amaotonovel Chapter 290: Non-fog and gloomy
Chapter 290: Non-fog and gloomy
Chapter 290: Non-fog and gloomy
After knocking Yuan Louzi down with his magic, Jiang Wen immediately found the astonished onlookers nearby. Seeing that their strength had recovered to the point where they could barely move, he told them to get down the mountain quickly without any doubt.
"My hero, it's getting dark now. It might be difficult for us to go down the mountain... Can you be tolerant and wait until tomorrow morning when it's light?"
Everyone looked at each other at the rugged mountain road. The hostages pushed and shoved for a long time before finally electing a representative to beg. However, Jiang Wen was completely unmoved and even spoke to them in a threatening tone.
"Just now I encountered the Immortal Master mural in my cave, which said that there was originally an ancient temple here, and there was a thousand-year-old locust tree growing underground."
"This monster feeds on human corpses. The ground is littered with corpses of people killed by the monster. When night falls, the yin energy on this mountain will breed zombies, and countless monsters and evil spirits will run rampant..."
Jiang Wen deliberately glanced at the cave behind him, making them naturally think of the horrific human charcoal piled all over the cave.
The original skin of the dead disappeared, turned into dry and withered wood, and finally turned into dark and twisted charcoal. They really looked like the dead people whose essence was sucked dry by ghosts in the legend. If that was the case, these weird and inhumane criminals in the mountains were undoubtedly the minions of ghosts!
The hostages looked at each other in bewilderment again. This time, they regarded Jiang Wen as a sword immortal who had come to the mortal world to slay demons and monsters and take people's heads at a distance of a hundred steps with ease. He had come to avert disaster for them.
According to legend, such earthly immortals often practice on cliffs, take elixirs and fast, and breathe in and out the essence of the sun and the moon. These people are very stubborn and aloof. If an old man like Yuan Louzi makes them angry, they don't think they can be fine if they get hit on the head with two sticks.
After the hostages whispered this, they quickly supported each other and walked down the mountain. Only Jiang Wen was left alone.
Jiang Wen waited until the crowd had dispersed before he slowly recalled what had happened.
He had just discovered some extremely mysterious rock paintings on the walls of the cave around Yi Yun's mummy in the quiet cave. The time period was far beyond imagination, and they depicted an extremely strange scene, which made Jiang Wen's hair stand on end. He always felt that something disturbing would happen in the next moment.
It was a strange picture with spots. A dark dragon was gradually emerging in the mural on the east side. The stars dotted among them were like dense cloud patterns on a jade disk, while in the center of the winding dragon's body there was a blazing light, as if a huge fire was burning, reflecting a hazy shape.
The flames on the dragon's back are bright and shining, just like a winged man riding a dragon upside down, looking back, majestic without anger, and preparing to ride the dragon to fly away into the sky. It is actually a complete and magnificent scene with primitive religious significance - a picture of the soul ascension!
"Shuowen Jiezi. Dragon" states that "Dragon is the leader of scaled insects. It can be dark or bright, small or big, short or long. It ascends to the sky at the spring equinox and dives into the abyss at the autumnal equinox." However, the most common description of "dragon" by the ancients should be the blue dragon with seven stars stretching across the eastern sky.
Jiang Wen knew that the dying Yi Yun was not fighting the enemy, but was using his last bit of strength to urge his sword energy to destroy the stone wall and prevent outsiders from discovering the evil secret hidden in it for thousands of years. However, it seemed that what he tried his best to take away was only the secret of sword-making, but in the end, he still left behind enough clues for Jiang Wen to imagine.
As luck would have it, today was the Spring Equinox. Jiang Wen believed that if he waited until it was dark and saw the Azure Dragon soaring into the sky, he would be able to understand what Yi Yun was afraid of!
The sound of the wind was disturbing the ears without any regularity. Jiang Wen looked around and actually discovered long ago that the trees in the Pengxi area seemed to be thicker and denser. He originally thought that it was just because the criminals kept attacking passers-by, which led to the fact that there were few firewood harvests in this area by the mountain people.
But at this moment, as night fell, Jiang Wen had already sensed that a storm was brewing, and there must be other unknown secrets here.
Jiang Wen slowly raised his head. The night sky, which was once polluted by various lights in modern society, seemed noisy and dark. Only a few small stars that flickered in the east could be seen. But now the transparency of the atmosphere is much better than usual, and there is no light pollution at all. The sudden arrival of the starry sky is like a fairyland, which immediately awakens the ancient memory unique to the genes.
"Is that Big Mars..."
The Mars that modern people refer to was called "Yinghuo" in ancient times. The big Mars is the second star among the seven stars of the Eastern Azure Dragon, also called Shangxing or Chenxing.
