The Celestial Expeditionary Bird skimmed over the edge of the snowfield and finally landed in a village where the Fourth Detachment of the White Tiger Legion was stationed, where he would rest for the night, and then continue to the Thousand Machines Palace in the center the next day.

The sky is like ink, and the stars are mixed with brilliant colors, and the snowy fields are far away, and the night wind of the snowfields is cold, like thorns scraping against the skin, like the wailing of hungry wolves.

Tianzheng Bird put away his wings at the entrance of the village sheltered from the wind, closed his eyes and rested, and the deputy general Nanjing stepped forward, handed him a thick winter coat, and pointed to the bonfire in the village, and said shyly: "The young pavilion master has been on the road for a day, let's make a fire here and eat casually." ”

"Well, thank you. Xiao Qian put on his coat, the temperature of the snowfield plummeted, and the imperial capital seemed to be two worlds, and the soldiers by the campfire had just changed their posts and were eating, seeing him coming, he hurriedly moved a place for him, handed over a bowl of warm tea, and smiled heartily, "The young pavilion master is here, there are no good things in the village, you will just take a look." ”

He only felt inexplicably relaxed in his heart, took the tea, and the firelight swayed in the tea bowl, warming his stiff body a little bit.

For more than a month, he was nervously chasing two fugitives in North Shore City, and then he was forcibly pulled into the gang by Prince Mingxi to become a wind demon, and he was already physically and mentally exhausted back and forth between Emperor Tianquan and the crown prince.

Perhaps only by sitting in a humble village on the edge of this great snowfield, far away from the strife, while looking at the vast sky, while drinking a warm hot tea, can you enjoy this moment of tranquility?

"Young Pavilion Master, the weather has been a little abnormal these days, much colder than in previous years, don't rely on your Kunlun cold heart, and still wear that summer dress to patrol in Jialuo. Nanjing took the initiative to add a piece of dry firewood to the bonfire, and there was no shelf of the White Tiger Deputy General, but he unceremoniously reprimanded him, and then took an empty bowl and gave him some porridge, and handed it over: "Look at the weather, this year's winter is going to arrive early, many villagers in the wasteland have migrated to the East Underworld early to spend the winter, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people can't go. ”

Xiao Qianye took a sip of porridge, looked at the bonfire in his eyes, and naturally understood the meaning of his subordinates' words, and said lightly: "Is there a lot of food shortage this year?"

"It's a bit missing. Nanjing touched his head and explained, "The north shore city is the largest port trading city in Feiyuan, after the tsunami, the grain that was originally going to be sent to Jia Luo was greatly reduced, and there are many of them who are taking advantage of the fire to rob and maliciously raise prices, Jia Luo has no metropolis, they are small villages with thousands of people and hundreds of people, and many people can't afford this price increase, and in the past month, we have helped a lot of people who went to the barracks to ask for food, but if it continues, it should not be enough." ”

"Who is raising the price at this time? Just let Xiao Xie deal with it, if Jingge asks, just say that I arranged it." Xiao Qianye's eyes were instantly filled with disgust, put down the porridge in his hand, and suddenly lost his appetite, the matter of rising grain prices is actually not under the control of the military pavilion, if it is also a problem of the Mirror Pavilion, but the Mirror Pavilion has always been a place where the rich businessmen gather, dislike the poor and love the rich, where do they care about the life and death of ordinary people?

"Xiao Xie intercepted a caravan a few days ago, and the caravan was from Accompanied Duluo City to Da Annihilation City to do business, and the opening was ten taels of rice, and then Xiao Xie forcibly requisitioned some, which was quite unpleasant. Nanjing reminded in a whisper, embarrassed, "Xiao Xie is from a famous family in Los Angeles, they dare to be so unscrupulous, if someone else is changed, there may be a bigger conflict, young pavilion master, can you think of a way to let this winter allocate more military rations?"

Xiao Qianye didn't answer, and the deputy general knew that he was embarrassed, so he didn't dare to urge.

The impact of the incident in North Shore City is actually extremely serious, the first thing is to cause serious losses to the trade of the Mirror Pavilion, and now all ministries are reducing their expenditures, and it is undoubtedly more difficult to get more military rations to help the people at this time.

But Garo is indeed a place that is extremely dependent on the help of the military pavilion, the land here is too desolate, glaciers and snow fields occupy more than half of Garo, in fact, it is not suitable for people to live for a long time, but I don't know why, the people here are extremely loyal to their barren homeland, they will take the trouble to migrate to the East Hells every autumn, and then wait until the spring to move back, for generations.

"Nanjing, don't embarrass the young pavilion master. Bogu, the soldier next to him, smiled and hugged his lieutenant, looking as kind as a brother.

