Zhu Yu walked more than ten miles along the official road and came to a small town, the town is not big, but because it is close to the official road, there are many wine shops and shops.

Zhu Yu entered a small hotel, asked for a meal, devoured it, bought more than ten cold steamed buns, put the steamed buns into a cloth bag, paid for the meal, just sat up and left, he heard the noise outside the store, and a dozen or so people came in, all of them were five big and three thick, and they asked the store to serve wine and meat.

Zhu Yu grew up in the temple, and he was very sophisticated about human affairs, so he was naturally curious about everything, so he sat back on the stool, picked up the half-drunk tea, and used tea tasting as a cover to see what these people were from.

"Ladies and gentlemen, even if you can be here today, I have prepared excellent beef and pure daughter red for you." As he spoke, the stocky shopkeeper brought a large jar of wine from behind the counter and placed it on a table in the middle of the store.

"Brothers, this is past the thief-infested Dongshan realm, there must be no danger, let's rest here today, Wang San and Li Si are optimistic about the darts, and the others can drink bitterly." It was a man in his sixties, not tall, with a swarthy face, who was clearly the head of the group.

When they heard that they could drink wine, they became excited at once, and sat down at three tables, and before the beef and other food were served, a few people asked the shop for bowls, poured them full of wine, and began to drink with fists.

Zhu Yu grew up in the temple, like to be quiet, because the store suddenly became noisy, suddenly upset, so he got up and walked out, ready to continue the journey, to the outside of the store, saw seven or eight horses parked in the courtyard outside the store, each car by the hub, are obliquely planted a small flag, the small flag is written on the three words "Youzhou - Luo", next to the carriage and horse, a tall and a short standing two people carrying steel knives.

Zhu Yu glanced at the two of them, and saw that the two were also squinting at him, so he turned his head to the side, followed the exit of the courtyard, and walked towards the main road.

Zhu Yu traveled seven or eight miles south along the official road, and just as he was about to turn a corner, he suddenly turned out of the bend fourteen or fifteen people, riding horses, carrying swords on their backs, and wearing conspicuous yellow clothes, speeding past Zhu Yu, but no one looked at him.

Zhu Yu walked three or four miles away, the sky gradually darkened, and seeing that the road ahead was a forest, he was worried about encountering wild beasts, so he found a big tree on the side of the road, climbed up the tree like a monkey, found a place with dense leaves and three or four branches branched, broke a few thick branches, built a place for himself to sleep, and lay down comfortably.

After a long time, Zhu Yu was worried about running into officers and soldiers, never staying in the store, and afraid of encountering wild beasts, so he slept on the tree every night, and was not used to it for a day or two at first, but then slowly got used to it in a few days, and lay down on the tree for a while, and then fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Zhu Yu was woken up by the sound of chirping birds, he opened his eyes and found that it was still very dark, so he squinted his eyes again, ready to rest for a while, in a daze, Zhu Yu heard the sound of "clang" in the distance from far to near, he hurriedly opened his eyes, through the morning light, through the gap between the leaves, and saw a team of mules and horses walking under the tree from far and near, Zhu Yu could see clearly, this team of people was the group of bodyguards who met in the tavern last night.

Zhu Yu heard Master Kongshi say that because of the chaos of the world, thieves are everywhere, large families transfer money, and officials retire and return home, they will ask the dart bureau to press the dart, so as not to be killed by the robbers and cross the goods.

It is estimated that the group of dart masters have walked out of the road for more than two miles, Zhu Yu was just about to get off the tree and hurry, and heard the road along the road when he came yesterday, "yes, yes, yes", there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, Zhu Yu pushed aside the leaves and looked down, and saw more than ten yellow-clothed people on horses flashing under the trees, it was clearly the group of people he saw yesterday, I don't know why they came and went.

Listening to the sound of horses' hooves getting farther away, the sky was already bright, Zhu Yufang climbed down the tree lightly, straightened his clothes, and continued to hurry south.

Zhu Yu traveled about three miles to the south, and suddenly saw three or two horses rushing towards him, he hurriedly avoided them, the horses were obviously frightened, and two of the horses were also injured, and their bodies were covered with blood, only a short pause in front of Zhu Yu, and then ran north along the main road.

Seeing the injured horse, Zhu Yu couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, thinking of the dart master and the man in yellow who had passed past, he had an ominous premonition, could it be that the man in yellow had robbed the dart car? Thinking like this, Zhu Yu couldn't help but speed up his pace.

