Qin Yan entered the palace at sunset, and there were already people waiting at the palace gate.

"General Qin, Prince Jing is in a hurry!"

"Hmm!" Qin Yan didn't get off the horse either, and galloped towards the main hall.

Chu Jing was waiting anxiously in the hall with a worried face, and when he saw Qin Yan riding to the door, he hurriedly took a few steps to the door, and asked through the door: How is the prince's injury? ”

"I haven't woken up yet, and I don't have to worry about my life." Qin Yan dismounted and replied as he walked into the hall.

Chu Jing sighed, turned around and looked at the dragon chair in the hall, overwhelmed with sorrow.

Qin Yan tightened his eyebrows, and his heart was heavy.

Today, Chu Yue was ambushed by the lake, and those people came and went freely in the army of 100,000, which was obviously done by people in the rivers and lakes with extraordinary skills. Before the accident, King Li deliberately dragged him to patrol in front of the closed imperial tomb again, and he knew that something must have happened.

secretly gave an order, let Wei Xiangdong follow closely by the prince's side to prevent accidents, and ordered Ye Heng and Xiang Tianqi to echo each other one after the other, but something still happened despite all the caution. When he arrived, the prince was already wounded, and he had been struck by a sword in the chest.

On the one hand, he rescued urgently, and on the other hand, he ordered people to chase him. The group of people came and went by water, except for one who was killed by an arrow and was hacked to death with a random blade, and there was no trace of the remaining three.

Although Prince Yue's wound is deep, it does not reach the heart, and careful rescue will not be a big problem. Let Wei Xiangdong personally escort him all the way back to the palace, and Qin Yan bypassed Mochou Lake alone and disappeared into the mountains.

In the night, on a pavilion near the water, two brocade-clothed men sat opposite each other, each holding an emerald dark cup and drinking leisurely. Until a jar of peach blossoms was drunk, the boy in the dark sandalwood brocade got up and was about to leave.

The man in black said lightly, "The killing has begun!" ”

The man who was about to leave paused slightly, but in the blink of an eye he walked again, still silent.

The man in black threw out something and flew towards the man, "Back then, King Duan disappeared, and together with the 50,000 horsemen in his hand, he never appeared again. Emperor Mingyu secretly searched for 20 years, but he could not find any clues until he died. ”

The boy in brocade looked at the token in his hand, his eyebrows condensed, "He's right!" Although I have no intention of taking the throne, I was born as a descendant of the emperor, and I have the responsibility and obligation to carry the future of the Eastern Chu country. If the country is overturned, there is no shame to face the warriors who once shed blood and sacrificed for the Chu family's world. ”

The man in black sat up straight quite unexpectedly.

The boy in brocade looked at the direction of the forbidden city in the dark night, and said slowly: "He tried his best to get the throne, but he did nothing in his life; In the end, it is something obtained by unscrupulous means, suspicious and suspicious, and even a junior who can support the country alone has not been cultivated, and he is still lost until death, how can he not stain the mountains and rivers with blood? ”

"It's not completely confused, at least Qin Yan made the right move!" The man in black answered lightly.

The boy in brocade raised his hand, "I accepted this token!" "Before the words fell, the people were gone.

The man in black didn't leave him either, covered the light in his eyes, and left the pavilion to go back to the room drunk.

Weiyang bypassed Wuling City and traveled a hundred miles, and entered Qixia Pass late at night.

Qixia Pass is located on the edge of Nanzhao. Nanzhao has existed since ancient times, and it is a general term for the territory bounded by Qixia Pass and outside the pass to the country of Nanzhao and one-third of the territory in the Western Tang Dynasty.

Nanzhao is rich in forests and fog, and is the main production area of precious medicinal materials and rare jade, with rich mineral deposits. The current Nanzhao Kingdom is composed of various tribes in Zhaodi, the Qiangyu tribe is the king with strength, followed by the Baishan and Heishui tribes, and the rest of the tribes are barbarians. Zhaodi agriculture is scarce, does not know how to feed the country with products, food and clothing are still insufficient, and in the past 50 years, they have been keeping to themselves.

Weiyang first walked around the barracks, and he had to answer the correct password before he could be released, and the passwords between the barracks were not the same. Then he went to the commander's mansion, hidden in the dark and looked at the simple house with the lights on, and Weiyang secretly thought in his heart: The three generations of the Qi family have guarded this Qixia Pass, and the reputation is very good in the south, and it seems that it is not just a show.

She didn't get too close, and the shadows of two people were reflected in the window, moving from time to time. Behind the door and room were guarded a group of soldiers, and every once in a while, a group of soldiers came over to defend the night.

Quietly left the camp and went to the outside of the pass.

