Qin Xiao tossed and turned in the inn at night and couldn't fall asleep. He thought of the jade box. The characters on it were exactly the same as the characters his father had taught him to read before. Those characters were clearly the Map of Mountains and Rivers, and no one recognized it.
It's just a village. There are only a few households in the village, and few of them know the lingua franca of mainland China, let alone those words.
But when he saw the box today, the Sixth Brother also looked at a loss. It was clear that he had never seen such a word. The owner of the jade shop also said that the jade box had been placed in their shop for several generations, and no one had ever said that.
What exactly is engraved on the box?
What on earth did his father teach him?
Qin Xiao was very puzzled. Suddenly he felt some itching on his chest. He stretched out his hand and scratched it a few times. He said that he had been itching since he came back in the afternoon. He scratched it a few more times. Not only did it not get better, it actually
It became so hot that Qin Xiao took off his clothes and took a look. He was stunned on the spot, dumbfounded.
On his chest, a few words appeared at some point and kept flickering on the skin. What surprised Qin Xiao was that these words were exactly the same characters carved on the broken jade box.
, Map of Mountains and Rivers, these words seemed to be alive at this moment, wandering around Qin Xiao's chest. Then the light flashed and slowly became smaller. When the light dissipated, these words were directly embedded in Qin Xiao's chest.
There are a few small dark red dots here. If you don’t look carefully, you might think they are a few red moles. There are also a few small red marks near the red moles.
Qin Xiao got up and rushed to the basin, soaked some water and wiped his chest vigorously a few times. The word did not change at all, as if it had always been on Qin Xiao's body.
Qin Xiao didn't fall asleep for a whole day. He tried countless methods but couldn't wash away those few words that suddenly appeared. In the end, he had to give up. When he woke up in the morning, he was listless and yawned again and again.
The place where they sent the letter was at Junshan Xiaodongting outside Quyang City. They could just send the letter at noon three days later. Ning Bufan wanted to go and have a look first. Seeing Qin Xiao acting like this, he might as well go by himself and let Qin Xiao wander around the city as he pleased.
Turn, before leaving, he deliberately left Ning Bugui's sword to Qin Xiao, saying that if any sect disciples caused trouble, he would directly report himself to the sect and take out the sword. Whether it was Ning Zhiyang or Ning Bugui, in cultivation
The world is classified as a person not to be trifled with.
Qin Xiao thought about the words he saw on the jade box yesterday, and ran directly to all the jade shops in Quyang City, trying to find the same thing. However, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and there was no harvest until sunset. Qin Xiao was nervous
Walking down the street with a straight face and an expressionless expression.
Suddenly there was a commotion in the distance, and the sound of fine iron chiming came from the crowd. There was also a faint flash of light, which was clearly coming from the magic weapon of an accomplished monk. From time to time, there were also houses.
The sound of collapse came and Qin Xiao paused.
At this moment, a ray of light suddenly flew out of the void and hit a five or six-year-old little girl as fast as lightning. The little girl obviously didn't know what happened and looked confused. Qin Xiao's heart
I was so shocked that I didn't have time to think too much. I immediately followed the wind step to the extreme. A figure appeared beside the little girl in a flash, picked up the little girl, turned around and returned to the original place.
He was extremely fast, and brought up a string of afterimages in place. The energy hit the door of a shop, directly exploding a big hole in the ground. The gravel flew everywhere. Qin Xiao put the little girl down and turned around to see, there was a sign on his forehead.
A drop of cold sweat broke out. If he couldn't avoid it just now, he might have been penetrated directly like the ground.
A figure leaped from a distance, holding a long spear. The blood on the tip of the spear was not dry, and the fierce aura on his body had not yet been recovered. He was in a miserable state, and his light yellow clothes were stained with blood. It looked like he was seriously injured.
He was one of the people in the fight just now. During the fight, he accidentally saw the sword Qin Xiao was carrying on his back in mid-air. It had a black scabbard and several vigorous green bamboos carved on the hilt, Ning Bugui's sword.
In the world of cultivation, it is the symbol of Ning Bugui. In addition, the young man thought that it was Ning Bugui who showed up just now, but when he saw Qin Xiao, he was a little confused, "Why can't I sense your cultivation?"
for?"
Qin Xiao was a little amused when he heard this question from the young man who blocked the road. He had no cultivation in the first place, so how could he sense his cultivation? Before he could say anything, the young man spoke again, "I didn't expect that Ning Bugui's cultivation was so powerful that I could actually sense it."
Less than.”
These words made Qin Xiao even more confused. He lowered his head and looked at himself. How much did he look like his senior brother? There was actually someone who could admit his mistake. He was about to explain that this young man didn't give him a chance.
