After Liu Ling left Tianli Village, he rode all the way to the south.

Since the witch disaster five years ago, under the advice of the current emperor Shang Yuan, in order to ensure that the people of Liang in the Miao Mountain area can live normally and will not panic because of the Miao people, the imperial court opened a market in the center of the tragic battlefield that year, which is now the Jimingshan Market.

The terrain of Jiming Mountain is not high, but it is unusually rugged and difficult to walk, in the rolling 100,000 mountains of Nanling, it is the only place where there is an entry point that can be done by manpower.

Miao Mountain was originally an inconspicuous hill in the 100,000 mountains of Nanling, but because the mountains and rivers depend on each other among the thousands of ravines and ravines, it is extremely suitable for living, and the local aborigines all gather here for the struggle to survive, and it has become the current Miao Mountain.

There are many Miao villages in Miao Mountain, and Miao Village is by the mountain and water.

The topography is both good and bad for the Miao tribe that has taken root for generations.

The advantage is that among the winding and undulating mountains, the mountains and forests are dense, overgrown with weeds, and there are countless snakes, insects, rats, ants, and fierce beasts in the mountains and forests. While ensuring the livelihood of the local Miao people, it also prohibits outsiders from entering and leaving. Besides, the mountains of Nanling are already rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult for outsiders to discern the direction when they enter, even if they work hard to catch the locals as guides, but in the face of the endless methods of repelling insects and snakes of the Miao people who have lived here for generations, it is difficult to talk about the Gu poison, and it is worth the loss to capture a Miao village that is already chicken.

The disadvantages are even more self-evident, otherwise why did that tragic witch curse happen five years ago?

There are two sides to everything, the location is better than others, and it is the cage in which you are in.

Miao people have not been in the world for a long time, and they are withdrawn and difficult to deal with. There is still a long way to go for the dynasty to assimilate and generalize with culture.

This is also an important reason why the Liang Dynasty has been reluctant to raise troops to attack and clear the hinterland.

It is precisely because of this that the ministers of the Jingyu Dynasty will always ridicule the small country adjacent to the southwest as a Miao man with insufficient wisdom.

But no matter what outsiders think, a huge country that steadily occupies the four continents of the world will never be helpless against the Miao tribes.

After the witch curse, the imperial court will not hesitate to spend manpower, dig mountains and dig roads to set up a market in Jiming Mountain, on the one hand, in order to ensure the communication between the Miao people and the people in the vicinity of Miao Mountain, on the other hand, it is not a kind of deterrent.

I really don't think I can do anything about you? If you are in a hurry, moving mountains and reclaiming the sea is not a difficult task for a great dynasty.

After five years of opening up and interconnecting, the Miao people in the Miao Mountain area finally kept to themselves, and the Jimingshan Market has truly become a holy place in the minds of the people of the two places.

Zhang Si came to Jiming Mountain under the arrangement of Liu Ling, the head of the team, and just arrived at the market, without saying a word, he went directly to the supervisor of the market, and he wanted to check the recent records of the Miao people's barter and entry and exit.

And somewhere away from the other end of the market, somewhere in a hidden mountain col, a soap-clad yamen catcher was hurrying towards his horse, which was the nearest entrance to the Five Immortals Sect.

There are some hidden things on the rivers and lakes, for Zhang Si, Chen Wen and Wang San, the three of them are well-established and young, and they may know very little about the small yamen catching fast, but for Liu Ling, it is different.

Five years ago, he was not a fast catcher, just a little person wandering in the rivers and lakes, and he was also a survivor of the disaster that made half of the Jianghu sect in the southern part of Funiu Continent missing.

So there is actually hatred in his heart, and some hard-earned memories of the past are destined to be unforgettable for a lifetime.

Coming to the entrance of the hidden col, Liu Ling turned over and dismounted, drew a long knife with a sheath from the side of the horse's back, patted the horse's back, and motioned for the old man to go away on his own.

He took a deep breath and stooped into the forest.

The branches and vines were rampant and twisted, and finally along a secret path that could accommodate one person for about 200 meters, the vision in front of me suddenly opened up, it was a large grove of trees, bushes, weeds on the ground knee-deep, no road in sight.

