Thirty miles outside the city of Wenyang, the vast mountains were completely shrouded in the deep night, and the wilderness was silent. There was no light on this night, and dark clouds were in the air. Only a bonfire burning in the bamboo spring forest at the foot of the mountain slightly dispelled the coldness of the autumn night.

There is a slightly dilapidated "Thousand Crane Pavilion" in the bamboo spring forest, with a few cobwebs hanging in the corners, and at this moment there is a bonfire constantly beating in the pavilion, like an elf shaking from the night sky. The crackling sound of firewood burning is particularly crisp in the night.

A handsome young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes and a silver and white robe sat next to the campfire, his fair and thin face revealing an indescribable clarity.

The bamboo spring forest is very famous, and the thousand crane pavilion is even more famous.

"Thousand Crane Pavilion", just by this name, you can experience a bit of a lingering fairy aura. This bamboo spring forest was originally a small bamboo forest with no name outside Wenyang City, although the location is not remote but not very conspicuous, there are several springs gushing out from the ground in the forest meandering into a river, the green bamboo by the river is evergreen in all seasons, slender and straight, but there is no strange light and strange scene in the forest, so few people know.

But two years ago, the bamboo spring forest suddenly became full of aura, and the green bamboo with proud snow and frost bloomed overnight in the severe cold, attracting many literati and tourists in Wenyang City to come to Range Rover to explore the seclusion.

Seeing the natural vision, all the scholars who were rich and full of poetry and books had different opinions, one scholar said that there were saints in this place, and another private school teacher said that this was just a strange scene because of the abnormal year.

Just when everyone had their own opinions, there was an old Xiucai surnamed Wang who said that the spring in the bamboo spring forest was connected to the East China Sea, and there were strange beasts in the East China Sea that gained the Tao, and the aura generated came with the waves, which was the flood of the bamboo spring forest. This Wang Laoxiu is not good-looking, he has not passed the township test in his sixties, and his gray hair is still just a child.

Just when the scholars scoffed at Wang Lao Xiucai's words, the vision in the bamboo spring forest reappeared.

On the third day after the green bamboo blooms, there are thousands of cranes flying from the east, descending in the bamboo spring forest, playing and flying, leading the neck to chirp, which is magnificent.

Wang Laoxiu cried with joy, and immediately made a seven-word poem: "The crane sings and the nine gao sound the wilderness, and the bamboo ends the three mountains and flowers are cold." ”

In this way, the remote bamboo forest that no one knew about in the past suddenly became a world-famous fairyland on earth, which was naturally indispensable to Wenyang Taishou Song Ye.

Song Ye was born in a merchant family, and others only saw the beautiful scenery of thousands of cranes flying, but he saw the doorway of the rolling wealth. Not long after thousands of cranes flew to the bamboo spring forest, Song Ye chose a higher terrain in the bamboo forest, suitable for viewing and copying, and began to build a "Thousand Crane Pavilion".

After the completion of the "Thousand Crane Pavilion", Song Ye invited Zhang Muzhi, a calligrapher of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, to write a seven-word poem by Wang Lao Xiucai on both sides of the Thousand Crane Pavilion. Since then, the bamboo spring forest, the thousand crane pavilion famous, tourists from all over the world are like the carp crossing the river, endless, and Wang Lao Xiucai's poems and writings are also rising, and it is difficult to find a thousand gold.

It is rumored that Chu Xingyun, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, also visited the Bamboo Spring Forest when he went out on patrol in Weifu, just to see the wonder of a thousand cranes flying.

The "Thousand Crane Pavilion" built by Song Ye charges for the hour, and it only takes half an hour to need ten taels of silver. Ordinary people could not afford this price, and for them, spending ten taels of silver to enjoy the scenery in the Thousand Crane Pavilion was far less affordable than buying a few jars of rice and building a large tiled house.

