Xu Zhi, Xue Atan, and An Jingsi, with their bravery, had just broken out of the encirclement of the soldiers in front, but were forced to a cliff on the mountainside by more and more soldiers behind them.

Yun Feiyang and Guo Sheng led the soldiers over, and Yun Feiyang shouted, "Who are the three of you, why are you masked, why don't you reply to General Ben's words?"

Guo Sheng stepped forward and replied: "General Yuyun, my subordinates have already asked, they are monks from Hangzhou Lingyin Temple, and they are going to ......."

Before Guo Sheng's words were finished, he was interrupted by Yun Feiyang: "General Guo, you are too gullible to trust them, since they are masked, of course they don't want to show their true identities, how can they tell you their true identities?"

Yun Feiyang looked at Xu Zhi and the three of them carefully, pursed his lips, and said to himself: "It's strange, how can their figures and steps be so similar to Xu Zhi and the others? I haven't been in Dengfeng these days, and I'm busy dealing with the group of bald donkeys in Shaolin Temple, and I was negligent for a while, and I actually forgot that Huifeng has a lot of relationship with them, does he dare to ......?" and then shook his head secretly: "How is this possible? I saw them in the prison a few days ago, and it is not easy for the three of them to escape from the well-defended prison and Dengfeng City!" There are many similar people in the world, it shouldn't be them!"

Guo Sheng saw Yun Feiyang talking to himself, stepped forward, and said carefully: "General Yun! It's definitely not Xu Zhi, there are many people in the world who are similar in shape, as long as we capture these three people alive, won't the truth be revealed?"

Yun Feiyang said with a smile: "What General Guo said is reasonable, all the soldiers obey the order, General Ben wants to capture these three people alive, and he is not allowed to release cold arrows! Whoever can capture these three rebels alive will be rewarded!"

When the soldiers heard this, they gathered around the cliff while making a noise.

Xu Zhi, Xue Atan, and An Jingsi saw that the soldiers around them were gathering more and more, and it was almost impossible to rush forward to break out of the layers of encirclement, and backward was a cliff, and there was no way to retreat.

Xue Atan shouted, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the soldiers at the front were suppressed by his momentum and did not dare to continue forward. Xue Atan took advantage of this opportunity and rushed forward, desperately snatching a sharp spear from a soldier's hand.

Xue Atan also learned some martial arts from Xu Zhi on the way, and he struggled to dance the spear, which swirled and changed in the air, making a whirring sound, and suddenly stabbed at the front soldier. Xue Atan used too much force, but he cut off a thick pine tree with a thick bowl mouth beside him.

Seeing Xue Atan's desperate efforts, those soldiers didn't dare to approach him for a while, so they had to shout at the top of their voices: "Brothers, go on! Don't let these three thieves go!"

An Jingsi leaned over to pick up the gravel in the valley and ejected it with his fingers, and these small stones were fast and accurate, and they hit the eyes and wrists of the soldiers in the front row.

Xu Zhi also took the opportunity to snatch the long sword from the hand of one of the soldiers, and waved his sword to block the spears stabbed by several soldiers. Then he shook the hilt of his sword, the blade trembled, Xu Zhifei jumped up, and slashed an arc in the air with his sword, stabbing the wrists of a group of soldiers holding weapons, and the group of soldiers threw down their weapons one after another and fled backwards.

Yun Feiyang saw that the soldiers in the front row lost their armor and did not dare to continue to move forward, and said to Guo Sheng: "How do you monitor Shaolin Temple, these thieves are either Xu Zhi and other fugitives, or Shaolin Temple's martial arts monks, they have some means, or let General Ben meet them!"

Guo Sheng whispered on the side: "General Yun forgives the sin, it is all the lowly level of the defense is not strict, killing chickens with a knife, General Yun is resting on the side, let the lowly position meet them, and kill their prestige by the way!"

It turns out that this Guo Sheng is also a famous general, a lifetime of good martial arts, the ancestor is the famous Fenyang King Guo Ziyi, he is good at using a double-edged spear, once the Turkic eighteen warriors under the horse. Yun Feiyang was very happy to see that Guo Sheng was willing to fight, and shouted: "General Guo is a winning general in our army, and if you go out alone, you will definitely succeed!"

