Eighty years ago.

Dai Yu Han Sect Xianmen Sect Master Dai Hanyu, with his own group of men to catch swords, swords and jade to break into the southern Xinjiang, and Penglai Immortal Sect, which was originally entrenched in Longling Yin Mountain, Peng Xinglai was defeated and fled, hiding in Jinling Qixia Mountain, and it was difficult to become a climate again.

When Penglai Xianzong was in southern Xinjiang, all ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang were still scattered in the mountains, and every year they offered a monster to Penglai Xianzong, so that they could pass it safely, and they could not hand it over, and Penglai Xianzong would not be soft-handed, and would send his subordinates to gather the people together, and the strong people would be distributed to the nearby ethnic groups, the old and the young would ignore them, and the rebels would all be killed.

Among the witch Gu clan in the mountains of southern Xinjiang, or the witchcraft of the mountain god behind their backs, or the Gu art of controlling poisonous insects and poisonous snakes, there is no shortage of brave people, although compared with the immortals, those small Taoist deeds are not worth mentioning, but with the strength of the clan to fight for their lives to catch monsters, and even more to attack the nearby tribes, to catch the mountain gods they worship, maybe one can be handed over every year, so that the entire clan can live for another year.

But at this time, southern Xinjiang has gradually become messy, and under the difficult life, people's hearts are struggling and suffering, and there is no longer the style of the past.

After Penglai Immortal Sect was driven away, the people of all ethnic groups in Hainan who originally thought that they had escaped from the bitter sea had no time to rejoice, and they occupied the southern Xinjiang Dai Hanyu, which became even more intense, which can be called extremely bloody.

captured the few remaining mountain gods, and locked all the ethnic groups scattered in the mountains of southern Xinjiang in a large mountain recess at the foot of Yin Mountain in Longling. Anyone over the age of forty shall be killed. Locking the women and children in the mountain col, the men over the age of fifteen were divided into three groups, each group of more than 1,000 people, respectively rushed to the Gongwei Longling Yin Mountain, the Puppet Tiger Mountain and the Scorpion Wolf Mountain, for the immortals to bring a few masters to govern, as a slave to hunt beasts, each mountain to hand over thirty demon beasts every year.

These beast slaves are divided into two types according to their age.

People between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five wear only a bladeless short knife with a dark hilt, and the hilt is covered with stabbing swords, and they love to suck human blood.

People over twenty-five years old, after ten years of blood loss, the essence in the body is weak, only a pair of empty shelves, but after ten years of experience, the subordinates are also quite kung fu, can carry ordinary swords, the hilt worn on the waist, only when fighting with life, use it.

Beast slaves generally live a long life of thirty, and there are basically no people who can live to more than forty, like the two that Tie Lingshuang met on the top of Shajia Mountain, they are all on the verge of life and death, and they do not have a lifespan of a few months.

And the beast slaves hunt and kill monsters, they are all fierce and not afraid of death, just because their relatives are locked in the col at the foot of Yin Mountain, if the task of thirty monsters per Chinese New Year's Eve of each mountain cannot be completed, and there are a few missing, they must pull out a few from those relatives who are locked, and with the locked monsters, they are transported to a big black hole at the bottom of Longling Yin Mountain, and there has been no news since.

Sitting in the cave, waving the heavy moisture lingering in front of him, Tie Lingshuang stared at the rather honest monkey squatting opposite, and asked with a frown,

"According to what you said, the average beast slave generally doesn't live to be thirty years old, and the new immortals have been entrenched in southern Xinjiang for eighty years, as early as a few decades ago, they should have died cleanly, why are they still there now?"

Asked about the sore spot, the golden retriever monkey also collected his voice for a while, was silent, looked at Tie Lingshuang and the three of them, the monkey's eyes turned, and asked in a low voice,

"You're not from southern Xinjiang, what are you doing here?"

Tie Lingshuang held the handle of the knife at his waist and said lightly,

"Find someone, kill people by the way. If you are done, you can still be your mountain god in the future, are you satisfied with this answer?"

O mountain god.

The monkey's eyes were hazy, more than a hundred years ago, he was still a monkey who had just opened his mind, in this small peach mountain, at that time there were two tigers in this mountain, it was the mountain god of the small peach mountain, sheltering a small Wu tribe at the foot of the mountain, and also sheltering himself, under the rule of the previous immortals, he could barely live.

The two tigers gave birth to a stupid little tiger, and they were enjoying themselves, but they didn't expect the new immortals to occupy the southern frontier, and the people who came to catch the mountain god met the crazy resistance of the two tigers.

In the depths of the cave of Xiaomoyama, there was a secret passage that had been dug to the adjacent hill long ago, and the little monkey escaped along this secret passage with the little tiger who had not yet opened the spirit at that time.

I didn't expect that a little peach mountain could hide three monsters, and after the two tigers were caught, no one went to the cave to look for it carefully, and the little monkey escaped and took the tiger to hide in this small peach mountain.

