Chapter 43: The Secret of the Treasure Source
The cockscomb python was pierced by Li Xuan by seven inches and nailed to the stone wall, sparing its natural ferocity and infinite power, but it could no longer break free, and could only twist its thick body in pain, making a weird roar. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Li Xuan heard the miserable and weird hiss of the giant python, and was so shocked that he took a few steps back and sat down on the ground. After a while, the red crown on the forehead of the cockscomb python had begun to change from small to large, from red to purple, and then from purple to black...... This changed several times, until it swelled into a ball, and then it burst with a 'wave'. The cockscomb burst, and the python completely stopped wriggling and struggled, hanging softly on the wall.
In this huge fight, Li Xuan almost exhausted all his energy. The python was dead, and he collapsed, and he couldn't stand up.
The wind blew up, thunder rumbled from outside the cracks in the cliffs, and the heavy rain from last night seemed to be unfinished, with inky clouds pouring into the cliffs. It didn't take long for the cold air to begin to pour into the cavern, and the light inside the cavern dimmed and became cold.
The humidity in the cave is getting heavier and heavier, and the fishy smell emitted by the burst of the giant python cockscomb can't help but permeate. Li Xuan quietly looked at the giant python nailed to the stone wall by the Devil May Cry Sword, and it was difficult to get up on the ground, no matter how the weather outside the cave changed, whether the breath in the cave was fishy! Time passed little by little, and I don't know how long it took, and there was a faint sound of wind and rain outside the crack in the cliff. After recovering a little bit of strength, Li Xuan got up and lit the pine branches that had long been extinguished on the ground, and came to the giant python with a torch, standing for a long time, his heart full of disbelief. A flash of fire made a trace of inexplicable sadness pass through his heart. He let out a long sigh and tried to pull out the Devil May Cry sword nailed into the stone wall, but he didn't know if the Devil May Cry sword was too deep into the stone, or if he had no strength, he pulled it out a few times, and the Devil May Cry sword was like a stone wall, and it didn't move, so he had to give up.
The wind poured into the cavern from the fissure, and the scrolls scattered on the ground whirled. The cold in the cave hit his body, and Li Xuan was even more hungry, and he was helpless, and suddenly saw the python body in the shape of a giant python bowl. His mind flickered, and he hurried to the crack in the rock wall, broke some pine branches and vines, and set it on fire, intending to drag the python off the Devil May Cry sword and bake it into food. Although he had no strength, after the Devil May Cry Sword was firmly nailed to the stone wall, more than two feet of green blades were still exposed outside the stone wall. Since he couldn't drag the python down, he put its tail on the blade of the Devil May Cry sword, pulled it back and forth a few times, and cut it off more than half a foot. Li Xuan cut the python's body into several pieces in this way, and regardless of the bloody smell of his hands, he chose a piece of thick and tender meat, peeled off the skin, pierced it with pine branches, and roasted it on the fire.
In a moment, the aroma in the cave was overflowing, and the smell was mouth-watering.
Looking at the ripening python meat, Li Xuan was full of emotion. Although all this was a result that he couldn't imagine, he also understood in his heart that if the giant python hadn't been attacked by Yan Invincible first and had his head injured by his heavy hand, he wouldn't say that he was afraid that dozens of himself would not be his opponent. But there will always be something unexpected happening in the world, and the result will be unexpected, unbelievable, or from surprise to joy, or joy to sadness. He was extremely hungry, although there was no salt in the cave, and the roasted python meat would not taste very good, but when he saw the python meat on the pine fire becoming crispy and golden, he still feasted happily.
As he arose, a gust of wind blew in from outside the cave, blowing the dust on the ground, and blowing the scattered scrolls, which made people extremely irritated. He grabbed a scroll by his side and was about to throw it into the fire, but in an instant, under the light of the fire, he saw that the cover of the scroll in his hand was written with a few beautiful words such as 'Red Leaf Notes'.
Li Xuan couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart: "Red leaves? Could it be that Red Leaves Dragon Dao people...... I remember that before Lin Dongtu pretended to be Yuan Wenmen, he once talked in the tea shed next to the road that the general Yuwen Qiu was to relieve the wind poison in the former army, and brought a strategist and several retinues to the cliff of Junwang Mountain to find a person with boundless magic and proficient in medicine, and that person was called the Red Leaf Dragon Daoist. ”
He looked at the scroll in his hand and muttered to himself, "This is the King's Mountain, which is the retreat of the Red Leaf Dragon Dao people mentioned by Lin Dongtu. At that time, the strategist on the side of the great general Yuwen Qiu had pointed out that the Red Leaf Dragon Dao people lived in seclusion on a mountain cliff, could it be here? Moreover, the general and his party were missing in the sea of purple flowers, so the sea of purple flowers on the top of the mountain cliff ...... "When contemplating the film, Li Xuan couldn't help but let out a 'ah' sound, and exclaimed: "There are people living here, and those who can live here must be extraordinary people, so ...... It seems that Lin Dongtu came here and searched for it sneakily in the pine forest, not just to deal with Yan Wuving, but also to find the Red Leaf Dragon Dao people...... But how did he know that the Red Leaf Dragon Dao people were hiding here?"
