Chapter 15: The Battle of the Bridge
The entrance to the cave where the heavenly fire escaped was a small waterfall in the middle of the mountain, and the heavenly fire tumbled and fell from the waterfall and fell into a pool five feet below.
In addition to the waterfall above, there are several streams flowing into it, and the outlet of the waterhole is connected to a small river that is a few zhang wide.
The small river flows all the way down the mountain along the mountain, and it flows into a large river of nearly forty zhang in more than ten miles, and as long as you cross the big river, you can escape from the range of Benwolf Plain.
Tianhuo climbed ashore from the edge of the waterhole, hid in the sparse forest next to the waterhole, shook the water off his fur, and observed the escape route from Benwolf Field by moonlight.
The big river under the Wolf Mountain, along the trend of the Wolf Mountain, flows quietly from north to south, the big river is called 'Qingzhou River', which is the boundary river of the two regional forces of Ben Wolf Yuan and Qingzhou Fang.
Qingzhou River is only more than ten miles away from the nearest place of Wolf Mountain, although the river surface is wider, but the perennial water potential is gentle, you can cross by driving a leaf light boat, so it is called Qingzhou River.
There is a light boat bridge on the Qingzhou River, the bridge is forty zhang long, three zhang four wide, all stone is built, it is said that it is the immortal cast spell, it is formed overnight, and it is not human power to build.
The Qingzhou Bridge is like a miracle, it has stood on the Qingzhou River for thousands of years, and the entire bridge body is still fresh, silently serving the caravans and travelers between the human race and the demon race.
In front of Tianhuo, there are two escape plans.
The first plan is to dive all the way to the Qingzhou River through the small river, and then swim across the Qingzhou River for nearly 40 zhang, and then escape from the ascension to heaven when you go ashore.
This is the closest and least difficult solution for the skyfire, which has excellent water properties.
But this route Tianhuo can think of, and the green wolf clan who are familiar with the environment of the wolf will even think that they will definitely set up ambushes on the river and be in danger.
The second plan is to sneak down the mountain, through an open area, and force a stone bridge.
There is a flat gentle slope and grassland of more than ten miles between the Wolf Mountain Shanyin and the Qingzhou Bridge, with a wide field of vision and boundlessness, and it is not good for wolves to ambush in this area.
Skyfire can rely on extreme speed to rush through this gentle slope, and as long as it can reach the stone bridge, it can also escape from the clutches of the wolf clan.
But the second route is more obvious and is one of the routes that the little fox must take. If the wolf clan did not set up ambushes, but scattered the wolf soldiers on the gentle slopes and grasses openly, Tianhuo would not have any hope of escaping at all.
Although there are two sets of plans to choose from, but both sets of plans are a situation of nine deaths and one life, Tianhuo couldn't make up his mind for a long time, he and Ah Li discussed for a long time, and no one dared to make a final decision.
Just as the two of them hesitated, suddenly a wolf howl came from miles away, and a patrol of wolf whistles roared towards this direction.
Tianhuo didn't dare to slack off, jumped into the pool, swam to a deeper place in the pool, and sank to the bottom of the water with his breath.
At this time, Tianhuo did not dare to continue swimming, for fear that the ripples on the water surface would attract the attention of the wolf whistle.
The wolf sentry was only a routine patrol, and no trace of the fire was found, and a dozen wolf sentries waded through the gentle part of the creek to the waterhole, drinking water and urinating by the way.
Soon the wolf sentry trampled the mud on the edge of the waterhole and splashed it everywhere, and the wolf sentinels rolled and swam in the waterhole, and soon the clear water was muddy, and then happily walked away.
It was only after the wolf whistle had run far away that the heavenly fire surfaced.
It can be seen from the patrol route of the wolf sentry that there is more than one such sentry team, and it is basically impossible to completely avoid their eyes and ears and take the land route.
There is no perfect plan, improvisation is king, and Skyfire decides to take the plunge by water.
