Pick up the Dragon

Hearing Jiuyuan say "mountain fire", Peng Yu suddenly realized that the white color was neither snow nor fog, but white smoke from the fire!

Bailong didn't say a word, just pulled up the cover-up method to hide his figure, and at the same time quickly lowered his height, and flew straight towards the burning main peak.Peng Yu was a little unsteady by the sudden landing, and just about to say "slow down", he felt the dragon's body suddenly stop--"Boom", it hit the invisible barrier firmly !

Li Yi let out a muffled groan, turned his body sharply to the side, and flicked his tail violently to stabilize his figure.It was even worse for Peng Yu, who let this bump directly off the dragon's back, grabbed the hair on the dragon's back in a hurry, and hung in the air.

The dragon king raised his claws and threw him back to his original position. Peng Yu lay down on the dragon's back like a dead fish. Three souls and seven souls almost flew out of the sky. He felt that today's trip was not a pleasant one .

Jiuyuan escaped because he was slightly behind. Seeing that his dragon king "stumbled", he hurriedly missed the barrier and avoided it.The two dragons flew around the peaks, and found that the enchantment was really a "pit dragon" - the top of the enchantment reached the sky, but the bottom was not grounded. It was obvious that they didn't want people to pass over their heads, so they had to go through it step by step. Climb the foot of the mountain.

So the disgraced Dragon King became furious, and in his heart he skewered those damned flat-haired beasts into a nest of roasted house sparrows, and chewed them with a "creak" in his mouth.He opened his mouth to let out a roar, and a thunder billowed down, hitting the barrier instantly, and the latter flashed...unscathed.

Li Yi: "..."

He still doesn't want to be the Dragon King.

The two dragons were finally overwhelmed by Suzaku God's roguish temperament, circled the barrier in a despicable way, and landed temporarily at a place called "Heng Town" at the foot of the mountain. After a few steps, I finally couldn't hold back and held onto a nearby tree, bent down and vomited.

Li Yi turned back into a human form, stepped forward and patted him on the back expressionlessly, and comforted him perfunctorily, "Are you all right?"

Peng Yu thought it was all right, you have a try, and when he looked up, he saw that the town was crowded with people, and the people came out of their homes one after another, looking in the same direction.

The few who were close gathered together, and the voice of the conversation came faintly: "The water is flooding on the mountain again? How many times this month?"

"I've said it at least four or five times," said the other, "although it's 'Chidi Peak', it's not quite right to walk through the water so frequently. It burned a few times for no reason, and the mountain is almost burned to the ground. , what else can burn?"

Another one said: "Didn't you invite a mage to do the ritual a few days ago? Didn't he say that he had drawn some heavenly water and wouldn't burn it again?"

The first one echoed: "Isn't it, the snow has already fallen, I thought it really wouldn't burn anymore."

The second one sneered: "Forget it, I said that the Taoist priest is not trustworthy, the Daoist Qingyan of Guangtian Temple doesn't dare to take care of it, a little Taoist priest I don't know where to find..."

He stopped talking suddenly, seemed to think of something, and took a breath: "No, it seems that the mage has been living on the mountain these days, and he hasn't come down yet..."

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, said "Sin" in unison, and all shut up and scattered.

Peng Yu finally recovered from his dizziness, leaned against the tree exhaustedly with his hips crossed and rested for a while, and said out of breath, "Ancestor, don't tell me that we are going up the mountain."

Li Yi nodded very cooperatively.

Peng Yu suddenly wailed and almost knelt down to him: "Shall we go up later? I really... really can't hold on!"

Li Yi said considerately: "Why don't you rest in the town first? Let's go up and have a look, after all, human life is at stake."

These words in Peng Yu's mind automatically turned into "Why are you so weak? Why don't you just come with us?" Instantly stimulated his nerves that were on the verge of falling because of "Drizzy Dragon", he straightened his back with strength: "No, No, I can still hold on, let's go now."

Li Yi looked at him suspiciously, and felt that someone's "wishful to die" face really didn't seem to be "still able to persist", so he reached out to ask for a brocade bag from Jiu Yuan, and took out a yellow color bag from inside. The small bottle: "Here, take one."

Puzzled, Peng Yu poured out a pill from the bottle: "What?"

Li Yi: "For anti-emesis, Zhou Huai gave me a lot of medicine before leaving, you should take it quickly."

Peng Yu swallowed a pill with water. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but soon he felt better in his stomach.A few people mingled among the eagerly watching crowd, and saw that the fire on the top of the mountain seemed to have been extinguished by itself, but the white smoke had not yet dissipated.

The surrounding townspeople whispered to each other, then dispersed one after another, as if they were familiar with this kind of thing.After the four of them watched for a while, they found a corner to hide, and Peng Yu asked, "What's the matter, shall we go up the mountain?"

