Bu Tian Gang

Seeing the other party stretching out his hand towards him, Dong Zhi suddenly reacted, but took a step back.

Long Shen's hand stopped in the air.

Winter Solstice held Liu Qingbo back and made him also back away, with a cautious expression on his face: "I think what we see now is another illusion created by that monster?"

There is no other reason, he felt that his eyes were too unreal. Although he was thinking about it thousands of times in his mind, he never thought that he would just be able to see the other party when he was on the verge of danger. The moment his dream came true, it turned out to be illusory stand up.

When Liu Qingbo and Huo Jie heard that it made sense, they all looked at Long Shen in unison, with inquiry and guard in their eyes.

No matter how calm Long Shen was, he couldn't help laughing: "I'm not an illusion."

Liu Qingbo suddenly asked: "On the first day of our training at the Special Administrative Bureau, Director Jiang gave us a lecture. What happened after that?"

Long Shen: "Afterwards, you were trapped in the simulated training in the zombie city. You left the large army and hid in the Special Administration Bureau alone, and got away with it."

Liu Qingbo: ...Why do I have to ask this question so cheaply?

When his black history was brought up again, his face was hot.

Long Shen said to Huo Jie again: "Shu He is fine, he couldn't find you, he returned to the shore first."

His eyes finally fell on Dong Zhi.

"Before you left Beijing, you gave me a painting."

Now the three of them could finally be sure that Long Shen had indeed arrived in time, and it wasn't their hallucinations.

Dong Zhi moved his feet, a little embarrassed: "Master, I didn't know just now..."

Long Shen: "You were vigilant enough and didn't relax just because you saw me. That's good."

After being soaked in the lake water for a long time, it felt damp and cold from the inside to the outside. Once this person appeared, everyone regained their motivation.

Especially during the winter solstice.

But he didn't show it, and there was a gap between him and Long Shen, intentionally or unintentionally keeping the distance.

Long Shen didn't seem to be paying attention. Liu Qingbo asked about the situation on the shore. Even if Long Shen spoke concisely, he would have to talk for several minutes. Finally, he said: "According to the clues given by Ming Xian before his death, the stone tablet is located under this water area. small dragon veins."

In just a few hours, so many things happened, everyone was silent for a while, and it took time to digest.

As for Cheng Yuan, although Huo Jie didn't know him, he was an old acquaintance to Dong Zhi and Liu Qingbo. They even participated in the incident where the female star Hui Yiguang was possessed by demon energy. However, after the interview, after the results came out, I still sighed for a while.Cheng Yuan was indeed not very emotional about the test results, and told them that he was going to practice for a while, but when they met again, he had already joined the enemy's camp, willing to merge with the devil's energy, became the spokesperson of the old devil, and fought with his former companions. meet.

With a single thought, Cheng Yuan has gone so far.

Huo Jie asked: "Long Ju, you said that monster is Wuzhiqi?"

Long Shen hummed: "It is recorded in ancient books that water beasts are good at causing harm. Yu was locked under the Junshan Huai River, and his name was Wuzhiqi. He was shaped like an ape, with golden eyes and snowy teeth, and was light and quick."

As an ancient beast, Wuzhiqi once turned the Huai River upside down, and later generations even used it as the prototype of Monkey King, Monkey King. It is no wonder that Dongzhi and the others are not its opponents at all.

In fact, strange beasts like Wuzhiqi and the three-headed python have survived for tens of thousands of years. Although they have not yet reached the point where they can live as long as the sky, they all contain the destiny of heaven and earth, which is unique to human beings. Generally speaking, even if they have the strength to kill those who are favored by heaven in another way, practitioners are not willing to bear the burden of killing for them.What's more, they are powerful, and they are local snakes. Last time they were underground, they failed to kill the three giant pythons during the winter solstice. At most, they just beat them to the ground and fled.

Liu Qingbo was puzzled: "But the Huaihe River is still far from here..."

