Chapter 4: Divine Defense
After letting go of the two, the big snake said goodbye without saying goodbye.
The footprints on the snow were deep and shallow, as if there were many different creatures passing by here, and these footprints were all pointing in one direction - Wanling Peak.
Tianzheng Bird obeyed the master's order and continued to wait in the sky, Xiao Qianye held Yun Xiao tightly, and said cautiously: "Follow me, it's dangerous in the mountains, don't get lost, I'm ...... with me."
He hesitated for a moment, and didn't know how to speak for a while, seeing his concerns, Yun Xiao continued: "Do you want to say that you have a holiday with the aliens in the mountains? β
"Hmm......" Xiao Qianye coughed a few times in embarrassment, startled by the sound, a few little rabbits jumped out of the snow next to him, and jumped around the two of them a few times, suddenly with a frightened look in his eyes, and ran away with a smoke.
Yun Xiao looked at the rabbit, then at Xiao Qianye, and blinked: "Even the little rabbit is so afraid of you, is it true that the rumors I have heard in the past few years are true?"
"Who did you listen to?" Xiao Qianye frowned and asked her, without waiting for her to answer, she took the conversation herself, "Actually, I can guess who it is, and she also told Tianche about the end of the sky, right?"
"Well, Madame is actually kind ...... too"
"Do you have good intentions to do bad things?" Xiao Qianye disagreed, the "lady" in Yun Xiao's mouth was the sister of Emperor Quan today, Mrs. Ming Qi, one of the members of the Bipolar Society, in the early years when Yun Xiao's mother, Mrs. Qiushui, traveled to Feiyuan, and Mrs. Ming Qi became old friends, and the two often exchanged letters.
The Bipolar Society was originally the center of power, and although Mrs. Ming Qi was not involved in politics, she could also know many sensitive things for the first time, and this was the case with the end of the sky.
Yun Xiao didn't agree at all, and retorted: "But Madame said that he is a very important person to Tianche! If you don't tell him now, he will definitely regret it for the rest of his life in the future." β
"Then do you know who Tianche is looking for?" Xiao Qianye asked rhetorically, and sure enough, she was speechless, shaking her head and sighing, "He must not have told you before he came, right? What are you doing here, Feiyuan is very dangerous." β
"Won't you just tell me?" Yun Xiao muttered, "Won't you come back to me and let me come by myself?"
"You're going to be embarrassed to know that. Xiao Qianye touched her head helplessly.
The sword spirit resonated at the same time, interrupting the conversation between the two, and Xiao Qianye also instantly regained his vigilance, pulling Yun Xiao to walk deeper into the snow next to him.
Not far ahead, two people walked side by side, silently as if they appeared out of thin air from the air, the two were talking and laughing, one was like a ghost in white, with long ears and pale blonde hair, which was the appearance of a human man transformed by the mountain elves, and beside him was a woman in a blue robe, her water-blue hair was like the waves of the blue sea, they seemed to be walking, but in fact their feet did not touch the ground, but more like ghosts and ghosts drifting.
It's not a human - Xiao Qianye and Yun Xiao glanced at each other, and immediately discovered the abnormality, if the induction between the sword spirits is not the same door, then the other party must not be a normal human.
Within a few steps, the two of them suddenly paused in vigilance, turned around, and looked closely, their skin was pale and transparent, and their eyes flashed with a thin bright light.
The man was the first to approach, he was only wearing a snow-colored single coat, which looked extremely thin, and the woman followed up, seeing them, but he unexpectedly greeted them, took Xiao Qianye's hand enthusiastically, and said happily: "It's so rare, this is the first time for the young pavilion master to come to the Bailing Conference, right?
Xiao Qianye shook off her hand, and finally recognized these two people, there are seven gods in the seven alien forbidden lands, and the two people in front of him are the god of the Charm Mountain and the god of the sea of Biluo.
