Chapter 286: The Snake Entangles the Medicine King
The note in the bean donkey's hand was only an inch wide and narrow, and the words scribbled on it with an eyebrow pencil were scribbled on it: "The catastrophe is coming, quickly find the statue of the medicine king." ”
"Cherry ......" The note in the bean donkey's hand suddenly fell to the ground: "Wang Huan, you said that Cherry will be fine, right?"
Judging from this note alone, the man named Cherry should have run over and hid the letter in the ears of the white fox at the beginning of the war, and then immediately returned to the battlefield.
The disciples of the Medicine King Valley were all wiped out, and if that cherry was not for the high-level of the Medicine King Valley, I am afraid that it would be more than auspicious.
I comforted, "It's not that you haven't seen Cherry's body, and no news is good news." Don't worry too much. ”
"Yes, yes...... Cherries are very exciting, and they are blessed, so they will definitely not have an accident. "The bean donkey is clearly panicked.
I thought for a moment before saying, "Why don't we go back and look around and see if there are any cherries." ”
"No! no!" the donkey shook his head, "I'm sure Cherry will be fine." Let's go find the statue of the Medicine King. ”
I said in a deep voice, "What is the statue of the Medicine King?"
"I don't know either?" Dou Donkey said blankly: "Don't look at me like this, I really don't know anything, I know that there is a statue of the Medicine King in the Medicine King Palace." ”
"Statue of the Medicine King!" I said to myself: "The truth of the destruction of the Medicine King Valley must be hidden in the statue of the Medicine King, otherwise, the statues in the main hall would not have been dug out of so many holes." ”
I asked, "Dou Donkey, think about it again, is there any place in the Medicine King Valley where the statue ......of the Medicine King is hidden?"
"I really don't know, wow!" Bean Donkey almost cried: "I only know that there is a statue of the Medicine King in the Medicine King Palace...... That's right......"
The bean donkey patted his thigh and said, "I heard the elder say that in the past, there were a total of nine statues of the Medicine King in the Medicine King Valley. I don't know which generation of the valley lord said it, but the medicine king alone respected Sun Zhenren and sent all the original medicine king statues away. As for where it went, no one knows. ”
"The Medicine King is the only one who respects Sun Zhenren?Sun Simiao?" I muttered, "Ye Xun, can you check if there is a Medicine King Temple near here?"
Between Ye Xun shaking his head, I also roughly recalled that the statue in the Medicine King Hall was indeed Sun Simiao. But Sun Simiao is not the only one who is respected as the king of medicine in history.
Yaowang is a secular god in Taoism, which evolved from legends in ancient history. In addition to Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty, the well-known medicine king in the world, the ancient Shennong, the Spring and Autumn Bian Que, and the Three Kingdoms Huatuo were all worshiped as the god of medicine or the king of medicine. Among the folk customs of the Tang Dynasty, the three Wei (Wei Cizang, Wei Shanjun, Wei Gudao), and Pi Tong of Anguo, Hebei Province were also respected as the king of medicine, and were worshiped by later generations to build temples.
However, there are only eight medicine kings in this way, who is the ninth medicine king in the Medicine King Valley?
If the Medicine King Valley had once enshrined nine Medicine Kings, the Valley Lord should not have sent eight of the Medicine King statues away.
Most of the disciples of the Medicine King Valley wore Taoist robes, and even if the Taoist sect wanted to exalt a saint alone, there was no reason to invite their own gods out, at most, they would establish a side hall to distinguish the main and secondary.
It is unreasonable to send away the statue of the Medicine King itself, and it is even more unreasonable if there is no Medicine King Temple nearby, no matter how the other eight Medicine Kings are Taoist gods, will the Medicine King Valley, as a Taoist disciple, casually find a place to abandon the Medicine King statue?
As I was groaning, the bean donkey said, "Don't think about it, there is the Medicine King Valley within a radius of hundreds of miles, how can there be another Medicine King Palace? Even if they can build the Medicine King Palace, can they still make a hundred grass springs? There is no miracle, where is the incense, and you want to wait to starve to death?"
"What do you want to say?" I suddenly looked at the bean donkey, "You're right, let's go!"
In the eyes of those of us in the rivers and lakes, the Medicine King Valley is a sect that has been passed down for a hundred years, and in the eyes of ordinary people, the signboard of the Medicine King Valley may not be the Medicine King Palace, and people who visit the Medicine King Valley may not be able to remember the Medicine King Sun Simiao, but they will definitely be able to remember the Baicao Spring. That is the root of the reputation of the Medicine King Valley.
Why did I forget Baicao Spring?
Baicao Spring is the gateway of the Medicine King Valley, according to normal thinking, no one will hide treasures directly under the gate, everyone has to enter and exit from the gate, maybe at a glance can see that something is wrong.
But if you think about it, who would go out of the gate again to look at the threshold or the screen facing the gate? In this way, the most dangerous place becomes the safest place.
Moreover, the materials used to cast the idols were nothing more than metal, wood and clay sculptures, all of which were afraid of water corrosion, and no one doubted that they were hidden in the middle of the spring.
