Chu Xunyu woke up from the bed in a daze, sat up and looked at the furnishings in the surrounding room, and suddenly found a new robe at the head of the bed, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, where did his old clothes go, so he had no choice but to put them on, walked out of the door with a long sword, and just saw Mu Yuan entering his room with tea, and immediately shouted: "Bajie!"

"Are you awake?" Mu Yuan was also happy, and hurriedly introduced Chu Xunyu into the room, and saw Wangchen reading at the table.

Forget Chen put down the book in his hand and asked, "How is your body?"

"It's okay. Chu Xunyu moved his hands and feet, "Where did Meng Xuan go?"

Mu Yuan put down the cup in his hand and left: "I'll call her." ”

It didn't take long for Sun Mengxuan to enter the door with Mu Yuan with a bunch of things, and when he saw Chu Xunyu, he exclaimed in surprise: "Are you awake?"

Chu Xunyu smiled and nodded, pointing to the clothes on his body: "You did this?"

"It's not good...... Sun Mengxuan was a little embarrassed, "I see that your clothes outside are torn a lot, and many places are sewn casually by yourself with needles and threads, so I made a set for you, don't think I'm clumsy, my female red skills are not good." ”

"It's okay, it fits perfectly. Chu Xunyu lightly stretched his ape arm and deliberately showed it, "It's good, thank you very much, where is my old robe?"

"Oh, I didn't throw it away, wash it and sew it here. Sun Meng took it out, "I just dried it outside, and the sun is good these days." ”

Chu Xunyu nodded, put the old robe outside, Sun Mengxuan was both puzzled and a little uncomfortable, "Do you think my daughter is bad?"

"No, don't be careful. Chu Xunyu laughed, "This set of clothes was made for me by my sister when I left home, I don't know how to throw it away, I wear it like seeing my family, your clothes are inside, close to my body, and treated like a treasure." ”

"Sour ...... My teeth are sore...... Mu Yuan deliberately covered his cheeks and shouted, "This is my house, please go back to your own room and say these love words." ”

Sun Mengxuan's face turned red, and he said angrily at Chu Xunyu: "There is no positive shape, and it is not ashamed to say these words in front of outsiders." ”

"Alright. Chu Xunyu's face narrowed, sat down at the table and said, "Let's talk about business next, how to arrange the meal? ”

"Nope. Sun Meng replied, "There will be a while before the meal, I will let the disciples of Shushan watch over there, and they will knock on the door when they are ready." ”

"Okay, everyone come here" Everyone sat down and listened to Chu Xunyu.

Chu Xunyu told everyone about the situation he met in Tianling Whistle that night when he protected Gongsun Yan, focusing on the matter of the young man in white and the girl Yan Zhi, everyone was stunned at the moment, they never thought that there would be such a thing here, Mu Yuan asked in surprise: "So...... Is that girl named Yanzhi really weird?"

"Weirdly tight. Forget Chen's expression was a little solemn, "You think, as soon as the battle starts, this 500-mile radius is sealed by the Shushan magic array, not to mention people, even birds can't fly in, I can't think about this kind of cultivation, how did she get in? ”

"What if someone stays inside in advance?" Mu Yuan asked curiously.

"Do you know that the Robbery Source Gate is going to attack Shushan?" Chu Xunyu rolled his eyes angrily, "She is an unknown prophet?" The news of the Robbery Source Gate this sneak attack is very tightly blocked, except for Wang Luran of the Skeleton Valley who knows some clues from the black road, almost no one knows it, and even Wang Luran doesn't know the specific time of the attack, otherwise Jin Mao will come to Shushan a month in advance to report the news, and the Yanzhi girl is more well-informed than the Skeleton Valley?"

"She shouldn't have known about it. Sun Mengxuan frowned and analyzed, "She should be in the same group as the great supernatural power of the young man in white, both of them are hands and eyes, and there is a special way to sneak in, just in time for a large-scale battle broke out between the two factions, but why does the young man in white want to protect Gongsun Yan? Didn't you say that this girl named Yanzhi is in the same group as those black-clothed people who killed Xiao Xiao's sister?"

