Tianwei Chapter 245 Alive (3)
Yang Fu chose to go with us, but he said in advance that because the family had just survived a catastrophe, he would try not to get involved. It was unlikely that we could get help from him.
This was somewhat disappointing to me, but it was also understandable. If he hadn't insisted on going with me to watch the fun, I would have wanted him to stay and look after the little beauty.
Jiao Ye is now in human form and the situation is unstable. I don't want her to be exposed to outsiders too early. Humans have always had only two ways of interacting with alien races.
The first is to train them to be pigs, dogs, cows, sheep and other livestock to fill their stomachs, while the second is simpler and is to kill them all.
For safety reasons, the little beauty, Jiao Ye and Tiansheng had to stay on the mountain and not run around. Before leaving, the old Taoist opened the forbidden spell of the Taoist temple, so ordinary people would not enter at will.
Zhonghuang Mountain is about two hundred miles away from the Taoist temple in a straight line. It is neither far nor near. The old Taoist can reach the destination in one step.
When we arrived, a lot of people had already gathered at the foot of the mountain. A rough estimate was that there should be nearly two hundred people.
But compared to the big scenes before, the mere two hundred people were not enough to watch. I glanced around casually, and seeing no familiar faces, I gave up my interest in observing.
The arrival of the three of us surprised these people. Some of them had visited the mountain before, and they didn't expect the Taoist to come. At this moment, they all looked at us with doubts and complicated eyes.
I felt very uncomfortable being stared at by them, so I whispered to the Taoist priest: What should I do? Should I wait here?
The old Taoist did not answer my question, but looked at Yang Fu and asked: Where did you get the information from?
Yang Fu said: I used magic to eavesdrop on some people's conversations, they should be here, but I don't know who they are.
After listening to this, the old Taoist was silent for a while, and then said: Wait and see.
His attitude was a little cautious, and I couldn't help but ask curiously: Did you see anything?
The old Taoist nodded slightly and said: Zhonghuang Mountain is not far from Wuxing Temple. This is the place where Nuwa repaired the sky. Although there are magical legends, I have never heard of immortals hiding here. The people who come here are not big shots. With their abilities, they can find out the news. How could those people not find out?
You mean, this news is fake? I asked in astonishment.
Not necessarily. The old Taoist shook his head and said: First, the Heavenly Corpse Vein led everyone to destroy the Zhou family, then the battle in the underworld destroyed countless clans, and then nothing was gained from Kunlun Mountain. Maybe those people are afraid and have no interest. Only these little people are still fighting for a little bit of illusory possibility. What's more, their value is not high, even if they are all killed, it will do more harm than good.
That's true. I rubbed my hands and said: We might be able to find a way out.
If there was a leak for you to pick up, those big shots would have already flocked here. The old Taoist said: Although there is no one here now, they may have sent people to watch. As long as there is something unusual, they should have sent some people to follow and check. But it is difficult to imagine that half of the sects will be mobilized like before.
Well, the fewer people there are, the better. I touched my nose.
Yang Fu looked around and asked me in a low voice: Didn’t you say that the Jiuqiu lineage placed an imperial platform nearby?
It is hidden, and may be visible with the jade pendant, I explained .
Yang Fu said with some envy: No wonder my great-grandfather gave the jade pendant to my second grandfather to take away, this thing is so important.
I laughed and said, "You want to see the imperial platform? I'll give you the jade pendant, you try it."
That's not necessary. Even without the jade pendant, I can still see it. But... Yang Fu said awkwardly: You have to point out the approximate location for me.
I laughed twice and roughly drew a range according to the place I saw in the picture. This range was later outlined by me after I asked the old Taoist priest. Because the imperial platform is very important and may be detrimental to my mother, I hope I can understand it more clearly.
Yang Fu looked in that direction for a few times, then turned back to look at Zhonghuang Mountain, and said helplessly: It seems I can only go there next time.
There is plenty of time. I replied: You don’t plan to go home right away anyway, you can come anytime.
Yang Fu nodded, and the two of us stood there, looking at a group of people chattering non-stop at the foot of the mountain, waiting to find the immortal treasure, and discussing in a random manner.
Many practitioners ran back and forth in the mountains, trying to find any clues of the so-called immortal treasure, but they found nothing.
This is totally normal. If they found it so easily, Zhonghuang Mountain would have been trampled to the ground long ago. You know, traditional tomb robbers in China have very sophisticated methods.
I wanted to use the Tongming Jade Pendant to investigate, but was stopped by Yang Fu. He said: Since someone has spread the news of the immortal treasure, it will definitely appear. There is no need to involve yourself too deeply. The more you see, the more cause and effect you will see. For the people of the Basuo family, the less involvement, the better.
This is like a little impurity in steel, which may make a low-quality screw, and this screw may cause a major accident that shocks the world. Simply put, it is the so-called butterfly effect.
