Chapter 344 106. The King of Duowen
In Yuezhou City, winter comes and there is heavy snow.
The lake is deserted, with few pedestrians, and the sky and earth are white, like an ink painting.
A temple stands in the mountains near Dongting Lake. The climbing stairs are straight, like a paintbrush under the heavy snow, connecting the earth below and the fairyland above. The sound of the bell echoed in the lonely snow. There were many worshipers, but the footprints they left were soon covered by the snow again.
Thin smoke rose from the incense in the furnace, and the smoke curled up, blurring the faces of the people in the hall. They were whispering and their faces were full of sorrow.
"The harvest this year is not as good as the previous year. The water in Dongting is drying up. If it weren't for the magical power of the Dragon King to protect this place, we might not even be able to see the crops..."
"Yes, yes, look at this snow. We haven't seen such heavy snow in many years. We can survive today, but what about other places? The heavy snow will freeze next year's crops to death in the ground. ! ”
"Oh - let's go, don't disturb the Dragon God's peace here." One of the old men shook his head, put the incense into the furnace, turned and left.
"Do you think our transformation started with the completion of the Dragon Temple?" Suddenly, someone in the crowd whispered.
"Qiu'er! Don't lie!" An elder said solemnly, "This is the Dragon God of Dongting Lake. It is this god who protects the land of Yuezhou City from being harvested, so that it will not starve to death like other places. ! ”
After saying that, the old man stared at the boy at home with his eyes widened, "Qiu'er, apologize to Lord Dragon God!"
The young man was disdainful, "Dragon God?"
"Did it ever rain? No! For five years, not even a drop of rain fell from the sky!"
"Evil!" A man in luxurious clothes came out, and with a slap, the young man was knocked to the ground, half of his face was swollen and red.
The man looked at the old Taoist who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed in the center of the hall, bowed and held his hands in his hands: "I must apologize to the Taoist Master."
silence.
The old Taoist was reciting scriptures, but he didn't even pay attention to him.
Until the Taoist boy on the side came up and said, "Please leave first. It's not advisable to stay too long today because the mountain is blocked by heavy snow."
"This..."
"That's all!"
"I will come here again to apologize to the Dragon God some other time!"
After everyone heard this, they also left the temple one after another, walked into the heavy snow, followed the mountain road, and disappeared after a few passes.
The Taoist boy stood up straight and sighed when no one was in sight.
"Priest Cangyu, how long can this Yuezhou City last?"
The old man who had never spoken a word slowly opened his eyes. They were a pair of inhuman pupils, blood-like scarlet, and the pupils were a weird long and narrow vertical line.
"If we do nothing, it won't survive this heavy snowfall."
"What?" The boy was surprised.
The old Taoist stood up, walked past the Taoist boy to the door, and looked at Xue.
"Little guy, you are too shallow to smell the smell in the snow."
"They are here." Taoist Cangyu pointed to the sky, which was gray and filled with death.
…………
Deep in Dongting Lake, a figure stood on the lake.
Holding a paper umbrella and wearing a long black coat, he stood with his hands behind his back, his long hair tied behind his neck, dancing wildly in the wind and snow.
With a "Gulu" sound, a head the size of a house popped out of the water next to him. It was a huge and ferocious snake head. Its body was completely white, almost blending into the heavy snow.
The white snake opened its mouth and spit out piles of bamboo slips. The water surface condensed out of thin air, preventing the bamboo slips from falling into the water and stopping on the ice.
Seeing the figure stretching out his hand to touch, White Snake said: "The documents of the State Mufu go directly to the emperor's court, and there is a seal on it. Although it can be broken with brute force, it will be known, leaving a mark, and attracting the heavenly soldiers to hunt down. The demon is the most powerful. These are the things you shouldn't touch. "It's okay," the figure said softly.
He turned around, revealing a face under the paper umbrella that was familiar to the creatures of Dongting Lake.
The Dragon God of Dongting Lake.
Li Xi'an brushed the bamboo slips, and the golden lines cracked on their surfaces.
