Qingyun Mountain, Tongtian Peak, Patriarch's Ancestral Hall.
The verdant woods are still the same as before, growing densely and vigorously. The faint morning mist is floating in the woods. You can see leaves and branches everywhere. On the leaves of grass and wild flowers, there are crystal dewdrops in the breeze. Vibrate slightly. In the distance, in the depths of the dense forest, there are crisp and melodious birdsong, which makes people feel refreshed physically and mentally, as if they are in a fairyland.
In this paradise on earth, a Taoist fairyland, a short and fat figure slowly appeared on the path in the forest, it was Tian Buyi.
It seemed a bit incongruous with the surrounding scenery, Tian Buyi had a serious expression on his face, his eyes were looking straight ahead, and his expression seemed to be full of thoughts. At the moment, there is no one around him, which seems a bit strange. Although Tian Buyi is the head of Dazhu Peak and one of the most important members of Qingyun Sect, he came to the back mountain of Changmen Tongtian Peak privately as him The ancestral hall of the ancestors in the important place is obviously a little strange.
On the mountain road, there were no disciples from Qingyun Sect guarding it, and there was no sound along the way. In the breeze and birdsong, Tian Buyi turned around the famous three-way intersection, and gradually saw the majestic cornice deep in the dense forest.
"when… "
I don't know where the soft sound of bells and drums came from the direction of Qianshan, echoing on the top of Qingyun Mountain.
That empty, fluttering echo made Tian Buyi stop silently, look back and gaze.
The heavens, the earth, the sky, the sky is blue and infinite!
For thousands of years, it seems that nothing has changed.
Tian Buyi gradually calmed down, stood silently for a while, then turned around again, and walked towards the ancestor's ancestral hall.
The vast stone steps were displayed in front of him, and the ancestral hall of the ancestor remained unchanged, like a sleeping monster, sleeping gently, lying in the arms of the forest. The gate of the ancestral hall is still open, and the darkness inside is still there. Even the incense candles in the dark depths seem to be sleeping. Everything is so quiet.
However, outside this patriarch's ancestral hall, under the stone steps, there is actually a young man standing with his back to Tian Buyi. Tian Buyi frowned and walked over.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the young man seemed taken aback. He didn't expect that someone would come to this place at this time, so he turned around quickly.
Tian Buyi faced the man, both of them were stunned, the young man was Lin Jingyu.
Tian Buyi immediately remembered that in the past, he had heard from his disciples that Lin Jingyu had been guarding the ancestral hall of the patriarch, and it was said that he was guarding the spirit for someone, but no one seemed to know who that "someone" was. However, Tian Buyi is naturally not in the mood to think about this at the moment. The relationship between him and Lin Jingyu was not very good either, they looked at each other but didn't speak immediately, the atmosphere seemed a bit awkward.
In the end, Lin Jingyu coughed and said in a low voice, "Uncle Tian, why did you come here so early?"
Tian Buyi glanced at him, but then moved his gaze to the darkness inside the ancestral hall of the ancestor, and said, "I'm here to find someone. What are you doing standing outside the ancestral hall so early in the morning?"
Lin Jingyu's complexion changed slightly, a wry smile seemed to flash across his face, he glanced into the ancestral hall of the ancestor, but did not answer.
Tian Buyi said indifferently: "Is anyone in there, is it the senior brother in charge?"
Lin Jingyu nodded, and said: "Yes, the master master is above the main hall... He ordered me to wait outside, without his summons, none of the disciples on Tongtian Peak are allowed to enter."
Tian Buyi snorted, and said coldly: "I remember that you are a disciple of Longshou Peak, why did you come to Changmen Tongtian Peak to take care of the door for Senior Brother Daoxuan?"
Lin Jingyu's face turned pale, he lowered his head slightly, and did not speak.
Tian Buyi ignored him, raised his legs and walked up the stone steps.
Lin Jingyu next to him was startled, took a step forward, and said, "Uncle Tian, what are you doing?"
Tian Buyi said indifferently: "I came here, of course I want to go in, I want to talk to the head brother about something."
Lin Jingyu frowned, and said: "Master Tian, the master master of the sect has already said that no one wants to see him. Without his permission to summon, everyone under Tongtian Peak's sect..."
"I'm not a disciple of Tongtian Peak!" Tian Buyi coldly interrupted Lin Jingyu.
Lin Jingyu suffocated, and was momentarily choked by Tian Buyi and was speechless.
