The area of the business road is too vast. The seven Yin Yang cultivators each sent people to scatter to search, and it was not until three days later that they encountered a group of bandits hiding in the forest with the intention of robbing money. When this group of bandits saw seven Yin and Yang realm cultivators surrounding them, they thought that they would definitely die, but when they heard them relay Zhang Zhao's words, of course they turned their surprise into joy.

Zhang Zhao did this to let the people of Lingxiao and the Red Maple Sect avoid some losses, he never thought about what the situation would be after these Yin Yang cultivators arrived at Lingxiao, he planned to deal with those bandits who had never met before. As for how to arrange the cultivators who joined forces with the merchants, he was very confident in Chang Qingzi.

After a few days, no other bandits appeared, and Zhang Zhao felt that the situation might not be as bad as he thought. Together with the leader of the group that had just met not long ago, the eight Yin Yang cultivators were all in good spirits and took turns to go out to investigate, as if they had already treated the Lingxiao Caravan as their own business.

Gu Yan and Jiang Lei, who originally planned to abandon the goods and make plans again, felt that the things in front of him were a little incredible, Zhang Zhao just gave a promise that had not been fully realized, and so many Yin Yang cultivators actually changed their camp without hesitation.

The two of them gradually understood when they thought of Lingxiao's embarrassment a few years ago from this group of cultivators. In those years, although Lingxiao was in good order, there were often times when he was overstretched and his financial resources were not sustainable, and with Changqingzi Mo asking Meng Fei's ability, the difficulty of survival of these small sects can be seen.

There are still dozens or hundreds of people under the hands of these Yin Yang cultivators, and it is much more important for them to seek a long-term way to survive. Zhang Zhao's actions during these days obviously convinced these people, because any of those places in the rumors were unattainable for them for the rest of their lives.

With two days to go, they were at the realm of the Red Maple Sect, and Zhang Zhao was going to part ways with them and turn to the fork in the road between the Xuanshui Water and the reckless jungle of the Xuanmu Domain. These Yin and Yang cultivators had already regarded Zhang Zhao as the key to the change of fate at this time, and the two from the Xuan Water Region volunteered to personally send Zhang Zhao to the Long Valley Road that led to the Nine Shadows.

When they wanted to return the Immortal Crystal, Zhang Zhao didn't take it: "Please ask the seniors to search carefully in this area, the Immortal Crystal will be paid to you in advance as a junior, and when the seniors go to the Red Maple Sect with Senior Brother Gu, they can change some clothes and weapons by the way." ”

At this time, even several Yin Yang cultivators felt that their eyes were hot, they didn't expect Zhang Zhao to think so thoroughly, holding the immortal crystal in his hand, he secretly made up his mind to follow to the end, and hundreds of bandits in tattered clothes cheered even more after hearing this.

The blue-robed old man of the Haiqing Gang in the Xuanshui area is named Tu Jiannan, and he and Li Zhen, the down-and-out scholar of Shanshui Hall, both entered the area where the business road is located through the mouth of the Nine Hidden Valleys, and the two of them were familiar with the road to send Zhang Zhao to the valley mouth, Zhang Zhao was surprised to find that there were really a lot of people coming and going.

"Childe, these are all people from the Five Xuan Domains who went to the Nine Shadows to travel merchants, because this place is far away from the other three domains, most of them are from the Xuan Earth Domain of the Xuan Waters, and they are all small merchants and vendors. No one has ever had the idea of beating here. Zhang Zhao looked at the merchants passing by, and sure enough, they were all cheap things such as animal skins.

Zhang Zhao waved his hand and separated from the two, and drove southeast along the valley road. After walking for a while, he noticed that the pedestrians around him had strange eyes, and when he looked closely, he found that most of them were pushing shoulder-to-shoulder, and the carriage that occasionally passed by was at most only two thin horses, and the six horses in front of his car were particularly conspicuous in comparison.

The terrain gradually lowered and walked out of nearly a hundred miles, and a city gradually appeared in front of Zhang Zhao's eyes, this city was much smaller than many towns Zhang Zhao had seen, but the city walls were thick and black, and it looked extremely majestic.

