[Xianjian + Ancient Sword Colleague] Being a master is also a kind of practice

Xuan Zhen immediately took Zixuan Yujian to follow, and arrived in the middle of the valley not long after.The number of houses here has gradually increased, and some men and women can be seen everywhere taking care of the poison in the field. When passing over an open space, you can also see many older people gathered together, with many bottles and jars beside them. Curly, many young people carried large baskets full of gorgeous flowers and plants and piled them in the empty space, presumably for brewing poison.

The cloud of multicolored miasma that Li Qianguan was standing on flew over the heads of those Black Witch clansmen, and drifted towards the tallest and largest room in the middle of the valley without stopping. Put your hands on your chest and salute endlessly.

"Why did those people do that?" Xuan Zhen asked after seeing it.

Zixuan tightly tugged at his sleeves behind him, tried to stabilize her figure, and said with a smile: "That's the etiquette of our witch clan, you have to do this when you treat elders or people with high status."

Xuan Zhen glanced at her, and suddenly smiled and said: "So you also often perform this kind of courtesy to people?"

Zixuan immediately shook her head like a rattle: "No, no! It's because they often salute me." She never noticed the more determined look in Xuan Zhen's eyes after hearing these words.

The two followed behind to the big house. This wooden house was built on the high ground in the valley, with the altar in front of it. The door of the house was wide open, and you could see the statue of Nuwa in the hall.Li Qianguan had probably already entered the house, leaving only a five or six-year-old boy standing there waiting for them.As soon as Zixuan saw him, she pointed to that little face and said, "Ah, another dead face! You must be the son of dead face, right? Haha, little dead face!"

Xuan Zhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Zi Xuan, stop bullying the children."

The little boy pushed Zixuan's hand away from her face, glared at her impatiently, turned his head and said to Xuan Zhen with a serious face: "My name is Li Jiangliu, and I am the son of the great witch Zhu. My father asked me I'll wait for you here, follow me." Then he turned and walked towards the back of the wooden house.

There used to be another small yard behind the house, and there was also a field in the yard, where many poisonous flowers and weeds were planted, the colors were more colorful than those planted by the Wu people outside, and the poison was obviously stronger.Li Jiangliu led them past the field, and glanced back at Zixuan from time to time, with suspicious and wary eyes, obviously afraid that she would pull out his precious poisonous weeds.

Xuan Zhen turned his head and snickered, seeing Zi Xuan staring back at the little boy with a glance, coughed lightly, and pushed her forward.

When they arrived at the hut at the other end of the yard, Li Qian stork was already sitting in the hall waiting.As soon as Zixuan stepped through the threshold, she heard him say: "Descendants of Nuwa, if you are here today, I am afraid that the holy lady doesn't know about it?"

Zixuan paused, then walked briskly towards an empty chair, and said with a smile when she sat down, "I'm already this old, why don't I come out and see what's fun outside? The puppet mother-in-law will definitely not blame me Yes." Without waiting for Li Qianguan to say anything else, he deliberately hummed with his mouth flattened, "I haven't blamed those of your tribe for being rude to me, but you are in charge of me instead? Huh, if it wasn't for you back then You people of the Black Witch clan have lost the treasures left to me by Empress Nuwa, now I don’t have to be bound by my mother-in-law, locked up in the temple and unable to get out!”

Li Qianguan's face was slightly gloomy, and he remained silent.Seeing his father being scolded by a little girl, Li Jiangliu still refused to return his words. Standing aside, he was very dissatisfied. He stared at Zixuan several times, but Zixuan was not to be outdone, so he raised his chin and stared back. The two of them "eye-to-eye" endlessly, so naturally they couldn't care less about talking.

Xuan Zhen sat down beside her, turned his eyes back from the two children without any trace, coughed lightly and said: "Li Wuzhu, if it wasn't for Miss Zixuan this time, I'm afraid Xuan Zhen would be buried here In the ancient forests of southern Xinjiang, she lived well in this place where there are many poisons at a young age, and if she wants to go to other places, nothing serious will happen."

