A rickety prisoner cart travels on a rough road.

The sound of wheels rattling, with a slight sharpness.

As the night deepened, the cold wind became more biting.

In the prison car, the numb people huddled together.

They were bare-skinned, and all of them looked numb, shivering in the cold wind of the call.

The strange old woman, after being whipped by the demons, howled like a ghost for a while, and then shrank alone in another corner of the prison car, casting penetrating glances at Gu Qing from time to time.

In this eye, there seems to be a bit of bloodthirsty and greedy.

It seems that Gu Qing is not a person, but a treasure.

Gu Qing didn't pay any attention to this strange old woman.

He sat in the cold prison car, did not come to the crowd gathered, and let the cold wind stir his clothes.

There were one hundred and thirteen people in the prisoner's car.

Among them, a small number of people who were missing arms and legs were simply bandaged, and many of them had already flowed out of red and yellow pus and blood.

The most serious people are already dying, with a lot of air and little air intake, and they are about to die.

The rest of the people, although they have sound limbs, but most of them are yellow and thin, but there are no absolutes, there are still six or seven people with red faces, wide bodies and fat bodies, and they are not from poor families at first glance.

There was a whispering sound from the edge of the pile of people gathered to ward off the cold wind.

"Dad, where are these monsters going to send us......"

This is a very sturdy young man, and he leaned into the ear of his father, who is also sturdy, and asked.

The young man's father was like a door panel, tall and tall, and he was afraid that he would be able to reach the top of the prisoner cart when he stood up, and when he heard this, his brows furrowed, and he replied: "Alas...... Those immortal masters have been beaten away, and where we go is not up to these monsters? If you come, you can be safe, as long as you can live. ”

"I heard that the next village has been killed by these monsters...... the sturdy young man's lips turned a little pale, "I don't know where these monsters came from, they look more fierce than the legendary monsters!" ”

"When those immortal masters hadn't withdrawn yet, my father heard them say that this monster was a 'demon clan', that is, the evil masters of those demon sects, saying that these demon clans were introduced into the mainland......" The young man's father said, thinking of his wife who had been ravaged by the demon clan after his tragic death, and a trace of hatred flashed in his expression.

"Heh, those immortal masters call for wind and rain on weekdays, they are very majestic, and they don't forget to take their blood relatives away when they leave, why don't they take us away too? And the evil master of the Demon Gate, not to mention...... None of these cultivators are good, they are all dog mongrels, phew! ”

The boy's father, after scolding, was still indignant.

"Well said! Those bitche-raised immortal masters, we provide for them so much on weekdays, respect them, but at the critical moment, they ran away by themselves......"

"I heard that those immortal masters' magic weapons are very powerful, why can't they take us away together?"

"Hybrid dog immortal, it's really for nothing, it's better to raise a dog, and then let Lao Tzu see it, he will definitely spit on his face......"

"Wu Lao Liu, don't you have to blow your fart, when you see the immortal master taking care of you, you kneel the fastest and shout the most flattering, don't you know your face as an old lady?"

“……”

For a while, the people in the prison car gathered to respond, but they quickly diverted the topic and gags.

The originally numb expressions on everyone's faces loosened slightly, and they fled from the bottomless pit of panic for a very short time, and the atmosphere became hot.

But the cold wind became more and more cold, like the biting cold water of winter, but in a few breaths, the enthusiasm of everyone was extinguished.

Inside the prison car, the silence of death was restored again.

After four or five breaths, all the people, including the father and son who spoke first, had quieted down.

A pair of dim eyes, quietly watching the night, swept over the fence of the prisoner cart made of two kinds of logs.

Looking at the color of this fence, the old and the new are clear at a glance.

The new stubble, its color, is a kind of white, protruding from different heights and sizes, emerging from the top of the prisoner cart, flickering in the cold moonlight.

About half an hour later, no more moonlight fell on these brand-new stubble, a snowflake fell down, and the temperature around Gu Qing was also low enough to freeze mortal people for a short time, and the people in the prisoner car seemed to have been frozen, and they couldn't even shiver.

Gu Qing didn't feel frozen.

After all, his body has not only cultivated the Ten Earth Transformation Holy Technique, refined the body of the ancient demon into his body, and reached the realm of one place, but also after more than a hundred years of spiritual power refining, even if the part that belongs to the 'essence' converges into the body, it is still more than a hundred times stronger than ordinary people.

The sound of dense hooves landing in front of him ceased at this time.

The prisoner cart also stopped after the 'creak' sound.

Then the rudimentary door of the prisoner's cart was opened.

Immediately, a big purple and cyan hand as hideous as a ghost claw reached in, and this big purple and cyan hand seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then grabbed Gu Qing and pulled Gu Qing towards the outside of the prisoner car.

