across mountains and seas

"Hoo!" Another cold arrow shot out from the dense fog, pointing directly at the young man in white who had been swept away in the forest.

Holding a long sword in her hand, Jing Lan flew through the forest like a flying arrow. With the help of the twisted branches of the pine forest, she easily avoided the cold arrow behind her. Finally, she flew up to the crown of the pine tree like a white crane. Overlooking the movement under the tree.

It's not that she is playing with a child's heart and insists on going to the gate of hell alone.

Yesterday she rode into the mountain with ten guards, originally wanting to find a quiet place in the mountain to spend the night.Since she practiced "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue", not only her internal energy has greatly increased, but her six senses are also much sharper than before.So not long after entering the mountain, Jing Lan sensed the dangerous aura in the forest.She pretended that the horse was startled, and galloped towards the entrance of the mountain, and ten guards followed her on horseback.

Jing Lan rode into the market, causing chaos in the morning market in the township. Taking advantage of the chaos, Jing Lan threw off the guards and quietly left the town.

It's not that she doesn't know the danger of this trip, Jing Lan just doesn't want anyone in Haicheng to die.

She went on the road alone, if she couldn't beat her, she ran away, and she should be able to protect herself.Bringing ten guards into danger, these ten guards will definitely try their best to protect her, and she has to take care of the safety of these ten people, but her hands are tied.

East Fuzhou all the way to the south to Guimenguan, this mountain road is the nearest mountain road.Therefore, even though she knew that there was an ambush on this mountain road, Jing Lan was still going to make a dash for it. After all, the sooner she asked the ghost doctor back, the less likely Liu Xi would become lame.

Jing Lan rode up the mountain road again alone, and there were rustling sounds in the deep forest on both sides.

She urged the horse to run faster, and suddenly there was a hidden arrow in the forest, and the arrow landed not on Jing Lan, but on the white horse under Jing Lan.

Hearing the horse hiss in pain, the arrow was hit by the front hoof, and the body leaned forward, the whole horse fell to the ground, throwing Jing Lan high on the horse's back.

Taking advantage of the momentum, Jing Lan picked up the long sword beside the saddle, turned over in the air, and landed firmly on the ground.

She looked sideways to the left, and saw a Shura guard wearing a skull mask quickly flashing behind a tree and hiding in the depths of the forest.

"The ghosts will not disperse!" Jing Lan cursed angrily, sheathed her long sword, if she didn't kill these Shura guards, she would definitely not be able to get out of this barren mountain.

Unexpectedly, this head of mine is so valuable, and these well-known and feared killers in the world still miss it to this day.

"call out!"

Jing Lan sideways dodges the stab from the back.

She hastily scanned the terrain to the left and right, and saw a tall pine tree not far away. She had a plan in mind, and quickly slid towards the pine tree.

It was only a distance of more than a hundred steps, and Jing Lan had already dodged how many hidden arrows.

At this time, she had already swept up the canopy of the tree, holding her breath and staring at the movement under the tree.There is a saying in Jing's organ technique, by taking advantage of its momentum and following its way, everything in the world has its edge, as long as the momentum is used properly, it can be used by me.

Thinking of this, Jing Lan distractedly glanced left and right at the surrounding pine branches—the leaves are like needles, and each leaf can be turned into a sharp weapon if it is accumulating energy.

Being condescending and occupying a favorable location, as long as Shura Wei in the forest dared to come out, Jing Lan could fight back with pine branches.

Seeing Jing Lan climbed the tree, Shura Wei who was hiding in the forest suddenly fell silent.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Jing Lan suddenly heard the sound of startling strings behind her. She pressed down the pine branches behind her, gathered her inner strength, and used the pine branches as a shield to stop the three sharp arrows.

The sneak attack was unsuccessful, but the archer had found out where Jing Lan was hiding in the pine tree.

At this moment, Jing Lan was like a squirrel with nowhere to go, he could only hide on the pine tree, waiting for the final death.

Shurawei lit the arrow and aimed it at the crown of the pine tree.

The forest was filled with dense fog in the early morning, and it was impossible to see where these Shura guards were hiding, but the arrow was ignited, although there were only a few sparks, it was enough for Jing Lan to see clearly where these people were?

Get started first!

Jing Lan picked up a pine branch with Jianfeng, filled with internal strength, and shook his sword sharply. The pine leaves on the pine branch seemed to be shot down from the crown of the tree like a thousand needles, pointing directly at the ten lights that lit up in the dense fog. A little more Mars.

