After his father fell asleep, Yue Zhen also leaned on his side and took a nap, until the first rooster crowing before dawn urged him to wake up, he did not leave, he checked the cable again, and after confirming that it was correct, he carefully looked at the Yue family heirloom in his hand - the sword "Snake Spirit, he walked out of the hut, and slowly pulled out the snake spirit blade, the sword blade that had not been unsheathed for a long time had just revealed the sword body like a shuttle point, the brilliance was leaking, and the cold was clear. Wait for the sword blade to be fully revealed, exuding a faint ice blue, like a cold jade, no need to provoke, the cold frost on the sword blade, the wind has left traces.

The young man put away his short sword, against the cold north wind, stepped on the dawn, and stepped towards the desert to the east.

Jiang Wangchen woke up lying on his shoulder and drooling, dreaming a good dream: "Hey, hey! Wake up, everyone is gone." ”

Hua Youyou rubbed her eyes and said in a trance: "Ah, what?"

"Let's go!" Jiang Wangchen directly pulled Hua Youyou up.

"Hey!" Hua Youyou muttered, "You can't be light, you have to be gentle with girls, don't you know?"

"Be quiet. It's going to be heard!"

Hua Youyou no longer squeaked, followed closely, and the embroidered fist landed on Jiang Wangchen's back without interruption.

The farther east we went, the closer the world came to barrenness, and there was less and less life on the bare surface, except for the scattered weeping orchids and crumbling rocks, and the farthest as far as the eye could see was a bare black stone mountain with low coniferous black trees scattered together.

Yuezhen's footsteps became more and more urgent, and the two followed Yuezhen, approaching the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the temperature warms up, and the warm breeze stops around, making people feel refreshed for a long time.

But this mountain road is not easy to walk, the gravel is unstable, every foot has to slide down half a step, and I am even more afraid that the sound of the gravel rolling down will attract Yuezhen's attention. So the two of them can only keep a long distance to follow, but fortunately, with Xiaoxing, even if they occasionally lose their vision in the winding mountain path, they can catch up quickly.

When bypassing the mountainside, the sunlight began to burn a little, and there was a layer of hot ground on the surface, Jiang Wangchen and Hua Youyou stepped on it, like stepping on a hot pot, and couldn't help but step up, but Xiaoxing was not affected, especially looking at the two masters, and more deliberately kicked the pace.

After crossing the mountainside, you will reach the valley after a journey of hundreds of feet, and here, there is a heat wave that transpires upwards and curls in mist. The view is obstructed, and the bottom of the valley cannot be seen.

Yuezhen tied one end of the cable to a boulder, pulled it with great force, did not loosen, and quietly lowered the other end along the valley landslide.

He grabbed the cable and descended slowly, soon disappearing into the sweltering steam.

Jiang Wangchen came to the boulder, looked down, and saw the bottom of the valley through the thick fog barrier.

Hua Youyou looked at Xiaoxing beside him, sometimes roaring, sometimes walking back and forth uneasily, and said, "Xiaoxing, do you smell it too!"

Jiang Wangchen said vigilantly: "What is it?"

Hua Youyou said: "Fierce beast! extremely powerful fierce beast is under this valley!"

"That month wasn't really going to be dangerous. ”

"That will definitely be. Hua Youyou pulled the rope slightly and said, "But we can only wait for Yuezhen to go down first, this rope can't withstand the weight of two people." ”

Jiang Wangchen said: "Why don't you let Xiaoxing follow first." ”

Hua Youyu smiled, "If you can pull it off my lap, I have no opinion." ”

"Xiaoxing, good, you go down first, and when our mission is completed, how about I roast a whole rabbit for you?"

Xiao Xing did not let go, his whole body trembled, and he looked at Jiang Wangchen with teary eyes.

Hua Youyou said: "Jiang Wangchen's cable is loose, it seems that this valley is not deep, why don't you and Xiaoxing go down first." ”

Jiang Wangchen looked at Xiao Xing who was still holding on to this flower, and said seriously: "Xiao Xing, I need your help, otherwise I won't be able to find Yuezhen." ”

Xiaoxing hesitated again and again, but still compromised and hid in Jiang Wangchen's arms. Jiang Wangchen grabbed the rope and descended quickly, and it didn't take long for his feet to step on the ground.

The flowers soon followed, and the valley was hotter, but the humidity was not so strong. Who would have thought that the valley is still like spring all year round, the grass grows and the warbler flies, everything is vibrant, and a moisture reflects a rainbow under the reflection of the sun, like a rainbow bridge across the valley.

Xiaoxing suddenly quickened his pace, shook off the two of them and ran towards a winding path. The two hurriedly followed, and saw a green meadow in the distance, and the moon was really crawling forward.

Following the direction he was going, Jiang Wangchen saw a red lotus flower on an independent sandy land in the center of the valley, exuding a curling red glow, with shiny petals, like a phoenix spreading its wings, floating lightly on the fine sand. Among the flowers, there is a golden lotus canopy, and the lotus seeds are red in the lotus pod, and the whole dry lotus is dazzling, and the glass is shining.

Jiang Wangchen even sensed with his spiritual power that the fire element between heaven and earth was frantically pouring into the valley, and finally completely converged on this dry lotus. Turning into a trace of pure fire elemental power visible to the naked eye, it penetrated towards the lotus seed.

