Shushu Mountain is located at the junction of the three realms, where clear and turbid air are intertwined endlessly. Most of the mountains and forests are shrouded in dust and mist all day long, and the sun cannot penetrate, making people tremble when they see it and feel terrified when they encounter it.
This was not the first time She Chu came to the junction - in fact, in the past few years, she had visited the junction frequently. But it was indeed her first time to go so deep, and even climb up the rumored Shushi Mountain.
In Siyou, Shushu Mountain always appears together with darkness and mystery. According to rumors, it is not only the place where the God of Plague and Poison died in danger, but also where Wang Jiuye’s coffin was buried.
Wang Jiuye is a legendary figure no less than Di Juntian. He is a human race, but he is very happy with the lucky god Taifen. He not only regulates the wind and rain in the human world for him, but also teaches him the method of immortality. He hopes that Wang Jiuye can cultivate a golden body and become immortal. Log into heaven.
Unfortunately, unlike the powerful Di Juntian, Wang Jiuye has a loose personality and has no pursuits. He failed Tai Feng's good intentions. Not only did he not cultivate the golden body, but he also spread the cultivation method of the gods widely. Tai Feng was so angry that he withdrew all his protection. There were three years of heavy rain and three years of drought in the world.
The reason why the disaster only lasted for six years is that more and more human races have mastered the method of the gods to control nature. They call themselves warlocks. After Tai Feng withdrew his blessing, they relied on their own abilities to invent the calendar and re-adjust and perfect it. weather.
After Tai Feng found out about this, he was furious again.
However, the passage of time in the heavenly world is not exactly the same as that in the human world. When Tai Feng takes time out, there are already talented people in the human race who have cultivated golden bodies and ascended to the sky.
Since then, the fairy clan has appeared.
This man was also very famous. He later founded the Gengzi Academy and accepted cultivators from both human and demon races living in the human world as his disciples. Later, even the Emperor of Heaven wanted to call him Palace Master Zhang.
Because of the natural close relationship between Gengzi Academy and the human race, a fairyland of one power gradually formed in the heaven, forcing Tai Feng to completely quench his desire for revenge.
But he could not forget Wang Jiuye's "repaying kindness with hatred", so after his death, he deliberately dropped ninety-nine lightning and thunder to turn his bones into powder to satisfy his hatred. In order to protect Wang Jiuye's body, Wang Jiuye's ministers fled all the way to Shushu Mountain, but they were still cornered by Tai Feng.
The mountain ghosts of Shushu Mountain admired Wang Jiuye and reached out to help him, sinking his coffin deep into the mountain stream of Shushu Mountain. The mountains and ravines in the sparse mountains are thousands of feet deep, directly connected to the Wuwu Sea, and under the Wuwu Sea is Guixu, which can absorb all things and turn the world into pure and turbid. In front of the power of Guixu, even Taifen, the god of good fortune, dare not Step in easily.
Tai Feng stopped in front of the mountain stream, roared with anger, and returned unwillingly. It is said that the mountain ghosts of Shuzhu Mountain also paid the price and can no longer appear in the world.
As a senior member of Siyou, She Chu certainly knew that this legend was not true.
It is true that Wang Jiuye's tomb in the human race is empty, but his coffin will never be in Shushu Mountain. The reason is very simple. There are no mountain ghosts in Shushu Mountain. Ever since Emperor Juntian killed Jiwei here, the place has been out of sight all year round. The trees are dead, corrupt, and lifeless.
It is impossible for a lifeless mountain to give birth to mountain ghosts who are considered gods.
In addition, because Guixu was a deterrent to the creatures of heaven and earth, Emperor Juntian had already sealed it under Siyou, and the previous demon lords were responsible for negotiation and communication. There is no second way to the Wuwu Sea in the world. How can there be a gap in Emperor Juntian's magic?
She Chu knew very well that there was nothing evil about Shushushan, it was just "dead" due to its special geographical location.
But having said that, anyone who walks in the windy and dry woods will always feel a little nervous.
