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Suddenly, it snowed heavily, and Fenglindu was crowded with travelers and caravans.

Some are waiting to cross the river, some are waiting to take a boat to the south, and some are stopping at the ferry because of the snow and the late day after arriving at the shore.

In fact, there are not many residents in Fenglindu, and the permanent population is actually serving the floating population, or inns, hotels, or shops, which is generally enough to carry a lot more business trips than the permanent population.

However, there are accidents.

The first snow fell by accident.

After coming to Fenglindu, all the inns and shops are full, in this world, there is no post station for official services, if there are officials to go to a distant place to take office, or on a business trip, there is no post station on the road to rest, can only live in a private inn, if you have a friendship with the officials of the local government, but you can be welcomed by the officials into the official office.

Although the inn trading company is full, if Du Rui reports his identity and takes out the nameplate representing his identity, the guard house in Fenglindu will definitely open the middle door and welcome Du Rui into the guard to live.

Fenglindu is used as a transportation artery, and it is a tax card, which is naturally guarded by the army.

Garrisoned in Fenglindu is a 100-household battalion, different from the general guard, the commander of this 100-household battalion is a high-level match, is a thousand households, the Great Zhou Tian is complete, 360 acupuncture points have been opened up more than half, and the most important thing is that his surname is Yang, the descendant of Hongnong Yang.

Although the Hongnong Yang family is not as good as the four major gate valves in Guanzhong, it is not as good as the six major families in Kanto, however, it is also a first-class gate valve in the clan history, and the family has produced several great grandmaster warriors, and now, although it has declined, there has been a great grandmaster for hundreds of years, but there is no shortage of grandmaster-level martial artists, and occasionally there are great mages, so the family's reputation has endured.

Hongnong Yang is still famous in the whole world.

Of course, even if you don't go to the health office, if Du Rui reports his name at the inn, even if those guests in the inn are reluctant, they can only pack their luggage and go out, empty the entire inn, and let Du Rui and his party stay in.

It's just that Du Rui has no intention of reporting his identity.

Since I don't want to report my identity, I can only find another place to live like ordinary travelers, and some households in Fenglindu also accept travelers, but Du Rui and his party arrived late and couldn't find a suitable place.

That's the trouble they have, a little trouble.

Standing under the eaves, Du Rui looked up at the sky, the sky was blank, his vision drooped, and the ground was the same, not long after the snow fell, the roof of the house was already full of snow white.

Of course, there are also places where the roof is not white at all, and the snowflakes melt as soon as they reach the roof, not into water, but into steam, and rise up to form white clouds.

These houses are all noble people's houses, with a talisman array, not to mention the first snow, even a snowflake that is really as big as a seat cannot fall.

Even if it is dozens of degrees below zero outside, there is a talisman guard, and the inside of the house is still like spring all year round.

Now, the wind and snow are not too big, the temperature is not too low, it is about zero degrees, when the snowstorm comes, the temperature drops to dozens of degrees below zero or even hundreds of degrees, the charm array of Fenglindu will be activated, at that time, the entire Fenglindu will form a boundary, the wind and rain from the outside world can not invade in, although the town is not like spring, but it is not cold, it is between three or four degrees.

It was getting late, and there were lights lit one after another, looming in the wind and snow, as if there was nothing.

There is also a very bright light, which is the light in the rune array, as brilliant as the hernia lamp in Du Rui's previous life, and is not affected by wind and snow.

On the street, there are not many pedestrians.

Even if there are pedestrians, they are also martial artists, and ordinary people in such weather, if they are forced to do so, they will not choose to go out, otherwise, it is very likely that they will never return and freeze to death on the side of the road.

Nie Yuan, wearing a hat on his head, rushed towards this side from the other end of the long street, and in an instant, he came under the eaves.

This eaves is the eaves in front of an inn, although the inn is full, it cannot receive Du Rui and others, but it will not drive Du Rui and others away, and even, the shopkeeper also invited Du Rui and others to rest in the lobby and gave a few hot teas. Although the tea is not a famous tea, it is also a good local tea enjoyed by the shopkeeper himself, rather than a perfunctory tea residue.

