Yueming Mountain is thousands of miles away from Yecheng, and the roads are all mountainous.
The mountain path is like a thousand-step ladder to heaven. Running from the bottom to the highest peak is Yueming Mountain.
True Man Lanhuo set out from Yecheng in the morning. The martial arts skills of their group varied greatly, and Luo Ying was injured, so their travel speed was relatively slow.
After walking for half a day, they only reached the foot of Yueming Mountain. It would take another half a day to reach the top of Yueming Mountain.
Half a day later, Ye Feng and Ye Long, who had been chasing them all the way from Yecheng, were getting closer and closer to them.
If Ye Long's martial arts had not been abolished, Ye Feng would have been able to travel the thousand miles in less than a day if he had traveled alone.
Time passed quickly and it was already evening.
Master Lan Huo and his group of hundreds of people walked up the mountain path that looked like a thousand-step ladder to heaven. They had already reached the top of Yueming Mountain, the place where the Luo family hid their treasure.
The peak of Yueming Mountain is so high that it seems you can touch the sky with your hand. The whole Yueming Mountain is like a crescent moon, and its peak is like the hook of the crescent moon.
The fact that the Luo family's ancestors chose this place as the location for the treasure was of great significance.
Because the terrain and topography of Yueming Mountain are both unique in Feng Shui among the four aspects of the Eight Trigrams.
There is an immortal stone on the left to scare away demons, and a dragon eye on the right to look at the sky. More importantly, the Zixia Peak, the highest point on the top of Yueming Mountain, can absorb the essence of the sun, moon, and heaven, forming natural spiritual energy.
Therefore, the ancestors of the Luo family chose the place of the Bagua for the Luo family treasure, so that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth could nurture the spirituality of the spiritual objects in the treasure, so that the spiritual objects could improve their level while absorbing the spiritual energy, and rise from ordinary spiritual objects to objects in the fairyland.
But a hundred years ago, the four phases of the Eight Trigrams in Yueming Mountain were dislocated. The Immortal Stone on the left was desecrated by evil spirits and had lost its immortal aura. The dragon eye on the right was also dislocated by the Eight Trigrams, causing the dragon vein to be damaged and the dragon aura to be lost.
Therefore, a hundred years later, the top of Yueming Mountain is no longer a place that breeds the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. On the contrary, it is a place where evil spirits prevail. The entire top of Yueming Mountain is shrouded in evil spirits and has become a place of demons.
It is because the Eight Trigrams are in the wrong place that the Luo family treasure has been placed on Yueming Mountain for hundreds of years, and no one has opened the treasure door.
The so-called Bagua abnormality, as someone in the Luo family who was proficient in Bagua said a hundred years ago, the probability of Bagua abnormality occurring is generally one in ten million.
But he also said that since the Eight Trigrams Dislocation can turn a spiritual place into a place of evil, it will also turn it back to its original state.
However, he was unable to calculate the exact time, and once warned the descendants of the Luo family to pass it down from generation to generation.
That is, if the Qianling grass on the Zixia Peak at the top of Yueming Mountain blooms, the treasure can be opened. Otherwise, the treasure must not be opened, otherwise the door to the treasure will be opened.
Then, all the evil spirits shrouding Yueming Mountain will enter the treasure, corrode the souls of the spiritual objects in the treasure, and transform the spiritual objects into evil creatures.
Once everything else in the treasure is transformed into evil things, the world-destroying demon trapped at the bottom of Yueming Mountain will be awakened and reborn.
The so-called world-destroying evil demon is an invisible and intangible illusory soul that can possess and be reborn.
The world-destroying evil demon was defeated by the divine creature Tianfeng thousands of years ago, and his soul was suppressed under Yueming Mountain.
Although the divine creature Tianfeng suppressed the world-destroying evil thousands of years ago, its spiritual energy was damaged and it fell asleep under a mountain. That mountain was later called Tianfeng Mountain.
However, regarding these legends about the world-destroying evil demon and the heavenly phoenix, not only did the people of Menghu City know nothing about them, even the people of Ye City and the Luo family knew nothing about them.
Even the soul refiners in the soul refining field knew nothing about it. Hua Xingyue, the Palace Master of Xingyue Palace, detained Ye Feng's mother to draw the Heavenly Phoenix Picture because she wanted to borrow the fairy spirit of the Heavenly Phoenix to make her immortal and even transform into a god and unify the world of cultivation.
It’s not because of fighting against the evil demon that destroys the world.
The ignorant Lanhuo Zhenren and his group followed the instructions on the treasure map and came to Zixia Peak of Yueming Mountain.
From the moment they entered Yueming Mountain, they already felt a strong evil aura.
"Ah!" A blue-armored guard wailed in pain and fell to the ground. After a puff of black smoke, the body of the blue-armored guard who suddenly died disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Hearing the wailing of the blue-armored guards and seeing the bodies mysteriously disappear in the black smoke, everyone was deeply shocked, and a sense of fear surged in their hearts.
Just when they were wondering about the sudden death and mysterious disappearance of the Blue Armor Guard's body, they suddenly heard shrill screams coming from all around.
This shrill cry is not an ordinary eerie cry. It seems that after hearing the cry, not only does it make your skin shiver and you feel terrified, but you also feel that this cry can control a person's mind.
