Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three days later.

Nangong Xun came back, his face was not very good, obviously he went to the county town this time and got bad news.

The clan meeting was held, so suddenly, but at this juncture, Mr. will leave, go north in advance, the Xiaoyunguan bandits are ready to move again, and all the elders and deacons in the mountain villa feel that this time the clan meeting is so reasonable.

Nangong Zhan sat in the main seat, the pale-faced Nangong Xun sat in the first seat on the left, the elders of the Law Enforcement Hall on the right, and the rest of the main backbones of the family sat in turn.

As the door of the hall where the clan meeting was held slammed shut and the formation activated, it became a world of its own, isolated from the outside.

Nangong Zhan got up, walked to the middle of the hall, raised his hand, and countless points of light converged together, forming a topographic map in front of him, a mountain shrouded in thick dark clouds was the most abrupt, and a Xiongguan lying quietly in front of Qingshan Gorge, the only passage between Cangzhou and Yuezhou, was even more solemn.

Yin Mountain, the leylines are intertwined, gathered and chaotic, yin is rampant, hundreds of years have been abandoned, until a hundred years ago, a group of bandits into the master, since then, Xiaoyun Pass has been troubled for thousands of miles, and the Taiping border created by hundreds of years of painstaking efforts in successive dynasties has such a piece of chaos.

Xiaoyun Pass guards Qingshan Gorge, is valued by the imperial court, is the first pass in Cangzhou, there are 500 flying boats on it, there are 100 zhang city walls below, and the guard general Ye Xun is the first general in Cangzhou.

There is a group of rats chirping around the dignified Cangzhou No. 1 Xiongguan, and the old general who is old but still in good health is naturally angry, but so what?

On this day, the morning sun is rising, and the shadow of Xiongguan extends to the Qingshan Gorge in the west, until it is far away, and you can vaguely see the figures of people walking around, like small black dots.

There are 200 flying boats patrolling in the clouds every day, and each flying boat is equipped with 60 people, with silver armor and white robes and heavenly halberds, and they are heroic. These people are the masters of war, all of them are monks who can fly in the air, and the warriors on the ground can only be cannon fodder for turf, but the role of cannon fodder is undeniable.

The old general took off his armor, sat down at the head of the city, and waved his hand to signal that the patrolling soldiers did not need to salute, but only patrolled.

He was followed by a young man in Tsing Yi, in his twenties, the youth faded, the stubble remained, his eyes were clear, and he was full of spirit.

The young man had been here for more than three days to ask for troops, but the old general had been hanging him out until today, and only today did he give an ambiguous answer - to think in the long run.

The old general looked at the mountains in the west, took a sip of old wine, then looked in the direction of Yin Mountain, and said, "Do you know why you want to think about it in the long run?"

The young man bowed his head slightly and said respectfully: "The juniors don't know. ”

"In my eyes, the Yinshan bandits are all idiots, a group of outlaws who don't know whether they are alive or dead, doing those unsightly things in front of the general Xiaoyun Pass, and they can only dare to do things behind their backs, targeting the mines against Yunmeng...... Nothing. ”

The young man didn't dare to agree, so he said softly: "General, those bandits naturally can't get into your eyes, but they stay in Yinshan, and they are always a scourge, and over the years, Xiaoyun Pass's reputation has also ......."

The old general waved his hand to interrupt, as if he didn't want to hear this piercing words, and spit out a mouthful of old wine down the city wall, "Even if everyone in the world thinks that I can't pass the clouds but a paper tiger, so what, even if his Yue Dynasty sends millions of troops, how many people can climb this city wall? How many people can cross my 30,000 soldiers in the clouds?"

He spat a few mouthfuls and said, "Damn, I'm afraid it's not fake wine, it doesn't taste at all, that old guy must have mixed with water." ”

He looked back at the young man and said, "The first thirteen times, I didn't go, I just asked my subordinate generals to lead hundreds of people to cooperate with the Yunmeng Mansion soldiers to wipe them out in half a month, and the fourteenth and fifteenth generals only went, do you know why?"

"The younger generation doesn't know. ”

"The bandits have been completely exterminated almost every time, but why have they resurfaced every time? The people have been happy on the border for a hundred years, where did the outlaws come from? Cangzhou has always been extremely restrictive to the disciples of the major sects, and no one dares to muddy the waters, so where did these people come from? How did they come here? How did they get together?"

The young man was embarrassed and said, "Indeed, no one has thought about this problem for a hundred years. ”

"There may be a big hand behind this, controlling everything, starting a hundred years ago, just...... It's too hidden. This time, Ben will discuss with your master that he wants to let them go first, take his time, and pull out this black hand, so we have to think about it in the long run. ”

The old general stood up, raised his hand, and said, "We don't know what he wants, but everything is faintly related to one place." ”

"Where?"

"Tibetan Sword Mountain. ”

The young man was taken aback.

The old general then added: "Of course, this is only one of the guesses. ”

What the young man got was to spin around slowly, waiting for the black hand to appear. So it didn't take long for him to retire, and the old general looked at Zangjian Mountain, squinted slightly, and muttered: "However, this is the one I most admire. ”

......

......

At the clan meeting, Nangong Zhan said calmly: "There is the only spiritual mine in Yun County near Xiaoyun Pass, since it is mined by Yunmeng, it naturally cannot live up to the expectations of the imperial court, and the resurgent bandits want to obtain resources, and the first thing is the spiritual mine, so next, we have to form a team again, but ...... I don't want the tragedy of Nangong Ying to happen again, my Tibetan Sword Villa is weak in the Mesozoic Era, and the young people can't have any more losses, so the villa must have a deacon to follow. ”

"Yes. ”

The clan meeting ended, and Nangong Zhan stopped Nangong Xun.

