Chapter 14: The Conspiracy Revealed
"Your Majesty, there is a gentle slope of the mountain road ahead, Feng Mou dares to ask you to get off the car and hike up the mountain with us. ”
Hearing this, Duan Weishan didn't wait for the guards to help him, he had already opened the curtain and jumped out of the carriage steadily.
"Okay, let's go. ”
This emperor is gentle on the surface, but Ye Ling can see that he actually has a vigorous and resolute side.
Maybe it's because he wants to get the human king sword too much, so no matter how bad the conditions on the road are, he will fully accept it.
Along the way, Duan Weishan and a hundred accompanying guards followed behind Feng Wanli, while Ye Ling and Feng Wanli stood shoulder to shoulder, opening the way ahead.
Ye Ling remembered very well that this road was the place where he was intercepted by Xu Hu and Han Ling before, but before a fork in the road near the destination, they took the left side this time, and Ye Ling came down from the sword-making room and walked the right road.
The emperor didn't speak, and others naturally couldn't speak, and only the sound of rain hitting the mountains and forests was heard along the way, and there was no other movement.
When they were about to reach the location of the "Hidden Sword Cave", a wall made of logs appeared in front of everyone.
There are only three sides of the wall, and the remaining one is the wall of Xiaolingfeng, which is a closed area about the size of a small rice field.
Passing through the fence, there are more than a dozen large makeshift cloth sheds for temporary habitation.
Now these cloth sheds are empty, and many people wearing the clothes of the Feng family's miscellaneous servants are standing neatly in the torrential rain.
"Feng Aiqing, let your people all withdraw, they don't use umbrellas, and they will catch the wind and cold again when they turn around. ”
Feng Wanli replied: "Thank Your Majesty for your kindness, but it doesn't matter, in order to protect Your Majesty's safety, they are willing to wait." ”
Duan Weishan pursed his lips and shook his head, turned sideways to Ye Ling and said, "City Lord Ye, along the way, you don't speak. ”
Ye Ling gave a salute and said with a very polite expression: "Back to Your Majesty, Ye Ling has nothing to say." ”
"Okay. The Emperor visibly gasped and stepped forward.
The cave in front of you is the so-called hidden sword cave.
This cave is not deep, from the entrance to the end, it is only a few dozen steps away, the cave is lit with torches, and the sight is bright.
The rough stone wall at the end looks indistinguishable from ordinary mountain rocks at first glance.
However, if you approach with a torch and look closely at the surface of the stone wall, you can see that there is a very hidden ring pattern in the center of the stone wall.
Feng Wanli pressed his hand on the ring pattern, twisted it clockwise, only to hear a rumbling sound, and the stone wall actually settled on its own, revealing a gate made of bronze.
On the bronze door, 16 rotating rings are neatly distributed, each of which is engraved with eight runes of different styles.
"Mysterious and mysterious, mysterious ......" Duan Weishan muttered to himself.
"Your Majesty, wait a minute, this bronze door is the real entrance mechanism, and the ways to unlock it are very complicated. ”
Feng Wanli began to rotate the ring from the upper left of the stone gate, so that the runes engraved on the ring corresponded to the other ring runes one by one, and there was a specific way of correspondence.
Ye Ling watched carefully from the side, trying his best to write down the correct position of all the rings, and when he left for a while, he might use them.
For him, who has the Immortal King's vein, it is not difficult to remember this little thing.
After the time of the half-pillar incense passed, Feng Wanli finally stopped turning the ring.
There was a "click" sound, and the heavy bronze door slowly opened the moment he closed his hand.
Crisp air blew through the cracks in the doors, proving that it used to be frequented.
"Your Majesty, please first. ”
Duan Weishan strode with his feet on the brand-new carpet.
On either side of the chamber, at intervals of one and a half meters, a kneeling human statue is placed symmetrically.
The statues hold their hands up as if they are holding something up, and their heads are deep in the ground, representing surrender to the person in front of them.
Under the light of the oil lamps on the walls, there is not a trace of dust on the surface of these statues, and the unsmooth areas are clearly polished.
Directly in front of the line of sight, there was a statue dressed very similarly to Duan Weishan.
