Knife splashing

Chapter 373 Goddess, Fuxi Ancient Cave

"The Northern Emperor's Divine Control Method" is extremely powerful, and although it seems somewhat similar to the Divine Communication Technique, they are two completely different methods.

The art of communicating with the gods is a bit like traveling through the Yin, which allows the soul to temporarily leave the body and see some scenes that living people cannot see.

This behavior is dangerous in itself.

It must be protected with a hook and take precautions in advance.

The "Northern Emperor's Method of Controlling Gods" involves forming a thunder seal, borrowing the power of the Northern Yin Emperor Fengdu, and commanding gods and ghosts. It is the orthodox Taoist method.

However, this method also has disadvantages.

First, one must use the altar to amplify one's spiritual thoughts, as if falling into a dream, which makes it less convenient to perform.

The second is that the object that appears after casting the spell is completely uncontrollable.

Most of the small gods and ghosts dare not act rashly in the face of the power of Thunder Seal, but the powerful ones may ignore you or even teach you a lesson.

To put it bluntly, it is like an imperial token. Although it carries the power of the king, whether it can intimidate others depends entirely on your own strength.

Li Yan originally wanted to find some local mountain elves and old ghosts.

But unexpectedly, a tough guy appeared.

Goddess of Han River!

This type of local deity is a unique existence, which is completely different from the land and mountain gods worshipped by humans.

In this world, mountains, rivers, rain, snow, wind, frost, and underground dragon veins all have spirituality and have existed since time immemorial.

A breath from them might be a hundred years, a simple turn of their body might cause the earth to shake and rivers to change course, a single move might cause the wind and clouds to change...

Such as Yunzhongjun, Jiutoufengmai, and the Goddess of Han River.

Mountains are yang and water is yin, so there are many water goddesses in various parts of China. The Han River has the Han River Goddess, the Yangtze River has the Wushan Goddess, the Xiang River has the Xiang Jun, and the Yellow River has the Luoshen...

And their images also change due to people's concepts.

In the Book of Songs, she is a wandering girl, the sweetheart of a woodcutter, beautiful and mysterious...

In the Han Shi Wai Chuan, they are the two laundry women Confucius met by the Han River when he traveled south to the State of Chu. They refused Confucius' gift and were smart and polite...

In the Biographies of Immortals, there are two daughters of Princess Jiang who presented pearls from the Han River. This is regarded as a beautiful story, and the people of Xiangyang still hold the "Chuantian Festival" to worship them every year.

They all seem to be beautiful legends, but this kind of local gods are actually the most difficult to deal with. Their appearances are changeable and their moods are unpredictable.

Just like the Han River, which nourishes the people around it, but a few years ago, a flood still destroyed the city of Xiangyang...

Li Yan was feeling nervous, but the two figures were getting closer and closer.

"whee…"

The girl's playful laughter reached my ears.

Li Yan opened his eyes wide, trying to see the faces of the two goddesses clearly, but he only felt the roaring river around him, the fluttering of colorful clothes, the floating of hair, the swaying of eyes, the jingling of rings and bracelets, which actually sounded like the sound of bells.

Then, the sounds of bells and chimes became louder and louder.

In the distance, several figures appeared on Mt. Xian. There was an old man in Hanfu wearing a tall hat and a black-haired scholar from the Tang and Song dynasties. They seemed to be chanting loudly to the sound of bells and chimes:

"Beside the Han River, the goddess is wandering,
I ride the gentle breeze to let my thoughts run wild, and walk slowly on the water.

Two E's are twined, graceful as swimming dragons.

The beauty is hidden in the beauty, the brilliance shines on the water and makes it shine..."

Outside the altar, the scene was quite different.

Wang Daoxuan and the others stared with their eyes wide open. They could not hear any sound, but saw Li Yan suddenly open his eyes, but his eyes were blurry, his cheeks flushed, and he began to mutter:
"The morning glow reflects on my face, my face is as red as the clouds,
Her green sleeves fluttered lightly, and her cloud-like hair was fluffy and flowing.

The jade pendant rang, and the sound was heard everywhere.
The fragrant wind blows on my face, and all the flowers lose their color and lower their eyebrows..."

Sha Lifei was puzzled. "Brother Yan, why is your smile so lascivious? Taoist Priest, have you ever heard of this poem?"

Wang Daoxuan frowned and shook his head, "I've never heard of it."

"Could it be that he is bewitched?"

"It shouldn't be. The lightning seal is still there and the candlelight is still burning. Don't do anything rash. Wait until Brother Yan wakes up..."

After an incense stick of time, Li Yan's eyesight finally returned to normal. He quickly put away the thunder seal, stopped the altar, and quickly stood up.

"Brother Yan, how is it?"

Sharifei hurried forward to ask.

Li Yan looked at Xian Mountain in the distance and said in a deep voice: "I'm lucky. I saw something. There is indeed a secret hole in the mountain, and there is more than one exit."

"Let's find a chance to get in and save people..."

Sharifei asked curiously, "What poem did you just recite?"

