The battle at the head of the city was still going on, and a master was urgently needed, Yang Sifang did not accompany Zhang Xiaoshan too much, made hasty arrangements, and hurriedly left with the men and horses.

Zhang Xiaoshan didn't mind at all, and under the leadership of the Yang family, he went straight to 'Benmaling'.

Wuwei Mansion covers an area of 1,000 hectares, with five large and small inner cities, and the Benmaling in the northwest is the top priority of the Yang family. Nearly 1,000 hectares of high-quality grassland, stocked with tens of thousands of high-quality horses, among which more than 300 horses, named "Ji Liang" are the most rare and rare.

This kind of god horse is snow-white, the eyes are golden, the sideburns are bright red like a rooster's tail, it is very miraculous, people ride on auspicious amounts, fast as lightning, can travel 30,000 miles a day. If it is an adult auspicious amount that exceeds the thousand-year lifespan, it can also multiply the rider's lifespan by a factor of ten. However, now the oldest horse in the Yang family is only 600 years old. It is regarded as a treasure by the Yang family, and it is maintained in a very secret place, which ordinary people cannot see at all.

In the valley in the middle of the Galloping Ridge, there is a white inner fort, which is the ancestral home of the Yang family, "Shenju Fort". After thousands of years of construction by the Yang family, there are all kinds of prohibitions and institutions, if there is no guidance, there is only a dead end if you rush to break through.

Outside the Divine Horse Castle stands eight stone statues of giant horses with their hooves raised and their heads raised, and they are the eight horses of the Yang family's legendary beasts. Outside the stone statues, there are large patches of fine pasture.

The breeze rustles the green grass stalks.

This beautiful and spectacular scenery also has a bit of a bleak feeling because of the current war.

Hordes of samurai can be seen everywhere in the city, and these are the Yang family's army. Although the number of people is small, they are full of energy, and there is no panic at all.

Zhang Xiaoshan praised: "The Yang family is the Yang family in the end! This kind of heritage is not something that everyone can have." ”

Leading the way in front was a bearded man in his forties, and the man turned around and smiled: "Xiao Gongzi is right, this Sima family is surrounded for another ten years and a hundred years, our Yang family is still the Yang family, there will be no problem." ”

Zhang Xiaoshan hurriedly asked, "How about honoring the elder's name?" ”

The man laughed and said, "I'm Yang Beidangpo!

Zhang Xiaoshan exclaimed: "It turns out that you are Uncle Dangpo! I have heard of your prestige in the family before. "This Yang Bei Dangpo is also a more legendary figure, he is a branch of the Yang family, before the age of thirty-five was still an unknown generation, but when he was thirty-five years old, he traveled abroad, and then returned to the family, his strength suddenly began to multiply, and at the age of forty, he became a Yuan Baby, and he is the current top master of the Yang family, and it is very likely to inherit the position of the next patriarch.

"What kind of prestige! It's just a false name!" Yang Beidang didn't care about this, he pointed to the white inner castle in the distance and said, "There are too many elders in there who are more powerful than me. ”

Zhang Xiaoshan nodded and sighed: "The Yang family's thousand-year-old foundation, how can it be so simple. He thought for a while, and then said, "Uncle, I don't know anything?" Yang Beidang smiled and said, "Let me guess! You must want to ask how we know that you are outside the city, and you can still go out of the city to pick you up at the right time, right?"

"Exactly! Please ask your uncle for advice!"

Yang Beidang said: "It's very simple to say, that package contains the tokens made by our Yang family, as long as you get close to Wuwei Mansion, the patriarch will react, and immediately organize people to go out of the city, in order to be able to respond to the people outside in time." I'm not afraid to tell you, we've been waiting on the city wall for four or five days, and we thought that no one would come, but God is helping our Yang family. This time, I am not afraid that the Sima family will not retreat. ”

Zhang Xiaoshan knew that the package might be related to the Yang family's secrets, and it was not easy to ask, so the group soon came to the door of the Yang family's inner fort, and the door five or six zhang high slowly opened from the inside, and more than a dozen guards with long knives walked out of it.

Yang Beidang said: "Xiaoshan, I don't need to be escorted here, I still have to go to meet my uncle and them, and we will see you in a few days." After speaking, he took his men and hurried to the outer city.

