Chapter 6: The Dawn of the Wind and the Moon
Mo Xue and Zhong Yun left the town and didn't stop until evening before they stopped. They spent the night in a farmer's house, and the next day they continued on their way, and so on for three days, with mountains in front of them.
"Why are there so many mountains!" Mo Xue complained.
Zhong Yun sighed: "Ordinary heart, the more you go over the mountain, the more steep it becomes!"
Mo Xue sat on the ground and said angrily, "Ouch, I really don't want to leave." Zhong Yun said: "You have to go now even if you don't want to go, you can't turn back, it's a long way to turn back." ”
Mo Xue got up again and continued to hurry, they climbed over a mountain, and there was a river in front of them, Mo Xue immediately jumped into the river, washed her face with water, and then found that there were fish in the river!
"Look there are fish!" Mo Xue pointed to the river, but Zhong Yun said, "What if there is, I can't catch it." Mo Xue said with a gloomy face: "Just because you can't catch a fish doesn't mean I can't catch it!" said as she rolled up her trousers, pulled out her sword, and then went down to the river, and when she saw it, she inserted it into the water, and soon inserted a few fish ashore, Zhong Yun was stunned on the shore.
Mo Xue came up from the river, her upper body was actually soaked, but she looked happy, Zhong Yun exclaimed: "I didn't expect you to be an expert at catching fish." Mo Xue said proudly: "Of course, I'm so wandering in the countryside, catching fish is not casual!" Zhong Yun said: "Yes, unlike me, I don't know anything." ”
Mo Xue dissected the fish, this time she directly skewered the fish with a sword and roasted it on the fire, made another fish, took out the iron bowl, scooped a bowl of water, put it on the fire, and cut the fish into small pieces, put it in the bowl and boiled. Then she took out a few bamboo tubes from the bamboo basket, opened the bamboo tube, first poured some oil out, then changed a bamboo tube, poured some salt, and then changed a bamboo tube, poured some soy sauce, Zhong Yun on the side was even more stunned.
"Hey, you're a cornucopia in this bamboo basket, you have everything, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and a bowl, I'll enjoy it." ”
Mo Xue looked at the bowl and said: "That's it, people, you have to be a little prepared when you go out, if not, how can you be away from home for a few months and still be alive?" Also, there are treasures everywhere in this mountain and water, as the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water, if you don't know how to use the resources, you will be starved to death sooner or later." You can't just have silver, and many times you can't buy money to eat. ”
"You have a point, that's why I'm going to starve to death without money. ”
After the fish was cooked, Mo Xue gave two to Zhong Yun, Zhong Yun hadn't opened the meat for a few days, and saw that the fish was already salivating, so as soon as he got it in his hand, he was reincarnated like a hungry ghost and gnawed it.
Mo Xue saw that he was reincarnated as a hungry ghost, so he said: "You slow down, the emotional hungry ghost is reincarnated, and you are not afraid of fish bones stuck in your throat!"
Mo Xue picked up the fish soup bowl, set up a platform, and took a pair of chopsticks to eat the fish soup by herself. Zhong Yun saw her drinking soup and swallowing saliva again, Mo Xue saw that he was so eager, so she handed it to him and said, "Give it, don't drink it all." Zhong Yun took a few sips, looking very enjoyable, and said, "Ah, what a beautiful fish soup!" Mo Xue saw that his expression was not pleasing to the eye, snatched it back, and said, "Eat your grilled fish!"
After eating and drinking, Mo Xue cleaned up a wave, and then caught a dozen more fish and dried them, let Zhong Yun carry them, and went on the road again.
In the next few days, I will be on the road, I can't see other villages and towns, and the more I walk, the more desolate it becomes, but fortunately, Mo Xue is very powerful, and I walked all the way, if I met something edible on the road, I picked it off, mushrooms and fruits, which made Zhong Yun admire the five bodies to the ground.
It is said that one afternoon, the two of them were walking in the mountains, and there were a lot of thatch and thorns, so Mo Xue swept all the way with a sword, and happened to see a pheasant hanging by thorns, which made them overjoyed, and immediately caught it, and then asked Zhong Yun to tie his legs with a rope and take it away. In the evening, they found a good plot, gathered a pile of dry wood, and then made a rack, plucked the pheasant's feathers, and Mo Xue took out all its internal organs, skewered them with swords, and roasted them on the shelf. By the way, Mo Xue took out the mushrooms she found during the day and the shiitake mushrooms that had been dried before, soaked them in a bamboo tube, and then tore them into petals, took out the iron bowl, and boiled the soup to drink.
