This is a mountain forest outside the west gate of Chang'an City.
The setting sun in the evening is as clear and red as the oranges in the golden autumn. It shines on the mottled city walls of Chang'an, cutting out the shadows coming and going.
In the dark and silent mountain forest, two figures, an old man and a young man, came.
The old man was dressed in a clean Taoist robe, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes.
The large green shirt worn by the young man was now in tatters and covered with dirt. The sleeve on his left hand was broken and missing.
A pair of cloth shoes on his feet had several holes in them, and his calloused toes were exposed from the holes.
"Chang'an City is ahead." The old man pointed at the ancient city of Chang'an with his hand, a look of reminiscence on his brows.
The young man ignored the old man and went to straighten his hair, which was covered with mud scabs. The dirt kept falling from his scalp.
After working on it for a long time, the dirt falling from his head showed no sign of decreasing.
The young man gave up and turned to straighten his face.
The firm edges and corners can still be seen on his dark face, and from his bloodshot eyes, it can be seen that he has not had adequate rest for a long time.
With this appearance, he can definitely join the beggar gang in Chang'an without being kicked out.
The old man slapped his waist, "It's been a very peaceful journey. Even I didn't expect that the eldest prince would come back to Chang'an."
"I just want to give it another try and see if I still have a chance." Jiang Fengqing rubbed her thin legs. There was almost no trace of fat on her calves. "They say that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Today I read It turns out that’s the case.”
"Haha, the eldest prince's ambition is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people. However, we have to say goodbye after a long journey. I have benefited a lot from walking with the eldest prince on this journey. I hope that I can sit down and discuss things with the eldest prince in the future." He pointed to the ground with his hand, and two glasses of sake appeared directly on the ground.
"I urge you to drink another glass of wine. I will use this glass of sake to support the eldest prince's journey."
The old man pressed the empty space, and the two glasses of sake floated into the air on their own.
One cup fell into the old man's hand, and another cup floated in front of Jiang Fengqing.
"I advise you to drink another glass of wine. I have no friends in Chang'an." Jiang Fengqing looked down at her appearance in the wine, feeling confused for a while. "I once heard a story. A woodcutter went to the mountain to chop wood, but he bumped into two immortals on the road. While playing chess, he came to the side to watch..."
"How can the immortal chess game be understood by mortals?" The old man took a sip of wine and said softly, "How can mortal eyes with the naked eye peek at the changes of immortals."
"Didn't the chess immortal of Xuzhou Tianxia Academy say that if there is a god in the world, he will beat it by half a piece? If there is an immortal born to play chess, just go to him when the time comes." Jiang Fengqing smiled, and then said, "In the mountains There is no Jiazi, and the age is unknown. The Immortal played a game of chess for a hundred years. After the woodcutter watched the game, the wooden handle of the ax turned into dust. However, his appearance remained unchanged, and he seemed to have recovered. An immortal opportunity. But when he walked down the mountain, all his old friends had turned into a pile of bones, and no one in the world knew him anymore."
"But there are many people who know the eldest prince in the world today." The old man shook his head and sighed.
"A great scholar once said that the last time a mortal dies is when no one in the world knows him."
A breeze blew through the forest, and Jiang Fengqing stretched out her hand to keep it.
"It's really not good to have karma with too many people. It's too troublesome to wait until the day when the karma is cut off. Sometimes I want to turn into a breeze, know countless people, countless mountains, and countless rivers, but I can't stop for any scenery. , just to pursue freedom throughout my life."
"But when the wind travels thousands of miles, it can't take away what it wants, and it can't go with it when it wants to get it." The old man seemed to have thought of something, and then said, "Listen to what the eldest prince said, I have a question , since the eldest prince pursues freedom, why does he want to sit on the dragon chair that is only ten feet?"
Jiang Fengqing was stunned and silent for a long time.
The wind in the forest became stronger, and it picked up a leaf and insisted on carrying it to the sky. The leaf fluttered and finally fell to the ground.
"Maybe it's because I still can't let go of the obsession in my heart. I walked a long way, but I finally walked back to Chang'an. Maybe this is God's will."
"Haha, I thought it was the eldest prince who remembered the way back to Chang'an, but it turned out to be God's will. It seems that God wants you to go back to Chang'an again." The old man raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp. The cup in his hand disappeared instantly.
Jiang Fengqing shook the wine glass, drank it all in one gulp, wiped the corners of her mouth and said softly, "With obsessions and constant cause and effect, there is no talk of freedom or far-reaching travel."
"Then let me wish the eldest prince one day to leave Chang'an. I will definitely accompany the eldest prince on a long trip." The old man said with a smile.
"Haha, let me lend you some good advice. If such a day comes, I must go to Qingcheng Mountain for a walk first." Jiang Fengqing looked at the old man with deep eyes, "I also want to see what the old peach tree in Qingcheng Mountain is like. How tall are they and what do the peaches taste like?”
A smile appeared on the corner of the old man's mouth, and he bowed, but said nothing.
The breeze blew, and the old man's body turned into seven or eight peach blossoms, which floated into the distance with the breeze.
Jiang Fengqing looked at the peach blossoms thoughtfully, letting the shade of trees engulf his face.
Ghost Doctor Valley.
Zhang Wenling is fighting against the six elders alone.