Later generations only know that Du Fu had a poem saying: If we never meet in this life, we will be as active as the stars in the sky; but few understand that the "Fire flies in July, clothes are given out in September" in "The Book of Songs" refers to this big Mars. Because it is located in the heart of the dragon, this star is also called "Dragon's Heart".
The location of the winged man in the mural should be the dragon heart of the Blue Dragon. Although the Blue Dragon can be seen shining brightly in the sky, there is no trace of the winged man sitting astride it. So why did the painter see Mars burning in the shape of a winged man?
At this moment, on the dirty land between the sheds, thousands of cell-like light spots were wriggling, emitting dim and evil light. The wandering phosphorescence turned into strange colors and burned with rumbling, thick and terrifying flames.
The phosphorus fire spewed out an interstellar airflow that was stronger than the one at Yanpingjindi a few days ago, which was constantly raging and whipping the surroundings crazily, easily taking away the colors of the human world, leaving behind a deep scorched darkness, and madly rushing towards the sky. At this moment, there seemed to be a gravitational force in the sky that was madly expanding, causing an unimaginable collapse in the sea of stars, turning into a huge vortex!
The huge vortex spread wildly. Jiang Wen stared at the big Mars in the sky without blinking. He vaguely saw two stars connected together. The main star was a red supergiant, and the companion star was a blue dwarf. Since the brightness of the main star was dozens of times higher than that of the companion star, it appeared to have an extremely bright red glow. The raging fire infected and ignited this silent land, like a charioteer with a feather crown on his head!
It is indeed a picture of a winged man riding a dragon!
The winged man who appeared quietly on the dragon fell headfirst into the bottomless abyss under the influence of the gravity trap. Chunfen should have soared into the sky, but he suddenly turned upside down and suddenly attacked Jiang Wen!
The fire on Shangxing seemed to be real, flashing red and white light and rushing fast. It was like a beam of light in the air that instantly illuminated the ground. Then a huge bang sounded and quickly passed through the pine forest. Behind it was an extremely huge tail light mist, which caused strange light to begin burning the ground.
On the land covered with damp needles and humus, a strange electric current suddenly spread out many winding traces like "dragon claws", as if the Azure Dragon transformed by the Seven Stars was being driven by a winged man, sweeping across the barren land unreasonably, leaving behind countless marks of intertwined claws and fangs cruelly.
At this moment, there seemed to be thunder in the sky, with a deafening roar, alternating dazzling lights, unidentified objects like flying dragons, and large trees shaking. Jiang Wen only felt that there was a huge, heavy, strange train that was invisible to the naked eye, passing rapidly through the air.
“Is that how it came about?”
At around 1994:12 a.m. on December 1, 3, residents of Duxi Forest Farm, 20 kilometers north of GY City, were awakened by a rumbling sound. It was said that the wind was very strong at the time, and unidentified objects emitting strong red and green light whizzed past. In addition, a large number of marks similar to dragon claw marks appeared on the land in the forest farm, which was shocking.
But now Jiang Wen is certain that the truth behind this incident is more terrifying and more dangerous than UFOs!
In the heart-pounding colorful phosphorescence, as a rumbling sound resounded through the sky, the blazing Shang star seemed to have finally hit the dark ground. The area of Zhanlu Mountain was suddenly lifted up, and smoke and dust rushed straight into the sky, creating unimaginable violent vibrations.
But the place where Jiang Wen was standing did not shake at all. Even the pine trees around him swayed in the cold wind without any breakage. Instead, crazy and incomprehensible mutterings were heard in the forest, rising and falling in every corner of the forest.
Jiang Wen took out the Mani Pearl from his arms, and the infinite light once again mottled the boundary between reality and illusion. He finally saw clearly that there were many hunchbacked, ape-like short creatures around him, standing side by side beside him with fear on their faces, staring up at the sky stupidly - their small brain capacity did not allow them to ponder the mysteries of the universe, but the curse mark unique to unsolved knowledge was already deeply engraved in their minds at that moment.
So these creatures dressed like apes began to use the stones in their hands to carve what they saw and heard over and over again. Their personalities became more taciturn, eccentric and stubborn, and they painted lifelike pictures beyond the limitations of their skills.
Finally, they secretly kept the drawn patterns in a cave that they considered the most solemn and profound, and which had protected them from countless threats. It seemed that only by relying on the same mysterious power could they suppress the panic and fear in their hearts.
Jiang Wen tightly grasped the Mani Pearl, his eyes cast into the deepest darkness, and more details of the mural emerged in his eyes.
The blue dragon that fell from the sky was completely dismembered, with its bones and horns exposed. The majestic winged man wearing a feather crown died a tragic death and no trace of life was seen. The only thing left in the painting was a flaming blue dragon pearl, which was still burning violently even after falling to the ground, showing a red color like the never-extinguished lava.