The whole body of Yangjia Inner Fort is inlaid with milky white jade, no wonder the whole presents a warm white, this piece alone costs a lot of money, and a two-foot square, turquoise floor tile can be seen on the ground every dozen steps, it should not be just a decoration. After three layers of equally heavy stone gates, a majestic square jumps into view, and behind it is a ring-like quaint castle.

On the square, dozens of young disciples of the Yang family were cultivating their body methods, without the slightest panic, and they were completely unaffected by the siege. It seems that the outside world still underestimates the four major families, and this kind of family that has lasted for thousands of years is not as simple as it seems.

Zhang Xiaoshan and Fu Ming were arranged separately, and the two maids took Zhang Xiaoshan into the ancient castle, which was accessible in all directions, and if there was no familiar person to guide the way, they would soon get lost in the passage.

Five years is enough time for a young girl to become a mature woman! Zhang Xiaoshan couldn't believe that the dignified woman in front of him was actually Yang Xihongjun, she was a little less arrogant and naïve, and a little more mature and introverted.

"Xiaoshan, I knew you were fine!" Yang Xihongjun took Zhang Xiaoshan in his arms with red eyes: "What happened to you! Why have you not even changed after five years?" ”

"Auntie, I didn't expect to see you for so long!" Zhang Xiaoshan hurriedly took out the treasure box from his arms and showed it to Yang Xihongjun: "Auntie, look! Zhilucao! I finally got it, I'll give it to you today!"

The sky can be seen, in order to retrieve this Zhilu grass from Qingluan, Zhang Xiaoshan said too many good things against his will along the way, and made a lot of unfulfillable promises.

Yang Xihongjun only glanced at it lightly and said with a smile: "It's so beautiful!" She touched Xiaoshan's face and said, "Auntie doesn't need it anymore, but Xiaoshan! Auntie still wants to thank you! I know that you must have paid a lot for Zhilucao!"

It seems that five years have really changed a lot, Zhang Xiaoshan can see that Yang Xihongjun's face is now full of happiness and satisfaction, and it is no longer the unwilling and resentful expression before. It seems that there are many unknown stories that have happened to Yang Xihongjun.

As he spoke, a white-faced man in a brocade dress walked in. "Is this the mountain?"

Yang Xihongjun showed a bright smile: "Husband, this is the mountain I told you about. ”

Zhang Xiaoshan looked back and saw that the man was dignified, with an extraordinary bearing, and a long sword with a skin at his waist. He hurriedly said, "Auntie, what is this?"

Yang Xihongjun introduced: "Xiaoshan, this is my husband Wang Zeli, one of the seven sons of the Canal King family. Zhang Xiaoshan has also heard in the family that the seven sons of the Wang family are all dragons and phoenixes in terms of appearance, bearing, and strength, and Yang Xihongjun is quite happy to marry.

Wang Zeli patted Zhang Xiaoshan on the shoulder and praised: "Yes, at first glance, he is a good man of the four of us! You don't know, in the past five years, your aunt has shed many tears, always saying that she dragged you down, but now it's good, you are finally back." ”

Yang Xihongjun blushed: "Don't say these unhappy things, I will be satisfied when Xiaoshan comes back, but you, why did you come back suddenly, doesn't the city need you?"

"My ten-day rotation has come and I can come back and rest for five days. ”

"It's good to come back, you're on that wall, it's a lot of people to worry all day, this time it happens that the hill is also there, so let's have a good time. She shouted, "Hongxia, go and prepare the food!"

Hongxia walked into the room from the outside, nodded with a smile, looked at Zhang Xiaoshan, and slowly left.

Zhang Xiaoshan asked, "Auntie, what about Sister Hanxue, I really want to see her." ”

Hongxia replied with a smile: "That girl is now profound, and she is no longer by my side, and now she should be fighting the enemy in the outer city." ”

At dinner that day, Zhang Xiaoshan learned some specific things from the mouths of Yang Xihongjun and Wang Zeli. Five years ago, only a handful of people from the Xuantan Conference came out alive.

