Li Qiufeng saw Situ Qiao's triumphant appearance, and felt disgusted, and thought to himself: "It doesn't matter what kind of monster he is, it has nothing to do with us in short." If you have to rest for one night, you will send Miss Huang to Wuji Temple tomorrow, and it will be considered a great success. He said in a deep voice: "Although this Living Wing Hall is empty, there are no doors and windows, and it cannot withstand the cold. Let's take a look at the back and see if there's a better place to live. ”

After he finished speaking, Huijing and the others applauded. These nuns were repeatedly sarcastically ridiculed by Situ Qiao, and they didn't want to be angry with him. At this time, when he heard Li Qiufeng say this, he had to go to the palace with him. Huijing also said to Situ Qiao: "Mr. Situ, since you are so curious about this palace, it is better to stay here tonight, you can study it carefully, and maybe find something else." ”

Huiming and several other nuns also echoed their words. Situ Qiao naturally knew that these nuns had bad intentions, so he rolled his strange eyes, and wanted to ridicule each other. It's just that he accidentally saw Li Qiufeng looking at him coldly, and his heart sank, so he had to swallow back the few mean words that came to his lips.

Li Qiufeng ignored him and turned around the statue, only to see that the back door of the hall was open, leaving only one of the two hall doors, and the other door had fallen to the ground and became broken. Li Qiufeng walked out of the back door first, but saw another courtyard in front of him. This courtyard is much smaller than the front yard, there are no wings on the left and right, but there is a hall in the middle. This hall is smaller than the Wing Hall of Life, but it also has no doors and windows. When everyone arrived at the front of the hall, they saw the plaque on the door of the hall with the three big characters of "Filial Piety Palace" written on it.

Li Qiufeng and Yuanjue have both read the Book of Changes, so they are naturally familiar with the deeds of King Wen of Zhou. Seeing the three big characters of "Filial Piety Palace", both of them thought in their hearts: "Sure enough, it is Wenwang Temple, there should have been such a palace." ”

Huijing and the others didn't know the deeds of King Wen of Zhou, and when they saw this palace, they couldn't help but be suspicious. Huiming said: "This Wenwang temple is dedicated to a prince, how can you build a temple for a filial son? Could it be that this prince got the benefits of this filial son and built a palace here to worship him?"

Yuan Jue knew that these young disciples were indeed as Situ Qiao said, their knowledge was limited, they didn't know the deeds of King Wen of Zhou, and they didn't know the origin of this filial piety hall, and it was indeed not an incredible thing. It's just that he didn't want to explain at this time, so he silently walked into the hall of filial piety. When the nuns saw Yuanjue enter the temple, they followed him one after another.

Although the inside of this hall is also very wide, it is much cleaner than the living wing hall. Although there was dust on the floor of the temple, there was not much of it. The offering table in front of the idol is still in its original state, not dilapidated. However, the idol of the god enshrined behind the offering table had no head, and only the body of the robe remained. The idol held Yugui in front of him with both hands, as if a minister was going to court.

Yuan Jue looked at the headless god, clasped his hands together, and recited the scriptures in his mouth. When the nuns saw the Master chanting the sutra in front of this headless statue, they wondered why the Master was so solemn in front of this headless statue. Li Qiufeng stood aside, but there was a faint unbearable look on his face. Huang Xu secretly observed Li Qiufeng from time to time, and when he saw that his face was different at this time, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "This idol has no head, I don't know what the face is." It's just that Master and Li Daxia are a little sad when they arrive here. Could it be that the people worshiped in this filial piety hall have suffered a tragic situation, which makes people feel pity?"

After Yuan Jue finished reciting the mantra of death, he slowly raised his head, looked at the headless statue, sighed, and said to Li Qiufeng: "Although this hall is a little tidy, but there are no doors and windows, let's go to the third courtyard to take a look." ”

Li Qiufeng nodded yes, and the group bypassed the headless statue and passed through the back door, but this time they arrived at a huge courtyard. This courtyard is larger than the front yard, and the courtyard is paved with stone slabs, and there is very little grass, which makes it look very neat. It's just that the left and right wings are only left with broken walls and ruins, and they are charred and black, and they have been burned to such an appearance. But the main hall is intact, even the windows and doors are intact.

Huijing and the other young nuns couldn't help cheering when they saw that the doors and windows of the hall were complete, and they ran towards the hall one after another. Yuan Jue smiled slightly, and said to Li Qiufeng: "These girls are still young and innocent, and they are smiling. ”

Li Qiufeng said: "The juniors don't dare. Masters, all the way, have worked very hard. At this moment, it looks like this, but it is also human nature, how dare the younger generation be disrespectful?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a burst of exclamations from Huijing and others. Li Qiufeng and Yuanjue were startled, and turned their heads to look, only to see that the nuns who had run to the front of the main hall actually retreated. Li Qiufeng knew that something was wrong, and with a little right foot, he rose into the air like a big bird and flew straight towards the main hall. Yuan Jue originally wanted to rush to help, but as soon as his heart moved, Li Qiufeng had already flown out. Yuan Jue's heart sank, and he secretly thought: "This powerful hero is not only good at martial arts, but his reaction is even faster to the extreme, but I am afraid that the twelve immortal aunts of Wujiguan may not be able to defeat him." I have also heard a lot of famous people in the rivers and lakes, but I have never heard of such a young martial arts master. Fortunately, he was with him along the way, and there was a lot less trouble. ”

At this time, the nuns had retreated to the center of the courtyard in a panic, and the strong autumn wind had risen and fallen a few times, and they had already fallen in front of the nuns. Huijing waited for Li Qiufeng to arrive, and then his heart was relieved. Li Qiufeng stood in the middle of the courtyard with his feet open, protected the nuns behind him, stared at the main hall with his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Master, what happened?"

