In fact, the matter of rushing is not difficult at all for a teenager who has been rolling in the mountains and rivers around Yanguan Town since he was a child.

It is common to go up and down the mountain and down the river, to fish in the water, to set traps and catch wild game all over the mountains, and it is even more common to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads and go back and forth between the town and the surrounding mountains and fields several times a day.

However, from Yanguan Town to the east, all the way out of the town ten miles away, this is already the farthest place that the once helpless orphan of the town has walked.

It's strange to say, I don't know if it has something to do with the fact that the former Great Array of Salt Officials closed the access for outsiders, or if someone didn't want him to leave the town too far, in short, he really didn't seem to want to go out of the town ten miles away.

It's just like when someone warned him not to enter the Xuannu Lake, nine feet away from the shore.

Although he has been growing up for many years, and no one has even deliberately restricted the distance of his feet in the future, he is really like a ghost hitting a wall, and he has never stepped out of the circle that seems to have been drawn by someone, as if he had drawn the ground as a prison, and stopped at a certain point.

So when he was really holding a bamboo pole and a walking pole on his back, carrying a small luggage package on his back, kowtowing on both sides of a small mountain bag at the foot of the dragon's back mountain, and then leaving the town that was completely ordinary, he really realized for the first time that he seemed to have really stepped out of that small world that used to be all he knew.

The sea fish jumps, the birds fly in the sky, the water hits three thousand miles, and the clouds are soaring.

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The moment the boy walked out of the town, he was thousands of miles away in the east, the Chengyun Empire, and the imperial capital Chang'an.

This is known as the only pearl in the Liguan Continent, the earliest time was not this name, but during the change of dynasties, it was renamed Chang'an after taking the meaning of "long-term stability", and then as the Chengyun Empire Kyoto, it has been thousands of years now.

Chang'an City is huge, and the royal palace city on the north side alone has surpassed the Liangzhou City located in the northwest border, which Chu Lantern Festival has not had the opportunity to enter for thirteen years.

There is an imperial city outside the palace, there is a city outside the imperial city, the three cities are ringed, the layout is symmetrical, the square is neat, the street is wide, it can be seen that the planning intention when the city was built at the beginning, and the degree of attention given by the Chengyun royal family.

The height of the city wall of the palace city is also much higher than the outer Guo city wall, so as long as you stand on the top of the city wall full of feather forests, you can see the dragon head hill in the northeast corner of Chang'an City, and you can vaguely see the independent palace that is taller and more luxurious than the imperial palace built on it.

There is the ancestral hall of the pillar country of the Chengyun Empire, also called the Royal Temple, which enshrines the tablets of the heroic spirits after the death of the emperors of the empire, and also lives the pillars of the Pillar Kingdom that have been accumulated by the successive dynasties since the founding of the Chengyun Empire.

There are three main reasons why the Chengyun Empire can become a three-grade empire, and the Pillar Country Ancestral Hall is one of them.

At this moment, there is a white-clothed girl with a delicate face and big round eyes, standing quietly on the Jinguangmen City Tower on the west side of the outer city of Chang'an, looking at the endless mountains on the west side.

Today's girl did not carry a sword and a sword, but hung the pair of swords together on her waist, the name of the sword was ten thousand years, and the name of the sword was Daxia Longque.

There is also a charming woman in white on her side, and the stunning woman in white is not as clear as ever, but she is holding a wine gourd that is not big or small, and the thin waist of the gourd is also tied to a bright red braided tassel rope, which hangs down long, clean and beautiful, and is carefully braided.

Li Twelve, a woman in white, slowly carried the gourd and drank, while looking at the little junior sister who was silently looking westward, with an expressionless face.

She actually knew why the little girl was standing here at the moment, it was nothing more than because of the fish dragon jade pendant and the pillar country ancestral hall that was located on the high hill in the northeast corner of the imperial capital.

In fact, when she was in Liangzhou, when the little girl gave the jade pendant to the young man like a gamble, she once reminded her that there are some things that can be known without guessing, as evidenced by the scene earlier today.

But at this moment, when I saw my precious little sister standing on the city wall facing west, and didn't come back to her senses for a long time, this world-famous Night Rain Sword Fairy was humorous for no reason, and after taking a sip of wine, she began to tease the little girl who was still sulking.

