(19) The Great Protector of the Dharma

As for the mute grandfather, he was fostered in the family of a hermit in the rivers and lakes at an early age, and he only knew a little about his father. After the defeat of the teaching army, he took his family incognito and wandered the rivers and lakes from then on. deliberately concealed his peerless kung fu, and barely made a living just by selling his skills. While escaping from the hunt of the official eagle dog, he secretly searched for his father, but decades have passed and there has been no news. Slowly, he believed the rumors that his father died in battle, and he gave up continuing to search, and slowly lived in seclusion in a small mountain village to live a peaceful pastoral life.

Until one day, suddenly a person claiming to be the eldest disciple of the dumb great-grandfather came to the door, which broke the peace of their family again. It turned out that this eldest disciple had already defected to the government and became an eagle dog who killed his former brother. He always thought that his master's sudden disappearance was definitely not like the rumored final death in the melee. Because he knew that the true skill of the master would definitely not die so easily, not to mention that there were still three thousand loyal and brave people around him. He himself felt that the disappearance of the master should be related to the huge treasure that disappeared mysteriously later. And the truth of the matter should be that the master took the three thousand people who dared to die to escort and keep the treasures.

So over the years, he has been secretly inquiring about the master's clues, but there are still no clues after decades. He still did not give up, and began to look for the descendants of his master. Finally, he sniffed the traces of the master's only son's family. Then he privately gathered a few like-minded martial arts scum and quietly entered the mute grandfather's house on a windy and dark night.

After a fierce bloody battle, the mute grandfather and father were forced to perform their peerless kung fu, and they were either killed or wounded, and finally fled in disarray. But in that battle, because these thieves were fully prepared for a sneak attack, and they used quenched blades and hidden weapons. So, although the mute grandfather and father eventually repelled them, they also paid a heavy price. Less than half a year later, the mute grandfather died of poison. The mute father had no choice but to protect his young child in order to hide his tracks. I had to take the mute and his family to embark on the road of wandering the rivers and lakes again, and re-operate the business of my father's tricks.

But that's not all, because he didn't get the secret he wanted to know, the big disciple continued to track down the mute family. Within two years, he really found the traces of the mute father and son again. He knew that his mute father would rather die than give in, and even if he did kill him, he would not get anything of value. In the end, he actually let a poison master who was good at Gu give a dumb Gu to the young mute at that time. He used this to threaten his mute father and force him to comply.

But the mute father was extremely strong, and in a fit of rage, he first entrusted the mute to a trustworthy friend of life and death, and then went to the so-called uncle's house alone. In the end, he not only killed all the thieves who knew about it, but also when he was finally exhausted, he did not hesitate to detonate the explosives and die with this so-called uncle. Since then, the past has been completely revealed, but the young mute has become a mute in the real sense since then.

In the days since, the mute has followed his father's friend to continue to wander the rivers and lakes, engaged in the business of selling tricks. Sixteen or seventeen years have passed, not only has the money not been earned, but the strange disease of dumbness has not been optimistic. But with a solid foundation since childhood, coupled with hard work, coupled with the intentional cultivation and beating of his father's friends, he forced the dumb Thirteen Taibao to practice kung fu horizontally, and became a well-known foreign master on the rivers and lakes.

After a few more years, I saw that the mute had grown up, and it should be better than the blue, or it could be that the master was tired of running in the rivers and lakes. On this day, after the two of them got drunk, his old man quietly left, and there has been no news so far. Maybe, this is the real Jianghu people - righteousness has no regrets!

Later, the mute man relied on his own foreign kung fu, and his vicious personality with clear hatred and grudges, coupled with his secret and low-key style, he slowly created his own name in the rivers and lakes - cold-faced judge!

In fact, this is also the reason why Xiao Qingfeng found that the dumb man was a little abnormal at the beginning, but insisted on going into the cave to find out. At this point, everyone finally understood why he dared to take such a big risk and insisted on entering this mysterious Ten Thousand People (Dragon) Cave. It turned out that he had already vaguely felt that this mysterious place should have a certain relationship with the mute. Otherwise, the mute, who has always been calm and calm, will definitely not have such an abnormal reaction when he arrives here, which should be a strange feeling in the dumb subconscious. It's just that this strange induction, maybe even he himself is unaware.

Just as Xiao Qingfeng finished telling this past, suddenly a strange metallic sound came out of the belly of the dried corpse, which made everyone very uncomfortable to listen to. But strange to say, those pythons and small snakes quickly disappeared into the surrounding caves after hearing this sound. Even the three extra-large pythons were slow and seemed to retreat reluctantly.

At this time, the dumb man turned around, smiled at Xiao Qingfeng and them, and made a gesture of calming down. At the same time, he handed the doll to Jing Xin, who came to answer it, and Jing Xin was delighted to find that the scary green hair of the doll just now had completely disappeared, and the black hair on his head had completely recovered.

However, at this moment, the mute, along with the huge Buddha shrine just now, was slowly retreating back into the rock wall. Seeing this, Xiao Qingfeng hurriedly led everyone to respectfully bow to the fading Buddha shrine three times.