Ten taels of silver can save lives for some people, but for others it is a drop in the bucket. Among the tourists, there are many powerful children of the major wealthy lords in the thirteen states of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and most of them will throw off a hundred taels of gold to wrap up the entire Thousand Crane Pavilion, chant poems and paint in the pavilion, drink wine and taste tea, and steal half a day of leisure.

Relying on this world-famous "Thousand Crane Pavilion", Wenyang Taishou Song Ye made a lot of money, and he could wake up with a smile in the middle of the night. He built this "Thousand Crane Pavilion", but only used about fifty taels of gold, of which thirty taels of gold is still the cost of the great calligrapher Zhang Muzhi's calligraphy.

The easier it is to get something, the easier it is to lose. The aura in the bamboo spring forest can attract cranes, and it can also attract demon beasts.

About three months ago, a giant python from nowhere suddenly appeared in the bamboo spring forest, devouring not only cranes but also tourists.

Those gentle, soft-spoken sons and buddies usually have to frown even when they kill a chicken, but at this time they are even more frightened, and they only hate their father and mother for giving them two legs.

Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. In less than half a day, the news of the appearance of the giant python spread throughout Wenyang City, and the tourists who came from all over the world also fled. After the appearance of this giant python, the bamboo spring forest that used to rub shoulders became inaccessible, and the teahouses and restaurants in Wenyang City were full of birds in Yemen.

Song Taishou hated this giant python to death in his heart, he used to wake up laughing in the middle of the night, and now he woke up crying in the middle of the night.

Song Ye, who was born in a merchant family, thought that "under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man", in order to hunt this giant python, he first took out 1,000 taels of silver to invite the local hunters, but the fifteen hunters who held steel forks and dared to catch tigers and bears are still missing; then Song Ye sent a team of 300 Wenyang cavalry, but only about 20 soldiers ran back.

When Song Ye wanted to ask someone to encircle and suppress the giant python again, everyone's heads shook into rattles. Money is important, but the premise is to spend it.

As the saying goes, the three-person city tiger, in the mouth of the people, this giant python is more and more outrageous, it has changed from "up to 30 zhang, the knife and arrow are difficult to break its scale armor" to "up to 100 zhang, the mouth spits poisonous miasma, when it appears, it covers the sky and the sun, and the sand flies away the stones".

The python apparently regarded the aura-filled bamboo spring forest as its lair, and it set up camp in the forest, where all creatures were food. Nowadays, no one dares to step into the bamboo spring forest within a radius of ten miles and a half, let alone sleep in the bamboo spring forest in the middle of the night.

Who was this deathless boy in white? Didn't he know that he was in the lair of a thousand-year-old demon beast?

In the perilous Thousand Crane Pavilion, the young man was tired and bored, fiddling with the flames with his scabbard.

In the middle of the scabbard, there are three vigorous and powerful golden words: "Hongxuanzong".

Although Hongxuanzong is the head of the ancestral court of the Three Great Sects of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, its opening time is not as good as that of Longhu Mountain and Cangming Palace, which are ranked in the second place. One hundred and eighty years ago, Yehong Tianzun, the founder of Hongxuanzong, lived in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain for 30 years, and finally succeeded in enlightenment.

After Yehong Tianzun descended the mountain, one person and one sword, it only took ten years to beat the six factions of the Demon Sect out of the Central Plains. After cutting off the demonic energy of the Central Plains, Yehong Patriarch opened a sect in Yunmeng Daze, which was "Hongxuanzong". The six sects of the Demon Sect regarded Yehong as the reincarnation of the True Martial Emperor, and until he ascended to the immortal at the Immortal Peak of Yunmeng Mountain, the Demon Sect Hero never dared to set foot in the Central Plains for half a step.

After Yehong soared, the eldest disciple Qing Ce took over the position of the head of Hongxuanzong, and was praised by the world as a Taoist real person who was not born in the world.

Hongxuanzong is divided into "three halls, three pavilions and twelve peaks", and this white-clothed young man is the eldest disciple of Hongxuanzong's "three pavilions" Middle East Cangge, Gu Tiannan.

