In the seventh year of Longwu in Southern Qi, due to the repeated violations of the border by the barbarians, the king of Qi ordered that the Great Qi urgently needed warriors to guard the southern frontier, and all those who made meritorious contributions on the battlefield could be crowned marquis. For a time, the government and the opposition were proud of practicing martial arts, and the children of rich and noble families, who had a little qualification, invested in the financial resources to learn from teachers, thinking that the qualifications for seeking official promotion were also those who practiced the method of strengthening their bodies.

As soon as the king order came out, the various sects in the rivers and lakes swept away the depressed scene of the past, the disciples who signed up to learn the art were endless, overcrowded, and some of the masters of the rivers and lakes who had been famous for a long time also set up their own doors, recruiting disciples to teach martial arts, and in a few years, there were many sects in the territory of the Southern Qi Dynasty, but this also led to some drawbacks, the newly established sects were mixed, and the heads of the various factions were not all righteous people, and the incidents of killing each other between the sects often occurred, and even colluded with the government to bully the market, fish and flesh the people, and be a party to the disaster.

In the spring of March of the 11th year of Longwu in Southern Qi, dozens of miles southwest of Jiangzhou County, an important town in Shudi, stretching for hundreds of miles, on the Shuyang Mountain, because the officers and soldiers of the Jiangzhou garrison battalion pursued Liukou, the leading lieutenant unfortunately fell into a deep pit, the military was able to find a building hidden in the mountain, after a rough survey of the tomb suspected to be a hundred years ago, the Jiangzhou garrison general Qin Zhanxiong wanted to send someone to carefully investigate, but because of the many traps arranged in the tomb, the soldiers were killed and wounded, and they were not allowed to go deep. So Qin Zhanxiong issued a heroic order, claiming that there were divine weapons and peerless cheats in the tomb, and recruited people from the rivers and lakes to come to explore the tomb and hunt for treasures.

Two months later, in the southwest of Jiangzhou City, at the foot of Shuyang Mountain, a group of people rode horses, and saw a sentry post at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and there were vaguely many camp tents.

Among this group of people, the leader is a man in green clothes and a long beard who is about fifty years old, only to see Qi Le Ma said: "It is close to the ancient tomb, everyone stops for a while, this time to go into the mountains to hunt for treasures, you and other disciples should observe the martial arts of other sects, and focus on their own experience. The disciples behind him replied in unison, "Follow the teachings of my uncle." ”

This group of people is a famous and decent Qingcheng faction, a total of nine men and women, this long-bearded uncle is the current head of the Qingcheng faction's junior brother Shangguan Law, who is upright and upright, the head of the door rules, rewards and punishments, and his skills are even more profound, and he has won the trust of the sect; The others were all outstanding disciples in the sect.

Shangguan Law led the disciples to drive the horses to the sentry post, it turned out to be the Jiangzhou garrison camp a song of people and horses here, the leading general is the Sun Duwei who fell into the deep pit, it is only two months and then move freely, it seems that the martial arts are good, the injury is not serious, everyone temporarily handed over the horses to the officers and soldiers, self-reported identity, showed the sect token, each paid a hundred taels of silver tickets, and took the road to go up the mountain.

Everyone used the method of lightening their bodies to rush to the ancient tomb on the mountainside, along the way there are trees, wild grasses, and occasionally wild foxes, wild boars and other small beasts infested. A handsome young man said: "Uncle Shi, this treasure hunt, the army set up cards to charge, one hundred taels of silver per person, and the cost of temporary storage of the horses, whether there is treasure in the tomb is not yet known, this Qin general is doing a good business, and the annual expenses of ordinary people are only ten taels of silver, such a way to accumulate wealth, I am afraid that it is not because of this continuous war that the treasury is empty, and there is no money for military salaries." ”

"What Yu Heng said is not bad, I have been raising for many years, intending to recover the lost land in the north, and return to the old capital of Qi, but the barbarians in southern Xinjiang were provoked by the Northern Zhou Dynasty and frequently made rebellions, in recent years, the treasury was empty, and the people in the border areas were also deeply affected, but I was afraid that if I continued to fight, the Northern Zhou Dynasty was also afraid of knocking on the border." Shangguan Law stroked his long beard in his hands, and his face was quite heavy.

