Because the weather had already warmed up, and the coffin had not been prepared beforehand, the body of the female disciple who had died naturally could not be taken away intact.

Jiang Kui shouted at Xu Zhaonan and the others, and then led a few junior disciples who were not too seriously injured to pick up some dead branches and dry trees from the woods, wanting to cremate them first, and then take them away.

The sinister nature of the rivers and lakes taught these young Yaoyang Gang disciples a hard lesson.

After this incident, the boys and girls lost their previous laughter, and along the way, they seemed a little dull.

Xu Zhaonan apologized, grabbed Xiaobai, who wanted to return to the carriage to take a nap, let him run on the ground, gave up the carriage to the three wounded, and asked Jiang Kui to send two female disciples in to take care of him, while he himself sat on the wheel with Kong Fan'er and hurried.

Seeing this situation, Jiang Kui wanted to stop it, but Xu Zhaonan had already made up his mind, and thinking of the safety of the three junior disciples, he had to act according to his words.

The wheels are relatively wide, so even if three people sit down, they will not be crowded.

Although Xu Zhaonan was reluctant to sit back in the carriage, it was not his turn to catch the car, Chu Jiexing and Kong Fan'er sat beside him left and right, one holding his arm with a smile, and the other driving the carriage with a sad face.

As for the "Xiao Daxia", he had already been woken up by Chu Jiexing, and he did not loosen his ties after sealing the acupoint, tying him to the back of the carriage and letting him run with him.

After Xiao Huiji woke up, he also knew the current affairs, and he was quite obedient and let it go.

Yanggua City, located in the south of Fengming County.

Through the continuous rain, the mottled walls are still clearly visible, and it is obvious that this is an old city.

It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, but Xu Zhaonan looked at it, and there was no joy on the faces of passers-by, and everyone was lifeless, just like this ancient city, shrouded in haze.

This Yanggua city, a radius of several miles, is red clay, in front of the city there is a moat that is several miles long and more than a few zhang wide, the river water is pale red, it looks a little terrifying.

Pedestrians who want to enter the city have to pass over the trembling iron bridge.

According to legend, two hundred years ago, when Dongsheng's soldiers were the most victorious, Emperor Dongsheng once drove a personal expedition to attack this place and almost took the entire Yizhou.

At that time, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, although he had reached his twilight years, was old and strong, and saw that Dongsheng was too deceitful, so he had the mind of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, and no longer cared about the invasion of the captive tribe in the north that had gradually exposed its fangs and grew stronger, and raised the troops of the whole country to launch a counterattack.

There is a saying among soldiers that mourning soldiers will win, and there is some truth in it.

At that time, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it can be said that every family was floating with white silk, and every household prepared coffins, all of which were prepared for the sons and daughters of the family who went into battle to kill the enemy.

That battle lasted for half a year, and Yanggua City changed hands several times.

The soldiers of the two countries surrounded this city, you came and went, and sprinkled the inside and outside of the city with blood over and over again, not counting, everyone, all of them had the intention of fighting to the last soldier.

Millions of corpses are not enough to describe its tragedy, and thousands of miles of blood are not enough to describe its tragedy.

Until half a year later.

Suddenly, one day, there was a white-haired Taoist man, riding a crane from Taiheng Mountain, waving the dust in his hand, in front of the Yanggua City, splitting a gap several miles long, the ravine was connected to the Yijiang River a few miles away, and in an instant, the river water poured back, wrapped in blood on the bank, filling this deep ditch, forming a bright red moat.

Subsequently, in the ears of the soldiers of the two armies, there was a long chant, "Taiyi Tianzun is above, the killing here is already too much, and I hope the two emperors will stop in time!"

At that time, Emperor Dongsheng's murderous intention had risen, how could he be taken by this person, and he did not believe in evil and ordered people to cut down wood and build bridges, in a vain attempt to take Yizhou in one fell swoop.

Just when the Dongsheng soldiers built the wooden bridge and were about to start fighting again, above the nine heavens, a thunderbolt suddenly fell, and the thousands of soldiers who crossed the ditch first were instantly chopped clean.

