Copper Coins

At the same time, on the bridle path in the outskirts of Wuchang Prefecture, a long team was running fast.This group of people are all dressed in white robes, with simple animal patterns embroidered on the front, and hideous but solemn masks on their faces. When riding horses, the flying snow-white robes are like clouds and fog.

It was none other than the long Nuo ritual team led by Tai Bu and Tai Zhu.

When they were passing through Wuchang Mansion earlier, they had learned from passers-by that two teams of troops from Taichang Temple had already passed by Wuchang Mansion, which made the surrounding people curious and frightened.After all, it was never a good thing to be able to mobilize so many troops from Taichang Temple. Either there was a catastrophe, or there was something ominous about the safety of the temple.

The past two years have been somewhat unfavorable, the cold and heat are unstable, there are droughts and floods, the midwinter comes earlier than before, and the continuous days are longer, almost covering the spring and autumn in the sleeves, and the heavy snow comes from Mobei. It fell all the way to Lingnan, and it was terribly cold. During the period, there was always rain from time to time, making the people so gloomy that they couldn't breathe. It seemed that this winter was almost endless...

Originally, it was just some unfounded nonsense circulating in the market, such as the injustice of the real dragon falling into the sea, some people believed it, and some people didn't care.Nowadays, people and horses from Taichang Temple appear frequently, and they are in a hurry. Those who didn't believe in it can't help but feel anxious, as if there is a heavy sword hanging above their heads, and it will penetrate at any time. It is impossible to guard against it, without warning.

Tai Bu and his party were originally just chasing after the previous trail of the real dragon, without a clear destination.Ever since I heard about the whereabouts of other people in Taichang Temple, I decided to go all the way west.

As a result, it didn't take long before I received Shaoqing's letter from Feige.The letter said that there would be a catastrophe in the next two days. They received an order from the National Teacher and were rushing to Dongting, while another cavalry team was rushing to Wanshi Mountain in Linjiang, Langzhou. Waiting for the national teacher to send.

Sure enough, when they were about to reach Yuezhou Prefecture, Tai Bu's finger holding the rein was suddenly lightly burned.Her delicate eyebrows hidden behind the mask slightly frowned, slowed down the pace of the horse below her, and released her hand from the rein.

The moment she let go, a handful of yellow fire suddenly sprang up between her fingers. It wasn't really burning, but it was still slightly hot.

A thin piece of paper emerges from the yellow fire core, becoming clearer as the flame dies out.

Tai Bu raised his hand and made a "stop" gesture, and immediately stopped the entire cavalry.The long line stopped in front of a side road, Tai Zhu turned his face and asked, "What did the national teacher say?"

"Let's go to Daze Temple in Jiangsong Mountain." Tai Bu handed the tissue paper to Tai Zhu.

"Daze Temple? Isn't that a ghost temple? There are no monks, why should we go there?" Taizhu asked rather puzzled,

However, the national teacher explained clearly in black and white——

I saw a few words written concisely on the thin paper: Come to Daze Temple before the time, defend the formation.

"Defend?" Tai Zhu was taken aback.

Tai Bu's face under the mask changed slightly, she hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Dongting, Wanshi Mountain, and Daze Temple are hundreds of miles away from each other, we are going to defend the formation, Shaoqing and the others What? Also?"

"Probably not, if so, how big is this formation? I have never seen it in my life." Tai Zhu replied.

"But I think..." Tai Bu hesitated, paused for a long time before saying: "Forget it, let's go to Daze Temple first and then discuss."

Before the end of the day, it was still a bit tight to rush from where they were to Daze Temple, so they didn't delay and didn't have time to study it carefully, so they could only raise their hands, and immediately led the brigade of gangsters, whipped their horses, and went straight to Jiangsong Mountain .

While they were taking a shortcut around Yuezhou Mansion, Xue Xian and Xuan Min, who were wrapped in blisters in the black water pool, finally broke away from the unknown depth of the pool, walked along the water, and emerged in a pool of springs. .

The moment the two of them surfaced, the water bubbles shattered thoroughly with a "pop", and a curtain of mountain stream hanging down the mountain wall immediately poured them thoroughly.

They turned over and went ashore, without saying a word, Xuan Min drew a clothes-cleaning spell on both his and Xue Xian's hands. In just the blink of an eye, the water all over his body evaporated completely, not a single drop was left, and his clothes were also gone. Light and fluffy, there is no sense of stickiness at all, and even the thin sweat from being roasted by the fire dragon before is not left at all.

Xue Xian shook the hem of the black robe quite satisfied, flicked off the last drop of water on it, and swept around to measure it.

The place where they are located is a very deep mountain depression, which is far away from the mountain depression where Xuanmin's bamboo house is located. Looking up from here, you can only see extremely high and steep stone peaks, one after another, just like closing in. The fingers are like, holding them in it.

