Chapter 15: The Secret Passage
Shi Wuyan saw Yu Zaidao returning empty-handed, and asked, "What's the matter?
Yu Zaidao's face was full of shame, and he bowed his head and replied: "My subordinates are incompetent, let them run away, but that person seems to be very familiar with Guyun Mountain, if it weren't for the people I taught, he wouldn't be able to lead people to escape from under my nose." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½β
Shi Wuyan said: "Forget it, this matter will be investigated later, Shu Lianyi is just a yellow-haired girl, don't worry, as long as Jing Xining and Song Enke are still in our hands." β
Although Shu Lianyi was sent out of the Heavenly Machine Array, Song Enke and Jing Xining knew that she might not be able to escape from Guyun Mountain, but even if she was caught by Shi Wuyan, it was better than the thrill of staying in the Heavenly Machine Array. The two struggled in the formation for a while, but they still couldn't find the location of the Miaomen, but they were both exhausted. Song Enke looked at the night sky above his head in despair, quiet and peaceful, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed, and he laughed, "Xining, I understand, I finally understand." β
Jing Xining was puzzled, and Song Enke explained: "This Heavenly Machine Array is actually arranged according to the principle of the twenty-eight constellations, you look at these trees, the position they move is exactly the same as the twenty-eight constellations, you look up, each direction is a circle that corresponds to the unique position of this courtyard." Song Enke pointed upward, "You see, the seven Nakshatras of the Eastern Canglong are Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei, and Kei; the seven Nakshatras of Xuanwu in the north are Dou, Niu, Nu, Xu, Wei, Room, and Wall; the seven Nakshatras of the White Tiger in the West are Kui, Lou, Stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Mi, and Shen; and the seven Nakshatras of the South are Jing, Ghost, Liu, Xing, Zhang, Wing, and Zhen, and these 28 Nakshatras start from the Jiaosu, end with the Bisu, and the Bisu Duoji, so let's gamble and break out from this position." β
Song Enke and Jing Xining didn't care how the formation changed in front of them, and went straight to the direction of the wall, but they didn't expect it to be successful after a try, Song Enke laughed and said: "This Tianji Array seems to be powerful, but it is actually very simple, it seems that the people who set up the formation have only learned a little bit of it", Song Enke and Jing Xining found the Miaomen, and the strength of the two of them quickly broke the Tianji Array and rushed outside.
Hearing only a sound, Song Enke and Jing Xining broke out of the formation, and the surrounding branches were scattered all over the ground, and they finally breathed the breath outside, and suddenly came to their senses. Just when the two of them were overjoyed, Yu Zaidao moved his footsteps, only three or two steps behind Jing Xining, and slapped it with a palm, Song Enke felt a gust of wind coming, and saw that Yu Zaidao was attacking Jing Xining, and he was shocked and pushed Jing Xining away, and he blocked it, and Yu Zaidao's palm really hit Song Enke.
Song Enke and Jing Xining exhausted their strength in the Heavenly Machine Array, and suddenly received a palm from Yu Zaidao, and it was difficult to gather the true qi in the body in an instant, and the bones of the whole body seemed to be broken, squeaking, the pain was unbearable, and a stream of blood suddenly spurted out of his mouth, and he fell directly to the ground.
Before Jing Xining could react to what was happening, he saw Song Enke fall to the ground, blood splashing his robe, his head buzzing, blank, he shook his head desperately, and shouted: "Grandpa Song..." , quickly ran to the front of Song Enke, knelt on the ground with a plop and stepped forward with both hands to help him up, "Grandpa Song, how are you, are you okay?"
