The rain kept falling. Yin Fan opened the white oil-paper umbrella that Zi Zheng gave him, looked at Zhou Xiaoyi through the rain curtain on the edge of the umbrella cover, and said loudly:

"In the next time calamity, can you ask General Zhou a question?"

Zhou Xiaoyi took a step forward, put Fang Tian's halberd on the ground, and said loudly:

"Your Excellency, please speak. ”

Yin Fan heard him use honorific titles, vanity was inevitably troubled, and he was secretly happy, and even his voice was a little gentle, and said:

"May I ask where Bai Mohou is now?"

The expression on Zhou Xiaoyi's face obviously became subtle, he groaned slightly, and said in a tentative tone:

"I don't know what Your Excellency's intention is to find Bai Mohou?"

"Do something that is beneficial to your Zhou Dynasty. I didn't want to give him such an answer, but thinking that Zhou Xiaoyi, as a general of the Zhou Dynasty, was naturally not wrong to have such concerns.

"It's rude. Zhou Xiaoyi saluted first and said, "Bai Mohou is now in Yunhan City, commanding his rebels to confront our Zhou Dynasty army near Yunbo Lake. ”

"Yunhan City?"

Yin Fan's brows couldn't help frowning, Yunhan City was located in the depths of Yunpo Lake in the lower reaches of Qishui, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Not to mention ordinary troops, I am afraid that if they defend well in advance, it will be quite difficult for cultivators in the Ruins Realm to infiltrate it.

Zhou Xiaoyi's eyes flashed, and he asked loudly, "Your Excellency is the golden mask that defeated the Seven Leaders of the Jue Spell in Sinan City, Yuanzhou?"

Hearing him call him so, Yin Fan came back to his senses from his thoughts. He and Zi Zheng rushed from Sinan City in Yuanzhou to Tongwei City, and the time in between was no more than three days. I didn't expect the news to spread so quickly, even the general who was on the march received the news.

Yin Fan didn't rush to answer, and thought carefully about the stakes between admitting and not admitting it.

The battle just now was obviously the old woman who belonged to the curse took the time to prepare, and even did not hesitate to ambush Zhou Xiaoyi at the cost of the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city.

From this point of view, the antagonistic relationship between Jue Mantra and the Zhou Dynasty is obvious, and he admits that he is the "golden mask" that kills the seven leaders, which can instantly close the relationship with Zhou Xiaoyi. And just now he killed the old woman at a critical moment, and the effect is self-evident to them.

Conversely, if you don't admit it...... It doesn't seem to be good at all.

"It's down there. Yin Fan, who figured this out in a short time, gave his own affirmative answer.

Zhou Xiaoyi showed a look on his face, and said with great admiration for fortitude:

"Your Excellency's deeds of saving the people of Sinan City, Yuanzhou, spread all over the two prefectures of Zhongzhou and Yuanzhou, and when you hear about it, you should admire it tightly, and men in the world should be like this! If Your Excellency does not dislike it, please ......" He suddenly found the corpse lying down nearby, and immediately changed his words and said: "Your Excellency can go to the Zhennan Wangfu of the Zhou Imperial City as a guest when you are empty, and the gate of the lower mansion will be open for you at any time." ”

"That's great. Yin Fan smiled and returned the salute. "There are still some things to do, so I won't bother the general and take my leave. ”

After Yin Fan finished speaking, he hid his figure and jumped off the roof and disappeared into the rainy night. During the time of the conversation just now, he was sure that Zhou Xiaoyi did not lock himself with his divine sense, so he prepared a plan to leave.

The thought that "this place is not suitable for a long time" in his mind was like a needle in his head, and he believed in this feeling.

When Tongwei City was built, it was thought that it would become the main road for trade between the north and the south, but because of the topography, the time and fatigue taken by the traders to climb and descend the slope was much greater than that of the Yiluo Plain.

Over time, the huge city that was originally built with a lot of money seemed empty because of the small population gathering.

Yin Fan hid in an alley near the north gate, except for the body that fell to the ground, he basically couldn't see Zhou Xiaoyi's iron horse. happened to see a shop selling fabrics and above, Yin Fan went in from the backyard, took a few sets of black clothes and put them in the storage bag.

He was about to go out when he suddenly realized that this was not right, and he took out several ingots of silver and put them on the table, so that he could feel at ease.

