webnovelvip Chapter 72 Water Sources
Chapter 72 Water Sources
"what!--"
The sudden scream behind him made Little Phoenix shake her hands, and the cat's ears fell back to the plate and bounced onto the table.
He turned his head in surprise, only to see a figure flashing into the courtyard quickly, the door was closed heavily, shaking down a large cloud of dust.
what's the situation?
Little Phoenix narrowed his eyes, not knowing why.
But when he turned around again, he found that the snacks on the table had changed—it was no longer food, but clusters of long worms with gnarled bodies, and a thick syrup that couldn't be seen brewed from anything.
The plate of cat ears that had aroused his appetite also turned into gray-black unknown mushrooms, wriggling like living things.
Little Phoenix immediately lost his appetite.
"There's something about this place..." He backed away from the stone table, looking around thoughtfully.
The surroundings are still quiet, filled with the beauty of mountains and rivers, not affected by the indescribable things on the table.
However, the time that almost stopped flowing, and the silence that seemed to be dead in the world, made him smell a sense of uneasiness.
A golden flame ignited in the little phoenix's eyes, reflecting the cold clarity of glass in the pupils.
At the same time, the world reflected in his eyes has almost completely changed its appearance, just like two paintings with diametrically opposite styles that have been forcibly overlapped. Only by peeling off the beautiful layer can one see the gloomy, rainy, dark world underneath. desolate.
There are no bamboo forests and grasslands, only wilderness, where sparse withered and yellow grass leaves cover dense white bones, and black and red water flows from above.
There is no fenced courtyard, only half a grass shed, half of the roof collapsed.The two humanoid skeletons are entangled with each other, presumably the last part of their life is to walk through each other hugging.
There is no stone table either, only a wooden stake.Those weird things were served on the chipped plate, and the decay was more serious, and it became more and more disgusting.
Little Phoenix closed her eyes, the flames in her eyes dissipated.So what was presented in front of him became the scenery he saw at first.
The strange thing is that he didn't detect any traces of power from this transformation, and he couldn't judge whether it was artificial or natural.
But one thing is certain, this so-called Xanadu, after being isolated from the world for countless years, has been distorted by unknown forces into a strange and terrifying appearance.
And the most terrifying thing about this thing is——
The change in Nanshan can even confuse the cognition of a cultivator at the level of Little Phoenix, causing him to fall into the illusion without knowing it. If it weren't for the illusion itself, he would have been deceived.
"Nanshan..."
Little Phoenix looked up at the top of the mountain, and the flames of the Phoenix burned quietly all over his body, burning a gap in the illusion of tranquility and beauty.
He doesn't like to solve puzzles, and he is too lazy to solve them.
If it doesn't work, let's put a fire on the mountain. Anyway, the phoenix flame can burn away all the uncleanness in the world, and this mountain is worth a big fire to start a prairie fire.
On the other side, Cheng Zi and Lin Jiangxian were chatting with each other.
"Meow meow meow!"
Linjiang Fairy!That's blood!Not happy to drink!
Cheng Zi pointed at the sentence on the notice board and waved his hands vigorously, even using his tail, fearing that his attitude would be a little softer, and Immortal Linjiang would believe the evil of this brand.
"Although the snow water is cold, it is also pure. Why do you react so strongly?" Immortal Linjiang inserted his fingertips into his hair, and gently combed the hair on his back.
Cheng Zi puffed up her cheeks: "Meow! Meow!"
no!I said blood!blood!
Immortal Linjiang nodded because she didn't understand: "Well, I know, it's Xueshui."
I feel like the tacit understanding between us has taken a major blow.
"..."
Cheng Zi was so anxious that his hair exploded, and the whole cat circled around again.
He straightened his left paw, and scratched his right paw on it, and then made a sound of "呲" from his mouth.
"Meow meow meow!"
Blood!It is this blood!
After watching his vivid demonstration, Lin Jiangxian finally realized what he was talking about.The next moment, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and he slapped his forehead with a palm.
"Meow!"
