Chapter Thirty-Six: There Is No Cave
Shaolin Temple has been refusing pilgrims in recent days, and the temple is surrounded by large and small temporary camps, where the remnants of the Qianji Valley led by Bai Moxuan and the remnants of the coalition led by Li Muyun have been recuperating here for nearly half a month, and finally gradually recovered.
Early in the morning of this day, Master Mingkong summoned all the heads of the road to the temple to discuss matters, Li Muyun, Li Mufeng, Bai Moxuan, Wan Zhong, Guo Ding, and Ming Lin and Ming Xuan two masters gathered in the Damo Academy Chamber, Mingkong waited for everyone to sit down, and said: "You are not outsiders, Lao Qu will get straight to the point, according to reliable information, Qilin Sect has opened the Zhaoming secret room, took out the jade seal of the country, and mobilized the ghouls to attack the Muwang Mansion at night, and has now controlled all the troops in Yunnan. ”
Everyone was in a heavy mood when they heard this, and there was silence in the hall for a moment, Li Muyun got up and said, "Master, this is a big matter, I don't know where this news came from?" ”
Master Mingkong said: "Yunnan general soldier Mu Kun Mu Mu is a lay disciple of Shaolin Temple, when Mu Wangfu is about to fall, several guards desperately protect him to break out of the encirclement, Mu Gongzi ordered his entourage to go to Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi to report the news, he day and night into the Beijing face saint, passing through Shaomu Mountain, sent someone to send a handwritten letter, his handwriting is still familiar, it should not be wrong. ”
Guo Ding said: "Even if the general soldiers of these three places get the news in advance, there may not be a way to deal with Feng Bukong's army of ghouls, we have to think of a way!" ”
Bai Moxuan said: "With our current strength, we can't compete head-on with the Qilin Sect, for the sake of today, we can only secretly get rid of Feng Bukong and slow down the expansion of the Blood Qilin." ”
Wan Zhong frowned and said, "The dangerous mountains and rivers in Southern Xinjiang, we all have a deep understanding, besides, we have just recovered our vitality, and if we want to go deep into the hinterland of the Qilin Sect to assassinate Feng Bukong, I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve." ”
Everyone looked sad, and after a while, Li Muyun suddenly said: "Everyone, there is a suitable candidate right now, but I don't know if he is willing to help us." ”
Everyone said, "Who is this man?" ”
Li Muyun paused slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Bai Miao's patriarch, He Zeyuan!" ”
In an open space on the west side of Shaolin Temple, Long Xiaoshan and He Qingqing were meditating and practicing seriously, their brows were tightly locked, their little faces were flushed, and beads of sweat were faintly appearing on their foreheads; He Zeyuan sat on the side and guarded them, there was no expression on his face, these days, his body has also recovered well, his face is no longer as dry as before, but his eyes are darker than before.
When people who practice martial arts begin to practice, they are often anxious to transform the results of internal strength into moves, so the entry of internal strength has slowed down, and the foundation is not solid, the situation of the two children is just the opposite, because Ye Chuan is no longer around, no one guides them in the swordsmanship, only single-minded internal strength, in the past half a month, the Zichen Xuangong of the two has broken through the second layer and approached the third layer.
The spirit snake that was originally napping suddenly raised its head and hissed and spit out the snake letter, He Zeyuan glanced sideways and saw Li Muyun and Master Mingkong who were walking towards this side.
The two walked closer, saluted and greeted He Zeyuan, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the two children's strange faces, secretly taken aback, glanced at each other, nodded slightly, and walked behind Long Xiaoshan and He Qingqing, sat down cross-legged, and put their palms against the backs of the two children, slowly like internal force.
