1944, Yulin, Shaanxi.

It is the beginning of winter, and the people of the whole country are still immersed in the sadness of the fall of Changsha and have not yet been freed. In the Inhuman World, it has been several months since the list of thirty-six thieves was leaked, Hu Haiwang, Dong Chang, Liu Deshui, Bian Tong and others have died one after another, Feng Tianyang has just been captured by the Wang family, and many people still don't know anything about the Eight Wonder Skills.

A battle for the Eight Wonders has begun in the shadows - it's a storm, a storm that sweeps through the circle.

Qiu Laodao stepped into the snow nest, the cloth shoes and the snow made a sound of inspection, and left shallow footprints in place, he sniffed the smell of blood in the air, and looked at the bright sky in the east.

“……”

After two heavy snowfalls, the farmers who had not yet fled far away were blocked at home by a thick foot of snow, and Qiu Laodao walked along the wet path after the snow melted in the wheat field to the source of the smell of blood in the distance.

At the end of the wheat field was a small barren village, only enough to accommodate thirty or fifty people, devouring human flesh, blood-red crows hovering over the village, four or five corpses of flesh and blood were hanging from a towering elm tree at the head of the village, and under the tree was a pile of corpses, stacked up one by one, as if entering a barren and strange cemetery.

"Taiyi saves the suffering Tianzun!"

I don't know if this is the work of bandits or Japanese criminals, Qiu Laodao scolded loudly, but the crows around the elm tree that gnawed on the corpses were not afraid of him, so he had to find a straight branch in the snow, attach Qi, and wave it to disperse these beasts.

Just as Qiu Laodao was looking around for a place to put his feet in the corpse pile, and wanted to put down the corpse hanging from the tree and bury it, he saw that next to the corpse pile, an unkempt and bloodstained sloppy man called Huazi to lie down and sleep peacefully.

After years of bullets and bullets, Qiu Laodao's hearing is amazing, he only listens to the sound of rough breathing, and he knows that this flower is healthy and strong, and he is in good condition.

"Meaning—you sloppy!" Qiu Laodao threw out a branch and hit the sloppy thigh, and he said angrily: "Don't play dead, hurry up and settle this pile with me!" ”

With a sloppy "ouch", he sat up from the ground, threw away the branches at his feet, brushed away the scattered hair on his forehead and looked at Qiu Laodao, revealing a pair of bright eyes.

Qiu Laodao was stunned by his staring, only to feel that this person's clear and bright eyes were incompatible with the surrounding environment.

Sloppy saw Qiu Laodao's dress clearly, his mouth opened slightly as if he was muttering, and then lay down again.

"This Taoist master, the dead are gone, the living are like this, and people are not in a hurry to bury them at this time when they are dead, right?"

Sloppy and loud voice, listening to these words or reading books, Qiu Laodao didn't say a word for a long time, lying on the ground and sweeping away the snow with cloth shoes, digging a pit with his bare hands.

"Everyone talks about being in the soil for peace, if you are still lying there, lie down until you die, just as if you are not Chinese."

The sloppy man was stunned for a moment, then stood up without saying a word and laid down the hanged body from the elm tree.

The two of them were busy until the afternoon, and finally buried the thirty-one corpses in the ground, and a small hill grew like a vulture, and the soil of the mountain was still oozing with black blood.

Snow fell in the sky again, and soon the smell and color of the mountain bag were covered, Qiu Laodao straightened his clothes, and sang in the snow:

"The Heavenly Venerable of the Ten Directions, its number is like sand and dust, transforming into the Ten Directions Realm, Puji Heaven and Man, Gathering Merit, Saving Sinners with the Same Voice, Sinners Are Really Sad, I Speak the Sutra Today, Reciting No Rest, Returning Without Pause, Heaven Enjoys Great Blessings, Hell Has No Bitter Voice, Fire Becomes Qing, Sword Tree Turns into Qian, Ascends to Zhuling Mansion, Descends into the Gate of Opening Light, Transcends the Three Realms of Difficulty, and Ascends to the First Heaven ......"

