Strange Sequence: Longevity from Guoshu

Chapter 286: Rainstorms in the mountains, snakes and dragons, and devils roaming under the snowy mountains

The Jingzhe heavy rain was unexpectedly long-lasting and lasted for three days without any sign of stopping. Jiang You rode a donkey in the rainy forest towards Ganzi.

The heavy rain was like the Milky Way pouring down from the sky. Apart from the sound of rain, there was no other sound in the mountains.

The journey from Ya'an to Garze was far beyond Jiang You's expectation.

At this moment, Jiang You felt that there was something wrong with the rain.

If it rains like this again, there may be a flood disaster.

At this time, a large river appeared in front of the road blocking the road. The water volume was rapid. With the high water level, the river surface was extremely wide. It had broken out of the river channel and spread into the forest on both sides.

Facing the big river, the donkey's pace did not slow down at all. Its limbs and hooves were wrapped in white air, firmly stepping on the water, and walked quickly across.

When the donkey crossed the river and just climbed a hill in front of it, it suddenly felt terrible heart palpitations coming from an unknown distance, and began to dig at the ground with its hooves uneasily.

At the same time, Jiang You also smelled a strong fishy smell in the rain falling from the sky.

"This rain is not right!"

After Jiang You smelled the fishy smell in the rain, he immediately turned his donkey's head and looked towards the mountains upstream of the river.

With a flash of white light in his eyes, he penetrated the mist of the sky and the earth, and the mountains, rocks and trees that blocked his sight, and then he saw a deep cave entrance in a mountain col in the distance.

The river water flows out rapidly from the entrance of the cave, and it is impossible to go any further when the eyes reach this point.

Jiang You smelled the fishy smell in the rain and couldn't help but think of a folk legend.

"Is it"

"Crack!"

A flash of blue lightning lit up the sky, and at the same time the mountain shook violently, and the fishy smell became thicker and thicker.

Then there was a loud noise that shook the sky, and the rocks in the cave Jiang You was looking at suddenly burst apart, and a huge thing rushed out along the river.

The thing's body was a hundred feet long, as slender as a snake's body, and its solid scales were dark blue and black. It looked like a big snake, but there was a blood-red bulge protruding from the top of the huge snake's head, as if a horn was about to break out.

"Water hydra (huǐ)! Water hydra walks in the water!" Jiang You looked shocked. He didn't expect to meet a water hydra here.

The dragon is the juvenile stage of the mythical dragon. It hides in lakes, deep pools, reservoirs, river tributaries, and underground caves. After growing for 500 years, it walks through the water and turns into a dragon. After another 500 years, it emerges from the sea and turns into a dragon!

It is obvious that now that the spiritual energy has been revived, the water snake has cultivated independently, gained good fortune, and accelerated its growth. In just a few years, it has already achieved the ability to transform into a dragon.

After the water snake rushed out of the cave, its body was introduced into the rolling river. Then a thunderbolt struck from the sky into the river. The river water churned. The water snake let out a hissing scream, and then accelerated to swim forward in the river. go.

Jiang You saw a dark shadow coming from upstream quickly under the river. Thunderbolts kept falling on it. Soon the water hyena's body was split open, its flesh and blood flew around, and the river water turned red.

But despite this, the water snake's speed still did not slow down by half. It quickly flowed from the upper stream to the river position behind Jiang You, passed by in a flash, and disappeared in the lightning.

"All kinds of frosts compete for freedom. Have the snakes in the mountains reached the stage of turning into dragons?"

Jiang You couldn't help but compare it with the giant python that he had encountered in Qian Province before and found that although they were both snakes, they seemed to be taking different routes.

The body of this water hyena is much smaller in comparison, but it has a single horn on its head and can move through the water and turn into a dragon. The giant python in Guizhou Province, in addition to its huge body, basically still looks like a python.

"I didn't expect that the training of monster beasts is so different!"

After the water anemone flew away, the heavy rain on Jiangyou's side gradually became lighter. Soon the dark clouds that had been covering the sky thinned, and golden sunlight shone through the gaps in the dark clouds.

The world suddenly became brighter.

Did the heavy rain start because of the water dragon?
Jiang You looked downstream along the river. The sky and the earth there were still dark. Instead of stopping the heavy rain, it was getting worse. From time to time, lightning struck and thunder roared.

And that side is also the direction of Ya'an City.

The city of Ya'an is on the route of the water snakes. I wonder if it will be affected by the water snakes and flood the city?
However, Jiang You thought that the monks from the lamasery in the city were not weak and should be able to protect them.