Chu Xunyu shook his head: "I'm not sure about this now, I originally thought that this girl's origin was very strange, and I met the man in black several times along the way to attack our Central Plains Bajun, but every time this girl named Yanzhi appeared in it, so I have always doubted her identity, but there is no definite evidence, this time I saw clearly in the broken stone of the wind spirit whistle, the young man in white had an inverted triangular eye on the back of his hand, released in Boguang' When I first glimpsed Shura, he opened his eyes and saved the life of the young man in white, so they must be in a gang, but why did these two people show their true colors? and protect me and Gongsun Yan? I can't figure it out until now. ”

"Could it be like this?" Mu Yuan guessed, "I guess this is the case, what about those people, they have always wanted to kill us, but they have started infighting themselves, Yan Zhi and this man in white want to keep us from fighting against them in order to fight with their companions?"

Chu Xunyu pouted and said: "Come on, you, there is still infighting, we haven't encountered those black-clothed people before, how to believe their methods Needless to say, you can turn back time in a city casually, if they have infighting, how can Yanzhi girl and the white-clothed young man be unharmed? And Yanzhi girl's expression is also relaxed, it seems that there is no pressure of infighting at all, so I don't estimate that this matter has little to do with infighting, but they want to keep us because for some purpose, or it is not time to kill us." ”

"I don't know what it's worth to be killed. Mu Yuan grinned and said, "My orphans are rotten, these people are so powerful, it's easier to kill me than drinking water, I really can't figure out why they want to kill me, but then again, we have to be on guard, what kind of Miao awl did you say Bo Guang used before he died, do you know what this thing is? If we can get it, we will also get one or twenty to play with in our hands, and we will be prepared if they dare to come again." ”

Chu Xunyu shook his head funny: "I probably have some impression of that thing, and then I checked the classics, this awl is the Miao people's head lowering cone, it should be called 'Gu Feng'." ”

"Gu Feng?" Mu Yuan was stunned, "I know about the cold, I want you to go for treatment, what is this 'Gu Feng'?"

"That's a long story. Chu Xunyu told everyone that the Miao people are widely distributed, among which the recognized ancestors are Pan Gu and Jiang Yang, among which there is a group of people who believe that the ancestor Jiang Yang was born on a maple tree at the pole of heaven and earth, so the maple wood is used as the main material to make the tools for the head lowering technique, "Gu Feng" This kind of head-lowering technique originated in the Lancang River generation, now little known, according to legend, the local Miao people have a maple trunk of the ancestor Jiang Yang, made into a totem, every year to hold a large-scale sacrificial activities, the sacrifice will be a lot of fresh animal internal organs hung on the totem to show the gift of worship, this pattern is both a symbol of the village and the people's expectations.

If there are people in the village who encounter a deep feud in the sea of blood, when you need to cast some death curses that do not leave a backhand, you must first tell the "Zhai Lao" the beginning and the end, "Zhai Lao" is the elder in the village, this kind of people in addition to being highly respected, but also proficient in divination, head lowering, lower cup and other Qimen witchcraft, the Zhai Lao will hold a ceremony after listening to the beginning and the end, summon the spirit of the ancestors, pray to the ancestors for answers, if the ancestors agreed, in order to take down a piece of maple wood from the totem to make the head lowering technique, the whole process is called "over the yin" After using up, it must be retrieved together with the internal organs of the enemy's corpse, and continue to hang on the totem, called "returning to the yin", in order to show that they are not used indiscriminately elsewhere except for the enemy, at the same time, the internal organs with the resentment of the deceased are wrapped around the totem and will also make this maple accumulate over time to increase the ghost's grudge, the longer the number and age, the more powerful it is, so as to protect the village of future generations from being bullied by outsiders.

The awl on the abdomen of the young man in white should be called "Gu Feng", don't look at Chu Xunyu and don't understand Miao language, but in fact, this is also very easy to recognize, because the head of the awl is depicted like a cow's head, and the ancient witchcraft of the head lowering technique is in addition to weird, barbaric and dangerous, that is, the very vivid image of the production process, inheriting the most intuitive image of natural things by ancient human beings, "Gu" is the meaning of "cow", "cow" This animal in human history in addition to the virtue of hard work, another major feature happens to be barbarism, Rough and unyielding temperament, the Han people in the Central Plains will describe it as "drilling the tip of the horns" when they encounter some situations where their brains are inflexible, and they will often say proverbs such as "ten cows can't pull them back", using this "maple" The head under the awl is probably this effect, it is a maple cone soaked in the internal organs of the corpse, with the spell of the Miao people, once inserted into the body, it is like a bull rushing, pulling out mountains and rivers, it is difficult to pull it out again, the pain can drill the heart, the pain is unbearable; and the horns of the ox are edged, and the wound that pierces is difficult to heal, so the blood will never dry, and it will flow until the day when the sky is old and old, and ordinary people will go in less than half an hour, even if you are a cultivator, it is impossible for you to let your blood flow endlessly; when it rains, when the lightning and thunder roar, the spell above will release the ghost that has been hanging on the totem for many yearsNo matter which way of worshipping the gods, the head of the cow must be worshipped, and there are legends such as ghosts that can be seen as ghosts after wiping the tears of the ox, so this kind of maple awl will be entangled in the thunderstorm and when the yang energy is not in full bloom, the thousands of ghosts that have been precipitated on the maple totem for many years will haunt you, making people feel like falling into hell, and life is better than death.

