across mountains and seas

The three of them left the ancient city and walked southwest along the mountain for three miles. The wind and snow gradually stopped, and the clear moonlight came out from behind the dark clouds, reflecting the dilapidated plank road on the side of the mountain that looked like a white bone, winding with no end in sight.

Jing Lan stood on the side of the mountain and glanced down.

The icy cold wind blows from the mountain stream, and it hurts a little when it blows on the face.

"Go around this mountain along the plank road, and the other end of the mountain is the desert of the alien race." Liu Xi pointed to the towering ridge in front of him. The top of the mountain was surrounded by snow clouds, and the mountain was tilted, as if it would jump down at any time and submerge the mountain stream.

"Let me go." Jing Lan tied Chong Xiao to the leather belt, and took out a thin cold iron chain from the pouch—although it was not as good as his father Jing Xiaohai's casting skills, but this time the cold iron chain was better than others. Mineral water is superior, and a wedge is specially built at one end. If you step on the air, the cold iron chain will be shot out instantly, and the wedge can drill into the mountain wall to stabilize the falling momentum.

After Jing Lan finished speaking, she took another worried look at Liu Xi, she was really worried about her foot injury.

Liu Xi nodded with a smile, tied Shuying around her waist, and also held the cold iron chain in her hand, "I am the queen."

Youyou was arranged so clearly by these two people that the two of them were one behind the other, on the surface they were protecting her, but in fact there was an extra layer of defense.

Twirling the pipe to the back of her waist, Youyou didn't take out the cold iron chain Jing Lan gave her, she thought to herself that with her lightness skills, it would be no problem to walk through this plank road safely.

"Be careful."

Jing Lan gave another word of advice, stepping onto the first wooden pile on the side of the mountain, her black boots consciously kicked off the snow covered on it, fearing that the two people behind would be unstable when they stepped on the ice slag and fall on the plank road.

Youyou watched Jing Lan walk slowly down a few steps, couldn't help laughing and said: "Young Master Jing walks like this, I'm afraid he won't be able to walk very far at dawn."

"Otherwise?" Jing Lan looked back at her displeased.

Youyou's smile deepened, "Young Master Jing, don't be so sympathetic now, we are all sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, so we need to use light skills to travel, for example..." As soon as she finished speaking, she stepped on her toe, and in the blink of an eye, Then he flew to the plank road seven steps away.

I saw her jumping twice provocatively, "This way I can walk fast."

At this time, Youyou's feet are already hanging in the air, on one side is the snow-stained mountain wall cut out like a knife, and on the other side is a dark mountain stream with no bottom at all. If you only need to take a glance down, ordinary people would not dare to take half a step.

Jing Lan didn't bother to watch her mess around, and when she turned her head to look at Liu Xi, Liu Xi had already followed her footsteps and came behind her.

She whispered: "It's too high here, it's better to walk slowly."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Liu Xi replied in a very soft voice, but his tone was gentle, which made Jing Lan unable to help but smile dumbly.

Youyou originally thought that Jing Lan would fight with her, but she didn't know that Jing Lan and Liu Xi didn't seem to accept her provocation. She felt bored and turned around. He heard Jing Lan's scolding sound from behind her.

"Go slower!"

Youyou sneered and said, "Young Master Jing really manages a lot."

Jing Lan was about to teach her a lesson, but Liu Xi tugged her sleeve lightly.

"Miss Youyou, there is an abyss below here, once you fall, you will definitely fall to pieces..." Liu Xi said in a calm tone, "At that time, Alan and I will have to go around and collect your bones first, and then make a list Ask your clansmen to claim it, tell me, how much should I ask your clansmen for as a reward for collecting the corpse?"

Jing Lan smiled lightly and replied, "With Miss Youyou's worth, one hundred thousand is not enough."

"Bah! You two young girls curse me!" Youyou stared angrily, and stood on the plank road with her hips akimbo, "You two fearful ghosts, I'll walk slowly and accompany you!"

"No more than ten steps." Liu Xi reminded in a solemn voice.

Youyou turned her face away, "Understood! Long-winded!"

Ten steps is the farthest distance that the cold iron chain can reach.

