step on mountains and rivers

At ten o'clock in the evening, everyone gathered in the Queen's Courtyard.The queen looked at Tang Qingfeng, and said slowly:

"Tang Jun, do you have any good countermeasures for attacking Takeda Castle?"

"Capture the king." Tang Qingfeng replied.

"Capture the king." The queen thought for a while and said, "What are you going to do?"

Tang Qingfeng looked at the queen and said the plan, the queen nodded and said:

"Okay, Takeda Castle is very dangerous, Tang Jun, you should be more careful." The queen said.

Tang Qingfeng nodded.After the discussion, everyone went to rest.

On the second day, everyone set off from Pingjing City, and arrived outside Wutian City after walking for two days.

Takeda Castle is a huge mountain city with cliffs everywhere.On the top of the cliff, large wooden houses stand scatteredly on it.

Under the cliff is an endless abyss. In the abyss, a thick silver-gray mist floats. The thick mist covers the abyss and connects it with the main city in the mountains, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and reality.

Behind the main city is a continuous snow mountain, which is so huge that it surrounds half of Takeda Castle.

Everyone was lurking on the top of the mountain outside the city, Tang Qingfeng looked at Wutian Castle not far away, and said softly:

"This place is very dangerous, but it is difficult to sneak in."

"Indeed, the gate is ten feet high, and on both sides of the gate are hundreds of feet high cliffs. If you want to enter the city, you may have to force your way through the main entrance." Jiang Ling analyzed.

"It's not advisable to force it. We don't know anything about Wutian Castle. It might be inappropriate to rush in." Tang Qingfeng replied.

"Then what should we do?" Wu Xing'er asked.

"I haven't thought about it yet." Tang Qingfeng fell into deep thought after glancing at Wu Xing'er.

Seeing that Tang Qingfeng was silent, Li Zhenwu quickly glanced at the city in the mountain, and then said:

"Brother Tang, this place is a bit far away, why don't we go and investigate closer, maybe we can find a way to enter."

"Yeah." Tang Qingfeng said, looking at the crowd and saying:

"Let's go down and see."

"Okay." Everyone replied.

After everyone returned, Tang Qingfeng continued: "Jiangling Luqing, you two go to the left, Wu Xinger and Lan Mo, you go to the right." He looked at Li Zhenwu and said, "Zhenwu and I will investigate from the front."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu nodded.

After Tang Qingfeng finished speaking, everyone walked towards their respective destinations according to the plan.

At the foot of the mountain, above the tall gate of Takeda City, dozens of warriors with bows and arrows were closely watching the movement outside the gate. At this time, a black shadow passed by, and several feathered arrows flew out, and the black shadow was shot instantly. into a sieve and fell outside the city gate.

"It turned out to be a black crow." The leader of the warrior on the city gate looked at the corpse of the black bird under the gate and said with peace of mind.

"You are too nervous, and I am also nervous." Warrior A said.

"Why don't you be nervous, you have been fighting recently, who knows who the queen will send to attack?" Warrior B took over the words and said.

"Yeah, don't talk about it, just guard the gate seriously." The warrior leader said.

"Okay." Samurai A returned, and then seemed to think of something, turned to look at the warrior leader and asked:

"Brother, there seems to be a small path beside the cliff of the city gate. Is there someone guarding it? Last time, it was because no one was guarding that those warriors were able to sneak in."

The leader of the warrior heard Warrior A talking about the path, and glanced at him, looking out of the city gate with some fear in his eyes, then quickly withdrew his gaze, and said seriously to him:

"What are you worrying about, there are naturally things guarding over there." He warned the first samurai, "Don't go there if you have nothing to do, you know?"

Seeing what the leader said, Warrior A understood what he meant, nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, thank you for reminding me, brother."

After the warrior finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng, who was hiding in the dark, gestured to Li Zhenwu with his eyes. Li Zhenwu nodded clearly, jumped down the mountain wall, and fell into the woods beside the mountain gate.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the cliff on the left side of the city gate, and after thinking for a moment, he jumped from the mountain wall into the forest.

In the woods, as soon as Li Zhenwu stood firm, he saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy running from a distance in fear.Behind the boy, a group of tattered warriors are chasing after him ferociously with bloody claws, as if they want to tear the boy up and swallow him.