At this time, it was almost evening, and Zhang Zhao drove into the city, and more than a dozen guards in armor were surprised to see them, they had been here for many years, and they had never seen such a luxurious carriage enter.

"A few big brothers, I want to go to Guangcheng City, how should I go?" A pock-faced man with a few pieces of armor on his body pointed with his hand: "Walk through the city from here, and then walk along that big road, and you will arrive at Guangcheng City in less than a hundred miles." He saw that Zhang Zhao didn't seem to know the road and said again: "It's getting dark, little brother still stay here for a night, and I'll go tomorrow." ”

"Thank you, big brother, I'm not afraid of the dark. Zhang Zhao's soul method can distinguish the road day and night, and after listening to his words, the numb-faced man nodded: "Then you wait first, I'll bring you a few torches, anyway, you people who come from outside can't see clearly when you get down." ”

Seeing that the pock-faced man had already turned around to fetch a torch, Zhang Zhao had to hold on to the carriage and wait, and a young guard asked curiously, "Little brother, what are you on this cart?

Zhang Zhao turned around and took out a few strips of dried meat from the car and handed them over: "I made the dried meat myself and brought it to Senior Brother Ye and them, let's try it too." Several guards took the bite and smacked their tongues: "This thing is really much better than the beast meat we have here." ”

They crushed the jerky and each of them only ate a small piece and put the rest into their arms, and looked at Zhang Zhao with gratitude on their faces: "Thank you, little brother, let's take it back to the family to taste." ”

Zhang Zhao felt that these guards were modest and friendly, which was very different from the behavior of the guards in some towns of Wuxuan, and then the pock-faced man took three or five torches wrapped in black cloth and came back: "Little brother, you must remember that after entering, you must follow the main road. Don't go in the wrong direction. ”

The carriage passed through the small city, the sky was dark and there was no trace of people on the road, after traveling for several miles, a huge black hole like a city gate appeared in front of Zhang Zhao, and after approaching, he felt a burst of cool air leaking out of it, and the six horses pulling the cart slowed down and hesitated before reaching the entrance of the cave.

Zhang Zhao looked around, a big road led quietly to the bottom, and there was no sense of danger, he flicked the reins, and the horse in front of the car snorted and slowly walked forward reluctantly.

Not far from entering the cave, Zhang Zhao's eyes suddenly darkened, the night smoke here was like substance, and there seemed to be countless jet-black water waves flowing in front of the car around him. Although Zhang Zhao was also a little unaccustomed to seeing things, he found that there was a little bit of ghostly light on the avenue in front of him.

Zhang Zhao got out of the carriage and took a closer look, and the road under his feet was paved with countless broken bones, and those points of light were all phosphorus fire in the bones. It's a little weird, but it's not going to get lost in the infinite darkness.

Although driving the carriage in the dark and walking on the strange bone road, Zhang Zhao thought about the scene when he was separated from Nie Wanqing in the realm of life and death, but his heart was warm, and the more he moved forward, the more urgent his mood became, and he kept shaking the reins in his hand, and he couldn't wait to see a city appear on the side of the road.

The horse gradually got used to the darkness in front of him, and the faster he ran, Zhang Zhao remembered the advice of the pock-faced man to let the carriage run steadily on the bone road and did not dare to deviate. He estimated that after traveling for dozens of miles, he suddenly saw a fire in the distance to the west.

This fire was particularly conspicuous in the darkness, but the color was very different from any kind of flame that Zhang Zhao had ever seen, neither the bright fiery red, nor the blazing purple of the Kongmeng Mountain, but a pale grayish white.

Zhang Zhao drove the carriage forward, but his eyes were fixed on the firelight in the distance and kept changing shapes in the air. He saw the gray-white fire ball gradually elongate in midair, and then the sides suddenly stretched outward as if giving birth to wings, and followed up and down to form the shape of a head and tail and sharp claws.

Although this huge gray firebird was at least a few miles away from Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao could still feel a fierce aura coming to his face after seeing it. At this moment, the gray firebird slowly turned around in the air, crossed a beautiful arc, and rushed straight downward.

Zhang Zhao, who was driving the carriage, stared intently at the gray firebird flying up and down, this situation must be that the cultivator who turned into the firebird was competing with others. Although Zhang Zhao had never been exposed to this kind of transformation technique, this gray firebird could make him feel pressure from a distance of several miles, and this person's cultivation must be unfathomable.

