Chapter 45
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At this time, people kept coming out on both sides, and the torches gathered more and more, illuminating the surrounding scenery more and more clearly. It looks as if it is a place where countless openings converge, merging directly in front of them to form a passage several feet wide.
Everyone stood and looked at each other, the people gathered here were all disciples of the three factions, Tang Lin and Xiao Yinghao were also among them, only Yu Qing and the few disciples left by each faction stayed outside and did not come in.
Looking at the huge passage in front of him, Tang Lin took the lead in entering: "Let's go, let's go in and have a look." Behind him, the disciples followed closely with torches held high. Xiao Zihong glanced at Zhang Zhao and followed Xiao Yinghao in.
"This little fox hates you. Tian Yuqin gloated and smiled: "You have to be careful, if you meet alone, maybe she will have to beat you." ”
The team had advanced for several miles, but had stopped in front of it. When everyone gathered together, they saw that the front of the passage was full of dirt, and it turned out to be a dead end.
After tossing for so long, but nothing was found, everyone sighed in disappointment: "Forget it, just let everyone come out to relax." Tang Lin looked at Xiao Yinghao and said, "Let's go back." ”
Xiao Yinghao didn't answer, took the torch from a disciple next to him and walked to the dirt blocking the road, "Brother Tang, what do you think this is?"
Tang Lin stepped forward and froze, there were a few things like branches in the soil in front of him, but if you look closely, they look like human finger bones, and the four fingers are slightly bent and stretched out from the soil.
He looked at Xiao Yinghao: "What should I do?" Xiao Yinghao turned around and shouted, "Everyone stand back." ”
The disciples thought they were going back, they all turned back, Xiao Yinghao glanced at Tang Lin, Tang Lin understood that he would be careful and guarded, Xiao Yinghao stepped forward and touched those finger bones with a torch, and as soon as he touched the finger bones, they turned into powder.
Xiao Qinghao leaned in the direction of the hand bone, only to feel that he had just sunk into the soil as soon as he exerted his strength. He withdrew his hand and looked at Tang Lin: "It's empty inside." ”
Tang Lin reached out and took the long stick carried by a disciple behind him and stabbed it a few times, only to hear the sound of "bang-la-la" continuously, and a piece of dirt in front of him collapsed inward, revealing a hole that could accommodate two people to pass through.
Under the reflection of the torches, I saw that there were several skeletons in this cave, and the air flow outside the cave poured in and blew gently, and they all turned into powder in an instant.
Tang Lin put the torch in his hand into the cave, but it was not extinguished, so he took the lead in entering. Xiao Yinghao didn't follow, and listened to Tang Lin's movements at the side of the cave.
All the disciples looked at each other, and after a long time, Tang Lin came back: "Everyone come in, but be careful, there are still a lot of bones inside." ”
The disciples entered one after another. Xiao Zihong looked at Lingxiao and the others, snorted and entered with her head held high. Tian Yuqin was not to be outdone, and grabbed a few steps to walk side by side with her. In the narrow passage, he walked again. In the light of the torches, I saw that I had entered a large hall.
Corpses lay on the ground, hundreds of them as far as the eye could see, one by one turning into ashes as the air currents followed. Looking at this scene, these people have been dead for at least a few hundred years in the place where this hall looks.
I couldn't tell who these people were, and I couldn't guess why they died in this place several miles underground, but as soon as they approached, everything on the ground turned to ashes, and everyone had a musty smell of dust in their noses.
"What kind of place is this?" Tang Lin and Xiao Yinghao stood side by side in the hall, looking at the situation in this hall, it should be not small, could it be a sudden natural disaster, and these people couldn't escape?
The disciples also scattered in the hall to look for it, and when everyone gradually dispersed, the torches illuminated the hall gradually became clearer, and the place where everyone entered was only a corner of the hall, and there were passages on all sides of the hall, but they were all blocked by mud, and the passages were dug far away, and many bones lay in them.
It seems that the four passages of this hall have been blocked, and the people in this hall tried to dig a way to escape, and finally fell to the ground with all their strength, and the road to the west was almost dug through, and finally fell short.
Zhang Zhao joined the searching, holding a torch in his left hand and a black stick in his right hand to poke and poke at the mess of dust on the ground. This stick was the one he picked up on the day Elder Yu died. This time he brought it out, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here.
After a long time, everyone found nothing, Tang Lin and Xiao Yinghao shouted to everyone to prepare to go back. Zhang Zhaodong flipped through the east for a long time, his eyes swept away, and he felt that there seemed to be something in a large pile of bones, and he used the stick in his hand to reach in and stir it, and there was a muffled sound, as if something had been broken.
