The top of the mountains is about more than 100 miles south of Luoyan Mansion, and Chu Qingan led the horse and walked slowly, looking around the surrounding environment from time to time. Although there is still some distance but out of the Luoyan Mansion, it is already a desolation, as the so-called: "Hundreds of miles of desolation and uninhabited, the falling geese are difficult to return to the wind and sleep, the eagle coils and the tiger sits in the treacherous land, and the clouds meet the top of the mountains." "This place is extremely open, only scattered dead trees are weakly leaning on the side of the road, several roads are branching in front, and both sides of the road are full of large and small gravels, not the wind that blows up the wind and sand all over the sky, so that Chu Qing'an can't open his eyes, and coughs constantly.

When the wind and sand dissipated, Chu Qing'an looked up to see, although there were still a hundred miles away, he arrived at the foot of the top of the mountain. But here is already the mountains are undulating, gravel piles, looking to both sides, the empty wilderness is endless, and the south is two extremely high peaks, the towering peaks are like the sharp beaks of two goshawks, looking together, the mountain peak is an extremely long canyon, Chu Qing'an did not dare to wait for a while to turn over and get on the horse, galloped wildly, into the canyon, only to dare to slow down. Entering the canyon, there are mountains on both sides, and the originally hot air is much cooler under the shadow of the mountains, and with the shelter of the rock wall, the wind and sand are much less.

The cool wind swept over the dead branches, making a rustling sound, and the sound of the wind penetrating the canyon echoed in Chu Qing'an's ears, Chu Qing'an looked up at the sky overhead, the previous vast blue sky has only a thin slit left, and after that slit is the blue sky and the large group of pure white clouds, which are lined with each other, and sometimes there is a wind to roll up the white clouds, falling in the canyon, but it also has a unique charm.

But the high and rugged rock wall was bare, without any vegetation, Chu Qing'an had no intention of enjoying the scenery, kicked the stirrup lightly, and shouted loudly: "Drive!" The voice echoed between the valleys, dissipating in the wind, Chu Qing'an wore green clothes fluttering with the wind, the broken hair on the sideburns in his ears was also scattered, and a man and a horse galloped in the valley. Soon out of the Eagle Gorge Mountain, Chu Qing'an immediately exited the valley. Look down on the long road. Previously, Chu Qing'an only knew that she had been going south, but she didn't know that every road could go up the mountain, and she wouldn't know that a hundred miles away from the southern district of the Luoyan Mansion was where the Hall of Heroes of the Chaoying Clan was located.

The sun was blazing, hanging overhead, like a blazing wheel of fire scorching among the mountains.

Chu Qing'an took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the fragrant sweat oozing from his forehead, grabbed the reins, and continued to walk towards the mountains in the distance. The mountains and rocks are craggy, stretching and undulating for more than 100 miles, if a stone dragon lying in the mountains and wilderness, and like an eagle with wings ready to fly, and above the mountain range is the peaks of different heights, the peaks and peaks scattered are like stone forests, extremely magnificent. And at the foot of the mountain, there seem to be a few dilapidated houses scattered around, presumably local people. Chu Qing'an was overjoyed, and was about to take a rest, and the hurried for days was indeed miserable, but in order to cure the knife snowman, she was willing to endure it, even if there were blisters on her feet and two or three mounts, she still came to the top of this group of mountains.

But the main peak of the top of the mountains is still dozens of miles away, and Chu Qing'an doesn't dare to rest and settle in the extremely weird Luoyan Mansion, and he can't find a place to live, people are sleepy and tired, so he is naturally anxious, and now that he finally sees someone, Chu Qing'an is naturally happy. Then he rode his horse to a few houses under the mountain range, where there were three low houses, all of which were made of thatched tiles and bluestone walls, and were very dilapidated. Outside the house, each of them was fenced off, or there were two or three lambs, bleating, digging wells, or planting some vegetables, and living a very hard life. What made Chu Qing'an even more strange was that the three families all closed their doors and windows, just like the Luoyan Mansion, there was a dead silence. But after all, it is a place where you can settle down and rest, where Chu Qing'an will pick and choose.

