In the northernmost part of the distant earth, there is a sea, which is called the North Underworld.

The North Stygian Sea lacks light all year round, and it is an extremely cold area where the sun cannot shine, but there is a small town called the North Desert (1) by the sea, and there are hundreds of families living in the town, these people are somehow unwilling to move away from the extremely cold and cold North Stygian Shore, perhaps, their strange behavior can be answered by an ancient legend.

This starts from Pangu's groundbreaking, when Pangu turned his body into mountains and rivers, and the five toes of one of his feet turned into five immortal mountains in the ancient Bohai Sea, these five immortal mountains float all year round, and the emperor of heaven was afraid that the five mountains would drift too far, and each mountain ordered three Lingao to hold it on top to make it not move, a total of fifteen. Subsequently, the Longbo Kingdom has giants, and it takes a few steps to the five mountains, and one fishing even six fishes, so the two mountains of Daiyu and Yuanqiao flow in the north and sink into the sea, and the nine Lingao carrying the remaining three mountains are also affected by the influence and abandon the mountain, causing the remaining three mountains to drift to the East China Sea, becoming today's Penglai, Abbot, Yingzhou three immortal mountains.

The Emperor of Heaven was furious when he heard the news, and exiled Longbo to the North Underworld, where there was no light all day long, and punished him to retrieve the two mountains of Daiyu and Yuanqiao that had sunk into the North Underworld, and punished his descendants for becoming short for generations. However, things are often unexpected, Lombard's descendants are developing towards both ends, one type of people are slightly lower in height, but they are still giants in the sky, which is the "Kuafu family" in people's mouths; One type of person has plummeted in height and become like a normal person, which is today's northern mortal.

And most of the people in this northern desert town believe that they are the descendants of Longbo, so they worship Longbo as a god for generations, praying that every family has more than one year and lives and works in peace and contentment.

Han Ye and the others rode the silver eagle and went towards the northernmost part of the world, the speed of the silver eagle was amazingly fast, even if the earth and the four seas were 80,000 miles long, the silver eagle had flown out more than 10,000 miles from Shu Mountain, because all the way to the north, gradually the wind in the air was also blowing cold, Han Ye, Situ Yunmeng and Xingchen were not greatly affected because they entered the realm of the upper three realms, while Han Yu and Xue Yan, who had turned back into mortals, were a little unbearable and had to wrap their thin clothes tightly.

"Nasty! How can it be so cold? Xue Yan wrapped her slender arms around her body, her teeth chattered, and she frowned and said, "Girl, I'm about to be frozen into ice bars!" ”

"Isn't it good to be an ice swallow?" Han Ye sneered: "I told you that the Northern Underworld is an extremely cold place, you are a human now, and you don't pay attention to adding clothes to keep warm, don't blame me for freezing your body." ”

"It's your fault!" Xue Yan pointed her hand at Han Ye angrily, and suddenly the cold wind blew, and she shivered with cold, so she wrapped her body again, raised her eyebrows at Han Ye, and said, "Didn't you just say that you were going to turn me back into a magic sword, why didn't it change!" If my aunt and grandmother are magic swords, at least they are invulnerable, not afraid of fire and water, and not invaded by heat and cold, now it's okay, and the body and bones can't bear it if you suffer a little cold and heat, are you just like this to Yan'er who takes care of your wife? ”

Before Han Ye could speak, Situ Yunmeng felt guilty, she hugged the petite Xue Yan, released a warm fragrant breeze, and asked softly, "Yan'er, is it still cold?" ”

Han Ye said unhappily: "Madam, why do you keep sticking to her?" ”

"Huh! What do you mean? Xue Yan wrapped her arms around Situ Yunmeng's willow waist and said, "Didn't Xiao Mengmeng tell you to stay with me for a few days?" It's only been a day! You can't stand it anymore? Who told you not to turn me back into a magic sword? Now I can't hold my wife, I deserve it! Grandma is happy! Briefly! As he spoke, he grimaced.

