The three of them rode horses for a whole day, and arrived at Mengshe River in the evening, and it was also a great blessing to finally be able to see the whole picture of Cangshan Mountain along the way.

Wu Ji couldn't help but admire: "The snow is upside down, the mountainside is white clouds, and the heavenly skills show their skills." ”

In addition, there are also disappointing things, they originally thought that the "birthplace of Mengshe Zhao" in Feng Jiayi's mouth would be a big city, even if it was not as good as Taihe City, it was not much worse, but looking at the village surrounded by bamboo fences in front of them, it was really difficult to relate it to the city.

In the end, it was an abandoned city, and the guards were very lax, except for the occasional encounter of one or two Nanzhao soldiers in rattan armor lazily wandering around, and the three of them entered the "city" effortlessly.

There is not a single street in the area, and the houses are haphazardly built and the roads are full of livestock dung.

Yan Tianzong looked at the group of geese lining up in front of him, and said with a wry smile: "This... There will be the most powerful sect of the Nanzhao Kingdom here?"

Wuji didn't know how to answer him, so he turned his gaze to the ghost side, and the ghost side still had that cold look and didn't say a word.

After another quarter of an hour, the three of them walked to the end of the village, and finally saw the piece of Tallinn that Feng Jiayi said, there was a Buddhist wall outside the Tallinn, which was neither high nor guarded, and easily climbed in.

Although Nanzhao and the Tang Dynasty both believe in Buddhism, the doctrine is fundamentally different, the Buddhism believed in by Nanzhao is introduced by Tianzhu and Nepolo, which can be classified as Mahayana Buddhism, and the architectural style of the stupa is also very different from that of the Tang Dynasty.

The pagodas of the Tang Dynasty are mostly brown, built of bricks and wood, with edges and corners, heavy eaves and sharp points, and the most famous is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang'an City.

The pagoda here is white, without edges and corners, like a big round bottle, shrinking upward in a circle, and like the round belly of the fat monk in Ci'an Temple.

All of this made them feel very new.

Buddhism is the state religion of Nanzhao, which can be said: "There is no rich or poor family, there are Buddhist halls, people are not old and strong, and they can't release Buddha beads." "This piece of Tallinn occupies more than half of the entire village, and there are dozens of white pagodas and prayer buildings. The stupas are tall and short, wide and narrow, and they are not the same.

They went straight to the highest white pagoda in the center, the three of them were light, and they walked quickly, although they met three or two Nanzhao monks who were sweeping the floor on the road, they were not found, and then stopped in front of this five-story pagoda, such a huge building, it is rare to see in Nanzhao, only to see a stone standing in front of the tower, engraved with several Nanzhao characters, since the ghost can speak Nanzhao dialect, naturally also understand Nanzhao, he looked at the stone, nodded at the two.

Knowing that they were in the right place, he took two steps forward with bated breath and put his ear to the window to listen to the movement, but there was no sound.

"No one. Indefinite turned his head and said behind him.

Tianzong and the ghost easily followed, reaching out to push the door, but they didn't push it open, it should have been locked from the inside.

The three of them turned around, and saw another small door on the left, which was also tightly chained outside, and still could not enter.

"Go up to the second floor!" Yan Tianzong said this, and without waiting for the indefinite and ghost parties to agree, he jumped up to the second floor. There were no doors on the second floor, only a few stone windows, and he pushed them one by one, and they were all locked.

Tianzong scolded in his heart: "Why should the place where the bird not poop be locked like the Ouchi Palace!"

After a while, he started to think crookedly, he thought to himself: "Wuji's 'Exquisite Heart' was out of the limelight yesterday, and the two swords were given by Master Qin, so I don't think it's much worse." Thinking about it, he drew his sword and said to it, "Sword, sword! It's time for you to show your face, but you have to fight!"

After speaking, raising his hand is a sword.

The marble hollow carved window lattice was actually cut out by his sword!

Even if it is chiseled with an axe, it may not be chiseled like this in three or five times, and then look at the "acacia bone" in Tianzhong's hand - it is still shining, and there is no sign of curling the blade.

Yan Tianzong was ecstatic in his heart, he was born in a sword-forging family, and he was also amazed by the power of this divine weapon, and was even more impressed by Qin Keji's earth-shattering sword-casting skills.

He looked at Yan Wuji behind him with smugness, and his backhand was another sword, this time the window lattice was completely cracked, he used his internal strength, and with a slap of his palm, the stone window was shattered all over the ground.

