Nan Dao felt that he had nothing to say to Shushu, so he took away one of the remaining roast chickens from her, turned around, jumped onto the river bank, and slipped away in a few steps.
Shushu bared his teeth and claws behind him for a while. After Nan Dao's figure disappeared by the river, he became completely quiet again. He just sat by the boat and quietly watched everything reflected in the river. There were two stars in the sky. A sword light passed by.
There were two sword lights passing by in the sky. Nan Dao raised his head and looked at the direction the sword lights were going. He probably understood why they were going there.
It was the question of whether the northern army could successfully reach Nanyi City that Zhang Xiaoyu had doubted before.
This made Nan Dao a little curious. He originally went south, but when he saw this scene, he turned around and walked north.
I gnawed on the roasted chicken and walked all the way. When I passed by Jianzong Garden, I remembered that the roasted chicken was what Xiao Hulu paid for, and I couldn't bear it, so I gave him a chicken leg.
Xiao Hulu thought Nan Dao had bought the chicken himself. When he saw Nan Dao sharing the chicken legs with him, he was so grateful on the doorstep holding his sword that tears flowed from his mouth.
Seeing Hu Lu's appearance, Nan Dao was too embarrassed to tell the truth about the roasted chicken to hurt this ignorant boy. He gave him another wing root, and then left the Jianzong Garden and headed north of the city.
Nanyi City is not surrounded by mountains, but there are two quite tall mountains in the west and north.
To the west are naturally the Youhuang Mountains that extend to the entire Huangliang area.
To the north is Fengqiling, where countless small sword sects are hidden.
When the Human Sword Sect was located in Nanyi City, Fengqiling became the buffer zone between the north and south of Huai'an.
Nan Dao ate roast chicken all the way to the top of the city. Because the war was still stopped at the edge of Daze, there were only a few sword cultivators on alert on the top of the city in the north.
They didn't ask anything when Nan Dao walked up. They just looked at the food in Nan Dao's hand with a little bit of greed, glanced at it briefly, and then turned back.
Nan Dao then finished the roast chicken in a few mouthfuls.
It’s not that they can’t be divided, it’s mainly that there isn’t much and they can’t be divided.
Rather than sharing the spoils unevenly, it is better to be happy and eat alone.
It has been a long time since Brother Jianzong's sword light passed.
They have probably reached Shanyue City on the other side of Fengqiling.
If there is really a large army marching, it will naturally be difficult to see it here. Because of Fengqiling, secular people often need to go around from the east when going south or north.
Only in special circumstances, when a desperate march is needed, would one choose to cross Fengqiling directly.
But that would mean giving up the baggage and going all-in.
What kind of choice will the current situation in Nanyi City make them make?
Nan Dao stood on the top of the city, looking at the mountain range that gave birth to countless small sword cultivators, and thinking quietly.
Or is it true that, as Zhang Xiaoyu said, Beitai went crazy and did not choose to go all the way north, but directly blocked all the reinforcements from the north north of Fengqiling?
Nan Dao watched at the top of the city for a long time, but unfortunately he saw nothing. The shadow of the sun had passed the center line, and there was still no movement in the north, which made people feel a little sad.
But looking back to the south of Nanyi City, there was no movement there.
This made Nan Dao quite puzzled.
Zhang Xiaoyu's estimated conflict time should be much earlier than this, even if they sent 80,000 sword cultivators to the edge of Qingshan in advance, which slowed down their attack speed.
But it’s not like there’s no movement at all.
Nan Dao was puzzled.
...
Of course, the South Island is not the only one who is puzzled.
Even Zhang Xiaoyu, who had been watching from the top of the city with his sword in hand, was confused.
Logically speaking, this should not happen.
The previous battles and the things the two senior brothers saw meant that some people had already come to Daze, and more people would arrive.
But now nothing happened.
It was like all the stories that were supposed to be ready to go fell into the water without even a single bubble rising up.
At the same time, Qu Shaming, who was with the sword cultivators and served as the temporary commander, also felt a little strange. If they had occasionally seen some figures passing through the distant mountains before, then now they There is no one left.
No matter how you look at it, it feels weird.
