As early as when he was in the hidden sword villa, Li Chaoge heard Sheng Lanchu tell the story of the Qianyuan sword. Sheng Lanchu said that this sword was buried with an emperor, and he followed him to conquer the north and south. Later, when the emperor passed away, he deliberately brought this sword into the tomb. In the legend of the undead village, it is also said that their god of war was born with the destiny, brave and good at fighting, without defeat, and finally unified the world, enlightened and ascended.
Li Chaoge has always listened to the legend of the Martial God as a story, the ruler? In order to win people's hearts, what kind of nonsense? Come out? But Li Chaoge did not expect that the reality and the legend actually confirmed each other.
The God of War really existed, even the Emperor Kui who unified the nations and the God of War were the same person. Li Chaoge's thoughts opened up, and more and more ideas came up. The Qianyuan Sword was buried with Emperor Kui, and the Ye Mingzhu in the Flying Apsaras picture was stolen from the Emperor's Mausoleum, and now there is a Valkyrie. Is the number of appearances of this Emperor Kui too dense
"Commander?"
Li Chaoge was startled, and immediately put down the Qianyuan sword in his hand. Bai Qianhe walked out from the inside and found Li Chaoge staring at the sky motionless. He approached, looked up to the sky, and asked: "Commander, what were you looking at just now?"
Li Chaoge put the Qianyuan sword away calmly, and said casually, "It's nothing. Have you finished expanding the characters?"
"Almost, just waiting for the ink to dry."
Li Chaoge nodded lightly, and said, "Again? Look elsewhere, don't let go of any clues."
Bai Qianhe responded. He turned around and pointed to the huge statue of the Valkyrie in the middle of the altar, and asked, "What about the stone statue and the altar?"
Li Chaoge glanced at the statue indifferently, and said, "Draw the pattern on the altar? Then, let's blow it up."
When Bai Qianhe heard it, he was taken aback for a moment: "Exploded?"
"Hmm." Li Chaoge looked at Bai Qianhe expressionlessly, "Otherwise, are you still planning to wait for this altar to continue to function and convert more people into iron corpses?"
Bai Qianhe scratched his head: "Not really..." Of course he didn't want to create more dead bodies, but Li Chaoge didn't care about any line of words in the temple? Seriously, she let such a big stone statue be blown up. Bai Qianhe always felt that her attitude was very strange.
But destroying it is indeed the most once-and-for-all method. Since Li Chaoge ordered the bombing, Bai Qianhe didn't want to give up. He said, "It's fine once it's over. I'll let someone prepare the explosives."
Bai Qianhe turned around and left. After walking a few steps, he was suddenly stopped by Li Chaoge. Li Chaoge stood with his back to the sun, and Bai Qianhe stood in the cave, some couldn't see the expression on Li Chaoge's face clearly.
Li Chaoge asked: "When did you meet me in Fenzhou?"
All right, why did you suddenly ask? About this? Bai Qianhe thought for a while and said, "It seems to be the tenth or eighth day of the first lunar month."
"The tenth or eighth day of the first lunar month..." Li Chaoge murmured, yes, it was also this day in her memory. Bai Qianhe wondered about Li Chaoge's face, and asked: "What happened today?"
"It's nothing." Li Chaoge said casually, "It's been too long, some? I can't remember the date? You should hurry up and get ready."
really all right? Bai Qianhe was suspicious, but he didn't ask any more questions, but nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."
Throughout the day, Li Chaoge was at the altar, but his mind was always flying away unknowingly. She remembers? When she was in the village, she went to the village temple alone, where she accidentally caught the other party plotting against her. The old woman said to her: "Since you have learned the martial arts formula, you should stay here and serve the martial god for life."
Gu Mingke taught her the tracing formula, and the old lady would know it too. Li Chaoge knew that this might be a coincidence. The old woman lived in an era where witchcraft was prosperous, and even ordinary people knew some simple witchcraft. Maybe some formulas have been passed down from here? It is also very possible that Gu Mingke learned this method from classics. However, Li Chaoge felt inexplicably? Not so.
During the period of poisoning?, Li Chaoge has been living in seclusion in the mountains to recuperate his wounds, and has no concept of the passage of time. But she can probably figure it out? The day they went to the Martial God Temple and encountered villagers offering sacrifices happened to be the ninth day of the first lunar month. That day the masked man danced and said, "Weiyu worships the God of War and celebrates his birthday."
