Pick up the Dragon

The Dragon Clan has had little family affection since childhood, and they don't even know who their parents are, let alone empathize with mortals. Therefore, the Dragon King really couldn't find any words to comfort him, so he could only say "sorry" dryly.

Peng Yu was slightly taken aback, not knowing how he felt about the "sadness", so he politely bent his eyes: "Thank you."

The smile was too faint, and if it wasn't for the Dragon King's eyes, Li Yi couldn't bear it, and couldn't find any words of comfort, so he had to say something else: "Penglai Island is my place. , I have to take some responsibility out of emotion and reason. If you... have any request, you can just ask. "

"...What does it have to do with you?" Peng Yu was a little dumbfounded, stretched out his hand and gently pressed near the brow bone, and sighed wearily, "Sit with me."

The two sat on the stone, one high and the other low, and the sea breeze continuously sent a damp, fishy and salty smell, gently rolled over from the nose.Soybean landed on Peng Yu's wrist and pecked at his finger with its sharp beak. Li Yi looked at it and said, "The tide is coming. It's hard to see the road after dark. Let's go early."

After he said this, he felt that something was wrong. Peng Yu's night vision is normal now. There is not much difference between day and night. Fortunately, the other party did not intend to expose him. He touched the soft feathers of soybeans: "Okay, where are we going?"

Li Yi pointed towards the deeper part of the island.

Peng Yu collected Chongming's bones and put them into a package, and stuffed them together with the water bag and the qin that was in the way, and put them on Li Yi's back, while he leaned over to carry him on his back.I don't know whether it's the illusion of his absent-mindedness or the fact that his muscles and bones have been strengthened. Now moving the dragon doesn't seem to be as heavy as before, and walking with him on his back is no problem.

He walked away from the beach slowly, followed the Dragon King's guidance and walked towards the island, passing through the dense forest all the way, when the moon was in the sky, he finally arrived at the place he said.

Peng Yu looked up, his eyes widened slightly in surprise, and he saw an ancient tree sticking straight into the sky—there was really only one tree, and the banyan tree was thousands of years old with luxuriant branches and leaves, and the canopy covered the sky and the sun. There are countless "air roots" hanging down, and it is boundless at a glance. There is also a tree in front of you and a tree behind you, as if there is nothing else in the world except this tree.

Li Yi suddenly stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers on his shoulder, a ray of blue light escaped from his fingertips, Peng Yu only saw that the trunk of the old tree was also lit up, slowly supporting the entire canopy upwards, like a blooming flower. fiery tree.

He blinked and took a closer look, only to find that it was neither flowers nor lights, but countless fireflies quietly crouching on the treetops, lighting up this ancient tree that blots out the sun.He was really shocked by this scene, he looked up and down almost in astonishment, and suddenly he heard the person behind him whispering in his ear: "Do you feel better now?"

Peng Yu was slightly taken aback, the corners of his mouth finally turned up, and his tone was a little helpless: "Are you trying to please me? Your way of pleasing me... is really unique."

The Dragon King pursed his lips, and continued dryly: "If you want, I can also invite the nearby monkeys to bow to you, the peacocks to open their tails, and the thrushes to sing..."

Peng Yu couldn't help laughing, stretched out his hand and held it back: "Forget it, it's enough to have you alone."

Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief inwardly—it's a good thing that someone didn't agree, he really thought those little beasts were annoying, so he invited them over to chatter, and had to offer him a pile of "fertilizer".

Peng Yu finally stopped in front of the trunk of the old tree, put Li Yi down, sat down and tapped his sore calf, and took another big sip of water: "You usually live here? Then do you sleep on the tree or on the ground? "

Li Yi glanced at him, and used practical actions to prove to him that the dignified Dragon King is not so casual-he pushed aside some air roots and branches that had fallen down, and a tree hole that was just for one person to enter and exit appeared in front of him, and he put his arm on the hole. I moved myself in, raised my hand and touched somewhere, and the whole tree hole instantly lit up.

Peng Yu leaned over and looked inside, and saw that there was a hole in the old tree. The space inside was quite spacious, with a snow-white animal skin as a bed, and even a tiger skin rug and a table with low legs. The night pearl entwined with vines, with dragon fire in the pearl, is as bright as the unique oil lamp of the Peng family.

He looked at the world several times, and finally couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration: "You...you did a pretty good job."

Li Wei nodded expressionlessly, accepting his compliment happily: "Sit down."

Peng Yu sat down on the bed honestly, he had just suffered the blow of his bastard father going to his mother today, and he had been walking for so long with a certain dragon on his back, he was really exhausted physically and mentally.

As soon as he touched the soft animal skin, all the bones in his body melted in place, and he leaned to the side in a very inconspicuous manner, closing his eyes and asking: "So this is your home?"

Li Yi let out a "huh", slowed down his voice, and told him a bedtime story: "I was born here."

"Birth... broken shell?"

