It was late afternoon when I left for the north, and before entering the watch, Nanfeng returned to the place where he had met with the people of Shangqing, and there was a cave that ran through the mountain, and he settled here at night.

Running through the cave is not sheltered from the wind, you can only find firewood and grass to make a fire to keep out the cold.

Lighting a bonfire, Nanfeng looked up at this cave, similar caves he had encountered, although he didn't know how many caves of this kind there were, but one thing was certain, that is, the strangers who dug out these caves back then were excavated along the dragon veins, and these caves should be related to the dragon veins.

Due to the lapse of many years, there are no clues in the cave, after looking at it, Nanfeng retracted his gaze, and took out the tortoise shell obtained from Gao Pingsheng Cave Mansion in his arms, to this day he still does not recognize these words, can only memorize by rote, as Zhuge Chanjuan said, and now the battle for the tortoiseshell book has been settled, those tortoise shells have been divided by everyone, and then all those who want tortoise shells will turn their attention to his body, for the sake of safety, can not leave tortoise shells on his body.

When Nanfeng looked at the tortoise shell, the eighth master went out to forage for food, and when he came back, it was the third watch, and Nanfeng was adding firewood to the bonfire, and when the bonfire was burning, he put the tortoise shell in his hand into it.

It was the north wind blowing tonight, and the eighth master moved to the upper wind to shield the south wind from the cold wind.

Nanfeng did not fall asleep immediately, but meditated for an hour, during this time he was riddled with trivial matters, and his qi practice was slack, and the reason why he meditated and practiced qi was mainly to peek at whether the remaining medicinal power of the seven-turn spirit pill that he swallowed that day had been completely dissipated.

The result of the peep is that the aura contained in the elixir has been completely dispersed, and it is roughly estimated that there are still seventy percent of the aura in the body after entering the mountain, and then three percent can be entered into the cave abyss.

It was still a cold winter in the north, and the south wind was in no hurry to set off, and waited until the sun rose before heading north again.

In the afternoon, he rushed to the third area, and he gasped at the sight before him, the peak marked with red dots on the deerskin map was in shambles, most of the trees had fallen and broken, some had left their places, and although there were no corpses, there were large blood stains everywhere in the snow.

There must have been a scuffle here not long ago, and judging by the extent of the destruction of the mountains and trees and rocks, the scale of the scuffle should have been very large, and the situation was very fierce, and the bodies may have been taken away or buried, but the blood stains and stumps were not cleaned.

There is a big gap in the foothills of the mountain, if you want to open up the mountain, you can't do it without Taoism, as for which sect of Taoist, it is unknown.

However, there are only mountain stones inside the gap, and there is no stone chamber tomb, the stone chamber tomb should be in the flat area on the south side of the mountain peak, and the flat area has very obvious traces of turning and backfilling, presumably someone reburied the tomb after succeeding, and there are still a lot of broken and blackened bamboo slips nearby, which should be something in the previous stone chamber.

Nanfeng took out the deerskin map and double-checked, and finally determined that the things here had been taken.

Even so, he was not in a hurry to get on the road, although he couldn't get the tortoise shell, he could restore the battle situation of the day through the observation of the battlefield, at least he had to know who and who were here to fight that day.

At this time, the snow on the ground had not yet melted, and there were clues hidden in the snow, including broken blades, severed fingers, and many feathers and furs.

Taoist priests rarely use Qimen weapons, and the presence of Qimen weapons means that there are warriors involved in it that day, and some of the severed fingers still retain the posture of pinching the trick, which naturally belongs to the Taoists.

Feathers and beast fur hide the most clues, Shangqing Sect has different kinds of Taoists, some of these feathers and furs may belong to the Shangqing Daoists, but there are some that do not belong to the Shangqing Daoists, this is not difficult to distinguish, the Shangqing Heterogeneous Taoists will take care of their own ontology in no one's place, and the difference between their ontology and ordinary aliens is like domesticated and wild, which is easy to distinguish.