Seeing that Han Ye was furious, Situ Yunmeng stretched out a hand to hold his hand and persuaded: "Ah Ye, you and I have finally become married, I have you, you have me...... But Yan'er doesn't have a home yet, so we have to treat ourselves as her family, be more tolerant of her, and give her whatever she wants. ”

Han Ye continued to hold Yun Meng's hand, looked into the distance, and said abruptly: "Then I can't give you to her!" ”

Xue Yan whispered in Situ Yunmeng's arms: "Hehe! This stinky stupid melon even eats my vinegar! But ah, Xiao Mengmeng, it's a good thing that he's jealous, which means that he cares about you all along. ”

"Hmm." Xue Yan said the words to Situ Yunmeng's heart, Situ Yunmeng looked at the man in fascination, and said, "Yan'er, you are right, as long as you don't feel wronged, the three of us are fine like this." ”

"Not aggrieved, not aggrieved at all." Xue Yan smelled the fragrance in Situ Yunmeng's arms, and said with a smile: "I am Meng Gongzi's qin boy Xiaocao, and I want to follow Gongzi and serve Gongzi for a lifetime." ”

"Silly Yan'er~!" Situ Yunmeng released more fragrant wind, just like Lishu Mountain, she hugged Xue Yan in the thick poisonous smoke, and the bond between the two daughters was deeper.

Seeing that Situ Yunmeng used incense and body temperature to protect Xue Yan from the cold, Xingchen immediately opened his mind, cleared his throat, and said to Han Yu beside him with a slight blush: "Ahem! That, Xiaoyu, your sister Yan'er has someone to warm up, haven't you thought that the rest of us will take care of you? ”

"yes!" Han Yu was originally wrapped in Taoist clothes, but when he heard Xingchen's reminder, his eyes suddenly widened slightly, as if he understood, and said, "I can do the same!" ”

"Okay." Xingchen opened his arms and said, "I'll make it difficult for you to ......."

"Brother, you don't mind helping Xiaoyu keep warm, right?" Han Yu said and leaned towards Han Ye.

"Don't mind, we are biological brothers and sisters, and we should be the elder brother and take care of the younger sister." Saying that, Han Ye put his coat on Han Yu, pressed a palm on her back, and passed on the Xuanyuan True Qi around her body.

With a bang, Xingchen only felt that his brain was knocked on by someone, and the cold wind around him did not blow his body cold, but his heart cold.

"Thank you for reminding me, Xingchen." Han Yu tightened his brother's coat on his body again.

"No, it's nothing...... Xingchen turned his head awkwardly and sat aside, drawing circles on the back of the carving, and said in extreme frustration, "You go on...... Go on! ”

When Han Ye saw Xingchen's expression, he could guess a thing or two, so he asked Han Yu softly, "Xiaoyu, what do you think of him?" ”

As soon as Han Yu heard Han Ye talk about him, he couldn't help blushing and whispered, "Why is my brother nothing to mention him?" ”

Of course, Han Ye didn't have nothing to mention Xingchen, but he, Situ Yunmeng, and Xue Yan all wanted to find a good family for Han Yu, so they deliberately asked Han Yu's opinion, and now seeing that Han Yu seemed to have affection for Xingchen and Xingchen seemed to be interested in Han Yu, he whispered: "Just ask for a brother, and get along with your sister Meng and Sister Yan'er for so long, this daughter's thoughts are becoming more and more clear." ”

"In ...... What are you talking about? Han Yu lowered his head slightly, thought about it, and said quietly and shyly: "Brother's true qi is very warm, it's not cold at all." ”

Han Ye knew that Han Yu was talking about him left and right, and whispered again: "Didn't he obviously want to give you a chance to contact him just now?" You see, how frustrated is your coming to me now? ”

Seeing that Han Yu was silent, Han Ye knew that this was her acquiescence, so she looked at the gray sky in front of her and sighed: "Brother and sister, I think that in this matter, you are clearly holding a wait-and-see attitude and not daring to make decisions for yourself, right?" ”

Han Yu nodded slightly, and whispered: "Don't tell him, I just don't want to be a shadow of my previous life, when I feel that he really lets go, then I can have nothing to worry about, no matter how bad it is, I can still be with my brothers and sisters." ”

"You." Han Ye smiled faintly, took a sip of wine spirit, and continued to look at the road.

