"What are you doing?"

Cai Yan sat on the stone by the river with a blanket, looked at Zhang Huang who was making a fool of himself on the ice in the river with affectionate eyes, and asked with a smile.

In fact, Zhang Huang is not a blame, he is just warming up.

"One, two, three, four...... Two, two, three, four......"

may be because of the relationship that the woman she admires is paying attention to, Zhang Huang, who is doing warm-up use, looks energetic.

Suddenly, he tilted his head and shouted to Cai Yan, "The water is coming, be careful." ”

Looking at Zhang Huang's demeanor, Cai Yan shook his head helplessly, to put it nicely, Zhang Huang is not limited to etiquette, to put it ugly, it is purely a ruffian fan, and I don't know where I learned it. This made Cai Yan have to add another stroke to the various shortcomings of Zhang Huang in the hope of gradually changing.

Secretly sighed that the road ahead was still difficult, Cai Yan said helplessly, "Don't play treasure, you hurry up and wash your body, we have to rush to Julu." ”

"Understood." Zhang Huang made a head-shaking motion that he thought was handsome, and immediately, he took a deep breath and slammed his fist into the ice under his feet.

The imaginary bang did not appear, and under the smashing of Zhang Huang's fist, the ice under his feet only cracked. Secretly glancing at Cai Yan, who was covering his mouth and snickering secretly, Zhang Huang only felt a burst of shame and indignation on his face.

In his expectation, when he came down with this fist, the ice on the entire river should be shattered together, and even the river water under the ice was impacted, splashing in the air with a bang.

"I don't believe it!"

may have consciously lost face in front of his own woman, Zhang Huang smashed the ice with his fist as if he was ruthless, but until the ice was smashed out of a hole by him with his fist, the scene he imagined still did not appear.

"Sure enough, can you still do it only if you learn to 'collapse fist'?" Zhang Huang sighed a little dejectedly.

The term Collapse Fist, he learned it from Zang Ba earlier. Because of the Zang family where Zang Ba is located, the real martial arts passed down by the family are boxing, what is Zang Jiagang boxing. And Zhang Huang's rigid fist. Like what tiger bites the tail, scorpion tail sting, etc., all come from Zang Ba's oral teaching. At this point, the brothers of the Black Feather Crow will not hide their secrets, even if it is Zhang Huang's self-created twisted steps, they have also taught them to other brothers without reservation. After all, in their opinion, their black feather crow is a whole, sharing life and death, honor and disgrace.

And when Zang Ba taught several other people how to punch and kick, he mentioned the word collapse boxing. According to Zang Ba's explanation, Collapse Fist can be regarded as a martial artist's trick on a par with iron slashing and spear penetration, and even some moves that break the surface with points. The power is not weaker than that of a gun. It is a pity that the Zang family's hand-me-down fist only stays at the Cheng dù of Ming Jin, and has not yet reached the strength of qi, so it is impossible to inherit a powerful move like Collapse Fist.

I remember that Li Tong also made fun of it at that time, saying that boxing had already been eliminated when weapons appeared, and although Zang Ba was unhappy about this, he couldn't say anything against it. After all, he also thinks that boxing has declined, otherwise, why hasn't there been a boxing master like the sword hero Wang Yue and the gun master Tong Yuan for tens or hundreds of years?

But that's the way it goes. In line with the idea of having more skills and not pressing the body, the black feather crows still seriously learned the boxing skills taught by Zang Ba, after all, the role of boxing is like the short sword of a sergeant, in fact, the short sword is not a weapon mainly used to kill the enemy. But many times, the dagger can be used to save one's own life. And boxing is the same, do you know when the black crows have to fight with their bare hands? It's called planning ahead. Prevent it before it happens.

Because of this, after cutting iron, Collapse Fist has also become a skill that Zhang Huang vowed to master as soon as possible. Well, it's definitely not because of Cai Yan's snickering.

"Get into the water!"

Under Cai Yan's red-faced eyes and red ears that he didn't dare to look at directly, Zhang Huang quickly took off his clothes and jumped into the hole in the ice with a plop.

[Sometimes, he's like a child......]

Cai Yan was angry and funny, and after shaking his head helplessly, he carefully walked onto the ice and picked up all the clothes that Zhang Huang had thrown on the ice at will. However, when he saw the oozing dark blood stains on the clothes, Cai Yan's heart was inevitably touched again.

