The red western clouds float over the mountains, the fiery sunset reflects the mountains and forests, and in the dusk mountain breeze, the dense branches and leaves set off ripples.

The clanging copper bell rang on the sunset mountain road, the white-robed book sat on the back of the donkey and closed his eyes to think about the confusion in his heart, the blind old man on crutches, pinched his fingers and calculated that there were a few stones on the road under his feet, and easily stepped over.

The old donkey's undulating hips, in the slightly swaying bookshelf, the toad Taoist sat behind the small door, looking through the gap in the fence, looking out at the mountains and fields of early summer.

The sunset seems to dissolve the green of the mountains and fields, turning into a brown and yellow desolate northwest land, and the sound of killing and screaming gradually comes out of the cicadas in the ears.

"Don't go, that purple smoke demon road—"

"Surround him! This evil demon eats countless people, fellow Daoists, don't let him escape again, it will bring disaster to the world!"

"Demon! Seven hundred and sixty lives in Fushan Town are waiting for you underground!!"

The clouds and mist in the mountains were long, and countless figures gathered, or wandered away, waving the magic weapon in their hands to cover the sky and the sun, and the magic light hit the mountain tops in the distance.

Rumble!

Boom Boom Boom –

The rocks collapsed and exploded, and the entire mountain was bombarded by dense magic light, and it was rigidly flattened, and the waves of air that opened up spread in all directions, and the surrounding forests and fields were broken and fell in an instant.

The smoke and dust dissipated, and the old man standing on the top of the mountain, his robe hunting and flying, his beard mixed with a little dust in the wind, looked at the people of the several major sects below, and did not retreat at all.

"Hahaha, how can the old man run-"

With a flick of the wide sleeves, the spread palm, the black-veined purple gold gourd appeared out of thin air, opened the stopper, threw it into the air, and a cloud of purple smoke rushed out of the gourd's mouth, sweeping down the mountain like an overwhelming wave.

"Fellow Daoists, resist this wave of poisonous smoke, the Purple Smoke Demon Dao is a strong crossbow, and it won't last long!"

Sure enough, the purple poisonous smoke that swept in was controlled by everyone to use spells and magic weapons to resist the enchantment, and in less than half a cup of tea, the demon path on the mountain, the body began to tremble, and after years of devouring other people's cultivation, there was a backlash, and the corners of the mouth overflowed with blood stains, and the long beard was dyed red.

However, before the sect monks below rushed up the mountain, the vision under the sun suddenly darkened, and everyone turned around, and in the northwest direction, the yellow sand swept across the sky, instantly covering the crowd.

"Ahh

Suddenly, a miserable scream sounded in the vast sand, and a nearby monk turned his head, and the colleague who met his eyes fell in the scream, and the blood arrow rushed from the headless shoulders to the sky in an instant, and a black shadow like dragging a cloak rushed towards him.

The stunned monk's vision darkened, a brief sharp pain came from his chest, and there were countless human voices in his ears, which gradually became blurred.

"There's something in the sand?!"

“...... It's not good, the helper of the Purple Smoke Demon Dao!" "Northwest, Yellow Sand, it's him-"

The monk in mid-air saw the black shadow in the yellow sand, and on the blood path of the crowd below, the black shadow jumped into the sky, folded in mid-air, and flew to a nearby dry rock, and with a wave of his arm, the yellow sand in the sky brought out a roar, and gathered a ball and flew back into the man's cuffs.

The figure of the side back slowly turned, the eyes were majestic, the nose was high, the mouth was wide and the short beard was rounded, the lips were slightly open, and the voice was majestic.

"Old toad, this king will drag Chengyun and Juling Mansion for you, and you can deal with the rest!"

In the voice, a shawl was covered, and the snow-white fluff was stroking in the wind, so there was no need to look at him, and the old man on the hill over there smiled and nodded.

That time was the last time I saw each other.

......

The memory goes back and goes, and in the jingling copper bells, the picture in the toad's mind is frozen in the figure on the dry rock.

White-robed Langjun, a big demon who has lived many dynasties in the world, nearly four hundred years, can be traced back to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the other party was originally a dead white wolf, the confused soul unintentionally inhabited a shrine that was worshipped, absorbed the incense of the border guard, and the coffin under the shrine The bones in the coffin are one, and the achievement of incense, demon power, and military generals are murderous in one, after more than 300 years, it is more powerful than other thousand-year-old demon cultivators.

even gave himself the surname of Gongsun, the toad Taoist asked him for the first time, why he took this surname, the white-robed Langjun did not explain much, only said: "When I was a beast, there was a master, just to remember." ”

"Gongsun Fang. ”

In the squeaky sound of the bookshelf shaking, the toad who sat cross-legged whispered the name softly, looking at the mountain scenery outside the fence that slowly passed, and the bean-sized [ ] toad eyes were a little complicated and missed.

The message brought by the other party has the meaning of asking him to return to the northwest.

Outside, the copper bell stopped, the bookshelf was noisy, and then I heard the disciple Sun Wang running half-blindly: "Master, Master has called you to eat, just passed by the creek and caught a fish." ”

The toad, who was still in his thoughts, came back to his senses, smelled the fragrance of fried fish, his serious expression suddenly dispersed, and he pushed the small door open suddenly, and lowered the rope to the ground with a rope.

"Liangsheng get out of the way, let the teacher come..... Yes, put more salt to get rid of the smell!!"

