Volume 2 Jackals, Tigers and Leopards Chapter 35 The heart of the mountain is like jade
"Lighter, you're going to strangle me!"
The irritable roar came, a monkey was in front of him, with an iron rope around his neck, Qi Chen led the monkey, followed by Qin Fusu, Tie Lingshuang's face was blue and followed last, all of them bowed down, struggling to move forward in the dim and narrow cave.
"You can't climb slower! Running and jumping, I'm bent over, and you deserve to strangle you!"
Scolding the monkey, Qi Chen gritted his teeth and arched his waist to squeeze through a narrow section, and said angrily,
"If you let me know you're taking us around, without hammering, I'll knock you open your skull, and I've heard that monkey brains drenched in hot oil are the most delicious. ”
Behind him, Qin Fusu shook his head with a smile, he hadn't been so lively since he came out of Jinan for a long time, but he was crowded in this low cave, slightly dark, and the hot flashes were coming, and it was very uncomfortable.
But he said that he was just at the entrance of the cave, and was threatened by Tie Lingshuang with a hammer, this monkey has an empty mouth, and the monkey head the size of a fist is against the hammer head like the mouth of the bowl, and the grandfather of the mountain god has become a grandson, and he looked outside the cave with the monkey's eyes, muttering in his heart.
This time, a total of thirty mountain gods and monsters were selected, thirteen peaks of the snow-capped mountain, and on each peak, there were two groups looking for the place where the divine beast was born, and the remaining four groups were spinning in circles at the foot of the mountain.
I heard that the leader of the team is the boss of Puppet Tiger Mountain and Scorpion Wolf Mountain, one carries a big tiger lizard with him, and the other follows the fire wolf, two days ago I heard that someone broke in, and was kicked out, if he can escape with his own micro way, it is a joke.
Seeing that the monkey was aiming outside the cave, as if looking at the escape route, Tie Lingshuang didn't say a word, dodged and blocked the entrance of the cave, and the two hammers were spinning in their hands, aiming at the monkey up and down.
"When I go back, I'll tell that tiger you're dead, and you're dead. ”
Okay, don't think about running away, but the golden monkey sat on the rocks with his hands on his chest, and said indifferently,
"There is only one Divine Beast in our southern Xinjiang in a thousand years, if I want to take you to find it, what is the difference between this and a traitor?"
Wiping the blood in his palm, Qi Chen scolded and said,
"What demons and monsters are in the hands of the immortals, they are all slaves, we won't be like this, otherwise why is your tiger brother still alive? Hurry up, don't be an uncle, whoever wants to kill you here is just a breath of effort." ”
As if he was moved, the monkey stopped hugging his chest, stood up, rolled his eyes, shook his head, and put his hands up and explained.
The mythical beast was born in the heaven and earth and hid in the earth's eggs, before it was born, the earth's eggs were hidden very skillfully, unless it was a person who had cultivated to a very high place, and carefully surveyed in the mountains, it was difficult to find a trace.
Now that it is about to be born, the movement of the ground egg will inevitably leak a trace of breath.
Although it is a trace of breath, ordinary monsters may not be able to absorb so much aura after a hundred years of cultivation, and now these breaths are floating around Yulong Mountain, which is considered to be a cover and a cover, even if the monsters with sensitive perception can only follow the strong breath to pursue, and there is no difference between a blind man touching an elephant.
This time they sent two of their subordinates with the fierce beasts that had passed the Purple Thunder Tribulation, and also brought a large number of people to search around, of course, your mountain god grandfather just took the other three fools to wander around, and it is estimated that the other mountain gods are similar, anyway, it is a death, and they will not search with their hearts, and now even if they are willing to lead the way for you, most of them will not be found.
After saying it triumphantly, he glanced at the three people with solemn faces, and the monkey grinned,
"Do you really want your mountain god grandfather to lead the way?"
Qi Chen glanced at Tie Lingshuang, and saw that she was staring at the monkey as if she was considering the truth of his words, but Qin Fusu on the side nodded,
"Yes. ”
Seeing that the two of them were staring at him, Qin Fusu frowned slightly, and carefully scrutinized,
"Although the immortal did not come in person, he sent two men with fierce beasts and such a large group of people, this is almost half of the combat power of his subordinates, which shows that this divine beast is very important to him. ”
"He needs a divine beast but he doesn't come in person, probably because he is afraid that Mr. Zhongli will take advantage of the situation and directly destroy his Yinshan lair, Mr. Zhongli should be worried that he is out of Kunming City, and Dai Hanyu doesn't know what kind of demons will attack the city. So the two of them held each other back. ”
"There is also good news, Yang Xuanmo. ”
Seeing Tie Lingshuang's eyebrows raised, and his eyes pierced like lightning, Qin Fusu narrowed his eyes and said lightly,
"Mr. Zhongli once said, that Yang Xuanmo has just entered the King's Landing, if Dai Hanyu can really control Yang Xuanmo, he can be released, with his cultivation, I think he will find the divine beast faster than us, now only send his trusted subordinates, think that between him and Yang Xuanmo is only a benefit or threat, not an iron bucket, if Yang Xuanmo gets the divine beast, maybe he will have the capital to bargain with Dai Hanyu. ”
Qi Chen's eyes on the side were spinning in circles, confused, but Tie Lingshuang did not refute, Qin Fusu struck while the iron was hot,
"If we can find the Divine Beast earlier than them, and even snatch the Divine Beast, not only Mr. Zhongli's side will take the initiative, then we may be able to sit down and talk with Yang Xuanmo and ask what happened back then, and what the situation is on the side of Ning Mei. ”
Indeed, no matter what, since it is something that everyone is looting, if you grasp it in your hand, you will definitely be able to take the lead! Tie Lingshuang nodded, turning his head to stare at the monkey, although he did not speak, the threat in his eyes was self-evident.
