Chapter 13: Hope in the Bitter Cold Land
This time the rest was very short, and soon, more than a dozen flying boats once again set off with the magic boat.
Not long after flying into the air, Mo Jiuniang appeared in the cabin, followed by a dozen or so beautiful or handsome Hehuan disciples.
Each of these disciples carried a tray with delicate dishes in his hand.
Mo Jiuniang clapped her hands lightly, and a long table appeared in the cabin, she asked her disciples to put the dishes on the table, and she introduced Yu Xi: "Your Excellency, there are several disciples of the Hehuan Sect who are good at cooking, and these dishes are specially cooked for you. ”
There were fish and shrimp on the table, as well as meat and vegetables that I didn't recognize.
Yu Xi doesn't remember how long she hasn't eaten, the coffin board doesn't need to eat, but she is a person in her bones, and it doesn't matter if she didn't have to eat before, now that the food is in front of her, she can't help but start looking forward to it.
Taking the chopsticks handed by Mo Jiuniang, she beckoned to the sect leader and door master in the cabin, "You sit down and eat together?" ”
Everyone excused themselves, saying that they had been in the valley for many years, and in turn persuaded Yu Xi that his cultivation had not yet recovered, and he should eat more food containing aura like this to replenish it.
Yu Xi didn't persuade again, picked up the chopsticks, and stretched out to the plate of crystal clear shrimp in front of him first.
The Hehuan Sect disciple who was waiting on the side introduced, "This dish is a drunken crystal shrimp, using crystal shrimp from Xizhou, marinated with high-purity spirit wine, the shrimp meat melts in the mouth, and the aftertaste is strong and endless." ”
It sounded very good, Yu Xi put a chopstick into his mouth, but almost spit it out.
This...... Is it really shrimp?
Why does it taste slimy, like a disgusting slug?
She moved her chopsticks to the second course, this time it was a steamed fish, using the best ingredients, and she could taste that the fish was indeed very tender, but it was also really fishy, and people were not even interested in eating a second bite.
The rest of the dishes are more or less problematic, either fishy or fat, or too bitter.
After tasting it in a circle, Yu Xi lost hope in the food of this world.
Mo Jiuniang and a group of Hehuan Sect disciples were still watching from the side, Yu Xi didn't want to brush off their kindness, so she forced herself to eat a few bites of everything, praised "not bad", and then left the table under the excuse of "full" and sat back by the window.
It had been more than half a day since the magic boat entered the Beizhou range, and the land below was getting more and more barren, and the population was extremely sparse, Yu Xi looked down through the window, and there were no towns or villages for more than a hundred miles.
In contrast to the prosperity and richness of Middle-earth.
The right protector followed her gaze and looked down, and sighed: "Beizhou is a bitter cold land, spiritual veins are scarce, spiritual minerals are scarce, and it is not easy to grow crops and cultivate spiritual plants. ”
"In today's Beizhou, in addition to our Demon Dao, there are also some lowly cultivators and mortals left." The right protector pointed to a black line in the sky, "Your Excellency, there is the Ghost Stream Ridge in front, and after that, you will enter the territory of our Demon Dao." ”
"It doesn't count here?" Yu Xi was a little surprised, why did she listen to what everyone said before, and it was as if she had entered the territory of demon cultivation in Beizhou?
The Right Protector explained to Yu Xi, "In fact, according to the results of the last Righteous Demon Conference, the current sphere of influence of the Two Righteous and Demon Realms is bounded by the Ghost Stream Ridge, but the Northern Continent is barren, and the Righteous Dao does not look down on this kind of place, and has not sent anyone to take care of it for so many years. ”
There was a sudden silence in the cabin.
Facing Yu Xi, the right protector and the sect leaders and sect masters were ashamed.
According to the Demon Dao classics, before Lord Demon Zun led the Demon Dao, the Demon Dao's sphere of influence was only within the Ghost Stream, and then Lord Demon Zun led the Demon Dao to prosper and develop, and the sphere of influence has been extended from the Ghost Ridge to Lingzhou Mountain.
And now, they are going backwards.
The Right Dharma Protector lowered his head, "Your Excellency, we can't stop you. ”
The atmosphere in the cabin was extremely solemn, Yu Xi didn't have any comforting experience, hesitated for a moment, raised his hand and patted the shoulder of the right protector, "It's okay, I don't blame you." ”
"If you lose your territory, you can fight it back."
The right protector was greatly moved, and the sect masters and door masters in the cabin also felt a shock in their hearts.
