Chapter 53: Listen to the bearded man tell the story of the Black Mountain
"Look at Nima!" The divine light flashing in the dark pupils was like a flame, and even the beard on her face seemed to be full of anger in anger, and Yan Chixia, who had exploded, gritted her teeth and pointed at the one standing quietly on the treetops, revealing a strange aura all over her body, and the crow with blood-red eyes in her eyes, shouted and cursed without grace.
Yan Chixia in Mu Yuchen's eyes was obviously a man of action, and he felt that it didn't seem to be too enjoyable to just take advantage of his tongue, and the bearded man who had not yet spoken reached out reached out, and took out a weapon in the shape of 'S' and flashing with a faint cold light from the delicate bag hanging from his waist, and waved his hand to throw it at the red-eyed crow that was whistling and spinning, constantly shaking his head slightly.
"Yike!!!"
The crow that hurriedly waved its wings to dodge when the strong wind hit, and the body with its pitch-black wings stretched out flew into the air, but it seemed to be attracted by invisible gravity, and it was never able to stay away from the treetops that had just landed, and then the whirling 'S'-shaped blade swept the crow's body into the snowy blade, and suddenly the terrible screams and scattered feathers were mixed with flesh and blood.
As the red-eyed crow was killed by Yan Chixia, a thought full of anger suddenly rose from the other side of the Black Mountain in Mu Yuchen's perception. The Heaven and Earth Vitality in the Black Mountain, which was biased towards the gloomy and cold woods, began to gather towards the gray woods, and changed in Mu Yuchen's perception.
The trees that showed the aura of death in their expressions, but were extremely excited and active inside, seemed to be suddenly endowed with some kind of vitality under the infusion of the aura of heaven and earth, and then a figure passed through the nearby trees, and the thoughts released were projected into the sky.
"This is the thousand-year-old dryad? Looks pretty good! Mu Yuchen looked at the sky and said silently.
The undulating and distorted light and shadow like the aurora clearly outlined a half-length humanoid with a demonic aura all over his body. At first glance, Mu Yuchen saw that the face was soft, the corners of his eyes were thick and slender, his ears were matched with golden rings, and he was wearing a delicately textured dark red wide-sleeved shirt, he was a graceful and luxurious lady, but as soon as he spoke, this impression collapsed.
"Yan Chixia! People are humane! There is a demon road! You always can't get along with me for anything! ”
The grace and luxury on the face of the thousand-year-old tree demon grandmother. The moment he looked at Yan Chixia, he turned into a ruthless man full of resentment, completely distorting his entire face. And it was even worse for Mu Yuchen. It is the voice that seems to be two men and women, speaking with the same tone, tone, and voice, but it is perfectly blended with neither men nor women, and it seems that 'there is no one underneath'.
Mu Yuchen, who thought he had very thick nerves. Although I have heard many eunuch actors in many TV series, carefully imitated and restored the emphasis, compared to the thousand-year-old tree demon grandma, there is no boundary between men and women in the essential will. And then the pure natural men and women, those so-called well-known actors are simply weak.
"Whew! I'm here and you still want to eat! Eat on you! Yan Chixia, who faced the thousand-year-old tree demon grandmother, was simply a little bit of a cannon temperament, he stared at the demon image in the sky, as if there was no high-ranking faction in the market, and he cursed with that kind of precipitation and demeanor.
"Wait for me to come out! I'll ....... The thousand-year-old tree demon grandma who was robbed of white was obviously not a good-tempered person, and immediately let out cruel words.
"Let's talk about it when you have your life! Old monster! The roaring Yan Chixia interrupted the thousand-year-old tree demon grandmother. said with a disdainful face.
"Uh!!! Yes!!!! "A thousand-year-old dryad who knows how to talk unintentionally and emotionally. He shouted twice as if he was annoyed, and then the demon projections in the sky dimmed.
