Seventy miles south along Zhengguo Post Road, Li Zijin and his little sister Hong Shao hurriedly chose a place to settle before dark.

It is a dilapidated Taoist temple.

Fuyao Kyushu, each state and country have different beliefs.

Some places believe in Buddhism, so the incense in the temple is prosperous, and some places believe in Taoism, so Taoist temples can be seen everywhere.

Zheng Guo was unlucky, because the first emperor believed in Taoism, built Taoist temples in major cities, and once asked a Taoist with the Taoist name Pure Yangzi to teach Taoism, collected Taoist classics, and was obsessed with the word Tao.

However, after Emperor Zheng Guoxin ascended the throne, he abolished the Tao and rejuvenated Buddhism.

He admired Buddhism, but instead sneered at the concept of "Tao" of the first emperor.

Regarding this matter, several Taoist temples in the capital are also used as the "chickens" that kill chickens and set an example for monkeys. Wantonly arrested and suppressed Taoist priests in Gyeonggi.

Over time, Zheng Guo's Taoist temple gradually fell into disrepair, although it did not fall into disrepair, but it also ended up empty, and now only a desolate and lonely scene remains.

Two or three years ago, it was still a place where people came and went, and it was embarrassing to change the ruler and the belief of Zheng Guo.

The two dismounted in front of the dilapidated Taoist temple, Li Zijin tied the burden full of dry food around his waist, and handed over the burden containing the fairy money to the little junior sister for safekeeping. He took off the Cuiqu sword, held the hilt of the sword, and told Hongshao to stay where he was, and he went first to take a look.

The plaque of this dilapidated Taoist temple in front of me is covered with dust, and the words "Golden Bull View" are written on it, and the snow at the door is not cleared, and the thickness can be knee-high, and the corners under the eaves that have not been covered by snow are covered with moss.

The door of the Taoist temple was hidden, and the young man gently pushed open half of the wooden door with the scabbard of Cuiqu, and the wooden door made a squeaky and squeaky sound.

Just as a gust of wind blew, the girl on horseback shivered and felt a chill in her vest.

In fact, with the two robes on her body, she would never feel cold, but the moon was dark and the wind was high, and she was timid and afraid.

Hong Shao shrunk his neck, looked left and right, and whispered, "Master······ Senior brother, why don't I go in with you. ”

The young man in green shirt in front of him, who had already stepped into the door of the dilapidated Taoist temple with one foot, said without looking back: "Stay well." ”

Li Zijin walked into the dilapidated Taoist temple, looked around, and did not find anything abnormal, this golden bull temple is actually not big, there is a dry well in the courtyard, a large hall behind the dry well, a side hall, and a stone house.

He looked at them one by one, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

Li Zijin walked out of the dilapidated Taoist temple and said to the girl: "Hong Shao, according to the map of Zheng Guo given to me by Master Chai, there are still more than ten miles away from the nearest 'Hongzhou City' here, and it is already dark, so it is inconvenient to hurry. Let's spend the night here today, and then we'll go to the city early tomorrow to eat and feed the horses. ”

The girl in white nodded again and again, she had been waiting for her senior brother to call her in, and she was outside alone, although she still had two sweaty and bloody BMWs to accompany her, but it was useless at all.

She would always wonder if there would be a pair of eyes hiding behind the locust tree behind her, quietly watching her.

The girl is timid.

Li Zijin led his Dawan horse, which had been tired for a day, into the main hall of the Taoist temple, tied the rope under a column in the main hall, and walked to the little sister to help her tie the horse. Then pick up a few worn-out futons, pat off the dust, and piece them together in a pile.

In the end, the young man brought a few sticks of firewood and gathered them in the center of the main hall of the dilapidated Taoist temple.

Li Zijin said: "You sit down for a while, I'll look for anything that can make a fire." ”

At this time, the girl in white jumped out of the burden under her feet.

The paper man volunteered for nothing: "I'll come!"

I saw the little guy jumping, and then rolled to the ground, and came to the feet of Li Zijin, seeing the pile of firewood, he danced with his hands, and said with words: "Heavenly Spirit Spirit, Earth Spirit Spirit, Fire Virtue True Monarch Quickly Manifests Spirit, One Pole Two Turns Three True Fire, Fire Power Zhu This thing is multiplying······ The Divine Soldier is as urgent as the law!"