The south is hot and humid, the sun is abundant during the day, and the fog barrier is extremely heavy at night, especially in the forest, she does not dare to be careless. Relying on his light skills, he passed through the forest, and found a big tree on the slope of the mountain hundreds of miles away from Guan and flew up, intending to take refuge in the tree and go again tomorrow morning.

Although the solar term has entered the winter, this Danxia Mountain is green all year round, especially in the deep mountains, the big trees hugged by several people can not be seen at a glance, and they do not know how old the forest is, and the depth of the forest is geometric.

The animals in the forest seemed to be asleep late at night, and were very silent except for the occasional unknown insect call. A person in this strange place is especially easy to feel lonely, as if she is the only one in this world. Weiyang hid in the dense canopy, and he didn't feel sleepy. There was a hissing sound overhead, and she lazily looked sideways, but it turned out to be a python the thickness of her calf staring at her with two extremely bright eyes the size of a mung bean.

She wasn't afraid, and looked at the python with a mischievous smile on the corner of her lips. I don't know how long it took, the python finally couldn't hold its breath, twisted its boneless soft body and approached Weiyang two feet in front of him, but for some reason it suddenly retreated quickly, and its eyes suddenly darkened.

Weiyang deliberately teased it, and took the initiative to move forward. As if afraid of her, the python hunched over and swam back towards the top of the tree, retreating to a distance that could be seen but not seen clearly, and glanced back at Weiyang before climbing down the crown to another tree.

Xiaoyao Valley is in the deep mountains, she has been learning art in Xiaoyao Valley since she was a child, the master and the two grandmothers take her very precious, the elixir and the spirit grass as a snack to eat big, and the flame whip on her waist is treated with a special potion, snakes, insects, rats and ants never dare to get too close to her. She ran around the valley all day long, often grabbing small things to scare the maids.

Before dawn but it rained, Weiyang casually pulled the fresh branches with leaves on the tree and densely knitted a big hat for himself, turned over and got off the tree, and stepped on the slippery lichen and quickly went to the depths of the forest.

After walking in the rain for more than an hour, stepping on the canopy of the trees and seeing the town hidden in the woods, he cleaned up, put away his light work, and walked in the direction of the city unhurriedly.

It is not a city, at best it is a small village and town, but there are more than 30 households, and there is not even a decent tavern, only a place to set up one or two stalls, selling some needles, threads, rice, grain, oil and salt and other necessities.

Weiyang walked around the town and saw a faint dragon on the wooden fence of the second house in the east. The people who can understand this secret mark except for the secret envoy himself are the four great lords of Weiyang and Youlong Pavilion and Yan Ran, and they don't even recognize Sanjiu.

I went around to the back of the house and went into the courtyard from the back of the house.

The house is very simple, one bright and two dark, clean and tidy. In the east room, the bedding was washed white but neatly folded, and on the bed were the things that women used to make needlework. The kitchen pot at the back is still warm, and there is a surplus of rice and grain.

Weiyang quietly walked around the house and didn't see anyone, secretly strange. Although there are very few women in the secret envoy, Cangxin told her when she came, this person should be called Gu Xiao, thirty years old, very calm.

Just then, the door to the fence wall in the front yard opened, and two people entered. A tall, bearded man was in front, followed by a woman in her twenties, plump and gentle.

Weiyang drew two codes with his fingernails in a conspicuous place, then went out through the back door, crossed the courtyard wall and walked five miles north, flew into a big tree, closed his eyes and rested.

Sure enough, it was only half an hour before the man came at a hurry, stopping and cautiously looking around every way, making sure that no one was following him.

When she was about to walk under the big tree where Weiyang was hiding, she floated from the tree like a Lingbo fairy, raised her right hand with her back to him and made two gestures.

The man was stunned for a moment after seeing the gesture and immediately knelt on the ground, "Gu Xiao has seen the Venerable Lord!" ”

"Gu Xiao, are you guilty?" Weiyang lowered his voice and condensed and spit out a few words.

Gu Xiao knelt down at the moment and replied very calmly: "Gu Xiao confessed, it was really helpless. She doesn't know anything, and she hopes that the Lord will find out! ”

"Get up! The big war is coming, the young master is on the occasion of employing people, your military spirit has been dispersed, and the sin is unforgivable! ”

Gu Xiao was still kneeling, and said simply, "Gu Xiao is a secret envoy of Youlong in life and death, although he has no choice but to marry a wife, but Gu Xiao does not need to choose between his family and Youlong Xin Pavilion, he should take the young master's order as his letter and You Long Xin Pavilion as his own responsibility!" ”

"Good! With your words today, he should do his best in front of the young lord every day, and if there is a difference, you will measure it yourself! Weiyang's voice was cold again.

"Gu Xiao thanked the Lord for forgiveness with his sinful body!"

