The sky had just turned blue when they got up. About half an hour later, the first ray of golden sun penetrated the canopy of the trees and shone into the forest. Everyone worshiped the five internal organs temple, took Wuwei on the awning boat, and was taken out of the village by Old Man Mo. Fengqiu Yelin rushed there.
In the canyon and in the wild forest, two awning boats are connected front and back with chains, and golden-scaled loaches can be seen walking in front, like being pulled by a golden dragon, meandering forward in the river and rolling up the waves.
At this moment, Old Man Mo was standing on the bow of the boat, his hands seemed to be manipulating reins, pulling the leather rope on the iron saddle to control the direction of the golden-scaled loach.
"Young men, haven't you always wanted to know how this golden loach reached the realm of dragon transformation? The old man can tell you now."
Old Man Mo stood at the bow of the boat, feeling particularly heroic, and told about his fate with the loach. The earth dragon used to be just an ordinary black loach, with a bowl mouth as thick as a bowl and a length of more than one meter. It was an ordinary swamp fish. Their The encounter is related to the past thirty years ago.
Thirty years ago, Old Man Mo escaped from the Valley Walled City. On the way, he also entered the Lost Wild Forest. He wandered in the forest for several days and nights. If he had not relied on his knowledge of Gu medicine to find non-poisonous plants to survive, he might have lost his life. In the wild forest.
There is a saying that if people want you to die, it is easy to discuss, but if God wants you to die, you can't ask for it. Old man Mo was like a headless fly trapped in the lost forest. When he thought that he would never get out like other corpses, he suddenly found something in the river. A loach trapped in a fishing net.
The fishing net is similar to a cylinder. Although it is not highly toxic, it has a lot of spikes. It is like a coarse-pored cloth covered with thorns. However, fishing nets with spikes are mostly used to deal with beasts in the water. If a giant fish in the water enters the net, it will easily There is no way to break free, except by peeling off the skin to escape the fishing net and regain freedom.
After the fishing net is laid, the mountain people often have to wait for several days until the net is full of prey, then they will come back to open the fishing net and take away the prey. Because this kind of net is too murderous and sinful, the Gu people usually call this kind of net delaminated skin. 33
Right now, this black loach accidentally got into the fishing net. No matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't get out. The harder it struggled, the more deeply injured it became. The only outcome was to wait until the mountain people came over and be caught as prey.
When Old Man Mo saw such a fat black loach in the fishing net, he didn't think about how to save it, but to feast on it. After all, he had been lost for four or five days at that time, and no matter how rich his food was, it was mostly grass, fruits, flowers and leaves. , it is simply impossible to eat meat - as long as the beast can survive the poisonous miasma, which one is easy to deal with, it is good if the beast does not eat him.
In this case, when he saw a big black loach with wounds all over his body, Old Man Mo's saliva almost flowed out. He immediately walked to the river beach and carefully observed the black loach, trying to see how to make it delicious.
In the fishing net, this black loach is all dark, with a greenish belly full of patterns. The one-meter body is slippery and slender, as thick as the mouth of a bowl. Only a pair of red eyes are quite lively, and its eight beards are cut off by thorns. Several wounds in his abdomen were bleeding with salty blood. In about four or five days, he would definitely bleed to death from pain.
Old Man Mo was ready to have a big meal, so he tore up the fishing net and dragged the black loach out. After the river beach was cleaned, he took a closer look and saw that mottled golden scales had appeared on the forehead of the loach, as if it were inlaid with golden fish scales. At this scene, the old man started to murmur in his heart.
The old man said that when the water tribe has golden scales, it is either because the dragon was demoted to the water tribe, or it has the potential to transform into a dragon. It is a natural phenomenon. Although Old Man Mo has never seen the water tribe transform into a dragon, the loach in front of him has golden scales, which is at least natural. Instead, he had a hard time deciding whether to eat the loach or not.
Eat it. If it is really a fallen dragon, or has the potential to transform into a dragon, you will definitely be punished by the gods.
If he doesn't eat, he has been trapped for four or five days. If he continues to be trapped, he will die sooner or later.
At this moment, Old Man Mo, the more he thought about it, the more uncertain he became, and finally he fixed his sights on the loach. At that time, there was a legend among the mountain people that the loach was the messenger of the lost wild forest, and could travel through Fengqiu Forest at will. He remembered that he was trapped in the lost forest, and an idea came to his mind.
He lowered his head and told the loach that if he was really the messenger of the wild forest, then he would take him out of the wild forest. As long as he could survive successfully, he could let the loach go, and the two would not owe each other anything from now on.
After saying these words, Old Man Mo just thought it was ridiculous. At that time, he was trapped and crazy, so he placed his hope on a black loach. He had no hope at all. When he was about to kill the black loach and make him a dead man, Black The loach suddenly splashed in the water and nodded its head at him several times.
Old Man Mo didn't know what this meant. Seeing the golden scales on the loach's forehead, he thought it was at least not an ordinary loach. He simply put aside his doubts and took a gamble and followed the loach into the river.
In this way, Loach took him along the river and across the shallows. After waiting for about a day, Old Man Mo found a village in the distance. Only then did he realize that Loach had led him out of the lost forest and to a village where mountain people lived.
After being rescued, Old Man Mo released the black loach back to the river beach as agreed. Little did he know that the black loach simply wouldn't leave and stayed in the Lost Forest, constantly guiding the misguided mountain people out of their lost ways.
