The egret and the magpies spread their wings to the other side of the river, and the white horse shouted: "Don't hurry up the mountain first, wait for us to come over together."

The elephant raised her nose and said, "I'll try how deep the water is first, and then Teacher Ding will cross the river."

Rivers in natural environments are formed by invasion of water flow, and there are no artificial embankments and river banks. This is different from the rivers commonly seen by most people. The water surface is often very wide and the river beach is a wetland. The river is clear and does not look deep, but it is precisely this particularly clear water that is often very deceptive, because you can see the bottom at a glance, and with the refraction of the light in the distance, deep places will also make people mistakenly think that it is shallow.

The elephant can swim, and the water flows here is not fast, so it will try it first. The white horse and the rhino stand on the shore and watch the elephant cross the river. Fortunately, the deepest place has just reached the elephant's belly. The white horse raises its head and can wade through it. There is no problem with the rhino floating on the water, so they cross the river together.

We walked up the hillside across the river together. This is a hilly area, with hills ranging from dozens of meters to more than a hundred meters high. The plants and trees are very lush, and most of them are falling leaves and yellow in winter, but there are also some evergreen plants, such as tall cedars, and a bush with green and round leaves.

After climbing over two hills, the terrain is gradually rising. In front of me is a flat slope and a piece of soft grass under a lonely tree. This grass looks very comfortable. The dry grass leaves in winter are light white, fine and soft.

This big tree is also very beautiful. The thick trunk is slightly curved like a green dragon piercing into the earth. The crown is like a dragon's tail that is swept away. It still maintains its verdant color in winter. The palm-shaped leaves of the palm-shaped leaves are like jasper.

Among the white soft grass under the tree, there was a big guy crawling to sleep, snoring like thunder. They heard this strange sound through a small hill and felt a very shocking pressure inexplicably. If they hadn't been awake, they would have been scared away like the sparrows. When they got closer, they found that it was this guy who was snoring.

Shang Ni was also stunned, no longer chirping, but whispered in a low voice: "Is this Mr. Zhuang?"

The rhino said in a daze: "This, this, this seems like a unicorn!"

When he reminded him, everyone recognized that this was a Qilin, which seemed to be slightly different from the ones in myths and legends. The legendary Qilin is said to have lion heads, elk bodies, tiger eyes, dragon tails, horse hooves, meat horns, and dragon scales. The so-called meat horns are meat on the horns, not hard horns like cattle and sheep, a bit like tender deer antlers that just grew out.

However, the unicorn had no scales on its body, and its slightly reddish hair with golden light was very beautiful. It was like a special reason, with strands slightly curled, just like the buns made of many stone lions. It looked like a dragon scale from a distance. The mane that was scattered behind its head and under its neck was snow-white, and it looked very majestic, but at this moment it was lying there closed its eyes and sleeping.

Is this the Qilin? No one has seen a real Qilin before, and he looked at each other for a moment. Shang Ni was originally the one who danced the most happily, but at this moment he said with concern: "Is this Mr. Zhuang?"

Egret: "Wake it up and ask, don't you know?"

Shan Que: "If it was either Mr. Zhuang or a local, and if it was woken up and got angry, would we not be in trouble?"

If everyone was really just a white horse, an egret, and a mountain magpies, they would have been scared away in front of such a legendary divine beast. Even elephants and rhinos might not be here, but they knew who they were, so they could stand here and talk.

Baima shook his head and said, "Since those sparrows mean, this big monster has just arrived, it should be Mr. Zhuang. When I saw it sleeping soundly here, I was even more sure. Mr. Zhuang usually likes to sleep in, but he definitely didn't sleep well the night before yesterday, and he didn't sleep tonight, so he got sleepy as soon as he came in."

Shan Que shouted: "Mr. Zhuang, wake up! We have been looking for you for a long time, why did you fall asleep when you run here?"

Qilin was sleeping so soundly, and she still snored like thunder, and ignored it. The magpie picked up a stone and flew to the tree, throwing the stone towards Qilin's head. Qilin seemed to have some sense, moved her body, and smacked her lips in her sleep, but the stone didn't hit her. Ding Qi looked at everyone and said, "Let's wake it up together."

Egrets, white horses, rhinos, and elephants shouted in unison, screaming, and roars intertwined, either high or low. The movement was quite loud, and the magpie was so shocked that they couldn't stand steadily and glided down from the tree. The Qilin was also startled, shuddered, raised his head and opened his eyes, and said, "Who is it? It's so noisy!"

