At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the king of Nanzhao sent an envoy to worship the king of Tang.

The king said: Where did the envoy come from?

The envoy said: Under the southern clouds.

Under the southern clouds, that is, Yunnan.

Under the southern clouds, 100,000 miles of mountains, verdant and deep, hundreds of thousands of rivers, rushing endlessly, birds and beasts can be seen everywhere, demons and spirits are standing on the top of the mountain and roaring in the sky, plus poisonous insects everywhere, the miasma is swirling, the living people do not approach, in ancient times, it was called Nanjiang.

In ancient times, Yunnan is still 100,000 miles, but there is already a big city, standing in it, deterring all evils, gathering people of all ethnic groups, cultivating wasteland and cultivating fields, it is already a prosperous scene.

This big city is the capital city of Yunnan, because of the former Yuan Dynasty, there are thousands of households in Kunming here, and it is also called Kunming City.

There is no Qianning Palace, no Ming Kunming City.

King Qianning, born in the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, just learned to walk, began to beg for a living, his surname is unknown, and later, he met a monk who was also begging.

Perhaps it was the long begging road that was too lonely, the young monk looked at the five or six-year-old little beggar, as if he saw himself when he was young, smiled slightly, and said,

"My name is Zhu Chongba, I have no wife, let alone a son, we are destined, you can be my son. ”

"Hmm. ”

"From now on, you will be called Zhu Ying. ”

"Hmm. ”

A father and a son, begging for food along the way, until they reached the peasant rebel army.

Zhu Ying, when he was not yet a knife chief, helped his father sharpen his knife and armor, and when he was longer than a knife, he carried a knife and followed his father to charge.

bitter and bitter, swords and mountains and sea of blood, all the way, until his father became the emperor, and his son Zhu Ying also became a famous general.

As the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang already has a son Zhu Biao, Zhu Ying is a righteous son, and a famous general in the world, who has been repeatedly criticized by Wenchen, Zhu Yuanzhang had to take Zhu Ying's hand and sighed,

"Son, you and I have been father and son for many years, the friendship has not changed, and it will not change in the future, you still call me father, but you can't be surnamed Zhu anymore. ”

Zhu Ying wailed and cried, kneeling on the ground,

"The son bathed in his father's kindness, and was able to survive in the troubled times, and he will never dare to forget. ”

Rao is Zhu Yuanzhang is decisive in killing, and he can't help but wet his eyes with tears,

"Okay, in the future, your surname will be Mu, and your name will be Mu Ying. ”

Since then, Mu Yingping Tubo, driving the defeated army of the Yuan Dynasty through Helan Mountain, pacifying Yunnan, and then guarding it, strengthening the city of Kunming, leading the world-famous Fire Dragon Guard, creating his own musket battle array, and the demons did not dare to intrude.

Repair water, Tuntian, dig salt, run a school, but more than ten years, Kunming City has been a prosperous, Wu Keding troubled times, Wen can open the prosperous world, Taizu also praised it, Fengxi Pinghou.

It's a pity that God is jealous of talents, Queen Stephen died of illness, and her mother, who regarded herself as her own like her father, died, Mu Ying was grief-stricken, vomiting blood, and her body weakened from then on.

After holding on for a few years, I heard that my younger brother Zhu Biao, who was brought up since childhood, died, Mu Ying was hit hard again, and soon left the west.

Taizu was very sad, personally welcomed Mu Ying's coffin to Yingtian, Zhaojing, enjoyed the Taimiao, chased the king of Qianning, the Mu family, and since then Yongzhen Daming Southern Xinjiang.

The palace of Qianning, on the shore of the big lake in the city of Kunming, compared with the carved beams and painted buildings in the capital, the palace is quite ordinary, only with specifications, and there is no luxury decoration.

The backyard of the palace is a lychee forest, with a little red mango in the green onion, with a faint sweet lychee fruit fragrance wafting, and the chirping of birds sounded, shuttling between the lychee forest, looking for insects.

Deep in the forest, a fenced yard encloses a few simple bamboo houses.

