"Fish eyes?"
Gu Qingmei also saw the three large, brightly colored characters that seemed to be written in blood, and she couldn't help but start thinking.
Jianchou looked back and saw that everyone was already approaching.
Qin Lang and Zhou Qingyun stood side by side, their expressions full of vigilance. Zhao Bianzhou, holding an iron hook, kept looking inside, as if trying to see what was inside.
Qian Que's eyes sparkled: "Two fairies, let's not just stand here. Why do I feel like our luck has arrived?"
The true nature is revealed...
Jianchou glanced at him and laughed in his heart.
However, Gu Qingmei's attention was not on Qian Que at the moment. What's more, she didn't know much about "Meng Xizhou", so naturally she couldn't suspect Qian Que.
So, at least for now, everything is safe.
Jianchou said, "This hall is called Fish Eye Tomb. There is a fish eye in the hall, but the dead leaf vine has disappeared. When we came here just now, there was no movement. Now we have seen that this place is weird. Even if there is a chance, it is still full of dangers. We are in the first test of the meeting. There are only a few terraces, and no one knows what is happening outside. We should not be trapped in one place. Finding other people to pass the level as soon as possible is the most important thing."
Having said this, she paused, her gaze still gentle as she cast it on everyone.
Gu Qingmei was quite smart and had vaguely understood what Jianchou meant.
She didn't speak.
Jianchou continued, "In my opinion, it is better not to enter the Fish Eye Tomb. But we are a group of eight, and we should advance and retreat together. My opinion alone does not count. What do you think?"
For a moment, everyone was in a dilemma.
Zhao Bianzhou heard what Jianchou said and looked at her twice. Seeing that no one else spoke, he spoke first.
"Just now, Fairy Gu said that this dead leaf vine can only grow from the spiritual energy of a cultivator's decayed body after death. This piece of dead leaf vine is so strange, it is obvious that there must be a treasure hidden in it. However, Zhao thinks that this cultivator with high cultivation should not exist. I am afraid that the source of power for the dead leaf vine to grow is this palace."
Jianchou immediately looked at him, and frowned inwardly when he saw that this man looked so organized.
The people around were already hesitant and in a bit of a dilemma.
In fact, for them, participating in Zuo Sanqian’s small meeting is not that meaningful. They will most likely be ranked at the back, with countless powerful opponents ahead of them, and the possibility of getting on the stage is extremely low.
Everyone yearns for a stage, just for the dream in their hearts and for the attention of everyone in the Central Region.
For the cultivators in the Central Region, Zuo Sanqian’s small gathering is a feast that they can never miss.
But this feast without the chance to enjoy the final fruit is insignificant compared to a possible treasure.
Zhao Pianzhou added: "It is just a fish eye, but it is buried in such a magnificent palace. This shows how powerful it is. We are lucky to have met this opportunity. How can we know that it is not an opportunity set up by Elder Fudao for us? Moreover..."
As he spoke, he looked at Jianchou with a smile that seemed extremely sincere.
It was just that this man had a pair of gloomy eyes, which made Jianchou really dislike him.
He said, "We are at Zuo Sanqian Small Meeting, so we don't have to worry about losing our lives, right?"
Everyone suddenly became more silent.
Qian Que looked at Chou, then looked at Zhao Bianzhou, and was obviously conflicted.
Gu Qingmei showed some interest in her eyes. This Zhao Pianzhou was actually considered a top figure. The meaning of these words was not that simple.
Although the ranking of the eldest senior sister of Yashan, Jianchou, is really arbitrary and unreasonable, who can deny that she is the eldest disciple of Master Fudaoshan
Not to mention that she is the one who has the hope of winning the throne, while others have no chance, the mere fact that she is the eldest disciple of Master Fudao is enough.
This foggy day was released by the people of Fudao Mountain, and there are two giants presiding over the situation on the mountainside. It is absolutely impossible to see the leader of the new generation of Yashan die in a trial like this.
If any accident happens, the people of Fudao Mountain will not sit idly by, and the rest of them can also benefit from it, and will not face death if they encounter danger.
What Gu Qingmei could hear, Jianchou could naturally hear as well.
The identity of the eldest sister of Yashan is an honor, but at the same time it can also become a point that can be easily exploited by others.
Jianchou smiled, neither angry nor annoyed, and said calmly: "What Daoist Brother Zhao said makes sense. Why don't the eight of us decide together whether to go in and take a look?"
"Of course I support the one who goes in." Zhao Bianzhou spoke first.
Qian Que stroked the long stick used for camouflage with his fleshy palms, pondered for a long time, and finally came to an end. He said, "If you don't seize the opportunity, you are a fool. Meng also wants to go in and take a look. There must be many things in this hall."
