ninety thousand miles

Chapter 451: Sour and Spicy
Li Chuan flipped through a few pages, and just by glancing at them, he could feel the hard work and expectations put into them. He closed the book, looked at Tang Su and asked, "Did the supervisor say anything else?"

Tang Su said: "The supervisor said that if you encounter a difficult problem in Yashan County, remember to ask the Imperial Observatory for help, and don't try to force yourself to do everything."

"I understand." Li Chuan said.

Tang Su sat for a while and then left.

Li Chuan took Mingheng's notes and returned to the room. He flipped through the pages one by one.

Ming Heng took a completely different path from him. He probably used some method to memorize the patterns in the "Pattern Scripture", then disassembled them and verified them with all things in the world, and finally divided these patterns into nine categories and twelve types. Then he made these patterns into runes and relied on the runes to control the power of all things to fight the enemy.

If Li Chuan could have seen the words in the notes from the beginning, he would probably have taken the same path. But now, he has a deep understanding of the "Wen Jing". After reading the notes, he roughly guessed what the power of all things is.

This power comes from within them. When the Tattoo Scripture chose them, that power already existed in their bodies. The power that Ming Heng used in a different way and accidentally harnessed was that power.

What he lacks now is precisely the method to use this power.

Gong Wuguang probably saw this, so at this point in time, he once again asked someone to deliver the notebook to him.

Li Chuan closed his notes.

After sitting quietly for a while, he looked at the butterfly spirit placed aside again, and some thoughts about controlling the butterfly spirit came to his mind. He looked out the window, recalling the scene when he controlled the butterfly spirit in the temple of the gods and heroes. Countless dots and horizontal lines slowly appeared in his eyes, constantly disassembling and reassembling.

Before I knew it, it was already evening.

Li Chuan suddenly shuddered and came back to his senses. He put away the butterfly spirit and the notebook and walked into the courtyard. The damp and cold wind blew on his face, making him more sober. He rubbed his hands and rubbed his face, intending to go to the county government office in front to find Tang Su and Zou Jingping.

At this time, he heard some friction sounds in the air. He looked up and saw Wen Guying and Yao Shuang appear in front of him one after another.

"How is it going at the nunnery?" Li Chuan asked.

Wen Gu should say: "I discovered something."

Yao Shuang explained in detail. She said: "The nunnery may have been built to suppress the secret space below. The nunnery was built six hundred years ago. The layout of the nunnery is very special, and it is a special formation in itself. We found several stones and half a bamboo scroll of scriptures in it. The stones were specially refined and may have been used when it was first built. The bamboo scrolls may be scriptures, but the handwriting is too blurred to be distinguished..."

She suddenly stopped talking and looked towards the door.

Then there was a knock on the door, and Tang Su's voice: "Dr. Li, are you there? The car is ready."

"Yes." Li Chuan said loudly, "I'll be right out."

Then, Wen Gu responded to Yao Shuang and said, "Let's talk about it after we get there."

After Li Chuan and the other two walked out of the gate, they saw a carriage waiting there. The carriage looked very plain, but the compartment was spacious, and it didn't seem crowded even with five people sitting in it. It was also quite stable when running.

About a quarter of an hour later, they arrived at Chongyan Tower and sat down. After chatting for a while, Wen Guying took the initiative to say, "Senior Sister Yao and I just went to explore the area around the nunnery and found some clues."

He repeated what Yao Shuang had said in the courtyard, and then said, "Six hundred years ago, someone must have discovered this secret realm, so they built a nunnery to suppress it. But who could this person be? His refining method is also unusual. Senior Sister Yao recognized part of it, which may be the method of the demon clan. The scriptures on the bamboo slips are also unusual." "I have checked some records and asked local people," Zou Jingping took over and said, "The first host of the nunnery was a wandering nun. When she came here, there was a plague. She was proficient in pharmacology and saved many people, so after the disaster, the locals built this nunnery for her."

"Local people said that the nuns in this nunnery did know some medical skills. When they were sick and couldn't afford a doctor, they would go to the nunnery to ask for medicine. But over the years, the number of nuns in the nunnery has been decreasing. About five or six years ago, there was only one old nun left, with a five or six-year-old girl by her side."

"But from what the hunter said, there should be more than just those two people in the nunnery."

Tang Su said: "If, if the nunnery is related to the remnants of the demon clan, then why did she suppress the secret realm below? Since Prince Su is colluding with the remnants of the demon clan, then, why did his subordinates destroy the nunnery? Could it be that he let us discover the secret passage?"

Li Chuan listened and felt that the secret place under the nunnery was becoming more and more mysterious. He thought about it while eating. The flavor of Qingtan County is mainly sour and spicy, refreshing and appetizing.

Seeing that no one else was eating much, he tried his best to eat more.

Wen Guying said: "So we decided to enter the secret passage again at noon tomorrow and stay inside for two hours to see if we can find some more clues."

"Have you ever entered the secret passage?" Tang Su asked.

Wen Guying said, "He only walked about ten feet inside and then retreated."

"Is the secret passage newly dug?" Li Chuan raised his head and asked, then swallowed the fish fillet in his mouth.

"Newly dug." Wen Guying said.

"Are there any runes on it?" Li Chuan asked.

"Yes, but it's not what we thought before," Wen Guying replied. He said to Yao Shuang, "Senior Sister Yao, you should explain it to us."

Yao Shuang said, "Okay. The runes that appeared in the secret passage were not engraved on the secret passage, but..." She paused, as if organizing her words. After a moment, she said, "It seems that there is a beast deep in the secret passage, and these runes keep appearing and changing with its breathing."

Zou Jingping said: "The people I sent before did not mention the rune."

Yao Shuang still lowered her head and said, "Maybe the beast hadn't awakened yet at that time. Beast is just a nickname here. It could also be that other terrifying beings are gradually waking up."

"Then the hunter must be in danger?" asked Zou Jingping.

Wen Guying said: "We can't draw this conclusion yet."

Tang Su said, "Since you have decided to investigate the nunnery first, I will try my best to restrain the behavior of these demon hunters."

"You can ask them to explore around Sibing Cave and Huaian Mountain, but there is no need to go deep." Wen Guying said.

"I understand." Tang Su said, "I'll make arrangements."

(End of this chapter)