Even the dome of the sky has been cut off so that only the top of the head remains, like a natural deep well.

"There are three pinnacles in total." Xue Xian raised his hand and pointed to the nearest one. Heavy, like a fine green curtain, hanging down in twists and turns, "Does this look familiar?"

It is said to be a question, but the ending sound is firm - this coincides with the scene at the entrance of the Hundred Worms Cave that old man Di said.

Although this legendary entrance has become an exit for Xue Xian and Xuan Min, it can still help them determine a general direction. They have indeed arrived at Xiashan Mountain in Langzhou.

And since turning over from the spring pool, Xue Xian felt that the courtyard-like mountain depression was extremely dark. Although it was not as stench-filled as the corpse shop, it still exuded an old and decayed atmosphere, as if A wooden box that had been tightly closed for decades was suddenly opened by someone - the damp water vapor mixed with the smell of dust always makes people feel old and gloomy.

His intuition told him that people had died here.

More than a star and a half.

Xue Xian frowned and looked at the weeds at his feet. He lined them up slightly with his toes, and as expected, he found the blood dripping on the grass roots that almost melted into the wet mud.

"I found it." He patted Xuan Min.

However, there was no response for a while.

Xue Xian raised his head and glanced at Xuan Min, and saw that he quickly looked away from the vast weeds as if he had just come back to his senses, looked down at the place where Xue Xian's toes were pointing, and said clearly, "The blood hasn't congealed yet."

"What's wrong with you?" Xue Xian withdrew his feet, and asked Xuan Min in a low voice while listening to the movement in the valley.

Xuan Min was silent for a moment, then hesitated and said, "I seem to have been here before."

Hearing this, Xue Xian glanced at him quickly, then looked away, walked forward along the blood drop, and joked nonchalantly, "Why do you seem to know everything you see?"

To be honest, Xue Xian has always been a little uncomfortable all the way. After careful study, that feeling seems to have missed something important. He always feels that something is not right, but he always forgets to think about it, or temporarily Can't think of a clue.

He walked all the way with this rare feeling, until now, he suddenly realized that this kind of discomfort is actually an inexplicable sense of crisis, as if an important hidden danger has been intentionally or unintentionally shelved.

After hearing his words, Xuan Min didn't say anything immediately, but lowered his eyes.

For a moment, although he didn't show any expression on his face, he was inexplicably depressed, as if he was pressing on something extraordinarily heavy.

After a while, Xuan Min closed his eyes, opened them again, shook his head and said, "It's still—"

Xue Xian blinked his eyes lightly, and almost said before Xuan Min made any progress: "Let's find someone first, your memory is not always good, it's so easy to remember, maybe there is another one Once the ban on copper coins is lifted, it will be clear."

Xuan Min glanced at him as if aware of it, strode ahead, and replied in a deep voice, "Yeah."

In fact, these bloodstains almost exposed most of the other party's whereabouts, and the two stopped outside a small stone forest with little effort.The stone forest is less than ten feet in front and back, it is really not that big, but it can form an excellent eight-door armor formation.

If someone is hiding in it, it can really delay for a while, if it is not Xue Xian who meets...

"What's the use of hiding in there?" Xue Xian stood still and said lazily, "If you hide in the streets, I might have to be a little bit scruples about others. If you hide in this deep mountain, then I If you really don't have any scruples. It's just a few broken rocks, can you really stop me?"

When the dragon's tail is swept away, there is nothing left.

And the reason why Xue Xian talked nonsense with him and didn't do it directly, was to find out what he had to do later, and greeted him together to solve it more simply.

Sure enough, after saying this, there was a quiet silence in the stone forest for a moment, and then there was a burst of vague and hoarse laughter, which seemed intermittent due to serious injuries.As soon as the laughter stopped, a sharp whistle sounded.

"Since I have caught up with the door, I have to say something about how to treat guests." The hoarse voice said.

Accompanied by his words, there were overwhelming cries like a sea tide. When the cries sounded, the sky above his head suddenly changed color, and the dark clouds rolled in. In the blink of an eye, the sky was tightly enveloped in light, and the entire valley became pale. Obscure.

Xue Xian suddenly remembered that a hundred years ago, there was a fire caused by thunder in the mountains of Langzhou. It is said that the fire burned in the mountains for three days and three nights, and burned all the people living in the entire valley. That year, there were always people who heard the mountain cry.

In fact, it was not the mountains crying, but the thousands of ghosts who were buried in the sea of ​​fire were crying in unison, the cries were shrill and thunderous.

Xue Xian only felt that the whole ground was trembling with the cry, and suddenly there were countless sounds of breaking ground in the previously uninhabited valley. Hao Hao Tang Tang rushed straight.