The bright moon sits on the ground

As Bai Xuan said, this sudden heavy rain came and went quickly.

The sound of the rain has stopped. The accumulated water hanging on the willow leaves and the eaves has not disappeared. It flows down and falls on the ground, intermittently, making a crisp sound, like a wooden barrel falling into a well. ? There was a sound of "tom", but there was no echo, and the splash was not big.

There is a layer of tulle hanging over the West Lake. It is like a curling water mist, accompanied by the unfading brightness of the moonlight. It looks like a white snake coiled around it.

Now that Xu Lang has gone back to the world to see it, and the rain has stopped, it's time for them to leave Lin'an before the night is over.

Before leaving, Xu Lang looked back leisurely. He knew that this was not the last glance, but the first after the vicissitudes of life. ?Full day and return at night, plant in spring and harvest in autumn.And Kunlun stands between the two worlds, making them disconnected,? Those unreasonable guesses, spread in words or words, will never stop.

Bai Xuan stood not far away, drying the rainwater off his body, Xu Lang didn't make him wait for too long, so he collected his thoughts and walked over.

Xu Lang originally thought that they came so fast, it was just a matter of opening and closing their eyes, and Lin'an would arrive, and it should be about the same when they left, but he didn't expect that when he opened his eyes again following Bai Xuan's words, there was no Xuanpu Hall in front of him. , but another place that he is very familiar with - remote and desolate villages, villagers who speak strange dialects, and, towering black mountains.

Not long ago, it was still raining in Lin'an, and there was still water on the ground, but there was no sign of rain in the remote villages thousands of miles away. , poured straight towards the world.

He immediately remembered the stupid things he had done, and counted them in detail. The first one, he left here immediately without listening to the woman’s advice; After noticing the strangeness, he lied to himself that it was an illusion.

Thinking about it this way, Xu Lang just felt that he couldn't blame others, it was clearly a trap and he could happily jump into it.

However, this time he didn't come alone, he came with Bai Xuan, and the Xuanpu God Lord was beside him. It seems that entering Kunlun is not a big deal, and it is not dangerous at all——Xu Lang smiled wryly, thinking To hide the melancholy in my heart.

It was no different from last time. Every household in the village closed their doors and windows tightly. The poultry became restless. Carrion-eating jackdaws refused to pass by here, and the sound of the wind was silent, making the towering mountain peaks and the frighteningly close full moon all the more strange.

It's really weird, at least Xu Lang has never seen any rocks on a mountain move.

He suddenly wanted to ask a lot of questions, for example, did people climb this mountain during the full moon before him? What do you want to do?

But it was so quiet here that Xu Lang could hardly breathe, let alone break the silence.

Bai Xuan didn't move or speak, he looked up at the mountain, Xu Lang couldn't see his expression, he could only see his raised jaw and eyes that gradually became darker, so Xu Lang couldn't see his expression. Lang also followed Bai Xuan's line of sight to look over, not surprisingly, he didn't see anything, he opened his eyes wide and stared for a long time, and only looked away when his eye sockets became dry and unbearable.

Then, Bai Xuan suddenly uttered a sentence at this moment, breaking the silence and frightening Xu Lang.

After realizing what Bai Xuan had said, Xu Lang's beating heart didn't feel relieved, but beat faster instead.

"Someone has climbed the mountain." Shen Jun said, with a cold tone, "One is dead, and the other is still alive."

died?As if Xu Lang didn't understand these two words, he murmured and repeated several times before finally confirming that someone climbed the mountain called Kunlun, which belonged to the world, and then - died, why? and die?Did he cross the line?

"You asked me before if mortals who chose to cross the ditch by themselves were stupid. I told you that it was stupid, but you didn't cross it by yourself." Bai Xuan said, his voice seemed to be forced As if something covered it up, it didn't wake up the villagers, and didn't disturb the trembling poultry, "You are very lucky, just happened to meet Chu Lang's fall, the formation was loose, and you were drawn into the fairyland. Since ancient times, those who wanted to step on Those who entered Kunlun, without exception, all died on this mountain."

Xu Lang felt that his throat was dry, and forced out three words from between his lips and teeth: "Why?"

"Because they are impatient and will devour the creatures that stay too long." Bai Xuan replied, "Didn't you already see it?"

After living for 25 years, Xu Lang finally knew how to write the word "horror". It was not the kind of shock he had before, but the fear from the bottom of his heart. Climbing along some old memories of him, he felt his scalp tingle. Numbness, the pain in the skull seemed to be lifted up, and the cold air was pouring into it, and he was almost out of breath, but he still heard the voice in his heart.

Those dark rocks are indeed alive.

Trailing, waiting, pressing every step of the way was not his illusion.

Just a little bit, he was also swallowed.

You tell me, this is fairyland?Isn't this some kind of hell?

He couldn't believe it.

Xu Lang's teeth were chattering. He was so frightened that he didn't even know where he was shaking and where he wasn't shaking. He simply let the cartilage tremble, and his hands trembled like chaff. At least he didn't have the legs to kneel down. Then he opened his mouth and said a word, the sound broke, which was similar to the sound of a dilapidated thatched cottage being blown by the wind, but he still insisted on speaking.