"In that case, we two also agree to go in."
Qin Lang and Zhou Qingyun are Taoist companions. They advance and retreat in unison, and after discussing for a while, they came to a conclusion.
Among the eight people, four have already chosen to enter.
This result was within Jianchou's expectations. She turned her head and looked at Gu Qingmei calmly: "Where's Junior Sister Gu?"
Gu Qingmei smiled and said, "It doesn't matter to me whether I go in or not, I'll just follow everyone."
In other words, no matter what the final result is, she will go with it.
This may sound like it has no bias, but in fact...
Jianchou asked her this question at a time when the four people had already agreed to enter, and it had a purpose. This was the most crucial answer.
In this answer, Gu Qingmei chose to give up. She seemed neutral, but in fact, she had chosen Zhao Bianzhou's side. But on the surface, she was a neutral and good person.
When Jianchou's mind changed, he understood everything.
There is basically no need to guess the subsequent results.
The remaining two ordinary monks also directly chose to "agree to enter."
So, the final result was that there was one person who opposed, one person who abstained, and six people who agreed, a total of eight people who wanted to go in and take a look.
"It seems that we have to visit the Fish Eye Tomb."
As he spoke, Jianchou turned around and looked at the hall. However, from a distance of only twenty feet, he could not see clearly what was inside the hall.
The eight people carefully formed a formation again and approached the temple of bones.
The journey was peaceful.
The dead leaf vines from before seemed to have retreated completely, without any trace left.
The closer it gets to a storm, the calmer it gets.
Everyone clenched their weapons tightly, except Jianchou, who was unarmed and seemed a little out of place.
Gu Qingmei suddenly asked, "Where is the senior sister's mirror?"
"Half broken."
Jianchou answered calmly, and at the same time realized that Gu Qingmei didn't know that she had the Ghost Axe, or even if she knew, she didn't know it very clearly. After all, she had used the Inner and Outer Mirror the most, especially since the Inner and Outer Mirror was not of low quality, so everyone would subconsciously ignore the Ghost Axe and think that the Inner and Outer Mirror was her main magic weapon.
It’s a good thing I didn’t think of the axe.
Jianchou answered and said with a smile: "But I have legs, so you don't have to worry. When we get there..."
The fishbone grave is already in sight.
Every stroke of the bright red handwriting was crystal clear, as if it had been baptized by the vicissitudes of time and had seeped into the white bones.
Looking closer, it really is a giant fish skull.
There were two rows of ferocious teeth on the big fish's mouth, right at the upper and lower ends of the door. When they stood under the door, they actually had the illusion that the two rows of teeth would close together, which made them terrified!
"Look, there are words on the steps!"
Qian Que suddenly pointed at the ground and discovered rows of words engraved on the ground.
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed. The words were extremely clear, but quite old.
"For those who come after me."
"If you don't change your infatuation, it will eventually lead to disaster. If you don't cut off your worldly ties, you will be bound by nothingness."
"Why bother mixing with the secular world? Who can compete with me for peeping into the sky with my fish eyes?"
"Laugh at the people of the world, who are infatuated with love and suffering. However, heaven and earth are not kind, and all things are straw dogs! Man follows heaven, and Tao follows nature."
"Today, I have established the Fishbone Hall and the Fisheye Tomb, hoping to bury all the seven emotions and six desires in the world, so that all cultivators like me can achieve the Great Dao!"
These were clearly extremely plain words, but everyone could feel the boundless sharpness from every stroke of the pen.
besides…
Heaven and earth are unkind, all things are like straw dogs.
Man follows Heaven, Tao follows nature!
What is the law of nature
In Jianchou's mind, a figure flashed, the light of a sword, and the cold corner of a piece of clothing soaked in rain water brushed past her fingertips...
At that moment, her eyes suddenly turned cold as she stared at the lines of words in front of her.
As early as when he began to practice cultivation, Fudaoshanren said that only by cutting off worldly ties can one seek the immortal and ask for the Tao.
First there was Xie Buchen, and now seeing these handwritings which were left behind who knows how many years ago, I know that most of the people in the entire Nineteen Continents practiced in this way.
Abandon all emotions and desires, and only keep the way of heaven in your heart
Seeking the immortal and asking about the Tao, is it this kind of "immortal" that you are looking for, and is it this kind of "Tao" that you are asking about
A scornful smile suddenly appeared on his lips.
Through these few lines of words, Jianchou had roughly guessed the reason for this fish-eye tomb.