Nanjing scratched his head embarrassedly, they all knew about the punishment of the young pavilion master being suspended, and at this time, they still wanted him to ask for more military rations, but it was too simple for them to think.

"Don't worry, wait until I go back and talk to the Mirror Pavilion Master. Xiao Qianye answered, waved his hand and signaled them not to worry, if it was based on his previous relationship with Gongsun Yan, this kind of request would almost not have to be thought of, but now that everyone is on the ship of the Wind Demon, that noble son has to agree to come down no matter what, right?

"Don't be reluctant!" Bo Gu said unabashedly, "Those guys in the imperial capital can't wait for the price of grain to rise again, they can make a fortune! Young Pavilion Master, we don't care, just save some food and send it to the village, don't beg that group of people, they don't deserve it!"

"I'm dying of hunger, do you care if you're worthy?" Xiao Qianye was amused by him, and shook his head helplessly, these people were actually from Jialuo Village, they maintained a simple enthusiasm unique to Xueyuan, and they had always been rude to him.

"That, that's not good!" Bo Gu stubbornly said, Nanjing hurriedly slapped him on the head, and scolded, "You talk the most, are you full, are you full, go outside to stand guard, and in the evening, the white wolf also sent someone over to remind you, keep an eye on it, don't make any trouble." ”

"White wolf?" Xiao Qianye suddenly refreshed himself and asked vigilantly, "What happened to the white wolf?"

"Well, it happened suddenly, so I shouldn't have had time to report it to you. Nanjing was sitting precariously and hurriedly explained, "When the second team of the white wolf was on routine patrol in the glacier forest last night, they heard the cry of a traveler calling for help from the forest, but no matter how they searched, they only heard the sound and did not see anyone, until the early hours of this morning, they found that there were a lot of ice corpses in the forest, some of the corpses were just dead, and some seemed to have been frozen for hundreds of years, and the second team took a few corpses back to study, but there is no news so far." ”

"What about Huo Cang?" Xiao Qianye felt that something was a little strange, and asked about the situation of the white wolf general, Nanjing said, "General Huo led a team to patrol on the other side at that time, one south and one north separated a lot of distances, but there was no other abnormality in the major general's area. ”

Xiao Qianye thought silently, the glacier forest is the only way for travelers to go to the East Underworld, it is just located in the middle of the Weeping Snow Plateau and the glacier, most people will choose the north and south roads near the edge of the forest, avoiding the dangerous dense woods in the center, those two roads have been walked by people for decades, unless encountering extremely bad weather, there are usually no accidents, how can ice corpses suddenly appear?

Seeing that his expression was wrong, Nanjing hurriedly said again: "Young Pavilion Master, General Huo knows that you will go to Qianji Palace tomorrow, and he should go there directly and wait for you to report the specific situation yourself." ”

"Hmm. Xiao Qianye nodded, and suddenly remembered the Holy Moon Clan's sneak attack on the Thousand Machine Palace not long ago, and her scalp was numb, "What's the situation over there now, who is guarding there?"

"After Major General Xiao stepped down, Xiao Xie has been guarding him, and the Holy Moon Clan, like the group of disciples who tried to recapture the Thousand Machines Palace in vain, is also going for the frozen people. Nanjing replied truthfully, the Frozen Man refers to the former Great Commander of the White Sect, Cen Ge, who was defeated by the hands of the Young Pavilion Master eight years ago, and was frozen by a sword and has not yet been lifted, and every year there will be crazy disciples who try by all means to try to save the Frozen Man, and there have been many conflicts with the White Tiger Legion.

Xiao Qianye frowned, the Holy Moon Clan was deliberately arranged by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, in order to find an excuse for him to atone for his sins, he should have already withdrawn at this time, right?

Nan Jing didn't see the abnormality between his eyebrows, and then said: "The Holy Moon Clan is one of the oldest alien people, this time Major General Xiao resigned, they came prepared to take advantage of the situation, and they were really almost successful." ”

"Oh? He almost succeeded?" Xiao Qianye secretly touched the sword spirit on his waist, a sneer hung on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes gradually became serious, fortunately, they didn't really succeed, otherwise His Royal Highness the Crown Prince specially arranged for him to come over to atone for his sins, wouldn't it be another extraneous branch? In fact, he has never believed in foreign races, even if he reluctantly reached a consensus with Feng Ji, so many years of military career made him unable to really take off his guard against foreign races.

