Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven King Mu of Zhou and Queen Mother Xi
The years in the eyelashes of mosquitoes are actually very difficult.
Although in such a mythical world, strange creatures and strange landscapes that are hard to see in a lifetime can be seen everywhere, but in the hearts of Zike and others, there is no such leisurely mood. Not only do they not want to see more of the strange landscapes here, but I wish I could get away immediately, return to my own time, solve the catastrophe in Kunlun, and restore the original world.
However, things in the world happened unexpectedly like this, and things backfired. The more people wanted to find the remaining "Dragon Son Yuanying" as soon as possible, but in the next few days, the whole earth became more and more silent.
The five people rode on the "earthquake cloud" and walked for several days, but they never saw the ancient mythical scene again.Without the appearance of these scenes, it would be impossible to find out the whereabouts of the "Dragon Son Yuanying".
Zike also wanted to use the remaining Kowloon mirrors to find out the whereabouts of the Nascent Soul, but the luminous pearls on those Kowloon mirrors, once they entered this tiny world, the red marks on them disappeared silently. No matter how Zi Ke prayed, there would no longer be a light group guiding Yuan Ying's whereabouts.
Therefore, after flying like this for a few days, Zike couldn't help sighing as he watched the red marks on the bottle lily grow longer and longer.
Ning Xiaobai and You Huanbei looked at his disappointed expression and didn't know how to comfort him.But that Qing Chu'er was still innocent and happy all day like a child without any scheming, as if she didn't take anything to heart.
On the other hand, Yi Huaisha from the beast race was a little depressed, and asked him what happened, he only said quietly, because he came from the mountains and forests, and he hadn't talked with the beasts he grew up with for a long time, but he was not used to it.
On this day, the five people flew unknowingly far away on the earth-shaking clouds. Suddenly, an extremely wide forest appeared in front of them. Seeing this piece of emerald green, Yi Huaisha's eyes suddenly lit up.
Ning Xiaobai got along with him for a long time, and also figured out the personality of this orc man, so he suggested to Zike to let a few people take a break in this mountain forest to see if they can find out the clues of the next dragon son Yuanying .
Zi Ke pondered for a while, knowing that everyone was exhausted after flying these days, so he nodded in agreement.
The earth-shattering cloud slowly descended from the sky, and the happiest person on the cloud was of course Yi Huaisha. Before everyone fell to the ground, Yi Huaisha smelled the scent of the mountains and forests he was most familiar with since he was a child, and he was still ten feet away from the ground. When it was about time, there was a cheer and a "swipe", straight into the forest, and after a few jumps, it disappeared in the forest immediately.
Zi Ke, Ning Xiaobai and the others couldn't help laughing when they saw his anxious appearance. Of course they didn't have Yi Huaisha's skill, and they walked down slowly when the ground shaking clouds really landed on the ground.
You Huanbei curiously walked to the nearest giant tree, touched the bark, and saw the colorful red petals all over the sky, and said with a smile: "It's a peach blossom forest! This large mountain is full of high-quality peaches Tree!"
Qing Chu'er opened her eyes wide, looking at the red peach blossoms all over the mountains and plains, and some trees had grown green peaches, she smiled happily.
Zike looked around and saw the colorful fallen flowers in this place. Although he was still worried about finding the dragon son Yuanying, the deep and beautiful scenery of the peach forest relieved his boredom a little.
In the distant mountains and forests, Yi Huaisha's long whistling sound suddenly sounded, the voice was full of joy, it was obvious how happy the beast man was when he returned to the mountains and forests.
But Ning Xiaobai looked around, only to find that there were horses in the distant peach forest.
He took a closer look and was sure that it was a real herd of horses, so he dragged the other three to look.
"Look! It's really a horse!"
When everyone was curious, suddenly, there were several angry shouts in the deep forest in the distance, as well as the trampling sound of broken branches.
Ning Xiaobai curiously walked towards the source of the scolding, and knew that it was not Yi Huaisha's voice, because just now Yi Huaisha's cheerful shout came from the northeast, but the scolding came from the south .
After he had walked a few steps, he heard a rapid neighing, followed by a few more crisp sounds of branches snapping, a very handsome wild horse broke through the barrier of vegetation and ran towards Ning Xiaobai's direction.
