Chapter 3: The Adventures of Xuanqi Pond
In the nine-fold heaven, the colorful glow spreads all over the sky, and the ten thousand golden rays shine in the mist and purple mist, and on the eaves dome of the seventy-two treasure halls, the heavenly palace is dyed with gold and psychedelic ethereal......
Luan Feng and other fairy birds flew leisurely from the air, and faintly there was a faint sound of fairy music, a beautiful picture......
About 900 miles west of Nantianmen, on the edge of Xuanqi Mountain, two young men in brocade clothes were lying on the soft grass grass with worried and melancholy faces, looking at the gorgeous sky with empty eyes, each thinking about their own thoughts.
The scenery on the edge of Xuanqi Tan is pleasant, with verdant trees and splendid flowers. A pillar waterfall flows down from the stone wall, roaring and smashing into the bluestone, splashing out thousands of pearls and jade mist, shining with colorful brilliance under the sunset, scattered water droplets condense into a stream, and flow to a deep pool below--- Xuanyu Lake.
It is completely different from the thunder of the waterfall, but the Xuanqi Pond not far away is not prosperous, the deep pool is shrouded in light red light mist, and the more you go to the pool, the more inky and deep it is.
No one knows how deep the pond is? The waterfall has flowed for thousands of years, and the Xuanqi Lake has also carried thousands of years......
It is said that this Xuanqi Pond is the gate of Xuanjiao, is the root of heaven and earth, which contains profound mysteries of heaven and earth, therefore, Xuanqi Mountain has become a sacred mountain holy place for all kinds of immortals, gods, and Buddhas to worship and comprehend.
The Xuanqi Holy Land was naturally not a place where ordinary immortals dared to step into easily, and the two teenagers could lie peacefully on the grass, with worry on their faces but no fear. It was already sunset, and they had no intention of leaving, and the beautiful scenery at this moment was not in the hearts of the two.
After a long silence, a young man with a round face, big black eyes, red lips and white teeth, and a red and gold embroidered brocade robe, while playing with a grass plant, asked listlessly: "Zixiao, you say, what is the prince's brother doing now?"
Another young man with a thin body, fair skin, a pair of clear and slightly melancholy eyes, and a white brocade robe, slowly sat up from the grass, frowned, and replied with a little hesitation: "It should be to tell my father about the situation of the war."
"I guess so," the red-robed young man pouted, and continued in a shy.
The young man in the white brocade robe is called Zi Xiao, the son of the Heavenly Monarch and the side concubine Xiao Ying, and the seventh son of the Heavenly Monarch. Zixiao's mother, Xiao Ying, is one of the many side concubines of Tianjun, who was originally a fairy of medicine in the Yaowang Mansion, and was selected into the harem by Tianjun because of a service illness, and was promoted to a side concubine because of the birth of Zi Xiao, the seventh highness. Zixiao's mother has long been unfavored, and even Zixiao is not favored and valued by his father.
The young man in the red brocade robe is the complete opposite, he is the most favored son of Tianjun, called Guiyan, the second son born to Tianjun and Tianhou, and the ninth son of Tianjun. Because he is the youngest son, he looks round and blessed, and his mouth is sweet and greasy, and Tianjun has always raised him by his side to cultivate him. But Guiyan was born martial arts, spoiled and willful and domineering, causing trouble everywhere in the heavenly court. He hates Wen Tao's cultivation the most, and he doesn't know how many teachers he is angry with, and the queen of heaven often can't help him.
Zi Xiao looked up at the sky, let out a long sigh, his already melancholy face was even more covered with gloomy clouds, he turned his head to look at Guiyan, who was in sympathy with the same disease, and asked softly: "Guiyan, you said, if you don't complete the assignment this time, how will Brother Prince punish us?...... If it's a penalty for copying a hundred times, that's fine."
After hearing this, Guiyan sat up from the grass with a "whew", his face was full of indignation, and he screamed and complained, "I also expect him to be like this, I'm afraid, this time it won't be so easy...... The last time I went to Tushi Palace to play, I broke Lao Jun's furnace of Xindan, you say, can you complain about the two of us?...... What is the punishment for the two of us to carry such incomprehensible bullshit...... I have a headache when I look at it, how can I memorize it?...... What else can be used to eliminate sins and atone for sin, and what can't be punished for two crimes? I think he is determined to rectify me, and no one in charge of my father and mother, so he has been bullying me...... What do you say most about my little son, huh!