Cheng Zi was startled, and hurriedly hugged his wrist and stuck it up, like a furry armguard.
Eh don't!It's just that the level of tacit understanding is low, so it's not like this!Really not!
"It's okay, don't be nervous."
Lin Jiangxian hugged Cheng Zi with his backhand, and rubbed his forehead against his soft belly, until he was so static that the static electricity almost rose before he let go.
Cheng Zi tilted his head in confusion: "Huh?"
"Something blocked my perception just now." Immortal Linjiang slapped her palm extremely hard, and a large red mark appeared on her forehead, "I don't know what it is, but I have expelled it now. "
As he said that, he looked at the pool of spring water again, and a pool of thick red blood was clearly reflected in his eyes, like blood but darker in color, full of ominous breath.
Lin Jiangxian hadn't felt such discomfort at this moment for a long time, the dizziness was mixed with nausea, and even a little tightness in the chest.
"Meow……"
Immortal Linjiang's discomfort was too obvious to ignore, Cheng Zi stretched out his claws to hold his face, and leaned over to touch his cheek with the tip of his nose, his round golden pupils were full of worry.
"It's okay."
Immortal Linjiang lowered her head and kissed him on top of his head, until his ears drooped and his fur collapsed.After sucking the cat like this for a while, most of his discomfort quickly disappeared, and he didn't feel anything when looking at the pool of blood again.
After confirming that he was fine, Cheng Zi was relieved and returned to the business: "Meow?"
Isn't Nanshan a paradise of peach blossoms?How did it happen?
Immortal Linjiang frowned and said, "Nanshan is far away from the world. Since few outsiders can get here through the South China Sea, it can almost be regarded as a world of its own. I don't come here often, so my impression of Nanshan is still there for many years. Before, as for when the mutation happened here, and what kind of mutation happened, I didn’t know.”
Nanshan... Nanhai...
Cheng Zi bent his paws to support his chin, and suddenly remembered the head of Gonggong in the sea.
Linjiang Immortal is the god of Jishan, loved by heaven, and only the author himself is qualified to write a super boss. What level of power or monster does such a person have to be able to cover his perception and distort the world in his eyes?
Leaving aside the existence of ancient gods that have nothing to do with the background setting, the closest to Nanshan and theoretically higher than Linjiang Immortal is really the only Haili.
No way?Could it be his fault again?
Cheng Zi was numb.
"Don't think about it." Immortal Linjiang rubbed his head, picked him up and kissed him twice, not only to comfort him, but also to comfort himself, "Do you still remember the sign we came across just now?"
Cheng Zi froze for a moment, then nodded.
They encountered a total of notice boards. The first was a wooden sign, which said two rules: no turning back and no loud noise; the second was a bronze sign, which said that if you encounter a fork in the road, try to take the left road and there is a clean road 200 meters ahead. source of water.
The first piece is the painted wooden sign in front of the bloody water, as if it has been played several times.
A billboard and five rules, seemingly irrelevant, must be related in reality, but to find their connection, a breakthrough is needed.
Cheng Zi and Lin Jiangxian looked at each other, almost instantly thinking of the same point - material.
There are two wooden signs and one metal sign in a notice sign, and a rule in the first wooden sign and the only metal sign is contradictory.
It is the road that cannot turn back and choose the left fork.
Cheng Zi remembered that they passed a fork in the road before they came to Xueshuitan, the right and middle straight roads, only the left one made a detour, which was actually a turnaround in terms of space.
The contradiction between true and false rules is a classic routine of rule-like ghost stories.
"Meow meow meow meow, meow meow."
In this way, the rule of one of the wooden and bronze cards is false and a trap.
"Yes." Immortal Linjiang nodded, "In addition, the rules here have been tampered with many times, so they may be half-truths and half-false, so it's hard to judge. The only noteworthy information is the water mentioned above."
——Do not drink any water in the mountains other than this pool.
The spring water doesn't look like it can be drunk, so the deep meaning of this sentence should be-do not drink, or touch any water in the mountain.
Cheng Zi raised his claws to scratch his ears, and asked with a kitten face, "Meow?"