"I... forgot about that."

"Why do you look like you're in love?"

"You saw it wrong!"

Li Yan looked a little unnatural, and quickly changed the subject, saying, "We need to start separately. The secret passage in Xianshan is not easy to pass. Uncle Sha, you and Daoist Wang should take a boat immediately, join the navy of the garrison, and ambush at a place upstream."

"Give me a signal torch, and have Captain Zhou and his men get ready. When they see the signal, fire the artillery at the direction I marked. That's where the demons will retreat..."

As he spoke, he took out a map from his bag, marked it simply with a charcoal pencil, and handed it to Wang Daoxuan.

"Brother Lu San and Wu Ba, follow me. There is no time to lose, let's act immediately!"

At the command, everyone immediately divided up.

Wang Daoxuan and Sha Lifei, carrying most of the useless luggage and the injured falcon, went to the shore to take a boat.

The passage has been closed and the river is temporarily safe.

Li Yan and Lu San took out some necessary magic tools and objects, headed towards the mountain, and soon disappeared into the dense forest...

…………

Half an hour later, Li Yan brought Lu San and Wu Ba to a ravine, which was surrounded by dense forests and rising fog.

"Here we are, right here!"

Li Yan's face was solemn. "Be careful. The earth veins here are disordered and shrouded in mist. Sun Jian, the fierce tiger of Jiangdong, was ambushed here and shot to death."

"During the turmoil at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the confrontation between the North and the South in the previous dynasty, soldiers and civilians mistakenly entered the place, or their souls were trapped, or their bodies changed and attacked in the fog. Over the years, it has become a dangerous place."

"There is a cliff under the valley. Wu Ba and I will guard it, and Brother Lu will knock on it with stones. If you hear the sound of bells and chimes, that is where the secret passage is..."

At this point, even Lu San became curious, "Brother Yan, how do you know so much?"

Li Yan looked around with a complicated expression, "A breath of mountains and rivers is a hundred years of the mortal world. I just saw the changes of Xian Mountain over thousands of years, just like the flow of time, but I watched coldly."

"It is indeed mysterious. Which god gave this revelation?"

"This is a secret that cannot be told..."

Seeing that Li Yan didn't want to talk, Lu San stopped asking questions, pulled out the bone flower from his waist, and followed Li Yan down the hillside.

There is indeed something strange about this valley.

The closer you get to the bottom of the valley, the thicker the fog becomes. Once you enter the forest in the valley, you're surrounded by thick fog and can only see what's within ten meters.

Both the little white fox and the rat Rat Two began to get restless, with their hair standing on end.

Even Lu San frowned, "My detection ability is being suppressed. Is this... a formation?"

"Ah."

Li Yan also drew out his Dust-Breaking Knife, looked around and said in a deep voice: "In Xian Mountain, there is a cave excavated by the ancient Fuxi clan."

"I saw a blurry figure of an old man with white hair. He might be the immortal Chisongzi. He set up some restrictions in the mountains and hid the Fuxi Ancient Cave..."

"Do you remember that Tian Wei said that it was the great sorcerer Xing Hepu who first discovered the Wang Chan sutra forest in Yunmeng Lake?"

"Mr. Tian's son? I think he mentioned this..."

"To be honest, according to the clues Liu Gang got, Xing Hepu is not only good at divination, but also a living ghost messenger, and he has insight into many mysteries of the world. I suspect that he learned about it from the Sutra Forest of Patriarch Wang Chan." "In the previous illusion, I saw a group of people controlling the Yangtze River monster, and hundreds of giant turtles carrying steles, entering the mountain from the entrance I found before. It should be that Xing Hepu hid the steles here..."

As they were talking, the three of them had already entered the depths of the dense forest.

The fog around was getting thicker and thicker. The ground was piled with dead branches and leaves, and after being soaked by rain and mountain torrents, it had completely turned into a muddy ground.

There are also many potholes that are filled with mud and buried by leaves, turning into sinkholes. Once you step on them, you will be sucked in.

Their progress became difficult, but fortunately their magical powers could still detect the scene within ten meters, allowing them to easily avoid the pits.

After walking a few more steps, Li Yan's Duanchen Sword suddenly turned, and with a "puff" sound, it stabbed into the ground.

"Roar-!"

A roar was heard, and black claws covered in mud emerged from the ground, but as Li Yan turned the blade, they collapsed to the ground again.

The two of them didn't even look at it and continued walking forward.

That was a walking corpse. It should be a hunter or mountaineer who died here recently. He was still breathing a curse and resurrected when he encountered a living person.

Afterwards, some shadows appeared in the fog. Some looked like soldiers, and some were hunters and civilians. They were floating like black fog and making whimpering sounds.

Wu Ba's hair stood on end and he looked around.

"Leave them alone!"

Li Yan snorted coldly and continued forward with the two of them.

It was already noon, but the light was still dim in the dense forest in the valley, with a creepy chill.

Finally, they saw a mountain wall, but the three of them stopped at the same time, their faces solemn, and their weapons clenched.