Qu Shaming held her sword and climbed to the top of the nearest green mountain, looking around at the extremely quiet mountains and land shrouded in light clouds and mist.
However nothing was found.
Not only the traces of the senior brothers were missing.
Even the figures of those who came from the other side of Daze disappeared.
It seemed like they were the only sword cultivators left in the entire swamp.
Of course, this should be just an illusion.
The illusion that everything is hidden.
Qu Shaming held the sword and looked at it for a long time. After hesitating for a while, she finally chose to continue waiting where she was.
While sitting under a tree on Qingshan Mountain, Qu Shaming suddenly remembered something.
Previously, he had noticed the fluctuation of sword intent deep in the green mountain.
It's just that those fluctuations were too short-lived, almost fleeting, so he didn't pay too much attention to this thing at the time.
But now that I think about it, it seems a little too weird.
It seems that the stagnation of everything started from that time?
Qu Shaming frowned.
But I still dare not confirm what is going on.
It can't be that a senior brother really found the landing point and cut it off?
...
Huai Min most likely did not have a surname of Zhang, but he probably did not have a surname of Chen either.
A long time ago, some brothers thought that he and Chen Huaifeng might be brothers based on the similarity of their names, but their habits were very different.
Huai Min often stayed up late at night and went out to play cards and wander around, just like Zhang Xiaoyu.
It's a pity that the brothers and sisters at that time did not find out Huai Min's surname after studying it for a long time, and later forgot about it.
So when Huai Min came out of the river covered in old water and looked up to see a figure standing in front of him waiting, the first thing that Huai Min thought about was, should I tell them directly that I don't have a surname? Zhang’s surname is not Chen, so my surname is Huai?
But Huai Min only thought about it for a moment. After a moment, he pulled out his sword and stabbed the man directly with a wet sword intent.
The man seemed a little deaf and a little blind, so he just stood there and did nothing.
It wasn't until Huai Min's sword was about to hit his face that he finally raised his hand.
Then he grabbed the sword.
Huai Min actually had a premonition that this would be the case.
Because the man standing by the river was so calm that he didn't seem to care about his sword at all.
And this casual grasp also confirmed this.
Huai Min tightly controlled the sword in his hand, and this prevented the sword from being drawn by the person on the opposite side.
He raised his head and looked at the person opposite him, a young man with long hair and a witch robe.
Naturally, the only one with such characteristics was Gongzi Wubei, a lucky man who had the wind of gods and ghosts.
Huai Min suddenly burst out with sword intent, pulled back the sword in his hand, took a few steps back, and looked at Young Master Wu Bei warily.
Young Master Wubei looked down at the sword mark in his hand. Even though he had the power of a witch and ghost to protect his body, it was still penetrated a little, leaving a trace of blood on his palm.
But there was no annoyance in his expression. He just retracted his hands into his sleeves quite calmly, looked at Huai Min and said, "I have never seen this senior brother before."
Huaimin looked at the line of fingerprints on his sword that had been eroded by Young Master Wubei's shamanic power, then looked up at Young Master Wubei and said: "Senior Brother of the Sword Sect, even I can't recognize them all, let alone you. A person from the Northern Wizardry?"
Young Master Wubei smiled softly and said, "But it's a pity that I have only seen one of your accomplished senior brothers so far, and I sent him to die."
Huai Min clenched the sword in his hand, but endured it and did not act rashly. He said quietly: "Life and death are natural."
Young Master Wubei said slowly: "Since it is common sense, then how about Senior Brother staying?"
Huai Min's expression changed and he didn't care so much. The sword wind around him was so powerful that he shot towards the top of the green mountain. Then the sword wind subsided and turned into sword light to escape.
However, at the moment when the sword light flashed, the world changed instantly.
Huai Min clearly turned into a sword light and broke through the mist and mist of the mountain.
However, the moment the mist and cloud barrier passed through, it turned into something like water, flowing away around the sword light.
In other words, those are water.
It's river water.
The long river that Huai Min had previously searched for.
The sword light dissipated, and Huai Min looked silently at Young Master Wu Bei, who was looking at him leisurely by the river not far away.
"It seems you don't want to kill me."
Huai Min said softly.
