The first thing I do when I wake up -

I touched the bed, but fortunately, the sword was beside me.

The second thing! ——

Get out of bed, put your meter away, and come out for someone!

Go to the first floor, walk out of the inn door, look up at the sky, the sun has been attached to the mountain, it's late today, the sun is about to set, no wonder there is no one in the inn now.

"Yo, this lord, you're awake."

The shopkeeper is very polite.

Li Changyuan turned around and smiled, and nodded. Standing at the door, he stretched a long lazy waist, didn't care about the cards, and after returning to the house, he asked the shopkeeper:

"What about that person?"

"Oh, what you said about Zhang Gongzi, he has already gone out."

"When?"

"Just the night before yesterday, after you and Zhang Gongzi finished drinking."

Li Changyuan slapped his forehead and snapped:

"It's over, I've been fooled again."

Ask the shopkeeper again:

"Do you know where he's gone?"

The shopkeeper's face was full of smiles:

"Hehe, master, you can rest here, Zhang Gongzi has instructed, when you wake up, let us tell you that he will go out for half a month before he can come back, I guess there is something to do."

Li Changyuan tilted his head and thought about it with his chin in his hands:

"That guy won't look for clues to the Meteoric Gate again......

……

After coming out of the north direction of Barbarian City, it was a mountainous area, but this was still the territory of the Qiu Jin Continent, and Zhang Wenliang led everyone to go in the direction of due north. Climbing the mountainside and walking the valley road, because of the excellent physique of the wasteland, the speed of the people hiking is very fast, even if there are old and young women and children in the team, hundreds of miles of mountain road travel, they walked out of the mountain area with yellow autumn leaves and withered grass in two days.

Ahead, is the plain, looking at it is still a dry yellow, two months ago it should have been a green scene, autumn is coming, only the wind is high and refreshing, people are comfortable, but the scene that catches the eye here makes the people of the wasteland behind them not happy.

They had limited food with them, and on the way to their destination, they had to find an opportunity to replenish some food.

In this environment, the grass roots in the soil are estimated to be inedible, and pulling them out can only be used as a guide for fire.

Next, following Zhang Wenliang, everyone walked to the northwest, and it took another three days to reach the border of the Qiujin Continent.

Why didn't the imperial court on the mainland send troops to expand its territory?

Because this is not only a troublesome matter, but more importantly, the court has no means, and it also has to deal with such a problem as the one in front of it-

At the border, there is a little black river, the opposite bank is two or three kilometers away from the foot, the river water is clean, but because there is something in the river, it looks black because it is 'bottomless' with this river. Reaching out and holding a sip of river water, the water in his hand is still very clean and clear, and it will be fine to drink it directly.

The people in the imperial court, it was because of this long black river that they had no choice but to stop the pace of expanding the territory.

The Black River is in a circle, almost enclosing the entire outer edge of the Qiu Jin Continent, and no one knows what is on the land on the other side of the Black River.

Their iron horses could not fight the monsters in the black river, and the imperial court had spent a lot of money to build a dock next to the black river, and all kinds of boats tried to cross the river, which was only two miles away, but they were all halfway through the swim and were stabbed through the bottom of the boat by the monsters in the river.

The monsters were not visible, but they could only be seen that the boat was stabbed and sunk to the bottom of the river, and if anyone swam, the monsters would bite their legs and feet and drag them into the water...... Or drown, or eat.

"Immortal Venerable, it's time to get there."

Houmi stepped forward and said to Zhang Wenliang.

Zhang Wenliang knew that he had also pierced through the monsters in this long black river at a glance, which were just some blood dendrobes that had achieved cultivation. Each blood dendrobium fish only has the strength of the Xuan Realm, and there are many of them, Zhang Wenliang's divine sense scanned it, and what he found was only the demon fish within a hundred miles of this river, and there were thousands of lurking in it!

The blood dendrobium fish, shaped like a crocodile, has stubby and strong limbs on both sides of the abdomen, is covered in black and hard bone scale armor, ordinary swords can not hurt a bit, the tail is long, the head is sharp, the body length of the adult blood dendrobium demon fish is about five meters, and the mouth can directly bite a standing ordinary person up and down, the mouth is full of sharp teeth, small, dense, after being bitten, even if it is a monk at the peak of the Xuan Realm, there is no possibility of breaking free.

