The mounts of Gu Shengchao and Tian Mang ate grass on the grass and rested on their own, although the grass in winter was yellow and dry and hard, it could also replenish physical energy.

When the horses saw them coming out of the woods and running towards their master, their heads rubbing their heads back and forth, they were very intimate.

After eating something briefly, Gu Shengchao asked, "Brother Tian, which direction should we go?" ”

Tian Mang looked at the mountains: "We can only go west along the foot of the mountain, and in about ten days or so, we will see a mountain peak that looks like the side of a human face, and then go straight to the southern desert for two days, and we can safely reach the country of Xileng." ”

"The younger brother used to stay in the caravan, and he couldn't get lost at night with the help of the North Star positioning, how many days will it take us to cross the desert now?" Gu Shengchao considered that the dry food and water bladders that the two of them brought with them only had one day's needs left, and wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

Tian Mang shook his head: "No, it's a forbidden place, no one can get out alive, I don't know how many caravans disappeared there." The road I am talking about was discovered by other caravans that we spent money to find. Even so, we only dare to go after the snow falls in the winter, and we will never risk it at other times. ”

"Forbidden Land?" Gu Shengchao was stunned, it was the first time he had heard that there was such a place.

The two got on the horse and chatted while walking, and after Tian Mang's introduction, Gu Shengchao had a general understanding.

The desert is vast, not only do business travelers enter and there is no return, but even the surrounding cattle and sheep are also retreating, and rarely go there to graze. People know that place is a forbidden place, so they basically choose to detour.

Even if it's a detour, people are only in winter. Especially in summer and autumn, everyone is far away and can't avoid it.

Tian Mang was a porter when he was young, and he chose to venture through the summer after the team, walking normally along the foot of the mountain, and the person at the front of the pathfinder suddenly went crazy and slashed with a knife. In a short time, the man who had stopped him in the past was also infected, and he drew his sword and died with him.

The people who followed behind felt dizzy, and they didn't dare to move forward and turn around and run, so they escaped.

Every year, a very small number of people who do not believe in evil break in, and they are all gone, and they have never returned, and they have never been accounted for since.

Tian Mang led the way, and the two of them basically walked along the mountain range.

In order to divert the pursuers, they let go of the horses carrying heavy loads, and the dry food they brought with them had already been eaten, but fortunately the pheasants and hares were caught on the mountain, which could relieve their urgent needs.

The two stopped walking for more than ten days, and Tian Mang gradually became anxious: "Oops, we seem to be lost, I remember that the mountain that looks like a human face should have arrived a long time ago, but I couldn't find it." ”

"Let's always go first along the foot of the mountain, it's not possible to get lost, isn't it just ahead." Gu Shengchao comforted him.

Tian Mang walked forward for two more days with Gu Shengchao, looking at the collapsed rocks next to the cliff and suddenly woke up: "I understand, that mountain peak is very old, it must have collapsed and no longer exists, so we can't find it." ”

"It's too late anyway, so let's go back and find out." Gu Shengchao believed in Tian Mang.

The two returned to look for three days, and encountered several mountain peaks collapsing, but Tian Mang couldn't distinguish them.

After calming down and deliberating for a long time, they decided to stock up on more food and water, choose a place close to what Tian Mang knew, and venture south across the desert.

After two days of travel in the desert, and the third day was almost noon, Tian Mang pointed to the distance and said excitedly: "There is nothing wrong with this road, have you seen the city in front?" ”

A tall city in front of it was revealed in the sky, ethereal and illusory under the shadow of clouds.

"See." Gu Shengchao was also excited, and ran towards it on horseback.

However, the two of them rode for two hours, and the city still stood as far as the eye could see.

Gu Shengchao faintly felt bad, and broke off the verbena in a flat and conspicuous place on the ground and dropped half of it.

The two of them ran towards the city for nearly an hour, and the ancient saint was sharp-eyed and found half of the horsewhip discarded on the ground.

Pick it up and dock it in your hand, and it is seamlessly connected.

"Ghost hitting the wall?" Tian Mang was shocked when he saw it.

He soared into the air, summoned his sword and stood on it to look high, the city still looming in the distance, surrounded by a vast desert, and nothing else.

"Trouble, we've strayed into the Forbidden Lands." Tian Mang landed on his horse, and his voice trembled a little.

Gu Shengchao looked around, the sky was gloomy, although he couldn't see the sunset, he also knew that it was about to be dusk.

"This place is really weird, we might as well rest in place to conserve our strength, and wait until the evening to discern the direction with the help of the stars, maybe we can pass through here." Gu Shengchao suggested.

Tian Mang was helpless: "It's okay, it can only be like this now." ”

As night fell, layers of mist rose from the desert, making the already dark night even darker.

Needless to say, the sky is full of stars, and it is difficult to see things even from ten steps away.

The winter night suddenly fogged up, no matter how you think about it, it is not a good sign, Gu Shengchao and Tian Mang are a little uneasy.

Gu Shengchao released his senses, and there was no other aura within a radius of ten miles, so he was a little relieved.

Suddenly.

Ten steps away.

Two figures appeared.

"Who?"

Gu Shengchao and Tian Mang held their swords in their hands at the same time, and stood on the ground and shouted in horror.

Especially Gu Shengchao, obviously he didn't perceive the breath of the living thing, and two figures suddenly appeared, almost scattered.