Song Enke's eyes were slightly open, his mouth was full of blood, he couldn't speak, Jing Xining shook his body, there was no reaction, one hand grabbed his left shoulder to straighten him, and the other hand was placed behind his back to perform for him, but there was no improvement, Song Enke exerted his strength, trembling and trembling grabbed Jing Xining's left hand and shook his head and said: "Xining, it's useless, I'm so old, the time limit has come, you keep some strength and find a way to rush out by yourself, Grandpa Song is useless, I can't help you." β
Jing Xining cried and said, "No, no, it must be fine." β
Song Enke said: "Child, listen to me, I have been hanging in the center of the Self-cultivation Pavilion for the past forty years, and I don't know why I live every day, my brothers are no longer there, I should go to them." Song Enke stopped talking, looked at the stars in the sky, recalled the past, each star was like a brother who was born and died together, as if beckoning to him, calling him, Song Enke looked at it peacefully, his face was full of smiles, and he suddenly lowered his head.
Jing Xining closed his eyes tightly, let the tears flow down his face, took a long breath, crossed his eyebrows and glared at Yu Zaidao through gritted teeth, only to see Yu Zaidao standing next to him leisurely, his face was full of indifference, Jing Xining suddenly became furious, and gently put Song Enke flat on the ground with full anger, and then slowly stood up, stretched out the five fingers of his right hand, sucked a fallen branch next to him in the air, and waved hard, "Whoosh" A shot at Yu Zaidao, Yu Zaidao sideways to avoid, Jing Xining stomped his foot on the ground, the branches on both sides floated in the air, like a sword ready to be unsheathed at Yu Zaidao, both hands pushed forward, and they flew towards Yu Zaidao together, Yu Zaidao waved his palm to block it in front, and one branch floated between the two, one moment to the front and one time to the back, the two competed for internal force and stalemate there.
Jing Xining's internal strength is not as good as Yu Zaidao's decades of cultivation, coupled with the exhaustion of mental strength in the Heavenly Machine Array, it didn't take long for it to be a little difficult, Yu Zaidao was anxious to win, gathered the true qi in his body, and pushed forward vigorously, one by one the branches were aimed at Jing Xining and gradually moved towards his eyes, in a hurry, Jing Xining unloaded all his strength, and then retreated several steps with his body half-back, and finally dodged, but his body was cut in several places.
Jing Xining knew that the situation was unfavorable to him at this time, and if he continued to fight, he didn't wait for Shi Wuyan to make a move, he had already died in the hands of Yu Zaidao, and glanced at Song Enke who was lying on the ground, "Senior, I will definitely come back to worship you in the future", and after that, he jumped out of the wall and fled outside. Yu Zaidao saw Jing Xining fleeing and chased after a group of disciples.
After Jing Xining jumped out of the wall, taking advantage of the moonlight, stumbling and running to a secluded place, it didn't take long for him to realize that something was wrong, and the shouting and killing behind him was getting farther and farther away, and then looked around, he didn't know where he was, and he was completely lost in the night. Jing Xining began to slow down, looking as he walked, and suddenly found that there was a small courtyard in front of him, so he walked in and found that there was a row of low houses inside, along the corridor, there was a room with the door half-covered, gently moved his steps to push the door open carefully, poked his head to look inside, and quietly walked in after making sure that there was no one.
After Jing Xining entered, he wanted to find a place to hide first, but found that it was empty and there was no place to hide at all. I looked at it through the moonlight through the window, and found that it looked like a practice room, and it was so atmospheric that it was not a place that ordinary people could use, it was a place where Qingfeng was important, but it was dusty inside, and it seemed to have not been used for a long time, Jing Xining looked strange, turned around a few times inside, and found that there were more than a dozen paintings hanging on the wall. However, Jing Xining didn't have the heart to appreciate the painting at all, worried that Yu Zaidao would chase him, and he didn't know where to flee, so he couldn't help but sigh and become anxious, especially when he thought of Song Enke's tragic death in Yu Zaidao's hands, he was indignant, and in a fit of anger, he casually hammered towards the portrait in the middle, and suddenly there was a sound next to him, looking for prestige, and found that a door in the wall next to him was slowly opened, and he was suddenly startled.
