This is an uninhabited island in the sea. There is a small forest and a soft beach on the island.
When Shu Guan got off the back of the four-legged snake, he stepped on the golden natural beach and looked around. He felt that if it was in the era when he traveled back in time, this place should have been developed into a resort long ago. .
However, this island is so small that even ordinary people can see it all at a glance, so it is not suitable for people to live in this era.
In the past, fishermen who went out to sea occasionally would take a rest here.
But these days, because the warships of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun have blocked this area of the sea, there is no one around this island.
The four-legged snake snaked its way up the beach, then turned over and spread its limbs on the beach, breathing heavily.
It was so excited just now. It missed the feeling of swimming in the sea too much, so it swam a little fast and a little hastily. Its body, which had just been baptized by thunder, could not withstand such a large amount of exercise.
"Congratulations, you are finally a dragon now."
Shu Guan turned around and smiled at it.
The four-legged snake grinned, but did not scream as usual. Compared with before, it seemed to be a little more mature.
Then Shu Guan looked above the head of the four-legged snake and said with a little confusion:
"But why haven't your horns changed?"
Yes, the four-legged snake's whole body has changed greatly now, and is no different from a dragon, except for the horn on the top of its head, which is still a bare horn.
According to Shu's reading of the Taoist books, whether it is the portraits or written records in the Taoist books, the real dragon has two horns, in the shape of antlers.
The dragon has nine shapes, and the four-legged snake has eight shapes, only the dragon horns are missing.
"I was born like this."
Then the four-legged snake said this.
A strange color flashed in Shu Guan's eyes, and he looked at the four-legged snake strangely.
The four-legged snake continued:
"I remember both my parents had two horns."
Shu Guan took a deep breath. At this moment, he knew that what happened to the four-legged snake just now was probably not just as simple as transforming into a dragon.
"...So, where are your parents?"
After Shu Guan was silent for a while, he asked again.
"I died when I was very young. Their time has come, so they used the last remaining dragon essence to give birth to me... Maybe it was because there were too few dragon essences, or it was due to the way of heaven. When I was born There’s just one bald horn…that’s what my parents told me.”
"In the words of your human race today, well, it's just congenital malnutrition."
The four-legged snake smiled self-deprecatingly, and some sad memories flashed through the dragon's eyes.
"I grew up in the sea by myself, but fortunately, nothing can bully me in the sea. Basically, I bully others."
"I lived like this for probably hundreds of years. One day, I met him on an island."
"he?"
Shu Guan raised his eyebrows.
The four-legged snake looked up at him with a strange look in his eyes, and then said two words:
"Qixia."
Shu Guan suddenly said "ah".
"At that time, he came to Hai Zhong to travel, and we... experienced some things together. Later, when he went back, he asked me if I wanted to go with him. At that time, Qixia was a really nice person, and I was also really good in Hai Zhong. I got a little tired of being idle, so I followed him to the land."
"The two of us went together and went to many places. During that time, I was really happy and happy...until he went crazy."
Shu Guan's body trembled slightly.
He thought of the changes in Taoyuan Valley, the flood of fossil monsters, and the "black" foreign matter that had been sucked out of the master's body by the wooden top.
"...How did he become obsessed?"
Then Shu Guan asked with some urgency.
"I don't know...but I guess it was the time he went to southern Xinjiang. He went to a place called Vientiane Valley. I didn't go there. That was the only time he and I were separated."
Vientiane Valley?
Shu Guan's eyes narrowed and he remembered the name of the place, but he did not interrupt the four-legged snake's story.
"When he came out, he was seriously injured. I carried him back to Shanjiguan. He fell into a coma on the way. He only woke up after ten days of coma."
"I asked him what happened in the valley, but he refused to say anything. But since then, his whole person seemed to have changed a lot."
"He used to be a very gentle person, but after he woke up from the injury, he became more and more irritable and indifferent."
"It's just that in front of others, he doesn't change much. Those changes are reflected in some small details. Only someone like me who is with him all day can notice the difference."
"Later, I discovered the terrible and cruel things he had done secretly, which really scared me... I asked him what happened, and he told me to leave him alone and just know that he is happy now. "
"We had a big fight, and then I was about to leave him, but Haili came. Unexpectedly, at some point, he secretly cast a concentric spell on me."
