Wei Wuxian stopped.

He didn't know what to feel in his heart, and he didn't know what to say on his face, he hesitated: "...my mother?"

Wei Wuxian is the son of Wei Changze, a servant of the Yunmeng Jiang clan, and Zangse Sanren, a Taoist from Yunyou. Jiang Fengmian and his wife were both acquainted with his parents, but Jiang Fengmian seldom remembered his old friends, and Jiang Fengmian's wife, Yu Ziyuan, never spoke to him well, not whipping him a few times, telling him to get out, kneel, and leave. It would be nice if Jiang Cheng was far away. Many things about his parents were told to him by others. He knew that there was actually no need for many others.

Lan Wangji also stopped, turned to look at him, "Have you heard the name of Xiao Xingchen?"

"Never."

"Never was right. This man became famous twelve years ago. No one mentions it anymore."

Twelve years ago, it happened to be a year after the massacre of the mass graves in Yiling, and he just missed it. No wonder he never heard this name before his death. Wei Wuxian asked, "Which mountain is the mountain, and who is the teacher?"

Lan Wangji said, "I don't know where the mountains are. I am a disciple of Daoism, and Xiao Xingchen is a disciple of Baoshan."

Only now did Wei Wuxian know why he said that this person had a lot of connections with his mother.

Zangse Sanren also came from Baoshan Sanren.

He said, "So, this Xiao Xingchen is my uncle."

This Baoshan Sanren is a recluse from the world. It is said that he was a monk who debuted at the same time as Wen Mao, Lan An and others.

At that time, headed by Wen Mao, the cultivator force, which was linked by blood ties, rose up like bamboo shoots after the rain. All monks who are slightly famous have established their ancestors. But this master chose to retreat into the mountain, and the Taoist name Baoshan. No one knows which mountain he is holding. Having said that, it is because no one knows, so it is called retreat. If you can easily find it after retiring, then it is not called reclusive, it is just for sale.

The famous people of that generation have long since disappeared, and only Baoshan scattered people, rumors have not yet fallen. If this is the case, it should be hundreds of years old, which shows that it is necessary to cultivate.

This senior lived in seclusion on an unknown fairy mountain, and often adopted some lonely children as apprentices. But all the disciples have to swear that they must devote themselves to cultivating the Tao in this life and never go down the mountain. If you leave the mountain, no matter what the reason is, you will never come back from now on. Self-reliance, crawling and rolling in the red dust, it doesn't matter anymore.

Everyone knows the Tao, Baoshan Sanren is indeed a master of Taoism, and this rule is very prescient. Because for hundreds of years, she had only three apprentices out of the mountain: Taoist Yanling, Zangse Sanren, and Xiao Xingchen.

As for the three apprentices, none of them could die.

Wei Wuxian knew the fate of the first two apprentices since he was a child, so he didn't need to listen to them anymore. So, what Lan Wangji told him was the deeds of the last one.

Xiao Xingchen was only seventeen years old when he came out of the mountain. Although Lan Wangji had never met him, he had heard of his demeanor from others.

At that time, just a few years after the end of the She-Sun Expedition, the siege and suppression of the mass graves in Yiling had just passed the limelight, and the major families were rampant, recruiting talents everywhere for their own use. Xiao Xingchen came out of the mountains with the idea of ​​​​saving the world. He had excellent aptitude, and learned from experts. Naturally, he became famous in the first night hunt. With a tail whisk and a long sword, he went through the mountains alone and came out on top.

When all the families saw this young Taoist with a clear appearance and a successful cultivation, they were greatly heartbroken and sent invitations one after another. However, Xiao Xingchen politely declined, clearly saying that he did not want to be attached to any noble family, but together with a dear friend, he was determined to build a sect that was different from the noble family and did not prioritize blood. This person is like a reed, his heart is like a rock, he is soft on the outside and firm on the inside, and he keeps himself clean. Whenever there is something difficult or difficult to solve, the first thing that comes to mind is to ask for his help, and he never refuses.

