In the eighteenth episode (middle), the assassin moved the tiger away from the mountain to save the general's daughter Jin Cicada from her shell

Sun Qiyun looked Shi Nianyuan up and down again, and then said, "Senior brother, you come with me." With that, he turned around and walked into the warehouse door, and Shi Nianyuan followed him inexplicably.

The ship seemed to be mainly freight, not to mention the wide door, and there were only two rows of crowded mounts clinging to the walls of the warehouse on both sides, leaving a spacious area in the center with wooden carts and square wooden boxes.

Shi Nianyuan rubbed the Sumeru ring without revealing a trace, although there was only three feet and three inches of space in the Sumeru ring, it was enough for Shi Nianyuan to store a lot of things. Thinking of this, a kind face appeared in Shi Nianyuan's mind.

"Senior brother, senior brother!" Sun Qiyun's call pulled Shi Nianyuan's distant thoughts back.

"Sorry, distracted. Shi Nianyuan smiled and looked at Sun Qiyun, who was walking out of the driver's cab.

Sun Qiyun was holding a uniform from the foot of the Burning Sun Mountain in his hand, and said while handing it to Shi Nianyuan: "Senior brother, this is my clothes, you and I are in similar figures, so they should fit." If the senior brother doesn't dislike it, let's put it on first. ”

In fact, in the Sumeru Ring, Shi Nianyuan still has a lot of clean clothes, but Shi Nianyuan did not refuse the kindness of the foreign affairs disciple in front of him, stretched out his hand to take it, and said, "Thank you." ”

Sun Qiyun pointed towards the tail of the spirit boat: "There is a bathroom on this spirit boat, senior brother go in and change it." ”

After Sun Qiyun finished speaking, he looked at the group of male and female foreign affairs disciples who had already begun to load the boxes into the car and said, "I'm also going to get busy." ”

Shi Nianyuan nodded and walked towards the tail of the boat.

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When Shi Nianyuan came out of the bathroom again, a female foreign affairs disciple covered her mouth and let out a soft call, causing all the male and female foreign affairs disciples to turn their eyes to Shi Nianyuan.

It's not that Shi Nianyuan is really so handsome and dignified, so that he has his own appearance and aura, it's just that Shi Nianyuan's savage appearance just now is really difficult to see, and after some grooming, the contrast with the previous one is particularly stark.

"I'll help you with it. Shi Nianyuan changed into Sun Qiyun's uniform, compared with the uniform of the inner disciples, in fact, it was just the word "foreign affairs" under the three words of Lieyang Courtyard on his chest.

Of course, for a foreign affairs disciple like Sun Qiyun, these two words are really difficult to surpass.

This group of foreign affairs disciples is about twenty years old, only Sun Qiyun is slightly older, he looks like he is twenty-six or seventeen, his cultivation is in the Gnosis Realm, and the grades are the same, all of them are like Sun Qiyun, trapped in the Gnosis Realm, suffering from the inability to form a spiritual power circuit, breaking the mirror and dust, as for the difficulties and hardships, eating Ruohu tofu in the Nameless Valley of Shuiyue Cave, and the young master Shi who broke through the realm is not particularly understanding.

It's probably like a top student in the class who is a good student, and can't understand why those poor students can't even do such a simple question?

In the mist formation, Shi Nianyuan was pushing a trolley full of wooden boxes and was talking to a thin man named Yu Wenze who was walking empty-handed next to him.

Yu Wenze's tone is always habitually mixed with inferiority complex and helplessness: "In Guanpu City, the people respect the disciples at the foot of the Lieyang Mountain very much, in the eyes of mortals, we are the so-called immortal chiefs, but we know that the immortal road is ethereal, it is difficult to find its traces, I am afraid that we will not be able to really get a glimpse of the corner of the avenue throughout our lives." ”

Shi Nianyuan was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Do you think it's fun to seek the Tao?"

Yu Wenze was stunned for a moment because of Shi Nianyuan's sudden wording, and then shook his head: "I was born in Zhenjiang County, Nanhe County, and my family is ordinary, not rich, but I don't worry about food and clothing. One day, when I was returning home from school, I happened to meet the Sun Envoy preaching, and the crowd gathered around several times, and out of curiosity, I also crowded into the crowd to listen, and then I was deeply intrigued. Which teenager doesn't dream of immortals? Which teenager doesn't want to fly with the sword and enjoy the rivers and lakes? Or even live forever and live with the sky?" Yu Wenze smiled self-deprecatingly: "At that time, I didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick and the fairy road was ethereal, and in the next few days, I would run to listen to the preaching of the Sun Envoy every day after school, but I didn't expect that on the seventh day, I took a spin. Lieyang gave me a jade slip to guide me, and told me to take the jade slip to the foot of Lieyang Mountain, and I would have the opportunity to really set foot in the fairy road. If I have obtained the treasure, I am afraid of falling while holding the jade slip, and I am afraid of melting. When I got home, I mentioned it to my parents, and they were very happy for me, since I was a child, they have always supported me, so I came to the foot of Lieyang Mountain. ”

