Zhang Xiaozu's eyes were blinded by the light shining down, but his subtle state of mind had already extended along the hole, and then he saw his mouth opened wide in shock.
He saw houses and streets.
Every house is made of huge stones. The towering roof ridge is three or four feet high from the ground. The door alone is more than two feet high. There are also tall courtyard walls made of huge stones.
, the height is almost as high as the city wall of Fucheng.
The street is paved with huge flat stones and is not very spacious. Zhang Xiaozhu's subtle state of mind extended for more than two hundred steps after coming out of the cave, but he could only reach from one side of the street to the other.
side.
Zhang Xiaozu was horrified and shocked by the sight he saw. This majestic and majestic building was obviously not a town where normal humans lived, but rather looked like the residence of a tall ancient immortal.
"Are you okay?" Butcher Zhang used the power of the stars to brush Wan Qiuqing's eyes, help her heal the pain in her eyes, and asked with concern.
Being brushed by Zhang Tufu's star power, the pain on Wan Qiuqing's eyes was immediately healed. While wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes and cheeks, he replied: "It's okay, I just got caught off guard and was stabbed by the bright light.
It’s no longer a problem.”
Zhang Xiaozu and the others were not exposed to direct light, and their eyes were much less irritated than Wan Qiuqing's. They brushed their eyes with true energy and quickly adapted to the new light intensity and opened them.
A group of nine people filed out along the opened passage.
When he climbed to the ground and saw the majestic buildings around him, Zhang Xiaopeng, who had already taken a small peek and was somewhat mentally prepared, was deeply shocked again, and the reactions of others were even worse.
Standing on the wide street, looking at the towering buildings on both sides of the street, everyone felt a sense of oppression, as if they had broken into the territory of a giant.
They couldn't help but imagine the giants who once lived here, and when they thought that they were standing in front of them but not as tall as their legs, and maybe not even as tall as their calves, they couldn't help but feel a sense of smallness and weakness in their hearts.
The whole city was deathly silent.
The fine sand that covers or adheres to the ground, walls, eaves, and roofs, the rotten and collapsed wooden structures, and various traces of erosion by running water all tell everyone that this ancient giant city buried deep underground was once eroded by underground rivers.
The long-term submergence is most likely due to the drought causing the underground river water to dry up and then being exposed to the air again.
It is obvious that this is a dead city.
After confirming that there was no danger, Tufu Zhang, Wen Buwu and Taoist Tianwu took the lead and jumped towards the houses one after another impatiently. Their expressions showed strong expectations, hoping to find ancient treasures from these ancient buildings.
When Tianwu Taoist left, he grabbed Zhang Xiaopou, fearing that Zhang Xiaopou would be poisoned by Wen Buwu after he left his sight.
After Taoist Yiwei and others came to their senses, they also hurriedly ran towards the houses on both sides of the street.
"Great monk, I'm tired, please carry me for a while." Taoist Qinglian suddenly shouted to the great monk who turned around and left.
The great monk stopped when he heard the sound.
In the past, he would have ignored Taoist Qinglian's unreasonable request.
Taoist Qinglian looked at the stopped figure of the great monk and said nothing. The great monk stopped there without turning around or speaking.
There were only two of them left on the street, and it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Click!
The great monk was the first to break the silence, with his left hand
Go around the back and open the folded back frame.
Zhang Xiaozu's back was broken while fighting the ancient corpse, and Wu Man'er's back was secretly thrown away by her. Only the great monk folded the back and kept it on his body.
He didn't do this for any purpose, it was completely out of habit, as simple as eating fast and chanting Buddha's name, but this habit was "oppressed" by Taoist Qinglian for twenty years, and he was forced to develop it out of grief, anger and helplessness. Speaking of which,
Doesn't seem to be a good habit.
Although the great monk did not say anything, he had clearly told Taoist Qinglian the answer through his actions.
"Yeah!" Taoist Qinglian was like a child, letting out clear cheers from his mouth, running towards the great monk with his slender feet stepping on the blooming green lotus, and happily sat down on the back frame.
This was the first time that the great monk stopped after hearing her unreasonable request when she was not injured.
This was the first time that the monk took the initiative to open the back brace when she was not injured.
How could she be unhappy.
"Great monk, I heard that in the deserted village valley, other people are looking for treasures of heaven and earth, but you are unmoved. You have been staying by my side, chanting sutras and chanting Buddha, hoping that I will wake up from the illusion soon. In your heart
Are you very worried about me?" Taoist Qinglian asked with a smile.
"And Zhang Shaoxia." The great monk responded.
"Tough talk." Taoist Qinglian pursed his lips and smiled, and then asked: "Master monk, when you saw my rapidly aging face outside, did you feel very scared, worried that I would die in the illusion?"
The great monk was silent for a while after hearing this, and then replied: "When we were coming down the mountain, the head abbot said that this trip was a success."
"Great monk, do you want to know what I experienced in the illusion?" Taoist Qinglian asked again.