Shurawei didn't expect that Jing Lan had a hidden weapon hidden in his body. The moment the rocket shot out, the pine needles penetrated into the flesh and blood.

Jing Lan didn't know how many people were shot, but the pine tree she was hiding in couldn't stay any longer. When the pine tree was ablaze, she jumped down and landed firmly on the ground.

"Little bastard!" Lin Zhongxiu Luowei yelled bitterly, then rushed out with a knife and surrounded Jing Lan.

Some of these people had their eyes hurt by pine needles, some had their shoulders punctured, some had injuries to the back of their hands, and some had needles on the side of their legs. No one would have thought that Jing Lan would fight back, let alone this inconspicuous Pine needles have such force to pierce through flesh and blood.

Jing Lan secretly counted how many Shura guards he had to deal with.

At the beginning of the siege of Haicheng, 18 people disturbed her brother's wedding, but now they surrounded her closely, and 13 people wanted her to die.

Jing Lan stepped back with her sword in hand, with her vest facing the trunk of the pine tree, so that at least she would be less distracted.From the corner of the eye, he quietly took a look at the depths of the deep forest filled with thick fog. If there were still people hiding inside, there would definitely be backstabbing attacks.

"None of you can run away from the revenge of killing your brother." After Jing Lan said in a serious voice, the long sword shook in the palm of her hand, and she struck out first without warning.

She remembered that the sharp blades of these Asura Guards were coated with poison, otherwise her brother would not have died.That's why Jing Lan was extra careful every time he faced Shura Wei's sharp blade. Although he knew that "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue" was immune to all poisons, it was always a good thing to be careful.

Just at this moment, a terrifying long whistle sounded from the forest.

The sound waves are deafening, piercing the heart and lungs.

Jing Lan stopped the attack and quickly covered her ears, only to feel a tremor in her chest, as if someone had slapped her heart hard.

"There is... a helper! Cough cough..." One of the Shura guards suddenly covered his heart, opened his mouth, spit out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground.

"Ahem..." More Shura guards fell down clutching their chests.

Jing Lan took another step back, leaning her vest on the tree trunk, holding her sword and staring at the black figure slowly walking out of the thick fog——the thick fog faded inch by inch, and the man wore a silver mask on his face, and his whole body was black. Clothes, a toga with long sleeves, and long hair that is not tied up with anything and hangs long on the back.

"break!"

The masked man in black suddenly made a sound, and saw the wailing Shura Wei holding his heart tightly, as if something had pierced his heart, they struggled for a moment, and then died.

Judging from the voice of the man in black, it should be a woman in her early thirties.

There was an inexplicable murderous aura exuding from this person. She approached step by step, with Jing Lan holding her sword in front of her, and asked in a stern voice, "Who are you?"

The woman in black smiled coldly, and asked back: "The people who killed you are all dead, and you are the only one who lives alone. Who do you say I am?"

Savior?

Jing Lan thought of this word first, but the black-clothed woman exuded a murderous aura all over her body. Even if she was not with Shura Wei, she might not be a kind person.

The woman in black stopped three steps away from Jing Lan and looked carefully at Jing Lan's face, only then did Jing Lan realize that the woman's pupils were emitting a faint green.

There are many strangers in the Jianghu, Jing Lan remembers Uncle Jiu said that there is a crooked sect in the Jianghu who specializes in pupil art.Once successful, the pupils will change color, and it is possible to control the mind and become a puppet at the mercy of others.

With this in mind, Jing Lan avoided looking at her.

The woman in black stood with her hands behind her back, and said in a cold voice, "My name is Yun Ji, but I'm just a talisman master who walks the rivers and lakes." Speaking of this, she seemed to have thought of something, "According to the calculation, you and I should have grievances."

"Resentment?" Jing Lan clearly met her for the first time, how could there be resentment?

Yunji said indifferently, "I have a disciple named Youyou who is not up to expectations, I think Young Master Jing remembers it."

Mentioning this person, Jing Lan tensed her attention again, "Are you here for revenge today?"

Yunji shook her head, "I told you, she was the one who didn't live up to expectations and couldn't blame others. Since "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue" chose you, then you are destined."

Jing Lan was shocked, this person also knew "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue", presumably Youyou wanted to obtain this skill, most likely it was also taught by this person.

Yun Ji knew what Jing Lan was thinking about, she asked slowly: "Do you think anyone can practice "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue"?"

Jing Lan remained silent.

Yunji continued: "If you don't have the destiny to transform into a dragon, if you practice rashly, you will only end up with broken meridians. Therefore, if you can practice this skill, it means that "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue" has chosen you. You can follow the way of heaven. If you kill you, you will be punished by heaven."

