Don't stay in the inn, on the seventh floor, in the pavilion.

From noon to evening, from the red sun to the moon and stars, the tall man always sat upright and never relaxed.

There is a table and chair, a tea set, and a chessboard in the pavilion.

The tables and chairs were neatly placed, only the tall man sat there, and there was only a teapot left in the tea set, there was no drop of water in it, and the chessboard was full of chess pieces, black and white, and if you looked closely, it was a wordless.

From there to nothing, talk is better than nothing.

The tall man stared at a cloud of smoke in the air from beginning to end, and a cloud map left by Lan Xiangquan before leaving, even when he was 'playing chess', let the smoke make all kinds of changes, the mountains and rivers with beautiful mountains and rivers, the noisy bazaar, and the silent night...... , the scenery varies.

Crying children, hobbling old men, women cooking, working men... Mix.

The tall man withdrew his gaze and looked sideways downstairs, where the old locust tree in the center of the village shone brightly in the moonlight.

The tall man stretched out a hand, his fingers pressed in the air, the space rippled, the locust leaves were blown up by the wind, making a salala sound, and an invisible pillar of light rushed from the treetops to the sky, and after exploding in the air, the fragments were scattered around the village, connecting with each other to form a wall of light.

All this was seen by the man on the tall building.

The tall man snorted coldly, "So sensitive, hmph, tigers also have times when they take a nap, I want to see how long you can last." ”

The tall man shifted his gaze again, looking at the mountains on both sides, he clearly remembered that thousands of years ago, this was still an empty plain, inaccessible to people, and there was no grass, but overnight, two mountains were added here, and the mountains stretched for millions of miles, occupying half of the rivers and mountains of the village, and no one still knows their origins.

Perhaps tired, the man rubbed his eyes, sighed, and said to himself, "Retreat, cultivation, it's all a lie! Wanting a treasure is your real purpose, for a non-existent existence, you are willing to spend hundreds of years, and you have made a deal with the cave beast that you look down on the most in your life, is this considered a decline in the world, no, how can you do business with the cave beast, and when you get what you want, you are not kicked away." What I don't understand is that it has been 10,000 years since the Emperor was feathered and left, and the master of this continent is about to change hands. ”

The sky was covered with dark clouds, in which there seemed to be thunder and lightning rolling, and the sea of clouds boiling.

The tall man waved his hand and smiled, "Don't get me wrong, I don't have the interest of being the boss, it's just that I don't, others will have it, can you stop me one, can you stop me ten, hundred?"

Yunhai was silent and slowly receded.

The tall man stood up and flicked his sleeves, the chessboard was empty, and all the chess pieces were wrapped in his sleeves, and the same was true for the teapot.

The tall man walked out of the pavilion and stood on the eaves, the cold wind blowing, but he couldn't blow a piece of his clothes.

"I haven't seen enough of this world, there are still many places I haven't been to, and there are many people I haven't seen. ”

The tall man straightened his arm and raised his middle finger in the direction of Yunhai's departure.

The tall man whose real name is Ju Baishui fell from the eaves, like a dead leaf, silent, floating on the water, unable to turn up a little wind and waves.

The unguarded street is particularly empty at this time.

Ju Baishui casually came to the locust tree and stopped in front of the shaded area.

The fingers pressed again, the ripples reappeared, the chrysanthemum white water increased the strength of the fingers, and more intense ripples spread outward from the fingers, and finally covered the entire body of the locust tree.

Ju Baishui chuckled, "If you protect yourself so tightly, do you already know that you are in danger?" Do you want to make a deal with me? As long as you give me the middle piece of the trunk, I can refine a pen that is unique in the world, and write all things in the world, so that you can be safe for another hundred years. ”

The leaves of the locust tree rustle.

Ju Baishui shook his head and said, "Alas, you're full of treasures, but you can't use them." I originally wanted to be a favor and reluctantly accept your spiritual root, which can be regarded as worthy of our kind, but you are also an elm head, what should I do? Oh, by the way, the bamboo basket boy in the village, you should be very concerned about him, you say, if the village is attacked by other cultivators with ulterior motives, they will definitely cramp you for the time being, but these humans living in the village, do you think they will survive?"

