"Thank you for your help, we are Huashan disciples." Seeing that the horse thieves were all cleaned up, the swordsmen did not hold it, and immediately came up to thank them.

"It's just a matter of raising your hands." Beiming waved his hand casually, he didn't hold it up, he was just a little thief, for him, it must be a hand, even if the number of horse thieves doubled, he was not afraid at all.

Qi Yun and Shangyang just nodded in greeting, and the swordsmen thanked them one by one, but when their eyes swept over Cangyue, a few people hesitated, and the leader said: "The moves that this girl has just made seem to be a little unusual, and they don't look like the Central Plains martial arts." ”

"My name is Cangyue and I'm from Miaojiang." Cangyue is generous and authentic.

"Miao people, so that's the case" The Huashan disciple led by him said suddenly, he had long heard that the Miao Jiang people were good at using Gu worms in one hand, which was weird and inexplicable, like an immortal law, and it was really an eye-opener for them when they saw it today.

Qi Yun opened his mouth at this time and asked, "I wonder why there are horse thieves here?" ”

The Huashan disciple said with some embarrassment: "Speaking of which, we are to blame for this matter."

It turned out that this group of horse thieves came from the northwest, they were just passing through the territory of Huashan, and wanted to take advantage of the road to the north to beg for a living, but they happened to meet the disciples of Huashan who went down the mountain to practice.

But the embarrassing thing is that the horse thieves are numerous, and the Huashan disciples were beaten and fled under the battle, which gave the horse thieves a kind of illusion that the Huashan disciples deceived the world and stole their names, and the Wuyue Sword Sect was not worthy of the name, and then they stayed here and began to raid the nearby villages and towns.

Originally, this matter should have ended here, after all, the horse thieves are not only under the eyes of the Huashan faction, but also under the jurisdiction of the government, usually at this time, the government will send people to suppress the bandits, but at this moment the Huashan faction has a tough attitude and will never let the people of the government interfere

The reason for the Huashan faction is also very simple, this matter happened in Huashan, naturally it should be handled by them, and the court does not bother, and the actual reason is simpler, that is, they can't afford to lose this person, if this matter spreads, then they Huashan will directly lose face, and they can't even deal with a group of horse thieves, and they can't talk about any first-class faction.

The government saw the attitude of the Huashan faction, and it was helpless to retreat, the Huashan faction is backed by the Wuyue Sword faction, and its power is also intertwined in the rivers and lakes, and the servants of the government of a place alone can't help them at all, as for asking for help from the imperial court, it is even more of a joke, and the Jinyi guards are now busy standing in line to compete for the crown prince's position, who has the time to take care of the broken things on the rivers and lakes.

So this thing is rotten here, the Huashan faction sent dozens of masters in the door to guard the crossings of various passages, and even the city where the state capital is located has not fallen, and they don't pay attention to the laws of the court at all, and it is like that to kill people in the city, and the servants of the yamen can't control it at all.

Originally, it was impossible for dozens of horse thieves to be the opponents of the Huashan faction, but this matter somehow made the demon dao smell it, and seven or eight protectors of the Xuantian Sect came all the way from the north to join in the fun, causing chaos in the Huashan faction.

But this time the Huashan faction had no intention of asking for help at all, mainly because the cause of this incident was really embarrassing, even if it led to their defeat because of the intervention of the Xuantian Sect in the end, the world would never remember how powerful the Xuantian Sect was, and would only remember that the dignified Huashan Sect was helpless against a group of horse thieves.

Therefore, Huashan had to resist by himself, and more than half of the Huashan disciples went down the mountain to suppress the bandits, on the one hand, to find the wandering horse thieves, and on the other hand, to guard against the shameless sneak attack of the Xuantian Sect.

This is why Qi Yun and the others saw more than a dozen horse thieves entangled with three or five Huashan disciples, not that the Huashan faction underestimated the enemy, but that they really didn't have more strength to send enough people at the moment.

"In that case, it may be difficult for us to eliminate these horse thieves in one fell swoop." Qi Yun frowned slightly, he had already found out that there was trouble in this matter.

Horse thieves have never been a problem, the real difficulty lies in the Xuantian Sect that is stirring things up behind the scenes, this group of demonic gangsters obviously can't let the Huashan faction easily eliminate these horse thieves, the longer this matter drags on, the better it will be for them.