Before leaving, Tianhuo poured out two Guben Dan, and instead of swallowing them directly, they pressed them under his tongue.
The experience of almost running to death the first few times made Tianhuo's heart palpitate, rather than using pills to heal his injuries afterwards, it was better to prepare in advance and swallow it at any time in case of accidents.
After everything was ready, Tianhuo quietly dived into the creek and swam for six or seven miles, but was not discovered and intercepted by the wolf soldiers. Although there were two wolf sentinels patrolling on both sides of the riverbank, no natural fire was found that sank into the water in advance.
It seems that because they don't know whether the little fox will escape from the direction of Qingzhoufang or the direction of Wuya Mountain, the wolf clan has dispersed its forces.
The river was three or four miles ahead, and Tianhuo became more cautious, and he slowed down, observing the river ahead by the moonlight.
Tianhuo slowly stepped on the water, and suddenly found that the small river in front of him joined the confluence of the large river, and someone pushed down a boulder, turning the river into two streams that were not wide.
On each side of the boulder were six or seven wooden stakes the thickness of adult thighs, which were only one and a half feet above the water, and were extremely difficult to make out in the night.
Each stake is spaced no more than a few feet apart and is connected by fishing nets, which allows the river to flow through and prevents people from diving underwater.
The entire confluence of the estuary was completely sealed by boulders and pile nets, and there were many green wolves lying on both sides of the river and on the boulders, and a few green wolves jumped around on the stakes, as if they were playing, patrolling, and seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.
From the location of Tianhuo, you can already see the figure of the light boat bridge not far away, only seven or eight miles away from the confluence of the estuary, except for a gentle slope and meadow between the two places, basically boundless, with a wide field of vision and not easy to ambush.
The estuary has been closed and impassable. Skyfire also had no choice but to venture overland.
Tianhuo continued to dive along the river for more than two miles, and quietly went ashore fifty feet away from the mouth of the river, hiding in a bush of reeds on the shore.
He's waiting for the right moment!
Soon after, a dark cloud drifted through the sky, blocking the moonlight of the moon, and the sky and earth seemed to darken.
The moon has an extraordinary significance to the wolf clan, and the 'wolf howling moon' is the etiquette of the wolf clan to express their highest respect for the moon.
The sudden arrival of dark clouds covered the moon, so that the wolves were very dissatisfied, and a particularly strong male wolf on the boulder at the mouth of the river stood up, raised his head and howled at the dark clouds "Woo~~", venting his dissatisfaction with the dark clouds.
The other wolves also raised their heads and joined the howling procession, as if to gather the power of their howls to drive away the dark clouds.
The wolves patrolling the sentry in the distance did not dare to be lonely, and joined the howling team one after another, venting their dissatisfaction with the dark clouds together. Of course, there must have been some green wolves among them, who vented their frustration with the all-night stay up and not sleeping to search for a little fox.
When all the green wolves' attention turned to the sky, Tianhuo rolled his tongue, swallowed two Guben Dan, and burst out of the reeds like lightning, rushing straight towards the stone bridge.
The dark clouds in the sky seemed to be pushed by a mysterious force, and gradually moved away, and the moon was about to emerge from behind the dark clouds.
The majestic wolf on the boulder of the estuary screamed most cheerfully, as if it were its work to drive away the dark clouds and return the moonlight to the earth, and it was going to use the wolf howl to suppress other opponents of his strength, at least for tonight it would be the protagonist.
In the adoring eyes of many she-wolves and cubs, the sturdy green wolf wantonly displayed his strong voice and amazing lung capacity.
Triumphantly, it inadvertently glanced to the shore, only to see a small fiery red figure under the moonlight rapidly moving away.
"Uh~uhh~, cough!" A pitch change came from the throat of the male green wolf, and the perfect howl instantly turned into a broken sound, and then turned into a choked coughing sound, in the stunned eyes of the wolves, the male green wolf couldn't make a sound for a while, so he had to raise his right front paw and point to the side.
