When we walk on the road, a flower, a grass or a butterfly in the distance, we see, have a certain feeling, unconsciously change the direction of our feet slightly, or choose to get closer to them, so our path changes, and the trajectory of fate may also change.

Zheng Yan looked at the woman in front of him for some reason, these days others say that he will not leave the post road, but he didn't expect to leave.

"My name is Dao Ruler, I am twenty years old this year, I will not say my original place and current address, in addition, I will emphasize one more sentence, it is very rude to ask the age of the cultivator, and we have no ill will towards you, the Five Thunder Gate is trying to persuade you to enter their door to cultivate their way to cross your ascension, I don't think about using strong, of course, this is what they said themselves, I think they don't dare to use force against you even if they are mad one day, as for our Xiandu Gate, I want to have a good relationship with you, if you fancy who gives you to be a maid who serves tea and pours water, if you accept it, you can also be a guard, why not？”，

Zheng Yan smiled and motioned for her to continue, it is better to be detailed, because of the relationship between the grandfather, in the past two years, some Jianghumen have delivered something, and even created some encounters, Zheng Yan has long been surprised.

"I do come from the Xiandu Gate, the neon department of the five, the neon department of the neon department, the tailor refining logistics and the inheritance of the exercises, the practice of the exercises is generally "Ni Shang Jue", is the center of the Xiandu Gate, the other four are the water department marked by the shark silk treasure clothes, you have seen it before, this fog has their fuel; the fire department marked by the flowing fire Qianxia phoenix tail skirt; the thunder department marked by the goddess and the immortal skirt; and the wind department marked by the Miluo Feihua skirt, oh, the symbol of our neon department is the neon dress and colorful clothes, do you want to hear more details?",

Zheng Yan looked at Lu Yuntao, who was listening with relish, Lu Yuntao looked back and smiled shyly, "It seems to be very interesting, like listening to a book",

Zheng Yan pulled out a long sword and put it on her jade neck, the knife ruler straightened her plump chest, her red lips and eyes were fine and jade, like a person who came out of the painting, at the age of twenty, her round pretty face was combed with two braided double buns, and the forehead bangs and ear beads were hanging down, making the woman more like a cute girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.

Dressed in tight red makeup, with spectacular breasts, slender waist, and slender and soft limbs, she looks like a monk woman in her twenties. Lu Yuntao's eyes are unnatural, he wants to see it but is a little afraid to look at it, Zheng Yan can't give birth to the idea of appreciation, just now he suddenly saw the woman hidden in the fog and didn't know what the situation was, at this moment the shape of the scenery in his eyes changed again, whether it was people or grass and land, it seemed that there were some strange qi lingering, and the color of the scenery was not the usual color, cyan, gray, red and yellow, the qi was also this color, extremely magical, and I could vaguely see the change of the qi on the knife ruler's body, and after a while, everything returned to normal, and then changed again。

"How many of you are here this time?", Zheng Yan asked calmly, the long sword gently slashed down the flow path of the qi on the sword ruler in his eyes, and the qi that had gradually stabilized became chaotic again,

The shock and helplessness in the eyes of the knife ruler flashed away, and he suddenly noticed that there was some coolness in his chest, and when he looked down, he realized that the long sword had just cut the neckline and unbuttoned it, revealing a small piece of snow white on his chest, and his face was suddenly full of shame, and he said angrily, "If you want to bully me, you will have a good time!", and then realized that there seemed to be some ambiguity in these words, but he was unwilling to bow his head, and he stared at Zheng Yan with hatred and hatred.

Zheng Yan said strangely, "I didn't insult you, what are you, in the summer, Luoyang women show much more than you, don't delay any longer!

The knife ruler gritted his teeth and said, "Don't compare me with those shameless prodigal sons, do you know, this buckle knot that you cut was made by me for three nights, do you know, my neon clothes are...",

The following words were punched back by Zheng Yan, even if the limbs were tied back, the knife ruler still couldn't help but bow up, lying on the ground retching, Lu Yuntao was dumbfounded, Zheng Yan had disappeared, not far away there was a continuous sound of blade fighting, from time to time there was a heat wave, the fog seemed to have a tendency to become thinner, and after a while, Zheng Yan walked back with a woman in red, the woman's belt had been untied, and it was also tied back like a knife ruler, and she was still sluggish at this time.

Dao Qi smiled bitterly and said, "You are a high-level realm of refining and refining qi, how can you defeat the two of us at the beginning of refining and refining the void?"

