The Dream of the Condor

?Meng'er recalled the time when she and Ouyang Ke went to the barren valley outside Xiangyang City.

Meng'er closed her eyes and remembered the first time Yang Guo saw the big vulture: suddenly she heard the crowing of the vultures from the northwest, the voice was slightly hoarse, but it was intense and desolate, very majestic.Curious, he jumped down from the rope and followed the sound to find it.But listening to the chirping from time to time is far louder than the singing of the two eagles on Peach Blossom Island.He gradually descended and walked into a valley. At this time, the sound of eagle singing was not far in front of him. He stepped lightly and pushed aside the bushes quietly. He couldn't help but feel very surprised.

In front of him is a big vulture, the vulture is huge, taller than a human, extremely ugly, with sparse feathers, as if more than half of it has been plucked out, its fur is yellow and black, it looks very ugly Dirty, his appearance is five points similar to the pair of eagles on Peach Blossom Island, but the ugly one is far from it.This ugly eagle has a curved mouth and a large blood-red sarcoma on the top of its head. There are thousands of birds in the world, and it has never seen such an ancient and majestic bird of prey.But seeing this eagle striding back and forth, its legs are extremely thick, and sometimes its wings are stretched out, but they are very short.

The vulture screamed for a while, only rustling sounds could be heard from the surrounding area, and under the moonlight, the four poisonous snakes flew towards the ugly vulture like arrows.The ugly eagle bent its beak and turned its head, and pecked four times, killing the four poisonous snakes one by one. The position of its mouth was accurate and its movements were swift, just like a first-class martial arts master.This magical skill of killing four snakes in a row only made Yang Guo dumbfounded, he couldn't hold his tongue, in an instant, what he used to despise for being funny turned into a sense of amazement and admiration.The ugly eagle opened its mouth wide and swallowed the poisonous snake in its belly.Yang Guo thought to himself: "Catch this ugly vulture, compare it with Guo Fu's twin vultures, but I won't lose to her." Just as he was thinking about how to catch it, he suddenly smelled a stench, like a big snake. The poison came close.

The ugly eagle raised its head and barked three times, as if challenging the enemy.There was only a loud noise, and a giant python with a bowl-thin mouth and a triangle head hung upside down from the big tree opposite, and rushed towards the ugly eagle.The ugly eagle didn't back away, instead went forward, bent its mouth and stretched out, pecking the poisonous python's right eye blind.The eagle's head and neck are short and thick, it seems that it is inconvenient to move, but it stretches and shrinks, although Yang Guo has sharp eyesight, he didn't see clearly how it pecked out the poisonous eyeballs.

The poisonous python lost its right eye, and was in severe pain. It opened its mouth wide, and with a slap, it bit the blood tumor on the top of Ugly Eagle's head.This time Yang Guo was caught by surprise, he couldn't help yelling "Ah".The poisonous python succeeded in one blow, and a two-foot-long body suddenly fell from the top of the tree, wrapping around the ugly eagle several times, seeing that the ugly eagle's life was in danger.

Yang Guo didn't want the ugly eagle to be harmed by the poisonous snake, so he jumped out, drew his sword and slashed at the snake. Suddenly, the eagle's right wing spread out, and it slapped Yang Guo's right arm with incredible force.Yang Guo was very surprised, the Junzi sword was released from his hand and flew several zhang away.Yang Guo was surprised, he saw the eagle stretched out its beak to peck the python several times, every time it pecked, the python's blood spurted out.Yang Guo thought to himself: "Could it be that you are sure of victory and don't want me to help?"

The poisonous python became tighter and tighter, and the ugly eagle's feathers stretched out, trying to fight back.Seeing that the eagle seemed to be out of support, Yang Guo picked up a big stone and kept hitting it on the giant python.The giant python's body was slightly loose, the ugly eagle stretched out its head and neck, and pecked the poisonous python's left eye blind.The poisonous python opened its huge mouth and bit wildly. At this time, it was blind, and if it could bite something, the ugly eagle lifted the snake's head seven inches with its claws, pressed it in the soil, and poked and pecked at the python's head with its sharp beak. .Seeing that the giant eagle was born with supernatural power, the poisonous python twisted its whole body, tossed and waved, and the snake's head was still unable to move. After a long time, it finally stiffened and died.

Chou Diao raised his head, yelled three times, then turned his head to Yang Guo, and yelled softly.

Yang Guo heard it sounded friendly, so he approached slowly, and said with a smile, "Brother Diao, you are amazingly powerful, I admire you." Tapped him lightly on the shoulder a few times.Yang Guo was overjoyed to see the eagle so psychic, and he stretched out his hand to caress its back.

