<The magic of the white snake>(33/34)

Xian got his son and together with  Qing,they started off to the pagoda,where the boy’s mother had been kept a  prisoner for almost five years.

About an hour before they reached the  mountain peak,the green lady turned around and said goodbye to her companions (伙伴).

＂Up to here,and not a step further!Under no  circumstance are you allowed to follow me,no matter what happends.＂

＂From here,you can watch the pagoda quite well.＂

Arriving on the mountain top,she  immediately began to seach for the entry to the crypt(地窟) in which Fa Hai had hidden the scrificial bowl  imprisoning the white snake.

＂I knew you would come one day.It was only a question of time.(这只是个时间问题)＂

Xiao Qing twitched  in surprise.

An evil glitter  (闪光) flashed in the eyes of the fake monk.

＂I will destroy you.Never again you will dare to  disturb me in this sacred place.＂

He threw a hefty(重重的) flash of lightning towards the green lady.

She however,adroitly  (熟练地) jumped aside.

＂How can you dare take the word‘sacred’into  your mouth?＂

Enraged,the green lady responded to this  atrocity with a volley of lightning accompanied by storms,flood waves,and  dense cloud of biting smoke.

Completeely surprised by the power of  this counter attack,Fa Hai at first quickly retreated behind an outcropping  of rock where he thought to find safety.

It didn’t take long though,until he began  to continue his attack \on the green lady.

But in contrast to the past,she was able  to repel his attack with such prowess (非凡能力)that her opponent’s bursts of lightning missed their  target.

On the next morning,the battle was still  well under way,and for the past hours,the inhabitants of Hangzhou were in a  flurry of excitement,many sensed that the events taking place up at the  Leifeng Pagoda were far beyound their imagination.

Qing’s counter attack brought Fa Hai more  and more in severe diffuculties,but even after three full days,an outcome was  not in sight.

The noise and fire caused by the battle  had become so  unbearable that  it woke up the Buddha in heaven,making him take a closer look at what was  happening on earth.

Above the West Lake,at the Leifeng  Pagoda,he saw blinding flashing of lightning and ascending  wads of smoke.