The next day, early in the morning.

On the bed, Mu Tian and Xiaobai hugged each other and slept, opened their eyes, and the two looked at each other and smiled before getting up.

After a simple wash, Mu Tian prepared breakfast, while eating, he was also quickly packing the package, ready to finish breakfast, and then it was time to leave this place and go to Baoqingfang.

In the eastern sky, a round of scorching sun rises, so far, the temperature between heaven and earth is also slowly rising, after a short period of refreshment, the scorching heat is shrouded in the world, this is the hot season of the dog days.

Squeak.

After breakfast, taking the package, Mu Tian locked the door of the wooden house, and looked at the place around him where he had lived for more than ten years, there was a slight melancholy in his eyes, but more than that, it was joy, the joy of getting out of this place and exploring new things.

"Xiaobai, let's go to the ferry."

Stretching out his hand to hold Xiaobai, Mu Tian smiled faintly.

"Hmm." Xiaobai is a microdot with a mantis' head.

The wooden house built by Mutian is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only the easternmost has a rugged and winding ancient road artificially opened up, the two of them are not in a hurry to walk along the ancient road, slowly, thousands of meters away a small village into view, from the plaque at the entrance of the village can see three simple characters: ancient holy village.

A few years ago, Mu Tian also lived in this village, but then he was quiet and finally chose to move out.

As the saying goes, the mountains eat the mountains, the sea eats the sea, in this mountainous land, the geographical location of the ancient holy village can be described as excellent, behind the continuous mountains, and in front of it, there is a big river that does not see its length, therefore, in the village, some villagers live by hunting, and some villagers take fishing as their business...

The ferry was built on the riverside at the corner of the village.

Taking Xiaobai to the ferry, there are many boats docked here, looking around, Mu Tian found an old man wearing a hat, took out a few copper coins from his arms and handed them over.

"Old man, go to Yongzhou City."

The old man was rickety, but his spirit was good, and after checking a few copper coins in his hand, he looked at Mu Tian and Xiaobai on the side, nodded and said, "Okay, get on the boat." ”

Successively on the boat, Mu Tian and Xiaobai found a place to sit at the bow of the boat, and the old man took over the business, waving the wooden oar at the stern, fortunately, the direction of Yongzhou City was in the lower reaches of the river, and he didn't spend much effort to go down the river.

In this way, Mu Tian and Xiaobai embarked on a journey. Sitting on the boat, the boat gradually sailed away from the ancient holy village, the river is wide, the water in the river is as green as a mountain, and you can vaguely see the small fish paraded in it, as well as the leaves falling from the air on both sides.

The boat moved slowly, and at the bow of the boat, Mu Tian and Xiaobai sat side by side, enjoying the pleasant scenery around them.

…

At the same time, it says another place.

This is a cave close to a big river, and even if the sky is dazzling at this time, the surrounding area of this cave is extremely cold, and the sunlight cannot be refracted into half of it.

In the cavern, two voices rang out:

"Master, as far as I can see, the ships of the Taiyin monks are moving forward every day, and in less than five days, I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."

"Humph! I'm afraid that's going to end here, isn't it? Phew, it's been more than a month, is she back now? ”

"She hasn't come back yet, master, I think she has most likely defected, otherwise, how could she never return."

"Heichi, be careful when you speak!"

Suddenly, another cold voice sounded, saying:

"My sister will never defect, master, maybe my sister had an accident during the mission, you also know my sister's character, she will never do such a big rebellious thing, let me go out and get her back."

The voice fell, and the cave was silent for a few seconds, and then an extremely soft female voice sounded: "That's it, three days, at this time, bring her back." ”

"Yes, master. Within three days, I will definitely bring my sister back. The voice in the cave fell, and then a blue light shot out from the cave, and I saw that it was a ponytail girl wearing green scale armor, and her pair of green eyes were glowing with a faint green luster. As soon as she turned her wrist, a white ribbon immediately appeared in her hand, and she cast a spell, and this white ribbon turned into white light as if it was hooked, and flew away in one direction.

Locking on to the white light, the pony-tailed girl chased after it with all her might.

…

Rushing by boat, sailing and stopping, it took Mu Tian and Xiaobai a total of a day to reach their destination.

To be precise, it arrived at Yongzhou City.

The old man's boat stopped at the ferry port of Yongzhou City, Mu Tian and Xiaobai got off the boat one after another, even if they did not go to the city gate, they directly entered Yongzhou City, striding in the city, surrounded by buildings, inns, restaurants, teahouses... The whole nine yards.

In places like restaurants and teahouses, the people who are active in them, except for the shopkeeper, the rest of the guests are all dressed in luxurious satin, as if they are some wealthy people.

In these places, there were no civilians, for the common people, huddled in the streets, dressed in rags, in stark contrast to the peaceful scene in the buildings.

