War in the Southern Territory shocked the Northern Territory and lasted throughout the winter. But the strange thing is that among the famous sects in the north, except for the Dao Sect Tianzhu Mountain Yunhai Xianmen, no one of the sects responded to this battle.
The strange situation left many people scratching their heads for a while.
This winter has passed, and Hulao Pass, ranked first among the five passes in the north, exists in name only. The battle of the saints completely destroyed the city defense formation of Hulao Pass that had lasted for eight hundred years. Today, Hulao Pass is no longer vulnerable to a single blow.
But King Dushan didn't get any advantage. After the war, Tao Hongjing waited at Hulao Pass for ten days. He didn't wait for Xie Xuan to return, but he also forced Zhang Wei away.
On the day Tao Hongjing took Bai Ze away from Hulao Pass, King Dushan led all the demon beast cavalry under Demon King Xinghe back to Mangmang Dushan.
The northern region of Yan Kingdom has been completely occupied.
In his opinion, Hulao Pass without the city protection formation is dispensable.
The Marquis of Heyang died in battle, and the veteran Lu Qian failed to survive the cold winter and followed the Marquis to the underworld.
Wang Lang stayed and guarded Hulao Pass, cleaning up the battlefield where 300,000 corpses were buried. In the spring of the next year, Hulao Pass was still full of crows, and they couldn't be driven away.
Time is ruthless.
Veteran generals from seventy years ago and seventy years later went to hell, and the new generation of generals also gradually grew up in the flames of war.
The situation does not allow anyone to stop moving forward, because this stone has already stirred up thousands of waves, undercurrents are surging in the north, and a new war may be rekindled anywhere at any time.
In Piaoxiang Pavilion in Heyang City, it was still the same storyteller. After Yu Youwei listened to the last paragraph, he said that the Marquis of Heyang's eight thousand cavalry entered the battle and the entire army was wiped out.
There was a sigh of relief in the restaurant.
The girl stood up to pay the bill, followed by the swordsman in coir raincoat, who walked out of the middle door and walked away.
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Three months later, in the northern territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
There are seven kingdoms in the north, with Zhou in the north, Wei in the east, Qi in the southwest, and Yan, Jin, Song, and Zheng in the south. It is the most powerful country among the seven kingdoms.
There are three schools of righteousness in the world: Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Tianzhu Mountain, the top Taoist mountain gate in the north, is located in Dazhou.
The Jixia Academy of Qi State is the number one Confucian sect in the North, and the Lingyin Temple, a Buddhist sect in the North that has gradually emerged in the past hundred years, and the Yunhai Immortal Sect in Tianzhu Mountain are known as the three giants of the righteous path in the North.
All the large and small mountain gates under the three sects all look up to these three gates. Even the kings of the seven kingdoms have to bend down and bow when facing these three giants.
In the fifth month of the Wei Dynasty, in the western border of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on the road leading to the Immortal Gate of Yunhai in Tianzhu Mountain.
The season is just right, the sky is clear and the air is clear, it is a good time for young ladies to go out and talk about love. It's a pity that this is the Western Region, with a vast land and sparsely populated areas. Along the way, I didn't see many young masters or ladies. Even the restaurants on the mountain road can be counted on one hand.
There is no end to the bluestone mountain road, and there are birds flying in the jungle, singing endless joys and sorrows in the north.
It has been more than three months since Bai Ze and Tao Hongjing left the southern region of Yan Kingdom, but the great master of Tianzhu Mountain seems to have no intention of returning to the mountain gate in a hurry. On weekdays, he is either giving guidance to Bai Ze in his practice, or the two of them take a cloud flying boat and travel in the void. , see all the scenery along the way north.
The Immortal Sect's magical weapon really opened Bai Ze's eyes.
The cloud flying boat shuttles through the sea of clouds, relying solely on the spiritual power of the spirit stone to support it, and it can traverse the four seas without any hindrance.
In the past three months, Bai Ze swallowed a large amount of elixirs to fully recover from the injuries sustained in the battle at Hulao Pass. Taking advantage of the situation, he cultivated the "Dragon Elephant God and Demon Skill" to the second level, and advanced to the third level.
In his eyes, Jiuding, which is restricted by heaven, only needs an opportunity to break through. When an opportunity arises, he will become the second person in Kyushu to know the secrets of Shiding in the past five hundred years.
