When the newly-recruited civilian food convoys from Yongchang City poured into the Menghuo Military Camp a hundred miles away, Ma Yinglong in the Menghuo Military Camp was not idle either.
Ma Yinglong received a mysterious new mission from the cave owner at dawn - to explore the northwest path where the floods receded the day before yesterday!
For Ma Yinglong, who has a spiritual pet, exploring the path is indeed the most suitable task for him. Bringing the cave master also rewards him with a military commander talisman, which is also a further feature of the relationship. When I think about the fact that the cave master is Zhu Rong's biological brother, there is even more prospect of making good friends with him.
It's just that the northwest where the flood receded made Ma Yinglong a little confused. According to the normal terrain, it would flow either eastward or south toward the Indian Ocean. The water flowing to higher places really made Ma Yinglong feel refreshed.
What I wanted was freshness, so I took many days of dry food and camping equipment and ran along the waterway.
In the morning, I suddenly saw a large area of smoke lingering in the mountains.
Ma Yinglong was really confused. This was a big town. Even a horse could only run a hundred miles. Why didn't the cave master come to such a big town and tell him? Are you still using it to explore the way?
Not knowing whether this town was an enemy or a friend, Ma Yinglong didn't dare to go in, so he took out a lantern and asked questions.
But I immediately remembered that this lantern was just an ordinary lantern during the day and could only speak at night - but!
The lantern still lit up automatically, and he said in a surprised tone: "There is ghostly spiritual energy flowing here!"
Ma Yinglong was excited: "What's going on?"
Lantern said: "It must be the explosion of heavenly materials and earthly treasures the day before yesterday, and a large amount of spiritual energy seeped into the river in the human world. This is the water vein!"
"What is water veins?"
Lantern smiled and said: "You don't want to go horseback riding on the bank. Do you dare to go down the river and go horseback riding?"
Spiritual pet, although it is not as good as Tang Monk's white dragon horse, it is also amphibious on land and amphibious!
Ma Yinglong smiled proudly: "Dare!"
As the mount enters the water, a thrilling feeling of surfing on a yacht arises spontaneously. Ma Yinglong was shocked. It was obvious that someone who fluttered in the water could not be as fast as running on the shore.
Lantern smiled and said, "Look back and see where the town was?"
Ma Yinglong looked back and saw that there was really only a wisp of smoke left. To his surprise, the shadow of the smoke was gone! Then when I looked at the mountains along the way, my eyes changed in a blink of an eye!
Ma Yinglong was shocked: "Is this teleportation?"
Lantern smiled and said: "In this water vein, you are no different from those immortals who travel thousands of miles in a day to three mountains and five mountains. You don't really think that immortals have so much energy that they can fly farther than the roc." Right? It's nothing more than immortals being able to see spiritual veins invisible to mortals, and using the power of heaven and earth to travel around the world. Water veins, earth veins, heaven veins, even the popularity of cities with large populations, and the evil spirits in demon cities with many demons are all spiritual veins The composition of these veins and nodes is like the blood acupuncture points in the human body, and they are the principles of the universe."
Ma Yinglong immediately realized the strategic value of this water vein: "With this water vein, wouldn't Yongchang's army be able to easily fight all the way across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains? Or the Qiang people in those towns just now can easily fight to the gate of Yongchang?"
Lantern smiled and said: "Mortals don't have such good results! As I said, only immortals can discover and sense spiritual veins. You can be so fast only if you have a spiritual pet. If you try to adopt a pet, will it be so fast?"
Then go ashore and collect your favor!
A lot of luggage was scattered on the ground. Ma Yinglong regretted it a little, but this is called scientific spirit and must be understood clearly.
Ma Yinglong had no choice but to carry the baggage himself, and then walked half-way through the water, throwing stones on the shore to mark the path along the way.
After walking a few hundred steps, Lantern asked, "How do you feel?"
