On a road in the southwest, Lu Mingfei was not a stranger, and he took this road when he first went to Yanling Mountain with Cangwei Old Road, but at that time, Lu Mingfei walked around and chose some sheep intestine trails, and now he just wants to go to the capital quickly, and he chooses a wider road.

Repeating the trip, there have been completely different changes from those years, there are many obviously desolate along the way, ruins and broken walls can be seen everywhere, and many villages have long been deserted.

After walking for three days, he encountered several waves of monks fighting each other, and from time to time he would see the Great Jin Dynasty officials and soldiers riding by, Lu Mingfei did not want to make any extraneous branches, but whenever he met them, he avoided them early.

He took two hundred taels of silver from Xiao Man, and distributed it all to the displaced people he met on the road in just three days, but fortunately, Hai Dongqing was still with him, and it was not a problem to eat a full stomach.

Seeing the bleak scene along the way, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and said to himself: "At the beginning, the demons of Nanxiang Pavilion laid down the butterfly array, just to wipe out all the sect monks in the Southern Wilderness, and it seems that at that time, they had plans to invade the Great Jin in the north. ”

Jia Yuanshu shook his head and said, "What Brother Lu said is not entirely right, Nanxiang Pavilion's intention to invade the north is true, but I am afraid that such a plan was made twenty years ago." ”

"Twenty years ago?"

Lu Mingfei glanced at Jia Yuanjiao in some surprise.

Jia Yuanshu explained: "Speaking of which, the root of this bane is on the destruction of South Vietnam by the Great Jin, although Zhongzhou is unified, but the Great Jin has more than half of the territory, and it is not easy to stabilize it in a short period of time." At that time, there was no Nanxiang Pavilion outside the Southern Wilderness, and there was another sect called Fengying, which was divided into Wanzhai Forest and Xiyuan Ridge, and the strength alone was enough to compete with Nanxiang Pavilion, just because the strength of Nanxiang Pavilion was the main danger of Yuanfeng, and finally suppressed Fengying completely under careful consideration, and it took several years to gradually unify the Southern Wilderness, and all of this was actually planning for the northern invasion. ”

Lu Mingfei nodded as if he understood or not, and Jia Yuanshu continued: "At the beginning, the Great Jin Dynasty destroyed South Vietnam and seemed to unify Zhongzhou, but it also broke the balance of the world. If Nanyue is still there, it can be outside the Southern Wilderness according to Nanxiang Pavilion, Master Fu Caiyan of Nanyue is known as the head of the Eight True Immortals, and Wei Yuanfeng will not dare to invade the north easily even if he is ambitious. Now that Nanyue is ancient, the Great Jin Dynasty will not have this barrier, not only Nanxiang Pavilion is eyeing the Southern Wilderness, but the Yelan Kingdom in the north may not have no ideas, the entire Zhongzhou is rich in resources, and the cultivation resources are abundant, and it is by no means comparable to the north and the south. ”

In terms of knowledge, Lu Mingfei was far inferior to Jia Yuanju, and continued to ask: "Brother Jia means that the Great Jin Dynasty and Nanyue should live in harmony, so that Zhongzhou can be stable and prosperous?"

Jia Yuan said: "There is no absolute thing in the world, but judging from the situation of the year, if the Northern Jin Dynasty and the South Vietnam can rely on each other, Zhongzhou can be stable for at least a hundred years, the Northern Jin Dynasty can resist the Yelan Kingdom, and the South Yue can block the Nanxiang Pavilion, the reason is simple, just like the two brothers in a family, the family business is too big, and the two brothers can work together to keep the family business, but if there is only one person left, the big family business is coveted by outsiders, and sooner or later it will be lost, but it is a pity that although the truth is shallow, it can't withstand people's ambitions." ”

Lu Mingfei heard him mention Yelan Country several times, but he was very unfamiliar with it, so he asked a few questions curiously.

"What kind of place is Yelan Country, is there also a true immortal?"

Jia Yuanshu explained: "Yelan Country is located in the north of Zhongzhou, covered with ice and snow all year round, the land is vast and sparsely populated, you guessed right, one of the eight true immortals is in Yelan Country. ”

Hearing him say this, Lu Mingfei touched his fingers and calculated: "One in Yelan Kingdom, one in Nanxiang Pavilion, one bald, one female blacksmith......

