Chapter 42: The Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave
The three of them sat silently in the water for a long time and did not move, but the appearance of the old man just now was too penetrating, and he had a completely selective expression, and he was afraid that he would come back and forth or hide somewhere and wait for them to take the initiative to appear.
In the end, Shen Ningyi was curious about what happened on the island, and took the lead in sneaking over, Xilan did not hesitate to follow, Zheng Yan dived to the platform under the plank road, boarded the platform and walked along the plank road to the top, another platform, on one side is a stone room without a door;
Zheng Yan carefully sensed and didn't notice any movement, but still kept silent and walked over, behind the door was a three-foot-wide stone staircase, the stone steps spiraled upwards and could not feel the end; Zheng Yan counted the stone steps all the way up, and finally entered a two-zhang square stone room, except for a stone door still nothing, the stone door was very tight, and a little heavy, carefully searched and did not find the open mechanism, it seemed to be a one-way door, I couldn't hear any movement after going out, so I turned around and walked back.
The stone chamber plank road, the small island and those fire platforms were probably built by the ancestors of the Zheng family to bury Lu Yin, or they may have existed earlier, no, it should have been there earlier, Lu Yin said that he proposed to be buried here, that is to say, he knew that there was such a place, so what was it done here earlier? Why was it buried here? Is it just to be resurrected by someone to take away the essence blood and divine thoughts?
Divine Thoughts This thing is very wonderful, naturally it cannot be equated with the divine soul, but it is like a book and a memory, the owner left it can be passed on to future generations, it is really transmitted through the medium of spirit, more real and vivid than words and oral descriptions, second only to the legendary "Lingxi One Finger" and "Empowerment to Grant Immortality", maybe Lu Yin left some exercises and cultivation methods in it, or it may be some secrets, such as the plan agreed with Mu Hanyang two thousand years ago.
As for the essence blood, the use of essence blood by monsters is second only to wizards and demon cultivators, and the latter two are a little different, I remember that it seems that a great goblin blood with a successful cultivation contains all the content of the creation he has obtained, and it is a complete and mature creation through practice, and other demon clans get his essence blood is equivalent to a cultivation and creation out of thin air, and some creatures who have opened their spiritual wisdom may be able to transform into a cultivator, these are all said in the book, Zheng Yan has not sought verification, in short, there seem to be many mysteries here, which makes Zheng Yan very itchy.
When I went down to the bottom again, I saw that the two of them were still carefully studying the lines on the island with a ball of light, and when they saw Zheng Yan coming back, Shen Ningyi was full of pity, "It would be nice if I could help Xi Lan get some demon king essence blood, but it's a pity that those bad guys will be cleaned up",
Zheng Yan laughed and said that people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and it would be good to survive in the situation of mortality, and Miss Xilan also got a divine thought, Shen Ningyi suddenly raised her head and said seriously, "Your Highness, you seem to be very accustomed to self-satisfaction, it is difficult for a cultivator to be brave and diligent without greed, unless you are lucky",
Speaking of luck, Zheng Yan suddenly had some realization, this thing he doesn't have, so it is difficult to get these opportunities, in the Xuanwu Pond, too, only got a small turtle, and it has not grown to the point of a spirit turtle, think about it, a cultivator cultivates his body at the same time is also picking up and fighting for some foreign objects, sometimes the role of foreign objects is even more than the monk's cultivation of his own body, not sometimes, most of the time, thinking of this Zheng Yan has no regrets, the more things he gets, the more cause and effect will be contaminated, cause and effect is a double-edged sword after all, who knows whether it hurts others or hurts himself, so it is not much of a problem if the blessing and misfortune are not forced。
Seeing the two of them busy working, Zheng Yan couldn't help but be a little curious, "What did you find?"
Shen Ningyi stood up and moved her body, still looking thoughtful, and explained casually, "This formation under our feet can indeed keep the body incorruptible and indestructible, and can also provide support for the resurrection, Ning Yi is too shallow to judge the age of construction, aside from this, the demon king Lu Yin may know this place, and asked to come here to wait for this day, deceived the time... His Royal Highness's ancestor, another possibility is that he had already arranged his subordinates, and came in to arrange all this after he was placed here, Xi Lan's mind did not have these contents, and His Highness definitely did not have it, so it could only be in the one taken by the An family, these were all planned by him",
Zheng Yan has no clue about the plan at all, what a character at the level of the demon king plans must involve many aspects, and it is difficult to figure out the general situation with his own knowledge and thinking ability, so he simply didn't dwell on this problem, remembered what Shen Ningyi said about the An family, and asked curiously, "What is the origin of the An family?"
