It was the depths of winter, and the sky was snowing heavily, and such snow had been falling intermittently for half a month, and Lanfeng City had already been covered in snow. Looking down from the sky, it seems that there is a gray gauze covering Lanfeng City, and it is no longer clear that the streets and alleys are square, and even the towering Lanfeng in the distance of Lanfeng City, from the city, seems to have disappeared in this heavy snow. At this time of year, Lanfeng City is frozen and dripping into ice.

The reason why Lanfeng City has such cold weather is because it is located in Dongling County, in the extreme north of the Great Han Kingdom. Dongling County is mainly divided into three areas, the Lanfeng City area, the Wuya City area and the Dongling City area. And the Lanfeng City area is located in the northernmost part of Dongling County, so Lanfeng City has this kind of weather almost half of the year.

At this time, through the wind and snow, you can see that there is a huge palace in the center of Ranfeng Castle. Around the palace, a team of guards patrolled back and forth, and on the plaque at the main entrance of the palace, the words "City Lord's Mansion" were written in large letters.

And this mansion is the official residence of Fang Cheng, the lord of Lanfeng City. At this time, in the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion, a middle-aged man about forty or fifty years old was standing in the center of the hall, dressed in a gorgeous brocade robe, wearing a black warm robe outside the brocade robe, wearing a silver hair crown, and a pair of tiger eyes under his thick black eyebrows were staring at the messenger in his hand, reading carefully, this middle-aged man was Fang Cheng, the city lord of Lanfeng City.

Below the council hall, dozens of people in iron armor and thick robes stood on the left and right, standing in two straight rows. The leader of the row on the left was a person with a dark complexion, resolute eyes, and a thick black robe, who was looking at Fang Cheng and said: "City Lord, according to the transmission of this stronghold, before this morning, I didn't see the son of Yunan who led the Black Rock Guard come out of the Tongcheng Gorge of Lan Peak, and the Tongcheng Gorge is the only way out of Lan Peak, which means that Hei Yanwei did not come out of Lan Peak, and he should still be in Lan Feng now." "The person who spoke was Xu Tong, the general of the Lanfeng City Patrol Battalion.

Fang Cheng's gaze left the letter, looked at Xu Tong and asked, "According to the original escort time, should we be outside Lanfeng City today?"

"Yes, city lord," Xu Tong replied.

"Did you receive a message from the birds in the city?" Fang Cheng continued to ask.

At this time, a man in black armor standing behind Xu Tong stood up and said, "Tell the city lord, I haven't received any news from Prince Yunan. ”

Hearing the answer, Fang Cheng's brows suddenly tightened, and he asked in a loud voice, "Then did you send someone into the mountain to pick up the investigation?"

"My subordinates have just sent someone into the mountain to investigate, and I think there should be news in the afternoon," replied the leader of the right row. This person has a fair face, sharp eyes, and a black mole under his mouth, it is Li Yan, the general of the Qingyu Army stationed in Lanfeng City under Fang Cheng. Li Yan and Xu Tong have both led troops for many years, and have made a lot of contributions under Fang Cheng, and are known as Fang Cheng's right-hand man.

"Now we can only wait for the forward probe to reply to the message! The Imperial wanted criminals escorted this time are very important, and if something goes wrong along the way, the county keeper will not spare us Lanfeng City. Fang Cheng looked at Xu Tong and Li Yan and said solemnly.

Li Yan looked at Fang Cheng and said solemnly: "Don't worry, city lord, don't forget, this time it is the prince of Yunan who is in charge of escorting, and if he wants to take people under the master, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find a few in the entire Dongling County." ”

"Of course I'm relieved about Yu Nan, but if he delays his trip and can't arrive at Lanfeng City on time, he should also give me news, why is there no news?" Fang Cheng said slowly with a frown.

After that, Fang Cheng walked to the door of the hall and looked at the flying snow, then turned to look at Xu Tong and said, "In this way, Xu Tong, you and I will go to Lanfeng now, I want to know what is going on as soon as possible!"

"Yes, city lord" Xu Tong clenched his fists with both hands and replied with his chin bowed.

