Chapter 1, singing the clouds and the wild goose in the sky

The morning sun was shining, and it was a peaceful early autumn morning.

The turbid waters of the Yellow River swept up angry waves several feet high, roaring and rushing past, breaking the silent sunlight into pieces. So the blue sky also brought a withered yellow shadow, silently dimming the scene of Qing Liao. In the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River was like an unconquerable giant, wantonly contemptuous of everything in the world.

A flat boat sailed on the raging waves, but it was like a rock, let the wind blow and the waves, did not tilt, and drifted forward smoothly and slowly. The three people on the boat are Guo Ao, Tie Hate and Li Qingchou.

Guo Ao stood at the bow of the boat, the water of the Yellow River was surging and roaring, and a large area of the river water hit him like a torrential rain. Shangguan Hong still escaped, and Shaolin has been destroyed, and Wudang is facing a stormy situation. The anger on Guo Ao's face became stronger and stronger, and he suddenly let out a long roar and slammed his palm towards the river in front of him!

The river was rushing and rushing, and he slapped it diagonally. But the power of nature was so great that the flood in front of him retreated slightly, and was immediately pushed forward by the surging waves. The two forces intersected, and the storm turned even more vicious, letting out a hoarse hiss, and swooping down on the boat in the air!

Guo Ao laughed and let the monstrous waves beat his body wet. Iron Hate didn't care about him, just looked up at the sky silently. The turbid river completely obscured the blue sky, as if separated by a layer of glass, and the clear colors became blurred together. Iron Hate muttered, "It's going to be a change......

Li Qingchou flicked the water droplets splashed on his shirt and said with a smile: "Don't let one of you two be angry, and the other is deep." How should these people be dispatched? ”

Guo Ao sneered: "Demon Sect Sin, kill!" ”

Li Qingchou shook his head slightly, and said, "Since the Demon Sect has the ability to destroy the Shaolin Temple, the people sent may not be able to be killed by us. ”

Tie Hate said lightly: "Since you can't kill, you can only escape." If the three of us run away with all our might, I'm afraid there will be few people in the world who can catch up, right? ”

Li Qingchou said: "Although we can escape for a while, I am afraid that when we are exhausted, it will be the day when others will slaughter us." ”

Guo Ao said: "If you have any method, just say it happily, why do you sell so many passes?" When we're together, it's always you who make up your mind, and you don't have to ask me anymore. ”

Li Qingchou groaned: "My method is very simple, that is, the three of us must be separated!" ”

Guo Ao frowned and said, "Separate? Isn't the strength weaker after separation? ”

Li Qingchou said with a smile: "We are together and contain each other, but it is not easy to give full play to each other's advantages. What Brother Guo is good at is swordsmanship, which is fierce and majestic, and he moves forward. Therefore, when I rushed to Wudang Mountain to report the news, I favored Brother Guo. ”

Guo Ao said: "What about you? ”

Li Qingchou smiled and said, "Let's stay and see what kind of people the Demon Sect has sent." I don't have anything I'm good at, so I just have to stay on this ship, and Brother Tie is good at stealth tracking, so Brother Tie shouldn't be on the ship. ”

Iron Hate nodded and said, "You are on the boat, the Demon Sect members are following you, and I will follow the Demon Sect members." ”

Guo Ao laughed and said: "As soon as you have a chance, it's 'cluck'!" He made a one-handed bending motion. The three of them laughed in unison.

Li Qing said worriedly: "Then Brother Guo has to go on the road." The luck of the rivers and lakes is that Brother Guo is here. ”

Guo Ao took a deep breath and looked at Li Qingchou and Tie Hate. Tie Ha's face was gloomy, with almost no expression, but Li Qingchou was smiling. Guo Ao's face gradually became solemn, and he suddenly hugged his fists and said, "Treasure!" ”

His body suddenly folded, flipped lightly in the air, and sank into the mighty Yellow River. The river water full of yellow sand hit his face, and Guo Ao felt a tingling pain in his eyes. He vaguely knew that the Demon Sect's plot this time was very big, watching it destroy the battle of Shaolin, although few people made a move, but the momentum was huge, whether it was the shadow of the thirty secret demons or the array of 100,000 snakes and insects, it was an extremely powerful force, and it was impossible to master it without years of operation. The three people who chased them this time may not only send a few second-rate masters. Is Iron Hate and Li Qingchou unstoppable?