Seeing how serious he was, I had to give up my plan, but I couldn't help but feel sad. I thought the rules of the Eight Ropes were many, but I didn't expect that compared with the main family, they were still small fry. It seems that there is really no way to learn all the tricks in a short time.
Fortunately, the wait did not last too long. I don’t know if someone found something on the mountain, or if it was really like Yang Fu said, what is meant to come will come.
In short, after someone screamed on the mountain, the whole scene became completely chaotic.
The exclamation sounded only once, and then it stopped abruptly, as if the person's mouth was covered. Then, someone quickly climbed up Zhonghuang Mountain, and within a few minutes, a small-scale local war broke out. And then...
The three of us followed the crowd and climbed up the mountainside leisurely, then we saw several corpses and a cave entrance next to the corpses.
The cave was not big, about the thickness of a water tank. No one was fighting anymore, and everyone was scrambling to get in. In order to save time, they would even maintain order, and whoever got in faster would go first, and those who fell behind would never make a move.
Of course, the screams coming out of the cave showed that they didn't do anything shady because it wasn't dark enough outside...
For the three of us, all problems were not problems. After escaping into nothingness, we passed through everyone's bodies and moved forward quickly.
The cave was long and dark, and even if we wanted to escape into nothingness , we had to bend down to move forward smoothly. Soon, we surpassed most people and saw the end of the cave.
There was a fire inside, but it wasn't very bright. The three of us ran over quickly and found that there was another cave in front of us. This time it had expanded to nearly 1.5 meters high and had a steeper slope.
The previous passage should have been downward, with an angle of no more than 40 degrees, but now, the cave looks like a well.
There were two shovels scattered at the entrance of the cave, rusty and with broken handles. The old Taoist looked at them and then at the cave wall next to them, saying: It seems that these were dug out by tomb robbers many years ago.
Grave robbing? Is there a tomb here? I asked curiously.
The old Taoist shook his head: Never heard of it.
I have never heard of it, so it must be that there is no such thing. God knows why tomb robbers from decades ago suddenly came to Zhonghuang Mountain to dig holes.
We continued along the second cave, or to be more precise, we could now jump down.
The angle of this cave is almost vertical. If I could not control the rise and fall of my body after escaping into nothingness, I would not dare to jump down like this.
We could faintly see the light of fire below, and there were many people walking ahead of us. Now time was everything, and everyone knew that even if it was a conspiracy, there would definitely be something to take. Whoever ran ahead would be the first to get it. As for whether he could take it alive, it depended on his ability.
During the descent, the old Taoist priest suddenly let out a light exclamation, and then Yang Fu also cried out in surprise.
What happened? I quickly stopped falling and asked.
There is corpse qi. Yang Fu said first: It is very strong. Look at the soil layer here. It has been eroded by corpse qi.
I looked at the mud layer in front of me. The vision of the void space was very strange. The mud was light black with a lot of green, red and brown mixed in. But I couldn't tell what the eroded mud looked like.
Don't show your identity easily, the old Taoist priest warned.
I hummed and continued to descend. Soon, I reached the ground.
There was a bright light ahead, and many people were standing there, as if they were studying something. We walked forward and saw four stone doors.
The stone door was engraved with complicated characters, which I could not understand. The old Taoist took a look and said: These are characters from the pre-Qin period, engraved with the will of the King of Qin.
King Qin? Order?
The old Taoist nodded and said: These four doors represent the four great emperors worshipped by the pre-Qin Dynasty. The King of Qin called himself the Son of Heaven, so his will represented the will of the four great emperors...
Wait... I interrupted the old Taoist: Four Great Emperors? Didn't the ancients worship the Five Emperors and the Three Sovereigns? How come there are Four Emperors?
The old Taoist shook his head and sighed, while Yang Fu said: Although I don't know why, in the Qin Dynasty, only four emperors were worshipped. Maybe people at that time knew why, but now, this secret can no longer be solved.
Uh... I can't help but feel embarrassed. I didn't expect there is such a saying. However, for thousands of years, China has worshipped the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, but the Qin Dynasty worshipped the Four Sovereigns and Five Emperors. This is really strange.
The emperor's son ordered that this place is the place to guard the sky, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter without permission. Anyone who enters will die. The old Taoist priest read the Qin characters on the stone gate .
Guarding the land of heaven? What does that mean? Which King of Qin is this? I asked curiously.
It didn't say which generation it was, but it should be before the First Emperor. The old Taoist said: As for the place to guard the sky, it may be related to Nuwa mending the sky. According to legend, this was once a place where the sky was cracked. But the King of Qin sent people here to guard the sky...
It seems there are some secrets hidden here, Yang Fu said.
Most of the people in front of the stone gates could not understand the words on the gates because they were busy trying to open the stone gates. But even if they could understand, they would not care. After all, the Qin Dynasty was thousands of years away from now, and any demons and monsters should be killed, and there were no taboos.