Liu Ling looked up at the sky, it was time to Shen, identified the direction, and opened the way with a knife in his left hand.

After walking less than thirty steps, there was a hissing sound in my ears, and the dense groves were hidden in the depths of the valley, and it was difficult to see the sun, and the knee-high weeds were knotted together, and it was like stepping on a solid pool of mud when walking.

He turned his head to look at the source of the voice, and sure enough, on the trunk of a tree less than two people high, through the green leaves, a green transparent green snake was faintly visible, and the black snake eyes were glowing with ghostly light, and the snake was snorting and hissing.

Liu Ling took a closer look around, there was no more danger on the surface between the bushes and jungles, and in the lonely mountain road around him, the sound of insects was more than the sound of snakes spitting letters.

Through the bushes less than half a person tall in front of him, he floated forward with a light tap on his toes.

After jumping over the forest, there is a mountain rock hidden in the depths of the jungle in front of you, and a mountain road can be faintly seen between the strange rocks.

Walked along the mountain road for a little half a cup of tea, came to a stone cliff near the entrance, the entrance connected to the mountains, full of moss hanging upside down, only to find that there was a cave with a small arm width when he got closer, Liu Ling dodged in and stood still, only to find that the part below his knee had already been wet.

He frowned slightly, there was a cave in front of him, and the place just a cliff away was like two heavens and earths.

There was a dead silence everywhere in the eye, the trees were dead, the grass was overgrown, the criss-crossing mountains and rocks were covered with the corpses of birds and birds, and occasionally the corpses of a few mountain deer and a few hares could be seen lying on the ground, long since they were lifeless.

Fortunately, it was past noon, and the miasma had receded.

Follow the path and step up.

The surrounding silence is terrible, in such a harsh environment, the birds have long been dead, and I am afraid that there are not even a few mountain insects.

Only his own footsteps could be heard in all directions, and Liu Ling walked cautiously and quietly.

Crunch, crunch, the sound of a few dead branches being trampled on the ground came from my ears, and the faint sound that was originally so insignificant sounded so harsh at the moment.

Liu Ling frowned slightly, stopped and listened, and suddenly there was a small noise between the quiet mountains and rocks, which was the sound of mountains wriggling over stones and clinging to tree branches.

But after a while, the sound was getting closer and closer, and a pungent smell was also approaching with the wind, and Liu Ling frowned.

The hiss, hiss, and hissing sounds were incessant, and the danger was getting closer and closer.

Liu Ling was horrified, and he scolded, "Damn, it's really a desperate place specially raised by the damned guys of the Five Immortals Sect." ”

I saw that there was still a dead silence, and the place where there was no living thing suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The branches of the dead trees with complex branches, the mossy rocks are covered with snakes, insects, rats and ants, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, toads, etc.

The croaking, hissing, and buzzing sounds came from all directions, Liu Ling's scalp was numb, and her heart was shocked, so she hurriedly took out a small porcelain bottle from her waist, poured out a small yellow pill and stuffed it into her mouth, and did not swallow it, but just held it in her mouth.

He scrambled up and sped toward the only path ahead.

As soon as he moved, he moved with the dense poison around him, and a sharp whistle sounded, and the poisons all around him flew towards him.

Liu Ling snorted coldly in her heart, and sure enough, this group of poisons was controlled by the whistle.

Where the five poisons enter and exit, they restrain each other, how can there be such a meticulous and orderly group of five poisons, each of them doing their own duties and not biting each other?

He stretched out his left hand and swatted a colorful flower snake with his scabbard, but a black shadow flashed under his feet, and a scorpion the size of a palm stabbed down at his ankle with its head and tail.

Liu Ling turned her head sideways to avoid a flying ant, spun her feet, and quickened her steps slightly, and the scorpion tail that flashed with a ghostly light fell into the air like a needle. Just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, on the left branch, a five-inch long colorful centipede jumped down along the trunk, towards the front door, Liu Ling's left hand pulled back and turned, the tail end of the scabbard stabbed out obliquely, and the centipede with teeth and claws flew out horizontally, the centipede hit a raised rock after landing, rolled a few times, shook his head and twitched a few times, and was no longer alive.