Huijing said in a trembling voice: "On the door of the main hall, two handprints are printed......"

Li Qiufeng was stunned, but he still didn't look back, and said: "Maybe it's because no one has been here for many years, and there is a lot of dust on the palace door. It is not surprising that someone inadvertently pushed the temple door and left a handprint. ”

Hui Ming said with a shudder: "It's not a man's handprint, it's like a monster's handprint, and the handprint is not a dusty handprint, but a bloody handprint......

Li Qiufeng's heart sank, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly heard the sound of the wind above his head, and a figure swept over his head and rushed straight towards the door of the main hall.

Li Qiufeng raised his palms to protect his chest, but saw that the figure of the person was like a ghost, and he had already arrived in front of the main hall, and the back was Situ Qiao. I saw Situ Qiao arrive in front of the main hall gate, first looked up at the temple door, then strode up the stone steps, arrived in front of the temple gate, and then stood still, as if he was carefully watching what was on the temple door.

At this time, Yuan Jue also caught up, and whispered to Li Qiufeng: "Li Daxia, what do you see Mr. Situ doing?"

Li Qiufeng said: "The master will wait here with the masters, and wait for the juniors to come over and take a look." ”

As soon as he had finished speaking, he strode towards the main hall. At this time, it was getting late, but the sky was full of stars, and it was not too dark. When Li Qiufeng walked to the bottom of the stone steps in front of the main hall, he saw Situ Qiao turn around and said to Li Qiufeng: "Brother Li, you come to take a look at this hall door, it is really a little strange." ”

Li Qiufeng strode up the stone steps, only to find that there were two seals pasted on the palace door, and the seals were stamped with the big seal of the Yamen of Xiuwu County. It's just that over time, the color of the Great Seal has changed to black. What's even more bizarre is that there is a handprint printed in the middle of the two seals. This mudra is much larger than the palm of an ordinary person, but the palm print is very clear, and judging from the color, it does look like a bloody handprint. It's just that over time, the palm print has changed from red to jet black.

Only then did Li Qiufeng know that Fang Cai Huijing and the others did not make it clear in a panic, only said that there were bloody handprints on the temple door, but did not say that there was a seal on the temple door, which made him mistaken. He approached the seal to look at it carefully, and sniffed lightly at the two handprints, then nodded and said to Situ Qiao: "These two handprints are indeed printed with blood." I don't know who is making trouble here. Since he had the courage to put his handprint on the seal of the government, why didn't he tear it off?"

Situ Qiao smiled and said, "Maybe the person who printed this handprint deliberately wanted to leave this seal so as to scare the latecomers not to enter." ”

After Situ Qiao finished speaking, his right foot was suddenly raised, and he only heard a "bang", and he had kicked the door of the temple open. Li Qiufeng was stunned, thinking about how this person could do things so abruptly. But he heard Situ Qiao say: "Since someone doesn't want us to go in, let's go in and take a look." ”

After he finished speaking, he shook his right hand, and the fire fold in his hand flew straight into the main hall. By the light of the fire fold, Li Qiufeng had already seen the three big characters "Washing Heart Palace" written on the plaque on the door of the palace. Looking at the center of the temple, there seemed to be a tall statue of the god, but after the fire fold flew into the temple, it fell to the ground, because I didn't see what the statue looked like.

Li Qiufeng also took out the fire fold and shook it, and immediately walked into the main hall. By the light of the fire fold, he saw that the temple was very wide. In the center of the main hall is a statue of a god more than two feet high. The idol wears a crown on its head, a yellow brocade robe, and its hands on its knees, sitting upright on a high platform. The face of the idol is white, and the three locks of long hair flutter on the chest, which is very expressive.

It's just that when Li Qiufeng and Situ Qiao saw this statue, their hearts sank, and they couldn't help but take a step back.

I saw that the face of the idol was splashed with black spots, and there was a lot of dirt on the yellow robe. Li Qiufeng and Situ Qiao are both from the rivers and lakes, so they can naturally see that the black spots on the face of the god statue and the dirt on the robe on the body are bloodstains. The offering table in front of the idol was empty, but there were many traces of swords and slashes. I don't know how long this hall has been closed, and at this time, I smell a strong fishy smell and earthy smell in my nose.

The two of them stood for a long time, and then Situ Qiao picked up the fire fold that he had just thrown into the hall from the ground, and after shaking it again, he took the fire fold around in this heart washing hall. Although the temple was very large, it was empty except for the statue and the offering table. The inside of the temple was very clean, and after the door of the temple was closed, it was never opened again.

Situ Qiao walked back to the offering table, and saw that Li Qiufeng was staring at the statue in a daze, so he immediately whispered: "It seems that there was a fierce battle in this hall. One of the two men fighting was wielding a sword, and the other was wielding a sword. In addition to the statues and offering tables, there are many swords on the surrounding walls and pillars, as well as several marks of fist blows. I saw that these two people had very high martial arts, but I didn't know who would win and who would lose in the end. ”

(End of chapter)