Mu Yuan was surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted in surprise: "Since this thing is so powerful, then let's get one or twenty to defend ourselves, and no matter how powerful those black-clothed people are, we can just take it and stab it." ”

"I-" Chu Xunyu took a big sip, "Do you think this thing is chopsticks! There are as many as you want?" This kind of maple totem in ancient times has been very rare with the changes of the times, this thing is very rare even in the land of southern Xinjiang, and it is worth a thousand gold on the black market, how many people are fighting for it, and only a famous sect like the source of the source sect has one, you don't have to think about it. ”

Forget Chen suddenly asked, "Is there a solution to this thing, will that mysterious young man in white die because of this?"

"It's hard to solve, it's hard to get to the sky. Chu Xunyu shook his head, "This thing is very tricky even for our family doctors, especially the older it is, the more the yin spirits on it accumulate, and the more troublesome it will be to deal with, otherwise Boguang will not appear as a blow before death, I heard that even if the head lowering master with clever means comes to relieve it himself, he needs to pray to the ancestors, if the ancestors are gracious and willing to withdraw this technique, in order to have some vitality, our family classics for the cup, There are many records of the solution to the second technique, because many monks have broken their heels in southern Xinjiang throughout the ages, and thousands of people have come to our house for medical treatment, so our family knows a lot, but there are no more than 100 cases of successful lifting. ”

"This ......" Mu Yuan couldn't help but beat a little drum in his heart, "Even your family can't solve it in Yelangzhong, so isn't it bad luck for us to go?"

"Don't be so pessimistic, I don't have a good idea, but you do. Chu Xunyu pointed at Mu Yuan and laughed.

"Me?"

"Yes. Chu Xunyu nodded, "The most fundamental principle of the cup and the second lowering technique is nothing more than yin qi, poisonous insects, Dead and other means, although strange and ferocious, but Buddhism is the head of the sect of the hundred evils, this is incomparable, since ancient times dyed cup or descended people can not find a good way to lift, have to go to the Buddhist temple to seek the mercy of the monks, the Taoist sect of the Central Plains is almost none in southern Xinjiang, but Buddhist temples abound, perhaps because the Buddhist family has always been indisputable with the world, so as long as there are Buddhist monks to shoot, basically can deter these side door deviations, can be temporarily kept for a while. ”

"Hahaha...... Mu Yuan's smug nose is about to go to the sky, "I said it, Ye Langzhong, in the end, it still depends on me, whether it is the underground world of the sea of death in the desert, or the ghost city of Shengfu in the abyss of Shu Dao, it is all dependent on my Buddhist means to sweep everything, okay, leave it to me, look at the great mana of my supreme Buddha light." ”

Chu Xunyu didn't bother to look at him with a smug look, but Sun Mengxuan still said worriedly: "Even if there is the Buddha's light of Mu Yuan can be avoided for a while, you still need to be careful, especially if you say that you are looking for the ancient Dian Kingdom, I heard my family say that it is an evil place, and many people have gone and never returned." ”

"yes, I remember that. Mu Yuan suddenly put away his smile and asked, "What is this thing called 'Ancient Dian Kingdom', is it reliable? Why has no one ever heard of it?" ”

"When you have nothing to do, let you read a book, and you haven't even finished reading "Historical Records", and you are embarrassed to come out and explore the rivers and lakes. Chu Xunyu pursed his lips, and the angry Mu Yuan blew his beard and glared, "I also heard what that man said about this, but I feel unreliable." ”

"Which man?" Mu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "It's the master you worshipped in the land of the two poles." ”

"He's not my master. Chu Xunyu immediately emphasized.

