My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 791 Zhenwu Cave and Sanfeng Remains

Wudang Golden Palace.

A major scenic spot on Wudang Mountain.

In the past, the vision of the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Palace was once called a wonder of the world, and it added a bit of mythological color to this bronze palace.

Unfortunately, after some experts conducted research on it, the vision of the Thunderfire Alchemy Palace has completely disappeared, and it is unknown whether anyone in the world has seen it again.

Jiang Xinghuo had been here for tourism before, and because of his job, he was quite interested in the Wudang Golden Palace.

According to historical records, it was built in the 14th year of the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the strange vision of the Thunder and Fire Alchemy Hall, there are two other wonders: "the ancestor sweating" and "the seahorse spitting fog".

It was a massive project launched by Emperor Yongle in order to publicize his ascension to the throne. He said that he was able to successfully lead an army from the north to the south to quell the rebellion because he was blessed by the Great Emperor Xuantian Zhenwu in the north.

The power of kings is granted by God, and the power of God is granted by kings.

This kind of behavior of using the names of immortals and Buddhas to justify one's own reputation is not uncommon in history books.

Every emperor who has accomplished great things has such a legend behind him.

Emperor Yongle was relatively reserved.

However, according to some unofficial histories, essays and legends, there is another theory about the origin of the Wudang Golden Palace. It is said that Zhang Sanfeng, a sloppy immortal in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, personally carried the Wudang Golden Palace down the mountain to Tianzhu Peak and placed it on the top of the mountain.

Of course, these are just some records circulating in religious unofficial history. Whether they are true or false depends entirely on whether you believe them or not.

But after coming into contact with the secular world, Jiang Xinghuo felt that such things might not necessarily be false. The title of Zhenwu Emperor was most likely spread by Zhenwu’s disciples after he came to Earth.

Let’s talk about Zhang Sanfeng, the sloppy Taoist priest. Looking at the hundreds of years of Wudang history, this sloppy Taoist priest may be the most famous one.

This is all thanks to various novelists, who described Zhang Sanfeng as a hermit. It can be said that as long as Zhang Sanfeng appears in a novel, he must be the ceiling-level character of this work.

Moreover, according to historical records of Wudang Mountain, Zhang Sanfeng's life was also quite legendary, especially the time when he stayed overnight at Wudang and was taught boxing by an immortal, and the next day he killed hundreds of bandits and became a great master of internal martial arts.

This method of immortals teaching skills in dreams is very similar to that in the secular world, the only difference is that one is through games and the other is through dreams.

Perhaps, in ancient times, there were people on Earth who entered the secular world through dreams and achieved the same goals as modern players.

Jiang Xinghuo was standing outside the Wudang Golden Palace, his mind full of thoughts, when suddenly someone came over and interrupted his thoughts.

"Mr. Jiang?"

A man in a Poll Bureau uniform came over and asked.

"good."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded. Only then did he realize that the entire Tianzhu Peak had been blocked by the Public Opinion Bureau, and a cordon was set up outside the Golden Palace.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang. I am Tian Yue, a member of the Public Opinion Survey Team. Yesterday afternoon, I received a message from the director inside, saying that you will be teleported here today via the star track. If you come, let me take you to the cave entrance in the main hall. As for whether you want to go in, it is up to you to decide."

The man from the Poll Bureau named Tian Yue let out a sigh of relief, as if he had been worried about whether Jiang Xinghuo would come over.

After hearing what he said, Jiang Xinghuo did not make a decision in a hurry, but planned to find out first where Zhou Hui and Chen Yuanchao had gone.
Who left the secret cave in the hall?
Master Zhenwu?
Or other powerful people in the secular world?
If it is the secret cave left by Master Zhenwu, Jiang Xinghuo really has to go in.

He originally received a gift package left by Master Zhenwu from Yun Fo of Guanglu Temple. It contained not only the map of the cave heaven left by Master Zhenwu, but also the Zhenwu sword which could guide the holder to find the specific location of the cave heaven.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo learned the whole story from the man named Tian Yue.

Two months ago, a staff member of the Binhai Public Opinion Survey Bureau accompanied his family to Wudang for a trip during his vacation. When he arrived outside the Golden Temple, he heard a loud noise coming from inside the temple.

The staff member immediately revealed his official identity, entered the Golden Palace, and discovered the entrance to the cave hidden behind the statue of Zhenwu. He immediately blocked the place and notified the public opinion polling bureau where he was located.

In theory, this matter does not fall under the jurisdiction of Binhai's Public Opinion Survey Bureau. Hubei has its own Public Opinion Survey Bureau to handle related matters.

However, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one. Since the people from the Binhai Public Opinion Survey Bureau discovered this place first, the director Chen Yuanchao directly contacted the headquarters of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau and took control of this exploration mission into his own hands.

This also caused some tension in the relationship with the Public Opinion Survey Bureau in Hubei Province, but with the orders and procedures from the headquarters, there was no fallout, except for some resentment in their hearts.

Later, Chen Yuanchao personally led the team into the cave inside the Golden Palace. As a result, there was no news from that time on. Only occasionally information came from inside, but it was impossible to establish long-term contact. The people guarding outside did not dare to rush in rashly. Apart from making sure that the people who went in were not in danger of life, they knew nothing else.

After listening to Tian Yue's story, Jiang Xinghuo also had a preliminary understanding. Then he opened the void drawer and found the Zhenwu Sword he got from Yun Fo.

As soon as the sword was unsheathed, a buzzing sound was heard, and it spun and danced like a dragon's roar, and finally turned into a cold and sharp sword light, suddenly rushing into the golden palace.

Then, everyone present heard a scream, and everyone was shocked.

Tian Yue originally thought that Jiang Xinghuo controlled the Zhenwu Sword to fly into the hall in order to show off his abilities in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, after the sword light flew into the hall, a shrill scream was heard.

This sudden scene caught Jiang Xinghuo off guard. He had not expected such a situation to occur. He pinched his sword formula and activated his newly deduced sword skills. The Zhenwu sword that had flown into the hall flew out with a head in its hand.

It can be clearly seen that the head is hideous and ferocious, with scales all over the face, and it is obviously not a human.

Tian Yue and several of his colleagues looked at each other, secretly rejoicing in their hearts that they had lived here for so long and had not noticed that there was a demon hiding in the temple. If the other party had attacked them in secret, they would have been hard to escape, and even if they did not die, they would have been skinned alive.

However, the sensation transmitted back by the Zhenwu Sword also proved Jiang Xinghuo's previous guess that the secret cave hidden in the Wudang Golden Palace was the cave space left behind by Master Zhenwu earlier.

Otherwise, the Zhenwu Sword will not automatically unsheath and kill the enemy.

"Brother Tian, ​​please take me in to see the entrance to the secret realm." Jiang Xinghuo turned and looked at Tian Yue.

"it is good."

Tian Yue hurriedly took Jiang Xinghuo into the hall, and at the same time waved to several colleagues behind him, indicating that they should go in together.

After several people entered the Golden Temple, they found a headless corpse in the open space behind the statue of Zhenwu. Several staff members from the Public Opinion Survey Bureau immediately stepped forward and quickly collected the corpse.

Jiang Xinghuo also saw the entrance to the secret realm on the wall behind him. A dark blue vortex was embedded in the wall, slowly rotating, like a time tunnel, and it was unknown where it led to.

"Brother Tian, ​​please stay outside as usual. I will go in to find Director Chen and the others. If there is any news, I will pass it on through the puppet."

As he spoke, Jiang Xinghuo took out a few peach wood puppets from the void drawer, placed them on both sides of the entrance to the secret realm, and pasted a sound transmission talisman on them.

Tian Yue nodded and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Jiang, I will ensure that these puppets will not be destroyed by external forces, but the situation inside is a bit strange. The director also left a voice transmission puppet before entering, but it was automatically destroyed not long after."

Listening to Tian Yue's words, Jiang Xinghuo nodded and said, "I understand. If the puppet fails, I will find a way to pass the message through other channels."

"Okay, then be careful."

Tian Yue handed Jiang Xinghuo another backpack and said, "These are medicines for restoring physical strength and treating injuries. There are also some portable trigger props that may come in handy."

Jiang Xinghuo did not refuse. He took the backpack and put it into the void drawer. Then he jumped and entered the entrance to the secret realm on the wall.

The moment he entered the vortex, Jiang Xinghuo felt a strong sense of weightlessness. His whole body was spinning, as if he had entered a long slide. On the way down, he could vaguely see the scenery outside, which was like layers of pavilions and towers, randomly distributed from top to bottom in uneven directions. Human figures could also be seen flashing among them. Although they were not people he knew, the clothes on those people were the standard uniforms of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau.

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly realized that all the people from the Public Opinion Survey Bureau were trapped in different places.

I don't know where I will be thrown.

While Jiang Xinghuo was daydreaming, he remembered the map of Zhenwu Cave Heaven that he had put on his body in advance, so he immediately took it out from his arms. At the moment he took out the map, a vortex suddenly appeared around him, and a huge pulling force fell on him, and he was pulled out of the vortex without being able to make any effective resistance.

