Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen

"Huh, looking at it this way, the scenery is really nice." Shu Jie stood on the top of Du Ding, looking east happily.Without the obstruction of the Optimus Pillar, the valley below is indeed unobstructed.He stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down. There was a khaki scar with a width of tens of feet and a length of more than ten miles on the lush mountain. It was the last stone pillar that stood in front of this peak for thousands of years. trace.When the spring breeze blows the land green and wild flowers and weeds cover everything in the coming year, perhaps no one will remember that there was a stone pillar here that is said to be related to the Yellow Emperor.

"The coming year..." Shu Jie couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Year after year, which year is the coming year?" Many people around him were running around, busy packing up the offerings for the sacrifice.The middle-aged people of Yamura almost came out in full force. It took a day to cut down the towering ancient trees, re-erected a column head at the original position of the Optimus Pillar, and set up an altar on Duding Peak for three days.Now that the sacrifice has been completed, the priests guarding the ancestor's throne are beating their scepters all the way down the mountain, followed by the naked witches.Before the moon rises tonight, they will rush to the entrance of a hidden river cave at the foot of the mountain to worship the river god and mountain god inside.

The three divinations during the sacrifice are all bad omens, indicating that disaster will come from the west.Yaray was so worried that everyone lost weight. After discussing with several village elders, he decided to temporarily take the village's middle-aged men, women and children out of the mountain.She rushed down the mountain with Ya Yin overnight and prepared to go. Seeing that the people in Yacun followed the priest down the mountain one after another, and he was the only one left on the peak, Shu Jie felt that his ears were finally cleared up, and he was very satisfied.He squinted his eyes and listened to the wind. After a while, he took out the bamboo chopsticks, laid out the hexagrams created by Fu Xi on the ground, and drew the Dao runes out of thin air.The red rune rotated several times along the direction of the hexagram, and slowly disappeared in the northeast direction.Shujie looked in that direction for a while, put away the bamboo chopsticks, and said to himself: "Yes, it should be in that direction." That direction ran counter to the direction of Yamura, Shujie put away his small baggage, and put the altar I collected a bunch of dried meat and wine on the table, picked them up and left.He had just walked ten feet away when he suddenly heard someone behind him shouting, "Hey! Where are you going?"

Shu Jie turned his head and saw Ya Yin running up, sweating profusely, and asked, "Didn't you go back and prepare for the relocation? Did you forget to take something?" Yayin panted: "No...no...I...I'm here to find you." "What do you want from me?" Shu Jie pulled his ears: "Ah, yes, I haven't given you a gift this year! I left in a bit of a hurry...how about I ask someone to bring it to you later?" Yayin said: "Who cares about your gift? I want to go with you." The wind blew up from the bottom of the cliff, and with a whistling sound, it blinded Shu Jie's eyes.He quickly rubbed his eyes with his hands and said, "What did you say?"

Yayin said: "It's nothing...you tell me first, where are you going in such a hurry?" Shujie said: "On the night when the stone pillar collapsed, I saw a vision in the northern sky. If there is a disaster, it must be resolved before it happens. It is not very useful to rely on sacrifices alone. So I plan to see it. Look." Shi Yin clapped her hands and said: "It's just right! It is closely related to our village, and I want to go too." Shu Jie smiled and said: "That's not okay, it might be dangerous. Go back obediently, little girl!" Ya Yin said seriously: "I'm not a little girl anymore! Anyway, I want to follow you, don't you want to run away alone..." She tightly grasped Shu Jie's arm and said: "You said you want mine, you want to Repent?"

Shu Jie was stunned for a moment, and said: "Did I say such a thing... oops!" Shi Yin pinched him severely, ran to the front quickly, and shouted: "Hurry up, don't be wordy!" Shu Jie sighed, followed her slowly, thinking about how to persuade her to go back. The two walked along the ridge of Duding Peak, surrounded by towering trees, and the sun shone from the left, casting beams of light in the forest.Shi Yin was still in front at first, walking and walking, and then ran behind Shu Jie to follow.She watched his body walk through the light beams, flickering on and off, and felt a burst of warmth in her heart.Although she still can't believe that "I need you" that Shujie said last night is true or not, but she is indescribably satisfied to be able to follow behind him.Shujie's wooden clogs left footprints on the mossy ground, and Yayin stomped on them with her bare feet, ah, such big feet...

Shu Jie, who was walking in front, suddenly paused and stopped.Ya Yin was following behind, stepping on footprints, almost bumped into him, hurriedly jumped two steps, and said nervously: "What's wrong?" Shujie looked up at the sun and said, "It's nothing...it's already noon, I'm hungry." Then he sat down on a rock and said, "Bring some food, eat before leaving." Yayin put down her burden and took out some fruits and dried meat.The fruit was small and green, Shu Jie frowned and said: "Just eat this?" Shi Yin said: "Yes, I left in a hurry, so I only took this."

