Chapter 69: The Sword Mountain and the Sea of Fire
This eagle roar frightened Li Xiao, the wine bowl in his hand almost fell, and he hurriedly looked up, only to see a black shadow disappearing into the night sky.
Li Xiao put away the wine bowl and asked, "This is what you call the Condor?"
Buyan nodded and said, "That's right, the Condor is looking for it at night, so we don't have to look for a post, it's very scary in the forest at night, it's everywhere" He said with his hand swinging, making winding movements, with a frightened look on his face.
Li Xiao's drunkenness had not yet subsided, and he was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask much, the cry of the Condor was not terrible, it was only because the proprietress had mentioned the Condor that Li Xiao was afraid, and after drinking and carnivaling for a long time, a few people returned to the bedroom arranged by the proprietress to sleep.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Xiao was the first to wake up, recalling the scene of last night, and understood that the bowl of the ten bowls of wine that he said without saying a word or speaking was a unit of measurement, but the two of them didn't know it.
Li Xiao sat alone in the courtyard, looking at the still smoking bonfire, thinking about this strange Iron Bone Tribe, if the Iron Bone Tribe sent troops and other things, Rui Xin fetched some water and came to Li Xiao's side to let Li Xiao wash.
After a while, the two of them packed up without saying a word, and said to Li Xiao without a word: "Da Li, let's go, let's take you to see King Tiedan." ”
Li Xiao nodded, and several people walked in the direction of Iron Bone City, Li Xiao said without saying a word: "When did your Iron Bone King pass away?"
Needless to say: "It's not a long time, a few days after the death of the Iron Bone King, we will go to besiege your mountain"
Bu nodded and said, "What my brother said is"
Li Xiao said again: "I forgot to ask you, what is the name of your Tiedan King?
Without saying a word, the two looked at each other, and said without saying a word: "King Tiedan's name is Hatumu, this person is not easy to get along with at all, he is very fierce, he beats us at every turn, and he doesn't give us wine to drink." ”
He said silently: "Da Li, if you see King Tiedan, don't say anything about my brothers standing guard and sleeping yesterday, you have to talk about it." ”
Li Xiao nodded and smiled and said, "That's natural, you Tiedan King, forget it" After saying half of the words, he held back again, thinking, "It's better not to ask the two of them if I ask." ”
The four of them walked and chatted, walked for more than an hour, and finally came to the Iron Bone City, Li Xiao and Rui Xin stood under the walls of the Iron Bone City, both in a daze, although they had heard that the Iron Bone City was made of gold, but after seeing it with their own eyes, they still couldn't control it.
The walls of the iron bone city are tall, built up by gold bricks one by one, the gold bricks shine dazzlingly in the sun, the stabbing Li Xiao covered his eyes, and the two of them were a little proud when they saw this, patted Li Xiao with their hands, and walked up to greet the guards.
The guards here look similar to Mumu, except that both of them are naked, and the guards here are indeed wearing armor, and they look more brave than Mumu.
Wu Yan said a few words to the guard, walked up to Li Xiao and said, "Da Li, you have to wait for a while, the guard won't let you two enter the city, and said that you can only go in after the report is over." ”
Li Xiao nodded, and said silently: "Why are these two guards so difficult to speak, they don't even give us face, I'll scold them." ”
Silently, he walked towards the guard and said to the guard: "Whose subordinates are you, dare not give me two face?"
Before the word face could be spoken, I saw that the guard's face sank, and he shouted: "Stand down"
Silent startled a spirit, and hurriedly stepped back, saying as he retreated: "Hmph, what a horizontal, you think I'm afraid of you."
Silent and very funny retreated, Rui Xin looked silent, and laughed secretly on the side.
The four of them waited outside the Iron Bone City for a while, and suddenly heard a sound of footsteps, followed by a small group of Iron Bone Samurai, twenty people, these samurai were different from the guards standing guard, these samurai were all wearing gold armor and holding golden broadswords.
Li Xiao looked at these warriors and frowned, thinking to himself: "Although gold is expensive, is it too soft to use for armor, and this gold machete, how can it fight against a machete made of steel, this iron bone tribe is really weird."
One of the people in that squad spoke: "King Tiedan summons, Nanren envoy"
Li Xiao was a little unhappy when he heard the word Nanren, and thought to himself, "Even if I have a request for you, but after all, we are a kingdom, so we don't need to be invited, and they still summon me, but they don't understand etiquette and culture, yes, they still belong to the barbarians." ”
After listening to the words of the big man, Li Xiao took a step forward, arched his hand, and said, "Please"
The big man shook his head, stretched out his hand, and said, "Hand over your weapons, and you are not allowed to take them when you enter the city." ”
Li Xiao nodded, unsheathed his sword, and looked back at Ruixin, who also handed the sword to the big man, and then the big man walked into the city gate.
The golden city wall, the golden floor tiles, the golden house, the golden car tent, Li Xiao and Ruixin walked into the Iron Bone City, and they were even more surprised, on the spotless gold streets of the Iron Bone City, at a glance, except for the Iron Bone Clan, which is not made of gold, as long as they can see it is made of gold.
The twenty warriors sandwiched Li Xiao Ruixin and the two in the middle, and without saying a word, the two walked at the front of the team with a sledgehammer, and the twenty warriors were polite to the silence, and after a while, they came to a palace.
