The scale of the palace complex not only far exceeded Yang Qi's imagination, but also far exceeded Su Anran's imagination.
The entire palace complex on the west side is like a huge maze.
After each "door" is passed, there will be white jade passages extending in three other directions. Moreover, this building seems to use some very special magic circles and spells, so that each "door" looks different from the appearance alone.
To judge, it is completely impossible to tell the situation and layout inside the building: standing in the courtyard and observing, you can always only see a thick screen and a copper stove inside the door. Only by actually crossing the threshold and entering the interior of the building can you truly
to clearly see what is happening inside this building.
The only building that can be distinguished from the "door" is that there are no screens or copper stoves after crossing the threshold.
If there are screens and copper stoves, it means that this is a "door" connecting the front and rear courtyards.
If not, then these buildings may be study rooms, residences, alchemy rooms, practice rooms, exhibition rooms, utility rooms, etc.
For two whole days, Su Anran and Qing Yu never explored the very edge of the palace complex.
It's as if the space of this palace community has been infinitely expanded and extended, and there will never be an end.
If Su Anran hadn't been keeping records along the way, he and Qing Yu would have been lost in this palace complex.
"It really deserves to be the Taoist Cave." Qingyu couldn't help but sigh.
"Dao Lord's Cave?" Su Anran only knew that this cave was owned by a monk named "Ziyou Dao Lord", but he didn't know the specific situation. "Does this Dao Lord have any explanation?"
"You don't know?" Qingyu looked surprised, but as soon as the words came out, her face suddenly became enlightened again, "I almost forgot that you barely understand the common sense of the monastic world. I really don't know.
You have been practicing for so long, how come you still don’t know anything?"
"I have been practicing for just over three years now, less than three and a half years." Su Anran said helplessly, "I spend almost all my time on practicing, how can I have time to understand these things."
"Wait!" Qingyu suddenly stopped and looked at Su Anran with a shocked face, "You said that you have only practiced for less than three and a half years and you are already at the fourth level of the Aperture Realm?"
"Yes." Su Anran was a little confused, "Is there any problem?"
"This is impossible!" Qingyu shook her head, looking extremely unbelievable. She looked at Su Anran as if she were looking at some monster, "Even the two most talented people in Taiyi Valley have spent so much money.
More than four years."
Su Anran knew who Qingyu was talking about.
Fourth Senior Sister Ye Jinxuan and Ninth Senior Sister.
But in fact, almost no one in Xuanjie knows about it. This is because they all spend more time for the perfection of the divine sea. If they were not pursuing the great perfection of the divine sea, not to mention the fourth senior sister, even the second sister
Senior Sister and Third Senior Sister were both able to cultivate to the fourth level of the Aperture Realm in just three years.
In fact, in order to cultivate to the Great Perfection of the Divine Sea, the Second Senior Sister and the Third Senior Sister spent seven or eight years in the Divine Sea Realm, and only after reaching the Divine Sea Great Perfection did they break through to the Aperture Realm. And you must know that these two
It only takes one year to go from the first level of Tongqiao Realm to the fourth level of Tongqiao Realm.
To be fair, in Taiyi Valley, the only ones with the most outstanding cultivation talents are actually the Second Senior Sister and the Third Senior Sister, followed by the Fourth Senior Sister Ye Jinxuan, who can reach the level of a monster. As for the Ninth Senior Sister and the Fifth Senior Sister, who are also representatives of the martial arts sect,
It's just the standard of genius, but it can't compare to these two people. One drinks the milk of the goddess of luck every day, and the other has almost unlimited resources, so he can bite the tail of the "monsters" tightly.
However, outsiders do not know these inside stories, so they take it for granted that the five members of the Taiyi Valley Martial Arts Sect are all genuine monsters. In particular, they believe that Ye Jinxuan and Su Anran’s Ninth Senior Sister are the monsters among these five monsters.
It was even thought that they would be the fastest monks to break through to the Earthly Immortal Realm.
It is precisely because of this that when Fourth Senior Sister Ye Jinxuan entered the Heavenly List of Wanshi Building but was not given the name of an immortal in advance, the entire monastic world was extremely shocked.
In fact, among the five people who have the immortal name in advance on today's list, the third one from Taiyi Valley is Su Anran's second senior sister, third senior sister Tang Shiyun and ninth senior sister. The remaining two places are occupied by Zang
Xu Yue, the Xuan Yue Sword Immortal from Jiange, and Tan Daode, the Pen Immortal who was born in the Confucian Academy.
