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The mountain peaks in southern Xinjiang are completely different from the mountains in the Central Plains, which are less beautiful and quiet, and more are majestic and steep.

Under the night, the rolling mountains stand majestically, crisscrossing and crisscrossing, and from a distance, it actually reveals a sense of slaughter.

The ghost stood with his hands in his hands, and looked up, and after two lower hills, a relatively flat wilderness, four tall peaks suddenly rose above the earth, interlocking and enclosing a valley. Behind these four tall mountain peaks, under the vast night, there are countless shadows, which are the boundless 100,000 mountains on the border of southern Xinjiang.

Among the four peaks at the forefront, there is the world-famous Incense Valley.

The night was deep, the moon hung high, and there were a few faint stars in the sky. Under the cold and clear light, there seemed to be a hidden mist in the valley in the distance, floating faintly, looking like a light veil mist, with a bit of mystery in the beauty.

Ghost Li frowned and withdrew his gaze.

It was already the third day, and since the night three days ago, he and the Golden Bottle of the Demon Sect Hehuan Sect suddenly discovered that the Incense Valley seemed to be secretly colluding with the Southern Barbarian alien race in the 100,000 mountains of southern Xinjiang, so they decided to secretly investigate the Incense Valley. The three words "Incense Valley" are naturally thunderous here on the border of southern Xinjiang, and the two of them easily know where the Incense Valley is. But when it came time to really enter secretly, it turned out that things were quite troublesome.

The Incense Valley covers an extremely large area, and it stands to reason that it should not be difficult to sneak into. It is true that the two of them relied on their own Taoism to easily avoid the ordinary disciples of the Incense Valley who were on guard on the periphery day and night, but how did they know that every time they arrived in the Incense Valley was relatively deep, no matter how the two hid their figures, there must have been a sudden inexplicable crisp bell nearby, which attracted countless people from the Incense Valley Gate to search carefully, among which there were extraordinary masters.

Ghost Li and Jin Bottler are both alert people, and they have seen the opportunity early several times and retreated in time, but no matter how careful they are, they still can't avoid this inexplicable ringing, and after a few days, they still can't go deeper, but the Incense Valley seems to be alert, and has sent additional people to patrol day and night.

Ghost Li pondered for a long time, but still couldn't figure out how the Incense Valley knew their whereabouts, and it seemed that in the Incense Valley, which is one of the three great sects of the righteous path in the world, it was indeed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

At this moment, Xiao Ash, who had been lying quietly on his shoulder, suddenly moved, and a low voice came from behind him:

"Ahh

The ghost turned around, and saw a fire burning in a small clearing in the forest, and the golden bottle sat in front of it, holding a wooden stick in his hand, and a washed hare was roasting on it. At this moment, I saw her frowning, looking at the wooden stick in her hand, looking quite depressed.

Ghost Li walked over.

In the past three days, he and Jin Bei'er have tried to sneak into the Incense Valley several times, but they have failed, and the relationship between the two is also quite delicate on weekdays.

Walking to the vicinity of the bonfire, the little ash on her shoulder squeaked, but jumped to the ground, and looked at the golden bottle, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, only to see her helplessly looking at the hare on the string of wooden sticks in her hand, and one rabbit leg was actually burned.

The two of them walked around the periphery of the Incense Valley for a few days, such a mountainous place, there are naturally no village inns around, and after a few days of dry food eating, the ghost is nothing, but the golden bottle is a little unbearable. That night, I saw a hare running by, caught it, and made a fire to change the taste. Anyway, where they were, they were quite far away from the Incense Valley, and they were not afraid of being discovered.

It's just that now it seems that although the golden bottle is high, there is no such experience of wild barbecue in the past. This time, he stood in front of him, and Xiao Gray half-squatted on the ground, and the four eyes of a man and a monkey fell on the burnt rabbit legs. Jin Bei'er's face turned red, and she slowly retracted the wooden stick and left the fire.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak......" Suddenly, there was a strange sound, but it was the monkey Xiao Ash grinning, lying on the ground, his tail was standing very high, shaking around, his right hand clenched into a fist, constantly beating the ground, as if he couldn't bear it, and he actually made an unbelievable action.

