Zhao Xuan suddenly thought that since the moment Li Zhichang followed him, Li Zhichang's fate had changed. ∮ this transformation is extremely subtle and has little effect in the short term. But if Li Zhichang is just an ordinary person, it is better to say that under the entanglement of cause and effect, it may not change until hundreds of years later, or it may be directly crushed by the wheel of history. But now Li Zhichang has also become a master, and he is also a core disciple of the Quanzhen Sect, if you want to talk about variables, Ouyang Ke may be one, but Li Zhichang is even more of a variable among variables.

For example, if Ouyang Ke's variable was made by Heavenly Dao to replace Ouyang Feng, Li Zhichang's variable was because he was too close to him, and it can be said that it was completely caused by him.

If Li Zhichang had been following him and obeying his orders, he would naturally not let Li Zhichang get involved in the general trend of the world. But what if Li Zhichang doesn't follow him?

Under the pressure of the general trend of heaven, did Li Zhichang swim against the current, or was he shot dead on the beach?

Zhao Xuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The night passed in a flash, and since then, everyone has lived on this island temporarily. While Hong Qigong was healing, he taught Huang Rong the method of beating the dog stick, and Zhao Xuan watched from the sidelines. Or when Hong Qigong was healing, he studied the "Qinglian Sword Codex" with Li Zhichang. After more than ten days in a row, when Hong Qigong basically recovered from his injuries and finished passing on the dog-beating stick method, everyone boarded the ship again and returned home.

The next few days were calm, and the group took a small boat all the way west, smooth sailing, and only landed on land after five days.

It was dark and the six men came ashore and slept on the beach for the night. In the early morning of the next day, the morning sun slowly rose from the sea, Zhao Xuan greeted the rising sun, sat cross-legged, and continued to deduce the "Asking the Heart Sutra" that fused the "Qinglian Sword Codex" in his heart, condensing the Dao heart and eliminating the stubborn sword heart. Hong Qigong played a set of eighteen palms of dragon descending next to him, and Li Zhichang was also fusing the "Qinglian Sword Codex" to comprehend his own swordsmanship. Everyone has something to do. Guo Jing and Huang Rong were busy preparing meals for everyone, and Zhou Botong jumped up and down, shouting for everyone to be quicker, and take him to play after eating.

At this time, the location of everyone belonged to Lin'an Mansion, Hong Qigong couldn't bear Zhou Botong's entanglement, and couldn't help but say: "This place is not far from the Great Song Dynasty Imperial City, and Lao Zhaohua once ate a bowl of 'Mandarin Duck Five Treasures' in the Imperial Kitchen of Da Nei, which is extremely delicious." Now that we're in a great calamity, and we want to taste it again, why don't we go with us?"

Huang Rong's eyes lit up and said, "Wow, wow, I want to see what kind of delicacy the master praises!"

Zhou Botong naturally will not refuse, for him, as long as someone plays with him, it is excellent, not to mention that there is delicious food. However, Zhao Xuan shook his head and prevaricated: "It's better for you to go, the poor road won't join in this fun." ”

"Why?" asked Huang Rong in surprise.

After more than ten days of getting along on the island, the relationship between her and Zhao Xuan has eased, but when she heard Zhao Xuan's refusal, she still couldn't help but guess: Is he still blaming me?

Zhao Xuan smiled and replied, "Then Ouyang Feng's martial arts such as the Tianshan Folding Plum Hand have some origin with me, so I want to go to the Western Regions." ”

Previously, he had already learned from Ouyang Feng's memory the location of the White Camel Villa and the Vulture Palace, and Huang Rong and the others in the palace this time were nothing more than plots such as Wu Mu's suicide note and Nandi Yilan.

That Wu Mu's suicide note, when he challenged Qiu Qianren before, he had secretly gone to the Iron Palm Peak to read it once, but it was just an art of war, and he had already learned the Yang Finger of the Duan family in Dali, and the Southern Emperor could see or not see it. In this way, it is better to go to the Western Regions, not only to increase experience, but also to see if Li Qiushui's exercises engraved in the Western Xia Palace are still there.

At this time, it was 1223, the sixteenth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, the nineteenth year of Tiankai in Dali, the thirteenth year of Guangding in Western Xia, and the first year of Qianding. It was only four years since Western Xia was destroyed by the Mongols.

Zhao Xuan took Li Zhichang with him, waved goodbye to Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Hong Qigong, and Zhou Botong, and went all the way to the west. When passing by Xiangyang City, Zhao Xuan wanted to go to Dugu Sword Tomb to see if Dugu was still defeated. But thinking of his current realm, he was at a critical juncture, and finally had to give up this idea.

After that, it was to enter the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the corpses were everywhere along the way, and the killing continued, until the land of Western Xia, and the war still did not stop.

This is a real troubled era, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty fought, the Mongols fought with the Western Xia, the Tibetan and other departments were also in constant disputes, almost every day people were killed, every month there was a war, every moment many people died.

The sky kills the machine, the stars change the house, the earth sends the killing machine, the dragon and the snake rise to land, the man sends the killing machine, the heaven and the earth repeat. At this time, he kills the secret cloth, but there is no clear master. Just wait for 100 years later, heaven and man will be combined, and the foundation will be determined!

