Chapter Twenty-Three: The Night Dragon Spreads Its Wings and Leaps
The Lion King and the Xilong stood on the bank of the Qinglong River, staring at the silhouette of the distant Ten Thousand Caves Mountain on the other side of the river, and the other donkeys had crossed the river with the cavalry. www.biquge.info This is the most upstream tributary of the Qinglong River, and it joins the main stream of the Qinglong River not far to the south, so the current is small, and you can barely pass it on horseback, but it is bitterly cold. Because there were still infantry and logisticians passing through this section of the river, the lion king ordered the construction of an improvised wooden bridge over the river.
"Lord Wang, we have received a letter from Xiyang City, the city gate has been completely closed, and the trench outside the city wall has been completed!" A herald reported the military situation by the lion king's side, and waited for the lion king's order after speaking.
"Order to cross the river at full speed, all must be crossed before dark, and all temporary wooden bridges must be demolished!"
"Order!" The herald immediately went to deliver the order.
"Why are these wooden bridges being torn down?" Shiryu asked puzzled.
"The bridge was demolished to prevent the wolves from sneaking up again. Xilong, even you have been plotted, the strength of the opponent can be seen, it seems that I have to obey the edict of the emperor and guard the imperial tomb! After the lion king finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.
"Guarding the Imperial Mausoleum? Does it have anything to do with that zombie? ”
"Yes, guarding the imperial mausoleum, this is the reason why the emperor made an exception to let this king enter the imperial mausoleum, as for more than 10,000 zombies, I haven't seen it specifically, but the emperor said that these more than 10,000 zombies have the ability to destroy this world, it seems that someone has already targeted the imperial mausoleum!"
"Isn't there a royal ban on entering the imperial tomb?" The sunset wind beside him rolled on the shore again as he spoke, and two crimson red marks began to appear on his back due to friction.
Seeing Xilong in such pain, the lion king couldn't help but feel distressed.
"Yuryu, I'll definitely think of a solution. Before the death of the emperor, he left me a secret edict appointing me as the king of the tomb, but the edict could not be made public until it was absolutely necessary. But looking at the current situation, even you have fallen into the trap of the enemy, and I can only guard the imperial tomb. Soon, I will announce the edict of the former emperor, so that no one in the court dares to provoke, not even the empress dowager Zhou Lan can intervene. Besides, everyone in the world knows that the imperial tomb can only be entered by the direct children of the royal family, otherwise the curse of the imperial tomb is not child's play! ”
"Lord Wang, is there any secret hidden in the imperial tomb?" Yuryu asked.
"Yes, but the emperor didn't tell me what else was in the imperial tomb except zombies, he just asked me to protect the imperial tomb as much as I could, if I couldn't keep it, I could even destroy this imperial tomb, but I must not let anyone outside the imperial family get involved! This shows that there is something else extraordinary in this imperial tomb! The Lion King speculated, "So, the current situation can only allow me to do my best to guard the Imperial Tomb, and maybe find some way to restore your human form from the Imperial Tomb, Xilong, what do you think?" ”
Hearing this, Xilong gradually understood the good intentions of the prince.
At this time, a herald ran over in a panic, sweating profusely, and said breathlessly: "Oh no, Lord Wang, the Snow Cloud Kingdom has invaded, the Tiger King has rebelled, and the Northeast Great Wall has been lost!" ”
"What?" The lion king trembled after hearing this, and the letter in his hand spilled all over the ground, "It's messy!" It's all messed up! ……”
The Lion King suddenly felt his mouth dry, and he insisted on giving the order, "Pass my order to build fortifications around the Imperial Tomb of Ten Thousand Caves Mountain!" Get started! ”
The lion king felt that his feet had not listened to his call, he hurriedly held the neck of the dragon with his hand, the dragon realized something, and quickly leaned towards the lion king's side, but the lion king was already unstable, insisted on giving the order, the lion king felt that his eyes were black, fainted......
"Lord, lord...... Wake up ......" Seeing the lion king fainting, Xilong was very anxious, and hurriedly used his "hand" to stabilize the prince.
"Ahh It's wings! The herald beside him shouted in surprise, "The wings of a bat have grown on the back of a donkey!" ”
When Xilong fixed his eyes, his "hand" actually stretched out from the back of his donkey, with bat-like wings! -- is holding the prince who has fainted to death!
