Chapter 70: The Road to Heaven
"Dashuai, Sect Master Ming has not yet arrived, are we still waiting?" In a pavilion corridor at the entrance of the village of the Sage Hall, Li Dakui bowed down and asked.
Xu Hao was still wearing a veil, sitting upright in the pavilion, holding the Xuantie broadsword in his left hand, and did not answer, making it impossible to figure out what he was thinking.
Seeing this, Li Dakui didn't ask any more questions, it seemed that Dashuai was ready to continue waiting. Although he didn't know what Mingxiang was doing, he vaguely felt that something was wrong. From the moment he solved the secret and was about to go up the mountain, Ming Xiang repeatedly delayed the date of going up the mountain for various reasons, no, on the grounds that Ming Zongxia was sick, he asked Xu Hao and the others to go first, and then he chased after him, saying that he would meet in the village of the Sage Hall. However, it had been almost two hours since Xu Hao arrived at the Sage Hall Village first, and there was still no trace of Ming Xiang, so I really didn't know what he was doing.
Xu Hao was not unaware of Li Dakui's thoughts, but Chen Quanzhong and his others didn't know if they were bought by him, they all did their own things, and they didn't come with him.
At this moment, Hui Cheng came over and said: "Dashuai, now, the Ming Sect Master has not arrived for a long time, and there are a few words, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”
Seeing that it was Huicheng, Xu Hao did not turn sideways, and said with a "hmm" on his chin: "Master, it doesn't hurt to talk about it." ”
"Dashuai, yesterday, I saw that the Ming sect master sent his subordinates to secretly go out of the village, so I secretly followed him and found that he came to a teahouse in the town, and said loudly to people that we were going up the mountain to hunt for treasures today, which is really incomprehensible."
"Is there such a thing? Why didn't you tell me earlier? Xu Hao was a little shocked when he heard this, and turned his face to look at Hui Chengdao.
"I ...... I thought it was the commander's established policy, and I didn't think much about it, but now it seems that maybe they ...... Something else."
"You mean ......?" Xu Hao thought about it, called Li Dakui and Huicheng, whispered a few words softly, and spread out the map to point.
Hui Cheng said a few more words, the two nodded, and then went their separate ways.
After a while, I saw a group of people and horses under the leadership of Li Dakui marching towards the Heavenly Village on the cloudy mountain. Calm was restored at the entrance of the village of the Saint's Church.
Some villagers were watching from afar, and somehow, half an hour later, they saw two horses coming in the dust, and when they arrived at the entrance of the village, a man and a woman came down.
The woman looked for a villager, asked a few questions, and said a few words to the man, then found a man's house, gave him a few taels of silver, tied her horse, and ran up the mountain.
After another quarter of an hour or so, another group of people came to the entrance of the village.
At this time, he saw Huicheng jump out, hugged his fists and said, "Sect Master." ”
The person who came was Mingxiang and his gang.
Ming Xiang stood up and said, "Oh, it's Master Huicheng, where is the handsome?" ”。
"The marshal asked the poor monk to wait for the sect master here, and he has gone first."
"Oh? I don't know how long the handsome man has been gone. ”
"Well, it was just a moment ago, about a quarter of an hour ago."
"Well, then we have to hurry, we must catch up with the big man before going up the mountain." Ming Xiang commanded. After speaking, he led everyone across the horse with Huicheng.
He had only traveled five miles, and found that the road was getting more and more difficult, so he had to abandon his horse and follow the path to the mountain.
I saw that the left side of the road was covered by dense bushes, which were mostly common in the local area. At this time, bunches of white barberries sway in the wind, like countless ponytails.
Wang Yisi casually pulled Ba Mao in his mouth and blew a small song.
"Simao, watch your step, don't slip into the river." Zou Zheguo turned around and reminded that "Simao" was Wang Yisi's name when he was a child, and Zou Zheguo watched him grow up and always called him that.
"River? Second uncle, how can there be a river here? ”
"Now, here's it." Zou folded and pointed to the bushes next to him.
"Down here? I didn't see it. ”
"You kid, what are you doing with long ears, don't you hear the murmuring of the stream below?" Zou folded and shook his head.
Originally, this sheep intestine path goes up according to the mountain, the left side is a high trench, under the trench is a deep stream, the top of the deep stream is covered by grass and trees such as barma, if there is not the sound of flowing water, it is really not easy to find.
On the right side of the trail is a gentle hillside, with rows of low shrubs and weeds swaying in the wind, and in many places there are large rocks that seem to be rolling down at any moment.
Zou folded and looked left and right, frowned, and then looked at Chen Quanzhong, he seemed to be chatting with Ming Xiang about something.
"Simao, go, protect the general." Zou folded and ordered Wang Yisi behind him.
"Huh......?" Wang Yisi didn't understand what Zou had meant, and hesitated.
"If you are told to go, you will go, what are you talking about, go quickly." Zou folded down his voice and raised his voice again.
