The trees here are luxuriant, the flowers are green and the leaves are green, the vines and grasses are everywhere, the mountain breeze blows, making the leaves rattle, but it is more set off the quiet and pleasant people of this place, it is really a good desert fairyland, but the monsters that have just been seen are really terrifying, and everyone is depressed, and they really have no intention of enjoying the surrounding scenery.

Xuanjing walked up to Li Shuxiu and asked, "Li Shaoxia, according to that map, how far are we from the palace of the Barbarian King?"

Li Shuxiu trusted Xuanjing at this time, and did not shy away from it, took out the map from her arms, unfolded it, spread it on the ground, and watched it with everyone, she pointed to a green space on the map, and said, "We are probably here." He raised his head, looked around, and said, "According to the direction we have traveled before, if we go north, and then go around a labyrinthine valley, we will reach the place where the palace is. ”

Xuanjing asked the goshawk again: "...... young man?"

Hearing his call, the goshawk hurriedly jumped up and asked, "What does the old Taoist command?"

Xuanjing said, "If we do find the treasure, do you know how we can return to the desert?"

Goshawk sighed, "I was not trapped here at that time, and I didn't encounter any hyenas blocking my way, but I returned from that mountain wall. However, in the current situation, I am only afraid of ......"

Li Linhong took the map and looked left and right, and said: "Since this palace is built in the deepest part of the valley, I guess there must be a safe secret passage inside." Since we have no way out, we can only take one step at a time. ”

Everyone pondered the map in detail, and felt that what Li Linhong said was quite reasonable, and their hearts were a little settled, and their courage doubled.

The county lord of Jiuhe remembered that this time he went out of the palace to explore the secrets, the road was not smooth, and he encountered hardships one after another, and almost all the subordinates who came with her were wiped out, and he couldn't help but look melancholy and frown, Xuanjing persuaded: "County lord, the old man has received the emperor's great favor, even if he fights for his life, he will definitely escort the county lord out of this place safely." ”

The county lord pouted, tears rolled in his eyes, and said: "I am really too willful! If I hadn't listened to my father's advice and insisted on coming to this desert, I would not have killed so many loyal subordinates.

In fact, Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, originally thought that she was just a whim, and she was messing around for a while, and she would never find the palace of the barbarian king, and she had always been arrogant to her, so she had to wander in the desert. Who would have thought that she would really enter this desert labyrinth by mistake, if he had known this, how could he let the county lord of Jiuhe come here?

Xuanjing's face turned pale, and he said: "The county lord's words are wrong, if you give up on yourself, how can you be worthy of so many guards who sacrificed their lives to save the driver? How can you be worthy of the emperor's nurturing grace?

The county lord was trained by him, his heart was very sad, he couldn't bear it anymore, he cried out, Xuanjing knew that he was talking seriously, and hurriedly apologized to her, Jiuhe County Lord said softly: "The Taoist chief is right, it was my fault just now, I said inappropriately, I really should be beaten and scolded." ”

Xuanjing laughed and said, "The county lord is really a good daughter of the emperor. ”

The goshawk was cleaning his wound with water on the side, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but think: Although this county lord and Lao Dao are Mongolian Tartars and traitors, their nature is not bad.

Li Shuxiu looked at the terrible wound on the goshawk's body, and was shocked in his heart, and secretly thought: Just now, in order to cure the poison on my body, the goshawk brothers even did not hesitate to give up their own lives, and they fell into this thousand knives, and were almost stabbed into a thousand holes, but afterwards they didn't say a word about it, as if this move was a matter of course. This kind of self-sacrificing chivalrous heart for others is a truly great character, but I am afraid that the heroic heroes that Master said are nothing more than that. How can I repay such a great favor?

Thinking like this, her heart was surging, and her gratitude was surging and unsettled, and it had not subsided for a long time.

Everyone was frightened, and they slept quite unsteadily this night, but fortunately there were no other monsters attacking afterwards, and the place was too quiet, everyone was wary for a while, and finally fell asleep in a daze, and when they woke up in the morning, they found that the sun was shining among the trees, and the golden light was dotted, and the light and shadow were dappled, which made people feel hopeful.

Li Shuxiu looked at the map several times, memorized the next journey, and led his companion out of the woods and into a valley. This section of the mountain road is much shorter than before, and there are not many forks, the road is quite spacious, and after walking for only two hours, Li Shuxiu stopped, looked at the map repeatedly, and said in confusion: "Strange? This map is a little inconsistent with the situation in front of you." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but cry out in distress, and they all thought: If this map is fake, and this valley is so complex and rugged, won't we be trapped here?

Xuanjing looked at the map, looked up at the road in front of him, and shouted, "What a strange! This map was not wrong before, how can it be completely wrong when it arrives here?"

It turned out that the map depicted a mountain peak with a cave in the middle of the mountain that led to a palace in the depths of the canyon. But the vision is completely different, it is still an endless mountain slope and stone wall, where is the shadow of the mountain peak?

