"Illustrated Records of Mountains and Seas": "Xingtian fought with the Emperor of Heaven for the throne, was beheaded and imprisoned in Changyang Mountain. He cannot escape unless the blue sky cracks and the ground is stained with red frost!"
Ancient myths were quite far away and out of reach for ordinary people, and even kings and ministers. Lu Liangsheng had seen many humans, monsters, and ghosts during his practice, but now that he was about to face the gods, he couldn't help but feel nervous.
'Since I came here according to "Boundless Mountains and Seas", it should be a search for fate. They won't set an insurmountable peak for me from the beginning...'
Lu Liangsheng then threw the half-joking idea aside. There is not much luck in seeking immortality and the heaven will not give you special care just because your cultivation level is low.
"Since we are already here, we might as well open it and take a look. But how would Zhu Ganglie know... "
Lu Liangsheng clenched his hands in his sleeves, and the Toad Taoist jumped down from the stone, walked over with a clatter, and patted his apprentice's calf.
"Liangsheng, have you found anything?"
Lu Liangsheng came back to his senses, shifted his gaze from the pig demon opposite him, looked down at his master, lifted him up and put him on his shoulders, then nodded to the pig demon and the Taoist priest over there.
"There is an obscure divine power flowing just below the mountain."
"Do you really want to go?" Not only Lu Liangsheng was nervous, but Sun Yingxian, who had just entered the Golden Elixir realm for only half a month, was now walking back and forth helplessly, holding the yellow cloth bag at his waist.
He waved his hands somewhat irritably.
"Damn it... this time it's a bit too much."
"Hehe, what are you worried about?!" The Toad Taoist sat up and held his apprentice's ear with one webbed foot. "It's just a head. If you had the ability, you would have come out long ago. Why would you wait for you to go in?"
What the toad said made sense. Lu Liangsheng pondered for a while and decided to go down to the foot of Changyang Mountain to take a look. He discussed with the Taoist and Zhu Ganglie for a while. The latter should not have gotten involved, but he still came up.
"My cultivation is not very high now, but if there is any physical work, I can still do it."
After discussing for a while, they decided to give it a try, packed their bags, and led the old donkey to the southwest foot of the mountain.
Changyang Mountain is not very noticeable compared to the surrounding mountains. When people and donkeys walked by, between the green rocks and the wild grass, the insects crawling over the tips of the leaves jumped in panic and flew to the hem of the people's robes and trouser legs, only to be blown back by the magic power and demonic energy.
Following the obscure flashes of divine power, Lu Liangsheng and his companions circled half of the mountain and finally stopped in front of a protruding mountain wall.
“This is it.”
Walking through knee-high weeds, Lu Liangsheng reached out to touch the protruding cliff wall and looked back at the Taoist priest.
“I can vaguely feel the divine power above.”
Lu Liangsheng originally wanted to use the wall-walking technique to go in directly, but he tried it once and was unable to touch the mountain wall at all. He was bounced back by an invisible force.
"How about trying to burrow underground?" He tilted his head to look at the Taoist priest, who took a deep breath, cast a talisman, and burrowed into the ground. The small mound of earth rose up like a gopher digging the ground, extending rapidly down the mountain wall.
Bang!
"Ouch!" With a scream, the Taoist flew out from the ground without any warning, fell to the ground and rolled a few steps, and it took him a long time to get up.
He covered his head and looked at the still motionless mountain wall, his face twisted in pain.
"Damn it, I don't believe I can't cure you!"
The Taoist priest got angry, rolled up his sleeves, took out a yellow talisman with the word "imperial" written on it from his yellow cloth pocket, stuck it on the wall of the mountain, and made a sharp move with his fingers.
With a loud bang, the flames exploded and countless sparks flew in all directions, but the mountain wall remained motionless, and even the broken rocks did not fall down.
Lu Liangsheng knew the power of the magic fire emitted by Lao Sun's talisman paper. Ordinary rock walls would have exploded long ago. Especially after entering the Jindan realm, a Taoist's magic power should not be like this.
There was not a trace of fire left on the mountain wall. Lu Liangsheng frowned and looked at Sun Yingxian who was still unwilling to give up. He thought silently for a while and cast his eyes on the bookshelf placed behind the old donkey's buttocks.
'Maybe you could try a book.'
