"There are no trees in the temple, the temple is hidden in the snow-capped mountains, and legend has it that only two days a year will reveal its true face, and it is impossible for anyone who is not sincere to see it. ”

Sean's old voice said calmly. The temple is of great significance to him, because he knows the relationship between the temple and the little girl, so Chen Pingping spent a lot of money to capture Qingguo, and because he knows where the temple is, he got the most benefits from the temple.

But what is a temple? It's just a temple.

Sean suddenly felt that the first half of his glorious life was fake, and only the second half of his life behind bars was real. The old man looked at the darkening sky outside the cave, and said with a blank expression: "Master Fan, do you believe that there really is a god in this world?"

Fan Xian was silent, thinking of his rebirth, thinking of the box, and nodded: "I believe in the existence of God more than anyone else in this world. ”

"What is God?"

"If I knew what God was, I would be God. ”

Sean glanced at him appreciatively and said, "It's really rare for you to be able to see so clearly at such a young age." After a pause, he said, "But His Majesty was still young at the time, so he couldn't see clearly." ”

Fan Xian knew that the story was finally about to begin, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous and a little expectant.

"Do you know what the world was like more than thirty years ago?"

"Wei is dominant, and it may unify the world at any time. ”

"Yes, at that time, the old man was already the leader of the Great Wei State Tiqi and His Majesty's henchman. Sean recalled the past, but his expression was a little weird, not like he was immersed in the glory of the day, and he didn't have any grudges, maybe he was going to die, but he was indifferent and calm, "The world of the day." It is the world of the Wei State, and all the handsome people are in the court, but they really provoke this court. In addition to the first emperor, there are two pairs of brothers. ”

Fan Xian looked at the old man's expression and seemed to be able to hold on, a little relieved, and responded softly: "One of the pairs, naturally it is you and Zhuang Mohan." ”

"Yes, my brother is more productive than I am. Sean's face softened, "And he is more affectionate than me, I have been imprisoned by Qingguo for twenty years." He still remembers me, and I owe him. ”

"Why no one knows that you are a pair of brothers. ”

"The reason is very simple, my reputation is too vicious, I don't know how many Qingliu I have secretly killed, he is a scholar. Naturally, he didn't like me, and I didn't want to have anything to do with him. Sean replied very blandly.

Fan Xian paused slightly, and changed the subject: "Who are the other pair of brothers?"

"It's the wind and the bitter lotus. ”

"Zhan Qingfeng, the father of the founding emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, a generation of famous generals back then?" Fan Xian was finally shocked, it turned out that the relationship between Kuhe and the Northern Qi royal family was so close! No wonder he would do his best to protect the current Empress Dowager and the emperor. And the royal family has such respect for the bitter lotus lineage.

"Kuhe is the younger brother of Zhan Qingfeng, and since he was a child, he has been determined to be an ascetic, practicing the way of heaven and man, and striving to one day be able to preach and enter the temple. Sean said sarcastically: "The world believes in the temple, but who has really seen it in the past thousand years? ”

"But the temple really exists. Fan Xian reminded him.

"Not bad. Sean closed his eyes. "At that time, the first emperor died, and the young emperor ascended the throne, although this emperor was not bad to us courtiers. But somehow, he was unusually afraid of death. I was thinking about what kind of immortality art I wanted to practice. ”

Fan Xian said: "At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty was dominant, and as an emperor, he didn't have anything to worry about, so he naturally couldn't help but think of these things. ”

Sean continued: "So at that time, Kuhe took the opportunity to enter the palace and persuaded His Majesty to send a mission to the sea to find traces of the temple land, saying that if the immortals of the temple taught His Majesty the immortal method, he would naturally be immortal. When Your Majesty heard this, how could he not allow it......" He said with a wry smile: "As the leader of His Majesty's henchmen, this matter naturally falls on my own head. ”

"Kuhe is the proposer, and he is extremely fanatical about the temple, so naturally he will not stay out of it. Sean said lightly: "Gathering the strength of the Great Wei and the whole country, I don't know how long I searched, and finally found a clue, so Kuhe and I led a team of 1,000 people to the north." ”

Although the dying old man said indifferently, Fan Xian knew that the process at that time must have been quite complicated, the temple was worshiped by the world, but it was ethereal and without a trace, and it was a very amazing thing to be able to find a definite clue.

The old and indifferent voice kept echoing in the cave, and the sky and mountains outside the cave gradually dimmed, Fan Xian listened silently, asked questions at the right time, and his brain was running rapidly, through Sean's memories, he redrew a rough map of the route of the worship procession to the temple in his own heart.

