Chapter 49 Heaven and earth are the peak, leading Jiao out of the hole
Tigers, also known as big insects, have always been the first beasts in the world, as evidenced by the fact that the people fear them like tigers.
The tiger plague that has plagued Nanshan for decades has been eliminated, and it seems that more evil needs to be eliminated.
Jiao, the genus of the dragon, is also hornless. The pond fish, full of 3,600, Jiao comes to be long, can lead the fish to fly in the water, that is, Jiao go.
Single-knife single around carrying the tiger's head, the wind under his feet, he is naturally in a very good mood, shooting this hanging neck white-fronted tiger for him, is the best proof, now look at those dog bachelors what face I am not as good as an animal. After walking for half an hour, he finally came to the foot of the mountain, followed the path, and quickly found the place where he put his horse. He put his hand to his mouth and whistled loudly, and after a while, there was a faint sound of rushing in the distance, and Zhou Di smiled slightly, and also walked in that direction.
When a person and a horse are not far away, although it is already night, there are Xuangong around him, and he can barely see things clearly in this dark night. From a distance, he saw his blue steed running towards him, but at a distance of three feet, the horse suddenly roared and stopped, its body trembling, its hooves disorganized, and it looked panicked. I'm still wondering, what's wrong with the horses tonight? He was puzzled, took a step and walked towards the horse, he didn't want to, he walked the horse back, back and forth a few times, he felt strange, so he stopped his steps, thought about it, thought for a while and suddenly understood that he was carrying the huge tiger head in his hand.
Although the tiger is dead, the fishy smell is pungent, the tiger is originally the king of beasts, born with the blood suppression of horses, his horse should smell the fishy wind, so he stopped. It is also a loss that the horse in front of him is around, and those who can enter the eyes of the law around are naturally not ordinary. Although this horse is not those hard-to-buy sweat and blood horses, but it is also quite a valuable Dawan good horse, the surrounding family is rich, there are dozens of horses of various breeds alone, but he loves the horse in front of him the most, he usually goes out to hunt and play with it, and when he encounters inconvenient mountain roads, he lets the horse go, and the horse goes to forage for food and fun. The horse is tall and fat, and it is not afraid to meet wild wolves and bears, and it not only eats grass, but also catches some small beasts to eat. It is precisely because of this that this horse, which is accustomed to eating blood, is like this at the moment, although it is afraid, it does not run away, if it is replaced by those ordinary horses, smelling the breath of the tiger, it will either be paralyzed as mud or run away.
Zhou Shi figured out the trick, he whistled two more times, and shouted that it was okay to be okay while heading towards the green horse. The horse was also really good, although the blood trembled, but it seemed to understand the master's shout, and he slowly walked towards his master. After a while, a man and a horse met, Zhou Chu hugged the horse's neck and stroked it, and told him how the tiger had been killed by himself, the horse seemed to be able to understand Zhou's words, and slowly stopped being afraid, and later he was still fierce towards the tiger's head and teeth, Zhou Chu laughed and patted the horse's head, and praised "Qing'er is awesome!" After that, Zhou turned over and got on the horse, lifted the reins, sang the opera in his mouth, and galloped towards Yangxian City with one person and one horse.
After arriving at the city gate, Zhou Chu knew that the Zhou family had been in a mess like a fried pot, and the soldiers guarding the city told him that because he did not return late at night, the grandmother and mother of the Zhou family could not find him, and dozens of people had been sent to look for him, and the momentum was very huge. Zhou Chu knew that he had caused trouble this time, and he didn't seem to be afraid of the sky, but he was afraid of the grandmother at home. He was also really anxious, and shouted "Get out of the way!" I am back! He did not dismount, but hurried his horse to his house.
The anxious grandmother of the Zhou family has been crying and sitting in the room for several hours, her heart is like a light, and suddenly faintly listening to the shouts of her grandson, she was shocked, and ran to the courtyard like a fly. Before the horse could stop, he jumped off the horse first, and he ran a few steps just to catch his grandmother. The grandmother held her grandson tightly in her arms, crying speechless. Zhou Chu was about to persuade a few words, but his face was "snapped" and he was slapped with an ear scraper, and Zhou Chu looked up to see who else could he be besides his own mother. Zhou's mother was also in tears, she looked at her heart and liver anxious and angry, and her grandmother watched her grandson being beaten, so she hurried to protect it, covering her hands on Zhou's face, guarding against her daughter-in-law from doing it again.
