Chapter 40: The Ancient Ring Sword
"You are?" Liu Yuan, who was laughing out loud, saw a few people here, and instantly stopped laughing, and then looked at the Buddha statue, he still couldn't help laughing, and he also realized the state of mind of the kneeling old monk at this time, as a disciple of Buddhism, the Buddha was teased in front of him, and kneeling down was already a small punishment.
The powerful middle-aged man with black and white hair stood up, and the man named Li Ru also stood up.
"Little brother, long time no see." Li Ru greeted him, and his attitude was much better than in the store before.
Zhang Erhe pursed his lips, but he didn't dare to squeak, while the two of them completely ignored Zhang Erhe, walked straight to Liu Yuan, and looked at him carefully.
"Li Ru said that you kid is smart before, I don't believe it yet, but now it seems that there are indeed two hits!" The middle-aged man chuckled and patted Liu Yuan's shoulder and said in appreciation, but what made Liu Yuan wonder was where this person saw that he had two hits? It was obviously the first time he had met him, and his attitude also made Liu Yuan suspicious, so he slipped away from the middle-aged man's big hand.
"You haven't said yet, who you really are." Liu Yuan frowned and said, but Li Ru stepped forward, his face was displeased, and said, "Don't be ignorant of your kid, he's but..."
"Eh, it's normal for young people to be angry, young man, I invited you here this time, there are indeed some things that need your help, I believe you have also seen it, what is different about this Buddhist hall?" The middle-aged man's face turned serious, he looked back at the old monk kneeling on the ground, shook his head, and there was a little helplessness in his voice.
"That's what you're referring to?" Liu Yuan pointed to the strangeness on the Buddha statue, and then pointed to the inscriptions on both sides of the pillar, and asked curiously, if there is any difference between this Buddha hall, there are only these two places.
The middle-aged man nodded, turned around and walked to the old monk and whispered a few words, the old monk finally had some reaction, kowtowed to the Buddha statue three times, and stood up.
"Come with me." Without giving anyone a chance to react, the old monk walked to the back hall alone, while the middle-aged man followed closely, but Li Ru stayed alone in the Buddhist hall.
"You're not going in?" Zhang Erhe stared at him with wide eyes and looked at him curiously, but he just smiled slightly, continued to sit on the futon, and meditated.
Liu Yuan and the two glanced at each other, ignored him, followed the middle-aged man, and walked in.
The back hall seems quite spacious, probably because there are no pilgrims, even other monks have never seen it, and there is only one old monk in the Buddha hall group of Nuoda, which is indeed a little strange.
After the back hall, there is a secret door, if someone leads the way, it is really difficult to find out, the incense candles on both sides of the secret door are burning, and when you enter the secret door, you will come to the mountain stone room, this kind of architectural design is indeed exquisite, depending on the mountain, digging a hole in the mountain is naturally nothing unusual, but what makes Liu Yuan feel exquisite is the design of this secret door, there is no mechanism! That is, except for those who know, other outsiders can't open it at all, and near the secret door, Liu Yuan also noticed a trace of strange fluctuations, this feeling is like the hidden array he laid out in Shennongjia before, firmly locking the mountain veins for his own use, thinking of this, Liu Yuan couldn't help but be curious about the old monk who led the way ahead.
The road is winding, but the mountain is not hollowed out, it seems that this mountain cave should be a natural formation, and they follow the cave all the way down to the belly of the mountain.
"Yuan'er, do you think it's a little cold here?" Outside, in April, the temperature is not low, but when you enter here, it is like entering an ice cellar, this contrast caught Zhang Erhe off guard, and Liu Yuan was much better, but he frowned and didn't answer, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Uncle, what are you bringing us here for?" Liu Yuan said with deep vigilance, he still couldn't fully believe this sudden stranger, this mountain cave was quite strange, there was a strange aura everywhere, and this kind of thing was most familiar to him, this was magic, something different from ordinary people.
"Young man, don't ask what you shouldn't, you're doing things for me, and I have the right not to answer any of your questions, just follow." The middle-aged man's words became very indifferent, and he had completely different attitudes from when he was outside before, which made Liu Yuan a little worried, but he couldn't show himself too much, after all, he didn't even know the identity of this person until now.
"Helping you with things? What are you? Liu Yuan scolded angrily in his heart, but there was no change on the surface, and he followed behind, very respectful.
And Zhang Erhe was also a little unhappy, listening to this person's tone, he completely treated them as subordinates, although he was angry in his heart, he had to endure it, after all, it was someone else's territory, and this person gave him a very dangerous feeling.
The more you go inside, the colder the air becomes, and later, Zhang Erhe and the two are almost unbearable, and the middle-aged man is clothes on his body tightly, and there is no unnecessary discomfort, but the thin old monk at the front has no reaction at all, and even the pace is as steady as ever.
"Here we are." The old monk said lightly, and the scene that appeared in front of them almost made Zhang Erhe petrified, this, how is this possible? I saw that in the position directly below them, in the middle of the mountain, it was very translucent, even compared to the light, and the most strange thing was that the entire underground was a frozen land with crystal light, and those bright lights were emitted from the glacier, and the cold in the cave here had reached the extreme, and the perennial northern life could not withstand this severe cold, and in the middle of the glacier, it was a corpse in a bright red robe, dragging a sword between his hands, standing farther away, You can feel the chill coming out of it, too.
"Uncle Zhang, are you okay?" Liu Yuan put one hand on Zhang Erhe's arm, and at some point the black gloves were already on his hand, and there was a strange power faintly coming from it, which also relieved Zhang Erhe's cold pressure a little.
"Master, is this just..."The middle-aged man's eyes were shining, staring closely at the corpse in front of him, to be precise, it should be something in the corpse's hand.
"Amitabha, good, good, that's right, that's it, it's the ancient precept sword!" The old monk sighed, saluted the corpse in front of him, and said slowly.
"What! Ancient Ring Sword? Wasn't that stolen? How did it get here? This time, it was Liu Yuan's turn to be shocked, there were swords in the Buddhist gate, which should not be, but what made him wrong was that he didn't calculate it, the stolen ancient ring sword would reappear in another distant place, and judging from the environment of this sword, this obviously does not belong to the ranks of antiques, what it is, he can't tell, but this time it made him really feel defeated, this bureau may not be what he thought at all, the things involved have been out of the category of ordinary people.