The locust leaves rustle again.

Ju Baishui smiled and said, "It seems that there is a drama in this matter." ”

The leaves of the locust tree dance in the wind and sway from side to side.

Ju Baishui shook his head, "No, free bodyguard, I don't do this kind of loss-making business." ”

Locust leaves are still.

Ju Baishui frowned and thought about it seriously, "You mean, your spiritual root is reserved for that young man, and you can't be the master yourself, so it's a bit troublesome." I know that your locust leaves and locust branches are also very valuable, but I don't need those, my current realm is already difficult to find opponents, and if I want to climb up, it is not some panacea, the treasure of heaven and earth can solve it, besides, with my current realm cultivation, not to mention immortality, it is still possible to live at least a thousand years. However, depending on what you mean, the spiritual root is not available. Well, give me the thickest branch on the treetops, and roughly estimate that you will be able to finish a book, and then I will keep you safe for ten years. How's that going?"

The leaves of the locust tree made a loud noise, but all this could only be felt by Ju Baishui alone, even Fan Fang, who was standing in front of the window on the fourth floor of the inn, could not do anything.

After making the transaction, my mood has obviously changed a lot.

Ju Baishui said indifferently, "It's okay, with his little bit of Taoism, it is impossible to detect the transaction between us." I'm in a good mood today, so I'd like to express my heart first. As far as I know, there are at least three forces in the mountains that have plans against you, two of them I know, they are from the White Dragon Realm, the Sorrowful Banner of another country and the Huanyuguan of Xiangyun Country, they are all one or two hundred years old little children, not enough to worry about, the most incomprehensible thing for me is the other force. ”

Ju Baishui touched his chin and muttered, "It should be the Bodhisattva Fort of Si Yi Country, but it seems to be mixed with other things, dark and misty, and I can't see through it." ”

Ju Baishui patted his head and said cynically, "Forget it, let's take those two old acquaintances first." ”

Ju Baishui turned around and walked out of the village.

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The silent night was a little more terrifying, there was always a subtle humming sound coming from the depths of the woods, but when the crowd arrived, the voice changed direction, as if it was playing hide and seek with them.

After a year's absence, Lu Anshi came from the Mirror Moon Temple overnight, but he was still one step late.

As early as a year ago, he sent a letter to his home, telling his family that he was going home to visit soon, and when he walked to the junction of Si Rong and Xiangyun Kingdom, he was delayed for nearly a month because of some things, and when he was about to arrive in Tianxiang County, he received a letter from home, which said that Tianxiang County was going to hold an exhibition in the next few days, so that he could go home quickly, so as not to encounter a lockdown, which would only add some time.

In order not to let his family worry, he wrote a few more letters, telling his family that he was all right, but he wanted to spend more time in the city, and he had not yet entered the city, and the family quickly replied that Grandpa Kou was waiting for him to come home under the old locust tree every day from morning to night.

In order to meet the old man as soon as possible, he decided to set off early, so he specially chose such a mountain path.

In addition to Lu Anshi, he returned to the village with three of his classmates and a division commander.

Lu Anshi's teacher's name is Chenfu, who is the outer gate elder of the Mirror Moon Temple, and he has the grace of knowing Lu Anshi.

Four years ago, Chen Fu took a study tour team to stay at the inn in Laohuai Village, and when he fell in love with Lu Anshi at that time, he persuaded Lu Anshi's parents to let him go to Jingyue Temple to learn and practice, and this trip was four years.

Chenfu is draped in the exclusive cloak of the Mirror Moon Temple, and the back of the cloak is embroidered with a well, and there is a full moon in the well.

The other three are all the same age as Lu Anshi, they are also disciples of Chenfu, four men and one woman walked through a bush, Lu Anshi and Chenfu walked in the front from afar, and the girl who walked at the end suddenly screamed, attracting everyone's attention.

