Under the city gate, Du Weifeng and Ji Ran each rode a tall horse, waiting for the order to pass on horseback.

The late autumn night was quiet and cold, and both of them changed into thick clothes.

"Do you have to come with me to Tianji Palace tonight?" Du Weifeng asked, "It's the same if you leave tomorrow morning." ”

"Since it's all the same, let's leave early," Ji Ran's back straightened, his expression still serious, "I don't like to drag things on." ”

Du mocked up and laughed.

Young people, energetic.

There was a crisp and neat "release" from the city gate, and the officers and soldiers below moved in response, and everyone worked together to lift the huge latch of the side gate, leaving a gap enough for Du Weifeng and Ji Ran to ride through.

The two of them left the city before and after, and soon galloped on the official road at night.

Ji Ran silently calculated in his heart what he had to do on this trip - the villages and towns outside Luoyang City were mainly concentrated in the area of Daizong Mountain in the north of the city, and the Dali Temple Ping Demon Department had limited manpower.

What's more, these two places have a huge influence among the mountain people in this area, and if they can use their strength, they should have twice the result with half the effort.

The letter sent to Si Tiantai had already been sent in the afternoon, but such a thing still needed to be done by himself.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, and the horse's hooves on the ground brought a puff of flying dust, and the two of them went all the way north in silence, quickly leaving behind the mountains, forests, and trees on both sides.

However, after passing a corner somewhere, Du Mock Feng and Ji Ran reined in almost at the same time.

In the dense grass ahead, there was a child's cry.

The two glanced at each other.

Where did the children come from in this wilderness......

Ji Ran pulled out his sword on horseback, dismounted with Du Weifeng, and the two followed the sound, and finally found the source of the cry.

- What a fleshy fat boy.

The child looked to be about four or five years old, wearing only a belly pocket in the cold, and shivering while crying.

When the child saw Ji Ran's fierce look, he looked like he was about to cut someone when he drew his sword, so frightened that he forgot to cry on the spot, and raised his hand to protect his head in a daze.

Du Weifeng pulled Ji Ran away, stepped forward to pick up the child and coaxed him for a few words, and then untied his cloak and put it on the child.

"Whose doll are you?" Du Weifeng asked, "Why did you come outside in the middle of the night?" ”

The child was shocked, and although he couldn't tell why he was in this place, he clearly said his name and the name of his parents, and the mountain, town, and room where the family lived...... Even the fact that there are a few pyres in the backyard is clear.

Ji Ran still had some doubts about the identity of this child, and seeing that Du Weifeng seemed to think that there was no problem, he also took the sword, "What is the Heavenly Master going to do?" This child's family is in the opposite direction from ours, so you can't take it with you. ”

"It's easy to do," Du Weifeng stuffed the child into Ji Ran's arms, "Isn't there a post station on the way you just came, you send the child to the post station first, and let the people there help send him home." ”

"Me?" Ji Ran was holding the baby in both hands, and as soon as the child arrived in Ji Ran's hands, he began to kick his legs wildly, making him scramble, "Hey-it's obviously the child you picked up, why don't you go yourself?" ”

"I'm too old to run." Du mocked his waist with both hands, "Young people still have to respect the old and love the young, go ahead, I'll rest here for a while, you go and come back quickly." ”

Ji Ran let out a cold "sigh", wrapped the corner of Du Mocker's cloak in front of him, and just hugged the child and got on the horse - the post station is not far from here, and it is only a cup of tea to go back and forth.

- You can't just leave the child in the wilderness, if it were to be left in the field tomorrow morning, it might be taken away by a wild wolf.

"It's just you! You're right here to blow the cool breeze! He shouted at Du Weifeng fiercely, and walked away in the moonlight.

Du Weifeng watched Ji Ran leave, and when he saw his back gradually getting smaller and melting into the night, Du Weifeng immediately turned over and got on his horse and whipped in the opposite direction.

Something, from the time he left the city, followed himself.

This feeling was so faint that Du Weifeng could not determine where the stalker was.

It wasn't until he saw this kid that Du Weifeng suddenly realized that the other party was probably about to make a move.

Really.

The oncoming wind mixed with a few unsightly dark lines, Du Weifeng calmly jumped from the horse's back, and the galloping horse suddenly spasmed, fell to the ground at a strange angle, and broke his neck in the toss.

Du Weifeng didn't love to fight, and after instantly sensing the other party's position, he ran away.

What the hell is keeping up with itself.

Is it a youkai?

But I don't feel the demonic energy......

He walked like a fly, faster than when he rode a horse.

Every dozen or so steps he runs, he doubles his speed. He had tried to detect his opponent's limits little by little - but until he approached his fastest speed, the tail still trailing behind him.

After Du Weifeng's speed did not change for a long time, the other party's speed suddenly increased.

The approach of this moment frightened Du Weifeng's heart, and the instinct of battle had already reacted before he realized that danger was coming-

There was a loud bang in the wilderness.

At the moment of the fight, Du Weifeng was shocked and numb, he took more than a dozen steps back one after another, and then finally stood firm.

In the moonlight, he finally saw his opponent's figure clearly.

It was a thin, tall, muscular man, who stood barefoot on the ground, holding a wide, thick steel knife in his hand, but his face was hidden in the shadow of the hat, and he couldn't see it for a while.

"Good skill, really good skill," the man in the hat exclaimed, "I have never ...... In a person, I have seen this kind of speed and power. ”

Du Weifeng stared at the man in front of him - this person's hands and feet were very clean, it was better to say that the whole body was very clean, only a little bit on the forehead, exuding a faint demonic aura.

The opponent held a knife in his right hand, and slowly took off the hat with his left hand, and under the cold and bright moonlight, the horns on Jiagu Heng's forehead shone brightly.

Although the opponent's demonic aura was weak, Du Weifeng couldn't spy on the opponent's true cultivation for a while, but he had already sensed that the strength of the person standing in front of him was unfathomable.

For the first time, a premonition of death landed in Du Weifeng's heart—perhaps only a monk like him could realize the difference between his own strength and that of the other party at the first glance of Jia Gu Heng.

It's a little hard to accept, but standing in front of such an opponent......

Du Weifeng frowned.

Tonight...... There is probably no chance of survival.

He leaned forward slightly, ready to respond to his opponent's onslaught.

“…… The child on the side of the road, you kidnapped it? ”

"Yes." Jia Gu Heng nodded calmly.

Du Weifeng was silent for a moment - he originally thought that the other party wanted to lure Ji Ran away and let himself be alone before he started, but now it seems that with this person's strength, there is no need for this.

"Why?" Du Weifeng asked.

"It's nothing, just throw a copper plate and see if you can kill the person who is traveling with you."

"Throwing copper plates?"

"If you send the child back, I will spare his life, and if you don't send it, you will kill them all." Jia Gu Heng slowly raised his knife, "Good will be rewarded...... Isn't that the truth? ”