In other seasons, there are constant business trips, but Xifeng Pass, where camels line up, is a bit deserted today. Only one Taoist stood at the foot of the city with a horse and a cat.
The Taoist showed the customs clearance documents, thanked the defenders, and walked out of the pass gate with his horse.
The tinkling of the horse bells is still going on, drifting away in the wind.
The Taoist couldn't help but turn around and look.
The city wall made of rammed loess is harder than solid stone. The city wall is equipped with gorgeous towers, red pillars, green tiles, carved railings and painted buildings. It is Dayan's first business card facing the Western Regions - people from the Western Regions come here.
Seeing the towering pass city wall and the gorgeous towers above, you are the first to understand the national power and aesthetics of Dayan. If those who come from behind go to the Western Regions, leave Dayan, and come here, they can also look back at the people from Dayan for the last time.
Civilized architecture represents the architectural aesthetics of people's livelihood in Dayan and does not forget the homeland of Tujia.
I don’t know how many literati bid farewell to me and sent them here. With emotion, I wrote an eternal poem.
I also left Xifeng Pass today.
It's a pity that I don't have a few ounces of ink in my stomach.
"..."
Song You shook his head, smiled, and continued walking.
The snow that day also fell here.
Thanks to the snow, it was a lot moister along the way, and some lakes in the desert that had dried up were now filled with water again.
Song You could see a pink lake in the depths of the desert. It was pink in the shallows and darker in the depths, like juice squeezed from pomegranates. The waves were blown by the wind and rolled up white foam on the shore.
There is also a natural salt lake with criss-crossed waterways, dividing the lake into many small grids. Each grid is a different color, some are green like jade, some are blue like the sky, some are yellow-green like grass, and there are also formations in the lake.
The salt flowers look like countless pieces of jade spread on the ground. They are also a strange sight that can only be seen in this magical land.
Passing by these wonderful sights, Song You couldn't help but sigh.
There is no doubt that this is a rare beauty and beauty in the world. You don’t need to appreciate it carefully, just walk by it, it will make you fall in without realizing it, and make you sigh "it is so beautiful".
In addition to beauty, there is also a touch of wonder.
The wonderful thing is that if it hadn't snowed during the Song Dynasty, the snow turned into water and was stored in the desert lakes. Even if he walked here, he wouldn't be able to see these strange and colorful gems in the desert. At most, he could see dry gems with water.
The stained potholes. Thinking about it carefully, it seems like a gift from this world to him.
As we walked further, the soil changed color unconsciously, becoming redder, as if it had been burned by fire.
Even the mountains on the road turned red.
After walking through the snowfall area of Song You, the land became dry again, even drier. The ground was covered with dry grass, and it looked as if it had been baked or fried, so dry that it became brittle and crumbled when touched.
In the vast desert, there is no edge in sight, not even wild donkeys and wild camels can be seen. There is only a Taoist, a bay horse and a calico cat walking on the Gobi, and a swallow is flying in the sky.
As we go further west, it is clear that spring has just begun, and there is still a bit of chill in Shazhou no matter day or night, but it is getting hotter and hotter, even unbearable. The group of people have to hide every noon.
When I drive in the morning when it gets hot and in the evening after the sun goes down, the Gobi is flat and my shadows are always stretched out.
On the Gobi Desert, apart from the sound of the wind, the only sounds left were the voices of Taoists and cats.
"Why is this place called Gobi?"
"I don't know either."
"Well! There's something else you don't know!"
"There are still many things I don't know." The Taoist turned to look at her, "And even if I know, it's just because I have the advantage of being older, so I know it before Empress Sanhua."
The Sanhua Cat also turned to look at the Taoist: "Then will the Sanhua Empress know more than you?"
"Of course."
"real?"
"Really." The Taoist walked slowly with a stick and nodded. To save energy, his voice became very low. "Firstly, Sanhua Empress is smarter than me. Secondly, when Sanhua Empress was young, I had already taught me
Everything I know has been told to Empress Sanhua. When Empress Sanhua grows up and learns new things, she will naturally know more than me."
"Well……"
Mao'er thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the truth.
Then he withdrew his gaze and stepped forward.
Some places in the Gobi are hard and some are soft. The hard places are full of gravels, which are sharp and irritating to her feet when she walks. The soft places are full of fine sand, which is burned by the sun and makes her step on it.
If you go down, the whole mangosteen will sink into the sand. It will be hot and weak, and it will be awkward and uncomfortable to walk.