Although Du Rui and his entourage did not reveal their identities, their momentum was very extraordinary.

Three talisman cars, a few dragon horses, the saddle worn by the dragon horse is engraved with a talisman array, Nie Yuan and other internal guards have both the strength of the Jianghu people and the nobility of the people in the court, and they are not ordinary people at first glance.

Moreover, the Chang'an dialect they speak well, even if it is not Chang'an, also has a Kansai accent.

The shopkeeper is in his early fifties this year, in this Fenglindu, welcoming countless visitors from the south to the north, a pair of eyes are very vicious, and he knows that Du Rui and his party are from Chang'an, only a dozen people, they dare to go on the road, and they have experienced thousands of miles away to Fenglindu, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the artist is bold. Such a strongman must be dealt with carefully, and he must not be lazy, even if he is the owner behind him, he may not be able to provoke him.

Du Rui was just a little depressed, so he walked out of the lobby and stood under the eaves to watch the snow.

Yue Chong accompanied him, Hua Chong and other guards were still drinking tea and resting in the lobby, for Du Rui, His Royal Highness, Hua Chong and the others had a very complicated mood, as a guard, they should have protected the master, who didn't want to, all of them together are not necessarily the opponents of this master, if they really encounter the enemy, as long as they don't become a burden, the dignified inner guards have been reduced to the life of running errands.

"Your Highness......"

Nie Yuan came to him, clasped his fists at Du Rui, bowed his head and saluted, and then raised his head and said.

"On the north side of the ferry, next to the pier, there is an abandoned river temple, although the river temple has been abandoned for a long time, the main hall is still intact, and our group of more than a dozen people can fully accommodate ......"

At this, he hesitated.

Du Rui looked at Nie Yuan silently, Nie Yuan was silent for a moment, and continued.

"Your Highness, the main hall of this river temple is very clean, it can be said that it is spotless, but there is no trace of fireworks, and my subordinates have heard from the locals that it is a haunted river temple, where people often disappear, and sometimes, at night, you can still hear the sound of silk and bamboo, and the graceful singing of women......"

Ghost?

In this world, ghosts are also a kind of evil and weird, it is the obsession of living beings after death, and they still have some broken wills, which appear in the real world for some reason, and can directly act on people's divine thoughts, so that people can not only see that thing, but also be affected by that thing, most of these effects are very harmful, even if they fall into the soul is very normal.

It's just that the so-called ghosts are only harmful to ordinary people, even if they are martial artists who are consummated in Xiao Zhoutian, if their qi and blood are sufficient, and their courage is strong enough, once they are erected, ordinary ghosts will not dare to get close at all.

A strong person like an innate martial artist, in the eyes of those ghosts, is as brilliant as a small sun, not to mention close-up, even a glance from a distance may be wiped out.

The really powerful ones are those fierce ghosts, who have a certain level of sanity, and live by devouring the essence of their own kind and human beings, and the more powerful fierce ghosts can even escape their lives at the hands of innate martial artists.

As for the Ghost King, that thing does exist, equivalent to a grandmaster-level martial artist.

It's just that it's far rarer than the proportion of grandmasters in the human race, and it's even more impossible to appear in a place like Fenglindu, even if it's an ordinary fierce ghost, if it exists, it must be strange.

After all, people are more terrible than ghosts.

Some of the ghosts are nothing more than tools controlled by the evil mages of the human race.

"Let's go!"

Du Rui is as quiet as ever, one word can express the meaning, and he will never say the second word.

Yue Chong on one side turned his head, his eyes were like a sword, and a cold sword aura appeared in the lobby, passed in front of Hua Chong and the other guards, and then dissipated.

Everyone shivered together, turned around and looked outside, put down the teacup one after another, got up and went out, Hua Chong hugged his fist on behalf of everyone to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper hesitated, the expression on his face was very peculiar, and he wanted to speak.

