The firepit in the house dissipates the moisture during continuous rainy days.
Muduo sat by the fire without saying a word, roasting some kind of root food similar to sweet potatoes. The old priest's body was getting older and older, and his wrinkled face was almost blind, as if he could fall asleep at any time.
Another woman in her thirties was the successor trained by the old priest, named Shuiyun. Bai Yujun remembered who she was through the smell.
The first time she came to Southern Wasteland, she was summoned by someone. At that time, she was still a young girl.
Facing the white snake holy beast, Shuiyun was a little nervous.
Bai Yujun grabbed his deformed snake tail with one hand, raised it high so that the three of them could see it, and shook it. It actually had the function of a brush, like a tail fin used for swimming, but those spikes were different from the tail fins used for swimming. Fish are noticeably different.
"Look, I don't even recognize myself anymore. I'm pretty sure I crawled out of a pile of snake eggs."
Put down the snake tail, pick up the barbecue, put it in your mouth, and swallow it with a slurp...
The old priest may have fallen asleep or he may have been reminiscing.
A long while.
"I'm going to read the ancient books. There should be records."
Shivering as he tried to get up, Shuiyun hurriedly stepped forward to help the old priest and helped him walk to the back room filled with ancient books. Bai Yujun was really worried that the old priest, who was unsteady on his feet, would be carried into the fire pit. If the barbecue was knocked off and stained with plant ash, Bai Yujun would be in trouble. Not tasty.
Shuiyun helped the old priest to the bookshelf.
The countless ancient books in the house are the most precious possessions of the priests. Some are paper books, some are bamboo slips, some are animal skins, and there are even many leaves with ancient texts written on them. I don’t know what method is used to preserve them well. The piles of ancient books are piled high. The room was dry, with a faint smell of insect repellent.
Standing among several rows of bookshelves, the old priest recalled for a long time before slowly walking towards a dusty shelf.
"On the third floor, take down the animal skin book in the middle."
Shuiyun nodded, found a bamboo stool and placed it in front of the shelf, then stood on it carefully.
The bamboo bench creaked. Shuiyun looked at it. He stretched out his hands to grab the ancient animal skin book and slowly lifted it up to take the book down. It was very heavy. The animal skin had been specially processed and nailed into a book. It felt hard to the touch and had a faint scent of camphor. Son.
"Huh~"
Blow away the dust, revealing the strange ancient writing on the cover.
The old priest nodded.
The two slowly walked back to the fire pit and sat down. The old priest wiped the dust off the ancient books as if caressing his lover, and opened the animal skin book with his withered hands covered with age spots, page by page, and slowly turned back.
Bai Yujun raised his neck and took a look. There were various strange animals painted on the animal skin paper, with weird shapes. He couldn't see the details clearly because his eyes were too short-sighted.
After Bai Yujun ate the seventh piece of barbecue, the old priest stopped to turn over the book.
Those cloudy eyes with long bags were staring at a picture, and his withered hands were touching the ancient words, perhaps recalling how to pronounce those words and what they meant.
Mu Duo also became interested and came closer to look at the drawings. Bai Yujun got up and stood back to look forward.
The picture shows a snake-like and ferocious monster. Whether it is the snake's head or tail or the small and dense bone spurs on its back, it is very similar to Bai Yujun. The whole body is covered with fine scales. It makes waves in the water. Bai Yujun feels that the ancestors of Yunyao Ancient Village must have wanted to To express the evil nature of this monster, the painting is particularly evil, manipulating mountain torrents to engulf the village tribe.
"Slander, this is slander. When did I start a flood?"
Bai Yujun wants to clear his name.
"Well, you didn't cause a flood, you just stopped the water source of Black Rock Ancient Village." Mu Duo added.
"That's not for you."
"I know, so I'm happy."
"..."
The old priest read the ancient text carefully, confirming the content bit by bit. The more he read, the happier he became, as if he had discovered something great and good. His old face was like a wild chrysanthemum blooming in the wild.
After organizing some sentences, the old priest spoke.
"Holy beast, you are undergoing evolution. According to ancient books, there is a giant snake with protruding eyebrows and spikes at the end. The snake wants to turn into a dragon, a snake turns into a dragon in five hundred years, and a dragon turns into a dragon in a thousand years."
"Strange snakes are often accompanied by violent storms and rains, and rivers swell and flash floods wreak havoc. Mountain people enter the water and are eaten by them, which is a disaster for everyone."
"Fortunately, thunder and lightning fell from the sky, and the giant snake bowed its head."
At the beginning, Bai Yujun was very happy. She turned into a dragon and a dragon. Hey, Dora Feng, that was the legendary dragon. Just thinking about it made him excited and his snake scales stood up all over his body.
It sounds like records from the Central Plains. The ancient books were probably snatched back from the Central Plains.
He sneered at the idea of evil dragons causing flash floods. Different species have different habits. Is it possible that the nature of water dragons should be suppressed? Animals on both sides of the Taiwan Strait didn't die very well and a few people were so pretentious.
However, in the last sentence, the thunder and lightning from the sky turned Bai Yujun to stone, as if he had already felt the thunder and lightning from the sky splitting him into pieces, which were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.
It can be guessed that the giant snake that was killed by lightning from the sky must have failed to escape the tribulation. Didn't we agree to escape the tribulation when it ascends?
Why add it again?
Boom~ The barbecue in his hand fell to the ground, and the fatty barbecue bounced and splashed with golden butter juice.
The three of them and the snake all understood that Bai Yujun should be in the stage of evolution towards the dragon. Through the changing characteristics, it can be confirmed that the direction of evolution is the legendary dragon. However, this news made Bai Yujun unhappy. Don't underestimate it. One more journey. The calamity is so difficult, and it is very possible to fall and die under the thunder and lightning.
Don't look at the waves that usually take off in the wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the Tribulation God's Thunder is specially designed to hit the head.
The barbecue became bland.
Returning to the fire pit and sitting down, the three old priests were still studying the ancient books. Bai Yujun sat motionless, and kept thinking about the words "thunder and lightning from the sky, the giant snake bowed its head" in his mind. It may kill the snake, and a careless one will be wiped out in ashes. It is difficult to calm down because I have suffered more disasters than other practitioners for no reason.
Malice, the world is full of malice towards you.
I was in a bad mood. The weather that originally revealed the blue sky outside turned cloudy again, and the wind picked up again, which seemed to confirm those ancient records and had the potential to cause trouble.
Not wanting to stay any longer, I said hello and got up to leave.
I happily came to ask something, but I heard bad news. My good mood was completely ruined. It didn't rain anymore, but the sky was gloomy and depressing. I lay in bed and looked out the window at the dark clouds in the sky, thinking about whether to slow down. Cultivation speed should be delayed as much as possible. No one is afraid of death, even those who claim to be fearless and enterprising. Death is always the most terrible enemy of life.
That night, Bai Yujun couldn't sleep.
I was so frightened by the incident that I couldn't sleep all night. I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. When I closed my eyes, I could always think of thunder and lightning falling from the sky.
It's just like everyone is playing a game happily together. Others are on normal difficulty, but I choose a hardcore difficulty. I rush to the level after exhausting myself and see, okay, challenge the team boss alone.
In the past, I still felt that my talents were unique and mysterious, and I could not control events no matter whether I evolved or advanced, but I was different from other snakes.
The wind outside the window carried a touch of moisture, making my hair stick to my cheeks. I want to talk about "The New White Snake Asks the Immortal" with more like-minded people," and talk about favorite books with more book friends
