The official road is divided into three.

Ning Baifeng stood at the fork in the road, turned his head to look at the old Taoist priest who was smoking, "Real person, which way to go." ”

Yanxia really spat out the smoke, pretended to be contemplative, and then said, "I don't know." ”

Yuan Zhen craned his neck and waited for a long time, but when he heard such a sentence, he immediately exclaimed: "I don't know! Then how did you get to Binhai County?"

The old Taoist priest was still smoking safely, deaf to Yuan Zhen's words, and after half a ring, the old Taoist priest saw that the black donkey was still standing in place without taking a step, and knocked the cigarette stick on the top of the donkey's head with his backhand, and asked, "Which way to go." ”

The donkey shook its head dissatisfiedly, snorted violently, and jumped up with its hind hooves, trying to arch the old Taoist priest off his back.

The old Taoist priest almost fell down with a stumble, and immediately scolded angrily: "Evil animal, your identity has risen, and your temper has also risen, right?" ”

"Old smoker, if you dare to knock your head again, you will walk back to Wanshou Mountain by yourself, uncle, I will not serve. An angry voice came out of the black donkey's mouth.

He never spoke all the way, and the hard-working black donkey suddenly spoke.

Yuan Zhen was dumbfounded, and then as if he had been pricked by a needle, he jumped back violently and pointed at the donkey, "It, it, it." ”

The black donkey turned his head to look at Yuan Zhen and said disdainfully: "What, haven't you seen a donkey become a demon?"

Ning Baifeng's hand holding the branch tightened, and then relaxed again.

Not a big problem.

The donkey is stubborn, the old man is angry, the young man is surprised, and a strange picture is presented at the fork of this official road.

Before the result of the argument appeared, a huge roar resounded in the sky in the extreme distance of the official road on the right. Thick clouds rushed into the sky like a tide, and then surged around, and the three people who were far away at the three-way intersection looked at this scene with different expressions.

The old Taoist priest twisted his beard, looked at the gradually dissipating clouds and mist calmly, and then seemed to think of something, and said with great joy: "Liu Xiaowa, the opportunity for the old Taoist to promise to return you has arrived." ”

Ning Baifeng looked puzzled.

Yuan Zhen immediately asked, "Old smoker, what's going on, let's hear it." ”

The old Taoist priest turned his head to look at Yuan Zhen, there seemed to be a smile on his face, but he did not speak.

Please.

Wonjin immediately pouted and twisted his head to the side.

Ning Baifeng gave the old Taoist a lot of face, borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and asked in real time: "Look at this sound and clouds, is it the direction of Xiangyun Mansion over there, how can this situation appear in a good way, could it be that Xiangyun Mansion is also making monsters?"

The old Taoist priest laughed: "If you say that at other times Lao Dao doesn't know where Xiangyun Mansion is, at this time Lao Dao is a clear door, what you said is right, that side is the direction of Xiangyun Mansion, but to be precise, that is the Qianli swamp near Xiangyun Mansion, Xiangze." ”

Then the old Taoist priest went on to explain: "Xiangze, the full name of Xiangyun Shuize Secret Land, is full of poisonous fog barriers all year round, and people are not allowed to enter, but Xiangze will open Ze for ten days every Jiazi, and the poisonous miasma will dissipate at that time, and opportunities will be everywhere." As for the monsters you said, people can enter, of course demons can also enter, the old way is now the best of the immortals, ascending to the position of the primordial baby, and nothing else dares to guarantee that it is effortless to keep you safe. ”

Ning Baifeng was curious: "Have you been to Xiangze?"

The old Taoist priest said: "This is the third time that the old Taoist has encountered Kaize, I think that when the old Taoist was young, he also found a lot of opportunities in this Xiangze, counting the days, and now it is the period of Kaize, think about it carefully, more than two hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye." ”

Yuan Zhen immediately said excitedly: "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and find the baby." ”

Lao Dao can be regarded as finding an opportunity, and sneered at Yuan Zhen: "Lao Dao didn't say to take you there, what are you happy about." ”

Yuan Zhen immediately lost his anger and looked at the old Taoist priest with wide eyes, as if he wanted to eat people.