Guo Ao didn't dare to think about it. Although the three of them only meet once every three years, their friendship is very deep, no less than brothers. If he was forced to do so, Guo Ao would not let them go and walk away alone. But he knew that the responsibility he had to carry was heavier, and the future was difficult, and he might not be ambushed by the Demon Sect. He sighed silently and said silently, "Cherish! The true qi was running, and his body was suddenly like a boulder, cutting through the mighty turbid waves and diving to the bottom.

The sword qi he practiced was a first-class kung fu, not only the sword technique was sharp, but when used in this breath, it was enough to hold his breath for more than a moment. What has been decided, Guo Ao no longer thinks about it, completely abandons his thoughts, imagining that his body is like a vast blue sky, and he is like a dust in the world, unpolluted, with the rise and fall of fate, the waves around him seem to be quiet, and his body also falls vertically.

At the bottom of the river, the water is not so strong. The turbidity of the river is more than two feet high, but the bottom of the water is unusually calm. It's just that the water is full of mud and sand, stirring up a few feet high, and there is hardly a clear bottom. Guo Ao slowly penetrated his true qi from his body, and his body was like a huge octopus, sticking flat to the bottom of the water. The mud and sand stirred up at the bottom of the water were so turbid that he could not be seen even if anyone passed by him a foot away. Although the water is calm, the current is still flowing at a very fast speed, and Guo Ao follows the waves, which is not very laborious.

When a breath of true qi was about to be exhausted, Guo Ao slowly lifted his body, and the sword qi around his body floated in the air and groped, and only when a huge wave hit him, did he suddenly stretch his head out and take a few big breaths. The wave struck down, and he dived down with the wave again. He was extremely cautious, and the wind and waves on the river were so strong that even if someone looked closely, they might not be able to find a trace.

After walking like this intermittently for more than three hours, Guo Ao estimated that he had swam out for more than 100 miles, and with Li Qingchou and the Iron Hate Palace, it must be that although the Demon Sect has great magical powers, it can't catch up here. He groped for the mud and sand at the bottom of the water and swam towards the south bank.

Near the shore was a small grove, quiet all around, and there was not a single person. Guo Ao was not in a hurry to go ashore, he spread his sword qi out from afar, and after half an hour, after making sure that there was really no one around, he stepped ashore.

This forest grows extremely luxuriantly because of the moisture of the river, and the forest is full of grass and verdant green. Guo Ao went ashore and fought for days, plus Fang Cai dived at the bottom of the river, his physical strength was really a little weak, and he didn't care about the wet clothes on his body, so he fell asleep. I slept until it was dark, and then I woke up rubbing my eyes, and the clothes were already dry. He is such a man, sometimes shrewd, sometimes careless. It is really strange to walk alone in the rivers and lakes for so many years without dying. He stretched out his hands and feet, picked up some firewood around him, lit it with flint, and gathered a heap of it, and then sat down by the fire, not knowing whether to roast fish or catch a rabbit or something to eat.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of a bell in the distance. Guo Ao's heart moved, he looked at his body, the mud and sand in the Yellow River had made his clothes extremely dirty, at this time the muddy water was half dry, the clothes were yellow and green, most of them were torn into pieces, and he couldn't see the original style at all, and his body was even more dirty, and he was a country boy who worked as a coolie. Guo Ao took off his shoes and threw them far into the river, his feet stomping on the ground for a while, and he was also covered with mud. He spread his legs apart, sat down on the edge of the fire, and lifted his shirt to his face.