The wolves at the mouth of the river followed the direction of the strong green wolf, and saw a red figure that had reached a long distance.
The green wolves on the shore and on the boulder were frightened and jumped to the shore, and the muddy river beach restrained their steps, and the trampling on each other delayed the wolves from following.
By the time the wolves at the mouth of the river came ashore to pursue, the little fox had completely escaped their defenses.
And several patrol wolf sentinels on the wolf mountain behind them also noticed something abnormal, and roared towards the stone bridge.
Run, hurry, run, run!
This is the only thought of Ah Li in Tianhuo and the mysterious space, Ah Li did not take back control of the body this time, she knows that Tianhuo's talent in running far surpasses her, and she can only pray silently at this moment.
The sky fire rushed through the gentle slope like a lightning bolt, and as long as you crossed the meadow again, there was less than a mile left from the stone bridge, and success was in sight.
The grass in this meadow is not very tall, and the highest is only more than two feet high, which hardly affects the running speed of the little fox.
Tianhuo jumped directly from a slightly higher grassy knoll, and suddenly Tianhuo and Ah Li were alarmed at the same time, Tianhuo tried to twist his waist and flick his tail in the air, and with the second borrowing of force in the air, he actually moved sideways more than two feet away.
A twin-tailed giant wolf burst through the ground and burst out of a hidden hole in the earth, rising from the ground with dirt and turf on its head, and biting the little fox in the air.
The twin-tailed giant wolf has been lurking here for a day and a night, and it is certain that the little fox will eventually take the stone bridge, and prepare for it to kill it with one blow.
But this blow, because of the two feet that the heavenly fire moved sideways in advance, was avoided.
The two-tailed giant wolf unwillingly swung his head in the air, twisted his head vigorously to bite Tianhuo, and finally could only rely on his long fangs to hang a bloody wound on the little fox's left shoulder blade, and did not completely bite the little fox.
Tianhuo tried to adjust his posture in the air, and after landing steadily, he ejected again, and the two-tailed giant wolf could no longer maintain his balance when he landed because of the movement of swinging his waist and turning his head in the air, and rolled and fell out.
At this time, countless green wolves came from all directions, but they could not stop the little fox from crossing the stone bridge.
Tianhuo desperately ran up the stone bridge, because he was in a high level of tension, and did not realize that his left shoulder blade had been injured at all.
Just as Tianhuo was about to accelerate across the stone bridge, he suddenly noticed a figure suddenly appearing in the middle of the stone bridge.
The speed of the fire was too fast and there was no way to avoid it, and he barely managed to pass the figure, stumbling under his feet, his pace was not adjusted well, his left hind leg tripped over his right front leg, he tumbled and fell out, and stumbled on the hard stone bridge.
When the fire stopped, I realized that I was stiff, which was a normal phenomenon after running beyond the strength of the body and being highly nervous.
Tianhuo could no longer move any of his claws, so he could only lie on the ground and silently catalyze the Gu Ben Dan in his stomach to heal his injured body.
When the two-tailed giant wolf saw the stone monument at the head of the Qingzhou bridge, he hesitated slightly, and some did not dare to step forward.
However, the green wolf behind saw that the little fox was still lying on the stone bridge, close at hand, so he swarmed up, stepped on the stone bridge, and rushed towards the opposite bank with the two-tailed giant wolf.
Suddenly, a huge wall of fire rose from the center of the stone bridge, dividing the stone bridge into two sections, and then a large fireball with a diameter of about a foot shot out from behind the wall of fire, and the orange fire reflected the terrified faces of hundreds of green wolves.
The wolves crowded on the stone bridge jumped up to dodge the wall of fire and the fireballs, but there were still many green wolves who were burned by the wall of fire or hit by the fireballs.
The hair of the green wolf is thick, thick and dry, which is the best insulation material and the best fuel, as long as it is stained with a little spark, it will burn violently.
