Gu Qingcheng carried a dilapidated gourd on his waist, all the way to the west, walking and stopping. Three years, why worry, don't worry.

Starting from Suizhou, in addition to meeting the old beggar and the little monkey, it took nearly a month to walk slowly and leisurely all the way to the border between Dongyue and Xihuang, and walked along the border line between Dongyue and Nan'an to the border between Dongyue and Xihuang, and also really felt the ~ uneasiness and fierceness of the people's livelihood on the border. In the past two years, the diplomacy of the four countries has been quite harmonious, and the situation of waiting for the day has been relaxed a lot, but compared with the situation of singing songs at night in Beijing, it still makes Gu Tingcheng suddenly feel a sense of desolation singing the flowers in the backyard across the river.

Starting from Suizhou along the Xiangshui, to Hailou City, with more than a month, when he sat in the lake to look at the water lilies, it was a small summer in May, the unique warmth and coolness of the summer breeze swept the lotus fragrance, which made people drowsy.

Gu Tingcheng sat in the best viewing position of the lake, holding a cup of Longjing in his hand, silently figuring out the old emperor's intention to send him down for three years. It is estimated that it is the prince and King Ning, the old emperor is about to start the real assessment, as for transferring himself, the ninth prince, ~~~

I couldn't help but laugh at myself.

"This boy is from?"

When Gu Qingcheng heard the sound, it was a team of border guards, about fifteen or six people, Hailou City was a border city with the Western Wilderness, and the military deployment was one level higher than that of Suizhou, after all, it was not a matter of a day or two for the Gu family and the wolf soldiers of the Western Wilderness to fight each other.

It is even more common for both sides to send meticulous infiltrators and assassinations, and Gu Qingcheng thought to himself that he was regarded as a latent meticulous worker.

Gu Tingcheng casually took out the customs clearance papers, handed them over, and replied with a smile: "I am from Suizhou, and I lived in Shangjing not long ago."

The head of the person is over the years and stands, the long military career makes his face full of frost, stretch out his hand to take the paper, carefully look at it, Dongyue's customs clearance document is a special peach wood, jointly created by the landscape division and the military department, the whole is made of bright cyan, the dragon pattern is engraved on it, the dragon pattern is different for each one, the East Vietnam military department secretly made a document, kept by the landscape department in various places, the overall part of the dragon pattern constitutes a serial number, check the corresponding serial number in the document in the direction of the line thickness can be verified to be true or false. Seeing the number five on the paper, and then hearing Gu Qingcheng's Dongyue official voice, he nodded secretly.

Gu Tingcheng took the document and put it away properly, and said with a smile: "A few big brothers, please ask me if there are any procedures required to enter the 100,000 Mountains from Hailou City."

When several people heard that he was going to enter the 100,000 mountains, their faces couldn't help but change slightly. The leader hugged his fists and said, "Childe is a cultivator? ”

Could it be that something happened to the 100,000 mountains?

Gu Tingcheng replied with a salute: "I have read the sage book for a few days."

The leader of the general breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated, as if he had finally made up his mind, and suddenly knelt down in front of Gu Qingcheng.

Gu Qingcheng was taken aback, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him sit down and asked what was the matter.

The leader of the generals sighed, and the soldiers also sighed, as if they wanted to sigh out the sadness and grievances of these years. In fact, they don't have much hope for the young scholar in front of them, but they need hope.

Gu Tingcheng began to be interested in the things here, the old emperor sent him here, but he didn't clearly say what he should do, he always had to find something to pass the time by himself, this thing, he has been very good at since he was a child.

The general looked at the canopy with a little worry, then looked at Gu Chengcheng and said hesitantly: "My name is Sun Jin, I am a husband of the Hailou City Border Guards, and I have been in charge of city affairs since I joined the army at the age of eighteen. About half a year ago, 100,000 mountains from Yangguan Shu Road not far from a large group of people suddenly came to build a large number of people, after receiving the news, we were surprised, you know, in recent years, we and the West Wilderness disputes and friction are all from the ownership of the 100,000 mountains, so we intuitively feel that it is the people of the West Wilderness, immediately report the news to the Hailou City Landscape Division, and at the same time rush to the 100,000 mountains to inquire."

Gu Tingcheng couldn't help but nod when he heard this.