"Concentric spell?"
"Yes, the Concentric Curse. This is also a kind of witchcraft from southern Xinjiang. We traveled in Southern Xinjiang for two years. During that time, he had many opportunities and learned many strange spells. The Concentric Curse, Roughly speaking, my soul and his soul are tied together. As long as one party is not willing, the other party cannot leave, otherwise one party can kill the other party with just a thought."
"So I just have to stay with him."
"Later, his affairs were exposed and he was besieged by the Seven Immortals Alliance. Then we went to the valley in Shennongjia and hid."
"There was no one in that valley before, but we found an empty underground palace in the heart of the mountain..."
"What!"
Shu Guan finally couldn't help it and exclaimed in surprise.
Because before that, both he, Li Zhixia, and Mu Yao thought that the underground palace was built by the real person Qixia. Now after hearing what the Four-legged Snake said, I realized that the underground palace was in Taoyuan Valley and had existed for unknown years.
"So he built a Qixia Monastery on top of the underground palace and lived there. He would go back from time to time and trick people into doing the evil thing of refining people's souls. Until he finally died two hundred years ago."
"How did Master Qixia...die?"
At this moment, Shuguan's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
Back in the underground palace, he also saw with his own eyes the remains of Master Qixia. The expression on Master Qixia's face before his death was really strange, as if he had been frightened to death after seeing something terrifying.
This matter has puzzled Master Li Zhixia for a long time. Now she can finally know what it was that scared Qixia to death...
"I don't know, that night, I was locked in the room."
"Locked in the room?"
Shu Guan thought of the huge room he had entered in the underground palace below Qixia Temple, and the two broken iron chains in the room.
The master said it was a dragon chain.
"Yes, in the years since he left Jingcheng, he has become more and more suspicious. Even with the Tongxin Mantra, he still doesn't trust me. Whenever he practices meditation or sleeps, he will use the iron chain to lock me up. stand up."
Shu Guan reached out and touched the head of the four-legged snake, looking at it with some sympathy.
More than three hundred years... After escaping from Jingcheng, Qixia Master should have been hiding in Taoyuan Valley for three hundred years, and the Four-legged Snake has lived like this for three hundred years.
The four-legged snake glanced at him, grinned again, and then continued:
"That night, I was sleeping too. Later I was frightened and woke up. It wasn't that I saw something, but that I suddenly felt inexplicably scared and frightened, and then I woke up."
"Because there is a concentric spell between me and him, I can also feel his emotions."
"At that time, he must have been very scared, but I don't know what happened to him at that time. I didn't hear any sound."
"Soon after, I knew he was dead, and the relaxation in my soul was so clear."
"What happened next?"
"Then I didn't know... I went back to sleep, and when I woke up again, more than two hundred years had passed..."
Shu Guan immediately raised his eyebrows.
This is naturally very abnormal.
"...However, before I fell asleep again, I seemed to vaguely hear someone talking outside..."
The four-legged snake had a look of memory in his eyes and said something uncertain.
"What did you hear?"
"Just two sentences... 'Then let's go here'... 'What about this dragon'... 'I'll take care of it'... It should be just these three sentences, and then I fell asleep."
...Then let's go here...
…What about this dragon? …
...I'll handle it...
Such three sentences without beginning or end are really confusing.
Shu Guan frowned. He thought he could solve the mystery of Qixia's death today.
Now after listening to the four-legged snake's story, I found that the mystery seemed to have become more mysterious and unpredictable.
The only thing that is certain now is that on the night when Master Qixia died, someone had entered the underground palace.
And he must be a person with great supernatural powers.
Otherwise, how could the four-legged snake be allowed to sleep unknowingly for two hundred years!
"What happened after you woke up? Did you find anything special?"
Then, Shu Guan asked again.
"...Yes, I saw a person sleeping..."
The four-legged snake said quietly.
"who?"
Shuguan's body suddenly shook, and he was also very surprised.
"you."
"ah!"
Shu Guan's surprise turned into shock.
