Volume 2 Who Dominates the Ups and Downs Chapter 89 Kunlun Glacier
The chariot flew for five or six days, sometimes through canyons, sometimes over high mountains, but due to the limited flight altitude, it still had to avoid many mountains and take some detours. Fortunately, Qingyuan Daoist was familiar with the geographical environment and had already chosen the flight route.
On the evening of the seventh day, everyone settled down beside a lake, and the head of the Qingyuan Dao said to everyone:
"One day, we'll be in the desert, you guys bring more water trucks tonight!"
"Elan City isn't far away, is it?" said Wang.
"Yilan City is at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, you can pass by her head-on, or you can go around. Qingyuan said.
"Let's leave her alone for now, and we'll clean her up when we come back!" Wang Xu said.
"If we fly west over the Kunlun Glacier, we will go around the city of Ilan and pass by her to the west, and if we fly north along the canyon, we will have to cross most of the desert if we want to go around the city of Ilan. Qingyuan said.
"Go wherever you want!" said the king.
"Of course, it is fast all the way to the west, but I am afraid that it will be dangerous to fly over the Kunlun Glacier! If you go north, it will not only take a long time to cross most of the desert, but it will also be dangerous once you encounter a desert storm!" Qingyuan Road.
"It's also dangerous, so fly over the glacier!" replied Asasa.
"There are also dangers, but these two dangers are completely different! In fact, I can't say what the danger is when I fly over the glacier, but I don't feel good, my master Lingyuan Zhenren died in the Kunlun Glacier!"
"Does the Dao Master know why the Lingshi died in the Kunlun Glacier?" Wang Xu asked.
"I don't know, the family master actually disappeared in the area of the True Dragon Mountain of the Kunlun Glacier, and there was also a master with the family teacher, Master Du Mo, the head of the upper and lower ranks, who also disappeared near the frozen true dragon!" Qing Yuan said gloomily.
"Disappearing?, that is, life and death are unknown, and I haven't even seen the corpses of the two masters?" Wang Xu said in surprise.
Qing Yuan nodded, and Tian Dan said:
"Master Du Mo, I know, there is no one in this world who can make the master disappear, and there is no one who can make two masters disappear at the same time!"
"So the two masters didn't die at the hands of people, but just disappeared for no reason?" Song Heng said in surprise.
"Does the Dao Chief think that the legendary 'Frozen True Dragon' is real?" Wang Xu asked suddenly.
"Ancient legends, no one can tell whether they are true or false, but the rumors of later generations have come one after another, and they have never stopped for thousands of years, plus the two immortal predecessors of the family teacher and Du Mo disappeared into it, Xiaodao can't help but be a little suspicious!" Qing Yuan said.
"What's the matter with the 'Frozen True Dragon'?" asked Qianqian curiously.
Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor drove a flying dragon, went out of Kunlun, fought against the Yan Emperor, and killed the world! After the world was peaceful, the Yellow Emperor brought this true dragon back to Kunlun Mountain and raised it in a lake. The Yellow Emperor was busy with political affairs, and he couldn't take care of the real dragon, and the real dragon couldn't bear the loneliness, so he transformed into a human form and had children with many women in the people. When the children of the true dragon grow up, they are all good at fighting and rising up against the rule of the Yellow Emperor, causing the world to be in constant turmoil and never be at peace! The Yellow Emperor therefore pleaded guilty to the gods and passed the throne to his son Shao Hao, who himself retreated to the mountains and devoted himself to cultivating. The gods used their divine power to seal the true dragon in Kunlun Mountain, causing a radius of hundreds of miles to freeze like a mountain, so there is also a legend of 'frozen true dragon'. Qingyuan preached.
"Even if the legend is true, there will be no danger if we fly in the sky?"
"This Kunlun Glacier area is very strange, I can't say what danger there is, I just have an unspeakable worry!" Qing Yuan said.
"Is there a problem with the flight altitude?" asked Wang Xu.
"The iceberg is high in the sky, we naturally can't fly that high, we want to fly over the Kunlun Glacier, we can only fly over the dragon's back, because it is almost the lowest place of the Kunlun Glacier!" Qing Yuan said.
"If we fly over the dragon's back, can we see the real dragon frozen in ice?"
"Maybe!" Qing Yuan said.
"Then fly, just fly as high as you can!" Wang Xu said.
"Okay, let's be careful tomorrow!" Qingyuan said.
At night, when everyone set up camp to rest, Song Heng took out the flame beast, only to see that it spit red flames in its mouth, a few strange screams, and everyone swished around, and insects of all sizes fled in all directions. Everyone applauded, set up a tent and slept comfortably.