What's more, the amount hidden in this river is so terrifying.

The imperial court also took great pains back then, but in the end it could not get any results.

"Swim over."

“……”

Zhang Wenliang said it so simply, how can this be done, swim over?

These grizzly bear people were very surprised, and Atsumi suspected that he had heard it wrong, so he couldn't help but ask again:

"Lord Xianzun, we are going to ...... Swim past? ”

"Hmm."

After confirming it, thick rice only felt ridiculous.

At the beginning of the construction of the imperial court, the area occupied by the Qiu Jin Continent was far less large than it is now, and the imperial court at that time naturally did not open up to the Heihe side.

In recent years, the imperial court suppressed the sects, and many unconvinced monks were exiled, and when the imperial court land had not expanded to this point, the exiled monks still had a glimmer of life, and they could survive in the mountains and forests.

But now the times are different, because of the Black River, the territory of the imperial court can only be like this, but the former named exiles have no way to retreat, and there is no place to hide, they are forced to cross the Black River, and eventually they all die in the river.

Only the descendants of those exiled monks have changed their names and surnames on this Qiu Jin continent and lived among the people.

"Your grizzly tribe, who is the ancestor and what is his name?"

Zhang Wenliang suddenly remembered something and asked with interest.

Houmi pondered for a moment, bowed his head and replied seriously:

"Lord Hui Xianzun, the ancestor of our Grizzly Bear Clan once said that he was a guest of the Star Dao Sect."

"Well, the Star Dao Sect ......"

Zhang Wenliang had some impressions of the Star Dao Sect, which was an ancient sect that existed in the same period as the Meteoric Immortal Sect, and now it is counted as more than a thousand years.

"Don't be stunned, swim over."

Zhang Wenliang urged.

It's not that Houmi doesn't know what's in this black river, monsters, let them swim over alone, isn't it looking for death when they go down to the river?

But...... But now that they've come here, they can only do what they are told.

The rest of the tribesmen were too scared to move, they had not been here or touched the Black River, but they had heard of the dangers of the Black River. It is said that there are man-eating monsters in the river, and even the monks of the Great Perfection of the Xuan Realm will end up with no bones left.

Only Houmi left, and the clansmen watched in horror as Houmi went down the river alone.

One leg was immersed in the river water, and the thick rice shivered, which startled the clansmen. Simply, the river was too cold, and there was no accident after stopping for a while.

Later, when Houmi saw that he was half-soaked in the river water, there was still nothing to do, so he swam boldly.

"There is no danger in the river, hurry up and cross the river!"

Houmi shouted to the clansmen.

Soon, people began to cross the river with groundwater.

The current of the Heihe River is not rapid, and the relatively ordinary mountain stream is relatively gentle. Watching them cross the river in groups, Zhang Wenliang hovered and watched above the black river.

He didn't look at these wasteland people, but through his eyes, Zhang Wenliang used a terrifying divine sense to shock the group of monsters under this black river.

They didn't show their heads, they didn't even move.

It's like a river with a different color.

……

Outside the city of Barbarian City, in the mountainous area on the north side, on the side of the mountains where Zhang Wenliang and the others passed by, there was the mountain gate of the Crazy Sword Sect.

When passing by, Zhang Wenliang's divine sense detected it, but he only paid attention to it and did not make any more movements.

In the Crazy Sword Sect, a disciple who passed the message ran to Hexi Fan's residence, knocked on the door for a long time, and found that there was no one inside, and then ran around the sect several times, and finally found him in the corner of the back mountain.

"Huh, Huh——, Senior Brother, the Second Elder is in trouble!"

Hexi Fan was squatting on the edge of the cliff to feed the eagle, dragging a branch in his hand, and a half-dead mountain mouse was stuck in the branch, and a white-headed and brown-headed eagle landed on the mountain rock, chattering at close range about the mountain mouse hanging on the tip of the branch.

"What's the matter?"

"Go down the mountain, search for the murderer, and avenge Senior Brother Lu Jue!"

He Xifan was disdainful:

"Hey, if you're dead, you're dead, and if you die outside, you can only blame him for not having enough strength, and I'll ask me to collect a stall for him for this kind of trouble."

"Senior brother, I can't say it."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's talk, what can I bring?"

"The second elder instructed you to bring some brothers and some talismans with you."

"Well, let's go down."

