From Xiaoao to travel around the world

Chapter 195 Polar Regions
"Have you ever seen Shi Zhixuan?"

Chita Mountain faces east, and Yang Qing leads the crowd to set up a bonfire in the sandy ground that is not covered by snow.

Pei Xingyan's arms and ribs have been reset, and the injuries on his body have been healed by Changchun Gong.

In the end, he summoned everyone to check whether there was any flaming energy entering his body one by one, and then asked about Shi Zhixuan's whereabouts.

"Your Majesty, when the avalanche continued, I saw a person heading north."

"North?"

Yang Qing was slightly puzzled when he heard this.

During the day, when Shi Zhixuan received his palm on the mountain, he was already extremely relaxed, far from having to vomit blood in Chang'an.

In addition, when he was killing the killer, he was still smiling and smiling, and he was not as irritable as before.

It stands to reason that it should be a further step in the cultivation method, which has become more perfect.

The problem of schizophrenia should also be cured by the evil emperor's relic, so why go north.

Turning to look at Shi Feixuan, she also shook her head to express her ignorance.

"This girl." Pei Xingyan sat up at this moment and cupped his fists to Concubine Shixuan: "Mr. Pei thank you for saving me earlier."

When Yang Qing fell into the snow tide and threw him into the air, his strength had already weakened a lot, it was finally Shi Feixuan who helped him escape.

"If you have the skill, why not think about how to bring your people back. Jieli now wishes to have you skinned and cramp."

"Hehe, don't worry, Your Majesty." Pei Xingyan looked at Yang Qing with a smile and said, "The young general has already made plans. When I recover from my injury, the safekeeping can give Turk a hard time."

Seeing that he was confident, Yang Qing didn't bother to ask any more.

Pei Xingyan has been on the battlefield for a long time, this time he has been raging in Turkic for a long time, if he can go back safely, I am afraid that his reputation will shake the Central Plains.

But he didn't ask, but Pei Xingyan suddenly reacted and said: "Your Majesty, won't you go with us?"

"I still have work to do."

"If you don't go back, how can I explain to you adults?"

Yang Qing shook his head and said, "Don't worry, let's go, no one will embarrass you."

At this time, Concubine Shi Xuan took the dry food that had been roasted on the fire and handed it over, Yang Qing took it in her hand and distributed it to Pei Xingyan.

The people around had already roasted the few rations they carried, and chewed together the snow powder brought from afar.

For the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, at this moment, everyone felt an unspeakable relaxation in their hearts.

While eating, they sat around and whispered something, and some even fell asleep while talking.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, Pei Xingyan couldn't hold back his eyelids, Yang Qing and Shi Feixuan sat cross-legged and adjusted their breath until dawn.

The sun rose and the moon set, Pei Xingyan had recovered most of his strength after waking up.

He called everyone to get ready to go, and then he walked up to Yang Qing: "Your Majesty, are you really not going with us?"

"You were never such a mother-in-law before."

"The young general thinks that if the emperor can take us back, Luoyang's people will be greatly boosted." Pei Xingyan sighed: "People in the Central Plains have been bullied by the Turks for too long."

With a word of emotion, his face suddenly became serious, and he clasped his fists heavily and said: "If the emperor has no orders, the young general will go right away."

"I don't have any orders, just go back alive." Yang Qing looked at him and said with a smile: "But I'm a little curious, what are your plans?"

"The general will be away, and the king's life will not be accepted. Since the emperor doesn't want to go together, then don't ask about such secrets." Pei Xingyan finished speaking arrogantly, and then smiled flatteringly:
"But the young general has one more thing to ask the emperor. I heard that you went to Chang'an last time, did you have any friendship with Li Shimin?"

Yang Qing heard the words and asked in his heart, "Don't you want to return to Luoyang from Jinyang?"

"Exactly." Pei Xingyan nodded and said, "There is a beginning and an end. The young general brings people out from there, and he has to go back from there."

"Surprise."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, although this move is dangerous, I've already figured it out. As long as the timing is right, Cuan Jieli won't be able to react." He frowned again and said:
"It's just that I don't know if Li Shimin has taken back Jinyang. If he guards the pass, I don't know if I can rush over."

Yang Qing thought for a while, then took off the green bamboo sword from his waist and handed it to Pei Xingyan: "I don't know when Li Shimin will take back Jinyang, but it won't be too long.

If he blocks the way in the future, you will give this sword to him. "

"This... works?"

When Wang Shichong was there, Luoyang and Chang'an were incompatible.Pei Xingyan didn't know what Yang Qing had done in Chang'an, but he could let Li Shimin go with just a sword.

"Snapped!"

Raising his hand and patting him on the back of the head, Yang Qing turned and walked north without looking back.

Stretching out his hand to scratch the back of his head, Pei Xingyan raised his head and saw that Yang Qing had gone away with Shi Feixuan, so he could only shout loudly: "Take care, Your Majesty, come back early!"

