Eagle Archer's Gale Sword

()Hou Qingyun stuffed a small piece of broken silver to the old vegetable seller, and asked: "Old man, who is in charge of military affairs in Xiangyang now?"

The old man got a piece of silver from Hou Qingyun, which was more than he could earn from selling vegetables for a day. He also warmed up to Hou Qingyun, and he said: "The city guard of Xiangyang is just a rotten scholar, which is of no use. Right now, Xiangfan can be kept safe." It is General Xiaomeng!"

Hou Qingyun said: "What the old man said is that Jing'e capital controls Meng Zongzheng, Mr. Meng?"

The old man said: "We don't quite understand the official names that the little official said, but you are talking about Grandpa Meng, and the little general Meng that the little old man is talking about is Grandpa Meng's youngest son."

That should be Meng Gong. This man is a famous general who is good at raiding and disturbing warfare. He made great efforts in the process of destroying gold and resisting Mongolia.

Hou Qingyun only wanted to understand the situation. He didn't want to deliberately have any contact with this famous general who destroyed gold and resisted Mongolia. After understanding the situation, he and Xia Gulan left the city gate and followed the route in his memory to the outskirts of Xiangyang. After detouring for half a day among the high mountains, he came to the bottom of the hidden mountain.

When walking through the high mountains, Hou Qingyun had already told Xia Gulan about killing snakes in this valley and practicing internal skills. Xia Gulan was also amazed at such a strange valley after hearing it.

"Hearing Qingyun's description, the valley is quite interesting. It's a good time to see it, but it won't save you from swallowing snake gallbladder~~" Xia Gulan's stomach churned at the thought of swallowing the warm snake gallbladder, and at the same time secretly admired it Hou Qingyun actually swallowed the snake gall for more than half a year in one go.

According to the people in the village at the foot of the mountain, although the mountains are steep and difficult to walk, woodcutters and hunters will occasionally come here.When the two went up the mountain, they didn't see a single person, and after another half an hour, they arrived outside the strange white mist forest that Hou Qingyun described. When Hou Qingyun saw this familiar scene, he was a little surprised and said: "How could this happen?" ?”

Although Xia Gulan felt that it was a bit strange that there were no birds and insects in the remote mountains and the surrounding fields were so quiet.But other than that, she didn't see anything unusual, she said, "What's wrong, what's wrong?"

Hou Qingyun said: "Look at this place—" He pointed to a boulder looming in the white mist. There is a certain distance, I didn't expect that half a year has passed, and the scope of this white mist is even bigger!"

"Is this strange?" Xia Gulan asked puzzledly: "The fog is formed by the condensation of water vapor. It will be larger at night and in the morning, and smaller in the morning and noon..."

Both Hou Qingyun's spiritual sense and vision are much higher than half a year ago. He faintly feels that the terrain here is fierce, and the transpiring white mist is even more gloomy and strange, and he feels even more uneasy.

With a dignified expression, he slowly shook his head and said, "It's different. I've been here for more than half a year, and the fog has always been very regular. It has been in such a large area all year round, and it hasn't increased or decreased by half. There must be some changes!"

Xia Gulan held the long ice-glazed sword in the palm of her hand, and said: "I have never seen a goblin when I grow up... Why don't you look at it from a distance, if you think it's wrong, with our body skills, even if there is a goblin, you can't see it. Can you catch up?"

Hou Qingyun saw that although her beautiful face was somewhat cautious, she was not afraid, and sighed: "The more I live, the less courageous I am. You are right, let's go deep into the valley to investigate."

The two immediately moved forward with straight swords, Xia Gulan stepped into the wet mist, immediately felt the invasion of Yin and cold, and was very surprised: "The Xuan Gong I practice is inherently Yin and cold, and this Yin and cold mist can faintly penetrate into the body, How weird!"

Only now did she realize that what Hou Qingyun said was extraordinary, that there might really be a great murderer in the valley, but Haikou had already boasted about it, and she didn't want to show weakness right now, so she secretly spread the Gang Qi to protect her limbs and bones.

Hou Qingyun is familiar with the road, and within a short while, he ran into the familiar black strange snake. The strange snake also spotted the two of them. It arched the snake's body and "hissed" out the snake letter. Its small eyes were full of viciousness.

It was the first time for Xia Gulan to see such a vicious snake, and she couldn't help exclaiming "Yeah". Seeing her startled, Hou Qingyun smiled and said, "This is the kind of poisonous snake I was talking about."

Xia Gulan's cheeks flushed slightly, and she said, "I've never seen this kind of alien, but... it's not that I'm afraid of it!"

Hou Qingyun knew her temperament, and was afraid that she would make mistakes if she underestimated the enemy, so she said: "This strange snake is not weak, let me show you."

As he spoke, he stepped forward and tapped the snake with his long sword.The strange snake was caught off guard, and it was stabbed out by him. It was furious immediately. With a bow and a flick, the snake flew up like an arrow, mixed with howling wind.

Hou Qingyun is familiar with the routines of these strange snakes, so he dodges early to avoid them.He stabbed the strange snake, and then led the furious snake to attack again and again. The strange snake did not lose its hope, and could not fly away. Shocked, "Qingyun has been wrestling with such a fierce creature for more than half a year, no wonder his reflexes are so quick!"