Hexi Fan is young and vigorous, he is only in his early twenties today, he is extremely talented, he is already a sword cultivator in the Xuan Realm for two weeks, and throughout the Crazy Sword Sect, no one is of the same age as Fan Xihe.

Although it is reluctant, but the errand that can go down the mountain, He Xifan's movements can be very numb, after taking the disciples away, He Xifan immediately left, and went back to call several brothers who played better, they are all inner disciples, although the strength of the realm is not as good as that of He Xifan, but can play together, at least the temperament is the same-

They are all arrogant children.

"Senior brother, you say, how did this Lu Jue die?"

In the Zongmen Pill Warehouse, the three of them were chatting casually, and at the same time selecting the pills and talismans to bring with them when they went down the mountain this time. Hexi Fan absentmindedly responded:

"The devil knows, with his temperament, eighty percent of his temper came up, and he accidentally got into a thorn in the head, and his backhand was pressed to death."

"Well, that makes sense."

The other fat man laughed happily:

"Brother Fan, hehe, you said that we should go down the mountain this time, should we stop by and do some work?"

"Whole life? What do you want to do? ”

The fat man stretched out his tongue and licked his lips all over the circle, and screamed so disgustingly:

"Hehe, Brother Fan, I still have to say this, how embarrassed."

The other two burst out laughing:

"Hahahaha, okay, good, go by the way, go by the way~"

"Brother Fan still understands me!"

When the three of them went down the mountain, in addition to the broadsword they would definitely bring, they also brought a lot of good things with them.

When he walked out of the warehouse, the old man in charge of the warehouse looked shocked:

"What are you guys doing, moving?"

Hexi Fan relied on his superior status and spoke unceremoniously:

"Don't be verbose, old man, it's an errand ordered by the second elder, don't be prepared to have more back-ups, and if something goes wrong, I'll ask you for the crime!"

The old man in charge of the treasury was also angry, so he swallowed uncomfortably, with an expression of eating:

"Well, okay, okay, I wish you all a safe and smooth return soon."

After saying that, the old man began to count the materials they had taken out of the storeroom, counting them in his hands and muttering:

"Five Fire Fighting Pills, three Thunderstorm Talismans, six Teleportation Talismans, five Qi Healing Pills, and ......"

Dotting and pointing, on the small white bottle that the warehouse manager picked up in his hand, there was a small red note, and the note was marked with words: Rejuvenation San.

The old man frowned, and wanted to ask:

"You take this ......"

Before he could say anything, the rejuvenation powder in his hand was snatched away by the fat man on the side. He Xifan pretended to cough:

"Ahem, you don't need to remember that, my junior brother has some problems with his body and bones, and he needs to be adjusted in private, so I took that."

The library management squinted at the eye:

"Really?"

The unforgiving Hexi Fan replied with the same look in his eyes, and said weakly:

"Like you?"

was rebuffed, and the old man in charge of the warehouse didn't bother to argue anymore, and continued to count the remaining equipment.

In the afternoon of the same day, the three of them were fully armed, each carrying a bag on his waist, and carrying a Zongmen broadsword on his waist.

Their broadswords, near the handles, have their names engraved on them, and if you don't look closely, you won't notice them.

……

It has been ten days since Zhang Wenliang went out, Li Changyuan lives a good and leisurely life in the inn, the innkeeper is only very polite to Li Changyuan, and he takes care of him very thoughtfully, not only free of charge for accommodation and meals, but also goes upstairs in person every morning to get up, and personally goes to the backyard to collect clothes and put them in the room at night.

Li Changyuan still lives in the bedroom of the shopkeeper.

However, the shopkeeper didn't say anything.

After having dinner during the day, Li Changyuan would go to the stable in the backyard of the inn and practice with the straw fork placed next to the stable's trough.

The sword behind the back was wrapped by Li Changyuan with layers of cloth, and the hilt of the sword was wrapped together with the scabbard, still as usual, at a glance:

'Wow, that burning stick behind this boy's back is so cool!' ’

It's just that Li Changyuan is too lazy to untie the cloth strip every day, so he uses the pitchfork as a sword to practice.

The good times didn't last long, and some things happened in the recent barbarian city, which affected Li Changyuan's mood. I heard that the government was investigating the incident in which six people were killed in a barren forest outside the village and town of Xia Village a few days ago.

'Why do people from the court come to meddle in the affairs of the rivers and lakes?' ’

Li Changyuan was a little puzzled.

