On the square, Songhuang walked to a place that was still a hundred feet away from Crocodile Zi and stood still, and the cunning Fei became more and more disdainful of Songhuang, and he was actually afraid to this extent, and he couldn't help but slander in his heart that such a formation master would actually look up to a guy like a coward, and his eyes were blind.

Songhuang didn't seem to have cunning in his eyes, and he didn't pay attention to her attitude even more, staring at Crocodile Zi and saying, "It's been a long time." ”

Crocodile Zi opened his eyes and looked at Songhuang, then stood up and patted the dust on his robe, and said indifferently: "Come on, it's still the same as back then, I'll let you strike first." ”

These words fell into the ears of the surrounding melon-eating people, some were angry, some were very admired, and some thought it was interesting, thinking that he had already made the first move by doing this, attacking the heart, in order to provoke Songhuang and make him mess up.

Songhuang didn't pay attention to him, but looked at Xun from a high place inquiringly, Xun stepped forward and said, "The envoy wants to assess the strength of our Tieshutang disciples, Songhuang, you can just take action." ”

Songhuang knew that this statement was not true, sighed, and asked in his heart, "It was my master who proposed it?"

Crocodile replied with only one word: "Yes." ”

Songhuang recalled that many years ago, Xun and he reviewed the three-move battle between him and Crocodile Zi, and at that time, Xun told him one by one about the joints, and he realized that the real gap between himself and Crocodile Zi was not only in combat ability, but also in planning.

The reason why Crocodile Zi let him take the lead back then was to consume his physical strength, and secondly, considering his cautious character and fear of himself, he would definitely want to use the safest method to defeat himself, and the most cautious way was to poison himself with mist, and at the same time put fog in a circle around the outer circle, so that he could not find his position, and he could quickly increase the range of mist.

The idea was good, but it was all expected by Crocodile, and then he deliberately waited until Songhuang was about to apply poison to the fog and jumped into the air, looking for Songhuang's location while restricting his movements, creating opportunities for himself to get close to and out of the fog.

After that, it was the on-the-spot play, and Songhuang, who did not have a natal object at that time, suffered a big loss, which led to the defeat of the final three moves.

Songhuang asked curiously, "What would you do if I hid in the fog after releasing a certain amount of fog at that time?"

Crocodile Zi said confidently: "No, because you are too kind, you think that it is unfair to me to set three moves, so what you thought at the time was not to survive the three moves, but to defeat me, if you hid in the fog at that time, I rushed out, do you stop me or not? Stop me is to give me a chance, don't stop me, I go outside, you can't help me." ”

Songhuang scratched his head, his thoughts at that time were indeed as Crocodile Zi said, it may seem ridiculous to others, he actually wanted to defeat Crocodile Zi, but he didn't think so, although the five people were at the bottom every time, but he never wanted to escape or be cowardly, every time he would think about how to win, of course the last battle with Crocodile Zi, but he didn't expect everything to be within Crocodile Zi's expectations, sure enough, he knew himself very well, but he would remember that he didn't know him well enough.

Songhuang breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "It turns out that this is the purpose of your three-trick appointment. ”

Crocodile Zi shook his head slightly and said, "Not all. ”

Hearing his words, Songhuang, who was originally a little relieved, suddenly tensed his nerves, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly when he saw this, and said, "It seems that you know another reason." ”

Songhuang Zhengse said: "I don't understand it halfway." ”

Crocodile Zi first made a sudden appearance, and then said: "I know that I am here to destroy your Dao, but I don't know why I want to damage your Dao?"

Songhuang nodded slightly, the curvature of the crocodile's mouth rose more and more, and the thumb of his left hand slightly pushed the sword out of the sheath, and said, "Because of the silk thorn." ”

Mr. Songhuang was stunned for a moment, then relieved, and said, "At that time, there were few people who didn't like her, and I thought you were one of them, just interested in cultivation. ”

Crocodile said: "I also looked for her the night before I left Tieshu Hall and asked her to go to Jingshang Hall with me, but she rejected me because she pitied you and felt that you needed her by her side more. ”

Songhuang frowned and denied: "She doesn't pity me. ”

Crocodile Zi sneered: "What is it that is not pity?"

Songhuang smiled and said, "I like it." ”

Crocodile Zi said disdainfully: "Like? Like a guy with low talent, weak strength, and uncertain future? Is she stupid or crazy?"