At this time, Yuezhen had already moved more than a zhang, and after another zhang, he could touch the long-coveted dry lotus, but no one dared to take it lightly, after all, the breath of the fierce beast was still shrouded in the valley, and it had not yet appeared.

Yue Zhen paused slightly, adjusted her breathing again, and urged herself in her heart: "Don't panic, you must be able to do it! As long as you hold on for a while, you can get that priceless phoenix lotus plant." ”

As soon as his prayer brought him a hint of peace, he began to move on again, and now he was a little closer, and he could see the little sparkling on the lotus flower, beautiful and moving, and Yue Zhen still controlled his calm emotions.

Time seems to be a long time, if it weren't for the comparison of the two nodes, he would mistakenly think that Yuezhen had not moved, but he actually continued to crawl, inch after inch, approaching the dry lotus without arrogance or impatience. In terms of perseverance and determination alone, even Jiang Wangchen and Hua Youyou, who were following behind, couldn't help but admire. The next one zhang distance, Yue Zhen took an hour, and seeing that the dry lotus was just a stone's throw away, he hesitated and considered it, because the Yanjia beast that was taboo to the Yuena clan never appeared, which meant that the danger had not been ruled out.

The fog in the valley has been broken up by the sun, and the brilliant rainbow is only the next gradually blurred halo, in the bright valley, a hundred flowers are blooming, competing for favor, but in any case, there is only one leader, it is always the Fengqi dry lotus in the valley, and now, the dry lotus that Yuezhen dreams of is close at hand.

He didn't want to wait any longer, a pair of rough palms that should not be at this age, firmly held on the rhizome of the dry lotus, he never thought that this rhizome was so hot, the palm just touched lightly, and it was suddenly retracted, and it was directly scalded out of a scorch mark, but fortunately, he endured the burn, gritted his teeth, and did not shout out. But at this moment, the sand beneath his feet suddenly began to flow, and collapsed towards all directions, and he was so surprised that he had the wit to stretch his body apart, like a lotus leaf, lightly covering the quicksand.

Fortunately, the quicksand stopped in a moment, Yue Zhen sighed lightly, and then looked at the quicksand after it slipped down, the bottom of the lotus leaf rhizome revealed another section, the color of this section is like a faint blush, I think it should not be so hot, Yue Zhen gritted his teeth in advance, and grabbed the joint here, the temperature here is suitable, and it is not scorching, he secretly rejoiced, and then he pulled hard, and the dry lotus was solid as a rock, and it was not loosened.

When he wondered why the rhizome was so tight, there was a huge mournful cry "woo", which resounded through the valley, and then the sandy land where the dry lotus was located, the surface of the ground suddenly cracked, the valley shook and shook, and then the sand rose flat, and countless fine sand slipped and fell into the cracks.

The fine sand was washed away, and a smooth and bare red rock mass directly connected to the root of the dry lotus, appeared in front of him. As the rock mass was violently raised, Yuezhen, who was on top of the rock mass, could only firmly grasp the rhizome with both hands to avoid slipping off the rock mass. But the tighter he gripped it, the more violently the rock shook.

Howls and cries echoed through the heavens and the earth. It comes from a rock mass with lines like turtle shells, a thick neck and two huge heads like jackals.

"I remember, this is not a Yanjia beast, this is called a two-headed red wolf in the demon clan. Hua Youyou was surprised: "It's terrible now, it's not easy to wake up such a vicious beast." ”

Hua Youyou looked at it quickly and said, "But fortunately, looking at this size and the flame at the end of the tail, you can conclude that this is just a young beast." ”

Jiang Wangchen stared at this behemoth beast that was about two zhang tall and more than one zhang wide, and it turned out to be a young beast, "grunt", swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at the side again, and shook his head at the trembling little star on Hua Youyou's legs.

Over there, Yuezhen was shocked to the point that his internal organs turned over the river and the sea, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out, but he still didn't let go, he waited for two years of hope, and now he held it in his hand, how could he let it go easily!

"Let go!" Hua Youyou suddenly shouted, "You will be shocked to death like this!"

Hua Youyou drank this time, like an empowerment, even if her heart was full of unwillingness, Yuezhen still let go...... The whole person has no fulcrum, like a kite with a broken string, swaying and throwing out.

At this time, Jiang Wangchen's meteor step had already stepped out, and he jumped up with a boulder and caught Yuezhen steadily.

Yue Zhen suddenly felt a soft force behind him, unloading most of the inertia of his body, he was surprised inexplicably, and when he looked back, it was the master who had just accepted him as an apprentice yesterday. The two landed again, Yuezhen lowered her head, looking at her shadow of nothing, and had mixed feelings in her heart.

"Don't be discouraged, can you, knock down this behemoth together, and you can get that dry lotus." Jiang Wangchen looked at Yue Zhen categorically and shouted.

At this life-and-death juncture, Jiang Wangchen's words are like a teacher's life, but Yuezhen is moved, how many years later, there is a pair of broad shoulders behind him to rely on, and after many years, he finally does not have to face the burden of this world alone.

The tears that had already dried up came out of my eyes this time, because of the warm touch.

How did he know that Jiang Wangchen was also helpless, at this moment, there was no way back except to defeat the evil wolf.

Yue Zhen immediately wiped away the tears, nodded heavily, and stood beside Jiang Wangchen, the stubborn young man refused to admit defeat, just waiting for Jiang Wangchen to give orders, and he moved forward without hesitation.