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The Great Zhou Dynasty, the imperial city is 600 miles away.

There is a vast and desolate mountain called Yin Mountain.

In the Yin Mountain, there is a cliff as high as a kilometer, extremely steep, shrouded in mist, and in the middle of this cliff, there is a cave that is sunken inward.

Carved in the cave is a large spatial teleportation array.

It was in disrepair and covered with dust.

But in the next second, the damp runes all over the ground lit up.

Six people appeared out of thin air, fainting on the ground in the cave, and it was Xu Mu and his party who had just escaped from the Sword Pavilion.

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The time of a stick of incense has passed.

Xu Mu woke up suddenly.

He heard the sound of rain outside the cave, opened his eyes sharply, and then stood up with a pout, looking around with some dismay.

What's going on, why is he still in the cave, has the teleportation failed?

Xu Mu's chest rose and fell violently, his head was a little dizzy, and he couldn't see things so clearly.

But soon, Xu Mu, who had calmed down, suddenly discovered that the cave he was in now was not the cave in the Sword Pavilion.

Strange rocks are craggy, and water droplets on the upside-down stalactites drip on the muddy and damp ground.

On top of that, it's bright here.

Xu Mu raised his head and looked at the entrance of the cave, it was raining lightly outside at this time, and in the distance was a field of pine and cypress, if you pay attention, you can still hear a few ape cries.

"Could this be the imperial city of the Great Zhou?"

Xu Mu scratched his head, his face strange.

Although the national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not as good as that of the Great Xia Dynasty, it is also the imperial city of a country, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, how can it be built in the deep mountains and old forests!

So where are they now?

"Brother Zuo, do you know where this place is?" Xu Mu smacked his lips and asked.

But no one gave him an answer.

"Brother Zuo?"

Xu Mu looked back in confusion.

So he saw that Zuo Mingqiu was staring at him with his eyes, and Qi Long and Sun Tong, who had fainted, were pressed to death, their faces were pale, as if they were about to die.

It may also be that he is going to be angry with Xu Mu.

Xu Mu was shocked: "Brother Zuo, hold on, I'll save you!" ”

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Xu Mu helped Zuo Mingqiu sit up apologetically.

Subsequently, he stopped the bleeding for the old-timers of the Demon Eradication Division, and after feeding Qi Long the medicine, he lit a fire.

So not long after, Li Zao and Sun Tong woke up one after another, leaving only Qi Long and the old-timer who had lost too much blood still faint.

Li Zao's face was pale, and after waking up, he didn't say a word, found a fairly smooth rock, sat on it, put the Kuroshio sword across his lap, and began to breathe.

The same is true for Zuo Mingqiu and Sun Tong, the two of them alone

Xu Mu closed his eyes, stabilized the sea of shock, and then began to heal Qi Long and the others, until half an hour passed, the vital signs of both of them stabilized, and Qi Long also woke up, he stopped with a pale face.

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"Your internal injuries are a bit serious, and your tendons and veins have been cut out by Mei Chuan, but don't worry, I've used my ability to expel the toxins inside, you just need to cultivate." Xu Mu withdrew his hand and said with a smile.

Qi Long looked at Xu Mu, smiled weakly and said, "I really didn't see the wrong person. ”

"As for Old Du, he shouldn't be dead."

Xu Mu shook his head and said solemnly:

"Not dead is not dead."

"But his injuries are more serious than yours, and even Zhihai has collapsed most of them, I can only simply comb his muscles and veins, dissolve the blood congestion, and consolidate the internal organs, as for whether he can wake up in the end, it still depends on the creation of this old-timer."

When Qi Long heard this, his face suddenly turned white, but he said with a smile: "Then I'll rest assured, this old guy is very hard-working, and he won't die!" ”

"But I'm curious, why are we here, and you teleported here on purpose?"

Qi Long asked, while lowering his head with some emotion, looking at the large array of runes hidden under the ground, which he had personally carved many years ago, had not been used for many years, and had been covered with many layers of dust.

Xu Mu scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "Actually, I don't know where this is. ”

"There seems to be something wrong with the spatial teleportation array of the Sword Pavilion, I can't choose the scheduled teleportation node, but the arrow is ready to fly, I have to send it, I chose a position at random, I didn't expect the spatial channel to be so shocking."

"Then I fainted."

"And then when I woke up, it was here."

When Qi Long heard this, he smiled and said:

"Then we can be considered a blessing in disguise."

"I'm telling you, this is Yin Mountain."

"It is about a hundred miles away from the imperial city of the Great Zhou, and it is a mountain forest with only ordinary beasts."

