Ye Xiaochuan ignored him, drew the edgeless sword with his backhand, and stepped into the cave.
Inside is a long, semi-artificial, semi-natural tunnel, but it is not dark.
Every once in a while, there will be a brazier on the stone wall.
These braziers must have been tampered with, and they seem to be able to sense the approach of creatures.
As Ye Xiaochuan goes deeper, no matter where he goes, there will always be three braziers lit. When he moves away, the braziers will automatically extinguish themselves.
Ye Xiaochuan opened his consciousness and sensed two Xuantian Sect elders dozens of feet away.
The cultivation level of the two elders is not very high, they are both in the realm of spiritual silence.
They also heard the strange movement at the entrance and were heading this way.
There is just a winding passage here with no forks. Ye Xiaochuan will definitely run into these two Xuantian Sect elders.
As soon as I turned a curved passage, I saw a light in the distance.
The two people opposite also discovered Ye Xiaochuan.
One of them shouted: "This is the important place of the ancestral hall. Who is coming?"
Ye Xiaochuan did not answer, but walked forward step by step.
When the distance between the two of them was less than ten feet, Ye Xiaochuan's body turned into an afterimage.
"Not good! Enemy!"
As soon as these four words were heard, a strong wind blew in the passage.
The sword light flashed, and the sounds of the divine swords clashing came one after another.
In the narrow passage, the three of them started a hand-to-hand fight.
After a crackling sound, the strong wind suddenly stopped, and the sword light disappeared instantly.
Ye Xiaochuan appeared behind the two Xuantian Sect elders dressed in white, and slowly inserted the edgeless sword into the scabbard.
At this moment, the two elders in white still maintained their postures of raising their swords to face the enemy.
However, both of them seemed to have become wooden men.
After Ye Xiaochuan's divine sword was sheathed, their bodies slowly fell over.
Two round heads slipped from the neck, blood spurted out from the flat wounds, and a lot of blood was sprayed on the surrounding rock walls.
Ye Xiaochuan waited for the blood on their necks to finish spraying, then turned around and walked over, bent down and picked up the two dead heads on the ground.
Ye Cha couldn't help but admired: "What a sharp sword move! It's fast, accurate and ruthless! It's amazing!"
Ye Tianci said a little unconvinced: "Grandpa Tian, this is the fifth of the Nine Heaven-Slaying Forms, Whirlwind Slash.
I'm much more handsome than him! I just lack a chance!"
Ye Xiaochuan didn't say anything. He carried the two heads and continued walking along the passage.
Soon, we came to a rather huge mountain cave.
It's very bright inside, and the furnishings are similar to those of Cangyunmen's ancestor's ancestral hall. There are many candles lit and many spiritual tablets.
The difference is that Cangyunmen's ancestral hall is an ancient large house, and the memorial tablets are placed on special wooden frames.
This is a cave, with only a rather huge wooden sacred table, and the spiritual tablets are placed on rock-carved stone platforms. There are seven or eight floors in total from low to high.
Moreover, there are relatively few spiritual tablets here, and the number seems to be only about half of that in Cangyunmen Ancestral Hall.
No wonder.
Cangyun Sect has been established for more than 4,000 years, and it was the largest sect of righteousness for more than 3,000 years, with countless amazing and talented people appearing.
Those enshrined in the Cangyun Sect Patriarch's Ancestral Hall are all the heads of the past dynasties, the leaders of the four lineages, and the famous elders of the past dynasties.
Generally, when an elder in the Lingji realm dies, his spirit position is not eligible to enter the Cangyun Sect Patriarch's Ancestral Hall. Only the Heavenly and Human realm has this qualification.
The Xuantian Sect has only been established for a short period of time, and it only rose to prominence in the past few hundred years. In order to prevent the place from being monotonous, the Xuantian Sect enshrined the spiritual tablets of the elders who were above the realm of Lingji in the past dynasties here.
Even so, the number is still not as high as the number of memorial tablets in Cangyunmen Ancestral Hall.
It can be seen from this that the foundation of Xuantian Sect is far inferior to that of Cangyun Sect.
If Cangyun Sect is compared to a scholarly family with a legacy of farming and reading, then Xuantian Sect can only be regarded as a recently rising upstart.
As a traditional Taoist school, Xuantian Sect worships the Three Pure Ones.
They are not portraits, but three rather tall Sanqing stone sculptures.
Located at the highest point of the entire cave, there is a stone sculpture below, which is the first generation founder of Xuantian Sect, Xuantian Ren.
