step on mountains and rivers

The people rode horses and drove, traveling all the way from Hangzhou through the stars and nights. After more than ten days, they finally arrived at Xushan.

Xushan is a vast desert located at the foot of the Baiyu Mountains, a desolate place in the northwest.The huge Baiyu Mountains straddle Xushan, stretching for thousands of miles from east to west, connecting the entire northwest.

Everyone came to Xushan, attracted by its beautiful scenery, drove slowly, admiring the Gobi under the setting sun.

A few people looked around from the carriage, and the red sunset hung on the top of the pale snow mountain, like a bright bloodstone pearl, emitting red light.The crimson light passed through the snow-capped mountain tops, dyeing the sky blood red.Under the blood-red sky, there is a vast and desolate Gobi.On the Gobi, there are clusters in the east and clusters in the west growing loose and scattered fine grass, and occasionally there are a few small bright yellow flowers in the middle of the fine grass.

A clear river comes slowly from the snow-capped mountains, flows into the desolate Gobi, runs through it, and then quickly flows into the distance.Beside the clear river, camps stand in twos and threes.The crowd set up pots and stoves by the river, sang beautiful songs, washed their hands and made soup, and rewarded the whole day's work.

In the Populus euphratica forest next to the camp, a group of active goats are playing in the forest, and eating a mouthful of green grass from time to time.Standing beside the flock of sheep were several brown horses. They lowered their heads and ate the grass leisurely. One of them stretched out its long tongue and rolled the grass and wild flowers into its mouth.The horse's hair is shiny, and its smooth body exudes strong strength under the reflection of the setting sun.Such a perfect body shape must have been created after countless trials and tribulations with its owner.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the earth, the horse looked up at the sky, and neighed, startling Hu Yan in the forest.Hu Yan flapped her wings and flew towards the blood-red sky.

Looking at the scenery in front of him, Li Zhenwu couldn't help sighing:

"'Yange is not broken, and the grass is green. It's a beautiful scene.'"

Tang Qingfeng looked at the horizon, the blood-colored sunset was slowly setting, hiding in the snow-capped mountains, leaving only a little reddish afterglow, warming the desolate sand and gravel.

"It's getting late, let's go quickly." Tang Qingfeng looked away and said to the people around him.

"Okay." Everyone nodded and rode their horses galloping all the way. When it was getting dark, they passed through the Gobi and came to Changdaomen.

The Changdao Gate is built on the snow-capped mountains, and the large dome buildings are distributed in a zigzag shape, located between the foot of the mountain and the Gobi.Under the dome, broken stones of different sizes mixed with blue bricks poured with soil are neatly arranged. Above the bricks, carved hollow wooden windows are scattered, adding a touch of detail to the grandeur of the building.

Everyone stood in front of the gate of Changdaomen, looking at the gate about five feet high in front of them, they were stunned for a moment in shock.The tall gate is made of black refined iron. On both sides of the gate are two giant pillars engraved with eagles. The giant pillars are made of round boulders. .

"Let's go see the master of the Changdao Sect." Mo Ban looked away, said softly, and then led everyone towards the Changdao disciple guarding the door.

Seeing Mo Ban and the others approaching, the four doormen with long knives immediately reprimanded:

"Stop, who are you? What are you doing here at Changdaomen?"

After hearing the words of disciple Changdao, everyone stopped in their tracks, and Moban saluted respectfully:

"I'm in Moban. I'm the son of Moli from the Hangzhou Mo family. I have something to ask to see the head of the Changdao Sect. Please let me know. Thank you Moban."

Disciple Changdao looked at the crowd up and down, and then said: "Okay, you wait here, I will report to the sect master." He ran towards the inner hall as he spoke.

After everyone waited for a while, the long knife disciple ran back.He looked at the crowd and said:

"Come in, I'll take you to see the sect master."

"Okay, thank you." After Mo Ban finished speaking, he led the crowd and followed the long knife disciple in.

Several people passed through the wide courtyard, walked along the winding plank road, and came to the outside of the main hall in the back hall of the Changdao Gate.

Outside the hall, after the long knife disciple stopped, he said to the hall:

"Master, the person has been brought."

"Come in." A deep voice came from inside the door.

"Yes!" After the disciple of the long knife responded, he gently opened the door and led everyone in.

I saw a majestic middle-aged man sitting on a big black sable fur chair above the wide hall, looking at the crowd with a serious expression and saying:

"You guys, who is the son of Moli?"

"Master, I'm next." Mo Ban saluted respectfully.

Zhan Xiao looked at Mo Ban carefully, then nodded.

"Well, I know what you're here for. It's getting late today, so we'll discuss things tomorrow." Zhan Xiao said, looked at his disciples and said, "Take the guests down to rest."

"Yes, Sect Master." After the disciple responded, he led everyone out of the door.

He led the people down the plank road, came to the west courtyard of the atrium, settled the people and left.

Everyone sat in the house to rest, Jiang Ling sighed softly and said:

"Hey, that door owner looks very difficult to mess with. Tell me, will he hand over the key to us?"

"Brother Jiang, the sect master is a friend of my father, and I believe he is an upright person." Moban said.

"Really? But there are so many treasures in the treasure house of the Mo family, it's hard to guarantee that he can't afford to possess them." Jiang Ling said.