Li Yi nodded.

Peng Yu: "How to get up? Climb?"

Li Yi glanced at him coldly, as if he felt that the word "climbing" was a deep insult to him. Peng Yu looked at him and thought that the old man had some clever tricks, and was waiting to see what happened, but he turned around and looked for the town next to him. As soon as Min asked about it, he rented four horses from the stable.

The Dragon King pulled out a white horse frankly, and said solemnly: "You can ride a horse on this mountain road. If you really want to climb...then no one will stop you."

Peng Yu: "..."

A group of four people and four horses rolled up the mountain from the foot of the mountain in a mighty way, from the tail of the "big bird" to the main peak of Bird's Head. This line of mountain road is not steep, and only climbs slowly with a small slope.Several people urged the horse forward as if traveling in the mountains and rivers. Ma Bai rode in front of him, while Peng Yu looked at him from behind. He stretched out his finger and pointed at his back from top to bottom: "Bai Long ...horses, hooves towards...well, where is that over there?"

Jiu Yuan skimmed past him on a half-black gray horse, and answered him very kindly: "North."

Young Master Peng was immediately left behind, and when he looked back, he saw numerous mountains and uninhabited mountains. He shuddered for no reason, and quickly pinched the black horse's belly. The horse neighed, and spread its four hooves to catch up to the three people in front.

The four of them rode their horses along the mountain road. In the second half of the journey, due to the sudden increase of snow on the mountain road, they had to slow down. Seeing that the main peak that was about to be exhausted was in front of them, the horse seemed to sense the danger ahead. It's dangerous, and I refuse to move forward no matter what.

The Dragon King used Longwei again to force the horses to continue rubbing against each other for a while. The horses all had weak hooves and snorted and struggled. They had no choice but to abandon the horses and walk.Peng Yu couldn't help but glanced at the foothills on both sides. He saw that the steep slope was bottomless, and the vegetation was covered with rime. Although it was indeed a beautiful scene, if he fell down unfortunately, he might be crushed to pieces.

He had an inexplicable shock in his heart, his calf twisted, and he hurriedly took two steps forward to grab the Dragon King's clothes. The latter turned around in surprise, and took a look at his pale face: "Are you afraid of heights?"

"No, no, no," Peng Yu hurriedly defended himself, "I'm just a little...a little..."

He was "a little bit" for a long time without pointing out why, and rolled his eyes angrily: "It's human nature, who is not afraid of standing so high, you think everyone is like you."

Li Yi glanced at him inexplicably, and then looked at Qian Yue who was eager to try again. He really wanted to remind Master Peng that he should add the word "counseling" before "human nature", but he didn't have the heart to expose him in the end. , only raised his chin slightly, and at the same time stretched out his hand towards the other party.

Peng Yu didn't understand, so he asked, "Why?"

"I led you to the head office? Hurry up, don't dawdle."

Young Master Peng was dragged away by the Dragon King with an absent-minded face. Looking at the backs of the two, Jiuyuan suddenly thought, turned to Qianyue and said, "How about..."

Unexpectedly, Qian Yue didn't even look at him, and passed by him without squinting, walking lightly with the wind blowing under his feet, and ruthlessly chopped off the sprouts growing on the iron tree under the knife.

Jiu Yuan followed up with a frustrated face, only to feel that his future road was as long and difficult as this mountain road.

Several people climbed up a gentle slope on the side of the main peak on foot, looked north, and gasped one after another—the mountain road ahead was scorched black, all burned by strange fires, the white smoke on the peak had died down, and only a few sporadic places remained. Braving a little heat, lingering in the wind.

Peng Yu covered his cheeks as if he had a toothache. There was no living plant in sight on the top of the peak, so he couldn't help but stammered, "This...is this mountain completely burnt? There is nothing left?"

Li Yi frowned, feeling that something was really wrong here—this gentle slope was already within the scope of Chidi Peak, but it was not burned by fire. It seemed that there was a broken line from here to the mountain road leading to the peak. There is a piece of scorched earth on the side, and the south side is intact. Even the rime hanging on the vegetation has not been burned by the high temperature, and is still shaking gently in the wind.

He glanced around again, and suddenly realized - a Taoist temple stands on the west side of the gentle slope, with the word "Guangtian" written on the plaque, and the whole Taoist temple is covered with a thin layer of snow, looking bleak and solemn.

He was thinking that there might be someone in this Taoist temple who could inquire about the situation, when he heard a strange voice coming from behind: "Who is it!"

Everyone turned their heads in unison, only to see a man emerge from the side of the "Guangtian Temple". The four of them looked around from left to right, showing a look of surprise: "Where do you come from?"

"At the foot of the mountain," Peng Yu returned with the same surprised expression, "Could you be the... mage they said?"