Zhou's mother was also in a hurry, so she couldn't help beating her son, and regretted it after the beating, but she couldn't wipe off her face, so she had to pull her face and scold:
"You still know to come back! I'll only be when you're taken by a wolf! ”
The grandmother of the Zhou family had been suffering for half the night, and at this moment she felt sorry for her grandson being beaten, and then she heard her daughter-in-law scolding, and her heart was even more unhappy, so she raised her voice and shouted:
"Enough! What kind of evil words do you say, how can you curse your own nun like this! ”
Zhou's mother was aggrieved, but she couldn't talk back, so she could only mumble in a low voice:
"Mother, you are still protecting him, look at what it has become!"
The old lady knew that it was useless to talk more, and she could only make people laugh if she pulled it again, so she didn't talk, she just lowered her head and pulled up her grandson and walked into the house, followed by Zhou's mother and several wives and concubines in Zhou. When the people closest to him came to the house and sat down, the grandmother took her grandson's hand and asked him where he had gone and why he had not returned late at night. Zhou Zhi then told how he only went up the mountain to shoot the tiger to eliminate the harm, only to hear a few women in the room face like earth, and when Zhou Zhi took the bloody tiger head in, several people looked at the table-sized tiger head and withdrew from the distance, the tiger's eyes were still round, the fangs in the mouth were clenched, and the fierce appearance of the dying struggle was really terrifying.
That night, the grandmother was scared and insisted on leaving her grandson to sleep in her own room. Zhou's mother was not at ease, so she naturally wanted to watch, although several wives and concubines also had a lot of loving words to say in their hearts, but the elders were not easy to speak, so they could only stay in the grandmother's house to accompany them. Lying on his grandmother's bed, staring at several pairs of eyes around him, where could he sleep, he could only endure it, and endure until dawn, only to feel that the night's suffering was much harder than fighting the tiger!
On the second day, Zhou Chu personally took the tiger head to the city, and he showed the fierce beast that was killed by himself in front of everyone, and the onlookers were all shocked, and they praised Zhou Chu for being really brave and abnormal. Some people still say cool things, saying that although he has removed the man-eating tiger, he has not yet fought the Jiao who has crossed the river, whether it is strong or fierce, only after comparing it can I know.
Although he was impulsive, he was not stupid, he slowly tasted it, knowing that the other party was deliberately excited, but he was bold and bold, and he was extremely confident in his own skills, so he did not speak quickly, and promised in public that he would enter the water and kill the dragon in three days.
There are nine dragons, and the ignorant of the world call them aliens who have the strengths of various animals. There are many of its names, the scaly one is called the dragon, the winged one is called the Ying dragon, the horned one is called the dragon, and the small horn is called the dragon. The small one is Jiao, the big one is called the dragon, and it is said that it can be visible and hidden, can be small and huge, and can be short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, calls for wind and rain, swallows clouds and spits out fog, leads thunder and lightning, moves and moves, omnipotent, and is a mythical beast that has been praised since ancient times.
If you want to talk about the dragon under the long bridge in their west of the city, it is a bad thing, every time the river rises, it will take advantage of the situation to become violent, often overturning boats and drifting houses, drowning people are countless. Although the Xijiu River is not very long and wide, it comes from the spring of heaven and earth, converging into a river, connecting to Taihu Lake downward, and a Jiao monster has risen in the river since when. This evil dragon will not only use the breath of heaven and earth to make waves, but also use the power of the dragon of Taihu Lake to fuel the fire, and the ancestors of the people along the coast have suffered from it for hundreds of years. The official family has also sent a warship to kill, but with little effect, the momentum is strong, the evil Jiao will not be able to hibernate, and if there are fewer people, it will come out hideous, cunning and abnormal, and there are also great Confucian monks and Taoists to suppress it, and the evil Jiao will run away when he sees that he is not invincible, and he can only be peaceful for a few years, but the root of the bane has always been there. Later, in order to live in peace, the people learned from Hebo's set, and began to sacrifice to it, first cattle, sheep and livestock, and then even young girls, who could also improve a little. It's just that in the past few hundred years, how many families have been ruined and their wives have been separated because of this evil Jiao.
