Chapter 16: Walking Jiao
A strong wind suddenly blew in the canyon, and Ji Chen looked up to see that in addition to a bright moon in the sky, there were few dark clouds, and those dark clouds were strangely only gathered in the sky above the canyon, like a group of evil ghosts, monitoring the canyon.
Inside the dark clouds, there were faintly many electric snakes that were constantly jumping and jumping, as if they were accumulating strength, and Ji Chen could feel that there was a powerful energy hidden in this huge dark cloud, which might burst out towards them at any time.
The wind around him became stronger and stronger, due to the effect of the gorge pipe, Ji Chen and the others were about to be blown down when they stood in the canyon, because there was a lot of thunder mixed in, Ji Chen only felt that the rumbling sound in his ears was becoming more frequent and irregular.
The uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and under the thunder of this day, he was surrounded by a group of poisonous snakes in an extremely standard attack posture, which really made people's hearts nervous to the extreme.
Just when a few people were panicking and didn't know what to do, suddenly there was a hoarse roar of wild beasts from the caves on the cliff wall, and the sound was amplified by these caves, and then bounced off the cliff walls on both sides, so it sounded very loud and shocking, even with the sound of thunder and waterfalls, they could clearly hear the pitch and frequency of that sound.
The sound was choppy, and although it was loud, it sounded more like a weak **. After listening carefully, Ji Chen found that the source of this sound did not seem to be fixed! To be precise, the position of the sound source was changing!
It seems that there is a living creature moving in this cliff, and this sound must be made by it, Ji Chen thought to himself.
But what kind of creature can actually move in the mountain, could it be that there is a huge karst cave or a dark river in this mountain? Thinking about it, there is a huge inner chamber in the waterfall in general, and with such a large number of snakes crawling out of it, the space cannot be too small, Ji Chen asked himself in his heart.
However, is this creature related to the fact that these snakes come out in formation at night? Does it even have something to do with the dark clouds and lightning in the sky? Ji Chen still had some doubts in his heart.
"You'd better stay away from here, or you'll die even if you're punished by heaven!"
The sudden warning made Ji Chen stunned when he heard it, and looked around to see who was talking, Li Xue tugged on his arm, Ji Chen looked at her, and found that she was staring at the front with wide eyes on her face, Ji Chen followed her gaze, it was the snake in front of them!
Although several people knew that the animals here could speak, Ji Chen still had difficulty accepting this in his heart.
Ji Chen leaned out slightly, grinned and whispered to the group of snakes in front of him, "What, what?"
Suddenly talking to a snake, Ji Chen felt extremely weird, he felt like a fool. But in the face of this situation, it may be the luckiest situation to be able to flow with the snake.
These snakes didn't answer Ji Chen's words, so he asked tentatively, "What kind of heavenly punishment?"
As soon as Ji Chen finished asking, a snake suddenly opened its mouth, revealing two cyan fangs and roared at him, "Get away!" Then he spit out the letter fiercely and hissed, and several people were so frightened that their bodies trembled.
Then, the group of snakes behind them retreated, giving them a way out. Several people looked at each other, and after making eye contact for a moment, they quickly ran out.
When the crowd ran away, the snakes that surrounded them slipped to the river and joined the large group.
The roar in the rock wall grew clearer, and at last only a thud was heard, as if something huge had fallen into the water.
Ji Chen and a few people hid behind a tree far away from the river, stretched their necks to look ahead, and with that plop, the water level in the upper reaches of the river instantly rose sharply, and continued to advance downstream. After a while, Ji Chen saw that there seemed to be a huge black pillar tumbling in the river.
Ji Chen squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, and found that it turned out to be a big black python, and its body was already thick enough to be two-thirds the width of a river, at least six or seven meters thick!.
The dark clouds in the sky seemed to have been added to the catalyst, and suddenly began to roll violently, and the moment Ji Chen raised his head, he saw a thick lightning bolt suddenly falling, like a sword of light.
Ji Chen's eyes were stinged by flashing, and it was suddenly pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and he could only hear a loud and terrifying scream with his ears and the sound of many boulders rolling down.
