Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen

On the surface of the sea, countless flying fish are floating quietly, forming a road of flying wings, leading straight to the south.Zhuo Wangsun walked forward slowly, only the flying fish served his flying clothes and accompanied him to the direction where the sun was shining. South China Sea. Xiaoluan, will you be there? Guo Ao sat silently on the brocade pier. After awakening to Jianxin and returning to Huayin Pavilion, although he never thought of being invincible, except for a few people, there is really no one who is his opponent.But I didn't expect Qiuxuan, a woman, to play with him in the palm of her hand.

Just as he didn't see that there are so many secrets hidden in the bronze drum, he also couldn't see how many ghosts and spirits Qiu Xuan hadn't displayed.So he can only be silent. Qiuxuan sighed: "You don't have to be angry, this is not a bronze drum, but a ship. This ship is extremely poor in physics and ingenious, and you are not the only one who doesn't know the goods. Back then, Zhuo Wangsun built the ship and asked for it. I showed off, so I said that if I built a boat, it would definitely be better than his. He didn’t believe it just like you, so I built this bronze drum. He laughed and said how can a drum be called a boat? How does a drum sail in the water? Tell him that anyone who doesn't believe that the bronze drum is a ship is an idiot."

She paused, glanced at Guo Ao, and continued with a smile: "Zhuo Wangsun refused to accept, so he competed with me to see whose boat was faster. In the end, he lost." Although Guo Ao didn't want to talk, he really couldn't believe that this bronze drum would be faster than a painting boat driven by a mechanism.Even though this bronze drum is equipped with the same exquisite self-propelled mechanism as the painted boat, it is a round piece after all, and the resistance it receives in the water is much greater than that of the painted boat, so how can it be faster? He couldn't help shaking his head: "How is it possible!"

Qiu Xuan blinked at him, and said mysteriously: "Don't you believe it? Zhuo Wangsun didn't believe it either. But he didn't expect that there was something on my boat." Guo Ao couldn't help asking: "What?" Qiu Xuan pressed the switch, and suddenly, a cloud of shadows appeared on the small windows around the bronze drum. animal head. The left and right ends of the bronze drum were originally cast with two huge animal heads as decorations. One of them can be opened, which is the passage from the drum surface to the inside of the drum, which he entered just now.The other one had never been opened, and he thought it was just another entrance.

However, he was wrong again. As the machine spring rotated, another animal head protruded slowly, stretching out of the bronze drum, with its mouth wide open, as if it wanted to swallow the sea. Qiu Xuan: "Cannon." "Zhuo Wangsun refused to believe it, so after the competition, only two of the three boats he built were left. And he was convinced that he lost. Although my bronze drum only traveled a foot, but he did lose. Because his boat couldn't even take a step. If it wasn't for his good martial arts, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to take a step."

Guo Ao was speechless. Qiuxuan: "I also told him, don't look at his martial arts skills, he claims to be able to use the water to attack the enemy, and the one who hits it will be killed immediately. If he meets my bronze drum, it will be a crushing defeat. Don't look at his tortoise's breath." If you want to compare with me, you will still lose. Zhuo Wangsun is very knowledgeable, so there is no more competition." Guo Ao didn't even have any words to refute. The bronze drum slowly rises to the surface of the sea, and suddenly, with a soft sound, a crack is slowly cracked at the skylight at the top, and it separates to the two sides, further and further apart, like an opened shell floating on the sea.The sun poured down, illuminating every corner of the drum.

Qiu Xuan lay comfortably on the carpet and said with a smile: "Why do you always keep a straight face and refuse to enjoy the sunshine? Look, the sunshine here is so good!" Suddenly, a thunderbolt exploded in the sky. Thick black smoke rose from the bottom of the sea, rushing straight into the sky like a dragon.The incident was so violent that the calm sea was stirred up by stormy waves, rushing towards the two of them.Even though the bronze drum was huge, it couldn't help shaking when it was hit by the huge waves. Guo Ao has already stood up. He stared at the direction of the thick smoke and fell into deep thought.

Qiu Xuan: "Do you want to go there?" Guo Ao nodded. Qiu Xuan: "I can help you." She pressed the mechanism, and the crane moved again, holding an oar. "If you want to go, start paddling." Guo Ao took the oar, pondered for a moment, sat down slowly, and started rowing.He knew that Qiuxuan must have a way to make the bronze drum sail on the sea; but he also knew that if Qiuxuan refused to tell, then no matter how hard he asked or begged, it would be useless. It's just that the bronze drum is too big and too heavy. Guo Aoyun tried his best to make the bronze drum move slowly.

