Chapter 3 The first chapter is dedicated to the beautiful girl of Xiao God

Withered vines, old trees, lofty mountains and rocks, the moonlit night, the mountain wind is tight. The cold wind was chilling, although it was summer night, it was cold on the top of this rocky mountain, as if it was severe winter, but the cold stars and bright moon in the sky were as clear as pictures, not at all like the howling north wind on a winter night. But the bursts of cold wind blew, and people still couldn't help shivering. In such a deep mountain in the middle of the night, for some reason, a group of people lay flat and prone on the top of the mountain. There were about twenty people in the crowd. At this moment, everyone did not say a word, but silently bowed in the most reverent way. Everyone faced the east, and knelt down on the ground without even daring to breathe.

In the crowd, there was a melancholy singing at this time. Along with the singing, the mournful mountain wind seemed to subside somewhat. Then, in the quiet Yelai mountain scenery, slowly, a faint sweet fragrance emerges. It was a fragrance similar to flowers and honey. When the fragrance of flowers appeared, everyone in the crowd remained prone, but some of the old men started to stir in a low voice. "Come out, come out!" At the farthest corner of these people, there is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. Although the boy is prostrate on the ground like his clansmen, he is still a boy at heart, full of curiosity about the unknown, so he secretly raised his eyes and peeped Follow the movement ahead.

Among the crowd, three slender girls stood up gently at this moment.The girls are covered with white gauze that is as soft as the breath of a lover, and they look out of the world and refined in the prostrate crowd. The faint fragrance in the air, accompanied by the steps of the girls, the white gauze is light, like a fairy, and the night sky It seems to be pale in comparison. The young man fell on the ground, looking at this beautiful and somewhat strange scene in a daze, and couldn't help but think of the legends he heard from the elders of the clan. According to the narration of the elders in the clan, this ritual of Xiao God marrying a young girl is the most sacred and important etiquette celebration in the clan for hundreds of years.

It is said that this "Xiao God" has been guarding the village for hundreds of years. Its history can be traced back to the ancient times, when King Wu of Zhou crusaded against the "Fengshen Bang" era.According to old legends, the Xiao God guards the entire village to protect the villagers from natural disasters and live and work in peace and contentment. In order to thank the Xiao God for their hard work, the villagers will send three most beautiful women to the village every three years on such late summer nights. The girl attends the "Xiao God". The girls walked weakly to a cliff in front of them and stood still. After a while, a long and profound flute sound came from the depths of the empty valley.At this time, the girls also let go of the sound of the flute, let go of their immature voices, and sang the "song of worship" of the clan worshiping the god of the flute softly and tenderly.

"The bright star is your amorous eye of the gods For our lives, please take care of the gods we're just little girls A godly mind is higher than mountains and deeper than seas I only hope that our clumsy hands can weave clothes for you A heart that is not smart enough can share your worries With a virgin body, I can recommend you a pillow..." There is an old legend in the family that the sound of the flute is a harbinger of the appearance of the "God of Xiao" for hundreds of years. Among the ancestors who knew the melody, they made a "serving song" with such a flute sound, which is the highest salute to worship the flute god.

Amidst the soft singing of the girls, the bottomless deep valley that was originally pitch black now glowed with a hazy light, and the light mist in the mountains gradually thickened at this time. In the crowd, everyone dared not look directly at the scene in front of them because of their awe. Only the young man was bold and curious, still peeping at the foggy night in the dark room. The light in the valley gradually brightened. I can see people. Seeing the bright white light, the boy's eyes couldn't help but widen, his mouth opened wide, and he was stunned for a moment. In the misty white light, at this moment, a handsome man in white clothes unexpectedly appeared. Because of the heavy fog, the man's face could not be seen clearly, but that handsome and elegant figure was accompanied by the fragrant wind around him and the melodious singing. , giving people a sense of wonder among immortals.

"Ah..." At that time, the young man couldn't help thinking like this: "Then it must be 'Xiao Shen'..." The misty white circle of light seems to be alive, and the light flickers in and out of the night sky.The darker part of the light circle looks like a door, and "Xiao Shen" stands at the door, elegantly standing upright with his hands behind his back.From under his feet, a dark red shadow slowly protruded, extending down from mid-air, reaching in front of the girls. The singing of the girls standing in front of the valley continued to sing, but they seemed to have lost their souls. They paced slowly and walked up to the long dark red shadow.