......

Time seems to have returned to more than 30 years ago, and the Yellow Mountain outside the cave has also turned into a snowstorm. In the old man's memories, Fan Xian seemed to see an expedition team composed of thousands of people, in the wind and snow, in the wild northland, those people were wearing leather boots, wrapped in thick leather clothes, only two eyes were exposed, but they still couldn't stop the cold wind pouring into their bodies.

At the front of the team were the two leaders of the group, Sean, who was in the prime of life at the time, and Kuhe, a young and devout ascetic.

The team went north and north, the more difficult it became, the fewer people walked, some people froze to death, some fell into the ice valley and disappeared, some people were caught by the birds of prey in the sky and died of the heavenly spirits, in short, as the expedition progressed, the team became shorter and shorter, and the atmosphere became more and more weird.

The sky and the earth were snow-white, and because they had stayed in this boring and cold environment for too long, some of the people in the team were blinded and ruthlessly abandoned by Sean in the wasteland, and some hardy scavengers were waiting for the death of those blind people in the distance.

Everything happened quietly, even if it was something as tragic as death.

The team walked for a long time, and finally came to a large mountain in the far north, with only a narrow path leading to it, and the snow was so thick that it had long obscured the color of the mountain itself, and it seemed that it was just an endless stream of icebergs.

When the remaining group of about 100 people walked into the mountain, they found that behind the mountain was still covered by ice and snow, and even animals had become very few. The team set up camp with great tenacity, hoping to find no trace of the temple here, but many days passed without finding anything.

In winter, heavy snowfall, mountain closure, no day, exhaustion.

The strongest people survived to the end, in a never-ending long night, Sean and Kuhe sat back to back in the tent, surrounded by the corpses that had been put away, the fire was not extinguished, the remnants of the tent in the team and the clothes of those dead people gave these two strong men the last trace of warmth, a glimmer of hope.

―――――――――――――――――――――――――

"That's the wrath of heaven. ”

In the cave, Sean opened his eyes with some difficulty, the crimson in his pupils became more and more intense, but there was endless fear in his eyes: "The temple knows that mortals are trying to find them, so the heavens are furious and descend on the boundless darkness. ”

Fan Xian glanced at the old man, and after a while, he whispered, "That's called Polar Night." He mentally confirmed the location of the temple again.

Sean naturally didn't understand what the polar night was, but that memory obviously made him remember it very deeply, and he said with a confused face: "Bitter lotus was eating human flesh extremely sweet and stingy at that time, and at the same time praying to the heavens extremely devoutly, I couldn't help but despise him a little in my heart." Unexpectedly...... Maybe in the end he really touched the immortals in the temple, so the heavens ...... Suddenly it lit up. ”

Fan Xian couldn't help but look at Sean, thinking to himself how these two people could survive the months-long polar night? Even if there were people to eat meat and tents to burn, but that kind of loneliness and struggle between the two of them would probably make people go crazy.

Sean suddenly laughed and said: "The sky will light up, and at that time, Kuhe and I are also at the end of our lives, but we suddenly found hope, and I don't know where the strength came from to support us to continue to live." ”

"Then you found the temple. Fan Xian picked up the dagger, put it beside him, and asked softly, "What is the temple like?"

......

......

Many years ago, outside the snowy mountains, two people who were so thin that they only had bones left, walked out of the tent with great difficulty, their sunken eyes, their yellowish complexion, and the rotten and swollen gums that appeared when they breathed, all revealing a message - these two people were dying.

The light of the day finally stopped being so stingy and only came out for a while, and some of the animals woke up from the deep cave again, and the two strong men, although they were at the end of their crossbows, were still much more fierce than those beasts, so they gained a lot of replenishment and stood up again.

That day, they squinted their eyes and looked at the snowy mountain in front of them in a daze, but they didn't know where the temple they were looking for was.

There's something here, but it's just a white expanse of land that's really clean.

Suddenly, a light from the sky struck down from the blue sky, and the light on the snowy mountain had a very strange twist and turn, and it was very abrupt, and a beautiful temple appeared in the middle of the mountain.

This grand temple is built on a hill, with black stone walls and long gray eaves clinging to each other, which is solemn and inexplicable.

Kuhe looked at the mountains stupidly, and suddenly fell to the ground excitedly, crying loudly in the direction where the temple appeared, extremely sad. Sean froze in place, and after a while, he woke up, sat down in the snow, and didn't have the strength to stand up for a long time.

This is the temple.