After returning to Manqing Courtyard, Li Shidao sat down cross-legged in a new room and began his retreat.

The breakthrough of the realm, and watching the swordsmanship of the master concubine Xuan, and the heavenly demon skills, all of which benefited him a lot. Anyway, the situation in Luoyang is complicated, and no one dares to do it first, so he can just use this time to concentrate on retreat and digest and absorb all kinds of feelings.

His martial arts skills are extraordinary, and the kung fu he practiced is also a Taoist immortal treasure, after such a painstaking arrangement, the new realm has been completely stabilized, and the perception of nothingness has been turned into tangible combat power, and the foundation has been quietly accumulated and cast.

On this day, he was concentrating on pondering and improving his swordsmanship, when a subordinate of the Song family suddenly knocked on the door and sent a letter. There is no name on the cover, open the envelope, in addition to the letter, there is also a simple map, read the letter first, and jump into the eye of their own elegant and beautiful, obviously from the woman's handwriting.

Li Shidao groaned slightly after reading it, judging from the handwriting, it was a woman's handwriting, but the tone revealed between the lines was exactly the same as Lu Miaozi, who had been with Lu Miaozi for more than ten days, thinking of Lu Miaozi's situation of living in seclusion and inconvenient for his identity to be exposed, he must have told himself something in this disguised form.

Merely......

"The situation here in Luoyang is very complicated, well......" After thinking about it, Li Shidao was shocked, shook the letter into powder, sorted out his things, and went to see Song Zhi, the second uncle in charge.

When he arrived at Song Zhi, he learned that his third uncle Song Lu and his concubine Liu Jing had also arrived in Luoyang, and after some talking, he explained his intention to leave Luoyang temporarily.

Song Zhi thought for a moment, and felt that the changes in the situation in Luoyang were not directly related to Lingnan, and Li Shidao was not of much use here, rather than letting him stay here, it was better to continue to hone on the rivers and lakes, and see his progress in these days, and when he came back, he would be able to fight with the eldest brother "Heavenly Knife".

So, Song Zhiken promised Li Shidao.

Li Shidao then instructed Song Yuzhi to say a few words, and then left Luoyang in a light boat and went all the way along the waterway.

It was originally convenient to take the waterway, but nowadays the princes have divided the world, and many people have warships stationed in the rivers, and the rivers are chained, and no ships are allowed to pass.

Although Li Shidao was not afraid of these people, he did not want to cause extraneous branches, so he simply abandoned the light boat and started light work, although he was tired, but the speed was much faster than the land and water routes.

Along the way, he drank the water of the mountain spring, and when he was hungry, he used wild fruits to live the stomach of hares and pheasants, and when he rested, he continued to specialize in swordsmanship and kung fu, not only did he not feel lonely, but also had some more leisurely charm, and in the process of getting close to nature, he also realized more things that ordinary time could not understand.

On the way, from time to time, I encountered deserted villages, which were full of devastation and made people sigh.

He went straight all the way to the place indicated on the map, the mountains and rivers along the way could not be stopped, over the mountains and mountains, crossing the river with a reed, all of them were nothing to him, and the poor mountains and valleys could also walk on the ground, and the efficiency of the road was by no means comparable to the current means of transportation.

The natural beauty of the mountains and wilderness is very different from the beauty that humans have done their best to make. Different species of trees make up large forests that cover hillside grasslands. Sika deer, golden monkeys, and various birds inhabit and breed, full of natural wild interest and vitality.

Entering it, the mundane aura on his body was not cleared, and the whole person seemed to have been purified.

At noon that day, he crossed a high mountain and arrived at the rich plain on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

He entered the town and asked for directions, comparing the map he had carried, and the location of the Evil Emperor Temple was a few miles south of the town.

Li Shidao immediately kept going, asked the road, and went to the nearby Qishan.

The rock color of this strange mountain is as red as cinnabar, and the strange peaks and strange cliffs emerge in endlessly, and it is extremely strange.

After a short time, he came to the foot of the mountain, where a river stream meandered through it, and there was a bridge across the river, connecting the secluded path that winded up the mountain.

As soon as he arrived here, there was a melodious sound of flute on the mountain, as if guiding Li Shidao to go.

The sound of the flute slowly rises and falls in the comfortable atmosphere of the natural wind and leaves, and there is no flaw in the connection between the sounds, although there is no strong change or protruding high tide, but there is another entangled charm, until the death is resting.

The ethereal and transparent sound seems to describe the endless beautiful space in the depths of a certain soul, without sorrow or joy, but also to touch the listener's feelings. The feelings of the player himself are like an empty mountain locked by clouds, if they want to be hidden, they are so elusive and measurable. The soft and clear rhyme, if an insider is inclined to gaze at the lingering fate with the indifference of a bystander, the life that makes people feel heavy can also be interpreted with a cold attitude.

"Shi Qingxuan is really here!"

Li Shidao was slightly moved, sighed secretly, and hurriedly stepped up the mountain.

In the original work, Shi Qingxuan used the fake Evil Emperor Relic as a bait, combined with the mechanism in the Evil Emperor Temple designed by Lu Miaozi, and prepared to get rid of the four disciples of the Evil Emperor Xiang Yutian in one fell swoop. However, due to the high skill of these four disciples, Shi Qingxuan already had the intention of dying with him when he acted.

Xiang Yutian's four disciples were treacherous by nature, limited by the oath they made to the evil emperor, and their fear of Shi Qingxuan's mother, they had always been intriguing on their own, and they did not go out of the mountains to harm the rivers and lakes. However, recently, the news of Shi Qingxuan's mother's death spread all over the rivers and lakes through the mouths of Wang Tong, Ouyang Xiyi and others, and they began to be ready to move, forcing Shi Qingxuan to take risks.

Shi Qingxuan had a close relationship with Lu Miaozi, and he must have known about it, so he hurriedly contacted the famous Li Shidao and asked him to come here to support Shi Qingxuan. As for why he believed that Li Shidao would come here, it was probably because he was proficient in the art of physiognomy.

In fact, Li Shidao did come in a hurry.

Li Shidao carried a long sword, a jade flute in his hand, and his hands on his back, and embarked on the road of mountaineering.

The narrow road gradually widens, and under the setting sun, a mountain stream winds and flows in the dense layers of tall and thick nan forests. The most touching part is that there are three small wooden bridges with different shapes between the trees, which are against each other, each leaning on a corner, forming a triangular bridge combination space, covering the only forest passage leading to the temple.

Li Shidao stayed in the "comfort nest" for more than ten days, and he was quite familiar with Lu Miaozi's craftsmanship, so it could be seen at a glance that this must be from his handwriting.

Lu Miaozi has a close relationship with the "Evil Emperor" Xiang Yutian, and it is not surprising that he personally designed and built these.

Li Shidao looked at it secretly and admired, followed the small bridge on the forest road, and roamed among them.