Chapter Twenty-Four: Five Stations
Bai Ya can see the crisis from the surrounding environment, and others can naturally do the same, and they have used some means to explore the way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It turns out they're not worrying about it, as the forest that appears to be full of prehistoric plants is full of dangers and cannibals. There are moss vegetation that sticks when you step on it, huge mushrooms that breathe poisonous gas, and thorny vines that set traps......
In short, it is strange and eye-opening.
Fortunately, everyone raised their vigilance early in the morning, but they lost a few raccoon cat-like pets, and did not produce any more unlucky eggs that were eaten by plants.
"This is also a treasure land, but it's a pity that I don't have time to wait. Meng Jiu looked at the bright red moss in front of him, and sighed with a wry smile.
This rose-red, carpet-like moss devours the two treasure hunters' "golden rats", and when a creature steps on them, it secretes a honey-like substance.
If you think it's really its nectar, you're making a big mistake. Because after this honey material is blown, it will soon change into a strong acid comparable to "aqua regia".
If everyone didn't know its true face and didn't find out until they reached the middle of the vegetation, it would be too late! Otherwise, the two "golden rats" who had followed the treasure hunter for many years would not have been so easily tricked.
The strong acid juice secreted by this plant is obviously a treasure, but unfortunately they don't have time to stay and collect it.
"Look, everyone, it's out of the woods!"
A treasure hunter at the front of the line suddenly shouted excitedly, causing everyone to look at him.
Sure enough, the light in front of him rose sharply, revealing a hole in the gloomy jungle, and it seemed that he had either walked out of the jungle or encountered a relatively large clearing in the jungle.
"It should be a clearing, based on time, I shouldn't have been out of the forest so soon. ”
Meng Jiu's judgment was very accurate, it was indeed just an open space ahead, not a real forest.
However, to everyone's surprise, they found traces of camping here, and it seems that other expeditions have taken the lead from other directions.
"It's better to follow the direction they are heading and explore, maybe you can directly find the secret realm of the corpse. ”
When it comes to shrewdness, the treasure hunters in the team are not far behind, and they are quick to make good suggestions. Meng Jiu was as good as a stream, allowing everyone to follow the traces of the team in front of them, and with them exploring the way in front, the danger was greatly reduced.
After walking for a long time, everyone found another nearby team's campsite, which was also coming this way.
"Looks like we've found that secret place. Meng Jiu solemnly took out a map and looked at it, comparing it to the surrounding environment.
"Meng Lao, is this the map that those treasure hunters marked for the Secret Realm of the Corpse a hundred years ago?" asked Bai Ya curiously.
"That's right, that team was chased by some kind of wolf-type brute beast and fled the route of the original map in a panic, but lost its way in the underground dock, and only then did they discover the location of the secret realm of the corpse. ”
Meng Jiu said with emotion, "It's just that in this way, the labeling of the map they made after they survived is very irregular." Some sections are blank, while others are faulty and can only be checked by ourselves. ”
"It's better to have a map than not to have one. Bai Ya smiled bitterly.
"For this secret realm, the Meng family has lost more than ten juniors so far, most of them are old men who grew up......," Meng Jiu said with some sadness.
"If you don't experience a cold winter, how can you come to warm spring! When our generation embarks on the road of martial arts, there will be no life and death, presumably they will also have no complaints and no regrets, and there is no need for our predecessors to mourn. White Cliff comforted.
"Hehe, I told Brother Bai to see the joke. Meng Jiu was only a momentary feeling, and quickly put these aside.
"Oh, by the way, the junior has followed the Meng family all the way, and has always forgotten to ask, which sect is Brother Meng Jian practicing in now?" Bai Ya asked hesitantly.
He asked this in fact, he wanted to know which Immortal Martial Sect of Zhao Di the Meng family was working for, although after finding the secret realm of the corpse of Haobi, Qingcheng, which was hundreds of thousands of miles away, definitely did not want to intervene, but it was not bad to know some of Zhao Di's situation.
