The Path Toward Heaven

Knock knock, that is, knock twice.

With two soft beeps, the illusion released by the Qingtian Jian was released, and a person appeared on the ground.

That person was ashamed, his expression was still cold and proud, he was Tong Yan.

Tong Yan looked at Jing Jiu with some surprise, but she didn't show it, she didn't even raise her eyebrows.

Jing Jiu first noticed that his eyebrows were thicker than before, and asked, What's going on?

Tong Yan raised her hand to touch it, and said, Maybe it has been raised in the ground for a long time.

Jing Jiu said, It's not planting grass.

The grass swayed twice, Qing'er flapped her transparent wings and flew out, and quickly circled Jing Jiu three times, looking very excited.

She asked in surprise: Why are you here? How did you find us?

Jing Jiu said, I didn't come to look for you, I came to Lengshan to deal with some matters, and I happened to meet.

Hearing this sentence, Qing'er was not disappointed, she folded her small hands in front of her body, her eyes were as bright as stars, and said happily: This is fate!

Jing Jiu thought to himself, can I still understand it this way?

Qing'er looked at Tong Yan and said: You have always been unwilling to trust others, and you are unwilling to ask for help, but now he came to the door by himself, so you can't let him go again.

Jing Jiu said, Have you been hiding here all this time?

The Zhongzhou faction is the leader of the righteous way, and they have a deep foundation in the imperial court, and their influence is extremely powerful. If they use the power of the faction to hunt down a traitor, everyone will definitely die if they want to come. As a result, after such a long time, Tong Yan is still alive, and even before today, no one knew where he was hiding.

This is even more unimaginable than the Qingshan sect's failure to find Liu Shisui.

The important figures of the Green Mountain Sect and the disciples of Liangwang Peak all knew that Liu Shisui was a fake traitor, but Tong Yan was the real one.

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After Tong Yan left Guocheng Temple with the Qingtian Jian on her back, she didn't know where she should go.

No matter how big Chaotian Continent is, there is no room for him.

Even places like Penglai Shendao cannot completely escape the influence of the Zhongzhou faction.

Do I really want to take the risk to go to a distant foreign continent, or go to hell like the Taiping Daoist back then?

At this moment, Qing'er pointed out a clear path for him, that is Leng Shan.

Practitioners of the righteous way seldom set foot here, and the monsters of evil cultivators hide between the wilderness and the mountains. No matter how powerful the Zhongzhou faction is, it is impossible to check every place.

More importantly, the place she wants Tong Yan to go is not on the surface of Lengshan, so she doesn't have to worry about being betrayed by those casual cultivators.

That place is in the deepest part of the Cold Mountain, beside a river of hot magma.

In that magma river lived a terrifying king of fire carp.

The king is Qing'er's friend.

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Only then did Jing Jiu realize that they had been hiding at the bottom of Juhun Valley these days, and asked Qing'er, You are actually friends with that golden carp.

Hearing the word golden, Qing'er confirmed that he had seen Xiao Huo, and asked in surprise: You actually know it?

Jing Jiu thought to himself, no wonder that fire carp lived in the magma river and never had any contact with the outside world, yet it spoke so slipperily.

Huo Li and Qing'er's old friend reunited, they must have talked a lot, and naturally some of Qing'er's tone was tainted? But that familiar feeling did not come from Qing'er.

Jing Jiu thought of a certain possibility, and was a little surprised, and said to Qing'er: You lured the soul of Huo Li into it?

Qing'er was even more surprised, and said: You can guess this too? What do you not know?

Jing Jiu confirmed the answer.

It turned out that the familiar smell when Huo Li spoke came from an old friend in Qingtianjian.

That was the tone of Zhang Taiyue's son.

Of course, before he was demoted to the Southern Kingdom or even before he returned to the capital of the Chu Kingdom, that guy's tone of voice was not so strong.

But later he became Minister of Taichang Temple, and he often came into the palace to talk with Jing Jiu, regardless of whether Jing Jiule liked it or not, he would just stand in the palace and keep talking.

As time passed, Mr. Zhang got older and his tone became more and more intense. That taste... was really a rare bad memory of Jing Jiu in Chu State.

What are you thinking? Qing'er asked with wide eyes.

Jing Jiu came to his senses and asked, The fire carp is a prepared beast of the Zhongzhou sect, why did it help you?

Qing'er flapped her wings, turned around in front of his eyes, and said: It takes a long time to wake up and contact Yunmeng Mountain. Most of the time, the Zhongzhou disciples who talked to it last time have died of old age in its deep sleep. This makes it feel very sad. So for the next few thousand years, I didn't contact Yunmeng Mountain very much, so I just talked with me, so we are friends, of course he wants to help me.

Hiding at the bottom of Lengshan Mountain, and covered by the Zhongzhou faction's own prepared beasts, it's no wonder that even the two Daoist Tanbai couldn't find Tong Yan's whereabouts.

It's just a pity that Lengshan is the territory of the evil sect after all, and the Zhongzhou sect couldn't find it, but the Xuanyin sect found it.

What's more troublesome is that ordinary practitioners can't go deep into the fiery underground, posing a threat to Tong Yan, but the young Xuanyin leader has a Lieyang banner in his hand.