Although he was very curious, Zhang Zhao still followed the pock-faced man's instructions and honestly walked along the bone road, and when the gray firebird had gradually moved back from his west to the northwest, Zhang Zhao pulled the reins and stopped the galloping carriage.

He remembered that when he was not yet in the spirit, the old butcher had mentioned the past of his mother, and those bad people were burned to death by a red-eyed man with a big gray bird. I don't know if there is a connection between the person who saved my mother and the cultivator who has now turned into a gray firebird?

Zhang Zhao couldn't contain this thought in his heart, no matter how he looked at the gray firebird, he felt that his guess was right. Looking at the bone road that stretched forward, Zhang Zhao made up his mind to turn the carriage around and ran diagonally to the northwest.

Although there was no phosphorus fire illumination, Zhang Zhao's soul sense could reflect the scenery in front of him more than ten zhang in his mind, and he drove the carriage around the bushes of low trees in front of him, and galloped quickly towards the gray firebird.

However, the distance of the gray firebird was beyond Zhang Zhao's expectations, and the carriage ran out for more than a few miles, and he did not see a single figure. What surprised Zhang Zhao even more was that the gray firebird in the air suddenly stopped after rising and falling a few times.

Zhang Zhao hurriedly shook the reins and urged the carriage to rush closer, and at this time, a cold voice came from the front: "How many of you dare to come out and make a mistake like this? It's simply ruined the reputation of the Seven Heroes of the Ghost Abyss." Then there was a great fire in the air, and the big gray bird rushed down with a high-pitched chirp, and then there was no sound again.

Zhang Zhao drove closer, and he could already smell a burning smell in his nose. At this moment, he suddenly had a feeling of horror, and he leaned back and tugged at the reins with both hands. Under the pull of this force, the six horses raised their front hooves and bent their hind hooves slightly on the ground to drag out a little spark, and the carriage slid forward for several feet and finally stopped.

Zhang Zhao jumped out of the carriage in a cold sweat, walked forward more than a dozen steps in the dark with his soul sense exploration, leaned down and probed down, and sure enough, there was a deep ditch in front of him. But he refused to give up, and drove the carriage around the deep ditch and continued in the direction of the gray firebird, but after a moment's delay, the silence around him was as dead as death, and there was not even a spark.

I don't know how far the carriage has gone out, Zhang Zhao saw that it was still dark in front of him, so he had to hold the reins in disappointment. He was just about to follow the ruts on the ground to find the bone path, but suddenly two red lights appeared on his side.

"Senior ......" Zhang Zhao felt that something was wrong as soon as he spoke, because many of the same red bright spots appeared next to those eyes, and they were slowly approaching him, and his heart was shocked after his divine sense swept away, and he shook the reins in his other hand and rode forward.

A low roar sounded, and more than a dozen pairs of red eyes pounced. Zhang Zhao drank loudly in his mouth, and the spiritual qi swirled indisputably, and the front end extended into a long knife, and under the vertical and horizontal swing, hundreds of sword lights intertwined into a net to protect this side.

"Roar" in the continuous cry, several calf-sized red-eyed monsters with four claws soared into the air, Zhang Zhao's soul saw that these beasts looked like wolves and tigers, with wide heads and thin waists, and dark yellow mucus dripping from their fanged mouths, and their movements were extremely fast. They didn't hesitate to pass through the sword light, and their bodies were still in the air before they split into several pieces and fell.

The remaining red-eyed monsters ignored the death of their companions and rushed one after another. The roar in Zhang Zhao's ears changed color, but his scattered soul sense detected that there were still many beasts rushing in this direction.

Without looking at the direction of the ruts on the ground, Zhang Zhao drove the carriage and left, and occasionally a few wild beasts approached, all of which were cut down one by one by him with a long knife, but there were still more and more low roars behind the carriage. In order not to swagger, although these cart-pulling horses are not the famous horses of the white-headed tribe, they are also the best horses carefully selected by Lao Sha, so they did not scare their legs in the dark night surrounded by wild beasts.