"The teleportation array in the cave was arranged by the old man ten years ago, and it was originally intended to facilitate the ambush of Mei Chuan, but then she went to the Imperial City and did not take this road."

"This formation has lost its meaning, and it has been abandoned here."

When Zuo Mingqiu heard this, he asked:

"So this place, no second person knows?"

Qi Long nodded:

"No one knows about it but me and the old guy who passed out, so it's safe here."

Qi Long looked at Xu Mu, then coughed and said:

"If there is a problem with the teleportation array, it should be that there is an error in a certain link of your repair, and it is very likely that the last stroke of the character is shallow, resulting in the failure of the positioning of the spatial avenue."

When Xu Mu heard this, he scratched his head with palpitations:

"When I finally repaired the characters, I was in a hurry, because An Jin had already rushed over at that time, but I didn't expect it, but I almost killed us."

"What you said when you were in the cave is right, the spatial teleportation array, it really can't be cultivated by me casually."

Xu Mu said with some embarrassment.

I still remember that at that time, Qi Long had no fighting spirit at all, and he had already accepted his fate, it was he who roared and picked up the other party's collar, but now that I think about it, that kind of scene is quite suspicious of the following crimes. But again, Xu Mu will still do that.

When Qi Long heard this, he smiled kindly:

"It's okay, you've done a good job, it was my lack of determination at the time, thanks to you."

Xu Mu smiled slightly.

Qi Long continued: "And teleporting here is better than teleporting to the Imperial City. ”

"Not surprisingly, An Jin has already reported the news of our escape to the imperial court, and the Imperial City is probably looking for us in the whole city, and all the monks who came out of that space teleportation array will be censored and detained."

Xu Mu nodded, it was true that there was a blessing in disguise.

Among them, except for him and Li Zao, who were in a better state, everyone else was seriously injured to varying degrees, and even the old man was still uncertain about his life and death, if he really arrived in the imperial city, he would only be slaughtered by others!

Seeing that no one was talking, Sun Tong, who had been waiting for a long time, asked weakly, "Can I ask, where are we going next?" Am I also wanted, and can I still return to the sect? ”

Xu Mu couldn't answer this question.

He could only sigh, comforted Sun Tong and said:

"We're going to be wanted, but you...... Even if it's for the white fish, An Jin will definitely count you. ”

"Before the wanted warrant is lifted, you can't go back to the sect."

When Sun Tong heard this, his face turned pale:

"And where else can we go?"

Qi Long said calmly: "Don't panic. ”

"This cave is still hidden, the people of the imperial court should not be able to find out this, I am waiting here to heal my wounds, and then it is not too late to discuss where to go."

"And you, you are all talented dolls, there is no place for Da Zhou, so it's better to go back to Daxia with me!" Qi Long looked at Sun Tong and Li Zao with a smile on his face and said.

"Are you going to Great Xia?" Sun Tong's face was pale, if that was the case, wouldn't he really become a traitor to the Great Zhou Dynasty?

Although the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty wanted to kill him, he didn't want to be a traitor, how could his relatives in the mortal world hold their heads up?

Zuo Mingqiu said expressionlessly:

"If you don't have a place to go, stay with me for a while."

Qi Long was stunned, looked at Zuo Mingqiu and asked:

"Aren't you going back to Great Xia?"

Zuo Mingqiu shook his head, he didn't explain that he was a member of the Hundred Clans Alliance, he just looked at Xu Mu, who immediately understood and said:

"I'm going back."

"I'm very short on time, and when your injuries are almost healed, I will go to Beilong Road as soon as possible."

Qi Long glanced at Zuo Mingqiu with some surprise, then looked at Xu Mu and asked:

"Are you going to rush back to Great Xia from Beilong Dao?"

Xu Mu hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Well, I have to go back as soon as possible, so I can only take this way." ”

When Qi Long heard this, he frowned and said:

"Beilong Road is the official road of the royal trade of Great Zhou and Great Xia, the distance is the shortest straight line, and it is also the safest and smoothest, it is indeed the fastest way back to the Great Xia Dynasty."

"But now, my identities and Du Lao have been exposed, mistaken for spies, and disappeared near the Imperial City, I'm afraid that the censorship of Beilong Dao will become stricter than before, and you shouldn't be so easy to pass."

"In my opinion, you might as well go to Yong'an City first, take a boat and go back by water, although the speed is slower, but fortunately, there are many boats coming and going, and the people who take them are all reckless, even if Da Zhou wants to check, it is difficult to find out your true identity."

Hearing this, Xu Mu asked:

"If I take the waterway of Yong'an City, how much slower will it be than taking Beilong Road?"

