Chapter 80 Shijunshan Golden Crow Furnace Hundred-foot Earth Dragon (please vote for me)
Shijunshan.
Located in the suburbs of Xiangyin, bordering Yueyang.
However, in the first year of the Republic of China, Xiangyin was still under the Changsha Prefecture of Changbao Road. In the third year of the Republic of China, it was changed to Xiangjiang Road.
Coupled with these years of war and chaos.
There has never been a clear geographical distinction.
For ordinary people, everything from the north to Baini Lake belongs to Xiangyin.
Shijun Mountain is on the bank of the Great Lake and along the river.
At this moment, the night is getting darker. Different from the bright lights in Changsheng Tower and the bustle of people drinking and drinking, a wooden boat on the river is slowly approaching the edge of Shijun Mountain.
Only a dim wind lantern hung on the side of the ship.
The light and fire flickered.
More than a dozen figures were reflected.
Everyone is dusty and tired, and their faces cannot hide their tiredness.
There is only one person at the front. He is tall and wearing shorts. His eyes are as sharp as an eagle under his thick eyebrows.
“Shopkeeper Li, that’s Shi Junshan.”
"If you go any further, you have to enter the realm of Yueyang."
Suddenly, someone spoke softly.
Li Shuguo, who was staring at the main peak of Shijun Mountain shrouded in the night, in a daze, did not look back, but just let out a hum.
Start from Chenjiazhuang to hunt for fire.
In the blink of an eye, two days have passed.
It doesn't seem like a long time, but for him, he can't waste a single second.
In two days, he took about twenty Chen family men with him and traveled almost all the mountains in Xiangyin.
It’s a pity that I found nothing.
He has a strong body and can barely hold on, but those guys are very tired.
Through the mountains and ridges, I almost never closed my eyes.
Li Shuguo couldn't understand the meaning of his words.
After passing Shijun Mountain, if you still can't find it, you have to consider whether to go back to recover your life, or choose to go to Honeycomb Mountain to refine weapons.
Wow——
Just thinking about it.
The big ship under me finally docked.
Li Shuguo didn't think much and waved his hand, "Brothers, get off the boat and try to finish your work as soon as possible."
Hearing this, a group of guys could only cheer up no matter how tired they were.
They each picked up torches and weapons and jumped off the ship one after another.
Before coming, Uncle Yu warned me repeatedly.
The search for underground fire was personally ordered by the shopkeeper.
If this thing is done well, the shopkeeper will never hesitate to reward him with his magnanimity.
But if it is not completed, it will still be delayed.
If I get kicked out by then, I don’t know where to cry.
With his status as Zhuang Ding, he has no worries about food and drink. In today's world, it would be difficult to find such a job.
Wait for everyone to get off the boat one by one.
Li Shuguo then picked up the bamboo basket beside him and landed it on the stone beach.
Facing the night wind blowing from the river.
He took a deep breath, suppressed his sleepiness, and strode towards the mountains.
A group of people followed closely behind, holding wind lanterns and walking through the dense forest, like a fire dragon walking through water.
Anyway.
Whether it is success or failure, there will be a result after tonight.
Waiting halfway up the mountain.
Li Shuguo put down his backpack and pulled out a stove-like utensil.
The thing is not big.
Only the size of a palm.
Standing on three legs, it looks like a strange bird flapping its wings.
The Golden Crow, the sun bird in myths and legends, is also a folk symbol of fire.
The utensils are made of gold and copper.
It also vaguely combines with the five elements of fire and metal.
For this reason, this thing is called the Golden Crow Furnace, which was used by geomancers of Feng Shui Kanyu in the past to find earth fire.
The stove in his hand was inherited from his family.
When his family went south, my father used it to discover a natural fire pit in Yuhua Mountain, and then decided to stop there. Twenty years later, Honeycomb Mountain became famous again.
This time to find earth fire for Chen Yulou.
Li Shuguo specially brought it out.
See him take out the stove.
The group of guys behind him weren't too surprised. They were used to it all the way.
It’s quite mysterious.
But the stove has never turned on, and I don’t know if it works well.
Just when everyone was looking around.
A slight buzzing sound suddenly sounded.
Then, they saw a flame igniting out of thin air in the copper furnace Li Shuguo held in his hand.
The mountain wind whistled by.
But can't blow it out.
On the contrary, it has a tendency to become more and more prosperous.
"This..."
"What's going on? Why did it suddenly start burning?"
"Is it the underground fire that shopkeeper Li mentioned?"
"I don't know."
A group of people They were all attracted by the fire in the stove, their faces full of surprise.
Although Li Shuguo had said once before that the furnace was used for surveying underground fires, no one had ever seen it with his own eyes.
Now, this sudden fire caught them off guard.
But it’s different from the confused guy.
At this moment, under the firelight, Li Shuguo's tense face suddenly became extremely surprised.
My eyes were burning and my lips were trembling slightly.
“Yes.”
"What?"
"What's the matter?"
Listening to him muttering to himself, the guys next to him didn't dare to argue anymore. They held their breath and concentrated, and didn't dare to breathe too loudly. , for fear of disturbing him.
