Chapter 18 - The Horn of Izumo (I)

After the guild collective meeting, Cang Lan set off back to Yingzhou Island, and before leaving, he didn't forget to send a spiritual letter to Chi Muyan, telling him that the president was going to take Chi Mudie to Lingjian Mountain for training.

Lingxin is a way to quickly transmit messages between mages, and the words written with mana can be turned into any kind of birds and beasts, and the content can be delivered to the recipient in the fastest way, so Canglan soon received a reply from Chi Muyan.

The letter contained only a few simple words and a smiling face.

"With Hatsubai with you, the president won't be too messy, and if you're still not sure, you can take Fluttershy back to the wolf clan to train in person. ”

Knowing that Chi Muyan was just making fun of him, Cang Lan looked at the row of words and was embarrassed. Needless to say, if the temptation of what Chi Muyan said was too great for him, although he really wanted to keep her by his side, but now the specific situation of Yingzhou Island is still unknown, if the people of the Dark Guild are allowed to catch any clues, then the president's plan to steal the beam and change the pillar will be in vain.

Cang Lan could only shake her head helplessly, getting rid of those impulses that were rising in her heart, after all, ensuring her safety at this time was the most important thing, so Cang Lan took out the Qinglong Phantom Rune again, and told him again with her heart that she must protect that girl.

Since the Dragon Tooth Guild is located in the main city of Shenzhou Island, Dragon City, which is the closest city to Yingzhou Island, Canglan returned to the main city of Yingzhou Island, Izumo, near evening.

Just as Penglai Island and Shenzhou Island are the areas with the most human races, Yingzhou Island is the area with the most distribution of the spirit race, and the spirit race is divided into three main lines and five branches.

The three main lineages are: the blue wolf family, the tiger family, and the dragon family, while the five major branches are: the rat family, the rabbit family, the cat family, the fox family, and the gray wolf family. Generally, the three major spirit clans of the main line will be called by their own names, while the five major clans of the branch will be collectively called the spirit clan. Although the spirits can freely change between the human form and the beast form, the difference between the main line and the branch is that the main line of the spirit race can become a perfect human form, while the branch will retain some racial characteristics, such as ears and tails.

The largest number of people on Yingzhou Island, and the most brave and good at fighting is the blue wolf clan where Canglan is located, so Yingzhou Island is the main city of Izumo where the blue wolf clan lives, and the current city lord is Canglan's father, the wolf emperor Cang Qingyu.

When Canglan stepped down from the airship, a blue wolf about his height rushed towards him from far and near, and when it came to him, it did not slow down in the slightest, but jumped and pounced on him.

Cang Lan also recognized the blue wolf, flashed to the side with a smile, and dodged lightly, the blue wolf pounced in the air, and wanted to turn around and pounce again after landing, but Cang Lan held his head with one hand.

Cang Lan's hand gently stroked the wolf's head, and stopped with a smile: "Xiuxiu, don't make trouble, did you sneak out again while your mother was not paying attention?"

The blue wolf suddenly turned into a little girl about ten years old, and rushed over and hugged Cang Lan's waist, "No, I'm here to pick up Brother Lan." ”

Before she could finish speaking, another boy's voice sounded behind her, "Xiuxiu! Mother just told you not to come out, and you ran away again." ”

Seeing that her lie was exposed, the little girl stuck out her tongue at the boy who was chasing, "Brother Yun is really verbose, I just heard that Brother Lan is coming back today before I came out to pick him up!"

The boy was also anxious, frowned and reprimanded: "Brother Lan, where do you use you to pick it up, my mother just said that it is very dangerous outside now, let me take a good look at you, who knows that I just blink an eye, and you will run away for me." ”

The girl was not convinced, and wanted to fight back, but was stopped by Cang Lan, "If you continue to quarrel, I won't show you the Ice Spirit Tiger and Divine General I took back from the Sealing Tower?"

The two children immediately shut up obediently when they heard this, and let Cang Lan lead them home one by one, along the way Cang Lan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, his father has always been gentle and elegant, and his mother is also elegant and virtuous, and because he likes the word Yanlan Yunxiu, he used these four words to name their four siblings, but his two twin siblings often quarrel when they don't agree with each other, and sometimes they fight, I really don't know who inherited it.

After returning home, Cang Lan first summoned the Ice Spirit Tiger in the front yard, and the tall and mighty Ice Spirit Tiger immediately attracted the attention of the two troublemakers, watching the two of them have fun around the Ice Spirit Tiger, Cang Lan also smiled and walked into the inner courtyard of the house.

At this time, it was almost dark, and the orange candlelight in the inner courtyard had been lit, and after Canglan walked into the main hall, she saw her long-separated parents sitting together looking at a map, with a worried face, but when she looked up and saw Canglan returning, she greeted her with a smile again.

After welcoming Cang Lan into the house, there was another shouting and asking for warmth, and Cang Lan just smiled and patiently answered one by one, and finally finally entered the topic when Cang Lan asked about the map on the table.

It turned out that the Wolf Emperor was in such a hurry to find Cang Lan back this time, one was that he heard that he went to break into the Sealing Tower alone, and he was afraid that he would be injured and then act recklessly outside, and the other was that his brother Cang Yan, who was three years older than Cang Lan, was trapped there by a cloud of black fog when he went to the Horn of Izumo to perform a mission, and lost contact.

Hearing this, Cang Lan's face suddenly changed, and after covering the doors and windows solemnly, she told her parents with a solemn face that the water demon had escaped from the seal, and after hearing this, the two of them suddenly turned pale and sat down on the chair.