The rain outside was a little lighter than just now, but it still made people shrug their shoulders a little. In such a hurry, and he couldn't fly, Yin Fan decided to rest in this shop for one night.

Probably in the habit of leaning on the railing in the natal coffin, Yin Fan walked to the window on the side of the inner courtyard, sat on it and leaned against the window frame, looking at the rain outside.

-- It's time to be gentle.

The raindrops are not as sharp as just now, and at this moment they seem to be like small jasper, endless. The wind blowing from north to south disturbed the silver laurel tree in the yard and gently swayed its body.

In September, the flowering season of the righteous silver cinnamon, the soft fragrance passed through the gentle rain and spread in the courtyard and shop.

One door away, outside are patches of fallen corpses and blood, and this is a beautiful scenery with a fragrant face.

After sitting in such a daze for an hour, the clouds in the sky unconsciously dispersed, and although it was still raining like silk, a full moon had lit up in the sky.

The water in the courtyard is more than ten centimeters, and there are large fields of osmanthus floating on it, and a round moon is reflected in the upper right corner.

-- It's beautiful.

With such a feeling, Yin Fan's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and an irresistible feeling of sleepiness swept through his whole body.

-- I guess it's a child's time.

This was Yin Fan's last thought when he fell asleep. To Yin Fan's surprise, he didn't have any dreams, and when he opened his eyes again and woke up, the temperature around him was ridiculously high, and his nose was full of a strong smell of black oil.

Yin Fan took off the golden mask he had been wearing on his face and rubbed his eyes. Suddenly, he saw a red fiery light in the corner of his eye. Yin Fan was startled, turned over directly from the window frame, and looked at it, it was a flame burning at the edge of the house.

"The general has an order, the soldiers who threw the torches quickly left the city!" a herald's voice clearly spread to Yin Fan's ears.

Yin Fan was stunned, his face changed, and he immediately reacted to what Zhou Xiaoyi was going to do. All the people in a city are dead, and there is no way to spread the news, and I am afraid that there will be no people who come to live here in the future.

simply didn't do anything, and directly destroyed the city and threw it all to Bai Mohou.

Yin Fan hurriedly put on a mask, and his hidden figure turned out of the courtyard. Looking at the surrounding scenery, even cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Nearly eighty percent of Tongwei City is already in flames, and if you wake up late, I'm afraid the fire will burn directly on you.

It was also yesterday's overuse of the blood silk talisman, and the child sucked too much blood, which made me a little snooze today.

Yin Fan shook his head helplessly, and when he walked to the north gate, he found that the iron knight had just closed the gate, so he had to transform into a knight over the wall and walk out from the city wall. However, as soon as he arrived at the edge of the city wall, he heard Zhou Xiaoyi's resounding word "put".

Before Yin Fan came back to his senses, thousands of bows and arrows with sparks shot in from all directions outside the city like raindrops, and after falling into the city, there was a "bang", and the black oil on the street burst out of the blazing fire.

All the places within the city wall were covered in flames, and Yin Fan almost couldn't help but pull off his mask to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. He woke up only two minutes before and after, and if he had been any late, he would have made a big joke.

Zhou Xiaoyi, who was in the distance, saw the flames in the city, nodded, and shouted:

"Respect!"

Hearing these words, tens of thousands of iron horsemen stuck their spears in the ground, their waists straightened, their empty left hands clenched their fists against their right chests at lightning speed, and their heads were raised proudly.

A minute later, Zhou Xiaoyi picked up Fang Tian's halberd and pulled the reins of the horse, and the dark red war horse raised its front hooves and twisted its body in the neighing, galloping north. Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of iron horsemen turned around and followed Zhou Xiaoyi.

Yin Fan was shocked, he thought that these ordinary armies would not be able to cause damage to the cultivators at all, but Zhou Xiaoyi really taught himself a lesson.

Yin Fan was about to express two sentences with deep feelings, but the flames were getting bigger and bigger, and he felt that even his butt was about to be cooked, so he was so frightened that he jumped directly from the city wall and went to the northwest.

Seven days later, in the morning.

Going down the Qishui, Lao Zhang walked with a penny, the narrow fishing boat was full of fish baskets, and a few kingfishers stood at the stern, leisurely closing their eyes to recuperate.

"Boatman, boatman!"

At this moment, by the metasequoia-covered river in the distance, a man in black was holding the hem of his coat and shoes in one hand, and beckoning to this side with the other. His voice was comfortably magnetic, spreading out like ripples across the wide expanse of water.

