In the thirty-seventh year of Tianmao, Fuyue.

Sheng Xuanyan was ordered to take hundreds of disciples to Ershan Pass in Western Xinjiang.

On the way, he really left the team alone and made a detour to Guangyang, just to see Qiong Yi.

Qiong also waited for him by the small side door outside the mansion, Sheng Xuan complained that he came with his own spiritual breath, and it didn't take much effort to see her, and the two reunited and hugged each other tightly.

Qiong also knew that he was going to the battlefield on this trip, facing thousands of soldiers, and handed him the peace charm with the temperature in his arms: "Sheng Xuan, you must live safely." ”

Sheng Xuanyan accepted the peace charm and eased the corners of his lips slightly: "Okay." ”

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In the thirty-eighth year of Tianmao, early spring.

After half a year, the five tribes finally recaptured the Yiyuan Pass that had been lost a year ago, and drove the Xirong people back to the Gobi Desert.

In April of the same year, the strength of the Rong soldiers, who had been suspended for a while, increased dramatically, killing the front line guarded by the five clans without the power to fight back, and after the news came back, Qiong also did not know how many brothers and sisters of the same family had died in this battle. Among the personal disciples, the third senior brother was the most seriously injured and broke a leg, and I heard that Lu Xu was not much better.

She didn't know how Sheng Xuan complained about this battle, and now, it was her turn.

So, Qiong was also ordered by his master to lead his younger brothers and sisters to leave Guangyang.

This trip, including the disciples of the inner and outer sects, about sixty or so monks, except for her, are all low-rank.

Everyone rode to the front line, and on the way Qiong also heard that the camp guarded by Sheng Xuanyan was not the most fierce battle, and he arrived at the battlefield later, so he should not be seriously injured.

Qiong also asked the junior brothers and sisters if they were afraid, some of them didn't speak, some said they weren't afraid, Lu Li asked her: "Senior sister, what about you?" ”

She smiled, "I'm not afraid. ”

By the time she cultivated to this day, her cultivation had already entered the middle level of the Transformation Realm, and she was still deliberately refined, looking at the entire Middle Earth, it was rare to reach this level at the age of eighteen or nineteen from ancient times to the present.

A few days later, the horse arrived at the pass, the pass has been forcibly guarded by the people of the five clans, and the person who sat in the town was the sect master of the Xie clan who had troubled her, Xie Cong.

In the twilight, Qiong also dismounted and instructed Lu Li to arrange a tent for her younger brothers and sisters to rest, she needed to go to negotiate with Sect Master Xie, Lu Li nodded yes, and led the same door away.

Looking at the city wall not far away, in addition to the incomplete traces of fierce battles, Qiong also saw that there were very obvious traces of formation on it, and the method of this kind of protective formation was quite similar to the style that Nangong Li taught her, and it was set up by a law cultivator with a lot of strength. Seeing this, Qiong also suddenly had confidence and walked towards Chengguan.

A disciple in soft armor stopped her: "Please stay." ”

She only said, "I want to see Sect Master Xie." ”

When the boy standing behind the guard disciple heard this, he turned to look at her, and Qiong also recognized that this person was Xie Yangyu, who had a relationship at the Spring Festival banquet a few years ago.

Xie Yangyu didn't see that Qiong Ye was the little female cultivator at the spring banquet that year, but he only felt that this person had bright eyes and bright teeth, slim and elegant, and a little familiar, until Qiong Ye opened her mouth to speak, and her voice was clear and smart, she knew that she was actually that Lu Xiyan.

When the guard disciple was about to ask her identity, Xie Yangyu stepped forward and said, "This is the help that the Lu clan only arrived today, let her go." ”

"Yes."

Qiong also thanked him and went to the main camp to meet Xie Cong.

Xie Cong sat in front of the case, his face was very ugly, and he seemed to be still bothered by the tragic battle not long ago, and the pass map in his hand was about to fade, and he was in a dilemma.

Qiong also bowed and saluted, and said straightly: "Sect Master Xie, I came here on the orders of my master to help you defend the city. ”

Xie Cong knew that she was a monk of the Lu clan, so he was not polite, and directly threw away the map of the pass city wall and the camp in his hand, and Qiong also picked it up expressionlessly, and saw the look on his face that he didn't know whether to be embarrassed or didn't know how to decide, and lowered his eyelashes.

