Fairies Are Fierce

Chapter 343 Immortal King Mausoleum

The autumn rain has not stopped for days, and on the banks of the Tuolong River where the river is roaring, the old iron cable bridge is swaying in the wind and rain.

Three figures dressed as Independent Cultivators were walking on the bridge with bamboo hats; the plump female cultivator in the back was holding a white fur ball in her arms, and the little girl in the front was carrying a black iron pipa, chatting with each other:

"Across the bridge is the Barren Bone Beach. I have been here before and learned the art of prospecting and finding gold here. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything good..."

"Qiu Tao, you came across the ocean from Beishuizhou. You have been to all the Immortal Gates. You know many masters. You are good at playing chess, calligraphy and painting, prospecting and feng shui, storytelling, tasting wine and tea, and even went to Jade. Yaozhou, I walked around from south to north..."

"Yeah, I'm not bragging..."

"I didn't say you were bragging, but you said you were sixteen years old the year before last..."

"Well... I remember things early~ I crossed the sea when I was three years old, went to the Juejian Immortal Sect to watch swordsmen and discuss swords at the age of four, and went to the Taoist ancestral court to listen to the Taoist leader's lectures at the age of five..."

Xie Qiutao carefully calculated the circle with her fingers, and found that she still couldn't finish the journey. Her round face couldn't help but stiffen, and she started counting by months again...

Zuo Lingquan walked between the two of them, shaking his head and laughing to himself, and did not tease Taotao. After all, in his eyes, Qiutao will always be a sixteen-year-old pink girl, and there is nothing wrong with her.

Listening to the two people chatting, Zuo Lingquan focused on the other end of the chain bridge.

A few days ago at the Yushu Bay Villa, the ancestor suddenly came over to send a message, saying that the Lord Peach Blossom asked him to come to the Barren Bone Beach and said that there was something unusual here.

Jiang Yi and Qingwan were naturally reluctant to leave after they had just reunited and were about to embark on the path of spiritual practice. However, because they had to accompany Lingye to continue visiting the Xianjia sect, they could not follow him, so they could only hold him and talk to him reluctantly for a night of love.

During this period, Qingwan also asked him to come back early, saying that she wanted to give him a surprise; Jiang Yi was also afraid that it would be half a year before he left, so she even gritted her teeth and agreed, saying, "My aunt Lingye can do it, but I can't do it? Isn't it just a tail..." .

After hearing such an imaginative promise, Zuo Lingquan naturally returned home and ran over quickly, thinking of a quick solution and finishing the matter.

But Lord Peach Blossom is not reliable at all.

The ancestor was asked to spread the news that there was something strange happening in the Desert Bone Beach, but there was no hint at all. He didn't even know what he was doing here.

Zuo Lingquan followed the usual route and inquired at the nearby Independent Cultivator gathering place. He only heard that Barren Bone Beach had not been very safe in recent days, and found nothing else.

For this reason, Zuo Lingquan could only take the two girls and go directly to the Barren Bone Beach for on-site inspection.

Although Barren Bone Beach is a barren land, there are quite a few independent cultivators who come here to mine ore on weekdays. People on the east side of the Tuolong River, who don't know how to use wind and sword, have to cross this old iron rope bridge.

At this time, at the other end of the chain bridge, there were dozens of small Independent Cultivators in different clothes, both men and women, carrying probe poles and pickaxes on their shoulders, chattering and negotiating in the rain:

"Monsters can come out of places where birds don't poop? What do monsters eat?"

"Ignore those like you who don't believe in evil. If Immortal Master says there is, there is, so why are you asking so many questions..."

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In front of the crowd, stood two young men in military uniforms, with waistbands with the word "Qu" hanging on their waists. They carried weapons with them and stood at the bridge with their hands behind their hands.

The two of them had the best view of Ling Gu, but the Sijia brand on their waists alone was enough to scare away all the small Independent Cultivators who looked like duckweeds.

Xie Qiutao came to the bridge, stood behind the crowd, looked at it for a few times, and asked politely:

"Immortal Master, are you not allowed in today?"

The two Qu family disciples guarding the chain bridge were quite polite, but they could not avoid the condescending attitude that the Immortal Master had when facing the Independent Cultivator on the road, and responded flatly:

"A monster has appeared in the Bone Beach. It is wandering around and killing people. The elders are getting rid of the monster. Come back in a few days."