Fei Jing, the fat demon people, looked Gu Qing up and down for a while with the one-eyed eyes on his face: "You Terran beggar, you are lucky." ”

Fei Jing's language is the language of the demon race.

Gu Qing couldn't understand.

But Gu Qingguan looked at Fei Jing, the look on his strange cheeks, and felt that this person pulled himself out, not to be unfavorable to himself.

So, Gu Qing pressed the idea of doing it, and let the fat demon Fei Jing wave his hand and throw him aside.

Boom!

Gu Qing fell heavily on the ground, but fortunately, the snow on the ground was thick enough, so he was not injured.

He got up from the ground, looked at his calves that had been submerged in the snow, and swept his eyes around, and realized that this was a forest farm, but the trees here were purple and black.

A human race holding his arms, gnawing on his bones, stepped on the snow and came to Gu Qing's side.

This human race has a full beard, a pair of eyes are bright, the body is tall, the body is strong, and when he stops there, it is like a big furnace, he looked Gu Qing up and down, and nodded.

"Beggars? Where are the people? The bearded man asked.

Gu Qing looked at the bearded man and was about to respond.

I noticed the changes in my body.

His hidden and constricted spiritual power actually felt like it was about to be pulled out!

Fortunately, the Great Five Elements Condensation True Magic Method he cultivated was thorough enough for the convergence of spiritual power, so he did not directly withdraw it.

But although the spiritual power in his body was not withdrawn, Gu Qing still had to divide most of his mind, extremely fine, manipulating every bone and every inch of flesh and blood in his body to resist this inexplicable suction.

"Yeguo, Huaining County." Gu Qing lowered his head and responded.

"Huaining County? I've been there a few times......" The bearded man nibbled on a piece of flesh and nodded.

Just as this bearded man was talking to Gu Qing, another black shadow was thrown over and smashed to the ground.

The figure quickly got up and rushed towards the prisoner cart.

"Father!"

The sturdy boy shouted.

Before the boy rushed to the side of the prisoner car, he was slapped on the head with a huge slap by a demon with a fierce eye!

Call!

With a deep exclamation from the prisoner car, the young man's eyes darkened, and then his sturdy figure was beaten in mid-air and spun around a few times, and he fell headlong in the snow, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Fei Jing, the fat demon, looked at this young man, and his face narrowed with one eye.

He had already grabbed his big hand on the young man's father, but he changed his mind in his heart, put the young man's father down again, and grabbed the yellow-skinned girl on the side of the young father.

As soon as the face of this yellow-skinned and thin girl was panicked, she was dragged out by the fat demon Fei Jing and thrown towards the snow on Gu Qing's side.

Boom!

The sound of the girl falling to the ground was much lighter than that of the sturdy boy.

She also hurriedly got up from the snow that had not passed her figure, trembling all over, and looked around in panic, looking at the prisoner cart with tears in her eyes.

Fei Jing, the fat demon, closed the simple door of the prisoner car, and didn't look at Gu Qing and the other four people on the side of the road.

He rolled over to the side and waited for the impatient beast, which snorted, blew up the snow and carried him forward.

The dull sound of hooves resumed, and the prisoner carts continued to move forward.

In the vast snow forest farm, only Gu Qing and the other four were left.

The bearded man finished gnawing the big bone stick in his hand, threw it aside, and glanced at the yellow-skinned girl on the side.

He took a few steps and picked up the sturdy boy who had fallen in the snow and was bleeding from a slap from the demons.

Immediately, he said to Gu Qing and the yellow-skinned girl at the same time: "The three of you are lucky!" You don't have to send it directly to the altar of the Great Demon Heaven to sacrifice to the demons, and use it as a blood food for flesh and bones. ”

Gu Qing's expression moved slightly.

"Lucky ......" The yellow-skinned girl bit her lip and looked at the big bone stick in the snow on the side.

The bearded man dragged the sturdy young man with one hand, came to the girl's side, and reached out to pinch the girl's chin.

This yellow-skinned girl didn't dare to resist at all, and she didn't have the strength to resist, but the thin body trembled more violently.

"The foundation is not bad...... It's a pity that Lao Tzu is not a person in this way. The bearded man let go of the beast and walked to the side, "This forest farm is next to the altar where the demons will transform the naturally grown spiritual veins into the demon veins, which is very strange, so those demon monsters and demon generals are afraid that the demon power in their bodies will be sucked dry, so they don't dare to come over, and even the demons can't stay here for a long time, so the land will suck away the vitality of the living beings." ”

Gu Qing did not hesitate and followed the bearded man closely.

The yellow-skinned girl also followed.

"This broken place, it stands to reason that all living beings are nothing more than existence, but for some reason, a tree comparable to a third-order ironwood has grown, which is really a good spiritual material for refining magic weapons and magic weapons, and those demon cubs naturally refuse to let go, so they catch some low-level monks......"