Nanjing leaned over and whispered next to his ear: "Young Pavilion Master, I heard Xiao Xie say that there is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in the Holy Moon Clan this time, with a red lotus in her left eye, which seems to be somewhat similar to the rumored White Sect Leader who escaped eight years ago. ”

Xiao Qianye's sword eyebrows raised slightly, when he was ordered to go out to the White Sect, he had seen the sect leader Feiying at that time, at that time she was just a seven-year-old little girl, she was a member of the Lingyu clan, and her two great priests Cen Ge and Cen Qing were brothers and sisters, and they were members of the Zuye clan.

To this day, he still hadn't figured out how Sect Leader Feiying and Grand Priest Cen Qing suddenly disappeared under his nose.

If you look at the bloodline of the aliens, they are all the original Six Spirits, Six Saints, Twelve Immortals and Forty-Eight Ancestors, this group of aliens really has other purposes, do they want to take advantage of the opportunity given by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to take the opportunity to rescue the Great Priest Cen Ge?

Nanjing was also puzzled, but he was thinking about another question, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Young Pavilion Master, big brother...... Why did you leave all of a sudden?"

Xiao Qianye was stunned for a moment, the garrison soldiers of Jia Luo like to call Xiao Yibai big brother, and the relationship with him is as cordial as a real relative, but there is always some inexplicable estrangement between himself and this big brother.

"Oh. He......" Xiao Qianye sighed, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he casually made up a reason, "He said that he was tired." ”

Nanjing sighed awkwardly, but she was convinced of such a statement - Jia Luo is indeed a boring place, except for the people who have lived here for generations, how can anyone else be willing to stay.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound in the snow, and the two of them looked at the entrance of the village vigilantly at the same time, and the soldiers by the bonfire were also very serious.

A dark shadow came from afar, his limbs were stiff, and there was a clicking sound like a machine, and the sword spirit under Xiao Qianye's palm trembled, reminding his master that danger was approaching.

"Stand down, all of you. Xiao Qianye ordered loudly, reflecting the bonfire, the figures at the entrance of the village became clearer and clearer, those people had dark and dehydrated skin, their eyes were wide and only the whites of their eyes were left, their crooked mouths raised a weird smile, and their walking steps were swaying, like walking corpses.

It's an ice corpse! Xiao Qianye gasped, not only in the glacier forest, but also on the edge of the Weeping Snow Plateau!

Xiao Qianye rushed out with a sword spirit in his hand and ordered: "Nanjing, you take the four White Tiger teams to scatter around, and don't let them enter other villages. ”

"Yes!" Vice General Nanjing wiped his sweat, the ice corpse is not a living person, and ordinary soldiers who don't know how to deal with the ice corpse are tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and the White Tiger Legion is different from the Blue Bird Legion, only the captain and above can be equipped with the White Tiger, at this time, there are only two near the camp of the fourth team, but this piece is stable and the terrain is flat, and there are at least seven or eight villages within twenty miles!

"Don't panic, I'll catch up with you soon. Obviously seeing what his subordinates were worried about, Xiao Qianye calmly comforted, the sword qi under his palm skyrocketed, and he raised his hand to cut off the three ice corpses in the front row!

"Obey!" Nanjing came back to his senses and waved his hand to order, "The fourth captain is still patrolling outside, Bogu, you go find him and let him go to the south, and the others will follow me to the north." ”

"Understood!" The man from before jumped up, rushed out of the village from the side with a spear, Nanjing couldn't help but glance back at the young pavilion master, the white light of the sword spirit was so fast that he couldn't keep up, but even if the ice corpse was cut off by the waist, the upper body could still open its mouth and bite, the two hands grabbed aimlessly, and the lower body stood up by itself, and even continued to walk forward!

He felt a burst of nameless fear, such a scene was incredible, those stumps and severed arms seemed to be conscious, and kept surrounding the young pavilion master.

Xiao Qianye also quickly discovered something unusual, the Tianzheng Bird was awakened by the sound, opened its sharp wings to catch his master, he looked down from mid-air, and found that the entrance of the village was full of dense ice corpses, but when he turned around again to look at the position at the end of the village, there was nothing there.

"Nanjing!" Xiao Qianye suddenly realized that the ice corpse was just coming here, and hurriedly called out to the deputy general who had not gone far, "You take someone to copy the bread from the back, bring a bonfire, and fence this village for me, everyone goes, no one is allowed to stay in the village!"

As soon as the words fell, he actually jumped off the back of the bird again, the severed hands and feet on the ground, and even the fingers of the head felt his breath, getting closer a little bit, Xiao Qianye naturally didn't dare to be careless, and could only keep repelling with the seven-turn sword style, but no matter how much his sword cut those dead flesh, they could quickly be spliced together and continue to approach.

