Chapter 82: Lotus Mountain
It is very difficult to find the right body for the Shadow Beast.
Jaira told us that the body that Shennong once found for the goddess of Wushan was fully shaped by Nuwa according to the attributes of the goddess's spirit body, and in order to keep this body without true yuan alive, Nuwa also went to the heart of Pangu to obtain a drop of divine blood to connect her veins.
Therefore, the body that the shadow beast is looking for must have the same attributes as hers, and it must be a living body that has no true element but can still maintain the normal operation of the veins, so it is indeed very difficult. Not to mention that now that the great god Nuwa has disappeared, even if Nuwa is alive, how can we ask her to give us a body like the goddess earlier? What's more, this body will eventually turn into a demon, if Nuwa is like Shennong, who makes the distinction between gods and demons so clear, then how can she agree to our request?
The persistent shadow beast refused to give up with this glimmer of hope, and was even willing to promise to become Ah Nian's mount before finding his body, and even if he succeeded in incarnating into a demon, he was willing to fight under the Demon Emperor Array for five hundred years. In exchange, Ah Nian must help her and Jairus become demons, and allow her to go to the Pure Seeking Land in five hundred years and stay with Jairus. Even though I told her behind Ah Nian's back that the Pure Land was not a pure place away from strife, maybe it was just a prison in the Demon Domain, and even the right to reproduce would be deprived, she did not waver in the slightest.
Eventually, Ah Nian agreed to her request. Even though she was still injured, she was still so elated that she couldn't help herself, and directly regarded Ah Nian, who was about to take her life just now, as a benefactor.
Since Ah Nian agreed to the Shadow Beast's request, Jairus was silent. That constricted brow could almost hold something.
The Shadow Beast promised us to take us to Heshan, so she recuperated here for two days, and she has largely regained her mobility, and the human head she had turned into before had also changed back to its original beast form. But Jairus can't walk with us.
In desperation, I had no choice but to revisit the old place again, send him to the Lush Forest, and hand him over to Nalan Mosheng. Naturally, the condition is still that if it is actually ripe, I must complete the task of bringing the demon clan in the forest back to the demon world for him. When the shadow beast left, it was still reluctant, almost turning back one step at a time, and its wings seemed to be unable to open.
"Let's go......! Before you come back,...... I'll live in peace for a few days!"
I watched the strange dialogue pattern of this man and beast from a distance, but I still unconsciously raised the corners of my mouth. Now, thousands of years have passed. Even if it's a stone, it's time for a thick layer of moss to grow. For a moment, I suddenly felt that there was something more than disgust in my eyes.
Somehow, the shadow beast was so chased away that it shook its wings again, and no longer turned back one step at a time, but walked in my direction with great energy.
"Flowers and birds!" Just as I was about to set off on the back of the Shadow Beast, Jairus opened her mouth again, and the Shadow Beast turned its head and stared at him with its big dripping eyes.
"Don't lose your life, or I'...... I'll go back to Shennong Cave!"
Hearing this, the shadow beast suddenly chirped, as if it was excited and didn't know what to say, so it revealed its true nature. Then he fluttered his huge wings, leaped upward, pierced through the towering canopy of the lush forest, and soared into the sky.
Until I returned to the Dragon Pavilion, the Shadow Beast was still extremely excited, but fortunately, the Shadow Beast could speak human words because of its special attributes, so I was very curious about what it was worth her to be so happy about.
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
I didn't rush into the house, but stood aside and watched the colorful giant bird bounce about, only to make the ground around me tremble.
"You know what? He never said he was going to wait for me to come back. In the past, he drove me away, and never mentioned that I would come back, but today he actually said, 'Before I come back,' that is, he still wants me to come back! I am so happy! He can actually accept me back!" She said even more uncontrollably.
"And from now on, I will be called Flower Bird! It is the name he gave me! He has never called me by my name! I have a name now! My name is Flower Bird! It is the name that the brother of the divine beast himself gave me!"
"Flowers and birds?" I was speechless, but it was strange to see the big bird so happy that I couldn't help myself.
I smiled and pushed the door open and entered the house, Ah Nian must have heard our conversation too, but he still looked like he was not surprised.
"With the help of the Shadow Beasts, we may be able to reach Heshan tomorrow. If it weren't for Yunjin's injury, maybe we would have arrived a long time ago. ”
At this moment, I actually remembered Yunjin. Its mother is also Kunpeng, so this shadow beast ...... Will the Kunpeng that the flower and bird give birth to have anything to do with Yunjin's mother?
"When we arrive at Heshan, we need to find the location of the enchantment of the Qingqiu Illusion, the emperor once said, but all the illusions, usually attach the entrance to the enchantment to a certain entity, and when you make a unique action on the entity, you can enter the illusion. ”
"Is there anything special about this entity?"