The sound of the bell was getting closer and closer, and gradually I saw a group of more than a dozen people riding tall horses coming over. The first few horses were loaded with bulging cloth sacks, which seemed to be heavy with silver ingots. Guo Ao pretended not to look at them, the last dart master rode on the horse without a bag, holding a big flag, Hulala unfolded, and the four big characters "Shenwei Dart Bureau" were written on it.

Guo Ao's heart moved again, just because the Shenwei Dart Bureau was opened by Tie Wanchang Tie Master, and its headquarters was located in Jingzhou, not far from Wudang Mountain. If you go back to the headquarters this time, you can try to go with you and quietly rush to Wudang. The new generation of dart masters in this dart game is not high, the temper is not small, and the operation is even more chaotic. The dart game has always been a mixture of dragons and snakes, and no one knows if there is one more person and one less person.

The dart board shouted and came over. The horses' hooves rattled, and a group of more than a dozen people was a dozen horses, which was very imposing. Guo Ao watched coldly, the cultivation of the dart masters was really as rumored, they were all mediocre, no wonder they only escorted a few bags of silver.

Suddenly, I heard a "moo" call. Guo Ao was taken aback, why did the horses hear the sound of cows? Then a voice shouted, "Drive! Sacred cow run, we are no worse than horses! ”

Then he saw the horses bobbing their heads and tails and pacing out a yak, and a man riding on it. The cow looked unsurprising, it was clearly a beast pulling a plough and a coolie in the field, and it walked very slowly, but the man on his back was triumphant, as if he was riding Huang Feihu's five-colored sacred cow, and Wang Kai's eight-hundred-mile wrestling was a rare treasure, and even the sweat and blood BMW could not be compared.

This person was also dressed very strangely, wearing a pair of goose-yellow silk trousers, fluttering and scattering, the trousers were more than three feet long, and at the very end of the bunch, piled up on the back of the cow like a cloud. But his upper body was naked, and only a ribbon was draped diagonally. If the rivers and lakes are strangers or the rich and young people in the countryside are dressed like this, then that's fine, but this person has white and plump skin, and a handsome face, just like a pure white jade carving, like the black clothes of Wang Xie Di, who should have sat on the Luantai of the Fengge Pavilion and talked about some Qingyuan's purpose, where would he be dressed up like this, trekking through the wind and dust, walking the rivers and lakes? He wore a brocade hat with a top silk on his head, but he was not as inlaid with jade as he was nowadays, but inserted a phoenix tail high, and between looking forward to it, the tassel under the phoenix tail and the jade rang together, and the golden sound of jade vibrated far and wide.

This outfit, even Guo Ao felt weird when he saw it, but he didn't realize it at all, his clear eyes looked around, and he really looked forward to Shenfei. Suddenly, he saw Guo Ao at a glance, and immediately smiled: "Boss Yang, you see that there are forests and fires here, and there are still people, why don't we take a break?" ”

The leader was in his thirties, and his face was extremely capable, and he nodded when he heard the words, and said, "It's okay to rest." Take a few sips of wine and make a stride, rush to the town in front, and then let's have a good rest. ”

The group dismounted one after another and tied the cattle to the trees beside them. The man on the bull rider jumped off the bull's back with a tap of his toes, slapped it lightly on the buttocks, and let the cow graze on its own. He walked to the fire with a big grin, and sat down with a "tom", despite the dirt and turf on the ground. Seeing that Guo Ao didn't speak, he bumped him with his shoulder and said, "My name is Shen Nong, you seem to be a small farmer, we seem to be a family, I can't say it, so I have to get close." ”

Guo Ao lowered his head and pulled the fire, ignoring him. Shen Nong didn't care, he opened his eyes and looked around, and sighed: "It's such a twilight weather, and it's twilight that day, the wind is blowing and the clouds are angry, and the water is hitting the sky. Isn't it just a good natural sound? We are fortunate to be human beings, and we understand the grace of the sound and the tune of the melody, so we can't help but drum it up and compose songs to harmonize. ”

He said a lot of nonsense, and it didn't matter whether Guo Ao understood it or not, he just said it happily and danced with his hands. Regardless of whether Guo Ao agreed or not, he stretched out his hand, pulled out a flute carved from white jade from his waist, put it to his lips and blew it.