The junction of Tibet and Shu.

The sky is dark blue.

Waves of cold wind blew past the flat-roofed stone houses standing on the thatched grass, and also got into Zhuo Cuo's collar, making him shiver.

He tightened the collar around his neck, placed his palms on the gravel-scattered ground, raised his weak body up, and identified the surrounding scenery in the dim sky. He saw a dark figure lying on the ground, and Mountains rising on the horizon.

The top of the mountain reflected the white light of the snow on the mountain in the dim sky.

He had no time to pay attention to the snow-capped mountains in the distance that looked particularly holy and peaceful in the night, and stumbled towards the black shadow on the ground.

He held the people on the ground in his arms and shouted loudly, "Guru, Guru, what's wrong with you, wake up quickly!"

But no matter how he shouted, there was still no movement from the person in his arms. Then, he tremblingly stretched out his hand to touch the heart of the person in his arms, and found that there was a blood hole in the heart, and the heart had already ruptured!

"Guru. Guru is dead!"

Zhuocuo unexpectedly discovered that the guru who had protected him all the way as he fled was dead on the way to Shu!
Zhuocuo is a young herdsman in Tibet. After his spiritual energy revived, the Tibetan Palace issued a call for the devil to revive and roam the earth, causing all the herdsmen in Tibet to gather towards the Tibetan market. The Tibetan Palace and the Jokhang Temple would protect them.

After listening to the call, many people went, but there were still some herdsmen who did not leave because they were reluctant to part with their own cattle and sheep.

After all, how can we take care of these cattle and sheep in the Tibetan market?

These herdsmen who did not go gathered in an empty town, huddled together to keep warm.

At the beginning, everyone was still trembling with fear, but after returning for a few months, we found that life was just like usual, and there were no demons wandering around, so we all felt more at ease.

Who knows, good luck will eventually run out. A few days ago, in the afternoon, Zhuocuo was grazing outside. When he returned to the pen, he found that three sheep were missing. They must have been lost somewhere. He immediately rode his horse and took them home. Da Huang, the Tibetan Mastiff, ran back to look for it.

After turning around on that hillside, Rhubarb seemed to smell the scent and led him towards the south.

When he ran to a mountain col, it was getting dark, and he saw a few black figures squatting on the ground, munching on something. If he looked carefully, weren't they his own sheep?

The black figure happened to be squatting in the dark, so Zhuo Cuo couldn't see clearly, but seeing the way it looked like it was roughing its hair, drinking blood, and eating live sheep, he immediately remembered the words that came from the Palace of the King of Tibet, that the devil was resurrected and roaming the earth!

The rumors are true, there really is a devil!
Zhuocuo was so frightened that he turned his horse and ran away.

While riding the horse, he heard a roaring sound coming from behind him. The sound was getting closer and closer to him. He was so frightened that he did not dare to look back. He just kept kicking the horse's belly to make the horse go faster. .

When the sound was about to come behind him, Dahuang, who was running beside him, suddenly turned around and rushed back.

Dahuang was the Tibetan Mastiff he had raised since he was a child. At this time, he actually sacrificed his life to save his savior. But soon, he heard a wailing sound from Dahuang, as if his neck was being strangled, and soon there was no movement.

Zhuo Cuo was so frightened that he trembled all over and kept reciting the six-character mantra. However, in his mouth, the six-character mantra only provided some comfort.

But fortunately, after Dahuang's delay, he finally returned to the small town.

As soon as he came in and got off his horse, he rushed to his home and locked the house. When his parents asked about him, he said that there was a devil chasing him behind him.

His parents were doubtful, but they were not stupid enough to run out to check. Zhuocuo spent the night in fear, but nothing happened.

Early the next morning, my father summoned seven other herdsmen to inquire about the matter, but everyone said that they had never encountered any devils outside.

Then everyone went out to search on horseback. There was indeed a pool of blood not far away, but Dahuang's body had disappeared. Not only that, except for blood stains, nothing was found where the three sheep were killed.

Everyone said that they might have encountered a wolf. Now that everyone here has left, the wolf has begun to move here.

Just when Zhuocuo thought that what he encountered was really a wolf, the small town's nightmare began.

People began to disappear one after another. Everyone went to look for them at dawn, but no one was found alive or dead.

Every subsequent day is bound to go missing.

At that moment, everyone believed in the devil's theory and wanted to flee from here.

Early in the morning, everyone prepared their bags and set off together, but the disappearance still happened to them, and the devil followed them.