Jin Bei'er and Ghost Li were stunned at the same time, and after a while, they both came back to their senses, Jin Bei'er was stunned, and a trace of anger flashed across his face, but Ghost Li didn't know that this monkey was following him, and it was rare to leave once, but where did he learn this set of inexplicable joke people's skills. glanced at the golden bottle, coughed, kicked lightly with his left foot, and kicked out the gray-haired monkey who was pounding the ground endlessly.

Little Ash rolled away like a gourd, but the sound of "squeak" was still heard from afar.

Ghost Li and Jin Bei'er glanced at each other, the atmosphere in the field couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, Ghost Li looked at the wooden stick in Jin Bei'er's hand, and then moved a stone from the side, sat on it, and said to Jin Bei'er: "Give it to me." ”

Jin Bei'er was stunned when she heard this, only to see that Ghost Li's face was pale, and he reached out and took the wooden stick in his hand, first tore off the burnt part, and then put it back on the fire, slowly flipping the barbecue. He made a barbecue this time, which was naturally very different from the golden bottle, only to see the tongue of fire swallowing, the wooden stick gently flipped, and after a while, a vague aroma gradually drifted away.

Jin Bei'er raised his eyes and glanced at Ghost Li, only to see that under the light of the fire, his usually slightly pale face had become ruddy at this moment, and in his black and deep eyes, there were still two small flames that were burning.

A man who is concentrating on his own barbecue......

In the air, there was a sudden silence, and no one spoke anymore. Jin Bei'er slowly retracted his gaze, picked up a few dead branches from his hand, and put them into the fire, the flames gradually burned up, drowning the dead branches, and from time to time there was a "crackling" sound of the dead branches bursting.

In the distant treetops, there seemed to be a night breeze blowing, and there was a gentle rustling sound of blowing branches and leaves, which fell on my heart.

Little Ash didn't know when he ran back again, and there were a few more wild fruits in his hand, which seemed to have been picked in the woods just now. It walked over to the fire, looked around, sat down at Ghost's feet, brought the wild fruit to its mouth, opened its mouth and munched on it, wagging its long tail at the same time, and finally wrapped itself gently around Devil's feet.

After a long time in silence, the fragrance in the air became stronger and stronger, and the hare above the firelight gradually came out of the whole body with grease, slowly dripping, looking oily, it was appetizing at a glance, and the golden bottle couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

After another moment, Ghost Li carefully looked at the rabbit, put the wooden stick back, held it in one hand, and reached to his waist with the other, and after a while, he found a few small bottles and jars, and sprinkled something that looked like powder on the rabbit from the middle.

Jin Bei'er was stunned for a moment and said, "What is this?"

Ghost Li smiled, the golden bottle looked in his eyes, and somehow felt that he was a little bitter, only to hear Ghost Li said lightly: "It's some salt seasoning, it's an old problem, and I take it with me wherever I go." With that, he handed the wooden stick in his hand to the golden bottle.

Jin Bei'er hesitated, but didn't reach out to take it.

Ghost Li's eyes flashed, he smiled indifferently, reached out and tore off a piece of rabbit meat, put it in his mouth and ate it.

Jin Bei'er's face flushed, and in the firelight, a coquettish color flashed between her eyebrows, which was moving, and after a while, she stretched out her hand to take the wooden stick and said in a low voice: "Thank you, son." ”

The ghost was silent, turned his head, took a wild fruit from Xiao Ash's hand, put it to his mouth, took a bite slowly, and ate it.

"Yikes!"

Suddenly, there was a soft cry from the golden bottle, which seemed to be a little painful, and the ghost and the monkey looked up at her at the same time, but saw the white hand of the golden bottle covering the side of the mouth, and the eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, with a hidden pain. It's just that she suddenly found that Ghost Li and Xiao Ash looked over, their faces turned red, and they said for a while: "I was careless, I was burned......" Speaking of the back, the voice gradually became smaller.

