Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 208: Zichuan Burys the Immortal Bone (3)
When we got far enough away from us, Qingmei threw the severed hand away with all her strength, and sure enough, a pile of gold jumped into the river, competing to swim towards the severed hand.

She came back as if nothing had happened, wiped her hands on the skirt, I couldn't help swallowing my saliva and whispered: "Hey, that, Qingmei, how do we cross the river?"

Qing Mei smiled sweetly, "Madam wait a moment, the boatman is coming soon."

I didn't expect there to be a boatman here.Sure enough, after a while, an old and sad singing came from the river, "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, midnight comes, dawn goes..."

On the surface of the wide Zihe River gradually appeared an old man wearing a broken bamboo hat, propping up a very narrow boat. The mask on his face was heavily scarred, as if he had been hit by knives and axes for years, exposing three-fifths of his dry skin. , including an old tawny eye and a mouth that looks like a dead tree pimple.

The place is damp and cold, the old man's bony body was completely torn, and he could vaguely identify a crimson fine cloth thin shirt, which was roughly tied around the waist with a hemp rope, barely covering his body.It may be that it has not been replaced for a long time, and a pungent stench comes out.

The old man pushed the boat to the huge monument on the bank very slowly, and the sacks beside the boat were scattered, but he saw a pile of human flesh, which the giant golden dragon in the river happily snatched up.Sure enough, these huge Jinbuli are specially raised here with human flesh to guard the dark palace.

Our eyes were dimmed, but we saw that the old man had come to the front without anyone noticing, stretched his head slightly, looked at us carefully for a while, then stretched out a long hand that was almost like a bone, and slowly pointed at the Fazhou. Slowly said: "You...are the leader of this group of brats, are you here to make food for this golden dragon?"

Just as Fa Zhou was about to speak, Qing Mei coldly showed a purple jade belt engraved with a purple star, "I am Qing Mei, a purple star warrior under the head of Patriarch Zi Yuan, and I specially want to borrow a small boat today, please let the old man let me go. "

The old man said with a serious smile: "Could it be that the current Yuan clan has no successors, and even brats like you can become purple star warriors?"

Just this one sentence seriously hurt the self-esteem of all the "post-[-]s" and "post-[-]s" present, Qingmei let out a soft rebuke and went out with her sword.However, no one saw how the old man made the move, so Qing Mei fell down there softly.Xiao Fang just made a move and was fixed by my side, followed by Fa Zhou.Seeing a piece of icy breath rushing towards me, the old man's broken mask stopped in front of my eyes, the long black finger bone was pointing at my throat, his yellow eyes were filled with the cold light of a wild beast preying, Like a demon from hell.

His cold old hand clenched my throat, gradually tightening, "Huh? Purple pupil Shura?"

At this moment, a small shadow came with a small boat, and then galloped to the shore with a long pole. It was the little boy with the white mask, Xiao Yu.

He seemed to be very familiar with the old man, danced and compared to the old man, and then handed over a piece of fish talisman.The old man tilted his head and thought for a while, then slowly said: "Since the palace lord has agreed, then you can come."

"Then my friend?"

The old man didn't even look behind him, with his heels, two stones flew towards Xiao Fang and Fa Zhou, the two men released their acupuncture points, but they still sat softly on the ground.Xiao Fang climbed a few steps towards the shore, but was forced back by Jin Buli, so he had to pick up Qing Mei, who was unconscious, and backed Fa Zhou.

The old man Shi Qinggong took me to the small boat, and I immediately fell into a pile of dead bones.Xiao Yu also flew onto the boat lightly, and stretched out his hands to me, screaming for a hug, so I hugged Xiao Yu on my lap, and hugged Xiao Yu's small waist with both hands.Sometimes Xiaoyu happily took my hands, sometimes he grabbed the leftover piece of meat and fed it to Jinbuli, and sometimes he picked up two bones and beat each other, making his hands bloody.I kept swallowing my saliva and hugged Xiao Yu tightly, looking at the old man as calmly as possible.

I don't know what kind of face is under the mask, and the exposed yellow eyes are always staring at mine.

