Modong Qinglong Mountain • Jumang Valley

For thousands of years, Qinglong Mountain has been named a forbidden mountain by generations of monarchs of the Moguo Kingdom. All the people of the desert country are not allowed to enter the mountains, and the dead are buried in the mountains. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, they are buried in turn according to the official status of the family before their death.

The reason for the ban is not that the mountains and rocks are barren and strong, the mountain roads are steep and difficult to walk, nor that there are countless souls buried in the mountains, which are sacred and inviolable. The real reason why Qinglong Mountain has been banned from entering the whole country by the monarch of the Moguo Kingdom for thousands of years has to start with a plant called Strongwood Grass.

It is rumored that thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Desert Kingdom originated in this Qinglong Mountain Range.

In ancient times, a heavenly fire descended on the world, burning all the birds and animals, and burning the grain and corn. The Qinglong Mountain Range, which was originally rich and beautiful, was burned to the point that no grass was growing, and the mountains and rocks were prominent. The ancestors of the desert country were hungry, famine and epidemic, and almost wiped out. The desert people are simple and simple, their beliefs are pious, and they gather the whole clan of magic warriors under the cauldron and set up an altar to sacrifice to the god Vermilion. Fruit saw that on the second day, on the gray-brown rock crust of Qinglong Mountain, countless green and tender fairy grasses grew.

The desert people were overjoyed and deeply felt the grace of heaven, and the whole clan fed on this grass. After taking the fairy grass, I only feel that it is easy to breathe, and the blood is clear, and it turns out that the fairy grass has the miraculous effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life. The country of Moguo was greatly shaken, and from then on, it moved down the mountain, reclaimed the wasteland, built and raised troops, and became a powerful empire that unified the southern Xinjiang of the Central Plains within a hundred years.

However, the desert people, who had just embarked on the road of rejuvenation, found that when the generation that had taken the fairy grass to expand the territory grew old and died, the corpses would turn into ashes and scatter at the same time as their hearts stopped, and they would disappear into invisibility. Hearing this, King Mo was shocked, and deeply felt that the ancestors had violently destroyed the immortal grass and disrespected the gods, causing the wrath of the heavens. Then he ordered the whole country not to enter Qinglong Mountain again, and gave the fairy grass the name of "strong heart" to show the taboo.

After that, the desert people worked hard to strengthen the country, but no one set foot in Qinglong Mountain half a step.

In the blink of an eye, Moguo has become the largest country in southern Xinjiang. Its mountains, rivers and cities, rich in products, gradually attracted the barbarians of the northern Xinjiang to covet. However, in a few years, it has become a group of wolves. Although the population of Moguo is large, for thousands of years, it has only attached importance to poetry and art, developed agriculture and mulberry civil engineering, and neglected military defense and border protection. Now it has attracted the jealousy of other countries, and they have divided and attacked it, and they have been defeated and retreated, and they are vulnerable.

King Mo suddenly repented and ordered the whole country to raise horses and cast iron, and increase the conscription, but it was too late to realize it. Seeing that the national strength was plummeting and declining, and the city was lost one after another, when it was in danger, some scholars encouraged the ministers to advise the king of Mo to reopen Qinglong Mountain, and ordered the soldiers and generals to take the heart grass, so as to greatly increase the strength of the army to solve the urgent need. Forced by the situation, the king of Mo hesitated and finally decided to turn his back on the ancestors' legacy, and after a thousand years, he once again opened the mountain to collect grass, and handed it over to the priests to make pills and distribute them to all the soldiers.

Sure enough, this method had an immediate effect, and the scattered desert soldiers became fierce and unstoppable overnight.

Under the strong attack of the tactics of the sea of people in the desert country, all the barbarians were defeated one after another, and they did not dare to attack again. However, the monarch of the desert country, who had regained stability, still had lingering palpitations, and was only afraid of the recurrence of the war. Above the court, the ministers debated fiercely for three days and three nights. In the early morning of the fourth day, the edict was promulgated all over the world—

One is that the national strength of the desert country was empty after the war, and the talents withered. It is necessary to train scribes and develop the military at the same time. Men must devote themselves to practicing martial arts and literature, and women will also engage in medical arts and weaving, and the whole country will be diligent and do not support idlers. The second is to look up to the ancient relics, the Qinglong Holy Mountain should be re-sealed, still respected as a forbidden mountain, the people of the country are buried in the mountain after their deaths, and they are blessed by the gods and gods, and they will bless future generations. However, the indifferent people must return to the old custom of eating the heart pill, which is regularly distributed by the imperial court according to the population every year to strengthen the country's capital.

