Flaming Desert

Chapter 441 Flame Desert

After all, Qin Mu was the chief priest of the Tiansheng Academy. Before leaving, he explained that many of the scholars in the Tiansheng Academy were from the Tianmo Sect, and many of the Imperial College were also from the Tianmo Sect. Even if he was not there, nothing would go wrong, so he was very relieved.

He also taught the Dragon Taming Sutra to Si Yunxiang and asked her to hire someone to look after the dragons.

"These dragons only eat elixirs, and different species eat different elixirs."

Qin Mu instructed: "I have written down the types and quantities of elixirs for each day, Saint Lady, don't forget. If they don't listen to you, go call Ling'er, she can subdue these dragons."

Si Yunxiang smiled and said, "I have the Dragon Taming Sutra in my hand, how can I be inferior to the little fox? You don't bring a few dragons to protect yourself this time? The little fox won't go with you?"

"Ling'er is learning magic from the fox fairy, so she won't go this time. Besides, we are going to explore the west this time, so there is no danger."

Qin Mu gave some instructions and said goodbye to Granny Si and the others. He was about to take Long Qilin on the road, but he saw a little girl of five or six years old standing next to Long Qilin.

"Sister Qi'er, you didn't go to the West with Nai Kui?" Qin Mu asked puzzledly.

Xiong Qier shook her head and said, "Mother asked me to follow you. Mother said that she doesn't trust Imperial Master Yankang. She said that Imperial Master Yankang is not very human and can give up everything to achieve his goals. It is difficult for her to trust such a person."

Qin Mu said: "Your mother is very thoughtful. It's better for you to follow me. She and the Imperial Master are too conspicuous. It's safer to follow me."

He picked up Xiong Qier, jumped onto Long Qilin's back, and shouted, "Fat Long, let's go!"

Long Qilin immediately took two steps forward, rode on a cloud of fire and soared into the sky, saying, "Master, I always feel that the taste of the Red Fire Spirit Pill is not right these days. Did you change the spirit pill?"

Qin Mu shook his head and said, "Long Pang, don't be so suspicious all the time. If I change the elixir, can you still not taste it?"

Long Qilin was skeptical, and Xiong Qier said in surprise: "Long Pang runs faster than before, and his belly is not as big as before."

Long Qilin became suspicious again, but every time he took the elixir, he would peel it open to see if Qin Mu had tampered with it, but he found nothing unusual.

Qin Mu smiled. He improved the Red Fire Spirit Pill and the Fire Element Divine Yuan Pill by combining the two elixirs into one. The taste was similar to the Red Fire Spirit Pill, but a little spicy. Long Qilin could tell that the taste was wrong, but he didn't know where the problem was.

The dragon unicorn was much faster than before, and its endurance was long. After two or three days, it arrived at Daxu. Qin Mu found it according to his memory.

The moon boat, the stone statue of the village chief is not far from the moon boat.

He couldn't help but be surprised to see that there were two more families here, obviously newly built houses. These two families must have noticed that there was a stone statue here that could resist darkness, so they came to settle down.

When the two families saw him riding a monster that looked like a dragon but wasn't a dragon, and like a unicorn but wasn't a unicorn, they couldn't help but become nervous. Two young hunters stood guard outside the door with steel forks in their hands, and a young woman behind them poked her head out to look in.

Qin Mu stopped and jumped off the dragon unicorn with Xiong Qier. He saluted the two men. The two hunters returned the salute and asked, "Are you a bandit or a robber?"

"I am just a passer-by, coming to see an old friend. Don't worry, I mean no harm."

Qin Mu came to the stone statue of the village chief, put down the cattle and sheep sacrifices, and said: "This is the elder of my family. I came here to pay tribute to him. If he could see that his broken body could protect you, he would be very happy."

He offered sacrifices and used his soul-pulling power. Suddenly, dark clouds appeared and darkness surged. He activated the soul-pulling power for a long time and saw many walking skeletons outside the village, but the stone statue of the village chief never came back to life.

Not long after, Qin Mu's magic power was almost exhausted. He was about to disperse his soul-pulling power when suddenly the stone statue of the village chief moved, opened its mouth and spit out a few gold coins, and said: "Mu'er, on the Ghost Festival, on the night of the full moon, I'll be waiting for you at the gates of hell!" After that, it turned back into a stone statue.

Qin Mu picked up the gold coins, and they turned out to be eight Fengdu coins.

The villagers around were confused and puzzled.

Qin Mu turned around and thanked these people, left some money and said, "Please help me clean the stone statue regularly and make sure it is not too dirty." After that, he turned and left.

The men looked at his back. A young woman was stunned and suddenly asked, "Does the young man look like the god who drove the big ship that night?"

Another woman exclaimed, "It's true! That night, the big ship passed by our village, and I saw the god on the ship who looked exactly like him!"

A hunter quickly said, "Don't talk nonsense! He is just a teenager, younger than us. How could he be the god on the ship?"

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Qin Mu took Xiong Qier and rode the Dragon Qilin all the way west, and stopped to rest at night.

He passed the Xitian Palace Basin again and looked at the ruins of the Xitian Palace before leaving. After more than ten days of trekking, they finally arrived at the westernmost part of Daxu, where there was also a mountain range with rolling hills and snow-capped mountains that separated Daxu.

"Is there also a Shenduan Mountain Range here?"

Qin Mu rode on the dragon unicorn to the top of the mountain, and suddenly a thick arrow as big as a rafter was shot from the Xuanji crossbow, and the wind and snow suddenly blew. The dragon unicorn raised its claws to shoot the arrow down, and was startled, and cried out in a lost voice: "Master, I have become stronger!"