When Zixuan heard it, her face burst into approval, and she nodded repeatedly.Standing beside his father's chair, Li Jiangliu cast a few big eyes.

Li Qianguan shook his head, said no more, and said, "Forget it, I, a Heiwu tribe, can't ask more questions about the White Wu tribe." His eyes circled around the long sword behind him a few times, and finally Can't help but ask first, "Master Xuan Zhen, that pendant... can you take it off and let me have a look?"

Naturally, there was nothing wrong with Xuan Zhen, so he immediately untied the small pendant of the wooden knife and handed it over. Li Qianguan took it in his hand, rubbed his fingers against the chiseled grain on the wooden knife, turned it over and over several times, and a ray of surprise gradually appeared in his eyes , with a ray of sadness, murmured: "It really is it, it really is it!"

Standing beside him, Li Jiangliu took a few glances, and then asked curiously: "Father, isn't this the pendant you kept hidden in the box so that no one could touch it?" Xuan Zhen had an expression on his face that meant "Sure enough, the friends of bad women are not good people", Xuan Zhen could only helplessly smile.

"Huh?" Zixuan looked up after hearing that, "The pendant has been hanging on brother Xuanzhen's sword handle, and he has never been here before, so it is impossible to take something with a dead face... ah , By the way, I thought this pendant was very similar to the one with Dead Face, could it be that I bought it from the same person?"

Li Qianguan shook his head and let out a long sigh. His usual indifference had already been melted in this sigh: "There are only two of these pendants in this world. Where can I buy them?" I miss and cherish it very much, and Xuan Zhen was even more surprised when he saw it. Although this wooden knife pendant is a bit special, it does not seem to be something rare. , why do you place so much importance on this small thing?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help wondering: "Li Wuzhu, there are only two of these pendants, so they are very precious... What kind of magic power is in them?"

Li Qianguan couldn't help laughing at this question, shook his head and said, "It's just an ordinary pendant, and the workmanship is not very good... But the person who made this took a lot of effort and ran all over the godswood forest to make it work." I picked two tree branches growing on one strand, cut them off and carved them for several months before they took shape. The multicolored silk thread was also the silk she personally bought from the market of the Baiwu tribe. Hidden name..." He stroked the patterned side of the small wooden knife, and murmured softly, "One is engraved with 'stork', and the other is engraved... with 'crane'."

Zixuan and Xuanzhen looked at him blankly, only slightly understood that the small wooden pendant did not have extraordinary magic power, but Li Jiangliu beside him was very intelligent, and he opened his red and phoenix eyes and said in surprise: "He... Li Qianhe? Dad, yes Aunt?"

After a while, Li Qianguan nodded and said in a deep voice: "Jiang Liu is right. The person who carved this wooden knife and gave me the pendant is... my own sister, Li Qianhe."

Li Qianhe?Xuan Zhen searched in his mind for a long time, but he never remembered that he had seen a woman named Li Qianhe, so he could only look at Li Qiangan suspiciously and said: "Then... can you please come out and see her?"

Li Qianguan shook his head slowly, his eyes became more mournful, and he said very slowly and softly: "My sister... has been dead for 12 years."

Everyone else in the room was taken aback, Zixuan frowned and said: "12 years..." Suddenly realized, she said in surprise, "Could it be that time-"

"Exactly!" Li Qianguan interrupted her coldly, two fires suddenly ignited in his eyes, "Although it has been 12 years, I will never forget it in my heart. 12 years ago, my black witch There is a traitor in the family, it is shameful to say that he is still my cousin, named Li Sha."

"The uncle's name that was crossed out on the family tree?" Li Jiangliu interjected again, with a surprised expression on his face, "But grandpa said he violated the family rules..."

