In the middle of the lodge.

Xiaomeng knelt under a cherry blossom tree, holding her hands in a heart-hugging motion, and was practicing meditation every day, and when she heard footsteps in front of her, she opened her eyes and said, "Are you leaving?"

As she spoke, her bare hands naturally picked up the floating dust beside her and slowly stood up.

Qin Zhan glanced at her in surprise, and said in surprise: "It seems that your cultivation has improved again during this time, and you can even see that I am leaving." ”

But isn't it, since Xiaomeng left Tianzong and entered Xianyang, the ethereal aura on her body has not only not weakened in the slightest, but has become a little thicker, and now if she walks on the street, maybe someone will really treat her as a fairy.

Although there are many causes and effects in Hongchen, it is a good place to refine the heart, and Xiaomeng Dao has a deep heart, and in this short period of time, there has been long-term progress.

Xiao Meng blinked when she heard this, uncharacteristically showing a little bit of her little daughter's posture, and said with a smile: "Yes, watching someone stride forward, if I don't make progress, I won't fall behind." ”

She said these words naturally, and there was no pretentiousness in her expression, which made Qin Zhan stunned all of a sudden.

"What's wrong, you don't know me?" Xiao dreamed of it, and immediately asked with a smile.

Qin Zhan suddenly came back to his senses when he heard this, coughed a little embarrassedly, and said speechlessly: "Usually, I see that you have always been solemn and unfathomable, but I am really not used to seeing you with such a look suddenly, can it be that cultivation can change people's character if they make progress?"

The two have been together for a long time, and Qin Zhan talks more casually.

Xiaomeng smiled slightly and said, "I've only made progress recently, so that someone doesn't orchestrate me in my heart." When she said this, she also raised her head and glanced at Qin Zhan, and the meaning was naturally self-evident.

If it weren't for the fact that he was already sure that it was Xiaomeng himself in front of him, Qin Zhan would definitely think that this was someone else pretending to be here, because today's Xiaomeng was too inconsistent with the non-cannibalistic fireworks temperament of the past.

However, Qin Zhan came here today because he had other things, so he didn't think much about this matter, and immediately told Xiaomeng what he was going to do.

The two had already had an agreement, although Qin Zhan agreed to be Xiaomeng's protector, but his personal freedom was still there, and now he wanted to go out once, Xiaomeng naturally had no opinion, and besides, Qin Zhan knew that they would meet again soon.

"Okay, then that's it, I'll go first. As soon as Qin Zhan's voice fell, his body flickered a few times, and he had already left the villa on the bamboo sea.

And what he didn't know, not long after he left, Xiao Meng looked in the direction he left, with a girlish and cunning smile on his face, and muttered: "Ruthless Dao, affectionate Dao, it seems to be very interesting!"

Hundreds of miles away in Shimenxia, a big drama is being staged here.

In the flying yellow sand in the sky, the iron cavalry of the three hundred Qin State is surrounding two people in the center, one of these two people is a middle-aged man and the other is a child, the middle-aged man is dressed in white, with a long sword in his hand, and the child is wearing half a piece of jade pendant around his neck, but it is Gai Nie and Tianming who defected from the Qin State.

"These two people are felons who were ordered to be arrested by Lord Xiangguo himself, and they carry major secrets that endanger the entire empire, and no one is allowed to act rashly without my order!" the iron cavalry general led by him ordered loudly, looking at Gai Nie in front of him, and couldn't help but sweat dripping down his forehead.

On the contrary, Gai Nie looked quite calm, closed his eyes and asked Tianming beside him, "Tianming, are you afraid?"

Tianming looked at the hundreds of iron cavalry in front of him, glanced at Gai Nie again, and said firmly: "Don't be afraid!"

"Do you know why so many of them don't kill them?" asked Ganie again.

Tianming carefully looked at the iron cavalry in front of him, and said slowly: "It seems that they are very scared. ”

"Not bad!"

"Are they really that scared of you?"

"What they are afraid of is not me, they are afraid of the consequences of blocking my way, you have to remember their eyes, and don't forget them in this life. Gai Nie slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes calmly looked at the hundreds of iron cavalry in front of him, as if they were nothing.