The golden retriever monkey looked around at the three pairs of eyes beside him, threatening, pleading, and gloating, and couldn't help but sigh, and turned his head to walk deeper into the cave.
Qi Chen grabbed the chain around its neck and shouted with a glare,
"What are you doing in the hole? Want to run?"
The monkey impatiently clutched the chain around his neck,
"Your mountain god grandfather has lived here for more than a hundred years, which peak of Yulong Mountain Lao Tzu doesn't know? Every mountain peak here has caves, all connected together, recently the breath emitted by the divine beast has broken away the perennial snow, and the inside is much richer than the outside of the aura, a group of fools, let go of me!"
Naturally, they would not let go of the iron chain, so they dragged the monkey like this, and the three of them passed through several narrow caves all the way, and sure enough, the center of the mountain belly extended in all directions, and they were all low caves connected together, like human blood.
For example, Zhong Lingyuxiu Mountain, there are many caves in the body, which are used to vent the vigorous earth.
According to the theory of yin and yang feng shui, the earth qi is the dragon vein, which is vaporized into the dragon shape, hidden in the ground, starting from the mountains, falling into the canyons, and stopping and sleeping when it reaches the auspicious place.
The earth dragon sleeps, it also needs to breathe, these caves are like the mouth and nose of the earth, if not, it is a dead mountain, morning and evening the stuffy earth qi is angry, there is a big roll, that is, the landslide and the ground cracks, and the fire erupts.
Squeezed through this section of the cave, the entrance of the cave suddenly became much wider, Qi Chen sat on the edge of the cave, gasping for breath, followed by Qin Fusu and Qin Fusu who came out of the cave, but not as embarrassed as Qi Chen, Qin Fusu straightened up his waist and looked around, but Tie Lingshuang frowned and looked back at the cave when he came.
At first, Tie Lingshuang was still suspicious, thinking that this monkey was wandering around with him, but he didn't expect that all the way down, the more he walked, the more he walked through the caves, sometimes narrow, sometimes wide, but the little aura mixed with the hot flashes and humidity around him was indeed getting stronger and stronger.
However, it is quite strange that the originally dim cave becomes more and more transparent and bright as you walk, as if the entire mountain wall gradually spreads a stream of light, and you can walk through it without torches.
Tie Lingshuang narrowed her eyes and looked down at herself, there was a faint green light on the side of her shoulder, which was also on Qin Fusu's shoulders and back, and Qi Chen's body was everywhere.
Looking at the stone wall again, there was also a faint green light, Tie Lingshuang stretched out his hand and gently wiped it, the mountain stone was quite rough, and his fingertips were stained with slippery and fine fluorescent powder, and it didn't smell like anything.
"Hey, I don't know, it's like this in the Jade Dragon Cave, the further down you go, the brighter it becomes, and you'll know when you go down. ”
Too lazy to take care of the rampant monkey, Tie Lingshuang frowned and gently grabbed it in the air, as if feeling the sparse aura floating in the cave, and asked lightly,
"I've been walking for more than an hour, and I'm heading towards the goshawk at the dragon's tail in the north? Are you sure it's there?"
The golden monkey immediately shook his head,
"I told you a long time ago, I took you to find the place with the strongest aura, and I don't know if the Lord Divine Beast is there. ”
Seeing that Tie Lingshuang's brows were about to rise again, Qi Chen, who was sitting on the ground, smiled heartlessly and pulled the chains in his hands,
"You traitor is decided, the divine beast is not born in the best place of feng shui, is it born in other places? ”
"Shhhh ”
Just as he was about to say more, Tie Lingshuang suddenly shouted softly and clinged to the stone wall, with a wave of his arm, Qin Fusu hurriedly restrained his breath and clinged to the side when he saw this, Qi Chen also reflected, stretched out his hand, blocked the monkey's mouth, strangled him in his chest, and crouched on the ground to look at the cave that he had just climbed over.
Tie Lingshuang put his hand on the hammer behind his waist and aimed sideways, quietly without a sound, only a faint light on the stone wall, as if it flickered gently with the breath of the mountain.
After waiting for a while, Qi Chen didn't see the slightest abnormality, the monkey was suffocated by his mouth and nose, and when he couldn't breathe, he took a bite and bit it.
"Click, click. ”
As if the sound of sharp claws tapping on the stone sounded faintly, the monkey stopped struggling, and stared at the narrow cave that he had just crawled over.