Looking at the funny appearance of Wufu's teeth and claws, Li Zijin smiled dumbly, "What are you talking about, I didn't even hear a word." Hongshao, did you hear clearly?"

The girl also shook her head, and she suddenly said with concern: "It's okay, shouldn't you have been stuffy in the baggage for a day and suffocated your brain······"

The paper man was annoyed for nothing, and said to himself: "It shouldn't be, Master Chai clearly swore to me that when I go out, learn a fire method to be prepared." Is he going to lie to me, to lie to me as a pale paper man?"

Li Zijin asked curiously, "When did Master Chai secretly teach you the fire method, why don't I know?"

Hong Shao was also curious and looked at nothing.

The little guy crossed his hands on his hips and said seriously: "Just when I was eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal, I poured a glass of wine for Master Chai, and he was happy to drink, so he taught me such a mantra, and he secretly demonstrated it to me under the table at that time, and I saw with my own eyes that there was a flame on his fingertips······!

After saying that, he faced the pile of firewood again and began to recite words.

Li Zijin rolled his eyes and said disappreciably: "What should I be, it turned out to be a drunken talk, what people tell you when they are drunk and dizzy, do you believe it?" Forget it, I'd better go find something that can make a fire." ”

He turned around and left, rummaging through the main hall.

"There are too many cobwebs. Li Zijin was annoyed by the cobwebs in the main hall of the Taoist temple, and directly pulled out the Cuiqu sword, chopped melons and vegetables, and cut off all the cobwebs inside and outside the main hall, so he was satisfied with the sword and put it into the sheath.

Just when the young man was about to leave the main hall and go to the side hall to look for it and see if he could find something to live in, the girl in the main hall stopped Li Zijin.

"Senior brother, it's ······ burned" Hong Shao looked at the light of fire in the center of the hall in surprise.

Li Zijin asked casually, "What is burning?"

He turned his head, and caught a second-time glimpse of the campfire.

It really burned?!

The young man took three steps, walked to the bonfire, looked at the flames that were burning more and more in amazement, he lifted the paper figure and put it in the palm of his hand, and said, "Nothing, you can?!!

The little guy put his arms around his chest, his chin was about to rise to the sky, and he snorted, "Dumbfounded, don't you believe me?" ”

Li Zijin smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Come on, how did you get it, I also want to learn." ”

When the two looked at each other, there was an extra head, Hong Shao approached them, the chick nodded like a peck of rice, and said to Wufu: "It's nothing, teach me too?"

Li Zijin wants to learn this fire method, it is really because he is out of the house, walking the rivers and lakes, and it is too convenient to have such a fire method by his side, after all, although the young man is now both a qi refiner and a martial artist, he is a sword cultivator who is not good at magic and magic.

Sword qi as a sword, empathy in the landscape, empathy and time, and the nameless mystical body method, although these are also considered the "magical powers" of sword cultivation, but strictly speaking, the teenager has not learned any "magic" so far.

After all, even if he is a sword cultivator with great killing power, before the Jindan Realm, he still needs to know some spells to assist him in fighting.

And the girl Hong Shao also came to join in the fun, just because she thought it was fun and interesting, and she was simply curious about magic.

The paper man spread out his palms without anything, and there was a trace of fire condensed in his fingertips, and he said proudly: "Oh, that's it, why didn't it work before, it turned out that I hadn't opened up the sea of knowledge, and I couldn't try to recite the real fire spell a few times." The last time I recited the mantra, I felt as if a door suddenly 'opened' in my body, and then a warm current rushed into it. And after that······ I found that I could activate the spiritual power. ”

"So, you're already a Qi Refiner?" Li Zijin looked up and down again, but he didn't notice anything different about the little guy.

"I guess it'······" Nothing to blow out the flame of thought on the fingertips, a little stupid.

Although he was at the Feixue Inn before, Master Chai said that the fire spell generated by the true fire spell would not harm the person who cast the spell, but in the end it was a paper man, and a trace of fire was condensed on his fingertips, and he always felt a little bit of playing with fire and self-immolation.

Although this technique is practical, it is better to use it sparingly.

Nothing to think about.

In fact, Li Zijin is okay, when he heard the description of "opening the door" and "warm current" of opening up the sea of knowledge, he knew that the little guy was indeed using magic to open up the sea of knowledge and embark on the path of cultivation, and from then on he could rely on absorbing the aura of heaven and earth to cultivate.