Although Lao Zhang is old, his eyes are very good, and when he looks closely, he finds that he is a handsome young man, dressed neatly in this wilderness, and even has sideburns on the top of his head and uses a hair crown.

"Boatman, I'm lost, can you take me a ride near Yunhan City?" the young man asked with a smile when he saw Lao Zhang approaching.

The fishing boat, supported by a penny, turned around and approached the shore where the water was spreading. After entering the shade of the tree, the light was dim, and Lao Zhang could really see the appearance of this young man, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

The face is like a carving, the facial features are distinct, the angular face is handsome and abnormal, and the appearance seems to be debauched, but the inadvertent light in the eyes makes people dare not underestimate it. A tall nose with moderately thick red lips slightly open. At the moment, there is a dazzling smile on his face.

Lao Zhang was so shocked that he forgot to speak, he had been fishing in Qishui all his life, where had he ever seen such a character. Suddenly, he heard a hula sound, and three kingfishers flew out to fish, which brought him back to his senses.

"Ah, this son, what did you just say?" Lao Zhang coughed dryly, forgetting what the young man had just said.

"Boatman, I want to borrow your boat to go to the vicinity of Yunhan City downstream, this is the cost of my ride. The young man took out a minot.

Lao Zhang's eyes widened, this ingot of silver is boxy, at first glance it is not the style of Zhongzhou, but the color and shape are much better than those in Zhongzhou, and it seems that there are three taels to say the least.

"Childe, you ...... money"

"Boat house. The young man waded across the heel-to-heel water on the shore, put it in his hand, walked along the canopy to the stern and sat down, washed the yellow mud off his feet at the water's edge, and said with a smile: "In the wilderness, it is my blessing to be able to meet the boatman, you can accept it with confidence." ”

Lao Zhang was apprehensive in his heart, and wanted to shirk a few more words, but saw the young man wave his hand, looked at the wide Qishui River, and stopped talking.

Lao Zhang looked at the sky and found that it was still early, although he didn't go to Yunbo Lake on weekdays, he received so much money from this son today, so he would stop by and take a trip.

Along the way, the young man in black was also quiet, he didn't like to talk about things, and he didn't seem to be a person who liked to talk. Lao Zhang occasionally looked back at the young man when he was holding the penny, but he saw him staring at the wide water in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

Qishui comes from Jiusang Mountain, and there is no big city all the way down, and the water quality is much clearer than that of the Yi and Luo rivers. Looking at this son's dress, he must be a descendant of a big family somewhere, and he didn't know how to run to this barren mountain and forest.

Lao Zhang is also a person who is not good at words, and while silently supporting himself along the way, it is inevitable that he will think about the east and the west. When Lao Zhang looked back at the young man again, he suddenly saw that the young man was turning his head to look at him, and at the same time he smiled and called "boatman".

"Ah, Childe, I'm just ......" Lao Zhang thought that the young man didn't like others to look at him like this, and hurriedly explained.

"Isn't it peaceful near Yunbo Lake recently?"

"Near Yunpo Lake?" Lao Zhang's face was a little complicated, he sighed, and said, "Since Master Bai came out of Qicheng in front of Jiusang Mountain, where are there any peaceful days near Yunpo Lake. However, even so, the days when Master Bai was in charge were richer than those of Yunhan City in previous years. However, since it was rumored that the Zhou family had a new emperor, Yunbo Lake had gathered a lot of troops. The old man has no culture, and he doesn't know what quantity to use to describe it, but walking on the ground, he can meet the people of Master Bai for a while, and he can meet the people of the court for a while, which is very chaotic. ”

Lao Zhang's status and status, the whole family has been a fisherman for generations, if this kind of comment on the eldest lord and the emperor is spoken, it will inevitably be beheaded. But when he saw this young man, he couldn't help but want to pour out the nearest bitter water.

After saying these words, he secretly looked at the young man in black and found that he was not abnormal, and while secretly breathing a sigh of relief, he continued:

"The most frightening thing is those immortals who are not visible at all on weekdays, and these days there are more people who come and go higher than ants...... Ah, I'm not saying that the gods are ants, it's just that there are too many. ”

"I know. The young man in black smiled and nodded.

"There are also so many big wooden birds, and every time they appear, there are dozens of them. I used to think it was strange to see that thing and the gods, but now we can't avoid it when we see it. ”

"Why?" the young man had a puzzled look on his face.

