"He doesn't want to be looked down upon. If we interfere again, it will just vent his anger." Pianpian replied quietly: "Ji people have their own destiny. In the past, he couldn't die because of his stupidity. Now even Grandpa Lao Jun can't die." Support him and give him a helping hand. If you can't survive, there is nothing you can do. Judging from today's situation, Dongtian and the main camp are at odds with each other and have no mercy. If they really fight, The tragic situation can be imagined, but if he is left outside, he may be safe..."
"I hope so..." Ruoyu and Qingfeng'er nodded.
When they came to the other end of the passage, Ah Lao chanted a mantra and opened the wall door. The spirits who had never seen the cave opened their mouths and said it was so beautiful.
The toad croaked like a tour guide and said with a smile: "What does this place mean? It's just a small valley mouth. After that long road, there is the real cave, croak!"
Everyone filed through the long passage and came to the yellow platform. Even the calm green-eyed fox couldn't help but screamed.
The Huangban Terrace, which was originally open and vast, and could see the endless cave-sky plain, was now completely dark; upon closer inspection, hundreds of old trees grew around the Huangban Terrace, and each old tree was towering and extremely wide. It is extremely wide, and the branches on the tree are extremely dense, extending to the Huangban platform, surrounding the Huangban platform airtightly, like a tree city wall.
Looking up, the branches above these old trees are all tangled together, covering the sky like a ceiling. Not even a bit of starlight can penetrate. The entire yellow platform is therefore dark, with only a faint glow of fireflies. The colorful light shines slightly.
Looking more closely, some spirits poked their heads out from the dense and tangled branches, most of them holding simple bows and spears.
"How did it become like this?" the shrimp and toad screamed, unable to imagine that such a strange thing could grow in the beautiful cave sky.
Ruoyu said proudly: "As the only barrier to the cave, Huangban Platform is too thin. If some powerful and fast gods break through the narrow passage, the defenders on Huangban Platform alone will not be able to cope with it. In order To prevent the army of gods from successfully breaking through Huangbantai and marching straight into the Dongtian Plain, we picked many ancient trees in the sacred forest and moved these ancient trees here. The tree goddess used her magic to make these ancient Dongtian trees grow bigger and become entangled with each other. We have built such a big fortress. There are thousands of interconnected passages in the ancient wooden bunker. Some places can ambush monsters, and some have traps."
"So powerful?" The toad was dumbfounded and couldn't believe that the beautiful fairyland could actually build such a powerful fortress.
Everyone continued to move forward and reached the edge of the yellow platform. The thick roots of ancient trees covered the edge of the yellow platform. Ah Lao recited a spell in an inconspicuous place, and a hole appeared on the branch.
Entering the entrance of the cave, it was indeed as Ruoyu said, with tangled passages, and some spirits patrolling back and forth in teams of three or five.
After walking in this old tree bunker for a long time, we arrived at a relatively open large room, which was connected in all directions. There was a big hole in the tree wall, and we could see outside.
A few spirits got closer, and they realized that this place was already more than ten floors away from Huangban Terrace.
"You can see the outside from here, but you can't see the inside from the outside." Hong'er explained, and the Dongtian Guards originally stationed in the big room came out and helped the injured Hong'er into a room.
A Lao also immediately ordered several little spirits: "Call Yi Mi quickly, Hong Er's injury is serious."
Green Bee'er added: "This is the command palace of the ancient wooden bunker. Brother Red Ear is here to guard the front line."
"First line? Are there such defensive strongholds in other places?" the green-eyed fox asked curiously.
"No more." Qingfeng'er, Ruoyu, and Pianpian led the other spirits and mountain gods and continued walking for a while. Ruoyu casually pushed against the tree wall, and a hole opened up.
The spirits who got closer were startled again. Outside the cave was a long slide.
"If the ancient wooden bunker cannot be defended, all the monsters inside will retreat back immediately." Green Bee'er said this while climbing out of the cave and jumping towards the slide.
I saw Green Bee sliding down the slide. Under Ruoyu's urging, everyone jumped down the slide outside the cave one by one.
Sliding down the long slide, the monsters saw the night sky outside.