Xiao Qianye retreated all the way to the edge of the bonfire, and when he felt that the flames were about to burn his clothes, the ice corpse stopped in fear.

Really...... He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, remembering some evil sect techniques that he had overheard when he was a teacher, the people of the Central Plains believed in ghosts and gods, especially in the southern Xinjiang area, there were many corpse control techniques, but most of the corpses would be afraid of fire.

Now that the Midyear Festival is approaching, Jia Luo is a city that believes in the ghost and god culture of the Central Plains, these ice corpses can't be self-defeating things made up by those crazy cultists, right?

Without waiting for him to think about it, Nanjing had already outflanked the back of the ice corpse with the fourth team of the White Tiger, and a raging bonfire was lit on the periphery of the village, expelling all the ice corpses inside.

"Young Pavilion Master!" Nan Jing's shout came from outside, "Please leave quickly, the fire is about to burn in!"

He whistled, the Tianzheng bird landed steadily, Xiao Qianye jumped on the bird's back, and looked at the dead flesh distorted by the firelight around him with an indifferent expression, just these corpses that have been dead for I don't know how many years, just trying to hurt him?

"Young Pavilion Master!" Seeing his figure return to the outside of the village intact, Nanjing breathed a sigh of relief, but just stomped his feet in annoyance and said, "Damn, there is still a lot of food left in the camp! It's a pity to bury this group of ice corpses like this!"

The fourth captain, Meng Sha, hurried back from outside, and said hurriedly: "Young Pavilion Master, Nanjing, how are you?"

"We're fine, it's just a pity for the food. Nanjing muttered, still very unwilling, "Is there anything outside?"

Meng Sha shook his head repeatedly: "I've been patrolling outside for a long time and I haven't seen any ice corpses coming, where did this thing come from?"

Out of thin air? Impossible, right?

Xiao Qianye was secretly surprised, looking at the snowfield under his feet, his eyes were bright, and he suddenly remembered what Feng Ji had said - the Great Blood Array was opened on the Weeping Snow Plateau, and under this ancient and quiet land, countless innocent dead lives were buried.

Someone deliberately manipulated those corpses to attack the Fourth Army of the White Tiger, and the ice corpses that appeared in the Glacier Forest as reported by the White Wolf Legion earlier should be the same.

Wrong...... He immediately denied his thoughts, and it was not the White Tiger Fourth Army that the other party wanted to attack, but him, Xiao Qianye.

He didn't dare to startle his subordinates, only to see the fire in front of him soar into the sky, completely illuminating the dark night of the snowfield, and the smell of carrion spread in the smoke, making several subordinates around him pinch their noses at the same time.

The sword spirit was still trembling, even more violently than when the ice corpse approached before.

Xiao Qianye looked at the rising black smoke carefully, and didn't notice that his eyes had uncontrollably turned into the ice blue unique to the fierce beast at this moment, and through these special eyes, the strange and unpredictable smiling faces in the black smoke were clearly visible, and he even grimaced at him with bared teeth!

"Nanjing. He suddenly called out to the lieutenant next to him, pointed to the grimaces, and asked, "Is there anything there?"

Nanjing looked suspiciously in the direction of the young pavilion master's finger, and the black smoke went straight into the sky, emitting a disgusting stench, but other than that, there was nothing.

Xiao Qianye silently observed the faces of his subordinates, and already understood most of them in his heart, he quietly ordered: "Meng Sha, early tomorrow morning, you take the fourth team of the White Tiger to find the second team to join up, Nanjing, inform the three legions of the White Tiger, the White Wolf, and the Tianma in Jialuo to stand by in place and suspend the daily routine patrol." ”

"Yes. Although the two subordinates didn't understand what he wanted to do, they did not hesitate to accept the order.

"It's too late, let's find a place to rest. Xiao Qianye's eyes slowly returned to normal, but his voice suddenly became tired, he pinched the family crest left by Xiao Yibai, but he didn't dare to act rashly.

He knew that there was still that mysterious ant in his body, Xiao Yibai just said that the insect control technique could not track him through the light mirror, but it should be able to track all his whereabouts, right?

For now, he must go on business as usual, and any mistake will be doomed.

"The nearest village from here is Lala Village, which is only four miles away, and the villagers will not refuse if the military pavilion stays overnight in the past. Meng Sha looked at the burned camp in front of him, and scratched his head with a dry smile, "Why don't you go there for a night's rest first, you have to rush to the Qianji Palace tomorrow morning, you can't hold it without resting." ”

"It's fine. Xiao Qianye took back the sword spirit, he had been on the road for a day, and finally encountered the attack of the ice corpse after a while, he was already exhausted at this time, he rubbed his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Lead the way." ”