With that, Fang Cheng and Xu Tong turned around and left quickly.

The snow was falling, Fang Cheng and Xu Tong rode horses in the snow and galloped towards Lanfeng, and by noon, the two had already rushed to Wuping Road in Lanfeng.

"City Lord, in front of you is the Valley of Hundred Flowers. Xu Tong shouted at Fang Cheng while riding his horse.

"Soon, something must have happened to Suminan. Fang Cheng said quickly.

Immediately, the two turned around and stepped into the Valley of Hundred Flowers. Not long after leaving, the two of them smelled a strong smell of blood. "City Lord, look!!" Xu Tong suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted loudly.

Fang Cheng immediately stopped his horse and looked into the distance, only to see a lot of corpses buried in the snow, and when he looked closely, he found that these corpses were all wearing black rock-like armor. In the center of these corpses, there was a large iron cage, which was empty.

"Black-rock-guard. Fang Cheng's face immediately became gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word.

Xu Tong also said with an angry face: "I didn't expect that someone would dare to come to rob the prisoner!" As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately turned around and said suspiciously: "But these corpses are all from Heiyanwei, and I didn't see the son of Yunan, what about the others?"

Fang Cheng didn't reply, just jumped off his horse, walked to the center of the corpse, and looked around carefully. After a while, he said in a low voice: "The surrounding cliffs and ground have not caused damage due to fierce battles, although the snow can block some traces, but the particularly large terrain damage will still be very obvious, not without traces." After speaking, he paused, then turned to look at Xu Tongzheng and said: "Yu Nan should have met a very strong opponent, and he didn't have many opportunities to make a move, so he lost." ”

When Xu Tong heard this, he immediately looked at Fang Cheng and said in surprise: "The person who can make the prince of Yunan don't have much chance to make a move, we don't seem to have anyone in Dongling County, right?"

Fang Cheng didn't answer Xu Tong's words, he just raised his head and looked at the snowflakes in the sky, and said sadly: "Yu Nan is afraid that it is more auspicious and less ......!"

A day ago,

Deep in Lanfeng Mountain, Wanhua Valley.

An army of 100 meters long, about 1,000 people, is marching with difficulty against the wind and snow. Each soldier was dressed in black rock-like armor, and judging from the armor style, this army was one of the guards guarding the Ranfeng City Lord's Mansion, called the Black Rock Guard.

In the center of the Black Rock Guard, two horses were pulling an iron cage side by side. In the middle of the cage sat a ragged man, with a huge iron lock attached to his hands and feet. Snow covered most of his body, and the messy hair and snow on his head almost obscured his face, revealing only a pair of bright eyes, staring at the front of the army, not knowing what he was thinking.

And at the front of the army he looked at was a burly young man. The young man was riding steadily on horseback, dressed in silver-white armor, wearing a black robe and a white helmet. The young man under the helmet had an indifferent face, thin lips, and a pair of thick eyebrows that resembled Fang Cheng, and his eyes were slightly closed.

The horse under his crotch is all fiery red, with black armor and a cyan sword hanging from his side. Snowflakes of this size should have been covered with snow on the young man's body a long time ago, but the strange thing was that those snowflakes naturally melted away when they were nearly half a meter away from him.

This young man is the son of Fang Cheng, the city lord of Lanfeng City, Fang Yunan, who has been by Fang Cheng's side since he was a child, not only proficient in government affairs, but also extremely talented in martial arts!

With such a martial arts talent, in the entire Dongling County, and even in the Great Han Kingdom, there are not many people who can surpass Fang Yunan. And Fang Yunan's ability to have such a terrifying martial arts cultivation speed, in addition to his outstanding martial arts cultivation talent, is also inseparable from his special physique, which is rare in the world-accompanied full of Xuan Li! It is also Fang Yunan's talent that has created his arrogant and conceited character.

And the so-called way of cultivating martial arts is to be full of mystical power at the beginning, supplemented by strengthening the body, yin and yang, avoiding death and prolonging life, duality into one, and transcendent sanctification. Martial arts cultivation essentially refers to the human body by absorbing natural energy, breaking through the shackles of the body again and again, so as to achieve the realm of immortality and immortality, moving stars and changing battles.

