Autumn goes and winter comes.

There was a heavy rain in Tianlang County, Zhenzhou.

Xingxie, who exuded the fragrance of ointment, held an oilcloth umbrella, stood on the drizzly bluestone bridge, looking at the patches of duckweed drifting on the lake below the bridge, and there was a kind of peace on his pale and delicate face.

At the end of the bridge, there is an extremely wide mansion, and there is a huge eye-catching plaque hanging on the main entrance of the mansion, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dances with five words: Build the Dragon General's Mansion.

At the beginning of the founding of the Sunset Empire, the world was divided into 28 states according to the stars in the sky, and Tianlang County in this state was one of the main military and commercial towns in the seven states of Suzaku in the south, and even in the starry cities of the empire, it could be ranked in the forefront. And in such a county town where every inch of land is valuable, a house of such a scale can be purchased, and the word "Made" is written on the plaque, and the only person who can get such treatment in the entire Suzaku Seven Prefectures is one of the eight dragon generals who guards the frontier for the empire and has supreme military might, General Molin.

At this time, Xingxie's gaze retracted from the duckweed on the water surface and landed on the General's Mansion by the bridge, the outline of the General's Mansion in the rain was a little blurred, and it was connected into an undulating shadow in the distance, and it was no longer clear to see. The pavilion is hazy, dreamlike, it is a rare scenery, but the star evil has no intention of appreciating it.

It seems that since he left the village where he had lived for two years in the summer, he could no longer find himself who was carefree and only read the books of the sages every day. It's just less than half a year, everything around him has undergone unexpected changes, first the little junior sister has a favorite person, then he met Tuntun and Liujiao on the mountain, and then the senior brother of Yongye was captured by the rogue, this time his Cangyang party is also struggling.

Star Evil is a very clean, very simple, and even wishful thinking that believes in the truth and seems a little pedantic, but as his teacher said, he is also a very smart person. There are many, many things, and he can quickly analyze the causes and consequences of the thoughtful thinking, such as the hasty departure of the senior brother and the second senior brother this time, such as why he is in danger and the teacher can come to the rescue, but the teacher who is captured by the senior brother of the eternal night does not know where he is. This made Xing Xie feel very uneasy, he felt that he and his brothers who had been with each other for more than ten years were all caught in a huge whirlpool, whether it was the Taki, or Cangyang, in front of these forces that had been inherited in the world for nearly 10,000 years, he seemed more insignificant than the dust on the ground.

Some people say that young people don't know what it's like to be sad, but Xing Xie feels an extreme exhaustion in body and mind. Because he was too smart and too calm, he knew too many things that he shouldn't know at his age, so there was inexplicable pressure, which made him feel bored in his chest.

Xingye stood on the bridge, waiting for the String Shadow, and he was going to wait for the String Shadow to finish the affairs of the General's Mansion, and then he would resign to the teacher who had been with him for more than ten days. Thinking that this teacher of Tai Academy came into contact with all the dignitaries of the court like General Mo Lin in the imperial capital, but he did not hold his own identity along the way, but treated people extremely kindly, and the admiration for Xianying in Xingxie's heart was one more point.

The rain was pouring down in the city, and people were coming and going in the streets. An oilcloth umbrella next to each other, like duckweed in this lake, meet here and part.

This is fate.

A hundred years of vicissitudes, I don't know how many bluestone bridges have witnessed meeting and parting, and the feelings and sorrows of countless literati and rioters have been placed.

The county town under the rain curtain is not quiet, in addition to the sound of the rain of large beads and small beads falling on the jade plate, there are also the shouts of vendors and the sound of passers-by bargaining on the street by the bridge. Even in such an important imperial town with a cloud of masters, the most important group is still the ordinary people who come and go in the alleys of the market, regardless of whether your cultivators turn their hands into clouds and cover their hands into rain, those legends and stories that are far away and boundless, where is it important to have the current weight of firewood, rice, oil and salt.

The world is the world, and below the sky, there are these ordinary people who are busy living every day, in other words, they are the world.

On the side of the misty street, a young woman hurried forward with her child, because the umbrella was too small, and the woman was only concerned with sheltering the naughty child who was looking around all the way, so she was a little embarrassed. But the mother and son passed by a small cart full of sugar gourd strings, so the naughty child refused to move half a step forward.

"Mother, I want to eat sugar gourd. The boy took the woman by the hand, and his clear eyes were firm and undeniable.

The woman looked at her child lovingly, lifted her washed white sleeves and carefully wiped the scattered raindrops on the boy's face, and said softly: "Little tiger is good, my mother didn't bring any money when she went out today, and I will buy it for you next time." ”

The man selling sugar gourds next to the cart couldn't see the young woman's embarrassment, so he smiled and took a string of sugar gourds from the cart, handed them to the boy, and said, "It's not easy to travel in the heavy rain, and a bunch of sugar gourds can make this little devil honest." ”

The woman's face was embarrassed and she said, "It's just that I went out in a hurry this time, and I didn't bring any money with me." ”

"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, a string of sugar gourds can be worth a few dollars, just take it. ”

Hearing the man's words, the boy who was called Xiaohu smiled, and was about to reach out to take the string of sugar gourds, but was knocked down by his mother's "snap".

"Xiaohu, listen to my mother's words, thank you for this uncle's kindness, and wait for my mother to bring money to buy it for you next time. ”

Xiaohu looked at his mother, who had always spoiled him, so resolute this time, and there was an inexplicable grievance in his heart, and he cried loudly, he raised his small fist and beat the woman, while crying: "I don't care, I want to eat sugar gourd, I want to eat sugar gourd!"

