Tian Gang Chapter 211 Kunlun (7)
When we got closer, we realized that it was not a dead tree, but a huge monster skeleton.
The monster was rotten all over, piled up in the air in a mess. It looked like a big bird, but it had six heads, one in each direction. I could clearly tell which was its head, which was its wing, and which was its claw.
Its skeleton was yellow-brown and a bit messy, and many bones looked like extra branches on a tree, making it hard to tell what they were used for. And its size was astonishing, with the skeleton alone piled up dozens of meters high.
When we got closer, we could smell a faint stench of decay.
The old man from Yuanling reached out his hand, grabbed a bone, and applied only slight force. With a crisp "crack", the bone was broken by him, and yellow-brown dust floated from the broken part.
Eh... The old man from Yuanling exclaimed, held the bone in his hand and looked at it carefully.
I moved closer and saw that the bone he was holding was unremarkable. If I hadn't seen the complete skeleton in front of me, I would have thought it was just an ordinary dead branch.
This is a tree bird, the old Taoist said from behind.
I turned around and saw that he was also looking at the huge skeleton in front of him. Tree bird? I have only heard of tree people...
This is a strange beast with almost the same characteristics as a tree. It has strong vitality, but it cannot be removed from the soil. Otherwise, it will soon die. Ancient books record that it was an ornamental plant in the emperor's garden, but for some reason, it was later removed from Kunlun Mountain. The old Taoist explained in detail.
I was stunned by what I heard. This is really... too awesome.
Tree bird? I wonder if it eats meat or fertilizer? Or maybe it eats the meat and buries the bones in the soil to absorb? It's really not picky about food... I thought.
Hey, that is... The old man from Yuanling exclaimed again, he bent down and looked under the skeleton of the tree bird.
What are you looking at? I asked: Can you tell the difference between male and female?
What a vulgar feeling...they are already dead!
The old man from Yuanling ignored me. He gradually sank down until he was below the tree bird skeleton, then he raised his head and looked up. I was curious about what he was looking at, so I followed him down. When I got down, I saw another strange skeleton at the bottom.
This skeleton looks like a snake, but it has a slightly curved horn on its forehead, which is very long, almost one meter long. The entire skeleton is several dozen meters long, which is quite amazing.
The two skeletons were a little apart, one above and one below. At this time, the old Taoist also calmed down. He took one look and said with certainty: This is the body of a dragon. And it is different from the dragons that were cultivated by snakes and pythons in later generations. This is a natural dragon.
What does it mean to be born as a dragon? I turned around and looked at him.
After pondering for a while, the Taoist said: Human power is limited, but the power of heaven is endless. Although snakes and pythons have a low starting point, they need to practice hard and eventually shed their skin to become dragons. With another great opportunity, they can even become dragons, so they have almost unlimited potential. But natural dragons are different. They are born as dragons, which are more powerful than dragons cultivated from snakes and pythons, but they can never become dragons. The same is true for natural dragons. They are born as dragons and are rare divine creatures in the world. Therefore, the gods in ancient mythology are mostly represented by dragons, and those who can walk as dragons are almost unseen.
So that's it... So this dragon is a product of Kunlun? I asked.
That's right, Kunlun Mountain has everything, so the world says Kunlun is the place where all things originated. Although there are mistakes, it also shows the prosperity of Kunlun Mountain. Ordinary strange beasts cannot climb Kunlun, because they are not gods or immortals. Why is this dragon under the tree bird... The old Taoist hesitated.
If the dragon's skin and flesh are still there and the tree bird is still alive, it looks like the dragon is carrying the tree bird forward. Zaguyi, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly said.
Yes! When he said this, we all realized it immediately. After a closer look, it was indeed the case.
However... the old Taoist looked at Kunlun Mountain in front of him, and then at the dragon's skeleton. He said in confusion: The dragon's head is facing the opposite direction of Kunlun Mountain. If it is really carrying the tree bird, it must want to leave Kunlun. These mythical beasts have a supreme connection with Kunlun. If they leave here, they will not even be able to survive. What is the reason that makes this dragon want to leave with the tree bird on its back?
Perhaps there was an unimaginable shock on Kunlun Mountain, and even these strange beasts were afraid, so they tried to escape. The old man from Yuanling looked at the dry bones in his hand and said: It seems that the disappearance of the weak water from the abyss and the decay of the bones of the strange beasts during their escape are not due to time, but other reasons.
The elder is right. The old Taoist nodded: "Whether it is a dragon or a tree bird, they are all rare beasts that are not seen in the world. Their vitality is far beyond our imagination. This place is not too far from Kunlun Mountain, but their bones are left here, which is indeed strange. But...
