In my eyes, Gongsun Wenlong's face was cloudy.

Finally, he erupted in a continuous, bizarre, dialect-slang-clad curse, turned and walked away, disappearing from my thoughts

-- The lion of Jizo was thrown to us by him.

"I'll recite the scripture for the removal of the three corpses, and let me go. ”

The curly-haired lion muttered.

"Let's wait until we meet with Elder Shi, now that the circle of fame and fortune has been solved, what if you break out and hurt people?"

Shangguan said nothing, and suddenly increased his forehead with his hand, and his body was about to fall down. Yan Ruolin immediately held her up—the face of the girl in Tsing Yi showed a deep tiredness. I took Huang Ya Dan from Najie and gave it to the girl in Tsing Yi, and her face was a little pale.

"It's okay, it's just tired. Thanks a lot. She said to me.

"Gongsun Wenlong's momentum is too strong for the young city lord, and it is already very rare that you can hold on for several hours in a row. ”

Nangong Panshi beckoned the boy of the Lin family who was watching in the corner of the house to come over, and said to the girl in Tsing Yi,

"This is my cheap nephew. Now, you were ordered to go to the county government and ordered the big man of the county to come here to protect the lord of Shangguan Shao. If you do this, the young city lord will take you to Lingyamen. ”

The boy glanced at Nangong Panshi, and saluted to the official without timidity,

"Lin Tianhe, a citizen of Mandala County, has seen the young city lord, and he will not be dishonored!"

Then the child ran outside.

Shangguan Pian thought about it, and used Yan Ruolin's peace bead to contact Shi Ziming,

"This Lin family's child's water spirit root is good, it is an immortal seedling, I will recommend it to the Duren Courtyard of this sect - Nangong Shizi, let's talk about the topic." Your situation is too sudden, and the sect has not considered this accident - can you please tell Nangong Shizi in detail, and we will make plans again. ”

......

Shi Ziming came from the formation of Lingya Gate with a scepter to join us. The three corpse insects in the acupuncture points in Jin Yunqiao's brain have been expelled by him with the "Taishang Insecticidal Sutra", and they will be recuperated in the city lord's mansion and healed within ten days.

He took care of the internal and external injuries of the four of us one by one, and until sunrise the next day, the five of us temporarily borrowed the hall of the Lin family to discuss matters.

Lingyamen's five hundred directly subordinate money soldiers surrounded dozens of acres of Lin Mansion like iron buckets. The five hundred foreign feudal soldiers of this county were surrounded by another layer, and the Taishou of the lower level of Jindan personally led the patrol around, and the county commander of Mandala County served as his patrol deputy.

The Jizo lion lay on a small couch beside me in a big word, humming boredly. Jin Yunqiao's three corpse insects have been removed, he has lost his use value, and life and death will fall with us.

I asked the poodle what it was like to be trapped in a trap of fame and fortune and why it was so calm.

"Divine power is the seventh consciousness of cultivators and demons, and it is also the difference between us and mortal beings who only have six senses. Trapped by fame and fortune, my supernatural powers are imprisoned, just like mortals who are deprived of their six senses - imagine a blind person and you can understand. I've gotten bigger three times, I've gotten smaller three times, and the circle of fame and fortune has changed with me, and I can't get rid of it. Your sages of mankind have said, "Where you come, you are at peace." Since my fate is not in my own hands, I have to drift with your will, and it is useless to hurry. ”

The Jizo lion changed its position and coiled its body.

"Have you also studied the texts of the Confucian sages?" I asked casually.

"Well, there are also Confucians and cultivators who teach civilization in the Great Northern Wilderness. We read Confucian classics and Taoist books not only to gain insight into human tricks, but also to know ourselves for what we are—this is a more important thing. Only by knowing one's true face can demons clarify their own ways. ”

"Oh?"

I was a little curious - it turned out that the Northern Wilderness was only a barren area full of bones in my impression, and legend had it that the demons had raised the humans on the continent as livestock to eat - I didn't expect that the Northern Wilderness still has a civilization inheritance so far.

"Aren't you just a lion like a dog?"

- If you look in the mirror, he will understand. I think.

"But I'm often confused about my own face--I started cultivating the Dao Fa by eating people, but the more I practice, the more I feel like a person, and that feeling is very grotesque-just like you cultivators are outliers among people, and we demons are also outliers among beasts. ”

The Jizo lion's ears were pressed against his head, and he snored calmly, putting life and death on the line.

