When the magic flower blooms

Although the rammed earth path is smoother than the overgrown grassland, the mountain is full of moisture, and the bare muddy ground is occasionally covered with a few patches of moss, making it slippery and dangerous.

The naga continued to walk upwards with difficulty, and soon some strange things began to appear on both sides of the path-it seemed to be some shrines.Less than half the height of the body, but Danying carvings, carved beams and painted buildings, it is as gorgeous as an ordinary palace.

How could there be such an exquisite creation on such a desolate mountain?

He couldn't help but leaned over curiously to look into the niche, and found some strange clay statues enshrined inside.Human body and animal head, it seems that it should represent various demihumans.

Although the shrine is gorgeous, there is not a single word left on the four sides and inside and outside.Therefore, even though he was extremely curious, Naga could only move forward with doubts.

The rammed earth path has been climbing towards the height of Wendao Peak.After walking for about half an hour, Naga suddenly stopped.

Because the road stops abruptly.

He was used to seeing small and delicate shrines, but the gazebo in front of him at this moment seemed to be a colossus.There are no couplets or plaques, but there is a bowl of water and a few fruits on the stone table in the center.

After entering the mountain, he never saw anyone else, so Naga naturally understood that these were all prepared for him.So he went to the gazebo and sat down, and swallowed the water and fruit in full, which quenched his thirst very much.

After a short rest, he walked on through the gazebo.I saw another bluestone road appeared on the ground, which was flatter and more spacious.

From no road to dirt road to stone road, which mountain will have a smoother path as it goes up?Naga vaguely felt that there was something mysterious about it, so he continued to pay attention to his surroundings.

After passing the pavilion, there are still shrines on the side of the road, and they are larger in size and more exquisite in shape.Not only that, Naga soon discovered that the statues enshrined inside were also somewhat mysterious—almost the same size as real animals, all of which were ligers, bears, wolves, birds of prey, and large snakes.

In other words, the ones enshrined in these shrines should all be real umbrella species.

This is obviously different from those small shrines just now.

Naga was thoughtful, but kept walking, and continued to climb upwards.After more than ten minutes, a bluestone platform appeared in front of me, surrounded by stone benches, which seemed to be a place for people to rest.

But he didn't sit down right away. Instead, he turned his surprised eyes to the same huge monster on the hillside on the right.

It was a huge animal stone sculpture nearly three meters high, about half of its body had been buried in the soil slope, and the remaining half was covered with moss.

The Naga could not identify the species of the animal, firstly because the statue was crooked in the soil and the head was broken.The second is because it has wings on its back, but it also has the sharp teeth and fish scales of beasts.

It's almost like a legendary monster.

Judging from the degree of damage to the rocks at the height of the stone platform, this boulder should have rolled down the hillside all the way.Does this mean that there will be more such huge stone statues high up on the mountain?

Naga couldn't help becoming curious.

After resting on the stone platform for a while, we set off again, and the rest of the stone road is still very long.When the road came to an end, the overwhelming cloud and mist shrouded from a high place, bringing everything into mystery.

In this cloud and mist, the two-meter-wide bluestone road turned into white marble steps, with exquisite carvings on the handrails on both sides.

Feeling that the clouds and fog obscured his sight, Naga stretched out his hand and waved it, only to hear the breeze blowing gently by his ears, and his eyes suddenly became clear.

At the end of the white jade steps, a rolling palace appeared, magnificent and beautiful.

On the high platform between the palace and the palace, there are huge stone statues of monsters.It seems that the one that was leaning on the hillside before should have fallen from here.

Naga watched while walking, and continued to walk along the white marble avenue, only to see a figure suddenly appearing in front of him.

It was Mr. Lu.

The old man did not know how he got up the mountain, but he was standing with his hands behind his back, looking at Naga with a smile.

"You're finally here."

Naga walked to the side of the master, unable to help but find an answer to the doubts along the way.However, the old man ignored it and only led him straight ahead.

Two people raised their legs and stepped into a palace.I saw that the towering towers inside were all huge statues more than ten meters high.The top of the temple was shrouded in clouds and mist, and even the facial features of the statue could not be seen clearly.

However, Naga had a creepy feeling—he felt that these statues were all alive, looking down at him silently under the cover of clouds and mist.

In the depths of the main hall is a huge copper door with complicated patterns, but it is not clear what pattern it is for a while.

Just when Naga was curious, he noticed that Mr. Lu had stopped in his tracks.

"Go in, there are all the answers you want inside."

"Sir, won't you go in with me?"

Mr. Lu shook his head: "I'm just a guide, the things inside the door are for you."

That being the case, Naga didn't hesitate, and immediately stretched out his hands to push the door.

The seemingly heavy copper door is as light as a feather, and it opens silently to both sides with just a push.

At the same moment, Naga found that the surrounding environment had completely changed.

The light is still dim, but the huge god statues around have completely disappeared, and Mr. Lu who led the way is also missing.He found himself standing on a high cliff, and the vast expanse in front, back, left and right turned out to be pure and empty nothingness.

Although it is nothingness, it does not seem to be nothing.

Naga squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and found that the midair was covered with countless dim and subtle light spots, like floating dust under the sun, extremely small.

These floating dust are not standing still, but are constantly shrinking in the same direction.The floating dust collides and merges with the floating dust, becoming more obvious light spots.Spots of light meet and become brighter balls of light.

All of these continue to shrink and converge, and finally form a huge, bright and eye-catching light ball in the center of nothingness, slowly rotating and emitting colorful halos.

Immediately afterwards, under Naga's astonished gaze, the huge ball of light began to collapse again, and the scattered starlight formed some familiar patterns in the sky.