Zhang Zhao complained bitterly in his heart, although there was no danger for a while, he knew that the situation was not good in the boundless darkness in front of him. I was worried that a deep ditch would suddenly appear like just now, and I was even more afraid that I would accidentally walk into a dead end and be surrounded by a group of monsters behind me who didn't know what it was.

Fortunately, what he feared never happened, and the path ahead of his soul sense was finally smooth and feasible. Due to the increasing number of beasts on the enclosure, Zhang Zhao relied on the soul method to release the reins from time to time and jumped back and forth on the car, slashing the monsters that rushed to the car one by one.

The darkness ahead seemed endless, and no matter how Zhang Zhao spread his senses, there was no sign of a road or a town. After running for a hundred miles with his head covered, Zhang Zhao felt that there were more and more beasts around him, and the horses pulling the cart were also slowing down a little with all their might.

Although Zhang Zhao can run against the wind, he doesn't know which direction he should go in this boundless darkness. Besides, he was reluctant to bear the fruits of his two months of hard work on the carriage, and he felt even more sorry for the six horses that he had driven into the Jedi.

He shouted as Lao Sha taught, and the cart and horse seemed to feel his determination to speed up, but after dozens of miles, the situation still did not improve at all.

The roars of the surrounding beasts were already overwhelming, and when he felt that there were some beasts blocking the way in front of him, Zhang Zhao had to hold the reins, and with both hands holding knives and sticks, he was speeding around the carriage, killing all the beasts that kept pounced.

At this critical juncture, a little fire suddenly lit up a few miles away, and then a dazzling fire ignited in the air, and fell heavily on the carriage more than ten kilometers away and dispersed. As this fireball exploded, dozens of the same fireballs rose into the air and landed in front of them one after another, and the scenery within a radius of several miles was finally faintly recognizable.

There were countless fluttering shadows beside every scattered flame on the ground, and tens of thousands of beasts were running in this area. Zhang Zhao saw the castration of the fireball and secretly got lucky, because his carriage was rushing towards the middle of the herd just now.

He shouted loudly and slowly turned the direction of the carriage, taking advantage of the fact that the beasts around him were frightened by the fire, he flew back and forth and slashed his way to the nearest spot where the fireball flew out. The six horses, although foaming at the mouth, also ran desperately.

"Is there anyone?" Zhang Zhao shouted while slashing the beast next to him with all his might, and finally heard a faint voice in front of him shouting, "Is there anyone?

Zhang Zhao heard this and hurriedly responded loudly: "Someone, someone." After he called twice, the carriage got closer and closer, and the voice on the other side began to become clear: "Come here." As soon as Zhang Zhao was about to agree, he saw a light rise in front of him, and countless rockets were shooting head-on.

These rockets flew high above Zhang Zhao's head and landed far behind the carriage, knocking down many of the chasing beasts. At this time, another old voice shouted, "Closer than ten zhang." With this sound, another rocket was immediately fired, and this round of rockets landed less than two feet away from Zhang Zhao's carriage, and the roar of the beast behind the car immediately decreased a lot.

Zhang Zhao felt that there seemed to be some figures shaking in front of him, and then the fire flashed, and the voice who asked first shouted, "Come here." Zhang Zhao felt several earthen walls appear in front of him, and he drove the carriage around several narrow ditches on the ground and galloped behind the heavy earthen walls.

As soon as the carriage approached, more than a dozen figures rushed over, Zhang Zhaogang wanted to guard with a sword, but found that these people did not pounce on him, they each rushed to the back of the carriage with weapons, and the dozens of beasts that were chasing were easily cut down in the miserable howl.

"Where are you from, how did you drive to such a place and don't want to live?" A big man with a thick beard approached the carriage with a torch in his hand and shouted at Zhang Zhao: "Didn't anyone tell you to keep walking along the road when you came in Jiuyou?"

Before Zhang Zhao could answer, the sound of "fluttering" sounded again and again, and several horses fell to the ground one after another. The bearded man didn't care about Zhang Zhao anymore: "Come and a few people to help untie the horse, such a good horse almost fed these beasts." ”

More than a dozen strong men dressed in animal skins rushed from behind the carriage, lifted the carriage and untied the horses: "What a good horse, it's a pity to use it to pull the cart." The bearded man saw a few scattered torches and shouted even louder: "You kid, you don't light the torches when you walk at night, what if those oil barrels fall on your head just now?"