The bearded man said this, and closed his mouth abruptly.

After a while, he glanced at the two people behind him before he spoke again: "Hehe, what do you have to say to you mortals...... In short, in the days when they lived in this place, it was good to cut wood, and every three days, the demons would send a batch of dry firewood, animal meat, and water. ”

After saying this, the bearded man fell silent.

He took Gu Qing and the yellow-skinned little girl all the way through the purple-black trees with strange shapes, and came to this snow-covered, silver-white forest farm, in a clearing.

This clearing has many thick and thin tree stumps, and a wooden house covering an area of more than ten zhang square.

On one side of the wooden house, there is a huge warehouse, the door of the warehouse is open, you can see that on one side, there are a lot of dry firewood, and buckets of water, hanging a fan of animal meat, and on the other side, there are many purple-black wood, these woods are piled together, exuding a rich purple haze, which is very eye-catching.

The bearded man walked straight past the warehouse, came to the front of the wooden house, pushed open the door of the wooden house, and suddenly a stream of hot air erupted, which made Gu Qing raise his eyebrows, and the yellow-skinned girl was even more yearning.

"You three can find a place to rest at will, and you are narrow enough to cut down six trees every half month, and the axe is on the edge of that wall." The bearded man took Gu Qing and the girl into the house, pointed to the side of the wall, and threw the sturdy young man who dragged all the way in front of him, crackled and slapped him, and woke him up.

As soon as Gu Qing and the girl entered the house, their eyes were attracted by the dozens of corpses piled up on one side of the wall.

"Ahh

Gu Qing seemed to be frightened and didn't react much, but the girl was so frightened that she exclaimed and took a few steps back.

"These are some of my senior brothers, and the bones of mortals who have been sucked dry in this forest farm, so there is no need to make a fuss." The bearded man buttoned his nostrils and said indifferently, he didn't care about the sturdy young man who woke up leisurely under his slap, got up and walked towards the wall.

He picked up a big axe, put it on his shoulder, yawned and said: "Today, Lao Tzu's share has already been done, but a few of you are the same human race as Lao Tzu, then Lao Tzu will be very kind, take you once, carry the axe, and follow me." ”

With that, the bearded man walked out the door.

Gu Qing didn't say a word, he also bypassed the pile of bones, came to the wall, and reached out and grabbed an axe.

With a strong hand in his hand, he picked up the slightly heavy axe, and then pretended to be extremely struggling, and carried it on his shoulder.

"You beggar is very thin, but this strength is not bad." A hint of strangeness flashed in the bearded man's eyes.

"In the early years, I also practiced some martial arts." Gu Qingjiang's face turned red, smiled reluctantly, and responded.

The sturdy young man got up from the ground bleeding from the ground, took three steps and made two steps, stopped in front of the bearded man, and asked, "What is this place, and who are you?" What about my father? Tell me, 'Where is my father?' If you don't tell me, I'll ...... today."

Boom!

As the sturdy boy spoke, he went to pull the placket of the bearded man's clothes, but he was kicked up by the bearded man.

"Uh...... Burst! The sturdy boy flew upside down, spurting out a few mouthfuls of blood and striking the door of the hut.

"If you don't die, you don't want to die, so get up and go with Lao Tzu." The bearded man walked indifferently past the sturdy boy and walked out of the wooden house.

Gu Qing also followed the bearded man and walked out of the wooden house.

The yellow-skinned girl, gritting her teeth, barely picked up the big axe, and looked at the young man curled up in a ball like a prawn in fear, chasing after the bearded man out of this warm wooden house.

The sturdy young man's forehead beads of sweat were constantly rising.

"Father...... Where did my father go...... What the hell is this place......" He turned around, muttering to himself until out of the corner of his eye he saw a pile of bones in the corner.

He was agitated and got up from the ground.

"Let's save my life first...... My father said that if you stay in the green mountains, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. The sturdy boy came to the back of the bones, took a large axe, and carried it easily on his shoulder, and went out of the hut.

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

The snow in this forest farm seems to never stop.

The snow on the ground is getting thicker and thicker.

The forest farm was close to the left side of the wooden house, and Gu Qing, whose face was full of ravines and his eyes were cloudy, took an axe and cut down the trees in front of him.

Boom! Boom! Boom! ……

The purple-black body of this tree, without the presence of bark, has a slight purple gas on it, and the texture is extremely hard.

Often Gu Qing fell with an axe, and he could only split the body of the tree into a small depression.

The cold wind rolled up the snow particles and flew around, and the girl who was still yellow and thin, but also had more blood than before, and the sturdy young man, shivered while cutting down trees.

The girl and the sturdy young man, wearing clothes sewn from animal skins, when they were resting, they all looked at Gu Qing from time to time, and their eyes were strange and strange.

This thin old beggar has such good physical strength......

