Chapter Eighty-Six: The Underground Palace
I lit the candle again, and the sun on the dome began to set, and it stopped in the lower air.
Finally arrived at the last illusion.
We walked in the direction of Qingxu Cave, Senior Brother Hong was curious, and said, "Little Taoist, in your opinion, what will be the last illusion?" ”
I guessed: "Look at the illusions in front of you, they are all about Li Qingfeng's life, and this last illusion is likely to be when Li Qingfeng is old and dying." ”
Senior Brother Hong said with a smile: "Li Qingfeng is good at calculating, you said that in this last illusion, as soon as we enter, Li Qingfeng will not suddenly call our names and say that you are here." ”
I thought to myself, this is too exaggerated, can you calculate thousands of years from now so accurately?
If that's the case, Li Qingfeng can really be called a monster.
Xiao Lin asked: "Look at that Li Qingfeng, why did you set up such a mysterious obstacle, and did you hide any treasures in the end?" ”
As soon as he said this, we were all secretly happy in our hearts: Thinking that in the first layer of astrological map space, Senior Sister Xuanji and they got Qihui Daoist's "Fu Seal Collection", and Li Qingfeng worked hard to find the space in it, so what he hid would be what he had learned all his life?
Senior Brother Hong looked at me, then patted me on the shoulder and said, "Hurry up, I guess there are really treasures inside." The Water Dividing Earth Sword in your hand may be a token. ”
So together, we excitedly stepped into the last space.
As soon as he crossed over, he found himself in a tent, and in front of him, Li Qingfeng, who was already full of white hair, was sitting behind the desk and said, "You guys are finally here." ”
I'm shocked, isn't it, can he really extrapolate a thousand years from now?
I saw Li Qingfeng slowly stand up, come to my side, and then take the water division town earth sword in my hand.
He stroked the magic sword and said, "It's been a long time. ”
Senior Brother Hong next to me poked me, looked at the books on the desk, and saw that the names were all Taoist.
Could it be that this last illusion is really a secret book of Taoist send-off?
I just wanted to speak, but I heard someone outside the tent report: Serve the country, Qin Jing has also been delivered.
Li Qingfeng came back to his senses, looked at us and said, "You have traveled thousands of miles to send the Fenshui Town Earth Sword from Zhongnan Mountain, it is really hard for you, you see, your Dao robes are all worn out." ”
I looked down and saw that the modern clothes on my body had long been in the previous illusion, because of the fight.
Li Qingfeng ordered a guard to come in and said, "Take my junior nephews to change their robes." ”
Then he said to us: "After you change into your robes, go to the entrance of the underground palace and wait for me." ”
We were puzzled, but we followed the guards anyway.
I really thought you were saying that sentence to us thousands of years later.
It turned out that in this illusion, our identity became Li Qingfeng's nephew, and according to what he said, he specially sent the Fenshui Town Earth Sword from Zhongnan Mountain.
When we stepped out of the tent, we seemed to be in a mountain col, with a large mountain in the distance.
The cols were full of tents, about hundreds, like stars scattered on the ground.
From time to time, there were Tang troops, patrolling between the tents.
The barracks at this time? Is it a battlefield?
However, in the information I checked, Li Qingfeng has no experience in the army.
The guard led us through the tents.
In front, there were several cyan tents, with lights shining inside, and outside the tents, the guards were not Tang Jun, but all Taoist priests, all with magic swords, and various accessories pinned to their waists.
The Taoist priest's attire and accessories outside each tent are different, and according to Senior Sister Xuanji's explanation, it is likely that it is because of different factions.
Where is this, why is there a military camp, and there are so many Taoist priests?
Suddenly, there were several screams from the tent in the middle, so miserable that I couldn't even tell if it was a human or an animal.
We all looked over there, and the guards hurriedly warned us to go, and then led us to one of the tents.
The Taoist priest guarding the front of the gate, who was wearing a similar dress to Li Qingfeng, saw us, hurriedly saluted, and said, "Senior brother, you have finally arrived. ”
We nodded stiffly, lifted the curtains, and walked in.
I saw a few Taoist priests in the tent, and when they saw us coming in, they all saluted.
After that, we explained our intentions and put on new robes.
Senior Brother Hong saw that these Taoist priests were polite to us, and estimated that our status was not low, so after changing clothes, he gathered them together, and he didn't ask questions openly, beat around the bush, and made all kinds of excuses to cover up, and finally found out the current situation.
It turns out that the place where we are is turned out to be at the foot of Mount Tai.
