Endless route

Chapter 247 17. Tota Xianao is a baby

After hearing this, Jidao immediately followed Zheng Yun's pace and walked along the stone road towards the lake without looking back. He was no longer the same as before, without any doubts or plans to stay.

It's been a smooth journey.

The two of them returned to the ancient port. The wind and snow became a little stronger, and when they looked back at the Yiguan Hall, it was already hazy.

This place is really ethereal.

Zheng Yun shook his head and walked out of the ancient port, stepped on the ice lake and walked towards the Tiangong Palace. The things of his ancestors were indeed of profound artistic conception. There was no obvious danger in the palace, but it was enough to persuade them to retreat.

The main thing is the atmosphere.

Just now, Zheng Yun had an intuition that as long as he stepped through the gate of Yiguan Palace, it might not end well.

Master Immortal, I don't see Xian Ao.

Ji Dao turned back and looked around the main island. From just now to now, they have not seen Tota Xian'ao. Even if this uncle wants to hibernate, he should be near the main island.

Let's look for it slowly later.

Zheng Yun speeds up and returns to Tiangong.

In less than ten minutes, the two returned to the territory from the west gate and contacted the young Taoist priest directly through the walkie-talkie, asking the other party to dispatch troops and generals to prepare for another exploration.

At the same time, the two of them were looking for traces near the west gate of Tiangong to thoroughly investigate whether any outsiders had broken into Tiangong.

Master Immortal, this question is so scary that I broke into a cold sweat. I have been on duty in the Tiangong for more than 20 years, and only monkeys and birds from outside the territory have entered by mistake. I have never noticed anyone trespassing.

Ji Dao took off his white fur and shook his head.

It can also be seen from the snow on the ground that there are no traces inside or outside the west gate of the Tiangong. It is flat and smooth and even the hooves of the animals are not visible.

That's hard to say.

Zheng Yun sighed softly and looked at the Immortal Sea Ice Lake. He looked through the snow curtain to the main island of Immortal Island, waiting for the men and horses to be ready.

A few minutes later.

The little Taoist priest from Tiangong appeared first, carrying a jade lantern, and hurried out of the stone corridor. After seeing Zheng Yun and Jidao, the little Taoist priest slowed down and stood quietly behind them.

Gray and white snow clouds hang high in the sky. Although it is a snowy day, the light is still dim after all. The jade lantern emits a misty fairy light, which is crystal clear and whiter than the snow on the ground.

Wisps of cold immortals merged into the snow curtain, leaving only the vaguely bright fairy light following behind the jade lantern, as if the jade lantern dragged out afterimages, which were four or five meters long.

The Immortal Art Cold Immortal has arrived.

After waiting for a while, Cadest hurriedly arrived with a large amount of modern equipment, ranging from drones to thermal imaging to chemical protective suits, as well as a large number of modern weapons.

One person couldn't carry so much equipment, so Kedester was followed by a large number of Yin soldiers who provided transportation capacity. Each Yin soldier was carrying a backpack, and there were as many as thirty or forty of them.

These Yin soldiers are explorers, and they are good at rock climbing and diving. They can go almost anywhere. They have wider applicability than conventional pack-horses, and they can also provide a labor force.

The Yin soldiers and equipment are in place.

Following Kedester, the Tiangong Taoist priests, led by the three explorers, ran out of the stone corridor. They followed Ji Dao's instructions and took out fragrant sand and other items from Tiangong Medicine Pavilion and other places.

Once it comes out, it can't be stopped.

A large number of people came from all over the Tiangong, carrying various items from the stone corridor to the west entrance.

Zheng Yun glanced back, and happened to see the ghost general walking out of the stone corridor. The ghost cloak that couldn't stop shaking was particularly conspicuous in the snowy sky, and he was walking with style on the hilt of the knife at his waist.

Master Immortal, do you want to invite some cranes?

Seeing that Zheng Yun finally turned around, the little Taoist priest quickly handed the jade lantern to Zheng Yun, and then took the opportunity to ask.

Is the crane useful?

Zheng Yun raised his eyes and looked far away. Cranes were flying and playing in the valley, as if they were playing in the heavy snow during the New Year.

