Before dawn, Ye Suiyun arrived at the gateway dock out of the city, he found a straw hat belt, and found an inconspicuous place to sit and wait.

Sure enough, after a while, I saw Cao Gaisi, who was dressed in black, walking over. When he approached, he found that Meng Zhuangyuan and Qiu Saisai did not wait for him on time, and he was immediately displeased, cursed in a low voice, and ordered people to prepare to sail out of the city.

The guard in charge of guarding the ship asked, "Didn't General Cao wait for the two commanders of Meng Qiu to accompany him?" ”

Cao Gaisi said impatiently: "Don't wait, Lao Tzu has to rush back overnight, if you see those two fools, let them follow." It seems that this is not the first time that this has happened, and Cao Gaisi has not been suspicious in the slightest.

Not long after Cao Gaisi's ship set off, Ye Suiyun also left. After he showed the customs clearance seal, he rowed a small boat out of the city, thinking that he had learned the skill of sailing with Father Yang that day, and now he was acting alone, wouldn't he really use it. He tried his best to catch up along the way, but he couldn't catch up with Cao Gaisi's boat, thinking that it was because of his small boat.

It was almost noon when Ye Suiyun arrived at Xilong Beach, and it was the busiest time of the day on the wharf, with all kinds of people carrying and delivering goods coming and going. After he tied up the boat, he searched and found that Cao Gaisi's boat was leaning against the shore, and the man had long since disappeared.

Ye Suiyun was anxious, if he couldn't solve the surname Cao here, who knew what would happen next. But calm down and think about it, fortunately, there is still time, and it is not good to wait for him to come back at the dock, and he will not be able to run away.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, Ye Suiyun decided to go to find the 'Jade Head Golden Dragon' first, since Tang Xiao said that saving Xiaomengzi could not miss this thing, it was naturally difficult to catch it. When he came to the boat, he had already thought that since he had no clue about catching snakes, he would find someone who had a clue to help. With the memory of following the three thieves in Yumu Village that night, Ye Suiyun found Wang Fu Inn. After inquiring, the front desk shopkeeper said: "It turns out that the guest officer is looking for the two Miao girls, and they checked out at dawn this morning. Ye Suiyun shouted in his heart that he was terrible, and hurriedly asked, "Do you know where they went?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head again and again and said, "I am thankful that they can leave quickly, where will they ask this." If they stay a few more days, I'll have no guests here. A scorpion of the boss, good fellow, who would dare to come. Ye Suiyun didn't have time to listen to his chatter, thanked him and left the inn, only to listen to the shopkeeper: "But in the past few days, there are a lot fewer insects and ants in the store." ”

When he came to the street, looking at the bustling pedestrians, Ye Suiyun couldn't help but make a difficulty, now Cao Gaisi has lost his trace, and the two people of the Five Poisons Sect have disappeared, and he really doesn't know what to do now. Suddenly, he heard a shouting from across the street, and his heart moved, and he stepped forward, and looked through the crowd, and sure enough, he saw the fast knife Tartar holding a kitchen knife, and boasting about it.

Ye Suiyun squeezed closer, stretched out his hand and said, "Show me, if your knife is a real thing." The quick knife tartar was stunned for a moment, recognized Ye Suiyun, and said, "Why are you again, finally figured it out?" I told you earlier, it is atmospheric and face-saving to take it as a gift. As he spoke, he handed the knife in his hand to Ye Suiyun.

Ye Suiyun swept the knife in his hand and said, "Is this your best knife?" The weight is a little bit of strength, but it's just an ordinary color. He kept shaking his head as he spoke, obviously disappointed.

In front of a circle of onlookers, how could the fast knife tartar endure his ridicule, his face changed, and he said: "These are all good steel knives with three parts of iron and seven parts of copper, real materials." If you want to buy it, you can buy it, and if you don't buy it, you will return it to me, what nonsense is it to make trouble? As he spoke, he reached out and wanted the kitchen knife back.