Young Master Wubei smiled softly and said, "Not necessarily, but I have some more interesting ideas."
Huaimin clenched the sword in his hand, frowned and looked at Young Master Wubei and said, "What an interesting idea."
Young Master Wubei stretched out a hand from his sleeve, and it was an extremely weird witchcraft.
Huaimin could only judge that it was a ghost technique through the cold aura emanating from the witchcraft, but he could not tell what kind of ghost technique it was. Although Cong Ren was skilled in all kinds of swordsmanship, he could only Just teach the way of swordsmanship.
The power of countless Styx rivers came from the mountains, rivers and swamps, and gradually converged into a huge river between Huai Min and Gongzi Wubei.
Not Wuhe.
It's the River Styx.
Sword intent surged around Huai Min's body, and he tried to escape from the Styx River by riding on the sword wind.
But after all, he is just a sword cultivator in the Xiaodao realm, so naturally he cannot easily escape from the ghost arts in the hands of the spirit wizard.
So after struggling for a long time, he was finally pushed by the entire Styx River and landed in front of Young Master Wubei.
Young Master Wubei looked at Huaimin who was trapped by the River Styx quietly, and said softly: "That's such an interesting idea."
As the words fell, countless ghost winds surged on the Styx River, but they ignored the sword intent and sword wind around Huai Min and sank directly into Huai Min's body.
Huai Min felt the cold aura heading straight for the divine sea.
Finally understanding something, he returned his sword intention to the Divine Sea and tried to resist the intrusion of those auras, while looking at Young Master Wubei in horror.
"Detention of ghost arts, what do you want to do?"
Huai Min's struggle was of little significance, so Gongzi Wubei didn't pay attention. He just quietly stretched out a hand and touched his forehead.
An illusory figure was pulled out of Huai Min's divine sea and landed in the Styx River around him.
After the soul leaves the body, even if Huai Min is a disciple of the Human Sword Sect, it will be difficult for him to resist.
Even the authentic Taoist monks are powerless.
Young Master Wubei looked at Huai Min's soul quietly, and then the power of witches and ghosts around him surged, entangling their bodies together.
Until their eyes opened and closed at the same time.
Huai Min's spirit stood in the River Styx, staring blankly at this scene.
Young Master Wubei raised his hand and waved away the Styx River. Huai Min's spirit also dissipated in the River Styx.
It’s for returning.
Then he looked at the body of the Sword Sect disciple quietly.
"Do something interesting."
Young Master Wubei said calmly.
...
The sword cultivators wandering by the river at the edge of the green mountains encountered their first head-on conflict.
He is from the Northern Witch Way.
Although there is only a small shaman group of nearly a hundred people.
But on Lingnan Sword Cultivator's side, many people still died under the hasty response.
The moment Qu Shaming noticed the fight, she stepped on her sword and left.
Fortunately, there are not enough people on the Northern Wizard Road. The biggest advantage of Lingnan Sword Cultivators is that they have enough monks.
After a short but swift conflict, the sword cultivators who kept coming for reinforcements also succeeded in repelling the Northern Wizards.
When Qu Shaming arrived, the sword cultivators had already sheathed their swords and were cleaning up the battlefield.
Qu Shaming stood by the river where the battle had just begun, puzzled, and looked deeper into the river and green mountains.
I don’t understand why when the entire Wugui Dao people are standing still, the Northern Wu Dao chooses to jump out.
A Lingnan sword cultivator came over with a sword on his back, saluted the meditating Qu Shaming, and said, "Senior brother."
Qu Shaming came back to her senses, looked at the sword cultivator and asked, "What?"
The Lingnan sword cultivator turned back and pointed at the sword cultivators who died in a hasty attack by the river not far away, and said softly: "We need to arrange some people to send them back to Lingnan."
Qu Shaming was silent for a while and said, "This is natural, you can just make your own arrangements."
The man bowed and said, "Thank you, senior brother."
Qu Shaming sighed softly and said: "It's Nanyi City's responsibility to thank you, Lingnan Sword Sect. If something like this happens again in the future, try to focus on surviving strength."
Qu Shaming looked up at the mountains and peaks spreading towards the horizon, and said slowly: "This will not be the main battlefield."
