The training in the mountains had been successfully completed, and the sloppy Taoist took Li Yun to stop lingering in the mountains and rivers, and quickly crossed the entire mountain range to look northwest. To the north of the Yunling Mountains is a plain, and further west are some narrow river valleys in the Hexi region. This area is all plains, mainly agricultural, and the natural environment is relatively good. The master and apprentice did not stay long, choosing sparsely populated paths, hurrying during the day and resting at night, while Li Yun insisted on practicing and improving Taoism and martial arts by grinding kung fu with water.

On this day, when he arrived at Yumen City, Yumen County, an important town in the northwest, this was the first time Li Yun entered the big city. He was immediately attracted by this northwestern border city, which was crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, and the cries of selling came and went, which was very lively. The most special thing is that the people here can be described as fancy clothes, with different appearances, high noses and deep eyes, scarves and heads, and so on. The items on the street are also very distinctive, with different shapes and colors. Li Yun and Master also bought hats and headscarves, tasted local specialties, and bought a few rare gadgets from their hometown to bring to their younger siblings.

The sloppy Taoist said: "Eight hundred miles to the west of this Yumen City are the Gobi and the desert, only here is a large water source, this is the throat of the traffic between the East and the West, the Western countries entered the Lu Dynasty, and our Chinese people set off to the Western foreign countries. The people you see who look and dress differently from the Chinese are basically businessmen of all Western nationalities who have come to our court to do business. Goods from the East and the West accumulated here, and after a long time, a large city was built here, and successive dynasties also stationed troops here to defend the border and protect the trade routes. ”

The Taoist said, "What do you see all the people coming and going for? There is an old saying: 'The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is bustling, all for the sake of profit', these people travel thousands of miles or even thousands of miles to trade, nothing more than to survive and develop, in order to live a better life. Therefore, no matter how the dynasty changes, the common people are most concerned about how to survive and develop. As the old saying goes, 'the people are the foundation of the state', and whoever can make the people live a good life will be supported by the people. ”

There is a seven-storey building in the city, which is a great place to enjoy the scenery of Biansai. The master and apprentice climbed to the highest building, only to see the Yellow River meandering to the sea in the east in the distance, and the white clouds at the end of the sky, which led people to reverie. Surrounded by boundless deserts and desolate mountains, a huge city rises from the ground, like a tiger standing on a dragon, mighty and majestic. The long camel caravan loaded with various items left the city gate and walked towards the Gobi, the camel bells were leisurely, carrying the hope of many people for life. The city is centered on water sources and rivers, and the streets and houses are uniform, and willows are planted all over the roadside. In some green areas, there are groups of people sitting on the ground drinking in the bushes, the flute is quiet, the pipa is high-pitched, and the wine is full, singing and dancing.

After a few days of wandering, the master and apprentice bought three healthy horses, prepared food and water bladders, wore thick cotton clothes, hats and scarves, and set out with a caravan to the west early in the morning. There was silence all around, except for the sound of camel bells, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be connected together. The sky was gloomy, the surroundings were basically gray, some areas were not grassy, and some areas were sparse with clumps of green plants, which were also gray and fluffy by the wind and sand. The plants of the desert and the Gobi are adapted to the arid climate, in order to reduce the evaporation of water, they are generally relatively short, the leaves are not mostly needle-like or strip-like, and the root system is developed, which can absorb the water of the ground to the greatest extent. Among them, there is a plant called camel thorn, because it is rich in water, camels especially like to eat, the leaves are thorny, and camels often eat it with a bloody mouth. Walking on the dry and hard Gobi Desert, his feet were particularly sharp, Li Yun felt that after walking for a long time, he would definitely wear blood blisters, and if the shoes were not sealed, it would be miserable to pour sand and gravel particles.

After walking for an hour, the sun broke through the clouds and the temperature rose rapidly. The master and apprentice changed into thin robes and continued to step on the dense black sand and gravel of the Gobi Desert. A strange landscape appears in the wasteland ahead, which the locals call "Devil's Town". In the middle of a sea of black gravel sand, tall mounds rise. Under the blue sky, some of these mounds resemble peacocks, some resemble monkeys, a bit resemble pagodas, and some resemble large ships. These weather-eroded mounds crisscross the country, forming a labyrinthine distribution. In it, it is easy to get lost, and occasionally see dry bones that have not been completely buried by the wind and sand, and it seems that there is endless resentment. The wind blew, the wind and sand filled the sky, and the wind cried and howled, like the devil running rampant, terrifying and abnormal. It is said that this kind of terrain was formed by the erosion of rivers and the erosion of wind knives, and Li Yun couldn't help but sigh at the magic of nature, how small human beings are in front of nature!

It was almost noon, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, people were tired and thirsty, and the little tigers and horses were also tired and wilting. The master and apprentice followed a caravan and chose a backlit mound to prop up a tent to rest. After a little water, I rested and prepared to set off when the sun went down. As the sun went down and the temperature dropped sharply, the master and apprentice set off with the caravan again, and the desert terrain appeared. Changing into thick cotton clothes again, the moonlight in the high sky was particularly cold, and the huge temperature change between day and night in the desert made Li Yun deeply impressed. In the middle of the night, the wind suddenly became stronger, and someone shouted: "Stop and shelter, the sandstorm is coming!" The caravan stopped and gathered together, and the men hid among the camels with blankets. After a while, Li Yun felt a violent wind and sand howling, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and the person was almost buried in the sand. It was very uncomfortable to get up from the sand after the wind and sand, and it was very uncomfortable to be covered with fools. After Li Yun shook off the sand on his body, he saw that the terrain of the huge sand dunes seemed to have changed, and the wind blew the sand dunes to move, causing undulating changes, and the sand dunes were cut by the wind in different forms, exuding a poignant beauty.