The edict was issued, and the whole country was in an uproar. Everyone among the people said that although the heart pill can give birth to the skin, it also eats people's souls, which is a warning from the god Suzaku to the ancestors of the desert country. During the war, due to the safety of the family and the country, the soldiers had to use it. Now that thousands of miles are surrendered, the world is peaceful and prosperous, and it is absolutely impossible to use this as a monster in the world.

Even if the people are in a boil, the government acts in accordance with the law, and if there is resistance, it will be suppressed. The royal family, courtiers and generals vigorously promoted it, and the soldiers took the lead and resolutely obeyed the grass. Over time, a dispute between the government and the people, which is not big or small, also naturally subsided, and a few strokes were hastily recorded in the general history of the desert, and disappeared with the torrent of time, and no descendants were elegant......

The vicissitudes of the sea, the clouds have passed for thousands of years.

Tonight's Qinglong Mountain is still majestic. The scarcity of plants in the mountains and the thousand-year-old ban have made the birds and beasts of Qinglong Mountain extinct, and only a few small yellow grasses on the steep rock walls swayed in the night wind.

I don't know when, the top of the mountain was actually split by the thunder of the sky out of a ravine, the magic axe actually cracked bigger and bigger, wide enough to build a village, deep to the surface. I don't know who, when, and by what method they went down into the valley, and lived in seclusion at the bottom of this empty valley, opening up wasteland, building houses, and digging ponds and cultivating land. Although isolated from the world, it is also quiet and self-sufficient.

If it is said that he is completely alone, but at this moment there are also uninvited guests to visit - under the cold moonlight like frost, there is a deep mouth about one person long on the two walls of the mountain rock every other zhang, it seems that the person who came to the rock body with a huge blade to penetrate the rock body step by step, and go down the steps until the bottom of the valley. The rock of Qinglong Mountain has been nourished by the essence of the sun and the moon and has stood for thousands of years, and the rock has long been as solid as steel. It shows that the internal strength of the people who come is profound, which is rare in the world, and its blades are powerful and powerful, and the edge is like King Kong.

A gust of wind swept up, and the fragrance of the valley bottom orchid lingered. The old man in white is extremely light, and the dragonfly spun lightly from the rock wall, falling to the ground, silently and without a trace. He only glanced at the wonders of the valley floor that he had seen for the first time in his life—just a small courtyard with a fence, a thatched hut under a tree, fish swimming in a pond, and the fragrance of the orchid. It seemed very different from what he had thought before.

He stared for a moment, smiled knowingly, calmed his rapid breath, gently dusted off the dust on his clothes, and bowed his hand without moving an inch, and the white clothes melted into a light and shadow floating in the valley in the moonlight without saying a word.

Inside the thatched hut, the figures reflected in the paper windows seemed to sway with the candle flame, swaying slightly. Another gust of night wind, the candle shadow in the window suddenly flickered and disappeared instantly, when the wind stopped, the owner of the house had already fluttered out, but did not drive the bamboo door to sound for half a minute. The speed of the body is like the wind in the dark night, although the person is not seen, the shadow has come with the wind. Such magical skills, even if the old man has been immersed in the rivers and lakes all his life, and has seen all the thaumaturgical magic skills, he is also stunned and amazed.

But he didn't dare to look directly at his master, secretly suppressed his astonishment, and bowed his body down as the black clouds covered the moonlight inch by inch.

The master just swept his eyes away from the old man, and looked up at the narrow sky above the canyon.

She waved her sleeves lightly, but saw that the black clouds immediately dissipated, and the cold moonlight was sprinkled into the valley again, and it was also sprinkled on the two of them.

The old man quietly raised his eyes, but saw that the master had an ordinary woman's face, and he was looking at the half-moon fixedly, as if he was in a trance. The whole body is clothed, and it is just an ordinary peasant family's dress. However, it does not lose its handsome demeanor, fairy demeanor, and has its own cold and inviolable charm. The more the old man looked at it, the more stupid he became, and he unconsciously called out in his mouth: "Qinglong Divine Monarch ......"