Guo Sheng answered, then raised his spear and stabbed Xu Zhi in the chest.

Xu Zhi saw that the spear in Guo Sheng's hand weighed more than fifty pounds, and knew that this person's arm strength was very amazing, so he didn't dare to block it with a long sword, so he had to shake the sword, turn sideways, and dodge the gun.

Guo Sheng saw that the blow missed, and then the spear swept over, Xu Zhi hurriedly lowered his head to dodge, the spear was only a millimeter away from Xu Zhi's throat, and passed the back of Xu Zhi's neck. An Jingsi shouted: "Big brother be careful!"

Xu Zhi jumped from time to time, and the sword shadow was like a spring flower, disturbing Guo Sheng's face, and sometimes leaning on the ground, the sword blade swept away the leaves like the autumn wind, attacking Guo Sheng's knees.

Guo Sheng saw that Xu Zhi's swordsmanship was very elegant and changeable, after dozens of moves, he still couldn't win, deliberately showed weakness, dragged the spear backwards, and took dozens of steps back, Xu Zhi saw that it was an opportunity, and kept following behind, Guo Sheng suddenly stopped, turned around, and it was a move "back to the horse gun", aiming at Xu Zhi's front heart is a shot, and the back stab of the gun was very sudden, and it was also very accurate.

Knowing that Xu Zhi had already taken precautions, he abandoned the long sword in his hand, stretched out his left hand forward, grabbed the stabbed spear head hard, and hit the gun shaft with his right hand, making the gun shaft tremble up and down, because Guo Sheng held the tail of the gun shaft and was far away from the spear head, so Xu Zhi's strength was transmitted to Guo Sheng's men, which was very huge, and it actually broke Guo Sheng's tiger mouth, and Guo Sheng had to drop the spear and return to the battle.

Xu Zhi took advantage of the uproar in the enemy's formation, hurriedly retreated a few steps, and suddenly saw that under the high cliff behind him, there was a strong old pine tree on the mountain rock not far away, which had just poked its head out, the tree was more than ten zhang high, and the branches were as thick as waist and legs, and there were also pine trees next to the pine trees to cover it layer by layer.

Yun Feiyang saw Guo Sheng's defeat, and comforted: "General Guo, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, don't be discouraged, these three rebels do have some means, or General Ben personally stepped forward to solve them!", After speaking, he walked towards Xu Zhi's side.

An Jingsi had seen Yun Feiyang's martial arts and the power of the nine-section whip, and he hurriedly used flying stones to continuously attack Yun Feiyang's whole body. Yun Feiyang saw that these gravels were flying from all directions very densely, and he didn't dare to get close to Xu Zhi and the others, so he had to use the nine-section soft whip in his hand to block the flying stones from a distance.

Guo Sheng was afraid that something would happen to Yun Feiyang, so he hurriedly asked more than a dozen soldiers to hold shields and protect Yun Feiyang layer by layer, but secretly asked the archers to prepare.

Seeing that the matter was urgent, Xu Zhi hurriedly grabbed Xue Atan and An Jingsi's hands, signaling them to stop fighting with Yun Feiyang, for fear of revealing his identity. Xue and An also understood Xu Zhi's intentions, Xu Zhi lowered his voice and said: "You follow me to jump to the top of the pine tree under the high cliff, and then slide down the trunk, and then we jump to the top of another pine tree, and jump down the trees layer by layer, maybe we can escape!" Xue Atan and An Jingsi listened and nodded secretly.

Xu Zhi suddenly turned over with a harrier and jumped off the cliff first, An Jingsi and Xue Atan also jumped down, only to see Xu Zhi stretch out his arms and hook a branch of the pine tree, and then stabilize his body slightly, jump to the next layer of trunks, layer by layer, until the bottom of the pine tree. The three of them then jumped on another pine and bamboo branch not far away, and the three of them held the pine bamboo in their arms, and their hands and feet were cut by the branches and bamboos, and the three of them endured severe pain and kept going down. At this time, it is also dozens of feet away from the top of the cliff, and it is very safe to be covered by layers of leaves.