"If he wanted to take it privately, he would have done it more than ten years ago, why wait until now." Lu Qing said.

"What if he doesn't know how to use the key and can't find the place?" Jiang Ling replied, then suddenly realized as if he had thought of something, and said, "No wonder he welcomed us in after hearing about the Mo family."

"You're overthinking, he just greeted us." Tang Qingfeng glanced at Jiang Ling and said.

"How do you know?" Jiang Ling asked dissatisfied.

"He is very strong, a kind of strength that pursues the limit of force. The secret treasure of the Mo family is useless to him now." Li Zhenwu said thoughtfully.

"Brother Li, how did you find out?" Jiang Ling asked.

"A feeling." Li Zhenwu replied: "He is the same as Zhan Yi, he gives me the same feeling."

"Here, brother Li, I didn't expect you to talk nonsense." Jiang Ling said awkwardly.

"Zhenwu is not talking nonsense." Tang Qingfeng looked at Jiang Ling and said, "You only look at people with your eyes, but Zhenwu uses your heart." After speaking, Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu, who seemed to have been seen through by him. Head lowered slightly.

"What intention? I looked at it very carefully, but I didn't see anything." Jiang Ling said.

"So, you would think that he wants to possess the secret treasure." Tang Qingfeng blocked Jiang Ling with a single sentence.

Jiang Ling stared at Tang Qingfeng in shock, speechless.

"Since you have entered the Long Sword Gate, no matter what the owner of the gate is, you still have to get the key. Instead of guessing here, we should rest early and recover our spirits to deal with tomorrow's affairs." Lu Qing looked at everyone and said.

"Lu Qing is right." Mo Ban agreed.

"Since that's the case, let's go to rest." Tang Qingfeng said.

"Okay." Jiang Ling nodded, stood up, as if thinking of something, and sat down again.

Tang Qingfeng looked at his strange behavior and asked:

"Old Jiang, what's the matter?"

"Old Tang, I suddenly remembered that there seem to be only three rooms in this yard," Jiang Ling said.

After Tang Qingfeng heard this, he was slightly taken aback, looked at Jiangling, then at the crowd, and after thinking for a while, said:

"You choose for yourself."

"I'm with Mo Ban." Lu Qing replied.

These days, he has been learning mechanism skills with Mo Ban, and the two have gradually become acquainted. Besides, Mo Ban is also his only relative. Before Mo Ban leaves, he should spend more time with Mo Ban.

Jiang Ling looked at Tang Qingfeng and asked, "Old Tang, I......"

Before Jiang Ling finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng glanced at him indifferently, then looked at the crowd and said:

"Now that you have chosen, you can go out."

Everyone got up, Lu Qing and Mo Ban walked in front, Jiang Ling and Li Zhenwu followed.Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu who got up to leave, frowned slightly, and whispered:

"Zhenwu, where are you going?"

"Huh?? Am I not with Brother Jiang?" Li Zhenwu asked.

"??? Are you with me?" Jiang Ling looked at Li Zhenwu suspiciously, and then asked happily: "Brother Li, do you want to come with me?"

Tang Qingfeng felt dizzy looking at the confused two people.He raised his head, glanced at Jiang Ling and said:

"You, you can go out now."

Then he looked at Li Zhenwu again and said, "Chenwu is back, come with me."

"Oh, good." Li Zhenwu turned around after answering.

Jiang Ling looked at Tang Qingfeng with dissatisfaction and said, "Why am I the only one to accompany me? Old Tang, you are not loyal enough. Brother Li obviously wants to be with me."

"Really?" Tang Qingfeng looked ignorant of him, then looked at Li Zhenwu seriously and asked, "Zhenwu, who do you choose?"

Li Zhenwu looked at the serious Tang Qingfeng, and then at the aggrieved Jiang Ling. In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak, because Jiang Ling's expression looked so pitiful.

Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu, thinking he was hesitating, his expression became more serious.There was a little anger in his serious expression, but that anger was not directed at Li Zhenwu, but more like at himself.

Li Zhenwu glanced at Tang Qingfeng from the corner of his eye, and couldn't bear it.He looked at Jiang Ling and said:

"Brother Jiang, it's good to be alone, the room is more spacious."

"Brother Li, even you treated me like this." Jiang Ling looked at the two of them and said, "People's hearts are not old", and then walked out of the door with an aggrieved face.

"Brother Jiang!" Li Zhenwu wanted to stop him, but Tang Qingfeng stopped him.

"Zhenwu, ignore him." Tang Qingfeng said indifferently.

"Brother Jiang seems to care a lot. In fact, I can let Brother Jiang and Brother Tang be alone." Li Zhenwu said.

"He doesn't care, he is afraid of ghosts." Tang Qingfeng explained.

Li Zhenwu was dumbfounded after hearing Tang Qingfeng's explanation.

Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu's stunned expression, and thought it was very cute, so he couldn't help but smiled slightly.

"Zhenwu, you seemed to be hesitant just now. What's wrong? Are you embarrassed?" Tang Qingfeng asked with a smile.

"Brother Jiang...you look very pitiful." Li Zhenwu looked at Tang Qingfeng and returned slowly.

Tang Qingfeng smiled happily after hearing Li Zhenwu's answer.