The five of us sat down in order, Yan Caixia's gaze made contact with Nangong Panshi,

"Senior Brother Shangguan has informed me of Ling Yamen's disappointment. Who are you?—"

Nangong Panshi nodded.

"It lives up to its name. ”

Red-haired guest praise.

I asked Yan Caixia:.

"Master Yanyuan, what kind of demonic chaos happened in Southern Xinjiang, and what does it have to do with Yunmeng City, which has disappeared for seven hundred years?"

The red-haired guest handed over a scroll to Shangguan Pianpian, and the girl in Tsing Yi unfolded the long scroll in front of us

-- The area between the Five Poisonous Miasma Forest and the Dragon Snake Daze belongs to the narrow western part of Jingnan Province under the jurisdiction of the Taisho Dynasty, and is not a mountain field, but a human town; the long scroll is a map of this area of Jingnan Province, marking the counties, mountains, rivers, forests, and spiritual veins ....... There are fifty-three county towns in the map, all of which are drawn with black circles, and thirty-one black circles are covered with vermilion crosses. There are also more than 100 staggered location markers on the map, and more than half of them are also painted with vermilion crosses. In addition, there are red arrows and black arrows, and the arrows are constantly changing in my line of sight - I guess this represents the situation of the war, the red side is our sect, and the black side is the former enemy.

"In mid-July, there was a sudden outbreak of corpse plague in the west of Jingnan Daoxi. The local Zhuji County Order and Jindan Taishou could not be controlled, and they concealed and shirked at all levels, and even some people abandoned their duties and escaped. It was not until after the Mid-Autumn Festival in August that the epidemic reached the ears and eyes of the Jingnan Provincial Inspectorate. The Sword Sect that supported this area had to transfer one Yuanying Elder from each of the Demon Wandering Courtyard and the Medicine King Courtyard in this mountain to control the epidemic. It was busy until the end of August, and the wind and water channels where the corpse plague spread were stopped by our formation, and the walking corpses that leaked out of other counties were all killed. But the fifty-three counties in this area have all been affected by the plague, and millions of county citizens are probably all corpses!"

Yan Caixia took the case, her eyes gushing with anger.

-- I thought of Murong Guantian's great evil deeds, this person once corpsed an army of 300,000 people and marched towards the imperial capital, so he was unanimously declared by the four major sects to be the "Great Devil" crusade - the corpse insect cultivation method that let mortals turn into corpses was strictly forbidden by the sect to block the secret storage, and now someone dares to act under the rule of the Taizheng Dynasty, it is clearly touching the authority of the imperial court and the rebellion of the Sword Sect.

But why?

Did the corpse thrower choose this sensitive time to create chaos just to echo the demon tide?

I imagined that a hundred miles north of Yelang City, a thousand miles of human settlements, had become a no-brainer's dead city. The men, women, and children who once survived with a small vision in the troubled times have turned into walking corpses, roaming aimlessly

However, if the people behind the scenes want to take advantage of the chaos to shake the world, he should quickly select corpse demons from the walking corpses to form an army, and cooperate with the demon tide in the north of the imperial capital. Why are you still trapped in a corner, waiting for the sect to slowly besiege and exterminate it?

In my Taoist knowledge, the walking corpse that has not been selected and sacrificed will gradually decay and return to dust. Ordinary corpses parasitized by corpses and insects cannot survive the forty-nine days limit, and only those walking corpses that have spiritual roots before they are alive, or can be promoted to special bronze corpses and iron corpses—but they must also be purchased within seven days after the birth of new corpses.

――It seems that the people behind the scenes only need to clear a piece of temporary requisitioned land, and there is no long-term plan. It's just that during this temporary time, he doesn't want others to enter this area.

Why don't you let others set foot in this area - since you can create such a large-scale corpse plague, is there any place in this area that can't be moved with great supernatural powers?

It's not a problem for a primordial infant like Mr. Mei to move mountains and reclaim the sea.

