Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen went to sea for three days, and then encountered a storm at sea. It is difficult to distinguish between east and west, let alone north and south, and the road ahead is even more confusing, and life and death are uncertain. Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen relied on their deep internal strength, and with mutual support, they barely sat down on the raft. The raft drifted along the wind and rain for several days, and although there were some small islands along the way, they were all deserted and lonely places, and some seabirds of all colors roosted and circled. Therefore, Wei Qimu and the others never landed on the island again.

On this day, the raft landed with the wind. This shore is no longer the shore of the island, and its shoreline is so long and winding that it is boundless. Huang Zhen couldn't help but rejoice, "Look, you're in Middle-earth!"

After Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen went ashore, they saw that the shore was overgrown with wild grass, there were no houses and no firewood smoke, and their barren and dilapidated places were not much better than those of overseas islands. Wei and Huang performed light skills and hurried all the way inside. galloped into the bumpy mountain road for about dozens of miles, and gradually there were people and courtyards......

It's just that the pedestrians that Wei Qimu and the others saw were dressed strangely, and they didn't all wear Middle-earth costumes. The materials used in the houses are also more bamboo and wood, and less bricks and tiles. There are also people who build hanging towers by the mountains and rivers, hanging seven or eight feet on the ground, and there are pigs, sheep, chickens and dogs in captivity below, but they have never seen it.

Wei Qimu looked for a person dressed as a Tang Dynasty and asked, "Dare to ask Gongzi, where is this place?"

The man glanced at Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen, and said suspiciously, "Are you Tang people? Don't you even know about Tang Annan?"

Wei Qimu said in his heart: "It turns out that I have arrived at the southernmost Annan Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty. 」

This Annan Protectorate is the South Pole of the Tang Dynasty, adjacent to the Nanzhao Kingdom and the South China Sea. The geography is complex and changeable, with many hills and dark rivers, birds of prey and fierce beasts; deep forests and lush grasses, and poisonous obstacles everywhere. They are of many ethnic groups, with black and white complexions and different language tones. Its land is connected with the princes of the four neighboring countries, and it has become a place where all nations gather.

Wei Qimu thanked the man, and then looked for the horse dealer in the market. As he was walking, he suddenly heard an awkward Tang official voice from the crowd: "Wei Qimu?"

Wei Qimu looked at the sound and saw that the life was short and strong, his complexion was like copper, and he was still not afraid of the cold in early spring, revealing two thick arms. Wei Qimu remembered that the person in front of him was none other than Zhang Ying's bodyguard Yin Keda when he first met Zhang Ying in Chang'an. The two of them once competed on the same stage, so they were quite impressed. Wei Qimu didn't expect to meet the old man in this remote place in Annan, so he said, "You are Zhang Ying's guard Luo Tho?"

When Yin Keda saw that Wei Qimu recognized him, he was overjoyed and said, "Sure enough, it's you, I've been looking for you for a year!" and then added, "'Luo Tho' is our salute to the warrior, not my name. My name is Yin Keda. 」

Yin Keda looked left and right, and saw that there was only one Huang Zhen beside Wei Qimu, and there were no other women, so he asked, "Where is my county lord?"

Wei Qimu frowned slightly, and his heart suddenly felt bad, and said, "Didn't she go back to Nanzhao?"

Yin Keda hurriedly said, "No. I have been leading people to search for a year, from Chang'an all the way to the east, and then to the south, to Annam. 」

Yin Keda paused for a moment, saw Wei Qimu's face was gloomy, and said, "My Majesty thinks of my sister, and he has made a death to me, and he will definitely find the county lord. I've been walking for a year, and I can't find the county lord, so it's better for you to accompany me to Yang Tho City, or ...... There is an explanation. 」

Wei Qimu thought that Zhang Ying ran away alone because he had broken her heart, and he couldn't help but blame himself and worry about Zhang Ying's safety. If Zhang Ying had a good character, Wei Qimu knew that he would not be able to escape the blame, and he did not want to involve others, so he decided to meet the lord of Nanzhao with him at the request of Yin Keda.