Shu Jie untied his burden, and proudly said: "Isn't there beef?" Shi Yin leaned over to look at it, and said hesitantly: "This... this seems to be the three animals used for sacrifice..." Before finishing speaking, Shu Jie had already torn off one piece, Dao Sheng took the lead, and began to eat slowly.Ya Yin was dumbfounded, and it took a while before she screamed. Shujie said: "What's your name, it sounds so ugly." Shi Yin jumped up and shouted: "You, you...how dare you eat the sacrificed food? This...this will be punished by heaven!" Shu Jie smiled and said, "Who told you that you can't eat the food used for sacrifice?"

"This is a sacrificial offering to gods and ghosts, so of course you can't eat it! Who else can tell me?" "Sacrificing things is as long as you want to, so why be cautious? I told your mother to prepare more, because I planned to save food for the road. You see, the meat and rice wine are very good." One piece, handed it to her and said: "Hurry up and eat, we still have a long way to go." It was only then that Shi Yin realized that she had been cheated by him, she was funny and annoyed, she didn't answer anything, and only ate the fruit she brought.Shu Jie didn't try to persuade him too much, he ate and drank unceremoniously.At that time, the sun was right above the head, although there was shade from the trees, but looking around, the mountains in the distance reflected the sunlight, making it dazzlingly white and making people drowsy.Shu Jie said: "Let's rest for a while before leaving." He sat upright and closed his eyes to regain his composure.

Yayin sat beside him, thinking of the prophecy of "the stone pillar falls, Yashi's family will be destroyed", she couldn't calm down no matter what.She simply pulled out the dagger, took out a black piece of wood from the small basket on her back, and chopped it up one by one. After cutting for a while, I suddenly heard Shu Jie say: "What are you doing?" Seeing that his eyes were still closed, Yayin said angrily, "Cut a wooden figure of you, cast a spell on it, make you...make you...become bald immediately!" Shu Jie was surprised and said: "It's a crime for me to lie to eat and drink, but it's not the end of the crime, right?"

Shi Yin said: "You not only lie to food and drink, you also...you always lie to me." Shu Jie smiled and said: "Little girl, I have watched you grow up since childhood, what have I lied to you, tell me?" "Many, for example...you are transformed from a dragon." Shu Jie opened his eyes and looked at Ding Yayin with a strange smile in his eyes.Yayin gestured at him with a dagger: "Why, you said it yourself!" Shu Jie said: "That's right, I said it. I told it not only to you, but to many people. But only you, only you little girl, have been so persistent in questioning me for more than ten years." He teased He rolled up one sleeve, raised it up to his shoulder, and said, "Come here and have a look." Ya Yin grows up so big, it is the first time to see Shu Jie showing other skin besides hands and face, and often jokes that he is shyer than girls.At this time, seeing Shu Jie exposed his arm, he was startled for a moment, suddenly felt embarrassed, and was about to turn his head, but saw something faintly on his bare skin.Shi Yin became curious, but forgot about her shyness, and looked closely, and saw that there were faint patterns on Shu Jie's fair skin, which were very light bluish-black, pointed and round, similar in size, arranged in layers like scales.The color on the outside of the arm is slightly darker, and the color on the inside becomes lighter, and there is no trace on the inside of the arm.Shujie said softly: "Don't be afraid, come here and take a closer look." Yayin boldly approached, touched it with her hand, it felt very smooth, it didn't look like something growing on the skin, but it seemed to grow from the skin. The beautiful patterns on the inside.She stroked it lightly and asked, "What is this...?" "This is the dragon scale." Shi Yin was stunned, Shu Jie only said that she was going to have another seizure, but saw her face pressed against her arm, and said: "I...I believe it. Although I don't know what happened, but I... believe it." Shu Jie said: "I am called Jie." Shi Yin knew immediately that Shu Jie was about to tell the secret of her life experience, and couldn't help but hugged Shu Jie's hand.Shu Jie said indifferently: "Shu is a common surname in Ba, but I only use it when I come here every year, and in other places, my surname is Wu... Your body is shaking, but unfortunately you guessed it right .I am not a human, I am a Wu clan. To be precise, my mother is a Wu clan, and my father is a half-human, half-dragon general of the Ba Kingdom, Shu Nu." "Two hundred and seventy years ago, my mother gave birth to me in this dark cave under the cloud mountain. You can't imagine how deep the cave is. Back then, she followed her father whose soul was controlled by the ghost dragon. It took a whole year before I descended into the dark swamp at the bottom of the cave. I was born in the swamp, and part of the blood flowing in my body was dragon blood, although it was just a ghost dragon that couldn’t see the sun... That’s why I say I’m a dragon It's changed, I didn't lie to you, did I?" "Do you know why I am called Jie? Because my birth was a catastrophe for my mother. Father... the father whose soul was devoured by the ghost dragon wanted to eat me, so he let my mother give birth to me, how terrible ..." Shi Yin was so frightened that she trembled all over, hugged him tightly, but found that his body was abnormally cold, and even broke out in a layer of cold sweat. He was