Without waiting to take a few steps, a black shadow suddenly appeared on the mountain stone on the right, and several toads covered in pimples, full of mucus stretched out their long tongues and attacked Liu Ling's right brain, the toad was full of poison, and the mucus was afraid that it would suppurate in an instant, Liu Ling did not dare to hold it up, his left foot was standing, his right foot was raised, his head sank to the left, and the whole person's body was based on his left foot as the axis, lying flat in the air, just avoiding those toads, and a few colorful geckos the size of his middle finger flew like arrows, and the speed was extremely fast.

Liu Ling was not in a hurry, her left foot touched the ground, the whole person bounced upward, with an upward force, her body spun, and the arrow-like colorful gecko happened to pounce along the gap in the rotation, landed in the opposite rock, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

As soon as he landed and stood still, the field of vision was dark, and a dense group of flying ants buzzed and hissed and rushed forward.

This group of flying ants is a unique poisonous insect in Miao Mountain, also called tooth-loving ants, out in pairs, where no grass grows, if it is attached to the animal, it will become a white bone in the blink of an eye.

Liu Ling's heart sank, seeing that the group of flying ants was coming very fast, and before he could think about it, he flicked his left hand, and the long knife with a sheath in his hand was nailed diagonally into the gap in the mountain rock beside him.

He took a wine gourd from his waist, uncorked it, and poured a full mouthful of wine, his tongue moving slightly, and turned all the yellow pills he had in his mouth into the wine.

Seeing that the flying ant colony was less than a few meters in front of him, he threw away the wine gourd, pulled out the long knife nailed between the rocks with his left hand, and touched a piece of bluestone with his right hand.

Said that it was too late, Liu Ling opened her mouth and spit out, the wine shot out of her mouth, boom, a flame suddenly exploded in front of her eyes, and it happened to surround all the ant colonies that flew in front of her.

Liu Ling immediately made a decision, reached out and took out a piece of cotton cloth from the waist on his back, sprinkled the wine in the gourd beside him on the cotton cloth, wrung it out slightly, wrapped his mouth and nose, and tied it behind his head.

He pulled out the scabbard and held it in his left hand, and the blade of his right hand, making a double sword gesture, and slashed all the way forward.

I don't know how many snakes, insects, rats and ants have been killed in the confusion, but I feel that the road ahead is long, it is difficult to move an inch, and there are too many black poisonous insects, and I can't help but kill them.

The vacant foot-square beside him was covered with the corpses of snakes and insects, scarlet blood wrapped in green bile, the pungent fishy smell and the dense and gradual hissing sound around him, making people dizzy and delirious.

The whistle sounded abruptly again, from far to near, Liu Ling's expression was clear, capture the thief and capture the king first, as long as he catches the guy who whistled, he will definitely be able to escape from the ascension.

He exhaled again, and listened attentively, and saw that from time to time there was a whistle in the northeast direction that turned around in the sound of a swarm of insects, as if following a certain rhythm to control the poisonous tide in the valley.

Liu Ling no longer hesitated, forced a breath, and flashed towards the northeast.

After walking less than ten paces away, the place where he had stood before had been covered by the poisonous tide that had surged over, and a new batch of poisonous snakes, scorpions, and centipedes swooped up densely.

Hiss, a heart-piercing pain came from the calf, and with a sound of the waves, Liu Ling put the knife into the sheath.

With his left hand, the long knife with the sheath danced out of a big circle, slapping all the poisons in front of him away, and before those poisons swarmed up again, Liu Ling nailed the long knife into the ground.

The scabbard nailed out a big pit in the ground, bringing up a circle of continuous air waves, sweeping towards the surroundings, all the poisonous insects within a zhang of the body were blocked by the air waves, flying in all directions, some of the closer ones were cut off, the scarlet blood mixed with the green venom spilled by the broken poison sac scattered in all directions, and the poisonous insects outside the circle did not stop there, but appeared more and more grandiose, and the ferocity was revealed.