The warrior took Li Xiao and others through the front porch, came to the courtyard in the middle, stopped, Li Xiao observed around, only to see that the courtyard was an open-air square, a chair placed on the other side of the square, and a large man sitting on the chair was full of magnificence, Li Xiao had already guessed that this person was Hatumu, the king of Tiedan.
In the middle of the square, there were several tall buildings that I didn't know how to use, and on both sides of the buildings stood samurai in golden armor, looking at Li Xiao and Ruixin with hideous faces.
looked at the situation without saying a word, glanced at each other, and said to Li Xiao in a low voice: "Da Li, congratulations, this is our most solemn test, and those who have passed the test are our good friends."
Li Xiao didn't understand, so he also asked softly, "What kind of test is this?"
Needless to say: "Go up the knife mountain, go down to the oil pot, and wear the sea of fire"
Li Xiao frowned after hearing this, and asked, "Is there still a life after this is done?"
Wuyan shook his head and said: "I don't know, no one has done it, anyway, ordinary people don't have this kind of treatment."
Li Xiao listened to the silent speech a little messy, congratulated for a while, and didn't know for a while, so he didn't pay attention to it.
At this time, an old man walked out and said in a loud voice: "Since the southerners have come to make friends, they must show sincerity, our Tiedan King has specially prepared wine and meat for the southerners, after drinking wine, after eating meat, they will be friends, please" said and pointed to the strange building.
Li Xiao nodded, took two steps forward, and saw that there was a ladder on the side of the tall building, and this ladder was built with a large knife, each big knife was laid flat, the blade was facing Li Xiao, and each knife was pulled by two thin spider silks.
Li Xiao looked at the knife ladder, paused for a moment, and thought: "Such a thin spider silk, if I step on it, the spider silk will be broken immediately, and the rest of the big knives will inevitably divide my body, I still can't get up, if I don't go up, they will definitely look down on me."
Li Xiao mustered up his courage, took two more steps forward, looked at the spider silk carefully, suddenly understood, and thought: "So this is it, this strange silk pull is very good, but it will break as soon as it breaks, as long as I don't let the knife ladder shake, I can also climb it." ”
Li Xiao strode towards the knife ladder, although he had already seen the mystery, he couldn't help but be afraid, cold sweat flowed down his back, and the gold-armored warriors on both sides also held their breath, Rui Xin was even more cold sweat, only the two of them were extremely relaxed without saying a word.
Li Xiao raised his leg and stepped up the first knife step, very steady, without a little shaking, Li Xiao pressed the pressure on his right foot, and made sure that it was the same as he thought, as long as he didn't shake, the spider silk would not break, and he could withstand himself, and with a force on his right foot, his left foot stepped up a step.
One step, two steps, a total of ten steps, a total of nine steps, Li Xiao stood firmly on a high platform, without saying a word and applauded below, Rui Xin was also relieved, Li Xiao saw Tie Dan King clearly on the high platform, only to see Tie Dan Wang An sitting on the throne, looking at Li Xiao expressionlessly, never said a word.
Li Xiao and Tiedan King looked at each other for a while, a smile appeared on the corner of their mouths, looking at a table in front of them, with a big bowl of wine and a piece of meat on the table, Li Xiao took two steps forward, and suddenly stopped, only to see that there was a square pit in front of him, and inside the pit was boiling hot oil.
Li Xiao was stunned again, he looked at the oil puddle, which was bubbling and bubbling, Li Xiao thought: "There must be something wrong in this oil, they are testing my courage, not to put me to death, gambling on him" At this time, Li Xiao gambled and didn't think much about it, and jumped into the oil pit with a pop.
The moment Li Xiao jumped into the oil puddle, he knew that he had succeeded, the oil was hot, but he would not let himself be hurt, he quickly swam across the oil pit, climbed onto the platform, shook off the oil on his body, and walked forward again.
At this time, he was silent and applauded, Li Xiao was proud in his heart, and took two steps forward, there was indeed a fire pit in front of him, the fire pit was full of burning charcoal, Li Xiao shook the oil on his hand, the oil splashed on the coal, and the fire was ignited, these Li Xiao were a little panicked.
Li Xiao thought to himself: "If there is no oil on my body, I can walk quickly through the fire, and I may not be burned by the fire, but I am full of oil, and a spark can ignite me, how can this be good?"
Li Xiao stood by the fire pit, not daring to go down, at this time the Tiedan King finally spoke, and the Tiedan King said in a rich voice: "Nanren, you are very courageous, you have proven that you are not a coward, you go down, I will not embarrass you, you leave quickly, we use wine and meat to entertain friends, you are not our friend, let's go" Although Tiedan King's words were very pleasant, there was sarcasm and ridicule in his words.
Li Xiao looked at King Tiedan and smiled reluctantly, thinking: "In this fire pit, there is also a mystery" Li Xiao grabbed the corner of his clothes with his hand, grabbed some oil out of his clothes, and threw it towards the fire pit, and a few oil drops fell on the carbon fire, and there were several flames in the fire.
Li Xiao took a deep breath and took a step forward, just when this was a dark cloud covering the sun, the sky was dark, and then the dark cloud drifted away, and the sun shone down again, Li Xiao's eyes flashed, and then laughed.