A hundred years of life and death are boundless, without thinking, and unforgettable.

Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation.

Half a life together without knowing each other, dusty, sideburns like frost.

Looking back suddenly, I only had a thousand tears.

It has been said that being alive is like writing an article. Every stroke, every stroke, is the footprint that has been walked, no matter sad or happy, the past is gone, you can't change anything...

Night.

"Squeak..."

At night, the tide and fog linger, the crickets and insects chirp, and the people are resting.

Taking advantage of the fatigue that came with the silent night, the four old men, who had been busy all day, leaned against the warm fire, set up bunks on the spot, and fell into a deep sleep. Not far from the west side, the lonely old woman sat on the "soft bed" that the four junior disciples had laid for her with the grass, quietly looking at the tattered compass in her hand, and her deep Danfeng eyes were fascinated, not knowing what she was thinking. The fire was shining, and the small sword in the center of the compass shone with a faint silver glow, like a small silver fish hanging in the darkness, guiding people in the direction.

Direction, pointing to the southeast...

Go straight to the southeast for sixteen miles, no more, no less, just leave the encirclement of the canyon locust forest.

As far as the eye can see, on a small hill that is not high, there is a faint fire flickering, and two slender figures stand side by side, extending several feet away, like two pitch-black bamboo poles, falling to the ground.

"It's the Formation. ”

"Well, that formation master is very high. ”

"Useful?"

"It should be very useful. ”

“......”

The breeze blows the flames, like a firefly flapping its little wings on the riverside in the middle of summer, flying freely into the dim distance. The fire did not burn very strongly, because there was not much firewood left in the fire to burn. But the heat provided by the flames is enough for the unrefined white horse to sleep peacefully on the messy withered grass.

"Squeak..."

The insects here are particularly excited.

Ups and downs, wave after wave.

Xia Xun and Mo Xian stood on the edge of the hill with their backs to the fire and the white horse. Condescendingly, looking down at the dozens of faintly silvery woodlands in the locust forest in the canyon in the distance. It's like a bonfire burning in the desert at night, giving people some peace of mind.

They've just escaped from there...

Half a day ago, Xia Xun was planning to spend the night in the forest, saving the twists and turns of going back and forth tomorrow, so that he could continue to explore along the way. But the day's plan didn't catch up with the changes at night, and Xia Xun didn't calculate the madness of those corpse beasts at night.

It's crazy, it makes people's scalp tingle just thinking about it...

At night, from the moment when the last rays of the sun disappeared into the horizon, all the beasts in the entire locust forest seemed to have been poured in, and they lost their minds in an instant! The dead white eyes turned crimson, and the rotting flesh condensed into a black-purple vein, and they were like an endless pack of hungry wolves smelling blood. At the moment when it was dark, from all directions, frantically flocked to the location of Xia Xun and Mo Xian. In the face of the wave of crazy corpse beasts, as if they were endlessly culled, Mo Xian could barely parry with his fast sword at first, but as more and more corpse beasts gathered, the battle circle was rapidly reduced, and even if Mo Xian's sword was fast, it began to be unbearable. Fortunately, Xia Xun has a keen sense and anticipates the enemy first. Before entering the battle, he had insight into the strange situation of the corpse beast, and when he felt bad, he chose to retreat without hesitation. Only then did the two of them escape from the locust forest before they were surrounded by the beast tide for more than ten miles.

For the rest of his life, he still has lingering palpitations.

"They had expected it. ”

"I guess it's not a few days before us. ”

Looking at the locust forest, the woodland that faintly emitted gold and silver light everywhere, Xia Xun habitually parked his index finger on the bridge of his nose, pondered, and explained in detail...

"The name of this formation was created by the demons in the Dangping Empty Foggy Mountain before the Pure Yang Patriarch attained the Tao, and it belongs to one of the nine major demon subduing formations of the Taoists, which is extremely cumbersome. There are thirty-six light array bases, and each formation base is made of thirty-six special yang blood copper coins, which are interlocked, a total of 1,296 pieces. Between all the bases, they must be arranged in strict accordance with the position of the Tiangang stars, and the arrays complement each other, so that they are Tiangang. However, this array was initially formed, but it had no power, and it was necessary to use the Yang Blood Copper Coin as a weapon to reserve the pure yang power of the Nine Heavens Star. When the star power is saturated, this array will be completed, and its power will be infinite..."

Xia Xun muttered here in detail, and eased his mouth.