Ah Nian shook his head: "The emperor didn't mention it. ”
"Then there are more than 10 million of this entity, how can we find it?"
Ah Nian was silent, and he also showed a rare trace of sadness.
"I can only talk about it when I go to Heshan. ”
The next day, the sky was clear, and although the morning was a little chilly, it did not affect the dazzling beauty of the sun. Ah Nian and I sat on the backs of flowers and birds, shuttling through the clouds. Flowers and birds are not as strong and wide as Yunjin, although her back is not as strong and wide as Yunjin, her thick feathers are much softer, and it is much more comfortable to sit on her back.
"Uh...... Flowers and birds, since you are a Kunpeng, will you become a Kunpeng in the water?"
"Of course, I don't just become a Kun, I can become all living beings except in human form! It's just that I was born in Kunpeng, so I didn't have to spend much effort when I was in Kunpeng or Peng form. ”
The Shadow Beast is really a strange monster beast.
"Are you really the last Shadow Beast in the Six Realms?"
"Hmm...... I guess so, I've lived for thousands of years, and I haven't found any other shadow beasts...... Could it be, even if there were, that I would have already cultivated into a human form?"
When she said this, I suddenly felt a chill, if there was really a shadow beast that turned into a human form and lurked in the Six Realms, then I don't know how many creatures had been killed. So, I had to change the subject.
"How did you find Jairus?"
"You mean Brother Divine Beast? Hehe, I fished him up in the river. He seemed to be very badly injured and dying, and I was swimming in the river when I saw him being washed downstream with the current. He was still in the form of a beast, and his body was big and strong, and his eyebrows were full of vicissitudes and majesty, and I thought that if my child could have his blood, it would be very powerful! Who knows, when he wakes up, he will become human. Then, he saw the form of my demon beast...... It's so annoying that it's going to drive me away. I don't want to, but it took me a lot of effort to revive him! And I like him whether he's in beast form or in human form...... So, I decided to have 10,000 people and become human beings, so that I could be by his side. ”
"The first time you saw him, you thought about having a baby with him?"
"Of course, we beasts, we don't care about those impractical things, we are looking for a mate, that is, to reproduce, with offspring, in order to live endlessly, life is valuable!"
I wanted to say something, but I didn't say it in the end. If, as she said, just to reproduce, then how could she be willing to give up her most instinctive request and become a demon? But she gave me the answer without waiting for me to say it.
"But if it really becomes a demon...... Isn't that why you can't have children with Brother Divine Beast?" she was a little disappointed, but soon, she added, "That's okay, I'm the last Shadow Beast anyway, and I also have flaws, maybe I can't have children myself, I can't care so much, anyway, I just want to be with Brother Divine Beast!"
In fact, she was already very sure in her heart of what she wanted. Those who reproduce offspring and cultivate human form or something are all excuses, she just wants to be with Jairus.
Ah Nian has not joined in this conversation, as if he is thinking about something. When we stopped talking, he suddenly said:
"Emperor, do you want the Demon Domain to become like this in the human world?"
"Heshan! Look! It's just ahead!"
Heshan?
I looked in the direction where the flowers and birds were descending, but I couldn't find any terrain that could be called a mountain. I saw that Ah Nian was also trying to look around, but still found nothing, just like me.
Until the flowers and birds landed smoothly in a clearing in the middle of the woods, and the surrounding trees were not very tall and dense, barely able to block people. I looked around, and I didn't see any hills jutting out too much from the ground, let alone mountains.
"This is the Heshan Realm!"
"Where is the mountain?"
"It's right at your feet!"
I stepped on the dirt under my feet hard, but I really didn't feel anything like a mountain.
At this time, the flower and bird smiled and said, "The kind of mountain you imagined has long since ceased to exist! There are many mortals gathered in this vicinity, so the mountain has long been bulldozed." This place is still the place that I found when I came here not long ago, barely able to block my figure, and this forest seems to have shrunk a lot, and it will not be long before I am afraid that it will be shoveled by mortals to build a house. ”
This kind of situation really makes me cry and laugh.
"Then this place shouldn't be far from the nearby town, right? Since there are no clues yet, it is better to find a place to stay and search slowly. But like this, flowers and birds...... I'm afraid I'm going to have to change it. ”
"Isn't that easy?"
As he spoke, the huge body of the flower and bird suddenly became transparent, and then the feathers around the body also turned into shadows, and in the blink of an eye, the huge Peng bird had disappeared, and we looked at it, and the bird turned into an ordinary lark, fluttering and flapping its wings, and flew directly to my shoulder.
"Let's go!" she said excitedly.