"Xiang Chen, of the Xiang family, wants to fight with you. Tomorrow at three o'clock at noon, we will be waiting for good news at the pavilion ten miles outside the city." After saying this, several people got up and disappeared into the crowd.
Qin Xiao was stunned on the spot, with a puzzled look on his face. There must be something wrong with this man's brain. Did he say that he would rather not return? He was talking to himself without letting anyone else answer.
Qin Xiao didn't pay much attention to this little episode. The sky gradually darkened. The bustling Quyang City was brightly lit at night, and people were coming and going in the night market, which was no worse than during the day.
Qin Xiao bought some random food at the stall, but it didn't taste very good. Speaking of the food cooked by Yun Feiyang, it was really the best in the world. Qin Xiao's mouth was so naughty.
Inadvertently walking into a remote alley, there was a sudden sound of breaking through the air behind him. Qin Xiao's heart was alarmed, and he reflexively made a wrong step, leaving an afterimage in place to avoid the attack from behind.
In the darkness, with the faint light coming from the tower in the distance, Qin Xiao took a closer look and saw a middle-aged man in black robe standing opposite him. He was shocked, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he barely calmed down and asked: "You
Who is he? Why did he attack me?"
The man in black robe looked at Qin Xiao strangely, and then looked at his palm. He obviously didn't expect that Qin Xiao could avoid his attack. When he heard Qin Xiao's question, he didn't answer, and a sharp wave of anger suddenly surged all over his body.
The murderous aura and powerful coercion whipped up a strong wind and rushed towards Qin Xiao.
Qin Xiao only felt as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cave, as if he had stood in the ice and snow for several days and nights, almost frozen to death. The strong wind was stabbing him so hard that he couldn't open his eyes, and he wanted to escape by walking with the wind.
But he couldn't move forward. The fierce murderous aura was like a huge mountain. The oppressive Qin Xiao was struggling to move, and even his breathing was a little unsmooth.
Seeing the man in black leaping through the air, Po Feng slapped his chest hard with his palm, but Qin Xiao couldn't even move. His face was earth-colored, and he opened his mouth to shout, but found that he didn't even have the strength to open his mouth.
No.
With a palm imprint on his chest, Qin Xiao felt a sharp pain in his chest, which spread from his heart to his limbs. His body flew backwards with the wind of the palm, fell hard to the ground and rolled far away before he stopped. His throat trembled.
Sweet, Qin Xiao opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood, then fell softly to the ground. In a blur, he seemed to feel someone lifting him up, and then fell into endless darkness.
The man in black stepped on the protective magic weapon, carried Qin Xiao and flew into the sky. In the blink of an eye, he flung Quyang City far behind him. He crossed several mountains and passed through thick woods. The man in black landed in a valley. He looked left and right.
, making sure that no one was following him, the man in black couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and walked directly towards a mountain wall. His figure flashed on the mountain wall and disappeared into the night.
This place was clearly subject to a strong restriction. The man in black crossed the mountain wall, and his eyes suddenly opened up. There were hundreds of long steps paved with neat marble, and all kinds of exotic flowers and plants were planted along the long steps. In the distance, there was a palace.
The woods loomed, and a man in black walked up the stairs and jumped into the palace, throwing Qin Xiao to the ground.
Several people were already waiting in the main hall. Seeing the man in black carrying Qin Xiao, his face looked happy. One of them said excitedly: "Great, if I have this son's essence and blood, our sect's great things will definitely be accomplished."
The middle-aged man with a gloomy expression walked up to Qin Xiao, looked around and said with a frown: "Elder Tao, why did you hit him so hard? If you missed him and killed him, wouldn't you miss something important, huh? He's from the Chaoyang Sect.
disciple."
Elder Tao said respectfully: "Sect Master, this kid is a bit evil. He obviously has no cultivation skills, but he is not slow at all. He actually avoided my sneak attack. It would be a long night and a dream, so I had to take this step."
This gloomy-looking middle-aged man was the leader of these people. After hearing what the man in black said, he didn’t ask any more questions and took out a fragrant elixir from his arms. He seemed to be reluctant to part with it, but when he thought about it,
Qin Xiao no longer hesitated about the effect. He stuffed the elixir into Qin Xiao's mouth. After making sure that his life was safe, he said, "Take the person down and keep him under strict supervision. There should be no mistakes."
"Sect Master, is this okay? I see that this boy is a disciple of the Chaoyang Sect. If the people of the Chaoyang Sect know that we have kidnapped their disciple, it will probably bring disaster to the mountain sect." The person who spoke looked a little bit.
