Xiao Ding stayed in the Lost Cloud Sect overnight, and was studying what he had just obtained before going to bed, when he suddenly heard Mu Yiyi knocking on the door.

Xiao Ding secretly thought, it's so late, what is Mu Yiyi going to do when he comes to find him?

He hurriedly got out of bed and put on his shoes to open the door, only to see Mu Yiyi standing at the door with a smile. She held a bowl of caviar soup in her hand, handed it to Xiao Ding and said, "Brother Xiao Ding, I'm afraid that you will be hungry at night, so I cooked you a bowl of caviar soup for supper." Drink it while it's hot. ”

Xiao Ding let Mu Yiyi into the house and sat down, and tasted a bite of fish roe soup, which was extremely delicious. Miyun Mountain is on the edge of the Yangtze River, and lay disciples in the sect often go down the mountain to fish in the river to eat. Therefore, this bowl of fish roe soup is also made with fresh fish roe, and the taste is naturally not bad.

Xiao Ding drank caviar soup, and Mu Yiyi watched him drink with a smile on the side, without saying a word. After Xiao Ding took a few sips, he raised his eyes and saw Mu Yiyi's smiling face, as beautiful as a blooming peony flower.

He couldn't help but be stunned, and suddenly thought of the scene when the ninth princess Song Yinping sent him chicken soup every day. I secretly said in my heart, could it be that this Miss Mu is also interesting to herself?

Seeing that Mu Yiyi was just silently watching him eat without saying a word, he felt a little unnatural, so he said without words: "Yiyi, have you eaten this caviar soup?" ”

Mu Yiyi still looked at Xiao Ding with a smile on her face, and said softly: "I just ate a small bowl, and it tastes good, so I will send you a bowl." ”

"It tastes delicious, did you cook it yourself?" Xiao Ding said and took two more sips.

"Yes, my skills are not bad, I used to cook for my master." Mu Yiyi said.

Referring to her master, Xiao Ding's mind immediately appeared that the thin old Dao Hongyu Zhenren, this old Dao is not very willing to go down the mountain, and he has not solved the chess game after studying it for so many years, fortunately, his divine sense scanned the jade slip in the stone platform, otherwise he would not be able to invite this old Dao down the mountain.

Thinking of the things in the stone platform, Xiao Ding naturally thought of the gossip fragment. I thought in my heart, when Mu Yiyi is gone, I must take it out and take a look.

However, Xiao Ding drank all the fish roe soup in the bowl, but Mu Yiyi still had no intention of leaving. She just sat there and looked at Xiao Ding, looking like she wanted to say something.

Xiao Ding didn't know what she wanted to do, so she said: "Yiyi, it's not early, we have to go on the road tomorrow, don't you go back to rest early?" ”

Mu Yiyi saw that Xiao Ding took the initiative to open her mouth and drove her away, her face suddenly turned red, and then she lowered her head and whispered: "Brother Xiao Ding, I, I still want a few pieces of jewelry......"

Although the voice was small, Xiao Ding listened to it all. It turned out that she was still thinking about the two boxes of jewelry she got from the Dongting Water Thieves!

Xiao Ding smiled slightly and said, "Okay, no problem!" ”

After speaking, as soon as his mind moved, the two boxes of jewelry appeared in front of the two of them.

Mu Yiyi opened the lid of the box in a hurry, his eyes were full of little stars, and he was as happy as if a child had received a new toy.

Xiao Ding looked at her look like a little money fan, and couldn't help but bend the corners of her mouth, and sat quietly on the side, watching her choose jewelry.

Girls are just as enthusiastic about jewellery as they are about new clothes.

It didn't take long for Mu Yiyi to once again hang all kinds of jewelry on her arms and neck. Every time she picked one, she held it in her hand and showed it to Xiao Ding, and kept asking:

"Brother Ding, do you think this one is beautiful?"

"Brother Ding, do you think I look good wearing this?"

"Brother Ding, do you think this jewelry is suitable for me?"

"Brother Ding, look at the color of this piece......"

“……”

Xiao Ding didn't know much about girls' jewelry, so he had to casually perfunctory: "Okay, good, very good, keep it!" ”

After choosing for a long time, Mu Yiyi left Xiao Ding's room with a lot of jewelry and satisfaction.

Xiao Ding shook his head helplessly, and then took the rest back into the jade pendant space.

He is no longer short of money now, even if Mu Yiyi takes away all these two boxes of jewelry, he will not feel distressed. In his opinion, money is just something outside the body, although the more the better, but if you don't have it, you can still earn more. On the contrary, those genius earth treasures and other spiritual objects cannot be bought with money.

He secretly stole the exercises and formation mastery of the Misty Cloud Sect, and also touched the fragment that he didn't know what it was for. What's more, to destroy that group of Dongting water thieves, Mu Yiyi also made a lot of efforts.