Jing Xining entered a narrow path, there was no light in it, took a fire fold from the wall and blew it, took it in his hand, walked carefully according to the underground road, walked a short distance, and found that there were many stone rooms, Jing Xining gently pushed open a stone door and walked in, there were many sacks stacked inside, touched it with his hand, felt a little prickly, picked up a hard object next to him and scratched it on the bag, there was a lot of moldy grain inside, and then looked at the other sacks were all the same. Jing Xining couldn't help but be a little curious, walked into another stone room, but found piles of skeletons, frightened inexplicably, gasped, pulled out his legs and ran, when he stepped on a place, the stone slab under his feet sank, and quickly lifted his feet and retracted them, as soon as he left the ground, the mouth of an eagle stone carving on the stone wall suddenly shot out many short blades, densely flying towards him, Jing Xining dodged left and right, crashed into another stone room, curled up and rolled a few times before standing up again, found that it was not only gloomy and weird, but also heavy mechanisms, unguardable, very dangerous, my heart banged and picked up, I didn't dare to walk around, step by step, I was ready to exit the secret room along the same way and pour backγ But the secret rooms in this one after another, I can't tell the difference at all, and when I came in, I didn't think that there would be a hidden weapon inside, I didn't pay attention to it at all, just stepped on a step, and a few cold arrows flew in "whoosh", Jing Xining found that there were many eagle beaks placed on the four walls of each secret room, and the mechanism that touched the eagle's beak was on the ground, but the ground was tiled into a piece, and I didn't know that it was safe to step on, and which piece would hit the mechanism by mistake. Thinking that going back and going forward were the same dangers, it was better to continue to move forward, maybe there was still a way to live, so I took another step.
Jing Xining tried to calm his mood, and suddenly remembered that Feng Xianru had said to him that at the beginning of the founding of the Qingfeng Sect, killing corrupt officials and eliminating bullies caused the hatred of the government and some sects, in order to be precautioned, a secret passage was built in Guyun Mountain, and the secret passage could be both hiding and escaping, and more than a hundred years ago, some evil demons on the rivers and lakes colluded with the government to besiege the Qingfeng Sect, and the Qingfeng Sect at that time was not as huge as it is now, so soon the enemy attacked the Guyun Mountain, I thought that the Qingfeng Sect would be destroyed, but none of the people who attacked the Guyun Mountain finally did not go down the mountain, and disappeared together with the secret passage of the Qingfeng Sect, and no one in the sect mentioned this matter againγ Jing Xining's heart was shocked, thinking of the food and corpses found in the secret room, and couldn't help but guess that he was very likely to be in that secret passage, and those corpses were the people who attacked Guyun Mountain back then, as for the food in the secret room, it was very likely that he usually hid in it for emergency use in case of danger. Jing Xining said with words in his mouth: "If this is the case, it is likely that after those people attacked Guyun Mountain, they were deliberately led to the secret passage or chased to the secret passage by themselves, and as a result, they were all killed by the people of the Qingfeng Sect using the hidden weapons in the secret passage, as for the reason why the secret passage disappeared and no one knows about it, maybe the people of the Qingfeng Sect felt that the killing was too heavy, and they were afraid that the people on the rivers and lakes would know about it, so they left this secret passage underground forever." β
When Jing Xining said this, he always felt as if there were people around, and his scalp suddenly went numb, and he looked at the eagle's beak on the stone wall and was also startled, deliberately snorted twice to strengthen his courage, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said to himself: "It's really just out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den." β
Jing Xining silently measured the size of each stone room in his heart, took a deep breath, kicked his foot on the ground, rose into the air, jumped into the middle of the stone room at once, landed a foot, and kicked up violently, the whole process kicked and fell and kicked, through the entire stone room, he knew that this passage has an end no matter how long it is, and if you want to continue to go forward, you must go through all the secret rooms, and go to the next stone room, with the same method, even through four or five rooms, when you get to the next room, step on the middle and touch the mechanism, fortunately, thanks to the light work, and agileness, finally there is no danger to escape, but the person hit the stone door, it happened that there was a piece of crossbar under the stone door to trip