Qiu Xuan didn't even look at him, and began to apply sunscreen flower oil on her body. Yang Yizhi supported the reef, speechless for a long time. The sea is so calm, and the fresh air brought by the seagulls is still refreshing in the night, giving people double compensation after the tyranny.The moonlight is like a soft elf, singing softly for him.Such a clear and bright weather was the most relaxing for him.But now, he is almost completely exhausted, and he can hardly even support the reef. That sound, although he didn't say it out loud, seriously wounded his heart. Owner. The word, he had never imagined, could come out of her mouth.

He looked up.A mirage seemed to appear in the quiet sea, and the floating white foam turned into a piece of dilapidated houses.Narrow streets, dirty land, devastated wars, endless killings. It was a deserted city①.And a slender figure was kneeling on the ground, hugging a bony child tightly.Her peaceful face was full of pain, regardless of catastrophe, miasma, filth, and septic blood, she pressed the child's face tightly against her own, deeply blaming herself for not being able to save him. At that time, he was leaning against the city wall, watching her silently. A ray of light penetrated her and him.This scene will be engraved in his heart forever.No matter how time changes and how the world changes, she will always be his lotus goddess.

Falling in love with her only takes a moment. Or maybe, it takes a lifetime.He is also the child suffering from catastrophe, miasma, filth, and septic blood, and has been waiting for her to save him for a long time. But now, she actually bowed her head and said to him: Master. At that moment, her eyes were so empty, just like his collapsed world. He couldn't bear her being held hostage by the demon, and she lived in an involuntary shell ever since. Never. He wants to pick up the sword again for her, and kill the seventh company. Bloody for her. He slowly stood up straight. To decipher the puppet swordsmanship, one must find the person who performed the puppet swordsmanship, and force him to perform the swordsmanship again to remove the evil spirit from the person receiving the sword. But, how to find this person?And who cast such vicious swordsmanship on her? Japanese pirates? It seemed that nothing else was possible.Yang Yizhi gritted his teeth, the moonlight shattered in his palm. At this moment, he felt deep-seated hatred. On the far sea, a palace suddenly appeared.The palace is extremely majestic, the hall is more than ten feet high, and it is all built with the strongest nanmu, carved with extremely fine patterns.The palace is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and it can be seen that there are singing and dancing inside.A thirty-foot-long scarlet carpet was spread across the sea, welcoming the most distinguished guests. Zhuo Wangsun Xu stepped in, and saw three beauties in costumes dancing around in the hall.From behind the gauze curtain hanging down to the ground, bursts of cheerful music came.Their skin is slightly dark, beautiful and enchanting, just like the goddesses in ancient Tianzhu paintings.Yingluo, tassels, and light gauze can hardly cover their graceful bodies. When they dance, they are charming and beautiful. In the middle of the palace, there is a deep and secluded cave.Zhuo Wangsun walked slowly towards the cave. In the cave, there are five hundred equally beautiful women, dancing gracefully in groups of three or four.The moment he approached the entrance of the cave, all the dancing stopped at the same time. The dancers stood quietly, and the flying veils slowly floated down, enveloping their faces.Their smiles were still so happy, but they were covered with a strange haze by the light veil. The dresses on them slowly fell off, revealing their exquisite bodies.Or slender, or thick, or plump, or delicate.Five hundred young girls, that is, five hundred different beauties, when they show their wonderful appearance together, even gods and demons can't help but admire them. However, their smiles suddenly melted. The plump muscles and fine bones, the beautiful appearance, fell off their bodies in an instant.Their beauty, together with their skin, sloughed off in an instant, revealing the flesh and blood under the skin.The white tendons are intertwined, and the ferocious blood vessels are pulsating slightly.The skin that was as thick as snow just now now oozes a light yellow liquid, looking extremely filthy.Every charming and bright face has now become a bloody skeleton. They stood still and suddenly danced.The blood continued to splatter like flowers scattered by a goddess.Their lives were exhausted in this monstrous dance, and they fell slowly. Zhuo Wangsun watched coldly and did not stop him. He knew that this was also a part of the story of Buddha Jataka. When the Buddha was sitting under the bodhi tree and was about to become enlightened, the demon king felt