After clearing away the layers of fog, the boat finally docked at the shore. The old man with a coir raincoat jumped out of the boat and walked along the mountain road into the mountains.
After an unknown amount of time, the old man came to a big stone. As the old man put his hand on the stone and slowly exerted force, the big stone just retreated, revealing the hidden tunnel underneath.
The old man slowly walked down the tunnel. As he moved, the oil lamps on the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel began to light up one by one, just like neatly arranged servants waiting for their master's return.
At the end of the tunnel, there is a huge hollow. The mountain here has been hollowed out. The base camp of the Demonic Shadow Pavilion is here.
At this moment, dozens of Demonic Shadow Pavilion disciples were going back and forth, busy with their own affairs. When they saw the old man punting the boat back, they all stepped aside respectfully.
The old man kept going down the stairs. At this time, he was already more than ten feet above the ground, but it still seemed to be bottomless below.
In the deepest part of Demonic Shadow Pavilion is the retreat place of Xuanyuan Youpeng, the master of Demonic Shadow Pavilion.
"I'm back." The old man went down to the bottom and said in a deep voice.
In the darkness, several white icy flames slowly emerged, followed by the face of a sinister vulture. It was Geng Yusen, the black-clad envoy of the Shadow Pavilion who had been lurking next to Prime Minister Yang Guozhong in Chang'an.
"Who's coming?"
"Li Xin'an."
"He? Come with me."
Geng Yusen led the punter to a stone gate and whispered: "Pavilion Master, the punter is back."
Behind the stone gate, Xuanyuan Youpeng's voice sounded faintly: "I understand, you go down first."
"yes."
Geng Yusen left respectfully. The punting man placed the heads of the lost soul and the magician in front of the stone door and said:
"Li Xin'an asked me to bring you a gift."
"What?" Xuanyuan Youpeng asked.
"The Lost Soul and the Juggler's Head."
The punting man's voice was very dull, as if he was mentioning something worthless.
Xuanyuan Youpeng was silent for a long time and said, "Where is the poisonous snake?"
"I didn't pick him up, so he probably hasn't come back yet."
"I sent the Viper, the Lost Soul Guest and the Magician to work with Madam Poison to capture Xue Haiya and take control of the Tianjian Tower. Now the Lost Soul Guest and the Magician are dead, the Viper is nowhere to be seen, but there has been no news from Yizhou. The final
Once, the lost souls and magicians surrounded Xue Haiya in the street but failed and left injured."
"Could it be that... Mrs. Poison rebelled?"
"Poleman, what do you think?"
"I don't know that poisonous lady, so anything is possible."
Xuanyuan Youpeng smiled mockingly to himself: "Hey, I know that these remnants of the Demon Shadow Pavilion's Chengfeng era are not trustworthy at all. Except for a few people like Geng Yusen who do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, they can be used for their own purposes."
, they should be executed together!”
"Forget it...you are not an old man from the Demonic Shadow Pavilion, so what's the use of telling you this."
Xuanyuan Youpeng let out a long sigh: "There are venomous snakes around me. If the venomous snake dies, the snake will not die, so his safety does not need to be considered for the time being, but he is still a useless person and cannot be counted on. Now, he is dead.
The lost soul and the magician, plus the dead baby who died in southern Xinjiang a long time ago, the scholar whose identity was exposed and was locked up by Qilin Academy, and the rebellious Madam Poison, the only person who can be used in the Demonic Shadow Pavilion is you, Jian Xiao
, Lao Gu, Qing Gui, the actor and the paper horse. The sword owl has a special status and has not been contacted all year round. The green ghost regards the world as his home, the dragon has never seen its head and tail, and the actor is far away in the south of the Yangtze River and cannot be called. Old bones... a handful
Old bones, you never know when they will fall apart."
"Now that a disaster is approaching, only you and the paper horse can use it."
The punting man said calmly: "As long as they don't invade here, I won't care. This is our agreement."
"Yes, yes." Xuanyuan Youpeng said helplessly, "Why did I fall in love with an old guy like you in the first place? I'm in trouble, the punting man, sent an order to the paper horse, telling him to return to the Demon Shadow Pavilion within five days. In the end,
It’s best to take his boatload of paper men and horses with you.”
"Five days may not be enough."
"Why?"
"Li Xin'an asked me to bring you a message." The punting man said, "Tomorrow, I will ask you to go out to see him, otherwise, I will lead people into the Demon Shadow Pavilion."
"laugh."
Xuanyuan Youpeng looked disdainfully and sneered: "You want to force me to show up? No child will fall for this kind of trick. They killed the lost soul and the magician, so they must also know that I am seriously injured and have not recovered. I
I'm not that stupid, I won't go out until I recover."
"If they have the courage to attack by force, let them attack by force." Xuanyuan Youpeng said calmly, "Just in time, I can also let your old bones move. Murong Bai, Li Xin'an... the two best swordsmen in the world.
Young man, are you your opponent?"
The punter man didn't answer for a long time. It wasn't until Xuanyuan Youpeng opened the stone door and took in the heads of the lost soul and the magician that he was surprised to find that the punter man had left at some point.
"This old guy..."
Xuanyuan Youpeng closed the stone door again and murmured to himself: "Lost soul, I didn't expect you to be dead, which is good, it just eliminates a big worry for me. Otherwise, if your star-guiding fortune-telling technique backfires, if I
With you, there is only one way to die."
After the heavy sigh, in the silent darkness, I remembered the faint sound of gnawing.
…
The next day, Li Xin'an and others came to wait in front of the pier. They waited left and right, but in the end Xuanyuan Youpeng was not seen.
