The deep snow in Hengling stretches for thousands of miles, and the land of northern Xinjiang is imposing in such a forest, sea and snow field. Under the thick ice and snow, natural blood flows, extending quietly in all directions.
Riding up a high hill, Ye Tianling reined in his horse and turned around, looking at the vast land in Mobei beyond Hengling: "Decades ago, the north of Hengling was once the territory of the Rouran tribe."
Qing Chen slowly reined in his reins: "According to the "Records of the Four Regions", from the beginning of the founding of the Celestial Dynasty to the defeat of Rouran by Emperor Mu, the south was bounded by the northern foot of Hengling, the north was Ye Jialun Lake, the east was the Dataan Mountains, and the northwest From the great desert of Samatar, to the Dasu River in the southwest, the land in the northwest has always belonged to the Rouran Khanate.”
"Can you say that again."
Qing Chen looked at Ye Tianling, a kind of calm arrogance was hidden under his deep outline, as if the vast sky in front of him was empty, but contained everything. She repeated what she just said: "It is bounded by the northern foot of Hengling in the south, Lake Yegalun in the north, the Danshan Mountains in the east, the Samasir Desert in the northwest, and the Dasu River in the southwest. It was once a land of Rouran."
Ye Tianling stretched out his hand and pointed the whip forward, as if drawing an invisible and infinite arc across Hengling: "One day, this territory will be included in the territory of the Celestial Dynasty, Monan, Mobei, Western Regions, Tubo, Even farther."
Qing Chen looked in the direction he pointed, and said calmly: "No matter how far away there is, there is still farther, fourth brother, I have heard someone ask such a question. After death, it only takes a long whip to draw such a big Why do you want to capture so much land?"
Ye Tianling's thin lips were slightly raised, still looking at the sky high and the earth wide far away: "It is absurd to ask life by death. It is precisely because everyone will be a handful of loess and a few bones after a hundred years, that can show the meaning of life." It's different. If you give up all your actions because of the same death, then living will truly lose its meaning. Now that you have this life, why live up to it?"
There was a distant luster in Qing Chen's eyes: "I also often think that the person who asks the question may never understand the life the other person has experienced. The so-called expansion of the frontier is just the pursuit and ambition of life. When the heights of life are conquered, life will also become wonderful. This is not only conquering the land, but also conquering oneself. Different footprints of life will make the death that seems to be the same differ from each other.”
Ye Tianling led the wind to slow her down and walked forward. The sun shone on the snowy ridge, and thousands of peaks turned into gemstones and jade blades, reflecting clear ice light from time to time. "I don't care what happens after death. Now that I have thousands of miles of land in my heart, this is what I want to do. If one day I only want to see a small boat in my eyes, what is this vast land? A passer-by, is this whole world a passer-by in life? Life and death, death and life, who can figure it out?"
Qing Chen said: "Life and death are both opposites and successive, and even in a sense, even after death, human life will continue in different ways among different people and things, and death is not the end. "
Ye Tianling smiled slightly, turned his head and said, "Master's life is also inherited from me, do you mean that?"
Qing Chen said softly: "Maybe there is no complete death in this world. The old man puts his efforts and hopes on you, and there is also a part of him in your life."
Ye Tianling breathed a sigh of relief: "I know, that's also my own choice."
A light sigh escaped from Qing Chen's lips: "Actually, it's easy to say these things, but when it comes to me, I may not be able to face life and death calmly, so I can only talk about it."
But Ye Tianling smiled meaningfully and said, "How can you explain to others, and end up moaning yourself?"
Qing Chen raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows slightly: "We should go back."
"Let's go." Ye Tianling said, and took the lead in charging down the hill on his horse.
When he was almost out of the Hengling Mountains, Qing Chen subconsciously looked sideways, and Xue Zhan, who had been following behind him, went somewhere and disappeared for a long time. She turned her head and whistled, and suddenly saw in the snow not far away, the figure of Xue Zhan who was almost the same color as the ground was rushing forward, behind it was a golden eagle with a ferocious shape, rushing straight down in a pounce. He wants to catch him and kill him. There was another flying eagle hovering in the air, following closely behind.
Xue Zhan is not an easy beast either, turning back and dodging to the side made the golden eagle's swooping momentum in vain, tearing off the eagle's tail with one claw. Without waiting for Qing Chen to shout, a long-toothed arrow in Ye Tianling's hand disappeared like a star, and it directly hit the golden eagle's body.
The golden eagle was really amazing, when it swept up, it flapped its slanted wings, and unexpectedly dodged Ye Tianling's fatal arrow, and suddenly rushed into the sky.
Ye Tianling's twin arrows followed, chasing through the air, howling fiercely.
The golden eagle seemed to know how powerful bows and arrows are, so it fluttered its wings to dodge. Ye Tianling shot up the arrow with extraordinary strength, how could it be lucky again, and saw the cold light flashing, the golden eagle screamed and fell to the snow.
