The "stone pillar" that reaches the sky when seen from a distance is no longer a desolate and dead place when viewed up close. The long tongue covered with white bones has disappeared, replaced by clear springs and flowing water, flowers and grass everywhere, groups of trees and colorful flying insects and animals.
The peaks in the mountain stand tall and towering, and light blue clouds float thickly or lightly between the mountain tops and the mountainside. A clear water waterfall hangs down to the bottom of the valley, turning into a pool of blue water, which flows to the lowlands to form a pool.
The black water swamp then flows to the mountains in the north of the mountain, and merges with many tributaries to form the surging Yingshui River.
"Help. Help."
At this moment, Bai Yunsheng was sitting on a stone bed somewhere, with his legs crossed and his chin propped up, calling for help listlessly.
After calling an unknown number of times, an unfamiliar voice finally responded to him.
"Little brother, you can't die."
The soft and boneless voice softened Bai Yunsheng's body, and he walked into the cave with his fat buttocks twisted.
In the cave, blue flames danced quietly.
Bai Yunsheng stared straight at the bones and said helplessly: "The poison I've been poisoned hasn't been cured yet, so why don't I die?"
Bones covered his face and chuckled: "The poison of that lazy snake is not that powerful yet, I have already helped you neutralize it."
Bai Yunsheng, who is familiar with the Book of Changes, certainly knows that his snake venom has been cured, but staying in this unfamiliar demon world will never make him feel at ease.
Baigu paused for a moment, covered his mouth and said with a smile: "I really don't know how such a big kid like you came here. It's a pity that you are a little small, otherwise I would be happy to tell you a few stories."
Bai Yunsheng swallowed and shuddered all over. He suddenly thought that the ancient book that Bailuzhou asked him to copy contained the demon tribe's practice method of absorbing yang and replenishing yin, which was very evil.
But Baigu obviously only wanted to tease him, and then he said seriously: "Come with me, Lord Jing Hao wants to see you."
The main peak of Yidi Mountain.
Looking up, this mountain is full of green trees, fragrant flowers, and full of vitality. But only those who climb the main peak will realize that the life here is like a picture, growing, withering, and dying at an extremely fast speed.
Infinite loop, like a dream.
At the top of the mountain, the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons.
A tall figure with purple muscles all over his body stood next to the main seat. His bare upper body was covered in scars, with intertwined demonic lines squirming around.
Bai Gu stepped forward into the palace, knelt on one knee, and said respectfully: "Lord, we have arrived."
"Go down."
A deep voice rolled past like thunder, with overwhelming momentum.
"yes!"
After Bai Gu retreated, Jing Hao turned around, and a pupil as big as a bear's eye flashed fiercely on a terrifying bald head, making Bai Yunsheng's calves tremble.
He couldn't help lowering his gaze, and secretly glanced at the blue bear claw soul mark between Jing Hao's broad eyebrows, and his heart was beating loudly. That was the demon soul mark that only the great demons of the blue soul realm had!
"It's terrible, it's terrible. This time, it's too big. Yidi Mountain is far away in the southern wilderness, thousands of miles away from Jinluan Daze. Grandpa can't come to save me this time."
But when he thought that there was no rescue, Bai Yunsheng, who had always been at ease, raised his head and looked straight at Jing Hao.
"This guy is the Demon King of Yidi Mountain? How ugly..."
"The appearance is not bad..."
Jing Hao was muttering something to himself, completely ignoring the emotions on his face.
The huge palace was silent for a long time.
"May I have your name?"
Jing Hao opened his big, lipless mouth and asked, and the hideous scars on his face also split open.
Bai Yunsheng suppressed his shock, took a breath and said, "Bai Yunsheng."
The scar on Jing Hao's face "opened" again, and he said thunderously: "Aren't you afraid of me?"
Ever since he was taken captive to the mountain, Bai Yunsheng had been feeling depressed. At this moment, he suddenly let it out and said bluntly: "I'm still young, I don't know what it means to be afraid."
Jing Hao's fierce gaze softened slightly: "Yes, it is rare in the world for a teenage boy to be so courageous. It's a pity that his karma is empty and he has no cultivation."
Bai Yunsheng's body suddenly drooped, the breath in his body disappeared, and his eyes dimmed.
Jing Hao also slowed down his speech at this time and said: "Whether it's a god or a cripple, it's all a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
As soon as he said this, he actually sighed. This powerful lord of the Demon Realm did not expect that he had just spread the news and asked his subordinates to pay attention, and it didn't take long for him to discover the clues.
"Let's go, follow me to meet the Demon King."
