Chapter 36: Approach
The three brothers like to advance and retreat together and do not associate with others. When he goes out to rob and kill, his whereabouts are secretive, and he usually occupies Zhonglong Mountain, and there is a formation to protect the mountain, which is difficult to approach.
In the past seven years, the sect has had eleven groups of disciples go in groups, the first to the third batch of disciples have all returned, the fourth batch to the latest eleventh batch have all been wiped out, and there has been no news again. Now the cultivation of the three murderers is unknown, and it has been more than two years since there have been no disciples to unveil the list.
Wang Xian analyzed while looking at the jade slips, and in the end, the eleventh group of people formed a team of five people at the end of Qi refining and one person in the middle stage of Qi refining, and they were all wiped out. It seems that either the three murderers have other help, or someone has already broken through the end of the Qi refining stage and reached the foundation building stage of cultivation.
In front of the cultivators of the foundation building period, ten qi refining stages are not enough to see. Wang Xian couldn't help but sigh at the loss of so many fellow monks, among the outer disciples, in addition to the South China Peak, which is dominated by new disciples, there are many other peaks, and it is indeed a wise move for the new disciples of South China Peak to avoid this task.
Wang first analyzed it, after seven years, the worst case is that the three of them have reached the early stage of foundation building, and with their own more than 20 intermediate talismans equivalent to the power of the middle stage of foundation building, it should not be difficult to escape.
Moreover, seven years is not long at all for breaking through the end of Qi refining and reaching the early stage of foundation building, and it is very likely that only one or two of the three people have reached the early stage of foundation building. This mission, it's worth a try.
For the sake of secrecy, Wang Xian did not plan to go in a team, although it was dangerous to go alone, it also had the advantage of being unobtrusive. Wang Xian had finished thinking about it, remembering the portraits of the three people drawn on the task list, and then submitted a request to the deacon disciples of the Lingshu Pavilion to unveil the list.
The deacon disciple was taken aback, but he had developed the habit of secrecy for many years, and he didn't say anything, on the jade plate of Wang Xian's disciple, it was marked that he approved the task of leaving the mountain, and this task was sealed on the outer list, and he was ready to go to Hua Tianfeng, and Hua Tianfeng notified the other peaks to seal the hidden task.
Wang Xian took his disciple Yupai down the mountain, went to the town of South China, hired a carriage, prepared dry food, and bought a few new cyan Confucian robes to change into, and dressed up as a traveling bachelor.
Now Wang Xian has been away from home for five years, from the age of sixteen when he left home to the present twenty-one years old, he has grown a head taller, compared with the slightly thin body when he left home, now the body is more sturdy, the eyes are clear and indifferent, and the elegance reveals a heroic spirit.
Wang Xianxiao stayed overnight, and after three days, he arrived at a small town not far from the foot of Zhonglong Mountain. Zhonglong Mountain is more than 20 miles in radius, the highest peak Zhonglong Peak is about 100 zhang high, several other nameless peaks are up and down, the mountains are green and green from afar, and the mountains are stacked on top of each other.
The town is the only town within a radius of 200 miles near Zhonglong Mountain, Wang first asked the coachman to wait at the archway at the entrance of the town, and strolled into the town by himself. The town is not big, enter the main street from the east archway of the town, and wear out from the west of the town, but six or seven miles. The main street is lined with shops and restaurants.
Wang first found one of the largest restaurants, ordered a few simple meals in the lobby, and then chose a window seat and sat down, listening attentively to the surrounding discussions.
In the discussion of restaurants and shops in the whole town, there is occasionally mention of the news of the three murderers in Zhonglong Mountain, but most of them are known circumstances. Wang Xian patiently listened to the restaurant for three days, and then rested in the guest room of the restaurant at night, and learned more about the three murderers of Zhonglong Mountain.
Since the whereabouts of the three murderers of Zhonglong Mountain were exposed seven years ago, the surname Suo has not stopped doing anything, relying on Zhonglong Mountain, which has been operating for many years, and from time to time going down the mountain to rob and kill those who pass by and cultivate the truth. There are many mountain protection formations in Zhonglong Mountain, and as long as mortals do not break through the prohibition, there is no danger.