"Brother Xu!! I didn't expect to meet again so soon! Yan Chixia, who won a big victory in the scolding battle, regained her calm appearance in an instant, and he quickly turned to face Mu Yuchen, who was standing aside and looked like a passerby for a long time, and gave up his hand a little apologetically. Said in an eager tone. "This place is not good for long! I know that Brother Xu has a lot of questions! But let's talk about it in another place! ”
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"Yan Chixia! We don't have to talk so much! Isn't that refreshing for you! Mu Yuchen, who had almost understood some of Yan Chixia's personality and certain traits, said very directly: "Then let's go now!" It's naturally best to talk while walking! ”
Compared to what is described in many Xianxia works. The kind of corrected image that does not eat fireworks in the world is on Yan Chixia, who claims to be under the Kunlun Gate. Mu Yuchen saw a bit of novelty, just like the boldness and happiness of people in the martial arts, he wanted to establish a new person with the other party, so he naturally would not give up this favorable condition.
And just as the bright sword appeared in front of the military theme of the Celestial Empire, the world is high, big, and complete, but it is full of all kinds of falsehoods, as if it was produced in the same factory, and the image of industrialized soldiers and the army. The cultivator named Yan Chixia in front of him undoubtedly subverted the definition of an immortal cultivator, and that kind of thing similar to human nature made Mu Yuchen feel more real and intimate with the beard.
"Then please bear with this brother! Ha Lu Ha! Yan Chixia didn't continue the nonsense, but showed a comfortable expression as if she had breathed a sigh of relief. Don't be afraid of Brother Xu laughing! Since leaving the door to teach more than 10 years ago! All these years of life in the mountains and forests! I can't help but ...... my speech and demeanor. ”
"I understand! I understand! Everyone is each other! Each other, each other! ”
"That's good! That's good! You're obviously getting me back to the way I was, and it's a little awkward! ”
"That's right! It's so comfortable! Let's go! Brother Yan's weapons just now! Don't you need to recycle!? ”
"Those little things! Of little consequence! Just go back and practice again! ”
"Let's go! Brother Yan! As a landowner in Montenegro! Far more familiar with the environment than I am! I'm tired of your lordship leading the way! Seriously! For formations or something! I'm not good at it in the first place! I spent most of the day in this mountain! I'm getting dizzy! ”
"That's fine! Let's go! Otherwise, it will be very troublesome in a while! ”
In the blink of an eye, Yan Chixia adjusted back to the daily mode from the decisive demon hunter state, showing excellent psychological quality. Mu Yuchen, who was slightly about half a step behind Yan Chixia, followed his footsteps in the dark mountains and forests, constantly walking in the middle of the road, often in the deep mountains, and the bearded man who rarely talked to people in recent years gradually became familiar with Mu Yuchen.
"Just when the old monster was leaving! Isn't there something famous about those two screams!? "Mu Yuchen, who felt that Yan Chixia was basically to herself, let go of her cautious vigilance, and finally began to try to lead the topic between the two of them to the direction of the topic." Could it be that the old monster is calling for helpers! I've killed a lot of similar blue-gray monsters along the way! ”
"Those little minions of the Dryad! How many come! We can kill as many as we can! It's not worth mentioning at all! I'm not talking about those troubles! The expression on Yan Chixia's face was full of pride and disdain. He waved his hand slightly and said to Mu Yuchen playfully: "Those two voices that the old monster howled! Something else was called! ”
"Get rid of the gray tree monsters on this mountain! It seems that there is only a group of military spirits! Could it be that you're talking about those guys? But those revenant warriors don't seem to deal with the dryads! As soon as they met, the two sides looked like they were fighting each other! How could the Millennium Dryad summon those guys with military strength to help! Mu Yuchen asked the doubts in his heart.
Before Mu Yuchen's words fell, Yan Chixia stopped her vigorous pace. He turned around with a surprised and surprised face, and looked at Mu Yuchen carefully up and down with his dark eyes, as if he had re-recognized the sight of the person in front of him. It looked like I had seen some kind of monster.
"You've fought with that kind of military spirit!?" Yan Chixia asked Mu Yuchen.
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"That's right! In the beginning, it was about three hundred sentry scouts' revenant ghost ride! I wiped out more than a hundred people! The rest of the ones went back and called one! There are about 10,000 fully equipped troops! Boy! That slap is on the move! It's scary! Mu Yuchen kept gesturing with his hands and said, "When I broke through, I was almost stopped by that ghost general!" That guy is tough! ”
"You take it!" In Mu Yuchen's description, her pupils gradually dilated, and her eyes were like Yan Chixia, who was comparable to a ploughing cow, and she held back for a few seconds before giving a thumbs up and saying to him sincerely.
