After leaving the Literacy Hall, Lin Xiaolu led Xiao Yu'er skipping and running around on the Emei Peak, which was like a fairyland. They didn't show any signs of worry or fear. They had been orphans in Donggua Village and were used to being carefree. At this moment, they were enjoying the scenery and moving forward in the direction of the Star-Plucking Peak according to their memory.
Soon, the siblings arrived in front of a jade-made Seeking-Tao Bridge.
Seeing that this jade bridge was the same as the one they had passed on their way here, the two held hands and stepped onto the bridge together.
After crossing the jade bridge, they continued to follow the route in their memory. Along the way, they also encountered many elder brothers and sisters in Taoist robes.
And almost all the cultivators who saw these two siblings would whisper a few words.
"Strange. Why would the little disciples of the Star-Plucking Peak come here?"
"I don't know. Maybe they came to play?"
"Shouldn't they be studying in the Literacy Hall at their age? I don't understand."
"Haha. Maybe they skipped class and ran out to play. Didn't we do the same thing back then?"
"Hehe. That's right."
Xiao Yu'er felt a bit strange when hearing the whispers of the surrounding cultivators. She looked up at Lin Xiaolu and said, "Brother, they all seem to be looking at us."
"Normal." Lin Xiaolu said with a proud expression on his small face, "After all, we are the children of the Jianghu, full of domineering aura and easy to be admired. So this kind of situation will happen more and more in the future. Xiao Yu'er, you have to get used to it. Do you understand?"
"Yes." The girl replied sweetly.
The siblings continued to walk forward, chatting and laughing.
Soon, they came to a fork in the road.
Xiao Yu'er looked at the two mountain paths in front of her and sucked her finger in confusion and said,
"Brother, was there this fork in the road when we came?"
"Hmm..." Lin Xiaolu thought for a moment and then pointed to the mountain path on the left.
"Let's take this one." After saying that, he led Xiao Yu'er to continue with great confidence.
The two walked through a mountain path planted with many green bamboos. It took them a lot of effort to reach the top of the mountain path and then saw a huge circular stone-carved archway.
"Brother, we must have gone wrong." Xiao Yu'er said with a sad face, looking at the completely unfamiliar archway in front of her, "It seems we can't find our way back."
Lin Xiaolu was a bit embarrassed for a while. He scratched his head and then smiled sheepishly, "It's okay, Xiao Yu'er. We'll just ask an adult for directions later."
After saying that, he looked curiously at the circular stone-carved archway in front of him.
Since he couldn't read, he naturally couldn't understand the plaque on the archway. But they were still very curious and walked in.
Passing through the circular archway, the siblings came to a long wooden platform. On both sides of the platform were ponds full of lotus flowers.
"Brother, come and look. There are fish here." Xiao Yu'er squatted beside the wooden platform and looked at the red carp swimming around in the pond in surprise.
"Whoosh!"
While Xiao Yu'er was happy, suddenly a clear cry rang out from above. Looking up, she was even more surprised: "Wow ~ Such a big sparrow."
In the sky, several red-headed white cranes that were circling and flying high almost hit a tree when they heard the little girl's words.
Where did this little girl come from? She actually regarded them as sparrows?
They were all spirit beasts raised in Emei, with extraordinary intelligence and could understand human language.
And when the several white cranes were extremely depressed, the boy below scolded the girl: "How could this be a big sparrow? Can a sparrow be this big?"
The white cranes were a little pleased when they heard this. Some of them even chirped at the boy, praising the little boy for his good eyesight.
"Then, brother, what are these?" Xiao Yu'er asked curiously.
Lin Xiaolu looked up at the flying white cranes. He wasn't sure what these things were. He and his sister had never left Donggua Village since they were born and were young, so their knowledge was relatively limited.
At this moment, he stroked his small chin, narrowed his eyes, thought for a while and then said to Xiao Yu'er: "Look, this thing that looks like a chicken is so white. I think it should be a mutated white chicken."
The white cranes in the sky:???
The white cranes were almost angered to death. They stared at the little boy below while flying. Where did this little fool come from?
"Then, brother, look at their heads. They are so red." Xiao Yu'er pointed at the heads of the white cranes and continued to ask.
Lin Xiaolu looked at the red heads of the white cranes and explained with great confidence: "That should be because they often fight and then hit each other's heads until they are swollen and red."
"Oh ~" Xiao Yu'er seemed to understand clearly after hearing this and then smiled happily at the boy: "Brother, you know so much."
"Whoosh!"
A sharp and loud crane cry rang out. The white cranes in the sky couldn't bear it anymore. They swooped down one after another, raised their long beaks and rushed towards the siblings.
"Run. The mutated white chickens are coming to attack us." The seven-year-old Lin Xiaolu grabbed his sister and ran. The two ran very fast on the wooden platform with their short legs, making the wooden boards on the platform "bang bang" sound. Soon, the two ran out of the wooden platform and rushed out from a square gate.
And seeing that they had left the lotus courtyard, the several white cranes didn't chase anymore.
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"Huff ~ Huff ~ Huff ~ Huff ~"
Xiao Yu'er squatted on the ground, panting heavily and said: "Brother, these mutated white chickens are so fierce."
Lin Xiaolu leaned against a wooden railing, also panting heavily and extremely tired. After panting for a while, he nodded and said: "Yes. They are so aggressive and like to fight, so their heads are red."
After saying that, the recovered Lin Xiaolu looked around curiously and found that he was leaning against a long railing.
This railing was very large and long, seemingly stretching as far as the eye could see.
Where was this?
He looked at the dense forest with green willows all around. Everywhere his eyes passed was full of trees. Then, he curiously climbed onto the railing to see what was behind it.
However, he was too young and his legs were too short to climb up. His small hands were hanging on the railing.
"Xiao Yu'er, come and help me."
"Oh, okay. I'm coming."
Xiao Yu'er quickly went over to push her brother's small butt and tried hard to push him up.
Finally, with the help of his sister, Lin Xiaolu climbed onto the railing. And just when he was about to look inside the railing, a deafening beast roar suddenly rang out!
"Roar!!!"
In the next moment, a figure that seemed to block out the sky and the sun suddenly rushed out from inside the railing. The rising air current directly knocked the siblings to the ground.
Inside the railing, a huge monster rose up half of its body. It was a huge python-dragon. The specific length of its body was unknown, but just its width and length were dozens of meters. Its huge body was covered with purple-blue scales, shining in the sunlight.
And its head was even more terrifying, as big as a house, directly blocking out the bright sun. At this moment, it was looking down at the fallen siblings with a pair of golden vertical pupils!
Seeing this scene, the frightened Xiao Yu'er immediately screamed and threw herself into Lin Xiaolu's arms. Lin Xiaolu held Xiao Yu'er and looked at the huge monster that blocked out the sky above his head, trembling and said: "No, don't eat my sister."
The figures of the siblings appeared in the huge golden vertical pupils of the python-dragon, as if it was thinking about something.
After a while, the huge head of the python-dragon slowly lowered. A red snake tongue larger than Lin Xiaolu protruded from its mouth gap, making the boy's face turn pale.
And at this time, a urgent voice suddenly came from a distance.
"Senior Zijinghua, please spare their lives!"
Lin Xiaolu was attracted by the voice and turned his head to look. He saw a charming young girl in a blue long dress with a cute bun hairstyle flying at high speed from the dense forest in the distance. After arriving, she directly stood in front of himself and his sister and raised her hands and clasped her fists towards the huge monster in front of her: "Tang Xin of the Spirit-Communication Branch, pays respects to Senior Zijinghua!"