The earliest record of Dongtian Fudi appeared in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
As early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a saying that there were ten caves, thirty-six small caves, and seventy-two blessed places in famous Taoist mountains.
In mythology, it is the practice dojo of immortals.
Among the thirty-six small caves, the Xuling Cave is located in Mount Emei, the land of outstanding people in Bashu.
However, Monk Taiping is in troubled times.
Today, Mount Emei, which is one of the most famous mountains in the world, has become one of the four famous Buddhist mountains.
But the Taoist ashram has become a sparsely populated place.
Even the ancient Taoist temples were overthrown by Buddhist temples and became temples dedicated only to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
Can't help but make people sigh, thinking of that old saying:
In troubled times, Taoist priests went down the mountain to save the world, and monks closed their doors to avoid disaster.
In the prosperous age, Taoist priests retreated to the mountains, and monks went out to fight for incense.
However, there are two sides to the problem. Monks come out to fight for incense, and Buddhist temples are built all over the mountains and rivers, which can more and more explain that today is a peaceful and prosperous age, and the country is prosperous and the people are strong.
A thriving scene in the country.
Bashu.
Xuling Cave.
At this moment, the atmosphere here is very tense. With the big news that the cave is the first to be opened than the blessed land, this place has suddenly become the center of the turmoil.
It has become the attention of people all over the world.
At this moment, all forces and international organizations are surging, and they all turn their attention to this virtual mausoleum cave.
In Xuling Cave, the whole world was shocked overnight.
Bashu,
Mount Emei,
It became the focus of countless people overnight.
A large number of intelligence personnel began to be active here, and all kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants, ghosts and ghosts all appeared in the vicinity where there were few tourists.
The dark tide is raging.
…
Xuling Cave,
In the middle of the night, the mountain was quiet and cold, and it was so dark that nothing could be seen.
Only far or near, high or low, terrible voices from unknown sources in the mountains and forests can be heard.
It's like birds chirping, and it's like the faint reverberating sound of digging stones in an empty valley...
All kinds of scary voices linger, wander, and stop in the dark world where the scenery is invisible... One after another, they still refuse to leave.
Within a hundred miles of Xuling Cave Sky, there has been no peace.
These invisible and terrifying voices have always been surrounded by coldness.
This is a deserted village tens of miles away, deep in the mountains.
Ten rooms and ten empty rooms.
It has been abandoned for decades, vines are everywhere, old trees take root, and old houses collapse.
The road still retains the old stone road, which was carved out one by one by labor in the past, not the modern cement road.
The stone road is covered with moss.
The old tree roots are as thick as a baby's arms, and heavy and hard stone bars protrude high.
The deserted village was empty, quiet, and there was no one there.
In the darkness where you can't reach your fingers, the silence is deadly. The sky above the empty village is extraordinarily dark and extraordinarily quiet.
There is not even the sound of insects and birds singing in the vicinity, but it really fits an ancient poem by Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty:
Birds fly away in thousands of mountains, and people in thousands of paths disappear.
suddenly!
There were a few soft sounds outside the extremely quiet deserted village, like clothes brushing against grass, leaves and shrubs.
Not long after, three dark shadows walked into this abandoned village in the mountains.
These three shadows seemed to be very familiar with this place, sneaking through the deserted village with ease, and finally, a bright light appeared in front of their eyes.
There is light in the deserted village that has been abandoned for decades!
The light came from a stone house built against the mountain.
It may be because of the backing of the mountain, so even though the stone house has left a heavy atmosphere of time, most of it is still intact. It is also one of the few houses with good integrity in the barren village.
The white light flickered in the dark, and it didn't seem to be the source of light from the lighting equipment.
The windows of the stone house have long since disappeared, leaving only twisted openings. There are a few figures reflected on the wall behind the windows, as if someone is inside
The three black shadows soon came outside the house with the only light source, and the wooden door of the house had already been rotten to only half, and the three black shadows entered the house without warning.
When the three black shadows entered the house, it was clear that the so-called light source was actually a white flame burning in the air.
Below the white flame was a rotten wooden table. A tall, burly man with a rough face was sitting beside the wooden table.
The man wore a skull mask that covered half of his face below the eyes.
At this time, under the illumination of the light source, I finally saw the three black shadows clearly, they were also three people with the same strange costumes.
At this time, there were four people gathered in the house.
"The defense of the Xuling Cave is too strict, and we haven't been able to find a chance to sneak in."
Of the three people who came back, one of them spoke, but the language he could speak was not Mandarin, but a Western language.
These people spoke with heavy accents, and they were all tall and strong, as if they were from the ice and snow land of Eastern Europe
"One more thing, we originally planned to divert the waterway to dive in, but we ran into another group of unknown people. They entered the waterway before us. Because they don't know the identity of the other party, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts and increase the risk of exposure , so we didn’t retreat first.”
The tall man with white flames on his head, who seemed to be the leader of these people, looked up at his watch and said, "I'll give you an hour to rest. After midnight, prepare for Plan B."
Just when the three of them were resting and recovering their strength, one of them suddenly had a urgency to urinate and wanted to go outside to relieve his hand.
"631, 824, you stay with him, don't be alone."
"This village was deserted a long time ago, and the entire village has disappeared. There must be some special reason."
Bai Yannan said to the two of them.
These people only have code names and no names.
With strict organization.
The two of them had been running around for a day, and they were already tired. They wanted to rest and squint for a while, so when they were called, only a pair of eyes and brows were exposed under their masks, and they frowned, as if they were a little reluctant. But they didn't refute. They seemed to be afraid of Bai Yannan's majesty, so they got up and followed out.
With a creaking sound, the half-leaved wooden door was pushed open impatiently by the unhappy and reluctant 824.
Creaking... The dilapidated wooden door that had lost its thrust returned to its original position, and with inertia, creaked and swayed in the empty and quiet deserted village.
It was like hearing the sound of an old man sitting on a bamboo and rattan chair shaking back and forth at night.
Time passed minute by minute,
About six or seven minutes, squeak... The dilapidated half-wooden door was suddenly gently pushed into the house, making a sound like an old man's teeth were grinding,
It's like someone outside the door suddenly pushed the door lightly.
"793, is that you?"
Bai Yannan glanced at the door, but there was silence outside the door, and no one answered.
Just at this moment, a gust of cold wind from the night forest poured into the house from outside the door...
Bai Yannan frowned.
The three of them went out for so long, but they didn't come back. He realized that something was wrong, so he stood up and decided to go out to find someone.
(end of this chapter)