Chapter 9: The Essence of Fire

I held him on my feet and staggered through the ankle-length snow.

"Where is the Heavenly Palace?" I asked as I walked, panting, wading through the snow with a lot of effort. The sun was about to set, and we had walked for a long time, and a layer of frost had formed on his long eyelashes.

"North of Tianxiang, in Tianbo City, the distance from us should be six hundred miles......"

"Six hundred miles?" I hadn't gone far before my legs went weak at the sight of the number, and I reached out and touched his back, "Can your wings be conjured again?" ”

He shook his head in response to me, and continued to struggle. His appearance is set off by the snow, which is even more thrilling..... I didn't consciously covet a little, I tiptoed and wrapped the shawl on my shoulders around his neck, covering half of his face in a circle: "It's safer, isn't it?" "I said to myself.

The mountains and valleys are in the wilderness of the south, and we need to go all the way north......

It was dark, the moon was shining against the snow, it was not dark at all, there were already lights ahead, and there was an inn cloth banner.

I asked him for his opinion: "Do we need to rest?" ”

"No, you don't. Go to the front inn and ask if there is a carriage. "He commanded me.

This must be a naturally proud person...... Began to command me so soon......

"Then you walk slowly. I'll go ask first. I let go of his sleeves and ran briskly in the direction of the inn, looking back at him from time to time, and he walked calmly with his head bowed slightly......

The inn is not dilapidated, local materials, stone as the base, wood as the body, can shelter the wind and snow, I look ahead, in the north of the inn hundreds of miles of lights gathered, it should be a village or town or something.

The inn was simple and there was no plaque, there was a trembling lamp inside, the cloth was worn and ragged, I pushed open the closed door, the door was still cold by the cold iron, the coldness seemed to soak the bones in an instant, I clenched my hands tightly, and shouted: "Is there anyone?" I looked up at the inn, the dim light shone on the simple tables and chairs, there was a cabinet in front of it, the blessing with gold characters on a red background had turned white, and there was a row of wooden signs without words nailed behind the cabinet, and a strange red rope was tied under the wooden signs...... At this time, the cabinet in front of me suddenly moved, I instinctively took a step back, at this time, a tall man in a green shirt stood up, he was in a daze as if he had just woken up: "Staying in the hotel?" He asked.

"Do you have a carriage here?" I was vigilant, one stepping on the door, ready to flee at the first danger.

The man continued to collapse behind the counter before he could finish talking to me, and said lazily, "No." ”

The atmosphere here was so weird, I withdrew from the inn, the door closed instantly, and the moment the door closed, I saw the cold eyes cast from inside, I couldn't help but feel cold, I looked back, Spring and Autumn had followed......

"There are no carriages here." I spoke to him. He looked at the inn door with complicated eyes, as if he saw the horror hidden in my eyes.

"Let's go." He moved forward on his own, having adapted to balance without arms.

I followed him, cautiously looking back as I walked, and just as I was slowly falling, something suddenly fell in front of me, and the snow on the ground seemed to be blown up, and the snowflakes hit my face, thin and deep scars.....

At this moment, Spring and Autumn stood in front of me, the red light rose under his feet and instantly hit the stabbing snowflakes, time seemed to stop instantly, everything around us was frozen, and we seemed to be in a huge ice-colored flower with buds waiting to bloom.......

"Haven't you run out of power?" I asked him nervously about the unknown danger.

"It's something you're born with, an instinct to survive." He turned to stare in the direction of the inn. I only heard a burst of yin and yang laughter echoing in the cold night...... I followed the prestige, and on the roof of the inn stood a man like a madman, with long and short hair, stubble and black and white almost half of his face, many star totems on his body, holding a dagger with cold light in his right hand, and holding the strange wooden sign nailed in the inn in his left hand, he looked down at the wooden card and laughed: "Unexpectedly, I just got out of the palace, and I received a big surprise...... " He turned his head to look at Chunqiu, his eyes were full of murderous energy, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was very joking......

"Does he know you?" I stood in front of Chunqiu and asked.

"Acquaintance."

"The king of Tianxiang is really clever in this trick of waiting for the rabbit......." He rushed over with a dagger in hand, I instinctively rushed towards him, grabbed his dagger like lightning, we were frozen in mid-air, his shot to me was very different: "The eyes of the beast...... Interesting....... "I didn't have the heart to listen to anything he said, I yanked his dagger hard, and grabbed his throat with my other hand, and he immediately gave up the dagger and leaned back to avoid my attack."

"Let's go!" I reminded Chunqiu Dao.

"Huh...... No one can leave......" The strange man threw the wooden sign to the ground, and suddenly, tongues of fire grew madly in the snow and surrounded Spring and Autumn Regiment......

I broke free from this strange man, and one rolled over and landed in front of Chunqiu, who seemed to be very afraid of these tongues of fire......

"You can trust my instincts too." I turned and carried him on my back, his head resting on my shoulder, I took advantage of the earth, jumped violently, jumped out of the tongue of fire, I carried him, ran forward with difficulty, I was too short, his legs were too long, from time to time he would hold up on the ground, and after a while, both of us fell to the ground, and I did not intend to see flesh in the fingertips of my right hand...... I hit him......

I turned around and said happily to Chunqiu, "I hit him and stabbed him in the neck!" My tone was proud, like an invitation to merit.

Chunqiu didn't praise me, nor did he urge me to run away quickly, but recited a sentence in a trance: "Fire marrow ......"

"What fire marrow, what's wrong with you?" I approached him worriedly, but he was still in a trance, and I couldn't care so much about it, so I continued to run forward with my back on my back..... Instinct, the instinct to survive, I wouldn't have known that I could run so far with someone much taller than myself on my back if it weren't for the crisis...... I didn't dare to look back, I didn't dare to delay, I didn't know if the person I stabbed would have a stronger instinct than me...... At this moment, I suddenly felt a pain in my chest, I looked down at my chest while running, a tongue of fire pierced out of my chest, I continued to move forward, but found that the strength was like being swallowed, I was getting more and more tired, more and more weak, I fell to the ground, the knife-like pain in my chest seemed to twist my internal organs together, I turned my head to look at Chunqiu, he had fainted, and the tongue of fire penetrated the two of us from behind, and the shot was really ruthless and crisp...... I gritted my teeth, and the crazy man appeared in front of me, bleeding from his neck, and laughing at me playfully: "Such a powerful little beast should stay in a cage...... Suddenly my eyes went dark, and I didn't know anything......