Canglong Mountain is vast and boundless, with numerous peaks and crisscrossing canyons. There are thousand-year-old trees in the mountain that are hundreds of meters high, streams and lakes everywhere, and countless natural caves and secret grottoes. This place has also become a place of seclusion for many strange people and things.
Yan Liqiang didn't expect that he would enter Canglong Mountain for the second time in such a short time.
Cui Lichen was very familiar with the route and walked in front of Yan Liqiang, while Yan Liqiang followed behind Cui Lichen. On that dark and windy night, the two of them were speeding through the deep canyon like ghosts at lightning speed.
This is already the sixth day that Yan Liqiang has come to Baishi Town!
After recuperating peacefully at home for five days, on the sixth day, Cui Lichen took Yan Liqiang into Canglong Mountain. In name, they were going to explore the scenic spots, but in fact, they were taking Yan Liqiang to the secret realm of Canglong Mountain, the Yu Luo Palace in Canglong Mountain. After a hundred days, the two entered the mountain, and at night, Cui Lichen took Yan Liqiang straight to the secret realm.
Yan Liqiang has agreed to join the Yu Luo Palace. This is not a rash move by Yan Liqiang, but the result of Yan Liqiang's understanding of the situation of the Yu Luo Palace and careful consideration.
Although the Yu Luo Palace is known as one of the four major sects, in fact, it is different from traditional sects such as the Lingshan Sect and the Jianshen Sect. To be precise, the Yu Luo Palace is not a sect that emphasizes inheritance, but an alliance, a secret gang composed of super elites and strong men. The purpose of the entire gang is not to pursue worldly wealth and power, but to fight evil. In the words of the Yu Luo Palace, it is to eliminate demons and defend the way, and protect the human race.
The evil is hidden behind the scenes, and the same is true for the Yu Luo Palace.
To join the Yu Luo Palace, one does not need to pay anything, only needs to keep secrets and stand firm. Anyway, he and Lin Qingtian were irreconcilable before. He did not know that Lin Qingtian was a demon before, but now that he knows, Yan Liqiang is even more determined.
After joining Yu Luo Palace, he would be able to know more news and secrets about the evil demons, which was the most important thing for Yan Liqiang. If he didn't figure this out, it would be as uncomfortable as being forced to leave a good movie halfway through. He would probably not be able to sleep well in the future because he would be thinking about this matter. Therefore, he must figure it out. He must know where those evil demons came from and what they wanted to do. Also, about the heavenly calamity that would happen a year later, Fu Guang said that the heavenly calamity was "man-made" to conceal the secrets of heaven, but Lin Qingtian was able to know it in advance. Since Lin Qingtian was an evil demon, were there any connections between the heavenly calamity and the evil demons? These were all big secrets of the world.
"It's just ahead, follow me, be careful..." Cui Lichen said in silence. As soon as he finished speaking, a huge ravine appeared in front of the canyon. A huge waterfall with a rumbling sound flowed down from the cliff next to it and flowed into the deep ravine. The steaming water vapor brought by the waterfall made the deep ravine misty and the bottom was completely invisible. Cui Lichen jumped like a giant eagle and flew directly into the deep ravine. Yan Liqiang naturally did not lag behind. Seeing Cui Lichen flying down, he also flew down. This deep ravine is a desperate situation for ordinary people, but for a strong master like Yan Liqiang, although it is not as easy as walking on flat ground, as long as his hands and feet can touch anything, it is not difficult to go up and down freely.
His body fell rapidly, and a strong wind mixed with water vapor blew over his face. Yan Liqiang spread his arms and stepped directly on the steep rock walls on both sides of the deep ravine. He ran and flew on the rock walls vertically.
After falling two or three hundred meters, Yan Liqiang saw Cui Lichen's figure suddenly pass through the waterfall and disappear behind the rock wall behind the waterfall. Then he also followed him through the waterfall and disappeared behind the waterfall.
There is a natural cave behind the waterfall, which is a bit like the Water Curtain Cave in Journey to the West. The entrance to the cave is just two meters behind the waterfall. The cave is winding and goes down. Everything is natural. The cave is dark without any light. There are all kinds of strange stalactites everywhere. It is because Yan Liqiang and Cui Lichen have the ability to see at night that they can walk in the cave calmly. If ordinary people come here, they can't see what's inside the cave at all without a torch.
No wonder no one knows where the gate of Yu Luo Palace is. If the gate of Yu Luo Palace is hidden in these places, only ghosts can find it! Yan Liqiang muttered as he walked in the cave.
The cave went further and further down. The two people walked in the cave for several thousand meters and seemed to have gone deep underground.
As the two were walking, Yan Liqiang's nose twitched and his expression suddenly changed, "Senior, be careful..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a giant python with red and grey interwoven stripes and a body as thick as three people hugging together and a head several times larger than the head suddenly rushed down from a cave above the mountain, startling Yan Liqiang. Yan Liqiang was about to take action, but he felt his wrist tightened and was caught by Cui Lichen. Cui Lichen's voice rang in Yan Liqiang's ears, "Don't be nervous, this is Xiaohong, the guardian of the Canglong Mountain Secret Realm of the Yu Luo Palace. Xiaohong is a thousand-year-old fire rock python. With it watching here, ordinary people will be scared away even if they accidentally enter this place!"
