Chapter 1222
The scorching sun was burning, snakes were entangled, and carriages and horses stopped.
The carriage driver jumped off the carriage, picked up a stone on the ground to jam the wheel, and the team stopped between the mountain hollows.
"Spectacular!"
Golden wings flapped, Heavenly Centipede Liang Qu landed on Li Xianghan's head, its hundred-legged jointed limbs hooked onto her hair bun, looking at the colorful snake group entangled, hissing, and blocking the road ahead.
At least tens of thousands of snakes.
Brightly colored, red and green, dense and dense, you couldn't find the head if you saw the tail, and you couldn't find the tail if you saw the head, more entangled and complex than the most complicated knot by a hundred times.
They were selflessly entangling tails, selflessly opening their mouths to swallow, rolling down from the mountain, hitting rocks, pouring into shrubs, doing their best to reproduce offspring. A few stray snakes were thrown out of the big collective, falling to people's feet, swimming and fleeing in panic.
In the wild, they were all disobedient wild snakes, and the house mice were so scared that they ran around, drilled into cages, and locked the doors tightly.
Liang Qu had seen a similar scene once in the animal world when he was a child. That thing seemed to be called a garter snake. They played passionate group mating as soon as they came out of hibernation. He had a nightmare that night. It was like that even across the screen, and seeing it with his own eyes was simply scalp-numbing. The snake group in front of him was brighter, and there seemed to be several types of snakes.
Don't these snakes have reproductive isolation?
"It's the Ten Thousand Snake Meeting, the Ten Thousand Snake Meeting!" The team leader jumped onto the roof of the carriage and waved his hands and shouted, "Everyone, get off the carriage and rest, don't run far, watch out for demon beasts and poisonous insects! It looks like it just started, it won't be over today, get off the carriage and set up camp.
Men come to help, don't drink raw water when children are bitten."
"Ten Thousand Snake Meeting, good luck."
"Work, work, just rest your feet, it's hot to death, is there any ice wine to eat? Have a sip."
"No ice wine, do you want to drink ice plum juice?"
"Give me some, give me some."
"Clatter."
Wooden buckets collided, ice cubes were poured into the dark red plum juice, splashing out two drops.
"Why stop and not move forward? Can this little snake group block the road?" Liang Qu turned his head.
The team moved the tents down as usual, communicated with each other, the old and the children sat on the stones, pointing at the snake group, without any intention of continuing forward.
There were three Entering Zhen Xiang experts in the team, and Li Xianghan's grandmother was also there. Detouring, driving away, killing, etc., were all fine. Theoretically, there was no need to stop.
"This is the custom of our Southern Border people." Looking around, Li Xianghan, who confirmed that there was no one around, explained quietly, "Seeing the Ten Thousand Snake Meeting, the team cannot detour or rush, otherwise it will bring bad luck.
Conversely, waiting for the ten thousand snakes to disperse by themselves will bring good luck. Great King, perhaps you don't know about snakes and insects. The time for that one time is very powerful, mostly two or three hours, and long ones can take ten hours—"
"Humph, a mere ten hours." The Heavenly Centipede raised its head, "Not as good as me!"
Li Xianghan was speechless, and it took her a long time to remember where she was talking about. She secretly thought, can people compare with snakes? Furthermore, ten hours, can a normal woman handle it? After it's over, I'm afraid she won't just be babbling. It must be that men usually like to brag about this aspect, not afraid of blowing up.
But you can't say it to death, a dignified Wu Sheng, perhaps he can really be a bit more powerful?
"Yes, yes, yes, Great King is powerful, extraordinary, the Princess has good fortune, singing every night." Li Xianghan praised perfunctorily and continued, "Because snakes take a long time, if you meet them on the road, you basically rest for a day, just as a stopover.
Ten Thousand Snake Meetings can often be seen in spring and Bing Fire. It is precisely because of worrying about this kind of thing that villages far away have to set off three months in advance. You meet them more than ten times on the road. Our Green Pattern Valley is close to the Insect Valley, so the time is not too rushed, no need to ask for bad luck."
Liang Qu sneered: "What bad luck, good luck, it's all feudal superstition."
Li Han had a headache: "Great King, please bear with it, set off tomorrow, and arrive in about the day after tomorrow."