silent in the past for a while, then suddenly pushed Yayin away, and said with a smile: "Haha, are you scared, little girl? Hahahaha! Oh, it's really fun. Do you know what this story explains?" Yain shook her head blankly. Shu Jie raised his index finger, and said solemnly: "Some things, if you can't do it, you can't do it, and if you can't do it, you can't do it. My father and mother fell into the abyss because of the combination of different races, and they will never be free. So In this world, there are still rules. Haha, haha!" He stood up, looked around with his head up, scratched his head and said, "I should go, if I don't go, I won't be able to go down the mountain before dark. You Just send me here, girl, go back." Saying that, he walked away. Shi Yin took two steps forward, grabbed his clothes, and shouted: "Why!" "what why?" Ya Yin's chest rose and fell violently, but the words held in her heart couldn't be restrained, and she said loudly: "You said you want me, and you don't allow me to marry someone else, why?" "Oh," Shu Jie turned his head and said with a smile: "I need it, not want it. You once said that you would make me a good bow, but I have always thought about it. Thinking about the long distance of the Song Dynasty, I don't go often. .If you are married, I really can't come to you, so I plan to get the bow before you get married..." With a "slap", Yayin slapped him bluntly, her face flushed, and she said angrily, "Laugh again! Try laughing again!" Shu Jie continued to laugh, Ya Yin didn't make any more moves, and stepped back two steps, staring at Shu Jie.Under her gaze, Shu Jie laughed dryly twice, only to feel that the muscles on his face were stiff, and that smile became uglier than crying. He stretched out his hand to wipe his face, and finally calmed down. Yayin wiped away her tears with one hand, nodded and said: "Okay...you finally told the truth. But there are some things that you dare not do and can't do, I will show you! You are right, if you don't leave, you will be late We're going down the mountain." He turned around and continued walking down the mountain. Shu Jie stood there for a long time, silently following Ya Yin.Now the two of them stopped talking and just buried their heads on their way.The bushes on both sides gradually increased, and the leopard skin around Yayin's waist was very short, and her legs were scratched several times by the branches and leaves of the bushes. Shu Jie wanted to rush to her to open the way, so she rushed forward quickly, Shu Jie tried It didn't work after several times, and I couldn't use force, so I had to give up.He secretly drew a rune, and the branches that touched Yayin's calf instantly turned into water. Yayin hurried on with her head depressed, not paying attention to the changes around her, her legs were dripping with water, she thought it was the dew in the forest Dry. Before I knew it, I had driven more than a dozen miles, and the ridge in front of me dropped suddenly, forming a depression.The two grabbed the branches and grass roots and climbed down, when Shu Jie suddenly shouted: "Wait!" Shi Yin said coldly: "What?" Shu Jie didn't answer, he pondered for a moment, found a rock and sat down, took out a few bamboo chopsticks and rehearsed.Seeing his serious expression, Ya Yin seemed to be in some embarrassment, so he looked around and climbed to a big tree next to him to observe. Shu Jie rehearsed for a while, and said: "Well, there seems to be something unpredictable in front of you, something that is indistinguishable from friends and enemies...strange hexagrams? Hey, divination will give me a headache after all." Yayin jumped down from the tree, took his hand and said: "Don't forget it, you can see it by yourself if you take two more steps." Without any explanation, she pulled him into a bush.Shu Jie's head crown was bumped to one side by a bush, and he was about to tell the indecent way, when his eyes suddenly lit up, it turned out that he had got out of the bush and stepped on a pile of fallen bushes. This fallen shrub stretched more than ten feet to the left, and dozens of trees in the middle were broken by the middle. There were wooden boards, broken linen, ropes and other sundries scattered along the way, and there were a few long, thin The cicada wings, Shu Jie recognized that only the monster race had them, and they were used as wind-fixing strings for the floating boats, making the monster race's floating boats more flexible and faster than the original ones of the witch race. At the end of this mess, there is a bigger pile... Shujie tried very hard to think of it as a floating boat, but he couldn't get rid of the word "trash" in his mind, so he had to give up in the end.When they approached, two people were standing in front of the ruins. When they heard the noise and turned around, one of them immediately said pleasantly: "Ah, boss, there is someone, there is a village nearby!" Shu Jie said: "You are..." The guy known as the boss squinted his eyes and watched Shu Jie approaching, he puffed out his chest, and then coughed violently, clutching his chest, as if he was seriously injured.He reluctantly said: "Hang...cough...the captain of the airship strangling." "this is……" "Strangling floating boat." The old guy bent over, still serious: "We are making improvements. If you want to hire this boat, you have to wait three...cough..." He exchanged glances with another person , the man desperately gestured ten: "Seven days. We are very busy, and we really need to pay a deposit in advance." Shu Jie didn't mind sitting on this pile of rubbish, but felt that it would be impossible for this