But Hong Shao, who has always been not very attentive to sword practice, is now happy that nothing happened, but also a sense of loss. I feel that I am already a qi refiner even if I have nothing to do, but I have not been able to open up the sea of knowledge.

The girl held the sword Cangjie in her hand, her eyes fell on the sword spike, and she squatted in a daze.

The bonfire in the main hall was lit, so that the room slowly warmed up, because the wooden door of the main hall was broken, only half of it could be closed, so there was still a wind blowing in at night, the boy and girl hid under the huge column with their backs to the main entrance, and the bonfire was burning at their feet, and the paper man slept on the sword spike of the sword cangjie without anything, and regarded the sword spike as a soft hotbed, and fell asleep early.

Li Zijin took out the map of Zheng Guo from his baggage, gently smoothed the wrinkles on the drawing, and carefully observed the map by the light of the fire.

If you want to go to Sangro Prefecture, then he and his little sister must cross the entire territory of Honghu Prefecture, from Zheng Guo, the northernmost part of Honghu Prefecture, all the way south, and after leaving Zheng Guo, take a Bailong River to the last Xianjia ferry in the southeast of Honghu Prefecture.

In fact, if the two of them go straight to Sangrouzhou, then they don't need to take this post road, they only need to return to Jinhuai City from the way they came, pass through Ningshan Village and Mountain Temple, and take the Xianjia ferry when they arrive.

But Li Zijin didn't like to go back, and he was not in a hurry to get to Sanrozhou quickly.

So far, the teenagers have not really traveled the mountains and rivers "down-to-earth".

In Canggeng Prefecture, he fled all the way with Su Hu, neither in the mood nor time to stop in a landscape, worried all day long, and did not dare to sleep at night.

After leaving Canggeng Prefecture in a hurry, the time of the Morning Snow Festival in Buye Mountain was the time when Li Zijin really rested.

Eat well during the day, and there is also the Jiannan burn spring in the hometown to drink, sleep well at night, and make the jade small building secluded and warm.

But the good times never last long, after the chaos on the side of the Yasha Mountain in Taoyao Prefecture, the whole state was very busy and in a mess.

No matter what way you look at it, he will not be able to continue to travel comfortably and smoothly in Taoyao Prefecture.

Therefore, from the Xianjia ferry port of the mountain that never sleeps, I took the Xiaoxiang ferry boat and came to this Honghu Prefecture.

Right now, even if the young man already has the next destination in his heart, he wants to go to Sangro Prefecture and complete the promise of taking his little junior sister to watch the sea, but he also wants to be down-to-earth, like practicing swords, step by step, to the edge of Honghu Prefecture.

When you reach a place where there is no way out, it is not too late to take the Xianjia ferry.

"Senior brother. ”

Li Zijin was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and found that the girl was open, so he asked, "Hongshao, you haven't slept yet?"

She shook her head, "Can't sleep." ”

"Isn't it unaccustomed. Li Zijin knew that he was a little knowingly asked.

After all, along the way, he is used to hardships, but the little junior sister is different.

Tonight was the first time a girl had lived in the wilderness.

If you don't have a bed, you can't sleep well.

He wondered if he should think more about choosing a route in the future, and it was best to choose a place where there would be a city or a post station every few dozen miles apart.

No matter how bad it is, there should be a mountain village or something, and you can't always let a girl's family follow her own food and drink.

Hong Shao still shook her head, not wanting to act too weak, thinking that where the senior brother could sleep, why couldn't she sleep.

"Senior brother, where are we going?" the girl leaned over to him and looked with him at the map of Zheng Guo on her lap.

Li Zijin explained to her in detail how they would go to the border of Zhengguo, all the way to the south, and then take the Bailongjiang River in the center of Honghu Prefecture to the edge of the Xianjia Ferry, first by ferry, and then by Xianjia Ferry, to Sangro Prefecture and see the East China Sea.

The boy planned carefully and spoke carefully, so as soon as he said this, he talked endlessly for most of the hour, and when he turned his head, he found that the girl in white had fallen asleep on his shoulder.

In this position, he can neither stretch his legs and feet well, nor can he lean his body completely against the column behind him. But Li Zijin didn't want to wake up the little sister who finally fell asleep, so he had no choice but to sit and lean half-lying.

"Li Zijin. ”

The paper man got up from the sword spike of Wen Jian Cangjie and jumped onto Li Zijin's knees.

"Why are you awake?" the boy asked quietly.

