I don't know how long I walked.

I can't tell the road in front of me, and the scenery in the distance.

Only the will sustained him to keep going.

The rolling wind and sand smashed on his face, as if covered with a layer of gauze, and the erection of the neck contracted by hunger and thirst, after the Adam's apple floated upward, slowly sank, hoping that there would be a heavy rain to sink the heart of the long-term drought.

The sun was scorching, and he didn't dare to look at it directly, Li Shuishan fixed his eyes and saw that this day was not complete, and he owed half of it!

The sand was flying, more and more manic, there were no dark clouds drifting for a long time, and the cold mountain in his sight became larger, proving that he was walking in the right direction, but when he walked for a long time, he looked up again, the mountain changed, shrunk to the size of a walnut, and the desert in front of him began to recede, as if there was a green meadow, but when he looked closely, a jumping toad, looked at his face.

"How did you get here?" When it asked, it opened and closed its eyes, and the skin covered with white water on its body had a faint layer of sand, and it seemed that it was more wary of this strange boy, and Li Shuishan looked at him very strangely, because he couldn't feel any spirit qi, and looked at it like an ordinary toad.

"I accidentally fell into the lake, and when I climbed ashore I saw this desert and came here. ”

The toad made a puzzled voice and whispered, "Young man, tell the truth." More than 30 years have passed since I was born, and all I see is a filthy old woman who travels, and the rest is you. The elders of my clan say, "You are very strange and bad, and when you see us, you want to whip us and hang us, but I think you have a special charm." ”

Li Shuishan smiled slightly and said quietly, "What's the charm?"

The toad said again: "Then you tell me, are you a good person or a bad person?" The elders told me that you must distinguish between good and bad in order to tell the truth. ”

When Li Shuishan heard this, his interest came, "Of course I'm a good person." Have you ever seen anyone who would say they were bad?"

The toad scratched his head and said, "Indeed, I haven't heard of it. ”

"Then you go on. Li Shuishan walked slowly, the toad jumped behind him, and there was no one behind, not to mention the little hedgehog that followed him at the beginning, he had already fled, did he have a different smell on his body, scaring it.

He didn't think so, he didn't say much, and when he saw the green grass in the distance, his heart was sour, and the hot sweat containing sorrow slowly evaporated. The scorching heat of the desert wasteland buried his footprints.

"See what?" asked the toad with interest.

Li Shuishan nodded, stepped to find, walked thirty steps, most of his strength was consumed, he had already noticed the lack of spiritual energy here, if he didn't retain the strength in his body, he would be lost here, but the scene in front of him also surprised him.

It was not the grass that was green, but the ghost fire, and there was a dark ditch swimming in it, like a long snake.

Li Shuishan sat cross-legged on the ground, panting, but when a strong wind blew behind him, he looked up and saw that it was a big bird, dressed in colorful clothes, dragging the clouds behind him, heading straight for the cold mountain.

"Rainbow Bird ....."

The wind in the distance blew down the toad, and said lightly: "Outsiders, look at this bird and phoenix, is it big? My ancestors said that there is a corner on the top of the desert, and a flower blooms here, which is the home of the bird and phoenix." ”

After a short rest, Li Shuishan struggled to stand up, and a wave of dizziness came suddenly, "This."

There is no way to use the aura, if I open the dantian, I will definitely fall to the ground in a few breaths. This is a kind of suppression of the monk, I think this toad is not surrounded by aura, but why does it speak human language?"

"Keep walking, how long will it take to get to that mountain?" Li Shuishan looked at and said softly.

The toad limped into the distance, one paw pretending to be nervous and watching: "I usually look into the distance and dare not go forward, because there is a curse there, and I am afraid that I will die halfway before I get there." Also, you must not eat the red fruits on the trail to Hangu Mountain. ”

"Why?" Li Shuishan asked, he stood up and dusted off his robe, the bloody aura accompanied by a sense of evil made the toad blink and obviously frightened, and stammered: "My mother told me that there is a flower demon named Aunt Hong, she is very pretty, and she has won the joy of many male demons, but none of the demons have entered her eyes, and she has turned into a stone sculpture of a bird in pain. ”

"Who is the flower demon waiting for?"

"I don't know, my mother said that she would never wake up for the rest of her life, and her body left with a woman who was also wearing a red robe, and what remained here was just an unwilling spirit. ”

Li Shuishan nodded in the whirlwind, and walked slowly, this walk was to the sunset, the half-day scene at this time was the most amazing he had ever seen, like a palace suspended in mid-air, there was a floating red glow next to the white clouds, the sky-high pillars were slightly emitting golden light, the remnant clouds of dragon patterns were curling tails, and the fallen mountains were filled with the tips of the wheat accumulation.

