Halfway up the small lonely mountain.

A sword-forging furnace was completely open.

By the hearth, there was an old man in sackcloth sitting on his back drinking, as if waiting.

Everything seems so unremarkable.

But if you look at it thousands of miles away.

Thousands of miles of Jiangnan Road, there are scattered figures jumping up from time to time in various places.

Or tall buildings, or tree tops, or mountain peaks, looking at the direction of Yunmeng.

Where there is no sound, there is thunder.

But the truth is that the angry tide is coming on the Butterfly Creek, and the wind is moving the mines.

100 miles away.

In the upper reaches of Butterfly Creek, there is a sluice dam sitting between Yunmengze and Yuenu Gorge.

On the sluice dam, there are groups of patrol officials, smiling and smiling, the sky overhead, clear and blue.

Under the sluice dam, there is a newly erected water monument, immersed in the water surface of the small half of the monument.

At a certain moment, the water level, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly rose.

……

Ouyang Rong saw a pillar of blue air, soaring into the sky.

Like a vertical line, connecting heaven and earth.

Spectacular.

This is not a realistic picture of a certain type of technological headset that Ouyang Rong experienced in his previous life when he was shopping, and the deceptive eyes generated.

This is what is really happening in front of his eyes.

This is what a qi practitioner like the little junior sister can usually see?

The sentence "wo grass" was swallowed by Ouyang Rong, who considered himself a gentleman and culture.

He was suddenly curious.

Look left and right at the surrounding heaven and earth.

These are...... The air between heaven and earth.

What the little junior sister said before was right.

Everything has air.

Ouyang Rong was in a trance.

Immediately lowered his eyes and looked at Xie Lingjiang grabbing his lotus root.

A crimson air current, shaped like a long snake, gushed out from the little sister's arm.

I saw that this "crimson fire snake" poured into the meridians in his body all the way through the hand Shaoyang meridian.

"Little junior sister, are you sending me aura?"

"Well, Senior Brother doesn't have an aura cultivation for the time being, I'm helping you with your Qi."

The pause made Jiang Qiao's face tense, staring at the vision of "angry Beidou" in the distance.

After a pause, she didn't squint, and continued to explain:

"Inferior, air blue; Medium grade, Qi Zhu; Top-grade, air purple. Among them, the depth of the monochrome also represents the degree of purity of the aura, which can be seen the level of qi cultivation of the same rank.

"And once most qi practitioners make a move, they can see the color of the aura and roughly know the cultivation.

"These ...... The elder brother will gradually get acquainted with it in the future. ”

Ouyang Rong couldn't help but nod in surprise, looked down curiously, and looked at himself.

He had no aura on him, and he was gray.

Turn your head to look.

Under this look-a-glance vision, the situation of the little junior sister beside her was the same as the red clothes on her body.

Like southern red beans, bright and beautiful.

Ouyang Rong couldn't help but look sideways and asked:

"The pill that the little junior sister just gave me to eat was begged for ...... from Longhu Mountain."

Xie Lingjiang suddenly interrupted, pointed his finger in front of him and said:

"Because of the difference in qi cultivation or qi refining, different qi practitioners can see different things in qi.

"For example, the Yin and Yang family qi warriors can see much more things than us, such as dragon qi and king qi and so on.

"What Senior Brother can see now is only the most basic."

Ouyang Rong swallowed the words silently, heard the words, pointed to the vision of the small lonely mountain on the west bank of Butterfly Creek in the distance, and was speechless:

"The most basic, can you see such outrageous? Uh, here's what I can see? ”

Xie Lingjiang jumped off the eaves with Ouyang Rong, and after landing on the ground, her tone was anxious:

"That's why it's a big problem.

"Father said that forging a sword is like alchemy, it is all about refining the aura of heaven and earth, drawing the purest qi from it, and achieving the 'unity' of some foreign object, which is used by qi practitioners.

"This Ding Sword, the condensed aura is too pure, the most powerful Taoist alchemist I have ever seen before, practicing a furnace of Jin Dan is not so exaggerated.

"It's just been in the world, and the first time you wash your sword, you can cause such a magnificent scene, even the senior brother can see it clearly."

