Chapter 306 Inspiration Temple on the Glass Mountain
Chapter 306 Inspiration Temple on Liuli Mountain
The sudden changes in Liuli Mountain have not affected Wuwei City at all, but most monks will choose to avoid that land.
Only the nearby Changyuan Escort Agency suffered heavy losses. The well-established escort leader Zhao and his ten escorts all disappeared.
The remaining escorts didn't even have anyone in charge, so they inevitably started to look for other ways out. The escort agency had long ceased to exist in name only.
The location of Changyuan Escort Agency in Wuwei City is already remote, and now it is even more deserted.
Qingzhu squatted at the door for a long time, and the people passing by thought he was a beggar from somewhere, and subconsciously moved away from him.
She wiped the stains on her face and pursed her lips stubbornly.
Qingzhu waited for several days but did not see her father, a bodyguard, come back. Before she could figure out the situation, she received the bad news.
Squeak...
The door of the escort agency slowly opened, and a middle-aged man walked out, holding a packed package in his hand as if he was ready to move out.
Qingzhu's eyes lit up, and he quickly walked over with his calves.
"Uncle Li, is there any news from my father? It's been a long time. Did the Immortal of the Jailer Hall send someone there..."
"A-Nian, it's hard to talk about this, so don't wait here."
Uncle Li let out a long sigh. If Liu Biao and others really died outside the city, there would probably be many more orphans and widows.
Qingzhu was just about to ask, but he noticed that the decoration inside the escort agency had turned into white cloth, which was obviously a bit funeral.
She resisted the thought of crying, turned around and ran out of the range of the long-term escort agency.
Qingzhu has lived with his father Shen Qiuteng since he was a child. He came to Wuwei City due to the drastic changes in Jingzhou. He thought he could live a stable life for a few days, but unexpectedly something unexpected happened.
She trotted back to her deserted home and started rummaging through the boxes.
Qingzhu carried all the useful and useless things with him, put all the money he had saved in a bag, and then headed outside.
She came to a remote inn and kept looking inside with her little head.
The shopkeeper obviously noticed Qingzhu's strange behavior and couldn't help but ask: "Qingzhu, what's the matter with you?"
Qingzhu answered cautiously: "Shopkeeper, are you the Immortal Jailer?"
The shopkeeper also guessed what Qingzhu meant, and nodded with a wry smile: "I'm just a reserve, I don't have access to secrets."
Qingzhu lowered his head and said softly: "I want to ask about the long-term escort agency."
Seeing this, the shopkeeper softened his heart and said: "There is no specific news about death. It is said that contact was lost near Liuli Mountain. Don't worry..."
Qingzhu's eyes regained some expression.
The shopkeeper continued helplessly: "I saw this mission on the notice. It has been taken over by the senior jailer, and he will definitely go to Liuli Mountain."
"That's it..."
Qingzhu gritted his teeth, then took out all the spiritual crystals on his body and said, "Then can I entrust the prisoner Immortal Chief?"
"Don't think too much, I will inform you immediately if there is any news."
The shopkeeper didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He asked Qingzhu to put away the spiritual crystals and prepare to explain that the ghost market was not accessible to ordinary mortals.
At this moment, Ren Qing walked from the second floor to the lobby.
Qingzhu's eyes lit up, but before she could ask any questions, Ren Qing threw the bag of spirit crystals out of her arms and walked out of the inn, disappearing into the crowd.
The shopkeeper hesitated to speak while holding the spiritual crystal, feeling that Ren Qing had given him too much.
But little did he know that his guest room was almost burned through by the high temperature, and the spiritual crystal was actually left to him by Ren Qing to repair the inn.
Qingzhu sighed, took back the spiritual crystal and left the inn.
She took small steps to reach the city gate. There was a huge flow of people here, more than a dozen escort agencies of various sizes walking through it, and dozens of giant beasts, making extremely noisy noises.
Qingzhu had never been here before, so he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
The giant beasts are mainly lizards, usually about three meters in length. It is said that they fill their stomachs with sand and gravel, and the cost of raising them is very low.
The lizards in Wuwei City are far from huge. Occasionally, you can see lizards coming from Shuizhu, which are at least ten meters tall.
Qingzhu's father has a low status in the escort agency. Even among ordinary escorts, he is regarded as a handyman responsible for feeding.
So Shen Qiuteng always wanted to raise a strange beast and do some small business like doing business.
Qingzhu hunched over and hid in the shadows silently. At the same time, he listened to the movements of the people around him with his ears raised, his expression unusually focused.
Several hours passed like this, until the sky turned slightly yellow before the target was found.
Qingzhu vaguely heard some escorts talking about Liuli Mountain. They deliberately kept their voices down, as if they wanted to go to that land.
The middle-aged man dressed as the escort frowned and found a remote corner to ask the skinny man next to him: "Are you sure?"
"It is said that there is a big demon residing on Liuli Mountain, which has even attracted the attention of the Jailer Hall. The Jailer will soon take action to exterminate it."
The skinny man's eyes showed greed, and he couldn't wait to say again: "We only need to stay outside for a few days, and when the big demon dies, we can get some benefits that the jailer doesn't like."
His proposal was very tempting, and even though the so-called great demon was just a rumor, it still made the escort chief feel hesitant.
"Are you sure the jailer will take action?"