Early in the morning of the second day, everyone boarded the flying kite chariot with a nervous mood and flew towards the Kunlun Glacier.
An hour later, everyone entered the human glacier, and the icebergs under their feet were like sharp knives, and there was a solemn and murderous atmosphere, which made people shudder. The sun rises slowly in the east, shining on the icebergs to reflect a faint rainbow of colors, and the tall icebergs in the distance are towering into the clouds, and the snow is shining in the morning light, which seems to bring a touch of warmth to everyone. The flying kite chariot continued to fly above the glacier, and as soon as the cold wind blew, everyone's fighting spirit was aroused, and many people roared in all directions.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the Qingyuan Dao Leader asked the helmsman to lower his altitude, carefully searching for the location of the True Dragon Mountain. The chariot gradually stabilized, but the heart of the Qingyuan Daoist became more and more uneasy. At this moment, Wang Xu pointed to Shi Shenfu, who was meditating with his eyes closed, patted Qingyuan Daoist on the shoulder and said:
"Dao Elder don't worry, you see how calm Senior Brother is!"
"This is flying in the sky, where is the location of the True Dragon Mountain, I can't see it, it should not be far away!" Qing Yuan said.
"Could it be behind this iceberg?" Wang Xu pointed to a tall iceberg road in front of him.
Everyone had just bypassed the big iceberg, and Suzaku let out a few screams, and Shi Shenfu suddenly said:
"It's not good! Hold on to the chariot and don't move forward!"
"What's wrong?" Wang Xu asked in surprise.
"I can feel the breath and the wind on three sides, but I don't feel anything in front of me, as if there is a wall!" Shi Shenfu said.
"Where is there a wall here!" said Qianqian, Wang Xu understood what Shi Shenfu meant, but of course Qianqian didn't understand.
"The two cars are far away, we are exploring the road in front, and the ones behind should not follow!" Wang Xu immediately decided.
Tian Dan immediately shouted to the chariot behind Bai Qi at the helm, and Bai Qi immediately stabilized the chariot and hesitated.
"Look, is that the real Dragon Mountain?" suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, they saw a zigzag back of a mountain, like a dragon. Wang Xu Dingqing looked, the mountain here is very low, the surrounding is as flat as a lake mirror, only the back of the mountain protrudes, it seems that a giant dragon is sealed in the lake, which coincides with the legend!
Before everyone could react, the chariot suddenly began to shake and sink, the metal weapons on the chariot clanged, and the spirit creature screamed.
"Pull up, pull up!" shouted several people.
The blower pulled the stove desperately, pumping hot air into the airbag, but the chariot remained downward.
"Hurry back, fall backwards!" Song Heng said in shock.
Tian Dan urgently reversed direction, but to no avail, as a powerful force seemed to attract the chariot forward and downward. In the panic, the weapons of several wolf eagle warriors fell, and the weapons that were originally bundled together on the chariot were also scattered. The chariot swayed constantly, and heavy weapons such as knives, arrows, and iron shields rolled to the side of the chariot, and the chariot tilted sharply. At the moment of crisis, Qi Lu shouted:
"Sparrow, help!"
Hearing this, Suzaku grabbed the wooden rungs on the side of the chariot with both feet, flapped his wings vigorously, and pulled the sinking side of the chariot upward. Song Heng's iron bow fell in the chariot, Song Heng bent down to pick it up, realized that something was wrong, and suddenly shouted:
"It's magnetic, it's magnetic!"
Wang Xu was startled, bent down to pick up the weapons scattered on the car, and found that there was indeed a magnetic attraction, so he shouted loudly:
"Quick, throw all your weapons down!"
Everyone immediately threw their weapons down, and the attraction immediately decreased, and Wang Xu said:
"Throw all the iron tools down, quick!"
Everyone immediately threw away all the metal weapons and iron shields on the chariot, and the blower pulled the wind furnace desperately at the same time, and the chariot began to gradually recover. Qi Lu accepted the Vermilion Bird, and said shallowly:
"Oops ┄┄ scared me to death!"
"I even threw away the iron bow and arrows, but fortunately, there are not many iron parts used in the chariot fuselage, otherwise it will be over!" Song Heng said.
"I threw away the iron arrow, I can't bear this bow!" Deng Hozi said.
"Although the Xuantie Bow is important, it is not as important as life!" Song Heng said.
"It's good that you found it early, and you have this finch to help, otherwise it would have been over!"
