122.Chapter 122: The Tomb of the Idle Clouds
Every twenty years in the spring, to be precise, on the Qingming Festival, it is the moment when the four major families open the secret realm of idle clouds. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
On this day of Qingming, under the leadership of Shen Jiarui and Shen Jiabao, the eleven members of the Shen family came to a valley in the west of Zhanghua City. In addition to the seven people who participated in the Xianyun Secret Realm, there were only Shen Jiarui, Shen Jiabao, Lin Qingyu and the current second master of the Shen family, Shen Qiqi's father, Shen Jiaqiang in the fourth room.
The reason why I didn't bring more people was also because of the rules. According to the rules of these thousands of years, every time they enter the "Xianyun Tomb", they can only be the contemporary juniors who participated in the Xianyun Secret Realm, and the four people who are responsible for guarding the unlocking key, a total of nine.
Of course, the Shen family can enter eleven people at this time, and the Li family and the Zhao family can only have eight people present.
The Xianyun Tomb is actually not a tomb, but a valley.
The valley is surrounded on all sides by a ring of towering peaks, and the only way to enter is a cave. When Yun Xiaoshun followed the team through a cave that spread for hundreds of meters and walked into the valley, he couldn't help but feel a burst of admiration for the scenery in front of him.
The whole valley is a flat meadow, surrounded by the surrounding mountain peaks, this meadow with a diameter of more than 2,000 meters is protected from the cold wind, but it is also rarely swayed by the sun, only a piece of grass one foot high spreads in it.
In the middle of the grassland on this platform is a tomb about three meters high.
The tomb is actually not very large, similar to an ordinary tomb, but more like an altar.
There is no name on the white tombstone, only a poem with a flowing pen.
"The wild crane has gone with the breeze, and the idle clouds are drunk and sleeping".
Thousands of years have passed, the stele has been washed away by the years, although this ink-colored poem has not faded in the wind and rain, but still shows an indescribable desolation and vicissitudes.
The Shen family was obviously a little late, and when Yun Xiao and the others came to the tombstone, dozens of people were already standing in three piles in three directions.
The eight people on the north side of the tombstone are led by a middle-aged man holding an abacus, but if you look closely, you find that his face is about twenty-two or three years old, that is, this is a monk who has completed the foundation building at about twenty-two years old, but his expression and clothing show that his actual age is no longer young.
The leader of the eight men to the west was a fat man, and his face should be about twenty-four or five years old, but his fat face, somewhat sloppy beard, and cook-like clothes made him look forty years old. Of course, if he is the head of the Li family who is the same generation as Shen Jiabao, then his actual age should be about the same as Shen Jiabao and Shen Jiarui, but the successful forging should be at the age of twenty-five or sixteen.
There are nine people in the east, and most of them are women, who look like they are in a fancy, and the leader is a beautiful woman who looks to be in her twenties, dressed elegantly and elegantly, holding a purple jade flute in her arms.
"Hmph...... Jin Dan is really Jin Dan, such a big pomp, he came at the end, let everyone wait for him ......" A voice came from behind the man holding the abacus: "Big brother, the Shen family is really a villain." ”
This voice is not loud, but it is not small for the monk, Shen Jiabao has not yet spoken, and a man behind him can't help it: "Zhao Tianqiang, you shameless man, the days of dog fighting people all these years are over!" His face is very similar to Shen Jiabao Shen Jiarui, it is Shen Jiaqiang in the fourth room of the Shen family, he is the second master of the Shen family, and he is also the peak of the Yudan.
Shen Jiaqiang, it's the first time I've seen you so arrogant in all these years! Isn't it just because Shen Jiabao broke through! I don't know who was beaten like a dog by me three years ago!"
Listening to the quarrel between the two, Yun Xiao frowned and asked Shen Qiqi beside him, "Who is this person?"
"Zhao Tianqiang of the Zhao family, like his father, is a four-room, and there is also a strong word in his name, and he has always been at odds with his father. Ten years ago, he was not his father's opponent, but ten years ago, he suddenly encountered a certain opportunity, and his strength increased by leaps and bounds, and his father was not his opponent. Shen Qiqi said in a low voice.
"Have you four always been like this?" Yun Xiao had a strange sense of incongruity in her heart.
"Although the four of us have competition, we have always kept the bottom line, and there are very few such fights. I remember that when I entered the Idle Cloud Secret Realm with a few younger brothers twenty years ago, the four of us were still very harmonious. Shen Jiabao replied: "Maybe it's because they failed this challenge, but they were won by my Shen family." ”
Shen Jiaqiang and Zhao Tianqiang were still fighting, but suddenly heard a clear and clear voice: "In front of the ancestors' tombs, you are actually so noisy, where are the ancestors? ”
As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly fell silent.
It was Xiao Youyou, the head of the Xiao family, who had been silent, who spoke. She can lead the Xiao family to occupy a place among the four major families as a woman, which naturally has its own uniqueness, after the words were settled, Shen Jiarui and Zhao Tianci also hurriedly ordered their own families, Shen Jiaqiang and Zhao Tianqiang only stopped stupidly, but each stared at each other with fierce eyes.
Finally, the quarrel ended, but a person behind the leader of the Li family, who had not spoken all the time, spoke: "Master Shen Zhuang, Jiabao Zhenren advanced Jindan, our Li family and Zhao family are considered to be humiliated, and this quota is just taken by you, but among the people behind you, how can there seem to be outsiders?"
The man looked to be in his thirties, apparently in his thirties.
It is not strange that it is not strange to build a foundation in his thirties, if it were not for the top qualifications of a top family like the Lin family, it would be difficult for ordinary monks to build a foundation at the age of twenty. Even if you build a foundation, you often need to temper your body with martial arts first, or at least reach the level of a first-class master in the worldly martial arts, before you can try to build a foundation. This can improve the success rate of foundation building, improve the grade that can be achieved when building the foundation, and save the foundation building liquid.
Not every family can take out seven or eight Tsukidans extravagantly - the market value of Tsukidan is about one thousand spirits, and ordinary people can't afford to use them at all. Ordinary monks often have to scrape together several years to get together a pair of foundation-building potion materials. Even if it is a big family like the Shen family, unless it is a long-term concubine like Shen Jiabao and excellent qualifications, he will not hesitate to build a foundation, and usually the sons and nephews in the family must cultivate martial arts to a certain realm before they will build a foundation to save as much as possible.
This person is a concubine of the Li family, Li Quanyong. Li Quanfu, the head of the Li family, is a cousin, although this person is a concubine, but extremely hard-working, relying on his own efforts to get the blue eyes of the previous head of the family, but it is precisely because he is a concubine, so when he was young, there was no one to support his practice, but his heart was higher than the sky, and he was determined to obtain a high-level foundation vision, until he was thirty-five years old, he barely scraped together enough materials for the three-layer foundation, successfully built the foundation to the third realm, and entered the contemplation level.
"If I'm not mistaken, these people should be the ones who are known as the Hundred Flowers Palace. Li Quanyong said coldly: "Master Shen, the Xianyun Secret Realm belongs to our four major families, when will it be the turn of outsiders?"