rubbish to fly, so he said, "No need. Did you crash because of the wind and rain last night?" "Falling—" the old guy emphasized in a low voice: "It is indeed because of the storm." Shu Jie approached to observe the floating boat with great interest, and said: "It's a big storm. This boat is pretty good. Look at the main wing, which is installed so far forward, it must be very fast." The old guy's expression suddenly eased a lot, and he patted the hull of the ship—immediately, a deck was knocked off, and the fourth child beside him hurriedly lifted it up and put it on again—and said: "You are an expert, young man. This ship... ...cough cough...if it wasn't for such a big storm, we wouldn't be able to come down!" "How big is it?" "What about the eye of the storm?" Shu Jie looked at the old guy again, nodded and said: "If you can survive the eye of the storm, it will not be easy." The old guy also stared into Shu Jie's eyes, as if he felt a little surprised to meet someone here who knew the power of the Eye of the Storm.He glanced at the girl who followed this person again, because Yayin had never seen any floating boat before, and seeing such a large pile of broken copper and wood, Yayin was in shock and stood far away and dared not come over.The fourth child leaned over to the old man and said in a low voice: "That woman seems to be from Ba, this man... from Lu country?" Follow Shu Jie. Shu Jie continued to turn and look, and couldn't help but say: "Well, there is no side sliding wing, so it must be assisted by the wind string rope. It turns out that this cooperation is also possible... The wind wing is too small, so it can withstand the wind. Is it the wind from the side?" The old guy said carefully: "...if it is handled well." "Put the bow down? The speed can be increased, but whether it can be stabilized is a problem." The old guy didn't dare to underestimate this person, and thought to himself, he felt that he was tall, and he didn't seem like a petite witch, so he couldn't help but said: "Mr. is an expert, is he from the Qi State Metal Manufacturing Department?" Shu Jie smiled and said: "No. I'm just more interested in floating airships. I once asked some experts who made them... oh?" He suddenly bent down, picked up the thing, glanced at it, and turned Shi Shi's face had already calmed down, and he said, "So you are hired by Bayu Division." The old guy was so startled that he almost jumped up, but suddenly there was a sharp pain in his waist and he moaned "Hey".The fourth child on the other side of the boat heard the old guy's groan, pulled out the scimitar with a bang, jumped up, jumped over the floating boat, and rushed forward - the speed was astonishing. Seeing that the young man didn't react at all, and the scimitar had already struck near his shoulder, the fourth child was just thinking about letting him go a little bit, when his wrist suddenly tightened, and then a strong force pulled him forward, and he jumped up again. Gao Di jumped over the hull of the floating boat, hit a big tree with a "bang", and passed out immediately. When he rolled his eyes and slid down the tree trunk, the old guy had already regained his strength, a group of "sources" on his left arm shimmered, he struck out with one palm, and seven fireballs hit Shujie.Shu Jie rolled up the long sleeve that threw the fourth child far away, and the fireball was contained in it, completely out of control.Sweat dripped from the old guy's head like it was raining. This is almost his own stunt, but he was played like a mud ball. It seems that the whole army is really going to be wiped out today. Shu Jie played with the fireballs for a while, then threw them on the ground, the fireball lost its operator and instantly turned into smoke and dust.He smiled at the old guy and said, "You guys are really impulsive. Even if you work for Yasumi, you shouldn't be so nervous." The old guy just felt that this person was standing in front of him leisurely, like a mountain, and he couldn't breathe out under the pressure, so he reluctantly said: "You...how did you know?" Shu Jie stretched out his hand, spread it out, revealing a pile of green radishes, said: "What is this?" "This... this..." No matter how hard the old guy thought, he couldn't remember that he had such a thing on his boat. Shujie said: "This is a green radish that is unique to the witch clan. If it wasn't for the witch people, how could there be such a thing? Among the witch clan, I am afraid that only those who do secret things for the Bayu division will condescend to ride on it." Such rags." The old guy was threatened and humiliated, he was almost in tears, and said: "You... who are you, you know this?" He saw the shocking force of the blow that threw the fourth child away just now, it was a shock to this young man. But it seems to be just a random wave, the power of the Wu people is much weaker than that of humans or monsters, so they cannot be Wu people.But if he wasn't a witch, how could he know about Yasumi Division? Shu Jie didn't answer, took out a piece of green radish, drew a Dao talisman on it lightly with his fingertips, and said: "Go, find your master." The cliff is flying.The old guy only said several times that it was going to fall, but the wind always blows it up.Flying for a certain distance, seeing a huge rock passing by, the green radish suddenly unfolded, and it only took a moment to become a big eagle, which plunged down.Ya Yin let out a cry of surprise, and then heard someone screaming more terribly from behind the rock, and the big eagle flew up and grabbed a ragged guy. The big eagle flew in front of Shu Jie and dropped the