The Ruoergai Plateau, the Holy Mountain of Wind and Snow, the source of the Jiuqu Yellow River, it is difficult for horses to get here. Hong Jun, Li Jinglong, and Yu Zhou crossed the entire Qinghai to the north of Bashu. At the end of this ladder-like plateau, there are still scattered villages.
Li Jinglong saw that the horses used for transportation could no longer move, so he sent them to the village and bought food and drinking water with the villagers. The three of them wrapped in thick fur coats and walked along the glacier to the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Hong Jun suggested that with the protection of the phoenix's true essence, Yuzhou could fly again, so he didn't have to carry a heavy load. But Li Jinglong insisted on walking on foot, saving a little mana is very necessary.
"You won't be attacked." Yuzhou said, "Why are you so careful?"
"That's hard to say." Li Jinglong didn't bother to argue with Yuzhou, so he replied casually.
Yuzhou was bored, so he had to follow the two of them all the way forward. According to the villagers, the snowy holy mountain in the distance is the birthplace of the Yellow River. The first dragon vein is known as the Dragon of Ten Thousand Dragons.
"Zhao Zilong!" Li Jinglong held Hongjun's hand in the wind and snow, and said casually, "Do you remember where you were born?"
"How is it possible!" Yuzhou tightened his outer jacket, quickened his pace, and said, "I didn't remember much before I was fifty!"
Hong Jun turned back and said, "How did you know Xie Prison?"
Yuzhou pondered for a moment, and then talked about his life experience in the snow. Back then, it was just a carp in the Yellow River. It's strange to say that the body of ordinary aquariums will grow surprisingly large after living for decades, but it is the only one that doesn't. It just left ring after ring on the scales, imprints like annual rings.
Trees and fish with scales are the easiest to identify their own age, and they are engraved on their bodies every year they live. Ever since the carp demon became intelligent, it wandered around. Although it was powerless, it lived freely. But forever, for a monster, it is inevitable to think about the meaning of its own existence. The carp demon hopes to become a human being, and then to leap into the dragon's gate. Maybe one day in the future, he will even have a glimpse of the way of heaven.
So it began to hold back hard, and finally squeezed out its hands and feet.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Hong Jun: "I seem to have heard this paragraph before."
Li Jinglong said: "You can hold back your hands and feet just by holding back, so powerful?"
Yuzhou obviously didn't want to talk about the past, after all, his hands and feet were not very good-looking, but when Hong Jun asked, he could only answer truthfully.
"That was after meeting the monk."
Before he knew how much mana it possessed, it was caught by a fishing net one day. So far, he still remembers that it was a sunny afternoon, and the fisherman's voice rang through his ears.
"Three catties, two and a half!"
So the carp demon was sent to the market in Chang'an, hung up for sale, and was bought back by a restaurant not long after, and this restaurant was the predecessor of Yuyuelongmen. And not long after, Xuanzang came to Yuyuelongmen's back kitchen...
Li Jinglong said: "Master Xuanzang, will you come to the back kitchen of a restaurant?"
"Because he has a young apprentice here." Yuzhou explained, "He came to find someone."
Then, the carp demon saw the monk. In its impression, monks don’t kill. Naturally, they immediately called for help. Xuanzang was very surprised when he saw the carp uttering words, so he bought it back and kept it in the Daci’en Temple. in the pond. Morning bells and evening drums, the sound of the Buddha's trumpet, when Xuanzang recited and translated the scriptures, the carp demon was listening.
Later Xuanzang moved to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the carp demon was doing nothing for a while...
"That is to say, you have lived in Chang'an for decades?" Li Jinglong asked.
When the three of them arrived at the holy mountain, the sky was getting dark, and Hong Jun found a cave in the leeward side, preparing to stay overnight. Yuzhou glanced at the hand of Li Jinglong who was holding Hong Jun, and said casually, "I don't want to talk about it."
Li Jinglong let go of Hongjun, motioned him to boil water, and said to Yuzhou: "In these years, you have always been the boss of the Exorcist Division in name..."
When Yuzhou heard this, his mood became very complicated, and he said, "I know you all look down on me."
Li Jinglong waved his hands humbly and explained, "Everyone respects you very much."
The carp demon usually has a see-through attitude towards many things. After all, he has lived for so many years. When it left, its aura weakened first, and even now that it has cultivated to adulthood, when facing Li Jinglong, it still has the mood of a fish body back then, and it is unavoidable to feel anxious.
"Do you know?" Yuzhou said suddenly, "I fled back to Chang'an that day, and I thought the Exorcist would open the door."
Li Jinglong heard Mo Rigen and Lu Xu relay it, and said: "Everyone is not at home, what can I do?"
Yuzhou looked at Li Jinglong for a long time, Hong Jun felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, and looked up at Yuzhou.
