When the sky is beginning to light.

The foothills of the east exude a touch of fish white, the clouds in the sky look as fine as wool dyed with strange colors at the edges, and the air smells peculiar to the deep mountains and old forests—not the feeling of freshness, but a lingering musty smell.

Liu Qiyue opened his eyes, stood up, and looked at the eastern sky, with a sense of solemnity in his eyes.

"Are they gone?" Mu Shaobai appeared beside him and said in a low voice.

"It should have been half an hour. Liu Qiyue said.

"Aren't you worried?" asked Mu Shaobai.

"Worried that they will be killed by the Shadow Tiger? No, I'm even more worried that Xiao Di will kill the Shadow Tiger's guys, so it won't be easy to explain!" Liu Qiyue shook his head.

"You mean, aren't you worried that you won't be able to explain to the sect master after you go back?" Mu Shaobai said: "Deliberately let go of the target that the sect master asked to monitor?"

"Yes, I was just too tired after the big battle to notice them leave. Or should we chase after us now? But in which direction?" Liu Qiyue looked blank and looked around.

"Yes, which direction should you chase Brother Yi, do you know?" Mu Shaobai smiled faintly and looked at Yi Youlian who was standing on the other side of Liu Qiyue.

"I don't know! In such a mountain forest, it is enough to have a shadow tiger to follow the target, as for us, the front-line military situation is even more important, although we only have 10,000 people, but the mysterious enemy will use the evil art of resurrecting the dead, we must tell the front finger, and let the front finger inform the royal family and the sect! This matter is even more important!" Yun Gongzi, who is a humble gentleman, rarely pretends to be confused with Liu Qiyue and Mu Shaobai.

Liu Qiyue and Mu Shaobai laughed in unison, and then sighed again.

"Alas, I don't know when I'll be able to drink with him again!"

"Go, target Bull Head Fort, Hurry Forward!"

"No!"

The Janissaries set off. No one asked Tang Dou and his party where they went, and when they left, the soldiers were all awake, but no one stopped them. No one asked. Those who understand will not stop it, but those who do not understand will believe in that line.

Friendship on the battlefield is so simple and straightforward.

After noon, three hundred miles from the Praetorian Guard. Tang Dou and his entourage took the shadow tiger that followed them into a canyon.

It was a steep, almost cliff-like canyon. At the exit of the canyon is a long clearing of grass and reeds, which is extremely difficult to find, if it weren't for Bao's keen sense of smell, and Tang Dou's extremely delicate sense of breath, I am afraid that he would have missed this entrance.

From the exit of the canyon. In the distance, you can see another equally steep mountain wall on the opposite side.

The afternoon winter sun shone lazily on the clearing between the two mountain walls, and in the middle of the clearing was a very lazy-looking brown stream, lined with ancient willow trees.

The willows were so old that their branches spread all over the glade and the stream, and they formed a vault over the winding stream, and the brook was littered with dead willows and branches, and the willow leaves that completely covered the surface of the stream.

Maybe it's because the temperature in the canyon is warmer than outside, or maybe the willows have grown here for so long that they've adapted to the environment and the whole winter will pass. The willow leaves still have a deep dark green glow.

The canyon is like a world of willow trees, and when a gust of wind blows through the canyon, the branches of the willow trees babble as if they are singing together.

The leader of the Shadow Tiger, Balov, was a master of the ninth level of gold, and followed Tang Dou all the way to the canyon with thirty of his men. Because the White Tiger Sect Master's order was very obvious, they never appeared, but they also secretly helped Tang Dou solve a lot of problems. There were several spies from other unknown forces who followed Tang Dou, and they were all killed by Shadow Tiger.

Because he didn't quite understand what Tang Dou and his party meant by suddenly leaving the Praetorian Guard, Barov didn't make a move immediately, but just followed with people all the time. After seeing Tang Dou and them enter the willow forest in the canyon, they also walked in.

In and out of the forest. It's like two completely different worlds. When I saw this willow forest outside, I just felt that it was old, heavy, and lifeless. But when Barov and they actually stepped into the willow forest. Only to find out that this willow forest is even more evil than they imagined.

Yes, when Baroff entered the willow forest, the only word he could think of was evil.

Looking at these ancient willow forests in the forest, they appear darker and taller. It was even denser, except for the occasional sound of condensation dripping from the stationary leaves, the whole willow forest was dead silent, and after walking some way into the depths of the willow forest, the light disappeared from the entire willow forest, and the sunlight could not penetrate the dense willow leaves, and even the air seemed to be condensed in the willow forest.

Although Baroff and the others had trained overnight vision, they couldn't see in such an environment where they couldn't see their fingers, so in desperation, he let his subordinates use the Shimmer Rune. It's a rune that can emit light and doesn't provide much light, but it's enough for the people of Shadow Tiger.