The four seasons in southern Yunnan are like spring, Zhongli Jiuyi is sitting in the courtyard, the table in front of him is full of files, with the good sun, looking at the clues that Suzaku has found in the deep mountains of southern Yunnan in the past few years.

Looking at the dossier, Zhong Lijiu buried his head in the middle, frowning and thinking while reading, from time to time he picked up the wine jug and poured it down.

It's quite strange that Suzaku has been in Kunming City for three years, and he didn't find a jade slave, naturally he is not lazy and slippery, and it can be seen in the information that every ten years of disappearance and death records in Kunming City, Suzaku will check and check on time, which is also not found that the jade slave has to check and trace one by one.

The brows gradually frowned, there was no specific information about the fairy mountain, and no jade slave was found, where could there be so many demons who carried the fairy mountain?

However, it can be seen from the information that the immortals in the southern Xinjiang have been hunting monsters, whether they are demons or not, they can't escape, and the hidden guards have returned to the Xuanwei scattered into the mountains, and the number of monsters who have received the demon card has decreased sharply in recent years, and many monsters who have begun to have wisdom have disappeared before they have time to give the demon card.

This is simply blatant, there is arrogance in the chaos, the monsters who have not transformed can only hide on the mountains near Kunming City, and some have left the mountains and forests and escaped from Yunnan.

Put down the file, picked up the jade wine jug around his waist, and was about to borrow wine to kill his sorrows, only then did he realize that the wine jug was empty, and turned around and shouted towards a small door,

"Serve the wine. ”

After shouting, lie down in the seat, close your eyes, and gently rub your eyebrows. After waiting for a long time, I didn't smell the wine, and I couldn't help but feel a little anxious, so I was about to shout again.

"Boom!"

A small jar of wine slammed on the table, and several files fell to the ground, Zhong Lijiu raised his eyes, and saw Xiao Ya pulling her face, and the scholar Tie Lingshuang's posture squinted her eyes, staring at herself indifferently.

His own left commander is getting more and more tiresome, and even the maids of the guards dare to put on a face, which is really unreasonable. Zhongli Jiu smiled sullenly, reached out and picked up the jar of wine, lifted the mud seal, and a refreshing aroma of wine came to his face, and his sorrow was relieved.

Raised his head and poured half of the jar, exhaling a breath of wine, Zhong Lijiu put down the jar and smiled lightly at the cold-faced Xiaoya,

"If you're bored, go outside. ”

Xiao Ya changed her weakness, raised her two small hands, made a few gestures vigorously, and finally clenched her fists tightly, her big round eyes were filled with tears, and she glared at Zhong Lijiu.

Zhongli Jiu shook his head,

"I'm not going to look for her, if she crosses the border, she'll come to you in a few days, and if she can't, you'll forget about her. ”

Seeing Xiao Ya wipe her tears and run back to the hut, the small courtyard was quiet again, Zhongli tapped the wine jar with his fingertips, and the sweet lychee wine fragrance drifted away with the dinging sound.

This is the first pass, if you can't pass it, not only will you not be able to take revenge, but you will also face endless pursuit in the future, from birth, it is your fate, Tie Lingshuang.

After being silent for a while, Zhong Lijiu came back to his senses and looked at the small wine jar, which seemed to be the smallest one, just took a big sip, and had already poured most of it, and now he had to take a sip gently, poured the rest of the wine into his wine jug, and turned over the dossier.

Until the forest was getting dark and the smoke was rising, Zhong Lijiu closed the last dossier, raised his head, and asked the two people who had already returned beside him,

"Little Sparrow, have you seen Longling Yin Mountain?"

Tianwei Vermilion Bird, a body of emerald green, is quite commensurate with this garden of lychees, the body is an ice and fire cold finch, after the nine-fold purple thunder tribulation, in the early years of Yongle, into the hidden guard.

After the Jinling War, in order to prevent the demon immortals from taking advantage of the situation, they took six ground guards and accelerated their return to Yunnan by land.