"When the little senior sister traveled the world before, she once went to Tu Mountain at the southern end of the Middle Earth Divine Continent, and originally wanted to see the ancestral land of the legendary Nine-tails clan, but after listening to the introduction of the local people, she saw the same famous Wangfu Stone."

The woman in white smiled and said halfway, and took another sip of wine, "It's just that today I saw my little girl looking at Liangzhou thousands of miles away so intently, and the little senior sister inexplicably felt that the stone that stood alone on the cliff of Tushan Mountain for the New Year came back to life again, and it was not far away to come to our Liguanzhou?" ”

The girl Li Yuyao was still puffing up with a straight face, but she still couldn't hold back when she heard this ridicule, so she couldn't help but turn her head and glance at the little senior sister beside her, although she didn't speak, but the obviously angry target had already turned in a different direction.

Seeing the little girl like this, Li Twelve was not worried, but began to take a step further with a smile, "You said that if the princes and disciples of the imperial capital and the proud sons of the sky learned about the imperial pearl they had in their hearts one by one, Princess Changle, who was a good one, but a sincere heart hung on a poor young man in the countryside who they once found to be an eyesore even when they looked at it, would they all be heartbroken into eight petals and fall into a place?" ”

The girl curled the corners of her mouth a little helplessly when she heard this, "Little Senior Sister, did those old men not lock me up, which made you feel a little pity?" ”

Hearing this, the Night Rain Sword Immortal raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "How can it? You see, isn't the little senior sister afraid that you will be embarrassed when you come back, so she came to help you fight? If those old men are indiscriminate, the little senior sister will snatch you back to Lishan! ”

Lishan, where the mountain gate of Xihe Jianzong is located.

Li Yuyao didn't speak directly when she heard this, first turned her head through the open front and back doors of the city tower, glanced at the imperial city in the distance, and the ancestral hall in the distance, and then turned her head to her senior sister and said strangely: "Little senior sister, if you want to talk like this, I think you are a little too ignorant of those bad old men." ”

Standing on the wall of the imperial capital, the palace and the ancestral hall of the Zhuguo Sect are all in sight, but it is indeed impolite to say that he wants to snatch the little girl away from here.

However, the female sword immortal who was drinking with a wine gourd didn't care about it at all, "It doesn't matter, as long as the first ancestor of your family doesn't come out of the customs, and your Zong Zhengqing doesn't make a move, the others, although the little senior sister may not be able to fight, but if she just wants to run away, it should be no problem." ”

Li Yuyao watched the little senior sister so hung up on her children, and she was useless when she degraded a group of her family's pillar kingdoms, and she was not angry, and hooked the corners of her lips with a good mood.

As the eldest daughter of His Majesty the Emperor, she has been loved by thousands of people, and among the royal children of the entire empire, except for her eldest brother Li Cong, who has been extremely smart since she was a child, she is the most favored one, otherwise she would not be the eldest princess of Zhengyipin.

The reason why the imperial brother is very valued is because if nothing else, he will be the future emperor of the empire, and half of her favor comes from the love of her father and queen mother, and the rest is because she has been too talented in cultivation since she was a child, so she is valued by the Zhuguo Ancestral Hall.

When she was a child, she didn't understand, she just thought it was a good thing that everyone liked her, but it wasn't until she grew up that she understood that many times, glory is a shackle, and the older she gets, the more dazzling her talent is, the heavier the shackle, and it will always make people unable to breathe.

At the beginning in that small town in Liangzhou, she gave away the fish and dragon pendant, on the one hand, that thing was indeed useful to her new friend, and on the other hand, it was indeed a gambling element, because the jade pendant containing a wisp of dragon spirit came from that ancestral hall before it was in her hands.

The girl shook her head and didn't think about any more unhappy things, but turned her head to look at the little senior sister beside her who had a faint expression and was still drinking.

The little girl has never been a person who will suffer easily, and she has not forgotten the words of the little senior sister who teased her for being Wangfushi before.

So looking at the wine gourd in the hand of the little senior sister who didn't know who gave it to her, she smiled and said: "When I was in Lishan once, I went to the town below the mountain with the eleventh senior sister to hang out, she ate too much wine in the sea of clouds, and told me a lot of stories in a daze, little senior sister, do you want to listen?" ”

When Li Twelve heard this, he paused imperceptibly when he raised his hand to drink, but he returned to normal in an instant, took another sip of wine, and said lightly: "Say, let me hear how big a fight with that dead girl will have to be to relieve my anger?" ”

The eleventh and twelfth disciples of the Xihe Sword Sect Patriarch actually worshiped under the Gongsun Sect on the same day, and it was only because she Li Twelve was a little dazed when she drank and reacted half a beat slower, so she was ranked eleventh ahead of the dead girl named Chi Yuju.

