Chapter 120: Blood Spirit Cave Mansion
Zhang Fan and they once again moved towards the goal of nine needles of Biling grass, after a few hours of progress, everyone came to a small village that was very simple and uninhabited, Zhang Fan looked at the surrounding cobwebs, overgrown and broken scenery, obviously this village should not know how many years it has been abandoned, and the architectural style here is still a long time ago thatched house style.
After comparing the map and intelligence information in his hand again, Wuxian said: "Well, Brother Zhang, the approximate location you gave before should be here, even if there is a discrepancy, it is within a radius of three miles from this village, and the gap will not be too big." ”
"Brother Traceless, this village feels like it has been deserted for a long time, I wonder if the information in your hand has some information about this village?
Without a trace handed the information in his hand to Zhang Fan, looked at the surrounding buildings with more recognizable characteristics, pointed and said: "Actually, in the past, the spirit class was not as rampant as it is now, strictly speaking, it was still the boundary of the spirit capital thousands of years ago, and it is not strange that people live there, and outside the spirit capital, there are still a small number of families with unique secret methods living in self-sufficiency, they have their own way of survival, so when some captains go deep into the spirit realm, they have met people of foreign races." ”
"But this village is not a village of foreigners, it is a small village called 'Harvest Village' in our Lingdu a long time ago, thousands of years ago it is said that it was still the hometown of a powerful man at that time, but after so many years of ups and downs, coupled with the increasing and rampant spiritual land, the border defense line of Lingdu had to move further to the rear, and this place was naturally abandoned. ”
Without a trace took Zhang Fan to a five-story ancient bell tower and said: "Brother Zhang, look at this bell tower, our intelligence officers have visited it several times before, and the information they found in it shows that this bell tower is one of the most representative buildings in this village, although the name 'Blood Soul Tower' is a bit evil, but the things inside show that this place was once a formal place for studying pharmacology and refining spiritual weapons, and so much is known at present." ”
Although the dilapidated buildings in front of him are not numerous, this look still makes Zhang Fan feel a headache, and he can't help but ask Xiaoying in his heart, and said: "Xiaoying, where is the place you are talking about, there must be an entrance or something, right?"
"This building is the most conspicuous building in this village, and it is also the strangest place in the whole village, such a tall building, such an architectural style and craftsmanship, compared with the surrounding houses, it is particularly prominent, giving people a feeling of standing out from the crowd, well, my perception will not be wrong, the strongest place in the secret realm is in the backyard of this building. ”
"Backyard?"
Zhang Fan returned the information to Traceless, and walked to the dilapidated gate that could only cover half of the door, only to see half of the crumbling plaque hanging above the gate, "Brother Traceless, I feel like this is here, let's go in and have a look?"
"Feeling, Brother Zhang Fan, do you still have the skill to feel treasures?"
"No, no, I just have that kind of intuition, let's go, go in and see if my intuition is accurate. ”
As soon as they entered the door, what everyone saw was the same as the furnishings of the pharmacy, there were all kinds of messy medicine cabinets everywhere, and the originally very spacious lobby was now overgrown with weeds and looked a little messy and crowded.
In an open-air courtyard, Zhang Fan curiously scanned everything around, the broken rockery, the dry waterway, the wall that had collapsed most of the wall, and the dead grass everywhere, Zhang Fan felt that this place didn't look like a place where someone had used it at that time, and looked at Zhang Fan suspiciously and said: "There's nothing to see here, it's all over at a glance, and our people should have explored this place, but the intelligence didn't say anything." ”
"Zhang Fan, this is here, this is the source of the breath that has always attracted me, the spiritual treasure aura here is the strongest, you look carefully, is there any place or thing that seems incompatible with everything around you. ”
Zhang Fan walked around the whole yard by himself, but there was nothing incompatible with the surroundings, Zhang Fan walked to a dry well covered by stones, and when he wanted to walk through, he suddenly found that this dry well seemed to be a little wrong, the flat ground in this yard was full of all kinds of weeds and withered vines, but the surroundings of this dry well were so clean, and the surrounding area of one meter was so clean that there was no grass.
