The trees in the northern mountain forests are all broad-leaved deciduous species, and they begin to fall their leaves impermanently in July and August every year, but because the growth conditions of each tree are different, the time of defoliation is slightly wrong, and then it will continue to be like this in May and June, and the range of nearly 100 miles is like this, and the fallen leaves accumulate into a heavy yellow blanket, and in some places it can even be up to people's knees.

Chu Hong more than a dozen people walked in the fallen leaves, because of the obstruction of these fallen leaves, their actions were greatly hindered, and even if there was no wind, it would cause quite a loud sound, because it had penetrated into the supervision of Jinlin and Zhu Gai's soldiers and horses, so they walked extremely cautiously every step, but Rao was so, or inevitably encountered a sensitive sense of the roadblock, a team of more than ten Qin soldiers found their traces, in order to avoid being discovered by the main force of the enemy, Chu Hong, Huanziyu, Luohu's three eighth-stage martial arts masters made a brazen move, and in a few moments, they knocked out more than ten people.

Then they changed into the uniforms of the Qin soldiers, and although the officers in charge would definitely recognize their bad intentions, they could give the enemy a great illusion and gain a chance for their actions. After traveling a long distance again, I finally saw that the cloud falcon mountain was close at hand, and the fire was raging on the mountain next to it, and even if it was far away, I could still feel the scorching temperature on it.

"Wait. Chu Hong suddenly stopped the group's march, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and said, "Stop for a moment, did you hear any noise?"

Luo Hu said: "What's the matter? Could it be that you noticed what was excepted?"

Chu Hong said: "Since I practiced the Seven Empty Arrows, my hearing and eyesight are beyond ordinary people, although I haven't seen anything now, but the footsteps I can faintly hear, I shouldn't be mistaken, they found us." ”

Huanziyu said: "Can you determine which direction?"

Chu Hong said: "There are people coming from all directions, and the number is no longer a minority. ”

Luo Hu suddenly realized, and said: "No wonder there are no dangers along the way, although the road that Mr. Mu Ya has chosen for us is already quite remote, how can no one find out about our invasion? There are more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Jinlin and Zhu Gai in this mountain forest, in addition to the distant transfer and ambush soldiers, there are many people who seem to be in a wait-and-see state, and their goal is to wait for us to invite you into the urn with leisure. ”

Huanziyu said: "What now? Do you want to come over while they haven't closed up yet?"

Chu Hong said: "Although we know the correct location of the wooden door, it will take a lot of work to find it, as long as we are found by their army, we will be tightly entangled, and it will be difficult to destroy the wooden door at that time." ”

Luo Hu said: "The eldest son is right, I think it's time to use something like that." ”

Chu Hong said with a smile: "Yes, in this dense forest, the most confusing thing is the smoke embryo." ”

"Smoke?" the ringfish asked.

Chu Hong took out a fist-sized black sphere from his arms, the surface of the sphere was very rough, but it seemed to be like this for natural existence, the ring fish was quite curious, so he took it over and looked at it, and asked, "What is this a smoke embryo for?"

Chu Hong said with a smile: "The origin of this thing is not small, it was found in the lair of a group of demon beasts when the five of us traveled, at that time we broke into it by mistake in order to avoid the rain, and were almost torn to pieces by five creatures that looked like wild lions. ”

Seeing Chu Hong proudly telling about the past, Luo Hu interjected and teased: "Miss Huan, at this time, I testify that although some people helped us kill two demon beasts, the remaining three were killed by the four of us, and they had nothing to do with him, and some people almost fainted, I don't know if it was intentional." ”

Luo Hu's teasing, Chu Hong's face suddenly couldn't hold back, and he wanted to refute, but Huanziyu smiled, took Chu Hong's hand and stuffed the black sphere into his palm, and said: "Since this thing was bought by you at the cost of your life, then I am embarrassed to take it, and I will give it to you as a treasure." ”