I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but She Chu even felt that the temperature here was a bit too cold.
She couldn't help but stretched out her hands and rubbed her arms. Looking at the dilapidated scenery around her, she began to doubt whether Qi Fuzhou's information was accurate.
In this dank and uninhabited place, even if the endangered corpse did appear, who would see it?
Would Gengzi Academy really take such false rumors seriously enough to send Yan Qing here?
She Chu walked forward a little further with doubts.
In order to make this chance encounter realistic, Qi Fuzhou left her escort on the outskirts of Shushu Mountain, creating a trace that she was abducted at the junction of paths. For this reason, She Chu didn't even wear a cloak. Now the temperature was so cold that she began to breathe out white air - She Chu felt that if she could no longer meet people from Gengzi Academy, she would have to cast a spell to light a fire to keep warm.
"...If it weren't for Wu Lingxing's inconsideration," She Chu wanted to scold him for his poor vision, which caused her to end up like this. However, when I turned around and thought about Yan Qing's appearance, I realized that Wu Lingxing was the Yan Qing whom I fell in love with because of my good taste, so I had to swallow my words silently.
"——It's all Wu Lingxing's fault anyway!"
She Chu said angrily and was about to move forward when he suddenly stepped on a piece of thin ice. Seeing the thin ice being trampled on the ground, She Chu fell into silence.
Shushu Mountain is indeed cold and humid, but no matter how cold and humid it is, its climate still follows the four seasons. It's early autumn now, and the white dew hasn't even arrived yet, so it's freezing now, which is really a bit wrong.
She Chu stopped and listened for a while, but there was still nothing but the sound of wind.
The leaves are rustling and the ghosts in the dead forest are howling.
She lowered her head and saw a purple petal on her boots.
Without hesitation, She Chu leaned over to twist the petals that appeared suddenly and were even stained with dew from her body.
It was a pity that as soon as she moved, she felt the magic power all over her body was stagnant, and when she applied more force, she felt a dull pain and weakness.
The ship capsized!
She Chu almost immediately realized that there was something wrong with her drinking last night, and Qi Fuzhou gave her a medicine that blocked her magic power.
And his motive for doing this is also easy to explain. He didn't trust She Chu to really control his cultivation level in times of crisis. In order to help her perform the show well, he simply secretly administered the medicine to seal her magic power.
Qi Fuzhou really knew She Chu very well.
She Chu didn't blame him for being such a backhanded person, but at this moment she wanted to shake him and ask herself what image she had in his eyes.
There are rumors of a dangerous corpse appearing in Shushu Mountain!
If she met the demonized corpse before meeting Yan Qing, did Qi Fuzhou intend to make her unable to even escape? ?
She Chu stumbled and half fell to the ground. Looking at the fog that was getting thicker and thicker in front of her, she could only watch helplessly as the small petals exuded a strange sweet fragrance after contacting the thick fog, and then the fragrance melted into the The mist, whether she was breathing or not, slowly seeped in through the touch of her exposed skin.
At this moment, She Chu thought to herself that if she died here, she would definitely die with her eyes closed and her soul lingering.
Fortunately, after the mist entered her body, she discovered that it was not a poison, but just a drug.
She began to feel dizzy and her hands and feet became weak. She fell limply in the woods, and in a daze, she saw a pair of bare feet entwined with ivy and apricot flowers from a distance, stepping on the soft dead leaves, slowly walking towards her without leaving any trace.
Cold white, with blood color, it looks like an elf, not a corpse in danger.
Since she was a living creature, and drugs were used to capture her, it was unlikely that her life would be taken. She Chu thought. She really had no way to resist at this time, so she could only close her eyes and pretend that she had completely lost consciousness.
Sure enough, when the elf who came to capture her saw that she had "fainted", he was unwilling to waste any more medicine. He stretched out his hand and waved away the thick fog, tied her up with vines, and lifted her back with branches.
She Chu bumped and bumped in the air, almost being forced to open his eyes several times because of dead branches scratching his skin.
