Chapter 111: The Battle of Exterminating Tibet (5)

There is no suspense for the Tang army to capture the city of Luo. When the nest of the Tang army was on the top of the city, many of the Tubo soldiers were still confused, and the Tang army roared "obey the will of heaven, put down the weapons, do not resist", and many of the Tubo soldiers really put down their weapons. People's thoughts and actions are often herd, and when many Tibetan soldiers lay down their weapons, more people follow.

The east and north gates were opened, and the Tang army stormed the city of Raksha at a small cost.

Xiao Yan did not enter the city with the army, when the north gate opened, she followed the instructions of the princess's guard Wei Chi Ting who came to convey yesterday, came out of the army, galloped around the north city, went to the outside of the west city, and met with Princess Jinyang.

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The western and southern cities of the city of Raksa had no walls, but the walls were mountains.

Because the soil of this mountain is red, it is called Red Mountain, of course, the official name is not called Red Mountain, and the Tubo people are called Songtsan Mountain after the first Zampu Songtsen Gampo who established the dynasty. The mountains moved from northwest to southeast, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were used to straighten the outer mountain more than 60 zhang high as an outer city wallβ€”what wall could be higher and thicker than a mountain?

Zampu's royal palace was built on the inner mountain in the west, the trees on the mountain were cut down, and more than 1,000 palaces were built along the mountain, winding up to the middle of the mountain, and the momentum was magnificent. At this time, the palace was a mess: there was earth rolling down, and a large number of carcasses of cattle, horses and sheep that had been killed, blood in many places, and blood on the ground and on the walls.

When there was a great turmoil in the city because of the ground turmoil, there were some powerful people who felt that "the sky was going to destroy the city" and planned to escape. In the palace, Zampu Dampa also had a desperate heart, and after Osong abandoned the city and left, he finally became the new Zampu with the support of the ministers, but he was not happy for long, and he suffered the blow of "heavenly disaster punishment", and could not help but give birth to a kind of despair of "the general trend has gone", and immediately ordered a Zampu personal guard to go to the "holy mosque" of the bowl sect - Saikang Temple built on the south mountain, and asked the king of Sangga to come quickly.

He took his wife and children to hide in the very strong stone hall and did not dare to leave, while ordering the palace army to quell the livestock rebellion in the palace, and on the other hand, ordering the palace people to pack up important belongings and prepare to break through, and also ordered the "Zampu personal guard" who had just taken over to gather in the main hall, one to protect his safety, and the other to escort him immediately when he broke through.

He walked anxiously up and down the temple, waiting for King Sangjafa to come.

None of the ministers came into the palace, and it is estimated that they are all thinking of escaping at this time, and they don't care about him. When the Tang army enters the city, it will first attack the palace, who will come in at this time?

Danba sneered in his heart: I usually say loyalty, but no one is loyal!

He didn't want to care if the ministers didn't come, and he was too much of a burden when he fled, so he was only worried that King Sanghafa would leave him with the people of the bowl sect and run away.

But what made him happy and moved was that King Sangjiafa led the bowl sect masters to come, although he came a little late.

At this time, the Tang army had already attacked the city.

King Sangjiafa's internal strength is profound, and when the Tang army shouted "Bowl Sect blasphemy" and "Heavenly Punishment Bowl Religion" outside the east city of Beicheng, he had heard it in the Saikang Temple on the South Mountain. The face of the Dharma King turned blue at that time: the Tang army did not necessarily die in Tibet, but it must die in the bowl sect! - Also, the commander of the Tang Army is the "Qingchuan County Lord" they once assassinated, and it must have been determined that the "Tibetan Buddhist monk" who assassinated her on the snowy mountain is the person of their bowl sect, how could they let them go of the bowl sect?!

His Holiness was faced with the same situation that the monastic leader, Grand Master Degong, had faced, but he made the opposite choice. He selected a group of potential monks to go out of the city from the secret path of Nanshan with the secret treasure of the Bowl Sect as the fire of the Bowl Sect; He himself led most of the masters of the Bowl Sect and all the monks and soldiers to the palace, and swore to Dampa Zanpu: "The Bowl Sect swears to live and die with Zanpu and the dynasty!" ”

Of course, the Dharma King was not loyal to the Danba and the Tibetan Dynasty, but had the heart to be a martyr for the Bo Sect.