guy, suddenly a ball of fire broke out on his body, the flames quickly enveloped it, and burned it up in no time.When the smoke and dust dissipated, it was still a green radish slowly falling down. Wu Jing rolled two times on the ground with a disheveled face, raised his head, and met Shu Jie's eyes.He was extremely astonished at first, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Jie...His Highness Jie?" Shu Jie looked at him and said, "You are very young, and you are working for Bayu Division?" Wu Jing saluted and said: "Yes, little minister Jing, Mr. Meng Hao fell in love with him by mistake. He went to... to go to Ba as an envoy, but unexpectedly encountered a storm last night and crashed here. I didn't expect to meet His Highness Jie." Shu Jie smiled and said: "As an envoy, with an envoy like you, wouldn't it be my reputation in Kunlun Mountain? Forget it, I won't embarrass you. I don't want to get involved in the things that your Bayu Division did secretly. There is a village not far from here, you can go there to rest." Wu Jing said: "Thank you, Your Highness. I don't know... where is Your Highness going?" Shu Jie said: "Last night's storm is really rare, I fear that there will be something that will harm the world, so I plan to look around here." Wu Jing's heart was beating wildly, and he hurriedly said, "Really? Your Highness's divination is no small matter. If there is such a thing, I dare you, and I am willing to patrol with Your Highness." "Aren't you going to go to Pakistan as an envoy?" Wu Jing jumped up, kicked on the wreckage of the strangle airship, kicking off several boards immediately.Regardless of the old man's loud protests, he covered his leg that was bruised by the wood with one hand, and said tremblingly: "I don't know when this rags will be repaired. I can't make it in time anyway. If you can help His Highness With a small amount of effort, when I go back, please Your Highness give me some kind words for this little minister!" Shu Jie smiled and said: "If you are loyal and serve, why do you care about merits and demerits? Well, you can follow if you want. Yin, let's go!" Wu Jing took a slow step, telling the old guy to repair the floating boat quickly no matter what, and to be on call at any time.The old guy squatted on the ground with a piece of grass in his mouth, and he only complained about the heavy loss this time, not to mention making money, he even lost all his capital, and refused to live or die.Wu Jing gritted his teeth, and pressed the ancient famous utensil "Pi" given to him by his father to the old guy, and after finishing the deal, he would give it back at ten times the original price.Seeing the old guy saying Ruo Ruo had regrets and really happy to put "Pi" in his bag, Wu Jing thought bitterly in his heart: "You can be proud! Don't say ten times, even if I give you a hundred times, I will definitely earn it! " The three continued to walk along the ridge, and soon encountered a cliff, where the mountain deflected abruptly to the south.Shu Jie stood on the edge of the cliff and watched for a while, pointing to a mountain range higher than Mount Ji in the north and said, "Yin, do you know what mountain is over there?" Shi Yin said: "I haven't been there either. I heard from my mother that it is another branch of Yunshan, called Jinshan, which is taller and steeper than our Jishan. I heard that there is a huge lake inside, and there are dragons in the lake. I don’t know if it’s true, but there are ghosts and ghosts hidden in the mountain, and there’s a thousand-year-old wolf king, so no one has ever entered it.” The mountain range is dozens of miles away, and its trend is roughly the same as that of Mount Ji. The valley in the middle is protected by these two mountains, and the trees grow very tall and lush.Wu Jing said: "Is there any abnormality there, Your Highness?" Shu Jie said: "I'm not sure. However, last night there was indeed a fire falling in the south of the mountain, that's the direction." Wu Jing was overjoyed, knowing that the fire must have been produced when a divine beast or a divine weapon fell, so his chances of winning increased by a few After a minute, he immediately said: "Okay! Let's go over there and have a look!" He walked in the front with alacrity. The three of them bypassed the cliff and walked for nearly two hours before descending into the valley.Before Shi Yin could cry out, Wu Jing had already started to cry.He could not have walked such a long distance in the Kunlun Mountain Observatory of Stars in a year. The soft moccasin soles had long been worn out, and his feet were covered with blisters.Seeing that he really couldn't take a step, Shu Jie found a nearby stream and set up camp to rest. At night, Shu Jie placed restrictions around the area to prevent wolves, snakes, insects and ants from entering.After finishing, he went back to the bonfire, and saw Wu Jing fell on a rock, and had already fallen asleep, but Ya Yin was nowhere to be seen.He asked himself that within a few miles of his rune surveillance, Yayin should not have gone out of this range and would not be in danger, so he sat by the campfire, closed his eyes and rested. Not long after, the moon came out.A very thin and very curved bright color, as if someone pinched it out on the dark sky with nails, but it is still domineering when walking among the stars.Shujie likes the moon very much, which is one of the reasons why he likes to travel around the world instead of staying in Kunlun Mountain: watching the stars and the moon in this mortal place is much more intimate than in the high star-gazing hall. He lay lazily on the ground looking at