Chapter Eighty-Nine: Spending the Night in the Woods

"The cold spirit of the heavenly crystal falls into snow, and the smoke condenses into the heart of the waves."

Zheng Yan remembered this poem again while walking on the snow ridge, remembering that the author was a scholar who was born in Dongou and had no reputation, and he didn't know how it was circulated, and he forgot where he saw it, and he remembered it for some reason, as if the scholar did it after being abducted and trafficked to Fengyan Continent, and the last two sentences were "The cold embers and stars are floating in the year, and the lonely lamp is suspicious of dreams."

The poems and texts are not how to be brilliant, but the artistic conception is somewhat special, for many years in Middle-earth every year there are many people who are abducted and trafficked to the Fengyan Continent and even the Western Wilderness, most of these people can't look forward to the return date, and it is difficult to survive long in that bitter cold place, most of them have basically turned into a barren mound after three or five years, and then the barren mound is gradually flattened by the barren wind until the last trace is erased by heaven and earth, and there may be many people who don't even have a grave, the carnival of insects and flies in the wilderness of violent corpses, and the soul will enter the "small spirit realm" through the Taiyi Rescue Soul Gathering Eight Gate Array , the lucky Shun Shun should enter the underworld again, and the unfortunate may be devoured by other ghosts in the small spirit realm, or devour other souls.

So when Zheng Yan thought of this poem again, he suddenly felt a little sad, and it was not a good feeling to look at these two knives by the way; the person who saw the name casting must have known this poem at the beginning, but he didn't know whether he only took the name or the meaning of the poem.

I remember hearing from the people in the house that the craftsmen who cast weapons are very serious about the naming of their finished works, and will never find a few words to deal with casually, nor will they pretend to be amazing, in case the weapon holder is affected by the name and miscalculates the situation, it may be a disaster of life and death, the weapon is the murderer, and there is no reason to have a bad impact on the master.

Bai Bo next to him accidentally noticed Zheng Yan's strange appearance, she was a woman from a top family Hui Zhen Lanxin, and after thinking about it a little, she was a little clear, she was originally walking side by side with Zheng Yuchan, but now she slowed down and fell to Zheng Yan's side, "What taboo does Gongzi Yan have about the names of these two knives?"

Zheng Yan looked over when he heard this, and muttered, "It's nothing, maybe it's because the person who cast it wants to explain that the things he cast have the fierce coldness of the Western Wilderness, and most of the weapons pursue this, and it's nothing special."

Bai Bo smiled and then pointed to the two knives and said, "Frost turns into snow, moon dot wave heart, these are two supreme sword realms, Yan Gongzi doesn't seem to have much contact with the knife path",

Zheng Yan was a little stunned, Zheng Yuan on the side didn't pay attention to Zheng Yan's reaction, and said with a smile." All the families of the Great Zhou Dynasty are the most important to speak in the way of the knife is the Bai family and the Yantai family, yes, it is indeed two kinds of knife realms, one is from the convergence to the breaking from the static to the dynamic to the static, the special thing is that it implies a qualitative change, the reason why it can be called supreme is this, it is difficult to realize; Although these two sword realms are not very compatible with swords, they also have a lot in common."

On the other side, Zheng Xingye nodded and said, "It's true, but Zheng Yan should have been practicing swords until now, and he may have never been in contact with the realm, don't tell him this, it may affect his kendo",

Zheng Yuan and the others were a little surprised, Zheng Yan came back to his senses and said with a smile, "It's okay, my kendo doesn't have too many taboos, anyway, my qualifications are average, it doesn't matter where I go",

The reason why Zheng Yan's reaction was a little abnormal was because Bai Bo mentioned the knife realm and made him think of a possibility, could it be that these two knives had already given birth to spiritual intelligence?

I remember that the master craftsman in the palace once said that some craftsmen like to integrate some complete artistic conception and even creation into the weapons they cast, and this kind of weapon is likely to generate spiritual wisdom when the conditions are met, before in the underground palace, I clearly remember to throw the two of them on the side of the shelf, but in the end I saw them again on the beheading table, if it was the four wizards who deliberately moved the two knives to the heading table to attract their attention so as to get close to the stone platform... This makes sense, okay, Zheng Yan gave up his guess, and he will find someone with expertise in this area when he goes back.

At this time, Zheng Yan finally noticed the little tiger in Bai Bo's arms, and when he asked, he learned that he had not woken up for the past few days, but everything was normal in his body, Bai Bo handed the little tiger into Zheng Yan's arms with some resentment, after all, this guy was picked up by Zheng Yan, Zheng Yan didn't care, if he wasn't sure about the state of this guy after waking up, he could give it to Bai Bo, and he told Dugu Takihyun about this little tiger before, Dugu Takihyun didn't say anything, it probably didn't matter.