Seeing the girl's willful appearance, Liu Xi said in a low voice, "Ah Lan, do you think she looks familiar?"

"Huh?" Jing Lan was puzzled.

Liu Xi smiled deeply, "Does it look like you a few days ago?"

Jing Lan sullenly said, "Not at all!"

Liu Xi burst out laughing.

Jing Lan glared at her, "I'm much better than her!"

"Yes, it's much better." Liu Xi comforted her softly, but never let go of Jing Lan's sleeves, "Before you leave, I'll follow."

"Follow me." Jing Lan was not willing to really annoy her, her face was still sullen, but her tone was much gentler.

After walking for about two hours, the moonlight in the sky gradually dimmed. This was the darkest time before the alternation of day and night.

Youyou kept a distance of ten steps and walked in front alone, looking at the endless plank road in front of him, the more he walked, the more he disliked the speed of the two behind him.

He could finish the walk quickly with lightness skills, but he had to walk so slowly.

She didn't know that Jing Lan was worried about the slippery snow at first, but later she was testing the firmness of the plank road.

Liu Xi was the closest to her, so she naturally saw everything in her eyes.

This plank road has existed for many years, Liu Xi knows it, and naturally there are others.

Why would the foreign race leave such a plank road unused and insist on entering Kyushu from the West Shenzhou Pass?

This doubt has been lingering in Jing Lan's mind.

Liu Xi had thought about this issue in her previous life, but Wei Jianbai sent an army to storm Dongfuzhou, and she didn't have the opportunity to bring people here to explore the plank road in person.

Now that it's here, it's an extra gain to be able to investigate it carefully.

From the first step to here, Jing Lan can be sure that, except for a few wooden piles that are rotten and unable to bear the heavy baggage, it only takes some time to repair the plank road, at least the journey here can be used for a long time. Marching surprise attack.

"I always feel that this plank road is weird." Jing Lan whispered her conjecture.

After walking with Jing Lan, Liu Xi also sensed something was wrong, "Tell me."

"The foreign race and the Ye family have been operating outside the customs for more than 200 years, so it is impossible not to know that there is a plank road here." Jing Lan replied suspiciously as she walked, "If you know that there is a plank road here, but you don't bother to rest in secret, let it go for nothing. This secret plank road that can surprise East Fuzhou is not something they would do."

Liu Xi's face gradually became serious, and she carefully recalled the events of her previous life—in order to storm Dongfuzhou, she sent many martial arts experts to explore the way from south to north in order to storm Dongfuzhou. The location was told by one of the spies.

Both the ancient city and the plank road are there, and the spy said that the plank road can lead directly to the desert, so he must have completed the plank road. It stands to reason that the spy could not hide the inside story.

Just at this time, Youyou in the distance jumped from the plank road onto a boulder protruding from the mountain wall, pointing to the distance, "Over there! I can already see the desert!"

Jing Lan and Liu Xi quickened their pace and swept up the boulder together.

This was originally a protruding stone in the middle of the mountain wall. Standing here, it was impossible to see the desert behind the opposite mountain.However, the rock on the opposite side cracked a hole here, forming a long and narrow valley. Looking at the end of the valley by the moonlight, the outline of the sand dunes of the desert can be vaguely seen.

Jing Lan walked to the edge of the boulder, looked left and right, and found two stone ears that had been broken for many years.

Liu Xi squatted down beside Jing Lan, stretched out her hand to brush away the snow covered on the broken stone ear, and touched the traces of wind erosion on the stone ear with her fingertips, "It wasn't cut with a knife and axe, there should have been a bridge connecting the long valley opposite here. "

Jing Lan was thoughtful.

Liu Xi thought, the spy must have come here at the time, and the bridge was still there at that time, so the spy was sure that this plank road leads directly to the desert.

Youyou didn't know what the two were muttering while squatting on the side. She estimated the distance from here to Changgu on the opposite side, "If we can jump from here to Changgu's entrance, we can save a lot of walking."

Jing Lan didn't answer Youyou immediately, but just raised her head and glanced at the winding plank road when she came.

The moonlight was dim, and there was mist in the mountain stream.

The plank road when we came here can only see the distance of a hundred steps, but the mountain on the opposite side is so high that it cannot be as wide as a hundred steps.Moreover, human eyesight is limited, so it is impossible to have such a hundred miles of sight.

