In other seasons, the west wind pass, where business travel is continuous and camels are full of camels, is a little deserted today, and only a Taoist stands under the city with a horse and a cat.

The Taoist showed the customs clearance papers, thanked the defenders, and walked out of the pass with his horse.

The horse bells still jingle and drift away in the wind.

The Taoist couldn't help but look back.

The city wall rammed with loess, hard than solid stone, the city wall is built with a gorgeous city tower, red pillars and green tiles, carved railings and painted buildings, it is the first business card of Dayan facing the Western Regions - people from the Western Regions came here, saw the towering pass city wall and the gorgeous city tower above, and took the lead in understanding the national strength and aesthetics of Dayan. If you go to the Western Regions from behind you, leave Dayan, and walk here, you can also look back at the civilized buildings from Dayan for the last time, representing the architectural aesthetics of Dayan's people's livelihood, and not forgetting your homeland.

I don't know how many literati said goodbye and sent it here, and with emotion, it was a poem for the ages.

Today, I also went out of the West Wind Pass.

It's a pity that I don't have a few taels of ink in my stomach.

“……”

Song You shook his head and smiled, and continued to take steps.

The snow fell that day, too.

Thanks to the snow, the trail was much wetter, and some of the desert lakes that had dried up were now refilled.

Song You was able to see the pink lake in the depths of the desert, pink in the shallow places, and darker in the depths, like the juice of pomegranates, and the wind blew the waves, rolling up white foam on the shore.

There are also natural salt lakes, criss-crossed by waterways, the lake is divided into many small grids, each grid is a different color, some are green like jade, some are blue like the sky, some are yellow and green like grass, and the lake also forms salt flowers, like laying countless broken jade on the ground, and it is also a wonder that can only be seen in this magical land.

Passing by these wonders, Song You couldn't help but sigh.

There is no doubt that this is a rare beauty and beauty in the world, you don't need to appreciate it, just walk past it, it can make you fall unconsciously, and let you sigh "really beautiful".

In addition to beauty, there is also a touch of wonder.

The wonderful thing is that if it weren't for the snowfall of Song You before, the snow turned into water and was stored in the desert lake, even if he walked here, he couldn't see these strange gems in the desert, at most he could see dry potholes with water stains. When I think about it like this, it seems like a gift from this heaven and earth.

Further on, the soil unconsciously changed color and became redder, as if it had been burned by fire.

Even the mountains on the road turned red.

After walking through the snowy area of Song You, the ground became dry again, even drier, and the ground was full of dry grass, and it dried crisply as if it had been roasted or fried, and it shattered at the touch.

In the vast desert, there is no edge in sight, even wild donkeys and wild camels are invisible, only a Taoist, a jujube red horse and a three-flowered cat are walking on the Gobi, and a swallow is flying in the sky.

As the more west, it is clear that spring has just begun, Shazhou is still a little cold day and night, but this place is getting hotter and hotter, and even the heat is unbearable, a group of people have to hide at noon, only in the morning before the heat rises and the evening after the sun goes down, the Gobi is flat, and the shadow is always stretched long.

On the Gobi, apart from the sound of the wind, only the sound of Taoists and cats is left.

"Why is this place called Gobi?"

"I don't know."

"Hmm! And what you don't know! ”

"There's so much more I don't know." The Taoist turned his head to look at her, "And even if I know, it's only because I have the advantage of being older, so I know it before Sanhua Niangniang." ”

Sanhua Cat also turned her head to look at the Taoist: "Will Sanhua Niangniang know more than Ling in the future?" ”

"Of course."

"Really?"

"Really." The Taoist walked slowly with a cane, nodded and said, because of the effort saved, the voice became very small, "First, Sanhua Niangniang is smarter than me, and second, when Sanhua Niangniang was young, I have already told Sanhua Niangniang everything I know, and when Sanhua Niangniang grows up, and then knows new things, it is natural that I will know much more than I know." ”

"Hmm......"

When the cat thinks about it, it seems to be the truth.

Then he withdrew his gaze and stepped forward.

Some places in the Gobi are hard, some places are soft, and the hard places are full of gravel, sharp feet, she is very annoyed when she walks, and the soft places are full of fine sand, which is hot by the sun, and the whole mangosteen will sink into the sand when you step on it, it is both hot and strong, and it is crooked and twisted when she walks, and she is not comfortable.