Yun Feiyang never thought that Xu Zhi and the three would jump off the cliff in front of him to commit suicide, and led the soldiers to the edge of the cliff, and saw Xu Zhi and the three of them escaping along the layers of pine and bamboo forests on the mountain rocks, and shouted: "It's not good!

The soldiers threw stones, spears, and spears down the cliffs, and the archers kept dropping arrows. However, the pine and bamboo under the mountain are luxuriant, and the needles are layered, and Yun Feiyang saw that the soldiers threw them indiscriminately without any purpose, and he also knew that it would be useless, so he had to hastily withdraw the troops and make plans again.

Xu Zhi, Xue Atan and An Jingsi took a break in the pine and bamboo forest at the bottom of the mountain, and simply bandaged the wounds on their bodies.

The three approached and wanted to pick a few watermelons and pears to quench their thirst.

Suddenly, a shout came from not far away: "You officers and soldiers are so hateful, you are not satisfied with robbing the people's rice and food, and you still want to rob your family to save your life?"

Xu Zhi turned around and saw three or five monks coming out of the pine and bamboo forest, these monks were wearing pale yellow monk robes, wearing a large string of Buddhist beads on their chests, holding sticks, and quickly surrounded Xu Zhi and the three of them in the center. The leader was a monk eight feet tall, dressed in a purple robe, and holding a tin staff in his hand.

Xu Zhi hurriedly explained: "Masters, you have misunderstood, we came to Shaolin and just want to meet the sincere abbot of your temple!"

Before the monk at the head could answer, a young monk beside him shouted: "Master Zhixin, don't listen to their slander, they are obviously disguised by the official army, you still remember that a few days ago, the official army disguised as a fleeing refugee, broke into the temple, peeked at our reality, and stole several of our scriptures!"

Master Zhixin handed the tin staff in his hand to a small novice beside him, folded his hands, and said slowly: "Amitabha, where did the three donors come from? Why did you steal the melons and fruits in my temple?"

Xu Zhi was about to step forward to explain, An Jingsi couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and asked: "You are still a monk, you don't even distinguish between good and evil, we are obviously ordinary people, but you slander us as officers and soldiers, we are really hungry and thirsty, so we have to pick the wild fruits on the tree, you monks are empty, how can you compete with us for fame and fortune?"

The young monk saw Master Zhixin patronizing the sutras, and shouted: "How can I look horizontally and vertically, you don't look like the people of your duty, if you are ordinary people, how can you easily cross the checkpoint set up by the imperial court on Shaomu Mountain?" You are like those insatiable lackeys of the imperial court, and it is difficult to change your thief nature?"

Xue Atan couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted: "We want to eat a few wild fruits on the tree, do we want your Shaolin monks to allow it?"

The young monk hurriedly stopped Xue Atan, and Xue Atan was not to be outdone, and also stepped forward. The monk picked up the stick and slammed it into Xue Atan's face.

Seeing the monk's swift move, An Jingsi quickly popped out a few flying stones from his sleeve and flew towards the young monk from three directions: high, medium and low.

Xu Zhi saw that the young monk was irritable, and he was about to do something if he didn't agree with him, which was very unreasonable, and he was also a little angry in his heart, and shouted: "Master Zhixin, you monks are compassionate, we have come from afar, and our mouths are hungry and thirsty, even if you pick a few melons and fruits in your temple, do you have to stop them, is this your Shaolin hospitality?"

Zhixin also felt a little embarrassed on his face, and shouted: "Dust still stop!", the young monk glanced at Zhixin obliquely, then stopped his hands and feet, stood on the side with his hands down, and didn't dare to move, so he had to shout angrily: "Master, you can't favor outsiders?"

Zhixin smiled slightly: "As the first seat of the Luohan Hall, Lao Wei will neither believe in the disciples nor listen to outsiders, please forgive me, the current Shaolin Temple is surrounded by strong enemies, and there are many crises, so we have to take strict precautions against pilgrims outside the temple!"

Xu Zhi sneered: "This can't be a reason why you don't let us pick wild fruits from the tree, right?"

