I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

After rescuing Shijiu, Shuijing Shenzun reconciled with Xie Wuyi and went to Lanzhao to find Ulanda, and then rescued Zhong Zangchan's brother and sister.

Now that Zhong Ling is gone, there are only two countries around Daluan, Lanzhao and Qiguo. Because Lanzhao has volunteered to donate his war horse to proclaim his vassal, Daluan concentrated all his forces to attack Qiguo. This time, it is no longer painless. Itchy temptation and provocation, but a real all-out attack.

Even though the Qi Kingdom had the best geographical advantage, those marshes only hindered the speed of Daluan's advance, and could not completely stop the offensive.

With the deepening of Daluan, Qi Kingdom has retreated several times, until Daluan invaded the central part of Qi Kingdom and set foot in the palace city of Qi Kingdom, they found that what they found was only an empty city.

Where did the royal family of Qi Kingdom go?Nobody knows.

But Daluan understands that although the Qi Kingdom is retreating steadily, it has not completely given up. They retreated to the dense forest in the south, and they must still be waiting for an opportunity to fight back.

Do you want to keep chasing?

Of course, you can't help chasing.

But what is the price of continuing to chase?

It must be huge.

As early as when Daluan's army crossed the miasma for the first time, they lost soldiers one after another. Although they were cautious everywhere, they still couldn't completely avoid the miasma everywhere.

After straying into the miasma like Zhong Zangyan, they also discovered the method of bloodletting to relieve qi, but... they never expected that because of a single bloodletting, countless insects and flies would be attracted. In an instant, that team was turned into a pile of bones.

Frankly speaking, Daluan was a little afraid of Qi State. They were not strong in military strength and financial resources, but this naturally formed terrain environment brought endless surprises to Daluan.

Those snakes, insects, rats and ants hiding in the dense forest are like another form of military force, they are ready to attack, unexpected, but extremely vigorous, constantly eroding Daluan's army, making all soldiers restless.

However, they had no choice. If they could not continue their southward attack to find the royal family of the Qi Kingdom, their attack would be tantamount to failure, and what would meet them would be endless troubles.

Daluan's army is stationed in the imperial city of Qi State for a temporary rest, counting the casualties, treating the wounded, and intends to go south after recovering.

At the same time, Shui Jing Shenzun and his four brothers and sisters Zhong Zangchan also arrived in the hinterland of Qi State. He wanted to find someone, and that person was among the fleeing people in Qi State.

They bypassed the imperial city and directly entered the southern jungle.

The six of them were walking together, but Zhong Zangyan had to slow down because he stepped on the miasma by mistake.

So, Shui Jing Shenzun, Xie Wuyi and Wu Landa went first, and left Shijiu to take the two brothers and sisters to walk slowly behind to heal their injuries and recuperate.

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The black and purple on Zhong Zangyan's legs gradually faded, Shijiu re-sealed the mouth of the gourd, dug a shallow pit at the side with a short blade, and buried the gourd in it.

"Okay," Shi Jiu looked at Zhong Zangyan and said, "How do you feel now?"

At this time, Zhong Zangyan finally had blood on his face. He raised his sleeve to wipe off his sweat, nodded and said, "It's much better, thank you."

Zhong Zangchan breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "Then where are we going now?"

Shi Jiu patted the dust in his hands, stood up and looked up at the surrounding tree crowns, raised his hand and whistled around his mouth, a white shadow appeared in the air in a short while, circled around the sky several times, and landed firmly on the ground. above the canopy ahead.

"White hair?" Zhong Zangchan sat up straight and asked in surprise, "Why did it come back? Didn't it follow the gods and the others?"

This time Baimao also came to Qi country together, and when they separated earlier, it left first with Xie Wuyi and the other three, but now it suddenly appeared here again.

Shi Jiu lowered his head and said: "It came back to pick us up, you guys rest a little bit, we will follow it later. Move faster, if you don't get out before dark, this forest will be more dangerous than during the day .”

Zhong Zangchan looked up at the still strong sunlight, the sun was westward at this time, obviously it was already afternoon, although it was nearly half a day before sunset, walking in this dense forest was difficult, and I really didn’t know how to walk in just half a day How far.

The two brothers and sisters did not dare to be negligent, Zhong Zangyan quickly put on the shoes and socks again, and together with Zhong Zangchan washed his face in the river water, took a few sips of water directly, then immediately got up and followed Shijiu in the air. Mao walked forward.

Zhong Zangchan and Zhong Zangyan had never felt this kind of humidity before. Zhongling is a country with distinct seasons, and so is Daluan, but Qi Country is hot all year round, as if it is always hot summer.

The sun moved westward little by little, but their walking was extremely slow. The two of them were anxious, but there was nothing they could do. They could only push forward step by step, and they had no other thoughts.

Finally, as the sun set and the moon rose, the scattered moonlight in the forest was no longer enough to illuminate them, and the three of them fell into darkness.

The chirping of mosquitoes became more violent, and there were rustling sounds from all over the bush.

"What... what is this sound?" Zhong Zangchan was a little nervous.

