Cui Zhang, who was fluttering in white clothes, walked through the streets and alleys, and finally found the house where the pavilion was located. It was indeed a high-class house, with two stone lions sitting in charge. The threshold was extremely high, and the ceremonial door was tightly closed. But the strange thing was this The word "Zhilan" hanging on every house is not Zhang's or Qian's.
The pavilion where Cui Han saw the vision before was probably the private library of this family. Its height is almost as high as the Kuixing Pavilion of the Confucian Temple in the city. It must not be an ordinary wealthy family.
The closer he gets to this "Zhilan" mansion, the more clearly Cui Chan feels that a storm is coming. This feeling is like a cloudy day before a heavy rain, which is depressing.
Between heaven and earth, in addition to the awe-inspiring righteousness advocated by Confucianism, there are also many invisible qi, which are generally divided into pure and turbid qi. The former is smart and beneficial to practice, while the latter is filthy and turbid, damaging the soul and causing mass graves. Places such as ancient capitals and battlefield sites each have their own mysteries, and they may not all be filled with filth.
The blessed land in the world that is conducive to spiritual practice is like a room of orchids, refreshing the heart and mind.
Cui Chan put his hands behind his back and Shi Shiran walked up the steps. A middle-aged concierge walked out of the side door. Seeing the extraordinary bearing of the young man in white, he did not dare to neglect and respectfully asked for his identity.
Cui Chan said that he was a Sanxian who accumulated moral virtue by slaying demons and demons. He saw something was wrong with the house outside the city and there might be a bloody disaster, so he came to help.
The concierge just thought it was a joke. If there were ghosts and ghosts in the world, the concierge knew that there were, because he kept many harmless ghosts in his house, but if there were evil ghosts who dared to be there, It would be a big joke to cause trouble in the city, especially in their "Zhilan" mansion. Who doesn't know that the four fathers and sons in the family are all recognized as immortals, especially the youngest son Cao Xishan. It is said that he just became the direct descendant of the immortal family on the mountain last year, and he is proficient in flying swords and thunder techniques.
Cui Han was not upset at being regarded as a liar, and continued to explain patiently: "Your house does a good job of hiding wind and gathering water, and the layout of the library is the best. It is the center of the formation. In addition, there are probably many unique and rare books in the collection of books that have been personally stamped by saints and gentlemen. Therefore, over time, it is easy to gather spiritual energy. Ordinary monsters and ghosts do not dare to come here to throw themselves into the trap, but some are timid and gentle by nature, and like to show off to others. The little thing you have here will grow up smoothly."
The concierge looked a little impatient and asked Cui Han to leave quickly, saying that he didn't have time to listen to the nonsense of a young man.
Cui Chan reached out and gently pushed away the palm of the doorman's hand, and said with a smile: "But the library of this mansion is indeed a bit weird. There is a big python entrenched in it. It may have been there from the beginning. The origin is unknown, and it may be that someone invited the gods to come in later. If I haven't guessed, it should be a fire python. The recent period has been the day of its penultimate molt. The next molt will be the day of its departure. If it is made of water, it will become a giant dragon once it succeeds."
Cui Chan pointed to the outside of the city, "But there is a water snake in the river, which is of a higher level than the fire python. It is in the water. Waiting for an opportunity below, he will never be easyIt is easy for this close and mortal enemy of your family to successfully shed its skin. Once the dragon, snake and python in the world are awakened and become intelligent, no matter what their temperament was before, they will not like the close proximity of similar people after awakening. Therefore, if your mansion is not prepared in advance, the fire python is molting. When it is weak, the water snake will inevitably leave the river and rush here, trying to kill it with a fatal blow, taking advantage of the situation to snatch the half-fire pill in the fire python's body, and transform it into its own cultivation. Water and fire merge, and the great road is close! "
The concierge's eyes were complicated, and he was suddenly furious. He reached out and tried to push the boy in white away, "Gungungun, at such a young age, you are talking nonsense! "
Cui Chan sighed and said to himself: "Sir, look, it doesn't make sense. It's so troublesome. I'd better do it my own way. "
He waved his sleeves, and the middle-aged concierge was swept several feet away by a breeze, and he fainted on the spot.
Five or six tough men quickly poured out from the side door. The big man, Cui Han, strode forward. Those first-level and second-level warriors ended up worse than the concierge. Before he could see the handsome young man with the mole on his forehead, he flew out on his own, falling to the ground and groaning. < /p>
As Cui Han walked, many nursing homes swarmed in, but they couldn't stop him.
When he came to the square outside the library, he stood up. Cui Yan, who was yawning, finally became interested and looked at the three people standing side by side, who looked like a father and son. Apart from them, there were no outsiders. They probably didn't want to expose the truth about the library, or they didn't want to hurt innocent people, so they were not allowed to come near. Here.
