Chapter VI Tracking
The sky gradually brightened, and the fire that had been burning all night in Qili Pass finally gradually subsided. It's just that after the flames burned, all that remained was the ruins of the walls and the scorched black wood that smoked from it.
Although Fa Xiang and the others had a high level of morality, they were busy all night, and they inevitably had a few scorch marks on their bodies, and a few disciples of the Incense Valley who were a little lower in Taoism also had some black ashes on their faces.
It's just that when they regained their footing, breathed a sigh of relief, and looked around again, the eyes of those ordinary Miao people looking at these foreigners were full of hostility, and they didn't have any good feelings for them because of their help.
Fa Xiang smiled bitterly, although he felt wronged in his heart, he couldn't explain anything, and he was about to turn around and say something to others, when suddenly the people in the incense valley behind him moved.
Fa Xiang was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and saw Shangguan Ce descend from the sky, fall to the ground, and slowly walked over.
The first to fly away last night, but the last to arrive overnight, this Incense Valley senior, suddenly made everyone present look at each other.
"Hehe!" A sneer came out of the mouth of Lu Shun of the Incense Valley, "Senior brother, you came really early!"
Shangguan Ce's face was expressionless, but his eyebrows were furrowed, and he could vaguely see that he was preoccupied. He didn't bother to pay attention to Lu Shun, walked closer and looked around, shook his head slightly, sighed, and said to Li Xun: "Things are almost done here, you take your juniors and disciples back to Incense Valley first!"
Li Xun was actually angry and asked in his heart, and he had the heart to ask where this uncle had been last night, otherwise if there was a big master like Shangguan Ce, it would be much easier to deal with the ghost, and he would not cause so much trouble.
Just thinking about it, after all, he still didn't dare to offend Shangguan Ce, whose position in the Incense Valley was second only to the valley lord Yun Yilan, so he agreed at the moment and said in a low voice, "Yes. 」
Lu Shun stood aside and was furious, and said to Shangguan Ce, "What do you mean, I ran away alone last night, and I will give orders as soon as I come today?"
Shangguan Ce said lightly: "I had a little accident last night, and I will talk to you in detail after I return to the valley." 」
Lu Shun's face changed, and before he could say something, Shangguan Ce was obviously impatient, and said slightly angrily: "Fourth, go back and talk about it!"
Shangguan Ce's face was not angry but threatening, he drank it like this, Lu Shun didn't dare to say anything for a while, Li Xun hesitated for a moment, and finally said to Shangguan Ce: "Senior uncle, after we go back, that nine-tailed sky fox ......."
Shangguan Ce shook his head and said, "The matter of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox is not in a hurry, let's go back and talk about it." 」
Li Xun didn't dare to say any more, nodded his head in agreement, and led everyone away, and when he left, he couldn't help but look back at Lu Xueqi who was standing with Fa Xiang in the distance.
The woman in white looked so indifferent that she didn't even look at him.
Li Xun sighed in his heart, as if he had turned over a five-flavor bottle, and the indescribable feeling went slowly. Although Lu Shun was not reluctant, he also followed.
Shangguan Ce sighed, turned around, and said to Fa Xiang and Lu Xueqi, "The two of you have vigorously helped Gugu, and I am really grateful. 」
Fa Xiang and Lu Xueqi didn't dare to be rude, and returned the salute together, Fa Xiang smiled and said: "Uncle Shangguan is too polite, Qingyun, Tianyin and Incense Valley are originally righteous families, and it is even more important to help each other. I don't know what happened last night?"
As he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at Shangguan Ce, with a kind smile on the corner of his mouth, and the indescribable kindness and peace were exactly the appearance of a Buddhist monk.
