In the dark night, dark clouds are rolling.

In the middle of the col between the mountains, stands a tall and majestic altar made of thousands of pounds of boulders.

The center of the altar is a square that is as wide as 100 zhang, made of bluestone slabs, surrounded by white stone carved railings, and in the middle of the position, a stone statue three zhang high is enshrined.

The stone statue is not a human figure, but a serpent.

The snake's tail coiled upward, each scale was lifelike, and it hovered to the snake's head, but it was not a song, but a full nine heads.

The head of the snake is like a wheat bucket, with two fiery red eyes embedded on the left and right, emitting a strange light, and a blue-green snake letter erupts from the tearing wide mouth, which is vivid, as if it is preparing to devour its prey.

Looking at its form, it is quite similar to the myths and legends of Xiangliu, Jiuying and other nine-headed snake-headed beasts.

But this is not Xiangliu and Jiuying, but the nine kinds of poisonous snakes that exist in reality or mythology, such as pythons, pit vipers, snakes, snakes, snakes, snakes, and candles.

Next to this giant snake stone statue, there are nine small stone statues arranged in the nine palace gossip, and the carving is these nine kinds of fierce snakes, but the snake tail is coiled into a seat.

Around the altar, thousands of poisonous snakes of different shapes are carved, like a huge snake cave.

The altar burned with blue-green magic flames, spewing out long flames, which looked strange and terrifying.

Just one glance makes people feel creepy, and they can't help but think of an ancient torture - a pot!

But in this terrifying altar, there was a graceful and graceful woman.

The woman was dressed in white and veiled, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but the cold temperament of the fairy spirit, as well as the majesty of holding the power of life and death, only a fluttering look could make people surrender willingly.

Her name is Xiao Qingfang, she is the helmsman of the snake spirit, and is respected by her subordinates as "eldest sister".

Xiao Qingfang was not originally called Xiao Qingfang, but since she joined the snake spirit, she changed her name to Xiao Qingfang, cut off from the past, and completely erased her past.

No one knows about her past, not even part of her mentor.

- That's what she deliberately revealed!

Xiao Qingfang sat on the throne of "Candle Nine Yin", holding a piece of information in his hand, and looked at it expressionlessly.

After a while, a slight tremor came from not far away, like a vibrating spring, Xiao Qingfang didn't even look at it, only ordered: "Come in!" ”

It was a skinny young man who came.

This person is one of the six snake heads of the snake spirit, and the internal title is "Demon Spirit", and he is Xiao Qingfang's diehard loyalist.

"See eldest sister."

"Get up and speak."

"It's done."

"What about the two?"

"Put in prison and wait for the eldest sister to be released."

"I didn't expect you to have soft hands too."

"The living are worth more than the dead."

"Abolish the martial arts of the two of them, wait until Yu Wenzhong comes back, send Yu Wenzhong over, and say that he has worked hard and made great achievements, and I will reward him with two concubines."

"Eldest sister, why don't you ......"

Xiao Qingfang's face turned cold, and he said sharply: "My order, the only thing you have to do is to carry it out, understand?" ”

"Understood! Got it! Big sister forgiveness! ”

"Let's do something!"

The demon spirit hurriedly retreated.

Xiao Qingfang flew on the stone statue of nine giant snakes, standing on the "Candle Nine Yin" in the center, his hands spread out, and his bearing was awe-inspiring, as if he held the whole world in his hands.

The snake spirit was not founded by Xiao Qingfang, the founder was her mentor, but more than ten years ago, her master was captured by Wu Zetian and secretly imprisoned.

Xiao Qingfang took over the snake spirit, on the one hand, he tried his best to hide his traces, and gave up a lot of strength for this.

On the other hand, it is to clean up internally, remove those who are loyal to her master, and vigorously develop her own cronies.

More than ten years have passed, and the snake spirit is not only several times stronger than before, but also has become Xiao Qingfang's hall.

However, by chance, Xiao Qingfang found that the first ranking of the six snake heads, the Shining Spirit Yu Wenzhong, and the second-ranked Blood Spirit Sisters, were all loyal to the old master.

That's all there is to it, but the three of them have a lot of contacts in private, and they have connected many forces.

Xiao Qingfang was furious, and used the alliance between Wu and Zhou of the Liao State to make a fuss, and sent out the elite under the command of the Shining Spirit Blood Spirit.

In order to dispel their doubts, Xiao Qingfang also asked the shadow to take charge of the matter, and did not issue too many orders.

Anyway, the shadow is arrogant, and everyone looks like a fool, and it will be a scourge to keep it sooner or later.

And after the shadow failed and died, he asked Yu Wenzhong to complete the final assassination with the ninjas under his command.

Although Yu Wenzhong escaped, most of the ninjas under his command lost most of them, and it was difficult to stir up any storms!

When Yu Wenzhong made a move, the demon spirit led the elite to attack the blood spirit, and most of the elite under the command of the blood spirit died at the hands of Li Jinyu, unable to resist, and were captured.

Sending the Blood Spirit Sisters to Yu Wenzhong is to tell Yu Wenzhong that he will either surrender or die.

Assassinating the mission, the snake spirit seemed to have suffered heavy losses, but in fact, the loss was not obeyed by Xiao Qingfang's orders.

Xiao Qingfang took this opportunity to eliminate dissidents and hold the snake spirit firmly in his hands, but he made a lot of money.

This is Xiao Qingfang's real purpose!

