The poem says:

Tonight's stars and tonight's wind, the stars hang down and the wild wind is silent.

The lone star looks at the moon and the sky, and acacia grows everywhere with the grass.

The breeze comes from the sky, and spring hatred is close to my heart.

The stars and the moon shine for thousands of miles tonight, who is full of pity and mourning?

- The little poem continued, and then recounted that at that time, the Wind Chasing Spirit Ship stopped moving forward and went straight down.

When the dervish looked down from the black bowl, he saw a sea of black water below.

The Wind Chasing Spirit Boat hovered ten zhang above the water, and the Nine Elders got out of the boat and floated down to the water. Li Shijian on the boat asked, "Master, what are you going to do when you get off the boat?"

The Ninth Elder said: "There is a kind of demon cultivation in this water, and its snail shell can be used to hold the fire of Nanming Lihuo." I'll go down and look for it. ”

Li Shijian said: "Master, what kind of demon cultivator is that? Is it powerful? You have to pay attention to safety!"

The Nine Elders said: "This kind of demon cultivation, called a snail, is generally in the realm of the true path, and a few are in the realm of the spiritual path, they have low attack power, but the volute is extremely high in protection, speaking of which, this kind of demon cultivation is high defense and low attack." ”

In the black bowl, the dervishes heard the conversation between his master and apprentice clearly, and the dervishes couldn't help but smile to Li Wenshan and Lu Sanya: "I want to eat mandarin fish and have a turtle, I can't figure out where to put the fire, he taught the old man, haha!"

Li Wenshan laughed when he heard it.

Lu Sanya also smiled and said: "Abba is a good person, and he has his own help in everything. ”

When the dervishes looked at this water, he saw that in this water, the water was clear and visible, but it looked black, and I don't know how deep it was.

The dervish monk carried his sense, and when he looked closely, it turned out that although the water was clear, the landform under the water was a piece of black soil, and on this black soil, there were many things like snails, some of them were motionless, and some were slowly wriggling. The one that slowly wriggled had a pig's head stretched out, and on the pig's head, on both sides of the long mouth, had long fangs.

The dervish said secretly: "This is probably what the Nine Elders are talking about. When I think like this, I occasionally see one or two large snails, which can actually move forward in person, and the speed is very fast.

The Nine Elders had already dived into the water at this time, and the dervish monk's mind moved, and the black bowl turned into a speck of dust, and also dived underwater.

At this time, when the Nine Elders came underwater, they immediately disturbed the countless snails under the water, those who were close were all shrinking and not moving, and those who were farther away were all stretching out their pigs' heads, trying to crawl and escape farther away.

The Nine Elders ignored the snails and sped up underwater. So, everywhere I went, there were more snails that were alarmed.

I don't know how many miles I have been running under this water, but the Nine Elders suddenly stopped in shape.

In the black bowl, the dervishes also clearly felt the water surging, and in a blink of an eye, he saw bubbles in the muddy ground at the bottom of the water, and in the blink of an eye, he saw a large snail emerge!

The snail held a long thorn in his hand, and the pig's face was angry, and he scolded: "Who are you, dare to disturb the peace of my Blackwater family?"

The Ninth Elder said, "Yo, you demon cultivator, you can speak with your mouth, and it seems that you are not lower than the fourth order of the Spirit Dao!"

The snail said: "Lao Tzu is already at the fifth level of the spiritual path, of course he can speak people! Who are you?"

The Ninth Elder laughed and said, "Who is it? someone who wants to borrow your snail shell!" Before he could finish speaking, the Nine Elders suddenly made a move.

I saw that the Ninth Elder's left palm was split, and his right hand was stunned, and there was a three-foot magic sword in his hand. I only heard the Nine Elders shouting: "Ten Thousand Laws of Idealism!" When the sword turned into nine, it was a nine-petal lotus flower, and it spun!

The snail was stabbing the Nine Elders with the long thorn in his hand, and with one stab, he forced the Nine Elders' left palm to withdraw halfway, and another stab hit the Nine Elders' chest.