"When I woke up, I was on the beam of your house, and at the same time I found myself... turned into a little four-legged snake."
Although he has transformed into a dragon again, the four-legged snake still looks so ashamed and embarrassed when talking about this matter.
Shu Guan was still looking at it in astonishment.
"I had a dream before I woke up. I dreamed that I was suddenly pulled by some huge force, directly breaking the dragon chain, pulling me out of the underground palace, passing through the heart of the mountain, and pulling me to the bottom of the valley. By the stream...then I saw the old cripple, and then I saw you, and then..."
"Then, your head will be chopped off..."
Shu Guan muttered.
It turns out that I was in a dream at that time, and the four-legged snake was also in a dream. So where was grandpa?
where is he?
Shu Guan felt an inexplicable trembling feeling in his heart.
In the past, he thought that dream was magical, but at that time he had not yet come into contact with spiritual practice.
But now that he was a practitioner in the first realm of consciousness, looking back at the dream, he found that he still couldn't figure out what was going on.
Can what happens in a dream become reality?
Even if you look at this from the perspective of a practitioner, it is still so mysterious and incredible.
Especially now that I know that the four-legged snake was also in the dream at that time, this mysterious feeling is even stronger.
Grandpa connected the dreams of two different people together.
No!
Perhaps it should be said that grandpa made himself and the four-legged snake have the same dream at the same time!
In the dream, he and the four-legged snake played different roles.
I really don’t know what a magical method this is.
The four-legged snake has finished speaking.
In a sense, this should be something from its previous life.
Because in that "dream", she was indeed beheaded by the old cripple.
But now, it is reborn.
Rebirth...
When these two words flashed through Shu Guan's mind, his heart suddenly jumped because he thought of Li Zhixia, who should be lying quietly in the Taoist Pavilion of Shanji Guan at this moment.
He, his second senior brother, Master Sanmu of Guiyuan Temple, and Chief Su Jie of Yuelan Academy could not think of a way to revive Li Zhixia.
In this era, almost no one can come back from the dead, even practitioners.
But then Shu Guan realized that there was an example of rebirth around him.
And this example is related to grandpa.
So, if grandpa can be found, there may be a way to resurrect the master!
For a moment, on the golden beach, a person and a dragon sat opposite each other, each of them a little silent.
But what they were thinking about at this time was the same person, just like they had had the same dream.
"Boss Shu, your grandfather... is probably not an ordinary person."
After a long time, the four-legged snake hesitated and said softly.
Of course, Shu Guan already knew that the old cripple was not ordinary. When he first traveled to this world and saw the old cripple at first sight, he felt that he was extraordinary and should be an extraordinary person.
After going around in circles for so many years, it turns out that my first impression was not wrong.
But Shu Guan could not determine how tall the old lame man was.
So he asked the four-legged snake seriously.
"How unusual do you think he is?"
It was useless to ask the four-legged snake this question before, but now it has recovered the memory of its past life. It was a real dragon in its past life, and it was also a very experienced dragon.
So I wanted to ask it what it thought.
The four-legged snake's eyes flashed with fear and confusion.
"I don't know. Qixia and I have been to many places in the world and met many powerful practitioners, but no one has ever given me the feeling your grandpa gave me..."
The four-legged snake seemed to be thinking of a suitable word to describe it. After thinking for a long time, it finally came to mind.
"Small."
It said these two words.
"When I was held in your grandfather's hand, I felt as small as a speck of dust... maybe even smaller."
Finally the four-legged snake said this.
Then one person and one dragon were silent for a while.
Shu Guan suddenly raised his eyebrows, smiled and said:
"Now, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to add you as a four-legged snake. How about I give you a name?"
The four-legged snake suddenly changed its expression and shook its huge dragon head.
"No need, I have my own name, it was my father who gave it to me."
Then its expression became a little proud.
"My surname is Ao. My father said that dragons with our surname Ao are the royal clan with the purest blood among the dragon clan."
"As for my name, it's Ao Tian."
The four-legged snake said proudly.
I have been working on the detailed outline yesterday and today. I only started writing this chapter in the afternoon. I will work on it for the past two days and speed up the process once the plot is smoothed out.
(End of chapter)