Huang Zhen heard this, but she thought in her heart: "Could it be that the little county lord lost something to do with Qimu, why is it easy for him to explain when he goes?" Thinking of this, Huang Zhen remembered that Zhang Ying said goodbye without saying goodbye at that time, she didn't take it to heart, and now it seems that there are still some hidden secrets. She looked at Wei Qimu and saw that his face was gloomy, and there was sorrow hidden between his eyebrows, and her heart couldn't help but be confused.

Since Wei Qimu decided to go to Nanzhao, he asked Huang Zhen. Huang Zhen's heart was already in turmoil, she only bowed her head slightly, and never spoke, so she simply let Wei Qimu be the master.

Yin Keda's entourage gave two horses to Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen, and everyone went straight to Yang Tho City, the capital of Nanzhao Kingdom. Entered the territory of Nanzhao, changed horses along the way, day and night, but in two or three days, they had arrived at Yang Tho City.

This Yang Tho Baa City is the capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom, and its city is as big as Chang'an, and its city is so high that it is higher than the mountains. The people in the city have a lot of business contacts and are bustling. His costumes are varied, colorful and magnificent, and he has a prosperous atmosphere!

Along the way, Wei Qimu noticed that many of his wanted portraits were posted on the gates of various cities in Nanzhao. The portraits range from old to new. When Wei Qimu saw that Nanzhao classified himself as a sinner, he immediately felt unhappy.

Huang Zhen also noticed those portraits, and said in her heart, "How did Qimu become a wanted criminal in Nanzhao?"

What Wei Qimu didn't know was that Zhang Ying wandered around the Tang Dynasty alone at the beginning, and sent Yin Keda and other entourages back to Nanzhao to restore his life. When Meng Shilong, the king of Nanzhao, learned about it, he was worried about the safety of the county lord, and sent Yin Keda and others to protect Zhang Ying in secret. Yin Keda learned that Zhang Ying and Wei Qimu were together, so he never showed up. Later, Zhang Ying left Wei Qimu because of sadness, and there has been no news since. Yin Keda lost the trace of the county lord, and he didn't find it for a while, so he hurriedly reported to Yang Tho Baa City, which angered Meng Shilong. Meng Shilong blamed Wei Qimu for Zhang Ying's incident, and posted arrest notices in various cities of Nanzhao to arrest Wei Qimu, who has been wanted to this day.

After Wei Qimu and the others arrived at Yangtho City, Yin Keda took Wei and Huang to the palace to meet Meng Shilong, the lord of Nanzhao. At this time, it was the early morning of the dynasty, and Meng Shilong was discussing with a group of civil and military ministers in the Jinluan Palace. Meng Shilong learned that Wei Qimu had arrived outside the palace, so he asked his close attendant Yin Keda to take Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen to the top of the main hall.

Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen entered the main hall, only to see a person sitting on a high seat above the main hall. The man was only about thirty years old, born with dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes, not angry but mighty, but also bearded and green eyebrows, curled hair and big ears, and had an exotic bearing. If you look closely at his eyebrows and eyes, they are somewhat similar to Zhang Ying.

Wei Qimu knew that the high seat in the hall was the king of Nanzhao, so he bowed his hand and said, "Wei Qimu, a grass man of the Tang Dynasty, meet the lord of Nanzhao. 」

As soon as this remark came out, it had angered all the civil and military forces in the hall. One of the old ministers angrily rebuked in Tang dialect: "Bold! It has been 17 years since I changed the Yuan Dynasty with a great ceremony, and it is His Majesty the Emperor of Great Rites sitting in front of you, how dare you insult him as the lord of the Tang Dynasty!"