"Han!" Li Yilin's shouting came from behind, "Come here, accompany grandmother to talk."
Li Xianghan turned her head and smiled sweetly: "Alright, grandmother! Little Xianghan is coming!"
The little boy was softened by the sweet voice, intentionally or unintentionally secretly looking at the Saintess. If their eyes met and they bumped into a smile, he would immediately have wild thoughts, and his face would turn red.
Does the Saintess have feelings for me?
Liang Qu curled his mouthparts and flew up from the top of her head: "I want to leave for a while, and I will be gone for about half a day."
"Now?" Li Xianghan froze her steps, looking miserable, "How do I explain to others?"
"You are clever, full of bad water, do you need me to help you think of a way? Explain it yourself, I'm leaving."
A golden light flashed and disappeared into the forest.
Li Yilin in the distance was puzzled when she saw this. When Li Xianghan came over, she couldn't help but ask: "Arrive at the Insect Valley the day after tomorrow, where did your Golden-Winged Heavenly Centipede run to now? Don't delay the time."
"To have a secret meeting with an old lover insect!"
"Old lover insect?"
Li Xianghan gritted her teeth bitterly: "Insects caught in the wild naturally have wild lover insects. Usually, they are lustful without limit. Once the Bing Fire day comes, they are even more lustful, running out to have secret meetings all day long. And grandmother, do you know? It is not loyal!
Three wives and four concubines, showing affection everywhere, starting with chaos and ending with abandonment, ungrateful, managing birth but not raising, base and shameless, despicable and insidious, specializing in playing with mother-daughter insects, sister insects, half-year-old little insects, wine pools and meat forests. If it weren't for its strength, it would have been chopped into eight pieces by other insects!"
"There is actually such a thing?" Li Yilin was surprised.
"How can there not be!" Li Xianghan nodded, looked around, and confirmed that Liang Qu was not there, "It's all witnessed by me. If it weren't for its strength being worth mentioning, it would be a scumbag insect!"
"Then you have to manage it well. After all, it is wild and doesn't have the basic concept of reproduction. Deep down, it is still an insect without ethics." Li Yilin said seriously, "It is not easy for it to grow to this point in the wild, it is extremely rare, and its essence should be stored and bred to breed the next generation of Heavenly Centipede Gu insects, not to be wasted at will."
"Grandmother, don't worry, I will manage this rotten scumbag insect later. If I can't manage it, I will castrate it—."
"Hahaha, that won't do—"
"Achoo!"
In the woods, Liang Qu flapped his wings and sneezed.
"I feel like someone is speaking ill of me—is it that little girl with two faces—"
Golden light shuttled back and forth.
The scorching sun pierced through the treetops, Liang Qu flew in the light column, inexplicably enjoying this feeling of flapping wings, hovering,
galloping.
After being promoted to Yaolong, there were more restrictions instead.
Going to the Imperial Capital had to be notified in advance, without the casualness of the Entering Zhen Xiang time. Many things couldn't be fooled by just apologizing for doing them wrong, and there were restraints everywhere. On the contrary, now, flying in the jungle, like a free dragonfly, without worrying about any natural enemies.
It was still the happiest time when he was invincible in Entering Zhen Xiang—
On the branches, poisonous snakes were entangled, caught the golden light, and subconsciously pounced out.
Swish!
The golden light brushed past, and the poisonous snake stiffened.
A moment later.
The snake head fell smoothly, opening its mouth and biting randomly. The half-cut snake tail on the branch hung down powerlessly, internal organs mixed with snake blood, attracting a group of army ants, tearing off fragments of meat, and moving them back to the nest.
"Strange, did the wings cut something?"
Looking back, he didn't see anything. Liang Qu didn't care about that much and continued to look for the river.
There is actually a clear difference between the forests of the Southern Border and Great Shun.
Look at whether there are weeds on the trees.
In most areas of Great Shun, trees are trees, clean trees, dotted with two bird nests. In the Southern Border, the place where the tree rights bend is not a bird nest, but a blooming broad-leaf grass, as fluffy as lettuce, rooted on the moss and lush, or hanging with countless vines. If you look carefully, you can see one with scales in the vines.
Animals and plants grow intertwined and layered here.