Tian Buyi didn't say much, walked up the stone steps and walked towards the ancestral hall.
Lin Jingyu moved, as if he wanted to stop him, but then he stopped, looking at Tian Buyi's short and fat body, his eyes sparkled.
After stepping into the high threshold, a faint scent of sandalwood came oncoming immediately, and a huge shadow gently poured out from the depths of the hall, gently blocking the light that still existed just now outside the ancestor's ancestral hall.
Tian Buyi stood there for a while, then slowly walked deep inside. As the footsteps rose and fell slowly, the expression on his face seemed to be slowly changing.
Huge, red-painted pillars stand in a patchwork pattern in the main hall, supporting the majestic hall. The yellow curtains hanging from the dome of the ceiling hang quietly beside the pillars, many of them look a bit worn out, and in the eyes, it seems that it is a vicissitudes of life, revealed from the gradually aging yellow .
The past time seems to be frozen here.
The ancestral hall was very quiet, almost no sound could be heard, only Tian Buyi's footsteps echoed in the silent shadows around.
Behind the huge altar in the distance, countless incense sticks lit brightly and burned quietly, just like mysterious and weird eyes watching the figure shuttling in the shadow of the hall.
After turning around the thickest pillar on the hall, and walking behind the lowered yellow curtain, Tian Buyi finally stopped.
There was an open space in front of him. There were three rows of futons, seven in each row. On the futon in the middle of the first row, there was a familiar figure sitting there, motionless. And in front of the futon, there is a huge altar, which is full of fruit offerings. In the middle is a big incense burner, but inside it is very strange, only three sticks of incense are inserted, and the smoke curls up slowly. Slowly float up.
Through the smoky altar, in the darkness behind the table, countless spirit tablets can be vaguely seen, each of which seems to have writing on it, and is placed squarely on the spirit seat in the shadows.
Tian Buyi's complexion gradually became heavy with a trace of respect, facing the spiritual tablet of the Qingyun sect's ancestors, his eyes first stayed on the familiar figure for a moment, and then walked up silently.
Master Daoxuan's body moved slightly, but he didn't turn his head.
Tian Buyi walked slowly to the altar, looked at the countless spiritual places shrouded in shadow, took a deep breath, then took out three sticks of fine incense from the sachet next to the incense burner, and carefully lit the candle beside the incense burner After ordering, take a step back, stand three feet in front of the altar, respectfully hold incense and worship three times.
Daoxuan Daoxuan sat on the futon, only six feet away from the altar, but the dim light in front of him seemed to be unable to reach him. In the dim shadows, he slowly raised his head, Tian Buyi's figure was standing in front of him with his back turned.
In the depths of the darkness, suddenly, like a will-o'-the-wisp in the depths of the gloom, there was a "sudden" sound, and two rays of light flashed instantly. Almost at the same time, like an invisible ghost howling, all the incense sticks lit up, except for the three incense sticks held by Tian Buyi.
Tian Buyi had finished paying his respects at this moment, he took a step and was about to insert the fine incense into the incense burner, but his body stopped suddenly, even the hand holding the incense also stopped in mid-air.
In the hall, there was a dead silence for an instant, and the two figures, standing and sitting, seemed to be frozen, motionless. For some reason, the yellow curtain in the distance fluttered a few times as if there was a breeze blowing through the hall, and then slowly stopped.
Outside the ancestor's ancestral hall, Lin Jingyu was frowning and contemplating, but suddenly he felt something, he suddenly raised his head, and looked into the quiet and dark depths of the ancestral hall, with a hint of surprise on his face.
In a trance, this palace, which was once a quiet sleep, opened its eyes coldly like a monster waking up.
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After an unknown amount of time, the mysterious will-o'-the-wisp in Daoxuan's eyes suddenly disappeared again, it came suddenly and went away quickly. As the weird eyes slowly closed, the originally chilling hall suddenly calmed down, and the surrounding candles gradually lost their brightness, returning to their original dim light.
The fine incense in Tian Buyi's hand was still smoldering, and three tiny incense sticks were faintly visible in the darkness. It's just that the incense was trembling, but the incense ash like white flocs fell down gently and landed on Tian Buyi's hand.
Tian Buyi's face was indifferent, he glanced coldly at the incense ash on the back of his hand, stood silently for a moment, shook his hands lightly, shook off the incense ash, then took a step, respectfully inserted three sticks of fine incense into the incense burner .
Six sticks of fine incense were lit in the incense burner at the same time, and the light smoke floated and curled up.
