The lake is wide, misty and dark. In the middle of the lake lies a small island shaped like an ingot, surrounded by dozens of huge statues of different colors and shapes. The island is covered with dark green vegetation, with a gleaming golden building in the middle of the bulge, and the cliffs at both ends of the island are high up, and many large black birds fly up and down the island, or shuttle back and forth between the giant statues.

There was not a single pier on the shore of the lake, and there seemed to be no place to dock on the other side of the island, and the cliff wall was plunged straight into the water, and not a single boat could be seen on the entire lake. I stared at the deep water, and I felt like it was going to pounce on me and swallow me at any moment.

The girl looked at me, and then at Abel: "Swim over?"

Able smiled mysteriously and whipped his whip in the air a few times. We didn't know what to mean, just wondering, suddenly a gust of wind hit from behind, and before we could turn back, we felt our bodies tremble, and the heavens and the earth shook, and the whole person floated into the air.

The silent embankment retreated sharply in my exclamation, and the mirrored surface of the lake was rubbed by the scales and waves raised by the wind, reflecting our reflection. One glance made me shudder—in the shadows I stretched out my limbs, like a kite, hanging from under a strange bird with black feathers and a red beak.

This guy was three times my size, with flat wings like a giant dark cloud, with a human torso and head, and features like a bird. The flat nose is close to the face, a pair of amber eyes are embedded in the temples on each side, and the thin barrel-shaped lips are curled up all the way to the chest, looking like a bird's gun. It hooked my belt with two sharp claws, and it wasn't good, the face-down flight position made me weak from my fear of heights, and even worse, my belt was loosening.

I yelled, "Pants!

"No, it won't. A voice came from overhead.

Crown...... It must have been a hallucination caused by a fear of heights, and I shook my head vigorously.

"Don't move, it's not going to happen. The voice was close at hand.

The slender beak in the reflection closes one by one, like a piece of green bamboo that has been split. I turned my head to look up, and it was really talking, and I was so shocked that my hands danced. The girl is not as rare and strange as me, and smiled proudly: "I'll just say, it's not strange that things that can fly can talk." "She was also under the claws of a strange bird, her expression and posture were much more natural than mine, and her arms were still dancing like wings, which was very enjoyable, and she also attracted a few nine-winged demon butterflies. Seeing her like this, my nervousness also disappeared a little, and I no longer struggled.

The strange birds led us swiftly across the lake, whistling past the statues, and approaching the silent and cold cliffs of Yuanbao Island. Only then did I see clearly, these statues dozens of zhang high are 100 meters away from the island, evenly distributed, are carved from a whole piece of colored jade, the knife work is fine, lifelike, carved is the same young and handsome face, but show different postures and expressions, some look up to the sky and cry and look sad, some bow their heads and ponder and look melancholy, all revealing the feelings of compassion and compassion.

The destination was at the top of the mountain, and among the clouds was a golden palace, the light of which was emitted by the yellow tiles and gilded eaves that covered it. The strange birds folded their wings on the ground, and the bodies stood up, and gently landed in front of the door of the house, and put us down.

The first thing the girl did after standing firm was to turn around and chat with the strange birds, but these strange birds were not interested in this, as if they were in a hurry, and flew away without a trace after a few swishs.

The mountain is a treacherous right-angled triangle, with cliffs and long streams behind the house, and countless steps diagonally paved in front of it, of unknown material, covered with colorful patterns and strange and brilliant light, pouring down from the front of the door and pouring into the secluded and deep woods at the bottom of the peak. Looking down from here, it seems to be in the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Treasure Palace.

Turning around, across our eyes were three gates of beast heads that needed to be tilted close to ninety degrees to see the whole picture, and the middle one was particularly majestic, at least a hundred feet high, and even the threshold was a lot higher than my head, which seemed to be a special passage for giants. To the left and right of the gate squatted a huge jade lion, so crystal clear that you could see the internal organs - if they had five internal organs. Two heavily armed guards stood heroically in front of the jade lion, not moving at all, not saying a word.

"Crawl over. Abel said to me, pointing to the threshold that was more than one person high.

"Crawl?" I thought I had misheard.

There was no joke on Abel's face: "Well, climb over the threshold." ”

The girl looked at the two doors without thresholds next to her and asked, "Can't you go through this side door?"

Abel said, "The side gate is for the cattle." ”

I measured the height with my hand: "But this threshold is too ......."

"This is the rule here, and whoever wants to enter must pass through this door," said Abel's non-negotiable tone, "Climb is an attitude, an expression of reverence for the master, and ordinary people climb over the threshold, and inferior people have to get through it." Following his fingers, I noticed several inconspicuous circular holes in the bottom of the threshold, just large enough for an adult to drill through.

"Climb!" the two guards commanded in unison, turning their faces to us. Only then did I realize that their looks, shapes, voices, and movements were highly consistent, like replicas.

"This threshold is lowered only when the most dignitaries come," Abel explained, "and it is a great honor for ordinary people to climb this gate, even to climb this island." ”

Maybe it's better to follow the local customs than to get through the hole below, and I feel relieved when I think about it. Just as I was about to jump, two spears whizzed across in front of me.

"Stay!" they seemed to be able to spit out only one word at a time.

Abel translated: "Luggage cannot be brought in. ”

The expressions of the guards did not look like they could bargain, no way, the guests were as they pleased, after all, there was such a powerful person living here, such a holy and noble place, it was very reasonable not to let us go in naked. I persuaded the girl with this reason, and she pouted reluctantly, and threw each of our rucksacks into the arms of the two guards.

It didn't matter, and the mirror and the tears slipped out of the backpack at the same time. The two guards took it and each held a night pot. As soon as the night pot touched their skin, the two of them were instantly stunned, and suddenly their faces changed greatly, their facial features were distorted, and at the same time they screamed strangely, threw away the night pot and the spear, and rushed to the steps with their teeth and claws like two black bears stabbed in a hornet's nest, rolled to the end, ran over the grove, and plunged into the lake without hesitation.

The girl bent down and picked up two night pots from the ground, looked left and right, sniffed them, and wondered: "This night pot is not so dirty, is it? ”

Abel explained with a wry smile: "Hey, I've been in this kind of palatial place for a long time, and I feel dirty when I look at everything. If you weren't dressed decently and looked upright, you wouldn't even try to get close to this gate, and they would have thrown you into the sea. ”

The girl pursed her lips, stuffed the night pot into her backpack, and said disdainfully: "I've only heard of dogs looking down on people, but I haven't heard of dogs being dirty." ”

"Don't worry about them, leave this thing to me, let's get down to business. Abel said as he took the backpack from the girl's hand, walked behind a jade lion, and reached out to pull the lion's tail. I only heard a few clicks, and the thick base slowly moved to the side with the jade lion, revealing a hole more than one person high.

Able put the two backpacks into the hole, patted the jade lion's buttocks, and the hole closed again. Abel turned to us and said, "I'll get it when I come out, and now we'll go to him." So saying, he made a demonstration, grabbed the high threshold with both hands, leaped over, and climbed over skillfully.

"Come on, let's move our muscles. Voices of encouragement came from the threshold. I helped the girl first, and then clumsily climbed over the threshold myself. Although I have unique skills and a "death shield" to protect my body, I have not learned the basic skills of martial arts, and I am not very good at climbing and jumping. >