Ghost Li listened, the corners of his mouth moved, but the expression on his face did not change, but the little gray at his feet suddenly made a sound, "squeak" sound, grinned, and the half-gnawed wild fruit on his right hand also fell to the ground, and then clenched his fist to the ground, it seemed that he wanted to do that strange action posture again.

Jin Bei'er's eyes froze, and she was ashamed and angry in her heart, but before she could react, and before the monkey Xiao Ash's hand hit the ground, the ghost had already kicked lightly, kicking Xiao Ash out like a rolling gourd.

After a while, I only heard the ghost Li say lightly: "The beast is not sensible, don't be surprised." ”

Jin Bei'er glanced at him, calmed down, nodded and smiled, and then blew lightly on the rabbit that had been grilled at hand, and then tore a small piece of meat from the top with his shallot-like fingers, put it to his mouth and chewed it.

At this entrance, the spirit of the golden bottle was lifted, and in an instant he only felt that the fragrance seemed to have spirituality, running all over his body, and his body seemed to be a little lighter, and his mouth was full of relish, and this taste was unprecedentedly delicious. The outer layer of the skin is crispy but not burnt, thin and crispy, the meat inside is smooth and tender, coupled with the seasoning that I don't know how to mix, the delicacy is like a heart, this taste is unstoppable, almost lost my mind, I never expected that this delicacy was actually made by the man in front of me.

Rao is golden bottle is quite profound, and his mind is firm, but at this moment he also has a great appetite, tearing off one piece after another, but after a while, he has eaten a rabbit leg, and then he feels a little full and stops. Then he smiled, looked at the ghost, and said, "Childe is so good, an ordinary rabbit can be grilled by you so deliciously!"

At this time, the monkey Xiao Gray had already run back again, lying next to Ghost Li, a pair of extremely flexible monkey eyes turned around, looking at Ghost Li for a while, and looking at the golden bottle for a while.

Ghost Li said lightly: "The carving insect skill made the girl smile." ”

Jin Bei'er smiled, her eyebrows were charming and moving, her eyes were as bright as water, and she said softly: "In my life, I have never eaten such a delicious rabbit!"

Ghost Li smiled indifferently and was about to say something, but his body suddenly shook, and his eyes were confused.

This sentence, this voice, this Ying Ying smile, suddenly churned in my mind. The night was dark, the night wind was cold, but his heart suddenly ached, and it rolled like waves of the angry sea.

Once upon a time, I had heard these words.

It was a time that was sealed in the past years many years ago, but inadvertently, it came to my heart.

Clear stream, sparkling phosphorus, smiling, gentle wind......

Kongsang Mountain, behind the cliff, two people who had just escaped from the place of death, around the fire, were also barbecuing.

The smiling, water-green figure suddenly overwhelmed him, occupying all the gaps in his heart, and he trembled uncontrollably.

Baguio ......

"It's delicious, the best thing I've ever eaten in my life is this rabbit you're roasting now. ”

The words of that year, the faint echo in my mind, and slowly turned into a thorn, into a needle, and into the heart.

......

"Childe, Childe?" A voice with a slight surprise sounded in his ears, pulling the ghost back to reality.

Jin Bei'er stood up at some point, still holding the wooden stick in his left hand, but his right hand somehow shrank into his sleeve.

Ghost Li stared, took a deep breath, calmed down, and immediately said, "I'm fine." ”

Jin Bei'er glanced at him deeply, the expression in his eyes changed, and he said softly: "Childe, why is your face so pale, is there something wrong?"

Ghost Li looked directly into her gaze, suddenly smiled slightly, and said, "What can I do?"

Jin Bei'er looked at him, the faint light in his eyes slowly retracted, and the charming color between his eyebrows surfaced again, and he smiled: "It's okay if Childe is fine." ”

Ghost Li suddenly felt bored in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, and was about to say something, but Xiao Ash, who had been quiet next to him, suddenly moved and looked back.

