Xia Meng Pass is a male pass built between two giant peaks in the sky, the only passage between the Shang Kingdom and the Huanhua Wetland, the height of Xia Meng Pass is about two miles, this height even the reincarnation realm knows the slightest warrior don't want to fly up, but the width is only seventy zhang, this is because the distance between the two peaks is so point, but the thickness of the city wall has reached fifty zhang, completely made of the most tenacious diamond rock, which is painted with countless Xuan pattern prohibitions, Even a martial artist who has returned to the realm of life and death is unlikely to break it with brute force.

On the city wall, the giant rune crossbows that need thirty people to operate are lined up, a total of eighteen, the watchtowers are dense, the arrow towers are lined up, there are three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, the patrol team shines in armor and silver armor, and in the meantime, there is a scene of majestic killing; Outside the pass is a flat river, stretching for ten miles, any wind and grass can also be seen at a glance, such a tight defense, it is no wonder that this Xia Meng Pass will be called the first pass of the Shang country.

At the juncture of Xia Meng, Zhang Fengyao looked at Li Mengyang and the others who were gradually moving away, remembering that he had to sit in the Zhang family, so he could not move forward with the brigade to experience the exciting and passionate journey, and he couldn't help but feel a little helpless in his heart, but then he thought about it, those faces that were still fresh yesterday may only exist in his memory, and his heart couldn't help but be gloomy, looking at those gradually smaller figures slowly disappearing on the distant horizon for a long time, and finally the last figure disappeared, Zhang Fengyao inexplicably rose up a tragic emotion, and sang loudly: "Go to the city to send you away, look at your heart inexplicably, the road ahead is long and windy, frost and snow, and the return date is far away Sword and Willow Moon!" The summer is hot, the winter is snowy, and the loyal soul is brilliant; The spring flowers are gorgeous, the autumn moon is full, the fragrance of the three burns wishes you back, and then the clan relationship! ”

Zhang Fengyao's expression of his true feelings made the officers and soldiers who heard his song on Xia Meng's close couldn't help but feel a little sour in their hearts, which seemed to arouse some emotions in their hearts.

The morning sun laboriously rose below the horizon and slowly climbed towards the sky, Zhang Fengyao finally took back the spirit that had been following the team, glanced deeply into the distance again, smiled heroically, and shouted at the twenty or thirty disciples beside him: "Let's go!" ”

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The brigade marched on the flat land for about fifty miles, and saw that not far ahead was lush and green, full of greenery, extending to both sides until the end of the line of sight, and the willow branches were hanging down, as if the poem "Jasper is made into a tree high, and ten thousand are hanging down the green silk." "It makes people feel refreshed and happy, and the rich aura of heaven and earth seems to be that with every breath, people's cultivation will improve.

"Wow, what a beautiful place, it reminds me of the Shark Imperial City, it's all so beautiful." Qu Shan'er said with sparkling eyes.

"It's really beautiful, but it's different from the Shark Imperial City, which is dreamy, but this Huanhua Wetland is so beautiful that it's as if you can hold it in your hands at any time." Fang Lin Road.

"Yes, I used to think that the endless shrubs on our Purple Mountain were the most beautiful, but now I don't see it that way, the endless willow forest in this Huanhua Wetland is even more beautiful." Wen Yue'er also continued.

As he spoke, the brigade had already entered this boundless willow forest, the air here was quite humid, and it was less than ten miles away, and the clothes on everyone's bodies were a little wet, and the four girls such as Concubine Shu and Bai Lian all covered their faces with a special face towel, otherwise their faces would be the same as Fang Lin and them, always wet, no matter how they wiped it, it was useless, but if they didn't care about it, maybe a water curtain would be generated on their faces at some point.

"Is this hellish place for people to live, why is there so much water, even the breath is full of water." Qu Shan'er complained.

"Yes, our clothes and shoes are all wet, and we need to constantly urge Zhenyuan to dry them, but it won't be long before they are wet again." Wen Yue'er said.

"But in this harsh environment, there are still a wide variety of demon beasts, as well as a large number of bandits and rogues, how did they survive here?" Li Haoran said.