"The subordinates have flown over the southwest border several times, check the details, there will always be a group of corpse crows in mid-air, I wanted to bypass, check from the rear, and I can't get rid of it, the most good at hiding the worm in this genus has been hiding several times, and if you don't go halfway, there will be knife slaves, and you were seriously injured last time. ”

Nanhuo Vermilion Bird, under the jurisdiction of seven pairs of earth guards, well, ghost, willow, star, zhang, wing, and zhen. The water worm, one bright and one dark, is the best at hiding a pair under the Vermilion Bird, and it is blocked even when the mountain is not visible, and it seems that it is difficult to hide the breath in the face of the immortal.

Zhong Lijiu stood up and paced slowly, according to the records in the "Ancient Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a mountain in the middle of southern Xinjiang, the legend is a dragon tomb, a water and a fire, two long dragon bones are coiled and entangled, turning into a big mountain, which is called Longling Yin Mountain, but it has never been heard of, no one has seen it.

According to today's geographical calculations, it should be located at the southwest border of Yunnan, but I didn't expect to be close to the road of Suzaku, it seems that I have to go alone, but now is not the time.

Walked to the table, pondered for a moment, picked up a dossier, and instructed,

"Fengjin, press the pen, there is no trace in Kunming City, leave two Xuanwei to investigate, and the other Xuanwei withdraw and patrol around Kunming City. ”

"Yes. ”

Opened the file, opened two pages, pointed to the record on it, and asked softly,

"It is not easy to go out of the mountain with a knife, and there is no trace of a jade slave, so it is naturally difficult to find a jade bearer, which is a bit strange. However, are you sure that the person on the file is carrying a sword?"

Suzaku knew that he would have such a question, but he still couldn't help but glance at the rouge beside him, then straightened his waist, nodded at Zhongli Jiu, and said affirmatively,

"The subordinates are sure that two years ago, he killed the Xingri Horse Group who guarded the dossier, and after moving here, he came again, we fought each other, I had a sword in my back, and he also nailed three ice feathers to his shoulder, the injury can be faked, but his breath can't be wrong. ”

Seeing that Zhong Lijiu was silent again, Rouge was glanced at by Suzaku, knowing that he couldn't get rid of his relationship, he pursed his lips, stepped forward, reached out and grabbed the file in Zhong Lijiu's hand, and glanced at the line of words:

The sword man, Wei Duhe, Yunnan Dusi, the commander of the same knowledge.

Rouge raised her eyebrows and sneered at Suzaku,

"The commander is the same knowledge, the little military attache from the second grade, he can use such a mysterious place, he is upset when he looks at the cautious appearance of the two of you, you are worried about involving the government, I am not worried, go and take his head. ”

Throwing down the file and turning around to leave, Suzaku stretched out his hand to stop him, and turned back impatiently, only to see Suzaku stretched out his finger and pointed to the words "crossing the river", Rouge was self-inexplicable, So, Suzaku said softly,

"Incense elephants cross the river. ”

"What's wrong with the incense elephant crossing the river?

was complaining dissatisfiedly, Rouge suddenly paused, and then asked with a dark face,

"Is it one of the six Bodhisattvas of the contemporary Shaolin Zen Temple?"

The elephant is in estrus, and the sideburns behind the ears emit a strange fragrance to attract the opposite sex, which is called the incense elephant. At this time, the elephant is several times more powerful than in ordinary times, and if it runs wild on the flat ground, the earth shakes the mountains, and crosses the water, it can also cut off the river.

Western Buddhism, with this incense elephant to cross the river, to create a "incense elephant Sutra", can be cultivated incense like the Bodhisattva law, gestures, the power of the dragon elephant, and infinite magical powers.

However, Rouge doesn't care about the Bodhisattva's appearance, which scripture says that his supernatural powers are invincible, but in fact, it is just a slightly better practice method, the key is Shaolin Zen Temple.

The commanders of the hidden guards of heaven and earth are all counted, but there are only more than sixty people, and such a number is already the pinnacle in the inner rivers and lakes. But there are more than 10,000 outer disciples on Shaolin Temple's Shaolin Mountain, and there are countless lay disciples, and on Taimur Mountain, there are more than 100 inner disciples.

With a sect, dominating the inner and outer rivers and lakes, the power of the four inner doors of the Hedao Gate is not an opponent, but the angry thing is that the Shaolin Temple has two rules.

