Chapter 35: On the banks of the Qing River
After the two demons played in the void, they tracked down Zhong Yunyao and Xiao Yuan all the way.
At this time, Zhong Yunyao and Xiao Yuan have reached the junction of the Fog River and the Xinghe River, "Qinghe"!
Named "Qinghe", it is actually turbid and emitting a strong fishy smell, and the nearby creatures are disgusted and terrified so that they flee one after another, and it is sparsely populated.
"Girl, when you get here, it is the end of my misty river, and after this Qinghe River, there is the Xinghe River......!
"Uh-huh......" Zhong Yunyao was eager to find Meng Ruidie, and she didn't have the heart to listen to Xiao Yuan say so much, so she nodded her head continuously without waiting for Xiao Yuan to finish speaking.
Xiao Yuan didn't say any more, and immediately crossed the Qing River with Zhong Yunyao's imperial sword.
Xiao Yuan's current level of Edgeworth can only reach a very short distance, but it is fast and steady.
Zhong Yunyao, on the other hand, experienced the feeling of flying for the first time. If she had been so excited in the past, she might have said, "That's cool, I love you to death......" , But now she has nothing to love, just to find the remains of Meng Rui Die, there will be nothing that can make her get carried away with excitement, unless Meng Rui Die can come back from the dead, which is impossible for the mortal Zhong Yunyao. It was to fly with such an unbelievable edgeworth, and there was no surprise in my heart!
Xiao Yuan can also understand Zhong Yunyao's eagerness, and only thinks that he can achieve his wish as soon as possible to make up for his debts!
Since the first time I met Zhong Yunyao, I admired her strong, stubborn and straightforward character. Now I am deeply admired for his affectionate and righteous heart. I have unconsciously developed an inexplicable affection for this poor little girl.
At this time, Xiao Yuan has classified Zhong Yunyao as the best friend in his heart, and he is also the person he owes the most, and he is the object of care!
However, when Edgeworth crossed the river halfway, the water suddenly rolled over, and in an instant, the waves were turbulent, and then the waves were surging for nine days.
The Lan Xin Sword at the foot of Xiao Yuan was suddenly forced to shake by the turbulent waves, as if it was about to fall!
I was terrified!
In fact, what Xiao Yuan wanted to say to Zhong Yunyao just now was that there was actually a thousand-year-old python hidden in this Qinghe.
The banks of the Qinghe River, which were originally based on the mountains, are full of flowers, birds are singing, and the living beings are harmonious, and the water of the Qinghe River is even clearer. Such a reflection of mountains and rivers is also a beautiful scenery in Sichuanzhou. However, since a thousand-year-old python descended from the sky and entrenched in this river on a certain day a hundred years ago, the style of mountains and rivers collapsed from it.
Fierce and powerful by nature, the python has been capturing and feeding on mountain creatures for hundreds of years, and many of them are passing humans, including cultivators. That's where that fishy smell comes from. Over time, the spirits of the mountains had to endure the pain and migrate, and the people were rarely reached. And the smell of fishy smell has not dissipated for a long time, which shows the number of creatures killed by the giant python.
Xiao Yuan understood the harm of this, but the direction Zhong Yunyao pointed to had to go through here. I wanted to tell me first, so that Zhong Yunyao could be mentally prepared, but Zhong Yunyao was ignorant and fearless and eager and didn't want to listen more, so Xiaoyuan could only think of passing through this place quickly and smoothly without major movements, so as not to disturb the giant python.
However, he still underestimated the python's sensing ability after all. Since the giant python has been cultivating for thousands of years, its strength is incomparably strong and its senses are sensitive, how can it not sense the movement around it?
It was to launch a strong offensive when the sword of Xiaoyuan was in the middle of the river.
For a while, the waves were rolling, and the waves were raging, so that Lan Xinjian was about to fall.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuan was frightened, but he didn't mess up, he used his mana to forcibly stabilize the Lan Xin Sword and desperately control it, wanting to make it pass quickly.
However, the giant python in the river resolutely did not take a chance and quickly stretched out its huge head from the bottom of the river, and then its huge body broke away from the river in an instant and flew sideways on the Qing River.
Then there was a wild roar, and then he opened his mouth wide, wanting to devour the two.
In this regard, Xiao Yuan instantly used the true qi around his body to forcibly resist. Zhong Yunyao held on to Xiao Yuan's shoulder tightly to prevent herself from falling, although she was not afraid, she didn't want to die before she buried Meng Ruidie.
However, with Xiao Yuan's current cultivation of the Qi cultivation class, it was absolutely impossible to resist the powerful blow of this giant python.
It was because when its true qi attack came into contact with the giant python, it was violently hit by its huge head and fell on the riverbank.
"Ah!......h
"Ah!!......h
Xiao Yuan and Zhong Yunyao landed on the riverbank and let out a deep cry of pain!
However, the python did not give it a chance to breathe and pounced on it.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuan immediately picked up Zhong Yunyao and said: "Girl, be careful, go to a secret place in the mountains to settle down, and resist this demon with all your might, wait for ......"
