endless route.

Chapter 366 6. The weird Zhang Ergou and the oil paper lantern
"Can your black cloud really make it rain?"

Ji Dao murmured softly, stood up and jumped onto the nearby tree. After a climbing sound, he emerged from the crown of the tree. He stood on the branch and stared into the distance of the valley.

Dark clouds obscure the moonlight.

It was pitch black for hundreds of miles.

The faint silver light from the winding stream also dimmed as the black clouds became thicker, making it difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

The cold wind filled with rich rain whizzed past and hit Ji Dao directly in front of his face, making his mouth and nose feel cold and he could not breathe smoothly.

Listen carefully.

There seemed to be the sound of rain more than ten kilometers away. Since it could reach here across the mountains, the rain must be pouring like a waterfall.

The crane also said the same thing.

Although the crane cannot speak human words, it has become an enlightened being. It has lived in the Heavenly Palace from ancient times to the present and has accompanied the Taoists of the Heavenly Palace for hundreds of years. The two parties can communicate simply.

Its willingness is to:

It rained heavily and the mountains were covered with water.

Ji Dao understood the language of birds, and when he heard what the crane said, he modified it into a heavy rain like a waterfall and a hanging river filling the mountains.

The crane's eyesight is far superior to that of humans. Even above the clouds, it can clearly see prey on the ground. This was already shown to the immortal master once near the Three Demon Islands.

Even if there is a raging storm on the sea, the crane can still lock on the person blowing the xun on the dark sea in the dark sky, quickly dive and accurately locate it, and hook it away with a crane claw.

At this moment, the dark clouds are worse than the storm.

Therefore, what Xianhe said cannot be false.

Ji Dao frowned and looked at it. Although he couldn't see it with the naked eye, he could sense it through the sound in the air. The sky in Wuhaixianzhou had changed, and a heavy rain had begun.

"Think about it too."

"The land near the Immortal Gate is muddy, the grass and trees are moist and the rain and dew are crystal clear, and the clear ponds and streams have expanded in area. It obviously rained during this period, and I'm afraid it rained a lot."

"Wuhai Xianmen is located in a higher position."

"The ancients were very particular about site selection."

"Last time I traveled on a crane with Master Xian and looked down at the boundless cliffs to look for human traces. I already discovered that the mountains and ravines on the boundless cliffs were crisscrossed with ups and downs, like a natural chessboard falling into the mortal world."

"The Immortal Gate is at a high place."

"The terrain is lower all around."

"If the area of ​​the Xianmen Stream were to expand, I am afraid that the valleys in all directions would have been overflowing with rainwater, turning the valleys into lakes, changing their paths into rivers, and turning the mountain tops into isolated islands."

"Although the ordinary villages and towns discovered before are located in the valley, they are halfway up the mountainside close to the top of the mountain. The village where the bandits were suppressed last time is also located high on the mountainside."

“I’ve never seen a human sign at the bottom.”

"It shows that mortals here have already known about it."

"The Immortal Master also said something about it last time, saying that the terrain of Boundless Cliff is unpredictable, like rivers drying up without water. Thousands of years ago, it might have been a vast ocean."

"Later, the wreckage of the boat master was found at the bottom of the valley, which also confirmed this statement. Even if there is really no sea in Wuhai Xianzhou, there must be a big river, otherwise the boat master would not enter this place."

"Master Xian speculated that the Wuhai Xianzhou layer was filled in by the ancients. Now it seems that it is not the case, but it is related to Heiyun."

Ji Dao's expression was serious and he reasoned carefully.

It has been more than once or twice that I went out to dangerous places with gods and ghosts. Whenever I encountered a problem, I would silently observe the environment and remain silent for a long time with a thoughtful expression on my face.

At this moment, I also followed suit.

But I can't figure out the key to the matter.

This black cloud is the magic trick of Nozomi Toshi. It is both reasonable and unreasonable to be able to rain.

The clouds don't rain.

Why call the clouds here?

But if the black cloud can really rain, and it rains so heavily, I'm afraid it's not an ordinary fairy technique, but it's comparable to 'calling for wind and rain', and it's probably at the level of true fairy magic.