In other words, the birthday of Valkyrie is the ninth day of the first lunar month. When Pei Chuyue got married earlier, the marriage letter fell into Li Chao's singer by chance. Li Chaoge happened to know that Gu Mingke's birthday was also the ninth day of the first lunar month.
Gu Mingke knew the sacrificial speech, the location of the Martial God Temple, the tracking technique, and was born on the same day as the Martial God. So much overlap, is it really a coincidence
Li Chaoge looked at the statue of the Martial God from a distance, and let out a long breath.
Li Chaoge's mind was in a mess all day. At sunset, the demon town master had collected all the useful information in the cave. Everyone stood far outside the cave and lit the fuse.
Flames flickered and sputtered into the cave all the way. A moment later, there was a loud bang from the cave.
The rocks at the entrance of the cave collapsed one after another, and a burst of dust rose up, covering the sky and the sun? After the fog cleared, the entrance of the cave was also buried.
Li Chaoge watched the Martial God Temple fall into ruins with her own eyes. She was finally satisfied. She nodded lightly and said, "Block this area. If anyone wants to approach in the future, no matter what reason or identity, they will all be arrested." ?."
"yes."
Holding the long sword, Li Chaoge took the lead and walked down the mountain: "Let's go, let's search the next stop."
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In the village at the foot of the mountain, Zhou Shao and Mo Linlang were searching every house. Zhou Shao came? Come? and asked Mo Linlang, "Have you gained anything?"
Mo Linlang shook her head. She has yin and yang eyes, but just because she can see ghosts doesn't mean she can see through. When searching for evidence, we still have to search bit by bit.
Zhou Shao stood in the yard. He picked up the hoe and tried it out. He was puzzled and said, "What do I think? This kind of hoe is not very common."
Not only is it uncommon, it makes people suspect that this hoe is not in the same era as the present. The town monsters came back and forth in the village, when they suddenly saw someone on the mountain road, they stopped and asked, "Hello, Gu Shaoqing."
When Zhou Shao and Mo Linlang heard this, they hurried out and saluted: "Gu Shaoqing."
Gu Mingke nodded slightly, his eyes swept over the crowd, and asked: "Your commander hasn't come back yet?"
Mo Linlang shook her head. Li Chaoge placed them here this morning, and took them into the mountain by himself, but they haven't come back yet. Gu Mingke couldn't help turning his head to look at the sky: "Everything? It's this hour, and it's reasonable to finish the investigation."
The altar was empty, except for the murals and sacrificial texts, there was nothing else to see. Even if Li Chaoge led someone to dig the altar three feet into the ground, it would not be delayed until now.
Gu Mingke frowned secretly, could it be that she had an accident? Gu Mingke hadn't settled down yet, when suddenly there was a loud noise from the depths of the mountains. Everyone at the foot of the mountain looked up and saw a group of birds fluttering out of the mountain, circling back and forth in the sky, singing continuously.
Mo Linlang was surprised: "What's going on?"
When Gu Mingke felt something, he was surprised at first, and then laughed. It seems that he still underestimated Li Chaoge. Li Chaoge's search of the house is more than just digging three feet. The foundation? It can blow up for you.
Everyone was whispering, their faces were full of surprises, they didn't know what happened in the deep mountains. Gu Mingke calmly said, "Let's go, let's go to our own things, and in half an hour, she will come out."
Mo Linlang's eyes widened in surprise, half an hour? She didn't doubt Gu Shaoqing, but Gu Shaoqing didn't see anyone at all, how could he know that the princess would go down the mountain after half an hour
Mo Linlang went back to the village with doubts and continued to search. After some time, there was a voice outside, as if someone else had come back. Mo Linlang glanced at the time and was immediately stunned.
It was really half an hour.
Mo Linlang ran out to meet Li Chaoge, Zhou Shao took one step ahead of her and had already gone out. Zhou Shao asked: "Commander, we heard a loud noise at sunset, did you hear it?"
Li Chaoge was explaining things, but he didn't have time to reply. Bai Qianhe followed Li Chaoge with his hands behind his back, and said casually, "Of course we heard such a loud voice."
Zhou Shao glanced at him and asked cautiously, "What happened in the mountains?"