"You can think of it this way - I didn't know who my parents were, I crawled out of the egg and here I was, and for a long time I thought I was the son of the tree."

Peng Yu thought to himself that the Dragon King seemed a little stupid when he was young, but he rarely laughed, and only asked, "So 'Muzi'——did you name yourself 'Li' because of this?"

Li Yi: "Yes. I stayed here until I was a thousand years old, and then I bid farewell to Penglai and flew to the outside world. This tree is my 'spiritual root'."

He looked at Peng Yu and explained: "Every dragon has its own spiritual root. The spiritual root can be anything that can gather spiritual energy. The stronger the spiritual root, the faster the dragon's cultivation can be improved. This tree It is the only tree in the world that can gather the aura of the entire Penglai and even the surrounding area, and I am a mixed blood of the second race, and I have doubled the cultivation base of crossing the tribulation, so I said, I was born to be the Dragon King."

Peng Yu opened his eyelids and looked at him: "You are so powerful, why are you still being bullied by the gods?"

Li Yi sighed: "It's different. The gods can keep bigu away from water and rice, but I can't. If I exhaust my energy, I can only be crushed and beaten. After all, there is an insurmountable gap between us and God."

Peng Yu changed himself into a more comfortable position and lay down: "So what are we doing here? Just to meet the parents? Is the letter from the Qinglong clan that Jiuyuan said is true or not?"

Li Yi was taken aback by "meeting the parents", and it took him a while to react, his eyes became a little strange: "The letter is true, and the content in the letter is probably to bluff us, they just want to urge me to hurry up, after all, the half piece The Azure Dragon Scale is in my hands, even if the Azure Dragon Clan comes here in person, they won’t be able to take it away without my help.”

Peng Yu faltered in response, as if he was about to fall asleep.

Li Yi put the qin on the table and untied the cloth covering the qin. Peng Yu opened his eyelids again and cast his gaze through the slit. He saw that it was a very simple qin, so simple that It was a bit wild, almost subverting his impression of "qin", and couldn't help asking: "You... did you make this qin yourself? What's its name?"

"Dumu." Li Yi slowly stroked the body of the piano with his fingers, and tuned the strings, "I did make it myself, using the branches of this old tree."

Peng Yu recalled a certain "roughly made" Sinan, and felt that the Dragon King might not have much talent in hands-on, and then looked at the piano again, and found something even stranger: "No... lyre, lyre, you Why does the qin only have six strings?"

The qin is indeed a normal qin, but Dragon King's brain is probably not normal, only six strings are installed, and the bottom string eye is actually empty.

Li Yi obviously didn't want to answer this question, so he casually said, "Just enough."

Peng Yu: "..."

The Dragon Clan is really casual enough.

Li Yi plucked the piano again and again, and the deep sound of the piano flowed out from his fingertips, which seemed to be a soothing song with unique rhyme.Peng Yu was already sleepy, but after listening to his hypnotic tune, he couldn't hold back his consciousness that was about to fly away, and flew into a dream staggeringly.

The Dragon King managed to put the people around him to sleep, he didn't even flop about the soybeans, and shrunk himself into a small ball and sank into the soft animal skin.Li Yi minimized the brightness of Ye Mingzhu, took off Peng Yu's coat and covered him with it, carefully looked at his sleeping face, couldn't help but bent down, and lightly touched his forehead with his lips.

Young Master Peng, who fell asleep, didn't seem to feel the kiss like a superficial kiss, and it was a pity that he missed an opportunity to counterattack.

The Dragon King finished some "big things" sneakily, the corners of his mouth were raised up, and he quickly sat up straight.He closed his eyes and slowly settled down, a blue light appeared around his body, the leaves of the old tree began to tremble, and the abundant aura on Penglai Island gathered here.

The gathered aura brought up the wind, Peng Yu seemed to be blown cold in his sleep, he wrapped his clothes tighter, turned over and curled up his legs again.Li Yi sat motionless, using all the collected spiritual energy for his own use, the scales around his neck reappeared, and the missing inverse scales re-condensed little by little, covered with a transparent piece, and could even pass through it See criss-crossing blood vessels under the skin.

He let out a long breath, and when he opened his eyes again, the first ray of skylight had leaked through the gaps in the leaves.

Peng Yu didn't know what year and month he fell asleep. When he woke up, he didn't see anyone in front of him at first sight. He wondered in a daze that some semi-disabled person could still run away in the middle of the night?How to run, do you use crawling?

He was thinking about the picture on his own, when he suddenly heard a voice not far or near: "Wake up and get up, it's getting late."

Peng Yu finally woke up completely, and sat up suddenly, only to see a vine hanging from the top of his head, and a certain dragon shrank itself to the length of his arm, and was "swinging" on the vine.Soybean rode on the dragon's back fearlessly, tilted his head and gave him a "cheep".

