It was one of the rare nights without a campfire, and, probably, for a long time afterward, they would not enjoy the warmth of a campfire.

Xiao Cong, Hong Xiang, Younu and Ouyang Xun sat cross-legged in the sheepskin tent in four corners, with a "lampstand" embedded with gems in the middle, the light was soft, not too bright, and they were each holding some dry food and dried meat brought from the ancient Zhou Plain, and they were chewing tastelessly.

Suddenly, Xiao Cong patted Hongxiang beside him and prayed:

"Go to Yin Nuo's side to see if there is any tea, and ask for some to drink. ”

Hongxiang was stunned with a small face, and said puzzledly:

"Why do we have to go to them to ask for it, can't we make a pot ourselves?"

Xiao Cong: "I'm too tired to move." ”

Hongxiang pouted,

"You are too lazy to move, Yin Nuo followed you desperately, this son is estimated to have been tired for a long time, you don't have to try your luck in this matter, definitely not, or brother, you take out the tea set, light the spirit stone, and I will get the rest." ”

Xiao Cong listened to the reason, so he took out a pair of utensils with his right hand, threw a spirit stone into the bottom of the stone, and finally flicked a yellow flame into it.

Hongxiang filled the kettle with half full water, pierced on the stone, and dialed some tea leaves in the teapot, gnawed a few mouthfuls of dry food, the water was boiled, he hurriedly put down the dry food and poured hot water into the teapot, less than a moment, skipping the tea ceremony, and poured the tea directly into the tea bowl.

Ouyang Xun put down the food in his hand, took out two pot-shaped water containers from the mustard, sprinkled tea leaves and poured hot water, and walked out of the tent with it.

Ouyang Xun, who walked out of the sheepskin tent, first came to Xingliuyun and them, put down one of the porcelain jars, and said:

"Well, here's tea. ”

And he took out a few more porcelain bowls and divided them among the four.

Yin Nuo smiled and thanked him, his voice sounded weak, Zainong and Huo Hao hugged their fists at Ouyang Xun, Xingliuyun hooked the corners of his mouth, and the dog spit out dog teeth in his mouth,

"It's a human affair this time. ”

Ouyang Xun glanced up at Xingliuyun, too lazy to care about this wolf-hearted guy, carrying another porcelain jar, turned around and walked out of the tent.

Then he came to the twenty-seventh general of the Xiao family, put down the porcelain jar like last time, and said,

"It's tea, drink it hot. ”

Then he had to distribute porcelain bowls, but unfortunately there were a total of twelve tea bowls in his set of precious tea sets, and the four of them were distributed to Xingliuyun, and now there are eight left, which is not enough for twenty-seven people, and three or four people use one tea bowl, which is also a little too cold, so I feel a little embarrassed for a while.

Xiao laughed and laughed:

"Young Master Ouyang, put things away, we have our own drinking utensils, thank you Young Master Ouyang for coming over and bringing us tea." ”

Ouyang Xun was obviously stunned when he heard this, nodded and replied:

"It's okay, it's all my own people, it should be. ”

Then he looked around and continued:

"Then you drink first, and when we're done, we'll go first. ”

Xiao Da clenched his fists and bowed lightly,

"Young Master Ouyang walked slowly. ”

Ouyang Xun nodded, turned around and walked out of the tent, stood in the open space and looked up at the sky, muttering,

"That's just human talk. ”

Then he shook his head helplessly, and took two steps in three steps into the sheepskin tent.

When Ouyang Xun returned to the sheepskin tent and sat down again, Xiao Cong and they had already drunk a few cups, although they walked back and forth in the other two tents, but fortunately, the temperature was not very low, so the tea in the cup was still warm, Ouyang Xun picked up the cup and drank the tea in the cup, Hongxiang picked up the teapot and filled it for the four tea bowls, Ouyang Xun picked up the dry food, took a bite absentmindedly, chewed it slowly, looked up and asked:

"Xiao Cong, there's one thing I've been thinking about that I don't understand too clearly, you tell me about it. ”

Xiao Cong glanced at Ouyang Xun casually,

"You say. ”

Ouyang Xun swallowed the food in his mouth and poked his head forward,

"What's going on with the twenty-seven generals of your family, how does it feel different from the legend?"

"What's the difference?" Xiao Cong said, moving the tea bowl to his lips and glancing at Ouyang Xun again.

Ouyang Xun smashed his mouth,

"Feeling a little too young......"