Although He Zeyuan didn't understand what he meant, he believed that the two of them had no malicious intent, so he didn't stop it, and after a while, the two children let out a long breath, each of them finished their work, opened their eyes, and their eyes were extremely tired, Li Muyun got up and said: "Qingqing, Xiaolong, fortunately, we arrived in time, otherwise it would be very dangerous for you to break through the pass rashly without being supervised!" ”
Master Mingkong said: "Amitabha, the two little donors are talented and intelligent, but you are young after all, and you are easy to go mad by cultivating only with the mental tips dictated by Ye Shaoxia, and I hope you don't try to break through before Ye Shaoxia returns." ”
The two of them were silent for a moment, nodded reluctantly, and He Qingqing whispered, "Master...... Master, when will he come back? ”
Li Muyun said: "Ye Shaoxia is kind-hearted, Jiren has his own natural appearance, he should be back soon, you two don't have to worry about him, Uncle Li has something to say to your brother, can you go elsewhere to play for a while?" ”
The two of them said "um" and left the place together, He Zeyuan understood that Li Muyun and Master Mingkong had just helped his sister, and he bowed slightly after learning the etiquette of the Han people, and said, "Thank you!" ”
Li Muyun hurriedly replied: "The effort of raising your hands is not enough to worry about, Patriarch He, the two of us came to disturb because we had to discuss with each other." ”
He Zeyuan nodded slightly and said, "Please speak." ”
On the bank of Lingshui, more than 30 disciples of Mingyue Palace surrounded Ye Chuan and Su Ling in the middle, Ye Chuan ransacked Liulin Town by the Jin soldiers, took refuge in the mountain, and met Lu Muqin who had already passed on the merits of Lu Muqin for Su Ling and other events in detail, and then said: "In the next words, it is true, Senior Lu passed on the sword to the sword, Senior Sister Su has no room for resignation, as for the death of Senior Lu, the two of us did not know in advance, this bamboo branch sword was originally owned by your faction, and it can be returned as it is, but my junior sister's skills are really unable to return to your faction." ”
Everyone in Mingyue Palace looked at each other, and they couldn't make up their minds for a while, Ye Chuan also knew that his reputation was not good, and secondly, the breaking experience was too bizarre, and it was difficult to accept it for a while, and he was bitter and helpless in his heart, and added: "If you still don't believe it, you can try to see if the skill on my junior sister is the unique internal skill of your sect." ”
An Ruosu said: "That's not necessary, with the martial arts of the ancestor, it is unlikely that others will take the bamboo branch sword from her hands, Fang Cai is reckless, there is a lot of offense, please forgive me." ”
Ye Chuan arched his hand and said: "Receiving favors from others, how can you blame it, this bamboo branch sword ......"
An Ruosu said: "Since this bamboo branch sword was passed on to Miss Su by the ancestor himself, no one in the Mingyue Palace dared to object, but the ancestor taught the sword to Miss Su, and he already regarded her as a disciple in his heart, please return to the palace with us no matter what, and report this matter to the palace master, so that we can have an explanation as disciples." ”
Ye and Su glanced at each other, and both thought: "This request can't be refused by reason and reason, and besides, we have nowhere to go, so it doesn't hurt to go to Mingyue Palace." ”
However, because Ye Chuan had said that he would not go to Mingyue Palace no matter what, in order to make Su Ling feel at ease, it was difficult to say yes at this time, Su Ling saw his thoughts, and said, "Senior brother, let's go and visit the eldest grandson palace master!" ”
Seeing that Su Ling was so understanding, Ye Chuan was very grateful in his heart, and nodded and said, "Okay, then we will bother." ”
Seeing that the contradiction between the two sides was resolved, Ah Jiu blinked, looked at Ye and Su and snickered, Ye Chuan looked in his eyes, and said in his heart: "What a little girl who is a chicken thief!" ”
An Ruosu immediately ordered Shi Miaohan to command everyone to sort out the materials on his behalf, and he took Ye Chuan, Su Ling and Ah Jiu to hurry back to Mingyue Palace.
Although Mingyue Palace is called "Palace", it is not a palace in the true sense, but hidden in the mountain, if it were not for An Ruosu to lead the way, Ye Chuan may never find the entrance.
Because its entrance is a cliff.
It is said that it is a cliff, but in fact it is just a relatively deep crack in the mountain, and on the opposite side of the cliff is a small waterfall, and the source of the water flow must be a branch of the Ling River.
An Ruosu stopped his horse in front of the cliff, jumped off the ground, walked to a half-man-high stone, raised his hand and knocked it three times, and the crisp sound echoed among the rocks, which seemed very clear.
After three sounds, a woman's voice came from the waterfall: "The moon is bright for a thousand miles." ”
An Ruosu replied: "The snow is all over the world. ”
Then he asked, "Who is this coming?" ”
An Ruosu replied: "An Ruosu, the disciple of the head, went to Liulin Town to sweep the golden soldiers and rescue the refugees. ”
After a while, there was a rumbling sound in the waterfall, and a long corridor separated the water flow, slowly stretched out from behind the waterfall, connecting the two sides of the cliff together, An Ruosu got back on his horse and said, "Three please." "Be the first to ride the horse onto the promenade.
The three of them followed An Ruosu through the corridor and came to the inside of the waterfall, only to see that this was a wide grotto more than two feet high, and everyone got off the horse, and the promenade slowly retracted and hid in the grotto. There were four disciples of the Bright Moon Palace on duty behind the waterfall, An Ruosu explained a few words to two of them, and the two disciples nodded, and came over to take away the mounts of several people. An Ruosu said again: "Ye Shaoxia, please come with me." ”
The four of them walked out of the grotto, came to the outdoors again, and looked around, surrounded by mountains, An Ruosu took Ye Chuan and others to step on a corridor, this corridor is tortuous and long, sometimes there are forks, and many times through the mountain, even if Ye Chuan's mind is bright, he can't remember the route when he came.