Master Immortal, the Heavenly Palace is not the human world. The crane has no restrictions on its actions. Although it cannot defeat some demonic birds, it can descend from high altitude and take you and me away to ensure our safety.

With the cranes' familiarity with this escape route, even if they have their eyes closed, let alone a snowy day, they can carry us back to the Tiangong territory quickly.

Ji Dao turned around and gave an answer.

Indeed, let them move around and eat a lot every day, but their attendance rate is pitifully low.

Zheng Yun nodded in agreement.

The Tiangong has low gravity, and it is also the habitat of cranes. These cranes can airdrop supplies, provide emergency rescue, high-altitude early warning, and dive attacks. They are almost the same as armed helicopters, and their speed is much faster than helicopters.

Send twenty cranes.

Ji Dao immediately asked the little Taoist priest to do it.

Twenty is a bit too much, isn't it? Zheng Yun glanced around behind him, and they seemed to be a little overjoyed.

They just wanted to visit the Immortal Island Yiguan Palace, but they brought fifty or sixty people, a large number of modern weapons and equipment, all the ghost generals were present, and almost all the magic and ghost methods were used.

Hanxian did not transform into a human form, but judging from the several fairy lights of four to five meters, even if he transformed into a human form, it would be three meters long.

This is not the way to visit the island.

This is completely enough to attack the fairy island.

Master Immortal, our Immortal Supervisor Jiu Shu Battle Formation is in urgent need of training troops. The training now can be used when we go to the battlefield in the future. There should be more such exercises as possible. Seize the opportunity to practice.

With a smile on his face, Ji Dao took his sword case and carried it behind his back, obviously wanting to experience the addiction of going to the battlefield with one.

What's so good about training on an empty island? There's no turning back when you shoot a bow. Now that the training posture has been set, let's see the situation. If the first pass is safe, go to Xianhai Lake to find some ferocious and huge mountain and sea monsters. Beast training.

Zheng Yun gave the order.

What Ji Dao said made sense, and even gave him a sense of enlightenment, because no one could deny that one day they would go to the Forsaken Land and go to the battlefield to fight the enemy.

Those abandoned places are not necessarily about fighting with immortal arts. The methods of gods and ghosts are mutually restrained. As long as you are proficient in one, you will definitely be qualified to enter the immortal arts.

Especially large-scale means.

If one day, the Contemporary Immortal Supervisor is going to visit the Forsaken Land again, then he must not go there empty-handed and just watch.

It’s not just about finding ways to train troops in advance.

Any magic trick requires a lot of practice.

Zheng Yun also had to consider whether he had the opportunity to do what Triton failed to do in the first place through some method, and move Hades Pavilion away to the battlefield.

As the first divine and ghost method that he has fully mastered, Hades Pavilion is not a magical technique in La Maine Town, but it becomes a magical technique when it goes to the battlefield, and it must be a high-quality magical technique.

Ji Dao is right.

It's time to think about it yourself.

Master Immortal, I have a list of ferocious beasts around the Heavenly Palace. Many of them have old enemies with me, especially those monster birds that come to the Heavenly Palace every now and then to steal grain and poop randomly. They should have been killed long ago! Ji Dao smiled happily! Rejoice.

He then continued: But some demonic beasts can be left unkilled. Today is different from the past. Now that there are so many people in the palace, we can completely control them with the dragon control technique.

...

Zheng Yun was silent for a moment.

Ji Dao's enemy is also different. He actually made enemies with the surrounding beasts. And hearing what he meant, not only one or two people were recorded in the book, it's really speechless.

But speaking of beast control.

Zheng Yun was very interested.

The tradition and habit of the Tritonians is to want to control everything they see. This is a fundamental thing. As a descendant of the Tritonians, Zheng Yun is naturally influenced by the custom.

The continent at the foot of the Tiangong is called Shanhaixianzhou. As Guang Jidao said, there are almost unimaginable monsters from the Book of Mountains and Seas such as the Sun-Swallowing Demon Dog and Zhu Jiuyin.

