After a while, the butler brought a young man over.

As soon as the young man entered the lobby, he immediately knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, there are thieves who have captured children fifty miles outside the city gate, and dozens of lives are at stake. ”

Song Zhen said: "You get up and speak." You slowly explain where you came from and what happened to you. ”

Ye Ling stood up and was about to speak, but when he saw Lu Chong next to him, he was very surprised, and knelt down again and bowed down and said, "Big brother is above, please bow to the boy." ”

Lu Chong also recognized Ye Ling, hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be you, little brother." The rest of the things are put off for the time being, and the business is important. ”

Ye Ling nodded again and again, and hurriedly explained the process of meeting Guo Cuo on the road. After hearing this, Song Zhen said strangely: "Little brother, the abduction of children is a secular matter, and it should be under the jurisdiction of the local imperial court yamen, why don't you go to the city lord's mansion to report the case, but come to my Song family for help?"

Ye Ling said angrily: "The imperial court is incompetent, what's the use of looking for it? I want to get from my Xiyun Village to here, more than ten villages and towns along the way have been looted, hundreds of children are missing, and the local officials still have no clue, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial court spent a lot of money to compensate the households, and the kidnapping was only for twelve-year-old children, I am afraid that there would have been a civil uprising in various places now." ”

Song Zhen and Lu Chong were shocked when they heard this, and Song Zhen hurriedly asked, "Little brother, are you serious?"

Ye Ling nodded and said, "It's true, if you don't believe it, you can go and walk around yourself." If it hadn't been for the eldest brother who came to the rescue, even I, I'm afraid I would have ended up missing now. ”

Lu Chong was very remorseful when he heard this, he had been practicing in the sect since he dealt with the affairs of Xiyun Village, and he did not go out to investigate the matter again, he did not expect that the Badaomen would be so crazy and commit such an evil deed in Yuezhou.

Lu Chong asked, "But there are cultivation sects all over the place, isn't there any one who comes out to stop them?"

Ye Ling shook his head and said: "The looted are all small places such as villages and towns, and the larger city thieves did not attack, but only blocked and robbed in the outside world. Therefore, there is no loss for the powerful or large families, only the ordinary people. ”

Song Zhen said angrily: "No wonder there are so few teenagers who participated in the selection this year, it turns out that they have all been killed by thieves." ”

Lu Chong asked Song Zhendao in a deep voice: "Senior brother, are you willing to take care of this matter?"

Song Zhen said categorically: "Manage, of course you have to take care of it!" Don't say that invading the secular world itself has violated the covenant of immortals and customs, and they dare to come to Yuezhou to commit crimes, and they clearly don't take my sect seriously. Wait a minute, junior brother, I will go and summon people now, and set off immediately. ”

Song Zhen selected twenty cultivation disciples, together with the third brother Song Heng, Lu Chong, and Ye Ling, more than twenty people rushed out of Guiling City on horseback. Along the way, Ye Ling observed everywhere and finally found the mark left by Qin Moyun, so the team adjusted its direction and continued to move forward along the mark.

At sunset, the team saw a vast manor in the distance, and the markings on the ground pointed in the direction of the manor. The procession continued on its horseback, and about a hundred meters from the gate of the manor, a child suddenly waved his hands and came out of the bushes next to him, signaling the team to stop.

As soon as the horse stopped, Ye Ling jumped off the horse, ran to the child and said, "Mo Yun, are you okay?"

That child was Qin Moyun. Qin Moyun first shook his head to say that he was fine, and then pointed to the manor and said to Song Zhen, the leader of the team: "Those people entered the manor and didn't come out again. ”

Looking at the manor not far away, Song Zhen suddenly fell into doubt: this manor is a separate residence of Nangong Yan, the city lord of Guiling City, Song Zhen was invited by Nangong Yan and has been here several times, if this is the stronghold of the thieves, then the Nangong City Lord may not be able to get rid of this matter. Song Zhen and Nangong Yan are both Yuan infant monks, and they are in Guiling City, one is in charge of Xiuzhen, the other is in charge of the world, the two have dealings with each other on weekdays, and the relationship is also good, if Nangong Yanzhen is related to this matter, Song Zhen didn't think about how to deal with it for a while.

