The mist swirled through the trees, and before dawn the dampness covered the clothes and hair of the two knights.

The horses broke through the white mist and trampled the leaves that remained in the crystal dew, leaving a loud sound of horses' hooves in the silence of the forest.

The sky was hazy and there was silence all around.

When passing through a village, a dog barking and a child crying were finally aroused.

Jiang Yuan and Gongliang slowed down their horses and passed the village along the muddy village road.

Outside the village, there is a large field of farmland, and the mist wanders through the fields as if covered with a light veil.

The woods awaited the two at the end of the field, and the horses were tired from the long and night journey, so they stopped in the woods to let the horses eat some grass before continuing on their way.

The woods before dawn were cold, and white air was constantly spewing from the nostrils of the horses.

After a while of walking along the forest path, an old but very clean ancestral hall appeared in the clearing by the roadside.

Jiang Yuan stared at the dim ancestral hall and asked:

"It's far away from the village, how can you build an ancestral hall here?"

Gong Liangyi's expression was still grim, and he replied:

"This is the 'Child's Return to the Ancestral Hall'. ”

Jiang Yuan only felt that the name was strange, and he asked:

"Any allusions?"

Gongliangyi looked at the ancestral hall not far away and said:

"Legend has it that a long time ago, in the village we passed by, there was a mother and son who depended on each other. Later, the young and vigorous son made a feud with others, and had to flee to the northern countries to hide from the enemy. The mother missed her son, so she cried and waited outside the village all day, hoping that her son would return as soon as possible.

Yet day after day, year after year, the son still did not return. But my mother's eyes were blind from crying, and the time to return to the village was getting later and later. Until one day after nightfall, the blind mother did not notice that the night was coming, and was finally killed by demons.

Later, the son finally learned a skill and returned, and he originally planned to seek revenge on the enemy. But when I returned to the village, I learned of my mother's death. The son was heartbroken and no longer fought with others, but did good deeds all his life.

The villagers were grateful for their son's good deeds, so they built this ancestral hall in the place where his mother was killed by demons, and offered incense to him.

In later generations, many masters with magical abilities passed by here, and they were deeply moved after hearing the origin of the child's return to the ancestral hall, and they didn't mind sweeping away the surrounding demons and ghosts. After a long time, the road became too peaceful. ”

Jiang Yuan listened quietly and said:

"You're really familiar with this area, and you know even the story of an ancestral hall. ”

Gong Liangyi did not open his mouth to answer.

Jiang Yuan rode towards the ancestral hall:

"Since you have passed by, let's go to the pillar incense by the way. ”

The two came to the outside of the ancestral hall and turned over and dismounted, and stepped into it.

Each person takes out three sticks of incense from the incense tube, lights them, and then stands in front of the tablet table, bows three times, and inserts the incense into the incense burner.

After doing all this, the two left the ancestral hall and continued on their way.

As the sun rises, everything around you starts to brighten.

The horses followed the forest path until they reached the ridge, and after climbing the ridge, they continued on their way.

Despite the gallop, the sun ran ahead of the horses and set down the hill as time passed.

Another night has fallen.

The road began to deliberately turn, bypassing the flat terrain and becoming rough.

Jiang Yuan looked at it for a long time, only to find that what the road deliberately avoided seemed to be a mountain peak in the distance that was out of place with the surroundings.

The rest of the peaks are covered with verdant trees, but this one has no vegetation, only brown rocks and cliffs.

The bright moon hangs high, and the cold moonlight casts on the lonely and cold rocky mountain wall, which looks particularly lonely.

Suddenly, a white shadow shuttled quickly among the rocks, and disappeared.

"Did you see that too?" asked Gongliangyi.

Jiang Yuan frowned, the white shadow gave him a feeling of a demon.

"That mountain peak is the Bald Peak," Gong Liangyi said, "between Pengcheng and Lingcheng, the only place where demons and ghosts haunt it." Moreover...... The demons there are very strong. ”

Jiang Yuan originally considered going to Bald Peak to investigate if he had the opportunity, but after hearing Gong Liangyi's words, he gave up this plan.

Even the children of the clan family said that the demons and ghosts there were very strong, so the danger was self-evident.

The two of them followed the road around the Bald Peak and headed northwest.

For Gong Liangyi, Jiang Yuan was very curious.

Judging from what he learned from the Star Demon Sea Pengcheng Rudder, it seems that Gongliangyi disguised himself as a martial artist and joined the gang in such an identity.

A child of a clan family is willing to spend a lot of time cultivating internal strength, and also cultivating to the realm of returning to the sect, just to disguise his identity, then the secret may not be so simple.

Jiang Yuan's plan also had to be disrupted, he originally thought that the composition of the mortal gang should be relatively simple, but it seemed that there was also the shadow of the Gong family in it.

It seems that if you want to hunt demons and ghosts to increase your strength in the future, you have to avoid people's eyes and ears.

The sun set and sunrise, and at noon the next day, after the two of them rode up a gentle slope, a city of houses finally appeared in the distance.

Ling Cheng has finally arrived.

The two shook the reins, and the horses rushed down the gentle slope towards Lingcheng.

Lingcheng is not as prosperous as Pengcheng, it is just a small city. And he has just experienced the attack of the Blue Dragon Club on the Feihong Gang, so he seems even more lonely.

The current situation is not stable, the caravans to and from Lingcheng are very scarce, and only the warriors who go to participate in the martial arts conference live here temporarily.