Jia Yuanchu smiled dumbly and said: "There are two true immortals in Dajin, one is the bald head you said for nine years, and the other should be in the palace, this person is relatively low-key, and I don't know the specific name." ”

"And what about the other two?"

"There is also a person from the Moon Shadow Kingdom in the Western Regions, named He Jingtian. ”

Hearing Jia Yuanzhu mention this name, Lu Mingfei immediately reacted, this He Jingtian should be the opponent who spent nine years on his lips, and continued to ask: "What about the last one?"

Jia Yuanshu shook his head and said: "They all say that there are eight true immortals, but I only know seven of them, and the last one should also be in the Moon Shadow Kingdom, but the specific identity is unknown." ”

After a few more days, the two came to Qingyan Town and South Wind City one after another.

It is understood that Nanxiang Pavilion had attacked Nanfeng City twice the day before yesterday, but they were both repelled by Yun Yanze's army, and now there are tens of thousands of Jin troops stationed in Nanfeng City, as if it has become a military fortress, and it has long been no longer prosperous.

The two of them rested briefly for half a day in the city of South Wind, and continued to head northwest without delay. Perhaps the war had not yet burned to this point, and the places passed through in the following days gradually became more and more populous, but most of them were still small mountain towns, and there were no larger towns.

Passing through two small towns not far from each other in succession, the town has the same strange appearance, there are almost no young men, and most of the people who stay in the town are old and weak women and children.

In the evening, before coming to a small town again, he met several men rushing towards the mountains with their bags on their backs, and out of curiosity, Lu Mingfei stopped the two.

"Two big brothers, where are you going?"

The mountain people have always been simple, they don't talk around the corner, and they will answer all questions

Pointing to the mountains, he said, "Go to the mountains for the night." ”

The more they listened, the more puzzled they became, and continued to ask: "Why don't you live in a good town, but you have to spend the night in the mountains? ”

The mountain people said with a bitter face: "Who said no, the little brother is from out of town, you don't know, several towns near here are haunted at night, and some young people are arrested, and now this army is chaotic and even the little ghosts have come out to make trouble, but there are many people in the vicinity who are locked up by black and white impermanence in the middle of the night." ”

"Haunted?"

Lu Mingfei was taken aback at first, but quickly reacted and muttered secretly: "Most of the time I'm afraid it's the demons of Nanxiang Pavilion who are doing it." ”

The other looked at the two and said, "You are in a hurry, come with us into the mountains, and don't dare to spend the night in the town." ”

Lu Mingfei naturally didn't take the ghost matter to heart, thanked the other party for his kindness, and walked towards the town.

"Brother Jia, what do you think about this?"

While walking, Lu Mingfei asked Jia Yuanfei's opinion.

Jia Yuanshu said: "The villager also said that all that was lost were some young and strong laborers, and now that the north and the south are at war, this matter is normal." ”

Lu Mingfei was puzzled: "I heard that Nanxiang Pavilion has gathered tens of thousands of people for this northern invasion, and there are not a few monks with cultivation, these villagers are nothing more than strong and have some brute strength, what is the use of really going to the battlefield?"

Jia Yuan said: "In the small-scale battle, it is natural to look at the level of cultivation, but in the large-scale fierce battle, the number of people is also very important, and the people with cultivation in the Great Jin army are also a hundred miles to pick out one or two, even so it still has a good combat power, and the number of people in Nanfeng City has not been lost so far, Nanxiang Pavilion may not have the ability to storm Nanfeng City, but it really falls into the hands of Nanxiang Pavilion, but it may not have enough manpower to guard, it is easy to occupy the city and difficult to defend the city, which is the importance of the number of people in the war." ”

As he spoke, the two of them entered the town, knocked on several doors, and finally settled in the house of an old couple.

The old couple was also enthusiastic, and quickly cleaned up a spare room, and after a day's journey, Jia Yuanshu had already shown a little tiredness, and he was no longer polite, and fell asleep on the bed.

Before he knew it, it was late at night, and he suddenly woke up from his sleep by a push, and saw Lu Mingfei looking at him with a full face.

"Brother Jia, they all say that the town is haunted at night, don't sleep too much. ”

Jia Yuanji rubbed his sleepy eyes and said: "I don't do bad things on weekdays, I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, I don't care what the hell he is, just make trouble if you want to, just don't make me sleep." ”

muttered, didn't bother to pay attention to Lu Mingfei anymore, fell on the bed, and snoring sounded again in the blink of an eye.