Shen Ningyi nodded and said, "This An family is indeed not simple, the above courtyard is indeed built by An Jia, and it nominally belongs to Liu Fei, a wealthy businessman in Chongde County, but in fact, Liu Fei is just an agent of An Zhantu, which is from An Pingsheng." The father-in-law once talked about this An family, he said that the real An family has a wide range of forces in Middle-earth, and no one knows where their home family is, like the An Zhan Tu who chased and killed us is just a side branch, these side branches are active in various countries in Middle-earth, some are engaged in engineering construction, some are in the You Fang Lang, and some are in the horse gang dart team, and the father-in-law said that these people are likely to be descendants of some forces in the previous dynasty, and the purpose is probably to collect intelligence, and then there are others I don't know, haven't Your Highness heard of it?",
Zheng Yan helped Xi Lan collect Lu Yin's ashes scattered on the island, while shaking his head and said, "I haven't heard of it, I don't usually care much about these things, by the way, the road above doesn't work, and I'm afraid that they will wait for the rabbit when I go back the same way, is there any other way?"
Shen Ningyi thought for a while and nodded, "Yes, I can almost go back to Xilan and their place directly, and after I go back, I need to hurry up and pass the book to the nearby monitoring station flying pigeons, I don't know what the An family will do with them", said with a sad cloud on his face again.
After cleaning up, Shen Ningyi estimated the direction and chose a cave to enter, this time there was finally no need to sneak in the darkness, because there were two people who could release the true yuan, and one person could release a clear light technique. On the way, Shen Ningyi introduced Xi Lan's family, in fact, they are Taoist friends who practice together, they are all spirits and cultivators, and they live in a simple place on weekdays and rarely interact with people, so some people are not very familiar with accidents, a total of five people, living in a place called Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave, next to Daqinggou, Shen Ningyi and the four of them have been living in their house before.
Zheng Yan couldn't help but read out loud when he heard the "Ten Thousand Buddha Immortal Grotto", Xi Lan on the side was a little unnatural, Shen Ningyi smiled and said, "They picked a few words on some inscriptions in the grotto and set the name, it's not bad, Buddhism and Taoism coexist, and Jingshu and Xiaoluo are indeed Buddhist disciples, Xingwei and Shuangyun are practicing Taoist exercises, Your Highness should have seen a temple called 'Jingjie Temple' when he came from the south, right?"
Zheng Yan nodded, and Shen Ningyi explained, "Jingshu and Xiaoluo were ordered by Master Huiyuan, the acting abbot of the Jingjie Temple, in their early years, although they did not formally apprentice, they were considered to be masters and apprentices;
Zheng Yan was a little surprised, so it seems that these women are really not small, Master Huiyuan will not say it, just by the apprentice Ding'an's one-handed transformation of the shadow, looking at the whole world, it should be able to rank in the forefront, not to mention the hidden abbot Dingzhen, as for Mrs. Li of Qiandang Mountain, this demon cultivator Zheng Yan really knows that the eldest grandmother has been talking about this woman and the eldest grandfather, and the eldest grandfather said that people are really in the realm of the Great Heavenly Dao, how can they take a fancy to him, Zheng Yan was shocked when he was a child, so he was impressed, thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Xi Lan, who was always silent on the side, and asked curiously"Why hasn't Miss Xilan been with her clansmen?
Shen Ningyi looked at her friend and saw that she didn't mean to speak at all, just glanced at herself and nodded slightly, then said with a smile" Xi Lan was still in infancy by a heroic and beautiful noble woman brought here, oh, this is Xiao Luo's original words, saying that she was going to hand over Xi Lan to Xingwei to raise, Xingwei's temper at that time was said to be very short-tempered, and they fought without saying a word, and then the four of them were beaten very badly, and they also came to help with Wufu Yang Yujing in the Xuanming Valley next door, and they were also cleaned up, so Xi Lan stayed, and the powerful woman just left a bunch of exercise cheats for a few people and left, without saying anything about her and Xi Lan, and did not say when she would come over again, Xi Lan is the identity of the Xu Yin clan is also known today, but I think it's better to keep it secret firstWhat do you say, Your Highness?"
Zheng Yan has been a little silent, looking at Xi Lan and looking down to think about something, the remaining two people felt inexplicable and stopped, suddenly Zheng Yan laughed happily, the two of them were even more surprised, Shen Ningyi chuckled and said, "Your Highness can't think that Xi Lan's parents are not around and think about abducting people back to Luoyang, although Xi Lan is only sixteen years old according to human age, it is the age of green and innocent, and she is a little timid and afraid of things on weekdays, and she is not assertive."
