Chapter 257

Went to see an old friend?

Xuanwu was originally hanging like a rope swaying in the wind. Upon hearing the words, it straightened up and stuck its head out, turning into a capital "U". It would not think that the old friend the gentleman was talking about was Canglong. Thinking about the spiritual power fluctuation that appeared before, it was most likely that the old friend was the Phoenix.

In the [Desolate Mountain] created by Phoenix and Canglong, Phoenix can still do things secretly under Canglong's nose. Xuanwu remembered that Canglong once let slip that Mr. Yuchuan's favorite cub is Phoenix... He smacked his lips and felt inexplicably itchy in his head, as if he was going to grow a brain.

Could it be that after thousands of years of struggling in the world, one's mind would become more cunning than a hornet's nest?

It stretched its head towards Mr. Yuchuan and asked, "Sir, do you really not remember anything about the past ten thousand years ago?"

The words "Are there any melons? Are there any melons? Let me taste them if they're not ripe enough" are almost written clearly in its eyes.

Although he couldn't see the expression on the black little snake's face, Yu Tu inexplicably felt a thirsty aura from it, as well as a vague kind of excitement of "watching the fun".

Yu Tu: “…”

Whether it was memories or the remaining instincts of the body, he really knew nothing and had nothing.

He shook his head, and the little snake, which had excitedly bent into a "U" shape, sighed deeply, and with a "snap" it turned into an "I". It muttered quietly but sadly: "What's the difference between this and guarding a treasure without giving the key!"

It also wants to hear about Canglong's embarrassing stories and writes down his dark history in a small notebook. If it can get out of the deserted mountain one day, it will definitely pay out of its own pocket to print out Canglong's dark history into flyers and distribute them all over the world - just thinking about it makes it feel so good!

Yu Tu didn't know that Xuanwu was full of bad water. He raised his hand and pressed it on his chest. The small white stone that had led him into the chaos of time and space began to heat up slightly again.

...Are you going to give him directions again?

The [Desolate Mountain] that imprisoned him was created by the Phoenix and Canglong. Yu Tu had a very bad impression of Canglong, but towards the Phoenix... he had mixed feelings.

He didn't know why Phoenix went looking for his childhood self fifteen years ago, sealed his memory, took him away from the Ci Xin Orphanage, and then set the delicate time of eighteen years old, but he felt that Phoenix had no ill will towards him - just like those childhood "treasures" that he could have ignored, to other people, those were just useless garbage, but the "garbage" was restored by him and put away in the teahouse.

【Sir, he actually exists. 】

Yu Tu thought of what Feng Huang said, and suddenly he had an absurd guess—Could the Marquis of Buye be him?

But this thought only flashed through my mind and soon disappeared.

While Yu Tu was hesitating, the little white stone against his chest became noticeably hotter, as if urging him to make a decision.

Yu Tu finally chose to trust Little White Stone once again. He followed Little White Stone's guidance and walked towards the path he was led to, against the wind of the meadow. The black tortoise hanging upside down beside him asked alertly, "Sir, where are you going?"

It is really afraid that something similar to the space-time chaos that just happened will happen again!

Yu Tu did not tell the truth to it, he just said he was just taking a walk. The little snake with a suspicious look swam around his feet, and he decided to be a dog-skin plaster that Mr. Yuchuan would stick wherever he went. He couldn't get through a single day living in fear.

Yu Tu was walking in front. Xuanwu couldn't see the road, so he flicked his tail and threw himself onto the grass again. He jumped forward on the tips of the leaves like a powerful little spring.

The process of rushing was a bit boring. Xuanwu was a chatterbox and couldn't help but chatter before he could stay quiet for a minute: "Sir, sir, do you know why it looks like a sea of ​​grass when you look down from the pavilion?"

Yu Tu felt a little embarrassed for not telling Xuanwu the destination. Facing Xuanwu's question, Yu Tu didn't let it fall on its face: "Does it seem like the interior of the [barren mountain] is full of life?"