"Let me just say, how could someone like Xuanyuan Youpeng be fooled by such a childish provocation method?" Ye Qinglan said, "Our threats are too useless. An old punting man can block us here, and why?
How to break into the Demonic Shadow Pavilion."
Murong Bai frowned and said, "How about we work together and kill the punting man first?"
"The punting man is the same as the sword owl. They are both bottomless masters. He may be a first-class grand master. Killing him is seeking death." Li Xin'an said, "Taking ten thousand steps back, even if you kill the punting man,
How can we find the Demonic Shadow Pavilion?"
"Then what should we do? We can't just wait here."
Li Xin'an frowned and said, "What do you think of this punting man?"
"What's going on?" Murong Bai didn't quite understand.
"As long as we don't cross the Yangtze River, this old man won't take the initiative to attack us. In short, even if we kill people and set fire here, he won't care about us, right?"
"Probably...right. But what are you going to do, and who are you going to kill?"
Li Xin'an shook his head: "It's not murder."
"It's about setting fire!"
As soon as Li Xin'an said this, Murong Bai, Xiao Xuangan, Ye Qinglan and Zhou Bian all took a breath and looked shocked.
"set fire?"
Xiao Xuangan's face was extremely ugly: "You are crazy!"
"What's wrong with this?" Li Xin'an said, "Anyway, the mountains are surrounded by miasma and mist, so only the people from the Demon Shadow Pavilion are there. There are no hunters, no woodcutter, and no common people."
"If a mountain like this burns, it will burn. Moreover, Jiannan Road is mountainous and rainy. It rains lightly every three days and rains heavily every five days. Once a fire breaks out, the rain will fall faster and it will not cause too much damage."
.”
After thinking for a short time, Zhou Bian nodded and said: "I think it is feasible. Not only can we force the people from the Demon Shadow Pavilion out, but if we are lucky, we can also burn a large number of people to death. This is much faster than killing them one by one."
.”
Xiao Xuangan was still hesitant. He grew up outside the Great Wall, lived in the open air, and was deeply influenced by shamanic teachings. Although he did not believe in religion, he was still more or less influenced by it, and he was in awe of nature. When it comes to setting fire to the mountains,
He still couldn't accept it.
Ye Qinglan looked indifferent, he even found it a bit amusing.
Murong Bai hesitated and said: "Would it be too great to set fire to the mountain and kill evil people?"
"Are you still afraid of retribution?"
Li Xin'an smiled faintly: "I never believe in killing evil people. Killing one is a thief, killing a hundred is a hero. Killing hundreds of thousands is a hero among heroes. What's more, there are people in the Demon Shadow Pavilion, and they are not fools.
, you don’t know how to run out when there is a fire? What we have to do is to force the people from the Demonic Shadow Pavilion to show up, that’s all.”
"That's fine." Murong Bai sighed, "You are the hall master, you can make your own decisions."
Several people returned to the camp, and Li Xin'an immediately ordered: "Zhang Quan, lead the people to collect pine oil nearby. The remaining people quickly collect feathers and branches to make arrows. It doesn't matter if there are no arrows."
, we have a sharp archer here who can use it even without arrows."
…
On the second day, nearly two hundred arrows without arrowheads had been made at Xueyitang, and the tips were soaked in pine oil.
Standing by the river, Zhou Bian held his breath and shot an arrow into the thick fog in front of him. The arrow quickly rubbed against the air and actually ignited the pine oil.
Just because the thick fog blocked his sight, Zhou Bian could not control the distance to the other side of the river very well, so his first arrow fell into the river after being shot.
After several repeated trials, Zhou Bian was already confident. He kept bending his bow and setting arrows, and the flaming arrows fell into the grass on the other side, igniting a raging fire.
Not long after, two hundred arrows were shot into the air, and the flames on the other side of the river were raging. The intense high temperature evaporated the water vapor on the river surface, making the fog even denser.
But the blood-bright red color could not be covered up by the thick fog.
"Let's go, I'm choking and can't stand it anymore." Li Xin'an covered her mouth and nose and said, "The guys from the Demon Shadow Pavilion are probably running outside in a hurry for their lives."
Murong Bai stared at the river tightly. Under the light of the fire, he could see a small boat floating on the river in the distance.
The bargeman is there. When did he appear? Did he just arrive, or has he always been there?
The strangest thing is that the fire is so fierce that it can burn down the entire mountain in the blink of an eye, but why is he indifferent?
Li Xin'an also discovered the existence of the punting man: "Hey, look at this, this punting man really won't take action as long as we don't cross the river."
"The punting man..." Murong Bai frowned, "Who are you?"
…
In the Demonic Shadow Pavilion, thick smoke was raging, and the more than a hundred Demonic Shadow Pavilion disciples who stayed at the base camp were all in a mess, and almost no one had the strength to fight anymore.
"What are you doing!" Si Geng Yusen, the only black-clothed envoy left behind, roared angrily, "Where did this fire come from? Get out and put out the fire!"
"Ancestor, we can't be saved, the whole mountain is burned down!" The disciples shouted in panic, "Let's run, if we don't run, we will be burned alive here."
Geng Yusen frowned and went out to check, but before he was halfway gone, he was choked by thick smoke and burst into tears, and he came back.
"Damn it, it's so good, why did it suddenly get so angry?" Geng Yusen was surprised, "I'll go ask the Pavilion Master for instructions."
"No need."
Xuanyuan Youpeng's voice slowly sounded from a distance: "I'm coming."
"Pavilion Master, are you out of seclusion?" Geng Yusen said in surprise, "Have your injuries healed?"
"Of course not." Xuanyuan Youpeng frowned, "It's just that if you don't get out of seclusion, you will really be burned to death here." This chapter has been completed!