About a quarter of an hour later, Zhu Yu came to an open place in the forest, and saw more than ten people lying on the ground, four or five horses, it was the group of bodyguards he saw yesterday, Zhu Yu lowered his body to examine them one by one, and saw that in addition to sword wounds on these people's bodies, each of them had a pitch-black palm print on their chest or back, and they were obviously killed by a palm.

When Zhu Yu checked the sixth person, he found that it was a thin black-faced old man, he recognized that it was the person who gave orders in the tavern yesterday, the old man was breathing, moving his mouth, and talking vaguely, Zhu Yu hurriedly put his ear to the old man's mouth, and listened to the old man say: "Wang, Lord Wang's ......!" You look for the sky, the Tianlong faction, he, they are broken, broken vine gorge, Bai Shaoshao .......... ”

The old man was talking, his voice was getting smaller and smaller, and the words behind him could no longer be heard clearly, Zhu Yu was busy ordering the old man's three big points to seal the bloodline, but unfortunately the old man was too seriously injured, only to see his head tilted and he lost his breath.

Putting down the old man, Zhu Yu checked the rest of the people and found that all of them had been dead for a long time.

Zhu Yu didn't expect that the rivers and lakes would be so sinister, he had only been out of the Shaolin Temple for a few days, and he had encountered such a tragic incident, he didn't dare to think about how many bloody ...... he would encounter on the road in the future.

Zhu Yu got up slowly, pondering the old man's words, he didn't know what the old man meant by Lord Wang, but he could understand it when he asked him to find the Tianlong Sect, and what was missing from the Broken Tengxia Bai was probably the location and name of the robber.

You can't stay here for a long time, the dead people will definitely have people from the government to deal with them, if they are discovered by the people from the government, it may cause big trouble, so Zhu Yu decided to leave here immediately, go to the Tianlong faction, and tell Lan Ling'er's father Lan Yiming what the old man said, and everything will be clear.

With his mind already decided, Zhu Yu folded his hands to the corpse lying on the ground, bowed three times, turned around, and hurried south along the main road.

Although Zhu Yu is less than fifteen years old, he has been practicing martial arts in Shaolin for seven years, and his physical fitness is not comparable to that of ordinary adults, so he has not felt tired along the way, he walked along the official road for more than 20 days, and asked the villagers on the side of the road, saying that Tianlong Mountain is still seven or eight days away, and he did not feel a little discouraged, and some villagers persuaded him: "Tianlong Mountain is a place where robbers gather, and the government often sends troops to encircle and suppress, but the strong people are numerous, and several bandit leaders are good at martial arts, so they have not been able to exterminate, you are a little child, I can't get tied up by a strongman and go up the mountain to be a robber. When Zhu Yu heard this, he just smiled slightly, and did not argue with the villagers, he knew that to explain the matter between Tianlong Mountain and the government to the villagers, he needed to waste a lot of tongues, and it was easy to expose his whereabouts.

Zhu Yu inquired about the direction of Tianlong Mountain all the way while walking, and walked for another five or six days, estimating that it was not far from Tianlong Mountain, he remembered that when he left Shaolin, Master Kongwu warned that near Tianlong Mountain, he might encounter officers and soldiers to set up a card to check, and he must not take the avenue, so he left the avenue, drilled into the nearby mountains and forests, and looked for those cattle and sheep to walk on the path.

Zhu Yu walked along the path in the mountains and forests for two days and two nights, thinking that Tianlong Mountain should be nearby, but he couldn't see a village, and he couldn't help but feel strange in his heart, could he not help but feel lost? He found a flat piece of land, sat down to rest, and looked up at the sun to determine the direction, but not far away, he heard the sound of ping-pong swords.

Zhu Yu was startled, and hurriedly ran in the direction of the sound of the sword, and saw that there was an empty space in the woods, and three white-clothed young men were fighting with seven or eight gray-clothed people, and the white-clothed men who took the lead, with empty hands, faced the two gray-clothed men, attacking and defending freely, and their skills were obviously higher than those of the two gray-clothed men, and the other two white-clothed men were also very comfortable dealing with five or six gray-clothed people.

"Zhu Fake, Zhu Seng Ke, you two better go down the mountain quickly, don't come to Tianlong Mountain to make trouble again." The man in white who took the lead said loudly while fighting with the two men in gray.

"Lan Shaoxia, the martial arts conference, we also want to participate in the Northern Shaolin Conference, why don't you welcome us like this?" A man in gray said.