After Mu Yiyi left, Xiao Ding sat on the bed and took out the gossip fragment from the space that came along during the day, this fragment was still wooden, made of the Yuqi wood that Yue Yurou had mentioned at the beginning. The front of the fragment is depicted with a "" shaped pattern, and the lower part is still a half-arc, and below the arc is the body of the yang fish in the yin and yang fish.

Xiao Ding knows that this "" shape pattern represents the "Xun" hexagram in the eight trigrams, which represents the wind, and has the meaning of going with the flow, perhaps this is related to the principle of the formation of the Misty Cloud Sect due to the situation and the situation.

Coincidentally, this "" shaped pattern and the fragment of the "" shaped pattern obtained in his jade pendant space are next to each other, just enough to be put together to form the size of a quarter disc. The back of the fragment still has what looks like a map, and it is still impossible to tell what the map is.

Xiao Ding fiddled with the three fragments in his hand for a while, but still couldn't understand the mystery, so he put them all in the jade pendant space.

Then he studied the basics of some of the formations introduced in the book for a while, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Hongyu Zhenren prepared his bags and went down the mountain with Xiaoding and Mu Yiyi, ready to go to the front line to help break the formation.

The three of them went down the mountain, passed through the mountain gate array, and came to the Yubeipu River, where the galleon that Xiao Ding and Mu Yiyi had been riding before was still docked on the shore, and no one touched it.

At this time, Xiao Ding looked back and saw that he could still only see the dozens of piles of stones in the Eight Array Diagram, and he couldn't see the Misty Cloud Mountain hidden behind the big array at all.

Xiao Ding not only sighed in his heart the magic of this formation, although he had also seen the concealment formation more than once, but it was indeed very remarkable to be able to hide a mountain hundreds of zhang high.

So, he made up his mind in his heart that he must study more of that one when he has time.

The three of them took a sailboat and went down the river, because the water in the Three Gorges area is turbulent, and the big boat travels extremely fast. With Xiao Ding's divine sense, it is like a radar scan in later generations, which can accurately find the reefs hidden in the water and other ships that are hiding from the river.

He personally stood on the deck at the helm, preoccupied and did not dare to relax.

Mu Yiyi was on the side to help adjust the angle of the sails according to Xiao Ding's command. Hongyu Zhenren sat in the cabin, drinking the misty cloud fragrant tea they brought down from the misty cloud mountain, squinting and resting.

Driving from upstream to downstream has a bit of a headwind, but going down the river doesn't affect much speed.

After five or six days of sailing, the big ship turned into the exit of Dongting Lake again.

When they arrived outside Baling City, the three of them disembarked again and went to the city to replenish some items.

These days, they have been eating dry food on the boat, occasionally catching a few Yangtze River fish and cooking them on the boat's stove. The food is a bit monotonous.

Therefore, the three of them bought a lot of dried meat, chickens, ducks, vegetables and the like in Baling City, and there were pots and stoves, pots and pans and other items before the ship. It's just that the seasoning is not very complete, and there is nothing else except salt. Maybe the water thieves used this boat before, and it was because they rarely cooked on the boat.

In addition to buying all the seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, Xiao Ding also bought a few extra loads of dry firewood for cooking on the boat.

In addition, Xiao Ding also added some daily necessities, and he bought a tent and some bedding again, and kept them on the road for Hongyu Zhenren to use.

At the same time, Xiao Ding thought that the last time he used the Lianzhu crossbow, he felt inconvenient, so he went to the shop that sold iron nails and bought hundreds of iron nails, planning to use them as hidden weapons in the future. As for his own beaded crossbow, he directly gave it to Mu Yiyi and asked her to use it for self-defense.

Along with Mu Yiyi, there were hundreds of arrows and the rabbit skin satchel with a crossbow.

has a powerful hidden weapon to defend himself, and Mu Yiyi is naturally happy to accept it. She had now worn the golden silk soft armor she had received from the pirate leader Xia Huyu last time. This time, there is offense and defense, and it will not be hurt easily.

After buying all the items, the three of them went to the pier, retrieved the galleon, and sailed into Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake is as beautiful and pleasant as ever, as if it is a fairyland out of the mortal world, which makes people forget to return.

In the past few days, because the news of the annihilation of all the water thieves has spread among the fishermen, there are more large and small boats passing on Dongting Lake. These boats, ranging from fishing boats to merchant ships, as well as pleasure boats, are of all kinds, cruising through them.

After the three-man galleon turned into the mouth of the Yuan River, the speed of the ship began to slow down.

This section of the waterway of the Yuan River, returning is to go against the current, the direction is to the southwest, neither downwind nor water, and the more you go to the southwest, the higher the terrain. In this way, the speed of the big ship is far less fast than when Xiao Ding and Mu Yiyi came down the river.

