It was late afternoon when we set off north. Before the watch, the south wind returned to the place where we met the people from Shangqing. There was a cave that penetrated the mountain, and we stayed here at night.
There is no shelter from the wind throughout the cave, so we can only find firewood and light a fire to keep out the cold.
Lighting a bonfire, Nanfeng raised his head and looked at this cave. He had encountered similar caves before. Although he didn't know how many such caves there were, one thing was certain, that is, the alien who dug these caves back then was Digging along the dragon veins, these caves should be related to the dragon veins.
Since many years have passed, there are no clues left in the cave. After looking at it, Nanfeng looked back and took out the piece of tortoise shell he got from Gao Pingsheng's cave. To this day, he still does not recognize these words and can only memorize them by rote. , as Zhuge Chanjuan said, now that the battle for the Tortoise Shell Heavenly Book has been settled, those tortoise shells have been divided up by everyone, and then all those who want the tortoise shells will turn their attention to him. For safety reasons, the tortoise shells cannot be left behind. On the body.
While Nanfeng was looking at the tortoise shell, Ba Ye went out to look for food. When he came back, it was the third watch. Nanfeng was adding firewood to the bonfire. When the bonfire was burning brightly, he put the tortoise shell in his hand into it.
The wind was blowing from the north tonight, and Ba Ye moved upwind to block the cold wind from the south.
Nanfeng did not fall asleep immediately, but meditated for an hour. During this time, he was busy with trivial matters and slacked off in practicing Qi. The main reason why he meditated and practiced Qi was to see if the seven-turn elixir he swallowed that day had any remaining medicinal power. Completely dispersed.
The result of the observation is that the spiritual energy contained in the elixir has completely dissipated. It is roughly estimated that 70% of the spiritual energy in the body will remain after entering the mountain, and another 30% will be enough to enter the cave.
It was still winter in the north, and the southerly wind was so cold that we didn't rush to set off. We waited for the sun to rise before heading north again.
At noon, he arrived at the third area. The sight in front of him made him take a breath of cold air. The peak marked with a red dot on the deerskin map was in a mess. Most of the trees were toppled and broken, and some had moved away from their original positions. Although there were no bodies. , but large blood stains can be seen everywhere in the snow.
There should have been a melee here not long ago. Judging from the degree of damage to the mountains, trees and rocks, the melee must have been large in scale and the fighting was very tragic. The bodies may have been taken away or buried, but the bloodstains and The remaining limbs and organs were not cleaned.
There is a large gap at the foot of the mountain. If you want to open the mountain, it cannot be done without Taoism. As for which Taoist sect it belongs to, it is unknown.
However, there are only rocks inside the gap, and there is no stone chamber tomb. The stone chamber tomb should be in the flat area on the south side of the mountain. There are very obvious traces of backfilling in that flat area. It must be that someone re-buried the tomb after they succeeded, and there are still remains nearby. There are many incomplete and blackened bamboo slips, which should be the items in the previous stone chamber.
Nanfeng took out the deerskin map and compared it again and again, and finally determined that the things here had been taken away.
Even so, he was not in a hurry to get on the road. Although he couldn't get the tortoise shell, he could reconstruct the battle situation that day by observing the battlefield. At least he had to know who was fighting and fighting here that day.
The snow on the ground has not melted yet, and there are clues hidden in the snow. There are incomplete weapons, severed fingers, and many feathers and furs.
Taoist priests rarely use Qimen weapons. The presence of Qimen weapons means that warriors were involved that day. Some of the severed fingers still retain the posture of pinching secrets, which naturally belongs to Taoists.
Feathers and furs of beasts hide the most clues. There are heterogeneous Taoists in the Shangqing Sect. Some of these feathers and furs may belong to Shangqing Taoists, but some of them do not belong to Shangqing Taoists. This is not difficult to distinguish. Shangqing Alien A Taoist will take care of his own body when no one is around. The difference between his body and ordinary aliens is like domesticated and wild, which is easy to distinguish.
