159 There is a house at the foot of the green hill
After leaving the Ghost Sea, the road going south became a bit colorful.
The greenery is getting thicker, and the green wood-colored spring light comes into sight. Bai Yunsheng, who is sitting on the back of Yinling Qingcong, feels a little calmer.
Warm light blows on my face, and the mountains in the distance are green.
The quiet mountain road extends deep into the cascading green peaks. A cool breeze blew past their ears, carrying a faint fragrance of wild flowers.
Silver-feathered Qingcong is one of the few amphibious beasts in the sea of ghosts, and its journey is famous in Fengdu. After traveling for more than a hundred miles, as soon as it left the demon territory of Fengdu, it encountered a high mountain with green peaks and blue tops, shrouded in clouds and mist.
It's getting late.
As I got closer, I saw a small mountain village appearing at the foot of the mountain with green bamboos and beautiful water.
Yu Linglong firmly grasped Bai Yunsheng's shoulder with one hand, pointed forward with one hand and said in surprise: "Brother Bai, look, there's someone over there!"
Da da da...
Yin Ling Qingcong approached the village in the blink of an eye.
The village is not big, with about thirty or forty households. You can see it as far as the eye can see. The houses are all green bamboo houses with water. It is noon, and faint smoke is coming from the chimneys of several houses.
There are twenty-one mountains in the Tianyu Mountain Demon Realm, ten lords, and one demon king. Thirteen rivers branching from Zhenfeng Continent meander through the mountains, and they embrace countless people.
There are still many hidden villages like this in the hills and ridges.
Ever since the ancestors of the Demon Clan moved here from the Central Plains, they have respected the harmony between the demons and the two tribes and strictly prohibited conflicts between the two tribes. Most of these human ancestors who lived in seclusion in the mountains of the Demon Realm followed the ancestors of the Demon Clan who moved here at that time.
The Demon King Hua of this generation even tacitly approved the intermarriage between the two races. Therefore, the Tianyu Mountain Demon Realm was much calmer than the Southern Wilderness, other demon realms, and even the Central Plains.
But this village seemed a little different. Before entering the village, a familiar aroma of wine wafted into Bai Yunsheng's nose.
Bai Yunsheng placed the thick silver feather Qing Cong outside the village and led Yu Linglong into the village.
There were several children playing around a grass ball at the end of the village. Three shirtless strong men walked down the mountain behind the village. When they saw Bai Yunsheng and the other two, they couldn't help but look at them in surprise.
A young man with white hair and black eyes led a young man with green hair. Two completely different people walked in together.
Bai Yunsheng swept away the people in the village at a glance. They were all ordinary people, presumably idlers who had lived here in seclusion for a long time.
After concluding that there was no danger, Bai Yunsheng restrained all his aura and walked toward the strong men with Yu Linglong like an ordinary person.
Suddenly, an old voice sounded behind Bai Yunsheng: "Young people, who are you?"
Bai Yunsheng couldn't help but look back and saw an old man with a yellow beard wearing simple cloth standing not far from Yin Ling Qing Cong.
"Practitioner?"
Bai Yunsheng was a little surprised. He knew at a glance that the old man was a practitioner from the small camp, but he didn't take it to heart. Instead, he turned around and walked forward and asked politely:
"The two of us passed by your place, and there was a lot of trouble. I wonder what the old man's name is? Where is this place?"
The old man said: "This is Zhuyin Village at the foot of Lingqiu Mountain. I am the village chief here."
Bai Yunsheng asked: "How far is it from Tianyu Mountain?"
The old man's turbid eyes suddenly lit up, and he said in shock: "What are you doing there? No one who goes in there can come out alive!"
He obviously did not see Bai Yunsheng's cultivation level, and only regarded him and Yu Linglong as mortals.
Bai Yunsheng frowned like lightning, then showed a faint smile and said: "We are just going to the village outside the mountain to find someone."
"oh."
The old man nodded, smoothed his dry beard, thought for a moment, and said: "From a geographical point of view, this is the edge of Tianyu Mountain Demon Realm. The place you want to go is still eight or nine thousand miles away. If you take the right path,
It won’t take a year or a half to reach it.”
Bai Yunsheng's eyes were startled. Regardless of whether what the old man said was true or false, he had neither the patience nor the time to walk for a year.
"However," after a while, the old man changed the subject, "I can tell you a shortcut. Although it is more difficult, it can save a few months."
Bai Yunsheng smiled and said, "Please enlighten me."
The old man pointed to the mountain road ahead and said: "If you go along this road for more than three miles, you will see a big mountain that rises straight into the sky, called Dongting Mountain. If you can climb directly over this mountain, the distance can be shortened by nearly half."
After hearing this, Bai Yunsheng thought for a moment and responded:
"Thank you."
As soon as I finished speaking, I turned around, and the sky was already full of sunset. The orange sunset held a sleepy sun.
Yu Linglong held his sleeve, and her stomach growled. They were in a hurry, and no one had a few bites to eat during the more than a hundred miles.
Bai Yunsheng glanced at the little girl looking around with his peripheral vision, sighed softly in his heart, and thought to himself: It seems that I am destined to be here.
Then he turned around and saw black and slanting shadows trailing in the orange-red village.
The lights in the village were already on, and the hunters who went into the mountains to hunt put down their crossbows and cursed and returned home.
Bai Yunsheng looked at the old village chief and said with a smile: "I have a heartless request. I hope the village chief can agree."
The old village chief stroked his beard, which was dyed red by the sunset, and said with a smile: "Sir, please speak."
"I'd like to borrow something from you."
"One room, one meal."
"There is also a jar of wine."
"How did you know there was wine?"
Bai Yunsheng smiled and said: "Not only do I know there is wine, but I also know that it is a rare bamboo leaf green in the Central Plains. It has been at least thirty years old."
The old village chief smiled and said, "It's thirty-three years."
Bai Yunsheng said: "Thank you very much."
The night is starless.
The moon hangs alone.
A gust of wind came from the mountain forest behind the village, ruffling the wine in Bai Yunsheng's bowl.
There were at least twenty-three sounds of wild animals in the wind. But the village was as quiet as a tomb.
It was past midnight, and only the guest room of the old village chief's house still had a light on.
In the house, Yu Linglong went to bed early after having a big meal. Running around for a long time was more like torture for a child who had just left childhood.
now.
The only moon in the sky.
The only light on the ground.
The only bowl of wine in front of the lamp.
The only guest in the wine.
Bamboo leaf green is bamboo leaf green.
Thirty-three years is definitely thirty-three years.
But the wilderness of the Demon Realm is not the purple bamboo forest of Jinluan Daze. Bai Yunsheng is not the carefree young man either.
He must keep himself awake at all times.
Some people drink to get drunk, and some people drink to sober up.
Bai Yunsheng is now the latter type of person.
Of course he would not believe the words of the old village chief, let alone Zhuyin Village. But he was not worried about the poison in the wine. He knew that his enemy knew him very well, even better than himself.
With the Heavenly Water Pearl in his body, no enemy in the world can kill him except for other sources.
It's night time, the wine is gone, but my thoughts are sleepless.