The Chang family extermination case happened at that time.

☆、Chapter 30

Chang Ping took a few family members and went out to hunt at night for more than half a month. Suddenly, she received bad news from her home on the way and hurried back. After the grief, it was only found that someone maliciously broke his family's protection formation and put a group of ferocious evil spirits in. Other than that, he was at a loss and had nowhere to go.

Xiao Xingchen certainly wouldn't sit idly by when a family of cultivators suffered such a tragic disaster, and there was a lot of trouble in the world of comprehension. He took the initiative to accept the matter and sought the truth for Chang Ping. A month later, finally, the killer was found.

The killer's name is Xue Yang.

This Xue Yang, younger than Xiao Xingchen, was an uncompromising young man. However, its badness will never be restrained because of its young age.

Since the age of fifteen, Xue Yang has been a well-known gangster in the Kuizhou area, with a good smile, vicious methods, and cruel personality. When he was young, he lived on the streets, and it seemed that he had a bit of a rift with Chang Ping's father, which he remembered for several years. Half of the reason for this tragedy was his revenge.

After Xiao Xingchen found out the truth, he traveled across three provinces and captured Xue Yang, who was still at ease. Law, before sending him to the public, clarifying the principles and demanding severe punishment.

He listed the evidence clearly. Most of the families had no objection, and only one strongly opposed it. That is the Lanling Jin Sect.

Wei WuXian said, "To oppose it under such a situation would be considered a disgrace to the world. Could it be that this Xue Yang is a celebrity in front of Jin Guangshan?"

Lan Wangji nodded: "Ke Qing."

Wei WuXian said, "He's a guest secretary? The LanlingJin family was already ranked among the four major families back then, so why did you hire a young hooligan to be a guest secretary?"

Lan Wangji said, "This is the second connection."

He stared into Wei Wuxian's eyes and said slowly, "Because of the yīn tiger talisman."

Wei Wuxian's heart suddenly raised in midair.

He is not unfamiliar with the three words yīn tiger talisman. On the contrary, no one is more familiar than him.

This is the most terrifying and at the same time, the most desirable one among all the magic weapons he cultivated during his lifetime.

As the name suggests, the tiger talisman is used as a command. Those who have obtained this tiger talisman can command the ghouls to obey their orders.

When Wei Wuxian created it, he didn't think too much about it. With his primordial spirit cao controlling corpses and evil spirits, there will always be times when he is tired. He remembered that he had accidentally obtained a rare piece of iron in the belly of a demon, so he used it to forge and cast it into a tiger talisman.

But after the tiger talisman was cast, it was only used once, and Wei Wuxian realized that something was wrong.

The power of the yīn tiger talisman was far greater and terrifying than he had expected. He originally wanted to use it as an aid, but who knew that its power would completely overwhelm the maker like him. Moreover, this thing cannot be recognized as the owner. That is to say, as long as someone gets it, no matter who the person is, good or evil, enemy or friend, whoever has it, it will be used by whomever.

The disaster has been created, Wei Wuxian wanted to destroy it, but at that time he was already in a situation where everyone could get it and kill it. The tiger talisman has a great deterrent power. With this magic weapon, others dare not touch him easily. Wei Wuxian I will leave it for now, just split the tiger talisman into two, so that it can only function when it is merged, and it will never be used lightly.

He had only used it twice in total, and each time he was bleeding. After the second use, he destroyed half of the tiger talisman.

It is not easy to cast a tiger talisman, and it is also difficult to destroy it. He was still in the process of destroying the other half, when the mass burial mound came.

He couldn't care about what happened after that. But even if the noble family who grabbed it offered it up to burn high incense every day and kneel down, only half of the yīn tiger talisman left was just a piece of scrap iron.

But Lan Wangji told him that this Xue Yang seemed to be able to spell out the other half's yīn tiger talisman.

