Chapter Seventy-Five: Clues to Chuling
Three days later, Lin Jingzhen, Yue Long and others returned to Cangzhou City.
When he returned to the city, King Chu Huai hosted a banquet to entertain him, but he was not interested, but just showed that he had dealt with it and left early.
On the fifth day after returning to the city, King Chu Huai took him to Chu Ling, which was behind Cangzhou City, that is, in the endless mountain range.
Cangzhou City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is a capital city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
It is a mountain range that rises from the sky, endlessly, and steeply.
A group of dozens of people, early in the morning, began to set off from Chaotian Palace, and after ten o'clock, they arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Chu Ling is in the belly of the mountain range, and if you want to cross it, you must climb a steep mountain road full of thorns.
But as the mausoleum of the Chu State, there is naturally another safe and convenient mountain road, however, this mountain road is all in the minds of King Chu Huai and several others.
The smooth mountain road leading to Chuling is hidden on a waterfall in the mountain range, dozens of people have passed through the waterfall, and they have gone straight all the way, and they have walked for more than an hour, and after many deep paths, they finally saw a hill that is slightly raised more than ten zhang high.
"The entrance to Chuling is there." King Chu Huai pointed to the hill and gasped slightly.
Lin nodded in surprise, didn't speak, and let him lead the way.
King Chu Huai left twenty soldiers to guard below, and then took Yue Long and ten other soldiers to climb towards the slightly raised hill.
In about half an hour, they climbed up the hill, and on each side of the hill were guarded by a group of mausoleum guards.
There were more than 20 mausoleum guards, and when they saw King Chu Huai who was dressed lightly, they bowed down one after another, "See the king." ”
"Get up." King Chu Huai said, "Is everything okay?" ”
"Alright." Everyone echoed, they received a message from the palace half a month ago, the king was going to come over to worship the ancestors, but what made them wonder was that the ancestors were worshiped every year in March, why did they advance it, and the key was not to bring sacrifices?
"That's very good." King Chu Huai said, "If you stay here, I will be at ease." ”
So, he took Yue Long and Lin to the front of Chu Ling, and then said: "This is the place where the children of the Xiang family will rest after they die. ”
A place of eternal rest?
Li Jingzhen frowned, in addition to a few graves on this mountain range, there was only a stone tablet left, and there were only two big characters "Chu Ling" engraved on the stone tablet.
So where is the real Chu Ling?
King Chu Huai also saw the confusion in his eyes, so he explained: "There is still a space under this stone tablet, which can only be opened by the jade seal. ”
"Oh."
"Zhenren, I still need to bow down to the ancestors before I can take you to open the Chu Tomb."
"Okay, you're busy."
Lin nodded in surprise, not in a hurry and waiting for King Chu Huai to finish the work after that.
King Chu Huai took Yue Long and a few people, knelt in front of the stone tablet of Chu Ling, and then bowed his head and repented, saying that the descendants were shocked, and the descendants of unfilial piety came to disturb these topics, anyway, Lin Jingzhen did not listen carefully, nor did he go to kneel and worship.
After a few incense sticks had passed, King Chu Huai stood up and said to Lin Jingyu: "Real person, it's okay." ”
"Let's get started."
Then, King Chu Huai asked Yue Long to replace him and take the jade seal and put it into a stone pit in a recess next to the stone stele.
The stone pit was just right for the jade seal to be put down, and when the jade seal was all put down, Yue Long felt that a force in his body was being withdrawn, and then his eyes lit up, and a large piece of light lit up the place in front of him.
With a soft sound, the stele slammed downward, revealing a black hole the size of three people standing side by side.
"That's the entrance to Chu Ling." King Chu Huai glanced at Yue Long and Commander Yu beside him, and then said, "Commander Yu, you take a few people in first." ”
Although it was not the first time for King Chu Huai to enter the Chu Tomb, he said that he was not afraid, it must be false.
"Yes." Even if Commander Yu was 10,000 unwilling, he didn't dare to show it back then, so he could only take a few soldiers next to him who were also dressed as janissaries and jumped into the dark hole.
Then it was followed by King Chu Huai, then Lin Jingzhen, and then Yue Long and the other two guards.
Lin Jingzhen only felt that he jumped into the black hole, and he felt a soft force wrapping himself, and then he didn't need to move himself, and the soft power sucked himself in.
In a few breaths, he found himself in another dimension.
This is a huge underground space, the dome of the space is more than ten zhang high, on both sides of the rock wall of the space, there are more than a dozen huge oil lamps hanging, the light seeping out of the oil lamps is shrouded in the entire underground space, the light is still very bright.
King Chu Huai led everyone to walk in front, and when he passed by a rock wall, next to the rock wall, there was a sword that had long been rusty.
"What's going on?" King Chu Huai walked over, his face showed regret, and he muttered to himself: "Ten years ago, when I first met you, the cold was soaring to the sky, how could I not see you for ten years, and then you became the rusty appearance you are now?" ”
Lin was shocked to listen to his painful complaints, and secretly said in his heart: "This sword can't be the fairy sword he said, right?" But looking at the quality of this sword, is it too different from the legendary fairy sword? ”
King Chu Huai cried for a while, trying to reach out and pull out the rusty sword on the wall, but the rusty sword was still stuck in the wall, not moving.
"Huh?" King Chu Huai smiled embarrassedly, "Lin Zhenren, this is the fairy sword I told you about, but he seems to have turned into a rusty appearance, and he doesn't want to recognize me as the master." ”
"There's nothing I can do about it." Lin spread his hands and said.
"Well, I thought you had a way."
"If I have a way, this will not be called a fairy sword."
"Well, that's what I'm saying, I'm going to take you to look through the history left by our Xiang family, but why are you so curious about the ancestors of our Xiang family?"
