The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 52
The two of Bai Yang traveled for several miles, and the sky was gradually getting brighter.The singing of birds in the valley was pleasant, and the two of them felt safe.After running around all night, the two were startled and sleepy. After finding a safe place, they couldn't restrain their sleepiness, and fell asleep under the cover of vines and flowers.

Half awake and half asleep, Bai Fu felt something touching him.Bai Fu got up in shock, holding his sword in his hand, Ding Qing saw a white elephant standing in front of him, with a kind expression on his face, stroking himself with its trunk.This elephant is huge, several times larger than ordinary elephants.Bai Fu knew that this image must be a divine object, so he bowed and worshiped.Bai Xiang also possessed himself and knelt down, as if exchanging bows with Bai Fu.

Yichan also woke up, and when he was feeling amazed, the white elephant stretched out its long trunk and rolled Bai Fu and Yichan onto the elephant's back.After the two sat down firmly, the white elephant ran vigorously, carrying the two of them through the valley for more than a hundred miles, into a deep valley.The terrain in the valley is flat. Standing on the back of an elephant, looking into the distance, the valley with a radius of more than ten miles has two cliffs, full of big trees, towering into the clouds.

When the white elephant arrived here, trembling, he walked and looked, and walked another six or seven miles, and came to a tall old tree.The ancient trees are towering, surrounded like a giant house, densely hidden from the sky, surrounded by vegetation, and their roots hang down.The white elephant flicked Bai Fu with its trunk, and then pointed up at the tree.Bai Fu seemed to realize something, so he took Yichan, jumped off the elephant, grabbed the vines, and climbed up the tree.

The white elephant looked up from under the tree.Bai Yang and the others kept climbing up the tree, and when they reached more than ten feet, they looked down, and Bai Xiang pointed it straight with its trunk, signaling them to continue climbing.When the two reached the top of the tree, there was actually a "tree house". The tree house built a "herringbone"-shaped tree shed with branches, and the branches were thick and dense, allowing one or two people to live.When Bai Xiang saw the two arrived at the tree house, he left satisfied.

The two of Bai Yang were at a loss, they didn't know what Bai Xiang was doing.Looking carefully at the tree house, there are traces of people living in it.Several tiger skins made the bed, a wine gourd leaned on the head of the bed, and a carved iron bow hung on the wall, with dozens of spiked iron arrows stuck in the quiver under the bow.

This bow has a dark red body, dull and dull, without any gorgeous decorations. At first glance, it is plain and unremarkable, but it is simple and clumsy, which makes people dare not underestimate it. The seal character "Bi" is engraved on the back of the bow.

Bai Fu took the bow and weighed it in his hand, it was very heavy, he thought: This is a famous and hard bow, I don't know which senior's favorite it is, and I don't know if I can draw it.Thinking of this, the competitive heart arises.He concentrated and calmed down, stretched his legs in a bow and arrow step, supported the arched back with his left hand, and pulled the bowstring with his right hand. He exhausted all his physical strength, and when he called out the dantian qi, he heard it in his helix, slap, slap, slap, and finally the bow opened like a full moon.Bai Fu hung up the Spike Iron Arrow again, and when the arrow shot out, it was thunderous, piercing stone and cracking gold, with incomparable power.

Bai Fu was overjoyed, and said to Yichan: "The Nether Valley is extremely dangerous, with this carved bow and iron arrow in hand, there will be more chances of winning." Yichan was extremely guilty, and apologized: "Blame me for letting Senior Brother Bai fall into the trap." Dangerously."

Bai Fubao held the bow in his hand, with great pride, he held up Yichan, and said: "Junior Sister Yang, you and I are from the same family, how can you see death without saving? The matter has come to an end, it is useless to talk more. We two work together, even if the tiger den Longtan , will definitely be able to travel the road of birth!"

Yichan was originally bent on death, but at this moment she was also infected by Bai Fu, and her heart grew stronger.

At this time, night fell, and the stars fell on the plains.There were hordes of beasts under the tree, so the two of them stayed in the tree house with their clothes, so it was safe.Finally, the next day, at dawn, Bai Fu opened his eyes and saw the white elephant carrying two people on the meadow under the tree yesterday, leading more than a hundred elephants here.The elephant herd was agitated and anxious.

