Chapter 530: Behind Zhongnan Mountain, Tomb of the Living Dead
Another year passed and Li Mu turned fourteen.
At the end of last year, the second level of Baoyuan Gong was almost complete, and less than a month after the New Year, the opportunity for breakthrough arrived.
This morning, after he finished practicing a set of Yangwu Sword, he suddenly felt something in his heart. He immediately sat cross-legged and the third level of Baoyuan Gong also appeared in his mind. He followed the instructions and entered the level smoothly and calmly.
the third floor.
Once you have developed your inner strength to the third level, you will be a good player in the world of martial arts. For most people in the world of martial arts, the third level is their ceiling.
Only disciples of big sects like Li Mu, who have profound skills, knowledgeable teachers, and brothers with extraordinary qualifications, who can communicate and discuss with each other, have the possibility of entering the fourth level or even higher levels.
At the same time, when Baoyuan Gong has reached the third level, the internal strength has reached a certain level, and most of Huashan's kung fu can be learned.
After Li Mu's Baoyuan Gong breakthrough for half a month and completely consolidated, Yue Buqun once again taught him a skill called "Ladder to Heaven."
As one of the Nine Gongs of Huashan and the only Qinggong among the Nine Gongs, this Ladder to Heaven is not only extremely sophisticated and profound, but also has an extraordinary origin.
According to the records in the Huashan Classics, this ladder to heaven should have been passed down from the Quanzhen Sect. It is particularly good at borrowing power out of thin air, and it has the same purpose as the Wudang Ladder.
At that time, Ma Yu traveled thousands of miles from Zhongnan Mountain to the desert to teach Guo Jing martial arts. He used Qing Kung Fu to climb the cliffs as if they were walking on flat ground, and saved a pair of small white eagles. Guo Jing was convinced to learn martial arts from him. This should be the method he used.
Climb the ladder to heaven.
Precisely because this Qing Gong is very subtle and profound, and requires extremely high internal strength, the third level of Baoyuan Gong is the threshold for learning.
If he wants to truly master it, like Ma Yu, who can rely on strength out of thin air and walk on flat ground when facing a cliff, he is still far away, and neither can Yue Buqun.
However, this does not delay his practice.
Li Mu has the foundation to learn Huashan Shenfa. Although Huashan Shenfa is only Huashan's basic light body method, it is used to lay the foundation just like Huashan's introductory swordsmanship.
He has practiced well and has a solid foundation. He has made rapid progress in learning to climb the ladder. However, due to his limited skill, the effect is not very good. If he wants to go further, it depends on when his internal strength will break through again.
Even so, it is a rare and excellent Qing Gong. Li Mu practices it for half an hour every morning.
Just like now, when the sky was dimming, Li Mu walked out of the small courtyard, stretched his body slightly, and the joints in his whole body crackled.
He slowly walked to a deserted mountain road, took a breath, leaned forward slightly, put his toes on the ground, and used the skill of climbing a ladder to rise up from the ground.
However, what is surprising is that although the body rises into the air, the speed is extremely slow. It slowly floats forward, and the momentum is seen to be exhausted.
Li Mu took a step slowly in the air, as if there was a ladder under his feet, and his body floated forward another five or six feet before falling silently.
Li Mu took a long breath, calmed down his restless energy, got ready again, put his toes on the ground, used the ladder, and slowly floated up again.
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A quarter of an hour later, Li Mu broke out in a thin layer of sweat and his energy was depleted, so he stopped practicing.
This Qing Gong is said to be difficult to practice, but it is really difficult to practice. Not only does it require high internal strength, but it also requires qualifications and character, making it quite difficult to practice.
For example, to slowly float your body forward in the air, you need to harmonize the true energy throughout the whole body very evenly, blend the yin and yang, and control the strength of the whole body exactly. This is very difficult to grasp, even if it is
Nine out of ten disciples from those big sects can't do it.
Even in the Huashan Sect, there are not many people who have the qualifications and talent to learn and climb the ladder in the future.
A few months passed in the blink of an eye, and in May, Li Mu went down to Mount Huashan again.
Some time ago, he received a letter from Lin Zhennan, adding that he had a younger sister. Thinking that he had been in Huashan for two years, he planned to go back when.
At noon, I had a drink at a restaurant in Huayin County and listened to some people from the martial arts community talking about the famous martial arts sects in Shaanxi. The Huashan sect was naturally indispensable, and some even mentioned the Quanzhen sect which had disappeared.
However, as the largest sect in the North at that time, it was more powerful than the Huashan Sect in its glory days. Although the Quanzhen Sect is gone, no one dares to deny its influence.
A few guys were eating, drinking, and bragging, but Li Mu got interested.
Thinking of the Quanzhen Sect on Zhongnan Mountain, Li Mu naturally thought of the Ancient Tomb Sect in the back mountain of the Quanzhen Sect, and then thought of the Double Ninth Festival inscriptions in the secret chamber of the Ancient Tomb Sect. That was the Nine Yin Manual... the attraction of this thing to people in the world
, much larger than the evil sword manual.
