The myth begins with the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 115 Carp Lake

But it is impossible to return to its original state.

Most of those messy boulders were pushed off the cliff, and only a few of the largest ones remained, scattered and stood upright, serving as decorations.

Under the moonlight, the white snake swayed its long tail, patiently picking up a bunch of grass seeds from a distance and then scattering them finely.

Just wait for a rain and it will sprout, temporarily covering up the ugliness.

The green snake changed to another stone, supported itself on the stone with both hands, leaned forward slightly, and watched the white snake busy with boredom, its long green tail hanging in the air, swaying back and forth.

"arrive."

Ding Lin said.

no respond.

Behind her, the sound of even breathing could be heard. It was unknown when the Fifth Fairy fell asleep again. Her seriously injured body already needed recuperation, and she had been frightened repeatedly. After being protected by Ding Lin and temporarily safe, she relaxed and felt exhausted. Naturally, she could no longer hold on.

"Mountain Master."

Seeing Ding Lin coming back, the White Snake stopped sowing and came over to greet him. She must have seen the secular world and was familiar with some mortal etiquette.

"Mountain Master."

The green snake also slid down from the huge rock mountain. It no longer had the relaxed look it had just now and lowered its head in front of Ding Lin.

The world of monsters is like this, with strict hierarchy and clear layers. After killing Chi Lian and occupying the Snake Peak, Ding Lin became the supreme king of this peak. No, he cannot be called the king yet. He has not yet reached the fairyland. At most, he can only be called the master of the mountain.

"Ah."

Ding Lin agreed, and felt something wrong with the hem of his clothes. He pulled it back, but there was some resistance. However, he was still in his dream. The five fairies were still holding his robe tightly and did not let go. He frowned, then forcibly pulled out his robe and took two steps to the side.

The fifth fairy just looked a bit like Yang Chan, which brought back a fleeting memory in him.

In other words, the gentleness before was not actually meant for the five fairies.

"Um……"

The fifth fairy woke up suddenly. The sudden emptiness in her palms made her sense of security disappear. She opened her eyes and saw the green snake and the white snake bowing in front of her.

"Demon...Snake demon!"

The fifth fairy was startled and looked around until she saw Ding Lin again. Then she breathed a sigh of relief and calmed herself down. She opened her mouth to call Ding Lin, but suddenly found that she didn't know how to address him. She wanted to ask, but seeing Ding Lin's indifferent look, she became a little timid and swallowed the words back several times.

“They won’t eat you.”

Ding Lin said, he looked around, looking for a place to temporarily stay, and said to the five fairies.

"I recently occupied this mountain, so it should be safe. You can recover here."

"..."

The fifth fairy opened her mouth. She had many questions to ask.

But finally, he nodded.

Ding Lin no longer paid attention to the five fairies. He flew and stood on a huge rock, which allowed him to better observe the terrain. After the explosion, there was a cliff to the east, an open plain to the west, and a gentle slope to the north.

The south was originally the location of the cave, but now it has been completely destroyed and the ground has sunken deeply to form a huge basin.

Ding Lin's gaze finally fell here.

"Master, this cave has always existed. Do you plan to build another one, or are you more used to living in a palace? Xiaoqing and I can go and prepare some stones and logs, but if the monster builds it, we have never done this kind of work before, so I am afraid..."

The two snakes followed Ding Lin. When they saw Ding Lin's gaze, the white snake asked, already feeling very conscious of being a subordinate.

"No need." Ding Lin waved his hand. "There are only a few of us in the mountain now, so there is no need for such a grand ceremony for the time being. You have been frightened for a whole day, and you have been cleaning up for so long. I think you must be tired. Find a place to rest. I also need to take a rest. You can leave now."

"Then Mountain Master, we sisters will take our leave first."

The White Snake and the Green Snake bowed again and then retreated down the mountain. The top of the mountain was a place where all spiritual energy gathered. It had only been occupied by the Red Snake in the past, and they had all been settled on the mountainside. Now Ding Lin only asked them to retreat and did not let them settle on the top of the mountain, so they naturally went back to their previous residences.

Only Ding Lin and the five fairies were left on the top of the mountain.

Ding Lin looked at the basin and nodded. He flew to the air again and looked down the mountain. Several streams were flowing around the mountain. He thought about it again, as if he suddenly thought of something. A light came to his mind, and the spiritual light in his palm lit up, holding up the divine seal.

The originally golden divine seal now looked dull and lifeless, as if making a silent protest. The surface was no longer bright, and the entire body looked like brass.

