Chapter 6 The Spiritual Gate Begins to Open
In the sky above the Horseshoe Ridge of Helan Mountain, the huge dark cloud vortex did not disperse for a long time, and the sound of thunder and lightning continued to come. Suddenly, there was a flash of white light, and everyone thought: It's still endless, what kind of demons and monsters are there this time?
This time, all kinds of poisonous snakes were attacked all over the mountains. There are pythons, five-step snakes, rattlesnakes, fire red chains, and king cobras, mixed together, and the scales shimmer, like a colorful blanket. Before the snakes arrived, a gust of wind blew, and everyone couldn't help but be furious, this time no one volunteered, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do. When he looked back at Gao Zhanen, he saw that the corners of his mouth were raised, and there was a hint of a smile, and I didn't know what he would do this time.
To deal with the snake that crawls in the winding way, the arrow tower and the horse rejection have lost their effect, and the biogas skin has been exhausted, seeing that the poisonous snake is getting closer and closer, the crowd began to commotion again, no matter how high the martial arts are, in the face of the poisonous snake all over the mountain, it is inevitable that the heart will beat the drum.
"Whoever brought realgar, everyone will share a little ......"
"Don't push me, I'm most afraid of snakes......"
"Light a torch, snakes are afraid of fire......"
"It's bare all around, where can I find torches?"
"Do you have any friends from the beggar gang? ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard someone purse their lips as a whistle, and more than a dozen people rushed out of the crowd, with shabby clothes and unkempt hair, holding a cloth bag in one hand and a bamboo stick in the other, rushing towards the snakes.
Someone shouted, "Look, there are really beggars." ”
"Is it the halberd official Qin Muye Qin's gang leader?"
"It doesn't look like it, it looks like they're all five or six bags of young disciples. ”
The beggars rushed to the front of the poisonous snake array, chewing something in each mouth, aiming the cloth bag at the poisonous snake, hitting the ground with a bamboo stick, and singing in unison: "Fan Shiyun is dusty in the retort, Fan Laiwu is a raw fish in the kettle, poor and self-controlled, Daguan Tongren, subject to the righteousness of nature, and the high ambition is clean......"
Strange to say, some poisonous snakes originally raised their heads high and were about to pounce, but when they heard the beggars singing, they obediently got into the cloth bags.
Everyone present was amazed that the beggars really had their own way to subdue snakes.
Soon a dozen cloth pockets were filled with all sorts of poisonous snakes.
However, there are so many poisonous snakes, no matter how big the cloth bag is, how much can it hold? Seeing a large number of poisonous snakes pouring in, the beggars and others couldn't stop retreating, and they couldn't do anything for a while. Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the sky above the horseshoebell, dozens of king cobras raised their upper bodies, and sprayed venom in unison, several beggar disciples were caught off guard, and were splashed with venom in their eyes, and hurriedly put down the cloth bag and bamboo stick in their hands to wipe it, just at this stall, dozens of giant pythons meandered out, rolling people firmly, only to hear the crisp sound of "click", several beggar disciples were crushed all over their bones, and their mouths spurted blood and died.
The rest of the beggar disciples were also bitten by poisonous snakes, and hurriedly spit out a lump of chewed things from their mouths, and before they could apply it to the wounds, they were entangled by many poisonous snakes, and they were bitten and scarred on their legs, arms, and backs.
The snakes saw the blood, and they became even more agitated, and the "hissing" sound was endless, and they were about to rush into the school field, and everyone was so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they retreated vigorously, thinking that the beggars and disciples had no way to take this poisonous snake array, could it be that everyone was going to die in the belly of the snake today?
In a panic, Gao Zhanen raised the black flag, pointed forward, and two infantry teams of 500 people rushed out on both sides of the school field. These people were dressed in black rattan armor, and only their eyes were exposed. The sergeant on the left side of the team wore heavy iron shoes on his feet, not to mention that the walking speed was not fast, and every step he stepped on, there would be dense small holes on the footprints on the ground, and everyone suddenly realized that the sole of the shoe was embedded with steel nails.
