Chapter 13: Jiang Feng
Tianlong Temple, Jufeng Platform (200 years ago):
The wonders of the purple sun are recorded in various literary dictionaries. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info People know that the time of the appearance of the purple sun day is about once in about two hundred years, but it is never possible to calculate the exact date. For example, sometimes it takes 190 years, sometimes it takes 230 years, and there is no certainty.
This night, it was exceptionally dark. The crescent moon in the sky was red, and there was not a single starlight in it. At the time of the blood moon, the demonic spirit is at its peak.
Omen of a Blood Moon, once a year. The only rule that can be drawn from people's research on the purple sun is that the purple sun will inevitably appear after the blood moon, but it is not known exactly after the blood moon of which year.
Hua Xia and Hua Zhong are on the wind platform facing the east, arranging this ancient and modern Zixu Dragon Teng Array. Everything has been arranged, and the only missing key is the light of the first polar when Ziyang Tian has just appeared.
"When the sun rises in the east, it is the moment of Zixu Longteng! Hanaka, wait for ......"
Before Hua Xia could speak, an aurora in the east cut through the night, and the irregular cracks made the night like a shattered mirror.
The mountain shook, Hua Xia felt that the wind platform under her feet was trembling slightly, and the bottom of the mountain bloomed with dazzling light, covering everything around. As far as the eye can see, everything is bright white. Shocked, Hua Xia and Hua Zhong hurriedly covered their eyes.
"It's so hard...... The Light of the First Pole?! Hua Zhong exclaimed.
Silence arose, and a new sun glowing with purple light emerged, enveloping everything in the earth in purple.
Before the night was collected, the aurora burned the jade sky,
The gate of heaven opened the golden key according to the agreement, and the cloud road was vast and hung with purple rainbows.
"How can it be so ......?"
"Brother! It's still too late! Hua Zhong shook Hua Xia's shoulder, "Hurry up and cast a spell!" Brother!! ”
"I miscalculated...... That's impossible! Right now...... It shouldn't be time yet!! But if it's dawn today, where have you been in the intervening hours? ”
It was the first time that Hua Zhong had seen his brother look so depressed.
"What year is it? Leap years? ”
"This is something that no one has ever been able to do, don't push it too hard......"
Hua Xia pinched her fingers and counted again, and read in her mouth: "In the first year of Rui Leap, day and night, the purple sun is beginning to appear!" I will record this day and this time, and I will not let future generations make mistakes. ”
"We can do it again......"
"Again?" Hua Xia turned sideways and lamented, "Who can let me live for another two hundred years!?" Who's going to pay me back the hours that have been stolen!? ”
"Brother, if you hesitate, I'm afraid that Ziyang Tian will miss it!"
Hua Xia was helpless and activated the formation. But the light of the first pole has passed, and I don't know how much power is left in this array......
"Zixu Longteng! Open! ”
On the wind gathering platform, a wind dragon wrapped in Hua Xia and the two took off against the sky......
……………………………………
Yaoshan Waterfall:
This mountain rain is slowly subdued. Yuan Xing came out of the bushes, his whole body wet, and the raindrops that slid down his cheeks to his chin were crystal clear. The fragrance of the soil and grass leaves in the forest after the rain shows the vitality of nature, and it always makes people feel energetic.
On the day Yuan Xing left Green Forest Village, he left in a hurry and did not prepare anything. In addition to the sword case, he only carried a gourd for water. Ahead is a mountain road, and the only place that can replenish water in recent days is the Yuma River. Yuan Xing turned back to the river and dismounted to draw water. Just as he was about to get back on the horse, he found that the brown horses behind him were gone. At this time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard not far away, and I saw a girl in Tsing Yi lying on the horse's back, riding away without looking back.
Now, more than half a month has passed since that hurried farewell. The water in the gourd had already been drunk, and Yuan Xing raised his hand and twisted the sleeves of his clothes that were wet with the rain, squeezing out a few droplets of water and falling into his throat. Wang Yuanxing walked in the deep mountains and could not eat a full meal.
"Brother Eight Desolations, you said that if it weren't for that Su Wuqian, wouldn't we have already arrived in the next village by this time?" Yuan Xing loves to walk the mountain road, the more there is no way to go, the more courageous he is to move forward. Even if the horse is not lost, when there is no road in front of the mountain, Yuan Xing will let it go. But this time, he blamed Su Wuqian for getting lost.
"Shh Yuan Xing was talking to himself, and he didn't know who to gesture to, and the Eight Desolation Sword behind him never paid attention to him. "There is a voice!"
Yuan Xing listened attentively, and there seemed to be bursts of horses' hooves in the mountains and forests in the distance. Thinking that someone was chasing him, he hid for a while, but the sound of voice remained the same in volume and frequency. Is it the sound of water? Yuan Xing laughed at himself for becoming a frightened bird in the past few days.