It is undeniable that in Cai Yan's opinion, Zhang Huang, who is similar to her, often seems a little naïve, but even Zhang Huang, who is so naïve as a child, also has a shocking ability to kill one life after another.

Thinking of this, Cai Yan couldn't help but think of the round of bright sun suspended in the air at that time......

"Yo hoo ——!"

Just when Cai Yan was thinking a lot, he suddenly heard a shout, Zhang Huang broke through the ice, and before Cai Yan could react, he threw the fish caught under the ice in his hand in front of her.

Seeing something suddenly flying in the distance, it fell in front of her with a snap, and she flicked her tail and snapped, Cai Yan, who was suddenly awakened from her thoughts, screamed in fright, and immediately, she heard Zhang Huang in the ice hole supporting his hand on the ice and looking at her with a teasing and unbridled laugh.

"Damn ......" Cai Yan gritted his teeth angrily and glanced at Zhang Huang hatefully.

After a short time, Zhang Huang had already washed his body, and the bloodstained clothes were also washed in the ice water, and he was not afraid of the cold from the ice water. And Cai Yan baked clothes for him after Zhang Huang lit a bonfire with Taoism, facing the smooth Zhang Huang on his side. Even if she turned sideways, she couldn't fully see Zhang Huang's body, Cai Yan's cheeks were crimson with shame, and she didn't know if it was because she accidentally saw Zhang Huang's body, or remembered that she had once bathed naked in front of Zhang Huang.

Compared with Cai Yan's restraint, Zhang Huang can let go, after all, after Cai Yan vaguely expressed his inner choice, Zhang Huang has regarded her as his woman, so he doesn't care about what Cai Yan sees, anyway, he is a big man and has nothing to look at.

At present, Zhang Huang is struggling with one thing, that is, whether the fire he used to light the bonfire can be regarded as Taoism, or some other kind of power.

Originally, when he Zhang Huang cast the fire spell, he had to have a talisman paper and talisman with strange Taoist symbols such as a reply as a medium, but now, due to the relationship between the unknown demon soul in his body. He no longer had to resort to rune paper to harness the flames, and he felt more and more that the flames seemed to him so strange that he was able to manipulate them freely and freely. To be precise, this is already out of the realm of Taoism.

"What do you think?"

Seeing Zhang Huang staring intently at the bonfire, although Cai Yan was blushing and embarrassed because of Zhang Huang's naked body, he couldn't help but ask him curiously.

"I'm thinking about the soul in my body...... The demon spirit called 'Yiwu'. Seeing Cai Yan's curious question, Zhang Huang didn't hide it, and said what he was thinking about. And briefly explained the relationship between the demon soul, or the martial soul, and the martial artist and its importance to the martial artist.

Cai Yan blinked when he heard this, and said thoughtfully, "The slave family has heard you talk about demon spirits and demon souls...... If the slave family is not mistaken, it seems that I have seen some similar records in some Confucian scholarly......"

"Really?" Zhang Huang's eyes widened in surprise.

Cai Yan nodded, and then said with a wry smile, "But at that time, the slave family only thought it was absurd and heresy, so they didn't look at ......it carefully."

"Ah......h

Seeing Zhang Huang's elongated face and listless look, Cai Yan said angrily, "What are you anxious about?" Although I didn't look closely. Roughly the slave family still has an impression......"

"So, what do you say?"

Cai Yan pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then said, "If the slave family is not mistaken, it seems to be such an invisible god." Taoists call it 'spirit', and 'soul' is probably the name of the martial artists......"

"Spirit?" Zhang Huang was stunned for a moment.

You must know that Zhang Huang is definitely no stranger to the magical existence of 'spirit'. After all, the divine power he needed to use when he used to perform Dao techniques came from the thousands of demon spirits between heaven and earth. According to Cai Yan's explanation, it turns out that those spirits that exist between heaven and earth. and the demon soul in his body at the moment, is it the same kind of existence?

He suddenly remembered that when Sun Jian once explained to them the existence of demon souls, he had said that martial souls were just the names of martial artists, while Tang Zhou and Wei Zhongdao called them demon souls.

In this way, it is easy to explain, why after a demon soul with five elements that seems to be fire appeared in his body, he no longer needs to communicate with those demon spirits of fire in heaven and earth with the medium of rune paper as before, with the help of his divine power, but can directly drive the demon soul of the five elements of fire in his body to directly control the flames.