When the voice fell, the figures of the two had disappeared on the distant plain.

Turning around and returning to the team, he raised Yang Qing's saber and shouted: "Send someone to contact the brothers who divided the troops before, and the rest will follow me back, kill people! Grab the horse!"

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The two sides separated, and Yang Qing and Shi Feixuan walked not far north, when they saw a cedar tree beside the road being split into two pieces.

Half were still standing in the snow, and the other half fell to the ground, pointing north.

Shi Feixuan stepped forward and flicked the section of the broken tree, the tentacles were as smooth as a mirror, without any trace of chiseling.

She turned her head and looked at Yang Qing, nodded and said: "This must be left by Shi Zhixuan, he is showing us the way?"

"It's not difficult to understand." Yang Qing replied: "On the mountain, he may have taken advantage of the opportunity because of the perfect timing. It's fine if I die. If I don't die, of course I have to go find him.

He didn't want to avoid me either. "

"Then why didn't he wait and see at the foot of the mountain."

"That's what I have to ask him." Yang Qing shook his head and said, "Maybe he wants to find a satisfactory battlefield, or maybe he just wants to go to the north to see."

Concubine Shixuan nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

She didn't mention that Yang Qing left her to go up the mountain alone yesterday, and Yang Qing didn't mention her help in the falling snow.

The two of them walked in silence until the afternoon of the ninth day when a violent cold wind came down, and he dug a snow pit in the thick snow, sealed the hole and waited for the wind to pass.

From time to time along the way, you can see traces left by Shi Zhixuan, all pointing to the north without exception.

Yang Qing had a vague premonition in his heart, when he met Shi Zhixuan again, it would probably not be too far before he broke through the air.

This feeling is not groundless.

At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged in the snow pit, and the flames of the nine suns and stars rose in the sea of ​​air.

But except for the core position of the stars, the rest of the color is no longer the bright red it used to be, but pale gold.

It is second to be able to use this to activate the fire bell seal, or the power of the exercise itself is enhanced. What is more important is that the Jiuyang Zhenqi can now be activated by the divine mind and have an impact on the surrounding aura.

Cutting the invisible with the invisible is his idea of ​​cutting through the sky mark and shattering the void.

It's just that I have tried all kinds of methods before, but I can't influence the surrounding aura by myself. The only exception is the thunder seal, which seems to be because the seal formula is generated out of thin air, and the principle is elusive.

But now when he circulates the Nine Suns and Stars, once the spiritual energy of the four waves is thrown into the stars, it will also take on the color of flames when it is released from the body, which can be driven by him.

Changing into shapes arbitrarily, it is as if there are countless hands and feet within the scope of divine sense.

However, once it exceeds the range of divine thoughts, or if he transfers other exercises, the spiritual energy will immediately return to its original state and no longer obey his orders.

And probably because of the sudden change in his true qi, the speed at which he can gather his spiritual qi is still too long.

Even if a small amount of spiritual energy forms a sharp sword, the power of cutting it out is far inferior to that of the long sword he holds in his hand because of its falsehood.

It may be enough to deal with ordinary people, but it is definitely not enough to deal with Shi Zhixuan.

So now he seems to be sitting cross-legged and adjusting his breath, but he is actually constantly familiarizing himself with new changes.

In order to form combat power in a short period of time, and even directly carry his will, become a real invisible sword.

"Brother Yang."

Immersed in divine thoughts, in the confluence of true energy and spiritual energy, Yang Qing suddenly heard Shi Feixuan beside her speak.

Opening his eyes, he saw that the surrounding snow walls had begun to melt slowly.

The aura itself has no attributes, but under his constant control for a long time, the aura in a large area around him has the flame characteristic of the nine suns.

He was immersed too deeply, and it was inevitable that he would be negligent for a while.

Put away the nine yang zhenqi, and use the sunflower zhenqi to reach out and brush around, and the snow that was about to melt immediately condenses into ice again.

"You are on Chita Mountain, and your skills seem to be improving again."

Hearing the strong wind above, Yang Qing did not deny it, nodded and said: "There is indeed progress, and when we see Shi Zhixuan again, there may be a result."

Shi Feixuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and she turned to ask: "We have walked north for nearly ten days, and we don't know where we are at the moment."

The two of them went deep into the north these days, and it is conservatively estimated that they have traveled more than [-] miles. According to later generations, they should have reached the central part of Tsarist Russia.

But the country of Tsarist Russia does not exist today.

After thinking about it, Yang Qing could only vaguely say: "According to the previous speed, if we walk for another 20 days, we will probably reach the northern pole."

"Northern polar region?" Concubine Shixuan asked puzzledly, "Where is that place, the horizon?"

"You could say the same."

They had seldom communicated for many days, and at this time they were idle, so Yang Qing picked out some understandable things about the later generations to tell her.

