The Qinling Mountains, with a radius of no less than a million miles, can be said to be vast and boundless, but relatively speaking, it is only a corner of the western part of Zhongzhou.
This is a mysterious ancient land that is difficult for the outside world to understand. There are many legends about it. Since ancient times, there have been many strong and extremely powerful people, but few people know about it.
Some people say that once upon a time, there was an ancient saint who was invincible in the world. He traveled through the five major regions and rarely found a single opponent. However, when he came to the Qinling Mountains, he beat an old man herding sheep to the ground.
Even in modern times, a similar thing happened 20,000 years ago. Eight powerful men came to the Qinling Mountains to search for ancient times, but they were all thrown into the lake by a fisherman.
This is an ancient land with its own unique heritage. It is very mysterious to outsiders and shrouded in a layer of fog.
There are mountains everywhere in the Qinling Mountains for millions of miles, and there are many ancient tombs underground. Someone once dug out the tombs of twelve ancient emperors within half a year.
This area is very extraordinary. After the death of some emperors from ancient divine dynasties, they would always find ways to bury themselves underground in the Qinling Mountains, which is puzzling.
Some people say that this is a land of immortality, so according to old legends, there have been people who have soared up in the clouds.
Some people even say that this is an incomprehensible place with many cemeteries underground. Some people are practicing in order to seek enlightenment, which is unknown to the outside world.
There are so many secrets about the Qinling Mountains. Some people even say that the Qing Emperor, who amazes both ancient and modern people, was born in the Qinling Mountains and later left the Eastern Wilderness.
There is a local legend that there is an Immortal Transformation Pond in the Qinling Mountains. Thirty thousand years ago, a green lotus plant gained spiritual wisdom and soon attained Taoism and transformed into a human form. Later, it grew step by step and became the Qing Emperor who later shocked the ancient times.
"Qinling Mountains, there are many hidden masters, many underground ancient tombs..." This is the conclusion that Ye Fan came to after coming here for a while, with a little sigh.
Although he saw Li Xiaoman, it was impossible for him to recognize him. Instead, he stayed and walked in this ancient land, observing quietly, trying to find Hua Yunfei's whereabouts.
The declining little sect occupies four dwarf mountains, with only twenty people in total. It can be said that the little sect is pitiful. Li Xiaoman is a disciple on one of the dwarf mountains.
Ye Fan once looked at it from a distance and felt that it was a bit strange. The cultivation levels of these people were uneven. The weak ones could not reach the secret realm of the wheel sea, while the strong ones had the strength of the first level of Immortal Platform.
"That's not right. In such a declining sect, there is actually an elder of the Holy Land..."
Moreover, he discovered that there were two or three disciples who were extremely powerful, and their cultivation had reached the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, and they were no weaker than the young and strong men of Qishi Mansion. This was really strange.
These people are hiding their cultivation, and it is impossible for ordinary people to see through it. Only Ye Fan who has cultivated the Divine Eye of Origin can break through the illusion, see through the origin, and know their cultivation.
"It's not simple. There must be some reason. I have to be careful." Ye Fanchang stayed and understood all this in detail. He learned that the name of this declining small church was Qinmen, and this place was just a branch.
It can also be considered an outer door.
"Such a small outer sect has a master who is on the top level of Sendai..." He found it incredible.
The Qin Sect is not large in scale, with only more than a hundred people in total. It has four branches: east, west, north and south, which are the so-called outer sects.
The main gate is located in the center of this mountainous area, and the distance between the east, west, north and south branches is only twenty or thirty miles, so they are very close to each other.
This area is dotted with some mountain villages, all of which are ordinary people. They are adjacent to Qinmen. Some naughty children often run to the short mountains to play without anyone caring about them.
It can be said that this small, declining sect with only a hundred or so people really does not have any strict sect rules. It looks very loose and does not look like a hidden secret sect at all.
"Is the Ninth Secret in this small sect?"
Qin Clan, the headmaster's lineage has the surname Qin, which seems to be very different from the Cai clan, and seems to have no connection.
The only thing that makes people suspicious is that this declining sect has a history of thousands of years. Compared to the mortal world, there are countless dynasties that have changed.
It is impossible to know when the Qinmen can be traced back to these nearby small mountain villages, because they are so ancient that they seem to have existed since their ancestors' generation.
"I don't have the surname Cai, but a small religion has been passed down for such a long time..."
Ye Fan is very cautious and has been observing these days. Except for the south branch where Li Xiaoman is located, the other east, west and north branches are similar. There are masters from the first level of Xiantai and one or two disciples from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
This is beyond common sense. Even if it is a top sect, it is nothing more than this. How can young disciples be so powerful and numerous with so few people?
Finally, he quietly approached the main peak of the center, wanting to see the strength of the main gate.
Although it is said to be the main peak, it is actually only over a thousand meters high, which is two to three hundred meters higher than the surrounding short mountains. It does not have a majestic momentum, nor is it dense and beautiful. It is very ordinary and ordinary.
On the contrary, it is similar to the small Taoist temple where the old saint was. It looks ordinary and ordinary, but it has a return to nature.
Soon after, Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat. He found a powerful man meditating in front of the mountain gate, motionless.
"Is this really a small cult? As soon as I arrived at the mountain gate, I saw a powerful man!"
He was surprised. There was a building on this low mountain. Could there be more powerful people, or even a few powerful people?
Ye Fan didn't get any closer. This kind of person's spiritual sense is extraordinary, and he will be sensed if he is not careful. If it weren't for the golden lake between his eyebrows that was baptized by thunder, his spiritual consciousness is super powerful, and he has the source of divine magic, he would have been discovered long ago.