The silver eagle continued to fly towards the north, the glow of the dim sun behind him gradually faded away, and the next thing that blew was no longer a cold wind, but an ice wind that was enough to blow people into ice chips, and the two of them did everything they could in order to protect the people around them, Han Ye put his true qi to the maximum to protect Han Yu, and Situ Yunmeng flashed a three-flower gold seal on his forehead to protect Xue Yan.

"Master." The silver eagle said to Han Ye on his back: "The iron eagle estimates that this place is not far from the North Underworld. ”

Xue Yan reminded: "Hey, your self-profess is going to be changed, you are now a silver eagle, not a piece of iron lump, you have to call yourself a silver eagle, stupid bird." ”

Han Ye said to the silver eagle: "Don't listen to her, it's no problem to call the iron eagle, just do whatever you want." ”

The silver eagle replied, "Yes, master." ”

"Hey!" Xue Yan's eyes widened, and she said angrily at Han Ye: "Are you deliberately going against this girl!" ”

Han Ye ignored Xue Yan's words and said to everyone: "Tie Diao was right just now, this place should not be far from Beiming, and the weather is getting colder and colder, everyone must be careful." As he spoke, he sent Han Yu a little more real power.

And Situ Yunmeng also hugged Xue Yan tighter, Xue Yan's face turned slightly red, and said to Situ Yunmeng: "Little Mengmeng, you don't have to hold so hard, don't you have fire spiritual power?" Wouldn't it be much more comfortable to put it out? ”

"That's right!" Situ Yunmeng suddenly realized, transformed the aura around his body into fire spiritual power, his eyes also turned into red jade, and a pair of phoenix fire wings were born on his back, which dispelled a lot of cold from everyone.

In this way, Xingchen had no hope of hugging Han Yu, he looked helplessly at the flying clouds, and gradually saw a magical sea.

The sea is endless, until the end of the gray sky, the sea is shining with a slight light, on it are mostly glaciers and ice floes, the crystal ice and the quiet water blend on the sea, the ice blue sea and the snow-white shore dock under the gray sky, and there are bursts of beautiful sounds on the sea from time to time, which are not songs, but better than songs, it seems to be a group of living beings together to send out the yearning and desire for the future.

Xingchen was soon intoxicated by this gray sky, white earth, and blue sea, and he said, "Is this the legendary North Stygian Sea?" ”

When Han Ye heard Xingchen say this, he asked the silver eagle under the seat, "Have you arrived?" ”

The silver eagle not only became majestic in appearance, but also had a lot more power, even without the support of Han Ye's demonic energy, his eyes could emit red rays to detect the situation in the lower realm, he confirmed, nodded and said, "Yes, master, we have arrived in the North Underworld." ”

Han Ye then asked, "Are there any nearby villages around here?" We should first give Yan'er and Xiaoyu a few more clothes before they can move. ”

"Nonsense!" Xue Yan reprimanded: "In such a cold and extremely cold place, how can there be a village? ”

As soon as Xue Yan finished speaking, the iron sculpture replied: "Master, I found it, there is a small town on the south bank of the North Underworld, where we can settle down." ”

"Isn't it?" Xue Yan said in surprise: "There are really people living in this kind of ghost place!" ”

"It should be Beimo Town, Sister Yan'er." Han Yu explained: "I have seen a small town called Beimo in ancient geographical books, this town is in the northernmost part of the land of Shenzhou, and the legend has some relationship with the Longbo giant, I don't know if it is true." ”

After Han Yuyi said, everyone looked under the sea of silver carving clouds, but saw a small town that did not cover a wide area hidden in the snow, just next to the North Stygian Sea, at this time the town was lit up, looking quite angry.

"Well, there are really people who are not afraid to die and live here." Xue Yan said.

Han Ye said to the silver eagle: "Iron carving, take us down, we will settle there, and by the way, take a look at the situation in the town." ”

"Yes!" The silver eagle let out a long roar and flew towards the North Desert Town at its feet......

Beimo Town is also known as the town of no light because it is located in the north of the North Underworld, and the fishermen on the coast of the East China Sea mostly prey on sea creatures to make a living, while wood, oil, rice, silk, satin and cotton have to be purchased at a high price from far away, although the people live a difficult life, but as long as they think of the dragon giant protecting them, they never intend to leave here.