Zhang Zhao knew that he was kind and smiled with a smile on his face: "Uncle, I first came to Jiuyou, and I don't know these ....... The bearded man shouted mercilessly: "If you don't understand, you have to listen to others, and tell you to walk the avenue, and if you tell you to light a torch, you have to light a torch." ”

He pointed to the carriage leaning to the side: "If there are wild beasts chasing after you, you have to throw all the goods off the carriage, how can you chase these horses and beasts, it really costs money and death." At this point, he raised his nose: "What's on your car? This smells ......."

casually lifted the tarpaulin and looked at it, his bearded eyes widened and raised his voice: "What is it? a cart of dried meat?" He turned around and glared at Zhang Zhao and was even more angry: "You pulled a cart of meat and ran to the beast pile, aren't you looking for your own death?"

The men next to him lifted a few tired horses away and turned back: "Good guy, why do people still come to our Jiuyou to buy meat?" Zhang Zhao finally found a chance to speak: "I didn't buy it here, I made it myself and brought it down." ”

He took a few pieces of jerky from the car and handed them over: "Thank you uncles for saving your life." I want to go to Guang Cheng to meet a few friends, but I accidentally got lost, how far is it from Guang Cheng City, and how can I get there?"

The beard sniffed the jerky stuffed into his mouth and munched: "Well, it tastes really good." How did you get there?" he stretched out his hand and pointed in a direction: "Even if you get lost, you will go too far, this place has long passed the scope of Guangcheng City, and it is already a beast-resisting earth city on the periphery of the Void City." ”

Zhang Zhao thought for a while: "Xuluo City, may I ask the uncle if he knows Senior Brother Ye Qinghe Ye?" The bearded man listened for a while: "You mean Xiao Ye, the disciple of the Luo Ghost King, although you don't know him, if you are his friend, after a while, I will ask someone to take you to find him." ”

"Don't bother uncle, you just need to show me the way, and I'll go by myself after dawn. The bearded man listened to his words with a strange expression: "Is it dawn? What time do you think it is?"

Seeing that Zhang Zhao didn't understand, he pointed to the sky: "It's daylight now, it's already three poles in the morning, are you still in the middle of the night?" Several men around laughed: "Little brother, it's already dawning, but it's always like this here in us." ”

Zhang Zhao didn't expect that he had been running in the dark all night, he looked around with amazement, and felt that the darkness in front of him did seem to be lighter than when he was running around in a carriage, but it was not daytime: "A few uncles, is it like this on a sunny day?"

A few people, including the bearded man, laughed: "Where is there any cloudy and sunny day? Our Jiuyou has always been like this, only where the city is located can still have some light." ”

At this time, a low horn sounded in the distance, and the bearded man waved his hand at Zhang Zhaoyi: "Little brother, you find a place to hide, we are going to do business." ”

Several of them each picked up their weapons and ran forward, and after taking a few steps, they found that Zhang Zhao was still following behind: "A few uncles, I can also help if there is anything." A man with a hook knife turned around and smiled: "Little brother, we are doing a terrible job, you better hurry up and get out of the way." ”

Without waiting for Zhang Zhao to say anything more, a huge ball of fire rose into the air on the earthen wall beside them, falling and scattering several miles away. Immediately after that, one fire ball after another flew up in front of him, falling into the herd of beasts on the opposite side.

The beasts that were burned by the scattered flames screamed and rolled at a loud end, but from the flickering of the fire, countless fierce beasts could be seen slowly walking in this direction: "Brothers, prepare to do it. With the cry of the beard, figures jumped out one after another behind several earthen walls beside Zhang Zhao, standing in a staggered formation.

Zhang Zhao looked through the firelight, countless earthen walls at the same level as the human body stretched out from his position, and there were several cultivators guarding each wall with sharp blades, and on the opposite side of them were countless beasts with red eyes approaching.

The low cry of "roar roar" was clearly audible, and the light in the eyes of countless beasts turned into a blood-red color. In the next moment, the chaotic roar of the beast fell silent. The tide of red light suddenly surged, and it was overwhelming.

(End of chapter)