Behind the scenes, Gu Qingmei was also savoring the taste of every word. When she saw the sentence "laugh at the world's people's infatuation and suffering", she felt the same way for some reason and felt melancholy for a moment.
Qian Que only took a quick glance and was not interested in the origin of this Fish Eye Tomb. He just said, "I'm afraid it was left by another powerful monk. Judging from the shape of the characters, it must be from the end of the ancient times..."
Jianchou didn't listen to his chatter, just took a step forward and stepped onto the stairs.
The words on the ground were immediately stepped on by her.
There were also people who were studying each word carefully, but suddenly they saw Jianchou walking up and just blocking the words, and they were extremely surprised!
She didn't have the slightest respect for the senior who left the message!
Just walk over, or go around, just step over, it's really...
Have a temper!
Qian Que, who was still chattering, felt as if someone was strangling him. Seeing Jianchou's behavior, he almost couldn't breathe and almost choked to death!
Several people looked at each other and felt that this Senior Sister of Yashan was actually very moody and difficult to predict. She should be someone who was easy to get along with but not easy to approach.
Gu Qingmei couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
Seeing Jianchou walking over the words calmly, as if he was stepping on someone's face one step at a time, such silence and such style of behavior gave her an indescribable sense of familiarity.
But when she searched her memory carefully, she couldn't remember when she had met such a person.
With important matters at hand, Gu Qingmei had no time to think about it. She walked around the handwriting and followed Jianchou's footsteps.
Walk past the row of ferocious teeth on the ground and stand on the ground inside the hall.
When Jianchou looked around, he saw that the entire ground was white, no different from the outer wall, except that it was uneven because it was inside the fish skull.
The top of the hall is like the dome of a cave, with many bone spurs rising and falling. It looks eerie and terrifying because the light from the outside world cannot penetrate into it.
There were many simple and crudely made wooden long tables arranged around, with some candles that had long stopped burning and were tilted on the tables. There were also some dusty fruit plates, as if they had originally contained something but had later turned into a pile of dust in the torrent of time.
This hall built with fish skulls actually seemed to have traces of human life.
In the middle of the hall, ten feet high, there was floating the fish eye that everyone had seen before.
It was about two inches in diameter, spherical in shape, and dark white in color, but without any luster. Even the light it emitted was a bit dim and could not illuminate the darkness on top.
It was spinning and hovering slowly, seemingly completely unaware of the arrival of the crowd.
Only right below it, there grew a patch of green grass. Each blade of grass was thin and pointed, like a long and slender worm, swaying gently under the light of the fish's eyes.
There were no signs of danger around.
It can be seen that after passing through the fish's eyes, Sorrow's gaze immediately moved to the deep mountains with "green grass" below.
Gu Qingmei happened to be next to Jianchou. When she saw it, she immediately showed a surprised expression: "Such a small piece... Could it be..."
"I'm afraid so."
Looking around, there was nothing else that could be the dead leaf vine.
Jianchou stopped moving, but a hazy white light appeared around him, raising his vigilance to the highest level.
Later, everyone followed in.
"Huh, there really isn't an ambush."
Seeing that the two people in front of him were fine, Qian Que felt relieved and took a step inside. He was immediately shocked by the scene in the hall.
"Isn't it a fish monster? Why does it look like it has been arranged? Could it be arranged by the senior who left the message before? It's so meticulous, like a grown-up girl."
The others were speechless upon hearing this and secretly rolled their eyes at Qian Que.
Qian Que didn't care and looked around.
Zhao Pianzhou also came in and looked at the surroundings. He saw Dejianchou standing in front of the fish eye. He didn't approach him, but walked around it and said, "It seems that there is really no other danger in this foggy sky. After all, we can't play with our lives..."
"when."
He picked up an old bronze lamp, but unexpectedly, the entire lamp broke directly from his hand and fell on the table with a loud noise.
Everyone looked towards him.
The next moment, the wooden table that was hit made a difficult "creak" sound under the gaze of everyone, and then fell to the ground with a loud bang, turning into a pile of dust and rotten wood!
Zhao Pianzhou only had half of a broken lamp in his hand, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Qian Que couldn't help laughing and said, "Well, it seems that there is really nothing good in this fish-eye tomb. I don't know how many years ago these things are. After tens of thousands of years, it's already quite good that they can still be seen in shape. Right?"
As he spoke, he casually turned his eyes and saw the fruit bowl filled with ashes.
Qian Que stretched out his hand, and the moment he touched the fruit plate, the big plate turned into ashes!
“Cough cough cough!”
So much dust was raised that it choked him.
The other few people also looked around, trying to find something useful.