He wounded the fire carp king with the blazing sun banner, aroused the opponent's ferocity, caused the underground fire to spread, and successfully forced Tong Yan out of the ground.

Jing Jiu saw more than 300 Xuanyin believers searching around in the wilderness, just to find him, kill him, and then take the Qingtianjian.

These are his own inferences, and there may be some deviations from the facts in details, but that's about it.

It's not easy to go to such a deep place.

Jing Jiu said to Tong Yan.

You must know that the place where the Fire Carp King lives is close to the abyss, and it is not easy to get there.

Compared with chess skills, he appreciates Tong Yan's ability more.

Tong Yan laughed at herself, and said, I'm not as good as you in playing chess, but you're not as good as me in digging holes.

When he heard Qing'er's cries for help in the cave left by Luo Huainan, he began to dig the hole, and it took him several years of non-stop digging to reach the depths of the earth veins.

No matter in terms of the continuous digging time or the amount of earthwork, he should be at the forefront in the history of the practice world.

Jing Jiu shook his head and said, You are not as good as me in chess, and you are even worse in digging holes.

Tong Yan smiled proudly, unwilling to argue with him.

Jing Jiu said, Since you are good at digging holes, why don't you leave the ground?

Tong Yan said: The Xuanyin Sect also has arrangements underground, so it's hard to leave.

Jing Jiu recalled the scene he saw in Gushan, and deduced the formation of Xuanyin Sect again, thinking that the underground passages extending in all directions should be uncontrollable.

He said, I'm going to explore the way.

Then it's time to witness the hole-digging ability.

Jing Jiu turned his body upside down.

Buzz.

The cold wind swayed gently in the wild forest, and a delicate hole appeared on the ground.

Tong Yan and Qing'er looked at each other, feeling very helpless.

Jing Jiu's temperament was quite different from the ordinary Qingshan swordsman, but he was still so impatient, and they didn't finish their words.

Not long after, a gust of hot air overflowed from the hole.

Jing Jiu fell to the ground, his white clothes slightly scorched, his black hair slightly withered, he was in an unprecedented embarrassment.

Tong Yan looked at him and smiled without saying a word.

Jing Jiu said expressionlessly, It's not that I can't dig holes, it's that the Lieyang Banner is too powerful.

Not long after he dived underground, he encountered extremely dense fire veins.

Normally, those fire veins would have no effect on him at all. Who knew that those fire veins and Lieyang Banners were already connected as one, and the natural fire was mixed with the fire of Yanggang, which was extremely sinister. He was a little careless, he was hit by the wind of the sun, if it wasn't for the Nether Immortal Sword being too fast, he might be really injured.

Fortunately, he used the cosmic front to protect his face, and his eyes were not smoked, otherwise he might burst into tears, which would be really embarrassing.

Tong Yan was not afraid but also didn't want to listen to Qingshan's catchphrase, so she didn't make fun of him, and agreed with him: The Lieyang Banner is really powerful, and it can at least rank in the top ten in the practice world in terms of lethality alone. It's just that the secret method of controlling the Lieyang Banner has long been lost, so it can only be used as the formation foundation. Where did the young leader learn it?

Jing Jiu naturally knew the reason.

The reason why Lieyang Banner's secret method of controlling envoys was lost was because Patriarch Xuanyin was forced into the ground by him and his senior brother.

Now that Patriarch Xuanyin sees the light of day again, that secret method can naturally reappear.

There is indeed a brother's shadow behind this matter.

Seeing his pensive look, Tong Yan suddenly said: The man himself is also very scary, he has become so powerful in twenty-three years, didn't you expect that at the beginning?

Another twenty-three years.

That year Chaoge City held a Meihui, Jing Jiu came home, Duke Lu dropped a precious porcelain bowl for the first time. Tian Jinren lived in the old plum garden, the chess stall outside the plum garden was swept away by Tong Yan, the city was full of chess masters, Jing Jiu dropped a chess piece, and that was the first real confrontation between the two of them.

Zhao Layue was assassinated by Bulaolin's assassin, and Shi Fengchen, who was in contact with him, committed suicide. Wang Xiaoming left crying, and Yin San turned into a big bird to follow. The Queen of the Snow Country was pregnant, and the young geniuses who participated in the Taoist war suffered heavy casualties. Jing Jiu and Bai Zao were trapped in the snowfield, which indirectly caused Luo Huainan's death.

Looking back now, I realize that so many things happened at the same time that year.

Jing Jiu was silent for a while, then asked, What kind of person is he?

That person is suspicious by nature, and he is violent and easy to kill. He has killed many subordinates loyal to Su Ziye. Even now, as long as he is suspicious, he will still kill him. In order to refine Lieyang Banner, he led Xuanyin Sect masters to destroy fourteen small evil sects in Lengshan. town.

Having said that, Tong Yan glanced at Jing Jiu again.

Jing Jiu said, If you looked at me again, I would think that you were by my side when I was talking to La Yue.

Tong Yan said, What did you say?

Jing Jiu said calmly: At that time she insisted that she should kill this person, but I thought it was too troublesome, so I didn't do it.

Tong Yan didn't say anything more.

Qing'er sighed and said, Now is the real trouble.

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(I wrote some gossip today and put it in the WeChat official account. I wish you all a happy new year in advance.)