Just when everyone was talking and laughing, suddenly a disciple in front of him galloped over and said to Fang Lin: "Senior Brother Fang, we found several disciples' corpses in front, on the surface, they should have been poisoned to death, but the alchemists in our team can't determine the true cause of their death, and the corpses have traces of being bitten, please take someone over to take a look." ”

Fang Lin frowned after hearing this, knowing that things might not be so simple, so he instructed the team to pay attention to some matters, and then took Concubine Shu, Wen Yue'er and other seven people to gallop away with that disciple, Fang Lin also muttered in an inaudible voice: "This damn place, even the transmission notes have been distorted, and I don't know how much to delay." ”

On the surface, there is no difference between this place and other places, except that there are five willow trees ten zhang in front of them, bare within three feet around them, no other plants grow, and there are several corpses lying horizontally under the trees, judging from the clothing, it should be a disciple of the Zhang family, the face is blue and purple, it must be poisoned, the clothes are torn, there are some very clear tooth marks, and some places have been gnawed flesh and blood, revealing the white bones of Sensen.

Fang Lin stood next to a thick willow tree, a skull was drawn in eye-catching red on the trunk, and the arrow pointed to the location of the corpses, which was obviously the mark left by the team exploring the path ahead, Fang Lin looked at the concubine beside him, and asked in a deep voice, "Senior sister, can you tell what kind of poison it is?" ”

Concubine Shu looked carefully for a while before she spoke: "You pay attention, the five willow trees are exactly arranged according to the direction of the five elements, there is no plant growth within three feet around them, and their willow leaves have a faint purple light edge, this willow tree is called 'Five Elements Robbery Willow', usually it is no different from ordinary willow trees, but at the time of day and noon it will spit out colorless poisonous gas, covering the range of three feet around it, this poison has no solution, and the middle one dies immediately!" ”

Zhang Hang, who was next to him, couldn't help but admire when he heard this, and said: "Senior Sister Concubine Shu is really well-informed and impressive, and she deserves to be a ninth-level alchemist." ”

"Senior Brother Zhang praised it falsely, fortunately, I chose the 'Strange Things' in the royal treasury this time, and there happened to be an introduction to this kind of willow tree on it, otherwise, I wouldn't know it." Concubine Su said modestly.

Wen Yue'er couldn't bear to say: "These senior brothers lost their lives for us to explore the way, should we just let them be violent corpses in the wilderness?" ”

Concubine Shu looked up at the sky, estimated the time and said: "The time of the poisonous gas shrouded is an hour, and now it is more than half of the time, the poisonous gas should have dissipated, we can go over to collect their bodies, but be careful, you can't touch their bodies directly with your hands." ”

"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up, you must let these senior brothers settle in the ground." Qu Shan'er said that she was about to rush forward.

At this moment, Li Haoran grabbed her, and just when Qu Shan'er was about to go crazy, Li Haoran shouted in a deep voice: "Wait!" Everyone ignored a very important problem, judging from the degree of blood clotting, these gnawing marks should have been left at least an hour ago, what does this mean, it shows that there is a kind of demon beast that can come and go freely in the poisonous gas haunts here, such a demon beast is bound to be highly poisonous, its size should not be large, about smaller than a rabbit, if it is hiding nearby, we will launch a sneak attack as soon as we get close to it, we are afraid that there will be unnecessary deaths and injuries if we don't investigate. ”

Everyone calmed down when they heard this, Qu Shan'er turned her head to look at Fang Lin, but Fang Lin looked at Concubine Shu, and gave her an inquiring look, Concubine Shu also shook her head casually, and then Fang Lin looked at Bai Lian and then Dongfang Lei, both of them also shook their heads, Fang Lin frowned, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and said to the herald: "You know everything just now, go quickly and order the herald team to be careful, don't break in!" ”

Fang Lin looked at the corpses in front of him again, and said deeply: "Senior brothers, you have suffered misfortune for us to explore the way, Fang Lin is incompetent, but he can't even collect the corpses for you, but don't worry, your name will definitely be brought back and engraved on the family's merit tablet!" ”

"Fang Lin, what do you mean at this time, these senior brothers are all heroes, don't you really care, judging from the bite marks on the corpse, there is only one little beast, and a little beast scares you like this? You weren't like this before, even in the face of a million beast tides, you haven't been afraid, I don't believe that just such a small beast will make you afraid, why are you, why? Qu Shan'er screamed.

Fang Lin closed his eyes and said bitterly: "These senior brothers are all heroes, how can I not know, how can I be willing to let them be violent corpses in the wilderness, and there will be no peace after death!?" Yes, you're right, there is indeed only one small beast here from the bite marks alone, but, don't you know that there is a basic common sense, most of the small demon beasts live in groups, and the smaller the group, the greater the likelihood, let's just go over, if we accidentally provoke a large group of poisonous beasts, how many deaths and injuries will there be among the hundreds of people here, and how many people will be sacrificed senselessly, can you bear such a result? Speaking of which, Fang Lin almost roared.