Nangong Panshi and I looked at each other, and suddenly blessed my soul,

"Yes, it's the entrance to Cloud Dream City! The person who created the corpse plague is the one who found the entrance to Cloud Dream City, and the entrance must be in the territory of the corpse plague. He didn't allow anyone to approach this entrance and disturb his business in Yunmeng Ancient City, so he cleared this no-man's land. ”

I blurted out, and then I said no

-- Such a large no-man's land is really too ostentatious......

No, it doesn't necessarily mean that the people behind the scenes who took Nangong Xin's heart released corpse worms - the corpse plague broke out in mid-July, and Nangong Xin's head was picked in June. There was a one-month time difference in between.

I asked Yan Caixia in a low voice, will what I say next be intercepted by the masters of the Sword Sect?――

After I came into contact with the people of the Sword Sect, they were completely unaware of Nangong's disappointment, and if they followed the clues of the Manying Society, it should be the work of our Kunlun and Dragon Tiger Sects.

"Don't worry about the original master and nephew. Lin Zhenren's Yuan Shen fled. This cabinet is suppressed by me, and no one can eavesdrop. The cultivation of the three friends of Shushan outside the pavilion is not as good as mine. ”

He said.

"In the middle of January after the Ling Ya Gate, did the sect find out the person behind the Nangong disappointment?--But the investigation was alerted by the person behind the scenes, and the entrance of Yunmeng City was exposed, he felt that the sect would have to trouble him sooner or later, so he simply cleared the area around the entrance and exit, and waited for it?"

I asked.

"There are discrepancies. There was no progress on the clues of our two sects, but the eyes and ears of the Sword Sect had learned the news that other high-level Jindan masters in Middle-earth had been killed and some of their Dharma bodies had been taken away - in fact, there were five Jindan who had been taken away from their Dharma Bodies, and only Nangong Shizi survived. The Sword Sect only knew that the four Jin Dan who had died, all of them were masters in the prime of life in the younger generation, and they had the hope of creating their own methods. ”

"Huh. Can't you take over the martial god's ten moves? There are so many miscellaneous pieces in the middle earth--Brother Nangong, how much garbage has to be with you every year. ”

Gongsun Wenlong sneered lightly, and vaguely returned to my familiar appearance.

Shangguan Pian threw a warning look at him, and he said timidly like a maid, "The slave family knows that it is wrong. ”

I have chills.

Yan Caixia turned a blind eye and continued,

"The master of the theft of the Dharma Body is either the beloved son of the Yuan Infant or the master disciple. The Sword Sect's Demon Sect took over the matter and traced it to the west of Jingnan Dao, the first group of people lost their news, and the lower elders of the Yuanying who led the team fell; In late August, after the spread of the corpse plague, the middle-level elder of the Demon Courtyard immediately entered the epidemic area to kill the demons. He is the Theravada Elder of the Sword Sect who has made many meritorious achievements, and his whereabouts are unknown after entering, and most of them have also fallen. ”

All three of us were stunned.

"How many Yuanying masters are guarding the entrance of Yunmeng City? As far as I know, one-on-one, it is very difficult for Yuanying upper level masters to kill Yuanying lower level masters. What's more, in such a short period of time, one lower layer and one middle layer were broken-ha, the Sword Sect has recently lost its capital. ”

The girl in red asked curiously, her hands clenched into fists, her eyes were bright, and there was a little schadenfreude in her tone.

However, thanks to the elder's help, some disciples of the second Sword Sect expedition team fled back to the periphery. According to their reports, there are at least five demonic forces gathered in the epidemic area in the west of Jingnan Dao - at least half of the current strength of our Dragon and Tiger Sect - all of them are guarding the people behind the scenes. The demon and evil arranged seventy-two sub-arrays and thirty-six mother arrays, defending layer by layer, step by step, blocking the entry of the Sword Sect

- Although we don't know what the people behind the scenes are going to do, the situation has exceeded our expectations when so many demons have gathered in one place, and it is inevitable that the situation will be in the season when the great demon tide that makes the sect look north. The three demons that have been identified are the Ghost Gate of the Heavenly Absolute Valley, the Witch Cult of the Dragon Snake Daze, and the Seven Year Mountain Demon Beast of the Miasma Forest. It is also unbelievable that these evil ways do not interact with each other on weekdays, and they suddenly gather together.

