Qingyun Mountain Patriarch Ancestral Hall is still shrouded in the green pines and verdant cypresses, the huge figure is looming, but the silence is quickly broken by chaotic footsteps, a large group of people under the Qingyun sect rushed to this place where the ancestors worshiped. The holy land of Qingyun Patriarch's predecessors.
From the outside, it seemed that everything was still as peaceful as before, but when they walked to the main hall of the Patriarch's Ancestral Hall, whether it was the doubtful Tongtian Peak disciples or the anxious Suru, they all stopped in amazement.
The ancestral hall surrounded by green pines and cypresses, the solemn and solemn holy land of the ancestors, are now scattered with debris and chaos.
At the gate of the huge ancestral hall, the original red lacquered gate was completely smashed, and even the appearance of the gate was ugly. In front of everyone, there was only a bigger and more dazzling hole.
On the outer wall of the patriarch's ancestral hall, almost all the windows were shaken down, and countless large or small holes appeared on the wall. The solemn ancestral hall was riddled with holes, which was terrible. The twilight, seemingly still ignoring the glimmer of light coming in from the fallen windows and countless holes, gently permeated the ancestral hall.
"Not easy!"
Suru was the first to react, and she didn't care about why the ancestor's ancestral hall had undergone such a drastic change, so she rushed in, hoping to see the person she wanted to see. Master Shuiyue, Elder Yang, Elder Fan and others also chased after him.
The patriarch's ancestral hall, like the outside, seemed to have suffered a huge impact. Everything that was once formidable was destroyed, the flat stone slabs were broken, and the huge glazed oil bottle was also broken. Even when everyone walked to the most sacred place, behind the huge altar that was split in half, the spiritual tablets of countless generations of Qingyun sect ancestors that were enshrined were scattered all over the ground. It was beaten in half or even more by some mysterious force.
However, apart from the mess all over the place, no one could be seen by the crowd.
Suru's face was pale, her body was on the verge of falling, Master Shuiyue frowned, took a step, hugged her in his arms, comforted her in a low voice, then turned to Xiao Yicai who was following behind everyone, "What's going on here?" What's going on, and, where is Senior Brother Daoxuan?"
Xiao Yicai had a bitter face, and the expression of astonishment had not faded until now, and said: "Reporting to Master Uncle, this is what the disciple saw when he came here just now. As for the teacher, in the past month, he has been almost every day. The disciple who is meditating here in the ancestral hall of the patriarch really can't imagine, where else would the old man go besides here?"
Master Shuiyue's eyes became more and more worried, and he hesitated to speak. At this moment, there was a soft sound from the side. Everyone present was a person of profound knowledge and practice, and they heard the sound almost immediately.
"Someone." Elder Yang quickly judged that the voice came from behind the huge altar that was interrupted.
Suru, who was weak all over, was startled suddenly, a gleam of joy flashed in her eyes, she stood up straight, and shouted: "It's not easy, is it you?"
Some disciples ran over and worked together to open the altar. I don't know which generation of patriarchs passed down the altar. It was huge, thick, and extremely heavy. Although those disciples also had some Taoism, they still needed a few joint efforts. Just then he struggled to open the table.
After opening it, a figure appeared under the rubble, and at the same time let out a low moan.
Everyone was overjoyed and surrounded them, but after a while they were stunned again, and saw that this person was not Tian Buyi, nor Daoxuan Daoxuan, the head teacher of Qingyun Sect, but the Longshou Peak disciple Lin who had been guarding the spirit in the ancestral hall of the ancestor. startled feathers.
I saw that half of his body was stained red with blood, and he was obviously injured, and the injury was not serious. His face was extremely pale, and he seemed to be still in a coma. He had no reaction to the person kneeling beside him calling him nor.
The joy on Suru's face gradually disappeared, and was replaced by greater worry and anxiety. Master Shuiyue stood beside her, comforting her softly. Elder Yang's face was ashen, he looked around, the Ancestral Hall of Qingyunmen Patriarch is one of the most important places in Qingyunmen, almost comparable to Huanyue Cave Mansion. This time it was reduced to such a scene, which had never happened in a thousand years, and more importantly, the two most important people in the Qingyun Sect seemed to have disappeared.
"Martial nephew Xiao," Elder Yang turned his head to look at Xiao Yicai, and said, "Are you sure the senior brother in charge is here?"
