Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 344 Tracking
Zhou Minggeng and Li Mingbai didn't know that there were two eyes staring at them in the small valley several miles away.After paying homage to the patriarch, they packed up their things, searched around, and left quietly.

But before leaving, they found a few inconspicuous corners, stuffed something into it, and then turned and left.

As soon as they left, Li Lijun sent two little black cranes, carrying four little black paper figurines, to fly from a small ravine to the hillside where they had been. I took a peek near the place where the things were buried, then found a more inconspicuous place not far away, and hid it by myself.

Li Lijun is no stranger to the things hidden by the two disciples of the Shangqing. They are just a few small paper figurines, which are just cut out of yellow paper with runes painted on them, which have the function of monitoring.Are those two people planning to use this method to monitor the hillside under Bald Mountain, so as to find out the time and frequency of the patrolling disciples of Zhenxian Temple to visit this place?
What a coincidence, does the Shangqing School also have this habit?Li Lijun also learned how to use the little paper man and the little paper crane from the teachers of Xingyun Xianzong, but she didn't know who passed down this method in the first place.Does this really have nothing to do with Li Xianguan?

Li Lijun kept four little blacks, but took back two little black cranes.She did this not only to observe the movements of the little paper figurines of the Shangqing faction, but also to know how often Li Wenqi would come to Bald Mountain?He's around... is he really hiding something?
He took his biological mother Xiao Yang away from the Sui Palace last year, where did he take it?The True Immortal Temple is located in the Qinling Mountains, and although there are a large number of practitioners in the Qinling Mountains, it is not without mortal villages. It would not be surprising if Li Wenqi placed his biological mother in such a place, but Xiao Yang could bear the hard life in the mountain village ?That time she followed Li Wenqi to the comprehension bazaar, dressed like a noble lady in Chang'an city, this is not the style that can live peacefully in a small mountain village for mortals.Those mortals who don't know the inside story see her like this, how can there be no reason not to discuss it?
Li Lijun originally thought that Li Wenqi would place her biological mother in a place where the disciples' families of Zhenxian Temple lived together. It is impossible for her to find someone right now, so she needs to plan in the long run.But if he actually arranged for his biological mother to live in a place he thought was safer, such as an unknown residence near Bald Mountain... then it would be much easier for her to find her.

She doesn't have to kill the enemy immediately, but she needs to know where the other party is, and one day in the future, when she feels that she can take revenge, she can do it at any time.

Li Lijun jumped out of the small ravine and looked around, feeling a little regretful.Because of the icy air that radiates from Bald Mountain, the surrounding area can be said to be barren of grass, not even a single plant that can grow seedlings. Otherwise, she could use the cover of the plants to get some incense here. Well, the next time Li Wenqi came over, once he was tainted by the fragrance, his whereabouts would no longer be a secret.

When he came over last night, he was not wearing the Taoist robe he wore when he went to the Sui Palace last time.The fragrance on that Taoist robe must have dissipated almost, right?Anyway, she didn't see the traces of the incense left in the air anymore. Maybe Li Wenqi wore that Taoist robe to the mourning hall once, and thought it was bad luck afterwards, so he didn't wear it again.Anyway, their disciples of the True Immortal Temple often wear uniforms on weekdays, and they change into the same style, so others can't tell.

Li Lijun retracted into the small ravine, holding the target mirror in his hand, sitting cross-legged by himself, and slowly practicing with the help of the aura around him.

In the middle of the night, a man wearing a Taoist robe of the Taoist Temple came over.Li Lijun recognized him as Li Wenqi, but his behavior today seemed a bit sneaky, flying all the way, looking back and forth, left and right.He came to the hillside where the Shangqing people had stayed and stayed for a while. He looked around and saw nothing unusual. He flew around the mountain again and found nothing. He put on a black cloak and headed east. face away.

Li Lijun stared at the direction in which he was leaving, but did not move. After half an hour, he saw him come back again, looked around again, took off his cloak, and left.

When it was about to dawn, two Qi-refining cultivators passed by on the outskirts of Bald Mountain. They were far away and began to detour, as if they knew that the mountain was very cold, so they deliberately avoided it.

At dawn, Li Lijun practiced facing the rising sun for a while, and then hid in the small ravine again.For the next whole day, she hardly saw any practitioners passing by here, only the ice and snow on the top of Bald Mountain reflected the sunlight, emitting a silvery white light, cold and dazzling.

When the sun was about to set to the west, Li Lijun set off, changed his cassock into a yellow-green camouflage appearance, and walked towards the east quietly using the escape method.

She found that in the numerous ravines a few miles to the east of Bald Mountain, there were several villages of different sizes scattered, basically they were pure mortal settlements, with little contact with the outside world for many years.However, amidst the numerous ravines, occasionally small isolated manors would be encountered, and faint auras would also emanate from the nearby higher peaks, perhaps there were caves of cultivators among them.

Li Lijun didn't know where Li Wenqi went before wearing a black cloak and covering his body with the Daoist robes made by the Taoist Temple of the Immortals.But judging from his footsteps, his destination should be nearby, otherwise he would not be able to complete the round trip within half an hour, and there might be stops in the middle.However, if Xiao Yang's hiding place is one of these small manors or caves, then she will have to spend a lot of effort to find out the specific place, and at the same time, she must avoid making mistakes.

After thinking about it, Li Lijun found a mountain nearby that didn't have any aura and didn't look too steep. He found a convenient place to observe from the mountain, and placed several little black cranes there, with their heads pointing at different places. Orientation, just convenient to observe all the villages, estates and peaks.

When Li Wenqi came over again, he might be "seen" by one of these little black cranes.Then when she comes to look for someone next time, she won't have any clues.

Li Lijun took advantage of the night to rush back to Guangshan, but she didn't return to the small valley where she was hiding immediately. Instead, she picked up Hanhai's lantern again, and turned down the Chiyang fire in the center of the lamp, which was only enough to cover her figure , then walked step by step towards the higher position of Bald Mountain.

She had observed during the day that this road might be difficult to walk, but there shouldn't be any dangerous terrain traps on the road, and she could avoid the little paper figurines left by the Shangqing faction.Using the upward escape method, she should be able to climb to a higher hillside in a relatively short period of time to bathe in the moonlight.

Tonight is the night of the full moon, she has no time to go back to Ziyun mountain house, that small ravine is not a good place for cultivation.Since the ice-cold aura is abundant on Bald Mountain, why doesn't she take advantage of the full moon in the sky to cultivate here?Perhaps, practicing Yue Jue in such an environment, her benefits will be even greater.

It's still early now, the moon has just risen, even if Li Wenqi has to come here every day to inspect, it will be later.As for the Shangqing people, they may not come again, even if they come, it is not a bad thing.

When necessary, Li Lijun can pretend to meet them by chance, first meet by chance, slowly make friends, and when they get to know each other well, ask them about Shangqing's past.

For example, how did the ancestor Yuanying of the Shangqing sect with a very high cultivation level reach this level?Did he really die at the hands of the Almighty?

I believe that the young disciples of the Shangqing Sect will definitely refute her angrily and clarify all kinds of false rumors about his patriarch.

(End of this chapter)