He was in the center of the chamber, standing with a bronze shoulder in his hand.
"Your Majesty, that's the Human King Sword. ”
Duan Weishan did not rush forward to take the money, but folded his hands and bowed in all directions.
"Ancestors, ancestors, ancestors, I, Duan Weishan, have obtained the secret treasure of the heavenly realm today, and I have been able to extend my lifespan, so I swear here, I will be diligent in government affairs, not degenerate into extravagance, and ensure the prosperity of my Hongyuan Empire for five hundred years!"
After that, the emperor lifted his robe, stepped forward respectfully, and lifted the blade of his sword from the statue's hand with both hands.
Looking back, he said to Feng Wanli and Ye Ling with great satisfaction: "Two Aiqing, I can get the Divine Sword today, you two have made great contributions, after I go back, I will definitely reward your two families, so that your descendants will enjoy wealth forever!"
Hearing this, Feng Wanli bowed down, his head buried deeply, and his posture was exactly the same as those courtier statues.
"Your Majesty's generation of Ming Jun, to be able to get a hundred years of birthday is the blessing of our Hongyuan people, and the Feng family does not dare to take credit. ”
His hanging heart finally settled down, and by bowing his head, he finished flattering and exhaled a long breath.
"Two Aiqing, it's cold in the cave, let's leave quickly. ”
When Duan Weishan was about to walk out, Ye Ling, who had no sense of presence along the way, suddenly opened his mouth.
"Your Majesty, why did you leave before you took your sword?"
This sentence was inexplicable, Duan Weishan frowned, raised the bronze broadsword in his hand, and said, "What does City Lord Ye mean?
Feng Wanli gasped, and his heart that had just sunk was raised in his throat at this time.
He finally determined that Ye Ling was pretending to be stupid before, and the Feng family had planned a plan for many years, and he, Ye Ling, already knew about it!
He stared at Ye Ling with the most vicious eyes in his life, as if he wanted to use this look to cut Ye Ling with a thousand knives!
Ye Ling didn't dodge Feng Wanli's gaze, but responded to him with an expression that seemed to be smiling rather than smiling, and then said to Duan Weishan: "Your Majesty, Ye Ling has the courage to borrow the Wang Sword from others. ”
Feng Wanli's forehead was covered with sweat, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Ye Ling's gourd.
"Okay, Ye Aiqing takes the sword. Duan Weishan spoke easily, without the slightest hesitation, and handed the sword to Ye Ling.
After Ye Ling took the sword, he knocked the spirit stone inlaid with the sword body with the back of his hand, the look of disdain on his face flashed, and he suddenly pressed the two ends of the sword body with both hands, and his right knee was jerked!
Bang, the sword of the king of people was blatantly broken into two!
Feng Wanli jumped to his feet and shouted out of obscurity: "Ye Ling, you are presumptuous, you dare to destroy the secret treasure of the Heavenly Realm, and damage the life of the emperor for hundreds of years, what crime should you, what should you be guilty of?!"
"What's the crime? Hmph, I'm not guilty. Ye Ling held the broken sword in his hand and said to Duan Weishan: "Your Majesty Mingjian, this is simply a forged fake, the inner core of the real human king sword is inlaid with a heavenly spirit stone, which is indestructible, and this broken thing is just inlaid with a low-grade spirit stone." ”
"Master Feng, you have to be willing to spend some money to deceive people......, right?
Ye Ling was halfway through his words and handed his eyes to Duan Weishan.
Duan Weishan finally showed the thunderous face of a king at this time, and said coldly to Feng Wanli: "Feng Aiqing, do you have anything to explain?"
"I ...... I ......"
Feng Wanli was so frightened that the roots of his teeth trembled, where was the domineering look he had on weekdays?
"Come on, take down Feng Wanli, a disobedient and deceitful man!" Duan Weishan waved his hand, and the guards who accompanied him immediately moved.
At this time, a loud shout came from the side of the cave, and in the shadows hidden by those statues, there was actually a secret door!
"The head of the family, now that the plan has been revealed, I have to fight to the death!"
A figure struck in the air, holding a sword in one hand and a cane in the other, it was the elder of the Feng family, Feng Yingtian!