Chapter 19: Hajj
The team moved forward in an orderly manner, and Ouyang Qin and Yang Bai, who were walking in front, seemed to be discussing something.
In the evening, we went to a valley, surrounded by mountains on all sides, forming a flat land, overgrown with all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, fragrant, the sun was about to set, the butterflies and dragonflies and bees did not want to go home to rest, and they were still busy, a stream in the valley flowed down from the high mountains not far away and flowed through the middle of the flat land, as if the stream divided the flat land into two.
"Stop, let's camp here tonight," Ouyang Qin said.
The disciples of Shura received the order, skillfully unloaded their burdens, and began to set up camp, and after a while, five large tents had been set up, and even a place to make a fire for cooking, and Minna praised again and again, and this small team of fifteen people was like a legion.
When it comes to cooking, Dong Yichuan definitely has the right to speak in the Shura Sect, don't look at his youngest, everyone has to listen to him in terms of eating, isn't he giving orders there again:
"You two are in charge of collecting firewood, and you both go looking for ingredients."
After a while, all the people who went out came back, some with a hare in their hands, some with pheasants in their hands, some with two fish in their hands, wild vegetables or something, and one was even more powerful, using his clothes as a pocket, and coming back with a bag full of mushrooms, Dong Yichuan walked over and picked up a mushroom and looked at it: "Matsutake mushroom", patted the man's shoulder, "You still know the goods."
In the wilderness and forests where few people have set foot in all kinds of ingredients.
"Little master, let you taste my craft today," Dong Yichuan said happily to Minna.
Minna was surprised to see that there were so many ingredients in a short time, Dong Yichuan said this, she felt hungry all of a sudden, clapped her hands and said: "Okay, okay, I'm really a little hungry, Brother Dong, I'll give you a hand."
"No, no, you just go and wait, go and go, go, go"
"Okay"
In fact, Minna will only cook some home-cooked food, and those ingredients are all high-end ingredients in Dong Yichuan's eyes, and in Minna's eyes, they may be similar to those that can fill your stomach.
Minna jumped to the stream again to pick wild flowers.
Murong Yucan looked at Minna, who was in a good mood, he hoped that there would be no bad things behind, he hoped to stop here, he hoped to find a place as beautiful as here with his beloved, to avoid the worldly disputes that should not be there, and to live a life of seclusion in the mountains and forests, thinking about it, he knew that it was too difficult to achieve, and some things could not be avoided if you wanted to, and only when they were completely solved could they really have!
After a while, the meal was ready, "It's time to start eating," Dong Yichuan knocked on the spoon and beckoned.
"Come, little master, chicken stew mushrooms", Dong Yichuan brought a bowl full of chicken stewed mushrooms to Minna.
Minna took a bite of the soup and said, "Well, it's delicious, it's really delicious."
"Drink it"
"Well, it's so delicious, I can also make chicken stew with mushrooms, but why is my cooking not as delicious as yours?"
"I want to know why, I won't tell you, hahaha"
"Brother Dong, you still sell Guanzi"
"Hahaha"
"Hahaha"
As they spoke, everyone laughed.
After eating, it was already dark, and Yang Bai said to the disciples: "Everyone rest early, hurry up early tomorrow morning, and fly north to you."
Yan Beifei closed his eyes and meditated there after eating, and when he heard Yang Bai calling him, he got up and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Do you know why you set up camp here?"
"Why"
"Where is that," Yang Bai said, pointing to a towering mountain in front of him.
It's just that it's night, and I don't see the towering clouds, and I only see a huge thing plunging into the sky.
"Fengqi Mountain" Yan Beifei suddenly remembered and exclaimed.
"Do you want to go up and find out, do you want to know if the legend is true" Yang Bai asked Yan Beifei a few 'do you want to'.
"I think, even if it's a mountain of corpses, it's not in vain for me"
"Okay, it's a man", Yang Bai patted Yan Beifei on the shoulder and said.
"Yan Beifei is still the same Yan Beifei", Ouyang Qin also came over and patted him on the shoulder and said.
"I, Yan Beifei, have never changed", Yan Beifei said proudly with his head held high, and immediately let go and said, "I'll prepare."
