When Zhou Tianshen rushed to Sanmapo outside Tianxiang County with a bamboo basket on his back, Tianxiang County had not yet opened the city gate, so he bought some oil cakes and hot tea, stood aside to eat and wait.

A long line soon formed outside the city, and he stood at the end of the line, in front of two well-dressed youths.

One of them wore a sachet on his waist, embroidered with a mandarin duck on it, and the other looked younger, carrying a flat pole on his shoulder, and a bamboo basket hung at both ends of the pole.

The young man wearing the sachet said, "Danian, have you heard of Princess Baisha's recruitment meeting?"

The young man carrying the flat burden said, "Of course I've heard of it, didn't that blind man Liu in our village go to Shuixiang County, although he didn't see the recruitment meeting, but he heard from others that Princess Baisha finally married a person named Zheng Xuan, and that person is not from our Wuhe country." ”

The young man of the sachet became interested for a while, and hurriedly asked, "What do you know, tell me about it." ”

The two of them said word by word, and Zhou Tianshen stood behind them, silent.

He knew that Princess Baisha was not married to Zheng Xuan, as for who she married in the end, he didn't know, and he didn't know why there were such rumors, maybe to confuse the public, he didn't want to delve into it, now he just wanted to go to Huang Zhaozi Temple early to study, and then go home to farm.

Sometimes, the simpler a wish is, the harder it is to achieve.

The gates of the city were wide open, and the long queue was orderly to be examined and entered the city.

Walking into the city, Zhou Tianshen was no longer as curious about everything as before, but lowered his head and hurried, because of some things, it took him nearly a year to complete the Wuhe Kingdom, and now he doesn't have so much time.

Yu Xiaodu once said that there is a waterway on the border of Wuhe country, called 'water conservancy', which is jointly developed by Sanchai country and another country, and you can quickly pass through the two countries by taking the above boats, and when you reach Xiangyun country, you can also take the cloud head urn, which is a kind of turtle that can fly at low altitude, which is a specialty of Xiangyun country, and you can take it to travel all over Xiangyun country quickly.

Tianxiang County is not big, it can be said to be the smallest county seat in Wuhe Country, but even so, it took Zhou Tianshen three days of foot strength to complete.

The current Zhou Tianshen is already different from the past, even if he walks thousands of miles in one breath, he will not feel tired, but he will be hungry.

Passing through the woods between Tianxiang County and Jiuxiang County, and walking into Jiuxiang County, he first found an inn to fill his stomach, and then began to drive hard, he had witnessed the huge size of Jiuxiang County, if he still walked slowly as before, the ghost knows when he would be able to reach Zhongzhou.

Jiuxiang County is as lively as usual, last time it was a carriage, so some of the scenery was not seen, just take the opportunity to walk this time, you can take a general look.

The Minori Crane Dart Bureau had not yet opened, and only a young man swept the floor at the door with a broom, and finally sat on the threshold and sighed.

Next to the dart board is the Kunlun Horse Workshop, the horse square is very lively, the lights are colorful, and the guests come to the door.

The young man behind the door of the dart game held the broom, looking at the lively scene there, his face full of bitterness.

A year can change a lot.

Zhou Tianshen didn't know that since the end of the recruitment conference, the lord of the country quickly ordered that in view of the heavy losses of Kunlun Mafang and Minork Crane Dart Bureau, he would merge the two into one and work together for the Wuhe Kingdom.

In the evening, Zhou Tianshen casually found an inn to stay, and the jade pendant that Yu Xiaodu gave him had a lot of earth silver, as well as a few baskets of Tianya stones, and five or six pieces of blue-gray spirit jade.

A rough inventory of them was enough for him to spend a decade or two.

And so, three days passed.

One day at noon, Zhou Tianshen was resting in a teahouse, sitting by the window and looking out, he suddenly saw a familiar figure, he shouted loudly, the figure turned around, it turned out to be Yu Xiaodu.

Zhou Tianshen and Yu Xiao were both sitting in the Penglai Tavern, and Yu Jiuxue stood aside and poured wine.