Mo Xian also took advantage of this gap to bluntly point out the loopholes in Xia Xun's words, and said: "There are no copper coins in this array. ”

"Yes. ”

Xia Xun nodded, not in a hurry to answer.

He first lowered his index finger, which was resting on the bridge of his nose, then removed the bamboo tube from his waist, pulled out the wooden cork, and drank a sip of water. After his throat was moist, he continued to look into the distance and said, "The array weapons we saw all the way were yellow talismans, and there was indeed not a single copper coin. This means that they are just as unprepared as we are. In a hurry, they had no choice but to use the beast blood talisman to replace the original Yang Blood Copper Coins. Although the blood talisman can barely activate the formation, the Yang Blood Copper Coin is the core of Tiangang's Nu Yang, and its ability to contain the Nine Yang Stars is nothing in the world. Therefore, the Tiangang Angry Yang Array without Yang Blood Copper Coin is a baseless array, and its power will inevitably be greatly reduced, and it is not even as good as an ordinary formation. And the cleverness of that formation master is also reflected here. As we can see today, he knew that this array was missing, so he made one hundred and forty-four blood flags, four into one, and arranged them into thirty-six earth-shattering arrays, which were suppressed at various formation nodes in Tiangang Fuyang, forming thirty-six circuits. In this way, the Tiangang Great Array was like the original Four Elephant Qi Gathering Array, which was closed by the trap door, and the energy was gathered but not dispersed. As time goes by, the energy in the array will become more and more violent, eventually causing the energy to overflow, and the overflowing energy will be forcibly condensed in the thirty-six phalanx base according to the loop traction, forming a more violent aura. When the time is right, the person who sets the array only needs to remove one of the seventy-two blood flags, and the earth shatter is unsealed, and Tiangang is immediately furious. The power of the stars condensed in the array will be surging in an instant! The destructive power caused by it in an instant will probably not be weaker than the real one. This should be the layout of the formation master. ”

“......”

Perhaps it was the fact that before entering the canyon, he encountered an almost invincible beast tide and felt frustrated.

Xia Xun explained this in great detail, as if he wanted to give people a sense of encouragement. It's just that for Mo Xian, this is a bit redundant. From beginning to end, he maintained his usual indifferent expression, like a bladeless sword stuck upside down on the hill, and only after Xia Xun finished speaking, he raised his gaze a little, and looked into the depths of the canyon, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Xia Xun immediately guessed the deep meaning.

Since the tuyere of the Four Elephant Array was completely cut open by Mo Xian, the gaze from the depths of the canyon has become very obvious. It was like an invisible hand, tugging at his heart all the time, so suppressed that he almost suffocated. And this dull feeling has never been experienced by either Mo Xian or Xia Xun, but everyone can smell the hidden danger in it.

"At the very least, some of the threats are avoided. ”

"Where is it?" Mo Xian asked coldly.

Xia Xun pretended to have nothing to do, and smiled lightly: "It's okay, if you can't do anything, let's retreat." ”

"I only have a sword. ”

"I still have some copper plates. ”

Mo Xian shook his head: "It's too risky." ”

"This is the end of the matter, and we can only take risks. ”

Xia Xun helplessly spread his hands outward, and said, "Who asked that Dao chief to pack a ticket and say that there is something in it that saves our lives?" Although he spoke ethereally, he was definitely a master of the world. In this way, even if it is really Longtan Tiger's Den, we have to go through it. ”

"Do you believe it?" Mo Xian asked coldly.

Xia Xun nodded: "Letter." ”

“......”

Mo Xian's expression has never changed, even if he has a disagreement with Xia Xun, a cold look still runs through all his words. After a slight pause, he seemed to be unable to find a better excuse, so he coldly spat out three words: "Too dangerous." ”

Xia Xun shouldn't ask rhetorically: "Fear of the unknown, so dangerous?"

"What's fearless?"

"That's just danger. ”

"It's the corpse that is dangerous. ”

"Uh..."

Words, suddenly.

Smile silently, laughing out of many words.

Gently, Xia Xun pressed the wooden plug back onto the mouth of the bamboo tube and held it in his hand. Take a look at Mo Xian's cold face, and then look back at the far other side of the canyon. The moonlight does not reflect the mountains and forests, and the gray is boundless. The faint mist is like a ghostly figure, which is depressing.

"Senior brother..."

"Huh?"

"Let me tell you a story. ”

Somehow, halfway through the words, Xia Xun abruptly changed the tone of his words.

At this turn, Mo Xian couldn't react a little.

"What's the story?"

"A grandfather told me a story. ”

“......”