In the past, it was with the help of external forces, but now it is directly extracting the power of the demon soul in the body, how can the difference between the two be not big?

[No wonder Wei Zhongdao desperately wants to get a demon soul......]

Now, Zhang Huang finally understood why Wei Zhongdao was so interested in demon spirits. At the same time, I also understand why Sun Jian once said that martial spirits are extremely important to martial artists.

[I see...... It turns out that it is the 'spirit' that I once knew, but after entering the human body, some people call it a demon soul, and some people call it a martial soul, but in fact they are all the same kind of existence......]

Zhang Huang nodded suddenly in realization, but then he felt a little puzzled, after all, the Yiwu in his body used to be Tang Zhou's, but for some reason it ran into his body.

Puzzled, Zhang Huang told Cai Yan about this doubt, but unfortunately Cai Yan's Confucian scholarship could not understand the various mysteries of Taoism, and he couldn't come up with a clue after thinking and meditating for a long time.

"Is it a coincidence?" Zhang Huang tilted his head and thought deeply.

"The slave family doesn't think much of it." Cai Yan shook his head, looked at Zhang Huang and said, "Destiny and fate, Confucianism is taken from Taoist academics, so the slave family also knows a thing or two about this. …… The slave family thinks that maybe Yiwu is your destiny. ”

"Natality?" Although Zhang Huang can also be called a disciple of Taoist Xuanmen, he doesn't believe in this kind of fatalism, and glanced at Cai Yan strangely when he heard this.

may have seen the suspicion in Zhang Huang's eyes, Cai Yan was not in a hurry, and explained calmly, "The slave family feels that there are still various signs in this matter. First of all, your name is Zhang Huang, right? ”

"That's right."

"Literally, as the name suggests, the word Huang belongs to the fire ......"

Zhang Huang was immediately happy when he heard this, and teased, "What about the emperor?" Does it mean that I can be the son of heaven? ”

[Huang means you have the appearance of an emperor......]

Cai Yan looked at Zhang Huang deeply for a while, and finally didn't say this sentence out of consideration, and asked rhetorically from a different perspective of persuasion, "Huang." Have you ever heard of Yiwu? ”

"Is that the demon soul in my body?" Zhang Huang shook his head.

Seeing this, Cai Yan pondered and said, "Yiwu is an ancient bird, and it is said to be a divine bird bred in the sun...... Confucianism later called it the tiptoe, and among the people, it had another more popular name......"

"What's it called?"

"Three-legged golden crow!"

"......" Zhang Huang was shocked when he heard this, and the color of the ground changed slightly. He was no stranger to the term Three-legged Crow, and he even knew the scientific explanation that the Three-legged Crow was said to have been born from the sun. That is the sunspot, and the ancients did not know that the sun was not a place of death where zài creatures could be stored, therefore. When they happened to see some dark spots on the sun with the naked eye, they mistakenly thought that there was a kind of crow born of lust on the sun. (When sunspots appear, it is generally the first year of solar activity, and the temperature on the ground can be imagined.) In addition, the black spots of sunspots appear in groups almost in groups, and the three-legged golden crow has been demonized, and there is even a mythical story that 'ten golden crows are a disaster for the earth, and nine are shot down by Hou Yi'. Please search for details. ）

"The three-legged golden crow, isn't it the emperor of the fire?"

Cai Yan asked calmly.

I have to say that her explanation can be regarded as reasonable, but there is one thing that cannot be denied. That is, she deliberately concealed another meaning of the emperor, that is, the appearance of the king. However, it is not difficult to guess Cai Yan's thoughts, after all, her father Cai Yong is a Confucian sage, and she is a Confucian scholar. The idea of loyalty and patriotism has long been ingrained in her heart. And what does it mean to be a king? That meant that Zhang Huang might one day embark on a path of hostility with the Han Dynasty, which Cai Yan did not want to see.

"Huh?" Zhang Huang was stunned when he heard this, and was about to nod his head to agree with Cai Yan's guess, when he suddenly remembered what the Fifth Gong Yuan, the national teacher of the Han Dynasty, had said to him.