"No! Shaoxia is in deep danger because of me, how can I abandon you and ignore you? I have also fought demons before, I am not afraid of it!" Without waiting for the words to finish, he resolutely refused. With that, he quickly got up from the ground and pulled out the Dragon Hidden Sword, determined to fight side by side with Xiao Yuan.
Although Zhong Yunyao is overly sad and has a cold attitude, the chivalry in her bones will not disappear because of this. But she didn't want to see others die because of her, so she would never watch Xiao Yuan fight alone.
These words and deeds moved Xiao Yuan, who had already had a good impression of him. It was more willing to die to protect her, unwilling to let her take any risks.
"Girl, don't say it, go quickly, ...... quickly" The words are eager.
"No, I'll fight it first!" Ah !!" With the Dragon Hidden Sword in hand, he quickly ran towards the giant python that was pounced, intending to confront it head-on.
"Ah?????h
He knew that Zhong Yunyao was a brave, stubborn and strong girl, but he never thought that he would be so brave and righteous at the time of life and death that he was so brave and benevolent that he didn't care about life and death, and the reason was because he was not affected by it, and he was even more ashamed in his heart.
However, the situation did not allow him to think about it anymore, and seeing that Zhong Yunyao was about to face the giant python, he quickly stood up and ran desperately in the direction of Zhong Yunyao.
Finally, at the moment when the giant python and Zhong Yunyao docked, it came like the wind, swinging his sword and slashing.
Although the Lan Xin Sword is an immortal magic weapon, because of its insufficient cultivation, it is definitely not the opponent of the giant python.
Lan Xinjian slashed the head of the giant python like Kanjin copper, sparks splashed, and thunderbolts continued, but the giant python was unharmed and angry, and then in anger, his head swung wildly, and suddenly knocked Xiao Yuan and Lan Xinjian into the air again and fell to the ground, spitting blood from his mouth.
Zhong Yunyao saw that her companion was affected by this because of him, and her heart, which had been cold for a long time, instantly showed a deep sense of shame, and she rushed forward even more carelessly.
However, the Dragon Hidden Sword had exhausted all its aura in the last battle against the demons, and it had not yet recovered, so it was unable to channel, let alone feel the danger of its master.
But what is unimaginable is that when Zhong Yunyao swung out the Dragon Hidden Sword and was slashing the giant python, when the giant python saw the Dragon Hidden Sword at close range, he couldn't help but feel a deep and inexplicable fear and even respect in his heart, so that his body trembled.
The giant python didn't know why he was so in awe of this sword, but after all, he had been cultivating for thousands of years, and his perception of danger naturally could not be ignored, and the extreme fear that came from the depths of his heart made him resolutely dare not attack rashly.
Zhong Yunyao was fearless and fearless, swinging her sword and slashing.
And when the giant python faced the attack of the dragon hidden sword, it seemed to see a huge golden dragon glaring at it angrily with the intention of devouring, in this regard, it seemed to remember something in an instant, and was immediately terrified, and then turned around and ran wildly, exchanging heads and tails, intending to flee into Hanoi and not compete with it.
However, this innate fear of the Dragon Hidden Sword and the scene he had just seen made him unresponsive a little, and he was finally cut off by a sword at the moment before the head and tail swapped in place and ran away.
"Ah!!!h
For the giant python, because of its inexplicable awe, he knew that he was not the opponent of this dragon hidden sword, but he never thought that this golden and bronze body that had been cultivated for thousands of years would be cut off by a sword and seriously injured to this point, how terrifying was its sword?
The python squirmed back and forth on the ground, not daring to attack or flee, its eyes with deep pleading in fear.
Xiao Yuan, who was seriously injured on the side, saw this continuous scene, and his heart was already trembling and his expression was dazed, and he had already forgotten the pain of serious injury. When I came back to my senses and looked at Zhong Yunyao, my face was full of disbelief, thinking that she was obviously a weak woman, who didn't know martial arts and didn't have any magic power, but she could control such an artifact steadily, incredible, unbelievable!
Zhong Yunyao didn't have any sense of achievement, she just wanted to find the remains of Mengrui Butterfly and couldn't bear to see Xiao Yuan die because of her, so she went crazy with no regard for her life, and nothing else mattered.
However, at this time, although she was still pointing at the giant python, she was hesitant.
Because when I saw the python's painful and pleading eyes, I thought of the scene when I was begging for help from others when I was seeking treatment for my sister, and I couldn't help but feel the same way and couldn't bear to cut it with a sword, I never thought that this was an extremely evil thing, can it be the same as my original self?
Because of a deep-rooted compassionate heart, he finally let go of the Dragon Hidden Sword.
Xiao Yuan was frightened when he saw it, and he was afraid that the giant python would get a breath and slam it again. I couldn't help shouting:
"Girl, this is an evil thing, hurting countless living beings, it is not a pity to die, and Mo Xin's soft hand !!"
Zhong Yunyao hesitated again when she heard this, but finally couldn't bear to kill her, and put down her sword again.