When I go back and get a report to the sect, maybe Liu Yu won't be punished so heavily, after all, he sneaked out this time, although the task of chasing Zong Shen is also completed, but he will definitely have to eat the board when he goes back.
"Brother Bai'er doesn't know?" Meng Jiu glanced at him with a strange expression, and said slowly, "My Meng family is relatively close to the Wutai Sect, and Meng Jiu has always practiced there. ”
"It turned out to be the Wutai faction. "White Cliff suddenly.
The Meng family is a big family, and the branch of Mengjiu is mainly based in Taiyuan, and Wutai Mountain is in the territory of Daiguo, a little north of Taiyuan.
Daiguo is not a vassal state, but the kings of Zhao in the past dynasties will divide the princes there, so it is called Daiguo, and the capital Daixian is a big city of Zhao in Bingzhou.
Wutai Mountain belongs to the branch of the Taihang Mountains, the land spans the north and south of the country, about 6,000 miles long, it is an excellent cave blessed land.
In ancient times, there were Taoist qi refiners in Wutai, which belonged to the Xianjia Cave and was called Zifu Mountain by Taoists. And because the mountain is extremely cold, its top does not grow grass and trees, and the pines and cypresses are dense and dense at the bottom of the valley, so it is called Qingliang Mountain.
Wutai Mountain was originally a Taoist immortal mansion, but later Buddhism rose, especially under the influence of Shaolin in Songshan in the south, and many caves and blessed places in the state have Buddhist temples, and Wutai is no exception.
After the end of the Second Warring States period, the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, which lasted for more than 300 years, tore apart the faith of the people in Zhao Di. The Taihang veins centered on Taiyuan, including the two immortal mountains of Wutai and Hengshan, are the places where the struggle between Buddhism and Taoism is most intense.
Later, the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism ended, and Buddhism was included in the second revised "Immortal Oath", which is the so-called "Immortal Buddha Oath".
Since then, Wutai has also begun to open a new chapter in the coexistence of Buddhism and Taoism.
However, the so-called Buddhism and Taoism of Wutai coexist, which is different from another Hengshan sect. The Hengshan School is the coexistence of Taoist temples and Buddhist temples in the territory, but the cultivation and belief systems of the two are distinct, and the well water does not interfere with the river water, but when it is consistent with the outside world, it is called the Hengshan School.
The difference between the Wutai sect is that they actually fused the belief systems of both Buddhism and Taoism into one, and turned it into an extremely strange sect, known as the first side gate of Shenzhou.
All of this stems from the first generation of the Wutai faction to teach the mixed yuan real person!
Mixed Yuan Zhenren's original name was Zhang Heng, who was a lay disciple of Wutai Yuanzhao Temple, and later switched to Wutai Xuanzhen Temple because he didn't like Buddhism.
In the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, Yuanzhao Temple and Xuanzhen Temple fought with each other, and there were many deaths and injuries among the disciples of the sect, and the mixed yuan real people were very sad in the middle.
So, the real person stepped forward, quelled the dispute between the two factions with great wisdom and perseverance, and established the Wutai sect in Ye Doufeng, the highest peak in Wutai, and gradually unified the Buddhist and Taoist sects in the entire Wutai.
The Wutai faction worships the Taoist Taigu Emperor and the Buddhism Manjushri Bodhisattva, which can be said to be very distinctive, and has calmed down the dispute of faith within the sect.
However, it is precisely because the Wutai sect worships the Buddhist and Taoist patriarchs at the same time that they are very unpopular in the outside world, and neither Buddhism nor Taoism is willing to include them in their own systems.
Therefore, although the Wutai faction does not belong to the evil sect and demon sect, it is given the nickname of "side gate". In the hundreds of years when the Wutai faction was first established, the nickname "Shenzhou's First Side Gate" was not an honorific title, but a disguised discrimination.
