Pick up the Dragon

Huai Ming was slightly taken aback when he heard the words: "What?"

Li Yi didn't answer any more, and walked a few steps towards the burnt tree stump, reaching out his hand as if wanting to touch it, when Huai Ming behind him suddenly shouted, "Don't touch it!"

Huai Ming's whole body leaned forward, his back tensed up with tension, stretched out one hand and slightly pressed down, motioning for him to put his hand down: "Don't touch it, I suspect the accident happened because the uncle touched the tree stump, please don't touch it. "

Li Yi seemed to be moved by his kind reminder, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, he retracted his paws kindly, and walked away from the tree stump as if nothing had happened.

Seeing that the broken wood was so weird, Peng Yu wished he could stay away quickly, rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, and followed the Dragon King step by step.

Huai Ming also followed closely, cleared his throat, and said: "Uncle Ye passed away, I had no choice but to go back to the temple, and found that he had left me a letter before he left, and the letter said that he was willing to slough off." , tell me not to be sad, and not to restrain his bones, just let him be buried on that mountain."

Huai Ming showed an unbelievable expression, as if he still couldn't digest the fact: "I couldn't believe it at the time. After reading it, the letter said that if there are non-human people who want to climb Chidi Peak, tell me not to." Stop them, and take the initiative to lead them to the summit, as soon as they come, this nameless strange fire will naturally be resolved."

He chased after Li Yi's back, he didn't know what to think of, and his footsteps stopped suddenly: "Wait... wait, the letter said that the inhuman should be wearing a red dress, with a handsome figure and arms like a bird...you... ..."

"We are not the ones you want to wait for," Li Yi said without changing his expression, "Your uncle should be talking about people from the Suzaku tribe, but I am from the Dragon tribe."

Huai Ming: "..."

"But it's harmless," Li Yi shrugged, "Anyway, the Suzaku tribe hasn't come yet, so I'll take a look on their behalf—it would be best if they could come, and I'm planning to go find them."

As he spoke, he walked to the edge of the peak and leaned forward slightly to look out. Peng Yu followed his gaze and saw that his eyes were unobstructed for thousands of miles. Winding like practice.

Standing here with the cold wind blowing from the top of the peak, he inexplicably felt his legs go limp, as if he was about to fall, so he quickly took a step back and patted his chest in shock.

He was about to call the dragon back, but he didn't expect the dragon to come to see the scenery at all. He took a few steps to the northwest corner and jumped down!

"……Hey!"

Peng Yu was so frightened that his body temperature flew out of his fingertips, and he instinctively reached out to grab it, only brushing a corner of the other's clothes.He quickly stood at the place where a certain dragon jumped and looked down, and found that this person did not disappear into the abyss, but just stood on a protruding rock not far away.

Only then did he smash his heart back to his chest, sparks flew as it fell, and he shouted angrily: "You are fucking sick!"

The roar spread far away on the unobstructed mountain top, and someone looked up at the bottom of the cliff in a daze, and saw that person's pale face flashed in the field of vision, turned around and left!

Peng Yu had no choice but to leave, he felt that his heart, liver and lungs were aching with anger - there was a stone step path leading to the rock below the cliff not far away, although the chiseling was rough and unsightly, but in the end it was impossible. Being able to pass people, this guy has a good way to go, but he has to use jumping!

The key is not to say hello!

Peng Yu walked away wrapped in ice, and hid behind a big rock to get angry with himself. Although he didn't know what he was angry about, a dragon would not fall to his death, but after seeing the man jumping off Even with an innocent face, his heart was filled with a hundred "displeasures".

Li Wei stood on the rock and rubbed his chin. He somehow felt that something was wrong, but now that he was down, he had to deal with the business first. When he looked up, he saw a supernatural boulder breaking into his sight, which looked like a lying giant tortoise. Stepping on the stone path that can only accommodate feet, he flashed to the giant tortoise, raised his hand to touch the stone, and suddenly understood.

Then he floated back to the top of the peak lightly, walked a few steps with his hands behind his hands in the astonished eyes of everyone, and looked around calmly, but he didn't see Peng Yu.

Huai Ming folded his hands in his sleeves, already shivering from the cold, and couldn't speak so neatly: "Look... what did you see?"

Li Wei continued to search for someone, and at the same time replied absently: "There is a 'basalt stone' underneath."

Huai Ming gritted his trembling teeth: "Basalt stone?"

Li Yi: "The natural tortoise-shaped boulders are likely to have basalt supernatural power attached - basalt belongs to water, which can suppress the Suzaku Lihuo here."

Huai Ming: "But..."

Li Yi didn't give him a chance to speak, so he interrupted him with a wave of his hand and asked, "Isn't it raining much this summer?"

Huai Ming raised his eyes in surprise, then nodded quickly: "How do you know? Indeed, this year there is a severe lack of precipitation in the Hengshan area, and the water potential of the Xiangjiang River below is three points weaker. At first I thought it was caused by the dry weather and the dry things. The wildfires continued, but it turned out that it didn't seem to have anything to do with it..."

