Chapter 20 The Pursuit
Ye Xuan blinked and said, "What are you looking for a corpse?"
"I want to see if the person killed by Zhang Jun and others is a true Taoist priest. If so, Shuiyue Temple is still valuable to us. If the dead Taoist priest is like Zhang Jun and others, we should not waste time here."
I heard from my master that any real monk, whether it is a monk or a Taoist, will have different bodies from ordinary people. Only by finding the corpse can I judge whether there are real Taoist priests in Shuiyue Temple.
Not only were there barren mountains and ridges around Shuiyue Temple, but they were almost the same. If you wanted to find a corpse in such a place, Ye Xuan and I almost searched the surrounding Shuiyue Temple, but we didn't see any corpse hidden. Finally, Ye Xuan turned his eyes to Jinghu Lake at the door: "Teacher, do you think the corpse will be in the lake? Or should I dive in and look for it?"
"Lake?" I looked at Ye Xuan: "Check the map and see where Longwan Lake is?"
"Go down from here..." Ye Xuan held the electronic map: "Oh, Longwan Lake seems not far from here! It's only two or three kilometers."
"So that's it!" I quickly walked into the hall and grabbed the incense burner on the altar and lifted it up. A disc-shaped groove immediately appeared under the incense burner.
Just now, I was wandering around the Sanqing Hall and noticed this altar. The size of the incense burner on the table was obviously disproportionate to the altar. A piece of it was cut open under the incense burner, which looked like I had deliberately stuck the incense burner in a trough.
Many people think that the incense burner is just to put the altar on the altar. In fact, the placement of the incense burner is very particular. The simplest thing is that the incense burner must be relatively coordinated with the altar so that it will not affect the beauty. Large tables and small tables and large stoves will make the hall lose some of the **. The incense burner on this altar is obviously too small. At the beginning, I just thought that the people who built Taoist temples knew nothing, so I made such a joke, but now it seems that this is not the case.
I pulled out my dagger and knocked it around the round pit twice. A square gap appeared under the shocked incense ash.
"The outer plate is here!" I quickly took out four iron compass from my backpack and put them into the center of the outer plate in turn. The four iron compass were tightly combined into one, but there was only a lack of pointers.
Ye Xuan tapped the compass twice with his hand: "Old man, take off the pointer on the compass and try installing it?"
"The pointer is definitely not that simple!" I frowned and turned around the house for a few times, and finally my eyes fell on a bundle of yellow incense under the divine throne. The bundle of incense has been put forth for some years, and a thick layer of dust has fallen on it. Each of the few incense pieces on the outermost was broken down by an inch, a short piece. I copied the yellow incense in my hand and took a quick look back on the side of the altar, broke off a piece of incense again, lit it with fire, and gently placed it on the bottom of the compass.
As my fingers relaxed slightly, the lit yellow fragrance was held in the air by some force, and it turned slowly like a pointer.
"This fragrance is the pointer?" Ye Xuan's eyes almost glared out: "This is too mysterious, right?"
I also found it incredible, but it was not as surprised as Ye Xuan. My master told me: There are all kinds of strange secret techniques in the world. There are only things you can't imagine, and things you can't do without secret techniques.
While Ye Xuan was still talking, Huang Xiang on the compass had already stopped and pointed at a corner of the hall. If calculated according to the direction, it should be the main position for the building of the hall. I used a dagger to pick the compass out of the altar, held it in my hand and walked towards the gate.
Ye Xuan followed me and said, "Teacher, please wait! There is something strange about this! Think about it yourself, Chen Yihan took the compass from Shuiyue Temple. Why haven't Zhang Jun seen her before? Just Zhang Jun's courage, if she had seen Chen Yihan before, could she still stay in Shen's manor?"
"I know what Ye Xuan said!" I had thought of what Ye Xuan said. But I think Zhang Jun had never seen Chen Yihan. Just as Ye Xuan said, with Zhang Jun's personality, if he had really encountered Chen Yihan, he would have escaped from the Shen Family Manor long ago, instead of staying there and waiting to die.
There must be some secrets we haven't found on Chen Yihan.
I quickly walked out of the door. The incense head on the compass turned back and forth several times, and finally stopped at the mountain wall on the side of Shuiyueguan. I handed the compass to Ye Xuan and knocked it hard on the mountain wall with the handle of the knife. Sure enough, a thud of thunder sound came from there.
Tomb?
The first thing I think of is a tomb.
It is not uncommon for the immortal molts of masters to hide in caves. In order to protect the immortal molts, later generations sealed the cave from outside, and the natural cave became a tomb. Is this also a place for tombs?
"Xuanzi, dig it open!" I lit the lantern and took it back, and Ye Xuan took the engineer from his backpack and shoveled it a few times to dig a hole in the mountain wall.