She restrained her instincts and worked extremely hard to disguise herself as a captured weak prey, and was finally moved into the "nest".
It's not quite right to call it a lair.
She Chu could feel the light from the dome and the faint fragrance of cold flowers not far away.
The elf directed the vines to pile her casually on the soft fur - She Chu guessed it was fur, and then walked around again in a good mood. She Chu had good ears and heard her humming a tune and counting in a clear and sweet voice.
one two three.
She Chu heard her counting in a circle, but in the end she only lost three numbers. She felt strange in her heart when she heard her mouth humming even stranger lyrics.
The mountain spirit placed She and Chu squarely on the chair in a slightly uplifting tone and then sang with a smile:
“Three brides, three auspicious times, three weddings.
My bridegroom, don't be impatient.
In times of epidemic, people marry early, in miasma, they like to marry at noon, and in evil times, they like to marry at night.
My bride, you dress up in the morning, are shy at noon, and look at the groom through the curtain at night. "
She Chu noticed that her hands began to touch her hair. Jingmei took off her original bun and began to comb her new hair. Judging from the tearing sensation on She Chu's scalp and the number of "comb hairpins" Jingmei poked around without caring about the feelings of her "prey", she must be dressing her up in bridal makeup.
She Chu heard her hum: "Red eyes, red nails, white lips. Put on rouge and remove lipstick, so that I can miss my husband together."
Halfway through the song, she seemed to think the word was not good, so she changed her sentence: "I wish I could spend the spring with my husband~"
She sang happily, but She Chu felt weird when she heard it.
She felt that if this charm didn't leave, she would no longer be able to pretend to be in a coma. Just when she thought she might "wake up," there was a sudden loud "boom" outside the house!
The elf who was dressing her pointed her finger, and then sighed: "The groom can't wait any longer."
She reluctantly dropped She Chu first. She Chu heard the sound of her opening the door and leaving. After a while, she slowly opened her eyes.
Just as she thought, this monster's lair was not like a normal mountain monster's cave.
This spirit found a huge dead tree as its home, and the light that She Chu felt before was emitted from the countless Venus stones hanging on the branches above.
Countless Venus stones illuminate the dead tree brightly, as if it were a dazzling spring day.
The inside of the dead tree was also carefully decorated. The bed where She Chu was previously laid was covered with a long blanket made of thick white tiger hair, and the chair she was sitting on was also a carved mahogany chair. Directly in front of the chair is a polished, full-length bronze mirror, and a large dowry box placed next to the bronze mirror frame.
She Chu glanced at the remaining jewels in the dowry, and thought of the three brides that the ghosts sang before, and guessed that there should be other abducted "prey" here.
Out of a protective mentality towards the weak, She Chu decided to find other victims first.
She tried to stand up from the chair, and after applying a little force, she realized that her legs and feet were still weak.
Qi Fuzhou sealed her spiritual veins and slowed down her metabolism. This drug still remains in her body.
She Chu cursed again, held on to the armrest, and tried to stand up slowly.
However, she had just stood up when she suddenly heard a ding-dong sound in her ears, and then a beautiful woman dressed in sequoia appeared in the bronze mirror.
She Chu didn't even see where she came from. When she reacted, the other party's fingertips were already touching her neck, right on her lifeline.
The other party asked in a low voice: "Who are you?"
She Chu blinked slowly, and she smelled the cold flower fragrance again when she first entered the room.
She didn't dare to move.
The bronze mirror is polished very brightly, so it can reflect the beauty of the person behind you eightfold. From the mirror, She Chu could see his slanted, delicate yet sharp eyebrows, pure black eyes that were as bright as cold stars, the almost unmistakable arc of his bones, and his tightly pursed lips, even if they were painted on. Still showing pink lips.
The hair curtain made of countless jewels swayed beside "her" ears, and She Chu only noticed "her" skin that was smoother than white jade.
Beautiful, so beautiful.
She Chu had only seen one such beautiful person in his limited life of less than four hundred years.
——Qiong Cang Yan Qing.
