The piece of paper in Douduzi's hand was only an inch wide, with the following words scrawled on it in eyebrow pencil: "Disaster is imminent, look for the statue of Medicine King quickly."
"Cherry..." The note in Douduzi's hand suddenly fell to the ground: "Wang Huan, do you think Cherry will be fine?"
Judging from this note alone, the man named Cherry should have come over and hid the letter in the white fox's ear when the war just started, and then returned to the battlefield immediately.
The disciples of Yaowang Valley were all wiped out. If that cherry was not a high-ranking person in Yaowang Valley, she would probably be in trouble.
I comforted him: "It's not like you haven't seen Cherry's body. No news is good news. Don't worry too much."
"That's right... Cherry is very excited and blessed. Nothing will happen to her." Doudluzi was clearly panicking.
I thought for a while and then said: "How about we go back and search everywhere to see if there are any cherries."
"No! No need!" Doudu shook his head and said, "I believe that Cherry will be fine. Let's go find the Medicine King Statue."
I said in a deep voice: "What exactly is the Medicine King Statue?"
"I don't know either?" Douduzi said blankly: "Don't look at me like this. I really don't know anything. I just know that there is a statue of Medicine King in the Medicine King's Hall."
"Statue of King of Medicine! Statue of King of Medicine!" I muttered to myself: "The truth about the family extermination in Yaowang Valley must be hidden in the statue of King of Medicine. Otherwise, the statues in the main hall would not be destroyed." So many holes dug.”
I asked: "Doudu, if you think about it again, is there anywhere else in the Yaowang Valley where the statue of the King of Medicine is hidden? If you think about it..."
"I really don't know!" Douduzi almost cried: "I only know that there is a statue of Medicine King in the Medicine King Hall... By the way..."
Douduzi slapped his thigh and said, "I heard from the elders that there used to be nine Medicine King statues in the Yao King Valley. I don't know which generation of the valley owner said it. The Medicine King only respected Sun Zhenren and gave away all the original Medicine King statues. As for where it was sent, no one knows."
"The King of Medicine only respects Zhenren Sun? Sun Simiao?" I pondered: "Ye Xun, can you check if there is a Temple of the King of Medicine nearby?"
While Ye Xun shook his head, I briefly recalled that the statue in the Palace of Medicine King was indeed Sun Simiao. But Sun Simiao was not the only person who was revered as the King of Medicine in history.
Medicine King is a secular god in Taoism who evolved from legends in ancient history. In addition to Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty, the well-known kings of medicine in the world, Shen Nong in ancient times, Bian Que in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Hua Tuo of the Three Kingdoms were all regarded as gods of medicine or kings of medicine. Among the folk customs in various places, the Three Weis of the Tang Dynasty (Wei Cizang, Wei Shanjun, and Wei Gudao) and Pi Tong of Anguo, Hebei Province were also revered as the King of Medicine, and were worshiped in temples built by future generations.
However, there are only eight Medicine Kings in the Medicine King Valley. Who is the ninth Medicine King in the Medicine King Valley
If Medicine King Valley once enshrined nine Medicine Kings, the owner of the valley should not have given away eight of the Medicine King statues.
Most of the disciples of Yaowang Valley wear Taoist robes. Even if the Taoist sect wants to solemnly honor one saint, there is no reason to invite their own gods out. At most, they can establish side halls to distinguish priorities.
It is unreasonable to give away the statue of King of Medicine itself, and it is even more unreasonable if there is no Temple of King of Medicine nearby. The other eight King of Medicine are true Taoist gods no matter how you say it. As a disciple of Yaowang Valley, you will just find a place to abandon the statue of King of Medicine. Ignore it
While I was pondering, Douduzi said: "Don't think about it. There is the Medicine King Valley within hundreds of miles. How can there be another Medicine King Palace? Even if they can build the Medicine King Palace, they Can we still create a herb spring? There is no miracle. Where can we get the incense? Are you waiting to starve to death?"
"What do you want to say?" I suddenly looked at Douduzi: "You're right, let's go!"
In the eyes of those of us who live in the world, Yaowang Valley is a sect that has been around for hundreds of years. In the eyes of ordinary people, the signature of Yaowang Valley may not be the Yaowang Palace. Those who visit Yaowang Valley may not remember Yaowang Sun Simiao. But they can definitely remember Baicao Spring. That is the reason why Yaowang Valley is famous far and wide.
Why did I forget Baicao Spring
Baicao Spring is the gateway to Yaowang Valley. According to normal thinking, no one would bury the treasure directly under the gate. Everyone has to enter and exit through the gate. Maybe you can tell something is wrong at a glance.
However, if you think about it carefully, who would go out of their way to look at the threshold or the screen facing the door? Just brush them all off and forget about it. In this way, the most dangerous place becomes the safest place.
Moreover, the materials used to cast the statues are nothing more than metal, wood and clay sculptures. These things are afraid of water corrosion, so no one would suspect them if they were hidden in the middle of the spring mouth.
If there is a place in Yaowang Valley that is most suitable for hiding the statue of Yaowang, then Baicao Spring is the only place left.
I rushed to Baicao Spring as fast as I could and jumped into the water. I waded through the waist-deep bloody water to reach the Tai Chi diagram, and started tapping on the Tai Chi diagram with the hilt of the knife.