Dragon, Xuanwu, Suzaku and Tiger, these four images of mythical beasts representing the four directions, surround a mountain formed by the gathering of light.Like the starry sky surrounding the earth, it is bright and magnificent.

But this is not the end of the changes, the light is still constantly diverging.The outlines of the four gods and beasts began to become blurred, and the behemoth was broken down into more and smaller beast images.

Xuanwu decomposes into turtles and snakes, Suzaku transforms into countless birds, big and small, white tiger transforms into many four-legged beasts, and dragon differentiates into more...

Unknowingly, the originally empty sky is filled with all kinds of creatures, flying, jumping and swimming, which is dizzying.

However, the scene that was as bright as fireworks blooming did not last long. As the light continued to scatter, the creatures finally disappeared in the darkness.Even the tall and majestic mountain in the center gradually became lower, and finally turned into a flash of shining dust, dissipating into the invisible.

So everything in front of him returned to the way Naga saw it at first - muddled and nothingness.

Immediately afterwards, even this nothingness disappeared.He found himself back in the palace again, standing under the silent gaze of the fairy statue.

He was stunned for a moment, then turned around, and met the eyes of Mr. Lu who was waiting by the side.

"How?" The old man asked with a smile.

"Wonderful." Naga let out a long breath.

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The feeling of being watched by many gods is really uncomfortable. After walking out of the bronze gate, the Naga did not stop in the palace.He followed Mr. Lu back to the outdoors and took several deep breaths.

"Is this the peak of Asking Peak?"

He found a fork on one side of the palace, leading directly to the back of the palace, where there seemed to be a way to continue climbing.

"No." Mr. Lu did not hide it, "but this is the limit for you and me."

"What kind of person can continue to go up?"

"I don't know. All I know is that in the past five or six hundred years, no one has had this qualification."

"Could it be that the Dragon Emperor can't do it?"

"...It seems that you still don't fully understand what you just saw."

Mr. Lu shook his head, turned around and walked towards the steps down the mountain.Naga was thoughtful, and hurriedly followed.

The master and the apprentice went down the mountain along the way they came.Mr. Lu was silent, but Naga was still thinking about what he saw in the bronze door just now.

Until they returned to the side of the monster stone statue that fell down on the half slope.There was a sudden "thump" in Naga's heart, and he finally opened his eyes completely.

"Sir, I understand!"

He stopped in his tracks, "This road up and down the mountain is actually the same as what I saw behind the copper gate!"

"Oh? Tell me carefully."

Mr. Lu stopped in his tracks, sat down on a nearby stone on the stone platform, and waved at him.

Naga also walked to his side and sat down, pointing to the bluestone road under his feet.

"Da Dao Feng, the Tao is not only at our feet and in our hearts, but also in our blood. On this road, the higher the place, the wider and flatter the road, and the more gorgeous and high-end the shrines beside the road. In modern terms Come on, the foot of the mountain is the construction species, the mountainside is the dominant species, the top of the mountain is the umbrella species, and the top of the mountain is the legendary species."

"It's interesting." Mr. Lu nodded, "Continue."

"The top of the mountain is steep and noble, and the foot of the mountain is open and ordinary. The higher you go, the stronger the demihuman's ability and higher social status."

Speaking of this, Naga suddenly changed the subject.

"But as time goes by, no matter how high the mountain is, it will return to dust. No matter how powerful the demi-humans, no matter how noble the bloodlines, will be transformed into the power of the group through generations of reproduction. One legendary species will become ten umbrellas. Protective species, then become a hundred dominant species, a thousand constructive species... and finally become all living beings, most ordinary people."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Lu stroked his beard and asked a question.

"Since demihumans are destined to become ordinary people, what do you think of yourself?"

"Me? Am I just a mutation?"

Naga couldn't help laughing, his eyes subconsciously wandered around, and finally fell on the dilapidated stone beast.

"I'm like this stone statue, which accidentally rolled down from a high place and fell into a place where it didn't belong. Although it looks like it stands out from the crowd, it still can't escape the result of being weathered and disappeared in the end."

Speaking of this, he laughed again: "But you don't have to think about it so much. Anyway, I won't have any offspring, so it should disappear much faster than this stone."

"Not necessarily." Mr. Lu stroked his beard and asked him again: "Don't you want to be the leader of all demihumans?"

"You ask if this big rock wants to be the boss of other small rocks?"

Naga smiled wryly; "I think it wants to turn around from this sloping mud and find a suitable position. It would be perfect if it can have a partner. Dominate it? What age is it? Is this interesting?"

"It's really not interesting."

Mr. Lu stood up, shook his robe, and prepared to continue walking down the mountain.

But Naga stopped him: "Sir, I have a doubt."

"Say."

"Since low-level demihumans will eventually surpass high-level demihumans to become the masters of this world, why are there so many academies on Yinshan that are divided according to grades, and they are still consolidating the advantages of high-level demihumans—isn't this against the law? Is it the way of heaven?"

The frank words made Mr. Lu burst out laughing.

"You're right, this is indeed perverting. It's just that Yinshan is not all a clean and inactive place, and it is also restrained by many aspects. Whatever the society is, it will be what it is; if the society does not change, Yinshan will not Change."

Naga chewed the meaning of these words for a while, and suddenly remembered the person who was hanging on the tip of his heart.

"I think if Xiao Ming is allowed to come with me, he will definitely have a lot to discuss with you."

"Then let him come."

Mr. Lu waved his hand, and without further ado, he strode down the mountain in stride.

The author has something to say: Asian humans will eventually disappear completely, just like a mountain becomes a sand dune, and the gravel is blown away by the wind, leaving no trace