When Qi Long heard this, he smacked his lips and said: "If it goes well, it will only be slowed down by Beilong Road for three or five months, and if it doesn't go well, I'm afraid it will take half a year, or even a year." ”

Xu Mu was surprised: "So long! ”

Qi Long nodded and sighed:

"There's no way, that waterway is winding and winding, and it doesn't lead directly to Great Xia, so there are few ships traveling far away."

"Most boats, after ten days and eight days, will dock and stop, if you want to take a boat from there all the way to Great Xia, I'm afraid you will have to change to many ships, and this time will be wasted."

Xu Mu pondered for a moment and asked, "Then can I buy a boat myself and drive back to Great Xia?" ”

When Qi Long heard this, he said with a smile: "If you can go to Great Xia so easily, then wouldn't my dynasty be full of spies from other countries?" ”

"And you have to know that Da Zhou's inspection of ships is very strict, whether it is a merchant ship or a fishing boat, each one must be registered, and from time to time it will also be inspected by the navy, they are experienced, whether you are the owner of this ship, they can see at a glance, but it will increase the risk of exposure."

When Xu Mu heard this, he sighed a little helplessly.

Not to mention delaying for a year and a half, even if it is three or five months slow, it will never work, because when he returns to Great Xia, he will have to walk a long way to reach the Strange Night Domain, and he doesn't know what will happen along the way.

When the three-year period comes, if the demon god spirit in the dark palace comes out again to make waves, or even break through the seal, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Qi Long also saw the helplessness in Xu Mu's eyes, and asked, "Do you really want to go back from Beilong Road?" ”

Xu Mu nodded: "Yes." ”

Qi Long frowned, took out a map of Da Zhou from his arms with a solemn face, pointed to a long red line on it and said: "This long strip is Beilong Road, each node is marked, you can start at any node, you don't have to be in the imperial city." ”

Xu Mu took the map, and after looking at it carefully, he finally found the location of Yinshan where he and the others were.

So he found that Yinshan was more than 200 miles away from the imperial city, but it was more than 700 miles away from the second node of Beilong Road!

And it's still a straight line distance, so if you really have to rush over, I don't know how long it will take!

祁隆 says:

"Every batch of carriages that set foot on Beilong Road has a specially approved customs clearance document, so you kid had better think about how to blend into those strictly censored caravans than from which node to enter Beilong Road."

"I really didn't think about that." Xu Mu scratched his head, a little helpless, he really didn't think that it would be so troublesome to return to Great Xia from the Great Zhou Dynasty before, he would not have gone around this far!

"I have a way."

Li Zao was dressed in a white dress, sitting cross-legged on the rock, and said in a cold voice: "The eldest prince has been in the army for seven years, stationed in the frontiers of Great Zhou and Great Xia, and officially returned to Beijing this year, and was appointed as the crown prince by His Majesty the Emperor. ”

"But because when he was appointed as the crown prince, His Majesty the Emperor was sick, so all the procedures were simple and not handled, and now His Majesty the Emperor's condition is improving, in order to rejoice, seven days later, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will hold a birthday banquet in the imperial city."

"This banquet will be prepared with the specifications of a state banquet, and the whole country will celebrate, firstly, to celebrate the triumphant return of the eldest prince, and secondly, it also has the meaning of making up the prince's banquet."

"The eldest prince has prepared a lot for this, because he can take this opportunity to see clearly the position and situation of many ministers of the DPRK and China."

Xu Mu asked in a daze:

"What do you want to say?"

Li Zao's facial features were exquisite, his voice was cold, and he looked at Xu Mu with a serious expression and said:

"The Seventh Prince specially went to the Sword Pavilion to get the sword on New Day, just to be able to give him a wishful gift in public at the birthday banquet of the eldest prince."

"The other officials who stand in line, and even the generals in the army on the border of the Great Zhou, will definitely try their best to loot rare treasures and send them over, but they themselves may not be able to be present, so they can only appoint some henchmen to escort them."

"So guess where those things are coming from?"

Xu Mu narrowed his eyes, the forces of the rivers and lakes in the Great Zhou were entrenched, and the rare treasures were far away from the imperial city, and there was a great risk of being lost halfway.

But there is one road that is the safest.

Because it was a road built by the official trade between the Great Zhou and Great Xia, all nodes were heavily guarded and patrolled, and it was almost impossible to be robbed.

"Beilong Road!" Xu Mu's eyes lit up.

"That's right, it's Beilong Dao." Li Zao looked at Xu Mu and said seriously, "Those are all members of the court, and the level of gifts sent will not be low, and the identity of the person in charge of escorting the gifts will certainly not be simple." ”

"After attending the banquet, they will definitely go back from Beilong Dao, and if you can blend into the team of the frontier, you can go all the way to Great Xia unimpeded!"