For a while, the vibrating sound was curling, like a lonely crane rising, and it rose far away in the twilight sky. The autumn water turned into light smoke in the air, covering the sky and the sky. The crane hovered left and right, and gradually the white feathers and black feathers were in a trance, scattered in the pure blue sky, leaving only an indescribable piece of sorrow.

Guo Ao didn't expect him to play the flute so well, and even Li Qingchou, who has always been good at playing the piano, is quite inferior. I was so happy to hear it for a while, I couldn't help but tap my toes and beat him with his slap.

Shen Nong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that he had a bosom friend, and when the flute sounded a little off, he saw his lips open slightly and roared.

Guo Ao immediately felt a big knife cut straight into his chest, and with Shen Nong's whistling, he kept tearing and pulling, grinding and cutting off the internal organs piece by piece, squeezing them into powder. The young man's voice was elegant and good, and the sound of the flute was even more faintly beautiful, but when it roared, the voice suddenly became hoarse and dry, like a carriage that had been put back on for decades, and the sour sound of the rusty iron shaft rubbing against it was really thrilling. Even the ghost face of the Tianluo Sect Ghost Yin Niang, the Tianfeng Huan Peiqin of the Huayin Pavilion Qinyan, and the Mandala Sect Hold the Heaven of the Demon Pipa do not have the lethality of his howl! really cut the dog's tail, stepped on the chicken's neck, and Guo Ao practiced swords for ten years, and ten years of kung fu to nourish qi, he couldn't help but change color in shock, and with a move "Hidden Dragon Tengyuan", his right hand was clawed, turned out from the bottom up, and grabbed him.

As soon as Guo Ao moved, Shen Nong immediately stopped. Guo Ao felt that his chest was smooth, and his happiness was even better than drinking ten catties of Yunxian Palace's Mui Yan Chunbing. Once the pressure on his body is gone, the shot will be eased. In a blink of an eye, he saw Shen Nong looking at him with excitement on his face. The frenzied fire that erupted from his eyes made Guo Ao shudder, and said hurriedly: "What are you doing?" ”

Shen Nong suddenly got up, took a deep look, and said, "Bosom friend!" ”

Guo Ao was stunned, and didn't understand why he called himself a bosom friend as soon as he came out? Seeing that Shen Nong grabbed a step, he was about to shake hands with Guo Ao, but Guo Ao hurriedly avoided the snake and scorpion. Shen Nong didn't care, when he grabbed a handful of emptiness, as if holding Guo Ao's hand, he shook it a few times, and said excitedly: "My long howl was done by the ancestor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty when he heard the chicken dance, and the name is 'chicken sound'." As soon as my brother heard my whistle, he got up and danced, why wasn't he my bosom friend? Shen has traveled all over the country, and those who can hear my Xiaoyayi, Brother Tai is the first person! As he spoke, he bowed down again.

Guo Ao smiled bitterly. This kind of whistling, if the kung fu is worse, I am afraid that the real qi will flow backwards immediately, and spit out three mouthfuls of blood in a row. If you listen to it for a while, your true qi will be out of control for a while, then you will go crazy, your whole body will burst and die, what are you talking about? Is there really any howling song called "chicken sound"?