After Du Rui and his entourage walked out for a long time, the shopkeeper stepped to the door, and looked at the other side of the long street, where Du Rui and others had long been gone, his face was solemn, and he sighed.

"Iniquity!"

A quarter of an hour later, Du Rui and his party arrived at the River Temple.

The temple is located on a hillside by a river, which is not a large river, but an unknown local river, and the river god refers to this small river, not the mighty river connected to it.

There are many demon beasts in the river, even if it is the most powerful demon beast, even if it is the great demon that ravaged the world tens of thousands of years ago, they dare not call themselves the god of the river, if human beings set up a temple next to the river to worship the river god, no statue of a god can stand up, even if it is barely on the altar, it will be broken and fall and fall to the ground in less than a day.

As for the small river in front of him, if a river like this is a human sacrifice to the river god, there will be no such problem, and for Tiandao, this may be a child's play, so he will ignore it.

Although the temple is abandoned, it is said that it has been abandoned for more than 100 years.

At the beginning, the water level of this small river often soared, and there were monsters and beasts that caused trouble, threatening the people on both sides.

The demon beast gave people a dream, saying that it was going to build a river temple for him, and if he didn't follow, he would drive the flood to flood the fertile fields on both sides, so that the people would have no harvest, so there was the existence of this river temple.

However, the demon beast has become even worse, it used to be only a three-animal sacrifice, and then it even asked for a pair of boys and girls to be sacrificed, if not, it will be angry, so that the living beings will be miserable, and all things will not be born.

At this time, it was the period when the Queen of Heaven was in the dynasty.

Once such a thing happened, it was not in a remote place, but on the side of the big river, next to the maple forest crossing, and suddenly, there was a master of the prison department who came here, and after a fierce battle, invited the master of the Peony Hall to kill the demon beast on the bank of the river.

In this way, the river temple was abandoned.

Although the river temple has been abandoned for a hundred years, however, all the buildings have remained intact, and the snowflakes have fallen, and they have not been piled up on the courtyard walls and roofs, leaving only a layer of white at most, and the others have fallen to the ground, covering the weeds around the temple under a white vastness, which looks like it has a lonely and lonely meaning.

The plaque on the door still exists, with red letters on a black background, River Temple.

The outer door was wide and wide enough for carriages to enter, and so could Ryoma, and as soon as the centaurs entered the river temple, they came to the main hall with snow still flying, but they were swallowed up by darkness.

The guards lit torches and led the carriage and the dragon horse to the side hall.

There are two guards who are responsible for feeding the dragon horses, appeasing the dragon horses, unsaddling them, and letting them relax, and the guards who love horses also personally run the true qi, pushing the palace blood for those dragon horses, and dredge the meridians.

Du Rui stood in the main hall, the main hall was very empty, there was nothing on the altar, the previous statue of the river god had been overthrown a hundred years ago, as for the incense burner and the like, there was no extra furnishings around, and the murals on the walls on both sides were now also painted with a layer of white ash, which looked very clean, and the ground was really spotless as Nie Yuan said, as people often came in to clean.

Hua Chong walked in from outside the hall carrying a pile of firewood.

Chai He is naturally not dry, but has water vapor, very moist, however, it is not a problem for martial artists, someone's true qi is extremely masculine, a little rise and run, the moisture on Chai He evaporates and becomes dry.

After a while, a bonfire rose in the hall, and bright flames rose to disperse the cold.

Afterwards, a guard hung a kettle on the bonfire, and the kettle filled with cold water and made a clattering sound, and before long, the water vapor was steaming and whining.

"Your Highness, please use tea!"

Hua Chong made a cup of tea with a clean tea set and served it to Du Rui, which was Du Rui's special product.

A martial artist like Hua Chong, this cold can actually not cause harm to the body, of course, this is a situation where the true qi needs to be operated at any time, unless they are an innate martial artist like Yue Chong who can circulate inside and outside, and the true qi is endless, so it is impossible to run the true qi at any time, therefore, with this bonfire, with this hot tea, the cold can be dispelled, and there is no need for the true qi to run.

