Chapter 23: A Hundred Years of Rise and Fall
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This is the fifty-third peak that White Night climbs, this peak is very majestic, bigger and higher than the previous fifty-two, as if telling White Night that it is different.
It is indeed very different, and not long after Bai Ye began to climb, he found many clues. There are broken weapons here, and lines of writing are carved into the stone walls.
It's just that after a hundred years, these weapons have been decayed and broken, and the words have been eroded by wind and rain, and they have long been unable to see clearly.
Encouraged by these relics, Bai Ye's interest in climbing the mountain peak was higher, and he was more motivated, striving to see the Tianshan Vulture that shocked the martial arts heroes a hundred years ago.
The Tianshan Vulture Palace, once the station of the Tianshan Tong Grandma, I don't know how many years ago, the ancestors of the Xiaoyao faction built here. The terrain here is easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially since there used to be nine heavens and nine towns to guard, and it is almost impossible to attack directly from the outside.
At this moment, the white night arrived at a cliff. The cliff is very high, looking down, the white expanse is difficult to see the bottom, looking at the opposite side, dozens of meters away, is the road to the Vulture Palace. But more than 100 years ago, those iron cables that crossed the void disappeared, and it was impossible to jump dozens of meters away with light skills alone.
The road ahead seemed to be broken here, Bai Ye frowned, thought for a long time, and decided to go down to the cliff and climb from the bottom to the opposite side.
This is an extremely simple and awkward solution, but the only advantage of this method is that it is effective and feasible.
Before doing it, you have to plan first, this white expanse, you can't see the bottom clearly, fortunately, Bai Ye made sufficient preparations before climbing the mountain, and brought a rope hundreds of meters long.
Tie one end of the rope to a large tree on the edge of the cliff, and wrap the other end around the body, and the white night slowly climbs down the cliff.
The process of climbing is very slow, and with every step, Bai Ye looks very carefully and does not dare to be careless. I don't know the height here, and the light work is likely to not work, if you accidentally fall down, the biggest possibility is to be smashed into a meatloaf.
On the way to climb, there was a wind blowing at the bottom of the cliff, which was cold and damp, and it was cold, as if it came from hell.
After climbing for a long time, Bai Ye estimated in his heart that it took him two hours before he saw the bottom of the valley along a vine, at this time, the rope was no longer enough, but fortunately there were many perennial ancient vines growing on the cliff wall, and he helped the vines to reach the bottom of the valley.
The valley floor was very dark, the air was cold, and there was an eerie and terrifying atmosphere. The oxygen here is very thin, and Bai Ye tried to light a fire, but found that it went out quickly, so he had to use the characteristics of Jiuyang True Qi to emit light and illuminate it.
His Jiuyang Divine Skill has been cultivated to the fullest, and it is said that it is endless, and the internal force is endless, and the internal force needs to consume the nutrients of the human body. According to Bai Ye's estimate, he will definitely not last more than four hours in this valley.
Walking in the valley, Bai Ye found many bones and weapons, the bones were men and women, and the weapons included swords and swords. Most of the women's bones were covered with sword scars, while the men's spines were broken, as if they had fallen to their deaths.
Suddenly, a glimmer of metal flashed, and Bai Ye stared at it, and a black token lay on top of a female skeleton.
Bai Ye picked up the token and took a closer look, it was engraved with three big characters of "Jun Tianbu". It seems that these women were once disciples of the Vulture Palace, and these men should be the one who attacked the Vulture Palace.
After putting away the token, Bai Ye continued to move forward, and after walking for a long time, and without finding anything, he decided to climb the other cliff and go to the Vulture Palace to have a look.
Climbing up the vine, this time he climbed more slowly than he had come down, as he had no rope to pull on, and he had to be distracted to find a safe place to land.
After climbing for three hours, Bai Ye finally climbed the other cliff. At this time, it was getting late, the sun was setting, and the sky was full of bright moons.
After resting on the edge of the cliff for a long time, Bai Ye felt hungry in his belly, so he went to find something to eat.
Uninhabited for a hundred years, the Vulture Palace has been shaded by barren weeds and trees at this time. From a distance, it looks like an ordinary Tianshan peak, no wonder no one knows where the Vulture Palace is stationed now!
Desolation has the benefit of desolation, at least for the hungry White Night at the moment, it is good news. Due to the absence of human activities and undisturbed human activity, the ethereal peaks that have almost become primeval forests are inhabited by many animals.