"Bah, it's still so unkind. Mao returned to Qianmo's side with a smoke, and stuck out her tongue at the two, if it was just her appearance, she would still look like a girl in her prime, but it has been thousands of years since Feiyuan fell into the sea, and no one knows how long these mountain ghosts and sea fairies have lived.
To be able to meet them here, it seems that they are very close to the center of the Bailing Conference.
Qian Mo was obviously not as friendly as Mao Yang, he glared at his lively and cheerful companion, straightened his face, and said with a straight face: "The Bailing Assembly has never welcomed humans, let alone the people of the military pavilion. β
"I'm not here for your Lark Conference. Xiao Qianye also asked bluntly, "Last night, I had a companion who was thrown into the mountains by a two-headed goldfinch bird, and he hasn't come out yet, I don't know if you two have ever seen it?"
"Two-headed Golden-winged Bird?" Qian Mo was holding his chin in thought, Mao couldn't wait to come over, "It's that group of bird monsters who like to make trouble, when we came, we heard the Spirit Fox Clan talking along the way, saying that we had met a surviving descendant of the Spirit Yin Clan! But he was dressed very strangely, like the Central Plains, and brought a sword, are you looking for that person?"
"Where was he thrown to?" Xiao Qianye hurriedly asked, Mao fanned his big eyes and continued around the bend, "Eighteen years ago, the Lingyin clan was killed and exterminated by the military pavilion, and now there is finally a survivor, and it will be an acquaintance of the young pavilion master?"
Lingyin Clan, Annihilation Clan, Yun Xiao was shocked, and looked at Xiao Qianye in astonishment.
She doesn't particularly know the background of Senior Brother Tianche, she only knows that he was rescued to Kunlun by the head master of Yunyou, was seriously injured, and has been recuperating at Qingqiu Zhenren, one of the four peak masters, so although the senior brother is a disciple of the master in charge, he also has a deep Qingqiu Zhenren True Heritage, and his swordsmanship is completely different from Xiao Qianye's.
He rarely mentions his own affairs, this seemingly gentle senior brother, but in his bones he is even more indifferent than Xiao Qianye.
This time he came to Feiyuan, and the senior brother said that he had found his long-lost brother, and he originally insisted on coming alone, but the master was not at ease, so he allowed himself to come with him.
"Mao. Qian Mo shouted back to his companion, as if he didn't want to entangle more, and casually pointed in a direction, "That person followed the Linghu Clan into the mountain together, since he is a descendant of the Lingyin Clan, there will be no danger in entering Wanling Peak, but it is better for the two of them to leave as soon as possible." β
"Senior brother is a descendant of the Lingyin Clan?" Yun Xiao repeated the mountain ghost's words in surprise, and her face changed greatly.
She often heard Mrs. Mingqi mention some things about the Lingyin clan, and Madame seemed to be particularly concerned about the people of this clan, almost every time she went to Kunlun, she would talk to her mother, she always thought it was just inconsequential chatter, it turned out that it was because Senior Brother Tianche was a survivor of the Lingyin clan?
The Lingyin clan is a race that has been wiped out by the military pavilion, and the pavilion masters of the military pavilion in recent generations are all members of the Xiao family.
She couldn't help but gasp, and didn't dare to think about the relationship between the two senior brothers.
Xiao Qianye silently clenched her hand, this was indeed a relationship he had never wanted to talk about.
The Lingyin tribe lives along the coast, it is a race born with the blessing of the sea, they are distributed in the territory of Yudu, good at singing and dancing instruments, many years ago, there was even a beautiful woman who fascinated the current saint, was accepted into the palace, and was given as a concubine.
The relationship between humans and aliens on the flying wall was originally strained, but the moodiness of the Tianquan Emperor added fuel to the fire of this complicated relationship, the noble concubine named Lan Ji, the leader of the Lingyin clan, and two years after entering the palace, gave birth to a daughter.