"Ah!" Another blue-armored guard wailed in pain, and like the first blue-armored guard, he fell to the ground and died, and his body disappeared mysteriously.
When they saw this scene again, everyone looked around in panic, feeling frightened and uneasy.
Although Master Lan Huo was as murderous as a devil, he couldn't help but be cautious at this moment. Because as a practitioner with martial arts skills above the ninth level, he could feel that behind the sudden shrill screams, there must be a powerful evil force hidden.
At this moment, Master Lan Huo asked the Imperial Master who came from the Spirit Refining Realm: "Imperial Master! Why is this happening?"
Although the National Master came from the realm of soul refining, he was also deeply puzzled by the scene before him. Moreover, at this moment, he could sense that a strong evil spirit was spreading in Zixia Peak.
The Imperial Master was also filled with doubt, but he did not take the evil aura seriously at all. He said to Master Lan Huo fearlessly, "My lord, this is just a demonic aura. There is nothing to be afraid of!"
As he finished speaking, he spread out his body, gathered his "spiritual energy" with his palms, and shouted angrily, "Break."
After breaking the word, he heard two screams suddenly coming from the space behind him that was invaded by the palm energy.
Afterwards, a burst of black smoke rose up again, and two skeletons were seen under the black smoke.
Seeing this, the national teacher said with disdain: "Your Majesty, the demons are nothing to be afraid of. Your Majesty, we should quickly reach the entrance to the treasure. Opening the treasure is the most important thing!"
Hearing the state teacher's understatement of the evil spirits, Luo Ying, who was tied up in the crowd, said loudly: "This is not just a few evil spirits, but evil spirits all over the mountains. The Luo family's treasure must not be opened. If the treasure is opened, there will be endless troubles!"
When the Imperial Master heard Luo Ying say that there would be endless troubles, he walked up to her, looked at her with disdain, and said, "Luo Ying, stop trying to deceive people here!"
After saying this, the Imperial Master slapped Luo Ying in the face several more times.
He stared at Luo Ying fiercely and snorted coldly, "Someone, seal her mouth!"
Luo Ying struggled and said, "Don't open the treasure, don't open it..."
Before he could finish his words, two blue-armored guards stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.
Afterwards, Master Lanhuo and the Imperial Master led everyone to move towards the treasure entrance.
After walking along a rocky path, they saw a flat area in the mountains. This flat area was like an iron cage, with mountain walls on all sides.
"Your Majesty! This is the entrance to the treasure!" said the national teacher.
Master Lan Huo nodded and said, "Yes, this is the gate to the Luo family's treasure!"
After the words fell, Master Lanhuo led everyone with martial arts lightness skills, and with a whooshing sound, they flew to the flat ground.
After running to the flat ground, Master Lanhuo opened the Luo family treasure map and stared at the mountain walls surrounding the flat ground.
The surrounding mountain walls are almost the same, with uneven rocks and covered with lime.
After taking a look at the surrounding mountain walls, Master Lanhuo looked at the treasure map spread on the ground.
The treasure map was drawn on a piece of animal skin, showing the location of the treasure and the specific route to Yueming Mountain. However, when the map reached the four mountain walls, no mark of the treasure entrance could be seen on the mountain wall.
When the entrance could not be seen on the treasure map, Master Lan Huo shouted to the blue-armored guards: "Search carefully on the stone wall to find the keyhole!"
Just after Master Lanhuo finished speaking, hundreds of blue-armored guards walked to the front of the mountain wall and carefully searched for the keyhole.
Some guards wiped the dust off the mountain wall with their hands, while others opened their eyes wide and searched the stone wall.
After a period of time, hundreds of guards who were looking for the keyhole found nothing and all stood in front of Master Blue Fire.
Seeing that they found nothing, Master Lanhuo's face was full of anxiety. He took out the white jade key from his arms, and then stared deeply at the treasure map.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
He had been concentrating on the pattern and location of the treasure map and ignored the two lines of poetry written on the map.
"Moonlight Mountain, Moonlight Mountain, the moon is bright in the mountain, Moonlight Mountain!"
When Master Lan Huo saw this poem, he recited it aloud: "Moonlit Mountain, Bright Moon Mountain, the moon is bright in the mountain, Bright Moon Mountain..."
After reciting it several times, he suddenly said, "Come here, take the flint and light all the torches for me, and place them in front of the stone wall."
After he finished speaking, the blue-armored guards lit forty or fifty torches. When the blazing flames of the torches were reflected on the mountain wall, one of the blue-armored guards suddenly shouted in surprise: "My lord, my lord, we found the keyhole! We found it!"
Hearing the guards' call, Master Blue Fire walked over quickly. In front of the two burning torches, a keyhole emitting golden light appeared on the stone wall in the middle of the left mountain wall.
The cunning and sly Lan Huo Zhenren saw through the phrase "Moonlit Mountain, Bright Moon Mountain, the moon in the mountain is bright, Bright Moon Mountain."
Knowing that the word "bright" is repeated throughout this poem, he thought of light.
Therefore, the guards would light torches and use the light of the fire to find the keyhole on the stone wall.
Who knew that his guess was actually correct? Master Lanhuo had a look of surprise on his face. He took out the white jade key and inserted it into the golden keyhole that appeared on the stone wall.