In the past half month, the two of them have cut down less than one-third of the old beggar's trees!

Especially the girl with a yellow face and thin muscles.

After all, she is thin and small, and she is a daughter, and in the past half a month, she has only cut down a tree.

Half a day passed, and Gu Qing only cut off most of this stout tree that was slightly curved, like a person bending over.

"Phew......" Gu Qing exhaled a breath of white air, poked the axe into the snow, leaned on the axe, and stood still in the snow, his body steaming.

"Wow, Grandpa Lin, you are so amazing, you have been cutting for half a day in a row, and you can't rest!" The yellow-skinned girl also put down the axe at this time and clutched her hand full of blood blisters.

After half a month of getting along, Gu Qing can be regarded as having some familiarity with this girl and the sturdy young man.

As for the bearded man, he had been mysterious and had little contact with them since he took them to cut down a tree that day.

Gu Qing is naturally still under the pseudonym Lin Changqing.

The girl's name is Lin Yun, and the sturdy young man is called He Qiang.

"Compared to you young people, it's just that your stamina is better......" Gu Qing responded with a smile, and then took out a bone stick from his arms.

He didn't care if the bone stick was clean or not, and gnawed on it.

In the past half a month, Gu Qing has deeply adapted to the current state, and tried his best to forget that he was a monk.

He seems to have really become a beggar who has been captive by the demons, and the ups and downs of his cultivation in the past are like a distant dream.

In this forest farm, he ate meat and slept every day except cutting down trees.

In getting along with Lin Yun and He Qiang, the two little dolls, he often carefully felt the pain of these two people and tried to integrate himself into them.

Gradually, he seemed to understand the true meaning of the four words of Hongchen refining the heart.

This is not to let a monk go to the world to play a pass, or to experience some kind of love calamity, that is still high, how can it be regarded as refining the mind?

If you don't go to the raging flames and go to the middle of it, how can it be called 'refining'?

Now that you have stepped into the red dust, you have to feel the pain and struggle of the people in the red dust, not to think about it, but to seek enlightenment.

But what is it that he wants to realize?

Gu Qing looked at the vast snow, looking at the mountains looming in the distance, the cold wind blew into the animal skin he was wrapping in, and carried snow particles across his skin.

He squinted, looked at his hands, and thought to himself: 'To be born between heaven and earth is to live for a hundred years, and the time experienced is only a moment, the sky is high and the earth is high, and my generation of monks can live for thousands of years, but the time of thousands of years and thousands of years will pass away in a long time in terms of heaven and earth. “

'Even if you become a monk of the Jiedan, or even become a primordial infant, what can you do? is still full of powerless things, and it is even more exciting to look back. “

'If I don't see this vast world, I can be a rich man, indulge in lust in my early years, and have a full house of children and grandchildren in my later years, but I can enjoy myself, I can see this vast world, how can I be willing to be that rich man? “

'As soon as you enter the fairy road, there is no shore to turn back. “

It is said that those who have the qualifications to practice are favored by God, but if God really cares for them, why should there be so many barriers and shackles? How to build a successful foundation? Gu Qing closed his eyes, picked up the axe, and continued to cut down the purple-black trees.

Embarking on the fairy road is to ask for leisure.

How can you be bound by so many realms and fame, affected by so many deceits, and coerced by all kinds of impermanence on this road? The word "free", I'm afraid that when I reach the realm of true immortals, I may not be able to achieve it! What is the purpose of walking on the fairy road?

Gu Qing slashed a few times, tightened his clothes, and looked around with a slightly blank gaze, looking at the snow particles in the wind.

Mortals are the particles of snow in this wind, and they can't help themselves.

How about monks?

Perhaps, only after experiencing countless pains and struggles, still choosing to move forward with difficulty, and fearless perseverance, is the true meaning of this road.

For example, if a person with a hand-and-foot problem wants to walk in this snow-heavy snow, it is naturally not as good as a person with a healthy hand and foot, and he can walk faster and more steadily.

Perhaps all the people in the world are seekers.

Ordinary people are to low-level monks, just as low-level monks are to high-level monks, the former is a person with hand-and-foot diseases in the snow, and the latter is a person with sound hands and feet, and naturally the latter can walk faster and be able to go further on this path of seeking the way.

It is naturally closer to the word "free".

The ascension of the realm was not his goal, even if the monk of the Yudan realm could easily crush him to death.

But breaking through the knot should not be his main purpose.

His only purpose is not to tie the Dan, or even to the Yuan Baby, but to truly attain the Great Escape!

Jump out of all rules, without any constraints, without half a point of hindrance, eternal and eternal!

There is this enlightenment.

A strange feeling appeared in Gu Qing's heart.

He only felt that the three treasures of his body's essence and spirit were all shocked.

This shock is not felt in the outside world, but inside, it is like the collapse of thousands of mountains, roaring!