The darkness shrouded the vast sea and stretched forward in sight, as if it would never end.
A cloud of ink smoke carried Ning Tao and Bai Long flying towards the due east against the undulating sea.
If you say go, go.
"Bailong, what do you know about Penglai Immortal Island?" Ning Tao said.
Since he is already a subordinate, the word "brother" is no longer needed. If he still calls Bai Long as Brother Bai Long, he will be polite, but his majesty as the lord will be weakened.
Bai Long said politely: "My lord, I know a little bit about Penglai Immortal Island, but my lord must also be prepared."
"Uh, what preparations?" Ning Tao asked.
"The Penglai Island is the territory of the Phoenix, and those who trespass will die. If the lord is not completely sure of winning, I still advise the lord to give up going to the island." Bai Long said.
"Is there really a phoenix?" When he came to the fairy world, he met Pixiu and a real dragon, but Ning Tao had not seen a real dragon or phoenix yet, so he was inevitably curious about what a real phoenix looked like.
"It's true, because I've seen it." Bailong recalled the past and said slowly: "I don't know what happened that time. I accidentally swam to the waters of Penglai Immortal Island. I didn't get close to that Immortal Island. A phoenix flew down from the fairy mountain, its whole body was on fire... I thought it was going to kill me, but it finally let me go, maybe because it saw that I was too young. From then on, I never dared to go near Penglai Fairy Island again. "
His words omitted the process of his fight with Phoenix. Ning Tao also knew that this was because he was saving face, so he did not ask further questions and just said: "How many years ago was that time you went to Penglai Island?"
Bailong said: "It was about five hundred years ago. In the past five hundred years, I have never been close to Penglai Immortal Island. I don't know if the Phoenix is still there, but I think it is probably there. Five hundred years of time have no effect on it." It’s just a nap.”
"Why do you say that?"
"Don't you know, my lord, that the phoenix is a phoenix?" Bai Long said: "The phoenix is immortal, and the phoenix's life continues in some special way. I don't know what that way is, but I'm sure it is still alive. If it didn’t leave the island for some reason, it must still be on the island.”
Ning Tao felt that what he wanted to say was Nirvana and rebirth. In the mythical history of China, the Phoenix's Nirvana and rebirth was undoubtedly a highlight. As a Chinese with a well-established background, he certainly knows this mythical story.
"So... do you know why the bones of Buri Xingjun are in Penglai Immortal Island?" Ning Tao asked.
Bai Long thought for a while, but finally shook his head.
Ning Tao was not surprised by this result, and Xingjun did not tell him why his bones were in Penglai Immortal Island.
In fact, the reason why he came to Penglai Immortal Island to collect the body of Buri Xingjun regardless of the risk was that in addition to fulfilling his promise, he also had another purpose.
That is to find out how Buri Xingjun was killed by Wu. The remnant soul of Buri Xingjun once said that he was also a natural middleman between good and evil. One day he would also follow his old path and want to kill. No thoughts. Although he has no such thoughts now, and even if he has such thoughts, it doesn't matter, but once he becomes a god and his strength exceeds a certain limit, I am afraid that even if he thinks of killing Wu at every turn, Wu will probably kill him. Faced with such a situation, why didn't he want to investigate the matter clearly
Perhaps, the answer lies on Penglai Island.
"Bailong, you haven't dared to approach Penglai Island for five hundred years. Why do you dare to take me to Penglai Island this time?"
"The most important reason is naturally the lord's immortal food pot, and..."
"what else?"
Bailong was silent for a moment before speaking: "I was beaten very badly by it that time, and there was a shadow in my heart... I want to watch the lord beat it, the worse the beating, the better. Please forgive me for the evil spirit I felt five hundred years ago." !”
This is simply the flat-headed brother among dragons!
I still remember what happened five hundred years ago when I was beaten five hundred years later, and I want revenge.
Ning Tao smiled and said: "I knew it was like this. When we get to Penglai Island, if we really want to fight it, I will give it a good lesson for you."
"Thank you, Lord." Bailong bowed deeply to Ning Tao above the ink smoke cloud.
All the way east, talk and chat along the way.
Before daybreak, an island appeared in sight.
The ink smoke clouds hovered in the void. Ning Tao stood on the clouds and looked at the island. He couldn't take his eyes away.
Just as he heard from Tang Zixian, the island was divided into upper and lower parts. The part in the sea water is like a huge chopped bamboo shoot, and the island surface is slightly higher than the sea water by tens of meters. There are mountains of various sizes suspended in the sky, forming a circle. The entire island is shrouded in a blood-colored mist, like atomized blood. The sight cannot penetrate and only a rough outline can be seen.
There is no doubt that this mysterious island in front of you is the legendary Penglai Island!
All the beautiful words Ning Tao had learned could not be used to describe the mysterious island in front of him. Compared with it, the Avatar filmed by Cameron was only a fifty-cent special effect.
