Chapter 53: The Beacon Fire at the Foot of the Mountain
The torches on the shore of Xuanwu Lake are bright, and the guards light the oil twist, illuminating the scene as bright as day.
The walking corpse was laid flat on the grassy beach, and the fairy world servants were carefully dissecting and examining them, while the others were around the fire and chattering and expressing their opinions, waiting for the results of the inspection.
The third prince was anxious to express his opinion first, "The red-clothed man who forced the old centipede to take poison, today's red-clothed man should be one person, at least a gang, this group of red-clothed walking corpses suddenly appeared in the Luding Mountain area, and its purpose is to disturb the order of the immortals and humans in Luding Mountain." ”
Zhu Wu nodded and said, "I agree with the third prince's statement, the walking corpse has no soul, there must be a mastermind behind them, and the important thing now is to find out who the person who manipulated the walking corpse is." ”
Cabbage Flower said: "The walking corpse that took pictures of flowers that day was indeed dressed in red. ”
Baozi said, "I'm thinking, the cultivation of these three deer immortals is only one hundred and eighty years, and they can't beat half an old centipede together." The old centipede himself admitted that day that after the appearance of the man in red, he was controlled helplessly and was forced to eat red pills. And why did you fight with these three little deer immortals for so long this time? ”
Cabbage Flower said: "More people than fewer people, more energy." ”
Zhu Wu shook his head, "No, he seems to be deliberately delaying time." ”
Baozi bowed his head slightly, "Well, you see, after we arrived, he quickly and decisively killed the three deer immortals, indicating that his purpose is to wait for us, right?" ”
"Are you trying to harm us?" The third prince asked, "Although this thing is strong in martial arts, we killed him with a Xiao Yi." ”
"How can anyone be so blatantly sending a lone wolf killer to harm a group of people?" Zhu Wu objected to this speculation, but could not come up with a more reasonable explanation.
After the inspection was completed, I came to report the results, "Today, my three servants from Ludingshanhe Shenfu and Hanging Dragon Mansion all came to the scene for inspection, which is divided into three parts: drug test, trace test, and autopsy. The drug test found that the ingredients of the red pill contained hot drugs such as cantharid, Sichuan aconitum, big black grass, upside-down cow, and artemisia on the snowstorm, as well as blood-invigorating drugs such as saffron. ”
"My God" the third prince exclaimed, "The immortal cultivator likes yin and is afraid of yang, and what he fears most is the hot and dry things, not to mention eating and drinking, even if they smell it, they can't stand it, only one thing is enough for them to suffer." ”
Baozi seems to understand that some "The man in red forced the immortal spirit beast to swallow a hot medicine, which must have burned their internal organs, and in order to obtain the antidote, they had to obey the arrangement of the man in red and do harmful things." Go on. ”
He continued, "Trace examination and autopsy found that this walking corpse died for about a month, and was manipulated by witchcraft to wander in the Luding Mountain area, and the hair, shoe prints and old centipede cultivation place were extracted within 100 meters, near the Yonghe Township Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and it should be the same walking corpse." The red mysterious person who has recently appeared in Luding Mountain should be him. ”
Cabbage Flower interjected, "Plus the one near Baijiatun, there are at least two walking corpses wandering around the world, it's scary enough." ”
"What else?" Baozi asked.
He continued to answer, "Just now, General Li Zaiyuan's messenger sent the results of the inquiry from the underworld, and the two walking corpses here and Baijiatun are from Dafang Town and Wuyi Town respectively. This is an ordinary farmer, Baijiatun is a member of the joint defense team who died of a sudden heart attack in Dafang Town, Sun Fangjue, both of whom are young adults within the age of 20-30, both died of illness, and they were both buried, and their souls reported to the prefecture as early as a month ago. ”
"Dafang Town and Wuyi Town are both on the outskirts of the provincial capital." Baozi pondered, he remembered that Mr. Xiao Yu told himself that "the red dragon is swimming, where feng shui is prosperous, there is his evil figure", "go back, be yourself, look for the clues of the red dragon", he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, the twelve emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty ascended the throne in turn, and the feng shui vein was constantly adjusted and changed, with the abdication of the last emperor and the development and rise of the provincial capital, after decades have passed, the heyday of feng shui has now moved to the prosperous provincial capital, so the red dragon is not directly aimed at Luding Mountain, But did it take root near the provincial capital?
As he was talking, an immortal soldier pointed to the mountains in the distance, "Look! What is that? Everyone looked at it, and the sky on the west bank of Xuanwu Lake behind a few mountains was red, which should have been on fire, and the firelight reflected the dark night like a dusk sunset. Zhu Wu was anxious, "The west bank of Xuanwu Lake is the place where the immortal spirit beasts gather the most, and once this fire passes, countless living beings will be destroyed." ”
Baozi asked Zhu Wu, "Don't you have a way to raise a huge wave in Xuanwu Lake, how about using a huge wave to extinguish the fire?" ”
"Alas! It's too far, we're on the east shore of Xuanwu Lake, and our mana isn't enough at all. ”
"What can you do?" Baozi asked the immortal officials.