The great monk did not respond.
Taoist Qinglian said to himself: "I dreamed that you were not a monk, but an ordinary farmer in a small town at the foot of Tianbao Mountain. I was in trouble in a small town, and it was you who saved me.
Just like when you rescued me twenty years ago, you were not afraid of danger, life or death, and worked hard without caring about yourself, just like a savior hero descending from the sky."
"I had nowhere to go, so you took me into your home, and under your meticulous care, my injuries gradually improved, and I finally recovered."
"During this period, you and I had a good impression of each other, and gradually fell in love with each other, and then thanks to you not disliking it, we got married to me. During the day, you went to the fields to farm and went to the mountains to chop firewood. I was at home weaving, sewing, cooking, and waiting for you.
When we go home, we hug each other under the moonlight at night, or talk about some interesting things we heard during the day, or plan the future, or say nothing at all, which is also sweet and happy."
"Then we had children, a son and a daughter. They were smart, well-behaved and obedient. You loved them so much. You gave them both their names."
"In this way, we work from sunrise to sunset, and live an ordinary and happy life."
"If I hadn't wanted to come out and see you again, I would have died in the illusion and slept in the same cave with you."
Rub rub rub——
The only sound left on the deserted street was the footsteps of the great monk.
After a long silence, the great monk opened his mouth and said: "Your cultivation has reached the realm of stars. It shows that your knots in your heart have been resolved and your inner demons have been eliminated. In the future, you must not be obsessed again. With your talent and understanding, you can expect the great road."
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"The great road can be expected, but when will I expect to cross it? I practice hard to improve my cultivation, but I am just afraid of being left behind by you. Monk, I still can't let go and forget it, what should I do?"
"Amitabha!" The great monk's body suddenly fell to the ground.
He trembled, and then hurriedly said the Buddha's name, but did not respond to Taoist Qinglian's words.
"Hey -" Taoist Qinglian sighed faintly. Living in the illusion for decades had indeed solved the knot in her heart, except for her inner demons, but it had not erased her memories and longings. She had no feelings for the great monk.
There is no less love.
"Perhaps -" Taoist Qinglian looked up at the misty sky and sighed in his heart: "Just because of that look, I will never let it go in my life."
Tianwu Taoist led Zhang Xiaopeng to search more than a dozen courtyards and every room, but found nothing.
Everything in the room, except for the stone ones, was rotten. Even the copper and iron products were rusted through and turned into powder when touched.
Zhang Xiaozhu's subtle state of mind did not play any role. Firstly, there was really nothing valuable stored in the room. Secondly, the water erased all traces of activities left by the ancients, which is a hidden treasure house with hidden treasures.
He couldn't find anything.
"Search separately!" Taoist Tianwu was not discouraged at all. He flew across the sky with Zhang Xiaopou, and found an impressive mansion with an extremely large area. After landing in the yard, he ordered Zhang Xiaopou.
The bigger and more grand the mansion is, it means that the family is rich or noble, and the chance of having treasures in the house is naturally greater.
Tianwu Daoist went straight to the main room. Zhang Xiaopou looked around, pondered for a moment, and walked towards the side courtyard on the right.
There are three main rooms and two side rooms in the yard.
Zhang Xiaozu walked around the side room, found nothing, and then entered the main room.
Except for the rotten stone furniture in the main hall, everything else was in decay, as was the bedrooms and study rooms on the left and right sides.
Zhang Xiaozu searched the three main rooms again with a meticulous mind, but still found nothing, so he could only leave disappointed.
boom!
However, just as he stepped out of the side courtyard door, there was a loud bang behind him.
There was such a loud noise suddenly in this dead silence environment, and it came from the main hall that he had just searched twice, which scared him so much that his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
Zhang Xiaozu turned around and looked in the direction of the main hall, and asked in a rough voice: "Who?"
But there was no sound in response to him.
"Master——" Zhang Xiaozu called out in the direction of the main hall of the mansion, but after waiting for a while there was no response from Taoist Tianwu.
"What's there to be afraid of? It can't be a human being. It's probably the sound of decaying furniture collapsing." Zhang Xiaozu murmured to encourage himself and took out the bone knife from the mustard seeds.
With the bone knife in hand, he became more courageous and walked slowly towards the main hall. He needed to walk within 300 steps of the main hall, so that his subtle state of mind could extend in through the open doors and windows.
It was not difficult. He quickly walked to a sufficient distance, and his subtle state of mind immediately extended into it. When he saw the scene in the main hall clearly, his heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat, and then started to beat violently.
The hall that was empty just now actually had a coffin appear out of thin air.
The nearly three-foot-long gray-white sarcophagus lay there quietly, stimulating Zhang Xiaozu's heart and making his scalp numb.
Thinking of the sound just now, as if the sarcophagus fell from above, Zhang Xiaozu took a few steps forward and looked at the roof in a subtle state of mind.
Sure enough, a big hole opened in the ceiling, and the sarcophagus must have fallen from above.
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