Chapter 144 Blocking the Door

Chapter 144 Blocking the Door

Chapter 144 Blocking the Door
The entrance to the underground is just north of the platform on the top of the mountain. When Mei Zhangjian led Li Wuxiang there, he found that the terrain there was higher. Thinking of "sitting north and facing south", he guessed that when this huge palace was still there, this should be the location of the emperor's throne.

Then this entrance should have been hidden under or behind the throne before.

It's interesting. When the Ye Dynasty was prosperous, Li Ye was not only the ancestor of Taoism in the world, but also the emperor of humanity, and the most accomplished person in the world. Why did he want to build a secret passage under the supreme throne?
When Li Wuxiang followed Mei Zhangjian through the long passage and walked into the underground, the feeling of doubt in his heart became stronger - this space under the platform on the top of the mountain was like a shelter.

When they came down, they were in a round hall, very high, with an arc-shaped dome. The stone bricks on the floor should have been more than 3,000 years old, but it seemed that because the swordsmen were diligent in cleaning, it was still clean and tidy, but it was polished to a brighter luster.

The circular hall was made of stone walls with lights embedded in them. But the lights were not ordinary candles, but more like amber that had been polished into a shape, with whitish balls sealed inside. It was those balls that radiated light, illuminating the place like daylight.

There were some semicircular arches on the walls of the round hall. Li Wuxiang looked at the doors and was about to speak when Mei Zhangjian said, "We don't live here either."

Then he opened one of the doors and walked down with Li Wuxiang. The stone corridor was long and dim. When he was about to reach the end, he saw the faint light coming through, the moist and fresh air, the fragrance of flowers and trees, and it seemed as if he had returned to the ground.

When he reached the end, Li Wuxiang saw a vast space in front of him.

This is actually a cave within a cave - there is another world hidden in the belly of this hillside. The sky above is clear and blue, and the mountains in the distance are lush and green, with clouds and mist lingering in between. The river like a jade belt flows around the mountains and flows into the mist surrounding this world. There are even birds singing - cranes and egrets fly in groups in the clouds...

The atmosphere here was almost exactly the same as the fairy mountain he had imagined.

"This is Taiyi Cave Heaven, a Taoist temple opened up by Taiyi and hidden in Youjiuyuan by Jiang Jie." Mei Zhangjian pointed to a mountain in the east, "That is Jiuzhu Peak, the Taoist temple of our lineage."

Li Wuxiang looked over there. Jiuzhu Peak was located in the east of this cave. It was one of the two highest mountains. It was solitary and steep, like a bamboo shoot rising from the ground among the mountains. Half of the peak was a bare cliff, as if the rocks had been cut off, and the remaining area was covered with lush trees. There was a small stone platform near the top of the mountain, and several corners of the eaves were hidden among the pine trees on the stone platform.

"There are five sects in total now. The other four are over there - Feihong Peak, Hujin Peak, Lingqiao Peak, and Dadong Peak. Sect Leader Jiang is at Dadong Peak. Look, the highest one in the middle is it." She said this and looked at Li Wuxiang. "I was going to take you to our Jiuzhu Dojo just now, but suddenly I remembered something. You go back first and wait for a while before I go over."

Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you on the mountain."

Mei Zhangjian immediately turned around and walked into the woods, while Li Wuxiang walked towards Jiuzhu Peak.

Below the mountains, there is lush green grass. The terrain is generally flat, with some ups and downs, dotted with clumps of trees.

No one knew where the sun came from in this cave, but it was now gradually moving toward the west. There was also a hint of light gold in the sunlight, which illuminated the grass slopes on the ground with dark green and light emerald, which was extremely beautiful.

He walked slowly for a distance, then turned to look in the direction where Mei Zhangjian had just gone, and couldn't help but smile.

If it was two quarters of an hour ago, he would have thought that Mei Zhangjian really had something to do. But after entering You Jiu Yuan, he realized that Mei Zhangjian's temperament was not as calm and indifferent as it seemed. Under this layer of appearance, she actually had some hidden lively thoughts - when digging the grave outside, she deliberately laughed at her own joke, and before jumping into the grave, she didn't say anything, as if she was also teasing herself.

This made Li Wuxiang feel familiar, and he was thinking at this moment that she didn't really have anything to do.

Because when he was walking towards Jiuzhu Peak, he found someone on the platform at the top of the peak.