The overwhelming insect swarm, controlled by Zhang Wenling like an arm and a finger, left the six elders struggling to deal with it.
"Haha, six years old is already old, why do you still have to fight with us young people? It's better to go home early and stop showing off outside."
Zhang Wenling didn't hide the sarcasm in his words at all, and the insect tide attacked another three points fiercely.
The Six Elders wanted to fight back, but it was very difficult to deal with the raging insect wave in front of them. There was no chance for them to fight back.
The strange master in front of him named Zhang Wenling not only has advanced cultivation, but also has weird methods.
His ability to control insects was something they had never seen before in all their years in the martial arts world.
Moreover, the Gu insect used by Zhang Wenling was something they had never seen before.
These Gu bugs are small green beetles with long and sharp mouthparts that can even penetrate rocks easily. The transparent wings on its back are hidden under the extremely hard carapace. It flies extremely fast, like a small but sharp arrow, which is hard to guard against.
Facing this swarm of tens of thousands of insects, they had no choice at all.
Fires, floods, thunder and lightning... They tried countless methods, but they couldn't shake the insect tide at all. Instead, they were surrounded by beetles several times, and they were almost sucked dry by the beetle's sharp mouthparts. They died in these thousands of insects. Gnating.
However, the beetle's hard-as-iron back shell was immune to almost all attacks, leaving them with no idea where to start when faced with the beetle.
"Haha, it seems that the beetles of my day are very fond of Liu Lao's flesh and blood. I wonder if Liu Lao can let them have a feast?" Zhang Wenling looked at Liu Lao's embarrassed figure and laughed.
"Sky beetle? I have heard that during the battle between the human race and the demon race, Yao Lao once cultivated an extremely ferocious Gu insect, which was very similar to the Gu insect in his hand, but it was called a ground beetle." There was someone in the crowd. The old man frowned.
Liu Lao felt depressed for a while.
In fact, they had long wanted to evacuate this place. After all, after the battle with Wu Fan, their internal strength had been exhausted and they were unable to fight anymore.
The initial attack on Zhang Wenling was with the idea of testing his strength.
Although they really want to get the female corpse, they still want to live well now than whether there is a way to extend their life.
However, not long after they fought against Zhang Wenling, Zhang Wenling directly summoned a swarm of insects, leaving them unable to resist.
By now, they could clearly feel that Zhang Wenling had no intention of killing them. Otherwise, with this wave of insects, Zhang Wenling could easily get rid of them in almost ten breaths. But Zhang Wenling did not do this, and had no intention of letting them go.
Finally, the weakest of the six elders exhausted all his internal energy, and was broken through the internal energy barrier by more than ten beetles and pounced on his chest.
These beetles tore his clothes instantly, inserted their mouthparts into his body, and sucked away.
One of the beetles even inserted its mouthparts into one of his ribs and began to suck out his bone marrow.
"Ah! Save me!" The old man howled at the top of his lungs, his skinny hands scratching at his chest, trying to get rid of the beetles on his chest.
But all this is in vain.
At this time, the remaining five people were more than capable. The beetles they faced became violent. They had to work hard to deal with them, and they had no chance to pay attention to the plight of their companions.
The feet of these beetles were equipped with sharp barbs. When the old man's hands kept pulling at them, the barbs dug deeply into his thin skin and tore countless scratches on it.
The smell of blood quickly spread, attracting countless beetles to land.
The old man's body continued to decline, and he was about to fall to pieces.
Boom boom boom
The last mountain in Ghost Doctor Valley finally began to collapse.
The people on the ground instantly lost their interest in watching the fun and started running away in all directions.
The sound of poetry on the top of the mountain had left without knowing when, leaving a swaying chair.
Wu Fan stood in the air, staring blankly at the mountain that had been torn apart by countless rocks rolling down.
"This...you...what kind of monster is that?" Wu Fan looked at Zhang Wenling with a look of surprise and confusion.
Countless huge flaming red vines were seen emerging from the mountain, and the hard boulders were easily broken like tofu in front of these vines.
The old man's body was caught by a vine. There was a layer of fine hair on the surface of the seemingly smooth vine. These hairs were extremely sharp. In an instant, thousands of holes were poked out of the old man's back, including dozens of holes on his back. The beetle was also pierced, pinning him firmly to the vine.
"Ah...ah..." The old man no longer had any strength to struggle and could only hum unconsciously. Countless beetles had covered his body. The beetles that arrived late had almost no place to stay and could only squeeze in and move around in a ball. .
Three beetles drilled into his eye sockets, and the eyeballs were eaten alive. Countless beetles had already burrowed under his skin and were scurrying around inside his body. There were beetles gnawing at his internal organs.
But all this was obscured by a layer of beetles on his body.
"Flowers bloom like the golden age, nourished by human blood. Let the ghost vine flowers bloom all over the Ghost Doctor Valley today!" Zhang Wenling shouted loudly, with an extremely evil look on his face. Behind him, a pair of clouds turned into beetles supported the body of the female corpse floating in the sky. in the air.
Under the Ghost Doctor Valley, the crowd fled in all directions. However, within a moment, everyone fell to the ground one after another, their faces pale, and they could not use any of their internal strength.
At this time, an eye appeared on the top of countless vines, looking at the almost defenseless people, like a hungry man looking at a full banquet, his eyes revealing greed.