"Such a shameful thing can't be announced to the public. He didn't violate the family rules, he was expelled from the Black Witch Clan because he committed a serious crime." Li Qianguan said bitterly, "My Black Witch Clan and I The Baiwu tribe has always been on good terms, if it wasn't for him... Hmph, the holy aunt had already told Nuwa's descendants what happened back then, and Li Sha took advantage of the opportunity of visiting each other to break into Nuwa's temple and steal The most important treasure of the Baiwu clan—the Five Spirit Orbs!”

Zi Xuan nodded again and again: "That's right, that's right! The puppet mother-in-law also said the same. At that time I was seriously ill, and she was busy taking care of me. She didn't notice for a while, and let the traitor of the black witch clan get her hands."

"Li Sha snatched the Five Spirit Orbs that only the descendants of Nuwa can hold. He knew that he could not be tolerated by the Wu tribe in southern Xinjiang, so he fled to the Central Plains privately. When our family heard that this happened, we naturally felt sorry for the Baiwu tribe. Feeling guilty, I sent five young men from the younger generation to capture them, including my sister and me." Li Qianguan recalled the past many years ago, and there was a hint of excitement on his usually indifferent face, "Central Plains It's really big, we chased it for more than half a month, from the south to the north, and went straight to a mountain before we found the trace of Li Sha, and it was thanks to a young man that we were able to catch up with Li Sha..."

Li Qianguan turned his eyes to Xuan Zhen's face, and said seriously: "It's been a long time, and we met once again. I can't remember the boy's appearance very clearly... But I remember one thing clearly. That day The young man pointed us to the direction of Li Sha's escape and helped us, my sister, in order to thank him, took off the wooden knife pendant hanging on her belt and gave it away... This wooden knife pendant is this thing." Returned the wooden knife and small pendant.

Xuan Zhen took it in a daze, but his mind was blank. 12 years ago... Wasn't it 12 years ago when I went to Kunlun Mountain?But no matter how hard he racked his brains, all that was left in his memory was a thick fog, like a thick fog, even if there were blurry shadows flickering, it couldn't remind him whether such a thing had ever happened.

Seeing that he was only in a daze, Zixuan was still thinking about the unfinished past, so she hurriedly asked: "Then what happened later, did you kill that Li Sha?"

Li Qianguan looked at Xuan Zhen for a while, and then slowly continued: "That night, we blocked him halfway up the mountain, and at this moment, the masters sent by the White Witch clan also rushed over, and the two groups of people attacked, Li Sha Naturally, he couldn't resist it. But this thief! Seeing that he was invincible, he actually used the five spirit beads as bait, cast a spell to make the five spirit beads fly in five different directions, and bought himself a chance to survive!"

"Then did he escape?" Zixuan asked hastily.

Li Qianguan said in a deep voice: "The thief may escape at any time, and the Five Spirit Orbs have already flown to different places. Right now, we are all hesitant. When Li Sha saw that our offensive had stopped, he was about to break out of the battle ring. My sister was afraid that he would run away and cause my Black Witch clan to be unable to hold up my head in front of the White Witch clan, so she hurriedly stood in front... But Li Sha is the number one master of our clan, how can she resist alone?"

"Could it be..." Xuan Zhen was about to ask, when he caught a glimpse of the little boy Li Jiangliu's eyes flickering with sadness, he already guessed Li Qianhe's ending in his heart.

"I was persuading the people of the White Witch clan to join us in killing Li Sha. I wasn't with my sister. How could I go to protect him in time? At that time, the red light from Li Sha's hand lit up half the sky like fire, and My sister...she was pierced through the chest by that villain right in front of my eyes!" Li Qianguan stared forward, his resentful and mournful gaze seemed to penetrate time and space, and he returned to 12 years ago once again, kissing her On the night when my sister died, "As soon as my sister died, I and the other three made up my mind to avenge her first no matter what. But those Baiwu people...they only thought about the five spirit beads, They didn't care about my sister's life or death! When the four of us attacked, they took this opportunity to turn around and leave, leaving us and my sister's corpses behind!"