After listening to Guiyan's complaints, Zi Xiao closed his eyes and shook his head, sighing deeply, he was really drunk, and he didn't even remember the name of the homework to be completed, I am afraid that only Guiyan can do this kind of thing.
Zi Xiao added helplessly: "It's the Taishang Laojun Tao Te Ching" and the Taixu Sutra", seeing that Gui Yan pouted and didn't say anything, Zi Xiao lowered his head and was silent for a moment, and then asked in a low voice: "Guiyan, why did the prince's brother come back so soon? Didn't you say two months?...... Alas, this time, I'm afraid I really won't be able to escape a beating."
Zi Xiao and Gui Yan said that the prince's elder brother is the prince of the Celestial Clan--- Qingtian, Qingtian is the eldest son of the Heavenly Monarch and Queen of Heaven, that is, Guiyan's sibling brother, and Guiyan is 26,000 years old.
Guiyan is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is most afraid of his eldest brother Qingtian, once his eldest brother becomes majestic and cold, he will never be soft-hearted when he teaches and scolds him.
Three hundred years ago, Gui Yan was pushed by his father to his extremely strict eldest brother, let him supervise his martial arts and academic progress, Gui Yan felt that these three hundred years were simply living in dire straits, physically and mentally tortured, bitter but helpless, powerless to resist to change all this, had to pull the most temperamental seventh brother Zi Xiao as a companion, in order to spend the hard time of practicing literature and martial arts. When punished, they can also share the pain and comfort each other.
Guiyan glanced at Zi Xiao melancholy and desolately, and then walked back to the grass as if he had no love, sighing for a long time.
Zi Xiao was depressed in his heart, picked up the small stone beside him and threw it boringly at the Xuanqi Pond in front of him, one, two......
Half of the sparkling, reddish sky, a bald eagle hovers lonely in the sky.
The two teenagers lay down and sat on the edge of the Xuanqi Pond, thinking about the same question in their hearts, that is, how to avoid the impending disaster?
Time stood still, and the air was filled with sadness, depression, and tension......
Suddenly, in the middle of the calm Xuanqi Pond, the water began to tumble, bigger and more turbulent, and then began to be accompanied by a more and more deafening sound of "boom", and a dazzling white light that became brighter and brighter.
The two teenagers were alarmed, and they stood up with a "whoosh", and looked closely with their hands half-covered by the dazzling light:
Half an hour later, with the sound of "bang!", the dazzling white light wrapped in a ball of white, and the thunder rushed out of the bottom of the pool straight into the sky, followed by a sound of "bang!", and the white light wrapped in a small green thing also rushed into the sky.
The two teenagers were stunned by the scene in front of them, and they looked up at the two groups of things that were still flying up, until the two white lights slowly faded away, and the two things began to fly up and slowly...... Until it starts falling.
The bald eagle, which had been hovering in the sky, was obviously disturbed by the loud noise and the two clusters of things rushing into the sky, and panicked to dodge. After a brief observation, he adjusted his flying posture and flew towards the large, straight falling white object. In mid-air, it stretched out its claws and grabbed the white mass that was larger than it, perhaps it was too heavy, and the bald eagle began to fall together in embarrassment, and it flapped its wings tightly, trying to control its unbalanced body.
As it fell, the green object suddenly spread its green wings and flew towards the bald eagle and the white object.
"It's a bird!", Zi Xiao, who saw it clearly, pointed to the green object and shouted.
Guiyan was even more energetic, his eyes sparkling with excitement, "It's really a bird! It's incredible! What is that white thing?"
I saw the green bird desperately pecking at the head and eyes of the bald eagle, the bald eagle shook its head and tail to dodge, and tried to spread its wings several times to fly upward, but in the end it was still carried by the white thing, and it fell in a straight line uncontrollably.
The green bird chased and pecked at the bald eagle even more frantically......
When it was about to hit the canopy, the bald eagle had to let go of the white object on its talons, flapped its wings and flew into the sky, hovering downward, and refused to leave for a long time.
Zi Xiao and Gui Yan saw that the green bird flew to the bottom of the white object, carrying the white object and smashing it into the branch, only to hear a "click, click" sound of the branch breaking, after the last muffled sound, in addition to the sound of the waterfall flowing water, the edge of the Xuanqi Lake returned to calm.
