Tian Gang Chapter 212 Kunlun (8)
I flew back a bit, hugged Frog Girl, and then pulled Jiao Ye off it. Jiao Ye twisted his body, looked at me, then at Frog Girl, and bit my arm with dissatisfaction. Then he swooped up my arm, curled up there, raised his little head and hissed at Frog Girl.
The frog girl fluttered in my arms for a few times, and when she saw Jiaoye being dragged away, she croaked a few times and then stopped moving. I held her and looked at Jiaoye again, asking curiously: How did you two get in?
The dragon only hissed and the frog girl occasionally called out, but I couldn't understand what they said. I had no choice but to fly back with them.
These two little guys can run. The old man from Yuanling looked at me and smiled.
I was a little embarrassed because I didn't bring them with me because I was afraid they would cause trouble. But who would have thought that they would come here by themselves? Could it be that they had already arrived before entering the Kunlun Black Pillar?
This is unlikely, and if it were, they wouldn't have caught up with us just now.
What makes me even more curious is that the little frog is still like a toddler, and can't walk far without hitting the ground. The old dragon seems to be at odds with it, and bites it whenever it sees it. Even if the two of them came in from the black pillar with us, how did they run from Yuanling to the Unfrozen Spring? That's not just a few steps, but a long distance that a frog can never imagine.
Since you are here, you might as well take it with you. After all, this is Kunlun Immortal Land, where all things were born and all beasts gathered. Maybe you can find something good for them, the old Taoist said.
I nodded, hugged Frog Girl, and continued to fly forward.
The slope ahead was getting steeper and steeper, and there were more and more rocks blooming like flowers. In the end, we had to increase our flying altitude as much as possible to barely move forward. However, when we flew to about 100 meters, we felt that our bodies were getting heavier and heavier, and it was almost impossible to float up.
Although the old Taoist has practiced for a longer time than me and has more Taoist power than me, he is no different from me. This shows that flying here has nothing to do with the amount of Taoist power.
However, the old man from Yuanling and Zaguyi flew several meters higher than us, which was amazing.
Perhaps, their wills are stronger than ours, the old Taoist said with a sigh.
However, it doesn't matter if we fly a few meters higher or lower, because at the current position, we can only fly a hundred meters higher at most. Compared with the entire Kunlun Mountains, this height is too insignificant.
We landed on a fairly flat rock and took a short rest. The old Taoist drew a few empty talismans and slapped them on each of us. After the talismans were cast on me, I suddenly felt a little light all over.
The magic walking talisman is relatively simple, and many sects know how to use it, and it is the most suitable for climbing mountains here, the old Taoist explained.
I hummed and looked forward. Old Man Yuanling and Zaguyi were each holding a Wu Gu old man and starting to climb. However, their movements were slower, even I couldn't keep up with them, as the two Wu Gu old men were in very poor physical condition.
At this rate, it will take us an indefinite amount of time to reach the top of Kunlun Mountain.
Although I am not Ethan Hunt, climbing to the top of Kunlun Mountain is not an impossible task. What we need is patience and perseverance, which is the most important thing.
Ignoring the frog girl's croaking, I stuffed it into my clothes and pressed it against my chest. I then pulled the dragon off and wrapped it around my waist, then stuffed its tail into its mouth: Bite it, don't let go!
The dragon blinked his eyes, as if he was puzzled. I patted the frog girl, making her croak, and then said: When we get to the mountain, I'll let you bite it!
Jiao Ye looked at me, and then his mouth snapped shut. That sound made me break out in a cold sweat. How much does this guy hate Frog Girl...
After my hands were free, I used my hands and feet to climb quickly to the top of the mountain.
The magic charm worked very well. I could hardly feel the weight of my body. I just exerted a little force with my hands and stepped hard on the rocks, and I could immediately jump out several meters. The only thing I had to be careful about was not to jump too hard and hit my head on the rocks in front of me.
The higher the mountain, the more complicated the rocks. When we climbed to about 2,000 meters, we could no longer find even a palm-sized flat land. There were angular rocks everywhere. Although they were not sharp, they looked like a mountain road paved with thorns at first glance, which was daunting.
The old Taoist was the fastest, like a monkey in the mountains, leaping and flying like an arrow. By now, he was already two or three hundred meters ahead of us. The four of Yuanling Elder were about the same speed as me.