After a while, Yan Beifei came over with a bundle of mountain ropes and a few torches in his hand
Minna looked at them and didn't know what they were going to do, so she came over and asked, "Grandpa, what are you doing here?"
"You'll know if you go", Ouyang Qin finished speaking, and looked at Murong Yucan next to him: "And you."
"Okay, go" Murong Yucan didn't know what he was going to do, he knew to go.
"Let's go," Yang Bai said.
The five of them went to the Fengqi Mountain.
Minna never guessed what she was going to do, and couldn't help but ask, "Can anyone tell me what they're going to do?"
She'd asked this several times.
Yang Bai saw that it was not easy to hide it, so he said to Ouyang Qin: "You tell her."
Ouyang Qin could only say: "This mountain is called Fengqi Mountain, and there is a place on the mountain..."
"Hey, you old man, if you're afraid of being slapped in the face, I'm not afraid of being slapped in the face."
"It's okay if you're thick-skinned"
"Hey, you old man"
Seeing that they were about to quarrel, Minna hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I won't ask."
Murong Yucan pulled Minna and said: "I have heard a legend, legend has it that there is a 'crystal spirit orchid' on this Fengqi Mountain, this crystal spirit orchid is an indispensable immortal attraction for ancient immortal cultivators to ascend the immortal class, it appears once every five hundred years, and it only blooms at midnight, of course, Fengqi Mountain, there are two fire-breathing phoenixes in the mountain guarding the crystal spirit orchid."
"This kid knows a lot," Yan Beifei muttered.
"Isn't that dangerous, it's a flying thing that breathes fire?"
"It's just a legend, no one knows if it's true"
"Then why take such a big risk, if you don't go up, won't you work in vain?"
"Life is sometimes a bit risky."
Minna didn't know what to say, so she could only follow hard.
It took two hours to climb the five to reach the halfway point of the mountain, this mountain is indeed high, and the time has come.
"Work hard, it's almost too late" Ouyang Qin urged, and after speaking, he sped up.
The people behind had to speed up the progress.
After climbing for another hour, the five people arrived at the platform next to the waterfall that was still a little distance from the top of the mountain, the stream under the mountain is the waterfall that flows down, don't look at the small stream under the mountain, but its source water flow is still quite large, the waterfall here passes through a number of tributaries to disperse the amount of water, if you look at the waterfall during the day, the waterfall is like a white silk hanging on the mountain.
"From now on, don't speak, don't make a sound, follow the people in front of you," Ouyang Qin said to Minna and Murong Yucan behind him.
The five of them stood in front of the waterfall in unison, and the water droplets hit the torches and were about to go out.
"It should be here", Yang Bai whispered, "Enter", Yang Bai has disappeared behind the waterfall through the water curtain.
The other four people also flashed in at the same time, and there was a cave behind the waterfall, and the five people stood behind the waterfall and looked at the dark hole, and the light of the torches could only illuminate a short distance.
"Enter"
Yang Bai was the first to go in again, and the people behind him followed one by one.
The cave is wet, the air is mixed with the smell of moss and animal feces, there are holes and bats, there are thousands of bats in each hole, you can't see them if you don't disturb them, once you disturb them, the black pressure will fly towards you, and thousands of claws will tear your scalp off.
The five of them didn't know how long they had been groping inside, turning and stumbling, Minna had accidentally slipped twice, but fortunately, Murong Yucan behind her quickly helped her.
"Shhh
Minna didn't know why, what did she do, she didn't believe that there were immortals in the world, what kind of cultivation of immortals must be what crystal spirit orchid, what was that she had never seen before, and she had never seen any immortals, the only time she couldn't figure it out was that when she was thirteen years old, a kind female Taoist priest came to her house to ask for water to drink, she brought water and brought a few steamed buns, the female Taoist patted her on the top of her head three times and touched her head three times, and she had a fever and couldn't sleep for the next seven days. At that time she thought she was going to die.
I don't understand that she can only lie motionless on her stomach like everyone else, waiting quietly.
Suddenly, Ouyang Qin's body next to him moved, and a little light appeared in front of him, like a star in the sky, but the light would become bigger, slowly from the star point to the size of a pigeon's egg, and the surroundings were also illuminated, the light was still growing, the egg was bigger, and the surroundings were brighter.
Yan Beifei next to him gasped, he simply got up from the ground and squatted there looking at the light.