Leopards, deer, hares, snakes, rats, all kinds of creatures make their home here, and I don't know how they come to run? Is it from the northern foot of the mountain? Even, the white night heard a wolf howl echoing on the ethereal peak.
At night, the air here is cold, no worse than yesterday at the foot of the mountain. He lit a bonfire with two rabbits and an unknown leopard.
This leopard has probably been the king and dominate here for many years, and he feels that he is the boss of this world, and when he sees the white night, he immediately takes it as his prey, and pounces on it bravely, and then it becomes the barbecue meat on the white night fire rack.
Eating barbecue, roasting the bonfire, listening to the ethereal mountain breeze and whimpering, as if talking about a hundred years of past events and the vicissitudes of life.
Bai Ye was thinking, where should I go next?
Now that the Ethereal Peak and the Vulture Palace have been found, whether there is a harvest or not, the white night will leave. After thinking about it in his heart, a place popped up in Bai Ye's heart, "Kunlun".
Kunlun, in ancient Chinese mythology, is the place where the Queen Mother of the West lives, Yaochi Wonderland, not like the world.
But this is the world of martial arts, not a myth, Bai Ye is going to Kunlun, not to seek immortals to visit the Tao, but to do something.
Mingjiao, this name is not unfamiliar, this sect that is very famous in the Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slayer, has taken root in Kunlun at this time.
According to some intelligence officers who followed the caravan and walked far away, the Ming Sect was located on the top of the Kunlun Light, and there were sect leaders, light messengers, four Dharma kings, five scattered people, and five banners of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.
At this time, the military strength of Mingjiao was not strong, and it was not the anti-Yuan vanguard in memory, but a real Jianghu faction. The Holy Fire Order is still in the sect, and the universe has been transferred to the sect master. The entire Mingjiao is not visible and does not dew, but it is really a bully of Kunlun.
Of course, in the vast Kunlun Mountains, the Kunlun faction has also been stationed at this time, but the Zhuwu Lianhuanzhuang that sent Zhang Wuji to jump into the cliff valley has not yet been found.
If that's all it takes, it won't arouse much interest in Bai Ye, what interests him is that he wants to look for an insect, a very poisonous bug.
Ice silkworm is the name of the bug. During the Tianlong period, an ice silkworm was taken out of Kunlun by a Shaolin monk of a rebel temple, but it was swallowed by You Tanzhi, and a first-class master was created in this life.
When Bai Ye came to this world, the only thing he wanted to see was the ice silkworm, because he really wanted to see how weird this insect was. How cold is it?
He had great expectations for this bug. He would love to study it, raise it, and see what it would eventually evolve into. Will it be like an ordinary silkworm, turning into a butterfly?
The ice silkworm is in the first place, and the second place is the mangmu clam, but just yesterday, another species that the white night wants to catch and want to raise, the mountain and lake of the day, the creature that looks like a dragon.
As the night progresses, the morning sun lifts through the clouds and shines on the earth, where the sun rises later than Tangzhou due to the distance from Xiangyang and Tangzhou, which has a time zone difference.
For a whole night, the fog on the mountain was very strong, and the campfire was blown out by the mountain wind in the middle of the night, and now when I woke up, I found myself soaked with fog and water.
With a slight luck, Jiuyang True Air Turned, and in the blink of an eye, a stream of water vapor evaporated from the clothes.
In the morning, I caught a wild deer that came out early in the morning to graze and roast food, and I guess I didn't expect that I would come out so diligently to forage for food in the early morning, and I ended up being eaten by others.
After eating, he began to look for traces of the Vulture Palace on the Ethereal Peak.
Patches of weeds, dense and lush woods, and it didn't take long for the white night to find traces of the Vulture Palace.
It was a ruined ruin, with one house after another collapsing, few of which were intact. The ruins are very large, covering an extremely wide area, and you can still vaguely feel that there must have been a palace here in the past, and there were many people living here.
It's a pity that time has flowed through the river, and yesterday's glory has turned into today's clouds. From some places, it can be clearly seen that these buildings have traces of burning axes, I wonder which generation of Vulture Venerable Lords was so hateful back then? Even the entire building was destroyed and burned!