The two figures were silent, silently walking towards the two of them.

Only five steps away, the two were even more shocked.

Those two people are clearly their doppelgangers, their appearance and clothes are exactly the same, and even the posture of holding the sword is not the same.

Gu Shengchao and Tian Mang glanced at each other, and at the same time raised their swords and stabbed at the other self.

What was even more shocking was that the two people were actually two phantoms, straight through their bodies.

Gu Shengchao and Tian Mang rushed over, stumbling a few steps and almost falling.

The two turned around, and the two phantoms also turned around, staggering towards them again.

"Brother Tian, don't pay attention to them." Gu Shengchao was just about to stop it, but Tian Mang had already killed him, and kept slashing towards the two phantoms, as if he was crazy.

Gu Shengchao sensed the surroundings and was sure that there was no danger, so he stepped forward and ordered Tian Mang's acupuncture points to calm him down.

Ignoring the two phantoms that were close at hand, the ancient saint was super concentrating and practicing qi.

Gu Shengchao was trapped in the Zhennan Wangfu by Tuoba Peak with a free fan, and it was all cracked by the "Five Soul Array", and the "Five Soul Array" was used at the moment, and the surrounding five elements were mutually restrained and laid out the formation.

The mist slowly dissipated, and the two phantoms gradually became transparent, and finally disappeared.

In a tea time, all the fog within a radius of ten miles dispersed, and a castle appeared out of thin air in front of it.

The castle was about a mile wide, and the gates were wide and unreadable in the dark.

Gu Shengchao Nahan, picked up Tian Mang and walked over.

When I came to the front, three big characters were faintly visible on the city gate: Phoenix Fort.

On both sides, there are couplets carved into the stone wall, and some of the fonts are detached, and they can still be largely distinguished.

The upper link is: the phoenix dance covers the world and walks the world, and the lower link is: seeking the phoenix to go to Kyushu.

When connected, it is clearly a phoenix dancing to seek a phoenix, which is unparalleled in the world.

Gu Shengchao became short of breath, this castle has a lot to do with the Phoenix Dance Sword Technique.

Unable to resist the impulse in his heart, he wanted to go in to find out, but he couldn't rest assured that Tian Mang was holding in his arms.

He was breathing steadily, asleep.

Their mounts followed.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Shengchao waved his hand to the BMW Chasing the Wind: "You two don't come in, just wait at the door." ”

Chasing the wind seemed to understand his master's words, shook the hair on his body, and stood still.

Gu Shengchao sensed that there was no one in the city gate, so he walked in cautiously with Tian Mang in his arms.

The dimly lit streets, flanked by half-collapsed houses, overgrown with weeds, and a depressed and dilapidated scene.

Coming to the center of the castle, there is a spacious martial arts training ground, and there is a tall stone tablet next to it, with rare characters on it.

Gu Shengchao opened the fire fold and watched.

The above content roughly says that they are all Sima Xicheng's disciples and grandchildren, who came here from the Dawu Dynasty to build a castle to live in, and practice the phoenix dance and phoenix sword technique.

In order to avoid interference from outsiders, the demon vines were specially obtained from the two poisonous witch sects and planted around the castle.

Magic vines grow underground, grass climbs everywhere, and leaves and flowers have hallucinogenic properties, giving people all kinds of illusions.

Outsiders couldn't get in, they thought they would be able to live in seclusion here.

Unexpectedly, the magic vine grew uncontrollably, and later spread to the castle through the underground.

They burned it, dug up the ground and cut off the rhizomes, but to no avail, and saw that their own people began to kill each other as if they were going crazy, so they had to abandon the castle and stay away from here.

Gu Shengchao went around to the other side of the stone stele, and it was written crookedly: Whoever asks for the heir of the phoenix swordsmanship, and then leaves after practicing the swordsmanship, there will be a surprise.

Looking at the smooth appearance of the stele, there was no word on it, and it was carved to it by later generations with internal force.

Gu Shengchao saw that his vision was open here, so he put down Tian Mang and walked around.

The martial arts training ground is paved with bluestone slabs, which is relatively flat and has very few weeds. All that remains of the next house is the collapsed walls, and the roofs are largely gone.

There was a large crater nearby, which felt bottomless in the night, and the edges were smooth.

After days of running, Gu Shengchao had already itched in his heart when he wasted his kung fu, and he wanted to find a time to practice well.

Taking advantage of this rare leisure time, he summoned his sword and held the sword in his left hand to perform the phoenix dance swordsmanship.

He imitated Tian Mang's appearance with his right hand, and cooperated with the sword in his left hand to make hooks, belts, leads, and other actions.

Inadvertently, Gu Shengchao felt that the dantian was full of true qi, and something seemed to be about to burst out.

He guided the true qi to run, and with a phoenix roar, a colorful phoenix appeared above his head.

Although the size is smaller than that conjured up with the phoenix dance sword, it is also colorful and dancing.

"Who are you?"

Gu Shengchao was immersed in the joy of cultivating Caifeng, and someone asked out of thin air, his whole body couldn't help but tremble violently, his true qi collapsed, and Caifeng drilled back into his body.

Gazing closely, a person's head poked out of the air, and behind it was a slender rattan that stretched into the deep pit next to the martial arts training ground.

"Mom!"

Gu Shengchao almost lost his soul, and he was so frightened that he sat on the bluestone slab.