Long Shen said: "A few years ago, the Huaihe River was not connected to the Yangtze River, but now the Huaihe River finally flows into the Yangtze River. The underground water veins are already criss-crossing, and there are many undercurrents that cannot be known on the ground."

Most of the books written by the ancients are approximate numbers. They say that they are in Junshan, but they are not necessarily in Junshan. Occasionally, legends and reality can be confirmed, and ordinary people have no way of seeing the magnificent and mysterious side of this world.

Dong Zhi slowly recovered from the shock and embarrassment of seeing Master suddenly, and gradually recovered his ability to think. He quickly sorted out the general ins and outs.

"Could it be that in order to let Wuzhiqi guard the stele, he didn't kill it in the end, but locked it here, just like the bone dragon in Changbai Mountain, and after Yinyu Jiuyan learned about it, he asked Cheng Yuan to come over and keep killing and refining his soul , to lure Wuzhiqi into a demon, and let him destroy the stele?"

Long Shen said: "My guess is the same. In the end, we have to find the stele first."

His words solved all the doubts that everyone had encountered since entering the water. The three of them were exhausted during the winter solstice, and they had no time to think about it, and the cave became incomparable. Quiet, only the rustling of footsteps moving forward.

I don't know whether it was too tired or walking fast, Dong Zhi stumbled unexpectedly, and fell to the side of the stone wall, just pressed on the arm that was slapped by Wuzhi Qi's paw just now, suddenly broke out in cold sweat, and groaned unconsciously.

"What's wrong?" Long Shen asked, his hand had already reached out to help him up.

Long Shen's tone was always cold, but his hands were hot, so hot that Dong Zhi shook slightly.

"No, it's nothing." He found that no matter how many times he did mental training, when he touched the other person's skin, he still felt a strange feeling in his heart.

He didn't want the other party to notice, and he didn't want the other party to misunderstand that he promised to maintain the master-student relationship on the surface, but in fact he had something wrong in his heart, so he endured the pain, took the initiative to pull his arm back, and pulled a little distance sideways.

"Your hand may be a little fractured, let me show you when you go out."

Long Shen knew that his physical strength was exhausted, so he wanted to carry him directly, but seeing his apprentice avoiding him actively, recalling the last time the two broke up unhappy, he pursed his lips, and didn't say the words of carrying him back, just went to Dong Zhi put a hand on his waist to make him stand still.

Liu Qingbo and Huo Jie didn't seem to notice the weirdness between the two masters and apprentices. Huo Jie was drowsy and physically weak, so he had to talk to refresh himself, and he talked to Liu Qingbo every now and then.

Dong Zhi and Long Shen fell behind unknowingly. The road in the cave was bumpy and not spacious. The two walked side by side, and it was inevitable that their shoulders would occasionally bump into each other. Dong Zhi wanted to get rid of this embarrassing situation and consciously moved After driving a bit, he almost bumped into the sharp edge again. This time, a hand wrapped around his shoulder in time, leading him to the middle, with a slightly displeased instruction.

"Don't move."

The winter solstice froze.

The distance between the two was zero, and with Long Shen's support, the road really went much easier.

In fact, embarrassing things like this will be fine after the pot is broken. Dongzhi knew that after the two talked about it, his master did treat him as an apprentice. Only he was still struggling, but his master used swords to transform people. It's no different from others, but it's not a curvy temperament, let alone thinking about his thoughts, and because of this, he is entangled in embarrassment and other emotions, which only exist in him alone.

In order to divert his attention, Dong Zhi focused his wild thoughts on the stone tablet and Wu Zhi Qi, and it gradually became more natural.

"Master."

"Ah."

Long Shen felt that his apprentice's body relaxed a lot, and he felt a little joy in his heart. When he heard the other party calling him, his tone was a little softer than before.

"Aren't you going to kill Wuzhiqi?"

Hearing the question of the winter solstice, Long Shen was a little surprised, surprised by his sensitivity.

"If the stele is intact, I will drive away the devilish energy on it."

