Lu Zhizhen escorted several junior disciples and Liu Tai to the official road, and said to them: "This is already out of the mountain, follow this road to the east, and there is a market town in front." There are disciples of this sect in the town, and they have prepared horses and vehicles, and I am here to stop these bandits, and then open the road tomorrow. ”

"Take care, big brother!"

Several juniors and disciples said goodbye together, and walked down the official road with Liu Tai.

"Fortunately, there is a senior brother, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to arrive on time!" Cao Shouzhen said.

"Can't you walk up the mountain?" Deng Shaochong asked.

Cao Shouzhen shook his head and said, "You said that you went through the mountains to descend to the True Palace? That's impossible, the old trees in the mountains are full of thorns, there is no way to walk at all, if you need to walk through the mountains to open the way in the forest, not to mention there are poisonous snakes and beasts, even a few days can not arrive. ”

Zhao Zhongxian also explained to the two young juniors: "Our Nanyue is known as the Seventy-two Peaks, and the most dense place of the peaks is in the area of the Xianglu Peak, the Zhurong Peak where our Xi'an is located is in the northwest of this mountainous area, and the Zigai Peak is in the north-east. The two peaks are far away from each other, but the Zhenzhen Palace is in the south of the Zigai Peak, although there are also paths in the mountains, but it is still the fastest to go down the mountain and take the official road. ”

In this era, there is no mountain road extending in all directions in Hengshan, so the fastest way to walk is to go down from Zhurong Peak to the north of Hengshan, and then go around this mountainous area along the official road for half a week, and turn to the foot of the south of Zigai Peak and then go up the mountain.

They soon arrived in the town, and sure enough, there were disciples of their own sect to answer them.

This disciple is a wealthy family in this town, when he was young, he once entered Hengshan to learn Taoism, and later did not become a Taoist priest, and finally gave up going home, but he still has close contact with Xi'an and Zhenzhen Palace, and helps Hengshan faction to manage the field production department near the town on weekdays.

He had hired horses and carriages at the chariot shop near the town gate, which were unroofed, and were commonly known as open carriages, which were used in the countryside.

When the Tang people went out, men generally rode horses, and the old and weak women and children rode in cars.

There were also rules for carriages, and under normal circumstances, only horse-drawn carriages could be hired, and only noblewomen and married brides were allowed to ride in bullock carts.

Cattle were used for plowing the fields in ancient times, and were rarely used to pull carts, and were strictly controlled by the government from birth, use to slaughter, so sitting in an ox cart was a symbol of status, Yang Guifei had an awkward relationship with Xuanzong, and went back to her mother's house to live for a few days, and she was riding an ox cart.

Guo Hong and Liu Tai sat in the cart, with the baggage of the four people next to them.

Zhao Zhongxian and Cao Shouzhen rode horses, and Cao Shouzhen could also ride in a car, but he clamored to ride a horse, and finally got his wish with great difficulty.

Zhao Zhongxian's little monkey hid in his clothes and didn't dare to come out, and today it was a tiger and a snake, which frightened it.

The speed of the car is very fast, and it takes only half a day to reach Nanyue Town at the southern foot of Zigai Peak.

It was noon, and they had lunch at a town tavern before hiking up the mountain.

At this time, it is close to the Midyear Festival, and this place is not as rugged and difficult to travel as Zhurong Peak, so there are many Taoists and tourists.

Guo Hong and the other five people slowly climbed the stairs with the flow of people, looking at the lush and majestic Zigai Peak in the distance.

Soon I saw the murmuring water on the side of the mountain road, and saw the waterfall on the mountain stone wall in the distance rushing straight down, ten meters wide and sixty meters high, making a thunderous sound, shaking the four fields.

The waterfall crashes into the strange rock that protrudes from the stone wall, and the water splashes, forming a mist like snowflakes.

Liu Tai, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, lowered his voice and said to Guo Hong and the others: "Everyone follow me, don't look back, there are people following all the way, I'm afraid it will be ill-intentioned!" ”

They walked briskly for a short time, surpassing many tourists, Guo Hong secretly looked back, and sure enough, he saw a few people also speeding up.

At this time, there was a sudden quarrel on the mountain road ahead, blocking the road up the mountain, and the tourists could only stop and wait.

Several white-clothed people squeezed in from the crowd in front, with turbans on their heads and long bags in their hands, and their appearance always showed a strange look compared to ordinary people.

"It's those monks from the Yellow Crane Tower!" Deng Shaochong shouted, he recognized the white-clothed monk who was fighting with Ye Zangzhi at a glance.

"Fight with them!" Cao Shouzhen took out the long sword from his baggage.

