Daomu Biji

We moved on, looking for a way out of this snowy valley. Finally I found a climbable place hidden by snow. I scraped off the snow with a mountaineering pick, looked for a foothold on the rocks bit by bit, and climbed up. Rest on the rock wall at night. until noon the next day. We just climbed the thirty-meter-high cliff.

We continued to move forward arduously: I followed Mengyouping. At dusk, the distance we walked may not exceed 20 kilometers, but we found traces of melting snow all around. Menyouping listened with his ears and touched bit by bit, and finally found the gap buried in the snow.

After dark, the temperature dropped much lower than expected. We entered the gap and came to the hot spring where we were resting. We lit a fire inside to keep warm and boiled some soup water.

I had no appetite and didn't eat anything, but Menyoupin didn't seem to want to eat anything at all. After resting for a while at the entrance of the gap, we continued walking in. At this time, I already understood where the Mengyou Bottle was going. He was going to the Bronze Gate. That place completely subverted my outlook on life. I really didn’t want to see that place again.

However, it is obvious that the destination of the stuffy oil bottle is there. From this gap, go all the way in, and you will soon reach that place. There is no need to go around the entire Yunding Tiangong.

I was thinking about those human-faced birds and wondered what the situation was like now. That night I had a dream. I dreamed that Menyouping and I came to the bronze door. Menyouping said goodbye to me, then went in, leaving me alone at the door. When I turned around, countless human-faced birds looked at me, which woke me up. After waking up. I saw that Menyouping was not sleeping, but was sorting out all his things.

I asked him what he was doing, and he said, "I'm looking at what things you can use. I'll leave them all for you. You may need them on your way back."

"What about you?" I asked in surprise.

"Here. It doesn't matter even if I am a newborn baby, I am already very close to my destination." He said, "You don't need to go in anymore, it's too dangerous inside."

I was surprised to see that Menyou Pingran took out two ghost jade seals from his package. He looked at them and handed one of them to me.

"Now that you're here. I thought you should know something," he said. "You take this ghost jade seal back with you. I only need one."

"Where did you get this other one?"

"Mrs. Huo gave it to me." Menyouping said. "When you don't know:"

"What is this thing used for?" I went straight to the point. I was no longer interested in knowing what was going on behind the scenes.

Menyouping said: "Open the door."

I took the ghost jade seal,

He said: "If you bring this thing and come to the bronze door, the door will open. Ten years later, if you still remember me, you can take this thing and open the bronze door. You may still be there See me in there.”

"What is the place behind that door?" I asked Menyoupin, "Why do you want to go in?"

"I can't tell you what kind of place it is." Menyouping said. "I can only tell you an agreement. Many years ago, I found what you called the Old Nine Sect with a secret. In the ancestral precepts of the Zhang family, survival has always been the biggest goal. The entire development of the Zhang family process. I hope that in any troubled times, the Zhang family can survive and preserve the mass burial in the ancient building of the Zhang family. From the information I have received, only the patriarch can know a huge secret. The Zhang family has started from the very beginning. This huge secret has been obtained. This secret has been running in the long history of China. No one knows what it is. We only know that there is this secret itself, and the secret has a key time node. This node has now arrived. In Zhang After the last remaining hope of my family was shattered, I found the Laojiu Clan at that time. I hoped to use the power of the Laojiu Clan to help the Zhang family and jointly undertake this obligation. So that this secret would not be discovered, but no one in the Laojiu Clan. Keep your promises.

"The core of the secret I want to protect is behind this bronze door. It takes time to protect this secret. I will enter the bronze door for ten years and wait for the next successor."

"Why do you say no one kept their promise?"

"Because in the past nearly a hundred years, all the people who guarded this secret were members of the Zhang family, and the power of the Zhang family was weakened. In our previous promise, people from the Old Nine Sects must take turns to go Keep this secret."

"None of them went?"

Menyouping nodded: "I am already the last Zhang Qiling of the Zhang family, and I must protect him in all the days to come. However, since you are here, I still tell you that ten years from now, if you can still remember I, you can open this giant bronze door and take my place.”

"Wait a minute." I digested it for a while and then asked, "You mean, the old nine families have to take turns. How many lifetimes has your Zhang family taken turns?"

Menyouping nodded, and I asked him: "If this is not the case, according to the promise, whose turn should it be by now, Laojiumen?"

"You." Menyouping said.

I? I was stunned for a moment: "You mean, I was supposed to go behind this bronze door and stay there for ten years?"

Menyouping nodded, I was just about to say something clear, but Menyouping suddenly reached out and pressed the back of my neck, and I lost consciousness immediately.

That was the last time I saw Menyou Bottle, after I woke up. Except for the ghost jade seal he left me, everything about him disappeared.

I looked for him like crazy and squeezed deeper into the gap, only to find that there was no road there. The road we came out of before was actually closed.

I remembered when the oil bottle was crawling inside. He disappeared for a moment in front of me. Did he initiate something at that time that led to our subsequent path?

I stayed in that place for three days. It wasn't until the blizzard slowly subsided that I felt completely hopeless.

The entire journey was silent.

Finally I returned to Hangzhou. When I was walking by the West Lake, it started to drizzle. I thought about everything I had experienced before and the ending of everyone, and suddenly I felt so tired.

I don’t know why, but my tears flowed down. I returned to my shop, as if I was back in time when nothing happened.

I originally thought that after I finished all this, there would be something left, but to my surprise, there was nothing left.

However, I realized that I couldn't stop, I had to keep going, because there was still another ten years. To be continued