"Hey! Of course not!" Xuanwu jumped three feet high on the tip of the grass leaf. Because he found someone who could listen to him patiently, he was particularly eager to talk and express himself. "Canglong wanted to plant trees under the cliff, and Fenghuang wanted to plant flowers under the cliff. Canglong thought that planting trees was majestic, and Fenghuang thought that planting flowers cultivated one's sentiments. The two of them argued several times about whether to plant trees or flowers. In the end, they each took a step back and chose to plant grass."

"The grass here is so comfortable to roll around on!" Xuanwu jumped to the front of Yu Tu. The dark little snake's mood brightened up because of Yu Tu's return. "If you have nothing to do, you can lie down. You will have fewer worries."

Xuanwu cannot influence Canglong's decision because it itself is also a part of the decision. The only thing it can do is to allow Mr. Tamagawa, who is confined here, to spend these hundred days in peace.

After jumping around Mr. Yuchuan for a while, Xuanwu vaguely felt that something was wrong. The Mr.'s movements were not like "just walking around" as he said, but instead seemed like he wanted to go somewhere with a purpose.

Xuanwu's heart trembled, and it suddenly remembered the spiritual power that inexplicably appeared here and belonged to the Phoenix long ago. It also remembered the unconscious [Great Fierce] hexagram, and felt a sense of uneasiness.

It opened its mouth and wanted to call out to Mr. Yuchuan in front of it, but found that its vision was a little blurry. The slender green grass seemed to have turned into a monster with bared fangs and claws at this moment, and its body became inexplicably heavy. Although its thinking had degenerated to be simple and straightforward, Xuanwu had lived for thousands of years after all, and recognized at a glance that this was a formation, and a formation specifically aimed at him.

Xuanwu: ???"

It was so angry that it made a hissing sound, and its fangs flashing with cold light could be seen in its open mouth—he had no grudge against the Phoenix, but the Phoenix had betrayed him again!

Mr. Yuchuan beside him had been blocked by the grass leaves. Xuanwu could not find anyone in his blurred vision. The soft grass leaves transformed by the formation wrapped around his body, trying to wrap him up like a dumpling, but they broke apart in the next moment. Xuanwu's body suddenly grew into a giant snake with a diameter of more than three meters, pressing a deep groove on the ground.

This formation had no intention of doing anything to it, nor did it cause any substantial damage to it. Its only function was to block Xuanwu and buy a moment - time for Yu Tu to disappear.

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At the moment when the small white stone on his chest suddenly became frighteningly hot, Yu Tu felt the grass and leaves around him suddenly surge up and instantly wrapped around Xuanwu, and a pale white light gate swirled out not far in front of him, with red spiritual power lingering on the light gate, which came from the same source as the current fluctuations of the small white stone.

Yu Tu tilted his head to take a look at the wrapped Xuanwu, and without hesitation, he stepped in - what did he want him to see by using the small white stone as a guide?

The light gate quickly closed and disappeared the moment Yu Tu entered. The world behind the gate seemed to be no different from the inside of the [Desolate Mountain]. It was still a lush sea of ​​grass, but the grass leaves inside the [Desolate Mountain] could reach people's waist and chest when blown by the wind, but here they were just above the knees.

Perhaps because it had shrunk in size, Yu Tu felt it looked familiar. This seemingly endless sea of ​​grass seemed to be reed grass.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas states that "On the hill of Kunlun there is a grass called 薲草, which looks like sunflower and tastes like green onion. Eating it relieves fatigue."

There is another name for the herb, which is "forget-me-not".

Standing in the knee-high reeds, Yu Tu looked up and saw the mountain in front of him. The light gate seemed to have transmitted it to the back of the mountain. At least from Yu Tu's current position, he could see a faint corner of the pavilion on the top of the highest peak.