Zhang Zhao picked a few times with the stick, and saw that there were a few pieces of what seemed to be jar fragments in the bones, and then he felt something heavy and sticky on the front end of the stick.
At this time, there was a loud "bang" in the passage on the east side of the main hall, and Ling Yinian and Gui Quan both jumped out in the dust. He was followed by the old man from Danxin Pavilion.
Their three roads were really unlucky, they walked for a long time and bumped into one place, turned a big bend to find a passage, and it took a lot of effort to get inside, but they saw the torches flashing in front of them, and they were robbed of the first place by the three factions of Lingxiao.
"It's unlucky. Ling Yinian brushed away the dust on his head, he raised his eyes and looked at the appearance of the disciples of the three sects, it didn't look like he had found any treasures, it seemed that this underground palace was just empty and had no benefit.
Zhang Zhao held the torch to the front of the stick, and saw that there was a black thing on the stick, which looked very disgusting, and he was about to throw it off. Seeing a flower in front of him, a person stood in front of him and said loudly: "Let me see." ”
Gui Quan was quite far away when he saw something stained on Zhang Zhao's stick, and he felt familiar and hurriedly came over. Zhang Zhao was startled, holding a stick for him to see clearly, Gui Quan laughed after reading it: "Our Miaozhutang is not in vain, I want this piece of Yin Lingzhi." ”
Zhang Zhao had never heard of what Yin Lingzhi was, and he didn't think there was anything good about this sticky thing, so he was about to say: "If you want it, I'll give it to you." At this time, I heard Gui Quan say: "Twenty high-grade immortal crystals, what do you think?"
What kind of thing is this worth twenty top-grade immortal crystals? Zhang Zhao clenched the stick tightly in his hand and looked at Tang Lin hesitantly. Tang Lin had never heard of what Yin Lingzhi was, but looking at Gui Quan's appearance, he knew that it must be a good thing.
Zhang Zhao looked at the black thing on the stick, and asked tentatively: "Twenty high-grade immortal crystals?" Gui Quan nodded: "This price is very fair." Although this piece of Yin Lingzhi is a long time, it has been smashed by you, and the medicinal effect is lost too quickly. ”
Looking at the mass of things that were passed through by Zhang Zhao's stick, Gui Quan said again: "Our Miaozhutang just needs a batch of cold medicine, so we are asking around about this kind of place, you are lucky, this thing is mixed with human bones, it is difficult to find." ”
Zhang Zhao turned his head to look at Tang Lin, Tang Lin nodded: "I don't understand this thing either, but Senior Gui will definitely not lie to you, it's useless for us to ask for this, just let it be given to Senior Gui." ”
The transaction was smooth and successful, Zhang Zhao received twenty pieces of high-grade immortal crystals and handed them to Tang Lin, and Gui Quan took out a jade box and put the Yin Lingzhi into it. Looking at the empty hall, everyone felt that there was no need to stay any longer.
When he came out of the entrance of the cave, it was not yet dark, and Lingyun City, who had found nothing, was the first to leave, and Gui Quan said hello from afar and took people back.
Tang Lin took out the immortal crystal and wanted to divide it equally with Fengwei Hall Yunyang Ling. Xiao Yinghao and Yu Qing insisted on not accepting it, and later reluctantly accepted five yuan each at Tang Lin's insistence, Yu Qing smiled embarrassedly: "Virtuous nephew, this time we can enter the underground palace, or thanks to the blessing of your little brother Lingxiao, I didn't expect to get some light." ”
After Yu Qing led the disciples of Fengwei Hall to leave, Tang Lin and Xiao Yinghao took the disciples back to Lotus Town. When he entered Lotus Town, it was still early, and Tang Lin was calculating whether to run all the way back to Lingxiao or stay here for the night, when there were people in front of him, as if someone was chasing something.
"I've finally turned my luck and caught this thing, and I can withstand the hard work of catching this thing. A familiar voice came, and it sounded like the old man who was following the young master of Danxin Pavilion.
"Everyone spread out and searched. This voice was Ling Yinian's. The two factions did not know what they had found, and were searching the town.
"Forget it, let's make less trouble, let's go back separately. Tang Lin and Xiao Yinghao made up their minds, and they wanted to pass through the town without even eating.