The other golden eagle wailed when it saw this, but instead of running for its life, it flapped its wings and swooped towards the top of the enemy. Ye Tianling's face was cold, and the golden bow rang again. Seeing that the golden eagle was about to be killed by the arrow, suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound in front of him, and a long arrow shot towards Ye Tianling's arrow with lightning, hitting Ye Tianling's arrow. In this way, Ye Tianling's arrow swept through the golden eagle's wings and flew into the air.
The golden eagle narrowly escaped death, was frightened by this and hovered high in the air, not daring to act rashly again.
In the snow ahead, someone was aiming at Ye Tianling with a murderous arrow. Ye Tianling drew the bow and set the arrow, but also confronted him coldly.
The man was tall and tall, wearing a jet-black fur robe and wearing a broad knife at his waist. In such a cold weather, half of his upper body was shirtless, revealing his strong chest muscles. There were bloodstains hidden on his robe. It seemed that he had just gone through a fierce fight. , with a unique personality, obviously not from the Central Plains, those scorching falcon-like eyes were dauntingly sharp.
While the sword was on the verge of breaking out, this man exuded a rigid and wild aura, and his domineering gestures seemed to ignore anything, which seemed comparable to Ye Tianling's stern coldness.
Looking back, there were several wolf heads hanging behind him in horror, the blood on the neck had not yet solidified, and the faces were ferocious. Judging from the torn marks on his clothes and the few bloodstains on his skin, these wolves should have turned into prey when they attacked him.
Xue Zhan had already jumped on Qing Chen's horse at this time, a gust of wind blew through, blowing the clothes of several people fluttering, the man whistled, and the golden eagle rushed down from the air and landed on his shoulder, "Why do you want to hurt my golden eagle?"
Ye Tianling and Qing Chen didn't think that this golden eagle was raised by someone before, and they were a little surprised by the Chinese he spoke. Qing Chen said: "We didn't know that this eagle had an owner. Forgive me."
The golden eagle fell on the ground earlier, and the long arrow pierced through its chest. It was already dying. Ye Tianling slowly retracted the arrow: "Sorry."
The man snorted coldly: "Is it enough to say sorry?"
With Ye Tianling's arrogance, it's not easy to be willing to apologize to someone, a cold light appeared in his eyes, and he glanced at the person: "What do you want?"
Unafraid of his gaze, the man took out his knife and pointed to a cliff on one side: "It's not easy for me to get this golden eagle. Only by capturing young eagles and domesticating them can I obey others' orders. Take the young eagle from the eagle's nest before the knife, and let it go!"
Where he was pointing was an extremely high and steep ice-bladed peak, and there was a faintly visible eagle's nest half-hanging on the cliff. Ye Tianling raised his eyes and smiled coldly: "I will accompany you."
Qing Chen saw that the cliff was precipitous, and it was extremely slippery due to the ice and snow, so it must be extremely difficult to climb. Since this person knows the location of the Eagle's Nest so accurately, he must have come here for it. His martial arts seem to be inferior to Ye Tianling. It must be very dangerous to fight like this when climbing a cliff, but she smiled at Ye Tianling: "I'll wait for you here."
The man put the broad knife on his shoulder like that, stepped on the deep snow and strode forward: "If you two have something to say, hurry up, you may not have a chance later."
Qing Chen raised her phoenix eyes slightly, and said with a slight smile, "No need, but you might as well leave your name, just in case."
The man was originally extremely conceited, but was taken aback by Qing Chen's soft and tenacious answer, and couldn't help looking her up and down. The corners of Ye Tianling's lips were slightly pursed, and his gaze passed in front of that person lightly, a flash of light suddenly appeared in the eyes of both of them, their bodies moved, and they rushed towards the cliff at the same time.
Qing Chen took two steps forward slowly with a snow battle in his arms, and looked up at the two figures climbing higher and higher on the side of the ice peak as if they were walking on flat ground. The sword clashed halfway, causing the ice and snow to fall, before reaching the foot of the mountain. crushed. She followed Ye Tianling intently, and the familiar figure was reflected in her eyes, but the sword light was indifferent. She stood quietly in the snow, life and death were out of the question, she just felt that she liked to watch Ye Tianling use the sword so much, and she would never get tired of watching Ye Tianling with ease.
At the halfway up the cliff, the cold light and shadow were criss-crossed by the wind and snow, and the two of them, like cranes, soared up to the sky and landed on a rock not one step away from Diao's Nest.
As soon as Ye Tianling stood firm, Gui Li's sword had already slanted to meet the opponent's saber, both of them were forced to take half a step back by the soft force from each other's weapons, and they were amazed at the same time. The sand and soil under the rocks have been loosening for a long time, and they fell in pieces under their pressure. Ye Tianling rushed to the inner side of the mountain wall, and the sword's posture changed suddenly, soft and firm, and the surroundings were like ice. Face the opponent.