After two glasses of wine, Xiao Xiao put a map on the table and burped, "Do me a favor." ”

Zhou Tianshen pursed his lips, put down his wine glass, glanced at the map, and said indignantly, "I knew that there was nothing good, could it be another escort mission?"

Yu Xiaodu's eyes lit up, grabbed Zhou Tianshen's hand and said, "How do you know?"

Zhou Tianshen put aside Xiao Xiaodu's hand, pushed the map aside with a look of disgust, packed up his things and prepared to leave, and said, "I still have my own things to do, you better ask for another master, alas~, I think your apprentice is very good." ”

Yu Xiaodu came to Zhou Tianshen in a flash, and with a wave of his hand, all the doors and windows of the tavern were closed, and Yu Xiaodu looked at Zhou Tianshen with a cheap smile and said, "He can't do it, he still has to show me the shop here, but you can, you have experience." ”

Zhou Tianshen crossed his arms around his chest and said, "Let me tell you the truth, I'm going to Zhongzhou to study this time, but I don't have extra time to care about your mess." ”

Yu Xiaodu suddenly took a step forward, patted Zhou Tianshen's shoulder vigorously, covered his stomach and smiled, "Isn't this a coincidence, isn't it a coincidence, this mission is also to Zhongzhou." ”

Zhou Tianshen's face was black.

In the end, Zhou Tianshen, at the invitation of Yu Xiaodu, once again got on the carriage to Shuixiang County.

In the car, Yu Xiaodu explained the escort mission to Zhou Tianshen in detail, and also mentioned the other members who participated in the mission.

Yu Xiaodu said, "The previous escort mission is actually only part of the whole mission, the purpose is to bring the Buddha, Tao, and Bing together together, and then set off together and escort them to Zhongzhou." I mentioned before that Wuhe got a very good reward after taking on the escort mission, but the risks that come with it are also very large, in order to be able to reach Zhongzhou safely, without exposing the escort mission, Wuhe usually makes up some lies to cover up the escort mission, and the reason for this time is the recruitment conference. ”

"The lord of the country used the recruitment conference to summon some sons of the family to the palace, through the competition to determine their strength, and then negotiate with the family behind them, as long as the price is negotiated, these sons will follow Princess Baisha to Zhongzhou. Most of the reasons given to them by their families are the same, it is nothing more than to travel to Zhongzhou, and when they come back, if nothing else, the position of the head of the family is theirs. ”

Zhou Tianshen still didn't understand a little and asked, "Why are you talking to me about this?"

Xiaodu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Because I believe in you." ”

Zhou Tianshen had a black line on his face again.

Yu Xiaodu said with a smile, "This mission is actually easier than the last time, when the time comes, you don't have to follow them, as long as you help them when they are in danger, anyway, you go to Zhongzhou alone, and you are idle." When I come back from Zhongzhou, I will give you another treasure. ”

Zhou Tianshen stretched out his palm and said, "Didn't you say last time that you would give me a thank you gift after the recruitment conference was over, and it happened to be given together this time." ”

Yu Xiaodu turned around and said, "You think that the four exercises you learned don't cost money." ”

The carriage did not stop at any of the horse shops this time, and Xiao Xiao explained that this horse had been fed by him with Linggen, and his body was no different from that of a cave beast, so it was okay to travel such a little distance, and Shuixiang County was already preparing to set off, so it would not take too much time to delay.

Three months later, the carriage stopped at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, where a crowd of people had already gathered.

The two dismounted, and Li Xiao, who was dressed in civilian clothes, stepped forward and said with a smile, "They are all ready." ”

Yu Xiaodu nodded, pushed Zhou Tianshen in front of him and said, "This is the helper I found for you, but he still has his own things to do, so he doesn't walk with them." After a while, I'll give each of them a few phone notes. If there is any danger, use this talisman to spread the word, and he will come to their aid. ”

Li Xiao arched his hand and said, "Then there is Lao Shaoxia." ”

Zhou Tianshen hurriedly waved his hand, bent down and said, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”

Yu Xiaodu led Zhou Tianshen to the crowd, took out a stack of talismans from his sleeve, took out a few for each of them, and handed over the rest to Zhou Tianshen, and after teaching them how to use talismans, Yu Xiaodu got up and said goodbye.