Shen Nong saw that Guo Ao didn't answer, of course he thought that he was a humble gentleman and not a vain name. took another step and grabbed Guo Ao's hands, and his voice became a little hotter: "Brother Guo, junior brother still has dog howling, wolf howling, fox crying, ghost howling and other sounds, brother Tai must listen to it." This dog roared was what Meng felt when he stole Qi Qiu; The wolf howler is the excitement of Su Zhan's hunting, and the sound is wonderful and clear, twists and turns, which is better than the sound of chickens. Slowly, Brother Tai is in a hurry, and the younger brother doesn't dare to cherish it alone, and he wants to appreciate it with Brother Tai. ”

He said so urgently, but he wanted Guo Ao to listen to his dog howl and wolf howl. Guo Ao's whole body suddenly stood on end, and he couldn't help but shrink his body violently, wanting to be freed from the hands he kept warmly inviting and probing. To say that Guo Ao's martial arts are also first-class in the rivers and lakes, it is not for nothing that he is as strong as him, but being forced to be so embarrassed is the only time in his life; Being forced to be embarrassed and not thinking about fighting back, not only did it not happen before, but it will not be in the future, and it can be described as unprecedented.

Finally, after Guo Ao's back rested on the tree trunk, his hand could no longer escape, and was held fiercely by Shen Nong, and it shook violently. Guo Ao couldn't help but be pulled by him to the fire and still sat down. Shen Nong was no longer polite, he grabbed Guo Ao tightly with both hands, and there was a long howl when he looked up to the sky. Sure enough, it was strange and abrupt, Xiao Shusen let go, like a mad dog and a wild wolf. And it was not a wolf or dog in a normal mental state, but a trap that was driven into a trap, and dozens of people surrounded the dying beast that was bombarded with sticks, and all the screams were bloody and miserable.

Guo Ao only felt that his head was about to burst open, his head was dizzy, and the sword qi was not operating on its own uncontrollably at all, so he was waiting to fall on Shen Nong's head. But the wolf's howl was extremely powerful, and Guo Ao had a sword in his hand, but he couldn't gather his strength no matter what. opened his mouth to drink him, but the voice somehow, just after reaching his throat, he swallowed it by himself, only to feel a burst of sourness. This can be described as wanting to cry without tears. He looked for the dart masters who came with him with hope, but found that one of them was holding a tree, holding his breath and resting, one ear close to his arm, and the other ear was stuck to the bark of the tree. They are really useless at the moment, and they will pay attention to Guo Ao slowly, even if Guo Ao them with a needle, they will not move a bit.

Suddenly, a sharp roar came from above the Yellow River, which instantly pierced the night and rushed straight into Shen Nong's dog crying wolf. The whistling came very quickly, not as if it came from the population, but as the swift sound of breaking wind. But the river is empty, the turbidity waves are monstrous, with Guo Ao's ability, he can only dive to the bottom, who can drive so fast? Shen Nong was stunned and kept his mouth shut. Guo Ao immediately took a step away as if he had been amnestied, and also hugged a tree - it was okay to kill him, let him go, that was not to be thought of.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a huge black shadow rushed out of the river and smashed towards everyone. The dart masters didn't care about hugging the tree and hurriedly resisted. But how long is the black shadow a few feet long, but how can it parry? At present, he didn't care that Shen Nong might take advantage of the danger of others to howl again, so he had to avoid it one after another. There was an earth-shattering noise, and the black shadow smashed on the bonfire, and a large splash of water splashed, and when everyone looked at it, it was a swarthy speedboat.

That Shen Nong was extremely righteous, and when the speedboat smashed down, he dragged Guo Ao and rolled to the side. Guo Ao was so happy that he didn't show his kung fu and let him drag him. Shen Nong dragged Guo Ao and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, brother, I'll tell you later!" ”

Suddenly, a delicate voice said: "If you have feet, go quickly, this girl will not embarrass you." It's just that I took the silver. ”

The voice was good, Guo Ao finally had a little fun of being a human being, and when he looked up, he saw a little girl standing at the bow of the speedboat, about seventeen years old, wearing a short lotus coat and a small bun on her head, looking very light. At this time, he tried to make a vicious appearance, but he did not expect that if a person is beautiful, he will lose the qualification to be a wicked person, no matter how vicious he pretends to be, it is always difficult to make others afraid. Therefore, the famous wicked people on the rivers and lakes are rarely women.

