Star Trace Gate

Connect to Tianfeng.

Ren Ye, Feng Lin, Ai Fei, and Ding Jun took the lead and walked into the dark tunnel, while the others followed behind.

Once inside, the tunnel was pitch black, and there was a faint dry and cool breeze blowing on your face.

Ding Jun lit up something to illuminate, turned his head and looked around, and commented softly: "This tunnel doesn't seem to have any obvious signs of chiseling, it looks like it was formed naturally."

Fenglin replied softly, "That's natural. Since this is a blessed land created by nature, it is naturally beyond human power to create the terrain. The people who lived here before must have seen this as special, so they set up the formation and occupied this Jietian Peak to comprehend the great Dao."

"Ah."

Ding Jun nodded slightly.

Beside him, Ren also looked at the tunnel wall and sniffed it lightly: "My beloved, do you smell a fragrance?"

"I smell it." Xu Qingzhao nodded slightly: "It's okay, it's the fragrance of flowers and plants."

When Ren Ye heard this, he felt relieved.

Everyone chatted as they walked forward cautiously.

After about three or four hundred meters, Fenglin stopped and looked ahead with a frown.

Ahead, the scene suddenly became blurry, as if there was a mirror, standing perfectly in the arched tunnel, blocking everyone's way forward.

The beloved concubine only took a glance and said calmly: "Is there a formation here?"

"Yes." Feng Lin nodded slightly: "It's a road protection formation. There is a faint sharp aura in the formation. If you break it by force, it won't be difficult, but it may cause the tunnel to collapse and cut off the way forward."

"We've come this far, we can't go back, right?" Ren Ye replied speechlessly.

Feng Lin looked at the mirror-like light, thought carefully and said: "The foundation of this formation is very solid. I can break a corner of the formation and enter, but this will inevitably lead to suppression from the whole formation. With my strength, I can protect the three of them."

When Xu Qingzhao heard this, his eyes became strange, but he did not question it directly.

Ren Ye thought for a moment, then turned his head and said, "Ding Jun, Brother Wu, you and your men should wait here, just in time for Xu Bangzi to come back and gather together. My beloved concubine, Fenglin and I will go in and take a look together."

"Take me with you." Ding Jun was a curious man and he really wanted to go in and take a look.

"No." Ren Ye replied.

"Okay, I will definitely do my best to keep this post." Ding Jun was very obedient when facing Ren Ye.

Fenglin said no more, and turned back to his beloved concubine and said, "Give me a few copper coins."

The beloved concubine rolled her eyes and said softly, "You are a Yin-Yang practitioner, why don't you bring your battle flags or coins every day?"

"When the old King Huai was still alive, there was no need for me to help." Fenglin said sarcastically, and stretched out his hand, saying, "I'll borrow it and return a few rare talismans to you when I go back."

"I haven't received my regular salary for a long time, and I don't have much money on me. If you want to return the talisman, I need to choose it myself." The beloved concubine also learned to take advantage of the situation.

"...You two are a perfect match." Fenglin looked at the couple with a speechless expression.

"Here."

The beloved concubine handed over the battle flag and the copper coins together.

After Fenglin took it, he looked around with his eyes, holding the compass in one hand to test the surroundings; with the other hand, he urged the formation flags and copper coins to hit them into the stone walls on both sides.

After three copper coins and six formation flags were placed in place, a loud noise was heard in the tunnel, Jie Tian Peak shook violently, and even the mirror-like formation light became more solid.

"boom!"

Fenglin held up the compass and circulated the star power, illuminating a patch of light that just covered Ren Ye and his beloved concubine. Then he said, "Let's go!"

"Shua...!"

As the shout was uttered, the three of them instantly stepped into the array of light and disappeared.

Ding Jun turned around and said very wisely: "Since you can't get in, then go out."

After the voice fell, the group walked away.

……

After the light was distorted to the extreme, Fenglin, Ren Ye, and Aifei appeared together in a small cave.

Ren Ye had just turned his head to look around when he heard his beloved concubine ask Feng Lin, "This formation is used to protect the Dao, and it has been so old that the foundation is no longer stable. After you break a corner, you will not be suppressed by the formation, and you can bring everyone in. Why do you claim that you can only bring three people?"

“Hehe…!” Fenglin grinned.

Ren Ye replied softly: "Baoer, there are outsiders in the team, and he is worried."

The beloved concubine was stunned for a moment, then understood instantly: "You mean, those two officials who are in charge of the secret affairs?"

"Of course." Feng Lin nodded slightly: "Since we are investigating a case, there are some things that cannot be known to everyone."

The beloved concubine glanced at him and thought that this old Taoist was indeed worthy of the title of military advisor, as he had considered everything so thoroughly in such a short period of time.

"It is indeed the scent of flowers and plants..."

Next to him, Ren lit something to illuminate the cave and saw that the walls were almost covered with camellia flowers.

They grow in a disorderly and extremely vigorous manner, looking wild and full of vitality.

He stopped for a moment, then looked up at the sky, and saw that in the north of the cave, a corner of the "skylight" was slightly opened, through which he could look directly at the sky and let the light of the Big Dipper in.

"Although I don't understand the art of Yin Yang and Feng Shui, but... I can see that this place is indeed a treasure land." Ren also sighed: "The terrain is high and towering, and all the mountains are small. You can look up and see the stars. This is indeed suitable for cultivating immortals."

