Night.

The clouds were thick.

The smoke clouds that have not changed for thousands of years in the mountains and ancient zes are still deep and deep, even if it is the bright moon on the fifteenth night, it can only leave a confused silver white.

A strange carriage appeared ten miles north of the ancient tomb of King Wuwu, outside the ruins of the blood sacrifice mountain village of the Wu clan in southern Xinjiang.

The carriage was pitch black, surrounded by withered yellow rune paper, like a coffin sealed with evil spirits. The cart was pulled by a paper horse that would only be used for funerals, and it was also covered with yellow paper, and it was driven by an unknown force to stride forward stiffly.

The carriage moved forward quickly, making a rolling sound, but strangely left no rut marks.

If you look closely through the fog, you can see that the wheels have never turned, and even the carriage has never been on the ground.

Its wheels were always about half an inch away from the ground, as if they were being carried forward by something.

But the sound of the wheeling axle kept ringing.

This strange picture, if it is seen by a timid person, I am afraid that it will not possess the body on the spot.

The carriage wandered around the ruins of the mountain village for a week, then turned and went straight through the ruins, heading straight for the southern hills, where the altar of the witch clan was located.

"This is the method of the Demon Dao Blood Sacrifice. ”

A clear and indifferent voice sounded in the carriage, but it was Yan Li.

"Use the Netherworld Refining Evil Array to block the flow of vitality around the village, and try to do the altar in the south, so that the living beings can live in the position of the north of the water, so as to cope with the door of death...... It's a shoddy approach. Yan Li said indifferently.

"It's also a tragic method. The second young man's voice sounded in the carriage, it was Guiyun, "Sect Master, I still don't think I understand......

"Don't you understand something?" Yan Li asked leisurely.

"Why did we make the carriage like this and come out to investigate?" said Guiyun with a frown. He thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't know why Yan Li had to prepare such a strange carriage to go out.

This carriage is full of ghosts, no matter how you look at it, it is the car of evil cultivators!

"Hehe......" Yan Li chuckled and asked rhetorically, "How many enemies are there?"

"Two witch cultivators, plus corpse demons, there are at least three ......," Guiyun replied seriously.

"Hmm. Yan Li nodded, "There are three opponents, and they are all congenital or above cultivation, and the corpse demon is the descendant of the Demon Sect and the peak of Gangsha, and the two of us together are not opponents at all." Even...... Once encountered, we didn't even have a chance to escape......"

If someone else were to observe, they would definitely complain that the main cultivation of the Cloud Sect was too low and completely unreliable. But in Guiyun's heart, he never had such thoughts. In his opinion, the suzerain is the suzerain, and he is always right.

"With this carriage, the people of the ghost path are likely to mistake us for our fellow believers, not only will there be enough time for us to escape, but there may also be a chance to get information. Yan Li continued to explain, "What's more, I also intended to experiment with the Ghost Dao Method. As it turned out, this method of exorcism was much simpler than I expected. ”

That's right, as Yan Li said, this carriage is completely driven by the art of exorcism, summoning the power of ghosts, so it can float in the air, and it still has a strange aura.

With Yan Li's subtle cultivation, he can easily depict the ghost formation on the carriage, and with the help of the spell rune to achieve such a degree, it can be seen that the special surname of the ghost cultivator:

Although the ghosts and gods are all within the scope of the cultivator's power, the ghost power is far less than the divine power, and the time of service is far easier than borrowing the divine power. However, ghost cultivation is easy to get started, but it is limited to the coarseness of the ghost power itself, and it is difficult to reach the subtleties.

Moreover, this carriage can only achieve silent levitation, and it is completely impossible to fly quickly and fly away.

After hearing this, Guiyun was still a little puzzled, and continued to ask: "But, Yizong...... Uh, with Senior Brother Yan's means, he should be able to open the Thundering Immortal Gate at any time and escape, why bother?"

"Huh. The reason why hole cards are hole cards is that they cannot be used lightly. Moreover, using the top secret of the Cloud Sect to deal with these miscellaneous fish would inevitably be a loss of the identity of the sect master. Yan Li smiled.

In fact, he didn't care about the identity and style of the sect master at all.

He didn't want to use his hole cards, on the one hand, for the sake of secrecy, and on the other hand, using the privilege of the Lord of the Cloud Sect to win was tantamount to cheating in this small crisis, not only did it not help the situation more, but it made him lose the opportunity to understand the changes in people's hearts.

That's not what he wants to do.

Thinking about her previous life, Yan Li has also read many legendary stories. Among them, the protagonist is often extremely hard, has to endure humiliation, self-abuse practice upgrades, and exhausts all hole cards, just to win a chance to turn over.

