Chapter 34 The Legend of Wulan
The cultivation world of Shuxuan Immortal Continent in the East is thousands of miles away. Mengbisheng Huashan is located in the west of the east. When you travel 800 miles west, you will reach the area at the junction of the east and west. This place is called Wulan Mountain Range, which is the branch of Mengbisheng Huashan Mountain.
The Wulan Mountains are not tall and tall, and the mountains are relatively relaxed. However, the vegetation in the mountains is lush and the terrain is complex and diverse. The most important thing is that they are surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, so they are named.
Hundreds of years ago, Wulan Mountain had abundant minerals, and several nearby cultivators scrambled to mine here. This place was once very lively and prosperous. Later, the mine veins were exhausted and gradually became deserted.
Zizai Wanxiangmen itself has abundant resources and has never relied on its strength to include this place in its sphere of influence. In addition, the resources and environment have been damaged for a long time, so it is sparsely populated, so it can rest and recuperate.
It was not until in recent years that the ecology in the mountains has gradually recovered and various resources have gained useful value, and people began to enter the mountains in the east and west, and several small towns and villages have been formed at several entrances and exits and in the mountains. Zizai Wanxiang Gate sometimes sends disciples to collect resources.
Because there are no large sects of cultivation near the east and west sides of the mountain range, in general, this place is relatively remote and quiet, and the place where few people are interested may be the reason why the other party chose to hide here.
Mu Zi and others first arrived at Yuehe Ancient Town and picked up two Teng family members, one named Tenglin and the other named Teng Zhen, both of whom had the cultivation level of the Medicine Realm. These two had entered the Wulan Mountains many times, and were the guides for everyone.
According to the daily foot strength of the unicorn horse, the journey of 800 miles takes two or three days. Everyone was not in a hurry. After leaving Yuehe Town, they walked slowly. The eight boys and girls were going down the mountain for the first time. They were excited and enjoyed the winter cultural scenery of Xianzhou along the way, and they couldn't help chatting.
In Mu's group, Hua Lanting and Feng Qingjun often whispered themselves, mainly discussing their experience in medical herbs. Hua Lanting still remembers the scene of Feng Qingjun breaking the opponent's poison attribute attack in Feng Qingjun's competition. Song Feifei still pestered Lin Xianjing, as if she had endless things to say to him, although Lin Xianjing could not reply in three sentences.
The guide Tenglin looked like he was in his thirties. He was mature and had a good time observing his words and expressions. He was very aggressive and often introduced the customs and customs of the Wulan Mountains and the production of minerals and animals and plants to four people. He would not be lonely along the way.
In Yiyun's group, Zhuge Yun, Wen Yin and guide Teng Zhen were all talkative people, and Yi Liunian was embarrassed to talk to Wen Yin more, so he had to seize the opportunity to ask Zhang Hanyun for the beast control issue he was interested in. Zhang Hanyun was indeed knowledgeable in this regard. The beast control system of the Blood Moon Black Sand Sect was also different from that of the Zizai Wanxiang Sect. Others also learned a lot of basic knowledge of spiritual beasts while listening.
In the evening of that day, as the surrounding mountains gradually slowed down, everyone came to the eastern pass of Wulan Mountain. At a leeward ridge, there was the only town nearby. Tenglin found a hotel he had stayed before and asked everyone to stay. The hotel was not big, and as soon as the twelve people entered, it suddenly seemed very crowded.
After Tenglin arranged dinner for everyone, he said he went out to inquire about the situation and went out with Teng Zhen and the others.
After washing up briefly, everyone came to the central hall for dinner. There were four or five tables of scattered guests in the hall. The charcoal brazier in the hall was very hot. Although everyone was not tired after rushing on the road, they still felt very comfortable sitting in the hot and sweaty house in the cold winter night.
Halfway through eating, Tenglin and Tengzhen came back. After shaking the snow on their bodies, Mu Zi asked in a low voice: "How is it? What's going on?"
Tenglin smiled and said, "There is no situation, but it is not normal."
Seeing everyone's eyes looking at them, Tenglin continued, "It's normal because nothing special happened recently, and it's abnormal because there are more people than usual, and something may happen later." Tenglin kept it a secret, picked up the wine and took a sip.
Along the way, Yi Liunian knew about Tenglin's problem. He was afraid that the world would be undisturbed, so he wanted to do something and urged him: "You can drink enough, Brother Teng, don't drink half of it, hurry up."
Tenglin then continued, "I was only inquired and remembered that there was such a thing. It was a long story. It should be more than 600 years ago. Wulan Mountain was the time when the spiritual veins were being mined vigorously. The heroes stood together here. During this period, Wulan Yunxian Sect was born. The leader Wuzhang Taoist, and the four major disciples and hundreds of disciples under him. It is said that he monopolizes half of the mineral sources and is the number one cultivation sect within a radius of 100 miles."
"This Taoist Wuzhang is a master of the realm of birth. He has achieved success in practicing the fog-looping Yunlan skill and formation. With the four masters of Lingyun Spear, Qingyun Staff, Ichyun Sword, and Liuyun Sword, he was nicknamed Liujue Zhenren. He used this to intimidate all directions. The dragon was not seen at the head and the four major disciples of Chu, Wu, Han, and Leng managed the sect on weekdays."
