Qiu Ze rode on Xiao Hei, and with the instruction of Xin Yibo, he let Qiu Ze go down the mountain with the disciples guarding the gate of Nanhan Mountain.

Arrived at a peak of Qingyan Mountain, Qiu Ze identified the direction, he had been up the mountain for a few years, and when he returned to the world again, he was a little dizzy, and after recognizing the direction, he rode Xiao Hei and flew quickly towards the border.

After two or three years of growth, Xiao Hei has become a full adult, his physique is more than half larger than the golden crane, his wings are spread out for more than ten zhang, and the red crown on his head is as bright red as blood, and there is a faint red light.

Xiao Hei's flying speed is extremely fast, not much better than the green dragon, plus it feels Akizawa's eagerness, and flapps its wings even harder.

After two days and two nights of continuous flight, just when one person and one crane were too tired, in the twilight of the setting sun, Qiu Ze finally saw the raging fire in the distance, where the Holy Yan Sect was located.

There is a big mountain in the Gobi in Xuanfu Town, which is called Shengyan Mountain, and the Shengyan Sect is on Shengyan Mountain, and Shengyan Mountain burns with raging flames all year round, but this kind of flame can only be seen by cultivators.

Xuanfu Town is a military town established in the Ming Dynasty, although it is called a town, but the area is very large, it is one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, where tens of thousands of troops are stationed to resist the invasion of the Northern Yuan.

The location of the Holy Yan Sect is located in the buffer zone between Xuanfu Town and the Northern Yuan forces. If the Devouring Sect wants to destroy the Central Plains Orthodox, it must first destroy the Holy Flame Sect before it can enter the Central Plains.

After flying for more than an hour, Qiu Ze came to a poplar forest that Xin Yibo had told him about.

In the dark poplar forest, a little bit of golden light overflowed, Qiu Ze patted Xiao Hei's back, and Xiao Hei slowed down.

After getting off the crane, Akisawa slowly walked towards the golden light.

Not far away, a dark figure sat under a poplar tree, and there was a fire burning in front of him, but I don't know what he added to the fire, and the flame turned out to be golden.

The man had a vicissitudes of life, a scar on the left side of his face, and he was dressed in very ordinary clothes, and if he didn't pay attention, he would have taken him for an ordinary farmer.

"Is it Senior Brother Lan?" asked Qiu Ze.

"It's me, you're Senior Brother Akizawa. ”

He is Akizawa's senior brother, Arashi.

Lan is the eldest apprentice of Xin Yibo, who was driven down the South Cold Mountain by Wuchenzi more than ten years ago, deprived of the identity of Qi Yunguan's disciple, and wandered in the Central Plains.

Lan stepped forward quickly and looked at Qiu Ze, who had been on the mountain for a few years, and was already a seven-foot man, with a delicate face and a heroic spirit between his eyebrows.

"Well, that's good! You have such a cultivation at a young age, and there are successors in Lingchou Valley!"

Arashi patted Akisawa on the shoulder and smiled heartily.

The senior brother laughed. Akisawa scratched his head.

"Without further ado, you come with me. Lan returned to the fire and sat down, with a wave of his hand, the gold disappeared, and the fire turned into a normal appearance, Lan took out a piece of parchment from his pocket and handed it to Qiu Ze: "This is a map near the Holy Yan Sect, I drew it myself." ”

On the parchment, there were crooked patterns, and some markets and military camps near the Holy Yan Sect were also marked on it.

"According to the information I got, a few days ago, Senior Sister and dozens of disciples of the Holy Yan Sect went to the border to collect information, but unfortunately met the people of the Devouring Sect, most of the disciples of the Holy Yan Sect were killed, and the senior sister was nowhere to be found, I later went to the place where they encountered, it is here......" Lan pointed to a red dot on the parchment: "This is dozens of miles away from the Holy Yan Sect, and there is a small town nearby, if the senior sister is still alive, I estimate that she is in this town now." ”

Akisawa looked up and saw that a place on the parchment called Huangsha Town had been drawn with a big question mark by Arashi.

"Senior brother, have you ever been to Huangsha Town?"

Lan shook his head slightly, he sighed: "This place was originally under the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Town, where thousands of Ming troops were stationed, more than twenty years ago, for some reason, the garrison withdrew from Huangsha Town, and then it became a lawless place, and for a long time, there were extralegal fanatics from the Central Plains and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and even the people of the Holy Yan Sect did not dare to enter easily. ”

Akisawa nodded, his fingers tapping on the parchment, as if thinking about something.

