The crisp morning breeze and fresh air dispel their laughter and boredom in Xiao Caryophyllus. The peaks on the north and south sides of the valley are whistling, and the birds and cicadas are singing under the swaying of the grass and trees, which is quite the artistic conception of "the cicada noise forest is quieter, and the birdsong mountain is more secluded".

Next to the car, Queen Huangquan had already sent her maids, dressed in bright and dazzling colors and rich ornaments, to greet Xiao Shizhu and them.

It was rare for them to see that they were not wearing animal skins and leather skirts, but it made Xiao Shizhu and them look much more pleasing to the eye. On the other hand, Ke Yun and other female ghost cavalry are very much like barbarians.

Only then did they see Xiao Shizhu and the others walking out of the car door one after another, walking down the small ladder set up, and standing on the ground, the maids saluted in unison, and whispered softly for the female ghost: "Welcome to the distinguished guests." ”。

Trailing behind these white-skinned and beautiful maids were ghost soldiers wearing various totemic masks, and the rare thing to see was not a leather armor made of animal skins, but a beast-faced breastplate made of bronze.

It's just that the weapons in their hands are still so weird.

In front of the car, on the dock of the lake with clear water, a slender sailless boat was already waiting on the shore.

Although it is a simple paddle boat made of wooden planks, the hull is carved with delicate patterns such as tigers, turtles, peacocks, and flower pedicles. The pulp ship is therefore simple, but not shabby.

"Are you taking us to see your queen?" Xiao Shizhu didn't rush to step, just stood by the car and looked around. Even the maid has a short knife hanging from her waist, which shows that there are many martial arts here.

The maid at the head kept her head down and replied softly, "Yes." ”。

After a pause, he said, "The queen is waiting for you in the holy palace on the island in the lake. ”。

At the same time, Ke Yun, who had escorted them all the way here, turned over and jumped off her Dangkang mount, took two or three steps forward, and came to Xiao Shizhu's side.

The tall Ke Yun apologized to Xiao Shizhu, bowed slowly, and said, "Son of God, I can only escort you here." Ke Yun still has military affairs in his body, so Ke Yun can't go into the palace with you to see the queen. ”。

"Well, it's been a hard journey. After Xiao Shizhu also returned the salute, he took his entourage and turned around, and followed the maids towards the port.

For some reason, in front of the calm mirror-like lake, Xiao Shizhu's vigilance was heavier. Perhaps in addition to getting closer and closer to the strange Queen of Yellow Springs, there is also the sense of oppression brought by the mountains on both sides of this valley.

After boarding the paddle boat, the paddle man on board broke the calm water and raised waves. The boat slowly moved forward, like an arrow from a string across the water, leaving a broken wave on the surface of the lake, and then rushed into the clouds floating on the lake.

In the blink of an eye, the pulp boat was shrouded in mist and disappeared in front of the eyes of Ke Yun and the other ghosts on the shore.

In the mist, the national teacher Yingying saw the cold breeze rolling up on the lake, and the blue water and snow waves surging, took out the silver silk piping cloak and draped it on Xiao Shizhu. Xiao Shizhu didn't dodge, let alone move, he kept standing straight on the boat, looking around at the mist floating around him.

The surface of the lake was extremely quiet, except for the sound of long slurry smashing the surface of the lake, which slowly echoed in the mist. After rushing into the mist, Xiao Shizhu's eyes were blurred by the mist, and he couldn't really see anything except the lake next to the boat.

And after the national teacher Yingying put on his cloak, he also concentrated his breath and sensed everything around him.

Soon, she sensed through the vast mist that there was a lot of ghostly aura on the shore in the distance ahead. But there is no murder or danger in the ghostly aura, and it is also a little more reassuring.

The pulp boat moved on in the fog.

The lake in the valley is not small, but the island is not too far from the shore. In less than a cup of tea, the boat broke out of the mist again and came to the shore of the lake.

The island in the lake is nearly 100 acres, which is inlaid in the form of an oval on the lake with clear and clear water. There are many caves and lush peaks on the island. The unfathomable waters of the lake emerge and form a barrier around the island.

Before getting off the ship, Xiao Shizhu was also curious about why Queen Huangquan built her residence here, once it was besieged, it would inevitably be more than lucky. When he arrived on the island, it dawned on him. The surroundings of this place are steep, the east, south and north sides are cliffs, and the stone walls are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Only to the west of the docking, the terrain is quite gentle.

The most important thing is that this place is different from the rest of the valley, and the earth's veins are full of yin energy, so that the ghosts are refreshed when they first land on the island.

For the ghost clan, the more abundant the yin qi, the more conducive to their survival, and the ghosts who live here can keep them full of energy and vitality at any time.

It seems that this Queen of Yellow Springs is also a ghost who can choose a place to live.

The breeze is coming slowly, and the water is rippling.

When I landed on the shore, I saw the honor guard waiting on the shore. Neat guards of honor lined up on both sides of the road. When they saw Xiao Shizhu's front feet and stepped off the boat and walked on the gravel beach, those honor guards immediately knelt down to greet Xiao Shizhu's arrival.

This series of greetings made Xiao Shizhu's vigilance even heavier.

I have never met, so I received Xiao Shizhu and them with such a warm reception. It is not logical to escort the soldiers again, and it is the honor guard to pick up the driver.

Maybe he was too careful, maybe this Queen of Huangquan was really able to pinch and calculate, and there was no malice, so she treated her with courtesy.

However, after thinking about it, Xiao Shizhu still stood on the shore, and did not move for a long time, but just glanced at Qin Yuan slightly. And Qin Yuan, who was on his shoulder, silently comprehended, quietly spread his wings and flew high, and disappeared into the fog above when the ghosts were not paying attention.