The stone sculpture of Xuantian is much smaller than the stone sculpture of Sanqing Daozu. It stands directly below the Sanqing stone sculpture. He holds a mudra on his chest with his left hand and a whisk in his right hand.
He is like the inheritor or spokesperson of the Sanqing Taoist ancestors in the human world.
Further down, there are several levels of stone platforms, each of which is filled with spiritual tablets.
On the huge divine table, there are three identical small bronze four-legged cauldrons.
On each small tripod, there is a tap incense stick that is as thick as a wrist and as tall as half a person.
In front of the three bronze tripods, there is a small incense burner with three half-burned fine Zen incense sticks on it.
On the dome, there are also twenty-five burning huge spiral Zen incense sticks hanging.
Due to poor air circulation here, the few green smoke condenses on the cave dome, just like the smell of incense in the mouth of the world.
Ye Xiaochuan threw the two heads in his hands on the ground, and then poured out hundreds more heads from the storage bag.
Most of the heads are still fresh and plump, but some heads have shriveled up, apparently having been sucked dry of flesh and blood before death.
Ye Xiaochuan swept out with a palm, and all the incense burners, candles and bronze tripods on the sacred table were swept away.
He carefully placed these heads on the divine table into the shape of a pyramid.
Jingguan! Jingguan originally originated from the mortal army. In order to show off its force, the army gathered enemy corpses and sealed the high tombs.
The most famous and most shameful Beijing in Chinese history was built by Goguryeo thousands of years ago.
The second emperor of the Sui Dynasty made three expeditions to Goguryeo, but all three failed. The King of Goryeo ordered the corpses of hundreds of thousands of Sui soldiers to be built into a temple hundreds of feet high to show off the power of Goguryeo.
This is one of the greatest shames of Chinese civilization.
Later, when the dynasty changed, Tian Khan, Emperor Zhenguan, sent a large army to sweep across Goguryeo in the second year of Zhenguan. The first thing he did was to destroy Goguryeo's Jingguan, bring the bones of hundreds of thousands of soldiers back to China, and bury them in state burials.
Lijing Temple is relatively common among mortal armies, but not common in the world of cultivation.
Ten years ago, Ye Xiaochuan counterattacked the Heaven Realm and used the corpses of tens of thousands of Heaven Realm monks and soldiers to build a Jingguan on Jiuzhong Mountain in front of the Heaven Realm Gate of Catastrophe.
This is the greatest shame in heaven.
The people in heaven can't wait to peel off Ye Xiaochuan's skin and turn it into grass.
Now Ye Xiaochuan is watching in Lijing again.
There were too many corpses for him to carry. Bringing the heads here might have a greater impact on Li Xuanyin.
Rentou Jing finished watching the base, and Big Head said: "Why do I feel like something is wrong?"
Ye Xiaochuan said: "What's wrong?"
The big head walked around in front of Jingguan and said: "The heads are wrong. To be precise, the number is wrong."
Ye Xiaochuan frowned.
Big Head continued: "How many heads are there here?"
Ye Xiaochuan said: "One hundred and seven."
Big Head said: "These one hundred and seven heads are added to the two people who were killed in the passage just now. You only brought one hundred and five heads from Shilongling.
There were a total of 134 Xuantian Sect elders who took action tonight. Two died and five returned to the Holy Mountain. The total number of living, dead and comatose people who fled Shilongling was 129. Twenty-four people were not killed."
Ye Xiaochuan said: "Don't the one hundred and five heads match up?"
The big head shook his head and said: "No, no, no, among these one hundred and five heads, one was done by Zhu Yu, the owner of Shilongling.
Zhu Yuqian was responsible for the response at Shilongling and did not participate in the massacre at Wanhu Ancient Cave."
Ye Xiaochuan's heart skipped a beat and said: "You mean, an elder of the Xuantian Sect has disappeared?
Is the information you investigated wrong?
Before or during the fight, someone took the opportunity to escape?
Or was there something omitted in the process of collecting heads?"
Big Head said: "You question my ability again?
I searched the memories of more than a dozen Xuantian Sect elders, and one hundred and thirty-four of them are absolutely correct.
After arriving at Shilongling, I searched some people's memories and found that everyone was at Shilongling and no one left before we arrived.
After the battle began, I arranged my spiritual realm so that not even an ant could escape from my realm.
As for the omission, it is unlikely. That is my spiritual realm. If there is a human head missing, I will definitely be able to detect it.
An elder of the Xuantian Sect is really missing tonight. If my prediction is correct, even the Xuantian Sect themselves don’t know that someone is missing, otherwise I will definitely be able to detect it in their memories."