Shangguan Ce snorted in his heart, but a grateful smile appeared on his face, and said, "It's not a big deal, the old man met a few little thieves and wasted a little time, that's all. However, since things are generally good here, Gu Gu really doesn't dare to bother the two masters anymore, please go back to the mountain! If there is a chance in the future, the old man will definitely go to the mountain gate with Senior Brother Yun, the valley master. 」
Fa Xiang and Lu Xueqi glanced at each other, both of them were thoughtful people, how could they believe the nonsense that Shangguan Ce had encountered a few little thieves. The thieves and thieves in this world who can rob Shangguan Ce are afraid that they have not yet been born! It's just that even though they know that Shangguan Ce has the intention of shirking, they can't directly expose it in person after all, so the two of them have to bow and nod their heads in agreement.
Shangguan Ce said some more polite words, and then got up to leave.
Looking at his figure that disappeared into the clouds in the distance, Lu Xueqi suddenly said, "He has a lot of thoughts. 」
Fa Xiang smiled slightly, and said, "Yes, I don't know what Uncle Shangguan did last night......" Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped, Lu Xueqi's face was not a little smile except for indifference or indifference, at first glance, the woman in white stared into the distance, her eyes were complex and hazy, but her mind was a little heavier than Shangguan Ce's.
What was she thinking?
The Dharma Minister whispered to the Buddha and said nothing.
Hill.
Xiao Bai supported the ghost and looked towards the Qili Mountain, looking at the last two foreign figures, they also flew towards the sky and gradually disappeared.
"They're gone. Xiaobai smiled and said.
Ghost Li silently withdrew his gaze staring at the clouds, was silent for a moment, and said, "Let's go down!"
Xiao Bai nodded, but looked at Ghost Li's body, and said softly, "Why don't we rest first! 」
Ghost Li shook his head and said, "My body doesn't matter, it's important to find a great wizard. 」
With that, he was the first to stand up.
"Squeak, squeak. The familiar scream sounded next to him, and a gray shadow jumped out from the side, jumping on the shoulder of the ghost two or three times, although the figure movement seemed to be a little jerky and unstable, but the monkey who finally woke up from the drunkenness was obviously very good, in a good mood, and grinned.
Xiao Bai also stood up, walked to Ghost Li's side, glared at Xiao Ash angrily, and said, "What are you laughing at, you stupid master was dying last night, you know?"
"Shhh
A low roar of anger, but it was the little gray tooth lying on the shoulder of the ghost and grinning angrily, showing his fangs, looking around, the two monkeys clenched into fists, waving up and down, looking like they were looking for someone to fight alone.
Xiao Bai snorted and said, "Don't pretend to be you, an afterthought!"
The monkey's little gray eyes went up, rolled his eyes at Xiaobai, "squeaked" twice, retracted his body, and pulled the placket of the ghost's clothes, looking like he didn't care, just sticking to his master.
Ghost Li reached out and touched its head, but didn't say anything, and continued to walk down the mountain, Xiao Ash turned his head, very proud, and stuck out his tongue at Xiao Bai and grimaced.
Xiaobai smiled bitterly, shook his head and sighed, followed, and muttered in a low voice: "In these years, even monkeys are so ......
They walked to Qili Mountain, and the Miao people who met again were all full of resentment in their eyes, and some of them saw the appearance of a ghostly bloody demon last night, and their faces were even more frightened.
Xiao Bai saw how hard Ghost Li was walking, took a few steps forward to support him, and when Ghost Li just wanted to break free, he whispered, "I'm afraid that these Miao people won't let us go to see the Great Wizard." 」
Ghost Li was supported by Xiao Bai, he was very unaccustomed, and he was breaking free to walk alone, but when he heard Xiao Bai say this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and said, "What?"
Xiao Bai glanced forward, and Ghost Li followed her eyes, and the two of them were walking towards the mountain where the Miao altar was located, but at the bottom of the mountain, dozens of Miao strong men had gathered at the moment, guarding the only passage to the mountain. And when they saw these two foreigners coming, almost everyone was like a great enemy, and some of the warriors had already picked up their swords and guns and faced Ghost Li and Xiaobai.
The ghost was silent, but his footsteps still did not stop, and he continued to walk towards the crowd, Xiaobai was beside him, glanced at him, and said, "What if they don't let us go up?"