Then everyone fled in all directions. Zhuocuo and his parents thought that everyone was basically heading towards the Tibetan Palace. There were many people and the target was big. Their own family went in the opposite direction and headed towards Shu. Then The devil may think that there are too few people in his family, so he is too lazy to chase after him.

At first, as they thought, it was indeed safe. Until one night when he was rushing on the road, Zhuocuo once again heard the sound of rustling in the darkness behind him.

His hair stood on end immediately, he turned around and ran towards his father who was riding beside him.

Unexpectedly, when he turned around, there was nothing around him. His father and the horse disappeared together. When he turned to look at his mother, he found that her mother was also missing.

Then he heard his mother's scream from behind, telling him not to look back and run forward.

But how could Zhuocuo escape from the devil's hands? Not long after, the urging voice sounded from behind again. But at this time, he had no rhubarb and no parents, who could save him?
"Forget it, there is nothing, if you die, you will die!"

When he was desperate, he found a loud six-character mantra coming out from in front of him, and then the voice behind him disappeared.

Zhuocuo saw a guru wearing red monk robes and a bright yellow monk's hat standing in front of him.

The master then rode forward with him.

On the road, they said that their idea of ​​​​escape was right. The Tibetan market attracted a large number of devils. Now the further they go, the more devils there are. He also missed the first time to go to the Tibetan market because of seclusion. , discovered this situation on the way there, and quickly turned around and ran to other provinces.

Colleagues also said that he just blocked the devil a little bit, and with his cultivation level, he could only do this. There was a temple where his uncle stayed in Shu in front of him. With his uncle there, it was absolutely safe.

The two of them fled for their lives overnight. On the way, the guru tried to stop the chasing demons several times. However, as the guru's face gradually turned pale, Zhuo Cuo also knew that the guru's power was coming to an end.

Sure enough, the master later asked him to dismount and use the horse to delay them while they escaped on foot.

The time a horse can delay is extremely limited, but there is no other way.

Then Zhuocuo heard the sound behind him in the darkness and caught up again. The master turned around and fought with the devil. He saw a golden light flashing in the darkness, and then his eyes darkened and he fainted.

When he woke up, it was already the afternoon of the next day, and the scene just happened.

Zhuocuo found out that even his master was dead, where could he escape now?

At this time, the master's big hand in his arms grabbed his wrist with such force that Zhuo Cuo suffered a sharp pain.

Zhuocuo was shocked and struggled quickly. His master's body was fake!

"Run, run. Run!"

When Zhuocuo heard the voice from his master, he quickly stopped and saw that his eyes had turned black and there were black cracks on his face.

"Take this token and keep running eastward. Don't look back no matter who calls you!" The master's voice became smaller and smaller. His neck seemed to be strangled by a pair of hands, making it difficult to breathe out. Every time he spoke, his throat trembled. There was a sound like a bellows being broken.

The master struggled to take out a palm-sized demon-conquering pestle tied with a red string from his arms, then grabbed Zhuocuo's hand and released it, and there was no movement.

Zhuocuo took the demon-conquering pestle and saw black energy starting to come out of the master's corpse. He was so frightened that he ran forward.There was a strong wind at dusk in Tibet, and all Zhuocuo could hear was the whistling of the wind.

As the sky gradually darkened, the terrifying whistling sound suddenly came from the wind.

The sound came one after another. I don't know whether it was because it had not completely entered the night or because the master had hurt him before, but the sound just hung far behind him.

The sound made Zhuocuo feel like a lot of ants crawling in his heart. He wanted to turn around several times to see how close he was, but his master wouldn't let him look back, so he could only endure it.

"donor."

But at this moment, the voice turned into a high-pitched scream, and Zhuo Cuo felt awe in his heart. This was the voice of his master.

But the master said that no matter who called him, he could not look back, he could just run forward.

However, he still ran wildly. Fortunately, he had a good physique tempered by years of grazing, so Zhuo Cuo was not exhausted even after struggling for such a long time.

Soon, various voices appeared in Zhuocuo's ears, including his father, mother, familiar herdsmen, and even the cry of rhubarb.

All this made Zhuo Cuo think to himself, "Could it be that those who disappeared disappeared because they looked back?"

Throughout the night, Zhuocuo ignored the sound behind him. At dawn, the sound behind him finally disappeared. He couldn't hold on anymore, so he found a tree, climbed up, and took a rest during the day.

Originally, he wanted to rest for 10 minutes before setting off, but as soon as he leaned against the branch, his eyelids became less heavy and he fell asleep immediately.

Zhuocuo was woken up by the cold wind. After he woke up, he felt that his head was dizzy and his cheeks were hot. He must have had a fever, but he couldn't care less at this time. When he looked at the sky, he cursed himself in his heart. I slept until the afternoon again.

