(PS: 4000 words is not too much, this is today's second and third more, there should be another one later.) ）

More than 20 days have passed in a flash.

It's the spring solstice in the blink of an eye.

Although the weather is still a little cold, it is obvious that the small world around this temple is gradually coming to life.

Some insects and beasts began to come out actively, and Su Chang'an's hunting life was much easier than before.

During this period of time, Qingluan had re-refined the inheritance star spirit left to her by Kaiyang, her cultivation talent was excellent, and she was recultivating, but in more than twenty days, she had already touched the threshold of the Nine Star Realm. Such a speed of cultivation made Su Changan envious.

And Su Changan's injuries have also recovered five or six layers under the recuperation of the past few days, but the remaining four layers cannot be recovered by relying on their own bodies, and they need to go to the town to find a specialist doctor with medicinal stones to get better.

After some discussion, the two planned to wait a few more days, and when Qingluan Nine Star was completed, they would leave for the town to find a doctor for Su Changan, take care of his body, and then go to Xiliang.

On this day, Su Changan, as usual, went out of the Taoist temple early and began to look for the things of this day.

His strength has recovered a lot, and Qingluan has more or less the ability to protect himself, so he can go to the farther woods to hunt, and by the way, he can also observe the surrounding terrain and whether there are towns.

During this time, he always ate some hares and pheasants, and it was inevitable that he would feel tired, so he also wanted to find some towns to buy some melons and fruits to spice up.

But he searched all over the four and twenty miles of land, but it was inaccessible.

Today he got up a little earlier, ran in the direction of the west for more than forty miles, and finally found a town at the foot of the mountain, he was happy and was thinking about going to buy something inside, but this thought came up, and he remembered that all his silver tickets were placed in Qingluan, so he had to give up.

Carrying the pheasants and hares that had been hit, they rushed back in the direction of the Taoist temple.

Only then did he arrive at the door of the Taoist temple, and he heard a noise inside, and even a faint man's voice.

Su Changan was shocked, how could he care about anything else, he threw the chicken and rabbit in his hand, and with a bang, Xiahou's blood came out of the sheath. He strode in, knife in hand.

I saw more than a dozen men in linen clothes surrounding Qingluan, pointing fingers and feet, and the foul language in his mouth was endless. Obviously, I passed by here inadvertently, and I was interested in it.

And Qingluan looked indifferent, holding a long sword, looking at them vigilantly with frosty eyes.

Su Changan could only see at a glance that the man at the head was in the Fanchen Realm, and the cultivation of the rest of the people was among the Nine Stars of Gathering Spirits.

He almost didn't think about it, and was about to step forward to behead a few people with a knife, but before he could move, Qingluan's body suddenly moved.

Her speed was not fast in Su Changan's eyes, but compared to her cultivation that was only a gathering spirit, it was already shocking, and even the men dressed as armored soldiers and officers were also shocked, and they couldn't imagine that this beautiful girl who didn't look like a gathering spirit would be so decisive and fast.

But after being slightly frightened, he sank down again, after all, this girl had only gathered in the Spirit Realm, and the subordinates he brought back were five or six in the Nine Star Realm alone, not to mention that he himself was also a master of the Fanchen Realm, so how could he not be a little girl's opponent.

Thinking so, the subordinates behind him also suddenly rushed out at this time, holding swords and slashing towards Qingluan.

"Don't hurt her life, Lao Tzu likes to live!" he shouted loudly, and the light in his eyes at the woman in green clothes became hotter and hotter. It was as if he had seen the appearance of being pressed under him and powerless to resist after subduing her.

But all these illusions dissipated in the next breath.

The soldiers he brought back from Xiliang had only been fighting with the woman in Tsing Yi for a while, and four or five of them fell to the ground.

Although this woman's cultivation is extremely low, her swordsmanship is excellent.

I saw that she was shocked, wandering back and forth like a leisurely walk in the siege of more than ten people, but no one's sword could touch the corner of her clothes.

And her sword didn't have many fancy movements, just stabs, straight and straight, so as not to drag the thorns of mud and water.

Drawing the sword and retracting the sword in one go, each time, it would leave a bloody mark on the eyebrows of a soldier, and also take his life.

The man at the head was terrified, and secretly said that he had encountered a hard stubble this time, and this matter might not be good. Although this woman's cultivation is not enough to gather spirits, this swordsmanship is a hundred times stronger than those swordsmanship masters who have been invading the sword for many years. Thinking of this, he did not dare to hold it up, and suddenly drew the long sword at his waist, and was about to kill into the crowd, and no longer peeped at the woman's appearance, only hoping to end her life.