Ghost Li didn't speak.
The monkey Xiao Gray who was lying on the shoulder of the ghost was looking around at the moment, and he was very surprised, obviously he couldn't figure out why he had only slept for one night, and the place had been turned upside down.
When they got closer, as Xiaobai expected, all the Miao warriors did not retreat and avoid, all of them were hostile, and gathered on the road to the altar on the mountainside, and their blades were unsheathed one after another, facing the two ghosts.
The corners of Ghost Li's mouth twitched, and a trace of irritability flashed in his eyes, but at this moment, he finally knew that it was not the time to come hard, and it was okay to deal with these Miao warriors, once he injured the Miao people, even if the great wizard was safe and sound, he was afraid that he would not be able to heal Baguio for himself.
He took a deep breath and whispered, "We want to see the Grand Wizard. 」
I don't know if I didn't understand his words or didn't plan to pay attention to it at all, the Miao warriors didn't even change their faces. At this moment, even Xiaobai frowned, feeling very troubled.
At this time, behind the crowd, the voice of the Miao patriarch Tu Ma Gu suddenly came: "The Great Wizard is seriously injured and can't see guests, so please go back!"
The crowd moved out of the way, and Tu Ma Gu slowly walked out from behind. Seeing that his face was cold, and his clothes were still stained with blood, it was obvious that last night was not easy. At this moment, his expression towards the ghostly Xiaobai is already very different from yesterday.
Ghost Li was silent for a moment, and said, "Great Wizard, is he okay?"
Tu Ma Gu sneered and said, "Thanks to the blessings of the two, his old man is not dead. 」
Ghost Li breathed a sigh of relief, but Xiao Bai couldn't listen to it anymore, and said lightly: "The Great Wizard is injured, but it has nothing to do with the two of us, even if you are angry, Patriarch, you can't be angry with us. 」
Tu Ma Gu has been holding back his anger since last night, and the reason why he is still talking to these two foreigners is because they didn't kill the Miao people last night, and the ghost Li also saved a child. But at this moment, when I heard Xiaobai say something coldly, he became angry, and his eyebrows were about to get angry.
Suddenly, there was another rush of footsteps behind the crowd, but a young wizard-like Miao man ran down from the mountain, looked at them a few times, and then whispered a few words in Tu Magu's ear.
Tu Ma Gu was obviously stunned for a moment, a little incredulous, and asked in a low voice in Miao language, and the young wizard nodded affirmatively.
Tu Ma Gu sighed, turned around, and said, "The Great Wizard wants to see you, so go up with this wizard!"
Ghost Li and Xiao Bai were both stunned, Xiao Bai frowned and thought about how the great wizard would know that he had arrived at the bottom of the mountain, but Ghost Li was happy in his heart, since the great wizard was willing to see him, he was afraid that most of them were willing to heal Baguio.
They followed the young wizard through the crowd and walked towards the mountain, and the Miao people's eyes were full of confusion and anger, but the great wizard was obviously still there, and no one in the audience came out to stop him. However, not long after they left, some Miao people told Tu Ma Gu to talk about it, and then many Miao people echoed it, thinking that everyone did not want to see the evil foreigners enter the altar again.
Tu Ma Gu scolded a few words loudly, and at the same time looked in the direction of the altar on the mountainside, and the voices of the Miao people gradually became quieter.
Ghost Li and Xiao Bai followed the wizard who led the way in front of them, and walked onto the platform in front of the altar, and the two of them noticed almost at the same time that at the front of the platform, the ground that was originally made of huge rocks cracked into countless cracks, extending out in all directions from where the great wizard stood last night, and the rock in the center became shattered.
The two glanced at each other, Xiaobai's expression did not change, but Ghost Li's heart shook slightly. This area of southern Xinjiang is located on the border, and it has never been in the eyes of the Middle Earth Xiuzhen sect, not only the decent people look down on it, but even the demon sect has a lot of contempt. It's just that what I saw with my own eyes this time, the weirdness and unpredictability of witchcraft in southern Xinjiang cannot be underestimated.