Chu Hong's face turned red, and he said: "Believe me, this guy Luo Hu just doesn't remember people, I saved him at the beginning, if it weren't for me, he might have slept with those five demon beasts." Ungrateful man, this cigarette embryo is also a treasure that I took out with all my might, and when you belittle him like this, I feel that he is not even worth a stone. ”

Huanziyu asked: "Then I want to see what effect this thing has, since it is on the demon beast, it must be extremely strong, it should be like the effect of the beast's horn, I can't think of what use you have with this thing." ”

Chu Hong smiled and said, "Then I'll let you see, although this thing looks ordinary, it definitely has an unimaginable effect." Luohu, call everyone to our side, don't get separated. ”

Luo Hu beckoned, summoned a group of more than a dozen martial artists, and told them to follow closely one by one, and then Chu Hong put the black sphere on the ground with confidence, and said: "The reason why the smoke embryo is called the smoke embryo is because it can release a large amount of smoke in an instant, and we can take advantage of the smoke gathering to break a way." ”

Huanzi Yuliu frowned slightly, and said, "That's it."

What does it do?"

Chu Hong said: "That's it." ”

Huanziyu was helpless, but when she saw the smoke embryo in Chu Hong's hand, Chu Hong didn't know what to do, and the sphere instantly released a large amount of smoke, and the smoke immediately enveloped a large area of mountains and forests, and the smoke continued to be released, and the surrounding fog became thicker and thicker, almost enveloping the bodies of several people.

Huanziyu was dumbfounded, she had never imagined that the fist-sized sphere could release such a huge amount of smoke, but Chu Hong had already disappeared in front of her eyes, and she hurriedly called out, "Chu Hong, where are you?"

The palm that had been thick behind her back suddenly wrapped around the waist of Huanziyu, she looked startled, and at some point she held a short sword in her hand, stabbing towards the figure, but she heard Chu Hong's light cough, and hurriedly stopped her movements.

Chu Hong said: "It's me, why do you start so hard, it's only a few minutes, it's too vigilant." ”

Huanziyu knocked down the arm he was holding and said angrily: "Who told you not to know the proportion, next time you do this, I will really cut off your hand." ”

Chu Hong slowly approached, and finally met the ring fish within half a meter, and this distance became clearer, no longer covered by the smoke.

Chu Hong held the hand of the ring fish, and said with a smile: "You can't break away, it's very dangerous to walk in the mist of this smoke embryo, if you really lose it, it will be a bad thing." ”

Huanziyu glanced at him, but this time he didn't refute it abnormally, but let Chu Hong hold it, the palm was not very warm, but it gave her an extremely warm feeling.

"Eldest son, go quickly, I heard the sound of the armor, they should have sensed the anomaly of the fog, and they have come up from the side. Luo Hu's voice Huo Ran came out, and the figures were running in the same direction, all of them were in the direction that had already been discussed, Chu Hong and Huanziyu glanced at each other, and quickly followed.

But it was said that in the camp in the mountains and forests, Jin Lin and Zhu Gai were sitting and discussing, but seeing that a heavy fog suddenly rose in the corner of the mountain forest, Jin Lin said: "It seems that they are there, but they are so irrational that they have placed thick smoke, although they can evade our pursuit in a short time, but it also provides us with a clear vision, so that we can track them very quickly." ”

Zhu Gai looked up to the sky and laughed: "I don't know which leader of Wohua Mountain is coming, they are so stupid, they want to go to Cloud Falcon Mountain to save people, they must pass through that road, they have already exposed the location, I have already sent people to ambush on that road, as long as I see someone going up, three martial arts masters and several elite warriors can stop it, and the armor soldiers we sent are also ready to fight, as long as they find their traces, they will definitely not be able to escape from our encirclement." ”

Jin Lin frowned and said, "Brother Zhu, I always feel that something is wrong, I heard that the commanders of Wohua Mountain are all young heroes, although it is impossible to have much experience in fighting behind them, but they have also been in command of the army for many years, where would they make such a mistake? They came from afar, and did not rush headlong into our encirclement, but took this cautious approach to enter in disguise with elite soldiers, and I don't know what conspiracy they have?"

