This big battle caused heavy losses to the camel team. After checking, the goods were transported with a loss of 60%, and all the remaining items were sold, which was barely enough for everyone's accommodation, labor costs.

But the five camels suffered severe burns on their legs and needed careful treatment, but even if they were cured, they would no longer be able to be good horses carrying heavy loads.

Camels can no longer carry the task of consignment, just as old cattle can no longer plow the land, waiting for their fate, there is only one - slaughter.

Fortunately, the sand devil attack was short-lived, and they were all in frontal confrontation with Zhao Yuankang and Lao Sun, so they did not spare time to pack up the camel caravan.

There were only three of them, and they had some skin injuries (blindness, broken bones), which was nothing to the people they used to walk the rivers and lakes.

"Zhiming, I saw it this time, there are dangers everywhere in the desert, if you are not careful, you will die, you have to have a long ability."

Zhang Laohan patted his son on the shoulder, both comforting and encouraging, and his heart was moving.

Adopted sons do not teach, such as killing children. For the education of children, it is no less effort than making contributions.

This old man is not afraid of life and death, and still brings this little son to appreciate the hardships along the way, which can be described as well-intentioned.

The young man seemed to have a lively personality, but he clearly lacked real grinding, and he was flustered and could not take things calmly.

A life-and-death disaster like today's will have a big breakthrough in his growth, and if he can go through this battle, he may be able to change his life situation.

"Don't always play around all day long, think more about the two masters to learn, this is called hidden and out-of-the-world masters."

Zhang Laohan saw this distress battle more thoroughly than others. Although he hadn't seen this process when he killed the Sand Demon, he could already know from the descriptions of Xiao Zhang and the others that these two people were by no means ordinary people, very much like cultivators with advanced Dao methods.

For ordinary people, cultivators are very mysterious, with extraordinary wisdom and ability, and can transcend the shackles of the mundane and become a group of special beings who touch the way of heaven.

Many Jianghu people who make a living by licking blood with knives and heads expect to have cultivators to help them resolve crises and avoid evil, but although they have promised a lot of money, few practitioners participate in worldly disputes.

Everything in the world involves karma. Practitioners attach great importance to the accumulation of merits, and the interests of ordinary people will affect the progress of the path.

Of course, the more reason is that all this kind of high-rollers in the rivers and lakes are not good people, and they are bound to have grievances and entanglements, which are easy to lead to unusual opponents.

Although Zhang Laohan also hoped that there would be advanced cultivators to join his team, first, the two did not tell their identities, and second, he was not able to invite the capital of the masters. So don't be bored.

Although it is less than thirty miles away from the border of Yongdeng, after all, the desert is difficult to travel, and without the industrious and reliable porter of camels, it is really impossible to carry the load.

There were only two things they could do, one was to wait for the help of the caravan passing by, and the other was to send people to the Yongdeng Realm ahead to ask for help.

Zhang Laohan decisively sent two assistants who were meticulous and strong, and quickly asked Yongdeng for help, while he and the others stayed where they were, waiting for someone to come to help.

From noon to dusk, no one came to the rescue, and there was no food or water. The people endured hunger and thirst.

Experienced old customers, often encounter this situation, so they can still hold on, the old grandson himself is a beggar, the ability to endure cold and hunger, is even more skillful. Even Zhao Yuankang, because of the method of vomiting for nearly half a year, his endurance has increased a lot, and he can barely resist this half-day torment. It's just that a few young people suffered.

They are all in their twenties, their bodies are depleted quickly, and they don't know how to consolidate their foundations and cultivate their yuan, so they soon complain.

Zhang Laohan reprimanded, they had to grit their teeth and stand firm, and in the end they were really uncomfortable, regardless of their image, they lay on their backs on the ground, looking like they were turning over a dead fish.

"Captain, I'm back."

When a wisp of remnant sun hung obliquely in the west, a noisy sound was heard in the distance, and Zhao Yuankang opened his closed eyes.

In the dust, three camels and seven or eight people appeared, the first of whom was the old guest sent out by the caravan.

As soon as Zhang Laohan saw the rescuers coming, he immediately stood up and got close to the comers.

"Why hasn't Lao Li come back yet?" He asked another old guest who had been sent out.

"Don't worry, he contacted a carriage shop, and a mule cart will come to pull everyone in a while." The returning old customer responded.