The horse was left to Zhou Tianshen.

This escort mission is of great importance, and there are many forces involved, which should not be underestimated, so there are also a lot of personnel.

Li Menglan, Dao Wuxiang, Forget Chan, Zheng He, Bai Jingqi, Ren Tianhao, He Guan, Jiudi, Jin Sha Kill, Zheng Xuan, Xu Ke, Zhou Tianshen.

A group of 12 people bid farewell to Li Xiao, and rode the white crane through the white clouds on Kunlun Mountain respectively, and traveled far away in the wind.

The big horse that was left for Zhou Tianshen broke free from the reins and followed the white crane forward.

Kunlun Mountain is like a chess piece that has been put aside by a chess player, embedded between the country of Sanchai and the country of Wuhe, and the source of the waterway called water conservancy is on a waterfall on Kunlun Mountain. The white crane passed through the Kunlun Mountain, hovered over the waterfall, drank the waterfall water with its long beak, and washed its feathers.

Li Menglan stood on the back of the white crane with a long sword hanging from his waist, pointed to the place that he couldn't see in front of him, and shouted in his heart with his hand into a fist, "Zhongzhou, I'm here." ”

The white crane docked at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, and after everyone went down, it waved its wings, made a long roar, flew upward, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Li Menglan is the backbone of this team, and all actions need to be under her command, except for Zhou Tianshen.

Zhou Tianshen did not walk with them, but sat alone on the side of the road, waiting for his big horse.

The road where Zhou Tianshen is located belongs to a small road, there are no pedestrians on the road, and there is a row of big trees between the path and the waterway.

The horse soon ran down from the mountain, came to Zhou Tianshen's side, rubbed his head against him, Zhou Tianshen touched its neck, took out two wine jugs from the jade pendant, poured them into his mouth, and the horse snorted.

Zhou Tianshen smiled, "I didn't expect you to run so fast, so let's name you Bigfoot." ”

Zhou Tianshen jumped on the horse's back and shouted, "Big feet, rush." ”

A man and a horse run on a mountain path.

The name of Sanchai Country is similar to that of another country, and it is also because there are three cities that it is named San, as for the word Chai, it is really a little difficult to say. Some people say that the first lord of the country of Sanchai is surnamed Chai, so he will add a chai word after the three, and some people say that it is because the first lord likes to dismantle things, and the word dismantling is not good-looking, so he takes the homonym chai, and even more said that the first lord is good at using chai knives, and this country is what he beat down with a chai knife, so he took such a name.

There are different opinions, and no one will let anyone.

However, no matter which statement is correct, in the final analysis, it is inseparable from the first lord of the country and the three words in front.

The three cities of the country of Sanchai are Li Chai, Xiongchai and Ming Chai.

The three cities are arranged in a zigzag pattern, and what Zhou Tianshen is going to now is the Lichai City on the left, and the waterway belongs to it.

The city gate of Lichai City was wide open, except for the soldiers wearing armor at the city gate, there was no one at the city gate, Zhou Tianshen dismounted, walked to the city gate for unknown reasons, and was interrogated.

Walking into the city, all the shops were closed, and there was no one on the street.

As he walked down the street with his horse in tow, he heard someone shouting his name.

He turned his head to look at the voice, and by the window on the second floor of an inn, he saw eleven heads, which were Li Menglan and others.

Dao Wu wanted to wave to him, Zhou Tianshen led the horse to the door of the inn, and was about to knock on the door, when he heard a squeak, the wooden door of the inn was opened a gap, and a hand stretched out from inside, and the voice came from inside, "Pay the money for the store first." ”

What are the rules?

Zhou Tianshen handed the money to the hand, the wooden door was completely opened, he led the horse into the inn, and found that the inn was full of people, everyone looked nervous on the window, secretly looking outside, the shopkeeper who opened the door stopped Zhou Tianshen and said, "There are rules in this store, and the person who leads the horse must pay another twenty yuan." ”

Zhou Tianshen endured the resentment in his heart, handed over a stack of copper coins to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper took the reins from his hand, and led the horse to the stable in the backyard, Zhou Tianshen walked up to the second floor, and Dao Wuxiang and Wangzen were waiting at the staircase.