Wei Qimu stood upright, and his face did not change. Meng Shilong snorted coldly, and he was also unhappy in his heart, but in the end, he was a generation of heroes, and he was angry, so he only sneered: "The Tang people have always been short-sighted, and they don't recognize me as a gifted person, and those who don't know are not to blame. 」

Wei Qimu said: "The Tang people may not recognize the lord of the country, but the Nanzhao people should all recognize 'Gao Yu'?"

Wei Qimu's words were even more merciless. When Nanzhao captured Annan, he was repelled by Gao Biao, and when he invaded Jiannan, he was also defeated by Gao Biao. This Gao Yu can be described as the enemy of Nanzhao and the pain of many years.

The reason why Wei Qimu ridiculed Meng Shilong so much was because this Nanzhao had regarded him as a sinner, so why should he be afraid?

As soon as Wei Qimu's words came out, Ren Meng Shilong was a rare male emperor, and he couldn't help but be angry when he heard this, and said sharply: "Hmph, you Wei Qimu, you kidnapped my imperial sister, and abandoned her in chaos from the beginning to the end, and you still don't know the sin?

Nanzhao is a remote country in the end, and its customs and behaviors are very different from those of the Central Plains, and he has no scruples about throwing the private affairs of the county lord and the royal secrets on the temple.

Wei Qimu avoided Zhang Ying and said, "Wei used the Tang Dynasty to pay homage to the lord of the country, but why did the lord of the country betray the puppet emperor of the Tang Dynasty?"

Although Wei Qimu avoided talking about it, Huang Zhen on the side listened to it very clearly. She said in her heart: "I just said that she is the lord of a country, but I don't want her to have such a deep friendship with you......" As soon as she thought of this, she couldn't help but feel like a knife, almost despairing.

Wei Qimukou called Meng Shilong a "traitorous Tang puppet emperor", and everyone was shocked. Before Meng Shilong could have a seizure, he only heard a bell-like voice ringing in the main hall: "What a clever mouth, Li Tang is now in the decline of the river, and has repeatedly begged for peace with foreign countries, but the people under his rule are still the same high-minded manner. 」

Wei Qimu looked at the sound and saw a lama monk sitting at the left end of the main hall. The monk was about forty years old, dressed in a red monk's robe, with his arms exposed, tall and strong, his face was black and red, his eyes seemed to be open, the corners of his mouth seemed to be closed, his eyes were strange, and there was a golden light between his eyebrows.

Wei Qimu asked, "Looking at this master's costume, could it be that he is from Tibet?"

The great monk said proudly, "Yes, I am the Venerable Sangduo. 」

When Meng Shilong saw that the Venerable Master Sangduo opened his mouth to punish Wei Qimu, he suppressed the anger in his heart and explained to Wei Qimu, "Bo Xibu is the prime minister of Tibet, comparable to the national teacher of a country. 」

Wei Qimu sneered, "Wei heard that there was civil strife in Tubo decades ago, and the royal court fell apart, and Tubo was removed. If there is no Tibet, how can the Tibetan bowl be explained?"

When the Venerable Sang Duo heard this, he was furious, and his eyes suddenly widened, and his eyes seemed to burst out with two golden rays of light. With a loud "bang" in his mouth, a hidden weapon flew out of his hand, smashing directly into the wooden door of Wei Qi! The whole body of the hidden weapon was pitch black and translucent, and the golden light was shining, about the size of a fist, but it was a huge Buddha bead.

Everyone in the main hall was stunned by the fierce shouts of Master Sangduo, but Wei Qimu ignored it. But in an instant, the huge Buddha bead had come to Wei Qimu. Wei Qimu remained motionless, as if he had not seen it. Suddenly, a white light suddenly appeared in front of the door of Wei Qi's wooden face, shining like a white sun. I only heard a loud bang, the white light dissipated, and the Buddha beads immediately reversed!

