Chapter 169 Wangchuan City
After A Shui knocked off the "blood slave" with one finger, Xu Yan realized that the middle-aged man in front of him who claimed to be A Shui was obviously not a good man. Of course, his greater feeling was that he deeply realized the other party's terror in terms of strength.
Previously, if Ah Shui had not appeared in time and blocked Yan Fu's shocking sword for him, it would be hard to say whether Xu Yan could survive. Then, the other party knocked Yan Fu into a scumbag with another move. Although he did not see clearly how the former killed Yan Fu, this result was enough to prove everything. Even if the other party knocked the blood-broken slave with one finger and looked at it with a relaxed freehand painting, in fact, if he wanted to achieve the sword, it was definitely not something that ordinary sword cultivators in the upper third realm could do.
Xu Yan was silent for a moment before speaking: "No matter what the reason is, if it weren't for your timely appearance, I would have died. I would have remembered this kindness in my heart."
Seeing his serious expression, A Shui looked at him in surprise, with a smile on his face, but he didn't say much, but said to him: "Since your injury has been almost healed, then leave here early, and there are not too much time left. Besides, there are still many trivial matters in the village waiting for you to recover. It's resolved earlier and leave early."
When Xu Yan heard A Shui say this, he obviously realized the meaning in the latter's words, but it was not surprising that he was.
Since the other party can appear in time on his way north and act as his guard for leaving the country safely, it is obvious that this is not just a coincidence. There is no doubt that the other party should have some relationship with his master.
Or is the latter itself a backup plan for him by Zhao Bailian?
Xu Yan did not think too deeply about this matter, but just nodded and replied: "I understand, I will seize the time."
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After leaving the area of the back mountain, A Shui disappeared directly into the original place, without a trace, as if he had never appeared before.
Xu Yan was not surprised by this, but in fact he knew that the other party was obviously leaving Yukong. However, even if he knew the answer, he could not interfere with the other party's freedom. Even if the other party made a personal promise, he would always send him safely out of Lingzhou, but that was all the only thing.
Because the latter had already made it clear that if he had not been trapped in a situation of life and death, he would never have helped.
Of course, Xu Yan himself is not the kind of person who will put his hopes in others' hands. He likes to hold all his destiny in his own hands. A Shui did save his life, but at best it made him feel that he had another trump card.
As he approached Wangchuan City, Xu Yan could clearly feel that the person who came to intercept him was completely different from before. This was not only the strength of the person who came to intercept him, but also related to their identities.
This is not the first time that Xu Yan has heard of Yan Fu, but it is indeed the first time he has seen him.
When he first heard this name, he was still in the Lotus Sect. Before leaving, Zhao Bailian had privately discussed some special matters and names that needed attention and were of course one of them. Yan Fu was naturally one of them.
Speaking of which, Xu Yan actually guessed some reasons why Fu Yan came to intercept him personally, that is, he knew that this person was the grandfather of Yan Ziyi, a disciple of Chenyang Sect.
According to the previous holiday with Wu Hao, Chenyang Sect will undoubtedly determine the cause of Yan Ziyi's death directly on his head in the end, without thinking that Yan Ziyi actually died in the hands of Cai Zhenjing, a female disciple of Baihe Jianzhuang. Therefore, Yan Fu will definitely feel angry about it after learning that he was the "enemy" who killed his grandson. Xu Yan could even be almost certain that during his previous journey north, those who came to intercept him contained the killers sent by Yan Fu.
Xu Yan can understand the murderer - killing people, but what he couldn't understand was why Yan Fu was so tempted to the point where he even intercepted him with his own hands. You know, he is still having an extraordinary identity when he is heading north, that is, the attendee of the February dynasty event in Ming Nian.
Once someone who attended the dynasty event was intercepted and killed halfway, Xu Yan basically didn't have to think about it. Yan Fu would never be able to hide the matter in the end. Therefore, how could he dare to use the situation where his entire family might be compensated to do such an impulse to avenge his grandson?
Xu Yan couldn't understand the reason, so he was reluctant to think about it anymore, especially when he came to the area where Yan Fu and Xu Er had fought, and saw the body lying flat in a deep pit, as if he was asleep.
Seeing that Xu Yan was dead at this moment, Xu Yan was undoubtedly stunned for a moment. There was no doubt that before Yan Fu went to chase him, the scene he saw on the hillside was the scene when Yan Fu and Grandpa Xu fought.
He was not surprised that his grandfather Xu would be a hidden practitioner. After all, the reason why he went to the Lotus Sect or why he embarked on the path of cultivation was that the old man in front of him who had completely died.
Xu Yan pried open the other party and held it tightly after his death, but now he was already cold and stiff. He found that there was a small porcelain bottle in the other party's hand. Xu Yan took out the small porcelain bottle and opened it and smelled it. He found that there was a familiar but slightly different aura inside, which was transmitted into his sense of smell.
"This...is this the Resurrection Pill?"
Xu Yan couldn't help but feel surprised.