The farther north it is, the colder it gets, the second watch, the south wind arrives at the second place, there are traces of fighting here, but it is not as serious as the third place, the battlefield is located on a steep cliff, to be precise, in the cave behind the cliff, this cliff should be a waterfall in spring and summer, to the cold winter the waterfall freezes, and the drooping ice covers the entrance of the cave.

But at this time, the ice has been broken, and the cave hidden behind it has also been exposed, and the war happened there, one of the nine Taoists in Zhou should have lived in the cave behind this waterfall, and there are only some simple living utensils in it, most of which are very heavy, and the slightly smaller ones are gone, presumably someone came after the war, and they didn't see the tortoise shell, so they took the things in the cave casually.

There were a few clear sword marks left on the stone table and the stone wall, and a huge palm print remained on the stone table that was broken in two, carefully distinguished, it was the paw prints of a wild beast, and in addition to that, there was a puddle of frozen liquid on the ground and a lot of gray hair, which did not belong to humans.

Judging from the area covered by the frozen liquid, a huge alien was originally killed here, and its opponents should be a few Dao people with swords, and after the alien died in battle, someone poured some kind of medicine on his corpse that could melt flesh and bones, and melted his body, as for who melted the corpse, and for what purpose the corpse was melted, it is unknown.

I lived in this cave that night, in the second half of the night, it snowed again, looking at the goose feather snow outside, the south wind was a little stunned, the last place was the dragon head area, six hundred miles away in the north, such a cold day, it is not easy to go back and forth, in fact, it is not impossible to run this trip, the key is that it is likely to run in vain, the dragon head part is the best place to find, no matter who will not miss it.

The heavy snow did not stop after dawn, and the days of the eighth master following the south wind were not short, and he knew when he usually went on the road, and when it was time to get on the road, he paced over to see him.

"Shall we still go north?" Nanfeng looked at the eighth master.

The eighth master may or may not understand, in short, he did not respond.

"What the hell is this weather. "Nanfeng squatted in the corner.

In winter, there is a lot of north wind, but it is not without the south wind, the south wind together, the snowflakes go straight to the cave, the south wind originally wanted to wait in the cave for a while, to see if the heavy snow will stop, so it can't stay, it's too cold.

"Let's go, let's go. Southwind stood up.

The eighth master paced to the entrance of the cave and flapped his wings and flew up.

Nanfeng jumped up, "Forget it, don't look for it, go back." ”

The eighth master could understand simple words, and he flapped his wings and climbed above the cliff.

When he reached the top of the cliff, the wind was even stronger, and the eighth master flew very hard.

"Let's take advantage of the tailwind, go over and have a look, turn around, and head north. "The south wind changed its mind.

There is a big difference between a downwind and a headwind, and the eighth master hardly needs to flap his wings, he only needs to stretch his wings to maintain balance, and use the wind to speed north.

"I really don't shed tears when I don't see the coffin. Nanfeng muttered to himself, although he continued to go north, he did not have any hope.

In such a cold weather, the eighth master couldn't bear it a little and tried to climb to a high place to avoid the cold, but the "two" are currently located in the cold Arctic land, and the terrain is already higher than the Central Plains, and it is not easy to breathe when they climb up.

It's only 600 miles, and I have rested three times, not because I am physically exhausted, but because it is too cold.

In the evening, the "two" rushed to the ground with frost on their eyebrows, Nanfeng had never seen birds shivering, this time he saw it, the eighth master tightened his wings and trembled.

Although he had expected to run in vain, Nanfeng was still disappointed after seeing the half-collapsed mountain and a large amount of residual ice and debris, "Damn it, I ran in vain." ”

It's over after scolding, and it's not someone else who asked him to come, it's his own coming, and he can only bear the consequences of his own decisions, but it's just that he is freezing, but poor Eighth Master, born in the warm south, accompanied him to this icy and snowy land before he was an adult.

Frustration is inevitable, but you can't be angry, it's going to get dark soon, and it's even colder after dark, so you have to find a place to rest quickly, "You wait for me here, I'll find a sheltered place to stay overnight." ”

Nanfeng said it too long, and the eighth master didn't understand it very well, but it understood the words, so after Nanfeng swept out, it never followed.

