34 Visions
The night was already deep.
A thick black mist shrouded the four fields. Tonight was originally the moon and stars, but unfortunately, as soon as the clear light of the stars and moon fell into the mist, it immediately disappeared like dust scattered in the turbid water.
If it weren't for Xu Xiaofei and the others who had cultivated the Dao, their eyesight far surpassed that of mortals, they would definitely get lost in this mountain forest.
They were flying in the direction of the White Tiger Village.
Suddenly, an electric light that tore through the sky flashed on the top of the mountains.
After another moment, the loud bang was heard.
Looking back, all three of them looked shocked.
I don't know when, the sky was already covered with thick clouds, and more than a dozen thunderbolts as thick as giant pillars hung down from the high sky and staggered into the mountains. In the thick clouds of thunder and lightning, a slender silhouette loomed - it looked like a wandering dragon, even if it was so far away, the small flashes of scales around the dragon still reflected their eyes like twinkling stars.
The culprit Dire, who had been hiding underground and spewing black mist, was finally forced out, revealing a huge body that spanned several mountains, and countless tentacles fluttered around it.
"Isn't that supposed to be...... Canglong?" Rong Han was stunned for a long time before he smiled bitterly, "Brother Xu, this friend of yours can actually attract the dragon soul, it seems that we don't need to interfere at all, and we don't need to do much trouble." β
"Dragon Soul, what is that?" Xu Xiaofei asked.
"Haven't you heard of it?" Rong Han shook his head, "Brother Xu, it seems that you still don't know that it's not just anyone who can summon a dragon soul and create such a huge momentum. He looked at the sky from afar and said slowly, "It is said that in the far south of the country, there is a bottomless abyss, and the Lord of the Dragon, the Nine Shadows, is entrenched here. The Dragon Lord has a habit of collecting strange tricks and tricks from all over the world, and if you show him one or two unprecedented stunts that will amaze him, he will agree and connect a wisp of your breath with him. But when it is useful to Him, a single thought can summon His dragon soul β‘β‘. Of course, all of those who can do this are amazing and talented, and what I remembered for a while was that they were all old-timers who had retired for a long time. I can't think of who your good friend is. β
"Brother Xu," Wei Xuanfeng also exclaimed, "your friend is really amazing, amazing! The next time you see him, you must ask him for a few more tricks." β
Xu Xiaofei did not answer. All his thoughts were condensed on the dragon cruising high in the sky.
A strange sense of familiarity came to him.
Where did he seem to have seen this scene?
The dragon soul is summoned......
This trick, I ...... Looks like it will!
There was no need to think hard, Xu Xiaofei's lips moved, and he suddenly whispered a spell. Even he didn't understand the meaning of the incantation, but he blurted it out, and it was so smooth. The incantation seemed to have been engraved on the tip of his heart for a long time.
But the next moment, the chanting stopped.
The spiritual power overflowing in the dantian was wiped out by the mysterious incantation in an instant, and the limbs and meridians around the body were all stinging, as if the body had been penetrated by a thousand needles.
Xu Xiao came back to his senses violently and broke out in a cold sweat.
He almost went mad! With his current lack of spiritual power, it was still too far away to forcibly use this spell.
He didn't dare try again. Quickly and quietly breathe in to recover.
Fortunately, Rong Han and the others were fascinated by this rare sight for a while, and they didn't notice his abnormality.
At the time of pranayama, Xu Xiaofei suddenly felt dizzy, and a layer of illusion appeared in front of his eyes.
As far as the eye can see, there is an endless, microwave rippling water.
I'm afraid it's already a very deep bottom, and it's pitch black when I look up, and there is no light, but there is a fluorescent glow, which comes up from below.
A large string of pearl-like snow-white water foam floated up, and not far away, a large group of round, translucent jellyfish, glowing with a faint light, slowly floated past him. There was a little jellyfish closest to him, and he reached out and grabbed it, as if he were picking up a flower among the flowers, looked at it, and put it back.
He continued to dive underwater.
Moments later, I saw huge rocks jutting out of the towering coral forest, and the massive silhouette that perched on top. It was a pale blue dragon.
The dragon was so large that all you could see at a glance was its head with antlers, two moon-like pupils, and a small half-cut body, far from enough to see its full picture. There are also larger parts, hidden in deeper, darker waters.
Canglong spoke, and the dragon's groan was long and clear. He could understand what the dragon was saying.
"My friend," Canglong said, "you have come to visit me rarely. What's the matter with this time, don't you have a new trick to enjoy with me?"
