highly: "Very good, you have courage! If Xu Zong wants to kill you later, please remember to call us both!"

Gong Wei couldn't help feeling a little moved: "Young hero, you..."

Yu Chixiao smiled slightly: "At least the two of us can go up and pass the knife to Sect Master Xu."

Gong Wei walked away with a flick of his sleeves, and went upstairs with a cold face. The inn was empty except for a few of them. On the wooden steps, he could only hear his own footsteps. When he reached the second floor, he suddenly heard a faint movement in the Tianzihao room at the end of the corridor. It was a gentle and steady male voice:

"The other day you told me that there was a mistake in the book of life and death, so I went to the Underworld to check it out myself, but everything in Guiyuan Mansion was completely silent, and the bronze gate was closed..."

Gong Wei stopped abruptly, and recognized who the voice was.

Ying Kai, leader of the Immortal Alliance!

brother! Brother who saves the suffering!

Ying Kai is the person in this world who is most likely to get him out of Xu Shuangce's hands except for Yu Chirui. Gong Wei almost rushed in and hugged his thigh on the spot, but stopped abruptly when he moved. .

Xu Shuangce threw down the Mahayana seal to seal Linjiang Capital, Ying Kai would not break in easily, otherwise he would refute Cangyangzong's face in front of the world, and most of it is a sound transmission talisman.

Sure enough, the next moment he heard Ying Kai asking worriedly: "Shuang Ce, do you really don't need me to rush to Linjiangdu right away? I know you have no problem, but this time the situation is absurd, even beyond your and my comprehension." ..."

Xu Shuangce said lightly, "No need."

In Gong Wei's heart, it was like a hundred furry fox paws scratching, making him restless, wishing he could get close to the closed door and eavesdrop. However, he knew Xu Shuangce's realm, and now he must have known that he was outside the door. Even if he took two steps closer, he would definitely die, so he had to step back and continue walking upstairs. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration: Yes!

He rushed upstairs, came to the same place on the third floor, squatted in the corner and groped in the dark, and sure enough there was a black hole in the corner leading directly to the small hole downstairs—the drainpipe. He searched around again for a long broom, pulled out the broom stick, turned it into a hollow bamboo tube, and carefully inserted it down the drainpipe. The upper end of the bamboo stick was close to his ear, and the lower end Draw an eavesdropping formula in blood, stick out from the outlet of the drain pipe on the second floor, sneakily reach Xu Shuangce's closed door, change angles and squeeze into the crack of the door, and stop still.

In this way, Ying Kai's voice in the room came up through the hollow bamboo tube, much clearer:

"When Gong Wei ascended to Xiantai sixteen years ago, there was no Prefect Peibai by his side, and the sword disappeared after he left. I have searched for it myself for many years, but now it is possible for this sword to fall into the hands of anyone. It's not surprising that it was stolen..."

The trick of this bamboo pole is that when he was in the Punishment Institute in his previous life, some naughty disciples of the Medical School eavesdropped on the master's footsteps, and after being caught, they were all sent to the Punishment Institute to be taught a lesson. Lian Zan is clever, and he is not ashamed to ask what he learned from those children. Turning around, he and Yu Chirui used this method to eavesdrop on Ying Kai's snoring, and after listening to it, they learned from each other vividly. Both of them were almost beaten down by Ying Kai with a bamboo pole.

Unexpectedly, Sect Master Xu, the "bewitching and inhuman" also has a bewitching and inhuman wisdom.

Gong Wei was full of stomachache, squatting on the ground and stretching his ears, only listening to what Xu Shuangce said at the other end of the bamboo tube, Ying Kai suddenly stopped talking, and after a long time slowly said: "Although you are so skeptical, I must To remind you of one thing."

It was rare for Ying Kai to express his displeasure so clearly. Gong Wei became curious and only heard him say in a deep voice:

"Sixteen years ago, Guiyuan told you that Gong Wei had lost his soul and would never come back again. Therefore, even if Prefect Bai appeared in Linjiang City, you can't use this to suspect that the murderous ghost cultivator is Fahua Immortal Venerable Resurrection."

"Such baseless remarks are no different from slander, do you understand, Shuang Ce?"