The boat sailed for a while on the sluggish purple river.Occasionally, a big golden dragon with long claws would jump up, or cling to the edge of our boat and open its bloody mouth to eat. Xiaoyu would strike from time to time nimbly, and the old man would also use the paddle to strike with lightning.As soon as the stunned golden dragons fell into the water, they were torn apart by their companions as food thrown down, and the smell of blood became stronger.

Once there was a huge snake head looming, about the size of a human head, about [-] meters long, and looked like a golden dragon that had lived for hundreds of years.After being attacked by the old man, it jumped up from one side like a big dragon, slid across the sky, leaped over the boat, roared and landed on the other side of us, and opened its mouth to me.I was terrified when I saw it, but Xiao Yu still giggled and swung a human bone to hit it farther.

"Excuse me, senior, is this Zichuan connected to Mochou Lake above?" I summoned up my courage and asked.

The old man nodded silently.

"May I ask what your senior is called?"

The old man tilted his head and thought for a while, his cloudy yellow eyes were confused for a while, "Oh, I can't remember."

This is a rather weird answer.After a while, he suddenly opened his mouth and explained slowly: "It is said that this river of forgetfulness was formed by the blood of an ancestor of the Yuan clan with purple pupils thousands of years ago. This ancestor used his own flesh and blood to lure demons into the purple The mausoleum and the palace are destroyed together, and one side is safe. From then on, anyone who drinks the water here will forget all love, all sorrows, eliminate all emotions and six desires, and become a person without pain. Old people are sailing on the boat for many years, and occasionally get some forgetfulness. Chuan Shui gradually forgot his surname, name, and past, but he only remembered to follow the order of the Palace Master to guard the exit here, to feed the golden dragon on weekdays, and to kill trespassers."

Speaking of the last sentence, the old man's yellow eyes were clear, flashing cruelty.

I oh indiscriminately.I thought that the ancestors and legendary figures here might be talking about Xuanyuan Zili who was buried in Ziling Palace in Tongyuan year.If it is said that Wangchuan was transformed with her flesh and blood, I don't believe it, but it is very possible that the sandstone at the bottom of the river contains a special purple pigment mineral, which dyes the underground river here purple.And this underground river is connected to Mochou Lake above, where Jin Buli may have settled here after swimming down the river from above.Due to perennial darkness and mutation evolution, it has no eyes.The Yuan family fed these Jinbuli with human flesh all the year round, and fought with martial arts masters all day long, so their body was much stronger than the above similar ones, so they were naturally the best guardians of the dark palace.

I also thought, maybe this old man is actually like Sima Yun. He has been drifting in the dark palace, especially on this river for many years, and no one talks to him, so he talks non-stop whenever he meets people.

I was a little relieved, and said nonsense: "The Yuan family has a unique secret medicine, Wuyou San, taking it can make people's five sense organs go numb, forget worry and love, maybe it is based on this."

The old man stopped suddenly, and let the boat stand in the middle of the lake, but he sat down cross-legged.

For a while, those strong creatures swam around, bumping into the side of the boat from time to time.Xiao Yu also seemed a little unhappy, and knocked on the old man with two bones in his hand to show him to move forward quickly.

The old man easily pressed Xiao Yu's "toy" and laughed slowly under the mask, "I just felt your pulse, and it seems that you have been inseparable? You are a woman from the Yuan family, right?"

The old man has forgotten anything else, but he still remembers it very clearly if he doesn't want to be inseparable!I give him a slight nod.

The old man suddenly seemed to be holding a meeting, "Hehe, since you are a woman from the Yuan family, why do you want to go back?"

"I'm going to save people. The matter is urgent. Senior, please hold me high and send me to the other side quickly." I bowed to him patiently.

The old man put his forehead in one hand and sighed softly: "Don't you know? Everyone in the Yuan clan is a cursed devil, and they will never get true love."

ah?What's the meaning?Suddenly, I remembered that Yuan Qingwu once told me that the man from the Yuan family is the most vicious man in the world, yet he is very affectionate.I couldn't help but shivered and looked at him blankly.

