The mountain wind swept through the pine and bamboo forests, and the palace on the top of the mountain was swept through for a while, but it let out a sharp mournful whine, like a ghost screaming.

Emperor Xudu's tone was so tough that the King of Equality didn't know where to start if they wanted to refute it, so they had to salute and answer the matter.

Emperor Xudu then said: "King Ping quickly go and arrest Ji Kang, Wheel King, wait a minute, I still have something to ask you." ”。

After the two Hades answered in unison, the King of Equality withdrew. After the King of Equality walked to the palace gate, Emperor Xudu withdrew his gaze from the departing King of Equality, and after falling on the face of the Wheel King, Emperor Xudu lowered his voice and asked: "How is the progress of the matter of adding troops to Dongyi and setting off with multiple supply fleets last time?"

"The army of 500,000 has entered the Retreat God Plain from the Qinglong Sea, and the two adults of Yin Tian and Jutian have personally responded to it, and the Nine Shadows Kingdom does not know it now. At this time, the 500,000 army had already appeared in the northwest of the country of the corpse through the Black Tooth Country. And in order to show loyalty, the Black Tooth Kingdom also sent a ghost army composed of 300,000 Black Tooth souls to accompany him. The Wheel King bowed and whispered.

"The wall is down, and everyone is pushing it. As soon as my army arrived, the Blacktooth King also worked hard. When Emperor Xudu heard this, he couldn't help but sigh meaningfully.

It's just that in this sigh, there is a little more pride.

"Yes. The Wheel King, who bowed slightly, then said confidently: "And the twelve supply fleets also set off at the same time three days ago, and each fleet was secretly guarded by three Mooncha. Even if he had powerful firearms, he could only destroy one of them at most, and the other eleven fleets would definitely reach the southwest coast of Xiazhou Kingdom peacefully. ”。

"Let's go, walk with me. The gloom on Emperor Xudu's face had faded, and he turned and walked towards the palace, beckoning to the Wheel King at the same time.

"No. The Wheel King replied and hurriedly followed: "The weakness of this Nine Shadows Kingdom is that it is not strong at present, and it has just pacified the rear Nanban, and the national strength needs to be restored. ”。

As he spoke, the two ghosts of the monarch and the minister had already come to the palace, passed through the golden palaces, and came to the west side of the square, in front of the spiritual altar made of white jade that shot people with brilliance. This altar is divided into two layers, the top is square and the bottom is round, symbolizing "the sky is round and the place is round".

Surrounded by ten feet high and like green sycamores, but also on the color of the red dew like the juice of the red dew, the branches like the dragon's down-hanging weeping dragon wood fifteen, the green leaves to the Zhu Lu servant landed, immediately turned into crystal clear jade beads.

This place was originally the altar of the ancient gods, and the position of the fifteen weeping dragon trees was originally the stone statues of the fifteen ancient gods who had made great achievements in the battle against the demon gods. And in the middle of the altar is the giant stone statue of Pangu, the first ancient god in heaven and earth.

After Emperor Xudu succeeded to the throne, he looked at these stone statues of ancient gods very unpleasantly, so he ordered them to be pushed to smash and replaced them with fifteen weeping dragon trees planted by the altar. And the Pangu stone statue on the altar was also replaced with the stone statue of Emperor Xudu.

After the Emperor and the King of Rotation stood still in the shade of the weeping dragon tree on the side of the canal around the altar, the Emperor of Xudu lowered his head slightly, looked at the purple turtle raised in the canal in front of his feet, pondered for a moment, and thoughtfully instructed the King of the Wheel: "You can seize this point and make a fuss." ”。

After a pause, after the Wheel King answered, Emperor Xudu said leisurely: "War is attrition, my Northern Yin Dynasty has been operating for 10,000 years, and we can still afford to fight this war for another hundred years." But his Nine Secluded Country is only a ghost country for more than ten years, and it is not as good as our dynasty in terms of military strength, financial resources, and material resources. ”。

"Yes. The Wheel King bowed his head slightly, expressing his approval, and then said, "The minister has sent a second group of lobbyists to infiltrate the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and they are all clever and loyal ghosts to Your Majesty. Even if they can't steal the firearms blueprints of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, they can still persuade some old ministers and powerful children in other countries who have enjoyed the benefits of the class system, so that these ghosts can create rebellions in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, making the Nine Shadows Kingdom turbulent and unstable. ”。

The yin wind whistled, causing the branches of the weeping dragon wood to rattle. When he finished speaking, the face of the Wheel King was a little more proud and proud.

It seems that he is very optimistic about his plan.

"Well, you've done a good job at this time, but don't think about firearms anymore, I've sent my cronies to the Six Heavens Continent to collect firearms merchants, and they can also make firearms for our dynasty that are no less than those of the Nine Shadows Kingdom. Emperor Xudu was even more happy in his heart, and a faint smile appeared on his face: "You just have to secretly make some trouble for Xiao Shizhu, although I will not meet with the soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom for the time being, I must not let Xiao Shizhu live in peace." ”......

Huozhi Mountain is located fifty miles west of Luofu Mountain, in the middle of the Nanban full of mountains, this mountain can only be regarded as a hill, not too high and not steep.

The mountain is called Huozhi Mountain because it is full of fireflies with leaves that are as big as beans and can bloom at night in all seasons.

At nightfall, the whole mountain was lit up like a great lamp in the darkness.

And the villagers of Yinghuozhi Village on the mountain make a living by buying and selling these purple flowers of Yinghuozhi. This flower can shine at night when it does not wither, and many ghost people do not like to use wax, so they will buy some firefly mushroom flowers and put them in the house, so that the house is as bright as day after nightfall.

