Seeing the basin, they stopped in front of the huge peak, and everyone saw that they had left Danxialing behind, so they stopped a little and hurried, and let these horses rest.

Song Siyuan picked up the map and observed carefully: "We have passed the Danxia Shenji Ridge, and out of the basin is the cold and warm cave, can you walk in the carriage?" Do I need a boat? ”

They are not far from the canyon into the mountain, and it can be seen that most of the rivers in the basin flow into the canyon, and even the river directly passes through the canyon, in this case, they don't know if they can take the carriage.

Ghost Fang Sect walked up to them and explained: "You don't have to worry about this, it is indeed strange in the cold and warm caves, but you can still walk in a carriage, and there is a galloping road built by the ancients by the river. ”

They rested for a moment and continued on their way, beginning to move away from the basin and into the high canyon.

Shenji Ridge is the Danxia landform, after turning into the tall canyon, the river has been seen to be wider and wider, and finally turned into a hundred meters of giant river, galloping endlessly, the carriage is only a mile, they have found that the open-air canyon has reached the top, and then go into the cave to become a cave.

They didn't know what was going on inside the cave, so they had to stop the carriage for the time being.

Yue Guanchao looked up at the huge cave, this cave is hundreds of meters wide, it can be seen that the 100-meter river channel flows directly into it, at most look forward for dozens of meters, no matter how deep, there is no river channel, everything is hidden in the chaos and darkness, and it cannot be seen through.

"It's not going to be a dead end in this cave!"

Yue Guanchao picked up the map, after all, what is marked on this map is limited, except for the cave in front of him, there is no way out in the canyon, and it is estimated that it will take a lot of effort to find other roads.

Ghost Fang Sect came over and said, "We don't need to waste any more time, walking through this cave is the fastest, if we want to find other paths, if we are good enough, we can also climb over these peaks and walk over, but the time will definitely be extended." ”

The old man continued: "These tall peaks are completely different from the hilly land, the peaks are high and steep, like the thorns on the body of a hedgehog, dense and rugged, not to mention carriages, even if they have wings to fly over, there is not much place to put their feet, in this case, it is most convenient to pass through the cave. ”

"So, are you sure this cave can be passed? Don't go to the end and become a dead end. ”

What Yue Guanchao was afraid of was halfway through and found that this road was impassable, if this cave was really like this, then they would be more than lucky.

Ghost Fang Sect nodded: "Although I haven't been to the cave, but I've heard of the cave of this cold and warm cave, as long as we walk along the river, we can get out of the cold and warm cave, what we have to worry about should be many chaotic holes." ”

Yue Guanchao had already heard the ghost old man mention the strangeness of the cold and warm cave, according to the hunters near Shennongjia, the cold and warm cave was not a cave to be precise, but a naturally formed tunnel.

One end of this tunnel connects the basin, the other end connects the bamboo forest, how long is not many people know, only clear that the cave in the nine turns, rugged and changeable, only follow the direction of the river, in order to smoothly enter and exit from the tunnel, otherwise, will be lost in the tunnel.

"Listen to what you mean, this grotto doesn't seem to be naturally generated, if it is naturally generated, it is probably washed by the river, and the form of the nine-song chain is more like it was deliberately designed like this."

Song Siyuan asked Xiang Ghost Fangzong, if it was a naturally occurring cave, how could it be such a nine-curved structure, and the possibility of the formation of river erosion was very small.

Ghost Fang Sect nodded: "To be precise, it is a joint creation of natural generation and man-made chiseling, this part of the cave connecting the river is indeed formed by river erosion, and this part of the Jiuqu loop is probably artificially chiseled, after reading it, you will understand." ”

With that, the procession lit kerosene lamps and kicked the horses' hooves into the cave.

After walking forward for hundreds of meters, the sunlight behind him shrank into a fist-sized spot of light, and the vision in front of him instantly went dark, and only in the position illuminated by the kerosene lamp, there was a bright light.

In the cave, the river channel flowed from a turbulent rush to a trickle, and the water began to float with white mist, which steamed up and shrouded the river above, and even the surrounding riverbank was shrouded, and the overhead seemed to be covered by clouds, and under the reflection of kerosene lamps, a layer of golden mist rippled.

The more they go inside, the more they can realize that the cold around them is intensifying, and the cold air is like ghost claws, drilling into the cracks of people's clothes.

Although the temperature in the mountains is low, it is in May and June, and no matter how cold there is in the cave, it should not be like a white-haired wind.

At first, they thought that the cave was straight out, and there was an outside wind blowing in, but then they dispelled this view, in the nine-curved structure, it was impossible for the outside wind to blow so far that the cave would remain cold.

"How did this follow up on the ice cellar?"

Although the people in the carriage were not directly exposed to the air, they had already felt the cold outside the curtain, and Yue Erpao muttered casually.

By this time, they had already taken out the thick clothes they had prepared and wrapped them around their bodies, only in this way could they slightly resist the cold wind blowing outside the curtain.