The three-flowered cat can't help but stretch its neck, look around, feel that no matter which direction it looks at, there is no obstruction in the line of sight, you can see the end of the earth, the miasma of the sky, because of the light, the sky shows a gradient color from blue to yellow to gray, very gentle.

The earth is like a circle without boundaries.

"It's so big, when will we be able to get out?" Sanhua Cat couldn't help but ask.

"As long as you go, you can get out."

"We're running out of water."

"It's almost there, too."

Song You already faintly felt it-

The temperature here is gradually rising, which seems ordinary, but there is an unusual aura in it.

There is great power ahead.

The power of the Eight Classics.

"There's nothing here, not a single four-legged snake to catch." Sanhua Niangniang turned her head left and right, and couldn't help complaining, cats have always been good at getting along with themselves, and she is also a person who is good at entertaining herself.

But as soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly stopped, turned her head to stare at a seemingly common undulation in the Gobi in front of her, and her expression was slightly puzzled.

The Gobi looks flat at a glance, but in fact there are many ups and downs, like fine waves, usually nearly one person high. They usually walk on a flat place, there is really no flat place, and try to follow these ripples, otherwise, they will keep going up and down, but these ripples are still very soft, and if you step on them, you will sink, the sand will flow, and it will be very difficult to walk.

The ups and downs in front of him didn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

"Ding Ding ......"

The horse bell shook and the sound was crisp.

At this moment, the Gobi, which had always been silent, suddenly moved.

"Boom!"

There was an explosion.

The sand pile in the distance suddenly exploded, lifting up the coarse sand in the sky, revealing the body of a monster more than a foot high.

The lower body of the monster resembles some kind of multi-legged sandworm, and the upper body resembles a humanoid shape, but it has four arms, and its skin is yellow, full of flesh, and it has a large waist and a round waist, and a face full of meat. The head is also round, the top of the head is smooth, but there are red hairs on both sides, and a red beard.

The body is more than a foot high, giving people a sense of oppression, but fortunately, there are no claws and fangs, and it looks much softer.

"How hard is it?"

The monster opened his mouth and shouted, I don't know what language it was, as if it was asking, and the sound was like thunder.

Although he was inquiring, at the same time as he was inquiring, he suddenly waved his hand, and lifted a pillar of sand on the ground in the air, mixed with grass roots, like a dragon and snake, and rushed straight to the group ahead.

"Meow!"

The three-flowered cat reacted extremely quickly and waved its claws in an instant.

A small flag flew out of the horse's back.

"Canopy ......"

At the same time as the flag flew out, a puff of black smoke was emitted, and the black smoke instantly fell to the ground, turning into a huge bear demon.

The bear demon also has big shoulders and a round waist, and when he stands up, he is more than a person tall, and he directly blocks this sand pillar with his body.

The sand pillar flew extremely fast, and the momentum sank vigorously, only to see it hit the body of the bear demon, and instantly spread along the body of the bear demon, into the hair of the bear demon, and even beat the bear demon back a step, but it was only a step back, and it did not hurt the bear demon.

The three-flowered cat quickly ran forward.

Ran all the way to the feet of the bear demon, and climbed up along the huge body of the bear demon, her posture was flexible, and in just a few blinks, she had already climbed to the shoulder of the bear demon, but she did not rashly fight back, but looked back at the Taoist, and looked at the monster suspiciously.

"Who are you?"

The youkai finally changed the language, but the accent was a little strange.

Seeing the bear demon in front of him who was almost the same height as him, or even stronger than him, he was stunned for a moment, but he was not afraid.

Still asking, he waved his hand again.

This time, all four hands waved together.

"Boom!"

The sand and soil of the place were rolled up into pillars again, like dragons and snakes, and the two rushed towards the bear demon with greater strength than before, and the two crossed an arc in the air, bypassing the bear demon and rushing towards the Daoist behind him.

This time Sanhua Niangniang couldn't help it.

"Meow!"

"Roar!"

A cat meow, a bear roar, one in front and one behind.

The two huge bear claws pressed at the same time, directly crushing one saloon with great force, and then leaned down and rushed forward, smashing the other saloon with his shoulder, and then roared and rushed towards the monster, so fast that even the three-flowered cat on it had to lean down and hold on to it tightly, otherwise it would be thrown out.

"Hoo ......"

For a time, the Gobi was full of wind and sand.

Part of it was the two saloons that had been shattered, part of it was the dust and sand that the giant bear was running frantically and kicking up with its feet, but more of it was the sand raised by the monster on the other side.

The raging wind and sand obscured the view.