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"This is a hidden secret sect!"
Now, he can confirm that this seemingly declining little church is very extraordinary and has some unknown secrets. Although it is not named Cai, it is probably worth stopping here.
In the next few days, Ye Fan carefully looked at the county and state records in this area and found that there was a big surname in this area in the past - Cai.
Unfortunately, I don’t know at what age, the people with this surname moved away and their whereabouts are unknown.
"The hometown of the Cai people..."
Soon after, Ye Fan accidentally discovered an ancient book in the library of a prominent local family and learned more about it.
In extremely ancient times, there was only one local surname, the Cai clan. For some unknown reason, the entire clan moved away 30,000 years ago and disappeared.
"Thirty thousand years ago, wasn't it the time when the legendary Qing Emperor transformed into a Taoist form?"
The Cai tribe lived in the Qinling Mountains at that time, and there is a rumor that the Qing Emperor also came out of this area and originated from the Huaxian Pond.
"Most likely, the Qin clan is from the Cai clan. They returned to their hometown, but changed their appearance. However, the Qing Emperor passed away thousands of years ago, so what are they afraid of?"
Ye Fan found no trace of Hua Yunfei, but believed that he should be nearby, even in the Qinmen.
"He probably has a secret treasure on his body that blocks his energy. Even my Yuantian Divine Eyes can't see through it. This is very troublesome."
Ye Fan thought about it again and again, and felt that he could only join the Qinmen first and slowly search for the Nine Secrets, otherwise he would not be able to approach him openly and honestly.
The southern vein where Li Xiaoman is located should be avoided, otherwise if she discovers any clues, the consequences will be very disastrous.
The branches are only a few dozen miles apart, so there will inevitably be times when they meet each other, but as long as he doesn't reveal his past habits and relies on the great method he learned from the Yuan Tian Book to change the world, there should be no problem.
There are three short mountains in the east line of Qinmen, four elders and above, fifteen disciples, and hundreds of chickens, ducks, and geese.
Ye Fan was a little dumbfounded. There was obviously a great master from the top of Sendai who was in charge, but he raised hundreds of poultry, etc., just like in the secular world.
The reason why he chose this place was because Dongmai was about to open a mountain to recruit disciples. He just caught up with this opportunity and wanted to fish in troubled waters.
"Gouwazi, you should practice well after you go up the mountain and stop stealing goose eggs. Now I am your master." A hunter stared at his child.
Ye Fan was speechless. There were four snot-nosed kids who went up the mountain with him. They were all children from the village at the foot of the mountain. They came to the mountain to play when they had nothing to do, and now they are going to become disciples.
The Qin sect is so unscrupulous in recruiting disciples. He really doesn't know what to say. He just uses local materials and they are all from the neighborhood. There is no fault at all.
"The secret religion of the hidden world cannot be judged by common sense..." He could only say this to himself. Several snot-nosed children, who were no more than six or seven years old, looked at him curiously.
Ye Fan was really a little uncomfortable. He was about to become senior brothers with a group of brats. Fortunately, two more people came up the mountain not long ago, and they also wanted to learn from their masters.
One of them is ten years old, handsome and elegant, quite elegant, dressed like a scholar, with a bookish air. The other is over fifty years old, with sparse hair, skinny bones, sick appearance, and a white beard, but he also came to practice Taoism.
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The Qin Sect's East Line accepted all comers, and the four snot boys plus Ye Fan and the others, a total of seven disciples worshiped at the entrance wall.
Vaguely, Ye Fan felt that it was not easy for this scholar to be a sick old man, but it was not easy to use the Yuantian Divine Eye to detect him in front of others.
"This hidden secret sect is not afraid of these at all. It dares to accept anyone who comes, which shows their confidence."
This was my true feeling after staying in the mountain for a few days. The scholar was a strong man in the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, and the sick old man was actually a special monk who cultivated a single secret realm. This was the first time he had seen it, so it was difficult to estimate his strength.
Ye Fan was speechless. The small Qin Mendongmai was only three short mountains, with a total of more than twenty people. Among these disciples, in addition to scholars and sick old men, there were also two young monks from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
"It's going to scare people to death if I tell you about it. This hidden secret sect, with its several branches combined, the quality of its disciples is almost comparable to that of the Holy Land."
There are only more than a hundred people in total, but such an achievement is like a fantasy. No one would believe it.
"Most of these people, like me, have found the Qi of the Nine Secrets through some clues..."
After Ye Fan learned more about it, he felt that this tiny place was full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and there were some of the most outstanding successors of the supreme religion, which was difficult to predict.
"boom!"
Not far away, smoke and dust rose into the sky, followed by chickens and dogs, and a snot-nosed baby ran out from the chicken coop crying.
"Senior brother, help me..."
"What's the matter, Gouwazi?" Ye Fan asked with a smile.
"The little stones fell into the hole, and there was a big scarlet coffin inside..." The four snot-nosed children were as naughty as they were before they went up the mountain. They ran to steal the eggs, but the ground cracked inexplicably and they fell into the hole.
Many people on the mountain were alarmed and rushed there. They were all surprised when they saw an ancient underground tomb exposed in the open air.
Ye Fan couldn't help but marvel, there are indeed many ancient tombs in the Qinling Mountains, and there is even one in the mountain gate, which is really strange.
"Meet Master..." Before the smoke and dust cleared, a beautiful shadow descended from the sky. Li Xiaoman came to the east vein of Qinmen and saluted the mountain master on the first floor of the Immortal Platform.