Along the way, I met the female disciples of Mingyue Palace several times, and everyone greeted An Ruosu with a salute, and then stared at Ye Chuan with surprised eyes, whenever Ye Chuan walked away, he would hear whispers behind him, and thought in his heart: "Since ancient times, men have commented on women, but I didn't expect that I, Ye Chuan, would one day be able to experience the taste of being talked about by girls, which is really fresh." He looked at An Ruosu's back again, and thought: "Looking at the reactions of other female disciples, this Miss An has a higher rank among her peers, but she is the same age as me, and it seems that the eldest grandson Linglong is not much older, and she must be the younger one among the heads of various sects today." ”
After walking about a cup of tea, I finally saw the main entrance of the main hall of Mingyue Palace, and this main gate is also open on the rock wall, the cornices, bucket arches, flower carvings, plaques, etc. are readily available, but they are made up on the rock wall according to the trend of the mountain stone, and from a distance, it looks like a large hall is buried under the mountain, Ye Chuan saw the main gate, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, thinking: "The main hall of the Mingyue Palace is obviously a natural cave transformation, so how to solve the indoor lighting?" You can't light candles all day long! Looking at the plaque again, I saw that it read "Colorful Palace" three big characters, and thought: "Colorful Palace, this name is also chic!" ”
An Ruosu brought the three of them into the hall to give them a seat, instructed a maid to look at the tea, turned around and said, "The three of you are waiting here, and I will go to inform the palace master and the uncles." ”
Ye Chuan was polite to her, An Ruosu went, Ye Chuan had the time to look at this place carefully, but was surprised to find that this colorful hall was neither lit nor opened, but relied on a kind of luminous stone inlaid on the roof, wall and stone pillar to provide a light source, most of these luminous stones are uncarved rough stones, goose-like size, different colors, densely laid on the wall, forming a variety of patterns, in front of the hall, behind the position where the master sits, there is a huge, flat round luminous stone, Exuding a blue and blue glow, when Ye Chuan was in the Taiqing Palace, he had seen many rare treasures, but it was the first time he had seen a luminous stone of this volume.
Ah Jiu said at this time: "Brother Ye, Sister Su, thank you today, if it weren't for you, I would never have been so lucky to have the opportunity to come here." ”
Ye Chuan sneered: "You're welcome. ”
Ah Jiu said: "Brother Ye, don't be angry, I'm a little girl, helpless, I can only protect myself first in case of danger, what I said to Sister An today is not appropriate, just because I am afraid of getting angry, and I am not lying, I really don't know where you come from." ”
Ye Chuan said: "That's right, we haven't mentioned it to you." ”
Ah Jiu said: "It's better like this, I'll give you back your sword, and the grievances between the two of us will be written off, what do you think?" ”
Ye Chuan said: "It couldn't be better! ”
As he spoke, a white shadow suddenly flashed from the corner, and Ye Chuan said alertly: "What is it!" ”
Ah Jiu was startled, looked around, but didn't see anything, and said in a panic: "Brother Ye, don't scare me, what's there here?" ”
The reason why she was scared was because Ye Chuan said "something" instead of "someone".
Su Ling said: "It seems to be a cat." ”
When Ah Jiu heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's just a cat, why make all the fuss!" ”
Ye Chuan said: "If it's really a cat, it's terrible, if it's a human, even if it's a fast body, it's hard to escape my eyes, but a cat's movements can make me can't see clearly, do you say this cat has become a jing?" ”
Ah Jiu immediately became nervous again.
"Aim", the white shadow jumped on the table next to the master's seat, slowly lay down, the three of them looked fixedly, only to see that the cat was snow-white, extremely long hair, two ears pointed and high, the most strange thing was that he had two eyes, one was golden, the other was blue, and he was looking at the three of them faintly.
Ye Chuan said in his heart: "After Senior Sister Su got the skill of Senior Lu, her internal strength cultivation really made me better, and the shadow of Fang Cai was as fast as lightning, and she could actually identify it as a cat." ”
Ah Jiu was furious by the white cat's heart, and involuntarily leaned back like a chair, and said, "This ...... How does this cat look so strange......"
Ye Chuan said: "This thing must not be my species in the Central Plains, I heard that cats in the Persian region will have special pupil color and extremely long hair, maybe this is this kind of cat." ”
Su Ling said: "But...... Persia is thousands of miles away from here, and if you want to bring a Persian cat here, I'm afraid it's not easy to ......."
Suddenly, I heard the voices of the female disciples outside the door: "Eldest Sun Palace Master, all the uncles are well!" ”
The three of them got up one after another, and Ye Chuan said in a low voice: "It's here!" ”