Qin Mu looked at the surrounding hills and saw huge Xuanji crossbows operating automatically on each hill. He turned around and shouted, "Fat Long, run!"

Buzz——

The power of the Xuanji crossbows burst out, and suddenly heavy snow fell from the sky, shooting towards them madly. Long Qilin quickly leaped up and ran to the other side of the mountain.

One after another, extremely thick arrows fell behind them and turned into icicles. More arrows shot towards them. Long Qilin roared, and flames and fire clouds appeared behind him. One fire cloud after another burned towards the crossbow arrows, but there were still many ice arrows that had not yet melted shooting towards them!

Qin Mu made a sword gesture with his hands and shook them suddenly. Suddenly, eight thousand swords flew in the sky and cut off countless ice arrows.

Long Qilin ran down the mountain, arrows rained down from behind them, clanging behind them. When they rushed down the mountain, the arrow attack stopped.

Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly a heat wave hit him. He looked forward and saw a vast desert in front of him, connected to the sky. Flames were blazing in the desert, baking the sky red.

Qin Mu turned around and saw snow-capped mountains behind him.

"After crossing this flaming desert, you will reach the Western Land."

Xiong Qier said crisply: "The Western Land is behind the desert."

Qin Mu was puzzled: "How could there be such a flaming desert between the Western Land and the Great Ruins? Where did the fire in this desert come from?"

"My mother said that this fire was lit by the gods to stop the abandoned people in the ruins from leaving."

Xiong Qier suddenly jumped into the flames of the desert. Qin Mu was startled. Xiong Qier ran away and said with a smile: "The fire here will not hurt us. It will only burn the abandoned people in the big ruins. For us, this fire is not hot at all, but for the abandoned people in the big ruins, the fire is very strong! I heard from my mother that when abandoned people enter the desert, a flame pattern will grow between their eyebrows, marking their status as abandoned people. The higher the status of the abandoned people, the more flames they will have on their bodies."

Qin Mu stretched out his hand to touch the flame, and suddenly felt a sharp pain. He quickly withdrew his hand, and his fingertips began to burn.

He hurriedly put out the flames and frowned.

This flaming desert is indeed an extremely dangerous place for the people of Daxu. If you enter it, you will definitely be burned to death.

"Qier, come up!"

Qin Mu's vitality flew out, rolled up the running little girl, and threw her onto Long Qilin's back, saying, "The Imperial Master and the Palace Master left a few days earlier than us, so we shouldn't stay any longer, Fatty Long..."

Xiong Qier suddenly asked: "Big brother, what's wrong with your face?"

Qin Mu couldn't help wondering: "What's wrong with my face?"

“You have lots of textures on your face!”

Xiong Qier screamed, "The patterns are still twisting, and there are more and more of them! Are you sick? Yes, big brother, you are an abandoned person from Daxu, but there are too many flame patterns on your face!"

Qin Mu was shocked and quickly found the mirror given to him by the pharmacist. He looked in the mirror and saw that many blue and red lines had indeed grown on his face. These lines were twisted and distributed on his facial features!

He pulled open his collar and saw many green and rainbow patterns on his chest!

He stretched out his palm and saw patterns growing from his wrist, spreading to the back and palm of his hand.

Qin Mu tore off his clothes with a swish, and several mirrors flew out of his Taotie bag. He looked at the mirrors, and saw that lines were constantly growing in front and behind him, and his body seemed to be covered with green and red flames!

Xiong Qier stared at him blankly. The shirtless boy was standing on the back of the dragon unicorn, with flame patterns covering almost his entire body!

"Mother said that the higher the status of an abandoned person, the more flame patterns he has on his body. Ordinary abandoned people only have one flame pattern between their eyebrows, but big brother has flame patterns all over his body."

The little girl was stunned: "Who is he..."

“Could it be the effect of the fire here?”

Qin Mu pondered, "I just touched the flame, and the fire penetrated into my body to form these strange patterns... Fatty Long, retreat to the snowy mountain!"

Long Qilin didn't understand what it meant, but still carefully withdrew from the flaming desert and came to the foot of the snow-capped mountains. Qin Mu looked in the mirror and saw that the texture gradually became dim. When he came to the foot of the snow-capped mountains, the texture completely disappeared.

He put away the mirror, put on his clothes, and said calmly: "Long Pang, keep going, it's okay. These patterns should just be the symbol of abandoned people."

The dragon unicorn rushed into the flaming desert, and the patterns on Qin Mu's body began to emerge again, growing wildly, but the boy didn't care. The scenery in the flaming desert was different, with flaming tornadoes everywhere, howling and sweeping everything. The dragon unicorn was of the fire element by nature, and liked to control the fire the most. He rushed into the tornado excitedly, and Qin Mu was almost burned to death by the tornado, so he quickly stopped it.

Long Qilin was shocked to see his face burnt black, and then he continued on his way. The fire had no effect on him, but it was a deadly threat to Qin Mu.

"Big brother, there is an oasis ahead!"

Xiong Qier said excitedly: "There is a water source there!"

Qin Mu was stunned and asked in a lost voice: "There is water in a place like this?"

Then he saw an oasis in the flaming desert. Many olive trees grew beside a beautiful lake, and there were several snow-white sheepskin tents leaning against the lake.

Long Qilin hurried over, and when he reached the lake, Qin Mu jumped down and said, "I am a passerby who has come from afar and disturbed you all."

The sheepskin tent was opened, and a young man walked out and said with a smile: "Don't disturb me. I am practicing a strange method here, and I need someone to sacrifice... It's you, kid!"

The young man's face changed drastically, and Qin Mu drew his sword without saying a word. Eight thousand swords flew up at once and submerged the young man!