Chapter 376: The Underground Palace
The two took a turn in the city of Pingxi Mansion. Sure enough, the former situation of Buddhism being the only one no longer exists. There are many houses in the city that hang colorful prayer flags outside, and yellow charms are pasted on the gates to protect the safety of their homes.
Baili Creek is a little unsightly. But Mu Wan felt that there was nothing wrong with this: "They are just ordinary people, not real believers." Whether it is hanging prayer flags or pasting peace charms, they just want to ask for the safety of a house. In the mundane world, such people account for the vast majority. We don't want to be them by the standards of monks. ”
Bailixi bowed his head, was silent, and said in his heart: No wonder my grandmother said that cultivators should have a tolerant and broad heart. My heart is still too narrow.
After turning around, Mu Wan still didn't see the shadow of the City God Temple, and sighed in her heart: Once it is destroyed, it will not be easy to restore the Taoist system.
The situation in Nanhua City is similar to that of Yunxi Mansion. After understanding the situation, the two rushed straight to Longxing Mountain and gradually moved away from the crowds.
After walking in the mountains for more than ten days, they finally arrived at the foot of Longxing Mountain.
Longxing Mountain is a double-headed mountain, high and steep. Before coming, Mu Wan guessed in her heart: The so-called underground palace should be underground. So, don't think about it, it must be at the foot of the mountain.
So, the two of them carefully searched for the traces of the steps at the foot of the mountain.
After looking for three days, I didn't see the steps that were dug out by hand!
Mu Wan reflected: It may be a natural stone step, or a boulder that looks like a step...... After searching for three more days, the two of them searched the foot of the mountain, but they still did not see stones or stones like steps!
How so! Mu Wan didn't have to do it, and he turned out the "Commentary on the Great Qin Mountain Sutra" to re-translate that set of numbers.
That's right. It is "ten steps due east of the bottom of the stairs"!
Damn the bottom of the stairs, where the hell is it!
It's like scratching her heart with a hundred claws, Mu Wan sat down on a piece of bluestone casually, looking around blankly.
Seeing this, Bailixi sat on another stone opposite, and was also at a loss. Maybe open the dungeon, and Mu Wan will find her way back to the upper realm. Gone forever. He will never see her again. However, he just wanted her to be happy, and he didn't want to see her so sad.
Gu Bai climbed out of the luggage rack and squatted beside Mu Wan. Qiang cheered up and comforted: "Sister Mu." We'll definitely find the steps. ”
Ryoko asked, "Did we think wrong?" It is said that the underground palace was created by the ancestor of the Baili family, so it has been at least tens of thousands of years since now. Tens of thousands of years. Ordinary boulders have become gravel piles. ”
"What do you mean?" Gu Bai asked unhappily. "It's cursed that the steps are gone. Can't we find the dungeon anymore? You are so unhappy to see Sister Mu and me return to the Yanhua Realm......"
"Ah Bai!" Mu Wan stopped in a loud voice, "Liangzi didn't curse anything. He's just talking about things. ”
Ryoko was so angry that she spread her wings and wanted to run away. Hearing this, most of the anger in his stomach immediately disappeared.
Gu Bai raised his head and glared at Bailixi, turned around angrily, and pointed his ass at the two of them.
Mu Wan asked, "Liangzi, you say, what could be the bottom of the stairs?" ”
Ryoko shook his head: "I think what the Taoist chief said makes sense, it should be a stone step, or it looks like a stone step, and it will take tens of thousands of years, and it can remain the same." I can't guess what it is. ”
"What can stay the same for tens of thousands of years?" Mu Wan raised her head and looked at the top of the mountain.
Gu Bai snorted angrily: "Yes, this mountain is!" Tens of thousands of years later, isn't it still standing here, still called Longxing Mountain? ”
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. As if a meteor had crossed her heart, Mu Wan shouted: "I know ......" Before the words fell, she ran out of the mountain as if she was flying.