"This dry well ......."
Zhang Fan stayed at the edge of the dry well, when his hand touched the dry well, a cold feeling came into the palm of his hand, and there was a feeling of taking advantage of the situation to invade the upper body, Zhang Fan hurriedly withdrew his palm in surprise, you must know that now is the time when the scorching sun is at the head, this dry well can have such a cold and biting cold, and when Wu Ji and others saw this, they hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Brother Zhang Fan, what's wrong with you?"
"There is something wrong with this dry well, it should be under this dry well. Zhang Fan lifted the big stone that covered the mouth of the dry well, and looked into the well with his head leisurely, only to see that the well was pitch black and bottomless, "I don't know how deep this well is?"
Nanhuan Liu on the side threw a stone into the well, "One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds......." The stone fell in the well for six seconds, before there was a clear sound, and he looked at the information without a trace, and scratched his head from time to time and said: "This well is so deep, it is impossible for ordinary household wells to hit so deep, but from the information we have gathered, there is no record of this well at all, it is strange." ”
"Brother Traceless, this brother who collects intelligence just thinks that there will be nothing special in this well, maybe he ignores it, but as for whether it is strange or not, we will know when we go down and see. ”
After Zhang Fan finished speaking, he wanted to jump directly into the well, but Nanhuanliu and Jia Tian on the side hurriedly stopped Zhang Fan and said: "Hey, Senior Brother Zhang Fan, let's go down and explore the way first, we don't know the situation in this well, no one can say for sure what is inside, in case there is anything aggressive, we can also deal with it first." ”
"That's okay, it's safer, these two are our Sword Sect's signal spirit cores, and after confirming the safety, use this to inform us." ”
The two took the spirit core, and jumped down towards the well, Zhang Fan and several people stood by the well and waited, and after a while, the signal spirit core in Wuji's hand finally made a beeping sound, and Wuxian saw this, turned off the spirit core signal in his hand and said: "Okay, it's safe below, let's go down." ”
A few people jumped into the deep well, and the backyard at this time regained calm, and Zhang Fan, who came to the bottom of the well, was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him, he didn't expect that there would be such a scene under this dry well, full of various colored crystals and large icicles that exude a trace of cold air are staggered, and it is difficult to distinguish each other at a glance, and what surprised Zhang Fan the most was that at the top of the large icicle, a layer of rich cloud-like things gathered above his head.
The stars in the clouds are Lingling, and the cold air emitted by the icicles is slowly sinking, like a stream flowing into the sea, forming an ethereal ice mist under the feet of Zhang Fan and others, walking in these fogs, Zhang Fan felt that the mist directly penetrated the thick shoes and socks and went straight to the skin, and the spiritual power ran down before driving away a little cold.
Under the subtle light emitted by the surrounding crystals, the fog refracted and strengthened each other, forming this bizarre underground KTV in the large underground space in the well.
"Senior brother, here, there is a huge stone tablet that I don't know what is written. ”
Hearing Nanhuan Liu's words, Zhang Fan hurriedly stepped forward, only to see that the stone tablet was more than four meters high, and the strange symbols densely packed on it should be some kind of ancient script, but in the eyes of Zhang Fan, a straightforward geography student, these so-called ancient characters are simply like extremely annoying earthworms, and their brains hurt.
"Zhang Fan, we haven't found any danger here after coming here for so long, could this be just an empty shell?" Jia Tian looked around helplessly, and he felt a little disappointed by his active nature.
Wu Wuxian also looked confused, and then said to Zhang Fan: "Brother Zhang Fan, it seems that this kind of thing still has to be handed over to you, this thing is really terrible, I heard from the sect master, your brother Zhang Fan's knowledge is amazing, at Master Fang's banquet, you have opened the eyes of many big people, and a trick against gossip is to make everyone deeply admire." ”
"Hehehe........" Zhang Fan smiled bitterly, but he didn't know that he was completely in accordance with the words of the old man, and he was a science student who was not close to ink, what kind of leisure would he have to read what rare books there, and he didn't even read all the three-character scriptures.