Ning Xiaobai was shocked and wanted to run away, but the wild horse was coming very fast, and it arrived in a blink of an eye. Ning Xiaobai thought that he would be kicked by the wild horse this time, but the wild horse seemed to be quite spiritual. With one jump, it passed over Ning Xiaobai's head without hurting him.
After the wild horse passed Ning Xiaobai, its footsteps became faster and it sank into the forest again in two or three steps.
Ning Xiaobai had just recovered from the shock, but before he recovered, a middle-aged hunter with an honest appearance emerged from the place where the wild horse broke through the tree.
As soon as the hunter rushed out, he stroked the footprints of the wild horses on the ground, touched them a few times, and then sighed.
Seeing this thrilling scene from the side, Zike was also terrified, but he was a little curious when he saw the actions of the middle-aged hunter.The middle-aged man didn't seem to see these people in front of him, he was only on those horseshoes, touching them, and sighed exaggeratedly.
"Ah! This steed seems to be transformed by a dragon. It really only exists in the sky. Today I saw it, but I didn't have the chance to meet it. It's really sad!"
Seeing his behavior, Zi Ke walked over with a thought, and smiled at the middle-aged hunter, "This horse is really a rare horse in the world, but I don't know if you have any research on horses?"
The middle-aged man glared at him, and said with a sneer: "In the whole world, if there is anyone who understands horses better than me, then there is a ghost. If I don't understand horses, who can understand horses? If I don't Knowing horses, how can you manage the world's horses for King Zhou?"
Hearing what he said, Zike understood a little bit more, and continued to laugh and said: "Very, very, your Excellency's skill of looking after horses and controlling horses is indeed well-known throughout the ages."
The middle-aged hunter still had a look of disdain, and said with a sneer: "I know horses, but you are a sycophant. I have never lived with you. If you know who I am, you will really see the devil. Why did you come?" Famous through the ages'?"
Zi Ke said with a smile: "Although I have never met you, I really know your name. Can you let me guess?"
The middle-aged hunter rolled his eyes, spat and said, "Guess as you please, if you know who I am, I'll call you daddy."
Zike laughed loudly.
"That's not necessary, I just need you to promise me something." Speaking of this, his eyes brightened, as if he had a plan in mind: "Your name is Zaofu, and you are the first minister under King Mu of Zhou. When I came to Taolin, I wanted to find eight rare horses, didn't I?"
The middle-aged man was indeed called Zaofu. At this moment, his eyes were wide open, as if he had seen a ghost in daylight, he was too scared to speak.Seeing his expression, Zi Wu knew that his guess was right, so he couldn't help laughing happily.
It turns out that King Mu of Zhou was also a famous emperor in mythology. It is said that he once rode eight fine horses to visit the Queen Mother of the Goddess Xi.
And the one who helped King Mu of Zhou find the eight steeds was the famous mythical charioteer: Zaofu.According to the legend, the place where Zaofu found the eight steeds was indeed in a peach forest.
From the experience of the past few times, Zike knows that these dragon sons and Yuanying who wandered in the tiny space are all transformed into ancient legends. The whereabouts of Yuanying must be related to him.
Zaofu opened his eyes wide, looking at the handsome young man in front of him, he was in doubt, he didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, so he was speechless for a while.
After a while, he murmured, "You... who are you? What do you want to do in this deep forest?"
Zi Ke smiled gently and said, "My name is Ying Zike, from the state of Qin. I don't have any malicious intentions, but I just want you to introduce King Zhou Mu on my behalf."
Zaofu looked at him dubiously, and after a long time, he murmured: "Take you to see King Mu... I don't know if I have the life to answer him, but why did I bring you to see him..."
Zike wondered, "But I don't know what it means?"
Zaofu shook his head, and said with some dejection: "I was ordered by my king to come to the peach forest of Kuafu Mountain to look for the best horses in the world. I found some, but I couldn't find the best three horses. Now, seeing that the deadline is approaching, but I am helpless, do you think I am dying?"
"The three steeds you are looking for, with your horse riding skills, can't you tame them?"