"Ugh! Don't you worry about me fooling you! Don't worry about me coming from nowhere! ”
"You're fooling me with hair!? Besides! The method you just used to kill the demon is full of dark murderous aura. But the essence of Buddhism is also quite mellow! I've been nesting on this mountain for more than ten years! I don't have many enemies under the mountain! And obviously that old monster won't touch you!! Yan Chixia, who seemed rugged, said with a smile, her tone full of pride and confidence.
"That's right!" Mu Yuchen, who understood the ultimate source of Yan Chixia's self-confidence, was still his own strength, nodded and said in agreement.
Yan Chixia, who was more fully aware of Mu Yuchen's strength, was obviously much more eager in her actions, words and expressions, and powerful people were welcome everywhere, plus Mu Yuchen had just fought side by side with him, so the two of them were in Lanruo Temple at the beginning. The first image of the not very friendly Lu was completely smoothed out.
"I don't know why Brother Xu and your friends came to the Black Mountain?" Yan Chixia opened her mouth and took the initiative to ask Mu Yuchen.
"Before passing through here! I happened to meet Lu on the forest road. That little scholar named Ning Caichen! He is a craftsman in the yamen! Someone who was offended! will be sent to work in a remote mountain village! Find a new source of water for the Black Mountain Village down the mountain! A few days of our pass! I feel like this guy is good! I also have the heart to help him! ”
"Sorry for the foolish people down the mountain! actually concealed the fact that the demons and ghosts were haunted on the mountain! I think it's with a little hope that Ning Caichen will come up and be a substitute for the dead ghost! But this can be regarded as the instinct of human nature to seek good fortune and avoid harm! Mu Yuchen briefly described it, and it can be roughly said that it is in the past.
"Hey! It's human nature! After listening to Wang Muyuchen's narration, Yan Chixia sighed and said in a low voice.
"Emotion, reason, law! Who can say clearly! Mu Yuchen continued: "It's just a game for yourself!" ”
"Presumably Brother Xu has just gone to Montenegro! The secret of everything on this mountain! All lack the necessary understanding! Yan Chixia, who was a little silent, turned around and started again, he thought for a moment with a serious expression, and then said with a straight face: "It's better to let me do it for you." Let's explain it a little bit! ”
"I've been dizzy all day! I'm about to ask Brother Yan for more advice! The joy on Mu Yuchen's face was unconcealed, and he arched his hand towards Yan Chixia and thanked him. Brother Yan is willing to take the initiative to solve doubts! Xu is grateful! Thank you so much! ”
"Just cast a mirror spell right in front of our eyes. It's the biggest monster in the Black Mountain! A tree demon grandmother with a thousand years of cultivation! It all started with her! Brother Xu knows what the body of the thousand-year-old tree demon is! Yan Chixia, who asked the question, didn't wait for Mu Yuchen to answer, and then continued: "That tree demon's body is a locust tree!" ”
"Locust tree? The ancients paid attention to the combination of images! The word acacia is composed of two words: wood and ghost! It can be described as a ghost in the wood! The locust tree itself is extremely yin! It's easy to be possessed by ghosts! It can be described as the yin in the wood! "Mu Yuchen, who lacks a systematic understanding of the existence of monsters. Searching for the limited content in his memory, he said very sincerely. "Shallow knowledge below! Brother Yan, please forgive me! ”
In various records and sayings for the locust tree, there are all kinds of different words, and there is a place where it is said that 'there is a locust in front of the door, and a hundred ghosts walk at night', which should not be loaded in front of the house and behind the house. However, in "Zhou Li. In the record of "Autumn Official", three locust trees were carried outside the court of the Zhou Dynasty.
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And in the folk legend of Longkou, there is even a locust tree in front of the door. The folk song of happiness is rolling, and even the locust tree is planted in the front yard of the house as an auspicious tree in some places. However, there are many doubts about the authenticity of it, and the changes in fortune and misfortune seem to be quite mysterious.