Liu Ling is worthy of the skills of the third grade, this time he spared no effort to blow, has hollowed out the little strength he has left, his feet are soft, he feels a strong attack, dizzy, and he stumbled and fell to the ground.

Looking up, the clothes on the body have already been scratched in many places, the calf of the left foot, there is a gap, under the torn clothes, a thumb-sized turquoise scorpion cicada is attached to it, the needle prick at the scorpion tail has deeply pierced the cortex, and the sting is flushed with a dark red.

Liu Ling smiled bitterly, I'm afraid I'm really going to explain it here, reached out and pulled out the scorpion, pinched it with his hand, and splashed white, red, and green juice all over his palm, Liu Ling didn't care about it.

He raised his right hand, stretched out his fingers and put his luck together, and hurriedly clicked on the Yangling Spring at the calf of his left foot, and after a period of numbness, his two fingers gently wiped along the punctured hole, and a stream of dark red blood came out of the hole.

Liu Ling didn't dare to be careless, although most of the poisonous blood was temporarily forced, but the poison of the blue-tailed scorpion came very quickly, and a wisp of scorpion venom had already gone to his heart like a gossamer with qi and blood.

He took a strong breath again, wanting to temporarily suppress the swimming poison in his body with his internal force, not wanting to be lucky just now, a tingling pain came from his chest, the poison came violently, and suddenly, blood spurted from his mouth.

Liu Ling was exhausted.

A man in soap clothes with a tired face, many tattered parts all over his body, and his body covered with blood stains was lying on the ground, the cotton cloth that had been covering his face before had long since fallen somewhere, looking at the approaching poisonous insects, making the last struggle.

I'm wearing the soap clothes of the yamen now, and these damn guys really don't shy away from it at all?

It's a pity that before coming, they misjudged the situation, and the group of guys from the Five Immortal Sect still didn't give up and tried to make a comeback? Didn't it mean that five years ago, the line led by Hei Miao had been slaughtered by the real people of Chongxuanguan?

In a daze, Liu Ling only felt weak, his eyelids were heavy, I don't know if it was an illusion, not far from the valley in front of him, there was a white expanse, like white clouds rising between the mountains and the earth.

A peculiar fragrance overshadowed the fishy smell of poisonous insects, and came from afar along the fresh breeze that suddenly rose in the valley, and the snakes, scorpions, toads, centipedes and other poisons that were gradually approaching around were actually after smelling the unique aroma, they became extremely irritable, as if they were out of control, they scuffled and bit together, no matter how the whistle was controlled, it was no longer as orderly as before.

A light rain fell, and the rain grew heavier and heavier, crackling and rustling against the surrounding rocks and leaves.

Streams of water rushed down the stone walls and tree trunks, diluting the incomparably bloody smell and washing away a trace of gloom in Jiuyu's chest.

Liu Ling raised her right hand hard, stretched out her hand and wiped her cheeks full of rain, the blood on her face had already been washed away by the rain, and she tried to open her eyelids, and found that she seemed to be in a cloud mist, and the snakes and insects around her feet, the poisonous tide was also covered by the thick fog, and she couldn't see it really, and she didn't know what kind of human purgatory was in the clouds and mist under her.

The green mountains in the distance loom in the vast clouds and mist, but at this moment there is a feeling of a fairyland on earth.

It's really ridiculous, he can't see Mount Tai in a blind, he is still a little conscious at the moment, and he knows what kind of situation he is in.

Are you really going to die now?

In a daze, a clear crane chirped through the valley, its sound was long and high, and it was erratic.

The morning bell like a twilight drum rippled, hitting the clouds, and in a drowsy consciousness, I saw ten thousand poisons retreating, and the clouds saw the sun.

A figure fluttered like a white crane above the nine heavens, and when it landed, Liu Ling's eyelids gradually closed, and he vaguely saw a Taoist chief wearing a white-clothed Taoist robe and carrying an ancient sword walking towards him, escaping from the dust.

Liu Ling couldn't support it anymore, her head tilted, and she passed out.