Many of the green wolves caught fire and burned so hard that they had to jump off stone bridges and borrow river water to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
All of a sudden, the bridge was in chaos, the stench of burnt flesh filled the air, and the wolves were still pouring up the bridge, while the wolves on the bridge were desperately retreating, so that more wolves were squeezed off the stone bridge.
There was a lot of incense on the stone bridge, and the wall of fire in the middle of the bridge was slowly extinguished, and the wolves quieted down and confronted the people on the other side through the wall of fire.
Behind the wall of fire stood a tall man wearing a hat and a burqa, which was so wide that it could be dragged to the ground after covering the man's whole body, and the hat was even bigger and pressed so low that the face of the tall man could not be seen, and the tall man seemed to deliberately shrink his neck as if he did not want to be recognized.
A deep and deep male voice sounded:
"Wolves cubs of the Wolf Plains, you have crossed the line, and in front of you is the boundary of Qingzhoufang!
Go back and tell you the king, our Qingzhoufang and your Benwolf have always had river water that does not interfere with well water, so for thousands of years, they can be safe, and it is best not to start a war lightly. ”
The twin-tailed wolf stood at the front of the pack, baring its teeth and glaring at the tall man, whining and refusing to retreat.
In the past two nights and one day, the laborers have failed to catch the little fox, but many green wolves have been killed and injured, which has greatly reduced the prestige of the two-tailed giant wolf in the group.
If the two-tailed giant wolf has nothing to say at this moment, he will retreat in submission, and the two-tailed giant wolf will not be able to represent the clan **.
The two-tailed giant wolf stared at the tall man with a cold gaze, and as long as the tall man showed a flaw, it was ready to rush over and snatch back the little fox that was limp on the ground.
"Eh, aren't you still dying?" the tall man poked out half of his wooden staff from his robe, and without warning, a huge fireball erupted from the tip of the staff.
The twin-tailed giant wolf let out a strange howl and jumped more than a foot high on the spot, which was able to avoid the fireball.
But the wolves behind did not have such strength and luck, and were directly hit head-on by the fireball, and more than thirty green wolves flew into the air and under the bridge in a scattered manner.
After the fireball repelled the wolves for a few feet, it could be exhausted and dissipate naturally, but the power of the fireball had already made the wolves fearful and unwilling to fight.
The two-tailed giant wolf fell back to the ground, looked at the tall man with trepidation, looked up to the sky and howled, and retreated from the stone bridge like a tide with all the green wolves.
On a hill not far from the stone bridge, the Blue Wolf King stood with his hands in his hands from beginning to end, just watching the battlefield coldly, and no shot poured out.
His distant gaze pierced the night sky and collided with the gaze of the tall man on the stone bridge, and the two sides only made a tentative test, and did not choose to engage further.
The two-tailed giant wolf ran up the hill in frustration, lay at the feet of the green wolf king, and asked unwillingly in wolf language:
"Qingzu, just let that stinky fox go? That thousand-year-old meat mushroom has an amazing effect, you have personally cultivated and cultivated it for thousands of years, and your great-grandson has also taken care of it for two hundred years, so you cheapened that fox for nothing? The child can't figure it out!"
The Green Wolf King stretched out his hand and stroked the head of the two-tailed giant wolf:
"Idiot, your realm is not enough, that meat mushroom will not help you much. Since I started practicing Buddhism, that meat mushroom has also had no effect on me.
Buddha and Tao all have the saying of destiny, and I have never believed in what ancestors and grandfathers have said before, because our wolf clan has believed in 'my life is not up to heaven' since ancient times.
But the accident a thousand years ago scared me, made me believe, and made me realize.
Master refused to shave my ordination for a long time, saying that I had not yet met the destined person and that I needed to wait a little longer.
Although I don't know who the destined person is, when I first saw the little fox last night, I could immediately conclude that my destined person must have something to do with the little fox.
That's why I let you let it go secretly, and we'll see each other again. When the time comes, all the mysteries will be revealed.
I'm looking forward to that day!"