"Can't you old dragon care about something else? I'm here today to say goodbye to you, and to bring you something like this by the way. I know, you've been coveting it for a long time!"
He threw an object. It was an old mussel shell that almost turned into a rock, and after being thrown out, it had grown a lot, more than a person high, and the mussel mouth was half open, revealing a turquoise orb sandwiched in it.
"Oh, you're willing to cut your love?" didn't see any movement from Canglong, and a vortex suddenly appeared out of thin air in the calm deep water, taking the mussel shell into it, and in an instant, the treasure disappeared.
Eagerly taking the things away, Canglong asked, "What did you just say, resign to me......?" Alas, I said how could you suddenly give up, it turned out that you were giving up the inheritance. Why can't you think about it, the days of scattered immortals are really so difficult? Why don't I take you to Tushitian to listen to Zen for decades again? Listen to it more, and you won't be obsessed. β
"Okay, okay, what kind of Zen to listen to, although the Maitreya Buddha Lord said the sky, as soon as I heard it, one head became two big," he smiled, "You old dragon, you better cultivate your own Buddha! There is nothing difficult about the days of scattered immortals, in the past thousand years, I have been very free, up to the top of the sky, down to the Yellow Spring, where I have not been." I'm not looking for death, and I don't want to think about it, I'm leaving, but I've been planning to do this for a long time, and you don't know it. Now, I've finally completed that technique, and I'm finally able to make it, and I'm so happy!"
Canglong was silent for a long time, and in the end, he only responded with a sigh.
The illusion that emerged came to an abrupt end.
Xu Xiaofei was stunned.
This is a memory that was drawn back by the spell summoned by the dragon soul. β¦β¦ Or is it a dream that is too realistic?
He was bewildered. He had no clue about his own background, and no matter how hard he tried to recall it, he couldn't recall a single star. If this memory is true, it may lead to many valuable clues.
As he wandered, the battle in the distance was nearing its end.
The Dire, wielding thousands of tentacles, was finally defeated by the fierce attack of the dragon.
Its massive body swelled again, and suddenly exploded into a cloud of gray smoke.
The explosion took place silently, without an earth-shattering loud sound, but the cloud of smoke and dust poured down in all directions at a terrifying speed, and in a flash it enveloped a very large area.
As far as the eye can see, all the smoke and dust, the trees and grass and the blades are all withered. The birds and beasts also died suddenly.
There must be poison in the smoke!
Fortunately, the white tiger's body shone slightly, and the brilliance came, and the evil retreated.
β¦β¦ Brother Lu?
Xu Xiaofei almost blurted out this title.
At this moment, the white tiger, who was quietly squatting beside him, raised his wings and plunged into the gray smoke in front of him.
And suddenly, a clear light burst openβlike the brightest moonlight, like the clearest starlight, spreading inexorably. The highly toxic smoke and dust disappeared in the brilliance one by one. It didn't take long for the mountains to regain clarity.
And the white tiger is gone.
"Isn't that the spirit pet you subdued?" Wei Xuanfeng asked in surprise.
Xu Xiaofei shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I didn't notice it for a while, and let it run away." β
But the bottom of my heart sank. Brother Lu, is he already more auspicious?
Back in Baihu Village, when he thought of what he had done tonight, Xu Xiaofei felt a headache. Fortunately, the village chief also seemed to be aware of it and wanted to talk to him privately. Xu Xiaofei explained what had happened, and the old village chief pondered for a moment and sighed, but he gave him a bow and thanked him.
Now that the Dire is dead, the mission of the White Tiger Zhai people is over. From now on, there will be no more warriors who are kept in the dark to be sacrificed by the clansmen, but with the protection of the white tiger, they may also be lost.
Walking out of the house, Rong Han and Wei Xuanfeng were guarding outside with tense expressions, ready to go in to save people at any time, and they were relieved to see Xu Xiaofei come out safe and sound.
The old village chief still wanted to leave them in the village for a day of rest. Xu Xiaofei wanted to excuse himself, but Rong Han and the others glanced at each other, and then looked at the injuries on Xu Xiaofei's body, all of which should be inherited.
At their strong request, Xu Xiaofei lay back on the bed where he stayed at the house.
But...... How could he sleep?
Lu Zhifeng's ending, as well as memories related to Canglong...... It took turns in his mind.
He didn't know how long he thought about it, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a white light on the window lattice.
The white tiger crossed the window lightly and silently, landed at the head of his bed, and turned into a young man with white eyebrows and white hair and a beautiful face. On his forehead is a pair of hooked horns.
"Who are you?" Xu Xiaofei asked as he sat up.