The disciples of the two factions slowly walked to the lake full of lotus flowers, and when they heard the sound of the water, Ling Yinian and the old man of Danxin Pavilion both stood out of thin air, each waving frequently to the lotus in the lake.
With their movements, the water columns in the lake rose and fell, and the green lotus exploded one by one, scattered on the surface of the water, and the disciples of the two factions were very puzzled when they saw it, Tian Yuqin snickered: "Are these two old men mad because they didn't find good things?"
The disciples of the two sects looked sideways as they walked, and at this time, a cyan light suddenly emitted from the top of a lotus flower, which gathered in a ball over the lake, and then gradually solidified, and turned into a human figure. The disciples of the two factions all stopped and watched in exclamation.
The person who was made of green light was an old man, with a white beard and white hair, a ruddy face and a green coat, as soon as he appeared, Ling Yinian and the old man from Danxin Pavilion both approached, but they didn't do it immediately.
"Brother Ling, how about you and I work together to take him down, and then one person and half?" the old man from Danxin Pavilion asked aloud.
"Fan Yongle, this matter is not obvious, I want to swallow it alone, and you can't agree to it. Ling Yinian smiled, in a very good mood.
The old man who turned into blue light slowly landed on the shore, with a helpless look on his face: "Two, I have been practicing here for a long time, and I have never hurt people and disturbed the people, why do you have to force each other?"
Fan Yongle shouted: "It's not my race, don't say much." After speaking, he hugged and pushed his hands in front of his chest, and two arc-shaped yellow lights emitted, sealing the retreat here.
Ling Yinian connected his ten fingers, emitting countless small points of light that condensed into a cable of light in the air, just as the old man was forced back by Fan Yongle's arc light, and the cable of light flew in the air and slapped him fiercely on the back.
There was a loud "pop", the old man staggered a few steps, the blue light on his body was overflowing, but no blood flew out, here Zhang Zhao saw the old man's appearance clearly but was shocked, he separated everyone and rushed to the lake, shouting as he ran: "Stop, this old man is a good person." Why did you kill him?"
Ling Yinian's light rope was about to hit down again, Zhang Zhao was already in front of the old man, Ling Yinian said angrily: "You kid is nosy because someone supports you, when I really don't dare to kill you?"
Two crescent-like arcs of yellow light flew up side by side, blocking the light rope that Ling Yinian had chopped, and Fan Yongle, who blocked the next blow for Zhang Zhao, smiled bitterly: "Brother Ling, don't be impulsive, you don't care about the lives of your disciples, I can't." ”
He looked at Zhang Zhao: "Do you know what is behind you? He is not a person like you and me at all, but the green lotus in this lake has spiritual wisdom, and once the spirit of this kind of grass and trees can be transformed into a human form, the harm will be endless." We are also doing the right thing for heaven, you quickly get out of the way, don't cause trouble for your sect. ”
Fan Yongle can be said to be a combination of grace and power, these few words made Tang Lin behind him tremble when he heard it, he naturally knew Lingxiao's current situation, Lingyun City and Danxin Pavilion only needed to say a few words casually, so that the surrounding city merchants would not have dealings with Lingxiao, and Lingxiao was afraid that the whole Lingxiao faction would not even be able to eat.
"Zhang Zhao, come back quickly, Senior Fan is right, that person is not a person at all, don't be nosy. Listening to Tang Lin's shout, Zhang Zhao did not move his footsteps.
"What's wrong with not being human? Two seniors, I was with this old man last night to enjoy the lotus, and he didn't do anything bad. ”
Fan Yongle shook his head: "Can you tell the difference between good and bad? This is a monster that has become a spirit, how do you know what he is thinking? Go back and ask the elders in your sect." ”
Ling Yinian was even more straightforward: "Get out of the way." ”
Seeing that Zhang Zhao was still standing at that time and didn't move, Fan Yongle looked back at Tang Lin: "It's better to quickly persuade your fellow disciple to leave, otherwise if you start to move for a while, it will really hurt the harmony." ”
Without waiting for Tang Lin to speak, Tian Yuqin shouted: "Zhang Zhao, come back, it's not up to us to decide whether to kill or not." Tang Lin shouted: "Senior Brother Zhang, come back, you can't control this matter." ”
Zhang Zhao was vigorous, and his steps remained motionless: "Senior sister, when we went down the mountain, we said that this was an experience, could it be that the experience is just watching others kill people indiscriminately?"
The old man behind him who was transformed by the green lotus saw Zhang Zhao so excited, and replied loudly: "Young man, I am indeed the green lotus in this pool, and I admired the lotus with you last night, I thought it was a godsend, but I didn't want to be happy and sad." After speaking, he looked back at the broken leaves and branches floating in the lake, and sighed slightly, full of melancholy.