Qu Shan'er was silent when she heard this, she really didn't think about it so much, but the pain in her heart was overflowing, tears fell down in big drops, and the rest of the people also lowered their heads a little ashamed when they heard this, they were very unhappy with Fang Lin making that kind of ruthless decision before, but now they are probably also extremely sad, and they are helpless to the extreme.

Fang Lin took a deep look at the corpses again, and was about to give the order to leave, but the voice of the concubine came: "Fang Lin, I think we still need to take a risk!" ”

Although the voice was soft, but listening to everyone's ears at this moment was tantamount to thunder on dry land, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, everyone's eyes looked at Concubine Shu in unison, there were doubts, confusion, and a little panic in their eyes, Fang Lin knew that Concubine Shu was by no means the kind of untargeted, hot-headed idiot, and asked softly: "Why?" ”

"It is recorded in the book that the Five Elements Robbery Willow is extremely harsh on the growth environment, so there may not be the appearance of the Five Elements Robbery Willow in the tens of millions of willow forests, and once the Five Elements Robbery Willow becomes a tree, it must be more than a thousand years, the most important thing is that the Five Elements Robbery Willow can gather a large amount of surrounding Five Elements Aura to form the Five Elements Essence at its root, this Five Elements Essence is extremely pure, if we can get this group of Five Elements Essence that has gathered thousands of years, it will be of far-reaching significance to the future development of our sect to build a cultivation secret realm." The more Concubine Shu spoke, the more difficult it was to hide the excitement in her heart.

The hundreds of people present heard Concubine Shu's words, and their hearts were also hot, the essence of the five elements is definitely a treasure of heaven and earth that can be encountered but not sought, it can continuously gather the aura of the five elements, and it can also purify and purify the aura of heaven and earth within a certain range around it, and the martial artist can directly absorb and transform these heaven and earth aura into his own cultivation, and no longer need to purify it by his own exercises; The Five Elements Aura is a purer aura than the aura of heaven and earth, and the martial artist can choose to absorb the five elements aura of the corresponding attributes according to his own physique, and the cultivation obtained in this way is countless times thicker than that obtained by refining the aura of heaven and earth, and if you cultivate in such an environment for a long time, there will be no bottleneck in advancing to the Yin and Yang realm, and the success rate of advancing to the Nai He realm, the reincarnation realm and even the life and death realm in the future will also be greatly improved! Such a treasure of heaven and earth does not even have the royal family of the Shang Kingdom, and its rarity can be seen from this.

Fang Lin thought for a long time, raised his head and swept his eyes over everyone's faces one by one, seeing that hundreds of people had eager expressions, knowing that he was going to work hard for the sake of these Five Elements Essence everyone, and even he himself couldn't control the greed in his heart.

Fang Lin forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I don't have to explain the importance of the Five Elements Essence, if you are willing to take risks for our sect and family, please raise the weapons in your hands, please don't make a loud noise, because there are too many unknown dangers here." ”

As soon as Fang Lin's words were finished, there was an uproar, and hundreds of weapons of all kinds were raised in unison, Fang Lin didn't say more, and directly ordered the fifty people among them: "You jump to the nearby willow tree and hide, monitor the surroundings, and if there is anything unusual, report immediately!" ”

Then he said to the other fifty people: "You also go to the nearby willow tree, prepare bows and arrows, and if a large number of demon beasts appear, shoot them immediately, cover us and others." ”

Then he said to one of the hundred people: "You guys scatter around, prepare the spell, if a large number of demon beasts appear, they will be killed immediately, don't forget to open the vajra talisman yourself!" ”

Finally, he looked at Zhang Hang and said: "Senior Brother Zhang, you lead a hundred people to ambush and monitor a mile away from us, once a stranger approaches, regardless of the reason, immediately kill it, the essence of the five elements is very important, once the news is revealed, the three of us are in danger of perishing!" ”

No one questioned Fang Lin's series of orders, and even many people secretly admired it in their hearts, they asked themselves, if they came, it would be impossible to make such a careful arrangement, especially the disciples of the Linghua Sect, their eyes flashed with admiration when they looked at Fang Lin, just when Zhang Hang was about to take people away, the disciples who were in charge of monitoring the trees before came from the sound of cooing birds that represented someone approaching.

Fang Lin's eyes flashed with coldness, and he gestured to everyone, huh~ Everyone was either hiding in the dense branches of the willow tree, or hiding behind the thick willow tree, or hiding behind the rocky mound······ In the blink of an eye, it vanished cleanly, as if no one had ever been here, leaving only a few broken corpses lying there alone.

It didn't take long for Fang Lin to see that more than 20 big men walked across from them, all with tigers on their backs, their muscles knotted, and their faces vicious, and they came to a stop outside the Five Elements Robbery Willow, and looked at Fang Lin and the others from a distance across the Five Elements Robbery Willow, but they couldn't see Fang Lin and the others.

