Chapter 1074 The Mu Family
Mu Xingqiu was crossing the river with his heart full of thoughts when he was inexplicably stopped by someone. He turned around and saw a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, wrapped in a thick leather jacket and carrying a Taoist law in his right hand. The oil lamp he was wearing was staring at him fiercely.
"Are you Zuo Liuying?" The young man placed the oil lamp on the snow, took off the baggage on his back, threw it on the ground, and then reached out to hold the handle of the knife exposed from the leather jacket.
This person appeared even more unexpectedly than the Taoist patriarch. Although the oil lamp was a magical weapon, it was not used as it should be. It was purely used for lighting. When Mu Xingqiu remained silent, the young man slowly pulled out the short knife from his waist, and then It is a nice-handled sword, with a series of talisman patterns engraved on both sides of the blade, but the magic power has been exhausted, leaving only a decorative effect.
On the snow behind the young man, deep footprints lead to the invisible distance. He really walked step by step in the river.
"I'm not." Mu Xingqiu shook his head and started to leave. The young man is an ordinary mortal. Perhaps he is too ignorant or mentally retarded to come to Duanliu City to challenge Zuo Liuying. Mu Xingqiu does not want to participate. Come in.
The young man was a little disappointed. He lowered his blade and pointed at the frozen city in the darkness, "Isn't this the City of Broken Currents?"
"Yes." Mu Xingqiu said as he walked.
The young man looked at the oil lamp and the baggage on the ground, then caught up with the knife, "Wait a minute."
Mu Xingqiu stopped and turned around, and said patiently: "This is Duanliu City. I am not Zuo Liuying, and he is not here. If you want to challenge him, come back in a few months."
"Who are you?" The young man said in a harsh tone.
"It has nothing to do with you." Mu Xingqiu turned around and left.
The young man quickened his pace and ran up, blocking in front of Mu Xingqiu, with the sword in his hand, "I heard that Zuo Liuying is an old monster. He is hundreds of years old, but he looks like a teenager. He can do magic and is not afraid of winter. It’s cold, but you’re not afraid of heat in summer—you look like it.”
It was the depth of winter, the river was frozen, and Mu Xingqiu was still wearing single clothes. The cloth shoes on his feet had a few cracks, which did look a bit strange.
Mu Xingqiu said coldly: "If I were Zuo Liuying, I could kill you without even moving a finger. Why should I hide my identity?"
"Yes, why do you want to hide your identity? I asked you who you are, but you didn't tell me. Everyone talks about Zuo Liuying as being very powerful. I don't believe it. Even if he really has three heads and six arms, I'm not afraid. The worst he can do is die. Revenge must always be avenged.”
This man was not only ignorant, but also arrogant. Mu Xingqiu couldn't help but snorted. He didn't even use the talisman or magic power. He raised his foot and the man passed by the young man. The young man couldn't even follow his eyes, let alone his hands. The knife suddenly went weak for some reason, and he almost fell to the ground.
Mu Xingqiu strode forward. When he was in the south of the Yangtze River, he had seen similar delusions: because they lived scattered and had never seen real Taoist priests, they were skeptical of the rumors and thought that the Five Elements Tribulation more than two years ago was a disaster. A natural disaster, Kunchao does not exist at all.
Most delusional people are deaf to danger and will never leave their hometown for half a step. This young man knows Zuo Liuying and Duanliu City and can still walk step by step. He is considered the most delusional person among delusions.
Mu Xingqiu walked a certain distance, turned around and took another look. The young man probably believed that he was not Zuo Liuying anymore. He picked up the baggage and oil lamp on the ground and walked towards Duanliu City on the west bank. He had no magic power. , It was difficult to walk in the thick ice and snow, and the short journey of more than a mile was as slow as a snail.
Mu Xingqiu suddenly felt something in his heart: he and the young man were both delusional. The young man was holding a knife and wanted to challenge Zuo Liuying. How could his strength not be so insignificant in front of Kun Chaos?
The young man was walking with his head down into the wind, when he suddenly found someone blocking the road a few steps ahead. He was startled, threw away the oil lamp and baggage, and drew his sword again, "I knew you were Zuo Liuying. You found a weapon and dared to compete with me?"
"My name is Mu Xingqiu. I would like to ask what grudge you have against Zuo Liuying?"
The young man opened his eyes wide, as if he had seen a ghost in the daytime, "You...are you Mu Xingqiu?"
"Do you recognize me?" Mu Xingqiu was also surprised. This young man seemed to be an ignorant person from a remote mountain village, but he knew the names of Zuo Liuying, Duanliu and Mu Xingqiu.
The young man shook his head, "I don't recognize you, I've only heard of the name 'Mu Xingqiu' - impossible, it must be the same name, but are you really not Zuo Liuying?"
"I have my own name, why should I pretend to be him?"
The young man didn't seem to believe it, but he still put away his single sword, "What a coincidence, my surname is Mu, and I am envious of Mu, the same as you, right? My name is Mu Lie, which is funny to say, our Mu family has a great-grandfather named Mu Xingqiu …You wouldn’t deliberately make up your name to take advantage of me, would you?”
"I don't know you at all."
"That's right." Mu Lie was very simple. Once he believed that Mu Xingqiu was not Zuo Liuying and had the same surname, his attitude immediately became cordial. He picked up the baggage and the oil lamp, "Why are you in Duanliu City? I passed a village three days ago, and the people there said that the city was uninhabited and was occupied by a group of monsters that looked like humans but not humans, and looked like monsters but not monsters, so when I saw you, I thought you were Zuo Liuying. "
"I just came here not long ago, and you haven't told me what grudge you have against Zuo Liuying."
