Chapter Twenty-Six: Clues, Doubts on the Horizon
Above the clouds, the sky was clear, and there was no sign that a storm had struck before.
The four streamers of various colors were fleeting, and they disappeared suddenly, and the sword qi was like a river, crossing the sky, like a line.
One of the red sword qi was different, and it deviated slightly from its normal trajectory from time to time during the flight. And the other three flying swords also seemed to be much slower than normal, as if they had a spirit around the red sword qi.
The red carp is still whip-shaped in shape, but it can also come and go like a flying sword.
Ning Qingyun concealed her hand under her wide sleeves, clutching a crumpled and yellowed piece of paper.
The folds were all over the place, apparently having been kneaded and unfolded, unfolded and tightened.
That piece of paper was obtained by Shao Heng after the shrine in the Ning family's secret room.
The envelope was blank, but Shao Heng opened it and read the first few words, then handed the letter to Ning Qingyun with complicated eyes.
"My son Qingyun, I hope that the heavens will have mercy, and one day this letter will be delivered to you. The father's sins are so great that he has brought harm to others and his wife and children, and he knows that the end is near, but even this is not enough to repay ......"
Ning Qingyun had read the contents of the letter several times, and at this moment, every word on the letter was imprinted on her heart like a brand, and every word was as hot as a red-hot iron, scorching every inch of her heart.
Shao Heng only glanced at it at the time, and didn't know the specific content of the letter, but after Ning Qingyun read the letter, she first cried bitterly in front of them, as if she had unloaded some burden, and then showed a look of hatred and guilt, and then she was in a trance as now.
However, as he was about to reach the vicinity of Diping Pass, Ning Qingyun's face gradually returned to normal.
Shao Heng retracted his gaze, and a white jade bead appeared in his palm.
This note bead was from the same person as the one Shao Heng got before, and Shao Heng was sure that the person who hid the note bead behind the Yunlai Pavilion shrine was Ning Qingyun's father.
Then Father Ning was able to hide things in the Yunlai Pavilion of Jinyun City, and he must have been a member of that mysterious organization in the past, and it was even possible that his status was not low.
But the appearance of these two memo beads also shows that Ning's father's identity is not ordinary, maybe he woke up like a thousand illusions, or maybe he was an undercover agent.
Either way, those two memorabic beads will be a great help for Shao Heng to find out the truth.
Although the notebook beads left by Ning's father in his house are well preserved, the information is intermittent, some of them are like flowing accounts, and some of them are written down in a hurry and cannot be understood coherently.
However, there are several locations mentioned in it, all over China, which has surprised Shao Heng.
It's just that Shao Heng found that in this note-taking bead, the words "sacrifice" and "leading the immortal gate" were mentioned many times, but the upper and lower sentences were incoherent, and even Father Ning seemed to be extremely uncertain when he wrote down this information.
And at the end of all the information of the note beads, Father Ning also mentioned a word - "Lingji Cave Heaven", it seems that they are waiting for the opening of Lingji Cave Heaven.
"Lingji Cave Heaven?" Shao Heng had never heard of this word, and thought about it repeatedly, but he didn't know where to start.
While thinking about it, Nangong Beidou's voice came from his ears: "Ahead is Diping Pass, let's go and worship Aunt Shen for Senior Brother Shen first, and then go to the family station guarding this vein to understand the situation." โ
Shao Heng came back to his senses and saw that the mountains below were green and beautiful, surrounded by rivers, and immediately nodded.
The four of them were about to descend the sword light, but Shao Heng suddenly heard a very light but firm voice in his ears: "I need to know everything related to the man in black." โ
Shao Heng glanced up at Ning Qingyun in surprise, and saw that her face was pale but her eyes were like autumn water, green silk was flying, and her expression had neither the anger of the past, nor some annoying self-pity, only the determination that seemed to be broken and then established.
Because Shao Heng didn't answer immediately, Ning Qingyun's eyes flashed, and he continued to transmit the voice into the secret and said: "My father is related to the man in black, and the murderer of my Ning family's extermination is also related to those, and even the death of Yu'er's parents is also related to them. What was the beginning...... It was someone who deliberately arranged it and pointed the traces to Mr. Qinghua, so I misunderstood. For the sake of my father's innocence, for the sake of the truth about the death of Yu'er's parents, please tell me!"
Shao Hengjian's eyebrows trembled without a trace, no matter which reason he said for her, the final result was that he agreed to Ning Qingyun's request.
"Thank you. โ
When Shao Heng landed on the ground, he suddenly seemed to hear this voice, but when he turned his head to look, he only saw the back of a Tsing Yi.
"Why is Senior Brother Shen's mother buried here?" Shangguan Chengtai asked, looking around.
His loud voice pierced through the mountains and forests, startling a number of birds, but he himself did not care, but continued: "But...... It's pretty good!"
Shao Heng shook his head with a smile and didn't speak, but Nangong Beidou said coldly: "Senior Brother Shen has a bad relationship with the clan because his mother was persecuted. Whether it is the Shen family or the senior brother himself, I am afraid that they do not want their aunt's coffin to enter the ancestral grave of the Shen family. And his mother was already related to the family that managed the Leveling Pass, so it was strange that he chose this place as the cemetery of his deceased mother. โ
"You know that. Shangguan Chengtai muttered.
"There are really no secrets between the families. This thought flashed through Shao Heng's mind, and he paid some attention to the strength of the Nangong family.
"Let's go. Shao Heng judged the next direction.
The four of them did not pause any longer, and even Ning Qingyun no longer looked in a trance, and quickly found two lonely earthen bags in a place where birds and flowers were fragrant.