After that, as Old Man Mo built a wooden building, the loach followed him to build a nest near the river, and lived with him in the canyon for so many years.
Over the years, Old Man Mo would feed the loach whenever he collected herbs and flowers. After thirty years of nourishment with medicinal herbs, the black loach gradually lost its black skin and developed golden scales all over its body. It looked more like an arowana than a goldfish.
Regarding these changes in it, Old Man Mo didn't know what was going on. He could only guess that either the nourishment of medicinal materials had changed its skin, or it was an anomaly in itself. As he grew older, the anomalies on his body could no longer be suppressed. live.
No matter what the reason is, at least one thing is certain. The golden-scaled loach can indeed travel through the Lost Forest, and can even recognize all the riverbanks in Fengqiu Wild Forest. It is precisely because of this that Old Man Mo can travel through all the riverbanks in the canyon. Don't get lost.
"According to the wishes of the ancestors of the Wu Clan, loach, as a fallen dragon, will be nurtured spiritually by people if it stays with people for too long, just like goldfish and turtles. It is easy to nourish spirituality. Fallen dragons have no chance to reincarnate. The dragon, after being raised by me for thirty years, gradually developed the appearance of a dragon, which can be regarded as mutual karma."
When Old Man Mo spoke, they had already entered the Fengqiu Wild Forest from near the canyon. The golden-scaled loaches were obviously full of them. They began to pay attention to the surrounding movements as they walked around. Yue Guanchao and the others had already felt something different since they entered the Fengqiu Wild Forest.
This feeling of horror is not that the surroundings become cold and biting, but that the scalp trembles, just like the numbness before being struck by lightning. You can always feel that something is following the awning boat around you. When you actually look at it, you can't see anything strange. I can only attribute this feeling to the fact that there are too many strange things in Fengqiu Wild Forest.
As mentioned earlier, above the Altar of the Witch God is Fengqiu. This Fengqiu Mountain is located in the middle of the canyon. It extends outward for ten miles with Fengqiu as the center, which is considered the scope of Fengqiu Wild Forest.
In such a large area, there are almost no rivers that want to merge into the valley, and they will all pass through Fengqiu Forest. The wild forest is full of poisons, and the Lost Forest is unpredictable, which adds a sense of mystery.
When Yue Guanchao and the others were gliding along the river beach, they could easily see lush and bright poisonous plants everywhere. The flowers and grass here looked bright, but in fact they had been pollinated by poisonous insects and had already become highly poisonous. Wild animals could accidentally eat them. When you reach a poisonous flower, you will immediately be poisoned and die. The corpse will either corrode into bones, or it is still rotting. Countless flying insects and crawlers move in and out of the corpse, enjoying the fat flesh and blood of the corpse.
The fate of the beasts here is very similar to that of the mountain people. They both gradually accumulate toxins through constant trial and error. Eventually, one day the body cannot digest the accumulated toxins and completely collapses and dies. Fortunately, the mountain people also know how to detoxify and detoxify. Living in the wild forest for such a long time.
Golden scales lead the way and slide the river.
They had loach leading the way, and they took shortcuts through rivers. They walked as fast as the wind. They probably arrived near Fengqiu at noon in the scorching sun. Yue Guanchao and the others saw Fengqiu getting closer and closer, and they all cheered up. Wait for the loach to stop in front of the river and look forward carefully.
The emperor's tombs were either buried on the mountain, or the hills were sealed to create mountains for the construction of mausoleums. In actual terms, the altar of the witch god is not a mausoleum, but because the corpse of the witch god is stored in the altar, it is. Due to the nature of the mausoleum, hills were simply created to show the authority of the shaman god.
The canyon is flat and open. From a thousand meters away, you can see a "convex" mountain peak in front of you, about a few hundred meters high. It has a regular beauty that is not found in natural mountains. Several rivers go around the mountain and extend into the mountain. forest behind.
For thousands of years, the mountains have long been covered by towering ancient trees. There is no exposed mountain anywhere. The surrounding forests connect the foot of the mountains. You can see the mist filling the mountainside. Covered by lush vegetation, the huge gatehouse in front of the mausoleum is looming in the mist, elusive.
The huge Ming Tower has a three-level gap and connects to Fengqiu Wild Mountain, forming an archway gate at the top of the mountain, allowing people to see the location of the Witch God Altar at a glance.
"This Fengqiu Mountain is completely different. The entrance to the altar is left outside, and you don't have to worry about tomb robbers coming?" Yue Guanchao picked up the telescope and looked at Fengqiu Wild Mountain and asked curiously.
"Very few people come to the canyon. If a tomb robber comes, he may be poisoned before he can get here. Since there is no need to guard against outsiders, those methods are not needed. However, since there is no need to prevent theft, this altar has existed for thousands of years. There must be more powerful means than preventing theft, but we don’t dare to take it lightly.”
Although Fengqiu Wild Mountain was right in front of them, they had a more important task at the moment. They just took a brief look at Fengqiu's general situation and asked Old Man Mo to take them along the river near Fengqiu Mountain and continue towards the river valley.
After passing Fengqiu Wild Mountain, the inclination of the river also increased, and the speed of the river obviously accelerated. After two or three hours, everyone finally arrived at the river near the valley, standing at the end of the canyon and looking into the distance.
Some people died, but not completely...
