In the quiet courtyard of Chiwangqiu, after listening to Xingyao say all this, Bai Sha asked:

"Have you seen the Flower Sea Patriarch?"

"I've seen it. ”

"Oh?", Bai Sha said, "In your opinion, did he deliberately arrange his mission to the national capital this time?"

"When the disciple heard the news, he had already seen the Huahai Patriarch for the first time, and there was nothing suspicious about him leading people to pay tribute to the monarch this time, because there was no one in Shanshui City who was more suitable to be this envoy than him. But I think that Zhu Sha may have seen through the identity of the Huahai Patriarch, so he deliberately chose this time. ”

Bai Sha: "In this way, it's not that the Huahai Patriarch was negligent, but that Zhu Sha did it intentionally. So apart from Zhu Sha, is there anyone else who can find out his identity?"

Xingyao: "According to the analysis of the Huahai Patriarch, no one in Shanshui City should be aware of his identity, he is very trusted by the city lord and the elders, and he is also very popular and respected by the people of all tribes. Even if Zhu Sha might be suspicious of him, I'm afraid he didn't tell anyone. ”

Bai Sha nodded and said: "If anyone doubts the identity of the Huahai Patriarch, he must have been reminded by Zhu Sha, so he simply didn't remind anyone, this was Zhu Sha's means back then! I didn't expect him to be my opponent in the current situation. ...... Is Zhu Sha no longer able to contact the outside world?"

Xingyao: "The disciple can be sure that not only is he unable to communicate with the outside world, but he has also been ignorant of everything that is happening around him for at least ten years. But I felt very strange that this time he had exhausted the power of his remaining divine thoughts and did something, but he couldn't sense the direction of the person he was contacting was, which was different from last time. ”

Bai Sha muttered, "That person may be in a special place, blocked by a clever guardian array, or he may be carrying a special artifact. And Zhu Sha had taught him how not to be probed out of his place by the induction array. ”

Xingyao: "What does the Lord mean is that the person Zhu Sha contacted this time is the same person we were looking for five years ago?"

Bai Sha: "Of course! The first time he contacted that person five years ago was to guide him in his cultivation. And look for something he left behind. Now that he contacted that person again, it may be that this person has already achieved cultivation, and he has granted him the Divine Mind Heart Seal, entrusting him with the secret of his inheritance. What Zhu Sha could do had already been done, and from now on, he pinned his hopes on that person. Isn't that what we want?"

Xingyao: "But we didn't find this person. A few years ago, the Huahai Patriarch had suspected a young monk who had left the wilderness, but this time that person was not in the area of Shanshui City. ”

Bai Sha: "Do you mean that young man named Yu and You? He has a grudge against Shanshui City, even if he is not the person we are looking for, we can continue to pay attention." Our goal is not to do what we want from that person now, but to get the secret we want from him. If my judgment is correct, this person will break through the Six Realms in the future and complete the cultivation of the Essence Essence. He will get the Divine Thoughts Heart Seal left by Zhu Sha. It is necessary to know that the cultivation of the Essence of the Essence will be accompanied by the vision of heaven and earth, and the surrounding plants and trees will be abnormally vibrant. ...... He commanded the heralds everywhere to pay attention to any such anomalies in other places in the Pa Yuan to report it immediately. ”

Xing Yao frowned and said, "Lord Sha, the disciple thinks that Zhu Sha always seems to be able to guess what we will do, and he also seems to have a way to make the heirs avoid our search." If we just can't find it. What should I do?"

Bai Xu smiled: "This is not just a guess! I only find this game really interesting until now." Xingyao, you know, there are very few things in the world today that can make me so tempted. Zhu Sha knows what I will do, and I also know what he will do, and what the final result will be, which reflects the true realm mystery.

The person you are talking about, in fact, you don't have to deliberately look for it, it would be best if you could find it in advance, but even if you don't find him. Eventually, he will send it to the door himself. The reason why Zhu Sha is willing to live like this all these years is probably not only to inherit his secrets, but more importantly, to take revenge. If he, the heir, can achieve great cultivation, sooner or later he will come to us for revenge. ”

Xingyao hesitated a little and said, "In that case, do you still want to keep Zhu Ming in the world?"

Bai Sha was still smiling faintly: "It depends on whether he is willing to stay in the world." And I want him to see for himself the final result of this fight. Now, in fact, I don't necessarily have to be able to get Zhu Sha's cultivation secret, but this matter has made me more and more interested.

At this point in cultivation, the curiosity about the unknown realm has become stronger and stronger. I want to know what kind of heir Zhu Sha has found, and I want to know how he will fulfill his wish? You must know that even if he is the top master in the world, he cannot be an enemy of my Chiwangqiu, and even no country in Bayuan is now. The deduction of world affairs contains the subtlety of the path to heaven, and I have recently vaguely realized it. ”

Bai Sha's tone revealed a strong self-confidence, he was very curious about the various coping methods that Zhu Ming knew what he would do, but arranged in a desperate situation, and at the same time, he had a strong desire to break through the higher cultivation realm. In this world, I am afraid that there is nothing else that can make Bai Sha have such a desire.