Everyone shook their heads, "The distance is too far, the mana is too weak, and the whip is beyond the reach." ”
"I see!" The third prince said, "That demon arranged for the walking corpses to make trouble on the east bank, deliberately transferred us, and set fire to the west bank, this is to divert the tiger from the mountain!" ”
Baozi asked Zhu Wu, "How much foot power does it take to get from here to the West Bank?" ”
Zhu Wu said, "Hurry up for an hour!" If you use a spell, you can shrink it to half an hour. ”
Baozi urgently ordered, "And no matter how much, hurry up and get on the horse and rush to the west bank as fast as possible!" Everyone got on their horses one after another, the third prince, Zhu Wu and Xiao Yi recited incantations, and the war horses were like stepping on hot wheels, and they did not take the land route, and ran wildly along the water to the west bank. Along the way, I saw the lost leopards, sika deer and countless roe deer, roe deer, rats, and weasels running wildly along the shore of the lake, and some of them could already transform into human forms, running wildly with their tails between their tails and naked bodies, and the entire immortal cultivation dojo was like hell was coming. The closer I got to the fire, the more I found that the fire was not caused by one or two wildfires, but stretched into a long line, and was set on fire by multiple people at multiple points at the same time. Baozi, the envoy, has just straightened things up, who is giving himself eye medicine?
He secretly glanced at Zhu Wu beside him, Zhu Wu was sweating profusely, his eyes were looking intently ahead, and he was even more anxious than himself; He secretly looked at the third prince again, this guy who is not stingy is also in a hurry today, he has just taken over the management of Luding Mountain, and he has not yet reported to the Hanging Dragon Mansion to have such a big safety production accident, how to gain a foothold in the future?
Baozi secretly wondered if it would not be these two people who deliberately gave themselves eye medicine, after all, the three of them are now a community of interests.
The fast horse galloped, the third prince increased his mana again, and the horses jumped into the sky, galloping on the top of the treetops dozens of meters high, stepping on the flying clouds all the way, facing the fire wind, surpassing countless flocks of birds, and seeing the fire getting closer and closer. Overlooking the fire, the fire burned from outside the mountain, in the direction of Baijiatun.
"The matter of recruiting immortal soldiers is troublesome, and it seems that the loss is not small!" Zhu Wu muttered.
Indeed, tongues of fire can be seen in front of you, and smoked and burned animal carcasses can be seen on the road, scattered in the line of fire. The tongue of fire still greedily devours everything it encounters, and it can only become immensely powerful by devouring it.
"Closer, closer..."Zhu Wu was still chattering, everyone felt that the heat wave had rushed over, and everyone's eyebrows and noses were scorched, and if they moved forward, I am afraid that Abi Hell is calling. So they grabbed the reins, and the horses hung in the air, and moved sideways anxiously, hoping that the masters would leave this hell quickly, while the people looked down on the sea of fire below, and there was no way to do anything for a while.
Zhu Wu didn't care about himself, but still rode his horse forward, a large number of sparks rolled up the stumps and leaves, surged into the sky under the impetus of the heat flow, passed through the fire gates, his cloak burned, the horse's mane and skin also sizzled, Zhu Wu shouted for a rain spell:
"Yuqing Shiqing, true Fu sue the alliance,
Push and move two Qi, mixed one into a reality.
Five thunders and five thunders, Huang Ning in a hurry,
The mist changes, the roar of lightning and thunder,
Smell the breath is coming, and the sound of the sun is fast,
Wolf Luo is frustrated, and Lu Chun is as anxious as the law."
The sky was followed by five consecutive thunderstorms, the clear night sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, the quiet Xuanwu Lake suddenly became agitated, the ice dissolved and cracked, and in an instant, large waves rose frequently, and its momentum was monstrous. The sky began to rain heavily, and in the blink of an eye, it was not enough for the fire, which had already burned to the climax, and the heavy rain had already turned into a heat wave before it had even reached the fire. Seeing this, the third prince also sighed, jumped up from the horse's back, jumped straight into the boiling and roaring Xuanwu Lake, and was swallowed by the huge waves in a blink of an eye and disappeared.
Cabbage Hua anxiously shouted, "Bao Er!" You're crazy! You don't need to apologize like that, do you? But the lake still didn't move. The rain poured down, the flames mingled with the rain, and the fire spread uncontrollably along the winter winds. Suddenly, a whirlpool appeared in the big waves of Xuanwu Lake, the whirlpool became bigger and bigger, faster and faster, and then, a dragon jumped up from the lake with a column of water, the dragon shook its head and tail, and led the water column directly to the top of the fire, and the water wave came with the roar of the dragon, and instantly engulfed the sea of fire. The dragon flew, the turbid waves were monstrous, the water flooded the line of fire, and chased the fire peak all the way.
Seeing that the fire was under control in an instant, Baozi and the others had to admire the mana of these two gods, it seems that there is no need to worry about the firefighting work of Luding Mountain in the future.
Suddenly, in the light of the remaining fire, a row of figures appeared on the horizon in the distance.