Bei Ming also figured this out, and he opened his mouth to point out the problem: "The horse thief is just a mustard disease, and the pass is on the body of those Xuantian Sect protectors. ”

"Seven or eight Xuantian Sect protectors came, just by the words of a few of us" Qi Yun looked around, looked at Beiming, then at Cangyue, and finally his eyes fell on Shangyang, he smiled and said, "It's not too much of a problem. ”

"Hmm." Hearing this, Bei Ming and Cangyue nodded one after another, Shangyang had always taken it for granted, he didn't think that the Xuantian Sect Protector was anything powerful.

The Huashan disciples on the side couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this person's arrogant speech, but he had just accepted the other party's kindness, and he was embarrassed to sneer at this time, so he had to lower his head and pretend not to hear.

"Ahh

At this time, the owner of the caravan rubbed his hands and came forward to thank him repeatedly, only to be rushed by the horse thief, his team had become a mess, and at this moment several cars were damaged, some were still stuck in the ground and could not be pushed, and the guards of the three or five caravans were fighting with the wheels with a red face.

Shangyang couldn't ignore the difficulties of others, so he proposed, "Let's send them to a safe place first." ”

Qi Yun and Bei Ming both nodded in approval, after all, it happened suddenly, and they didn't know where to go to find the protector of the Xuantian Sect for a while, and a few people began to help push the cart together with those Huashan disciples.

And just when Beiming touched the carriage, the touch from his hand made him suddenly stunned: "It's so light."

The car had no imaginary weight at all, and it was impossible to sink into the ground if it was only to this extent, and at that moment, a strong sense of crisis swept through his heart, and Beiming shouted without thinking: "Be careful! ”

It's a pity that it was still a step too late, and at the moment when Beiming found out that something was wrong, the mechanism on the carriage had been activated, and the five or six carriages collapsed at the same time, and in the carriage that was scattered into parts, one after another of cyan fog was like an expanding ball of water, rapidly spreading outward.

A group of people were caught off guard and all of them were hit, Beiming's body was rushed out by the bursting airflow, and he rolled on the ground three or four times before barely stopping, he immediately wanted to turn over, but at this time, a sour feeling began to crawl all over his body along his hands and feet.

"This is.!" Beiming gritted his teeth, this feeling of powerlessness made him feel bad in his heart.

"I thought what kind of master would dare to make such a big statement, but it turned out to be just a bunch of showboys."

The mocking words sounded from the center of the green smoke, and a horizontal knife poked out of the mist, and then a knife flashed, and the mist in the sky seemed to be torn apart by a sharp claw, and after a moment it dissipated without a trace, and the owner of the caravan slowly took off the hat on his head, and ripped off the disguised mask on his face, revealing his original appearance.

"This guy - it's the protector of the Xuantian Sect!" One of the Huashan disciples' expression changed suddenly.

"Let me see, a few puppies in Huashan, and you" The Xuantian Sect Protector looked at Qi Yun and the others, narrowed his eyes and said: "The Shenxiao Sword Technique of the Wudang Sect, as well as the Baihong palm power of the Xiaoyao Sect, today I caught a few big fish, haha." ”

The Xuantian Sect Protector smiled proudly, but several people had solemn faces, they were all poisoned, and now they were powerless, so they had to let each other mock them here.

"Yo, there's a beauty from Miaojiang."

Xuantian Sect's protector's gaze fell on Cangyue, he couldn't help but be interested, and after looking at it, he also had to admit that this woman was born extremely beautiful, especially the Miao people's clothes were gorgeous and bold, far more attractive than the Central Plains women.

"If you heard it correctly, the girl's name is Cangyue? What a good name. This Xuantian Sect Protector showed an aggressive look in his eyes and slowly walked towards Cangyue.

Shangyang's face changed when he saw this, but his hand holding the sword was as soft as a loach, at this time, even if his heart was full of anger, he didn't have the slightest strength to vent, Qi Yun saw this and hurriedly persuaded: "Senior brother, don't worry." ”

"But, senior brother!" Shangyang said anxiously, but saw that although Qi Yun was also lying on the ground as if he was powerless to resist, in fact, one hand was hidden in his sleeve, and the other hand was quietly pinching the Dao Jue, and he could faintly see the fluctuations of true qi on those two fingers.