"Tell me, tell me, there is still one person alive, right?" Xu Lang suppressed his vibrato, and then hiccupped again. He really hated this untimely interruption, covered his mouth, and said intermittently, "I If you want to save him, will you stop him?"

Bai Xuan lowered his eyes and saw Xu Lang's body trembling like a candle flame that was about to be blown out. It was completely opposite to the bold words he said, and his voice was also shaking so badly that several words were out of tune, so he asked: "What are you talking about?" How do you know what kind of person you want to save?"

"I don't know, but when I set foot on Kunlun, I didn't think about it at all, and I didn't covet the so-called fairyland."

Xu Lang was panting. Although he still had many questions to ask, the timing was obviously not right.

Bai Xuan asked: "Do you have any weapons?"

Xu Lang said, "No."

Bai Xuan asked again: "Can you do light work?"

Xu Lang said, "No."

Bai Xuan took a deep breath and said, "Then, why do you still want to save?"

Xu Lang couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed Bai Xuan's skirt and shook him, "Human life is at stake, life is at stake! It's too late!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes blurred, and the black rocks like ruins came into view.Xu Lang was thinking, wouldn't it be better if it was like this earlier, and loosened Bai Xuan's lapel, patted his chest, smoothed out the wrinkles for him, and muttered: "Thank you."

The good news is that the person is still alive, but the bad news is that, according to the sound, it was a child who entered the mountain.

Xu Lang felt that the outer robe was too troublesome, so he took it off casually, wrapped it around the crook of his arm, and ran over following the sound in three steps at a time. He soon saw what he expected.

No, it can't be said that it was expected, at least he didn't expect those rocks to have weird looks.

With ferocious and distorted faces like wild animals, these dark rocks surrounded the child. This scene is really familiar, similar to what Xu Lang experienced at that time, but he is very glad that these monsters did not show their fangs to him at that time .

Well, the legs began to tremble uncontrollably again, Xu Lang gathered himself together, his mind was spinning quickly, and he began to figure out what to do.

Bai Xuan stood behind him, watched for a while, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Xu Langben was going to make a noise to lure away those monsters. Now that Bai Xuan was coming, he had an idea, coughed twice, and said softly: "Please come forward, the wise and brave God of Xuanpu." OK?"

He wasn't the kind of stunned young man who decided to give up after he calmed down. He was alive and well, and he wanted to live for a few more years.

Bai Xuan was stunned for a moment, he probably didn't expect Xu Lang to be so thick-skinned, he smiled muffledly, and said, "Yes."

Xu Lang just breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect Bai Xuan to walk out of his hiding place. He walked steadily step by step, as if he was strolling in a garden. Suddenly, the monsters who had been staring at the child all looked at him, and their eyes met. Xu Lang thought that a fierce battle was inevitable, but Bai Xuan always surprised him—those monsters just hesitated for a moment, then turned and ran away.

It's that simple?He was a little puzzled, why Bai Xuan refused to show up for something that was not even considered a simple effort?

The child was lying on the ground, dirty all over, as if he hadn't realized what had happened, curled up in a ball, trembling all over, Xu Lang was about to walk over, but he caught a glimpse of a monster that had already left, and he didn't know when it would come again. Turning back, his eyes were red and murderous, he didn't seem to want to talk to them, he panicked, and quickly shouted: "Bai Xuan!"

There was only a loud noise, and a pitch-black flame burst out, sweeping away the rock in an instant, and it was not known where to throw it.

Looking at it this way, Bai Xuan didn't need his reminder at all, Xu Lang cursed in his heart, and ran over quickly.

"This, you won't throw it into the village, will you?" Seeing Bai Xuan shaking his head, Xu Lang felt relieved, and saw the child carefully sizing them up, his eyes lingering on the antler mask, and said , "Aren't you bored wearing a mask?"

Bai Xuan vaguely understood what he meant, lowered his eyes, and exchanged a glance with the startled and frightened child, probably thinking that mortals are troublesome sometimes, he didn't say anything more, groped for the buckle on his temples, and clicked , took off the slightly hideous and weird mask, and finally revealed his face. At the same time, the black clothes on his body turned into armor and gradually faded away.

The child couldn't take his eyes off the child. Seeing him bewildered, Xu Lang reached out and waved his hand a few times in front of his eyes, drawing his attention, and asked, "Looking at your clothes, you should be from the village, right? Now that you know where you are, What's going to happen, why are you still here?"

"Because an uncle came here today. He didn't listen to our advice and insisted on going up the mountain on the night of the full moon. I really couldn't let it go. Stop him before he goes up the mountain." The child wrinkled his face, looking like he was about to cry, "When I came, he was almost eaten. I turned around and wanted to run, but they quickly chased me Coming up, the mountain is steep, I ran for a while, slipped and was caught."

Hearing this, Xu Lang smiled, bent down, hugged the child's thin shoulders affectionately, and said in a very gentle tone, "Brother, I want to ask you a question. What were you doing on the night of the last full moon?"