I didn't say anything to him, just sat down, sat cross-legged on the young man's knees, and said, "How tired it is to keep vigil alone, someone must accompany you to talk." I'm very angry!"

Li Zijin smiled and said: "According to what you say, I used to put you alone in the baggage, because I don't pay attention to righteousness?"

Nothing quickly said: "I didn't say that, you said it yourself." ”

The young swordsman in the green shirt smiled and stopped talking.

A swordsman, a paper man, just sat by the campfire in a daze.

said that he was talking with Li Zijin at night, but he never thought that the two of them would go directly to the second half of the night in a daze.

The boy's ears moved slightly.

He glanced at the girl who was still leaning on his shoulder, and then whispered to Wufu: "It's nothing, there seems to be movement, you go and take a look." ”

Li Zijin pointed at Hong Shao, his eyes signaled that there was nothing to do, if it was just a wild cat or something like that running through the Taoist temple, then it was not worth waking up Hong Shao because of such a trivial matter.

Nothing is naturally sensible, and patting your chest means that everything is wrapped up in it.

It's nothing now, but it's a paper man who knows a fire method.

The little one jumped off the boy's knees, walked briskly, and ran out of the main hall.

It's just that I went this time and didn't come back for a long time.

Li Zijin shouted softly: "Nothing?"

No one responded.

Something is wrong.

Li Zijin tilted his head slightly, wanting to find out, but suddenly heard the voices of several people outside the main hall, and his footsteps were getting closer and closer.

"Miss Ji, look at this pale paper man, he can even fire the law, haha. ”

"Wei Gongzi, I don't think it's malicious, it's better to let it go. ”

"It's the first time I've seen a pale paper figure who knows how to fire, and it's good to take it with me to relieve boredom on the way. ”

"······"

"Miss Ji, don't worry, although this pale paper man can stimulate the fire method, it's a pity that its realm is not high, it seems that it has just entered the realm of enlightenment, but I can't. ”

"Let go of me! Be careful I burn your eyebrows!"

Hearing this, Li Zijin had to get up, he gently helped the little junior sister away, let the girl's head lean against the column, and then picked up the Cuiqu sword and walked towards the outside of the main hall of the Taoist temple.

The boy was at the entrance of the main hall and met the three of them.

Two women and one man, one looks like a young lady, one is dressed as a maid, and the other must be the man who just said that he wanted to take him to relieve boredom on the road without incident.

Late at night, when they met in the middle of the temple for fear of ruining the Taoist temple, when the three of them saw a young man in a green shirt walking out of the main hall of the Taoist temple, they cheered up, the man pinched the paper man with one hand and stopped the two women around him with the other, obviously trying to be majestic.

He said in a deep voice, "Dare to ask Your Excellency?"

Li Zijin held his sword, raised his hand, smiled and hugged his fists and said: "It's just the next passerby, the wind and snow are heavy at night, and I don't know how many people come here to avoid the wind and snow?"

Wei Chengzhi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, after all, in the wilderness, if he encounters any monsters, he is afraid that he will not be able to deal with it alone, after all, the girl Ji and her maid around him are just ordinary people, and they are powerless, not only can they not help him at all, but they may also drag him back.

He also hugged his fists and said: "The three of us are also passers-by, under the surname Wei, this girl is a friend of Wei, surnamed Ji, the one next to her, is her maid, tired from a long journey, the road meets this view, want to come to rest, your Excellency doesn't mind, right?"

The young swordsman in green shirt shook his head and smiled: "This Taoist temple has long been deserted, and if you live in it, a few people will naturally live in it." ”

The woman surnamed Ji was overjoyed when she heard this, and felt that the young swordsman was not only good-looking, but also such a good talker, so she hurriedly gave a blessing and said gratefully: "Then thank you Gongzi." ”

Li Zijin looked at the man among the three again, "It's just that the paper figure in Wei Gongzi's hand is a friend of the next, I wonder if Wei Gongzi can put it away?"

Wei Chengzhi glanced at the little guy in his hand who was almost pinched, and suddenly reacted, oh, and threw the paper figure out casually. just didn't forget to say with a smile: "This son has such a chic preference, and he actually made friends with a pale paper man." ”

Li Zijin heard the banter in the other party's words, but he didn't care, he took it, put it in the palm of his hand, and comforted: "It's okay, are you okay?"