Someone is making a hindrance from it, at least it won't be a member of the Crazy Sword Sect's own family, that party has already gone down the mountain gate two days ago, but he hasn't stepped into the barbarian city yet. You must know that from the mountain of the Crazy Sword Sect to the nearest northern gate of the Barbarian City, there is only a distance of twenty miles, and ordinary people can walk there in less than a day.

"Brother, we're not okay here."

The fat man worried.

All three of them had a string of roast legs as thick as their own arms, and just a while ago, they had killed an unknown cow.

He Xifan didn't think so, he bit and shook his arm, his mouth was full of oil and meat, and he said while chewing:

"Heh, what's wrong, who told his cow not to be tethered."

The thin man on the other side gnawed on small bites, and he didn't want to say something in his heart:

'I haven't seen a farmer with a rope to graze his cattle......

In the blink of an eye,

Those men followed the thick rice and successfully crossed the Black River without danger and came to the other side of the river.

It's a barren place!

The mountains in the distance are undulating, gray and black, and there is no grass under their feet, here, there is no life at all, Zhang Wenliang brought them over, what is it for?

A smile appeared on their faces:

"It's here! Fellow citizens, we are back! ”

Everyone was smiling and happy.

It seems that there is no vegetation and no people here, but this place was once the homeland of the existence of the major hidden sects. Before leaving, Zhang Wenliang told the group of wastelanders about their origins-

A long time ago, human beings gathered and inhabited, and the Black River was not a Black River, but just an ordinary valley basin.

Later, the aura of heaven and earth was rejuvenated, and human beings learned to absorb aura and cultivate, and other creatures in the mountains also had some spiritual wisdom and began to cultivate and evolve.

At that time, the human race and the beasts lived in harmony, but one day later, people's greed crossed the line, and they began to tempt, design and kill the beasts with cultivation, and they found that the beasts with a certain degree of cultivation had demon cores in their bodies, and with these demon cores, they could easily improve their cultivation.

Human beings established a sect, and their strength gradually became stronger, and the hunting of demon beasts became more and more rampant.

As time went by, a demon beast stepped into a terrifying realm that human beings had never set foot in, with a burly body and terrifying strength, turning mountains and seas!

But the demon beast had no intention of causing a dispute, nor did it want to kill again, the human desire could not be controlled, and the lies deceived it again and again, and in the distance where it had no time to take care of it, there were still demon beasts secretly slaughtered by the human race.

A hundred years later, the monster was approaching its end of life, and it set off a riot so that future generations could live in peace.

That time, it took the initiative to fight against the whole human race, but it was not a merciless killing, it drove all the human races to a corner of the continent, and then the load burst out with power, at the cost of its own demon core shattering, one foot on the land, and the corner of the continent was split apart.

The earthquake trembled, and the heavens and the earth were discolored!

The basin beneath his feet trembled and cracked, and the black sea water gushed from the bottomless abyss, and the expelled human race was all on that land, forever separated from the beasts on this continent.

After that, the giant demon also fell to the ground and died in his sleep.

The Terrans wanted to return to the continent on the other side of the Black River again, but found that in the Black River, the demon beasts that hated the Terrans were watching all the time, and all those who crossed the river were dragged down to the bottom of the abyss, and their bones were gone.

On the land of the huge continent on the other side of the Black River, there was once such a sect,

It's called Star Dao Sect.

Zhang Wenliang's sect [Meteoric Immortal Gate] was also on this land.

Later, because of this black river, only monks who cultivated to the heavenly realm and could walk in the sky could go to the Qiujin Continent and see the demeanor of the human race. At that time, the rise of the imperial court, the sect was in ruins, and the Meteorite Gate was located on the other side of the Heihe River, which was famous in the Qiujin Continent, and the imperial court was struggling to find its roots.

And what happened to his Fallen Immortal Gate now?

Has it fallen?

No.

For thousands of years, the Meteoric Immortal Gate is still there.

Zhang Wenliang looked at the far end of this continent, and among the gray and black mountains, there was a faint glimmer of light behind him, which was the road sign of the Meteoric Immortal Gate. However, Zhang Wenliang couldn't go back, his hometown, the people there, became his mortal enemy.

Fortunately, the Star Dao Sect is still there, which is also the purpose of Zhang Wenliang's trip.