Chapter 9: A Drunken Breeze
Outside Oda Village, there was a roar of the river on the wide riverbed, like the unwilling roar of a suppressed beast lurking in it, and the river hit the boulders on the shore and splashed countless times.
At this moment, an ordinary man in a light blue cloth shirt stood on a mottled boulder on the shore, his brows furrowed slightly, as if thinking about something, and his deep eyes were looking at a book that was as black as a brick in the palm of his right hand.
Meng Xiaofan raised his right hand lightly and wanted to throw the book into the rushing river, but the gesture stopped as soon as he started, as if he was reluctant to throw the thing in his hand into the river.
"Hey, forget it, let's talk about it for a while!"
Gently stroking this cool magic book from time to time, Meng Xiaofan secretly said in his heart, maybe this book will bring a lot of trouble in the future, but for some reason he has a feeling in his heart that he doesn't want to abandon it, this feeling even Meng Xiaofan can't explain, if you are lucky enough to enter the Immortal Dao Sect, you are discarding it, as long as you enter the Immortal Dao Sect, you don't have to worry about not having a strong practice to cultivate, at this moment in Meng Xiaofan's heart is thinking so, but what the truth is is a later story.
"Hey, Xiaofan, we're ready to go. ”
A voice came from the forest behind him, and he saw Chai Kui waving his arm and shouting at Meng Xiaofan, today the young man in their village who practices martial arts is going to set off to Aoba City to test the spiritual root, if you have the physique of cultivating immortals, you can enter the major immortal cultivation sects, this is also the most lively time in Aoba City, although there are still three days before the spiritual root test, but it will take two days to travel from Xiaotian Village to Qingye City at the earliest, if you don't set off in advance, you won't be able to catch up with the spiritual root test.
"Okay, I'll do it. Hearing Chai Kui's voice, Meng Xiaofan hurriedly put the magic book into his arms, and then turned around and ran towards the other party, at this moment his mind was no longer on the magic codex, what made him pay more attention to the spiritual root test three days later, this is what he has been practicing martial arts for so many years, since he was a child, he often listened to Song Tao and them talk about the wonders and strangeness of the outside world, so he planted a seed in his heart to grow up and see the outside world.
Then the two of them walked in the direction of the entrance of the village, and after a while, they could still see more than a dozen teenagers waiting at the entrance of the village accompanied by their families, and when they approached, they could hear the words of each family, and there were fifteen teenagers who went to Aoba City this time, and the people who led them were Song Tao and two hunters in the village.
At this time, Song Tao slowly walked to the entrance of the village under the guidance of the two hunters, and saw that the noisy voices around Song Tao slowly dissipated, Song Tao had a high reputation in this village, if it were not for him to teach the villagers martial arts, it would be difficult to survive in the case of lack of food around this Panlong Mountain.
"Don't worry, children, I will deliver safely to Aoba City, and you can wait for our good news in the village. ”
Looking at the eyes of everyone, Song Tao waved his hand and said, he knew what these villagers were worried about, although there were no monsters on the way to Aoba City, it seemed to be a dangerous mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it was really a good place for many bandits to hibernate, Song Tao had not yet come to Xiaotian Village, and most of the children in this village who were sent to Qingye City to test the spiritual root were lost halfway through the way every year, and it was precisely because of this that Xiaotian Village had not sent anyone to test the spiritual root for several years, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't have the strength of the escort, it wasn't until Song Tao came here that he slowly began to change.
In the past thirty years, the people of Oda Village have practiced martial arts under the leadership of Song Tao, and it is precisely in this way that the villagers who go to Aoba Castle are also capable of self-preservation, and those bandits will not easily provoke the villagers of Oda Village, whether in terms of martial arts or property, and they also know that this small village is not worth their risk.
"Old Song, it's time to go, right? Looking at the woman who was following Song Lao to explain various things, Meng Xiaofan opened his mouth and said, his mother was worried, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad when he saw this, and where was his family, and then his eyes fell on the white-haired Song Tao, and a trace of gratitude flashed in his eyes, he has always been grateful to this old man, and at the same time, because of a casual word he said in the past: I will be your relative in the future.
"Hehe, okay, let's go!"
Qingye Castle is located in the southwest of Panlong Mountain, and it is also the most prosperous and huge city within 10,000 miles, and every five years, children over the age of fifteen from the surrounding towns or villages will flock to this city, in order to have a glimmer of hope to enter the Immortal Dao Sect and be immortal, which is also one of the factors that mortals yearn for so much.
There are thousands of people who come to Aoba City every year to participate in the spiritual root test, and there are only less than a hundred of them who can be selected, so it is conceivable that the chances of this are very small, but if a certain family or a certain child is selected, the family will also get a piece of material enough to live for decades, which is not in the eyes of ordinary big families, but it is indeed a huge wealth for poor families.
A day after Meng Xiaofan and the others set off, in a lush forest, a group of men and women wearing various costumes walked forward in the forest, led by a graceful lady wearing a red robe, and the white power suit under the robe perfectly revealed the exquisite figure.
Behind him was a man and a woman, only to see a woman in a light blue shirt Mo was about fifteen or sixteen years old, her eyes were clear and bright, her face was like white jade, and her appearance was very beautiful, and on the other side was a handsome man in a white dress, the man's handsome face seemed to have a faint smile at all times, and then there were seven people, all of whom were oozing beads of sweat on their faces, and tiredness had appeared on their faces.