The calico cat couldn't help but stretched its neck and looked around. It felt that no matter which direction it looked from, its line of sight was unobstructed. It could see the end of the earth and the fog on the horizon. Due to the light, the horizon showed colors ranging from blue to yellow to gray.
The gradient color is very gentle.
The earth is like a circle without edges.
"This place is so big, when can we get out?" the calico cat couldn't help but ask.
"As long as you walk, you can get out."
"We're almost out of water."
"Almost there."
Song You has already vaguely felt it——
The temperature here is gradually rising, which seems ordinary, but there is an unusual aura inside.
There is great power ahead.
The power of the eight genuine scriptures.
"There is nothing here, not even a four-legged snake can be caught." Sanhua Empress turned her head left and right and couldn't help complaining. Cats have always been good at getting along with her, and she is also a person who is good at entertaining herself. If she can find someone to play with on the road
Along with some snacks, I think this journey will be much more interesting.
But as soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly stopped and turned to stare at a seemingly common ups and downs in the Gobi in front of her with a slightly confused expression.
At first glance, the Gobi is flat, but in fact it has many undulations, like fine waves, usually as high as one person. When walking in the Gobi, they usually choose flat places to walk. There are really no flat places, so they try to follow these ripples, otherwise they will die.
It will keep going up and down, but these corrugations are still very soft. Your feet will sink when you step on them, and the sand will flow, making it difficult to walk.
There seems to be nothing unusual about the ups and downs in front of me.
"Ding ding..."
The horse's bells swayed and the sound was crisp.
At this moment, there was sudden movement in the usually silent Gobi.
"boom!"
There was an explosion.
The pile of sand in the distance suddenly exploded, throwing up a sky full of coarse sand, revealing the body of a monster over one foot tall.
The monster's lower body resembles some kind of multi-legged sandworm, and its upper body is similar to a humanoid, but with four arms. Its skin is earthy and fleshy. It has a big body, a round waist, and a face full of flesh. The head is also very round, and the top of the head is bare.
, but it has red hair on both sides and red beard.
The body, which is more than one foot tall, gives people a considerable sense of oppression. Fortunately, it does not have sharp claws and fangs, so it looks much softer.
"How difficult is it?"
The monster shouted something in an unknown language, like a question, and the sound was like thunder.
Although he was asking, at the same time as he was asking, he suddenly waved his hand and lifted up a pillar of sand on the ground, mixed with grass roots, like a dragon and snake, and rushed straight towards the group of people in front of him.
"Meow!"
The calico cat reacts very quickly, waving its claws instantly.
A small flag flew out of the saddlebags on the horse's back.
"Canopy..."
As the flag flew out, a plume of black smoke was emitted. The black smoke instantly fell to the ground and turned into a huge bear demon.
The bear demon was also tall and round, standing as tall as a man, directly blocking the sand pillar with his body.
The sand pillar flew extremely fast and was very powerful. It hit the body of the bear demon, spread instantly along the bear demon's body, entered the bear demon's hair, and even knocked the bear demon back a step.
But he just took a step back and did not hurt the bear demon.
The calico cat quickly ran forward.
She ran all the way to the bear demon's feet and climbed up along the bear demon's huge body. Her posture was flexible. In just a few blinks, she climbed onto the bear demon's shoulders. However, she did not fight back rashly, but turned back.
He looked at the Taoist and then looked at the monster with doubt.
"who are you?"
The monster finally changed the language, but the accent was a little strange.
When he saw the bear demon in front of him who was almost the same height as him and even stronger than him, he was stunned for a moment, but he was not afraid.
Still asking, he waved his hand again.
This time, all four hands were waving together.
"boom!"
The local sand rolled up into pillars again, like dragons and snakes. Two of them rushed towards the bear demon with greater strength than before. Two of them drew an arc in the air, bypassed the bear demon and rushed towards the Taoist behind him.
.
This time Empress Sanhua couldn't bear it any longer.
"Meow!"
"Roar!"
A cat meows and a bear roars, one after the other.
Two huge bear claws pressed down at the same time, directly crushing a saloon with huge force, then he lay down and rushed forward, smashing another saloon with his shoulders, and then roared and rushed towards the monster at a very fast speed.
The calico cat on top of it had to lean down and hold on to it tightly, otherwise it would be thrown away.
"call……"
Suddenly the sky was full of wind and sand in the Gobi desert.