After a lengthy scripture was written, a distorted soul seemed to flash on the grave, and Old Daoist Qiu sighed.

"Brother, you're okay. Look at your youth, go with me, don't say anything else, it's a while to live longer. ”

The sloppy raised his head and stared at the sky, not knowing what to look at, but when Qiu Laodao staggered to the west, he also moved. Dusting the dirt off his jet-black shirt, he picked up the snow on the ground and washed his face.

"The Evil God"

……

Qiu Laodao and Sloppy went all the way to the west, walked for an afternoon and an evening, walked through several villages, and in the middle of the night Qiu Laodao found a dry land to meditate, and Sloppy found a white boulder, and fell asleep.

On the afternoon of the second day, when he met a small inn that had not yet been disturbed by the war, Qiu Laodao paid some money and asked for a few dishes of vegetarian dishes, he stared at the sloppy and said: "Brother, you can eat whatever you want, I can afford this meal, and you can drink some wine." ”

Sloppy nodded, and instructed Xiao Er to take a jar of Du Kang wine, Qiu Laodao grabbed the money in his palm with some distress, gritted his teeth and handed it out.

Sloppy washed his face and drank wine, his face was ruddy, Qiu Laodao was looking at him at this time, this sloppy cloak, his speech was rough, but he didn't look like an ordinary wine Mengzi, thirty or forty years old, there was a heroic spirit between his eyebrows and eyes, Qiu Laodao thought about it, he could sleep in a pile of corpses in the ice and snow, and he wanted to have a little martial arts, and he dug the grave with him for most of the day without complaining at all, and he was also bold and free when he drank - this is a character!

Qiu Laodao officially started to make friends, he took advantage of the sloppiness and fell over, and asked, "Brother, where are you from?" ”

Sloppy hiccuped, "Lantian's." ”

"What's your name?"

Sloppy smiled: "Didn't you call me sloppy all the way?" That's my name. ”

Qiu Laodao asked a few questions one after another, and the sloppy answer was Hanhuhu, and he didn't say much about his origin, but Qiu Laodao's own affairs were tricked out by him.

"Oh...... Did you support the Northeast back then? Fellow, come and give you a toast! Sloppy picked up the bowl and touched it with Qiu Laodao.

Qiu Laodao was depressed in his heart, and it happened that there were two more people outside the tavern, one tall and one short, listening to the footsteps of a stranger like him, the voice was very small, ordinary people couldn't hear it at all, like coming out to find someone or how, he listened carefully.

"Have you heard about the Eight Wonders?"

"The Lu family and the Wang family have moved, and the Lu family has also been away for a few months, so I think it's true news."

A short man wearing a melon skin hat left his luggage on the broken bench of the tavern, and shouted in a Jilu official dialect: "Fuck, Xiao Er, greet someone!" ”

Xiao Er bent over, his face darkened, and brought shochu without saying a word.

"It's coming, guest officer, what's urging?"

But when Xiao Er saw the short man's face clearly, his face changed in an instant, and he stretched out a long cigarette stick under the counter with one hand.

"Stop the face......" Qiu Laodao looked at the iron blade emerging from the head of the cigarette stick, his eyes froze, and he grabbed the sloppy and was about to leave this place.

I didn't expect this little two to be a practitioner, and he was still a little entangled with the two who just came.

On the other side, the little second-hand man in the barricade faced the short man and cracked vertically, the short man was not in a hurry, smiled coldly, turned sideways to dodge, and the big tall man behind him turned around and slammed the dragon hand at Xiao Er's throat!

"Chen Maozi, Hua Lao Ghost...... Why are you guys here! ”

The head of the gun popped out and wrapped the sharp blade with Qi, and the tall old ghost didn't turn his head to dodge, and his hand was slightly forced.

The barricade fell to the ground, and the old ghost smiled: "Yulin Shang Lao Wu, I didn't expect to meet you as a bandit after eating a drink, the cat said that you entertain drinks during the day and kill people and sell goods at night, your grandfather and I will be considered for the heavens today!" ”

"Fuck you! Lao Tzu's votes are all for the War of Resistance, like you ......" Xiao Ershang Lao Wu's face turned purple, and he gritted his teeth and scolded.