"Maybe I'm more of a monster?" Su Anran raised her head.
Qingyu thought carefully for a moment, then nodded: "It makes sense."
Now, it was Su Anran's turn to be surprised: "Don't you doubt it?"
"If you were not from Taiyi Valley, I would definitely be suspicious, but since you are a disciple of Taiyi Valley, then I think there is nothing to doubt." After Qingyu accepted the persona of "Su Anran is a monster", she felt that she
It doesn't seem like she imagined it
He was so shocked, "There has always been a saying in the Xuan world, 'If you are not a genius, you will not enter Taiyi, and if you do not see Taiyi, you will not know genius.' So you are a disciple of Taiyi Valley, and it is normal for you to be a genius...
…After all, it’s Taiyigu.”
Su Anran was speechless.
What terrible impression did Huang Zi create on the entire monastic world?
It seems that as long as it is related to the three words "Taiyi Valley", no matter how unreasonable things seem to become quite reasonable, what the hell is this setting!?
Qingyu didn't know that Su Anran was going crazy in her heart at this time. She said to herself: "After Guanghan Sword Immortal broke through to the Earthly Immortal Realm and became a veritable 'immortal', you should know about the Earthly Immortal Realm, right?... Then you
Do you know what the next level of the Earth Fairyland is?"
Qingyu asked the last sentence after Su Anran nodded.
"I heard it's the Daoji realm."
"Yes." Qingyu nodded, "Earth Immortal, Daoji, and the other side, these are the names of the three realms in the Xuan Realm after the Soul Condensing Realm. But in fact, starting from the Soul Condensing Realm, there are actually two sects of Buddhism and Taoism.
The corresponding job title. The four realms of Ninghun, Earth Immortal, Daoji, and Bianan are called Star Lord, True Lord, Dao Lord, and Immortal Lord in Taoism; while Buddhism is called Vajra, Arhat, Bodhisattva, and Buddha.
Bit."
"Daojun Ziyou... is this the cave of a Taoist monk?"
"Yes." Qingyu nodded, "Dao Lord, or Daoji Realm, are monks who have walked on the right path. They have at least understood one of the Dao Laws, or Dao Yun. But even if two people are walking on the same path,
Each monk has a different understanding of the laws of the Great Dao, so the Tao Yun they master is naturally different... Taojun Ziyou, I suspect that the key point is the word 'you'."
As a descendant of the great sage of the demon clan, Qingyu's knowledge reserve of the monastic world is naturally not comparable to that of Su Anran, a mere newcomer.
What's more, Dao Lord corresponds to Dao Sect, which is even more the field that Qingyu is good at.
"What's the meaning?"
"Generally speaking, after being granted an immortal name, a monk will get closer to the characteristics of his own immortal name. For example, your third senior sister's 'Guang Han' actually refers to 'Yin Han', because her sword energy can almost
It can instantly freeze anyone's vitality." Qingyu knew that Su Anran didn't understand, so she opened her mouth to learn a little more about it, "Ziyou, Taoist Master Ziyou, refers to this person.
The Tao Yun that Dao Lord came into contact with...'you' means black, but if you add the word 'purple' in front of it, it must not be the color it refers to. The remaining words are hidden, dim,
Elegance, when combined with the word 'purple', also means 'emperor', which is equivalent to 'elegant', so the meaning of 'secluded' can exclude the term elegance."
Su Anran felt that she had vaguely grasped the meaning of "Tao Yun".
He looked around.
Here, when standing in the courtyard, every building looks exactly the same. Only when you really go deep into it, you will find the difference between these palaces. Obviously this is not an accident, or it is not a deliberate arrangement by Ziyou Daojun.
blindfold.
Then the only explanation is that the palaces built and the magic formations set up by this Taoist monk are actually a kind of practice.
It is the practice of the Tao-based realm, and it is the in-depth understanding and exploration of his own Taoist aggregates.
"Hidden." Su Anran suddenly said.
"Yes." Qingyu nodded, "It's not dark here, everything is very bright, so naturally it has nothing to do with concealment... Purple probably represents the origin of this Taoist master or his practice.
