Chapter Seventy-Five: The Divine Bird
The five of them walked from the Sea of Hopelessness to the direction of Forgotten Town, and they had just walked a short distance when they saw several people running towards the shore in a panic.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Ziyi asked, stopping one of them.
"Don't ask, run, run!"
The man hurriedly ran past Xiao Ziyi, leaving only Xiao Ziyi who was stupid in place, "Why is this?", he looked back at the few people who were running in a hurry with a puzzled expression.
"Eighty percent of them are causing trouble again. Xiao Ziyi looked at their backs and pretended to shake his head very deeply, Nan Yanxue looked at him and laughed out loud, as long as Senior Brother Xiao was there, this funny scene would not end.
"Isn't what I said right? Little girl, what are you smiling at? Learn from your brother and me, and be steady. Xiao Ziyi said and smashed Nan Yanxue's head with his hand, and Nan Yanxue smiled even happier when she saw this.
"Yes, poof...... Haha......"
"Alas, there is no cure......"
Xiao Ziyi said that he hurried to catch up with Bai Yifan's pace, but he didn't go far, and a few people saw the fire in the town of Forget Worry from a distance, and outside the town, a large number of people were running in a panic.
The five of them hurried back to Forget Worry Town in the direction of everyone, the streets of Forget Worry Town were messy, as if blown by a tornado, the whole street was full of scattered goods, many of the houses on both sides of the street had been lifted off their roofs, and some houses were burning crackling.
"What's going on?" Nan Yanxue asked suspiciously, it had only been a few days since they left, but this town of Forgotten Worries had become like this, "What the hell happened." She was confused, and so were the rest of the group.
It looked like something had attacked her, "Is there a youkai?" asked Nan Yanxue.
Bai Yifan squatted on the ground and carefully inspected the damaged items, those things seemed to have been overturned to the ground all at once, there was no demonic aura on them, and the burning houses on the side of the road had no regularity.
Isn't it a demon, what could it be? Bai Yifan was puzzled, but when he saw a woman stumbling down the street with a little boy in her arms, he immediately walked up to the woman and asked.
"What's going on here?"
The woman's eyes were full of horror, she hugged the little boy tightly in her arms and took a few steps back, looking at Bai Yifan with a vigilant expression, "Demon ...... Yokai ......"
Nan Yanxue saw that the child in the woman's arms was very scared, so she took the initiative to come forward and comfort: "Don't be afraid, we are not monsters, we just want to ask what happened in this town? Who burned those houses?"
"Demon ...... Yokai ......" The woman didn't answer her question, just kept repeating Yokai, Youkai.
"It's over, I'm scared stupid, I can't ask anything. Xiao Ziyi spread his hands and said.
Several people could only continue to walk reluctantly.
"There really are monsters!" The little boy suddenly shouted at the backs of several people, Xiao Ziyi hurriedly ran over when he saw this, "What did you say?"
"There really are youkai. The little boy confirmed.
"What does it look like, do you see it?"
"It's like a big, big bird, bigger than a house. The boy said, stretching out his arms and gesturing, "It also spits fire, and those houses are burned by it." ”
"Is it Bi Fang Bird?"
"How did it end up in Forgotten Town?"
"What is that?" Nan Yanxue asked when she heard Yun Feng's words.
"I know, I know, it's the god of fire's pet. Xiao Ziyi saw it in the library of Tianqingmen, where the origin of the divine bird Bifang was explained in detail.
Legend has it that Bi Fang's appearance is a red-crowned crane, but it has only one wing, a blue body with red spots, and a white beak. It took the Yellow Emperor seven years to defeat Chiyou, but there were other forces in the chaos, such as Xiangliu in the southeast was re-recruiting snakes and insects, and the psychic mediums in the northwest were also stepping up to make soul-conjuring magic weapons, preparing to gather Chiyou's souls, form an army of undead, and fight the Yellow Emperor again. The Yellow Emperor felt a lot of pressure.
A few days later, the Yellow Emperor went to Mount Tai in a chariot, and met the shadow of Chi You on the way, Chi You stretched out his hand from the shadow to strangle the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor screamed in fright. Suddenly, a big red bird flew over and drove everything away, and the Yellow Emperor was saved, only to learn later that the bird's name was Bi Fang, and later it became the pet of the god of fire. ”
Nan Yanxue listened to his words and was skeptical, Senior Brother Xiao would go to study and memorize so many things, which made her very suspicious.
"Senior brother, do you still know how to read?" Nan Yanxue asked in a questioning tone.
"Of course, when you didn't come to Tianqingmen, the master would let us read every day, and I have a very good memory, I don't believe I will recite it to you, "Lu Ya": "Bi Fang, Zhao Firebird also." Zhang Heng said in "Tokyo Fu": "Bi Fang...... The old father is like a bird, with two feet and one wing, and he often causes trouble in others, and disasters are ......"
