Chapter 237 Demonic Shadow

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the midsummer of the lunar calendar, the scorching sun was blinding.

The fifth line of the "Book of Changes·Qian Gua" says: A flying dragon in the sky. It is a sign of great fortune.

Lu Heng, who was in the cloud of heavenly punishment, sensed something and slowly opened his eyes.

Five years have passed since he realized the "Taoism" and opened the gate of heaven.

Hanyu Mountain has also been peaceful for five years.

In the first year, some practitioners from all over the world would come to the mountain to visit and ask for advice, and there were even young men and women kneeling outside the mountain gate wanting to become disciples. It was very lively.

After the news of the Nanhai Tianjie Sword destroying the enemy with one sword spread, Lu Heng also gained some reputation in the cultivation world and attracted many curious visitors from all over the world.

However, these people were eventually sent away by Xiao Ai one by one.

Lu Heng never showed up.

Starting from the second year, the number of visitors gradually decreased.

In the third year, as Lu Heng stopped walking outside, the rumors about Lu Heng gradually faded.

Now five years have passed, and most people have almost forgotten the Wolf God who became famous in the South China Sea five years ago.

The world of cultivation is ever-changing, and there is always a lack of new legends that attract attention.

Whether it is the ferocious beasts rumored on the northern ice field, the corpse evil walking in the eastern wilderness, or the fight between the wizards of Huotong Country and the evil spirits in Qingming Cave... These legendary stories are more attractive than a Wolf God who disappeared after a flash of divine light.

So Lu Heng also enjoyed five years of peace without being disturbed by the outside world.

Now he has long left the underground temple, and directly escaped into the void with his soul, sitting cross-legged in the calamity cloud in the sky.

In the middle of the vortex cloud, in the eye of the wind with flashing lightning, Lu Heng, dressed in white, closed his eyes and practiced in seclusion, absorbing the power of heavenly thunder, without having to cause heavenly thunder to strike his body.

Such practice will not disturb the people with thunder, and it is also easier to absorb the power of calamity punishment directly from the calamity cloud.

But today, he was awakened by a certain breath outside the mountain.

In Shuisheng Village, people were bustling about. During the prayer and sacrificial ceremony, there was a faint incense and wish power floating in the void.

But this incense and wish power did not come to Lu Heng, but dissipated in the void, going to an unknown place.

May 5th...

Lu Heng looked at the huge dragon head built with bamboo and wood at the head of the village, and suddenly realized.

Is it the Dragon Boat Festival again...

Every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, almost all creatures in this world will worship the Dragon Ancestor, regardless of their beliefs.

It's just that Lu Heng doesn't know whether the Dragon Ancestor exists. But it is certain that there are many dragons in this world who can make clouds and rain.

Otherwise, if such a vast land only relies on the rising and migration of water vapor to make rain, the inland areas far away from the coast will not be able to rain, and will turn into a hot desert without raindrops.

But the dragons have always been elusive and difficult to find, and they don't come into contact with the creatures of heaven and earth. Even for practitioners, the group of dragons that make clouds and rain is an extremely mysterious tribe.

Every year, the villagers' sacrifices to the Dragon Ancestor always awaken Lu Heng from his practice.

Now that he was awakened again, Lu Heng stopped practicing. With a thought, he left the robbery cloud and came to the peach garden in the back mountain.

Five years later, the peach garden has changed a lot.

After Lu Heng buried the peach wood stick full of vitality in the center of the peach forest, the peach trees that originally grew green peach fruits gradually changed the direction of their root growth and moved towards the cracked peach wood stick.

Two years ago, all the peach trees in the peach forest moved to the center of the peach garden and crowded together.

In the soil, the complicated roots were densely entangled with the peach wood stick of the old peach demon, absorbing the vitality from it.

Since last year, these peach trees that were completely crowded together have shown a tendency to grow together.

Now that Lu Heng appeared, he found that the once dense peach trees in the center of the peach garden had all disappeared. Instead, there was an extremely thick and tall tree.

Standing under this giant tree that was so thick that ten people could hug it, Lu Heng was speechless.

——Are all the peach trees in the garden merged into one?

And looking up, the number of peaches on the crown of the giant tree was much less than before.

But each one was plump and large, with a pink and bright red skin, and had begun to ripen.

However, the price was that the peach wood stick that was tightly entangled by the tree roots underground was now full of cracks, and the vitality inside had been absorbed.

It seems that Lu Heng's speculation was correct. This peach wood stick can indeed ripen the peaches in the peach garden.

But the peach trees in the garden grew into such a giant tree... Did it turn from a peach garden into a ginseng fruit tree?

Looking at the Fei Yi bird on the treetops who was practicing with his eyes closed, Lu Heng spoke.

"Fei Yi, you will inform Xiao Ai later that several of these peaches are ripe. Let her share the ripe peaches with you, which will help you practice."

Lu Heng's voice suddenly sounded, and the Fei Yi bird on the treetops opened its eyes and looked, but saw that there was nothing under the tree, and there was no sign of Lu Heng.

Fei Yi bird was confused.

-- Is it an illusion?

But it still flew out of the peach forest to find the little girl with silver hair and animal ears.

For practitioners, it is impossible to have illusions. This voice must be the order of the Wolf God.

Fei Yi bird flapped its wings and left, and at this time, Lu Heng returned to the robbery cloud again and began to practice.

I don't know why, in the past year, although everything in Hanyu Mountain was so peaceful, Lu Heng inexplicably felt a sense of anxiety in his heart.

It seemed that something extremely bad was about to happen.

So Lu Heng did not dare to interrupt his practice.

And just when Lu Heng returned to the robbery cloud to practice again, in the barren mountains thousands of miles away from Hanyu Mountain, the skinny old monk just sat down and drank two sips of the mountain stream water with his hands, and then he realized something.

The action of holding the water paused slightly.

Then, the old monk put down the water he had just held and turned to look behind him.

His eyes were calm.

"Who is the master? Why don't you show up?"

Jiumie's words made the wind in the mountain calm slightly.

Then, a hoarse and strange laugh sounded in the forest.

"Hehehe... It's worthy of being the legendary Jiumie old monk, who can actually detect the existence of this seat."

"The top of the immortal, proud of the world, there is me Jiumie and there is heaven... People who can say such boastful words do have some skills, and they are not swindlers."

In the hoarse and strange laughter, a strange hidden emerged from the woods not far away.

The shadow was dark and faint. Although it was under the blazing sun, its appearance could not be seen clearly.

Only the strong evil spirit was spreading undisguisedly between heaven and earth, causing Jiumie to frown slightly.

Such a strong evil…

Jiumie stood up straight, staring at the strange shadow in front of him, and said.

“Is there anything wrong, sir?”