“The earth fire is here!”
Li Shuguo breathed out.
He raised his head and grinned.
After searching for two full days, almost without sleep, the Golden Crow Furnace finally responded.
Before departure, he specially studied the direction of the Xiangyin Mountains.
The highest point is naturally Qingshan where Changsheng Mountain is located.
Then there are Etou Mountain, Hubi Mountain and Baiya Mountain where Huodong Temple is located, which can all be regarded as big mountains.
As for the hills, there are even more.
According to past experience, underground fire often exists in high mountains.
That’s why he set his sights on Qingshan and Etou Mountain first.
But after two days in a row, I walked almost all over the place, but gained nothing.
There are still Chen family guys following here.
In the name of Changsheng Mountain.
Otherwise, if he ran away like this, he would have been captured by the bandit warlords who dominated the mountain.
Unexpectedly, this little-known Shijun Mountain has an underground fire hidden in it.
“Ground fire!”
“Shopkeeper Li, you are not joking.”
"Yes, it doesn't look like there is fire on this mountain."
"This is a major matter ordered by the master of the house, and there is no room for sloppiness."
Hearing this The answer, the eyes of a bunch of guys lit up.
But he didn’t dare to confirm completely, so he asked repeatedly.
“Put your heart back in your belly.”
"This stove is an old item passed down from my great-grandfather's generation. It was obtained from an earth energy master in the past. It is the most sensitive to earth fire."
Seeing their surprised and uncertain looks.
Li Shuguo smiled.
When he talked about the origin of the stove, his face was full of pride.
The earth master can sense the movement of earth energy, survey the geographical situation of mountains and rivers, and even suppress the dragon veins.
How can those deceitful Feng Shui masters in the world today compare?
"Then... Shopkeeper Li, where is the fire?"
Seeing him so confident.
There was no doubt among the group of people, and joy surged onto their faces.
“Yes, if you find the ground fire, you can return to Zhuangzi to pay your respects to the master of the family as soon as possible.”
"Shopkeeper Li, don't delay. It's better to find it as soon as possible. Everyone can rest assured, right?"
They were anxious, and Li Shuguo was not the same?
Even compared to these guys.
He wished he could set up a steel-making furnace one day earlier.
The big demon and fierce soldier.
A thing that only exists on the weapon spectrum.
If it succeeds, then the name of Honeycomb Mountain will definitely be able to recreate the glory of his ancestors in his hands.
No.
It’s more than just a reappearance.
Even though my grandfather joined the Military Academy, his greatest achievement in his life was to improve the matchlock gun, but he still thought about it until he died.
If he really made a demon weapon.
Tsk, tsk, the Li family tree has to put his name in the top three. The more he thought about it, the more excited Li Shuguo became. He was still a little bit sleepy. He carefully held the stove and followed the guidance, walking all the way to the depths of Shijun Mountain.
The guys are also exhausted.
After running for two days, I finally got some news.
Some people are holding wind lanterns, and some are cutting mountains with knives.
Looking silent, but actually their fiery eyes revealed their emotions.
Wait around the front mountain.
In the rugged and difficult dense forest, the vision suddenly became clear.
The mountains and forests seemed to have been wiped off the ground.
Only large chunks of exposed rock remain.
“What’s going on?”
“Shijunshan, Shijunshan, isn’t this how it came about?”
“It’s really weird, there are mountains and forests all the way. , when we got to the top, it was completely bare.”
I looked around with the wind lantern.
A bunch of guys looked like they had seen a ghost.
On the other hand, Li Shuguo, who had been holding the stove, looked at the fire in the stove that was getting hotter and hotter, and seemed to have noticed something, and his heart was beating wildly with dissatisfaction.
No time to think too much.
The whole group quickly rushed to the top of the mountain.
His unusual behavior made everyone confused, but the search for Earth Fire was all tied to him alone.
Another guest invited by the shopkeeper from all the way.
No matter what happens, nothing can happen to Shopkeeper Li.
The group of people could no longer care about the surprise and quickly chased after him.
More than half a quarter of an hour later, they finally caught up with the subtle fire in front of them.
Li Shuguo traveled all the way.
At this moment, he was standing between the cliffs, raising his eyes and looking down.
I don’t know what I saw.
The silent face was full of joy.
Under him.
It is a cracked tiankeng that seems to cut off Shijun Mountain.
The night wind howled by, but it was different from the water vapor at the bottom of the mountain. Standing here, he only felt a fire coming towards his face.
It was as if, deep in the crack, there was a fire burning from the ground.
The guy behind him also noticed something was wrong.
They all ran up, stopped and looked down the mountain.
In the pitch-black sinkhole, streaks of fire emerged from the mist, illuminating the bottom of the mountain in fiery red.
"Ground fire!"
"What a fire!"
"God, this must have been burning for how many years."
A group of people exclaimed.
Some people even subconsciously stretched out their hands to catch those sparks swept up by the wind.
But as soon as it entered the palm, the sparks gradually extinguished.
Only a pile of finely broken ashes with lingering warmth remained.
That is, Shijun Mountain is too high.