Han Ye and his group of five people found a place to deviate from Beimo Town, put away the huge silver eagle, and Han Ye said to everyone: "No matter what, the town is full of mortals, and we should not use Xuanqi's spiritual power to frighten them." ”

"Ah Ye is right." Situ Yunmeng bowed his head and said: "Even if they treat us as immortals, it will be very troublesome, what we have to do now is to retrieve the Earth Spirit Bead, and we can't make any trouble and delay time." ”

Everyone comprehended the gods, Situ Yunmeng still wrapped Xue Yan in his arms, but he had already put his wings into his body, and the fiery aura emitted from her body made everyone feel warm, in fact, when Situ Yunmeng became the real Feihuang Princess, Xue Yan was already a sword, this was the first time Xue Yan felt the heat in Situ Yunmeng's heart up close, just like a swallow in the cold winter had found its nest.

"Thank you, Little Mengmeng." Xue Yan became quieter and quieter, so quiet that she was almost asleep, and said in her heart: "It doesn't matter if I like him or not, although I still like him so much, but I was willing to pay for him, and now, I still have you, you can even put down your favorite stupid melon for me...... Really, I didn't like you so much, I didn't expect that one day we would be like this, originally I also said, I will leave when I send you to Shushan to see the dumb melon sister, but it turned out to be out of control, and the more I can't go...... Don't worry, I'm not leaving, because, there's a place for you and the dumb melon......"

"It's my home."

Thinking like this, Xue Yan shouted at Han Ye: "Hey! Silly melon! What do you think? My wife doesn't know how to hold the point, what should I do if I fall? Saying that, she whispered to Situ Yunmeng: "Xiao Mengmeng, it's good for you to hold me with one hand, don't keep hanging him, he is a seven-foot man, how can you bear it?" ”

Han Ye walked over and took Situ Yunmeng's hand, interlocked his fingers with her, and said to Xue Yan: "Don't fight, Xue Nuxia?" ”

"Fight!" Xue Yan raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't fight with you, my aunt and grandmother have a cold mouth." ”

"Then you better stop fighting." Han Ye smiled: "You have sharp teeth and sharp mouth, don't freeze your teeth if you talk too much." ”

"Then you don't fight." Xue Yan smiled: "Grandma is afraid that your tongue will freeze out, long-tongued woman!" ”

Situ Yunmeng was amused by the two again, but she had a premonition a long time ago that if it was just her and her Ah Ye, but without Yan'er's company, life would probably lose a lot of excitement.

"Thank you, Yan'er." Thinking so, the two of them looked at Xue Yan and were grateful, and the three of them walked forward like this, taking Han Yu and Xingchen into the town together.

There are hardly any passers-by on the streets of the town, except for the fact that every house lights up an oil lamp and goes about the day as if it were night, and occasionally one or two people pulling a cart, dressed in thick cotton clothes, or carrying a cart of firewood and cotton cloth to the warehouse in the center of the town, or from the warehouse a cart of freshly frozen fish and shrimp covered with canvas.

Seeing this, Han Ye asked Han Yudao: "Sister, have you ever talked about the folk customs here in the ancient geography books you have read?" They don't exclude outsiders, do they? Will we be expelled if we look for the orb here? ”

Han Yu shook his head and said, "They believe in Longbo, probably they won't expel outsiders, I think outsiders are doing business with them quite well." ”

Xingchen agreed: "That is, they should welcome outsiders, if they don't welcome outsiders, who wants to come and live in such a cold and dead place, do they want to find guilt?" ”

So, Han Ye found a local uncle and asked him where he could buy clothes, and the uncle pointed to the center of the town and said that there was the only store in the town, Dapeng Commercial Bank, and asked them to go there.

Han Ye took everyone to the Dapeng Trading House, which was originally composed of fishermen selling fish in the town, and later because of the more materials exchanged, the scope of the exchange was gradually expanded to food, clothing, and housing, and it was also the exchange center that the people of the whole town relied on for survival, and the warehouse was also located next to it.

Han Ye's five people entered the trading house, although this trading house is far less magnificent than the trading houses in other states and counties, but there are dozens of people working inside, some of them process foreign fabrics and use them to make clothes and sell them, some put foreign kerosene in utensils and sell them, and some people sell rice directly inside, because the people are more lively, and there is a stove inside, so it is still much warmer than outside.