"Master, Master, I really couldn't fight you back then, but more than ten years later, if I can't replace you, wouldn't I have failed your teaching?"

"Wow!"

Xiao Qingfang raised his head to the sky and roared, and a sword qi poured down like the Nine Heavens Milky Way, suppressing all the demonic fires around the altar, but not extinguishing half of them.

The demonic fire flashed through the sword qi, flashing a colorful divine light, reflecting the entire altar like a ghost.

"Yu Wenzhong, I hope you don't know how to lift!"

……

The internal changes in the snake spirit, Li Jinyu didn't know at all.

It can't be said that there are no doubts at all, when I reviewed with Li Yuanfang before, I was curious about why those assassins scattered and made moves, but I didn't think about it more.

After all, there have been a lot of assassinations in the past few days, and even if there are many elixirs, I feel deeply tired.

In this case, Li Jinyu was thinking more about Meng Yuan than about the snake spirit who had just appeared.

Anyway, with Li Yuanfang here, if there is a conflict with the snake spirit in the future, you can take Li Yuanfang to farm monsters together to see if Li Yuanfang, the eagle, can catch the snake.

After sleeping for two hours, at dawn, Li Jinyu ordered to bury the pot to make rice, and after breakfast, he immediately set off on the road, and after traveling for about half a day, he finally met the cavalry sent by General Zuo Weiwei to meet him.

Hearing that General Zuo Weiwei sent troops to respond, Yelu Alian's father and son were extremely excited, especially the Yelu brothers, whose eyes were even brighter than when they charged before.

This is because Zuo Weiwei guarded the border pass and fought with the Liao State from time to time, and General Zuo Weiwei was not only famous in Wuzhou, but also famous in the Liao State.

Generally speaking, the imperial court will not allow fathers and sons to control an army, even if it is Wei Chi Zhenjin, he cannot arrange all his children to Jin Wuwei, except Zuo Weiwei is an exception, and the interior is almost a hall.

It is precisely because of this unique grace that although it is an official family, it is still ranked among the "Nine Peerless".

You must know that the Nine Peerless Families are rivers and lakes, there are imperial merchants but they do not involve the court, and huge families such as the Seven Sects and Five Surnames have never been included.

Being able to change the rules of the Jianghu song shows that this family is powerful, and even from the perspective of the rivers and lakes, this family's martial arts are enough to rank among the nine peerless.

Because their surname is - Yang!

That's right, the commander of Zuo Weiwei is the famous Yang family general, and the name of the Yang family gun has long been famous with decades of war.

When Brother Yelu was a child, what he heard the most was not those supreme grandmasters, but the Yang family's divine spear.

The banner was waved, majestic, and with the sound of horses' hooves, a group of cavalry appeared in front of him.

The face of the leader is like a crown of jade, the appearance is dignified, the jade is golden, and the spirit is radiant, not only has the decisive iron blood belonging to the generals, but also has a unique literary atmosphere.

This person is none other than Yang Jiye, the grandson of Zuo Weiwei's general, the son of Yang Liulang, Yang Zongbao!

Li Jinyu had never seen Yang Zongbao, but the Yelu brothers remembered it clearly.

But more than three years ago, when the Yelu brothers went out on a safari, they met Yang Zongbao, and when they heard that it was the Yang general, they immediately made a provocative statement.

The Yelu brothers were two against one, but they were defeated by Yang Zongbao's spear, and Yang Zongbao swept away all the horses.

Seeing Yang Zongbao, Yelu Guozhen didn't care about any courtesy, and the Yue people stepped forward and shouted: "Yang Zongbao, do you still know me?" Let's fight again today! ”

Yelu Alian shouted: "Rebel, come back!" ”

Yelu Guobao smiled: "Don't worry, father, our brother is not holding grudges, he just wants to see the Yang family gun!" ”

Yang Zongbao smiled indifferently and said softly: "The alliance of the Great Zhou Liao Kingdom is imminent, but the sword soldiers are not beautiful, if the matter is over, let's go on a safari." ”

Li Jinyu whispered: "Yuan Fang, you have been at the border for many years, and you want to come to know Yang Zongbao and tell me, what is the approximate level of his martial arts?" ”

Li Yuanfang whispered: "He is the first day talent of the younger generation of the Yang family, horse fighting, marksmanship, and charge, these three things are all above me, especially the charge." ”

"Charge?"

"When you see the Yang family's gun in the future, you will understand why I listed the charge separately."

"You think I don't know? When it comes to the three major marksmanship masters today, there is no Yang family, but when it comes to charging into battle, the Yang family gun is a well-deserved first! ”

"Then you still ask!"

"Nonsense, you want to see them fight?"

Although the two of them spoke in a small voice, muttering like mosquitoes and flies, the people present were all people who had achieved internal success, so why couldn't they hear the two talking?

The alliance between Wu and Zhou and Liao is imminent, and it is impossible to fight, but Li Jinyu's approach is to give them a step, and they will naturally go down the slope.

The Yelu brothers were a little unconvinced, but since Li Yuanfang said that their marksmanship was not as good as Yang Zongbao's, they still couldn't beat it if they thought about it, and they wouldn't be embarrassed in front of the two armies.

Yelu Alian, Li Jinyu, and Yang Zongbao exchanged a few words of greeting each other, and then continued on their way.

Meng Yuan had already retreated, the snake spirit had completed its goal, protected by Zuo Weiwei, and other forces did not dare to make a move, all the way without incident, and everyone returned to Luoyang safe and sound.

(End of chapter)