Looking at a normal insect, it may have been controlled by parasites inside, its behavior is out of control, and the parasites that crawl out after being stepped on look fine, but they may have been infected with viruses long ago, just not dead yet.
Life reproduction is too prosperous.
The forest in ordinary places is a semi-transparent photo, simple and clear. The forest in the Southern Border is many semi-transparent photos stacked together, all the shapes are mixed, and many different things grow on one tree.
"Rumble—"
The stream flows east.
Retracting and folding his wings, the Heavenly Centipede rushed into the winding river, swimming like a snake, and burrowed into the 【Vortex Escape Path】.
Relying on the waterway to return to the Great Lake.
Consciousness returned.
Outside the window, the plum rain was drizzling.
The familiar body fragrance lingered on the tip of his nose, and the soft body half-pressed on his chest.
Liang Qu leaned down and kissed from face to foot, and before Eying laughed and pushed him away, he quickly got up, put on his clothes, and rushed to the South Water.
"Frog Lord!" Liang Qu was sincere.
"Hey—" The old toad who was catching fish everywhere returned to the clan land, tied up the bulging yellow skin bag, looked at the east, carried the webbed feet, "The Southern Border is sultry, and it happens to be the Bing Fire scorching sun, the heat is scorching, it is really uncomfortable. Is this matter really indispensable to me?"
"Holding the sun and moon to pick stars, there is no frog like the Elder in the world! Heaven did not give birth to the South Water Frog Lord, the Huai River is like a long night for eternity. This kind of big event is indispensable to you!" Liang Qu bowed and shouted, "Respectfully invite Frog Lord to leave the lake!"
Behind him, Long Pingjiang, Long Pinghe, Fat Fish, Can't Move, Round Head, Fist, Awei, Little Mirage Dragon, a hundred river dolphins—people and beasts knelt on the ground and shouted together:
"Holding the sun and moon to pick stars, there is no frog like the Elder in the world! Heaven did not give birth to the South Water Frog Lord, the Huai River is like a long night for eternity. Respectfully invite Frog Lord to leave the lake!" *100
"Frog Lord!"
"Frog Lord!" *100
"For the common people! For the people! For the future!"
"For the common! For the people! For the future!" *100
Every sentence had an echo, every paragraph had an aftertaste, the shouting was surging, resounding through the Great Lake.
Crackle.
Electric current passed through.
The old toad trembled like a sieve, then its shoulders slumped, its round belly folded into small wrinkles, and after a while, it carried its webbed feet, its frog eyes bright: "Fine, since that's the case, I will accompany you for a trip! Take down the Southern Border long Qi!"
"Good! Frog Lord is for the common people of the world, for the future of the South." Liang Qu got up, "Afei!"
The long whiskers folded ninety degrees.
Fat Fish opened its big mouth.
The old toad was familiar with the road, jumped up, kicked Afei's chin, and before the big mouth closed, a light shadow drilled out from the waterway, floating into Fat Fish's mouth like a jellyfish along the water flow.
Not a special car, the old toad crossed its arms in dissatisfaction.
Liang Qu was stunned: "What is Madam doing?"
Long Eying squatted in the giant fish's mouth, wearing long clothes, long pants, and long boots, her face calm, not showing the lazy look of being naked half an hour ago, she asked back: "Isn't this the car to the Southern Border?"
Liang Qu scratched his temples: "It's the elixir to the Southern Border, I'm asking why Madam is following along?"
Long Eying was matter-of-fact: "See what that little head looks like."
Liang Qu: "?"
Fat Fish opened its big mouth, looked left and right, Liang Qu waved his hand, signaling to bring them along, it was about to close its mouth.
"Wait, wait, wait! Last train elixir!"
Two more figures swam out of the quiet path, one left and one right, successively holding Long Eying's arms.
"What are you two joining in the fun for?" Liang Qu raised his eyebrows.
Long Yao and Long Li both hugged their arms, teasing: "See what that head looks like!"
Long Eying's crescent eyes.
Liang Qu held his forehead.
After a while.
Lifted his hand.
The long whiskers folded ninety degrees, confirming that no one else was riding the "Big Fish Bus", Fat Fish closed its big mouth, turned around, and transported people and frogs into the Lake Kingdom.
"Let's go!"
Golden light flashed.