First, the Shaolin Temple does not allow inner disciples to go out of the mountain without permission.

If the inner disciples want to go out of the mountain, they need to break through the Shaolin Dragon Gate Array, a total of three levels, the first level of eighteen Arhats, the second level of the four Bodhisattvas, and the third level, it is necessary to survive a stick of incense under the hands of the inner master. is not a person with peerless talent and supernatural powers, and his bones will be broken in the first level, not to mention the last two levels.

Even if the Shaolin disciples who are lucky enough to get out of the mountain, they will strictly abide by the second rule, the disciples of the Shaolin Zen Temple, they must take the search for demons and eliminate demons as their duty, no matter good or evil, they will be punished when they see it.

This is very different from other temples, and it does not talk about Buddhism and compassion at all, but it is said that this law has been in place since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the reason for this is impossible to trace.

The hidden guards, there are Taoist gates, there are Buddhist gates, and there are also monsters who have cultivated into essence, and they are naturally disgusted by the Shaolin Zen Temple, and the disciples who go out of the mountain also remember the rules, not only will not join the hidden guards, but also occasionally have friction.

After the Battle of the South China Sea, the hidden guard was too damaged, Zhong Lijiu personally went to Taimur Mountain, visited the head of Shaolin, and wanted to say that the Shaolin Temple allowed the disciples to join the hidden guard, and Rouge was also fortunate to follow, but he didn't expect to be directly rejected by the pedantic monk, and it was seen that Zhongli Jiu himself was a dragon, if it wasn't for the master Yao Guangxiao who arrived later, the two sides almost moved.

Seeing Rouge's black face, Zhong Lijiu shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then said to Suzaku,

"You are hiding your words now, a Shaolin disciple who came out of the mountain, don't worry, the main thing is this. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the word "Wei", and saw Rouge staring at him in a daze, for some reason, Zhong Lijiu sighed,

"Your elder brother, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, has two concubines, one of whom is Concubine Wei. This Wei Duhe, who is carrying the image of the Bodhisattva of incense, is his younger brother. ”

Being in the royal family, I can deeply understand the superiority of men and the inferiority of women, thinking of the brother who has been showing off his power since he was a child, Rouge's face became darker, and he said coldly,

"I didn't see it, our Zhu family also wants to be immortals. ”

Zhong Lijiu shook his head and chuckled, and waved his hand,

"Don't infer in vain, the chaos of the dynasty is the method of the immortals, and it is very likely that the blame is very high, this Wei Duhe is very likely to use this identity, not afraid of being found out by us, so he blatantly fought with Suzaku. ”

"If this Wei Duhe is arrested by us, and we investigate all the way, according to the character of your father, even if there is no evidence, it will be suspected of the head of the Han King, and at that time, our hidden guard will become a sinner who troubles the government. ”

Having said that, although it is not specified, Rouge also understands that if there is no evidence of collusion between the two, if there is no evidence of collusion between the two, it will become more and more chaotic.

This person is a second-grade military attache with an army under his command, and if he does not handle it well, it is likely that there will be another war in Yunnan. What's more serious is that when it comes to the royal family, if the handling is slightly improper, the father is likely to be dissatisfied with the hidden guard.

After thinking for a while, Rouge couldn't think of a way, and couldn't help but ask hatefully,

"He killed my hidden guard, so let's leave him like this?"

Zhong Lijiu sneered,

"Don't track down his relationship with the DPRK, only check his whereabouts, when the time is ripe, kill him directly. ”

Hearing this, Rouge and Suzaku glanced at each other, and the two of them got up together. Zhongli Jiu coughed lightly, interrupting Suzaku and Rouge's laughter,

"Zhang Tie took Qi Chen to inspect the traces of monsters around the city, he should have come back, maybe he was in trouble, you two go and meet them, I will go and visit the Duke of Qianguo." ”

"Yes. ”

Rouge was about to snatch away, when he thought of something, he hesitated for a moment, and still asked Zhong Lijiu,

"Commander, Xiao Shuang'er, is there any news?"