"It's related," Li Yi said, "The basalt stone will continuously accumulate water vapor, thereby suppressing the fire of Suzaku. Once there is a long drought and the replenished water vapor is insufficient, this balance may be broken."

Huai Ming nodded thoughtfully, then shook his head again: "Although there was a drought this year, there were a few heavy rains, which did not cause disasters. In previous years of drought, there was no fire. Why did something happen this year?"

"I'm afraid the answer to this question is in that tree stump." He walked out a few steps as he spoke, as if thinking of something, he said "hmm", "Since you recruited Tianshui, don't you know about that basalt stone?"

Huaiming paused suddenly when he heard the words, his face turned slightly red, he hesitated and said: "There is no such thing as Tianshui, I calculated that there will be snowfall in the next few days, and coaxed the people to make them calm down. If I really have the ability to recruit Tianshui , will you still watch my uncle die?"

The corners of Li Yi's mouth curled up a little, and then fell down quickly. Looking around, he found that there were blind spots everywhere. He really couldn't find where the person was hiding at a glance. He was hesitating whether to let go of the dragon's perception to find it, so he just listened. There was a sound of flapping wings, accompanied by the chirping of a bird.

He looked along the source of the sound, and saw that Soybean was flying behind a big rock, and he felt confident in his heart for a moment, and moved closer there silently with light steps.

Listening to the conversation outside, Peng Yu couldn't hold back his curiosity and wanted to go out to have a look, but his damn self-esteem forced him to stay where he was. But at this time, that little bastard Huangdou gave up on Qian Yuefei and came to harass him. While waving to chase away, trying to control not to make a sound.

However, the next moment, a certain dragon's voice came from next to his ear: "Are you angry?"

Peng Yu froze, he really didn't want to turn around and talk to him, so he put his hand that was waving in the air around his neck and touched his ears, pretending that he didn't hear anything, and turned his head in the opposite direction.

Li Yi simply walked around in front of him, folded his arms around his chest leisurely: "You also often do some 'court death' behaviors, I don't blame you?"

Peng Yu was startled: "When will I..."

"Hush," Li Yi pressed his finger on his lips, "There are still outsiders here, we'll talk about this later, so don't make trouble, come here quickly."

Peng Yu was so angry and funny, what do you mean by "getting awkward"?He said it as if he was hypocritical. If a certain dragon has lived for 3000 years and has not practiced anything else, he has learned how to fight back, right?

He sneered in his heart, got up and sorted his clothes, and went down the steps given by a certain dragon. When he looked up, he saw Huai Ming casting an indescribable gaze at him. His gaze switched back and forth between him and Li Yi, as if silently digesting it. What unacceptable information, finally chose to shut up tightly.

Peng Yu looked at him inexplicably, wondering if all Taoist priests are so sharp now?

Several people walked around the half stump, Huai Ming couldn't hold back and asked, "So what's wrong with this stump?"

Li Yi didn't answer, just waved his hand, the strong wind cut out like a knife, and with a "pop", half of the tree stump that couldn't be burned away from the fire was cut diagonally!

A ray of red light erupted from the exposed tree stump, involuntarily broke into everyone's eyes, Peng Yu couldn't help but raised his hand to block it, and when he looked again, he saw that the scorched tree stump was red like a fire, it turned out to be a A bird egg the size of a human head!

Peng Yu's eyes widened involuntarily - the bird's egg was too strange, the whole egg was a rare red in the world, as if it was about to drip or burn on the human eyeball, the eggshell was covered with bizarre and twisted patterns, Can't make out what pattern it is at all.

His Adam's apple slipped with difficulty: "This... what is this?"

"Suzaku's egg." Li Yi looked calm, as if the situation was expected, "Suzaku belongs to fire, and wood makes fire. All the trees on this mountain have become the nourishment for the hatching of Suzaku's eggs. As for your uncle..."

He looked at Huaiming: "Both Suzaku and Xuanwu can symbolize 'longevity', but Xuanwu's longevity is 'immortality', while Suzaku is a 'cycle of life and death', death and rebirth, yin and yang alternate endlessly."

After hearing these two sentences without beginning and end, Peng Yu couldn't help making a "stop" gesture, and interjected: "Wait, wait, so you mean... this egg is the God of Suzaku?"

"No," Li Yi said, "the Suzaku God has perished regardless of his body and soul, and this mountain is bounded by its remaining divine power. If my predictions are correct, this egg was created by the fire energy from the upper and lower sides of Hengshan Mountain. Transformation, and the Suzaku Ling we are looking for is likely to be on it."

Peng Yu still couldn't find the north, Li Yi was silent for a while, and could only continue to explain: "The 'longevity' of the Suzaku tribe is not for a certain person, but for the entire race. The qi will be scattered between the heaven and the earth, and when the 'qi' gathers again, new Suzaku eggs will be produced, this is a big reincarnation—do you understand me when I say this?"