Zhou Tianshen asked, "What's going on?"

Dao Wuxiang said, "We are so lucky, as soon as we came, we caught up with the 'Martial Arts Conference'." ”

Zhou Tianshen was taken to a guest room by Dao Wuxiang, and after greeting the other people in the room, he leaned on the window with them, looked down, and asked, "What martial arts conference is going to be held on the street?"

Li Menglan explained, "This is the tradition of the city, every year a day will be selected to let two monks who have grudges with each other compete in the competition, the winner can serve as an offering in the city, and the loser will go to the frontier to join the army for a year." ”

Bai Jingqi interjected, "I heard that the two of them this year are not small, one is the eldest son of the lord of Sanchai Country, and the other is the eldest son of the lord of Lichai City, it is said that the two have been grudges for a long time, and I don't know how many times they have fought in private." The reason why they were allowed to fight here this time seems to be the meaning of the lord of the country, that is, he doesn't know who will win. ”

The lord of the Sanchai country has the surname Hongyi, so the Hongyi family is the royal family of the Sanchai country.

Zhou Tianshen remembered Tianyun Guojing, who had been healed in Laohuai Village, the Tianyun family seemed to be the royal family of Xiangyun Kingdom, and he didn't know if they had returned to Xiangyun Country.

Zheng Xuan said coldly, "Do you still need to ask, it must be the eldest son of the lord of the country, Anwu in red clothes, no matter how powerful Li Zhu is, he still dares to embarrass the lord of the country in front of so many people." ”

At this time, a stone suddenly shot from the opposite window, and was slapped off by Zheng Xuan's palm, and then he heard a girl's voice coming, and said angrily, "Don't say bad things about Brother Lizhu." ”

After Li Menglan saw the girl clearly, one hand was placed on the edge of the window, and the other hand had already pushed the sword out of the sheath, with more than two fingers.

Xu Ke patted the back of her hand and told her not to be nervous.

Zheng Xuan smiled and said, "Why, Li Niu, you have to fight for your eldest brother." ”

Li Niu is the youngest daughter of the city lord of Li Chai City, standing on the window at this time, leaning on the shoulder of a middle-aged Yi Cong, her eyes glanced at the position of Zheng Xuan and Jin Sha Kill, and snorted coldly, "No matter how bad my eldest brother is, he will not lose to a woman." ”

This sentence can be regarded as poking Zheng Xuan's sore spot, and he said angrily, "Li Xin, do you believe that I spanked your ass?!"

Li Niu climbed up to Yi Cong's shoulder, pulled down her eyelids with her fingers, stuck out her tongue and said, "I don't believe it." ”

Zheng Xuan gritted his teeth and looked at the Li Niu, but the girl no longer looked at him, and a figure suddenly appeared on the street, and the girl whose real name was Li Niu raised her arms and shouted, "Come on, big brother, come on, Uncle Liu, you also shout." ”

The name was silent.

After Jin Sha saw the figure on the street, she never took her eyes off, because she felt a strong battle intent in that person, she squinted and asked, "Zheng Xuan, do you know the person below?"

Zheng Xuan covered his heart, looked down weakly, and said in frustration, "He is Li Zhu, the way of the sword, and now there should be a realm to cultivate." ”

The corners of Jin Sha's mouth curled, and he said to himself, "I really want to fight him." ”

After perceiving the different aura on Jin Sha Kill's body, Li Menglan pointed his finger to the other side of the street and said, "Sha Kill, look at that person." ”

Jin Sha Kill turned his head to look, the man was also full of fighting intent, but the aura on his body was not pure, and there seemed to be hatred in the fighting intent, so he shook his head and said, "Forget it, this person will be left to you." ”

Li Menglan said with a smile, "Don't forget, you are my subordinate, a cultivator genius like Li Zhu, you should leave it to me to deal with." ”

Zheng Xuan, who was reluctant to talk about it, was caught between the two and felt very painful.

But Emperor Jiu, who had never spoken, held his spear and leaned against the window edge and said, "Interesting." ”

He nodded, looking in the same direction as him.