The more than twenty people stood still, and the leader looked around, and then closed his eyes again and scanned it with his divine thoughts, he was just a martial artist of the Nine Shadows Realm, which was the breath charm used by Fang Lin and the others that he could detect, so in his divine thoughts, there was nothing nearby at all, the leader opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief to his subordinates: "Okay, brothers, be careful, that demon beast is extremely cunning, and it is extremely poisonous, we have already had several brothers die at its hands, but, This guy is full of treasures, as long as we can get it back, the reward will definitely not be less. ”

"Don't worry, Brother Hei, we already know it very well, and we have made sufficient preparations, this time it will definitely not be able to run." A big man shook the iron cage he was carrying in his hand and laughed at it.

"Okay, don't fucking talk about it there, don't go to work quickly, if you mess things up, I'll pick your skin!" The man called "Black Brother" said impatiently.

The big man with the cage didn't care, and still laughed, "Just look at it." He carried the cage and came to the range of the Five Elements Robbery Willow three feet, and as soon as he arrived, he saw the corpse on the ground, but this person was not half afraid, but also gloated and muttered: "Yo ho, there are still a few unlucky eggs here, but it's a pity, your meat, that thing doesn't like to eat, hehe, okay, okay, okay today, an uncle will do well, and I will avenge you." ”

I saw him put the cage on the ground, and then lifted the door up a little, so that the rooster just couldn't run out, fixed the door with a thin wire, tied the other end to a willow branch, and then walked away, took out a jade bottle, and flicked the jade bottle into the cage with a flick of his fingers and smashed it with a bang.

At the same time as the jade bottle shattered, the rooster in the cage suddenly became agitated, clucking up and down and fluttering, it was just a breath, the rooster fell to the ground and stopped moving, and his whole body quickly turned blue and purple.

Fang Lin could see clearly that the poison in this rooster was exactly the same as the poison in those senior brothers, which also showed that the gang of people didn't know how to use to collect some of the poisonous gas of the Five Elements Robbery Willow, and then looked at the look of the group of people on the opposite side with a look of hope and gearing up, Fang Lin deduced that they were trying to capture a demon beast that was small in size, but extremely dangerous, and it was feeding on the animals poisoned by the Five Elements Robbery Willow, that is, the demon beast that gnawed on the corpses of those senior brothers.

Just when Fang Lin was thinking wildly, a demon beast that looked like a squirrel suddenly jumped down from one of the Five Elements Tribulation Willows, but its hair was blue and purple, and it had no eyes, Fang Lin said in his heart: "No wonder those people don't hide their figures, I see." ”

The little beast sniffed, as if it smelled the smell of poison or food, and with a shake of its body, it burrowed into the cage like a ray of light, and came to the carcass of the rooster, and feasted on it without hesitation.

Just when the little beast was eating frantically, the big man who had placed the cage before raised his hand and knocked out a stone, breaking the thin wire that bound the door of the cage, and there was a heavy symphony of gold and iron, and the door was closed, and the big man called Brother Hei quickly made a series of handprints, and the runes on the cage flashed and flowed, Fang Lin knew that this was an isolation formation and a blockade formation, trapping the little beast tightly in the cage, however, until this time, the little beast was still unaware of it, and was still eating there with relish.

It was only at this time that the twenty-odd or so people relaxed their hearts that had been tense, and they couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, Brother Hei said: "It seems that today is the day when our brothers are lucky, hehe, when we get the reward, should we go to those bastards in the nearby village to gamble twice, so that they can all lose like pants!" Haha·······"

Just when Brother Hei laughed proudly, dozens of arrows roared towards the more than 20 of them with strong true yuan fluctuations, poof~~~ The sound of flesh and blood being pierced accompanied by the frightened and unwilling screams before death sounded, and in just such a moment, there were only six or seven people left of the more than 20 people.

Brother Hei's reaction was much faster than the others, plus Fang Lin had the intention of keeping him, so he chopped down a few arrows that shot at him at the first time, Brother Hei's eyes were about to split, and he roared angrily: "What the hell is the son of a bastard who sneaked up on grandpa there, get out!" ”

Just when he was screaming madly, a huge rock formed by the condensation of the true yuan smashed down from the diagonal top of his head without warning, Brother Hei was frightened, and hurriedly poured the true yuan of his whole body into the big knife in his hand, and then threw the big knife towards the boulder, what made him feel a little at ease was that he was a wood attribute system, and although the earth attribute law that was blasted down was powerful, he was confident that he could block it for a moment, and this moment was enough for him to escape from the shroud of the law decision.