The two old witch doctors looked a little embarrassed. After all, their hands and feet were not as flexible as ours. If it weren't for Old Man Yuanling and Zaguyi supporting them, they would have been smashed into pieces.
Although I climbed very high, I could not feel any wind. This place is not like the human world. When you reach a certain height, you will have all kinds of strange feelings.
There seemed to be no air pressure or high winds. There was only a deep silence. Apart from the sound of our footsteps on the rocks and our slightly rapid breathing, there was nothing else to hear.
After climbing nearly two thousand meters, we were now nearly five thousand meters high. Looking up, we still couldn't see the peak clearly. Looking down, we couldn't see the ground clearly either.
The old Taoist priest did not continue to climb, but waited for us there. When we arrived, he asked: "How do you feel? Do you want to take a rest?"
I was fine, just a little sweaty, but the two old witch doctors were like they were having asthma, making a hoarse sound and making the people watching very worried.
In order to take care of them both, we clung to the rocks, hung ourselves there and took a short rest.
The slope here is frighteningly high. A rough estimate is at least 60 degrees. And the front is almost the same if you look at it visually. I took a few breaths and couldn't help saying: This mountain is too high. We have climbed at least 4,000 to 5,000 meters, but we can't see the end. If we continue to climb like this, we will either die of exhaustion or be scared to death.
This is the sacred Kunlun Mountain. If it were so easy to climb, there wouldn’t be a saying in ancient books that “only the Yi people can climb it.” The old Taoist said.
His face was normal, he didn't sweat much, and his physical strength was amazing. I couldn't help but feel sad, such a good body, is it the result of practicing virgin kung fu? Come to think of it, it seems that nothing happened between the old Taoist and the old woman back then. How can a virgin of fifty or sixty years be underestimated? It's almost as good as a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum!
That's right, so we must persist. No matter how high the mountain is, there must be a peak. Nothing is unreachable. The old man from Yuanling nodded. He was much more tired than us because he had to pull a witch doctor. He wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve and said: Rest for a while, and then continue climbing! I don't believe that I can't climb a broken mountain!
After that, we rested there for a while, and when we had recovered our strength, we continued climbing.
After doing this several times, we have climbed to an altitude of nearly 20,000 meters. This is simply unimaginable in normal times, because the highest mountain on Earth is no more than 10,000 meters. And even at such a high place, it still feels almost the same as the ground, with almost no difference.
At this time, the old Taoist priest in front of us was clinging to the rocks and beckoning us to come over. He was two hundred meters away from us, and when we climbed up, we saw him staring at a rock in a trance.
I followed his gaze and was also stunned.
As far as the eye can see, there is a strange rock formation, which is similar to the surrounding rocks, the only difference is the shape.
It looks like a flower, with a point as the center and petals in eight directions. The shape of the "petals" is very strange, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, with a slightly protruding middle.
What surprised us most was not this strange flower-shaped rock, but the two skeletons in the center of it.
It's not quite right to call them skeletons, because you can't tell what they are. One of them is missing half of its head, and it has claw-like arms, two on each side of its body, one of which is like a melted ice cube, with only the arm visible but no hand. The other skeleton is even more severely mutilated, with only half of its head and a small part of its upper body.
The two skeletons looked somewhat like humans, but also very much like animals. They lay in the middle of the flower-shaped rock.
There were no signs of fighting, and the rocks here were intact. The old Taoist looked around and said: The cause of their death seems to be the same as that of the dragon and the tree bird before.
The old man from Yuanling looked around, hummed, and then focused his eyes on the two corpses. He looked for a while, then said: "However, how could such a thing appear halfway up Kunlun Mountain? It doesn't look like it fell from the mountain. The shape of this rock is completely different from what we have seen before."
It's very strange, Zaguyi interrupted.
But what he said was just nonsense and we simply ignored it.
We looked at it for a long time, but we couldn't see anything. In the end, we had to put aside our doubts and climb again.
Kunlun Mountain is becoming more and more strange. Rather than calling it a sacred mountain, it is more appropriate to call it a strange mountain. At least in my eyes, it looks like a haunted house that scares children.
After climbing a few thousand meters, we stopped again.
Because we found another rock that was almost the same as the previous one, and there was a corpse lying there. Its shape was also very strange, and many parts of its body seemed to have been melted, making it impossible to tell what was originally there.
The same question arises in our minds, and we move forward again with doubts.
Less than two kilometers ahead, this flower-shaped rock appeared again.
