The fog in the big swamp has dissipated, but there is still a bit of haziness in the green mountains and land where the moisture of the long years has just begun to emerge.
Mei Quming and Nan Dequ did not use sword light to rush forward. Just as Nan Dequ said, there was something in this green mountain that was still unknown. Therefore, it was just the sword wind surrounding them that sped up slightly. Walking at a very cautious pace, he walked through the green mountains.
The two of them walked forward for a long time until they passed through the outermost green mountain barrier, and then they truly entered this ancient but still new land.
Mei Quming used the bamboo pennant in his hand to push aside the large green unknown leaves in front of him, and only then did the towering green mountains and the rivers flowing everywhere really appear in front of the two of them.
"Hiss." Mei Quming took a breath of cold air.
Nan Dequ looked at him and asked strangely: "What are you doing?"
Mei Quming said with emotion: "Look here, there are at least hundreds of rivers. If anyone can ferry them here, they can buy Nanyi City in less than ten years."
"..."
Nan Dequ almost wanted to hit him on the head, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. They were all Bensi people, and it would be too embarrassing to do such a thing again.
The two of them looked around at the foot of the mountain for a long time, and then decided to explore along the rivers that circulated at the foot of the mountain.
The riverside is full of exotic flowers and plants, most of which have never been seen in the human world.
Meiquming even saw a few grimacing flowers in some dark and humid places.
This black flower has troubled the world for a long time. Although its appearance is explained in the most detailed way in Li Queyi's "Supplementary Records of the Human World" - it has nothing to do with the unknown, just the Styx. It is caused by the interaction between the tide and the north and south monsoons, but people still maintain a certain degree of awe for this gloomy flower growing on the side of the Styx.
The two of them didn't pay much attention to those flowers. They just glanced at them briefly and then continued to move forward in the sword wind.
The land is vast, with green mountains and rivers everywhere. The two of them don't know where they are walking. The only place they can use to locate is naturally the far place on this land, the one in the center of everything, surrounded by countless green mountains. That strange and lonely peak supported by the river.
There was skylight pouring down there, which gave the land that was obscured by clouds and green mountains a little light.
As the two walked, they somewhat forgot their purpose of coming here.
Nan Dequ suddenly stopped and looked at the clear stream flowing slowly from the green mountain to the side. The stream was winding, going up and coming from nowhere, and finally merged into the mountain at the foot of the mountain. Big river.
Mei Quming looked at his senior brother and asked solemnly: "What's wrong, senior brother?"
Nan Dequ frowned and said, "There is blood."
Only then did Mei Quming put down his previous casual attitude and smell the smell in the air carefully. Only then did he realize that there was indeed some blood, which seemed to come from this stream.
The two squatted down by the stream. Mei Quming put down his bamboo pen, held a handful of stream water to his nose and sniffed it for a long time. Then he turned to look at Nande Qu, who raised his hand and drew his sword, a sword fire flashed out. It ignited from the edge of the sword, and then inserted the sword in his hand into the soil on the side of the stream bank.
Sword fire began to ignite in the entire clear stream, and it suddenly went up along the clear stream, heading towards the top of the green mountain.
Nan Dequ pulled out his sword, flicked out the fire on the sword, looked at Mei Quming and said, "It's the traces of witches and ghosts."
Mei Quming nodded, picked up the bamboo pennant from the side, and headed towards the top of the green mountain with Nan Dequ.
I originally thought it was just an ordinary mountain peak, but after walking for a long time, clouds and mist began to appear among the forest, flowers and grass, and we still had not reached the top of the mountain.
But the blood energy by the stream is getting heavier and heavier.
The two of them frowned and continued to walk upward. After an unknown amount of time, the clear stream finally turned into a trickle somewhere, and then disappeared among the fallen leaves.
The traces of sword fire are also cut off here.
Mei Quming held his bamboo pen and tilted his head to look higher up in the light mist.
"Senior brother, what do you think there will be on it?"
Nan Dequ looked around the mountains and forests, but there were no human traces here.
"I don't know, let's go and take a look."
The two of them continued upward.
After walking for a long distance, the light in the mountains and forests gradually became brighter, and there was a faint hint of skylight coming from the lonely peak through the mist.
The two looked at each other, grabbed their swords and walked forward.
After passing through a large forest of rocks and rocks entwined with ivy, the two finally arrived at the top of a green mountain.