Sure enough, Bailong raised his hand and pointed at the island and said: "My lord, that is Penglai Island!"
Ning Tao said: "Bailong, where were you found five hundred years ago?"
Bailong said: "A little further...a little further is the restricted area of Penglai Island. If the phoenix is still on this island, it will definitely appear."
Ning Tao took out a spiritual stone from the Great Sun Gourd and handed it to Bai Long's hand: "Put this stone on the bottom of the sea and just watch it here. I'll go up and explore it first."
Bai Long took the piece of spiritual stone and looked at it. He saw a mass of blood on the stone and said curiously: "Lord, the blood on this stone is not a rune. What's the use of asking me to put it on the bottom of the sea?"
Ning Tao said: "This is my blood lock. I put it on the bottom of the sea just in case. Next time I want to come, I can open a convenient door and save myself the pain of traveling long distances."
"I understand, I'll do it right now." Bailong jumped down from the ink smoke cloud and plunged into the sea water with a sudden movement.
Ning Tao stepped on the ink cloud and flew towards Penglai Fairy Island.
In a blink of an eye, they passed the limit Bailong said and entered the territory of the phoenix.
However, no immortal firebird with its body on fire appeared. The entire Penglai Immortal Island was shrouded in blood mist and was so quiet that there was no sound of wind.
"Is this an empty nest?" Ning Tao thought secretly in his heart.
If that's the case, it would be much easier. As long as the body of Buri Xingjun is found and taken away, and the truth of what happened back then is investigated, it will be over.
The ink and smoke clouds came to the island and entered a bloody mist.
This blood mist looks like atomized blood, but there is no smell of blood at all. Instead, it has a faint fragrance, which makes people relax physically and mentally and feel happy.
However, even if he entered the blood mist, Ning Tao's sight could not penetrate the blood mist and see the situation in the center of the island.
After observing for a while, he did not find or sense any dangerous situation. Ning Tao put away the ink smoke and set foot on the island.
From a distance, the ground on the island looks flat, but it is not flat. The hard rock ground is full of cracks, very strange cracks, like marks made by an ax or a sharp claw.
"Does that phoenix just play with its claws on the ground when it's fine?" A ridiculous idea came to Ning Tao's mind.
He walked forward cautiously, and after walking for a while, he squatted down, forced out the spiritual blood, and drew a blood lock on the ground with the index finger of his right hand.
For things like blood locks, it would be safer to keep one more.
After drawing the blood lock, he continued to walk forward. The blood mist in front of him became thicker and thicker. He was forced to slow down and walk cautiously.
There was still no abnormal situation, and his sixth sense was motionless, and he did not sense the presence of dangerous aura.
Really an empty nest
What a good luck!
Gradually, Ning Tao also relaxed his vigilance a little, and used the light body technique with a ladder under his feet, which he had not used for a long time, and flew forward on the flat ground.
Another unknown distance was left behind, and a bloody lake appeared in front of him. The surface of the lake was calm, without even a trace of waves. Ning Tao stood by the lake and exercised his eyesight, opening his eyes, but he still couldn't penetrate the blood-colored lake water. The lake lay quietly in front of me like thick blood. I didn't know how deep it was, and I couldn't see anything in the lake.
Ning Tao raised his head.
Mountains of various sizes in the sky are suspended in the void, neither rising nor falling, motionless. There are almost dozens of mountains forming a circle shape. There is a towering mountain in the middle. The mountain is also covered in blood mist, making it impossible to see clearly.
This scene is really shocking!
You say it is a fairy mountain in the fairy world, then it is a fairy mountain surrounded by fairy spirit.
You say it is the magic mountain of hell, then it is the magic mountain stained with blood.
Different people in the same place will have different understandings.
"This place is already the center of Penglai Island. Not long ago, Xingjun said that his bones are on Penglai Island. Where exactly are they?" Ning Tao observed, thinking in his mind, and finally his eyes fell on On the bloody lake in front of him, he frowned slightly, "It's not in this bloody lake, is it?"
If so, he would go into the lake, but the lake was too evil and he didn't want to in his heart.
Then he looked up at the central peak surrounded by mountains, and wondered in his mind: "Is it on that mountain?"
Between lakes and mountains, he prefers the latter.
"Don't worry about it for now, let's go up and have a look." Ning Tao made a decision in his heart, and an ink cloud of smoke immediately appeared under the lotus silk steps.
But at this moment, a cry suddenly came from the top of the mountain.
"Qiang-Qiang!"
The sound was loud and deafening, like the collision of gold and iron.
This is not the sound of a knife being drawn out of its sheath.
This is the cry of the phoenix!
Phoenix Emperor Yu Fei, singing in harmony.
This is a record from Zuo Zhuan describing the cry of the phoenix.
This is not an empty nest, the Phoenix is on Penglai Island!