Therefore, in the following years, as the second generation patriarch of the Xihe Sword Sect, the eleventh pool jade pot and the twelfth Li Zhu, they have been arguing about who is big and who is small, and they have evolved into full martial arts at every turn, and each of them drew their swords and fought a big fight.

In the eyes of a large number of junior disciples under Xihemen, these two second-generation patriarchs, except for the new patriarch who has not been in the door for a long time, the two most unscrupulous in a group of second-generation patriarchs, fight in front of their juniors at every turn, and never care whether it will lose face, and the reason for the fight is a little exaggerated, just for the sake of who should be the name of the senior sister...

Li Yuyao, the little girl standing at the head of the city, listened to the little sister's careless question, and said with some schadenfreude: "Sister Yuhu said that there was once a drunk drunkard girl who lay on the wine table and accepted a wine gourd sent by others, but she didn't even see who the person who gave her the gourd was. ”

The woman in white listened to the little girl's grinning tone, just smiled and didn't say much, raised her hand and took another sip of peach blossom brew in the gourd, and then looked up at the endless mountains outside the city, her eyes were calm and silent.

The fate between people is sometimes really hard to say.

She really didn't remember what the person who had gently placed a new gourd on her desk that had just dried and had not yet opened her mouth while she was drunk.

Even, it may really be like what the dead girl in Chi Yuju said, goodbye to the rivers and lakes, so people don't know it, and they fight.

Many years ago, she had always thought that since that person put down the gourd, he would definitely come to her again in the future, but after waiting for many years, she seemed to be used to him not appearing again, and maybe he would not see him in this life, but it didn't seem to be anything bad.

Even if you don't know each other, don't think about it, peach blossoms.

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Counting the day he left the town, the young Chu Yuanxiao traveled between the mountains and fields for three days, and finally walked to the entrance of a valley when it was dark on the third day.

Through the sunset that had not yet dissipated in the sky, he could vaguely see the chaotic scene of rocks and strange rocks in the valley in front of him.

The two highest mountains on both sides of the valley, for some reason, each collapsed in half, and the stones under the cliff were not the same as elsewhere, all as if they had been carefully beaten with a hammer, all of them were broken into powder, and after an occasional gust of wind, you could see countless stone powders like a stretch of loess, blown away.

The young man inexplicably remembered that the night when the old monkey temporarily left the town with Jiang Yan, the worship of the Yunlin Sect, the sky was like thunder.

Moreover, this valley seemed to be different from the two hundred miles of mountain roads that the boy had passed by in the past two days, because the whole valley was silent, and there was not a single beast roar to be heard, nor a single bird to be seen, as if this place had become a Jedi that those beasts and birds that roamed around the mountains were unwilling to enter.

Seeing that the sky was dark, the young man who had to find a place to settle down and rest, looked at the valley in front of him, but was a little hesitant, if even the birds and beasts were not willing to settle here, then he entered it, and he had to stay overnight, whether this choice was correct or not, it is really hard to say.

In the past, when he followed the old Liang Tou in the town, the old man always seemed to have a lot of endless stories to tell him, at first he told the stories between various people in the town, and later after he talked about more content, he would also tell some old stories of gods and ghosts that had been passed down from generation to generation.

For example, the mountain temple, such as the City God Temple, such as the Land Temple, or the river god Hebo, or some spirits who have cultivated their spiritual wisdom in the mountains, and some people do not enter the reincarnation after death, and become ghosts wandering in the world...

Chu Yuanxiao didn't know if there was any relationship between the ghosts that Lao Liang Tou mentioned at the beginning and the ghost clan behind Mr. Mo Da who visited Yanguan Town on the night of the spring equinox, but now he has to go out alone, travel far away, and sleep in the wilderness at night, sometimes he feels a little chill in his back, and he doesn't dare to close his eyes and sleep without lighting a fire.

It had just sunk tonight, and he had just made it all the way to the entrance of this deserted valley, where there were still no birds and beasts, which did not seem to be a good sign.