The light was still growing, and then Minna saw clearly that the light actually grew from the ground, and it was still growing, growing bigger and brighter, illuminating the surroundings as if it was daytime, there was a huge karst cave, and the entire interior of Fengqi Mountain was empty.
It should be said that it is not light, but a glowing flower, just a flower, no leaves, just a flower stalk with a lotus-like bud growing out of the ground by the cave wall, the whole bud has been fully unfolded, it will not grow, and the whole cave is no different from the daytime.
The crystal spirit orchid, the legendary immortal, is not a legend.
"Up"
Yang Bai said that it flew down from the platform like an arrow, Yan Beifei, Ouyang Qin and Murong Yucan, the three of them flew down almost at the same time, and Minna didn't react yet, to be exact, it wasn't that she didn't react, how could Minna's current cultivation be slower than them, but that she was pointed out by Ouyang Qin, because this was discussed between Ouyang Qin and Yang Bai before, and they knew that the things below were extremely difficult to deal with, and they couldn't let Minna get into danger.
While the four of them flew down, a sound of "How... Oh" the bird's call, the front is short and the back is long, and the back is very long, and the call makes people feel miserable.
To be exact, it is a phoenix, a giant phoenix, with red feathers all over its body, its wings are a few meters long, and before Yang Bai who rushed in front has not touched the crystal spirit orchid, the phoenix has already swooped down, and the wings are a big pendulum, Yang Bai was instantly fanned out, hit the cave wall, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Minna watched all this on the platform, and when she saw Yang Bai injured and fell to the ground, she couldn't help but shout: "Grandpa Yang Bai."
"Don't come down," Yang Bai shouted.
He knew the power of this ancient divine beast, and he couldn't throw his life here without getting the immortal thing.
At the same time that Yang Bai was fanned out, Yan Beifei also rushed forward with an arrow step, and before his hand could touch the flower, he was forced back several steps by the phoenix's mouth.
This series of events happened only for a moment, and Minna was anxious.
"Spread out to the four directions, distract its attention, Beifei attacks the top, Ouyang attacks the right, and the younger brother attacks the left, exchanging directions with each other", Yang Bai is worthy of being the left envoy of the Shura Sect, and he is not chaotic in the face of danger.
The battle of one bird and four people began, the ancient divine beast is the ancient divine beast, no matter how high the martial arts of the four are, they have not taken advantage of it for a long time, Murong Yucan's sword almost shook off his hand more than once, and the phoenix is like a diamond indestructible body, especially the mouth rafters are harder than any metal.
Minna was so anxious that if she continued to fight, the four of them would have to die if she continued to fight, "Go, go, don't fight again" Minna shouted urgently.
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard another "How... Oh", another phoenix fell from the sky.
A black phoenix.
"There are really two, there are really two" Yan Beifei couldn't help but shout twice.
Minna was even more anxious, and kept shouting on it: "Hurry up, hurry up."
What she doesn't know is that a beast is a beast, and if you invade its territory, the beast will only fight with you, and it will not be so easy to leave.
Ouyang Qin was also anxious when he saw another one, all of them were difficult to deal with, and another one came, "Go quickly, go quickly, don't do it, it's important to save your life."
"No, if you miss it, you won't have it, if you miss it, wait for another five hundred years", Yan Beifei is really an idiot, what he decided to do must have a result, as soon as he finished speaking, the sword in his hand left his hand, and used his stunt 'Leaving the Sword'.
Murong Yucan also shouted urgently: "Grandpa, you go first, quickly"
As he spoke, he rushed up and stopped in front of the old man, pushed the old man away, "Hurry up."
Before the words fell, the phoenix that followed raised its head and opened its huge mouth with a loud "sigh", and a pillar of fire shot straight out towards Murong Yucan.
There are two phoenixes, one male and one female, the one in front will not breathe fire, and the one that comes behind will only breathe fire.
Seeing that Murong Yucan was about to be scorched.
"Be careful".
Yan Beifei, who was close to Murong Yucan, shouted, and rushed forward with an arrow step and knocked Murong Yucan away with his body, the pillar of fire that erupted was impartial in Yan Beifei's chest, Yan Beifei was instantly spewed out a few meters away by the pillar of fire, and with a muffled snort, a mouthful of blood gushed out, rolling to the ground, his eyes were closed, and his life and death were unknown.