Li Shuxiu frowned, walked to the front of the mountain wall, stretched out his hand and knocked, and found that this was not an illusion, walked around and looked around carefully, but did not see the hidden door.

She thought for a moment, looked towards the goshawk, and found that the goshawk was staring blankly ahead, not knowing what to think.

She asked, "Brother Goshawk, have you been here and do you know how to move forward?"

The goshawk snorted and said, "How would I know?" and reached out to scratch his head, and said, "Even if I knew, I wouldn't say it." ”

When everyone heard this, hope was born in their hearts, and they all stared at the goshawk with earnest eyes.

Li Shuxiu felt a little funny, and asked with a smile, "Why don't you say it?"

Goshawk said: "If I don't know, at most I will be trapped here, and no one will suspect me." If I knew the truth, I would inevitably arouse suspicion and interrogate me coldly. ”

When Xuanjing heard this, he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, coughed, and said: "Cang Shaoxia, the old man is old, and he is indeed a little paranoid. ”

The goshawk laughed dryly and looked up at the sky with a rather disdainful expression.

Li Linhong knew that the goshawk had a strange temper, sometimes he was knowledgeable, sometimes he was irritable and reckless, sometimes he understood the righteousness, sometimes he was crazy, sometimes he was well-behaved and obedient, and sometimes he was not in the oil and salt, and he was also tortured all the way, and he knew how to deal with him, so he raised his eyebrows and said to Zhao Sheng: "Xiao Sheng, go and persuade Brother Goshawk." ”

Zhao Sheng responded, hugged the goshawk's wrist like a little monkey, and begged: "Brother goshawk, just tell everyone how to go, everyone is trapped here, and their stomachs are croaking with hunger." ”

The goshawk immediately bowed down and shouted, "Obey...... Life. He wanted to say that he would obey the order, but he finally reined in and reacted.

He walked to the front of the mountain wall, closed his eyes, shook his head, raised his long sword, aimed at his temple, Li Shuxiu's beautiful eyes widened, and said strangely: "Brother Goshawk, you are ......"

The goshawk's wrist trembled, and the long sword stabbed straight to the head, but with a light touch on his acupoint, some blood was stabbed, and he immediately retracted, and then he opened his eyes and said, "Go with me." ”

He followed the direction of the sunlight and walked towards a thick boulder, and when he reached the front of the boulder, everyone saw a flower in front of them, and found that the goshawk had disappeared.

The county lord of Jiuhe asked, "Xiao Sheng, this person ...... Does this man know magic?"

Zhao Sheng learned the tone of the goshawk and said: "County Lord, if someone tells you that there are spells in this world, it must be slander, don't believe it, Brother Goshawk must have other magic methods......" Before he finished speaking, he saw that the goshawk's head seemed to be half pierced out of the rock, and he said: "Why are you still stunned, come in with me." ”

Everyone was amazed, Zhao Sheng cheered and ran up, the goshawk picked him up, and the two walked into the rock together, so everyone hurriedly followed in, and sure enough, they found that there was a hidden cave in the rock, but it was extremely secret, if it wasn't for the goshawk's guidance, they couldn't see it anyway.

Li Shuxiu asked: "Brother Goshawk, what the hell is this ......?"

Goshawk smiled: "I later figured it out, but I am afraid that the person who built the labyrinth is proficient in the magic method of the Bagua Ecstasy Array, using the magic of feng shui, with the help of the strange sunlight and shadows in this valley, the recess is the convex place, but the shadow is not the shadow, step by step obstacles, squinting everywhere, and hiding this secret passage without revealing the slightest." ”

Li Shuxiu asked again: "Then how did you find it?"

The goshawk patted his temple and said, "I have to make myself groggy so that there are three afterimages in front of me before I can see the way through these ghost doorways." ”

Li Shuxiu couldn't help but exclaim: "Brother Goshawk, you are really ...... It's so knowledgeable. She wanted to say "pedantic celestials", but she hadn't spoken Chinese for a long time, and the idiom was too rusty to remember it all at once.

The goshawk smiled: "Don't be busy complimenting me yet, this gossip ecstasy array is not over yet." ”

He continued to lead the way, and the people followed, looking at the cave, which at first glance seemed to be impassable, but a dead end. But the goshawk was familiar with it, sometimes he sniffed with his nose, sometimes he stabbed with his sword, sometimes he somersaulted out of thin air, sometimes he lay on the ground, and seemed to be listening to the sound of the earth with his ears.

After working like this for an hour, everyone's eyes lit up, and they found that the road ahead suddenly opened up, and at the same time, the sound of rushing water was heard in the distance.

The goshawk laughed loudly: "It's here! It's here! This is Yucheng." It is also the palace abandoned by the barbarian king. ”

Everyone walked out of the cave in awe, looked up at the scene ahead, and couldn't help but exclaim in unison.

I saw the green mountains and green water in the distance, the gorge was far away, the white clouds were fluttering, the water mist was rising, and on the top of the mountain peak, it was a splendid palace.