Immortal spirit, if Qin Xiao was awake, he would definitely recognize this person. It was the fortune teller who told Qin Xiao's fortune in Quyang City.
The man in black who kidnapped Qin Xiao sneered: "The disciples I sent also found out that he claimed to be Ning Bugui of the Chaoyang Sect in front of the disciples of the Xiang family, but I monitored him for a whole day, and he was clearly a
Ordinary people without the slightest bit of cultivation, the Chaoyang Sect has been established for tens of thousands of years, how could there ever be such a useless person among the inner disciples?"
The sect leader pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that this boy is indeed a disciple of the Chaoyang Sect, but since he can still go down the mountain without any cultivation, he should be an outer disciple of the Chaoyang Sect. He probably met Ning Bugui by chance and deliberately
By pretending to be Ning Bugui, I feel more at ease. There are hundreds of thousands of Chaoyang Sect's outer disciples, and no one will pay attention to such a small character who accidentally disappears."
"The lord is wise!"
"Let's all prepare. From tomorrow onwards, we will immediately begin to refine the spirit summoning and blood coagulation formation. If we can succeed this time and awaken the ancestors, our Blood Refining Sect will definitely occupy a place in the devil's path. By then, it will be our Blood Refining Sect.
The day of accession to the world."
I don't know how long it took, Qin Xiao regained consciousness from the darkness. He slowly opened his eyes, only to feel a splitting headache. Every cell in his body seemed to have been torn, and a heart-piercing pain rushed straight into his brain.
, barely exerting all his strength to sit up from the ground, Qin Xiao broke out in a cold sweat with just such a small movement. What was even worse was the heartbreaking feeling coming from his chest, which was so strong that Qin Xiao wanted to faint again.
That's good.
He gritted his teeth and looked around. This was a sealed stone room. There was nothing in the stone room. There was a stone door on the left hand side, which was tightly closed. There were some faint runes flashing on it. There was a small small door at the bottom.
There was a weak fire coming from the small hole. Qin Xiao used his hands and feet to crawl to the hole to have a look. The pain all over his body became more intense when he moved. He gritted his teeth and tried to crawl forward. Waiting for the climb
By the time we arrived at the entrance of the cave, my whole body was soaked in cold sweat.
Through the small opening, Qin Xiao tried his best to look outside. There seemed to be a long corridor outside. There were some ghosts of torches flashing and swaying on the wall. Occasionally, the sound of wind whistled through the corridor.
The light that blew those torches flickered, and nothing else could be seen.
Qin Xiao suddenly covered his mouth and coughed violently. His palms became sticky, and the faint smell of blood filled his throat. His brain felt dizzy, and stars appeared in front of his eyes. It took a long time for Qin Xiao to stop coughing. When he looked down, his palms were bright red. He
He fell weakly to the ground, breathing heavily, his eyes full of panic and fear.
Where is this place? Why would someone want to arrest him? Qin Xiao can't figure it out. He has been staying in the Chaoyang Sect since he walked out of the village. He has never offended anyone and has nothing on him except his senior brother's sword.
Important things, I really can't think of a reason for the man in black to arrest him.
By the way, Qin Xiao touched the senior brother's sword behind his back. It was not there. He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard a "clang" sound when he was hit by the man in black in Quyang City. It seemed that the sword had fallen off at that time.
Falling, Qin Xiao smiled bitterly, wondering if the senior brother would go crazy after not being able to find the sword.
Qin Xiao's thoughts were confused. He lay quietly on the ground without moving. For a while, Qin Xiao's slightly chaotic breathing was only heard in the stone room. There was deathly silence all around. There was an invisible pressure in the air, which pulled Qin Xiao away.
The fear spread to the limit.
Suddenly, Qin Xiao stretched out his hand and slapped the stone door hard. While slapping, he shouted crazily: "Is there anyone there? Come out quickly. Why do you want to arrest me?"
There was still silence outside the stone room. Except for the occasional madman whizzing by, Qin Xiao continued to shout without giving up: "Come here, you bastards, how dare you arrest me. Do you know who my master is? My master is the Fifth Chaoyang Sect."
Elder Ning Zhiyang, let me out quickly, otherwise my master will never let you go."
"I am an inner disciple of the Chaoyang Sect. You guys are too young to know your own abilities. If you don't let me out, my master will definitely make you look good when he finds out."
"..."
Waiting is not scary, the scary thing is that you don’t know what you are waiting for!
It's like Qin Xiao is like this now. He doesn't know who captured him? And why he was captured? Time passed little by little. I don't know how long it took. Qin Xiao's voice slowly weakened, and finally
He stopped and was speechless. He stared at the top of the stone chamber, his eyes blurred. Qin Xiao was almost collapsed in the silence of the space.