Zheng Yan inspected the newly captured woman, and said casually, "I can sense the flow of your qi and true yuan, to be honest, your exercises have a lot of loopholes, your physical refining is not good, the speed is too slow, interrupt a few nodes and the true yuan will be scattered", and then picked up the woman in red and walked to the other side,

The knife ruler's eyes flickered, and in the end, he could only sigh helplessly.

After a while, there was a woman's scream, and soon it was quiet again, and after a while, Zheng Yan walked back and sneered, "Back to the question just now, go on."

The knife ruler bit his red lip and hesitated, and after a while, he nodded and said, "Okay, I said, the leader of the Five Thunder Gate is Elder Guo Chen and Liu Bai, all of whom are cultivators of the earth-level realm, and there are three high-level disciples of the Qi Refining God, I don't know if there are others, but there should be; There are three main purposes this time, one is to fight for you, first to fight, and if you can't win the design, you will be framed and ruined your reputation, but our Xiandumen has no such plan; the second is that Bianbei City has produced thirty catties of Taiyi pure gold, which is from a private mine, and has not yet been controlled by the Xuanwu Army; the third is that there is a Xuanwu Temple here, which has blessed a few young people, the kind of talent and luck, very strange, I don't know why there are rumors first, but it is enough to have rumors for this kind of thing."

Zheng Yan got up to leave, and after a while, he carried the woman named Xie Yanguang back, Xie Yanguang fell to the ground timidly and rubbed to the side of the knife ruler, "Senior sister, what will they do to us?"

I remember that Ye Qingcheng often said which woman was a few points, and also listed a lot of examples of standards, which are nothing more than the scores of appearance, posture and bearing, Shu Yuan among the four beauties of the Jiaofang Division is said to have a proper full score of ten in two years, Zheng Xuandu and Shen Ningzhao, the adopted daughter of Ruan Guifei's mother's family, who Zheng Yan knows, are also remembered by many people for a long time, the twenty-year-old knife ruler and the eighteen-year-old Xie Yanguang should be eight and a half points, don't think it is low, it is enough to attract countless men, such as Lu Yuntao, who is blushing next to him,

In fact, women with more than nine points have nothing to do with their appearance and posture, they are more concerned with temperament and temperament, and the knife ruler and Xie Yanguang are eight and a half points, because Zheng Yan personally feels that if he reaches nine points according to Ye Qingcheng's standards, it can be said that it is reasonable.

Zheng Yan didn't bother with the score of the two women, but he was a little curious about the neon clothes worn by the knife ruler and the flowing fire Qianxia phoenix tail skirt worn by Xie Yanguang.

When there was another change in his eyes, Zheng Yan quickly punched, hitting the two women's lower abdomen and the sea of qi in the middle of the body again, dispersing the qi and strength they had quietly gathered, and pulling Lu Yuntao, who no longer knew what expression to make, rushed away in one direction, just kidding, how can people be in the realm of refining gods and turning into voids, if it weren't for carelessness to let his martial arts cultivator get close, and he didn't want to fight for his life, how could he be subdued! Maybe it's deliberately letting yourself go, and if you drag it out and bully it in a hurry, you can only be cleaned up by yourself, refining and refining qi.

Watching Zheng Yan disappear into the fog with the clever and wooden-twined young man, the delicate face of the knife ruler was full of pity, and he helped the junior sister untie the belt on her limbs with her mouth, Xie Yanguang helped the knife ruler untie the reins after she moved, and the two finally got free, counted things and found that Zheng Yan had taken two daggers,

Xie Yanguang looked at his senior sister and said aggrievedly, "What should I do? Do you want to chase them? or meet with the senior sisters of the water department?"

The knife ruler hugged his chest and thought quickly, and at the same time seemed to be muttering to himself, "That Lu Yuntao is obviously the person who has obtained talent and luck, why is it that he is almost seventeen years old and has not yet cultivated? He and Zheng Yan know each other, has it already been accepted by the imperial court? Why don't you practice? This is already too late, and you can only take the way of returning Dan in the future, this is not the style of the imperial court, is there any other arrangement?...

Xie Yanguang on the side stretched out his jade finger and gently poked his senior sister's plump chest, full of envy, seeing that his senior sister didn't react, he pursed his lips and grabbed his whole hand, and then he was pinched by his wrist and hugged him, "Senior sister spare your life."

