In the early morning, a faint mist softly wraps around this endless palm grove like a thin curtain.

The thin sunlight shone through the leaves and mist on a path among the palm groves, and the crows chirped from time to time, and perhaps three or five species of birds that did not belong to the human world flew by from time to time, making a terrible and inhuman howl, which made people shudder.

In a few moments, a two-headed monster bird with a red glow flew over the palm forest, it seemed to smell some tempting smell, suddenly slowed down its flight, circled over a large tree for a while, and then spotted a pile of dead bodies on the ground below, fluttering towards the flesh and blood all over the ground.

For the ghost crane, these human corpses are undoubtedly its best feast. They have no quarrel with the world, never take the initiative to harm humans, but quietly look for bloody battles again and again, waiting for doomed death again and again.

In Guangxi, death follows me in these years, on this road from Guilin Mansion to Xunzhou Mansion, there are often bandits who haunt and rob passers-by from the south to the north, especially in the 186th year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although the peasant regime created by King Hong Tianwang is busy saving the world, the branches of the Heaven and Earth Society in Guangxi are still revolting, and the government is unable to take care of such chickens and dogs, allowing all kinds of evil flowers to bloom in this land, and the twelve fresh corpses on this land means, A fierce battle broke out on this serpentine mountain road not long ago.

Just as the crane was about to take a bite to one of the prone corpses, suddenly, a sky-blue halo emanated from all the corpses, which gradually became dim and transparent until they disappeared.

The ghost crane looked at the bare ground in amazement, unable to believe its eyes, its two heads looked left and right, and the strange sound of "Guwa" and "Guwa" came out of its throat, and it was disappointed.

"It's the Oni Crane! Fuck off, trick-or-treater! ”

A small stone was thrown at the ghost crane, which frightened the ghost crane by taking a few steps back, quickly spreading its wings and flying into the sky without looking back. Even as a youkai, in the face of strange things, this innocent bird has long been frightened and overwhelmed.

After the ghost crane flew away, a teenage girl slowly paced from behind a palm tree to the middle of the road, she blinked her smart eyes, and shouted at the woods: "Uncle Lin, it's almost, right?" We already know the truth. ”

A sturdy middle-aged man followed from behind another palm tree, his expression solemn.

This is Lin Bo Lin Huinan in the girl's mouth, only to hear him look up to the sky and sigh: "I knew that Qin Yong would betray his master, Xichen, do you know?" That guy woke up hungry at night three years ago and came to my room to steal peaches to eat, can such a person be a good person? Alas, I just didn't expect that he would actually do such a heavy poison to his own brother, what a hindrance! Brutes! ”

He Xichen smiled indifferently: "Uncle Qin...... No, it's good that Qin Yong is a wicked person, but what does it have to do with stealing peaches? I just don't understand, Qin Yong said ten days ago that he was going out to hunt for his father's treasure, and his father was happy, and he sent him away with wine, and he couldn't see the slightest anger before leaving, what kind of wind blew him like this? ”

Lin Huinan pondered for a while and said, "Well, it makes sense. Check, continue to check, and see what happened to him before he killed someone? ”

He Xichen pondered for a moment, pointed to the road ahead and said, "There seems to be a faint purification power not far from there, which should be the traces left after Qin Yong's battle...... Let's go, let's see. ”

The two of them immediately walked to a relatively empty place on the mountain road, He Xichen looked at the ground and the palm trees around him, and exclaimed: "Uncle Lin, you see, there are blood stains on the ground and on the trunk here, and the purification power is also stronger, you say, could it be that Qin Yong has a conflict with someone here?" ”

"Okay, let's look it up here." Lin Huinan nodded, then contemplated his luck, and his body was suddenly filled with a sky-blue aura, and he shouted, "Polar Phantom!" ”

A huge centipede spirit body was summoned from Lin Huinan's body and crawled to the ground, only to see He Xi on the side shouting coquettishly: "Ahhhh I want to eat it! But he hid behind a palm tree, let the trunk half cover his face, and looked this way.

Lin Huinan smiled: "It's not the first time I've seen it, as for it?" As he spoke, he also went around to the back of the tree and stood side by side with He Xichen, leaving only the centipede alone on the ground searching for something.

Suddenly, the centipede seemed to have captured useful information and stood still.

After only a blink of an eye, with a "snap", the centipede split into dozens of sky-blue fragments of different sizes, changing into human shapes one by one, and the largest piece turned into a green canopy carriage, which shocked He Xichen and shouted: "This image is so powerful!" ”

Lin Huinan whispered: "Looking at their dress, they must be from the Immortal Sword Hall!" Don't be silent, whisper and listen to what they have to say. ”

Suddenly, the scene five days ago reappeared under the purification power of Lin Huinan's "Polar Phantom".

On the winding mountain road, a team of thirty people is escorting a carriage and slowly moving forward. Except for the man on horseback, who wore a gray satin robe that symbolized his status, the rest of the entourage, dressed in gray cloth and red trousers, marched forward on foot, and the carriage was not carrying any dignitaries, but only a square cage covered with black cloth.

There is no doubt that in order to prevent the bandits from looting, this team specially escorted the important things in the cage to hurry.

But they are not a well-disciplined army, and they are not afraid of a gang of bandits of one or twenty people to attack their ideas, so along the way, several people are talking and laughing, and the atmosphere is quite relaxed.

First, one of the guards asked excitedly: "You say, let's bring such a rare monster back to Hall Master Zhu, he is happy, what good things will he give us?" ”

Someone responded, "I see, at least one cow must be slaughtered and the whole man must be treated!" ”

Someone else replied: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat!" Don't worry, a bullwhip is indispensable for you, what is lacking is what to make up! ”

Amid the laughter of the crowd, someone else said: "What I am more concerned about is whether it is for this year's 'New Year' to catch this monster in the spring?" Also, you say, does our Immortal Sword Hall have a chance to win back the status of the alliance leader this year? ”

Everyone was talking, and suddenly someone said: "I think what's more important is that Su Sanniang has returned to the Immortal Sword Hall a few days ago, and with the help of such a powerful purification envoy, our strength will be greatly increased!" ”

"Yes, yes, even if there is still a gap between it and the Eternal Life Gate, at least it can be fought for."

When the topic talked about Su Sanniang, everyone was suddenly interested, and someone answered: "That's it, I didn't expect Su Sanniang to come back!" Alas, it's a pity that we are busy in Yunnan for a while, and we can't go to meet Sanniang in person, I really want to see what an earth-shattering scene it will be when Su Sanniang, who has died in Kunlun Mountain, suddenly appears in front of the brothers! Haha, it's fun to think about. ”

Everyone continued to talk and laugh around the topic of Su Sanniang and 'Shou Sui', only one of the heroic-looking guards was a little serious, and he never said a word, he looked around from time to time, full of vigilance against any sound.

His vigilance was not unfounded, and sure enough, at the very beginning of the group's laughter, another uniformly dressed team was approaching them, and the two teams met and refused to give way to each other, so they had to stop and face each other on the mountain road.

The other party did not draw his sword and did not seem to be hostile, but there were many comers, blocking the way on this narrow mountain road, which could not help but make people irritable.

The robed man riding a horse here looked solemn and asked in a loud voice, "Who is here?" Why are you in our way? ”

The leader of the other party was a middle-aged man in a cyan robe, who took a step forward and said, "Down there is Qin Yong of the Eternal Life Gate. Brother Gu, don't come to harm? ”