Chapter 23: Treasure Hunting in the Night
The day and night flew by, and it felt like it was already dusk the next day without doing anything. The four of them gathered in Tian Mo's room as agreed, but found that Tian Mo's face was surprisingly different and his expression was extremely tired.
Zhiyan understands that if she wants to do this kind of betrayal of her master tonight, it will be difficult for anyone to change her heart, and remembering what she heard last night, she feels a little sorry for the gentle and kind big boy in front of her. She really didn't understand why people and demons had to be incompatible, and why Lingyang Palace, as the head of the Immortal Cultivation Sect, would use such a cruel method to improve her cultivation.
The world is afraid of demons, hates demons, and always treats them with strange feelings and eyes, and they don't understand why this is. She only knew that Le'er and Tianmo were demons, but they had the kindest hearts.
"Brother Tianmo, your face is not very good...... Why don't we do it tomorrow night? Mo Qi looked at Tianmo, although he still had an expressionless wooden face, his eyes were full of concern.
"I'm fine, the longer this matter drags on, the more difficult it will become, so we'll act according to the plan we agreed this morning. Persistence, you don't know martial arts, you must be careful everywhere. โ
"Thank you, thank you for helping Le'er so much."
In the middle of the night, the entire Tianling Mountain was silent.
Song Lian was meditating in the room with his eyes closed, when he suddenly remembered a crisp bell in his ears. Song Lian hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly, "It's finally here...... Dust Moon Valley Dementor Bell, it seems that you can't be careless this time. โ
With a slight swing, Song Lian saw a silver sword pierce through the window and struck at a rapid speed in the direction from which the sound came. There was a bleak sound of flute, but the sword suddenly turned in the air and flew towards Song Lian uncontrollably. Song Lian smiled lightly and dodged away, not seeing the slightest wolf bรจi and panic. He concentrated, flicked his right hand on the sword, and the long sword suddenly turned into a white python, spitting out the letter and hissing and moving out of the house.
The giant python fluttered and churned in the courtyard, and the heavy demonic aura around it turned the flowers and plants in the garden into a wilt. It flicked its long tail gently, and with a huge wave of air, the sound of bells and flutes stopped abruptly, and the two figures, one blue and one green, fell heavily to the ground from a high place, and were entangled by the giant python.
Song Lian laughed and walked out of the house, followed by Daoist Yongxu with a solemn face. When he saw Zhi Yan and Xiao Xiao, his face changed, and he looked at the two of them with fierce eyes, "Why are you two?" Mo Qi and Tianmo! โ
"Master Song, you are respected by everyone in vain, but I didn't expect you to be in the company of demons!" Xiao Xiao glared at Song Lian angrily, she felt that the spiritual power in her body was being sucked by the giant python little by little, and she was a little frightened and panicked in her heart, but she still pretended to be calm.
"Little ants, short-sighted, self-sufficient! Said the two of them ......"
"Report to the master......" A young Lingyang Palace disciple ran over panting, knelt on the ground, and couldn't even speak, "No...... Not good...... It's wrong, it's back...... The disciples of the back mountain were knocked unconscious, and a large number of demons ...... I ran away while I was in chaos......"
Song Lian frowned, and sighed in his heart that it was not good, if the demon escaped, the secret of the back mountain would definitely be spread, and if so, the entire Lingyang Palace would be finished. "Senior brother, you stay here, I'll come when I go."
"Boss, boss!" A disciple of Lingyang Palace ran over in a panic, "Little Uncle, where is Junior Uncle...... It's on fire there! โ
Listening to the words of the disciple who came to deliver the message, Song Lian trembled with anger, "It turns out that you know where those ancient secret techniques for refining demons are hidden...... Song underestimated you. โ
"Where's the junior brother?"
"Uncle Xiao went down the mountain early this morning."
"Damn it!" He made a lot of calculations, but he missed the casual and reckless nature of leaving the night,
"Senior brother, the secret technique is important, you go and take a look, I'll go to the back mountain to help collect the demons, there are giant pythons guarding here, there shouldn't be anything wrong."
Song Lian nodded, glared at the two of them angrily, and hurriedly left with the two messenger disciples.
"What should we do, my spiritual power...... I'm about to be sucked up by a python...... If this continues, both of us will die. โ
"I ...... I don't know, now I can only hope that Mo Qi will come over soon. โ
As soon as the words fell, a strong blue light suddenly bloomed from the palm of Zhiyan's hand, which was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes. Surrounded and shrouded in blue light, the giant python began to writhe and scream in pain, it let go of Zhiyan and Xiao Xiao, and kept rolling in the air, and after a short time, it exhausted all its strength, and fell heavily to the ground, its body became pitch black, and it emitted a pungent smell, and it turned into a black smoke in an instant.
"Good...... It's dangerous. Zhiyan helped Xiao Xiao and patted his chest with palpitations, thanks to this mark, otherwise he would really die here.
"yes...... It's really dangerous, the blue light just now ......" Xiao Xiao looked at Zhiyan suspiciously. Zhiyan blinked and shook his head innocently, "I don't know what's going on, maybe it's God's favor." Okay, without further ado, let's look around. โ
Both of them were injured, and they both felt extremely difficult to search in the ruins, but for the sake of fun, the two continued to persevere, breaking through their limits again and again. The two searched the ruins for a long time, but never found any trace of the secret room.
"It's broken, I can't find it, what should we do!" Xiao Xiao saw that after looking for a long time, there was no trace of the secret room, and she cried anxiously.
Zhiyan was also very anxious in her heart, but she knew that the more times like this, the more careful and calm she had to be, otherwise everything would be in vain. She took a deep breath and continued to search carefully through the ruins with the fire fold, she raised her eyes and inadvertently swept the stone carvings on the wall, and she suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Xiao Xiao, come over and take a look, these two sentences on the wall."
Looking in the direction pointed by Zhiyan, he opened his mouth and read: "'The animal that is born is born but does not have, grows but does not slaughter, and does not rely on it, which is called Xuande. This is a sentence from the Tao Te Ching, is there anything wrong? โ
Zhiyan frowned, and read many of Zeran's books when she was recuperating in Wuyu Mountain, and her favorite and most read was this "Tao Te Ching". "It's really not right, this sentence should be' The animal that is born is born but does not have, for the sake of not being ashamed, and the long is not slaughtered, which is called Xuande.'" 'For the sake of not being ashamed, long but not slaughtering', these two sentences are reversed. โ
Holding Yan's hand trembled and pressed down the two lines of words, and with a soft click, the ground not far away was suddenly opened. Looking in through the light of the fire fold, it was pitch black, with only a staircase leading from the hole.
The two looked at each other and smiled, nodded slightly, and helped each other to walk deeper into the secret room. But in the end, all he saw was despair.
The space of the secret room is very large, and one of the walls is embellished with 9981 night pearls into a pattern of Tai Chi Bagua, illuminating the entire secret room as if it were daytime. The other two walls are hung with various treasures and weapons, and there is even a long-lost treasure in Dust Moon Valley, the Tong Shuqin.
While scolding Lingyang Palace for its bad character, Xiao Xiao indignantly pocketed Tong Shuqin and other valuable pills, packed them and took them away, in the name of robbing the rich and helping the poor.
They took away a lot of things that shouldn't have been taken away, but the two searched for a long time, but there was still no trace of the Nine Dragons Blood Bead.