In late autumn, Qiu Jin rode the old horse on the mountain trail, holding a map of the northern border.

Count the days, come out of Dajin Kingdom, enter Mingguo and pass the old man's villa and then enter Qingcheng, and now I am in the Black Wind Mountain of Xingguo, and it has been two months since I came out of Yedu.

There is still a month left before the previously estimated opening time of the Hundred Battles Domain, and if you rush during the day and rest at night, you can barely reach the entrance of the Hundred Battles Domain within a month.

Qiu Jin took a straw in his mouth and hummed an unknown ballad of Dajin Kingdom.

Suddenly, the mountains shook, and snowflakes larger than fists fell from the sky.

"Boom~~~" A clump of birds was startled in the deep mountains and wild forests.

Qiu Jin hurriedly dismounted, touched the horse's head, and then mobilized the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in his body to turn into Qi Gang and flew in mid-air to look into the distance.

"Golden-eyed white mammoth?" Qiu Jin flew in mid-air, looking at the mountains and forests, the white elephant was thirty or forty meters tall, a few points larger than the Jindan stage lion beast that intercepted Qiu Jin at the gate of Shangqing City.

"How could there be an elephant demon in the Jindan stage in the Black Wind Mountain of Xing Kingdom?" Qiu Jin looked at the behemoth that was using an elephant trunk more than twenty meters long to knock down ancient trees, and then the elephant trunk was rolled into his mouth, and while eating, he said demon words that Qiu Jin couldn't understand.

Qiu Jin's eyes swept over the map in his hand, and the elephant demon was blocking Qiu Jin's path to the Hundred Battles Domain.

If you take a detour, it will take a lot of time. Now because of the opening of the Hundred Battles Domain, the northern border is extremely unpeaceful, and the information from the shadow guard says that many undead corpses have sprung out from the ground near the capital of Jin Guoye, slaughtering villages everywhere, absorbing the power of living beings, and the eldest brother has led a large team of people to encircle and suppress, but the effect is not great, and there are still a large number of villages slaughtered by evil spirits every day.

Starting from Shangqingcheng, he has changed his itinerary several times, the purpose is to prevent someone from calculating his route in advance and secretly intercepting himself.

Just as Qiu Jin was standing and leading the old horse to suffer from gains and losses, the elephant demon suddenly gathered his breath and ran in the direction of Qiu Jin.

"Boom~~~" The mountains and rivers shook, and the beasts ran away.

The huge body rushed to Qiu Jin in a blink of an eye, frightening the old horse beside Qiu Jin to neigh.

The golden-eyed white mammoth of the Jindan period looked at Qiu Jin with those gilded golden pupils, pointed with his trunk, and said in human language: "Hey, boy, the sect leader has asked me to wait here for a long time, hurry up and follow me." ”

Qiu Jin didn't know who the sect leader in the mouth of the elephant demon was, and he was about to ask. The white elephant impatiently threw Qiu Jin and the horse onto his generous back with his trunk, and said to Qiu Jin while running north: "My sect leader wants to ask you to be the deputy sect leader, otherwise how can I be so polite to you." ”

Pity this deep mountain and old forest, hundreds of thousand-year-old trees were trampled and knocked down by the elephant demon of this Jindan period, and some of the demon beasts in the forest who were affected by the pond fish in the foundation building period were lying on the ground and trembling, waiting for the white elephant to leave before breathing a sigh of relief.

The old horse, who was forcibly rescued by Qingcheng Kendo to extract the power of the Yuan Shen of the underworld, knelt on the back of the white elephant and did not dare to move. Originally, Qiu Jin wanted to ask Qingcheng Kendo to borrow a mutton fat jade bottle to save this old horse that had been with him for many years, and by the way, he could also be reborn, transform from an ordinary domestic animal to a demon beast, and increase his longevity for decades. However, Qingcheng Kendo directly mobilized a few traces of the power of the Yuan Shen to revive the old horse who had been dead for a long time, and then waved his hand and said, "The lone arrow senior has broken through to the condensation stage, do you have any other candidates besides me? The next time we meet, I will give you a handy sword, and it will be a thank you gift." ”

Several times he trekked through mountains and rivers, Qiu Jin had to take care of the old horse and put it into his mustard seed space. Because there was no life in between, it could only be collected for a moment, and then Qiu Jin's qi turned into wings and flew by alone.

