According to the records in the "Chronicles of the Netherworld", the island where the ghost mother country is located was originally called Shuoyue Island, which was named because it was slender from east to west and narrow from north to south, and resembled the Emei moon.

And because the sea around the island is covered with rock pillars sticking out of the sea, making Shuoyue Island like the stars holding the moon, so it is also called Zhuyue Island.

However, the island is crisscrossed by rivers and swamps, and there is not much land to cultivate. Therefore, when the feather people are desperate, it is already very generous and bold for the ghost mother to give them a mountain as a place to live.

The place where the feather people live now is only twelve miles away from Xiaoyu Mountain City. According to the book "Yin Cao Difu Chronicles", this mountain is hundreds of zhang high, and the middle of the mountain is full of cliffs that have been cut by knives and axes, which is difficult for ordinary people to reach. Halfway up the mountain, it's completely different. The land is fertile, not steep, and not too rocky.

The most amazing thing is that on the top of the mountain stands an ancient banyan tree 100 zhang high. The dark gray trunk of the tree took a hundred people to encircle, countless rust-brown aerial roots hung from the branches, and the huge canopy covered the land for three or five miles. The whole giant tree looks like a giant umbrella.

At first glance, the branches and leaves in the canopy of the tree were like a fence and a green barrier.

And the feather people are now living on this thousand-year-old giant tree. And this mountain, hence the name Gumu Mountain.

An hour later, Xiao Shizhu and the others came to the foot of Gumu Mountain. Xiao Shizhu stood still on the side of the road, looked up at the top of the mountain immersed in the darkness of the night, and asked King Kong beside him: "The lower half of this mountain is full of cliffs, how can we go up?"

"Ten years ago, in order to facilitate businessmen to go up the mountain to buy Yuren Yunwu tea, a plank road has been built, which can reach the top of the mountain. King Kong replied.

"Can't you let the feather people come down and pull us to fly up?" Xiao Shizhu, who was a little out of breath because of the long journey, asked again. During this time, he was idle, and his physical strength declined rapidly, which was not as good as before.

"I'm afraid it won't work. After King Kong replied, he walked in front of him with a torch and said, "My lord, I will show you the way." As he spoke, he walked slowly forward.

Xiao Shizhu, who was quite frustrated, shook his head and called Shang Qin Yuan and Tian Kuixing to hurry up. A moment later, they followed King Kong and stepped on the plank road leading to the mountain.

Most of these withering and tortuous plank roads are stone roads about half a zhang wide along the stone wall, and wooden beams and planks are laid horizontally. A few are made of transverse holes in the cliff wall to insert thick wooden beams and add diagonal braces underneath. The beams were covered with thick wooden planks, and iron chains or wooden railings were added to the side of the road.

The whole plank road that stretches for several miles around the mountain wall winds up the mountain, like a giant dragon winding the mountain. Walking on it, accompanied by the creaking sound of the wooden planks, is always a bit crumbling.

The higher he went, the more intense the sense of horror and tension that arose in Xiao Shizhu's heart, so that he had to stick to the cliff wall, holding on to the rock wall and slowly and cautiously moving forward to feel a little more at ease. At the same time, he couldn't help but scold in his heart: "It's also those feathers who can fly, otherwise you have to walk these plank roads once when you go out, and you have to have a heart attack in a few years." ”。

It took them about half an hour to reach the halfway point of the mountain. I saw that not far ahead, there was a cylindrical stone workshop at the end of the plank road. After approaching, the column of the torch in the hand of King Kong is engraved with the relief of auspicious clouds and birds, and the word "Yumin Village" is written on the stone workshop. Two feathered men with spears in their hands stood in front of the stone fang.

As soon as they saw Xiao Shizhu and them, a trace of nervousness appeared on the faces of the two feathered people, and at the same time, they pointed the spear in their hands at each other and scolded loudly: "Stop, who is it?"