At this time, only the last trace of red remained in the sky.
The two teenagers looked at each other tacitly, "Let's go, take a look" Guiyan said as he ran towards the broken branch with a "whoosh", and Zi Xiao followed closely behind......
Coming to the smashed tree, full of broken branches and rattans, Zi Xiao and Guiyan were surprised to see an injured little beast with snow-white fur and flesh curled up in a ball, and had been knocked unconscious, lying on the broken branch.
Zi Xiao and Gui Yan approached and squatted, only to see that the little beast was a little white deer. After a while, I saw the little white deer twist a few times, with a black nose, frowning tightly, and waking up quietly.
When the little white deer slowly opened his eyes, his frightened and confused big eyes under his thick eyelashes looked left and right at Zi Xiao and Gui Yan in front of him, his face was full of stunned and confused expressions.
Zi Xiao was caught off guard and crashed into the two beautiful eyes like spring water, his heart "chuckled", and his breathing seemed to have stopped for half a beat, Zi Xiao couldn't help but sigh: "So beautiful!
Looking at the little white deer's big, round, bright and bright eyes, as clear and agile as spring water, Zi Xiao was sure that this was the most beautiful eye he had ever seen!
"Zixiao, you are blocking in front, let's catch it back and raise it, don't let it run away......", Guiyan's shout brought Zixiao back to his senses, he noticed that the little white deer had already climbed up, stubbornly confronted him in front of him, and let out a threatening low sound of "Yo Yo".
Zi Xiao carefully looked at the chubby little white deer, and found that in addition to its black eyes, nose and four hooves, its coat color was snow-white, but there were blood marks on it, and the left front and back legs were stained red with blood. Next to the hooves of the little white deer, there was a green bird with yellow patterns lying in a pool of blood, one wing folded overhead, apparently broken.
Guiyan pounced from behind the little white deer, the little white deer turned around to dodge and raised his hooves to fight back, Guiyan, who had five or six pounces in the air, fell to the ground and was bitten on the wrist by the little white deer.
"Damn, deer bite too?"
Guiyan cursed in disbelief and covered his bleeding wrist with his hand. He can be regarded as a teacher, it turns out that the deer will bite if he is forced to be in a hurry.
Zi Xiao kept in front of the little white deer to prevent it from escaping, and when he saw that it bit Guiyan, he asked anxiously: "Guiyan, is the bite serious?"
"It's okay, I'm going to catch it, little brute."
The little white deer has no intention of escaping, and after dodging the pounce, it will return to the green bird. During this time, he also tried to pick up the green bird with his beak, but was unsuccessful.
Zi Xiao saw a firm and stubborn look on Xiao Bailu's eyebrows and eyes that twitched due to pain, and Zi Xiao's heart became soft in an instant.
Zi Xiao bent his waist, spread his hands, stared at the little white deer's big eyes as smart and clear as if he could speak, and pointed to the green bird in a ghostly manner, and said softly to the little white deer, "It, its wings are broken, I can help it, you can, believe me!"
Zi Xiao looked at the little white deer, walked to the green bird step by step, leaned over to pick up the green bird, took out a handkerchief from the cuff, and carefully bandaged the broken wings for the green bird. After bandaging, he smiled at the little white deer in a friendly manner, patted his heart, and gently put the green bird into the sleeve of his robe.
Xiao Bailu and Guiyan both stared at Zi Xiao with big round eyes, dumbfounded as Zi Xiao finished all this......
The little white deer, which came back to its senses, seemed to understand that the young man in front of him had no malicious intent, so it turned around and limped towards the forest on the right.
Guiyan, who was already angry, shouted loudly to Zi Xiao angrily, "Zi Xiao, what are you doing? Are you crazy? Don't chase ...... quickly", and the two teenagers chased in the direction where the little white deer fled.
Guiyan chased while taking a red Qiankun circle from his waist and threw it at the little white deer who fled, and the Qiankun circle followed closely behind the little white deer with a bright red light, only to hear the shout of "Yo!" resounded in the depths of the dense forest.
"Hold it, see where it can escape?", Gui Yan said proudly, and came to the edge of the cliff in front of them with Zixiao.
It was dark under the cliff, bottomless, and the little white deer and the Qiankun circle were gone.