"Okay, okay, I believe you ......" Nan Yanxue interrupted Xiao Ziyi, who was carrying Xing's head, she didn't want to listen to him.
"So this bird is a divine bird, and these fires are also set by it?" Nan Yanxue summarized Xiao Ziyi's words, and came to the conclusion that everything in this Forgotten Town was caused by this divine bird.
In her eyes, the bird is a god, and shouldn't a god protect the world? She couldn't figure out the logic behind this.
When the woman saw the little boy stop, she slapped him reproachfully: "Don't talk nonsense, go quickly, go quickly......", she pulled the boy and ran forward in a panic, leaving only the Tianqingmen disciples standing on the tattered street.
Bai Yifan took a few people to find the inn where he had stayed before, the door of the inn was closed, and there was a private house burning not far away.
Bai Yifan tried to push it but didn't push it away, but Xiao Ziyi stepped forward recklessly and kicked the door open, and there was a scream from inside the door instantly, and Xiao Ziyi, who was frightened, jumped back.
There was a crowd of people in the lobby of the inn, they were trembling one by one, looking very scared, Xiao Ziyi saw clearly that there were people inside, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and walked in.
"What are you trying to scare people to death?" he said, picking up the bowl of tea on the table and drinking it down.
"I'm dying of thirst. ”
The people inside watched Xiao Ziyi retreat in fear, and Nan Yanxue had to step forward again to comfort, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we are disciples of the Azure Sect, we are not bad people." ”
"Disciples of the Azure Sect, are you disciples of the Azure Sect?" A voice came from the crowd, "I know the disciples of the Azure Sect, that is the immortal who subdues demons and destroys demons, we are saved, everyone, we are saved." The voice shouted in the crowd, and the crowd instantly dispersed and surrounded the five people, Nan Yanxue was startled by their behavior.
"Help...... a fairy helps," said an old woman who knelt on the ground and cried, her house was set on fire by Bi Fang, and she could only run to the inn with everyone to escape, but fortunately the innkeeper was a kind man, and he let them in and gave them a chance to escape.
"Mother-in-law, get up, get up......" Nan Yanxue hurriedly stepped forward to help the old woman, and the old woman wiped her tears and stood up and looked at her, "You are immortals, you have to save us." ”
"We are not immortals, we ......" Nan Yanxue saw that she couldn't explain clearly, so she simply didn't explain anymore, "Mother-in-law, don't worry, we will definitely help you." ”
Nan Yanxue comforted her for a long time before the old woman stopped her tears.
"What the hell is going on? Is that bird coming for the first time?" Yun Feng asked, remembering that when they first arrived, they didn't find any trace of Bi Fang.
A younger man came out after listening to Yun Feng's words and said: "That hateful big bird comes several times a year, it destroys the crops of the villagers, and spits fire on our houses. ”
"How can the things raised by the gods come to harm the people, I will go and smash the gods enshrined in the temple when I catch up with Ming'er. ”
"yes, it's all smashed!"
The crowd in the lobby was agitated, as if they were about to go out and smash those things.
"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, why the Divine Bird will come to harm the people, we have to find out, the top priority is to prevent the Divine Bird from making trouble again. Xiao Ziyi said.
"How can you prevent it, aren't you also immortals?" of course you have to do it!" another man shouted angrily.
Xiao Ziyi listened to his words, and his anger suddenly jumped up, they were kind enough to help, these people are still so arrogant, the master didn't say that they should come to forget their worries and eliminate demons, they can not help them.
"You ......" Xiao Ziyi was angry and just wanted to speak, but was stopped by Bai Yifan: "Fifth senior brother." Bai Yifan looked at him and shook his head, and Xiao Ziyi had to hold back what he wanted to say.
"Can you tell me more about that big bird?" Bai Yifan asked, his gentle appearance made those people embarrassed to be arrogant.
"That's ......"
Nan Yanxue learned from the man's words that Bi Fang had only appeared in Forget Worry Town in the last two years, and it would appear twice a year, he flew from the southeast of Forget Worry Town, fluttering his big wings, and its huge wings waved in the sky over Forget Worry Town, and everything in Forget Worry Town would be lifted away, not to mention, it would also spit out fires and burn down those houses that were not lifted away.
In the past two years, just rebuilding the houses has made the people of the town miserable, which is really hateful.
"What is in the southeast?" Bai Yifan asked.
"It's nothing, it's just that there is a big mountain, Yongqing Mountain, not far from the town of Forgotten Worries, where we often hunt and chop wood. ”
"Yongqing Mountain?" Bai Yifan repeated again, he frowned and thought for a while, "In addition to hunting and chopping wood, have you ever done anything else on the mountain?"
"No, we're just hunting and chopping wood, could it be that the monster lives in some mountain?" the man asked.