If there is still the most suitable place to hide the statue of the Medicine King in the Medicine King Valley, then only Baicao Spring remains.
I flew to Baicaoquan and jumped into the water in one step, wading waist-deep blood water to grab the Taiji diagram, and knocked it on the Taiji diagram with the handle of the knife.
Although the world is omnipresent, but more than ninety percent will not be perfect, these two seemingly identical springs in the Baicao Spring, the reason why people feel surprised, is because someone has buckled a layer of stone slabs carved Taiji diagram outside the spring, if you look carefully, it is not difficult to find the copper pipe hidden in the yin and yang fish.
In other words, the two springs of Baicao Spring are not on the two points of yin and yang fish, but someone used a copper pipe to change the direction of the spring water in order to make Baicao Spring look more mysterious.
This shows that there should be a lot of space behind the stone wall of Baicaoquan, and if you dig a few meters deeper, it will not be a problem to hide a few statues of the Medicine King.
After a few knocks in a row, I finally heard a hollow sound on the slate, and I took a step back and said, "This is it." ”
Ye Xun raised his hand and split the slate into stone chips, but only hurt a little fur of the slate, according to Ye Xun's playing style, even if he kept chopping until tomorrow morning, don't think about shattering the slate.
I tapped my hand on the slate twice: "Let's get ready for a spot blast!
We have been training for half a month, but there is no food to eat, at the beginning of the clay, throwing the lead is also decent, when it comes to the charge, the three of us are all stunned.
We don't know how thick the slate is, and we can't figure out the power of the explosives.
Ye Xun and I hesitated for a while, then gritted our teeth and filled the explosive* into it, and retreated to the outside of the pool before tentatively pressing the detonator.
I only heard a loud bang, and the spring in front of the stone wall immediately emptied, and countless stones roared in front of us like cannonballs through the water curtain, and I quickly lay down under the pool with my head in my hands, and flew over our heads and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
Too much medicine!
I blushed even though I held my head in my hands. If I had known this, I should have been serious in class, otherwise I wouldn't have produced such a big oolong, and maybe even the statue of the Medicine King would have turned into ashes.
What's the use of thinking about it now?
When I looked up at the stone slab with a glimmer of hope, the Taiji diagram had completely exploded, and there was indeed a secret room between the two springs on the left and right sides of the mountain wall.
The door of the secret room had been blown to pieces, but the statue of the Medicine King sitting in the center of the secret room had not been damaged in the slightest. Judging from the gold paint on the surface of the statue of the Medicine King alone, it is difficult to tell how many years it has been sitting in the secret room. But the moss on the outside of the secret room is already an indication of the centuries it has been behind the slate.
Back then, it was not so simple to be sent away by the statue of the King of Medicine.
I just wanted to go over and see what was going on, but the bean donkey pulled me back: "Look at the medicine king like the soles of his feet." ”
When I looked in the direction of the bean donkey's finger, a small mound of dirt had risen under the medicine king's feet, as if something wanted to break through the soil.
In the next moment, a golden snake about the thickness of my arm staggered out of the soil, swam up to his knees with trembling legs, and crawled straight towards the belly of the Medicine King.
"Catch it!" I didn't know how the snake could have ended up in the chamber, but I instinctively felt that I couldn't let it go easily.
The bean donkey was a few points faster than me, and ran to the medicine king with the spring water, grabbed the neck of the golden snake like electricity, and dragged the nearly two-meter-long golden snake out of the secret room: "Hurry up and find a pocket?"
I didn't plan to catch snakes when I came out this time, where to find any pockets, Ye searched for a long time before he took off the pants of a corpse and tightened his trouser legs and handed it to the bean donkey. It took a long time for the bean donkey to stuff the golden snake into his pants.
I circled around the statue of the King of Medicine, I was too far away just now and I didn't see anything special about the statue of the King of Medicine, but now that I got closer, I found that the statue of the King of Medicine was full of traces of snakes.
In other words, the golden snake was sealed in the secret room with the statue of the Medicine King, and although the golden snake could not leave the secret room, it could be wrapped around the statue of the Medicine King and wander back and forth, leaving snake marks over time.
After I struck the statue from head to toe with a knife, I finally made an empty sound on the left leg of the statue of the medicine king: "The statue of the medicine king has something in the left leg." ”
Ye Xun squatted down and cut the statue's left leg with a dagger, and took out an iron cylinder containing a map from there: "Phoenix, what is this place?"
The bean donkey's face changed and said, "Phoenix City is the edge of Miao Jiang. ”
The word Miao Jiang began to appear in the Ming and Qing dynasties, in a broad sense, Miao Jiang covers part of the six provinces, but in a narrow sense, Miao Jiang is centered on Lei Gong Mountain, and if you want to enter the hinterland of Miao Jiang, you must pass through Phoenix City, Guizhou.
"Five Poison Sects?" Ye Xun and I looked at each other and said three words at the same time.
Ye Xun looked at the map again: "You see that there is obviously a snake-shaped secret mark here, the snake is one of the five poisons, this is the map to the Five Poisons Sect?"
I said to myself, "Even if it is, it's just a remnant." The most we can walk into the mountains near Phoenix......"