The one waiting at the door of the wine shop was the gray-shirted swordsman from yesterday.
Seeing Ding Ning walking out of the shop, the gray-shirted swordsman didn't say anything, just nodded his head as a salute, waited for Ding Ning to get into the car, and then began to drive in silence.
Ding Ning who was sitting in the carriage smiled slightly, Wang Taixu was able to stand in Changling for so many years, it was definitely not accidental, just like the choice of the coachman, it was very in line with Ding Ning's preferences.
The carriage drove slowly along the straight road towards the Baiyang Gorge outside the city, where the Baiyang Cave was located.
In the early Yuanwu period of the Great Qin Dynasty, most of the places of practice were not close to the Changling Tomb. These scattered sects of practice outside the Changling Tomb and the territories of some powerful nobles naturally constituted the army of the Great Qin Dynasty. A fort outside.
With the increasing scale of Changling, most of the sects are now directly located in Changling. Although these sects still have privileges, the Great Qin Dynasty's control over these sects has become stronger invisibly. From the perspective of many practice sects whose history is even longer than the current Great Qin Dynasty, the only advantage is that it is more convenient to obtain some practice resources and increase some opportunities to learn from other sects.
When the car passed Liulin River, Ding Ning in the car heard a lot of exclamations and cries.
He didn't open the car curtain, because he knew that there were those sounds, and it must be because there were a lot of corpses floating in that river.
Last night was no different to most residents of Changling. If Ding Ning hadn't experienced it personally, he would certainly not have known that the power of Jianghu in Changling City had changed significantly overnight.
The water of Liulin River is only used to irrigate some farmland, so it is often used by people in the rivers and lakes to throw their corpses.
Only Tang Que and Tang Mengchen died in Jinlin Tang in Hongyun Tower last night, but Ding Ning knew very well that more people from Jinlin Tang would die in the long dark night, and now their bodies should be Floating in this river.
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The terrain of Changling is distributed from southeast to northwest in a ladder shape. The tributaries of Weihe River and Jinghe River criss-cross in the south of the city. There are plains in it, and occasionally there are a few small hills less than 100 meters high.
In the middle of the Changling Mausoleum, there is a slightly higher terrain, many of which are depressions left by the drying up of older riverbeds.
The northern part of Changling is a plateau and hilly area, with a total of thirteen mountains, the highest being Shimen Mountain and Lingxu Mountain, and the lowest being Beijiang Mountain and Lanma Mountain.
Baiyang Gorge, where Baiyang Cave is located, is in Beijiang Mountain.
After half a day's bumpy ride along the gradually climbing mountain road, the carriage Ding Ning was in finally entered Baiyang Gorge.
Because the terrain of the entire mountain is not high, the canyon will not go deep, but for some unknown reason, water vapor is always locked in the canyon, and there are always several white clouds covering most of the canyon, and the white clouds are floating. Among them, occasionally large pieces of palaces are revealed, and they appear to have aura and immortality.
Looking at this place of cultivation, the eyes of the gray-shirted swordsman driving the carriage finally showed some envy.
Although Baiyang Cave can only be regarded as a second-rate practice sect in the entire Great Qin Dynasty, and it is about to usher in the darkest ending, merging into the Ivy Sword Academy just across the hill, but even so, this The place of practice is still not something that a person like him can enter.
He began to worry a little.
Worried about the young man in the carriage behind him.
It's not about whether he can enter the sect, but about his situation after entering the sect.
There is no gate archway at Baiyang Gorge, only a white stone tablet.
Four words are simply engraved on the stone tablet, "Forbidden land bestowed by the emperor."
The first two characters represent the rewards of the Great Qin Dynasty for the achievements of the Zongmen, and the last two characters represent the privileges of the Zongmen.
It was noon, which was supposed to be the time for normal people to eat. It is logically impossible to put many people in Baiyang Cave near the stone tablet representing the entrance of the mountain gate. However, when the carriage was not far from the stone tablet, Stopping on the mountain road, the gray-shirted swordsman couldn't help but shrink his pupils.
Behind the stele, on the sloping mountain path, dozens of young students were standing quietly.
These students, who were wearing linen robes with white sheep marks on their cuffs, were wrapped in a strange atmosphere, silently watching the stopped carriage.
"Perhaps they didn't come here specially to welcome me into the Aries Cave."
A muffled voice sounded from behind the gray-shirted swordsman.
The gray-shirted swordsman was slightly taken aback, and from the corner of his eyes, he saw that Ding Ning had calmly got off the carriage, and then walked towards the stele.
His calm progress was like a stone thrown into a pond, causing ripples in an instant.
A student who looked at least five or six years older than Ding Ning came forward with a somewhat embarrassed face, and greeted Ding Ning.
When he stopped, he stood in an ingenious position, flush with the stele.
As a result, Ding Ning, who was standing opposite him, could not really step through the mountain gate.
But he bowed slightly to Ding Ning, and said in a clear voice, "Let me give you Ye Ming, and I am here to welcome you into the mountain gate by order of the cave master."
Ding Ning smiled slightly, and said back: "That's enough work."
At this moment, an angry sneer came from among the dozens of students wrapped in a strange atmosphere on the mountain road behind: "Whenever anyone can enter our Baiyang Cave, anyone Come in if you want?"
Ye Ming's brows twitched slightly, but the expression on his face didn't change much.
He already knew that such a thing would happen. In fact, if the order was not difficult to disobey, otherwise he would not be standing here, and he would be one of the students on the road behind.
Ding Ning looked up, and he saw that the angry voice was a young man of his age. His hair was cut very short and his body was thin, but he stood up straight. He had a two-foot-long dagger at his waist. , the hilt is a dark yellow old wood with wavy patterns, and thin runes are carved on it.