In the past, Ji Dao could not control it alone.

Now there is really no shortage of manpower in Tiangong.

If you can lock and control some, it will be really useful, and you can be worthy of the magical level of dragon control.

After waiting for a while, a group of cranes passed over everyone's heads, silently passing through the snow curtain and surrounding them in the air.

Zheng Yun and others also made full preparations. With a large amount of equipment and manpower, they walked out of the west gate. Under the leadership of Jidao, they went west to the Tiangong for the first time in many years to fight in all directions.

Everyone stepped onto the ice lake and headed towards the main island.

This time was different from the last time. It moved much faster, but after a while it went deep into the fairy island group again.

The main island is no different from before.

It is still hidden in the wind and snow. The clusters of attics start from Yiguan Hall, spread up and down along the stone road, and lead directly to the palace on the top of the mountain, just like the ancient fairy temple.

The ancient port is right in front of you.

The distance is only fifty meters.

But the atmosphere has a sense of isolation, as if no matter what they do, the ancient port will always remain the same.

I have a bird's-eye view here, but it's not very clear. The buildings on Fairy Island look like a rectangular one-word dojo.

Kedester held up a tablet to show that he had not yet let the drone take off. The source of the image was a camera on the crane's ankle, which was transmitted to his tablet via wireless data.

This is nothing short of a pioneering work.

He had a similar idea when he saw the crane last time. He proposed it just now when he was preparing to set off, and got Zheng Yun's support, so he tried it.

The results were more modest.

After all, it was a snowy day, and the cranes were flying high. The video was filled with white velvet. Only the distribution of buildings on the main island could be seen, and the details of the buildings could not be monitored in high definition.

Something is better than nothing. The idea is a good one.

Zheng Yun nodded and raised his hand, and two Yin soldiers walked out from behind, stepping on the snow across the surface of the ice lake and onto the ancient port.

At this time, it is safest for Yin soldiers to explore the way. If there is any danger, they can try to find out in advance.

Wait for the Yin soldiers to walk onto the stone road.

Zheng Yun sent two more Yin soldiers to follow.

Master Immortal, let's look for the Tota Xian'ao first? Ji Dao had doubts in his heart. Xian Ao was supposed to be guarding the main island, but he didn't know where he was at the moment. This was a hidden danger.

Can.

Zheng Yun took people around the island to check.

The ancient port obviously cannot accommodate Xian Ao. If Xian Ao is hiding on the island, then there should be other places for it to land on the island. If Xian Ao is not on the island, it can only be somewhere on the shore.

The Xian'ao is too special to be inferred by common sense, and cannot be modeled on the habits of ordinary amphibious hibernating creatures.

They stepped on the ice and kept a certain distance from the main island. They circled half a circle around the island and walked to the back of the main island, but there were only steep rock walls protruding from the ice.

Fairy Island has only one port.

Otherwise it is completely closed.

Soon they circled more than half a circle and returned to the northeast of the main island, where they saw the ancient fisherman's harbor again.

Thermal imaging has found something.

Kedester suddenly spoke and showed the tablet to Zheng Yun. Through the screen, he could clearly see that there was a very weak and huge heat source under the ice in front of them to the right.

Everyone looked up.

The heat source was located close to the main island. After carefully checking the position, Zheng Yun saw a black object similar to a lampstand in the corner submerged by snow, protruding from the ice.

It is octagonal.

The material seems to be iron.

Isn't that the tip of the iron tower on Master Xian'ao's back? Xian'ao is actually hiding under the ice lake? Doesn't it need to breathe? The little Taoist saw the key and exclaimed softly.

Does it hibernate like this every year?

Zheng Yun turned to look at Jidao. From this scene, it was easy to see that the Xian'ao was sinking deep into the lake at his feet, and that the Xian'ao had never moved since it started to freeze.

I don't know either, Master Immortal, I have never seen this uncle hibernating. Jidao shook his head in surprise.

Xian'ao's hibernation is so magical.

The ice layer is only one palm thick, which means that the Xian'ao is floating in the lake. From the thermal imaging, it can be seen that the Xian'ao has crawled back into the armor. Perhaps it is ventilating through the iron tower?

