Zhou Bian replied: "About twenty miles east from here, there is a small pier, surrounded by heavy fog, and you can't see your fingers. After passing that place, you will be the base camp of the Mo Shadow Pavilion. But in the thick fog, there is an old man on a boat with great martial arts skills and bottomlessness. He seems to be a master of the Mo Shadow Pavilion. I took people several times and tried to cross the river quietly, and the old man could detect it every time."
"That's the boatman." Li Xin'an said, "the most mysterious among the twelve black envoys in the Demon Shadow Pavilion."
"The boatman is the gatekeeper connecting the Demon Shadow Pavilion and the outside world. Only he and Xuanyuan Youpeng know where the real address of the Demon Shadow Pavilion is. Apart from the two of them, even the disciples in the Demon Shadow Pavilion do not know their true location."
"That's it." Zhou Bian said, "It seems that you have really received amazing news in Yizhou. Now the black envoy of the Demon Shadow Pavilion has two deaths and one rebelled. Since most of the remaining ones are separated from each other, now only Xuanyuan Youpeng and this terrifying boatman are difficult opponents."
Xiao Xuangan said: "If you want to enter the Demon Shadow Pavilion, you must first pass the boatman. It is possible to kill him, but if you ask him to send us into the Demon Shadow Pavilion, is that possible?"
"Nothing."
Li Xin'an smiled and said, "But the problem is, we don't have to enter the Demon Shadow Pavilion."
"What does it mean?" Murong Bai asked with a frown.
"Our goal is to eliminate Xuanyuan Youpeng, so we can find a way to let Xuanyuan Youpeng appear on his own initiative. As for the boatman, although it is difficult to deal with, it is actually not important."
Li Xin'an snapped his fingers, Zhang Quan understood and opened a wooden box he had been carrying with him.
Inside the box were two human heads, one man and one woman, both covered with lime, otherwise, in the humid and hot environment of Jiannan Jungle, I was afraid that I would rot in such a day.
Zhou Bian came over and said curiously: "Is this the soul-lost guy and magician you mentioned?"
"Yes." Li Xin'an said, "We can't bring the corpse, so only the head can be used. I don't believe these two heads, Xuanyuan Youpeng can remain indifferent!"
"The Lost Soul..." Zhou Bian looked at the Lost Soul Soul Soul Soul Soul...
Li Xin'an saw Zhou Bian's strangeness and asked curiously: "What's wrong? Do you know him?"
"No...I always feel that what you said just now is a bit strange."
Li Xinan was confused: "What's strange?"
"The Soul Lost Guard...The Star-Sighting Fate Technique, by the way, that's it! The Star-Sighting Fate Technique!"
Zhou Bian's expression was a little excited: "I've heard of this thing!"
"This is the martial arts of Longhu Mountain." Li Xin'an said, "Although it is unpopular, there should be many people who know it."
"No, I heard it from others." Zhou Bian shook his head and said, "It's a Taoist priest."
"Taoist priest?"
Li Xin'an Murong Bai looked at each other, and both of them felt that the Taoist priest mentioned by Zhou Bian might be a bit unsimple.
"Are you a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain?"
Zhou Bian shook his head and said, "I don't know. I have never understood people like Taoist monks."
Li Xin calmed down and asked, "When did you hear about it? Where?"
"Just a few days after I went south with you," Zhou Bian said, "In a tea shop, we stopped to repair it. At that time, there were not many people on the road. Apart from us, there was only a ragged Taoist priest there."
"That Taoist priest is not simple." Zhou Bian's expression was serious. "After he sat down, he came over with a smile, bowed to me, and said he wanted to ask me about something."
"I don't care. I said I was a foreigner and I was not familiar with this place. But the Taoist priest said that what he was looking for was a foreigner. He saw that I came down from the north and asked me if I had ever seen a strange middle-aged man, who was treacherous and like a madman."
"I said no, the Taoist priest talked to himself, saying that the man violated the taboo and practiced their Taoist sect's star-to-life approach, which would bring great backlash to himself and the people around him, so please think about it carefully. At that time, I was in a hurry and didn't pay much attention to him and deal with it at will.
After a few words, I left."
"Now think about it, that Taoist priest may know this soul-lost guest."
Li Xin'an frowned and said, "The Soul Lost Guy is a disciple of Longhu Mountain. Could it be that the real person from Longhu Mountain went down the mountain to find someone? Zhou Bian, how old is that Taoist priest and what is his appearance?"
"I'm very young and my voice is very tender, not like the face of an old man who made up his mind." Zhou Bian said, "I look like I'm about the same age as you."
"It's similar to me...this is wrong. Since I'm here to find the Soul Lost Guy, at least I should know that he is the Black Envoy of the Magic Shadow Pavilion now, and the Taoist priest should be above the Soul Lost Guy, that's the first-rate. Is there a first-rate master as old as me on Baimu, Longhu Mountain?"
"The first-grade is not the cabbage on the street, so there are not so many." Murong Bai said, "There are only three people of the same generation as you and me who have the second-grade strength on Longhu Mountain, and they are not even at the second-grade high."
"Then who is this Taoist priest?" Li Xin'an frowned and puzzled.
Xiao Xuangan said: "The Taoist Sect in the World is a family, and it may not be a person on Longhu Mountain. Don't forget Wudang Mountain."
"I also have this suspicion." Murong Bai nodded and said, "In recent years, Wudang Mountain has not become famous, but the more low-key people are, the more terrifying they are. Moreover, all Wudang Taoists have chivalrous hearts. Since there is a disciple on Longhu Mountain who has practiced the technique of attracting the star to attract the star to the destiny, Wudang Mountain will not ignore it."