This time Peng Yu nodded as if he had suddenly realized: "So, the Suzaku Clan has children not through sexual intercourse between men and women, but... er, breaking up and reorganizing?"

Li Yi: "..."

Although it seems to be true, why is it so strange that these words came out of Young Master Peng's mouth.

Huai Ming's expression suddenly became very subtle, and Li Yi coughed lightly and continued the voice interrupted by Peng Yu: "People who practice Taoism also have the saying of 'emergence and immortality', and Suzaku's 'Longevity' is also a kind of 'emergence' , to a certain extent, the two lead to the same goal. Maybe Master Qingyan is willing to sacrifice for this Suzaku egg because of this, and because he knows that he is about to ride a crane when he is old."

"But..." Huai Ming seemed to be a little hard to accept this statement, "Although the uncle is old, he is still in good health. In my opinion, he is not so casual... a person who becomes immortal."

Li Yi nodded: "So, then I have another guess—maybe the Suzaku Clan has reached some kind of agreement with your uncle to worship the Suzaku God in the Hengshan area, and I think your uncle will definitely not refuse their request. "

He looked at the other party's expression, and continued to add: "I have heard that there is such a ritual among the Suzaku tribe, if the Suzaku egg cannot be broken for some reason, you can use other animals or people as a 'life sacrifice', and use life as death. To die to live, to break and then to build."

Peng Yu was confused when he heard this, and felt that these nagging things were really troublesome, so he simply turned his head and let his mind go.Huai Ming fell silent, and after a long time said a little stiffly: "Anyway, I respect my uncle's choice, I hope he has... fulfilled his wish."

Peng Yu spread his hands: "So what should we do now? Where do you think Suzaku Ling is, inside the egg? Are we going to open the egg?"

Li Yi looked at him in surprise, and nodded: "If you are not afraid that the Suzaku tribe will seek revenge on you, you can dig it. It is best to drag out the chicks inside and roast it, and you can add another dish to us."

Peng Yu: "..."

Li Yi twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and said seriously: "Let's not touch it for now. Since the Suzaku tribe knows that there is an egg here, they will definitely not let it go. I guess this egg will be broken in a few days after receiving the life sacrifice." Shell, we will temporarily stay in Guangtian Temple, and make plans after it breaks its shell."

He raised his hand and lifted a stone to cover the tree hole, and the few people wandered around the hill for a while, and then returned to Guangtian Temple.

Knowing the source of the strange fire, Huai Ming sorted out some excuses to explain to the people at the foot of the mountain. Young Master Peng even gave him an ingot of gold and asked him to pick good wine and vegetables to come up the mountain.

So Master Huai Ming, who had always practiced Qing Dynasty, bit the bullet and patronized the tavern in the town. Under the strange gaze of a group of people, he finally bowed his waist for such a vulgar thing as "money".

The four of them temporarily stayed in Guangtian temple, which added a bit of popularity to the deserted Taoist temple. With Young Master Peng who can't stay idle, there is no shortage of chickens and dogs jumping around.

Huai Ming was so annoyed that he was forced to ask him how he saw the thunder from the Dragon King. It turned out that there was a small stone pool behind the Taoist temple called "Thunder Pond". In the middle, the golden snake will flash randomly, as if reappearing the image of thunder and lightning.

Knowing this, Peng Yu looked at Huai Ming with playful eyes again - this Taoist priest has no real skills after all, but he is quite good at pretending to be a ghost.

Regarding this, Huai Ming dared to be angry and dare not speak out, he only felt that he had been wronged for no reason, and wished to send these big Buddhas away as soon as possible, in order to keep his ears clean.

Several people lived in the Taoist temple for three days, and on the third night there was a strong wind, Peng Yu was blown by the all-pervasive cool wind so that he wanted to urinate frequently. A few trips to the toilet.

Li Yi seemed to be a little annoyed by his constant waking up at night, so he carried the quilt unjustly and went to the next door to find Jiuyuan.

When Peng Yu went to the toilet for the fifth time, he was in a daze, feeling that he hadn't slept well all night.He yawned top-heavily, and was about to open the door to go back to the house, when he caught something strange out of the corner of his eye, and when he turned his head, he saw a sky-high flame rising far away from the top of the mountain.

The author has something to say: Note:

1. Lei Chi refers to the current Lei Chi (of course it is the one on Zhurong Peak...)

2. There is no concept of "phoenix" in this article. It is misleading to say that Suzaku is one of the "five phoenixes". It is Suzaku that symbolizes the south and fire. Said, not ancient myths and legends.

3. The setting of the Suzaku symbolizing the "cycle of life and death" is based on the ancient people's understanding of the Suzaku. You can go to the Internet to learn more about this.

4. In order to make the setting less complicated, the concept of "Vulcan Zhurong" is weakened here. Chidi can be directly understood as the god of Suzaku, and Suzaku is the god of the south enshrined by Taoism. Many settings in this article are related to Taoism.

5. That... Soybean belongs to the Jinwu clan, it really has nothing to do with the Suzaku clan.