However, today, with its own strength, the Wutai faction has finally slowly washed away the discrimination from the outside world, and now the so-called "No. 1 side door in China" is already a recognition of strength.
If it weren't for the fact that the Wutai sect of Buddhism and Taoism were all cultivated, they would have replaced Diancang in the early years and become the Eight Great Taoist sects, how could there be anything about the Hengshan faction and the Lushan faction.
This is an immortal martial sect that is no less than Qingcheng!
Hearing that Meng Jian was born in Wutai, Bai Ya thought about it and took it for granted, and only such a profound sect could teach Meng Jian such a heavenly pride.
This is not that Bai Ya despises other small and medium-sized sects, their origins are not as good as those of the big sects, and their resource background is much worse, even if they have talented seedlings, they often only produce results after the situation, and it is rare to see Tianjiao at this age.
"This time to find the secret realm of the luxury corpse, apart from Wutai, are there any other immortal martial sects in Zhao Di?" Bai Ya asked curiously.
Meng Jiu glanced at him, but felt that Qingcheng had never been able to interfere here, so he told him calmly.
"The competitiveness of small and medium-sized sects is relatively small, so it can be omitted, and the luxury of the corpse secret realm is mainly because the three major sects are fighting openly and secretly. Meng Jiu said with a smile, "You already know the Wutai faction, and the other two are the Hengshan faction in the north of the country, and the Songshan Shaolin in the south of Yanzhi and South Korea. ”
"Shaolin also intervened?" Bai Ya couldn't help but be stunned.
"Well, there are many people in the Su family in Wei County, Bingzhou, who are from Shaolin laymen, although these big monks always say that they don't stir up dust, but the immortal and demon realm will still fight. Meng Jiu teased with a smile.
"But...... Although Shaolin is strong, after all, it is the Xianwu Sect of South Korea, and it goes deep into Zhao Di......" Bai Ya was just halfway through speaking, and quickly came back to his senses, "Oh, something is wrong, although this luxury corpse secret realm is deep underground, it can also be said to be in the territory of the country!"
"Yes, if it is a direct ascent and self-descent here, it is already in the land of Zhao. But judging from the entrance of the ground, it is in Chaoge......" Meng Jiu said with a wry smile, "Chaoge is the capital of the Patriotic State, although the Patriotic State has been riding the wall between Zhao and Wei for many years, it is not a vassal of the Zhao State after all!"
"South Korea's national strength is weak, and it is the weakest among the Seven Heroes, and it cannot influence the position of defending the country. But the problem is that Shaolin is strong, since the Wutai faction and the Hengshan faction of Zhao State can come to the underground dock to find the secret realm of luxury corpses, why can't Shaolin?"
Bai Ya couldn't help but be dumbfounded, it is true that the secular power of Korea is very weak. Seriously speaking, it does not deserve to be included in the Seven Heroes at all, and its national strength is on the same level as Wu Yue in the southern coast, Lu Song in the Central Plains, and Shu in the southwest.
The only reason that can really make Korea survive among the four great powers of Zhao, Wei, Qin, and Chu is the first temple in Shenzhou in its territory - Songshan Shaolin.
Thousands of years ago, the annals of King Han Zhaowen were not wise, and the only thing he did right was that in 1371 of the Shenzhou calendar, the Venerable Tianzhu monk Batuo was invited from Luoyang, Zhou State, to Xinzheng, the capital of South Korea, and built the Shaolin Temple at the northern foot of Shaomu Mountain in Songshan Mountain.
In 1506 of the Shenzhou calendar, after the twenty-eighth generation of Shakyamuni's disciple, the Zen monk Bodhidharma, came to Songshan Shaolin Temple, Shaolin laid the foundation of the first temple in Shenzhou.
Since then, Songshan Shaolin has become the pillar of South Korea's Xianwu power, helping South Korea get rid of the prying eyes of its neighbors again and again. The Korean royal family and the general public also reciprocated, making Zen Buddhism the state religion of South Korea.