What happened later was not far from what Shi Nianyuan thought. Yu Wenze traveled thousands of miles, trekked through mountains and rivers, from Nanhe County in the southeast of the empire to Shaxi County in the northwest, entered the foothills of Lieyang Mountain, and successfully passed the Lieyang Trial, but after three years of practice, he had no choice but to become a mediocre one in the big waves and sand, and he couldn't continue to study under the Lieyang Temple, because he didn't want to give up the fairy road, he chose to move to Qinglanfeng to become a disciple of foreign affairs, and then continued to practice hard, wanting to seize the opportunity that I don't know if it will appear, and looking forward to the miracle that I don't know if it will happen.

This kind of thing is a low-probability random event, and it is not directly related to talent, so like Yu Wenze, who can rotate when he listens to the sermon, and his talent is actually mediocre, there are many monks like Jiang Carp. Among the monks, the number of innate enlightenment is relatively large, entirely because of the innate enlightenment, which can promote ordinary people to set foot in the immortal path with a high probability. For example, Lingxizi, the younger junior disciple of one of the seven elders of the Tianshan Mountains under the Xuanya Throne, has cultivated from a mortal fetus to the top of the otherworldly in less than half a hundred years since he set foot in the Immortal Dao. For thousands of years, I really don't know how many immortal geniuses have been buried because they can't innate enlightenment.

However, a monk like Yu Wenze is not completely hopeless. Also among the Seven Elders of the Tianshan Mountains, Gu Quanzi, the fifth elder who is good at caring for Yaoqin, has served as a foreign affairs disciple in Qinglan Peak for more than 100 years, and has been trapped in the Great Perfection of the Dust Realm for more than 80 years. Gu Quanzi was on Qinglan Peak, day after day, year after year, hard refining the spiritual power of heaven and earth, concentrating on studying and building spiritual power circuits, it was too tired, so he took Yaoqin to Qinglan Pavilion to stroke the qin to relax, but he didn't expect to stroke the qin for more than a hundred years, and suddenly one day, when Gu Quanzi was concentrating on stroking the qin, he stroked out a wave of spiritual power fluctuations in heaven and earth, and the spiritual power circuit curled up into the dantian qi sea and condensed into Yuan Dan. After playing the song, Gu Quanzi inexplicably broke through to the Ning Yuan Realm, and then directly worshiped under the Xuanya Sect, and cultivated all the way to the Great Perfection of the Transcendent Realm.

"Seeking the Tao is not only unhappy for me, but also tormenting, but I am still stubbornly unwilling to give up......," Yu Wenze concluded.

"Actually, I have only recently started thinking about this question, seeking the Tao, happy?" Shi Nianyuan thought of a delicate porcelain doll, and continued: "I have a friend, she told me a word......" Shi Nianyuan paused, did not say it directly, but asked again: "When you stepped on the Immortal Dao, you were happy, happy, and happy, right? Because you saw the incomparably charming picture of the Dao. ”

Yu Wenze's face showed a look of reminiscence: "Yes...... At that time yes......"

Shi Nianyuan continued: "Since you were so happy then, why aren't you happy now?"

"Of course, it's because the fairy road is ethereal and can't move forward. Yu Wenze didn't have to think about it at all, and answered Shi Nianyuan's question effortlessly.

"But you were seeking the Word then, and you are still seeking the Word. Isn't it?" Shi Nianyuan asked rhetorically.

"Yes...... No......" Yu Wenze's eyes lowered, and his tone was even more helpless: "It's different...... You just haven't experienced that kind of pain of cultivating an inch...... When you get there, you will be the same as us......" Yu Wenze said this, stunned: "I'm sorry...... Brother...... I didn't mean that......"

"It's fine. Shi Nianyuan waved his hand, and he didn't have the heart to continue.