"Why?" asked Tianming innocently.

"Because that's the look of a weakling, you can't be a weakling!" said Ganie categorically.

Tianming looked at Gai Nie's eyes full of admiration, and then clenched his fists and said firmly: "I won't be afraid, I want to be strong, one day, I want to be as strong as my uncle!"

"If you want to be strong, don't avoid the fear in your heart, fear is not a weakness, the strong is to make your enemies more fearful than you!" Gai Nie said.

At this moment, the leader of the iron cavalry in the field suddenly spoke, threatening: "Gai Nie, you have no way to go, quickly lay down your weapons, Lord Xiangguo hopes that you can go back with us, if Mr. is willing to cooperate, we will definitely not hurt you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an iron cavalryman was too nervous and shot an arrow.

"Bastard!" the cavalry leader was furious.

The reason why he has not launched an attack is because Gai Nie's sword saint name is too big, and their iron cavalry is definitely a dead end against such a master of the rivers and lakes, how can this sudden sudden change not make him frightened and angry.

Sure enough, the next moment the heavens and the earth were filled with a powerful killing aura, and at the same time, a clear sword roar rang out.

And at this moment, a rather playful voice suddenly came into the ears of everyone in the audience: "Oh, Mr. Gai Nie is here, but let me find it!"

When the voice sounded, it clearly came from a long distance, but when the voice just fell, it seemed to be close to everyone's ears.

Everyone's eyes were on the field, and they saw a young man in green clothes standing between the Iron Cavalry and Gai Nie at some point.

"Daring, who are you to hinder the Imperial Army's capture of criminals!" shouted a soldier beside the Iron Cavalry.

Maybe because he was too scared by Gai Nie just now, he became extremely ruthless when he said this, as the so-called bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, nothing more than this.

That leader was a somewhat knowledgeable person, but by chance, he recognized Qin Zhan, knowing that he had a good relationship with the nearest imperial guest Qing Xiaomeng, so he immediately hurriedly clasped his fists and said to Qin Zhan: "My lord atoned for his sins, I don't know what happened here?"

Qin Zhan didn't mean to bother with them, he waved his hand and said, "You better retreat first, the battle here is not something you can meddle in!"

"This?" The leader of the iron cavalry suddenly hesitated when he heard this, although Qin Zhan had a special identity, he did not have the power to directly command them.

When Qin Zhan saw this, he immediately slapped his forehead, took out a token from his arms, threw it directly at the leader, and said, "Oh, forget about this, now you can retreat." ”

The leader of the iron cavalry grabbed the token, took it and looked at it, and immediately almost fell off the horse in fright, and when he heard this, he quickly got off the horse, quickly stepped forward and returned the token to Qin Zhan respectfully, and said with trepidation: "Yes, naturally." ”

After saying this, after he saw Qin Zhan nodding, he immediately turned around and waved his hand at the iron cavalry, and ordered: "The whole army obeys the order and retreats immediately!"

Gai Nie's mood was surging at this time, although he knew that Qin Zhan would definitely help them, but he didn't know that Qin Zhan dared to do it so blatantly.

Especially the token just now made him very curious, he had been Qin Shi Huang's guard for so long, he knew how strict the army system of the Qin State was.

It wasn't until those troops retreated that Qin Zhan turned around and smiled leisurely: "I gathered in the imperial capital a month ago, but I didn't expect to see the Sword Saint again in the blink of an eye. ”

Gai Nie was stunned when he heard this, and after discovering the look in Qin Zhan's eyes, he immediately said knowingly: "Gai Nie no longer serves the empire, don't say the name of the Sword Saint!"

As an excellent heir of the Zongheng family, Gai Nie's insight was naturally extraordinary, and he soon discovered that in addition to the three of them, there were other people peeping on the scene.

Qin Zhan saw that Gai Nie understood what he meant, and while secretly breathing a sigh of relief in his heart, he stretched out a palm and said: "Don't talk much, for the sake of our acquaintance, as long as the Sword Saint can beat Qin Mou today, I will let you go!"

Gai Nie's eyes froze, and he said slowly: "Since Brother Qin is interested, Gai will naturally accompany him!"