Zhang Zhao was anxious: "What's wrong with Qinglian, you are not a bad person." This is not killing pigs and cattle, you have to give a reason. ”
The old man Qinglian smiled slightly: "What can I do if I am not a bad person, in their eyes, I am not a human being at all, and I have heard a lot of truths in your world over the years. Although I am a body of grass and trees, self-cultivation and Taoism, it took hundreds of years to turn into a human form, thinking that opening the spiritual prescription is the positive fruit, now it seems that it is better to save this idle time when it is muddy. ”
He looked at Ling Fan and the others, who were about to lose patience and make a move: "You just take a fancy to my body of wood spirit, and you want to use it for your own use." What plants and trees are good is just trying to find a fair and honest reason. That being the case, I will give you this reason. ”
The smile on his face remained unchanged, Fan Yongle and Ling Yinian, who were closest to him, were on guard, and the old man Qinglian pushed out his two palms after speaking, and the target was Zhang Zhao, who was still speaking for him just now, Zhang Zhao was thinking about how to persuade everyone, and the old man Qinglian's two palms had already reached his body.
With a "snap", the clothes on Zhang Zhao's back flew like butterflies, and the old man Qinglian spit out with both palms, Zhang Zhao only felt that his back was hit by a heavy hammer, and a huge force poured into his body, and he flew out like a cloud and fog on his back, and the direction was where the Lingxiao people were.
Everyone guessed that the old man Qinglian would resist, but they didn't expect that the first target of his shot was Zhang Zhao, and Fan Yongle was even more proud: "Haha, you lotus essence really doesn't distinguish between good and bad." With that, two arc-shaped yellow lights swirled and flew around, and pounced on the old man Qinglian. Ling Yinian was not slow at all, and rushed with him.
When everyone in Lingxiao saw Zhang Zhao flying out, they all wanted to reach out to pick it up, but they saw Zhang Zhao's body actually slowing down, his feet fell to the ground, and he rushed into the crowd with a few steps, and all the disciples stretched out their hands to support them, and none of them asked each other, and their eyes looked at the three people in the field. Only Xiao Zihong was fiercely happy in her heart: "Let your kid be a good person, this time you are beaten and not pleased." ”
As soon as Zhang Zhao's figure stopped, he heard the old man of Qinglian behind him shouting: "Qinglian Aggregate" Zhang Zhao turned around to look, only to see that the lotus flowers scattered on the surrounding water surface emitted a stream of green light, and went straight into the body of the old man Qinglian, the old man Qinglian's clothes were dyed with halo, and even his beard and hair were also blue, and the whole person became more and more radiant, and slowly disappeared and turned into a ball of light.
Ling Yinian and Fan Yongle had just approached, and the old man Qinglian's whole body was full of light, but it was shrinking towards his body at a high speed, and the two of them were shocked when they saw this: "This Qinglian will actually have this kind of spell that will end up together." Hurriedly stopped his pace and jumped back desperately.
The cyan light cluster shrank sharply and then dispersed, it was silent, everyone on the side felt the air waves, like a gust of wind blowing, Fan Yongle and Ling Yinian who were close to each other felt different, this air flow shocked, contained but not released, but the power was boundless, and both of them bounced into the air like balls.
Everyone on the side only saw that the green light was bright and collected, the old man Qinglian was nowhere to be seen, and there was nothing unusual after a wave of qi, but Ling Fan and the two flew straight into the sky, thinking that the two of them cast spells on their own.
After Ling Yinian and Fan Yongle landed, Fan Yongle spit out a mouthful of blood, although Ling Yinian did not vomit blood, but everyone saw that his face was so green that it was about to drip juice, obviously injured by a wood-based spell, which was much worse than vomiting blood.
Ling Fan and the others breathed for a while, and then looked at the place where the old man Qinglian was empty, and the Qinglian in the lake was also wilted, but the vitality was not cut off. Everyone around him didn't feel anything, only the two of them were injured recently.
Looking at this scene, everyone knew that the old man Qinglian didn't want Zhang Zhao to be injured before he struck him. Ling Yinian and Fan Yongle cultivated to a high level, and they clearly felt that most of the spiritual power on the old man Qinglian was used to control the body explosion spell to the range of Zhangxu, which eliminated most of the power, and if they let go with all their strength, neither of them would be spared.