"Little Lang Hoof, do you know? Originally, the sect master and the elders wanted you and Qianqing to come* the Eighth Prince, which means that you have to be other people's maids, and even go to warm the bed", Dao Qi said with a sneer,

Xie Yanguang was stunned when he heard this, his eyes were a little flustered, and he quickly opened his good-looking eyes, "Senior sister, do you mean that Senior Sister Xiuning took Senior Sister Qianqing to attack him, Senior Sister, you took me to do it to save us?"

The knife ruler snorted, chose a direction and turned around and walked into the fog, and then a voice came from the fog, "That is, to catch up with the Xuanwu Temple in the world, and there are two things about Taiyi Jingjin and Lei Tianjun going down to earth, otherwise do you think our little trick can get by?"

Xie Yanguang's posture was exquisite, and he looked a little green and delicate, he stuck out his tongue and quickly chased into the fog with his skirt, and after a while, there was a coquettish sound.

Zheng Yan didn't care about the things that the two women said, and told himself early on to try to stay away from those things that might be contaminated with a lot of cause and effect, so he never went to make any fun, and it seemed that it took luck rather than luck to explore things related to history and heaven.

I couldn't help but look at Lu Yuntao beside me, strange, it's been more than a year since he ran out, why didn't Ye Qianzhi come out to look for it? It should have been when he left the village, why didn't he stop it? Experienced? There is no cultivation at all, has he experienced his mind? It seems that his temperament is a little floating, is it a bit of a snake to help him find the imprisoned soul? What if it is because of those things Ye Qianzhi can't take care of it? If he is not careful, he will really be ruined, and he has made up his mind, and he still decides to help Lu Yuntao find that soul back first.

Zheng Yan's eyes gradually returned to normal, and the doubts in his stomach could not be answered, and when he saw that vision some time ago, his eyes also had some reactions, which were somewhat similar to the feeling this time, could it be that his physique was activated by Sancheng?

Without the eyes to see through the fog, the two of them soon couldn't find the north, Lu Yuntao looked at a big willow tree with a crooked neck and said suspiciously, he seemed to have seen it when he came out before, Zheng Yan felt that someone was approaching, buried the long sword and the two daggers all under the messy willow roots, and hid the dark red dagger found from Xie Yanguang's body on Lu Yuntao's body.

Just after cleaning up the fog, four black-clothed men with five big and three thick rushed out, and from behind the black-clothed man came a thin man with a skull mask, the masked man was wearing a coarse cloth black cloak, which looked a little terrifying and mysterious, Lu Yuntao exclaimed, Zheng Yan sat on the ground with a face full of fear.

On the way, Zheng Yan and Lu Yuntao agreed on a set of rhetoric, only saying that Zheng Yan was a lost wandering bachelor that Lu Yuntao met in the fog, Lu Yuntao looked for water to drink and didn't know where he went, and then the two walked back in a daze. Zheng Yan was naturally carefully interrogated and searched, and Lu Yuntao had already gone down to work.

After Zheng Yan was interrogated, he was taken to the kitchen by an overseer, two flatbreads, a bowl of porridge made of unknown rice, a large pot of pickles, a man in his fifties, lame and a man with one leg brought two boiled eggs, Zheng Yan was a little surprised, this food is not bad.

The mine was built in a col with lush trees and weeds on both sides, and on both sides of the col were very secretive caves, where the miners slept and where the overseers lived, and there were almost no clues from the outside. In a bright and clean cave, a masked man sat behind a table, fiddling with some apricot yellow flags painted with vermilion runes, and a pitch-black eight-sided wooden plate in his hand.

Although it is somewhat like "Fuxi plate", but the veins engraved on it are very special, in the middle is a black and a white two vulture rotating needles, which should be yin and yang needles, the inner circle is the usual gossip, followed by a circle of more fine grids, the lettering in the grid is somewhat like the ancient witch characters, the outermost circle is twelve patterns similar to beasts, the whole compass gives people a ghostly feeling, or maybe it is the mask of the mask man.

There was a tall man in black standing at the door, with a fleshy face and a beard like a steel needle, who should have been a ruthless man, but he was standing respectfully at the moment, breathing cautiously, like a docile sheep, but who knows how many times this "sheep" had the blood of a multi-miner slave on his regular hands at this time!

"Your host wants an explanation?", a cold, dry voice came from under the skull mask,

The black-clothed man trembled all over, barely squeezed out a smile, and said softly, "The owner said that there has been no life in Bianbei in the past two days, and there are many outsiders here, and there are more patrols sent by the military government.