The three of them climbed in through the window in turn, there were several lanterns inside, but they could barely see things, only to see a picture of the dragon fighting the tiger painted with paint on the curved wall - the tiger is above, the dragon is below, the tiger in the picture seems to have the upper hand, and the sharp claws are pressing the dragon under him, looking up to the sky and roaring.

"It's exactly the same as the pattern on the jade pendant!" Tianzong said in surprise.

Wu Ji nodded, didn't say anything, looked around, there were not many items in the room, only a Buddha statue, a few puff pads, and then three or two tables and chairs, and finally his eyes fell on a shelf standing against the wall.

The shelf was divided into nine grids, equal in size, and on each grid were placed some fist-sized beast heads, some put three beast heads, some put five, and some put eight, and there was no pattern.

Yan Wuji guessed that this might be some rule of Nanzhao, but he always felt that the shelf was a little abrupt, so he got closer, lightly touched the beast head on it, it didn't shake, and took a closer look, it turned out that there was an awl at the bottom of the beast head, which was embedded in the partition, which could be pulled out and inserted in, but it could not be moved directly.

I also saw that there were nine grooves in the partitions of each layer, which must have been used to inlay these animal heads.

Yan Tianzong muttered in a low voice: "Since there are nine holes, why don't you fill them with nine beast heads?"

This is where the endless curiosity lies.

Tianzong teased: "Could it be that the people in Shelong Pavilion are all poor ghosts, and they can't afford to buy ninety-nine eighty-one beast heads?"

Yan Wuzhi glanced at him, such an outrageous idea was out of his mouth, but he was still muttering: "Nine-layer partition...... Nine grooves...... Don't fill the nine heads of the beast...... Nine ......"

"Jiugongge!" Wuji suddenly thought of something, shouted excitedly, and then asked Tianzong: "Do you remember the vertical and horizontal diagram that the second master taught us?"

"Vertical and horizontal charts?"

"Yes, can you memorize the nine-palace arithmetic mantra in the vertical and horizontal chart?"

Yan Tianzong said proudly: "The five-five diagram and the hundred sub-diagram, I may not remember all of them for a while, if it is only the nine-palace diagram, I will naturally remember that the melon is ripe." After that, he opened his mouth and recited: "Wear nine shoes and one, three on the left and seven on the right......"

Yan Wuji suddenly interrupted him and said with a smile: "You memorize sentence by sentence." ”

Then he took out a few beast heads, and filled the nine holes in the center of the top layer of the nine-square grid, and only one beast head was left in the center of the lowest layer, which was "wearing nine shoes and one".

He also removed a few animal heads from the leftmost lattice of the second layer, leaving only three, and made up seven of the rightmost lattice of the second layer, which is "three on the left and seven on the right".

"You continue to carry it. "Indefinitely, command the heavens.

Yan Tianzong was a clever ghost, and he immediately understood his intentions, but he was not sure if it would be useful to do so, so he reversed: "Six or eight is enough, and five is in the middle." ”

Indefinitely arranged the beast heads in the nine-square grid according to the formula, and as soon as the five beast heads were placed on the middle of the grid, I heard the sound of gear tearing, and after a while, the wall in front of me slowly opened.

There's a secret room in the back!

"Okay, it's yours!" Tianzong patted Wuji's shoulder and swaggered into the secret room.

"Wait!" Before he finished speaking, Yan Tianzong had already stepped on one foot.

Yan Wuji sighed, took a small step forward, and dragged him out.

"Grandma's, what are you pulling me!" said Tian Zongji reluctantly.

Yan Wuzhi gave him another roll of his eyes and said, "This mechanism is so complicated, the things inside must be very important, you are so rash to go in and be careful of losing your life." Moreover, the beast's head is full of dust, and no one has entered it for a long time, and there is no air circulation in it, and if you faint from suffocation, I will not lift you. ”

Yan Tianzong shook his hand and said with a big grin: "How can it be so serious, you also went in just now, do you feel that the air is thin?"

Wu Ji wondered in his heart: "Yes, I also went in just now, and I didn't feel any discomfort, this is unreasonable!"

"You're just too cautious!" Tianzong said as he lit the fire again and entered the secret room.

This place is not big, and it is only two feet square, Yan Tianzong's eyes widened, and he looked at the empty secret room over and over again, and said in disappointment: "I have worked hard to break the mechanism, just for this? The lock is so tight, what treasure should I have." ”

Wuji was also surprised, feeling like he had been tricked, but he still didn't want to give up, thinking, "Maybe there will be some more secret passages." So I groped along the walls one by one with a fluke in my heart.

"Hmm, there's a word!"

