The group sat on the sand camel beast and walked out of Juxian Town slowly, leaving only a dense line of footprints and a few car marks behind them.

Han Linger and Qu Wuming walked side by side at the back, communicating all the way, talking and laughing.

Hu Baye and a few people who secretly admired Tong Xiangyu gathered around Tong Xiangyu's sand camel beast, chatting with each other.

Wei Yixian took his apprentice Mo Tong and sat quietly in the compartment of a big car, and he wouldn't come out at all until he needed guidance to move forward, and it was easy for people to forget the existence of the two of them.

Out of Juxian Town, there are endless hills.

It was the height of summer in August, and when I walked through this hill, I didn't feel the summer heat at all. The rainy season has just passed for more than half a month, but the thatch that spreads all over the mountains has already begun to turn yellow.

The howling wind blew through the sparse slopes of withered yellow thatch, and swept over the low ravines that had been washed out of the ravines during the rainy season, and let out a whimpering whimper.

On the gentle and low loess slope, only when you get closer can you see that there are still many low grasses on the ground, tenaciously clinging to the ground, growing in this desolate world. Occasionally, there would be spiky shrubs growing in clumps among the ravines. The rustling sound of the wind as it blows seems to remind everyone that there is still a place of its own.

"Look at those bushes, they seem to have little yellow fruits on them!" Han Ling'er pointed to a bush not far away and said excitedly.

"That's called sea buckthorn," a chef who walked in front of Han Ling'er said without looking back, "We also call it 'sour yoyo', and when the frost falls in autumn, it will turn orange-red, very sour." ”

"I want to taste it!" When Han Ling'er heard this, she grabbed Qu Wuming's hand and shook it.

"Okay, you wait." Qu Nameless jumped up from the sand camel beast and swept towards the sea buckthorn, and soon picked a branch full of yellow fruits.

Han Ling'er took the sea buckthorn branch, carefully looked at the dense but delicate and lovely yellow fruit, avoided the sharp spikes on the branch and gently picked one down.

"What a sour ......" At the entrance of the sea buckthorn, Han Ling'er was sour, and hurriedly spit out the sea buckthorn in her mouth, making Qu Wuming next to her and Tong Xiangyu, the chef and others who had been waiting to see the excitement laugh out loud.

"Sister Ling'er," Tong Xiangyu pulled the reins of the sand camel beast and said with a smile, "We don't eat this thing directly on weekdays, and after it is frosted, it is picked and mashed, mixed with sugar and water to drink, and it is called sweet and sour at that time." ”

"Mmmm," Han Ling'er felt that her teeth were falling, and she hurriedly took off the water bag from her waist and rinsed her mouth, then said, "It's so sour, I've never eaten anything so sour......" said and was about to throw away the sea buckthorn.

"Don't throw it away, it's a pity." Tong Xiangyu took the sea buckthorn branch and handed it to the mouth of the sand camel beast.

The sand camel beast sniffed slightly, stretched out its tongue and rolled its tongue into its mouth to chew the spiky sea buckthorn branch, and seemed to have a satisfied expression on its face......

……

Five days later, there was no road under the feet of the group.

Or rather, there was no road here, and a new road was being stretched out under the feet of the people.

Walking in the hills with no end in sight, the journey gradually became a little boring and boring.

At the suggestion of Hu Baye, occasionally a few people would gather in the carriage, throw dice, drink wine, and kill time, while more people gradually became silent, and even Han Linger chose to sit cross-legged in a carriage and close her eyes to recuperate, and rarely went out to eat again.

……

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days later.

The surrounding scenery has finally changed.

The earthy yellow hills had turned into a rolling yellow line on the horizon, fading away behind everyone. As far as the eye can see, there is only a long stretch of yellow sand around, as far as the eye can see. Occasionally, some withered vines and old trees stand alone in the desert, proving that in the past, this was also a fertile land with water and grass.

Along the way, occasionally I could meet a few caravans that had gone deep into the desert in order to take a shortcut, and everyone did not talk to each other, but staggered far away with vigilance, and then watched each other leave.

In a big car, Tong Xiangyu, Han Ling'er and the old man Wei Yixian each occupied a corner and sat quietly. At this time, the second daughter's gaze was falling on a few copper coins in front of Wei Yixian.

I saw Wei Yixian holding a compass in one hand, which was densely engraved with strange words, and the other hand kept calculating, and grabbed the copper coin from time to time and threw it down repeatedly. After repeating this several times, Wei Yixian finally stopped calculating, lifted the curtain and shouted loudly forward: "The team turns, move forward to the left front!" ”

"Got it!" Hu Baye now felt bored even gambling and drinking, so he volunteered to ride the sand camel beast at the front, and faintly became the leader of the team, but the one who was really responsible for guiding the way along the way was Wei Yixian, who had been staying in the carriage. Tong Xiangyu and Han Linger didn't want to be exposed to the sun, so they also hid in the carriage, and the three of them chatted occasionally on the road, but they were not very lonely.