Ning Baifeng saw this situation, and knew that if the old and young people were allowed to continue, it would inevitably be chickens and dogs jumping, so he interrupted the cold eyes of the two and said to the old Taoist: "Since Xiangze is not far from here, and it is the direction of Xiangyun Mansion, we should not miss it, and it doesn't hurt to go in and take a look. ”

The old Taoist priest was satisfied not to worry about the black-faced boy, smoking a dry cigarette, urging the donkey to hurry.

Yuan Zhen grinned at the back of the old Taoist priest and grimaced.

The three of them rushed to Xiangze along the official road on the right, Wangshan ran a dead horse, looking not very far, and the three of them hurried to hurry up or spent a day and a night to reach the vicinity of Xiangze.

In fact, strictly speaking, thousands of miles of Xiangze are not all fog barriers, and the peripheral areas are the places where the people of Xiangyun Mansion beg for a living. The place where you really can't go in is the three hundred miles in the core area, commonly known as the three hundred miles forbidden, and this is the place of death where the poisonous fog barrier is permeated.

It's just that the place where Xiang Ze has a fate in the mouth of the qi practitioner is forbidden in the core area for three hundred miles, and the periphery is basically a place for ordinary people to beg for a living, and they are not looked at, so the Xiang Ze in the mouth of the qi practitioner and the Xiang Ze in the mouth of ordinary people are not the same meaning.

Although Qianli Xiangze is really not small, if it is compared with the ancient jungle in the west of Lizhou, where nearly half of the land is known as 100,000 mountains, it is a small thing.

Lizhou is mountainous, full of jungles, and the whole continent is almost covered with forests.

The old Taoist priest pointed to the swampy jungle in front of him and sighed: "We have walked all the way, almost all of them are walking through the mountains and forests, which cannot be seen in other places. ”

Continents.

Speaking unintentionally, the listener is intentional.

Ning Baifeng forcibly suppressed the words that rushed to his mouth, and did not dare to speak, the time was not ripe.

Yuan Zhen asked the old Taoist priest without thinking: "Crown all continents, are there many continents?" ”

The old Taoist priest didn't seem to intend to quarrel with Yuan Zhen on this issue, spit out smoke, and said slowly: "Lizhou is located outside the stormy ocean, living in a corner, and the nearest earthquake continent is extremely far away, and it takes half a year to take a cross-sea boat, not to mention other Qianzhou and Kunzhou. ”

Kunzhou, Huiyuan Mountain, Dingjian Pavilion.

Ning Baifeng touched his chest silently, feeling the crescent-shaped protrusion, and his heart gradually calmed down.

The more you go into Xiangze, the more muddy the road becomes, full of mud puddles and puddles, and some mud boats are rowed on it from time to time, all of which are the people who are seeking a way to survive in Xiangze.

It's just that some of the mud boats carry people of all kinds of clothes and shapes, which are obviously very different from the boatmen who hold the boats.

Yuan Zhen scolded and shook his feet of muddy water, splashing the muddy water everywhere, and even the donkey next to him was in a bad place.

Among the three, only the old Taoist priest sat on the back of a donkey, and his clothes were clean.

Yuan Zhen saw that the old Taoist was sitting on the back of a donkey, his eyes rolled, and he immediately changed to a smiling face, and said to the old Taoist: "Old man, discuss something." ”

The old Taoist priest's eyes squinted, and he guessed that Yuan Zhen had hit the donkey with his idea.

The old Taoist priest said unceremoniously: "Get out, honestly step on the mud pit, it doesn't hurt for you to step on the mud pit more." ”

Ning Baifeng smiled when he heard this, isn't the mud tire martial artist just stepping on the mud pit.

Yuan Zhen glared and said: "Open your eyes and talk nonsense, this mud pit is almost knee-deep, and you can't drown your neck if you go any further, you think it's the same as this donkey under your ass, stepping on the mud without even leaving a footprint." ”

Lao Dao said embarrassedly: "The little rabbit cub just talks a lot, Lao Dao didn't come over like this back then." ”

Yuan Zhen turned his head disdainfully, and happened to see an empty mud boat coming out of the forest, and immediately called the boatman over and jumped onto the mud boat.

