Transcending Heavens: Starting with the Ancient Tomb Sect

Chapter 124 The Ancient Tomb's Declaration (Seeking monthly votes!)

Henan, once the Central Plains.

Within the present-day territory of Mongolia.

The atmosphere changed drastically the moment Yue Que and his entourage rode out of the Song Dynasty and into this place. The internal atmosphere between the two countries was vastly different.

Because it is adjacent to Xiangyang, this place, like Xiangyang in the Song Dynasty, belongs to the front line.

Xiangyang was a strategic military location, while Henan (the Central Plains) served as a base for northern forces.

The war surrounding Xiangyang was a decisive battle between the northern and southern regimes for strategic passage and living space.

Xiangyang is that lock. Whether you break it by force from the outside or by skill from the inside, once you open this lock, the land will be wide open.

Throughout history, wars centered around Xiangyang have been numerous and of considerable scale.

This place is of utmost strategic importance to military strategists.

However, at this moment, the atmosphere in the Central Plains was much more serious and solemn than that in the Song Dynasty, where "Hangzhou was treated as Bianzhou." From Yue Que's perspective, apart from a few people with lofty ideals and a group of Jianghu people from the Quanzhen Sect and the Beggars' Sect who were determined to resist, everyone else in the Song Dynasty felt much more relaxed.

As for the common people, it's not their turn to speak yet.

Even when someone speaks, they are systematically silenced.

This was the attitude of the Song Dynasty.

"Tsk!"

With a sigh, Yue Que stood on a large rock, grabbing a fairly skilled man by the neck and choking him until the man's eyes rolled back. Ignoring the man's pleading expression, Yue Que laughed and said, "How dare you?"

"I think you are a person from the Central Plains, not a Mongol."

"How long has it been? Have you already forgotten even the proper taboos of the martial arts world?"

Yue Que's eyes were full of confusion.

When traveling the martial arts world, one usually pays close attention to four types of people: monks (or Taoist priests), beautiful women, the elderly, and children. Those who can travel alone are no small figures. Especially when these identities are mixed together, that is of utmost importance.

What's more, there was a divine eagle following these people.

Even so, some people, blinded by lust, wanted to capture Yue Que and his group, along with the eagles, in one fell swoop. So, in a moment of impulsiveness, they devised a plan so rudimentary that even Long'er, who had never left the ancient tomb, could see through it.

Who gave them this courage?

Even Genghis Khan dared not give it.

The only explanation is arrogance and fearlessness, comparable only to the civil official families of the Song Dynasty.

"That's enough."

Having already used the Soul Transfer Technique to extract all the secrets, Yue Que had no patience for commentary. With a flick of his wrist, his neck snapped with a crack, and he casually tossed the corpse down.

Snapped!

The body fell, landing on top of the pile of corpses, then rolled twice before settling to one side.

aside.

Junior Sister Gongsun Lü'e was dragging two corpses toward them with her sleeves rolled up, complaining as she did so, "Senior Sister Lu, next time you should use the Xuan Tie Heavy Sword to hit them less hard, these corpses are melting."

"It's sticky when you lift it up."

Gongsun Lü'e, the junior sister, was very dissatisfied.

During this time, Gongsun Lü'e's horizons were broadened considerably. However, even though she was a well-educated and sensible young lady from a prominent family, the Gongsun family was different from ordinary noble families. Therefore, Gongsun Lü'e's knowledge was also different from that of ordinary young ladies from prominent families.

Even though he had lived in seclusion in the Valley of Heartbreak for a long time, he was still worthy of being the descendant of an official.

Snapped!Snapped!

Two more bodies were lost.

Gongsun Lü'e had only one thought: Are all the people in this world outside the Song Dynasty this bold?

On the other side, Hong Lingbo, carrying two swords, was half-squatting on the open ground, interrogating the prisoners using the Soul Transfer Technique, trying to cross-verify their identities.

If you can't find the answer to the question, repeat it three times in a row, and then you'll be done for.

After glancing at Xiaolongnu, who was grooming the new feathers of the Condor Heroes, Yue Que looked at his senior uncle Li Mochou in the distance.

soon.

Li Mochou put down one of the corpses and then strolled over, appearing from a hundred meters away to Yue Que's side as if shrinking the distance between them. Only then did she speak to her junior disciple, saying, "It's strange. Just now, someone knelt down and worshipped me, regarding me as a Bodhisattva."

It should be noted that the current Red Serpent Fairy Li Mochou is still wearing a Taoist robe, but because she lost the fight with her junior sister, she changed into a blue Taoist robe.

You can refrain from mentioning your nickname "Little Green Dragon" and your identity as "sister" in front of outsiders, but you should show it through your clothing and manners.

Therefore, from then on, all the Taoist robes belonging to Fairy Chilian were changed to cyan. Unless she could admit her identity to outsiders one day, the color of her clothes would not change for a while.

"----Um?"

Yue Que was puzzled. To regard a Taoist nun in a Taoist robe as a bodhisattva was such a reversal of the natural order: "So—she's not Han Chinese?"

"Yes." Li Mochou nodded, confirming, "He is a Mongol."

Upon hearing this, Yue Que's expression turned serious, and he asked, "Then what does this Mongol want from my senior uncle?"

"Murder!" Li Mochou's answer was shockingly simple.

Yue Que frowned: "Then what kind of offerings did he give?"

"It wasn't anything, but his life."

When the Crimson Serpent Fairy spoke of this, her expression was extremely strange. Pointing to the corpse lying in the distance, she said, "He just gave it to himself."

They offered their own lives as a sacrifice, called the Taoist priests "Bodhisattvas," and begged them to kill someone.

This sense of contradiction and absurdity gives people more of a shamanistic feeling, and a kind of illusion of a bloody ritual.

