Tongguan, was built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao and Ma Teng, Han Sui were the first to fight fiercely here, thus determining the important strategic position here, after thousands of years of historical changes, after several expansions, now here is a huge Xiongguan that stretches between Chang'an and Luoyang, the terrain is steep, and there are many households.

Zhao Bufan was separated from the others from Mengzhou and hurried along the official road on the north bank of the Yellow River, but in two days he crossed the Yellow River south from Yongle Town, Hezhong Prefecture, and came to the territory of Tongguan. When there are still thirty or forty miles away from Tongguan City, it is already late at night, I wanted to speed up some horses, and then find an inn to stay in Tongguan, but I didn't want to walk but suddenly lightning and thunder, and the torrential rain poured down, and he was drenched into a soup chicken.

"This god really said that if you change your face, you will change your face, you can't go to the village in front of you, you can't go to the store in the back, where can I take shelter from the rain?" Zhao Bufan chattered and complained, at this moment with a pouring rain on his head, holding a war horse in his hand, and a muddy official road under his feet, which really made the passers-by miserable.

Walking and walking, when Zhao Bufan was a little upset, he suddenly found that there was a path in front of him, winding towards the mountain, and there seemed to be some faint fire in the middle of the mountainside, but before he could see it clearly, the firelight was fleeting again, and it turned into a black patch again.

"Are there still people in this barren mountain and wilderness? Could it be Orion? But why did the fire light light up and then go out?" Zhao Bufan had many doubts in his heart, and stood on the side of the road thinking.

The pouring rain had already completely wet his hair, and the rain ran down the scattered strands of hair to his face, almost making him unable to open his eyes. The wind blew, and his soaked clothes kept flying against his body, and the sludge that occasionally lifted up made him all over.

"Forget it, no matter where it is, go up and have a look first, you must avoid this rain!" Zhao Bufan is also a master of the arts, and he doesn't care if it is a thief or a hunter, so he immediately led the war horse onto the path, and went to the halfway point of the mountain against the wind and rain.

After a while, he approached the place where the fire had flashed just now, and by the light of the lightning in the sky, he found that it was a ruined temple.

"It turned out to be a decaying Guansheng Temple, and I think that the fire just now should have been lit by passers-by who were hiding from the rain, but why did the fire go out again?"

Zhao Bufan didn't rush in, and looked at this dilapidated Guansheng Temple suspiciously, this is a wilderness after all, so he has to be careful.

After a while, he left his war horse outside the temple, walked lightly, and walked gently to the temple gate.

"How could there be no one?"

Feeling the breath of no one in the Guansheng Temple, Zhao Bufan suddenly became alert in his heart, his body tensed in an instant, and he gently pushed open the temple door.

"Whew!!" The thick and dilapidated temple door made a screeching sound, which was very clear even in this thunderstorm.

"Kang Long has remorse!! shouted, and a majestic roar suddenly came from the dark depths inside the temple gate, accompanied by a majestic palm power and a swift black shadow.

Zhao Bufan had already prepared, flew up, and his backhand was the same move.

"Bang!!"

The two looming dragon shadows collided fiercely, and they dispersed in a moment, Zhao Bufan only felt that the huge force came, and he turned over several times in the air before landing, and staggered back two steps. The man in the darkness was even more uncomfortable, and was directly knocked out, although he couldn't see anything, but there was a sound of the table breaking in the temple, obviously because the man flew out and smashed the table.

Zhao Bufan did not hesitate, he was in a hurry, and suddenly chased into the broken temple, but he was not in a hurry to make another move.

"Poof!! The man in the darkness spurted out a mouthful of blood and stood up, although it was too dark in the broken temple to see each other's appearances, but both of them were masters and could feel each other. The man was obviously a little shocked at the moment, and said angrily: "Who are you, why do you still have the eighteen dragon-descending palms of my beggar gang?"

This was originally Zhao Bufan's question, but as the other party broke out of the house, he immediately understood, thinking that the eighteen palms of the dragon descending were the unique secret skills of the beggar gang leader, and he hesitated to ask: "Are you the contemporary beggar gang leader?"

"Knowing that advisor, you have conspired against many rudders of my beggar gang, and now you are chasing me to such a situation, don't you know who I am?"

Zhao Bufan understood a little in his heart, thought about it for a while, and then opened his mouth and said: "Your Excellency misunderstood, I am not the one who chased and killed you, and I have nothing to do with your beggar gang, today I just happened to pass by here, because the sky is not beautiful, and it is pouring rain, so I am looking for a place to shelter from the rain, just now I saw that there is a faint fire here, I thought it was Orion, so I came here, if you didn't shoot first, I wouldn't have slapped you with a palm!"

The people in the darkness were a little silent, seeing that Zhao Bufan had not made another move for a long time, he immediately lit the fire, and when he saw that there was a handsome young man in front of him who was soaking wet, his heart relaxed a little, and he quickly picked up the hay next to him and lit it, igniting the fire he had built earlier.