Whenever she sees such a plot, Yan Li thinks: People are not reptiles, they have to rely on their minions to survive, a little bit of adversity, and they don't want to borrow various situations to resolve them, but they have to be forced to abuse themselves, isn't it stupid?

Could it be that in the so-called adversity, there really is no opportunity to retreat and practice with peace of mind?

It is true that in a high-martial world, everyone's cultivation is the most important yardstick, and those who have no strength have no status. However, constantly moving forward for the sake of strength, it seems that he is advancing vigorously, but in essence, he is just constantly setting up a higher level of enemies for himself, and his own situation will not change in the slightest.

defeated the warrior, and the monk, and the monk had a Jindan Grandmaster on his head. After killing all the golden pills, he jumped out of the old monsters, and after destroying this group of old immortals, he realized that the gods and Buddhas in the sky all looked at him unpleasantly.

In fact, there are gods in the head. When dealing with martial artists, you should understand that this is a point of no return. If there is no author to open the protagonist template, any genius will die.

As early as thousands of years ago, Zhuangzi made this situation very clear: "With an end, there is no end, and there is no end." It means that the process of pursuing the infinite with a finite life is a dead end. Later generations of cultivators pointed out a clear path with two poems:

The purity of the heart is the way, and the backward is the forward.

In many cases, going backward is actually moving forward. This is one of the basic tenets of Taoist philosophy.

Today, the trial of the ancient tomb of the Martial King was smashed in a variable. Even Yu Qingyue, who was in charge of this matter, could no longer see any way forward when he was dying, so he could only hold on to his last breath, arrange the aftermath for the prince, and keep the most important seed.

But in Yan Li's view, such an endgame is still promising.

Without him, take a step back and open the sky, that's all.

This step back will make the damned people die in this game.

And the way many people die will be decided in the itinerary of the weird carriage!

Of course, these ideas can't be thought of by simply returning to the clouds. He very much agreed with Yan Li's statement that he "lost his identity as the suzerain". Compared with the lord of the Cloud Sect who only existed in legends, the Southern Xinjiang Wu Clan, the Demon Gate Corpse Demon, and even the Jade Emperor Temple in Western Qin and the Splendid Palace in Yunping Mountain were all insignificant.

Driven by the power of the yin wind and ghosts, the carriage fluttered like a ghost, and quickly went all the way south, and after a cup of tea, it came to the outside of the ancient tomb formation of the Martial King, slowly circled around, and then turned to the northeast and galloped away.

"Good news, the corpse doesn't seem to have escaped. It seems that the prohibition imposed on her by the Martial King is not just an outer formation. Yan Li said indifferently, "If she flies away and hides her tracks from now on, it will be really troublesome to find her." ”

"Hmm. That corpse demon is hard to deal with. Guiyun nodded, then pursed his lips and whispered, "If it weren't for the great decline in my mother's cultivation, I wouldn't have to be afraid of her ......."

"Oh?"

"Mother, she...... When she gave birth to me, in order to ensure her qualifications, she used a lot of origin cultivation to conceive and raise the original fetus...... Therefore, I was born with a cultivation equivalent to innate refining marrow, and it is a sixth-grade spiritual root......" Guiyun explained intermittently.

"It's not your fault. Yan Li touched Guiyun's head and said softly, "Actually, this incident was my mistake from beginning to end. ”

When Guiyun heard this, his eyes widened, he looked at Yan Li, and asked in surprise, "How can you blame the sect master?"

"Since it's not the situation I want to see, it's my mistake. Yan Li's tone was infinitely confident, as if he had everything under control, "I won't make the same mistake a second time." ”

"Zong...... Where did Senior Brother Yan make a mistake?" Guiyun asked in a low voice.

"I underestimated the stupidity of the Warrior King. Yan Li concluded.

"......" Guiyun was silent for a long time, and did not answer—as the successor of the Yun Sect, he would not be disrespectful to any Yun Sect real person, and instead asked, "That...... Where are we going now?"

"The Martial King's formation is not completely destroyed, it is still functioning, and the breath of the corpse demon is also there. However, we wandered around the tomb for a long time, but we didn't see any movement from the corpse, which shows that she is very tightly restricted. This reveals a lot of information. Yan Li began to analyze the situation.

"The ancient tomb is only ten miles away from that village, which shows that the yin qi is not strong in the past, otherwise the lives of the villagers have already been affected and they will not live in peace for a long time. So, where did the Yin Qi and Ghost Power borrowed from the Martial King's huge formation as the origin?