Today's southern Xinjiang has long lost the scenery of harmony between the two big tigers thousands of years ago, the mountain gods can't protect their own people, people have become beast slaves everywhere to catch the mountain gods who should protect them, people and beasts cannibalism kill each other and kill all the wounded, how many small clans have dissipated into smoke, and some lucky ones have fled to the city of Kunming, fled outside the southern Xinjiang, and have long forgotten where they came from.

The monkey looked at the three people in front of him, and could see that these three people were not from southern Xinjiang, although they were good, but compared with the few people he had seen in Longling Yin Mountain, his breath was much worse, he shook his head and seemed to smile bitterly, and said sullenly,

"Originally, these mountain gods who fled for their lives didn't know what was going on in the mountains, they only knew that they couldn't get out if they went in, but this time I was caught inside, stayed for a few days, and I could see it clearly. ”

"The woman in southern Xinjiang was locked in a cave next to Yin Mountain, and the beast slaves outside caught a monster and could go back and stay with their families for three days. If a child is born, the boy is raised until he is fifteen years old, and he is a new beast slave, and the girl grows up and is locked in Yinshan, and she is just a slave who gives birth to a child. ”

"Alas, it's only been eighty years, and the Southern Xinjiang Witch Gu Clan, which originally had 10,000 people, is now added together, and there are only more than 2,000 people, if it continues like this, in twenty years, it will be extinct, there are no mountain gods in Southern Xinjiang, and there are no ancient Witch Gu people. ”

The mountain god is a beast, the man is a beast slave, and the girl is a beast slave.

Looking at the little monkey who was talking and quieter and quieter, and finally buried his head in his belly, Qin Fusu and Qi Chen, who were squatting on the side, were shocked and numb, Qi Chen scolded secretly, patted the long sword on his waist, and sighed quietly to Tie Lingshuang,

"Originally, I entered the hidden guard, and sometimes I wondered, this immortal only thinks about flying to the sky, if it doesn't hurt the heavens, whether we catch it or not, now it seems that if people have the obsession of being an immortal, they can't get rid of it, and sooner or later they will become demons, what Peng Xinglai in Jinling, and this generation of Hanyu in Southern Xinjiang, what demons and spirits are their playthings, these people are the real devils, they are really beasts, there is no humanity!

Although Qin Fusu didn't speak, a pair of sword eyebrows were also raised high, caressing the tip of the spear, and looking at Tie Lingshuang, who had a cold face.

Silent lowered his eyebrows for a moment, Tie Lingshuang's voice sounded, without the slightest wave,

"Killing immortals, naturally Zhong Lijiu will do it, what we can do is to make them mess up, so that they can't take care of Longling Yin Mountain, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Kunming City, once they leak a flaw, that guy won't miss it, don't bother us." ”

Reaching out and knocking on the monkey that had shrunk into a ball, Tie Lingshuang asked,

"What else did you see in Longling Yin Mountain?"

It seems that these people in front of them are indeed not the subordinates of the immortals, and they are wondering who Zhong Lijiu is, the monkey's head was knocked out in pain, bared his fangs, and squinted his phoenix eyes at Tie Lingshuang, suppressed his anger, and said impatiently,

"The god of this mountain was locked in an iron cage in that big mountain col for a few days, except for the women and children who were locked up like us outside, they were pressed into a big black mountain cave at the bottom of our Yin Mountain altar. I haven't seen anything else. ”

This is strange, the hidden guards are looking for jade slaves, catching jade, looking for immortals, but they haven't even found a jade slave in southern Xinjiang, according to whether it is a tiger or this monkey, they have said that the monster that was sent to Yinshan has never come out, what is the idea of this cold family on behalf of Hanyu?

"However, at the entrance of the cave, a small cave was hollowed out on the side, and a person was locked inside the big iron gate!"

Hearing the monkey muttering, Tie Lingshuang raised his eyebrows,

"What kind of people, men and women?"

The little monkey squinted his eyes and said suspiciously,

"It's not us from southern Xinjiang, thirty or forty years old, it's like a scholar, it's like a scholar, he doesn't seem to be in a hurry when he is locked, he pretends to read a book, and there seem to be a lot of books in his room. Hey!"

Suddenly, the little monkey jumped up and startled Qi Chen, only to see the little monkey pointing at Tie Lingshuang,

"Didn't you just ask if there was a masked girl in white on the mountainside? Yes! There was a girl, just seven or eight days ago, who looked very young, masked, and carrying a harp on her back, and brought food to the man, and the two of them whispered a few words, and the girl went away. ”

As soon as these words came out, it was really an unexpected joy, Tie Lingshuang and Qin Fusu couldn't calm down anymore, and grabbed the little monkey, Tie Lingshuang's eyebrows raised, and the phoenix eyes breathed fire in a hurry, thinking of the treacherous monkey demon, they couldn't help but ask loudly,

"You didn't lie to me?"

