Chapter 7: Severe Winter
As the day dawned, people began to get up, and there was a humanitarian voice: "The wolf has been defeated by us!" Someone stabbed his sword into the dying wolf and said, "We are the last to survive!" Quack sighed: "After this test, the rest of the people are the elite of my clan's heroes!" "Youqu also gathered his own knights, but only one person was killed, and everyone was very sentimental. Ga Ga ordered people to collect wolf skins, claiming that the harsh winter was coming, and brought back the tribe to make clothes, and Youqu followed Ga back to Xianbei Mountain to celebrate his achievements in the stone chamber.
Good wine, beautiful women, always make people so happy. The Baiyi tribe, which respects the strong, knows that the fierce wolves in the wilderness can be defeated by the heroes, and this time there is a higher meaning for the heroes!
Ga Ga said to the right channel: "This time we defeat the wolf clan, it won't be long before we will shock the people of the world and become famous!" Right channel: "In the future, there will be people moving to that place, and nothing will harass the people anymore!" Ga Ga said: "Brother Youqu is different from what I think, what I think of is the honor of my own clan, and Brother Youqu thinks of the people!" As he spoke, he laughed, and the hearty quack made people call for beautiful women and add fine wine.
Ga Ga said to the right channel: "There is a vast black land in the Void North, gathering great people, surrounding the Tianchi Holy Domain, Brother Youqu, I heard that the Mourning Emperor is a very great person, east to Bazhou, west to the wilderness and desert, how can anyone not know his authority, I don't know if he can lead the people of the Void North to enter the Shenzhou!" Youqu said with a smile: "Brother, the situation in Shenzhou is gradually stabilizing, and I have missed the opportunity." Quack sighed: "Winter is coming, winter is coming!" Youqu asked, "Isn't it common for the four seasons to change when winter comes?" Ga Ga said: "Brother Youqu doesn't know, from me to the north, is the hometown of Emperor Xuanwu, where the perennial winter, the sky is cold, more and more cold, and there is a tendency to spread!" One day, the entire Void North will become a perennial winter! Right channel: "There is such a strange phenomenon in the world!" Ga Ga said: "Because of this, if the Void North Lords of the past dynasties thought of going east and west, or going south to enter the Divine State, but they never thought of going north, if it weren't for the harsh winter of the north, the Void North Lord would have opened up more holy lands long ago!" ”
Youqu asked Gaga: "There is a legend about the land of severe winter!" "It is rumored that in the early days, although the far north was an extremely cold continent, but when the season comes, the continent will dissolve and turn into an ocean, but now, there is only an indefinite winter, inhabited by an ancient tribe, that is, the cavemen, their eyesight is very good, they can see the stars in the sky during the day!" ”
Right channel: "Although we people are coming for the wolf, in fact, the real purpose is to understand the world, I want to go north to the Xuanwu hometown to have a look, and visit the ancient and civilized cavemen!" Quack waved his hand at everyone, and the dancers and women stepped back. Youqu said to his knights: "I decided, we go north to visit the cavemen of the ancient civilization and learn about the Xuanwu homeland, we don't want rumors, we want to really understand it, I don't want to bring us fear because of our ignorance, let alone pass on this ignorance from generation to generation, we have to open it and take a look, only heroes who take risks for honor can do it!" The knights raised their swords in response.
Before leaving, Ga Ga prepared a suit made of wolf skins for the group of Youqu, which kept them warm. Went north and stepped into the Xuanwu homeland. It was an endless snowfield, the wind and snow never stopped, they went all the way north, at first they could occasionally see black trees, black mountains, black creatures, and gradually they became white, and they could not see anything, if it were not for the sun, they might have lost their way, they would have lost their way, they would have lost their way, they would have lost their sights, they could not see the edge at a glance, they had no cover, but there was a danger hidden.
Several snow leopards stared at this group of people and horses, crawling closer, the right canal felt bad, ordered everyone to stop advancing, everyone raised their swords and watched, the snow leopard couldn't help but let out a hungry cry, vigilantly approaching, everyone was in a cold sweat, didn't it be early to find out, these beasts and the snow field are mixed, how dangerous! Someone shot an arrow at the snow leopard, only to see it dodge quickly, break the deadlock, and rush towards the crowd en masse. Everyone raised their swords and slashed, fighting with the snow leopard in one place. Seeing that a companion was pounced on by the snow leopard and his throat was immediately bitten off, the snow leopard was greedy and smelled blood, so angry that he yelled in the right channel, and took this opportunity to kill the agile snow leopard.
When the battle was over, and everyone was saddened by the loss of a companion, the right ditch buried him and continued north. After an unknown number of days and nights, during the day they used the sun to discern the direction, they were used to the cold, and at night they would dig a hole in the ground and hide in it and look at the Big Dipper to sleep.
One morning, they were awakened by a sudden shock, a huge beast appeared in front of them, the right canal fixed his eyes, this beast and the Xianbei Mountain met the brown squirt is about the same size, but this beast is snow-white, there is no variegation, someone said loudly: "What a big white bear, the harsh winter is coming, don't it want to hibernate?" Right channel: "What a beautiful fur, everyone be careful, don't damage the fur!" So, he fought with the white bear, and for a long time he was in a hurry, and some of his companions were agile, and a sword pierced through the white bear's brain, only to see it fall to the ground, and cry for his life.
The right canal organized people to skin the bear, lit a fire, roasted the bear's paws, and some companions took bear bile, put it in the snow, and put it in their pockets after it was frozen hard. Just as the bears in the right canal were hungry, they saw a sleigh pulled by two elk speeding in the distance.
