At the foot of Taihang Mountain, mountain ghosts rode on horseback and looked into the distance.

Chen Qiu and Qingqing's figures are no longer visible.

Gongsun Yu was filled with emotions. After losing his family and his sister for more than ten years, he felt like he was accompanied by his friends again.

Although he and Shen Qiuqing have only been together for a few months, after all, he is just a young man of twenty-four or twenty-five years.

Getting used to loneliness does not mean that you are willing to be lonely.

Born as a human being, you can never abandon everything and live just for yourself.

The mountain ghost stood outside the mountain pass. After a long time, he pulled up the reins of the horse, turned around and walked back, just as before, crossed the vast Taihang alone.

He sealed some tenderness in his heart and pushed himself back to the cold state of mind that the lone mountain ghost should have.

A few hours later, the mountain ghost returned to the hillside where he lived.

He did not tie the horse up, but drove the horse into the forest.

He was alone in this Taihang Mountains and hunted thieves in the Northern Dynasty for many years, and this horse was indeed useless for him.

Gongsun Yu returned to his room. After a while, he walked out of the room with a few books. He first walked around the hillside for a while. After confirming that no one was watching, the mountain ghost came to the back of the hillside.

That night, Chen Qiu received his sword.

Nearly 300 feet to the periphery, there is a steep cliff.

The mountain road leading there is difficult to walk. The narrowest part is only allowed to pass by one person. The cliff is hundreds of feet down. Once it falls, it will end up being broken into pieces.

The mountain ghost was used to walking this road. He carried the Chengying Sword and his steps were like a monkey in the mountain stream. He quickly passed the cliff and reached the edge of the cliff.

He didn't stop, and tied the long sword behind him tightly again, and climbed down the steep cliff like climbing with bare hands.

This mountain wall is also unique.

From a distance, it looks like being cut open by a sharp weapon, almost 90° parallel to the surface of the ground. There are no grass or flowers on it, and it is a bare piece. If you miss it in one step, you will inevitably fall down.

But the mountain ghost is already very familiar with this place.

He climbed down, and every step he could accurately step on the stone that could support his body, just like a gecko on a wall. He saw the black shadows going all the way down, and the time of incense sticks fell on a platform in the middle of the cliff.

This platform only allows three people to stand. The mountain ghost's fingers touched the mountain wall behind him. When he pushed hard somewhere, a crack was pushed open.

The mountain ghost turned sideways and walked into the narrow crack step by step. He walked forward a few feet short, and the narrow mountain wall suddenly became clear.

There is a unique cave in this place, which is a stone chamber in the mountains, which must have been deliberately excavated.

The area is not very large. The cube rocks are nearly twenty feet away from each other. There are sharp stones like caves above the head. In the center of the stone chamber is a dent like a pool.

Gongsun Yu took out the flint, moved and jumped around the stone chamber, lit the fixed lamp on the wall, and the entire stone chamber became bright.

There seems to be a bronze mirror reflected in the rocks above our heads, allowing the firelight everywhere to gather in the center of the stone chamber.

In the nearly dry pool there, strange blue reflections appeared.

This is the secret of the mountain ghost.

It is also the final direction that Lu Buzi found from the so-called "Immortal Relics" outside Taihang.

Gongsun Yu grew up outside the Taihang Mountains. He was born in a middle-aged family when he was a child. His life was not very poor. His parents often told him that there were immortals living in the Taihang Mountains.

When he was 6 years old, he encountered a military disaster. He fled into the mountains with his sister and was helped by the mountain people.

When he was hunting with mountain people, Gongsun Yu accidentally fell into the stone stream in the deep mountains of Taihang and found the road to this place.

That entrance is still 3 days away, and it is already the deepest part of Taihang Mountain.

However, after Gongsun Yu grew up and turned into a fierce ghost in the mountains, the entrance was blocked by him with a huge rock. The only thing that led to the remains of the immortal family was the cliff behind the hillside.

There are still some things stored in this stone chamber, but most of them have been disrepaired for a long time.

The Chengying Sword of the Mountain Ghost was found in this stone chamber. With the firelight reflected in the stone chamber, Gongsun Yu walked forward a few steps. In the depths of the stone chamber in front of him, there was a closed giant stone door.

On the stone door, there were some sword dance figures engraved, which were quite vivid. The characters in them were all fluttering in their sleeves, holding shadows in their hands, and posing various sword moves.

Gongsun Yu learned his ghostly swordsmanship from these 64 pictures.

But under the sword move, outside the stone gate, there was a stone coffin, which was blocking the road to the stone gate.

Gongsun Yu held Chengying in his hand and bowed to the sarcophagus.