The sky was full of colorful stars, and underneath was green grass with a faint light. The monsters cheered and screamed, and the monsters that slid onto the grass rolled one by one.
The old tree spirits, toads, etc. were at the back. When they slipped down, they deliberately looked around. It turned out that there were thousands of the same old tree slides, all of which were used to retreat the spirits in the ancient wooden bunker.
Qingfeng'er explained: "The defense of the cave is not strong, but it is very vast, and there are many places to hide. The gods only know the tree palace, but not other places. If the first line of yellow platforms cannot be defended, We will spread out and hide wherever we can, and start the second wave of guerrilla tactics. If the gods concentrate their forces and send their troops to the tree palace, they will only be able to defeat us, but they will not be able to catch us all."
"Then, wouldn't it be better if we arranged some traps in various places?" the green-eyed fox interjected.
"You don't have to say it!" Ruoyu said with a smile: "We have arranged a giant wooden formation in the Shenmu Forest and built a large dam in Meng Lake. We can block it for as long as we can. Anyway, if we don't fight them hard, we will lose or win. It’s time to settle down with your destiny!”
"I see that most of the bows held by the spirits are made of pointed dianthus arrows. Why not stick a talisman on them?" The green-eyed fox remembered that when the old house stronghold in the central part of the country fought against the army of Snow Mei Niang and the Four-Eyed King, the monsters held white flame talismans. The long poles and talisman arrows played a great role.
The manicured toad yelled: "Ah! It's a pity that Atai, the monkey who wrote the talisman, is not here. This plan will not work. Who will catch him back, croak!"
"This is not a problem." Pianpian said with a smile: "We are all good at writing the White Flame Talisman. The arrows, spears, blades, etc. with the talisman are already being worked on in large quantities. Gods and demons collude, if they are called They are all demonic armies, and adding the White Flame Curse would be good.”
"Early tomorrow morning, I will take everyone to see Grandma Tree God and tell her that Grandma Tree God will be very happy to have you as a new force in the cave." Ruoyu said as he brought the spirits to the bank of the green water. . But few of them listened to her words. Most of them stared intently at the beautiful aurora reflected on the green water in the sky.
"Now let's all disperse on the spot. You can sleep or play as you please." Everyone heard Ruoyu's words clearly. There was a burst of cheers and the spirits jumped into the green water and started playing.
The toad led everyone to eat sweet fruits, croaked a few times, and kept shouting that it would be great if the little sea frog came too.
The old tree spirit walked up the green water and came to the Candlestick Water. The flame trees burned brightly, and the flame trees of various colors reflected each other.
Seeing that the fire was not scalding, the old tree spirit took off a few burning leaves and inserted them into his head as before. The more he inserted them, the happier he became. He inserted the dead wood densely, just like a small flame tree. . The spirits who came later saw him and laughed crazily for a while.
Several wild mountain gods were stunned when they saw the beautiful scenery in the cave sky, and they shouted that they would never return to the mortal world.
Lions, tigers, etc. have never seen such scenery. Although they don't know how to appreciate it, they still feel very comfortable. Xiaokuang was gliding in the wind, Yazai was dancing in the water on the candlestick with fallen leaves, Tietou stepped on the flowers hard, and felt very happy when he saw that the flowers caused him to step on them, causing them to emit bright light powder. interesting.
"Where is it?" Ah closed his eyes and concentrated on sensing.
He led the clairvoyant and the wind-loving ears to follow the direction in which the flying dragon was escaping. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find it.
Because it is a dense forest, the clairvoyant eye cannot see far, and the wind-driven ear cannot hear anything. Aguan concentrated on sensing, but he was also very confused. He only felt that the aura of the flying dragon had disappeared.
After searching for a long time, Aguan leaned against a tree and yawned. Seeing that the sky was already getting dim, I couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, wondering if I really couldn't do anything.
At this time, the white stone pagoda moved, and Atai jumped out and said hurriedly: "Empress Houtu passed a talisman to me, saying that in ten days, the main camp will launch a large-scale attack on Dongtian!"
"What?" Aguan asked quickly, and Ataizai explained Houtu's words carefully.