Ye Suiyun shrank his hand and dodged: "Speaking of which, do you have a really good knife?" It's still just a deception with something like this. ”

The quick knife tartar gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Okay, I'll let you see and understand." He took out a small box from the back box, and when he opened it, he saw a short knife in it. The shape of the knife was slender, no more than five inches long, but it was cold and shining, and the knife aura was compelling. The quick knife tartar took it out and said: "This knife is made by my father with extremely rare Nanshan different iron, stainless and grinding, the only one in the world, and I am optimistic about it." After that, he raised the edge of the knife upward, and tore off one of his own hair and put it on the knife, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the hair fell lightly, and the blade was cut into two instantly, and everyone couldn't help but admire. The quick knife tartar said triumphantly: "This is what can be called blowing hair and breaking hair." ”

Ye Suiyun suppressed the surprise in his heart, and said with a face full of disdain: "What is it to cut off a hair, this one in my hand is much stronger than it." You've only heard about blowing your hair and breaking your hair, but you don't know what it means to sharpen iron like clay. ”

The quick knife tartar said quickly: "Do you know the goods, that's just an exaggeration to indicate the sharpness of the sword, how can there be such a thing." But my cut off is real. ”

Ye Suiyun said with a smile: "You are also interesting, you don't know your own knife." Well, I'll make a bet with you, if the knife in my hand can be sharpened like clay, how about you give me this little one as a gift? ”

Although the quick knife tartar did not believe his nonsense, he was enraged by his look of contempt, and took out a piece of calf-thick pig iron from the box, which was originally the raw material used to make knives, and said, "Okay, bet." But first, if you can't cut it, you'll have to pay ten times as much to buy the sword. ”

Ye Suiyun was waiting for this sentence, he nodded with a smile, didn't say more, stood up and turned the knife back and forth in his hand a few times, and suddenly his true qi came out through his arm, aiming at the piece of pig iron and swinging it out quickly and incoherently, with a bang, the iron was cut in two like tofu, and the sound was extremely soft, if it was cut on the mud, it would be appropriate. With Ye Suiyun's skill, even if he uses a wooden sword and bamboo knife, as long as the internal force is attached, it will inevitably be sharp and unstoppable.

The people including the fast knife Tartar were all amazed, looking at each other, thinking that there was such a fast knife in the world. Ye Suiyun turned the knife upside down and handed it to the quick knife tartar, took the box of the short knife in his hand, and said with a smile: "Thank you, your kitchen knife will be famous from today onwards." ”

The quick knife tartar sounded twice, obviously not relieved, and I couldn't figure out why this ordinary kitchen knife was so fast. Ye Suiyun was about to leave, then turned back and asked, "You have been selling knives here, have you seen two Miao women coming out of the Wangfu Inn opposite?" ”

The quick knife tartar came back to his senses, thought for a while, and said, "As soon as you said it, I remembered that I did see two women in Miao costumes walking out of the inn this morning, and it seemed that they were heading towards the green mountains and forests to the south. ”

Ye Suiyun was overjoyed, turned around and walked out of the crowd, but found that the onlookers had begun to scramble to take out the money at the moment, and kept shouting "I'll buy one", "I'll buy two", "I want three" shouts one after another, and they were all shocked by this magical kitchen knife. The quick knife tartar hurriedly said: "Come one by one, don't squeeze." ”

Looking at the commotion in front of him, Ye Suiyun was happy to hear it, and said in his heart: "Brother Tartar, don't blame me, in the end, you also contributed to saving Xiaomengzi, fortunately, so many people came to buy knives, and you didn't suffer a loss." He dug into the pocket of his sleeve, took out two copper coins, and smiled bitterly and thought that he only had two coins on his body, and he had to resort to a trick in order to save people. was about to leave, but he accidentally saw a vendor selling sugar gourds next to him, walked up and asked, and it happened to be two dollars away. Ye Suiyun paid the money, wrapped the sugar gourd in a cloth and put it on his body, and then went straight to the green mountains and forests.

Ye Suiyun ran wildly in the direction guided by the fast knife and tartar for an hour, and when he stopped, he was already far away from the lonely mountain set, and he looked at the big trees and green vines all around, and he thought that he had arrived in the area of the green mountains and forests. When I was thinking about where to look next, I only heard the sound of the grass rattling, as if some living thing was moving.

Ye Suiyun looked down and couldn't help but be startled, and saw a strange snake emerging from the grass, with a golden body and a light cyan sarcoma bulging in the middle of the top of his head.

When Ye Suiyun saw the appearance of this strange snake, he was first shocked and then delighted, and said in his heart, Isn't this the jade-headed golden dragon. Suddenly, the sound gradually became louder, and several golden snakes swam out, following closely behind the first one, and when they passed Ye Suiyun, they were not aggressive, and it could even be said that they didn't pay attention to him at all. Look at the momentum, these scary guys are attracted by something like a pilgrimage, and they all move in one direction.

