Chapter 25: The Snow Palace
Jing Chuan looked at the two young men in robes, both combing their hair in the kind of bun in the Taoist temple. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the two look only fifteen or sixteen years old, with delicate faces, red lips and white teeth, and their looks are radiant.
Jing Chuan said, "I'm here to find Qin Xue Palace. ”
A teenager said, "If you look for someone, you will find someone, why do you want to kill the gentleman's mount?"
"It's because you didn't take care of it yourself, let these two big cats come out to eat people, and now you kill my brother, I have to kill this beast today!"
"Presumptuous!" a young man scolded sharply, "Hugh will spread wild on Mr. Qin's territory, otherwise you will die without a place to be buried!"
Jing Chuan saw that the two teenagers had no other weapons except for a flute, but their aura of speaking was different from ordinary people, like adults. If you don't have confidence, you can't be so calm.
Jing Chuan considered that he had injuries on his body, so he didn't move, and said, "I came here only to see Qin Xue Palace, and I didn't have any other intentions. ”
"Mr. Qin, is it something you can see if you want to? Why don't you go back quickly, or I'll tell this snow leopard to bite you to death!"
Jing Chuan really couldn't stand others talking to him so arrogantly, but judging from the current situation, he was on a very disadvantageous side. The two teenagers seemed to have some kung fu, and the snow leopard standing next to him was probably because his companion was killed by him, and he was very angry at this time, but he didn't dare to act because his master was beside him. In normal times, Jing Chuan would have been killed a long time ago, but now that he was injured in the shoulder, and he came to Tianshan to ask for help, he held back his anger and said to the two teenagers: "Go and tell your master that I am from Jiayuguan, and this trip is for Huo Qijian, the chief soldier of Jiayuguan." ”
"Huo Qijian?" The two teenagers glanced at each other when they heard this name, and then said to Jing Chuan: "A few days ago, Mr. Qin said that someone from Jiayuguan was coming to Tianshan, it turned out to be you, come with us." ”
"I'm tired. ”
Jing Chuan glanced at Li Quan's corpse before leaving, and said, "Can you let me bury this brother first?"
The two teenagers said, "Please take care of yourself." ”
Jing Chuan dug a grave in the woods with a knife, and after burying Li Quan, he cut down a small tree, chopped it off, cut out a rough wooden board, and then carved the words "Li Quan's Tomb" on it with a knife, and inserted it in front of the grave with Li Quan's knife.
Jing Chuan clasped his fists at Li Quan's tomb and said, "Brother Li Quan, I'm sorry for you, I let you lose your life here." You are a man, I Jingchuan respect you! I will come here to see you when I have time in the future!"
He stood in front of Li Quan's tomb for a while, ready to leave. At this time, the two teenagers also packed up the dead snow leopard, and one teenager held the snow leopard on his shoulder. When Jing Chuan saw it, he couldn't help but be a little surprised: the snow leopard was huge, at least two hundred pounds, and the young man looked very thin, but when he resisted the snow leopard on his body, it was like hanging a piece of clothing, and he didn't have any difficulty at all. Only then did Jing Chuan believe that these two young men were extraordinary: "Since they are Qin Xuegong's disciples, then Qin Xuegong must be a master among masters." ”
The two teenagers walked up to Jing Chuan and said, "Brother Tai, please come with us." ”
Jing Chuan was very dissatisfied with this title, in front of these two teenagers, he was also an uncle-level identity, to put it mildly, these two teenagers were still stinking children, and they dared to call him "Brother Tai", as if they were the same generation. However, considering that he was now in someone else's territory, and the two teenagers did not seem to be ordinary people, Jing Chuan couldn't help but not get angry.
The remaining snow leopard followed the boy, constantly rubbing his head against the dead snow leopard's drooping head, and let out a whining cry, which was very miserable. The snow leopard saw Jing Chuan following behind, suddenly turned around and bared its teeth and roared at him, the young man saw it, scolded it, and it turned back and continued to wail against the dead snow leopard.
When Jing Chuan saw it, he suddenly felt a sour feeling in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel pity. But he immediately came to his senses again: "It's just a brute, you want to do evil yourself, then don't blame me for being ruthless." ”
The two teenagers took Jing Chuan out of the woods and came to the road of the winding mountain. The further up the hill became, the cooler the temperature became, and the two teenagers and the snow leopard didn't seem to feel anything and continued walking. Jing Chuan was bitten by a snow leopard on his left shoulder, and the cold worsened at this time, and half of his body was faintly numb from the cold.
After walking for a while, we were halfway up the mountain, and there was a thin layer of snow on the ground and in the woods. Looking up, I saw a main peak towering in front of me, the main peak was covered with thick snow, and the surrounding fog was shrouded, and a palace-like building could be faintly seen between the clouds. Jing Chuan stopped to look up at the palace and saw the door of the palace, which was made of stone and built on a cliff.
The two teenagers stopped, saw Jing Chuan standing panting, and urged, "Hurry up!"
Jing Chuan slowed down for a while and continued to climb up the mountain.
Jing Chuan's old injuries have not fully recovered, and now he has added new injuries, so he walks a little slowly. As he walked, he thought, "Am I really old?" In the past, even if I was seriously injured, I didn't think it was that difficult, but now I have only suffered such a small injury, and I feel weak after not walking far. Jing Chuan thought that he still had important things to do, so he said to his body in his heart: "Hold on, let me climb to the top of the mountain!"