The peaks with bamboo shoots on all sides cover the firelight.
Otherwise, such an astonishing fire would have been discovered long ago.
But even so, looking at the fire at the bottom of the mountain, the group was still shocked beyond measure.
“Go down and have a look.”
Compared with their exclamations, Li Shuguo only had a lot more.
Across the cliff hundreds of meters away, the fire was so fierce, many times stronger than the ground fire in Yuhua Mountain.
He was even a little envious.
If my father had taken a boat from this river to go south, would the current Fengwo Mountain have ended up in Shijun Mountain?
However, this thought only flashed through his mind.
Now is the time to think about this.
With earth fire, he can settle down and set up a furnace to refine weapons as soon as possible.
“Yes, Shopkeeper Li.”
"Shopkeeper Li, slow down."
Seeing him getting up and rushing down the cliff, a group of clerks hurriedly tried to dissuade him.
"Shopkeeper Li, it's too dark today, so I'd better ask the brothers to go down and explore the way."
As he spoke, without waiting for his refusal, several of the boys quickly took out the bags from their backpacks. Hang the rope and centipede on the mountain ladder, hang the wind lantern on your shoulder, and fly down the cliff.
See this scene.
Li Shuguo could only calm down.
At the same time, I was secretly amazed.
I have long heard that Chen Yulou, the leader of this generation of Xiling, is very knowledgeable in armor and weapons.
Integrate the advantages of other inverted fighting sects.
Let Xiling develop to its peak.
Now it seems that we can get a glimpse of it from the centipede hanging on the mountain ladder.
The guys who came with me on this trip were all carefully selected by Uncle Yu.
Everyone is agile and has the time and energy to climb mountains and down streams as fast as apes.
It only took less than ten minutes.
A loud arrow soared into the sky from below.
"Here we come."
"Shopkeeper Li, you can go down the mountain now."
Seeing the sound of arrows rising through the clouds, the guys who were waiting with Li Shuguo at the top suddenly relaxed. tone.
“Okay!”
Li Shuguo grinned.
No more hesitation.
Put the Golden Crow Stove back into the backpack and quickly rush down the mountain along the centipede-hanging ladder.
On a cliff hundreds of meters away.
A streak of fire slowly floated.
By the time he was halfway through, the fire in the air already made him feel like he was standing outside a steel-making furnace, and large beads of sweat were dripping down his forehead.
But he didn't feel any discomfort at all.
The smile on his face under the firelight grew stronger.
The tiger returns to the mountain and the dragon enters the sea. He, Li Shuguo, was born to make a living in the fire.
Facing the raging and manic fire.
Three steps followed by two steps.
Li Shuguo went all the way into the depths of the sinkhole. The guy who came down first couldn't stand the heat at all and hid aside, only daring to watch from a distance.
He didn't care.
Just stared at the flames coming out of the caves and cracks in the rocks and grinned.
Such a good ground fire.
Don’t ask him to forge a piece of secret gold.
Even Taishang Laojun's alchemy furnace can burn out the golden elixir of immortality if placed here.
"Shopkeeper Li... the fire should be done, right?"
When I saw him, I stood by the fire.
The faces of the gang of guys were full of awe.
After dozens of steps, they were all a little unable to hold on, they just felt like they were about to be roasted.
"It's done."
"It's done."
"You can go back and inform shopkeeper Chen and ask him to order someone to deliver the steel-making furnace and materials. Remember, the sooner the better. !”
Hear this.
Li Shuguo, who became more and more satisfied as he watched, couldn't help but look back and laughed.
"Yes, I'll go right away!"
How dare a bunch of guys delay.
Immediately, two people climbed up the mountain ladder to the outside of the mountain.
All the way down the mountain, riding in the night, we took a boat straight to Chenjiazhuang.
The other side.
Changsheng upstairs.
The atmosphere of the night banquet was even more intense.
Although there were only five people attending the meeting.
No, four to be precise.
After all, Yuan Hong is just an ape, but his ability to drink is extremely impressive.
According to it, apes are born to make wine.
In order to live a long and eternal life, when he was in Baiyuan Cave, he even sent the monkey grandson to collect elixirs at Laoxiong Ridge in Pingshan Mountain, and blended them into Baiguo Wine, and the resulting wine was worth a thousand dollars.
It will never get drunk after a thousand cups.
Zhang Yunqiao is not bad either.
Kunlun and Red Girl are even more numerous.
It just so happened that Chen Yulou drank like water.
A simple night banquet lasted from sunset to midnight.
When Chen Yulou got up, opened the door and stood in the martial arts arena to blow the wind, except for Kunlun who was still awake, Yuan Hong and Zhang Yunqiao had already fallen asleep.
Dong dong dong!
Suddenly.
The silent night was broken by the rapid sound of horse hooves.
A boy from the Chen family rode up the mountain overnight.
The moment he saw him, Chen Yulou thought something had happened in Zhuangzi.
However, when he turned over and dismounted, he could not hide the smile on his face.
“The boss, shopkeeper Li sent someone back to report.”
"He found a hundred-foot underground fire cave in Shijun Mountain. He asked you to send the materials quickly."
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