Without the drag of the Tang brothers, Mu Wan's footsteps returned to normal. Gu Bai squatted on the upper deck of the luggage rack, in a good mood, and Yi Yi hummed a little song.

Continue eastbound.

Along the way, Mu Wan met a few hunters and woodcutters, and asked them about the surrounding situation. The people here have lived here for generations, and it is relatively isolated. However, according to the ancestors, about 500 miles away from here, there is a very large city called Pingxifu.

So, Mu Wan took Gu Bai and walked for two more days, and on the morning of the third day, he saw the "big city" in the mouth of the hunters, Pingxi Mansion.

In fact, it is a border city.

It seems that the borders here are very comfortable. The city gate is actually made of yellow mud and wood. If it weren't for the three words "Pingxi City" written on the door of the mud cave, Mu Wanzhen would have thought that she had gone to the wrong place - very interesting, Kangliang Kingdom, Tuxia Kingdom, and here, the text is the same, but the font is different; The pronunciation is much the same.

Two old women, who were over half a hundred years old, wore thick black jackets and sat under the city gate to bask in the sun. Both of them had the word "Fang" written on their chests in white.

It's actually a sergeant. Unarmed, gray-haired sergeant.

Mu Wan said that she was convinced. The people here are too confident in the natural line of defense of the snow-capped mountains.

She exhaled a cloudy breath, carried the wooden luggage rack on her back, carried two pheasants and three hares in her hands, pretended to be a hunter, and went into the city.

The two old women looked at her silently and did not say a word.

The city is not big, and most of them are low yellow mud houses. However, the whole city is several times larger than Tangjiabao, which was buried by mudslides.

At the bazaar. Mu Wan sold the pheasant and the hare and got seventy copper coins. Subsequently, she found a stall specializing in used books and bought a dilapidated volume of "Commentary on the Great Qinshan Sutra" for fifty copper coins. It depicts the landforms, customs, and products of Daqin. The original work should be very beautiful. And this one is obviously a copy, very rough, barely readable.

According to the stall owner, this was ordered to be printed by the penultimate monarch of the previous dynasty during his reign, and the book has a history of more than 90 years.

There are a total of three such used book stalls in the bazaar, but. It's all pretty much the same. This "Commentary on the Great Qin Mountain Sutra" is a similar book that Mu Wan can find. The most recent.

At this time, there are not many people buying books. Mu Wan chatted with the stall owner for a while and learned that the current dynasty name is "Dong'an". Fifty-seven years after the founding of the People's Republic The emperor here is called the "Phoenix Emperor". The third Fenghuang of Dong'an ascended the throne only three years ago. The era name is "Yuanxing". It is now the sixth day of the second month of the third year of Yuanxing.

The Kangliang Kingdom and the Tuxia Kingdom share coins. However, Dongan is not. It has its own copper coins. Therefore, Mu Wan still has three copper coins left. Now it's all wasted money. Only the two pieces of loose silver were still functional.

There are snow-capped mountains and natural barriers, and there is no much intersection between Dong'an and Tuxia and other countries. However, everyone here also knows that there are people on the other side of the snow-capped mountains - according to legend, in ancient times, ancestors fought against barbarians. The latter was defeated and finally fled to the west of the snowy mountains. Due to the danger of heaven, the descendants of the barbarians never returned.

Well, none of this has anything to do with Mu Wan. She was also not interested in the history of the dynasty. On this trip to the city, her biggest gain was to get the "Great Qin Mountain Sutra Commentary". However, looking through dozens of maps throughout the book, she did not find "Tianlai Mountain".

Presumably it is too old and the place name has changed. According to the description of the "Tianlai Mountain" seen earlier, Mu Wan finally delineated three famous mountains in the east: Tianwu Mountain, Xuanzhao Mountain and Longxing Mountain.

These three mountains have had the Phoenix Emperor worship the sky. She decided to pay them all a visit.

In addition, Mu Wan bought some fruits in the bazaar. The products here are not the same as those of Kangliang and Tuxia. However, the fruit and water are still effective for spiritual power and consciousness.

After walking around the city for more than an hour, Mu Wan went out of the city and continued to travel east with Gu Bai.

After reading "Commentary on the Great Qin Mountain Sutra", she learned that there are Taoist priests here! Moreover, they also worship the three Qings. In the early dynasties of Great Qin, Taoism was the state religion. However, in the last years of the Great Qin, Buddhism flourished. Dong'an's founding Fenghuang once served as a novice. Now Buddhism is flourishing and Taoism is declining.

Maybe you can find a cultivator. Mu Wan simply dressed up as a wandering Taoist priest and went to some famous mountains and temples along the way.

According to the map, two days later, she came to the nearest famous Taoist mountain, Shi Qingshan. According to the Great Qin Mountain Sutra Note, there is a cloud hall on the top of the mountain, which has nearly a thousand years of Taoism.

As a result, the information from more than ninety years ago is indeed a bit old. The original Temple of the Heavens has been destroyed. It is said that the former dynasty broke the country, and the princess fled all the way west and escaped here. After the Dong'an army chased after them, they burned down the thousand-year-old treasure hall. Later, the founding emperor of Dong'an, every time he thought about this in his later years, he had remorse, so he chose another treasure land at the foot of the mountain and rebuilt a cloud palace.

Mu Wan looked at the new hall. It's more of a temple than a Taoist temple. From the statue of the god to the presiding officer in the temple, it is all a Buddhist school.

Mu Wan turned around and searched for the top of the mountain, and he couldn't even see the ruins of the broken wall, only found some broken tiles and fragments in the weeds more than one person deep, and the foundation of the treasure hall.