Zhang Fan asked for help from the old man and said, "Old man, what kind of text is this, how can it look like the language of Europe, but if you look closely, it doesn't look like it." ”
"Stinky boy, you should read more books, this is the script of the ancient country of Loulan, called 'Tocharian', which is a kind of Indo-European language, I can understand it, let me translate it." ”
Through Zhang Fan's eyes, the old man carefully looked at the content on the stele, and after a while, Zhang Fan got all the translated content of the old man, and pretended that the old god was on the ground and wanted everyone to explain.
"This is the script of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and the time is probably nearly 3,000 years old,"
When everyone heard this, they all studied the stele curiously, and Nanhuan Liu and Jia Tian said to Zhang Fan in amazement: "Yes, junior brother, I didn't expect that you are not only talented, but also have a lot of ink in your belly, cow!"
"Senior Brother Jia Tian has won the award," Zhang Fan continued to look at the symbols on the stele and said: "This stele probably talks about the life of a strong man, and this is the cave mansion of that strong man before his death, and it is also the mausoleum of him after his death. ”
"Strong, what strong?"
"Well, it seems to be called some kind of Blood Spirit Venerable. ”
Everyone was speechless, looked at the stone tablet in front of them in disbelief, and said: "This is the cave mansion of the predecessor of the Blood Spirit Venerable?" Legend has it that the Blood Spirit Venerable is a strong man who stands above the human emperor, rampant in the world, and does not dare to disobey, its strength, medical science, poison scripture, and refining method, that is the peak of all attainments. ”
"Wow, is it so powerful?" Zhang Fan was completely stunned by the history of the characters here, although the collection building of the Spirit Department was completely open to Zhang Fan, but he really didn't have time to take a closer look, "I don't know what level of strength this Blood Spirit Venerable is,"
Wuxian said excitedly: "Brother Zhang Fan, don't you know, since the free soul collector, this blood spirit venerable is the first person in the history of civilians who can rely on his hard work to reach the level of surpassing the human emperor at that time, although one day I don't know why, he suddenly disappeared in front of the eyes of the world, and the spirit capital has been tracking his footprints hard, I want to say that I hope to find the burial place of my predecessors, but I didn't expect it to be in the old site of this spirit capital." ”
"Senior brother, what else is said on this stone tablet?
Zhang Fan carefully passed on the information that the old man passed on to him and said: "The old man has never encountered a defeat in his life, and he is proud of the hundreds of races in the world, but none of them are the people in the eyes of the old man, strong as the emperor, fierce as a dragon, fierce as a spirit, no one can compare, everyone is happy with the old man's high position, but he doesn't know that the invincible loneliness hurts the loneliness even more, the old man met a saint of my human race in his later years, and only defeated the old man several times with a five-element gas, and the old man realized that there are people outside the world. ”
"With the retreat for a hundred years, look to see through the emperor's level, in order to achieve the great realm, but the sky does not obey people's wishes, when the old man broke through, a despicable person actually attacked the old man, so that the blood flowed backwards, the body disappeared, the old residence and no one knows, the rest of the life to accept the strong hundreds, all in the old man after the death of my mausoleum, to the future generations of destined people, remember that life and death are in a thought, want to enter the old man's mausoleum, must repay the heart of death, I have studied medical science all my life and know that life is not easy, must not be reckless because of a moment of greed, remember!"
Listening to Zhang Fan's words, Nanhuan Liu, Li Wuxian and others were all in a surging mood, and Yu Fang, who had always been silent, couldn't help but sigh: "The blood spirit venerable predecessors are powerful sages, and they are arrogant but not arrogant, which is admirable and admirable. ”
Although Zhang Fan had never heard of the Blood Spirit Venerable, what he had just read and said made Zhang Fan enthusiastic, "This Blood Spirit Venerable is really powerful, no one can compare to it?"
After everyone calmed down and boiled their blood, they looked at the surrounding cave without a trace, and asked puzzledly: "Brother Zhang Fan, is this all said on this stone tablet? Is there any explanation of where the entrance to this cave is? Although the space here is huge, but looking at the surrounding stone walls are flat and edgeless, I can't tell where this entrance is." ”