Ding Zhou Ji

Youzhou is surrounded on three sides by the precipitous and towering Wanjue Mountain, and on the other side is facing the undercurrent, turbulent waves and treacherous Sunset Sea.

If ordinary people want to enter the territory of Youzhou, they have two options - land and water.

The land route passes through Anzhou, detours to a place where the mountains are slightly gentler in Wanjue Mountain, and then passes through the natural canyon there.

As for the waterway, you can start by boat from the main river channel of each state that leads directly to the Sunset Sea. When you reach the mouth of the sea, you need to transfer to a special ship approved by the government, and you can land in Youzhou after traveling on the Sunset Sea for more than a month.

In comparison, although the waterway is slower, it is safer and more secure.

However, the land route across the Wanjue Mountains where "birds fly away in thousands of mountains and people disappear in thousands of paths" is more suitable for desperate smugglers or passers-by with urgent matters.

Yin Fuque and Xiao Yimo chose the land route this time.

When the sun was three poles high, the two entered the cliff canyon where the mountains on both sides stood vertically like knives and axes.

This place is called a canyon, but in fact it is just a path that only allows two people to walk side by side.

This path is located at the junction of two big mountains, even at noon when the sun is shining brightly, only a faint ray of sunlight can barely squeeze in through the gap that is so high.

Xiao Yimo lowered his head and walked cautiously on this dark and slippery rocky ground all year round. Occasionally, his feet slipped, so he stretched out his hands to hold on to the cold cliff next to him, neither wanting to be eager for help, but also always gritted his teeth not out.

Yin Fuque faced her silence and stubbornness that she had kept since the conversation by the river.In addition to helplessness and heartache, there is only self-deprecating.

He knew that he had hurt her heart very much.But he couldn't even say an apology.

After walking silently for about an hour.I don't know if it was because the sky suddenly turned cloudy.The canyon gradually became dark like night.Rao has deep internal strength and extraordinary eyesight.At most, you can only see the general situation three steps away.

Yin Fuque felt something strange in his heart.Seeing that Xiao Yimo just looked down at the road and didn't notice this change.So he secretly redoubled his vigilance.

Just at this time.Xiao Yimo's feet slipped again.He hurriedly supported the rock wall to stabilize his figure.However, he suddenly felt that the originally hard and damp mountain rock under his hands turned like cotton.It sank suddenly.She didn't have time to blurt out an exclamation.Then the whole person fell in at once.

before falling into complete darkness.She saw Yin Fuque who was tightly enveloped by a mass of dense black air.He was desperately trying to extend that firm and warm hand to her...

This is an endless green bamboo forest, obviously without a trace of wind, but it keeps swaying and swaying, as if a graceful girl is dancing against the wind.The soft rustling of the bamboo leaves was like weeping and complaining, like a sad song, and like sighs of resentment and emptiness.

Xiao Yimo was standing alone in the bamboo forest, his heart was full of bewilderment.

After falling into the canyon cliff that suddenly became soft and collapsed, she immediately lost consciousness.When he woke up, he found that he was in this strange bamboo sea unharmed.

Although there was infinite weirdness here, she didn't feel the slightest sense of panic or fear.It's just that I always feel that there is a kind of bleak loneliness that is so thick that it cannot be resolved, lingering in my heart.

She looked around a few times, and just wanted to step forward to find out, but suddenly remembered the Yin Fuque who was surrounded by the black mist before she fell, and couldn't help feeling very anxious.

She thought to herself, this bamboo grove and that black mist do not look like a normal scene in the world, so there is no doubt that it is a monster, so she hurriedly took out the willow flute that had been placed next to her body.

Perhaps it was because of the spell blessed by Zhong Kui, so after so many days, the willow flute is still as fresh and emerald as if it had just been picked.

However, she held the willow flute infused with charms, but she didn't know how to use it at all.After playing two circles on the spot, she had no choice but to bring the willow flute to her lips, and tremblingly played the "Unknown Song" that Yin Fuque taught her that day.Secretly praying to God and praying to Buddha, I hope that the tune played by the willow flute with the charm of subduing demons and enchantments can relieve Yin Fuque's crisis; to their side.

Unexpectedly, the piece was just halfway through when it was interrupted by a sudden chuckle.Xiao Yimo followed the sound and saw a slender and delicate figure slowly swaying from the depths of the bamboo forest.

"You... who are you?" Xiao Yimo boldly asked first.

With another gentle chuckle, that figure actually stood in front of Xiao Yimo in the blink of an eye.

Shocked, Xiao Yimo hurriedly took a step back, the green bamboo she accidentally bumped into immediately swayed happily, and then led the whole bamboo forest to sway happily, as if some grand and festive song and dance performance was being held .

