3. Nightmares
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lan Yutang hurriedly shook his shoulders, waved the immortal jade flute in his hand, and cut a bloody path from the firewing bats that were still rushing in, and then, one turned over and threw himself into the gurgling river behind him.
Fire is extinguished when it meets water, so firewing bats should also be afraid of water.
Lan Yutang guessed correctly, the firewing bat is really afraid of water.
When Lan Yutang soaked his entire body into the gurgling river, the swarming firewing bats really stopped attacking and kept hovering overhead.
And the fire wings of the bats that were biting his face, his shoulders, and his arms were also extinguished one after another after being immersed in the river, and returned to their original appearance.
It turns out that these ghost things that attack themselves are not really firewing bats, but plantains.
I don't know what kind of plantain this is.
When exposed to wind, these plantains will turn into firewing bats, and when they touch water, they will still revert to their appearance.
Whether this is a plantain or a bat, and even the face of Lan Yutang is a little surprised.
He plucked the firewing bat, which had regained its plantain appearance, from its body, and then peeled it off, gnawed it hard, it was woody, numb, and not delicious at all, and then threw it away.
Lan Yutang let out a long breath, fell on his back, and floated his whole body flat on the water, and then, bowed a few handfuls of water and threw it at those firewing bats.
Maybe the Firewing Bat itself was tired, or maybe the person who was manipulating the Firewing Bat behind knew that Lan Yutang had come up with a plan to crack the Firewing Bat and couldn't win.
The firewing bats retreated, and then, retreating to the branches, they suddenly contracted the flames, their eyes slowly closed, and the color of their bodies gradually faded and faded......
Then, the golden color of the flesh is restored, and then, the wings are folded, and the appearance of the fruit peel is restored, and the peel is closed, and the plantain is still hanging on the tree.
It's like a dream.
If it was a dream, it must have been a nightmare.
It's a nightmare you'll never forget.
The firewing bat has reverted to its plantain appearance, the surroundings are quiet again, the sun is still shining, the river is still murmuring, and this place is already a paradise.
However, Lan Yutang was secretly muttering, is this place like the Pure Land of Bliss a paradise or a purgatory on earth?
He was like a piece of duckweed floating on the surface of the river, wondering what strange things would await him in the next few days in this paradise-like holy place.
Although those ensuing dangers threatened him from time to time, Lan Yutang didn't seem to have the time to think about these things.
He just let himself float on the surface of the water like that, stretching his limbs as much as he could, trying to relax his emotions as much as he could, because he knew that the more dangerous the moment, the more he could not relax himself.
But relaxing your body is not letting your guard down, and a little relaxation can even help you think about problems and be better able to cope with the sudden changes that come with it.
After soaking in the cold river water, the hot feeling from the wounds of the firewing bats had faded a little.
The water seemed to have an analgesic effect.
I don't know if it's because all the burning heat from my wound has been absorbed, or because of the radiation of the golden sunlight that fills the air, the river seems to be not as cold as it was when I first jumped in.
Lan Yutang said secretly: Maybe this wide water surface has absorbed all the warm sunlight emanating from the castle, so it has slowly become warmer.
Although the water was warm and warm, lying on it was like lying on a silk wool made of goose fluff, but Lan Yutang suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Because after lying there and resting for such a while, the heavy fatigue that I had endured in my body not only did not disappear, but even gradually expanded.
At this moment, he felt like a coconut that had been inserted into a straw, and the strength in his body was slowly being sucked away by some invisible force.
Thinking of this, he secretly exclaimed, knowing that something was wrong, he wanted to get up and quickly leave this ominous water and jump back to the shore.
However, it seems that it is too late.
His body was like lying in a vat of freshly boiled paste, and all the organs and cells in his body had been fixed by this slimy paste, and he couldn't get out at all, or even move.
Not only can he not move, but he can no longer breathe.
Lan Yutang could now almost clearly feel that the true power in his body was being slowly absorbed by some invisible tube, and then, squeezed and absorbed, until it turned into an empty skin.
And his consciousness was slowly fading and fading with the loss of power, and the originally brilliant sunlight in front of him flickered on and off, like an exhausted oil lamp.
What's going on here?
He doesn't know, he doesn't understand.
His breathing grew heavier and more depressed, and he felt like his body was being held in a huge palm that was slowly clenching and clamping.
Lan Yutang wanted to open his eyes and see what was happening in the clamping, but his eyelids were heavy, and the unprecedented fatigue rushed in him, so he just wanted to be drowsy.
The whistling water around him suddenly changed direction, not a single line of direct current, but surging to one place from all directions, forming a huge whirlpool around him.
And his body is located right in the center of the vortex.
Lan Yutang felt that the huge momentum formed when the water surging from all directions swirled almost crushed his body.
The water accelerated, and his body slowly contracted.
He felt an invisible rope slowly wrapping around his body, and each time the swirling water hit, it was as if there was an extra rope tied up.
When his consciousness gradually faded and almost disappeared, he suddenly tightened his body, retracted some of the power that was slowly absorbed, and then, suddenly, opened his arms, looked up to the sky and let out a long roar.
In the roar, I saw a phoenix rising from his body, forming a huge shadow behind him, and then, constantly whirling and impacting.
When the flaming phoenix broke through the fetters and rose into the air, Lan Yutang's body also jumped up with the phoenix's rebirth and jumped into the air.
Then, spread your limbs as far as you can, flutter down, and use the recoil of the oncoming air currents as a temporary support for a short rest.
Now, he has fully realized that this seemingly peaceful and peaceful paradise-like place is not as peaceful as he imagined.
No one could have predicted what would happen to him the moment he landed.
Although he claims to be an unbeatable phoenix and can be reborn in the fire every time, can he be resurrected again after dying in this seemingly real but illusory place.
Now, he was exhausted, so he could only take a short break in the moment he fell from the sky to cope with the ensuing events.
However, when his body was about to fall, just as he was about to jump to the shore with the buoyancy of the water's surface, the accident happened.
The wild vines that had been coiled on the bank of the river were full of fruit as he leaped out of the river and jumped into the endless sky.