After the Buddha shrine disappeared completely, Xiao Qingfeng happily said to everyone: "Everything is done here, as for the dumb thing, of course, we don't need to worry about it." When you get outside, you should be able to see him naturally. He might be a blessing in disguise, maybe that's true. Now let's wake up the three sleeping gods. ”

Everyone looked at Xiao Qingfeng's confident smile suspiciously, and finally reluctantly let go of the heart that had been hanging. At this time, Jingxin retrieved his nine soul-fixing needles from the back of the doll, and the doll woke up faintly, rubbing his eyes, and looking at everyone blankly. Xiao Qingfeng walked to the side of Xiao Maitreya and the prodigal son, and gently patted the life points of the two, and the two of them also let out a long breath of turbidity and woke up, looking at everyone in a daze. Jing Xin carefully examined the three of them again, and they did not have any damage except for the fact that their bodies were slightly weak.

After a little rest, the three of them were in better spirits. Xiao Qingfeng motioned for everyone to start returning, and asked the lone wolf, Mengshan Turtle, and Jingxin to take care of the three of them respectively. On the way back, I don't know if I haven't completely recovered my strength, or if my consciousness has improved after being frightened. These three living treasures were honest, and they didn't mention those treasures anymore, and they didn't even say anything, just let others support them and walk out. Only Xiao Maitreya asked in a whisper where the lone wolf mute went, and the lone wolf said that he was eaten by a giant python, and suddenly Xiao Maitreya turned pale with fright, and he didn't dare to say a word, so he quickly accelerated the pace of getting out of the hole. It's just that from time to time, I turn around and peek behind me, urging everyone to leave quickly.

In less than half an hour, everyone walked out of the cave with ease. As soon as everyone came out of the cave, they heard a sudden muffled sound behind them, and the stone door closed automatically, and it returned to its previous appearance. The Big Dipper pattern on it and the three ancient seal characters of the Wanlong Cave on the top also disappeared mysteriously, and the rock wall was covered with thick moss in an instant.

It was only at this time that the prodigal son and the doll, who had just been fully recovered, suddenly remembered that the mute was gone, and the two of them rushed over and banged on the stone door as if they were crazy, shouting that they would go in again to find the mute.

At this moment, Mengshan Turtle screamed fiercely: "Stone stele, where is the stone stele?"

Everyone turned around and looked at it, and they were stunned. Everyone vaguely remembers that when they just came out of the cave, they seemed to see the shadow of the stone stele, and it disappeared in this instant. Not only the stone monument, but even the two-headed turtle seat is missing, and the shaft below is nowhere to be found.

Seeing this, the doll suddenly cried bitterly, crying so much that the pear blossom couldn't cry with rain, everyone knew that he was crying dumb who was "eaten" by the giant python.

However, at this moment, with a faint "I-come-also", a burly man suddenly appeared in the place where the stone tablet disappeared. , when you look closely, this big man is none other than the mute who is crying bitterly now!

Seeing him appear out of thin air in such a mysterious way, he was so frightened that he laughed at Maitreya and jumped on the back of the lone wolf next to him. The prodigal son was so frightened that he stayed there, motionless. Only the doll cried harder, and the ghost she thought was mute chased it out. Under the patient explanation of Jing Xin, the three of them really believed that this was the dumb man, and just now it was said that the dumb man was eaten by the giant python, but everyone deliberately scared them. To be honest, how did the dumb man come out, even Xiao Qingfeng didn't see it clearly.

Everything finally cleared and the light came again, and the mute gestured with stiff words and gestures, telling everyone the story between him and the dry corpse.

Just as Xiao Qingfeng speculated, this strange dried corpse turned out to be the mute great-grandfather. At that time, the general trend of the teaching army had gone, and the army was defeated all the way, and it was at the critical juncture of facing annihilation at the end of the road. As the great protector of the main altar, he was ordered to lead 3,000 dead soldiers and escort this huge treasure into this hidden 10,000 (dragon) cave.

This huge treasure is the wealth accumulated by the Ming and Qing dynasties for more than 100 years. In addition, there was a rebel army in the Jianghuai area later, which gradually weakened under the encirclement and suppression of the Qing soldiers, and finally the remnants were merged into the teaching army at that time. They also brought a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry that they had accumulated over the years, and after they were merged, they naturally merged with the wealth of the Sect Army.

After the merger of the two teams, the momentum was suddenly great, and they attacked the city in four directions for a while. In the end, Emperor Xianfeng was furious and assigned the first general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time, the monk King Monk Greenqin, to dispatch soldiers and horses from several provinces, and strictly ordered the slaughter of this sect army. The general leader of the Sect Army saw that the imperial court was pouring troops from several provinces and carried out a frenzied slaughter on himself. And his hundreds of thousands of elite troops and friendly troops who came to join the alliance were almost completely killed and wounded after dozens of bloody battles.