Look at the team on the right, every two people carry a thick log, which is densely inlaid with steel nail barbs, and the log is tied to iron chains at both ends. This is a thousand-hole shoe and a nail bucket made by Gao Zhan's Grace Iron Armor Hall, which is specially designed to deal with poisonous insects, snakes and scorpions.
The 1,000 sergeants came to the periphery of the school yard and divided into two columns, lined up. As soon as the poisonous snake arrived, the sergeant wearing steel spikes pounced on it and stepped on it violently, and the sergeant holding the nail bucket combined in twos, picked up the iron chain, and smashed the nail barrel at the viper. No matter how venomous the snake is, it is flesh and blood after all, and it cannot hurt people if it can't bite through the rattan armor. He was pierced back and forth by steel nails, and in a moment the skin and flesh turned into mud. In just one meal, tens of thousands of poisonous snakes were slaughtered.
Although everyone is accustomed to walking the rivers and lakes to fight and kill, where have they seen this kind of formation, they are all dumbfounded: I never expected that when the spiritual gate was opened, so many demons and ghosts would pour out, and the people in the rivers and lakes who were present today, no matter how high your martial arts and ability are, how many people can be spared in the face of monstrous beasts? I also thought, I don't know who released the rumors, saying that there are countless wealth and treasures when the spiritual gate is opened, but in fact, there are no treasures, if it is not for us and others to see it with our own eyes, the people of the world do not know how long they will be deceived.
Thinking of this, everyone looked at King Xiping on the high platform, but saw Li Deming looking at the direction of Helan Mountain, thoughtful. With little effort, he picked up a wooden box, opened it and looked at it carefully, walked over to Chongming Bird, and whispered a few words. The heavy bird seemed to understand human speech, raised its head and chirped, waved its wings and soared into the air, flying towards Helan Mountain.
Gao Zhanen took out the green flag at this time and waved it again and again. The disciples of the Wujun Hall around the high platform sat together on the stage, and after the death of Yu Qiaman, the Wujun Hall was taken over by his eldest disciple Yu Baolan, and he began to lead people to do it at this moment.
After about half an hour, the dark clouds over Horseshoe Ridge gradually dispersed, and the white light gradually weakened, leaving only a little glimmer of light, and the rest of the place gradually cleared, and after a while, the sky was as blue as a wash. The crowd was uncontrollable for a moment and cheered.
Li Deming slowly walked to the front of the stage and arched his hand at everyone: "Li Deming, the king of Xiping, has seen all the heroes, and it is a blessing to be able to gather with you today and share the grand event of moving the capital of my Western Xia." Loved by the heroes of the world, Li Deming is sincerely afraid, and he has thanked him here. ”
There was a humane in the crowd: "King Xiping is polite, if it weren't for Xixia's precautions, how could I be here today." ”
Li Deming gave a deep salute, and then said: "Today's war, my Xixia party and all ethnic groups have been preparing for thirteen years, before there was the old Venerable Wujun Hall who rewarded Yu Qia Man and forgot to die, and now there is my righteous brother Gao Zhan'en day and night to fight hard day and night, and work together to have today's narrow victory." All the heroes can see that the spiritual gate is indeed opened today this year, and the opening of the spiritual gate is indeed as predicted by the old Venerable Yu before his death. What we are strangling today is only a few. ”
There was an uproar in the audience, and someone asked: "This is only a few? According to King Xiping, will there be disasters in the future?"
Li Deming said: "Yes, according to the calculation of the old Venerable Yu during his lifetime, this spiritual gate was opened a total of nine times, and each time there were evil beasts infested, which brought disaster to the world." ”
There was another commotion in the crowd, and everyone thought, the spiritual gate was only opened once, and it was already so dangerous, and then I don't know how many evil beasts will flow out, and I don't know how many people in the world will suffer from bad luck?
Li Deming continued: "However, if you want to close the spiritual gate, you must find nine psychic messengers, these nine people are extremely talented and destined to take on this important task. ”
Someone in the audience asked, "Who are those nine people?" Does King Xiping know?"
Li Deming shook his head slightly and said, "The old Venerable Yu did his best, but he only calculated one of them. ”
"Only one of the nine knows one, but where do the others look for it?"
"Doesn't that say, if one or two of them are unfortunately injured, or die, how can this spiritual gate be closed?"