Xiao Shizhu took the ghost mother and Qinglan, Su Su and the patriarch of the fungus tribe, Shen Ji, and left the shrine and the honor guard and went straight to this mountain. When I came to the bottom of the mountain, I saw that in the sea of purple flowers on the hillside, there were more than a dozen stone houses on the side of the winding path, forming a small mountain village.

That's the village of Glowing Fire.

Xiao Shizhu stood still on the side of the official road at the foot of the mountain, looked around, and saw that there were neither town stores nor farmland within a radius of ten miles around Huozhi Mountain, which seemed somewhat desolate, so he secretly wrote down this place in his heart, thinking that in the future, he must let Julong, who is proficient in agriculture and water conservancy, come to see if this place can be reclaimed to be fertile land, so as not to waste it.

"Let's go into the village and work. Xiao Shizhu said this with a smile and took the lead towards the village on the hillside.

The group of ghosts slowly climbed uphill, walked on the mountain path of purple flowers blooming on the side of the road, and stepped into the mountain village. But when they entered the village, ghosts such as the ghost mother and Xiao Shizhu, who were accustomed to seeing the splendid buildings, were also stunned in place, and looked around blankly when they stammered.

Without exception, the houses here do not adopt the traditional brick and wood structure, but adopt the form of flat-roofed earthen houses, all of which are built on the hillside, regardless of height and size, and extend on the hillside like terraces. This is not surprising, in the mountains and mountains of Nanban, this situation of the village is not uncommon, but in the outside of these houses in front of Xiao Shizhu, and the alleys crisscrossed between the houses, are all made of leaves, branches, shells and other patterns of fossils, so that the whole village is full of vicissitudes of life, permeated with an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.

And the fossil patterns on the stone are clearly recognizable, as if they have been carefully inlaid on them, making these stone house floors even more beautiful.

"I can't imagine that there is such a strange village in the middle of nowhere. After being stunned, the ghost mother was the first to sigh.

At this moment, a young man with a basket on his back walked from opposite them, walked to the front and back of Xiao Shizhu's body, this young man looked at the human soul in front of him, and slowly asked, "Do you want to buy firefly sesame flowers?"

"I don't buy flowers, I find a female gentleman. I always felt that it was inappropriate to look down on a child, so Xiao Shizhu squatted down and smiled at the child: "But if you want to take me to find the female gentleman, I can consider selling some flowers with you." ”。

"It's Mr. Rain. When the boy heard this, he was overjoyed, and the faint vigilance that had been lingering on his face before had vanished, and he said, "Come with me." With that, he turned and walked away the way he came.

Xiao Shizhu smiled indifferently and got up to follow.

The imp led them through the houses of the village for a while, and came to the western edge of the village, in front of a small courtyard fenced off from a house.

The fence in the courtyard is crawling with melons and fruit vines, and a few twisted old hens in the yard are bringing more than a dozen chicks that have just come out of their shells, surrounding a female ghost with their backs to Xiao Shizhu.

Before the little ghost opened his mouth to call the door, the ghost mother who looked at the back of the female ghost could no longer recognize the identity of the other party from the ghost aura on the other party, and took the lead in speaking at the moment, and said excitedly: "Hua Rui." ”。

Although Xiao Shizhu didn't have the ability of a ghost mother, he could clearly remember the ghost characteristics of the ghosts he knew, so as to distinguish the other province, but he also sensed that the female ghost in the courtyard was like a fungus, and there was only a wisp of spirit in her body.

This is exactly the characteristics of the ghost of the spirit of the underworld, and it also shows that the female ghost who can only see the back but cannot see the appearance is Yu Huarui.

He took out an ingot of ten taels of silver and gave it to the child who led the way.

After a moment of surprise, the child didn't stretch out his hand to take the silver, but said slowly: "This lord, this can buy a thousand catties of firefly mushrooms, I don't have so many flowers to sell to you." ”。

As the little ghost was talking, the female ghost was slightly stunned after hearing the voice of the ghost mother, and her body trembled slowly.

"Take the child, you deserve it. Xiao Shizhu was also moved by this simple child at this time, I thought that this little ghost heard that he was going to buy flowers, so he happily showed them the way, and thought that he was a little greedy for money, but he didn't expect the other party to be so simple, Xiao Shizhu was greatly moved, and after stuffing the silver to the other party, he smiled and said: "This is what you deserve." You take it to study, and then become an official, and I will look forward to your appearance in the court. ”。

The child was stunned again, and his face was still at a loss.

"Yu'er. At this time, the female ghost also turned around, with moist eyes, and looked towards the ghost mother, with tears in her eyes, and the excitement of reuniting after a long absence.

Xiao Shizhu turned his head when he heard the sound, and when he looked at this Yu Huarui, his heart also jumped suddenly, objectively speaking, this flower demon ghost in front of him was too ugly.

Under her thick and thick eyebrows, there are a pair of eyes of different heights, crooked eyes, a pair of thick lips under the bridge of her nose, and her face as round as a full moon is actually full of potholes and pockmarks.

If it weren't for Xiao Shizhu's lack of judging people by their appearance, at most secretly spitting and complaining, then what he ate this morning would definitely come out of his mouth.

"This lord, I still can't ask for your money, my parents and my female husband have taught me not to be greedy for windfalls. At this moment, the little ghost stuffed the dark silver that Xiao Shizhu gave him back into Xiao Shizhu's hand.

"The Nine Shadows King. Yu Huarui put away his excitement, his eyes fell on Xiao Shizhu's face, and said indifferently: "This ghost is still young, you give him so much silver at once, it will only make him feel that money is easy to earn, and he will definitely not work hard in the future." ”。