Ding Lin poured his mind into it, and as expected, he immediately felt resistance. He snorted coldly, remembering the scene where Chi Lian used blood magic to forcibly refine the divine seal.

If Chi Lian could do it, he could naturally do it too.

Then, the demonic energy surged in, and soon, a mournful cry came from the divine seal, and then the resistance subsided.

The magic power was flowing in the divine seal, and it could finally be controlled. However, it was just the demonic energy that was forcibly subdued. There were stagnations during the operation, and it could never be harmonious. But relying on the divine seal, the whole mountain was still under control. The consciousness sank down, and suddenly broke into a new world. The strange feeling, every blade of grass, every grain of sand and every stone, everything in the mountain, all fell into the eyes, so clear, nothing could escape. Ding Lin saw that on the back of the mountain, in a damp place away from the sun, several colorful mushrooms were rising step by step. In a dead tree at the foot of the mountain, ants had eaten away the trunk. In the darkness, tens of thousands of ants, each with their own duties, were in order, just like a small kingdom. On a sunny spot on the mountainside, an epiphyllum was slowly opening up towards the moon, and in an instant, it withered again...

On the mountainside, he saw the white snake and the green snake. It was a spacious cave. After all, they were monsters from the Dan realm, and digging holes was the innate instinct of snakes. Inside the cave, there were beds, desks, and everything else. The two snakes were lying together on the couch, with white gauze woven into the cushions. The white snake was lying properly, but the green snake was a little naughty. She leaned sideways, propped up her upper body with one elbow, and twisted her hair with the other hand, bunched it up and gently scratched the white snake's face. The white snake had a look of helplessness on her face, and interrupted several times, but the green snake giggled and wouldn't give in. The two snakes were whispering to each other.

Ding Lin didn't eavesdrop and looked away.

elsewhere.

There were insects flying through the bushes, rustling the leaves of the weeds, the wind blowing the leaves swaying, the water gurgling...

Ding Lin's eyes flashed, he tried to mobilize a trace of demonic energy, the leaves of the bush moved slightly, he tried again to control the insect, but found that he could not succeed this time.

As expected, the divine seal can be used to control the dead things in the mountains.

After figuring out this effect, Ding Lin no longer hesitated. He withdrew most of his consciousness, and then more demonic energy surged out of the divine seal. With a thought, immediately, a stream somewhere on the mountainside changed its course and lay towards the top of the mountain against common sense. In a moment, the mountains and rivers changed course and the water changed its course. This was the power of the divine seal.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of flowing water was approaching, rushing towards the basin on the south side of the peak. Ding Lin used some demonic energy to block the gap in the basin, and the basin became a small lake. The water flowed through the gaps in the gravel, but it gathered very slowly. Ding Lin was a little impatient, and he was distracted. He diverted the other dozen streams flowing through the foot of the mountain and increased the supply of demonic energy. In an instant, more than a dozen water dragons sprayed towards the basin, and the water level began to accumulate. After a few hours, a small lake appeared on the top of the mountain, and the streams in the mountain dried up because of forced excessive logging. But it didn't matter, they were all running water, and at most the water would come from above tomorrow and reopen the waterway.

Under the moonlight, the lake is clear, and under the night breeze, ripples are formed.

Ding Lin looked at the small lake with a satisfied look on his face. He flipped his hand, took back the divine seal, and without hesitation, jumped up. While still in the air, he turned into a carp and jumped into the lake. Then he hummed comfortably. He was no longer a human being, but a fish. As a human being, he had only lived on the shore for a few decades, but as a fish, he had lived in the water for hundreds of years. Although he had achieved success in his practice and could go to the shore, he had already adapted to the water. Only in the water could he feel at ease.

As a fish, water is his home.

The water softly wraps around the body.

Ding Lin closed his eyes and began to absorb the moonlight to restore his magic power and strength.

Of course, he did not forget that the opening of the great formation on the mountain was not arranged by Ding Lin. He did not have the ability to do so. Instead, it was the formation accompanied by the spiritual energy itself, a gift from nature.

On the shore, seeing Ding Lin create a lake and jump into it, the five fairies looked around and saw nothing but flat ground except rocks. A trace of loneliness flashed in her eyes, and she felt a little at a loss. She opened her mouth, wanting to call Ding Lin, but perhaps out of fear, or for other reasons, no sound came out in the end. She pursed her lips and gritted her teeth. A spiritual light lit up in her palm. She endured the pain in her meridians, took out a pill and swallowed it, then exhaled, sat facing the moonlight, and began to heal her wounds.