The Qu family set up a quarry in the barren bone beach, and often loaded and unloaded the green vine stones along the river. The small Independent Cultivators walking nearby were no strangers to it, and most of them turned around and left after hearing this.

Zuo Lingquan was a little suspicious of this - he had just met with the Qu family at Qianqiu Yuefu, and Lord Peach Blossom won a famous piano from the Qu family and ran to the Barren Bone Beach thousands of miles away. It was really strange to meet someone from the Qu family again.

The world is so big, the chance of coincidence is very slim. Zuo Lingquan felt that Lord Peach Blossom asked him to come here, and it was most likely related to the 'monster' mentioned by the Qu family.

Thinking of this, Zuo Lingquan did not alert the snake, and returned to the east bank with the two girls pretending to be traveling, found a secluded place, and crossed the river directly against the wind.

Entering the deserted bone beach, Zuo Lingquan did some exploration and found that there were monks from the Qu family patrolling the hundreds of miles from the cable bridge to the deep quarry, trying to persuade the monks who accidentally approached to stay away, and there were also some people rummaging around. Looking, it seems like he is really following the traces of monsters.

Zuo Lingquan did not find the whereabouts of the monster, and was not sure whether the Qu family's move was true or not, so he looked at the most capable Tuanzi and asked:

"Tuan'er, are there any monsters or monsters here?"

Tuanzi squatted in Tang Jingxuan's arms. After looking around blankly for a long time, his little wings pointed to an unknown swamp a hundred miles away:

"grumble!"

On the way to the quarry, Xie Qiutao discovered the swamp. There were only a few remnant souls of birds and animals in it, not even ghosts. No one in the Qu family went anywhere. She shook her head at this and said:

"They are powerful monsters, very fierce ones, are there any?"

Tuanzi looked around again, spread his wings, and signaled - this place is cleaner than the roots of my mother's legs, there is not a hair on it, where are the monsters and ghosts coming from?

Zuo Lingquan had the same idea as Tuanzi, and when he had no way to start, he turned and went to the nameless swamp:

"Let's go and take a look..."

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Deep in the Deserted Bone Beach, underground in the swamp.

The stone sculpture of auspicious beasts dragged the lampstand, and the fire of the ever-burning lamp illuminated the stone gate of the towering mausoleum.

In the underground square with scratch marks all over the place, three figures stood in front of the tall tomb gate, and four unconscious formation masters lay on the steps in front of them.

Qu Qianchen, the patriarch of the Qu family in the middle of the three, now with his hands behind his back, carefully observed the four formation masters on the ground:

"Bewitched by the magic of the soul, falling into a dream and unable to wake up, the person who casts the spell is either a demon, or an Immortal Venerable..."

The white-haired old man standing next to Qu Qianchen was Qu Qianchen's brother: "This matter is a bit strange. If an Immortal Venerable comes to seize the opportunity, even if they don't kill people, they should take away the things in the mausoleum; now that the people are not killed, the mausoleum is also If it’s not turned on, could it be that you have no ability to break through the formation and go back to find reinforcements?”

Standing on the other side was Deacon Zheng from the alchemy room of Pofeng City, and the four formation masters were his disciples. After observing the traces around him, he set his sights on the tomb door:

"I don't think it's likely that if someone comes and wants to mobilize reinforcements, they won't stun the four disciples and scare the snake. I guess the disciples broke the formation and accidentally touched the mechanism in the mausoleum, and were accidentally attacked..."

Qu Qianchen felt that this was more likely, nodded and said:

"If someone wants to take food from a tiger's mouth, after a few days, reinforcements should have arrived..."

Boom——

While speaking, there were a few soft sounds above the underground square—the security formation in the swamp was triggered.

The faces of the three people who were talking were all frozen, and they suppressed their breath.

The second master of the Qu family secretly thought something was wrong and said in a low voice: "Someone breaks in. If an Immortal Venerable-level expert comes with reinforcements, I'm afraid the three of us are no match..."

Deacon Zheng shook his head: "The last time I came in, I didn't make a sound. How can I touch the formation when I come in now? I guess it's not the same group of people who came."

Qu Qianchen didn't count on the two dog-headed military advisers, and raised his hand slightly:

"The visitor is not kind, you should first use the ground escape technique to take the formation master out, and quickly notify the Shuangfeng Patriarch to come, I will delay for a while."

"good."