Jianghu lost a large number of young elites because of this incident, and the most important thing is that among the children of the four major families, only Yang Xihongjun returned seriously injured, including Song Jinrong and Zhang Xiaoshan. The Song family and the Zhang family sent a lot of horses to look for them one after another, but they still had no clue. This matter has been in trouble for two years, the Zhang family blames the Yang family completely, and the two sides are arguing about this matter, and the Yang family can't withstand the pressure, so they have to marry Yang Xihong Jun far away to Heyuan Mansion, and the matter is over.

Half a year later, the children of the four major families who were walking outside suddenly began to be attacked and killed continuously, and many of them were among the masters. This attracted the attention of the four people, and at the same time sent a special person to investigate the matter, but I didn't expect the master sent to go back again. The latter four families set a trap with the intention of luring out the black hand behind them, but they didn't expect that after the investigation, all the signs led to the Sima family. It's not that everyone hasn't suspected the Sima family, but there is no evidence, and the second is that the Sima family is a royal family, and there is a danger that it will affect the whole body. While the four major families were still suspicious, the Sima family took the lead, and the four armies marched at the same time and began to crusade against the four major families. This battle was two years, and the four major families were defeated again and again, and even the Yang family was surrounded. And the situation is not optimistic, the war has been fought so far, and everyone in the four does not know what the Sima family wants!

After the meal, Yang Xihongjun pulled Zhang Xiaoshan to the observation deck at the top of the castle.

The wind is blowing!

Yang Xi Hongjun pointed to the fire outside the city and said: "Xiaoshan, you see, there are seventy or eighty thousand troops on the periphery of Wuwei Mansion, but for more than a year, my Wuwei Mansion is still the same, and it will not be affected at all, outsiders will only say that my Yang family has a strong background, but who can know how much the Yang family sacrificed to resist the Sima family." No matter what, the Yang family can't lose this battle, and if they lose, there will be nothing. ”

The wind blew Yang Xihongjun's hair, she pulled her hair, took out an ancient book from her arms, and handed it to Zhang Xiaoshan: "This is the refining method of Zhilu Cao, I am going to refine a furnace and a qi pill, so that my Yang family will add a lot of monks in the foundation building period out of thin air, and in this situation, it can be regarded as a contribution to the family." ”

"Auntie, I don't understand the matter of refining pills at all?" Zhang Xiaoshan wondered, why did he still need to practice pills.

"To refine this Qi Pill, you not only need the earth fire, but also the temperature of the Danhuo, and the monks who can use the Dan Fire are all in the outer city, so it's not easy for me to go to them. Your Danhuo isn't pure, but it's barely usable. Tonight, you have a good grasp of the method, and tomorrow I will be on the side with your uncle to assist and help you refine, of course, the main homework is still for you to do, don't let your aunt down. ”

Zhang Xiaoshan smiled bitterly: "My aunt has an arrangement, and Xiaoshan has to do her best. ”

"Xiaoshan, the situation is extraordinary now! If it was before, no one would urge you, but you have seen the current situation, no one dares to say how long our four major families can support it, and being able to dedicate ourselves to the family wholeheartedly is the most important thing at present.

This night, Xiaoshan lay on the bed mountain, tossing and turning, unable to sleep! How could he lose five years of time, what is the problem, it can't be the problem of Xuanshui Mansion.

It's possible... Well, it must have been caused by the spatial turbulence that involved himself, not only teleporting himself from Youzhou to Liangzhou, which was thousands of miles away, but also losing five years of precious time.

He got up and picked up a piece of pastry from the table, pinched off a piece, and carefully put it in the mouth of the little yellow bird, the incarnation of Qingluan. Qingluan's recent situation has recovered, and he can recover his Dharma Body for a short time every day, and this time is the time when Zhang Xiaoshan racks his brains and finds a way to get his treasure back.

Early the next morning, Zhang Xiaoshan was woken up by Yang Xihongjun and taken directly to the Yang family's "incense burning room", which is the lowest layer of the Yang family's ancient castle, where the underground fire of the center of the earth can be directly used to refine treasures and pills. There are many separate rooms, all of which are arranged identically, with a brass-colored furnace in the center, surrounded by four futons and a four-compartment cabinet.

Yang Xihongjun took out a large pile of medicinal herbs, put them in the cabinet, and said with a smile: "Xiaoshan, you should thank your uncle, if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have prepared the materials so well." ”

Wang Zeli smiled slightly: "What did Madame say!"