Zhong Yun said excitedly: "Haha, tonight there is roast pheasant and mushroom and mushroom soup to eat." ”
Mo Xue said: "You will also eat ready-made, you won't know anything!"
Zhong Yun said with an aggrieved face: "I can't blame me, I have lived in Chang'an since I was a child, and I have never even seen a pig killed, let alone in the wild, I can only rely on you, and you are also to blame for the hard work." He smiled at her.
Mo Xue shook her head, thinking to herself that she had encountered such a burden, this will not be that, it will not be that, it all depends on her alone, and she is so bitter in her heart. Mo Xue saw that the pheasant was ripe, and saw that the pheasant meat was less, so she still couldn't bear it, so she gave him the extra side, Zhong Yun saw it at a glance, and said: "It's still here for you, after all, you caught it, or you made it." Mo Xue said: "Forget it, I don't need so much." The two of them ate pheasants, and when they saw that the soup was cooked, they took a bamboo tube, and one person poured half of it, and half of the mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms were divided. Seeing this, Mo Xue excused herself and said, "No need!" Zhong Yun said: "It's okay, you were supposed to contribute, not to mention that you are still a girl, so you should be allowed to eat more." ”
Mo Xue thought to herself that this guy was not a bad person, he was just used to the life of his son, and he didn't know how to survive outside, but at this time, Mo Xue had a much higher opinion of him. After the two finished eating, Zhong Yun rushed to wash the dishes and chopsticks, washed the bamboo tube, and went to get a few large firewood, so that it could be burned for a longer time, after all, it was still quite cold at night in the mountains at this time.
The two of them sat by the fire to roast the fire, Zhong Yun already liked to talk, so he asked Mo Xue: "By the way, your home is so far away, you are still a girl, why do you choose to go to Jishi Mountain?" When Mo Xue heard this, she exhaled deeply and said, "I didn't want to, but if I didn't come, my father would force me to get married, but I didn't want to get married." ”
"Ahh
"Yes, otherwise, but if I come out, I can't bear my father, and I will be a relative of my father in this world. ”
"What about your mother?"
Mo Xue shook her head: "I don't know what my mother looks like until now, my father said that I was born less than a year ago, and my mother fell ill and died, so my father brought me up alone." ”
"Then how did you meet the immortals?"
"When I was eight years old, my father broke his leg, and the fairy master happened to pass by, so he cured my father's leg and gave me my father's sword. ”
Zhong Yun snorted, and said: "It's great for a girl to dare to come out alone, I'm not as good as you." ”
Mo Xue looked loveless, so she said, "Don't say it, I'm sleepy, sleep!"
Zhong Yun also stopped talking, just sleep.
In the bleak night, the cold was getting heavier and heavier, and I didn't know how long I had been sleeping, when suddenly a cold wind blew, Mo Xue's body twitched, and she woke up immediately. At this time, there was a cold moon hanging in the sky, it looked like there was a bleak feeling, and there was only a pile of ashes left in the fire on the ground, and then looked at Zhong Yun, he was curled up, Mo Xue thought that Zhong Yun must be very cold, so he piled dry firewood on top of the ashes, wanting to relight the fire.
At this time, Mo Xue suddenly heard the sound of thatch in the distance, and she felt a chill in her heart, could it be that there was some ghost, she carefully picked up the sword and looked into the distance. It didn't take long for a flash of inspiration in the distance, two figures flashed by, and then they actually heard the sound of a fight on the other side of the woods, mixed with shouting, Mo Xue had sensitive ears and eyes to see far away, she immediately went over and shook Zhong Yun: "Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
"What's wrong?" Zhong Yun woke up in his sleep, very reluctantly.
"I just saw a figure flash over there, it looks like there's still a fight!"
"What, why didn't I see it?" Zhong Yun rubbed his eyes, he didn't believe it, so he went to sleep again.
Mo Xue didn't get angry, grabbed Zhong Yun, and shook him a few times in a row: "You wake me up!"
"Oh, what are you doing, you, sleep well, get nervous here. ”
Mo Xue said angrily: "Who is nervous, I'll tell you the right thing." ”
Zhong Yun was really afraid of her, so he got up and said, "Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, where is there a figure flashing, where is there a fight?"
