After the battle, Bai Ze was seriously injured internally. He found a secluded mountain, opened a cave, set up a magic circle, and began to recuperate and heal his injuries.
The golden light spell of Longhu Mountain is extremely powerful and has a remarkable healing effect. Bai Ze sat cross-legged and meditated in the cave. After a few days, his injuries recovered and he felt refreshed. He understood Jian Yi Wuliang and Jian Jiu Canghai Yixiao. After a little more refinement, the sword lake in the atrium grew faintly.
After leaving the cave, Bai Ze withdrew the magic circle, found the direction, and continued north.
The mass grave incident made him realize more and more that in troubled times, the world is in turmoil, and the evil spirit has the tendency to suppress the righteousness of the world. Evil spirits are infested, demons are rampant, and everything is impermanent.
I just hope that this chaotic situation can be settled as soon as possible.
Otherwise, there will be no intact eggs when the nest is overturned. Whether on the mountain or at the foot of the mountain, countless lives will die in this disaster!
On this day, Bai Ze passed by a mountain ridge, and the sky was filled with wind and snow. Night falls and the sky and earth are dark. Bai Ze's eyes were clear and he saw stars and fires on the mountains not far away. He was surprised that there were still people in this wilderness.
After thinking for a while, Bai Ze Yuqi went towards the ethereal firelight. After getting closer, he saw clearly that the faint light came from a ruined temple. Bai Ze lowered his body and came to the mountain gate of the ruined temple. Shaking off the wind and snow, he knocked on the door that was leaking air everywhere.
"Who?" A vigilant voice sounded in the ruined temple.
Bai Ze's ears moved and he heard the faint sound of a sword being unsheathed in the temple.
"I am heading north alone. I passed by here. The wind and snow are too heavy. I want to come to the temple here to take shelter from the snow and wind. I would like to ask my friends if I can stay overnight?" Bai Ze said aloud.
There was a rustle in the temple for a moment, and someone exchanged a few words in a low voice. Then a rough voice came out: "Since we are all on the road, friends, please come in! Just pay attention to this temple door. It cannot withstand the tossing, so you have to push it open carefully. Otherwise, if we fall down, we will be exposed to the cold wind all night!"
"Thank you." Bai Ze thanked him and carefully pushed open the temple door, making a dull "squeak" sound. The howling wind outside the door rushed into the temple along the crack of the door, swept in heavy snow, and caused the fire and fireworks to violently stir up sparks, which were quickly extinguished in the cold air.
Bai Ze entered the temple, closed the dilapidated door, pushed back the stone blocking the door on one side to prevent the door from being blown open by the strong wind, and then looked at the scene inside the temple.
Surrounded by a bonfire, six or seven men in fur coats were sitting around, each holding a sword. They looked like they were martial arts knights, traveling all over the country, and they were quite strong.
At this moment, there was an iron pot hanging on the shelf set up on the bonfire, in which steaming rice porridge was boiling. Several men were baking sesame cakes that were frozen hard. When Bai Ze saw When he came in, everyone stared at him intently. They saw that the young man was only wearing coarse linen clothes and had an iron sword on his waist. His figure was too thin.
"Young hero, with the way you are dressed in such a cold weather, could it be that you are a martial arts master?" One of the men stood up and raised his hands and said, "Zuo Hong, may I ask what your name is?"
"Brother Zuo, you are commended." Bai Ze bowed his hands and said in return, "Li Yi, I just learned some internal martial arts in his early years and cannot be called a martial arts master."
When Bai Ze raised his hand, everyone saw that the young swordsman was holding two fat rabbits in his hand. The rabbit looked even more attractive under the light of the campfire, but one of them was enough for three or five people to eat in two large bites.
Some people looked at the two fat rabbits in Bai Ze's hand, their Adam's apples twitching, and they swallowed silently. Only Zuo Hong was very wary and did not trust Bai Ze. In such a wilderness, with mountains blocked by heavy snow, even if a group of them worked together, they could not catch a single pheasant feather. But this young swordsman was able to hunt two such fat rabbits!
The details are mind-boggling.
Bai Ze smiled and said, "Brothers, if you don't mind, how about we make things even?"
When Zuo Hong heard this, he suddenly felt in a dilemma.
I agree, I always feel that there may be something wrong with the rabbit in Bai Ze's hand.
If you don't agree, you'll look petty. They are a bunch of rough guys, and the only valuable thing they have on them is the swords in their hands. If Jie Dao Jie comes to them, won't they not be able to get even a little bit of oil and water?
"Okay, okay!" At this moment, by the campfire, a young ranger laughed, "You are such a nice person! You have rabbits, and we have porridge and sesame cakes. Let's get together and have a full meal!" "
"Luo Xing!" Zuo Hong shouted, and the young ranger was stunned.
Bai Ze suddenly thought about something and said to Zuo Hong, "I'm sorry, I was rude. If you knights mind, could you please get a fire?"
The implication is that Bai Ze naturally wants to start another bonfire.
In this ruined temple, except for the dilapidated statue of King Ming, there are leaning and collapsed wooden pillars everywhere. As long as it's not a big move and you can chop some firewood out, there won't be any big problem.
Bai Ze looked around and discovered that there was another person lying in the corner of the ruined temple. He was wrapped in a big cloak and his back was turned to everyone, so his face couldn't be seen clearly.