Because of his deep family background, Zhou had no intersection with the evil Jiao that harmed people before, but he understood that the evil Jiao that had been entrenched in the Xijiu River for hundreds of years was not as easy to deal with as the tiger in Nanshan. The tiger is just an ordinary product, just because of the coincidence of eating some hundred years of Ganoderma lucidum, open the spiritual trick to live for a few decades, you must know that the tiger in the mountains and wilderness, normal but live for more than ten years, can live for twenty years is rare, the tiger in Nanshan has been a disaster for forty or fifty years, not because Cheng Jing can not live for so long. But the dragon is different, they have the dragon's will in their blood, and it is recorded in the "Narrative of Differences": "The newt is a dragon for five hundred years, a dragon for five hundred years, a dragon for five hundred years, a dragon for a thousand years, and a horned dragon for three thousand years." "And if Jiao's cultivation is enough time limit, if it encounters thunder and lightning and rainstorms, it can soar to the nine skies, and only after the tribulation is successful can it turn into a dragon. Although I haven't seen the Jiao around the Xijiu River in front of me, I know that it is very difficult to deal with just the rumors, and I should cultivate some dragon clan's supernatural skills, and if I want to get rid of this Jiao, I have to plan carefully.
On the second day, Zhou Chuhao said bad things, so he resigned from his family, took his family's private soldiers, wore armor and took a big boat to the Xijiu River. The river is meandering, but it is not very wide, the water flow is not urgent, the people around the group are excellent water quality, fists and feet are full of strength, they are to survey the terrain, so the line is also slow, swaying along the water. There are also occasional boats of all sizes on the river, most of which are begging for a living, after all, what is the value of this poor mountain and bad water. In the shallows by the river, there are some villages and farmlands by the water, where the men carry water for farming, and the women wash their cloths with linen, all of them are tired and numb. Although they knew that there were evil dragons eating people in the river, they could not move away from this place, first, their ancestors had lived here for generations, and how many ancestors were buried in this soil, and secondly, the terrain here was gentle, and it was convenient to get water, and the rice harvest was much better than that of other places. The dragon doesn't come out to eat people every day, but if there is no rice at home, people can starve to death in a few days, many people are lucky, they have never seen the legendary dragon in their lives, of course, they have seen the nature of life, so they surround the Xijiu River, and there are many people.
Zhou is the son of a great family, a radius of a hundred miles is his family's industry, he seems to have nothing else to do except eat, drink, and have fun and grow savagely, this time because of the dragon, he only somewhat understood the sadness of the people, the suffering of the people, and he couldn't help but feel some feelings in his heart.
The boat traveled for almost a day, and it was getting dark, and according to the intelligence analysis from the inquiry, the widest part of the river not far down was the place where the dragon had appeared the most in hundreds of years. For the sake of safety, Zhou ordered people to park the boat in the nearby village, leaving a few guards, and then they found the ancestral hall in the village and sent the villagers to summon the village head. When the village saw such a big man come to the door, he was at a loss, he looked at the group of people who appeared without greeting, the sword and helmet were bright, and the cold was cold, and he regretted that he was blind and did not hide his wife and daughter in time, and he was afraid that he would suffer tonight.
Zhou didn't know how uneasy Muramasa was, but he just told him to vacate a few rooms, find some firewood hot pot stoves, and have anything to eat, but he didn't go to each house to check it. Muramasa was still puzzled, so he was dismissed by the tall private soldier and left the ancestral hall, he was still wondering, why did these grandfathers change their temperament tonight and stop fighting the autumn wind? He went home in a daze, and the first thing he did was to smear the faces of his wife and daughters, hide them, and only after doing this did he reluctantly hide those private foods and prepare for the New Year's Eve and send them over.
The group came to the arranged accommodation, and also saw those air-dried beasts and fish, and the jar was cloudy green rice wine, looking at each other.
The world only laughs at Emperor Jin Hui's why he doesn't eat meat, but a few people can know that they are a little better than that stupid Sima Zhen.
The young master of Zhou, who felt more deeply, was silent for a long time, and he ordered his subordinates to boil some food with these meats, sprinkle them with their own condiment incense powder, and endure the hard food, and they were full in the end.
