Chapter 49 49. Bronze City
The gate of heaven is closed, one step away, as if he is far away from the world.
The lotus petals in Li Xi'an's body also fell silent, and the pounding heartbeat disappeared.
The moment he walked through the "door", it was as if his body and soul were passing through some kind of curtain, between water or a mirror. Then the spiritual air poured into his nasal cavity, and every inch of his skin trembled under the baptism. Ahead is a majestic bronze city, cast in the mountains, with stars rising and falling behind it.
The place where he stood was just a square step.
The atmosphere is eternal and peaceful, no living thing has set foot here for tens of millions of years.
The blue bird flapped its wings and flew out from the Heaven-Containing Cauldron, traveling in this space. She was overjoyed to finally return to her homeland after such a long time. The divine bird chirped, showing auspiciousness, and Li Xi'an took over the branch that appeared out of thin air. There were still unopened flower buds on the branch. Unexpectedly, the auspicious appearance of this sacred bird could attract the sacred tree Zhiya. He smiled, feeling really happy for the blue bird.
"Won't you accept it?"
The auspiciousness gradually faded, and the bluebird returned to the corner of Li Xi'an's branch. Looking at this natural look, I am afraid he is used to it.
She looked at the sacred tree branch in Chijiao's hand and asked.
"I gave this to you as a small thank you. I will make up for the rest in the future." Blue Bird continued.
"This way."
The Heavenly Cauldron appeared, and Li Xi'an collected the sacred tree branches. He thought it was a sacred object from Kunlun to welcome the blue bird, and it did not belong to him, so he held it in his hand and waited for the blue bird to take it away. According to legend, the tree where the sacred bird rests is an extraordinary tree. The sacred tree branch in his hand also proves it. Kunlun lowered this sacred tree to give the blue bird a place to rest.
Doesn't that seem to be the case now?
The blue bird was quite happy to sit on his head. It was not as difficult to take care of as the legend said, and it didn't even look at the sacred tree.
"The Bronze Palace." Qingniao remembered, "This is the palace built by a human emperor for the empress. They met here at that time, which was the best time in the empress' long life. Unexpectedly, when Kyushu fell, this palace Still well preserved.”
After a while, Li Xi'an noticed these words.
But no more words.
Walking past a huge bronze statue with a human head and a leopard body, and a lush locust tree.
He is walking on an eternal road.
On both sides of the bronze steps are bronze statues bowing down. Without the bronze statue with a human head and a leopard body at the entrance, it is majestic and huge, about three stories high. Li Xi'an's human figure walked past them and could not touch their knees. These bronze statues have human bodies and are dressed in ancient robes. Their movements are very similar to the officials of the ancient early dynasties who paid homage to the emperor. If you ignore their different heads.
The heads of the bronze statues wrapped in ancient clothes are not those of civil servants and generals, but primitive creatures, even mythical creatures.
There is a big snake spitting out letters, a ferocious tiger face, and an elephant head with a long nose pointing upwards and big ears like fans. The farther back you go, the more terrifying the bronze statue's head becomes.
When Li Xi'an arrived at the center of the giant bronze hall, the size of the bronze statues here changed again, becoming bigger and taller. When Li Xi'an passed them, he probably just passed the toes of these bronze statues.
He looked up and looked around at the bronze statue's head.
Phoenix, Dragon King, unknown insects, and a ferocious tiger. Li Xi'an suddenly stopped. Among these mythical creatures, he saw a human-shaped bronze statue, which was completely human. His face couldn't be clearly seen, but he could tell it was a man.
"The last five categories of Zhou Tian's ten categories. These five bronze statues represent the five major ethnic groups that stand at the pinnacle of flesh and blood creatures. Their predecessors were all kings among the five categories." Jade Bird explained that the predecessors of these bronze statues She had seen quite a few.
"Are people the same?"
"This person is not that person. The human race was quite scary at first, but later, for unknown reasons, the primitive spirit disappeared and the human race became mediocre."
Li Xi'an withdrew his gaze and continued walking deeper into the hall. The past is the past, and he wants to find the answers he needs here. It has nothing to do with him how powerful the ten categories of Zhou Tian are in Qingniao's mouth.
…………"Don't you have the answer you need?"
The blue bird watched the red dragon walk through all the ancient bronze palaces without stopping.
Li Xi'an shook his head.
"You and I have traveled through the ancient palace, so you can understand why Kyushu fell and was lifted up again. What happened to your descendants and our last era?" His tone was calm. There were other things that Li Xi'an didn't say. He didn't know why he came to this world and what the bloody petals in his body were. He didn't know anything.
"There is another place that may be helpful to you if it exists." Qingniao pondered for a moment.
She looked towards the giant bronze city.
"I'm just not sure they can agree with you."
"Them?"
"In the past, the opening of the Yaochi was under the personal control of the Empress. There has never been a situation where the Empress was not in Kunlun and opened the Yaochi. However, there was a spirit that stayed here, originally waiting for that person to return to Kunlun to meet again, and it still follows the rules of Kunlun. The rules. If they agree, maybe the Yaochi Wonderland can be opened." Qingniao replied. "Those who enter the Yaochi have dreams, either for a thousand years or for eternity, depending on what you want. But it has been too long since that era, and the existence of the Yaochi is unknown."
“All in all, it’s very suspenseful.”
The blue-feathered divine bird flapped its wings, flew from the corner of Li Xi'an's branch, and flew somewhere.
It was where they came in before. In that direction there was only a huge bronze statue with a human head and a leopard body and a towering locust tree.
A stone tablet is buried at the root of the locust tree, almost integrated with the tree itself.
"The Mountain of the Queen Mother of the West." The sharpness of the pen is like a knife, and the power of the pen swallows mountains and rivers. It is not difficult to imagine that the person who wrote these words was the emperor who met the Queen Mother of the West.
On the way, Qingniao told him about the method. It is necessary to use a medium to let the spirit here recognize your existence. Blood should be the optimal carrier.
Standing in front of the stone tablet, Li Xi'an did not hesitate. He formed a knife with his fingers and slashed at the wrist of his left hand.
Blood drips.
Blue Bird's pupils shrank sharply. This was the first time she saw the blood of the red dragon. Because this creature is so terrifying, even if it is pushed horizontally while walking in Kunlun, it is difficult for it to be injured and bleed even if it is enlightened by nine heads. The only time I was injured was when I faced the ancient monk, but there were only a few strands, and they were quickly washed away by the heavy rain. She didn't pay attention.
Now she smelled an indescribable warm fragrance, which was even more magical than the white lotus.
This should be the top elixir scent.
In her memory, only the elixir that the empress once held had this kind of aroma.
The elixir? Blue Bird looked at the expressionless young man in front of the stone monument suspiciously.
Could it be that this dragon was transformed into an elixir? This can also explain why this creature is so powerful in combat.
Qingniao was still making various bizarre assumptions in his mind, and even thought about the descendants of the Nine Provinces Dragon King whose seal was broken only in this life. It's no wonder that Qingniao is thinking wildly. She saw the behavior of this red dragon and it was terrifying and frightening. It has only been a long time since the world was revived, so why did such an outrageous monster appear?
Drops of red blood fell on the stone tablet and flowed down along the cracks in the stone tablet.
Li Xi'an narrowed his eyes.
In his perception, something came alive in the stone tablet.
(End of chapter)