"Hey, Brother Jin, you're too worried. Zhu Gai's figure was much more burly than Jin Lin, and he was not happy when he saw his sad appearance at this moment, and said: "Brother Jin, we are now surrounded by tens of thousands of people, and the order given to us by the Governor of Pang Lu is not to kill all the remnants of Meng Lang who are trapped in the mountain, but to use them as bait to lure the mountain bandits of Wohua Mountain to rescue, Wohua Mountain has no gods, and any action is also a human act, why be afraid of him?"

Jin Lin said: "I can't say I'm afraid, but I witnessed the epidemic here a few years ago, and I hated the tragic appearance, and at this moment we burned the mountain peak, which can not only leave a temporary camping place for our army, but also eliminate all kinds of traces brought by the epidemic, and avoid our army from being contaminated with these epidemics." But the appearance of this team in Wohua Mountain is too unexpected, and if they have other purposes, we must beware of them spreading the disease to our barracks. ”

Zhu Gai pondered for a long time and said: "Brother Jin is right, according to the situation we saw in the previous feints on Yunfang Mountain, we can know that the army of Menglang should have been infected with that epidemic, and many soldiers have symptoms of suspected epidemics, and we have now made a fence under the mountain to isolate Menglang's army, thinking that even if we don't take the initiative to attack, they will all be killed by the epidemic." If this team of Wohua Mountain goes up the mountain, it is best if we can kill them directly, if not, we will directly let them go up the mountain and organize them to go down the mountain with strong archers, so as to ensure the safety of our army, and the inevitable death of the mountain bandits. ”

Jin Lin sighed, he didn't want to use this method to deal with the enemy in his heart, but the combat area was here, and the source of the epidemic was really not completely eliminated in the first place, only the living soul was used as a medium, and it would be infected again, which he couldn't allow, so he could only eliminate all the existences that could be infected with the epidemic. He said in a low voice, "Could it be that in the Cloud Falcon Mountain, is the source of the epidemic?"

When Chu Hong and a group of more than ten people walked out of the smoke, they encountered a large number of armor soldiers, but after the strong killing of the three eighth-rank martial arts masters, no one could stop their footsteps, even the two martial artists who reached the seventh-stage were extremely powerless, if they hadn't chosen to retreat in time, I am afraid that under the joint efforts of Chu Hong, Huanziyu and Luohu, they would really lie down

Over here.

Chu Hong and the others hurriedly rushed towards the direction of the wooden gate, because considering that the seventh-stage martial artists who had just escaped had exposed their location, all their actions became extremely hurried, if they couldn't destroy the wooden gate before the arrival of the armor soldiers, so that the situation in this area could change, they would also be in a predicament.

Luo Hu looked at the tall Cloud Falcon Mountain, as if he had seen Meng Lang's figure, and said to himself in a low voice: "Wait, we will be here soon." ”

After arriving at the place where the wooden door described by Mu Ya may exist, they launched a search, Chu Hong shouted: "Everyone disperse, the wooden door should be under a tree, Mr. Mu Ya said, wood leads to water, wood is combined with soil, so it must meet the conditions that wood is born in soil and water, hurry up and find those trees to meet these conditions." ”

One of his subordinates said: "Commander, this condition is too general, you see that there is a mountain stream flowing down from the mountain, but there are no trees next to it, and the trees that grow on the flat ground have no water around, how can you find this?"

Chu Hong was stunned for a moment, and when he got closer, sure enough, as the person said before, it is difficult to achieve unity between the three conditions here, could it be that Mu Ya's description is wrong? Chu Hong took out the note left by Mu Ya and looked at it, and sure enough, he did not omit any important information, but he was also very confused at this time, how to constitute a wooden door.