Lan continued, "Huangsha Town is the only place in the desert where there are people, if Senior Sister was taken away by the people of the Life Devouring Sect, then they must still be in Huangsha Town. ”

As he spoke, Lan took out some mutton from the Qiankun bag and roasted it on the fire, and the two talked while eating.

Qiu Ze chewed the mutton and asked, "Senior brother, how far is Huangsha Town from here?"

"It's not far, it's only less than a hundred miles, if you drive a crane, you can reach it in two hours, but the Holy Yan Sect has become the sphere of influence of the Devouring Gate for dozens of miles to the north, if you drive the crane, I'm afraid we will be intercepted by the people of the Devouring Gate, and we can only ride a camel and pretend to be a nomad to hurry." ”

"Well, that's up to Senior Brother. ”

After eating the mutton, Lan took out a tattered piece of clothing from the Qiankun bag and put it on Qiu Ze, and smeared some mud on Qiu Ze's face, at this time Qiu Ze was already very much like a border nomad.

Xiao Hei was left in the poplar forest, and the two packed up and headed north.

Not far away is the Holy Yan Sect, and leaving Xiao Hei here is the safest place.

After walking for an hour, they came to a small village, bought two camels, and headed north.

When they walked until dawn, the two of them finally walked out of the sphere of influence of the Holy Yan Sect and came to the endless desert.

When you get here, you can no longer see the woods, only occasionally you can see some shuttles, and there is yellow sand everywhere, and from time to time there is a strong wind, which collects the yellow sand and forms sandstorms.

It was summer, and the heat wave was fierce during the day, and the heat was like countless red-hot needles piercing Akizawa's flesh, as if the last trace of moisture in the desert was about to be roasted, Akisawa licked his cracked lips, but to no avail, the mist on his tongue evaporated in a short instant.

Akisawa was born in Gangnam, where the climate is pleasant, he has never felt the heat, the heat makes his mind dizzy for a while, and he reaches out to take off his clothes, but is stopped by Arashi.

"Don't take it off, or you'll get sunburned." ”

Since the two of them didn't know if there were people from the Devouring Sect in the desert, they didn't dare to use mana to condense cold qi to cool themselves, so they could only restrain their breath and prevent mana from leaking out, pretending to be homeless.

"Senior brother, how far is it?"

Lan took out the parchment paper and measured the distance, and said, "I guess it will be there tomorrow night." ”

Qiu Ze nodded, took out the kettle from his waist, opened it and poured it a few times, which made him feel better.

"There's someone up ahead!"

Lan raised his hand and motioned for Akisawa not to move, and Akisawa looked around, and there was nothing else around him except yellow sand.

"Don't be silent, follow me!"

Arashi rolled over and jumped off his camel and ran towards the sand dunes not far away.

Reaching the sand dunes, Arashi stopped and leaned on the yellow sand to look down.

Qiu Ze came to his side and learned his movements and lay down, the clothes they were wearing were about the same color as the yellow sand, and if they didn't look carefully, they couldn't see that there were still two people lying on the sand dunes.

I saw that under the sand dunes, dozens of cavalrymen in light armor were chasing a dozen big men, galloping in the direction where Qiu Ze was.

The dozen or so men were bearded, but they wore a variety of clothes, including long robes with no slits and thin cloth clothes, some with a scimitar pinned to their waists, and some with curved bows on their backs.

And dozens of cavalrymen who were chasing after a dozen big men were wearing all light armor and holding maces and spears in their hands.

"Who are these? Mongols?" Akisawa asked.

"The people in front of them from the outfit, there are Mongolians, there are also Han people, they are horse thieves in the desert, they wander in the desert all the year round, robbing the caravans of the Northern Yuan and Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many caravans were looted by them, and died tragically in the desert, and the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty was behind. ”

Qiu Ze nodded and asked again, "What should we do?"

"Don't worry, let's see. ”

A dozen horse thieves had obviously been chased for a long time, and the horses they were riding were running much slower and weaker than the cavalry, while the Ming cavalry behind them were chasing after them with maces held aloft and shouted.

Seeing this, it would not be long before these horse thieves were about to be overtaken, and these horse thieves were obviously driven into a corner, and they knew that if they ran any longer, they would die, so they simply took their bows from their backs, and took out the few arrows they had.

With a volley, the first few cavalrymen fell off their horses, and the cavalrymen who were hit by the vital point died on the spot, and those who did not die cried out on the ground.

Drawing the bow again, there was another round of arrows, and several more cavalrymen were shot.