He was sure that there must be masters of the Tang Dynasty Buddhism and Taoism, the purpose was to expel the Buddhism of Tibet and destroy their bowl religion, and he led the monks of the bowl sect to escort Danba to break through only secondly, of course it is better to break through, with Danba as the banner, it will be easier to gather Tibetan believers in the future; But the main purpose is to use Danba to attract the attention of the Tang people, and at the same time, with the help of the strength of the palace Zanpu personal guards, together with their bowl sect, contain the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism and the masters in the Tang army, so that the bowl sect "tinder" can sneak away.

Obeying the king's advice, Danba selected two guards with similar figures, dressed up as him in Zampu costumes, and divided into two roads by the palace army, one way out of the palace to the north city, and all the way out of the palace to the south city, so as to disturb the sight of the Tang people's pursuit; He himself, under the escort of the Zanpu personal guard and the palace guard battalion, walked with the Bowl Sect from the west mountain of the Red Mountain.

There are low places in the west mountain and the south mountain, and the low place of the outer mountain is only more than 30 zhang from the ground, and the city wall of the arrow tower is built on it, and there are Tubo soldiers guarding it day and night. Damba and His Holiness left the palace and walked along the patrol road of the inner mountain to the nearest arrow tower to the southwest, preparing to descend from there.

However, not long after they walked out of the palace, they heard a clear Buddha name: "Buddha of Amitayus." ”

This was followed by an ethereal voice: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable." ”

The voice came from the direction of the arrow tower.

Danba's face turned pale, and he turned his head to look at King Sangjia, "Your ......."

"Rush through!" His Holiness was categorical and led the monks of the Bowl Sect to rush forward without hesitation.

Danba hesitated for a moment, and followed with someone, not following the Dharma King, what if they were intercepted by another team of Tang masters when they separated?

After walking for a long time, I saw sixty or seventy people standing on the hillside under the wall of the arrow tower, high or low, front or back. Lang Zan, the leader of the Zampu personal guards, had a solemn expression, he was the only innate grandmaster in the Tubo royal court, and he had already seen that the leaders on the mountain were three innate grandmasters, no more, no less, just the same number as the number of innate grandmasters on their side, below them were twenty Cave True Realm Grandmasters, and the other forty people were all ascending to the Extreme Realm.

Danba looked at his own side, there were four or five times more in number, but the main thing was that there were many palace guards and monks, and he didn't know if he had the advantage in strength? was worried, so he heard Langzan's voice come over: [The people from Fanyin Temple and Sanqing Palace are here, as well as the Cave True Realm Grandmaster in the Tang Army, if the situation is not good, Dawa will lead the personal guards and guards to escort Zampu first. 】

Dawa was the deputy commander of the Zampu Guard, and he answered the sound "yes".

Danba held the handle of the knife nervously, a thin layer of cold sweat broke out in his palm, he only practiced external skills, and had no internal power to transmit sound, so he nodded slightly.

King Sangjia's black monk's robe was hunting, and his sharp eyes stared at the monk in the half-worn monk's robe like a falcon, and he said in his heart: "Sure enough, it's here!" Pulling up, his mouth shouted like thunder, "But Fanyin Temple Duyin?" Fight with Usanga! ”

The faces of the Bo Sect monks and Langzan and other Zanpu guards changed.

There is a "cause" in the law name of the abbots of Fanyin Temple, and this generation of abbots is the degree of the word generation, and the law name: degree cause!

The abbot of Fanyin Temple appears here, and the Taoist is at least a Taoist character.

The Nagarjuna ** master under His Holiness locked her eyes on the only female Taoist, she stood in front of a group of green-robed Taoist priests, wearing a sandalwood crown with black hair, wearing a moon-white Taoist robe, standing on the mountain, as elegant as a cloud, and as light as the wind, giving people an unpredictable, unfathomable feeling.

Nagarjuna burst into tears and shouted: "Bowl Sect Nagarjuna, I don't know which of the three Qingdao characters is here?" ”

The female Dao's voice was also like a cloud, "The lower Dao of the Yuqing Palace is really polite. ”

Michiko Mako! - Nagarjuna took a deep breath, although this is a female Taoist, she is the second master of the Daoist Sect with a very famous reputation! It is said that the cultivation of martial arts is only inferior to the abbot of Fanyin Temple.