"Your brother is Yuanying?" Mu Xingqiu understood immediately.
"I don't know what Yuanying is, but a circle-shaped red mark appeared on his forehead a few days after he was born. No matter what my brother is, Zuo Liuying can't take him away." Mu Lie said bitterly.
"Are you sure it was really Zuo Liuying who snatched him away?" Mu Xingqiu felt that with Zuo Liuying's ability, a mortal would never notice that he had snatched a baby away.
"You still need to ask? Isn't Zuo Liuying going to hold some Nascent Soul Conference in Duanliu City? All the Nascent Souls in the world are here, and my brother is no exception. In the past two years, I have traveled to many places, almost everywhere People familiar with the matter say that Zuo Liuying and a guy named Kun Chao are the masterminds of the whole thing. Kun Chao is nowhere to be found, and Zuo Liuying... isn't he in the city? Everyone says this is his city."
"Not here, but he will definitely show up at the Nascent Soul Conference on July 7th next year?"
"Next year? Not this year?"
"What day is today?"
"The ninth day of the first lunar month."
Mu Xingqiu forgot all about the time, "It's this year, there are still seven months."
"Okay, I will wait for him here. When Zuo Liuying comes, I will be the first to challenge him."
Mu Xingqiu couldn't help but snorted again, "Do you know that you are sending yourself to death?"
Mu Lie's face that was red from the cold showed some determination, "I know that my brother is still alive and that he was snatched away by bad people and is probably being tortured. Do I just treat it as if nothing is wrong? My father was there before he was born. He passed away. My mother misses her brother and cries every day - I have to do something. Even if I die, I will tell Zuo Liuying: Don't just rob other people's children. He has parents and relatives. "
Mu Lie's face turned even redder and he looked at Duanliu City under the starlight. "Our Mu family has such a temper. Your surname is Mu, but you are not from our Mu family. Having said that, you come to Duanliu City to do what you want." What?"
Mu Xingqiu was stunned. In fact, he was about to leave here, worried that his presence would bring another misfortune to Qin Lingshuang.
"Do you have a relative who has been arrested? I have seen many people like us, but they dare not come to look for relatives. They always say, 'Just treat him as dead.' I am here, and so are you. You are even worse than me. Good morning, I see you have good skills, we can challenge Zuo Liuying together," Mu Lie said excitedly.
Mu Xingqiu looked to the west, his gaze seemed to penetrate Duanliu City, and he saw Qing Lingshuang still standing there in a daze, "No, I want to leave, and maybe I will come back in the future."
"Oh." Mu Lie looked very disappointed, and suddenly held the handle of the knife again, "There are people coming out of the city, quite a few...it's those monsters!"
Mu Lie pulled out the knife, and Mu Xingqiu waved his hand, "They are not bad people."
"Do you recognize these...guys?"
"Um."
Mu Lie sheathed the knife again, still maintaining full vigilance.
Yin Buchen came running with a group of monkeys, smiling all over his face. As soon as he saw Mu Lie, his smile immediately disappeared, and his expression became more alert, "Who is he? When did he appear? Why are you here? Who sent him?"
"Ignore him, what are you doing here?" Mu Xingqiu asked.
Yin Buchen put on a smile again, "I thought Dao Zun was gone, okay. That's right, I have an idea, maybe I can defeat Zuo Liuying, but I need Dao Zun's help."
"Can you defeat Zuo Liuying?" Mu Lie shouted in surprise. He didn't see that Yin Buchen was a monster. He felt that this man was thin and pale and did not look like a powerful person.
Yin Buchen pretended not to hear, without even glancing at him, "It's just these monkeys..."
"Monkey? What a strange name." Mu Lie shook his head. Although there were many of these monsters, they were all very short. He could fight ten of them alone.
Yin Buchen couldn't bear it anymore. He stretched out his hand and five monkeys rushed towards Mu Lie like arrows. Anyway, Tao Zun hadn't formally introduced him yet. He had to get rid of the annoying human first, otherwise he would be scolded at most.
Mu Xingqiu stretched out his arm to block the attack, and the five monkeys seemed to have hit a wall. They turned over and fell, screaming and running back to Yin Buchen.
Mu Lie didn't see clearly and only thought these monsters were ridiculous, but Yin Buchen saw them clearly. Mu Xingqiu used the Patriarch Tower to write a talisman to protect Mu Lie's safety.
Yin Buchen didn't dare to take action anymore, and said with a flattering smile: "The earth monkeys are actually very useful. Zuo Liuying learned from them the ignorant state of the first demon. No matter what the purpose is, it leaves a loophole, but this loophole can only be used by the illusion of mind." ”
Mu Lie didn't understand a word, but Mu Xingqiu understood it. He looked to the west again and knew whose idea it was, "I have forgotten the illusion of mind and heart."
"What Taoist Master forgot was the specific method, not the illusion of mind. Didn't you once notice everyone's emotions? That's illusion."
This was not a direct attempt to retain her, Qin Lingshuang would never do that kind of thing, but she just showed a little bit of reluctance, and Mu Xingqiu couldn't refuse, and the memory did hold him tightly.
"All right."
Yin Buchen rubbed his hands in excitement, "That's great. Please, Taoist Master, come back with me."
"I'll stay here." Mu Xingqiu threw the Patriarch's Tower on the ground. The tower grew in the wind, and in an instant it grew to more than ten feet high. The mirror doors face each other far away.