Song Siyuan covered her face with a blanket, lifted the curtain and took a closer look, the position where they walked was the gallop on the bank of the river, and they could even touch the hot mist when they reached out, but after the fog dissipated, it would be immediately blown away by the cold wind that was as cold as frost, and the tips of their fingers were cold.

Yue Guanchao also noticed this, and said curiously with his eyes: "Strange, it's not right to say that this cold air is brought by the river, the river water in the river is obviously hot, and even the fog is hot, why can't there be any warmth in the hole, but it is a thief pulling the cold." ”

At present, this situation is really strange, this river is already hot because of the geothermal sake, the cave is cold to the bone, they only realized at this time, what is the meaning of the distinction between cold and warm freezing, the upper and lower structures of this stone cave seem to be divided into layers, the lower layer is extremely hot, the upper layer is extremely cold, and after the upper and lower layers are reconciled with each other, it is like drilling into an ice cellar.

Sun Daqiao rubbed his hands and interjected: "It's normal to be in a cave, let's not mention other places for the time being, just talk about the Qinling Mountains we have been to, I heard that it is the scorching heat in August, and it can also snow in the ravine of the Qinling Mountains. ”

"Some merchants who go to the mountains often go to the villages in the Qinling Mountains to do business, and when it snows without warning during the day, there must be a house to enter the house and drill holes, but where there is a hiding place, they must not expose themselves to the outside, otherwise, when the snow buries the bones, they will definitely freeze to death."

"Why? Can it still snow in the middle of summer? Yue Erpao wrapped himself in a blanket and asked curiously.

Sun Daqiao's eyes narrowed a gap, and he lowered his voice and said, "It's because there are big pythons in the mountains." ”

Qinling is not only the dividing line between the north and the south, but also the roof of China, the Chinese dragon vein, there are many things in the mountain, want to use the dragon vein luck to cultivate, the most common is the python.

Pythons are naturally large compared to ordinary snakes, and with the help of the dragon veins of the Qinling Mountains, of course, they can also cultivate faster, and in the large and small caves of the Qinling Mountains, there are many pythons that cultivate together.

These pythons live in caves or underground rivers under rock formations all year round, and usually live in simple places, unless they are hungry, they can easily leave the cave, so as to delay the consumption of the body, and at the same time, they can also use the earth qi and use the dragon vein to cultivate faster.

In this process, the python will shed its skin and grow scales, dragon horns, limbs, and become a dragon, if it encounters a thunderstorm, they will come from the underground river to a large river channel on the ground, and cross the bridge through the surface river, if they can pass smoothly, then it will be considered a dragon.

As for what happens after becoming a dragon, you can't escape the word karma, you can do good and evil to become a real dragon, and those who do evil will also be killed by lightning when you cross the catastrophe, and the whole process will be called away Jiao.

In some places, people are afraid that these pythons will destroy the river bridges when they go to the bridge, so they will tie an axe or sword under the bridge, so that the bridge will be turned into a dragon slaying platform, as long as there are pythons rushing over, they will definitely be split into two, and their bodies and souls will be destroyed.

When some pythons saw a sword under the bridge, they knew that there was a capable man, so they could only find other bridges, and did not dare to take another step beyond the thunder pool.

If the python is completed, you can call the wind and rain, there is only one thing that can not be done, that is, to harm human life, these pythons are only dragons after all, wantonly hurt human life, will be counted in the cause and effect, if you hurt too many human lives, then you can only suffer from God's damnation.

In order to cultivate faster, some pythons will go sideways to prey on humans, and these heavy snows in the Qinling Mountains are all created by these pythons who have cultivated the Tao, the purpose is to hunt live creatures so as to supply them with flesh and blood.

But there are always exceptions to everything, and they also know that harming people's lives too much will drag down their cultivation, and they don't dare to show their teeth and claws wantonly, so they can only let people die as naturally as possible, and then prey, so that even if people themselves freeze to death, instead of being devoured by them and dying, they can avoid the cause and effect of human life.

If someone takes the opportunity to hide in a place where the heavy snow can't fall, even if they break their spells, they will suffer if they kill people.

Yue Erpao listened to this story, and wrapped the blanket around his body, not only him, but everyone else also felt that the cold was a little more serious.

Yue Guanchao rubbed his hands: "This cave is so cold, won't there be any python and dragon, this nine-song chain structure is also like some snake dragon hibernating." ”

As he spoke, the cave in front of him had already begun to turn along the river, and after passing the bend, a large area of impact tidal flats began to appear at the corner of the river, like a square in the huge cave, attached to the vicinity of the galloping road.

On the tidal flat, the closer you get to the river beach, the more you can see many bright beads, like stars sprinkled on the tidal flats, emitting a faint blue light, which is even more mysterious under the kerosene lamp.

Song Siyuan turned on the flashlight and shone it at the pitch black, and in the black shadows illuminated by the flashlight, the shadows were all stiff corpses that had been frozen white.

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