"It's nothing." Bai Qianhe tugged at his sleeves, and Zhen Yaosi's good clothes were forced into a posture that he didn't want to be beaten. "It must have blown up a mountain."
Zhou Shao was surprised and didn't react right away? Li Chaoge heard Bai Qianhe talking nonsense again, and glanced at him coldly: "Don't pay attention to him. We can't understand the writing in the temple. In order to prevent future troubles, I ordered someone to blow up the altar."
exploded? Both Zhou Shao's and Mo Linlang's expressions cracked for a moment. It turned out that they were the ones who made the loud noise in the evening. Li Chaoge's way of solving problems...is really unique.
Li Chaoge walked around the crowd and asked, "Where's Gu Mingke?"
Upon hearing this, Mo Linlang immediately pointed towards the village temple: "Shaoqing is searching in the temple."
Li Chaoge glanced forward, and said to Bai Qianhe: "You take them to carry the evidence, and I will go to the temple to have a look."
Bai Qianhe clicked his tongue, showing a wrinkled and sour expression on his face. Who wouldn't be able to see it? Well, did Li Chaoge go to see a temple? She obviously went to see people!
Li Chaoge will come soon? To the village temple. She has been to this temple before, and she was fascinated by people here, and now she returns to her old place, she is really moved.
There are many torches burning in the temple, and the light in the temple can be seen from a long distance. When Li Chaoge came in, the people of Dali Temple saw it and saluted one after another: "Commander?"
Li Chaoge waved his hand, indicating that they should continue with their errands, so there is no need to be polite. When Li Chaoge walked into the courtyard, the first thing he did was to walk to the four corners. There is still a heavy stone platform here, but the people on the stone platform are gone.
Gu Mingke came out of the hall and saw Li Chaoge looking around the stone platform, came over and asked, "What did you do just now?"
Li Chaoge knocked on the stone platform with a look of reason: "Blow up the statue of the Martial God."
Sure enough, Gu Mingke laughed and asked: "Why?"
"There's no reason." Li Chaoge folded his arms with his sword in his arms. It really looked like that. "It's too ugly. It's uncomfortable to look at him. Just destroy it. It's invisible to the eye."
Gu Mingke glanced at her lightly, and didn't care about her. Gu Mingke continued to go to the palace to collect evidence, followed by Li Chaoge, she entered the door, and when she saw the strangely shaped statue, her hands began to feel uncomfortable again.
Gu Mingke obviously didn't look back, but he seemed to see what Li Chaoge was thinking, and said: "This is evidence, please restrain yourself. Even if you really want to vent your anger, please wait until we obtain the evidence."
Li Chaoge snorted, she didn't seem to care, but after Gu Mingke walked away, her eyes quietly fell on the back of the other party.
The people in Dali Temple were beating around. Li Chaoge thought of something and said, "By the way, I remember? There is a mechanism on the back wall." Li Chaoge walked around the statue and pointed to the tight wall: "It's here."
When other people heard Li Chaoge's words, they gathered around one after another. Someone tried to knock on the stone, the echo was thick and strong, and it was solid at first glance.
Everyone whispered: "Really? Why do I think? This wall is solid?"
Gu Mingke looked up at the wall, and after a while, he said: "The wall is indeed solid, and the mechanism is on the floor tiles."
Everyone was startled again, and hurriedly lay down on the ground and knocked on the ground, and it didn't take long before someone shouted: "Shaoqing, Commander? This place is hollow!"
The demon town people also ran over when they heard the commotion? Look. Everyone worked together to lift up two floor tiles, revealing a narrow passage below.
When the guards were prying bricks, Li Chaoge stood behind, holding his sword and watching from afar. She seemed to be unintentional, and said casually: "Gu Shaoqing really knows this kind of temple very well. He just glanced at it from a distance, but he didn't go forward to try it, so he knew the mystery was underneath."
"Miao Zan, it's just something that can be guessed by using your brain. I dare not be a commanding envoy." The passageway has been completely exposed. Gu Mingke glanced at her lightly and asked, "Going?"
Li Chaoge curled the corners of his lips silently, and entered the tunnel first with his sword in his arms.
The tunnel is very narrow and cramped, and it is very stuffy because of the lack of ventilation. Fortunately, there was only a short section of the tunnel. Li Chaoge walked up the steps and found himself in a secret room that was completely opaque.