frightened, so he sent three extremely beautiful heavenly witches to dance in front of the Buddha in various seductive gestures.But no matter how seduced by the witch, the Buddha still didn't look sideways.The three witches thought to themselves that the woman they like in each man's heart will be different, maybe our current appearance cannot win the Buddha's favor.So they showed their supernatural powers and turned into five hundred beauties, endowed with all kinds of beauties in the world, in an attempt to charm the Buddha. But the Buddha just said indifferently: You have a beautiful body, but your heart is extremely filthy, like a glass bowl full of dung, but you don't know it, how sad it is. The witches refused to believe that they had the pure bodies of heaven and man, so how could they be called filthy?So the Buddha pointed lightly, and their beautiful skin disappeared immediately, revealing their extremely ugly and filthy insides.The witches then knew the great wisdom of the Buddha, so they had to retreat in shame. Seeing all this, Zhuo Wangsun pondered slightly. The person who snatched away Xiaoluan arranged for him to read these stories of Buddha Jataka along the way, and why? All the way south, what kind of conspiracy is waiting for him? ——Why do you need to read it? Zhuo Wangsun smiled faintly and walked into the cave slowly. The peacefulness of singing and dancing was terminated at this moment. The endless deep ravine spreads downward from the entrance of the cave, seemingly without end. The Buddha statue sits cross-legged in the middle of the deep ravine. The face of the Buddha is still so compassionate and serene, with a peaceful smile on his face, as if he is praising the merits and virtues of all beings in the ten directions.But in his hand, he held a sharp dagger.Scarlet blood dripped from the blade, and the Buddha held the dagger in one hand and a piece of flesh dripping with the same blood in the other.There was a huge gap in his leg, which was bloody and bloody.It seemed that this piece of meat was cut from himself. Buddha smiled quietly. In front of him was a balance, and at one end of the balance was a frail pigeon.The Buddha held out his hand, as if wanting to put the meat on the other end of the scale. He always had a compassionate smile on his face. An eagle, standing on a cliff, with half-open wings, stared fiercely at the Buddha.It seems to be greedily looking at the flesh in the hands of the Buddha, and it seems to be examining how much compassion the Buddha has. This cave is different from other caves.There are many people wearing black crane cloaks in other caves, but there is only one person in this cave, a fairy in white feathers. The immortal stands under the eagle's wings, with his head bowed, as if in deep thought. When Zhuo Wangsun approached, the immortal raised his head slowly and said lightly, "My lord, do you remember?" Zhuo Wangsun frowned slightly.He couldn't help but think of what those people said to him when they passed the first two caves: "My king, please remember." He was not their king, nor had he to remember their dying misery.To them, he is just an outsider.If Xiaoluan hadn't strayed into their world of mortals, he would have been out of the sky forever. Why remember? Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "You have found the wrong person." Immortal Yuyi respectfully bowed down. "It is said that the Buddha once saw an eagle chasing a dove. The dove threw it under the Buddha's armpit and prayed for protection. The eagle said to the Buddha: You are merciful to save the dove, but you don't know that after the dove is saved, I will starve to death without meat. Save a dove Is it compassionate to kill a life? The Buddha thought about it and found it reasonable, so he said to the eagle: I will cut my own flesh for you to eat. I will cut as much flesh as the pigeon weighs. A balance, put the pigeons on it, cut your own meat and put it on another weighing pan. Unexpectedly, the flesh on the Buddha's body was almost cut off, and the scale could not be balanced. The Buddha jumped on it. The gods of the heavens saw it , all praised in unison, moved by the good deeds of the Buddha." Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "Sure enough, it is a great deed." Immortal Yuyi looked at him coldly and said, "What about you? Can you give up your life?" Zhuo Wangsun raised his eyebrows slightly. Sacrifice? It turned out that they guided him all the way here, and they did not hesitate to use death to ask him to remember things, just to make him sacrifice his life like a Buddha? How ridiculous. Zhuo Wangsun smiled: "I have no mercy." Yuyi Immortal: "You have." Suddenly, a dark fire erupted from the ground.The entire cave was suddenly filled with anxiety and heat.A burst of fire burst up from the bottom of the ravine, reaching the top of the cave. Zhuo Wangsun was slightly taken aback. He had already seen that these reefs were