Just when the young man was in a dilemma, a slightly thin palm gently rested on the young man's shoulder, and at the same time, a somewhat dry and hoarse voice sounded behind his head, "Since you're here, why don't you come in?" ”

At this moment, Chu Yuanxiao only felt a chill from his back all the way up, straight to the Heavenly Spirit Gai!

Fuck, can't you think of something?!

The sky was dark, there was no one in the wilderness, and the young people who were walking alone were all dead, but a pair of legs took root under his feet as if they were filled with molten iron, so he couldn't run away if he wanted to!

It's no wonder that the young man is timid, it's really that the voice is too abrupt, and it doesn't look like a living person, which makes him inexplicably reminded him of the Tianshu Lianshan who once lived in the bronze bell, but the voice is just dry, but not gloomy, and the one behind him is just gloomy...

The young man, who only felt a little weak all over his body, gritted his teeth, held the package that had slipped from his shoulder to his hand in his hand, tightened the bamboo cane in his hand with his other hand, and then slowly turned his head to look behind him with an ugly expression.

I've even seen the ghost marquis, I'm afraid you're a lonely ghost?

It's just a miserable white face, Lao Tzu fought with you!

When the poor young man turned around with a resolute face, what he saw was not the miserable white grimace with blood flowing and his eyes rolling wildly as he imagined, but a smile on the corner of his lips, a look of teasing, but he had to admit that it was a very handsome smile.

The man was dressed in black, looking not very old, he seemed to be smiling, who was Su Sanzai who was not that dog?

Suddenly, the young man who felt a little lightness on his body and some of his strength became extremely ugly in an instant, and opened his mouth to scold: "Su Sanzai of the dog day, do you know that people are scary and scared to death?" You're fucking here in the middle of the night scaring Lao Tzu, isn't it fun?! ”

The young man in black who was scolded was not angry, he still had a smiling expression, just slapped the back of the young man's head, and said happily: "You dog thing is not big or small, Lao Tzu is half of your master, how do you speak?" ”

Some youngsters with weak legs rolled their eyes directly when they heard this, "You haven't used that money boy yet!" What kind of master are you! ”

Su Sanzai shrugged his shoulders, rolled his eyes and said: "It's as if you can carry it for the rest of your life, sooner or later, it's useless not to admit it." ”

Chu Yuanxiao was too lazy to talk nonsense with this bastard with a sick brain, so he simply sat on the ground, but to be honest, an acquaintance suddenly appeared in the wilderness in the middle of the night, and he seemed to feel a lot more relieved.

But I heard the young man suddenly squint his eyes and smile as if he was smiling: "Don't you know that some spirits who have achieved cultivation, or ghosts who have become Taoists, will have some ability to change?" ”

The young man who had just swallowed his heart back to his stomach from his voice was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the young man with a sneer, "What do you mean?" ”

"Meaning, how can you be sure that I am not a mountain ghost and goblin who has cultivated in this mountain, and when I saw you at the door of my house, I was itching and wanted to trick you into the mountain, and then peel the skin and bones and swallow it into my belly, and I walked a long way, or filled my stomach?"

This sudden reluctance to glow with coldness made the young man's face inevitably turn pale again, and then he took out the money from his arms without hesitation.

But the young man didn't read those four words directly, but pinched the slightly larger copper coin in his hand and rubbed it, and then raised his head and looked at the young man in black carefully.

Seeing that the man's face suddenly became a little gloomy again, and even began to transform in a strange direction, the young man suddenly smiled, "Su Sanzai, I remember that you said that you might be a genius who buried your talent, but now I think you may think too highly of yourself." ”

When the young man on the other side, who was originally gloomy, heard this, his face suddenly turned pale, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Oh? How so? ”

Chu Yuanxiao snorted and sneered, "Tricking Lao Tzu into spending money on this, and then recognizing you as half a master, this calculation is quite good, but are you acting too exaggerated?" ”

"Really?" The young man in black who was ridiculed was small, and suddenly his face became strange again, "It seems that I have to let you see and understand, what is meant by seeing is not necessarily believing, and the brain may not be easy to use." ”

As soon as the words fell, the sky and the earth suddenly became dark and dull, looking up and not seeing the stars and moon, reaching out and not seeing the five fingers, between the heaven and the earth, the demon wind was everywhere!

The black-clothed man's originally smooth and delicate skin began to dry up a little, shaped like dead wood, his eyes were blood-red like drops of blood, and his voice changed to the dry and gloomy appearance of before.

"If a guest is visiting, please come with me to the house!"

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