After the two rode into Lingcheng, they asked passers-by for directions, and then began to walk towards Mingxiang Pavilion.

The Tea Pavilion is a two-storey teahouse, and even the place where the horses are tied has to be kept away, according to the guys, because they are afraid that the smell of horse manure will affect the fragrance of the tea.

As the two entered, the interior was more classically elegant, and the feature here seemed to be the main utensils, and most of them were porcelain.

Although Jiang Yuan didn't understand porcelain, looking at those exquisite and elegant works of art, he felt that they must be worth a lot of money.

There are some guests sitting on the tables and chairs in the hall, and the fragrance of various colors of tea is wafting in them.

The guy greeted him warmly:

"The two guest officers are very angry, it's the first time to come to the shop. Will I sit in the hall or in a private room?"

Gong Liangyi replied:

"Private room. ”

"Okay, please go upstairs!" the guy greeted, and at the same time came up, "The two of you must not know the special tea of the small shop, please listen to the little one recommended for the two guest officers." ”

"No need," Gong Liangyi's voice remained indifferent, "go and call your shopkeeper." ”

The shopkeeper of Mingxiang Pavilion is the person in charge of the connection in Lingcheng in the Star Demon Sea, according to You Mingxuan's confession, she is called Yu Niang.

When the guy heard this, he suddenly looked embarrassed:

"I'm sorry, but our shopkeeper doesn't happen to be here. ”

At this time, the teahouse suddenly heard the sound of "Bah!" knocking on the table.

I saw that there were a few warriors sitting in the corner of the teahouse hall, and it was a strong man with a machete who slapped the table.

The strong man's muscles were knotted, and his chest was covered with black hair, and he only heard him cry out:

"What's the point of drinking tea? man, go get me some wine!"

The guy had to step forward and laugh:

"This master, the small shop only sells tea, not wine. ”

The stout man grabbed the fellow's collar and said with a wicked smile:

"Then call your shopkeeper to accompany you! I have long heard that Yu Niang is peerless, and she is the first beauty in Lingcheng, and Lao Tzu has long wanted to see it!"

But the man's face did not change, and he continued to smile:

"This master, our shopkeeper, has a very good relationship with Hall Master Xu of the Flying Eagle Hall of the Blue Dragon Society......

The stout man's eyes glared:

"Are you using the people of the Blue Dragon Society to suppress Lao Tzu?"

The guy laughed and said:

"Don't dare, don't dare. ”

The stout man snorted, let go of the hand that was grabbing the man's clothes, and whispered and cursed as he put himself back on the chair.

As one of the two major gangs in Wujian County, the name of the Blue Dragon Society obviously still makes him dare not come nonsense.

The guy still had a smile on his face, and he continued to be busy, obviously not less than experiencing this kind of scene.

For all this, Jiang Yuan and Gong Liangyi were obviously not interested.

Gongliangyi frowned and said:

"That Jade Niang is not here, so won't our affairs be delayed again?"

Jiang Yuan said with a smile:

"I'm afraid it's not that I'm not there, but it's difficult for ordinary people to see me in person. ”

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yuan kicked over a tea table beside him, and then grabbed the most beautiful looking porcelain on the counter and slammed it on the ground.

"Bang dang!"

The fine porcelain was reduced to a pile of shards on the ground.

The people in the teahouse were startled and looked over to this side.

I only heard Jiang Yuan say angrily in a loud voice:

"Who said that you can't sell wine when you open a teahouse? What kind of rule is this! If you don't find your manager to explain it clearly today, Lao Tzu will smash this broken shop!"

These words are sonorous and powerful. Instantly silenced the entire teahouse.

At the end, the strong man who had slapped the table muttered:

"This kid...... He has a worse temper than me!"

And the guy stared at the porcelain shards on the ground, and the smile on his face finally couldn't hold back anymore.

He walked over with a cold face, and said coldly to Jiang Yuan:

"This guest officer, I think you came here on purpose to find trouble, right? Do you know who covered our shop? That's the hall master of the Flying Eagle Hall of the Blue Dragon Society!"

Jiang Yuan smiled at the guy, and then raised his slap and slapped him in the face.

With a crisp sound, the guy was slapped to the ground and knocked over a nearby coffee table.

Jiang Yuan looked around and continued:

"I don't care what Bird Hall or Sparrow Hall is, if Yu Niang doesn't come to give me an explanation today, I say that if I demolish the store, I will demolish the store!"

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yuan came to a pillar in the teahouse, and raised his hand to break the pillar.

The ordinary guests in the teahouse were so frightened that they left one after another when they saw that there were still those who were not afraid of the Blue Dragon Society.

There are only some warriors who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic and are still making loud noises, looking forward to the good show.

Seeing that Jiang Yuan was about to break the pillar, at this time, a cold voice suddenly came:

"Stop!"

I saw a fair woman slowly descending the stairs from the second floor.

The woman was dressed in white, with a cyan silk tied around her waist, and her long black hair was tied into a delicate bun.

Her skin is as white as fat, her eyebrows are slightly green, her eyes are large and slender, and her peripheral eyeliner is raised. The whole person is as delicate as a piece of warm and beautiful jade, and like the precious porcelain in this teahouse, elegant and smart.

The stunning woman stared at Jiang Yuan coldly, and her voice was like a pearl falling on a jade plate:

"Who's going to demolish my shop?"

With the appearance of this woman, the warriors left in the teahouse couldn't help but widen their eyes, staring greedily at that stunning face.