Under the light of the shimmering runes, the willow trees appeared denser and darker, and the willow branches spread out like demon arms. The twisted trunk was interspersed with huge cracks, like a grinning mouth.

Even the members of the Shadow Tiger, who had been trained and killed for a long time, couldn't control their nervousness at this moment, sweating on their foreheads, constantly looking left and right, their eyes rolling wildly, looking for an enemy they didn't know existed. The matter of tracking down Tang Dou and his party has long been impossible because Baroff finds that they have lost their way.

It was obviously just a straight road, but Barlov had no choice but to find that they were lost.

He didn't know what caused all this, and vaguely felt that he had fallen for Tang Dou's trick, but there was a special smell in the air, which made him unable to calm down and think, but they could only move forward, keep moving forward, towards the front where they didn't know the end.

I don't know when, the surroundings began to become noisy, and there seemed to be a strange murmur whispering in their ears, like those willows whispering something, unable to distinguish the words, but they could clearly feel the malice, anger, hatred, and cold emotions.

The road in the forest became very blurry, and every step forward. You need to choose the place to put your feet many times, otherwise it will be like being swallowed up by the tangled root system. For the first time, the people of Shadow Tiger felt so tired, as if they hadn't had a good night's sleep for a whole month, and their legs seemed to be filled with lead. Every lifting of the heavy is extremely difficult.

When they raised their heads, under the light of the shimmering runes, the knobed and twisted trunks looked down on them like smiling faces full of malice and hideousness, mercilessly watching their useless struggle.

The crowd began to feel that everything around them was not real. They just trudge through a nightmare that they can never wake up to, with no end and no beginning. There is no life, no death.

I don't know how long it took, but when the strongest Barlov finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell in front of the root of a willow tree, everything seemed to have come to an end with death.

Or...... Not really.

The willow forest is still the same willow forest, dense, ancient, but not evil. The sunlight has not disappeared from the willow forest. Although it is very light, you can still see things clearly. The air was a little muddy, but not heavy.

"What a phantom horn, what a lost journey!Sister Dongfang, I'll give you thirty-two likes!" Tang Dou said with a hippie smile to Sha Yunyue, who put down the phantom horn.

If Barov had been awake, they would have found that they had not gone too deep into the willow forest at all, but they had only gone less than 100 meters deep. It's just that they're all asleep now.

"The leader is still very cautious, he has a few people outside in case of emergency, and if they find that the situation is not right, they will take action. We're going to get out of here right now!But after that, it's not so easy for the Shadow Tigers to keep up with us!Ha, this guy is stupid too. Dare to follow a pure-blooded elf deep into the dense forest, this kind of trick is really interesting enough!" Tang Dou laughed in a low voice.

"Kill them!"

"Don't fight and kill at every turn, we are peaceful people. Remember, we've never known any Shadow Tigers, we've never known any stalkers, and we've never seen these guys. Do you understand?" said Tang Dou, patting Chihuo's head.

"It's boring. Okay, if you don't kill, you won't kill!" Chihuo pouted, saying with great pity.

"Let's go, we should go to Tianwu's camp to have a look!" Tang Dou touched all the supplies on the Shadow Tiger people - of course, with this guy's greed for money, he naturally wouldn't let go of the little money on others, although Shadow Tiger didn't bring any property at all when he went out on a mission, but with Tang Dou's door-picking temperament, he didn't directly turn the other party into a bare pig, which was already to give face to the White Tiger Sect. What weapons and equipment, naturally, a piece of non-surplus was taken away.

"Boss, we sent it, this guy is a rich man, he actually uses a weapon made of black iron, and if it is melted, he can make a few black iron arrows for the boss!"

"Ah, I don't need this for the time being, anyway, I don't have much time to use black iron arrows now, I'll talk about it later. This is a big piece of black iron. Otherwise, make two watermelon knives for Bajie, so that she can also hold a watermelon knife in the future, and kill all the way from Nantianmen to Penglai East Road?" Tang Dou touched his chin and said incomprehensible words.

"Yes, yes, I want, I want!" Chihuo nodded as he listened.

"Brother Tang, how can you take Sister Chihuo badly?" said the elf beauty angrily.

"Ah, what I just said to play, it doesn't count, it doesn't count!" Tang Dou sneered.

"Huh, you're lying to me again?" Chihuo was not happy.

"No, I just don't think the watermelon knife is majestic enough, why don't I get you a Daguan knife?"

"Okay, okay...... But I can't take it!" "Not everyone has the weird strength of Tang Dou and Xiao Lori.

"Then there's no way, who told you not to be able to hold it?" Tang Dou looked pity: "You better use your nail palladium." Its practical nail palladium killing is not bad. The same can be ...... from the South Heavenly Gate."

"Kill all the way to Penglai East Road!" Chihuo laughed, looking forward to such a day.

"Brother Tang!" Sister Dongfang was angry.

The group spoke, and gradually moved away. (To be continued.) )