The toad was gone, and as if it had heard its mother's call, it did not dare to go any further than the mountain.

Li Shuishan walked with his head bowed step by step, as if he had lost his soul, but there was a belief in his eyes, that is, he walked in front of the mountain and looked at the appearance of the mountain.

The night was very short, he lay on the ground, breathing heavily, and this time he had a dream, this dream was wonderful, there were leaves covering his body, and around him there were a dozen old men who had been through the vicissitudes of life, singing and dancing with torches, and they looked down at him with love and hope in their eyes.

He lay flat on a wooden bed, looking at the sky, this is a calm night, the sky is full of stars, a full moon, what a beautiful time it is! In the blur, a woman came gently, he put the wreath of flowers in his hand in front of Li Shuishan, and slowly folded his palms and said a few words, but Li Shuishan did not understand, as if he was praying.

When she finished reading, she opened her eyes, and tears crossed her eyes, and she slowly got up and left. No looking back. At this moment his heart ached a little, it was some heart-piercing pain, he didn't pay attention to the woman's face, and when he wanted to see clearly, she was already far away, and it seemed that she would never return.

"Wake up, I don't want to sleep. He struggled in the starry night, and the people pushed him into the lake, and drifted away slowly.

"Who the hell is that woman? Why can't I see her face clearly, but... She's the one that hurts my heart, who are you?" his roar could only echo in his heart, disappearing into the endless lake and the deep night, as if he would never wake up.

A rain woke up, facing Li Shuishan in the sky, she sat up, opened her mouth and swallowed gently, her eyes showed a trace of grief, he hadn't dreamed for a long time. Who did the figure of the woman in the dream remind him of? He looked down in the rain and thought, and as he counted his hair one by one, he forgot the person, and he forgot so many memories.

"I'm not supposed to dream. I need the cold to wake up my memories. ”

He got up and continued walking.

He couldn't see the direction clearly that night, so he continued to walk by feeling.

Until the night disappeared and the sun showed a corner, and the night passed, he looked up into the distance, he didn't know whether the direction of the rising day was north or east, he knew that after the change of the mountains and seas, everything changed.

The sun and moon seen in the peaks rise in the north and set in the north.

"It's almost there, you're the first mountain I want to see. ”

At this moment, a stone sculpture appeared in front of him, this is a huge bird's head, the bird's beak is rolled into tree branches, the eyes and flowers are matching, the feathers and green leaves are opposite, and the claws are rough mountain stones, revealing the beauty of the stone as a whole, so that Li Shuishan's eyes unconsciously stayed on it, and slowly remembered some memories, and said lightly: "The gatekeeper of Zhufeng?"

This is exactly what Chen Huan introduced to him, and there is an old woman who still has charm below, making thinking movements and expressions.

"Why is it here, is it pointing in the direction of the south, and is it also pointing in the direction of the south?" he turned his head and sighed as he looked quietly in the direction the bird's head was heading, for that was the direction he had entered.

"Are you reminding me of something?"

After thinking about it for a long time, he muttered again: "Narcissism, maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe it's my delusion." But, you really resemble it.... I want to go back to Zhufeng, I miss my master. ”

But he did not cry, and after saying this, he continued to walk forward with his chest firm, "If you have faith in your heart, you will not perish." ”

He walked through the stone carved birds and into the path, which was moist and with red-spotted fruit hanging from the tree sticks, as if to tell them that they must pluck us and let us have life.

Li Shuishan just looked back at them, just because they swayed in the air and walked to the foot of the mountain.

There are small streams that converge here, and there is a pavilion carved with a pink dragon carved on it, and the white phoenix is facing the sky, and four thick pillars support the whole roof, and the water on the lake below falls from above, and the jagged stones swing on the shore, and the fish swim happily, and even a huge figure passes through the bottom of the lake, bringing waves to the shore.

When he arrived at the pavilion, the temperature here changed a lot, but while Li Shuishan felt the cold, the purple looked very demonic, and the blue robe on his body had already been tattered.

He sat lightly on the stone bench, looking at the lake in the distance, the aura and cold air wafting from him made his mind stretch, "This place must be a good mountain, but a good mountain will definitely attract the love of many mountain monsters, even if the flower demon called Aunt Hong will not wake up, I have to be careful." ”

When he got up, a coercion swept over, Li Shuishan's eyes froze, looked into the distance, and exhaled a faint breath of aura, but there was no movement in the direction he was looking at, he gently exhaled a breath of hot air, and shouted: "Spirit." ”

The spirit he said was the mountain spirit that he saw in the five scenes that turned into a human form, when the robe was torn, it was directly imprinted on Li Shuishan's left arm, and after he shouted, he gently slapped the traces of his arm, and immediately a figure fell, clasped his fist at Li Shuishan and said: "Master, I am here." ”