I didn't intend to be a Fairy

"A drop of water?"

"Exactly! It was what happened not long ago. Many people saw it with their own eyes. Otherwise, how could such a spring appear out of thin air on this shoal in the depths of the desert? Wasn't it the mercy of the gods who specially gave it to us business travelers? Come here to quench your thirst.”

"That's really a fairy..."

"That's right. It's written on the stone tablet over there, saying that the water in this spring was borrowed from the islands in the southeastern sea, so it's also called the Borrowed Spring, the Immortal Spring. If it wasn't an immortal, who would have such great ability? Can we borrow spring water from an island thousands of miles away?"

"That makes sense..."

Sounds kept coming into my ears in a daze.

The clear spring he drank quickly nourished his body. At this moment, he felt that his body was like a desert after being exposed by the scorching sun. Every inch could store a large amount of water. When the clear spring poured into this desert, it was quickly absorbed by every part of his body. Absorbed, it quickly becomes moisturizing and rejuvenating.

The businessman finally got up slowly.

The two people speaking in front were saying goodbye. Although they had just met each other by strangers, it was not easy to meet each other, so there was no need to have known each other before, so the two sides still treated each other respectfully before leaving each other.

One goes east and one goes west.

The businessman stood there, looking at the spring, and then looked around. His mind gradually became more active, and he compared the surrounding scenes, and his memory gradually became clear.

The image of the Taoist sitting cross-legged in front of him and talking to him also appeared in his mind.

There were no lakes here at that time.

"..."

The businessman couldn't help but smile.

It turned out that it was the same person who saved him this second time.

The merchant slowly led the camel over, made it drink enough water, and filled himself with water. Then he walked to the stone tablet under the increasingly hot sun and read it carefully.

Just two sentences, no name.

But it is full of fairy style.

Only then did the businessman realize that he had been with him for a while and had been saved twice, but he had only said a few words and had not yet given his name. He had no idea who the immortal was.

"Ah……"

The businessman couldn't help but smile, but he had already expected that there would be rumors of another god in this desert in the future.

Even if the spring water does not dry up, the rumors will continue.

Fortunately, compared to latecomers, I am a personal witness to this rumor. If I tell it to future generations personally when I am older, it may be a little more exciting and mysterious.

"There are true immortals in the world..."

Such emotion goes far beyond his words.

At this moment, there was a roar above the head.

There seemed to be a flash of lightning in the sky.

Everyone looked up and realized that at some point, a layer of turbid clouds had accumulated above their heads, as if it was going to rain.

No wonder today is not as hot as usual.

Everyone was even in disbelief for a moment.

"Boom..."

Thunder sounded one after another.

Before long, the raindrops really fell.

Although the rain was very small, it stopped after a short time. For this long-dry desert, it was really a drop in the bucket. It even just moistened the ground and moistened the throat of the earth, but it was already this area. It's the first rain in the desert in recent months.

…

In the summer of the first year of Da'an.

Song You, who was regarded as a god by the merchants from the Western Regions, had walked out of this arid land and traveled westward, still with one person, one horse, one cat, and one swallow.

The amazing thing is that as soon as we go out of these two thousand miles, the climate immediately becomes pleasant, and we can even feel a bit cool in early summer.

This trip is destined to be a long process.

Climate change is also unusually large.

Even the climate not only changes with the seasons, with the day and night, with the weather, but also with the distance and space.

Often a mountain has four seasons, and the sky is different within a hundred miles.

It's summer when it's sunny, it's winter when it's cloudy and rainy.

It creates heat during the day and cold at night.

Sometimes I walk into the mountains. The alpine meadows are full of wheat. Summer is the time of maturity. The mountains gently rise and fall, and the whole world becomes golden waves, just like walking into a fairy tale world. During the day, the sun on the high mountains makes people's scalps feel hot, and at night, the cold makes people shiver.

Sometimes I walk into the colorful Gobi stone beach, but there is water flowing everywhere. It is a completely different feeling from the thousands of miles of dry land I have walked before.

Sometimes I sleep outdoors by the lake. The blue lake water is either light or salty, without any pollution, and there are even no people around. It is like a gem embedded in the land of the Western Regions.

Sometimes when we climbed over the snow-capped mountains, it was bitingly cold. The wind made Sanhua Empress unsteady, and the thin air made her feel dizzy. Once we reached the foot of the mountain, it became normal summer weather again, and the water turned from ice and snow Running and jumping in the mountains makes people feel that the thousands of miles of dry land they have traveled through before are as fake as a dream.

When we reach autumn, we can see the Tianshan Mountains.

When they saw the Tianshan Mountains for the first time, a group of people happened to be climbing up a snow-capped mountain. Empress Sanhua was very puzzled by the idea of ​​Taoist priests wanting to climb mountains as soon as they saw them. She was so used to it that she didn't even bother to ask him. She just hummed and followed him over the snow-capped mountains that were difficult for ordinary people to climb. When she reached the top of the mountain, the snow was thick enough to bury her whole cat. However, when she climbed to the top of the mountain, she saw an unknown place in the distance. How far is Tianshan——

This is a mountain range from east to west, stretching from one end of the line of sight to the other end. It is extremely remote, so far away that it seems like it is just a line between heaven and earth.

