In the early morning, the faint mist was like a thin curtain, gently wrapping the endless palm forest.

The thin sunlight shines through the leaves and mist, shining on a path among the palm forest. Crows rattle sounds from time to time. Perhaps three or five species of birds that do not belong to the world flew by from time to time, making a shrill roar that looks like a person and is not human, making people shudder.

After a while, a two-headed monster bird with red light flew over the palm forest. It seemed to smell some tempting smell, suddenly slowed down its flight speed, hovered over a big tree for a while, and then saw a pile of dead bodies on the ground below, and flew towards the flesh and blood all over the ground.

For ghost cranes, these human corpses are undoubtedly its best feast. They are indifferent to the world and never take the initiative to hurt humans. They just quietly look for bloody battles again and again, waiting for the destined death again and again.

In recent years, death has followed Guangxi like a shadow. On this necessary road from Guilin Prefecture to Xunzhou Prefecture, bandits often appear and rob passers-by from south to north. Especially in the 186th CE, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was twilighting, this peasant regime founded by King Hong Tian was busy saving the nation, but the branches of the Tiandihui in Guangxi were still constantly uprising. The government was unable to take care of such chicken crowing and dog robbery, allowing all kinds of evil flowers to bloom on this land. The twelve fresh corpses on the ground meant that a tragic battle broke out not long ago on this snake-shaped mountain road.

Just as the ghost crane was about to put the mouth of one of the lying corpses, suddenly, a sky-blue halo emitted from all the corpses, and then gradually became dim and transparent until they disappeared.

The ghost crane looked at the bare ground in surprise, unable to believe its eyes. Its two heads looked left and right, and the strange sound of "ancient tiles" and "ancient tiles" came out from its throat, and it was disappointed.

"It's the ghost crane! Get out of here, a traitor!"

A small stone was thrown at the ghost crane, which scared the ghost crane to take a few steps, spread its wings quickly, and flew towards the sky without looking back. Even as a monster, facing strange things, the innocent bird was already scared and at a loss.

After the ghost crane flew away, a teenage girl slowly walked from behind a palm tree to the middle of the road. She blinked her agile eyes and shouted to the woods: "Uncle Lin, is it almost done? We have already learned the truth."

A strong middle-aged man followed out from another palm tree with a serious expression.

This is the girl's Uncle Lin Huinan. He only sighed to the sky and said, "I knew that Qin Yong would betray his master. Xichen, do you know? That guy woke up from hunger three years ago and actually ran to my room to steal peaches. Can such a person be a good person? Alas, I just didn't expect that he would have such a serious attack on his brother. It's a sin! Beast!"

He Xichen smiled indifferently and said, "Uncle Qin... No, Qin Yong is a bad guy, but he has something to do with stealing peaches? I just don't understand. Qin Yong said ten days ago that he wanted to go out to find treasure for his father. When his father was happy, he even gave him a gift with fine wine. He couldn't see any hostility before leaving. What kind of wind blows him like this?"

Lin Huinan pondered for a while and said, "Well, it makes sense. Check, continue to check, and see what he encountered before he killed someone?"

He Xichen was low for a moment, pointed to the road ahead and said, "There seems to be a vague purification power not far away. It should be the traces left after Qin Yong's battle... Let's go and take a look before talking about it."

The two then walked together to a relatively empty place on the mountain road. He Xichen looked at the ground and the palm trees around him and said in surprise: "Uncle Lin, there are blood on the ground and on the trunks here, and the purification power is also a little stronger. Do you think Qin Yong had a conflict with whom here?"

"Okay, then check here." Lin Huinan nodded, then concentrated his luck, and a sky blue aura suddenly filled his body, and he shouted, "Polar Phantom!"

A huge centipede spirit was summoned from Lin Huinan and crawled onto the ground. He Xi, who was beside him, shouted like a coquettish, "Ah, the big bug is coming out again! I really want to eat it!" After that, he hid behind a palm tree, letting the trunk half cover his face, and aimed at this side.

Lin Huinan smiled and said, "It's not the first time I've seen it, so what?" As he said that, he also walked around the back of the tree and stood side by side with He Xichen, leaving only the centipede alone on the ground searching for something.

Suddenly, the centipede seemed to have captured useful information and remained still.

In just a blink of an eye, with a "pop", the centipede split into dozens of sky-blue fragments of varying sizes, one by one, and the largest piece turned into a green-paned carriage, which shocked He Xichen and cheered: "This image is so amazing!"

Lin Huinan whispered: "Looking at their dress, they must be from the Fairy Sword Hall! Don't speak out, follow in a low voice, and listen to what they say."

Suddenly, the scene five days ago reappeared under the purification power of Lin Huinan's "Polar Phantom".

On the winding mountain road, a team of thirty people was guarding a carriage and slowly moving forward. In addition to the man on the horse's back wearing a gray silk robe symbolizing his identity, the other entourage were all wearing gray cloth and red pants, walking forward. The carriage was not carrying any nobles, but just a square cage covered with black cloth.

There is no doubt that in order to prevent the bandits from robbing, this team of men and horses specially escorted important things in the cage to travel.

But they were not disciplined troops. They were not afraid of the bandits of 10 or 20 people to make their decisions, so along the way, several people were talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.

First, a guard asked excitedly: "You said, let's take such a rare monster back to Master Zhu. If he enjoys it, what good things will he give us?"

Someone responded: "Look, I have to slaughter a cow to reward everyone!"

Another person replied, "Eat and eat, you will know how to eat! Don't worry, a bullwhip is bound to be free from you, you can make up for whatever you lack!"

As everyone laughed, someone said, "What I care more about is whether it is to catch this monster in spring to 'stay up' this year'? Also, do you think, will our Fairy Sword Hall have a chance to win back the position of the leader this year?"

Everyone was talking, and suddenly someone said, "I think what's more important is that Su Sanniang had returned to the Fairy Sword Hall a few days ago. With such a powerful purifying messenger to help, our strength will be greatly increased!"

"Yes, yes, even if there is still a gap between you and the Eternal Sect, at least you can still fight."

When the topic talked about Su Sanniang, everyone was in high spirits, and someone answered: "That's right, I didn't expect Su Sanniang to come back! Alas, it's a pity that we were busy in Yunnan for a while and could not greet Sanniang in person. I really want to see how earth-shaking scenes would be when the legendary Su Sanniang died in Kunlun Mountain suddenly appeared in front of the brothers! Haha, I think it's fun to think about it."

Everyone continued to joke around Su Sanniang and the topic of "Shouqing". Only a heroic guard looked a little serious and never spoke. He looked around from time to time, full of vigilance for any sound.

His vigilance was not groundless. As expected, just as the team was joking, another team in uniform dress was coming towards them. The two teams met and did not give way to each other. They had to stop and face each other on the mountain road.

The other party did not draw his sword to face each other, and it seemed that there was no hostility. It was just that the people who came were blocking the way on this narrow mountain road, which inevitably made people feel irritable.

The man riding a horse here looked solemn and asked loudly: "Who is coming? Why is he blocking our way?"

The other party led a middle-aged man in a green robe. He took a step forward and bowed, "Below is Qin Yong from the Yongsheng Sect. Brother Gu, are you okay?"

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Chapter completed!