The wizard in front of "Huhu Lulu ......" was urging in a strange and obscure Miao language, and Ghost Li and Xiaobai turned around and walked over.
The altar was deep, and the darkness inside was like an endless tunnel, swallowing their figures into it.
Far away from the south of Qilitong, where the Miao people live in southern Xinjiang, the towering and steep, rolling mountain range is the 100,000 mountains that people in southern Xinjiang have heard of.
Here, there seems to be no sunlight all year round, dark clouds linger, and black winds howl. Occasionally, bold hunters went into the mountains to hunt in years of famine, but they never returned.
And among the five tribes in Southern Xinjiang, there has been a jǐng ring handed down by their ancestors for a long time, and they are never allowed to enter that evil mountain range, because there is a demon king who is feared by all the tribes in Southern Xinjiang, and those terrifying barbarians under him.
For many years, this common precept has been passed down from generation to generation, and has been passed down among the five ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang, and with the passage of time, the 100,000 mountains shrouded in black clouds have added a bit of mystery.
And the only way to that terrifying and mysterious world is still quietly stored at the foot of that mountain, in the cave of Yīn Sensen, and from time to time there are strange screams, which make people feel sore at the roots of their teeth and chill their bodies. In the legends of southern Xinjiang, it is the angry roar of the mysterious and terrifying demon king.
A black-clad lich suddenly appeared beside the cave like a ghost, and although it was dawn at the moment, it was as if darkness was still shrouded around him.
Behind him, a giant beast slowly appeared, with four feet on the ground, and its protruding claws were extremely sharp. The back and waist are arched, and on the long and thick neck, is a huge head, at first glance, I almost thought it was the legendary dragon of Middle-earth, but after a closer look, I found that there was still a difference, the giant beast had a large bloody mouth, extremely sharp teeth, and a pair of eyes from time to time shè out of a fierce light, jǐng timidly looked around, as if yù chose people to devour.
In front of the beast, the lich was almost a third as tall as it was. But somehow, the dragon was extremely respectful to the man in black.
The lich seemed to be very much like the evil dragon beside him, and he was also looking around carefully at the moment, and after making sure that no one was following him, he turned his head and nodded to the evil dragon, and said, "Go back!"
There was a muffled sound from deep in the dragon's throat, which was probably an agreement, but it sounded like a roar, deafening.
The lich was apparently accustomed to the dragon's reaction, and after a few moments, his form flashed and disappeared into the cavern, blending into the darkness. The dragon's body was too large to penetrate into the stone cave, and looking at its appearance, it seemed to be about to make a move, when suddenly its body moved and suddenly stopped.
With a loud but low roar, the vicious dragon slowly turned. It seemed that something suddenly alarmed the sensitive dragon, and at this moment it looked around again, and at the same time the nose above the mouth kept expanding and contracting, obviously with a keen sense of smell, smelling something in the air.
There was silence all around, nothing happened, and after the dragon smelled it for a while, it didn't notice anything. The dragon seemed to be a little confused, but after a long time, it finally decided to give up, turned around again, roared in a low voice, and exerted all four legs, and with a loud bang, the giant beast actually rushed directly towards the towering and precipitous mountains.
Its figure is vigorous, its giant feet are galloping, and the claws on its feet are deeply grasped into the rocky soil of the mountain, and they are deeply nailed into it like steel nails, and its body is steady. I saw it running like a fly on the mountain beam, and in a blink of an eye, it rushed to a very high peak, and gradually disappeared into a dark cloud.
And in the same cave of yīn Sensen, after a long time, behind a clump of flowers and plants in the distance, suddenly let out a long cry, as if he was nervous for a long time, and then relaxed.
A moment later, the figure of the golden vase floated out of the flowers and grass and landed outside the dark cave. She faced the dark cave, a contemplative expression gradually appeared on her face, and after a while, she seemed to have made a decision, gritted her teeth, her figure shook, and she also floated into the cave, towards the mysterious world, quietly diving.
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