Although there is everything in the world, more than 90% of it will not be perfect. The two seemingly identical springs in Baicao Spring are surprising because someone put a layer of carved Tai Chi figures on the outside of the springs. It's just a slate. If you look carefully, it's not difficult to find the copper pipes hidden inside the Yin Yang Fish.
In other words, the two springs of Baicao Spring are not at the two points of Yin and Yang Fish. Instead, someone used copper pipes to change the direction of the spring water in order to make Baicao Spring look more mysterious.
This shows that there should be a lot of space behind the stone wall of Baicao Spring. If you dig a few meters deep, it won't be a problem to hide several Medicine King statues.
After I knocked a few times, a hollow sound finally came from the stone slab. I took a step back and said, "This is it."
Ye Xun raised his hand and chopped the slate with one palm, sending shards of stone flying, but only damaging a little bit of the slate's fur. According to Ye Xun's method of attack, even if he continued to chop until tomorrow morning, he would not be able to break the slate.
I knocked twice on the stone slab with my hand: "Get ready for fixed-point blasting! Don't we bring explosives?"
We had been training for half a month, but we didn't even have anything to eat. At the beginning, we were applying clay and flicking leads, but when it came time to load the medicine, the three of us were all confused.
We don't know how thick the stone slabs are, nor do we know the power of the explosives. If the explosives are too little, they won't be effective. If there are too many, the statue of the King of Medicine inside will be destroyed.
Ye Xun and I hesitated for a while, then gritted our teeth and filled in the explosives. We retreated out of the pool and then tentatively pressed the detonator.
I only heard a loud bang, and the spring water in front of the stone wall immediately emptied out. Countless stones were like cannonballs passing through the water curtain, whizzing towards us. I quickly lay down in the pool with my head in my hands. Below, it flew over our heads and landed on the ground with a loud crackle.
Too much medicine!
Although I held my head in my hands, I blushed for a while. If I had known this, I should have been more serious in class, otherwise I wouldn't have made such a big mistake. Maybe even the statue of King of Medicine would have turned into ashes.
What's the use of thinking about this now
When I raised my head and looked at the stone slab with a glimmer of hope, the Tai Chi Diagram had completely exploded in white. Sure enough, there was a secret chamber built between the two springs side by side on the mountain wall.
The door of the secret room had been blown to pieces, but the statue of Medicine King sitting in the center of the secret room was not damaged at all. Just from the golden paint on the surface of the statue of King of Medicine, it is difficult to tell how many years it has been sitting in the secret room. But the moss on the outside of the secret room already shows the hundreds of years it has experienced behind the stone slabs.
Back then, it was really not that simple for the King of Medicine to be sent away.
I was just about to walk over to see what was going on, but Douduzi pulled me back: "Look at the bottom of Yao Wang's feet."
When I looked in the direction of Doudulu's finger, a small mound of soil had risen under Yao Wang's feet, as if something was trying to break out of the ground.
The next moment, a golden snake almost as thick as my arm staggered out of the soil. It trembled with Yaowang's legs and swam up to his knees, then crawled straight towards Yaowang's belly.
"Catch it!" Although I didn't know how this snake appeared in the secret room, I instinctively felt that I couldn't let it go easily.
Dou Donkey was a little faster than me. He waded through the spring water and ran up to the King of Medicine. He pinched the golden snake's neck like lightning and pulled the nearly two-meter-long golden snake out of the secret room: "Hurry up and find it." A pocket?"
I had no intention of catching snakes when I came out this time. Where could I find some pockets? After searching for a long time, Ye took off the outer trousers of a corpse, tightened the trousers and handed them to Douduzi. It took Douduzi a long time to stuff the golden snake into his pants.
But I circled around the Medicine King Statue. I was too far away just now and didn’t see anything special about the Medicine King Statue. Now that I got closer, I realized that the Medicine King Statue was covered with snakes all over its body. trace.
In other words, the golden snake was sealed in the secret room together with the Medicine King Statue. Although the golden snake could not leave the secret room, it could hang around the Medicine King Statue and swim back and forth. Over time, it left its traces.
After I struck the Yaowang statue from head to toe with a knife, I finally made a sound on the left leg of the Yaowang statue: "There is something in the left leg of the Yaowang statue."
Ye Xun knelt down and cut open the left leg of the statue with a dagger, and took out an iron cylinder containing a map: "Phoenix City, what place is this?"
Douduzi's expression changed and he said, "Phoenix City is the edge of Miao territory."
The term Miaojiang only began to appear in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In a broad sense, Miaojiang covers parts of six provinces, but in a narrow sense, Miaojiang is the gathering area of black Miao with Leigong Mountain as the center. If you want to enter the hinterland of Miaojiang, you can Must pass through Phoenix City, Guizhou.
"Five Poison Sect?" Ye Xun and I said three words at the same time while looking at each other.
Ye Xun looked at the map again: "You see there is obviously a snake-shaped secret sign here. Snake is one of the Five Poisons. Is this a map leading to the Five Poison Sect?"
I seemed to be talking to myself: "Even if it is, it's just a broken picture. At most, it can take us into the mountains near Phoenix City..."