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The rain is continuous and poisonous miasma is everywhere.

With a sword hanging from his waist, Zuo Lingquan floated silently in the mist of the swamp, paying attention to the clues on the ground.

Because the yin energy was too heavy and the spiritual energy fluctuated disorderly, the souls of many dead birds and beasts gathered together, and their perception was greatly affected, making it impossible to judge the situation more than a hundred feet away.

Xie Qiutao has more experience in treasure hunting in secret places than Zuo Lingquan. At this time, he became the leader among the three. He searched in the swamp. After groping for a long time, he stopped deep in the swamp, his eyes half buried in the mud. An inconspicuous dead tree, and then made a 'shh' gesture.

Zuo Lingquan and Tang Jingxuan paused in the air, holding their breath Qi Condensation.

Xie Qiutao took out a pole made of formation stones from the small purse-shaped Linglong Pavilion. After observing the dead wood for a long time, he inserted the pole into the mud.

Zuo Lingquan knew that this move was to interfere with the operation of the warning formation and avoid being discovered by the opponent, so he did not say anything. He waited until Qiu Tao finished and clapped his hands before speaking:

"Does this break the formation?"

Xie Qiutao used True Qi to separate the mud below and dived underground: "If it is not broken, it will have been discovered. Go in quickly. Don't underestimate this. I have been a guest in Yingyang Immortal Palace for a long time, and I just learned from an old man. What I learned from the formation master, it takes a quarter of an hour on stage and ten years of practice off stage..."

Zuo Lingquan naturally knows that breaking the formation is not just about inserting a stick. The formation is mostly adapted to the environment. Even if it is exactly the same, the positions of the gate and the eye of the formation will change. If you make a mistake, the formation will be triggered, which requires a lot of effort. Early knowledge accumulation.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Xie Qiutao's skill has been achieved for ten years, but we will only know how effective it will be.

In just one sentence, the three of them had already crossed the swamp and arrived outside the underground Cave Mansion below.

Xie Qiutao held the iron pipa upside down, carefully looked around for a moment, then shrugged slightly:

"No one came out, the infiltration was successful."

"..."

Zuo Lingquan was a little suspicious of Taotao's ability to break the formation, so he did not take it lightly and asked Xie Qiutao and Jingxun to pay attention to the rear. He slowly entered the ancient underground Cave Mansion.

The Cave Mansion is made of special masonry. Thousands of years have passed, and the main structure has not changed. However, the useful things inside have been taken away, and only the stone base of the alchemy furnace and other things can be seen. The three of them carefully paid attention to their surroundings, and soon arrived at the storage room behind Cave Mansion. The hole in the ground was not sealed, and the fire below could be seen.

Zuo Lingquan raised his finger slightly and looked down from the entrance of the cave. He was shocked when he saw the majestic underground mausoleum, but he looked around the underground square and found no trace.

Xie Qiutao looked at the giant tomb door dozens of feet high, his eyes full of surprise, and said in a voice that only Zuo Lingquan could hear:

"It's hard to tell if there are immortal soldiers in such an impressive tomb. The Qu family must be digging it secretly."

Tang Jingxuan covered Tuanzi's mouth, thought for a while and whispered:

"Are we going to kill people and seize treasures?"

Xie Qiutao shook his head quickly: "What about killing people and seizing treasures? We are here to see if the Qu family is doing evil things secretly. If so, we will crack down on crime and seize the loot; if not, we will help them and cooperate in development, and we will split the accounts between 30 and 70."

"Oh...we seven?"

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When Zuo Lingquan heard the two girls joking, he shook his head and smiled.

Because of the vague memory of the past, Zuo Lingquan is not very enthusiastic about digging other people's graves to obtain natural and earthly treasures.

The monks deliberately left their mantles in seclusion, waiting for future generations to pick them up. Zuo Lingquan would naturally take them; but the words "Those who trespassed will die" were written on the door. Obviously, he did not want people to disturb the old friends who were sleeping underground. If he had seen it normally, , he might just leave.

However, Lord Peach Blossom asked his ancestor to send a message and asked him to come here. The matter must be investigated clearly.

Zuo Lingquan sensed carefully for a long time, but saw no movement underground, so he landed on the underground square together and looked around.

Tuanzi was also very alert at this time. He squatted on Tang Jingxun's shoulder. After observing the surroundings for a moment, he pointed with his wings behind a Baize stone sculpture of a mythical beast:

"grumble!"

