On the top of the ancient mountain, the snow fell even harder. The heavy snow fluttered all over the earth, covering the two people sitting cross-legged beside the ancient cave on the cliff, like two ice and snow sculptures. The mottled snowflakes on the chessboard obscured the chess pieces, leaving only a low stone table.
The black vortex opened, and two rays of light, one golden and one white, burst out from the fog of the underworld. The two people who were playing chess on the cliff, the man sitting on the outside slowly opened his eyes.
As his eyes opened, the snowflakes around him melted, just like winter turning into spring. Green grass and a small flower grew at his feet, and the ancient cave on the cliff also revealed its original appearance.
A god of the earth exuding a strong scent of incense stood opposite, with complex ghost and god patterns painted on his golden body. However, compared with the old body sitting on the cliff, he looked strong and young.
One is old, the other is strong, one is a god, the other is a corpse, but they are the same person. At this moment, facing each other, I don’t know why, it seems particularly cruel and sad.
"well!"
Chang De looked at his body which was full of old age and had lost all vitality, and sighed deeply.
The long sleeves of the black earth god robe with golden patterns brushed past, and the body of the old man with his eyes deeply closed was seen dissipating little by little with the wind and snow, and his body turned into light dust and mist and disappeared on the top of the snowy mountain.
As the biting cold wind blew, the starlight scattered all over the sky and swept towards the sky.
Fang Xiu sat in front of the stone table, watching this scene. He turned his head and watched from afar the light dust chasing the wind away, watching it dissipate little by little, as if it came from heaven and earth and finally scattered into heaven and earth.
Chang De interrupted Fang Xiu's thoughts, and his hearty laughter dispelled some of the sad emotions and scenes: "The Lord of the Earth God cannot always appear in the world, the God of the Mountain and the Lord of the Water have their own virtual spiritual realms born between the veins of the earth and the water. Do you want to see my realm? Come with me and stay for a few days. It is different from the world of the living, and it has a more mysterious and magnificent style."
Fang Xiu picked up a small flower growing beside his feet, leaned against the cliff and the vast world, and took a light sniff. The pure fragrance penetrated his heart and nose. Fang Xiu closed his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head.
"No, let's just say goodbye!"
"Just think of it as... leaving some anticipation for my next visit!"
Chang De shook his head regretfully, then took two steps forward, passed by Fang Xiu, and stood at the edge of the ancient cave, with the abyss at his feet: "That's a pity, I wanted you to play a few more games with me!"
Fang Xiu looked at Chang De and chuckled: "If we meet again, there will always be a time to meet again!"
Fang Xiu, who was sitting upright and somewhat lazily, let go of the flower in his hand and let it fall into the abyss mixed with wind and snow. Then he sat up straight, propped himself up, and stood up with Chang De on the edge of the cliff blown by wind and snow, overlooking the undulating ancient mountains and the vast world.
Changde suddenly asked, "Where else are you going?"
Fang Xiu pointed to the far north, his eyes piercing through layers of snowflakes, leaping over thousands of mountains and rivers, and the vast ocean. "I heard there is a sea in the Arctic called Beiming. There are infinite wonders on the Beiming Sea. It is a sea densely populated by descendants of ancient mythical beasts and exotic beasts, and there are relic species left over from ancient times."
"And if we cross the North Sea, we will be able to see another world besides East Continent and South Continent. I plan to go and take a look!"
"Even if I can't travel to Beihai in the morning and Cangwu in the evening, I have to see the vastness of this land and sea, the vastness of the world! How many myths and legends are hidden in it."
The wind blew through Fang Xiu's wide robe, and above the ancient cave in the snow-capped mountains, there really was a sense of vastness as if he was riding the wind in the void, and floating as if he was isolated from the world, as if he was about to ascend to heaven in an instant.
Changde stood there for a long time and said, "If you die one day, I will definitely come to pick you up!"
Fang Xiu laughed out loud: "Thank you very much! However, I still hope that day will not come!"
Chang De also laughed along: "Then I wish you to become an immortal and live as long as heaven and earth!"
At this time, a dragon roared in the distance, shaking the heaven and earth, and a dragon flew up from the ancient temple behind it.