There are about a hundred people in the Sword Sect. When they came down, Mei Zhangjian said that the swordsmen are usually away all year round, and except for accepting missions from the sect or paying orders, they rarely come back.

Because when coming back, he needs to borrow a little bit of the true spirit of the Netherworld Messenger, and he actually has to travel through the sacred mountain, all of which will leave clues, so there are not many swordsmen in the Netherworld.

But now Li Wuxiang saw at least five or six figures on the platform of Jiuzhu Peak, so there should be even more people there.

Maybe he came to find Mei Zhangjian to call him to account.

Now that he thought about it, it seemed that Mei Zhangjian had been giving himself a shot of prevention these past few days - if it were in another sect, it would be unlikely that someone would find a Nascent Soul that was about to achieve Yang Godhood to hold him accountable.

But this is the Sword Sect, where people call each other brothers and sisters, and judging from the behavior of the few people I've come into contact with, there doesn't seem to be any strong sense of hierarchy. So now, she is most likely planning to ask me to take the blame for her first - what happened in Coffin City is not my fault, but I'm from her lineage, so even if those people are like Jiang Jie did before, and hate everyone in the coffin, they shouldn't make it too difficult for me.

When this incident is over, she will probably feel much more comfortable when she comes back.

But Li Wuxiang had never thought that she would have such thoughts. This made her look more like a living person, rather than a ruthless Yuanying old monster.

Li Wuxiang looked for a way up the mountain, but didn't see any, so he gave up and used his Dan power to climb up. His body was light, and after taking a deep breath, he exerted a little force with his arms and immediately jumped up a few feet. After more than a quarter of an hour, he saw the platform at the top of the mountain.

He jumped up from the dense pine and cypress area on the right and saw the shape of the house on the platform.

It looks like a farmhouse in the mountains. Against the mountain wall are the three main houses in the north, with a wing room on each side. The stone platform on the top of the mountain is the courtyard, and the steep cliffs are the walls.

There were more people than he thought, about thirteen or fourteen men and five or six women, all standing in front of the main house.

They were surrounding a person who was sitting on a bamboo chair in the courtyard. He looked to be about 40 or 50 years old, a little shorter and fatter than Jiang Jie, and had a very kind look. But his expression was not kind at the moment. Instead, he was frowning slightly and closing his eyes, looking like he was resting his mind, or ready to strike. After a while, a young woman came out of the main house. The swordsmen in the courtyard gathered around him, asking in unison, "How are Sword Master Xiao and the other two?"

The woman sighed and shook her head: "Junior Brother Zeng's cultivation is ruined. It's hard to say for Junior Brother Pan. If he takes good care of himself, he can recover. If he doesn't, I'm afraid he won't be able to form a pill in the future."

A swordsman was stunned for a moment, frowned, and looked at the person on the bamboo chair: "Sword Master Cui, now that Plum Sword Master is back, we can't let her do whatever she wants outside. In our lineage, Senior Brother Pan has the best chance of forming a pill in the future, but now he's afraid that he can't form a pill? We shouldn't let him hang out with Senior Brother Zeng... Oh, I don't mean to say anything bad about Senior Brother Zeng, I mean..."

Another swordsman took over, "You don't need to explain, everyone understands. Junior Brother Zeng is great, we all know him. We were just talking about Master Mei - Lou He was introduced to the sect by her. If I remember correctly, the leader was not happy when she wanted to bring Lou He back, right? But Senior Sister Mei was willful and brought him back anyway."

"Now, they bring back a... Alas, I've said long ago that people with artistic talents shouldn't be brought in. People like this are often involved with outsiders, and who knows when they'll get into trouble? Isn't that what happened this time?"

His words made the other people sigh. Another swordsman frowned and said, "In the past, when Mei Zhangjian came back, we would talk to her about these things, but she would leave when she got tired of listening, and we couldn't catch her. This time, the matter has become so big - Master Cui, you must come forward and persuade her. Our Sword Sect has been keeping a low profile for hundreds of years. This is what Master Jiang wanted, but Mei Zhangjian always says strange things. This time, she destroyed the Coffin City. This is going to bring disaster... Master Cui, Master Cui?"

After calling out a few times, Jianzhu Cui, who was sitting on a bamboo chair, let out a sigh and waved his hand, "Junior Sister Mei is too young. She is a natural talent. She became an infant in forty-six years and will soon condense her Yang Spirit in twelve years. Alas, this is a good thing and a bad thing. I want to persuade her, otherwise why would I bring you here? This time, tell her everything you want to say - some of you entered the sect earlier than her, so you should also tell her, this is also for her good."

