Chapter 35: The Lombard Giant
"Who?!" Yang Jian turned around and saw the closed palace gate being opened, and a white-haired old man walked in step by step with a cane. With each step, the crutches in his hand struck on the ground, making it louder in the silent hall.
"This is a forbidden place for the Mongols, a place guarded by the Tuvans for generations, you shouldn't have broken in!" the old man said as he walked, his voice low and hoarse, making it very uncomfortable to listen to.
"Who are you?, did you do it when the door was closed just now?!" The fat man drew his sword and pointed at the mysterious old man. The old man paused and slowly raised his head, and the faces revealed under the dim light made Yang Jian and the three of them gasp.
What kind of terrifying face is this?
The old man had high cheekbones, gray temples, a dull complexion, and a face full of wrinkles that made his face as rough as tree bark. A long, ugly scar slanted across his entire face from top to bottom. The right eye is hollow, and there are no eyeballs!
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"The treasure knife of the Great Khan, it's not something you can hold!" The old man looked at the corner of the fat man's mouth and suddenly grinned, the fat man's whole person seemed to have lost his soul, his eyes rolled white, and he slowly moved the treasure knife in his hand, and it was actually placed on his neck!
"Fat man!" Yang Jian immediately rushed forward, reaching out to snatch the knife from the fat man's hand. saw the fat man turn his head suddenly, and slashed at Yang Jian with a knife in his right hand. This knife was so powerful that Yang Jian didn't dare to take it hard, so he hurriedly dodged the knife sideways, and then stretched out his left hand to grab the fat man's wrist.
The fat man's right hand struggled to break free but was unsuccessful, Yang Jian snatched the treasure knife from the fat man's hand, then grabbed the fat man's wrist with his left hand and sank down, pressed the fat man down and slashed at the back of the fat man's head.
The mana that was secretly transported by himself directly staggered the fat man through this palm, and his eyes regained their vitality. "Fat man, are you okay?" Seeing that the fat man came to his senses, Fang Lan hurriedly ran over to help him and asked.
The fat man held his head and shook his head: "It's okay! I just feel a little pain in the back of my head!"
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"Hehehe! You can crack my illusion so quickly, you are really not ordinary people!" The old man let out a piercing laugh, and the fat man was suddenly furious, and he broke free of Fang Lan's support and pointed at the old man and scolded: "Old immortal thing!
"Hmph!" the old man sneered and said with a cane: "Those who trespass into the Tongtian Palace will die!"
With the old man's words, the hall suddenly trembled, and the huge stone statues that had been standing quietly on both sides as a faΓ§ade actually moved slowly!
Yang Jian had long felt that something was wrong with these stone statues, but now he finally reacted!
Puppetry!
In ancient times, the cultivation of immortals was extremely developed, and there were really enough golden immortals, and Da Luo walked all over the ground! Therefore, other side branches related to the cultivation of immortals were also extremely developed. Such as alchemy, refining, talisman seals and so on. And puppetry is one of them!
There are two major branches of puppetry, one is the physical puppet. The refining of the flesh puppet, in addition to the corpses of people and beasts as a body, also needs to refine the essence of one's own body and soul to resist it. Although the power of the refined body puppets is not weak, it will seriously damage the soul of one's body, limit the improvement of one's body cultivation, and even damage one's lifespan.
Another branch of puppetry, the puppet, is the puppet, which is a combination of the puppetry, alchemy, and talismans. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this branch also prospered, and the Mo family, one of the hundred schools, has the inheritance of puppetry. However, the Mo family changed its name, called Trick Technique!
It is rumored that in the underground palace of the Qin Emperor's mausoleum, there is also a large army of puppet terracotta warriors and horses, guarding the Qin Emperor underground and also driving the Qin Emperor underground.
However, with Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty "deposing the hundred schools and respecting Confucianism alone", the Mo family gradually declined. And the puppet technique disappeared with the aura of heaven and earth, and the inheritance was broken.
I didn't expect to see traces of puppetry in the underground palace of Kanas Lake!
"Be careful!" Yang Jian threw the treasure knife back to the fat man and rushed directly towards the old man.
Capture the thief and capture the king first!
Although this old man had successfully cast an illusion on the fat man before, Yang Jian could see that he did not have much strength himself, and the reason why his illusion succeeded against the fat man was because the incident happened suddenly, and the fat man was still immersed in the horror of his face, and as a result, he fell into the Tao all of a sudden.
So Yang Jian is confident that he can easily take down this old thing!
Unfortunately, it backfired!
Two puppet stone statues stood between Yang Jian and the old man. Although this puppet stone statue looked tall and bulky, its movements were extremely agile, jumping directly towards Yang Jian, one left and one right, a big knife and a giant axe swung down, and the air flow carried by the swing was enough to make people stand unsteadily.
Yang Jian jumped up, and actually stepped on the big knife of the puppet stone statue and flew up. According to the understanding of ordinary people, the head is naturally the top priority. But Yang Jian knew that the core of this puppet was not in the head, but behind the neck.
Yang Jian flew up and slammed a punch into the back of the puppet statue's neck. I saw that this puppet stone statue was like tofu scum, and it was directly torn apart by Yang Jian.
Seeing that Yang Jian killed a puppet stone statue so neatly, the indifferent smile on the old man's face gradually became difficult to see: "How come?!How do you know the weakness of the dragon giant?!"
"Longbo giant?" Yang Jian said amusedly, stepping on a piece of broken wreckage, "You are embarrassed to name Longbo for this waste?"
It is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Eastern Classic of the Great Wilderness": "Those who have valley mountains have a country of adults." β
The Valley Mountain is right next to the legendary Sea Eye, a huge sea eye that goes straight to the bottom of the sea, it is like a giant black hole, capable of swallowing anything that is caught up in it, even a mountain peak.
There is a country on the Po Valley Mountain, and the people here are very tall, more than 30 zhang long, and can live up to 18,000 years. The name of this country is called Lombor Country, and the people feed on a giant tortoise in the sea.
In "Liezi Tangwen", the story of Longbo's fishing is recorded.
In ancient times, there were a total of five sacred mountains floating around Penglai Immortal Mountain, and the mountains were inhabited by various gods.
Because the mountain is erratic, it will flutter in all directions when it encounters strong winds and waves, and sometimes it will collide with each other. For this reason, the gods were very distressed, so they reported this matter to the Emperor of Heaven, and the Emperor Min Huai of the suffering of the gods and goddesses, ordered the wind god to transfer fifteen giant turtles, three under each sacred mountain, and the sacred turtles carried the mountain, and from then on the sacred mountain floated steadily on the surface of the sea, and would not be bumped with the wind again.
The people of the country of Lombal are very large and have a long life, and the people of the country of Lombor once caught the giant turtle that was adrift on the sea carrying the fairy mountain and stewed it in soup. However, it was precisely because the giant tortoise on Camel Island was eaten that it led to the disappearance of Immortal Island.
Therefore, the Emperor of Heaven was furious and sent down heavenly punishment to make the Longbo people smaller and smaller each generation, and the lifespan became shorter and shorter, but even so, in the Xia Dynasty, the Longbo people were still a few hundred meters tall and could still live for more than 8,000 years, and I don't know if there are still descendants of the Longbo people.
Therefore, Yang Jian said that this fragile puppet stone statue is not worthy of the name of the mythical Longbo giant at all!