Before the boatman could speak, Yuan Zhen immediately pointed to the old Taoist priest and said to the boatman: "The price is yours, my master is a master, and he will not lose your silver." ”

Ning Baifeng burst out laughing.

The old Taoist priest sighed and shook his head helplessly.

The old Taoist priest said: "Go to the Three Hundred Miles Forbidden, you can be as fast as you can, you don't need to avoid those beasts, you just do what I command." ”

The boatman was not surprised, as if he had seen too many such scenes, and did not say much, and when the three of them got on the boat, a beautiful arc crossed, and the mud boat rushed into the forest again.

The sturdy rowman kept his hands on the boat, and from time to time he looked at the black donkey outside the boat, wrapped in smoke and running around in the swampy forest.

The mud boat deftly shuttled through the woods, and the boatman's pole was not supported in the silt, but on the trunks and dead trees, and the boat was stable, no worse than the water surface.

Ning Baifeng unscrewed his trousers slightly, and asked Zhoufu with a smile: "This big brother, how long will it take to get from here to the three hundred li ban." ”

The boatman retracted his eyes and scratched his head, "Back to the immortal master, if you go straight without a detour, you can do it in a day, but there is a black crocodile pond in the middle, and we still have to take a detour, about a day and a half." ”

The old Taoist priest took over the conversation, "Boatman, don't take a detour, the black-backed crocodile is not a big deal, you just have to go straight, if you are worried about damaging the boat, the old Taoist will pay you more silver taels afterwards." ”

Zhoufu's face was a little embarrassed.

Ning Baifeng said with relief: "Big brother, don't worry, the old Taoist priest is not an ordinary immortal master, since he said that the black-backed crocodile is not a threat after opening, then he will never say anything, the extraordinary donkey you just saw is the mount of this old real man." ”

The boatman was probably convinced, after all, that strange donkey could run on the mud, more powerful than the mud boat, let alone its owner.

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Towards noon, the mud bog under the mud boat had been replaced by the water.

Ning Baifeng ate the dry cakes given by the boatman, looked at this lush and dense forest growing in the water, and learned from the boatman that this is the black crocodile pool mentioned before, but along the way, he didn't see the black-backed crocodile that the old Taoist priest said, but there were a lot of dead trees and rotten leaves on the water, and they were about to surround the mud boat.

Wonjin smacked his lips, feeling the aftertaste of the dry cake he had just eaten.

The mountain fruit barbecue for more than a month has been tired of eating, and after changing the taste, I instantly feel endless aftertaste.

Ning Baifeng looked at Yuan Zhen's contented appearance and was about to make fun of it.

The mud boat shook suddenly, and it seemed that something had been hit underneath, and the boatman immediately propped up the pole in his hand to the side of the tree trunk, trying to stabilize the mud boat.

Ning Baifeng turned his head to look at the old Taoist, "Real person, what do you say?"

The old Taoist priest said calmly: "Sit down with peace of mind and don't fall into the water." ”

The old Taoist priest spewed out smoke from the cigarette stick, and the white smoke did not dissipate after exiting, but continued to grow until the entire mud boat was encircled, forming a white gauze tent.

The end of the cigarette stick was paddled into the water outside the mud boat, and the mud boat rushed out like an arrow from the string, and Yuan Zhen, who had not yet sat firmly, was almost lifted off his head and fell out of the boat, and happened to be pulled by the arm of the fast-eyed boatman, so he didn't fall out.

It's just that Yuan Zhen's head just touched the surface of the water, and when he saw a pair of cold dim yellow eyes at the bottom of the water, he was so frightened that he immediately retracted his head.

The mud boat covered in white gauze traveled through the water at great speed, and a little spark burst out on the white smoke screen from time to time, but it was those tiny flying insects that knocked down the screen and then burst into flames.

On the water, Ning Baifeng thought that the dead branches and rotten leaves that were floating at the beginning all moved and retreated after touching the white smoke veil, and the water surface was like exploding a pot for a while, and the water splashed.

It turned out that inadvertently, the periphery of the mud boat had already been surrounded by black-backed crocodiles, waiting for the opportunity.