Chapter Forty-Nine: There Were Maniacs Before the Templars

Yunjing, the capital of the Great Shun Emperor, was also shrouded in water vapor, but unlike the smoke in the wilderness, it did not contain smoke and fire, although there was also a mist of cooking food, but compared to the water vapor produced by the wide Kaoxiang River flowing in the middle of Kyoto, these were negligible.

Walking along the wide bluestone road next to the Piaoxiang River, Yi Jun soon saw the prosperity of Kyoto and the prosperity of the Piaoxiang River, especially next to the ornate wharf, in the middle of the wide but not turbulent river, when he saw the painting boat recorded in the book, this realization reached the extreme.

The shouts of the hawkers on both sides of the road came and went, and the pedestrians in the middle rubbed shoulders one after another, and in the center of the river, above the painting boat, those wonderful piano sounds, the beautiful sound of the zither kept coming, and the thin veil on the painting boat loomed a series of slender and beautiful figures, where they constantly writhed and swirled, making the people by the river dazzled.

These scenery even attracted Han Wu, Feng Cheng and others, and even Wu Jilang couldn't help but glance at those painting boats a few times, causing Green Sleeves to complain for a while, complaining that Han Wu took the wrong way and actually walked to the river.

Regarding Green Sleeves' complaints, Han Wu naturally did not admit that he was here to see the singers, but to take the nearest road to the Holy Temple.

In fact, after walking through this riverside bluestone road, then the central street of Yunjing, and turning the central street, the terrain began to rise, and the tower of Babel gradually approached.

In fact, as you move forward, the terrain gradually rises, and you get closer to not only the Tower of Babel, but also the place where you can see through the layers of water vapor that seems to be a pale green cloud on the horizon.

It is not a real cloud cluster, but a small mountain called Da Hyeon Mountain surrounded by Kyoto in the city, which is part of Zhongshou Mountain, but because of the establishment of Yunjing, the surrounding uneven mountains are all dug low and filled, leaving only this lonely small mountain peak still in Yunjing City.

The prestigious and mysterious church was built on this hill.

It is also because the temple was built on it, and the peak of Da Hyeon Mountain is also known as the holy mountain - the holy mountain of the Dashun Empire.

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"The temple is beautiful, the temple is beautiful, there is a temple in the temple, but unfortunately you can't see it, you can't see it! ”

Just as Yi Jun followed Han Wu, Wu Jilang and the others into the street called Liulin Lane, which could lead directly to the church, suddenly a crazy song came from the other end of Liulin Lane.

Immediately after, Yi Jun saw an unkempt man turn out from behind the archway in the far side of the street, barefoot, holding a crooked branch in his hand, singing and laughing as he ran.

When the last line of the lyrics was sung, the branch in the man's hand slashed at his neck as if he were killing himself, and then he fell down with his head on his back, as if he had committed suicide.

After a few moments, the man got up from the ground again, ignored the bruises from the hard bluestone pavement, continued to hold his branch, continued to sing the lyrics that he didn't know who had edited for him, and finally acted out the scene of suicide and fell to the ground.

"What is this?" Seeing this, Yi Jun couldn't help but laugh.

Han Wu, Wu Jilang and others also laughed.

"This is a famous madman at the foot of the Holy Mountain!" Green Sleeves explained to Yi Jun after laughing.

"A famous madman?" Yi Jun was a little puzzled by this statement of Green Sleeves, the famous should be a merry genius, a court official, a frontier warrior and the like, would a madman still be famous? Who would spread fame for a madman?

"This madman is a famous genius in Kyoto 20 years ago, named Liang Makeup, both civil and military, the poems he wrote are still singing in the song of the Piaoxiang River, and he himself has been admitted to the martial arts champion, it is said that he raised a stone lion of two thousand catties in the school military field at that time, and he is good at riding and shooting, and can shoot a strong bow with two stones, and shoot a hare arrow running 100 meters away. Feng Cheng told Yi Jun about the origin of this madman, obviously, he had heard these words for a long time.

Yi Jun listened, and then looked at the madman in the distance who saw him running away, and couldn't help frowning again.

"And how did he go crazy?" he asked.

"I heard that he went crazy when His Majesty ordered the closure of the Academy sixteen years ago, and he himself was a student of the Academy, and he couldn't accept the sudden closure of the Academy that had existed for hundreds of years, so he went crazy. Qian Tao also said, with a smile on his face, obviously, they did not sympathize with this madman.

But the song he sings is a church, not a school. Yi Jun still didn't understand, he was crazy because of the Academy, why he sang the song of arranging the Holy Temple, was this lyric created by him, or was someone else teaching him?

"Then I don't know, madman, unreasonable. Han Wu shook his head at this time, with the demeanor of an adult, but his immature eyebrows made him look a little ridiculous when he made this move.

Yi Jun stopped talking after listening to it, but he was a little embarrassed, it was indeed a pity that such a character ended up in such a world.

Although he was embarrassed, Yi Jun couldn't waste time and energy for a person who had been crazy for more than ten years, so he ignored him and continued to move forward with a few teenagers.

Walking to the end of Liulin Lane, turning the tall archway, the steps leading to the top of the mountain are presented in front of Yi Jun.

It was a wide staircase where dozens of people could walk side by side, and there were sentry boxes built on both sides of the stairs, but there were no sentry posts in sight, and at the bottom of the stairs there were people standing in twos and threes, some walking, but most of them were standing far away from the steps, looking at the steps that led to the top of the mountain, looking at the gate of the temple that was invisible at the end of the steps, and ...... The towering Tower of Babel.

As a mountain in the city, Da Hyeonshan is not very tall, and a few people walked for two quarters of an hour to complete the last step of the mountain road and ascend to the top of the mountain.

What catches the eye is an unusually flat cliff flat, in which there are many traces of artificial carving.

There is artificially planted grass in the center of the cliff lawn, trimmed neatly, like a green, delicate blanket, surrounded by some evergreen dwarf trees in all seasons, sometimes there are one or two flowers and plants of various colors, the whole scenery in front of you is pleasing to the eye.

At the end of the cliff is an unusually tall mountain gate, which is composed of tall, rough boulders, each of which is dozens of meters high, dozens of meters wide, and dozens of meters thick, which are stacked there, giving people the impression of being indestructible.

Through the mountain gate, through the layers of alienated tree shadows inside, through those winding bluestone pavements, a red wall and green tile faintly appear from afar.

In the depths of these red walls and green tiles, the huge base of the Tower of Babel also looms, and as for the body of the tower, a huge shadow has already formed to envelop the entire temple.

"Han Wu, Wu Jiro?" Just as Yi Jun was looking at the legendary Sanctuary, a cry of surprise suddenly came from inside the gate of the Sanctuary, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps coming from inside.

Hearing this voice, Han Wu and Wu Jilang's faces couldn't help but change, while Feng Cheng and Qian Tao's faces also became very embarrassed, and they looked at the location of the temple gate with some trepidation.