Arriving at the northwest corner of the town, he saw a huge tower a hundred feet high and a forest of stone tablets. Li Xiangyue dispersed the wind and walked on foot.
In his travelogue introducing the scenery of Linggui Town in "Records of Strange Towns in Beizhou", he didn't expect that the ruined pagoda and forest of steles he saw were actually hidden ruins of the town.
It is indeed bizarre.
Li Chaoyi and Xiao Qianjun soon came to the ruins and saw that the huge tower was really an abandoned tower. Although it was more than a hundred feet high, its body had long been eroded by time and became mottled and scattered, and it no longer looked majestic.
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At first glance, it can be seen that its interior has long been decayed and collapsed, and it is empty. There is only a stone staircase leading to the top of the tower. I don't know if it is still intact.
Behind the tower is a large forest of steles, which is quite large in scale, with more than 5,000 stone steles.
It's just that most of them are broken monuments, and it's hard to find even one intact monument.
What is recorded in "Records of Strange Towns in Beizhou" is indeed correct, but I don't know if the words on those ruined tablets really still contain meaningful meanings.
Li Chaoyi and Xiao Qianjun walked along the steps and came to the abandoned tower.
Unexpectedly, I discovered that there was a person under the tower, with horns on his forehead, wearing animal skins, and a black coffin parked beside him.
It was the half-demon boy who appeared on the newspaper of Xianjia Residence.
When they met for the second time, Xiao Qianjun was still a little scared and hid behind his senior brother, but he was also curious about him and couldn't help but poke half of his head out.
When the half-demon boy saw the pair of senior brothers and sisters, he still didn't express anything. He sat cross-legged under the tower, accompanied by the black coffin, motionless.
Abandoned pagoda, forest of steles, black coffin, half-demon boy.
This scene looks inexplicably desolate and lonely.
Li Chaoyi asked aloud: "Aren't you going to the Demon Burial Ground in the southwest to fight for the opportunity to become a Heavenly Demon?"
The half-demon boy didn't even raise his head.
Seeing his reaction, Li Chaoyi looked at the black coffin beside him and said, "Is your black coffin made of the Nine Netherworld Resurrection Wood of the Small Underworld? Is there someone very important to you lying in it?"
The half-demon boy finally moved, raised his head slightly, and looked at him.
"You came to this Linggui Town not to fight for opportunities, but to save the people in the coffins?"
The half-demon boy frowned slightly, but still did not speak.
Li Xiangyou understood and said: "If you want to save the people in the coffin, the opportunities contained in this town may not work, but I know a place that should work."
The half-demon boy finally spoke this time and asked hoarsely: "Where?"
"There is a kind of soul-eating flower in the devil Hanhai in the Western Region. It is said that only one plant can be born after swallowing tens of thousands of souls. If you can withstand its accompanying evil things and use the heart of the flower as medicine, you will be able to resurrect the person in the coffin.
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"How can I trust you?"
"There is a Tingyu used bookstore on Dahuaishu Street in the small town. There is a book called "The Encyclopedia of Ghostly Things in the Western Region" in it. This soul-eating flower is recorded in the book. You can go and see it yourself."
The half-demon boy lowered his head and remained silent.
After a long time, he stood up, carried the black coffin on his back, and left step by step.
"Eldest brother, I saw him sitting outside a thatched house, guarding the black coffin, crying all the time. The village was full of dead people, and there was a fire, which set the whole village on fire, and the fire lit up most of the night sky!
"Xiao Qianjun looked at the back of the half-demon boy and said suddenly.
Li Xiangye glanced at Xiao Qianjun in surprise.
As a spirit, Xiao Qianjun knows some strange magical powers and can see some things that others cannot see.
"Elder brother, he is so pitiful! He was still very young at the time, just a little older than me."
Li Chaoyi watched the young man carrying the coffin disappear from sight little by little, and said sadly: "Yes, this is a young man with a hard life."
Then he took Xiao Qianjun around the abandoned tower and went to the Forest of Steles.
To be precise, the side facing the Forest of Steles is the front of the ruined tower.
Li Chaoyi walked into the forest of stone steles and saw that almost all the stone steles were damaged or even collapsed. It was a pity.