The Heavenly Centipede flew out of the woods shakily and landed on Li Xianghan's head.
Shaking its head and tail, light and airy, happy, with a kind of laziness after being refreshed. The more Li Yilin looked, the more it looked like it had come back from fooling around somewhere, just like what Li Xianghan said.
Sure enough, it's a wild insect.
Even in such a gap, it went out for a secret meeting—
In the "Eye Knowledge Rule", one can always perceive other people's gazes. The touch like cow hair made the insect irritable. Liang Qu turned his head inadvertently: "Why does your grandmother always look at me, her eyes are strange."
"Ah?" Li Han's head was tight, her toes curled, her eyes drifted, "Is, is there?"
"Humph, is she speaking ill of me?"
"Great Judge, I am wronged!"
"Presumptuous! Dare to claim injustice in front of this King? Are you saying this King wronged you?"
"I dare not." Li Xianghan was submissive.
"Then there is no injustice, I punish you to give me eight hundred!"
Li Xianghan took out the silver production from her side and handed it over respectfully.
The jointed limbs inserted into the silver production and took it away neatly.
Midnight.
The Ten Thousand Snake Meeting ended, and they dispersed in twos and threes.
Everyone returned to the carriage, and the carriage wheels continued to roll.
After Li Xianghan finished cultivating, she stretched, hugged the mouse, and fell into a deep sleep, not knowing that at this moment, a layer of transparent quiet film completely wrapped the carriage, silently.
Not long after.
The candle fire was lit, and blurry figures crawled out of the fish's mouth, reflected on the carriage, surrounding the little person.
Li Xianghan shivered, opened her mouth to breathe, and felt the oppression of not having enough air.
"Is this the woman the Elder has to see every night? It feels average, not as good as me, and even worse compared to Sister Eying. The Dragon Girl can barely rank in the middle."
"Exactly, the chest and buttocks are also average. The Elder really has no eye for beauty. It can't be that the feet are good-looking, right? The Elder just likes this. Look, this is not good either, the size is a bit big, the toes are flat—"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want to eat chestnuts?"
"Quack, she has no treasure on her, what's good to look at?"
"Frog Lord, you came out too early, your great skills are not needed yet."
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Hey, the pillow has a sandwich layer, it seems there are two silver productions—."
Awei, Long Eying, Long Yao, Long Li, the old toad, and the shrunken Afei filled the space, surrounding Li Xianghan.
The yellow mouse turned over, yawned, opened its sleepy eyes, saw a big-mouthed fish, looked twice, and closed its bean eyes.
A moment later.
The mouse jumped three feet high, kicked Li Xianghan's head, shrank into the corner, and gasped for air.
Li Xianghan felt more and more oppressed, was kicked inexplicably, and opened her eyes irritably.
A huge toad face squeezed into her eye sockets.
"?"
"Wow!"
Li Xianghan screamed, rolling and crawling, her buttocks pressed on the mouse, squeezing into the corner.
"Humph, frog, of course it's a frog! Can it be a tadpole?" The old toad pulled out the pillow with its webbed feet, tore open the seam, and took the large-denomination thousand-tael silver productions into its pocket, counting them with its mouth.
"???"
Damn, there's a toad stealing her things! Counting her production!
And it's a damn Great Demon!
Where's the Heavenly Centipede? Where's King Huai?
Save me!
I still have utilization value! I haven't become the number one Saintess yet, I apply for political asylum from the Great Shun Wu Sheng!
Her pupils trembled, Li Xianghan tried hard to find the Heavenly Centipede. It didn't matter if she didn't look, but she was scared when she looked.
Who! Who held a party in her exclusive carriage without notifying her, why are there so many people?
Who are these three women?
Damn, is the one in the middle a fairy?
"You've seen what you wanted to see, Madam, hurry back, she's not sure, she has to cultivate." The Heavenly Centipede jumped out.
Seeing the Golden-Winged Heavenly Centipede, Li Xianghan felt a little relieved.
It seems to be a moth made by King Huai.
Madam?
King Huai's Madam?
Wait, how did they get in? There were so many guards, didn't any of them notice?
Immediately, she saw the fairy in the middle nod, revealing a relieved and gratified look.
Li Xianghan was inexplicably unhappy.
No, although you look very good, what are you relieved about on your face?
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