Bai Sha's current cultivation is the same as Zhu Ming back then, he is the consummation of the nine transformations of the realm, and he is just about to take the last step to immortalize and ascend to immortality. But Bai Sha's goal is not just to become an immortal.

Xingsha said again: "Since the Lord knows it in his heart, the disciple doesn't need to say much, what else do you have to say?"

Bai Sha: "That Shanshui City Lord Ruoshan, how is his cultivation now?"

Xingsha replied, "I have also sent people to contact him, and I am secretly watching. I have long heard that he has been consummating the Five Realms and Nine Transformations for many years, and this time he got the clue, this person has already broken through the six realms. Could it be that the Lord of the Evil thinks that the successor chosen by Zhu Sha is him?"

Bai Sha shook his head and said: "Zhu Sha is the mountain god there, Ruoshan's cultivation must also be guided by him, and he has long been his heir, but it should be different from the heir we are looking for." Ruoshan's age is already 100 years old, and the five realms and nine transformations have been consummated for decades. If I were Zhu Sha, I wouldn't give him the secret of inheritance, he is already too attention-grabbing.

But Zhu Sha may have taught Ruoshan Jinghua Jue back then, and you ordered the Huahai Patriarch to pay attention to Ruoshan, if this person breaks through the Six Realms and cultivates Jinghua Jue to perfection, we can also try to get the inheritance of Jinghua Jue from him. After all, Ruoshan is the lord of Shanshui City, although it is nothing in the eyes of my Chiwangqiu, but there are some things that should not be done in the open, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the monks of the Bayuan countries. ”

Xingsha: "The disciple understands, and he will pay attention to all abnormalities." The focus is on where someone cultivates the Essence Essence, not deliberately staring at a certain person. ...... With Zhu Sha's cultivation realm, it seems that he can always know our arrangement, so why didn't he expect you to raid Shudeqiu in the first place?"

Bai Sha groaned: "If something happens, this is the difference between intentional and unintentional. ”

......

Bai Sha and Xingyao have not suspected Baoyu for the time being, in fact, even if they find a certain child named Baoyu on Ba Yuan, it is almost impossible. Because the name Baoyu is very common, not to mention other places, even in the villages of the various tribes to which the Bai Yi clan belongs, at least dozens of children named Baoyu can be found.

Baoyu and Xiaotian are walking through the vast wilderness at the moment, although there are villages in this area, but the distance between them is relatively far, according to the tutorial calculation of ordinary people hurrying, from one place to another place where people live, it will probably take most of the day. If you leave the road between the villages, you will see a vast wilderness in the distance.

Baoyu and Xiaotian followed the mountain god's instructions and quickly left the group as soon as they entered Ba Yuan, and no one could find them again, so they went far enough as soon as possible. Xiao Tian was chasing the rabbit at first, scaring the rabbit enough to run wildly. Later, the poor rabbit was about to be caught up by Xiaotian, and seeing that he couldn't run away, he rolled on the ground and kicked the dog with his hind legs.

But the rabbit kicked into the air, and Xiaotian jumped lightly, jumped over it and continued to run forward. Then the rabbit noticed that there was another person chasing the dog behind him, and he also ran forward over it, but the sound was very slight, and there was not even a trace of the place where he landed. The rabbit was stunned, and he was stunned for a long time, not knowing what was going on today.

Of course, Xiaotian's speed of running with all his strength is extremely fast, and it travels through the barren forests, trying to choose places where the ground is dry and the trees are sparse, so that it is not easy to leave traces such as footprints. It didn't slow down until it was dark, straightened up and walked slowly, as if it wanted to take a breath of relief—and finally be able to walk a few steps comfortably.

Xiaotian is accustomed to walking upright on two legs like a human, and only when he runs wildly does his hooves land on all fours, these days let him walk honestly on four legs, which is really a little uncomfortable. Finally, when we got to a place where there was no one, I could stand up and breathe a sigh of relief. Baoyu walked over and said, "I've run far away, Zhongzhuang and they shouldn't be able to find it." ”

Zhong Zhuang and the soldiers would search the vicinity to find Baoyu and Xiaotian, but they would not find such a far place anyway. The distance they traveled was enough for ordinary people to walk at the fastest speed for several days. Although they slowed down after dark, they did not stop, and in this way, every step was like taking root, accompanied by the natural flow of divine energy, which was both a kind of cultivation and a kind of rest.