Chen Maozi gestured to the place at the door of the store, and the fierce light flashed in the eyes of the old ghost, and he grabbed the throat of Shang Lao Wu!

Chen Maozi kicked away Shang Lao Wu's corpse, rubbed his hands, and whispered: "This Shang Lao Wu has robbed the nouveau riche who came over from Shanxi since the war, I think he will not have less money, and now we want to be developed...... But there are still those two people to deal with. ”

When Chen Maozi and Hua Lao Ghost were discussing how to divide the spoils, the sloppy outside the store saw that Qiu Laodao couldn't hold back when he heard Shang Lao Wu's words before he died, his face was red, and he said with a smile: "Fellow countryman, don't believe all the words of people like Shang Lao Wu...... And he's dead now, and we can't help him much. ”

Qiu Laodao hesitated and said: "If this Shang Lao Wu is really a good man who robs the rich and helps the poor, wouldn't it be a pity that all the money he used to fight the war was taken away by these two people privately?" ”

Sloppy and Qiu Laodao hadn't gone far, but Chen Maozi had already walked out of the door, staring at them.

Chen Maozi seemed to hesitate for a while, and shouted in a harmonious voice: "Two brothers-oh no, Dao Chief, those who see have a share, we know the rules best in the rivers and lakes, hurry up and share our share!" ”

Qiu Laodao lowered his voice and scolded secretly, saying that if he really believed them, it would be really stupid, it seemed that these two people were not good at stubble, and there was a "burden" of sloppiness around him, so he pulled him to leave.

"Let's stand for Lao Tzu!"

On the other side of the tavern, the old ghost swooped out of the fence wall like a ghost, flew over, and with a wave of his big hand he was about to catch them!

Qiu Laodao only felt that his body was suddenly fixed, and he couldn't move for a while, he looked at the white claws of the old ghost, and there seemed to be a strong gravitational force coming out of it.

"This is the Dragon Grabber!"

Qiu Laodao's eyes froze, and his profound life cultivation was revealed at this moment, his left hand brushed aside the sloppy that stood still, and the palm of his right hand met the claws of the old ghost!

Whew-

The snow under the feet of Qiu Laodao and Sloppy was blown away, revealing the dry yellow ground, and the eyes of the old ghost narrowed.

"It's not a simple run, this strength - you are also a stranger!"

The old ghost Hua revealed an unconcealed murderous intent in his eyes, and with the help of Qiu Laodao's continuous palm power, he turned around in the air, his center of gravity fell to the ground, his sharp claws attached to the true qi, and the strong force almost tore the air apart.

Qiu Laodao's body was as steady as Mount Tai, his eyes were staring at the footsteps of the old ghost, the old ghost sheep pretended to attack, and just took a step, and then turned back and rushed to the side of the sloppy.

"This villain-" Qiu Laodao said angrily, no longer tempting, one hand was as fast as lightning, and in an instant, he clasped the old ghost's right hand to death, and bent his elbow and punched him in the chest!

The old ghost was overjoyed in his eyes, grabbed Qiu Laodao's shoulder with his backhand, and shouted strangely: "Cat! ”

Qiu Laodao's eyes looked over, and Chen Maozi had already rushed towards him with Shang Lao Wu's barricade in his hand!

The strange thing is that Chen Maozi didn't make a sound at all...... Apparently using some sophisticated means!

As the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat with four hands, Qiu Laodao is restrained on the left hand side at the moment, and if he wants to withdraw to deal with Chen Maozi, the situation will take a sharp turn for the worse, it is better to abolish the old ghost first!

Qiu Laodao thought of what these two people did, and smashed his fist on the chest of the old ghost! Hua Lao Ghost's eyeballs bulged, but he held Qiu Laodao in his hand and didn't let go, Qiu Laodao looked at the barrier that was getting closer and closer to the door in front of him, and the cold light reflected by the sharp blade above shone on his face, and his heart had already risen to his throat!