When he was young, he could not read and did not recognize the words left on the sarcophagus. He lived alone in the mountains and was quite taboo about the sayings of ghosts and gods, so he naturally did not dare to disturb the immortals here forever.

But now, he can still recognize some words. He can finally see the mystery of the immortal family that has troubled him in the past.

He took out the books from his arms, and in the dim light of fire, he compared the words on the sarcophagus with the words embellished with the pinyin and phonetic symbols in his hand.

After three incense sticks, the mountain ghost finally compared these words.

His fingers moved on the sarcophagus, pronunciating one word at a time:

"The people of Taihang Mountain seek to seek immortality but cannot get it. They suffer from disasters from heaven and are transformed here."

"Leave the inheritance of Taoist tools, and those who are destined to get it."

"Anyone who learns my sword technique of illuminating the shadow is the descendant of the Taihang Immortal Sect. I hid the Chengying Sword technique in the coffin. Those who hold the Chengying Sword can break the coffin and take it. This is what I learned from the entrance to the Immortal Sect."

"Those who have achieved great practice can open the stone wall of illuminating the shadows and observe the sword intent left by sword masters in previous dynasties."

"If you have the posture of enlightenment, you will understand the Yueque Sword Book of my immortal family."

"A thousand years ago, there was a calamity of practice, and the Tianmen Sect had been cut off. The Sword Master of the Sect was determined to go on his own, which led to disasters from heaven, causing us to practice for a hundred years, but we had to have a dream shattered."

"I would like to remind future generations that they must respect the heaven and earth and must not do anything against the heavens again. The great disciples under the 63rd generation of the Master of Chengying Sword of Taihang Immortal Sect will be trusted here."

After reading these messages, Gongsun Yu thought for a moment. He knelt in front of the sarcophagus, knelt three times and knocked nine times, and then stood up to break the coffin and take the Chengying Sword Technique.

However, when he got up, he found that there were other messages under the sarcophagus, which made the mountain ghost's heart suddenly tighten.

He came to the stone chamber countless times before, but never found it.

But the handwriting is completely different from the owner of the sarcophagus, like it was left by later generations.

However, looking at the dust covered on the mark, the mark has been left for a long time.

He flipped through the book, compared the handwriting, and chanted in a low voice:

"How can all living beings seeking immortals and have white hair? How can they know that dreams are empty? It is better to let go of the world and play in the world."

A not very outstanding limerick, but it is more like a feeling.

At the bottom of that poem, there is another sentence.

Gongsun Yu pulled the dust away, and he saw the last message.

"Zhang Moye's view of the shadow is here. This thing is incompatible with me. It is ominous to use it and is left to the people who come later."

"I also inform you that the sword intent of the master of Chengying Sword of all generations is fierce and captivating. If the sword heart is not clear, you must not open it at will. Be careful of future generations!"

The mountain ghost immediately widened his eyes.

"Zhang Moye?"

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From the southern foot of Taihang Mountain to the nearest small town, in modern society, even if you ride a bicycle, it will not take more than 2 hours.

But now, Chen Qiu and Qingqing have left the foothills of Taihang Mountain for two days, but they still haven't encountered even a settlement that can be called a town.

It can be said that there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the white bones are exposed in the wild.

Uh, it's a little exaggerated.

There are still small villages, but these villagers who live near the mountains are indeed not friendly.

Chen Qiu used silver to exchange food for food, and they would be driven out with suspicion, fear and disgust.

This experience is bad, but Chen Qiu is not angry.

Because the people here have enough reasons to hate outsiders.

The experience of a mountain ghost boy is just a microcosm of the life of people near the Taihang Mountains in the past 20 years.

In March 6, Zhengding, 17 years ago, almost 18 years ago, the Northern Dynasties invaded the border of the Southern Dynasties. Zhao Hu, the king of the Southern Dynasties, personally led an army of 200,000 to defend the enemy near the Taihang Mountains.

The two sides were in a stalemate here, and the war lasted for a full seven months.

People's livelihood in the Taihang area is withering and almost becoming a ghost.

Shan Gui's parents and family also died tragically at that time, and nearly hundreds of thousands of people died tragically at that time.

What's even more terrifying is that in the seventh year of Zhengding, when the war just ended, after those fleeing famine returned to their hometowns, a great plague broke out here.

According to what Qingqing heard from the opera lyrics, war disasters and plagues have left no one in this generation of surviving people.

That terrible experience has made the Taihang generation not recover after 16 years of rest.

People here hate the Northern Dynasties and the Southern Dynasties.

This is a land full of hatred and chaos.

The quietest and peaceful place here is actually a mountain village protected by mountain ghosts. The mountain people claim to be followers of mountain ghosts, which made the Southern and Northern Dynasties dare not invade them at all.

Chen Qiu's evil god brother actually became a signboard to protect the place.
To be continued...