Then he saw a person with his back to the two of them, sitting in front of a large bloody witch mark.
...
The night gradually fades.
A faint light gradually appeared on the horizon.
The people of the Jianzong who had been waiting silently at the top of the city for a whole night finally felt relieved.
Zhang Xiaoyu yawned and sat at the top of the city, always feeling a little weird.
Could it be just a false alarm?
The top of the city gradually became lively.
The Lingnan sword cultivators sat in twos and threes in the dim morning light, chatting casually, which dispelled a lot of the haze that had shrouded everyone's minds all night.
The green mountains outside the city also became lively. The sword cultivators were walking in the mountains and forests, starting to light fires, catching some random wild animals, and began to roast and eat them.
In the first hundred years of the establishment of the Gale Dynasty, this kind of thing was extremely sensitive.
Because the demon clan has just begun to return to the human world, they are still wary of the world. Most of them have transformed from wild animals into humans, so naturally they will be extremely dissatisfied with this kind of hunting behavior.
But as time goes by, people forget these things.
Many of the eighty thousand sword cultivators are little demons.
Among those who eat game, they enjoy it more than anyone else.
Zhang Xiaoyu crossed the green mountains outside the city and looked at the vast swamp.
The land that was originally difficult to see clearly in the night finally appeared in the eyes of the world without missing a beat.
The skylight hung far away on the distant solitary peak, flowing into the mountains like a stream, and then was blocked, and nothing could be seen.
The mountains were silent and there was no movement at all.
It's as if it originally existed in this vast swamp and was only seen by the world today.
But Zhang Xiaoyu naturally doesn't think so.
He was the one who looked at the world before Chen Huaifeng.
Many stories started to flow, and Zhang Xiaoyu looked at them one by one after getting off the card table.
So strong winds will come naturally.
It's just that maybe something delayed them.
Zhang Xiaoyu thought rather puzzledly, then what is it?
Lu Xiaoxiao woke up with sleepy eyes, looked at Zhang Xiaoyu not far away, thought for a while, and took out another bun from his arms.
Zhang Xiaoyu looked at the buns that were handed to him again strangely.
"Why do I feel like you have bad intentions?"
Lu Xiaoxiao looked outside the city, rolled his eyes, and said, "I just see senior brother sitting here alone, and I am afraid that senior brother will be hungry."
"..."
Zhang Xiaoyu was silent for a long time.
There are probably no small cultivators in the world who will starve to death.
But Zhang Xiaoyu still took the bun and said while chewing: "Let's be honest, what do you want to do to please me like this?"
Lu Xiaoxiao looked at Zhang Xiaoyu and asked with piercing eyes: "Seriously?"
Zhang Xiaoyu nodded helplessly: "I must take it seriously. I am an innocent and beautiful man, and you feed me buns every day. What will others think if word spreads about it?"
Lu Xiaoxiao smiled sheepishly and said, "Senior brother, does he know about the Little White Sword Sect?"
Zhang Xiaoyu tilted his head and thought for a long time before saying, "I probably haven't heard of it."
Lu Xiaoxiao was not disappointed. People from a big cultivation place like Zhang Xiaoyu would naturally not pay attention to such things.
"Okay, senior brother, can you do me a favor?"
"?"
Lu Xiaoxiao turned back and looked in the direction of Xuanxuyuan in the city.
"I want that young man named Nan Dao to join our Sword Sect. The length of time does not matter." Lu Xiaoxiao said seriously, "As long as he has stayed with us."
Zhang Xiaoyu froze there, looking at this female swordsman who was several years older than him, but still called her senior brother affectionately.
Good guy, I treat you as my junior sister, but you want to take advantage of my junior brother?
Of course, Lu Xiaoxiao has been thinking about Nandao.
Wu Dalong's words made Lu Xiaoxiao give up for a while.
But later I figured it out.
It is naturally impossible for people like Zhang Xiaoyu from Nandao to stay in a place like Lingnan.
But just like Ximen is to the Five Swordsman Sect.
It doesn't matter if he is here or not in the future. If he was here once, it will make the world pay more attention to the Lingnan Sword Sect.
It's just like the minister wanted to bring Liu March to Xuanxuyuan.
Gold plating doesn't affect anything anyway.
Zhang Xiaoyu also figured out what Lu Xiaoxiao was thinking, and sighed and said, "How about I just go to your Lingnan to be a disciple for a while?"
Lu Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said, "Senior brother, let's forget it."