The tallest boy, with a short sword hanging from his waist and a big bow with horns on his back, heard the girl's shout, a side flash, appeared on the girl's right side, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

The girl wrinkled her face and said pitifully, "I seem to be stepping on something under my feet, senior brother, can you help me see what it is?"

The tall boy squatted down with a cold face, drew the short sword at his waist, and cautiously played with the foreign object that the girl had stepped on.

It turned out to be just a snake molt.

The tall boy carried the snake with the tip of his sword, and in the moonlight, he watched carefully.

The other three had also rushed to their side.

Chenfu glanced at the snake and asked, "How can there be a snake in such a place?"

Lu Anshi picked up the snake and pressed it lightly with his thumb, and there was a smooth film on the surface of the snake melt, and when he pressed it, it made a 'chirp' sound.

Lu Anshi explained, "The mountains here are different from other places, there are often cave beasts, especially in the past two years, cave beasts appear frequently, it is inevitable to leave traces, let's hurry up." ”

The tall boy asked, "How far is it from your village, I feel that Qingzhu can't hold it anymore." ”

Lu Anshi saw the girl with a bitter face, tears rolling in her eyes, and comforted, "It's almost here, bear with it a little longer." ”

The girl sniffed and did not speak.

At this time, another teenager, who had not spoken, stood in front of the four of them, vigilantly ahead.

The boy wears a pure white mask, and the eyes and mouth are painted in black and purple to roughly outline the outline of his face.

The young man held a Qingyang fan, and several spirits of different shapes were embroidered on the fan surface, with teeth and claws, and his face was hideous.

Chenfu noticed the abnormality, pulled out the big knife behind his back, stood in front of the young man's right, and quipped, "Your luck is very good, as soon as you walked out of the mountain gate, you ushered in the first experience in your life, Gu Zhiwen, you stay behind to prevent them from sneaking up." ”

The masked boy nodded, turned and walked behind the group, he opened the folding fan, and the spirits on the fan glowed a strange cyan.

The tall boy looked around and checked the situation on the tree, although he had a short sword, he was really good at shooting, but the next words of the dust were undoubtedly pouring cold water on him.

"Don't look at it, we're already surrounded." ”

The tall boy came to Chenfu's side and said softly, "Do you need me to call for backup, as long as I crush the jade pendant on my waist, the family will have a sense and can come to support us." ”

"By the time they arrived, we would have already become someone else's food." Don't worry, they probably think we're intruders, and I've seen this a lot, and if we were kind enough, we might be able to avoid this fight. ”

"Lu Anshi. ”

Lu Anshi heard the teacher's shout and hurried to his side.

"You are the master here, you go over to negotiate with them, explain our intentions, if you need to pay for the toll, I still have some entanglement here, after all, the cave beasts have signed a pact with us humans, they shouldn't be too difficult for us. ”

Lu Anshi nodded yes.

Walking into the bushes, there was a sound of conversation inside, and after a while, Lu Anshi walked out with a blue face.

Chenfu felt that something was wrong, and quietly operated the spiritual power of the dantian, and the big tree in the dantian, from bottom to top, emitted a layer of earthy yellow light, and the wrist gradually turned yellow.

Lu Anshi returned to the original place, he had already drawn the double sword in his sleeve, and said coldly, "They said that they can let a few of us pass, but Qingzhu must be left behind." ”

Hearing this bad news, the girl's eyes turned red again, and there was a situation where the rain was coming.

The middle-aged man with the big knife in his hand sneered, "It seems that it doesn't make sense, how is their combat power?"

As early as the time of the Mirror Moon Temple, Chenfu had already taught the method of survey, which was to use his own spiritual power to spread outward, and judge the number and realm of the enemy through the consumption and spread speed of spiritual power, but according to Lu Anshi's current strength, I am afraid that nothing can be surveyed.