Ghost Li and Jin Zhu'er felt something at the same time, stood up, looked south, and saw the southern sky, above the quiet incense valley surrounded by mountains, suddenly there was a loud roar in the distance, and a red light rose into the sky, illuminating a piece of the sky, and then slowly falling.

The light in the eyes of Ghost Li and Jin Zhu'er lit up at the same time.

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In the Incense Valley, the lights that had been extinguished in the middle of the night were lit up one by one.

The voices of people from far and near, mixed with a few muffled angry curses that disturbed their sleep, gradually sounded as well. But in the midst of the growing noise, angry shouts were mixed with a strange roar like a wild beast, and came from the entrance of the Valley of Incense.

A moment later, the sound of the fight was heard, and at the same time, the crisp sound of bells and sirens echoed over the valley at the same time. In the middle of the night, a foreign enemy forcibly invaded the Incense Valley.

Arriving silently, the ghost and the golden bottle hidden on the top of another mountain, looking at the lights at the entrance of the Incense Valley, and the figures who rushed to the entrance from the Incense Valley from time to time, were secretly surprised in their hearts.

What kind of person would dare to so blatantly offend the Burning Incense Valley, which is known as one of the leaders of the righteous path in the world? Even with the two outstanding masters of the new generation of the Demon Sect, facing the masters of the hidden dragon and crouching tiger in the Incense Valley, they were only considering whether they could sneak in.

Originally, when they had just arrived here, Jin Bei'er couldn't help but ask softly, "Could it be your Ghost King Sect?"

Ghost Li naturally denied it, but he thought about it himself, but he really couldn't think of any other force that was so arrogant and bold besides the Demon Sect today?

Seeing the noisy voices of the people in the Incense Valley in the night, after a while, there were still figures moving towards the entrance of the valley, and the situation there did not subside, but had a tendency to deteriorate.

Ghost Li and Jin Bei'er both frowned slightly, but now this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after all, and Ghost Li immediately whispered to Jin Bei'er beside him: "Let's go in." ”

Jin Bei'er nodded, but she glanced at the ghost and said, "I'm very interested in the things at the entrance of the valley, why don't we take advantage of the chaos to go and have a look first?"

Ghost Li pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "You go, I'll go into the depths of the Incense Valley to have a look." ”

Jin Bei'er seemed stunned in the dark, and then said, "It's okay, then you be careful." ”

Ghost Li was slightly surprised, and the word "careful" suddenly came out of the mouth of the golden bottle, which seemed a little strange, but the golden bottle met his gaze, but he just smiled, and suddenly his body turned into a faint streamer, and he slid down the ridge silently, and disappeared into the darkness after a while.

Ghost Li frowned, a gleam flashing in his eyes.

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Although the history of the Burning Incense Valley Sect is not as good as that of Qingyunmen and the Demon Sect, it has been operating this place for more than 800 years. The ghost sneaked in quietly in the shadows of the night, and was greeted by a patchwork of palaces and pavilions. Looking at the architectural style, it is quite similar to the Central Plains, but in subtle places, such as the corners of the window lintels and eaves, there are also some fierce beast carvings from time to time, but they are not found in the Central Plains. Obviously, in the past 800 years, the Incense Valley has also been influenced by the rough customs of the southern frontiers.

At the entrance of the valley, there was still a lot of noise, and the alarm bell, which was the most headache for Ghost Li and Jin Bei'er on weekdays, was also ringing non-stop at the same time. The place he was carefully hiding at the moment was in the shadows behind a boulder at the foot of the mountain. The last time I sneaked in, that is, a few steps further here, suddenly the inexplicable crisp bell rang.

At this moment, I only heard the bell ringing in the distance, and the first three zhang in front of the big stone was an open space, and then there was an ordinary house, which seemed to be the residence of the disciples of the Incense Valley.

Ghost Li took a deep breath, stood up straight in the shadows, and looked around, there was silence nearby, and even more silence compared to the noise in the distance. As for the Incense Valley disciple in that room, it seems that he has also been summoned to the entrance of the valley.