Forget Chen hurriedly played a round: "Good, good, good, whether it is or not, let's talk about what you think first." ”

"I'm not sure it's going to be reliable. Chu Xunyu shook his head, " The ancient Dian Kingdom is thousands of years ago, in the southern Xinjiang for a short period of existence, come fast, go fast, not long even the emperor to the subjects are all mysteriously disappeared, some people say what is the anger from the sky, all burned to ashes, and some people say what is the flood, was sunk to the bottom of the lake by the dragon lord, but I think that the religious beliefs in southern Xinjiang are different, the dragon lord seems to be unable to manage the things over there, to this day there are only some scattered written records and broken ruins, now it is estimated that the wind can become slag, you say that this mysterious small country in southern Xinjiang has something to do with my affairs I think it is unlikely。 ”

"I think it's possible. Forget the dust pondered for a long time and said what he thought.

"Oh?

Forget Chen explained: "The land of southern Xinjiang has always excluded the Han people, which everyone knows, but the appearance of the black lamp opening process is obviously a Han thing, doesn't it mean that it is taken to southern Xinjiang, then there must be something in southern Xinjiang that can be related to it, even if the 'moon' in that sentence refers to the lamp twist, there must be an exact place, but where will the things of the Han people be kept from being discovered?" I think it should be the ruins of the ancient Dian Kingdom, because there is a rumor on the rivers and lakes that the ancient Dian Kingdom was actually established by the Han people, and there are many Han cultural things in the disappeared imperial city, so I feel that this clue still has some truth, Meng Qi, I think you should know best. ”

Everyone looked at Sun Mengxuan together, and Chu Xunyu asked, "Why do you know so well, no wonder you don't want me to go, what is the matter, is there anything you don't say?"

Sun Mengxuan shook his head helplessly and said: "It's not inconvenient, it's all some false rumors, but our soldier family really knows this very well, I haven't said it because it's too illusory, and no one believes it when I say it, but if you want to go, I have to tell you." ”

Sun Mengxuan then said a little stupidly: "The rumor of the 'Han people establishing the ancient Dian Kingdom' mentioned by the predecessors of Wuchen is actually firmly believed in by our soldiers, and this person's name is 'Zhuang Ji'......"

"Huh?" Chu Xunyu was taken aback, "Isn't this person a general of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, and later fought back and started a war against the Chu State, as if he was born in your military family." ”

"Yes, this is the person. Sun Mengxuan nodded, "This person is also one of the ancestors of our military family, but I have heard from the older generation that this ancestor is extremely ambitious, and he is obsessed with cruelty, and his reputation in our family has not been very good." When I was a child, I was very obsessed with learning the art of yin and yang and the military strategy of commanding the army to fight, but I did not pay much attention to my own practice, our family's yin and yang art is not as good as Taoism, most of them are also related to the use of soldiers, I myself also learned these, and military strategy is our compulsory coursework, and there is not much peculiarity; At that time, many of our famous ancestors went out of the mountains to assist the king, and he was no exception, leaving the family, going outside, and choosing the state of Chu, the state of Chu since the founding monarch to Qu Yuan, the successor monarch of the Warring States period was the most mediocre and unreasonable, the worst of the country's governance, bureaucratic corruption, and high public resentment, at that time they basically had no hope of dominating the world, so our family basically withdrew all the soldiers and courtiers, only Zhuang Ji stayed alone, at that time it was said that many people of the same clan persuaded him to go with him and leave this hopeless place, but Zhuang Ji thought that this was the best place for him to display his talents。 ”

"The late stage of this country is basically a weeping rotten wood, terminally ill, incorrigible, invaded many times by the surrounding neighbors, and the country is also chaotic, no one knows what naïve ideas Zhuang Ji himself wants to stay here, but it didn't take long for him to lead the men and horses to mutiny, trying to capture the capital and establish himself as the king, at this time our family knew that he chose such a festering country to the bones out of his own plan to be the king, but this plan failed, he did not replace the king of Chu, and then went away to the south of Xinjiang, captured the land of the south of Xinjiang, he was the first Han in the history of Shenzhou to conquer the south of Xinjiang, just at this time the Qin State destroyed the state of Chu, He couldn't go back to the Central Plains, so he simply stayed in southern Xinjiang, and finally fulfilled his lifelong wish and established a small country, called 'Dian Kingdom', which is the origin of the ancient Dian Kingdom, of course, this is just a legend, no one knows what the truth is, the only place that the predecessors of Wuchen just said can retain the Han culture, should refer to this. ”