The slope gradually became steeper, the temperature became lower and lower, and the two teenagers walked very lightly, their steps were like flying, and their clothes were not stained with snow, and after a short time, they left Jing Chuan far behind, and they did not stop to wait for him. Jing Chuan had to grit his teeth and use a knife as a staff to prevent slipping, and followed closely.
After climbing for a long time, Jing Chuan stopped to look at the foot of the mountain, just over the mountainside, and there was still a large distance from the palace above his head, Jing Chuan found that although the Tianshan Mountain looked relatively short from a distance, it was actually very tall. Jing Chuan stopped to rest for a while and continued to climb up.
The two teenagers had already walked a hundred paces ahead of him, and were still walking rapidly up the hill, and after a corner, they were gone. When Jing Chuan saw this, he hurriedly followed with all his might, but when he reached the corner, the two teenagers and the snow leopard were gone. Jing Chuan stopped and looked around, but there was no trace of them.
"Hey, why is it so slow!"
Jing Chuan heard the sound of a teenager overhead, looked up, and couldn't help but be surprised: the two teenagers had climbed the rocks on the mountain to the top, and one of them was still carrying the dead snow leopard on his shoulder.
Jing Chuan was surprised, and a teenager said to him, "We won't wait for you, you can climb up by yourself." As he spoke, they climbed to the top. I saw them climbing and jumping among the rocks, their bodies as light as birds, and after a while, they jumped to the top of the winding mountain road.
Jing Chuan has also seen many people with light skills on the rivers and lakes, but it is the first time he has seen such light light skills. When he was younger, it wasn't difficult for him to climb this cliff, but now it's difficult. He looked at it for a while, then at the road ahead, but chose to continue walking.
When Jing Chuan climbed to the top of the mountain, he was already too tired, his body temperature was also dropping rapidly, and the whole person was shivering with cold.
The side of a stone palace appeared in front of him, embedded in the mountain, and only two stone pillars could be seen standing in front of it, intertwined with the sharp rocks protruding outwards beside it.
Jing Chuan walked towards the gate of the stone palace, and the road next to it became narrower and narrower, until later, it became a narrow road that could only be crossed by one person, with mountains on one side and steep cliffs on the other. Jingchuan walked slowly beside the mountain, and glanced below, there was a cliff below, if he fell, he would definitely be crushed. At this time, the woods and lakes at the foot of the mountain are also in full view, and they are much smaller than before.
The wind on the top of the mountain was very strong, blowing against the cliffs in bursts and carrying snowflakes. Jing Chuan blocked the wind and snow with one hand, slowly moved forward, and finally came to the gate of the stone palace.
The stone palace gate is two cyan boulder gates, tightly closed, and the door is engraved with two very strong and powerful characters: Snow Palace. Jing Chuan walked over and was about to knock on the door, when the stone door opened, and a young man appeared at the door and said, "Come in." Jing Chuan walked in, and the young man closed the stone door with his hand again. Jing Chuan found that the boy pushed the stone door with his hands, the door was more than a foot thick, and the weight could be imagined, and it was very difficult to push, but the boy pushed it as if it didn't take a little effort, it was very easy.
As soon as I entered the Snow Palace, the sound of the wind howling outside stopped abruptly, and the inside instantly became warmer. After the young man led Jing Chuan through a dim passage, a light appeared in front of him, and after stepping into the light, Jing Chuan came to a circular hall. Lights are lit around the hall, and you can clearly see a huge stone pillar around the hall, and in the middle of the stone pillar is a large smooth and flat round stone. There was also a road on each side of the hall leading inside, and the young man led Jing Chuan to the middle of the hall and said to him, "You wait here, I will go in and report to the sir, and I will call you in later." ”
Jing Chuan said: "There is little brother Lao. ”
"You stay here, don't walk around, if you walk blindly and lose your life, don't blame me for not reminding you. With that, the boy walked into the aisle on the side.
Jing Chuan stood in the middle of the hall for a while, and suddenly felt that his limbs had no strength and could not support him, so he sat on the ground against a stone pillar. Looking at those stone pillars, they are all engraved with words, Jing Chuan can't understand what kind of words those are, they are crooked, and they are not Chinese characters at all. Jing Chuan looked at it for a while, and the wound on his left shoulder regained consciousness because of the warmth in the room, and there was a sharp pain. He gently uncovered the clothes on his shoulders, revealing the place where he had been bitten by the snow leopard, only to see that there were several large tooth marks on his shoulders, and the area around the tooth marks had turned black and swollen.
Jing Chuan thought, "Could it be that the snow leopard is poisonous?"
He gently squeezed the wound with his hand, squeezing out a stream of black blood, and at the same time, a sharp pain spread throughout his body, as if pulling the meridians, and his head also hurt. Jing Chuan carefully covered his clothes, stopped moving, leaned against the stone pillar, and waited for the young man to come out and summon.
After a long time, the boy didn't come out, Jing Chuan was impatient to wait, and wanted to get up and walk in, but half of his body was numb, unable to move, and his head was dizzy. Jing Chuan held on for a while, but finally couldn't hold it anymore, closed his eyes, and fainted.