"Go and convey the prince's order! The prince is taken care of by me! Xilong quickly calmed down, and when he saw the surprised herald, Xilong knew that the herald should leave immediately and convey the order of the Lion King, after all, the military situation was urgent!
Sure enough, the herald came to his senses from his shock and immediately left to convey the Lion King's orders.
"The itching on my back is unbearable, it turns out that it is because of the growth of wings!" The dragon looked at the lion king carefully, and there was no big problem, he only needed to rest for a while to wake up, so the dragon began to see that he was holding the lion king's wings.
"What the hell is going on?" Shiryu repeatedly recalled how he was attacked, but this memory seemed to have been deleted from his brain.
Werewolves and bats, they shouldn't appear casually, as Master once said: the people of the beast clan, including werewolves and batmen, have been sealed in their own territory, and the magic war in the past has almost wiped them out, and they should also wake up and not come out to meddle in human affairs casually.
"It seems that someone must have manipulated this behind the scenes, but who is it?" There were a few possible people flashing in Sundragon's brain, but he couldn't think of anyone with that much energy to influence werewolves and batmen.
"Xilong......" The lion king woke up and called out softly. Many subordinates and doctors had gathered by the river, and when they saw a donkey with bat wings holding their prince, they were stunned and no one dared to approach.
"Yuryu! It seems ......" The Lion King struggled to say something, his expression twisted in pain.
"Lord Wang, you still talk less and rest more, I feel very good, I don't feel any discomfort when these wings grow on my body, on the contrary, I still have the urge to fly!" After saying that, Xilong gently put the prince on the grass, and then said, "I may be scaring your subordinates, it seems that I have to leave your side first!" I'll go to the other side of the river first! ”
After saying that, the sunset dragon walked towards the river, and he tried to flap his wings, maybe so hard that he lost his center of gravity and almost fell.
The Lion King's subordinates quickly gathered around the Lion King, but their attention was still on Xilong's body. The lion king who woke up explained to his frightened subordinates, explaining that Xilong was his own person, so that everyone could rest assured.
After several flight failures, Xilong consciously adjusted his breathing, ready to try again. Xilong knew that the strength of his wings was enough to make him fly, but he still couldn't adjust the balance of his body's center of gravity, especially his donkey's tail, which still couldn't control it well. After all, I haven't had a tail before!
This time, Xilong first kept shaking his donkey's tail and had mastered the balance. The bat's wings flapped rhythmically and vigorously, and in order to balance, the syrup even swung its head from side to side to participate in the balance of the flight.
"Fly! …… It's really flying! ”
Seeing the performance of the sunset, the lion king couldn't help but burst into tears. For some reason, a question suddenly arose in the lion king's heart: "Could the person who turned the dragon into a donkey not be his enemy, or maybe this person is helping him?" ”
The dragon flew higher and higher, and even flew across the river! The excited Xilong has long forgotten the troubles and depression caused by turning into a donkey, and he soars into the blue sky to his heart's content!
The banks of the river are still full of barren grass, but not far from the west side of the river, there is the continuous Ten Thousand Cave Mountain. The Lion King's army is assembling there. The trenches on the shore had been dug and some of the cavalry had even begun to drill. Xilong couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the strict discipline of the Lion King's army.
Just as he was observing the ground from the air, the soldiers and donkeys on the shore had already exploded, and even had a little panic!
"Look, what's that in the sky?" A young soldier standing guard by the river shouted.
"It's a bat! I remember seeing it in the desert of the Far West! A well-informed veteran replied, but the veteran quickly shook his head again and said, "No, how can it be a donkey?" ”
The dragon continued to hover in the air, much to the surprise of the Lion King and his men, but also a hint of horror. As the distance lengthened, the figure of the Xilong gradually disappeared into the blue sky on the Ten Thousand Caves Mountain.
The wind in the air whistled by, and the evening dragon soon flew to the edge of Wanguo Mountain, where there was a sea of pine trees and trees. The dragon suddenly saw that his men, the donkeys, had also grown wings, and were at the edge of the forest, bewildered, and not far away, the soldiers who were escorting them in a panic were watching them in astonishment......
"Can you hear me?" A familiar voice echoed in Xilong's ears.
"What sound, hallucination? Too familiar, could it be her? …… Alas...... Hallucination! ”
"My time is limited, you have to help me, I'm imprisoned, a strange place, but I don't know who and why I'm imprisoned, but there are only two people who can imprison me, one is the Dark Lord and the other is the Sea Dead King! …… They may join forces...... Only my spiritual power can restrain them! …… Come to me! Changes in your body...... It's me ......," but the voice quickly died out again.