Nangong Panshi's narration has also reached the key part,

“...... Valkyrie Zhou Jia's employer simply asked him to take my heart. I resisted Zhou Jia's defeat in ten rounds, and he spared my life and promised to meet my small request. As a result of my negotiations, Zhou Jia put a peace charm on my heart to prolong the month of April—his employer will keep my heart in Yunmeng until October 10—and before that date, I will try to climb there and get my heart back. ”

He looked around at everyone, and finally stopped at Shi Ziming,

"My personal idea is to invite some Jindan friends that I trust and have no stake in the Nangong family to go to Yunmeng City with me to retrieve my heart-Nangong Panshi will either die unintentionally, or live with his heart, but I will not return to Nangong's house until the result is achieved. If the plans of the two major sects of Kunlun and Dragon and Tiger are too different from my thoughts, I can only thank these two major sects for their kindness. ”

I asked two young girls who were familiar with the cultivation realm,

"Where is Cloud Dream?"

"I don't know. Yan Ruolin replied.

"Although it is not clear, it is roughly between the junction of the Five Poisonous Miasma Forest and the Dragon Snake Daze, and there may be the entrance to Cloud Dream City. Shangguan Pian said in a deep voice.

- Wasn't that just on my way to nine difficult tests?

I took out the map of the five continents and three realms that I was familiar with by heart, and read it several times, and there was really no mark of Yunmeng City on the map.

"Isn't Yunmeng City in the territory of the Taisho Dynasty?"

I asked.

"Yunmeng City was the city of the king of Chu in the martial arts era, and later it was reduced to a dead city buried in the dragon snake Daze - it hasn't been born for seven hundred years, and the ghost knows where!"

The girl in red complained.

I've tried all the levels and investigated the literature of the dragon and snake Daze, who is three thousand miles in circumference, surrounded by a fog that has no five fingers all year round, and countless fierce beasts that have been dormant all year round, and many abandoned ancient cities, or entrenched by demons, or treasure caves of thieves. Tomb robbers and treasure hunters also frequented Daze.

――In ancient times, the dragon snake Osawa was also a thoroughfare of Kyushu and a land of fish and rice, but it was abandoned in the war between the demon tide and the cultivators.

"Alas, Yunmeng City was buried by Ancestor Zhou of my sect back then. ”

Shangguan Pianpian smiled awkwardly.

I was stunned.

Shi Ziming stroked his beard and told the story:

"The Battle of Yunmeng is the ancient history of the cultivation realm, and it is also a major event that has changed the world greatly, so let me explain it to my former master and nephew

-- The imperial court of the imperial capital in the martial arts era was shaky, and most of Middle-earth was divided by the princes of the Seven Kingdoms, all of whom had the ambition to win the world, and they were also dissatisfied with the order of the cultivators to change the world. The overlord who was adjacent to the main mountain of the Dragon and Tiger Sect back then was the King of Chu in Yunmeng City, the capital of Dingdu, and among the princes, he was especially afraid of the power of the cultivators.

After Patriarch Zhou was promoted to the Void Returner, the King of Chu was terrified, so he spread the nursery rhyme that Patriarch Zhou is the three evils in the world, and gathered twenty-eight yuan babies and five hundred gold pills to form a large array, to eradicate the Dragon and Tiger Sect, and there was no chance of survival.

So, Patriarch Zhou brought the elite of the sect and the king of Chu to make an appointment in Yunmeng City, and our Kunlun, Sword Sect, and even Star Sect all stood on the side of the Dragon and Tiger Sect. In the end, Patriarch Zhou used thunderbolts to kill all the Chu royal clans, nobles, and all the large and small Xiuzhen sects that colluded with the Chu State.

If it is said that the first execution* of the martial arts era was the beginning of our cultivators shaking the world, then after the battle of Yunmeng, all the princes in the secular world were only the leaders of our sect, and the secular world was completely under our cultivation realm.

After this battle, the sect migrated the people of the Chu State to the cave of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, and the spiritual veins of Yunmeng City were all recaptured from the mountain, and the city became a dead city. Without the support of the spiritual vein, the ruined city of Yunmeng was gradually infected by the turbidity of the dragon snake Daze, and finally disappeared. ”

I tilted my head and thought about it

- Actually, the king of Chu said that Zhou Chunan is not too wrong to be the three evils in the world, and Zhou Chunan is not a big country in the end. The struggle between the sect and the secular princes was inevitably very fierce. Now the sect looks back on the past as a victor, and there is a conclusion, but the people of 700 years ago can't understand it.

"The person who wants my heart has obviously found the entrance to Cloud Dream City, so others can also enter - as long as the things that have appeared can no longer be hidden. Shi Jian Shi, Shangguan Shao City Lord, have you heard of any hidden things in Yunmeng Ruined City?--I think, that person may be planning something big, maybe it may shake the order of your sect. ”

Nangong Panshi emphasized in the last sentence.

("Uncle Shi, shall we go together? If this Nangong Shizi insists on sticking to you, you won't be able to get rid of him--ha, my way is the way of the fighting master, if there is a strong hand blocking the way, it will be a stepping stone to sharpen me. ”）

Yan Ruolin asked me with a divine thought, and her pupils were full of the four big words "eager to try".

