Southwest of Cangling City. Southwest Market Area.

"Huh?"

Ye Hengyuan was standing in front of a stall selling small wood carvings, playing with an antelope wood carving carved from black wood. Suddenly, as if he had heard something, his gaze suddenly became glazed, he raised his head, turned in place, and looked at the northern sky. A cloud of snow trickled down the roof of the wood and bamboo raft and fell on the right shoulder of the turquoise cotton robe he was wearing, wetting a large patch.

The snow in Cangling City had just stopped. The sky showed a little light, turning a faint grayish-white between white and gray. Two flocks of birds and spirit animals flew through the sky above the bazaar, from the west and north to the east, respectively.

"Brother Hengyuan, what's wrong with you?"

Xue Mengyi raised her head and gently pulled Ye Hengyuan's arm. She also wore a golden-yellow women's cotton gown with pure white silk lace on the cuffs, neckline, and skirt of the upper body. The petite body is wrapped in a thick cotton robe, and it looks like a large rag doll, which is very cute.

"Oh, oh......"

Ye Hengyuan just reacted, shook his head vigorously, and regained his senses. Xue Mengyi was sticking her head in front of him, looking at him with a pair of watery eyes.

"I ...... I'm fine, I'm fine, Mengyi. ”

He gently put the black antelope wood carving in his hand back to the stall, alongside the wood carvings of a dozen other different animals. The white-haired old woman who set up the stall slowly got up from the wooden chair behind the stall, wrapped her old coat tightly, looked at him, stretched out her crumpled hand, and straightened the black antelope wood carving again.

"I just felt it all of a sudden...... Something seems to be wrong......"

"Brother Hengyuan, you won't be so busy these days, right?"

Ji Chengdong stood in front of a small stall selling bracelets opposite, with his back to Ye Hengyuan and Xue Mengyi, his right toe against the stones on the ground, and on the wrist of his left hand, he was wearing three bracelets of different sizes, colors and patterns, shaking his arm counterclockwise, allowing the three bracelets to turn around on his arm. He was not wearing a cotton coat, but a special leather coat, which was slightly thinner than the cotton coat, but the warmth function was not much worse.

"You've had the most classes these days, are you so busy that your brain is cramping?

"Go!" Xue Mengyi turned around and rolled her eyes at Ji Chengdong, "Ji Chengdong, you just have a brain cramp!

"What's the matter, eldest miss?" Ji Chengdong turned around, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, "I care about Brother Hengyuan, can't I? Besides, I can also put hot water! Brother Hengyuan has to take an ancient language class at night, so it must take a lot of brains." Seriously, I don't understand why I have to learn old words so hard to draw, so much brain-draining and nerve-wracking......"

"Little dream, isn't the time coming?"

Ye Hengyuan didn't hear Ji Chengdong's words, and talked to Xue Mengyi by himself. As he looked down for questioning, he raised his head again and glanced north. That inexplicable sense of uneasiness still blocked my heart. Could it be that something happened to Master's side? No way......

"Well," Xue Mengyi nodded, "I'll be there soon." The academy's carriage will come to pick us up and take us to the arena. ”

"Don't you need to call Wang He and Junfeng?" Ye Hengyuan asked.

"No, I don't. The carriage will pick them up first. ”

"That's fine. Let's go. Ji Chengdong turned around, took out the money from his pocket, handed it to the short middle-aged man who sold the bracelet, and took away the three bracelets of different sizes.

The carriage drove slowly on the snowy road towards the Hongde Arena. The snow has melted somewhat, but there is still quite a bit of snow on the road. Neither the civilians on foot, nor the carriages and mounts, dared to speed up so as not to slip. In order to keep warm, the outer layer of the carriage was reinforced, and the tent hanging above the roof was replaced with a double one.

The cadets sat on either side of the carriage. The male students are on the left and the female students are on the right. Fan Junfeng put his left arm on the car window, gently opened the curtain with his elbow, and looked out the window. Liu Huiran sat directly opposite him and glanced at him, as if she was a little dissatisfied, but she didn't say anything, just pouted.

"Hey, hey?" Ji Chengdong put his arms on the shoulders of Ye Hengyuan and Wang He respectively, his body tilted to the side, and his head went around like a rattle, "Isn't the cold cold coming? I haven't seen him for several days." ”

"His master took him out," Ye Hengyuan said lightly, "as if he wanted to instruct him to cultivate." I think it's going north. I don't know when I'll be back. ”

"Oh...... Oh. ”

Ji Chengdong suddenly realized, raised his hand, and patted his head.

"That's right. The blizzard in the north is so big, it is very suitable for cold cultivation. ”

Except for Wang He, who was leaning on the carriage seat with his arms crossed, and Fan Junfeng, who kept looking out, everyone else reminded him with their eyes: You are just nonsense!