Nagarjuna knew that he had met a strong enemy, and perhaps the Red Mountain here was the place where he buried his bones, but he had no sadness in his heart that his life was about to pass, only the blood flowing in Bobo, and laughed and said: "Nagarjuna leads the Taoist master to make a high move!" As he spoke, he leaned up, his palms red as blood.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

In the blink of an eye, the two pairs of innate grandmasters, Du Yin, Sanga, Dao Zhenzi, and Nagarjuna, have already handed over.

The innate grandmaster in the wide-sleeved robe of Tiance Academy smiled, looked at Lang Zan, and said, "Tang Tiance Shen Wang Yu, please ask Grandmaster Lang Zan for advice." ”

King Shen Li Yu! - Langzan silently recited in his heart and shouted: "Fight! The wide sword at his waist was pulled out, and he rose up in the air, and before anyone arrived, the sword wind had already slashed down.

The Bojiao monks and Zampu guards of the Dongzhen Realm and the Dengji Realm also chose opponents to fight, some were yellow-clothed Buddhist monks, some were Tsing Yi Taoist priests, some were secretaries and teachers of Tiance Academy, and some were martial cavalry generals of Shence and Longwu; The monks and palace guards of the Fusion Realm were grouped in groups of five to ten to besiege a Tang man's Ascending Extreme Realm.

Danba, his three favorite wives, concubines, and four sons were escorted by eight Zampu guards led by Dawa and fifty palace guards, and fled to the second arrow tower in the southwest while the two sides were fighting.

***

Xiao Yan galloped to the outside of the West Mountain.

When she arrived at the place that Yu Chiting said, because she didn't see Princess Jinyang coming, she jumped off her horse and took off her armor. The iron leaf armor of the master battle does not play a protective role, but is a burden to speed.

As soon as he finished unloading the second shin guard, he saw Princess Jinyang and her party galloping from the south, with smoke and dust billowing behind them, and it was estimated that there were no less than fifty people.

Xiao Yan got on his horse and stepped forward, on the left of Princess Jinyang was the King of Jin she was familiar with, and the one on the right could not see the realm, it should be the true realm of the cave, and the status or realm should not be as good as the King of Jin, otherwise he would not be on the right side of the princess - the left is precious; Following the princess are all ascending to the Extreme Realm: a one-color pale yellow arrow sleeve, a red robe inside, arm guards on the wrist, a wingless hood on the head, and a yellow square jade inlaid in front of the hat, which is worn by the military cavalry general; The shoulders of the robe with arrow sleeves are embroidered with the dragon pattern, which is the general uniform decoration of the "Beiya Forbidden Army", obviously they are the gods of the expedition to Tibet and the martial cavalry generals of the Longwu Army.

Behind these warrior generals, there was also the princess's bodyguard.

"Princess." Xiao Yance immediately stepped forward and saluted, saluted the King of Jin, and said, "Xiao Yan has seen the King of Jin. ”

"Yo yo yo!" King Jin squeezed his eyebrows and laughed, "I only call Ah Zhen 'princess', and I salute 'Xiao Yan has seen King Jin', Xiao Seventeen, you are close to each other!" ”

Xiao Yan was stunned, she only felt that she was more familiar with Princess Jinyang, and the princess got along with her very casually, she also regarded the princess as half a friend in her heart.

Li Yuzhen relieved her, slanted his eyebrows and glanced at King Jin and said, "It's indeed a difference between relatives and relatives, isn't it, Uncle King of Jin?" ”

Li Zaiyi, the king of Jin, pulled his beard and hummed twice, on blood, it is indeed you and her. With a roll of his eyes, he grabbed ahead of Princess Jinyang, and turned his head to Li Xingzhou, the king of Jingling County, who was separated by a horse: "This is the third child of the Anping family, with a name Yan and a happy word." When talking about the "Anping family", his tone was slightly heavy, and he squeezed his eyes at Li Xingzhou, turned back to Xiao Yan and said, "This is the king of Jingling County." ”

Xiao Yan saluted and said, "Xiao Yan has seen the king of the county. ”

King Jingling County said in his heart: Anping only has two sons, when did he have a third son? He was surprised in his heart, but there was no discoloration on his stern and square face, only a slight bow.