Under this somewhat inexplicable and eerie tranquility, Ghost Li slowly walked forward.

One step, two steps......

He walked slowly, five steps all the way, and everything around him was as usual.

But the look on Ghost Li's face was even more solemn, because the last time he was here, he was discovered by the strange bell when he took the sixth step.

The light in his eyes gradually lit up, and he slowly swept around, but he saw that there was still no change in the vicinity.

After a few moments, he slowly took the sixth step.

"Ding-......"

Almost as soon as his feet were on the ground, a crisp bell suddenly rang in front of him, and spread far away in the silence.

The ghost stiffened, and his heart was full of horror and anger, the ghost door in this incense valley was so powerful, but he couldn't find it, it was really weird.

But tonight's situation is naturally different from the previous days, although the ghost force touched some invisible mechanism and sounded the alarm bell, but the noise and fighting in the distance are even more powerful, but the bell is drowned out in a moment.

The ghost immediately made a decision, swept around, and then flew up, grazing against the ground and behind the house in front, but the bell around it was still ringing, which was really a headache.

At this moment, the monkey Xiao Ash, who had been lying quietly on the shoulder of the ghost, suddenly whispered, and the ghost was stunned, and turned his head to look at the little gray on his shoulder.

Reflecting a little faint moonlight in the night, in front of the ghost in the shadows, a slight "click" sound suddenly came from Xiao Gray's body, and then the gray mark on its forehead seemed to darken in color.

Before the ghost could react, Xiao Gray, who seemed to be already a little wrong, suddenly turned his head, and a pair of monkey eyes gradually lit up with a strange and compelling golden light, but behind that piece of gold, there was a faint hint of weird red.

"Squeak, squeak. ”

Ash's monkey hand suddenly pointed to the foundation in a remote corner of the room.

Ghost Li hugged Xiao Ash down, looked at it carefully, and said in a low voice, "What's the matter, Xiao Ash?"

"Squeak, squeak!"

Little Ash screamed softly, his hand still pointing in that direction, and the golden brilliance in his eyes slowly faded.

Ghost Li frowned, then nodded, put it on his shoulder, and his body suddenly floated over.

The dark corner of the foundation wall, faintly exuding the smell of moss, under the careful search of the ghost, soon found a small hole the size of a foot, hidden in the foundation.

With a gleam in his eyes, he stretched out his hand, and suddenly plunged into the cave as fast as lightning, and a moment later there was a low chirp in the cave, and then there was silence at once, and almost at the same time, the ringing of the bell around him suddenly stopped.

A smile appeared at the corner of Ghost Li's mouth, and he slowly withdrew his hand, and after a while, in the palm of his hand, there was a strange beast, which struggled twice and stopped moving.

The monster was covered in gray skin, about three feet long, but its body was in a strange "bow" shape, with a towering back, a low head and tail, and a pair of small black bean-like eyes set on its head. But the most bizarre thing is that this beast has an unusually long nose, about half a foot long, about one-third of its length, and two thick nose holes at the front of the nose, which seems to be similar to the pigs raised in captivity in a farmer's house.

The ghost was stunned for a moment, then snorted and whispered softly: "No wonder I said that I couldn't hide from it, it turned out that there was such a 'gray dolphin' (Note 1)." ”

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Note 1: Gray porpoise in "Gods and Demons: Spirit Beasts": Long nose and big ears, no neck and long tail, anteater and cordyceps root, nocturnal and nocturnal, or aardvark.

Also note: "Modern Animals: Aardvarks": mammals, also known as African anteaters, have a strong body, about 140 cm long, no incisors and canine teeth, and use their long tongues to roll up to eat termites like anteaters. Found in southern and central Africa, it is found in hilly or semi-grassland areas, and has a high ability to dig soil, resting in caves during the day and foraging for food at night. They are very timid, have an unusually sensitive sense of hearing, rely on their sense of smell to forage for food, and their sense of smell is more than ten times more sensitive than that of dogs.