East of Linyuan City, the remaining veins of Xuefeng Mountain in Hanshou County.

The native Hanshou people range from children as young as three or five years old to nearly 100 old people, and everyone knows the towering mountains in the east of the county and the unfathomable cracks in the earth under the mountains.

No one knows how that winding crack in the earth was formed, but its legend has never gone away.

The old people in Hanshou County will always shake the pu fan leisurely after tea and dinner, repeating those bizarre stories over and over again. Generations of naughty children grew up listening to these stories, and they never got tired of hearing them, and they would never tire of telling them to their children and grandchildren over and over again when they were old.

Legend has it that the great god of Pangu opened the world, and finally the flesh and blood incarnated into the earth, the backbone turned into mountains and rivers, and the blood vessels turned into the Dadu River, and it was only after tens of millions of years that today's great rivers and mountains were gradually formed. Therefore, the mountains cannot be moved, and the rivers cannot be intercepted, otherwise it will be blasphemy, and natural disasters will be imminent.

The crack in the ground that I don't know how long it has existed, the old people say that it was the dragon clan that later dominated the world and blasphemed the body of the Pangu god, and the entire dragon clan was damned, either imprisoned in those abysses, or crushed and suppressed under the mountains and rivers, and there were many flat lands like open gluttonous mouths, devouring those dragons on the earth who had no fear and only knew how to act recklessly.

And the crack under the remaining veins of Xuefeng Mountain is a buried dragon valley, the buried dragon valley is unfathomable, the bottom of the valley is full of dragon bones, and there are piles of gold and silver treasures scattered into rivers. There is also a glorious temple suppressed in the valley, destroying its dragon body, trapping its soul for thousands of years, and suffering all kinds of torture until it disappears.

Every time after talking about these myths and legends, the old people will always add a sentence very sternly: "Don't go treasure hunting, I don't know how many people have been there, none of them have come back, don't be greedy, be in awe." ”

Maybe it's the protection of the gods, maybe it's the awe that has been passed down from generation to generation that makes the residents of Hanshou know how to be grateful, know how to protect the environment, and never fish in a fixed way, so that the residents live and work in peace and contentment for generations, have a long lifespan, and the sight of centenarians can be seen everywhere, and there is also a saying that "the Han Dynasty has a long life".

Hidden Dragon Valley.

On the hundred-step bluestone slab of the ladder to the sky, Jiang Ge was panting, and the strong Lian Shanyang was retching on his stomach, and Lie Shanyuan was still standing aside with a playful smile, glancing at Jiang Ge who was constantly wiping his sweat from time to time. And the huge Kui Stone is still slowly climbing up step by step, with great difficulty.

Jiang Ge, who thought it was just an ordinary climbing stone step, suffered from huge resistance and pressure when he quickly rushed to the first step of the climbing ladder, and thought that the stone steps could rush to the top of the mountain in one go, but only after climbing just a hundred steps of the stairs, he was already weak and had to sit on the ground to recover his strength.

Lian Shanyang, who also climbed hundreds of steps, wanted to keep up with Jiang Ge's speed, but he didn't want to get tired and collapsed, so he barely managed to maintain the frequency of his front and back feet with Jiang Ge.

However, it is Lie Shanyuan, slowly going up step by step, so it seems to be at ease.

Jiang Ge sincerely asked Lie Shanyuan for advice when he reached the hundred steps, and Lie Shanyuan, who would have continued to climb the ladder, looked at Lian Shanyang with disdain when he retched, and looked at Jiang Ge with disdain before stopping and talking about the legend of Hanshou.