……

Live overnight.

When Ding Lin emerged from the lake, the Fifth Fairy was still healing with her eyes closed. The morning sunlight fell on her body, and there was some glittering water, which was the dew from last night. Without her feathered clothes, she had lost her magic power and her magic weapon. She was just an ordinary Dan realm.

The severely injured Dan realm.

Ding Lin only took a glance at the five fairies and then looked away. He took out the divine seal, activated his demonic energy, and spoke a few words into the divine seal. Soon, the white snake and the green snake climbed up from the mountainside. The morning light sprinkled on their scales, and both the white and green ones appeared golden, with a pleasing beauty.

When the two snakes saw a small lake suddenly appeared on the peak, their eyes flashed, but they were not surprised. It was obvious that they were not completely ignorant of the divine seal.

Ding Lin jumped out of the water and sat on a huge rock with his knees raised. The morning light shone on him from behind. The body he transformed into was the same as in his previous life. He was not handsome and his figure was even a little thin. However, with the blessing of strength, he appeared tall and majestic in the eyes of the two snakes. There was some gratitude in their eyes, but more of awe.

"You have been in this mountain for a long time. Do you know what other powerful monsters are nearby that we need to be careful of? And what is the origin of the righteous immortal gate on the main peak of this mountain range?"

Ding Lin asked.

"Master," the white snake replied. She had some experience and did not find Ding Lin's question strange at all. Perhaps she had done some homework in advance. "Our mountain was originally called Snake Peak. As for what it will be called in the future, it depends on your preference. There are three sacred peaks nearby. You have already learned about the one in the east last night. That mountain is called Lingque Peak. The master of the peak is a magpie who calls himself Magpie Fairy. In the past... Master,"

The White Snake hesitated for a moment, and finally gave this address.

"When Master was here, he always wanted to seize that peak as well. The Magpie Immortal relied on the Spiritual Veins Formation to barely hold on to his foundation. You, the mountain master, have even more power than Master. The Spiritual Magpie Peak is still there after last night because of your kindness."

"The one to the west is farther from our Snake Peak, about five hundred miles away. Is the peak master a wolf eagle? He is extremely cunning. Master has suffered several losses at his hands in the past. As for the details, I don't know. I only heard Master call him a bastard. Maybe he is an alien?"

"I saw him last night."

Ding Lin nodded.

"It's about six or seven hundred miles further south. The mountain master is an old turtle. He was already there before Master took over the mountain. His cultivation is very high. According to Master, he may have reached the third level of Yuanshen. But he likes to be quiet and rarely comes out. That's why there aren't many rumors about him in the mountain."

"As for the others, there is a tiger demon further south, known as the Mountain Lord. There used to be a rabbit demon in the west, but I don't know if it's still there. There are a total of 17 branches in Qingcheng Mountain. Every few decades, a new big demon will come, and then the old mountain master will be driven away or killed. The changes are frequent. My magic power is low, and I don't know all the mountain masters. The most familiar ones are only the three nearby. As for the others, I don't know most of them. There are only those two left whose names I have heard of or have heard of."

The White Snake felt a little ashamed, and what she said was true. In this era of occupying mountains and claiming one's own territory, little demons who have not yet reached the stage of Yuanshen may live on a mountain for their entire lives and never see the outside world until they die of old age. She did live outside for a period of time when she was young, but after coming to the Snake Peak on her own, she never went out again and was cut off from news.

"There is no demon king here. The mountaintops are all occupied by Yuanshen. It's probably because of the Zhengyi Immortal Sect."

Ding Lin said, he knew something about this area. When he passed through a mortal city, he once sent down a light of escape and disguised himself as a mortal to inquire for information. This was the area of ​​Bashu, the Bashu in the mythological world, which was slightly different from his previous life. The most famous one was Qingcheng. There was no other reason, this was a mythological world after all. The sect occupying Qingcheng Mountain was called Zhengyi, and the founder of the sect was well-known even among the mortals.

Zhang Daoling.

One of the four great celestial masters of Taoism.

"Yes." The white snake nodded. "My master told me that a few hundred years ago, when the Zhengyi sect was at its peak, it suppressed all the sects in Shu. The seventeen branches of Qingcheng were all occupied by the Zhengyi sect. At that time, it didn't seem to be called the Zhengyi sect. What was it called... the Five Pecks of Rice Sect?"

(End of this chapter)