Bai Yunsheng breathed a long sigh of relief and thought to himself: "So you are not the Demon King, you scared me for nothing."
The back peak of Yidi Mountain.
"Old Youhong, how could you be so injured?"
The first time Bailuzhou saw the Demon King of Yidi Mountain, he could see his irreparable injuries.
"Old man Bai, I didn't expect Jing Hao to really find you. It's good that you're here. It's good to see a friend again before you die."
An old man in black clothes was sitting on the ground of a stone house. His voice was strong, but his face was bloodless, his pupils were cloudy, and he looked like a man about to die.
Bailuzhou immediately surrounded Youhong with karma, and the infinite vitality contained in the green brilliance continued to seep into his body, but Youhong's body was sucking in crazily like a bottomless pit, and the weakness on his face did not diminish at all.
a long time.
Bailuzhou put down his hands and stopped the treatment, calmed his mind, then sighed slowly and frowned.
"Fire injury?" Bailuzhou said solemnly, "It's impossible. You have been in the Purple Soul Realm for a hundred years. There are very few people in the world who can hurt you. Even if Chu Han, the number one killing god, is here, he can't hurt you so badly."
Youhong smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, looking at the entire world, no one can hurt me like this."
"Is it...impossible, absolutely impossible, how is it possible!"
Bailuzhou hesitated for a moment and immediately firmly rejected his guess.
You Hong put away his bitter smile and said with some regret: "Nothing is impossible in this world. At your age, there is no hope of becoming an immortal, and there are still some obsessions that cannot be seen clearly."
After a while, Bailuzhou pondered for a while before he slowly and dubiously uttered four words:
"Suzaku divine beast?"
"That's right."
Youhong gave him an extremely certain answer.
Bailuzhou sat up in shock when he heard this, and said seriously: "Why did Lord Suzaku appear here? How could he hurt you?"
"Jasper Wutong."
Youhong gave him another very puzzling answer.
Bailuzhou's heart suddenly twitched. He knew that the jade sycamore tree, the most precious treasure of Yidi Mountain in the Southern Wild Demon Realm, only matures once in a thousand years, and has been protected by Yidi Mountain for endless years.
"The thousand-year period is approaching. This sycamore tree was originally used to baptize the new demon king, but I didn't want to attract Master Suzaku. I begged in every possible way and had no choice but to take action, but it was a moth flying into the flame, and I ended up being prematurely dead.
"
Youhong's words were filled with the same age as his face.
"Master Suzaku guards the origin of fire and is the controller of all fires in the world. How can you resist it." Bailuzhou sighed helplessly, and then asked doubtfully: "But what does it want from the jasper phoenix tree? That's not good for it.
It doesn’t make much sense.”
"It seems to be injured." Youhong explained helplessly.
When Bailuzhou heard this, he jumped three feet in shock and shouted: "What?! Are you injured? Old Youhong, although I am old and my head is not messed up, do you think Lord Suzaku is injured? What injury?"
"
Youhong ignored his reaction and said calmly: "You will know after you go and see it."
This sentence made Bailuzhou hesitate all of a sudden, because he knew that no matter how surprised or anxious he was, the five divine beasts were not something he could just see if he wanted to.
Youhong relieved his worries and said: "Don't worry, Lord Zhuque has set up a barrier. If it can't come out, outsiders can't get in."
The hinterland of Yidi Mountain.
At the exit of a corridor, a stone room was filled with white light. A huge irregular flow barrier covered the entire stone room. Fluffy white flames were flowing on the translucent light wall, but Bailuzhou did not feel hot.
In the white barrier, you can vaguely see a sycamore tree with green branches and green leaves, its whole body is like jade, and its light is overflowing.
Bailuzhou asked solemnly: "Master Zhuque is inside?"
"Yes, now the barrier is covering the Wutong tree, and I can feel that its aura is getting weaker." You Hong said helplessly, "Thousands of years of hard work, I didn't expect it to be wasted today."
Bailuzhou didn't pay attention to Youhong's lament, because he felt something was wrong from the moment he entered this place - he actually sensed the breath of water's origin.
"It's strange, Master Suzaku is a fire beast, and this place is where Wutong is, how come there is the aura of water source energy?"
Bailuzhou thought to himself, composed himself, and said respectfully:
"Sir Suzaku, the junior Oriental Hornwood Jiao and Wutong are related to the inheritance of Yidi Mountain. I hope you will be more open-minded."
Unfortunately, there was no reply for a long time, and the stone room was empty and quiet.
You Hong shook his head and said, "It's useless. I've already begged for it, but there was no reply."