Sun Jin continued: "When we arrived, there was a group of people there who were busy building something, they were very fast, and it could be vaguely seen that it was a temple, we stepped forward and shouted and asked, they were there to work hard, without saying a word" As he spoke, Sun Jin suddenly looked up at Gu Qingcheng, with obvious aftershock in his eyes.

Gu Qingcheng raised his teacup, and Sun Jin also moistened his throat and said: "Their movements are stiff, it seems that they are not people, let alone from the side of the Stygian Sea, after a while, the people of the West Wilderness Wangtian City also came, and it was also strange for them to see that we were interrogating this group of people of unknown origin, and after a stalemate for a while, that group of people was still building a lot of construction regardless of the ground, and in such a short time, a strange and gloomy stone temple was built." We and the people of the Western Wilderness couldn't help but step forward to drive away, but~ but"

Sun Jin's face began to have a frightened expression again, and Gu Qingcheng didn't urge, waiting for him to calm down.

"However, not a few steps forward, within a foot of us from the stone temple, all the people suddenly disappeared like that, without leaving a sound, and disappeared so abruptly."

"What about you?"

Sun Jin looked at Gu Qingcheng with a dark complexity and said, "I was rescued."

"Oh?"

"The moment I got closer, I seemed to see the legendary Infernal Hell, and I still can't tell if it's an illusion or a reality, when suddenly there was a chill around me, and an ice array surrounded me, and a man in a bronze mask and a green shirt stood next to me."

Gu Qingcheng's expression moved, this dress~

Sun Jin said categorically: "That's right, he is Lu Guanchao, the Ice Spirit recognizes the Lord, and is one of the four wonders of the world's Northern Xuanwu."

Each era has its own legend, if Nan'an Gongzi their generation belongs to the future, Bai Yulou and Lao Tanhua belong to the past, then the present must belong to these four people, Daoji monk once said such a passage to describe them: "The first emperor sealed the gate of heaven, sent the world a piece of atmospheric luck, the next hundreds of years, destined to produce talents, Bai Yulou led by the eighteen immortals occupied the first hundred years, the sword war in the spring and autumn, all of them are the romance of the ages." If it is said that the Spring and Autumn Period opened when the Eighteen Immortals undertook the war, then the next hundred years of the Spring and Autumn Period would be the hundred years of the group of Junyan led by the Four Qi. Gu Shenlong in Dongyue, Lu Xuanwu in Beiluo, Cheng Zhuque in Nan'an, and Jun Baihu in the Western Wilderness, they are the romance of Spring and Autumn

Seeing that Gu Tingcheng didn't mean to interrupt his words, Sun Jin continued: "After Lu Guanchao rescued me, he walked into the stone temple, I have been sending people to keep an eye on it, and so far I haven't seen any living people come out, the Shanshui Division has taken over the Shimiao and has been blocking the news, we have not seen more than ten brothers, we have been gone for half a year, I don't know whether I live or die, and I have also gone to the Shanshui Division to make trouble, after all, there is no result."

Seeing Gu Tingcheng's expression groaning, a man in his thirties beside Sun Jin "pounced" and knelt on the ground, and said in a lost voice: "This son, we have prepared for the worst, but we don't want to give up, if the son cultivates as a celestial, please ask the son to go in and help us take a look at the bones of our colleagues."

Gu Tingcheng helped him up, this kind of feeling of being with the army, he can understand it best.

Watching Gu Tingcheng walk out, Sun Jin's eyes showed a trace of unbearable unbearability. Lu Guanchao, one of the four wonders, was also trapped there and couldn't get out, what could this young man do? But I can't give up, and I want to catch a little hope.

Gu Tingcheng was not emotional, he knew the gap between himself and Lu Guanchao, if he had been trapped there for half a year, then he would venture into it by himself, and the result would not be better than him.

Thinking of this, Gu Tingcheng walked along the patrol road of Hailou City, all the way, until he met a landscape ink and jade shop, he walked in and sat down, looked around, the yellowed books on the jade bookshelf, and couldn't help but smile, the officials of the Dongyue Landscape Division are really wonderful people, obviously thinking that everyone does not recognize the yamen of the Landscape Division, but they make everyone have to know that the scholarly jade jade here is the appearance of Dayue landscape.

