The story begins with the period when Emperor Lingwei was in charge of the three major ascension regions, after the end of a lower-level cultivator evaluation competition in Luoxia District.

"The people whose names I have named will come with me to see Marshal Bi in a moment. An inquisitor gave the order with a blank face, and then a long list of names came out of his mouth one after another.

It was a great honor to meet the first generalissimo under the command of Emperor Lingwei, Bi Huatian, for these novices who had just stepped into the career of Xiuzhen, and the people whose names were called all excitedly pushed aside the crowd and stood behind the prosecutor. A rough count shows that there are about thirty people in the group.

After reading the names, the prosecutor waved his hand and said to these people: "Come with me! When you see Marshal Bi in a moment, you have to abide by some rules! Don't talk to each other, don't judge your head, don't look directly at them, don't ......" The prosecutor himself didn't know what words to use to continue, "In short, just stand with your head bowed and don't move! Okay, men and women are lined up behind me!"

When the queue was over, one of them was dumbfounded and surprised: "What, I'm just a woman?"

Isn't it, the men's column goes all the way down the stairs, and the women's column is only a lonely figure.

"Huh?" said the prosecutor, who opened the scroll with the list again, scanned the names on it, and said, "That's right! You're a woman! ”

"This ......," the woman hesitated.

"It's either the first or the last, or the middle, you can choose one yourself!" the prosecutor was a little impatient.

"Whoa," someone in the team chuckled under their breath.

The woman sighed, "Then I'd better go to the end! I don't want to be too ostentatious." She stepped aside, waiting for the line to pass slowly past her, following the man at the end of the row.

"Hi girl, hello!" the man at the end of the row turned to greet the woman.

The woman was silent.

The man was not interested, the woman ignored him, and he continued to ask: "Why are you a woman selected into the team?

The woman remained silent.

"Why, isn't it your hobby not talking?" the man joked.

The woman replied coldly, "We don't know each other, so there's nothing to say." ”

"Isn't it time to know each other when you talk about it?" The man looked dead-faced, "Hello, let me introduce myself first, my surname is Zheng, my name is Huaili, the humble 'Huai', and the polite 'Li'." ”

The woman's face finally showed a little smile: "I'm sorry, I really didn't see it, your name seems to be much more refined than yourself." ”

"That's because you don't know me well enough. The man smiled nonchalantly.

The woman smiled back.

At this time, the team had already entered a hall, and the old man sitting in the hall was none other than Generalissimo Bi Huatian.

Seeing such a highly respected and prominent person in the demon army for the first time, these lower-level demon cultivators were very excited, and although they complied with the requirements of the prosecutor's jaw, they all secretly raised their eyes from time to time.

"I didn't have much time, so I got straight to the point. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you have heard of the Eight Kings City, an important town in the southwest, and now the Emperor intends to establish a new camp near the Eight Kings City, so I specially sent you there. Bi Huatian said.

At this moment, the lower-level demon cultivators couldn't be happy. Everyone knows that after joining the Demon Army, of course, the more prosperous the camp, the more promising it is. If you go to a new camp, not only does it take time and effort to build the camp, but you don't know what the camp will look like in the future. There was no voice of protest, but the resistance was clearly written on everyone's face.

Marshal Bi smiled, these people had such a reaction as he expected, he said: "Okay! Since you have joined the Demon Army, you have only to obey, otherwise you can quit the Demon Army and become a civilian, you can choose for yourself." Is anyone going to quit?"

There was silence in the hall.

"Very good!" Marshal Bi approvingly, "But things are not as bad as you think, those who have made meritorious contributions to the construction of the camp can get the same rewards as those who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield of eliminating demons!"

Everyone immediately beamed with joy. The demon extermination battlefield is less than the four elephants and five elements level, who dares to go? At a time when the level of one yuan is not enough, if you can make meritorious contributions by building a new camp, it is simply too cost-effective.

"The leader, deputy leader, and commanders at all levels have all been transferred, so you should leave immediately and report to the city lord in the Eight Kings City!"

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At the door of an inn in Luoxia City, the woman sorted out her bags and was about to step out of the door, when a person next to Leng Buding approached and said loudly: "Hi, girl, hello!"