The Resurrection Pill is different from the Resurrection Pill, and its efficacy is much stronger than the latter.
When alchemists refining this elixir, the precious medicinal materials needed are far from comparable to those of the Fuyuan Pill. They not only need a spiritual beast inner pill that reaches at least level seven, but also cover seven kinds of precious medicinal materials on the Five Prefectures Continent, which are all very rare.
What is the concept of a level seven spirit beast?
If compared with human practitioners, at least eight floors or eighth level cultivators can get a draw with them. But if you want to kill them, then five or six great practitioners will not be able to kill such a level of spirit beasts without five or six great practitioners.
Xu Yan had never seen a level seven spirit beast, but he had seen Ziyunluan once in the Dushan area. At that time, those Ziyunluans gave him the feeling of being the difference between a king and an ant. If he had successfully attracted the attention of those birds, he really didn't know if he had the chance to escape from their hooves.
After a moment, Xu Yan instantly understood the source of this resurrection pill. It was definitely not something that Grandpa Xu could have. Such a pill was probably rare and pitiful even on the entire Five Prefectures Continent. It was priceless.
"But Grandpa Xu, why don't you accept it?"
Xu Yan finally muttered softly, very puzzled. You must know that as long as a practitioner can take the Resurrection Pill, no matter how serious he is, as long as he still has a breath of energy, there is a certain chance of danger, although he may not be able to recover from his previous cultivation level before being injured.
Xu Yan was completely dead, so Xu Yan naturally could no longer get the answer to why the other party would rather die than take this pill.
Xu Yan sighed long and carefully put away the resurrection pill. He looked at the old man in the pit with pain, and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, "This can be regarded as the last person I have left in this life, which can be regarded as a relative, right?"
Xu Yan buried Xu Yan on the spot and did not move his body. This huge pit was like a grave that Yan Fu prepared for him in advance.
This location is good, behind the village of Xujia Village, in the center of a huge glutinous grassland, so Xu Yan did not give him a tombstone in the end, nor did he set up his final sleeping place into a tomb. Anyway, no one would come here to sweep his grave in the future, so it would be better to let him lie quietly in the hometown of Xujia Village.
After the cold winter, there will be a gentle breeze. At that time, on this land, it will eventually grow grass and flowers. It is better to let these originate from the most primitive nature and beauty grow above him, accompanying him forever peace and long sleep!
After Xu Yan buried Xu Yan, he returned to the village. However, it was obvious that he had no need to go to Xu Yan's house again, but because it was too late now, it was almost time for him to go to Xu Hui's house again when it was almost ugly.
Xu Yan felt that he was not righteous enough when he said goodbye to Uncle Yuting. After all, Uncle Xu Yuting was second only to Xu in the village to treat him well when he was young.
Xu Yan walked in the road in the village in a daze, but before he knew it, he walked to the vicinity of Xu Yuting's home.
As he expected in his heart, the entire Xujia Village had fallen into silence, without any sound, only the coldness of the coldness of the gradually cold winter was so real.
Xu Yan looked up at the house in front of him that only appeared in a faint appearance under the illumination of his night pearl, and sighed slightly.
In fact, in his heart, he was still immersed in the sad atmosphere of Xu Er's death. However, Yan Fu, who killed Xu Er, had already died in the previous battle. He could no longer seek revenge on the other party. Compared to Xu Er, Yan Fu's fate was much more miserable, and the real corpse was gone.
"No, Xu Yan, I feel a strong smell of blood in this house."
Just as Xu Yan was still standing in the dark night and was at a loss, a sound suddenly sounded in his sea of consciousness.
Hearing the slightest stern voice of Xiaocai, Xu Yan instantly retracted his attention. Then, he controlled his perception and enveloped Xu Hui's home without reservation.
"What's going on?"
Just by exploring it gently, Xu Yan also noticed this blood energy. He did not stop at all. He immediately broke into Xu Hui's home holding the night pearl.
The room was extremely dark, and only he had a faint light source emitting from his hands. Xu Yan knew how to find the candlestick of Xu Hui's house, and then lit the candle on it.
With the firelight, most of the darkness in the entire room was swept away, but immediately afterwards, under the reflection of the candlelight, Xu Yan saw an extremely sad scene, which was that there was a huge black hole on the two wooden walls of Xu Hui's house across the main hall.
Intuitively, the black hole seemed to be smashed by some heavy object, but Xu Yan basically didn't need to think about it and knew that it was smashed by Xu Yuting and his wife with their bodies.
He held the candlestick and walked quickly towards the two wooden walls. In one of the black holes, he was the first to see Wang's figure, but there was no doubt that she was completely dead at this moment and was tragic.
Wang's eyes were gray and he died with his eyes open. It can be seen that before she died, she had passed a lot of vomiting of blood, otherwise she would not have been so bloody on her chest.
Because the temperature at night was very low, the blood that overflowed from Wang's body had completely dried up and formed cold blood clots, but this also revealed a message that she had died for a long time.