Ye Suiyun planned to see what was going on, and followed closely. When he passed through a tall patch of grass again, he saw a man sitting on the ground with his back to this side, motionless. And Ye Suiyun recognized it at a glance that it was Ah Youduo who was sitting. The strange little girl was now intently blowing with a bamboo leaf, making a hissing sound, not loud, somewhat like the sound of a bee.

Although Ye Suiyun felt that the vision in front of him was strange and strange, he didn't have time to think about it, this jade-headed golden dragon was poisonous after all, and if it was really bitten, the consequences would be unpredictable. Seeing that Ah Youduo was engrossed in the bamboo leaves in his hand at the moment, and he didn't know anything about the large number of poisonous snakes approaching behind him, he couldn't help but pick up a dead branch and shouted, "Ah Xiaomei, be careful." In the middle of the shouting, he jumped up and down in front of the first golden snake and pushed it away with a branch. The snake flew out of the aftermath and crawled over after landing on the ground.

Ye Suiyun was about to drive away the rest of the golden snakes, when he heard someone shouting: "Young man, please stop, this snake was deliberately recruited by us." "A person jumped from a tree, it was Feng Yao. When she fell, she held a handful of powder in her right hand and sprinkled it at the snakes. Those jade-headed golden dragons were sprinkled with this powder, and they suddenly seemed to be drunk, and they kept shaking with their heads held high, and finally fell to the ground motionless with a snap.

Ah Youduo stood up, a little surprised, and said, "Why are you the elder brother of the Han family?" ”

Ye Suiyun scratched his head a little embarrassed, and said, "I was in a hurry, but I forgot that you are not afraid of these guys, it is really an axe." ”

Feng Yao said: "Even so, thank you for your kindness." ”

Ah Youduo didn't seem to understand, and said, "What door, what axe?" ”

Ye Suiyun squatted down, patted the top of her head and smiled: "That is to say, when dealing with these snakes, I am far worse than you." ”

Ah Youduo grinned and said, "Of course. But Sister Feng Yao told me, you have a lot of skills, right? ”

Ye Suiyun said with a smile: "If you really have great skills, you don't have to look for you so hard." ”

Feng Yao seemed a little surprised, and repeated: "Looking for us? ”

Ye Suiyun stood up and said, "It's a long story, there is a child who is seriously ill and dying right now, and he urgently needs the venom of this jade-headed golden dragon to save his life. The day before yesterday, I overheard you mention that you wanted to catch it here, so I came looking for it. Of course, he didn't dare to say that he heard it by following the people of Yumu Village late at night, and Feng Yao didn't think much about it, thinking that he and Ah Youduo had slipped through the scorpion that time.

Ye Suiyun said again Tang Xiao's idea that the golden dragon venom could quickly coagulate blood, and said, "I don't know how to hunt for the golden snake at all, so I thought of asking you for help." ”

Feng Yao praised again and again: "I can think of using the Golden Dragon Venom to save people like this, it seems that the people of the Central Plains are not as simple as I imagined, and they are not only afraid of the five immortals." As he spoke, he picked up a golden snake, squeezed it open, stuck a bamboo tube on its fangs and began to absorb the venom, and the snake shook a few times as if it had been disturbed in its sleep.

Ye Suiyunqi said: "It turns out that these guys are not dead. ”

Feng Yao said: "Of course, the five immortals are all our friends, and they are all creatures in this world, how can they be killed casually." "Ye Suiyun knew that in their mouths, 'five immortals' referred to the five poisons.

A Youduo said: "Brother Han, do you know, in order to find these treasures, Sister Feng Yao and I have been grass for seven days in a row, and finally we can use bamboo leaves to summon them today." You didn't come sooner or later, just in time. Ye Suiyun didn't understand what a grass primer was, and when they thought about it, they didn't understand it, so they simply didn't ask.

Feng Yao sealed the bamboo tube filled with venom, handed it to Ye Suiyun, and said, "These must be enough." Ye Suiyun thanked him, took the bamboo tube, and asked casually, "Why do you want to catch the golden snake?" ”

Ah Youduo and Feng Yao glanced at each other, as if they had taboos on this issue, and were considering whether to say it or not. After thinking for a moment, Feng Yao said: "Shaoxia is a good person, and it doesn't hurt to tell you." Do you know that we are from the Five Immortals Sect of Yunnan? Ye Suiyun nodded, if it weren't for Tang Xiao's telling, he really didn't know anything.