A first quarter moon appeared in the sky, and the night wind carried a chill, Baoyu did not feel cold, but felt inexplicably a little bleak. This is a strange place, for the first time in his life, he is the only one alone, but fortunately, there is still Xiaotian by his side. This is different from the feeling of leaving the village to play or going to the ruins of Taihao, no matter how far he ran in the mountains, the Qingshan tribe was the direction of his home, but at the moment he didn't know where the road under his feet led.

It was early winter, it was a cold and clear night, the starry sky was so bright, and Baoyu looked up at the canopy of the sky that shrouded the four fields as she walked. He's been coming down from a great place these days, but looking at the distance of those stars, it doesn't seem to be any farther away because of this.

Baoyu heard the mountain god say that if he cultivated to transcend the Eight Realms and Nine Transformations, and then took the last step of ascending to the sky, he could go to the Emperor Township Divine Land to enjoy eternal life. Is the Emperor's Land in the sky, is it the place where those stars are?

Where are the stars, and where is Baoyu going at the moment? The mountain god did not tell him a clear destination, but only told him to travel all over the five kingdoms of Bayuan, and there were a few special places to visit, but to pay attention to some situations.

The Patriarch of Qingshan reminded him to avoid the direction of Gaocheng after leaving the wilderness, and not even to appear in the territory of Gaocheng to be seen, and to reach the territory of another city as quickly as possible. If that were the case, if anyone tracked his whereabouts, they would lose the clues. Baoyu did just that, he took Xiaotian from night to dawn, and then watched the sun rise.

The mountain god once introduced Baoyu to the general topography of Ba Yuan, and he walked along the edge from west to east, just in front of the morning glow. Baoyu once stopped to look back to the northwest, where there were towering mountains across the sky, and Shanshui City was in the middle of the mountains. The mountain seems to be so close that it gives the illusion that you can reach it quickly if you walk back. But Baoyu knew that the road was long, and that he had come from there.

When he turned around and looked at the oncoming strange world, the sunlight that dispelled the darkness did not dispel the lonely and desolate uneasiness in Baoyu's heart, and then he remembered what Granny Shui said before he left: "Good boy, just take Xiaotian out to play as usual this time, but walk farther and longer."

There are many bad people in the world. You don't have to be polite when you meet you, just be careful with yourself. But there are more good people, so you don't have to be sad and disappointed all the time. If you don't like to meet bad people, then you have to be a good person. Granny Shui's words were still in her ears, and Baoyu's feeling was finally a little lighter.

During the day. Baoyu and Xiaotian sped up again, drifting and walking like flying, avoiding crowded places, and even trying not to alarm the birds and beasts in the mountains and forests. They hurried in such a way that they alternated between day and night, almost non-stop, and soon left the territory of the high city. Entered the territory of another city, Feihong City.

In the territory of Feihong City, Baoyu no longer only walked through the wilderness, compared with the outline of the distant mountains, according to the situation that the mountain god had introduced in the Yuan Shen, judged the general direction, and walked in the direction of Feihong City. He walked out of a mountain forest, and a road appeared in front of him. It is about five feet wide and flat, apparently connecting to a populated village.

Baoyu didn't know that there was a road here, and Zhu Ming couldn't have been to every part of Ba Yuan, even if he had been here, it would have been more than a hundred years ago, and the topography and the distribution of people would definitely undergo some changes. Baoyu continued to walk east along this road, and Xiaotian next to him suddenly landed his two front legs. It was honest again, as it heard the sound of a hillside in the distance.

The sound was not like that of ordinary birds and beasts, as if someone was digging up the soil with some kind of object, and taking something out of the soil and shaking it and stacking it. Baoyu and Xiaotian's senses were extremely keen, and they heard it from a long distance, and continued to walk forward and made a small turn, and there was indeed a person on the hillside on the left side of the road.

It was an old man with gray hair, dressed in linen, and not far away lay a leather robe that had been taken off, and he was digging in the ground with a short hoe. What the old man gathers is an elongated rhizome. About an inch thick and a foot long, the surface was light brown with thin whiskers, but the fracture was pure white. He dug up the rhizomes, then shook off the dirt and scraped them clean and piled them aside.

The old man was also taken aback when he saw Baoyu and Xiaotian coming from a distance. Subconsciously looked behind Baoyu again, but found no one else. When Baoyu walked by, the old man took the initiative to greet him: "Child, which village are you from, and why did you come here alone?"

Baoyu stood still and replied, "I'm from another city, and I happen to be passing through here. ...... Uncle, what kind of place is this, and what are you digging?"

The old man was even more surprised, from the direction where Baoyu came, there was still a long way to go from the nearest village, how could a child come over with a dog like this? He put down what he was holding, walked down the hill and said, "Child, how can you run so far with a puppy alone? Go home quickly, otherwise you won't be able to go back before dark, and there is danger outside, and your adults will be in a hurry!"

Baoyu smiled: "Uncle, you don't have to worry about me. I'm really just passing by, what's the place ahead?"

