Chapter 206: The Cloister
The first appearance of the word 'cloister', which is the same as the word 'Western Regions', is in the "Chronicles of the Dynasty", which is known as the oldest historical record in the world and has a history of 400 years.
"The Legend of the Dynasty", the full name of "The Legend of the True Dragon Dynasty", is a literary masterpiece written 400 years ago when the real dragon ruled the world. The book has a total of more than 106,000 words, but because of its age, nearly half of the chapters have been lost and damaged, and now only about 70,000 words of chapters and scrolls are still in order, which makes it difficult for today's scholars and Confucian scholars to study.
And the reason why it is said to be half a chronicle and half a different ambition is not to say that the author of this dynasty is a writer who writes about the market in a group, or that the pen and ink writing is too exaggerated, and it is full of sayings such as 'under the command of the Son of Heaven, with hundreds of millions of soldiers' - no. According to the records of later generations, this "Chronicle of the Dynasty" was written by the Son of Heaven of the True Dragon Holy Sect 400 years ago, and was written by a total of 81 doctors who were proficient in pen and ink, and it took three dynasties and 50 years to write. The matters recorded in the book have been examined and checked through layers of investigation, and the reasons for each event are written as clearly as possible, so that those things that seem absurd can be documented as much as possible......
It's just that some of the notes in the book are too absurd.
For example, in the seventh volume of "The Legend of the Dynasty: Mountains and Seas", that is, the volume of the Western Regions, it describes a rather absurd and bizarre place.
Cloister.
Corridor of the Western Regions.
The book says that 300 miles to the west and 100 miles to the south from the Anxi Imperial Palace, there is a mountain forest basin surrounded by mountains, which is called the 'cloister'. In this corridor, the mountains are continuous, the terrain is rugged, and the climate is harsh, which is heavy snow in spring, thunder in autumn, torrential in summer, and frost in winter...... However, the soil is still fertile, the vegetation is strong, the animals are active, and there are thousands of living beings living in it, and it is a vibrant picture in spring, summer, autumn and winter.
It's very mysterious.
But what is even more mysterious is the explanation given in this book.
The book says that the reason why the scene in this corridor is so strange is that this place is a place where several earth dragon veins intersect, and there are thousands and countless spiritual spirits converging here, stirring and colliding in all directions, which makes the weather scene that should be natural so abnormal - and in such an abnormal scene, the reason why those birds, beasts, flowers and plants can still grow here is because they no longer feed on nature, but instead feed on this spiritual energy.
Since it feeds on the aura of the earth, in other words, those creatures that grow in this corridor are all spirit beasts and divine trees.
...... If this is not enough, then the dynasty also said that the Son of Heaven of the True Dragon Holy Sect, who had conquered most of the east of Tianxing Mountain at that time, was very interested in this corridor land, and wanted to catch some spirit beasts and bring them back to the capital Anjing, so as to show the world that he was the true dragon son of heaven and even the spirit creatures in the world had to bow down, so he sent a thousand-person feather forest cavalry team to this Western Regions corridor.
And then......
There is no then.
Until the 'True Dragon Returns to Heaven', the Holy Sect Heavenly Son had not heard even the slightest news about this thousand-man cavalry.
It was only sixteen years later, when the Emperor Ruizong was in power, that the news of the thousand-man cavalry finally came back to Anjing with several ragged old men.
Said that at that time, this thousand-person cavalry team came to this corridor land from thousands of miles away, all the way to the place of the corridor, it was not resting for a moment, and the general led by the commander immediately ordered that the thousand horsemen were divided into fifty groups of twenty horsemen, and rushed into the outermost mountain forest of the corridor.
Come to think of it, although the rare birds and beasts in this corridor are spiritual, they can't be as spiritual as the big yellow shoulder crossbow in their hands.
And then, according to the instructions of the general, this thousand-man cavalry team began to try to catch those rare birds and beasts alive and return to Anjing. But after the first few weeks of hunting, there were no more birds or animals left in the outer part of the cloister—they were either dead or fleeing, and went deeper into the cloister.