Li Yuzhen beckoned to Xiao Yan, "You follow me." Lerma looked east and shouted, "Go." ”

The crowd galloped towards the Red Mountain, galloped out a mile or two, and arrived at the foot of the West Mountain.

The mountain wall is steep and straight, like a city wall, only a slight angle upward, but this gable is much higher than the city wall. But there are also disadvantages of high, and the arrows on the arrow tower cannot be shot at the foot of the mountain. Of course, the Tibetans were supposed to defend themselves in the air - when the enemy climbed the rope and shot them.

Everyone stopped their horses at the foot of the mountain, leaving several Fusion Realm guards from the Princess's Mansion to guard the horses, and the others all stepped on the wall to climb the mountain. The King of Jin and the King of Jingling County are in front, Princess Jinyang is behind, followed by Xiao Yan, and then there are the generals of the military cavalry and the guards of the princess's mansion.

There are still Tubo soldiers guarding the arrow tower, and they are lying on the parapet wall to build bows, ready to shoot arrows.

But these guards are just ordinary soldiers, and the people who step on the wall and climb the mountain are at least in the late stage of the fusion realm, these arrows are not a threat when they are shot down, they are either knocked away by the weapon, or they are blown away by the palm fist wind, and the deep internal strength directly receives the arrow, throws it back, and the soldiers on the arrow tower fall down with arrows.

After only a few breaths, everyone swept up the parapet wall of the arrow tower, tied up the captives and threw them on the arrow tower, and everyone stood on the hillside under the parapet wall for a long time.

Xiao Yan thought to himself: What are you waiting for? Then the eyebrows were slightly raised, and he looked northwest.

A group of Tibetan people are walking towards this side, carrying three shoulders in the middle, and on the shoulders of the head is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Tubo man, with a very strong physique, very thick eyebrows, looking heroic, but his expression is a little frightened.

King Jingling said in a stern voice: "One Cave True Realm is in the late stage, two Cave True Realm is in the middle stage, and one is in the early stage of the Cave True Realm. "Let's not talk about the Ascending Extreme Realm and the Fusion Realm, it's just these four people who are worth noting.

Li Yuzhen looked sideways at Xiao Yan, "That Cave True Realm was given to you at the beginning of the early stage, how long can you support it?" ”

King Jingling frowned when he heard this, this Xiao Yuezhi is only in the early stage of ascending to the extreme realm, although he is already in the middle stage of the advanced stage, against the Acquired Grandmaster, isn't that a person to death? - Jin Yang actually thinks that "he" can resist for a long time?

Xiao Yan's eyes burst with light, staring at the person the princess said for a moment, and said in a slow and steady voice: "How does he compare to the princess?" ”

Li Yuzhen laughed, "Well, it's not half there." The tone is casual, but it makes people feel that it is extremely confident.

Xiao Yan nodded, "I'll do my best, thirty moves." ”

Li Yuzhen: "Huh? Okay, then you can go. ”

King Jin haha: "Confident enough, Xiao Yuezhi!" Good job, this king is optimistic about you! ”

King Jingling County: "......" Are you two sure you don't want "Anping's third son" to be sent to death? - The king of the county still has doubts about whether this is the son of Princess Anping.

The generals and guards silently lowered their eyelids: ...... In the early stage of ascending to the Extreme Realm, he received thirty moves from the Cave True Realm Grandmaster? One move can crush you, okay! …… Could it be that the princess wants to take the opportunity to get rid of the son of Liang Guogong? Seem...... Possible...... Maybe?

On the Tibetan side, the shoulder has stopped under the wave of Dawa's hand. Danba's face turned pale with shock, and he stretched out his head and said urgently: "This ...... Dawa Dazong, the Tang people have occupied the arrow tower, what should we do? ”

Dawa's eyes were heavy, and he turned back to his chest and saluted, "Zampu, we can only fight." If you want to, you can't go, and the Tang people won't let us go. His eyes swept over the crowd and said, "Basang, Pubu ,......" He ordered five people in a row, two of them were the personal guards of Zampu in the Ascending Realm, and the other three were the palace guards of the Fusion Realm, and ordered them to guard Zampu and the two shoulders behind him, on which sat Zampu's queen, concubine, and four little princes.

