[Sword Three] Mountain Ghost Ballad

After Huai Xu brought Miao out of Dihua Palace, he did not take her on the road himself, but entrusted her to Zhong Li, letting the two of them set off first, while he himself disappeared after explaining the matter.

Miao had no objection to this, and Zhong Li would not question what his respected teacher had explained, so before Huai Xu came back, the two embarked on the road to Chang'an.

Considering that Miao was still young and couldn't bear the bumps on the horse's back, Zhong Li thoughtfully hired a carriage and the driver, and the two of them stayed in the carriage. Although Miao remained silent all the time, Zhong Li seemed very She likes to talk to Miao, even if Miao doesn't respond, she won't be angry.

So Miao couldn't help wondering, this person named Zhong Li seemed to like her very much?

How did she know that Zhong Li loves the house because of her identity as the girl who caresses the fog.

Because when Zhong Li was still in the Red Clothes School, she liked the beautiful and bright Saintess of Fuwu. After the news of Fuwu's marriage was revealed, she was always worried about Fuwu.In addition, when Fu Wu died, leaving behind a daughter whose whereabouts are unknown, if Huai Xu hadn't stopped her, Zhong Li might have gone out to look for that child long ago.

And now that he finally found Fuwu's daughter, how could Zhong Li be unhappy.

Fenghua Valley is not too far from Lishan Mountain, Zhong Li somehow used some method to make the carriage travel very fast, but within half a day they had already arrived at the foot of Lishan Mountain.

Zhong Li didn't let the carriage stop at the entrance of Mount Li, but asked the driver to drive the carriage to the foot of Xiuling Mountain in the west of Mount Li. Then he sent the driver away, and took Miao's hand into the deep forest of Mount Li. middle.

Sensing Miao's suspicious eyes, Zhong Li explained with a smile: "There are many soldiers guarding the northern foot of Lishan Mountain. It is Emperor Xuanzong who wants to expand the hot spring pool and build another courtyard for the noble concubine, so no one is allowed to enter for a hundred miles. Yes, it is not appropriate for us to conflict with them, and it is feasible to simply go this way."

Seeing that Miao seemed to be in deep thought, Zhong Li said with interest again: "Speaking of this Lishan, it seems that since Qin Shihuang took power, many emperors have been interested in Lishan, and built a lot of things on this mountain. Xinggong, but I heard from the teacher that the sages of the Yinyang family also lived in this mountain. There are many places left over from the pre-Qin period, but most of them are full of mechanism mazes, so they have not been discovered by outsiders for thousands of years .”

Speaking of this, Zhong Li's voice was full of regret, "Actually, except for Xixiuling where we live now, I have never been to other Yinyang family sites in Lishan, and even some places have not even been visited by the teacher. Teacher It was once said that the most glorious era of the Yin-Yang family was in the pre-Qin period when hundreds of schools were fighting for hegemony, but for unknown reasons, the Yin-Yang family suddenly declined after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, and many elites in the faction disappeared. Without inheritance, today, on the land of the Central Plains, only the teacher is left as the inheritor of Onmyoji..."

"And you..." Miao said softly.

Zhong Li was stunned for a moment, stopped to look at her, and asked, "A Miao, what did you say?"

"You are an excellent foundation for practicing Yin and Yang arts of wood and fire. The mutual generation and restraint of wood and fire are in line with the law of reincarnation. If you are willing to work hard, your achievement in the art of imperial objects may not be lower than that of your teacher Huai. sequence."

Miao's voice was steady and serious, with the softness that only belonged to little girls. These words were particularly shocking to Zhong Li at the moment, because she had heard the same words in Huai Xu's mouth.

When she left the Red Clothes Sect with Huai Xu, Huai Xu also said that her aptitude is very suitable for practicing Yin-Yang Art, and asked her to join the Yin-Yang family and be taught by Huai Xu himself.

Zhong Li didn't know what yin and yang art was, but it didn't prevent her from accepting Huai Xu's offer of accepting apprentices, but after she formally joined the Yin Yang family, Huai Xu said that he was not her master, but only taught her to learn yin and yang art , the rest depends on herself, if she wants, she can call a teacher.

Zhong Li is not dissatisfied with this, because it doesn't matter to her whether she and Huai Xu have the name of master or apprentice. They have been together day and night for more than ten years, and she has already regarded Huai Xu as her own. Master, and the only Master.

But until she started to learn Yin Yang surgery, the more Zhong Li learned, the more shocked she was from the Yin Yang family.She knew that the Yin Yang family was one of the earliest schools of thought in the pre-Qin period, but she never thought that the scope of this school was something she had never heard of, and it was fundamentally different from the martial arts routines she had known before.

At the age of 15, she practiced internal energy according to the mental method taught by Huai Xu, and then entered Lishan Mountain to practice for four years, but in more than ten years, she could barely master the art of alchemy and object control, and she was still immature in using it on the second level of illusion. Therefore, Zhong Li admired Huai Xu with profound martial arts and proficiency in various yin and yang techniques than before.

