The Lord who use immortals as food

The man stared at the river for three breaths, and the water patterns began to swim.

It was as if an invisible pen was using the river surface as paper to draw an outline in the air. Dozens of threads flew at the same time, and a huge and complicated formation began to be outlined.

Sima had only seen such a huge, complicated and effortless formation from this person in the past twenty years.

"Twenty years have been wasted, but we still fell short." He croaked softly.

Qu Zhu looked at the far end of the river, and the autumn wind danced his gray hair behind the scenes.

After a long while, he said calmly: "Yes. If you want to achieve greatness, the road ahead is boundless."

"My road has been exhausted, but your road can continue." Sima was silent for a moment and said hoarsely, "I have been thinking about why we failed during these seven days in prison."

Quiet.

"However, we didn't do anything wrong. It's just that sometimes they are too powerful, sometimes they are too smart, and sometimes they are too lucky." Sima said in a low voice, "I know that God will occasionally show such malicious intent, but I can't bear it. I wonder if you have done more."

"It does not affect the results."

"Yes, it doesn't affect the result." Sima said hoarsely, "It doesn't matter either, because I know we are walking on the same road. It's just that you want this road to be taken by you."

Without answering, Sima continued to sigh: "Twenty years ago, I took you into my shadow, and you have never concealed your obsession in these twenty years."

Qu Zhu tilted his head and looked at him quietly: "Do you know my obsession?"

"Your appearance here is not the answer to everything." Sima said hoarsely, "When I saw those eyes of yours twenty years ago, I never believed that you would be willing to watch someone else take charge of Xitingxin."

Qu Zhu was silent in the night wind. The river in front of him flowed like this twenty years ago.

Thirty years ago it happened the same way.

Who can say that he has forgotten those days when he could still show his face.

Sima knew his experience.

When he was young, he practiced swordsmanship in three chapters, but was rejected by God to follow the path of Xitingxin. He devoted himself to the Happy Death Tower and spent many years on it. Finally, he learned that there was more than one way to inherit the throne of Xiting.

He will regard himself as a member of Huanshenglou. From then on, Huanshenglou has developed Xitingxin. Will he be proud of it?

Sima didn't believe it.

Back then, he could betray his family for the sake of Xiting Xin, but now he is only willing to hold Xiting Xin in his own hands.

Sima remembered how he entered the Huansi Tower, where he had always controlled his life and identity for twenty years. His only confidence in him was that they did share a common goal.

"I know, but I don't care." Sima looked up at him, "Everything is what you want now, Shadow Face. I will help you complete it all."

Now everything is the way you want it.

Indeed.

The person who is in charge of his life and death will die. After twenty years, he will finally be the sole master in the southwest of the Huansi Tower. From now on, he will be in control of the Huansi Tower, and will no longer be controlled or cooperated.

The heart of Xiting that he has been searching for for half his life is finally placed in front of him. From then on, he can take charge of Xiting and truly become the master of this world. He was blocked from inheriting Jianglou because of his sword talent. Now Huansilou will work hard for him Get the girder.

Sima finished speaking and slowly closed his eyes. A parasitic fire floated out of Qu Zhu's dantian and returned to Sima's body. At the same time, the left arm under the black robe was squeezed out of bone, flesh and blood, but Qu Zhu didn't react at all. He turned his head and looked at the imitation arm, which completely fell off.

Qu Zhu waved his hand and turned it into powder with a burst of mysterious fire. Then his bones and flesh changed, and a brand new arm grew out of his shoulder.

Sima slowly opened his eyes and breathed softly.

"'Immortal Fire' and 'Faceless' cannot be handed over to you." He said hoarsely, "We need them now. Moreover, there is no guarantee that you will be able to escape from the Immortal Platform."

Qu Zhu slowly moved this unfamiliar arm and nodded.

"Then, shall we begin?" Sima said hoarsely.

"Let's begin." Qu Zhu gently held the hilt of the sword under his robe.

The profound energy that crazily poured into Sima's body suddenly condensed, and then dispersed like smoke. This broken body seemed to have fallen into the mortal world, or in other words, became pure.