Therefore, in the Great Han Kingdom, and even in the entire Northern Continent, everyone dreams of stepping into the path of martial arts, so as to have supreme power, and huge wealth, and even reach the limit of the essence of mortal life, and live forever. But I don't know if it's a natural restriction or a restriction on the number of days in the dark, there is always one in ten people who can cultivate martial arts. Most people don't have the power in their bodies, so naturally they can't step into the path of martial arts, so they have to regret it for life.

"Lord Fang, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the march will be more difficult, why don't you set up camp and rest for half a day before setting off?" Behind Fang Yunan, Luo Jie, the leader of the Black Rock Guard, rode up on a horse and said.

As if he hadn't heard, Fang Yunan's eyes were slightly closed, and he continued to move forward without the slightest intention of stopping. Seeing this, Luo Jie stopped talking, and was half a head behind Fang Yunan, so he had to follow along.

The terrain in the valley of Baihua Valley is flat, but the cliffs on both sides are extremely steep. At this time, on the top of the cliff on the left side of the march direction of the Hundred Flowers Valley, there were hundreds of black-clothed people lying on their stomachs. Next to the man in black, every few meters, there is a giant crossbow. At the forefront, there stood seven women dressed in white and wearing pale blue masks, and men in white but wearing gray masks like the eight. Fifteen people all quietly watched Fang Yunan, who was walking in the forefront.

Snowflakes were flying, the sky and the earth were vast, and with such weather, Fang Yunan naturally didn't know that Hei Yanwei was already in prison at this time. However, out of the intuition of walking on the tip of the knife for many years, Fang Yunan always smelled that there was a dangerous smell in the Hundred Flowers Valley now, so Fang Yunan ignored Luo Jie's suggestion and just wanted to get out of the Hundred Flowers Valley as soon as possible.

At this time, one of the fifteen people in white looked at Fang Yunan, who was walking in the forefront, and slowly raised his palm. Seeing this, the man in black in the rear quickly filled the long-erected trap crossbow with sharp arrows. The arrow is on the string, it is ready to go, as the palm of the man in white waved forward, "Xiu Xiu Xiu", a hundred arrows were fired in unison, densely shot towards Hei Yanwei, and the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air was endless!

At this time, Fang Yunan, who was moving forward, suddenly heard the sound of breaking the air from the left side of his body, and his eyes suddenly opened!

The speed of the sharp arrows was so fast, when Fang Yunan drew his sword, it had already shot less than a meter away from Fang Yunan's side! In the face of the dense arrows, Fang Yunan's indifferent face was not waveless, and he stabbed the sharp sword in his hand to the left side without hurrying, and suddenly, all the sharp arrows stopped at the tip of the sword, as if time had stood still!

No matter how many sharp arrows are shot from behind, they will not be able to move in the slightest! At this time, if you look closely, you will find that the reason why the arrows stopped was because at the tip of the sword, there was a transparent circle of light like waves, which was slowly spreading out one by one, blocking all the arrows in front of you.

And when Fang Yunan was resisting the arrows, the Black Rock Guards behind him were caught off guard by this sudden attack! The dense array of sharp arrows passed through the bodies of one Black Rock Guard after another, and the screams resounded through the Valley of Hundred Flowers. Luo Jie, who was behind Fang Yunan, was also calm in the face of this sudden attack, and the shadows of the guns in the sky protected himself tightly.

The rain of arrows stopped suddenly, and Luo Jie hurriedly looked behind him, only to see that Heiyan Wei was injured, and there were only a few people left, who were stubbornly guarding the iron cage. The men in the cage were not injured, apparently they were coming for the prisoners, and the arrows were deliberately avoiding the cage.

"Childe, it seems that someone has come to rob Yu Yanfeng!" Luo Jie turned around and said nervously to Fang Yunan.

"You go and see Yu Yanfeng. Fang Yunan turned to Luo Jie and said lightly.