Of course, everyone was watching Jianchou and Gu Qingmei who were standing right in front of Yumu from the corner of their eyes, paying close attention to their movements.
"Junior Sister Gu, do you also think that this bunch of thin grass is the dead leaf vine we saw outside before?"
Jianchou asked.
Gu Qingmei frowned and hesitated, as if she felt that this matter was too unbelievable.
"The dead leaf vine itself is huge, but this one looks a little too small. Normal dead leaf vines are just thicker and longer, but I always feel like... this one looks like a living thing."
As the word "living thing" came out, the eerie feeling became even stronger.
Jianchou and the others had seen with their own eyes the scene of the dead leaf vines closing in. It was clearly a living thing with feelings, and then it disappeared without a trace.
Now there is only this one possibility -
The small cluster in front of me is indeed the dead leaf vine, which can explain why countless vines reaching the sky suddenly disappeared.
The dead leaf vine was right under the fish's eyes, and the light from the fish's eyes shone on it, as if giving it nutrients.
And the dead leaf vine happens to be the perfect protection for fish eyes.
Just like spiritual creatures born from heaven and earth, there are usually some powerful monsters and demons guarding them, and ordinary people cannot approach them.
I'm afraid the same thing applies to the dead leaf vine and the fish eyes right now.
"Why bother mixing with the secular world? Who can compete with a fish eye peeping into the sky..." Gu Qingmei slowly read out the few lines of words she had seen on the steps at the beginning, and said, "The elder left a message saying 'fish eye peeping into the sky'. I'm afraid this fish eye must have a great origin. Could it be that this mere fish eye, even if it is similar to a demon pill or a magic weapon, how can it peeping into the sky?"
This is also Jianchou's doubt.
She stared at the fish eye for a long time, and suddenly she saw Zhao Bianzhou had walked to the innermost wall of the hall.
Different from the area around the hall which was filled with various objects, there was nothing under the front wall except for a three-foot hanging painting.
The painting on the wall shows a gentle woman standing on a rock by the sea, holding a round pearl in her hand with a soft smile on her face.
The painter seemed to be extremely attentive when outlining her contour, and every stroke revealed a sense of carefulness and meticulousness.
Even though the paper has turned yellow over the years, and even the originally deep ink marks have become blurred, even though the painting technique seems a bit crude, it is difficult to conceal the beauty that shines through the paper.
Zhao Bianzhou was standing right below the painting. He wasn't very interested in the woman in the painting. He looked down and immediately saw the two dark red scrolls above and below the scroll.
The switch looks smooth and has a faint luster, and the dark red color is not turbid. On the contrary, it is because the red inside is too pure and when superimposed, it appears dark.
At first glance, he knew it was good stuff.
After concentrating on identifying it for a moment, Zhao Pianzhou couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's actually blood coral!"
His exclamation immediately attracted everyone's attention.
At this moment, Zhao Bianzhou did not hesitate and reached out directly towards the scroll of the painting!
Jianchou's gaze was originally only on the painting, trying hard to find out some clues from it. The fact that it was hung in the middle of the Fish-Eye Tomb with nothing around it showed how special this painting was.
What she had seen on the stairs flashed quickly through her mind!
If you remain infatuated, you will eventually bring disaster; if you don't cut off worldly ties, you will be bound in vain!
A flash of inspiration suddenly exploded deep in Jianchou's mind.
“Don’t touch!”
Seeing that Zhao Bianzhou had already stretched out his hand, Jianchou shouted loudly!
There was a bright starlight between her eyebrows, shining brightly, and the ghost axe suddenly appeared and was held tightly in her hand!
However, it was too late.
The moment Zhao Pianzhou's hand grasped the scroll made of blood coral, the entire hall suddenly turned green!
Countless vines sprouted out frantically from the small clump of grass, covering the entire sky and earth, and heading towards eight directions and eight people in the hall!
An angry and hoarse voice rang out in this fish-eye grave: "If you insult my Arou, you will be killed without mercy!"
"Bang!"
Countless vines emerged and immediately crashed into everyone!
Jianchou's protective spiritual light surged, and the whole person was shrouded in a halo. Only the ghost axe, which was nearly ten feet high, was held in her hand, casting a hideous giant shadow, and the blood-red rust cast endless ghost shadows!
Call sign!
One axe chopped out!
Gu Qingmei, who was standing next to Jianchou, felt a powerful aura that shook the earth suddenly burst out from her side!
familiar…
Amazingly familiar.
At that moment, she actually forgot to resist the dead vines that attacked her, and just turned her head to look—
An axe shadow, ferocious and majestic, instantly occupied her entire field of vision...