This is to destroy the way. Mu Wan was quite emotional

By this time, it was getting late, so she chose a dry place on the leeward side, lit a bonfire, and boiled water to make tea—the climate in this area was gradually warm, with deep grass and dense forests, and a lot of humidity. Shuttling in the dense forest with humid temperature every day, the iron body can't bear it. What's more, neither she nor Gu Bai now have spiritual power to protect their bodies. So, she made some medicinal teas to remove dampness and heat.

Gu Bai ran into the dense forest to hunt by himself. There are no demon beasts here, and the little guy's guts are getting fatter and fatter, and he has long tried to hunt on his own. Now, not only does he not have to worry about Mu Wan's food at all, but he can also bring back some delicious wild fruits to Mu Wan.

The mortal beast meat here, after Mu Wan ate it, he felt that his body would be a little sluggish the next day. Therefore, as early as when Kang Liang was in the country, she was hungry with wild fruits, and basically did not eat animal meat.

In the middle of the night, after Gu Bai was full, he came back. This time, he brought back a small bag of yellow, clear, fist-sized, orange-like fruits for Mu Wan.

"Sweet, slightly sour." Handing the small cloth bag on his back to Mu Wan, he said.

Mu Wan was lucky enough to go through two big weeks, and was about to eat some fruit to replenish her spiritual power. Hearing this, she happily took it and thanked her.

took out one, peeled it off, she tasted a petal, and nodded repeatedly: "It tastes good." As he spoke, he gave one to Gu Bai.

The latter was eaten deliciously.

After Mu Wan finished eating one, his spiritual power was already full. After drinking some hot tea, my mind was full again. I had just rinsed my mouth and was about to go to bed, when I was suddenly "fluttering" from the woods halfway up the mountain, and a flock of birds flew together.

Someone!

Mu Wan hurriedly jumped up the tree and leaned in to check.

A line of torches appeared at the foot of the mountain, which stood out in the black night.

And in the woods where the birds fly together, there are indeed human figures.

This frame seems to be in pursuit. With a move in her heart, Mu Wan lowered her head and quickly calculated......

More than half an hour later, the flames approached, and dozens of sergeants outflanked the top of the mountain.

"Search! Give me a closer look! "Someone shouted an order.

"Yes." The sergeants scattered in all directions.

The originally quiet summit immediately became noisy.

In a few moments, a soldier found a pile of remnants under a rock, held a torch and shouted: "General, there is a pile of ashes here, and it is still hot!" ”

Hula, all the soldiers gathered around and illuminated that place as bright as day.

A middle-aged woman in chain mail walked over, crouched down, and touched a handful of remaining ashes.

There is still residual temperature.

There was a line of messy footprints next to the fire.

The middle-aged woman wrinkled her eyebrows and said coldly: "Sure enough, there are other remnants to respond!" Vice Admiral Yu, you lead a team of men and horses to pursue! Don't let go of a single one! ”

Next to him, an adjutant raised a torch and waved: "A team follow me." The general has an order, and no one can be spared! ”

"Yes." Dozens of sergeants followed her and chased her out along the tracks.

The middle-aged woman gave another order: "The rest of the people continue to search at the top of the mountain." ”

"Yes." The sergeants dispersed again.

This general is quite old and spicy, and he was not fooled. However, it didn't work. A hundred paces away, there is a cliff. Mu Wan carried a person on his back, like a spirit monkey, climbing down the rock. Soon, it disappeared into the thick moonlight.

The person on her back was "picked up" by her from the woods halfway up the mountain. Previously, she calculated a hexagram and found that she had a lot of connections with herself and couldn't stay out of it. So, I hurriedly ran to save people.

She found three people in the woods. Among them, there were two people who looked like entourage, whose faces were purple, and they had been poisoned and died. The one on his back was dressed as if he was their master, and he was not poisoned, but he was stabbed in the outer side of his left thigh, and the knife was deep into the bone, and he fainted due to excessive bleeding. In addition, his right calf was fractured, which was also not lightly injured.

The bottom of the mountain was full of torches, and the way up the mountain was blocked. Mu Wan quickly stopped the bleeding for the injured and carried him up the mountain. Then, when the officers and soldiers chased to the top of the mountain, she carried people directly down the mountain from the cliff behind the mountain.

The injured man was very young and dressed in women's clothes, but he was clearly a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy. He was thin and airy. Mu Wan carried him on his back, and in addition to carrying the luggage wooden rack with one hand, Gu Bai squatted inside, walking on the cliff as if he were on the ground.

More than a quarter of an hour later, Mu Wan came to the foot of the mountain smoothly.

The junction was guarded by two sergeants.

In addition to this, there was a squad of five sergeants patrolling back and forth.

Mu Wan took a deep breath, performed the light skill of "Eight Steps", and rushed over at the fastest speed.

"Whew-", in the blink of an eye, she rushed through the level, jumped onto the big tree next to her, and hid in the dense treetops.

One of the sergeants shuddered and exclaimed, "Did something pass just now?" ”

Her companion looked around blankly: "No." It's the mountain breeze. ”

"Oh, it's windy." The sergeant hugged his arms and complained, "It's cold in the mountains. Three watches in the middle of the night, what to catch before the remnants of the dynasty......"

At this time, the patrol came this way.

Another sergeant hurriedly "shhh ”

"Oh, yes! Wild boar hunting......"

When the patrol team walked away, Mu Wan jumped off the tree with one of their general's "wild boars" on his back, and disappeared into the thick night fog in a few vertical jumps.

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Thank you for the month/ticket of 941 dessert for a certain peak, thank you! (To be continued.) )