Ji Chen kept blinking and rubbing his hands, and after a while, he gradually saw his surroundings clearly.
He held back the tears that welled up in his eyes and struggled to open his eyes. Suddenly, another lightning bolt struck from the sky, but fortunately this time he was prepared, immediately closed his eyes slightly, and then slowly opened them.
This time, Ji Chen saw clearly, the lightning actually pierced the air, seemed to tear through the space, and then accurately slashed at the giant python in the river.
The python was struck hard, rolled around the river in response, and let out a loud scream. When it was rolling, Ji Chen saw that there were two small antlers on the head of this python, and two small claws with black scales on the stomach of the front half of the body!
Sun Jian's attention was all on the lightning, and he frowned and said, "Could it be that this is the heavenly punishment that the snake just said?"
Ji Chen was still immersed in that huge shock, and after a long time, he turned his head to the others and said, "That's not heavenly punishment, that's heavenly calamity!"
Sun Jian asked with a puzzled expression, "What is it?"
Ji Chen said: "It's not a snake in this river, it's a dragon! This is a walking dragon, as long as it can survive this catastrophe and successfully swim out of this river, it will become a dragon!"
Li Xue and Zhang Lan both looked at Ji Chen in disbelief, Ji Chen paused and continued: "I also heard the old man who played chess at the door before, once it suddenly rained heavily in our village, and the sky kept thundering. I was very interested and asked the old man who played chess what the heavenly calamity was, and the old man told me that if some animals want to become essences, they will have a heavenly calamity to clean them up, but if they can resist the heavenly calamity, then they will become immortals. He gave me an example, saying that walking Jiao is such a typical example. ”
Ji Chen stood up from behind the tree and looked at the dragon and muttered: The snake is big and becomes a dragon, and the big dragon is a dragon. A snake's cultivation from the snake to the dragon all depends on time to grind, but only the last step to transform the dragon is the most difficult, because according to legend, all the energy of the heavenly tribulation is absorbed from the power of the dragon itself, and the stronger its own strength is, the stronger the heavenly tribulation, and it is just at the weakest time when it is absorbed from the energy. Touching the strongest with the weakest and walking is itself an act of going against the sky!"
Sun Jian touched his chin and said, "I don't know how many thousand years this dragon has lived, do you think it can withstand this catastrophe?"
The giant dragon in the river swims extremely slowly, almost completely propelled by the power of the current, which shows how weak it is. But the thunderclouds in the sky did not mean to weaken at all, Ji Chen shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, Jiaolong generally has thousands of years of cultivation, even if it is extremely weak, it is still very tenacious for Tianlei, this Heavenly Tribulation is estimated to be unable to do anything with it for a while." It's just that at this rate, it will be consumed to death. ”
As Ji Chen was talking, another thunderbolt fell from the sky and struck the dragon, and the snakes on both sides of the river were so affected by the thunder that they exploded directly.
Ji Chen watched the dragon slowly swim to the direction in front of them, and he suddenly realized that if a thunder fell from the sky when the dragon swam in front of them, wouldn't their fate be the same as those little snakes.
Ji Chen immediately shouted at Sun Jian and the others: "We have to get out of here quickly!"
He stood up and looked around quickly, and saw that there seemed to be a path in the front section of the canyon that stretched into the interior of the cliff, and he pointed to where he said, "Let's go there, run to the side path, and stay away from here." ”
After speaking, Ji Chen took Zhang Lan's hand and ran over there, and Sun Jian and Li Xue immediately followed.
When a few people ran there, Ji Chen realized that they were actually almost at the end of this canyon, and he slowly walked to the end of the canyon and looked down, and there was also a cliff below. The river behind him also formed a waterfall from here, and there was another river below the waterfall, which continued forward.
Ji Chen took a closer look and found that at this time, they were facing the direction of the prairie where they came, and the river under the waterfall zigzagged and extended directly to a lake in the distance to the right of the mountain peak, and that lake was the blue lake they had encountered before.
Ji Chen thought, the legendary Jiaojiao all go to the sea, and there is no sea here, the end point of this Jiaolong must be the blue lake.