Xue Yang was very young, but he was very smart, and he was also a very evil outlier. The Lanling Jin Sect found that he could roughly piece together the other half based on the remaining half of the tiger talisman. Although it cannot be used for a long time, and the power is not as amazing as the original, it is already beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Wei Wuxian understood, "Jin Guangshan wants to beg Xue Yang to restore a complete yīn tiger talisman for them, so he must protect him."

What's more, Xue Yang destroyed the Chang clan, half of it was to retaliate for bullying the young and poor, and the other half was that he was taking the lives of this family | Exactly how!

No wonder the rumors are all about him. Wei Wuxian could almost imagine how the cultivators gritted their teeth: "This Wei Wuxian! If he hadn't done something like this, the world wouldn't have suffered so much damage!!!"

It's his fault that the magic weapon he has refined is too powerful. Blame him for not destroying the other half before dying. Lanling Jin Sect also blamed him for restoring the yīn tiger talisman.

Pick up the conversation. Although the LanlingJin Sect was wholeheartedly protecting Xue Yang, Xiao XingChen didn't eat hard or soft. The stalemate between the two sides finally alerted Chi Fengzun, Nie Mingjue, who had not participated in the grand talk, and led him to fly to Jinlintai from elsewhere to come forward.

Although Nie Mingjue was Jin Guangshan's younger generation, he was strict, never tolerated, never condoned, and scolded Jin Guangshan for being shameless and embarrassing. He had a fierce temper, and he drew his sword and killed Xue Yang on the spot. Even his righteous brother, Lianfangzun Jin Guangyao, stepped forward to smooth things out, but he was ordered to get out of the way.

After Nie MingJue put pressure on them, the LanlingJin Sect was unable to do so and had to step back. Xue Yang saved his life. He was not killed, but was sentenced to be imprisoned in a dungeon, where he would not be released for life.

After Xue Yang was arrested by Xiao Xingchen and taken to Jinlintai, he has always been confident. Nie MingJue grinned when his knife was pressed to his neck. Before entering the dungeon, he said to Xiao Xingchen very affectionately, "Master, don't forget me. Let's see."

Hearing this, Wei WuXian knew that this sentence "Wait and see" would definitely make Xiao Xingchen pay an extremely painful price.

After just one year, Chifengzun Nie Mingjue went into a rage. Maybe it was because he cultivated faster than the previous generations of the Qinghe Nie family masters, and he died earlier than the previous generations of the family masters. The most difficult person to deal with was gone, and the Lanling Jin Sect made another crooked idea. Jin Guangshan tried every means to get Xue Yang out of prison and continued to restore the other half's yīn tiger talisman.

But this kind of thing is disgraceful after all. If you want to lift a murderer who kills people from the dungeon, without a serious name, that's not enough.

So, they turned their attention to Chang Ping.

Intimidation and harassment continued, and after a long time, the Lanling Jin Clan finally succeeded in getting Chang Ping to speak out, overturning all previous injustices, and declared: The Chang family's annihilation has nothing to do with Xue Yang.

When Xiao XingChen came to ask, Chang Ping reluctantly said to him: Other than this, what else can I do? Thank you sir, but... please don't help me any more. Now that you help me, you are hurting me.

In this way, the song is over as soon as we go out and let the tiger return to the mountain.

Wei Wuxian remained silent.

If this happened to him, he would never let go of how the Lanling Jin family was the number one family that covered the sky with one hand, and whoever promised him how bright and glorious his future would be. On the contrary, he would personally explore the dungeon at night, cut Xue Yang alive into a pool of mud, and then call him back to cut him again and again until he regretted being born in this world.

But not everyone is a son of a bitch like him who would rather die together. Several members of the Chang family are still alive, and Chang Ping is still young, without a wife and no children, and has just embarked on the journey of immortality. Whether it was threatening the lives of his surviving family members, or threatening his future and cultivation, he had to think carefully.

After all, he is not Chang Ping himself, so he can't replace him with righteous indignation, and he can't replace him with fear, and bear these physical and mental tortures.

And after Xue Yang was released, he launched his revenge once again. But this time, he did not take revenge on Xiao Xingchen himself.