The time of this illusion is the second year of Linde.
In the second year of Linde, Wu Zetian, in order to justify his name, swept Li Zhi to seal Mount Tai. But since ancient times, it has been the business of male emperors, and it has nothing to do with female queens. So Wu Zetian excused: seal, for the sacrifice to the sky, the sacrifice symbolizes the grace of the male emperor, Zen, for the ritual of sacrificing the earth, highlighting the virtue of the female earth.
At this time, Wu Zetian officially put himself in the same position as the emperor, which means that one person is in charge of the sky and one person is the law.
Taishi ordered Li Qingfeng to be in charge of the preparations for the previous sacrifice, so he came here early.
First of all, the matter of arranging the sacrifice to the heavens, on the top of Mount Tai, it was very smooth.
But when the sacrifice site was chosen, a dungeon was discovered.
At first, Li Qingfeng thought that the underground palace might be the tomb of an ancient, but this place was not a treasure of feng shui.
Although Li Qingfeng had doubts, he didn't have too many scruples, after all, the time limit for sealing Zen was about to arrive.
So he ordered General Wu, the commander of the forbidden army, and a few Taoist priests, to lead people to dismantle the underground palace.
After General Wu took people in, he disappeared and didn't come out for a day, and then he sent Taoist priests in and disappeared there.
At this time, Li Qingfeng felt that something was wrong.
That night, I watched the sky at night and found that General Wu's star was hidden but not falling, surrounded by blue air, which was very strange.
Li Qingfeng was puzzled.
Because of General Wu's special status, everyone did not dare to slack off, and they all lit fires around the underground palace and set up camp outside, but they didn't want to hear a sound in the cave in the middle of the night.
At that time, the people in the camp were all awakened, and when they got up, they saw the fire at the entrance of the underground palace, and it was General Wu who rushed out with his soldiers.
At first, everyone was still happy and went forward to greet them, but when they got closer, they found that General Wu and their faces and behaviors were abnormal.
His face was dark, his eyes were bloody, and his eyes were fierce, and he drew his sword, and slashed the man who greeted them.
At that time, most of the people accompanying him were civil officials and Taoist priests of various factions, and most of the forbidden troops entered the underground palace.
For a while, screams erupted in the camp.
Li Qingfeng gave an order, and the Taoist priests drew their swords to resist.
The forbidden army is an elite division, and the Taoist priests can't resist, so they protect the civil officials and retreat while fighting.
But the generals seemed to be extremely brave, and there were soldiers who had their heads cut off, and they still fought with weapons.
The Taoist priests realized that there might be evil magic in the dungeon. So he began to use Taoism.
Those who didn't want to follow General Wu in, there were also Taoist priests, and the two sides began to fight, seeing the moves.
The battle was extremely fierce, Li Qingfeng saw that he was about to be defeated, but fortunately, when it was about to dawn, the rooster crowed, and General Wu retreated to the underground palace with people.
Although Li Qingfeng is very calculating, he is not good at eliminating evil spirits.
So he recruited people from all over the world to come to help.
He also ordered the sect that was good at the art of Qimen to set up a formation in front of the underground palace.
The next night, General Wu really led people to rush out again, but he was limited by the formation and couldn't get out of the underground palace gate.
Li Qingfeng designed that when he withdrew from the army at dawn, he grabbed a few forbidden soldiers and put them in tents, which was the source of the screams we heard just now.
Although General Wu did not come out, after that, he felt that he was becoming more and more ferocious day by day, and that formation would eventually be cracked.
When the Taoist priests from all walks of life arrived, they had never encountered such a strange thing, and they were helpless.
Moreover, General Wu is the nephew of Wu Zetian, the queen of heaven, Li Qingfeng and they dare not kill him, so they can only find a way to rescue him.
The Taoist priests read all the records about Mount Tai, but the books all say that the top of Mount Tai is sealed with Zen, and there is basically no book mentioning the foot of Mount Tai.
Later, one day, Li Qingfeng seemed to have discovered something, on the one hand, he asked people to go to Daming Palace to get Qin Mirror, and on the other hand, he asked people to go to Zhongnan Mountain to get the Fenshui Town Earth Sword.
I hurriedly asked, "Why do you want to take these two things?" ”
The Taoist priests in the tent all shook their heads and didn't know.
I suddenly remembered that when my senior sister was looking for a record of the hidden place in the books at the same time, "Huainanzi" once wrote that at the foot of Mount Tai, there was a hidden place.
So this underground palace, will it be a hidden place?