Chapter Twenty-One: Lakevalley Town
Wu Guang thinks it's time to explain the plan, but he can't guarantee that everyone will get out of the way. But unexpectedly, everyone was in favor of the plan β to sit on these barrels and go down the river.
"Seeing that you have obtained the key, we really feel that you are the one who can create miracles, even if you don't have strong spiritual power, but you have the courage and wisdom that others don't have," Qiu Feng said, "But now, it's time for us to show our strength." β
The twelve people except Wu Guang did not exactly follow his suggestion - skillfully using the mechanism to open the floodgates, but everyone opened the whole body vein gate, and in the giant spirit array where the golden light appeared, the dull sound of the resonance of the harmonic pulse array vibrated the eardrums of the people of the tree country. Janesis and the others wanted to forcibly break through the floodgates filled with psionic array marksβ
In the rapid rotation of the spirit array and the interlacing of various spiritual veins, a powerful spiritual shock wave devastatingly broke through the gate under the palace, and the gate several meters later was broken through by the joint efforts of the adventure team, and the fragments of the gate scattered in the air still had fragments of the spirit array, and the defense that should have been impregnable was wiped out.
Just as the captain and chief manager of the Hui Demon were awakened by the strong vibration, Wu Guang and the others were already riding down the turbulent river on the empty wine barrels. This change came so quickly that before Wu Guang could react, he was already carried into the barrel by Genesis, and in the laughter of the elves and the light of the torches, the huge demon palace disappeared behind him like a spark. I thought that the flaw in the plan would appear, that is, the barrels would spin in the turbulent river, but I didn't expect that under the control of these top psychics, each barrel was like a stable ship, even if it fell into the turbulent whirlpool, it could come out calmly. This was the first time Wu Guang had seen the strength of a top-level spiritual magician, just the combined attack of twelve people could break through the strongest defense of the Hui Demon, and he began to understand the reason why Andorra chose them to go to the tomb of the Black and White Emperor Star, these people were not sent to death, because no amount of dangerous difficulties could stop them.
The forests on both sides swept through his mind like lightning, and Genesis stood on the barrel and played the harmonica, the autumn wind blew the bamboo flute, and the Honglu Mountain played the pastoral flute. When the roar of the demon was heard, the beautiful palace was gone.
Descending along the river,
Float to the final place.
Leaving the halls and caves,
Leaving the high cut of the northern mountains,
The forest is wide and dark,
The trees are not light in the shadows.
The earth that floats through the trees,
Over the windswept river beach,
Over the rapids, over the overgrown weeds.
Over the river waves,
Through the white mist,
Over the valley of the night,
Follow the leaping stars,
Into the icy clouds.
Arrive before the dawn,
Arriving at our destination,
To the south, to the south,
Look for the direction of the sun.
Back to the plains and wheat fields,
Walk to the edge of the field where the sheep and cattle are flocked,
Back to the garden next to the hill,
Wild berries are ripe.
In this way, with the help of Genesis and others, they successfully passed through many woods. When they came to a place where the trees on both sides were relatively scarce, they could bargain at the pale sky when they looked up, and the dark river suddenly opened up, converging with the dense forest river flowing out of front of the Demon Gate. The surface of the river here is no longer shrouded in shadows, reflecting the clouds and stars in the sky. Then the rapids of the Jungle River washed all the barrels to the north bank, where there was a whole alluvial sandbar, and to the east it was a rock that acted as a barrier to block the flow of the river.
It was already dark, and the clothes of the people lying on the river beach had dried up, and then they looked back at the dark forest lit up by the morning light, and shouted loudly to finally escape from the place where even the white-robed mage would be swallowed.
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The sky is getting brighter and the climate is getting warmer. After a while, the river went around a cliff on the left, and at the bottom of the cliff, the torrents crashed against each other, and many white foams bubbled. Then the cliff disappeared and the trees disappeared. Wu Guang saw the scenes in front of him and recorded them in detail in his novel:
The terrain has become open, and the water kings of the rivers have flowed in all directions, some of which have settled between the islands on either side, forming small lakes, but there is still a strong main stream that continues to flow downward. Far away, in the broken clouds, is the end of the mountain they have been thinking about, the extension of the sacred mountain range!
Its mountain terrain went all the way to the southwest, passing through the entire demon world, connecting the border of the beast country, and reaching the border of the fog country. At the end of the line of sight, it towers proudly, overlooking the great wilderness in front of it. Wu Guang went through many adventures to see its end, but it didn't like it at all.
