"You!" Qinghuang endured the severe pain, ripped off the crackling demon-suppressing talisman in his hand, and threw it into the river.
His face wrinkled, and his originally handsome face was split into two, with two huge fangs cracked out.
Xia Ze had quick eyes and quick hands and kicked her off the Locust Ferry.
The old man fishing in the distance saw that something was going wrong. He twisted his body and flew out from his raincoat. A black catfish the size of a waterwheel flew out. With a slap of its tail covered in mucus, it jumped three feet high and burst into blood.
As soon as the basin opened its mouth, a mountain of monstrous came crashing down on everyone.
"Would you like fish for lunch?" Xia Ze asked, looking at the catfish that was falling heavily.
"No, the earthy smell is too strong." Mu Tao said straightforwardly.
"That's it." He slowly squatted down and stretched his muscles.
"Old Wu, have you ever seen the true style of a swordsman?"
Wu Zhuan smiled frankly and said: "I have never seen it before, so I ask my lord to show it to the little god."
"Look!" He stepped heavily on the ground, stood up from the ground, and punched the catfish monster in the smooth belly in mid-air.
Unexpectedly, this catfish monster was covered in slippery mucus, and his powerful punches only managed to hit it seven points. On the other hand, Xia Ze, with a look of astonishment on his face, slid down the Locust Ferry and fell into the water with a plop.
Song Xi was just about to rush to save him, but when he saw everyone around him looking indifferent, he immediately laughed and felt relieved.
Sure enough, with the red light in the river and a splash, Xia Ze rose up with his sword. The fire spirits scattered, drying the soaked clothes instantly. Xia Ze combed the scattered hair behind his head and swayed.
The sword rose above everyone's heads.
With one slash of the sword, the catfish monster didn't even react.
It wasn't until one of its fins fell to the ground and it smelled the burnt smell of fish flesh burned by the flames that it rolled on the ground in heart-rending pain.
Another giant green shadow fell from the sky, flapping its wings continuously.
Xia Ze frowned slightly and struck a thunderbolt with his palm, breaking off a corner of the monster's limbs.
The monster kicked off the Lihuo Bahuang Sword, ignoring the pain of the burning fire, and flapped its wings desperately. The crowd behind Xia Ze flew away, and her target was none other than the handsome young master Wu Zhui that she had fallen in love with earlier.
Everyone took a closer look and saw that the flying object was a seven-foot-sized green locust with feathery wings and stars made of gold sleeves.
Mu Tao threw out the silver bracelet in his hand. The spinning silver bracelet shone with bright light and circled a few times before finally crashing into the locust.
The latter screamed strangely and had no choice but to flap its wings and fly back.
On both sides of the river, bursts of noisy insect chirping could be heard, and soon tens of thousands of red locusts flew across the river, killing everyone on the bridge. They were so densely packed and overwhelming that it was very scary.
"Be careful, that is the Blood Locust, the follower of the Locust Spirit. It likes to suck human blood and is very difficult to deal with." The old man reminded.
Mu Tao put her hand on her bun, took out the golden hairpin and shook her hand. The long sword once again whipped up a strong wind of sword energy, smashing the blood locusts in all directions.
On the other side of the battlefield, Xia Ze seemed to have some realization. He held the sword forward with both hands and maintained a sword-raising movement without moving at all.
After a long time, he touched his head and put away his sword: "Forget it, this move is too lethal, let's save it for next time."
The originally frightened catfish monster, at the critical moment of life and death, did not care about so many things and plucked up the courage to jump into the river.
Li You smelled the pungent smell of locust blood in the air and was very unhappy. The Heavenly Master sword was unsheathed behind his back, and he twisted his hands in the secret: "Don't think I can only use thunder!"
The Heavenly Master Sword that left the body was divided into eight pieces, transformed into a Bagua shape, and placed in all directions.
Thousands of flying swords flew out from the Bagua illusion and faced the blood locusts tit for tat. In a short time, they killed seven or seven hundred and eighty-eight locusts all over the sky.
Just when everyone was using their own methods to fight against the enemy, a large green locust suddenly jumped out from among the corpses of bloody locusts that had fallen to the ground behind them. It grabbed Wu Hao's clothes with its sharp claws and fluttered its wings away.
After the woman named Qinghuang succeeded, she gradually changed from the locust figure back to that of a woman, and held Wu Zhui in her arms.
"My little lover, now my trip is finally worthwhile." She murmured.
The woman suddenly realized that something was wrong. Wu Zhui had been arrested. Logically speaking, as Taoist monks on the mountain, they should have used various means to catch up. Why were they all frozen in place?
She plucked up the courage and flew back some distance, only to find that everyone, including Mu Tao, was smiling at her, as if they were gloating about her misfortune.
"Why don't you continue?" He said with a bad smile.
The green and yellow locust demon felt waves of burning sensation all over his body, wailed, and huddled up.
Wu Zui shook his hand, and there was a neon dress embroidered with gold silk in his hand. On his right hand was a crawling green locust.