At the same time as the male phoenix breathed fire, the female phoenix also slapped Yang Bai and Ouyang Qin with a pair of big wings, Ouyang Qin and Yang Bai were instantly slapped and knocked into the cave wall, Ouyang Qin spurted out a mouthful of blood, Yang Bai was injured for the second time, lying motionless on the ground, and life and death were unknown.
Murong Yucan was left standing, and the two phoenixes were attacking left and right.
"Uncle Yan, Uncle Yan"
Murong Yucan called Yan Beifei again and again, and Yan Beifei lay on the ground motionless.
At the last moment, Minna's "ah" let out a long howl, broke through the sealed acupuncture points, and flew down, the two phoenixes also had a long howl, the male phoenix opened his mouth and a pillar of fire sprayed towards Minna, only to see Minna stretch out her right hand, and her five fingers opened to catch the pillar of fire, the pillar of fire sprayed on Minna's palm, it was like spraying on a piece of ice, Minna's palm seemed to be able to absorb heat energy, the fire spewed out by the phoenix was useless to her at all, Minna's palm pushed forward, and the pillar of fire hit directly back into the mouth of the male phoenix, and the male phoenix screamed in pain, Flapping her wings and rolling on the ground, the female phoenix also quacked, and posed an attack on Minna, Minna stretched out her palm and stared straight into the eyes of the female phoenix, and walked towards the female phoenix, the female phoenix took two steps back, and suddenly fell down, and her wings did not move, but she buried her head in the wings on her stomach.
"Get out", Minna shouted, and the two phoenixes fluttered their wings and flew away with a quack.
"Uncle Yan, Uncle Yan"
Murong Yucan hugged Yan Beifei and cried desperately, he never thought that Yan Beifei almost killed him, and now he saved him with his life.
No matter how he called, Yan Beifei still closed his eyes and remained motionless.
When Minna saw the two phoenixes gone, she immediately turned around and helped her grandfather and shouted, "Grandpa, grandpa."
"I'm fine, go see Grandpa Yangbai"
Minna immediately put down Ouyang Qin, came over to help Yang Bai: "Grandpa, grandpa", probed her nose and touched her hand vein, and then sat down to convey true qi to Yang Bai, and after a while, Yang Bai woke up, "child", pointed at Yan Beifei, "Go and see how it is."
At this moment, Murong Yucan was also sending true qi to Yan Beifei, but Yan Beifei still drooped his head.
"Uncle Yan, Uncle Yan", Minna called twice, but Yan Beifei still didn't respond.
"Quick, use your Dou Zhuan Xing to transfer Uncle Yan's injury to me", after Minna finished speaking, she flashed behind Murong Yucan and sat down, and slapped her palms on Murong Yucan's shoulders.
Murong Yucan, Ouyang Qin, and Yang Bai all exclaimed when they heard Ming Na's words: "No."
"Nana can't".
Yang Bai even beat his hands and feet: "Don't be a child, our lives are not worth it, he has already broken his heart, even if he is saved, his martial arts will be wasted, it is better to..."
"Don't say it, Murong Yucan, if you don't do what I say, I'll never ignore you, quick"
"Alas"
Ouyang Qin sighed with his hands.
Murong Yucan had no choice but to do so, and after a while, the expression on Minna's face was very painful, her facial muscles twitched, and the corners of her mouth were oozing blood.
After a while, Yan Beifei slowly opened his eyes, and Minna and Murong Yucan withdrew their palms at the same time, and Minna's eyes darkened, and she fell forward on Murong Yucan.
Murong Yucan turned around and hugged Minna: "Minna Minna", shouted vigorously.
Ouyang Qin and Yang Bai also shouted anxiously: "Child, child."
Yan Beifei also came to his senses, looking at Murong Yucan and Minna, who had fainted, behind him, he knew what was going on, and cried vigorously on the ground: "It's not worth it, my cheap life is not worth it."
Yang Bai suddenly remembered something, pointed to the crystal spirit orchid on the side and said, "Hurry, hurry."
Ouyang Qin also seemed to have just remembered, and immediately went over and pulled out the crystal spirit orchid, "Quick, open her mouth."