Liu Tai and Zhao Zhongxian glanced at each other, there were enemies in front and behind, and they could only protect Guo Hong and Deng Shaochong to the fork in the road.

It's a dead end, but it's better than being beaten on your back.

They walked up the stone steps against the rock wall in the direction of the waterfall and came to the middle of the waterfall, where the waterfall fell from above like a curtain of water.

Not far away is a cave, half-hidden behind the waterfall.

Slowly bypass the stone platform protruding along the edge of the rock wall, it is the entrance of the karst cave, the stone wall is engraved with the big character of vermilion "Zigai Xiandong", here is the place where the legend of Zhuling the Great lived, it was called Zhuling Cave in ancient times, and it was called "Zigai Xiandong" at this time.

A stone chamber has been carved into the stone wall on the right side of the waterfall, which is called the Dragon Shrine.

In the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan, Tang Xuanzong sent Zhang Fengguo and Taoist Sun Zhiliang from Chang'an to Zhuling Cave in Nanyue to put the golden dragon and jade slips to pay tribute to the dragon god.

The Dragon God Shrine, which was once full of incense, has been abandoned for a long time, overgrown with vines, and there are no Taoist priests left behind.

The upper reaches of the mountain are full of people, and I don't know how many literati and writers have recited poems in the past, leaving dense words on the stone wall.

"Stay here! You're signaling for help! Liu Tai said to Zhao Zhongxian, they all took out their long swords, and waited for the battle, and the tourists around them saw it and knew that something was going to happen, so they avoided it.

Guo Hong saw the second senior brother walking into the Dragon God Temple, so he followed in, only to see that the stone room was already very dilapidated, and there were still incense cases and dragon god murals, and there was a big drum on the side.

Zhao Zhongxian picked up the drumstick and struck it, three long and one short, repeated three times, each time was slightly different, this is a specific distress signal of the Hengshan faction, which can be played with any instrument.

The rumbling sound of water outside could not hide the sound of the drum, because this was originally a magic weapon to worship the dragon god back then.

When the men in white saw that the other party had noticed it, they no longer concealed it, took out the steel knife from their baggage, and rushed towards them with a waving one.

Hong Yu rushed to the front with a few junior disciples, and exchanged hands with Liu Tai, Zhao Zhongxian, and Cao Shouzhen.

Tourists hide in the distance, because the mountain road is blocked and can not escape, and when they see that the two sides of the fight did not hurt the innocent, they gradually become bolder, and they all stop to watch, many of them will be martial, and they will applaud loudly when they see the wonderful place.

"Uncle Shi, are you sure that flower-faced boy is the second son of Guo Zhongwen's old thief?" It was Hui Lian, the eldest disciple of the head of Weishan, who spoke, and he said to the short Japanese monk Yuanren beside him.

"It's never wrong, they stayed in Sanxiangyi in Luoyang, and these people don't avoid people when they talk, they all call him Erlang. The groom there is a believer in Xiangyan Temple, and he has been ordained into the disciple of Zhixian, and a few days ago he waited with me to go to the Yellow Crane Tower, and saw that I was injured in the hands of this child, so he remembered that he had said it! ”

After the battle of the Yellow Crane Tower, Yuanren and Zhixian were unwilling, Guo Xingzhang was gone, and they learned that Guo Hong was also Guo Zhongwen's son, so they encouraged Hui Lin and Hong Yu and others to go south to Hengshan, trying to find an opportunity to kill him.

Liu Yuanjing guessed that the other party would not give up, so he asked Guo Hong to go to Zhu Rongfeng to hide, not wanting him to encounter danger in Xi'an, so he went around and came to Zigai Peak, and was blocked by the monks who were waiting.

These people claim to be white-clothed monks, and they have been hanging orders in the Dashan Temple in Nanyue Town, and they dare not approach the Zhenzhen Palace.

There were originally two major temples in Nanyue Town, one was Dashan Temple, the other was Mida Temple, Wuzong destroyed the Buddha and destroyed the Mida Temple, and now only Dashan Temple remains.

Ordinary people wear pale yellow coarse cloth clothes, called Ge Yi, and Zhi Xian and others are all white, and their outfits are very conspicuous, so they can only send believers out every day to inquire about the news.

Yuanren and the others thought that Liu Yuanjing and the others were in the Zhenzhen Palace, and they got the news today that the flower-faced child came in from outside the town, and they were still a little strange in their hearts, but they still immediately gathered people, chased them all the way, and finally stopped the other party here.

"The drum just now should be a distress signal, I'm going to fight quickly!" Hui Lin said.