Zhu Yu listened to the words of the man in gray, and only then did he know that the man in white was Lan Ling'er's brother Lan Tian, so he should help him, so he jumped out of the woods and slapped a palm at a man in gray who was fighting with Lan Tian.

The man in gray was shocked when he saw Zhu Yu stabbing obliquely, and hurriedly dodged to let Zhu Yu palm power, but was pointed to his chest by the blue sky, and at the same time that the man in gray fell backwards, he was pulled sideways by another man in gray and jumped backwards, as soon as he landed, the man in gray shouted: "Let's go", and the other five people heard the call, and jumped out of the battle circle and retreated down the mountain.

"You're Zhu Yu?" Lan Tian asked.

Zhu Yu took a closer look at the blue sky at this time, and saw that he was tall, with big eyes, a straight nose, and a very handsome appearance, so he had a good impression first.

"I'm Zhu Yu, how did Brother Lan know?" Zhu Yu felt strange that Lan Tian had guessed his name when he saw him for the first time.

"Shaolin Flying Pigeon passed a book, saying that you are coming, and Ling'er has mentioned you many times, I guess it must be you." Blue Sky said.

Zhu Yu said: "I heard that Brother Lan also went to Shaolin to practice martial arts, and practiced with Master Kongwu, I don't know when he can teach me a lesson?" ”

"Compared with the Empty Master Prajna Palm and the Empty Void Forceful Vajra Palm, it is still a little lost, but it's a pity that the Empty Master Shenlong saw the beginning and didn't see the end, and he didn't learn the Mighty Vajra Palm, which is a pity." Lan Tian sighed.

"It just so happens that I have practiced the Mighty Vajra Palm Method with Master Kongkong, this is not in a hurry, I can take the time to teach you." Zhu Yudao.

"Great, I'll teach you the Prajna Palm, and you teach me the Mighty Vajra Palm." Lan Tian said happily.

"By the way, this is Zhao Li, my father is Zhao Zhou, the third protector of my Tianlong faction, and my mother is the fourth protector spruce, who practiced swordsmanship with my father and was good at martial arts; His name is Luo Lin, and his father is my Luo Mai, the rudder of the Northern Youzhou Branch of Tianlong Mountain. Lan Tian first pointed at Zhao Li, and then pointed at Luo Lin, introducing the two to Zhu Yu.

Zhao Li looked sixteen or seventeen years old, although he was not handsome, but his face was broad and kind. The person known as Luo Lin is about fifteen years old, not tall, short-dressed, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a straight nose, and looks much more handsome than Lan Tian and Zhao Zhou.

Zhu Yu stepped forward to meet Zhao Zhou and Luo Lin one by one, and Lan Tian said: "Let's go back quickly, in the past few days, Tianlong Mountain is going to hold a martial arts conference and elect the leader of the martial arts alliance. After speaking, Lan Tian took Zhu Yu, Zhao Zhou and Luo Lin, and walked along the mountain road to the mountain.

"Brother Lan, on the way to Tianlong Mountain, I met a group of dart masters who were killed, and one of the old men, before he died, said a few words to me intermittently, mentioning what is the lack of Bai in Broken Tengxia, and also said Lord Wang, let me report to Tianlong Mountain." While walking, Zhu Yu said.

"Oh! There is a gang of bandits in Broken Tengxia, calling themselves the Flying Dragon Faction, the leader is named Bai Shaofeng, and the death of the dart people should be related to them, the old man's name is Lord Wang, it should be a person in the court, because only the officials are called adults, but most of this dart game is opened by my Tianlong faction, and it is still his own people who can't get the death, go to the faction, tell my father, he will send someone to check the ins and outs. Lan Tian walked and turned back to Zhu Yu and said.

Walk through a overgrown shrub forest, a river seven or eight zhang wide lies in front of the four people, it is summer, the river is turbulent, the waves flow down the mountain, there is a stone bridge more than ten zhang long, more than one zhang wide, the stone railings on both sides of the stone bridge and the stone slabs on the bridge deck are very smooth, indicating that the stone bridge has been some years.

After crossing the stone bridge, Lan Tian led the three of them through a dense forest, and when they looked up, an unusually majestic mountain lay in front of the four of them, and the top of the mountain was covered with clouds and mist, and they couldn't see how high it was.

From a distance, on the mountainside, there are some dotted buildings, yellow or red, hidden among the green trees and rocks.