The snail was smug and shouted, "Thorn!" I didn't want to see a flower in front of me, but at first glance, I saw a sword lotus rushing towards me, and a long thorn was hinged into several pieces!

I only heard a scream of "ah", and the snail's long mouth was bleeding from one side, and the water color was stained blood red when it landed!

It turned out that the long thorn was actually one of the snail's fangs!

At this time, the snail was injured, and it actually shrank its head and closed the screw cover, like a big snail - this is the snail's life-saving trick, no different from the turtle with the head shrunk!

This snail shrank its head and let the Nine Elders attack, but the Nine Elders couldn't take it, and the attack was ineffective!

It turns out that the snail's shell is extremely hard, and its high protection ability is due to this snail shell. The Nine Elders slapped several palms in succession, but when they saw that it was fruitless, they grabbed the snail and shot it towards the water.

At this moment, I heard another shout: "Human, where are you going?"

The Nine Elders didn't pay attention to it, and just went their own way. The dervishes only listened to this shout and asked, and knew that this snail had a higher cultivation level than the previous one.

The dervish monk was a little anxious at this time, and said in his heart that if the Ninth Elder left and he couldn't keep up, where would he find that Nanming Yan Mountain?

If he followed the Nine Elders, he would have come to the bottom of the water for nothing, and he wouldn't be able to get a container that could hold Nanming's fire!

The dervish is also in a hurry to catch this snail!

At that time, the dervish monk manifested the black bowl, swept it away, and unexpectedly got the snail into his bowl.

The Ninth Elder sensed that something was wrong with the water surging behind him, and when he looked back, there was no movement—

The black bowl collected the snail, and had already hidden its form again, turning into dust again, chasing after the Nine Elders, and shooting towards the water.

At this time, in the water behind, I don't know how many snails chased after them, but they all fell behind one person and one bowl.

The Nine Elders rushed out of the water in one breath, flew straight into the air, entered the Wind Chasing Spirit Ship, and said "Go quickly", the Wind Chasing Spirit Boat was as fast as a flying arrow, and it was far away in an instant.

When the dervishes saw this, he secretly said in his heart: This has to catch up quickly, the old man has not yet enjoyed this free trip!

When he thought like this, the dervish monk harnessed the black bowl, hurried to catch up, and once again attached himself to the wind chasing spirit ship, and once again traveled for free.

After a short time, the Wind Chasing Spirit Ship flew out five or six thousand miles, and when it was far away from the black water and ocean, it fell to the ground. Where it landed, it was a hill. The dervish monk didn't know what the nine elders were going to do, so he carefully observed his every move in the black bowl.

I saw the Ninth Elder grabbing the snail and saying to Li Shijian, "Shijian, go get two pine trees!"

Li Shijian didn't know what his master was going to do, so he obeyed the order at that time.

A beginner immortal cultivator of the spiritual path has to cut down a few trees, even if he doesn't have tools, it's not a difficult task. Li Shijian made two moves casually, broke two big pine trees, and dragged them to the Ninth Elder's side.

The Nine Elders slapped out their palms, and the big pine tree suddenly burst into flames!

The Ninth Elder put the snail into the fire, and suddenly there was a cry of exclamation and pain from the fire. Then, a big pig's head stretched out!

The Nine Elders had already prepared, holding the sword in their hands, and the magic sword swept by, and the snail's head fell into the fire!

After a while, the fire burned out, and in the hands of the Nine Elders was a clean snail shell, and the snail cover was also well covered on top of the snail shell.

When the dervish saw this, he already understood how the Nine Elders had made the container containing the fire.

The dervishes said in his heart: "I can't make a fire like him now, what should I do?"

The dervishes frowned, his heart moved, and he immediately instructed the instrument spirit Ami: "Ami, you suck the aura of this snail for me, don't destroy its shell and lid, I can use this thing." ”

With Ami's devouring power, the snail didn't even have time to scream, and it died. After a few breaths, the dervishes also had a snail shell in his hand that contained the fire.