Without saying a word, Tian Buyi bowed three more times to the spiritual tablet, then slowly turned around, facing the figure sitting on the futon on the ground.
"Senior Brother Daoxuan," he looked deeply at that person, and for some reason, his eyes were filled with surprise, grief and indignation, and even faint pain, and said slowly, "We meet again!"
Most of Daoxuan's face was shrouded in shadow, so he couldn't see clearly. Facing Tian Buyi's voice, he seemed to turn a deaf ear to it, did not react at all, and sat quietly like that.
Tian Buyi stood and looked at him for a while, and didn't say anything, but the expression on his face became more and more serious. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he took a step, but he walked to Daoxuan's side, and sat down on another futon less than three feet away from his side.
Above the main hall, there was silence.
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Southern Xinjiang, one hundred thousand mountains, scorched black peaks.
Along the way, the eerie howls of ghosts became more and more intense, and the wind blowing from nowhere kept whining, blowing on people like knives. The howling ghosts and howling wolves and the cold wind are probably enough to drive people crazy.
The gloomy atmosphere around them became more and more intense, and the two of them became more and more cautious, but until they reached the bottom of the valley, where they could see the deep and dark entrance of the Zhenmogu Cave, they were not attacked. Any danger and ambush. This place full of mountains and plains, almost like a ghost land, is surprisingly quiet. Not to mention that there are no ferocious monsters, even the poisonous insects and beasts that have been seen everywhere since entering the Shiwan Dashan, there is no trace.
This gloomy place seems to be the safest place among the poor mountains and rivers of the Hundred Thousand Mountains...
Ghost Li and Jin Ping'er stood on a small hill, looking at the ancient and deep cave from a distance, they could vaguely see the stone statue standing at the entrance of the cave.
The brows of the two were slightly frowned, and at this moment, the unexpected calm brought them even greater worries.
Jin Ping'er pointed to the entrance of the cave, and said: "That's the Zhenmogu Cave. When I followed the man in black to come here, I saw the beast god come back from this cave with my own eyes. .”
Ghost Li nodded slightly, then looked around the cave, and saw that except for the bottomless dark cave entrance, the cave was surrounded by vertical cliffs with hideous strange rocks, and the cave was tens of meters high. , close to the stone wall there is a thick layer of black clouds, slowly flowing in mid-air, like water clouds. Judging by the thick black color, it is obvious that it must be highly poisonous. At a glance, ordinary people definitely have nowhere to go, but a place of death.
Withdrawing his gaze, Gui Li pondered for a moment and said, "Shall we go in?"
Jin Ping'er was slightly hesitant, she was silent for a while, finally nodded, and said: "Forget it, we've come here, how can we hold back, let's go!"
Gui Li glanced at her, and saw that Jin Ping'er had a strange expression on her face, and her face was also slightly pale, obviously she still had some scruples about the mysterious cave. In fact, it's not just her, even the monkey Xiaohui on Guili's shoulder, seems to have changed his temper at this moment, appearing particularly quiet.
As if sensing something, Jin Ping'er turned her head, looked at Gui Li, smiled suddenly, showing a mouthful of beautiful white teeth, and said with a smile: "I don't mind, let's go!"
Gui Li nodded his head and walked first. Jin Ping'er followed behind him, walking slowly towards the ancient cave of Zhenmo.
The sound of footsteps stepping on the hard scorched black rock was quickly drowned out by the howling wind. The closer you got to the entrance of the ancient cave, the stronger the cold wind became, and the gloomy coldness contained in the wind became stronger. It's icy cold.
At this moment, both of them have discovered that the source of the chilling wind all over the mountains and plains is blown from that ancient cave.
Getting closer to the entrance of the cave, the surrounding light seems to gradually dim down, and more and more brilliance is blocked by the black clouds approaching the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave, as if such a place is not Let the light in.
And the stone statue standing at the entrance of the deep cave, facing the depths of the cave, finally gradually appeared clearly in front of their eyes.
This section of the road is not very long, but to the two of them, it seems to have walked for a long time. When they finally stood at the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave, the sky was completely dimmed, and it was warm not long ago. The sun shining brightly on them has completely disappeared above the black clouds.
Gui Li slowly turned to the entrance of the cave, and stood in front of the stone statue of the woman.
The dim light shone on her body...
Tens of thousands of years of wind and frost have slowly carved the initial soft and beautiful smoothness into roughness. In the changing time of the vicissitudes of life, how many eyes have stared at your face so lightly and quietly.