Zhang Xiaoshan saw Yang Xihongjun nodding lightly at him, and hurriedly adjusted the breath of his body, and immediately spit out a raging flame from his mouth, the red light in the Dan furnace flashed, and the temperature in the room suddenly rose.

Yang Xihongjun gently rotated the mechanism from the room, and the heavy stone door slowly fell, and the room was truly sealed. In order not to be affected by the high temperature, Yang Xihongjun and others all changed into wide robes. "Xiaoshan, from now on, we have to give our full attention, the materials are limited, and we want to make sure that we succeed. ”

Wang Zeli waved his finger on the side, and a golden earth fire immediately erupted under the Dan furnace, and the temperature of the entire Dan room rose again, and Yang Xihongjun said softly: "First of all, there are twenty ginseng stoves!"

She took out the ginseng from the treasure box beside her and put it into the furnace, and soon, under the fierce flame, all twenty ginseng plants turned into yellow turbid mucus, which flowed slowly in the furnace, and half an hour later, there were twenty more ginseng plants, and eighty ginseng plants were used for the stove alone.

Two hours later, Zhang Xiaoshan was sweating profusely, he took a sip of water and took a pill to replenish his lost mana.

Yang Xihongjun put a ten-year-old crescent grass in the furnace, and Wang Zeli controlled the temperature of the furnace fire. Soon, the crescent moon turned into a blue liquid and slowly swirled in the furnace.

Two days later, the Dan furnace emitted a red glow, and the preliminary preparations had been carried out very smoothly according to the plan, and there was already a large mass of concentrated liquid in the furnace that was constantly changing color, only the last Zhilu grass was missing, and the Dan could be successfully refined in one breath.

Suddenly, Wang Zeli changed color and said: "Madam, something is wrong, the fusion of the medicinal liquid in this furnace is not as expected, there must be something wrong here." Yang Xihongjun also found a problem and said nervously: "What is wrong?" ”

Wang Zeli spewed out a mouthful of essence blood on the Dan furnace, and the fire in the Dan furnace immediately became irritable, and the medicinal liquid in the Dan furnace quickly separated a drop of turbid liquid, and soon merged with other elixirs.

Wang Zeli's face was full of frustration: "Madam, this furnace medicine is wasted, and it is impossible to refine it into a Qi Pill." Yang Xihongjun asked unwillingly: "Is there no other way?" Wang Zeli said: "Madam, you should know better than me, the Yiqi Pill requires the high temperature in the furnace to be able to incinerate all the spirit grass impurities, and only the most essential part can be fused with Zhilu grass to condense into an elixir. However, there was still a small amount of impurities left in the spiritual fluid just now, and my mana was not enough to refine it. There's no way around it anymore. ”

Zhang Xiaoshan only assisted from the side, and did not know what the problem was.

Just when the three of them were quite depressed, Zhang Xiaoshan's arms suddenly trembled, and a yellow bird flew into the Dan furnace like a thunderbolt under the surprised eyes of everyone, and suddenly, the temperature in the room rose sharply, and the bronze Dan furnace also turned red, and the medicinal liquid in the furnace quickly shrank by nearly half, and the color became more psychedelic and brilliant.

Wang Zeli's eyes lit up and shouted, "Xiaoshan, hurry!" Zhang Xiaoshan didn't hesitate at all, Zhilucao came out of his hand, flew into the furnace, and quickly fused with the original medicinal liquid, turning into a transparent purple liquid. With the humming sound of the Dan furnace, a white light flashed, and the flames in the furnace flew out of the Dan furnace at the same time, turning into a woman wearing a wide robe, who was Qingluan. Qingluan waved his hand to take out the purple liquid from the furnace and gently inhaled it into his body.

Wang Zeli shouted almost at the same time: "Where did the demon come from! Quickly return my elixir." His hand did not stop, and he went straight to Qingluan.

Qingluan showed a confused look, and instinctively spewed a small ball of cyan flame at Wang Zeli. Zhang Xiaoshan shouted: "Don't do it! Don't do it! He picked up the wooden cabinet and threw it between Qingluan and Wang Zeli, without any sound, the wooden cabinet was directly burned into a cloud of white gas by the cyan flames.

Zhang Xiaoshan pulled Qingluan and shouted, "Don't do it, your own people!"