Boom, with a bang, the boulder collided with the blue-colored broadsword all over the body, and Brother Hei's also came at the same time to roll the eighteenth, rolling out of a distance, but to his surprise, the huge boulder that looked huge was easily cut by his big knife, turning into a little spiritual light and dissipating in the air, not only that, but even the few people who stood in the daze were unharmed, Brother Hei instantly understood, he was tricked, The unquenchable anger in my heart reached its peak in an instant.

At this moment, a chuckle came: "Hehe, good roll, it's good, it's good, one more!" ”

Then, Brother Hei was horrified to see the eight figures suddenly appear in front of them, and one of the men with a sword still had a mocking smile on his face.

"Advanced Stealth Charm!" Brother Hei screamed, and as if he suddenly woke up, he said in a trembling voice: "You... What are we~~ people!? Brother Hei tried his best to calm his mood, but the trembling voice still betrayed him.

"We~~~ Well, we're the ones who came to clean you up." Qu Shan'er grinned.

"Alright, let's go get rid of those few." Fang Lin looked at the few people who were still in shock, and then turned to Brother Hei and said, "Who are you?" ”

Seeing that the five or six Tai Chi Realm brothers under his command were killed without even holding a single move under the hands of others, Brother Hei was even more terrified in his heart, he had been mixed in the Huanhua Wetland for a long time, and he could be said to have a lot of blood debts under his hands, but he never thought that he would be killed so helplessly one day, his lips kept trembling, and he couldn't even say a word.

"Hey, forget it, I'll do it myself." Fang Lin said impatiently, and then a big hand directly covered Brother Hei's Heavenly Spirit Cover, and after a while, Brother Hei's terrible screams spread in all directions.

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It was also during the period when Fang Lin was searching for the soul, under the guidance of Concubine Shu, everyone took out the essence of the five elements at the root of the Five Elements Robbery Willow, and at the same time that the Five Elements Essence was taken out, the Five Elements Robbery Willow withered at a speed visible to the naked eye; The essence of the five elements is a ball of spherical crystal-like objects with a diameter of one zhang, and there are five kinds of colored light on the surface that represent the five elements, and the five elements of the aura can be clearly felt within ten miles of it swarming towards it, and these five elements aura makes these hundreds of people feel as if they are in a sea of pure aura, and an extremely comfortable feeling makes some people with slightly poor control can't help but come out.

Concubine Shu was startled, and quickly took out a jade box to include the essence of the five elements and then put it into the storage ring, she knew that the breath of the essence of the five elements was enough to attract many powerful demon beasts and warriors, and at this time, Zhang Hang came to Concubine Shu with a fist-sized, extremely irregular shape of the five-colored spar in his hand and asked: "Senior sister of Concubine Shu, this thing was found next to the essence of the five elements, do you know it." ”

Concubine Shu took this spar, took it in her hand and looked at it over and over for a long time, but she shook her head and said: "There are many types of associated minerals of the Five Elements Essence, but I don't know this, but everything related to the Five Elements Essence must be a good thing, put it away first, and let Master Li take a look at it later." ”

Just when Zhang Hang was about to take over the spar, a loud laugh suddenly came: "Haha... The breath of the essence of the five elements, Lao Tzu's unlucky days are about to pass, no, it should be the day when Lao Tzu's fortune is coming, wahaha······"

Immediately afterwards, the figure flashed, and a sloppy old man with a cloak and a sloppy head came to a foot in front of everyone, his eyes swept over everyone, and he suddenly stared at the spar in the hand of the concubine and screamed: "Five Elements Essence Crystal!" Haha··· There is even a top-notch material like the Five Elements Essence Crystal, although Lao Tzu can't use it, but some old guys will go bankrupt to beg Lao Tzu to change it, haha··"

The old man stared at Concubine Shu with burning eyes and continued: "Little girl, obediently hand over the essence of the five elements and this essence of the five elements, I am in a good mood today, I can let you go, otherwise, hehe, don't even think about living any of your hundreds of little dolls!" ”

Concubine Su and the others were already pale at the moment, they knew that in front of the masters of the Nai He Realm, these hundreds of them were not enough to see at all, no matter what, this old man called Su Liu Weng would not let them go, Concubine Su gritted her teeth, put the Five Elements Essence Crystal into her storage ring, looked at Su Liu Weng angrily, did not say a word, and ran her true yuan to the limit.

Seeing this, Su Liuweng was furious, and snorted coldly: "If you don't know how to lift, die!" As he spoke, he stretched out a withered palm and slapped it towards Concubine Shu.

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