But you can also imagine how tall it is, like a sky wall that separates heaven and earth.

Looking at it from such a distance, the straight mountain range cannot be seen at all, because the ground is covered with clouds and smog, which becomes heavier the farther away it is. The miasma of clouds and smog obscures the mountains below, except for the top of the mountain, which is covered with snow. Breaking out of the clouds, leaving a snow-white line in the sight of a group of people, as if the mountain itself was not standing on the ground, but was born in the clouds and located in the sky.

Even Sanhua Empress couldn't tell whether the distance was the top of the snow-capped mountains or the clouds on the horizon. She kept arguing with Song You until Yanzi flew to see them while they were resting, and she didn't shut up until she came back.

Song You told her that people will become stupid when they go to the mountains higher than the clouds.

The same goes for cats.

After that, we walked down the snow-capped mountains in the direction of the Tianshan Mountains and continued to move forward. The Tianshan Mountains often accompany us on our journey. They are a line and a wall in the distant sky. As long as the line of sight is not blocked, you can see the Tianshan Mountains whenever you look up. Sometimes I can't tell whether it's on earth or in heaven.

In late autumn, the earth turns dark red and light red, and the locals only live in small wooden houses. The picture is primitive and clean. After the Taoist walked away with his horse, the ground was filled with the sound of broken branches and leaves.

As winter approaches, the sky is filled with snow.

The calico cat was very excited at first, running around like crazy, playing with the snow on the ground, jumping up to catch snowflakes in the sky, but gradually it got tired and was afraid of the cold. Looking at the Taoist priest outside, his head was also covered with snowflakes.

When the snow is the heaviest, the swallows can no longer fly and can only stand on the back of the horse, and their bodies are gradually covered by snow.

A group of people can make a series of obvious footprints.

From the lush alpine forest meadows to the golden wheat fields, then to the autumn pictures covered with red leaves, and finally to another desert, but here there is no severe drought or heat, and it is bitingly cold.

Sometimes the world is so vast that you can't even see the edge.

Sometimes it suddenly becomes foggy and misty, as if you have strayed into a fairyland. The snow-capped mountains are rolling around you, and the fog is as thick as the sea. The Taoist and his entourage seem to be walking slowly in the clouds, while the snow-capped mountains and scenery are in the sky, and they are magnificent.

The cultural customs here are very different from Dayan, and there are many language barriers. Although we often meet businessmen from the Western Regions who understand Dayan dialect, we also often meet merchants from Dayan, or people who come to serve as officials. Naturally, there are also people from Dayan who have settled here. Yan people, or the local rich and aristocratic people who can speak Dayan dialect, have many inconveniences.

Whether it is traveling, communicating with people, or purchasing goods, it is a lot of trouble.

Therefore, during this journey, most of the time, a group of people walked alone, looking at the vast land of the Western Regions, and looking for spiritual practice in loneliness.

Naturally, this place is getting further and further away from the Central Plains. It is surrounded by small countries and is very chaotic. It is also less affected by the luck of the Central Plains dynasty and has endless monsters and monsters.

Moreover, the demons and ghosts here seem to have not received much education in etiquette, and there is usually no one who can control them. There is no powerful central court that can suppress them and keep them honest, so all of them are rampant and have become three-flower empress practice. Tools of magic.

In the spring of the second year of Da'an.

Song You finally stopped.

At this time, the mountains in the distance are green. I don't know if they are pine trees or fir trees on the mountains. They are all straight and standing on the mountains. The scenery is very refreshing.

"We have reached the westernmost point of the Western Region." Song You, leaning on a bamboo stick with a calm expression, lowered his head and said to the Sanhua Cat, "Does the Sanhua Empress know how far away from Changjing it is?"

"have no idea."

"Miss Sanhua, do you remember that there is a stone tablet standing outside the west gate of Changjing?"

"I seem to remember."

"What is written on the stone tablet?"

"I don't remember." Cat said seriously, "When you reach a mountain as high as the clouds, cats will become stupid."

"It says, nine thousand and nine hundred miles to the west from Changjing."

"Can't understand……"

"That is to say, if you go west from Changjing, you can go 9,900 miles away." Song You paused, "We are almost at that 9,900 miles now."

"Nine thousand nine hundred miles!"

"It's 9,900 miles from Changjing, and more than 10,000 miles from Yuezhou. We often take detours and walk at least 20,000 miles." Song You looked down at the calico cat with some emotion in his tone, "Read It is better to travel ten thousand miles than to travel thousands of books. Congratulations to Empress Sanhua for completing another twenty thousand miles."

"..."

The cat was confused.

Maybe it was because the mountain was too high to breathe. At times like this, the cat would become stupid, so she just raised her head and stared at the Taoist, thinking that it sounded very powerful.

After being stunned for a while, she withdrew her gaze, looked at the mountain in front of her, and said:

"This mountain is blowing up!"

"..."

Song You shook his head and smiled.

Looking back on this stretch of road, it was truly magnificent.