Zhao Bufan finally saw this person's appearance clearly at this moment, he looked like he was in his thirties, his hair was scattered, there were many patches on his coarse linen clothes, his upper body was bare, and there were two long knife wounds and a stab wound on his right chest, but the wound had been treated, and it should be burned with the scalding method, that is, after simply stopping the bleeding, the red iron was burned with fire to burn the wound, so as to avoid wound infection.

Next to the small fire, there was a reddened iron knife, an empty wine gourd, and a scattered medicine bottle, which just confirmed Zhao Bufan's observation.

"Brother Tai, your injuries are very serious, and you must be effectively treated as soon as possible!"

Seeing that he really didn't mean to do anything, the leader of the beggar gang coughed a few times, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and sat down by the small fire tiredly, staring at Zhao Bufan for a long time with godless eyes, and asked lightly: "Who are you? Why did you descend the dragon eighteen palms?"

Zhao Bufan thought about it, and felt that the eighteen palms of the dragon descending were the martial arts of the beggar gang, and he had benefited a lot, and he should indeed give others an explanation, and said frankly at the moment: "It is completely a coincidence that I will descend the dragon eighteen palms, to be specific, it is a long story, but the place to get the cheats is in the Bazhou rudder of the beggar gang, and it was seized from the hands of Yan Zhennan, the castle owner of Feilong Castle, in total, there are only Kanglong regrets, flying dragons in the sky, seeing dragons in the field, hidden dragons do not use, shocked Baili, Or Yue Zaiyuan's six-palm cheats, speaking of which, I'm also curious, how can the secret of your beggar gang be lost?"

These words made the beggar gang leader's expression obviously better, but his eyes looked at the roof, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and he sighed after a long time: "Our beggar gang has declined badly over the years, internal strife continues, and I, the eleventh-generation gang leader, are also difficult to match the nineth-generation gang leader, and I am really powerless to revive the beggar gang." At that time, I was in a deep crisis, and I was worried that the beggar gang would cut off the inheritance after my death, so I depicted the eighteen palms of the dragon descending and the dog-beating stick method on paper, and hid them in the four secret rooms of the Luoyang Helm, for the sake of safety, I handed over the keys to the secret rooms and the opening method to the four elders for safekeeping.

Who would have thought that the elder of the Gong Gong would go out of the beggar gang and take the six-palm cheats of the eighteen palms of the dragon and leave, and he was missing. You said that these six palms secret book was obtained from Yan Zhennan's hands, but I believe it, because the elders of the Gong Gong have a good relationship with him. In fact, I also looked for Yan Zhennan after Elder Chuangong disappeared, but I didn't find any clues, until the Bazhou rudder was surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court. At that time, I learned about this, and rushed to the Bazhou rudder, and caught a few gangs who escaped the pursuit of the imperial court, only to learn that the Bazhou rudder had already been rebelled by Yan Zhennan, and even colluded with the Liao, I was extremely angry, and I suspected that the elder Chuangong was also colluding with Yan Zhennan, and the lost six-palm secret realm should be in his hands, so I rushed to Qingzhou Feilong Fort, but unfortunately when I went, Feilong Fort was already full of dead people, and the officers and soldiers of the court were collecting the corpses.

I suspect that Yan Zhennan has a mastermind behind him, and he has been tracking this matter on the rivers and lakes for all these years, and slowly found out that our beggar gang is not only declining, but more terrifying, it has gradually become a tool for others. Because our gangs are all over the world, and those people value our ability to help them gather intelligence and provide strongholds, the rudder in many regions has been controlled and used by others, and has become a pawn. ”

When Zhao Bufan heard this, where would it be unclear, it was he and Zhu Lian who went undercover to defeat the Bazhou rudder, but unfortunately there were very few people who knew about it, and the lonely beggar gang leader in front of him obviously didn't know, but these were no longer important, and he had no intention of continuing to delve into the disintegration of the beggar gang, thinking that he didn't know the other party's name after talking for so long, and asked out of politeness at the moment: "I don't know your honorable name?"

The leader of the beggar gang smiled bitterly instantly, looked back at him for a long time, and let out a long sigh.

"I, Chen Yingyun, am really incompetent, the leader of the beggar gang is mixed up in the end, but I don't even know my name!"

Zhao Bufan was a little embarrassed. "Your Excellency has thought about it a lot, I rarely walk around the rivers and lakes, and I don't know much about the things on the rivers and lakes!"

Chen Yingyun, the leader of the beggar gang, smiled bitterly, his expression was even more lonely, and his eyes looked at him with a little envy. "You are young, but your internal strength cultivation is unfathomable, if you don't have an adventure, you must have practiced miracles, if you study diligently, you will definitely have the opportunity to become a generation of grandmasters in the future, but I don't know how you got the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending from Yan Zhennan? What do you know?"

"The Beggar Gang Bazhou Branch was defeated because I went undercover in person, and I personally witnessed Yan Zhennan's death!" Zhao Bufan said frankly.