Luo Hu said: "Will it not be necessary to meet this condition, or just be near the water, sound, and trees born on the land?"

Chu Hong said: "It's unlikely, this is too general, right? Let's continue to look ahead, follow this mountain stream, and if not, we will be able to find it." ”

After agreeing with each other, they led their soldiers to continue the search, and when they saw a tree with a trace of a wooden door, they cut it with a knife, resolutely not letting go of any scene that might be a wooden door. But after half a burnt of incense, everyone slowly came back to their senses, how vague the concept of this wooden door was, but Mu Ya did not explain that a tree served as a formation gate, and they cut down hundreds of trees like this, which did not work at all.

Huanziyu said: "The wooden door that Mu Ya said may not be a tree, I have also read the ancient books about the Qimen formation in the teaching, which introduces the composition conditions of the Qimen, although it can be controlled by qi, the scenery can be controlled by things, and the image can be created, but the common place of these Qimen is that it conforms to the form of the formation, so it can be used to control the heaven and earth. If it's just an ordinary tree, I'm afraid it wouldn't have this function, right?"

Luo Hu pondered for a long time and said: "What Miss Huan said is very effective, the direction we are looking for from the beginning may be wrong, the first thing we want to find is a formation gate, this gate may be camouflaged by trees, but it is by no means an ordinary tree." Secondly, what we need to do is to destroy the wooden door, not just find it, so as long as we destroy it, we can count it as a complete task, right?"

Chu Hong said: "You mean, as long as the conditions for the wooden door to form a formation are destroyed, we can find the wooden door?"

Luo Hu immediately said: "Since we must be sure that the wooden gate must be near the water and soil, and this mountain stream is the confluence of all conditions, we immediately go to the upper reaches of the mountain stream and redirect or cut it off, Mr. Mu Ya said that we can't completely destroy the formation here, so the formation itself will definitely choose to recover itself, and then we can find the wooden door." ”

Luo Hu and Chu Hong exchanged glances, and then took his soldiers to the upstream to deal with it, and the speed of several people intercepting the flow was extremely fast, and this mountain stream was already steep, and the runoff was quite small, so it was easy to intercept the flow. And Chu Hong, who was observing below, keenly observed that there was a faint pale green light emitting from a stone crevice, and the stream that had been diverted actually flowed down that road again, this kind of picture beyond common sense shocked Chu Hong and Huanziyu, but they did not forget the task because of this, they remembered Yu Zhaoxi's Yuanhua, which was such a color.

"Sure enough, it's Yuan Jie, the person who can construct this formation must be a strong person, the wooden door here is hidden, if you don't look carefully, even if it is located in front of you, it is very likely to lose the target. ”

But seeing Luohu rushing from afar, the White Tiger Tooth Knife was raised and slashed towards the stone that covered the wooden door, and the strong force of eight lead hit the stone wall again and again, and after more than a dozen knives in a row, the stone finally broke and fell into the stream, revealing the rather soft saplings in it.

"It turned out to be such a small sapling, there is some fertile black soil in this stone crevice, but because this narrow environment does not shine in the sun, so even after many years, this sapling will not grow, ensuring that the formation can continue to exist, if it is not a way to intercept the flow, I am afraid we will not find it." ”

Luo Hu sighed quite a lot, raised his hand and cut off the sapling, but the sapling shook a few times and avoided the direct impact of the big knife. Luo Hu was slightly surprised, and he plunged the knife directly into the land and dug out the sapling, only to see that the green light shrouded in the sapling flickered faintly, and then extinguished again.

At this moment, everyone Huo Ran felt a violent wind blowing towards them, directly blowing the bodies of several people a little crooked, and at the same time, the mountain peak that was being covered by fire on the side suddenly became violent, and the fire was spread by the wind towards the Cloud Falcon Mountain here, and in just a few breaths, there was a flame that continued over.

"Once the wind comes, the fire will start for 800 miles, and this mountain forest will be in trouble. ”