The old Taoist looked up at the dragon's skeleton and said: I just took a close look and there are no scars on the dragon's bones. I don't know why they died.
I also found it. The old man from Yuanling nodded and said: With the speed of a dragon, if it was just escaping, it shouldn't have flown such a short distance. This place is really weird...
As the old man from Yuanling spoke, he looked up at the Kunlun Mountains in the distance. I followed his gaze, and perhaps because of the huge tree bird skeleton above my head, I felt that my vision was suppressed. Looking at Kunlun, I always felt that the huge mountain was full of weirdness.
Are the legendary gods still the mountain of gods today? What happened in this space that we don't understand? Judging from the old Taoist's puzzled look, perhaps even the ancient books left by the Five Classics did not record this.
Let's go, no matter what, we have to take a look. We finally got here, we can't leave just because of two strange skeletons. The old man Yuanling said in a firm tone.
We all had no objection to this, so we followed his advice. But as we flew forward, I thought of the Five Emperors Terrace.
If an incredible event really happened in Kunlun Mountain, killing the powerful dragons and the tenacious tree birds, then perhaps the strange beasts on the way to the imperial platform also died. In this case, it would not be a problem for the Jiuqiu lineage to move the imperial platform.
My heart sank and I couldn't help but sigh.
Not far ahead, about ten kilometers away from the two skeletons, the abyss disappeared. In its place, there was flat ground. The land here was no different from what we see in the human world, unlike in the underworld, which was like waves.
However, even if there was solid ground ahead, we were still floating in the air. Since we could walk without relying on our legs, who would want to get off?
A dozen kilometers ahead, the view suddenly turned dark. A huge bottomless pit appeared on the ground. The depth of the pit was unknown, and it covered an area of 10,000 meters. The edge of the pit on the other side was almost invisible to the naked eye. Such a big pit was scary dark. Floating on it, I always felt like my body was about to fall in at any time.
The Yuanling elders didn't care about this deep pit, and only guessed that it might be similar to the Weak Water Abyss. The knowledgeable old Taoist didn't say much, because most of his knowledge of Kunlun was in ancient books. So he didn't know where this dark deep pit led to, and what it was used for in the past.
I actually wanted to go down and take a look, but I was afraid that this thing was like a black hole, and once I went in, I couldn't get out, which would be a disaster for the rest of my life. I'm just a bystander, and you let a bystander go to jail, isn't that unfair?
Perhaps they also felt that the pit was scary dark, so they all sped up. Ten thousand meters was not far, because we were flying very fast. Not long after, we saw the flat ground again. And there, we could see some dead trees still on the surface. These dead trees were like ordinary flowers and plants, but they were all incredibly large.
Obviously, only here we have entered the territory of Kunlun Mountains.
Looking up ahead, Kunlun Mountain is getting taller and taller. It looked only 10,000 meters high before, but when I got closer, I realized that 10,000 meters is nothing to it. The height made me cry and I almost tilted my neck up to look up.
The Kunlun Mountains are so majestic that you can't see the top and the width is so wide that it's beyond anyone's imagination. In my opinion, a mountain like this can accommodate everyone even if all the people in China move here. And maybe one person can live in two houses, one for eating and one for going to the toilet.
Just like that, he kept flying. On the way, in addition to the dead trees that had completely disappeared, he could occasionally see unknown animal bones. Some of those animal skeletons were common, while others were unrecognizable. Even the old Taoist couldn't completely identify them. Because although the Five Classics could tell everything in the world, human power was limited. Even if the old Taoist was the head of the Five Elements Vein of the time, he couldn't remember everything.
After flying for about a hundred kilometers, the land ahead began to slope up. And here we really started to climb Kunlun Mountain.
I won't talk about the height and width. If I use Arabic numerals to describe it, I'm afraid you will say I'm making up words on purpose. Kunlun Mountain is not as flat as I imagined . There are mostly rocks on it, piled up on the left and right, just like flowers that have exploded. Sometimes I also think that if birds can be like trees, then maybe the flowers in Kunlun Mountain can be like stones.
We had not been flying forward for long when a "quack" sound suddenly came from behind.
I have been hearing this sound for a long time and my ears are calloused. I was startled and turned around quickly, only to see the frog girl flying towards me with a croak. Its two claws were constantly swinging, because there was a pink figure dragging underneath. To be precise, it was the dragon master who wrapped his body around the frog girl and nibbled on her toes.
I was shocked. Was Mr. Jiao crazy with hunger? Why did he eat everything? Did he wash his claws? Did he fry them with chopped green onions? Would it taste better if he marinated them with soy sauce, cooking wine, green onions, ginger and garlic first?
But then again, how did these two guys get in?