When Bai Ze said this, Zuo Hong couldn't answer the question. He had an idea and said quickly: "Young hero misunderstood! I just want to remind Luo Xing that this trivial matter of dealing with rabbit fur and internal organs should not be troublesome for young hero. "
When Luo Xing heard this, he immediately became happy again and said: "That's right! The young hero provides the rabbit, and we should be responsible for the barbecue!"
Bai Ze smiled when he heard this. He was well aware of Zuo Hong's little thoughts and did not expose them.
When Luo Xing was asked to handle the rabbit, he was naturally afraid that Bai Ze might have tampered with the rabbit. This makes it easier to test, and secondly, if nothing is discovered, you can retreat instead of advance. Because Bai Ze brought this rabbit, after it was roasted, Bai Ze should take the first bite.
In troubled times, people's hearts are unpredictable, so such a move is harmless. Bai Ze understood very well and handed two rabbits to Luo Xing, then he and the group of rangers sat down around the campfire and started talking.
During the exchange, Bai Ze learned that this group of rangers planned to defect to the Xiling garrison. He heard that the army there was about to march to the desperate Great Wall.
"Brothers are so righteous, I admire you!" Bai Ze said.
"Young hero, let's have a bowl of hot porridge." Zuo Hong then used a piece of wood to chisel out a bowl, scooped out a bowl of hot porridge and handed it to Bai Ze.
Bai Ze then thanked him and drank, his manners were generous, which actually made Zuo Hong a little embarrassed. Although Bai Ze was dressed in coarse linen, he had sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, and his brows showed a sense of righteousness, which made the ranger feel that he was judging the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.
"Young hero is overly praised." Everyone started chatting and gradually became familiar with each other. Someone said: "We brothers, firstly, we want to go to the border to visit and travel around. If we can win some fame, we can return home in glory. Secondly, right now, It is indeed a national crisis. Scholars say that a man is born between heaven and earth and should do something great! Although we are just rough people, in the end, we still want to do something before our beards turn gray."
"It is said that a great hero serves the country and the people. Today I get to meet a hero." Bai Ze said with a smile, holding up a wooden bowl, "Let's eat porridge instead of wine, let's do it!"
"Do it!" Everyone smiled and raised their bowls to drink the hot porridge together.
"By the way, where are you going, young hero?" Zuo Hong asked.
"To be honest, I inherited the teachings from my master. I said goodbye to my master a few days ago and left the mountain gate. I also want to do my best for the people of this world." What Bai Ze said was half true and half false.
"That's great!" Someone laughed, "Young hero, why don't you go to Xiling with us to join the army, go to the Great Wall with us, and go fuck those wolf cubs in the fucking wasteland!"
The hasty invitation made Zuo Hong cough suddenly.
The man who spoke also felt that it was inappropriate. Just when he was feeling embarrassed, Luo Xing came over with two fat rabbits that had been processed and said with a smile: "It's all done! Look, what a fat rabbit. The young hero is really What a skill, you can still catch such wild game in this ice and snow."
"It's just luck." Bai Ze smiled.
A group of people began to get busy skewering rabbits on wooden sticks and roasting them on the bonfire.
Bai Ze shifted his gaze to the figure in the corner of the ruined temple and asked, "That man is also our friend, why don't you come to warm yourself by the fire?"
Zuo Hong replied: "Young hero misunderstood, we are not on the same journey. It seems that we arrived later, but the bonfire was actually lit by that gentleman. It's just that the gentleman didn't seem to like the excitement, so he left the bonfire. Went to sleep in the corner.”
"That's right." Someone echoed in a low voice, "That gentleman is also a strange person. Before the young hero came, we cooked porridge and wanted to treat the gentleman to a bowl, but they ignored us."
"Is this so..." Bai Ze was thoughtful.
In the ruined temple, everyone was chatting away. Slowly, the aroma of barbecue began to spread in the ruined temple, causing everyone's Adam's apple to twitch even more, and they were so greedy for the aroma.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious." Luo Xing said with a smile, "Look at the salt in my hands."
As he said that, he sprinkled salt on the roasted rabbit with a charming gesture.
"It would be better if there were chili peppers," someone said.
"It's okay to have wine." Another man sighed, "It's a pity that we have run out of wine, otherwise we would have had a drink with the young hero!"
Bai Ze smiled and said nothing.
He has wine.
But once the holy fruit was soaked in the wine in the gourd, the medicine was so powerful that these men couldn't stand it. Secondly, if they take wine from the ancient precepts, they will definitely guess that Bai Ze is not a martial artist, but a monk who practices immortality on the mountain, which is not beautiful.
As the smell of barbecue in the ruined temple became stronger and stronger, the figure sleeping on his side in the corner suddenly sniffed.
"Okay, okay." Seeing that the rabbit was almost cooked, Luo Xing broke off a rabbit leg and handed it to Bai Ze in a sensible way, saying, "Young hero, you eat first and have a taste of my craftsmanship!"
Just as Bai Ze was about to reach out to pick it up, the door of the temple was suddenly opened, and suddenly there was another "dong-dong" knock on the door, very urgent.
Everyone looked at each other in silence, and all looked at the gate of the ruined temple.
"Who?" Zuo Hong held back and asked, his eyebrows furrowed.
"Help...Help!" A woman's panicked voice came from outside the door, with an obvious cry, "Help!"
In the deserted mountains on a snowy night, a woman suddenly shouted for help outside the gate of the ruined temple. No matter how suspicious these rangers were, they still planned to go out and have a look.
"I'll go take a look!" Luo Xing said. He just stood up and discovered that the rabbit leg in his hand had disappeared without knowing it.
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