She glanced at the map and secretly noted down the new stations and towers, "Sect Master Xie's kindness, I will accept this thing." ”

Xie Cong snorted from his snort, "I already know where you came from, step down." ”

Joan also glanced around and saw a table and chair on one side of the tent, so she walked straight over and sat down.

"Sect Master Xie, I'm here to persuade you to give up on this pass." She said flatly, obviously it was a clear and beautiful voice, which sounded like a needle piercing Xie Cong's ears.

"What did you say?"

Qiong Yi repeated again: "I said, there is no need to defend the barrier. ”

Xie Cong was still annoyed by this matter, and when she heard her say this, she slapped the table: "What do you know?!" ”

"This place is flat and low-lying, difficult to defend and easy to attack, and it is thankless to defend here." She said lightly: "Sect Master Xie, several of my outer sect senior brothers have already given their lives in the last round of strong defense, and I don't want to die more of my fellow disciples because of this low city." ”

"What about the people in the townships and towns after the curb, what about the people who came back because of our victory at the beginning of the year? Are you going to turn them into refugees again? ”

Qiong Yi didn't answer this question, but took out a piece of paper from his arms, held it to Xie Cong's table, and said, "Please take a look at this drawing." ”

Xie Cong took a deep breath and unfolded the drawing, on the paper was a killing array based on earth walking, which was a large formation map that Qiong had spent more than a year studying.

She continued: "Sect Master Xie, this magic circle can't be used here, either it is the sand pass in front of you, the Yiyuan Pass, or the mountain pass behind you, the mountain pass. You know, Jin, it's a bloody battle, in Kun Zhai's military camp, there are Gu people with a much larger base than us, we don't need to gnaw this hard bone, and most of them can't gnaw it. Retreat, only need the front-line monks to hold out for a few more days, evacuate the people in the rear, lure the enemy deep, treat the enemy with a formation, which is better or worse, I think, you know better than me. ”

When Xie Cong looked up at Qiong Yi, he was a little stunned, and the drawings in his hand were already a little wrinkled.

She said: "The few days after evacuating the mortal people are just the right time to prepare for the formation of the formation. This formation is practiced by me, it is very simple, and it doesn't take long to set up the formation. The magic circle on the city wall, I have seen it when I first came up, the quality is good, the runes are complex, it is a very good law cultivator arrangement, my formation is presided over by him, but it is a piece of cake. Find a few more monks who know how to practice earth, and provide him with spells, talismans, and array eyes, and this will be a victory. ”

Xie Cong's eyes when he looked at Qiong Yi had completely changed: "...... Lu Xiyan, how long have you been planning these? ”

"Not long after, only on my way from Guangyang to Yuansha." Qiong Yi's eyes were calm and translucent: "If you ask the drawing in your hand, it is indeed a waste of time, and I figured it out last year." In terms of array spells, I must not be able to compare to the hall masters and elders sent by the five clans, but since I have put a lot of effort into it, it must have its strengths. ”

Xie Cong shook his head regretfully: "If it weren't for Lu Bin's life-loving character, you should have come here a long time ago." ”

As if remembering something, Qiong also let out an "oh" and said, "Sect Master Xie, those are the things I want to entrust you to do, not what I want to do." I say this to you, in fact, on the condition that I have given, that I may ask for something from you, so that the monks of all the clans in the camp may believe in me and obey me. ”

Xie Cong smiled "heh", not knowing her inner calculations, but without hesitation, she took off the red jade plate on her waist that symbolized the identity of the sect master, handed it over with her true qi, and asked, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

Qiong Yi also smiled lightly: "I want to choose people, people who can act with me." ”

Xie Cong raised his eyebrows, only to hear her say: "Go and destroy Kun Zhai's Gu City." ”

Xie Cong's forehead jumped.

"If the Gu City in the hinterland of Kunzhai has always existed, then the strength of their front line that can be counterbalanced with the five clans will be endless. Only by ruining it can we win for a long time. ”

"You know that my sect has been unraveling that Gu Dan, right?"