The woman withdrew her gaze and looked at the old man again, her eyes shining slightly, and a smile of great peace and serenity, and she replied, "Hatred." ”

"Shenjun is fine, disturbing Shenjun Qingxiu, little old man... I'm ashamed. The old man shook again, leaning down more and more.

The woman smiled peacefully, but did not say anything. Just raise his head again, look at a row of breaches on the rock wall, look from top to bottom, stop at the nearest breaches from the bottom of the valley ground ten zhang high, embedded with a huge copper double-ended long-handled quenched gold glaive knife, the big knife is deeply embedded in the rock wall, and the other end of the big knife side is chained with a hundred steel cables, the cable chain is extremely long, the chain to the other side of the rock wall, to the end of the chain there is another identical double-ended big knife, the two big knives are firmly embedded in the wall, stretched so that the middle steel cable is straight and still, across the valley.

The woman bowed slightly, but she never said a word.

"God forgives sins! It's just that the little old man is not skilled and destroys the residence of the god monarch. The old man's words were full of shame, "If it's Rong'er, I want to come... It will not come to this. ”

"Miss Rong's light skills are indeed unparalleled in the world. She has been going back and forth to this Manggu for many years, delivering news to you and me, and every time she doesn't see half of her breath unstable, and she can't even rub a trace of dust on her dress. It's just that the rivers and lakes produce talents, and Miss Rong is a hater who has been cultivated since she was a child, and she is in her prime, and she is blue, so why should you be ashamed of yourself. ”

The woman seemed to sense the old man's thoughts, and her tone became softer and softer, "It's just today, but why don't you see her, but you come in person?" ”

The old man seemed to be asked about the matter, and his words were stagnant, and he couldn't stop trembling. It took a long time to regain his composure, "This is also the reason why Xiao Lao'er is bothering Shenjun today, Rong'er... I was taken away by the Sect Master......"

"What—" The woman was startled, and her tone was slightly dark. "Is this serious?"

"It's been two months......"

"For no reason, how could Suzaku suddenly make such a big move..."The woman pondered for a moment, then looked at the old man again, her voice was as soft and kind as her demeanor, "But she showed a flaw in the matter of running for you and me, which made Suzaku suspicious?" ”

"How so? The head of the sect travels all year round and is not in the church. Jumang Valley was set up by the Divine Monarch, and there is no trace at all. Rong'er is light and good, and the time to travel back and forth between Jumang Valley and Lingguang Mountain is never more than one day. During this period, the news transmission was done by her personally, and she never faked her flying rock flag to the public......"

The old man tried his best to suppress his panicked and anxious look, and looked at the woman's old eyes but were full of begging, "The little old man can't think hard... There was really no way out, so I took the liberty to come and ask the Divine Monarch to help save the child's life! ”

"Qiu Weng said seriously, you and I have been friends for a hundred years, looking at the world, I have been at the bottom of the valley for five hundred years, how many friends can I get like you? What's more, Miss Rong was taken away by Suzaku, and no matter if she is a closed disciple who is like a daughter, she has been running around and risky in the past few years, and she has delivered news to me under Suzaku's nose. In my heart, I am really grateful and admired. Now that she's in danger, it must have something to do with me, so how could I ignore it? ”

The old man looked at the woman's clear eyes that shone with ripples, and calmed his mind for no reason. It seems that in those eyes as clear as stars, there is an endless magical power that makes people feel at ease.

"Don't be anxious, let's sort out our heads first. After all, Miss Rong is in a high position in the tail sect, and her affairs are heavy, and her words and deeds have a great impact, not to mention that she has disappeared for two months. Suzaku took the risk of the Flying Rock Banner Dragons being leaderless and took her, and that would be a matter of urgency. In his opinion, the most important things must be related to the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, and the north and south courts. Qiu Weng might as well think about it, what actions have the Tail Sect made recently? And in this outside world, are there any minor changes? ”

The moonlight is like frost, and the valley is filled with the sweet fragrance of bluegrass, which teaches people to be calm. Both of them fell silent, pondering every detail...... There is a wind in the valley, and when the steel rope is blown in the sky, it makes a low sound.