The thunder stopped, the fire went out, the pillar of incense had just been burned, Cha Wenbin's body shook slightly and he collapsed to the ground, Rao is the Zhengyang Patriarch had already left.

There would occasionally be one or two "coo" cries in the dark cave, and the little three-legged toad could not heal his injuries yet, but he also relied on his protective instinct to keep licking Cha Wenbin's face with his little tongue.

The first to wake up was Chaozi, followed by Zhuoxiong, and although the two were also injured, the injuries were slightly lighter. Chaozi was so dazed that he saw that Cha Wenbin was majestic, but he also knew that the person didn't seem to be the brother Wenbin he was familiar with, and Cha Wenbin was lying on the ground unconscious at this moment.

The two dragged Dashan and Cha Wenbin out of the tomb with some difficulty, the big trees outside had already been destroyed by thunder and lightning, and the overdrawn bodies of the two could no longer withstand the difficulty of climbing, so they simply fell asleep at the entrance of this cave.

On the second day, when Little Bucktooth saw that they had not returned, he went into the mountains to look for them. Listening to the people in the village describe the lightning and thunder in the mountains last night, it seems that there are immortals haunting, and Xiao Luoya must have had a big incident, leading dozens of people in Dingjia Village to all go out. Looking at the turtle field from a distance, most of the turtle's head has been flattened.

The four dying people were pulled out one after another, and the chartered bus was rushed to the hospital for treatment, among which the most seriously injured Dashan and Cha Wenbin were also sent to the provincial hospital.

Dashan's chest was pierced, but fortunately, his body was strong, his chest was broad, and his claws were only a centimeter away from his heart, but because of the infection, he had a high fever that did not go away.

Cha Wenbin's ribs were broken three times, and because of the strong impact, his internal organs were also damaged to varying degrees.

Chaozi and Takuxiong were basically able to move off the ground after a week in the hospital, and after that time, the four of them rested for about a year.

During this period, the still conscious Chaozi described to Cha Wenbin the entire process he had seen, including the sentence that was different from Cha Wenbin's use of "urgency as infinite high truth". Later, after Cha Wenbin read a lot of information, he found that "urgent as a law" was simplified by later generations in order to make the mantra easier to remember. It's a pity that because the injury was too serious at that time, Ling Zhengyang didn't write down any of the ten divine spells used by Chaozi.

The fact that these things that belong to the ancestors can be reproduced once again proves how brilliant the Tianzheng Dao used to be, but now the Dao Sect is withering, and even some of the vitality is almost gone.

This year was a quiet year, Cha Wenbin did not take a single ceremony, and it was the easiest year he had ever lived since entering the Daomen. This year he lost his son and drove out his only apprentice with his own hands, and it was also the most difficult year he lived.

At the beginning of April of the following year, Cha Wenbin decided to go to the Qinling Mountains for a visit, and it was not the little bucktooth that made him make up his mind, but the three-legged toad.

The box brought by Xiao Bucktooth has been in Chaozi's hands, and during the time they were hospitalized, they also studied the sunspot. Every time the sunspot was taken out, the little three-legged toad jumped up, and then it became two front feet to keep the box from letting go. This box is obviously beyond their cognition in terms of shape and material, especially the insect and bird text, which comes from the ancient Qiang people, and now they ignore it, and they decide to go for it.

It had been a few years since Little Bucktooth's incident, and all he could do was rely on his memory to find the place where the "Snake Master" took them.

Daba Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, and Xiao Luoya only knows that the place they went to at that time was located at the junction of Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces, where there are many karst landforms, and the average altitude is about 3,000 meters. He only remembered that he had walked through the old forest for six days to reach a lake, but no one could tell how many lakes there were on this Daba Mountain, which was known as a no-man's land.

It took him about six days to enter the mountain, but it took more than a month to get out of the mountain, because they couldn't find the way to go at that time, so they decided to start looking for the place where the little bucktooth came out of the mountain. Because the rainy season is usually avoided only in April and May, there is not much time left for them.

The medicine picker who saved the little bucktooth passed away last year, and this time when he came back, the little bucktooth also gave the benefactor incense and kowtowed, if there was no him, he would have died.

