Chapter 85 Valley Formation (1)
At the same time, on the horse road in the suburbs of Wuchang Prefecture, a long team of marching dadas were moving fast. The people in this group were all wearing white robes, with ancient beast patterns embroidered in front and a hideous but solemn mask on their faces. When they rode their horses, their flying snow-white robes were like clouds and fog.
It’s not someone else, it’s the Nuo ritual team led by Taibu and Taizhu.
When they were passing by Wuchang Prefecture, they learned from passers-by that two teams of Taichang Temple had already passed by Wuchang Prefecture, which made the people around them curious and frightened. After all, being able to dispatch so many people in Taichang Temple has never been a good thing, either there are major disasters or encountering some great signs of safety and security of the temple.
The past two years have already had some unfavorable meanings, such as the cold and heat are unstable, sometimes drought and sometimes flooding, the dead of winter comes earlier than before, and the continuous sun is longer, almost covering both spring and autumn. The heavy snow falls from the north of the desert to Lingnan, which is so cold that it is always cold. During this period, it is always filled with rain, which makes the people feel gloomy and breathless, as if the winter day is almost out of the end...
Originally, there were only some lies that could not be trusted, such as the real dragon falling into the sea, the world was unfair, some people believed it, and some people didn't care. Nowadays, people in Taichang Temple frequently appeared and were in a hurry. Those who originally didn't believe it couldn't help but feel nervous, as if a thousand-pound heavy sword was hanging above their heads, which would penetrate at any time, unable to defend themselves, without warning.
Taibu and his group were just following the previous trace of the True Dragon, and had no clear destination. Since they found out about the traces of other people in Taichang Temple, they were determined to go all the way west.
As a result, not long after they got away, they received a letter from Shaoqing's flying pigeon. The letter said that there would be a major disaster in the past two days. They received the order from the national commander and were rushing to Dongting. Another team rushed to Wanshi Mountain in Linjiang, Langzhou, and told Taibu Tai to wish them to do what they should do as soon as possible and wait for the national commander to send him.
Sure enough, when they were about to reach Yuezhou Prefecture, Taibu's finger holding the reins was suddenly burned slightly. Xiuzhi, who was hidden behind the mask, frowned slightly, slowed down the horses under her, and loosened the hand from the reins.
The moment she let go, a handful of yellow fire suddenly burst into between her fingers. It was not really scorching, but it was still a little hot.
A piece of tissue is revealed from the yellow fire core, and becomes clearer as the flame gradually fades.
Taibu raised his hand and made a "stop" gesture, and immediately stopped the entire horse team. The long team stayed in front of a fork, and Taizhu turned around and asked, "What did the national teacher say?"
"Let's go to Daze Temple in Jiangsongshan." Taibu handed the tissue paper to Taizhu.
"Dazawa Temple? Isn't that a ghost temple? There are no monks, why are we going there?" Tai Zhu asked in confusion.
However, the national teacher explained clearly in black and white—
I saw a few words written concisely on the thin paper: Before the time comes, I went to Daze Temple and guarded the formation.
"Staying the formation?" Tai Zhu was stunned.
Taibu's expression under the mask changed slightly. She hesitated for a moment and whispered: "Dongting, Wanshi Mountain, Daze Temple, these three are hundreds of miles apart. We are going to guard the formation, what about Shaoqing and the others? Is that the same?"
"Probably not. If so, how big is this formation? I have never seen each other in my life." Tai Zhu replied.
"But I think..." Taibu hesitated and paused for a long time before saying, "Forget it, let's go to Ozawaji first and then make plans."
Before the time, they had to rush to Daze Temple from where they were, but it was still a little tight, so they no longer had time to study it. They could only raise their hand and immediately took the brigade of soldiers to whip the horse and head straight to Jiangsongshan.
While they were bypassing Yuezhou Prefecture and taking a shortcut road, Xue Xian and Xuan Min, who were surrounded by bubbles in the black water pool, finally broke out from the bottom of the pool that was unknown, walked along the water, and their heads emerged from a pool of springs.
The moment the two of them surfaced, the bubbles broke completely with a "bang". A curtain was hanging down the mountain stream that was hanging down the mountain wall and immediately covered them with their faces.
They turned over to the shore, and Xuan Min drew a clean garment spell on his and Xue Xian's hands without saying a word. In just a blink of an eye, the water on his body was steamed clean, without a drop left, and his robes were light and fluffy, without any stickiness at all. Even the thin sweat that had been scorched by the fire dragon before was not left.
Xue Xian shook the hem of his black robe with satisfaction, flicked off the last drop of water stained on his head, and swept around and measured it.
Where they were located was a very deep valley, which was far from the valley of the Duoji Mountain where Xuanmin's bamboo building was located. Looking up here, you can only see extremely high and steep stone peaks, one by one, and it happened to hold them in it like a closed finger.