Gu Bai hurriedly chased after him: "Sister Mu, wait for me." ”
Ryoko was confused: "What do you know?" ”
Bailixi put the luggage rack back on his back and said, "I don't know." Let's talk about it first. ”
Ryoko fluttered her wings and jumped into the plum frame.
Mu Wan ran far away, looking back at the top of the mountain while running.
Everyone followed her inexplicably, turning back frequently.
When Mu Wan finally stopped, they found that they were already more than ten miles away from Longxing Mountain.
"Almost!" Mu Wan raised her head and said with a smile, "You can see the whole picture of Longxing Mountain here." ”
Bailixi looked up and saw two hills, one high and one low, in the shape of steps, and said happily: "It turns out that this is a step!" At the same time, he also understood the good intentions of the third Fengjun of Great Qin to change the sacrifice to Xuanzhao Mountain: to protect the mountain shape of Longxing Mountain!
It is precisely because of the thousands of years that Longxing Mountain has been far away from people's sight, and there has been no human population in this area, and the mountain shape has been preserved to the greatest extent.
However, a new question arises: where is the bottom of such a large staircase?
He looked at Mu Wan in confusion.
At this time, the melancholy on Mu Wan's face disappeared. She happily instructed Gu Bai: "Ah Bai, go catch two rabbits or something." When we have eaten enough, we go up the mountain. ”
Hearing what she said so surely, Gu Bai was also full of joy, responded loudly with a loud "yes", and jumped into the dense forest next to him.
"Daoist Mu, why can't you look for it now?" Bailixi asked suspiciously.
Mu Wan pointed to the top of the mountain and said, "The time has not yet come." ”
"When will the time come?" Liangzi looked at the top of the mountain, but he couldn't see any mystery.
At this time, the sun hangs in the middle. Mu Wan roughly calculated and said, "It will be two hours before the left center." ”
Two hours later? Isn't it time for the sun to turn west? Bailixi looked to the west, and then looked at the two hills, one high and one low, and his brain turned quickly. Finally, he realized: "I see! ”
Mu Wan smiled, untied the wooden rack of luggage, and looked for firewood nearby.
Liangzi still didn't understand, and asked Bailixi quietly: "What's like this?" Tell me about it. ”
Bailixi said quickly: "When the sun turns west, the shadow of the higher mountain falls on the mountain here, isn't it just a step?" ”
Ryoko's eyes widened: "In that case, wouldn't the underground palace be at the foot of the mountain?" ”
Bailixi smiled: "No one has said it." The underground palace is at the foot of the mountain. ”
After a while, Gu Bai came back with a fat rabbit. Baili Creek offered to deal with the rabbits.
Gu Bai did not object. When he came, Gu Bai spit out the rabbit in his mouth and whispered, "I'm staring at you." Don't you want to be bad! After saying that, he ran into the dense forest again as if nothing happened.
Bailixi almost thought that he had just had auditory hallucinations.
As the sun gradually shifts, the shadow of the higher mountain gradually shifts in the direction of the lower mountain. After two hours, its shadow fell on the opposite hill, and a huge staircase appeared on the steep cliff.
And Mu Wan and his party had already climbed to the top of the mountain here.
"You guys are waiting up there. I'll go down and see what happens. Mu Wan said. Climbed down the cliff.
Walk ten steps directly east of the shadow steps. She saw a long, thin slit half a foot wide.
This is the entrance to the dungeon? Are you kidding! She suspiciously probed into her senses.
Hey, in the innermost part of the slit, about five feet away from the outside, there's a scroll lying flat!
My heart moved. She carefully wrapped it in her senses. Take it over the air.
A roll of silk cloth in bright yellow. It is very similar to the holy decree of the Great Zhou.
Mu Wan opened it. Well, there is a map of Longxing Mountain drawn inside, and there is a place marked with the word "underground palace". Judging by the fabric and ink color. At most, it's an old thing from a few decades ago, not like an antiquity from thousands of years ago.