Mo Xue secretly scolded him in her heart for being a tempeh, so she pulled and said, "You will know if you come with me." ”
Zhong Yun couldn't resist her, and was pulled all the way by her, and sure enough, as she got closer, the sound of fighting was heard, and Zhong Yun was stunned: "There are really people fighting!"
The two of them approached, hid in the grass and took a look, and they were really shocked by what they saw. I saw a black man with a snake tail and a woman with a few snow-white tails and white hair, the man was black, no point was white, the woman's whole body was snow-white, and her hair was black, but the ears on the woman's head were not human ears, but a pair of fox ears, and even her face was not exactly like a human face, but a bit of a fox.
Mo Xue and Zhong Yun looked at each other, especially it was the first time for Mo Xue to see such a strange thing so closely, Mo Xue whispered: "They are humans and ghosts, why are none of them human?" Zhong Yun whispered: "Of course they are not people, they are monsters." Mo Xue exclaimed: "He, he, he, he and he are monsters?" Zhong Yun replied: "This still needs to be asked, that man is a snake tail, a snake demon, and that woman has a fox appearance, a fox demon." ”
"Huh, fox demon?" Mo Xue's face was full of doubts, "But why does she have so many tails?"
Zhong Yundao: "You haven't read the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", isn't there a record on it, there is a country in the East, there is a peculiar race living in it, they are born with spirituality, just like people, there will be one more tail every hundred years, and after eight hundred years, there will be nine tails, so it is called a nine-tailed fox." ”
Mo Xue suddenly realized: "It turned out to be a nine-tailed fox, no wonder there are so many tails, I counted them, wow, she has six tails!." ”
Zhong Yun said: "That means that she has five hundred years of cultivation." ”
Mo Xue had never seen a monster, let alone a nine-tailed fox, and she watched it with relish for a while, and she didn't want to leave. At this time, Zhong Yun said: "Let's go quickly, neither of them can we afford to provoke." Mo Xue didn't have the heart to pay attention to him, but said, "Let me see it again." ”
"Oh, let's go quickly, otherwise it will be miserable if we are discovered!" Zhong Yun was anxious, but Mo Xue said: "If you want to go, you can go, I'll take a look." ”
"Your aunt and grandmother won't die!"
It is said that the snake demon and the nine-tailed fox are inseparable, but it is obvious that the snake demon has the advantage. I saw that the snake demon pounced, and the nine-tailed fox stretched out his hand to block it, but the snake demon's tail coiled over and actually entangled the nine-tailed fox. The nine-tailed fox not only has to block the attack of the snake demon, but also to prevent it from being entangled and suffocating, and the pressure is doubled. She felt that her body was too tightly entangled, and it was difficult to breathe, so she finally couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately pulled out a hand and grabbed it at the snake demon's tail, but the snake demon slapped her on the head, and the two demons retreated at the same time, but the snake demon was only scratched on his body, but the nine-tailed fox sat on the ground, spitting blood in his mouth.
The snake demon proudly looked at the nine-tailed fox sitting on the ground, smiled proudly, and continued: "How about it, little fox, I said to hand over the fairy grass, but you just didn't listen, now it's okay, I only have half a life left after being beaten, and in the end you still don't want to give it to me?"
"Immortal grass?" Mo Xue and Zhong Yun were startled at the same time, looking at each other.
The nine-tailed fox sat on the ground, looked at the snake demon, and said coldly: "It's only to blame that my skills are not as good as others and I was defeated by you, but if I want to hand over the fairy grass on my body, it is absolutely impossible for me, even if I lose my life, I will never hand it over to you!"
The snake demon smiled: "You little fox, your mouth is quite hard, you are still talking like this when you are dying, it seems that I have to clean you up today!"
The nine-tailed fox said: "The fairy grass on my body is a gift from a god, he wants me to take it with me but is not allowed to eat it, it is a token of my trip to the sacred mountain, if it weren't for this, I would have eaten it a long time ago!"
"What does this have to do with me?
"The god said that if someone wants to take the fairy grass, they are not allowed to eat it, otherwise they will be punished, and I will not eat it today, but I will never leave it to you!" After the nine-tailed fox finished speaking, he took out a green grass from his body, and the grass was glowing with spiritual light, and at this time, Mo Xue Zhongyun was shocked: "Could it be that this fox is also going to Jishi Mountain?"