At this time, it is getting late and the sunset is red. In the twilight smoke, the Wind Chasing Spirit Boat moved forward again, and the dervish monk drove the black bowl to attach to the Wind Chasing Spirit Boat again and move forward.

When the sun rose in the east again, the wind chasing spirit ship had already flown all night. Li Shijian was in the boat and couldn't help asking, "Master, how far is it to Nanming Yan Mountain?"

The Ninth Elder said, "It's almost there." ”

Suddenly, another Wind Chasing Spirit Ship flew from the sky, also heading south, and I heard the Nine Elders softly exclaim, "Huh?"

Li Shijian couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong, Master?"

The Ninth Elder said: "The one that flew over from afar is the Confucianism's Wind Chasing Spirit Ship!"

Li Shijian said: "Master, how can you tell that it is the Confucianist Wind Chasing Spirit Ship?"

The Nine Elders said with a smile: "Confucianism has four major families, namely Kong, Zeng, Yan, and Shang. There are a total of twelve elders in Confucianism, and there are three in each family of these four surnames, and the title is also unique, for example, the Confucian family elected to serve as an elder, not called by name, but called Kong Dakong two Kong San, and the other three families are also, don't you see the body of the wind chasing spirit ship, marked with the word 'Yan San'? This should be the boat of Confucianism Yan San's elder, Yan San's elder Yan Ziyuan, and I have a fateful friendship with my teacher!"

Li Shijian looked at it, and sure enough, the boat was marked with the word "Yan San".

After a while, the two boats approached, and the Nine Elders had already greeted the Third Elder of the Confucian Sect. I only heard Elder Yan San ask, "Fellow Pipe, where are you going?"

The Ninth Elder replied, "Yan Daoyou, I'm going to Nanming Yan Mountain." ”

When Li Shijian looked out as he spoke, he saw that this Elder Yan San was dressed in Confucian clothes, with a long face with little flesh and more beard, a pair of old eyebrows like swords, and blazing eyes like torches, looking extremely thin and tough.

——I heard Elder Yan San laugh and said, "Could it be that Daoyou is going to get the fire of Nanming Lihuo for your disciples?"

The Ninth Elder smiled and said, "How do you know?"

"I don't care if you accept a disciple with dragon energy, this matter, as soon as the sect master comes back, it will spread all over our Confucian sect!"

"Well, that's the case, my apprentice has to learn refining, I have to get the fire of Nanming Lihuo. ”

Elder Yan San gave a thumbs up and said, "The person you are riding with in the boat should be your apprentice Li Shijian, right?"

The Nine Elders smiled, "Exactly!"

Li Shijian also hurriedly bowed his hand, and said to Elder Yan San across the boat: "I've seen Senior Yan!"

Yan San also said across the boat: "Not bad, it's really a dragon's energy, it's not simple, it's not simple!"

The Ninth Elder smiled and said, "Old Yan, where are you going?"

Elder Yan San replied, "I have the same purpose as you, which is to get fire. ”

When the Ninth Elder heard this, he was surprised and said, "Old Yan, you also have a good disciple?"

Elder Yan San laughed and said, "Old man, haha, you are joking, how can Yan San have such good luck as you? I am here to get the fire for the sect master." ”

When the Ninth Elder heard this, he laughed and said, "I'm confused! Your sect master's closed disciple, named Zhu Ziwu, is also a good disciple with dragon energy, cough, I actually forgot about this ballast!"

"Yes, yes, the sect master is now doing his best to cultivate Ziwu, so that he will go to the Ancient Realm in three years. The sect master couldn't get out, so I volunteered to take this errand. ”

The Ninth Elder smiled and said, "It seems that we are actually like-minded! Old Yan, if we go together and help each other, we will be able to successfully obtain the fire!"

Elder Yan San also smiled and said, "Isn't that exact!"