"Really? Uncle Li has found the mule cart, which is really good, otherwise I really can't walk. ”

Zhang Laohan commanded everyone to move the remaining goods to the camelback, the goods were lost piecemeal, and the remaining part, three camels were enough to carry it, and the other five camels could only follow slowly.

After a short time, Lao Li and another man rushed back two mule carts, and everyone sat separately, and when the sun ended, they ran to Yongdeng City.

The history of Yongdeng can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up Hexi, it was included in the territory.

The topography of Yongdeng belongs to the typical "two rivers and three mountains", and the towering Wusheling Mountains stand in the north of the county, and the terrain is steep and abnormal, which is an excellent strategic zone.

When they came to the city, it was already dark.

On this day, it was a struggle, and a fright, and finally a long day of starvation, it was really sleepy and tired, and the loss of the goods made them depressed, so they quickly had a full meal, lay down and rested.

However, Zhao Yuankang and Lao Sun are not so heavy, and they only regard this as an experience.

When he first came here, he didn't know much about the local customs, but Lao Sun had a lot of experience and proposed to go with him to watch the local night club fire.

Shehuo is a kind of carnival that the folk like to see, and it is the common name of high platform, stilts, dry boat, lion dance, dragon dance, Yangge and so on. The exact form varies from region to region.

This Yongdeng Shehuo is generally composed of dragons, head fields, small fields (wax flowers), iron cores, lions, bears, stilts, dry boats, and Taiping drums. There are also rolling lights in the night club fire.

And Yongdeng has a unique craft - puppets and shadow puppets.

In the square inch of land, the interpretation of ancient and modern stories is both interesting and far-reaching, but although the technique is surprising, it is a little difficult to understand with the local dialect. It also made this performance lose its charm.

Early the next morning, they went to say goodbye to the Zhang family father and son.

Originally, they only met by chance, after all, the main purpose of this trip was to find the Zhan Lu Sword, and they could only act alone and not let others participate.

The caravan has undergone such a big change that people's hearts are fluctuating, and they no longer want to toss, they just want to sell the rest of the goods and return home as soon as possible.

At the time of parting, Xiao Zhang was a little reluctant, and Zhao Yuankang did not want to cut it off from then on, so he left him his phone number, so that he could contact him in the future, which was regarded as leaving an unsolved fate.

"Brother Sun, how do we go, where is this Sun Moon Mountain?"

In the past few days, he has been running around just to be able to see the divine power of this heirloom sword, but at this moment, he is a little confused.

"The real Sun Moon Mountain is just a big concept, it stretches for hundreds of miles, winding on the Qilian Mountains, you want to find the whereabouts of the Zhanlu Divine Sword in it, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, it may only refer to the Wusheling Ridge near Yongdeng."

Lao Sun had a confident demeanor and corrected the place shown in the Blood Cube, Zhao Yuankang was slightly surprised, but he didn't interject and listened to his explanation.

First, the Sun Moon Mountain is located in the southwest of the Qilian Mountains, far away from Yongdeng, and the Wusheling Mountains are also a branch of the Qilian Mountains, standing in the northwest of it, echoing the Sun Moon Mountain. But just north of Yongdeng, it's very close. According to what you said, this sword was left by Yue Fei's descendant Yue Zhongqi, and his hometown is in Yongdeng, and it is unlikely that he will go to the distant Sun Moon Mountain to hide treasures, so I think that the Sun Moon Ancient City is just a vague concept. And if you want to talk about the ancient city, this Wusheling Ridge can afford it even more. ”

"The terrain here is dangerous, and it was a military fortress in ancient times. Wusheling looks east to Longdong, west to the west of the river, is always a place where soldiers must fight. The Great Wall of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty met at the Wusheling Ridge and meandered westward. Historically, Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Western Regions, and Tang Xuanzang learned scriptures from the West, all of which had passed through the Wusheling Mountains. Such a strange place with deep historical roots is very suitable as a hiding place for Zhanlu. ”

Well, what you said is reasonable, this is the most precious treasure in the world, and you must have the aura of this place to calm it.

Without further ado, the two rented a green horse, rode the wind, and at noon, they saw a huge ridge covering the sky in the distance.

It is like a giant dragon, with its head in the west and tail in the east, high in the west and low in the east, covered in clouds and mist, and meandering.

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