And when the sky was bright, a huge beast came running from a distance, its eyes were like lightning!The giant beast has a head like a giant crocodile, with a huge mouth and ferocious fangs. Two curly crowns extend from the top of the head to the bridge of the nose, meeting in the center of the face.The giant beast is more than ten feet high and has a huge body several times that of an elephant. Its limbs have sharp claws, its forelimbs are short and its hind limbs are thick. It is as fierce as a rhinoceros. It has a long, stiff tail and a loud roar.Yichan was also awakened by the roar of the giant beast.

The giant beast roared like an order, and there were more than a hundred elephants under the tree, lying in front of the giant beast, not daring to move.The giant beast walked forward with its toes high and high.The group of elephants worshiped like servants, trembling.The giant beast dragged out two young elephants from the herd, and the young elephants kept struggling and whining, calling for their mother.The mother elephant's tears dripped down like strings of pearls, but she dared not speak out.

The giant beast bit the baby elephant's neck hard, and the baby elephant's cry stopped immediately, and there was only deathly silence around.The giant beast turned its huge square head, looking around, arrogant and domineering.It bent down towards the young elephant, used its huge hind legs to hold down the young elephant, opened its belly with its front paws, and opened its bloody mouth to tear the flesh from the young elephant.Holding the bloody piece of meat in his mouth, he swallowed it with his neck up, making a disgusting "creaking" sound of chewing bones.The giant beast devoured the meat and blood of the two young elephants in a short time, and then they were satisfied and lay down to rest.At this time, the group of elephants dared to retreat slowly, and only the mother elephant was left lingering on the bones of the young elephant, crying sadly.

Seeing this tragedy in Xiangjian, Bai Fu couldn't help but sigh a lot, and Yichan even burst into tears and couldn't bear to look directly.At this time, Bai Fu realized the deep meaning of Bai Xiangtuo and his arrival here.Bai Fu took out the carved bow, drew out the wolf-fanged iron arrow, and stretched his arms, the bow stretched to the full moon, aimed at the eyes of the giant beast, and shot as far as possible.The arrow was like a shooting star, and with two "swish" sounds, it hit the giant beast's eyes.The giant beast took a nap, defenseless, lost its eyes, and was in unbearable pain.

Bai Fu saw that the giant beast was still fierce even after it was blinded, so he called out to lead the beast.The giant beast was furious, it heard the sound and looked for the person, roared and rushed towards the big tree, when it hit the tree, although the tree they were in was huge, it couldn't hold back the power of the giant beast, and it was about to collapse.At the critical moment, Bai Fu's heart was as still as water, and he aimed his bow. When the giant beast opened its mouth and roared, he shot the arrow into its mouth and pierced through the heart.

The giant hissed for a long time, fell to the ground and rolled, convulsed for a stick of incense, and then died.There was an instant silence in the valley.The white elephant appeared from nowhere, looked at every step, and cautiously came to the corpse of the giant beast, first sniffed it with its long trunk, and then touched the corpse of the giant beast with the top of its head.Finding that the giant beast was indeed dead, the white elephant looked up to the sky and screamed.Not long after, hundreds of elephants rushed into the valley from all directions, surrounded the corpse of the giant beast, roaring excitedly, and the sound penetrated dozens of miles.

Bai Xiang was quite spiritual, so he ran to the ancient tree, knelt down, and bowed to Bai Yang and his wife.Immediately, he stretched his proboscis and summoned the two to come down.After the two descended from the tree, they rode on the back of the elephant again.The white elephants carried them galloping through the valley, and the herd of elephants followed closely behind.Vientiane is galloping, the earth is shaking, and it is magnificent.

　The story in this chapter is adapted from Dai Fu (Tang)'s "Guang Yi Ji" and Wei Fenghua's "Tang Dynasty Dark Night 2".Mr. Wei's "Dark Night of the Tang Dynasty" series is wonderfully written, which is mind-opening, and I sincerely recommend it.

　　


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