So the two ships flew side by side, like two arrows, and shot them together to the south. But outside the gunwale, the sun shadow was long, and I didn't realize that another day had passed.

The two wind-chasing spirit boats both stopped on the ground, and Li Shijian asked, "Master, why don't you leave?"

Before the Nine Elders could answer, the Third Elder of the Confucian Sect had already said with a smile: "All the way to the south, and further ahead, there is the Southern Wilderness Plateau, and on the plateau, there are many demon cultivators. ”

The Ninth Elder also continued: "Demon cultivators running on the ground are not terrible, but those who can fly are very troublesome. They will stop us from time to time. So, tonight we won't leave and rest for the night, and tomorrow morning, we will fly over the Southern Wilderness Plateau to the bottom of the Nanmingyan Mountain!"

On the third watch of the night, a bright moon hung high in the sky, like a water moon, flowing down, shining on the north of the Southern Wilderness Plateau. Azure. Xingshu. The clouds are light. The wind is light. The trees are quiet. Insect chirping.

Li Shijian has been nervous for several days, and only then can he feel a sense of security in his heart.

At this time, the Nine Elders and the Third Elder Yan who was on the boat were all sitting cross-legged and meditating. Li Shijian's heart fluctuated, and he couldn't help but walk out of the cabin and stand on the foredeck of the wind chasing spirit ship.

Li Shijian thought that he had listened to Xu Wenhu's words and came to this world to cultivate immortals, and the earthly dignity of the Taiping Khan Emperor had long been a thing of the past. I came here not only to avenge my brother, but also to be selfish, how can I forget the affection between myself and Cuicui?

When he married Murong Chan that day, it was not because he thought differently, but because the situation was pressing. Thinking about it at that time, he and Murong Chan had never even met each other, how could it be that they had feelings before they met?

Now that he is abandoning his wife and children, he came here, and he didn't want to go to Mingzong with Mingchen Daoist to get some Taoist magic weapons, but instead, he was separated by everyone! Mingchen Daoyou and Senior Brother Xu Wenhu didn't know where they went, but they were valued by Mingzong instead, and they became the apprentices of the Nine Elders, but they never and couldn't see Teacher Li and Cuicui!

That day, I once said that when I entered the realm of spiritual path, I would go back to the Taiping Khanate to visit my family.

Love and righteousness, there is also morality in love words, and this morality is like a promise, and it should be true and unchanged. Could it be that I, Li Shijian, am a ruthless and unrighteous person? People say that they do not forget their original intentions, so that they can always be. My Li Shijian's original intention is still the same, but when is it the end? Why is there a beginning and no end?

Where are you?

The heart of spring is full of flowers, an inch of acacia and an inch of gray.

Li Shijian chanted softly, and immediately gave a small poem, titled "Xingyue Poem", which was the reporter at the beginning of this chapter.

Groaning oh is not enough, Li Shijian's figure flashed, far away from the two wind-chasing spirit boats, so he sat down in the moonlight, took out the fifty-string acacia brocade from the storage ring, put it horizontally on his lap, and played.

This time, it was an ancient acacia tune played, whose name was "Ancient Lotus Song", the words were very beautiful, and its meaning was very desolate. I only heard Li Shijian sing softly:

The plain clothes and blue skirts are fragrant, and the moonlight is like water rippling. There are stars in the eyes and the moon is like a face, and the night is full of sighs. If you want to be safe, your body and heart are hard to send, and if you want to send me your heart and body, it is difficult to send me. The light boat shook over the Xifurong Pool, and the moon slipped to the south pond and remembered the lotus.

After the song was played, he didn't feel that his eyes were wet, Li Shijian looked sad, and sighed softly:

"Teacher Li, Mingchen Daoyou, Senior Sister Cuigu, where are you all?Cuicui, Cuicui, where are you?"

Li Shijian was alone, there was a thought of lovesickness in his heart, he was intoxicated, ecstasy, and I forgot all the things outside my body.

At this moment, suddenly, a hand slapped on Li Shijian's shoulder!