Everyone is now a little unsure of how long it has been from entering the underground palace to coming out to now, but they know that it must have been more than three days, and it was already noon when they came out, and under Zheng Yan's description, they all wanted to stay away from that valley as much as possible, so they rushed for an afternoon, and it was now close to the sunset.

Now it is the beginning of spring after the New Year, but most of Taihua Mountain is still covered by vast snow, the cold is still the same, even more than the wax moon, the cold feeling is immersed in the bone marrow, seeing that the time is not early, Zheng Xingye began to look for a place to spend the night, so the group walked from the snow ridge to the lower mountain forest on the east side of the snow ridge.

The mountains here are relatively gentle, but high enough, so most of the grass and trees are sparse, like the snow ridge that I walked before, there is nothing except the sporadic protruding rocks, and I still haven't found a satisfactory place after looking for a short time in the forest, Zheng Yan saw the shield hanging on the side of Zheng Xinglu and said with a smile, "Xinglu, use your nine swords to make a sword formation for excavation, let's just dig a nest here."

When Zheng Xinglu heard this, he hurriedly hugged his baby, and reluctantly smiled, "I'm not familiar with it at the beginning, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it, let's look for it again, Zheng Yuan's machete is not bad, digging a pit should be more than enough",

On the side, Zheng Yuan was not angry, "It is said that some monks will be raised as a beautiful wife when they get a magic weapon in their hands, it seems that you are such a talent".

Zheng Xinglu glared and said, "Why don't you use your daughter-in-law to dig a pit?"

In the end, Zheng Xingye made the final decision, "Xinglu, show your daughter-in-law, phew, show your baby, just here, you can see a square zhang, five feet deep, if you are too aggrieved, you can go deeper, Zheng Yuan will cut down the tree, the four of you will get the leaves and dead branches, Zheng Yan will take a bow and arrow to hunt",

Several people didn't move, but waited for Zheng Xinglu to work with great interest, Zheng Xinglu took off his shield and poked it on the ground with a sad face, and then shouted "up", only to see the nine sword lights rise one after another, and then began to twist in the air to prepare to form a formation, and Xingshuang on the side said indifferently, "You can just use the stab explosion, this set of flying swords should be enough to withstand your qi",

Zheng Xinglu sighed and waved his hand, only to see nine flying swords smashed down directly, and the next moment was the scene of snow chips and gravel splashing, but Zheng Xingye laid down several walls of air to block the splashed debris, and Zheng Yuan on the side said "The complete set of magic weapons is easy to use, Xinglu has always been very discerning."

In addition to Xingshuang, the other three women clapped their hands to cheer for Zheng Xinglu, Zheng Yan smiled and put down his backpack and turned to hunt, it seemed that the depression that had been haunting everyone since noon had finally dissipated.

It's not good to hunt at this time, when the weather is still warm all afternoon, Zheng Yan has been paying attention to the prey that he may encounter on the road, but he hasn't even seen a shadow, and it is more likely that he will get nothing at this time, the dry food prepared before has already been consumed, if he can't catch the prey, he can only be hungry tonight, although the nest is slightly warmer than settling outside, but in such a night, he either uses Zhenyuan to warm up or huddles together to keep warm, being in Taihua is dangerous, and using Zhenyuan to warm is simply looking for death, unless he has no brains, uh, maybe those guys hope that they will get nothing hereใ€‚

The sky has darkened, the wind has completely stopped, at this time the sound of stepping on the snow in the forest is particularly loud, Zheng Yan only found a few nests of noisy magpies on the branches along the way, and then there is the crow sand grouse that began to return to the forest, the sand grouse is a little reluctant, but the remaining two guys are obviously not good for food, seeing that it is getting farther and farther away from the leeward halfway up the mountain where they settled tonight, and then go down is the valley bottom, it seems that the valley bottom is also full of snow, such a place should be very small There may be deer and sheep and other living creatures overnight.

Zheng Yan stopped, looking at the place he was in at the moment with some comfort, cold and silent, dim and vast, it is rare that these days have finally recovered this state of mind, all say that the monk's cultivation focuses on qualitative, in fact, it is still a bit general, the monk needs a sensitive heart to perceive the avenue all the time, but the heart must not waver with the perception, this needs to be qualitative, just like how the flag can not leave the flagpole no matter how the wind blows, so the monk's cultivation of the mind is to adjust the state of mind to remove the false and retain the true in order to achieve qualitative.