Han Ye walked to the front of the clothes seller and asked the price, the owner of the clothes seller was a forty-year-old man with a clean face, he and the rice seller next to him were talking with each other, even if Han Ye came, he didn't plan to turn back to greet the guests.

The owner of the clothes seller said to the boss of the rice seller next to him: "Hey! Is Lord Haruhina still in our town? Didn't go back, did you? ”

"It must be!" The rice seller said: "The weather is getting worse and worse now, the North Stygian Sea is about to freeze into ice, and the goose feather snow is still falling, and our town is about to be covered!" Thanks to this Lord Spring God, as soon as he came, he cast a spell to stop the wind and snow, otherwise how would we little people live? ”

"Spring God?" Xingchen scratched his head and muttered, "Has Lord Jumang ever appeared here?" ”

"What sentence?" The rice seller glanced at Xingchen and said disdainfully, "Ho! It turned out to be a young man from out of town, no wonder, his hair was short, and his knowledge was short. ”

Thinking of the words that Jedi Xue Yan had scolded Xingchen before, Situ Yunmeng couldn't help but laugh secretly, Xue Yan even covered his stomach and smiled: "Alas, alas!" Laughing at my aunt and grandmother! It turns out that I am not the only one who said that you have short hair and short knowledge! Hahahaha! ”

Hearing this, Xingchen touched his short hair, frowned and said, "This hair was this hair when I was conceived, what does it have to do with knowledge?" ”

The clothes vendor smiled: "Young man, do you know our ancestors of Longbo?" I heard that this spring god was sent down to bless us so that we would not be killed by the cold! Thank God! As he spoke, the shopkeeper made a pious look, and his eyes were particularly reverent.

Situ Yunmeng and Xingchen were even more confused and looked at each other, while Han Ye went straight to the point and said to the clothing vendor: "That's the case, we are indeed outsiders, passing through here to find something, but my partner and sister went out with less clothes, and want to buy some warm clothes from Your Excellency to wear, so that you can go out, I don't know ...... Your Excellency?" ”

The owner of the clothes seller looked Han Ye up and down, and saw that he was wearing a dark blue costume, so he said, "You are from the rivers and lakes, right?" ”

When Han Ye heard this, he nodded hurriedly and said, "That's right, I was born from a martial arts family. ”

The rice seller said disdainfully: "Hmph, a martial artist, fight and kill, it won't become a big climate, take your daughter-in-law home and pick up the child as soon as possible!" ”

When Situ Yunmeng heard this, his pretty face turned red, and many people in the business house noticed this beautiful girl at this time, and they cast amazing eyes.

The clothes vendor's eyes glanced at Situ Yunmeng's charming figure from time to time, but his behavior was also his duty, so he asked Han Ye, "Five?" ”

Han Ye shook his head, raised two fingers and said, "No, two pieces are enough." ”

After hearing this, the rice seller smiled and said, "Heh! It's strange that all five people are dressed so thinly, and they only buy two cotton clothes? Reluctant to make money, or do you want to show off your figure? ”

The owner of the clothes seller said to everyone: "Don't pay attention to him, he is usually poor, so how about a cotton coat for five taels of silver?" ”

"Five taels?" Xue Yan raised her eyebrows and said angrily: "Why don't you go and rob it!" ”

Han Ye covered Xue Yan's mouth as usual, and said to the clothing vendor, "Ten taels in total, right?" ”

The owner of the clothes seller nodded and said: "Yes, there is no way, we will indeed sell at a high price to outsiders, because the fabric comes from a far away village, and it is already expensive, so I can't discount it?" ”

Han Ye felt reasonable, so he touched his body, and after touching it for a while, he said to Situ Yunmeng: "Meng, did you bring money?" ”

"Huh?" Situ Yunmeng opened her jade eyes slightly, and also touched her willow waist, and was about to take out the silver, but was stopped by Xue Yan, it turned out that Xue Yan actually got a small ingot of gold out of nowhere, she put the gold in front of the stage, and then held her hands behind her back, leaned forward, looked at the clothes seller with beautiful eyes, and said, "I don't know if it's enough?" Uncle. ”

Even if the clothes vendor was a responsible person, his eyes lit up, he picked up the gold and took a bite, nodded again and again, and said, "Enough!" Enough! Enough is enough! Not to mention buying two pieces of clothing, buying twenty pieces is enough! With this money, I can buy firewood for another year! The shopkeeper said, sniffed the gold again, and said suspiciously: "However, why does it seem to smell of wine?" ”

"You drink too much, you can smell anything you smell." The rice seller said unhappily.