The situation behind the mountain wall is exactly the same as I guess, that is a small cave sealed by blue bricks. In order to cover up, the Taoist priest of Shuiyue Temple painted a layer of fake stone skin on the outside of the blue bricks. If he didn't look carefully, he would only regard it as a complete cliff.
The cave was only one meter tall and was just enough to sit inside. When I was carrying a lantern to shine towards the cave, I saw two bodies sitting cross-legged on the cushion. The two bodies had already turned into white bones, but the Taoist robe was intact. One of them was placed with a half-dispersed money sword, and the other was placed with a bamboo steel whip on the right hand of the corpse.
I poked my body into the hole and pulled out the bamboo steel whip. The steel whip that was more than one meter long was heavy, and it was covered with black body. The runes of the whip were covered with rust, but there was no rust. You could see that it was a magic weapon. The steel whip could occupy a place among the eighteen weapons, and its power should not be underestimated. Especially when facing the enemy's generals wearing heavy armor, the masters who were good at using the steel whip were enough to smash the opponent's bones through the armor. When they met with swords, they had the upper hand. They could often shake off the opponent's long sword and put the opponent to death.
However, the steel whip requires extremely high arm strength for users. It is better to use a knife than to hold a steel whip. Therefore, many warriors in ancient and modern times use swords, but few people are good at using steel whip, and there are only a handful of people who are good at using double whip. However, this steel whip is quite suitable for Ye Xuan. Although he can't use a whip, he is a master of using a knife. In addition, that guy's arm strength is amazing, this steel whip is just right for use.
I threw the bamboo whip to Ye Xuan: "This is a good thing, you can use it."
"Thank you... Thank you..." Ye Xuan's guy thanked me not me, but the corpse in the cave.
I didn't bother with Ye Xuan, and even got into the hole.
Judging from the seal of the cave, the two Taoists in the cave have enough time to calmly ascend to immortality, and it is impossible for them to leave the world before they turn around. Their posture should be to protect the inside of the cave.
I lowered my body and groped through the two corpses, and sure enough, I saw a hole deep into the ground. The gourd-shaped cave with a small mouth and a big belly is not very large. From the top, you can still see pebbles in a circle. At first glance, it makes people feel that it was a nest made by something.
Those two Taoist priests did not flock in the cave, but to guard the cave?
This thought flashed through my mind and I wanted to exit from the hole, but before I could move, I heard Ye Xuan shouting outside: "Class old classmate is coming out, Chenyihan is here!"
Just as I was about to turn around, Ye Xuan grabbed the jade in the air and broke into the hole, pushing me back into the hole.
"What are you doing when you come in?" Before I could finish speaking, I saw the flying fire snake rolling wildly from the direction of the cave entrance.
"Chen Yihan set fire outside the cave?" Ye Xuan pushed me and squeezed into the cave.
The cave outside has only more than ten square meters of space. As long as Chen Yihan throws an oil barrel from outside, we will be burned to death. There is no way out in the cave except the cave with an opening facing upwards. However, if we jump into the cave, it is equivalent to waiting for Chen Yihan to catch turtles in the jar, which is also a dead end.
I was still hesitating whether to jump out of the cave. A plastic bucket had been thrown in from outside. The opening was filled with a cotton strip of oil bucket. I turned around on the ground for several times. When I was sliding towards us against the ground, Ye Xuan, who was blocking the outside, swept his legs and kicked the oil bucket. The more than ten kilograms of plastic bucket flew outwards under Ye Xuan's heavy blow, and collided straight for a corner of the cave.
"Jump!" The plastic bucket must not be able to withstand this impact. If we didn't jump into the hole, we would have to wait to be burned to ashes. I grabbed the jade in the clothes and stuffed her into the hole, and jumped down myself.
As soon as Ye Xuan and I landed on the ground, we stood up and pressed the jade in the clothes under us. The explosion sounded loudly outside, and the raging fire began to press down from the entrance of the cave several meters. The rolling fireworks almost touched my back and lost their strength. Although the clothes on my body were not ignited by the fire, the head behind my head was burned by the flames. I reached out and touched my brain skin so much that it hurt.
I didn't care about checking my injuries, and pulled the Shenyi Yu leaned against the edge of the cave, looked up at the entrance of the cave. At that time, the cave above our heads had been completely blocked by flames, and nothing could be seen except for the fierce red light.
Chen Yihan's voice came from the entrance of the cave: "Chen Ye, where else can you run this time? Hand over the Shenyi Jade and I'll let you go."
As soon as Chenyi Yu was about to speak, I covered her mouth. I said myself, "You said let me go? How to go? Let me go out of the fire?"
Shenyi Yu said coldly: "I can set fire, and I can naturally put out the fire. You can just hand over Shenyi Yu, and you don't have to worry about other things."
I gave Ye Xuan a wink, who imitated Shenyiyu's voice and said, "Yi Han, I am your sister? Why don't you let me go?"
Ye Xuan's voice was vivid, and even the deep-clothed jade, who had been covered by me, widened his eyes.
Chapter completed!