As a member of the martial arts world, Li Mu felt a little restless in his heart.
There was no rush to return to Fujian at the moment. He returned to the escort agency, gathered all his men, and rushed directly to Zhongnan Mountain.
Zhongnan Mountain is in the southwest of Xi'an. There are two ancient roads. One is the "Ziwu Road", which is the main road from Xi'an through Zhongnan Mountain to Hanzhong and Sichuan. In the Tang Dynasty, Sichuan Fuzhou brought lychees as tribute to Concubine Yang Guifei through this road.
, this road is also known as "Lizi Road".
The other road is called "Wuguan Road", which is the main road from Xi'an to Chu and Henan via Zhongnan Mountain. When Qin Shihuang swept across Liuhe and "returned from Nanjun through Wuguan", he was referring to this Wuguan Road.
The group passed through Wuguan, and within half a day, they arrived at an ancient town at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain. It is said that the ruins of the Quanzhen Sect are nearby.
Li Mu rented an inn in the town and hired some local mountain people. Within two days, he found the Quanzhen Sect ruins.
It's just that the once largest sect in the north, with more than thousands of palaces and palaces, and nearly 10,000 disciples, has now become a ruins, and many places still have traces of fires, which makes people sigh.
After sighing with emotion, he identified the terrain and direction, led a few foremen, and walked toward the back mountain of the Quanzhen Sect the next day.
As he walked, he thought, in front of him was the place where Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu lived, and he felt a sense of emotion. I wonder if there are any descendants of the Ancient Tomb Sect now. Although I have never heard of it in the world, the Ancient Tomb Sect is originally a reclusive sect.
It's really hard to say that there must be no descendants.
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After thinking about the TV series I had watched, the last time the descendants of the Tomb Sect appeared was at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. By just counting, it was more than a hundred years ago.
At that time, the woman in yellow shirt, who was the descendant of the Ancient Tomb Sect, helped the descendants of the Beggar Clan regain their position as leader when she first appeared. Then she told the elders of the Beggar Clan that her ancestors had a close relationship with the previous generation of the Beggar Clan. Then she was slaughtered in the Shaolin Temple.
At the Lions Conference, the woman in yellow shirt appeared on the stage and revealed the "Nine Yin White Bone Claw" used by Zhou Zhiruo, and used the authentic "Nine Yin Divine Claw" to fight Zhou Zhiruo fiercely, and finally won the victory.
Zhang Wuji asked her name, and she replied: "Behind Zhongnan Mountain, the Tomb of the Living Dead, the Condor Heroes and the Condor Heroes disappeared from the world." From then on, there was no trace.
Considering that the woman was only in her twenties at the time, her death must have happened decades ago. If there are any descendants, they should still be around now.
However, there is no news about the Ancient Tomb Sect in the current world. With the martial arts of the Ancient Tomb Sect, it is impossible for them to be so unknown.
For a moment, I didn’t know whether I hoped that there were still descendants of the Tomb Sect or that there was no one left in the Tomb.
The group soon arrived at the back mountain of Quanzhen Sect. After walking around, they found nothing. The scenery was quite good. Strange flowers and plants, cliffs and rocks, streams and stone pools could be seen everywhere.
It is said that the ancient tombs of the Ancient Tomb Sect are not real ancient tombs. They were built by Wang Chongyang, the founder of the Quanzhen Sect, when he raised righteous troops to fight against the Jin Dynasty. They were used to conceal people's eyes and ears and to store materials, grain, weapons and wages.
There are many mechanisms inside, and a dragon-breaking stone is set up at the door of the tomb. Once it is put down, it will be difficult to open it. After the defeat of the rebel army, Wang Chongyang was angry and lived in seclusion in the ancient tomb, calling himself the "Tomb of the Living Dead", which means that although he is alive, he is still dead, and he is different from the Jin people.
We live together.
Lin Chaoying fell deeply in love with him and lamented that his great skills were buried in the tomb, so he used a provocative trick to trick him out of the stone tomb, and the two joined hands to travel through the world.
However, Wang Chongyang's hatred for the country was unforgettable. As the saying goes, the Huns were not destroyed, so what was the purpose of the family? Lin Chaoying pretended to be ignorant of Lin Chaoying's deep affection. Lin Chaoying thought that Wang Chongyang looked down on her, so she finally competed with him in Zhongnan Mountain, using clever tricks.
Win the tomb.
From then on, he lived in the tomb and never came back. Wang Chongyang became a Taoist priest nearby and established the "Quanzhen Sect".
Later, Wang Chongyang became the best swordsman in the world at Huashan Mountain and acquired the unique "Nine Yin Manual". He felt guilty about Lin Chaoying and never forgot it.
He was proud that "Chongyang will not be weaker than others in his life". He hoped that Lin Chaoying would know that he was not inferior to others, so he entered the ancient tomb through a secret passage and carved some of the martial arts in the "Nine Yin Manual" in the secret chamber of the ancient tomb.
To decipher the "Jade Girl_Heart Sutra", I hope that Lin Chaoying, who was running out of time at that time, could understand it and improve his martial arts to extend his life.