There was no word that night.
On the second day, the group of people around the village packed up early, and gradually disappeared in the frightened eyes of the village and the villagers, leaving only the documents and some silver coins for the rent reduction for three years. At this time, he swam on the surface of the river, searching for clues, his eyes were moving Xuangong, looking for different feng shui air currents.
After two days of going back and forth on the river, the group of people in Zhou has gained a lot, and Zhou has basically figured out where the dragon is hiding, and the dragon seems to be woken up by the movement on the river, but it doesn't care too much about the actions of these people around it, just the usual movements of those officials who want to arrest it. It wasn't those powerful monks around, the qi was domineering, and the dragon continued to pretend to sleep, tossing by those ants.
Zhou Shi figured out the terrain of the river, and planned some countermeasures in his heart, and the next thing was how to lure out the dragon. Drill into the water to find it, that's not looking for the dragon, that's looking for death, so you have to use some method to force the evil Jiao out. Only when the dragon appeared, he could see that the dragon had some real skills, whether he could fight or not, what method should be used to fight and plan well. His parents and teachers have taught him that the courage of a puppet is not advisable, and it is the best policy to plan and then act.
After figuring out the situation, Zhou returned to Yangxian City, he first sent his subordinates to buy and purchase things for their own use, and then gathered the famous people in the city, saying that the three-day period has arrived, and he will set out tomorrow to remove the evil Jiao, and the people in the city are cheering and cheering when they hear the words, what is the meaning, only the people who cheer themselves know.
He didn't care about it, he returned home, analyzed the benefits and disadvantages to the elders of the family, originally thought that it would be difficult to persuade his grandmother, but he didn't want the old lady to understand the righteousness, extraordinarily atmospheric, just told the old lady to be careful, the old lady deliberately took the hand of the four-year-old eldest son in the world, and ordered the little baby to kowtow to his father, and loudly praised his father as a hero. He also knew that Jiaolong was not aggressive, and his own trip was unpredictable, but he was a good man who stood up to the sky and made a promise, how could he discredit the family without words.
It is courage to do what cannot be done, and it is wisdom to be able to turn the undone into possible.
On the fourth day, Zhou Chu left Yangxian City with a hundred private soldiers and drove seven warships to the Xijiu River, and saw off many people, Zhou just stood at the bow of the boat and waved goodbye.
More than an hour later, the warship had sailed to the river that had been surveyed around the perimeter. When the day is beautiful, the wind and the sun are beautiful, the location is favorable, the wind and waves are calm, the people are human, and the people around are majestic and majestic. They had already sent people to block the front and rear rivers, and did not allow a man or a boat to enter the water, and after doing this, they sent people around the area to start arranging according to the direction they had chosen. Zhou planted array stones in seven directions, and sacrificed a piece of high-quality jade in these seven positions, and then erected seven giant pillars three zhang high in these seven directions, and then they used white cloth to wrap these seven giant pillars in turn. After the white cloth is wrapped, the Zhou will write a large character urn with real gold on the white cloth, and an hour later, the talisman is written, and the formation has been laid out, just wait for him to cast the spell, and do not worry about the dragon not coming out of the hole.
He Zhou did such a move, although it looked like a huge momentum, but it was a secular action, and it did not cause a change in the qi of heaven and earth, and the dragon sleeping in the cave seemed to know it, and there was no reaction at all. Seeing that the large array had been arranged, he ordered the accompanying private soldiers to leave the river covered in white cloth and guard the seven formations from outsiders, while he himself waited on the river in a small boat.
Shen Shi has finally arrived.
Sitting on the boat and slowly standing up, he first looked up at the sky, then looked down at the water, reached into his arms, took out a small turtle shell, first looked carefully, and then lit a pot of fire oil with a fire fold, and when the fire was hot, he threw the turtle shell into the fire, pierced his fingertips, and dripped blood from his fingertips into the turtle shell in the fire. Suddenly, a strange wind rose on the river, and the water waves had begun to ripple.