Li Xuan thought about it carefully, couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and said secretly: "I'm so stupid. Since Lin Dongtu knew the story of the great general Yuwen Qiu, how could he not know that the Red Leaf Dragon Daoist was hiding in this vicinity! Also, he could accurately know that Yan Wushu was here, and he dared to pretend to be the late ghost hand disciple Yuan Wenmen, there must be extremely sensitive information among them......" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but curse himself, and said in his heart: "Lin Dongtu has thrown himself into the strange Flying Camel Holy Lord, his behavior is naturally weird, and his thoughts are naturally elusive, why should I go to the trouble to figure him out. Hey, looking at flowers in the fog, after all, flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, if you want the truth to be revealed, I am afraid that only time This wind can blow the fog and flowers bloom!" Putting down the python meat in his hand, Li Xuan got up and carefully examined the other objects in the cave, and saw that except for the scrolls scattered on the ground, there was nothing unusual about the other things.
It is said that other people's private belongings should not be flipped through arbitrarily. But people are naturally curious, and this cave does not reach the sky, nor does it touch the ground, and it is the easiest to defeat the weakness of human nature under loneliness and boredom, and it can also allow people to break some secular confinements.
After two days like this, on the third day, Li Xuan was so bored that he couldn't help but open this 'Red Leaf Notebook' to read it. After reading it carefully, he realized that this scroll was indeed a handscroll written by the Red Leaf Dragon Dao people after they settled in the cave.
Slowly closing the volume, Li Xuan was silent for a long time, he didn't know if the things contained in the handscroll were true, but the people involved in it also had Yan Wuving, who he had seen, and the things described in the scroll were conclusive, which made people feel excited when they read it.
According to the handscroll record, the person who lived in the cave was a woman called the dragon red leaf, because she liked to wear a neon dress decorated with red maple leaves, and she was as fast as a dragon, so the people of the rivers and lakes also called her the red leaf dragon.
Long Hongye claimed to be the only girl leader in the Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Wudi, and at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he devoted himself to the five inner and outer mansions under the jurisdiction of Qi Wang Yu Wenxian with a strong martial arts, and served in the Yamen of the anti-theft world. Because of its extraordinary skills and beautiful appearance, it ranks second among the four leading forces of the Wuzi Yamen, and is the color word seat in wine, color, wealth and gas.
Li Xuan knew that the name of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty mentioned by Long Hongye was Yuwen Yong, and he was a wise monarch with great eloquence. Soon after Yu Wenyong was in power, he continued to repair internal affairs and reorganize armaments. Two years later, the southern alliance of the Chen Dynasty, the eastern expedition to the Northern Qi, all the way like a bamboo, less than a year to break the capital of Qi Yecheng, resulting in the destruction of the Northern Qi. A year later, he fought a decisive battle with the Chen Dynasty naval army to enter the Huaikou in ancient Surabaya, sank the river with iron locks, blocked the waterway, forced the Chen army to cross the river, and defeated the Chen army's chief general Wu Mingche, this battle was called 'Luliang overturned car' by later generations. In the winter of the following year, the army marched and occupied all the places in Jiangbei and Huainan, expanding the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Yangtze River. However, although Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had lofty ambitions, he had been too fond of Confucianism since he ascended the throne, and hated Buddhism and Taoism paranoidly, so soon after he ascended the throne, he commanded the world to forcibly promote the strategy of "melting Buddha and burning scriptures, driving monks and breaking towers", and vowed to destroy the two religions of Buddhism and Taoism in the world, and only respect Confucianism.
Since then, the monks and Taoists in the world have either been killed, or they have been expelled from temples and Taoist temples, forced to return to the world, and do all the hard work until they die of exhaustion.
Li Xuannian and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Once the son of heaven and a courtier, a dynasty of monarchs and a dynasty, a dynasty of people." Even if the monks and Taoists want to be extraordinary, they can't help themselves, if they want to live, they also have to depend on whether the emperor of the dynasty is willing or not!"
Despite this, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty still understood very well that more than half of the peerless martial arts in the world came from Buddhism and Taoism, and he wanted to rule the world by force, and it was difficult to leave these peerless martial arts, so he vowed to search for all the peerless martial arts in the world for his own use.
In the first year of Xuanzheng, before the death of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the master of the Yamen in the world, the official Xiaoxiong above the wine word seat found that there was a peerless martial arts "Baoyuan Secret Book" hidden in the Shaolin Scripture Pavilion of Songshan. Emperor Wu was overjoyed and secretly ordered Shangguan Xiaoxiong to steal it. It is said that the martial arts contained in the treasure source secret book are not trivial. Legend has it that the reason why Shaolin Dharma was able to cross the river with a reed, and the ability to cultivate his inner family was unmatched, which was recorded in this shocking secret book...... However, Shangguan Xiaoxiong was brilliant in wisdom and skill, and he was a personal guard for Emperor Wu in his early years, and he had made meritorious contributions to the guards several times, and he not only won the trust of Emperor Wu, but also rarely took the gangs in his eyes.
