Since coming to Jiaolong Bay, the Seven Princes have taken his two henchmen, Kemba and Bamu, who have been trying to find traces of the "Dragon Power", and for a few days, they have searched all over Jiaolong Bay, but they have found nothing, and they decided to go up the mountain to have a look.

Both Kemba and Bamu are the generals of the Seventh Prince's noble concubine mother's family. Their family can only be regarded as average among the various forces in the entire Scaly Jiao Imperial City. When the Seven Princes were very young, these two followed the Seven Princes every day as the Seven Princes' personal guards. Today, these two people are already cultivators of the second layer of the Yuan Soul Realm, and they can be regarded as figures with heads and faces in the Great Imperial City. But they are still slaves in front of their masters.

A winding stone staircase is built around the mountain, which is quite spacious, and the three of them climb the steps.

Half a day later, the three of them came to the halfway up the mountain, climbed high and looked far away, and the sea surface of the East China Sea appeared even more vast. It seems that no matter how high you stand, you can't see the edge of the East China Sea, just a line between the sea and the sky.

In front of me, the mountain suddenly became steep, and the wide stone steps became a narrow plank path, which could only accommodate one person walking alone.

The bald man Kemba looked at the plank road opposite and said, "Master, after passing through this section of the plank road, it should be an altar above, and there is no way up the altar." ”

The thin Bamu said: "Maybe there is a dragon power hidden on that altar. ”

The Seven Princes with a serious face said: "People with the bloodline of the Scaly Jiao Imperial Family are born with the horns of Jiao beasts. It stands to reason that if there is a dragon power, as long as I get close, the horns on my head will react. But when I got here, there was still no reaction at all. ”

The bald man slapped his head and smiled, as if he wanted to make his master happy, and then said, "Maybe the power of the dragon is sealed somewhere on the altar." Otherwise, after so many years, how come I have never heard of the existence of dragon power in this Jiaolong Bay. ”

Ba Mu on the side took over the conversation and said, "Maybe you really let Brother Kemba guess right." According to the guard, Li Xiong, the altar on this mountain peak is only worshiped by the priests sent by the Grand Palace with a small number of clerics when the scale Jiao clan worships the heavenly day every year. On weekdays, casual entry is not allowed. It can be said that this altar is the most mysterious place on the entire island, and it may also be the place where the treasure is hidden. ”

Listening to the words of the two of them, the Seventh Prince finally barely showed a smile on his face, and then ordered: "Kamba, lead the way ahead." ”

The bald man replied loudly, "Okay." After speaking, he came to the spirit and walked all the way up the plank road.

Although the plank road is narrow, it is also strong, and the bottom is nailed in the mountain with neat copper wood, and there are iron chains and skids on it. It is like a purple dragon coiled on the mountain, and people will not shake it at all when they step on it.

Seeing that Kemba was unharmed, the Seventh Prince waved his hand and said, "Let's go up together." ”

Bamu smiled and said, "Let's let the little one lead the way for the master in front." ”

The Seventh Prince followed behind the two of them with his hands in his hands, walking with ease, obviously his injured leg had already recovered intact, or his leg had not been seriously injured in the first place.

After a while, the three of them climbed over the plank road, and the terrain in front of them suddenly became flat and wide.

An ancient altar stands halfway up the mountainside.

The altar is made of bluestone, and there are many stone statues of scaly beasts around it, each of which is more than two zhang high, and they are either swinging their tails, or probes, or opening their teeth, or dancing claws..... which are majestic.

The surface of these stone statues is mottled by wind and rain, and it is clear that no one takes care of them on weekdays.

In the middle of the altar is a rectangular stone platform, the stone platform is a zhang Xu Lai high, the four sides of the stone platform are carved with the totem of the scale beast, but the stone platform is empty, at first glance it always seems a little mismatched, as if there should be something on the stone platform, but someone took it away.

The Seven Princes took Kemba and Bamu to look around the altar carefully. From time to time, he slapped his hands and twisted the various parts of the stone statues of the scaly beasts, trying to find the hidden mechanism.

After a while, the three of them found nothing.

The Seventh Prince's face became more and more ugly, and Kemba and Bamu followed behind him and did not dare to make a sound.

The Seven Princes looked left and right.

"Hmph!" a cold snort, a fierce color flashed in his eyes, and then a punch was smashed without warning.

A gray fist flew out, like an angry scaly beast rushing straight to the opposite side.

"Boom!"

The nearest stone statue of the Scaly Beast was knocked down by his punch, and the large stone statue rolled down several times and hit the opposite rock wall before stopping. The rock wall was knocked out, and one of the horns of the stone statue fell to the ground.

In addition to kicking up a large cloud of dust, the so-called "dragon power" did not appear at all.

The Seventh Prince, who had found nothing, said viciously: "This prince has demolished the entire mountain, drained the water of the entire inlet, and also wants to find the hidden power of the dragon." ”

After saying that, the Seventh Prince, who was unwilling to look at it, walked up to the stone statue of the scaly beast that he had just overturned in a few steps, examined it carefully, and picked up the fallen stone statue horn.