Turned over and dismounted, led the horse to a house, gently buckled the door, Chu Qing'an asked softly, "Is there anyone here?" No one in the house answered, Chu Qing'an put his ear on the door, and faintly heard the movement of the house squirming, it was obvious that someone was at home, but there was no response for a long time. Chu Qing'an tapped the door again, raised his voice and asked, "Excuse me, does anyone live here?" Still no one responded, Chu Qing'an felt strange, thinking that maybe the family was timid and didn't want to see outsiders, so they didn't open the door, so they had to sigh and lead the horse to another house.

As soon as I came to the place about ten paces away from the door, the door creaked open, and out of it came an old man with gray hair and trembling walking, the old man squinted his eyes, held a basin full of sewage, and was walking out of the door, Chu Qing'an shouted in surprise when he saw it: "This old man!" Who knew that the old man raised his head when he heard the sound, opened his eyes and glanced at Chu Qing'an carefully, and actually threw the basin of water in his hand, the sewage broke Chu Qing'an's face, and ran back to the house with a scream, closed the door tightly, and didn't dare to come out again. It looked like he had seen some kind of man-eating devil, no matter how much Chu Qingan knocked on the door, he refused to open the door.

Chu Qing'an was caught off guard by the dirty water, shocked and angry, and wailed, took out a handkerchief and wiped his wet hair and cheeks, and most of the clothes on his body were wet, Chu Qing'an had to take off his outer shirt and wring out the water, but he didn't want to even get soaked inside. Even if you have clean clothes in your bag, you can't change your clothes outside in broad daylight. Chu Qingan was helpless and anxious, so he had to wear the soaked clothes and lead the horse and shake his head to the door of the third family. But when she thought that Dao Xueke had gone to Tanglin Mansion to take an adventure at this time, her heart was a little firmer.

When he came to the door of the third house, Chu Qing'an calmed down, knocked on the door and asked, "Is anyone at home?" As soon as the words fell, there was finally movement in the house, and a vicissitudes of life voice came from the house: "There is no one here?" Chu Qing'an was slightly stunned when he heard this, and when he reacted, he was angry and funny in his heart, Chu Qing'an couldn't cry or laugh, and when he had an idea, he deliberately said: "Huh, since no one lives here, then I'd better go." With that, he led the horse and pretended to leave, but his eyes were still fixed on the closed door.

Sure enough, hearing that Chu Qing'an was leaving, the door opened slightly, revealing a vicissitudes of face from the crack in the door, Chu Qing'an immediately turned back to the door, their eyes met, and the people in the house hurriedly closed the door and hid behind the door. When Chu Qingan saw it, he shouted loudly: "Don't hide, I saw you, Miss Ben tricked you into opening the door with a little trick, you are really stupid." If you don't open the door again, Miss Ben will smash the door!" Hearing that Chu Qing'an was going to smash the door, the people in the house carefully opened the door, still through the crack in the door, looking up and down at the wet Chu Qing'an, and asked softly in a trembling voice: "You, you will not be a drowning soul, life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, in the future, my old man will definitely burn incense and worship the Buddha for you, I wish you an early ascension to Bliss, and you will be born in the past, you must not come to pester my old man." I haven't done anything bad in my life, so you'd better go. ”

Chu Qing'an's cheeks bulged when he heard this, his silver teeth were biting, his brows were furrowed, and he said sharply: "What are you talking nonsense? You are dead, you are the unjust soul who drowned! You are born as soon as possible, and you will ascend to Bliss as soon as possible!

The people in the house were scared, so they had to close the door again, Chu Qing'an was so astute, seeing that he was going to close the door, he refused to let go of this only opportunity to stay, Chu Qing'an, who was quick-eyed, inserted the snow scabbard into the crack of the door, and crapped the door, making it difficult for him to close it, Chu Qing'an said: "When Miss Ben opens your door, I will teach you to look good!"