The mountains and forests have just been flooded by rain, and the hard soil has turned into mud. Yuan Xing's feet were wrapped in thick soil, and he came to a place with great difficulty. Below is a rushing river, and there is still a mountain level from the location of the Yuan Xing. But he didn't care about looking for any more downhill paths, so he jumped down. It is like a fish returning to the river and a dragon swimming in the sea.
"Brother Eight Desolations, I know you don't like water. Wait for me on the shore! Yuan Xing unloaded the sword box, shook his hand and threw it at the opposite bank.
If you don't have a full meal when you have this opportunity, you're really sorry for your stomach. Wang Yuanxing was engrossed in the water, bowing and waiting. A fat fish was about to swim through his hand, Wang Yuanxing leaned over and wanted to pounce, but his back was hit by something.
A man floated face down on the surface of the river and floated behind Wang Yuanxing along the current.
It's important to save people! Wang Yuanxing grabbed the man and shouted: "Eight wildernesses!" ”
In just an instant, Wang Yuanxing and the sword box shifted and stood on the riverbank where the sword box was originally located.
The man was turned over and lying on his back. At this moment, Wang Yuanxing found that the man had been dead for a long time, and his body and face had been bloated by the river blister. The man has no hair on the side of his head, and there are several scars on his bare scalp that extend to his eyebrows. Yuan Xing opened the man's pale lips, and a foul smell came out of his nose.
"Corpse poison?"
Wang Yuanxing hurriedly took a step back. Throw the talisman at the floating corpse, and with an edict, the floating corpse is cremated on the spot.
"It's really not peaceful anywhere......"
Wang Yuanxing sorted out his clothes, and then remembered the Eight Desolation Sword that he had forgotten for a while. "Oops!" Wang Yuanxing looked back and saw that the sword box had been carried away by the torrent, crashed into the rocks in the water, and floated farther away after a while, watching it be washed away by the river.
"Edgeworth is back!" The boy reprinted with both hands, pointed at the center of his eyebrows with his middle and index fingers, and stomped on the ground with his right foot. After waiting for a while, there was no reaction from the river. "Return!!" Wang Yuanxing wanted to urge the true qi again, but there was still no improvement.
"Damn it!" Yuan Xing had no choice but to run along the muddy riverbank.
The downstream of the river is turbulent and arrows, and it seems to have the potential to rush for thousands of miles. Wang Yuanxing had to speed up the chase, accidentally tripped over the roots of the tree under his feet, and after a few heels, he tumbled into the river, and was instantly swept into the center of the rapids. Fortunately, the sword box is still in sight.
The momentum ahead, like a group of roaring beasts, is chasing thousands of wildebeests. The beasts roared majestically, and the wildebeest galloped, mixed together with a thunderous noise. It is like the hundreds of thousands of armies of the two countries, beating drums and shaking the sky, charging into battle, fighting and shouting, miserable and desperate.
Looking at the 100 meters ahead, the mountains and forests on the banks of the river have come to an end. Such a mountain must be a cliff and a waterfall!
At the moment of falling, Yuan Xing successfully grabbed the Taiyi sword box, carried it behind him in the air, and took out two pieces of rune paper, and pinched them one in his hand.
The Yaoshan Waterfall has a drop of about 20 meters, and the weightlessness of the soul withdrawing from the body makes people deeply uneasy. Yuan Xing crossed his legs in the air, stretched his arms like wings, and looked like a soaring eagle from afar.
"Water charms? Hantan Snow Lotus! ”
Yuan Xing violently closed his hands in front of him, blue fire bloomed from his palm, and then his palm, which slowly opened, shone with white light like a lotus.
The waterfall falls on the surface of the cold pool, stirring and churning, the pearls splash in all directions, touching the long silver silk upstream, falling like a light rain, a piece of water vapor, clouds and mist.
The mana fuels the cold air, condensing the mist into snow crystals. Snow crystals gather into snowflakes, snowflakes gather into snow pillars, ice and snow in the sky, sizzling, a lotus flower made of snow instantly blooms on the surface of the water. The snow pillars under the snow lotus intersect and entangle with each other, like several vines twisted together, extending into a flower pillar, holding the lotus flower above and facing the Yuan Xing.
With a "bang", the flower pillar broke in response, and the snow lotus began to fall. I don't know what was underneath that destroyed Yuan Xing's spell, and that thing was extremely fast, swimming like a snake. Yuan Xing couldn't see what was coming from, only to see the light and shadow break out of the lotus, and then disappear without a trace.
