On How the Phoenix Hanged on the Crooked Neck Tree

Linfeng asked: "How is the peacock now?"

Chongming Bird Yingyao said: "The sparrow thief has harbored evil intentions for a long time. Since you..., you have colluded with the unruly disciples in the Bird Realm, invaded the land, and endangered the world. I was never on guard against him before, and I was beaten I was caught off guard, so I lost a lot of territory. Now we have gradually controlled the situation and won many battles. Now that the master is back, it is natural for him to suffer the consequences. The bird thief indulges his subordinates to harm the world, and sooner or later he will be punished. retribution."

Linfeng nodded, thought for a while and said: "It's a good job. Since Miao Qing is eager to open up the territory, I just don't let him get what he wants. Add more people in the middle land to trap Miao Qing's backbone. I have plenty of time to accompany him slowly. Slow grind, but he can't afford it."

Ying Yao took the lead.

Linfeng took two steps on the armrest, and then said to Bi Fangniao: "Yunyan, I need to trouble you to deal with the matter of the Feng clan for a while."

Cang Yu and Lovebird couple were shocked: "Why is this? Is the Lord going to leave?"

Bi Fangniao Yunyan's expression was calm, and his voice was calm: "Master, do you want to go down to the realm?" Although he was asking a question, his tone seemed to be determined.

Qingniao is quite proficient in medicine, and said with a frown, "But the master's soul has not been fully fused, so if he descends to the realm, not only his body will be damaged, but his ability will also be limited after descending."

Linfeng said, "It's urgent, so we have to." He was worried about his human beings.

Qingniao and others wanted to persuade them again, but Linfeng stopped them with a gesture.I had no choice but to lower my head and not make a sound, but I don't know whether I agree with it in my heart.In any case, as Linfeng is the phoenix master, all birds must obey his orders.

Seeing this, Linfeng said: "Prepare for matters in the lower realm." Immediately, a attendant conveyed his words.

Qiao Yitong, who is still in a remote corner of the world, has no idea what happened in the distant Feng Clan.He lived with the caravan, lived along the way for two or three days, and passed through many towns. In almost every town, he found Fengyundu disciples who were secretly chasing him.Fortunately, Qiao Yitong was mixed with mortals, so it was hard to be noticed for a while.

Lu Yifan's family was protected by Fengyundu, so they were able to have a place in the Ming capital. In addition, the person he was thinking of was Fengyundu's disciple, so every time he met someone who was Fengyundu, Lu Yifan would treat him well and give him generous support. By the way, find out what's going on with that person.This time, I learned from Fengyundu's disciple that Qiao Yitong was accidentally attacked and was taken outside Fengyundu, where his life and death were unknown. My heart skipped a beat, and it took me a long time to send the disciple away with a forced smile.Since then, he has been restless along the way.

Although Qiao Yitong deliberately avoided Fengyundu's disciples, but he let go of his spiritual sense, and he couldn't hide anything from his eyes.When he heard that lame excuse, he couldn't help laughing and said that this must be a lie released by Yixuan in order to save the face of the master, but how many people would believe it?

"Brother Lu, what are you thinking about?" Qiao Yitong walked over and handed a newly bought rose shortbread to Lu Yifan.Lu Yifan was taken aback, thanked him and started to eat.Before Qiao Yitong called Lu Yifan by his first name, others saw that he didn't call Lu Yifan "Young Master" or "Young Master", so they blamed him for being impolite, but Lu Yifan didn't really care, and asked him to call him "Big Brother", saying it was more kind.But this unknown person only wanted to call him "Brother Lu".

"Little Tong, are you getting better?" Lu Yifan asked with concern.

Qiao Yitong refused to disclose his name, and only took the last character Tong of his name as his surname, saying that his surname was Tong.In the past few days, when Lu Yifan entertained Fengyundu's disciples, it was quite troublesome, they all said that he was sick and had to rest alone, and did not have contact with Fengyundu's people, so Lu Yifan asked this question.

"It's much better. It's just a small wind chill that comes from the cold at night." Qiao Yitong said.

Lu Yifan said: "Before I told you that you can rest in my tent. My tent is the warmest, and you didn't know that."

Qiao Yitong smiled and said nothing.Lu Yifan looked at his bright, curved eyes, in a trance.The more I get along with this boy surnamed Tong, the more I feel that his figure and temperament are similar to Qiao Yitong.Combined with the news brought by Fengyundu's disciple, is it possible to boldly guess that the young man in front of him is Qiao Yitong?However, Qiao Yitong has always been elegant and arrogant. He often treats strangers with a calm expression, or even ignores them. He seems to have some cleanliness... But the clothes of this person in front of him are a little torn and dirty, and he is easy to get along with. Could he really be Qiao Yitong?

Qiao Yitong didn't know what was going on in his mind, so naturally she didn't try to speculate on his mind.I went to the window to see the scenery.

When he was sitting horizontally on the window sill, with his elbows casually resting on his knees and his back leaning against the window frame, his figure suddenly coincided with the boy in Lu Yifan's mind standing on the corner of the cornice, making Lu Yifan's heart ache. Suddenly it was as fast as if it was going to jump out of my chest. I wanted to go up to ask several times, but in the end I held back.

A few days later, a group of people were walking on the plank road, and they had arrived at Chongnan Mansion, a famous place where high mountains gather.There are many elixir needed by the cultivation world growing on the mountain, but due to the terrain, it is difficult to build roads here, and people who gather or buy medicine can only go up the plank road.On one side of the plank road are jagged and protruding sharp rocks, and on the other side is a terrifying abyss, but there is only a thin and narrow layer of wood under your feet.Everyone walks on it, only trembling like walking on thin ice.