The masked man behind the table seemed to smile, "Isn't your owner with hands and eyes to the sky? What's more, that temple was dug up in the north, and Taiyi Essence is in the east, separated from here by hundreds of miles, so you can be afraid? That loose cultivation last night was just a mistake, this formation can interfere with the perception of the earth-level cultivator now, and here I am a real quasi-heaven-level cultivator."

The big man in black wanted to say something, but suddenly saw the cyan flames burning in the eyes of the skeleton mask, and hurriedly flattered, "I'll step up and let them work", and bent down and retreated.

The masked man looked down at the black compass and muttered, "I, Lu Xiude, will definitely make you agree with me, Taiyue, you will definitely regret it, go to the mine and stare at it, it's been these two days",

Two men wearing black cloaks with the same masks walked out softly.

After eating and drinking some water, Zheng Yan was pushed into the mine, responsible for transporting ore out, and the tool was a broken basket, a rope used to pull the basket.

At the beginning, the mine cave was quite spacious, seven or eight feet long, and when Zheng Yan was taken into a work face by the overseer, Zheng Yan was dumbfounded, this mine is no different from the dog cave, just thinking about how to transport the ore out was kicked in, the overseer scolded and left, saying that if you don't leave, you have to explain here,

Zheng Yan shook his head, the original plan was to first find the magic altar where the masked man searched for the soul, find a way to secretly release the soul of Lu Yuntao who was detained, and then find an opportunity to run away to find the people from the military government, it is best to kill them with a knife ruler, their cultivation is really limited, they dare not fight with others, they can open mines under the noses of the Xuanwu Army and the Supervision Department, and the people behind it are definitely not simple.

The person transporting the ore has a rope tied to his waist, and when the time comes, the overseer outside will pull the rope to remind him if he doesn't see anyone, and after reminding him twice, if he doesn't see anyone, he will go into the cave to check, if he finds that you are lazy, he will naturally be beaten, if he dies, he will untie the rope and replace the next person, Zheng Yan did not stop for a moment, but for a person who has practiced for more than ten years, this life is very easy, and I don't know if the fog has dispersed, and the eyes have returned to normal and there has been no previous change.

When I rested at night, I saw the exhausted Lu Yuntao again, the two of them slept on a large bunk, the dagger had been inserted into the house by Zheng Yan, a magic weapon that could also be used in the realm of refining and refining qi, sharp and tough, able to withstand the true element of divine consciousness, naturally not afraid of ordinary spells, it seems that it can also assist in releasing fire methods, Zheng Yan estimates that with the help of a spark, a fire snake can probably be released, and it should be able to be used.

In the next two days, there was no fog again, there was a quarter of an hour's rest at noon, and the sun could not be seen in the morning and evening, but Zheng Yan still found the location of the altar, it was actually a black compass held by a masked man, and that person was not able to deal with it at a glance, which was a little embarrassing, to steal it? There was little hope, and there were always four equally dressed subordinates around him, and there was almost no chance of attacking, could you lead him to the mine to raid? This was somewhat certain, so Zheng Yan pulled out the dagger and brought it with him.

On the third day, Zheng Yan dug out a stone tablet engraved with strange lines in the mine where Zheng Yan was, there were some words on the stele, Zheng Yan leaned over and looked at it and found that it was actually a text from the early Middle Ages, which he had learned when he was in Zongxue Guozijian, and barely recognized some, but the meaning of the expression seemed to be a little biased, in short, it was an ode to Xuanwu, there was time and place in the ode, and there were people who participated in the sacrifice, the reason was that there was a drought here, Zheng Yan didn't understand the calendar at that time, and he couldn't calculate the time from now on, it was very ordinary, and it was not worth it。

Seven or eight mine slaves did not pull out this four-foot-long and one-foot-wide stele without trying to eat milk, obviously the stele body has been completely dug out, the stele ground around a square seems to be a whole stone, hard as iron, the chisel knocked on it and not even a mark can be left, the two masked people in charge of supervising the work discussed and finally left one, and after a while, the person Zheng Yan was waiting for came down.

Originally, the place where the stone tablet was found was a three-foot square mine, and under the order of the masked man, a one-zhang square stone chamber was quickly opened, and when the mask leader came down, the stone chamber was already two zhang square, and an iron-wood frame was erected to leave a stone pillar. Zheng Yan kept a short distance from the mask leader, controlling his heartbeat and thoughts, but fortunately, Xingshuang's ban did not expire, which definitely helped a lot.