the sky, stretched his hand into his arms, took out the jade cicada and played with it in his hand, when he suddenly heard the sound of a bamboo flute coming from the upstream of the stream.The sound of the flute was intermittent, sometimes absent, and sometimes it would suddenly rise twice, but most of the time it was cold and melodious.The sound of the flute, the sound of Ding Dong's stream, the sound of the wind passing through the woods, and the sound of insects in the grass, these sounds are mixed with each other, but it sounds extremely peaceful and peaceful, like the sound of heaven.As Shu Jie listened, a pang of sorrow suddenly rose in his heart, and his thoughts inadvertently turned to the very long past.what is it then?He couldn't help sitting up and thinking quietly for a while. Ah, yes, he remembered where it was...the depths of the cold swamp, the place where his mother's imprisoned soul slept...Before he was eighteen years old, he was deceived by his father, and he would dive into the water every day, begging his mother to release him The imprisonment spell on the body.You can't see your fingers in the cave, and there are monster dragons, thistle scales, and fishes lurking in the deep water... It's strange, but there is such a peaceful and peaceful feeling in that dangerous place.The deeper you are, the calmer you will be, the more you love, the more... He stood up abruptly, shaking his head vigorously to wake himself up.These memories always make him unspeakably depressed and irritated. His mother was obviously killed by his lover, her body was destroyed, her soul was imprisoned, and she could never be freed. Didn't even complain... How is this possible?How can this be!Whenever Shu Jie thinks about this matter, he feels incredible and unbearable, and thinks of being betrayed, deceived, used, abandoned... and even loathes his mother.No way... He trembled all over, staggered to the stream, and washed his face with the stream water.The stream in the mountain was bitingly cold, but it wasn't enough. Compared with the dark swamp, it was so hot!He buried his face directly in the water, held back for a long time, and finally calmed down. He raised his head, and the water on his hands and face dripped into the water, and thousands of moons appeared in the water, shaking at him together, like thousands of pairs of eyes.Shu Jie watched and thought, then sneered.He sat up straight, combed his wet hair back slowly, and said to himself, "It's ridiculous. Don't bother me." That's right, he wants to defeat these messy thoughts, he can't forgive his mother's weakness...some things are really ridiculous...the first time is ridiculous, and if you come twice more, you will be disgusted! He stood up impressively, and dozens of hidden rune arrays in the forest immediately lit up, quickly dividing the area, imprisoning all moving objects, sealing off the surrounding area, and blocking all external interference.When he was convinced that even the witch mirror was imprisoned, he walked upstream along the stream, and within a short distance, he walked into a pile of rocks.These chaotic rocks were washed down from the mountain when flash floods erupted. They have been washed by water for thousands of years, and their surfaces are smooth and round.The stream passes through the pile of rocks. Most of the rocks on my side have been covered by dense shrubs and moss. Only the larger stones near the stream still protrude, and some of them are arranged from low to high. Like a staircase leading to the highest rock. Yain was sitting on the highest rock, playing the piccolo.She was wearing dark clothes, which almost blended into the dark forest behind her, only her arms and calves were exposed, shining like beautiful jade under the moonlight.The wind blew her hair, lingering around her face and neck. The light was also soft, the wind was calm, and Shu Jie was exhausted for a moment, the resentment and anger in his heart disappeared in an instant, and he just stood in the dark and looked at her blankly. After Yayin finished playing a piece of music, she said softly, "Is it nice?" "...It sounds good." It really sounds good. "What song is it?" "You taught me." "I...me? Oh... that's right." Shu Jie was taken aback, and then remembered that this was a nursery rhyme he taught Yayin casually when she was young, but she still remembered it. Yayin sighed: "Just changing from the singing to the flute, you can't hear it anymore. Jie, your heart is getting more impetuous, and you are really old." Shu Jie was furious. He climbed up the steps step by step, and said coldly: "Really? I don't think I'm too impetuous, and I don't think I'm old. My life has just begun. If I want, I can even live as long as the world! " Shi Yin said: "Yes. Compared with you witches, our lives are so short and insignificant... But I still feel that you are old. You are no longer that youthful Jie. What is there to catch? You, imprisoned you...is it yourself?" "Me? Haha, ridiculous!" Shujie said loudly, "You don't need to use such words to provoke me. My heart has never been so calm like tonight, and it has never been so firm and sober today. I can't catch anything Stay with me. What a pity, you don't understand such a realm at all!" He raised his head to the sky, opened his arms, and fluttered his long sleeves: "The bright moon is not so vast, and the sky is not so vast! The beast Kun of Beiming, After 178,000 years of sleep, you can spread your wings up to nine days. No matter how hard you try, the salamanders among the flowers can only fly from spring to autumn, from the tip of the grass to the top of the tree. How wide is my