As his mood cleared, Zheng Yan could finally hear the subtle sounds in the mountains and forests, the snow began to slide under the weight of the treetops, the mice and rabbits chewed or moved under the snow in the forest, the birds flapped their wings or chirped in the distance, and the deer ruminated in the mountain col on the left.

It seemed that they were going to be disappointed, Zheng Yan thought boredly, and then began to walk in the direction of the herd of deer.

The distance of about two or three miles, although the snow is very deep, Zheng Yan does not need to step on it completely, just a little bit and he can immediately fall elsewhere, in fact, it is a similar rough and shallow light skill as flying on the grass, but such a place is just right.

Finally turned into the mountain col, only to see the tall forest glade really gathered seventy or eighty green deer, all the deer in the Taihua Mountains with a single fur color are named after the color, red deer, brown deer, white deer, green deer, among which the green deer is the rarest, their fluff is dark green, which is also named after it; Monsters generally don't want to catch them to eat, only rely on tigers, leopards, bears and wolves will not eat them, but people prefer the homonym of green deer, so they are caught and raised in the house to make money, and now the cloth dyeing can not achieve the color of the green deer fluff, but many people like it, and the deer are difficult to raise, so they are gradually hunted less and less.

Zheng Yan looked at the deer in the distance and was a little entangled, this is the first time he has seen this kind of guy since he entered Taihua a few years ago, the real elves in the forest, it can be seen that the number is really small now, and he can't get down when he thinks about it, and the arrow in his hand has never reached the bow. Just when Zheng Yan hesitated, suddenly a thick fire snake jumped out from the side of the deer, and in an instant, the seven or eight deer that bore the brunt of it became a fireball, and the other deer immediately scattered and fled.

The change was sudden, and it was obvious that a monk had done this nearby, and Zheng Yan finally put the arrow on the bow, but the arrow was slightly downward, expanding his vision to the maximum, and quietly waiting for the instigator to appear.

Walking out of the path where the fire snake melted, two young men in white power suits came out, the white power suits were a little special, with fiery red belts and trims, among which the red trim on the hem and cuffs happened to be flame patterns, which was obviously the logo of a certain force. One of the young men glanced at Zheng Yan and waved his hand and shouted, "We'll take one, and the rest will be given to you."

Zheng Yan was full of helplessness, his tone was very unkind, and there was even a slight smell of charity, but he really wanted to give himself venison and accept it, but he was really uncomfortable in his heart, and refused to leave with his sleeves brushed away? Of course not, not to mention that the deer was already dead, and it was also lost if he was thrown there, if he went to look for other prey because the other party was not polite, wouldn't it be more killing?

"Thank you two big brothers", in the end, Zheng Yan still hugged his fists and thanked him.

The two didn't wait for Zheng Yan's thanks at the beginning, in fact, they shouldn't have cared, and walked into the woods with a dead deer, Zheng Yan walked over and looked at the remaining six scorched black heads on the ground, and his heart was very uncomfortable, such a person has no benevolence and no mercy in his heart, and he may still be full of thorns in his heart, okay, don't leave it at that.

When Zheng Yan returned to the original place with the deer, Zheng Xinglu and they had already made a nest, and thought that they would directly put the wood on the pit, but they didn't expect to make a "human" word top, and built a layer of branches and leaves similar to the ceiling under the roof, so that the heat preservation is excellent, it seems that there are women in the different, if there is no star frost today, I am afraid that a few young men will directly dig a snow hole to deal with a night.

Seeing Zheng Yan bring back a deer that had been burned, Zheng Xingye asked curiously, "When did you learn the spell?"

Zheng Yan was not in the mood to joke with him, so he told him what happened just now, Zhang Caiyun thought for a while and said, "It may be the disciples of the Five Aggregates Huoding, they have always been arrogant and domineering, and they are all hot-tempered from top to bottom, and even the people of Xuantian Sect don't want to provoke them too much."

In fact, it is not far from Shengyang Mountain here, for monks who can fly, it is a matter of half a day, the Five Aggregate Fire Ding, which reminds Zheng Yan of what Dugu Takihyun said before, Yuanxian's rival has the Five Aggregate Fire Ding, and one of the purposes of Yuanxian's attack on Shengyang Mountain before was to prevent Shengyang Mountain from falling into the hands of these mortal enemies of the Five Aggregate Fire Ding, and now that they are here, is there any change in their appearance?

Zheng Yan naturally couldn't think of a reason, Zheng Xinglu next to him was already clamoring to eat boiled venison, and he didn't know how to say it, so he actually asked Zhang Caiyun to take out the Fang Ding she brought out of the underground palace to cook meat, well, this Ding looks a bit like a Ding of boiled meat.

Soon, the inside of the nest was full of meat, the warmth was melting, and the young was fearless.