A pure body.

"Faceless" completely transformed it, turning it into a flower pot, or soil. The two sparks were active like seeds. They grew and extended something mysterious and unspeakable, and began to connect towards the unfamiliar distance.

Then they are indeed held by a will.

Projections return to their true nature. This side of the world first produced a faint resonance.

On the river, water patterns were still rapidly outlined, and the formation gradually became identifiable. It was a huge and precise "Treasure Raft on the Other Side".

[Gu She] still exists, and the Master of the Glazed Sword has not sorted out her skills yet.

This team traveled along Lushui for two days and now they have just arrived at the border of Shaolong.

But Qu Zhu did not look south. His gray hair and skirt were flying, while the damaged scene and the cold sword under his robe were motionless. He was still staring at the river quietly, as if he was taking this formation extremely seriously and would never allow any deviation in it.

This was, of course, the most important moment in his life.

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Taishan Medical Building, Ding Pavilion.

Pei Ye spread his hands in front of the girl, and there was silence on the moonlit night.

"Why is there such a statement?" Li Mingqing squinted at him, not wanting to move, "Are you lying to me again?"

"When did I lie to you?" Pei Ye picked up the black dumpling next to her. "If you don't believe me, ask Xiaomao."

Li Mingqing looked down at it, and the black cat nodded lazily: "You have to use chi fire."

Li Mingqing smiled helplessly: "Okay then."

She took out a bead from her waist that was slightly smaller than a walnut. It was faded and worn, and it looked like it had passed through the years.

"Look, you have always lied to me." Pei Ye said.

Li Mingqing didn't say anything and put the beads in his hand.

Pei Ye lowered his eyes and saw that the rope had completely rotted away, but he could still make out two vague inscriptions on the lanyard - "Jian Shen".

"It looks like it was carved from heart amber, so I think the five taels of heart amber purchased by Yu Chaocai from Xiangzhou may have landed on it." Li Mingqing shook her calf and said as if she didn't care, "I think back then. Qu Zhu took it and practiced with it and then threw it aside. Now that I have dug it out, I want to analyze it. It is better than nothing. "

Pei Ye picked up the bead and examined it carefully under the moonlight. He almost didn't believe that it was still effective, saying, "... He carved very delicate lines, but they were all worn away."

"I think he may have modeled it after the [pupil]." Li Mingqing said, "Tianshan said that wearing the [pupil] on the body can record a person's thoughts and actions."

She looked at the bead and said casually: "I hope it can still be used."

The fragility and oldness were clearly smeared on the surface. Pei Ye nodded: "I'll try to use Zhaoyou to analyze it."

"Um."

Pei Ye placed it in the center of Zhaoyou. One is old and bright, the other is light and new but damaged - they are perfectly inlaid together.

"What do you think is going on here?" Pei Ye asked curiously.

"Qu Zhu didn't even take it seriously." Li Mingqing smiled and shook his calf, "I can only imagine the street scene in Bowang, what I ate every day, what official duties I did - I can't think of as much as I can leave. Hard to say."

Then he said: "What did you see? Come out and tell me carefully."

"It's not important, so please explain it carefully."

"Want to hear it."

The chi fire swirled up, and the [eye] opened smoothly as before, but this "seeing body" made a crisp crackling sound in an instant, and the vague lines were quickly activated. This was the first time that this artifact of King Mu was in this form. Opened her arms to him.

Pei Ye raised it up to his eyes. It might die at any time, but it was still alive after all.

Pei Ye paused for a while, then turned his gaze to the girl who was looking at the moon peacefully: "... Qing Qing."

"Um?"

"Did you really find this bead randomly?" The young man's clear brown eyes looked at her quietly, "You came to Fucheng with such a serious injury, and you lied to borrow it from Zhaoyou."

He was silent for a moment: "We just said that if you have key information, you can tell me and we will discuss it together."

"No way, it's really just a little thing found in the treasury." Li Mingqing couldn't help laughing, looking at him with clear eyes, "If there is anything crucial, I will report it to the Immortal Platform, you always Think so much.”