"You have a point!" Xu Mu grinned, Li Zao's proposal could be said to make him suddenly enlightened, but the question was how could he blend into the army on the frontier? ”

"If you want to blend in with them, you first have to approach them at the Grand Prince's birthday party."

Li Zao looked at Xu Mu and said calmly:

"Previously, the family teacher had cultivated many henchmen for me in the Imperial City, and later I secretly rebelled."

"Now these people are under my orders, and they can help me get the qualification to participate in the royal banquet."

Hearing the word "family teacher", what Xu Mu wanted to say suddenly blocked his throat, because he remembered the scene not long ago, when Li Zao had tears in his eyes and smashed through Mei Chuan Neidan with a sword.

The latter did a lot of evil, calculated his life, harmed countless people, and finally wanted to steal the luck of the Great Zhou royal family through Li Zao, and it was right to die, but after thinking about it, Li Zao was her disciple after all......

Staying with Li Zao, isn't it suspected of seeking skin with a tiger?

Xu Mu didn't speak, but turned around and filled the campfire with some firewood, and a crackling sound sounded, and sparks splashed onto the damp ground nearby.

Qi Long, who should have expressed his opinion the most, stared at Li Zao silently, as if he wanted to see something from her face.

Li Zao felt Qi Long's gaze and turned his head away.

The latter's eyes narrowed, and his voice was hoarse and asked:

"Why did you help us?"

Li Zao's eyes were flat:

"Don't get me wrong, Mei Chuan and I wanted to kill me a long time ago, because I don't want to live a life like that at the mercy of others again."

"And she was so cold-blooded that she forced me to kill a lot of people I didn't want to kill."

Li Zao said in a flat tone, her jade hand gently stroked the Black Tide Sword on her knee, she still remembered that five years ago, Plum Blossom Valley attacked the Moon God Sect on a large scale, and she opened the Mountain Protection Array in front of everyone in the Moon God Sect.

She still vaguely remembered that there was a young man in the Luna Sect who had liked her for a long time, and since the day the two met, he would get up early every day and go up the mountain to pick a large handful of wild flowers and bring them back to her.

She later asked the boy why, and the boy replied that it was because your name was Li Zao.

But on the day of the invasion of Plum Blossom Valley, she pushed the boy off the cliff with her own hands, because Mei Chuan seemed to sense something and ordered her to kill the boy with her own hands.

Qi Long didn't know Li Zao's past, but based on his intuition alone, he felt that Li Zao and Mei Chuan seemed to be a little different, so he continued to ask:

"Your master has been killed by your own hands."

"So why are you helping him?"

Li Zao's eyes were lowered, and his voice was hoarse:

"I'm not helping him, I'm helping myself."

"I'm also going to the Imperial City to attend the banquet of the eldest prince, but it's a bit dangerous on the way to go alone."

When Xu Mu heard this, he opened his mouth and said: "You are more dangerous to follow me, and it is not only the enemies of the Great Zhou Court who want to kill me. ”

"But I trust you two." Li Zao looked at Xu Mu, and then at Zuo Mingqiu, his expression was a little complicated, "In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the contemporaries who are stronger than me are only a palm, and they are all demons with great luck without exception, and they have even entered the land list, but for some reason, I feel that they are not as good as you." ”

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"Although I don't know the identities of the two of you, I believe that a genius like you will not die, and if you are caught, the Great Zhou Court will not kill you, they will only use you as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Great Xia, so I will be safe with you."

"A bargaining chip?" When Xu Mu heard this, he smiled bitterly.

It's normal for Li Zao to have such speculation, but he is different, he has a holy relic with him.

If he was caught, it would be impossible for Da Zhou to let him go.

"Well, I don't need you to do anything, I just need to walk with me and enter the palace to attend the banquet." Li Zao asked.

"What are you doing at the Imperial Palace?" Xu Mu asked rhetorically.

When Li Zao heard this, he was silent for a moment, and then said a surprising news:

"Before Mei Chuan died, he sent a signed marriage letter with the imprint of my spirit to the royal family."

"Divine soul imprint, isn't that impossible to repent, otherwise you will have to suffer the backlash of the Heavenly Dao?" Xu Mu said in surprise, it was the first time he had seen a marriage contract like this, and under normal circumstances, the master-servant contract was mostly imprinted with divine souls, just like he and Shuju.

"Yes, but I don't want to marry Zhou Yuan."

Li Zao nodded, his expression cold:

"So I'm going to the Imperial City and tear that game apart!"

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