"What are you doing?" Nangong asked.

Nangong Zhan sat down, waved his hand to signal him to sit down as well, and then said, "Do you believe the path your apprentice said?"

"Naturally, also, don't ask me that, it's you who don't believe me. ”

"No way, it's hard for me to imagine a teenager who survives that kind of road...... No, kid, it's going to be like Yiyang. If, I mean, if there is such a way, then the people who survive are the ones who are mad. ”

Nangong Xun was a little impatient, so he said directly: "What are you going to say?"

"At this meeting, someone raised a question. Nangong Zhan waved his hand, and the topographic map changed for a while, and when it took shape again, it was the Tibetan Sword Villa and the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in its north.

He pointed to humanity and said: "This road, some people are particularly curious, why in such a chaotic place as Entropy Prefecture, no mad person has come out of this road for a hundred years. Could it be that those people in Entropy Prefecture miss their hometown so much?"

"Perhaps, the Yinshan bandits are from Entropy State...... This is the only reasonable explanation for the origin of the Yinshan bandits. ”

"But how did they come to Yinshan? Entropy Prefecture to Cangzhou is tens of thousands of miles, Cangshan is no better than others, this is a demon country, people enter thousands of miles is out of bounds, even if I don't dare to enter indiscriminately. ”

Listening to Nangong Zhan's explanation, Nangong Xun lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said, "It's true that no one has thought about these questions for so many years, but they are indeed suspicious. ”

"No, a soldier who participated in the suppression of bandits in Xiaoyun Pass raised it decades ago, but no one cared, and this time it was the son of the county guard who raised this question. Nangong Zhan said calmly.

"Bai Yunfei?"

"Yes, he raised this issue in the parliament, which attracted attention, and coincided with the views of the old General Ye Xun. So, remembering the path your apprentice said, I didn't believe it at first at all, but ......" He paused, then adjusted his breathing, and said: "If there really is such a 'ghost path', then everything will be painful to explain." Those people passed through the ghost road, avoided the demon kingdom and our various checkpoints, and came to Yin Mountain. ”

Nangong Zhan then said: "Your apprentice is right to think that the Yinshan Mountain Bandit came from the ghost path. ”

Hearing this, Nangong Xun was silent and did not reply.

Nangong Zhan continued: "It's just that there is still one problem left...... Your apprentice doesn't look like a madman, not like a man who has walked this path. ”

After a while, Nangong Xun raised his head, looked at the topographic map, and said, "I remember that the former county guard said that the people who live at the bottom of Entropy Prefecture have nothing, and conscience is their only wealth, so most people are extremely well guarded." ”

"What if Yiyang is this kind of person?"

Nangong Zhan nodded and said, "I can't rule out this possibility, so I want to meet him." ”

......

"Ghost Dao?" Yiyang looked at Nangong Zhan, and Nangong Xun on the side, with a look of disdain, "Master, I have always said this, Sister Ling'er once told me about the characteristics of bandits, and I was sure at that time that those people were from the ghost road, and the uncle had already retired, so tell the owner of the village, if you don't believe it, don't blame me." ”

"Now, we believe it, Childe raised this question, and General Ye Xun also expressed his opinion, but the most reasonable explanation is the one you said. The owner of the village said with a pleasant face.

Yiyang couldn't stand it, so he waved his hand and said, "Don't be, I'm still used to the cold appearance of the owner, and now that I've become so kind, I can't stand it." ”

"I figured something out and understood a little bit, and naturally I restrained the coldness, which I used to be. ”

"Hehe, then why doesn't your son still want to see you?"

Nangong Zhan sighed slightly, and said, "Don't mention this, we are here to ask you, can you find the ghost path?"

"No, you can't. ”

Nangong Zhan and Nangong Xun glanced at each other, and then said, "Why?

"But I turned around halfway and left there, 'humane' and 'ghost' are my own distinction, and I don't want to reminisce there, I don't want to say, and the uncle never asks me, the owner of the village, you better find it yourself, I forgot." ”

Nangong Zhan still wanted to say, but Yiyang waved his hand and said, "Don't say it, I want to cultivate." ”

After finishing speaking, the two of them looked at each other and went out to practice by themselves.

But when he came to the courtyard, he didn't want to cultivate, but woke up Shuang'er and asked the teenagers to finish their cultivation, and said, "Brother, you will leave in a few days, brother, before I leave, I will take you to have a good time for a while, which can be regarded as seeing you off, okay?"

Yunhai Changhong naturally agreed, glanced at Nangong Han from Fang, seemed to be waiting for him to agree, and after seeing Nangong Han and Yiyang nodding at each other, he said, "It's feasible." ”

Seeing this, Yiyang said: "Okay, I'll go find Lin Yu, Xiaomo, you take a few brothers and sisters to the back mountain, remember to clean the house." ”

"Oh. ”

Nangong Han stood up and said, "Where is Wenzheng?"

"You go and find it. Yiyang said.

......

Nangong Zhan sighed lightly and said, "That's it, if I walked such a road, I don't want to mention it, let's find it ourselves." ”

"It's time for you to talk to your son. Nangong Xun talked about the issues he didn't want to mention.

But Nangong Zhan left a sentence, "I'll go and get busy first." ”

And it was gone.

Nangong Xun shook his head, "Once you enter the Tao, you can do whatever you want, you don't go through the main gate when you come and go, there are no rules." ”