There was such a movement in the river, and the dragon in the cave immediately sensed it, and it knew that someone had used a formation to imprison Zhou Tian's heaven and earth, and temporarily sealed it. Although he was shocked, he was not flustered, although this heaven and earth were temporarily imprisoned, its body was not affected, the power of the physical body and the divine power of heaven and earth were not damaged in the slightest, and the skills that could be used were still there.
To say that the formation arranged around at this moment is just like the mirage transformed by those mirages, it is only imprisoned and hallucinated, and it is not lethal. This formation is learned by Zhou from his master Yu Ji, that is still after Yu Ji faked his death to deceive Sun Ce, Sun Ce wanted to kill Yu Ji with Yu Ji's demon words to confuse the public, Yu Ji had no way, he could only use Li Dai Taozhuang's method, fake death to get out, and then he could no longer walk in the world with Yu Ji's true body, and he could only come secretly to cure the disease and save people, when he temporarily lived in the Zhou family to avoid the limelight, he saw that the Zhou family's children were not good, and it was also to repay the kindness, so he passed on some Taoist practice techniques in Zhou, and Zhou was also fascinated by this, and since then there have been many practices" Taiping Sutra", when he was in his twenties and thirties, he also had a line.
After all, the Tao is still shallow, and he does not have the ability to fight the dragon head-on, he can only use the formation to trap the dragon first, and then use other means to slowly kill the dragon, he must have the skills of Ye Jingneng or Xu Jingyang mentioned above, why bother so much, directly fly the sword shot, and cut the dragon in two thousands of miles away.
The realm around him has not yet arrived, so he can only follow the formation skills he has learned, trap that Jiao first, and then start to use other means.
The dragon sensed the movement of the river, but it was not in a hurry, but continued to entrench in the cave, waiting for the man's means, if the man had no other means, relying on such a trapping method, he would not be able to do anything about it for a hundred years or a thousand years. You can't go into the water around, first going into the water will greatly reduce his means, on the contrary, that dragon has more skills in the water, and he can't use his own shortcomings to attack others' strengths. Yu Ji is a peaceful and indisputable monk, and the "Taiping Sutra" he practices is also heavy on protection and light on attack, and his daily practice mainly relies on treating people and providing disaster relief, slowly accumulating, and slowly improving. Although he has a wild temperament, he has no choice, he can only do things with those life-saving supernatural powers, he is also smart, he uses the formation not only to trap the dragon, but to prepare a big hand, he wants to use heaven and earth as a furnace, with mountains and rivers as the tripod, and refine the dragon like a refining medicine.
I can't fight, but I'm okay with alchemy.
This is the method of the surrounding area, Jiaolong does not know, if he knew that the person on the river is such a vicious plan, it would have fled a long time ago, but the "Taiping Seven Absolute Array" has been opened, and it has no other way than to break it with force.
After burning the turtle shell around, he sat on the boat and began to perform the method of refining water, he asked his subordinates to pour the fire oil into the upstream according to his agreement, let the fire oil flow down the water, and then he used the formation to intercept the fire oil, and when all the fire oil flowed in, he opened the cloth bag he carried with him, took out a lot of bottles and cans from it, poured out a lot of pills from it, and then he pinched the hand formula, with the change of the hand formula, those pills began to fall in different positions in the water in an orderly manner like flying. It was another half an hour, and a small half of the elixir had already entered the water, and at this moment, on the surface of the river, except for the small boat that was riding around, the entire river was covered with brown and black fire oil.
Turning into gold, wood, and earth, the water surface can be attacked with fire.
Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind, Zhou Yu burned Cao Cao Chibi 800 miles, such achievements shocked everyone in the world, for a time Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang's fame soared to the sky, for a while Yu Liang, Qilin Wolong, Shuangjie dominated. Zhou heard his father tell him the story of those two people, and he didn't expect that he could learn from the feat of the two of them today, and try his hand at boiling evil.
The seven boats of fire oil brought this time have all been poured out, and the power of the elixir has also dissolved, and Zhou Zhi did not hesitate anymore, changed his hand, and shouted:
"Here comes the fire!"
As he spoke, there was fire coming out of his fingertips around him, his face was solemn, and with a flick of his fingers, the flame shot onto the oil, and in an instant, the oil was ignited, and the whole air was burned by the flames and distorted a little.
