The night was low, and the stars were shivering. The mountain breeze whined through the leaves and whined through the trees, quickly taking away the last shred of heat from the skin. Shao Zongyan hid under an ancient tree that had been blown down by the wind and rain, his body curled up in the huge canopy, his breathing was thin and slow, and he carefully observed the movement outside through the gaps in the branches and leaves.

Everywhere there were people searching for him, and the flickering torches formed a line, undulating with the footsteps of the people, leaving bright rays of light in the pupils. The men searched the woods carefully for the traces he had left behind, and the footsteps became more and more noisy, and the voices of the people became clearer and clearer, and the loudest and most clearly heard was the ...... Demon Road.

"My eldest lady calculated her life in that demon road, and she didn't marry you, and she went on a hunger strike, so angry that the old man ordered that the demon road must be found out and killed!"

"Isn't the eldest prince of the Ten Thousand Swords Gate also looking for that demon path all over the rivers and lakes? I heard that the demon Dao Wanjianmen refined medicine for his master, so he hooked up with his aunt and almost got out of the wall! ”

"If you find that demon way, don't look at the face of my dustless villa and save his life, and hand people over to me, the young master of the family is fascinated by this demon way...... Alas......"

"It's so easy to force him to this mountain, but don't let him run anymore, this demon road is even more cunning than a fox, and we can hide it in such a small mountain......"

"That demon Dao really has a bit of a seductive ability, could it be that he is really the incarnation of a fox spirit?"

……

The voices of people were getting closer and closer, and the snakes and rats in the small area where he was hiding were alarmed, and several fluffy unknown objects grazed his face and jumped into the branches. Shao Zongyan didn't even dare to breathe, his body shrunk tighter and tighter, and his right hand clenched his only weapon for self-defense, an ebony dust, ready to escape from this small shelter at any time.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and a thick black shadow stretched from not far away, and just as the black shadow covered his face through the gap in the branches, someone suddenly shouted in the distance: "There is a fire here!" That demon Dao really stayed here! ”

The shadow that had stretched above his head paused, and quickly moved away from where the sound had come from. In the distance, there was a shout that was not very clear, and someone was saying, "The ashes of the fire are cold, and it seems that the demon path has long since run away." ”

The cold fire, the trampled weeds next to it, and the rags hanging from the bushes in the distance were all he had prepared in order to confuse the trackers. The men carefully examined the fire and found traces of him, and after some discussion, most of them followed the clues down the mountain, and the rest split into several paths and continued to search in the mountain, in case he was still hiding nearby.

Fortunately, the people did not notice the broken tree where he was hiding, and after waiting for another meal, the mountain was quiet again, and the birds and beasts frightened by the crowd returned to their own territory.

The little animals that had run away from his face also returned, and they had stepped on his face and hands as usual, and this time he had the leisure to feel the claw marks and weight, and thought that it should be a few fat voles.

These keen-eyed little creatures are feeling safe, and they are probably safe here. Shao Zongyan finally took a breath of relief, but he didn't dare to leave immediately, and only moved his hands and feet slightly, so that the frozen and stiff skin warmed up.

Speaking of which, he was chased like this, and he was really innocent. He was just a wild Taoist sent by the declining Alchemy Sect, and later the sect couldn't sustain itself, so their group of disciples could only leave the mountain gate and go out to eat by themselves. Other senior brothers who are good at alchemy can go to the mansion of the officials and nobles to get a way out, but he is always pulled up with some unclear colorful rumors for some reason, and some people even directly hook up with him, and put the charge of seducing people on his head.

In order to protect his innocence, he could only leave the alchemy work that he had done half of the work and had not yet received his salary. This kind of thing happened a lot, so he simply stopped making alchemy offerings to others, and only relied on his fortune-telling skills to set up a small stall, selling some pills by the way, and barely making a living.

I don't know what's wrong with his life, even doing such a small deal can always involve right and wrong. Either someone wants to elope with him, or someone wants to break his leg in order to prevent his daughter from eloping with him, so he has to move a place every few days to set up a hexagram stall, and the little money he earns is not enough to cover the road expenses.