him, The body flew out directly, face down on the ground, full of ash, spit out the dust in his mouth, patted his face and hair, slowly raised his head forward, vaguely saw something in front of him, took out the fire fold from his body and lit it, and looked in front of him, a skeleton was sitting in front of him, two eye sockets and his gaze were opposite, so frightened that he hurriedly ran away and retreated to the side. After calming down not easily, he wondered: "Why is there a skeleton placed here alone, and the skeletons in the stone chamber are messy and crooked, but this skeleton is sitting upright, which is obviously different from before." Although Jing Xining was scared in his heart, his curiosity drove him to approach the skeleton step by step, and he found that although the clothes on this skeleton were covered with dust for a long time, they were not only more gorgeous than those skeletons in the stone room, but also significantly shorter than them, and it was speculated that this person had died at least fifty or sixty years shorter than the people in the stone room, thinking of this, his heart couldn't help but be shocked, " If the people in the stone chamber were really the ones who attacked Guyun Mountain more than a hundred years ago, going back fifty or sixty years, the time of this person's death was exactly around the same time as Grandpa Feng leaving the Qingfeng Sect, could it be Mo Cangyu?" Jing Xining remembered that Feng Xianru once told him that one of the reasons why many people opposed Lin Tingying back then was that Mo Cangyu's death was all dictated by Lin Tingying, Lin Tingying said that he went crazy, his voice and appearance changed greatly, and sometimes he was unconscious, and as a result, he fell under Guyun Mountain and died, and under Guyun Mountain, the birds could not find the corpse at all, and when Feng Xianru rushed back to Guyun Mountain from other places, the two factions in the sect were already on the same footing.
Jing Xining pinched his chin with his right hand and pondered, "If this person is really Mo Cangyu, then Lin Tingying is lying, but how could Mo Cangyu die here? Why did Lin Tingying lie, what happened back then?" Jing Xining shook his head vigorously twice, walked around the skeleton, and observed carefully as he walked, and suddenly found that this person's left hand was placed horizontally on top of his legs, his right hand was on top of his left hand, and his index finger was pointing to the ground. Jing Xining bent down and looked at the ground, swept a few more times with his feet, didn't find anything, suddenly looked at the stone wall, then looked at the skeleton finger, followed the direction of the finger to the stone wall, looked up for a while, wiped it lightly with his fingers, and found that there were words, Jing Xining directly wiped off the dust on the wall with his sleeve, and several columns of words appeared in front of him, put the fire fold in front of the stone wall, and carefully identified the handwriting on it, which read" Yu retreat so far, the beginning of the miraculous, critical moment, for Lin Tingying attack, go mad, hold the wound hidden in the secret room, self-knowledge has come to the limit, life will be soon, mercy on my life of obsession, if the clouds are scattered, if the disciples in the sect have a fate to come here, read this article, must inform the public, clean up the door, promote my teachings. There is only one word "Mo" at the end of the foot, and the more you go to the back, the more unclear the handwriting becomes.
Jing Xining suddenly realized, according to the above book, this person must be Mo Cangying, it turned out that Mo Cangyu was injured by Lin Tingying at a critical moment in his retreat and cultivation, so that he went mad, and when he fled here, he was already dying, and finally carved these lines on the stone wall, hoping that the disciples in the sect could find out that Lin Tingying could be exposed and clean up the portal. Jing Xining sighed secretly, "Lin Tingying, as one of the two elders of the Qingfeng Sect back then, was the person Mo Cangyu trusted the most, for the position of the sect leader, he actually ruthlessly committed this poisonous hand, and then provoked an incident, so that the Qingfeng Sect fell into internal strife, and Grandpa Feng even left the country and lived in seclusion because of this. It's a pity that Grandpa Feng didn't know until he died that Sect Master Mo was killed by Lin Tingying, otherwise he would definitely not let the traitor succeed." Jing Xining sighed at the sinister hearts of the people, and felt a trace of sadness, these people fought for power and profit, and used despicable means to achieve their goals, although they once sat in a high position, majestic, but now they are gone, glory and wealth, passing by the clouds, in the end like everyone else, but the loess is a peach, and it still leaves a reputation for eternity. Jing Xining couldn't understand what the meaning of fighting like this was, just like now Shi Wuyan wants to unify the martial arts and become the supreme martial arts, but even if he does it, what is the difference with him now.