Qiao Yitong only needs to open the ink cloud fan, and he can climb to the top in a negligence, but now he is playing a mortal, so naturally he can't do this, and he doesn't care too much. He climbs the plank road with everyone, and quietly helps a person who almost fell down on the way The old man stabilized his body.

As he was walking, suddenly the wooden boards under his feet began to tremble, and there was a rapid "dong dong dong" sound from a distance. Everyone present became vigilant, and Lu Yifan made a gesture to get everyone ready.Suddenly everyone became quiet, except for the breathing of the people around and the wind blowing up from the valley, only the sound of "dong dong" was getting closer and closer.Just as he was nervous, another old voice came, saying something indistinctly cursing.Only then did everyone see clearly that an old Taoist priest was running over from the opposite side, and the sound of thumping was made by him sprinting on the plank road.

The Taoist didn't expect that there was someone on the opposite side, and before he could stop, he bumped into the leader leading the way. The man opened his mouth to curse, but was pushed to the side of the mountain wall by the Taoist, and hurriedly said: "Run! run!"

He is so crazy, who would care about him?The Taoist came rushing forward, everyone was in danger, afraid of being accidentally squeezed off the cliff by him, but the Taoist only pushed people into the plank road, and he ran outside such a narrow gap by himself, and there was no problem at all.

Qiao Yitong felt more and more that something was wrong, this Taoist priest looked familiar, wasn't he the smelly Taoist priest who had a dispute with the red-clothed boy in the restaurant that day?Why, today you are being chased and beaten for being cheap again?

The old Taoist was running, when suddenly a hand was placed in front of him, and when he looked up, there was a young man with his face covered, looking at him playfully.He tried to push the arm that was blocking the way, but it didn't move at all. After observing the young man again, he showed a suddenly realized expression and said, "It's you kid. Make way for the Taoist."

"The old man's eyes are very good, you can see me. But," Qiao Yitong shook his finger and said, "You first answer why you ran, and then make way for you."

The old Taoist said anxiously: "There are ghosts behind! Why else?"

"What?" When the merchants heard this, they all showed worried and anxious expressions.

Qiao Yitong frowned and said, "Ghost?" Ghosts appearing in broad daylight?

The old Taoist said: "If we don't run away, we might all turn into ghosts!" After saying that, he stretched out his hand to push Qiao Yitong away.

As if to confirm the words of the old Taoist priest, there was a toothache creaking sound from the corner behind the plank road, as if it was overwhelmed by some heavy weight.Afterwards, a group of rotting corpses crawled or ran in front of everyone.

"Ahhhhh! Ghost, it's really a ghost!"

Someone yelled, turned around and fled in a panic, but bumped into other people instead, almost falling into the abyss, but fortunately they were supported by others.

With this, everyone didn't dare to run freely on the plank road anymore, but looked at the approaching carrion with fear in their eyes.

Qiao Yitong looked carefully at the rotting corpses, and saw that they were all wearing the clothes of ordinary people. It seemed that they were all mountain people, but he didn't know why they turned into mindless walking dead now.

Although Lu Yifan had never seen such a terrifying scene, as the team leader, he had to take responsibility and immediately organized everyone to retreat.

As a result, before everyone ran for a long time, they saw the Taoist priest running back again, shouting, "There are also below!"

After hearing this, everyone showed worried expressions, and was stuck in the mid-air for a while, unable to go up or down, and there was no way out.

Lu Yifan didn't hesitate for long, drew out his sword and said loudly: "In this case, everyone will kill a bloody road!"

"Yes, they are all men! Are you still afraid of death!" Someone echoed.

"Get out, the girls are still waiting at home!"

Although everyone was timid, they all mustered up their courage and pulled out their sabers.

Lu Yifan stretched out his hand and pulled Qiao Yitong behind him, saying: "Xiao Tong, you don't have a weapon, so stand behind me and don't run around, I will protect you."

Qiao Yitong looked at Lu Yifan holding his hand, lowered his eyes, not knowing what it was like.

Soon the carrion corpses on the front and back of the plank road were approaching, and the merchants were more courageous, raised their knives and slashed at the carrion corpses. With a sound of "欻", the carrion corpses' shoulders were cut off, but the carrion corpses were crooked. He tilted his head, revealing the empty eye sockets, and rushed forward without stopping!

The people around hurriedly chopped it up, and it was not until one person completely chopped off the head of the carrion corpse that the carrion corpse listened and fell down on the plank road.

Seeing this, Lu Yifan said: "The weak point is the head! Everyone attack the head!"

Everyone responded one after another, but there are so many rotting corpses, and there is no pain and tirelessness, how can they resist?Soon, one person was thrown to the ground by the rotting corpse and began to bite.

"Ahhh!" the man screamed.Lu Yifan chopped down the rotting corpse with a single knife, helped the businessman back to the team, a piece of flesh on his thigh had been torn off, blood was flowing.

Everyone knew that they were doomed to die today, and the more they fought, the more panicked they became, and some couldn't help but collapsed.Lu Yifan made a careless move, the knife slashed out of his hand on the rock, and the carrion took this opportunity to pounce on him. Just when Lu Yifan thought that his life was about to end here, a fan suddenly appeared in front of him to resolve the crisis of life. , a fan he is very familiar with - the Moyun fan.