Cui Han's eyes quickly passed over the three of them. The library occupies a huge area and is six stories high. The sky above the building is covered with dark clouds, thunder rumbles, it is extremely dull, and lightning flashes. . In this tall building standing between heaven and earth, there is a huge python that is more than ten feet long. Its body stretches out from the bottom floor of the pavilion, winding up, and its head is as big as a water tank, facing the thunder clouds in the sky. Snake Letter is full of natural awe and strong fighting spirit. Born as a monster in the world, there are few people who are not afraid of thunder. This is a brand engraved in the bones and passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.
It is said that in ancient times, a certain heavenly emperor who was in charge of thunder once brought a group of thunder gods and many rain masters to hunt and travel around the world.
Cui Chan lost countless lives. Keep moving.
The middle-aged man wearing a pair of bronze armor stretched out his hand to stop the two sons who wanted to teach the uninvited guest. His eyes told them to be patient and not to act rashly. He cupped his fist and said "I'm at Caohu Mountain. I don't know if a distinguished guest is coming to visit. What advice can you give me?" "
Cui Han kept walking and said lazily: "My good temper has been used up at the gate. Now I want to go upstairs. If you are determined to stop me, don't blame me for not saying ugly things. Going forward, I will kill your whole family... I will not do such a thing now, but if I kill you three, father and son, destroy the bodies and wipe out all traces, I will explain to my husband later that you died in the battle between snakes and pythons. I will still There is no psychological burden. There is no chance that I will shed tears of sympathy for you in front of my husband. Oh, who gave me the chance to do so?Such an old-fashioned gentleman. "
The middle-aged man held the handle of the long knife at his waist, and the armor on his body was covered with a thick layer of khaki halo. He said sternly: "I really think that I, 'Zhilan' Cao, am at the mercy of others. Softie? "
Cui Chan sighed, "How dare you call yourself 'Zhilan'? The family clearly has so many good books in their collection, but instead of allowing their children and grandchildren to study the saint's teachings, they dance with guns and sticks one by one. What's even more disgusting is that they dare to collude with monsters and let them steal the library and absorb the "scent of books". This is That's all. You know that the day when the fire python sheds its skin is when the water snakes in the river fight to the death. Instead of reminding the people in the city to leave the city and take shelter, you deliberately used a blinding method to cover up the scene of the thundercloud descending and the fire python climbing the building. , do you know that this sudden battle between water and fire will kill at least a thousand people in the city? "
When Cui Han said this, he felt a little aggrieved and thought to himself, "Sir, this is all your fault. My habit of talking nicely has become a bit addictive. "
A tall young man held a silver gun and said with a ferocious smile: "Dad, stop talking nonsense to this guy. I'll kill him. If you dare to destroy the Cao family's century-old cause of dominating a state, you will deserve to die!" "
Cui Han laughed loudly and pointed at the tall young man, "I like your bad temper..."
Before he finished speaking, there was an unnoticeable sign between the young man's eyebrows. A drop of blood, the tall young man was about to use his magical power to bless the magic weapon silver gun in his hand, when he felt a slight sting between his eyebrows. Just as he was about to reach out to wipe it, he collapsed to the ground. There was no dying, no crying in pain, just death.
The middle-aged man's armor shone even brighter, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in yellow clouds.
His other son, who was somewhat bookish, chanted incantations and pinched his fingers. He was very busy, and soon a string of shining words appeared around him. They were white and sharp, connected from beginning to end, forming a full moon, protecting him within it. Not only that, a line of flames appeared in the sky. The entangled little fire python rotated rapidly around the young man, and the simple and high crown on his head burst out with a burst of colorful light, and then sprayed like spring water, covering all around the young man.
Li Li. Outside and outside, up and down, there were layers of defenses and various means.
Cui Han was amused by the life-saving methods he gave the young man, "You kid is very afraid of death. It's good to be afraid of death." ”
Still no movement was seen.
The young man who was afraid of death also had a grain of “cinnabar” between his eyebrows, and died instantly.
Cui Chan smiled. He said: "If you become a ghost, you won't have to be afraid of death anymore. Don't thank me. "
The middle-aged man ran away.
Cui Chan didn't even bother to chase him. Now he is so lazy that even killing them all is troublesome.
Cui Chan did not rush into the library, but stood outside the door. The jug on his waist was heavy and full of wine.
