There are still more than fifty miles ahead of Yongzhou. At this time, three fast horses are rushing towards Yongzhou quickly.
The three people immediately turned out to be the newly appointed censor Ye Sanlang of the imperial court and his unmarried wife Li Sihan. The other one was Bai Lingfeng, the captain of the Yulin Army of the Tang Dynasty. Very bad.
One day ago, after receiving Emperor Xuanzong's secret order, he quickly packed up and set off on the road with the other two. At this moment, they had just walked out of Chang'an and arrived in front of a dense forest after a day of running around. They were very tired.
If you want to go to Yangzhou, the fastest route is to take the land route to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and then to Jizhou, an important traffic artery in Jiangnan Road, and then go south along the canal started by the previous dynasty until Yangzhou. This is what they chose. route.
The forest in front of us is the fastest shortcut to Yongzhou, the first state on the road. However, it is said that there are many bandits blocking the road and stealing money, so most people bypass this place and take the mountain road directly to Puzhou. However, their group did not Of course I'm not afraid. Moreover, Li Sihan has the strength of an immortal. She can easily defeat half of the Jianghu Xiaoxiao alone, not to mention the two martial arts masters Ye Sanlang and Bai Lingfeng.
After the three of them argued for a while, they headed straight for the path in the forest. Although the forest was dense, there were probably too many people coming and going, so a wider dirt road was opened in the forest, just enough for a carriage to pass by. .
Within a few hours, the sky darkened. Bai Lingfeng reined in his horse and stopped. Ye Sanlang and Li Sihan also stopped when they saw this.
"Brother Ye, Miss Li, it's getting dark now. It might be inappropriate to go any further. I suggest you just rest here."
Bai Lingfeng was right. The three of them could rest at the inn on the road last night, but now in the wilderness, where can they find a place to stay?
"Brother Bai, it's okay, just rest here." After saying that, he got off his horse. It happened that there was a small piece of grass not far ahead, which was a good place for camping.
Li Sihan also dismounted, and after reciting a few mantras, the weeds on the small piece of grass withered one after another, and then turned invisible, and a clearing was created out of thin air. Ye Sanlang was okay, Bai Lingfeng saw that A moment of surprise.
"You are truly a master among Taoists. Fairy Tianyin truly deserves her reputation."
"Haha, Brother Bai has given me the award. If compared with some well-known masters in the world, then I am really insignificant."
After chatting briefly for a while, Li Sihan sat in the open space to rest. Ye Sanlang and Bai Lingfeng collected a lot of branches from the surroundings and raised a fire. It was very cold in the forest at night, and because the three of them had to travel a long distance, they were not dressed too thickly. If it hadn't been for a fire, they would have frozen to death.
After looking at the dry food in his backpack, Ye Sanlang sighed. After running around for a day and night, the three of them had very little dry food left. What was left was some dry food that could fill their stomachs but was difficult to swallow.
Looking at the bright flames flashing before his eyes, he suddenly thought of something: "Brother Bai, can you roast game?"
Bai Lingfeng nodded: "Of course, we have gone through rigorous training when we were young. Survival in the wild is a must-learn lesson. Why, you can't get used to eating dry food. Do you want some game?"
He nodded: "Look, can the remaining dry food be eaten by people?"
After thinking about it for a while, Bai Lingfeng asked: "But where can we hunt game this late at night?"
Ye Sanlang thought for a while and then asked: "When we set out, I noticed, Brother Bai, do you have a military divine machine crossbow in your luggage?"
Bai Lingfeng was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect Ye Sanlang to notice it.
"Yes, I have one, but I can't use it at night."
"No, yes, as long as I am your eyes, it will work." Ye Sanlang nodded confidently.
"Really?" Suddenly he remembered that Ye Sanlang had just entered the path of cultivation, and there might be some way to do it, so he doubtfully took out the divine machine crossbow from his bag and loaded it.
He saw Ye Sanlang closing his eyes, which made him very strange. Li Sihan on the other side also stopped adjusting his breath and stared at Ye Sanlang quietly. She was also a little curious about this.
"One and a half miles to the southeast, close to the ground, shoot!" Ye Sanlang suddenly blurted out.
Hearing this, Bai Lingfeng suddenly understood. He shot out an arrow, and with a sharp arrow whistle, something seemed to be hit.
"Huh?" He seemed to have discovered something again, "On the tree due east, three feet above the ground, shoot!"
Another arrow was shot, and then something seemed to fall from the tree. Bai Lingfeng hesitated for a moment, then jumped into the bush and disappeared into the night.
Li Sihan was quite surprised. Although she had heard a little bit about Xunlongmen's basic method of finding Qi with the mind, she only heard that if a master can practice this method to perfection, he can sense the aura of all masters who are weaker than him. But I have never heard of being able to sense the breath of other creatures.
"Sanlang, what is this?"
"Looking for Qi with the mind, why, isn't the basic method of Xunlongmen known to everyone?"
That’s weird! Li Sihan thought. She is a little jealous now. You know, it has only been a few days since Ye Sanlang entered the Tao of Cultivation? She had already mastered the basic method of Xunlongmen using vitality. She vaguely suspected that the master of Xunlongmen had seen through this a long time ago and accepted him as a disciple. This was no longer the level of a genius, he was simply a monster.