"Cang Yu and the others were guarding the temple and couldn't leave, so they asked me to come see you. How does it feel to follow Jian Tiansi? It should not be as comfortable as before. I heard that the Ancestral Temple is one of the few places in the world that is not restricted by heaven. Place, really?" White Snake continued.
"Yes, heaven's eyes and ears cannot get into the Ancestral Temple. It is very safe there." Li Xi'an waved his hand, and the words on all the bamboo slips were peeled off and lined up next to him line by line.
He was reading, looking for clues hidden in it.
At this moment, the white snake was swaying under the lake water, but Dongting Lake was already much smaller than before. The lake water that could accommodate the real dragon in the past would no longer be able to swallow this little snake.
"Zinsha, we all miss you." White Snake whispered in the wind and snow.
"The decades after you became a ghost and god are very short for demons, and even shorter for Dongting Lake, but the changes brought about by this time are even more terrifying in the past hundreds and thousands of years." White Snake His tone was trembling, "Many compatriots died, and the heavenly soldiers dragged them out of the lake as punishment. On the shore, under the gaze of those mortals, they were stripped of their scales, flesh and blood, and the golden body of the Yang God. Finally, their souls were annihilated, leaving behind a body. Bloody corpse.”
"I didn't dare to look or get close. They were crying there."
"Yang Shen's cultivation is strong enough, but in front of the heavenly soldiers, he is just rotten meat that can be slaughtered. Not even Cangyu and even the Demon Emperor can resist them. Cangyu was shattered in the Imperial Dao Domain in that battle. If it weren't for With the appearance of the Dragon Temple, he may even die!”
"Don't worry." Li Xi'an said.
The palm covered with red scales gently stroked the white snake's head.
"Tell me, Zhusha, you didn't come back to Dongting Lake as a ghost to work for the Ancestral Temple."
"Of course not." Li Xi'an responded.
The undulating golden text beside him dimmed, and he had already peeled off all the information recorded in the document.
Not much different from what he expected.
Before, for a long time before his arrival, a balance was maintained between heaven and earth. Things in the sky cannot descend to the mortal world at will, and the existence of the Ancestral Temple is not only for the underworld and ghosts. The Supervisor of Tiansi, the head of the world's witches and blessings, can directly communicate with the existence of heaven. The so-called person who carries the destiny of the country, rather than being a symbolic bearer in the underworld, is the one who can truly control the destiny of the country if he can communicate with heaven.
Then the balance was disturbed.
Just a few decades ago.
It happened to be when the previous Supervisor Tiansi died.
The last Supervisor Tiansi died, and half of the twelve great witches in the Imperial Ancestral Temple were replaced. After that, the heavenly soldiers came to Luoyang and enforced the laws of heaven in the imperial city in the name of protecting the imperial power.
The death of a great witch was recorded in Yuezhou City and was sealed. There are all traces of modifications on it.
But this cannot be hidden from Li Xi'an.
In the tradition of Taimiao Supervisor Tiansi, in Wu Zhu’s concept, the cycle of reincarnation in the underworld is endless. The death of Supervisor Tiansi is not the real death, but her return to the netherworld and reincarnation again. Therefore, the birthday of every Jian Tiansi is the death anniversary of the previous Jian Tiansi. This great witch came to Yuezhou City to find Su Yuelin.
She was born at the moment when the previous Supervisor Tiansi died.
But the great witch failed to find Su Yuelin, and she died on the road. Li Xi'an closed his eyes and took a deep breath. His body had no means of time, and his vision was blinded. He tried his best to piece everything together, but he saw a blurry figure falling from the sky. The figure was tall and burly, standing with an umbrella. Then a golden-haired rat sprang out, and even the blurred figure came out. The picture also shattered.
After a long time, the white snake in the lake raised its head and heard the soft murmur of the red dragon beside it.
"King of Wenwang?"
There was an exam yesterday, and there is also an exam today, so it’s a bit late.
Don’t blame me, just go to sleep.
(End of chapter)