Chapter 22: The Two Beasts of Ice and Fire
As soon as the Emperor's words fell, a cloud of lightning burst out from the body of the Yin Ice Beast, breaking through the red aperture, and a cluster of flames burned all over the Yang Fire Beast's body, which also burned the red aperture on its head.
Hearing only a crisp sound, the holy blood beads broke in the air, the sandalwood beads were scattered all over the ground, the emperor's chest shook, the blood and qi surged, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground.
The two beasts broke free from the control of the holy blood bead, roared, and flew towards the emperor, seeing this, the stone hurriedly stepped forward and blocked the emperor with his body.
The wind was howling and howling.
The Yin Ice Beast was wrapped in a cloud of lightning, shook its head and tail, stretched out its huge claws towards the stone, and the Yang Fire Beast burned a cluster of flames all over its body, glaring angrily, and opened its bloody mouth towards the stone.
The stone was so flashed by the light of lightning and fire that it couldn't open its eyes, only knowing that a catastrophe was coming, and the Rahu Star Stone in his hand was clenched, emitting a golden light, forming a circle of light, shrouding the place where the stone and the emperor were located in golden light.
The giant claws of the Yin Ice Beast attacked, the iron hook-like claws touched the aperture of golden light, the lightning on the giant claws disappeared, as if it had been scalded, and the giant claws retracted suddenly;
The Yin Ice Beast's huge eyes shining with blue light stared at the stone in the golden light for a while, as if afraid, and turned its head and roared at the Yang Fire Beast, the Yang Fire Beast's eyes were on fire, and it circled around the golden light, and also barked wildly, announcing that it had given up.
The two giant beasts turned around and ran forward, disappearing into the distance after a while.
After a long time, the emperor slowly opened his eyes, saw the stone sitting beside him, and said with relief: "It seems that the little master saved the old monk again." β
The stone said with concern: "Master, you, how are you?"
The emperor shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The old monk is afraid that it will not work, I want to think about it, I have cultivated for nearly two hundred years, from a small novice, to become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I have been painstakingly planning to destroy the Middle Earth Dao Gate, I never thought that today I would die in the spiritual root of this heaven and earth, that's it, that's it, today's fate is here, it is really destined in the past life, and the result in this life!"
"Master, you, you can't die!" the stone was anxious and sweating profusely.
"The dead are the root of life, and who among mortals can decide their own life and death?"
"If you die, your parents and brothers will be sad. β
"The old monk has been an orphan since he was a child, and he has no family. β
The emperor's words aroused the sadness of the stone, and the stone shed tears and said, "You have an apprentice, and if the master dies, the apprentice will also be sad." β
The emperor thought of the monks and disciples of Kaga Temple, Dashou and others, and he was also a little sad, and said: "If they knew that the old monk died in the spiritual root, they would also be happy for the old monk." β
After speaking, the emperor spat out another mouthful of blood, his body softened, he closed his eyes and fell into a coma, the spell just now had exhausted the only remaining true yuan in his body.
"Master, I, I won't let you die!" The stone wiped his tears and wanted to carry him, but he didn't have enough strength, so the stone put down the emperor, ran into the woods, picked up a large bundle of branches, used the bark as a rope, made a simple stretcher, turned the emperor over and put it on the stretcher, the stone pulled the stretcher and slid on the grass, and continued to move forward.
Since there is a divine spring in front of me that can bring the dead back to life, then I will definitely not give up!
Under the purple sky, the blue and yellow clouds converge, forming a colorful drizzle, under the care of the breeze, rolling and falling on the grass and woods, like colorful petals, and like a broken rainbow, beautiful.
The stone dragged the emperor for I don't know how long, thirsty and raised his head to drink the rain, hungry to pick the trees in the forest to satisfy his hunger, crossed countless grassy hills, passed through one forest after another, and walked forward in the long drizzle.
A high mountain in front of you comes into view, the top of the mountain towers into the clouds, the black-brown mountain seems to have no vegetation, and the light shines faintly at the foot of the mountain, separated by a forest, dotted with stars, and it is not really visible.
Hope burned in Shishi's heart, and he glanced back at the emperor who was still unconscious, his breathing was weak and his face was pale.
After passing through this forest, we are here. Stone thought to himself that he couldn't watch him die, even if he was the emperor who had put himself in danger.
The stone clenched the rope in his hand, walked for a long time, one step, two steps, the strength of the stone was almost exhausted, his hands and feet were sore, the green woods in front of him, and the flash behind him, exuding a strange smell, luring him and encouraging him, but those few steps seemed to never end, like an endless river of time, and his body stiffened minute by minute.
I don't know how long it took, the woods finally disappeared behind me, the sound of the water was loud, the mist was filled, a colorful waterfall gushed out from the stone wall, the spring water was divided into seven colors: blue, red, yellow, blue, purple, orange and green, fell into a stone pool below, the colorful water vapor overflowed, the pool water floated, the light and shadow flickered, such as being in a fairyland.
By the waterhole, there is a peach forest, the purple-red flowers are full of branches, the falling flowers dance with the wind, and the colorful water vapor on the side of Tan complement each other, bright like smoke.
The stone laughed miserably, fell on his foot, fell to the ground, and fainted.
In the coma, the stone's face was hot, he suddenly opened his eyes, saw a red tongue licking his body, and screamed in surprise: "Ah!" Reaching out to touch the black stone in his arms, the tongue heard the sound, and also retracted, and the stone saw clearly, it was the Yang Fire Beast, it squatted beside the stone, staring at the two big yellow eyes, looking at the stone suspiciously.
Not far away, the Yin Ice Beast was tentatively scratching the Emperor Master with its giant claws, scratched it twice, scratched the Emperor Master, and seeing that the Emperor Master did not react, he turned his head to look at the Yang Fire Beast, his eyes were full of naughtiness.
The stone was terrified, holding the black stone, and crawled back to the emperor's side, protected the emperor, and raised the black stone to prepare for self-defense, suddenly, there was a burst of music from the waterhole, which sounded like the sound of the sheng pipe, melodious and loud, clear and high, rare in the world.
The Yin Ice Beast and the Yang Fire Beast seemed to have received an order, leaving the two of them and running towards the water's edge, the stone followed their figures, and suddenly found that by the waterhole, at some point, a woman with long hair fluttering, with a cold back facing them, stood on top of the bluestone, wearing a dark brocade pleated long skirt, holding a dark sheng pipe in her hand.
The two beasts of yin and yang came to the mysterious woman, sitting on the ground, bowing their heads and ears, docile as a cat or dog.
The woman knew that the stone and the emperor were coming, and she didn't look back, holding a seven-hole sheng pipe, and played, the melodious music echoed over the waterhole, and sang with the sound of the water, and the colorful water gas danced with the music, like a group of cheerful elves.
The Yin Ice Beast and the Yang Fire Beast were also infected by the music, shaking their heads by the waterhole, stretching their legs and swinging their tails, with cuteness in their naΓ―ve manners, not caring about stones at all, and entertaining themselves.