"It's Feng Jing'er!" Shiryu realized, "Looks like she's in trouble!" ”
"Oops, not good!" Xilong was not careful, and almost hit a cliff on the opposite side, he quickly turned around and flew in the direction of the lion king, "It's not an illusion, even the goddess of creation is in trouble, and the strength of the other party has long exceeded imagination!" I have to inform the Lion King as soon as possible! ”
Under the care of several doctors, the lion king gradually got better, he looked at the position of the disappeared Xilong figure in the air with concern again, and after a while, gradually, the figure of the Xilong appeared in the lion king's sight again!
Seeing the sunset dragon soaring in the air, the lion king suddenly felt a sadness, "What will happen if I become a donkey?" Will you accept your fate so calmly? ”
The sunset dragon quickly landed at the lion king's side, and the surrounding doctors and soldiers immediately retreated behind the lion king.
"Lord Wang! It seems that our trouble is not only in Wanguo Mountain! As he spoke, he folded his wings, and the two wings seemed to become his two "arms", and he even used these two "arms" to make a gesture for the lion king. And those two "hands" are undoubtedly as chilling as the wolf claws of a werewolf!
"Lord Wang, do you remember what I told you about Green Bamboo Mountain?" Yuryu reminded.
The Lion King nodded and said, "You mean the Goddess of Creation clan!" Hey, this matter is embarrassing for you, is your change related to her? ”
"Yes, she may have been trapped by the Dark Lord or the Sea Dead King, and used the last of her strength to send me a message, just when I was flying in the air just now."
"The Dark Lord? The Sea Dead King? Isn't that all folklore? That's from the stories I heard from the old people when I was a child! The lion king said in surprise.
"No, they are all real, they are only suppressed by the forces of justice and have to hide, in fact, their mana was limited in the magic war thousands of years ago, but recently I don't know what happened, their power has grown, and they are ready to move, even the goddess of creation they can limit their mana. Looks like they must have some means! ”
The Lion King stroked his half-white beard and thought for a while, then said, "Xilong, can you tell me all the things you know about that magic battle a thousand years ago!" ”
"Of course you can, I still heard about it from Master! But I can only roughly say that, after all, this was a thousand years ago, and many things are spread by falsehood, and they may have long lost their original appearance! ”
"It doesn't matter, history is born in the midst of false rumors!" The lion king encouraged Xilong just like he once encouraged his own son, which made the lion king suddenly think of Shi Cheng and Shi Jie, "It's been a long time since I heard from these brothers!" The Lion King thought to himself.
"Okay, I'll tell you what I know about the last magic war, Lord, you have gone through many years of war, you have read a lot of books, and your vision and vision are far beyond those of us who only exorcise demons. In the face of the increasingly complicated world of exorcism, I also feel very confused, and I hope that the prince can guide me. ”
"Hahaha! I said, Xilong, have you learned a little flattery by following me to deal with officialdom? Hehe...... You don't have to exalt me, I'm just a fish in water in officialdom, and that's the result of the loyalty of my subordinates, but if you stand in your exorcism world, I'm just a doll! You know, I have two sons, and I'm going to make them bow down to you! The Lion King stroked his beard as he spoke, and gave a rare smile.
"Then their brothers......"
"Hey, listen to me, you don't have to worry!" The lion king knew that Xilong was worried that his two sons were the darlings of the future officialdom, and with his own big tree, Shi Cheng and Shi Jie could be like tigers in the officialdom, and following the exorcist would ruin the future, so the lion king patiently explained: "Now is the time of trouble, officialdom is corrupt, not to mention the rise of alien races and demons." The road of officialdom is no longer able to walk, I must not let my descendants rise and fall in the deceitful officialdom, I am very relieved of your character, and as soon as they come back, let them follow you! You don't have to worry about it...... Let's talk about my last magical battle! ”
Xilong knew that all the decisions of the lion king were the result of careful consideration, not to mention that the lion king had a good way to teach his sons, and his two sons were both powerful and powerful, and it was a great honor to be able to worship his disciples. So he decided to accede to the lion king's request.
The Lion King waved his hand and let the surrounding followers disperse, leaving only himself and Xilong together.
So, the dragon told the lion king about the magical war he knew about a thousand years ago, in ancient times......