Even though Wuzhiqi was originally suppressed here as a ferocious beast, but it has guarded the stele for thousands of years, and it has no credit or hard work. It is only because of Yin Yu and Cheng Yuan's ulterior motives that it revives its ferocity and becomes a disaster again. First, in the final analysis of this matter, Wu Zhiqi was also used, and second, if Wu Zhiqi died, no one would guard the stele.Since the stele is part of the formation, it is impossible to dig it out and transport it to the Special Administration Bureau for protection, so Wu Zhiqi is still the best guardian of the stele.

Long Shen didn't say this plan just now, but Dong Zhi guessed it.

Although everyone's footsteps were not as fast as they were at the beginning, they were still moving forward, but the cave seemed to have no end no matter how hard they walked, Liu Qingbo didn't even bother to count the time, as if two shot puts were tied to his legs, Taking a step requires a lot of courage, which reminds him of the days when he was ordered by his grandfather to run with sandbags every day when he was a child. The injury of Huo Jie next to him was much worse than that of Liu Qingbo, but he insisted on walking, which made Liu Qingbo more unwilling to show weakness .

The topics that could be talked about had already been discussed, Huo Jie's mouth was so dry that he really didn't have the energy to speak, so the two fell silent for a while.

Behind him, Dong Zhi was telling Long Shen about his experience in Lucheng, distracting everyone.

In fact, what they did in Lucheng during the winter solstice was written in the report received by the General Administration. Long Shen knew it all, but the report is written after all, and there are always some details that are not humane. Long Shen is also a head Listen to each other talk about it once.

Aside from the confession that made him unable to respond, this apprentice did not live up to his expectations, and the other party even did better than he expected.

In the past, when he saw Dongzhi obeying his words and obediently doing what he said, Long Shen once felt that the other party might not be able to adapt to the job of being alone outside, but the facts proved that he also had misjudged times. Dongzhi not only adapted well, but also made frequent contributions. Now, when the General Administration mentioned the winter solstice, they all said that if he didn't accept apprentices, he would take in a good apprentice as soon as he accepted.

Slaying demons and demons, maintaining order in the world, Long Shen once thought that this was the only thing he asked of his disciples, but now, he is not so sure.

Because he still hopes that the winter solstice will be well, not always get hurt, and be happy every day, as he used to be in front of him, he can enjoy himself for a long time with a little thing, and he is excited to introduce which restaurant around the Special Administration Bureau is better.

He knew that when Wu Bingtian and Song Zhicun talked about his children and disciples in private, he would occasionally show worries about them. Long Shen can also feel this now. He thought that he might not be able to give Dongzhi what he wanted, but he did care. This apprentice is more than anyone in the past.

Is this love?

He doesn't know.

But when he heard the other party talk about everything in detail, with the joy of reunion in his tone from time to time, he also felt a little joy in his heart.

That feeling is like climbing the cliffs and dangerous peaks for the first time after he transformed into a human form. On the top of the mountain, he overlooks the world from a human perspective. Even though the situation is different, the subtle joy leads to the same goal by different routes, making him feel that his blood is hot, his heart is beating, that he is indeed a human being, with the emotional ups and downs and mood changes that human beings should have. .

Listening to Dong Zhi talking about the nightmare on the plane, Long Shen frowned slightly, stretched out to hold his wrist, and rested his three fingers on his pulse.

When the slightly warm fingertips touched the skin, Dong Zhi subconsciously froze for a moment, and then relaxed again, letting Long Shen pinch his vitals.

"You don't have magic energy on you."

Long Shen came to the same conclusion as Tang Jing.

But Dong Zhi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard what Master said, and said with a smile, "I should be the one who made all the fuss."

In the darkness, Long Shen pondered.

In fact, he has another guess, but it has not been confirmed yet, and he doesn't want to say it to add unnecessary troubles to the winter solstice.

"I'll take a closer look after I get out."

Winter Solstice said yes, but after a while, he felt something was wrong.

Long Shen didn't let go of his wrist.

The winter solstice did not have any ambiguous thoughts, because he found that Long Shen was injecting true energy into his wrist.