"I came to recruit soldiers on the orders of the Ghost Mother. Xiao Shizhu, who was out of breath because of climbing the mountain, bent down and said, and at the same time took out the gold square token that he had only gotten in the afternoon, with the eight characters of "Ghost Mother Country Rebelling General", handed it to the two feather people, and said, "Let your village chief come here to see General Ben." ”。

The two Yumin carefully looked at the token in his hand, and after seeing that the token was indeed the general token of the ghost mother country, they hurriedly saluted him and said, "I don't know if the general is visiting, I hope you will forgive me." ”。 Shame and respect immediately appeared on his face.

"Stop talking nonsense, go and call your village chief. Xiao Shizhu waved his hand at them, and hurriedly advised: "Let him find someone to carry the sliding rod, General Ben can't walk." ”。

"Yes. The two feathered men replied in unison, and then one of them turned, and with a flick of his wings behind his back, he flew towards the top of the mountain.

After Xiao Shizhu passed through the stone workshop, he came to a semicircular small platform protected by a stone fence behind the stone workshop. He stood on the edge of the platform and looked down the mountain, but when he saw the wind from above and the cliff below, he hurriedly subconsciously took two steps back.

At the other end of the platform, there are stone steps built against the mountain, which slowly go up to the top of the mountain. On both sides of the end of the stone steps, there is a stone statue of a feather man about one zhang high. The one on the left is angry-eyed, bare-chested, and holding a knife. The one on the right, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, is dressed in armor and holds a wooden staff with nine snakes engraved on it.

"The ancestors of the feather people. Seeing that he was stunned looking at these two sculptures, Qin Yuan flew over and landed on his shoulder, saying, "It is said that they are the first feathered people to appear in the underworld. This one on the left is a martial artist, and this one on the right is a good doctor. ”。

"They won't be alive now, will they?" Xiao Shizhu turned his head to look at Qin Yuan and asked.

"Of course not. Qin Yuan shook his head and said in a slightly regretful tone: "In ancient times, they went to the world with the gods, and then they took the feather people to stand on the side of the good gods, and finally died in battle, and their souls were also destroyed by the evil gods. At that time, the feather man on the right used her superb medical skills to heal a lot of humans. ”。

"Oh, I see. After Xiao Shizhu heard this, he replied casually.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw several feathers descending from the sky and landing in front of him. The leader is an old feather man who looks like he is more than half a hundred years old, with a weather-beaten face, two deep-set eyes, deep and bright, and he looks very godly; He was dressed in brocade clothes, and the wooden staff he held tightly in his hand was no different from the one in the hand of the stone statue not far away.

"I don't know that the general visited late at night, and the old man couldn't welcome him from afar, and I hope the general will forgive his sins. With that, Lao Yuren knelt down to King Kong.

Xiao Shizhu, who had a black line on his face, said angrily without waiting for King Kong to speak: "I am the general." ”。 Lao Yuren was stunned when he heard this, looked up at him, smiled, and said: "This official don't make old jokes, see that you can't pick up your shoulders and can't lift them, how can you be a general?"

"It's true. King Kong stepped aside, pointed at Xiao Shizhu and said, "This is the rebellious general who was personally appointed by my lord this morning. ”。

"Huh?" Lao Yuren was stunned again, his face suddenly turned a little pale, and an embarrassed look appeared between his eyebrows, and he hurriedly turned his head to kowtow to Xiao Shizhu, and said in a loud voice: "The general forgives the sin, the general forgives the sin, it is the small one who has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, and the small one who has eyes does not know Mount Tai." ”。

"Alas. After Xiao Shizhu sighed a little helplessly, he stepped forward to help Lao Yuren up, and said, "Forget it, there is no need to kowtow to this little thing." ”。

"Did you bring the slide rod?" he asked.

"Lifted, lifted, lifted. The old feather man hurriedly beckoned to the feather man behind him and scolded, "Don't come and carry the general yet." ”。

When two of them, the strong Yumin heard this, and hurriedly stepped forward with the sliding pole, respectfully invited Xiao Shizhu to sit up, and carried him to the top of the mountain with the old village chief.