"Second brother, have you really regarded me as a family member these years?" Yuzhou said in the silence.
Hong Jun was about to speak, but Li Jinglong raised his hand to stop him.
"To be honest." Li Jinglong replied, "No."
Yuzhou originally thought that Li Jinglong would coax him a few words, but he didn't expect that Li Jinglong would expose the truth so simply and rudely without any concealment.
"Because I betrayed you." Yuzhou said.
Hong Jun: "Zhao Zilong, I said I forgive you!"
Yuzhou suddenly became stubborn and only stared at Li Jinglong.
"That's just a trivial matter." Li Jinglong said lightly, "I don't believe you, because you are not human. You are a monster."
Hongjun: "..."
"Not only to you." Li Jinglong said, "As long as it is a monster clan, it doesn't matter if it is Chaoyun, Qingxiong, Chongming, Yuzaoyun, Ghost King... We have been hostile from the beginning. Except for Hongjun, I am against your monster clan." Every member cannot be completely trusted, this is my duty as the commander of the Exorcist Division."
Hong Jun didn't interrupt Li Jinglong, he was very surprised, it is quite rare to hear Li Jinglong speak the truth and express his position here and now. After all, Li Jinglong is a person who seldom expresses his feelings. Even when discussing matters with his colleagues, when the wit comes and goes, his position is often only comprehensible, not expressible. For Hong Jun himself, he is very careful, with excessive protection, to avoid exposing him to too much scheming and city government.
At this time, he could vaguely understand why Li Jinglong would bring up the past at this moment and talk to Yuzhou. Maybe in the final analysis, it was because the last magic weapon was about to be obtained. If this magic weapon belonged to the carp demon, Li Jinglong would have to get it Guaranteed, after getting the magic weapon, Yuzhou will do his best to cooperate with everyone.
"You don't have to say that, I will help you." Yuzhou said, "I am only for Hongjun, not for anything else."
"This is what I want to say 'second time'." Li Jinglong sat with his back to Hong Jun, separated the two of them, and said calmly, "Hong Jun, do you want some firewood?"
Hong Jun frowned. No matter how stupid he was, he knew that Li Jinglong had something to say to Yuzhou alone. Although he didn't like Li Jinglong's behavior, he still got up and walked out of the cave.
"Secondly." Li Jinglong looked directly at Yuzhou and said, "You like Hongjun, from the very beginning."
Yuzhou was in a panic all of a sudden, his face flushed, and he said, "I..."
After Li Jinglong said this sentence, he said lightly: "So you don't like me, and I don't like you either."
Yuzhou transitioned from the panic that was punctured at the beginning to gradually calming down. It took only a few breaths, and finally he said, "That's right, why do you deserve it? You deserve it too?"
Li Jinglong just smiled and said sincerely: "I'm sorry, Zilong."
Yuzhou: "..."
But Yuzhou's eyes were slowly turning red, and after a long time, he said in a daze: "That year I was caught by the prison... let me go to the Taihang Mountains... a bear almost ate me..."
Li Jinglong didn't interrupt him, but just looked at Yuzhou silently. Yuzhou suddenly choked up and said intermittently: "It was Hong Jun who saved my life. He is the child of King Peacock Daming and the adopted son of Phoenix. Pretty… "
"...but he never regarded me as...an ordinary monster, whistling around..."
"He also named me...he said 'I believe in you, one day, you will become a dragon'..."
"You will live for a long time." Li Jinglong said, "He only has one life, you don't belong to him, and he doesn't belong to you."
Yuzhou stared blankly at Li Jinglong and said, "I know."
Li Jinglong frowned slightly, Yuzhou sighed as if giving up, and said, "From the moment I saw you chasing to the foot of Qilian Mountain, I knew that I had no hope."
Li Jinglong had mixed feelings in his heart for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "So this is why I tried my best to chase after him."
"That's all." Yuzhou patted Li Jinglong on the shoulder, turned around and went out, shouting, "Hong Jun!"
Hong Jun came in with the firewood in his arms, glanced at Yuzhou, and then at Li Jinglong, with a hint of reproach in his eyes. Li Jinglong got up, took the firewood, and raised the flame.
The atmosphere was very weird, and no one spoke. Hong Jun glanced at the faces of the two of them, and finally couldn't help but said, "Don't bully him."
"I haven't." Li Jinglong said innocently.
"He didn't." Yuzhou said instead to help Li Jinglong, "I feel much more comfortable now."
Hong Jun: "???"
Li Jinglong laughed, and Hong Jun said: "Still laughing?! What happened to you, Yaozu?"
Li Jinglong said: "I am willing to change myself, for you."
When Hong Jun heard this, he relaxed a little, looked up at Li Jinglong and said, "Really?"
