Chapter 2: The Valley of the Nine Heavens (4)
And Tie Lang is also waiting for a rabbit to look forward to another big bird to pounce, and he deducts a few stones in his hand every day of practice, but where can he wait. After more than a month, the bird meat was eaten, and the bird feathers were washed and dried in ten thousand books, making a feather mattress, but the pain of sitting on the ground for many days was over.
A few days when the bird meat is about to run out, Tie Lang had to go to the pond to catch shrimp and prepare food, but let him catch in every possible way and did not get anything, the weather has warmed, near noon Tie Lang will go into the depths of the pool to catch, and there is no catch, so it is said to Wan Shu listen, Wan Shu is also surprised: this silver shrimp has seen before, the number is really amazing, how suddenly there is no trace.
Seeing that he was about to run out of food again, Tie Lang was very anxious, but the pool of water was extremely deep, and several deep dives did not see the bottom. Tie Lang thought that the silver shrimp must have gone to the bottom of the pool, so he rummaged through the copper scroll to find the method of holding his breath, and really found a few, so he chose a name called Turtle Breath Closed Qigong and practiced for two days, and he could already hold his breath for a quarter of an hour, so he hurriedly hugged a stone and sank to the bottom of the pool. When sinking into the pond four or five zhang deep, the pond is already very dark, although the eyes are open, there is no visible object, and the pool water is extremely cold, and the face suddenly feels tender. Tie Lang had to grope indiscriminately, not daring to sink any further, but where could he touch anything.
Seeing that Tie Lang had found nothing in the pool for a few days, Wan Shushu was also secretly anxious, and couldn't help but think: How could the waterhole in this desperate valley be so deep, Tie Lang couldn't see the bottom for a quarter of an hour, and he had an idea in his heart after thinking about it for a long time.
On this day, Tie Lang dragged the vines of more than ten zhang commanded by Wanjuanshu to the edge of the pool, tied the vines to his ankles with the stripes, picked up a boulder and jumped into the pool. The stone he held this time was huge, and Tie Lang only felt that his body was sinking rapidly, and Wan Shushu had already explained that he had stuffed leaves in his ears and nose, and the tenderness was really not as strong as last time.
When he sank into a depth of seven or eight zhang, Tie Lang suddenly felt a great force surging towards him, and his body couldn't help but drift sideways along the surging current, and he was shocked, and after throwing the stone in his hand, the stone only fell on the soles of his feet and no longer sank, so that he knew that the pool had reached the end. It's just that the force of this horizontal surge is really great, and Tie Lang struggled to grasp the vines on his feet tightly in his hands, and his heart was much calmer.
I felt that I could hold my breath for some time, so I let the current drift down. In a moment, the iron wave touched the wall of the pool, but the surging current still carried him to drift, and brought him into a horizontal cave in the wall of the pool, and after a few more drifts, the vines were exhausted, and the iron wave groped left and right in the cave to find nothing, so he returned to the water surface along the vines, and said so to the ten thousand books.
Hearing what Tie Lang said, Wanjuanshu suddenly realized, rubbed the jade bottle in his hand and said: The owner of this jade bottle must also come from the bottom of this pool. In the past six months, the two of us have only said that outsiders must fall from the sky, and we never expected that we would not use the cave in this pool.
Tie Lang searched for vines about 30 zhang, wanting to explore the deep pool again tomorrow, but unexpectedly, the night was full of wind and rain. Tie Lang and Wan Juan Shu did not sleep well in the cliff cave all night, and did not fall asleep until the sky was bright, and when they woke up, it was noon, and Tie Lang hastily ate some of the remaining bird meat and went to the edge of the pool.
When Wanjuan saw that Tie Lang was gone, he leaned on the cliff and looked at the flowers and plants after the rain and thought about his thoughts: if he couldn't leave this desperate valley, his life's hard work would be in vain. As soon as the sigh of Wanjuanshu fell, Tie Lang still rushed back, carrying a few big fish in his hands. Wan Juan was about to ask each other, but Tie Lang had already swirled back, and in a moment he brought back a few big fish. In this way, there were more than 30 big fish weighing about three or four catties in front of the cliff cave.
Tie Lang stabilized this time and explained to Wanjuan in detail, it turned out that when Tie Lang pulled the vines to the edge of the pool, the pool of water and the bottom of the valley were level, and a large number of fish were scattered on the grass by the pool. It is expected that yesterday's heavy rain caused the pool to overflow, bringing the fish to the shore, and when the rain stopped, the fish remained on the shore because the water was too abrupt.
Seeing that there was nothing to eat these days, the two of them were secretly anxious, and now they suddenly had so many big fish, and they were overjoyed. He took the sword and was about to scrape these fish clean, when suddenly the birds chirped all over the sky, and dozens of big birds that he had seen before poured down from the sky, and these big birds flew straight to the edge of the pool, and one went straight to the front of the cliff cave.
Tie Lang saw that the bird was coming quickly, and he was afraid of hurting ten thousand books, so he pushed ten thousand books into the cliff cave, and waved the long sword in his hand, but there were a lot of these big birds, although they shot down a few, but they were taken away a lot by other big birds. Seeing that the big fish was about to be eaten by the bird, Tie Lang threw away the long sword and grabbed the stones on the ground, one stone and one big bird. In an instant, there was a mournful cry in front of the cliff cave, and bird feathers flew in all directions.
When the other big birds saw the ferocity of the iron waves, they did not dare to come closer, and stopped in the middle of the cliff, and did not rush down or leave. Tie Lang looked sideways at these fierce big birds, while cleaning up the battlefield, and numbered all the eight big birds that fell at the mouth of the cliff cave. Wanjuanshu watched these big birds die quite tragically in the cliff cave, and a few of them still held themselves in the mouth of the pond fish, and sighed: The so-called birds die for food, it is really like this, Lang'er, you see that they are so persistent There must be a reason, and throw a few fish for them to eat.
Tie Lang took a closer look at these big birds, and he was a little unbearable in his heart, so he picked up a few pond fish and threw them at those big birds. Those big birds rose up and scrambled for food, and they all flapped their wings and left.
Tie Lang and Wanjuan couldn't figure out the things about this fish overflowing pool and bird fluttering fish for a while, and they couldn't get the essentials for a long time. However, with so many big fish and big birds, I really have a lot of worries about food and clothing. These days, Tie Lang still has no one to practice, so he dived into the deep pool when he had time, and explored it in the undercurrent channel with the vines, but even if the vines were more than forty zhang long, there was still nothing to find.
Tie Lang is already talented, and there is no distraction in the center of this desperate valley, and he can get twice the result with half the effort when he practices it, and in the middle of summer, the martial arts recorded in this copper scroll, Tie Lang has already practiced as much as a quarter, of course, some of them are just a taste. For example, there is a kung fu called Jin Toad Gong, and Tie Lang dislikes its ugly style, so he just looked at it briefly and did not practice it deeply. In addition, some other kung fu that Tie Lang thought was more vicious was also abandoned. Although Wan Shushu didn't know martial arts, he couldn't help but secretly approve of Tie Lang's choice, and his worries for many years were slightly relieved.
In the middle of summer, it is cool in this valley, and those strange fruits are also full of vines, and Tie Lang will go back to take care of them when he is free, in order to harvest them in winter, and the seeds sown in the spring of ten thousand books have also grown gratifying with vines supporting the wall. Ten thousand books weave all the feathers of the big bird into clothes and mattresses, and the life of the two in this desperate valley is no longer as poor as before.