Zhang Xiaoyu frowned and said, "Why, am I not as good as him?"
Lu Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment and said: "That's not what I meant, senior brother. Everyone in the world knows that you are from the Human Sword Sect, so there is no point in coming to Lingnan."
Zhang Xiaoyu thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case.
Just persuading people to go to Lingnan to practice is like persuading people to eat, drink, whore and gamble. I really can’t say it out loud.
Zhang Xiaoyu then laughed and said, "Okay, okay, I'll help you mention it another day."
Lu Xiaoxiao didn't know if he didn't hear the perfunctory meaning in Zhang Xiaoyu's words, so he said gratefully: "Thank you, senior brother."
Such a sincere attitude, coupled with the fact that Lu Xiaoxiao was calling her seniors one after another, made Zhang Xiaoyu feel a little guilty. Thinking about it, he also ate a lot of buns from her, so how about giving her a lift?
Lu Xiaoxiao suppressed his laughter and turned around and walked towards the city wall.
Sincerity is of course a must-win.
Especially when facing someone with a conscience like Zhang Xiaoyu.
Is it just that such sincerity seems a bit despicable?
Lu Xiaoxiao kept chanting Amitabha in his heart.
Zhang Xiaoyu didn't think too much. After all, he was very busy, busy wandering around and dozing off.
After watching it all night, nothing happened. In addition, being distracted by Lu Xiaoxiao made Zhang Xiaoyu forget about those heroic words last night and thought about finding some Lingnan sword cultivators to join him here first. Let’s talk about mahjong?
However, I haven’t figured out how to get a mahjong table together.
There were some strange movements in Osawa.
Everyone looked towards Daze.
But he saw countless sword lights emerging from the clouds and mist on the green mountain.
Zhang Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment.
Have the senior brothers gone to Daze?
...
Naturally, everything in the world has nothing to do with the two people who are still listening to Fengtai.
Nan Dao woke up in a daze early in the morning, picked up his sword and stabbed the sitting figure not far away.
Chen He was so scared that he took a bath early in the morning.
Fortunately, Nan Dao woke up quickly, hurriedly deviated from the direction, and stabbed a beam on the side of the stage with his sword.
Chen He was standing by the stage, holding on to the railing. The sword strike just now frightened him so much that he almost jumped over the railing.
Nan Dao looked at the shocked Chen He apologetically: "Sorry, sorry, I forgot that I was back."
Chen He patted his chest and gasped for air. He looked at Nan Dao and asked, "What did you do last night? You were knocked unconscious and sent back. You were still mumbling something: 'I want to take the place of Shushu'." Draw your sword' or something like that."
Nan Dao was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "I went to meet a senior fellow from the Sword Sect last night."
Chen He was shocked.
"Did you draw your sword at the senior brother of the Human Sword Sect?"
Nan Dao nodded.
Chen He looked at Nan Dao in shock and said, "Are you so brave? Which senior brother are you?"
Nan Dao thought for a moment and said, "I don't know either, but I heard Zhang Xiaoyu also called him senior brother."
Chen He was speechless for a long time.
"According to the principle of the practice world, if you can't beat someone, you can call him senior brother, Nandao."
"Um?"
"You are braver than I thought!"
"..."
Nan Dao was silent for a while and said, "If you heard a story like that, you wouldn't be able to help but want to draw your sword."
"what story?"
Chen He sat back on the edge of the stage again, drinking some wine to calm down his shock.
Nan Dao wanted to tell Chen He, but suddenly he remembered what the old Jian Zong disciple said outside the city. He was silent for a while, sighed and said: "Forget it, Brother He, you are an idler, so you better not get involved. Got into this kind of thing.”
Chen He did not ask further questions, but said with a sigh: "But Xianyun Yehe is also very troubled!"
"What trouble?"
"For example, sometimes I can't relax."
Nan Dao tilted his head and looked at Chen He, only to realize that he was indeed a little distressed.
"What happened?"
"Huang Liang is about to attack."
Chen He lamented.
Nan Dao was stunned for a moment and said, "So soon? They have already entered the city?"
"That's not true, but the gentlemen of Xuansheyuan didn't let me go out. They said they would be ready to evacuate everyone at any time."
Chen He lamented and said, "Hang Yue is happy now. The spring exam she was looking at with a frown has indeed been postponed, and may have been cancelled."