A moment later, he threw it casually, and the stone beast's horn fell on the opposite rock mass, and it shattered with a thud.

Suddenly, the face of the Seventh Prince froze, as if he had thought of something.

He held out a finger and flicked it on the sharp corner of his golden mask.

"Ding—"

A crisp echo seemed to disperse like a dragon's groan.

After a moment, the corners of the Seventh Prince's mouth showed a hint of joy.

"There it is!"

Before he could finish speaking, the Seventh Prince clicked his toes on the ground and sprang away, like a vulture that had found its prey, and pounced on the square altar over there.

"Smack!" He landed steadily on the altar.

Then, he looked down.

There was a curved groove on the altar, smooth and shiny inside, which was clearly different from the others.

Seeing this, the Seventh Prince gasped and thought to himself, "What should have been placed here before?" And this thing clearly left an extremely weak trace of dragon power. Judging from the traces, it looks like he was taken away not long ago, could it be Li Xiong? It can't be? When he left, I carefully checked it with the power of my Jiao beast horn, and there was not the slightest dragon power overflowing from his entire fleet. Could it be that there are others here besides me who covet the power of this dragon? ”

Thinking of this, the Seventh Prince turned around and ordered loudly: "Go back immediately and order, block the entire Jiaolong Bay, no one is allowed to enter or leave, carefully search every corner, there should be someone else here, and take the things on the altar before us." ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Kemba and Bamu, who had been holding back for a long time and didn't dare to speak, replied in unison.

......

Above the clouds, on the top of the mountain, it is steep and unusual.

But on the top of the mountain, there was a large circle of broken stones abruptly. In the rubble lay a strange bird that had just come out of its shell, squeaking at the sky with its mouth open. The strange bird was fledgling, but behind it grew a lion-like tail, and the dense fluff on the tip of the tail was very conspicuous, and wagged from time to time.

At that moment, a shadow descended, followed by an eerie gust of wind.

There was no fear in the chicks of the rubble, but even more excitement.

The next moment, a huge liontail eagle with its wings spread and feet of five feet descended.

The lion-tailed fish eagle, this rare spirit animal, only survives in the East China Sea, and it is an extremely rare beast. It is said that this beast can easily sway for 90,000 miles, flying freely in the vast seas, hunting all kinds of fish and other weak sea beasts for food.

The big bird returns home, and the little one struggles to open his mouth, leaving even a wisp of saliva at the corner of his mouth.

The big bird spits out the half-digested fish and puts it in the little one's mouth, and the little one gobbles it down, and then tilts his head and continues to ask for it.

After a few times, the big bird could no longer vomit food, but it seemed that it could not satisfy the little one's big appetite.

The big bird did not leave immediately, but turned around and looked at the edge of the stone pile, where there stood a round egg with a rough appearance like a stone.

The big bird stretched out his head and rubbed his hooked beak lightly against the stone egg, as if expecting the arrival of the other little baby.

Then the big bird used his beak to push the egg towards the center of the stone.

The chick that hatched first, apparently disliked its egg brother, stretched out its sharp claws and flapped its hairless wings to prevent the egg brother from being with it.

Seeing this, the big bird stretched out its hook-like beak and pecked it fiercely on the head, and the little guy was dizzy for a while before he stopped.

After a while, the big bird spread its wings, and a strong wind, and its body was already ten feet away, and after circling around the top of the mountain, it went in the direction of the sea, probably fishing again. Its child is a natural appetite.

When the big bird flew away, the chick circled around the stone egg, and its squeaky was full of all kinds of irritation. It clearly remembered that a few days ago, it had pushed the egg brother out of the nest, could it be that the big bird had found it again. If you really let your egg brother hatch, wouldn't you compete with yourself for the food brought back by the big bird?

Killing brothers is just the instinct of the "lion-tailed fish eagle" chicks, and their big appetite determines that a big bird cannot feed two chicks at the same time. The eggs that hatch later can only be spare tires, and most of them will be pushed out of the nest by the chicks that hatch first. One of the costs of survival for every "lion-tailed eagle" is to kill their egg brothers first, and perhaps the first thing they learn at birth is to be cruel and kill.

The chick had just eaten a lot of fish, and seemed to have some strength, and it fluttered its hairless wings, and kicked it, pushing its stone egg brother to the edge of the stone mill little by little.

Eventually, it ran a few steps, flew up and stepped on top of the stone egg.

With a "click", the kick it kicked out seemed to break.

"Squeak, squeak. A barrage of screams.

The stone egg dangled back and forth on the edge of the stone mill like a tumbler.

"Smack. ”

A critical pebble slipped.

The stone egg that lost its balance finally left the stone mill, and the bones were all the way down the mountain, encountering various raised mountain stones, which were bounced high, but were not broken.

Soon, the stone egg was gone.

On the stone pier of the mountain peak, only the screams of the broken leg chicks killing pigs remained.

"Squeak Squeak———"