Seeing that the monkey was strangled by Tie Lingshuang's palm, her eyes turned white, and Qin Fusu clasped her wrist with one hand,

"Let go, let go, Ling Shuang, he's about to die!"

The monkey has a bad life, and in the past few days, he has turned around the Ghost Gate Pass one after another, but he didn't expect to escape the Yinshan Dahei Cave and was almost strangled to death by this woman.

Qi Chen and Qin Fu broke Tie Lingshuang's fingers away, and the golden retriever monkey, who had finally escaped from the eagle's claws, sat on the stone with his ass, panting and angry, turned over and jumped up, patted his bare buttocks, and pointed at Tie Lingshuang, who was staring at him fiercely,

"Of course your mountain god grandfather is not lying! You see that you are an ugly monster, and you still want to kill your grandfather, Lao Tzu will bite you to death!"

The more he talked, the angrier he became, the monkey was rushing forward, and Qi Chen covered its mouth, pulled it aside, and lowered his voice to persuade,

"Shut up quickly, I don't want to live, I angered this tigress, it's really not harder to kill you than to kill a chicken, ah!"

Qi Chen screamed miserably, threw the monkey out of the cave, saw him plunged into the snowdrift, and screamed and cursed endlessly, looking down at the palm of his hand, which was stained with blood, and wanted to be bitten by the monkey.

Seeing that the inside and outside of the cave were in chaos, Qin Fusu let go of the hand holding Tie Lingshuang with a cold face, stood up, and went to the door to respectfully carry back the monkey who was struggling in the snowdrift, bowed non-stop, and apologized and appeased.

Fortunately, I didn't see that this monkey had the idea of escaping, and it was estimated that it was difficult to escape the immortal means when he escaped outside, Qin Fusu suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and turned to look at Tie Lingshuang,

"Ling Shuang, at the moment of big things, don't let your temperament come nonsense. ”

Tie Lingshuang's face was pale, staring at the monkey squatting in front of him with golden hair and a low fang, and said coldly,

"The monkey demon is the most treacherous, just now we interrogated those three people on the mountainside, and he showed his words, and he used it, but he wanted to escape his life!"

Suspected of being insulted to his face, the monkey was furious and shouted,

"You ugly nonsense, I can see it clearly, the girl with the piano on her back kneeling and worshipping the person who locked it, but she can't hear clearly, how can she lie to you. ”

"How is it possible! The people of my Tie family, how can they bow down to the people in the Yin Mountain, and you dare to talk nonsense!"

Seeing that one person and one monkey were arguing again, Qin Fusu glanced at Qi Chen, pulled the angry Tie Lingshuang and walked a few steps into the cave, and whispered,

"What if, that person is Emperor Jianwen?"

Emperor Jianwen was about twenty-five or sixteen years old when he was taken away by Zhu Di, and he left the capital for ten years, according to his age, he was also in his thirties, and his age was right.

Tie Lingshuang shook off Qin Fusu, turned his head and stared at the self-vicious monkey, seeing that it was angry, its eyes were blood-red, and there was a subtle fiery breath churning around it, it should not be a fake, he snorted coldly, closed his eyes and thought for a while, his anger gradually calmed down, and his mind became clear.

If it was that Yang Xuanmo who fled with Jianwen back then, would it really be like Zhong Lijiu speculated that he met Dai Hanyu, the emperor became a prisoner, and Yang Xuanmo also became an immortal lackey?

It is possible, according to this situation, the previous Emperor Jianwen was probably imprisoned, but he lost his identity as an emperor, and he did not have any generals under him, so it was difficult to set off any waves in the current Ming Dynasty.

"Do you want to tell Mr. Zhongli about the situation here?"

Tie Lingshuang retracted his mind, glanced at Qin Fusu lightly, hesitated for a moment, but nodded, the situation in southern Xinjiang is chaotic, and he may be able to open a corner, but against the immortals, even if he can break through the power of the Golden Wing's true solution now, when he reaches the third layer, he is not an opponent.

Walking to the entrance of the cave, he stretched out his hand to remove the bronze smoke ball on his waist, and the white bone bird rushed out, stopped on Tie Lingshuang's fingers, and chirped softly,

"Xiao Gu, did you hear what we just said?"

The inch-long white bone bird flapped its wings and nodded,

"Then you go back and tell Zhong Lijiu to remember to fly higher. ”

Seeing the bone bird rushing towards the sky, Tie Lingshuang turned to look at the golden retriever monkey and said lightly,

"Take us to find the Divine Beast. ”

The golden monkey snorted to the ground and shouted wildly,

"Yes, apologize to your mountain god grandfather, and shout three times at this Jade Dragon Mountain, saying that I am an ugly monster, I reluctantly agree to you!"

With a sneer, Tie Lingshuang took out the double hammer from behind his waist, twisted his neck, and clicked,

"Do you want to bring it?"