Dawa turned around and shouted in a high voice: "Fight! ”

With this sound, the unnamed Zampu guards and palace guards all drew their swords and rushed out with him.

The King of Jin intercepted Dawa in the late stage of the Cave Realm.

King Jingling and Princess Jinyang each intercepted a Zampu guard in the middle of the Dongzhen Realm.

Xiao Yan's opponent is Zampu Guard, the early stage of the Cave True Realm.

The next Dan is fifty-five years old this year, five years ago when he entered the early stage of the Dongzhen Realm, and when he saw that he was facing him in the early stage of the Extreme Realm, he suddenly snorted angrily, if he knew the Han idiom, he would definitely say: "Mantis arm block the car!" Bite off more than one can chew! ”

He thought to himself: Solve this kid first, and then go to help the karma and kill the leader of the Tang people!

The next day, I didn't know Princess Jinyang, but looking at the bearing of this purple-robed woman, it was even more terrifying than those two Tang Grandmasters in the late and middle stages of the Cave True Realm, and she should be the leader of this group of Tang people! - Ji Dan didn't expect that she was the princess of Jinyang, after all, there were many female masters in the Tang Dynasty, and he thought that this was the master of the Li royal family from Tiance Academy.

After making up his mind the next day, Xiao Yan's expression was like an ant about to die under his hands, and his punch was like thunder, and one punch was a killing move with seventy percent of his strength.

The moment Xiao Yan drew the knife, the boiling battle intent in his heart resonated with the autumn water knife, and he rose up and let out a long roar, and instantly entered the meaning of "human knife communication" realized when the ground moved. Under the light of the spiritual platform, the divine consciousness comparable to the middle stage of the cave realm clearly captured the weak point of the punch of the next day, the horizontal knife was like a blade, and the knife wind stabbed the fist eye of the big fist shadow in the air with a "whoosh".

The next day, I was shocked, and the punch that crushed the ant was cracked by this guy?!

Although Xiao Yan hit the fist, she was also shocked by the fist wind, after all, the cultivation was a big step away from the next day, although her internal strength was several times deeper than the early stage of the general Ascending Extreme Realm, even in the later stage of the Ascending Extreme Realm, she was sure that she would not be defeated, but the Ascending Extreme Realm and the Cave True Realm were a chasm, with just one move, she felt that her internal breath was shaking, and the meridians were not running smoothly - this was also the result of her use of the Dou Zhuan Star Shifting Word Technique when she was shaking off.

Xiao Yan took a deep breath, his internal breath was running, and the meridians were restored as usual.

The next day Dan put away the contemptuous look on his face and began to look squarely at the "martial horseman" wearing a silver mask in front of him - he thought that Xiao Yan was a martial cavalry general in the Tang army.

But he didn't think that Xiao Yan could block him in a few moves, so he shouted and punched three times in a row.

Xiao Yan captured the fist traces with his divine sense, and the sword wind hit the "fist eye" without mistake, and resolved these three moves, but the internal breath was also shocked.

The next day, his face became stern, he was sure that this martial horse could see his fist path clearly-although it was strange that he could see the fist speed of the Cave True Realm with the eyesight of the Ascending Extreme Realm-so it could hit the vortex point in his fist wind, which was a relative weakness, but it would be transformed into the strongest point of strangulation in an instant, this transformation was very fast, but the sword speed of this martial horse was so fast, catching up with his speed?!

The next day Dan thought it was incredible.

He didn't know that if it had been a few hours ago, Xiao Yan would definitely not be able to keep up with his speed, after all, although her divine sense was comparable to the middle stage of the Cave True Realm, the realm of the physical body was still in the extreme realm.

But her current speed is not only the speed of her own body, but the speed of the autumn water knife.

The sword has the will to fight, just like the spiritual will of a person. Will can make people produce incredible strength, can turn weak into strong, and can turn slow into fast. However, only when the "spirit" of the knife is connected, the will of the knife can be combined with the will of the person, which is the real "unity of the human sword". The power and speed of the man and the knife are superimposed, and this superposition of one and one is not equal to two, but an exponential leap.

The next day, the more frightened he became, his speed had been increased to the extreme, and his internal strength had also been raised to the extreme, but this silver-faced martial artist could always stab and slash the "eye" of his moves in time, making him feel a feeling of suffocation that he couldn't vomit blood.