After a busy day, the guards who were on duty in the second half of the night sat cross-legged, meditated and pranayama, and started to rest early, so as not to be tired and want to sleep in the second half of the night.

Du Rui held the hot tea, put his hands together, and occasionally put it to his mouth to take a sip.

With his cultivation, there is no problem at all if it is said that the cold and heat do not invade, this sip of hot tea is just a symbolic meaning, speaking of which, he does not have any appetite, desire is the motivation of ordinary people, and for superman, the less desire, the better.

The hall was silent, silent.

The sky had completely darkened, and everyone did not hear any sound of bamboo, music, or the singing of beautiful women......

In fact, Du Rui seems to be careless, his divine thoughts have long been released, his current true qi is very peculiar, and the so-called dark demon true qi is a new type of true qi that opens up the world.

Although Du Rui is an innate martial artist, and the acupuncture points are also open, he can't connect with heaven and earth, and he can't lead the heaven and earth vitality into his body, and the heaven and earth vitality is incompatible with his true qi, and it is difficult to fuse.

However, Du Rui's true qi and evil qi are very compatible, and the existence of any evil qi cannot escape his induction, and the evil qi is like honey to a bear, with an unbearable temptation.

He could be sure that there was nothing evil here.

In this way, there are no ghosts, let alone fierce ghosts, the reason why there is this legend must be a special reason, there must be some people who deliberately released this rumor to prevent people from entering this place.

"Someone's coming!"

The guards in charge of guarding outside the hall sent a message, Yue Chong and the others opened their eyes one after another, a few guards stood up, they scattered to the four corners, and some of the guards maintained a vigilant posture although they were still sitting.

"Five! Fifty zhang ......"

Another message came.

After a while, there was a voice outside.

"There is wind and snow at night, there is nowhere to stay, I don't know if the owner of this place can let me rest for a while......"

The sound is like a bell, and there is a sound on the ground.

Listening to the voice, you can imagine in your mind that the owner of this voice is a big man, eight feet tall, mighty and majestic, it is a high-roller in the rivers and lakes, a righteous person!

Nie Yuan looked at Du Rui, and Du Rui nodded.

Nie Yuan said with a smile.

"This is a borderless place, and we are here to take shelter from the wind and snow, if you don't mind, please enter!"

Nie Yuan's voice was also clear, floating in the night sky, unaffected by the wind and snow, and reaching the ears of everyone outside the hall, as if it was coming from the ears, without the slightest effort or reluctance.

He deliberately showed this hand, just like the person outside the hall, showing his skills.

Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, deliberately pretending to be weak to attract others to step on him, and then suddenly erupting and stepping on others instead, that is the practice of the characters in Du Rui's previous life, normal people will not do this, but like a beast, they will first show their claws and fangs to deter the other party, so that some unnecessary conflicts will not occur and many troubles will be avoided.

After a while, five people walked in, all of them about the same age, all in their thirties.

The man in the lead had curly hair, piled up on his head, with a beard like steel needles on his chin, and a wide nose and mouth, which looked like a lion.

He entered the temple with his eyes like lightning.

First, he glanced at Nie Yuan, the expression on his face was still normal, and then, swept over everyone's faces, and those guards didn't put it in his eyes, and then, it landed on Yue Chong beside Du Rui, his eyes were sharp, and his pupils contracted slightly.

In the end, it fell on Du Rui.

Obviously, Du Rui is the master, and those are the guards.

For the master Du Rui, he obviously doesn't care, but he is a noble son, from a certain family, what he cares about is Yue Chong, Yue Chong has not been promoted to the congenital for a long time, and he will not restrain his momentum, the true qi is colluding with the vitality of heaven and earth anytime and anywhere, and the innate invisible sword qi is soaring into the sky, and the real strong can sense it.

This strong man is also a congenital strongman, so he can sense it.

It's a big deal today!

The strong man secretly said that he was unlucky in his heart, looked at Yue Chong, and asked in a deep voice.

"Under the red-haired lion king Xiong Kuohai, your Excellency, what do you call it?"