The south wind does not let the eighth master follow is reluctant to stretch his wings and suffer from the cold wind, there is only the north peak near here, so he went to the north, the north peak is a hundred miles in circumference, towering into the clouds, half of the sun and foothills all collapsed, and as far as the eye can see, there is rubble everywhere.

The south wind has never survived the catastrophe, and it is not very far, and it needs to be frequently borrowed, and five miles away from the peak, he found one thing, and when he looked closely, it was a round rice bag.

Nanfeng came over and picked up the rice bag, which was not big, it was already very hard frozen, and there were fine red spots on it, which were bloodstains.

Rice bags are rare in the north, it is the dry food that southerners love to bring when they go out, and when they found rice bags, the first thing he thought of was that Taiqing Sect had come here, but it was not right to think about it, the first to get the news should be Shangqing Sect, even if Taiqing Sect planted a spy in Shangqing Sect, after learning about the tortoiseshell book of heaven, he told Taiqing Sect as quickly as possible, and Taiqing Sect did not have time to come here before Shangqing Sect, because Taiqing Sect was in Jiangnan, very far away from here.

The wind is blowing again, the temperature drops again, I can't understand the south wind for a while, I don't think about it again, I threw the rice bag and continued to move north, the northern mountain peak Yanglu collapsed in a large area, and the mountainside below must not find a shelter from the wind, you can only look for it above the yin foot or the mountainside, today it is the north wind again, the yin foot is not sheltered from the wind, you can only find it from the Yanglu mountainside.

There are few trees on the mountain, mostly rocks, and snow, and soon after the ascent, the south wind stopped, and a stone gate loomed behind a pile of rocks, and the stone door was double-leafed, and the left and right sides were embedded with yin and yang.

"Huh?" Nanfeng was puzzled, yin and yang are mostly used by Taoists, how could such a stone gate appear here.

With doubts, the pile of rubble was removed, and the stone door was fixed, there was no door nose and no handle on the stone door, only a pair of yin and yang patterns in the middle of the stone door, trying to press down the yang fish on the left side, but there was no movement. Then press the yin fish on the right side, and with a dull friction sound, the stone door slowly opened.

Nanfeng looked at the slowly opening stone door in astonishment, the inside of the stone door is a small stone room, there is a round stone table on the left side of the stone room, there is nothing else, and then look closely, there seem to be many round holes arranged up and down on the stone wall due north.

Just when the south wind was secretly puzzled, the stone gate was completely opened, and at the same time, a large number of arrows were shot out of the round hole in the stone wall on the north side, and there were dozens of arrows that came out, but none of them shot to the door, most of them fell under the stone wall, and many were directly stuck in the round hole of the stone wall.

Nanfeng didn't expect that there would be a mechanism here, and after reacting, he hurriedly turned sideways, and the sound of friction came again, and the stone door slowly closed.

"That's not right. Nanfeng said to himself, this place is deserted, this stone chamber is very likely to be the place where the Dao people lived back then, and the fact that the mechanism has not been triggered means that no one has come. But if this is where the Dao people lived, what about the collapse of the mountain below the mountainside?

After a short period of astonishment, Nanfeng thought of the rice bag, and suddenly realized that when he first saw Gao Pingsheng, he had this kind of rice bag in his baggage, this is where the dragon head is located, and the five-clawed golden dragon that Gao Pingsheng is looking for is very likely to be underground here, and the collapse of this mountain should be caused by Gao Pingsheng's self-explosion.

Those who were looking for tortoise shells saw the collapse of the mountain, and subconsciously thought that it was someone else who took the first step and took away the tortoise shell, you think I did it, I think you did it, so they rushed to the next place without discernment, and no one thought that this matter was caused by Gao Pingsheng in order to die with the five-clawed golden dragon, and it had nothing to do with the tortoiseshell heavenly book.

"Hahaha, it's ......"