After listening to Lie Shanyuan's narration, Jiang Ge suddenly realized and asked, "Is the legend true?" The reason why this ladder is so difficult to climb is because the natural gods are overwhelmed? ”

Lian Shanyang, who had recovered a little, continued: "Brother Jiang is really hidden, the younger brother admires, this legend is true, and this ladder is the only way out of this Hidden Dragon Valley, the dragon clan is naturally overwhelmed, it is almost impossible to escape through this ladder, and other lives will also be affected by its victory." ”

Jiang Ge then understood why this stone step was so difficult to climb, and then asked: "Why didn't the three clan brothers tell the younger brother before, this is to make the younger brother deliberately make a fool." ”

Kui Shi, who was only about ten steps away, said with a deep and deep smile: "Brother Jiang, don't be angry, Sanyuan and the goat are just joking with you." ”

"Three yuan? Goat? Hahaha! After listening to Kui Kui Shi's simple explanation, he looked at Lie Shanyuan, who had lost his yin and yang weirdness, and then looked at Lian Shanyang, who looked embarrassed, and laughed out of tears while holding his stomach, eager to roll down from the hundred steps.

Kui Shi then introduced in a serious manner: "We grew up together when we were young, they called me Xiaoshi, Lie Shanyuan nicknamed Sanyuan, and Lianshanyang nicknamed Goat. In the future, Brother Jiang can also call us that. ”

Lian Shanyang, who was sitting on the stone steps and had returned to normal, said: "Actually, everyone hid it from you before, and they also wanted to test whether the patriarch was exaggerating and deliberately boasting. We don't believe it either, after all, our family's strength is still there, and it's no problem to take one or two people from Chang'an back to Jiangnan. ”

Jiang Ge said in disbelief: "Climb a stone staircase and you will recognize me?" No, Sanyuan has never given me a good face. ”

Although Lie Shanyuan lost his yin and yang weirdness, he still looked arrogant, and after hearing Jiang Ge's question, he replied coldly: "I thought the rumors were untrue before, so I was more disgusted, but today you can rush to the top of the hundred steps in one go without any preparation, which is enough to show that your strength is not bad." ”

Jiang Ge asked with a confused expression, "Why?" ”

Lie Shanyuan kicked Lian Shanyang, who was sitting a little impatiently, and said, "Stinky goat, your mouth is broken, you can come." ”

Even Shanyang was not annoyed and then explained: "This ladder to the sky has a total of 10,000 and one steps, the dragon clan has a short temperament, and they are even more angry after being trapped in the Hidden Dragon Valley, and they all want to break free of the shackles in one go, so this ladder is strong when it is strong, the stronger the impact, the stronger the countermeasures, the stronger the life strength of the ladder, the more powerful it is to be defeated." ”

Jiang Ge said with such an expression on his face: "No wonder the faster I thought about it just now, the harder I was hindered. ”

Lian Shanyang continued: "That's it, so you can climb here in one breath to prove that your strength is true, when we first came, we didn't know the height of the sky, and we could only climb to about fifty steps in one breath, even now, I tried my best to barely follow you to climb here, you haven't reached the limit, but I don't have the slightest strength to continue to climb up." ”

Jiang Ge nodded and looked at Lie Shanyuan and Kui Shi with an inquiring eye, and Lian Shanyang said when he saw this: "Sanyuan, if you are like this, you will only be seventy or eighty steps, and the small stone will be around one hundred and thirty steps." ”

Hearing Lian Shanyang's introduction, Jiang Ge was completely dumbfounded, the most powerful of these three people was actually this mountain-like Kui Shi, and the arrogant Lie Shanyuan was the worst, and Lian Shanyang around him was almost the same as himself. completely subverted the previous conjecture in Jiang Ge's heart.

Jiang Ge's heart gradually brightened, and there were still a few questions that were the focus, so he continued to ask seriously: "Little brother remembers that there was nothing special when he came, and the places he passed through were also ordinary, since it is a legendary place, it shouldn't be so easy to enter, right?" Also, why is it not difficult for Sanyuan to come up at all? Also, above this staircase is what you call Phoenix Mountain? What's on the mountain? Last question, is the huge palace in front of us the legendary palace? Have you ever been in? What kind? ”

Listening to Jiang Ge crackling and asking questions, Lie Shanyuan grinned and said, "Why do you have so many questions, go to the top of the mountain first, and then let the goat answer you on the way." ”

After speaking, Lie Shanyuan took a step forward and walked up step by step.