Tian Dan then drove the chariot to the chariot of Bai Qi to pass the word, and the people on the chariot of Bai Qi saw that they were in danger from a distance, and they were very happy, and cleaned the iron weapons on the chariot one by one.
At this time, Shi Shenfu's cultivation was much higher than that of Wang Xu and Tian Dan, so he felt the abnormality in advance. When the chariot flew above the True Dragon Mountain, the three brothers glanced at each other and began to feel with their hearts, but they didn't feel anything, and they couldn't help but be secretly frightened and silent.
"I really want to go down and have a look, maybe I can see the dragon again!" said Asa recovering his mood.
"It's important to hurry, don't make extraneous branches!" Qingyuan said.
"Even if the dragon is real, what does this have to do with magnetism, does the dragon have magnetism?"
"Magnetism may just be a manifestation of power, and it's a bit weird here!" Wang said.
"It's not just weird, there are not a few people who have died in this area! After Master disappeared, my disciples and I found this place, and there were frozen corpses of dead people all along the way, which was very terrifying! Because we wanted to find Master, we had to move forward, once we entered a cave, and the further we walked in the cave, the heavier our steps became, and then our feet could hardly get out, but fortunately we tied the rope, so we could slowly get out and return!" Qing Yuan said.
"How is that possible! Is it because your feet are frozen? If it weren't for fear!"
"Although Xiaodao is shallow and ugly, he is not a timid person who is afraid of death! At that time, Xiaodao was in the prime of life, and his feet would not freeze, and there was indeed a mysterious power that made people unable to take a step!" Qingyuan said.
"Some people say that there are immortals in Kunlun Mountain, some people say that there are demons in Kunlun Mountain, and the legends about her in the world have never stopped!" Wang Xu said.
After an hour, the ice and snow began to decrease, and everyone slowly relaxed, and many people leaned on the car to close their eyes and recuperate, all of them had a feeling of the rest of their lives.
At sunset, two flying kite chariots landed on the sand and gravel of the desert no man's land, and the people began to set up camp and prepare for food. After the meal, Bai Qi wanted to talk to Mi Ri, but there was no one, so he came to Wang Xu to ask for advice on the art of war, and Wang Xu said to Bai Qi:
"Does the general want to be the general of the Qin State, or does he want to be the general who will be famous through the ages?"
"I just want to be the queen mother's sister's general!" Bai Qi said.
"Okay, I'll teach you to be the queen mother's general!" Wang Xu said with a smile.
Bai Qi listened to Wang Xu talk about the art of war for a while, and when Mi Ri came, Bai Qi asked:
"Where have you been, I'm looking for you!"
"Learn your art of war, I can't run again!"
"I don't understand what Mr. said, let's ask Mr. slowly in the future!" After speaking, he pulled Mi Ri aside and whispered:
"You must have something to hide from me, tell me quickly!"
"What's the matter, I'm going to practice swords!"
"You can't hide it from me, I see that you are thinking a lot all the way, you must be thinking about something!"
"yes, I'm thinking about swordsmanship!"
"Liar! Your swordsmanship is so good, what is there to think about!"
"Hehe, hey, next time I'll show you, I'll definitely surprise you!" Mi Ri said mysteriously.
"Just your swordsmanship, it's enough to surprise me, how else can I be surprised?" Bai Qi said disappointedly.
"Let's go! With your interest, you still want to be a general!" Mi Ri patted him on the head and said.
Wang Xu called Tian Dan and walked to the side of the master and apprentice of the Qingyuan Daoist, and asked his disciple:
"Brother Dao, where are we now?"
"It's about two or three hundred miles west of Yilan City!" "This person's name is Big Foot, and he has been to the Great Moon Clan and has walked to the Western Regions many times.
"I heard that there are many small countries in the Western Regions, so they should not be far from here, right?" Wang Xu asked again.
"Not far! If you go west along the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, you will pass through many small tribal countries!" Bigfoot replied.
"Now that we've lost our weapons, is there a bigger place for us to replenish them?" Wang Xu then asked.
Bigfoot pondered for a moment and said, "There is a Shule country in front of it, which is the largest tribal country among the nearby countries, and there may be weapons for sale, but if you want to build weapons, you may not be able to build weapons!"
"Then let's add some first, you can't all be empty-handed!" Wang Xu looked at Qing Yuan and said long.
"That's a good thing, after the Shule Country, how far is it from the Great Moon Clan?" asked Daoist Qingyuan to Big Foot.