Bailuzhou had white eyebrows and said worriedly: "Besides Wutong, is there no other way to inherit the inheritance?"
Youhong glanced at his old friend beside him, took a deep breath, seemed to gather his strength, and said:
"The Southern Wilderness Demon Realm has the largest territory and the strongest strength among the Four Wilderness Demon Realms, and the Yidi Mountain Demon Realm is the strongest in the Southern Wilderness. There are seventy-six mountains, countless groups of demons, and the eight major lords are all the top of the Blue Soul Peak.
I can be the demon king and completely suppress those madmen. In addition to being a higher level, my biggest reliance is the power to control Wutong. Wutong was born with Yidi Mountain and is the heart of the mountain. If Wutong is lost,
Not only will Yi Di Mountain cease to exist, the entire Demon Realm will also fall into chaos and even be destroyed."
Youhong calmed down and continued:
"All the demon kings in the past need to be recognized by Wutong before they can become respected. Now I am seriously injured and cannot recover. The deadline has come, but something like this has happened, and I am incompetent."
After saying this, the old demon king sighed heavily.
But at this moment, a warm voice suddenly came from the barrier: "I'm not looking for Wutong to avoid relying on Emperor Mountain, so you don't need to worry."
Bailuzhou and Youhong quickly knelt on one knee and bowed their heads in response.
"Greetings, Lord Suzaku!"
They had heard the voice of the Suzaku many years ago, and they still remembered it vividly.
Suzaku's voice came next: "You two, quickly bring the young man from outside the mountain here."
"juvenile?"
Countless questions immediately popped up in Youhong's mind, and he couldn't help but look at Bailuzhou, who also had countless question marks on his face.
"He is where you are cultivating."
Suzaku seemed very tired, and when he spoke the third sentence, his tone was already slow and weak.
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"Master Demon King, Jing Hao would like to see you."
Jing Hao knelt down on one knee and said respectfully to a simple hut.
Bai Yunsheng stood beside him, looking around as if sightseeing, having completely forgotten his identity as a prisoner.
He didn't know where this was at all. He was confused in the wind and clouds just now, and when he opened his eyes again, he was here. Not far away, there was a small stone house with no doors or windows, and a huge strange orchid.
Trees cover the roof.
Like the trees outside the mountain, the purple orchids on the trees are growing, blooming, and withering all the time, constantly cycling the trajectory of life, but the speed is much faster than outside.
"Jing Hao, here."
Youhong and Bailuzhou appeared silently behind Jinghao and Bai Yunsheng.
As soon as he saw Bai Yunsheng, Bailuzhou's white eyebrows and beard and hair immediately squeezed together, his eyes widened, he stepped up and kicked, and asked:
"Little bastard, why are you here?"
"This, this, this..."
The moment Bai Yunsheng was kicked away, he had already heard Bailuzhou's voice.
He rolled around on the ground twice and quickly got up, thinking quickly about the wording of the lie, but Bailuzhou had already stepped forward and was about to kick him a second time.
"Grandpa, calm down. Listen to me. In fact, I am sleepwalking. No, I was kidnapped by the demon clan."
"Nonsense." Bailuzhou blew his beard, not believing it at all.
"That's him," Bai Yunsheng pointed at the seemingly human-looking Jing Hao beside him, and shouted, "He brought me here."
There was no change in Jing Hao's body. He stared at the feet of Demon King Youhong and Bailuzhou with his plain eyes, remaining silent.
But with Bailuzhou by his side, Bai Yunsheng didn't care anymore, and became more and more enthusiastic as he talked.
"Big man, did you bring me here?"
"Boy, don't be rude!" Bailuzhou glared and cursed.
Seeing Bai Yunsheng and Jing Hao together, he already understood.
Jing Hao must have listened to his request and found Bai Yunsheng who had escaped, and it was only half a day since he discovered that Bai Yunsheng was missing, so this kid must have used the Divine Sky Talisman to escape to Yidi Mountain.
After thinking about it, Bailuzhou's pursed lips suddenly burst into laughter. He stroked his white beard, stared at Bai Yunsheng, who had a fair face and ears, and said with a smile:
"Hahaha, you are so awesome, you can even open my secret box."
Having been with this "Jiu Qian Dou" for more than ten years, Bai Yunsheng knew Bailuzhou's temper very well. Looking at the kind smile of the old man in front of him, the little drum in his heart had already sounded the alarm. Bailuzhou didn't say anything more, and
I remembered this silently.
"Old man Bai, I'm a guest from afar."