“……”

Ouyang Rong was speechless, and asked curiously:

"Washing the sword? What to wash the sword. ”

"The Confucian classics say that when the Xinding sword is baked, it will trigger the aura of heaven and earth, wash the sword for the first time, and adapt to this heaven and earth...... I don't know very well, the first time the sword was washed, it should be the scene we see now. ”

Ouyang Rong interrupted:

"Little junior sister, just say it directly, what stage is this Ding Sword in now?"

Xie Lingjiang sighed:

"Senior Brother understands it this way, this Ding Sword with an unknown real name has just left the 'small' sword furnace that has been brewing for many years, and now it has entered this world.

"It's like a baby trying to get out of the womb and adapt to the outside of the womb while waiting for the final umbilical cord to be cut.

"And the first sword wash is this process.

"The downstream of Butterfly Creek is a radius of 100 miles, including the entire Dragon City, and now it has drawn the ground as a prison and has become a big sword furnace, and the earth veins and water veins are all affected by it, and it is crazy to absorb luck and use it to wash the sword."

Ouyang Rong asked curiously:

"Baby mother's womb? Umbilical cord? What kind of strange metaphor is this, what is the umbilical cord of Dingjian? ”

Xie Lingjiang glanced at him and just said:

"The swordsmith is this umbilical cord, don't forget that he is also a qi practitioner, and right now, the swordsmith is the last bridge connecting the sword furnace and the sword.

"In fact, the moment you open the furnace door and let Ding Jian leave the sword furnace, the fate of the sword forger is already doomed......"

A little abstract, Ouyang Rong pondered, nodded, and asked a more abstract question:

"Big or small, right? Gotta go? That's going to be big. ”

Xie Lingjiang was stunned for a moment, nodded, and shook his head again: "What do you mean, senior brother." Want to save the swordsmith? ”

Ouyang Rong held the knife in one hand, took off the felt hat with the other and threw it away, coldly looked at the sword qi in the distance, and asked sonorously:

"Saving the swordsmith is only incidental, it doesn't matter if you can save it or not, after all, you can't live if you do your own evil.

"But this Ding Sword Washing Sword actually regarded the entire territory of Longcheng County as its maternal womb, absorbing water and gas to wash the sword.

"Who gave it the power? I don't agree, and neither do the fathers and villagers in Longcheng County, so I shouldn't be its wild father!

"So what I want to ask is, if you haven't completely left the mother's womb and cut the umbilical cord yet, does that mean that you can still kill the fetus, just like protecting the big but not the small, keeping the mother and fetus, little sister, is this a description, right?"

He turned his head and squinted at Xie Lingjiang, who was stunned for a moment:

"In other words, this Ding Sword is in the process of washing the sword for the first time, if we rush over now, such as blowing up the sword casting furnace or something, will there be a chance to destroy it?"

Hearing Senior Brother's Qingqi brain circuit, Xie Lingjiang's face was stunned:

"I ...... I don't know, should ...... It should be possible, can it be interrupted? ”

She didn't ask confidently, she looked at Ouyang Rong with a serious look twice, and couldn't help but say more:

"Senior brother, I really have never heard of this line of thinking, and I have no past experience to refer to.

"In the past, the rulers of all dynasties cast swords, and everyone hoped that the sword would be born, and they all gave birth to it.

"Even if the enemy who snatched the Ding Sword is, no one has studied how to interrupt the first sword washing ceremony of the Ding Sword, and no one cares whether the Ding Sword has affected the surrounding people......

Speaking of this, Xie Lingjiang's words were slowly contained.

Ouyang Rong suddenly turned his hand to the face, leaned forward with the knife, and said word by word:

"Little junior sister, don't stare at this mythical sword yet, you go and take a look over there, the Di Gong Gate is rising again!"

Xie Lingjiang suddenly turned his head and looked south.

From a distance, it can be seen that between the mountains in the upper reaches of Butterfly Creek, there are several peaks with the same interval, and green smoke rises one after another.

At this moment, the two of them stood near the top of Dagu Mountain, and they really saw it.