Songhuang said firmly: "Then you have to ask her, but I know that she really likes me, I have known it before, but as you said, I didn't have the ability to love someone at that time, but now, I have." ”

Crocodile's eyes became cold, and he said, "No, you will soon be gone." ”

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The Heavy-billed Squirrel's habitat is called 'Misty Pine Forest', and it is a place where the fog does not disperse all day long, and the visual range is very limited, as if the Heavy-billed Squirrel is in the natural holy art of the Heavy-billed Squirrel all the time.

The forest is made up of two types of pine trees, one is the water pine and the other is the fire pine.

The pine is short, but the roots are very long, inserted deep into the ground, absorb the water from the ground and then emit a large amount of water vapor through the leaves, making the air moist;

Deep in the misty pine forest, Fire Silk Blossom and another Santang disciple had just left the main city of the Heavy-billed Squirrel, and their mission this time was to procure items.

The tasks of the Iron Tree Hall are divided into three kinds, the first is the exclusive task of each hall, only the inner hall disciples of each hall can take it; the second is the delegation task, only the hall master has the authority to delegate the task, and it cannot be refused, the task of Ming Xi and others is this type; the last is the free task, the disciples of any hall can take it, it can be completed by one person or many people, and it is distributed at will in private, without too many restrictions, as long as it is completed within a time limit.

The task of the fire silk red this time is not very difficult, just come to the main city of the heavy squirrel to buy some items, which belongs to the first type of task, because Santang is responsible for the logistics and finance of Tieshutang, so this kind of task is an exclusive task of Santang.

The man who followed behind the fire silk star was named Toad Bin, although he looked like he was in his early thirties, but his actual age was even older, he had only been in the third hall for a short time, so this was his first time out of the three halls of the mission, it was inevitable that he was a little nervous and questioned, and he was just watching from the side throughout the whole process, not daring to speak casually, and he was very satisfied with the fire silk red.

Toad Bin endured it for a long time, and now that he was out of the city, he finally had a chance to ask, "Senior sister, why don't we ask for things in Tieshutang and don't just let them pay tribute, and we have to spend money to buy them." ”

Don't look at Toad Bin is already fifty or sixty years old, but he has been cultivating in the Outer Hall since he was selected into the Iron Tree Hall at the age of ten, so he is not very clear about these people's feelings.

Huo Silk replied with a smile: "We, the Iron Tree Hall, have signed a contract with the Nine Great Forces, and the things we pay every year are fixed, and they will not be changed at will unless they have to. ”

Toad Bin asked, "Then why not a little more at once?"

Huo Silk continued to reply: "After all, it is true that the nine major forces are attached to us, but we also need them, if we want too much, it will not only cause their dissatisfaction, but also affect their development, which will lead to drying up and fishing, and then being slightly provoked by other hostile forces, it will turn against our Tieshutang." ”

Toad Bin suddenly thought that he was too simple, thinking that as long as he had a big fist, others would have to hand over things honestly.

Suddenly, the corners of the fire silk ott's mouth cracked, as if he thought of something happy, and Toad Bin asked, "Senior sister, do you want to loosen up Senior Brother?"

Huo Silk Hao nodded shyly, she brought Songhuang his favorite pine cone to eat this mission, and she felt very happy when she thought that he was content to eat pine cones.

Toad Bin asked curiously, "Senior Sister, why do you like Senior Brother Songhuang?"

Huo Silk was silent for a while, recalling the time when he was first selected into the Iron Tree Hall, at that time, the Iron Tree Hall was not like now, and the talented disciples could directly skip the selection and become the disciples of the Iron Tree Hall, the reason why there was this special regulation later was because of the Crocodile Zi, and the Iron Tree Hall was afraid of missing a talent like the Crocodile Zi again, so he directly entered the inner hall for training, so that there was a kindness to him, even if Jing Shangtang wanted to poach people again, they also had a certain chance to keep that person.

It was precisely because there were no such special rules at that time, so she and Minglu and Xilan were outer disciples on the same floor as Crocodile Zi, and at the same time, only the four of them passed the selection that year, and the number was not large, and the relationship at the beginning was the same as the other buildings were rivals competing with each other, but after a while, they gradually became friends.

At that time, Songhuang was a native of Tieshutang's outer hall disciples, and the four of them originally had nothing to do with Songhuang, but in a dispute and fight between foreign disciples and local disciples, they became acquainted with Songhuang.