Therefore, she has never doubted Huai Xu's ability, but why a little girl under ten years old can tell at a glance the yin and yang technique she has practiced, is she worthy of being the daughter of the Maiden Fuwu?

But Fuwu obviously has the blood inheritance of the Yin-Yang family and doesn't know it...

Zhong Li was a little entangled, wanted to ask but felt unable to ask a child, but soon, her troubles were resolved, because she saw Huai Xu waiting not far ahead.

"Teacher!" Zhong Li called out in surprise.She knew that Huai Xu was going to meet a man named Murong Zhuifeng, and she seemed to have something very troublesome to do, and thought that she would not be able to see the teacher until at least at night, but she did not expect that the other party would arrive earlier than them.

Huai Xu nodded, reached out to take Miao from Zhong Li's hand, and said, "Xiao Li, you go back to Xixiu Ridge first, clean up a room, and I have something to tell you later."

"Then... the teacher won't go back together?" Zhong Li couldn't help being puzzled when he saw Huai Xu holding Miao's hand and walking in the opposite direction to Xixiu Ridge's residence.

"I have to take Miao to another place first."

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Miao was led by Huai Xu through layers of forests filled with thick mist. I don't know how long he walked, until Miao's feet felt a little painful, Huai Xu stopped.

She pointed her right hand forward, and the air in front of her suddenly began to distort. She grabbed Miao's hand and led her forward, passing through the twisted vortex in the air without hesitation.

Miao lowered her head and followed Huai Xu through the vortex, only to feel tightness in her chest, and her breathing seemed to stagnate for a while. As the light in front of her eyes suddenly dimmed, she felt that the surrounding air seemed to return to normal.

She looked up, but couldn't help being startled. She saw that the sky, which was still sunny just now, was now a dark night full of morning stars. The woods were still the same woods, but a magnificent palace appeared not far away. .

Where she was, at some point there appeared a small path leading to the palace. Every few meters on the side of the road, there was a crystal with a faint halo. Looking from a distance, it was like a string of finely divided crystals paved in the dark. Starlight is so beautiful.

As beautiful as what she saw thousands of years ago...

Miao closed her eyes, a variety of emotions welled up in her heart, she almost shed tears, and said, "Star Palace..."

"That's right, this is the holy place of my Yin Yang family, Star Palace!"

Huai Xu noticed Miao's complicated emotions, but he didn't care. He took her hand and walked forward slowly. His voice was piercingly cold, but not stinging. It resounded in the surrounding area. In the night sky, it seemed to merge with the darkness.

"The Star Palace is located in the deepest part of Mount Li, guarded by several powerful yin and yang techniques. It was originally a place where only the witches of the Yinyang family could enter. But since the pre-Qin period, the only two witches of the Yinyang family have been in succession. After disappearing, no one from the Yinyang family is qualified to enter here, and the gate of the Star Palace has been closed since then, until Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, an unborn genius appeared in the Yinyang family. Basically, forcibly cracked the illusion around the Star Palace, and opened the gate of the Star Palace again, but..."

"But what?" Miao, who was listening carefully, couldn't help being puzzled when she saw the other party stop suddenly.

Huai Xu sighed, and said: "But after he opened the gate of the Star Palace, he disappeared. Some people said that he entered the innermost part of the Star Palace, but lost his way among the stars, and was trapped to death in the palace. A hundred years later, a senior from the Yin Yang family who was quite proficient in astrology ventured into the Star Palace, but retreated halfway, and warned the descendants of the Yin Yang family that they were not allowed to enter the Star Palace unless they were the inheritors of the ancient witches. The reason why the Star Palace can only be entered by the maidens of the Yin Yang family is because only the witches of the past are born astrologers. Through the inheritance of blood, each generation has inherited the ability of the previous generation to divination stars, so as to protect a Great secret."

"Great secret?" Miao's heart skipped a beat, something seemed to flash through her mind, but she couldn't grasp it so fast.

"Yes, it is a secret called Canglong Qisu. It is said that if you master this secret, you will have the great power to overthrow the world." Huai Xu said lightly: "However, in the records left by the sages of the Yinyang family, Qin Dynasty After the demise, the power of Canglong Qisu completely disappeared, and the last two witches of the Yinyang family also lost their traces. The secret of Canglong Qisu was buried in history, and no one mentioned it anymore. Still only those who have inherited the blood of the witches can enter, because no one except natural astrologers can enter the long star road leading to the depths of the Star Palace."

"Why don't you say that the disappearance of Canglong Qisu is related to the Yinyang family..." Miao suddenly raised her head to look at Huai Xu, her eyes were completely dark, no longer the brightness of the past.

Huai Xu raised her eyes and met Miao's gaze, her expression was a little unclear, but suddenly, she smiled knowingly, with some relief in her voice, and said: "You feel it too? It's amazing, I heard that raising me The elder of the Yin-Yang family who grew up mentioned that the descendants of the family who inherited the Xuanniao totem and bloodline have certain innate abilities, and can inherit the memory of one or two ancestors from the bloodline... Unexpectedly, Fuwu did not Showing that talent, I see it now in her daughter."