"I am the mountain god of this mountain. The young man with the horns said.
He radiated a glimmer of light all around him, and he was holy and untouched. It is the light that belongs to the gods.
"What about Lu Zhifeng, is he still there?" Xu Xiaofei asked the second question, but it was a friend he cared about.
"He didn't want to be the god of the mountains anymore, so I let him be reincarnated. β
"The mountain god is obviously you, why do you want to find him as a mortal?Why do you have to torture him like this?" Even in the face of the immortal god, Xu Xiaofei was not afraid at all.
"The mountain god is me, but as a native of Baihuzhai, he has already made a contract with me. The boy said calmly, "I just want him to fulfill his promise." β
He looked at Xu Xiaofei with a faint anger in his eyes: "More than three hundred years ago, a Dire invaded my territory, and I suppressed it underground, but it was also greatly damaged, and the Dharma Body was on the verge of collapse. At that time, there happened to be a group of displaced people who trekked here, which is today's White Tiger people. There was a plague in their tribe, and they were on the verge of extinction. The young patriarch set up three sacrifices and prayed to the gods for help, and it was I who came down to save them, gave them shelter, and made a pact that I would make the long-lasting thousand leaves grow and expel the evil beasts from their homes. And what the White Tiger Clan wants to do is to sacrifice human animals every fifty years, so that I can maintain the Dharma Body. At that time, the young patriarch, my only friend of the human race, sacrificed to me without fear. His descendants became more and more greedy, and they only knew how to take and refused to keep their promises. β
Xu Xiaofei was silent, and only said after a while: "It's not right to break your promise...... But you're not a Terran, so how can you understand how cruel this contract is to the Terrans?"
The mountain god said coldly: "I am not interested in the love-hate entanglement of the human race, and I don't want to know. Once the Dire is dead, the contract is over. But though you have slain the Dire, you have left behind a great mess, and every grass and tree, beast and bird in the mountains are my children. Now that the land is barren and all living beings are dead, I must repair it with the rest of my divine power. Tell the White Tiger people that from now on, there will be no more mountain gods in this mountain, the thousand leaf grass will be extinct, and the beasts will re-enter their homeland, and this place will never be their paradise again, let them do their own thing. β
From now on, there will be no mountain gods in this mountain......
Xu Xiaofei was taken aback again when he heard this.
"There must be a way to think of it, you ...... Do you really want to sacrifice yourself?"
His attitude was sincere, which made the mountain god's gaze at him soften a little: "I have long been at the end of the crossbow, and I have been able to survive until now by relying on human and animal sacrifices for three hundred years. I'm living this way only to suppress the Dire. Now that the Dire is gone, I'm free. The mountain god is originally the spirit of the mountains and rivers, and after thousands of years, the mountains will naturally condense new gods that moisten all things. β
It's just that the newborn god must not be the same person as him.
Xu Xiaofei also knew it in his heart, but he had nothing to say after all.
The tone and expression of the mountain god were extremely firm. As a god, I didn't intend to discuss anything with a mortal.
After all the words that had to be said were finished, the white-haired god with two horns on his forehead suddenly turned into a firefly-like point of light around his body, and slowly dispersed.
Before it completely dissipated, a crystal stone flew out of the point of light and landed in front of Xu Xiaofei.
"This is what Lu Zhifeng begged me to bring to you before he was reincarnated. He asked me to tell you that I can't thank you for my great kindness, but I can only express my gratitude with this purple lazuli. β
The voice was gone, and so was the mountain god.
Xu Xiaofei picked up the stone lying on the floor.
It's a lot heavier than it seems. It has not been polished, and the surface is still wrapped in a layer of honey-colored spar, and if you look closely, you can vaguely see a deep and quiet luster. Purple Lazuli ...... Maybe it's still the finest purple lazuli, which should be able to smelt a good flying sword.
Xu Xiaofei was not thinking about this purple lazuli stone, he was thinking about the mountain god who resolutely died for the tens of millions of creatures in this mountain who were not enlightened and chaotic, and Lu Zhifeng, who was deeply affectionate and rebelled against fate.
He glanced next door again, Wei Rong and the others were still asleep, perhaps sleeping too deeply. Come to think of it, the mountain god did a little trick on them when he visited. Lu Zhifeng has been reincarnated, and for him, it may be liberation, but the cause and effect of this incident ...... Still can't let Rong Han know.
It was enough for him to carry it alone.
He put away the purple lazuli, lay back on the bed lightly, and pulled the quilt.
I was stunned for a long time, and finally I couldn't resist the sleepiness and sank into a deep sleep. 166 Reading Network