She shook her calf gently, her expression really relaxed and peaceful.

Pei Ye nodded and looked away. After many days, he once again looked into [Zhaoyou].

In the parked carriage, the wind and snow howled outside the curtains.

The old man in front of him was sitting very upright. They were the only two people in the entire carriage. Their bruises were still neat and tidy, but their faces were hazy.

Pei Ye immediately realized that this was the damage caused by the damage to the body. He looked out of the curtain through the gap. The distant horizon and mountain shadows were also missing pieces, like a doomsday scene.

Pei Ye immediately realized where he was.

Twenty years ago in Da Kongtong, it was snowing heavily in winter, and Yu Chaocai's convoy was marching hard in the dangerous mountains.

He tried to check all the records of this heart amber. Unlike the time branches in the Valley of Lakes and Mountains, this bead only provided a "river", but when Pei Ye looked upstream, it had all dried up.

This [Ji Shen] has only the damaged end.

Falling into this scene again, in the corner of his vision, he was wearing a set of plain white brocade clothes, with neat boots and wrist guards, and his sword was leaning against the wall of the compartment next to him.

At this moment, footsteps approaching suddenly sounded outside the window. He turned around and saw that the curtain had been lifted, and cold wind and hot air hit his face at the same time.

"The meat porridge is cooked, and I've brought two bowls for you and Master Yu." The young man stood tall and straight at the window, and the hilt of the sword hanging from his waist banged against the outer wall. His face was equally blurry and his voice was slightly distorted, but some smiles could still be heard.

Qu Zhu.

Pei Ye clearly remembered the story of the snowy night that Master Wu told him. Qu Zhu had been helping to cook porridge in those days. On the last day, he put something in it, which made Ji Changxun, who was escorting him, hate the sword poisoning and die. .

So what I see now is Master Sui's perspective.

So it was Qu Zhu who either openly or secretly wore the [Jian Shen] on Mr. Sui - maybe he had been doing this since Bowang to pry into secrets and make plans?

The three of them were still talking with smiles. Pei Ye looked at the blurry face in front of him, not surprisingly feeling a little strange.

Qu Zhu.

Pei Ye remembered how he recognized the name.

He recognized his twenty-three. Lying in the shadow of the mottled trees in winter, he teased his junior brother with a lazy smile; in the snow and wind, he glared at the master angrily in the empty bronze hall; in the small courtyard with candles burning late at night, he nestled quietly among the mountains of books and papers. He got into the chair and stared at the cold starry sky without moving.

And Tian Zong’s genius modified the formation patterns of the [Star Burial Tomb], and single sword stepped into the temple guarded by the Star Insects. This set of formation patterns he created at such a young age, nearly thirty years later, is like a god in Jianbelly Mountain. Come into the world.

And he was shot down by Xiting Xin and Daoxu Jing in embarrassment, narrowly survived under the star bug, and was finally saved by his master with his life.

Pei Ye remembered the scene where the master and the apprentice were leaning in the corridor that night after leaving the Bronze Temple.

The old man's muscles and bones were broken, and blood kept pouring out of his mouth. Qu Zhu stepped forward slowly and pulled out his sword with trembling lips. This picture was so real that Pei Ye couldn't believe that his thirty-year-old would be That way.

It was seven years later in front of the grave. Qu Zhu was like a sword hidden in an ancient scabbard. He stood under the starry night and sighed to Qu Zhoufu: "There are some invisible lines that you cannot cross by yourself." Without the magical power of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, I would be just another Master Yu in this lifetime."

Just after returning this year, under the snowy night in Kongtong, Yu Chaocai's motorcade was destroyed by the Huansi Tower, and he entered the Huansi Tower from then on.

Then at the age of forty or fifty, he became [Shadow Face Sima], helping Huansilou complete countless miracles of arrays, as if he had forgotten what he wanted to do.

So Pei Ye has long wanted to see Qu Zhu outside Hushan in the past seven years. He left Hushan with hatred and ambition, how did he become what he sees now? How on earth did he form such a weird relationship with Huansilou?