After Shangguan Xiaoxiong got the order, he summoned all his henchmen overnight to discuss strategies and go together, and among these people was Long Hongye. On a dark and windy night in May of the first year of Xuanzheng, Shangguan Xiaoxiong led the crowd to sneak into the Shaolin Scripture Pavilion in Songshan after careful planning and preparation, and secretly stole the scriptures. But the Shaolin Temple has gathered masters in the past dynasties, although it has been surrounded and destroyed by Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty several times, but the vitality is still there, and the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is extremely important, the Shaolin faction has already sent high monks to be on guard day and night. After several twists and turns, Shangguan Xiaoxiong finally succeeded in stealing the treasure source secret, but when he left, he still alarmed the Shaolin Protector monks. For a while, there was a lot of noise, and dozens of Shaolin monks surrounded Shangguan Xiaoxiong. After a dramatic fight, although the five Shangguan Xiaoxiong finally broke through, they were all seriously injured and had to hide on the way back, and then try to deal with them after they recovered from their injuries. Two months later, Shangguan Xiaoxiong and others had recovered from their injuries and were about to return to the imperial capital as soon as possible, but the news came that Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had died of illness.
Emperor Wu died, Emperor Xuan ascended the throne, and began to kill innocents indiscriminately. Seeing this situation, Shangguan Xiaoxiong and others began to be disheartened about their careers. After some careful investigation, it was learned that Emperor Xuan of the current dynasty did not know that Emperor Wu had secretly ordered everyone to go to Shaolin Temple to steal scriptures, so he boldly resigned and left the rivers and lakes. A month later, the Mo Gang was formed.
It turns out that this is how the Mo Gang came!
Li Xuan said secretly: "Shangguan Xiaoxiong and everyone are people who practice martial arts, and at that time, when they saw that Emperor Xuan didn't know about the secret of the treasure source, wouldn't it be in line with their thoughts." Hey, maybe Shangguan Xiaoxiong has been officials for a long time after all, and the desire for power is still there, and they are reluctant to dominate others for a while, so the Mo Gang was established. Well, if not, why would they set up any gangs...... If you really want to practice and not attract the attention of the imperial court, you can hide the mountains, forests and valleys, and isolate yourself from the world, wouldn't it be better......"
After the Mo Gang was erected, Shangguan Xiaoxiong and the others had a premonition that the imperial court would know about the secret book sooner or later, and in order to avoid confrontation with the imperial court and practice the martial arts on the secret book as soon as possible, everyone acted in a low-key manner. But after all, there is no paper in the world that can contain fire. After half a year, Emperor Xuan learned about the secret book, and was furious, so he ordered the world's first master of thieves, Dugu Changfeng, the chief manager of the five mansions, and his eldest son Dugu Hong, to search for the whereabouts of Shangguan Xiaoxiong and others, and recapture the secret.
For Dugu Changfeng and Dugu Hong, father and son, who were officials in the same dynasty, Shangguan Xiaoxiong knows best. Dugu Changfeng is actually in charge of the Yamen of the anti-theft world, and his status is second only to the King of Qi, and he has firmly controlled the power of the five mansions and even the world for several years. And his son Dugu Hong, although he is only 20 years old, has not yet been listed in the Yamen of the world, but he is extremely smart and has always been a genius among the rising generations of the Dugu family. These two people are strong in martial arts, and they are ruthless, their hearts are hard, and their six relatives do not recognize them, if they are really targeted, even if they have ten lives, they have lost nine lives.
Although Shangguan Xiaoxiong pretends to be extraordinary in martial arts, if he wants to face the two top masters of the Dugu family, he doesn't know the stakes of life and death!
He thought hard for many days, and finally decided to split the secret into several parts before Dugu and his son found the Mobang General Altar. Each of them carries one copy, hides it, and when the limelight passes, they combine several copies together and cultivate together. On the contrary, if one or more of the people had their scriptures taken away by Dugu's father and son, it would be useless, because a mutilated treasure source secret book would definitely not be able to be handed over to the imperial court. The decision has been made, and Shangguan Xiaoxiong said his thoughts.
Everyone knows that Dugu's father and son are powerful in martial arts, and in the face of such an opponent, hiding separately is the best strategy to save both life and secrets. At the same time, everyone also knows how difficult it is to practice the martial arts contained in the secret book of the treasure source! Even the smartest people in the world dare not boast of practicing it in three or five years, so the major task at hand is to deal with the Dugu father and son who came to find the door. Just when Shangguan Xiaoxiong and others were anxious about it, Emperor Xuan was seriously infected and died.
Shangguan Xiaoxiong saw that Dugu's father and son died due to Emperor Xuan's death and did not find it, so he took the initiative to lock up the secret of the separated treasure source and develop Mo Gang.