I couldn't imagine that a green lotus could have such a heart when it exploded and turned to ashes, Ling Yinian and Fan Yongle both felt that their faces were dull, and Fan Yongle wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth: "Old Qinglian, it seems that I am really short-sighted and taught." He arched his hand in the direction of the lake, and left with the people of Danxin Pavilion who had gathered. Ling Yinian didn't say a word, bowed down to the lake, bowed deeply and turned to leave.
Ling Fan and his cultivation knowledge are not low, and they naturally know that the old man Qinglian is merciful, but in such a situation, he still only wants to blow himself up and not hurt people, and the grass and trees are actually so open-minded, and both of them are remorseful. But cultivators are everywhere in order to seek the spirit of the five elements, and it is inevitable that the authorities will be confused before the word Li, and the cultivators regard the grass, trees, monsters and beasts as aliens, and have never treated them with human affection.
The disciples of Lingxiao Yunyangling also left the town listlessly, after dark, everyone arrived at Lingxiao, Zhang Zhao was silent all the way, Tian Yuqin asked him how his injuries were, he just shook his head and said that it was okay.
Everyone dispersed and returned to their residences, Zhang Zhao was not even in the mood to go to Yangxian Hall, and when he entered the hut, he lay on the bed, thinking about the old man Qinglian and couldn't sleep.
Although he was hit, he knew that Old Man Qinglian just wanted to get himself out of danger. Thinking of the words and smiles of the old man Qinglian last night, Zhang Zhao felt like a big stone in his chest, and he couldn't let go.
The place where the back was slapped was hot, Zhang Zhao moved his body and felt a little tingling, and when he touched his backhand, he felt that there was a small hard object embedded in the back meat, he stretched out his fingers and picked a few times, and his back hurt, as if he had dropped something out.
He jumped down barefoot to check, only to see a blue lotus seed fall on the bed. Exactly the same as the ones that the old man Qinglian gave him last night, Zhang Zhao's eyes were red, he picked up the lotus seeds in his hand, put on his shoes and pushed the door and ran out.
The moonlight was bright, it was a good weather like last night, Zhang Zhao ran to the lake, looked up at the moon with mixed feelings, he squatted down, gently put the lotus seeds into the water, and tears couldn't stop flowing.
"Young man, don't be sad, the cycle of heaven is endless, this is also Qinglian's calamity." A very small voice rang out. The lake in front of him gently splashed, and a little blue light gradually brightened up, rising from the bottom of the water.
A small bud pokes out the tip of the leaf from the water surface, sees the wind that grows, pulls the branches and scatters the leaves, after a while, it becomes a lush green lotus, the flower bud blooms in the heart of the lotus, slowly opens, a piece of green light goes against the water surface, and a little green light rises in the lake water, in the blink of an eye, many young shoots emerge on the water surface, and the lake surface is covered with a piece of lotus leaves in a moment.
The blue light in the heart of the Qinglian lotus, which had been in full bloom, surged against the surface of the water, condensed into a human figure in front of Zhang Zhao and stood on the water, although the light was dim, it was vaguely seen that it was the appearance of the old man Qinglian.
"Old man, you're not dead?" Zhang Zhao jumped up happily: "How can you be here?"
The voice of the old man Qinglian was faint and almost inaudible: "Although he is not dead, he has been seriously injured, hundreds of years of cultivation is gone, and it will take hundreds of years to transform again, and my transformation in front of me will not last." ”
Zhang Zhao was taken aback: "Hundreds of years? ”
"Young man, you are kind and righteous, and you can be reborn thanks to you. Time is pressing, please accept my salute. After saying that, Zhang Zhao's eyes shone again and again, and the green lotus on the lake overflowed with the green light Dao and gathered towards the old man Qinglian, but this time the light was much dimmer than during the day.
These blue lights did not attach to the old man Qinglian, but gathered on his fingers, shrunk into a bright spot the size of a lotus seed, and the old man Qinglian flicked his fingers, and flew away with a whoosh and disappeared into Zhang Zhao's eyebrows.
Zhang Zhao heard that Qinglian wanted him to accept the salute and was about to excuse himself, all this was done, and a coolness soaked into his eyebrows, but he didn't feel anything unusual.
"A wisp of wood spirit, enlightenment, the art of dividing the soul, and self-cultivation of blessings. The posture of the old man Qinglian standing on the surface of the water remained unchanged, the light gradually faded, and Zhang Zhao's ears echoed the words he said when he left, but only the Qinglian on the lake was left in front of him.
(End of chapter)