Shangyang was stunned, it turned out that the senior brother was not hit at all.

"This guy is actually better than me" Bei Ming also noticed Qi Yun's glance at him, and at the same time he slowly gave up the idea of forcibly resisting by running his true qi, and simply lay down directly.

The Dharma protector walked in front of Cangyue, slowly squatted down, and looked at the other party's golden red eyes that were as plain as a mirror lake, he actually subconsciously felt a little scared.

Shaking his head and throwing out the absurd thoughts in his heart, the Dharma Protector's smile became more and more dangerous: "This Dharma Protector likes a woman like you, and he is not chaotic in times of danger, right?" Interesting. ”

Seeing that the opponent's claws were about to touch Cangyue's face, Shangyang was anxious, but Qi Yun soothed: "Don't be impatient, we don't know what the martial arts of this Dharma protector are, so it's best to be able to hit a sneak attack."

Rumble!

Before Qi Yun's words fell, the huge sound made his eyes widen slightly, only to see a huge green claw suddenly fall from the sky, and slapped the Dharma protector directly seven or eight feet away in one breath, and directly crooked his neck and cut off his breath.

"Hiss" The corners of Beiming's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't see that Miss Cangyue's methods were so violent.

"I want to take advantage of this girl, you will be in the next life!" Cangyue held an invisible green fluorescence in her hand, and scolded fiercely at the corpse of the Dharma Protector, and then she turned to look at the three people lying there, especially when she saw the two guys who were also not poisoned, her inky eyes were immediately full of anger.

"Humph!"

Cangyue stomped her feet heavily, turned her head and left, Qi Yun and Bei Ming, who got up in embarrassment, looked at each other, the latter looked down at Shangyang, whose face was even more embarrassed, and couldn't help but spread his hands and said: "Women are so unreasonable, just get used to it." ”

"No, it's our fault this time." Qi Yun shook his head, and then used his internal force to help several people detoxify.

After Shangyang detoxified, he looked at Cangyue who was angry at the flowers and plants from afar, and wanted to go up to explain something, but he couldn't take a step, at this time Beiming came over: "Those disciples in Huashan said that they were going to thank us and entertain us to live in the mountain for a few days, and Senior Brother Ling and I both felt that we also had to take a rest, so we agreed." ”

After Beiming finished speaking, he turned his head and left, and after taking two steps, he saw that Shangyang was still in place, and he was puzzled: "Let's go, what are you doing in a daze?" ”

"Cangyue girl, she" Shangyang wanted to speak and stopped.

"Her, don't worry about it, don't worry, she'll definitely follow." Beiming said firmly, but Shangyang was unmoved, so he had no choice but to prepare to go over and persuade Cangyue to come back.

When Shangyang was stunned, Beiming had already gone over to talk to Cangyue, and although the two of them were a little noisy from a distance, they didn't seem to be as uncontrollable as they imagined, and even seemed to be a little flirtatious.

Shangyang was suddenly a little lonely, he was just a step slower, but he found that he seemed to have been unable to catch up with them for a long time, maybe they were already far away from him.

Qi Yun, who silently walked behind Shangyang, comforted: "Senior brother, why be discouraged, the goddess is intentional, King Xiang has no intention, the Northern Underworld Daoist does not seem to have a mortal heart for Cangyue Girl, you still have a chance." ”

"Senior brother, stop talking!" Shangyang grabbed a handful of hair and walked away a little angrily, even the senior brother, the wood, could see that the Cangyue girl was interested in Beiming, only he was still lying to himself, and after being comforted, he was even more sad.

The group went to Huashan, after nightfall, the Huashan faction held a banquet to entertain them, although subjectively the Huashan faction did not mean to ask for help, but Qi Yun and others did save their disciples, this favor has been solid, can not be ignored.

At the banquet, Beiming was in the limelight, he didn't look like a Qing monk with no external things in his heart, but he had a bit of the demeanor of a romantic man of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and he had a hot fight with a group of people from the Huashan faction.

Qi Yun just maintained proper etiquette, not too close to everyone, but he didn't give other feelings of alienation, he maintained a delicate balance between the two.