"Hey, the gods fight, and the mortals suffer. These immortals are flying around in the air, and they are all immortal spells at will, and we ordinary people are seriously injured and dying, not to mention the spells like raindrops falling down, which really don't give people a way to live. After a pause, he said with some embarrassment: "Childe, I may send you to Fengqiao Town at most." Do you think you're going to go down to the north or to the south?"

"What's the difference?"

"Childe sees that you are a foreigner. Qishui leads directly to Yunbo Lake, and there is only one bridge nearby that connects the two banks of Qishui, that is, Fengqiao. But now Fengqiao Town was ruined by the gods a few days ago, and the two sides are not connected. The north of Fengqiao Town is now controlled by Master Bai, and the man of Fengqiao Town is controlled by the imperial court. ”

"Then go to the north. The young man in black said lazily.

"Okay. ”

Lao Zhang didn't think much about it, and went down the water. A few days ago, it rained heavily, and the water level was much higher than usual, and the water flow was also faster.

After walking like this for about two hours, the two of them talked about each other, and a large area of reeds appeared in front of them, and the town hidden behind them was faintly visible. Lao Zhang brought the boat closer to the shore, pointed to the town not far away, and said:

"Childe, that's the north of Fengqiao Town...... Huh......"

As far as the eye can see, there is still half a figure there. Only where the young man in black sat left a silver ingot.

North of Fengqiao Town.

Yin Fan patted the water droplets on his body when he walked through the reeds, stopped in front of the stone tablet engraved with the words "Fengqiao Town North" in black font and looked at it for a while, and then strolled into the town.

Although it is a town, the wide road is paved with bluestone slabs. On either side, there are two-story loft-like buildings that meander to the end of the hillside ahead. The passages between the buildings are only for a horse-drawn carriage to pass through, forming a series of winding alleys.

Although the "Fengqiao" connecting the north and south has been destroyed, because of the port, the north of Fengqiao Town is still full of vitality. However, the impact of the war has always been obvious, and there are even some disciples of the sect who have wandered around in this generation.

And it's not an ordinary small sect.

For example, there were four Heavenly Palace disciples walking directly in front of Yin Fan. This is nothing, but there are three Penglai disciples next to him. It is common to wander from the first to the second level of the Broken Spirit Realm, but there is a powerful one in the Heavenly Palace, and the cultivation is the fourth level of the Broken Spirit Realm.

Invisibly, the bodies of the people on both sides emitted a slight true element to fight.

Yin Fan was suddenly happy, and wanted to see what was going on with them. He deliberately lowered his cultivation to the ninth level of the Manifestation Realm, and pretended to walk to a sugar man street stall close to the two people. While taking a butterfly-shaped brown sugar and licking it happily, he peeked at what the two groups of people were going to do.

It was afternoon, neither sunny nor rainy, and the sky was gray, but there was a bit of smoke and rain.

This kind of weather made people feel a little irritable, and it didn't take long for a seventeen or eighteen-year-old junior sister in Penglai to hold back her anger, and turned around and said:

"You guys are endless, that magic weapon was picked up by senior brother, can you follow all the way and want to rob it?"

"What kind of thing are you? Senior Brother Hang Hongfeng just said to borrow your magic weapon to see, what are you hiding like you!" A junior sister in the Heavenly Palace was suddenly unhappy, and she didn't pretend to pick a bracelet, she turned her head and said coldly.

"You ......" Penglai's slightly weaker senior brother pulled the junior sister, but didn't hold it, only heard her stare and said: "You want to see? You have to say that the magic treasure was dropped by you, and you are afraid that you won't come back after taking a look? I almost robbed it just now, who dares to show it to you?"

"Our Heavenly Palace people have a lot of magic weapons, if it weren't for our magic weapons, we wouldn't want the rest of the tattered goods!" This junior sister of the Heavenly Palace is also very sharp-toothed, and she won't let it go at all.

"Enough. The fourth senior brother of the Heavenly Palace who broke the spirit realm frowned and whispered, and the senior sister immediately stopped speaking, it seems that the rumors of the Heavenly Palace's hierarchy are extremely serious, and it seems to be true.

Yin Fan looked at this senior brother with interest, seeing how he was going to theorize about this matter, but as soon as he said it, he was so shocked that Yin Fantang fell from his hand.

"If you don't take out the magic weapon today, don't think about stepping out of this Fengqiao Town for half a step!"