On top! Yuan Xing pulled out the Eight Desolations and looked up. The figure shot straight down like a silver arrow! The weapon was handed over, and a wooden stick was pierced on the back of the sword of the Eight Desolations. At such a distance, Yuan Xing and the other party looked at each other, and finally saw the appearance of the comer. The green-faced fangs, the hideous face, and the entire edge of the head are dark red, which is by no means human skin.
In just a moment, when the snow lotus fell into the cold pool, the two were dislocated in the air, each standing on a snowflake petal, forming a diagonal trend.
Snow lotus floats on the surface of the pool, the sun is candles, flashing with colorful glow. Dazzling. The waterfall on the side seems to be a long silver silk with a never-ending head, hanging upside down from the Celestial Maiden's loom and pouring down between the boulders. It emits a continuous and continuous spring thunder-like sound, majestic and majestic, heroic and open.
"What, it's not a mountain demon!"
The "goblin" was small in stature, and his bare wrists looked slightly delicate. At this moment, he put the ghost mask on top of his head, revealing a chubby face. Bulging cheeks, thin lips, slightly upturned small nose tip, and big eyes with a smart and clever look.
"There was a big snowflake in the water suddenly, I thought it was a monster from somewhere!"
It was only a child of seven or eight years old.
"Little brother, aren't you wearing that mask more like a ghost than me?"
The child did not answer, but jumped into the pool and swam to the shore like a water snake.
Since Yuan Xing destroyed Neidan, the veins in his body are like a sieve full of holes, and the true yuan cannot be precipitated in his body. As long as Yuan Xing casts the spell, all the true qi in the dantian will be dispersed cleanly. It will take a few days to recover slowly.
At this moment, Yuan Xing was enveloped by a faint blue halo, and he stepped on the swaying and flowing pool with slow steps. With each step, those layers of fine waves formed ice under his feet, as if a white snow lotus would emerge from each step until his strength was exhausted.
The boy was armed with a patrol stick and led the buffalo over the yellow leaves and walked west along the riverbank. The fight just now showed the boy's solid martial arts skills, and Yuan Xing was very curious about this shepherd boy, so he followed.
"Little brother, are you from the village near here? I'd like to inquire with you about a place ......."
Before Wang Yuanxing finished speaking, he saw a wooden sign hanging on the back of the scalper, on which were written a few big words: Ask for directions five taels!
"Five taels!? You people are poor and crazy! ”
In a land of poor mountains and bad waters, even a child is so philistine? Wang Yuanxing was sighing that the world was going down, and he saw the shepherd boy take out two steamed buns from his baggage, hand them to Wang Yuanxing one by one, and motioned for him to take them.
"Brother Immortal, the sound of the waterfall can't hide the sound of the drums in your belly."
"I'm not an immortal, just a Taoist." Wang Yuanxing was not reserved, and couldn't wait to stuff the steamed bun into his mouth.
"Three dollars a piece."
"Wow! With this broken steamed bun, I can buy several for a penny! Steamed bun crumbs flew out of Wang Yuanxing's mouth, and his nostrils were inflated with surprise. It's just that the person in front of him is just a child, and Wang Yuanxing is helpless.
That's fine. This time I went down the mountain to practice, and I thought it was a practice with the heart of preaching and helping the world. "Oh, take it!" Wang Yuanxing threw a silver ingot to the shepherd boy. "It's ten taels."
"Since Brother Daoist is so generous, then I will give you a word."
"Oh?"
"Near the downstream of the waterfall ahead, there is a beautiful sister taking a bath...... "The shepherd boy pointed in the direction and winked mischievously, "What is the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with these fairy couples, it all started with a peek at the bath, right?" Take advantage of the opportunity. ”
"I didn't expect the people here to be like this...... Yes...... Wrong! Wang Yuanxing took the rest of the steamed buns in his mouth, pulled the shepherd boy and walked forward, "This deep mountain and wild forest, maybe it's a banshee, take me to take a look!" ”
Yuan Xing looked carefully at the mask in the child's hand, the most conspicuous part of it was carved with a snake pattern, this is the totem of the Northern Zhan Kingdom, the legendary ancient giant beast Yuemen Pit Viper. Not only that, there is also a dark red pattern around it, which means the fire of the underworld, symbolizing the evil and keeping peace. In the past, in the Beizhan area, ghost masks were the most commonly used funeral offerings.
"In Xia Wang Yuanxing, what is your name, little brother?"
"My name is Jiang Feng."
"Where did you get this ghost mask?"
"At the bottom of the waterfall just now, there are a lot of strange things, do you want to go and find some too?"
The bottom of the pool? Yuan Xing turned to look at the waterfall from afar, and stopped unconsciously. Could it be that there is a Beizhan tomb here?
"Jiang Feng, you'd better throw that mask away."
"Why?"
"That thing is for the dead, bad luck ......"