It gets colder as you go north. At the second watch, the south wind reaches the second place. There are also traces of fighting here, but they are not as serious as the third place. The battlefield is located above a steep cliff, or behind the cliff to be exact. In the cave, this cliff should be a waterfall in spring and summer. In the cold winter, the waterfall freezes, and the drooping ice covers the entrance of the cave.
But at this time, the ice had been broken, and the cave hidden behind it had been exposed. The war took place there. One of the nine Taoists from Zhou Shi should have lived in the cave behind the waterfall. There were only some simple lives in it. Most of the utensils were very heavy, and some of the lighter and smaller ones were missing. It must have been that someone came here after the war and took away the things in the cave without seeing the tortoise shell.
There were several clear sword marks left on the stone table and stone wall. A huge palm print remained on the stone table that was broken into two parts. After careful identification, it was believed to be the paw print of a wild beast. In addition, there was a pool of paw prints on the ground. Frozen breasts and a lot of gray hair, those hairs do not belong to humans.
Judging from the area covered by the pool of frozen flesh, a huge alien was originally killed here. Its opponents should have been several Taoists with swords. After the alien died in battle, someone dumped on its body. Some kind of medicine that can melt flesh and bones was used to melt the body. As for who melted the body and for what purpose, it is unknown.
I stayed in this cave that night. In the middle of the night, it snowed again. Looking at the heavy snow outside, I felt a little frightened by the south wind. The last place was the Longtou area, six hundred miles away in the north. It was such a cold day. , it is not easy to make a round trip. In fact, it does not mean that you cannot make this trip. The key is that it is likely to be in vain. The leading position is the best place to look for, no matter who you are, you will not miss it.
The heavy snow had not stopped after daybreak, and Ba Ye had a lot of time to follow Nanfeng. He knew when he usually set off on the road, and when he was able to go on the road, he walked over to see him.
"Shall we still go north?" Nanfeng looked at Master Ba.
Master Ba may or may not have understood, but in short, he did not respond.
"What the hell is this weather like?" Nanfeng squatted in the corner with his hands folded.
There are many north winds in winter, but it is not without south wind. When the south wind comes together, the snowflakes go straight to the cave. The south wind originally wanted to wait in the cave for a while to see if the heavy snow would stop, but it couldn't stay anymore. ,it's too cold.
"Let's go, let's go." Nanfeng stood up.
Ba Ye walked to the entrance of the cave, flapped his wings and flew up.
Nanfeng jumped up, "Forget it, I won't look for it anymore, go back."
Ba Ye understands simple words, flaps his wings and climbs higher than the cliff.
When we reached the top of the cliff, the wind became stronger and it was very difficult for Ba Ye to fly.
"That's all, let's take advantage of the favorable wind and go have a look. Turn around and head north." Nanfeng changed his mind.
There is a big difference between tailwind and headwind. Ba Ye hardly needs to flap his wings. He only needs to stretch his wings to maintain balance and use the wind to move north quickly.
"I really can't shed tears until I see the coffin." Nanfeng said to himself. Although he continued to go north, he actually didn't hold out any hope.
Ba Ye couldn't bear the cold weather and tried to climb to a higher place to escape the cold. However, the "two people" were currently located in the cold Arctic region. The terrain was already higher than that of the Central Plains, and he felt uncomfortable breathing even if he climbed any higher.
After only 600 miles, I actually rested three times. It was not because I was exhausted, but because it was too cold.
In the evening, the "two people" arrived at the ground covered with dust and frost on their brows. Nanfeng had never seen birds tremble before, but when he saw them this time, Ba Ye tightened his wings and shivered.
Although he had long expected that his trip would be in vain, Nanfeng was still disappointed after seeing half of the mountain collapsed and a large amount of remaining ice and rubble. "Damn it, your trip was in vain."
It's over after scolding him. It's not like others asked him to come, he came here himself. He can only bear the consequences of the decisions he makes, but it's okay to suffer from the cold. It's just poor Master Ba, who was born in the warm southern country. Before he was an adult, he accompanied him to this ice and snow.
It's natural to be frustrated, but you can't stay angry. It's going to be dark soon, and it will get even colder after dark. You have to find a place to rest quickly. "You wait for me here, and I'll find a sheltered place to stay up all night."