Shan Que: "Mr. Zhuang, it's you! Hey, how can you speak human words?"

After entering the beast country, people transform into different beasts, and they also make sounds of various beasts. The communication method is direct spiritual sensing, and the content contains linguistic information and non-verbal information. One of the most important differences between humans and animals, even adults and babies is whether they have mastered language.

Language represents an abstract, indirect, referential and logical way of thinking, and is also a sign of wisdom maturity.

For example, someone wants to say a stone. When she expresses this thing, the appearance of a stone can appear in her mind, containing its texture, and this idea can be directly conveyed to the other party.

But in the outside world, it is impossible to directly convey ideas. You can point the other person to see a stone so that the other person can understand what they mean. This way of communication is very difficult and sometimes even cannot be completed.

But if you master the language and master the meaning of things, you just need to say "stone", which is both accurate and concise. This is the basis of knowledge inheritance beyond instinct.

There is a phenomenon that humans cannot retain memories before the age of three. Experts from different disciplines have put forward various explanations. In fact, the real reason is very simple. Humans are not unable to retain memories before the age of three, but rather, they cannot retain memories before the mastery of language, because the inner way of thinking and communication with the outside world have completely changed. The so-called three years old is just a false finger.

The role of language is far more magical than ordinary people imagine. It is not only a way of information exchange, but also a way of summarizing and describing everything in the world and the laws and relationships between them.

Ding Qi and others could not speak when they entered the beast country. They only made horses and birds singing, but they could also communicate in language. This method was reflected in the thinking process. For example, Ding Qi could say a sentence to let the other party feel his own thoughts, and the other party translated it into a familiar language based on his understanding of this idea.

Communication like this must have a prerequisite, that is, they have the ability to use languages ​​and can "translate" complex thinking and ideas into the language they master in their minds. As for whether the other party speaks a foreign language, such as English or French, this is not the most important point. Ding Qi and others speak Chinese, so there are no obstacles to communication with each other.

If in another case, the other party does not have the ability to master complex language, then this communication method is ineffective. Even if the spiritual thoughts containing language are useless, it can only convey various intuitive thoughts, and the information exchanged is greatly restricted.

But this Qilin is so good. It does not roar, but speaks people's words, speaks Chinese, and the accent is Zhuang Mengzhou.

Kirin has tiger eyes, and one of the differences between tigers and cats is the ratio of eyes to heads. Cats' eyes appear large, while tiger eyes appear smaller than their heads. Kirin stares at these beasts with tiger eyes one by one, and laughs: "I am Kirin, the legendary divine beast! What's so strange about being able to talk? Look at you monsters, they have all been knocked back to their original form."

Shang Ni retorted: "Didn't you hear what those sparrows said just now? You are also a big monster."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "That's because they have no knowledge. Do you want to be as knowledgeable as them?"

Ding Qi finally couldn't help saying, "Mr. Zhuang, I've seen stinky farts, but I haven't seen you as narcissistic as you are yet to do!"

Qilin glared again: "Teacher Ding, what do you mean?"

Ding Qi quickly explained: "Oh, that's what I thought in my heart, but I didn't expect to say it directly." Under normal circumstances, Ding Qi might speak more tactfully, but here is a direct exchange of spiritual thoughts. What Zhuang Mengzhou heard was his true meaning.

The elephant laughed and said, "Did you accidentally tell the truth? Mr. Zhuang is not trying to become a kirin himself, but he manifests himself as a kirin in this world... In fact, Mr. Zhuang, you are indeed rosin-like." In Jinghu dialect, rosin means stinky beauty.

Qilin: "If you can't speak, don't talk. No one regards you as a mute elephant."

The rhino also spoke, "I am not a rhino, nor is Lao Zhu an elephant, we are ourselves. Maybe from the will of this world, Mr. Zhuang is more stinky... No, no, you are a mighty Qilin."

Qilin: "You might as well not praise me."

Bai Lu also said, "Mr. Zhuang, it's not that I don't want to talk about you, but I just don't dare to talk about you."

Qilin raised one of his front hooves and waved his hand: "Then there is no need to say anything else, let's talk about something else, what have you found?"

Shanqi: "We didn't find anything else, we found a qilin sleeping here and shouting, which scared all the birds and beasts in the mountains."

Qilin: "Didn't you discover what kind of world this is?"

Rhino: "I discovered it, and I also felt it myself. Mr. Zhuang, what did you discover?"

