Between Jizhou and Yuzhou is 800 miles of Taibai Mountain. Taibai Mountain is called the source of the dragon vein of Kyushu by the ancient monks, the mountain is undulating, endless, if a long dragon ring cage, life separates the north and south boundaries. The only thing that allowed ordinary people to pass normally was the marching road built by Taizu's general Yu Wenguang during the Northern Expedition. This road was originally only used for military purposes, but it was peaceful for more than ten years, and the original ban was loosened a lot, and gradually became a trade channel for north-south trade.

This is the second day after the frost fell in the sixteenth year of Wude, and the merchants and pedestrians walking on the road saw a scene that they will never forget. The gradually yellowing leaves on the side of the road in autumn are flying into peach blossoms in the sky when they fall, but this scene is fleeting, and many people think that they are dazzled, until they see the people around them looking at each other before they know that what appeared just now is not an illusion.

If anyone pays attention, at the moment when the peach blossoms fall, there is a woman in a pink blouse among the pedestrians from north to south, although it appears abruptly, it is very natural and harmoniously mixed with the surrounding crowd, but the travelers' minds seem to be taken by this peach petal, and they have not noticed that there is suddenly an extra person around them. The woman's appearance is dignified and beautiful, but with a lingering poignantness, people can't help but feel pity when they see it.

At this time, the woman's eyebrows were frowning, and she glanced at a string of glass beads on Hao's wrist from time to time. Remembering what Chu Huaiyu said to himself when he left the Xiu Peak, after being silent on the peak for a long time: "This trip to the south can solve the big doubts that Sister Ah has always had, and maybe I can fulfill Sister A's greatest wish in this life." "This string of glass beads was also given by Chu Huaiyu, according to him, he has been tempered with the Great Yan Secret Method, which can not only increase his cultivation, but also guide him to a place where he can find the answer. "This kid also has a heart. I didn't expect the wild boy brought back by the eldest brother back then to this point now. As if thinking about something again, the woman smiled comfortably and continued southward.

As Lidong approached, Chen Anzhi felt more and more that something big might happen recently. Although the sixteen-year-old boy was still unable to understand the complexity of the impermanence of the world, he keenly observed that his father, Chen Qingshuang, was in a state of mental anxiety. Father, as always, looked like a strict father in front of him, and it seemed that there was no difference from usual, but after more than ten years of father-son getting along, he could still feel a trace of uneasiness and doubt that his father occasionally showed.

I heard Uncle He say that it was because when today's son had a strange dream, and later he wanted to thoroughly investigate the matter of the lonely door, remembering that his father was one of the people who did it back then, and wanted to call his father back to Beijing for questioning. If it was related to this, Chen Anzhi didn't dare to ask his father. I remember that the only time I was severely reprimanded was the first time I heard Uncle He talk about his father's deeds from the dragon and ran to ask, but as soon as he said the word lonely, he was angrily reprimanded by his father for "hearsay", and then he was punished for copying the "Weekly Rite Narrative" ten times because he felt that he had too much energy. Thinking of that dark time, Chen Anzhi's right arm still had a faint pain.

A full moon rose from the horizon unchanged for eternity, as if unwilling to let the moonlight monopolize the cold night sky, and the fog slowly shrouded the boundless night, quietly covering the heaven and earth with a veil, and the cold moonlight also became warm in the haze, and even had a hint of sweet aroma.

"Aroma?" Chen Anzhi, who was reading at night in the study, felt that something was wrong, and the whole world spun. Before it softened to the ground, a dark shadow crept in through the window, helped Chen Anzhi to the bed in the study, and draped him in a big hat. "The next thing, I can't let you get involved!" "The black shadow casually twisted the last small piece of 'Black Sweet Country' left on his hand and sprinkled it out of the window.

At this time, the courtyard was already a mess. With the foothold of the woman in the red shirt as the center, the fallen leaves around the square dance with the inexplicable breeze, floating into the air, it will strangely turn into petal peach blossoms, and if you look closely, the edges of the peach blossoms are actually glowing with the cold light of metal.

Opposite the woman is the owner of this room, Chen Qingshuang, Marquis of Qingyuan. Chen Qingshuang was dressed in a blue and white robe, looking at her forties and emaciated. The face is clear, and there is a faint sense of depression. At first glance, he looks like an ordinary literati. At this time, a sword was in his hand, but he burst out of his arms and tried the momentum of the world, and as long as he approached the peach blossoms within three feet in front of his sword, they were frozen by the cold and fell to the ground.