"King Chu Huai, you must be too curious about me." Lin Zhen stared at King Chu Huai with a smile and said, "Don't try to inquire about some things if you don't know, after all, what I want you to know will naturally tell you, and I am just following the orders of my teacher." ”
On the orders of the teacher?
King Chu Huai only felt that this smile was cold, and the words of the teacher's order made him feel like falling into an ice cellar, one person can resist an army, if the entire Xianmen goes down the mountain, the entire country can be destroyed in an instant.
"Lin Zhenren, how dare I, I'll lead you over." King Chu Huai's feet trembled slightly, and he led a few people to walk slowly ahead.
"There's a mechanism here, follow me, don't step on it." As he spoke, King Chu Huai led the way in front of him, and after a while, he came to a cave room.
"You also set up a separate cave to store the historical records?"
King Chu Huai replied, "Yes." ”
"Oh."
"Real person, you read here, I'll wait outside first, and call me directly if there's something."
"Okay."
King Chu Huai led a few people out of the cave.
In the cave, Lin Jingyi was left alone.
With the help of an oil lamp, Lin Jingzhen flipped through the wild records on it.
These histories and wild records seem to have been written by emperors, who carved their own life deeds and what they saw and heard in specially made bamboo tubes for future generations to read.
Some of these bamboo tube books have been stored for hundreds of years, and they can still retain the handwriting recorded in those years, which is enough to prove that these bamboo tubes are extraordinary.
After reading for more than half an hour, Lin Jingzhen finally found the record left by Xiang Shaolong, the ancestor of the Chu State, and saw that the history records that this mirror was obtained by them in an ancient tomb back then, and there were three people who entered the ancient tomb with the ancestor of the Chu State at that time, but only one person was mentioned in the record, and that person was the Taoist master who founded the Liluo faction.
Lilopai?
Lin Jingzhen suddenly remembered the conversation between the Gu Dao people and Wang Lu, they said that there was a Liluo faction at the ends of the earth, and that Liluo faction would not be the Liluo faction mentioned here.
"It looks like I'm going to the ends of the earth, but where is the end of the earth? Where is the sea of hope? ”
Lin sighed, I thought that when I entered the Chu Mausoleum, the secret of the bronze mirror would be revealed, who knew that this was like a nesting doll, luring you step by step to choose the next step, the ghost knew that when it came to the Liluo faction, the tomb robber who dug the tomb with the ancestors of Chu was still there.
Besides, even if that tomb robber is alive in the world because he has cultivated the immortal method, people may not tell you, and even if they really tell you, the ancient tomb back then would have been destroyed a long time ago.
But now this is the only clue, this end of the world, the sea looking south, from Luopai, must go.
It's a real headache, but promise Miss Lin what you want to do, try to complete it for her.
Since he had found the clue to the next step, it was pointless to stay here, so Lin Jingzhen called King Chu Huai, and a few people in his group were about to leave Chu Ling.
Before leaving, King Chu Huai pulled out the rusty fairy sword again, but the fairy sword didn't want to pay attention to him at all, no matter how hard he tried, he still didn't move.
King Chu Huai sighed, and reluctantly turned to leave, since the fairy sword didn't want to take care of himself, he was helpless, he couldn't stay in the mausoleum all the time, entangled.
A few people followed the road they came, went out of Chuling, returned to the hill, and then went down the hill along the mountain road, and then followed the road they came, walked through many secluded paths, and spent about two hours on the road, and they returned to Chaotian Palace.
It was already dark when he returned to Chaotian Palace, and King Chu Huai wanted to set up a banquet to entertain Lin Jingzhen, but he politely refused, at this time, he needed to be quiet.
Lin Jingzhen, who wanted to leave directly, suddenly remembered that he had found the three streamers falling from the sky a few days ago, and then asked, "King Chu Huai, have you encountered other immortal sect disciples visiting you recently?" ”
"Other Immortal Sect disciples visiting? When do you mean? ”
"That day, I was told by you that the border was in an emergency, that night."
"I'll think about it." King Chu Huai was respectful to him at this time and responded to his requests.
"Nope." King Chu Huai thought about it and said no without hesitation.
"No?" Lin was stunned for a moment, didn't the three streamers come towards Cangzhou City that day? But the direction in which the three streamers flew was obviously Cangzhou City.
"Lin Zhenren, are you going to leave Cangzhou City?" King Chu Huai asked.
"The war has been calmed down, the Song Kingdom has surrendered, and there is no point in me staying here."
"Do you want to come back?"
"I don't know."
"Oh." King Chu Huai was distracted, but when he remembered that Wang Aiqing's son was cultivating in Xianmen, he couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart, Chu State is also a country covered by Xianmen.
Lin was stunned and didn't care about the change in his expression, so he said: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" and prepared to leave.
But at this moment, King Chu Huai pointed to the edge of the sky and exclaimed: "Meteor? What a bright shooting star. ”
When everyone heard the sound, they saw a dazzling meteor slipping from the eastern sky, and then disappeared in a flash and fell into the darkness.
"That's the direction of the mountains."
"The meteor won't fall into the mountains, will it?"
"Possibly, the meteor should be an extraterrestrial meteorite."
"The meteor is so dazzling, it won't directly ignite that mountain range, right?"
"Close the crow's mouth."
"Hey, why is the Void Sky suddenly so bright? And smoke? It won't..."
"Ah, whose crow's beak was just now, the place where the meteor landed really ignited a large area of mountains and forests."
"What about Lin Zhenren and others?"
While the officials were busy thinking about countermeasures, when King Chu Huai, Yue Long, and Wang Taishi looked at the position where Lin Jingzhen had just stood, the young Taoist priest in a purple Taoist robe had already disappeared.