The Qinling Mountains, with a radius of no less than a million miles, can be called vast and boundless, but relatively speaking, it is only a corner of the western part of Zhongzhou.
This is a mysterious ancient land, which is difficult for the outside world to understand. There are many legends. Since ancient times, there are many strong people, and they are extremely powerful, but few people know about it.
Some people say that in the past, an ancient sage was invincible in the world. He traveled all over the five great domains and could not meet a rival. However, when he came to the Qinling Mountains, he was beaten to the ground by an old man herding sheep.
Even in modern times, a similar thing happened 20,000 years ago. Eight great powers came to Qinling to search for ancient times, but they were all thrown into the lake by a fisherman.
This is an ancient land with its own unique inheritance. It is very mysterious to outsiders and shrouded in a layer of fog.
The Qinling Mountains are millions of miles away, and there are mountains everywhere, and there are many ancient tombs underground. Someone once dug out the tombs of twelve ancient emperors in half a year.
This area is very extraordinary. After the death of some emperors in the ancient gods, they would always find ways to bury themselves in the Qinling Mountains, which is puzzling.
Some people say that this is a land of celestial beings, so it is said that there have been people who lifted the clouds and flew up.
Some people even say that this is an incomprehensible land, there are many cemeteries underground, and some people are practicing in order to prove the Tao, which is unknown to the outside world.
There are too many secrets about Qinling Mountains, and some people even say that Emperor Qing, who is astonishing in ancient and modern times, was also born in Qinling Mountains, and then traveled far to the east.
There is a local legend that there is a Huaxian Pond in the Qinling Mountains. Thirty thousand years ago, a green lotus became spiritually intelligent, and soon became transformed into a Taoist form.
"Qinling, there are many hidden masters, many underground ancient tombs..." This is the conclusion Ye Fan came to after coming here for a while, with a little sigh.
Although he saw Li Xiaoman, it was impossible for him to recognize each other. Instead, he stayed and walked in this ancient land, observing quietly, trying to find Hua Yunfei's whereabouts.
The declining small sect occupies four short hills, and there are only twenty people in total. It can be said that they are pitifully small. Li Xiaoman is a disciple on one of the short hills.
Ye Fan once looked at it from a distance and found it a little weird. These people have different levels of cultivation. The weak are no more than in the secret realm of Lunhai, while the strong have the strength of the sky of Xiantai.
"That's not right, such a small and declining sect has an elder-level figure in the Holy Land..."
Moreover, he found that there are two or three disciples who are extremely powerful, their cultivation has reached the secret realm of transforming dragons, and they are not weaker than the young and strong men in Qishi Mansion, which is really strange.
These people are hiding their cultivation, and it is impossible for ordinary people to see through it, and only Ye Fan who has cultivated Yuantian God's Eye can break through the illusion, see through the source, and know his cultivation.
"It's not easy. There must be some reason for it. I have to be careful." Ye Fan often stayed and understood everything in detail. He learned that this declining sect was called Qin Sect, and that this place was just a branch, and it could be regarded as an outer sect.
"Such a small outer door has a master of the sky in Sendai..." He felt incredible.
The Qin Sect is small in scale, with a total of more than a hundred people. There are four branches, the so-called Outer Sect.
The main gate is located in the center of this mountain, only twenty or thirty miles away from the east, west, north, south, and north branches, which are very close.
There are some mountain villages scattered in this area, all of them are ordinary people, they are neighbors of Qinmen, and some naughty children often come to play on the short hills, and no one cares about them.
It can be said that this declining small sect with no more than a hundred members really doesn't have any strict school rules, it looks very loose, and it doesn't look like a hidden secret sect at all.
"Nine secrets in this small sect?"
The Qin Clan, the sect headed by the surname of Qin, seems to be very different from the Cai Clan, and seems to have no connection.
The only thing that makes people suspicious is that this declining small sect has a history of thousands of years. Compared with the mortal world, it is unknown how many dynasties have changed.
None of these nearby small mountain villages can know when the Qinmen can be traced back, because it is too old, and it seems to have existed since the generation of their ancestors.
"It's not Cai's surname, but a small religion has been passed down for such a long time..."
Ye Fan is very cautious, and has been observing these days. Except for the southern branch where Li Xiaoman is, the other eastern, western, and northern branches are similar.
This is beyond common sense. Even if it is a top-level teaching, it is nothing more than that. With so few people, how can young disciples be so powerful and numerous
Finally, he quietly approached the main peak in the center, wanting to see the strength of the main gate.
It is said to be the main peak, but it is actually only over a thousand meters high, two to three hundred meters higher than the surrounding short mountains.
On the contrary, it is similar to the small Taoist temple where the old sage is located. It looks ordinary and ordinary, but it has a taste of returning to basics.
Not long after, Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat. He found a great man who was meditating in front of the mountain gate, motionless.
"Is this really a small sect? I met a great power when I first arrived at the mountain gate!"
He was surprised, there is a building on this low mountain, will there be more powerful people, or even a few powerful people
Ye Fan didn't get any closer. This kind of person has an extraordinary spiritual sense, and if he is not careful, he will be sensed. If it weren't for the golden lake between his brows being baptized by thunder, his spiritual consciousness is super powerful, and he has active gods, he would have been discovered a long time ago. .
"This is a hidden world secret religion!"