The three people's expressions froze and they looked at the stone sculpture that was more than ten feet high.

The breath of the underground palace also stagnated.

Zuo Lingquan pressed the hilt of the sword, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said:

"Come out."

Ka... Ka...

There was a sound of metal rubbing.

Behind the stone sculpture of the mythical beast, a figure in armor walked out.

The figure is tall and tall, with his body covered in red armor, a ferocious mask on his face, and a beast-faced breastplate on his chest. His hands are also covered with armor, and all five fingers have sharp blades sticking out. From a distance, he looks like he has walked out of the underworld. A demon god.

Zuo Lingquan frowned slightly when he saw the iron-clad bastard's appearance. Judging from the weather, the opponent's fighting strength was probably not low, so he said:

"Your Excellency, is Qu Qianchen, the head of the Qu family?"

?

The figure in red armor calmed down slightly and spoke in a low voice:

"Young hero has good eyesight, who are you?"

Zuo Lingquan didn't have good eyesight either. They were all descendants of the Qu family. An unknown strong man appeared here. He couldn't think of him except for the ancestor of the Qu family.

Zuo Lingquan first let go of the hilt of the sword and said calmly:

"Zuo Ci, I had a few words with the young master of the Qu family a few days ago."

Hearing the name of 'Sword Demon Zuo Ci', Qu Qianchen's face under the armor condensed slightly. After a while, the murderous aura floating around him subsided, and the mask faded away on its own, revealing the face of a middle-aged man, who smiled kindly:

"It turns out to be Zuo Jianxian, whom I have admired for a long time."

Zuo Lingquan glanced left and right:

"Master Qu is digging for treasure here?"

Qu Qianchen knew that the swordsman in front of him had a strong background, and he naturally did not want to cause trouble if he was good at it. He walked slowly to the tomb door:

"Zuo Jianxian misunderstood. Qu was entrusted by the late master to guard this mausoleum. In recent years, people are being arranged to repair it. An unknown expert broke in a few days ago and knocked out the formation master invited by Qu. This matter But what did Zuo Jianxian’s friends do?”

Zuo Lingquan didn't know what Lord Peach Blossom did, so he naturally didn't understand who the master Qu Qianchen was talking about, so he just responded:

"I heard that there are monsters here. I came here to take a look. I just happened to find it here."

Xie Qiutao's eyes were a little suspicious, observing the marks on the ground:

"The Master of the Qu family shouldn't be guarding the mausoleum, right? The formations here have obviously been touched..."

Qu Qianchen was smiling, but not very friendly:

"Little girl, we are all cultivators, so there is no need to clarify certain things. This Immortal King's mausoleum was left by the teacher. I took out the things left by my ancestors to support my family. My personal ethics are bad, but this is a family matter of the Qu family; three As a Fellow Daoist, you can't just meddle in your own business or want to get a share of the pie, right?"

"..."

Xie Qiutao wanted a share of the pie, but it didn't seem reasonable to say it.

Zuo Lingquan is also a bit inexplicable—the Qu family dug their own ancestor's grave, no matter how wide he manages it, there is no reason to meddle in such nosy matters; It is unreasonable to grab it outright, and forcibly distributes dividends.

Senior Peach Blossom called me here, so he couldn't just let me do wild practice of killing people and seizing treasures...

When Zuo Lingquan was thinking about it, Jing Xun, who was standing beside him watching the play, suddenly spoke in a cold voice:

"Is Immortal Venerable Zhan Kui your master?"

The tone is flat, but the momentum of being invincible in the world is undoubtedly revealed.

When Qu Qianchen heard the name, the corners of his eyes twitched suddenly, showing a bit of horror. He stared at Tang Jingxun for a moment, then raised his hand and saluted:

"Who is the senior?"

"You don't have to care who the deity is."

The ancestor of Shangguan looked at Qu Qianchen, who was under the steps, but seemed to be looking down:

"When you get this set of 'Immortal King Armor', there should be writing next to it, telling you to take away the opportunity, so don't disturb his resting place, or something similar, right?"

"..."

Qu Qianchen's expression was a bit stiff - after he found this Cave Mansion, there were indeed similar writings on the exercises left behind, but it was written to tell him not to tamper with the buildings of the underground Cave Mansion, otherwise he would be punished by heaven.