Even the sky was cut to the point where the piece above the head was left, like a natural deep well.
"There are three stone peaks in total." Xue Xian raised his hand and pointed to the nearest one. The stone peak was towering into the clouds. The side wall was as steep as a knife and an axe. There was only a hook like an eagle-like mouth at the top. Under the hook, there were heavy vines, like a fine green curtain, hanging around the ground, "Do you look familiar?"
It was a question, but the ending sound was certain - this happened to be consistent with the scene at the entrance of the wormhole that Old Man Zhai said.
Although this legendary entrance has become an exit for Xue Xian and Xuan Min, it can still help them determine a general direction. They have now arrived in the Xiashan area of Langzhou.
Since he turned over from the spring pool, Xue Xian felt that the yin energy of this courtyard-like valley was extremely heavy. Although it was not as stench as the corpse shop, it still exuded an aged and rotten atmosphere, like a wooden box that had been firmly combined for decades, and was suddenly lifted off by someone - the damp water vapor mixed with the smell of dust always makes people feel old and yin.
Intuition told him that no one died here.
More than a little bit.
Xue Xian frowned and looked at the weeds beside his feet. He made a small line with his toes. Sure enough, he found blood dripping on the grass roots that almost melted into the wet mud.
"Finished." He patted Xuan Min.
However, there was no response for the moment.
Xue Xian looked up and glanced at Xuan Min, and saw that he quickly retracted his gaze from the vast wild grass as if he had just come back to his senses. He lowered his eyes and looked at the point where Xue Xian pointed to his toes, and said, "The blood has not condensed yet."
"What's wrong with you?" Xue Xian withdrew his feet and whispered to Xuan Min while listening to the movements in the valley.
Xuan Min was silent for a moment, then hesitated and spoke: "I seem to have been here."
Upon hearing this, Xue Xian glanced at him quickly, then withdrew his gaze, walking forward along the blood drops, and joked indifferently, "How come you see everything you seem familiar?"
To be honest, Xue Xian was always a little uncomfortable all the way. When he looked at it carefully, the feeling seemed to have missed something important. He always felt something was wrong, but he always forgot to think about it carefully or couldn't figure it out for a moment.
He walked all the way with this rare feeling, and it was not until now that he suddenly realized that this discomfort was actually an inexplicable sense of crisis, as if an important hidden danger had been put on by himself, intentionally or unintentionally.
After hearing his words, Xuan Min didn't speak out immediately, but just lowered her eyes.
For a moment, although his face did not show any expression, it made people feel depressed in their hearts, as if they were pressing on something extraordinarily heavy.
After a while, Xuan Min closed her eyes, opened it again, shook her head and said, "Or--"
Xue Xian blinked gently and spoke almost before Xuan Min made some progress: "Let's find someone first. Your memory is not good, so it's not easy to remember. Maybe there is another copper coin ban, so it will be clear."
Xuan Min looked at him as if he was aware, walked forward strode and replied in a deep voice: "Yes."
In fact, these bloodstains almost exposed the other party's whereabouts. The two of them stopped outside a small stone forest without any effort. The stone forest was less than ten feet in front and behind, and it was not really big, but it could create an excellent Eight-Gate Exit Array Formation.
If someone hides it, it can really delay for a few moments. If it is not Xue Xian, it will be...
"What's the use of hiding inside?" Xue Xian stood still and said lazily: "If you hide in the streets, I might have to be careful of others. If you hide in this deep mountain, then I really have no scruples. Just a few broken stones can really stop me?"
There is nothing left after just a sweep of the dragon's tail.
The reason why Xue Xian said nonsense to him was that he had not taken action directly was that he wanted to find out what tricks he had and call him together, and the solution was simpler.
Sure enough, after saying this, the stone forest was silent for a moment, and then there was a vague and low laughter, which seemed to appear intermittent due to serious injuries. As soon as the laughter stopped, a sharp whistle sounded.
"Since I've caught up with the door, I have to talk about hospitality," said the low and dumb voice.
What accompanied his voice was a crying like a tide. When the crying sounded, the sky above his head suddenly changed color, and clouds rolled in. In the blink of an eye, the sky was shining tightly, and the entire valley became dark and unclear.
Xue Xian suddenly remembered that a hundred years ago, a fire caused by thunder occurred in the mountains of Langzhou. It is said that the fire burned in the mountains for three days and three nights, burning all the people living in the valley. It is rumored that year, people always heard the mountains cry.
In fact, it was not that the mountains were crying, but that the millions of ghosts buried in the sea of fire were crying in unison, with their crying shrill and endless thunder.
Xue Xian felt that the entire ground was trembling with the crying, and countless sounds of breaking through the ground suddenly came from the valley that had been empty before. The corpses that had been buried for a hundred years shook off their flesh and mud, drilled out from the ground, and rushed straight towards them.
Chapter completed!