By Gu Tiannan's side, there were six young men wearing the same silver-white robes lying on the ground around the bonfire, all of them seeming to be asleep. It seems that they are also disciples of Hongxuanzong.

Not far from the pavilion, a middle-aged Taoist priest with lofty eyebrows was wearing a gray Taoist robe and meditating with his eyes closed.

The night breeze is full of sleeves, and his beard is clear, adding a bit of fairy wind to him.

Gu Tiannan, who was tired for a while, suddenly remembered that there was still half a pot of apricot blossom wine, hidden in the bag of his junior brother Zhao Tianyang. The night is long, if you can borrow wine to ward off the cold, even if you drink alone, you can also relieve a little loneliness.

Thinking of this, Gu Tiannan secretly glanced at the gray-robed Taoist priest who was meditating not far away, it was his senior uncle Ning Yuan.

After two years of travel and a journey of thousands of miles, my uncle was both a father and a mother, taking care of himself and his junior brothers meticulously, but he was also strict, especially not like to see his disciples drinking.

Every time Gu Tiannan drank, as long as he was found by his uncle, he would inevitably be reprimanded. This pot of apricot blossom wine secretly bought from Wenyang City, Gu Tiannan wrapped it in six or seven layers of oil paper, so he could barely cover the aroma of the wine, and coerced and lured his junior brother Zhao Tianyang and hid it in his bag.

Gu Tiannan saw that his uncle was not moving, so he stood up boldly and tiptoed to the side of his junior brother Zhao Tianyang, who was snoring like thunder.

Gu Tiannan stared at Ning Yuan, who was meditating in the distance, and reached out to grope in Zhao Tianyang's bag.

Zhao Tianyang's bag is very large, and it is bulging, and there are a lot of things in it, all of which are all kinds of gadgets that he has collected along the way, such as Aunt Baling's secret bacon, Chaisang Fengleimen's thunderbolt, the insole of the talented Pei Donglai, and the short knife left by the Beihai horse thief...... I don't know where he got a pair of small iron lions, which weighed more than ten pounds. Whenever a senior brother ridiculed, Zhao Tianyang always put on an unfathomable look, and said lightly and arrogantly: "Those who are clumsy know treasures." ”

Gu Tiannan groped in his junior brother's bag for a while, touched the bacon, touched the iron lion, but never touched the wine jug wrapped in oil paper.

He was about to wake up Zhao Tianyang, who was sleeping like a dead pig, when suddenly, the gray-robed Taoist Ning Yuan's ears trembled, and he opened his eyes and stood up.

I don't know when the chirping of beasts and insects in the bamboo forest has stopped! There is only a dead silence.

Gu Tiannan obviously hadn't noticed this yet, he took his hand back in a sneer, and said with a little embarrassment: "Senior Uncle, Tianyang found a long-lost copy of "The Theory of Sitting and Forgetting" in Wenyang City, and the disciple was trying to take it out to study and study it, and kill the long night. ”

Ning Yuan snorted coldly and did not answer. If Gu Tiannan said that Zhao Tianyang's bag contained the toilet of the former queen, he would also believe it, but Gu Tiannan said that there was a book in it, and he would not believe it. Zhao Tianyang is a master who can sleep for two hours by reading half a page.

Since he left Wenyang City, these two boys have been pulling and pulling behind him, Gu Tiannan has a sneer, his hands are in and out of Zhao Tianyang's bag, and now he is reaching out and groping in his bag, don't think about it, nine times out of ten, they secretly bought a pot of good wine in Wenyang City, and hid it in Zhao Tianyang's "treasure chest".

But now is not the time to deal with these trivial things, there is only one reason why the beast is silent, and that is that a bigger and more dangerous beast is coming!

A gust of mountain wind blows, thousands of bamboos sway with the wind, looking from the Thousand Crane Pavilion, the bamboo forest is like layers of waves on the sea, wave after wave.

If it is placed in normal times, this must be a grand scene, but at this time, there is only one feeling that brings Ning Yuan: "The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings!"