"Girl, you ......"
Xiao Yuan was anxious for a while, wanting to take matters into his own hands to eliminate the suffering for the creatures in the mountains and for Zhong Yunyao, but he found that he couldn't get up.
However, just when Xiao Yuan was extremely anxious and Zhong Yunyao finally let go of his killing thoughts, the giant python suddenly spoke the language of human beings.
"The master spares his life! the master spares his life......" At this time, the giant python already knew the origin of the dragon hidden sword, and also understood where the inexplicable awe just now came from, and it was constantly begging.
"You ......" Xiao Yuan saw this and heard a burst of anger and disgust.
Although Zhong Yunyao is a mortal, she has already seen demons speak human words, so she was only a little surprised when she first saw it, and then she didn't think it was strange. It's just that the cold heart can't help but be deeply puzzled.
I wonder why this demon calls himself the master, is it to please himself and get a chance to live?
Zhong Yunyao was puzzled, but the giant python continued:
"The little one doesn't know if it's the master, how offended, how offended, please forgive the master, forgive the sins!!" The words are extremely earnest, not contrived.
"This ......" Xiao Yuan was also puzzled when he saw it.
"Why do you call me master?" Zhong Yunyao said calmly.
"Master, this divine sword is transformed by the five-clawed golden dragon! My snake clan has always regarded the five-clawed dragon clan as the suzerain, and the suzerain still obeys the master's orders, how dare the small one reinvent it? The master spares his life, and the master spares his life......" After saying that, he turned into a human form, knelt in front of Zhong Yunyao and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
This situation not only shocked Xiao Yuan, but Zhong Yunyao was also shocked.
What the two of them were puzzled about was the origin of the Dragon Hidden Sword.
For Zhong Yunyao, the Dragon Hidden Sword is nothing more than an ancestral thing passed down from generation to generation of the Zhong family, how could it be transformed by a five-clawed golden dragon? What is the secret of this sword? How did it fall into the Zhong family?
She didn't know that this was a memorial that Yu Boya left to Zhong Ziqi a thousand years ago, she didn't even know that Zhong Ziqi was her ancestor, she was born because she was a girl and was abandoned by her relatives several times, and after surviving, she was abused by her family, so naturally she wouldn't tell her the family tree, and she was not interested in knowing. The only thing she knew was that this Dragon Hidden Sword was handed down by the Zhong family's ancestors, nothing more. And today, this snake demon actually said that this dragon hidden sword was transformed by a five-clawed golden dragon, what the hell is going on?
Zhong Yunyao couldn't figure it out, and she didn't want to think about it. Whether this dragon hidden sword is transformed by a five-clawed golden dragon or an ancestral thing of the Zhong family, it has no meaning to her now except for a little curiosity.
"You get up, I don't care what the origin of this dragon hidden sword is, and no matter what the relationship between your dragon and snake is, as long as you change your evil and return to the right from now on, don't do evil again, I won't kill you today!"
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you......" The snake demon was amnesty and kept kowtowing, excited and burst into tears.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuan knew that the snake demon was really afraid of the Dragon Hidden Sword and was not pretending to be a gesture, and that kind of fear from the heart could not be pretended to be to this extent, so he had nothing to say. But he was extremely impressed by Zhong Yunyao's noble morality, and at the same time, he was extremely ashamed of a cultivator like himself. How cruel and shameless it is for a mortal to be so compassionate that he can't bear to kill a living being, even if this creature has done a lot of evil in the past, but he can still give it a chance to go on the right path, and yet he and all the cultivators in this divine river often conspire and even fight each other with swords for some petty gains, causing countless injuries and deaths to innocent beings. Comparing with each other, I can't help but admire and be ashamed.
At this moment, it was obvious to him that he had unconsciously developed a subtle feeling for this magical little girl that could not be seen or touched, but was real and indescribable. But he didn't know what that feeling meant!
But Zhong Yunyao didn't think about it so much, in her mind, Xiao Yuan was righteous, so uneven, she was a rare good person, a reliable friend, and she couldn't bear to see such a good person lose his life because of herself. That's all, there's nothing else to do with it!
Facing the tearful and excited snake demon, Zhong Yunyao wants him to make an oath to heaven and earth, never to kill innocent creatures from now on, otherwise he will be killed with the Dragon Hidden Sword!
The snake demon felt the grace of the Lord and listened to his orders, and immediately knelt between heaven and earth and made an oath between heaven and earth.
I wanted to follow its master Zhong Yunyao and listen to his call. However, Zhong Yunyao couldn't accept that the monster was parallel to herself, so she refused. She's just a mortal after all.
Seeing this, the snake demon had no choice but to leave on his own.
Before leaving, Zhong Yunyao said:
"Master, the small one is in this clear river, if the master has a small place in the future, please ask the master to shout a small name to the sword~ 'Cangnu', the Cangnu will arrive at any time and obey the order............!
After that, he turned into a giant python and drilled into the Qing River.
After some rolling waves, the banks of the Qinghe River returned to calm completely.