Do you think the rules on the wooden sign are true?
"I think this is more likely." Immortal Linjiang didn't know it, and said helplessly and amusedly: "After all, the bronze medal appeared after you violated the rules."
"……Meow?"
Cheng Zi tilted his head, and suddenly recalled his rebellious performance in front of the wooden sign just now, smiled embarrassingly, then looked at him with big innocent eyes, trying to make him forget about it by pretending to be cute.
As he wished, Immortal Linjiang did not repeat the matter, but followed his train of thought to open up the situation: "Since we have already violated the rules, we might as well violate them more thoroughly, so that we can find the reason for the Nanshan mutation. Only by finding the reason can we find a way to deploy here.”
"Meow!"
The thinking is broad enough!Catch up with me!
Cheng Zi held his face and nodded with a smile, flicked his tail, and patted him lightly on the face.
Immortal Linjiang grabbed the tip of his tail that was deliberately making trouble, thought for a while, pinched his cat's head and kissed him several times, almost giving him a Mediterranean kiss.
Cheng Zi hugged his head and puffed his mouth: "Meow!"
Don't kiss, don't kiss!If you kiss again, you will be bald!
……
The aftereffects of Cheng Zi's violation of the rules were revealed at an extremely fast speed. Starting from the blood spring, he and Linjiang Xian had to remove the illusion of tranquility and beauty in Nanshan layer by layer. When they reached the top of the mountain, the scene behind them had changed from a paradise to Hell on earth.
The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no cock crowing for thousands of miles.
Nothing more than that.
During the mountain climbing, Cheng Zi and Lin Jiangxian searched for water sources everywhere on purpose. In fact, they did find several things that could be called water sources. Without exception, they were all kinds of sticky liquids, of any color and smell. all have.
There will be a bronze plaque in front of these water sources, but what is written is no longer the rules, but the benefits of drinking the water.
According to Cheng Zi's incomplete statistics, they encountered water sources such as Shengzi Spring, Bizi Spring, Tuodan Spring, and Zhugu Shengquan that appeared in pairs, had almost completely opposite effects, and whose rectification properties were greater than actual significance. The weird journey adds a bit of fun.
However, the more water sources he found, the more certain Cheng Zi was about his guess.
The change in Nanshan is probably related to the head of Gonggong under the South Sea.Maybe the divine blood dripping from the head was polluted and polluted Nanshan, or maybe the head cried because it couldn't find the torso and was too lonely, and shed tears with distorted power.
Considering that the tide in the South China Sea is getting stronger every year and the sea creatures are getting less and less, the seal can no longer control that head.
As the pinnacle god of the age of mythology, even if Gonggong died with only one head left, the power leaked out would be enough to have a huge impact on the nearby environment and creatures.
"Nanshan... there are no living creatures left."
Linjiang Xian's muttering woke Cheng Zi up.
Cheng Zi raised his head, and found that they had reached the top of the mountain, with the withered and yellow land under their feet, the surroundings were empty and desolate, and there was nothing else except a round puddle.
I have to say that the puddle is really round, and it may not be possible to draw such a round circle with a compass.
Cheng Zi's thoughts wandered, and he began to think wildly.
But a second later, he found that his san value had dropped, so he quickly put his paws on the top of his head and rubbed vigorously, his hair was messed up, and his ears were tilted.
At this time, Linjiang Xian walked towards the puddle.
He looked down at the pit, there was nothing in it, only a large trace of dried blood.
"It's divine blood. Divine blood with strong hatred." He frowned, with obvious discomfort on his face, and immediately hugged Cheng Zi in front of him, buried him in his belly, and sucked. "The owner of this pool of blood must have come from One of the strongest natural gods in the age of mythology, and the ancient gods related to the South China Sea... there is only one Gonggong."
When Gonggong collided with Buzhou Mountain, it was from the coast of the South China Sea that it started to run up and accumulate strength.
Cheng Zi, who turned into a face-hugging cat again: "..."
Thank you, it's really good for me.
Say it's you, is it really you?