At that time, I decided to go to Tianshan with the old Taoist priest Zhao Qianzi for the hexagram that "the road can be traced". However, on the way to the foothills of the Lieyang Mountain, I realized the spiritual consciousness and the birth of spiritual consciousness in the first line of heaven, and I felt the spiritual power that wandered all over the heaven and earth, the joy, the curiosity, and the feeling of wanting to find out, which was more like my original intention to seek the Tao than a simple "way to follow...... This world is knowable, this world is analyzable, this world can give me the answer - "the road can be traced", this world can be long-lived!

The true self is the same, and the original intention is not easy.

Only the living can smell the avenue.

I want to explore all this, I want to find out what the underlying logic is of the mysterious and mysterious truths in the jade slips of my predecessors, I want to understand how long a second in this world is, and what is the difference between it and my previous life, and I want to know why the physical phenomena of the two worlds in the past and this life are so highly consistent, but there is such a difference in spiritual power...... This is my joy in seeking the truth.

If there really is a day when I am trapped in a certain realm and cannot move an inch, will I become so depressed?

"Senior brother—"

"Uh...... Sorry, I'm distracted today. ”

Yu Wenze saw that Shi Nianyuan was distracted, and almost pushed the trolley down the cliff next to the road, and hurriedly reminded him.

"Senior brother, are you tired? Yu Wenze walked over and took over the trolley, Shi Nianyuan was happy and relaxed, but there was no hypocrisy.

Unlike Shi Nianyuan, a monk who knows himself as an explosive household, monks like Yu Wenze and Sun Qiyun have limited spiritual power from heaven and earth refined every day, and there is always a loss of spiritual power during the operation of Zhou Tian, and the use of spiritual power on weekdays is very stingy, and they will never use it without using spiritual power, and work completely with physical strength.

As for why Shi Nianyuan is an outbreak? There is no shortage of spirit stones in the Sumeru ring, there is a spirit gathering magic array in the cave, and in recent days, he has stayed in the Shuiyue Cave Heaven with extremely rich spiritual power, and Ruohu is even in a place where Shi Nianyuan can't even detect it, and silently assists him in refining the spiritual power of heaven and earth through the blood contract soul seal.

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"Plug the south of the Yangtze River, Guanpu City. "On the hills, a white shirt overlooks Guanpu City, which is different from the white shirt on the first male of the empire in the northern regions, this white shirt is not elegant, it is a strong suit with sleeves, waist, and ankles, women's short hair and shoulders are scattered, and under the bangs, a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle falcon exudes a sassy heroic spirit.

Guanpu City is located in the basin, the Yellow River, one of the two mother rivers of the Thunder Empire, is surging and rushing around Guanpu City, the predecessors built canals, diverted the water of the Yellow River for irrigation, resulting in the development of agriculture and animal husbandry in Guanpu County, numerous lakes, continuous wetlands, beautiful scenery, like a bright pearl in the desolate Saibei, harvesting countless psalms of literati and ink writers, in these poems, Daduxi will compare Guanpu County with Yuhang County, Suhang County, Jiangnan Prefecture, which has the reputation of "Jiangnan Water Town", so it has the reputation of "plugging the Jiangnan".

"When I arrived at Guanpu City, it was not far from the foothills of Lieyang Mountain. Murong Shan used his spiritual power, his steps were light, his steps were like flying, and he quickly swept towards Guanpu City.

Because Guanpu City is located in a basin and surrounded by mountains, blocking the cold current from the North Gate Tianguan, it is obviously a deep winter, but the temperature is relatively warm.

Guanpu City, outside the west gate, the moat is very wide. Since Ming Lei III ascended the throne, the world is stable, except for the border, the war is not prosperous, therefore, the Guanpu City suspension bridge will not be troubled except for necessary maintenance. On the suspension bridge, there is an endless stream of business travelers, which is thriving.

"Although I haven't been to Yuhang, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, this Guanpu City is really worthy of those thousands of hymns. "Shi Nianyuan has seen a lot of beautiful scenery along the way, and now he has finally arrived in Guanpu City, and he does not hesitate to praise. Feeling the little fox moving on his head, Shi Nianyuan reached out and hugged the little fox down, and added, "Right? Little fox." ”

Just woke up, the ignorant snow-white little fox raised his little paw and wiped his face, without saying anything to Shi Nianyuan, he climbed back to the top of Shi Nianyuan's head in three or two steps and slept quietly again.

I don't know if it's real or fake...... When it's just the two of us, we snore and don't snore when there are so many people......

Shi Nianyuan muttered in his heart.

Sun Qiyun, who was beside him, turned his head a little surprised and said, "Senior brother, this demon beast on your head turned out to be alive......?"

