across mountains and seas

Two faint fires of Huozhezi went around the cave, and finally came to the half-open stone crossing.Looking into the depths from the entrance of the stone path, there are several luminous pearls embedded in the wall, and the shimmering light falls on the stone steps. It can be vaguely seen that the stone path goes straight down. I don't know where it leads?

The wind in the cave is blown from the depths of the stone path, and if the wind keeps breathing, there is a way to survive.

Jing Lan looked sideways, and after putting away the booklet for blowing out the fire, she said in a solemn voice, "Xi'er, I'll go down first."

"My empress." Liu Xi nodded firmly, turned her head to Xue Qingxian and Chu Xi and said, "Your Highness, Miss Xue, let's go down."

Xue Qingxian sighed softly, and approached Liu Xi, "Do you really want to take the risk?"

"If we don't take the initiative to go down, the people outside will definitely think of other ways to force us to go down. Active and passive, life and death are not a little bit different." Liu Xi replied truthfully, blew out the torch in his hand, and handed it to Xue Qingxian. "Put it away, there must be something useful next."

Xue Qingxian put Huozhezi in his arms, and followed Jing Lan down the stone path.

Liu Xi pulled out Shu Ying, held it behind her back, and put her arm around Chu Xi, "Your Highness, I will help you go."

"Yes." Chu Xi nodded.

The four of them walked down the stone path slowly for about a hundred steps, and there were more and more night pearls on the wall, so the light was much brighter than before.

Liu Xi turned her head and glanced at the crossing where she came, only to see a black shadow flash past.

Sure enough, the purpose of that person was not to kill them, but to let them enter here.The feeling of deja vu came to my heart, Youyou used similar methods to force her and Alan into Hailong Mausoleum.It's just that Youyou didn't expect that she lost her wife and lost her army. She didn't get the "Fish and Dragon Dance Jue", and she also got the Beast Master Jue and the map of the East China Sea's mineral veins as a gift.

That person forced them to come down, there must be something that person wanted down here.

Liu Xi thought of this layer, and Jing Lan actually thought of this layer too.

Some words need not be explained clearly, the two have already thought of being together by coincidence.If they didn't go to the final place, that person might be reluctant to let them die, and if they didn't get the last thing, that person would definitely not show up.

Finally came to the end of the stone path, the stone door carved with dragon patterns was slightly opened, and the dark green night pearl light inside revealed the gap between the door.

Jing Lan forcefully pushed half of the stone door open and stepped into the stone room, but suddenly stopped, staring vigilantly at a corpse sitting on the ground in the northeast corner of the stone room.

Xue Qingxian asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Jing Lan hastily scanned around the stone chamber, which was about ten steps wide from left to right, with a circle of night pearls inlaid on the wall, vaguely illuminating the strange carvings on the stone wall.

There is no coffin in the stone room, and the corpse sitting on the ground should be an ordinary person who got lost and broke into this place.

Jing Lan did some calculations based on Feng Shui's location for that person's location, and assumed that it was where the gate of life was, and that such a place shouldn't be transformed into a dead body.Thinking of this, Jing Lan breathed a sigh of relief, and replied in a low voice, "I'll go and have a look at the corpse over there, you should be careful when you come in." After speaking, Jing Lan went straight to the corpse.

The three people behind them walked into the stone room one after another, and Liu Xi patted Chu Xi's hand lightly, "Your Highness, I'll go and see Alan." She said, and she gave Xue Qingxian a meaningful look.

Xue Qingxian naturally knew what Liu Xi meant, so she escorted Chu Xi to Xiyang City for thousands of miles, so what if one more day?

From the beginning to the end, her senior sister only wanted her senior sister, Eleven Niang, to be happy.

Chu Xi knew the resentment in Xue Qingxian's heart, she never took the initiative to mention Shi'er, at least she understood this respect for Xue Qingxian.

The two of them stood in the same place silently, knowing that it would be embarrassing for anyone to speak, so they simply didn't say anything.