The sleigh stopped at the group of people in the right canal, and a young man came down, dressed like an ordinary person, but his eyes were white, and he said: "Warriors, I saw you take a beautiful white bear's fur a hundred miles away, and I don't know if you can sell it to me!" Youqu asked, "You can see us a hundred miles away?" Do you know where we came from? The man smiled and said, "You should have come from Xianbei Mountain, thousands of miles away!" Right channel: "You're a caveman!" The man smiled and said, "That's right, I'm a caveman, my name is Bach, I live in the caves, and I'm a merchant!" Right channel: "What are you going to exchange for this white bear's fur!" Bach took a closer look at the bearskin's condition, and then said, "I'm willing to pay a piece of gold!" Then he looked proudly at the right canal, but there was no joy on the right canal, and said, "We don't want gold and silver, I want you to take us to the cave city and meet the lord there!" When he heard this, he was overjoyed, and he agreed, and then set out on the road.
The cave group city is in a valley in the far north, looking at it from afar, you can see the cooking smoke rising everywhere, people dig deep into the snow layer, use the crypt to create countless snow houses, the four walls of the valley, all are the caves where people live, the caves and caves have created a veritable cave group city, it is very spectacular, and the right canal is all amazed.
Follow the Bach into the city, the people here behave the same as ordinary people, but their eyes are white, there are many hunters here, they only need to look at the top of the mountain before they set off, they know where to go today, they will be harvested, they are clairvoyants.
The group of Youqu soon met the lord here. The lord was an old wise man, hundreds of years old, and his beard was as white as the snowfield. Youqu respectfully saluted and said: "Old man, we are the people of the Jizi Royal Court, the Baiyi tribe said that the extreme north of Xuanwu's hometown is a perennial harsh winter, but this harsh winter will spread to the entire Xubei sooner or later, and now Youqu came to want to know the reason!" ”
The old man smiled slightly, two longevity eyebrows lined his white eyes, he looked to the north, and said to himself: "In ancient times, the Void North was a place to gather the souls of the dead, which could surpass all living beings, and it was a holy area, so the Xuanwu Emperor was born here, and great people could be brewed. Severe winters are perennial in this extreme north, and as for the spread of severe winters, the gates of hell are to blame! One of the crowd exclaimed, "Hell! Am I close to hell? The old man said: "Of course, have people forgotten that before Xuanwu was promoted to Heavenly Emperor, he established an army of revenants in Xubei and participated in the battle of the Five Emperors!" The place where he gathered the souls of the dead was naturally also the place of hell reincarnation! ”
Youqu asked, "Is there a connection between the harsh winter and the gates of hell?" The old man said: "The gates of hell are moderately open, except for the far north, the world will have four distinct seasons, spring flowers will bloom in spring, and in winter it will experience severe cold." If the gates of hell are too wide and all the bad things in the world are taken away, then the world will also experience the spread of a harsh winter, and if the gates of hell are opened smaller and full of evil, then the world will experience heat and fire. Right channel: "According to the old man's words, the gates of hell are constantly opening wide, and we need to close them!" ”
After hearing this, the old man smiled and said: "How can it be so easy, go north again, you will meet a sea of lava, there are two big ice opening and closing on it, I have seen it, at this moment the flame demon is opening these two ice, this is the gate of hell!" Youqu heard very clearly, packed his bags and prepared to embark on the journey.
The old man arranged an elk sleigh for everyone in the right canal, and drove it all the way. After a few days, I gradually felt that sometimes there was a heat wave, sometimes a cold wind blowing, and the cold and heat were mixed. Another day passed, and they came to the lava sea.
Standing on the shores of the lava coast, he saw a strange man with flames in the lava trying to push the ice in an attempt to expand the lava sea. Youqu said loudly: "Flame Demon! I'm here for you! The strange man looked back, and saw a crowd of people, and flew out, and without looking at it, said, "What are you doing?" Youqu smiled and said, "We are here to correct your mistakes, the hell gate is open to the wrong size!" The Flame Demon said angrily, "I have been instructed to carry out the priesthood, and I will use you to control right and wrong!" Right channel: "The instructions are always right, you are wrong!" The Flame Demon said, "Impossible! Right channel: "Can you feel the heat wave of the lava sea?" I can, because you continue to open, the world is already hot! I guess that's not the way it is! The Flame Demon said: "Impossible, the hell gate is opened wider, and the world will be colder!" You Qu laughed and said: "Have you been to the vast world, have you traveled to the world, have you ever been to Shenzhou, you are a person who refuses to change without being punished!" When the Flame Demon heard Youqu say this, he began to doubt, "It's not that I've always been wrong!" Looking at Youqu's righteous appearance, he doubted himself more and more.
After thinking about it for a while, the Flame Demon suddenly conjured a chain in his hand, threw it to hook another piece of ice, and tried to pull it, trying to make the door close a little.
Seeing that the flame demon believed it, Youqu glanced at his entourage, got on the sleigh and ran without looking back for a few days and nights, and when they saw the cave city, they dared to speak and laugh. Everyone asked Youqu how he came up with the idea of deceiving the Flame Demon, and the Right Channel: "As soon as I arrived at the Hell Gate, I knew that this door could not be opened and closed by our buddy brothers, so I had the kid of the Flame Demon, so I had an idea to deceive him!" Everyone praised: "Youqu Gongzi is really a civil and military all-rounder!" Youqu sighed: "You don't know how scared I am in my heart, you can see how violent the flame demon is, I am afraid of being a gangster, and I will get angry and leave our buddies and brothers behind, we have not been out for a long time, and we have lost two brothers, and my greatest wish is that the rest of my buddies and brothers go home together!" The crowd was moved.
Outside the cave city, the old wise man had already seen them returning, so he came out early to wait for them, replenished their food, praised the bravery of the Youqu group, and returned to Xianbei Mountain without stopping.