After jumping down from the tree, he quickly started to move, but who knew that his hands and feet were so sore that he couldn't stand firm on his feet. He tilted his body and fell heavily to the ground.

Zhuo Cuo sat up in pain, rolled up his trouser legs, and found that his ankle had swollen into a circle, "Oh no, I twisted my foot just now!"

"It's over!"

Zhuo Cuo shouted in his heart, after persisting for so long, can't he still survive?
Just when his heart was filled with despair, he suddenly saw something under the tree not far from him in the side view.

He looked carefully and found that there seemed to be a black figure sitting cross-legged under the tree, and there was a huge black figure hiding behind the tree beside him.

"Devil!"

Zhuocuo yelled, but he didn't expect that it was not safe during the day, and the devil caught up with him while he was sleeping.

Then Zhuocuo seemed to accept his fate and lay on the ground with his eyes closed.

Jiang You opened his eyes helplessly, "Why did I become a devil? Really, did you scare people?"

Jiang Youchao glanced at the donkey next to him, and the donkey brayed in grievance.

Jiang You entered Garze and followed the map to find Garze City. When he arrived, he discovered that the place was already in ruins and not a single living thing existed.

Seeing this situation, Jiang You patrolled the Garze area, hoping to find a survivor and understand the situation. Who knew that the Garze area was quite large, and he couldn't find any human habitation for a long time.

Finally at noon today, Jiang You saw a young Tibetan man wearing a Tibetan robe sleeping soundly on a tree branch from a distance, thinking that he had finally found a living person.

But seeing the young man sleeping deeply, he did not disturb him and meditated under a tree not far away, waiting for him to wake up.

Who knew that when the young man woke up, he fell from the tree, twisted his feet, shouted devil to himself, and then lay flat on his back, fell to the ground and stopped moving.

Jiang You was also helpless. He walked up to the young man and bent down to pick him up and ask questions. Who knew that when Jiang You stretched out his hand, the young man suddenly opened his eyes and pointed the Demon-Conquering Pestle secretly held in his left hand toward him. He stabbed Jiang You in the chest.

With all his strength, the young man's pestle didn't penetrate even a thin layer of skin on Jiang You's chest.

"Isn't even the magic pestle useless against the devil?"

Zhuocuo thought desperately, and then heard a voice, "Hey, there must be something wrong with you!"

"What? Are you human?"

"You just stabbed someone with something, and now you're cursing someone again, right?"

"I'm sorry, I thought you were a devil. No, there's a devil chasing me behind me. Now my feet are sprained and I can't walk anymore. You run quickly, pick this up, and head towards this Run in that direction, and when you see the temple, go in quickly and show this to the guru inside. If they take you in, you will be safe. Remember, if someone calls you on the way, don't look back!"

Zhuo Cuo gave Jiang You a warning, and then saw that the sky was starting to get dark at this time, so he quickly asked Jiang You to set off.

"Go quickly, if the devil comes, you won't be able to leave!"

Zhuo Cuo found that the Han man who appeared in front of him didn't seem to believe what he said. His face was calm and calm, and there was no trace of nervousness at all.

Just when he put the Demon-Conquering Pestle into Jiang You's hand to continue explaining, Jiang You smiled and refused, "It's better for you to hold this thing. And is this the devil you are talking about?"

As he said this, Jiang You pointed behind Zhuo Cuo. Zhuo Cuo was stunned and looked in the direction he pointed.

I don't know when, I saw a walking figure appearing about 50 meters behind me.

The figure was wrapped in layers of wide bandages, revealing only a wrinkled face, showing a 'kind' smile to Zhuo Cuo.

Zhuo Cuo took a closer look and saw that the 'person' here turned out to be the guru!
Could it be that the one who was chasing me last night was the guru?
As the figure approached, the circles of 'bandage' glowed with melting white light.

The light flows slowly on the 'bandage'.

Zhuo Cuo saw clearly what the 'bandage' was——

That's not a bandage at all!
They were strips of snow-white arms emerging from the guru’s collar and cuffs. They intertwined around the guru’s body.

Their snow-white color is like a bandage!
At this time, pairs of small hands stretched out from the knotted part of the 'bandage' and waved slightly to Zhuo Cuo.

A wave of coldness hit Su Wu's forehead. He bit the tip of his tongue, turned to Jiang You and said, "Run, I'll help you hold it back!"

However, when he turned around, the man who was talking to him just now had disappeared without a trace.