"Canopy ......"

The giant bear slammed through the wind and sand and pounced on that side.

However, after rushing over, I found that the monster was gone, leaving only a large pile of yellow sand on the ground, almost the size of the monster.

At the same time, the bear demon seemed to react and turned around instantly.

I saw that in the Gobi Desert behind me, the sand seemed to be controlled by some force, surging upwards, piling up a monster more than a foot high, and then the sand on the surface slowly slipped down, and the monster was inside.

This time, the monster did not attack rashly, but looked at the bear demon in front of him and the three-flowered cat behind him, turned his head again, and looked at the Taoist and the jujube red horse standing on the cane next to him, with a puzzled face - this giant bear blocked his attack He saw it, and he could understand it, after all, this bear demon was not weak, but there were two salons rushing towards this man and horse, but he didn't know how this person blocked it.

He didn't see it just now, and it didn't seem to be any movement or feedback, as if the two salons had disappeared on their own.

But the three-flowered cat didn't allow him.

I saw that the cat had a serious face and opened her mouth to inhale, and the bear demon seemed to have a heart for her, and immediately stood up and provided her with enough height to make her spit out real fire.

"Hoo ......"

A large tent of real fire surged out, also like a dragon.

The youkai frowned slightly, and raised his hand again.

"Wow!"

The sand on the ground flew up sharply, forming a wall two feet thick.

Although the temperature of Sanhua Niangniang's true fire is high, and Lingyun is also very domineering, the impact is not strong after all, so it can only spread along this sand wall, and it can't hurt the monsters behind her.

"Please come out of the mountain god!"

The cat shouted softly—

The large and small stones in the Gobi suddenly rolled up, accumulating towards the middle, and in the blink of an eye, a stone giant nearly a foot high was formed.

This is the growth of Sanhua Niangniang.

It's all the result of hard work.

But the bear demon reacted faster than her, and seemed to be a little smarter than her, as early as when the mountain gods had just gathered, striding forward, frantically speeding up, trying to smash the sand wall, the bear demon had already found the largest stone from the ground, about the size of a water basin, and smashed it into the sand wall.

"Bang!"

The sand wall was smashed into a gap in an instant.

Sanhua Cat did not hesitate and opened its mouth to spit out.

"Whew!"

The real fire surged out again.

It's just that when he was about to vomit at the monster, the monster's huge body suddenly spread out, turned into a pile of yellow sand, and scattered down, leaving only another pile of sand on this Gobi.

"Hoo ......"

The flames hit the sand pile, burning the sand and quickly discoloring.

But it didn't hurt the monster.

"Huh?"

The three-flowered cat turned its head again, looking for the figure of the monster, and at the same time frowned, feeling that the monster was both rude and difficult to deal with, and it was much more difficult to deal with than catching rats.

"...... Uproar"

The sand in the distance gathered again to form the figure of a monster.

This time it's a lot farther away than before.

"You're pretty good!"

The monster stood on the sand, its lower body lying on its stomach, and its many feet moved a little dishonestly from time to time, while its upper body was upright, looking at them: "What are you doing here in our Flame Divine Mountain?" ”

"Boom ......"

Golem shook his hand and strode towards him.

Soft sand, one step at a time.

The three-flowered cat also jumped down from the giant bear, and while running forward, rushing towards the monster, he summoned the tigers and wolves, and decided to use his flexibility and numerical superiority to make himself, the bear demon and the tiger wolves who had just been subdued occupy a place in the Gobi, and fight him to see where he disappeared and where he came out.

It's just that he saw the Taoist next to him waving his hand.

“！”

The cat immediately braked and stopped.

Golem slowed down and stopped.

"Under the surname Song Mingyou, a native of Yizhou, Dayan, traveled the world down the mountain, heard the name of the Flame Mountain for a long time, and heard that there were ancient gods living here, so I wanted to come and see it." The Taoist arched his hand and said, "Listening to the inquiries at your feet is like the guard officer of the Flame Mountain, but while asking, why do you fight as soon as we meet and don't wait for us to answer?" ”

"Humph!"

The monster was not afraid at all, but said in a deep voice: "The forbidden land of the Divine Mountain, how can you allow people with bad intentions to break in casually?" How can I see my god if you want to see it? ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, he was stunned.

Immediately ignored Song You, but leaned over and tilted his ears, as if listening to an inaudible voice, revealing a respectful expression.

When I straightened up again, my attitude had changed.

(End of chapter)