Volume 2 The Tiger Returns to the Mountains Chapter 105 Strange Taoism
Li Yichen pinched his three clear fingers and bowed to the statue of Wang Linggong, this is not a big gift, but a gift from the younger generations of the Daomen. An Shu also bowed to Wang Linggong in the same way as Li Yichen, and Ling Yuya looked at the portrait of Wang Linggong with cold eyes, but did not pay homage.
Li Yichen looked up at the roof covered with cobwebs and said: "This should be the Spirit Palace, and the person enshrined here is called Wang Ling Palace, and it is the true god of the Dharma Protector of the Daomen." ”
Ling Yuya walked to a wall, reached out and touched the blood stains on the wall and said, "This blood is very new, it has just been dry for a few days!"
Li Yichen thought for a while and said: "Don't worry about it, this has nothing to do with us, let's walk around the hall here, if we can't find anything, let's leave!"
Ling Yuya nodded, and was about to speak, but An Shu suddenly shouted, "Look, what is this!"
Li Yichen and Ling Yuya turned around to look, only to see An Shu pointing to a pile of black fragments in the corner, Li Zhichen walked over and squatted down to pick up a fragment and take a closer look. This thing may be unfamiliar to An Shu and Ling Yuya, but it is very familiar to him! This black fragment is the fragment after the wine jar has been broken! Li Yichen sniffed the smell of the fragment and said: "This is the wine jar, I can still smell some faint wine smell from above, it should have been broken for a few days!"
"In other words, there are indeed people here!" Ling Yuya exclaimed.
Li Yichen frowned and nodded slowly, and said to the two in a low voice: "Be careful, watch out for the surroundings, I always feel that something is wrong here! If there is danger, run first, don't think about fighting back, save your life!" The second girl nodded, and her right hand was always on the hilt of the sword.
Li Yichen didn't dare to be careless, his whole body tensed, and he was vigilant around him. The three of them walked out of the Spirit Palace and continued to walk inside. The second courtyard is cleaner than the first, although it is also covered with dust and weeds, but at least it is not damaged, but it is slightly old.
In addition to the stone steps and railings, the most eye-catching thing in the courtyard is the stele in the center! This stele is not intact, and the upper left corner of the stele has been cut off. What made Li Yichen strange was that the corner that had been cut off and the body of the stele were completely two colors, and it was obviously not rough from the wind and sun! Li Yichen gently touched the body of the stele, and four big characters were written on the stele in blood-red cinnabar: Taoism is natural!
The four big characters dragon and snake are flying, the iron is painted with silver hooks, and there is a faint sword intent between the lines, the person who writes is not only a calligrapher but also must be an extremely good sword master! Li Yichen was a little fascinated by the words on the stele for a while, if it weren't for Ling Yuya pushing him, I'm afraid he would not feel tired of reading in front of the stele all day!
Li Yichen reluctantly walked forward, and after passing the Lingguan Palace, it was naturally the Sanguan Palace. Sure enough, when the three of them just walked into the hall, they saw the portraits of the three officials hanging high on the wall, from left to right were the heavenly officials, the earth officials, and the water officials. The emperor of the three officials is the great god of Taoism, the heavenly officials bless, the earth officials forgive their sins, and the water officials relieve misfortunes. Li Yichen pinched his three clear fingers as usual and bowed to the three heavenly officials and emperors, it was still a gift for the younger generations, not kneeling or worshipping.
An Shu was in awe of ghosts and gods, and when she saw that the Emperor Sanguan was so majestic, she naturally couldn't help but bow down. Ling Yuya hesitated, although she was not a member of the Daomen, but in front of the Sanguan Emperor, there was no sect, only a distinction between humans and gods, and she still didn't dare to be rude to the Sanguan Emperor Ling Yuya, and she also made a junior salute to the Sanguan Emperor.
After the three of them finished saluting, they looked around, and it was not like the previous Spirit Palace, which had inexplicable blood stains and wine jar fragments, but the three of them decided to look around to see if they could find anything strange.
Maybe it was indeed that they were a little overly nervous, but this time there was nothing strange in the Sanguan Palace. The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and just as the three of them were about to continue walking, An Shu suddenly exclaimed.
Li Yichen and Ling Yuya panicked, directly pulled out their swords, and looked at An Shu! Seeing An Shu sitting on the ground and rubbing her ankles, Li Zhichen asked loudly, "An Shu, what's wrong with you?!"
An Shu's face was full of embarrassment, and she said shyly: "I.... I was a little too nervous and accidentally tripped over the table leg just now. ”
Li Yichen breathed a sigh of relief, walked up to An Shu's side and asked with concern, "How is it?
An Shu shook her head, "It's not serious, it's just a touch." ”
Li Yichen nodded, and just wanted to reach out to help An Shu up, but when he inadvertently looked at the table where An Shu tripped over, he couldn't take his eyes off it.
The altar was covered with a red cloth, and An Shu's foot hit the table leg of the altar. Because of An Shu's collision, the offering platform was directly knocked over. And the place that was originally covered by the red cloth on the enshrinement platform was also exposed, and from Li Yichen's angle, he could see that there seemed to be something under the red cloth.
After Li Yichen helped An Shu up, he walked to the front of the worship platform and carefully lifted the red cloth, only to see a broken arm hidden under the red cloth!
An Shu and Ling Yuya looked at the broken arm on the ground and were speechless! Li Yichen picked at the broken arm with his sword, this was a man's arm, the blood had dried up, and the flesh at the broken arm had begun to rot, but there was no stench coming out.
"This broken arm should not have existed for a long time, only for a few days, otherwise it would not have been able to rot yet!" Li Yichen said in a deep voice.
"This.... Who the hell did this!" An Shu said with her mouth covered.
Li Yichen shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't know.
"Scoundrel, did you say that the bloodstains in the Lingguan Hall were left by the person with the broken arm?" Ling Yuya asked suddenly.
Li Yichen thought about it and shook his head, "It's hard to say, this Taoist temple is really too weird and weird, I first heard Wan Yongshou say that he loves to drink crazy old Tao, and I thought it was the crazy old Taoist who gave me my name back then, so I thought I would come here to see if I could meet his old man." I didn't expect this Taoist temple to be as simple as I thought!"
"Then what should we do now?, should we continue to move forward or withdraw and think about it in the long run?" Ling Yuya asked in a low voice.
Li Yichen frowned and pondered: "That person's broken hand here proves that there is danger here, we don't know who that person is, and what about martial arts? Suppose that person is a martial arts master far beyond us, even if this kind of person still has a broken arm to save his life, how can we live? Take a step back, even if that person is an ordinary person and does not have a trace of martial arts on his body, does this mean that we can walk out safe and sound? For the sake of safety, I think we should withdraw first! What do you think?"
Ling Yuya and An Shu naturally didn't have any opinions, the two women had already begun to be scared in their hearts, if it weren't for Li Yichen to come in to find out, the two of them would probably be on their way to Lin'an by now.
The three of them agreed on the same opinion, and decided to leave, waiting for everything to come out of the Taoist temple, but ..... Will they really be able to get out?