What surprised him was that there were no words on these ruined tablets.
None of them, let alone contain any meaningful meaning.
This is different from the travelogue recorded in "Records of Strange Towns in Beizhou".
Why is it so different?
Xiao Qianjun had heard his senior brother talk about that travelogue, as well as the ruined pagoda and the forest of steles. At this time, he blinked his eyes and was very surprised.
"Let's go and take a look inside."
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Qianjun turned into a green shadow and flew deep into the Forest of Steles.
Li Xiangyi also looked for him from another direction.
Soon I heard Xiao Qianjun calling in surprise: "Elder brother, there are words on this stone tablet, and neither the stone tablet nor the words are broken!"
Li Xianyue rushed over immediately and saw an intact stone tablet with words engraved on it.
This stone tablet is three feet tall and made of something like white marble, but it is much deeper and the specific material cannot be identified.
What surprised Li Xianyi even more was that the inscription on the stone tablet was not a script commonly used in the world today, but seemed to be a script that existed in legend.
That kind of legendary writing was mentioned in ancient books in the library of Hanshan Academy, but the words in that ancient book were unclear and the content was not much. Even though Li Qingyi had studied it specifically, he was not proficient in this kind of writing.
At this time, it is difficult to interpret the inscriptions on these tablets.
This point was not mentioned in the travelogue "Records of Strange Towns in Beizhou", I don't know why.
"Xiao Qian'er, go and see if there are any other stone tablets with inscriptions. I will make rubbings of these words."
"OK!"
Xiao Qianjun flew up and quickly searched in the forest of steles.
Li Qingyi began to make rubbings of the inscriptions, preparing to take them back to the academy, and then look for ancient exegesis documents, or invite learned scholars to jointly verify and interpret them.
An ancient and rare text is extremely important to the entire Hanshan Academy, and even to the entire world.
As a scholar, Li Changyi naturally knows the significance of this.
He began to make rubbings, but instead of copying like ordinary scribes, he directly used [Induction of Heaven and Man], using heaven and earth as paper and Haoran Zhengqi as pen, rubbing and sealing.
A few breaths later, the shadow of a stone tablet that was exactly the same as the stone tablet in front of him, with a height of three feet and three feet, appeared in front of Li Chaoyi.
This is Li Qingyi's original rubbing method. It is more complete and authentic than ordinary rubbings by scribes or drawings by painters.
After the rubbing was completed, he put the shadow of the stone tablet into the sea of qi.
However, as soon as the shadow of the stone tablet entered the Qi Sea, he raised his eyebrows slightly, revealing a strange color.
Because he discovered that the shadow of the stone tablet actually contained a mysterious power. This mysterious power came from the words on the tablet, making it no longer just a shadow, but possessing unpredictable power.
Li Changyi couldn't help but be surprised.
Could this be the ruins of the Forest of Abandoned Pagoda Steles and the opportunity for spiritual practice?
Before this, he had never thought about the opportunities hidden in this forest of steles.
All I can say is that it should be his.
After that, Xiao Qianjun found thirty-five more intact stone tablets with inscriptions on them.
Including this piece, there were thirty-six pieces in total. Li Qianyi rubbed them one by one, turned them into shadows of stone tablets, and collected them into the sea of qi.
These thirty-six stone tablets contained more than three thousand words. In the end, Li Changyi could only decipher two words with difficulty:
blue sky!
Unable to connect with the context, Li Changyi didn't know what the meaning of the word "biluo" was, but it was good to be able to interpret it.
After putting away the last shadow of the stone tablet, Li Qianye and Xiao Qianjun prepared to leave.
Suddenly a strong wind blew by, and stone dust rustled down from the ruined tower, revealing a clear and smooth area.
Xiao Qianjun had sharp eyes and immediately pointed at the tower and shouted: "Elder brother, there are words on that tower!"
Li Changyi looked up and saw two columns of words on the giant tower, which he didn't know whether they were poems or couplets:
The Tao spreads beyond the sky, the sword falls in the stars, it is not a fairyland, but a fairyland;
When you wake up from a dream and go back home, you are in the human world, not the human world.