Lu Anshi replied, "The trees are full of their people, and there seem to be other cave beasts lurking in the deepest part, but I don't know what they are, but one thing is certain, there is more than one cave beast that has already opened its mind. ”

Chenfu twisted his neck, the strength of holding the big knife increased a little more, and he smiled cruelly, "Then there is no problem, Gu Zhiwen, pay attention to the back, Zuo Su pay attention to the top in case they sneak attack, and Lu Anshi protects Mao Qingzhu." ”

The middle-aged man burst out of spiritual power, his whole body bloomed with earthy yellow, and the light spread to the big knife in his hand, and the big knife rose against the storm.

There was a hissing sound from the bushes, and countless small black snakes spread out from the bushes, their necks tilted, their long scarlet tongues spitting out of their mouths, hissing sounds.

The small black snake slowly approached the five people, and there was a faint buzzing sound in the bushes again.

Zuo Su looked up, and a little cold light appeared in his eyes.

He condensed his spiritual power above his eyes, his eyes glowed a faint brown, and the situation in the sky was clearly revealed in the boy's eyes, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

"A lot of bees. ”

Bees with stingers on their tails occupied the entire woods, and the tall boy drew the big bow with horns on his back, took out an arrow from the quiver on the left side of his body, and put it on the bow, and pulled the bowstring tight, and a trace of brown appeared on the bowstring and arrows.

Gu Zhiwen summoned the spirit on the fan, which was a fox standing on two legs and two grinning earth dogs.

The fox crossed his legs and stared at the bushes in front of him with sharp eyes, and a sharp voice sounded in the small circle formed by everyone, "Grandpa, I knew it would be no good to call me out." Gu Zhiwen, you said that you wanted to go back to your hometown, and said that there are a lot of delicious foods here, so I followed you, and now what is the situation, you must explain it to me. ”

Gu Zhiwen smiled bitterly, and was just about to open his mouth to explain, when he heard one of the two earth dogs, not to be outdone, he replied, "Stinky fox, if you have anything to say, you can't wait until it's safe, let me tell you, don't think that if the master is not there, you can bully the young master, our brothers are still here." ”

The fox's face was full of disdain, and he sneered, "Yo Yo Yo, the lost dog still dares to speak wildly, don't forget, even if I am imprisoned by the Qingyang fan, but as long as the spiritual root is not dispersed, I will have the day to recover my true body, what about you, what is the way out except to stay in this broken fan?"

Another earth dog said, "If you could get out, wouldn't you have gone out a long time ago, and you still need to wait in the fan for three hundred years, it's ridiculous." ”

The fox was furious and kicked the head of the earth dog in the left rear, and the earth dog dodged sideways, and as soon as the four feet landed, he was bitten by the neck by a leopard with a pattern that emerged from the bushes, and the two four-legged beasts rolled down to one side and tore up.

Another earth dog suddenly ran into the bushes beside him and roared.

The fox sighed, reluctantly walked in front of the boy, and when he stood still, the bushes in front of him trembled, and a two-meter-high leopard with patterns walked out of the bushes, and on its back stood a large multicolored bird.

The big bird spat out and said, "Hand over the girl, we can spare you from death." ”

The fox got up and kicked on the belly of the big bird, and the big bird was kicked directly into the sky, waving its wings, and finally stabilized its body in the air, and the big bird saw a leopard's head several times larger than its entire body catapulting out from below.

The fox stuck one leg in the leopard's heart and pulled out a mottled bead from it.

The fox swallowed the beads in one bite, and said unsatisfied, "Cut, there is only a hundred years of Taoism, so I dare to call in front of your Uncle Xiaohu, Gu Zhiwen, this time for the sake of the spiritual root, forgive you once, next time you will ask me for help, without three hundred years of spiritual roots, you don't speak again." ”

The fox shook his body and walked into the bushes with steps that he did not recognize, "I'll go find something to eat and come back later." ”

From beginning to end, the young man who had never made a move could only smile bitterly.

The big bird, which was hit by the leopard's head again, flew down from the treetops in embarrassment, and seeing that there was no fox around the masked boy, it chirped, used its last strength, spread its wings, and turned into a sharp arrow and rushed towards the boy with his back to him.