Now the third group of crusade teams with Yelang City as the main formation is also the joint crusade team of the sect. With the Sword Sect as the mainstay, the masters were dispatched from the sect in the north of the imperial capital, the Sword Sect's main mountain, the branches, and the main mountain of my Dragon and Tiger Sect, Lin Zhenren was the main commander, and I was the deputy commander. He made a solemn oath to the heads of the sect that no matter what the intentions of the former enemy were, he would destroy the evil spirits in Jingnan Daoxi and Yunmeng City within two months. ”

Yan Caixia pointed to the vermilion fork and the interlaced arrow of the canine teeth on the map.

"In ten days, we broke more than half of the enemy's position. The demons and evil spirits also gathered together, so our progress gradually slowed down. Today is the eleventh day, and it is the turn of the five Yuanying elders of the Sword Sect branch to replace me and the three friends outside the pavilion, leading the Jindanmen and the Peacock Dao soldiers to fight against the demons. The war was unfavorable, and Lin Zhenren went to help. ”

I saw a sudden and violent throbbing on the map. Some special position markings are constantly marked with new vermilion crosses, and it is the demonic formation that is constantly being broken by our side! Judging from the delay in time, it seems that Lin Daoming has only intervened in the battle.

"Master Yan, you have been fighting fiercely for ten days, are there any clues about the identity of the person behind Yunmeng City?" Nangong Panshi suddenly asked.

"Searching for souls from the captured demons and demons, we only know that they call the person behind the scenes Chu Jincian - there is no such person in the world. This is obviously a pseudonym. ”

"Oh. Indeed it is. Nangong Panshi seconded.

"Why? How do you know it's a pseudonym?"

I asked.

"Because Chu Jin Cicada is the name of the king of Chu who wanted to put the cultivator under the monarchy seven hundred years ago, and was beaten into ashes by Zhou Chunan, the ancestor of the Dragon and Tiger. He could not have been resurrected in the present day. ”

Nangong said coldly.

The map of Jingnan West Road is no longer changing, and it seems that the war in the epidemic area has fallen silent.

"Ah, I also want to ask the Yan Courtyard Master one last question: Do you know where our Kunlun overseer in the Miasma Forest is now, and I want to join them"

Yan Caixia was about to answer my question, but suddenly stopped, and silently wrote five words under my hand-

"Go with the black cloak. ”

I couldn't think of any idea for a moment. Behind the screen, the sound of the guqin suddenly sounded, and there was a song accompanied by the sound of the piano like a clear spring.

"Feng Xi Feng Xi thinks high, and when the world is in turmoil, it is dangerous for a long time. The ancient tune of self-love is unrecognized, and the shadow is then stroked by the qin. ”

The piano skills of the descendants of the screen are simply in the same vein as my mother's piano skills, which is what the imperial capital Qinggui Gongqing's family is good at. But the tune played by my dead mother is unforgettable, and I can't help but beat the harmony with the sound of the piano.

("Hey, it's Lin Daoming's primordial spirit back, you be strict, don't pull your own broken throat, be careful that his little finger pops you!—although I'm not interested in what he plays.") ”）

The girl in red roared at me with her thoughts.

"It doesn't matter, the piano is just a casual lyrical pretense. Little tigress you don't understand. ”

"Your whole family is a tiger!" Yan Ruolin hurriedly covered her mouth and said, "Kunlun disciple Yan Ruolin has seen Lin Zhenren. ”

Everyone saluted the man who came out of the screen with a harp.

The man wears a scarf, has a beautiful beard, is handsome, and is a good son in the world.

- Nangong is as cold and hard as a stone, and Gongsun is light and close to his mother. I saw the man in front of me for the first time, and secretly screamed in my heart that this is the peerless romantic character described in the ancient history books.

"This piano is called 'The Way of the World', and I made it by cutting down sacred trees in the past. In a hundred years, there have only been three and a half bosom friends, and one has passed away. No, today is the fourth. ”

Lin Daoming smiled and said to me,

"You're a Kunlun disciple, it's interesting. It's not easy to cultivate immortals, how about being my piano boy?"