Xiao Cong put down the tea bowl and said unexpectedly:

"They're the same generation as us. ”

"What!" Ouyang Xun opened a pair of bull's eyes, his mouth was wide open and could be stuffed with a radish in it, and the ghost girl was also slightly surprised, but it was Hongxiang, who had always loved to join in the fun, and it was not strange at this time.

Xiao Cong was slightly surprised,

"What's so surprising about this, your Turtle Mansion has so many secrets about the ancient lands of the major families, haven't you, the young section master, never seen a single word?"

Ouyang Xun shook his head vigorously like a rattle,

"No, not really. ”

Xiao Cong smiled slyly,

"What, I want to know what's going on here?"

"Of course...... Well, if you don't want to say it, forget it. The suddenness of Ouyang Xun's face caused a burst of laughter from Younu and Hongxiang.

Xiao Cong's face was flat,

"It's fine, it's not a secret. ”

The other three people's faces changed subtly when they heard this, their eyes brightened slightly, and they were cautious, as if they were afraid that Xiao Cong would suddenly stop talking.

"The twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family can serve as the heirloom guard of my Xiao family, in addition to absolute loyalty, it is natural to have its uniqueness, the legend of the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family has a long history, except for immortals, no living beings can live for so long, so they are not always a group of people, and this uniqueness is between the two generations of the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family, the next generation of the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family is the parent and son of the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family of the previous generation, after the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family of the next generation become adults, they can get half of the cultivation and strength of the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family of the previous generation without cultivation, correspondingly, the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family of the previous generation will slowly fall to mortals until they die of old age in the Xiao family, We call this ability a semi-inheritance, and I just caught up with the iteration of the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family, they are the same generation as me, so you will have a feeling that your age does not match your cultivation. ”

Xiao Cong's answer undoubtedly aroused Ouyang Xun's greater interest in the twenty-seventh general of the Xiao family.

"But the twenty-seven generals of each generation of the Xiao family are serving the Xiao family, and in the Xiao Mansion, where no flies can fly in, how can they have the time and opportunity to find their own Taoist companions?

Xiao Cong smiled and shook his head,

"You don't have to look for this, the family will arrange it, and of course it's not the Xiao family. ”

"Who is that?"

"A mortal who doesn't pose the slightest threat to the Xiao family. ”

"Combining with them with mortal bloodline, aren't you afraid of diluting the power of the next generation's bloodline?"

"No, it won't. ”

Ouyang Xun gasped and said in surprise:

"I'll go, this bloodline is too domineering, put aside other families, after so many generations, I'm afraid the power in the bloodline has already been diluted to the point that there is not much production. ”

Xiao Cong smiled slightly,

"Actually, it's not as exaggerated as you think, as far as I know, the highest cultivation of the twenty-seven generals of each generation of the Xiao family is in the Tongtian Realm, that is to say, the twenty-seven generals of each generation of the Xiao family can guard the Xiao family for tens of thousands of years, so it is not too many iterations. ”

"Don't make trouble, it's really a lot, you know, it's an ordinary person!"

Hongxiang shook his head and said:

"Ouyang Xun, your statement is a bit too absolute, generally speaking, the bloodline of ordinary people will indeed dilute other powerful bloodlines, but at the same time, the potential in the bloodline of ordinary people is very huge, and the reason why the twenty-seven generals of the Xiao family only combine with ordinary people is precisely because the bloodline of ordinary people is the cleanest, just like a pool of water without any impurities, what you sprinkle into it, it is still nothing. ”

Xiao Cong smiled slightly and teased:

"I can't imagine that the great talent also has a time when he is deflated on the road, and this Hongxiang's attainments are really getting more and more amazing, belch, great talent, why don't you hurry up and say that you are taught?"

Ouyang Xun was looking for a book of positive colors, bowed to Hongxiang with the most standard etiquette, and said respectfully:

"Taught. ”

Hongxiang was old-fashioned, pursed his lips and smiled, obviously there was no beard under his cheeks, but he still pretended to take a handful, and said lightly:

"Young Master Ouyang, get up, I mentioned it this little, it was unintentional, and it was not worth such a big gift from Young Master Ouyang. ”

Ouyang Xun's attitude became more and more respectful,

"The teacher's golden and jade words let the students be empowered, and this gift is naturally bearable. ”

Xiao Cong clapped his palms,

"Hey, I said you two, it's almost enough, how to act is not over, no matter how similar you are, can you compare with the star boss?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter in the sheepskin tent.