Murong Yucan carefully opened Ming Na's mouth, Ouyang Qin held the crystal spirit orchid bag in both palms, and with a hard effort in his hand, the crystal spirit orchid turned into liquid, and drop by drop into Ming Na's mouth.
Immortals are immortals, Ouyang Qin wrapped his palms in his hands and was still glowing, the light leaked out from his fingers and illuminated the surroundings, until Ouyang Qin couldn't squeeze out the juice before it was completely lit up, and even the juice squeezed out was like a pearl of the night.
Yang Bai took out the fire fold and lit it, and the fire shone on Minna's face, Murong Yucan felt that Minna was the most beautiful person in the world, the kindest person!
Murong Yucan hugged Minna, Minna was lying in Murong Yucan's arms, several people were waiting, and they didn't know what would happen later, no one knew whether the crystal spirit orchid had any effect, no one had seen it, they were all seeing it for the first time, they all thought it was a legend before, they were all waiting anxiously, they were all looking at Minna, especially Yan Beifei, he knelt on his knees since he woke up, kept praying, and kept saying: "My little master, wake up quickly."
Everyone was looking at Minna anxiously, and suddenly, Minna twitched, and her face and body began to glow, just like the light emitted by the crystal spirit orchid, incandescent and incandescent, and her body began to tremble, and she kept shaking, the more she trembled, the more she trembled, Murong Yucan couldn't hold it anymore, Murong Yucan kept shouting: "Minna Minna", and involuntarily hugged Minna.
After a while, it slowly stabilized, and the light on the body slowly gathered towards the Tianmen acupoint, and finally disappeared in the Tianmen acupoint, leaving a plum blossom-shaped red mark at the Minna Tianmen acupoint, seven red marks in the shape of plum blossom petals surrounded a slightly larger red dot in the middle, forming a perfect combination with Minna's beautiful face, making Minna look more beautiful and good-looking, revealing a kind of heroic beauty in the ointment, and then fell asleep quietly, everyone looked at the sleeping Minna, listened to her well-proportioned breathing, and finally seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
"If you can't wake her up, let's deal with it here tonight," Murong Yucan said distressedly.
The four of them didn't sleep all night, but Minna slept all night, lying in Murong Yucan's arms and sleeping all night, sleeping very soundly.
The next morning, Minna woke up to see a pair of eyes looking at her affectionately.
"Wake up," Murong Yucan said softly.
Ouyang Qin and Yang Baiyan Beifei immediately came over and asked, "How is the child?"
"How is it, are you uncomfortable?"
Yan Beifei said with a crying voice: "Child, why are you so stupid", as soon as Minna saw Yan Beifei, she reflexively got up and asked urgently: "Uncle Yan, Uncle Yan, are you okay?"
Yan Beifei's facial features have been completely squeezed into a crying word: "I'm fine, I'm fine, are you uncomfortable?"
"I'm fine, not uncomfortable"
"Child, why are you so stupid, you don't care about your own comfort in order to save me, if something happens, how can you let us explain to the sect leader" Yan Beifei was a little reluctant in his heart, and he was also a little impulsive.
Minna also seemed to remember the previous incident completely, stood up and said righteously: "I'm not stupid, why don't you discuss with me."
Yang Bai also spoke: "Child, the reason why we didn't discuss with you was also after the three of us discussed together, those two ancient beasts are really powerful, we don't want you to have an accident, otherwise everything we do will be in vain."
"What flowers are you picking for me, regardless of your own safety? I don't want you to be hurt for me."
Ouyang Qin also said: "Don't blame, we also made a decision after careful consideration, the crystal spirit orchid is only effective for you, of course we have to protect your safety first, otherwise what's the use of getting the crystal spirit orchid."
Minna was already crying, wiping her tears and saying: "I don't want anyone to give their lives for me, I don't want any crystal spirit orchids, I want you to be safe, everyone is safe, grandpa, if it wasn't for you, how could I live so big, if something happens to you, you make my conscience peaceful."
Minna's words moved the people present and burst into tears, especially Ouyang Qin is already in tears, sixteen years of hard work has not been in vain, he has cultivated a genius, a filial piety and gratitude, a kind-hearted and righteous person, a person who is a dragon and a phoenix.