There seems to be a stone platform below, and the Xian Ao is lying on the stone platform, but no matter what, this Xian Ao has the ability to breathe underwater, and the biological detector can observe breathing.

Kedester squatted on the ice, turned on several modern instruments, and conducted a comprehensive scientific exploration of Xian'ao.

Let's go, don't disturb it.

Zheng Yun asked everyone to avoid Xian Ao. Judging from the data, Xian Ao's carapace is ten meters long, and its head is probably bigger than a sofa. It is absolutely easy to eat a person in one bite.

Their goal this time is to control Xian Ao. There is no need to be an enemy of it. If it is hurt, it will be a loss.

Master Immortal, something is not right.

Kedester spoke solemnly and held up a screen to Zheng Yun. The screen also showed a thermal image, but color blocks with temperatures similar to Xian'ao filled the entire screen.

What's the meaning?

Ji Dao asked looking at the screen.

There's not just one Immortal Ao below, there's another Immortal Ao behind the Immortal Ao. There's either a group of Immortal Ao or one big one. Kedester stretched out his hand to mark out several areas.

big?

Zheng Yun looked forward.

Master Immortal, is that also a tower? The little Taoist priest stretched out his hand again and pointed to the woods on the shore of the main island.

The trees along the island are similar to willow trees. Their branches are clearly frozen into ice strips, and soft snow accumulates on them. They are all white and almost identical.

But there is a pine tree covered with snow in the depths.

This pine tree is in an odd position, about twenty meters away from the lake. It seems to be growing in an isolated pool of water, alone, with no other trees around.

It is more than twelve meters high.

The top is narrow and the bottom is wide and covered with snow.

It's a bit like a Western Christmas tree.

Master Immortal, I remember that it was a fishing pavilion, standing in the center of a jade fish clear pond. I have never seen it change since I was young. Ji Dao recalled the truth, but his tone of voice was different. Not very natural.

...

Zheng Yun took a deep breath and looked at the thermal imaging again. All signs showed that there was Zunxian Ao under the Diaoyu Pavilion.

But this Immortal Ao is too big.

The Tota Immortal Ao looks like a cub next to it, and its length is estimated to be four to five times different. In other words, this huge Immortal Ao with the Fishing Pavilion on its back is a full fifty meters long.

So is the tower on the back.

Although the tower of Tota Xian'ao is a two-story iron tower, it is only more than three meters high, while this fishing pavilion is four times as high.

Moreover, in the past twenty years, the immortal turtle in the attic had never been moved, so much so that Ji Dao didn't even know there was a fairy turtle underneath it, so he had to use thermal imaging to reveal it.

It's really amazing. This planet is full of giant creatures. I thought before that even birds like cranes can grow more than ten meters long. Xian'ao should not only be ten meters long.

Now it turns out that's true.

Kedester deeply lamented that the ten-meter-long Xian'ao could only be said to be rare on the endless sea route, but after reaching fifty meters, there should be very few found on the sea route.

Unless there is a planet with a gravity lower than that of Tiangong, and it must be near the Sea of ​​Mist with sufficient oxygen supply.

The Patriarch of Tiangong is really a master of the world. He surrounded Xian Ao with a fish pond, built a fishing pavilion on the back of Xian Ao, and finally sat in the pavilion fishing. This scene is really fairy-like.

Zheng Yun sighed.

He still underestimated the Immortal Noodles Project of Tiangong, and thought that the towering Xian'ao was enough to save his face. After all, the layout was too small, and now this is called the real Immortal Noodles Project.

This level of prowess has reached its peak.

Any further is beyond comprehension.

Let the royal family members come for a tour, drink tea, fish and play chess in the pavilion. Who can come without being confused? With this environment and quality, two taels of tea can be sold for ten thousand taels of gold.

So the Tota Xian'ao is also a baby? Does it hibernate here because it wants to be closer to its mother?

Ji Dao murmured to himself, and then suddenly thought of something. He turned to look at Kedester and said, Use your equipment to take a look. Are there any Xian Ao eggs in the clear pond?