But when this thought arose, a sword light struck from behind him, and he was horrified, and hurriedly turned around and raised his knife to block. What caught his eye was the figure of a young man jumping high and the long knife that flashed so brightly that he couldn't open his eyes.

Then, with a crisp sound, his trustman bought, the good Xiliang long knife was cut in half by the knife in the young man's hand, but he didn't have time to be shocked. The young man's knife continued unabated, and he directly slashed his right arm off his shoulder.

He felt a heart-rending pain in his right arm, and subconsciously covered the wound on his right arm with his remaining left hand, but unstoppable blood gushed out from there. And his body fell to his knees at this moment.

Behind him, several screams came, and in the horrified afterglow of his eyes, the cold-faced woman in Tsing Yi walked slowly with a long sword that was still stained with blood. Even if he didn't look back, he knew that all the people and horses he brought back from Xiliang had been killed by this woman's sword at this moment.

And the woman in Tsing Yi, who had always been cold-faced even if she was provoked by their foul language, smiled when she walked to the young man's side, and even gently wiped the sweat stains on his forehead with the corner of her clothes when he came all the way.

But he couldn't give birth to half jealousy, his heart was now filled with a thick fear, and he was secretly frightened of the two little evil stars that appeared at this time.

The two of them were young, and the women were only gathering spirits, but they alone blocked more than ten soldiers of the Gathering Spirits and the Nine Star Realm, and they were all killed in just ten breaths.

The man is even more excessive, and he is only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he is already a good player in the Taiyi Realm, which is a realm that many people cannot reach in a lifetime, you must know that in Xiliang, the commander who snorts and drinks on his head all day long is only in the Taiyi Realm. And even he would never have been able to knock him down so easily.

Thinking of this, he didn't care about any luck, so he hurriedly kowtowed to the ground, and said bitterly: "This hero, the little ones have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and they ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, which disturbed Mrs., and asked the hero to spare his life." ”

"Madam?" Su Changan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then glanced at Qingluan beside him, and couldn't help but blush. But Qingluan didn't seem to feel anything about it, and still used the corner of her fragrant clothes to wipe the sweat on his forehead quietly and intently.

The man saw that his pleas for mercy had not been answered, and his heart became even more anxious. hurriedly kowtowed again and again, and said: "The small family has the old and the young, and they all point to the small ones to feed, and I hope that the heroes have a large number, and let the small ones as a fart." ”

Su Changan was a little helpless about the man's crying words, he glanced at Qingluan, as if asking for her meaning, but Qingluan gave him a look - it was all up to him.

I have to say that it is a very happy thing to be so relied on and relied on by a person, but at the same time, Su Changan also feels that he has a great responsibility on his shoulders.

Thinking of this, he also made a decision in his heart.

"Ahem!" he coughed lightly, walked up to the man, and asked in a cold voice: "It's not impossible to let you go, but there are some questions, I have to ask you, if you tell the truth, I will let you go." ”

"But, if you have half a lie, then I'm afraid you will have to add another corpse to this temple!"

Su Changan's words were so fierce that the man was silent.

How dare he disobey half a sentence, and hurriedly nodded and said: "Yes, yes, hero, please ask, as long as the little one knows, he must know everything, and he will say everything." ”

"Who are you, where are you from, and what are you doing here?" asked Su Changan.

"The small one is from Youzhou, who fled from Xiliang, and there is nothing else to do here, but it just happened to pass by. The man hurriedly replied.

But Su Changan let out a cold snort at this time, and said in a cold voice: "Passing by, where are you going, you don't take the official road, but you just hide in this wilderness? I'll give you another chance, if you don't recruit from the truth, I will send you down to see your brothers now!"

The man's body shook, obviously shocked by the sudden chill on Su Changan's body, and he didn't dare to hide anything at the moment.

"The small one says that, this says that. ”

"In fact, the small ones have the ability of the soldiers under the Beitongxuan of the Xiliang God, but they just came in and the Xiliang war was tight, and the Yuanyun Pass fell into the hands of the barbarians, and the Beitongxuan guarded the Yongning Pass and did not retreat, and the martial king Fu Sanqian shrank in the Xiling Pass and did not help. The barbarians were so powerful that I consulted with a few of my brothers to save my lives, so I escaped from Xiliang. I was afraid of being recognized, so I kept walking on this remote path and didn't dare to walk on the official road. ”

Su Changan nodded when he heard this, he just saw that these people were ruthless, and they acted extremely quickly, and they also attacked and defended each other, they must not be ordinary martial artists, and now it seems that they were originally deserters from Xiliang.