"Later, somehow, suddenly, the Wulan Mountain swayed and the spiritual veins almost disappeared. It is said that the other three sects in the mountain jointly attacked Yunxian Sect and raised their troops to punish them, believing that Wuzhang Taoist used the formation to collect the spiritual veins and cut off everyone's cultivation resources and wealth. After this battle, two were defeated and injured. The head of the three sects died, and Wuzhang Taoist disappeared. Since then, Wuzhang Yunxian Sect has dispersed. After there is no spiritual vein, the four disciples have left and set up their own doors, and the Wuzhang Mountains have fallen into desolation."
"A legend of a generation ended, but then a legend spread like wildfire. It is said that the spiritual vein collected and protected by Taoist Wuzhang uses formations to open once every hundred years. Those who hold their tokens can obtain some of the mineral veins and spiritual resources. It is said that someone has seen it with his own eyes a long time ago, but in recent hundreds of years, it is difficult to tell whether this matter is true or false, and it has gradually become a legend."
"This year is the 100th year, so some cultivators come here when the mountains are closed due to heavy snow. However, because fewer and fewer people know and believe in this matter, those who come are free and hope to try their luck. Otherwise, at this time, there should be only a small number of cultivators who collect winter herbs and hunt spirit beasts."
At this time, the hotel owner happened to come and resume the wine. Hearing Tenglin's words, he said, "I have known this rumor here for a long time, and there are different versions. Some say that the four disciples rebelled in their nests, forced their master to death and the uneven distribution of the spoils caused the Yunxian Sect to fall apart; some say that the old Taoist Wugang was in a devilish practice, and his mind changed drastically and began to kill people and destroy the sect; some say that the heaven saw the spiritual vein being sought to be mined excessively, and lowered the heavenly thunder and pressed the spiritual vein deep into the ground, causing a series of subsequent changes."
Yi Liunian asked: "Has anyone really obtained the ore vein spiritual energy later?"
The boss shook his head: "The rumors in the world are groundless. Maybe there is a reason for the incident, or maybe it is just a trick of future generations. I hope it is true. Otherwise, my small shop will be visited by few people and the business will be light."
"But then again, every hundred years before and after the winter solstice, the mountains are indeed more cloudy and fog, and thunder sometimes descends, which is very strange. The other four disciples later set up their own branches. Now the Lingyun Sect, a second-rate sect in the west of Xianzhou, is said to have been founded by the eldest disciple and has continued to this day; the second disciple traveled far away to the north of Xianzhou to establish the Qingyun Sect, but later he heard that the sect was destroyed during the war; the third disciple went to the south and has now been lost; the fourth disciple is a woman, and later became a monk and nun. Some people say that the dilapidated Liuyun Temple in the mountains was once her residence."
"By the way, I remember my great-grandfather once told me that when he was young, he heard hunters in the mountains saying that he saw cultivators fighting with cultivators. Who can tell the truth or falsehood of this rumor?"
A table of guests next to him said, "We brothers have been here because we heard this rumor by chance. So we came here to take a look. The mine veins don't think about it anymore. But do you know what kind of spiritual beasts and medicines are produced in the mountains, so that our brothers will not go there empty-handedly in this cold weather."
The boss smiled and replied, "You are right, this guest. Although Wulan Mountain has no spiritual veins, the clouds and mists have always contained a little spiritual energy. After hundreds of years of nourishment, there are indeed many unique productions in the mountains, attracting outsiders to enter. Otherwise, I would not open a shop here in the cold winter, and it would be better to go home and have a warm kang with my wife and children."
"Is it the most famous one? There are two kinds. One is the red-tailed spirit fox, which only appears in the mountains in winter. The fox has a sensitive sense of smell and is often raised by the cultivation sect for tracking and treasure hunting. In addition, a red-tailed water and fire are not invaded, and can also resist the exploration of spiritual consciousness. ""There is the snowy night flower. Every hundred years, it blooms in the snow in the snow. It looks like a erect palm, which is more than half a person tall, red, green and white, and leaves are like six-petal snowflakes. This flower can be used as medicine to refine it into a spiritual pill. It can relieve most of the cold poisons and increase the power of ice-type magic by 100%. Of course, there are many treasures, only these two are produced here, so you can go into the mountain to try your luck."
Yi Liunian was still immersed in the rumors just now and asked again: "Someone has said what is the treasure hunt token?"
The boss smiled and said, "Young man, I don't know, I don't say it, can it be done?"
Yi Liunian also laughed embarrassedly, and suddenly heard the boss shouting, "My cured meat!" Everyone saw that it was Zhang Hanyun's spotted marten and Yi Liunian's spotted winged flying lizard fighting for the boss's cured meat hanging at the door. Everyone burst into laughter and stopped talking about this rumor in the laughter.
After dinner, everyone gathered in a room for a meeting. Tenglin took out a map. Mu Jue pointed to the map and said, "Tomorrow, there will be two roads after entering the mountain, one big road and one mountain road. Tenglin and I led Lanting to walk on the big group, and Yijun led the other group to walk on the mountain road. We gathered at the former site of Wulan Yunxian Sect in the middle of the mountain range. If nothing happened, then continue to cross the mountains separately to Beishankou and concentrate and return to the sect. If you find enemies on the way, you follow the instructions and adapt to the situation."
After the meeting, everyone went back to their room to rest. Tenglin said that they wanted to go out again to find out the old friends. Mu Zi asked him to take Teng Zhen with him just in case. Tenglin said that he was very familiar with him and would not have any problems, but he went out alone.
There was no moon at night that night, and it was pitch black outside, everything was silent, and the falling snow could be heard. A gray sculpture quietly slid up in silence, flew hundreds of meters, then rose into the air, and disappeared into the night.
In the town, several spiritual consciousnesses and eyes swept across the sky, no one was moving, and some were thinking.
Chapter completed!