This elder Cao Ge is the real person in charge of the "Sihai Pavilion". Sun Kun was his subordinate back then, and he was also Dong Tianzhi's last master who personally guided him.
After chatting, it was learned that Dong Tianzhi had never seen his sister's child for so many years, and everyone couldn't help sighing for a while.
With Xiaoyao Wang's support, Ye Qingxuan and others felt relieved to entrust Monk Miaoxiu to their care, and in the early morning of the next day, they set off again and came straight to Shengyu Mountain.
Relying on super lightness skills, Ye Qingxuan and others did not take the big road at all, and rushed directly from the mountains to the main peak of Shengyu Mountain.
As soon as he entered the mountainous area, Ye Qingxuan took out a pair of maps from his pocket and began to study them.
This is the map of Buddhist temples in Shengyu Mountain that King Xiaoyao prepared for everyone early on. From the large Buddhist temple occupying the mountains to the small earth temples in the mountain villages, they are all marked one by one.
"Which one shall we go to first?" Sun Kun ran over excitedly and asked. After seeing the map clearly, there was an uproar, and he exclaimed, "So many?"
It turned out that on that map, the locations of the temples were densely drawn.
Hou Ting came over to take a look, and also frowned. "If you look for it according to this picture, I'm afraid you won't be able to figure it out in half a year."
"It doesn't matter." Ye Qingxuan smiled and sighed, and said, "It's all because Jidu's words were unclear at the beginning, so we can only search according to the picture. Fortunately, the scenery here is good, so we will treat it as a tourist."
Mei Yinxue glared at him with a smile.
Sun Kun said jealously: "You guys will enjoy the blessings, but let me accompany you to suffer."
"Who asked you to come?" Hou Ting said with a smile: "I advised you not to come before, but you insist!"
Sun Kun chuckled and said, "That's the treasure of the Demon Sect. Master Sun, I can give up everything, but I can't give up money!"
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Everyone laughed and cursed, and headed towards the nearest small temple.
Xiaoyao Wang's map was drawn in great detail, clearly marking the trails in the mountains, and within an hour of walking along the trails, the first small temple revealed a corner of the red wall in the forest.
Everyone was overjoyed, they stepped up their lightness kung fu, and they arrived in front of the temple gate in a short while.
Just looking at it, everyone was taken aback.
It turned out that the two mountain gates had been broken to the ground, and the empty courtyard was covered with autumn leaves, it didn't look like there were people.
"Why is it a ruined temple?" Sun Kun asked in surprise.
"No." Hou Ting took two steps forward, inspected the shattered temple gate, and said solemnly: "The gate was shattered by gang qi, and there are palm prints on it!"
Everyone stepped forward to see that it was indeed the case.
Moreover, the shrine of the small temple definitely does not show signs of being unoccupied for many years. The paper pasted on the windows is still extremely clean, but some dust has fallen on the table enshrining the mountain god. It seems that no one has cleaned it for a few days.
Everyone hurriedly scattered to check, and sure enough, they found several corpses in the back of the palace.
Including a Miaozhu, a novice monk, and a person who looked like a tourist, all of them looked terrified, were terminated with a palm, and died tragically here.
Hou Ting stepped forward and pressed the corpse, rubbed his nose and said, "I'm afraid it's been seven or eight days since I've been dead, and the corpse has already deteriorated..."
Ye Qingxuan frowned and said in a deep voice: "It seems that someone arrived one step ahead of us."
Sun Kun scratched his head and said, "Dead for seven or eight days? The enemy entered the mountain at least ten days earlier. But at that time we were still in the Confucian Academy, the enemy could not have judged our whereabouts so early..."
Mei Yinxue wondered: "Which way we enter the mountain, which temple we will go to as the first stop is a temporary decision... unless the other party knows that the key is hidden in the temple, so they come to look for it in advance..."
Someone secretly passed the song.
Everyone was shocked, and they all fell silent.
There were only four people at the scene, that is to say, the insider who revealed the secret might be among the four.
This is a situation that no one wants to face.
"Ah!" At this moment, Ye Qingxuan exclaimed suddenly, and said, "Oh, I just said that Zen Master Wu Nian is suspicious..."
Sun Kun's eyes widened, and he asked in surprise, "What do you mean? Do you doubt Master Wu Nian?"
"Of course Zen Master Wu Nian will not betray us, but others may not..."
Sun Kun frowned and said, "Master Miaoxiu...it's not too bad..."
Ye Qingxuan rolled his eyes and said, "Don't guess. I mean, is this Chan Master Wu Nian who has been avoiding me all this time really the Chan Master Wu Nian himself?"
Everyone was taken aback, opened their mouths wide, and were speechless.
Ye Qingxuan continued: "From the beginning to the end, I have never seen this Zen Master Wu Nian with my own eyes. From the time I revealed the news of the 'Tianba Demon Corpse' through Brother Sun, I felt that it was inappropriate; later we got half of it. Demon Corpse, he also refused to show up, Master Miaoxiu was accidentally seriously injured and fell into a coma after seeing him... Why did he avoid me several times, why was Master Miaoxiu attacked... Could it be that he discovered something?"
Sun Kun shook his head, disagreed, and said, "Impossible. I have been friends with Zen Master Wu Nian for many years. How could I not be able to tell whether he is real or not? How can anyone pretend to be so similar?"
"I know someone." Ye Qingxuan sighed.
"Who?" Hou Ting asked.
"'Magic Monk' has no complaints." The name Ye Qingxuan said made everyone gasp.
Hou Ting's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said urgently: "You mean...'Demon Monk' Wu Yuan pretended to be Master Wu Nian, and got this news from Master Miaoxiu?" Then his fat face froze again, and he exclaimed: " Doesn't he know that the other half of the 'devil corpse' is in our hands..."
Everyone immediately turned to look at Sun Kun.
After getting half of the demon corpse, the problem of hiding the demon corpse was handed over to Sun Kun.
Sun Kun's face was deep, and he paused every word: "Don't worry. There will be absolutely no problem with the half of the demon corpse."
Everyone nodded to show their trust.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Qingxuan said calmly: "Fortunately, both parties are not sure which temple the key to the Holy Land is hidden in. Even if the people from the Demon Sect came half a month earlier, there are so many temples, I am afraid that they will not be able to find out for a while. It seems that Not only do we have to race against time, but we also have to compare our luck with the magic gate."
"The key must not fall into the hands of the demon gate." Hou Ting asked anxiously, "What should we do?"
Ye Qingxuan said: "We can only divide the troops... I hope we can find the key one step earlier."
"That's the only way to go." Hou Ting nodded.
The four were divided into groups, Ye Qingxuan was naturally on the same team as Mei Yinxue, while Sun Kun was on the same team as Hou Ting.
Before parting, Sun Kun suddenly asked: "By the way, Ye Zi..."
"What is it?"
Sun Kun rubbed his nose, and asked curiously: "We've been talking about how to find the key to the Holy Land, but I haven't figured it out yet. What kind of key is that? It's not that you can't recognize it just by looking at it, right?"
Ye Qingxuan spread his hands with a wry smile, and said, "What kind of key is it... I don't know either!"
Sun Kun immediately rolled his eyes, and walked away with Hou Ting angrily.
Seeing the two go away, Ye Qingxuan's smile faded away, but his expression became gloomy in an instant.