Jing Lan raised her sword and approached the corpse. The man sat slumped on the ground with his head bowed, his hair tied in a sapphire crown, and although the clothes on his body were covered with dust, one could still clearly see that this It is the official uniform of the imperial court.

Judging from the shape, it should only be worn by the top three in high school to parade in the streets.

Liu Xi walked gently to Jing Lan's side, squatted down slowly, and finally got a clear view of this man's face—the face was like a crown of jade, the bridge of the nose was high, and he was extremely delicate.

If he had not been dead for a long time and his complexion was as pale as paper, such a handsome man would be considered rare in the world.

The two confirmed that the man was dead, sighed lightly, and looked at the closed stone door behind the man.

He seems to be just a scholar, trapped here can only be a dead end.

wrong!

Jing Lan seemed to have thought of something, and leaned over to look at this man's face again. Although he was bloodless and seemed to have just passed away, the dust on his body was very thick, and it was obvious that he had passed away for a long time.

"Xi'er, back off!" Jing Lan gasped, took Liu Xi's hand and took three steps back.

Jing Lan's sudden cry couldn't help but startled Liu Xi, as well as Chu Xi and Xue Qingxian over there.

Liu Xi suppressed her startled heartbeat, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"

"This person is dead but not stiff, there is a difference!" Jing Lan reminded in a deep voice.

Liu Xi was stunned. When she looked at the man again, the image of her mother Bai Liqing flashed in her mind. She was startled, and said in a low voice, "I'll go and have a look."

"Dangerous!" Jing Lan held her hand tightly.

Liu Xi let her lead her, "I just want to see if there are manjusawa on him?"

"You mean..."

"Ah."

Jing Lan pushed Liu Xi behind her, and said solemnly: "I'll go." While speaking, she drew up her inner breath, and quickly cut open the man's robe with a sword.

The official uniform split in two, and half slipped off the man's shoulder, revealing the snow-colored manjusawa growing from the flesh and blood. At the same time, several letters fell to the ground along with the official uniform.

Liu Xi gasped, this person was exactly like his mother, if he stayed, it would only be a disaster.

Jing Lan flipped the letter on the official uniform to Xingfeng, put it away, bent down to pick up the letter, and opened the top one.

"Zhiyuan..."

Jing Lan read the title above, and was suddenly taken aback, feeling as if she had heard this name somewhere before.

Liu Xi's ears perked up, and she took the yellowed letter paper from Jing Lan's hand, and read it word by word.The hand holding the letter paper trembled slightly, her eye circles turned red, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Yes, that was mother Bailiqing's handwriting.

Every sentence, every word is full of longing and affection for Yin Zhiyuan.

After reading all these letters, Liu Xi looked at Yin Zhiyuan's corpse with complicated emotions, and said hoarsely, "Alan, he is Yin Zhiyuan."

"Yin Zhiyuan?" This name was familiar not only to Jing Lan, but also to Chu Xi.

Although this person was the No. [-] top three more than ten years ago, the sudden disappearance can be regarded as an unsolved case in Lidu.Chu Xi was still young at that time, and after she became sensible, she was also curious about this matter and read the corresponding files.

Liu Xi turned around in surprise, "Your Highness knows this person?"

Chu Xi nodded, "Father once said that this person is talented and able to read Yinwen, and he wanted to be appointed as the number one scholar, but that year, father had to consider the balance between the court and the court, so he had to be second in the list." She frowned. He raised his eyebrows, "But after the Sanjia toured the streets, Yin Zhiyuan disappeared. No one knew where he went. Hundreds of people from Tingwei's Mansion were dispatched to investigate this matter, but they found nothing. Later, after I got acquainted with Qianzhulou, I also once I asked Qianzhulou, but Qianzhulou couldn't sell the news, so I had to let it go."

"Can you read Yinwen?" Liu Xi caught the point.

Chu Xi replied seriously: "The inscriptions are engraved on the wall of the secret hall. I have tried to identify one or two of them, but I can't recognize any of those characters."

Liu Xi thought, he definitely did not come here by mistake.Otherwise, based on these affectionate words in his mother's letter, how could he be willing to say goodbye to his mother?