After Zhou Tianshen changed his standing posture, he took out a small pot of sake from the jade pendant, and this time when he went out, he asked for three hundred cyan wine jugs, fifty purple wine jugs and three palm-sized burgundy wine jugs, and now he drank a cyan wine jug, the wine tasted sweet and cold, and it would not go up.

Two people on the street stopped at a distance of fifty feet, one carrying an unsheathed sword and wearing a white coat, and the other carrying a firewood knife at his waist and a red coat.

The man in white stuck his long sword in front of him, his hands behind his back, and the wind and clouds rose, as if there were thousands of troops and horses galloping behind him, and the momentum was huge.

The man in red pulled out the firewood knife, placed it horizontally on his chest, and slashed his fingers across the knife, and a drop of blood hovered over the blade, making a pleasant tinkling sound.

didn't wait long, the man in white clenched his fists with both hands and slashed from behind him to the front of him, the unsheathed sword clanged, and countless sword qi emitted from the sword body, converging on the fists of the man in white, the sound of horses and armor was endless, shaking the earth.

The drop of blood fell on the body of the knife, the chai knife glowed red, and the knife qi extended outward, and finally the chai knife turned into a hundred-zhang big knife and stood erect behind the man in red.

There was a lot of talk all around.

Some people praise the Wan Teng sword qi that has gone further, and some people envy the red-clothed Anwu's hundred-zhang broadsword that should not be underestimated.

Both of them have already set up their postures, and they just need to wait for an order to knock each other out of Lichai City.

The white-clothed Li erected, and the red-clothed Anwu was red-clothed.

The red-clothed An Wu took a step forward, and the big sword behind him came majestically between the two, with a strong momentum, and he laughed, "Li Zhu, if you surrender now, I won't let you lose too ugly." ”

Li took a step back, and everyone exclaimed, especially the girl, who only hid behind Yi Cong, and didn't dare to look out, she was really afraid that her eldest brother would lose to that person.

The sword qi around Li Zhi wrapped him layer by layer, and the sword qi was like the wind, blowing his long hair.

Suddenly, Li Zhu spat out a mouthful of blood, knelt on one knee, and held the hilt of the sword with one hand, as if a majestic voice came from the sky and fell into the ears of the man in white.

"You can think about whether this sword is easy to borrow or not. ”

The man in white nodded with difficulty, he was already bleeding from seven orifices, he couldn't see, he couldn't hear, only one mouth, and said softly, "I borrowed my own sword, and I didn't dare to win." ”

The sword gas turned into a rolling boulder, such as a dam bursting, all of which were dumped onto the big knife, the hundred zhang big knife was like a flat boat in the wind and rain, broken instantly, the red-clothed Anwu flew out, fell to the ground, fainted, and then looked at the li, covered in blood, but there was still a strength, supporting himself to stand up, raising the long sword in his hand, and shouting silently.

If he wins, their Li family can protect Li Chai City for another year.

Li Niu jumped down from the upper floor, and the name Yi came to Li Zhu's side one step earlier, supporting his body, Li Niu had already cried and his eyes were red, and he choked up, "Big brother, let's go home." ”

Anwu in red was rescued by a woman in red and her men, and before leaving, the woman said that in three days, the Li family would be driven out of Lichai City.

After a quick glance, Zhou Tianshen recognized the woman in red as the one he met at the Dayu Inn in Tianxiang County, and the woman in red also recognized him, and there was a bald guy and a plain-clothed man standing next to the woman.

The woman in red gave the bald guy a look, and the bald guy ran towards the inn with a sneer, and the plain man also wanted to help the bald guy, but was stopped by the woman in red.

Zhou Tianshen secretly knew that something was wrong, so he thought about leaving the inn first, although he was not afraid of the bald guy, but now after all, he is in someone else's territory, and he can fight, but he has to wait until he goes out of the city, as long as he goes out of the city, the bald guy is dead or alive, what does it have to do with him.

Thinking about this, Zhou Tianshen said a simple hello to Dao Wuxiang, then hurriedly ran to the stable in the backyard, rode on his big feet, and left the inn directly.