Xilan hurriedly said, "I won't go with you, even if... In that case, didn't you say that it was just the spiritual world?",
Shen Ningyi looked suspicious, and asked strangely, "What 'that'?"
Xi Lan on the side was anxious and a little shy, Zheng Yan waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I won't kidnap you, but I guessed the identity of the woman who brought you here, if you didn't guess that woman should be a dragon, no wonder",
The two girls were a little surprised, the current dragon clan is just a legendary god for most people, who would have thought that they would see it with their own eyes, Shen Ningyi glanced at her friend and thought for a while and asked, "Does Your Highness know where the dragon clan generally lives now?"
Zheng Yan shook his head and said, "Ouchi does have a record of this, but I can't see it with my authority and status, and the dragon clan generally sees the head and the tail, they say that it is the dragon clan, but they never live together, they all live in seclusion in a certain place and concentrate on cultivation, it is difficult to take the initiative to find them, I think the Xilan girl can only wait for her to come to find the woman if she wants to see that woman again, and wait for me to go back and inquire where there is a Xu Yin clan in the world, this should be relatively more reliable",
Shen Ningyi nodded and said, "Ning Yi thanked His Highness for Xi Lan",
Zheng Yan waved his hand to say that he was doing it casually, and he laughed out loud just now because he finally figured out why he was attracted to Xi Lan, why he had those strange feelings, it was probably because Xi Lan had the breath of the dragon clan, at least the sealing technique, otherwise he shouldn't have walked on two legs like now, and it was not right, maybe they could indeed change, etc., this is back to that problem, Zheng Yan hurriedly stopped thinking nonsense, and listened to his grandfather They said that his mother had something to do with the dragon family, so he was easy to have a special sense of dragon energy.
After walking in the cave for a long time, they finally saw the light, it was the real daylight, and the three of them were relieved, and Xi Lan walked a few steps quickly to the entrance of the cave to check it, and then beckoned the two to go out. When Zheng Yan arrived at the entrance of the cave, he saw that he was in a jungle covered with grass and trees, the trees were extremely lush and tall, even if they were still full of green at this time, it was really strange.
Shen Ningyi, who was on the side, saw the doubts on Zheng Yan's face and explained, "This place is located in the southwest of Daqinggou, the two are separated by more than ten miles, and then a hundred miles northwest is Hengli Mountain, so it is not very obvious that the flowers and plants wither in autumn and winter here, and the terrain is relatively low, there are many huge dark rivers underground, and there are many holes in the ground, and there are some hot springs. A year ago, Lord Jian Zheng found that there seemed to be some Terran monks gathered here, His Royal Highness knew that the cultivation of spirits occupying the mountains and rivers cave mansion was more conducive to the cultivation of mountains and rivers, and the Terran monks might bring some other influences, so the imperial court generally supervised this, so he sent us over to check, and found that there were indeed a few people who specialized in yin-yang mathematics who wanted to start a sect here, and they had not yet reported to Sedum, so we handed them over to Sedumen, and found that the strange terrain here, so we stayed to explore." ,
While talking, the three of them walked all the way through the dense jungle, Zheng Yan noticed that there were some stone carved Buddha statues in some barren grass, the small ones were only about one foot, the big ones were dozens of zhang, there were Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhat protectors, and some strange-shaped people and animals, sitting or lying, most of them were broken, full of moss, they looked very desolate, and there were also some buildings similar to the relics pagoda, Zheng Yan was curious to pick up the vines that were wrapped around it and looked at them one by one, the content of the relief on the tower was mostly the deeds of the millennium war, it seems that this was once a place for people to take refuge, at that time, many people could not see hope in the war that lasted for many years, and some people chose to escape the world, there is also a saying of escaping Zen, but many have not been spared.
After walking for a while, the surrounding Buddha statues began to become much cleaner and more regular, and some of the Buddhist platforms seemed to be often cleaned, and a few of them also had incense burners, probably to where they lived.
Turning another flower tree, a very clean flat land appeared in front of him, on one side of the flat ground were three caves with different distributions, Shen Ningyi suddenly remembered something, grabbed Zheng Yan and was about to say something, suddenly a gust of fragrant wind hit, a crystal jade hand had already touched Zheng Yan's face, Zheng Yan hurriedly took a step back, Shen Ningyi was a little helpless,
"Where did the little brother come from, so vigorous and bloody! The taste is also extremely delicious, hey, it seems that he deliberately restrained it, and let it out for my sister to smell",
The voice is coquettish to the bone, and it seems to be gentle and delicate, Zheng Yan is fine, unlike the inexplicable impulse in the face of Xi Lan, he turned his head and looked at Shen Ningyi helplessly, and said with a bitter face, "Didn't you say that you don't eat people?"