After all, Song Zhen was experienced, and immediately said to Lu Chong: "Senior Brother Lu, this manor is the other residence of the city lord of Nangong in Guiling City, I'm afraid this matter is by no means simple. If you and the two little brothers are hiding here, we will only come forward to inquire, and if there is any accident, someone will go to the newspaper to report it. ”

Lu Chong nodded in agreement, and then took Ye Ling and Qin Moyun into the bushes to hide. Song Zhen took the rest of the people and ran to the manor without concealment.

More than 20 people rode horses and galloped, and the movement had already alarmed the guards of the manor. When Song Zhen led the team to the gate of the manor and stopped, the gate of the manor suddenly opened, and first dozens of big men rushed out and surrounded Song Zhen's team, and then three cultivators who seemed to be the leader walked out and stood in front of Song Zhen's team calmly.

Song Zhen looked at the three people who walked out from behind, and couldn't help frowning, among the three, the one in front was Nangong Yan, the city lord of Guiling City, but the two behind were fresh faces, and their cultivation was not weak, one was already in the Yuanying Extreme Realm, and the other was weaker, but it was also the Xuangong Extreme Realm, only one step away from the Yuanying Realm.

Song Zhen stared at Nangong Yan and said in a deep voice: "Brother Nangong, you and I have always been brothers, you tell me the truth, are there dozens of captive children in Zhuangzi?"

Nangong smiled bitterly: "I knew that this matter would definitely not be hidden from you Brother Song." Don't worry, I'll introduce you to two fellow Daoists first, this is Zheng Ning, the master of the Xizhou Badaomen, and the one next to him is Guo Cuo, the second master of the Badaomen, you must have seen the strength of the two, this time I joined forces with the two of them, and it is definitely not your Song family that can fight. To tell you the truth, this time I and the Badaomen are just acting on orders, and we don't know the specific reasons, Brother Song, you don't care about this matter, please go back. ”

Song Zhen is the only one on Song Zhen's side, and his third brother Song Heng is in the Yuan Infant Realm, and the rest of the people are just Yuan Dan, and their overall strength is indeed a cut lower than that of the other party, but Song Zhen laughed and said: "Song is not talented, although it has been difficult to make progress in cultivation in recent years, but the original intention of practicing righteousness and courage, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, has never dared to forget." This is the territory of Cangyunmen's protection, even if the Song family is weak, but Cangyunmen is a state-level sect, do you have the strength to compete with my sect? You immediately let the child go, if you still don't repent, don't blame me for not being merciful. ”

Zheng Ning, the master of the Badao Sect on the opposite side, was already impatient, and immediately scolded: "Where did the fox and fake tiger dare to make noise here! If you want to fight, you will fight, and if you don't fight, you will leave!"

Song Zhen's temper was also very violent, and when he was insulted by the other party, he suddenly became angry, and shouted angrily: "Presumptuous!

Both sides broke out, and immediately entangled and fought. Nangong Yan and Zheng Ning's side had the upper hand, but they did not kill them, they only suppressed Song Zhen's side, intending to wait for the other party to be exhausted, and then capture them all, Song Zhen's side could only support it hard, although it saw through the other party's attempt, but there was no way at all.

Let's say that Lu Chong and the three of them were extremely anxious when they saw Song Zhen being besieged. Lu Chong couldn't help but say: "The other party's strength is strong, I should go up to help the senior brother, although I can't win, but I should be able to break through and go." It's just that we've already caught the strings out of the cracks this time, and as soon as we leave, I'm afraid the children in custody will be more than lucky. You two are well hidden here, and no one will find out. ”

Ye Ling and Qin Moyun glanced at each other, and they were all silent. After a while, Ye Ling still didn't give up and asked, "Brother Lu, is there no way to rescue the children together?"

Lu Chong was puzzled: "The other party's strength is stronger than ours, and it is only possible if the sect sends people to support." However, the sect is more than 200 miles away, and if there is no flying boat, it will take two days to go back and forth, and it will be too late at all. ”

Qin Moyun said: "Brother Lu, I heard that cultivators have a divine talisman that can be used for thousands of miles in an instant, do you have this kind of magic weapon?"

Lu Chong sighed and shook his head, there are indeed some in the Shenxing Fu Sect, but they are very precious, and they will not be used by their disciples easily. However, Qin Moyun's words suddenly made Lu Chong think of a way, and Lu Chong thought about it again and again, and determined that the method was feasible, but it was too difficult.

Lu Chong then said: "If you want to rescue the child, there is a way, but this method is very difficult, and if you are not careful, you will lose all your efforts." ”