There is a line of small print in the lower left corner: Youping Seven Years.
Wasn't the seventh year of Youping the year when the "Commentary on the Great Qin Mountain Sutra" was published? It seems that the folk rumors that this book contains the secrets of the Great Qin Underground Palace, are not groundless.
Mu Wan wrote down the location of the dungeon, took the map, and swished back to the top of the cliff.
"How?" Gu Bai was the first to ask.
Mu Wan took out the map: "Find a map." "Give it to Bailixi," Don't give it up, you can see if it's from the previous dynasty. ”
"Yes." Baili Creek took it and opened it carefully. After careful identification, he raised his head and said affirmatively, "Yes, this is something from the previous dynasty Youping period. ”
According to the marks on the map, in the past few days, they actually passed by before the entrance of the underground palace more than once - the underground palace is in the ravine southeast of Longxing Mountain. There is a stone wall more than three feet high.
So, the group hurried down the mountain again and came to the stone wall.
This is a place of shade. The stone walls are covered with moss. Mu Wan released his divine sense, trying to investigate the situation behind the stone wall. However, the divine consciousness could not penetrate the stone wall at all!
Sure enough, there was a problem! Mu Wan was overjoyed, closed his five senses, and tried to sense the breath behind the stone wall.
The stone wall is very thick, more than two zhang thick. However, it is empty behind it!
That's right, this stone wall that looks like it's integrated with the surrounding area is actually a huge broken door stone! Based on the legend of Bailiyou, the so-called underground palace should be her cave house.
It's a pity that the spiritual power is sealed, otherwise, a broken door stone that is only more than two zhang thick, she can split it with a sword.
"I don't give up my friends." She turned and said.
Are you sure this is the entrance to the dungeon? Are you going to say goodbye to her? The heart hurt sharply, and Bailixi's body shook slightly. However, he quickly stabilized his mind, forced the sadness in his heart, and asked, "What should I do?" ”
Mu Wan said: "You try to drop a drop of blood on the stone wall. ”
Bailixi looked up at the tall stone wall: "One drop is enough?" ”
"It should be enough." Mu Wanxin said: This is the cave of your ancestor. She probably wouldn't want her descendants to hemorrhage.
Bailixi glanced at her deeply, relentlessly, and bit the middle finger of his right hand.
A drop of blood fell silently in the moss of the stone wall.
He couldn't help but hold his breath.
Blood seeped into the moss and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
However, there was no movement on the stone wall.
"Isn't it too little? More blood? He turned his head and looked at Mu Wan.
"No, it's moving inside. You stand back first, don't stand in front. Mu Wan shook her head. She had been closely perceiving the changes in the aura around the stone wall. Although the breath of the stone wall did not move, there was obviously a surge of air behind it.
Bailixi retreated behind her as she spoke.
After a while, the bottom of the stone wall finally rumbled like a muffled thunder.
Dirt and gravel fluttered.
"Stand back!" Mu Wan tightened the Qingyun Sword, and took ten steps back one after another, keeping it more than two feet away from the stone wall.
She's really leaving! Bailixi followed behind her, holding back tears, looking greedily at her back, her heart aching like a knife.
Finally, the stone wall slowly lifted up.
A cold, damp wind rushed out from the bottom of the stone wall.
"Rest!" Mu Wan shouted.
Bailixi hurriedly held his breath.
When the stone wall rises half a foot high, there is no more cold air coming out of it.
Mu Wan spread out her divine sense and leaned into the cave.
The big hole outside is empty; Behind the big hole, there is a passage like a sheep's intestine, which spirals down...... Hey, there's a big hole at the end of the passage. There are five elements of aura inside, multiple formations are clothed, and there are a lot of things floating around!
Ah, it's a ghost! There is a ghost cultivator who cultivates!
She immediately retracted her sense, turned to Bailixi and said, "There are a lot of ghost cultivators in the big cave below, I'll go first to investigate, and you stay here to be on guard." ”
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