Now he was standing in front of him.

But soon the car curtain was lowered and the person left.

"——After you take office, you should do your own work first, and then you can go to places like the Sword Xiuyuan and Immortal Terrace." The old man in front of him took a sip of porridge and continued the previous topic in a slow voice, "It's better to press What we are saying is that since you have a high spirit and a good talent, if you are about to step into Taoism, you can go to a position related to spiritual practice, and you will have a bright future."

'Pei Ye' leaned on the backrest: "Actually, I think we can add another 'ceremony stage', which has some subtle and necessary connections with the Sword Xiuyuan, the Weapons Department Supervisor, and the Immortal Stage."

"That's right." Yu Chaocai nodded happily, "You have become more and more keen after entering the door - when you make this connection, there is room to move forward."

Then he smiled and said: "Your statement of 'Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing his magical power' is also very good. Please prepare your 'strange pattern'. After one year in the Department of Artifacts, you can rely on it to stand out."

"It's been prepared." 'Pei Ye' kept talking while holding the hot porridge.

"But you have to remember that there is no need to sign your name, and you don't have to leapfrog your rank." Yu Chaocai said slowly, "Don't make a name for yourself in the officialdom. The reason why you present real materials is to let the supervisory department remember you first. The reputation is actually a mixed bag.”

"Are you saying that you want me to conceal my name and take the credit for my work as the supervisor of the Department of Equipment?"

"Don't want to?"

'Pei Ye' smiled: "Of course I know that."

"You know?"

".I didn't think so at first, Master Yu, I just wanted to-" 'Pei Ye' paused, then smiled, "That's all, I won't say anything anymore."

Yu Chaocai narrowed his eyes: "Don't bother me."

'Pei Ye' just smiled and drank the porridge: "However, I heard that in places like the government office, the struggle between powers is very fierce. I'm afraid we, remote outsiders, will not go smoothly when we arrive."

"We don't want to offend others."

"Why don't you offend me? I heard that someone named Qiao Changyue wants to take your position."

".It's up to you to catch wind and shadow."

"I'm just afraid that we country people think too well of people and think too little of government offices." "Pei Ye" sighed softly, "If you walk upright and upright, you are always afraid of getting slapped, and you may not be able to go high."

"Nonsense! Why can't I walk on the upright road?" Yu Chaocai scolded coldly, "I have no family background and no means. I studied and became an official at the age of 26. I became the Shaoqing of Gongtai at the age of 53 this year. Isn't this a good choice? It makes sense.”

"No, I didn't say it was impossible." 'Pei Ye' immediately admitted his mistake, and after a while he drank his porridge and smiled again, "But I think about it, no matter how tall you are, you are probably only a lord."

".Okay, now you dare to look down on me!"

"Ah, don't dare."

"What's your appetite?"

'Pei Ye' leaned on the backrest, and the car started moving slowly. After finishing the bowl of porridge, he looked outside the curtain and said seriously: "No, Mr. Yu, I want to climb very high. I want to follow you." Very high.”

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"I originally didn't want to rely on that weapon pattern to get my position." 'Pei Ye' lowered his head, "When we first arrived at the weapons department, the two of us need to work together to establish a firm foothold."

Yu Chaocai frowned obviously and said in a low voice: "You misunderstood. I brought you to Fucheng just because I admire you. I have no plans for you, and you don't have to be under my command."

"That's why I recognize you as an official." 'Pei Ye' also said solemnly.

"."

"Sir Yu, it was you who rescued me from difficulties. No one can cross without a boat. I have inherent ambition in this life, but if one day I become a long history, I must first promote you to be the governor!"

"."

'Pei Ye' slowly raised the bowl and said with a smile: "Master Yu, as a man of lofty ideals from ancient times, you should be poor first and worry later -"

Yu Chaocai was silent, and Pei Ye couldn't see the emotion on his face clearly, but in the end he lowered his head and smiled, raised the bowl and said: "——When you are alive, hit the middle stream!"

This was the first night after leaving the Kongtong sect, and darkness was falling on the horizon.