"Bang", the door suddenly opened, Chu Qing'an stumbled and almost fell, swishing three times, Chu Qing'an subconsciously dodged his lower waist, the silver dangling three darts flew past the tip of Chu Qing'an's nose, and shot straight into Chu Qing'an's mount, the poor horse was not tired to death on the road but was shot by the three darts, after a terrible neigh, he fell down, and never got up again. Chu Qing'an turned his head to look at the horse that was already out of breath, anger ignited in his heart, and he turned his head again, and a black shadow flew out of the room, Chu Qing'an turned back again and again, the black shadow chased after him, and a trace of cold light flashed from the black shadow's hand, and the silver dagger stabbed at Chu Qing'an, Chu Qing'an leaned over to dodge, turned around and kicked out, and the black shadow also turned around very quickly and kicked at Chu Qing'an.

The two collided together, both took three steps back, the black shadow turned around and landed, and showed the dagger in his hand, and stabbed at Chu Qing'an with a straight and straight stride, Chu Qing'an saw that this person had shown his weapon and no longer stopped his hand, and pulled out the snow sword with a brush, the snow-white sword body shone in the sun, and the snow sword also stabbed towards the black shadow. The man in black turned the dagger and went sideways to pick up the folding snow sword, the blades collided, sparks flew everywhere, the two exchanged positions, Chu Qingan flew up again, the long sword pointed down, and the two small feet drew a beautiful semi-arc, like a crescent moon, the snow folding sword in his hand floated down like a fallen leaf, slashing towards the black shadow.

The black shadow rolled close to the ground, dodging Chu Qing'an's sword qi, Chu Qing'an's sword was still chasing after him, the black shadow dodged again and again, suddenly turned over and stood up, startled Chu Qing'an almost hit the dagger, and flipped backwards a somersault, turned around lightly, and fell to the ground, the slender jade fingers lightly wiped on the snow-white snow folding sword sword, Chu Qing'an broke off his drink, his willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and the snow sword in his hand was blue, and a sword swept, and the sword qi went straight to the black shadow.

The man in black was shocked, and retreated again and again, but the sword qi came straight forward, and the man in black had to block the dagger forward, but the dagger was cut off by the sword qi, the man in black hurriedly leaned over to dodge, and the dagger in his hand was also shocked to the ground, the man in black rolled over, his toes lightly touched the ground, he rose into the air, and kicked Chu Qing'an. And Chu Qing'an saw that she had no weapons, and she didn't want to take advantage of the danger of others, so she turned around and put the Xuexue Sword into her sheath, folded her arms in front of her, and took the kick stiffly, Chu Qing'an took three steps back, and the man in black also flipped back, and fell to the ground again.

The man in black rushed forward again, punching Chu Qing'an on the shoulder, Chu Qing'an turned sideways and gave her this punch, his left hand bent slightly, and his elbow hit the waist of the man in black, forcing her back a few steps, Chu Qing'an turned around and swept out a kick, the man in black jumped up to dodge, leaned over and rushed out a palm, Chu Qing'an kicked up diagonally. The punch of the man in black hit Chu Qing'an's shoulder, but Chu Qing'an's kick hit the lower abdomen of the man in black, and the two of them were each hit and retreated separately.

Chu Qing'an and the man in black both sat on the ground, and during the fight, the veil of the man in black fell to the ground, and the two raised their heads again, glaring at each other angrily. But after seeing each other's faces clearly, both of them were slightly stunned, as if they were a little familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, the two stood up at the same time, pointed at each other and said, "Are you?" and pointed to themselves: "I am?"

The woman in black clenched her fists and said, "In the Lower Cold Forest, the dark crow Xuanyi." ”

Chu Qing'an also arched his hand and said: "A sword is light and Chu is light." ”

"It turned out to be you, are you the little girl of the Eagle Clan who rescued me from the Yiye Sword Gate that day?" Chu Qing'an said with a smile. Xuanyi puffed out his mouth and said unconvinced: "It looks like we are both old, and you are the little girl." Chu Qing'an asked again: "Why did you sneak attack me?" Xuan Yi said disapprenously: "What did you call me to sneak attack?"

"You hid behind the door, waiting for an opportunity to come out, trying to sneak up on me with a dagger, didn't you?" Chu Qing'an said.