[You know.] The poor road is well understood; But what you know is not necessarily clear...... For example, do you know why you are called 'Huang'? …… Within the month. You will understand the meaning of Huang, but if you really understand it thoroughly, it will take months......]

Recalling what Fifth Gong Yuan had said, Zhang Huang was shocked by the foresight of the first half of this person's sentence on the one hand, and on the other hand, he felt disapproving of the second half of this person's sentence.

[How many more months?] Didn't I figure it out? …… But then again, I really didn't expect my martial soul to be a three-legged golden crow, haha! ]

After thinking about it in his heart, Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a little fluttery, after all, the name of the three-legged golden crow is extremely loud, and it is not much louder than the rare name of Yiwu.

But after thinking about it again, Zhang Huang felt a little confused.

[If it is really like what Cai Yan said, Yiwu is my destiny, then, Brother Tang Zhou...... Hmm, then why was Tang Zhou able to drive Yiwu before? Or rather, why is Yiwu in his hands? ]

People are like this, after solving one puzzle, another puzzle will immediately arise, and Zhang Huang is the same.

After thinking hard and meditating and not being able to get an explanation, he actually thought about it for a long time. Thanks to this, he still slept in the carriage with Cai Yan, and he was covered with the same blanket.

For the man of the same age beside him in this regard, Cai Yan was simply incomprehensible. You must know that when she blushed and asked Zhang Huang to rest in the carriage, she was really worried that Zhang Huang would gain an inch and take this opportunity to occupy her body.

Although she Cai Yan was moved by Zhang Huang's willingness to exchange her life for her life, and made up her mind to follow her at the expense of the name Cai Yan, but the long-standing teaching of etiquette made her feel a little awkward about offering her chastity before she got married and worshipped heaven and earth, even if this person was her chosen partner who would accompany her for life in the future.

For this matter, when the two of them lay down under the same blanket, Cai Yan was still blushing and heartbeat and didn't fall asleep for half the night, with a complicated mood of both worry and faint expectation, and had been struggling If Zhang Huang really had to invade her body inch by inch, whether she would allow it or not.

However, it turned out that her worries were purely blind and laborious, and Zhang Huang tossed and turned for a night thinking about the possible connection between his martial soul Yiwu and Tang Zhou, and did not think of whether he wanted to take advantage of the best opportunity for him to get close to Cai Yan and kiss Fang Ze.

This incident made Cai Yan, who was worried and expectant, wake up early the next morning and find that he is still behind the end of the road, and while secretly breathing a sigh of relief, he also did not forget to glare at Zhang Huang fiercely, which made Zhang Huang look inexplicable.

However, women are like this, between 'beasts' and 'beasts are inferior', in fact, no matter which man chooses, women will have a lot of dissatisfaction. But in general, 'beasts are inferior' to make women more angry than 'beasts'.

Just like Cai Yan, although she was secretly glad that she did not lose herself to Zhang Huang before marriage, but then, I believe that she was also secretly doubting her charm, otherwise, why didn't the man who slept next to him all night take any action?

"What's wrong with you?" Zhang Huang looked at Cai Yan inexplicably when he got up early in the morning to show him his face.

"Humph!" Cai Yan snorted coldly Don't look over, make Zhang Huang confused. For some reason, he felt that Miss Cai Yan, who was originally quiet, seemed to have a tendency to get closer to the second Miss Cai Wan today.

Cai Yan didn't even ask a few times to explain, Zhang Huang stopped asking with interest, and drove the carriage to continue forward.

Although it is inevitable that the two will get along with some bumps, it is undeniable that the relationship between the two is gradually heating up, even if they are self-disciplined like Cai Yan, they have gradually become intimate and intimate with Zhang Huang, which often makes Zhang Huang feel an inexplicable throbbing.

I believe that if they get along like this until they arrive in Julu, it is not difficult to guess how stable the relationship between Zhang Huang and Cai Yan will be, but unfortunately, the heavens are not beautiful, and on the way to the third day, Zhang Huang and Cai Yan met a person who made them both look very different, a young Confucian scholar.

"Wei ...... Nakado?! ”

Looking at the young Confucian standing on the official road blocking the way of his carriage, Cai Yan did not need to ask more, but Zhang Huang was also scared and his hand trembled.

You must know that Wei Zhongdao obtained the powerful power with the help of the side door and the left road, but he once suppressed Zhang Huang and could only flee in panic. (To be continued......)