Jing Lan heard her talk in a mysterious way, she didn't care about the way of heaven or the punishment of heaven, what she cared about was Liu Xi's foot injury.

"Since your Excellency is not here to seek revenge, Jing Lan will repay the favor of saving you today." Jing Lan put away her long sword, first showed her sincerity, and bowed to Yun Ji, "Let me leave now."

"I can see the way of heaven, and I can't bear to see the real dragon broken. Here are a few words I want to give to the young master. Would the young master listen to it?" Yunji asked suddenly.

"Birth, old age, sickness and death, there are fates. Your Excellency's kindness, Jing Lan appreciates it, and I leave!" Jing Lan didn't want to have too much to do with this person, so she bowed her hands and left in a hurry.

"A gentleman is far away from the water, so be careful." Yun Ji seemed determined to tell her, and she raised her voice to use her inner strength to transmit her skills, and she was confident that Jing Lan could hear clearly.

Jing Lan only felt that Yun Ji was too weird, there is no master in the world who does not protect his weaknesses, but she did the opposite, maybe she had other plans.

She could hear these eight words clearly, but she didn't pay much attention to them.

After walking quickly along the mountain road for half a day, Jing Lan finally climbed over the mountain and came to the town behind the mountain. After she found an inn to rest for the night, she picked a horse from a horse dealer and continued on. Go to hell.

After traveling for about ten days, Jing Lan finally arrived at the junction of Dongfu Prefecture and Nanyue Prefecture—the mountain is steep and steep, unlike the towering peaks of Longling, the mountain here is like two intertwined mountains. , there is a narrow and long dangerous valley in the middle, the valley is filled with miasma all the year round, no one dares to enter, so it is called "Gate of Ghosts".

In order to connect the two prefectures of Dongfuzhou and Nanyue, the imperial court built three suspension bridges with cold iron chains on the dangerous valley. When the miasma is least at noon, you can walk across the bridges safely and go to Dongfuzhou or Nanyue. It is South Vietnam.

It's a pity that it is a troubled time, and wars have continued for years. Since several bandit leaders from the three northeastern states gathered together to establish a competition alliance, in order to prevent the court soldiers and horses from crossing the hanging bridge and entering the three states to regain their lost ground, these bandit leaders sent light kung fu masters The three suspension bridges were blown up with fire and explosives, completely cutting off the land connection between Dongfu State and Nanyue State.

Therefore, if the current imperial court wants to regain these three states, it can only take the sea route to fight against the pirates who are the best at sea warfare in the Zhulu League.In the past few years, the imperial court has become weaker and weaker. Not to mention the naval battle, it is quite difficult to even keep the last controlled East Fuzhou. We can only watch helplessly as the bandit leaders of the Zhulu League gradually become powerful.

Jing Lan jumped off the horse, patted the horse's mane lightly a few times, "Grab here obediently." Then, she looked around, led the horse into a hidden place in the forest, and put The horse is tied to the trunk.

Taking out the miasma-repelling medicine powder that Mr. Hai gave, Jing Lan wiped a mark on the crowd, and the powder choked her nose, and she couldn't help sneezing.She put the medicine powder into the pouch on her waist, took out Xiao Sinan to identify the direction, and followed the direction with her sword to find the mouth of the canyon.

Jing Lan doesn't know how long Mr. Hai's medicine powder can hold the miasma. Once she enters the [Gate of Ghosts], she only knows to be careful.The ghost doctor has been able to live in the depths of this miasma for a hundred years, and few people from the Jianghu dare to disturb it inside. Apart from the miasma barrier here, there must be institutions arranged in this gorge.

Entering the gorge for the first time, the miasma that permeates is milky white, and upon careful sniffing, there is a pungent smell of thick smoke.

Jing Lan walked in along the mouth of the gorge. After staying in the milky white miasma for a long time, her eyes felt very uncomfortable.Fortunately, relying on the internal breath of "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue", although the eyes are stinging, they will not be damaged by poisonous miasma.

Going further inside, the miasma gradually turned dark green, making her dizzy from the smell, Jing Lan covered her face with her left sleeve, and swung the miasma forward with a sword in her right hand to open the way.

"Crack!"

Suddenly stepped on something, Jing Lan seemed to have stepped into a trap.

She felt a chill in her back, she was not in a hurry to move her feet, she pricked up her ears and listened for a while, but there was no sound of machine crossbows around, as long as the mechanism of lifting the feet would be triggered.

Jing Lan quietly put her weight on her hind feet, and stepped on the ground suddenly.