Before Shen Ningyi could speak, the woman who suddenly appeared was already laughing coquettishly, and wanted to do something further, Shen Ningyi hurriedly blocked in front of the two of them and pulled the woman away, "Shuangyun, you have to be more restrained this time, Your Highness saved me and Xilan last night", it seems that the word "Your Highness" is a little heavier,
The graceful and delicate and gorgeous woman's jade fingers wrapped around a strand of hair, and she looked at Zheng Yan with a playful expression, then her face changed, and she asked urgently, "What happened to the two of you last night?"
Xi Lan pulled Zheng Yan and walked straight inside, and Shen Ningyi roughly explained it later, and the woman named Shuangyun suddenly released her qi, and said coldly, "It's actually bullied us, little ones, follow me to level the big green ditch",
Shen Ningyi grabbed the angry woman and explained, "No, Wang Yuan, they are still in the hands of others, I'm afraid that they will be in a hurry, if they haven't killed people now, it's best to put pressure on them through the imperial court to force them to leave people and run away, I think they should have already started to transfer at this time, last night Xi Lan killed the only son of An Zhantu, if we come forward, we may let things get out of control",
Zheng Yan stopped and said, "Regardless of whether Miss Li killed that An Pingsheng or not, since he did that kind of thing to you, one of them must die, but you really shouldn't come forward, let's contact the imperial court."
Shen Ningyi hurriedly said, "He hasn't done anything to us yet, Your Highness, don't think about it, but he really deserves to die, but I think it's best to be killed by the imperial court."
Shuangyun looked at Shen Ningyi's disheveled appearance and was very suspicious, a moving woman wearing a purple and black skirt walked out with one hand holding a carrier pigeon, and took a note with ink that had not dried to Shen Ningyi, Shen Ningyi bit her finger and quickly made a mark on it, pressed the fingerprint, loaded the note, and then released the carrier pigeon,
"Okay, they can come in an hour, I use the highest level signal, or Sister Jingshu is the most reliable",
The woman named Jingshu has a somewhat similar appearance to Shuangyun, but her temperament is cold, she patted Shen Ningyi's shoulder and nodded at Zheng Yan, Shuangyun on the side was unhappy, and she seemed to be aggrieved and said, "Am I unreliable?
"Okay, Ning Yi doesn't want us to be involved, and dares to detain people from the imperial court, which shows that these people are not only strong but also lawless."
Suddenly, a rather majestic female voice came from behind, Zheng Yan turned his head to see that his heartbeat suddenly missed half a beat, are the spirits so beautiful? Are they all so unbelievable? Shuangyun's charm is full blooming, Jingshu is completely restrained, and the woman who appears now is implicit but not leaky, in Ye Qingcheng's words, this situation is the most provocative of the young man's heart, well, it seems that there is some truth.
Shuangyun didn't say anything more, just looked at Shen Ningyi's eyes and complained a little, Zheng Yan was a little strange how Shen Ningyi could have such a good relationship with these spirits who had lived for hundreds of years in just one year.
Then a few people entered the cave, Jing Shu silently brought some fruits, and prepared refreshments, Shuangyun sat opposite Zheng Yan and constantly transformed some charming and sultry moods, Flame Dan's lips were as charming as silk, the jade arms were slightly oblique, and after a while, the plump breasts were either leaned forward or twisted, Zheng Yan just ate and drank silently.
Xingwei on the side didn't mean to stop it in his eyes, he thought about it and took out a purple pipa from nowhere, smiled slightly and said softly, "I heard Ning Yi say that Gongzi is the prince of the Great Zhou, I think he must have been taught in all aspects since he was a child, I don't know if it is a sound law?"
Zheng Yan glanced at the exquisite and somewhat colorful pipa in the woman's arms and was a little admired, it was still a magic weapon, but he was still ashamed and said, "I have a very poor talent in music, and I can only play some simple tunes roughly until now, and the pipa music will only be "Snow Moon Lonely", "Leaving the Soul" and "Reunion under the Moon", at most add a song "Joy Rain Song and Drink", oh "Howling West Wind" is also okay,
Probably because he didn't want to look bad in front of the woman, Zheng Yan said two more tunes against his will, but he saw that the woman's moving eyes gradually converged, and finally said happily, "Can you teach me?"
"What?!", Zheng Yan couldn't react for a while, and the frost next to him was already trembling with laughter.