The figure tilted its head to see Xiao Yimo's panic at this time, raised his sleeves to cover his mouth, and a burst of extremely crisp laughter poured out from his mouth and sleeves, and Nuo Da's bamboo forest danced with her expression again Get more and more hearty.There seems to be some kind of internal connection between the two, and they seem to be one.

Xiao Yimo managed to calm down, only to realize that this figure turned out to be a young and beautiful girl.She was dressed in a light blue dress; her long ink-like hair was casually draped over her shoulders, hanging down to her ankles; no makeup was applied, and her eyes were clear and bright.

Standing in the bamboo forest, she has a sense of mistyness that does not belong to the world, like a wisp of green smoke, which will disappear silently at any moment.

However, her soft and boneless figure exudes a coquettish and unparalleled charm everywhere; her slightly raised eyebrows and eyes seem to contain all kinds of hatred and affection, even Laughing with joy, can't reduce the sadness and boundless evil in it.

Such two completely different temperaments appeared in one person at the same time, and they could be integrated so seamlessly, which really made Xiao Yimo dumbfounded and dazed for a moment.

At some point, the girl had let go of her mouth-covering hand and stopped her crisp laughter.She still tilted her head slightly, looked at Xiao Yimo's absent-mindedness, and asked softly with a smile: "You are not a man, why can you look at me like this?"

Xiao Yimo was embarrassed when he heard the words, and became more and more at a loss. He stuttered and couldn't speak a complete sentence: "I...I didn't...you...you...".

She just felt that in front of this strange woman, she seemed like an uncivilized ignorant baby, no matter what she said or did, it was just to make a laugh.

Accompanied by a soft sigh, the girl walked lightly to the side of a towering bamboo tree, looked up at the green bamboo leaves: "Unexpectedly, although you look exactly like that girl surnamed Xiao, but There is such a big difference in temper and heart."

Her words had no beginning and no end, and Xiao Yimo was in a fog for no reason, but he didn't know where to ask.I had no choice but to continue to stand on the spot foolishly, watching her trance as if immersed in a distant alien world.

After a long time like this, she finally came to her senses, turned around leaning against the green bamboo, and grinned at Xiao Yimo: "I'm just in a daze again, am I?"

Seeing Xiao Yimo shaking his head with a shy smile, he continued to sigh: "I always forget that your time is no more precious than mine!"

Speaking of this, his eyes gradually became distant, as if he was about to wander away again.But fortunately this time she woke up quickly, lowered her head and brushed the hair next to her ear and continued: "Forget it, let's get to the point quickly!".

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and made a false move, the blood flame talisman hanging around Xiao Yimo's neck broke free from the gold chain by itself and flew towards her hand.

"They call you a blood flame talisman, right? It's almost 1000 years..."

Her low sigh like talking to herself caused Xiao Yimo to suppress the exclamation in his voice: "You...you actually know this blood flame talisman...you...who are you?"

"How could I not know it?" The woman smiled lightly, holding the blood flame talisman in her hand to look at it carefully, and said: "Back then, I was the one who left it to the girl surnamed Xiao."

Xiao Yimo looked at the jade pendant's blood in her hand in a daze, and suddenly remembered what his ancestors said that day, and couldn't help but turn pale with shock: "You...you are that...that basilisk?! "

"Snake monster?" The woman tilted her head and thought for a while, then said seriously: "This strange word doesn't sound good. I still prefer people to call me a snake monster." After saying that, she smiled.

Seeing her so relaxed and calm, Xiao Yimo seemed too embarrassed to make a fuss too much, so he couldn't help smiling at her.

The woman shook her head and smiled softly: "It's really unexpected that her descendant will be such a little girl like you who doesn't know much about the world."

"Are you talking about... my ancestors?" Xiao Yimo couldn't believe it.

"Hmm...it should be? Anyway, it's the girl who swore an alliance with the kid named Yin with this object."

Xiao Yimo whispered: "You are talking about the first king and queen of my Dingzhou Kingdom!"

"The monarch? The queen?" The woman sneered and said, "Aren't they just two stupid idiots complaining about their daughters?"

Xiao Yimo saw that these two lived in legends and had already become mythical figures, and they were as common as a pair of ordinary children next door in her mouth. No matter how stupid or stupid, that person will defeat you anyway..."

However, the next words were sealed in his throat by two cold lights like ice, and he could no longer speak them.

"Only by them?!" The woman snorted coldly.

All the green bamboos also stopped swaying instantly with her anger, and the whole bamboo forest fell into a suffocating absolute stillness.