Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 230: Deer Horn Mountain
After flying for a night and a day, Pan Chengqiu woke up in the early morning, ate the remaining naan, clapped his hands, and looked down.

The red soil of Lianxi Mountain stretches out, and below it is the confluence of several rivers. The water in the rivers has dried up, but the river channels are still deeply engraved on the ground, as if a god had written the word "sky" with iron and silver handwriting.

This is Uzukawa.

To the west of Wochuan, there are tall rocks standing on the undulating mountains, shaped like deer antlers. That is Lujiao Mountain.

"Marquis Chengye is right over there!" Pan Chengqiu raised his head and shouted.

In fact, without Pan Chengqiu's guidance, Gu Jingnian could already vaguely sense the yellow tiger after flying here.

He circled in the air for a while, found the place where he had the strongest sense of the yellow tiger, and slowly descended.

However, when I looked around, I only saw tall stone forests all around, and no mountain villa at all.

As for the ground under my feet, it was solid rock, and there didn't seem to be a road leading to the underground palace.

He then turned to Pan Chengqiu and asked, "Where is the villa?"

Pan Chengqiu scratched his head and said, "I don't know this place either. Marquis Chengye has to take me to the main gate."

"Where is the door?"

"The main entrance is naturally on the south side."

There was actually no gate on the south side, but at least Pan Chengqiu knew the way.

Although he was fat, he walked quite fast. After walking around in the mountains for many times, he finally said, "We're here. This is it."

The stone forest ahead did look like a door, but it didn’t quite look like one.

"You need a key."

Pan Chengqiu murmured, turned his head to look around, walked to the stone forest, raised his head and looked upward, making a "chi chi" sound with his mouth.

After a while, a little monkey poked its head out from the rock, holding a long stone bar in its hand.

"Marquis Chengye, don't grab it." Pan Chengqiu reminded immediately, "Once you grab it, you will never be able to get in again."

"How about that?"

"Look at me making secret signals with it."

Pan Chengqiu was very confident and began to talk to the monkey in a "chi chirping" manner.

The little monkey just looked at him coldly, touching his head from time to time and grinning to show his dissatisfaction with Pan Chengqiu.

"Chi, chi, chi, chi... isn't that right?"

"Just tell me, who are you looking for?!" The little monkey finally lost his patience and kicked a stone to hit the fat man.

"Ah! Can you, a monkey, speak human language?"

"You are the monkey, I am Ju Fu." The little monkey said angrily, "Tell me, what do you want?!"

"I am Pan Chengqiu, a general under Lord Qu, and I have come to report to Lord Qu."

"Pan Chengqiu? Qu's father has told me to do so. Come in."

The little monkey threw the stone in his hand and quickly disappeared into the stone forest.

"There are always extraordinary people under Lord Qu's command, hahaha." Pan Chengqiu smiled awkwardly at Gu Jingnian, picked up the stone bar, embedded it somewhere in the stone forest, and said, "Let's go."

"Obsidian?"

"Yes."

Only then did Gu Jingnian realize that what Pan Chengqiu had just said was "you need a obsidian" instead of "you need a key."

This thing looks magical and can teleport people to other places, but the distance is usually no more than ten miles. It can be placed in the city to hide from people's eyes and ears. In this desolate mountain, it must have moved underground.

After passing through the stone gate, the scene in front of me suddenly changed, and it turned out to be an underground passage.

Gu Jingnian could strongly sense that Huang Hu was here.

"Master?!"

There were even faint shouting sounds coming through the thick stone walls.

Gu Jingnian quickened his pace and walked through the underground passage with Pan Chengqiu. There was another door in front of them.

However, the moment I opened the door, the light in front of me suddenly became bright.

Gu Jingnian's sense of Huang Hu quickly disappeared. He looked up and saw a clear blue sky above him and a bright courtyard here.

When I turned around, the door behind me was closed.

The wind blew through the sparse grass and trees, and it was still a bit hot. There was still some dry red soil under the flower bed, which showed that this place should be not far from Lianxi Mountain, but not on Lujiao Mountain.

Several guards stood outside the lobby, looking at Pan Chengqiu.

"Where is the Great Emperor?"

"He came from the other side..."

Pan Chengqiu answered subconsciously, but halfway through his answer, he remembered that Yin Kuo might still be in the cave, and he couldn't help but look at Gu Jingnian.

"Marquis Chengye, where is the retired emperor?" Gu Jingnian spread his hands casually, probably not knowing or not caring.

Pan Chengqiu then asked, "Is Qu Gong here?"

"come in."

What surprised Gu Jingnian was that he was brought into the lobby and in front of everyone in such a simple way.

