"What's it like inside the Wochi?" Li Chuan asked.
"I've only been there once, and I only walked around the outside and didn't go in depth." Wen Guying replied.
When Wen Guying said this, Li Chuan became even more curious. In his mind, Wen Gu should be a bit reckless. To put it nicely, it means that a skilled person is bold, but to put it worst, it means that he is easy to exaggerate.
He didn't dare to go deep. It seemed that Wochi was indeed dangerous.
Chang Xiao said instead: "Actually, it's not bad. That pillar will shine. As long as the place where the light shines, it is safe."
"Then what do you eat and drink?" Li Chuan asked.
Chang Xiao said: "Every once in a while, some white stones will fall from the sky, which are edible. If you eat one, you can go without food for a long time. If you walk a little further, you will sometimes encounter a river whose water is drinkable. There is also a kind of small whitebait in it, which is also edible and crunchy.”
He said: "One time when I woke up, I found myself lying under a tree. I ate a lot of sweet leaves, and I picked a lot and wanted to eat them later, but the next day, the taste of the leaves changed. It has become sour and bitter that you can’t eat it.”
After that, he successively mentioned about ten kinds of things that could be eaten. In his narrative, life in Wochi is very simple and pure.
After talking about what to eat, he added: "Whenever the sky turns orange, many strange scenes will appear in the sky. You can see giant beasts passing by in the starry sky, and immortals displaying various magical powers..."
Li Chuan was fascinated by what he heard.
Jin Rong also found it very interesting, and he asked: "Are there anyone else in the Wochi, or monsters or beasts?"
Chang Xiao replied: "I haven't seen anyone else. But there are a lot of sneaky things in the dark. They sometimes come to steal my food when I'm not around. I caught them once before I could see them clearly." It looks like a beast with a human face, very ugly.”
He said: "I skinned him and made a drum. Whenever I found those sneaky things, I would beat the drum. After that, no one dared to steal my things."
After finishing speaking, Chang Xiao asked: "Master Wen, what bloodline will I have?"
Wen Guying didn't answer. Li Chuan turned to look at him and found that he seemed to be lost in thought.
"Director Wen?" Li Chuan called him.
Wen Guying finally reacted and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Chuan said: "What is Mr. Chang's bloodline?"
"Oh, um..." Wen Guying said a little apologetically: "Mr. Chang's appearance is no different from ordinary people. If you want to find out your bloodline, you have to go to Xuanyue Sect to borrow a magic weapon, or..."
"Or what?" Jin Rong asked.
"Or ask someone from the Qingzong to take a look. They are well-informed and experienced, and they can see some clues." After Wen Guying secretly insulted the Qingzong, a smile appeared on his face again. He said, "If Master Chang wants to know, how about I send a letter to Qingzong later and ask them to send someone to take a look?"
Chang Xiao said hurriedly: "Then I'll trouble you, Chief Wen."
"It's not troublesome, but... let's stay here until then. It's not appropriate for monks to come to Beijing." Wen Guying said.
"Okay, okay." Chang Xiao said repeatedly.
At this time, a steward came in and said that the food had been placed in the east room.
They moved over together.
In the eating and drinking room, Li Chuan asked Wen Guying: "Master Wen, when did you go to Wochi?"
Wen Guying said: "A hundred years ago, I woke up from a dream and decided to go down the mountain for training. I met a black dragon. The dragon was very cunning. He pretended to be defeated and led me all the way to Dongshan. After that, I Lost in the great ravine of the Eastern Mountains.”
"The ravine was so foggy that it was difficult to tell the direction. There were also confusing mountain ghosts and various poisonous insects hidden in it. I walked for several months and finally found a road, but I didn't expect that road led to a sweet spring."
"Osmantic spring?" Li Chuan heard another unfamiliar word.
Jin Rong explained to him: "Dongshan Sweet Spring, the spring water boils all year round and can corrode all things. According to legend, there is an exiled Dragon King living deep in the sweet spring."
"Yes," Wen Guying continued: "After crossing the sweet spring, we arrived at the periphery of Wochi, where we can vaguely see the light from the sky pillar. Although everything in Wochi is constantly changing, But I used the light of the Tianzhu as my fixed point and kept walking forward. As I walked, everything around me turned orange, and even the light of the Tianzhu was dyed orange."
Chang Xiao said: "Did you see it too?"
Wen Guying said: "At that time, I saw a dying ancient monster lying in the burning flames, and I walked past him. I felt the heat of the flames and heard the monster's painful cry. I even Cut off a piece of flesh and blood from its body.”
"Isn't it an illusion?" Jin Rong asked immediately.
"No, after the orange sky darkened, I found that I had walked out of the Fertile Pond. That piece of monster flesh and blood... I took it back to the Four Gods Palace and made it into elixirs. I made a total of nine return-to-truth elixirs, and I took them One, three were given away, and now there are five." As Wen Guying spoke, he took out a porcelain vase, put it on the table, and said, "They are all here."
"Maybe at that time, I passed through a frozen time," Wen Guying said with emotion, "It was a complete luck that I was able to walk out of Wochi. After returning to the Four Gods Palace, I consulted many classics. …The Wochi Forbidden Land not only seals the ancient demon, but is also one of the final battlefields of the great catastrophe of gods and demons.”
After Li Chuan heard this, another question arose in his mind. He asked Jin Rong: "How did the general enter the Wochi?"
Although it was rumored that the general was taught by immortals, he was still a mortal body. How did he get into a place that Wen Guying was so taboo about?
Chang Xiao said: "It may be more dangerous to enter Wochi from Dongshan, but from the south, as long as you cross the grassland during the rainy season, you can see the light of the sky pillar and enter Wochi. My father was on the grassland with a man at that time. People from small tribes were fighting and accidentally entered the fertile pool."
"That's it." Wen Guying said.
However, Li Chuan felt that he had more questions in his heart. He didn't want to put the questions aside overnight, so he asked them all one by one. Chang Xiao and Wen Guying both answered carefully from their perspectives; Jin Rong tried his best to explain some terminology and concepts that Li Chuan didn't understand.
So after the meal was full, Li Chuan's understanding of Wochi was also fed.
He said: "So, generally you enter Wochi from Dongshan. Although that road is dangerous, it is relatively certain. And in other directions, you need to meet certain conditions to enter Wochi?"
"That's roughly it." Wen Guying affirmed Li Chuan's conclusion and said, "If Mr. Chang is willing to lead the way, it won't be that difficult to enter. But if you want to escape unscathed, you may have to go to Tianyumen to borrow some people."
(End of chapter)