Nanfeng's words were too long, and Master Ba didn't understand them very well, but he understood the words "etc.", so after Nanfeng jumped out, he never followed him.
The south wind didn't let Ba Ye follow because he didn't want Ba Ye to stretch his wings and bear the cold wind. There was only a mountain peak in the north nearby, so he went north. The mountain peak in the north was a hundred miles in radius, towering into the clouds, and half of it was covered by the sun. Everything collapsed, and as far as the eye could see, there were rubble everywhere.
The south wind had never survived the catastrophe, so it could not fly very far and needed to land frequently to use its strength. Five miles away from the mountain peak, he discovered something. He looked closely and saw that it was a round rice bag.
Nanfeng came over and picked up the rice bag. The rice bag was not big and had been frozen hard. There were tiny red spots on it, which he thought were blood stains.
Food like rice bags are rare in the north. They are dry food that southerners like to take with them when they go out. When he found rice bags, his first thought was that the Taiqing Sect had been here. However, on second thought, it was wrong. The first person to get the news should be Shangqing Sect, even if Taiqing Sect planted spies in Shangqing Sect and informed Taiqing Sect as quickly as possible after learning about the Turtle Shell Heavenly Book, Taiqing Sect would not have had time to come here before Shangqing Sect, because Taiqing Sect Qingzong was in the south of the Yangtze River, very far away from here.
The wind came up again, and the temperature dropped again. I couldn't understand the south wind for a while, so I didn't think about it anymore. I threw away the rice bag and continued moving north. A large area of the mountain slopes in the north collapsed. There was definitely no shelter below the mountainside. You can only look for it at Yinlu or above the mountainside. Today is a northerly wind, so Yinlu is not sheltered from the wind, so you can only look up from the Yanglu mountainside.
There are few trees on the mountain, mostly rocks and snow. Not long after going up, the south wind stopped, and a stone door appeared vaguely behind a pile of rocks. The stone door had double leaves, with yin and yang embedded on the left and right.
"Huh?" Nanfeng was confused. Yin and Yang were mostly used by Taoists, so how could there be such a stone gate here.
With doubts in mind, I removed the pile of rubble and looked at the stone door. There was no door nose or handle on the stone door. There was only a pair of yin and yang patterns in the middle of the stone door. I tried pressing the yang fish on the left side, but there was no movement. Press the Yinyu on the right again, and with a dull friction sound, the stone door slowly opens.
Nanfeng looked at the stone door that slowly opened in shock. Inside the stone door was a small stone chamber. There was a round stone table on the left side of the stone chamber. There was nothing else. Looking closer, there seemed to be something on the stone wall to the north. There are many round holes arranged up and down.
Just when Nanfeng was secretly wondering, the stone door was completely opened. At the same time, a large number of arrows were shot from the round hole in the stone wall on the north side. There should have been dozens of arrows coming out, but none of them hit the door. Most of them were After falling under the stone wall, many of them were directly stuck in the round holes in the stone wall.
Nanfeng didn't expect that there would be a mechanism here. After reacting, he hurriedly turned aside. The friction sound came again, and the stone door slowly closed.
"That's not right." Nanfeng said to himself. This place was deserted. This stone room was most likely the place where the Taoist lived back then. The fact that the mechanism was not triggered meant that no one had been there. But if this is where the Taoist people live, what happened to the collapse of the mountain below the mountainside
After a brief moment of astonishment, Nanfeng thought of the rice bag and suddenly realized that when he first met Gao Pingsheng, he had this kind of rice bag in his bag. This is the location of the dragon head. It is very likely that the five-clawed golden dragon Gao Pingsheng was looking for. Just underground here, the collapse of the mountain should have been caused by Gao Pingsheng's self-destruction.
Those who were looking for tortoise shells saw the mountain collapse and subconsciously thought that someone else had taken the tortoise shell first. You think it was me, I think it was you, so they rushed down without any discernment. In the end, no one thought that this incident was caused by Gao Pingsheng in order to die together with the five-clawed golden dragon, and had nothing to do with the Tortoise Shell Heavenly Book.
"Hahaha, it's good luck..."