Yu Dayong is the son of a medicine picker, and he has not married a daughter-in-law in his Chinese New Year's Eve. He followed his father several times when he was young, because collecting medicine is a hard job, and most of the young people nowadays are reluctant to do it. There are many poisonous snakes and beasts in Daba Mountain, because of the special geological relationship, it is not sure which meadow is a bottomless karst cave under it, and you will die when you step down. He was the only one in the village who was willing to serve as a guide for them, simply because he was short of money.

It took two days to procure, and it took a lot of tongues and banknotes to get three guns, one of which turned out to be a Japanese 38 cover used during the anti-Japanese period. The gun was well maintained, but there were fewer bullets, only twenty rounds in total, which was used by the village militia captain back then. The other two are shotguns, and the homemade earthen shotgun has enough ammunition, this kind of gun has no accuracy at all, and the superton simply uses a saw to cut the barrel short, as a troll.

Explosives and detonators are the kind used for blasting, and they are not very powerful, but better than nothing. Yu Dayong himself has a clay gun, and he usually shoots some hare pheasants, a total of four guns. There were some other bits and pieces, they had prepared some before they came, and it was not the first time they had gone out, and they knew what they needed.

Three days later, a group of six people marched towards Daba Mountain, and along the route of the medicine pickers back then, Yu Dayong took them for two whole days. Two days later, they arrived at a dilapidated shed, which Dayong said was the farthest place they had ever traveled to collect medicine for a makeshift rest.

Right here, the trees are already towering, the weeds are one person high, and the little bucktooth has been running for a month, and God knows where that place is.

According to Xiao Luoya's description of the scene of the lake back then, Yu Dayong determined several approximate directions according to the legends of the older generation, and as long as these directions go to one place, the deviation caused by the future will be 108,000 miles.

According to Yu Dayong, there is indeed a "holy lake" in the area of Daba Mountain.

It is said that during the Red Army's Long March, in order to smash the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang, it broke through to the west, and crossed the Daba Mountain into northern Sichuan in December 1932. A small reconnaissance team consisting of five people who crossed the Daba Mountain was lost in the vast mountains and lost contact with the main force of the Red Army.

In that era of war and revolution, the number of sacrifices caused by such accidents was very small, and the large army also classified the five of them as "sacrificed population" to make a note, but unexpectedly, two of these five people actually walked out of Daba Mountain again in the spring of the following year. After the liberation, one of them became a high-ranking official, and the other returned to this small village at the foot of Daba Mountain to become a peasant.

According to the veteran who returned to the village, he came back to stand guard for three dead comrades, and his life was exchanged for the lives of those three people. The veteran said very little, no one knew what had happened to them, except that the five of them had found a non-freezing lake on the frozen Daba Mountain, and the water was still steaming, and they had survived the winter by relying on this lake.

The old people in the village said that the non-frozen lake was called the "Holy Lake", which was the place where the Queen Mother of the West came to bathe here, and as for the people who had been to the lake, except for the old soldier who had died, no one else in the village had ever been there.

Xiao Luoya patted his thigh when he heard this: "What you said, I remember, when the 'snake master' took us there, the water of that lake was indeed hot, but it was warm, and I was still bathing in it." ”

Chaozi glanced at Xiao Luoya and said in fright: "You kid make sure for me, if you remember wrong, Chao Ye will give you a bath with boiling water when he goes back!" ”

"I can't be mistaken, I'm sure! The lake was indeed hot! ”

Cha Wenbin touched his chin and said: "I wonder why the veteran must come back to stand guard for his comrades, this kind of thing has been more common in the years of the Anti-Japanese War, Dayong, did the veteran get married later?" ”。

Yu Dayong took a sip of wine and said: "No, he has been a bachelor all his life, and he has been a forest ranger for a lifetime, just looking at the forest we came into." Oh, the 38 big cover in that brother's hand came from him. It is said that the leaders of the military region have approached him several times and wanted to ask him to go out to be an official, but his only request was to give him this gun, which was given to the militia after his death, and it has been wrapped in oiled paper, and it is well maintained. ”

Chaozi "whooped" and checked the chamber of the gun, which was indeed as bright as new, and it could be seen that the original owner was really good to it. "A gun with a story has a person with a story behind it, blind man, right?"

Zhuo Xiong nodded, for the gun, no one understands its importance more than a soldier, the person who regards the gun as his life must love his comrade-in-arms very much, that veteran is indeed worthy of respect