Everyone was there: Shen Jichi, Ren Shuangfei, Long Minzhi, Qu Jizhi... and Zhao Boheng, who was lying on a stretcher.

Shen Jichi is taking Zhao Boheng's pulse.

Qu Jizhi spoke first, "Pan Chengqiu, where have you been?"

"Replying to Lord Qu, the Emperor asked me to bring him to find you, so we went to the underground palace. Then, Marquis Chengye asked me to bring him back to find you, so I..."

"They speak, and you listen?"

"Yes." Pan Chengqiu didn't know what he did wrong, so he answered carefully: "Mr. Qu is not here, so I will listen to the emperor and the marquis...Isn't that right?"

Qu Jizhi waved his hand, asked Pan Chengqiu to step aside, and looked at Gu Jingnian.

Gu Jingnian was also looking at everyone.

No one knew how Ren Shuangfei escaped here. He looked seriously injured and pale. He leaned weakly on a chair with his eyes closed. When he noticed Gu Jingnian's gaze, he opened his eyes and quickly closed them again.

Long Minzhi looked indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with her and she was not concerned about anything. However, Gu Jingnian knew that she was clearly deeply involved in everything. It was just because Shen Jichi was present that she was temporarily only playing an assisting and supervisory role.

Shen Jichi let go of Zhao Boheng's arm, looked up at Gu Jingnian, smiled slightly, and his expression was as if he had just met the son of an old friend by chance on an ordinary afternoon, it was no big deal.

"You and Zhao Boheng saw the memory of Longxushui together. How about telling us about it?"

Gu Jingnian asked: "What do you want to know?"

Shen Jichi asked: "Where is the entrance to the world?"

Gu Jingnian looked at Zhao Boheng, who was lying on the ground with his eyes closed, and asked, "Didn't he tell you?"

Shen Jichi smiled but did not answer, as if blaming Gu Jingnian for being less and less obedient to his elders.

He looked at Qu Jizhi and signaled Qu Jizhi to come and question him.

Ren Shuangfei said impatiently: "What if I tell him? Zhao Boheng was still reading Longxushui's memory when he suddenly fainted."

Gu Jingnian said: "Sure enough."

"Do you know what's going on?"

"That's right." Gu Jingnian said, "In Longxushui's memory, there was an old man who saw us and suddenly spoke, drinking to the point of breaking Zhao Boheng's mind."

Upon hearing this, Ren Shuangfei nodded slightly, which showed that he believed what Gu Jingnian said. Perhaps Zhao Boheng described what he saw while watching.

Then, Ren Shuangfei cursed "Damn it" in a low voice, and it was obvious that he was very afraid of the old man. This showed that Zhao Boheng was very focused when he looked at Longxushui's memory until the end, and did not talk about the situation when he entered the world.

"What's specific?"

"What you should worry about is that old man causing trouble for you."

"None of your business." Ren Shuangfei said, "I asked you to tell me what you saw."

Gu Jingnian asked, "Where are my people?"

Ren Shuangfei then turned to Long Minzhi and said, "Show him."

He acted as if he was the boss here.

Anyway, Long Minzhi really ordered that all the people Gu Jingnian wanted be brought here.

Everyone was there, including Feng Niang, Miao Chun Niang, Lao Hei, Gao Changgan and other followers.

But the strange thing was that Lu Anran was held in Qin'er's arms, being held steadily by three hands.

Seeing this, Gu Jingnian felt something was wrong and frowned slightly.

He had long known that there were spies among the people around him. For example, Qin'er and Luoxia might always be hostile to him; Feng Niang or the money-loser might still be controlled by the caged people; Miao Chunniang might very well tip off Zhao Boheng.

What’s funny is that Zhao Boheng had just told him not long ago that he and the Swiss emperor were lifelong enemies, but now he turned around and cooperated with the Swiss country.

"You're finally here." When Feng Niang saw Gu Jingnian, she immediately ran forward, took his arm, turned around and pointed at Miao Chunniang, saying, "She betrayed us."

"what happened?"

"We were hiding in the agreed place." Feng Niang said, "She insisted on carrying An Ran out, and then we were caught."

Miao Chunniang said, "No, listen to my explanation. It was clearly her who tipped off the prisoners. When the caged people arrived, she surrendered without any resistance."

Feng Niang said: "I know there is a huge gap in strength, and I am afraid of hurting the child."

"You never betrayed the caged people from the beginning. You were ordered to hide beside Shiyilang to gather intelligence." As she said this, Miao Chunniang looked at Gu Jingnian with her watery eyes, and said, "Believe me, the Yue people did not betray you."

Feng Niang also raised her head, her eyes bright as water, staring at Gu Jingnian, and asked: "You and I have been through so much, let's make it clear today, do you believe me or her?"

(End of this chapter)