Things like lotus joints were scattered everywhere, Gu Mingke followed closely behind, and put a torch on the wall of the secret room. Only then did Li Chaoge see clearly that it was not lotus root joints, but limbs of various shapes. These? Things were scattered on the ground randomly, like dolls that have been dismantled, but they are very realistic. The flame flickered on it, quite terrifying.
Bai Qianhe loves to join in the fun, so he excitedly followed down? He almost died of fright when he raised his head suddenly. Mo Linlang wrinkled her nose as soon as she came in. She smelled something she didn't like: "Commander, there is a strong ghost smell here."
Bai Qianhe's lips trembled: "Ghost?"
"That's right." Li Chaoge didn't want to step forward, pointed casually with his sword, and said, "These? These are the limbs used by ghosts to pretend to be people. Be careful, Bai Qianhe, don't step on other people's fingers."
Something was wrong with Bai Qianhe's whole body. He lifted one foot, and for a moment, he didn't know where to put himself: "Isn't this a puppet for performances?"
"Almost, it's just for the dead." Li Chaoge said, "Assembled? It's quite realistic, but it needs to be unplugged frequently to clean."
Bai Qianhe opened his mouth in astonishment, unable to understand what he heard. He silently closed his mouth, walked on tiptoe, and said to the secret passage, "Sorry for interrupting. You continue to chat, this occasion is not suitable for me."
Li Chaoge ignored Bai Qianhe, who was in a mess. She looked around and asked, "The set of limbs that the villagers used when they pretended to be adults and went to Guibei Village to distribute portraits is in this pile of debris?"
Gu Mingke nodded: "It should be. If I knew it earlier? They are dead people, so they used spirit seeking."
The tracing technique looks for the aura of the target, no wonder it finally led Li Chaoge to come? Here. Li Chaoge wanted to understand the reason, and didn't want to look at the group of arms and legs anymore, so he carried his clothes and walked to the secret room: "So? So, it seems? My spell is not wrong. Then I can rest assured."
Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke came out one after another? Gu Mingke handed the torch to the person next to him, and said lightly, "Restore the floor tiles."
"yes."
The people behind were doing coolies, Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke were neat and tidy, and Shi Shi ran away to the outside of the temple. The moon has climbed high, illuminating the surroundings as bright as water. Li Chaoge stepped on the silver light all over the ground, and there was no one on the road, so she didn't worry about it? When someone heard her words, she said to Gu Mingke: "So, those? Those? Puppet-like limbs, that's why they look like a living person. What about these? Houses? Feel? It's too real."
"It's true." Gu Mingke said, "Have you heard of funerals?"
Li Chaoge understood. I heard that the ancient burial civilization was very barbaric. When nobles died, many slaves would be buried with them. Those with higher status may even build a small city and bring a small society to serve them. Come to think of it, this village is a funeral object, and the villagers have died long ago, but the houses and other buildings can be preserved
Li Chaoge murmured: "No wonder this village was built in the shape of a formation. It turns out that there was a purpose from the beginning. What is this formation used for?"
"Keep the souls of the villagers alive."
Li Chaoge was stunned when he heard that: "Doesn't that mean that these? People can't be reincarnated after death?"
"Yes." Gu Mingke lowered his eyes, his tone half mocking, "But some people think that this is eternal life."
Li Chaoge pondered for a while, then asked again: "Since it is buried with you, why did this village appear on the ground? And, why does it have to be here?"
"Princess? This seems to be your case." Gu Mingke said in a quiet tone, "If you have any questions, please look into it yourself."
Li Chaoge secretly said something annoying, but Gu Mingke refused to say it, which means that this matter is over. I don’t know how many years have passed since his death, where can Li Chaoge find out
Li Chaoge stared hard at his profile, thinking she would check it out. But the top priority is to solve the problem of Guibei Village as soon as possible.
Guibei Village has been destroyed, and the tragedy cannot be undone, so it can only be avoided as much as possible. Apart from Guibei Village, I don't know if there are other villages that have been recruited. Once the corpse poison occurs, it will infect the people around one after another, so we must find out all the residents, and we must not let go of any corner. Not only the surrounding villages, but also Fenzhou can't be careless.
How much more work do they have? Very much.