Cang Lan sat down and hesitated for a while, and showed the swimming fish mark on her arm to her parents, and told them that these two things should not be quiet, the matter of the water demon is easy to cause panic, and if the swimming fish mark is exposed, it will implicate the girl who is not yet able to protect herself.

After some more thinking and discussion, the Wolf Emperor finally decided that Cang Lan would lead a team of elite soldiers to the Horn of Izumo to search for his brother, Cang Yan.

The matter has come to this point, and he can only make such a decision, Cang Lan's mother Ji Yuyan asked him to go back to the room to rest earlier, looking at his departing back, he couldn't help but sigh faintly, that ancient curse-like legend, but now it is reflected on Cang Lan, although when he was very young, the moment he inadvertently put his little hand on the spirit stone, he realized that this child would become a great weapon in the future, but he never expected that he was actually the reincarnation of the legendary infatuated high priest Bai Wu.

Ji Yuyan looked at the bright moon outside the window and muttered softly, "White mist and falling cherry blossoms, can you get your wish in this life?"

The next day, Canglan got up early and began to prepare some necessary things, and before leaving, his mother hung a heart guard on his neck, and repeatedly told him to be careful in everything, and never to be strong alone.

Cang Lan was still as calm as ever, and after reassuring her mother with a light smile, she turned over and jumped on the Ice Spirit Tiger, and marched towards the Horn of Izumo with a team of elite soldiers.

Out of Izumo City, north through the northern suburbs of Izumo, and then west after climbing through the rugged Izumo Mountain Road, it was to the corner of Izumo, but Canglan and his party found something strange when they just climbed the Izumo Mountain Road, and when they set off, the sky was originally clear, but it was dark at this time, and the rugged mountain road was like a misty piece of sand and dust in the desert, and the elite soldiers saw this scene and whispered behind Canglan about something, so Canglan also let the Ice Tiger stop, turned over and prepared to inquire about the situation.

Today's Canglan changed her usual swordsman outfit and changed into a pure white priest's suit, holding a white jade staff in her hand, looking extraordinarily elegant and noble.

A slightly older soldier in the group of elite soldiers who followed behind Cang Lan saw him turn over and get off his mount, so he stepped forward to report the situation to him, obviously he was the captain of this elite soldier team.

"Your Highness Canglan, please be careful, this mist seems to have a psychedelic effect, which can cause confusion and madness in living beings. A few days ago, a reconnaissance team sent by the Wolf Emperor was here, attacked by a huge berserk beast, and when we arrived, we only found the stumps of some soldiers, and a few soldiers were also affected by it, and they are still in a coma. ”

Cang Lan's gaze swept around, and then asked, "When did this fog appear?"

"It was five days ago when His Highness Cangyan led a team to the Horn of Izumo to collect star ore in batches, and found a cloud of this black fog in the mine cave of the Horn of Izumo, and then His Highness Cangyan asked the soldiers to guard the entrance of the mine, and he went down the mine alone, and never came back, and then several soldiers entered to find the whereabouts of His Highness Cangyan, but their whereabouts were also unknown. Two of the soldiers guarding outside the cave returned to Izumo Castle to report the situation to the Wolf Emperor, and when they returned again, the black fog had spread to the entire Izumo Horn, and the two soldiers also lost contact after entering the Izumo Horn. Two days ago, the Wolf Emperor sent another reconnaissance team, but it was wiped out in the Izumo Mountain Road. ”

After hearing this, Cang Lan nodded to the commander of the army, indicating that he had understood the general situation, and at this moment, the Ice Spirit Tiger on the side suddenly let out a long roar and flew towards Cang Lan. The soldiers all thought that the Ice Spirit Tiger was also affected by this fog and went berserk, and they raised their weapons one after another, but Cang Lan stretched out his hand to stop them.

Because when the Ice Spirit Tiger flew towards Cang Lan, he suddenly found that the black fog where the Ice Spirit Tiger's body passed was gradually fading, and the Ice Spirit Tiger did not pounce on him, but jumped over his head and pounced on something unknown behind him.

The Ice Tiger pounced and scuffled and bit at the unknown object, and it was only then that they saw that the black and round thing turned out to be the Star Rabbit King who lived in the Horn of Izumo.

The Star Rabbit King is a strange creature that only lives in the Horn of Izumo, it will eat some of the original stones of the Star Ore every day, and these rough stones that it eats into its body will get the effect of refining in its body, and every half a year, it will find a secluded place to expel the ore that has been refined in its body, which is the purest forging raw material unique to Izumo City - Imperial Star Sand. And the Star Rabbit King is gentle and lazy by nature, and only lives in the Horn of Izumo, so all the spirit clans on Yingzhou Island have reached an agreement that the Wolf Emperor will only send troops into the Horn of Izumo twice a year to collect the required number of Star Primordial Stones and Emperor Star Sand required by each clan.

The Star Rabbit King is not good at fighting, and he has no sharp teeth and claws, so he can only use his fleshy body to hit and intimidate the enemy, and then run away. This kind of attack is naturally completely ineffective when used on the Ice Spirit Tiger, and after a few rounds, he was pressed under the claws of the Ice Spirit Tiger, but he still struggled with his red eyes.

The Ice Tiger didn't seem to want to hurt the big fluffy ball of meat under its claws, and didn't open its mouth to bite it, but gently put the huge tiger's forehead against the forehead of the Star Rabbit King, at this time, Cang Lan and the others were surprised to find that the white cold air emitted from the Ice Spirit Tiger was gradually dispersing the surrounding black fog, and the Star Rabbit King under its claws gradually quieted down and returned to normal.