Zaofu said with a bitter face: "If you want to tame horses, you need to have horses! Just now you saw that I have no way to approach them. As soon as I approach them, they will run away. How can I tame them?"
"Is there no other way?" Zike wondered.
"Extremely difficult," Zaofu sighed, "Because the three horses of Roboli, Hualiu, and Luer are very beautiful, they are already close to the dragon species, so their spirituality is extremely high, and they cannot be easily subdued by humans. Because they are originally the dragon horses of the gods, they run extremely fast, and they are connected to human will, as long as you want to get close to them, they can immediately detect them, and you can't even touch them..."
Speaking of this, his voice stopped abruptly, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was opened wide, he couldn't say anything, he could only make a strange sound of "cluck".
Zi Ke followed his surprised eyes and turned his head to look. Lin Mu heard the sound, and slowly stepped out of a giant horse with incomparable beauty.This steed is the steed and gigantic horse that passed by like lightning just now, and it is also one of the three steeds that Zaofu said is absolutely inaccessible: Green Ear.
At this moment, the god horse Lu Er is like a docile lamb, walking out of the forest obediently, and beside it, the one who pats the horse's body and sometimes turns his head as if talking to the horse is that Yi Huaisha, a strange man from the orc race.
Seeing everyone's surprised eyes, Yi Huaisha smiled meaningfully and said, "To get such a good horse, you can't use the method of 'hunting' or 'surrendering'," he looked at it as if he knew everything about it. Zaofu, "Since you know that they are extremely spiritual, you shouldn't treat them in the usual way of taming horses. If the aggressive and aggressive methods don't work, why don't you try to communicate with them in a friendly way?"
Zaofu opened his eyes wide, listening to the man with the appearance of a beast talking, his heart suddenly became clear.
He has been domesticating good horses almost all his life, and he has a deep understanding of horse nature, but at this moment, after Yi Huaisha's pointing, it seems that there is a broad road suddenly appearing among many paths.
Thinking of this, Zaofu couldn't help laughing out loud, with a sense of joy after enlightenment in that smile.
"It's so wonderful, I'll treat them as good friends!"
While talking, he turned around and rushed into the forest. In less than half a day, he had successfully tamed the last three horses among the eight horses - Robo Li, Hua Liu, and Lu Er.
Among the eight steeds, in addition to the three most difficult to tame, there are five other horses, namely "Jedi", a god horse that runs as if it does not touch the ground, and "Feather Turning", which is as fast as a bird, and can travel thousands of miles at night. "Ben Xiao", "Super Shadow" who can run after the sun, and "Wai Yi" with fleshy wings.
Zaofu succeeded in obtaining eight steeds. He naturally admired Zike and others and was extremely grateful. He took them to the Kunlun Hill as promised, and prepared to meet the famous king in mythology: King Mu of Zhou.
When Zike, Zaofu and others arrived in Kunlun, they saw this famous mountain that triggered the journey of searching for the Nascent Soul. Looking at this famous mountain, imagining the catastrophe of losing the dragon son Yuanying after five or six hundred years, I can't help but make people sigh.
A group of people arrived at King Zhou Mu's Xingyuan, but found that King Zhou Mu was already sitting on the high platform at this time. Generally speaking, this is the place where King Zhou Mu watched singing and dancing, but at this moment there were no dancing maids in front of the stage, only two figures. Strange people stand there.
The people standing in front of the platform were one tall and one short. The tall one called himself Yanshi. I heard that he was a master craftsman that King Mu of Zhou met during his travels. The short man next to Yanshi looked a little weird. I saw that he was very mischievous between looking around, his eyes were rolling around, as if he couldn't stop, he was restless.
On the high platform, King Mu of Zhou looked at the two of them, frowned and asked, "Yanshi, didn't you say that you are famous for your skillful workmanship? Where are the utensils you made? Who is the man you brought?" What are you doing?"
Yanshi pointed to the dwarf beside him and said, "This man is a utensil I made, a puppet that can sing and act."
As soon as this remark came out, the whole audience was in an uproar. Everyone looked carefully and saw that although the dwarf acted a little strangely, his behavior was no different from ordinary people. His face was clear and his expression was lively and lively. Unbelievable.