On the way here, Cui Chan bought two more. Jin loose wine, because after leaving the capital of Sui Dynasty, I drank the pot of wine. At that time, there was a lot of people in the carriage.There were also several jars of good wine, but he could never stick his butt up and put his head into the wine jar to drink, so Cui Chan simply kept the jug and didn’t throw it away. As time went by, he used some emotion, and after that he kept buying it at roadside wine shops. Some loose wine, there is no other way. Now Cui Han has to borrow money from Chen Ping'an. He doesn't have much money. He has a mountain of gold and silver but can't get in. Before he became a five-level Qi practitioner, Cui Han could only stare. .
Cui Chan took off the wine flask and took a swig, then walked forward and crossed the threshold.
The fire python that sensed the threat has retreated into the library, and the lightning and thunderclouds in the sky have become a little weaker.
Cui Chan walked towards the stairs on the first floor and sighed: "Young people don't know what it's like to be sad. They fall in love with the stairs, and then go up to the next floor, and up to the next floor, and up to the next floor."
Dang Cui When he reached the fifth floor, he stopped going up and sat on the stairs with a gloomy expression, unwilling to climb to the top.
Between the fourth and fifth floors, a huge scarlet head slowly poked out, with eyes as black as ink. It looked cautiously at the boy in white who had great powers but was ruthless.
Cui Zhang turned to look at the fire python and said with regret: "If there was someone like you in our family back then, who could talk to me to relieve my boredom, then I might not be what I am today. ”
The fire python rested its chin gently on the floor, making a humble gesture of listening with its ears raised. It is very humane, and compared with the Cao family’s ambition to “conquer a state”, it is obvious that This beast needs to be more discerning.
Cui Chan asked with a smile: "Aren't you angry that I interrupted your path to immortality and caused you to miss the right time, place and people?"
The fire python shook slightly. His head shook, and the entire fifth floor shook, with dust flying everywhere.
Cui Chan nodded and said: "You have wisdom. If you insist on shedding your skin, the water snake in the river has a much greater chance of success than you. By then, after hundreds of years of hard practice, you will be reduced to just being a human being." This is what others get for wearing wedding clothes."
On the stairs higher up where Cui Chan was sitting, there was a boy in green clothes, about six or seven years old, with erect pupils. He was squatting on the handle of the stairs, looking towards him. Cui Chan tutted from behind: "Wow, you are a foreign boy. Not only are you very cruel and vicious, but you also have good eyesight. You also know how powerful I am."
The fire python was greatly frightened. It was easy to resist the urge to hide back downstairs, and his whole body was trembling slightly.
Not to mention without the protection of the Cao family and his son, now he has to forcibly stop the molting process, which is the weakest stage. And that guy actually sneaked into the Cao family, how can he be his opponent? ?
Cui Chan turned around and said with a smile: "Naughty."
The child in Tsing Yi looked confused, stretched out his finger with nails as sharp as a small awl, pointed at himself, "You kid said that I ?”
The next moment, the child in Tsing Yi covered his forehead with his hands, and blood kept seeping between his fingers. He fell from the stair railing to the fifth floor, rolling all over the floor, and the whole library began to shake. .
Cui Chan took out something from his sleeve and said angrily: "Okay.La, stop pretending, if you continue to be so naughty, I will really let you see the Lord of Hell. "
The child in green suddenly stopped rolling, stood up, patted his sleeves, and asked, "What do you want?" I have an irreversible relationship with the Lord Jiang Shui outside the city. I have been my brother and sister for more than two hundred years. I am much better than this little girl who even the City God dared not meet. You have a good cultivation level. If you are qualified to be a guest in my house, if you help me today and let me eat it, from now on, in this city and thousands of miles away, you can kill whoever you want..."
The boy in green is like a throat Being choked, I couldn't say even a single word. I stared at the thing in the hands of the young man in white. I was so frightened that I lost my mind. My legs began to swing. The fire python even turned into a girl in a pink skirt. Curling up at the entrance of the stairs, shivering.
Cui Han held an ancient inkstone in his hand, and there was an old and thin dragon no more than an inch long. If he listened carefully, he could actually hear the sound of a genuine deep sleep.
For the boy in green and the fire python in the library, the sounds of sleeping sound that would not be strange to ordinary people are simply more terrifying than thunder from the sky.
Cui Han lowered his head, twisted a golden "embroidery needle" between his fingers, and rubbed it on the edge of the ancient inkstone, bringing up a series of lightning flints, as if he was sharpening the edge with the inkstone.
Cui Han stretched out the inkstone. , “Come in obediently. "
The girl in pink skirt who transformed into a fire python leaned against the wall. After getting up with difficulty, she did not dare to move.
The child in green asked: "Is there any benefit? "
Cui Han nodded and smiled: "Yes, for example, to survive. "
The child in green said a good word in a deep voice, and then... he crashed through the window on the fifth floor and flew out.