Therefore, the lives of the ordinary people in the town were not affected, and sometimes the three murderers would spend money generously to buy some food, but they were all sent to the mountain by the agreed restaurant and the designated guys.
Wang first thought about it, the monks in the Qi refining period could not open the valley, and every time they said that they had to eat a meal of dry food and cold food, the monks in the foundation building period no longer needed to eat food, and it seemed that some of the three murderers were still cultivating at the end of Qi refining.
Most cultivators in the Qi refining period eat this kind of bread, which can be stored for a long time, and can be stored for up to seven or eight days, and after seven or eight days, it is dry and hard, and the taste is the same as chewing wax, which is extremely difficult to swallow.
Wang Xian estimated that in the longest ** day, there should be restaurant guys who will send food to Zhonglong Mountain.
The town is more than ten miles away from the foot of Zhonglong Mountain, and there are two roads to Zhonglong Mountain, one of which is closer and narrower, and you can ride a horse, but you can't cross a carriage. The other road is wider enough to pass through horse-drawn carriages for the transport of goods.
The two roads are more than ten miles apart at the farthest point. Orions starting from the town, usually carrying hunting equipment, walk in groups of three or five on the closer paths, climb the mountain early in the morning, and return down the mountain before dark. It is very rare for a person to go up the mountain to hunt, and sometimes he catches a roe deer and wild boar or something, and it is difficult to walk more than ten miles on his back.
Since the three murderers have occupied Zhonglong Mountain in the past ten years, except for some places below the mountainside, most places on the mountain have been forbidden by formations, and it is no longer possible to go up to hunt, and the carriages that carry mountain goods and prey to the foot of the mountain have rarely appeared.
Wang first found the coachman, replenished the dry food and horse food in the town, and then sat in the carriage and traveled five or six miles along the main road to Zhonglong Mountain, which was ten miles away from the other path. Wang first found a simple grass hut on the side of the road to stop and rest, meditate in the car and practice, and listened intently to the movements of the two roads.
Five days passed in a flash, and the movements on the two roads in the past five days were clearly heard in Wang Xian's ears.
There are two groups of hunters, three groups of knights and seven groups of passers-by going up and down the mountain on the small road, and there are six horse-drawn carriages on the main road to go into the mountains.
They all set out in the morning, returned before dark, and stayed in the mountains for several hours. Most of these people know that the three murderers of Zhonglong Mountain have always been at peace with mortals, as long as they don't provoke them, they will be fine.
In the blink of an eye, the king waited until three o'clock on the sixth day, and at the early morning hour, he had noticed that a carriage had passed by the main road, but there was nothing unusual. Wang Xian was meditating in the carriage with his eyes closed, when suddenly he shook his head slightly, listened intently, and sure enough, he noticed that a carriage was driving onto the road in the direction of the town.
The carriage was five or six miles away from this, and it was coming to Wang Xian's parking place, a horse-drawn carriage, a person in front of the car was driving, and the carriage was carrying a person and a batch of goods.
He got out of the car, told the coachman to wait for him on the spot, and walked in the direction of Zhonglong Mountain. After turning two corners, he avoided the coachman's sight and hid himself in a small tree beside the road at a bend.
Soon after, the sound of horses' hooves and the creaking of carriages was heard on the road, and a simple wagon drove by. The front and rear doors of the car are closed, and through the window on the side of the car, a young man in a green coat wearing a man's hat can be seen, sitting silently in the car, with some goods piled up beside him.
After the carriage passed, a green shadow flashed from the tree to the bottom of the carriage and disappeared.
Wang Xian leaned lightly under the car, and from time to time poked out half of his head from under the car to look. I saw that the car traveled another seven or eight miles, and when it reached the foot of the mountain, there was a mountain mist floating everywhere at the foot of the mountain, entangled the whole mountain in it, and the shadow of the mountain loomed.
After another four or five miles around the foot of the mountain, the carriage stopped for a moment. The little guy in Tsing Yi got out of the car and took out a jade card, and scratched it on a mountain fog, only to see that the mountain fog flashed a round hole of less than a zhang, which could accommodate carriages and horses, and behind the hole showed a mountain road that could accommodate carriages to pass through, winding upward, and the road was surrounded by low trees and lush grass.
The little guy in Tsing Yi got into the car again, and the carriage slowly drove to the mountainside along the not steep mountain road.