All the way to the road, but I saw that on both sides of the road are layers of terraced fields, which are planted with verdant and lush tea trees, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance of tea. Fireflies dance among the trees, creating a beautiful scenery of fluorescent lights twinkling in the night, echoing the stars in the sky.

From time to time, you can see groups of feather people, holding torches and farm tools, shuttling back and forth among the tea trees.

"Old man, what is this for?" Xiao Shizhu pointed to the feather people who seemed to be patrolling, and asked the village chief, "Militia?"

"Yes. The village chief of Lao Yumin glanced at the direction of his finger and said, "Over the years, our tea has been growing better and better, and occasionally someone will come to steal tea, so we have to send villagers to patrol in turns. ”。 After finishing speaking, say no more.

Half an hour later, everyone followed the village chief to the top of the mountain.

I saw that the top of the mountain presented an open and flat land, about ten acres in size. The feathers spread stone slabs on the ground to make it a square.

Right in the middle is where the giant tree is. Take a closer look, the roots of this towering ancient tree rooted in the soil are like a dragon, and the skin is like a cracked rock. And the smallest tree roots also need three people to embrace.

On the side of the root of the tree, there is an octagonal spring pool, the pool is three zhang wide and one zhang deep. It is surrounded by white marble railings. Standing on the side of the railing, you can see that the water in the pool is clear and green, and the bottom of the pool gushes out beads of different sizes everywhere, clusters and strings, which are really like the pearls of the pool.

Looking up at the trees, there are many exquisite wooden houses of various sizes built among the branches, arranged in layers of branches, and the light of the fire shines through the carved windows of these houses.

Simple wooden pavilions connect the houses. However, there are no stairs or anything on this tree trunk, and Xiao Shizhu has no wings, so he can't go up to see the whole picture.

They had to follow the old village chief to a stilted building on the ground on the eastern edge of the square.

When I entered the main house, I saw that the furnishings in this house were extremely simple, and there was a fire pit in the middle of the house, and straw mats were spread around it. There were some jars and jars in the corner of the room, and I don't know what they contained.

After the old village chief instructed the villagers to get some food, he welcomed Xiao Shizhu to the upper seat, and then sat down on the guest seat himself, and asked, "I don't know the general's surname?"

"Don't give your surname Xiao. After Xiao Shizhu answered, he looked at the wrinkles on the other party's face and asked, "Old man, what's your surname?"

"Lao Yu is a feather person, naturally surnamed Yu, and a single name is full. Yu Man stroked his beard and said, "The young people in the village call me Uncle Man." ”。

"Oh, hello Uncle Man. Xiao Shizhu called out with a respectful expression, if he wanted to recruit troops, he would inevitably trouble the old man in front of him, and he should be polite and polite. Other than that, he didn't think about putting on a general's shelf.

"Uncle Man, that's right. After a pause, Xiao Shizhu said again: "I was ordered to go to Wuzhiqi and need the help of the Yumin, and the ghost mother also agreed to my request for expansion and allowed me to come here to expand an army. ”。

"What?" he had just finished speaking, and the old man looked at him in a daze, and asked, "Who is going on the expedition?" There was an incredible look in his eyes, and there was a hint of fear in it.

"Wu Zhiqi. Xiao Shizhu knew that the other party would be surprised, but he didn't expect it to be incredible, so he suddenly became curious, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Well, it's not that I don't want to help you. Uncle Man trembled slightly, and said: "It's our Yumin who are not martial arts in the first place, and we were chased by Wu Zhiqi and didn't have a place to go, so we had to come here, and for this reason, we also took the lives of thousands of Yuren." ”。 Speaking of this, Uncle Man suddenly shut up, and Wu Zhiqi's voice sounded in his head: "Either get out or die!" The body shook involuntarily again.