"Moreover, the trial is limited to the participation of juniors during the blood exchange period, and the strength of the corpse demon is too strong to be used in the trial, otherwise all the disciples of the ghost city of Fengdu will be killed by the corpse demon, and it will be difficult for the King of Martial Arts to explain. So, for what purpose did he imprison the corpse here?

"The biggest possibility is that he uses the corpse demon as the core of the formation, and collects its huge corpse qi to promote the formation. At the same time, you can also use the corpse demon as the last line of defense of the formation, beware of accidents. It's just that King Wuwu didn't expect that the formation would be cultivated by the ghosts of Southern Xinjiang, and the method of blood sacrifice would be used to obtain evil power, and a gap would be broken from the periphery, so that the corpse demon would temporarily get out of the formation.

"To make such an arrangement, the Martial King is not stupid enough to go home. From this point of view, this corpse demon must be an evil creature that the six relatives do not recognize, and after repelling you last night, he will definitely fight back against those two evil cultivators in the southern frontier. The fact that the two evil cultivators did not attack the formation again and tried to release the corpse demon is the evidence. ”

In fact, there is a very important point in this long discussion that is not said:

Since the Martial King used the corpse demon as the last line of defense, he was not afraid of someone attacking the formation from the periphery. And Yu Qingyue and Wangyun obviously didn't know this, and seeing the tragic situation of the blood sacrifice in the mountain village, they hurriedly started with the evil cultivators, so that the murderous corpse demon had a chance to fight back.

It can also be seen from this that there are many omissions in the layout of the Martial King!

However, this passage cannot be said in front of Guiyun again, otherwise it will inevitably make Guiyun have the idea that his mother and Yu seniors died in vain.

After analyzing, Yan Li paused, gave Guiyun a little time to think, and then asked, "Hearing all this, you might as well think about it, where will the two evil cultivators go?"

All along, Yan Li has been guiding Guiyun to think. After knowing the loyalty and watchfulness of the Guiyun clan for thousands of years, he was even more meticulous.

Guiyun thought about it very seriously, but still shook his head: "I can't think of it." ”

"Huh. Yan Li chuckled, "You have to think of it: after the victory, the corpse demon suddenly counterattacked, how could the two of them retreat with their whole body?"

Guiyun's eyes lit up, and then they darkened again, and said, "They are injured, but how do we know where they are healing?"

"You should think first: What means does the ghost cultivator want to use to heal his wounds?"

"It's best to use the sinister aura. Guiyun said cautiously, "The Yin Wind Ghost Cave in the depths of Guze, I don't know if they can find it......"

"Can't find it. Yan Li affirmed, "If they really find that Yin Wind Ghost Cave, the Martial King has already sent news that the demon has been conferred." ”

"That's true. Guiyun nodded, and then thought, "Where is there enough Yin Qi?"

Shanlan Guze is the hometown of Yunzong, and it has been cleaned up for thousands of years. Jianchuan City has three major sword gates, and there will not be many flaws......

Guiyun thought about the direction in which the carriage was going, and finally suddenly realized: "It's a mass grave twenty miles southwest of Jianchuan City!"

"That's right. Yan Li nodded.

The carriage passed briskly through the clouds and mist, and in half an hour, it had come to the periphery of the mass grave.

In peacetime, there was a mass grave with extremely heavy yin qi, but now it is even more evil.

Surrounded by mist, the turquoise ghost fire flickered, and the yin wind swirled among the dead trees around it, sending out a cold wail.

Obviously, there are ghost monks who are doing things to summon yin.

Yan Li's carriage was not afraid at all, and was driven by ghost power, straight through the mist of ghost fire, and went straight to the center.

The soundproof circle in the car was quietly opened, so that the conversation in the car did not leak in the slightest.

"This ghost power aura is much weaker than the one in the Blood Sacrifice Mountain Village. Yan Li looked at the clouds in front of him and deduced, "It seems that the old evil cultivator is quite seriously injured, and only the young one is here." Guiyun, one-on-one, how sure are you that you will kill him?"

Guiyun's dark little eyes flashed, and he gritted his teeth a little and said in a deep voice: "Even if he has the strength of the formation, I am fifty percent sure!"

Yun Sect guards the mountain demon spirit, why is he afraid of the rough and evil of the outer way?

"Fifty percent is enough. Yan Li made a decision.

"Do it!"

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ps. This chapter is obviously stuck, but the poor road actually wrote it for 5 hours...... God, the hand cripple doesn't carry such a thing!

Today is the second chapter of the wood. But yesterday's arrears will definitely be made up - >.<

(Covering his face and running in tears...... ）