Fortunately, the door of the stone room finally opened at this time, and Qin Xiao quickly got up from the ground. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured and very weak. As soon as he stood up, he felt dizzy and could hardly stand. He quickly leaned against the stone wall and walked in for two seconds.
A middle-aged man, one of whom was the man in black who captured Qin Xiao, Qin Xiao immediately asked: "Who are you and why did you arrest me?"
The two people who came in were the leader of the Blood Refining Sect and Elder Tao. They seemed not to have heard Qin Xiao's words. They walked to Qin Xiao. Elder Tao put his hand into his claws and grabbed Qin Xiao like lightning. Qin Xiao retreated to the side to hide.
He couldn't move, but he felt like there was a thousand pounds of pressure on the man's arm. The leader of the Blood Refining Sect slashed Qin Xiao's wrist. Suddenly, a three-inch long gash was opened on Qin Xiao's wrist, and blood flowed out.
Carefully taking out a jade bowl and pouring the blood into the bowl, Qin Xiao struggled violently with the last bit of his strength, but the hands on his shoulders were as steady as a rock and did not move at all.
"Let me go! My master is Ning Zhiyang, and my senior brother is Ning Bugui. They won't let you go! Let me go!"
The two of them froze slightly, then shook their heads, obviously not believing Qin Xiao's words. Blood flowed out of Qin Xiao's body drop by drop. His face was pale. After a moment, he stopped struggling, and his body was weak and his head hung down.
, obviously fell into coma again, and the two did not stop until the blood filled a whole bowl. Elder Tao took out a bottle and applied some ointment to Qin Xiao's wound. The wound immediately healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye,
The wound disappeared in a moment.
As soon as he let go, Qin Xiao was as soft as a puddle of mud and fell to the ground. The blood refining sect master quickly stepped forward to check Qin Xiao's condition, "Elder Tao, your attack was still too heavy. This kid has no cultivation at all. He was shocked by your palm.
Regarding his heart pulse, if I hadn't taken a precious Yuanyang Pill to stabilize his injury, he might have died."
"Anyway, when the full moon passes, this kid will definitely die."
"I'm afraid he won't be able to survive the full moon night! We have waited for so many years to find a person born in the Yang year, Yang month, Yang day, Sun time. We must not give up all our efforts, otherwise when will we find such a person again."
The sect leader worriedly said, "Go and give him some instructions, prepare some pills for him, take good care of him, and make sure this boy lasts until the night of the full moon.
The master of the blood refining sect walked out of the stone chamber holding the jade bowl, walked through the long corridor and walked into the deepest part of the stone cave. The stone chamber was filled with the strong smell of blood, the room was filled with black gas, and the roof of the cave was cut open.
There is a huge hole, and the faint moonlight condenses into a thin line, shining on a pool of water in the center of the stone chamber. If you look closely, it is clearly a pool of blood, and the blood is soaring to the sky.
There was a corpse lying in the center of the blood pool. The whole body was rotten. The carrion on the face was crisscrossed. The original appearance was no longer visible. However, a pair of red eyes moved from time to time. It looked extremely terrifying. Occasionally, there were words in the mouth.
There were bursts of roaring sounds.
The master of the blood refining sect walked to the blood pool and bowed deeply to the rotting corpse. He poured the blood from the jade bowl into the blood pool. His fingers twirled like flying, forming countless dharma seals in the void. Following his movements,
The blood in the blood pool surged crazily, scarlet mist rose in the air, and dark red talismans floated above the blood pool and flew into the body of the corpse. The blood refining sect master bit the tip of his tongue.
Spout out a stream of blood essence and quickly draw a skull-like figure in the air.
The skeleton roared and dived into the blood pool. The stirred blood pool was splashed with blood. There seemed to be countless shadows struggling in the blood pool, wailing, and making bursts of shrill wails. After a while, everything returned to calm.
After doing all this, the master of the blood refining sect turned pale and seemed a little unsteady. He took a closer look at the rotten corpse. The flesh on the corpse was much more alive, and there were signs of healing in some places. He was overjoyed and said with emotion.
: "It is indeed the most yang and strong blood in the world, plus the yin blood of a thousand women in the pool, the ancestor's resurrection is just around the corner! God bless my blood refining sect!"
Qin Xiao woke up again, still in the stone room. He put his head to his wrist and saw that there were no scars at all. If it weren't for his extreme weakness and obvious appearance of excessive blood loss, he almost thought it was just a dream.