world, how can you Maybe you know? How far am I going, how can you know? My other side is not only invisible to you, but also beyond your imagination!" He took a greedy breath, what a fresh forest scent!What a natural atmosphere of heaven and earth!He was almost intoxicated.But then he lowered his head again, looked at Yayin who was sitting on the ground, and said: "Little girl, please see clearly, how far is the distance between me and you." Shi Yin stretched out her hand, touched his clothes, and said, "It's just this far." Shu Jie retreated suddenly, and was about to fall down the rock, suddenly he jumped up and flew towards the stream.He quickly drew a rune in the air, and there were several loud bangs of "crack, bang, bang, bang", and a rock giant stood out from the pile of rocks by the stream.Shu Jie landed in its palm, and said to Shi Yin: "Even if it's only this far, you will never be able to come here." Ya Yin jumped off the rock without making a sound, and fell heavily into the rocks because she couldn't see where she was going.Shu Jie's heart skipped a beat, and then she saw her getting up, walking towards him by feeling the stones.He stretched out his right hand, intending to set up a barrier in front of Yayin, but his hand shook so badly that he couldn't draw a shape no matter what.He forced himself not to look at Yain who fell down again while crossing the stream, held his right wrist with his left hand, and continued drawing runes, but...but...damn!The fingers are crooked, and the runes are faintly visible, but the drawing is not formed!Under his agitation, he even lost control of the stone beast. The stone giant swayed for a while and slowly sat down. Suddenly his leg tightened, Ya Yin grabbed his leg and struggled to climb up.Shu Jie never panicked even when Beiming faced dozens of red gold tools from the Yunzhong Clan by himself, but at this moment he shrank back in fear.His back hit the icy rock, and there was nowhere to go, Ya Yin climbed up, reached out to touch his chest, and said, "It's just this far." Because she fell into the stream, she was drenched all over, her hair was scattered on her face and chest, letting the moonlight flow on it.There was blood on one of her arms.She said: "You will regret it. All I can see and touch is this far. You are right, I can't imagine how vast your world is... I'm sorry... But one day you You will also find that, in fact, what you can get with your hands is only such a distance." She stretched out her hand to caress Shujie's face, and said softly: "I am Yamura's daughter, I will not pull you. But please remember my words, you will regret it." After finishing speaking, Yain turned around and jumped down again.She continued to grope forward among the rocks and fell again.This time she cried loudly.Shu Jie's mind went blank and he remained motionless.Yayin cried for a while, clutched her arms and continued walking, crossed the stream, and returned to the campfire.She sat by the fire with her head buried in her arms, crying intermittently, accompanied by the sound of Ding Dong's stream, the sound of the wind passing through the woods, and the sound of insects in the grass, like the sound of heaven, which lasted for a long, long time. Early the next morning, Shu Jie heard birdsong in his sleep, barely opened his eyes, and saw a large flock of birds passing by a hill ahead, and the chirping sound made the monkeys in the valley yell too.These noises continued endlessly, until later wild beasts and birds shouted wantonly everywhere in the mountains and forests.It looked like he couldn't sleep. Shu Jie felt his head was as heavy as a thousand catties, and just about to stretch his waist, he suddenly felt a pain in his waist, and his back and legs were both numb and sore.Only then did he remember that he was squatting on this rock thinking about things last night, but he fell asleep at some point, and all the joints in his body are still paralyzed.Thinking about things... Oh, the pain in his head was about to burst, he quickly stopped thinking about things, and when his body slowly recovered, he stood up and moved around. He looked to the other side of the stream, and saw Wu Jing was roasting something by the fire, seeing that he was awake, he beckoned and said: "Your Highness Jie, please come over to have a meal!" While walking towards him, Shu Jie looked around, strangely, he didn't see the girl Yayin.He walked to Wu Jing, Wu Jing had respectfully offered the two grilled fish with both hands, and stepped aside.Shu Jie smiled and said: "This is not Kunlun Mountain, why are you so cautious? I hate such cumbersome etiquette the most. You are welcome, let's eat together." He handed him a piece. Wu Jing was overjoyed, and honestly sat aside to eat, and said: "I heard that His Highness is broad-minded and eclectic, and he is really a role model for my family. Today, I saw that he is really extraordinary." When Shu Jie heard the words "broad-minded", he suddenly remembered what he said last night, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.He shook his head carelessly, and asked, "Where is Yayin?" Wu Jing said: "Your Highness, you are asking that woman? Today she got up early in the morning, caught a few fish for me to roast, and then left." Shu Jie stood up at once: "Leaving?" "Yeah, they said they went back to the village." Shu Jie was stunned for a while: "Why didn't you call me?" Seeing his distraught look, Wu Jing hurriedly said: "The woman said that His Highness didn't rest well last night, so let me not disturb His Highness. That's right!" He took out something from his clothes and presented it to Shu