Yu Tu touched the monocle on his face, and finally made up his mind to concentrate his energy on his eyes. He saw an irregular transparent barrier on his right hand side, extending forward in twists and turns, and then blocked by a protruding stone.

Yu Tu walked along the edge of the barrier towards the protruding rock. After turning a corner, he took a step to the side as if by reflex. Amid the flapping sound of wings, the "thing" that was flying towards him fell into the air.

———It is a Banana Warbler with a yellow belly and gray feathers on the back.

Its slender claws landed on the leaves of the reed, and there was a look of confusion in its small eyes under its white eyebrows, as if it was wondering why it did not land on the shoulder of the person who came just now.

Behind the rocks was a vast, flat grassland. Yu Tu's eyes passed over the Banana Warbler and saw many birds. The ones he recognized alone included the Colorful Munia, Silver-throated Long-tailed Tit, White-headed Bulbul, Willow Warbler, Blue-fronted Redstart, Orange-winged Laughingthrush, etc. In addition to the ones he recognized, there were many more species he did not recognize.

With normal vision, these birds appear vivid in every move, and many of their features appear to be capable of torture. However, if one uses energy to "see" them, one will discover that they are simply spiritual creations, with their bones, internal organs, flesh, feathers, etc. all simulated by spiritual power.

Yu Tu walked forward a few steps and saw a white peacock shaking out its gorgeous tail feathers. From where Yu Tu was standing, he could only see its...butt.

The wind blew the slightly sparse butt hair, and Yu Tu inexplicably felt like laughing.

"Mr. always likes to come quietly to see the fun."

When this sound rang out, the poem "Kunshan jade shatters and the phoenix cries" seemed to be truly portrayed at this moment.

Yu Tu inexplicably felt that the voice was familiar. The wind was like an invisible hand, pushing the white peacock with its tail spread to the side. He saw a beautiful face and a familiar and luxurious style. It was indeed a phoenix.

The phoenix is ​​a spiritual creature just like the other birds all over the ground, but its features are so vivid that it is hard to tell whether it is real or fake.

Phoenix looked in his direction, her brows curved into a smile, which was very different from the tired and impatient look she had in the orphanage fifteen years ago.

"Sir, long time no see." Feng Huang stood up slowly. The hem of his robe fluttered as he walked, and the fiery red color looked like a spread tail feather. "I can feel my 'breath'."

His hand pointed vaguely at Yu Tu's heart. The phoenix formed by the spiritual energy creation seemed to be just a process left behind:

"If you've arrived here, Canglong has probably already taken action, and I've left because of my failed Nirvana."

There was a gleam of light between his eyebrows, and he looked very happy:

"This is a place that he and I have worked together for thousands of years. Once it is activated, people inside cannot leave, and people outside cannot come in."

"On the day when the barrier is broken, the catastrophe that happened ten thousand years ago will happen again." The phoenix seemed to have guessed what Yu Tu wanted to ask, or the phoenix, which was created by spiritual energy, understood the people who entered here well enough. "The S-level [Desolate Mountain] is the only place that can deceive the consciousness of heaven and earth. It is a one-way road that can only be entered but not exited."

Yu Tu had a vague feeling that some thoughts flashed through his mind, but the speed was too fast for him to capture it, and suddenly he felt the ground shaking under his feet.

He saw the winding transparent barrier like a shattered mirror, with fragments scattered in the air. A giant snake that was about 20 meters tall and whose face could not be seen was looking down at him. The only thing that could be seen clearly was its bright red tongue.

Yu Tu heard the angry and crisp voice of the young man, and he shouted like a desperate pea shooter: "Phoenix, I advise you not to go too far. You spent a lot of effort to build this place. What do you want to do now? Are you crazy--"

He finished a complete sentence without even taking a breath.

In front of the maximized Xuanwu, both Yu Tu and the Phoenix became tiny dots. The phantom of the Phoenix raised its head and asked very calmly:

"Xuanwu, the Canglong ate your turtle body, don't you hate it at all?"