As expected, the terrifying fire rock python did not attack the two people. A section of its body hung down from the top of the cave for more than 20 meters, and the other section was still in the cave above. The giant python stretched its head from top to bottom in front of Cui Lichen, hanging in the air, spitting out a tongue more than one meter long. Its bowl-sized red eyeballs had a faint green light, as if it was looking at Cui Lichen and Yan Liqiang.
"This is Yan Liqiang. He will be a member of Yu Luo Palace from now on and can come and go freely!" Cui Lichen touched the head of the terrifying fire python.
The giant python turned its head, looked at Yan Liqiang for a few seconds, and actually nodded slowly. Then the dozens of meters long part of its body that was suspended in the air slowly shrank back into the cave above.
Cui Lichen continued to walk downwards with Yan Liqiang. After walking for thousands of meters, the underground space suddenly became much wider. A river of magma was flowing slowly in front of the cave, like the blood vessels in the earth. The red light of the magma illuminated the cave with red light. There was no way out at this point in the cave.
Just as Yan Liqiang was looking around, Cui Lichen came to the edge of a rock wall, reached out and pushed a huge rock, and another passage appeared. He then took Yan Liqiang in, and then turned around and closed the huge rock.
"Ah, it turns out there is a cave within a cave here, a different world!" Yan Liqiang exclaimed. The difference from the outside is that there are stone steps underground here, and traces of artificial excavation can be seen. On both sides of the passage, there are fist-sized glowing night pearls inlaid, which is extremely luxurious.
“Fighting against evil spirits is the most dangerous thing in the world, so the secret realm of Canglong Mountain of Yu Luo Palace must naturally be built in a place that ordinary people can hardly imagine!” As they spoke, the two walked for dozens of meters and came to a tall bronze door. There was a golden plaque on the bronze door with a few big words written on it in gold hooks and iron paintings - the secret realm of Canglong Mountain of Yu Luo Palace.
Pushing open the bronze door again and walking in, Yan Liqiang's mouth opened wide all of a sudden. In front of him was a huge underground space, as big as several football fields. On the ground of that huge space, there were strips of natural high-purity cryolite rock belts. The high-purity cryolite was originally transparent, and underneath the rock belts, there was a flowing lava river. The red light of the flowing lava river shone through the transparent cryolite rock belts, just like a laser light shining from the ground, dividing this huge underground space into countless light and dark areas in an instant, which was extremely mysterious.
Damn it!
Yan Liqiang was stunned by this amazing creation!
In the middle of this huge space stood a huge metal statue more than ten meters high. Yan Liqiang had never seen such a statue before. The statue was lifelike and full of a strange power. The statue looked like a person, a young man who looked very young and handsome, and seemed to be about the same age as himself. The statue's eyes were slightly drooping, and in the palm of one of its hands was a small tree with lush branches and leaves full of various exotic fruits, and in the other hand was a murderous spear. The statue stood barefoot in the hell of burning flames, and under its feet there was a sacred and glorious arch that was opened. The desperate and miserable creatures in hell rushed towards the arch, and the expressions on everyone's face were lifelike. On the head of the stone statue, there was a strange crown, and on the crown were animal patterns of the sun, moon, stars, and various insects, fish, birds and beasts...
In the red light of the lava rolling underground, the statue seemed to be flashing with a layer of sacred light all over its body. When people saw it, they felt purified and worshipped.
Yan Liqiang swallowed his saliva and said, "Senior, who is that statue?"
"That's the statue of Jade Emperor!" Cui Lichen raised his face and looked at the statue with an expression of utmost piety and worship, and his voice suddenly slowed down a lot.
"Yu Luo Tiandi, who is that?" Yan Liqiang thought about all the gods and bodhisattvas worshipped by various sects on the Silver Continent in his mind in an instant, but it seemed that there was no such person!
“Back then, the founder of Yu Luo Palace was cultivating in Yu Luo Mountain. After entering into a state of meditation, he accidentally went astray and became possessed. When he was almost dead, he felt a mysterious force coming from the void and pouring into his crown, which immediately pulled him back from the crisis of going astray. Then, in his meditation, he saw the image of this brilliant god, and received secret methods and enlightenment from the god. Then he created Yu Luo Palace. After creating Yu Luo Palace, because he gained enlightenment through spiritual communication in Yu Luo Mountain, the founder of Yu Luo Palace honored the god he saw in his meditation as Yu Luo Tiandi. To be precise, Yu Luo Palace was founded by Yu Luo Tiandi!”
"Ah..." Yan Liqiang was dumbfounded. The story of the god imparting secrets in the dream was something he had made up before, and he himself did not believe it. But what Yan Liqiang did not expect was that in this secret realm, the origin of the Yu Luo Palace he heard from Cui Lichen was exactly the same as the lies he had made up before, and it was actually related to the so-called god...
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