Yundu Mountain is much farther than Qi Chen imagined, almost in the extreme north. Rao Shi Longya took a short cut from Longhuaidu to drive across the province, and it took a long time to reach the foot of the mountain.
But when he got out of the car and saw the mountain in front of him, he was stunned—because what appeared in front of him was not the peak he imagined that could reach Yundian, but a very inconspicuous mountain. The small hills in the night looked dark and crawling, without the slightest momentum.
In truth, this mountain is not as dangerous as Mount Qu in Xi’s city, and the gap is slightly larger than expected.
"That's it?" Qi Chen twitched the corner of his mouth and pointed to the mountain bag and asked Long Ya.
Long Ya glanced at the mountain, raised his hand and pointed to the street sign next to it, against the solitary street lamp next to the sign, Qi Chen saw three big characters written on it - "Yundu Mountain".
Qi Chen finally understood why he had never heard of such a mountain before, such a half-bald mountain, if he was famous, there would be a ghost!
"However—" Long Ya explained in a timely manner, "This dirt bag is here to hide the eyes. The real Yundu Mountain is not this shabby."
He locked the car as he said, and led Qi Chen through a small forest at the foot of the mountain, detouring to the side of the earthbag, where there was a steep stone wall, as if someone had cut off a piece with a knife , Qi Chen could hear the gurgling sound of water on the stone wall, and he didn't know where the mountain stream was flowing down, forming a thin curtain of water on the stone wall.
There is a circular stone platform directly under the water curtain. It is not large. It looks like three or five people can stand side by side. How smooth and flat.
Qi Chen was still a little strange about what Longya took him around here, but he guessed after seeing the stone platform, he pointed to the stone platform and asked Longya dryly: "Leader Long, don't tell me to go up the mountain. Need to stand there and wash-"
Before the word "bath" was spoken, he felt a tightness in his waist and a flower in front of him.
When they came back to their senses again, they found that they had been led by Longya to stand on the stone platform, but it was strange that they were not poured cold by the water curtain on their heads. Forked over their heads, avoiding them falling to the sides.
He turned his head and saw Longya's wrist flicker, two dark yellow paper talismans were sandwiched between his slender fingers, and then "fly" together with a hand of fire, the burning paper talisman was caught by Longya Throwing it on the stone platform, Qi Chen only felt that the entire stone platform was instantly blazing, surrounding him and blocking all the scenery in front of him.
However, this raging fire came and went suddenly. Almost in the blink of an eye, the flames that encircled Qi Chen dissipated.
After the flames dissipated, the scenery and painting style in front of Qi Chen's eyes suddenly changed, and it was no longer what it was before—
The round stone platform standing at their feet has disappeared, replaced by a long stone step, about a hundred steps, with a huge rock standing on the top of the step, this is the real Yundu Mountain boundary.
On both sides of the stone steps are jagged rocks and bamboo forests, covered with unmelted snow. Whether it was in the woods or on the stone steps below, there was a layer of light mist, cool and silky, and when the wind swept across Qi Chen's legs, the cold air drilled up the soles of his feet.
It doesn't feel like it's spring at all.
Qi Chen turned his head and looked behind him with a surprised look on his face, his eyelids twitched, his eyes darkened, and the hand grasped by Long Ya squeezed like a cramp—because behind the two of them, there was a steep abyss. , It was a very deep darkness between the clouds and mist, and I didn't know where the bottom was, and it was even scarier to see it at night.
Just lying!
"What about the steps at the back?!" Qi Chen felt that his fear of heights was about to be hooked out, and his knees were sore and weak, it was like being nailed to the steps, and he couldn't lift it even a centimeter.
Long Ya directly raised his hand and pinched his chin, twisting his head back, and said, "Why are you trembling! There are no steps behind, it is directly connected to the cliff, here is the first step."
He twitched the corners of his mouth and grabbed a dragon claw directly with both hands. He always felt that he was filled with lead under his feet, and it would not be safe if he didn't step on the ground.
"Come on, don't look at it. These ox noses are just broken, and I don't know where they got it from. The higher they live, the more immortal they seem to be. I can't wait to put their heads on the Nantianmen and hang them directly on the nine. Under the sky, I'm not afraid of hanging." Long Ya was not afraid of this, and looked at the abyss beneath his feet as if nothing had happened, "But there's no way, the rule of Yundu Mountain has always been that no major event does not open the mountain gate, and everyone has to go up the mountain. Gotta go down this side road so that if someone comes up, they'll know right away. Go! Go back early!"
Long Ya tried to drag Qi Chen down two steps, and then probably felt that it was too laborious to drag such a human-shaped sack, so he simply pulled down Qi Chen's claws, stretched his long arms, wrapped around Qi Chen's waist, dodged, and took it with him. He passed the hundred stone steps and landed directly next to the giant rock.
Qi Chen glanced at the rock, and saw a row of words written on it: Yundu Mountain, no offense!