There was a muddy ground ahead, with densely packed rotten weapons sticking out from the dead branches and leaves, and quite a few naked corpses.

A tattered flag hung from a tree.

The words "Tiansheng" were clearly written on it!
Li Yan narrowed his eyes and whispered, "It seems that not only the master and disciple of the Snake Sect, but also the Tiansheng Sect has been searching in secret."

"How to do?"

"If you can't get around it, just force your way through it!"

Li Yan gritted his teeth, turned his head and looked at Wu Ba, and said in a deep voice: "Don't run around, cooperate with me and protect Lu San, do you understand?"

"Boom! Boom!"

Although Wu Ba could not speak clearly, he understood what he meant and picked up the rough axe in his hand.

His axe may look plain and crudely made, but it is actually a magic weapon of the Goblin tribe that can restrain evil spirits.

"rush!"

Li Yan nodded and went out first with a knife in hand.

"roar~"

Stimulated by the breath of the living, the corpses hidden in the mud suddenly began to twist, and it seemed as if the entire ground was wriggling.

In this situation, no tricks can be used at all.

Zizi!

Li Yan wielded the Dust-Breaking Knife in his right hand, his left fist danced with arcs of electricity, and he chopped with his left hand and hammered with his right hand, smashing all the corpses that blocked his way.

Lu San followed closely behind, waving the bone and smashing around.

At this time, Wu Ba finally showed his powerful fighting ability. He swung his huge axe left and right, chopping everything that approached into pieces.

Like an arrow, they went straight through the zombie army and quickly approached the stone wall.

As soon as he got close, Lu San immediately found a sharp stone and kept knocking on the stone wall.

Da da da!
Unfortunately, it was just the sound of ordinary stones colliding.

Lu San was not discouraged and hammered faster.

Li Yan and Wu Ba protected him behind him, constantly waving their weapons or kicking away the zombies that were rushing towards them.

These things have absorbed evil energy over the years. Although they are not as invulnerable as zombies, their bodies are strong enough.

If the two men had not possessed incredible strength and held magical weapons, they would not have been able to chop it into pieces.

However, this was an entire fallen army, and there were too many of them. If one was smashed, more would come rushing up.

Seeing that the tide of zombies was becoming more and more ferocious, Li Yan no longer cared about hiding his trump card. He suddenly raised his hand and the Soul-Hunting Rope whizzed out.

These things are different from evil spirits, and simply using them to hook souls is not very effective, so Li Yan directly activated the thunder absorbed by the soul-hooking rope.

Crackling!

In an instant, thunder roared.

A six-meter-long lightning snake seemed to appear in Li Yan's hand, twisting wildly with dazzling electric light, clearing the space in front of him in an instant.

When Wu Ba saw this, his eyes were filled with awe.

In this team, he is closest to Lu San, but the one he fears the most is undoubtedly Li Yan. The power of thunder magic has left a deep impression on his heart.

After displaying his divine power, Li Yan immediately put away the soul-catching rope.

This new magical power is indeed powerful, but it also has limitations.

The thunder contained in the Soul-Catching Rope is not endless, but is like a magic weapon that can store thunder and must be replenished after it is released.

With the current strength of the Soul-Hooking Rope, this level of thunder attack can only be released three or four times at most, so it must be kept as a trump card.

"Roar-!"

This horrifying lightning strike caused the tide of corpses to retreat, but after Li Yan put away the soul-catching rope, they rushed forward again.

Ding ding dong dong!

Suddenly, the clear sound of bells and chimes came from behind.

"found it!"

Lu San showed surprise on his face, and immediately followed Li Yan's instructions. He burst out all his hidden energy and exerted force against the stone wall.

Unfortunately, the stone wall did not move at all.

"Wuba, you go!"

Li Yan quickly gave orders and faced the group of corpses alone.

Wu Ba also rushed forward and roared, his muscles knotted up like steel bars twisted together.

Rumble!
With a dull sound, a stone door was slowly pushed open.

"Get in quickly!"

Li Yan pushed the two of them in, and then the three of them worked together to push the stone door closed again, blocking the madly roaring group of zombies outside.

puff!
Li Yan took out the torch again and lit it with a tinder.

The three of them then saw clearly that this huge stone gate was actually in the shape of a bell.

Li Yan shook his head and said, "There are many strange stones in Xian Mountain. In the pre-Qin period, the Chu court often collected them to make bells and chimes, which were important ritual instruments and were called Chuyin."

"This Fuxi Ancient Cave was discovered in the pre-Qin period, but from Chisongzi, Changsangzi, to Xing Hepu, it has always been deliberately hidden."

As he spoke, he turned around and shone the torch.

I saw a mountain path leading straight into the darkness, and the surrounding stone walls showed traces of human excavation.

Lu San asked in confusion: "What is in the Fuxi Ancient Cave?"

Li Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, "I'll know when I find it."

After that, the three of them continued to move forward, and their figures gradually disappeared...

　Second update in the afternoon
　　
　
(End of this chapter)