"Hmm." Li Jinglong didn't avoid Hongjun's gaze, but instead had a smile in his eyes.
The wind gradually died down, and there was silence in the world, Hong Jun didn't make a sound, Li Jinglong and Yuzhou seemed to have some kind of strange tacit understanding, and neither of them spoke. Hong Jun couldn't help guessing what they said, but thinking that Li Jinglong's every time he fired himself, it was also a good intention. If he was too curious, he would make himself boring instead, so he stopped asking.
"Master Xuanzang..." Hong Jun still decided to find something to say, "He is a Buddha."
"That's right." Yuzhou suddenly became angry like a piece of wood, and said, "I still remember the day he became a Buddha."
"Are you by his side?" Li Jinglong asked when he had a topic to talk about.
Yuzhou pondered, "I'm the only one with me."
The atmosphere suddenly became natural and heated, and Hong Jun felt that during the time he was away, Yuzhou might have untied a certain knot in his heart.
"What did he say?" Hong Jun asked.
Yuzhou shook his head and said, "He said, I was sent from heaven and earth to save all sentient beings."
Hong Jun was shocked in an instant, this is really a very high evaluation, and it was said from the mouth of Zhan Tan Gongde Buddha!
"You are the one." Yuzhou laughed and said, "Our Hongjun is the one, uh..." Then he said to himself, "I was born to help you."
Li Jinglong said: "Did he predict the catastrophe of Tang Dynasty?"
Yuzhou thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "That's not true. I still remember that it was evening, and before he became a Buddha, he gave me something."
"What is it?" Hong Jun had never heard of this.
"I don't know." Yuzhou said, "I guess it was to help me cultivate? I just swallowed it whole."
Li Jinglong said: "The Buddha gave you something, did you swallow it?"
Yuzhou said, "Yes, is there a problem?"
Li Jinglong and Hongjun were speechless. Yuzhou raised his foot, rolled up his trousers, exposed his hairy legs, and said, "Later, I practiced seriously, holding back my hands and feet."
Li Jinglong: "..."
The corner of Hong Jun's mouth twitched and said, "Oh—so that's the case."
Yuzhou said again: "Later, I was released and entered the Jinghe River. I was going to find a place to practice hard. Later, I was found by the prison and found you."
Hong Jun said: "God Kun said that you have to accumulate merit to become a human being."
"Enough is enough." Li Jinglong said, "In the battle outside Hangu Pass, Zilong saved more than tens of thousands of people?"
Hong Jun thought so too, and later it was relayed by Lu Xu that the carp demon controlled the Jingwei that day and indeed saved many lives. Without him, countless soldiers would have died on the battlefield.
"But practice is not enough." Yuzhou pondered for a moment, and then said, "I have to find a place to practice after I help you defeat Heavenly Demon and Yuan Kun."
Hong Jun looked at Yuzhou, and Yuzhou avoided his eyes. Li Jinglong felt that Yuzhou had finally figured it out that night.
"Congratulations." Li Jinglong smiled.
Hong Jun said: "Maybe I won't see you turn into a dragon until the end of my life."
When Hong Jun said this, Yuzhou almost cried, but Hong Jun smiled and comforted him: "But you have already carried me soaring through the world, so you have fulfilled your promise."
At that moment, Yuzhou began to gasp for breath. Li Jinglong pretended to be nonchalant on the surface, but his heart suddenly rose to his throat. I'm afraid Yuzhou couldn't help but say something to Hongjun who couldn't control the situation.
"Zhao Zilong?" Hong Jun noticed his abnormality.
Yuzhou finally calmed down gradually.
"Yes." Yuzhou forced a smile, and said to himself, "This is my greatest wish in this life."
Li Jinglong finally breathed a sigh of relief, his hands were full of sweat, not because he didn't believe in Hongjun, but since he knew this fish, Li Jinglong was always worried, fearing that one day it would really turn into a dragon and give Hongjun to Hongjun. Abducted. I'm even more afraid that Hongjun won't think about it one day, and live in seclusion in the mountains with a carp, and he will never find them again... In fact, since the first time I saw Hongjun, this strong sense of insecurity has almost never stopped. We must guard against that although Chongming is the adoptive father in name, he raised Hongjun so much and got ahead of the way first. Later, he felt that Qingxiong was a bit dangerous, but gradually excluded him.
Later, Ashinaqiong came again, who was all foolish, but luckily Hong Jun didn't like it all the time. And the most troublesome thing is this carp. He knew Hongjun earlier than him, and he took care of it with all his heart. Hongjun was ignorant and only regarded it as a relative. will be a formidable competitor.
So Yuzhou ran away with Hongjun, it was the most thrilling moment in Li Jinglong's life, life and death, and he wanted to chase him no matter what.
This time the carp demon finally retreated, and Li Jinglong felt more tired than fighting a big battle.