Seeing that he was about to succeed, the big bird could already imagine the picture of the boy's brain exploding, at the last moment, the boy suddenly turned his head, the Qingyang fan spread out, it was more than two meters long, the fan was engraved with mountains and rivers, close to the fan, you can clearly feel the wind on the mountain and the turbulence of the river.

By the time the big bird that couldn't dodge felt regretful, it was too late, and its entire body sank directly into the fan, and its struggling figure was directly reflected on the fan.

Putting away the folding fan, the young man wiped the non-existent sweat droplets on his forehead, and said with satisfaction, "Although you haven't cultivated yet, you can already speak with your mouth, and you think that your cultivation is not shallow, so you will have to take care of it more in the future." ”

The teenager wears a mask all the year round, so it will give people an illusion that it is not easy to get close to the first sense, but when you really get along, you will find that the temperament of the teenager is actually more approachable.

The battle here with the masked boy is over.

He opened the folding fan again, and a cold wind blew out of the fan, blowing away a large area of black-tailed poisonous bees, temporarily relieving the urgent need of the middle battlefield.

Every time the tall boy pulled the bowstring, he indicated that a large number of poisonous bees would be killed, and the arrows in the quiver were almost exhausted, but the number of poisonous bees was still not decreasing.

Lu Anshi stopped spinning his figure, panting, his hands trembling, and the sword rays on the two short swords were already weakened to more than an inch long.

Mao Qingzhu pulled out the soft sword on his waist, the sword name is Qingzhu, it is when Mao Qingzhu is full of moon, cast by the ancestors of the family himself, the name is taken from a bamboo forest in the backyard of the family, the sword body is also made of a hundred years of bamboo monsters, the sword body is verdant, the hilt of the sword, inlaid with a cyan gem, from the spiritual root of the bamboo monster used to build the sword body, every time you swing, the sword body will come with a crisp and eye-catching sound of bamboo leaves.

After a short rest, Mao Qingzhu used the spiritual power of his whole body for the first time, the cyan gem on the Qingzhu sword was generous and colorful, and several cyan light horses were thrown out of the gem, and after the light horses rotated around Mao Qingzhu, they gathered together to form a cyan light cluster.

"Qingshan bamboo leaves are Xiaoxiao!"

With Mao Qingzhu's angry shout, the light cluster rushed towards the poisonous bee swarm in the air, and the explosion sounded, and the poisonous bees were killed and injured countless times, and a large cyan light as thin as a hair shot out with the explosion of the light cluster, and it was another dead and wounded.

A queen bee with a yellow crown on her head and a stinging on the tip of her tail hung in the air, surrounded by four worker bees that were slightly inferior to her.

The yellow crown on the head of the poisonous queen bee is inlaid with five scarlet beads, as long as one more is produced, this poisonous queen bee can truly cultivate into a refinement, spit out human words, and show people with human faces.

It's just that I didn't expect that at this critical juncture, I was summoned by the big boss of the twenty-third cave, asking me to take a swarm of poisonous bees to kidnap a human girl, so that it didn't expect that for a human girl, more than half of its own people were killed and injured, and it began to think about how to claim compensation from the big boss, before he was just a poisonous bee, and there was no chance to bargain at all, but now he is no longer what it used to be, and no one can bully it anymore.

It flew to the top of the swarm and gave a command, at which point all the bees stopped attacking, and the four worker bees looked at their king suspiciously, but they were only momentarily stunned before they were born, and they obeyed their king and retreated into the depths of the jungle.

Putting away the soft sword, Mao Qingzhu gasped, vigilant around, afraid of the poisonous bee swarm coming back and forth.

Lu Anshi held two swords in his hands and stood back to back with Zuo Su.

Zuo Su was exhausted, and he only relied on his last breath to hold on until now.

Gu Zhiwen unfolded the Qingyang fan, and the slightest cool breeze blew on everyone, bringing a little refreshment.