Kui Shi touched his head and said embarrassedly: "Why don't you two let it go, and the little stone will go up first?" ”

Looking at Jiang Ge, who was in a daze, Lian Shanyang stood up and patted the dust and said: "Hahaha, don't be surprised, as long as you don't use internal force, just like ordinary people, you won't have the feeling of being overwhelmed, haven't you noticed after resting for so long?" Let's walk up slowly, talking as we go. ”

Jiang Ge, who came back to his senses, thought about it carefully and found that it was really the case. So he also stood up and patted the dust, Jiang Ge and Lian Shanyang were in parallel, and Kui Kuishi followed behind the two.

After trying to walk more than a dozen steps, Jiang Ge determined that as long as he did not use the internal force in his body, there would be no restrictions and resistance at all. Then he deliberately used the internal force of the exercises in his body, and the huge pressure would instantly envelop him.

Jiang Ge, who felt that it was extremely magical, walked around for a while and tried it, and felt the power of victory at different stages. At this time, Jiang Ge was as happy as if he had found a toy that he couldn't put down.

When the three of them walked slowly to the top of the mountain, Lian Shanyang explained Jiang Ge's questions one by one, and Jiang Ge, who was playing, couldn't help but nod while listening to Lian Shanyang's explanation, just like the first time the mountain boy listened to the old man talk about those unpredictable myths and legends, fresh and interesting.

It turned out that the road into Qianlong Valley was thirty miles outside Hanshou County outside a small village, Jiang Ge and his entourage remembered the road clearly, it was indeed through a village, and before they walked to a stick of incense, they saw a small canyon like a mountain crack, and there was a turquoise stream flowing out of the canyon, and everyone also followed the bluestone road next to the creek for more than half an hour before they saw the huge palace.

Lian Shanyang said that in fact, ordinary people couldn't see the environment where Jiang Ge and the others were when they came in, so they would go directly up a mountaineering staircase, and finally walk to the other side of the mountain.

But there are also some people who will walk in front of the stone pillar in the Hidden Dragon Valley by mistake, and these people will stay in that hall all the time.

Speaking of which, Jiang Ge was curious about why a small number of people would come in and not be able to get out. And he can go out from the ladder to the sky.

Xiao Shi explained this problem innocently, there are actually very few people who come in by mistake, and the ordinary people who can come in are attracted by greed, and the greed of the dragon clan is also the original sin of suffering from the catastrophe. Therefore, those small number of people were deceived by this big array as the remnants of the dragon clan because of their original sin, and then suppressed for life.

And this place is similar to the White Pagoda on the side of Taohuawu, only people of the direct blood of the four clans can enter smoothly.

As for what's in that palace, they haven't entered it, and they can't get in, so the three of them don't know what's inside.

And the Phoenix Mountain above the 10,000 steps is particularly mysterious, even Shanyang said that there is everything on the Phoenix Mountain, just like this 10,000-step climbing ladder, every time you climb a ladder, you will encounter different scenes and different things, some good and some bad. If you don't pass the test at that time, you will return to the first scene, and you will not be able to enter it again. It takes a while before they can go in again, and even Shanyang they don't know how long it will take, it's only been half a year since the last time they went in, and even the three of Shanyang will try it a few times a month in this half a year.

This time, he happened to take Jiang Ge to try his luck, and Lian Shanyang said embarrassedly: "I didn't tell you what Phoenix Mountain was like before, it's really hard to say, because it's like a dream, everyone encounters it differently." Sanyuan and Xiaoshi are different from what I have experienced. So there's no way to tell you exactly what it looks like. You haven't been, so you don't know what it's like until you go yourself. ”

After listening to Lian Shanyang's introduction, the light of expectation shining in Jiang Ge's eyes was the same miracle as the White Tower?

What awaits you?

Jiang Ge looked up at the place where he was addicted to the clouds on the bluestone steps, and there seemed to be a crisp phoenix chirping.