"If you go back with a body like Nangong Shizi, you may not live more than half a year before being killed by your family. What kind of person is the big boss of Nangong, I have heard my father talk about it before - he is harsher on his bloodline than the cultivator picking disciples to inherit, and the prince of Nangong does not have the ability to inherit him, and he will not have a good end. The sect sent him back unintentionally, but in fact, the commission failed. ”

My brain suddenly became hot, and I said to Shi Ziming that I regretted a little,

"We are cultivators, the most powerful and intelligent people in the world, there are no bridges, there are difficulties to break, and we are not afraid of any trouble. Princess Lin and I are protecting the Nangong prince to find his heart, so it should be regarded as a hidden pass in the nine difficult trials. ”

- I caught a glimpse of Yan Ruolin almost jumping up happily, and Shangguan Pianpian held the corner of her clothes The girl in red did not lose her temper.

Shi Ziming groaned and said,

"So far, none of us know who the person who took the heart of Nangong Shizi is, what magical powers he has, what his purpose is, the other party is like a mist. I can't estimate how dangerous Uncle Yuan's heart-wrenching trip was. Even so, do you want to explore Cloud Dream City?"

"Yes. ”

- Who told Lao Tzu to release his words in front of the women, it is too late to swallow them back.

"Okay, the sect entrusted me with full responsibility to help Nangong Shizi get out of danger, in this case, I will allow you and Princess Lin to go to Yunmeng City, the route is not contradictory to your nine difficult tests - Nangong Shizi, you can accompany the original master and nephew, I will tell the sect and Nangong General that you are recuperating from your injuries in the Lingyamen City Lord's Mansion. But the life and death of the original master and nephew on the way may not be able to protect you thoroughly, in addition, every action on the way is decided by the original master and nephew, and you must not interfere. ”

"Excellent, this heart-seeking trip, the original brother is the master, I am Bin, and I am dedicated to assisting him. ”

Nangong Panshi has no objection to Shi Ziming's construction.

"I've been to Dragon Snake Daze a few times, and the fierce beasts in it are nothing remarkable. Uncle Shi, don't worry, with me joining forces with you, is there anything strange that can't be killed?"

The girl in red smiled happily at me.

- The devil believes you.

I glanced at Shi Ziming hopefully.

-- When I go to such a vicious place, what kind of magic weapon does the sect have for me? I don't have high requirements, and I just need to be on the same level as the clan's bi, the circle of fame and fortune, and the banana fan.

"Well, then I wish the original nephew and Princess Lin success. Shi Ziming no longer has many words.

- What, I don't have anything...... Are you kidding......

I rolled my eyes and gestured to him.

Shi Ziming signed my Lingyamen station nine difficult to try the survey to me,

"Ah, if the original nephew Tong Guò Five Poisonous Miasma Forest needs to ride, I can allocate three white elephants with six tusks for you to walk. However, I think you are still able to move faster than you can move through the clouds. ”

It seems that there is no hope for him.

"Senior Sister Shangguan, I am very grateful that you copied this rune book for me last time. I have another slightly excessive request this time, I wonder if you can grant me?"

"Senior brother said. I didn't do you much this time, and if there's anything I can do my best for, I won't shirk. ”

I patted the lion on the head, and he rubbed his sparse sleepy eyes and asked,

"Are you going to stew me in a hot pot?"

"Well, this circle of fame and fortune that you put on the head of the Jizo lion, can you release some of the magical powers of this demon beast. I want to keep his riding ability and the ability to listen to the wind - so that we can easily hear the news when we find Cloud Dream City. ”

"Okay, this circle of fame and fortune will also be borrowed from you, and I will pass on the mantra to you to memorize after I turn around. When you succeed, return the circle to me. Me, I still have a self-defense. ”

Shangguan Pian recited the mantra.

The Jizo lion jumped down from the couch with a "bang", and his body relaxed, changed back to the size of a lion, and howled.

"Then I will be your master for the time being, and you will not be able to eat people or cultivators in the future. I will share vegetables, fruits, meat, and pills with you. What I have, you will not lack. That's it for now."

I stroked the curly hair of the Jizo lion.

"No, you are my master. It's my new master. "He snuggled up in my arms and licked my face with his tongue.

- The demon really didn't have any discipline.

("Actually, you planted a life and death talisman in his heart, and it was in the talisman book that Pian Pian gave you, so why bother so much?") The girl in red asked me.

("Because Gongsun Wenlong didn't plant anything in the heart of the Jizo Lion - he regarded the Jizo Lion as a Taoist friend, and although he would abandon him in danger and collude with him, he would not put any shackles in the heart of the Taoist friend to hinder his progress in his Taoism; I would not do any worse than the demons.") ”）

（“...... Just beware of him turning against water...... Of course, the circle of fame and fortune will not change in him. ”）

Yan Ruolin stared at my face for a long time,

"Uncle Shi is really a weirdo. ”

Nangong Panshi clapped his hands, "Then we have at least four golden pills, and the certainty of success is greater." ”