The chief felt that he could not do anything serious, and that he himself was seriously wounded and would not be long in coming. At the last moment of his life, he decisively ordered the Great Protector to immediately lead three thousand dead soldiers to escape with this huge treasure. The first is to leave some incense seeds for the cult army, so that the flame of the Holy Sect will not be completely extinguished, and the second is to leave this huge wealth to be used as military salaries when the time is ripe in the future, and then try to make a big move.

In fact, this great protector was originally a top master of driving pythons and snakes in the early years, and he had long known that there was such a huge cave in this eastern mountain that contained a group of pythons and snakes. This cave is also the rumored 10,000-person cave, according to legend, it was a hidden treasure cave in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but then suddenly disappeared from people's field of vision because of some unknown reasons. At that time, before the Great Protector joined the Sect Army, when he traveled alone in Dongshan, he accidentally fell into this mysterious cave. He was surprised to find that it was so huge, and he really found these pythons and snakes in it, and also found the three ancient seal fonts - Wanlong Cave. It was only at this time that he finally figured out that the correct name of this place should be Wanlong Cave, not the rumored Ten Thousand Caves.

In the depths of the Ten Thousand Dragons Cave, he found the three dark green pythons trapped by the earthquake. They must have been trapped for hundreds of years, to the point of dying. The Great Protector used his supreme supernatural powers to rescue them and quickly restore their true essence. From then on, the three giant pythons and the group of pythons and ten thousand snakes in the cave were grateful to the Great Protector and worshipped him as a god. Since then, the Great Dharma Protector has been practicing in the cave and practicing spells. More than ten years have passed, and the great protector of the Three Realms and Five Elements has returned to the rivers and lakes of the past with his longing and nostalgia for life.

He re-emerged from the rivers and lakes, and with his profound skills, he did many feats of eliminating violence and peace one after another. For a while, his reputation was so great that even the general leader of the Sect Army, who was just starting out at that time, admired him. After repeated requests from the chief leader, he agreed to take up the post of the great protector of the teaching army, and since then he has made countless great contributions to the teaching army. Until the chief leader begged him to take away this last hope at the last moment of his life, he resolutely entered this hidden cave of ten thousand dragons with three thousand dead soldiers and that huge treasure. After entering, he laid an extremely advanced Qi Gate Forbidden at the entrance of the cave, the purpose of which was to prevent all invasions and ensure the last incense of this holy religion.

Fortunately, there is a large amount of grain that he stored in advance in the early years in the cave, and there are many mountain springs and dark rivers in the cave, plus there are countless hidden cracks in the cave that are connected to the outside. In addition, the group of pythons and snakes in this are originally the psychic subordinates of the Great Protector, and they live in harmony with everyone and are safe, so it is difficult for everyone here. But later, as time went by and he meditated in the cave, the Great Protector had all kinds of doubts about the false theories of the Holy Sect, and gradually he lost interest in the so-called resurgence. Thinking of the parishioners who died in battle and the innocent victims, he often blamed himself. Under his education and guidance, the three thousand dead soldiers also slowly let go of their hatred and began to like this peaceful life in a real paradise.

Slowly, decades passed, and the 3,000 dead died one after another. After they died, they were all neatly stored in a cold cave by the psychic subordinates of the Great Protector, which is why Xiao Qingfeng and they have not found any corpses. After another few decades, the Great Protector was also feathered, leaving only this dry corpse body that was used by the three giant pythons to be fed by the Yin True Yuan.

Today, by coincidence, the Nine Immortals inadvertently crashed into this strange and hidden Wanlong Cave Mansion. After nearly a thousand years of practice, coupled with the ignition of the Great Protector, the three giant pythons also have certain magical powers. Today, when they saw the invasion of the living, they found that the lives of the three of Xiao Maitreya, the doll, and the prodigal son were all similar to those of the Great Protector, so they did not have a dry corpse body that wanted to use the "Soul Transfer Dafa" to reawaken the Great Protector. It is also because they have been influenced and admonished by the Great Protector for many years, and they have already slowly consumed those wild anger, otherwise I am afraid that everyone would have really suffered a catastrophe, and it was not as simple as robbing the three of them from the laughing Maitreya.

The mute also said that he later saw the bones of the three thousand dead men himself, and that they had indeed been stacked in a coldest cave. The corpses of the three thousand dead soldiers were neatly arranged in nine layers, and then all the corpses were facing inward, forming a circle, and in the middle there was also a battle flag that should have been the year. The mute thought that this strange way of circling the mortuary should be a ritual of the so-called Holy Religion.

Not only that, but the mute also said that he actually saw the legendary huge treasure. Next door to the cave where the corpses of the three thousand dead were kept, there was a huge cave. Hundreds of wooden boxes were neatly stacked inside, and the wooden boxes were full of gold, silver and jewelry, and the amount was even greater than the legend. Probably because of the cold air inside, all the wooden boxes have not rotted yet, only a dozen damaged wooden boxes on the side. The damaged wooden boxes were surrounded by glittering gold and silver jewelry, and it is estimated that these damaged wooden boxes were also damaged during the retreat into the cave.