Baoyu has only lived in the Qingshan tribe and Huahai Village since he was a child, and it is natural to greet anyone he meets, and there is no particularly rusty and restrained feeling, once this habit is formed, it is the same when he meets others outside the mountain. The old man stared at Baoyu for a while, Baoyu's expression and tone were indeed a child, but he was no longer short, his body bones were also very strong, and his skin was very delicate.

The old man suddenly showed a relieved expression, and asked tentatively, "Are you a monk, have you come out to travel and practice?" This old man is obviously also very human, he has a lot of vision and knowledge. A person like Baoyu, who travels long distances alone and walks unhurriedly without anything, must not be an ordinary person, although Baoyu looks not big, but his actual age is not easy to judge.

Baoyu nodded and smiled, "Yes, I do know a little bit about cultivation. ”

The old man also smiled: "You are indeed a monk with magical powers, no wonder, you still look so young! At such a season, you are wearing such thin clothes, but you don't feel cold at all." ...... Where are you going, little gentleman? Sit down and take a drink. ”

This old man made Baoyu feel very kind, it felt like he once met people from Huahai Village when he was running around the Huahai area, and he had only walked through the fields for the past few days, and finally met a person, and he also wanted to chat and listen to the surrounding situation. Baoyu sat down on the grassy slope by the roadside, thanked him, and then took a clay pot from the old man and drank a sip of water, although he was not hungry, he was a little thirsty.

According to the old man, more than 20 miles further from this road, there is a place called Baixi Village.

The mountain god once mentioned to Baoyu the place name Baixi Village, which is located in a very remote area under the jurisdiction of Feihong City, and further north is the steep wild mountains. The reason why the mountain god mentioned such a remote city was because the city lord of Feihong City was from Baixi Village, and he was once a monk of the Five Realms.

This situation made Baoyu feel a little familiar, now the city lord of Shanshui City, the Qingshan Patriarch, was from the more remote Qingshan tribe, not growing up in the Central Valley, presumably the city lord of Feihong City should also be a very outstanding person. Baoyu naturally asked, "Uncle, is the city lord of Feihong City from the Baixi Village in front?"

The old man was stunned, then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "That was a few decades ago, I also served as the city lord's personal guard when I was young, but the city lord has passed away for a long time, and even I have returned to Baixi Village to retire." ...... It seems that you have heard about the situation of the monks everywhere, and you even knew about it a long time ago, but now things have changed. What is your name and where are you from?"

Baoyu actually knew that the city lord of Feihong City a long time ago was from Baixi Village, and the old man became more and more sure of his judgment, this young man must be a disciple of a certain master and belong to a certain sect with a long heritage.

Baoyu replied: "My name is Baoyu, I come from a far away place, and you may not know if I say it, so I might as well not tell you." ...... If I see it correctly, you have cultivated the strength of the mountain, and you already have the realm of martial arts. ”

The monk from Baixi Village mentioned by the mountain god became the city lord of Feihong City more than a hundred years ago, and the old man's name was Tian Xiao, who was also from Baixi Village, and he was not born at that time. The city lord has been in charge of Feihong City for more than 60 years, Tian Xiao was recruited to fight on the border when he was young, and he cultivated the strength of the mountain in the military formation, and after returning to the city of Feihong City, he became the personal guard of the city lord, and practiced the spirit of the mountain to the realm of martial arts.

Although the old city lord had the cultivation of the Five Realms, he had never broken through the Six Realms in his life. After the death of the old city lord, Tian Xiao became the personal guard of the new city lord, and went through three city lords before and after, and later returned to his hometown to retire when he was old, and still lived in Baixi Village.

Baoyu's perception is subtle, just now he has sensed the characteristics of the old man's divine energy when digging rhizomes, obviously he has a foundation, this person had cultivated the mountain strength to the realm of martial arts when he was young, and did not leave any hidden dangers of internal injuries, and now although he is old, he has not yet reached the exhaustion of qi.

Such an old man is certainly not an ordinary village resident, he has traveled far away, has joined the army to fight on the border, and of course he is far more knowledgeable than ordinary people. Tian Xiao was very surprised when he first saw Baoyu, and later his judgment of Baoyu's identity was not accurate, but it should be very reliable.

This is a wilderness, Tian Xiao dares to run to collect things alone, he has no fear at all, and he does have the ability. The thing he collected is called sweet potato, which can be eaten and used as medicine, and is a very important miscellaneous grain in Baixi Village.

Tian Xiao replied: "Mr. Xiao really has eyesight, I did cultivate the strength of the mountain when I was young. This sweet potato can not only be used as food, but also to nourish the central qi and strengthen the muscles and bones, and I take it all year round. Collect some here each time, and in addition to eating it myself, I can also keep some of them as seeds for the villagers to continue planting. ”