It's just that just now, Xie Lingjiang had been nervously watching the vision of the Ding Sword coming out of the furnace and washing the sword, but he didn't notice it for a while.

"It's ...... Balefire? She was stunned.

Previously, in order to deal with the flood, Xie Lingjiang remembered that the senior brother had set up an early warning mechanism, including the water monument set up along the upper reaches of Butterfly Creek, as well as seven fire towers among the mountains upstream, so as to facilitate the first time to report the news.

Green smoke means that the water level is soaring and ready to evacuate.

And the black smoke means that the gate has collapsed and the flood is coming soon.

Ouyang Rong said calmly:

"It's cyan wolf smoke, Yun Mengze's water level has skyrocketed, and Di Gongzha is already in an emergency, asking for help from Longcheng County.

He took a deep breath and said:

"The rainy season has passed, and on a hot summer day, the water level has skyrocketed.

"Now it seems that the last two floods, it was also doing it, what happened before, just forbearance, look at it today, it will come out again, then the hard work of the past few months, isn't it all in vain?

"I, Ouyang Lianghan, disagree! The fathers and villagers of Longcheng County also disagreed! ”

After speaking, Ouyang Rong turned his head and rushed towards the outside of the temple.

Xie Lingjiang looked at the familiar back of the senior brother in a daze.

"Senior brother, wait for me, I'll go with you!"

Her figure flashed, and she followed Ouyang Rong who was running forward.

The latter didn't reply: "How long is it until the first successful sword washing of Ding Sword?" ”

Xie Ling Jiang looked at the qi from afar, looked at the pillar of sword qi light in his field of vision for a while, pinched his fingers and calculated, and turned his head:

"It's expected to be around two o'clock in the afternoon."

"At half past twelve at noon, you should have time to rush to the county government to organize refuge, and then mobilize manpower to stop the Liu family."

Ouyang Rong muttered, mentally calculated.

At this moment, the two had already run to the gate of Donglin Temple, preparing to go down the mountain along the road.

Ouyang Rong ran and gasped, suddenly turned his head and commanded:

"Little junior sister, you are faster than me, go first, go to the county government to report the news, and shake the field for me.

"Let's just say that the county order is back, let them stop messing around and stick to their respective posts.

"You first ask Yan Liulang and them to issue a county order for me, gather the people of the whole city, and take refuge on Dagu Mountain, just like the measures taken last time the water rose.

"It's a priority, a priority!

"Then, let them mobilize official ships and supplies, and when I return to the county office, I will make other arrangements!"

Don't look at the mountain from Donglin Temple, Longcheng County and Butterfly Creek are in full view, and it seems that it is not far away.

But in fact, Wangshan ran a dead horse.

Dagu Mountain is located in the suburbs of Longcheng County, more than 100 miles away, if you don't take the waterway, it will take one or two hours just to drive by horse-drawn carriage.

Xie Lingjiang didn't take a breath, she shook her head on the side and said:

"It's okay, senior brother, I'll take you on the road."

She stretched out her bare hand towards Ouyang Rong's shoulder.

Ouyang Rong frowned: "It's too troublesome to take me." ”

Xie Lingjiang stretched out his hand without looking back: "Don't worry, I can stop more halfway and change my breath of air." ”

Ouyang Rong sideways to avoid:

"But it will affect your speed, you listen to me, you go to report immediately, direction, I'm behind, I'll be there soon, don't worry about me."

After a pause, he said with a serious face:

"Little junior sister, I'm mainly worried that without me, the county government will be in a mess now.

"Besides, I'm going to take a detour to the new ferry port of the Folding Wing Canal!

"It's the morning of the fifteenth, if nothing else, a ceremony is being held there to celebrate the canal, Diao County and they are all there, I went to recruit them, let them organize the people nearby, go to Dagu Mountain for refuge, this is the first priority at the moment,

"Then, I borrowed another boat, took the waterway of the Folding Wing Canal, and returned to Longcheng County with the wind, which was much faster than riding a horse by land! It will be there soon. ”

Xie Lingjiang bowed his head and sleeves.

In the sleeves of the red dress, there are a few fingers that are entangled.

He didn't leave immediately.

(End of chapter)