After Zhao Xuan took Li Zhichang to Western Xia, he lingered for two months, and even learned a lot of Western Xia characters in order to find the martial arts carved by Li Qiushui, but unfortunately until the end, he did not find the secret room in the Western Xia Palace.

He didn't force it, the reason why he came to find Li Qiushui's martial arts was because he was curious about how Bai Hong's palm power was generated, and whether he could find it or not was actually not too important to him.

After the two of them traveled west again, and found the Ethereal Peak Vulture Palace, after entering to watch, they saw that there was really broken walls, desolate and full of eyes, the two searched for it, and only found the Tianshan Folding Plum Hand, Tianshan Six Yang Palm, Life and Death Talisman, and Transmission Soul Search** Four martial arts. The handwriting of the Transsonic Soul Search** is different from the previous three exercises, which are obviously engraved later, and there is no doubt that this exercise is left by Xuzhu.

As for why Xuzhu transmits sound and soul search**, it is not for Zhao Xuan to know.

Originally, it was not necessary for them to go to the White Camel Villa at this time, but Zhao Xuan had already guessed that Ouyang Ke was a variable created by the Heavenly Dao. After leaving the East China Sea, Ouyang Ke's whereabouts could not be found. The White Camel Villa was his lair, and maybe he was there right now.

Zhao Xuan thought about whether he could learn anything from Ouyang Ke's "variable", and by the way, to see what was the difference between the variables created by the Heavenly Dao and the variables he "made", so he took Li Zhichang and continued to travel west, straight into the depths of the Western Desert.

White Camel Mountain Resort is located in an oasis deep in the desert, surrounded by rolling yellow sand and the endless Gobi Desert. Zhao Xuan only knew its general location, and he knew the danger in the desert, so he naturally made full preparations. There was no shortage of clothes, food, water, etc., and I bought a few camels and explored the specific path, so I set off with Li Zhichang.

The temperature difference between day and night in the desert is very large, but both of them have internal strength, and they can basically achieve cold and heat without invading.

But the luck of the two did not seem to be very good, and on the fifth day of entering the desert, they encountered a major storm.

The wind in the desert came very quickly, and the sky that was still clear and the trade winds seemed to be darkened in an instant.

The fine sand was swept up by the wind, shrouding Zhao Xuan and the two in an overwhelming dust, Li Zhichang had never seen such a scene, seeing that the visibility around him was getting lower and lower, and shouted: "Uncle Shi, what should we do!"

Although Zhao Xuan was also seeing such a scene for the first time, he was much calmer than Li Zhichang. Seeing that the wind was blowing more and more fiercely, the wild sand was raging, and everywhere was a dull yellow. He lifted his eyes to the distance, turned his back to the wind and shouted: "Don't be afraid, according to the previous investigation, there should be a ruin of an ancient city in front of you." The wind in the desert comes and goes quickly, so let's take shelter there!" Holding the camel in one hand and Li Zhichang in the other, he walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Li Zhichang was also like Zhao Xuan, pulling the camel with one hand and holding Zhao Xuan tightly with the other. The wind was blowing from the west, and they were going in the opposite direction, and if the camels had not added weight, it would not have been long before they would have been blown away by the stronger and stronger winds. The two men did not dare to slack off, so they left the rest of the camels and drove forward with only the two that they had ridden.

Fortunately, they didn't have any extra equipment, and food, water, etc. were all loaded in Zhao Xuan's Xuanzhu space.

After the previous shipment, although Zhao Xuan did not explain the reason to Li Zhichang, he did not hide his "special function" that could load things. At this time, the two camels can also follow the battle, and the speed is much faster than that of ordinary caravans.

Turning a large sand mountain, the desert terrain suddenly rises here. Zhao Xuan looked around and vaguely saw two figures coming behind him. But at this time, he found a ruined section of the city wall in front of him, and a large rammed earth fortress underneath, which was obviously the ruins of the ancient city he had heard about before. At the moment, where would he be behind someone, he directly greeted Li Zhichang and ran towards the ancient city.

Li Zhichang's eyesight is not as good as Zhao Xuan, and he can't see far in the dust, so he can only follow Zhao Xuan step by step. It wasn't until the ruins that I saw that most of the buildings here were buried by yellow sand, and some of the houses had collapsed, only the strong city wall towered out, and it had been the same color as the desert for many years. If you look at it from behind, you will never find the ruins of this small ancient city if you don't turn in from the side because it is a large sand dune.

When the two men walked into the city, they saw at a glance that there was one of the best houses, which stood out in the midst of the ruins. Looking at the layout of the room, it looks like an inn, and it is the best preserved of all the houses. Without discussion, both of them ran over and led the camels inside.

When I opened the door, I saw a lobby, with tables, chairs and benches scattered on the ground, many damaged, and it looked like it was really an inn before.

It's just that for some reason, the people here have moved away, and the inn has decayed.

The wind and sand poured in from the door of the house, and the yellow sand floated in the inn, Li Zhichang struggled to close the door and find a wooden bolt to resist. The world seemed to be cut off by the gate, and there was silence in the inn, and it was dark in an instant.