"If you can't close the spiritual door, can you just let the world be in chaos?"
"Don't guess, maybe King Xiping knows it in his heart, but he doesn't want to tell me and wait. ”
"Well, that's all about that. Dare to ask King Xiping, who is the person he knows now?"
Li Deming smiled faintly and did not answer: "You don't have to guess, you know this person, Li Deming will do his best to protect him, as for who the other eight are, Deming really doesn't know." However, there may be other clues that are not known. ”
Seeing that everyone's eyes were still full of doubts, Li Deming said loudly: "If we can be blessed by the god of Helan Mountain in the future and ensure that all ethnic groups in our party will be passed on from generation to generation, then Li Deming will never give up the important task of finding a psychic messenger." However, in the future, it will be up to all the heroes to work together to eradicate the evil. I, the people of Western Xia, have made an oath here, and I will do my best to find the nine chosen ones, close the spiritual gate, and keep the world peaceful!"
Some people in the audience applauded loudly, and some people shook their heads in disbelief, and everyone had different opinions, but there was still no conclusion. Li Deming ordered to go down and hold a banquet to entertain the heroes of the world. After eating and drinking, the troops marched in the direction of Huaiyuan.
In the evening, the brigade of chariots and horses came to a desert, seeing that the sky was dark, Li Deming signaled to set up camp on the spot, and ordered Zhang Pu, Gao Zhanen and others to discuss matters in the big tent. The effort is not big, and everyone is here. Li Deming asked, "What about people?"
Gao Zhanen said: "Your Majesty, the king has been arranged in the marching camp tent, and there is a special person to take care of it. ”
"Bring it with you. ”
"Yes. ”
After a while, several soldiers escorted a young man into the tent, this man was in his early twenties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but he was very handsome, but he was skinny and thin. He had short hair, shaved to the point of only a few branches, had no clothes on his body, and was draped in a marching blanket, looking lost and depressed. In the late autumn of September, the night temperature in the Western Xia region was extremely low, and the man was wearing no clothes, only a thin blanket, shivering from the cold.
"Is that him?" Li Deming looked at the young man in surprise.
Gao Zhanen said: "Back to the king, he is the one who brought back the Chongming Bird." ”
Li Deming was worried and expectant in his heart, walked around the man a few times, and asked, "Do you remember how you came here?"
The man scratched his head and said, "I was on the way to deliver a courier, but suddenly I fainted in front of me for some reason, and when I woke up, I found that I was surrounded by all kinds of ...... All kinds of beasts, I don't know what's going on, suddenly fell into a snow, and my clothes were gone......"
"And then?"
"Later, I saw that the mountains were full of wild beasts running in one direction, but I was scared to death, so I didn't dare to move while lying on my stomach...... It's a pity that in the end it was discovered by a big red bird, wow, that big bird is really fierce, it caught me and flew over, like a dream...... Wait, you...... Why are you all dressed like this? Is this the crew?"
Everyone in the big tent seemed to understand, what is courier? What is the crew? What is this man talking about?
Zhang Pu walked up to Li Deming and whispered: "Your Majesty, do you want to invite Mr. Feng to recognize him?" Li Deming nodded and said, "It's okay, before Lord Xiangyu died, only me and Mr. Feng were present...... Someone, please Mr. Feng. ”
It didn't take much time, but I heard someone outside the big tent shouting: "Where, where, is it coming, is it coming?" A white-bearded old man rushed into the big tent quickly, followed by a fat middle-aged man, who was none other than Fengbeard and his apprentice Fat Master.
Li Deming pointed to the young man and said, "Mr. Feng, he is the one who fell from the Spirit Gate today." ”
The windbeard circled around the man a few times, not saying a word, and his brows became tighter and tighter. Li Deming asked, "Mr. Feng, what do you think?"
Wind Beard lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive Lao Feng for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, Lord Xiangyu's last words before his death, did you mention a name?"
Li Deming suddenly said: "Ah, by the way, the old Venerable did mention that in the future, whether my Xixia will be a blessing or a curse, it will all depend on one person." ”
Windbeard said, "Do you remember that name?"
Li Deming said: "Remember, it's called Wu Shijiu." ”
"Huh, how do you know my name is Wu Shijiu?"