The samurai ran very fast, and they were about to catch up with the young man. Seeing that the situation was not good, the young man tried his best to speed up and run away. At this moment, a samurai jumped up from the crowd, and approached the young man with five-inch long claws. .

Seeing that he couldn't escape, the young man resigned to his fate and closed his eyes.After a while of silence, the expected death did not happen as expected.

The young man slowly opened his eyes, and saw a man in a dark blue shirt standing in front of him. He swung a dark blue heavy sword, and quickly chopped down the attacking warrior.

When the young man was asking questions, the person in front of him turned his head and asked softly:

"Are you OK."

Hearing the voice, the young man looked up, and the beautiful face of the person in front of him stunned him in place.Seeing the young man in a daze, Li Zhenwu glanced at the warrior in front of him, picked up the young man, turned around and jumped towards the distance.

Tang Qingfeng just fell down at this time, and seeing someone attacking behind Li Zhenwu, he raised his fan and rushed over.

With a puff, the fan blade pierced the throat, and a stream of thick black blood slowly flowed out from the neck. Tang Qingfeng looked suspiciously at the warrior who was pierced by the fan blade in front of his throat, but saw him waving his sharp claws and attacking fiercely. .

Seeing this, Tang Qingfeng slapped out with a palm, and the strong palm force slapped the warrior's body into the air, hitting the chasing warrior behind him, and then the two flew out together, knocking down dozens of warriors behind him Then stopped.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the dark black blood on the fan blade, turned around and jumped towards Li Zhenwu's place.

Seeing Tang Qingfeng's return, Li Zhenwu looked at him with a serious expression and asked:

"Brother Tang, those people."

"It's a corpse." Tang Qingfeng looked at the warrior who attacked again, and replied in a deep voice.Then he looked at Li Zhenwu and continued:

"Zhenwu, wait for me."

As he spoke, he raised his fan and quickly attacked the warrior.

Shuashuashuashua, an indigo blue figure flashed past, puff puff puff, there was a sound of body shattering, and dozens of incoming warriors were instantly cut into pieces by Tang Qingfeng and scattered on the ground.

Tang Qingfeng carefully looked at the broken corpses on the ground, and saw dozens of purple-black insects as slender as silk threads jumping out of the broken corpses, and quickly attacked Tang Qingfeng in the blood.

Seeing the black worms attacking, Tang Qingfeng swung his fan, and with a whoosh, dozens of black worms were cut into two by the fan blade and fell into the blood.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the black worms in the blood, saw that they hadn't moved, flicked his fan, put it away, turned around and walked towards Li Zhenwu.

And at this moment, the black worm whose blood had been cut off wriggled gently, and slowly burrowed into the shattered corpse.

Li Zhenwu has been carefully observing Tang Qingfeng's battle. Seeing him walking back, he looked at him suspiciously and asked:

"Brother Tang, what's going on?"

"It's a Gu worm." Tang Qingfeng replied.

"Gu worm?" Li Zhenwu asked.

"Hmm." Seeing Li Zhenwu's doubts, Tang Qingfeng smiled and explained to him:

"Zhenwu, didn't the master craftsman say that Fujiwara was refining Gu worms? Those just now might be his test products."

"Experiment?? Brother Tang, is it the corpse you mentioned just now?" Li Zhenwu guessed.

"Well, Zhenwu, they may be the walking corpses that the queen said." Tang Qingfeng nodded to confirm his thoughts.

"Walking corpse..." Li Zhenwu fell into deep thought after listening to Tang Qingfeng's answer.

"Well, the bodies of the warriors have already died, and the parasitic Gu worms manipulated their bodies to attack living people, and then parasitized them, repeating this process until they found a suitable host." Tang Qingfeng frowned slightly.

"........." Li Zhenwu was silent for a while listening to Tang Qingfeng's explanation.

At this moment, a boy's voice came, interrupting the conversation between the two.

"Are you, Lord Mountain God?"

Hearing the child's voice, Tang Qingfeng looked behind Li Zhenwu, only to see a young man in rags walking out slowly, looking at the two of them in awe, as if waiting for a positive response.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the child and said:

"Who are you and why are you here?"

The child looked at the handsome man in front of him, and replied respectfully:

"Master Shanshen, my name is Tsuchiro, and I came to Takeda Castle to find herbs for my mother."

"Looking for herbs? Then why were you chased by these warriors?" Tang Qingfeng asked.