What's the purpose of looking at the mirror to summon the rain?
There are streams running through everywhere on Wubian Cliff, so there is no shortage of water at all. There is no need to call for rain to relieve the drought. Moreover, heavy rain will cause disasters and flood the valleys, which is not a good thing at all.

The valley forms a river, isolating the mountains.

Let the boundless cliff turn into a great formation of rivers. Will you, Wang Jingdusi, rely on your local advantages, use the sky and the earth as your plate, and the boat master as your son, and start a game with Jianxiansi in the rivers and mountains?

Rather heroic.

It’s also a bit fairy-like.

But the possibility is not high.

You can trap ordinary people, but you can't trap immortals. It is a disaster for the people, but it is light rain for the cranes. Besides, you can build ships yourself.

Ordinary rain is useless.

How could Jianxian Si be trapped in the rain and die?

If the rain was poisonous, it would obviously outweigh the gain by targeting oneself and others, but causing the loss of life for hundreds of miles around.

If you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred.

It's hard to understand its intention.

Unless the black clouds and heavy rain are not Wang Jingdu Si's method at all, nor are they magic spells aimed at the immortal sect of Supervisor Immortal Division.

It has rained a few days ago.

I hadn’t been here yet at that time.

So the black clouds above the head... are actually formed naturally, and the pouring rain is just the rainy season in Wuhaixianzhou?
It rains everywhere.

The ancients discovered this phenomenon hundreds of years ago. There are many ancient books that record rain. Even if it does not rain, it will snow, or there will be some ice lumps and fog similar to snow and sand.

Later I talked to Master Xian.

The Immortal Master said that this is because the Sea of ​​Mists opens on the sea, and the continents along the way must be along the coast. There is abundant water vapor and air circulation, and meteorological movement is a necessary condition for a habitable planet.

The Milky Way and the stars are endless.

These are the only habitable planets.

So most planets don’t have rain, or even water. Drawing this conclusion is a survivor bias.

But this sentence is true on the endless route. It will rain in most places on the route. Raining is normal...

"Hiss, could it be..."

"Am I thinking too much?"

"Is it a magical trick?"

Ji Dao's expression changed in shock and he looked up at the sky.

There seemed to be raindrops gathering in mid-air, falling across the high altitude towards the thousands of miles of green mountains, heading straight towards them and the others.

Look around.

Hundreds of Yin soldiers were hiding in the forest.

The corpses of ghosts, generals and immortals are beside you.

Many magical methods are ready to go.

Just waiting for Ji Dao's order, they were like arrows from the string, clearing all obstacles, and vowed to defend the smooth flow of the Immortal Gate to the death.

But I delayed it for a long time, because of the dark clouds above my head and the heavy rain in the distance. I always took it as an enemy's tactics when I was surprised. I always felt that someone was trying to harm me, and I thought about it for a long time.

This is the end of the calf.

It's really embarrassing.

I'm afraid that's what it's like for everyone, but I'm even better. I'm even suspicious of rain...

"No, what about Zhang Ergou?"

Ji Dao remembered something again and turned to look at the crane below. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly jumped off the tree trunk and ran away, crossing the clear pond and returning to the basement.

Let me report to Master Xian first.

Wuhai Xianmen is not out of control, but the rainy valleys in the mountains are full of rivers, and Zhang Ergou's life and death are unknown.

After sending the text message, Jidao ran back to the Heavenly Palace to summon the two young Taoist priests and asked them to follow him into Wuhaixianzhou.

He wanted to ride on a crane to find Zhang Ergou.

Only he and the Immortal Corpse, the ancestor of the Heavenly Palace, could fly into the sky on a crane in this kind of weather. After all, the Yin soldiers and ghost generals lacked experience and could not ride on the crane alone.

Summoning the little Taoist priest can bring two more people, and the little Taoist priest is delicate and light, and he can bring two more ghost generals with him.

So prepare for a while.

Jidao sent the extra people back to the secret realm to wait for orders. He put away the black jade pillow and took it with him. He took off on a crane with the little Taoist immortal corpse and went straight to the first mountain stronghold where Zhang Ergou suppressed the bandits.

The air conditioning is thicker in mid-air.

The vast land is all black.