Now, he can already confirm that this seemingly declining little sect is very extraordinary and has some unknown secrets. Although it does not have the surname of Cai, it is probably worth stopping here.
In the next few days, Ye Fan carefully read the county annals and state annals of this area, and found that there was a common surname in this area...Cai.
Unfortunately, I don't know in what age, the family of this surname moved away, and their whereabouts are unknown.
"The hometown of the Cai clan..."
Not long after, Ye Fan accidentally found an ancient book in the library of a local prominent family and learned more.
In an extremely long time ago, there was only one common surname in the local area, that is, the Cai family. For some reason, the family moved away 30,000 years ago, and then disappeared.
"Thirty thousand years ago, wasn't it the time when the legendary Qing Emperor transformed into a Taoist form?"
The Cai family lived in the Qinling Mountains, and there is a rumor that the Qing Emperor also walked out of this area, originating in the Huaxian Pond.
"Nine times out of ten, the Qin Sect is a member of the Cai family. They returned to their hometown, but they changed their appearance. However, the Qing Emperor passed away ten thousand years ago. What are they afraid of?"
Ye Fan didn't find Hua Yunfei's shadow, but he believed that he should be nearby, even in Qinmen.
"He probably has a secret treasure on his body, which cuts off the Qi mechanism, and my Yuantian Divine Eye can't see through it. This is very troublesome."
Ye Fan thought about it again and again, and felt that he could only join the Qin Clan first and slowly search for the Nine Secrets, otherwise he would not be able to approach them openly.
Nanmai, where Li Xiaoman is located, should be avoided for a while, otherwise, if she finds any clues, the consequences will be very bad.
The several branches are only tens of miles apart, so there must be a time to meet each other, but as long as the past habits are not revealed, there should be no problem relying on the great law of changing the world that he learned from the Yuantian book.
On the east side of Qinmen Gate, there are three low mountains, four elders and above, fifteen disciples, and hundreds of chickens, ducks and geese.
Ye Fan was a little bit dumbfounded, there was a master in Xiantai, but he raised hundreds of poultry, just like in the secular world.
The reason why he chose this place was because Dongmai was about to open a mountain to accept apprentices, and it happened to be the right time, and he wanted to fish in troubled waters.
"Goofy boy, you must practice hard after you go up the mountain, and don't steal goose eggs anymore. This is your teacher now." A hunter stared at his child.
Ye Fan was a little speechless. There were four snot-nosed children who went up the mountain with him. They were all children from the village at the foot of the mountain.
This Qin Sect was too careless about recruiting disciples, he really didn't know what to say, he used local materials, they were all kids from the neighborhood, so he didn't have anything to criticize at all.
"Hidden sects can't be understood with common sense..." He could only talk to himself like this, and several snot-nosed children who were only six or seven years old looked at him curiously.
Ye Fan was really uncomfortable. He and a group of little kids were going to become brothers. Fortunately, two more people went up the mountain soon, and they also wanted to learn from teachers.
One of them was eighteen or nineteen years old, handsome and elegant, quite temperamental, dressed as a scholar, with a bookish air. The other man was over half a century old, with thinning hair, skinny bones, sickly appearance, and a gray beard, but he also came to practice Taoism.
The east line of the Qin Sect did not reject anyone, and accepted them all. The four snot-nosed babies plus Ye Fan and the others, a total of seven disciples worshiped at the entrance wall.
Vaguely, Ye Fan felt that it was not easy for this scholar to have a sick old man, but it was not easy to use Yuantian's divine eye to investigate in front of people.
"This hidden world secret sect is not afraid of these at all, and anyone who comes here dares to accept it, which is enough to show their confidence."
This is the real feeling of staying on the mountain for a few days. The scholar is a strong man in the secret realm of transforming dragons, and the sick old man is actually a special monk who cultivates a single secret realm.
Ye Fan was stunned, a small one in the east of Qinmen, but three short mountains, a total of more than twenty people, among these disciples, apart from the scholar and the sick old man, there were also two young monks from the Dragon Transformation Mystery Realm.
"Speaking out will scare people to death. This hidden world secret religion, with several branches added together, the quality of its disciples is almost comparable to that of a holy place."
There are only more than a hundred people in total, but such an achievement is like a fairy tale, no one will believe it.
"Most of these people are the same as me, and they found Jiumi's aura through some kind of clue..."
After Ye Fan got to know it in detail, he felt that there were dragons and crouching tigers hidden in this tiny place, and there were some of the most outstanding successors of the supreme religion, which was hard to guess.
"boom!"
Not far away, smoke and dust rose into the sky, and immediately after that, a snot-nosed baby ran out from the chicken coop, crying and crying.
"Brother, help me..."
"What's the matter, Gouwazi?" Ye Fan asked with a smile.
"The little stone fell into the cave, and there was a big scarlet coffin inside..." The four snot-nosed kids were as naughty as they were before they went up the mountain. They ran to steal the eggs, but they cracked inexplicably and fell into the cave.
Many people on the mountain were startled, rushed there, and were shocked when they saw an ancient underground tomb.
Ye Fan couldn't help but marvel, there are so many ancient tombs in Qinling Mountains, and there is even one in the mountain gate, which is really strange.
"Greetings to Uncle Master..." Before the smoke cleared, a beautiful shadow descended from the sky, and Li Xiaoman came to the east side of the Qin Gate, saluting the mountain master in the first layer of Xiantai.