It's just that Lin Chaoying didn't know whether he didn't discover it, or the hatred in his heart couldn't be overcome, and he didn't bother to understand the efforts left by Wang Chongyang. Then he died young in depression, leaving only the "wedding dress, dowry, and phoenix crown" in the ancient tomb.
"Xialei" shows Lin Chaoying's thoughts and regrets throughout his life.
This pair of Bi people with peerless martial arts skills, aloof temperament, and extremely smart people, ended up like this, which really makes people sigh.
It's just that the world has changed, and the Bi people who couldn't love each other back then have long since become dry bones in the graves, and even the sect they founded has disappeared in the long river of time.
Li Mu led people around the area and found a suspected ancient tomb. However, after hundreds of years of changes in nature, he was not sure whether it was.
The only thing that can prove the exact location of the ancient tomb is probably the Broken Dragon Stone.
After searching nearby for several days, I finally discovered the location of the Broken Dragon Stone. Now it has been mostly buried by the collapsed soil, and it has long lived up to its former appearance.
Li Mu estimated the difficulty and movement of breaking through the Broken Dragon Stone, and temporarily gave up the idea. If possible, he did not want to use violent means to destroy the ancient tomb.
In this case, we can only look for the water pool leading in and out of the ancient tomb. Now that the Broken Dragon Stone has been found, the approximate location of the ancient tomb has been determined, and it is much easier to find the water pool.
It took seven or eight days for Li Mu to carefully search more than a dozen water pools near the ancient tomb. Some of them were just pure water pools with no passages to other places. Some of the water pools did have their own caves. After trying them, they discovered that they lead to underground undercurrents.
Finally, all the hard work paid off and I finally found it.
Li Mu returned to the town to make some repairs, purchased various necessary items, including some ancient primitive airbags, and walked toward the mountains alone.
With the help of these airbags, Li Mu spent a lot of effort and finally swam across the pool and entered the ancient tomb.
Climbing ashore from the water, Li Mu opened the waterproof tarpaulin, took out everything inside, then lit a torch and officially started exploring the ancient tomb.
There is a stone chamber facing us. Looking at the dust on the ground, it seems that no one has walked through this stone chamber for a long time. It seems that there is really no one in the ancient tomb.
With the help of the torch, he walked a few steps forward and found that at the end of the stone room was a stone door. It seemed that it had not been opened for a long time. Li Mu took a deep breath, pressed his hands on the stone door, and used his internal strength. With a burst of creaking, Li Mu
With a loud sound, the stone door was slowly pushed open, and a hall came into view.
It was empty inside, with stone tables and benches set up. Li Mu checked carefully and found that there was indeed no trace of anyone. Although there was very little dust, it should be due to long periods of unoccupied time and lack of air circulation.
He walked around and soon came to the back hall, which was also empty. There were only two portraits hanging on the west wall, an incense table and a futon below. There was also a painting hanging on the east wall, and nothing else!
Li Mu raised the torch and looked at the two portraits to the west. One was of two girls, one was in her mid-twenties, one was extremely beautiful, with beautiful eyebrows, but there was a faint murderous aura in the corners of her eyes, which made people look in awe.
Xin is dressing up in front of the mirror; the other is a maid of fifteen or sixteen years old, holding a porcelain basin in her hand and waiting on her. She looks cute and naive, with a childish face.
Li Mu guessed that the older woman was Lin Chaoying, the founder of the Ancient Tomb Sect and a generation of heroine; that the maid was probably the second generation leader of the Ancient Tomb Sect and Xiao Longnu's master.
Li Mu looked at another painting, but it was a pair of beautiful people. The painting was rather hazy. The man was dressed in a green robe and had a giant sword slung across his back. He was proud and unrestrained.
The woman was dressed in a soft veil, her skin was as white as snow, and she seemed to be otherworldly. She was extremely beautiful and extremely cold.
After staring at the two paintings for a long time, Li Mu sighed softly: "Behind Zhongnan Mountain, the Tomb of the Living Dead, the Condor Heroes and the Heroic Couple have disappeared from the world."
"I didn't expect that I actually saw it."
After looking at these two paintings, Li Mu raised his torch and illuminated the east portrait again.
This painting is of a middle-aged Taoist priest. He is very tall, with a long sword hanging from his waist. His right finger points to the northeast corner, but his back is outward and his face cannot be seen. There are many spots on the painting that have been dried in the sun.
Mark of.
Li Mu guessed that this was probably Wang Chongyang.
Lin Chaoying really loved and hated Wang Chongyang deeply.
It is said that the Ancient Tomb Sect has a rule that after entering to worship the founder Lin Chaoying, you must spit on the portrait of Wang Chongyang. Over time, these traces will be left after drying.
After seeing these paintings, Li Mu was so shocked that he decided to try not to move anything here so that it could continue to remain as it had been for hundreds of years.
Perhaps, you can seal the pond when you leave, so that the ancient tomb can continue to be buried deep underground, and no one will disturb the tranquility here.