This newly-born baby girl is different from her sisters, not only did she not get the title of "princess", but she was strictly monitored as soon as she was born, and this situation lasted until she was five years old, and Emperor Tianquan suddenly gave Lan Ji to death in the name of "defiling the royal blood", issued a killing order, and exterminated the Lingyin clan.
And it was the military pavilion that was responsible for carrying out the order, and the pavilion master at that time was his father, Xiao Lingyun.
Since the first day he came to Kunlun and saw the blue mark on the other party's neck, he had already recognized the senior brother as a survivor of that massacre, and the senior brother must have recognized that the dress he was wearing was the uniform of the military pavilion.
However, the two didn't even say anything, and even became brothers.
But - the survivors of the Lingyin Clan are not the only ones.
After he returned to Feiyuan to take over the military pavilion, he finally had the power to investigate some old adult matters, and the leader of the Lingyin clan who was imprisoned at the end of the sky was Lan Xin, the daughter of the noble concubine back then, and a boy named "Tianshi" was sent to the imperial capital's prison "Binding King Water Prison".
Emperor Tianquan seemed to be using aliens to do some secret experiments, and no matter how detailed the situation was, it was beyond his purview.
"Let's go, Mao. Qian Mo impatiently grabbed the sleeve of his companion's shirt, Mao was a little reluctant, and the ghost floated to Yun Xiao's side, hooked her cheek and kissed her, and said with a smile, "This girl is so beautiful!
She deliberately wanted to rub the other party's chest as she spoke, and her fingertips touched her body, and Mao suddenly turned a pank, took a few steps back in surprise, and blurted out in a daze, "This is ...... Breath of the Phoenix?"
She looked at her fingers in disbelief, and there was a flame entwined around it that could not be seen by the human eye, burning but cold to the bone.
"I'll take a look!" Qian Mo was also shocked and grabbed his companion's hand, and the two of them invariably looked at Yunxiao again with surprised eyes - she was tall, holding a cyan long sword, also dressed in green clothes, with long black hair hanging down to her waist, she was indeed a very beautiful woman.
The two of them looked at each other silently, and at the same time noticed something unusualβbetween her eyebrows, it really seemed that she really looked a little like the adult?
Qian Mo coughed a few times in embarrassment, and suddenly changed his attitude: "This is outside the Qianren Wall, if you want to enter Wanling Peak, you must be able to build a bridge, you might as well go with us, so that the spirit beasts in the mountain will not harm you." β
Xiao Qianye knew that the two of them had to have other purposes for being courteous when they had nothing to do, but at the moment, this was indeed the only way to enter Wanling Peak smoothly, so he dragged Yunxiao and reminded in a low voice: "Follow me, don't stay away even a step." β
"Hmm. Yun Xiao obviously also saw the abnormality of the mountain ghosts and sea immortals, and couldn't help but hold down her chest.
It's like an invisible flame, burning endlessly.
A few people followed the road all the way up, walked for a while, bypassed a mountain wall, and suddenly there was no road in front of them, only to see the opposite mountain peaks layer upon layer, towering into the clouds, and the moonlight diffused from the thin mist.
Qian Mo motioned for them to stop, walked forward alone, and walked to the edge of the cliff, he raised his hands and waved his sleeves, and a cold wind suddenly set off on the originally empty cliff.
On closer inspection, countless tiny ice droplets floated in the wind, gradually condensing into a sky bridge and spreading straight to the top of the opposite mountain.
It's really a flyover!
Yun Xiao looked at her in amazement, not knowing how to speak.
At this moment, the moonlight was covered by thicker clouds, and the inside of the mountain suddenly darkened, and the surrounding area lit up with glittering ghost fires.
The pedestrian bridge is bustling with people, but it is orderly, and there are all kinds of birds and beasts flying near the bridge.
"It's a flyover. Although Mao was still smiling, her tone was obviously not as frivolous as before, she pulled Yun Xiao to the bridge, and sighed, "A hundred ghosts walk at night, a hundred spirits gather, this is a feast once in ten years on Feiyuan! β
The voice of the sea fairy carried a thick loneliness, and the ethereal hover, attracting the pedestrians on the overpass to stop and salute respectfully.