At this moment, the low shrubs on the right slope suddenly fell, and I saw that the slope was sparse with sparse vegetation and bare stone skins, and where the bushes fell and behind the stones, rows of men came out, one by one with bows and arrows.
Before everyone could react down the slope, a rain of arrows came over.
Everyone at the bottom of the slope hurriedly dodged, except for a few little minions who didn't react and died immediately, everyone else was okay, and they found a safe place to hide, dodging the rain of arrows, and there was no big problem.
Immediately afterwards, large stones rolled down from the mountain, and the grass and trees under the slope were overwhelmed one after another, and the hiding places of the people were gradually exposed, so they had to run and dodge left and right.
There was another rain of arrows and a lot of stones rolling down the slope, which made people not annoyed. "His grandmother's, there is a kind of Lao Tzu who comes out, hides in the dark and releases cold arrows, what kind of hero is a hero." Wang Yi hid and scolded.
Zou couldn't dodge, stepped on the air, crooked into the bushes outside the road, and fell into the small river at the bottom of the slope, but fortunately, the river was not deep, and the bank was densely wooded, so it was easier to hide.
Chen Quanzhong found that Zou had fallen down, and it was too late to pull it, so he jumped down after thinking for a moment, Wang Yisi was taken aback, and when he saw Chen Quanzhong jumping, he had to "sigh" and jump down.
Ming Xiang saw that the offensive on the mountain did not stop a lot, and he was quite surprised in his heart, I don't know who cut off Hu halfway. Although this attack did not cause much damage to itself, if it continued like this, it would be enough to trap everyone here for a while, and when it fell, Xu Hao was afraid that he would have already gone up the mountain to open the treasure.
Thinking of this, Mingxiang's cloak shook, scurried, turned around, kicked back a few stones, and collected a wave of arrow rain with his hand, with force under his feet, jumped up the slope, exerted force with both hands, and shot out a rain of arrows, only to hear a few wails on the slope, and rolled down a few corpses in response.
The people on the slope seemed to be taken aback, and the momentum of the attack stopped for a while, but they saw that Ming Xiang had already rushed to the front of him three times and five times.
Ming Xiang fixed his eyes and saw that the person on this slope was none other than the White Lotus Sect led by Tang Sai'er.
"Is that you?" Tang Sai'er was quick to speak, and he seemed to be a little surprised.
"What? Miss Tang, don't come unharmed. Ming Xiang laughed and arched his hand.
"Hmph, don't be pretended......" Tang Sai'er knew that he was invincible, so he had to restrain his grievances at this time and didn't say more.
"Hey...... I don't know how long Miss Tang has been in ambush here? Ming Xiang didn't say much else, just asked.
Tang Sai'er felt that he asked strangely, did this guy want to humiliate us, and it was inconvenient to attack, he had originally set up an ambush here and received a message from someone, and he met in ambush along the way, and punished Xu Hao to avenge the revenge under the dark cloud village, but he didn't expect to wait for Mingxiang, although this thief is also quite hateful, but it is not wise to confront him at this time, it is better to find a chance to get out first, so he had to reply, "I will meet with someone, and I have been waiting here for a long time, and I have not seen anyone pass by." ”
When Ming Xiang heard this, he was even more surprised, looked at the hiding place of Huicheng under the slope, and showed a cold smile.
"Tell your men to stop." Ming Xiang said to Tang Sai'er in a majestic tone.
Tang Sai'er bit her lip, waved her hand, signaled everyone to stop, turned around, and led everyone to withdraw from the trees.
The White Lotus Sect Lin San's martial arts were exhausted, and his whole person changed, locking himself in his room, ignoring no one, and his position as the left protector of the White Lotus Sect had been succeeded by others. And Tang Sai'er was promoted to two times as the holy envoy of the country, ranking fourth in the sect, and was personally awarded the Sanskrit sound divine skill by the sect leader, which can be said to have an unlimited future. For the person who secretly sent the letter to meet her, she thought it was Feng Yanlang, but at this time, it seems that this is not the case, maybe she has been used by others, thinking of this section, she wants to get out immediately.
Ming Xiang also knew that someone was deliberately causing trouble, and he did not pursue, jumped downhill, and arrived at the place where Huicheng was hiding, but saw that there was no one, and asked Ming Zongxia and others, all of whom were panicked and did not pay attention to Huicheng's movements.
At this time, Ming Xiang had already played the drum in his heart, he deliberately delayed time, and let out the wind to the outside world, wanting more Jianghu forces to come to disturb this troubled water, but he didn't expect that the first one to be disturbed was himself, it seems that this Xu Hao did not fully trust himself, and he left a back hand along the way, and now, there is no treasure map, and I don't know where Xu Hao went, and he is facing an unknown ambush, and he has also moved from the dark to the bright side, and he is bound to ride a tiger, which is really difficult to counter.
The most important thing now is to find out where Xu Hao is first, Huicheng must know, but this guy happened to disappear, thinking of this, Ming Xiang was quite annoyed, and smashed the stone beside him with a punch.