It turned out that the dark red long shadow was something like a ladder. The girls stepped up the "stairs" mesmerizingly, and raised their heads to walk towards the elegant white-clothed god "Xiao Shen". It seems that this is the process of God Xiao marrying the attendant girl. At this moment, like a thunder that could not cover your ears, there was a clear howling sound from a distance in the west. The whistling sound was not very loud, but it was extremely loud and could be heard clearly in everyone's ears. Several members of the tribe who were good at hunting could even tell that the whistling sound originated from a distance of more than twenty miles from the mountain.

What kind of creature can make such a clear voice? There was some commotion among the worshiping crowd at this time, but because of absolute piety, no one dared to raise their heads. Only the brave and curious young man couldn't help but glance at the "Xiao Shen" circle of light again. The most astonishing thing was that at this moment, Xiao Shen's light and shadow seemed to be affected by the whistling sound, and began to show unstable ripples, and even Xiao Shen's elegant figure seemed to radiate a murderous aura. The girls hesitated a bit in their steps, and one girl even seemed to wake up from a dream, her body shook suddenly, she looked back, saw the red shadow under her feet, and couldn't help screaming loudly.

Because, if the ball of light is not an entity, they are standing in the air on the valley at this moment, with only the long dark red shadow under their feet. At this moment, the whistle sounded again, this time the distance was closer, and it was already down the mountain. In the blink of an eye, not even enough time to take ten steps, Xiaosheng has already advanced dozens of miles. What kind of astonishing speed is it that you can come here in such an instant? The young man and the clansmen were wondering, when they saw that the "Xiao God" in the white light group changed his body in an instant, and he could vaguely see that he had changed into a hideous and terrifying appearance.The boy's eyes widened, but he saw the three girls screaming miserably, and the long red shadow rolled "swish" and "swallowed" the three girls into the light ball at once.