Then, the image of the bead suddenly disappeared from the mural. The only pattern left on the incomplete and mottled mural was an unimaginable fire that was about to ignite the night sky in front of them.
That’s right, it’s right in front of you!
Because the sky that Jiang Wen was seeing now was burning!
The scene of the meteorite falling from outer space tens of thousands of years ago was repeated over and over again! The only thing left in the world was the extremely bright, almost flaming Mars in the sky!
There is the endless alien colors of Zhanlu Mountain, rushing back and forth, the final direction they want to return to!
Zhang Hua of the Western Jin Dynasty observed the celestial phenomena and recognized the clouds. He found that there was often purple air between the Dipper and the Ox. He asked Lei Huan, who was good at observing the celestial phenomena, to find the sword. Finally, the sword was found under the old prison in Fengcheng County, Yuzhang Prefecture. Lei Huan wiped the sword and it became brand new and bright. But that night, the purple air between the Dipper and the Ox in the sky suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Wen originally questioned how the sword's brilliance, no matter how bright it was, could affect the boundless sky. But now he suddenly understood the cause and effect, and realized that the sword itself must have come from the sky!
"...Meteorites from outer space were used to forge swords? Is the answer that simple?"
The secret of Ou Yezi's sword-making seemed to have finally been cracked by Jiang Wen, but long before Jiang Wen, it had already been discovered by Lei Huan and Lei Hua, father and son of the Jin Dynasty. It must have also been known by other people whose identities were unknown, and they had once again laid out some preventive measures -
Because at this moment there was a strange sudden change in the sky, the collapsing gravitational vortex encountered some kind of obstruction, as if an invisible finger poking into this dark world was blocked by an invisible explosion-proof glass!
On Baima Mountain in Songxi County, purple air rises from Baima Temple, where Wugong Buddha is enshrined; on Luanfeng Mountain, green air rises from Luanfeng Temple, where Baihe Zhenxian is enshrined; on Keting Mountain, white air rises from Nan'an Temple, where Kegong Buddha is enshrined; on Qifeng Mountain, mysterious air rises from Yunji Temple, where Hugou Buddha is enshrined...
Then there are Baizhang Mountain, Shengzhe Mountain, Jiang Mountain, Miaofeng Mountain, and Rushi Mountain in Songxi County, and temples dedicated to the old Buddha and the immortals on the mountaintops are also one after another, radiating light that connects the heaven and the earth, as if to support the crumbling scene and isolate the big Mars that is about to fall!
But when they arrived at the Zhanlu Mountain, which was surrounded by mountains and where the abnormality occurred, the clear air was difficult to sustain and the momentum seemed particularly weak, which immediately made the gradually fading meteorite realize that something was wrong and seemed to want to escape.
Jiang Wen turned his head to look at the Zhanlu Temple on the top of the mountain, and suddenly thought of the strange Buddha statue that was burned and stolen. He immediately realized some of the connections, but the situation seemed to have long been out of his control. After all, he could not hide the horrifying scene of "dragon light shooting into the Dou". A wisp of dragon light and purple air broke through the seal and reached up to the sky between the Niu and the Dou!
"'The numbers of heaven and earth begin with Altair'! What a great numerology formation that goes with the flow!"
"Shuowen Jiezi" records that "the numbers of heaven and earth start from Qianniu", believing that the movement of the sun and the moon starts from Niu, so the movement of the celestial bodies turns left from Niu and ends at Dou. This is the law of movement, and therefore all the numbers between heaven and earth start from here.
The master at that time did not understand the way of the sword, but seemed to be proficient in the art of numerology. In order to prevent the dragon light and purple air from rushing straight into the sky, which would eventually attract covetousness and even the arrival of ominous things, he personally set up a large numerology formation, relying on the operation of the world's numerology to twist the stars and block the leakage of the magical phenomena. Even if there were occasional leaks, they would be scattered between the Niu and Dou constellations, making it impossible to find the direction.
Unfortunately, the world is unpredictable and the people who set up the formation could not have imagined that no one had mastered the art of observing qi in later times. Even if someone accidentally got in, they probably wouldn't know exactly what he was guarding against.
After all, the alien objects arrived too early, so early that only someone with a wild imagination like Jiang Wen could connect these strange and bizarre things together, such as "The Winged Man Riding a Dragon", "The Strange Car in the Sky in Guiyang", "Ou Yezi Forging Swords" and "Dragon Light Shooting the Dragon", and re-arrange and restore some of the truth of the matter.