After seven or eight days of difficult sailing, the big ship finally came to the location where Xiao Ding and Mu Yiyi fell off the cliff. Once the boat has entered the waterhole, it is no longer possible to go up to the cliff.

The three of them set up three tents that night next to the waterhole. Xiao Ding caught a big fish in the waterhole again and stewed fresh fish soup, but only Xiao Ding and Mu Yiyi drank fish soup, and Hongyu Zhenren refused to eat meat because he was a monk.

In fact, the Taoist priests in ancient China also had Taoist schools that were not taboo, and there were even Taoist schools that could get married. However, the Taoism practiced by Hongyu Zhenren requires abstinence from meat and sex. This is the rule left by the ancestors of their sect. Of course, Mu Yiyi, who is a lay disciple, does not have to abide by these rules.

After a night's rest, the next morning, the three of them began to find a way to climb the mountain.

In fact, this is a barren mountain range, there is no path at all, and it is said that it is to find a way, but it is just to find some places that are relatively easy to climb.

Fortunately, the martial arts of the three are not weak, and it is not too difficult to climb a cliff.

Xiao Ding used the light body technique, and he was as light as a swallow.

The exercises practiced by Mu Yiyi and Hongyu Zhenren are all the exercises of the Miyun Sect, and they are not the same system as Xiao Ding's. But the two of them had learned light skills before breaking through the first level of qi training, and now that they have aura in their bodies, when they perform light skills again, they have already achieved twice the result with half the effort.

It only took more than half a day for the three of them to climb to the top of the cliff. Now that they have no boats, they can only walk along the riverbank.

When it was almost dark, they saw a village not far from the riverbank.

The three of them went into the village to stay overnight, and then bought a small fishing boat again at a high price in the village. Then the three of them took a small boat and paddled against the current towards the upstream.

After four or five days of going against the current, he finally returned to the camp outside the capital city in Jiangzhou.

At this time, a month and a half has passed since Xiao Ding left, and now it has entered August, and now it has entered autumn, and the weather has been a little cooler sooner or later.

Just when Xiao Ding and the three of them entered the camp, although they saw Mu King Song Yinzi leading all the generals and the leaders of those Jianghu sects, they personally came out of the camp to greet them. But he still felt something strange about everyone.

When Xiao Ding entered the camp and walked into the Chinese army's big tent, everyone told each other about their farewells, and Xiao Ding knew the reason for the strange looks on everyone's faces.

What Xiao Ding didn't expect was that the day after he left the camp, something happened in the camp.

It turned out that before leaving, Xiao Ding told everyone not to act rashly. However, Gao Jinnei, another deputy marshal who had mastered the military power at this time, could not resist his impulse to make meritorious contributions.

At this time, Song Yinzi had not yet arrived in time, and as soon as Xiao Ding left, Gao had the highest official position in the barracks, so he immediately summoned all the generals to the big tent of the Chinese army, and then also learned from Xiao Ding, with the order arrow, to divide the troops and send generals, and let the generals lead the troops to attack the big array.

In his opinion, the enemy does not have many soldiers and horses at all, and his side has an army of more than 50,000, even if the other party puts up a big formation, as long as he has more soldiers on his side, he will scatter the opponent's large array.

Therefore, what he thinks Xiao Ding can't do, if he does it, it will be a great credit. My trip to the front line was not in vain.

So, he didn't ignore Xiao Ding's advice before leaving, in his opinion, it was Xiao Ding's timidity, and Xiao Ding was guarding against him from snatching the credit.

Therefore, he divided his troops and sent generals in the court. However, all the generals also listened to Xiao Ding's instructions before leaving, and when they saw Gao Quannei's division of troops and generals, everyone began to dissuade them, but Gao Quannei couldn't listen to a word. When the generals saw that it didn't work to persuade him, they stopped caring about him, and no one listened to his orders to lead his troops to attack the big array. Everyone knows that he is a straw bale, and listening to his generals is equivalent to sending him to death, so there is no military general to receive the arrows in Gao Press.

Gao Quannei was angry, pointed at the generals and scolded him, and at the same time threatened, claiming that after returning to Kyoto, he told his father that all of you people would be dismissed.

Most of these generals are from the four major royal mansions, and they are not afraid of the threat within Gao Pressure at all, so they are all watching the excitement in Gao Pressure.

Gao Jian saw that no matter what, none of the generals were willing to listen to his dispatch, and in a fit of anger, he decided to personally lead his troops to attack the enemy's array.

Originally, he wanted to bring more than 50,000 troops, but the generals refused to agree, and many soldiers were subordinates under the direct control of these generals. These generals didn't let go, and those soldiers didn't listen to Gao Jin's dispatch.

In the end, Gao Jinnei only brought 10,000 soldiers and went to the front of the battle to attack the enemy's large array.