The moment the fire burned, the dragon was inspired, but it didn't care, but smiled coldly, set it on fire? Just such a means? I thought that the man had spent such a lot of money to set up the formation, but it turned out to be a vulgar trick like arson. In the past, when the officials caught it, they didn't burn it with fire oil, but let them burn it for a few days and nights, not to mention scratching it through their boots, but it didn't hurt or itch it, after all, it was a big realm. The money of the official family is not blown by the wind, and it is burned a few times and it is never done again, I can't imagine that Zhou Zhou is so stupid today, and he is still using such a method.
It's just that with the passage of time, the dragon slowly felt that this fire seemed to be burning a little evil. Those mundane fires quietly burned into his domain mirror, and his flesh faintly felt a trace of warmth, and along with that warmth, there seemed to be a little intoxication.
The dragon was completely sleepy, his eyes arced continuously, his claws were closed one by one, his breathing was low and long, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Above the river, the sky is already dark, but the tongue of fire on the river is still rolling, the fire has been burning the water for three hours, affecting the pond fish, the fish and shrimp in the river have been burned to ashes, and the small boat in the surrounding place is slowly swaying in the sea of fire because of the support of the formation.
Continuing to do so, he threw several bottles of pills into the sea of fire every other hour, and those pills quickly melted into the sea of fire, turning into the power of fire to refine the river. After a night like this, the dragon was a little moved, why did the fire burn all night and there was no sign of extinguishing, there was not so much fire oil for mortals, let alone so domineering, he had already clearly felt a trace of heat. But it still chooses not to move, just to see how much fire the water man can set on fire, and if he has the ability to really burn himself out!
This time Zhou Zhi wanted to get rid of this Jiaolong, but he didn't know how much money he spent, he ordered someone to purchase hundreds of zhang of cloth, tens of thousands of catties of oil, the key is from Shizun Yu Ji, bought a full eleven bottles of shark oil pills, these shark oil pills are used for their usual alchemy, a combustible one does not go out for a month, he brought so many things, enough to boil all the river water he arranged, he spared his life, and he would never be stingy with what he could do with money.
His master respects Ji Neng to serve ghosts and gods, he can't, but he has money, and money can also be channeled!
Jiaolong wanted to break his head, but he didn't expect that Zhou would choose to use money to smash it to death, what kind of person is this? How much enmity do I have against you, and you want to do this to me?
Another day passed, and Jiaolong regretted it. Half of the river has been burned, it can't hide, heaven and earth are imprisoned by that formation, it can't escape, it must go out of the hole to fight. The dragon made up his mind, and immediately roared, shook off his muscles, jumped up from the hole, and flew into the air.
Finally forced the Jiao out, Zhou Shi breathed a sigh of relief and began to look at the Jiao Dragon.
The dragon was half in the water, half in the air, covered in blue and black scale armor, a pair of blood-red eyes with arcs, because there was a sea of fire under him, the dark red vertical pupils reflected all the vigorous flames, the upper part of the eyebrows faintly had a bulge like a calf's horn, the fangs in the mouth were white and terrifying, and the two exposed claws were much larger than steel knives. I don't know how long it is, but the exposed part alone is three or four feet long.
It's a good animal!
Looking at the dragon around, the dragon was also looking at the corner, the body of the man's iron tower, wearing a close-fitting suit, had no weapons, sat on the boat and looked up at it, although he was frightened, but he was not afraid, it seemed that he was prepared.
The dragon did not directly use means to attack the periphery, but first opened the huge mouth, towards the sea of fire sucked suddenly, only to see that the sea of fire was attracted by this suction force to fly away from the water, straight towards the mouth of the dragon, in a moment, the flames of this world were sucked by the dragon, re-exposed the steaming and tumbling river water, like boiling water.
The dragon sucked up the sea of fire, and did not rush into the water, but continued to stare at the little human. Zhou Shi stood up, looked at the dragon showing his might, clapped his hands, and cheered:
"Good means, good means!"
The dragon felt more and more that the human being was not easy to deal with, its Taoism was much higher than that of the tiger in Nanshan, it had lived for hundreds of years, and its brain was smarter than many humans, so it decided to talk to the human first, to see what the other party had, if it could do it as much as possible, it would be hard to fight!
It depends on how the dragon confronts the surroundings, and whose Tao is high!