The child was in a daze, not knowing why he asked this, "I'm sleeping."

Bai Xuan was at the side, and understood that Xu Lang's heart was half full of good intentions, while the other half was full of bad intentions.

After answering Xu Lang's question, the child excitedly raised his face, stared at Bai Xuan closely, and asked, "You, are you a god? I have heard from the elders in the past that this Kunlun hides the gods." Yes, is that true? Your name is again..."

But Bai Xuan tied the mask around his waist, looked at him, and just said: "You should go."

Seeing that the child was gloomy and depressed, Xu Lang poked his waist with his elbow, leaned into his ear, and whispered, "Hurry up and go back to sleep, and I'll tell you next time, it's too dangerous outside. , the gods still have things to do."

The child was obviously coaxed, and immediately cheered up, and whispered: "God, my family has passed down the art of carving stone statues from generation to generation, and I have always wanted to carve a statue for the village, but there is no comparison, so I have to give up. This time I happened to meet you two , I will never forget your looks, I will not sleep when I go back, I must write down your looks exactly."

"Just him is enough. I usually don't show up, so keep it secret." Xu Lang replied casually, "Go to bed early to grow taller."

The child wanted to say something, but Bai Xuan raised his hand to make a tactic, Xu Lang only felt that his hand was empty, and the person disappeared.

Xu Lang reckoned that Bai Xuan should have sent him back, patted the ashes on his clothes, put on his robe, and rubbed it over to curry favor with him, "Thank you for your help just now, if God hadn't frightened those monsters away, my little My life should be gone, after I go back, I will be an ox or a horse, Xu Lang, I will die, but I still have one thing I want to ask God, I wonder if God can help me?"

Quickly shouting "Baixuan", and pretending to call "Shenjun" or "Xianjun", Baixuan pressed the center of his eyebrows and asked, "What?"

Hearing his promise, Xu Lang restrained his smile and said with a serious expression, "Where did those monsters come from?"

Bai Xuan's hand paused, then slowly lowered it, staring at the mortal in front of him, "You really want to know that much?"

He wanted to know very much at first, but when Bai Xuan said this, Xu Lang suddenly didn't want to know so much. An ominous premonition surged up, he said haha, his eyes wandered, trying to fool him, "Well, actually, I don’t really want to know.”

However, the God of Xuanpu did not give Xu Lang another chance to choose. The bright moon in the sky cast his eyes on him, and the afterglow like washing was laid out on his plain white sleeve robe, like a small pool overflowing, and his words were very light. There was a long ending, each word paused, Xu Lang had to hear clearly, "Those are all immortals who died under my hands, every inch under your feet is made of flesh and blood."

Xu Lang's heart was pounding, he felt that he had received too much fright tonight, half of the three souls and seven souls were scared away, he pressed his heaving chest, trying to tell himself that this was Bai Xuan's joke But Bai Xuan's eyes are dark, and he is not a person who likes to joke. Xu Lang is very clear, he really hates his own knowing that this cold mountain rock seems to have become hot to the feet.

"Tell me, mortals are both good and bad, and gods have flesh and blood, as you said." Bai Xuan's face suddenly looked like a ghost, his eyes were like phosphorous fire, and the pupils slowly narrowed, like a slender willow Ye, "And let me tell you, the fairyland in the eyes of ordinary people is not the fairyland, and Kunlun is not a way out, but a dead end, a natural moat, and if you fall into the abyss, you will be smashed to pieces and eat your flesh and blood."

Bai Xuan raised his arms, and the cuffs slid down his wrists. Xu Lang thought he was going to kill someone, so he couldn't move for a while, thinking, if he ran, would he be pierced through his chest from behind? Reasonable, will die even worse.

Just when he was hesitating, Bai Xuan stretched out his hand, Xu Lang closed his eyes in fright, and then felt his eyelids being touched lightly. Have done this before.

The scorching breath caressed his cheeks, hotter than the flames of Yanyun Mountain. Xu Lang no longer had to rack his brains to think about the answer to the question just now. The facts had already answered him: Bai Xuan had touched his eyes before, right in front of him. The day he fell into Kunlun.

Because, when he carefully opened his eyes, the scene in front of him changed.

The scene he saw before was like a false illusion. He originally thought it was a curtain, but it was actually a stage. He thought it was a stage, but it turned out to be a curtain.Blood red filled his vision, extremely glaring, twisted lines grew wantonly, the afterglow of the moonlight turned into pools of blood, exuding a rotten breath, and in front of him—the god in front of him was no longer human, and the huge fox was Standing in front of him, the nine tails spread out one by one, like a coquettish Bingdi lotus, covering the sky and burying the mountain peak.

The white fox stared down at Xu Lang condescendingly, the pattern on its forehead was like blood, then it opened its mouth, revealing its white animal teeth.

"What you see at this time, what you are in, is the Kunlun in the eyes of mortals."

Its sound is like the evening bell of Nanping Mountain, thick and clear, echoing on the top of Kunlun Mountain, and then dissipating.