It's just that his eyes didn't stay on the young man for a long time.
He just looked at Ye Ming calmly and didn't say anything.
Because he knew that this matter would naturally be resolved by someone, and what he said was meaningless at all.
Ye Ming didn't expect Ding Ning to be so calm. He frowned, and felt that there was a hot potato in his hand for no reason. For a while, he didn't know what to do with it.
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There are white clouds in Baiyang Gorge.
Below one of the white clouds, there is a lonely Taoist temple.
On the platform of the Taoist temple, one can clearly see what is happening in front of the mountain gate at this moment.
On the platform, there are two people standing.
One of them was the white-haired old man, Du Qingjiao, who changed the fate of Jinlintang and Lianglou with a sword last night.
His name once appeared in the Queen's mouth, and his identity in Baiyang Cave is the senior brother of the Cave Master of Baiyang Cave.
"Brother, what happened last night, including today's incident, you were too impulsive."
At this moment, an old Taoist priest beside him is dressed up, his face is like white jade, the white brocade robe on his body is trimmed with yellow borders, and he is wearing a small white jade sword that symbolizes the identity of the Cave Master of Baiyang Cave, so he is naturally the Cave Master of Baiyang Cave Xue Wangxu.
"You also understand that it is precisely because the queen is dissatisfied with us that this change has occurred. You took action last night and so many people died. I am worried that she will find some excuses to deal with you again."
Xue Wangxu couldn't help but sighed worriedly seeing the senior brother beside him who was silent for a while.
"It is precisely because I am the queen that I acted last night." The white-haired Du Qingjiao heard his sigh, turned his head, smiled slightly, and said.
Xue Wangxu was even more worried: "Senior brother, why should you be angry?"
"Where is Qi?" Du Qingjiao shook his head: "Junior brother, your cultivation base and knowledge are superior to mine, and your disposition of not paying attention to fame is also superior to mine, but your understanding of the queen is not as good as mine."
Xue Wangxu was startled.
Du Qingjiao said indifferently: "Although the empress acts decisively and ruthlessly, she is more measured and cautious than the two prime ministers. Since the Holy Majesty has already issued a decree, she will not let me return to the old age any more. An accident happened. There must be close relationship between her and the Holy One, even if it is a trivial matter. In this way, she and the Holy One will be the strongest, and our Great Qin Dynasty will be the strongest. Besides, although I am an old bone, at least these things Nian still has some friends in Changling. It doesn’t matter if you take over Baiyang Cave, if there are some accidents even when I return to the old age, everyone will always have some ideas.”
"It's just some benefits and old feelings of the two floors. I wouldn't stand up for them last night. It was because I knew that Jinlin Tang had some relationship with the queen's family, so I did it on purpose. She didn't want me to be happy. When I left Changling, I didn't let her be too happy."
Xue Wangxu was speechless for a while.
Isn't this just annoyance
"Take a step back, the sea and the sky are brighter. Since I have said nothing, and I will grow old with peace of mind, she will also take a step back." Du Qingjiao added flatly.
Xue Wangxu took a deep breath, and then let out a long sigh.
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In front of the highest Taoist temple in Baiyang Cave, the two people with the oldest seniority in Baiyang Cave talked very harmoniously, but they were a little worried about their respective futures. However, in front of the gate of Baiyang Cave, there was still a stalemate.
Ye Ming's face became more and more stiff, he finally took half a step back, and said reluctantly: "This is the order of the cave master..."
"I don't believe this is an order from the cave master."
However, his words were directly interrupted by the young man in his early years, his immature face was full of frost, "This is simply not in compliance with the rules. Letting him in without participating in the entrance trial is not just It's unfair to us, and it's unfair to all those who have been eliminated in front of this mountain gate for hundreds of years. I don't believe that our wise cave master will make such a decision."
Ye Ming smiled wryly without words, it seemed that he could only spend it here for a while.
Is it possible to go to the main evidence of the hole
"Elder brother, elder brother is here!"
At this moment, there was a commotion on the mountain road like the sound of boiling water.
Ye Ming suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and saw a slender young man's figure appearing in the thin mountain mist.
This is a handsome and extraordinary young man, with a heroic spirit that ordinary young people don't have in his delicate face, but at this moment, his face also has a deep sense of worry.
Looking at all the students gathered here, he whispered displeasedly: "Stop making trouble, all go back."
There was a sudden silence on the mountain road.
"Go back to what!"
The face of that immature boy in his early years was all red, and he said loudly: "Eldest brother, do you think this is fair!"
"fair?"
Senior brother Zhang Yi, who is deeply loved by these juniors and sisters on weekdays, shook his head at this moment, and said softly, "There is no absolute fairness in the world. If there is real fairness, our Baiyang Cave will not be forced to belong to the Qing Dynasty. The Vine Sword Institute."
"Big brother!"
The young students around did not expect Zhang Yi to say that at all, and many people cried out in grief, and tears even glistened in their eyes.
The young boy's eyes were red, and he said sharply: "Eldest brother, if others don't give you justice, shouldn't we fight for it? If we don't care about it, Baiyang Cave will really be over."
"Junior Brother Shen Bai, I understand what you said." Zhang Yi still said softly: "But you can't doubt the decision of the Cave Master. You should know that no matter what the Cave Master does, he has his reasons. I've heard that he would rather bend than bend. But I've also heard that those who know the current affairs are the best."
Zhang Yi's voice is very soft, like a spring breeze, with a warm atmosphere.
Ding Ning was just looking at the white clouds in the gorge calmly, like a pure spectator who had nothing to do with himself, but Zhang Yi's demeanor and words surprised him a bit.
He began to look curiously at this big brother of Baiyang Cave again.