Walking on the ruins in the white night, stepping on the remnants of the bricks and rubble, making a "squeak, squeak" sound, startled a nest of rabbits that settled in the ruins, and the big rabbit ran with the little rabbit, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
White Night has pushed open some houses that have not been completely burned down, but there is nothing in them, even if there was a long time ago, it must have turned into ashes now.
Walking up the stairs, Bai Ye saw a closed hall in front of him, and the door of the hall was made of broken dragon stone, and there were traces of sword cutting and fire on it.
Looking at this stone, Bai Ye gently waved his palm, and there was no situation where it was blocked by the Broken Dragon Stone. The Broken Dragon Stone fell directly into the main hall, and a puff of dust swept in.
Bai Ye waved his sleeves and brushed away all the dust, and in the past hundred years, the mechanism that had locked the Broken Dragon Stone had also decayed.
Walking into the main hall, you will be greeted by devastation and cobwebs, as well as hundreds of skeletons.
Most of the bones were male, with only a few dozen female skeletons. However, the bones of these women are very fragmented, either their chests are dented, or their arms and legs have been cut off, and many cruel and cruel methods have been used on these bones, and I don't know how much hatred there was back then?
Even, Bai Ye saw that next to a pile of slightly better preserved charcoal, there were dozens of human bones scattered all over the ground.
Bai Ye raised his eyebrows, and the scene of that day had already appeared in his mind, a group of people who rebelled against the Vulture Palace hit here, and there were only these female disciples left in the Vulture Palace, and they had no choice but to put down the mechanism and drop the Broken Dragon Stone to trap everyone here.
The marks on the Broken Dragon Stone must have been left by these people who were unwilling to be trapped and wanted to escape.
Unfortunately, the Dragonstone was stronger than they had imagined, and the hall was made of a very tough mixed metal. These people slowly despaired, and began to torture those female disciples, using the most ruthless and cruel means to torture them. These female disciples were able to fight until the last moment, and they were also those who were determined and willing to die for the Vulture Palace. They would rather die than tell the way to escape the temple.
The longer the time passed, the longer they were trapped in the main hall, there was no food, no water, and those female disciples were tortured to death one by one. As a result, in order to maintain life, some people began to attack their own kind, drinking human blood, and eating human flesh in this desperate situation.
Others who did not want to fall chose to commit suicide, which is why Hakuya saw some bones stabbed into his abdomen with the hilt of his sword.
As time passed, no one was alive, and those who drank human blood and ate human flesh also died one by one, leaving only the last strongest man, who ate the flesh of his last companion and committed suicide.
With a sigh, looking at these bones, Bai Ye once again felt the insignificance of life, how insignificant human beings were.
"Dust to dust, dust to dust, the grievances of the past, with the passage of time, have no meaning, rest in peace, everyone."
Bai Ye waved the sleeves of his robe, and the Jiuyang True Qi exploded, the scorching breath burned, and the entire hall was on fire, and all the bones would be turned into ashes.
Everything, no longer exists, not even the bones, everything in oneself is erased, what kind of sadness is that?!
Bai Ye thought of these unknown bones lying here burned to ashes, and he became even more determined to explore immortality and see the heavens.
I want to leave, and since there is no gain, it is time to leave. When he was about to leave the main hall, Bai Ye accidentally glanced back, and under the light of the fire, he saw a depression on the wall of the main hall, which seemed to be somewhat familiar.
Thinking about it in his mind, Bai Ye took out the "Jun Tianbu" token found at the bottom of the cliff from his arms, and compared it carefully, and the two matched very well.
With a happy face, the white night leaned forward, came to the wall, and inserted the token.
I saw the wall swallow the token in, and the sound of slow mechanical rotation came out, as if it had not been used for many years, and it was very difficult to operate.
In the expectant gaze of the white night, a sandalwood box was spat out by the wall.
Bai Ye opened the sandalwood box and saw that there were several rolls of silk books made of gold wire, as well as a letter, as if it was written to someone.
Bai Ye first glanced at the letter, the font was beautiful, it was from the hand of a woman, and he was not interested in reading it, so Bai Ye casually threw the letter into the fire, and then inspected the rest of the gold silk books.
These volumes of silk books are the goal of Bai Ye's coming to Tianshan, they are the Eight Desolations and Liuhe's Solitary Gong, Xiao Wuxiang Gong, Tianshan Six Yang Palms, Tianshan Folding Plum Hands, and Bai Hong Palm Strength, which makes Bai Ye a little regretful that there is no Northern Shengong among them.
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