Shi Jiu said: "Snake."

"Ah?" Zhong Zangchan trembled slightly, but didn't dare to raise his voice, so he could only exclaim in a low voice.

At this time, Zhong Zangyan still looked like an older brother. He held Zhong Zangchan's hand and pulled her to his side, and said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid."

Shi Jiu said lightly: "It is true that there is no need to be afraid, as long as we don't disturb them."

Zhong Zangchan nodded silently, knowing that the two of them could not see in the darkness, but it was all for self-comfort.After knowing that the sound was a snake, she always felt that the sound was louder and closer, and every time she heard it, she couldn't help but stand on her head.

"It's here." Shi Jiu said suddenly.

Zhong Zangchan raised his eyes and looked forward, and saw a large piece of clear moonlight not far away sprinkled on the ground, reflecting a flat open space.

The three hurriedly walked towards the clearing, at the same time, they saw three figures appearing in the clearing, the white hair circled twice in the air, and landed on the shoulder of one of them.

"You guys are so slow!" Ulanda greeted him.

Zhong Zangchan habitually rolled his eyes at him, but found that he was dressed very strangely at this time: "You...what are you wearing?"

"What? Are you not familiar with this dress? Haven't you been in Daluan for five years?" Ulanda laughed.

Of course Zhong Zangchan was familiar, but it was because of familiarity that he was even more surprised.

At this time, Ulanda was wearing the armor of Daluan's army, and even the saber was in Daluan's style.

Zhong Zangchan's mind was also spinning quickly, and he immediately guessed: "Are you going to sneak into the Daluan army as a spy?"

Ulanda chuckled, waved his hands and said, "Secret secrets—don't let them out."

Zhong Zangchan bared her teeth in disdain, and gave him another look, too lazy to talk to him any more.

Baimao happily flapped his wings on Xie Wuyi's shoulder, Xie Wuyi patted it lightly as if to comfort him, looked at Zhong Zangyan and said, "How's the leg?"

Zhong Zangyan smiled and said, "It's all right now, thanks to Brother Shijiu."

Xie Wuyi nodded: "Okay, then let's go."

Several people turned around and walked to the other end of the open space. Seeing that there was another dense forest ahead, Zhong Zangchan frowned and said, "Going into the woods again?"

Ulanda turned her head and smiled, "Why, are you afraid?"

Zhong Zangchan kept silent, although she didn't want to admit it, but she was somewhat unwilling to step into this unknown jungle again.

Seeing that she was silent, Ulanda smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, the forest ahead is different from the one before. It's like a wall, it's just a cover, it's not dangerous."

Zhong Zangchan was skeptical, but didn't ask any more questions, and followed them honestly into the woods ahead.

After walking into the woods, Zhong Zangchan discovered that the trees in this forest were indeed different from the previous ones. They no longer had the intertwined root systems of the past, but the distance between the trees was very narrow, almost only Allow one person to walk through the gap.

Zhong Zangchan couldn't help wondering, with such a close arrangement, the roots of these trees might not be able to occupy a place for each of them, so they can still survive?

After walking for a while, the people in front stopped. Zhong Zangchan also noticed that they seemed to have reached the edge of the forest. When he stepped forward to look, he was startled.

That's right, they had indeed reached the edge of the forest, but outside the forest was not an open space like she imagined, but... a cliff?

It seems inappropriate to say that it is a cliff. What appeared in front of them was an extremely wide depression. The forest they were standing on was at the top of the mountain wall on the edge of the depression, more than ten feet away from the depression below.

Zhong Zangchan looked left and right, and only then did he understand what the "enclosed wall" Ulanda was talking about.

The forest they were in was not one piece, but a whole circle.

This huge depression is surrounded by mountain walls, and on the top of this circular mountain wall is such a densely packed forest like a wall.

In the circular depression below, tall wooden houses are scattered everywhere. There are bonfires surrounded by gravel in the open space between the houses, and there are braziers propped up by a pile of giant logs at intervals under the mountain wall. These fires are not tight. Densely distributed in the entire depression, like a well-designed chess array on a chessboard.

However, the most striking thing in this depression is not these, but its very center.

In the middle of this depression, there is a tall platform-shaped protrusion, more than five feet high, surrounded by stone steps.

From the bottom of the stone steps, a circle of people stood with torches every few steps, keeping a fixed distance between them, chanting words.

There is a huge stone sculpture on the east and west sides on the top of the round platform. Because the distance is too far to see what the stone sculpture is, but it can be seen that there is something like a wing extending from each of them. The "wing" of the stone sculpture on the east side "The one on the west side extends to the east, and the one on the west side extends to the west.It looked like an eagle spreading its wings was cut in half, and things were placed in half, which was very weird.

In the center of the round platform, there was a person standing with his back facing Zhong Zangchan and the others. He was wearing a large robe made of sparrow feathers, a tall hat, and raised his head with his hands up high, as if swearing to the sky.

"What's that?" Zhong Zangchan pointed to the high platform and asked.

"Altar." The Water Mirror God Venerable replied.