Chenfu's big knife had just been pulled out of the chest of a black-eyed bear, and there was a mottled bead on the tip of the knife, he grinned and said lightly, "There is another one, Lu Anshi, it seems that these two mountains in your hometown are not ordinary, even the black-eyed bear has produced a spiritual root, although it is only fifty years." ”

At the feet of the dust lay dozens of black-eyed bears, all of which had a wound on their chests that pierced through their bodies, killing them in one blow, without exception.

The remaining black-eyed bears, summoned by the leader, retreated into the bushes one after another, and did not move again.

Chenfu spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm and supported his body with a large knife, and there was still blood in a deep wound under his ribs that could be seen to the bone.

Gu Zhiwen hurriedly took out a pear wood box from his sleeve, and there were dozens of pills in the box, all of which were healing pills that took effect immediately

After taking the healing medicine, the four of them sat down cross-legged and took the opportunity to recover their qi.

The masked boy who never made a move from beginning to end protected the Dharma for them.

In a short time, both the earth dog and the fox rushed back.

The condition of the earth dog is relatively good, except for a few wounds on the paws that are not more than an inch.

The fox sat swaggering under a tree, crossed his legs, and muttered a string of sugar gourds made by himself, and interspersed with four or five beads of different sizes, colors, and colors interspersed on the branches.

The fox swallowed them slowly, stood up, and burped loudly.

There was a handful of yellow-haired earth dogs on his head, and he looked at him coldly, "Hmph, this time you really took advantage of a big advantage." ”

The fox squinted his eyes, and there was a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth, "I don't have the ability, and I blame others for eating too much, and the world is like this now...... It doesn't make sense?"

Another earth dog with a missing piece of ear, snorted, turned around and walked into the already open Qingyang fan, on which a colorful bird looked at the earth dog and let out a silent scream.

Gu Zhiwen smiled, "I found you a good neighbor today, and you are not allowed to bully it." ”

The yellow-haired earth dog on his head said indifferently, "Don't worry, little master, we are not like other people, so uneducated." ”

Gu Zhiwen smiled bitterly, and he really didn't know how to answer.

Probably because of eating a few spiritual roots, the fox did not return the mouth, but stared at the Qingyang fan with a wicked smile, on the majestic mountain, a few new leaves grew on a strange cypress tree, and on the river surface, a leaf rafting with the wind and waves undulated, these pictures that had not been seen for a long time appeared again in its 'eyes'.

The fox held his belly, laughed and walked into the green fan, and greeted his new neighbor eagerly.

After the earth dog and the fox stepped into the fan, the woods fell into a terrible silence once more.

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Settled on a barren cliff, the tall man tapped the back of his hand, and a little ripple spread outward around his fingers.

An angry shout came from afar.

"Ju Baishui, you write your book, I will cultivate my way, our well water does not interfere with river water, you don't go too far. ”

The tall man chuckled twice, his head held high, his long sideburns scattered over his shoulders, his fingers tapped, the speed of ripple spread gradually increased, and the whistling sound sounded from his ears.

There was the sound of a mountain collapsing behind him, dust rose everywhere, and several figures stood or sit, surrounding the tall men.

Ju Baishui stopped what he was doing, twisted and stood, ripples hovering in midair, imprisoning the other people's figures and immobilizing them.

Ju Baishui sighed, ripples pushed inward, and with a bang, a figure was squeezed into flesh, dripping with blood.

The figure at the back was full of liver and gall, and roared hoarsely, "Ju Baishui, we have no grudges in the past, and no grudges in the near future, why are you doing this to us." Don't forget who we are, if you oppose us, you won't have ......"

"Noise. ”

Ju Baishui waved his hand impatiently, and everyone turned into a cloud of water vapor, eliminating the world.

Ju Baishui slowly took a few steps, but his figure appeared thousands of miles away.

He sighed slightly, "Alas, for the sake of a pen, you have to do a lot of boring things." ”

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Lu Anshi and others, who hurried overnight, finally arrived at Laohuai Village before dawn.

Look at the old man and the dog at the entrance of the village.

Lu Anshi hurriedly stepped forward and supported the old man's body.

The black-haired big dog bit Lu Anshi's sleeve, and his tail swayed from side to side, looking extremely excited.