Along the way, Bai Ze practiced swordsmanship during the day and tempered his body and Qi at night, never daring to lose a moment in his kung fu.
Looking inside now, I can see that the true energy in the painful sea of Dantian has completely liquefied and turned into an endless ocean of true energy.
Above the ocean, the Hongqiao soars into the sky, goes straight up to the three passes, leads to the three heavenly gates, and enters the Soul Sea of Niwan Palace.
Bai Ze predicts that he will be able to cultivate the second golden elixir in the "Chun Yang Zhen Sutra" when he reaches the state of Zhiwei and steps into the realm of the extraordinary and supreme.
Therefore, the cultivation of Zhiwei Zifu has been put on the agenda. There are three realms in the world of mortals, nine realms in the sea of suffering, and three realms in the other shore. Zhiwei has only two realms, the acupoint and the purple mansion.
Zifu is divided into five heavens, which correspond to the five internal organs of the human body and are divided into five elements: heart fire, liver wood, spleen earth, lung metal, and kidney water.
This is where Bai Ze's headache comes from. The "Pure Yang Manual" is a Taoist qi refining method that is the most powerful and yang method. It is simply impossible to practice the Five Elements Zifu.
But Bai Ze felt unwilling to not cultivate the Five Elements Purple Mansion. The Five Elements Purple Mansion is a cultivation method for the Supreme Purple Mansion of the Taoist Sect. If not according to this, he would indeed have cultivated the Purple Mansion, but it would definitely not be called the strongest.
At this time, there was the only restaurant in the wild mountains for hundreds of miles. An old man and a young man had been traveling for three days without eating even a grain of rice. Now that I finally caught up with the place, I anxiously picked a table, ordered a table of food and wine, and started to enjoy the meal.
"Waiter, have another pot of wine and cut up ten pounds of beef!" Tao Hongjing shouted at the top of his voice, his mouth full of oil.
"Okay, sir, please wait a moment!" The waiter called out and ducked into the kitchen.
"Teacher, we have been eating and sleeping in the open all the way, and now we finally come across a restaurant, tonight?" Bai Ze pulled a duck leg and ate it happily. Seeing that it was getting late, he winked and hinted wildly.
"That's fine." Tao Hongjing said, "We'll stay here tonight, take a hot bath, have breakfast tomorrow, ask the store owner to prepare some dry food, and we'll be on our way again."
"Teacher is wise!" Bai Ze hurriedly flattered him.
There are not many people in this wine shop in the mountains. The people who come and go are all caravans, carrying goods over the mountains to another town to sell them and make profits from it.
There are only a few people in front and behind it, so it can be said to be in the middle of nowhere.
But when he was unlucky, he had to choke his teeth when drinking cold water, and Bai Ze's table of wine and beef hadn't been served yet when the sound of horse hooves came from the end of the mountain road, heading straight for the restaurant.
Bai Ze didn't even raise his head. He could tell by the sound of hoofbeats that there were more than ten people riding on them. Hearing the sound of hammering on the saddle, it was obvious that they were carrying swords.
There was no movement here, but everyone on the caravan side became alert when they saw someone coming. It's no wonder that in this ghostly place with no village or shop in front of it, more than ten wanderers on horseback and armed with swords suddenly appeared, leaving no room for them not to be vigilant.
And they were indeed vigilant.
"Hahaha, wow!" Someone reined in his horse and laughed. His eyes lit up when he looked at the goods escorted by the Chamber of Commerce in the wine shop. "Brother, our trip this time was not in vain! This batch of goods is enough for brothers no matter how you look at it." Have fun for a while!"
As soon as these words came out, no matter how stupid the people in the caravan were, they still heard the bad intentions in the words of the person who came.
The wilderness in front and behind the wild mountains is really a good place for killing people and selling goods. If a person is killed and thrown into the mountains, it only takes one night for the beasts in the mountains to chew up the body until no bones are left.
"Hey, waiter, let's serve the wine! I'm full, so I can send all the caravan friends on their way." The man who was obviously the leader of the team rode his horse directly into the courtyard of the wine shop, turned over and dismounted, and sat on the ground with a golden sword. He shouted in front of the table, obviously not paying attention to the people present.
Bai Ze stopped eating no matter how much he could, and glanced at the leader. He looked like he was in his forties, and he didn't look very good. However, his cultivation had reached the late stage of Zhiwei, and he could suppress anyone in the caravan.
No wonder he is so arrogant.