Shi Feixuan was also amazed for a long time when she heard the explanation that was completely contrary to the round sky and the earth.

Fortunately, she was in a clear state of mind, and after listening carefully, she accepted it calmly.

"It's hard to imagine that a dynasty as powerful as the Tang Dynasty will decline one day."

After chatting for a while, she couldn't help feeling emotional when it came to historical issues.

"Your sword heart is worthless cultivation."

Shi Feixuan smiled calmly: "I never thought about these issues when I was on the mountain, but after walking in the world for a long time, it is inevitable that I will have different thoughts."

Yang Qing nodded and said: "Dynasty changes, the world changes, and no one can change it. It has been the same in all dynasties. For thousands of years, the only thing that has changed is the land under our feet, the sky above our heads, and people. of."

"What if you are allowed to be the emperor?"

"It's the same." Yang Qing sneered: "It's easy to get a generation of Mingjun, but it's hard to have a generation of Mingjun. Besides, even if a saint sits on the throne, and he will live forever, he will inevitably end up being pushed down sooner or later."

Concubine Shi Xuan was silent for a while, then sighed after a long time: "It is true."

When they got here, the two of them stopped talking, and returned to their respective breath adjustment states.

The cold wind blew for four consecutive days, and when they broke out again, the top was already covered with snow as high as a person.

It was still the beginning of the twelfth lunar month when he left Luoyang, but counting the days now, the New Year has already passed.

On the way to the north again, Yang Qing thought that there would be a snowstorm, and there was a high probability that Shi Zhixuan would not leave any marks.

However, after walking less than a hundred miles, intermittent clues began to appear along the way.

Sometimes it's snowdrifts pointing north, sometimes it's a broken tree branch, the frozen carcass of a boreal animal or fish.

Because he deliberately let out his energy along the way, Shi Zhixuan seemed to have confirmed that he was not dead, so he kept leaving marks to guide him north.

After walking with Shi Feixuan for a few more days, the dry food for the two of them finally ran out.

Yang Qing also started hunting some animals for dry food.

Shi Feixuan was a little bit against meat at first, but later she had to accept it.

After all, although Cihang Jingzhai has a deep connection with Buddhism, it is not a nunnery after all.

No one else here knows whether the meat is prohibited or not, as long as you can let it go in your heart.

After walking like this for another ten days, the two left countless mountains and snowy forests behind them, and they also saw many strange-looking aborigines and stone fortresses in the snow and ice on the way.

Not only Shi Feixuan, but also Yang Qing found the exotic architecture and distinctive clothing novel.

The local people who happened to meet also gave completely different attitudes to the two people who were wearing thin clothes and walking on the snow without a trace.

Some come to worship as gods, while others are guarded as ghosts.

The most peculiar thing is that when the two passed by a castle one day, they were seen by people on the outer wall from a distance.

But after a while, a group of cavalrymen with axes and guns, bows and arrows chased out.

These people were dressed in different clothes, some were covered with leather armor, some were only covered with animal fur, and some even had their upper body bare, shouting non-stop.

Yang Qing reckoned that he might not be able to understand the "Halal Whistle" when he told them now, so he simply waved his sleeves and raised the flying snow all over the sky to block the way, and then floated away.

Until 20 days later, the front was once again occupied by the endless plain.

By this time, the sky and the earth had become dark, and the sun never rose again.

Yang Qing swept across the layers of snow with his spiritual sense, and saw the solid ice below was blue in color, like crystal gems.

And further below, is the dark sea water.

Concubine Shixuan saw a black spot appearing in the snow in front of her, only to find that it was a corpse of an animal she had never seen before floating in front of her. She turned her head to look at Yang Qing and said:

"what is this?"

Yang Qing swept his eyes and recognized that it was the dead penguin.

Unlike later generations of Arctic penguins that were extinct due to hunting, there are still many arctic creatures called "great auks" living here at this time.

The great auk is almost the same shape as the later penguin, and the adult body is nearly three feet long.

"This is the great auk, also called a penguin."

Concubine Shixuan nodded when she heard the words, and silently wrote it down in her heart.

She glanced across the boundless snowfield, and then asked: "Is this the northern polar region?"

"That's right." Yang Qing swept away the snow under his feet with a wave of his sleeves, revealing the blue ice surface: "Now under our feet, there is a frozen sea. It can be said that we have really reached the end of the sky."

"It turns out that the sky here is always dark."

"Not really, it's only in winter."

As he was talking, the familiar aura in his senses was fleeting, and Yang Qing immediately pulled Shi Feixuan and ran forward.

Not long after running, a row of cascading icebergs about a hundred feet high suddenly rose up on the left side of the field of vision.

On the top of the iceberg, under the starry sky, Shi Zhixuan looked up at the sky, quietly closed his eyes, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was extremely comfortable and leisurely:
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

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(End of this chapter)