Xiao Yicai looked at the comatose Lin Jingyu, the expression on his face gradually calmed down, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Yes, for a while now, the teacher has indeed only been in the ancestral hall of the ancestor, what is the disciple doing on weekdays? Ask him for advice and report back to his old man, and they are all here."
Elder Yang was obviously a little upset and didn't know what to do for a while.
Xiao Yicai coughed twice, slowly approached Elder Yang, lowered his voice, and said softly: "Uncle Yang, this matter should not be dragged on, so many juniors gathered here to see the damage to the ancestral hall of the Holy Land, it will be harmful and useless. And listen to Su What Uncle Ru Su said, there seems to be something hidden between Master Tian and Uncle Tian Buyi from the Big Bamboo Peak, I'm afraid it has something to do with what happened here, why don't we let them withdraw first, and let's make a decision one by one, how about it?"
Elder Yang came to his senses, nodded again and again, and then said: "I don't do much of these things. Brother Sect Leader has always believed in you, and you are the one who takes care of everything on weekdays. Now you can make a decision on the fly!" After finishing speaking, he shook his head and sighed, He walked to the side and began to discuss in a low voice with the white-bearded Elder Fan who was standing beside him.
Xiao Yicai nodded to Elder Yang, taking orders, then turned around, and said in a clear voice: "Masters and brothers, the ancestor's ancestral hall has encountered a catastrophe recently, I'm afraid it's because of the invasion of foreign enemies, so we came here. The so-called mending the dead , I can’t sit still and wait for death.” At this point, he raised his eyebrows and said to one of the Tongtian Peak disciples next to him: “Junior Brother Qin, you take ten people and immediately go to the perimeter of the Patriarch’s Ancestral Hall to guard, and no one is allowed to come in. In case there is an enemy hidden in it, you must quickly inform Qianshan to me after discovering it."
A tall man walked out of Tongtian Peak's disciples, cupped his hands and said solemnly: "Yes." After saying that, he turned his head to greet the left and right, even counting people, and immediately walked out quickly.
At this moment, the patriarch's ancestral hall became quiet, only Xiao Yi stood in the middle, and although there were several elders who were higher than him, at this moment, it seemed that he was the backbone of Qingyun Sect.
Xiao Yicai said again: "Junior Brother Chang!"
"Yes." Following the sound came out a person with a firm face, but it was Chang Jian who had brought Zhang Xiaofan and others up to the mountain to meet martial arts, and had a battle with Big Bamboo Peak disciple Song Daren.
Xiao Yicai nodded, and said: "Junior Brother Chang, the most important thing right now is to find a mentor. With his old man in charge of the overall situation, he will not be afraid of anything. Although there seems to be something important happening here, but the mentor is omniscient in the world. Invincible, ordinary evildoers can never harm him. You bring 80 people... No, the more people the better, you bring 150 people, and search from the top to the bottom of Tongtian Peak, both the front mountain and the back mountain I have looked for it, and I must not miss the slightest clue."
Chang Jian's face was deeply worried, obviously he also knew that although Xiao Yicai's words were nice, but the most important thing was the latter, so he answered in a deep voice without any hesitation, quickly greeted everyone, and walked out. Seeing that the number of people was obviously not enough for Xiao Yicai's said number, most of them still had to go to Qianshan to dispatch troops and generals.
As soon as this large group of people left, the ancestral hall of the patriarch was obviously empty, generally there were only a few elders, Xiao Yicai, Wen Min who followed Master Shuiyue, and finally Lin Jingyu who was still unconscious.
Xiao Yicai sighed, turned around and bowed to the elders, and said in a low voice: "Masters, Qingyun Sect has undergone major changes today, this disciple made arbitrariness at the last moment, if there is something inappropriate, please punish me, masters."
Neither Suru nor Master Shuiyue spoke, Elder Yang nodded and said, "Martial nephew Xiao, you don't need to be humble, you did a good job just now, now we old men still need to do something, just order, don't worry about it." polite."
Xiao Yicai pondered for a while, and said: "Now the situation is unclear, we still need to be cautious, and the uncles will go back to their respective hills if there is any emergency. It is a pity that this dragon head Feng's Junior Brother Lin is still unconscious, otherwise we would have known everything by asking him, after all he was the only one present at the time."