"Friends, stay safe in everything so that we can meet again in the future." The leader of the caravan was also a middle-aged man of about the same age. He stood up at this time, clasped his fists and said to the dozen bandits: "You guys, if you like this batch of goods, you will be lucky." But just take it away, why hurt people’s lives?”
"What if I have to be hurt?" The man with the sinister eyebrows was the first to speak. He patted the scimitar on his waist, grinned his yellow teeth, and looked at the caravan leader with an evil smile, "If you don't kill people, take the things away. That’s so boring, don’t you think so, brother?”
"Don't go too far!" In the caravan, a young man who was no more than 28 years old suddenly jumped up and yelled loudly, filled with righteous indignation.
"What are you talking about, children? Sit down!" Seeing this, the leader of the caravan turned pale and yelled hurriedly.
But it was too late. As soon as the young man opened his mouth, everyone present knew that he was a tomboy, pretending to be a man. The two ounces of flesh on the chest are obviously not the muscles of a boy, but the breasts of a girl.
"Oh!" The man with the sinister eyebrows lit up and walked straight towards the young man. All the people in the caravan stood up, and at a glance there were more than ten people there.
"What, you want to fight?" The bandit leader sneered, looked sideways at the caravan, slapped the long knife on the table with a loud noise, and said, "Ah Huang, just do it, I'll see who dares to move you!"
"Okay, big brother." Ahuang Gou relied on his strength. The one with the highest cultivation level in the caravan had just reached the threshold of Zhiwei. When the big brother let go, these people were so shocked that they were covered in cold sweat. How could they dare to do anything to him?
Ah Huang stepped forward and opened the young man's turban with the knife still in its sheath, revealing the young man's head full of black hair flying in the wind.
Ah Huang's eyes lit up, he couldn't help but grinned, his saliva almost came out, and he shouted: "What a handsome little lady! Brother, keep this, let the brothers be happy tonight!"
The caravan girl was inexperienced in the world, but she also understood what the dog-looking man meant. She was so angry that her face turned red and she let out a loud sigh.
"Oh, it's quite spicy!" Ah Huang said, "I like this kind of character, energetic! It's interesting to do it in bed like this..."
"Your Excellency, you have gone too far!" the caravan leader shouted in a deep voice, grabbing the iron sword beside the wooden table, his tone already filled with murderous intent.
"Bitch, you have no right to interrupt what I'm talking about!" Ah Huang stared at the middle-aged man with evil eyes, pulled out the scimitar in his hand, and went to chop the middle-aged man without saying a word.
The caravan leader's eyes were heavy. He knew that if he took action now, he would be dead, and if he didn't take action, he would be dead. Both sides would die, but my daughter could never fall into the hands of these beasts and be insulted.
After Ah Huang's attack, the two gangs drew their swords from their sheaths. The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, drew his sword and turned back, slashing the girl's neck whose identity was exposed.
"Daughter, forgive dad!" the middle-aged man said with tears.
The girl was stunned, completely frightened by the sudden sword, and could not say a word.
"How dare you?!" Ah Huang roared angrily, how could he bear the thought of having a cooked duck fly to his mouth and then fly away?
At the critical moment, a pair of wooden chopsticks flew over from the next table like lightning. With a faint sword intent, they knocked the middle-aged man's iron sword away with a clang, blocking Ah Huang's angry slash.
Ah Huang's eyes darkened slightly, and the right hand holding the knife was trembling slightly from the force of the shock. At that moment, he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart without any expression.
The unexpected incident attracted the attention of everyone present, and they saw two people at the next table, one old and one young. The old man was still eating and drinking, but the young man with a beautiful face was missing his chopsticks.
Only then did the bandit leader realize that Bai Ze's aura was unpredictable and gave him a vague feeling of danger.
"Be careful, that young man is not simple." The bandit leader could not see through the old man who was eating and drinking. He only thought that the other man was just an ordinary person. He did not dare to be careless at the moment, so he reminded his men.
"You dare to mess with the uncle even when you are still young!" Ah Huang snorted coldly and tightened his right hand holding the knife, "After I clean up these ungrateful people and tie up this little lady, I will chop you up again. !”
"It's hard to travel, it's hard to travel." Bai Zeshi stood up from the wine table, sighed, and only said: "I can't eat when I stop to drink and throw chopsticks. I draw my sword and look around at a loss."
After saying that, the sword was unsheathed.