The man's back was in the air, he didn't dare to fight him head-on, he was immediately at a disadvantage, but the thick-backed broadsword circled around under his fierce offensive, but he didn't show any embarrassment at all.
However, on the several-step-square rock, the sound of clashes was endless. The originally hard ice and snow seemed unable to withstand such force, flying obliquely and splashing horizontally, shocking people's eyes. The thick-backed saber tiger and tiger are as windy as a dragon, and Guili's sword moves across the sky, flowing water, light and shadow. That person tried to seize the side of the cliff several times, but Ye Tianling calmly forced them back. Seeing that this was not the way to win, he suddenly swept across with his sword, challenging To the carved nest next to it.
How could Ye Tianling allow him to succeed first, and the Guili sword went like a rainbow, turning into a white blade and attacking the target first. Under the shock of the two forces, Diao Nest suddenly broke away from the cliff it was attached to and fell straight down.
The two of them exchanged swords and swooped under the eagle's nest to catch them together, but they made a reckless move with their empty hands.
As soon as they joined together, Ye Tianling melted away the inner strength in the opponent's palm, and his arm felt faintly numb. The man's body trembled slightly, and he moved back with a wrong step, and the force of Ye Tianling's palm also made his blood surge. Because the rock under his feet was on the edge, the forest had already been weathered after many years of wind and rain. At this time, it was difficult to withstand the sudden strong force, and it collapsed with a click.
The man's body was empty, but he didn't panic in the face of danger, his toes were a little above the gravel, and he pulled it up bravely, and turned around with a kite and hit Ye Tianling in the air.
Ye Tianling shouted: "Okay!" His right shoulder sank, and he struck out with a palm of his left hand.
Although the man hit him on the shoulder, he was shaken out of the rock by the force of his palm, and fell straight down the mountain with nowhere to stay.
Ye Tianling was slightly startled, not wanting to see him die, so he reached out to save him.
Unexpectedly, the force of the fall was not light, and the snow on the rocks turned into ice, which made it difficult to balance. Although Ye Tianling held the man's arm, he fell to the edge of the cliff under his sudden sway.
But after all, this pull slightly hindered the falling momentum, the two of them turned around at the same time in mid-air, the Guili sword and the thick back knife were nailed into the cliff, and they were hanging on the side of the mountain.
At this time, the eagle's nest fell from the top, and the two of them rushed to the eagle's nest at the same time. With a one-handed move in mid-air, Ye Tianling took the first step to grab the eagle's nest, stretched out his ape's arms lightly, and took a young eagle that unfortunately got out of the nest by the way.
The man laughed loudly and said, "Good skill!"
Ye Tianling threw the Eagle's Nest to him, and said lightly: "I will not accompany you anymore." When the Guili sword was pulled out, the person fell lightly, and when he landed on the rock that he had already spotted, the person was just like him, slow Slowly slide down the cliff.
The rocks were icy and slippery everywhere, and it took nearly an hour for the two of them to step on the ice and snow before they hit the ground. Qing Chen came forward, Ye Tianling brushed off his clothes casually, returned Gui Li Jian back to its sheath, and smiled at her.
Qing Chen also looked at him with a smile, although his eyes were hazy and misty, there was a sense of worry flowing deep in his eyes. The calmness just now is actually a little scary at this moment, such a high cliff, one careless will be smashed to pieces.
The man clasped his fists at the two of them: "Brother Tai has extraordinary skills, I admire you very much, how many offenses you made before, also frightened Madam Zun."
Ye Tianling nodded to him, his eyes fell on his thick back knife, thoughtful. Qing Chen took out a bottle of wound medicine: "This medicine is somewhat effective. I don't know if it can save your golden eagle. It's rare to see such a knife technique. Today is an eye-opener."
The man did not refuse, and took the wound medicine: "Madam's courage is something I have never seen in my life."
At this time Ye Tianling suddenly asked: "Who is your sword mage from?"
The man was just looking at his Guili sword, and he laughed and said, "My set of saber techniques are passed down from my ancestors. It is really worthwhile to meet people like Yuxian and his wife today, but brother still has something to do. I can't stay for long, I will see you again when I have a chance, and I will invite the two of you to have a drink together."
The golden eagle screamed loudly in mid-air, and left after the man and horse. After Ye Tianling got on the horse and looked back, Qing Chen asked, "Fourth brother, what's the matter?"
Ye Tianling said: "It's very strange that this man's saber technique and Guili sword interact with each other. If it wasn't for the fact that there is still a military situation ahead, I would have to compete with him again."
Qing Chen said: "We met by chance today, maybe someday we will see each other again."
Ye Tianling nodded, and the two of them ran away to Dingzhou without further delay.