Master Zhixin recited scriptures and worshiped Buddha in the temple all his life, with a pure heart and few desires, and rarely interacted with outsiders, so he was not good at words, and he didn't know how to respond for a while, so he had to say: "Don't embarrass us, our monks are only carrying out the decree of the abbot and brother, and we can't let the grass and trees in the front yard of the temple fall into the hands of officers and soldiers!"

Xu Zhi sighed: "We heard all the way how the Shaolin Temple is desirable, it is really famous to meet, your temple has been preventing us from picking wild fruits, and we can't say four, five or six, and its behavior is nothing more than that? I want to pick a few today, see what you can do to me?", after speaking, he jumped on the branch of a pear tree, and was about to reach out to pick.

Zhixin sighed: "If the donor insists on going his own way, then the old man has to be offended?", after speaking, he also jumped on the pear tree and pushed away Xu Zhi's outstretched right hand with a massage hand.

Xu Zhi grabbed the emptiness with his right hand, was very angry, waved his left hand, and went to pick another pear beside him.

Zhixin turned his palm into a finger and poked the tiger's mouth point on the back of Xu Zhi's hand with his praying mantis finger, Xu Zhi was taken aback, and quickly turned over with a harrier on the tree and jumped on another trunk.

Although Zhixin is old, his body is no less agile than an ape, he is also a leap in the air, gently landing on the same tree trunk, Xu Zhi saw that his feet were stepping on a finger-thick branch, although the branch trembled, but the figure did not move, Xu Zhi secretly sighed in his heart: "This Shaolin light skill is really worthy of its name!"

Xu Zhi sighed to himself, but he refused to admit defeat on his face, so he had to continue to climb to the top of the tree, but Zhixin did not make any effort, and still followed behind, Xu Zhi saw that he could not pick a pear, and he was also a little deflated, but he was inconvenient to admit defeat, so he had to jump from one pear tree to another.

Zhixin saw that Xu Zhi still refused to admit defeat, and when Xu Zhi jumped to another pear tree, he jumped to the treetop first, and when Xu Zhi jumped into the air, he was a move to "Mount Tai pressing" against Xu Zhi. Xu Zhi only cared about picking pear fruits forward, and he couldn't defend in the air, so he had to turn sideways to dodge, but his body was still hit by Zhixin's sharp palm wind. Xu Zhi shook in the air a few times and fell to the ground fiercely.

Xu Zhi was in pain after landing on the ground, and he couldn't get up on the ground for a while. Seeing this, Lichen led several warrior monks to surround him and firmly clamped Xu Zhi with sticks.

Xue Atan and An Jingsi saw that Xu Zhi was caught by the Shaolin Temple monks after he landed, and hurriedly shouted: "You monks are too unreasonable, you quickly let go of our Brother Xu!"

Zhixin clasped his hands together, bowed slightly, and said: "The origin of the three donors is unknown, and they forcibly broke into my Shaolin forbidden land and took the property of the temple privately, so the old man stopped it, and asked the three to return the same way, and the temple is not to blame!"

Xue Atan and An Jingsi both stared at Xu Zhi, as if waiting for his idea, Xu Zhi said: "Master Zhixin, masters, the three of us have come thousands of miles to visit the abbot of your temple, we are by no means a villain, if we want to say that we have taken Shaolin property privately, everyone can testify to it, the three of us have empty hands, how can we slander our innocence?"

Zhixin was speechless when Xu Zhi asked, but Lichen beside him sneered: "The three donors claim to be not spies of the imperial court, and they are not one-sided, who can testify for you?

Xu Zhi saw that this group of Shaolin monks was very unreasonable, and said sarcastically: "Since the entire Shaolin Mountain is the property of your temple, why are there officers and soldiers guarding all around, is it possible that your monks have not exhausted the six roots, greedy for wealth in the world, and cannot collude with the imperial court?"

Lichen was asked by Xu Zhi with a shy face and was silent.

Seeing that the two sides were arguing, Xu Zhi and the others were reluctant to leave easily, so they had to say: "Go to the temple to report to the abbot and see how this matter is over?"

Lichen glared at Xu Zhi and the others, answered, and went back to the temple to report.