"Tsk! As soon as the green frost comes out of the world, I haven't seen it for more than ten years, it seems that you are also successful and are about to enter the "Tao". It's just that if you don't receive the reward from the Son of Heaven, you can really feel at ease if you hide in such a poor and remote corridor, and you don't go out of the rivers and lakes! Chen Zuo Envoy!" The woman's eyes warmed up when she said the three words Chen Zuo Envoy, and instantly became colder, and her tone was full of thick mockery, "By the way, now you are Chen Hou, the Marquis of Qingyuan of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and you are much more noble than Chen Zuo Envoy." Isn't it? ”

"Princess Xi, how can you say all the things in the past. There are some things you don't know and shouldn't understand. The southern country is not safe for you, so you might as well go back. ”

"Go back, of course I will. However, the child Huaiyu told me that coming to the south could solve a big doubt for me. Huaiyu won't use this to entertain me. I think about it, Yuan Bugui has always been at odds with me, and I don't want to ask for this. You should be the only one in the south who can know about this. Chen Zuo, after the battle in Taibai Mountain, where did Brother Xiao go?".

"A group of ghosts cry around the mountain, the Son of Heaven Zhuhe Tu, the two Yi heavens are decided, and the Ten Thousand Dynasty is Kyoto. Now it has become a nursery rhyme when playing in the countryside Huangkou children's play, why is Princess Xi still so persistent, the master of the door has already passed away in that battle" Chen Qingshuang's voice trembled slightly, with endless loneliness and remembrance.

"You're talking nonsense!" Xi Rui's face darkened, and then he bit his silver teeth and shot out angrily. The peach blossoms that had originally surrounded her began to dance wildly. In the chaotic dance, the originally scattered petals began to divide into two, two and four, but the entire courtyard was filled. "Brother Xiao, he can't just die like this. ”

Chen Qingshuang's eyes narrowed, and the outermost petals before were only shallowly slashed, and the petals full of true yuan were deeply embedded in the surrounding tree trunks. Now the peach blossoms in the garden are gradually ringing into a huge circle in the dance, and Chen Qingshuang is surrounded by Chen Qingshuang from the outside and the inside. Xi Rui saw that his flower blade siege was gradually taking shape, hesitated for a moment, and then said coldly: "Peach Blossom Tribulation, dance." ”

The flower blade that surrounded Chen Qingshuang stopped suddenly, and then squeezed towards the middle at a faster speed. saw that Chen Qingshuang just pinched a sword trick, and the long sword slowly swung one circle after another from left to right. It's just a simple circle of drawing, the superposition of sword circles, but the application is endless, interlocking, endless, and seems to contain the truth of heaven and earth. As the sword momentum took shape, the surrounding flower blades began to rotate in reverse, and the flower blades turned into four, four turned into two, and two became one, and finally dissipated into nothingness.

"Immeasurable Death Sword Technique, you traitor really have the face to continue to practice my lonely exercises" Xi Rui said hatefully, "Invisible Tribulation, Dance Again", as soon as the words fell, the peach red in the garden dissipated into invisibility in an instant. Chen Qingshuang's footwork turned continuously, and suddenly his figure froze, and he snorted, and a faint bloodshot oozed from the left shoulder of the long shirt. Xi Rui's true essence continued to form a silky energy, surrounding Chen Qingshuang, tremblingly cutting through everything that passed. However, the silky energy seemed to be able to predict Chen Qingshuang's movements, and every time Chen Qingshuang was about to move, he blocked his footwork route early.

"It's true that you have practiced the Great Yan Divine Technique. Chen Qingshuang's voice was completely cold, "No, it's an external force, what is Chu Huaiyu going to do!" At this moment, he struck with anger, and Xuan Bing's true anger went with all his strength. I saw Chen Qingshuang's feet lightly, and the cold ice bloomed on the soles of her feet, instantly narrowing the distance between the two to within three feet.

Back then, Xiao Hetu once praised Chen Qingshuang, "Within the three-foot sword encirclement, people can rival the country." Now that Xi Rui, as a sorcerer, was pulled into the sword enclosure by Chen Qingshuang, in a hurry, the invisible true elements scattered around him instantly backtracked, and successively laid eighteen invisible qi walls in front of him, hoping to block Chen Qingshuang for a moment. His feet were connected to the ground, shooting backwards like lightning.

I only heard a "stab" sound, and there was a mournful sound in the air like a jade silk tearing, and the qi wall shattered instantly. Chen Qingshuang's sword tip trembled slightly, and the little sword flower did not leave Xi Rui's neck. It's just that every time the sword flower is about to bloom on the jade muscle, it will always be disturbed for no reason and deviate from it. If you explore carefully, you will find that every unprovoked interference is accompanied by a glass bead on Xi Rui's wrist that turns into powder and disperses with the wind. In just a few breaths, most of the glass beads have dissipated.

Xi Rui found out in the dodge that she was getting deeper and deeper into Chen Qingshuang's sword encirclement. Even the air around him began to stagnate, hindering his movement like a quagmire, and every time he changed his body technique, he needed to mobilize several times his vitality, and no matter how he dodged, the skin around him would feel a tingling sensation of sword qi added to his body.