Chapter 3 Worship the Mountain
As soon as he stepped on the land of Shu Mountain, Gu Lin felt as if he was under countless unfriendly eyes, and as a soldier, he could still feel a faint murderous aura. Compared with the murderous aura he had experienced before, it was like substance, although it was only a very thin wisp, it penetrated through the body like a needle, directly stimulating Gu Lin's brain and nerves all over his body, and suddenly adrenaline was secreted frantically, his whole body trembled irrepressibly, his stomach contracted, and a strong nausea attacked him.
Seeing this, Hou Yi couldn't help frowning, held Gu Lin's right hand tightly, and transferred an unknown energy from the palm of his hand to Gu Lin, allowing him to return to his original state, and then shouted loudly to the peak: "Pingyi, the thirteenth generation disciple of Shushan, ask to see the current master." The voice of this sentence gathered and did not disperse, and it was sent straight to a huge hall at the top of the peak, and the more than 20 people in strange costumes inside were stunned. It was the first time Gu Lin had heard Brother Yi call himself "Pingyi", and he thought it was an approachable "Pingyi".
A moment later, an angry and suppressed voice came from the hall in the sky that the satellites couldn't detect: "Ping Yi, you deceitful and traitorous thing, you still have the courage to return to Shu Mountain!" As soon as this voice came out, Gu Lin immediately noticed that the wisp of murderous aura just now suddenly surged, enveloping his body and wrapping himself and Brother Yi tightly. However, the energy that Hou Yi crossed into Gu Lin's body just now was evenly distributed throughout his body, blocking the ubiquitous murderous aura from the outside.
A wry smile appeared on Hou Yi's angular face, he couldn't escape from what he should have come, and he would eventually face the teacher and ask him about his guilt one day. Therefore, he didn't refute this scolding, but said helplessly: "Uncles, Senior Brother Pingjiao, what happened before, whether it was right or wrong, Pingyi will naturally have something to explain, but Pingyi has something important to tell when he returns to the mountain this time, this matter is related to the survival of Shushan, and I hope that all the senior brothers will see each other." ”
It was Ping Jiao who spoke just now, and after listening to Hou Yi's words, he became even more angry, and said urgently: "Confess! Hmph! No matter what reason you have, you can't escape the crime of deceiving the teacher and betraying the door, Shushan has been isolated from the world for thousands of years, and it is difficult to see the way of heaven, all thanks to you, and now you are back with rhetoric, in a vain attempt to coax the teacher......"
Gu Lin listened to Ping Jiao's constant scolding, and couldn't help but say to Hou Yi: "Brother Yi, this person is so anxious, and he doesn't ask about it, so he buckled so many big hats over, listening to his tone, he should be the head of Shushan, right?"
Hou Yi hurriedly said: "Xiaolin, don't talk nonsense, this is my senior brother Pingjiao, not the head." But he was sighing secretly in his heart, so he rushed to Gu Lin's words, estimating that he had one more crime - provoking the relationship between teachers and disciples.
Sure enough, Ping Jiao scolded: "Ping Yi, you bastard, you dare to find someone to sow discord, you don't have to die...... Hou Yi only looked at Gu Lin and smiled bitterly.
At this time, a majestic and peaceful voice interrupted Ping Jiao's scolding: "Ping Jiao, it's been four thousand years, you haven't changed your anger, don't let outsiders see the joke." Ping Jiao immediately fell silent. The voice continued: "Pingyi, I am the current head of Shushan, since you are back, come up first, but you should know the rules of Shushan, the people around you are not cultivators, just let him wait below." ”
Hou Yi seemed to be very respectful of this voice, and regardless of whether the other party could see it or not, he bowed respectfully to the peak and said, "Uncle Chengshu, Pingyi has often missed your old man for four thousand years. After a pause, he continued: "I also hope that the head of the sect is Bo Mingjian, the person next to me is called Gu Lin, my brother, and the general of the current imperial court, he is here to discuss some things on behalf of the country." Gu Lin pursed his lips, the word "imperial court" really sounded a little awkward.
"General, so those strange people and lifeless monsters under the mountain are his soldiers? Cheng Shu's words changed, and his tone was a little unkind. Gu Lin muttered in a low voice: "Old antique, it's not easy to fly up, it's rare and weird!" Hou Yi glared at him, and Gu Lin hurriedly shut up.
Hou Yi arched his hand to the top of the peak and said: "Uncle Master, Gu Lin's transfer of troops to surround the mountain is also an order from above, after all, Shushan has not existed for four thousand years, and the current people have long forgotten us." ”
"We, Ping Yi, you are still embarrassed to say the word 'we', I'm afraid that the people below haven't forgotten you, otherwise how could there be a general coming up with you?"