"I know, Senior Brother told me that it doesn't seem to work well, and cracking the Gu Pill is not an overnight effort." Qiong Yi held the red jade card in his hand and smiled: "So, Sect Master Xie, I am also buying time for you." ”

Looking at Qiong Yi in front of him, Xie Cong suddenly sighed: "If you are a man, you really ......"

Joan also shook his head with a smile and cut off his words: "There is no 'if', I can do the same." ”

After saying that, he bowed slightly to Xie Cong and walked out of the tent, Xie Cong said to the person guarding outside the tent: "Yu'er, you send Miss Lu." ”

Xie Yangyu said: "Yes." Then he followed behind Qiong Yi and quickened his steps to parallel her.

"Lu Xiyan, you ......"

He didn't say anything about "you" for a long time, and Joan was also a little puzzled and frowned slightly. The twilight clouds sank, the night swelled, and in the moonlight, her eyes were like a pool, and Xie Yangyu didn't dare to look at it again.

He actually wanted to ask her, did you still have any dealings with the Sheng family in the past few years, and thought of the relationship between the two of them that had made a lot of noise, and felt that he couldn't ask this, so he could only say: "Your fellow disciples, they have already lived in the camp nearby, and the nuns have a special station, to... Do you want me to take you there? ”

Joan also said casually: "Okay." ”

"You... Do you remember me? ”

"Remember, Xie Xiaogongzi, who led the double swords, I remember it." Joan also recalled, and said silently in her mind: It was the arrogant child who lost to me a few years ago, and he didn't need to be beaten.

Hearing her say that remembered, Xie Yangyu felt a lightness in her heart, and when she wanted to talk again, she took the initiative to ask: "I heard that the monks of the Sheng clan are guarding the platform in the north, so you should know where they are camping, right?" ”

Xie Yangyu was stunned: "Are you looking for ......?"

"Sheng Jun. You know him, right? Qiong also took a step closer to him: "Please ask Gongzi Xie to show me the way, I can go by myself." ”

"It's getting dark, and you're going to look for him in the tent?" Xie Yangyu turned his head, "You, you are a female cultivator, go to find a man in the middle of the night, what are you talking like, don't ...... it"

In the next moment, a deep male voice sounded from not far away: "Gongzi Xie, don't come unharmed." ”

Xie Yangyu's face froze, Qiong also heard this familiar voice, and hurriedly turned around, the person who came was Sheng Xuanyu, dressed in Xuan Rou, with soft armor on his wrist that had not yet had time to be removed, his posture was tall and straight, and when he walked towards her, the black hair rose.

Joan couldn't take her eyes off her eyes at all, and her breathing stopped.

The moment Sheng Xuan stretched out his hand to her, she moved away almost uncontrollably, calling him: "Sheng Xuan." ”

His gaze swept over Qiong Yi, and he looked directly at Xie Yangyu: "It's not too early, little boy Xie, please go back." When he said this, I don't know if he had stayed at the Gobi Pass for too long or how, and he had treated a little contemptuous blood, Qiong also felt a little strange, and took his hand: "Sheng Jun......"

Sheng Xuan's resentful gaze fell on her, and the coldness melted away at this moment, and after bending his eyes at her, he said to Xie Yangyu: "Thank you little boy for sending her on this journey." ”

Xie Yangyu knew that Sheng Xuan's resentful tower was on the other side of the north end of the mountain, and he could arrive at this time, which meant that he set off to rush to the pass as soon as he received the news that the Lu family's people had arrived at the pass.

So he chuckled: "It's a coincidence that Sheng Gongzi came, I was about to send Miss Lu back to the camp to rest, since you are here, it is inconvenient for me to stay longer, so I will leave." Then he turned and walked away.

Seeing Xie Yangyu walking away, Sheng Xuan took her up and called her in a low voice: "Qiong Yi." ”

He carefully looked at the person he hadn't seen for a long time, rubbed her cheek, and asked, "Why did I see you being entangled as soon as I came?" ”

Joan didn't know why: "Where did I get entangled?" Hey, you won't say it's Xie Yangyu, right? I don't even know him. ”