Minna and Grandpa hugged their heads and cried, Yan Beifei also cried and hugged the two of them, and Murong Yucan was also choked up beside him.
Yang Bai knelt down and shouted to the sky: "Master, you are blessed, your daughter is the dragon and phoenix among people."
Minna hurriedly went over to help Yang Bai up: "Grandpa Yang Bai, hurry up."
Yang Bai got up and said, "The little master stretches out his hand", Minna stretched out her right hand, Yang Bai stretched out three fingers on Minna's hand, and the rest of the people also looked at Yang Bai, waiting for what he was going to say later.
After a while, Yang Bai said: "Ji people have their own heavenly appearance, because of the blessing of misfortune, because of the blessing of misfortune, the crystal spirit orchid is really like the legend, with the magic effect of self-repair and remodeling, but it is ineffective for the healthy body, ordinary people or men are even more obedient to death, as the legend says, the crystal spirit orchid is the incarnation of the Queen Mother of the West."
Yang Bai said to the point, Ouyang Qinyan Beifei nodded frequently, Murong Yucan was also happy to overflow, squeezed to Minna's side and pointed to the red mark on her forehead and said, "It's more beautiful now", Minna didn't know that she had a red mark on her forehead, so she said unknowingly: "Ah, what."
"You'll find out when you go down the mountain"
"Let's go down the mountain," Ouyang Qin said.
The five of them have come down the mountain and it has been sunrise three poles, Dong Yichuan has already made breakfast and is waiting, since the last time Minna praised him for cooking deliciously, he changed his method every day to think about making good food, in addition to Yang Bai and Ouyang Qin, Minna didn't eat and others didn't want to eat first, even Yan Beifei couldn't, once Yan Beifei stole a bun from him, and he chased him twice, so as soon as Minna arrived, his eyes and attention were on Minna's side, and he was also the first to find that Minna had changed.
"Wow, Brother Dong, you've already cooked a meal, I'm really hungry, let's eat, come and sit with grandpa", Minna couldn't walk when she saw the food, and picked up a bun and sent it to her mouth.
"Eh, little master, wait, what is this" Dong Yichuan noticed that Minna was different, and pointed to the plum blossom red mark on Minna's forehead and asked.
Minna then remembered that when she was in the cave, Murong Yucan also said that there was something on her face, "What, do I have something on my face?"
"It's not on the face, it's on the forehead" Dong Yichuan said as he wiped his spoon and handed it over, his spoon was like a treasure to him, he played with his spoon if he had nothing to do, the spoon was shiny by his plate, like a copper mirror.
Minna looked at the red mark on her forehead and asked puzzledly, "Why is this, what is this?"
She naturally asked Yang Bai and Ouyang Qin, who were sitting next to her, to ask questions.
"I don't know, it should be Tianyan" Ouyang Qin didn't know why.
"It is rumored that the Persian female protector also has a red mark on her forehead, I don't know if it will be the same, oh, and the Queen Mother of the West also has a red mark on her forehead" Yang Bai still knows more.
Yan Beifei brought over a bowl of water, dipped his fingers in the water, and pointed at the red dot on Minna's forehead, "snort", like a drop of water dripping on the red-hot steel plate, Yan Beifei immediately withdrew his hand and laughed: "Little master, nothing can hurt you now."
"And it's better than before, isn't it" Murong Yucan also added a sentence in, it was this sentence that brought Minna back to reality, she didn't understand a word of the previous words, what the Queen Mother of the West, she hadn't heard of it.
"You're talking nonsense again," Minna said angrily, taking a bun and plugging it on Murong Yucan's mouth, "Eat."
"It's eaten, it's eaten," Ouyang Qin seemed to be hungry too.
Dong Yichuan knocked on his big spoon again and shouted, "It's time to eat."
"Eh, I said Dong Datou, don't you always knock on the spoon every time you eat, shout that the meal is open, it seems like you are a breeder, we are what you raised", Yang Bai couldn't help but scold when he saw this, he had corrected Dong Yichuan like this more than once.
"Hahaha", Minna suddenly felt funny, pointed at Dong Yichuan and said: "Breeder, hahaha"
Dong Yichuan immediately laughed, touched the back of his head and said stupidly: "Get used to it, get used to it."
The rest of the group burst out laughing.