Everyone frowned together, they were all preoccupied, at this moment Suru was comforted by Master Shuiyue, and gradually calmed down, after all Tian Buyi is not around, although worried, but there is still hope after all, so she is not so nervous . Listening to Xiao Yicai's ordering all the way, she was very upset, and she only hoped that nothing would happen to Tian Buyi.
At this moment, her eyes swept over Lin Jingyu who was lying on the ground, she frowned suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Huh!"
Master Shuiyue stood beside her, slightly stunned, "What's wrong?"
Suru pointed at Lin Jingyu and said, "He seems to have something in his hand?"
Everyone was startled, Xiao Yicai walked quickly to Lin Jingyu's side, turned him over slightly, and sure enough, he saw that his right hand was pressed under him, tightly grasping a rectangular black wooden board. Xiao Yicai stretched out his hand to grab it, but unexpectedly when he pulled it out, the wooden plank did not move. Although Lin Jingyu was unconscious, for some reason, he gripped the wooden plank tightly and never let go.
Everyone looked in their eyes and were puzzled.
Elder Fan walked to the side, turned around, and suddenly said: "This wooden board seems to be an enshrined patriarch's spiritual tablet!"
Master Shuiyue looked intently, nodded and said, "That's right, it's the spirit card."
It took a long time for Xiao Yi to slowly break away Lin Jingyu's tightly gripped fingers, and took out this spiritual card which seemed extremely important to him. Everyone gathered around. As a witness to this accident, Lin Jingyu cared so much about this spirit card, obviously it had a lot to do with it. Unexpectedly, after seeing it, everyone was stunned, and then looked at each other in blank dismay.
Although this spirit card is the same size as the other spirit cards and is also painted black, there is no word on the surface of the spirit card that is still considered complete.
This is actually a spirit card without words!
Then it is placed in this solemn and solemn ancestral hall of the patriarch, whose spiritual seat is it enshrined in
And who put it on to enjoy the incense with the ancestors of the past dynasties, since it was put on it, why didn't the name be written on it
Lin Jingyu held on to this wooden sign tightly, and refused to let go even after being seriously injured and unconscious, so what does it mean
All kinds of doubts and thousands of threads seem to be lingering in everyone's mind.
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Southern Xinjiang, Hundred Thousand Mountains, Zhenmogu Cave.
Legends are a very strange thing. First of all, legends themselves do not seem to have reliable meanings. Just because certain things seem to have a reason to be passed down, people pass them down by word of mouth, or some literati take notes and pass them down. Secondly, the longer the legend has been passed down, the legend itself will gradually change, and the people and things of that year will gradually become unrecognizable. What was the truth back then
Who cares
So the legend finally became a legend, just like that beautiful and gentle woman who is as beautiful as a city, slowly changed her appearance in the time.
Thousands of years later, can you still recognize each other
In the darkness, the evil wind seemed to have stopped, rampant and unrestrained, as if it only belonged to the world outside this ancient cave, and in this dark world, everything was quiet.
This is the deepest part of Zhenmo Ancient Cave. It was here that Heimu took the sacred artifacts of the five tribes in southern Xinjiang and resurrected the body of the beast god. It's just that today, the evil spirit that was once surging here has disappeared without a trace, leaving only silence and the occasional low breathing.
It was a gasp, coming from the deepest darkness, a strange dark red light, then shining in this dark and somewhat empty space.
A low roar suddenly sounded in the depths of the darkness, right at the place where the panting came out, like a ferocious beast with deep anxiety, and even a little audible fear, grinning and angrily facing That little red light.
The low panting sound stopped, as if something comforted the strange beast in the darkness, the roaring sound gradually decreased, and finally disappeared, and the cave returned to silence, only the strange dark red flame was still there. Flashing, flashing, flashing.
Suddenly, a female voice, pleasant but without any emotion, echoed faintly in the cave: "Your gluttonous, it seems that you have never liked me!"
The space where this darkness is located seems to be really big, and the woman's voice sounds like it is spreading far away, floating around, empty, just listening to the source of the voice, it is just behind the dark red flame .
In response to this voice, there was a burst of calm laughter, "You don't have to worry about it, it has never believed in humans."
The woman snorted and said, "Why, so it has already regarded me as a human being?"