"Aunt Hong, how long will it take to arrive in Aoba City?"
The girl in the light blue shirt suddenly caught up with the graceful lady in front of her and asked, Before entering the border of Panlong Mountain, they had been in a hurry, and before that, they also knew that there were bandits hidden in this mountain, although they were not afraid, but they also did not want to delay the trip for these unnecessary factors.
Hearing the girl's words, the rest of the men and women behind him couldn't help but pay attention, thinking that they had long wanted to ask this question but didn't dare to ask more because of their identity, but at this moment, when they heard the girl ask the words in their hearts, they couldn't help but be shocked, and they were tired after this time of hurrying.
"It will take about two more days to reach Aoba Castle, and now everyone should be vigilant about this journey, and we will rest after this place. Hearing the girl's words, the noble lady named Aunt Hong spoke, and at the same time glanced at the tired people behind her, and knew that it was really difficult for these children of the family who had never suffered for many days.
"Yes!"
Everyone mentioned that they did not dare to disobey the words of this noble lady in the slightest, this person was notoriously strict in the family, even if the people of their father's generation were polite to him, let alone them.
"Hmm, why is it so fragrant?" said someone casually at this time, and took a few deep breaths as he spoke, with a look on his face that he was fond of the smell.
This was like a chain reaction, and the rest of the people also began to communicate, and the smell was very faint at first, and as their journey accelerated, the smell gradually began to thicken, and even the girl in blue couldn't help frowning, and seemed to smell this fragrance.
"It seems to have a faint fragrance, what's going on?" The handsome man who followed the girl in blue also felt a fragrance rushing to his face, as if he had the urge to take another breath after taking a sip.
"It's bad, Ning Siran, Ning Ao, don't inhale this aroma too much. ”
The face of the noble lady known as Aunt Hong changed suddenly, and she suddenly shouted at the two people behind her and everyone, and at the same time, a fierce true qi emanated from her body, and the rolling true qi instantly formed a solid protective layer around her body, looking at the strength of the true qi was enough to have the strength of the martial arts ninefold, and the next moment Aunt Hong flicked her fingers, and several true qi instantly rushed into everyone's body.
"W-what's going on?"
"I can't run True Qi anymore?"
"Ah, this"
When the true qi entered the body, the faces of the people who originally had an intoxicated expression suddenly froze, and then they were shocked in their hearts, because they felt that the true qi in their bodies could not be used, and whenever they wanted to mention the true qi, there was a feeling of powerlessness in their bodies.
And Ning Siran, the girl who took the lead in shouting before, and the handsome man Ning Ao were not like the others, the two of them were surrounded by the surging true qi at this time, hindering the fragrance that was blowing, seeing the strength of the true qi of the two of them, they were both masters of the Seven Realms of Martial Dao, and the girl Ning Siran didn't know when a long sword appeared in her hand, and the three-foot long sword exuded a purple halo throughout her body, like a killing aura hidden in it.
The handsome man Ning Ao didn't seem to have taken out his weapon, but if he looked closely, he could vaguely see that his slender palms were flashing white crystals from time to time, and he saw that his palms were covered with a layer of ice-like color gloves at some point, and a very faint power was revealed in the boxing gloves, and it seemed that he couldn't wait.
Woohoo!
At the same time, there was a sound of breaking wind in the air, and then a large number of crossbow arrows were shot out of the grass in front of him, and the green light on the crossbow arrows flashed, obviously the arrows were highly poisonous, and the crossbow arrows were shot towards the people of the Ning family with a sweeping momentum, like a broken bamboo.
"Not good!"
Seeing this, the noble lady named Ning Hong's true qi surged all over her body, and the crossbow arrows that shot forward with one hand were slapped out with one palm, and then a huge whirlpool of true qi quickly formed with the palm as the center, and the trend of many crossbow arrows suddenly stagnated, and then a dark force instantly swept the arrows to the side, only to see that the surrounding trees were pierced one after another, and a puff of green smoke slowly rose from the part where the ancient tree was hit.
"Come out, don't hide. After defeating the many crossbow arrows, a cold color flashed in Ning Hong's eyes, and he looked at the overgrown weeds not far away and said sharply, although they wanted to avoid unnecessary trouble, but in the end, they still encountered it.
"Haha, I didn't expect to meet such a master here, but I was poisoned by the drunken breeze and couldn't fly today. ”
Although the other party found out their whereabouts, there was no need to hide anymore, there was a rustling sound from the weeds, and I saw a group of no less than fifty people slowly walking out under the leadership of two strong men, the two big men looked somewhat similar, with a beard, and one of them had a conspicuous scar on his face, the scar extended from the left eyebrow bone over the bridge of the nose to the right side of the face near the earlobe, which was daunting.
The eyes of the bandits behind the bearded man flashed with a different color, and a large number of noblewomen and several other women were suspicious, as if they had already regarded them as prey in their hands, and had begun to think about what to do with the loot.
"A drunken breeze?"
Hearing the words of the big man, the noble lady Ning Hong's face that revealed infinite mature charm couldn't help but change, and she secretly said in her heart that such a miracle medicine would be in the hands of these mountain bandits, and she couldn't help but think of countermeasures in her heart.