"Crack!"

The organ trap rang again, and Jing Lan tried to block it with her sword, but found that there were no abnormal noises around.

This mechanism seems to have been broken?

Jing Lan was confused, in order to confirm her conjecture, she poked a few times with the hilt of her sword on the mechanism that she stepped on just now, and sure enough, there was only a trick, not an arrow in the back.

Either it was broken by someone, or the quiver linked with this mechanism has been shot.

Could it be that someone broke through [Gate of Hell] before her?

Thinking of this, Jing Lan quickened her pace and quickly walked out of the green miasma mountain gorge. When she realized that the miasma had turned scarlet, Jing Lan also smelled a strong smell of blood.

"hiss……"

Surprised by someone hissing in front of the left, Jing Lan followed the sound and walked over, suddenly saw a blade of light flashing by, Jing Lan drew his sword to parry, waved his left sleeve to slightly fan the miasma, and vaguely saw a man in scales nailed by a spear The left shoulder is firmly nailed to the wall of the stone gorge.

This person was clearly insane, seeing someone approaching, he frantically swung the dagger in his hand, trying to chop the person approaching to pieces.

Jing Lan caught a glimpse of a waist card falling from the man's body, she picked it up with the blade of her sword, and took a closer look - the competition.

This person is from the Chalu League!

Jing Lan was even more shocked, how could the well-behaved people from the Lumeng League come here?

If some important person from the Zhulu League was seriously ill and forced to break into the [Ghost Gate] to abduct the ghost doctor to save her life, wouldn't her trip be in vain?

This is the only possibility, but the result that Jing Lan does not want to see the most.

Although the Zhulu League is a alliance of several bandit leaders, after all, most of the bandit leaders are from the world, and there are many masters among them.These guards from the Chasing League can come here, they are no longer ordinary guards, so those who can still go forward will naturally have higher martial arts.

With so many masters dispatched here, the identity of the seriously ill person in the Luzhu League must not be easy!

Jing Lan threw down her waist card, still covered her mouth and nose with her left sleeve, and quickly swept away in the gorge with her sword, and she swept out of the scarlet miasma canyon in a few strokes.

The cool wind blows towards the face, blowing the miasma behind, preventing the miasma from spreading forward.

Jing Lan felt the cool breeze, and knew that she had passed through the dangerous valley of miasma, and stepped into the ghost doctor's mountain gate safely.But it was even worse than she had imagined—the stone steps of the mountain gate were broken, obviously they had been bombarded by artillery fire, and fragments of the stone shield were scattered on the ground. Only when it is blasted away will the stone steps be broken to this point.

No blood was seen here, which shows that there are not many ghost doctors guarding the mountain gate.

The mountain gates of the rivers and lakes must be places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Abandoning this place and retreating to the main hall is the next strategy.

The more Jing Lan thought about it, the worse it became. She stepped up the steps and ran for about a stick of incense. Suddenly, she heard a voice in front of her. She looked up, down, left, and right, and found a protruding rock, and got behind it.

She was silent for a moment, and after confirming that no one had noticed her, she poked out half of her head cautiously, and first took a closer look at the situation here.

This place should be a karst cave deep in the mountain wall. I don't know where the deep alley leads to?

There are more than [-] people around the entrance of the cave. They have different skin colors and different clothes. If there is one thing in common, it is that these people all have a waist card hanging around their waist. If you look at it from a distance, although you can’t see clearly what is written on it. What kind of word, but the shape is the same as the waist card that Jing Lan picked up in the miasma, presumably these people are the people who competed for the deer league.

One of them was a fat man wrapped around two heavy satchels, with a few fireflies sticking out of the mouth of the satchel, he was rough and dark, he seemed to be in a hurry, his face was covered with greasy sweat stains.

He took out a thunderbolt cannon, held it in his hand, and said to the tall man beside him, "I'll try throwing a cannon in first. This thunderbolt cannon is loud and powerful. When it explodes in the hole, the sound is shocking. If Nizi is inside, she should be scared out of her voice!"

The tall man was wearing a scholar's shirt with a thin face. He held down the fat man, "You don't understand her temperament. If she is afraid of death, she won't be able to inherit the mantle of Master!"

"Tsk tsk, you're thinking about your old relationship, so you don't dare to do it?" The fat man sneered.

The scholar squinted at the fat man, and warned: "Chen Hu! The leader said that Shen Jiangli must go back unscathed. Do you want the leader to punish you?"