"That's..." Jing Lan blew on the torch, intending to burn Yin Zhiyuan's body with a torch, so as to prevent him from causing trouble in the future, but when he approached Yin Zhiyuan, he found a small leather bag pinned to his belt.She picked out the small skin with the edge of her sword, Yin Zhiyuan's body trembled suddenly, and he suddenly opened his eyes, revealing his white pupils.

Jing Lan shot very quickly, and threw the small leather bag towards Liuxi, "Xi'er catch it!" As soon as the words fell, she pierced Yin Zhiyuan's throat with a sword, and threw the fire bag at him .

Sitting here for so many years, the clothes on his body are already dry and brittle, and when the sparks from the fire folds jumped onto his clothes, they instantly caught fire.Jing Lan used the edge of her sword to press down on him who was about to pounce, until the flames engulfed him, then Jing Lan drew out her long sword and watched him gradually turn into ashes in the flames.

Liu Xi caught the small skin bag, squeezed it with her fingers, and found that there seemed to be a booklet inside.She hastily opened the small leather bag, and after opening the booklet inside, she found that there were many ghostly characters drawn on it, and there were recognizable lowercase characters beside it, which should be the translation of Yin script.

Jing Lan breathed a sigh of relief and approached the three of them.

Chu Xi's eyesight was blurred, and she could only make out the outline of the text on the pamphlet, but even if there was only the outline, she still remembered that it was an inscription, "This is the type of writing on the wall of the secret palace."

Liu Xi clenched the booklet tightly, and slowly approached the closed stone gate. The stone gate was filled with such words, densely packed, what was written there?

Jing Lan lowered her head and glanced at the lingering flames on the ground. The fire pocket must be useless. She looked at the night pearls inlaid on the wall, and she could only use the night pearls for lighting just like the mirage at that time.

With this in mind, Jing Lan approached the wall, knocked on the wall to confirm that there were no secret traps under the wall, and then used the blade of her sword to knock down three fist-sized night pearls one after another.

She put away Chong Xiao, picked up the Ye Mingzhu, and handed one to Xue Qingxian, and after keeping one in her bosom, she approached Liu Xi with the Ye Ming Pearl.

The pearly light of the luminous pearl fell on the stone gate, illuminating the words on it more clearly.

Liu Xi compared the booklet left by Yin Zhiyuan, and murmured the words on it, "The wheel of the yin is spinning... the world... disasters... this door cannot be opened... be careful... be careful..."

Liu Xi originally thought that the engraving on the stone gate should have fewer than a few hundred characters, but it was only these sixteen characters that were repeated over and over again.After reading, Liu Xi hastily turned her head and looked at the ashes on the ground.

No matter who caught him here that year, he must have seen these sixteen characters, so he chose to sit there and sit there until he died.Although he is a frail young man, he knows what to do and what not to do.He lost Bailiqing, but defended here.

"Mother didn't love the wrong person." Liu Xi had mixed feelings, she believed that Yin Zhiyuan had reached the Nine Springs, and the moment he met Mother, he could straighten his waist and smile as warmly as before.

Jing Lan suddenly drew her sword out of its sheath, walked quickly to the door where she came, and blurted out: "There is a monster coming!"

Yin Zhiyuan would rather die than open the stone gate, and Liu Xi couldn't let Yin Zhiyuan's thoughts go to waste, no matter what kind of ominous thing came, she would rather fight the ominous thing than open that stone gate rashly.

"bass!"

Pulling out the knife, Liu Xi put the booklet into her arms, walked to Jing Lan's side, and stood beside her, "Ah Lan, we will stick to this place today, don't let Mr. Yin laugh at us."

At this moment, both Jing Lan and Liu Xi gave up the idea of ​​continuing to go down, at worst, they would fight Ye Tianxin and Wei Jianxuan to the death, if they could kill these two, they might be able to fight back.

The author has something to say: The old friend is Xi'er's mother's lover, Yin Zhiyuan.

It seems that there is no cute guess~

I caught a bug, sorry