Hongxiang filled the four tea bowls again, and found that the tea was almost colorless, so he poured out the dregs and rebuilt a pot.

Xiao Cong asked:

"What did you all see as you walked through the Forbidden Forest?"

The three of them looked at each other, and Ouyang Xun spoke first:

"Lots of monsters. ”

Phantom: "It's big, and it's all bones. ”

Hongxiang: "There are a lot of different species that are put together. ”

Xiao Cong smiled,

"Let the great genius say it, if what he says is not right, you two will add it. ”

Ouyang Xun organized his words, cleared his throat and said:

"Actually, now that I think about it, there are nothing we see, the unified feature is that they are all bones, and there are scarlet flames in the eye sockets, I think it's a symbol of psychic, and the others are nothing, at most one like Hongxiang said, there are a lot of different species pieced together, if there are anything else, I don't know, after all, they can't sense our breath, and we can't sense their breath, but I think, these things are the **** we guessed before. Not far from ten, it is a monster formed under the action of the two opposing forces of the Ancient Zhou Plain and the Great Wilderness, but now I want to add one, I think these monsters are not independent of the Forbidden Forest, but have been closely linked to the Forbidden Forest, they are not guardians, we can think of them as an extension of the Forbidden Forest, that is, the hands and feet of the Forbidden Forest or weapons. ”

"Why do you think so?" Xiao Cong asked.

Ouyang Xun scratched his forehead and frowned slightly:

"When did you start asking such simple questions, when we passed by them, the flames in their eyes were still lit, but none of them moved, which also shows that they have always been like this, combined with what Xiao Da said before, they didn't see these monsters before they couldn't move, and the process was probably that after the Forbidden Forest imprisoned the intruders, they were killed by these monsters. ”

Xiao Cong's voice was a little dull,

"Do you know what the deeper meaning of your words is?"

Ouyang Xun shook his head,

"I don't know. ”

"If these speculations are true, this also shows from the side that the entire forbidden forest is also psychic. Xiao Cong's tone was still calm, but the words he said made people feel more than a thousand pounds.

Ouyang Xun took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled and muttered:

"Like...... That's really the case...... But none of this has anything to do with us. ”

Xiao Cong shook his head and said firmly:

"No, it has a lot to do with us, the monsters in the Forbidden Forest definitely didn't enter from the Guzhou Plain, and if you analyze them further, you can get a glimpse of the Great Wilderness in advance. ”

Hongxiang, who had bowed his head for a long time, raised his head at this time,

"But there is another question, Ouyang Xun said that there were many strong people in history who had entered the Forbidden Forest, where did they go? All of them came to the Great Wilderness and none of them were killed? This probability is too small, but if there are also people who died in the Forbidden Forest, why haven't we seen a pair of their bones along the way?"

Ouyang Xun didn't think about it and explained:

"There are two loopholes in your statement, one is that the area we passed through is not worth mentioning to the entire Forbidden Forest, so what we saw and heard along the way is not illustrative, and the other is that we don't recognize whether these bones are from the Ancient Zhou Plain or the Great Wilderness. ”

Hongxiang began to mumble a little in his heart

"But I really haven't seen the bones of the human race along the way......"

Xiao Cong says:

"The question that Hongxiang said is indeed of great value for us to discuss, but as the great genius said, from the evidence we have now, it is impossible to conclude what happened to those strong people who have entered the forbidden forest, so this issue will be put aside for the time being. ”

Ouyang Xun wrapped a strand of hair around his fingers, tilted his head and pondered for a long time before he said:

"If the Forbidden Forest is also psychic, then it is independent of the Ancient Zhou Plain, and we don't know what role it has played so far, and we can't guess, so let's just treat it as neutral,"

"It's definitely not neutral," Xiao Cong interrupted Ouyang Xun's words, and said in an affirmative tone: "There must be something in this that we don't know, otherwise, those masters would definitely not take such a big risk to enter the Forbidden Forest." ”

"So what do you think is going on here? ”

Xiao Cong sighed,

"Forget it, let's finish your thoughts first. ”

Ouyang Xun showed a puzzled look, and then said with the stubble just now:

"It doesn't matter which side the Forbidden Forest is on, anyway, it is the dividing line between the Great Wilderness and the Ancient Zhou Plain, those strong people who came from the Ancient Zhou Plain, for what purpose we don't know now, we don't know what the end will be, but since they dare to enter the Forbidden Forest, they must have a certain grasp of coming to the Great Wilderness, I think, if the Forbidden Forest is really psychic, then it also plays a screening role, and the owners of those bones are left there forever because they did not meet its standards. ”

Xiao Cong was frowning and thinking, and the ghost girl spoke:

"When you say this, you still imply that it is neutral, but there is only one standard, which means that there is no boundary between the exchanges, but the Xuanzhen Realm has not heard any news about the intrusion of living beings on the other side of the Great Wilderness for so many years, I think that if the Forbidden Forest is really psychic, it is also on the side of the Ancient Zhou Plain, but the standard you said also has some truth, the Forbidden Forest does have a standard for the creatures on this side of the Ancient Zhou Plain, in order not to let people like us come to death, and it is a complete wall to the Great Wilderness. ”

Hongxiang raised his hand and said:

"I agree with Sister Younu's opinion, but I think it doesn't make sense for us to discuss these things here now, the Ancient Zhou Plain, the Forbidden Forest and the Great Wilderness, these three places have existed for too many years, if you want to figure out what is going on, you have to start from the original origin, do you say it clearly?

Hongxiang glanced at Xiao Cong and Ouyang Xun successively, and then said:

"We can only be sure now that the existence in the Great Wilderness is dangerous for the creatures east of the Ancient Zhou Plain, but we still have to see how dangerous it is. ”

Ouyang Xun raised his head abruptly and said emotionally:

"Yes, you mentioned a very important question, why did the Forbidden Forest become the boundary between the Great Wilderness and the Ancient Zhou Plain. ”

Hongxiang rolled his eyes,

"What kind of problem is this, it's all said, because the existence of the Great Wilderness is very dangerous to the creatures east of the Guzhou Plain. ”

"No, I mean how the Forbidden Forest became the boundary between the Great Wilderness and the Ancient Zhou Plain. ”

Hongxiang was a little impatient,

"That's not what it means!"

Xiao Cong seems to have realized,

Since the existence of this side of the Great Wilderness is a great threat to the creatures east of the Guzhou Plain, how did the ancestors make the Forbidden Forest a wall to defend against the Great Wilderness. ”

Ouyang Xun clapped his hands fiercely,

"Yes, that's what it means! If the creatures in the Great Wilderness are in opposition to the creatures east of the Ancient Zhou Plain, then how the ancestors occupied the current Xuanzhen Mortal Realm from them, don't you think this matter is worth scrutinizing?"

Hongxiang chuckled and teased:

"You Ouyang Xun is a young envoy who came out of the Turtle Mansion, how can we know what you don't even know!"

Ouyang Xun shook his head in a foolish manner,

"No, no, no, one of us probably knows. ”

Xiao Cong grinned,

"Ouyang Xun, you can pull it down, don't pull everything on me, okay. ”

Ouyang Xun changed into a sinister look for a moment,

"Don't you think it's normal for there to be a circle in the Forbidden Forest?"

"What's abnormal, the Xuanzhen Realm is full of Xiao family's magic circles, I went to the wild ...... back then" Xiao Cong closed his mouth in time, and glanced at the three of them as if he was a thief, "Anyway, this matter is quite normal." ”

Ouyang Xun is a smart person, what Xiao Cong doesn't want to say, he will never ask a question, but seriously pull the center back to the original topic,

"Xiao Cong, don't be in a hurry to shirk it first, think about it carefully, in such a dangerous place as the Forbidden Forest, how did the ancestors of your Xiao family set up a magic circle here, I think there are at least two situations, one is that your Xiao family has long been able to pass through the Forbidden Forest, and this magic circle was left at that time, and the other is that your Xiao family participated in the construction of the Forbidden Forest back then, and this magic circle is very important to the Forbidden Forest!"

When Xiao Cong heard this, he was both entangled and helpless, and said with a small embarrassed face:

"You're just talking about it, and I don't know anything about it. ”

"You can go through your Xiao family's secret documents, maybe you will remember something in them. ”

"The secret documents of the Xiao family......" Xiao Cong shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Then you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, besides, even if the Xiao family really has this kind of thing, it may not be recorded in any secret documents, if you want me to say, it should be passed on by the patriarchs of all generations, but unfortunately, my father left suddenly, and he didn't have time to tell me these things. As he spoke, he laughed at himself a few more times.