A strange wind was raging in the deep forests. The Milky Way had already tilted to the west until all the light disappeared completely, leaving darkness covering the earth. The heavy and gloomy shadows poured down towards the valley where Pengxi was located without any explanation. However, there was no one here except Jiang Wen.
The shadow under Jiang Wen's feet became fainter, as if the soul it represented was being suppressed and had long been swallowed up by a huge shadow that was darker, darker, and more malicious, and was completely buried in this remote mountain.
Under the illumination of the Mani Pearl, the entire mountain now presents a strange wavy pattern, which is a unique crystal pattern that can only be found in octahedral iron meteorites and some olivine meteorites. The radiating bands also seem to distort the color and spirit.
Living in this kind of environment for a long time will obviously have some irreversible effects on people's minds. People's personalities will become fragile and sensitive, suspicious and timid, and eventually reshaped into indifference, mechanical and numbness. Without exception, they have the same "mechanical sense" as the murderers.
This meticulousness, which is deeply rooted in their bones, is enough to make the uneducated mountain people obey orders and even master the Mandarin Duck Formation. And no matter how the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties change outside, the terrifying mentality of hiding in the mountains all their lives and risking lives to study sword-making seems to be called "craftsman spirit."
"Could the person who set up the formation be Ou Yezi? What kind of person is he..."
Jiang Wen was still staring, when he suddenly saw a faint and incomplete figure standing on the top of the mountain. It was indistinguishable between a human and an animal, with a mottled body like an ancient pine tree and fluffy hair like feathers. At this moment, it was facing north and making ghostly howls at the sky and earth.
If Ouye is Kunwu, and Kunwu is Ouye, then even if Jiang Wen does not understand the meaning of the human-like and beast-like roar, he can understand the fear and anger in the voice.
Kunwu is not a place or a person, but a place where aliens exist. It is a mark passed down in the genes. It has led the Kunwu people to wander around in the places visited by aliens throughout the ages, making the noises in the dreams heard by Duke Zhuang of Wei in Zuo Zhuan. This is the voice that belongs exclusively to the people of "Kunwu" -
"I climbed this Kunwu mountain, and there were melons growing endlessly. I am a foolish man, and I beg the heavens for my innocence!"
At some point, a ghostly half-moon was hanging in the sky, and on top of the dark mountain, countless figures were quietly standing in the woods. Jiang Wen tightly grasped the ancient Zhanlu sword, and a stern sword intent rose into the sky. He understood the intention of the sword master to build the villa here.
The last mural in the cave shows a group of short human figures surrounded by dark, blurry, twisted lines, with weapons in their hands still scattered around. The rock painting ends there.
"Shi Yi Ji" records that "King Gou Jian of Yue ordered workers to use white horses and white cows to worship the god Kunwu, and to mine gold to cast eight exquisite swords." According to the traces of the boat coffin in the cave, these eight swords eventually came into the hands of the owner of Yiyun Manor, and were suspended in the cave for day and night contemplation, and finally the truth was revealed.
Just like Yi Yun’s last words, “Today I have encountered the immortal, and now I know that the true sword of the immortal is the invisible sword energy”, from “Kunwu” to “Ouye”, and then from “Ouye” to “Kendo”, the bloodline inheritance may fade away one day, but these extraordinary things that created the glorious sword path during the Spring and Autumn Period should be borne by the younger generations who benefited from the sword path.
These figures surrounding Jiang Wen were like pieces of blackened charcoal, but they had the cunning and cruel facial features of the criminals, and a vitality that was difficult to kill. As the corpses inexplicably resurrected in the dark night, they continued to charge towards Jiang Wen like a wave.
Looking at the same dark night, Jiang Wen seemed to smell the blood in the air. After taking a deep breath, he drew out his sword and transformed himself into a Yaksha in the darkness again. The sword blade stabbed into the colorless enemy like rotten leather, without any force. However, it did not diminish Jiang Wen's sharpness at all.
Jiang Wen took a deep breath and drew out the ancient Zhanlu sword. Facing the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, he remained calm. In a trance, he recalled the most dangerous battle outside Yanmen Pass when he first entered the martial arts world.
Countless soldiers rushed towards him from all directions, arrows covered the sky, smoke blocked out the sun, the battle lasted from night to day, and from day to night. He didn't know how many Liao soldiers he had killed or injured, but he didn't know how many Liao soldiers wanted to keep them. Even though Jiang Wen was supported by his strong will, he almost said "I can use it next time" countless times.
Jiang Wen thought quietly, wondering how many mysteries were hidden in Zhanlu Mountain that he had not yet known, and how many mysteries were scattered in the vast world like Ou Yezi's sword-making. But these thoughts surged in an instant, and in an instant they were extinguished like the stars in the sky, leaving only a greeting from the heart.
"Are you ready to die again?"
(End of this chapter)