It can be vaguely seen that the rainwater has turned into a river, overflowing the mountains and rivers, crisscrossing the valleys, the sound of water rushing straight into the sky, the fierce force of the water split the mountains into islands, twisting and turning into a huge net. Ji Dao was shocked.

This level of water is really no joke. After leaving the valley where the Immortal Sect is located, the sound of tumbling and surging water can be heard all over my ears. The continuous rumbling sounds like the mountains are shaking.

The sky was so dark that I couldn't even see my fingers.

The valley that was supposed to remain silent late at night was filled with shocking floods that kept coming, running thousands of miles under the cover of night.

Rumble.

Rumble.

Listening to this momentum, Ji Dao had an illusion in the darkness, as if he was not a hundred feet in the air, but stepping on a suspension bridge, less than half a foot from the river below.

He could be swept away at any time.

Swallowed to the netherworld in one breath...

"It's flooding."

"What kind of rain is this?"

Ji Dao's expression became more serious.

There are no such violent rivers in Tiangong, but there are many records in the ancient books of Tiangong, all of which are earth-shattering. Just reading the descriptions in the words is frightening.

Now it seems.

It's really not bad at all.

It is a dream to travel by boat in such a powerful current. The hull of the boat will break as soon as it touches the river surface. Even if it enters the water safely, it will be swept away by the current and float for as long as it takes.

But steep currents should be rare.

The topography of Boundless Cliff has a huge difference in height. Thousand-meter valleys can be seen everywhere. When it rains heavily, there are thousand-meter waterfalls everywhere. Only when they fall to the bottom of the valley can they create such momentum.

But it stabilized after it hit the bottom.

It won't be this scary anymore.

But after all, the rainy season in Wuhaixianzhou is still scary. No wonder there are thousands of meters of ravines everywhere. It has been raining like this for millions of years. What mountains can't be washed away by it?
"Is it possible that Zhang Ergou didn't guard the Immortal Gate because it was raining too hard and he really couldn't get through? He can only come over every now and then and take a look to see if the Immortal Gate is open?"

Ji Dao was thoughtful.

This reason seems to explain why Zhang Ergou did not guard the fairy gate, because the mountain road is not for people to walk after the rain, and the rainwater forms a river, which also isolates the place from the outside world.

I can't even look through the mirror.

Ordinary people can't get out either.

If the two parties cannot get in touch, then the news of the reopening of the Immortal Sect will be difficult to leak, and naturally there will be no need to guard the Immortal Sect.

"That's probably it. I've wondered before why there are only two or three villages and towns near Xianmen."

"Logically speaking, the people of Wuhai Xianzhou moved here from the ancient city of Nanze through the Xianmen. The area near the Xianmen is vast and sparsely populated and rich in products. It is only reasonable to settle where they are."

"The valley bottoms are generally more fertile than the mountain tops. Valleys with thousands of meters of edgeless cliffs are mostly gullies. The fertile farmland cultivated in one valley is enough for hundreds of people to have enough food and clothing."

"And there are many mountains around, and there must be a lot of wild animals in the mountains. The entire military household in the ancient city of Nanze is rich in martial arts and has many means. Even hunting and fishing are enough to support the whole family."

"So the ancients should have lived near the Immortal Gate, cultivating the fields and cultivating them intensively, relying on the mountains and water, and at the same time guarding the Immortal Gate. At least they could keep a hope."

"But the reality is that there are very few people living near Xianmen. There are only a few villages and towns, and they are far apart. It seems that they are deliberately keeping a distance for fear of getting close."

"Now I finally understand."

"It's because the environment near Xianmen is harsh. When the rainy season comes, the valley bottom and ditches are completely destroyed. The rain closes the mountain and no one can enter. We can only find a way to survive on the top of the mountain, which is surrounded by rain and becomes an island."

“So villages and towns have to be dispersed.”

"No one can survive if they are put together in one place."

"And most people migrate to Wangjing Dusi, thinking that the place where Wangjing is located is the real good Feng Shui place."

Ji Dao reasoned on the back of the crane.

When he said this, he wanted to praise himself. Although there was a slight problem with the previous reasoning, there should be no problem with this reasoning. In the words of the immortal, it is called 'logically complete'.

It's just useless.