Weiyang kept his back to him, "Gu Xiao, can you find out where the Nanzhao camp is and how many troops are there?" ”

"I have investigated many times, but it is not very true, there are formations and traps around the camp, and it is impossible to get close." Gu Xiao didn't dare to get up without being ordered, and bowed down and replied respectfully: "About 300,000 soldiers and horses are here to go to a mountain col fifty miles southwest, and there are guards on the top of the mountain on both sides, and it is forbidden to enter or exit. ”

Weiyang was silent, and looked out in the southwest direction, mountain after mountain, peak after peak.

"You go back, take care of all the military movements here, and don't tell anyone where I'm going, understand?" After restraining Gu Xiao in a cold voice, he didn't wait for him to answer, he flew out, and lost his trace in this dense forest in a blink of an eye.

Gu Xiao looked at her disappearing back in a daze, the wound on the vest hurt so much that his whole body was numb, and he was stunned for a while before wiping the sweat on his forehead, and chopping some firewood with difficulty and went back.

The sun shifted, and the dense canopy of trees blocked most of the sunlight, and scattered light sporadically sparkled into the woodland, creating a mottled mark of time.

Fifty miles is not very far, but it is difficult to determine the direction in the dense forest. Climbing up a hillside, Weiyang suddenly stopped his steps. There are traces left by people walking on the ground, a few shallow. She followed the footprints to an open place, and could not find them again. After taking two steps forward, her feet suddenly became soft, and a pair of hands seemed to pull her down under the dense layers of fallen leaves. The wind rose all around him instantly, and there was nothing to see in the white expanse in front of him.

Fortunately, she also took two steps, lifted her breath and stepped back to the shore in the direction, looking down at the position she had just stepped on, and there was nothing unusual. The swamp is still a swamp, but the thick fog that has just risen is gone, and the dead leaves that have fallen for I don't know how many years have not seemed to be disturbed by her, and they still remain silent.

Raising his eyes and looking around, this place covered by dead leaves is quite large, and he is afraid that there will be no miles. He found a big tree and flew up, and took a closer look at the formation that had been set up on the swamp in this square circle.

This is the most primitive Bagua array, with the swamp as the source, and Kun is located in the north, which is the direction in which East Chu comes from the south. However, the location of the Nanzhao Wangcheng is in the southwest, and the Xun position belongs to the wind and cannot be forcefully crossed; The cadre is located in the south, and on the surface it seems to be a road leading to heaven, but in fact it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

And the west of the ridge belongs to the water, although it is the countercurrent but the only outlet, presumably the net of heaven and earth has already been laid, even if there are capable people in Dongchu to break this rare exquisite formation, but it also happened to fall into the mouth of the tiger of Nanzhao, and there is nothing left.

It's no wonder that Nanzhao is so fearless, and laying down this big array is like an insurmountable natural danger out of thin air.

Yes, ten miles southwest here, a hill should be the place where Nanzhao's troops were stationed.

Wei Yang Yi was bold and bounced off the tree and shot out across the swamp. For her who wants to take a shortcut, although the formation is strong, there is no direction that can stop her. After changing her breath twice in the middle, seeing that she was about to fall in the opposite forest, she suddenly turned to the side, and then lifted her breath and moved a few feet to Xishengsheng before going up a big tree.

Originally, there was a mechanism in the place where she wanted to stay, and there were things connected on the hair-thick threads, and I didn't know where to tie them. Thanks to the sunset, the sun reflects the luster of the silk thread, otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable.

She slowly moved from the branch to the end of the thread, and when she got closer, she realized that it was a white bone wind chime the size of a fingernail. The surface of the white bone has a deep and shallow erosion, adding three points of cruelty, but the small one has a strong sense of existence; The wind moved, but it didn't move, as if it was as gloomy as an infinite resentment.

Weiyang didn't take it to heart, turned around and landed, and chose the road to the southwest again.

Nanzhao advocates Gu art, a small white bone wind chime is set on the path to heaven in the formation, which naturally has its extremely subtle effect, but it is a pity that Weiyang ignored it, so that it later led to irreparable trouble, and regretted not being at the beginning.

After going down the hill and then to the southwest, it is difficult to move an inch, almost three steps, a pit, and a fall in five steps. This is to the Nanzhao camp around, you can see the smoke curling from a distance, and the sun is about to end.

She found a hidden place to hide, and waited until late at night to explore the camp.

On the second watch, the noise in the camp gradually stopped. After the last wave of men and horses returned to the camp on a training ground further west, the camp of Nanzhao fell into silence.

Weiyang pulled the black scarf to cover his face, used his internal force to walk between the trees, slowly approached the main camp, broke through the formation outside the camp, easily entered the camp, and went to the largest camp tent in the southeast corner.

There was a little light in the tent, and she held her breath and listened carefully to the movement inside, but she didn't hear any breath for a long time. The short body moved to the curtain of the tent, and gently lifted a gap to look, and she was suddenly stunned.