A certain dragon's tail, which is still immobile for the time being, hangs unconsciously, and a bunch of white hair dangles in front of Peng Yu's eyes. He patted Peng Yu on the shoulder.Peng Yu let out an "Ouch" when he was hit, thinking that if he hadn't been "reborn", he might have crushed his shoulders with just one blow.

Peng Yu carried the white dragon on his head with soybeans on his shoulders. As soon as he lifted the cover outside the tree hole, he was dazzled by the sunlight outside.It took him a while to get used to it, his stomach grunted inappropriately, and he asked an inappropriate livelihood question: "So what are we going to eat here?"

Hanging on his shoulders, the white dragon seemed to feel that his question was an insult to his dignity as a dragon, so he snorted and said, "Just wait."

Peng Yu was baffled and didn't know what to wait for, so he took advantage of the waiting time to walk half a circle around the trunk of the old tree, picked up a branch and squatted down to dig a hole.

While digging, he asked, "Why hasn't Jiuyuan come back?"

"I told him not to come back, it's an eyesore."

Peng Yu tilted his head and glanced at the white dragon on his shoulder in doubt. It was really difficult to find any flaws in that dragon's face, so he thought affectionately that the dragon wanted to live a "two-person world" with him.He couldn't help but cocked the corner of his mouth, shaking the water bag that was about to bottom out: "So there is no fresh water on this island?"

It was rare for the Dragon King to be silent. Suddenly he felt that it was a wrong decision not to let Jiu Yuan come back. He said dryly, "Yes, but it's not nearby. There is a freshwater lake deep in the north, and a small river in the northeast."

"How long will it take?"

"The former probably takes a day and one night, and the latter takes an hour or two."

Peng Yu: "..."

Then he might just die of thirst directly.

The Dragon King seemed to see the contempt on his face, and immediately became upset, and poked the flesh on his shoulder with his sharp claws: "You bury it quickly, and I will take you to find water after burying it."

Peng Yu quickly dug the hole, buried the Chongming bird bone in the package into the hole, and carefully filled it up with the soil.Li Yi asked on his shoulder: "Why don't you just take it back? Your father is looking for it..."

"It belongs here, not the Peng family." Peng Yu said seriously, "I really don't understand, why is he so attached to my mother? It's been 20 years...Isn't it what he said to look forward to everything? Why do you have to come to Penglai to die? My mother can marry me after reincarnation, I really..."

The Dragon King couldn't understand the feelings of mortals, and he couldn't understand the so-called parting of life and death, so he didn't dare to make rash judgments, so he didn't say anything.

"I didn't tell me whether I went to Penglai Island to live or die. If I hadn't followed you this time, I would have to wait a few years before I knew he was dead? So what am I, son, or a burden?" Peng Yu's eyes rolled Staring redly at the little soil bag where Chongming was buried, he couldn't help touching his nose, and snorted softly, "How could he be such a father."

After complaining to himself, he took out the pair of jade pendants and touched them, and then carefully fastened them around his waist. When he got up, something suddenly fell out of the half-open package, and he took a closer look. It was actually a heavy bone.

I don't know which fold of the package this bone was hidden in, so it "escaped a catastrophe" and failed to be buried in the ground.Peng Yu was already hungry after not eating, and he really didn't want to dig up the mound and bury it again, thinking "Why don't I just keep it as a souvenir", and put the bones into his arms.

"So...there will be no enlightenment in the world in the future?" He asked softly.

"There will be. When the old god dies, there will be a new god to take over. Whether it is Chongming or Qilin, it will just fade out of people's sight for the time being."

Peng Yu nodded, patted the dirt on his body, and poked the dragon lying on his shoulder with his finger: "Didn't you want to take me to find water, where is it?"

The Dragon King stretched out his paw and pointed in a certain direction.

According to his guidance, Peng Yu found a few tall plants. This plant was born in a strange way, like a huge feather fan. The leaves were similar to plantains, and the petioles were densely packed in one place.

He stepped across the short grass and stood in front of the plant. The white dragon leaned out from his shoulders, and poked a hole in the overlapping leaf stalks with the tip of its sharp claws, and the clear water sprayed out like a line in an instant.

Peng Yu hastily unscrewed the water bag to pick it up, staring at the flowing clear water almost dumbfounded: "It's amazing, the things on your Penglai Island are really amazing."

The Dragon King snorted, accepting this unflattering flattery: "There are many plants that can store rainwater, it just depends on whether you want to find them or not."

Peng Yu filled the water bag and couldn't help but take a sip, and found that the water was really clean water with a faint fragrance of plants.He fed some soybeans by the way, twisted the water bag on his body, and asked suspiciously: "Then why didn't you let Qianyue come over? Since fresh water is so easy to find, there is nothing that is not suitable for human survival, right?"

"Do you think," Li Yi's long face was full of indescribable words, "how much food do we have to make enough for her to eat alone?"

Peng Yu: "..."

To be disliked by Yilong for eating too much, he really wanted to mourn for this girl for three seconds.