The heart of defense is indispensable, and this place is not the Nine Secluded Kingdom of the Netherworld, Xiao Shizhu has to be a villain first and then a gentleman.

When Qin Yuan took advantage of the unpreparedness and quietly disappeared into the fog, there was a female ghost in front of Xiao Shizhu, and Lianbu moved out of the mist lightly and came towards Xiao Shizhu.

The female ghost slowly walked to Xiao Shizhu and stood still, and after doing a thousand blessings, she asked softly, "May I ask if Your Excellency is the son of God?"

"Yes. Xiao Shizhu nodded and replied, looked at the female ghost and asked, "You are the Queen of Huangquan?"

I saw that this female ghost was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her snow-white dress also seemed to be clear and empty, but there was a little less majesty and decisiveness in her gentleness, and she was by no means a person who could afford to take on a big responsibility, let alone a character.

After asking this, Xiao Shizhu expected that this female ghost was just a servant of Queen Huangquan. It's just that judging by the simple but well-made dresses and luxurious accessories on her body, this servant's status is not low.

"The son of God has misunderstood, the slave maid is just a maid by the side of the Queen of Huangquan. The female ghost was under the lake breeze again, and made a slight blessing, and pulled the hair from her ears behind her ears, and said: "The queen should have come to greet her in person, but she was afraid that the son of God would be suspicious, and thought of doing nothing, so she asked the slave and maid to come and lead the way, and to invite the son of God to meet in the palace." ”。

"Then there's work. Xiao Shizhu's face did not change, and he said in a calm tone. In my heart, I was curious again, but I was eager to see this Queen of Huangquan.

"Please. The female ghost nodded and turned sideways, leading them towards the island......

Yin Cao Difu East Yingzhou.

The light of the yin moon covered the mausoleum forest in the northwest of Yasujin with a layer of blue light like a thin frost, like a deep sea water, so that every mausoleum tree is delicate and smooth under the moonlight.

The noise caused by the big explosion in the forest a few days ago has disappeared for a long time, and the silence has returned to the forest.

At midnight, the forest is even more silent. Although the mountain wind is howling from time to time, the hard branches and leaves of the stone trees do not move at all. It's a lot less noisy.

The moonlight was faint, and Zhu Maichen sat in the forest with hundreds of ghost soldiers, his face was full of tiredness in addition to the moonlight sprinkled between the branches.

After coming in for a few days, he took the tens of thousands of ghost soldiers who were not killed in the explosion and walked around this complex terrain and bright green mausoleum forest.

I finally found an exit and came to the southeastern edge of the forest. But he never thought that he would encounter the Nine Shadows Army when he walked out of the forest.

Before the tired and hungry Xudu army could react, the Jiuyou National Army aimed the guns in their hands at them and fired them indiscriminately.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of Xudu soldiers died tragically on the edge of the woods.

The panicked Xudu Army and Zhu Maichen did not expect that in a few days in the forest, the Jiuyou National Army would hit this place, and they scattered in a panic, without the power to fight back.

However, the guns of the Jiuyou National Army were too fierce and intensive, and more than half of Zhu Maichen's army was packed up in three or five strokes, and the rest had to retreat into the forest, wanting to escape with the help of the complex terrain in the forest.

But the Nine Shadows Army didn't seem to have any intention of rushing in, and when they retreated into the forest, they stopped firing. Then the cavalry went out to hunt down those who had fled out of the forest, thinking about other places outside the forest, and fled in the wilderness.

After a few days of temptation, the Xudu army could not kill the Lingshi Forest, so they had to follow Zhu Maichen obediently back to the woods and hide in Tibet.

Fortunately, the Nine Shadows Army somehow didn't go into the forest. However, there was a lack of food and water in this forest, and there was little medicine and medicine, and within a few days, many of the wounded soldiers around Zhu Maichen died in the forest, and by tonight there were only hundreds of soldiers left around him.

Zhu Maichen, who was leaning against a stout mausoleum tree, looked up through the branches and looked at the moon in the sky, and his face was a little more sad.

Thinking about how majestic he was when he was ordered to go here from the capital of Xu, the local princes and the king of Hades also bowed down to him and groveled.

Now, as a defeated general, he can only lead the remnants of the defeated army to live a life of escape without food in this forest. Think about it, it's really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi.

"Captain, there is one thing that the last general has never been able to figure out. Just when the more he Zhu Maichen thought about it, the more he felt aggrieved, and he couldn't help but sigh in the moonlight, his current lieutenant general came over and sat down beside him: "The army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom is wandering outside the forest, which means that the Jingren Kingdom has fallen." Why, then, did they not come into the woods? And just outside the forest, chasing and intercepting us?".

As he spoke, the grizzled adjutant general's face was full of doubts. The blood-stained brows also wrinkled slightly.

Recently, he has not been able to understand this question, and taking advantage of the fact that there is nothing to do today, he really can't help but be curious, so he dared to ask Zhu Maichen.

"In order that we may be in this forest, to our own destruction. And because this forest is no better than the other woods, lacking food and water, it is easier to trap us than to come to this forest with complicated terrain to encircle and suppress, and I can still work at ease, and I lose contact with the army outside. Zhu Maichen put away his sorrow, and after patiently explaining to the deputy general, he sighed lightly again, and sighed sincerely: "The commanders of the Nine Shadows National Army here are all amazing ghosts. There can be so many ghost talents in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and the days of our Northern Yin Dynasty can be regarded as coming to an end. ”。

Under the moonlight, Zhu Maichen's face after saying this rose with sadness, but it did not decrease but increased compared with before.