Xu Yan's face was sad and full of resentment. He didn't expect that this trip to his hometown would bring them such misfortune.
Xu Yan endured the pain and tried to close Wang's eyes, which were full of pain, but in the end it was futile.
She has died for too long and the weather is too cold. She has now been fixed and can no longer change the slightest.
Xu Yan had no choice but to get up to check Xu Hui's father's condition, but in fact, he did not have any luck or hope in his heart, because a sword cultivator of the upper third realm took action, and with their physical body, even if they were touched lightly, they would definitely not be able to bear it.
However, when Xu Yan thought Xu Yuting must have died, he came to the latter with a candlestick and found that the other party was bleeding in his seven orifices, but he still had his last breath.
Xu Yan was not dead yet, and he was immediately happy. He immediately took out the Resurrection Pill from his cuff that Xu had not chosen to take, and wanted to use this pill to save the other party's life. However, after Xu Yuting, who was struggling to keep his eyes closed, he breathed a tight breath in his heart after successfully seeing Xu Yan, because he was able to confirm that Xu Yan was still alive.
"White...white haired old..."
Xu Yuting spoke in ambiguously and said three words with great difficulty.
After seeing this, Xu Yan hurriedly replied to Xu Yuting: "Uncle Yuting, don't worry, he is dead, don't talk first, open your mouth and take the pill in my hand first."
While speaking, if Xu Yan successfully took out the Resurrection Pill, but when he just handed the pill in his hand to the other party's mouth, Xu Yuting's eyes suddenly glared, and then his whole body suddenly became stiff and he swallowed his last breath.
"Uncle Yuting, Uncle Yuting!"
While shouting loudly, Xu Yan shook the other person's body frantically and vigorously, but unfortunately, the ending was decided, and Xu Yuting died in the end. Otherwise, the latter would not have been unable to absorb the resurrection pill in his hand.
Xu Yan sat dejectedly on the ground.
In the Xujia Village, the three people who had deep feelings for him in the end did not expect that they all died tragically in this turmoil. "If I don't come back here, I will not be attracted to the old thief Yan Fu chased him here, and they may not have died tragically, right?"
Xu Yan, who never believed in fate, couldn't help but think of this for the first time.
But all this happened at the moment. People died like a lamp that went out. No one had the chance to do it again.
Xu Yan buried Xu Yuting and his wife with his own hands, and handled everything alone, just like their own child.
According to local customs, Xu Yan cleaned the blood on their bodies before they entered the coffin, then put on new clothes for them, and then built a new grave for them with his own hands.
The same is a tomb of a couple, and the location is not far from his parents' tomb, on the back mountain.
Xu Yan stood in front of the new tomb, staring blankly at the handwriting engraved on the two stone tablets. They were also painted with vermilion dyes, making them look so eye-catching at this moment.
"Uncle Yuting, it's all Yan'er who has harmed you, but please don't worry. Since that old guy dares to attack you, I will definitely kill all his family and avenge you."
Xu Yan muttered silently in his heart, but a trace of sharpness flashed through his deep eyes.
He bowed deeply to the new tomb, no one knew it, and in this breath, in his lower face, there was a lot of guilt, pain, and a trace of determination.
A Shui, who was floating in the distant sky, witnessed this scene coldly, finally couldn't help but a trace of solemnity flashed across the face that had always been only a simple face.
He whispered softly and said, "I hope you can keep your mind and not do that action of hitting the stone with eggs."
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After attending the funeral attended by all the villagers in the village, Xu Yan said goodbye here. This is a true farewell, which means he will not return.
When he arrived at the town of Jinxi Town, he immediately went to the store to buy a rigorous training Xinluan, and then he wrote a letter to Xu Hui, who was far away in the Lotus Sect in the southern Lingzhou.
In the letter, he did not hide any of the whole story or the truth of the matter. He even said it was because of his implication that both her parents died.
The end of the letter is about the location of the tombs of Xu Yuting and his wife, which is to ensure that Xu Hui can successfully find her parents' grave when she returns here later.
Xu Yan didn't know if the other party would blame him or blame him after learning the news of the destruction of the world, but it would be at least two months later when Xinluan flew to the Lotus Sect.
After solving the matter at hand, he no longer had any hesitation or pause, and walked out of the scope of Jinxi Town, and then began to make great strides towards the "Wangchuan City", the largest county city that is famous in Lingzhou and mixed with fish and dragons.
Twenty days later.
On the night of the eleventh lunar month, there are no moons or stars.
Because in the mountains and rivers where Xu Yan was walking, snowflakes were falling, but this also proved that the weather was getting colder and colder.
The thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
There is heavy snow flying during the day.
On both sides of the pipeline where Xu Yan went to Wangchuan City, the surrounding area was covered with silver and snow, as if it had turned into a piece of white of ice and snow along with the entire Five Prefectures Continent.
Xu Yan didn't have the heart to appreciate this unique and graceful scenery at this time, because at the end of his vision, there was a towering city that was as different as he imagined.
Chapter completed!