The night in Changbai Mountain is unusually quiet, as if in a silent world. Only the "crackling" sound of the crackling firewood in the house makes people feel that they are in reality.
This kind of environment is very suitable for meditation. After Hu Hongde had eaten, drank and slept, Ye Tian sat down quietly in the corner of the room and felt with his heart this piece of pure land that had not been polluted by humans.
Different from the spiritual energy condensed by formations in the courtyards of the capital, although the spiritual energy in the mountains is not that strong, it is very pure and has a hint of refreshing breath. It is actually the same as the spiritual energy contained in the pieces of jade that Ye Tian obtained.
Somewhat similar.
"When I have the opportunity, I want to see the power of Buddhism and Western faith. They have been able to exist for so long and have so many believers. There must be something unique about them!"
Thinking of the kind of aura he encountered during the fight with Meng Xiazi a few days ago, Ye Tian's thoughts couldn't help but think of Buddhism and Western sects. At this time, his mind was empty, and his thoughts were spinning on his own.
Slowly, Ye Tian's eyes closed. At this time, he had entered a state of deep meditation, and his breathing became much slower. It would take a few minutes each time before he could see the faint rise and fall of his chest.
"Rustling... rustling..." Suddenly, the sound of footsteps rubbing against the snow reached Ye Tian's ears, and he suddenly woke up from his meditation.
"Old Hu, wake up!" Ye Tian just shouted, and Hu Hongde, who was sleeping soundly, opened his eyes. People who live in the mountains are no less alert than Ye Tian.
"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and the entire wooden house shook. The door panel, which was not very strong, was knocked open from the outside. A dark shadow entered the house accompanied by the biting cold wind.
"Damn, what a bear?!" Ye Tian's eyesight was very good, and he could see at a glance that it was a black bear about 1.5 meters tall.
After entering the house, the bear seemed a little afraid of the bonfire, but seemed reluctant to leave. It sniffed at Ye Tian and the two, and actually got into a corner of the wooden house and fell asleep regardless.
"This... this bear was raised by humans?"
Seeing this scene, Ye Tian's eyes widened immediately. In his impression, bears seemed to attack humans, but the scene in front of him completely overturned his cognition.
Originally, Ye Tian was already prepared, and Wuhen had already slipped into his palm, thinking that he would eat the bear's paw tomorrow, but the big guy's naive appearance made Ye Tian unable to kill him.
"Hmph!" As if in reply to Ye Tian's words, the bear turned over and let out a snort.
"Let him sleep here, this black blind man is harmless!"
Hu Hongde did not expect that a blind man would break in in the middle of the night. He shook his head and stood up, holding up the door panel and blocking the door opening that was blowing cold wind into the house.
"Lao Hu, what if it sits on you at night?"
Ye Tian heard someone say that the most powerful thing about a black blind man is not the slap, but the butt. No matter how strong a person is, he will turn into a ball of meat if that big butt sits on him.
Hu Hongde smiled and said: "It's okay, it's just winter, and there's a lot of oil and water in its belly. I guess this guy didn't find the tree hole, so he had to get here..."
The black blinds living in the north have the habit of hibernating. Every year when it snows, they will huddle in tree holes without eating or drinking, relying on the fat accumulated before to survive the cold winter.
However, if the black blind man who has entered hibernation is awakened by someone, he will not be as docile as he is now. Even the overlord tiger in the mountain forest will avoid him.
Sure enough, the two of them and the bear got along well that night. When Ye Tian and Hu Hongde left the next morning, the big guy even sent them off with its loud purr.
"Old Hu, what's going on? Should we go after Meng Xiazi and the others, or dig ginseng first?" After coming out of the wooden house, Ye Tian looked at Hu Hongde. He was obviously not as familiar with the situation in the mountains as he was.
Hu Hongde thought for a while and said: "Go after Meng Xiazi, it doesn't matter if you dig the ginseng a few days later!"
Hu Hongde was also a master who refused to suffer losses. After running rampant in Changbai Mountain for so many years, Lin Lao was tricked by Blind Meng, and his granddaughter almost died in front of his eyes. Of course he couldn't swallow this sigh of relief.
"Okay, I also want to see the magic of shamanism!" Ye Tian didn't care. He was also very interested in the magic that Blind Meng could use to borrow spiritual energy without having to practice himself.
"I forgot to bring Dahuang in. Let's go. There is only one path up the mountain. You should be able to see the traces they left after passing here!"
When Meng Xiazi and others entered the mountain, the snow had not stopped yet, and the heavy snow had buried many traces. However, Hu Hongde had been in the mountain for so many years, and any clue could allow him to determine the other party's whereabouts.
After spending most of the day climbing over the 2,000-meter-high mountain in front of me, I found a bunch of bonfires buried under the snow.
After walking around in a circle, Hu Hongde said: "Yes, Blind Meng is heading towards the village!"