"You can inquire about this news yourself, but by then it will be too late."
The escort head nodded heavily, and the two of them sat in the corner and discussed strategies. After all, they were going to Liuli Mountain, which was a forbidden area.
As for the other two forbidden areas.
The depth of the Death Nian River can reach hundreds of meters, and the water is surging. There are tens of thousands of monsters in it, which is very terrifying.
The bottomless pit is somewhat similar. It is located in a mountain range somewhere. The hole spreads for countless kilometers, and there are naturally countless demons.
Only Liuli Mountain is listed as a forbidden place because it exudes a strange Buddhist aura.
The three forbidden areas are far from representative of the current situation in Jingzhou. They are only located near Wuwei City and are considered by the Jailer Hall.
Qingzhu came to the fleet belonging to the escort agency and found that it was not large.
She quietly groped to the lizard where supplies were stored, gritted her teeth and tried to climb into the wooden box tied with reins on its back.
However, the lizard immediately became impatient after sensing the unfamiliar atmosphere.
Qingzhu was a little at a loss, and the escorts around him also came to check the situation in confusion, just as they were about to approach.
boom……
Suddenly the ground shook slightly, and a huge monster attacked the city again.
Similar things happen every ten days and a half, but the city wall has never been breached and the monsters have been killed quickly.
The attention of the escorts was diverted to the direction of the city wall. Seeing this, Qingzhu quickly climbed onto the lizard and casually got into a wooden box.
She herself knew that it was impossible to rescue Shen Qiuteng, but after all, she was immature and planned to go to Liuli Mountain with her by mistake.
There were spare clothes in the box. She could not help but frown because of the smell of saponaria and sweat.
Qingzhu hadn't had a good rest recently, and he soon felt sleepy.
She closed her eyes and fell into sleep. Unknowingly, the escort had packed up the supplies and was slowly heading towards the city gate.
When Qingzhu woke up, he felt that the air was filled with strong evil spirit.
She was just entering the stage of Qi training, and she had the suffocation feeling of a fish coming to the shore, and there was a burning stinging sensation in her mouth and nose when she breathed.
It took Qingzhu several days to adapt to the evil spirit, and his consciousness gradually returned to consciousness.
She took out a few pieces of spiritual crystal from her arms and endured the pain to absorb the Youyuan inside, keeping her Dantian filled.
The escort's convoy gradually moved away from Wuwei City and followed the outer road of the dense forest. This is the safest mountain road known.
There were also monsters that came to attack, but they were all blocked by the escorts who cooperated tacitly.
Otherwise, the corpse will be carefully disposed of and useful materials collected, which can be sold when returned to the city.
But this time the convoy had no intention of stopping. Monster corpses were randomly discarded on the roadside, with scavenging birds pecking at the flesh.
Qingzhu silently counted the time and must have been approaching Liuli Mountain.
She thought she would arrive at her destination smoothly, but then she noticed something was wrong. The communication in the convoy seemed to be getting less and less.
Not only was there no conversation from the escort, there was not even any movement in ordinary life.
And this situation is becoming more and more serious. The bodyguard Gujing went to Liuli Mountain without any waves, the silence seemed to indicate something.
Qingzhu couldn't help but bury himself in the clothes in the wooden box, leaving only a gap to breathe.
Her consciousness was hazy and she fell asleep again, only to be awakened by a whispering voice, with cold sweat breaking out from her back.
It seemed that someone was chanting some kind of strange scripture.
The sound penetrated Qingzhu's ears, like a bug sucking the brain. She covered her ears with both hands.
The sound of chanting scriptures became deafening.
Qingzhu could tell that it had nothing to do with Taoism, and was somewhat similar to what a goddess who specialized in funerals did when she lived in Jingzhou City.
Finally, the motorcade suddenly stopped, and the sound of chanting scriptures gradually faded away.
She shook her head, opened the wooden box from the inside, and couldn't help but look outside. As a result, the escort of the motorcade was gone.
The lizards were abandoned beside the mountain road, eating the gravel heartlessly.
Seeing that the sky was still bright, Qingzhu quietly got out of the wooden box and looked into the distance with the help of the high point on the lizard's back.
A dreamlike mountain peak comes into view.
The rocks are as crystal clear as glass, shining with seven colors under the sunlight, making the temple on the top of the mountain look like a fairyland.
Qingzhu also noticed the whereabouts of the escorts.
They originally wanted to stay away from Liuli Mountain, but now they headed towards the temple inexplicably, and they still knelt three times and kowtowed nine times.
The escort's ascetic-like behavior seemed extremely inexplicable.
But what frightens Qingzhu the most is that there is a fish tail growing unexpectedly on the back of their head, and it is unclear what the meaning of the constant swaying is.
Qingzhu couldn't help but look behind him, only to find that there was a fishing line suspended out of thin air, with one end connected to the top of Liuli Mountain and the other half of a flapping river fish tail.
Immediately afterwards, the river fish tail grew flesh and blood at a speed visible to the naked eye, piecemeal and deformed, pieced together into a human-like fish-like monster.
The monster had six eyes and four arms, but the arms were of different lengths. It said in a Shen Qiuteng tone: "A-Nian, I..."
"What the hell?"
Ren Qing wore a Taoist robe and came to the green bamboo, looking at the monster with his eyes.