Shi Nianyuan snorted and laughed: "You didn't say that I haven't found it yet, it's really like a fox attack hat." ”

As Sun Qiyun said, the people of Guanpu City did respect the disciples at the foot of Lieyang Mountain, and when they saw the arrival of Shi Nianyuan and his party wearing the immortal chief in the moon-white uniform, they all consciously got out of the way, and even many people would stop and say, "Good immortal!"

"Although the Yellow River is the mother river of the empire, but, as contained in the Tao Te Ching, heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. In the "Historical Records", there are countless records about the flooding of the Yellow River, and the most famous one is a record of the flood in Guanpu County - when the Yellow River was furious, the flood was monstrous, the embankment was burst, the buildings and fields were flooded, the mourning was all over the wilderness, and the people were not able to make a living. Sun Qiyun's eyes showed endless admiration: "Helping the people in danger, saving the people from fire and water, and breaking the rivers with a sword, what a great flow!"

Shi Nianyuan nodded sincerely: "My generation of monks should be like this!"

In the sky, suddenly a large dark cloud drifted in, and the sky was dark. Shi Nianyuan was puzzled: "It's winter, is it going to rain again?"

At the same time, Guanpu City, in the alleys.

The man stretched out his tongue and licked his crimson lips, the slender sword in his hand was pulled out of a beggar corpse in front of him, the murder weapon was too slender and sharp, not stained with half a drop of blood, the man's eyes were red, and his tone was full of inexplicable excitement and expectation: "I can't suppress the killing intent in my heart at all...... Daughter of General Dingyuan...... Hey ......"

Shaxi County, plugged into Jiangnan Guanpu City, the city lord's mansion.

Guan Pu City Lord Xie Junting stood in the back/courtyard corridor of the City Lord's Mansion, looking up at the sky, and a gust of wind struck, sweeping away the few dead leaves that were hanging on a peach tree in front of him.

The maid behind her draped the attack on Xie Junting: "Master, the wind is strong, be careful of catching a cold." ”

Xie Junting pulled the attack: "Today, a distinguished guest is coming from afar, you say, in this winter season, why is it suddenly like a rainstorm is about to fall?"

In addition to knowing how to serve her master and wife with all her heart, how do you know what mountain rain is coming: "The slave and maid don't know." ”

A middle-aged man dressed as a scribe hurriedly stepped on the corridor, the floor slab clanged, and the scribe came behind Xie Junting. When the maid saw the arrival of the chief staff of the City Lord's Mansion, she consciously asked to resign.

"City Lord, Fang Cai, the patrol soldier found a corpse again in Plum Lane, it was a beggar. Master said.

Xie Junting frowned and asked, "That person did it again?"

The master responded: "After an autopsy, like the first two deceased, he was killed by the murderer by piercing the heart with an extremely small and sharp weapon, and the deceased's expression was normal, and he was also attacked and killed by the murderer without realizing it, and he died before he could react. ”

"Master, you are a scholar, maybe you don't understand, killing people, it's really not that easy to kill......" Xie Junting muttered: "Three days ago, one person was killed in one day, and the deceased were businessmen, courtesans, and soldiers...... Is it simply killing for the sake of killing? The fatal wound like art, the death of the dead without the slightest struggle, this kind of means...... Xiyuan ...... Funeral Palace?"

On the side of the streets and alleys of Guanpu City, merchants and traders couldn't help but curse today's strange weather when they saw the drastic change in the weather. The wind was howling, the wind was whining, and some of the inferior umbrella sheds that had just been erected were blown over by the strong wind and smashed on the nearby stalls.

Walking on the streets of Guanpu City, Murong Shan, who had developed a habit in the ranks, had firm steps and equal steps.

Black clouds crush the city.

A bolt of lightning fell from the dark clouds, and a brief light illuminated the gloomy alley, and under this light, the filth of the alley could no longer be hidden, or rather, people could no longer pretend to be blind.

So, is it possible to say that this light is guilty?

A continuous muffled thunder dragged out a deafening roar, and a silver spear suddenly appeared in Murong Shan's hand, and another lightning snaked down, illuminating Murong Shan's messy fluttering bangs, eagle-like sharp eyes.

Wow –

The downpour was like a river pouring down from the sky, and in an instant it came madly, the dark sky seemed to collapse, and the wind swept the torrential rain, like countless whips beating the eaves, walls, and bluestone slabs...... Many fruits and vegetables were ruthlessly abandoned by their owners, scattered on both sides of the alleys, and the streets became empty in a very short time, and the doors and windows of the houses on both sides were tightly covered. All of a sudden, the heaven and earth that seemed incomparably lonely were completely in the rain, and the rain connecting the heavens and the earth was like an endless curtain, opening a decisive curtain drama.