The dragon came riding on the wind and clouds and arrived at this side of the mountain. It circled past the ancient cave on the cliff. The dragon scales on its body emitted little rainbow light under the refraction of wind, snow and light.
The dragon's head, as big as a house, stopped in front of the ancient cave, waiting for Fang Xiu, while looking at the ancient god curiously with its millstone-sized eyes.
Fang Xiu climbed onto the dragon's head and sat cross-legged between its two horns. The wind blew the dragon's mane and Fang Xiu's robe. Fang Xiu bowed to Chang De, who was standing in front of the ancient cave and looking at him.
"Goodbye!"
"Goodbye!"
After saying this, the dragon rolled up the wind and clouds, and with a roar, the dragon's roar broke through the wind and snow, and turned into a light and shadow that rushed up into the clouds and headed towards the northern sky. The dragon's shadow rolled up the clouds, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Chang De also turned and left, and as he walked, he saw a golden staircase appear under his feet.
The stairs lead all the way to the underground mountains, and a virtual spiritual realm emitting layers of halo appears before the eyes. In it, one can see stone halls and stone buildings with the colors of the northern wilderness, stacked one on top of the other.
There were also groups of shaman priests and servants wearing barbarian colored robes waiting there, awaiting Changde's arrival.
At this moment, in the entire land of the human race in the Central Plains of East Continent, the princes, big and small, were constantly engaged in collective wars of conquest and annexation. The era of great contention had arrived.
Every once in a while, a vassal state, a vassal state or a tribe would be destroyed, or a small country would fall apart.
After planning for over a hundred years, Shao finally annexed Song and expanded its territory again, making neighboring vassal states fear its power. Bai and Zheng in the northwest began to fight each other, and the two sides fought back and forth, investing all their military forces.
Sima Lu Wu of Shao State swept up the Longwu Guard and quickly crossed the river and attacked Bu. He alone killed several powerful military shamans who were guarding the original capital of Dahuan State from Pan State. The magical powers of several second-level shamans were no match for Lu Wu's martial arts killing power, and the land was stained with blood. The army of Shao State even threatened Xun City, the original Xun Capital, which had now become a military stronghold.
Finally, a shaman named Xuanyuan from Pan State came from the north and defeated Lu Wu and his army on the top of Xun City. Twenty thousand Dragon Guards were completely annihilated on the banks of the river, and Lu Wu fled seriously injured. If it were not for the great shaman Lin Shu from Shao State who came with the Dongyuan Sword and repelled Xuanyuan with one sword, Lu Wu would have died on the river. The prestige of the Xuanyuan clan once again resounded throughout the human land.
Taking advantage of Shao's defeat, Gao's E Hong suddenly led an army of 10,000 to attack Shao and captured more than a dozen cities in the east of Shao. E Hong defeated Shao's army of tens of thousands with his magical powers alone. On the battlefield, he used his magical powers to swallow Shao's general and his mount, the exotic beast Tiger Jiao, alive. His notoriety shook the world.
The protagonists of this great struggle are not ordinary people, nor are they military geniuses or strategists of attack and conquest, but rather they are shamans, monks, sorcerers, and gods of the earth who have all-powerful means and power to turn the world upside down.
Powerful monks used various powers to make the battles look like battles between gods and demons.
In it, you can see witches using strange spells to kill enemy generals thousands of miles away, gods controlling the power of mountains and rivers to block the enemy army, immortal monks setting up large formations to strangle the enemy army, and powerful sorcerers stimulating their blood to tear down city walls and cut off rivers like demons.
For a moment, the entire land of Dongzhou was in chaos, and the gods, men and women hidden in every corner emerged one after another and joined the melee unconsciously.
As a result, a large number of cultivators began to move away from Middle-earth and head towards the unknown vast land in the northwest. Some even left Dongzhou directly and began to look for the fairy mountains overseas, or tried to find a way to go to the legendary Nanzhou.
While Fang Xiu was in the midst of chaos in the Central Plains of Dongzhou, he rode his dragon through the vast northern wilderness all the way towards the North Sea.