Hou Yi didn't pay attention to Ping Jiao, and said respectfully to Cheng Shu: "Uncle Master, the news I brought this time is related to the disappearance of the 'Perpetual Motion' array, and this news was also told to me by the imperial court, and Gu Lin came this time on behalf of the imperial court, hoping to discuss some things with Shushan." Gu Lin wanted to echo a few words, but he thought that he couldn't speak as easily as Hou Yi from a distance of a few hundred meters anyway, so he had no choice but to stop, anyway, the instructions he received this time was to follow Hou Yi, and all affairs were decided by Hou Yi.
"Perpetual Movement Great Array...... Cheng Shu was silent for a while, and then said, "Okay, let's let General Gu go up the mountain together." ”
Hou Yi and Gu Lin breathed a sigh of relief, they were finally able to meet, people thousands of years ago were really hard to talk to.
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Following a gravel path leading to the summit, the two walked towards the top. This is in the division, and Hou Yi does not dare to fly up.
Everything on the mountain seemed so strange, and it was completely different from 4,000 years ago. However, Hou Yi knew that these were all blind methods, and countless large and small formations would hide things that were different from the world, and in these formations, there must not be much change, and the people of Shushan did not like changes.
As for Gu Lin, he only felt many eyes staring at him, but he couldn't see half a figure, not even an ant. But he was mentally prepared for this strange thing, and everything here could not be speculated by common sense.
Nothing special happened along the way, and no one spoke to Hou Yi anymore, and the entire Shushan could only hear the footsteps of Hou Yi and Gu Lin, and everything was very quiet. But Hou Yi knew that once he reached the peak, the storm hidden under this tranquility would spread.
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The summit is a solid bluestone flat land, with no flowers, trees, or human figures. Hou Yi didn't pause, holding Gu Lin with his right hand, pinching a strange handprint with his left hand, and walking forward lightly.
It was as if crashing into a wall of water, the air in front of him twisted strangely, and the ripples expanded into the air, and the front half of Gu Lin's body who was walking in front disappeared, and then the back half of his body also dissolved into the ripples, Gu Lin didn't have time to be surprised, and found that the left hand held by Hou Yi disappeared into the air, and when he turned around, his shoulders and buttocks were also invisible. A quaint hall appeared in front of it, the door of the hall was wide open, and there were more than 20 young people in ancient costumes sitting on both sides, ten people on the right were dressed in white, and fourteen people on the left were dressed in gray clothes. On the chair in the middle, a young man in white with a ribbon on his head and a face like a crown of jade sat upright without smiling, and everyone's eyes were focused on Hou Yi and Gu Lin, of course, these eyes were definitely not kind.
Hou Yi let go of Gu Lin's hand, cleaned up the suit on his body, and then walked into the hall with a solemn face, knelt down in front of the young man in white, looked at this uncle who liked him the most before, and had mixed feelings for a while, and cried: "Shushan rebel Pingyi, meet the master, senior brothers." Tears flowed between the words. Gu Lin didn't kneel down with Hou Yi, he was representing the government this time, unlike Hou Yi who returned to his teacher's door, kneeling was absolutely impossible, so as not to humiliate the country.
One of the gray-clothed men on the left stood up and shouted, "Pingyi, don't pretend, let go of a fart!" Listening to that rude voice, it was the grumpy Pingjiao. Gu Lin looked at him, and couldn't help but drop his eyes, this flat Jiao willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, small nose and small mouth, fair complexion, and long hair scattered behind his back, he actually looked like a young girl, making it difficult for Gu Lin to overlap him with the image of speaking loudly and scolding just now.
In fact, not only Pingjiao, including Chengshu, the head of Shushan, the twenty-five people in the main hall are all in their twenties, although they are all men, but at least ten of them look the same as Pingjiao, they are women, and the others are also fair-skinned and handsome. Gu Lin couldn't help but turn his head to look at Hou Yi, and sighed in his heart: "This Shushan is all a cream student, how can there be a black and ugly Hou Yi?" But they all look so young, they are all monsters!" Of course, Hou Yi is not ugly, but he can't compare it with his senior brothers and uncles.
Cheng Shu glared at Ping Jiao and shouted, "Shut up! Stand down!" Ping Jiao sat down stupidly, still glaring at Hou Yi fiercely with his "beautiful eyes".
"Senior Nephew Pingyi, I don't know what news you brought with you when you returned to the mountain this time, is it really related to the disappearance of the Perpetual Movement Great Array?" Cheng Shu asked calmly.
Before Hou Yi could answer, a young man in white stood up on Cheng Shu's right hand side, and said loudly: "Senior brother in charge, Pingyi committed the big crime of deceiving the teacher and betraying the family, and fled in the world for four thousand years. When he made a move, the remaining nine white-clothed youths on the right immediately echoed him, it turned out that these white-clothed people were all Chengshu's junior disciples, that is, Hou Yi's uncle, and the fifteen gray-clothed young men on the left were the junior brothers of Hou Yi's peers, it seems that the hierarchy of this Shushan is still obvious.
Suddenly, life in the hall was boiling, and Ping Jiao's big voice was the most prominent, Gu Lin couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Brother Yi, Brother Yi, I didn't expect your popularity to be so poor, and there was not even a person to help you speak." ”