Feng Yao said: "It's just because many years ago, something happened in my Immortal Sect, and the 'Corpse Curse' of the Gu Art Holy Book in the Sect was stolen by a traitor. As a result, it caused a lot of chaos, and even the Central Plains was affected. ”

Ye Suiyun asked: "The name of the corpse curse sounds strange and scary, dare to ask what is recorded in it?" ”

Feng Yao said: "It's a method of making corpses with poisonous Gu. Before she finished speaking, Ye Suiyun exclaimed in surprise and said, "You said corpses? He suddenly thought of his experience in Luodao Li Ducheng, and now he still trembled when he thought about it.

Feng Yao said: "Yes, if an ordinary person is planted with a corpse Gu, he will become a corpse, and the higher the martial arts of the refiner, the stronger the corpse will be." Ye Suiyun said in his heart that those terrifying corpses appeared like this, and they were actually related to the Five Poisons Sect.

Feng Yao continued: "My Immortal Sect Leader knows that if this book is lost, it will inevitably cause disaster to the world and be out of control. Therefore, while sending people to trace the whereabouts of the book, they also set out to remedy it. Ah Youduo and I came here to develop an antidote. ”

Ye Suiyun asked, "You mean, even if you become a corpse, there is medicine that can save you?" ”

Feng Yao said: "It's not certain yet, but the elders in the sect have proposed that the venom of the jade-headed golden dragon growing in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River may have an inhibitory effect on corpse poison. That's why the two of us have come all the way. ”

Ye Suiyun praised: "If this antidote can really come out, it will be a great achievement, I just hope that you will succeed." He saw that the sun had begun to set in the west, and he was worried that Cao Gaisi had run away, so he patted the bamboo tube hanging on his waist and said, "Thank you two for your help, we will have a meeting later." ”

Ah Youduo suddenly asked: "Brother Han, you have a chance to come to Yunnan to play with us in the future." Little Red likes you too. As he spoke, he patted the bamboo basket on his waist.

Ye Suiyun couldn't help but shudder and said, "You help me say hello to Xiaohong." After speaking, he quickly turned around and left quickly, afraid that Ah Youduo would really take Xiaohong out to himself.

Seeing that it was already dark, he thought that he would get ahead of Cao Gaisi, return to the dock as soon as possible and wait, and never let him leave alive. After running like this for a while, I suddenly found that there was a light not far away, it was a house, and I ran closer, and the plaque hanging on the lintel reads the word 'Cao Fu'.

Ye Suiyun's thoughts flashed and stopped. I saw a person standing outside the gate of the manor, in a green coat and a lantern, looking around, as if waiting for someone. Ye Suiyun stepped forward and asked, "Whose house is this?" ”

The man was waiting impatiently, and when he saw that it was a young man dressed as a servant, he said angrily: "Go and go, get away, and don't see what kind of place this is." ”

Ye Suiyun reached out and snatched his lantern over, and held the man's hands together with the other hand. The man suddenly felt that his wrist was clamped by iron tongs, and he suddenly screamed in pain.

Ye Suiyun shouted: "Shut up." The man was so frightened that he immediately stopped screaming, but beads of sweat were already rolling down.

Ye Suiyun's hand was slightly loosened, and he asked, "Let me ask you, is this Cao Gaisi's house?" ”

The man nodded hurriedly, and hummed: "Exactly, exactly, my master is also from the green forest, and you are friends all the way with the uncle, please raise your noble hand and let go of the small one." ”

Ye Suiyun thought that he thought that he had regarded himself as a bandit and robber, and then thought that Cao Gaisi was really bold, and dared to write the word Cao Fu on the door so grandiosely, and asked, "Who are you?" The man replied, "The little one is the housekeeper here." ”

Ye Suiyun said: "Is Cao Gaisi inside now?" ”

The housekeeper said: "Naturally not here, we should have come back today, but I didn't see anyone after waiting here for a day." ”

Ye Suiyun hurriedly said: "You mean he didn't go home all day today?" The butler didn't know why he suddenly looked like this, nodded again and again, and said, "Yes, otherwise the little one wouldn't have to wait at the door in the dark." ”

Ye Suiyun threw down the housekeeper and ran, knowing that something was wrong, and Cao Gaisi might have left Gushanji. He was anxious to start a light effort and run back, and just after running a few steps, he suddenly saw a person lying on the side of the road in front of him. If it weren't for his eyesight, the forest path in the dark night would have been imperceptible.

When he came to him, Ye Suiyun saw that the man was motionless, stretched out his hand and turned it over, and looked through the moonlight, it was the 'Black Yama King' Cao Gaisi, who had long since lost his breath, and it seemed that he had been dead for a while.