It was only at this time that Emperor Dongsheng, who was carried away by the idea of killing, came to his senses and withdrew his troops!

"And then?"

When Xu Zhaonan was listening to it, Kong Fan'er suddenly shut up and had to ask anxiously.

Seeing that Xu Zhaonan was anxious, Kong Fan'er smiled and said, "Childe needs to answer my question first, and then I will continue." ”

Xu Zhaonan nodded again and again, and said, "Ask quickly." ”

Kong Fan'er grinned, squinted and said, "Childe, do you think Fan'er is beautiful?"

Chu Jiexing was not interested in these old stories that had already heard the cocoon in his ears, but he was just sitting on the side waving a horsewhip without a pair, and suddenly heard Kong Fan'er's sweet voice, and said distractedly: "Beautiful! beautiful!"

"Humph!"

Kong Fan'er glanced at him dissatisfiedly, and snorted softly: "Then you still need to say it?"

Then he looked at Xu Zhaonan and continued to ask, "Childe, what about you!"

"Ahem......"

Xu Zhaonan couldn't stand the ten thousand charms in her eyes, so he had to hide his embarrassment with a light cough, but he still wanted to hear more about the old things of the Northern Zhou Dynasty from her mouth, the so-called people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and after a long time, they nodded and said: "Beautiful!"

"Hah!"

Kong Fan'er happily clapped her palms, and her legs hanging on the wheels kicked up and down, like a three-year-old child getting a compliment, and said proudly: "I'll just say, how can the son not think I'm beautiful, haha!"

Xu Zhaonan didn't know why he could make her like this with a casual compliment, seeing her twisting her slender waist like a wicker, swaying left and right on the wheel, for fear that she would roll off the ground if she wasn't careful, so she hurriedly stretched out her hand and pulled her sleeve.

That knew that Kong Fan'er hit the snake with the stick, and easily held his arm in his arms, still pulled by Xu Zhaonan, and did not let go, only waiting for his face to be helpless and did not move, then continued with a smile: "I don't know why, the Dongsheng army retreated, retreated simply, retreated completely, and retreated directly to the current border pass, even the land of a county previously captured, it was all returned. ”

"Oh?"

Xu Zhaonan asked: "In this way, Lingming County was occupied by Dongsheng two hundred years ago, but why did he give it back? Then Emperor Dongsheng shouldn't be such a generous person, right?"

"I don't know. ”

Kong Fan'er shook his head and said, "Some people say that Emperor Dongsheng was threatened by that Taoist, and some people say that Emperor Dongsheng is arrogant and doesn't take this little Fengming County in his eyes, and is ready to include the entire Yizhou in one fell swoop next time......

Two hundred years have passed, and who can say what happened at that time, anyway, if it is returned, it will be returned, and after so many years, Dongsheng has not called again...... By the way, does Childe know who that Taoist was at that time?"

Xu Zhaonan asked, "Who is it?"

Kong Fan'er said in a shocking voice: "That Taoist is Yu Jiangang's master of that stinky Taoist priest!"

"What?"

Xu Zhaonan was shocked when he heard this, and said suspiciously: "Didn't you say that the Taoist was a figure from two hundred years ago? I look at the appearance of Senior Yu, at most, he is around forty years old, and the gap between them is too big, right?"

Kong Fan'er smiled: "Childe doesn't know, that Taoist has reached the immortal realm at that time, and he has a long lifespan, but he just stays in the world and doesn't want to soar." ”

"Wonderland, ......"

Xu Zhaonan showed a look of yearning in his eyes, and muttered: "People, can you really live for so long? So, that Taoist is still alive?"

Kong Fan'er shook his head: "I don't know, the stinky Taoist was adopted by that Taoist since he was a child, but twenty years ago, after the stinky Taoist stepped into the first grade, he was kicked out of the division, and the stinky Taoist said that he didn't know if the Taoist was still alive now." ”

Xu Zhaonan said: "Who is that Taoist, why did he help Northern Zhou?"