While these people were frowning and sighing, Li Wuxiang walked behind the crowd.

Then he realized that Mei Zhangjian's situation seemed different from what she had told him outside.

When she was outside, she knew that she was a swordsman and didn't like staying in Youjiuyuan, but she would still go out with the leader as Yin Shen and Yang Shen to play and appreciate the flowers.

At that time, Li Wuxiang felt that even though seniority was not a big deal within the Sword Sect, her cultivation level, which was almost that of a Yang God, should be highly respected, and she should be an important figure.

However, after listening to these people's complaints, Li Wuxiang imagined a situation that was closer to the truth -

The swordsmen of the Sword Sect didn't seem to like the fact that Mei Zhangjian disagreed with the leader, nor did they like many of her actions. Every time she returned to You Jiuyuan, there must be someone who would persuade her, which gradually made her feel very annoyed.

Li Wuxiang had previously thought that she was an old monster in the Nascent Soul stage, but after hearing what Master Cui Jian said... it turned out that compared to her cultivation level, Mei Zhangjian was frighteningly young!
Therefore, another very strange image took shape in his mind——

Mei Zhangjian may not be as calm and indifferent as she looks, in fact, she has a little lively and erratic hidden in her heart. It's just that the two identities of Yuanying and Zhangjian force her to become calm and indifferent... She has to show an open-minded and tolerant attitude, and she doesn't even argue with others.

In fact, she was not very comfortable in her heart, but she had no way to refute it - in the past it was because she was a young minority, and this time, Lou He really caused a big disaster.

Well, no wonder she wanted to come here first to attract fire for her.

But at this time, Li Wuxiang could no longer feel any dissatisfaction with her. Because under such circumstances, she still brought him into the Sword Sect. Before, he felt that she had just met him and told him many things from the bottom of her heart. He was still wondering if she was scheming and had some other intentions.

Now that I think about it… maybe she just felt that she was close to me and could talk to me.

It was really weird that he actually felt that his Nascent Soul master was a bit pitiful!
At this time, another swordsman spoke up, "Sword Master Cui, I heard that Plum Sword Master brought back a new fellow disciple who has reached the Dan stage. Is this true?"

The people around him were stunned for a moment, and someone continued, "When Junior Brother Pan came back, he was still conscious for a while. I heard him say that it was true. The elixir should have been formed in Coffin City."

"So, this is another person who brought his art to the sect? Sigh, with Lou He, hasn't Mei Zhangjian learned her lesson? To be able to reach the level of Golden Core, I wonder how many people and things she is involved with... Mei Zhangjian, ah, she is just afraid that the Xuan Sect will not be able to find You Jiuyuan."

Master Cui coughed and raised his hand: "That's too much."

"Master Cui, you know what I mean, but I don't know which sect you belonged to before. After you have formed a pill and joined a sect, you still have to discard your cultivation and start over. If you have formed a pill and discard your cultivation and start over again, I'm afraid you'll be worse than Lou He... What does Master Mei want? Why does she always come to the sect to pick up people?"

The people around sighed for a while. Li Wuxiang coughed and said, "Hey, I heard that he didn't belong to any sect before, and he started practicing our Sword Sect's skills - didn't you hear what Senior Brother Zeng said?"

The man who spoke looked back, but didn't see Li Wuxiang, so he just frowned and said, "Is that a former outer disciple? How could there be such a thing? An outer disciple who has practiced for dozens or hundreds of years? If he really has such a good aptitude, how could he have been an outer disciple for so long?"

"Not even a few decades, right? I heard that the man that Senior Brother Zeng met at Jinshui near Qingjiang City a few months ago taught him the Sword Sect technique, and it probably took him a month or two to achieve Dan."

The swordsmen around Li Wuxiang turned to look at him: "Who told you that? Is that still a human being?"

Li Wuxiang approached them and whispered, "It seems that he is not a human, but a Qingnang fairy. Have you heard of the Qingnang fairy?"

Several people were stunned, and one of them frowned and thought for a while: "I seem to have heard that there is a kind of skill in our sect that can cultivate this thing. So the Plum Palm Sword is... really, ah, too willful! By the way, how did you know this, Junior Brother?"

Li Wuxiang lowered his voice: "Because it's me!"

(End of this chapter)