Zhuo Cuo momentarily wondered if he had just hallucinated.

At this time, he felt that his face was extremely hot, his head was dizzy, and even breathing would make his head feel sore.

Do you have such a high fever that you are hallucinating?
At this time, the 'guru' had already walked in front of Zhuocuo.

Looking closer, you can see the smile on the 'guru's face becoming more and more weird.

Zhuo Cuo originally thought that he was no longer afraid of death, but when he was about to die, he still felt that his heart was almost jumping out of his throat.

At this time, the 'guru' had already walked up to Zhuocuo, and he immediately planned to use the trick he had used in his 'fantasy'.

With all his strength, he stabbed the demon-subduing pestle towards the 'guru'.

This demon-subduing pestle was originally given to me by the master. Now I return the demon-subduing pestle to him and let him rest in peace.

But Zhuo Cuo found that his movements were extremely slow.

It was supposed to be an instant sneak attack, but now even if he was given ten seconds, he couldn't complete it. His movements were like a frame dropped, moving moment by moment.

The cold sweat on Zhuocuo's back suddenly soaked through his clothes!
"Devil, slow me down!"

Then he felt something on his neck. He slowly looked down and saw that at some point, two gleaming white and delicate arms had wrapped around his neck!
At this time, the few snow-white hands closest to Zhuo Cuo's mouth spread their fingers, opened his mouth, and tried to tear it in all directions.

"Ahhhh!"

The corners of Zhuocuo's mouth were about to be torn apart!

There was a painful sound in his throat!
However, his mouth was not really torn apart, but was torn apart by those little hands, and it became bigger and bigger, almost enough to hold a basketball!
The 'guru' smiled and tried to get his head into Zhuocuo's mouth as big as a basketball.

devil!devil!
Zhuocuo's eyes were about to burst, and when he saw the head of the 'guru' was about to penetrate into his mouth, several loud donkey brays suddenly came from the shadowy forest around him!

donkey?Where did the donkey come from?

He rolled his eyes, and out of the corner of his eye he saw a black donkey, as strong as a horse, running out of the forest and rushing toward him diagonally opposite!
The black shadow suddenly rushed over, leaving an afterimage in Zhuo Cuo's field of vision!
The 'guru' who had just been trying to get into Su Wu's mouth suddenly screamed and was blown away by a gust of black wind.

Then, Zhuocuo saw white light coming out of the donkey's hooves. It turned up two or three times, raised one hoof high and pointed at the head of the 'guru'.

Black gas emerged from the head, and it struggled with the white light for a while. After all, it could not resist the white light. After it was shattered, the hoof deflated the head in one fell swoop.

Then a black smoke flew from it into the air. The donkey saw this and quickly followed it. However, the black smoke flew very fast in the air. Just when it was about to disappear, suddenly there was a flash of black light in the air, and a tragic sound came from the black smoke. screamed, then disappeared.

So many changes occurred in such a short period of time that Zhuo Cuo was temporarily stunned and unable to react.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind, "He has a good character and is a good young man!"

Zhuo Cuo was startled and quickly turned around, only to see the man who had just appeared in his 'hallucination' appear in front of him again, as if he had never disappeared.

"I'm hallucinating again. Could it be that I was eaten by the devil just now and now I'm hallucinating on my deathbed?"

Just as Zhuocuo was thinking about it, he suddenly felt a pain in his head. The man in the 'hallucination' actually raised his hand and hit him on the head.

"Hey, who are you calling an illusion?"

Following the man's blow, Zhuo Cuo felt a stream of heat flow down from the top of his head, and his head suddenly woke up. He was no longer groggy, and his face did not feel hot.

"Aren't you hallucinating?"

"Okay, stand up quickly and ask you a few words, you little brat!"

Jiang You smiled and cursed.

Zhuocuo looked at his ankle and found that it was no longer red and swollen and had recovered as before.

He quickly stood up and kowtowed to Jiang You, "You are the incarnation of Buddha, come and save me!"

As soon as Jiang You stomped his steps, a force on the ground came from Zhuocuo's knees, pushing him upright.

"I'm not Buddha."

"You are what the Han people call an immortal."

"I'm not a fairy, I'm just an ordinary person. Okay, okay, let's talk about what's going on!"

Jiang You and Zhuo Cuo talked for a long time before letting Zhuo Cuo know that he was a practitioner like his master.

Zhuocuo then told Jiang You his tragic story with tears in his eyes.

Jiang You didn't expect the situation in Tibet to be so serious. "The master said, there is a temple ahead, right? OK, let's go and take a look together!"

(End of this chapter)