Miao's heart trembled, knowing that the other party might have misunderstood something, but she still asked calmly, "What exactly are you referring to, the black bird totem and the members of that family?"

Huai Xu was not surprised that Miao would ask, she organized her words, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know what the mysterious bird originally represented? And what does it have to do with the Yin Yang family?"

As if she didn't expect the other party to ask her back, Miao paused and said: "The mysterious bird is a legendary bird. It originally referred to the same bird as the phoenix. There are rumors that the mysterious bird of destiny descended to give birth to Shang. ’, some descendants of the Shang Dynasty seem to have this kind of black bird totem on their bodies, but the black bird on them has three legs..."

"Yes, you really know a lot..." Huai Xu took the words and said softly: "But you only know that these people with the three-legged black bird tattoos are descendants of the Shang Dynasty, but you don't know that these people are actually the descendants of the Shang Dynasty. The descendants of the priestess of the dynasty. The Shang Dynasty paid great attention to sacrifices. Every Shang king was the highest-ranking witch at that time, but the priestesses who presided over the sacrifices were witches with mysterious powers. These witches were born with black bird totems. Intermarried with the Shang royal family and guarded the Shang royal family through blood inheritance. Until King Wu destroyed the Shang and established the Zhou Dynasty, some of these witches were executed, some were kept incognito, and some were married to the Zhou royal family because they did not inherit the black bird totem. The in-laws were established, and the mysterious power of the witches was brought to the Ji family. Since then, two ethnic groups have formed among the descendants of the witches. One is the descendants of the Shang Dynasty with black birds tattooed on their bodies. The other is the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty who broke away from the fate of the witches but inherited the bloodlines of the witches. They are the continuators of the power of the witches. These two groups have represented for a long time Onmyo clan as a whole, the witches of the onmyo clan were also born from them."

Huai Xu's voice was cold, but when he told the stories of that era, he had a strange sense of bewilderment, "Actually, if it's just like this, then these descendants who inherited the mysterious power of the witches really have nothing to do with the Onmyo Family, but then there appeared a A man named Zou Yan, with profound Taoism, gathered these witches who were born with power in their blood, and split the Yin-Yang School on the basis of Taoism. The head of the family. It is a pity that in the pre-Qin period, Qin Shihuang, under the instigation of Xu Fu, an alchemist of the Yinyang family, ordered the construction of a ship named "Mirage", which sailed to the east twice, and finally led to the decline of the Yinyang family. Many masters were lost in the 'Mirage' operation, and the rest avoided Lishan Mountain, and have not been born for hundreds of years..."

"But these are just legends..." Miao frowned, feeling clearly that what happened thousands of years ago must not be as simple as Huai Xu said. Supporting Yingzheng with all her strength, she obviously wanted to achieve a certain purpose through King Qin Yingzheng, but unfortunately, in her memory, her father never mentioned these things, and she didn't know at all.

At this time, Miao realized that she had always regarded herself as a student of the Yin-Yang family, but apart from the many Yin-Yang techniques and classics taught by her father, she didn't know anything about the situation of the Yin-Yang family at that time.

It should be said that her father didn't seem to want her to understand...

Seeing how Miao frowned, Huai Xu's calm eyes showed a hint of deep thought, maybe there was also the exploration of that distant era, she sighed: "As you said, those are indeed just legends, because about that time The sages of the Yin-Yang family did not leave any words about the matter, what happened at that time that led to the decline of the Yin-Yang family, it is estimated that no one will know except the people at that time."

The path leading to the Star Palace in the woods seems to be very short. They talked for a long time and kept walking, and they just reached the gate of the palace at this time.

I saw that the gate of the palace had been opened, and the inside was pitch black, as if a monster was quietly dormant in the darkness, waiting for people to throw themselves into the net.

Huai Xu took Miao's hand and walked up the stone steps in front of the palace, then gently let go of her hand and said: "Let's go, go to the place you should go, don't be afraid, I will wait outside for you to come back. "

Miao nodded, and walked into the palace without hesitation. The moment she stepped into the palace, the boundless darkness suddenly turned into a shining starry sky.

She walked forward slowly without any fear in her heart, not only because of what Huai Xu said just now, but also because of this star road in the Star Palace, which she has walked countless times accompanied by her father, and this seemingly endless The starry sky, at this moment, gave her the long-lost familiarity and sense of security...

Maybe the truth she wants is right here.

The author has something to say:

This chapter makes me want to vomit blood. The setting of the magic horse is based on Qin Shi, history, and my own imagination. It definitely doesn't match Qin Shi's original work, so don't connect it.

The author also wants to make the setting more reliable, but instead of believing that Qin Shi’s big hole will be filled, it’s better to believe that this article will be completed, so, just like that, um, I’ll go quietly o(╯□╰)o