Qiu Jin couldn't help but think of seeing in an ancient book that after returning to the void realm, the mustard seed space would change from a dead space to a cave with a living source, and at that time, he could collect everything in the world and store it in his sleeve, which was really amazing.

Because there is no living life in the mustard seed space, Qiu Jin collected the corpses of the Nanfeng Dao Leader and the Weisheng Dao Leader and stored them for two or three days without corruption.

Qiu Jin thought that this old horse had accompanied him on the battlefield for many years, and the old man of Fu Fang was undoubtedly the best way to end his life for a war horse who was born a war horse.

But Qiu Jin, who was not convinced of his old age, wanted to resolutely embark on the cruel road of the cultivation world after the New Year was not confused.

For ordinary people, it is indeed about to reach the age of getting old. But for a cultivator, it's just a fledgling chick.

This old horse, who is already considered an advanced age, if he dies with himself on the road to the Hundred Battles Domain, it can be regarded as a well-deserved death as the head of the South Wind Dao said.

At the very least, beside the bonfire at night, Qiu Jin asked the old horse over and over again if he dared to continue walking with him, and the old horse always bowed his head and chewed the grass mixed with miscellaneous grains, and even raised his eyelids to look at Qiu Jin.

Silence is the best answer, isn't that obvious!

Every time after such a Q&A at night, Qiu Jin would happily take out a little grass from the mustard seed space and add it to it, muttering as he added: "Eat more and eat more, now Ben Shuai also has a mustard seed space for immortals." You're not going hungry, old man. Come on, come on, Ma Wuye grass is not fat, eat some more and eat more. ”

It's like a mother feeding her children, but she claims to be the generalissimo of soldiers and horses after the destruction of Chen Guo, and that night Qiu Jin came back from the palace, staying alone in the stable, constantly feeding the young old horse.

Just as Qiu Jin was in his fugue, the white elephant had already taken Qiu Jin to a mountain pass.

I heard a rumbling sound, and the mountain gate suddenly opened, and a sound came from the mountain.

"You are also like a real person, and Changsheng once entered this door. ”

"Fellow Daoist, do you remember me waiting?"

Qiu Jin's eyes were stunned, he raised his hand to place the old horse firmly on the ground, and jumped off the elephant's back.

The voice is a little familiar, but with just these few words, Qiu Jin still can't guess who is doing the ghost.

The sound of music sounded on the mountain, and three long-bearded Daoists wearing purple Taoist robes and holding dust whisks went down the mountain together, as if they were waiting for Qiu Jin.

The purple-robed Taoist led by him raised the dust and hugged Qiu Jin's fist.

"Brother Qiu, it has been more than ten years since Yuntai Mountain was separated. ”

Qiu Jin only realized the identities of the three Taoist priests in front of him.

There are three Taoist priests living in seclusion in Yuntai Mountain all the year round, calling themselves the purple-clothed prime ministers, who can predict the good fortune and evil in the world.

In order to find the whereabouts of the Yuntai Mountain Eagle Clan, hundreds of beggars were hired to scatter in the deep mountains and forests or in the valleys of mountain streams.

Qiu Jin happened to be one of the hundreds of beggars.

"It turned out to be a Ziyang Dao person. Qiu Jin replied: "After many years of farewell, I don't know if the people of Ziyang Dao have been good recently." ”

"This seat can't compare to Brother Qiu's opportunity, who would have thought that the little beggar at the foot of Yuntai Mountain would become the king of Yunnan in the Jin Kingdom. The Ziyang Dao people led by him shook off the dust and replied.