"Don't use the leader to overwhelm me!" The fat man seemed very unconvinced, and provocatively said loudly: "Shen Yuzhu, you can be regarded as a teacher of ghost doctors, but you don't even know the mechanisms inside, and you have been damaged along the way. How many of our brothers, do you think the leader will spare you when you go back?"

The scholar Shen Yuzhu was speechless for a moment, and the veins on his thin forehead throbbed, so he held back his breath.

Fatty Chen Hu couldn't get used to Shen Yuzhu's hypocrisy on weekdays. He didn't dare to vent his anger. He was not considered a man at all. He glanced at Shen Yuzhu with disdain, but smiled at the white-browed Taoist priest who had been silent all the time, "Said Brother, you are the biggest here today, tell me, should you use the younger brother's method?"

The Taoist priest with white eyebrows is only in his early forties, but he doesn't know what kind of Taoism he has practiced. He looks like a hundred-year-old Taoist with black eyebrows and white temples.

No one in the Jianghu knew where he studied under, and no one knew his real name. Since he stepped into the Jianghu, he has only one Taoist name "Bie He".According to legend, this person struck fiercely, and every strand of a golden whisk had a life on it. Once he made a move, the other party would definitely go to see the King of Hades.

Daoist Bie He, "Fire Tiger" Chen Hu, and "Ghost Scholar" Shen Yuzhu.

The names of these three people are well-known in the Jianghu. Jing Lan had heard of the names of these three people in her previous life, but Dongfu State and Nanyue State were separated by a natural barrier, so she had never seen a real person.

As for these three, Jing Lan thought to herself that they were no longer their opponents.What's more, there are more than a dozen unknown Jianghu people standing beside them, who must be masters of the Lulu League.

Using so many experts to come here, I'm afraid they want to kidnap the ghost doctor and return to the Zhulu League.

If the ghost doctor was kidnapped by these people and sent to the Lulu League, then Liu Xi's leg would really be over.Jing Lan was anxious, and re-examined the mountain here.

The karst cave protrudes out of the mountain wall, and there are deep alleys in the karst cave. I don't know where it leads?

Jing Lan's eyes finally fell on the cannon in Chen Hu's bag, using his strength, if he could blow up the mouth of the cave, he might be able to stop these people for a while.

But if the alley is a dead end, if she cuts off the back way rashly, it will only make people catch a turtle in their urn.

Take a gamble?

Just as Jing Lan was thinking, a silver bell sounded in the deep alley.

Jing Lan felt her scalp numb. In her previous life, she didn't like the sound of silver bells. In this life, Jing Lan felt more and more uncomfortable when she heard the sound of silver bells amplified by Shenxiang.

Daoist Bie He was still wondering if Chen Hu's artillery might blow up this place, but the little girl Shen Jiangli who was hiding in the depths came out obediently at this time.

Seems like a smart girl.

Daoist Bie He waved his hand to signal Chen Hu to put away the Thunderbolt Cannon in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "She is willing to follow us, so be polite to her, after all, she is just a little girl." Shen Yuzhu, "After all, the brothers and sisters are together, and the rest is left to you, Mr. Shen."

Shen Yuzhu snorted coldly, when he betrayed the ghost doctor, these people wanted to take the opportunity to watch a show here.

He thought to himself that he treated his junior sister Shen Jiangli well back then, but betraying the ghost doctor school was just different from his master's ambitions. Now that he invites him personally, these people may not be able to see the drama they want to see.

"Master..." Shen Yuzhu stared at the entrance of the deep alley, but when Shen Jiangli appeared, the title was stuck in his throat.

Jing Lan looked curiously at the girl in white who was slowly walking out with a bamboo stick in her hand, and saw that her eyes were covered with a white scarf, and her hair was simply tied with a piece of linen, as if she was still wearing mourning for someone.

"Your eyes...why are your eyes blind?" Shen Yuzhu asked in shock.

Shen Jiangli raised his head slightly, and the light and shadow lit up from her face inch by inch, illuminating her pale as paper face, her lips were as dark as ink, and at first glance, she looked like a bird tied with dark paper. out of the paper doll.

The author has something to say: Jiangli is another name for peony.Polygonatum odoratum is also the name of a traditional Chinese medicine.

This chapter can be regarded as an account of the forces in Northeast Kyushu~ Take your time~ This is a very important girl~ Shen Jiangli.

PS: Thank you Xiao C for your long comment. My eyes are a little more comfortable today, so I quickly combined the two chapters into one, and added another chapter~ (I still owe Ziqing and Mr. Comma, I will work hard~)

Another PS: There will be a meeting during the day tomorrow, so I can only code when I go home at night, so everyone, wait a moment, there must be an update.