Qu Qianchen really didn't dare to dig indiscriminately at that time, after all, he got enough opportunities, and he felt that he couldn't eat it.

Later, when the opportunity was exhausted, he thought about going back and digging around, and finally dug out this underground palace.

Seeing Qu Qianchen's eyes, Shangguan Patriarch already understood in his heart:

"Zhan Kui was an expert hermit in Huajunzhou three thousand years ago, and the descendant of the Tianji Temple of the ancient sect. He guessed that the person who discovered this Cave Mansion might be a greedy person, so he didn't tell you about the underground palace; It doesn't matter if you listen to advice, after discovering the underground palace, don't you still understand your master's responsibilities?"

Qu Qianchen knew that the master who had never met before was the guardian of the tomb here, he thought for a while and said:

"Three thousand years of vicissitudes, this underground palace has long been known to no one, and it has lost its original meaning if I think about it. If I don't open it, other people will open it if they find it..."

"It's not wrong to open it, and it's not wrong to take the opportunity inside, but it's not wrong to open the tomb on your own initiative before finding out the details."

The ancestor of Shangguan pointed to the mausoleum behind:

"This is the Temple of Suppressing Demons in ancient times. It was used to seal demons. Your master guards here not because he is afraid that people will enter, but because he is afraid that the things inside will be released. And you and even Pofeng City have no ability to break the magic circle. Without knowing the details, using external force to forcibly open the mausoleum may lead to a catastrophe."

Qu Qianchen frowned, glanced behind his eyes, half-believing in these words - he actually felt that this place was not like a mausoleum, the defenses were too tight, and it didn't look like a dead man's cemetery at all; but it was precisely because of this that he couldn't wait Want to open.

"Even if it's true, as Fellow Daoist said, after thousands of years, the monsters inside..."

Shangguan Patriarch continued: "Is the monster inside dead or not? I will investigate by myself. If it is confirmed safe, I will open the tomb and give you a chance as a reward. But before that, you have to take off the armor on your body. "

Qu Qianchen couldn't open the mausoleum at all, and had already sold it to Pofeng City to exchange contacts. He was a little happy when he heard that this woman, Immortal Venerable, was able to open the mausoleum, but before he had time to be happy, his face darkened when he heard the following words:

"What do you mean, Your Excellency?"

"You have a bad temper. For the immediate benefit, you know the intention of the master, but you don't think deeply about it, and you don't even have the patience to find out the details here, so you rashly open the demon seal. The inheritance of the Temple of Heaven's Secret is placed on you. If you don't completely cut off the incense, you can't do it. It will tarnish your reputation."

Patriarch Shangguan raised his head slightly: "Because you haven't made a big mistake yet, you won't be held accountable for your reckless behavior. But you have to hand over the inheritance of Tianji Palace, and let the deity help Senior Zhan Kui find another successor."

Qu Qianchen's face sank like water, he spread his hands and said with a sneer:

"Without the inheritance of the sect, what am I, Qu Qianchen? Fellow Daoist just say it if he wants to kill people and seize treasures. Why bother with such big truths?"

If the ancestor Shangguan wanted to kill people and seize treasures, there was no need to talk so much nonsense.

Three thousand years ago, in the battle of stealing pills, countless heroes of the immortal realm came to help, and she had fought side by side, and those who could help at that time were all people with righteous hearts, and they were all her seniors and teachers.

The 'Immortal King Armor' worn by Qu Qianchen is the ancestor of Ling Ye's armor, and Ling Ye's armor is her battle armor back then. Mei Jinshui asked Zhan Kui to make it for her. She also heard about the rumors about the Palace of Mystery at that time.

The ancestor of Shangguan asked Qu Qianchen to take off the 'Immortal King Armor' because Qu Qianchen was too mercenary, acted recklessly, and was not worthy of the inheritance of the Temple of Heavenly Secrets. Incense.

Qu Qianchen refused to let go, and Shangguan Patriarch didn't say much, and pointed to Zuo Lingquan next to him with his eyes:

"You were born as an Independent Cultivator. You should understand that what you can hold is a chance, and what you can't hold is a disaster. This deity will give you a chance. If you beat him to the ground today, you will not be humiliated. This deity will re-establish your Qu family." Get the qualification for the signboard of 'Tianji Temple'; if you can't win, you know what to do."

When Qu Qianchen heard this, his pupils shrank slightly...

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The state has slipped a bit...

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(end of this chapter)