As for the thought of 'going back to the northwest' that I had thought about before, I don't know where to go.

Lu Liangsheng reluctantly handed the shovel to the shouting master, and the half-blind also came over to help, took the toad's apron and handed it over, the latter tied it, and turned over a fish in the pot with his eyes intently.

The scholar who retreated to the side, looking at the half-blind and the master busy work, too lazy to be idle, took "The Boundless Mountains and Seas" and sat next to it to look at it, on the canvas, the stagnant normal line was connected to the altar of Qingcheng Mountain, but there was no logo like Changyang Mountain, only a small logo of the altar lit up.

Well?

Staring at it, he vaguely felt a wave of mana passing through the paper from above, and the Yuan Infant Realm, which had not been in for a long time, showed the slightest sign of loosening.

The mud road, the old pine, the cool breeze of the sunset, Lu Liangsheng sat under the tree, and with the red glow, he used his mana to explore the painting, and tried to extract it from the Ten Thousand Souls Array of Qingcheng Mountain.

After a while, a wisp of white qi visible to the naked eye flew out, and merged into the scholar's fingertips along the mana into the body, merging with his own cultivation, without the feeling of rejection.

"There is still such an effect...... "I have no intention of tempting, and getting this way of improving my cultivation made Lu Liangsheng laugh, and sucked a little, and the two small fires on the altar gradually dimmed, and it seemed that they needed to be stored, that Changyang Mountain.....

The scholar's gaze cast on the larger sign above, and the mana probed by his fingertips came from a strange roar of rage in his head—

"Get out!"

It's like someone roaring in his ear, so startled that Lu Liangsheng almost threw away the book, only then did he remember that the altar was placed with the head of Xingtian, so naturally he would not easily let him absorb mana.

‘..... If you extract the mana there, it won't be the ancient god Xingtian, right? No wonder, it's so fierce. ’

Lu Liangsheng closed the book, this kind of thing can't be forced, without the permission of others, what is the difference between that and a robber and a thief, thought for a while, the food over there is also good, the toad Taoist served the fish, took off his apron, and waved his webbing at the apprentice.

"Liangsheng, come and try the craftsmanship of being a teacher!"

Wang half-blindly held the plate and sniffed it, and let out a long sigh of "ah-" heavily.

"Master's craftsmanship is hard to find in the world. ”

"I need you to say that the old man knows this aspect. ”

Soon, after eating, it was dark, and I went down the mountain by touching the night, and hurriedly entered the weir city, a small county in Sichuan and Shu, not as good as Chang'an and Tianzhi Capital, and there were few pedestrians in the night.

In the lantern-hung inn, the men walked past the empty table with the dishes, the shopkeeper yawned on the counter, watching the settled deals, and the only two tables of guests spoke with a northern accent and punched loudly with the strength of wine, and the scholars and old men who walked in outside the door were unaware.

"Guest officer, your dish ......"

After passing the dishes, the guy walked back, and when he saw an old man and a young man entering the door, he hurriedly took off the rag on his shoulder and wiped the table and stool.

"Are the two of you staying in the hotel or eating? The room is still free, a room is twenty Wen, if you eat, the store has sauce fragrant rabbit meat, spicy shredded meat, both of which are good at the back kitchen of the store, and they are good to keep. ”

"I've eaten some outside, so I'll have two bowls of gruel and a vegetarian dish, and I'll help me send the old donkey outside the door to the backyard and feed me some forage. ”

Lu Liangsheng arched his hand to the guy, found a table at random and sat down, and when he entered the door, he was a guest, no matter how many dishes he ordered, the shopkeeper over there still brought an oil lamp and put it on the scholar's table.

"Two, if it's not enough, just ask the guy to add food. ”

"Thank you. ”

The shopkeeper smiled and chatted, and returned to the back of the counter, the inn business was not good, but there were three tables of guests who were not bad, that is, the other two tables, all of which were business trips who came to sell goods, and they spoke loudly.

"Drink it later, let Lao Tzu take a breath first!"

"Cowardice, with your amount of alcohol, I'm afraid it's us northerners!"

“..... Looking at what is going on in the northerners, Lao Tzu wants to rest for a while, but speaking of which, you came from Jiangdong, do you know that the war has started in the north?!"

"I heard that it was going to be fought, what, what's the matter, now it's all fighting?"

"Ouch, you don't know yet, I knew when I entered Shu from Hanchuan, and several Turkic troops of 400,000 troops went south, and the beacons were everywhere!"

"These Turks should be damned, can't they let people live in peace?!"

"So, the dead Turks are good Turks, by the way, how does the court react, but there is an army to catch up?"

"I don't know, I heard that soldiers and horses have been mobilized a few years ago, and there should be troops stationed at the border. ”

400,000 Turks are heading south, and I don't know if the imperial court can resist it. ”

Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting at a table not far away, listened to the conversation between the two tables of merchants in the north, and he didn't even notice that the meal was served.

The oil lamp on the table, the light swayed, and I thought about it.

'I don't know if Qu Yuanfeng is on the front line, although he taught him the magic circle, but he is facing 400,000 Turkic troops, I don't know if he can win......

I hope I win. ’

Somehow, Lu Liangsheng suddenly heard this news, and a bad premonition faintly appeared in his heart, and the thoughts that were still thinking about the Wanling Array and the Xuanyuan Sword Scabbard before turned into worrying about the apprentice.

After a simple dinner, I opened a two-bed room, and the next morning, I made a decision.

Go north to the border!