"Are you from the imperial court?" Chen Yingyun's eyes condensed slightly.

"Under Zhao Bufan, he is now the guard of the Northern Frontier of the Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Bufan hugged his fist.

"Hiss, cough, cough, cough......" Chen Yingyun was shocked, inadvertently pulled the wound, and coughed involuntarily. "You...... You are General Zhao Bufan, known as the Nine-Tailed Divine Fox, who commanded the Zhao family army and terrified the Liao army?"

Zhao Bufan smiled slightly, and teased: "Someone called me as a nine-tailed divine fox, and some people did call our Northern Xinjiang soldiers Zhao Jiajun, but it was definitely not me who frightened the Liao army, they only thought about how to kill me when they saw me!"

After receiving a positive reply, Chen Yingyun was so excited that he couldn't care about the injuries on his body, and sat up suddenly.

"General Zhao, the privy envoy Tong Guan has colluded with the Liao, and many of our beggars have been controlled and bought by the people under Tong Guan's command, and I was hunted down this time because I intercepted the ironclad evidence that Tong Guan was the mastermind behind the scenes in the Chang'an rudder, and there are too many masters under them!"

"Where is the evidence of Tong Guan's betrayal? How did you get the evidence?" Zhao Bufan's heart beat intensified instantly, he may not care about other things, but the ironclad evidence about Tong Guan's crime is that he is determined to win.

Chen Yingyun shook his head helplessly: "I have been tracking down all these years, trying to find out who is secretly plotting against our beggar gang, but I can't find the real mastermind behind it, and I only faintly come into contact with a mysterious organization called ghost pawns." Some days ago, some of the gangs of the Chang'an rudder acted secretly, and the henchmen of our beggar gang noticed that the situation was wrong, and immediately told me secretly, it happened that the Luoyang conference was being held, and I planned to take advantage of the fact that everyone in the gang thought that I was in Luoyang to raid the Chang'an rudder, but I didn't think that I was really arrested.

The behind-the-scenes controller of this ghost pawn organization is Tong Guan, and the ghost pawn organization is also formed by him for many years of secret snare masters, led by the so-called head ghost, under which there are three major ghosts, twelve little ghosts, and then the peripheral ghost pawns and ghosts. The person who controlled and infiltrated into the rudder of our beggar gang Chang'an was one of the three ghosts, the Rakshasa ghost, he probably didn't expect that although our beggar gang was in decline, there were many old people in some important rudders, and it was not so easy to control, so my surprise investigation caught him off guard, and one of the twelve little ghosts left behind, the orange ghost and the ghost crowd were all killed by my joint gang, not only got the list of many surrounding members of the ghost pawn organization, but also got the ironclad proof that Tong Guan was the mastermind behind the scenes!

It's a pity that I was too careless, I didn't expect that there were so many masters in the ghost pawn organization, and after getting the list and evidence, I didn't retreat in time, but instead gathered the gang of Chang'an, and chased the ghost pawn's secret stronghold outside Chang'an City according to the list, how could I think that this time will be the annihilation of the whole army!"

Speaking of this, Chen Yingyun had tears in the corners of his eyes, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes. "Our beggar gang has been in decline for many years, there are too few masters, and the people I brought were slaughtered in only half an hour, and that Rakshasa ghost is even more martial arts, and his martial arts have reached at least four grades. I was difficult to match, so I could only take the remaining gang to try my best to break through and escape, I wanted to escape back to Chang'an City to find the government for help, but the other party seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and laid a net to intercept it, and we had no choice but to flee to Luoyang.

In order to lure away the opponent's masters, I can only use the list and evidence as bait to force them to chase me, so that the rest of the gang can escape. It's a pity that I was chased by that Rakshasa ghost this morning, and I had no choice but to throw the list and communication evidence off a cliff, forcing the other party to look for it, so as to get time to escape, but fortunately, only the Rakshasa ghost can keep up with my footsteps, if two more people catch up, I'm afraid I will be dead this morning!"

Zhao Bufan was very disappointed, he didn't expect the evidence to be gone in the end, and as for other information, he had already known that it didn't have much meaning at all.

After a moment of silence, he put aside these things for the time being and looked at Chen Yingyun, who was seriously injured.

"Gang Leader Chen, why don't you let me see your injuries?"

"Don't bother the general, I'm already a mortal person!" Chen Yingyun waved his hand, and his expression was filled with that loneliness again. "The sword of the Rakshasa ghost penetrated the vital point of my body, and I haven't been able to heal in time for the past two days, and I can't hold on for a few days, all relying on my internal strength to barely support!"

As he spoke, he straightened his messy hair and looked at Zhao Bufan seriously.

"General Zhao, there is something to trouble you, I hope you must help!"

Zhao Bufan nodded and promised: "You are in such a situation for the eradication of rape and evil, you are a real hero, if I can do it, I will do my best to help you!"