At this time, the civil and military forces in the main hall did not know what had just happened, and where the loud noise came from, and only a few people could understand it. The white light was the sword cut by the ink knife behind Wei Qimu, and the loud noise was the sound of the ink knife and the Buddha beads colliding!

In the blink of an eye, Wei Qimu and Master Sangduo had already engaged in a short battle! After one move, Wei Qimu's ink knife had already been returned to its sheath, as if it had never been drawn, and the Buddha bead had also returned to Master Sangduo's hands.

Master Sang Duo was secretly surprised in his heart, and said in his heart, "This humble young man has such skills to be able to take my 'Wuling Bead'. 」

Wei Qimu was also silently amazed in the bottom of his heart, and said in his heart: "With my internal strength, coupled with the sharpness of the 'Wild Goose Tail' ink knife, I can't cut a small Buddha bead, which shows that the Buddha bead is not an ordinary thing, and the Venerable Master Sangduo is also a master. 」

Wei Qimu guessed correctly, the Buddha beads are indeed not ordinary things, but they are holy relics produced on an ancient Bodhi tree on the top of the Tubo Snow Mountain, and its name is "Wuling Bead". This snow-capped mountain is called "Jirosa Mountain" in Sanskrit, and it is a mountain of gods in the hearts of Tibetan Tibetans. On the top of the mountain, there is an ancient Bodhi tree, which grows on the snow rock ice wall. Its years are long, and it has the same life as heaven and earth. Its trunk is ten feet high, eight feet thick, and its leaves are clear and green all year round, and they do not wither or wither. There is a bodhi seed on the tree, as big as a human fist, and it is only one grain for a thousand years. After the Bodhi seed is picked, it is refined into beads with the secret method of Buddhism, and then infused with mental power, which can make it understand the Buddha nature, stronger than iron, and those who are good at using it are like arms and fingers, and they can be retracted and released freely.

Why did this Master Sanduo suddenly get angry, and when he first saw Wei Qimu, he sacrificed the treasure "Wuling Bead" to kill him with one blow?

In fact, Wei Qimu didn't know that before the civil strife in Tibet, Zamplang Dharma had banned the Buddha and banned the post of "bowl cloth". After Langdarma's death, the Venerable Sangdo supported the descendants of Langdarma's eldest son, Yundan, to entrench themselves in Lhasa and inherit the throne. Because of the merits of supporting the establishment, the new king gave him the two places of Sanye and Duokang, and was named a national teacher. He took the word "Sanduo", and from then on called himself the Venerable Sanduo, and appointed himself as the Tubo bowl to explain the cloth.

Master Sanduo suddenly made a move, which made Meng Shilong very unhappy. The Tubo monarchs and ministers have always been arrogant and have no one in their eyes, but now they are acting vainly on the Jinluan Palace of Nanzhao, and they simply do not take him, the emperor of great gifts, in their eyes. Meng Shilong remembered that Nanzhao and Tubo first attacked Tang as a country of brothers, but after the defeat, they were forcibly changed to the country of monarchs and ministers by Tubo, which can be described as a great shame.

Although Meng Shilong was unhappy, he did not have an immediate seizure. He saw that this Wei Qimu could easily take a move from Master Sang Duo, and his heart fluctuated. You must know that this Master Sanduo is the number one master in Tubo, and his martial arts are so high that I am afraid that no one in the entire Nanzhao can compare. And this little-known young man can lift his weight like a light weight, and quietly defuse the attack of the Venerable Sanduo, which shows that he is a top master. Meng Shilong said in his heart, "It seems that the widow has underestimated him. 」

On that day, the crowd parted unhappily. That night, Meng Shilong secretly summoned Wei Qimu to meet in the imperial study.

Although Wei Qimu didn't know why, he still went to the appointment on time. The study was brightly lit, and Meng Shilong was chanting softly. Wei Qimu saluted and stood in place. Meng Shilong stared at Wei Qimu for a moment, and suddenly said, "Wei Qimu, do you know why the Venerable Sangduo came from?"