In the middle of the night, Zhang Sui woke up suddenly, sat up and looked out the window.
The moon outside the window was very bright, and the sounds of various birds and animals could be heard from around the military camp.
Zhang Sui put on his clothes, got up and got out of bed, and came to the window.
The window of Zhang Sui's room faced the east, which was exactly the direction of the remote village.
Although the moon is very bright tonight, looking towards the direction of the village in the east, it seems as if a black shadow has enveloped the place, and even the bright moonlight cannot penetrate.
Strangely, in the village shrouded in darkness, there were bursts of lightning from time to time, as if someone in the sky was beating something in the village with an electric whip.
Although there was lightning, there was no thunder.
Zhang Sui opened the door and saw a figure standing at the door. The figure was holding a sharp sword and looking at the secluded place in the east. It was the guardian of Tianxin Gate.
The light emitted by the lightning in the distance reflected on Gao Shou's face from time to time, making his complexion mottled.
Gao Shou heard the sound and looked over to him, nodded without saying anything.
Zhang Sui walked to him and looked toward the east together.
At this time, a tall figure quietly came to Zhang Sui's side. It was Fang Xiong, who was covered in clothes and carrying an iron rod.
The three of them all looked at the lightning that appeared from time to time in the east. They said nothing and just stood and stared quietly.
After a long time, the lightning in that remote place never appeared again.
Zhang Sui exhaled a breath of turbid air in his chest and said, "Go back and rest. We will find out tomorrow."
After saying that, they returned to the room first. Fang Xiong and Gao Shou looked at each other and both returned to their residences.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, at dawn, Zhang Sui got up and went outside to prepare for practicing breathing exercises.
Unexpectedly, Gao Shou had already gotten up and was sitting on a square stone in the camp, facing the east, practicing breathing.
Zhang Sui vaguely saw that every time Gao Shou inhaled, some purple gas that was invisible to the naked eye was sucked into Gao Shou's body from the void.
And every time Gao Shou exhales, the air he exhales is like a long arrow, five feet away from the body, gathering together and not scattering until it is scattered by the next arrow of air exhaled.
The way Gao Shou practiced martial arts, combined with his handsome face, made no one believe him even if he said he was not cultivating immortality.
Zhang Sui looked aside for a moment and thought to himself: "This is so damn like cultivating an immortal! What exactly am I practicing?"
Suddenly, practicing breathing exercises on my own became a bit boring.
Suddenly there was a whistling sound from the other side. It turned out that Fang Xiong was practicing his stick skills there.
I saw the iron rod weighing over a hundred kilograms in Fang Xiong's hand, as light as nothing. Fang Xiong danced it so far away that he felt very energetic.
Some of the soldiers watching the excitement were dumbfounded until Fang Xiong threw the iron rod more than fifty steps away and plunged it directly into a piece of green steel stone.
Only then did the soldiers react and cheer loudly.
Gao Shou, who was practicing the vomiting method on the side, was disrupted by Fang Xiong's astonishing blow and coughed violently.
Zhang Sui frowned as he watched. Fang Xiong was addicted to throwing weapons. He had to talk about him carefully, lest he actually encountered an enemy and threw his weapons on a whim. Then he would have to face the enemy with bare hands.
Already.
Several soldiers who were watching the excitement ran over and tried to pull out the iron rod embedded in the stone, but after a lot of effort, they could not shake the iron rod even half.
Fang Xiong chuckled and walked forward, holding the stick in one hand and pulling it out easily. The soldiers on the side all shouted "monster".
When Zhang Sui saw this, he suddenly felt that the breathing exercise method he practiced still had great potential.
Regardless of anything else, I just started practicing on the spot.
After practicing several times, Zhang Sui felt hot all over and sweating profusely. He took a towel and ran to the washing area of the military camp, and took a refreshing cold shower with a group of soldiers who had just finished exercising and were taking a shower with their shirts off.
Then, with his face turning blue, he cursed at the cold and ran back to his residence to put on his clothes.
After everything was packed up, Cheng Di was already waiting outside with a team of people.
Zhang Sui ate something hastily, and then thought of the pillar that was activated yesterday, and asked Fang Xiong to run over and take a look at it. The lines on the pillar were still emitting a faint light, and the clear spiritual energy that Zhang Sui was worried about had dissipated.
That didn't happen.
Zhang Sui felt relieved, went over to greet Cheng Di, and set off to the next military camp as originally planned.
It only took more than an hour for Zhang Sui to activate the pillars in the remaining two military camps.
When the Qinglong Pillar in the military camp to the east of the village was activated, Zhang Sui felt a shock in his head, and a scene that shocked him appeared in his sight.
I saw a beam of light rising from the top of the Qinglong Pillar, shooting towards the village. At the same time, there were also beams of light from the other three directions heading towards the village.
The four light beams reached the top of the village and converged together. The four virtual images flashed away, and then the light beams spread out, covering the entire village like a big net.
Zhang Sui looked at the scene in the distance and was a little stunned. Can the traces of pure spiritual energy in each pillar have such a great effect? Or is there some mystery in it that he doesn't understand yet?
At this moment, Zhang Sui suddenly felt a trace of power that he had never felt before appeared from the void. Before Zhang Sui could react, it was absorbed by his spiritual platform. By the time Zhang Sui reacted, it had disappeared without a trace.