It may be a characteristic of his, or it may be his favorite color, etc. But no matter what it is, it must have nothing to do with his Tao Yun, and judging from the situation of these palaces, it seems that they are covering up something, so there is only one explanation
Already."
"The Tao Yun of this Taoist is concealment and concealment." Su Anran already understood.
"More than that." But Qingyu still shook her head, "I have said that Dao Yun is actually each monk's different understanding of the Dao. In fact, there are many Dao that can produce this understanding of 'hidden', no less than a thousand
, but there is only one thing that can keep us wandering around here without ever finding the boundary."
"Space!" Su Anran was shocked, "This Taoist master's understanding of the great road is actually related to space!"
But Qingyu's face did not look shocked or excited at all, but instead looked worried.
Su Anran noticed this quickly: "What's wrong?"
"I suddenly thought of an issue that I might have overlooked before." Qingyu said.
"What?"
"Concealment means that the Taoist Lord may want to hide something. This thing may not be a good thing, or he doesn't want people to discover it, so he suppresses it here." Qingyu said, "And
, the word 'Purple' represents the emperor, and is related to the number 'Nine'. Combined with the word 'You', it also has another layer of meaning...Do you think this Taoist's 'Purple You' might be 'Nine'?
Quiet..."
"Stop it!" Su Anran hurriedly interrupted Qing Yu's words, "Next, don't say anything, never! Never! Don't raise flags randomly!"
"Fuleige?" Qingyu was a little confused, "What is that?"
"Don't worry about what it is. Anyway, don't say anything else." Su Anran didn't know why, but when Qingyu said the word "Nine Nethers", he suddenly shuddered, feeling that there seemed to be something all around him.
It became a little gloomy, "Anyway, we can't... tomorrow. After we finish exploring these rooms, we will immediately return the same way we came and leave this cave."
"Oh." Qingyu nodded obediently and said nothing more.
Her natural intuition did not change in any way, which made her still realize that as long as she followed Su Anran, she would be safe, at least she would not die.
So of course she wouldn't care too much about what Su Anran planned to do. Anyway, she really had no interest in things like the cave.
"I don't think there will be anything good here." Qingyu suddenly said, "How could a Taoist Lord's cave really pass away? Unless he sealed up Dao Yun in advance, otherwise what would happen to him would follow him.
When he falls, Dao Yun will also dissipate... Of course, his most precious thing must be left in the palace on the mountain. After all, it is the most important place in the entire cave."
"I think so too." Su Anran nodded, and then walked towards the front door.
Except for the one that Su Anran and Qingyu passed when entering the courtyard, they have already checked the gate buildings in the four directions of the courtyard. One of them is a "door" that leads to the other three buildings;
The other seemed to be a study room, but the books in it were not preserved and turned into fly ash at the slightest touch. So after observing to confirm that there was nothing valuable, Su Anran and Qing Yu left.
The current building is the last one in this courtyard.
Su Anran has made up his mind that as long as this is a door, he and Qingyu will turn around now and break out of the cave.
If it's not a door, then let's see if there's anything valuable inside - of course, Su Anran doesn't have any hope for this, because after exploring in the past two days, whether it's a residence, a alchemy room, a study room, etc., everything
Nothing seems to have escaped the passage of time, and nothing can be preserved.
Su Anran stepped across the threshold.
The space in front of me seemed to be rippled.
Su Anran, who has had two days of experience, knows that the occurrence of this phenomenon means that the building is not a "door", but a room.
However, before Su Anran could see the layout of the room clearly, Qingyu's voice suddenly came from behind.
"Unless... that mountain peak is a dojo, and the palace on the mountain is used to suppress something, then good things may appear here."
Qingyu chuckled lightly, and then followed Su Anran across the threshold. Her voice continued: "If this is really the case, hahaha, then this Taoist Lord is really Jiuyou..."
Qingyu's smile suddenly froze.
At this time, in front of Su Anran and Qingyu was a rather plain-looking room.
There was only one middle-aged man with white hair in the room.
This man had no breath and had obviously been dead for a long time.
With Su Anran and Qingyu's cultivation and courage, they naturally wouldn't be afraid of dead people.
But the problem is that the corpse of the white-haired middle-aged man in front of them is the owner of this cave, Ziyou Daojun!
"Didn't I tell you to stop talking?" Su Anran's voice was full of furious anger and a hint of helplessness.