The warmth rose little by little, and the wet clothes seemed to be less uncomfortable.

After a while, Long Shen let go of his hand.

"Can I go by myself?"

"can."

It is impossible for the wounds on his body not to hurt because of this little qi, but Dongzhi did recover a little strength.

Before he could think of something like "Master's child is like a treasure", Liu Qingbo's flashlight flickered suddenly.

"Look, there's something up ahead!"

This underground cave can be called an underwater passage, and it is so long that no one has the strength to marvel.

Even if they feel that this place may not be formed naturally, the skilled craftsmen who can dig out such a passage are by no means ordinary people.

Perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, there were dragons and beasts living here, or immortals with the ability to move mountains and seas, to open up the bottom of the river with uncanny craftsmanship, and the sea is full of vicissitudes on the river, but here it seems that time stands still. They already had the pessimistic expectation that this road would never end. When they saw the half-exposed stone tablet among the mud and stones, they were pleasantly surprised.

Especially Huo Jie, he let out his last breath and fell to the side.

Liu Qingbo took the flashlight he snatched from Dong Zhi earlier, and ran over in one go.

Winter Solstice and Long Shen also arrived later.

The stele is old, and because it has been soaked in a humid environment for many years, the top of the stele has been covered with moss. Liu Qingbo and Dong Zhi picked up the stone next to it and scraped off the moss little by little, so that it gradually revealed the inscription on the stele.

It was that kind of familiar yet unfamiliar talisman. When everyone saw it, they immediately knew that this was the stele they had been looking for.

Liu Qingbo was puzzled: "Does Shencheng have dragon veins?"

Huo Jie took a breath and said affirmatively: "Yes! This place hides wind and gathers water. Although it is not as good as the capital city, it is also a good place for dragon veins. The dragon heart of this dragon vein is in the urban area, and it is above that place now. It's a viaduct."

Winter Solstice heard a little bit: "It is said that when the bridge piles were laid, they couldn't go on, but the urban construction had to continue. Later, an eminent monk was invited to see it, and the nine dragon carvings were added to the pillars to stop the leakage during piling. Dragon Qi?"

Huo Jie laughed and said: "There are always exaggerations and fictions in the rumors. It is true that the 'Dragon Heart' is there, but it is not as magical as the world says. Now it seems that the stone tablet should be the 'Dragon Head'."

Different from the stone tablet they found before, there is an iron ring embedded in this stone tablet, and what the iron ring is connected to is the iron chain that locks Wu Zhiqi.

This proves that Long Shen's speculation is correct. Many years ago, someone suppressed Wuzhiqi here and let him guard the stele.

"It seems to be a little dark here, and there are cracks." Liu Qingbo took a flashlight and looked closely.

"It should be the infiltration of demonic energy. Cheng Yuan pollutes Wuzhiqi with demonic energy, and also affects the stone tablet through the chain. When the demonic energy accumulates to a certain level, even if Wuzhiqi doesn't go crazy and destroys the stone tablet, the stone tablet will be cracked by the demonic energy." Open." Long Shen said.

Winter Solstice: "Then if we try to cut off the iron chain and cut off the connection between Wuzhiqi and the stele, will it be useful?"

Long Shen said: "We can't kill Wuzhiqi, and there is no need to kill it. It is now connected to the stone tablet by luck. Without it, the stone tablet will have no shelter and will be even more dangerous."

Liu Qingbo couldn't help scolding: "The grandson of Cheng Yuan is really thoughtful enough to think of such a bad move! If he used it on the right way, he would have become a winner in life long ago?!"

It may not be Cheng Yuan's idea, it may be Yin Yu's, after all, Cheng Yuan had already dedicated his soul to the monster at that time, and he was no longer himself.

But at this very moment, Long Shen didn't explain much, he just said: "Just now Wuzhiqi rested for a while, and he should have almost recovered, and he will definitely come to us for revenge. I want to take away the devilish energy from it, and I need your help." Cooperate, when the winter solstice comes first, attract its hatred, Liu Qingbo cooperates with Huo Jie to delay it for a while, and I will wait for the opportunity to strike."