"I have a lot of trivial things to do, otherwise I would like to stay in this treasure cave to practice meditation for ten or twenty years and ask the heaven for the way." Fenglin also looked at the Big Dipper in the sky and sighed softly.

Ren Ye, holding on to something to light up, walked to the right and saw a square bluestone for meditation on the north side. It was very smooth and had a rotten futon cushion on it.

Next to the bluestone, there were two homemade small wooden tables, and a rotten bed on the left.

Ren Ye slowly approached and shone a light on these "relics". He discovered two half-rotten women's Taoist robes and some daily necessities, also used by women, on the ground under the bed.

Such as combs, bronze mirrors and so on.

He was stunned for a moment, then said softly, "The person living in this place must be a woman, and...she should care a lot about her appearance."

"Well, look at the surrounding environment. Camellias are blooming everywhere, and the fragrance is everywhere. It really doesn't look like a place for men to practice Taoism." The beloved concubine also paid full attention to details. She pointed to a large wooden barrel not far away and said, "That should be the place for bathing and changing clothes."

Ren Ye looked at the furnishings, slowly stood up and said, "Those thieves first robbed Concubine Jing's tomb, and then searched in this mountain. And this place is where women practice Taoism... The answer is already obvious."

"Before entering the palace, Imperial Concubine Jing lived in Qifeng Mountain. She was a fourth-rank supernatural being, so it was reasonable for her to occupy this place for cultivation." Fenglin nodded slightly in agreement.

"Zhu Zigui, look!"

At this moment, the beloved concubine who was walking around suddenly pointed to the top of the south wall facing the meditation stone and said, "Look, there are two carvings there."

Ren Ye and Feng Lin suddenly turned around and looked towards the south wall in the distance.

The "skylight" draws the moonlight and the light of the Big Dipper into the cave, just enough to illuminate the south wall at an angle.

The three of them looked and saw two clearly engraved stone paintings on the south wall, but the content was extremely simple and stream-of-consciousness.

The first painting shows a man wearing a crown and a dragon robe, traveling by boat. He stands at the front of the boat, sailing against the breeze on both sides of the river, giving a feeling that the boat has passed through thousands of mountains.

In the mural, the sun is shining in the south, with thousands of beasts seeing it off on both sides of the river, auspicious clouds flowing in the sky, and a scene of dragons rising and phoenixes flying.

In short, all kinds of auspicious beasts from heaven and earth are present in the mural, and they are all bowing to the man from afar.

On the boat, the man stood with his hands behind his back, and he seemed to be emitting a certain aura. But because it was a stone painting, it was difficult to carve it so vividly, and the aura was depicted very lightly...

"What does it mean?"

Ren was a little confused: "Emperor? Lord?!"

He murmured something and turned to look at the second picture.

The second picture is simpler. At the top, it depicts a faceless woman wearing a dress, looking down at everyone.

Under her feet, the woman turned into three people, and their main features such as figure, height, dress, etc. were exactly the same, except that the three women had different postures.

"One person turns into three people?!" Fenglin murmured with a little surprise.

Ren Ye looked carefully and saw a line of small words written in the lower left corner of the picture of the woman.

When the three elements become one, one can enter the divine forbidden zone.

Qifeng Mountain-Wanqing.

"Wan Qing, is this her name?" Ren Ye frowned and muttered, "One person becomes three people, what does this mean?"

"No, it shouldn't mean one person becomes three people." Xu Qingzhao shook his head: "Three Yuans become one, and one can enter the divine forbidden zone. It should mean one becomes three, and three become one again, and then one can achieve the Dao. This should be the mural she carved when she was in seclusion."

Ren Ye heard this and suddenly said, "If this is the place where Concubine Jing practices meditation, then this saying that the Three Elements are one... Hey, that's not right!"

"What's wrong?" asked the beloved concubine.

Ren Ye suddenly looked at her: "Three Elements Return to One, there must be at least three people, right?!"

"Of course." Xu Qingzhao nodded slightly: "Among my Yin-Yang practitioners, there are many methods for cultivating the Dao body."

"Big Fat Dragon was sick!" Ren Ye seemed to have grasped something, and said excitedly: "It was a strange disease. He fell into a coma for more than a year without any signs."

Xu Qingzhao was stunned for a moment: "That's right. And there are rumors in the palace that this matter may be related to Concubine Jing."

"If that's the case..." Ren also blinked, "Could the sudden illness of the fat dragon be related to this Three Elements Returning to One Method?"

After the words were spoken, the cave fell into silence.

Ren also instinctively grabbed his hair, feeling his brain growing wildly: "... Concubine Jing and the Queen have a close personal relationship, and they are close friends. The two of them have frequent contact in secret, so naturally they can see the fat dragon who just turned 12 every day. Then, the fat dragon suddenly became seriously ill, and Emperor Wanwu found something abnormal... Oh my God... The case is solved."

"Back then, Imperial Concubine Jing wanted to refine the big fat dragon into her own Taoist body." He added excitedly.

"Eh, that's not right."

"Can this woman's Three Elements Returning to One method be used on a man?" Ren Ye was suddenly stunned again: "I am a woman, and I got a man's Taoist body. Then in the future... I will be self-sufficient and never need to ask for help?!"

"Isn't this... this secret method a little too considerate?"