After listening to Tang Qingfeng's words, Jin Qilang looked at him and explained:

"I wanted to sneak into Wutian Castle from the trail on the mountain wall, but I didn't expect that there were monsters like this guarding the trail. I was chased and killed by them as soon as I reached the end of the trail, so I had to turn around and escape back."

"Monster, how do you know they are monsters?" Tang Qingfeng asked.

Hearing Tang Qingfeng's question, Jin Qilang recalled what he had just seen, and replied with a horrified expression:

"Just now, I just saw them eating people. I yelled out in fear. When they heard the sound, they chased me crazily. I was afraid of being eaten by them, so I ran away desperately."

The more Jin Qilang spoke, the more frightened he became, and his body slowly approached Li Zhenwu, and he reached out and grabbed his arm tightly, trying to seek some comfort.

Li Zhenwu saw that he was so terrified, thinking that he must have been greatly frightened, so he stretched out his hand to embrace him.

Seeing Li Zhenwu's response, Jin Qilang reached out and hugged his waist tightly, and buried his head deeply in his waist.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at Jin Qilang's hand clinging tightly to Li Zhenwu's waist, raised his eyebrows secretly in his heart, then looked at Li Zhenwu and said softly:

"Zhenwu, if we want to enter from the trail, we still need to find a way to deal with these walking corpses."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu nodded.

Tsuchiro was terrified, and when he heard Tang Qingfeng say that he was going to enter Takeda Castle, he raised his head and asked Li Zhenwu:

"Master Shanshen, are you going to enter Wutian Castle too?"

"Well, what's wrong?" Li Zhenwu asked.

"Then, can the Lord Mountain God take me in? I want to go to the Temple of the Gods to find herbs." Tsuchiro explained.

"Where is the Temple of the Gods? What herbs are you looking for?" Li Zhenwu looked at Jin Qilang and asked.

Seeing his doubts, Tsuchiro looked at him puzzled and said:

"Master Mountain God, don't you know? The Hall of Gods is your palace."

Li Zhenwu became more and more puzzled when he heard what he said.

Seeing Jin Qilang change the topic, Tang Qingfeng looked at him seriously and said:

"We are not mountain gods, what happened to the temple of gods and medicinal herbs?"

Hearing Tang Qingfeng's answer, Jin Qilang saw him looking at him indifferently, so scared that he quickly let go of Li Zhenwu's hands, turned around and wanted to run away, but was pulled back by Tang Qingfeng.

Tsuchiro looked at Tang Qingfeng in front of him, and asked him in horror:

"You, who are you?"

Tang Qingfeng glanced at him, recalled what he had done just now, and frightened him suddenly, saying:

"Tsuchiro, we are not mountain gods, but mountain ghosts who eat children. If you don't answer my question obediently, I will take out your heart and eat it right away."

As he spoke, he waved the fan in his hand in a threatening gesture.

After hearing his answer, Jin Qilang remembered that he chopped those samurai into pieces in an instant just now, a sense of fear rose in his heart, and he desperately wanted to break free from Tang Qingfeng's grasp of his hand, but he was too scared to dare action.

Seeing that Jin Qilang was frightened, Li Zhenwu looked at Tang Qingfeng and said softly:

"Brother Tang."

Seeing Li Zhenwu speak, Tang Qingfeng smiled slightly and said:

"Okay, listen to Zhenwu."

As he said that, he let go of his hand, looked at Tsuchichiro and said calmly:

"Just now to scare you, we are not mountain ghosts, but onmyojis from Dazhou. I heard that there are monsters in Wutian City, and we are here to get rid of them."

After listening to Tang Qingfeng's explanation, Jin Qilang glanced at Li Zhenwu inquiringly, Li Zhenwu nodded and said:

"Qilang, we are from Dazhou. My name is Li Zhenwu, and his name is Tang Qingfeng. We are not mountain ghosts, so don't be afraid."

Seeing Li Zhenwu's soft and sincere words, Jin Qilang thought that he had saved himself again, so he chose to believe him and said:

"Well, big brother, my mother knows a little more about the temple of the gods and medicinal herbs. Our village is nearby. Let me take you to find her."

Li Zhenwu listened to what Jin Qilang said, and asked Tang Qingfeng with his eyes. Seeing Tang Qingfeng nodding, he replied to Jin Qilang:

"it is good."