Zhang Sui quickly closed his eyes and examined his body, and even used medical techniques on himself, but the result was that everything was normal. Zhang Sui was a little confused, but he didn't take it too seriously.
Gao Shou beside him was also looking in the direction of the village, with a shocked expression on his face.
As the village was enveloped by the light scattered by the four light pillars, the darkness that had been slowly expanding to the surroundings shrank back toward the center of the village at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it had touched some nemesis.
The entire village is no longer the dark and gloomy scene we saw before. It has become much more normal. However, there is still a gloomy and dark area in the center of the village.
Cheng Di on the side saw Zhang Sui holding the pillar with his hand for a while, and then looking in the direction of the village. He was a little confused at first.
But soon the changes in the village were noticed by him, and the soldiers on the watchtower even let out waves of exclamations.
Cheng Di looked shocked and suddenly turned his head to look at Zhang Sui. He asked in a low voice: "The changes in the village were caused by Mr. Zhang?"
Zhang Sui nodded, stared at the village for a while, and asked Cheng Di: "Did you see anything strange before the village changed?"
Cheng Di and the guards around him shook their heads, looking confused.
Cheng Di said: "I only saw that the village gradually became brighter, and the original darkness slowly disappeared, leaving only a small area in the village."
Zhang Sui thought to himself: "It seems that not everyone can see those strange powers with the naked eye. This can be regarded as a small benefit for me as a time traveler."
Zhang Sui said to Cheng Di: "Commander Chen, please prepare. Let's set off to that village as soon as possible. While the situation seems to have changed now, go there early to see if the problem can be solved, so as not to cause changes later."
Cheng Di nodded repeatedly and immediately ordered his men to get ready. He also did not forget to leave two personal guards behind to cooperate with the Wuwei Army to guard the Qinglong Pillar.
Gao Shou, who was standing next to Zhang Sui, asked in a low voice: "The changes that were able to occur just now are Mr. Zhang's ability, right?"
Zhang Sui smiled and said nothing.
Gao Shou sighed: "No wonder my uncle said you were an expert. I didn't believe it before, but now I have to believe it!"
Seeing him like this, Zhang Sui smiled and said: "I can't say that I am an expert. I just happened to learn these things from some ancient books. When I enter the village to explore the secluded land later, I will ask the expert brother to take care of me. After all,
I'm just a helpless scholar!"
Gao Shou heard Zhang Sui always saying the words "unable to restrain a chicken" on his lips, turned his head and glanced at him, and said in his heart: "Yes, you are a scholar who can only cure diseases!"
Soon Cheng Di and his Tsing Yi Guards were well prepared. Originally, there were about twenty Tsing Yi Guards who planned to enter the Youli Land together. Now they need to guard the pillars of each military camp, and the number has been reduced to a dozen.
However, this did not have much impact on Zhang Sui and the others.
The group of people got on their horses and galloped towards the village in a remote place.
The village was actually not very far from the military camp in a straight line, but there was a saying that said, "Looking up the mountain will kill your horse."
When Zhang Sui and his party finally arrived at the entrance of the village, it was more than half an hour later.
After arriving at the entrance of the village, the Tsing Yi Guards quickly adjusted their formation and surrounded Zhang Sui and Cheng Di in the middle.
The group cautiously entered the village.
Zhang Sui felt as if he had passed through a slightly obstructive film. After entering the village, the surrounding light suddenly dropped a lot.
Zhang Sui asked Cheng Di on the side: "Did you look like this when you entered the village?"
Cheng Di nodded and said: "Yes, there is also a layer of obstruction, which is much thicker than today's. I just feel it a little bit today."
A group of people slowly walked towards the center of the village, where the ancestral hall of the entire village was located and where the strange big tree first appeared.
Zhang Sui looked at the surrounding houses. They had not been inhabited for a long time and had not been taken care of. They had become very dilapidated.
The whole village was very quiet, not even the sound of birds, animals and insects.
Suddenly, Zhang Sui saw a figure that seemed to flash over a house in the distance, but when he looked carefully, there was no trace.
So he quickly told Cheng Di what he saw.
Cheng Di immediately asked his men to be more vigilant. Gao Shou also pointed to a few houses in the distance and said: "I can feel that there are people in those houses spying on us, but there is no malice in their eyes."
Cheng Di said: "It seems that the situation reported by the soldiers in those military camps is correct. There are still many people here."
Everyone did not stop, riding on their horses, and continued walking towards the center of the village. Since there was no harm, they ignored the prying eyes from the surrounding houses.
When there was still a certain distance from the center of the village, a tall figure walked out of a house beside the road. The man's whole body was wrapped, with only a pair of eyes exposed. He stood in the middle of the road, blocking everyone's eyes.
way out.
Everyone immediately reined in their horses and stopped, looking at the man a little nervously.
The man looked at Cheng Di in the crowd and said in a low and hoarse voice: "Commander Cheng, you should not enter here again!"
Everyone held their swords in hand and looked at him nervously.
Cheng Di looked puzzled, stared at him and looked him up and down, and said: "Who are you? How do you know me?"
The man was silent for a long time, stretched out a pair of tightly wrapped hands, and slowly pulled away the mask that covered his entire face. A terrifying face appeared in front of everyone.