"Isn't that over!" Mu Yuan exclaimed in surprise, "Since it is the territory established by our Han people, there will be no danger from other ethnic groups, and General Lao Sun will go back to find some elders of your family, relatives, look through the documents of the year, get a map and give it to us, and we will directly find the past and finish the matter." ”

"That's not the end of the story. Sun Mengxuan continued helplessly, "The Dian Kingdom established by Zhuang Ji was in the southern part of the country, so when the Great Qin Iron Cavalry swept the world later, they escaped a catastrophe, and the First Emperor didn't pay much attention to this small marginal country with a large sesame mung bean. I heard from my family that after Zhuang Ji established the Dian Kingdom, he found that the aborigines of this land on the edge of Shenzhou actually spread many side techniques, which should refer to the current cup, The art of descending, these things are simply unheard of for him, unseen, Zhuang Ji's greatest wish in his life is to be the emperor, and now he has finally fulfilled his wish, then the next thing to pursue is eternal life, or to enter the way of heaven, but he himself is not very interested in the traditional practice of the Central Plains, and his years of war career also made him miss the best opportunity to practice, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he began to concentrate on studying these side arts behind closed doors, thinking that the purpose of immortality can be completed without going through the practice methods of the Central Plains factions, and began to completely close the country, and then some of his friends in our family had traveled to the south to visit him, I want to see what the kingdom he has established is like, but after the past, I see a devastation. The unsightly scene, it is said that his palace built a poor and extravagant desire, splendid, and accumulated a lot of wealth, but the people are all hungry, difficult to maintain their vitality, even shoes are not worn, or walk barefoot all day long, the ground is full of white bones, starvation is all over the ground, regard the people as pigs and dogs like slaves, build a lot of construction for him, and become the target of his various strange arts, which makes several ancestors of our family in the past very disgusted, and Zhuang Ji came back after a few words, but some people say that Zhuang Ji is the evil light at that time, the demon spirit on his body is flourishing, and the evil door is very。 ”

"Later, the Qin State also perished not long after, the establishment of the Han Dynasty pushed Confucianism to the peak, and our other sons began to decline. Money and food, as well as the classics of strange arts that are far more powerful than the cultivators of the Central Plains, invite all the members of our soldier family to migrate over, with our family's ability to cross the battlefield, we are fully capable of counterattacking the Central Plains and unifying the rivers and mountains, and the letter also shouted that with the results of his years of study, we can completely defeat other sects, unify the cultivation realm, and complete this unprecedented and unprecedented. Of course, this proposal must have been rejected by our family, and after so many years of denouncing him, his ambitions have not subsided, and the head of our family at that time asked someone to come back to warn him of the truth that 'if he does more injustice, he will kill himself', so that he can do it himself. ”

"Zhuang Ji didn't practice much, so the life span will not be too long, just a little longer than ordinary people, not long after we heard that he died suddenly, and then the ancient Dian country was in chaos, and later heard that this country disappeared mysteriously, and the later monarch was just a collection of some ordinary people in the southern Xinjiang to continue the regime, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, sent a large army to press the border, the monarch surrendered without resistance, and the country called 'Yunnan' officially died out and became a county. But the legend of the Dian Kingdom has not been broken, and the rumors are becoming more and more outrageous, saying that the imperial city of the ancient Dian Kingdom is full of gold, silver and jewelry, and there are many ways to live forever, many people have gone to look for it, but none of the people who went have come back, and our soldiers have also sent people to look for it, but the bizarre thing is that none of them have come back, it is said that because Zhuang Ji angered the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao completely knocked his entire city into the Netherworld Hell, and everyone who went went had no return, so I tried my best not to let you go to death。 ”

Sun Mengyu said so much in one breath, the three of them were extremely surprised, they didn't expect that there was such a story in it, what does it mean that "everyone who goes has gone and has no return"? Chu Xunyu was stunned when he heard this, and said to everyone: "In this way, it seems that we have to prepare well. ”

(PS: Thank you for your patience, yesterday I finally completed the compensation for the accident, and then I understood the troubles that have been bothering me these days, and today I will send a longer article, thank you for your support, and I will be more careful when driving in the future......)