When the man saw the woman's frowning brows, he also said comfortingly: "It's just a string of sugar gourds, it's really not good, just wait for you to take the money and give it to me next time." ”

The woman shook her head and said, "Our family is poor, and we feel ashamed of our child, so we let him mess around in the past, but he must not do this unearned thing." Today is your kindness, if he develops a habit in the future, he encounters his favorite things again, and others do not give them, he dares to steal and dare to rob, then how is it good. ”

After listening to the woman's words, the man nodded, said no more, and silently tied the sugar gourd back to the cart.

Seeing that the sugar gourd that was about to arrive was hopeless, Xiaohu shouted, "Mother is a bad guy!", and then broke free from the woman's hand and rushed into the vast rain.

"Little Tiger!" the woman looked anxious and hurriedly chased after her, but the long street was full of people and the child was flexible, and the woman only chased a few steps before the little tiger was gone.

The disgruntled little tiger squeezed through the crowd and ran to the embankment next to the lake under the bridge, only to see him stumble on the slippery and muddy moss, and the man fell headlong into the lake full of duckweed, spreading out a circle of ripples.

The woman who was late to the time saw the child falling into the lake, and her face turned pale and she collapsed to the ground.

The lake under the bluestone bridge in front of the general's mansion is not an ordinary lake for visitors to watch, and the entire Tianlang County knows that the bottom of the lake is inhabited by the mount of General Molin, a king who eats a cow every day and rarely appears in front of the world.

So when the little tiger fell into the water, some people reported to the official for a while, and some people shouted, but no one dared to go into the water to rescue him.

But the newcomer Star Evil didn't know, or whether he knew it or not, he had only one choice.

Then everyone saw a white figure jumping from the bridge into the lake.

The lake is very dark, and the lake water in late autumn and early winter is even more bitterly cold, and the little tiger who has not been in the water for a while has lost consciousness, his eyes are closed, and he sinks towards the bottom of the lake. Star Evil exerted force on his legs, swam to Xiaohu's side, and his left hand emitted a cloud of light to wrap Xiaohu's body, this light isolated the surrounding lake, leaving Xiaohu with a space to breathe, and exuding warmth to help him dispel the cold.

Because of the battle with the flower farmer a few days ago, the Star Evil's injuries only recovered a small part, so the vitality that the Star Evil could use at this time was still very limited, and it was not too difficult for the Star Evil who was now in the middle of the Ming Dao to save people, but at this moment, it made the Star Evil feel very difficult.

The faint light was particularly dazzling at the bottom of the deep lake, and the star evil dragged the little tiger slowly towards the lake, which was already a little powerless, and the star evil took advantage of the faint light to see a huge undulating black shadow at the bottom of the lake, and the powerful deterrent brought by this black shadow of unknown things actually made the flow of vitality in the star evil's body stagnate.

"Don't mess with that. Star Evil thought, and his movements in the water were a little more careful.

The rain became heavier, and more and more people gathered on the bridge and on both sides of the river, and everyone gathered around the lake, and the woman who had lost her child was full of tears, and she could no longer cry, but she was covered in mud, and sat on the shore looking at the lake in a daze.

The sound of crackling rain was endless, and the originally gloomy and gray sky suddenly brightened, and the winter that had just arrived suddenly appeared with a touch of early spring warmth.

The dark clouds in the distance were broken by a few rays of light, and suddenly the clear sky and heavy rain coexisted, and a long purple shadow in the sky flew down, fluttering down from the clouds. Hundreds of people on both sides of the bluestone bridge couldn't help but be stunned when they saw this shocking picture that was difficult to describe in words.

At the same time, the black shadow in the lake lived up to the expectations of the already extremely careful Star Evil, shook the mud off his body, and opened his eyes that were glowing with blue light.

Suddenly, the overwhelming pressure swept over, and Xing Xie felt that his body had been added to his body, and his body involuntarily sank towards the bottom of the lake. A huge black shadow at the bottom of the lake revealed its hideous face, it was a black buffalo covered in scales, with a pair of fin-like cortical wings under the buffalo's ribs, and its slender snake-like tail swaying back and forth, churning the lake upside down.

Xing Xie had read about this kind of monster in the book, there was a fish in the lake, its shape was like a cow, the snake's tail had wings, its feathers were under the ray, its sound was like a cow, and its name was a bird.

And the king at the bottom of the lake, which was the size of two ordinary cows, brought a sense of oppression to the star evil, even more than the sixth Jiao who suppressed the realm in the lower realm of Shangxian on the Sifang Mountain that day.

On the surface of the lake, a purple figure landed beside the woman, revealing a peerless face under her waterfall-like black hair. In the book, it was said that the woman was beautiful, but the fish and geese could be sunk, and the moon was shy of flowers, most people thought that this was the legendary posture of heaven and man, and when the real heavenly fairy came to the mortal dust and came to the front of everyone, people knew that the eight words used to describe the beauty of the woman in purple were still pale. This appearance should only belong to God's daughter.

The woman in purple did not look at the people around her, nor at the poor young woman sitting beside her, her eyes flashed and looked at the surface of the lake in front of her, which had become a huge whirlpool, and stretched out her flawless jade hand, a little farther away towards the center of the lake, and spat out orchid incense.

Then there was an ethereal sound that echoed through the heavens and the earth.

"Big cow, don't hurt anyone's life. ”