The old man picked up the handle of the oar with his skinny hands and scratched his thin gray hair, and said in a strange way: "They are idiots who want to get everything, you will suffer bad luck if you follow them."

There is some truth to this.The Yuan family has always respected Buddhism as the state religion, but it is a pity that the Yuan family takes up all of the five Buddhist precepts of greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and suspicion.In fact, how many people in the world of mortals can escape these desires?
I was thinking wildly, but I heard the old man Xun Xun said: "If you are willing to drink the river water here, you can forget the past, and I can also drive you back. I think your friends must still be waiting for you at the same place."

"Thank you, senior. Maybe you are right. The Yuan family is really a bunch of greedy guys, but I fell in love with one of them." I smiled lightly, "Now I live for my heart, please fulfill it."

He laughed gruffly under the mask, full of sarcasm.He climbed up very slowly again, propped up the pole with his bone-like hands, swung the small boat away, and said in a low voice: "Many years ago, a brave and handsome young man broke in. He was captured by us. It hurt my heart, and I said the same thing to him kindly, but he insisted on coming in. I never saw his bones after that. But I remember that he answered exactly the same as you, and your expression was very similar to his. resemblance."

I couldn't help but sigh slightly.

He muttered slowly on the opposite side: "Hey, the way you sigh is also somewhat similar to him. It's so strange. Today, the old man remembered a lot of past events."

Xiao Yu seemed a little scared, turned around and hugged me tightly, and I hugged him back.

He seemed to sigh at me, and opened the boat again, at a much faster speed. He laughed at himself: "Strange, I remembered a song passed down by my ancestors a long time ago. It turned out that I only remembered Que, I can’t remember Xia Que, but today I suddenly remembered. Do you have some kind of charm on you, which can cure the water of Zichuan I drank?”

I hugged Xiao Yu tightly and shook my head vigorously.I thought to myself: Could it be that the purple war on my chest has played a role, reminding this old man of many past events?
But the old man laughed, "Since I met you by chance, let me sing it to you."

Ok?Why do you want to hold a solo concert on the water?

But the old man opened his voice and sang a song. His voice was hoarse and sad, and his accent was difficult to distinguish.

"Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, come in the middle of the night, and go at dawn... It seems that the true love is false, and it seems that the false is true... Don't say that the flowers fall in Zichuan, but the lonely life is still... Like a flower, it seems not a flower." Go, when the broken window and the waning moon are all over..."

The lyrics are very strange, but the tone is slightly out of shape "Long Xiangshou". The tune is obviously difficult to listen to, but it just penetrates into the ears like a magic sound, bringing back countless past events.Some never-before-seen pictures came alive in my mind. I vaguely saw Duan Yuerong in Zifu's costume hugging a woman crying.She suddenly opened a pair of purple eyes to me, and wept sadly at me.

Just when I was obsessed with my mind and was falling towards the purple river, someone patted my face, and it turned out to be Xiao Yu.I wiped away the tears all over my face, my eyes gradually brightened up, there was a little warm light in front of me, it turned out that I had reached the shore at some point.

But I saw a tall and tall man in a half-old brocade robe, standing immaculately by the water, holding a dim yellow lamp in his left hand, a section of strong forearm muscles were slightly exposed at the cuff, and there was a faint prominence on it. The passion flower tattoo illuminates my heart like a fire.This is the first time I have seen the Lord of the Dark Palace so excited.

I was thinking about how to greet him, but he had already swayed, jumped onto the boat, and laughed, "Qing Mei sent me a message, and I was preparing to collect the corpses for you and her. coming."

I raised my eyebrows, but he stretched out his hand to me, and Xiaoyu and I were pulled ashore by his strong hand, "Your fate is too hard, you really are a bad luck star."

He smiled happily under the mask, mocking me as always.I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I quickly stood still and gave him a faint smile, but when I turned around, I saw that the old man neither saluted the Dark Palace Master nor said anything, and just like when we first met, he folded his hands on the pole , looked at us with his head tilted, as if watching a play.