As he was about to walk out of the desert, one night near dawn, suddenly there was a rumbling sound and the whistling of people in the distance. The caravan became nervous, as if the sand bandits were coming. In addition to the harsh natural environment, this is the biggest risk for the caravan, some of the sand bandits only need to grab goods, and some are very brutal and will kill people cleanly. The caravans also had guards, who placed some shelves and chests outside to form a phalanx, and the camels and men were in the middle, and the guards were waiting with bows and arrows, swords and guns. A group of sand bandits on horseback surrounded them, about 300 of them, dressed in black, with their faces covered, with scimitars and torches in their hands, and rushed up with a roar from their mouths, and a black flag embroidered with a skull logo looked very terrifying in the light of the fire. The leader of the caravan guards was shocked when he saw it: "It's the Skeleton Gang!" They are all devils who kill people without blinking! I can't escape today, so I will take up arms and fight to the death! The guards and the others were all faceless, and the caravan merchant shivered, and only muttered, "It's over!" It's all over! ”。 The guards walked on the tip of the knife for many years, and they were quite calm, and they all shouted: "Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

The skull gang rushed forward, and the guards shot arrows. A few sand bandits fell from their horses, but most of them quickly approached, and dozens of sand bandits with bows and long shots on the periphery, and from time to time guards and camel workers were shot. The four groups of horses were particularly fast, throwing their claws from afar, and then pulling the four shelves apart, the notch in the outer ring opened. The bandits' horse team began to rush into the circle, and the guards met it, and a fierce battle broke out in an instant.

The guards soon couldn't hold on, and more than a dozen people fell in an instant. After Li Yun heard the news of the sand bandits, he began to think about how to use the existing manpower and material resources to defeat the sand bandits. Then he roared and rushed forward with a spear in hand. I saw that his spear was like a flying dragon, stabbing, picking, sweeping, splitting, and killing four people with a single shot. His steps changed, wandering among the sand bandits, and the flying dragon marksmanship was unleashed to his heart's content, and none of his subordinates were combined, and more than thirty people were killed in a moment. The leader of the guards and the others, who were already in despair, suddenly cheered up and shouted to cooperate with Li Yun to kill the enemy. Li Yun arranged them on the two flanks behind him, and he was like a sharp cone tip to meet the enemy head-on, forming a small wild goose attack army formation, constantly advancing forward. The sand bandits who came from the impact were constantly swept down by Li Yun, and the guards behind stepped forward to kill them, and the military formation gradually advanced to the gap, Li Yun was like a reef on the seashore that had not moved for thousands of years, no matter how much the sand bandits continued to attack, they could not break through and go deeper, and occasionally the bandits who crossed by the side were also killed by the guards. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred bandits died, and the bandits who surrounded them realized that something was wrong and began to retreat slowly. Where would Li Yun let them get away easily, he knew that once they changed their tactics to besiege and shoot from a distance, the entire caravan would still be in danger. Li Yun pursued with his tail, he carried the Xuangong, the speed was like a galloping horse, and it was more flexible, and the sand bandits kept falling off the horse. The bandits panicked, seeing that they couldn't get out, the bandit leader was annoyed and angry, and when he saw that Li Yun was alone, he was also some distance away from the caravan, and howled: "Kill him!" He returned to his horse and rushed towards Li Yun with more than a dozen people. Li Yun saw that he was in the middle of it, and he didn't fight with him, but just wandered among the bandits and stabbed the bandits under the horse one by one. After killing through the bandit queue, Li Yun turned around and stood still, calmly facing the bandit leader. This leader was also a strong man, armed with a mace, and he rode his horsepower to rush at him. Li Yun remained motionless, and when the bandit leader swung his stick and smashed it, his body suddenly turned forward, and when he looked back, the tip of the spear pierced the bandit leader's ribs, forking the bandit leader in the air. The remaining dozens of bandits were terrified and fled in all directions. Li Yun took down the bow and arrows, and soon all the bandits fell off their horses, and none of them escaped! The "Skeleton Gang", a bandit that was rampant in the Western Desert, has been destroyed!

At this time, the leader of the guards led the guards and cheered in unison. Everyone surrounded Li Yun and returned to the caravan's camp, and the merchant who had escaped death bent forward to salute and thank him. Everyone gathered the bandits' horses and belongings, and the leader of the guards already knew Li Yun's name, and he said to everyone: "This time it was this Li Yun hero who saved us, and we owe him a life!" If Li Yingying has any orders in the future, we will be all over the place! All these trophies should go to Li Yingying! At this time, Li Yun had calmed down the discomfort of the first killing, and he said to everyone: "Seeing that the road is uneven, pulling out a knife to help is the true color of my generation!" This time, I was able to defeat the sand bandits, but it also relied on the desperate and bloody battles of everyone, and some people died in battle, and it was not all my credit! I will take some of the spoils, and the rest will go to you, especially some of the guards and camel workers who died in battle, please be sure to send a bereavement to their families! The leader of the guard was a local Ha ethnic named Harvey, and he admired Li Yun's righteousness even more, and thanked everyone again.

It was also dawn, and the people divided the spoils of war and went on their way. Li Yun recalled the scene of the battle just now, and his experience of human body structure and battlefield fighting was also more profound, and he couldn't help but close his eyes and imagine perfecting it immediately.

Suddenly cheers came, Li Yun opened his eyes again, and his eyes were full of greenery, and he had already walked out of the desert and came to a new oasis.