The group stayed in a nearby demon town wearing hoods and cloaks, and he listened to the conversations of passers-by, piecing together some of the information they had leaked about the current situation, and soon realized that he was lucky to only see it from a distance. After experiencing the pain of house arrest and now being able to eat in hiding, they are considered lucky. The demons who live here talk about nearby trade and the situation on the river, and also manage the nearby river banks. The Demons who once inhabited the nearby Beast Demons and the Dark Forest had to use the river as their main transportation artery, but all of this has changed a lot, and since the Dark Forest's Demons have reduced their contact with the outside world, the prosperity of the river has remained in ancient legends. Floods and heavy rains have made the eastward rivers even more turbulent, and earthquakes occur every few years, which some believe is the work of the Sacred Beast Mountains. As the swamps and woodlands on both sides of the river continued to expand, the road was obscured, and many adventurers from far and wide, whether human or demon, saw this place as a passage to a certain place. Hayon had suggested bypassing the Dark Forest and turning back from the North, but that would eventually be a train of thought, and during this time, the party discovered that the only way to reach the end of the Sacred Beast Mountain Range was through the Dark Forest and down the river.
Therefore, if they had chosen to bypass the Dark Forest, they would have had to travel for a few more months. They found an inn in the town to stay, and Yokozo spread out the parchment map he had with him on the table, and it turned out that they only needed to enter the tail of the Sacred Beast Mountain Range to find the location marked on the map.
Gradually, they began to know that the river seemed to be stretching into the distance, and on the map it seemed to lead to the tide of flowers. The beast country man Honglu Mountain had a cold nose, and the closer he got to the Holy Beast Mountain, the more he could feel the compelling aura in it. This top spiritual magician from the Sacred Beast Kingdom grew up on the Sacred Beast Mountain, and he knew very well that this mountain, which stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers, did not like anyone who trespassed into it. However, after a while, the river was slowed down by the wind, and the mountains became less fierce.
In the novel, Wu Guang records the sights he sees along the river.
By the time the river made a sharp turn to the east, the sun had already set. The edge of the lake has a steep gate like a cliff, and there are many roofs at the bottom. In this area, Wu Guang had never imagined that there would be any water other than the wreckage that seemed so vast, in fact, even the other side of the lake seemed very far away. And in the longer part of it, that is, in the direction of the Holy Beast Mountain, even the shore of the lake could not be seen. The rushing river was left behind from the mountains, and with the power of the dense forest river, the deep valley turned into a large lake. To the south of the lake, the confluence of the two rivers descends in a thousand strokes, forming a waterfall that flows to the unknown side. In the silence of the evening, they could hear a low roar from afar.
This is the strange town that the Demons mentioned. Although there are indeed a few buildings on both sides of the river, they are not built on the shore, but are located in the middle of the lake. Under the protection of a boulder, a calm area is formed in the lake. A wooden bridge leads to the middle of the lake, and a bustling town is built on wooden stakes that are fastened. It used to be inhabited by humans, but due to the outbreak of war between demons and humans, it has been occupied by peace-loving pig demons. They were forced to migrate here, far from the core of the demon clan west of the Holy Beast Mountain, reducing the needless war, and they risked being attacked at any time, barely living here and boldly living here. They lived on the land of the south, building their houses on the water in order to grow more food. This is a reference to the experience of the Terrans who once lived in Lakevalley, which was considered an economically prosperous place in the Great Wilderness at that time, and everyone had a rich and comfortable life. And the pig demon also uses this method to live a delicious life even if it is far away from the beast demon activity center. There are countless ships on the water, which are loaded with the unified currency of the demon clan, and sometimes you can see fully armed warriors, these kind and simple pig demons have a combat power comparable to that of the Hui Demon, and the legendary wars and heroic deeds of their ancestors have become legends, when the drought comes, after the lake recedes, the dilapidated ruins of the ancient town are faintly visible.
Many pig demons don't want to recall the scars of the battle, but there are still those who sing about the legend of the Black and White Emperor, which is a story about thousands of years, and the lyrics describe a girl with a flute and a parasol, and the fission of the sky. In the song, it seems that the truth that has been submerged for a long time will be revealed, and the world will usher in a new legend. However, none of this has any impact on their ordinary lives.