"Roar", a low whistle, flashed in mid-air, and in front of the dark red light, a ball of flame suddenly lit up. It turned out to be an ancient brazier with a tripod, rusty, and I don't know how much it was. It's something that happened long ago, but the fire is burning in this brazier, and the light of the fire is still so bright, just like the clothes after the flames.
Bright, silk clothes.
Beast God!
He sat on the ground between the flames and the dark shadows, leaning against the stone wall of a platform, the flames flickered, making his face flickering, and he still looked with an indescribably coquettish feeling , the only difference from when he was just resurrected was that his face was extremely pale, it would not be an exaggeration to say that his face was ashen.
Under the firelight, the one who was close to him and snuggled beside him was that grotesque and ferocious beast Taotie. At this moment, Taotie's giant eyes are wide open, grinning slightly, revealing terrifying fangs, panting continuously, looking fiercely through the firelight of the brazier in front of him, staring at the dark red light that has become unremarkable in the distance.
Although the Beast God's face was not good-looking, his expression was very calm, and there was even a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he said: "You have practiced Taoism for thousands of years, and you just want to be a human being. You should be happy when I say that about you."
The woman's voice fell silent, and she didn't speak for a while, but the dark red flame suddenly lit up.
Taotie seemed to be alert immediately, let out a low growl, and stared at the dark red light.
The light of the flame moved slowly, and the direction it was heading was exactly where the Beast God was. Taotie's face became more ferocious, and he slowly stood up. Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the side, and gently patted Taotie's head, and then Taotie slowly became quiet.
The Beast God withdrew his palm and looked back, the fire light had slowly flew in front of him, like an eye, fixed not far in front of him, staring at him.
Beast God looked at the dark red flame for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "You and I have been friends for more than a thousand years. Although we can't say that we are friends of life and death, we can still be considered old friends! Besides, I am seriously injured at the moment, why are you still treating me like this?" alert?"
The dark red fire light flickered for a few times, and suddenly let out a sharp whistle, and retreated back extremely quickly. When it passed over the brazier, it even suppressed the flame in the brazier immediately, and the surroundings were suddenly dark. It took a while before it returned to normal, and at this time, the dark red fire had disappeared into the darkness.
The woman's cold voice sounded at the same time, saying: "I don't believe you, just like your Taotie doesn't believe me."
Looking at the darkness in front of him, the Beast God suddenly laughed loudly, "Okay, okay, okay, well said. But I can't figure it out, since you and I don't trust each other so much, why are you helping me this time? "
The woman's voice said lightly: "Because what I want, only you can give it to me now."
The beast god smiled and said, "Just because of this, these ugly images carved on the stone walls and the ground?"
He waved his hand, although the smile is still there, but the tiredness on his face seems to be deeper.
The flame in the brazier suddenly rose high and made a crackling sound. It was actually several times larger than the original one out of thin air. The light was shining brightly for a while, and the surrounding temperature also quickly became unbearably hot. However, neither the Beast God nor the Taotie, nor the mysterious figure who was still hidden in the dark shadows, did not respond to these in the slightest.
The flames were burning, slowly stretching in the darkness, as if gradually gaining life, and even the shape in the flames began to slowly expand and change, gradually becoming longer from a ball, and slowly condensed into a vague dragon shape shape.
In the darkness, staring at the appearance of the fire dragon that was gradually taking shape, the woman said slowly: "I remember these ugly images that have trapped you for countless years, right?"
The Beast God smiled slightly, but in the firelight, it was hard to tell whether he was smiling wryly, mockingly, or sneering...
Because at the moment he laughed, the fire dragon above the brazier had already taken shape, opened its teeth and claws in the flames, suddenly raised its head to face the darkness, and let out a silent roar.
The blazing heat wave surged like a torrent almost at the same time, rushing towards the surroundings in an instant, rolling in, destroying everything that stood in front of it. After the sea of fire passed, in the blazing flames, four patterns lit up on the ground around the brazier one by one, with thick lines and blood red color. In the paintings were four fierce and ferocious statues. After a while, four patterned stone carvings lit up on the top of the brazier and on the left and right stone walls in sequence, and they also had roughly the same content.
These eight stone carvings are exactly the same as what Gui Li saw in the Xuanhuo Altar of Fenxiang Valley that day.
The Eight Ominous Profound Fire Formation!