Of course, dart walkers often encounter dart robbers. Boss Yang was not very nervous and smiled: "If the girl is a little silverflower, there is still thirty taels of private money here, how about the girl take it and spend it first?" Although there was less silver, the girl saved some flowers, and it was enough to buy some beautiful clothes and eat a few rich meals. ”

As he spoke, he really took out a handful of broken silver from his bosom and really handed it to the girl.

Guo Ao couldn't help but sigh. This girl can drive the boat so fast on the turbid and vicious Yellow River, driving the boat for more than ten feet, and the kung fu at the bottom of her hand will not be mediocre no matter what. This Boss Yang saw that she was just a cute little girl, so he took it lightly, and he had to suffer.

Cute, but also killing. Especially the cute little girls, when they kill people, they simply don't blink.

This little girl too, she looked at Boss Yang with a smile, her eyes didn't blink at all, she stretched out her hand and took the silver from Boss Yang's hand. The smile on Boss Yang's face was even bigger, and it was of course best to be able to solve this matter so easily. The dart game is a business, not a fight, and when he can, he is willing to save his true anger.

The little girl smiled even sweeter, she rubbed her hands, and the thirty taels of silver were suddenly rolled into a small slender silver stick by her, and her hand shook, and the silver stick suddenly inserted into Boss Yang's ears.

It came in through this ear, and it went out through that ear. Boss Yang's head suddenly grew two shiny horns. His eyes also became extremely strange, and he just stood like this, unable to say a word again.

But the little girl's laughter was louder: "I don't want your silver, give it back to you." ”

She even patted Boss Yang on the shoulder and said softly, "You are a good person, so I decided to let you not shed a single drop of blood." After all, there aren't many good people left in this world. ”

Boss Yang opened his mouth with all his might, wanting to say something. The little girl put her ear to his mouth and said, "What else do you want to say?" If you can still say a word, how about I make the silver as it is, and give it back to you? ”

Boss Yang's breath became weaker and weaker, and he died standing like this. The little girl sighed and said, "Since you have nothing more to say, then I'll ask the others." ”

She really straightened up and asked, "Who else of you wants to give me silver?" She swept her gaze over the crowd with a smile, and the dart masters felt that her gaze was flat, but everywhere she looked, there was a chill on her body for no reasonβ€”a chill like a blade that had killed a thousand people.

The little girl sighed, "I'll just say, there are fewer and fewer good people." My sister told me that you can't ask for money from good people, so I just need money from 'not good people'. If you are with this good person, you are considered a good person if you are so-so. I can't ask for your money. ”

Suddenly, she came to the front of the horse, gently clasped the silver bag on the horse's back, and suddenly pulled a dart master over, and shouted, "Is this silver yours?" ”

The dart master was frightened, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's not mine, it's Mr. Shen......"

The little girl cut off and said, "It's not yours, that's fine." Who can stand and claim the silver? ”

All the dart masters were silent for a while. For they all saw that the little girl was just two fingers tapping lightly on the silver sac, and the horse sank inch by inch to the ground. Strangely enough, the horse's legs were not bent, and it did not neigh, as if it were made of mud.

But these dart masters rode it all the way, and naturally knew that it was not made of mud.

This little girl's martial arts are not only powerful, but also have an indescribable weirdness, which increases her sense of deterrence. Although Guo Ao has a wide range of knowledge, he can't see the way out for a while.

When the little girl saw that no one answered, her smiling face was red and even more beautiful. She said softly, "Ask again......"

Suddenly, an equally crisp voice shouted, "Me! I! The little girl and Guo Ao looked sideways at the same time, to see who was vying to answer. I saw Shen Nong holding a hand high and looking at the little girl with great excitement. His expression was so impatient.