Everyone pondered, but they heard a female voice as crisp as a bell: "Uncle, brother, most of the people in the rivers and lakes don't care about national affairs, just to compete for fame and fortune, but my Qingcheng faction is worried about the country and the people, and is deeply loved by the people of the southwest, but the affairs of the country have their own temple people to preside, according to Qingshuang's opinion, it is better to be open-minded, for my chivalrous generation to do what I can. As soon as the words fell, Liao Yuheng, the handsome young man, the leader of the young generation of the Qingcheng faction, and the eldest disciple of the head of the family, knew that it was the adopted daughter of the head of the family and the little junior sister Ling Qingshuang's "high opinion", Liao Yuheng looked back at Ling Qingshuang and grinned to show his approval.

After hearing this, Shangguan Lu nodded again and again, feeling very pleased, and said, "Well said, good!" Women don't let the eyebrows go! It is worthy of being the pearl of my Qingcheng, much stronger than you, a senior brother who only knows the smell of copper. ”

Liao Yuheng coughed lightly a few times when he heard this, and turned his head to make an aggrieved expression with Ling Qingshuang.

Ling Qingshuang was protected by everyone in the middle of the team, and she was proud when she heard her uncle's praise, although this girl was only seventeen or eighteen years old, she was already slim and elegant, and she was praised by Shangguan Law at this time.

Everyone chatted all the way, and unconsciously arrived at the mountainside, at this time it was almost evening, but they saw a camp, the lights had been raised, and the scale of the camp had to be more than a thousand soldiers, and the people who had arrived in the rivers and lakes gathered in the camp, and there were also one or two hundred people.

Shangguan Law led the disciples to show the way to introduce Dazhai, looking at the people in the rivers and lakes, from the clothes, the old acquaintances have the local Tang Gate and the Juedao Gate in Xichuan, as well as the Tianjian Gate in Luoyi, located in the north of the lost land, the old capital of Linji, there are several new sects established in recent years, and there are some gangs and Jianghu scattered people, etc., but there is no Shangqing faction, Beicang faction, Kongtong faction, Penglai Island, Tianzhu Peak and other time-honored sects, it seems that the style of the big faction disdains the treasure in the tomb of this district.

But said that although the Northern Zhou and Southern Qi are two countries, after all, they were split from the Great Zhou Dynasty a few decades ago, and they belong to the same family, the same root and the same origin, and now the two countries have been truces for many years, and there are many trade contacts among the people, and there are no exchanges with each other, and the famous masters on the rivers and lakes, the temples of the two countries are heavily co-opted, and the famous factions are not divided into geographical boundaries and have preferential care, so the Jianghu people in the Northern Zhou Dynasty can also be recruited.

Shangguan Lu looked around Dazhai, just looking at the garrison formation, you can see that Qin Zhanxiong attaches great importance to this matter, a song of men and horses guarding the foot of the mountain, three songs of soldiers and horses guarding the ancient tomb, deterring the martial arts heroes, these two thousand soldiers and horses are placed in Shuyang Mountain, you must know that there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the whole Jiangzhou, of which 5,000 people from the patrol battalion patrol the river road, and there are only 5,000 soldiers from the garrison camp near Jiangzhou City, and these two thousand people are drawn from the garrison camp.

Southern Qi military system: 50 people are a tun, and a tun chief is set up; 500 people for a song, set up a song governor; 1,000 people for one part, set up a captain; 5,000 men for a battalion, with a captain; 10,000 people become an army and a general. The Northern Zhou Dynasty was similar, all of them followed the Great Zhou military system.

Qingcheng sent everyone to greet each faction without mentioning, night came, each went to the camp to rest, the night was fine, the next day was the time to go down to the tomb to explore the treasure.