"Ziyang Dao people have also mixed well over the years, not much worse than me, you see that even the golden-eyed white mammoth in the Jindan stage can be driven by you. Qiu Jin pointed to the white elephant.

The golden-eyed white mammoth on the side obviously didn't like the word drive in Qiu Jin's mouth, and his golden pupils rolled his eyes at Qiu Jin.

"I should have explained the reason to you when the Holy Envoy invited you just now, I wonder if Brother Qiu is willing to be the deputy sect leader of our Purple Sun Sect?"

After listening to this, Qiu Jin asked the Ziyang Zhenren led by him: "A few years ago, when I was fighting in the south and north of the Dajin Kingdom, I heard that there was a demon in the Xing Kingdom named Ziyang, and he called himself Ziyang Zhenren, opened the Ziyang Sect, and accepted thousands of sect members. I didn't expect your nest to be in Yuntai Mountain, but to choose a Black Wind Mountain where this bird doesn't. ”

"Whether it's Yuntai Mountain or Heifeng Mountain, what's the matter with me Qiu Jin. Why did the sect master kidnap me Qiu Jin and go up the mountain to be this deputy sect leader?"

"This seat has long admired the demeanor of the king of Yunnan, and once I saw it in the past, I can't forget it for a long time. Now that Brother Qiu has passed through the territory of the three of our brothers, he must do his best to treat Brother Qiu as a landlord no matter what. But after thinking about it carefully, Brother Qiu has now broken with the old guy Wanyan Lie of the Jin Kingdom, and there is no good place to go at the moment, so it is better to come to this sect and worship Shiji Niangniang with us. Ziyang Daoist stood on the mountain road and said.

After hearing this, Qiu Jin pondered for a while and said, "When the Ziyang Dao people did not hesitate to let the beggar go to death in order to find a way, they seemed to be smiling like this. ”

Qiu Jin took the reins of the horse, turned around and said, "The Tao is different, and they don't conspire with each other." A cult like yours that is agitating people's hearts, I can't afford to climb it, so I'm leaving!"

Qiu Jin skillfully stepped on his horse and ran out of the valley.

The golden-eyed white-mammed elephant saw that Qiu Jin was leaving, and just about to raise an elephant's hooves a few meters thick to stop it, he heard the Ziyang Taoist say: "Don't stop the holy envoy, and see how long this little beggar can run amok!"

The golden-eyed white mammoth as big as a hill had no choice but to give up and snort lazily.

The Ziyang Daoist shook his robe: "Hmph, we have been targeted by our Ziyang Sect and Dragon Xiangyuan, as well as the three Ren Yingye families in the four major families. This deputy sect leader, you have to be inappropriate!"

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Wei State, Ye Family.

"The head of the family, the old Taoist of Ziyang has already met Qiu Jin, but he has not forced Qiu Jin to stay. "Your Highness, a cultivator reported to the head of the Ye family sitting in the hall.

The head of the Ye family, one of the four major families who dominated the northern realm with the way of self-cultivation, played with a jade pendant in his hand, waved his hand to his subordinates with a smile to show that he already knew about it, and then said to Ying Xingyuan, the young head of the Ying family beside him: "Virtuous nephew, the dragon elephant of the Hundred Battles Domain has already taken over the Ziyang Sect, and now cooperating with them is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger." ”

"Uncle Ye, now is the best time to seize Qiu Jin, no matter how Ziyang Zhenren says, he also has the strength of Jindan, and it is not easy to win Qiu Jin, who has just entered the innate realm. However, our Ying family wants to use the living Qiu Jin to blackmail the old man's villa, and your Ye family wants to get the strange self-cultivation method in Qiu Jin's hands. ”

"But if Qiu Jin really doesn't know what to do, then there is no need to spare his life, as long as he gets that Dongzheng Dragon Map, he has no value in surviving in this world!"