At the other end, Tun Tian was already gnawing on the head of the overcooked catfish monster. Although it was only the size of a kitten, after a while, most of the catfish had entered his stomach. The eating was particularly vicious, which made Li You feel sick in his stomach.
surge.
Everyone finally successfully passed the Migratory Locust Crossing.
After crossing the long stone arch bridge, there turned out to be a dense peach forest on the other side. It was still four or five miles away from Mawei's grave. Everyone decided to take a rest here.
This place is covered with countless peach trees. It is midsummer at this time, and the peach blossom season should have passed. However, the peach blossoms here are in full bloom, with colorful fallen leaves, fragrant grass, and the trees are also covered with fresh, sweet and delicious fruits.
of flat peach.
Song Xi was quite familiar with this place. He led Li You, Fu Qi, Nie Yueming, and Su Xian to sing a folk tune, climb up and down, and pick peaches.
Unexpectedly, Fu Qi learned this folk tune by humming it, and within a short time he was singing harmony with Song Xi, an old man and a young man.
Li You had a paranoid mysophobia and was quite afraid of the fuzz on peaches. When the old man asked him to go up a tree to pick peaches, he was very reluctant and could not be called a spoiled young man, so he picked a peach.
, you have to go to the river bank to clean it.
Nie Yueming was originally depressed, but when he saw Li You's ink marks, he thought that the opportunity to perform meritorious deeds had come, so he volunteered to go up the tree to help pick peaches. He was already tall and physically strong.
As time went by, peaches from even the highest places were easily captured, and gradually the baskets filled with peaches were filled to the brim.
Su Xian below was not shy about praising him. He was a little arrogant, and his climbing momentum was also heroic. Unexpectedly, the peach branch under his feet suddenly broke, and he fell down the hillside inadvertently. When he climbed out again, his body was covered with
The rotten peach pulp was in an extremely miserable state.
On a dry bluestone platform, Wu Zhuan was dressed in Chinese clothes and sitting upright, as if he was reviewing a case. Next to him squatted a little fox, listless.
And the locust spirit that had just been subdued was now turning into a woman, sitting on her knees on the ground, completely losing her previous flirtatious posture.
It turns out that this spirit is the locust with the sword abandoned by the immortal. It is the acquired sword spirit formed by absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. Because it has been wandering here alone for nearly a thousand years, it has a wild temper. However, it is limited by the fact that the sword body of the locust has already arched the bridge.
Integrate into one.
In order to break through the restriction of the sword as soon as possible, survive the three disasters, and escape from this place as soon as possible, he colluded with a thousand-year-old catfish spirit in the locust crossing the river, and became an old woman and a robber here, asking for gold to make golden locusts.
Clothes.
Wu Zui looked troubled: "My lord, I saw that this locust spirit also has some magical powers, how about..."
Xia Ze ran away: "I'm going out for a walk."
When they came to an uninhabited corner, the wind blew and peach blossoms scattered all over the sky. Xia Ze clenched his fists and said in a daze: "Master Qi'er, principles don't work, but fists work better."
"Are you worried that you are too weak now and can't reason well?" Mu Tao jumped down from the tree.
Xia Ze was startled: "Miss Mu, why are you here?"
"I think the reason why the old god is willing to give you his godhood is because he sees something valuable in you, so he doesn't want you to get into trouble here." She smiled.
Xia Ze was stunned for a moment, then touched the back of his head: "Miss Mu, can you speak more clearly? I used to be playful and I haven't been to school for a few days..."
Mu Tao was amused by him, she clenched her fist and hit him on the head gently: "Being a human being is like a plant growing. If you have roots, you will survive. If you don't have roots, you will die. Master Qier gave you the godhead, not to ask you to be a person who abides by death.
A saint with rules, right? No matter how many books you read or how knowledgeable you are, you can use this to explain the truth well and make the world a better place?"
Xia Ze's eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered that Mr. Qier had indeed said such a thing.
The girl smiled and then said: "Not necessarily, I just think that if you keep being like this, thinking about being like a beggar while conflicting with the truth that you firmly believe in your heart, it will make your originally clear heart
Your heart has become complicated, and there are no difficulties binding you from beginning to end, so where can you find relief?"
"My father usually likes to talk about big things. I don't want to listen to it, but I can tell you this. He often says that you can do things with a worldly mind, and be a human being with a worldly mind. What is existence? There is nothing, and nothing can exist until there is no self.
The true self. I must neither be infatuated nor reject all things in the world. Once I have accepted this love, I must personally walk in this world and see what is clean and what is dirty. What is chaotic is the world. All things work together. I
Look again."
She paused: "This involves the method of radius and circle."
Xia Ze's brows gradually eased: "Heaven covers me, earth carries me, heaven and earth give birth to me intentionally or not..."
Mu Tao smiled brightly and said, "You can teach a child."
The two of them walked along the peach blossom path. Xia Ze took things in his arms and put them away, but he never had the courage to give them to Mu Tao.