Xiao Xingchen went out of the mountain alone, and had no relatives. He only had a good friend whom he met after going down the mountain, named Song Lan. This Song Lan was also a famous Taoist scholar at the time. He was arrogant and had a good reputation. Both of them want to build their own sects, ignore blood inheritance, and focus on like-minded people. It can be said that they are close friends and like-minded.

Xue Yang chose him to start, and repeated his old tricks, destroying the Taoist temple where Song Lan grew up, and secretly tricking him, blinding Song Lan's eyes.

This time, he exterminated the family and exterminated the experience, and did it very neatly, without any clues left. Although everyone knows it must be his gān, but what is the way? There is no evidence. In addition, Jin Guangshan deliberately covered up, and Chi Fengzun, who was angry with the power of thunder, has also passed away, and no one has a way to deal with him.

Hearing this, Wei Wuxian felt a little strange.

Although Lan Wangji looked indifferent and respected etiquette, Wei Wuxian knew from the past that he was no less jealous than Nie Huaisang's eldest brother. To this day, Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen have had a heated fight, but Lan Wangji has never been good to the Lanling Jin Sect, and never attended his family's meeting. If something like this happened at that time, it would definitely spread the word all over the city, and Lan Wangji would never sit idly by. Why didn't he deal with this Xue Yang?

Just as he was about to ask the question, he suddenly remembered the marks of the whip on Lan Wangji's body.

If Lan Wangji made a big mistake and received so many whips, he would definitely be banned from going out for several years. I am afraid that in the years when the incident happened, it was when he was being punished.

No wonder he said he had "heard something". If you leave Suzhou after the punishment is over, you will naturally only hear about it, not participate.

Wei Wuxian was inexplicably concerned about those scars, but he couldn't ask directly. He pressed it down for the time being and asked, "Then what happened to Daoist Master Xiao Xingchen?"

When Xiao Xingchen left the mountain, he swore that he would never go back. He made a very heavy promise, but Song Lan was blind and seriously injured, so he broke his oath and returned to Baoshan's scattered place with Song Lan on his back, asking the master to save his friend.

Baoshan Sanren read in the mentoring session and agreed to his request. Xiao Xingchen went down the mountain and left, and has since disappeared.

In another year, Song Lan also left the mountain.

The world was amazed that he could even see the eyes that were completely blind at the beginning.

But in fact, it wasn't because Baoshan Sanren's medical skills were superb, it was Xiao Xingchen who dug out his own eyes... and gave them back to Song Lan, who had been burdened by him.

Originally yù wanted to take revenge on Xue Yang, but at this time, the Xianmen family had undergone a major change in power, Jin Guangshan died, Jin Guangyao took over the Lanling Jin family and was sent to the position of Xiandu. In order to show the newcomer's new style, he cleaned up Xue Yang as soon as he came to power, and he didn't mention the restoration of the yīn tiger talisman. Song Lan went after the traces of his former friend. At first, he could hear where he went, but later, there was no news.

The Lanling Jin Clan had such a scandalous affair. In order to restore his prestige, Jin Guangyao naturally tried his best to cover it up, so he was not allowed to mention it again. In addition, the Liyang Chang Clan was a little-known family. , so, gradually annihilated into the dust.

Wei WuXian let out a light sigh of relief, and felt a burst of regret: "Because of something that had nothing to do with me, to end up like this, really... If Xiao Xingchen was born a few years earlier, or I died a few years later, Things wouldn't be like this. If I were alive, how could I ignore this kind of thing. How could such a person not marry him!"

Immediately, he laughed and laughed secretly: "I care? How should I care? If I was still alive at the time, maybe the Yueyang Chang sect's annihilation case would have been blamed on me. The Taoist priest Xiao Xingchen met me on the road. , I approached him and asked him to drink, he might beat me with a whisk, haha!"

They had already passed the Chang residence and came to a cemetery not far from here. Wei Wuxian saw the dark red word "Chang" on the archway and asked, "Then why did Chang Ping die later? Who sent the surviving members of his family?"