Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Yang Dou said: "These bees are really crazy. They don't go out to collect honey. Are they rushing around like this?"

Chu Xiaomu was also wondering why. Logically, this was the time when bees were busy collecting nectar. Hundreds of these little creatures came out together and did not stop even when they came across large flowers along the way. They were heading somewhere just as Yang Dou said.

Then he said, "It is a little strange. Let's walk faster and follow to take a look."

The two of them quickened their pace and followed closely behind the group of wild bees.

The group of wild bees flew through the trees and forests, heading north.

At first, there was a mountain path in the forest, but later it became steeper and steeper, and the path was cut off. Fortunately, the two of them were light-footed and there were not many thorns in the mountains, so they did not lose track.

After walking for half an hour, the two followed the group of wild bees around a curved ridge and suddenly heard a loud buzzing sound. Turning around, they saw a large black cloud of bees flying up and down and circling on the top of a tree more than 20 meters high.

The two found a slightly open area and were stunned by the countless bees.

Yang Dou stammered, "This... this... what's going on? Is the Spirit King going to show up again?"

Chu Xiaomu twisted his arm and said with a smile, "What nonsense are you talking about? King Ling is so bored that he would come to play with these wild bees?"

The legend of the Spirit King has existed on Baihua Island for a long time. It is said that the ancestors of the islanders came from the eastern continent across the ocean. At first, there were only 130 or 40 people. Under the protection of the Spirit King, they were able to multiply and prosper, and now there are 700 to 800 people. Disasters occasionally occur on the island, but they are always averted. The old people in the village all say that it is the work of the Spirit King... Therefore, everyone is extremely respectful of the Spirit King.

The two southeastern villages have built a huge ancestral temple, which not only enshrines the tablets of the ancestors of several major surnames, but also a wooden statue, which is said to be carved in the image of King Ling.

Although Chu Xiaomu had worshiped the statue of the Spirit King since he was a child, he had never seen his true body. His young mind was filled with doubts, thinking that the Spirit King was just like mountain elves and sea monsters, and that they were just stories told by adults to deceive children and were not to be taken seriously.

Huai Fucao, a spiritual doctor in the village, knows a magical art of asking spirits. He only says that he can get guidance from spirits, but has never said that he has ever seen the Spirit King.

As the sky darkened, the swarm of wild bees seemed to be directed by someone, and flew towards the north in a black mass, leaving not a single one behind. The forest suddenly became quiet, and the usual sounds of birds and insects could no longer be heard.

Chu Xiaomu has been extremely curious since he was a child. Sometimes when he encountered something difficult to understand, he would often lose his appetite until he figured it out. For this, he was beaten by his father several times.

He saw so many bees forming a group and heading north, thinking that something strange must have happened in the north. He made up his mind to go north early the next morning with his hunting knife and bow and arrow to take a look.

In fact, Baihua Island is not big, but it is not small either. Island residents have long sailed around the island and measured that Baihua Island is about 500 miles long from north to south and about 280 miles wide from east to west.

Nanzhai is located on the south-west side of the island. It usually takes six or seven days to travel by boat to the northernmost tip of the island. Although the mountain road is shorter, there are many cliffs along the way, so it takes at least four or five days to travel at the fastest.

The strange thing is that the northern end of the island is surrounded by cliffs hundreds of feet high on all sides, which is impossible for ordinary people to climb. The islanders gave this cliff a nice name, called Raofeng Cliff, which means that even the wind cannot blow through it and you need to walk around the cliff.

When Chu Xiaomu was a child, he said many times that he wanted to climb up Raofeng Cliff to see what was going on, but his father stopped him every time. However, his curiosity to climb up the cliff and take a look did not cease.

When he was thirteen years old, his parents went fishing and never came back. They disappeared mysteriously. The old clan leader sent dozens of people to search for them, but they found no trace. Everyone was sad and guessed that they were eaten by a sea monster.

Grandma fell seriously ill and passed away half a year later, leaving Grandpa Chu Liang and Chu Xiaomu to depend on each other.

In the first few months, Chu Xiaomu was sad about the departure of his parents and became even less talkative. It took him half a year to gradually recover.

He had always hoped that his parents were just blown to an unknown place by the storm, and were not killed by the water monster, so no one could find their bodies.

I thought that I must build a big ship in the future and go to farther places, or even to the Eastern Continent to look for them. Maybe they have already gone there.

Whenever he thought of his parents, he regretted being naughty and often making them angry. From then on, he became much more careful in what he did.

He was afraid that his grandfather would worry about him, so he never mentioned the idea of ​​climbing the Raofeng Cliff again. After seeing the strange phenomenon of the wild bee swarm today, he only planned to go to the north to have a look. If he couldn't get through the Raofeng Cliff, he would return home.

When the two returned to the village, it was already dark.

Chu Xiaomu entered the room and saw that Bai Yixing had fallen asleep, breathing softly and coughing occasionally.

He ate something at random and then asked his grandfather how the matter went with the spiritual doctor's request for medicine for Bai Yixing.

Chu Liang said, "Doctor Huai Ling said that this person is from Baixue Country, and his physique is quite different from ours. I dare not prescribe medicine for the injury rashly. I need to see the injury with my own eyes before I can make a decision. Today I only prescribed some medicine to stop bleeding and cough, which can't cure the root cause."

The next morning, after Chu Xiaomu washed up, he went to call Bai Yixing to eat something. After calling him several times but getting no response, he hurried over to check.

Bai Yixing was pale, with a pool of blood on his chest that had dried hard. He could feel his breath coming out very weakly. He shouted, "Grandpa, Grandpa, he's dying!"

Chu Liang hurried over and said, "Go and get the Huai Fu grass. It might be too late if you delay any longer."

Chu Xiaomu didn't even bother to eat and ran straight to Huai Fucao's house.

Huai Fucao is the only spiritual doctor in the east and south villages of Baihua Island. His medical skills have been passed down from generation to generation in his family, and each generation is more advanced than the last. Ordinary injuries and illnesses can be cured by him. Even for some difficult and complicated diseases, he can often come up with solutions through his unique spiritual questioning technique, so everyone has great trust in his medical skills.

Soon, Huai Fucao came jogging with Chu Xiaomu.

When many islanders heard that a person from the Snow Country thousands of miles away had come to Chu Liang's house, they were very curious and ran over to see what was new.

Huai Fucao took out a bag of herbs and handed it to Chu Liang, saying: "Go and boil this life-saving medicine for him to take. I'll take a look at his injuries." Chu Liang took it and hurried away.

Huai Fucao lifted up Bai Yixing's clothes and saw a cross-shaped wound on his right chest, one inch wide. It had a black scab and had obviously healed long ago.

He pried open his mouth and turned over his eyelids to take a closer look, then touched Bai Yixing's forehead, chest, limbs, etc., and his expression became more and more solemn.

After a long while, he said to Chu Xiaomu: "From what you said, he said he was injured by a mermaid. The "mermaid" they are talking about should be a water demon."