In the early morning of the second day, everyone heard the sound of the trumpet, and went out of the camp, only to see more than 100 strong soldiers guarding the southwest corner of the camp, all wearing strong armor and holding sharp spears and iron shields. There are more than 100 soldiers on the periphery, and there are a few wooden tables, a few colonels, and a general, who are discussing something, and the rest of the soldiers have already blocked the camp, and they really can't even fly in, and no one wants to go out.

When people from all factions in the rivers and lakes gathered, the general cleared his throat and said loudly: "This general is under the command of General Qin of the Jiangzhou garrison, and the captain Li Jingkui, this general has a few words to say, you all listen to it." First, this time, General Qin issued a heroic order to summon everyone to come to explore the treasure, and I hope that all of you who have a grudge will put aside your grudges for the time being, don't make trouble here, and wait for Shuyang Mountain to go out of the Jiangzhou boundary and then go to fight; Second, the treasure exploration from today for a period of two days, every evening the entrance of the cave three rings, early morning two rings of gold as a reminder, the third day in the morning after the gold, only waiting for you an hour, as soon as the hour has passed, our army will fill the hole; Third, all the things in the tomb such as the divine soldiers, secret books, and goods that you have obtained are not allowed to be kept privately, and they must be checked and handed over by me for half of the rest of the items before they can be taken away, and I hope you will not break the rules. Alright, this general has finished speaking, everyone is ready, and you can go to the tomb immediately! ”

Qin Zhanxiong obviously used the heroes of the rivers and lakes as guns, everyone walked the rivers and lakes casually and unrestrained on weekdays, and they had never been treated like this, although they were unhappy, but in the face of thousands of well-trained soldiers, they did not dare to make any indignant voices, even if their status in the rivers and lakes was high, but in front of the army and the king, they were just like ants. Everyone in the rivers and lakes had to respond in unison, and they went back to the camp to prepare, several gangs and most of the scattered people in the rivers and lakes rushed to go to the tomb first, but the martial arts sects such as the Tang Sect and the Absolute Sword Sect were not in a hurry, and they were in the back, and the Qingcheng faction and his party were actually dragged to the end.

The cave that collapsed out of the hole is two or three zhang deep, about one zhang wide, the military has slightly built, erected a rope ladder, Qingcheng sent people through the rope ladder one after another down into it, under the pit is a more than one zhang high, two or three people wide channel, but this passage has not been repaired, the traces of excavation are still clearly identifiable, the chisel marks are horizontal and vertical, disorderly, there are many sharp stones protruding, look at this should be not completed that year.

There was only one road, one end had been blocked by the collapsed rocks and mud, and they could only go to the other end, and the chiseled stone walls had been lit with oil lamps and torches, and the ground under their feet was fairly smooth, and everyone groped forward by the flickering firelight. According to the information told by the military, from here for a quarter of an hour, there will be a three-way crossing, and divided into three passages, each passage has been explored, there are traps, there are three corpses in the middle of the passage, looking at the clothing and the degree of decay of the corpses, it should be at least ten years dead, it is impossible to identify who the person is, because of the traps, the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, and the three passages have not reached the end.

When the Qingcheng faction arrived at the three-way crossing, there was no trace of other sects, Shangguan Lu chose the middle passage, only to see that from this three-way crossing it was very different from before, the blue brick wall, the bluestone paving, Shangguan Lu secretly said: "I am afraid that there are all organs under this brick and stone." Shangguan Law led the disciples to move forward cautiously, and arrived at the three corpses after about a quarter of an hour, Shangguan Law wanted to take a closer look to see if he could identify where the three corpses were sacred, but unfortunately the only trace left was also destroyed by the people from all walks of life in advance, and there were people competing for the three corpses, the scene was messy, the white bones were scattered all over the ground, and the clothes that were not completely rotten were torn everywhere. Shangguan Lu sighed lightly, and after a brief inspection, he could only give up, and continued to walk for half an hour, when he heard the sound of fighting in front of him, and sure enough, there were still people who were selfish, and fought in this mountain despite Captain Li's warning.