Nothing but a lot of words.

We can only explain why there is no one near the Immortal Sect, so that when the Immortal Supervisor sneaked in quietly, no one in the entire Wuhai Immortal Continent could detect them.

Everything that exists must have a reason. Even though it is just an ordinary distribution of villages and towns, there are hidden causes behind it that are turbulent and have been forced to do nothing for hundreds of years.

The ancient masters did not need to see the heavy rain with their own eyes. They could just look at the feng shui and folk customs of the villages and towns around them and deduce that there was something weird in this place. This is the way of doing things.

I am still far behind.

You have to be caught in the rain to realize it later.

However, this kind of information is not completely useless. Jidao has a vague feeling that in such a dangerous environment as Wuhaixianzhou, there must be evil spirits hiding somewhere in the mountains!

While thinking.

The crane keeps flying.

It has flown to the wreckage of the boat division.

The uneven thickness of the black clouds above the head happened to break through a thin crack at this moment, spreading dim moonlight for more than ten miles, vaguely reflecting the scene at the bottom of the valley.

One or two hundred dilapidated ancient ships were stranded at the bottom of the valley in a disorderly manner, in a chaotic state of light and darkness under the weak moonlight.

Disembowelled.

The five internal organs are exposed to the open air.

The skin of the boat is rotting.

The boat meat is rotten.

It can be said that there are corpses everywhere.

Rainwater poured into the valley and soaked the hulls of the boats, but these ancient boats remained motionless. Even if they were drowned alive, they could hardly float. There were only stumps and broken arms on the ground, rising and falling in the shallow water.

"..."

Ji Dao felt a slight chill on his back.

This scene was really weird. When he looked at these sunken ships, he always felt like each of them was a living person, which had been completely dismembered by some huge evil thing and piled up in the valley to slowly rot.

Fortunately, there is a cottage not far ahead.

It was here at the wreckage of the boat division that they discovered that bandits were trying to hunt cranes, and their stronghold was nearby.

Wow.

The crane descended slowly.

Landing steadily in the dark cottage.

Ji Dao jumped off the crane and looked around, only to see that the village was completely silent. There was no light and no human voice. It was as if there was no living person in the entire mountain.

The entire village was shrouded in darkness.

It was almost the same as the scene when he used the poisonous east wind to smoke the mountain and stun everyone in the village. There was a strong aura of gods and ghosts in the air and environment.

"Zhang Ergou!"

Ji Dao looked up to the sky and screamed loudly in the middle of the night.

He didn't care about anything, and he wasn't afraid of what was hidden in the stronghold, so he just used Zhenxuanyin to clear the way and shouted.

With enough means to compete with Wang Jingdusi, and yet he can still be afraid of a mere copycat, what can be found in this mountain?
"Master Dao, hush!"

"Don't make any noise."

"If I wake up Mr. Shan, it will be over!"

Zhang Ergou suddenly appeared under the eaves of the ancient building on his right hand, holding an oil paper lantern in his hand, staring at Jidao with a strange expression, and stretched out his hand to signal Jidao to speak quietly.

"Zhang Ergou, are you crazy?"

"What are you doing standing here in the middle of the night?"

Ji Dao frowned and looked at Zhang Ergou carefully.

In fact, he saw clearly that Zhang Ergou did not come over, but stood under the eaves from beginning to end. He suddenly appeared because he took the initiative to light the oil paper lantern.

A dim fire cannot fully illuminate a person.

Only the lower half of Zhang Ergou's face was illuminated, while his upper body and his old face were half-dark by the faint firelight.

There's something wrong with this guy.

He didn't sleep or rest most of the night. He held an oil-paper lantern in his hand and stood blankly under the eaves, as if he knew a guest was coming and deliberately greeted him at the door.

But what could he know.

If you don't even guard the immortal gate, how can you know that you are coming?
"Master Dao, I'm not crazy, but I did almost lose half my life. Master Dao, can you guess why these bandits chose to occupy this hilltop as a copycat?"

Zhang Ergou lowered his voice and had a weird tone, hiding behind the eaves furtively, as if he had a sore on his face and was too embarrassed to see anyone, but he actually turned around and asked Ji Dao a question.

(End of this chapter)