At that time, Songhuang was already an orphan, and his parents died because of the mission, so he was often bullied and excluded among the local disciples, but in that dispute, he was the only neutral person, when the two gangs fought together, Songhuang hid on the periphery, secretly creating smoke, and when everyone found out, it was already foggy everywhere, and he couldn't distinguish between himself and the enemy, so he had to separate from each other, and finally this one did not get out of control, attracting the masters of the six halls.

Afterwards, people on both sides wanted to find out the nosy guy and clean it up, but after all, there were a lot of heavy-mouthed squirrels, and there were no clues, so it was very difficult to find;

After that, the matter was over, but when Songhuang thought he was dodging, Crocodile Zi took the fire silk thorn, Ming Law, The three of them found him, and Crocodile Zi was very sure that the fog at that time was put by Songhuang, because he saw it with his own eyes, although the crowd was very chaotic at that time, but Crocodile Zi still found him sneaky, because he thought that Songhuang was going to sneak attack people, so he was always on guard, but he didn't expect Songhuang to just wander around the periphery from beginning to end, and at the same time spit out the fog from his mouth, he originally wanted to remind the people on his side, but he suddenly figured out Songhuang's intention before opening his mouth, so he didn't open his mouth at the time, and he didn't raise him afterwards, which surprised Songhuang.

The reason given by Crocodile Zi was curiosity, curious why Songhuang did that, anyway, when the situation got out of control, the masters of Liutang would stop it, so why should he meddle.

Song Huang's answer at that time was: "I just don't want to see the same sect cannibalism, whether it is a selected or a native disciple of the outer hall, they are all brothers of the same sect, and in my opinion, there is no difference." ”

These words made the four crocodiles feel the same way, and they didn't know why the outer hall was divided into two forces and then hurt each other.

After this conversation, the five became friends and often got together to learn and chat.

Huo Silk Blossom remembered that once at night, Songhuang took the four of them to sneak out of the Iron Tree Hall and go to the ground, which was originally not allowed, because the leaves of the Iron Tree were like hidden weapons from time to time, and they would be injured or even killed if they were not careful, so the outer hall disciples could never go to the ground unless they were led by the inner hall disciples.

However, Songhuang obviously has a way to deal with it, and after his father died, he left him a piece of his natal object, which is a spherical earthy yellow object that looks a little like a sponge, and if you squeeze it hard, it will emit an earthy yellow mist from it, enveloping Songhuang, so he is not afraid of falling leaves.

He often sneaked in and out of the Iron Tree Hall through this father's natal object, and used the collected iron tree branches to build a secret base on a tall iron tree that had already died, and from the bottom it would be blocked by other iron tree branches and leaves, so it was not easy to find the small house above.

That night, he took the four of them to his secret base, lying on it and looking at the stars in the sky, blowing the evening breeze, breathing fresh air, very comfortable.

At that time, the five of them chatted and chatted about which hall they wanted to enter in the future, Huo Silk Hung remembered that he said that he wanted to enter the sixth hall and become the master of the outer hall to cultivate the next generation; Xilan wanted to enter the second hall and become a man who defended the second hall; Minglu wanted to enter the fourth hall and become the person who supervised it; crocodile Zi wanted to enter the first hall, become the master of the first hall, and lead the iron tree hall to a higher place; originally Songhuang also said that he wanted to enter the first hall, but after hearing the lofty ideals of the crocodile Zi, he smiled and changed his words:" In that case, then I'll not go to the first class, I won't be able to snatch the crocodile anyway. ”

After thinking for a while, he continued: "I might as well go to the Third Hall, Crocodile Zi is responsible for leading us, Xilan is responsible for expanding the territory, Minglu is responsible for internal worries and hidden dangers, Silk Tree is responsible for the cultivation of the next generation, and I, I am responsible for logistics support, and then Tieshutang will definitely become more and more powerful in the hands of the five of us." ”

The more Songhuang talked at that time, the more excited he became, and the fire silk star quietly watched him describe the blueprint of the future with high spirits, and something sprouted in his heart.

Later, Minglu and Xilan were infected by his emotions and joined in, but Crocodile Zi looked at the sky alone.

At this time, Toad Bin had to call to pull the fire silk thorn back from his memory, and Toad Bin asked with concern, "Senior sister, are you okay?"

The Fire Silk Frog shook his head and smiled and gave the answer to the previous question: "Because, like." ”

I like his optimism, I like his indomitability, I like his ambition, I like his sense of justice, I like everything about him.