"Huh?" Shangguan Chengtai's eyes were sharp, he saw something, and suddenly shouted: "It seems that someone has come." โ
Shao Heng stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, he saw that the two tombs seemed to have been repaired, not only did there not have a trace of weeds, but even the tombstones seemed to be brand new, which was not the same as what Shen Yuanxi had described before.
However, the names engraved on the tombstone were indeed the names of his deceased mother and sister.
It's spring, and the mountains are in full bloom.
In front of the two tombstones, each side by side is a bouquet of freshly picked flowers, and there is even a little dew left on the flowers.
"Could it be that Senior Brother Shen also asked someone else?" Shangguan Chengtai asked suspiciously.
Shao Heng shook his head, his tone was a little serious and a little strange: "Although this place is close to his mother clan, Senior Brother Shen said that he has never told others, even he himself has not been here for several years. โ
Nangong Beidou looked at the traces on the ground and said, "Not long before us." โ
Shao Heng guessed a possibility, stepped forward and brushed the two bouquets of flowers aside, took out the worship objects, and placed them one by one.
Nangong Beidou raised his eyebrows when he saw this, and didn't say anything more
The four of them put incense in front of the two tombstones together, cleaned up the weeds around them again, and used magic to condense the nectar, and after protecting this place from insects and beasts, they left this place and rushed to the Yun family's station.
The mountain range where Dipingguan is located is a branch of the Lianyun Mountain Range, although it is the place where the Yuanjing vein is mined, but the place where it passes is clean and refreshing, not like the messy appearance of ordinary vein mining.
The disciples of the inner sect of Cunwei Mountain came here in person, and the Yun clan was immediately alarmed, and its current patriarch Yun Yin personally came out with two Yun clan disciples to greet him.
Yun Yin was regarded as a disciple of the outer sect of Cunwei Mountain in his early years, but after taking over the position of the head of the family, he stepped down as a deacon, and now he is a late stage of cultivation. But Yun Yin was seriously injured in his early years, which destroyed his foundation, and his cultivation in this life could not go further. And because of his injuries, his appearance looks gray-haired, no different from that of an old man in the mortal world.
But Shao Heng learned from Nangong Beidou that this person is only in his seventies now, and he is at most a middle-aged person among his peers in the cultivation realm.
So when Shao Heng saw Yun Yin from afar, he was also shocked, but he returned to his natural state.
It's just that the two men and one woman who appeared next to Yun Yin made Shao Heng's eyes narrow: those two people were dressed differently from the three of the Yun family, and they were not the clothes of the deacons of the outer gate of Cunwei Mountain, but for some reason, they came out with the patriarch of the Yun clan to greet them.
And when they saw them, the faces of the two men and one woman clearly flashed with disappointment.
Shao Heng was strange, and he heard Nangong Beidou's extremely disdainful voice in his ears: "The people of the Shen family are really cheeky. โ
Nangong Beidou glanced at Shao Heng and said, "That's someone from the Shen family, I guess the other party thought it would be Senior Brother Shen to deal with this matter." I don't want to think about what kind of status Senior Brother Shen has now, not only does he need to practice continuously every day, but he also has to deal with affairs with my master and Uncle Qingjing, even if this place is related to his mother, he can't leave him to come here. โ
"I haven't seen you for a few years, but Beidou has more respect for Senior Brother Shen than in the past. Shao Heng said with a smile.
Nangong Beidoujun's face flushed, obviously remembering the turmoil he had caused in the past to make trouble in the inner door, and glanced at Shao Heng without saying anything more.
"I didn't expect a few immortals to come here together, it really made the Yun family shine!" Yun Yin was short of breath when he spoke, described haggard, and worried between his eyebrows, stretching slightly in front of Shao Heng and the others.
"The immortals have come from afar, go inside to rest for a day or two, Yun has set up a banquet tonight to catch the wind and wash the ......dust for the immortals," Yun Yin said with a smile, but Shao Heng saw a young man of the Yun clan beside him with a look of worry flashing on his face, and his heart moved, interrupting Yun Yin's words:
"Not necessarily. You told us about the situation, and then you bothered the Yun family to send someone to lead the way, and we immediately went to the ore vein. โ
Shao Heng opened his mouth like this, and he became the person in charge of their inner disciples this time.
Originally, Ning Qingyun was supposed to come forward on this trip, but she stood at the end at this time and didn't say a word. And Nangong Beidou does not seem to have any objection to Shao Heng's statement.
The young man of the Yun clan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said, "I can......!
"Hao'er!" Yun Yin scolded in a low voice, and the young man stopped unwillingly.
Yun Yin sighed, his old body bowed slightly, and bowed to Shao Heng and the four of them.
Shao Heng, Nangong Beidou and Ning Qingyun turned sideways in time, and did not accept Yun Yin's bow, only Shangguan Chengtai was half a beat slower, and only realized it when Yun Yin finished worshipping, and hurriedly took a step back.
"Immortal, please come in and speak. Yun Yin invited again.
Shao Heng saw that it was inconvenient to speak here, and he did not refuse again.
When he arrived at the most important meeting hall of the Yun clan, Yun Yin said bitterly: "Shangxian, the Yun clan is incompetent, not only harmed Envoy Liu Jing, but also failed to save his bones. โ
Shao Heng and Nangong Beidou glanced at each other, and their hearts sank.
Before coming, Nangong Beidou was specially visited by Liu Jingzhi's relatives.
The outer disciple's soul lamp is extinguished, and it is not necessarily the death of the soul, but there is still a glimmer of hope, and now that he has received accurate news, how heavy is it.
ps: Quickly change the copy ing, the original content of the three chapters was combined, and some things were removed. By the ay, I have always felt that the name of Dipingguan is a little familiar, and today I realized that I accidentally used the ff14 place name, o(โฏโกโฐ)o.