The light cluster gradually expanded, and at this moment, the entire stone mountain also began to vibrate faintly. Some of the prostrate clansmen could no longer bear it anymore and raised their heads, while some felt the disturbing vibration and began to crawl on the ground in embarrassment. Then, at this moment, the accident happened suddenly without anyone having time to react. Many years later, the young man has gone through countless strange experiences, but he can't tell himself what happened to the "Xiao God" on the stone mountain. He also tried to describe the shock and horror of the situation to others, but always It is impossible to describe the situation at that time in detail. At best, he couldn't explain what happened at that time with his vocabulary. Back then on the rocky mountain, the boy only felt that the ground was vibrating endlessly as if his hands and feet were numb, but the sound of flute, fragrance, and mist in the air were still there, but it had been distorted into another strange situation. The sound of the flute was as unpleasant as an old woman's roar.As if the aroma had become tangible, it formed an extremely unpleasant tactile sensation in the nose.But the mist is like countless small spikes, attacking the human skin. Of course the boy would not know that if he was born more than three thousand years later, in the twenty-fourth century A.D., he would have learned a force field phenomenon called "space distortion" in physics. The current situation is a typical space distortion phenomenon. And amid such an abnormal feeling, the howling sound reappeared, and this time, the person who made the howling sound had already appeared on the top of the mountain. The young man saw that it was a tall man with a handsome appearance, holding a large rusty sword in his hand, and a pair of fleshy wings on his back, and beside him was a woman in white clothes, the two came very quickly, "Shhh " jumped over the people of the tribe, and ran towards the direction of the "Xiao Shen" in the valley. The Yingwei man swung the giant sword over the top, awe-inspiringly admiring the white light cluster where "Xiao Shen" was. At this moment, the "God of Flute" in the valley also had a strange change, and his light group suddenly lit up, like a domineering demon, sweeping towards the heroic man and the woman in white. And the boy's world turned blank in this instant. Because the whole sky seemed to be collapsing, as if turning into dust and smoke in an instant. However, when everything was in absolute darkness, the boy still heard that Yingwei man and "Xiao Shen" shouted a word at almost the same moment.Or it can be said that each roared a "name". Yingwei's man's voice was clear and clear, and he yelled out five words for several miles. "Nandou! Damn you!" However, Xiao Shen's voice was unexpectedly sharp and hoarse, and what he roared out was—— "Di Menghun! Traitor!" Then, everything turned into a blank, into an absolute silence... When the boy was dug out a few days later, he was already on the verge of death, only one breath away from dying in the pile of earth and rocks. The people in the village had heard the changes and loud noises that happened on the stone mountain that night, but because of fear, it was not until the third day that some bolder people came up to check. As a result, the entire stone mountain has long been changed beyond recognition, as if it has experienced a great disaster. The top of the mountain that worshiped the "Xiao God" collapsed completely, and the original scene is no longer visible. The clansmen who came to find out dug up the boy in a collapsed place, because there was a huge ancient tree blocking him, the boy was miraculously not crushed to death by thousands of earth and rocks, but when he was dug out , but it is already covered in dust and dried blood, almost only the last breath left. The rest of the tribe was not as lucky as him, and they were all buried alive under the collapsed stone mountains and earth and rocks. What kind of great changes have taken place here...? Because the top of the mountain collapsed, some of the more daring clansmen climbed down to find out in Xiaoshen's valley. In the past, the stone mountain of Xiao God was the most sacred place in the clan, and no one would come up for no reason. Only the elders with the highest status in the clan could come to the top of the mountain, and every time the girl was sacrificed, it must be in the middle of the night, and no one was there. Come here during the day. The clansmen who entered the valley to find out, walked along the rugged valley bottom for a while, and their eyes suddenly opened up. But the sight that caught their eyes would tear even the most daring person... It turned out that there were human bones scattered all over the open space at the bottom of the valley. Looking around, there were countless skulls scattered in all directions. The black eye sockets seemed to be mocking the unexpected visitor in front of them. And among the skulls, many fragmented white gauzes of different ages can be vaguely seen. Some of the clansmen who are more knowledgeable hold up one of the skulls, the head is petite and delicate, and find that those skulls are all young girls skull. What's even more frightening is that there is a platform right in the middle of the open space, and around the platform are a dozen huge and incomparably huge snake skin remnants arranged in a radial pattern. The pale and transparent scales are arranged there viciously, which makes one unable to help but Trembling. Forget about the huge remnants of dragons and snakes, each one is thirty people long, about the thickness of five or six big men, and has huge branch-like horns on the head, but the most amazing thing is that each The tails of the giant remnant sloughs all extended to the top of the platform, and the tails of more than a dozen snake sloughs joined together to form a huge and weird shape of radiating sun. And the shape of the tail is even more frightening, because at the end of the snake skin is a shriveled skin sac that looks like a man. From a distance, it looks like there are dozens of human skins sitting around the top of the platform, either sitting or Lying down, it seems that they are gathering to discuss something. For hundreds of years, this tribe has kept offering sacrifices to the God of Xiao and sending young girls to serve them.It was thought that these girls had all arrived at Xiao Shen's Bliss Mansion, but now they have become corpses that have been exposed to the barren hills for hundreds of years. So... what exactly is that "Xiao God"? The scene they saw in the Xiaoshen Valley was too horrifying, and several clansmen decided to keep their mouths shut forever on the way home, not to tell anyone.They sealed off the passage on the mountain, and went back to tell other clansmen that they would never be allowed to step into Xiaoshen Valley again. And this tribe's ceremony of offering sacrifices to the "God of Flute" was never held again, not because the tribe refused, but because they never heard from God of Flute since then. Several clansmen who discovered Xiaoshen's secret in the valley fell ill and died not long after due to excessive horror. Therefore, the secret of Xiaoshen's valley became a mystery that no one will ever know. With one exception... The boy who was rescued by chance on the top of Shishan Mountain had hundreds of scars on his body. He had been lying on the bed for nearly half a year before he could barely get out of bed and walk. After this ordeal, the boy lost one eye and broke his right hand, and walked Come with a limp.But the shocking scene of that night has left an unforgettable memory in the young man's heart. And the clansmen who saw the "God of Flute" snake slough in the valley once talked about the frightening scene on their return journey. Although they vowed not to speak out, they were heard by the seriously injured young man who was carried aside. No one from the young clansmen has ever left the village, and everyone knows nothing about the world thirty miles away from the village.On a rainy and gloomy afternoon, the young man made up his mind to go to the farthest place in the world to visit the wonders of the world. With a simple bag and a walking stick, the slightly hunchbacked figure went away. Since then, the boy's footprints have spread all over the mysterious land of ancient China. It was a magnificent land full of strange people and beasts, ancient gods, and strange earth immortals. It was three hundred years after King Wu defeated Zhou and Jiang Ziya became a god, during the reign of "Li Wang" Ji Hu of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Later, because the Li Wang had no way, he was expelled by the ministers. And the Western Zhou Dynasty, which flourished for a while, will also come to an end in the near future. What will appear next will be a generation of heroes who are full of blood and blood...