Ji Chengdong knew that he was bored, lowered his head, and stopped making a sound.

"There has been no movement on the front line these days. Wang He suddenly spoke.

Including Ji Chengdong, everyone turned their attention to him. Even Fan Junfeng, who had been looking out the window, turned his head back. Several female students had surprised expressions on their faces.

"The troops on the front line are not attacking," Mr. Wang said, "for months, they are only on the defensive." It's just that the enemy failed to break through the defense line again and did not sneak attack again. This is what I said in a letter sent back by my disciples who joined the army. ”

"Huh, why didn't you attack?" a female student with purple curly hair immediately screamed. Her voice is not only loud, but also sharp and harsh. Xue Mengyi and Liu Huiran glanced at her at the same time.

Wang He opened his palms as big as a fan and slapped them on the table in front of him. He didn't use much force, but he made the hardwood table that connected to the bottom of the carriage tremble.

"I don't know. Listen to my dad, this should be the decision of the Joint Command. It may have something to do with the Demon Legion that is secretly training. I don't know exactly what happened. All I know is that this must be the reason why the military has not recruited us in the first place. ”

Ye Hengyuan clenched his right hand into a fist, slowly raised his right fist, and gently rubbed it on his chin, covering the corners of his mouth that twitched unconsciously. He remembered what his master had said.

"You must be careful of Long Yao's father and son, as well as Kang Long. Especially Longlin. They're still dangerous for you right now. ”

"Long Yao and Kang Long, both are dangerous. They are all too hidden. Moreover, the power in their hands is enough to affect the situation in the entire country. ”

"I can feel that the cultivation of the two of them has improved again, far stronger than what they have revealed. I don't think I can see through them now, and it's hard to estimate their true strength, let alone guess their true purpose. ”

There was silence in the carriage. Everyone looked at Wang He, who was sitting in the corner, but no one spoke again.

A very rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from the left side of the carriage. The sound of horses' hooves was very neat, the rhythm was perfectly in tune, and it sounded like several horses in a carriage coming together.

"Huh?"

Fan Junfeng twisted his head, stretched out his hand, and opened the curtains. A carriage was speeding to their left. With just a few breaths, it overtook them and continued to gallop forward.

Ye Hengyuan also tilted his head and glanced out the window. The carriage was about the same size as the one they were riding, and it was a large one. The difference was that the roof of the carriage was dyed dark blue and light blue, and the milky white tents hung from the windows. On its white carriage, a clump of cyan and dark blue bamboo motifs is painted. Neither on the roof nor on the body, there is not a single trace of snow or snow wetting.

"What's that sign?" Fan Junfeng muttered in a low voice.

"What?" Wang He asked.

"That's the sign of a clump of bamboo," Ye Hengyuan said, "the cyan bamboo leaves alternate with the dark blue bamboo." It was printed on the back compartment of that carriage. ”

"Could it be the symbol of the Green Bamboo Gang?" Xue Mengyi spoke.

"Possibly," Wang He nodded, "I can't think of anything else." ”

"That's normal," Ji Chengdong tilted his head and leaned on the carriage, "Maybe they're here to deliver medicine." The weather is so cold, there will definitely be many people with frostbite. There will definitely be a shortage of frostbite medicine. ”

Everyone was silent again. Ye Hengyuan put his hand on the other side of the car window.

"Hey," Liu Huiran said suddenly, "Do you know how today's battle was arranged?"

"I don't know," Xue Mengyi said, "I only know that it seems that Sister Lei Xi is leading the team today." I heard that after she completed the graduation assessment, she was ready to stay at the school to teach. ”

A few girls opened the conversation box again, and you and I began to talk word by word. After chatting and chatting, the carriage arrived at the west gate of the Hongde Arena. The west gate is a bit smaller than the main entrance, but there is also a dedicated passage for participants. Several cleaners kept sweeping the steps at the entrance, sweeping away all the snow and making sure there was no slippery spot on the steps.

The trainees got out of the carriage and went up the steps in turn, towards the entrance of the passage.

"Hey, Mengyi," Liu Huiran asked, "Since Sister Lei Xi is leading the team, will we still gather at the old place?"

"Yes," Xue Mengyi replied, "as long as there is no further notice, it will be in the old place." ”

The neighing of horses suddenly sounded from the north side of the west gate. It just happened to be another direction from which Ye Hengyuan and the others came. Ye Hengyuan and Fan Junfeng stopped at the same time and glanced in that direction. It was the carriage they had seen from the Green Bamboo Gang. More than a dozen young disciples dressed in the same robes were stepping down from the carriage one by one