This time the skeleton is relatively complete. From the skeleton, it has a bird-like head, a very large and strong body, but the hands and feet are similar to those of a human. The skeleton is lying on its side, so we can also see a few simple bones behind it. Judging from the shape... could it be Teletubbies?
Perhaps it is a wing. The old Taoist priest looked at it carefully and said: It is similar in shape to a bird's wing, but a little simpler.
I suddenly realized what was going on, and then I looked down and found that there were a few pieces of bones next to it. They were very small and crooked. The old Taoist walked over and picked them up to look at them, and tried to break them a few times, but he couldn't break them.
Then he placed the bone in the palm of his hand and closed his eyes as if he was sensing it carefully.
Not long after, the old Taoist opened his eyes and frowned.
Very strange. He said: My spiritual power cannot penetrate.
This sentence surprised me.
Because so far, I have seen two things that the Five Elements Dao Power cannot penetrate. One is a golden bone piece that looks like an immortal, and the other is a half corpse sealed in a golden jade.
The skeleton in front of him was grayish black, absolutely different from the sacral bone.
The old Taoist squatted down again and placed his hand on the complete skeleton to sense it. Then he stood up, put the several pieces of thin bones in his hand into his sleeves, and said: These two things are similar, neither can be penetrated by my Taoist power.
That's really... The old man from Yuanling smacked his lips, but he couldn't say anything. Maybe even he didn't know what to say. Everything here was beyond everyone's imagination, impossible to analyze, impossible to describe.
After the old Taoist stood there and pondered for a while, he looked at the flat rocks around him, walked over and touched them with his hands. Then he thought for a while and said to us: Although I can't be sure, I think this place is very similar to the sacred rock recorded in ancient books.
Shenyan? The old man from Yuanling looked at him in confusion.
The old Taoist nodded and said: "It is said in ancient books that Kunlun is the place where all gods live. There are many rocks in the mountain, and only Yi people can climb it. The gods are in the rocks in all directions."
Are you saying that these eight rocks are the so-called Eight-sided Rock? Isn't that too far-fetched? The old man from Yuanling questioned.
There are indeed some. The Taoist priest did not deny it, but then he said: Perhaps there are many such places in Kunlun Mountain. However, the gods mentioned in ancient books, except for a few, are not described very clearly. Especially the gods in the Eight Directions Rock, there are almost no records, which is very strange. Is it because there are too many to record? Or, they are not important to Kunlun Mountain, so there is no need to record them?
Hmm... Old Man Yuanling frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head: These are all legends and are difficult to identify.
Yes, it was too long ago. Even if my master were reborn and came here in person, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to explain it. But look carefully at the shapes of these rocks and imagine what they look like when they are closed. The old Taoist pointed to the rocks next to him.
I looked at the flat petal-shaped stones and tried to put them together in my mind. Maybe my battery was running out and my brain was not working well. Before I could figure out the reason, the old man from Yuanling and Zaguyi shouted at the same time: Wrap it up like a flower bud?
That's right. The old Taoist patted the rock and tapped the skeleton on the ground with his toes: If this skeleton has always been here, then why does the rock look like a flower bud? It's because the rock is like the door of our house...
This is unlikely. I think no matter whether it is the gods or the ancient beasts, they would not think of placing a gate on Kunlun Mountain. This is not in line with common sense. The old man Yuanling refuted in advance.
That's right. The Taoist priest unexpectedly did not reject it, but instead made a guess that surprised everyone: In this case, there is only one answer. That is, this is the place where the skeleton was born. The so-called flower buds are like the mother's womb. The incomplete skeletons we saw before seemed to be melted, but according to this guess, they were not melted at all, but they were born prematurely and have not yet taken shape.
I was stunned by Lao Dao's words. At that moment, I felt that he was possessed by Edogawa Conan. At that moment, I felt that his classic commentary was extremely appropriate.
Correct! The old Taoist priest has done meritorious service, the old Taoist priest has done meritorious service, don't give the old man in Yuanling any chance! The great Five Elements Pulse inheritance, he inherited the glorious tradition of the Five Elements Pulse, Edogawa Conan, Sherlock Holmes, Bao Da Ren's soul is possessed at this moment, the old Taoist priest alone, he represents the long historical tradition of the Five Elements Pulse, at this moment, he is not speaking alone, he is not alone!
It’s simply... simply... it’s exploded!