Before Jing Lan could speak, Liu Xi spoke first, "It must not be a desert over there."

Youyou rubbed her eyes, the outline of the sand dune was so recognizable, she couldn't make a mistake.

"It's not a desert over there, I think, there must be some kind of blindfold, and I thought that the long valley was a shortcut to the desert." Jing Lan nodded, "There must be dangers hidden in the long valley, so don't enter it."

"Could it be that we really want to go down honestly and go around?" Youyou glanced at the winding plank road beside the boulder, and after walking for two hours, she stopped talking about the cold, and she was still very tired. How long will the plank road go?

Liu Xi's eyes darkened, "Alan, I'm afraid... this plank road won't work at all."

"Then we will climb over the mountain." Jing Lan smiled and looked up at the opposite mountain wall. "The mountain has different heights. Let's find a lower place and climb up with cold iron chains."

"Wait!" Youyou exclaimed in shock, "Is there something you are hiding from me?" She looked at Liu Xi displeasedly, "Didn't you say that this plank road can lead to the desert?"

Liu Xi said indifferently: "If you go to the end, you will know if you can lead to the desert?"

You You frowned, "Liu Xi, you are such a liar!"

"Say one more thing, try?" Jing Lan raised her eyebrows and asked back.

Youyou didn't expect Jing Lan to be much more fierce than before. She has seen one against two, come on, can't she bear it?

Liu Xi comforted with a smile: "People are alive, there is always a way to get out." Then, Liu Xi gave Jing Lan a wink, "Alan, Miss Youyou is a friend, so be a little more polite to her."

Hearing Liu Xi say something nice for her, Youyou felt relieved a lot, took out the pipe, lit it and took a puff, "My lady has a lot, don't care about this kid."

Jing Lan saw her pipe and thought of the corpse poison on Youyou's body, so she swallowed those fighting words.

"I'll listen to you." Jing Lan snorted softly, "Just don't argue with her."

Liu Xi blinked her right eye at Jing Lan approvingly, then turned to look at You You, "I thought about it, but actually you and I don't have to go to the end by ourselves."

"That's right, I can let your Alan run errands." Youyou simply sat cross-legged on the spot, and raised eyebrows at Jing Lan, "Young Master Jing, how is it?"

The smile on Liu Xi's face disappeared suddenly, "Miss Youyou, I have to rely on you to run errands."

"You spoke for me just now, just for this?" Youyou finally understood that Liu Xi was so courteous for nothing, it was either rape or robbery!

Liu Xi nodded, "At this time, only Miss Youyou can do it."

"What do you mean?"

"Miss Youyou is good at controlling beasts..."

"Isn't your Alan also able to do it?"

"She hasn't mastered that skill yet, so..."

Liu Xi quietly tugged Jing Lan's sleeve three times, signaling her not to interrupt.

Jing Lan could only bear with her words.

Youyou glanced at Jing Lan, and said proudly: "Indeed, the art of controlling beasts requires years of practice."

"Then it's Miss Youyou." Liu Xi pretended to be respectful, and bowed to Youyou.

With a faint smile, she took out the Beast Flute from her bosom, her smile faltered suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she frowned, and said with a sneer, "Liuxi, are you a fox?"

Liu Xi shook her head innocently and said, "What's the matter?"

"You want your A-lan to study the art of controlling beasts with me, so just say it straight! Are you talking so many good things about such a big detour, is it fake?" Youyou snorted coldly, her eyes fell on Jing Lan's face, " This kid is good-looking, but he won't be your man in the future, it doesn't make any sense for you to treat him so wholeheartedly."

Only then did Jing Lan understand why Liu Xi suddenly treated You You so well, it turned out that she had such a heart in mind.

"I don't care! I can figure it out myself!"

Youyou smiled, "You don't care, I just want you to listen, you bastard, you don't know what kind of shit luck you have..." Saying that, Youyou glanced at Liuxi quietly, "Today's matter is terrible. Keep it in the account, we will do the math in the future!"

Liu Xi smiled meaningfully, "I will definitely accompany you in the future."

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Youyou: I always feel something is wrong.