"I really discovered a strange place." As Qilin said that, he kicked the tree next to him, and everyone exclaimed.

Looking forward through this flat slope, the scenery ahead suddenly changed, just like opening an invisible curtain. Looking at the undulating peaks and undulating clouds and mists on the high ground, there is a vague outline of pavilions and towers, but it is not clear.

Shan Que exclaimed: "Mr. Zhuang, how did you do it?"

Qilin shrugged and said, "I don't know what's going on, I just kicked it, well, it should be said that I slapped it."

The white horse nodded with a serious expression and said, "You have hit the place, and I have sensed it just now. It seems that there is a place hidden here. It should be the place where someone once sacrificed and refined the beast talisman."

Bai Er asked, "Did it sense it through the beastly talisman?"

Baima: "Yes, if Mr. Zhuang didn't kick this, when I come to my senses, I will try to activate the beast talisman to make it appear."

Qilin: "It seems that we can compare this to Da Chi Mountain. Didn't Xiao Tingting live in Da Chi Mountain? Da Chi Mountain is equivalent to her yard, and her family still has a house. We used to be equivalent to entering the yard, but now we have opened the door."

The elephant looked at the misty place with clouds and mist at a high place, as if she was talking to herself: "Can it be the legendary Jinshanyuan?"

Rhino nodded and said, "It's very possible. It seems that the legend has its basis!"

Shan Que: "Let's go over and take a look."

Everyone walked through the high slope with white grass and came to the foot of the mountains. Shang Ni was jumping in front, but now she suddenly spread her wings to stop the trail: "Stop, stop, don't go forward any more. Never walk into this mountain, there is a Fengmen Mountain and Water Array in front!"

Everyone stopped hearing this and asked at the same time: "What's going on? What's the formation?"

Shang Ni explained: "I can't see through this formation either, but I can sense it and recognize it. If I walk in directly, I will definitely get lost. It's okay to turn around and turn it back and forth, but I may be trapped in it and never get out. My master said about the Fengmen Mountain and Water Array Array, but I didn't expect to meet such a clever one..."

After all, Shang Ni is the descendant of the Fengmen in Jianghu. She would not be wrong if she said that there was a large formation ahead. The so-called Fengmen Mountain and Water Array is formed by moving the earth's qi and spiritual pivots, and explained in a way that ordinary people can understand. The simplest way to enter it is to influence people's senses and make people unable to find the right direction, and they may be trapped forever.

Qilin turned his head and asked, "Teacher Ding, you have the treasure of the world of control. Can you break this formation?"

Ding Qi pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "I almost didn't see it. Junior Sister Shang Ni was alert after reminding her. The hill ahead seemed simple, but after entering, there were actually thousands of rocks and valleys hidden. If you cannot completely sacrifice the beast talisman and control its magical use, you will not be able to break this formation."

Xian Hao asked, "What if he flew over from the sky?"

Ding Qi still shook his head and said, "Whether you walk from the ground or fly from the sky, the result is the same. The sky you see is not the real sky."

Zhuang Mengzhou sighed and said, "It seems that Teacher Ding's cultivation is not enough. We cannot go to the mountain today. I don't know if it is the legendary Jinshan Courtyard?"

Shan Que: "Teacher Ding has not had enough cultivation. Mr. Zhuang, what are you, the senior?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Don't look at me, I'm here to play Qilin!"

Rhino thought, "We didn't have time to go up the mountain today. According to the plan, we have to go out before noon. How to break this formation? Let's talk about it later. Anyway, we will come again after the New Year."

Zhuang Mengzhou: "If you can't break it, you can't break it. Teacher Ding just mentioned the method to break the formation. When he can do it, the formation will be broken."

Egret: "We won't go into this mountain, let's take a look elsewhere... Hey, there is a stone tablet over there."

Following the tip of the egret's wings, a stone tablet was erected at the foot of the hill ten feet away on the right. The surface of the tablet was a whole piece of rock protruding from the ground, and it seemed to be carved on it. But when you walked closer and looked carefully, the stone surface was as smooth as a mirror, with no handwriting, but just some strange and complex line-like patterns, like the texture of the rock itself.

The white horse sniffed, and the beast talisman seemed to appear in front of it out of thin air, and then the seal turned toward the stone tablet. The rock patterns on the surface of the tablet seemed to come alive, flowing and changing. At the same time, everyone received a piece of information in their minds, and the content was actually a text.
Chapter completed!