Yue Que did not ask the man who he asked the Crimson Serpent Fairy to kill, but waited for his senior sister Hong Lingbo to finish her question.

After summoning Hong Lingbo, Yue Que asked, "Senior Sister, what is the situation you understand?"

Upon hearing Yue Que's question, Hong Lingbo's two sword-like eyebrows furrowed almost completely, forming a knot between her brows. After organizing her thoughts for a while, she finally spoke, "It's strange."

"What do you mean?" Yue Que became interested and wanted to see what Hong Lingbo had discovered.

Under the watchful eyes of his master and junior brother, Hong Lingbo began to recount the information he had received, word by word.

Those people might lie when they are sober, but they are unlikely to lie when they are not sober under the influence of the Soul Transfer Technique.

After cross-referencing and summarizing the information she had gathered, Hong Lingbo felt quite unwell. At least, there was a huge gap and contrast between her impressions and assumptions and the reality at hand.

As the senior sister, Hong Lingbo was the first to experience what her junior brother Yue Que felt when he first entered the Ancient Tomb as soon as she arrived in the Central Plains.

"Junior brother, you said it would be one thing if the Han and Jurchen people were miserable, but why are the Mongols themselves also miserable? They don't seem to be doing much better than the former two."

When Hong Lingbo said this, her face was full of incomprehension. With her shallow understanding of the world, she was certain that Mongolia was currently very powerful, otherwise the great enemy of Song would not have been destroyed so quickly.

After all, he had previously been following his master, Li Mochou, all over the Song Dynasty.

Within the Ancient Tomb Sect, she was one of only three people—along with Li Mochou and Yang Guo—to have witnessed the lives of ordinary people, with Yang Guo experiencing it firsthand.

Under an ambitious and powerful force, at least the Mongols themselves shouldn't be in such a miserable state.

Hong Lingbo originally thought that he would only see his junior brother Yue Que's equal treatment of everyone in the ancient tomb, but he did not expect to see another kind of equal treatment after arriving in the Central Plains.

She originally thought the Han people would be the ones suffering the most, but it turns out that the worst-off people are Han, Mongol, Jurchen, and others—all competing to see who is the most miserable.

At this moment, Gongsun Lü'e, who had piled up the corpses, came over at some point and stood to the side, listening intently.

Yue Que, Li Mochou, and Hong Lingbo exchanged glances but didn't seem to care much. Because of Gongsun Lü'e's habit of subconsciously writing in a diary, Yue Que had jokingly referred to the Ancient Tomb Sect as having brought its own historian during their journey north.

"Ha ha!"

Yue Que listened to his senior sister Hong Lingbo's somewhat ambiguous self-talk and couldn't help but chuckle. For the ancient tomb's treasures to be so incomprehensible, the truth of the matter was clearly absurd to her.

"Senior sister, this is the world!"

Yue Que smiled and patted Hong Lingbo on the shoulder, a gesture that served as a rebuttal to his actions in Xiangyang. He laughed and said, "And this is just the beginning.

The reason why Mongolia still has ambition is because the Song Dynasty has not yet been destroyed.

People at the bottom of society could still see a glimmer of hope through war, risking their lives. But once the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, this path would gradually be blocked.

After a certain period of time, you will see some people leading Han soldiers shouting for the Great Yuan, while others lead a mixed force composed of a considerable number of Mongols and soldiers of other ethnicities, along with the main force of Han soldiers, fighting each other in the Central Plains under the slogan of "Expelling the barbarians and restoring China".

"what?"

Hong Lingbo was stunned. This was only the beginning?

for a long time.

Hong Lingbo suddenly said, "Then do you think Guo Jing and his junior brother Yang Guo could take advantage of this?"

She felt that the father-in-law and son-in-law each had their own strengths, and that this news could perhaps be shared with her junior brother Yang Guo, thus further increasing the stakes for the Ancient Tomb.

"Huh? Yue Que, what's with that look?" As soon as she finished speaking, Hong Lingbo noticed that Yue Que's gaze was filled with a strange feeling of satisfaction, which immediately annoyed her. She said with great dissatisfaction, "I, Hong Lingbo, have studied."

Ever since Yue Que bestowed upon her the title of "Ancient Tomb Treasure" in the ancient tomb, Hong Lingbo has not only developed anxieties about her appearance, but has also devoted herself to studying diligently in secret, with a level of effort no less than that of her junior sister Lu Wushuang, who is eager for revenge.

Especially after her junior sister Gongsun Lü'e joined the sect, while she was teaching her junior sister in place of the sect leader, she also learned a lot of book knowledge from Gongsun Lü'e that she had never known before.

After all, Hong Lingbo had been wandering the world with her master, and what she learned most was martial arts, and what she learned most of the rest were Taoist classics.

The Little Dragon Girl, who had just finished grooming the new feathers of the Divine Condor, suddenly floated over, interrupting Yue Que's actions, and asked, "Que'er, should we go directly to Shaolin Temple, or follow Huo Du's trail, or perhaps wipe out the entire family?"

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Although she had just been busy, Xiaolongnu heard everyone's conversation clearly.

Yue Que didn't answer directly. Instead, he tidied up Xiaolongnu's slightly messy hair at her temples, especially the strand that had strayed to the corner of her mouth, before looking at his senior uncle Li Mochou and asking, "Senior uncle, what do you think?"

"Hmm~"

After a moment of contemplation, Li Mochou made her decision and said, "The Ancient Tomb Sect in the Song Dynasty was named after me and became famous because of me. So let's begin our journey to the Central Plains with that."

"Using the extermination of the entire family to announce the arrival of the ancient tomb."

Upon hearing this, Lu Wushuang, who had just followed, couldn't help but roll her eyes.