After that, there was a ray of golden light two or three feet long. , followed closely, and rushed towards the east of the city through the window.
After a while, there were violent waves in the river to the east of the city, and blood splashed from time to time.
< p>Chen Pingan, who was drinking tea at the gate of the city, immediately paid the bill and rushed into the city.It turned out that there was no one at the gate of the "Zhilan" mansion. Chen Pingan had a smooth journey and finally arrived. When I arrived at the high-rise attic, I happened to see Cui Han personally holding a girl in a pink skirt walking out. Probably for the sake of enjoyment, Cui Han transferred the book box to the little girl with a slender figure. He had nothing but his waist.
Cui Chan slapped his head and asked the girl carrying the bookcase to get some of the most spiritual ancient books. Then he sat on the threshold of the library, drank wine, raised his head and smiled. : “Sir, go ahead, I’m listening. "
Chen Pingan asked: "Do you know why I asked you to return to Longquan County with me? "
Cui Han took a swig of wine and wiped it with the back of his hand, "I know, I'm afraid I don't have a long memory, or I have ulterior motives, and I will cause trouble in Xinshanya Academy in Sui Dynasty. Don't you? Don't worry, Li Baoping and the three of them. So I would rather have trouble sleeping than have those children have any accidents.outside. "
Chen Ping'an looked at Cui Chan.
Cui Chan said helplessly: "Hey, hey, is it difficult to guess this answer? Sir, please don't look at me like that. Even if you're a little bit surprised, it's an insult to me, Cui Chan. "
Chen Pingan hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "If you are willing to protect them sincerely, from today on, I will promise you to be my student. "
Cui Chan raised the wine pot high and said, "It's a deal! "
Chen Pingan frowned and said: "Forget it. "
"Just because I agreed too quickly? "
Cui Chan sneered, "Don't regret it in a hurry. The moment I secretly left the carriage with you, I had already guessed this step. This is not overjoyed at all, but something that has been carefully considered for a long time. result. So don’t think I’m perfunctory with you, Chen Ping’an. You may not believe it when I tell you. My stay in the Sui capital was originally a chess move planned by me. Do you think it’s fun for me to play chess with myself along the way? I'm afraid to scare you to death if I tell you, it's Da Li playing chess with Da Sui! This game of chess is related to the national destiny of the two dynasties! ”
Cui Chan sighed, “But having said that, risking one’s life and trying to be a hero in a dragon’s pond and a tiger’s den is not my style, but there’s nothing I can do about it. In the final analysis, I dug the trap myself, and it’s up to me to leave it to you.” I may not trust others to clean up the mess. "
Cui Chan said with a bitter face: "Sir, if I really die in the capital of the Sui Dynasty..."
Chen Pingan said seriously: "I will fight for help. You build a tomb. "
Cui Chan was stunned and muttered in a low voice: "His mother's tombs all know it... I followed Li Baoping and Lin Shouyi all the way. I really didn't read the book in vain! Haha, as expected of my husband, he learns quickly. "
Chen Pingan asked: "By the way, does it say Cui Chan or Cui Dongshan on the tombstone? ”
Cui Yi’s face was full of fear, “Bah, bah, bah!” ”
Then Cui Han smiled and said: “I knew that sir would take this step, so I even prepared a farewell gift.” The girl just now was born as a fire python. She has grown up absorbing the fragrance of books since she was a child. She has a very docile temperament. It will be the most suitable for her husband to be a little book boy in the future. The other one has a similar background, but has a more violent personality. On the way back to Longquan County, he needs someone who can fight by his side, who can help his husband navigate through mountains and rivers. Lizhu Cave Sky is still very tempting to them. When they enter Mr.'s territory in the future, they will not be tolerated to be disobedient. However, Mr. needs to wait for a while. That water snake in the river will soon... I came here to kowtow and admit my mistake. "
Chen Pingan has some complicated emotions.
"You are a bad person, and you are much smarter than me, so you know how to deal with bad people better than me. I hope that when you return to the academy, you will really Can protect Aquarius and the others. "
Chen Pingan's eyes were sincere, he took a deep breath, and said with a fist-clasping gesture full of charlatanism: "If you can do it, then I'll thank you in advance! ”
“FirstIf the student is willing to make this decision, it means that the student is truly recognized, even just a little bit. What the teacher wants the students to do is a matter of course, so why do you need to say thank you? ”
Cui Chan had a playful smile at first, but after seeing the serious face of Chen Pingan, he immediately stopped joking, shook his sleeves, and bowed solemnly, with his big sleeves hanging down like a crane hanging its wings, cool and unrestrained Jue Lun said in a deep voice: "Sir, farewell sir! Take care along the way, sir! ”