"..." Nan Dao was speechless. He didn't expect that Chen He could still think of this.
Chen He became more energetic as he spoke.
"By the way, I had this idea before when I was in school, but it's a pity that I didn't encounter it at that time."
"..."
Nan Dao was silent for a long time, looked at Chen He and said helplessly: "If you let your gentlemen know that you are thinking about this kind of thing every day, you will be beaten twice."
Chen He chuckled and said: "How do you know that gentlemen don't think this way? After all, I am not a student of Xuanxu Academy, just an ordinary enlightenment school in a small town. I see those who have nothing to do and just post them at the door. The gentlemen who boast about the sun probably want to play more than we do.”
"Did you think so at that time?" Chen He asked, looking at Nan Dao.
Nan Dao was silent for a while and said: "I have never been to school. I only listened to some classes while lying on the wall."
"Oh, that's half-illiteracy."
"..." Nan Dao was speechless, then remembered something, looked at Chen He and said, "Actually, I still know most Chinese characters. You must not go out and say that I am illiterate!"
Chen He looked at Nan Dao and asked, "Why?"
Nan Dao said coyly: "This thing doesn't sound very smart at first glance. I'm afraid it will damage my image if my husband knows about it."
Nan Dao felt that his image to Qiu Xi'er should be that of the extremely confident young man standing on the bridge and seeing things clearly.
Rather than being an illiterate who can write every word wrong.
Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that not only Qiu Xi'er, but also Cheng Lu and Qing Qing knew that he was illiterate.
Chen He thought for a long time, but he didn't know what Nan Dao meant when he said he was afraid that Mr.
Is it because the illness is being concealed and medical treatment is avoided?
But seeing Nan Dao's appearance, he said sincerely: "No problem, I'll talk to Mr. Zhang Xiaoyumei and Mr. Yingyun Hu and the others at most."
"..."
Nan Dao picked up the Peach Blossom Sword placed aside.
Chen He jumped up quickly and said with a smile, "I was joking."
Nan Dao picked up Yiaozhou again and carried the two swords behind his back.
"I just went out to take a look, why are you so excited?"
"..."
Chen He thought in a blink of an eye, Nan Dao is a cultivator, and Yu Jian seems to be able to make noises, so he should be able to sneak out?
So Chen He picked up a jug of wine on the side, followed him, and said, "I'm going to take a look too. I don't know if I'm allowed to go out now."
Nan Dao's legs and feet are much better now. Although he still looks a little lame when walking, at least he no longer has to be a lame while holding a sword.
He walked at a higher and lower level, and he was holding the black umbrella, so he looked like a big black mushroom jumping on the stairs.
The two of them walked through the bamboo forest path and headed out. There was not a single student in the courtyard. They didn't know if they had slipped out or were driven back to the dormitory by their husband and locked up.
Walking all the way to the gate of Xuansheyuan, all the gentlemen gathered here last night when Chen He came. But this morning, there was no one left.
Chen He looked around and it seemed that all the gentlemen had gone out.
Looking at Nan Dao aside, he said hesitantly: "Do you really want to go out and take a look?"
Nan Dao was actually a little panicked, but with two swords on his back, he couldn't show his timidity. He nodded and pretended to be calm and said: "Go!"
The two of them hesitantly walked through the alley and walked to the main street of Nanjingfang.
Fortunately, Nanyi City was not too chaotic, but from time to time there would be pedestrians hurriedly heading south of the city and then hurried back.
The two of them followed the flow of people towards the south of the city.
It just hasn’t gone very far yet.
In the sky in the south, many sword lights suddenly appeared, and they seemed to be shattered by something, turning into scattered light and falling down.
The sky was dim, with black energy and sword light constantly intertwined.
It seemed like someone was fighting fiercely there.
Chen He hurriedly pulled Nan Dao and ran in the direction he came from.
Although Yunhu didn't know that he said Xiaojia didn't need to run, he couldn't run away in a fight.
But you still have to run if you can.
"Let's go and stay at Cao Weiying's place."
After pulling for a long time, Nan Dao was not pulled. Chen He turned his head and saw Nan Dao looking there blankly.
Although he looked shocked, there was a strange light in his eyes.
Chen He was stunned for a while before he came to his senses.
"You want to take a look?"
Nan Dao turned around, not knowing whether he was looking at Chen He or the two swords behind him.
"think."
Chen He gritted his teeth.
"Walk!"
The two of them headed towards the city.