Hou Qingyun led the strange snake to show the attack methods one by one again, and then Shi Shiran stabbed at the seven-inch and three-inch respectively, and finally cut off the snake's head with another sword, and then "swiped" the two swords The ferocious snake's head was cut into four pieces, and then it stopped.

After finishing all this, he withdrew his sword and said, "This strange snake is too vicious, it has to be like this to be safe."

Xia Gulan nodded silently.

Hou Qingyun skillfully dug open the snake's belly, took out a piece of warm snake gall, walked up to Xia Gulan, and said with a smile: "I can have this power because of this great tonic medicine, you can try it too? "

Xia Gulan felt extremely disgusted when she saw the snake gall exuding a fishy smell. She was about to reject it when she suddenly thought that if it wasn't for this, the gap between herself and Hou Qingyun would only widen. After exploring the Snake Valley, it's not too late to improve your skills."

Hou Qingyun looked at the warm snake gall, nodded and said: "You are right." He threw the snake gall casually, and the two continued on their way.

The deeper you go into the misty mountain forest, the more bizarre the branches and leaves of the trees become, and the chill in the white mist becomes heavier. Along the way, you encounter several strange black snakes, all of which were stabbed to death.

After walking nearly half of the distance on the downhill road, Hou Qingyun reminded: "When we reach the bottom of the valley, I still think we can just wait and see from a distance, and don't run around..."

Arriving here, without Hou Qingyun's reminder, Xia Gulan knew how powerful she was. She silently practiced profound kung fu to counteract the chill that invaded her body, nodded and said: "I know."

After turning two bends, the two finally came to the bottom of the valley, where the fog was transpiring and moving up, but there was not much fog at the bottom.

Hundreds of meters away from the stone forest where ten thousand snakes were entrenched, the two of them stopped moving forward. Xia Gulan widened his wonderful eyes, looking at the densely packed black snakes in the stone forest, and the huge black snake looming in the stone forest. figure.

Just looking at her, she felt cold all over her body, and suddenly her hands felt hot, and when she turned her eyes, it was Hou Qingyun holding her cold palms.

"How about it, it's scary enough!" Hou Qingyun said in a low voice. At this moment, his state of mind has greatly improved. After seeing each other, he is no longer as shocked as before, but he still feels that it is too weird, and he still feels creepy here. , he didn't want to stop for a moment.

Xia Gulan murmured, "There really are such miraculous things in the world!" Her gaze immediately fell on the stone forest, and she suddenly said in amazement: "Qingyun, look carefully at that stone forest!"

"What's so weird?" Hou Qingyun looked at the strange stone forest, and there seemed to be nothing special about the huge stones with different shapes.

Xia Gulan said in a concentrated voice: "Look at the layout of these boulders, which coincides with the formation—" She pointed out the layout of these boulders one by one, following Xia Gulan's fingers, Hou Qingyun really saw These boulders are scattered in twos and threes, seemingly grotesque, but they seem to coincide with a certain formation.

Xia Gulan frowned slightly, and muttered in her mouth, as if she was calculating something, finally shook her head and said: "This formation is really weird, there are five elements in the formation, but it is not a gossip, let alone the meaning of the Nine Palaces , I don't understand..."

Hou Qingyun didn't quite understand Yi Li, so he interjected: "Perhaps these strange rocks are just eroded by the wind, formed naturally, and there is no formation at all?"

Xia Gulan looked dignified, and said: "Although I don't understand it, I know that this formation is a peerless formation, and the snake demon is probably the product of this fierce formation..."

She turned her head to Hou Qingyun and said: "I hope it is formed naturally. If it is really artificially erected, it will be really shocking!" , let's get out of here quickly, if we stay by this vicious situation for a long time, our sanity may be attacked..."

Hou Qingyun heard her heavy words, and immediately said: "Then let's go back quickly."

The two people did not disturb the snake demon during their investigation into the valley, and returned along the original road without any danger.At the starting point of the downhill road, Xia Gulan took a closer look at these extremely ferocious trees that were also growing, her eyes were burning and thoughtful.

Seeing her stop and stare, Hou Qingyun asked, "Lan'er, what did you discover?"

Xia Gulan felt irritated in her heart, she silently recited the mantra of purifying her heart, shook her head and said, "It's nothing, let's go."

"The stone forest and the trees are in the same general layout... and this thick wet fog is clearly the aura of boundless sunflower water produced by the gathering of the mysterious yin and earth veins. It seems to be spread to cover people's eyes and ears..."

Far away from the bottom of the valley, Hou Qingyun's uneasiness gradually dissipated, and he immediately said: "This valley bottom is a taboo place, but it's okay for us to stay above. I'll kill the snake to get the guts and increase your skills!"

Xia Gulan said: "I can do it myself." Holding the long ice glass sword, she quickly found a long worm, stabbed it to death with two swords, and took out a warm snake gall, but her face showed hesitation. se.

When she returned to the periphery of the misty forest, Hou Qingyun saw that she still hadn't swallowed it, so he said, "You can just swallow it in one gulp, but it doesn't really feel much..."

Xia Gulan hesitated for a long time, finally closed her eyes, and swallowed it in one gulp. She frowned and said, "This taste is really uncomfortable."