"The village where I built the pole back then?" Ye Tian asked curiously.
"Yes, the terrain there is steep and very hidden. Unless you are one of your own, it would be difficult to find it."
Speaking of this, Hu Hongde showed hatred on his face, "Blind Meng didn't know that place originally. I took him into the mountains back then. What an ungrateful thing!"
When Meng Xiazi's father had just been shot, Hu Yunbao, remembering his old friendship, took Meng Xiazi to live in the mountains for a few months and taught him some rudimentary kung fu.
But later, the news of Hu Yunbao's arrest became very tight. He was afraid that he would implicate Blind Meng, so he sent him home, but the white-eyed wolf hated Hu Yunbao.
Ye Tian shook his head and said: "Old Hu, no, Blind Meng should understand. You also know the cottage. Isn't he afraid of you catching up?"
"This man has a vicious mind. He probably didn't have any good intentions when he went into the mountain. I'm afraid he wanted to end things with me."
To say that the people who know you best in the world are not necessarily your relatives, they are usually enemies who hate you to the core. Just as Meng knew that Hu Hongde would chase him into the mountains, Hu Hongde also figured out Meng's thoughts.
"Then if we rush in like this, aren't we playing into his hands?" Although Meng Xiazi's magic skills are not very good, he must be careful with the Ten Thousand Years Ship, and Ye Tian doesn't want to stumble here.
"It's okay. I know a trail. We can reach the village in front of them."
Hu Hongde showed a cruel smile on his face, "My father dominated Changbai Mountain back then, and his son is not a coward. If he wants to fight me, Blind Meng is a little too shallow!"
Hu Hongde's reputation in Changbai Mountain was not just blown. In the year when the Japanese surrendered, Hu Hongde, who was only 13 or 14 years old at the time, killed six little Japs with only a military assassin. This was why he was not implicated by his father later.
one of the reasons.
Ye Tian and Hu Hongde are both highly skilled people. The mountains that ordinary people think are insurmountable are nothing to them. In one day, they climbed two mountains.
In the evening, they still rested in a wooden house in the mountain, but today the two of them took turns keeping vigil, because according to Hu Hongde's estimation, they should not be far away from Meng Xiazi and others who had left three days earlier.
Early the next morning, Hu Hongde still took Ye Tian into the dense forest. At noon, the two came to the foot of a mountain.
Pointing to the mist-shrouded mountain top, Hu Hongde said: "Ye Tian, this was my father's village back then. There were originally houses at the bottom of the mountain, but they were all burned down by the little devils!"
"What a great place. This mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack."
Ye Tian observed it carefully. This mountain peak was different from most of the mountains with long gentle slopes in Changbai Mountain. There was only one winding path up the mountain, which was very steep. The Japanese should have suffered a lot here as well.
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"Old Hu, what's wrong?" Seeing Hu Hongde looking straight at the mountain, Ye Tian patted him on the shoulder.
"Uh, it's okay, Ye Tian, let's go up the mountain first and wait for them on the mountain!"
Hu Hongde had not been here for many years. Standing at the foot of the mountain, he recalled the past events that happened more than half a century ago and felt a little dazed for a while.
Ye Tianxin made some deductions with his hand, his brows suddenly furrowed, he reached out to hold Hu Hongde, and said: "Wait a minute, I just made a prediction. They should be thirty miles northeast, and they may not necessarily go up the mountain!"
Many people in the Qi Sect know how to seek good fortune and avoid evil. Ye Tian had calculated Meng Xiazi's whereabouts before, but only knew that he was in the mountains. But now that the distance was closer, Ye Tian's deduction was much more accurate.
"Thirty miles northeast? Isn't that the direction of Black Dragon Pond?"
Hu Hongde was stunned when he heard this. There was a bottomless pool in that place, and it was shrouded in poisonous fog all year round. Few people dared to approach that area.
After listening to Hu Hongde's explanation of the Black Dragon Pond, Ye Tian smiled and said: "Old Hu, it's just the Dragon Pond and the Tiger's Den. What do you and I have to be afraid of!"
"Okay, when we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, let's go!"
Hu Hongde was so excited by what Ye Tian said that he threw all the extra things on his body to the ground. He only held the crossbow and a sharp machete at his waist.
Due to the dense mountain forests, firearms are not the best choice for encounters in the old woods. In close encounters, cold weapons can often play a greater role.
"Hurry up, walk faster, we still have seven or eight miles to go before we can rest!"
More than thirty miles away from Ye Tian and the others, Meng Xiazi was constantly urging Guo Zichen and others. He realized that taking these people with him was a mistake, and he postponed his planned arrival at his lair for a whole day.
What worried Meng Xiazi the most was that he would feel palpitations in his heart from time to time, just like being targeted by a Siberian tiger when he went into the mountains at the age of eighteen. His intuition told him that Hu Hongde was not far away from him.