Qu Wuming is because of Han Ling'er, sometimes he will get into the carriage, joke with Han Ling'er and Tong Xiangyu, brag, and use Qu Wuming's knowledge and experience to casually tell some stories of past adventures It is very exciting, and even Nawei Yixian sometimes listens to it with relish. It's just that Qu Wuming's move is not entirely to relieve Han Ling'er's boredom - in Qu Wuming's heart, he always feels that this Wei Yixian is a little mysterious, and he always wants to inquire about his situation in the chat, but there is still no progress.

Therefore, in the future, Qu Wuming would pester Wei Yixian to tell everyone's fortune.

Wei Yixian always found various reasons to refuse at first, but later he couldn't withstand Qu Wuming's stalking, so he agreed to count everyone as a hexagram.

"Sister Tong comes first!" Han Ling'er gently pushed Tong Xiangyu, looking at Wei Yixian with anticipation in her eyes.

"Okay, then let's calculate a hexagram for Shopkeeper Tong first." Wei Yixian smiled resignedly, took out the copper coins used for daily divination from his arms and held them in the palm of his hand.

In these days, Qu Wuming and others have long been accustomed to seeing Wei Yixian's "copper coins" - it seems that they are not made of brass, but made of some special material, like gold but not gold, like jade and not jade, falling on the carriage board with a clanging sound, and the sound is crisp like fairy music. The two sides of the "copper coin" are carved with different styles of runes, and the characters used are like tadpoles, crooked and twisted, which is very strange.

"Please also ask the shopkeeper Tong to give me a long-term personal thing, or a drop of blood." Wei Yixian stretched out a palm and said.

Tong Xiangyu thought for a moment, took out an embroidery needle from the bag on the side, and pricked his finger to squeeze out a drop of blood.

"Okay." Wei Yixian raised his hand and made a move, and the drop of blood flew up and landed on a copper coin, and after a burst of red light, it disappeared.

Wei Yixian held a handful of copper coins in his hand, and said something in his mouth, and after a while, a handful of copper coins fell on the carriage with a bang.

After the last copper coin stopped rolling, Wei Yixian's fingers began to pinch non-stop.

After more than ten breaths, Wei Yixian slowly opened his eyes and said: "At the beginning, I was wandering in my heart, and I was lonely and waiting for my fate. Once he changed his life, he went straight to the nine heavens and did not envy the immortals. ”

Tong Xiangyu couldn't help but be stunned when she heard this.

Han Ling'er on the side was a little confused when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" Hurry up and explain! ”

Wei Yixian shook his head with a smile and said, "No, if you understand, you will understand, and if you don't understand, you will naturally understand." If you say it too clearly, the old man will be punished by God. ”

"It's not exciting! Come, give me a hexagram too! Qu Wuming stretched out his hand, and his fingertips had been broken by him at some point, squeezing out a drop of blood.

"Okay, okay!" Wei Yixian sighed helplessly, grabbed the copper coin on the ground, and re-applied it......

"This ......" Wei Yixian looked at the copper coins scattered on the carriage board, his fingers kept pinching, but his brows were furrowed more and more, as if he had encountered some problem.

"What's wrong? What do you say? Qu Wuming didn't believe in these divination techniques, and always felt that they were a means of coaxing fools and fools—even if they were cast by cultivators. At this time, pestering Wei Yixian to tell fortunes is just a boring time to pass the time and explore Wei Yixian's bottom by the way. At this moment, seeing Wei Yixian's solemn face, he hurriedly asked with a hint of banter.

"Is it a special personality? I can't even figure it out? Wei Yixian didn't look at Qu Wuming at all, but stared at the copper coin below and muttered.

"Can't figure it out?" Qu Wuming was amused in his heart, but he said, "Your name of 'One Immortal' won't fool people, right?" Haha......"

"Impossible!" Wei Yixian twisted his eyebrows, unwillingly scooped up the copper coin, said something in his mouth, and threw it down again, coincidentally, the scattered copper coins were exactly the same as last time, "Huh? Weird! …… I still don't believe it! ”

As he spoke, Wei Yixian put away the copper coins and took out a pot of money from his bag, "Give me another drop of blood!" ”

Seeing this, Qu Wuming laughed and said: "I said fortune telling, everyone else uses tortoise shells and money to tell fortunes, how did you take a pot of calculations and raise them?" Is this to teach me to do arithmetic? ”

"The old man's divination is not comparable to those ordinary witch divination?" Wei Yixian urged with a calculation plan, "Hurry up, a drop of blood!" ”

"Okay!" Qu Wuming also seemed to be a little interested, took out a gold needle from the storage ring and pricked his finger, squeezing out a drop of blood again.

Wei Yixian took out an arithmetic chip, lightly dipped it in the blood, silently recited the law decision in his mouth, and used the arithmetic chip as a pen and blood as ink to draw a magic circle on the floor of the carriage.

Not long after, a gossip array drawn by slender blood lines appeared on the floor, about a foot square, as if it could breathe, flashing on the floor with a soft red light, Tong Xiangyu on the side was surprised, and secretly said in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, Wei Yixian held the bamboo tube in both hands, closed his eyes, his lips moved, and he read something, and after a long time, he opened his eyes and poured out all the pots of calculations.