The little guy shook his head, "Li Zijin, let's go in." ”

I was wronged for nothing, and I went to think about myself, and I didn't cry and make trouble to let myself find a place for him.

Li Zijin took the little guy and silently turned around and walked back to the bonfire.

Wei Chengzhi spread out one palm and said sideways, "Miss Ji, please." ”

The young woman nodded and said to the maid beside her, "Ake." It's going to be your vigil again tonight. ”

The maid is younger than her own young lady, and she is still a girl, but she grew up from snacks, and shook her head and said, "Miss, it's not hard, this is what I should do." ”

Although the young swordsman in the green shirt seems to be very good at talking, he can go out, walk the rivers and lakes, know people and faces, but do not know the heart, and he has a sharp weapon in his hand, and the heart of guarding against people is indispensable. Therefore, tonight, the three of them, in fact, except for the maid Ah Ke who kept vigil, most of the other two people were taking a nap, and they stopped sleeping lightly.

The three of them walked into the main hall together, and saw two sweaty and bloody horses, Wei Chengzhi walked to one of the horses again, touched the horse's head, and exclaimed: "Good horse, such a sweaty and bloody horse, it must have cost a lot of silver, right?"

Li Zijin frowned slightly, not that he was dissatisfied with this person's extremely unceremonious touching other people's things, but that the little junior sister was sleeping sweetly, and the person spoke too loudly, afraid that he would wake up Hong Shao.

So the young man got up, just nodded slightly, and whispered: "If you don't mind, you can sit by the campfire at will to keep warm and rest." It's just that my junior sister has fallen asleep, and I hope that a few of them can be a little restrained when speaking, and I am grateful. ”

As he spoke, he clenched his fists at the two women and the man.

In fact, such hospitality can no longer find flaws.

The young woman and the maid beside her, Ah Ke, also agreed when they heard this, and their hands and feet were deliberately lighter.

Although Wei Chengzhi nodded and agreed, he didn't speak, but he could see that he was in a completely different mood from the two girls, and he reluctantly agreed.

There is no him, just because the young man in green shirt has a sword in his hand.

Wei Chengzhi is not a qi refiner, but a martial artist in the Three Realms, although he knows that at the border of Zheng State, it is unlikely that he will encounter the so-called mountain qi refiner, and it is also an existence like a sword cultivator.

But be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, he still treats the green-shirted young man as a sword cultivator, otherwise he wouldn't be so good at talking before, and directly returned to him the pale paper man who was rare to see and even knew how to use fire.

Although the pale paper figure is not expensive, it also needs real fairy money to buy.

Not to mention that this young man in a green shirt is young, and he dares to walk the rivers and lakes alone with a sword, if he doesn't have any ability, he can't say it.

Hey?

When Wei Chengzhi walked to the bonfire, he saw the girl in white with a stunning face.

It turns out that the young man is not walking alone.

I can't imagine that there is such a gorgeous woman in this world?

I thought that a Ji Wushuang and a Ke were the biggest gains of my trip.

I never thought about it······ It's really his Wei Chengzhi's spring is coming, and he can see such peach blossom luck in this dilapidated Taoist temple in the wilderness.

Wei Chengzhi was overjoyed in his heart, and he did not hide his "appreciation" for the girl in white, his eyes wandered on the proud figure of the girl, and he began to look the girl up and down unscrupulously.

What if that young man was a sword cultivator?

Even if he can't deal with this guy, there is still a master waiting for him in front. When they arrived in Hongzhou City, these three stunning women were not their crotch playthings?

If you can save your saliva, Wei Chengzhi's saliva will probably have flowed into a river.

It's just an eyesore, and he suddenly changed places with the girl, just blocking his sight of "admiring" the girl in white.

Li Zijin smiled and said, "Master Wei, why are you standing?" ”

Wei Chengzhi had no choice but to walk over to the other two women and sit down. He looked at the young man in green shirt who was nothing, and sneered secretly, let's see.

Li Zijin held the sword in his arms and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Nothing jumped on his shoulder, leaned into the young man's ear, and said with some concern: "Li Zijin, don't sleep, that person surnamed Wei is not a good person at first glance, you look at his eyes at Hongshao, it's like a hungry wolf seeing meat, feed ······ Li Zijin, you won't really fall asleep, will you?"

The young man's eyes were closed, and his mouth moved slightly.

I don't know why, but it seems that as soon as the boy speaks, he has the power to make people feel at ease.

"Didn't sleep. ”

He said.