If she knew that Ye Sanlang was practicing the basic method directly without mastering the use of vitality, I'm afraid she would faint. She had been practicing since she was a child, and she was considered a young genius in the righteous way, but it took her several years to master it. Mastering the vitality, let alone practicing the method.
Perhaps, sooner or later, he will become famous in the three worlds. Li Sihan thought to herself, beginning to feel vaguely proud of him.
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a hissing sound in the grass, and a man carrying a rabbit and a bird jumped in. It was Bai Lingfeng. He was seen holding the ear of a rabbit with his left hand, and pinching the wings of an unknown bird with his right hand. Both animals seemed to have been killed by one arrow, and the crossbow arrow had been withdrawn by Bai Lingfeng and pinned to his waist.
"Brother Ye, your investigation is so accurate." As soon as he came back, he was full of praise and quickly tied up the rabbit and the bird with wooden sticks and put them on the fire. His grilling skills were indeed good. It didn't take long for the scent of rabbit to spread. The bird didn't taste very good, so he threw it aside.
The three of them had a wonderful meal. Although one rabbit was not enough, the taste was very good.
After resting for a moment, Ye Sanlang suddenly felt something was wrong. At this time, Li Sihan also suddenly said: "Someone is coming. I just released some wood spirits after dismounting. The one near the direction we came from just came. According to the news, about fifty people were chasing him, and they were very murderous."
Hearing these words, Ye Sanlang closed his eyes again. In the vast white world, he could vaguely see dozens of people coming here not far away.
"Yes, dozens of people did come, but they were all Jianghu people." He opened his eyes.
Bai Lingfeng quickly kicked the fire away and stamped out all the flames.
"What should we do?"
"It seems that they are probably here for something. It is unlikely that they are Li Heng. They may also have something urgent. Why don't we hide first and wait for an opportunity to act. Besides, although there are a lot of people, Sihan should be enough. Cope with it.”
Li Sihan nodded.
"Okay, let's go to the tree." After Bai Lingfeng said that, he jumped up to the big tree nearby.
Ye Sanlang and Li Sihan also jumped onto a tree closer to them. Although it was very high from the ground, it was not difficult for the three of them to easily jump from such a height.
"Horse!" Ye Sanlang suddenly thought.
"It doesn't matter. When I tied the horses to the tree, I had done something to hide their traces. I was afraid that wild beasts would come. Who would have thought that it would work now, and then..." After that, she read a sentence Using the formula, three talismans formed from his hands, one was thrown to Bai Lingfeng on the opposite side, and the other two were attached to himself and Ye Sanlang. "This is the breathless talisman. The practitioner can hide his own breath. Many people in the world can use it."
After waiting for a stick of incense in the tree, the three of them heard the noisy sound of horse hooves. Not long after, dozens of people came to the tree.
The first person I saw was a big man with a fierce look on his face. He had a big sword at his waist and was covered in flesh. Most of the people following him were also big men with swords.
When they reached the clearing where they had just rested, they stopped.
"What's going on? The smoke that I saw before entering the forest is here." The big man was very surprised, so he got off his horse and soon saw the fire on the ground. He touched it with his fingers, his expression changed, and he quickly He drew his sword and looked around.
"The fire just went out. They must have discovered us. I heard that the two men are not fuel-efficient lamps, and the woman is also a monster. Please be careful!"
It's a pity, it's a pity that you chose the wrong target, Bai Lingfeng thought to himself. He gently put the divine machine crossbow back into his bag and took off the seven-stone bow on his back. Ye Sanlang was very impressed when he saw that this guy could actually pull the seven-stone bow. Stone bow!
I saw him stretching his bow and shooting five arrows. The leading man and four of his men fell down in response, and the remaining people suddenly changed their colors and shouted loudly.
"They're in the trees! In the trees!"
Before Bai Lingfeng could take the arrow from the quiver on his back, Li Sihan took off the guqin on his back and signaled Ye Sanlang and Bai Lingfeng to close their ears. She calmed down and started playing softly. She saw that the eyes of the people under the tree began to blur, and then they slowly closed their eyes, and fell to the ground one by one, sleeping soundly.
After Li Sihan finished playing a piece of music, she stretched out her slender index finger to grab the strings. Before Ye Sanlang could stop her, she just played like that, and nothing happened. Because her ears were blocked in advance, the two of them No one heard anything. But Ye Sanlang had seen this move in Taibai Restaurant before, especially the murderous look in Li Sihan's eyes just now, which was very different from the explosive sound that just made Nan Rong fall asleep in the restaurant. He understood that the number under the tree The ten people were all shattered by the explosion just now.
Afterwards, the three people jumped down from the tree and confirmed that there were fifty-two people in total. Judging from their clothing, they were all bandits.
Bai Lingfeng walked up to the leader, touched his body, and took out a lot of things. When he picked up one of the pieces of paper, his expression suddenly changed.
"Brother Ye, look at this!" he shouted.
When Ye Sanlang took the paper, his expression suddenly changed. This, this turned out to be his portrait. There was text under the portrait: If you can kill this person, you will get a thousand taels of gold! This is a typical Jianghu interception order! ;