Chou Diao groaned a few times, bit Yang Guo's clothes and tugged a few times, then let go, striding forward.Yang Guo knew it must have intentions, so he followed.The ugly eagle's footsteps were exceptionally fast, walking among the rocks and bushes like a galloping horse, Yang Guo used his light body kung fu to catch up, he was secretly amazed.The eagle went lower and lower, and walked straight into a deep valley.After walking for a long time, he came to a big cave. The ugly eagle nodded three times in front of the cave, yelled three times, and looked back at Yang Guo.

Seeing that it seemed to be saluting to the cave, Yang Guo thought to himself: "There must be some senior person living in the cave. He has tamed this giant sculpture, but etiquette is necessary." So he knelt down in front of the cave. , bowed several times, and said: "disciple Yang Guo kowtowed to senior, please forgive the crime of trespassing." After waiting for a while, there was no answer from the cave.

The eagle pulled the hem of his clothes and stepped in.Seeing the darkness in the cave, he didn't know if it was really a martial artist living there, or some kind of mandrill tree monster, he felt worried, but he put life and death aside, so he followed into the cave.

The cave is actually very shallow, less than three zhang long, and it has reached the end. There is nothing else in the cave except a stone table and a stone bench.The ugly eagle called out to the corner of the cave a few times, and Yang Guo saw a pile of rocks rising up from the corner of the cave, which looked like a tomb, and thought: "It seems that this is the burial place of a strange person, but it's a pity that the eagle can't speak." , I can’t tell me about this person’s life experience.” When he looked up, he saw that there seemed to be words written on the cave wall, but it was covered with dust and moss, so he couldn’t see clearly in the dark.He lit a dead branch with a fire, and wiped off the moss on the cave wall with his hand, and sure enough, three lines of characters appeared, the handwriting was very fine, but it penetrated extremely deep into the stone, obviously it was drawn with a very sharp weapon.Look at those three lines:

"Across the rivers and lakes for more than [-] years, killing all enemies and defeating all heroes, the world has no opponents, nothing to do, but lives in seclusion in the deep valleys, and takes eagles as friends. Woohoo, I can't find an opponent in my life, and I am lonely and embarrassing also."

The following inscription reads: "Sword Demon Dugu seeks defeat."

Yang Guo recited these three lines over and over again, he was amazed and admirable, he also felt the loneliness and embarrassment in it, he thought that this senior warrior had to live in seclusion in a deep valley just because he was invincible in the world. It's so profound and exquisite, I really don't know how far it has reached.This person is known as "Sword Demon", he is like a god of swordsmanship, his name is "Qiu Bai", he thinks he is a person who has traveled all over the world to find a victory for himself, but he has never been able to do so, and finally he is depressed here, Remembering the predecessors, Feng Lie, can't help but be fascinated.

He stayed low for a long time, held up a lighted dead branch, and inspected the cave for a week, but could not find any other relics, and there was no other mark on the grave of the stone pile. on top of his dead body.

He was out of his mind for a while, and became more and more admiring of this senior stranger, and couldn't help but knelt down in front of the stone tomb, bowing four times.Seeing that he was very respectful to the stone tomb, the divine sculpture seemed to be happy in his heart, stretched out his wings and patted his shoulders a few times.

Yang Guo thought to himself: "Senior Dugu called Diao a friend in his last words, but even though this Diao is a beast, he is my senior. It is not an exaggeration for me to call him Brother Diao." So he said, "Brother Diao , we met by chance, it is also considered fate, I am leaving now. Would you like to accompany Dugu Senior's grave here, or walk with me?" The divine eagle croaked a few times, which was the answer.Yang Guo didn't understand what it meant, seeing it standing beside the stone tomb, he thought to himself: "The martial arts seniors never mentioned Dugu Qiubai, so he was at least six or seventy years ago. This divine sculpture I have lived here for a long time, and I love my hometown, so I can't go with me." Stretching his arms around the neck of the sculpture, he made out with it for a while, and then he came out of the cave.

In his whole life, except for the mutual attachment to Xiao Longnv, he never had a single close friend. At this time, when he met the divine sculpture, even though he was one person and one bird, somehow he was very close to each other. .Every time he turned his head back, the divine eagle would always answer with a cry, even though the distance was tens of feet away, the divine eagle could still see clearly in the dark, and when he saw Yang Guo turning his head, the divine eagle would answer with a cry, no one was happy .

Yang Guo's blood suddenly surged up in his chest, and he said loudly: "Brother Diao, brother Diao, my life will not be long, after the matter of Uncle Guo's young daughter is over, I will say goodbye to my aunt, and I will come here again, and I will be buried in Dugu University On the side of a hero, this life is not in vain." As he spoke, he bowed and bowed, and strode forward.

Meng'er smiled, she saw this eagle, in fact, it was like what Yang Guo said, although its appearance was extremely ugly and its feathers were sparse, but its martial arts were superb, its supernatural power was astonishing, and it was psychic.It seems that Jin Yong did not lie.