The woman frowned: "Why are you again?"

"I found out we were staying at the same inn, so I'm waiting for you here. Zheng Huaili said, "Girl, you haven't told me your name yet." ”

"No! We don't know each other. ”

"Then what do I call you? You can't always call you 'girl' or 'girl', right?"

"I am also a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, what is the importance of my name? Get out of the way, I'm on my way. The woman said.

"The Eight Kings City is very far away, we have to go anyway, why don't we go together?" Zheng Huaili followed behind her reluctantly.

"No! We meet in Pingshui, we don't know each other, and we are lonely men and widows, how can we be together? The woman picked up her pace.

"Really, is it your interest to refuse?" muttered Zheng Huaili, still following closely.

The woman is in the front, and the man is in the back. She was fast and fast, she was slow and slow, so she went all the way out of the city.

The woman finally couldn't help it, and turned back to Zheng Huaili and glared angrily: "I'll worship."

Please don't keep pestering me, okay?"

"Hey, girl, what do you say? "I just happen to be in the same direction as you, why bother with it?" Zheng Huaili smiled.

"Hmph, whatever you want!" The woman knew that Zheng Huaili couldn't drive away, so she simply ignored him.

Unexpectedly, along the way, Zheng Huaili really didn't come forward to talk again. It's just that the woman walked or stopped, and he never left the field of vision.

......

When we arrived at our destination, it happened to be dusk. In the afterglow of the sunset, the shadows of the pedestrians on the road were stretched out to grow elders. Seeing that the Eight Kings City was getting clearer and clearer, the woman smiled, looked back and waved her hand at Zheng Huaili, and shouted, "Okay, it's here." Thank you for escorting you all the way!" she trotted forward.

Zheng Huaili looked at her distant figure, the corners of his mouth rose, and he whispered: "Heh, I'm not stupid! ”

The newly built camp outside the Eight Kings City is naturally called the "Eight Kings Camp". After the lower-level demon cultivators transferred from the three major ascension areas arrived, they began to break ground. The location of the camp was chosen on the top of a hill more than 20 miles west of the city, and there were no trees around, but there were many huge rocks. Therefore, the commander gave the order to build a camp out of rocks.

Excavating and cutting rock is not an easy task, and the texture of the rock here is particularly hard. The Commander was very satisfied with this, after all, the harder the rock, the stronger the houses built, but it was just a matter of hard work for these low-level demon cultivators to work day and night. Those captains and commanders only played the role of overseers, patrolling around leisurely every day, shouting five and six, and sometimes "observing" the restaurants in the city. The lower-level demon cultivators dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, there was no way, who let their status be low?

One day, after the "overseers" had gone to the city to drink, one of them suddenly complained: "After passing the selection, I spent all my savings to get this treasure knife, but I didn't expect that the first time it came in handy was to use it to chop stones, which is really sad!"

"What's so sad about a knife? It's a sad thing!" one person responded, "What else do you say, 'There is also merit in building a camp', can it be fulfilled like this? I just want to be blameless now!"

Another person said: "Merit must have been taken away by those guys, where is our share?"

"I don't understand, isn't the cliff on the other side lush and full of trees?

"You don't know? Besides, there is an abyss down there, how can we get past it?" replied the other.

"It's hard to get down there, just go over from above, wouldn't it be easy to build a rope bridge?" The man in the front pursed his lips and said disapprerovingly, "There is nothing to be afraid of in the realm of the demon clan, and there will be no powerful demon clan that will suddenly appear." Besides, don't all of you want to set foot on the demon slaying battlefield in the future to get merit?

"Well said!" the commander had come and gone for some reason, and happened to hear this man's words, so he ordered, "From now on, you will not build a camp, I will order you to go to the opposite cliff to cut down trees, and within a month, build a rope bridge for me!"

Someone laughed out loud. The Commander snorted coldly and left with his hands behind his back.

It was Zheng Huaili who was ordered to build a rope bridge. The cliffs on both sides are hundreds of feet away, and it takes only one month to do it, which is impossible in the eyes of others. After all, when you first go to the opposite cliff, you have to cross the abyss below.