transformed from erupted submarine volcanoes, but he did not expect that this reef was actually an active volcano! Under the reflection of the fire, the huge statue of Buddha seemed to be covered with a layer of blood. The wound cut by the dagger and the piece of flesh and blood became extremely bright red, and the compassionate face of the Buddha also became a little strange. A shrill eagle cry pierced through the cave, and the fierce eagle crouching on the cliff seemed to come alive suddenly, with its head raised and trembling.A girl's voice cried out: "Brother, save me!" Zhuo Wangsun raised his head suddenly, and the dove on the balance had suddenly turned into Xiao Luan! She was wearing a pure white feather coat, struggling hard, trying to get rid of the shackles of the weighing pan, but there seemed to be a huge attraction on the weighing pan, and she couldn't break free no matter what. A long sigh came, and Zhuo Wangsun turned his head again, only to see that the Buddha who was holding a knife to cut flesh suddenly turned into his own appearance. Zhuo Wangsun roared angrily! Suddenly, all illusions disappeared. The Yuyi Immortal staggered back, spurting out a mouthful of blood.He clutched his chest, Zhuo Wangsun's scream just now implied sword intent, how could he resist it? Zhuo Wangsun circled his sleeves, and danced furiously in the air with his body, and said sharply: "Presumptuous!" He suddenly stretched out his hand, and a strong force surged out, wrapped around the body of the Yuyi Immortal, and brought it in front of him. Zhuo Wangsun said coldly: "Do you want to see how the Buddha bleeds?" He lifted the old man and placed it on top of the Buddha statue. Blood flowed from the immortal body, overflowed the Buddha's face, flowed into the Buddha's eyes, and dripped down along the cut wound on the Buddha statue.The blood-stained Buddha statue immediately became strange and evil. For the first time, Immortal Yuyi showed panic and wanted to struggle, but the sword energy had penetrated his body, making him unable to move.He could only helplessly open his empty eyes, allowing his own blood to flow out, defiled the Buddha. He could only hear Zhuo Wangsun's cold voice: "Want to meet the Demon King?" "I will complete you." There is nothing special about the place where the smoke and dust drift, except for a ship. When Guo Ao saw the ship, his face changed in surprise. This is a painting boat, extremely huge, but also extremely delicate.It is seven feet three feet long, one foot eight feet wide, and one foot three feet high, like a black dragon crouching quietly in the water. The deck of the painting boat is not decorated like a boat, but like a garden.There is a pavilion in the middle, which is full of flowers.There is also a tree in the center, and under the tree is a couch made of Xiangfei bamboo. This is the painting boat they were riding on. However, the hull of the boat was dripping wet, as if it had just been fished out of the water. Guo Ao hesitated, and jumped onto the boat. Qiu Xuan's eyes flickered, as if she wanted to stop him, but she didn't do anything.She looked at the painting boat quietly, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face. Guo Ao's figure disappeared into the cabin, and after a quarter of an hour, he slowly walked out of the cabin.His face was extremely solemn, and his brows were frowning with confusion. Qiu Xuan: "Didn't find her?" Guo Ao nodded.He was looking for Acacia, but there was obviously no sign of her on the boat. He was very puzzled, this painting boat was exactly the same as the one he was on, even the decorations in the cabin were exactly the same.But lovesickness is not in it. Qiu Xuan: "Do you know why?" Guo Ao didn't answer. Qiuxuan: "Do you remember I told you that Zhuo Wangsun built two identical boats? One is called 'Mulan' and the other is called 'Shatang'. The one we took is called 'Shatang', you Look at the words engraved on the dragon head of this ship?" Guo Ao doesn't need to look, since Qiu Xuan said so, then this ship must be "Mulan". Sha Tangzhou disappeared, but Mulan Boat appeared here. what does this mean? Could it be that Zhuo Wangsun also came to this sea area? Qiu Xuan glanced at him with narrow eyes: "After realizing Chunshui Jianxin, have you ever thought about fighting Zhuo Wangsun again?" Guo Ao pondered. —Do you want to fight him? He suddenly said: "Get on the boat." Xiang Qiuxuan stretched out his hand. Qiu Xuan didn't hesitate, and generously handed him her hand, and with his support, she slowly boarded the Mulan boat. Guo Ao pulled the dragon's head, and the Mulan boat vibrated and moved forward slowly. "I didn't want to do this, but now, I can only take you to one place." "When you get there, you can no longer escape, but stay with me." Qiu Xuan: "What is so magical?" Guo Ao: "Immortal Island."

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Notes: ① Details of the deserted city