"Zhu Yu, the mountain in front of us is Tianlong Mountain, the mountain is thousands of zhang high, on the top of the mountain covered by clouds and mist, it is covered with snow all year round, the cold is abnormal, almost no one has been there, it is a good place to practice martial arts." Blue sky refers to the cloudy mountain top, which looks very excited.

"Brother Zhu Yu, Tianlong Mountain is big, what you see here is only his front, in fact, this mountain is dozens of miles wide from north to south, and hundreds of miles long from east to west, which is the most dangerous place in the Central Plains." Zhao Li's description of Tianlong Mountain surprised Zhu Yu, no wonder Tianlong Mountain made the imperial court helpless, in addition to the strong martial arts of the disciples of the Tianlong Sect, the large number of people, and the intricacies of power in the Central Plains, but also because they occupied such a dangerous and good place that could maneuver.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a huge stone gate standing abruptly, the door post is more than three zhang high, each is made of the whole piece of flower steel rock, the top of the door is carved with two vermilion birds on the left and one right, and the lintel is engraved with four vigorous characters of Tianlong blessed land.

"This gate is really atmospheric, but since this mountain is called Tianlong Mountain, why not carve two dragons to go up?" Zhu Yu asked.

Lan Tian said with a smile: "The dragon symbolizes the imperial power, carved the dragon, sooner or later it will be destroyed by the officers and soldiers, when the predecessors set up this mountain gate, there was a plan, so, thousands of years later, this stone gate can be preserved." ”

Stepping through the stone gate, the four of them began to climb up the mountain along the wide stone steps of the stone staircase paved with stone slabs.

Originally, Tianlong Mountain as early as a thousand years ago, was the Taoist patriarch Zhang Daoling fancied, here to open the mountain to establish a faction, to spread Taoism, at that time, the Taoist patriarch ordered people to build this stone gate under the mountain, later, the Yellow Turban Army uprising, but also the Tianlong Mountain as their own base, after the failure of the uprising, there are tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers hiding in this mountain around, spread for decades before going down the mountain to disperse, after that, occasionally thieves or people of Buddhism and Taoism come to this mountain to avoid pursuit or born to practice, helpless mountain high ground is far away, life is inconvenient, are not long, It wasn't until Lan Tian's grandparents Lan Xiong and Li Qi opened a mountain here that Tianlong Mountain flourished again.

After the four of them had walked for half an hour, they came to a pass with huge stones on both sides, the pass was about three feet wide, and only one person could pass through, and on both sides of the pass, there was a simple wooden house made of wood.

"Uncle Zhang, the masters of the major gangs will come to the mountain these days, you have to work harder, and report something as soon as possible." Lan Tian said to a strong man led by Lan Tian.

"Don't worry, Lan Shaoxia, we must guard the pass, you go back quickly, or it will be difficult to walk when it gets dark." The person who was called Uncle Zhang by the blue sky said.

Squeezed through the pass, the four of them continued to move forward, in front of them was a section of cliff, a hundred zhang high, and there were steps along the cliff wall to turn back and go up, although there was an iron chain on the cliff side, it still made Zhu Yu feel frightened.

Seeing Zhu Yu's worries, Luo Lin said: "Brother Zhu Yu, don't be afraid, just look forward, don't bow your head, the first time I climbed this cliff, I was also very scared, and I slowly got used to it." ”

Fortunately, the cliff is not too high, nor is it long, plus Zhu Yu is also a martial arts master, he has some guts, he cautiously followed behind the blue sky, and after a while, he climbed over this cliff called the Flying Eagle Wall.

On the cliff, Zhu Yu looked up, but saw the clouds and mist above his head, and he didn't know where the top of the mountain was, so he couldn't help but sigh: "Tianlong Mountain is really high!" ”

Zhao Li squeezed his eyes at Zhu Yu and said with a smile: "Little brother Zhu Yu, I'm afraid you've never seen such a high mountain!" ”

"I grew up in the mountains since I was a child, but I have never seen such a high mountain, Brother Zhao, how long will we have to walk to reach the mountain?" Zhu Yu asked.

"It's not far away, in two hours, you can reach the faction, and when the time comes, Lan Ling'er will be happy to see you, I don't know how happy she will be?" Zhao Lidao.

Hearing Zhao Zhou mention Lan Ling'er, thinking of the days when he and Lan Ling'er practiced martial arts in Shaolin Temple, he couldn't help but feel a little stunned.