What Long Ya said was right, as soon as they went up the mountain, everyone on Yundu Mountain knew it, so just as Qi Chen stood firm, he saw three people flying down from a higher hall in the distance. Fairy.
The three of them landed in front of Qi Chen and Longya exactly, one was in front and the two were half a step behind, clearly showing their priority.
Every time Longya mentioned Taoist priests, he always liked to say "Ox-nosed old Taoism", so that Qi Chen thought that the Taoists on Yundu Mountain were all old men with goatee beards, but when he saw it, he realized that Longya's words were really full of mouths running trains. Not at all believable.
These people are all very young, they all look like they are in their twenties, not much different from Qi Chen, and they all look decent, but they have lived on the snow-covered top of the mountain for a long time, and they have a cold temperament. Not easy to get close to.
The man in the lead even had a good skin, very handsome and good-looking. He obviously knew Long Ya, and after landing with that immortal aura, he simply saluted and said, "Long time no see, represent me, Yun Du Shan. Hello everyone."
Long Ya twitched the corner of his mouth: "Don't pretend to be forceful and speak human words."
The person with the immortal aura still had a cold expression on his face: "What did you say, Team Leader Long? I don't quite understand it."
The expressions of the two young people following him were very subtle, and they looked a little helpless.
Long Ya looked at him blankly, and said numbly: "Daochang Li, the whole world knows your nature, and you are still posting it on the Longhuai chain hotel to show the public. Don't pretend to be a fool?"
Qi Chen turned to look at Long Ya as if he had seen a ghost, "..." Why are you kidding me? !
"Yes, you are not blind, this is the famous Daochang Li." Long Ya directly pinched Qi Chen's chin and turned his face to Daochang Li, and said, "The eyeballs don't need to be removed, he will show up in two minutes. original."
Sure enough, as soon as Long Ya's voice fell, Daochang Li, who was holding a fairy spirit, collapsed as if his spine had been smashed, and hugged his arms and said, "Okay, okay! Long Huai is so angry with me, and I still hang with that broken piece for so many years. Reminder—what are you doing here in the middle of the night? Are you buying a talisman or medicine? I think Team Leader Long, most of you want to buy medicine—”
"Fuck you!" Long Ya said angrily
Li Daochang flicked his sleeves and turned his face away: "I love to buy and buy, but I don't buy it."
Qi Chen: "..." What the hell!
At first glance, Daochang Li's expression was not really scolding, and of course Longya wouldn't be really mad. He wiped his face and tried hard to endure the madness, and said: "It's okay, don't be poor, there is something serious! You are just right here, help me. I'm looking at something."
"Look at something? What?" Seeing that Long Ya's expression became serious, Li Daochang stretched his neck reluctantly.
With a flick of Longya's wrist, the fragments of the paper talisman that he had picked from the old locust tree fell into his palm. He stretched out his hand in front of Daochang Li and asked, "Help me see if this paper talisman came from Yundu Mountain."
When Li Daochang heard what he said, he glanced at the paper talisman and said, "What do you mean by that, don't you want to involve Yundu Mountain in some mess? We are sealing the mountain, and everything in the mountain is busy. I can't come. Well—" He turned back and pouted in the direction behind him, "Recently, spring has come, and the monsters in the back valley are in the season of unearthed again, and they are jumping around happily, one after another. , the bamboo shoots after the rain are not as exciting as they are."
Long Ya gave him a gesture of shutting up and said, "I just said one thing, you've been chattering for a long time and you haven't said a word I want to listen to, it's nothing to talk about what Yundushan is doing, don't be surprised. The things we have encountered one after another recently are a bit strange, and there is always a talisman array, so I took this paper talisman to ask you where you came from. With the direction, we can solve it with ease. "
Li Daochang gave an "oh", nodded, stretched out his thin fingers and squeezed a few pieces of paper talismans, twisted them between his fingers, put them under his nose and sniffed twice, and then put the pieces of paper talismans back into the dragon Tooth palm clapped his finger and said, "This paper talisman does come from Yundu Mountain, but it is not recent, at least it is a paper talisman from three hundred years ago, and the paper used is not the current one. The talisman on this paper talisman Not all, I can't tell which is which, but one thing—"
Long Ya looked up at him: "What?"
"This paper talisman has been changed." Li Daochang said with certainty: "There are two kinds of cinnabar smells on it, one is the characteristic of Yundu Mountain, and the other I don't know, someone should have taken my Yundu Mountain. The paper rune, based on the rune above, has made some changes."
"Can the paper talisman be changed?" Qi Chen asked in surprise.
"Of course ordinary people don't have the ability to change." Li Daochang replied: "But it doesn't mean that no one can change. The paper talismans that Yundushan goes out are either to provide daily convenience, or to exorcise demons. In short, they do it. It's all legitimate. But the changed paper talisman... But not necessarily."