"Ninth Master, why are you laughing?"

Gu Qingcheng followed the prestige, and an old man who looked very happy stood in front of him with a smile, humble and bowing, wearing a traditional auspicious costume, with a figure like a winter melon, and a two-point mustache, he was a very blessed rich man.

The first time Gu Tingcheng saw this rich man was in the old emperor's imperial study, and it was the first time he saw the old emperor smiling so happily.

This person is indeed very blessed, he grew up with the old emperor since he was a child, and he is not as sharp as General Gu, he is the last one to do anything, but he has the most emperor's heart, went to the mountain to practice, and successfully took over the Shanshui Division.

Interestingly, a few years after the rich man left office, a mysterious "dark river" appeared in the whole world.

Gu Qingcheng respected this old man very much in his heart, and stood up and gave a junior salute.

The rich old man was not polite, he accepted it calmly, sat opposite Gu Qingcheng by himself, and suddenly sighed and said: "Don't blame him, the royal exam, he doesn't want you to get in."

Gu Tingcheng nodded and said, "How long has Uncle Fu been in Hailou?"

The rich old man's surname is Fu, his name is from the east, and he is recognized as the first person in the world to return to the earth, and he is ridiculed as an examiner of the heavens by the world's cultivators.

Fu Donglai smiled and said: "I came with Lu Guanchao, landing on the real martial arts body, tsk tsk"

The Taoist Zhenwu Emperor is actually Xuanwu, one of the Four Wonders. When Dao Ji commented on this Lu Xuanwu, he said that Lu Guanchao is no longer the master of the ice spirit, but the co-master of the ice spirit, and he has landed in Xuanwu.

Gu Qingcheng said with a smile: "This person is as famous as the Seventh Brother, and he is also trapped in the 100,000 Mountains at this time, is that stone temple really so dangerous?" ”

Fu Donglai stared at him with a smile and said, "I'm here for this temple."

"Uncle Fu~"

"Lu Guanchao was not trapped inside, but voluntarily stayed inside, and I also went in with him"

Gu Tingcheng was taken aback, Fu Donglai also went in?

Fu Donglai continued: "There is a small world of Buddhism, and there is a big Buddha in it to recuperate."

"Recuperate?"

"There may be another war above, the anomalies that Dark River has visited recently, more or less implicated in the above, based on the intelligence of the four countries and the movements of the Styx River and Shanhaiguan, eight or nine are not far from ten, it is estimated that there must be a fight above again"

Gu Qingcheng frowned: "Then Uncle Fu thinks that the war will be extended to the old flood famine?" "Today's world is the flood of the past.

Fu Donglai smiled, it has always been the wish of the gods to return to the wilderness, but the door closed by that person is too thick, and the Confucian beings have been staying outside the door, if they want to come back, they have to fight with us. "It should be another hundred years" He knew the truest thoughts of the kid, he was one of the few people who watched him grow up.

Gu Qingcheng smiled: "It seems, it's a little shorter"

Fu Donglai suddenly thought of the "young man" in the stone temple, and he said that he was pursuing a kind of awe. The monk in the frost, or the Buddha, also looked surprised when he heard this answer.

A monk who can almost be compared to the Buddha Master of Da Lei Yin Temple actually has awe in his heart?

Fu Donglai felt a little funny, a mortal without awe, an immortal full of awe?

Gu Qingcheng saw that he was thinking about things, and he didn't interrupt his train of thought. He was not in a hurry to see the stone temple, he had been there for half a year, and he couldn't run for half a day.

Fu Dong came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "When does the ninth grandfather want to go to the stone temple, my old man can accompany you on such a trip."

Gu Qingcheng naturally wouldn't see him, with such a heavenly inspector by his side, it was a life talisman, don't be in vain.

I don't know if anyone will come over there in the West Wilderness.

Fu Donglai saw that he was still swaying and drinking tea, and couldn't help but be interested in chatting again: "Guess which monk in the stone temple is in the upper realm?"

Gu Qingcheng smiled and said: "I heard that the 100,000 mountains are known as the unfallen mountains in the flood era, and they are also the birthplace of the unfallen hell, belonging to an ancient god. This great god is named the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth because of his patience and immobility, like the earth, and his meditation is deep, like a secret treasure."