The sword cultivator nodded, turned around and walked towards everyone in the Sword Sect.
Qu Shaming turned back and looked quietly at the direction in which the people of Northern Wizardry were retreating, still unable to understand the reason for this battle.
Could it be that I was overthinking it, and was it really just a sudden encounter between the two sides while marching through the vast green mountains?
Qu Shaming was silent for a long time, and was about to leave here, but her expression suddenly changed and she looked deep into the green mountain.
The aura of sword intent appeared there again.
.......
After Nan Dao finished eating the roast chicken, he walked south along the city wall, and then unexpectedly saw the gentlemen from Xuanxuyuan in the east of the city.
A group of gentlemen didn't look very panicked. They set up stoves at the top of the city to cook tea and drink tea. Many Lingnan sword cultivators also gathered around, sharing tea and drinking.
This made Nan Dao a little confused.
Have you come to the wrong place?
Still misremembered.
In fact, nothing happened. Gentlemen just used the last bit of time in March to come to the city to enjoy the breeze?
But the existence of those sword cultivators obviously negated this conjecture.
Nan Dao was still in a daze, but Mr. Xie and others who were surrounded by the crowd had already seen the dazed boy holding an umbrella.
"South Island?"
Nan Dao followed the sound and looked over. It was Mr. Xie.
But what Nan Dao didn't expect was that Mr. Mei was surrounded among the crowd.
Doesn’t Lao Mei know how to practice Taoism?
What is he doing here?
Nan Dao scratched his head and walked over, bowing to the gentlemen.
"I have met you gentlemen."
The gentlemen smiled back and didn't pay much attention to it. However, Mr. Mei and Mr. Xie were quite curious about the reason why Nandao appeared here.
"How will you be here?"
Mr. Xie asked, looking at Nan Dao.
Nan Dao smiled and said, "Well, just strolling around."
Mr. Mei waved his hand, poured another cup of tea and handed it to Nan Dao, and said: "That guy Chen He said he came here for a casual stroll. Of course I believed him. As for you, forget it. You don't act like a casual stroller." people."
Nan Dao took the tea, squatted aside and drank it, and said, "Isn't it because I have been with Chen He for a long time and I have learned bad things?"
Mr. Mei: "......If I had known better, I wouldn't have invited you to tea."
Nan Dao laughed.
Mr. Xie was casually drinking tea and watching the two chatting, but he became a little more serious and said: "It doesn't matter if you go out for a walk, but you may not be too busy recently. If something happens, you should return to the city early." It’s better to go.”
Nan Dao nodded and said, "I understand, thank you sir."
As Nan Dao spoke, he suddenly remembered something. He looked at Mr. Xie and others and said, "Why are all the gentlemen here?"
Mr. Xie was silent for a while, and looked at Mr. Wu Guiyuan Ming, who had been holding a cup and drinking tea without saying anything. The latter did not remain silent. He just looked at Nan Dao and said, "Because we are not a small cultivator of the Human Sword Sect. Or, if they really meet the people from Wugui Dao, they will not have any scruples. On the contrary, because of the identity of Mr. Xuansheyuan, we may even cause more trouble. In this case, Next, I naturally choose to come to the side of the battlefield to provide some soy sauce... and provide cover."
Mr. Ming accidentally said his true thoughts while talking. Fortunately, he reacted in time, coughed twice, and changed his mind.
"..." Nan Dao was speechless.
But what Mr. Ming said does seem to make sense?
After all, Cong Ren is not dead yet.
Taoist Wugui really dared to kill the Jianzong disciples at all costs. When Cong Ren comes back in the future, the whole Huangliangshao will inevitably turn upside down again.
Nan Dao seemed to understand why, according to Zhang Xiaoyu and the others, everything was already in place, but they still had to wait for many forces in the world to enter the situation.
Maybe that's why.
If the Human Sword Sect ignores the Wu Gui Dao and fights head-on, it will naturally force them to lose their way.
For both parties, it seems that it is not something they are happy to see.
Nan Dao thought about this and finally understood why the current situation was so awkwardly frozen.
The purpose of letting the world enter is to ease the conflict.