The bald guy and Zhou Tianshen met at the door of the inn, the bald guy saw the opportunity and punched the neck of the big foot, which was just blocked by Zhou Tianshen's kick, and the big foot raised the horse's hooves and stepped on the bald guy, and the blow missed.

The bald guy smiled and pulled out the big knife behind his back, spit out a mouthful of spit, and said with a smile, "Little guy, don't worry, I'll break your neck." ”

Upstairs Jin Sha kill after seeing Zhou Tianshen being attacked by someone, she was already in high spirits and directly pulled out the double knives on her waist, her feet were a little on the edge of the window, and she came to the top of the bald guy's head, the double knives crossed together were like a pair of scissors, flashing with cold light, just when she was about to cut off the bald guy's neck, two red lines flew from the far corner, entangled the double knives, Jin Sha Kill felt a pull, fell to the ground, rolled twice, and then calmed down the spiritual power in the dantian.

There was something strange about the red line, she wanted to remind the others, but she was interrupted by the bald guy's big knife, Zhou Tianshen had already jumped off the horse, the axe blade and the sword were constantly thrown, all of them were shattered by the red line, and the rest of the people also jumped down from the stairs one after another. Bai Jingqi threw out a black chess piece, the chess piece swelled into a small mountain in the air, pressing on the bald guy, Ren Tianhao summoned a ghost, and the ghost spit out a large black bubble to obscure his vision, and when the black clouds dispersed, Zhou Tianshen and they had disappeared.

After comforting the seriously injured red-clothed An Wu, the red-clothed pearl hurried over, but it was still a step too late.

She ordered the gates to be closed, and to find the group before it got dark and kill them all.

A remote alley, Zhou Tianshen and they came to a dilapidated yard by sticking to the root of the wall, the small courtyard looked like it had not been inhabited for a long time, the corners of the wall and the mouth of the well were full of cobwebs, and the little black spiders were lazily lying on the cobwebs, waiting for the prey to throw themselves into the web.

After Zhou Tianshen cleaned up the house briefly, he took out some pots and pans and candles from the cunshou, placed them neatly together, lit the candles, and the room was much brighter.

Bai Jingqi looked at all this and asked, "You want to stay here?"

Zhou Tianshen explained, "It's about to get dark, and it's impossible to get out of the city, so I think it's better to rest for one night first and talk about it tomorrow." ”

Bai Jingqi shook his head and said, "No, I went out to observe this area just now, this is far away from the city gate, but it is very close to the city center, and it is easy to be found that we are cooking here." ”

Li Menglan agreed, she felt that after they made such a fuss, it was now full of wind and rain in the city, but the more this happened, the easier it was to escape, she asked everyone, "Do you dare to make a big fuss?"

Dao Wuxiang came out and said, "I have long wanted to make a big fuss, but my identity is special, tell me quickly, what good way do you have?"

Li Menglan stood up, the corners of his mouth curled, and snorted, "They Sanchai Country and our Wuhe Kingdom are mortal enemies, they have long wanted to annex us, and the escort mission is also the most ferocious for them, I think the killers you met before should also be hired by them, and now it just so happens that we have entered the city, but it is not so easy to send away." ”

"We will now divide our troops into two ways, one to the city gate, open the city gate, and the other to make a big fuss in the city, so that they can see how powerful we are. ”

Dao Wuxiang had already begun to cheer, and hurried out, Zheng Xuan stood at the door, stopped him, and said helplessly, "Don't you want to think about the consequences, you make such a fuss, don't you give them a reason, so that they can ask your father for an explanation, I think we should hurry out of the city, do the waterway to leave Sanchai Country, and when we arrive in Xiangyun Country, even if it is to my house, even if they want to trouble us, there is no way." ”

So far, that's all it can be.

Zhou Tianshen packed up his things, and the twelve people in the group all changed their clothes and walked on the street with a peaceful expression.

Approaching dusk, there were not many people on the street early, and the red-clothed pearl ordered that all the cultivators in the city guards who had been attached to the Sanchai country poured out, and they must be found before dawn, otherwise, at night, it would not be for them to interfere.

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

Zhou Tianshen looked at the spearmen standing on both sides of the street, and felt that this road would not be too easy to walk.