The Taoist fell silent, took a few steps forward, walked around a few people with a sense of scrutiny, and finally stopped in front of Li Yi: "Did you make that thunder just now?"

As soon as he said this, everyone was startled—the thunder that day was different from ordinary thunder and lightning. It was so fast that it was almost impossible to catch it with the naked eye. So many townspeople at the foot of the mountain were unaware, but this mere Taoist priest saw through it.

Li Yi raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise: "How do you know?"

The Taoist didn't answer, but asked instead: "What are you doing here? I don't know if the mountain fires on the peak have been going on for several months, is it very dangerous?"

Peng Yu was about to answer "If it doesn't catch fire, we won't come up", but Li Yi waved his hand to stop him. The latter's eyes showed a little playfulness - the townspeople of Heng Town all said "go away" out of awe of the Suzaku God. Water" avoids the word "fire", but this Taoist did not.

So he came to a conclusion: "You are not from here, is it because someone invited you to practice here at a high price, or is there another reason?"

Peng Yu looked at this and then that, and felt as if he had heard a conversation with a fairy, but he didn't understand a word in the fog. He couldn't help but went to Jiuyuan and poked his arm: "Your Dragon King is here!" Say what?"

Jiu Yuan gave him an expression of "I really want to tell you, but I don't know".

The two gods in front of them continued to talk, and the Taoist fought back: "I should ask you this. Who are you if you can attract thunder?"

Li Yi grinned: "Unfortunately, I'm not human."

The Taoist priest was not surprised or annoyed when he heard the words, but changed his previous posture and relaxed, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation: "That's good, everyone, please follow me."

Peng Yu: "..."

What's wrong!

A few people somehow formed a faction with the Taoist priest, and followed him up the scorched-earth mountain road. The Taoist priest led the way and said, "My name is Huaiming, and I am entrusted by Master Qingyan to wait for you here."

Peng Yu felt that the words "Reverend Qingyan" sounded familiar, but after thinking about it carefully, it was the person mentioned by the townspeople of Heng Town, and Guangtian Temple was exactly this Guangtian Temple!

Taoist Huai Ming continued: "Real Master Qingyan is my uncle. Since my master passed away, I have been traveling all over the world. In recent months, I suddenly received a letter from my uncle, saying that there are frequent visions on Chidi Peak, and he himself is old. Gao, fearing that the Taoism will not be enough to calm down the vision, so he asked me to help."

Li Yi nodded: "Then what about others?"

After a slight pause, Huai Ming sighed: "When you get to the top of the mountain, you will understand."

Peng Yu casually kicked away a burnt stone, wondering what the hell this strange Taoist was trying to do. He stared at the Dragon King's back to prevent himself from looking to both sides. After walking the last section of the mountain road, he finally reached the peak. .

As soon as he went up, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. He saw the strange rocks on the top of the peak, no frost, snow or fog, and the surrounding vegetation had been burned by the strange fire. It can be said that there was no grass growing. Standing among the strange rocks, there seemed to be a gray area in front of the tree stump. Peng Yu stepped forward to take a look, and found that there were a few pieces of human bones inside—it was a pile of ashes!

He was startled and took a step back, and heard Huai Ming sigh heavily: "That is the remains of my uncle, now you should understand why there is no one in Guangtian Temple except me."

Li Yi frowned slightly: "Didn't he ask you to help him, why is he dead, are you okay?"

Huai Ming: "I wish I knew. I arrived here a month ago and have been staying at Guangtian Temple. I have visited the top of the mountain with my uncle many times and found that after repeated fires, the plants burned less and less. In the end, only That broken pile. My uncle said that the source of the vision might be in that broken pile. At that time, we didn’t dare to act rashly, so we went back to the Taoist temple to find the magic weapon, and we planned to go up the next day to find out.”

When he said this, he suddenly stopped, and seemed to wipe his browbones very tiredly: "Unexpectedly, that night, my uncle carried me up the mountain alone, and I was awakened by a scream in the middle of the night, so I hurried away In the past, I saw..."

Li Yi continued, "Seeing that your uncle was burned to death?"

Huai Ming nodded vigorously, gritted his teeth fiercely, and then finished the rest of the sentence: "At that time, I saw his whole body burned into a ball of fire, and I wanted to save him, but there was no water nearby, and the fire was simply too terrifying. The burning speed is extremely fast, almost... in just a few breaths, it can actually burn a large living person into a pile of ashes!"

He cried out excitedly as he spoke, Li Yi pondered for a while, then continued his words: "Because that's not an ordinary fire, it's Suzaku Lihuo."

The author has something to say: Note: Chidi Peak here corresponds to the current Zhurong Peak, and Guangtian Temple is Shangfeng Temple.