When the general saw this scene, he thought to himself, the task given to him by the Son of Heaven was to catch live animals and go back, if he only went back with a few carts of furs...... Isn't that fooling the saints, committing the crime of deceiving the king?
So, the commander gave an order, and the thousand horsemen were divided into two, five hundred guarded the camp in the outer forest, and five hundred followed him deep into the mountains and forests, and then went to catch some rare birds and beasts.
Yes, the general just wanted to catch rare birds and beasts.
But when he led the five hundred forest riders to walk about thirty miles through the increasingly rugged woods, and wanted to raise his hand to take off the feather forest helmet and wipe the sweat from his forehead, an unexpected scene suddenly came into view.
Fifty paces away, there was a rock of light.
And behold, the rock was ordinary, but on it there was a woman.
A woman with her breasts bare, with no trace of her whole body, only some strange green markings.
The general immediately raised his eyebrows and was stunned, looking at the woman dumbfounded, his face was extremely surprised - it's not that the generals of this horse all his life are so big and small, and he has never seen a naked girl...... It's just that this woman fifty steps away is really a little unusual.
Because the woman has hair like gold, eyes like jade, and a pair of strange pointed ears.
The woman sat quietly on the rock, swinging one leg in front of her and one leg crossed over her hips, while her two jade hands gently held a red goose in her arms that had been shot in the wings by a crossbow arrow. I saw her bow her head slightly, and her pink lips opened slightly, as if she was talking to the red goose.
She didn't seem to notice their arrival.
And they, apparently, are no longer going to turn a blind eye.
Seeing that the feather forest general was handsome, he immediately quietly ordered the five hundred feather forest riders behind him to scatter around, to capture this strange woman alive and sacrifice it to the Son of Heaven.
Seeing that the general of the forest drew his sword out of the sheath, and when the sound of 'Sasha-' in the forest was quiet, he stepped forward on his horse, walked thirty steps in front of the woman, and said that he wanted the woman to obediently return to the real dragon with him, otherwise he would not blame him for ordering the soldiers to raise their crossbows and arrows, and reward her with a dead body.
But I don't know if it's because this strange-looking, not like Oriental woman can't understand the true dragon language, she didn't answer this Yulin general—she just raised her head slowly, and looked at him quietly with those pair of emerald eyes.
And then.
Strange light.
......
I don't remember the rest very clearly in the book.
It's not that the doctors who wrote the book were lazy here, or that for some reason they didn't write the whole ...... It's just that those veterans who have returned for decades are actually one person who has their own opinions, some say that the whole mountain forest is roaring and roaring, and countless vines are wrapped around their waists, trying to twist them in half, some say that countless fierce beasts with sharp teeth and sharp teeth that have never been seen before have come out of the forest and want to tear them to pieces, and some say that countless golden thunderbolts have fallen from the sky to split them into charcoal......
In short, the ragged, crazy veterans insisted on their own words, and they were at a stalemate.
In short, there were only a few of them left in the Feather Forest Cavalry, which the thousand true dragons were most proud of.
In short, the True Dragon Dynasty, which had just established contact with the Guxian Dynasty in the west of Tianxing Mountain at that time, did not show much interest in this matter, and the Ruizong Heavenly Son on the vermilion Nine Dragon Chair only said lightly through the bead curtain on the crown of the crown, 'Respect the Heavenly God'.
However, those doctors in the court and the central government who adhered to the principle of no matter how big or small were still recorded this matter as completely as possible in this "Chronicle of the Dynasty".
As a result, this "Chronicles of the Dynasty" has become a work of half history and half ambition.
In the four hundred years since the "Chronicles of the Dynasty" came out, there have been countless people in the Qimen and people in the rivers and lakes who have entered this corridor in the Western Regions for countless strange reasons, some because of the chaos in the outside world, for fear of being affected by the war, some want to absorb the spiritual veins of the earth, so that they can practice and improve their own realm, and some are like those Yulin riders, they want to find something valuable......
They knew very well that there was a lot of danger in this corridor of the Western Regions.
But they also know that they are also in danger of being out of school.
So, dangerous people gathered in dangerous places.
Let's chase the deer together.
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