A dusty and rotten smell immediately rushed into his nose. Jiang Xinghuo took a breath and couldn't help coughing. He quickly circulated the lungs to expel the dust he had inhaled.

Only then did he have time to look around the space in front of him. It was a square stone chamber with tight fits on all sides, as if a huge rock had been hollowed out and thrown here. There was no trace of human construction at all.

Moreover, the stone walls surrounding this secret room were still glowing faintly. Although it was not very bright, it was enough for him to see the surrounding scenery clearly.

Jiang Xinghuo's heart trembled, and he immediately summoned his nuclear clone. As everyone knows, the brighter something is, the higher its radiation is, so it is better to be careful.

The nuclear clone itself is a humanoid nuclear bomb, so there is no need to worry about nuclear radiation contamination. However, to Jiang Xinghuo's surprise, those glowing stones are just ordinary stone walls. The reason they glow is because something is engraved on them, so they are shining.

Jiang Xinghuo walked closer and found that what was carved on the wall was actually a series of human-shaped patterns. They looked like they were boxing, but also seemed to be practicing some magic.

There were a few seal characters on the top. Jiang Xinghuo identified them carefully and his expression changed slightly.

"Fire Dragon Immortal Daowu Diagram?"

Fire Dragon Master?

Which Fire Dragon Master?

Zhang Sanfeng’s master?

Jiang Xinghuo had some knowledge of Taoist allusions. There were historical records of two Taoists who used the fire dragon as their symbol.

One is Zheng Yin, Zheng Siyuan, who is a disciple of Ge Xuan, Ge Xianweng. It is said that Lu Zu's Tiandun sword technique is the magical power taught by Zheng Huolong, which also earned Lu Zu the reputation of being the ancestor of swordsmanship in the world.

Another one is Jia Desheng, also known as Jia Huolong, who was a disciple of Master Chen Tuan. Later, he passed on what he had learned to Zhang Sanfeng and became Zhang Sanfeng's mentor.

The Taoist and martial arts diagram of Fire Dragon Immortal engraved on the stone wall is most likely the inheritance left by Jia Huolong.

After all, this is inside the Golden Palace of Wudang Mountain, and the possibility of Jia Huolong being there is much greater than that of Zheng Huolong.

Jiang Xinghuo looked around the secret room and saw four methods engraved on the four walls. They had no specific names, but they were the Taoist and Martial Arts Diagrams of Fire Dragon Immortal.

Then, Jiang Xinghuo began to imitate the pattern engraved on the stone wall. After doing it twice in a row, he felt a warm current surging in his dantian, and then spreading to his limbs and bones. Although it did not have much effect on Jiang Xinghuo now, if an ordinary person practiced according to the pattern on the wall, he could at least prolong his life, not to mention turning himself into a little superman.

Just after Jiang Xinghuo had performed this move nine times in a row, he suddenly had an idea and stretched his hands forward. A ball of heat surged in his palms, followed by countless silver-white arcs of electricity, which finally turned into a white lightning bolt, blasting a hole in the stone wall in front of him. Coincidentally, the hole was located right on the chest of a human-shaped pattern.

Jiang Xinghuo immediately withdrew his hands and looked at his palms in surprise. He clearly did not activate the thunder magic just now, so how come a ray of lightning formed automatically?
Could it be the thunder method derived from the Daowu diagram?
Jiang Xinghuo looked at his hands, then at the hole in the stone wall, and found that there seemed to be something behind the hole. When he walked closer, he found that there was a secret room behind the stone wall, and a corpse in a Taoist robe was sitting cross-legged there.

Out of curiosity, Jiang Xinghuo unfolded his Nine Deaths Cicada's virtual body, crossed the wall, and entered the secret room.

The size of this secret room was only a dozen square meters, and it was empty all around. There was only a stone platform in the middle of the room. The corpse was sitting on the platform. The tall figure looked like it was asleep. There were a few large characters carved in front of the stone platform.

"The place where Zhang Sanfeng buried his bones and body..."

Jiang Xinghuo took a breath and thought, could this corpse be Zhang Sanfeng?
Zhang Sanfeng's life and death is a mystery in history.

Some say he lived for more than 150 years, some say he lived for more than 200 years, and some say he lived from the Ming Dynasty to the present day.

Could it be that Zhang Sanfeng had already passed away hundreds of years ago?

After all, Zhang Sanfeng's life and death is a mystery, and no one except himself probably knows the truth.

(End of this chapter)