"Brother Tai, I think you should hurry down the mountain and leave here, just as you quit the demon army. Otherwise, the order will not be completed, and the commander will inevitably ask you!" someone advised. I don't know if he was really concerned or gloating, but he was smiling.

"Quit? I didn't think about quitting. Besides, can you quit casually after joining the army? It will be severely punished! One month is indeed a bit urgent...... Okay, I'll build a rope bridge for him to see!" Zheng Huaili walked towards the edge of the cliff.

As he passed by the woman, she proposed, "I'll help you." As a thank you for escorting me here. ”

"Thank you very much. Zheng Huaili nodded at her.

According to Zheng Huaili's vision, there are two points that take the most time, the first is the time to reach the opposite cliff, and the second is the time to prepare the rope bridge materials.

"Fortunately, the commander did not stipulate the size of the rope bridge, so I was left with a loophole to exploit. At the blacksmith shop in Bawang City, Zheng Huaili said to the woman. He instructed the blacksmith to make a batch of iron one foot long, and to make a groove at the top and bottom ends of one side. Worried that there would not be enough time for casting, he went to more than a dozen blacksmith shops in the city and placed the same order.

Then he found some strings and joined them into two long ropes, long enough to connect the two cliffs.

The woman roughly guessed Zheng Huaili's method: one end of the two long ropes was fixed to the cliff on this side of the camp, and the other end was sent to the opposite cliff. But this is not an easy task, it is impossible to cross the abyss with a rope, and it is too far to shoot it with a rope tied to a bow and arrow.

I have to admire that Zheng Huaili is a bright-headed person. He actually caught some wild geese, tied two ropes to the legs of the geese, tied them with live buckles, and then tied the two ropes to the front ends, so that a large circle was formed. After releasing the geese towards the opposite cliff, the flock flew in the expected direction and brought the rope with them. When the rope is pulled to the limit, the live buckle tied to the goose's leg is naturally pulled off, and the rope falls. Since the circle is made of two ropes, it remains roughly circular when it falls, and it is easy to attach to the woods on the opposite cliff, so that the end of the rope will not fall off the cliff.

Next, it's time to climb up the opposite cliff and secure the end of the rope. This round trip took about three weeks

time. When they returned, 6,500 pieces of iron cast by the blacksmith shop in Bawangcheng were also delivered, and according to Zheng Huaili's requirements, they were neatly stacked on the edge of the cliff, several zhang high, which was quite spectacular.

"I know you want to take advantage of the difference between the two cliffs and slide the iron pieces on the ropes one by one. However, when there are more and more pieces of iron, the rope will not be able to bear the weight and will break. Even if it could withstand it, the iron would accumulate in it due to its weight, and it would not be possible to fill the two cliffs with iron blocks. The woman couldn't help but remind.

Zheng Huaili said with a smile: "Do you know what material this rope is made of? Every strand of stranded wire in it is mixed with heavenly silk! As long as it is not deliberately cut with a sharp weapon, the weight of the iron alone will be constantly pulled." According to my observation, the difference between the two cliffs is about 20 zhang, and as long as the ropes are tight enough, the iron blocks will be obediently connected one by one, and there will be no such situation as you said about gathering in the middle of the two cliffs. Wait and see!"

Zheng Huaili placed a piece of iron on the tightened rope, and the rope was embedded in the two inverted grooves on the iron. He pushed the iron, and it slid down the rope to the other cliff. The next thing is simple, the iron "one by one" across the air like a flock of birds "flying" to the opposite high cliff.

"How's that, it's an eye-opener, right?" said Zheng Huaili.

"What opened my eyes was that you actually managed to get so much silk and weave it into ropes. I guess you must have prepared this in advance, right?" the woman said.

Zheng Huaili replied: "Of course. Where can I get the ready-made rope? The silk is precious and tough enough, but it is too thin to use a single root. So weave it into a rope that is both light and strong. ”

"I'm curious, you actually prepared a rope of hundreds of zhang, what did you originally plan to do?"