Click, click, click. The voice became clearer and clearer, the three of them and the monkey all held their breath, Tie Lingshuang reached out and clasped the double hammer, and then frowned, the cave was narrow, so that it was impossible to get rid of such a weapon.
Click, I saw that on the side of the mountain wall four or five zhang away, a furry paw stretched out, the fingertips were black and bright, sharp and hideous, Tie Lingshuang secretly carried his internal breath, and it seemed that he was about to hand over the army.
"Bang!"
A dull blunt thud sounded through the cave, and the owner of the paw flipped out and slammed into the side of the mountain wall, and then a cry of rage rang out,
"Look! I just heard a voice inside, don't let them preempt it!"
A head stretched out from the side of the cave entrance, his face was blue, his eyes were yellow and green, it was the appearance of the beast slave in Southern Xinjiang, he glanced left and right, fortunately, the three of them had passed through the narrowest section, and now they were sticking to the side of the cave, barely hiding their figures.
The man looked at it for a while, but didn't find a figure, and shouted to a chubby monster in the cave lying down,
"Don't play dead, say quickly, where are you going?"
Slowly got up, his round chest and back were covered with snow-white hair, there were faint traces of blood on it, but his limbs were black, his round head was large, and he had a pair of bright eyes in two black circles, his ears trembled, and he raised his nose to sniff lightly in the cave.
The cat and bear in southern Xinjiang, its shape is like a bear, the hair is like a cat, the body is bulky, the teeth are sharp, like to eat bamboo, and occasionally break into the people's house, lick the salty salt on the iron pot, because its body size is too heavy, crush the iron pot more, people think that it feeds on iron, called the iron-eating beast.
Tie Lingshuang's face suddenly turned cold, the cat's sense of smell is the most sensitive, this cave's heavy aura is surging from the bottom to the top, the three of them are standing in the limelight, and they are so close to each other, most of them are about to be exposed.
His eyes flickered for a moment, and Tie Lingshuang gradually lowered his body, like a civet cat, ready to strike first, but the monkey on Qi Chen's chest waved his monkey paw at Tie Lingshuang, shaking his little head as hard as he could, and his eyes were about to blink.
Standing still?
Tie Lingshuang peeked over, only to see the cat bear raise its chubby head, sniffing left and right, as if it smelled the smell of the three of them, and was slightly stunned, and the three of them also became nervous.
Unexpectedly, the cat bear stretched out its broad tongue, licked its nose, as if grinning, stretched out its paws and pointed in the opposite direction, and without waiting for the person at the side hole to react, he slowly got up, the iron chain around his neck rattled, swaying his fat body, and pulling the man to crawl into the distance.
Seeing that three black-clothed figures appeared one after another in the stone cave on the side wall in the distance, following the cat and bear to the other side, the sound became smaller and quieter, and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Brushing aside Qi Chen's palm, the monkey panted, got up, and jumped towards the depths of the cave, while looking back at the three of them proudly, scolding in a low voice,
"Our mountain gods in southern Xinjiang are all one family in the end, much better than you who look like people. ”
Qi Chen breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the monsters in southern Xinjiang are indeed quite righteous, but since the other inspectors have discovered the cave, it should not be possible to make any more noise like this, so he turned around and glanced at the two of them, and followed the golden retriever monkey all the way down.
The further down they went, the more spacious the cave became, and the humidity became less and less, but the heat did not decrease, and it gradually became turbulent, and the three of them oozed fine sweat on their foreheads.
The fluorescence between the mountain walls is getting brighter and brighter, and occasionally you can see some small emerald green stones inlaid on the side walls, Qi Chen wiped the beads of sweat on his head, reached out and knocked on a palm-sized fluorescent green stone block on his side,
"This can't be jade, is it?"
The monkey in front of him jumped up and down with the chain to lead the way, and when he heard such an ignorant word, he turned around and whispered sarcastically,
"The bigger ones are still down there, and there's no point. ”
Turning a corner, the light suddenly brightened, Qi Chen stretched out his head to look at the depths, only to see that there was a piece of turquoise, and there was no trace of ordinary stones, and the stone cave seemed to be drilled into a small hole in a huge piece of jade. At the end of the turquoise hole, with the flickering red and yellow light, the surging heat came in waves.
Looking around, Tie Lingshuang couldn't help but nodded, he didn't expect that there was such a large piece of jade in the depths of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and it really lived up to the jade character in the name, looking like this, it probably went down to the bottom of the mountain, but I don't know where the divine beast is hiding.
Tie Lingshuang took the first step, walking among the rocks infected by the turquoise, the stones were cold, but the heat in the cave was getting heavier, and the few strands of hair scattered on his forehead were slightly curled under the scorching.
Walking to the end of the cave, Tie Lingshuang just stretched out his head to look down, hurriedly shrank back, took two steps back, waved his hand to the two people who were still slowly watching the jade behind him, and bowed down.
Qi Chen and Qin Fusu glanced at each other, hurriedly grabbed the monkey, tiptoed to Tie Lingshuang's side, and asked in a low voice,
"What's wrong?"
Tie Lingshuang lowered his voice and said lightly,
"A tree, a monk, a wolf. ”