"No!" exclaimed the basilisk. Seeing that the nine-tailed fox was about to tear the fairy grass to pieces, at this time, Mo Xue jumped out of the grass and shouted, "Stop!"
Suddenly, everyone was quiet, the snake demon stared at Mo Xue with a pair of blood-red eyes, and the hand of the nine-tailed fox also stopped in mid-air, and before he could catch the fairy grass, even Zhong Yun was stunned, but Zhong Yun immediately came back to his senses and scolded in his mouth: "Why did you little girl jump out at this time, kill me, it's really a brain in the water." ”
The snake demon turned around and said with a smile: "Hehe, I didn't expect two more to pop up, or humans!"
Mo Xue stammered: "People, people, what's wrong with humans, you stinky monster, stop me, don't let you hurt that fox!"
When the snake demon heard this, he was happy: "Ouch, a little human girl actually took care of the monster's affairs, and her courage is not small." ”
Mo Xue puffed her chest and pouted, "Why can't you care about it, not to mention that the two of us still have something to do with that fox!"
"Tell me, what's the matter?" the snake demon looked at Mo Xue with interest, and folded his arms.
Mo Xue turned to Zhong Yun and said, "Take out your fairy grass." Zhong Yun had no choice but to take out the fairy grass, and when the snake demon saw it, his eyes immediately lit up, but the nine-tailed fox was stunned and said, "You, you also went to Jishi Mountain?" Mo Xue turned to the nine-tailed fox and said, "Yes, so we are the same door, and the same door is being bullied, how can we stand idly by?"
After Mo Xue finished speaking, the snake demon laughed, Mo Xue asked him, "What are you laughing at?" The snake demon stopped laughing, and said: "I laugh at you really can't help yourself, I originally earned a little fox and a fairy grass for more than five hundred years, but I didn't expect you two to jump out and give another fairy grass, and two people, oops, little girl, I see that you look so watery and delicate, the skin and flesh are tender, the taste must be good, let me take a bite and try it." Saying that, the snake demon came over, Mo Xue realized the danger, she didn't know how to draw the sword with the scabbard, but she was hit by the snake demon, they were both knocked to the ground, and the sword was thrown aside, at this time Zhong Yun said: "It's over, it's all your fault, you have no ability to be strong, and now your life is not guaranteed." ”
At this time, the nine-tailed fox said: "You shouldn't stand up for me, and the result will affect you." ”
Mo Xue said: "There is nothing that is not involved, everyone is a disciple of the immortal master, and they must help each other." ”
The snake demon walked over slowly, and said with a smile: "Little girl, it turns out that you are all in a group, but your meat is so fragrant, let me take a bite and taste it first." ”
"Ahh At this time, the nine-tailed fox shouted, "Don't hurt her!" The whole person pounced, threw the snake demon to the ground, and scuffled together. Mo Xue was let go at this time, reached out and touched her throat, she was almost strangled to death by the snake demon just now.
It is said that the nine-tailed fox and the snake demon scuffled together, and were soon pushed away by the snake demon, and then the snake demon rolled around, jumped up, and shot down the top of the nine-tailed fox's head with one palm, Mo Xue and Zhong Yun exclaimed at the same time, and the nine-tailed fox blocked it with both hands at the same time, so that she was not hit by the snake demon's palm, but she had already been seriously injured, where could she block the power of the snake demon, and soon was shocked and flew up, hit a big tree, fell to the ground fiercely, and vomited blood.
"Okay, you little fox, see if I don't kill you!" The snake demon said that he was about to go over again, but Mo Xue pounced and hugged the snake demon, the snake demon shook hard, Mo Xue was shocked and flew a few feet away, fell to the ground and vomited blood, and the snake demon seemed to have to kill the nine-tailed fox, and continued to pass, and came to the nine-tailed fox, the snake demon said coldly: "Go die!" and then made a seal with one palm and hit the head of the nine-tailed fox.
Just when Mo Xue was lying on the ground and could not do anything, and Zhong Yun was frightened stupidly, a golden light flashed, shaking the snake demon away with one palm, and repelling the snake demon by the way.
"Who is it?" The snake demon looked around, but there was nothing unusual, even Mo Xue and the others were puzzled.
At this time, the black Tianxing Sword on the ground suddenly emitted a golden light, and the black surface actually began to fall off, and then revealed a golden layer inside, shining with light, and several people couldn't help but reach out to cover their eyes, after all, the spiritual light was really dazzling.
"What's going on?" Mo Xue said in her heart.