"It's okay to want to know, tell me your name. ”

"Okay. The woman finally relented, "My surname is Zhao, and my name is Xianglin." ”

"Zhao Xianglin, Zhao Xianglin......" Zheng Huaili muttered, "Yes, it's a nice name." ”

"Then answer my question. ”

Zheng Huaili grinned and said, "Where do you think I got so much money to mobilize the blacksmiths of the entire Eight Kings City to make iron blocks for me?"

"Huh?" Zhao Xianglin was stunned for a moment, but after thinking for a long time, she finally understood, pointed at Zheng Huaili and said, "Oh, it turns out that you are a rope seller!"

"Hey, I'm ashamed, when I'm away from home, I always have to think of a way to make money. In my hometown, silk is used in this way, I prepared a lot of rope, I wanted to wait for the evaluation competition to be over, in Luoxia District to sell a lot of money, but I was sent here directly. Zheng Huaili said.

"It's actually a rope seller!" Zhao Xianglin repeated, and she was also happy, "So you should have a storage magic weapon?"

"Well, I used to do a small business, and I bought it after making money. ”

"A businessman's mind is always so shrewd. Zhao Xianglin sighed, compared with Zheng Huaili, she can be regarded as "poor and white".

The rope bridge was built in a few days, but it just didn't look like a rope bridge. The "bridge deck" is only one foot wide, and the "bridge plate" is not fixed to the bridge cable, but only covered on it. The "bridge deck" looks very smooth in the sunlight, and the thin ropes seem to be "weak and can't help the wind". After the "completion", even Zheng Huaili himself couldn't help laughing, the person who dared to walk on such a rope bridge was probably not born yet, right?

"Come on, Miss Zhao, give the rope bridge a name!" Zheng Huaili said.

Zhao Xianglin thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Looking at the process of building the rope bridge, I thought of a common saying: 'There are no wonders in the world.'" "Otherwise, this rope bridge will be called 'Daqian Bridge'!"

"Daqian Bridge...... That's right, it's called 'Daqian Bridge'!"

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When Zheng Huaili went to hand over the errand, the camp commander happened to be with the Eight Kings City Lord. When he heard that someone had built a rope bridge across the two cliffs within a month, the curiosity of the Eight Kings City Lord was also aroused, and he had to follow the commander to take a look.

When the two of them came to the edge of the cliff and saw the "dangerous" rope bridge, they were silent.

The commander's silence was the last calm before the rage, and he yelled at Zheng Huaili: "What kind of rope bridge is this? I'll just say, how can it be built within a month, it turns out that you are playing tricks on me!"

"Commander, you didn't stipulate how wide and stable the bridge should be, and a month is so urgent, I can only think of this method. Zheng Huaili was full of words.

In contrast, the silence of the Eight Kings City Lord was brewing with admiration, and he said in a round: "Okay, okay, Commander Qin, the requirements you put forward to build a bridge in order to punish him are inevitably too harsh, no matter who it is, I am afraid that there will be no way to do it better." This benevolent brother really opened my eyes, whimsical ideas, absolutely amazing! Why don't you do this, let me pay for the Eight Kings City, use iron cables to strengthen the bridge cables, and then fix the iron plates on the bridge deck, so as to turn this bridge into a strange scene in the realm of our Eight Kings City, how about it?"

Commander Qin's face softened a lot: "Since the city lord intercedes for you, let's forget this matter! Who is that person?" It was only then that he noticed that there was a woman standing not far away.

"That girl is my friend, and it was thanks to her help to build the bridge this time, so I asked her to name the bridge 'Daqian'. Zheng Huaili explained.

"Oh, I heard that there is only one woman in this group of people transferred, so she must be her!" Commander Qin narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Zhao Xianglin from a distance.

"Daqianqiao, it's quite catchy, and it's easy to remember. This is a long sky rope bridge connecting the realm of the demon clan, I think it will keep its original meaning, don't add railings! Only fearless brave people dare to step on this Daqian Bridge! Commander Qin, what do you say?" asked the Eight Kings City Lord.

"Well, it's easy to say, it's easy to say. Qin Commander responded vaguely, but his mind was no longer on the rope bridge.

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