"After Shule, and then through Xiuxun, Dawan, Daxia, and Xiaoyue, you will reach the Dayue Clan!" Bigfoot replied.
"Then how many days is there to get from here to the Otsuki Clan, but is there a difficult place to walk?" Qing Yuan asked again.
"If you fly all the way through the chariot, it will be fast, it will only take seven or eight days in total, and there is no too dangerous place!" Bigfoot replied.
"That's good! This gentleman should be able to arrange it!" Qing Yuan looked at Wang Xu and said.
"Then we will still act according to the original plan, go to the Xiaoyue Clan, and purchase weapons in the Xiaoyue Clan!" Wang Xu said.
"As long as the big foot knows the way, he can't act separately, so that's the only way!" Lu Yu said.
"When we arrive at the Xiaoyue Clan, the Taoist can also help Qi Lu practice with peace of mind, and we will do our own thing, so as not to cause extraneous branches!" Tian Dan said.
Five or six days later, two flying kite chariots landed in the wilderness of the Satsuki Clan. Under the command of Song Heng and Deng Hozi, the two flying kite chariots quickly turned into two four-wheeled chariots, and everyone laughed when they saw it.
"There are so many of us, I'm afraid we won't be able to enter the city!" Bigfoot said to everyone: "The people of the Western Regions are very wary of foreigners, we are many and powerful, and we are foreigners at first glance, and they will not let us into the city easily!"
"What should I do then? I haven't taken a shower for a long time, and I'm itching to death!"
"It's not a day or two, we can't always rest in this barren mountain and wilderness, but is there any other place to stay?" Song Heng asked.
"There are some small villages and private estates outside the city where we can settle down, so we can find a manor closer to the city to settle down!" Bigfoot.
"The manor is good, then let's go quickly!" said Qianqian happily.
"It's good, but people won't let us in, I'm afraid we have to use force!" Bigfoot.
"That's the only way, give them more gold afterwards!" Song Hengman said indifferently.
"Well, if we have to be confined to small sections, then we can't do anything!" Wang Xu said.
The people then pushed the cart all the way and stopped at the gate of a manor house when it was dark. Although there were also people in the manor who took care of the house, where were their opponents, they were quickly caught and tied up one by one.
The people occupied the manor, and then drove the people to one place, and Wang Xu said to Shi Shenfu:
"Senior brother, do you see which ones can stay as helpers and do some work?"
"You let them go first, let them walk around, and by the way, get some food for everyone, and I'll help you choose them tomorrow!" Shi Shenfu said.
Wang Xu understood in his heart, and instructed the warriors: "Just watch them from afar, but you can't let any of them go, and after finishing their work, they will be locked up in one place for the night!"
The samurai received the order, and everyone scattered in the hall waiting to eat. Qianqian led Qilu to find a room and a place to take a bath, while Wang Xu and Tian Dan defended the manor.
On the morning of the second day, Dajia, Shi Shenfu, and Deng Hozi entered the city, found a person who could speak Xiaoyue's Mandarin, went to buy three horses, rode around the city one by one, looked at two blacksmith shops, asked a few people about the news of Loulan Prince Jamal, and returned to the manor.
"Has anyone here heard of Prince Loulan?" Wang Xu asked Bigfoot.
"No! The interpreter also said that he had never heard of Prince Loulan!" said Bigfoot.
"What about the translation, is it reliable?" Wang Xu asked Shi Shenfu again.
Shi Shenfu shook his head and said, "This person is dishonest and greedy for money!"
"Then you might have found someone reliable?" Wang Xu asked Bigfoot again.
"Does the gentleman want to take him to the Otsuki Clan?" asked Bigfoot rhetorically.
"The Otsuki clan speaks the same language as the Otsuki clan, so it's best to find a reliable person here! If we find the right person, hurry up and buy some horses and weapons, and we will go to Lan City as soon as possible to find out the news!" Wang Xu said.
"Okay, we'll go back tomorrow!" said Bigfoot.
The next afternoon, Bigfoot returned with an interpreter and some weapons, followed by a dozen horses. Wang Xu spoke to the interpreter, and then gave him a large piece of gold, and the man was very grateful. Wang Xu then asked him to explain to the few subordinates selected by Shi Shenfu one by one, and then gave them some gold, and the subordinates were very happy.
Early in the morning of the second day, the three brothers Wang Xushi, the two brothers Song Hengshi, together with Lu Yu, Dajia and the translator, all changed their clothes and became merchants, and galloped towards Lan City, the capital of the Dayue Clan, preparing to go to inquire about the news.