After leaving the mountain gate, his things were sold all the way, and now there is almost only this piece of clothes left to dust, and the medicine tripod hidden in the broken temple at the bottom of the mountain does not know if it has been searched for people...... He rubbed his hands and feet back to blood as he thought, and when his fingertips were less stiff, he climbed to the branch a little higher than the ground, and sat with his body in his arms for the night.

He didn't sleep very well that night, and the next day he got up before dawn. The insects and birds in the mountains had not yet begun to chirp, only the dead leaves and dew drops rustled when he got up, so quiet that one almost thought that last night's chase was just a dream.

It's a pity that this hunt is not only not a dream, but it will also last for a long time. With Shao Zongyan's understanding of that group of people, although they escaped last night, they would not leave so lightly, and they had to stay here for a few days before they could go down the mountain.

He crawled out of the dead canopy, took off his blue-gray robe and hung it on the branches, dusted it off with a whisk, then took off his middle coat and wrapped it again. The middle coat, which was still clean, was dragged by him among the grass and branches covered with morning dew for a while, and only when it was soaked did he take it back, and from the corner of the clothes he wrung out little by little to drink the water.

The dew was clear and sweet, and he was thirsty for another day and a night, and it was a great rain to drink. Collected the dew a few times with his middle coat and drank it happily, and the little Taoist priest was more energetic. The pale and chapped lips are wet with water, returning to their original pink and soft waxy, and the corners of the mouth are naturally upturned, with a three-point smile without smiling; A pair of thin and curved fox eyes also woke up, and the flow of anticipation was shining. wiped the ashes off his face again, combed his hair neatly, and brushed the dust on his arm, still a real panache of an outsider.

It's a pity that I can't go down the mountain to set up a stall now, otherwise I will be able to earn breakfast. Shao Zongyan touched his hungry rumbling stomach, sighed, and resigned himself to the depths of the forest to find food.

Fortunately, in late autumn, although there are no fruit trees in the forest, there are a few old pine trees, and the branches are hung with mature and cracked pine towers, and if the pine bark is peeled off, the white layer on the back can be scraped off to fill the stomach. You can also pick up dark brown mushrooms under the tree, he is still in the mountain gate often follow the senior brothers to pick up, cooking soup or vegetarian fried are very fresh and fragrant, but unfortunately it is inconvenient to make a fire at the moment, so he can only eat it raw.

He pinched off the pine mushroom roots, wiped off the dew on the umbrella cover, and was about to taste the taste, when a bright and ethereal voice suddenly came from his head: "Young man, I see that you have deep roots and bones, do you want to ......?"

The long-time pursuer was awakened by this sound, and immediately jumped up, threw the mushroom as a hidden weapon to the place where the sound came from, lifted the hem of his clothes and ran away. However, after running a few steps, a figure flashed in front of him, and a white-haired Taoist with immortal wind bones blocked his way, and asked with a smile: "Young man, do you want to cultivate immortals?" ”

……

This scene, this conversation, is a little ...... Ridiculous, right?

Shao Zongyan himself is the kind of demon that refines the elixir of immortality, and he knows very well that the immortal path is difficult to find, and those who want to seek immortals are either deceived or become accomplices of liars, what kind of Taoist priest is in front of him? Looking at his face, it's quite young, and his hair can't be dyed, right?

He hesitated and didn't say anything, but the white-haired Taoist priest seemed to see through his thoughts, and asked with a smile: "Are you extremely lucky, and people will stick it upside down wherever you go, even if you don't seek fame, you have to follow you?" These people often have family members or ex-lovers who hold a grudge against you, so do you have to break you up? Are you intimate, drifting? Are you often bullied and unable to protect your loved one? ”

…… Is this Taoist priest really able to pinch and calculate, or is he in the same group of people who came to arrest him, and inquire about his details?

Shao Zongyan's long eyebrows were wrinkled, and the corners of his mouth that seemed to be smiling were also pursed coldly, but he still looked like a charming and seductive appearance, and he had no power at all. The Taoist priest restrained his smile, glanced at him compassionately, and sighed: "This is your luck, this life is destined to be peach blossoms, bullied, until one day I meet a master like me, I can change my mind and start over, step on the enemy's bones, hold the enemy's woman, and kill a king's road." ”