Li Chaoge fell into a long investigation. She relayed the characteristics of the corpse poison to Bai Qianhe, Mo Linlang, and Zhou Shao, and asked them to lead a team to search for it in the surrounding villages, while Li Chaoge himself stayed in Fenzhou for inspection. This task is not only related to political achievements, but also to the peace of the country. Both Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke are very concerned. The two of them didn't know how many household registrations they checked, how many places they traveled, and finally they gradually came to an end.
Day and night, everyone gathered information in the study. Bai Qianhe went to another place that had been checked, and lazily said to Li Chaoge: "Commander? Gu Shaoqing, it's time for you to go back."
Li Chaoge was startled, raised his head and asked, "Why?"
"It's already June, and your wedding is coming soon. It's time to go back and get ready." After Bai Qianhe finished speaking, he slowly raised his eyebrows, "Don't you guys forget?"
Gu Mingke's hand that turned over the file stopped, and then he showed a sudden look. Li Chaoge tapped his palm lightly, yes, she has a wedding in July.
She really forgot.
Bai Qianhe looked at the two innocent-looking newlyweds in front of him, and was a little worried about the incense of the Gu family and the royal family.
In the past, Bai Qianhe never believed that a man and a woman stayed in the same room late at night just to talk about work, but now, he believed it. Both Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke are not normal people. Bai Qianhe is very suspicious. Both of them can talk about the case while lying in bed on their wedding night.
Just outrageous.
Li Chaoge was very worried that there was still a tail left in the investigation. He originally planned to stay until three days before the wedding and then go away, so he hurried on the road in the remaining three days. After being talked about by everyone, he finally persuaded him to go back.
The female officials presiding over the wedding stay in the capital waiting for their eyes to see through. As time goes by, they gradually begin to doubt themselves. Could it be that they remembered the wrong date? Princess Sheng Yuan? The big wedding is not the 20th of July
Seeing that July 20th is getting closer and closer, the bride and groom are not even there. Everyone in the Ministry of Rites couldn't help wondering, is this marriage still possible
The palace couldn't bear it anymore and sent someone to Fenzhou to urge him. However, during this period of time, Li Chaoge searched for poisonous corpses in various places, changing places every day, and didn't know whereabouts at all. Gradually, the Pei family also started to panic, Gu Mingke wouldn't run away from marriage, right? Pei Xiang was terrified by Pei Ji'an's private resignation. Their family had already committed holy wrath once, and they must not do it again. Gu Mingke looked at it with understanding and courtesy, he probably wouldn't do such unreasonable things, would he
However, Pei Xiang did not expect that Gu Mingke was even more unpredictable than he imagined. With only seven days left before the big wedding, the two protagonists of the wedding finally appeared.
Gu Mingke and Li Chaoge appeared at the gate of the city without any haste. The two of them originally wanted to go to the imperial city, but they were dragged away by the etiquette officials who were in a hurry.
The nuns tugged at Li Chaoge in panic, and said, "Princess? Don't worry about the case. Hurry up and prepare for the wedding."
"Yeah, quickly get the hairpin dress and let the princess try to see if it fits. If it doesn't fit, quickly change it!"
"And the hair crown..."
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In the underground where you can't see your fingers, there are night pearls inlaid at intervals on the long corridor. Ye Mingzhu doesn't know? Exuding a tired glow, the light is clear and bright, but has no temperature.
This is a place without sunshine, no matter the heat or cold, the mountains and rivers are always night. The man in the black cloak walked quickly through the long corridor. He did not dare to look up after entering the hall, and immediately knelt down: "Master? Your Excellency."
On the steps, a man was flipping through a book. He flipped a page randomly, and said in a lazy and gorgeous voice, "What's wrong?" "Go back to the Lord? The North Altar is destroyed."
"Oh?" The person called the Lord finally raised some interest. He closed the volume and asked, "Who is it?"
"Li Chaoge." The man in the cloak seemed to be very afraid of the man above him. He raised his hand and said in a tense voice, "This subordinate is incompetent and failed to retrieve the Qianyuan Sword. She ran away."
"Are you running away again." The man pushed away the file, and looked at the people below with a half-smile, "When did the North Altar become as incompetent as you? She beat the Four Samurai?"
The head of the cloak hangs lower: "It's not her. There is another person."
——The end of "The Temple of Martial Arts".