Xiao Qianye was also the first time he had seen such a scene, since he entered the military pavilion, he had already hunted down many alien races under the orders of Emperor Tianquan, but compared to tonight's scene, the hundred alien races he had seen were just a drop in the ocean.
They have such an astonishing number and such a large race, but they are still under the pressure of human beings step by step, narrowing the scope of their lives to the Enchanting Mountain in the Yudu Mirror and the Forbidden Valley in the Eastern Mirror of the Underworld.
Is it the greed of human beings, or is it the weakness of alien nature?
At least among the hundreds of alien races he had come into contact with, all of them were weak races without exception, even Senior Brother Tianche's Lingyin Clan.
After all, Feiyuan can't tolerate the weak.
"After crossing the overpass, it is Wanling Peak, and the clothes of the young pavilion master are too eye-catching. Qian Mo kindly reminded that Zhen Yang was even more direct, her palm turned up the waves of the seawater, wiped along Xiao Qianye's team uniform, and the sea water soaked through the placket, only to see that the original black and gold team uniform was replaced by a water-colored gown.
"Ah, it's beautiful. She happily admired her masterpiece, and winked at Yun Xiao, "How is it, isn't it better than that team uniform?"
"Well, it's good-looking, but it looks like a Kunlun disciple. Yun Xiao gave a thumbs up to Zhenyang, and he really praised it.
"What's the use of changing clothes with a trick? It's not like they don't know me. Xiao Qianye shook his head helplessly, as the current military pavilion master, his duty on weekdays is to inspect the four major capitals around Feiyuan, plus several large-scale tasks, his face has long been known to everyone.
"Then another mask. Qian Mo followed his words, took out a antler mask out of nowhere, put it on him with his backhand, and pointed to the end of the bridge, "I don't know how many alien races and spirit beasts there are now, the young pavilion master should be careful, don't go into the tiger's mouth, after all, if something goes wrong in the mountains, the military pavilion will come to Xingshi to ask for guilt, which is not good for everyone." β
Knowing that the other party was just joking, Xiao Qianye simply didn't bother to reply, even though the military pavilion was flying all over the country, but the gathering centers of aliens such as the Mountain of Charm and the Valley of Confinement were still very rarely involved, how could there be any rejuvenating teachers?
Yun Xiao took his hand and helped him put the mask on again, and then said seriously: "I'll change you and follow me now." β
"You have to put it on, too. Xiao Qianye glanced at Qianmo, "She is a human being, and it is very dangerous for her to go in." β
Qian Mo and Mao glanced at each other, and then took out another antler mask and handed it to Yun Xiao.
They knew in their hearts that this woman should not be needed, and there was an amazing breath of the Spirit Phoenix on her body, which should have belonged only to the Spirit Phoenix Clan, the head of the Hundred Spirits!
"I'm going to close the bridge, you can stand firm. Qian Mo reminded, Mao hurriedly took the arms of the two of them, and the ice beads under his feet immediately smoked and turned into the mist of the city, and the sea fairy stepped on the mist and slowly fell.
The countless sky bridges around it also began to disappear, all kinds of rare larks fell on Wanling Peak, the thick clouds dispersed, and the moonlight began to tilt down again.
Wanling Peak is the highest peak of the Charm Mountain, the unexpectedly flat terrain here, forming a natural huge round platform, the cold wind is isolated outside the mountain, there are already hundreds of people sitting on the ground here, with homemade wine began to drink and talk, the spirit beasts lie on the periphery lazily wagging their tails to rest, and all kinds of bird spirits in the sky are also chattering and talking about something.
The arrival of the mountain ghosts and sea fairies caused a sensation, and after a while, a few people gathered around them, Xiao Qianye hurriedly pulled Yun Xiao to hide in a place where there were few people, Mao glanced at them, and quietly made a goodbye gesture.