Yan Wuji wiped off the dust on the wall, and blew it with his mouth again, and sure enough, there were dozens of lines of words engraved on it, and it turned out to be Chinese characters!

He became more and more interested in seeing Chinese characters in the wilderness of southern Xinjiang, these characters are not good-looking, neither beautiful nor neat, but they make people feel very... Very comfortable.

No, if you look closely, it is not carved into the wall of the secret room, but on a large stone wall, and someone has cut off the whole stone wall and moved it here.

"A certain and his brother have traveled here......" Yan Tianzong brought the fire fold close to the stone wall, and could vaguely see the content of the text, reading it in a low voice. Then he complained: "Who does this 'so-and-so' refer to? He can't write clearly, which makes it difficult for people to read." ”

"See if there's a signature at the end. As he spoke, he wiped the dust off the last line of text.

Through the glimmer of light, Tianzong stumbled and read: "In March of the year of Wuzi... Land.. Lu Yuanyi left a word. ”

"Master Zu?" exclaimed indefinitely!

"What?" The ghost Fang, who had always been expressionless, was also full of horror, and immediately bowed down and knelt down, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

"It's... Be... It was written by Patriarch Yuanyi...."Yan Tianzong said hesitantly, and then pulled Yan Wuqi to kneel down together.

The etiquette of the One Sword Sect is different from that of the world, and it is rare to bow down, but Lu Yuan's reputation is too high, and in the eyes of all the disciples, he is simply a mythical figure.

Since the patriarch left the words, the three of them wiped it several times after the prostration, and the reading was much smoother.

Yan Tian tugged at the corner of his clothes for an infinite period of time, pointed to a small section of the upper one, and whispered: "Wuji, what does the ancestor mean by this sentence?"

"Which paragraph?"

Tianzong read according to the above: "Although Brother Gong is not a person of this world, he can see the facts of the moment, and he believes that Mengshe's edict will make great achievements in the future, and because of his simple folk customs, he intends to help him take off, so he ordered a certain person to teach three simple exercises to his people to strengthen their bodies." ”

Yan Wuqi said: "What's so difficult to understand about this? Mr. Gongyi in the mouth of the ancestor likes the simple character of the people of Mengshe Zhao, so he asked the ancestor to pass on three exercises to them. ”

The indefinite answer was not what he wanted to ask, so he was a little impatient: "Oh! I didn't mean that, what did the master mean when he said, 'Brother Gong is not a person in this world'...... and 'not a person in this world'?"

As soon as he asked, Yan Wuzhi also asked.

Yan Tian was terrified and said, "Could it be ...... Mr. Gong is the reincarnation of a ghost?"

"Come less! You really have heard too many folk tales, don't scare yourself if you have nothing to do!" Yan couldn't help but laugh and cry, thought about it, and said: "The ancestor is not a pure Central Plains bloodline, it is possible that this Mr. Gongyi is also a foreigner, so it makes sense to say that he is not a person from this world." ”

Yan Tianzong nodded yes, believing his words, so he continued to recite the handwriting left by Lu Yuanyi until he finished reading.

The content is not too complicated, to the effect that the Mengshe edict was established by the Ailao people, a hundred years ago it was only a small place, the Ailao people did not know martial arts, and were often harassed by fierce beasts and surrounding barbarians, Lu Yuanyi and Gongyi traveled here, and saw that they were pitiful, so they simply taught some internal skills and several methods of making city defense equipment, so that they could protect themselves.

"I said that Meng Chongyi's martial arts are so powerful, it turned out that the ancestor passed them on!" Yan Tian said stupidly.

Wu Ji didn't think so, and said: "It's not all like this, the ancestor said, just passed a few sets of simple internal skills, which have passed nearly a hundred years, and it is not impossible for the Nanzhao people to continue to study and dig deeper, and create many unfathomable martial arts." ”

Tianzong snorted coldly, and said, "Even so, their martial arts foundation always comes from our First Sword Sect. ”

Wu Ji thought to himself: "Since this stone tablet is so hidden, the people of Shelong Pavilion must care about it very much, maybe the sets of exercises passed down by the ancestor are also here." ”

At that moment, he searched on the wall with Tianzong and Ghost Fang, but after touching it for a long time, it was still empty, only these few words left by Lu Yuanyi.

"Hey, I thought I could learn two tricks of the ancestral master's magic skills, but that's it. Yan Tianzong said locally.

At this moment, the sound of chains being dragged from the side door of the first floor.

"Someone is coming!" Ghost Fang said a rare sentence, and it was only four words.

The three of them tiptoed to the top of the stairs to see who it was.