You must know that defecting before the war is a serious crime in Dawei, and it will harm their families, so it is no wonder that they are so careful. Don't dare to walk on the official road.

But Su Changan was relieved, he was still worried that Sima Xu's minions had found here, but now he could breathe a sigh of relief. But from the man's words, there was something else that surprised him. He had only stayed in the dilapidated Taoist temple in this mountain col for more than twenty days, but he didn't want Xiliang's battle situation to reach such a point.

This place in Xiliang has been a perennial war between the human race and the barbarians since the previous dynasty.

In order to resist the iron cavalry of the barbarians, the former dynasty Taizu built three moats here, and these three moats are the three passes of Xiliang.

This first pass is the westernmost Yuanyun Pass on the border of Liangzhou, the Yuanyun Pass is outside the barbarians, and the Yuanyun Pass is a human race. The two races were separated by this pass, inside and outside the pass, separated by miles apart, but they were like two worlds.

This second pass is Yongning Pass, located in the hinterland of Liangzhou, for any dynasty, losing Yongning is losing Liangzhou.

As for the third level, it is Xiling Pass. This pass is the throat of the Central Plains attack from the Western Regions, if this pass is broken, the Central Plains portal will be opened, and the iron cavalry of the barbarians in the west is even more unscrupulous, but all the way to the east, straight to Chang'an.

Since the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, although the war was mostly tight, and there were also barbarians who avoided the pass and walked from the mountains and inserted into the hinterland of Liangzhou, but after all, the follow-up was weak, and there was no major movement in the end.

And the three passes of Yuanyun, Yongning, and Xiling have always been tightly held in the hands of Great Wei, but they didn't want the Holy Emperor to die for less than a month, and the barbarians stepped through the Yuanyun Pass and approached Yongning.

"Have you ever been in any town on the way here, and have you heard any news?" Su Changan frowned and thought about this, and asked again.

"En?" The man was startled, feeling that this question was a bit broad, and the news was naturally heard a lot, what the Holy Emperor died, the new emperor ascended the throne, what Yingfu came back from the dead, but he didn't know what question this young man was going to ask, for this reason, he hesitated a little, but he couldn't say anything for a long time.

Su Changan also realized at this time that he was asking a question that was a little wrong, he thought about it, and then asked again: "Have you ever heard that the imperial court has recently wanted someone?"

The man's heart was shocked, and he looked up at Su Changan suddenly, but saw that he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, carrying a double sword and a box of sword boxes on his back.

How similar is this to Su Changan, the traitor of Tianlan Courtyard who heard that he was wanted on the road!

His heart couldn't help but beat wildly at that moment. He realized that this was an opportunity, as long as he could escape from the boy's hands, and then leave his news to the government, and then he would not only be exempted from the crime of defecting, but he would probably also be able to reap a lot of benefits from it.

Thinking like this, he calmed down more and more, trying to make an appearance that he was unaware.

He frowned and thought about it very seriously, before he said, "No." ”

Naturally, he couldn't let Su Changan be vigilant, otherwise if this young man knew that he recognized him, how would he let him live?

Su Changan didn't doubt him about this, he felt that since this man had even said that he was a deserter, he shouldn't have deceived him in such a matter.

He then asked other questions, such as where the nearest town was and how to get there.

"After the hero asked?" After knowing everything and saying everything, the man saw that Su Changan had no intention of asking, so he raised his head, looked at Su Changan, and said respectfully and carefully.

"Hmm. Su Changan nodded.

"The little one can go? The big man just agreed, and if the little one answers honestly, he can spare the little one's life. The man said, his eyes filled with hope.

Su Changan looked at the man's eyes very seriously, he could read the man's desire for life, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, but this discomfort was quickly suppressed by him.

"Hmm. Su Changan nodded again.

The man's face showed a look of ecstasy, and he was about to bow down and thank Su Changan for his grace not to kill, but he heard the young man's voice sound again.

"Have you read the novel?" asked the boy.

"Yes. The man replied subconsciously.

"Are the heroes in the novel all true to their word?" Su Changan's voice was a little confused.

"That's natural, it's all like a hero, you do what you say!" The man didn't hear the strangeness in Su Changan's tone.

"Alas. Su Changan sighed lightly and said very regretfully: "It seems that I can't be the hero in the book." ”

At that moment, the ecstatic expression on the man's face froze, and the next moment, his head left his body forever after a sword light.