At this time, the sword was automatically unsheathed, although it was still lying motionless on the ground after being unsheathed, but the sword body was flooded with countless dense golden brilliance, which was like silk threads wrapped above the ground, forming a golden ellipsoid in the shape of a silkworm chrysalis that was taller than a person, and finally the golden brilliance on the long sword dissipated, and the brilliance of the golden silkworm chrysalis erected on the ground was like a waterfall, and then emitted a more dazzling light, and when the light dissipated, everyone also opened their eyes, and the scene at this time confirmed that everyone was stunned.
A man stood facing them, his skin was white and delicate, his face was like a crown of jade, heroic, he was wearing a golden robe, his waist was tied with an emerald jade belt, the tassels around his waist were like a waterfall, his clothes were embroidered with dragon patterns, and the edges of his clothes were silver patterns, which looked very luxurious, and his body also emitted a faint golden glow, just like the water vapor of the waterfall.
Mo Xue had never seen such a handsome and luxurious man, and she had already opened her mouth wide in shock and couldn't speak. In fact, the others, especially the nine-tailed fox, had even more straight eyes, and they all forgot that they were seriously injured.
"Who are you?" the basilisk asked the man.
The man replied, "I am the sword spirit of the Skywalker Sword!"
"Sword Spirit?" Mo Xue Zhong Yun Nine-Tailed Fox all had doubts.
"Sword Spirit?" the basilisk asked, he didn't seem convinced.
The man said, "You go, I don't want to hurt you!"
The snake demon said coldly: "No matter who you are, if you want me to go, you have to see if you have the ability." ”
The man said again: "I know your ability, isn't it just a thousand-year-old snake demon, and you are not a weak person in my eyes?"
"What a big breath, I want to see what you are capable of!" The snake demon was very unconvinced, and after speaking, his hands were sealed, and he shot out towards the man, the man just smiled, he didn't bother to move, the snake demon's mana hit him and didn't react at all, the snake demon was surprised.
"You, who the hell are you?" the basilisk pointed at him, his expression incredulous.
"I said, you don't believe it, you go, otherwise I'm really going to do it!" After the man finished speaking, a flash of inspiration flashed in his right hand, and the snake demon knew that he was invincible, so he was so frightened that he ran away, and the figure was gone.
Mo Xue was stunned, the man walked up to Mo Xue, reached out and touched Mo Xue's forehead, so frightened that Mo Xue hurriedly retreated, and the man said, "What are you nervous about, I'm treating you." Mo Xue came back to her senses, the man approached her again, stretched out his hand and touched her forehead, Mo Xue immediately felt relaxed and comfortable. The man then turned to the nine-tailed fox and squatted down, and when the nine-tailed fox saw him, he quickly lowered his head, and the man said softly: "Come, little fox, I'll treat your injuries." The nine-tailed fox looked up, but his eyes still didn't dare to look at him, and the man grabbed one of her hands, and then palmed it with her. In fact, the hands of the nine-tailed fox are different from those of humans, although they are palms, they are the claws of foxes, and they are covered with white hair. At this time, Mo Xue and Zhong Yun came over and watched the man treat the nine-tailed fox's injuries. I saw that the two of them were shining in their palms, and after a while, the man let go of his hand and said, "You're okay." ”
"Thank you. The nine-tailed fox thanked him.
The man got up, the nine-tailed fox also got up, and then the man said to Mo Xue: "You have been holding me for the past few months, but you have exhausted me, so you are not allowed to do this in the future!"
"Huh, I'll take you to barbecue?"
"What do you say?"
At this time, Zhong Yun pulled Mo Xue and said, "You don't know yet, the sword in your hand is him!"
"Isn't it, really you?"
The man said, "Then can there be a fake?"
Mo Xue scratched her head, then looked at the man with a smile, and said, "I'm sorry, I can't help it." ”
The man said again: "Okay, the matter is over, let's get to know each other, my name is Fengyu!" After speaking, he wrote the word Fengyu on the ground.
"My name is Mo Xue!"
"My name is Zhong Yun!"
At this time, the nine-tailed fox said in a hurry: "I, my name is Xiaoyue." ”
"Hello Sister Xiaoyue!"
Fengyu smiled and said, "You little girl has a very sweet mouth." ”
Mo Xue smiled at Xiaoyue, and Xiaoyue smiled too.
Fengyu said again: "Let's go back to the original place." ”