Turning his head to the side, he saw several small plates on the ground. The faint aroma of vegetables came from the plates. Qin Xiao moved his body with difficulty and crawled over. He took the food into his mouth bit by bit. He ate very seriously, for fear of wasting it.
At one o'clock, even the water in the bowl was drank in one breath.
No matter what, Qin Xiao is not willing to die here. He is still very young, and his life is so long. He has only been gone for a short period of more than ten years. There are still so many things he wants to do and so many wishes he wants to fulfill.
, how could he die here inexplicably? He must live.
In a daze, Qin Xiao fell into darkness again. In his dream, he saw that he was back at Chaoyang Sect. His master told him to calm down and not to learn bad habits. His senior brother flew away with his sword in the air.
He laughed like a fool while eating the delicious food cooked by his fourth senior brother...
At this time, Chaoyang Sect's bamboo sea was in a state of panic. Ning Bufan hurriedly returned to the mountain and brought heavy news. Qin Xiao was missing. Ning Bufan searched for the woman in Quyang City for a whole day but could not find it.
He, Ning Zhiyang, immediately turned pale when he heard the news.
"What happened? I just asked you to deliver a letter, but why did he disappear?" Ning Zhiyang asked sharply.
"I don't know either. On the second day after we arrived in Quyang City, I went to Junshan to explore the way. My junior brother didn't go with me. When I returned, my junior brother had disappeared. I searched for the whole day but couldn't find him.
Will something happen to my junior brother?" Ning Bufan was anxious, fearing that something would happen to Qin Xiao, and his eyes were red with worry.
"Don't worry, we will find our junior brother!" Ning Bugui patted Ning Bufan on the shoulder and said firmly.
"It's all my fault. It's my fault that I left my junior brother alone even though he knew he had no cultivation at all!" Ning Bufan blamed himself so much that he kept repeating this sentence.
Yun Feiyang couldn't help but comfort him: "Sixth Junior Brother, don't worry, we will go down the mountain to find our Junior Brother immediately."
"Yes! Master, the disciples are willing to go down the mountain together to find the younger brother!" All the disciples in Zhuhai had frosty expressions on their faces, and their expressions were serious. There was no trace of sleepiness in Ling Haotian's eyes, and his whole body was full of fighting spirit. He seemed to be a
With the sword unsheathed, Wei Ziqing took out his big hammer and waited for it seriously. Yun Feiyang touched the kitchen knife on his waist, and a cold light appeared in his eyes. Ji Tong also hung the wine gourd that he never left his hand on all day long.
Fang He, who originally came to Bamboo Sea to eat, also said: "Junior brother, I'd rather be calm and don't be impatient. I'm willing to help junior brother."
"Let's go!" Ning Zhiyang was full of murderous aura. He raised his hand and a giant sword several feet wide appeared in the air. He rushed down the mountain with the disciples of the Zhuhai lineage. Fang He also jumped into the air and headed towards Quyang.
Flying towards the city, a group of people passed by the mountain gate with murderous intent. The disciples guarding the mountain originally wanted to go up and ask, but when Ning Zhiyang's terrifying gaze swept them away, they were frightened and speechless, and quickly opened the door without saying a word.
Mountain protection prohibition.
Qin Xiao didn't know how long this kind of life would last. In this small stone room, it was dark, he didn't know the time, and he didn't know where he was. Every day, the person who captured him would cut his wrist and put a bowl of blood out, and then
After taking care of the injury, he struggled and yelled at the beginning, but in the end he gave up resistance. In fact, Qin Xiao had no strength to resist. He was so weak that he fell to the ground like a puddle of mud and looked at the person coming.
Skillfully, he cut open his arm, drained the blood and applied medicine, then put food into his mouth, and gave him some water. Yes, he was fed. After bleeding for a few days, Qin Xiao could not even raise his hand.
I don't even have the strength.
An infinite sense of desolation arose in his heart for a moment. He silently asked himself why he didn't have the qualifications to practice, why he could only be an ordinary person, and why he could only lie here and be slaughtered by others without any means. If he could practice, what would he do?
It's not that everything is different, but he can't practice, why? No one can answer his question.
You must live, you must, no matter how difficult it is, Qin Xiao has always believed that his master and brothers will come to save him.
Except for the first two days when the Blood Refining Sect Master came to collect blood in person, later the Blood Refining Sect Master no longer took so much precaution against Qin Xiao. He just ordered a disciple to come and collect blood, a disciple who had no cultivation and was seriously injured and extremely weak.
People, everyone didn't take it seriously, they were just ants, but they didn't know that it was this ant that none of them noticed, but it brought disaster to the Blood Refining Sect. By the time they wanted to regret it, it was already too late.