Jie, saying: "This It was she who asked the minister to pass it on to His Highness." When Shujie held it in his hand, he felt that it was extremely heavy, like gold, and extremely cold, like the cold jade produced in Kunlun Mountains, but the texture was wood, with rough cut marks on the surface.Shujie remembered that she used the dagger to cut something when she was resting these two days, so it turned out to be this thing.This thing is thick at both ends and slender in the middle, a bit like the handle in the middle of a longbow, but... making a bow requires a whole piece of wood, how can it be divided into several sections? Shu Jie looked at it for a long time, but didn't know what it was, so he said, "Ya... has that woman said what it is?" Wu Jing said: "She said, this is a bow for His Highness. It is not completely finished, but it is said that it is roughly formed and ready to use. Your Highness, I don't think this thing looks like a complete bow, so I asked her, she Don't answer, just say that His Highness may use it." Shu Jie couldn't help holding the middle part and making gestures. If this is really a complete bow, it feels really good to hold.The thick places at both ends even bend slightly backwards as if the bow was really tensed. After watching it for a long time, Shu Jie really had the urge to let go and let go of the arrow.He hurriedly restrained himself, put this strange thing into his arms, and said, "She... that's all she said?" Wu Jing said: "She also said, please don't worry about her, Your Highness. If your Highness comes to the Song Dynasty in the future, if you still remember her, you might as well tell her. Your Highness, is she from the Song Kingdom?" Shu Jie didn't answer, turned around and left, only said: "Let's go, there are still many things to do." Wu Jing hurriedly kicked down the stones beside the fire, put out the fire, and trotted to follow Shu Jie. Shu Jie kept a gloomy face all the way and did not speak, and Wu Jing did not dare to talk nonsense. The two walked along the stream in silence for a while. The stream turned to the south and rushed down a steep cliff, forming a waterfall. .The trees in this area are towering, the bushes are overgrown, and the vines are vertical and horizontal. Not to mention the stones, the land is almost invisible, and the stone spirit cannot be summoned.The two of them walked to a small clearing in the forest, and Shu Jie jumped into a big tree to observe. Wu Jing stood under the tree and waited, when he heard a noise in the nearby bushes, he was startled, thinking that there was a beast, he hurriedly took out the green radish, and drew the prohibition.Before he could finish the drawing, a wild boar with long tusks came out with a "Hula".Seeing that there was still blood on its fangs, Wu Jing was so frightened that he desperately climbed up the tree.Fortunately, the wild boar was also in a hurry, passing by the tree and burrowing into the bushes.Wu Jing sat on the branch, feeling that there was still something wrong with the bushes below.He took a closer look, and saw that the dense bushes around him were trembling and making "crawling" noises. Wu Jing shouted: "Your Highness!" Before the person he called could answer, there was first a lynx neighing, followed by dozens of lynxes, followed by the grunting of wild boars, and the yo-yo sounds of swollen deer and spotted deer.The animals stalked the bushes and headed south.Wu Jing was wondering, when suddenly there was another creaking sound from the dense trees in front of him.The voice became louder and more urgent. Wu Jing had never left Kunlun Mountain before, so he didn't know what was going on in the forest, so his scalp tingled.All of a sudden, hundreds of white, yellow, and red monkeys stuck their heads out from the dense tree canopy, squeaking and jumping from tree to tree with arms outstretched.Dozens of monkeys were jumping towards Wu Jingda's tree, so frightened that he hugged his head quickly, the wind whistled in his ears, and the monkeys passed by, a few of them stepped on his back and jumped away.Wu Jing's back was scratched several times by the monkey's claws, and he cried out in pain. Before the monkeys finished dancing, the ground suddenly shook slightly, and not far away there was the sound of cracking trees as they snapped.Wu Jing shouted: "Your Highness! There is a strange phase!" Shu Jie above said: "Come up and have a look." Wu Jing struggled to climb to the highest point of the tree. From this position, he could only see the lush canopy covering the hillside airtight, but a few tens of feet away, the canopy was shaking non-stop, and sometimes there was a sound With the sound of breaking, a cluster of leaves collapsed.Wu Jing nervously said: "What is it?" Shu Jie's face also became serious.He squinted his eyes as if he could see through the canopy of the trees and said, "All beasts. Rhinoceros, bears, horses... and tigers, wolves, cattle... there are so many." "Beasts? But...why is there no sound?" "Scared. They are on their way. It seems that those birds flew south for this reason in the morning." Shu Jie looked at it, with a smile on his face again, and said, "It's really interesting. Let's go." Wu Jing hurriedly said: "Wait, Your Highness! Where are we going?" Shu Jie said: "The beasts were frightened by something, so they ran for their lives. Let's go in the direction they came from." Wu Jing took a closer look, and saw a path faintly showing where the beasts passed by. .The road still runs from north to south.He climbed down the tree following Shu Jie, and thought: "Okay, it seems that the divine beast has indeed fallen to the north!"