Under the surprised gaze of everyone, Xue Yan threw her head at Han Ye, snorted at him, and said, "You stupid people, you forgot that you ask for money in the world, fortunately, this girl is smart!" I brought my own money! Can't I let my little dream dream pay out of my pocket every time! ”

Han Ye asked, "Where did you get so much money?" ”

Situ Yunmeng also said in surprise: "Yes, Yan'er, haven't you always been in the state of the magic sword?" Did you take it in Shushan? ”

Xue Yan whispered to the two of them, "This is what I stole from the Heavenly Emperor's treasury. ”

Han Ye frowned when he heard this, and said, "Lie!" You had a sword and you didn't have a hand, how could you steal it? Besides, where did you steal it? ”

Xue Yan grinned and said: "At that time, I said that I wanted to steal some treasures, but you didn't agree, I quietly used my sword to pick open the lid of your wine bag, and smashed a few small ingots of gold into the wine bag, but you didn't find it until you fell into a coma, and I took them back after I changed back to my original form, hehe!" ”

Situ Yunmeng raised his sleeves and smiled, and whispered, "Yan'er is so cute." ”

Han Ye glanced at the shopkeeper and whispered to Xue Yan: "No wonder he said that it smelled of wine, you would use my candle dragon wine bag, fortunately I didn't drink the gold into my mouth." ”

"It's time to drink it from your mouth." Xue Yan pouted and whispered to Han Ye: "Let the gold jam your throat, see if you dare to hold the wine bag and drink it in the future!" ”

Situ Yunmeng smiled again when he heard this, and said, "This method is good!" If Ah Ye drinks too much, the gold will fall into his mouth, and it will be seen if he dares to drink it in a big gulp! ”

Han Ye said helplessly: "Madam! I've listened to you except for the last time I got drunk at the Dionysian level, but don't wronged me! ”

"Okay." Situ Yunmeng took Han Ye's hand and said, "Knowing that you are obedient, then let Yan'er use all this money quickly." ”

So, Xue Yan and Han Yu finally put on cotton clothes, and their original delicate bodies were covered by thick cotton clothes, but they looked particularly cute.

Everyone left the trading house, and Han Ye said to Han Yu: "Xiaoyu, now that you are not cold, let's find a place where no one is, you call out the Wind Spirit Bead and ask her to tell us the specific location of the Earth Spirit Bead." ”

"Okay." Han Yu said, stretched her waist, took out the wind spirit beads and wind spirit talismans in the green silk sac on her waist, yawned, and planned to use the magic spell of inviting gods, but she didn't recite the spell well twice, so she said: "Brother, no, Xiaoyu is a little sleepy and can't concentrate." ”

When Xue Yan heard this, she also yawned and said, "It's really useless to be a dumb melon girl!" Delicate and expensive! When you go out to do errands, you have to add clothes, you have to rest, and wait, isn't it...... Scold~! Do you want to eat a hot pot? ”

The two of them looked at the two yawning mortal girls, and a sentence popped up in their minds almost at the same time: "You two are half a pound and eight taels." ”

"Okay then." Han Ye said: "Everyone has been tired all the way, find a place to rest today, after all, there is still a month to go, so there is no hurry on this day." ”

Since the leader Han Ye said so, the others naturally had no objections, so they looked for a place to live in this snowy and lightless town.

Exegesis:

(1) "Northern Desert" - the name is taken from the northernmost Mohe County of the motherland, it is said that the Arctic Village under its jurisdiction is the only place in the motherland where you can see the Northern Lights, the light must be colorful, like a rainbow, very beautiful, but this work is processed in the Xianxia world as the North Desert Town, the far north.