"The easiest way to distinguish the disciples of Wudang Mountain and Longhu Mountain is to look at their clothes." Ye Qinglan said, "It's very simple. When I was a child, my father often invited their two families to do rituals. The Taoist priests on Longhu Mountain were all brocade and jade robes, extremely gorgeous. People in Wudang Mountain were dressed in blue-gray clothes, with patches, and a small lun scarf on their heads, which looked shabby. Moreover, most of the Taoist priests on Longhu Mountain were either rich or noble at home, so their conversation and education were extraordinary, and they were more or less arrogant and noble in their words and deeds, which seemed to make people like it. On the contrary, the Taoist priests on Wudang Mountain were all civilians, and they were bold and free and easy in their lives, without taking care of the details."
"I see that Taoist priest was wearing ragged clothes, and he should be from Wudang Mountain. If he had to be from Longhu Mountain, you can try it. They all want to go down the mountain and sit in the eight-carriage sedan chair."
Li Xin'an said, "Zhou Bian, after you leave, do you know where the Taoist priest went?"
"He said he was going north, and he should go to Yizhou." Zhou Bian said, "It's a pity that you probably missed it."
"There's no way." Li Xin'an shrugged his shoulders and sighed helplessly, "Since you missed it, you've missed it. It's impossible for us to come from Yizhou to go back again. If we are destined, the world will be so big that we can see it sooner or later. If we don't have the destiny, even if you go back to look for it now, you may never see it for the rest of your life."
"Let's ignore this mysterious Taoist priest for the time being. The first priority now is to deal with the Demon Shadow Pavilion in front of you."
Li Xin'an asked, "Zhou Bian, have you figured out the terrain nearby?"
Zhou Bian nodded: "As long as I don't cross that river, I will understand the rest of the terrain."
"That's good. You take Zhang Quan and set up these two crossbows in the right place first."
When the disciples of the Blood Clothing Hall went up the mountain, they all carried some parts on their bodies. When combined, they were two powerful tools for siegeing cities and villages.
When Xue Haiya insisted on doing something for them, Li Xin'an had a sudden idea and remembered that the Yizhou garrison army had some old-style equipment that had just been replaced, so he asked Xue Haiya to get it and re-disassembled and assembled by a skilled craftsman. Although it was one size smaller, it was still powerful.
"Since there is such a thing, there should be no need for me to appear." Zhou Bian said with a smile.
"How is that possible?" Li Xin'an held Zhou Bian's shoulder. "The main function of these two big guys is deterrence. In this kind of dense forest, you play much more role than us."
"If everything goes well and Xuanyuan Youpeng shows up, we will find a way to lure him here. The crossbow is not him who wants to kill, but other black envoys who may accompany him. Xuanyuan Youpeng is a master of the first-class Return Realm. Among the few people present, only you can kill him!"
"Then I'm under a lot of pressure." Zhou Bian touched the bow and arrow on his back and said, "I want to kill Xuanyuan Youpeng at this level."
It is not easy to be a master. I need to make sure that there is no external force to interfere with me, and I can only shoot one arrow. After one arrow, if Xuanyuan Youpeng does not die, I will have no choice."
"Don't worry." Murong Bai said, "We will try our best to consume him before you take action."
After a day off, Zhou Bian took people to assume the crossbow, while Li Xin'an and Murong Bai and others went to the pier.
As expected, the fog was filled with thick fog, and it could almost be said that I could not see my five fingers. After just standing by the river for a while, my whole body was already wet.
"White Mutou, when do you think that boatman will come?"
Murong Bai is not far from him, but Li Xin'an can hardly see Murong Bai's face clearly.
"I don't know, but according to Mrs. Xue, as long as there are people, the boatman will definitely appear."
Sure enough, shortly after Li Xin'an and the others arrived here, a small boat slowly floated on the river.
At the bow of the boat, the old man was wearing a straw straw hat and shaking his oars in his hands. He stopped steadily in front of Li Xin'an and others in the turbulent river water.
But through the thick fog, no one could see the ship, and no one could see the boatman clearly.
Li Xinan and the others only felt that someone was coming. In this environment, they couldn't help but feel worried.
"You are not the one I want to send you." The boatman's voice was old and deep, and it was heard into Li Xin'an's ears, making him deafening.
"Go away now."
"Old man, I don't understand what you are saying." Li Xin'an smiled, "We are just ordinary people. If you have urgent matters, you are a shipkeeper, so you probably won't stop doing business."
The boatman obviously didn't expect Li Xin'an to give him such a trick, and he didn't think about how to answer him for a while.
"We have silver here. Is one or two taels enough? We can buy dozens of chickens and ducks."
The boatman said lightly: "If you don't want to die, get out quickly."
Li Xin'an curled his smile and said coldly: "Okay, I won't make a fuss with you. Boatman, I'll give you a gift, you can take it back to Xuanyuan Youpeng, tell him that his old friends are visiting and ask him to come out to meet. Otherwise, we will enter the Demon Shadow Pavilion and completely eradicate the Demon Sect!"
He waved his hand, and Xiao Xuangan threw the heads of the soul-losing guest and the magician towards the thick fog in front of him. There was no sound of falling water, and it was obviously already in the hands of the boatman.
"What a vicious boy."
Li Xinan smiled faintly: "Compared with the Demon Shadow Pavilion, I am a little witch, and I will say goodbye. At this time tomorrow, we will still be waiting here!"
Watching Li Xin'an and others leave, the boatman behind the thick fog sighed heavily.
"Li Xin'an...Is this the person you chose..." This chapter has been completed!