It seemed that only he couldn't fit in, and Shangyang, who was a little bored, suddenly found that Cangyue had also disappeared from the banquet, so he casually found an excuse and left the banquet.

After a while, he found a person blowing the wind outside the hall, the little girl was squatting in the corner with her knees to watch the moon, Shangyang's somewhat unstable heart at the moment couldn't hide his footsteps at all, Cangyue soon found the person behind him.

"Brother Shangyang?" Cangyue turned around and said hello.

Shangyang nodded, and then stood behind Cangyue, neither of them spoke, Cangyue couldn't guess the other party's intentions, Shangyang was just still brewing.

After a long time, Shangyang silently spoke: "In the morning, I was really poisoned. ”

After saying this, Cangyue was stunned, and Shangyang was even more embarrassed to dig a hole to bury himself, although this explained why he looked at the protector and wanted to be light Cangyue but was indifferent, but it also explained another speechless fact, that is, he was far worse than the other two guys who were not poisoned.

Shangyang has a sense of shame about being publicly executed, and when he says this, it is as if he is shouting "I'm stupid", compared to the other two guys who have brains and abilities but have too hard hearts, he has a good heart, but he looks a little stupid compared to it.

"Flutter-" Cangyue covered her mouth and laughed: "Brother Shangyang is really interesting." ”

Shangyang's face turned red again, but compared to the blush that was ashamed of incompetence just now, this time the blush was because of the girl in front of him.

Shangyang couldn't hide his red face, so he wanted to find some topic to divert his attention, he coughed twice and said, "Speaking of which, how did Miss Cangyue detoxify?" ”

Cangyue smiled and took out a piece of amber from his arms, Shangyang looked down and found that there seemed to be a special-looking insect in the amber, which looked very strange, and it was a type he had never seen in his life.

"What is this?" Shangyang forgot about the embarrassment just now for the time being, and said curiously.

"This is my holy relic in Miao Jiang, which has the effect of relieving all poisons and not invading." Cangyue held the amber in her palm and fiddled with it with her fingers.

"I see, the world is really big." Shangyang said with emotion, he originally only listened to the words that a hundred poisons do not invade, but he didn't expect that there would really be such a treasure in the world, if it was spread, I don't know how many people would fight for it.

Seeing Shangyang's cautious appearance, Cangyue bent her eyebrows again and smiled: "Brother Shangyang, don't be so nervous, although this thing is precious, it is useless for outsiders to take it, only by using the secret method of my Miao Jiang Lingyue clan can this holy object be activated." ”

Shangyang first nodded, and then puzzled: "Since it needs to be urged by a secret method, how did Cangyue Girl use it today?" ”

Today, the poison released by the Xuantian Sect Protector has almost sealed all of their internal force, if this holy object needs to be urged by a secret method, then Cangyue should obviously not be able to use internal force, why can it still be safe and sound.

"That's because the holy relic has its own 'consciousness', and it will take the initiative to protect its owner."

Cangyue lifted the amber and looked at it through the moonlight: "Legend has it that when the Great Elder Miao made this holy relic, in order to protect the holy relic from falling into the villains, he used the blood sacrifice method to seal the soul of a Miao Jiang holy woman into this holy relic, so for generations, only the people of the Lingyue clan can use this holy relic through the secret method. ”

Shangyang was stunned, Cangyue looked back and saw his stupid appearance, and couldn't help but laugh triumphantly: "Brother Shangyang, you are really easy to be deceived, this kind of thing is fake when you hear it, where is there such a bizarre method in the world, if this is true, doesn't it mean that the soul of the saint is still in this holy relic?" ”

Although it was a joke, Shangyang always felt a chill behind her back for some reason when she heard it, and Cangyue also knew that the joke was too much, so she quickly stuck out her tongue playfully and said: "Just kidding, the holy relic is actually the automatic protector of the lord, after all, I am the saint of Miao Jiang, and I always have some means to defend myself." ”

"Holy Maiden? Huh? Shangyang just came back to his senses and was shocked: "Cangyue girl, you? ”

"Oh, it seems that you can't just talk about it. Ahem! That didn't count just now, Brother Shangyang just thought he didn't hear it! That's it! After Cangyue finished speaking, she was also stunned, so she had to hurry up and fool over.

(End of chapter)