At the end of the lonely street, a man walked with an umbrella.

Feeling that the murderous machine that had been accompanying him disappeared, Murong Shan exhaled lightly.

Xie Junting walked towards Murong Shan, and the distance was getting closer, and the city lord of Guanpu smiled and said: "Niece, the last time I saw you in He'ancheng, you were still a little girl chasing dog cubs in the courtyard, uncle wanted to hug you, you just didn't let you cry and make trouble, you have been separated for more than ten years, and you have become a big girl, fortunately, there are still many things you looked like back then, and your uncle can recognize you at a glance." ”

"Uncle Xie, don't come unharmed. I've been naughty since I was a child, and now it's even worse, my mother has scolded me a lot, saying that my girl's family doesn't learn to be a girl, and I have to learn this thing. Murong Shan held a silver spear and danced a spear flower casually, and closed it to his back with his backhand.

Xie Junting was born in the military camp, and when he saw Murong Shan's dancing spear flower, his pupils shrank imperceptibly: "The sky is not beautiful, in winter, somehow, there was such a big thunderstorm suddenly, and he could only protect his head and face with an umbrella." Good niece, come home with your uncle, look at you, it's all wet, when you get home, ask your uncle and aunt to find you a clean dress to change into, don't catch a cold. ”

"Thank you uncle, then the niece will be respectful and obedient. Murong Shan replied with a fist.

"Hey-" Xie Junting waved his hand and walked towards Murong Shan, the umbrella was slightly tilted, covering Murong Shan's head: "What is polite to uncle, let's go and talk about it when we go home." ”

A group of men and women in moon-white uniforms quickly pushed the cart around the street.

"It's damn damn, what the hell is this weather, this is stuffed in Jiangnan, why can't you even find a place to shelter from the rain. First, a teenager complained as he pushed the cart.

"Senior brother, Saibei is dry, such thunderstorms are rare, and most of the eaves in Saibei will not stick out of the roof wall too much. A young man who followed responded by pulling the wind-blown tarpaulin on the trolley.

"Mother, this ghost doesn't go home to avoid the rain, and is still playing here in the deep rain, is it so romantic?" Turning the alley, Shi Nianyuan saw two people standing in the middle of the street in front of him, complaining while bypassing the road.

Under the cover of the oil-paper umbrella, from Shi Nianyuan's perspective, a man and a woman in front of him really looked like a couple snuggling together.

"Huh?" Shi Nianyuan felt the dragon pattern jade pendant on his chest suddenly burn, and was startled, this half of the dragon pattern jade pendant had never been abnormal before, if it weren't for Poria cocos, Shi Nianyuan wouldn't know that this half of the dragon pattern jade pendant was still from the talisman spirit treasure of the Northern Desert Yihuang Temple, if it weren't for Ruohu, Shi Nianyuan wouldn't know that this half of the dragon pattern jade pendant would automatically stimulate the protector when the owner was in danger, as for what it looked like when it was excited, Shi Nianyuan didn't know.

"Huh?" Murong Shan, who had the same feeling, was puzzled, and Xie Junting couldn't help asking, "Niece, what's wrong?"

"It's all right, uncle. Murong Shan replied as she turned her gaze to the group of moon-white uniformed men and women who appeared from the street entrance and drove quickly towards a cart full of wooden boxes.

"Oh, disciple of the foothills of the Burning Sun Mountain. Xie Junting also cast his gaze over, raised the oil-paper umbrella in his hand upward, and showed his face: "Immortal elders, Xie Junting, the lord of Guanpu City, sincerely invites you to take shelter from the rain and rest in the house. ”

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Shi Nianyuan and a group of Qinglan Peak foreign affairs disciples followed behind Xie Junting and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion together, on the top of Shi Nianyuan's head, the snow-white little fox with wet hair half-opened his eyes and woke up, glancing at the rain curtain behind everyone.

When everyone turned the alley, in the rain curtain of the street, a small piece of rain outlined a human figure, as if there was a transparent person standing there, and the rain hit his body, and then catapulted in all directions.

"Tomorrow and tomorrow will be beautiful...... Xie Junting, nosy...... As...... Kill together?" the transparent figure gradually appeared, he was dressed in black, holding an extremely slender short sword, licked his crimson lips, and continued: "However, a first-grade martial artist is not easy to kill...... Moreover, the disciples at the foot of the Lieyang Mountain ......"

Qin Mo narrowed his eyes and disappeared in the endless rain curtain again.