Ma Yinglong had no choice but to go ashore and summon his spiritual pet again, reload the baggage and said with a wry smile: "I feel like I should be walking faster than usual."
Lantern said: "Yes, it's just faster. Immortals are the fastest, spiritual pets are second, and monsters are third. Mortals have some effects that they can't even feel if they don't pay attention. So the real threat to this water vein is monsters, probably This is the reason why the cave master sent you to explore the way. Yongchang may have sent civilians here to build a walled city to stop the monsters."
Ma Yinglong asked: "How can such a powerful water vein realize large-scale transportation of mortal armies?"
Lantern said: "Building fairy ships! That means cutting down those ancient trees that have been aura for many years. It is said that Qin Shihuang sought fairy medicine on the sea. After pacifying Lingnan, he went to cut down the ancient trees in the mountains of Lingnan."
Ma Yinglong actually thought of the old tree spirit in Liaozhai: "Isn't it easy to deal with this kind of ancient tree that has become a spirit?"
Lantern said with emotion: "Yes. But it is not beyond negotiation. In order to deal with our ancestor Chi You, the Yellow Emperor needed the skin of a sacred beast to use as a drum. That is to discuss with the sacred beast and sacrifice the drum as a god for generations."
Ma Yinglong was excited: "Is it easy to discuss?"
Lantern sighed: "It's not easy to negotiate with a tiger for skin, let alone the mythical beast tree fairy? You are not the Yellow Emperor, but... you can work hard."
"Of course!"
Regarding traveling to this era, Ma Yinglong has always been confident in himself!
While he was talking, there was a snow-capped mountain in front of him, and all kinds of colorful smoke was floating between the snow-capped mountains.
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? Ma Yinglong was shocked: "Here again?"
Lantern was also excited: "Kunlun Ruins! What a great opportunity. This explosion of the rare treasure actually opened the fairy gate of Kunlun Ruins!"
Ma Yinglong was also excited: "Is this a fairyland?"
Lantern said solemnly: "Not entirely! I told you before that the nine levels of heaven are called Jiutian, and the nine levels of earth are called Jiuyou. The movement of heaven and earth will cause the levels of each layer to be disordered. And Kunlun has been the world since the beginning of the world. The area where the movement of heaven and earth is the most active, this place is like a wound that will never heal, it is actually not difficult to blast away here! The difficulty is that it is difficult for you to survive here with your current strength. "
Ma Yinglong was anxious: "Then what can I do?"
Lantern smiled and said, "Aren't you here to explore the way?"
Can we only explore the way?
Ma Yinglong suddenly remembered something: "My spiritual pet Tianshan Lei was also obtained at the foot of Kunlun in the northwest. Are these two Kunlun's the same place?"
Lantern said in surprise: "Of course it is the same place. Kunlun is very big, very large and thousands of miles wide."
It seems that the Kunlun in mythology refers to the large area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Using modern theory, this is indeed a frequent earthquake zone at the junction of continental plates.
Ma Yinglong immediately had a grand plan: "Then can I bypass Shuzhong and return to Wuwei from here?"
Lantern said with emotion: "The spiritual veins intertwined between the heaven and earth in Kunlun Ruins are complicated. No matter where you go, it is possible. But the premise is that you have to live. It will be more possible if you meet a kind-hearted immortal to show you the way."
While he was talking, a huge stone monster several feet tall suddenly appeared on the shore in front of him.
Ma Yinglong was really shocked: "Is this the monster from Kunlun?"
The lantern immediately warned: "Don't talk!" After saying that, it immediately turned off the light.
But looking at the inflexible appearance of those giant rock monsters, Ma Yinglong was not too afraid and quietly passed by while holding his breath.
Ma Yinglong breathed a sigh of relief and decided: bypassing Shuzhong and opening up the route to Wuwei was the purpose of his development in Nanzhong! I have to look for the fairy tree too. Anyway, there is a clone of the Bronze Man who is also practicing the trumpet. He is not afraid of death at all!