King Mu of Zhou was also surprised and amused. He came down to see the little weird man in person. He looked around, but he couldn't see any difference between him and ordinary people. He pressed his chin, and he would sing a melodious and moving song. His hands will follow the rhythm and dance with King Mu of Zhou. His steps are ever-changing. As long as it is a dance step that someone who comes can step on, the little weirdo can follow his rhythm and dance together.
King Mu of Zhou was amused and looked at the little weirdo curiously, so he called out his favorite concubine Ji and watched the little weirdo sing and dance together.
When the dance music was about to end, the little weirdo suddenly made a roundabout, walked up to King Zhou Mu's favored concubine, winked at the favored concubine, and blew a kiss to her with a "boo", which almost caused a lot of trouble. Seeing this, King Mu of Zhou was furious, and loudly summoned the guards on the side to drag Yanshi out for the crime of disrespect and execute him.
Yanshi was shocked, he quickly pulled the dwarf's arm, his hands were like the wind, and immediately dismantled the dwarf into pieces to show that this person is indeed a puppet.
Everyone looked at the fragments curiously, and found that they were made of leather, wood, glue, black, white, red, green and other different colors of paint. Seeing such a scene, King Zhou Mu calmed down a bit and came over to examine carefully. The gallbladder, heart, lungs, spleen, stomach, and intestines are all prepared, and the appearance is complete with muscles, bones, limbs, fur, and teeth, but they are all fake, but when assembled together, they return to the original beating and flexible little man .
At this point, King Mu of Zhou and all the onlookers believed in Yanshi's skillful craftsmanship, and the famous king in the myth laughed happily, and with an order, he boarded the luxurious boat driven by Zaofu, drawn by eight steeds and horses. The carriage, heading west, intends to visit the place where the famous god of heaven, Queen Mother of the West, lives.
Zike, Ning Xiaobai and the others knew that the magnificent parade in front of them seemed real, and they had talked face-to-face with the Cepheus, but all of this may be an illusion created by the "Dragon Son Yuanying", but to make these Yuanying Ying appeared, but they had to follow King Zhou Mu's westward route like solving a riddle, waiting for Yuan Ying to appear, so the five had to ride on the "Earthquake Cloud" and follow King Zhou Mu's army.
What made Zike even more worried was that the red part of the Jingping Lily in his arms had already dyed the whole flower stem red and penetrated to the roots.
That is to say, there is not much time left until the era where Zike and Ning Xiaobai lived collapsed.
King Mu of Zhou’s trip to the west covered an extremely vast land. He first went to the mountain of Yangyu to meet Wuyi, the god of the river, and then to the hill of Kunlun to overlook the magnificent palace of the Yellow Emperor in the past. The black water in the northern land finally reached the palace of Yaochi where the ancient god of heaven, Queen Mother of the West, lived.
Surprisingly, the appearance of the Queen Mother of Xi is not the graceful lady identified by later generations. The real Queen Mother of Xi is a "fluffy hoopoe", with fluffy hair, wearing jade ornaments, and a god with a terrible appearance. It has a human body, but it has the tail of a leopard and the teeth of a tiger. It usually likes to howl in the palace of fairyland.
And the three attendants under the Queen Mother of the West are not beautiful blue bird fairies, but three ferocious divine birds with red heads and black eyes. It's called Blue Bird.
When King Mu of Zhou met with the Queen Mother of the West, Zi Ke carefully looked at the lily in the bottle in his hand. He couldn't help being surprised, and found that the red part was getting closer and closer to the bottom of the root.
It was at this moment that the entire space finally shattered, and the last four "Nine Sons of the Dragon and the Essence of Yuanying" appeared lightly.
Three Sons of the Dragon: In vain.
The fifth son of the dragon: ferocious.
The nine sons of the dragon have reached the seventh, but there are still two dragon sons, Yuan Ying, who have not yet been found.
However, there is not much time left on "Clean Bottle Lily".
Zike, Ning Xiaobai and other five people watched the scenery around them begin to change dimly, knowing that they had already begun to leave this magical tiny world.
From the eyelashes of the tiny insect "Jiao Ming", back to the eyelashes of mosquitoes.
In the end, he returned to the latrine where the old teacher Yu was.