The speaker was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, dressed in pale green clothes.

Everyone saw clearly the strange bird under her seat, which turned out to be a wooden phoenix made of sacred wood. It is more flexible and powerful than the wooden spirit carving they sit on.

After the girl came down from the wooden phoenix, the wooden phoenix was not as sluggish as the wood spirit carving, only waiting for spells and spirit stones to move, the eyes of the wooden phoenix, like a living divine bird, observed the five uninvited guests in front of her, and the state of vigilance came spontaneously.

Qin Zhong saw that this artifact was more magical than the wood spirit carving, and his greed rose again, he wanted to get one for his own use, but he didn't scare the old guy to death.

Xia Demao stepped forward condescendingly and said, "Are you from Longmen Valley?"

The little girl was very strange, her eyes were rolling, and she kept looking at them. The eyes of the wooden phoenix also turned.

Qin Chong, who had been observing the girl and the wooden phoenix, suddenly stood up a cold hair, could it be that this wooden phoenix and this little girl could communicate with each other? Impossible, absolutely impossible. Qin Chong said to himself in his heart.

The little girl replied: "You are really strange to ask, in this place, except for the people in Longmen Valley, who dares to wander around at the mouth of the valley?"

Good fellow, this little girl opened her mouth and said that the five people in front of her were intruders.

Xia Demao's face sank, and he replied in a deep voice: "Go and ask your Dugu Lord to come out." It was said that someone from the fasting house came to visit the Lord of the Valley. ”

The girl said to Xia Demao in surprise: "It turned out to be the messenger of the upper court, earlier in the valley received a message from the upper court, and sent all the disciples to wait everywhere in the morning, but good luck for me to meet it." Otherwise, you will take a lot of wrong paths. ”

As he spoke, he saluted the five people, which was very different from the attitude just now.

Sure enough, the disciples of the upper courtyard have a faction, and they are all called messengers when they go to subordinate sects, so it seems that this hat in the courtyard is still very effective.

Xia Demao couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Xia Demao gestured: "Lead the way." ”

As soon as the girl turned around and ran up to the wooden phoenix, the wooden phoenix waited for her to sit down, then raised her arms and slowly rose into the air.

After a while, the five of them became small in her eyes, this is the next sect's greeting to the upper court?

Five people, you look at the five eyes, at a loss, is this called leading the way?

Looking at the wooden phoenix like a real bird, the wood spirit carving was a little unable to take it, and Xia Demao was a little hesitant.

After a while, the wooden phoenix descended again, and the girl hurriedly apologized to the five people: "I don't know that the five messengers of the upper house have no flying objects, but I was negligent." That's how I rode the falcon. ”

The little girl's mouth whistled, and her voice rose and fell, melodiously into the distance.

After a while, several things similar to the wooden phoenix came from far and near, and when they got closer, everyone looked carefully, and it turned out to be five falcon-shaped flying birds made of tree branches, but they were slightly smaller than the wooden phoenix, and they were not as agile as it.

The five falcons fell down in front of the five people, and at the signal of the little girl, the five had to turn over on the back of the falcon, and in the sound of flapping their wings, the six people and six horses rose into the air in unison, and broke through the air in the direction of the valley mouth.

The wooden phoenix was far ahead, flying about a foot higher than the falcon, and its size was so large that the five of them could only look up at their tails. This stuffy stick hit Xia Demao, the leading disciple, in the face, and just now there was some pride of the disciple of the upper courtyard, and he completely fell down. His face was a little gloomy, and he secretly calculated Qin Chong's matter, but he put it behind.

When flying, from time to time I heard the clattering sound in the valley road, and I could see several teams of patrol people and horses coming and going, everyone looked down from the air, and was stunned, it turned out that this team of people was all monsters, although they were humanoids, but all of them had heads and faceless limbs into knots, and the whole body was woody, which seemed to be composed of wooden tubes and wood chips, and they all held spears in their hands, and they seemed to be made of some kind of tree.

Qin Chong's eyes widened, staring at the various structures of this group of monsters, and seeing their clever interfaces and flexible joints, he couldn't help but be shocked: "The mechanism craftsmanship of Longmen Valley is so superb?

Xia Demao's face was even darker.

At this moment, he was thinking about a question, why did there be so many patrolling soldiers in Longmen Valley, as if they were facing a great enemy, were they here? Another question rose in his heart, I had never heard that Longmen Valley was good at machine techniques? Where did such exquisite mechanism techniques come from?

Xiao Da and Xiao Er looked at each other, with a hint of brilliance in their eyes, I don't know what to think of, or what to think.

Some of the people were dizzying, some were suspicious, and Qin Chong was relaxed, looking into the distance from time to time, and looking at the feet from time to time.

The girl's voice came from the front at the right time: "Recently, some little thieves want to come to the valley to steal the sacred wood, and our valley lord is furious, and has issued a strict order to strengthen patrols. The protective array is opened, and if there is no one to lead the way, you will not be able to enter at all. Hee-hee. ”

The crowd sighed, and their hearts said so.

Xia Demao was a little angry, and explained why there was some sarcasm in his speech? Wait until you see Lord Du Gu before making plans.

A moment later, a phoenix and a falcon landed on an open flat ground, surrounded by scattered trees of some completely unknown species, the leaves were like swords, the body of the tree was as straight as a spear, and the roots were pierced into the ground, the body of the tree was less than ten percent the size of the giant tree outside the valley, but it gave people a completely different feeling. When the trees saw that people were in the hospital, their leaves turned in the direction of the five outsiders.

was targeted by tens of thousands of sword-like leaf tips, just like the plot in the book in the storyteller: those few people, stepping out, will face the five hundred sword and axe hands outside the hall, seeing these people, life and death hanging by a thread!

Qin Chong's keen six senses faintly appeared in the bottom of his heart, how can there be more than five hundred? His hand touched the bow on his back, and the arrow at his waist settled down a little.

The little girl saw that the faces of the five people were a little heavy, and said with a crisp smile: "This is the most well-known Canglong Wood in our Valley. The leaves are like swords, the body of the tree is like a spear, and any section can be cut into various Taoist weapons. It can be soft or hard, and it is not soaked in water and fire. ”

Xiao Er asked very curiously: "May I ask your little sister, what is your surname, how do you call it? You are a little Taoist boy, why are you so familiar with the courtyard?"

"My name is Ayan, this is my home, I was born here, I grew up here, every grass and tree here, I am like a treasure. Ah Yan replied with a smile.

At this time, Xia Demao was about to ask again, and Ah Yan ran towards a person who came from a distance with a smile, shouting as she ran: "Dad, I invited your guest back." How do you reward me?"

The man from afar, with a broad face and white beard and eyes as sharp as lightning, was wearing leather armor and carrying a spear, and a brilliant blue rattle hung from his waist.

From afar, he saluted the five people with his fists: "In the mountains and rivers of Xiadu, I have never gone out of the valley to meet the messenger of the upper house, forgive my sins." ”

It turned out that the person who came was the lord of Longmen Valley, Du Shanchuan, and that little girl was naturally his little daughter, Du Yan.