Everyone had no objection, even Dong Zhi, who was arranged to "pull hatred", immediately agreed, because he knew that Long Shen did this not to show his selflessness and leave the most dangerous work to his apprentices, but because Dong Zhi had just Being hated by Wuzhiqi, as soon as Wuzhiqi sees them, he is most likely to attack Dongzhi first, and the most efficient way is to gain the greatest initiative for his side in the battle.

The next thing to do is to "wait for the rabbit", but what is more important for them now is to rest and recover their physical strength quickly so that they can cope with the next tough battle.

Needless to say, everyone sat cross-legged, adjusted their breath, closed their eyes and rested their minds.

The cave is extremely humid, and the soil underneath is so muddy that it feels disgusting to sit on it. In the past, Liu Qingbo would not be willing to stay in this environment for a second longer, but members of the Special Administration Bureau often have to face The harshest environment, facing the most difficult conditions, compared with the present, he suddenly found that during the zombie simulation training, he hid in a narrow and cramped room, and the anxiety of listening to zombies passing by through the iron gate was nothing at all. what.

People are always strong under the whip of the environment.

Everyone.

After resting for a while during the winter solstice, I felt that my mental and physical strength had recovered a lot. On the contrary, because I had been sitting for a long time, I felt lazy and didn't want to move, so I opened my eyes and looked around.

In order not to consume power, Liu Qingbo turned the brightness of the flashlight to the minimum. In such a weak light, only the outlines of everyone could be vaguely illuminated.

Long Shen was sitting next to him, not moving at all. He must have seized the time to rest his mind. Winter Solstice's eyes fell on the outline outlined by the dim light on the side of the other party.

As if aware of it, Long Shen's eyelashes trembled, and he opened his eyes.

Winter Solstice closes your eyes quickly.

Then he felt a hand on his pulse, as if checking his physical condition.

After a shudder, Dong Zhi didn't dare to move, but knew that he failed to pretend to sleep, so he opened his eyes.

Seeing that he was fine, Long Shen took his hand away.

At this time, the chain suddenly moved, as if it was pulled by something not far away.

Everyone opened their eyes instantly and moved!

Huo Jie turned off the flashlight, Liu Qingbo and Dong Zhi picked up their long swords, Long Shen jumped lightly, and his whole body stuck to the cave above his head, seamlessly.

Dong Zhi didn't expect his master to have such bat-like abilities, but it was obviously not suitable for joking at the moment, he walked over the stone tablet and walked forward slowly.

The iron chain moved more and more violently, and the sound echoed in the cave, overlapping and hitting their already lifted mood.

To be a bait is to have the awareness of the bait. After walking dozens of steps, Dong Zhi was already some distance away from Liu Qingbo and the others. He stopped and listened to the unpredictable danger ahead. The long sword was in his hand, Long Shen was behind him, and , life and death companions and friends.

At this moment, he had no fear, and was as calm as water droplets in this cave.

It was getting closer and louder, and the stench that entered the nostrils was getting heavier and heavier.

coming!

The strong wind rushed towards him, Dongzhi didn't even think about it, he used the greatest strength in his life, and swung his sword out!

The speed of the sword's edge has turned into a white rainbow. Its momentum is like a thousand waterfalls and cliffs, and hundreds of rivers return to the sea. The turbulence is unrivaled.

However, Wuzhiqi is worthy of being an ancient beast. Even though the Changshou sword had cut deep and visible scars on its hand, it aroused its ferocity. Pinch off the neck of the winter solstice.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Qingbo and Huo Jie have also arrived, one left and one right pounced on Wuzhiqi, one waved a sword to stop its sharp claws falling toward the winter solstice, and the other attacked its soft chest and abdomen.

It was too late, but soon, Long Shen's figure also swept down from above, and the long sword in his hand pierced straight into the Baihui acupoint on the top of Wuzhiqi's head!