Time rushes forward like water in a long river, never staying for half a minute, the first touch, the first memory, the countless strands that have been deeply engraved in the heart, it turns out that they will be forgotten after all.
Only a little bit of the legend remained, which was inadvertently mentioned by future generations after a long time.
Your once beautiful, once heroic, in the face of time, will fly into ashes.
The icy wind passed by the skirt of his clothes and blew on his body. Perhaps, after all, the gazing eyes for thousands of years could not be compared.
Regret in one thought!
Gently patted the shoulder with a soft hand, the monkey Xiaohui's chirping sound rang in his ears, Ghost Li's body trembled slightly, he took a step back suddenly, and then woke up, he was unconsciously Among them, while staring at the stone statue of the young woman, I was addicted to the past.
Thinking of this, Gui Li's back felt like being stabbed by a needle, and his heart was slightly shocked. With his practice and determination at this time, when he faced this exquisite stone statue of a witch, he would still be unconsciously dazzled. The extraordinary power contained in this stone statue is really extraordinary.
Gui Li regained his composure, then turned his head to look at Jin Ping'er, if Jin Ping'er hadn't reminded him from the side just now, I really don't know how long he would have been obsessed with this stone statue. But how could Jin Ping'er be wary of this invisible stone statue? Could it be that this woman is unexpected, and has hidden strength
Gui Li turned his head to look, but couldn't help being startled, he saw that although Jin Ping'er was standing beside him and patted his shoulder, but her whole body was in the opposite direction from where Ghost Li was standing, facing the town. The entrance of the Mogu Cave is facing away from the stone statue, and does not look at the face of the stone statue at all.
Gui Li frowned and said, "What are you doing?"
Jin Ping'er smiled slightly and said: "This stone statue is very powerful, didn't I tell you?"
Gui Li frowned again, snorted, and took a deep breath. At this time, Xiao Hui, who had been lying on his shoulder, seemed a little impatient, the monkey's tail swayed, and suddenly jumped out from Ghost Li's shoulder, jumping onto the stone statue, after climbing a few times, In the end, he sat on top of the stone statue.
Gui Li's complexion changed, and he suddenly said in a deep voice: "Xiao Hui, come here."
The monkey looked at Ghost Li, stretched out his hand and scratched his head, squeaked twice, but finally jumped back from the stone statue to Ghost Li's shoulder.
Jin Ping'er chuckled beside him and said, "What are you doing to scare the monkey, it's just for fun..."
Before she finished her sentence, Jin Ping'er showed a slightly surprised look, seeing Ghost Li put on a straight face, tidying up his clothes, he actually bowed respectfully to the stone statue.
Jin Ping'er asked in surprise, "What are you doing here?"
Gui Li's face was indifferent, but he didn't answer, he just stared deeply at the stone statue, cupped his hands, then turned around and said indifferently: "It's nothing, let's go in!"
The ancient cave was deep and the wind was blowing, it was right in front of them.
Jin Ping'er followed behind Gui Li, looked at the monkey Xiao Hui who was looking a bit bored, then his eyes fell on Gui Li, and said, "Why did you salute the stone statue just now?"
Gui Li's footsteps paused for a moment, then continued to walk forward, and said calmly: "Even though the demeanor of the predecessors has long been annihilated, there is always something worthy of respect in people's hearts."
Jin Ping'er frowned, apparently very puzzled by Ghost Li's charade-like words, and was about to ask more questions, but Ghost Li had already approached the entrance of the cave.
Jin Ping'er quickly chased after her, frowned and said, "Hey, I'm talking to you right now! Why are you walking so fast? I haven't told you yet, when I came here last time, there was a fierce spirit here, although most of the time later Get rid of by that beast god, but the entrance of this cave is probably..."
Having said this, Jin Ping'er's voice suddenly became quieter, almost at the same time, Gui Li's footsteps also stopped.
The two stood a few feet away from the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave, looking at the gloomy and dark cave, a white air-conditioning slowly rose up, blown by the harsh wind, but it did not dissipate in the slightest. look.
Seeing that the white air gathered more and more, its volume became bigger and bigger, and finally it gradually condensed into a shape, and a huge figure appeared indistinctly in the white air. , even more powerful, just like a fierce ghost and a god.
Jin Ping'er looked at the white air, sighed, shook his head, and said, "Okay, now you see, there is a fierce and bad-tempered evil spirit here!"