Part of it was the two broken saloons, part of it was the dust and sand stirred up by the giant bear's frantic stampeding, but most of it was the sand stirred up by the monster on the opposite side.
The turbulent wind and sand obscured the view.
"Canopy..."
The giant bear pushed away the wind and sand and rushed over there.
However, after rushing over, I discovered that the monster had disappeared, leaving only a pile of yellow sand on the ground, which was almost the size of the monster.
At the same time, the bear demon seemed to react and turned around instantly.
In the Gobi Desert behind me, the sand seemed to be controlled by some force. It surged upward and piled up a monster more than ten feet high. Then the sand on the surface slowly slid down, and the monster was inside.
This time the monster did not launch an attack rashly. Instead, it looked at the bear monster in front and the calico cat behind it. Then it turned its head and looked at the Taoist and the bay horse standing with a stick next to it, with doubts on their faces - this giant bear blocked the attack.
He saw his attack and could understand it. After all, the bear demon was not weak, but there were two saloons rushing towards the man and the horse, but he didn't know how the man blocked them.
He didn't see it just now, and there didn't seem to be any movement or feedback. It was as if the two salons had disappeared on their own.
But the calico cat couldn't tolerate him.
The cat had a serious face and opened its mouth to inhale. The bear demon seemed to have a mental connection with her and immediately stood up, providing her with enough height so that she could spit out the real fire.
"call……"
A large canopy of real fire surged out, also like a dragon.
The monster frowned slightly and raised his hand again.
"Wow!"
Sand suddenly flew up from the ground, forming a wall two feet thick.
Although Sanhua Empress's real fire has a high temperature and a domineering aura, its impact is not strong after all. It can only spread along this sand wall and cannot hurt the monsters behind it.
"Ask the mountain god to come out!"
The cat shouted softly and carefully——
The large and small stones in the Gobi suddenly started to roll and piled up in the middle, forming a stone giant nearly one foot tall in the blink of an eye.
This is the growth of Sanhua Empress.
All due to hard work.
But the bear demon reacted faster than her, and seemed to be a little smarter than her. As early as when the mountain gods had just gathered together, striding forward, speeding up like crazy, trying to smash the sand wall, the bear demon was already looking for it from the ground.
The largest stone, about the size of a basin, hit the sand wall hard.
"boom!"
A gap was instantly opened in the sand wall.
The calico cat opened its mouth and vomited without hesitation.
"call!"
The real fire surged out again.
Just when he was about to vomit into the monster, the monster's huge body suddenly spread out and turned into a pile of yellow sand, which scattered down, leaving only another pile of sand on the Gobi desert.
"call……"
The flames hit the pile of sand and burned it, causing the sand to change color quickly.
But it didn't hurt the monster.
"Well?"
The calico cat turned its head again, looking for the monster, and frowned at the same time, feeling that the monster was both impolite and difficult to deal with. It was much harder to deal with than catching a mouse.
"Wow..."
The sand in the distance gathered together again, forming the figure of the monster.
This time it was much further away than before.
"You guys are pretty awesome!"
The monster stood on the sand, its lower body lying down, and its many limbs moved from time to time, while its upper body stood upright and looked at them: "What are you doing here at our Flame God Mountain?"
"Rumble..."
The stone giant waved his hands and rushed towards him with large strides.
Soft sand, one step at a time.
The calico cat also jumped down from the giant bear, and while running forward, rushed towards the monster, while summoning tigers and wolves, he decided to use his flexibility and numerical advantages to defeat the bear monster and tiger that he had just conquered.
The group of wolves each occupies a place in the Gobi, and they have a good fight with him to see where he disappears and comes out.
Only to see the Taoist next to him wave his hand.
"!"
The cat immediately braked and stopped.
The stone giant also slowed down and stopped.
"My surname is Song Mingyou, a native of Dayan Yizhou. I have traveled all over the world. I have heard the name of the Flame Mountain for a long time, and I also heard that ancient gods live here, so I want to come and see it."
Guard officer, why did you ask us and then start a fight as soon as we met without waiting for our answer?"
"snort!"
The monster was not afraid at all and just said in a deep voice: "How can you allow people with evil intentions to break into the forbidden area of the sacred mountain? How can you see my god if you want to?"
But as soon as he finished speaking, he was stunned.
Then he ignored Song You and leaned forward, as if listening to an inaudible voice, showing respect.
When I straightened up again, my attitude had changed.