Youhong had no intention of "reminiscing about the past" between his grandfather and grandson. He was worried about Wutong, so he continued:
"It seems that he is the young man that Lord Suzaku mentioned. I will take him there as soon as possible."
Bailuzhou wrote down "this line". After listening to Youhong's words, his face tightened and he hesitated: "Is this... a mistake?"
"You can't be wrong. Jing Hao is waiting here. My little friend, come with me."
Youhong didn't wait a moment longer. He grabbed Bai Yunsheng and teleported away. Bailuzhou followed immediately.
It’s that secret cave in the belly of the mountain again.
"Sir Suzaku, who is this son?"
Youhong put down Bai Yunsheng and asked carefully.
Suzaku's low voice came next: "That's right, you two can go out."
"Huh? Lord Suzaku, he..."
Bailuzhou was about to ask urgently, but Youhong stopped him and half-tugged him out of the secret cave.
Only Bai Yun was left to give birth to a child in the cave. Whether it was because he knew Bailuzhou was beside him or because he was fearless, the seventeen-year-old boy looked around calmly, as if he didn't care where he was at all.
"Who are you?" Bai Yunsheng asked.
The voice just now said: "They all call me Suzaku, and you can too."
"Vulcan beast?"
Bai Yunsheng's eyes lit up.
"yes."
"You're looking for me?"
"Please come in and talk."
"How to enter?"
"With your feet."
Bai Yunsheng looked at his toes and actually took the first step. Unexpectedly, this foot actually stepped on the void, then the second step, the third step... He stepped closer to Bai Yingying's
As soon as I reached out to touch the barrier, I was sucked in.
This is an empty hall, pitch black, and only four tall stone pillars can be seen, with red flames piercing them. There is a lotus platform directly in front of Bai Yunsheng, with a figure sitting cross-legged on it, whose appearance cannot be clearly seen.
.
"Where is this?"
"The world inside the jasper sycamore tree."
"Who are you?"
"You already asked this question just now."
"I forgot."
Suzaku sighed and started talking again.
"Did you know that there are five elements of vitality between heaven and earth?"
"Know."
"Did you know that you can't gather vitality and cultivate karma?"
"Know."
Hearing Zhuque's words, Bai Yunsheng suddenly became interested, and his face became serious. Although he was naturally free-spirited and did everything he wanted without seeking anything, he was actually always worried about things he couldn't practice, which was worse than what others said.
Suzaku seemed to be interested, and his voice was a little higher, and he said:
"Humans cultivate the camp position, and demons cultivate the soul position, but you have neither camp nor soul."
"Do you have any idea?" Bai Yunsheng asked eagerly.
"No."
Bai Yunsheng's excited eyes suddenly disappeared. He lowered his head deeply and looked at his toes, feeling a surge of sadness in his heart.
"However, I can give you something, maybe it can help you find the answer."
Bai Yunsheng raised his head suddenly, and Suzaku ignited hope in his eyes again.
But Suzaku's voice that had just "looked" suddenly became tired again: "Before that, do you have anything to ask me? I still have some time to tell you."
Bai Yunsheng stared intently, hesitated for a moment, and then asked excitedly:
"I want to know who my parents are."
Suzaku was silent. Although he controlled all the fires in the world and guarded the origin of fire, it was impossible for him to know the origin of a person for no reason.
The cold palace was silent for a long time before Suzaku's voice sounded again:
"You were born in Jinluan Daze. Have you ever had an answer to this matter in your mind?"
"No. Grandpa never told me."
"Then you have to find the answer yourself."
"oh."
Bai Yunsheng lowered his head sadly again. Perhaps seventeen years of wandering alone in the Guze Mountain Forest gave him a kind of strength that no other boy had.
At the same time, Bailuzhou and Youhong outside were waiting anxiously. But one was anxious for Sun Zi and the other was anxious for Wutong.
Just when the two peerless masters were about to become ants on a hot pot.
"Jiaomu Jiao, Youhong."
Suzaku's voice suddenly echoed in the air.
"Sama Suzaku."
The two men immediately put aside their anxiety and responded with a respectful salute.
"That young man is practicing in Wutong now. You can't disturb him until he comes out on his own. I have left, so there is no need to look for him again."
"Congratulations, sir!"
The sky above Yidi Mountain returned to calm, and the pale white clouds were so low and heavy that it made people's chest feel tight.
Bailuzhou stood up and shook his head, disbelieving: "Practice? What does that kid do for practice?"
You Hong said: "Perhaps it was the Suzaku divine beast that gave him a blessing."
Bailuzhou nodded, then sighed again and said:
"I hope so. But I can no longer prevent the loss of your life. You will have to leave in as long as one year."