Xiao Yan couldn't say what he was suffering about, how could the Cave True Realm Grandmaster be able to challenge lightly? Although the spiritual will of the person and the knife can be superimposed, it must be limited by the strength of the person itself after all, and after she tried her best to receive twenty-five moves, the internal force has been consumed too much. Although her exercises allow her to absorb the vitality and transform it into internal force during the fight, it is not enough to make ends meet compared to the internal force that is rapidly consumed. Because of the weakening of her strength, the more she was shocked by the fist wind, her internal organs were already injured, she coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood in a row, and her ribs were broken twice, if it weren't for the strength of her body, more than just two bones would have been broken.

She felt that she was almost at her limit, but she didn't know that she had left a little spare energy to watch the shock in the hearts of the King of Jin and the King of Jingling County here:

There's a real chance that this kid will take thirty moves! - King Jin thought to himself.

Is this Xiao Seventeen really just in the early stage of ascending to the Extreme Realm? β€”β€”King Jingling couldn't help but suspect that Xiao Shi had used a means of gathering breath to cover up "his" cultivation.

Li Yuzhen also paid attention to Xiao Yan's side, and a smile gradually overflowed on his lips.

Her opponent was a mid-stage Cave Realm Grandmaster, one order higher than her, but she was not suppressed, and even seemed to have more than enough to deal with, which turned the Karma who was fighting against her from shock to horror.

Xiao Yan survived two more moves, her right chest was swept by the fist wind, which shocked her and made her vomit blood, and her ribs were broken again, the broken bone seemed to poke into her lungs, and a large mouthful of blood foam coughed out and fell on the placket of her clothes, dyeing the crimson robe more colorfully, and the blood was dazzling.

A martial cavalry general of the Zuo Shence Army killed his opponent and came out, hesitating whether to go up to help the fist, but ...... What if the princess really wants to borrow a knife to kill someone? Thinking of this, the martial cavalry general turned his head and pretended not to see it, and rushed into the battle group of another martial cavalry general like the wind.

Li Yuzhen decided to end the battle on her side. Although the opponent who fights can't put pressure on her, after all, the advantage of fighting at a higher level is that she can exercise her divine sense and the fine control of her internal strength, and fighting with different grandmasters can experience the use of power by different people, which is good for increasing experience and improving experience, and it can also promote the understanding of the Dao after accumulation. But now this Tibetan opponent is "poor in donkey skills" and can't bring her more experience; And the separated divine consciousness is worse to Xiao Yan's side, although letting Xiao Yan cross the level challenge is to sharpen herself, but she can't grind people to death. Tai'a shone in her hand with a light that pierced the sky.

The twenty-seven moves here did not take Xiao Yan, and he felt that he had lost the face of the grandmaster, his anger was to the extreme, and the killing intent was also full of power, and he would not give Xiao Yan time to breathe at all, just when the martial cavalry general looked over and turned his head and rushed to the other side in just one breath, he punched six punches in a row, and the fist wind was crossed, intertwined into a fist net. The powerful force distorted the air, and the trajectory of the fist path was distorted, even if it was captured by Xiao Yan's divine sense, it was chaotic. Within this piece of fist net, the chaotic fist wind constituted a strangulation, because each fist wind was enough to shatter the golden stone, and hundreds of fist winds were like dense sword lights, enveloping Xiao Yan's body.

Li Yuzhen's sword light seemed to cut through time and space, Karma had already felt the breath of death, at this moment he decided to "drag her with him even if he died", and did not avoid it, but met it, when the sword qi pierced his heart, his body exploded, a loud bang accompanied by a huge earthquake, countless red mud was blasted into the sky by the air waves, and the sky was full of red, limb flesh and blood foam.

The King of Jin and the King of Jingling County were stunned:

"Ah Zhen!"

"Jinyang!"

The author has something to say: Remarks:

There seems to be a chapter in the front that writes "Fanyin Temple" as "Fanyin Temple", which has been corrected here.

Built on the Red Mountain (Maburi Mountain) is the Potala Palace, Songtsen Gampo took Guanyin Bodhisattva as his Buddha-figure, so he named the palace after the Bodhisattva's residence "Potala" in the Buddhist scriptures. As for the Logos built on the mountain? Hehe, who knows? I don't think there is such a defense in the text.

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