"Joke, it's clear that you want to demolish the door of the old man's house for no reason, I'm just venting a bad breath for the old man. Xuanyi crossed his arms and said, "It's you who are unreasonable, not me." ”

Chu Qing'an said with a smile: "I just want to find a place to stay, the people here are stranger than the other, either they don't go out of the door, or they see me as if they have seen a ghost." This is better, but the man in the house told me that there was no one, and finally opened the door, but cursed me as a drowning soul, do you think I should teach him a lesson?"

Xuanyi Fang wanted to argue with her again, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, his heart was like a knife, a fishy smell surged in his throat, and he spit out a mouthful of blood, his face turned pale, he took a few steps back, and fell to the ground. Seeing this, the old man who had been hiding in the house and shivering saw this, so he rushed out of the house and hugged Xuanyi and said, "Miss Xuanyi, you are fine." When Chu Qing'an saw it, he was also puzzled, and thought: "I just kicked her, why is the injury so serious? So Chu Qing'an walked quickly to Xuanyi, and when the old man saw it, he hurriedly helped Xuanyi again and ran into the house, but he was old, how could he drag an injured girl in a panic, and he also sat aside, and retreated again and again. Chu Qing'an rolled his eyes, opened his mouth wide at the old man's wow, and his eyes widened, so frightened that the old man ran back to the house and closed the door, hiding behind the door and shivering.

Chu Qing'an knelt down on one knee, raised Xuanyi's back slightly, leaned on his knees, first looked at the color, then opened Xuanyi's eyelids, pinched Xuanyi's cheeks, opened her mouth and looked at her tongue, and then raised Xuanyi's white wrist, frowning slightly. Xuanyi forcibly raised his eyelids that seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and said weakly: "What are you doing?" Chu Qing'an was still taking her pulse, and when he saw her struggling slightly, he scolded softly: "Shut up." You're so badly injured that you're still working with me? I'll help you in first, and then heal you. With that, Chu Qing'an helped the rickety Xuanyi up.

Why...... You want to save me......" Xuanyi asked weakly.

Chu Qing'an looked at her puzzled eyes and replied, "In our Central Plains, there is a saying called the grace of a drop of water, when the spring reciprocates. You once saved my life on the Yiye Sword Gate, and I owe you my life for whatever your purpose. I, Chu Qing'an, never like to owe favors to others, and when I cure you, we will not owe each other. ”

When he came to the door, the loose door panel was constantly trembling, and he could still see how frightened the old man was, so Chu Qing'an shouted patiently: "Old man, old man, open the door, I'm a good person, not a monster!" Xuan Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard this, looked at Chu Qing'an with a helpless face and said: "You just shouted to teach people a lesson, how can people believe you." After that, Xuanyi staggered forward, knocked on the door and said, "Old man, it's me, Xuanyi, this Chu girl is not a bad person, you just let us in." ”

After a while, the wooden door creaked open again, and the old man poked out half of his head, looked at Xuanyi and then at Chu Qing'an, and asked, "Are you really not a bad person?" Chu Qing'an said in an innocent and soft voice: "Old man, I was just passing by here, people are sleepy and tired, and there is nowhere to rest, I just want to rest here for a while, but who knows that you not only didn't let me stay temporarily, but also killed my horse, do you say you are innocent or I am innocent......"

The old man bowed his head and thought for a moment, then opened the door and made way out, and said, "In that case, let the girl come in and rest for a while." It's just that the little old man's house is dilapidated, and I hope the girl won't dislike it. ”

Chu Qingan breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "I finally have a place to stay." "Looking around the house, it was indeed dilapidated, and there was only a well and a vegetable patch outside, and there was nothing in the room except a bed, a table, two benches, a stove, and a few small things. And the Xuanyi beside him spit out another mouthful of blood, and the old man hurriedly asked: "This, what kind of disease is this Xuanyi girl suffering from, she will vomit blood from time to time in the past two days." ”

Chu Qing'an's face changed slightly when he heard this, and said, "After suffering such a serious internal injury, it has been suppressed for many days? Fang Cai already knew about Xuanyi's injury, so he let Xuanyi sit cross-legged on the bed, and he sat behind her, concentrating and calming, the internal force gathered two palms, gathered at the tips of the index finger and middle finger of the two hands, the four fingers were connected, and the clear internal force flowed into the body of Xuanyi along the fingertips.