"It seems that Brother Xu is usually dedicated to cultivation! I don't pay much attention to mundane things! No wonder! No wonder! Of course, what you say is not false! It's just biased! Yan Chixia's words seemed to be full of reminiscence: "Humans and demons! Good and evil! All kinds of entanglements between them! It is difficult for people of my generation to understand the mysteries! It seems to be off topic when you talk about it! Let's start at the beginning! ”
"Back then, I went to school in Kunlun Mountain and went down the mountain. At that time, the master gave a task, that is, to kill demons and eliminate demons to accumulate external skills, so I and my four senior brothers chose Montenegro as the beginning of the teacher's path! It was at that time that I and my brother and I discovered the existence of Lanruo Temple and the Millennium Dryad. ”
"What the hell is that dryad going to become? Not male or female hermaphroditism! I don't know the reason for that! That Dryad has no talent inheritance Dao method! I don't know where I found a copy of the secret book of the practice of the Demon Dao method! Combined with its own innate Dao method! ”
"Unscrupulously capture the villagers on the mountains within a radius of thousands of miles, and then drain their yang qi and extract their souls, and refine these souls with the Demon Gate Dao method, and then use these souls as the introduction of demonic energy, demonize the trees on the Black Mountain, so that they can never be reincarnated if they die in time!"
"In fact, in order to prevent attracting the attention of decency, the Millennium Dryad has always been very careful in its movements! I haven't figured it out to this day! In the trees on this mountain! How many demons exist! But about a million people can always come together! Yan Chixia's eyes were full of bright blood. In the excitement, many words were ominous.
Mu Yuchen knew very well what Yan Chixia was hiding. It was about the love between her and Nie Xiaoqian, it was the conflict between Taoism, righteousness, ideas and inner desires, it was about sealing Nie Xiaoqian's memory with a divine weapon, summing up the infinite love and hate entangled between the two, but because of this, at the end of the battle with the Dryad, the infinite regret of killing his brother and sister. The emotional conjunct is too complicated.
The thousand-year-old tree demon grandma used the souls of those people as a guide, and the demonized trees were used as the foundation for the formation to be established. The demon path formation called the Xuanyin Gathering Formation was arranged on the Black Mountain, which could continuously gather around the Black Mountain to die normally. or abnormal all kinds of lonely souls and wild ghosts, or unjust souls, and then continue to expand the power of the formation, and Lanruo Temple is the core of this formation.
It was precisely because of the existence of the Xuanyin Gathering Soul Array that even if the thousand-year-old tree demon grandmother was sealed back then, the naturally operating formation had preserved all the family resources it had accumulated over the years. Even due to the existence of the formation, the Dryad Grandma in the seal is still able to use the formation to cast a certain amount of magic in the Black Mountain range.
However, due to the lack of operation of the formation, the manipulation, deployment and restraint of the thousand-year-old tree demon, the yin qi and ghosts gathered by the formation were also instinctively absorbed by those demonized trees, so some of the millions of demonized ghost trees evolved into those unnatural ghosts wandering around, instinctively wandering around the Black Mountain.
During the day, due to the existence of the yang energy of heaven and earth, these ghosts instinctively reverted back to the prototype of the tree, hiding in the dense forest with rich yin qi to hide, and at night the black mountain where the yang energy faded became, and these ghosts and monsters moved around the paradise, and even they were under the control of the tree demon, driving those villagers on the mountain to Lanruo Temple, so that the banshee inside absorbed the yang energy to supply the sealed tree demon.
As for those unruly and unruly military spirits, Yan Chixia smiled and said that the thousand-year-old tree demon was too unlucky, because there were several ancient battlefield sites left over from the period of a certain dynasty in history in the shrouded area of Black Mountain, and the Xuanyin Gathering Array established with demonized trees was inadvertently awakened by those sleeping military spirits.
Over the years, the battle between the military soul and the ghost has been endless, and many demonized trees have been invisibly eliminated, and the souls that have been tormented day and night have been shackled, although they have not been almost reincarnated, but returning to heaven and earth is much better than being tortured like this, and even bringing them has brought a lot of trouble to the millennium dryad, which can be regarded as a volunteer staff to maintain the seal.
"I see!" Although there are still many untruths in Yan Chixia's narration, Mu Yuchen, who basically sorted out the causes and consequences, is also very satisfied.