"No need to go, he has to come with me today. As soon as Fang Yunan's words fell, a cold female voice came from the sky. Immediately afterwards, fifteen people dressed in white and wearing masks, accompanied by flying snowflakes, fell down and surrounded Luo Jie and Fang Yunan.

"Who are you? What are you, so bold that you dare to rob and kill the people of the City Lord's Mansion, and you still want to take away the wanted criminals of the empire!" Luo Jie looked at the white-clothed man who appeared silently beside him, and asked sharply.

Hearing this, the man behind Fang Yunan looked at Luo Jie and said arrogantly: "Boy~, let me tell you, in this world, there is no one we dare not move." "It is impossible to judge the age of this man in white based on his voice and body shape alone.

Luo Jie just wanted to speak, but Fang Yunan waved his hand to stop him. He looked at the person who spoke and said coldly: "No matter who you are, if you dare to rob and kill Heiyanwei, today, don't want to leave the Valley of Hundred Flowers alive!"

The woman in front of Fang Yunan heard this, looked at Fang Yunan and said with interest: "You are the one who started cultivating martial arts at the age of thirteen, touched the Xuanyin Realm in the year of the weak crown, and after that, killed Cui Jing, punished Bai Cheng, destroyed the Xuanmen, and was known as the thirteen swords of Dongling, and did not touch half of Yu Nan's body?"

Faced with questions, Fang Yunan did not say anything, still looking at these people with a cold face. "Hehehehe~ Originally~ I was just entrusted by someone to bring someone, and now~ I~ I have a little itchy hands, and it is rare to meet a person who can be seen and come to play a few tricks with my sister? Another woman in front of Fang Yunan asked with a smile.

"If you want to fight with Lord Fang, you are not worthy! Let me Luo Jie take you imperial rebels first!" With that, Luo Jie kicked on the back of the horse, and the spear stabbed directly at the woman in front of him! Just as Luo Jie was about to stab the mysterious woman, the woman's figure suddenly dissipated like a wisp of green smoke.

Luo Jie was startled, and immediately reflexively swept towards the other two people on the woman's left and right, and similarly, when he was about to hit, the other two also dissipated. Just when Luo Jie didn't know why, the remaining twelve people around him also dissipated one after another.

Looking at the dissipating people, Fang Yunan thought thoughtfully, and then suddenly shouted at Luo Jie: "Watch behind you!" As soon as the words fell, the two figures appeared behind Luo Jie like lightning. Immediately after, a pitch-black light appeared from the palms of the two of them at the same time, shooting directly at Luo Jie's back! Luo Jie couldn't react, and before he could turn around, the black light had already pierced his back!

Fang Yunan's eyes narrowed slightly, looking down at the dead Luo Jie, the black light on his back was like a poisonous mist, rapidly corroding his body, and after a while, the corpse disappeared, as if it had never appeared in this heaven and earth!

Yu Yanfeng, who was in the cage, saw such a scene, and showed deep doubts through his eyes, then shook his head, his eyes slightly closed.

At this time, Hei Yanwei, who was guarding next to the cage, saw that the captain was killed, and immediately became murderous, pulled out his matching sword and rushed forward. Seeing this, Fang Yunan said indifferently in the direction where Hei Yanwei was rushing: "You guys retreat, going up will only end up the same as Luo Jie, don't send them to death!" Hearing this, Hei Yanwei was stunned and had to retreat.

"How about Fang Yunan, did you guess something? Hehehe! Next, there are no annoying flies, can you play with your sister for a while?" Fang Yunan turned around and stared closely at the two newly appeared figures, the same white clothes, the mask was still blue and gray.

"It must feel good to kill a proud son like you!" the man in the gray mask looked at Fang Yunan and said seriously.

Hearing this, Fang Yunan jumped off the horse, held the green sword, and slowly walked towards the two! As he walked, he smiled lightly: "Thousands of people and thousands of faces, hidden shadows, nine deaths in one life, seven vertical and eight horizontal! Yunan is very honored to be able to fight with the world-famous 'vertical and horizontal' seniors!"