Nowadays, the demons are haunting, the taxes are extremely high, and many people are living a poor life of displacement, and it is precisely because of this that this situation will be caused, the rich families live in luxury, and the ordinary people who flee may have eaten the last meal without the next meal...

"In this world, there are places that are not as demon-free as the Ancient Holy Village." Looking at the refugees on the street, Mu Tian shook his head with some emotion, of course, that's all.

But Xiaobai, looking at those scrawny and unkempt refugees, her eyes were smeared with deep pity.

"Alright, don't think about it." Shaking Xiao Bai Qianrou's little hand, Mu Tian first soothed, looked up and glanced at the dark clouds above, it was now noon, so it was obvious that a heavy rain was coming, after thinking about it, he said: "It's still early, let's go buy an oil-paper umbrella first, and then go out of the city to find Baoqingfang." Well, I think, time should be enough. ”

Mu Tian didn't want to waste time that didn't need to be wasted, and after asking a random passer-by, he took Xiaobai to follow the direction pointed by the passer-by and successfully found an umbrella shop.

After purchasing an oil-paper umbrella in it, Mu Tian and Xiaobai followed the street, and it took about three minutes for the two to pass through the towering walls of Yongzhou City and come to the outside of the city.

Before that, Mu Tian also inquired about the location of the ginkgo grove where the Baoqingfang was built.

Outside the South of the City!

Within 100 meters outside Yongzhou City is an open area, and 100 meters away is a sea of green, countless big trees rise from the ground, the trees are of different heights, but without exception, these trees are luxuriant, the sky in this area is uncovered, which is dim and abnormal.

"Let's go."

Mu Tian was a little stunned in his heart, worried about whether there would be some beasts or monsters hidden in it. On the side, Xiao Bai seemed to see the worry in Mu Tian's heart, smiled lightly, raised Xue Bai's left hand, and in an instant, pieces of ice crystals formed.

Hearing this, Mu Tian glanced at the pieces of ice crystals on Xiaobai's hands, and immediately shook his head with a smile, and then the two walked into the forest...

Holding hands, the two of them walked towards their destination step by step, the forest was dim, but what was surprising was that after entering the forest for thousands of meters, the trees began to decrease, and the sky above gradually revealed, and a trace of light shone in.

Thundered.

Heaven is not beautiful.

Above the sky, dark clouds surged, and a flash of purple lightning pierced the sky, accompanied by thunder, followed by a downpour.

Whoa...

When the heavy rain fell, Mu Tian hurriedly opened the oil-paper umbrella, and the two of them held an umbrella together, continuing to look for Baoqingfang.

Continuing to walk south, suddenly, Mu Tian suddenly felt a chill on his back, turned his head to look back, and at this time, a huge purple lightning bolt in the sky drew out, briefly illuminating the heavens and the earth.

With the help of purple lightning, Mu Tian saw the place a hundred meters behind him, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he saw that in the place where he had walked before, for some reason, a figure suddenly appeared at this moment, a figure that did not look like a human being.

Smack.

The figure flew in with a dark green remnant light.

"There's a demon!" Xiaobai also discovered this uninvited guest, let go of the hand that was shaking with Mu Tian, his beautiful eyes were sharp, he protected Mu Tian behind him, tapped the ground with his toes, and attacked him.

Bang!

There was an explosion, and Xiao Bai's left hand and the palm of the owner of the figure were tightly together, and the two were indistinguishable from each other.

Just as Xiaobai was about to make other countermeasures, a coquettish voice that was both surprised and slightly angry sounded:

"Sister!"

The voice spread, Xiaobai was stunned on the spot, covering her head in pain, and in her mind, many pictures instantly reappeared one by one...

Not far away, with the help of a purple lightning bolt drawn by the sky dome again, Mu Tian saw clearly the person who opened his mouth before, his upper body was wearing a green scale leather armor, if he only vaguely looked at the upper body, this was definitely a human girl, but looking at the cyan tail coiled on the ground, the green scales glowed with ghostly light, it was actually a snake tail!

Secretly swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Mu Tian turned his head mechanically, and looked at Xiaobai who seemed to remember something...

Time passed slowly, and after half a ring, suddenly, the cold air rose in a radius of thousands of meters, and the rain on the ground froze into ice.

At this time, Xiaobai's dazed eyes returned to clarity, and looking at the girl with a snake tail close at hand, she said happily: "Xiaoqing." ”

Mu Tian's pupils shrank again, Xiaobai knew each other, it seemed that she was really the sister of this snake demon, wouldn't that Xiaobai...

"Sister, how do you get mixed up with a human? If you let the master know, he will definitely not let you go! The snake demon named Xiaoqing glanced at Mu Tian coldly, and as she spoke, the demon power around her body was surging, as if she was going to kill her.

"Don't hurt him!" Xiaobai stretched out her hand to stop Xiaoqing, and under the latter's puzzled gaze, she walked towards Mutian step by step.