Whew-

At this moment, a hand stretched out from behind Qiu Laodao's ear, and grabbed it with the tip of the knife that blocked the face, Chen Maozi's figure was stunned, but Qiu Laodao couldn't be surprised, his left hand pinched off Hua Laodao's wrist with all his strength, and his right fist bombarded him one after another.

Hua Lao Ghost spurted out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot, and when the claws left, he took away a layer of skin and flesh on Qiu Laodao's shoulder, and the blood was dripping, Qiu Lao Dao struggled to let go of the half-dead Hua Lao Ghost, and turned his head to look back.

I saw that Chen Maozi was hanging in the air by the sloppy hand stuck in his neck, and the Qi all over his body sprayed out as if he didn't want money, and he looked panicked: "Can you keep up with my movements?" Why can't I use my 'talisman charm'...... No roots! Yes, you're rootless! ”

Looking from the side, the sloppy eyes and face were all covered by scattered black hair, and Qiu Laodao didn't say a word when he heard Chen Maozi's words.

Sloppy - maybe he's just rootless. Wu Gensheng threw down Chen Maozi, who also fainted, he turned his head, his eyes were bright and deep, and he said to Qiu Laodao: "I am suddenly curious, do you say that this Shang Lao Wu is a good man?" ”

Qiu Laodao covered his wound and slowly walked to the tavern, Wu Gensheng did not follow, when he came out of the tavern, Chen Maozi and Hua Lao Ghost were out of breath, and the death was not miserable, Wu Gensheng had already gone away.

……

At the foot of the four girls' mountain, Qiu Laodao said this, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were full of reminiscence.

"I was curious about the person who had no roots, and after dealing with the wounds and the remains of those two people, I followed him all the way, he was going north, and I followed far behind."

"His steps are not fast, we walked like this for two days and two nights, probably to Yin Kezhaomeng (now EEDS), all of which are endless grasslands, I don't see any trace of him, but I heard the sound of fighting in the distance, there are many people who listen to the movement and fighting, and the strength is not injured I can participate casually, I wandered back on the periphery of the grassland for a while, and quietly sneaked over at night."

"About a dozen people died there, I saw the costumes of a few people, and found that it was a fellow Daoist of my Daomen, and I was busy looking for survivors from it - only a young master Kuo who was dressed in a foreign style, his face was twisted into a ball of hatred, and he was seriously injured."

Qiu Laodao let out a sigh, "That Kuo Shao is so injured that he can't look like it, and he is still muttering 'rootless birth' and 'rootless birth'...... I even know what kind of person rootless is. ”

"Na Lu...... What about that young master? What happened? Tang Muzhi asked.

If nothing else, the young master in Qiu Laodao's mouth is Lu Jin, after the Jiashen incident, he gathered the remaining disciples of the Trinity Sect, searched for rootless life all over the world, and finally ended up with a Trinity Sect that was completely wiped out except him.

It is precisely because of this that he missed the best opportunity to rescue his best friend Zheng Zibu, and spent the rest of his life in guilt for his mentor and friends and hatred for rootlessness, and his heart is still tormented when he is more than a hundred years old.

"I took him out of the prairie, searched his coils, and gave him to a doctor in the city, and then I don't know if he was alive or dead."

Ye Kexin's focus was different from Tang Muzhi's, and she asked suspiciously, "What about the two people who attacked you?" Are they rootless and dead? There is also Shang Lao Wu, is he a hero or a real bandit? ”

"Rootless kills without blinking." Qiu Laodao stroked his beard and said, "His eyes are still poisonous!" I didn't find the stolen money in the tavern at first, but after all parties verified it, I found out that this Shang Lao Wu was a big liar and a big bandit. He is cunning, he can hide his footsteps like ordinary people, he has no one he doesn't know in Yulin, and he knows me, and when he said that, he asked me to help him...... Man is not as good as heaven, and he is the first to die. ”