After thinking about it, he walked over and took out the bookshelf. The extended painting on it had stopped. Lu Liangsheng held "Boundless Mountains and Seas" in both hands and bowed towards the protruding mountain wall.
"Lu Liangsheng from Qixia Mountain, I found this treasure unintentionally and came here under the guidance of the treasure. If we are destined to be together, I wonder if you can let me in."
His words were sincere, but after he spoke, there was no reaction at all. The Taoist took out the third piece of talisman paper and said, "What's the use of just talking? This is just a piece of stone..."
Boom—
Before the Taoist could finish his words, there was a sudden vibration under his feet. He jumped up subconsciously and landed among the crowd. The protruding mountain wall in front of him began to shake slightly in everyone's sight.
Lu Liangsheng hurriedly held up "Boundless Mountains and Seas" and small pieces of fallen rocks flew and rolled to his feet. The mountain wall opposite him began to shake violently, and the outline of a stone door was revealed at the front end. A faint yellow light shone through the cracks on the edges. As the heavy stone door moved away, the light inside gradually disappeared, revealing a pitch-black hole.
Whoosh~~
There was a whimpering wind rushing out of the seemingly endless stone gate. Lu Liangsheng looked at the cave entrance, put the master on his shoulder to the ground, tilted his head to look at the Taoist, and Qi You and Zhu Ganglie who had transformed into human form.
"You guys stay outside, I'll go in and take a look by myself."
After all, he was the one who opened the cave door while holding "Boundless Mountains and Seas". If others followed in, they might get into trouble and all of them would be trapped, which would really become a joke.
"Liangsheng, be careful. If anything unexpected happens, come out immediately. Your master will be waiting outside!"
The Toad Taoist priest carried the gourd on his back, hugged his webbed chin and nodded, giving instructions. Beside him, the fat Zhu Ganglie also nodded in agreement and waved his hand in a muffled voice.
"So do I, Old Pig!"
In fact, they don't need to worry so much. Since Lu Liangsheng used this book to open the cave door, it must be the "key" and there shouldn't be any big problems.
He took a deep breath, walked to the open stone door, turned around and said to his master and the Taoist priest, "Master, Lao Sun, you guys just wait outside for news, don't be so nervous!"
After saying this, he turned around, lifted the hem of his robe, and stepped into the stone gate holding the book. Darkness surged in like a tide, and the ray of sunlight outside the door that was originally in his field of vision disappeared in an instant.
The whole person seemed to be wrapped in darkness, which was a bit like stepping into a small world of nothingness when one first achieved golden elixir.
'Take two steps?'
The darkness around him did not last long. Lu Liangsheng took only one step forward, and it was as if he had cast a spell to shrink the distance into an inch. His body seemed to be flying against the wind, and it felt like he had traveled more than ten feet in a flash.
Bang!
Bang!
Suddenly, two sounds were heard in the darkness, and lights like flames appeared on both sides in the distance. Lu Liangsheng narrowed his eyes, and the darkness gradually faded away in his field of vision.
Looking around, between the fiery red light, there were two rows of rough rock pillars, each with nine branches extending out and rising into the darkness of the dome of the cave.
Directly in front of him was a flat and smooth mountain wall that looked like it was carved, but unfortunately it was a little blurry. Lu Liangsheng could only roughly make out a huge figure holding a shield and holding a short axe high, as if he was about to fight with someone.
Hiss~
After looking for a while, Lu Liangsheng groaned and felt a burning pain in his eyes. He quickly turned his eyes away, not daring to look again.
'Sure enough, the gods cannot be looked at for long...'
He used his magic power to reconcile the heat and stinging in his eyes. After a while, he felt better and turned back. This time, his eyes subconsciously avoided the mountain wall in front of him. What he looked at was a stone platform under the wall carving, about ten feet high and three feet long. As for its width, he had no idea.
On the two corners of the stage facing the scholar, there are sculptures of ferocious beasts, crawling there with their teeth bared, as if they are carrying this huge stone stage on their backs.
Lu Liangsheng glanced at the two stone beasts and couldn't move his eyes away in that direction for a long time.
The next moment.
The scholar walked forward, shook out his sleeves, and bowed respectfully towards the stage.
"Greetings from Lu Liangsheng of Qixia Mountain."
The fiery red light flickered. On the stone platform in front stood a huge shrine with an open space on top. Inside was a square bronze box about half a meter in size, covered with carvings.
The head of Xing Tian should be contained inside.