I don't know how long I walked, until I came to the top of a ridge and looked back, I found that I could only see a continuous ridge of mountains surrounding it, and I couldn't see the road I first came to. Standing at the top of the mountain, you can see a layer of mist covering the surrounding mountains not far away.

A ray of sunlight fell from the sky through the clouds, and in an instant the entire ridge was white and bright, and a few decimal places shook gently between the stone crevices with a few microfractions. This is again, and the valley under your feet is still gloomy. Walking along the ridge, I found that an open valley on the other side of the ridge appeared in front of me, and looking forward to the valley, a Taoist hall on the slope appeared mysteriously and strangely in front of me in the deep mountains. The ridge is like a knife, splitting a valley in two. And the strange thing is that it is dark and sunny.

"There should be the Bagua Palace in front." An Xiangfei pointed to the valley and said.

"It's so far away, I'm tired to death, and I also have an idea of setting up a Taoist temple here in this deep mountain and old forest." He Yufeng complained and sarcastically.

Looking at the time is already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun's rays have begun to slope westward, a few of us walked along a path on this steep mountain road towards the valley, as the saying goes, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, a downhill road walked for more than two hours, and it was already more than six o'clock when we arrived in the valley, but the strange thing is that according to common sense, the sun should not be found in the valley at this time, but the valley is still sunny at this time. It seems that the direction of this valley is a few excellent feng shui locations for lighting. When I reached the bottom of the valley, I didn't dare to slack off, and walked all the way along the valley floor, but it was much better, the valley floor was very flat, and a winding stream flowed out of the ridge, and walked along the valley floor. After walking for about half an hour, I looked back and found that the ridge behind me had become dark, and the light of the setting sun was slowly moving towards us.

"Speed up, you have to go to the Taoist temple before the sun sets." Mu Xiu said solemnly, and everyone didn't dare to be too lazy, so they quickened their pace and walked forward, and soon saw the Taoist temple on a high ground near the bottom of the valley, which was completely shrouded in the setting sun at this time. Along a bluestone paved path soon came to the entrance of the Taoist temple, only to see a plaque on it that read: "Bagua Palace" and the whole Taoist temple from the outside looks old. And there are a few places where there are obviously a few very large cracks in the wall.

Mu Xiu knocked on the door, and he heard a sudden sound of light footsteps inside, squeak, the door opened and an old way came out, looked at a few of us, his eyes fell on Mu Xiu, and then smiled slightly: "Mr. Mu Xiu, you are finally here, come in quickly." As he spoke, he made a gesture of please, and when we just entered the door, the old man actually closed the door quickly, and looked a little flustered.

And I was dazed by this series of strange actions, what was this Taoist priest nervous about, and when I looked closely, I realized that this Taoist priest was one of the three Taoist priests who followed the shogunate last time. Entering the courtyard of the Taoist temple, there is a Nuoda's incense burner in the middle of the small courtyard, and several unburned sandalwood incense sticks are still rising in puffs of green smoke. A few steps forward is a slightly magnificent hall, under the guidance of the Taoist priest, we walked into the hall, and found that the hall enshrined a huge statue of God, and looking at the tablet I was blindfolded because it was written: "The god of the Emperor and the Ghost King of the Five Directions." "I have seen those who worship God and Buddha, and I have never seen anyone worship ghosts.

Just when we were all surprised, two more Taoist priests came in from the side door of the main hall, smiled at us, and then saluted: "Mr. Muxiu, you have worked hard all the way. I also asked this donor to go to the side room to rest quickly. Before the words fell, a thunderclap suddenly sounded outside the hall, and the expressions of the two changed greatly. And these two people are two of the three Taoist priests who met with the shogunate in the teahouse.

"Let's go." Hearing a thunderclap outside, Mu Xiu said, quickly followed my three Taoist priests towards the back door of the main hall, walked out of the back of the main hall, looked up, it was much bigger than I imagined, a few quaint cedar trees in the courtyard behind Nuoda looked like they were thousands of years old, and there was a row of stone tablets neatly standing on one side of the courtyard.

The path of the three Taoist priests led us into several relatively simple delivery rooms. But although it is simple, it is still neat and clean. As soon as they entered the door, the three of them quickly put the door shut, and several of us who watched were stunned, wondering if these three old Taoist priests were crazy. I saw that the three Taoist priests turned around and said with a serious expression:

"A few donors, it will be dangerous for you to come a little later, this day the door is closed, yin and yang are mixed. You can't get out of this valley. ”

"Master, tell me slowly, what's going on?" I looked at the three old Taoist priests without malice, and at this time I looked nervous, looking out the window from time to time, I asked puzzled. But before my words fell, the Taoist temple, which was still shining in the sunset just now, suddenly darkened, and through the window, I saw dark clouds in the sky, thunder rolling, and lightning coming one after another.

"Wow, it's getting too fast." Said to Anton.

"It's fast there, obviously when I came in just now, I thought it was still a sunny day, this is the evil gate." He Yufeng answered. Looking at the words of a few of us, the three Taoist priests waved their hands and said: "What a few donors said is true, and a few of them sit down and listen to the poor Tao to come slowly." ”

When the old Taoist priest said this, we all put down our luggage and sat down on the stools. The old Taoist priest brought us all tea, and then lit the kerosene lamp, and at this time it was still pouring rain and thunder. Looking at this curtain cultivator again, his face was serious, and he said to the old Taoist with a slightly flustered expression: "How can this be like this, the so-called temple gate is not disturbed, how can this Taoist temple suddenly be full of yin qi?"

Hearing Mu Xiu's question, I saw the third elder sigh and said, "Listen to us slowly tell you the story." The dim light kept beating on the white window paper, and with the rhythm of the rain and the thunder, the three Taoist priests slowly began to speak with a sad face.

At this time, there was a sudden thunder and a lightning bolt that seemed to be slashing straight at the roof, which startled everyone, and the two flashing wooden doors suddenly sounded like someone was pushing back and forth for some reason. The third old man suddenly knelt down and began to bow to the door.

Read the first book of the King of Books novel