Yes, their demon path is no longer the demon path of the past.
Now that they have the leadership of Lord Demon Venerable, it is no longer what it used to be!
And let the righteous path miscellaneous people get away for a few more days, and when Lord Demon Venerable's cultivation is restored, he will definitely be able to take them on the right path and fight back the lost territory!
Yu Xi didn't know what they had thought so much in their hearts, if they knew, I'm afraid they would have to re-plan their escape routes.
The burden of the Demon Venerable is too heavy, and her small body is not easy to carry!
As he spoke, the magic boat flew forward for a few miles, and finally a city appeared below, the scale of this city was not small, and through the broken city walls and towers, the momentum of the year could be vaguely seen.
Now all that remains is the ruins, not even a city gate, and the city is in tatters, and there are hardly any decent houses to be seen.
When the magic boat flew by, I happened to see a group of people walking out of the city, this group of people, old and young, with shovels and shovels, along the wasteland outside the city, kept digging something.
Yu Xi: "What are they?" ”
The Right Protector was silent for a moment, "They ...... Digging tree roots. ”
Yu Xi was stunned.
She suddenly remembered that when she was in the palace before, Xia Die had told her that the low-level demon cultivators in the area of Guijian Mountain were in a miserable situation, and they could only survive by digging tree roots and picking up tree bark......
I didn't expect this to be true, the people here are already so poor!
As the magic boat sailed by, the group of people with shovels raised their heads and looked into the air, first stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand something, and fell to their knees one after another, like those righteous disciples on the flying boat half a day ago, and kowtowed reverently in the direction where the magic boat left.
From here, head north.
Similar scenes keep happening.
The magic boat passing through the clouds seems to have re-injected hope into this bitter cold land.
Yu Xi on the magic boat was the one who was bowed down by everyone, but he didn't feel good in his heart.
The situation of the Demon Dao was far more miserable than she imagined, but in such a situation, they also built a magic boat for her and prepared spiritual food......
Her heart is not iron-beaten, and the bits and pieces of her relationship with the demon cultivators in the past few days keep coming to mind. Even if she wasn't a real Demon Venerable, she wanted to do something for them.
…
After crossing the Ghost Stream, Yu Xi made the decision and asked the flying boats of various sects and sects to take the disciples back first.
The left and right have already entered the Demon Dao territory, and there is no need for so many people to escort them.
In the end, only the right protector on the magic boat, the sect leader, and the sect master were left to accompany Yu Xi to the Moonsee Valley.
This place has penetrated deep into the territory of the Demon Dao, and the further it flies, the thicker the fog becomes.
Through the window, you can barely see the scenery outside.
Mu Mu, who was surrounding Yu Xi's wrist, whispered to her: "I heard the disciple who cleaned the palace say that the reason why Yuejian Valley is called this is because it has been shrouded in mist for many years, and it will only be revealed when the moon is full. ”
The speed of the magic boat gradually slowed down.
The right protector opened the hatch, "Your Excellency, the Tsukimi Valley has arrived." ”
Yu Xi walked out of the magic boat with everyone, and there were already twenty or thirty people waiting outside, all of whom were guards in the Yuejian Valley, among which the guard commander had already cultivated in the Distraction Realm, and the remaining guards were also in the Jindan and Yuanying realms.
Everyone surrounded Yu Xi all the way to the bottom of the valley.
The real Demon Palace stands here.
Different from the palace on Lingzhou Mountain, this magic palace is more magnificent.
The guards stopped when they walked outside the palace, and further on, there was an invisible barrier that separated their steps. Even if they have been guarding here for tens or hundreds of years, they have never stepped inside the barrier, and they have never witnessed the true appearance of the inside of the Demon Palace.
The Right Dharma Protector, the sect masters, and the sect masters naturally haven't seen it either.
Everyone is looking forward to the reopening of this palace, which has been silent for thousands of years, in the hands of Yu Xi.
"Please." The commander of the guards made a gesture to Yu Xi.
Everyone's eyes fell on the palace in front of them, and no one paid attention to his words, not even bringing the honorific title to Lord Demon Venerable.
He glanced at someone in the escort team, and the moment Yu Xi raised his foot and stepped forward, he opened his mouth and shouted, "The Demon Venerable is fake!" ”
As expected, the picture of the "Demon Venerable" being bounced off the barrier did not appear.
As soon as the words fell.
The purple figure had already stepped into the Demon Palace Great Array, and turned to look at him.