Sima Yun bowed slightly to him and said respectfully, "Thank you, Uncle Yao."

The old man tilted his head and slowly nodded, suddenly realized: "Yes, I remembered, my name is Sima Yao."

The demon uncle nodded to Sima Yun.Suddenly there was a dark wind blowing on the surface of the Zichuan River, and I couldn't help but shivered. Seeing the two long, skinny legs exposed under the tattered clothes of the demon uncle, I couldn't help being moved, so I took off the Xuelizi cloak, Pass it up, "Thank you senior for your help, the dark palace is cold, please accept it to keep out the cold."

The demon uncle's bone-like hand slowly took it over, and he lowered his head and gently stroked the shiny and smooth precious white raccoon fur with his black and thin bone hand.He nodded, and said slowly, "Huh? You, like that person, gave me a piece of clothing before leaving." He didn't thank you after he finished speaking, but just swung away like lightning.

Without any warning, Sima Yun stretched out his hand and took my hand and performed Qinggong to fly upwards.Xiao Yu also jumped onto a big stalactite, and in the blink of an eye, the river of forgetfulness suddenly flooded upwards, just as I saw just now, it began to rush and roar again, and in a blink of an eye, the purple tide had already submerged the shore where we were standing just now .

When Sima Yun put me down, a small boat belonging to Sima Yao had already drifted to the center of Zichuan, flickering in the waves, and the strange rough and long song of the boatman slightly rang out in my ears, "Like a flower, it seems like a non-flower, When the window is broken and the moon is gone."

"You've done a good job of bribery," Sima Yun's teasing voice came from next to his ear, "Unfortunately, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to ask Uncle Yao for help. He usually only sends the living in and the dead out."

I glanced at him, and suddenly realized that his hand was still around my waist, so I slapped his hand away, took a step away from him, and said seriously: "This is a big matter, please lead the way quickly and send me back Appreciation Pavilion."

He chuckled, "Prudish thing. What's the rush? With you here, how could he die so easily?"

Hey, what kind of onion are you, why should I be serious with you?
His mouth was frivolous, but his feet moved quickly.His lightness kung fu is so good that even Xiao Yu followed them easily, but I tried my best to keep up with them.They had to stop and fly, waiting for me from time to time.

Along the way, he could quickly tell the whole story: King Wu'an did concoct a bottle of death medicine, and it seemed that he was going to bestow death on a nobleman, but he didn't officially say who he was going to kill.Maybe Yuan Feibai was also worried that the dead medicine was for me, so he rumored that Qingmei would transfer me out.Someone took this opportunity to make a fuss about the dead medicine, falsely spreading the news that King Wu'an wanted Yuan Feibai and me to die, and cut off all news from Ziyuan, in order to encourage the dark people in Dongying to make trouble.Fortunately, we came back in time without causing a catastrophe.

It's a pity that I can barely keep up with them, and I got a rough idea.

"I've met Qing Mei just now, you're not a stupid woman, fortunately you turned back."

He is complimenting me.It's a pity that I was out of breath and couldn't answer his words.

He complained unkindly for a few words, and finally couldn't bear it any longer. He picked me up and swept me forward.

I was shocked, "What are you doing?"

"You are too slow, do you want to go back and collect Yuan Feibai's body?"

Hey, this man really can't spit ivory out of a dog's mouth.But to be honest, this man's martial arts is really good, he didn't have to wait for me, he picked up at an astonishing speed, leaving Xiao Yu behind.Xiao Yu yelled and followed up with all his might.

His chest was broad, strong and warm. I couldn't help thinking about Yuan Feibai, and I didn't know what was going on with him, and my heart felt like a knife was being twisted.

Perhaps in order to alleviate my embarrassment, he told me about the old boat company horse demon who had just crossed us.

He is the oldest person in the Dark Palace and the one with the highest martial arts. He has experienced many turmoil in the Dark Palace. No one knows his age. Some even say that he has lived for hundreds of years.

"He has served your Dark Palace for many years, as Palace Master, can you send someone to take care of these elderly people's old age..."

(End of this chapter)