Kong Fan'er's eyes finally showed a touch of reverence, and he said: "The world only knows that Taoist, the Taoist name Zhenyuan, and few people know that his common name is Xu Daoan." ”

"Is your surname Xu?"

A flash of realization flashed in Xu Zhaonan's mind, guessing that this person was afraid that he was inseparable from the Northern Zhou royal family.

As expected, Kong Fan'er nodded and said: "Count it out, he should be the ancestor of Gongzi, and his generation is also the most recent generation of twins before His Majesty and His Royal Highness King Yong." That Zhenyuan Taoist may be because of the word 'Dao' in his common name, he doesn't love the country and prefers Taoism.

When he was twenty years old, the first emperor died, he gave up the throne to his brother, and after worshipping Taiheng alone, he didn't ask about the world, and after many years, when he was forgotten in this world, he suddenly took action to save the Northern Zhou in danger. ”

"The Xu family has such a powerful ancestor!"

Xu Zhaonan looked at the pale red river in front of him, and let out a breath of turbidity, it was unimaginable that manpower could do it like this.

"Truly a great character!"

Kong Fan'er nodded, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Childe, do you know why this Yang Hexagram City is called this name?"

Xu Zhaonan shook his head and said, "Naturally, I don't know, could it be that this name is still exquisite?"

Kong Fan'er sold it and said with a smile: "Childe, look, is this city different from what you have seen in the past?"

Xu Zhaonan across the river, staring at it, only to see that this Yanggua City is indeed different from other cities, the general cities are boxy, neat, but this city, as far as the eye can see, already has three city walls, if the same is the case behind, plus the city walls on both sides, but there are as many as eight sides, uncertain temptation: "It's like a Taoist gossip array." ”

"Childe is smart!"

Kong Fan'er smiled, with a look of memory in her eyes, and said: "I heard Master say that this Yang Hexagram City was not originally called by this name, but after that battle, there were countless souls inside and outside the city, if it was only the Northern Zhou Dynasty soldiers, it would not be like this, but there were at least one million Dongsheng souls who died in a foreign land in that city, and the head of the Zhenyuan Dao said that they could not find their way home, and they were all stranded in this Yang Hexagram City."

The yin qi in the city covered the sunlight on the top, causing the rain to be continuous for several miles in the Yanggua City, and there was no sunlight all day long.

Seeing this, the Zhenyuan Daoist warned His Majesty the Emperor at that time, asking him to change the name of the city, put it in the shape of gossip, and personally used nine kinds of things to set up the Jiuyang Bagua Array in the city, intending to transcend the soul. ”

When Xu Zhaonan heard this, he said thoughtfully: "Jiuyang Bagua Array, so this city is called Yang Hexagram City?"

Kong Fan'er nodded and said: "That's right, although there are eight gates in this city, there is one that cannot be passed by the living, that is, the last gate, which is the gate of death, which is prepared to let the souls of the victorious soldiers in the city go home." ”

"In order to let the souls of Dongsheng soldiers go home?"

Xu Zhaonan looked down at the dark red land and the pale red moat under his feet, and muttered: "Yes, so many people have died, and this land has been dyed with such a color, and the river water has not been washed clean for two hundred years, how can these souls be overcrossed." ”

Kong Fan'er silently glanced at the river, and then looked up at the sky, obviously it was just past noon, but the sky was as dark as evening, and sighed: "Anyway, the sky of this Yanggua City has always been gray, and after three o'clock in the afternoon, I can't see a trace of the sun." At the end of the year, it is only on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the day when the yang energy is the heaviest, can you see a little sunshine, and it is like a city on earth. ”

The other people who traveled along the way, unlike Xu Zhaonan, who were not knowledgeable, must have heard the legend of this Yang Hexagram City, and they were all silent when they passed through the trembling iron cable bridge.

It seems to be mourning for the martyrs who protect the country.

Just when Xu Zhaonan and the others stepped into Yanggua City, Dongshengguo, thousands of miles away, had two things happening because of him.

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