After Zhang Yu came back from Xuanfu, he lived in the old residence of Taiyang Academy. In the next few days, many people came to visit with inquiries.
The Grand Governor Yang Jue also sent people to greet him and sent many gifts. As Yu Mingyang said, these things are all antiques.
It's just that none of the gifts from the Grand Governor can exist.
This is because they are all contributed by the people below. First of all, it is necessary to ensure that these things do not have any supernatural power. Secondly, they must not have anything to do with any strange gods. Finally, they must be beautiful in appearance, pleasing to the eye, and absolutely like those weird things.
It cannot be delivered to the Grand Governor.
But this is a sincere thought, and it cannot be judged by the weight and usefulness of the gift. Moreover, it can be seen that each of these things has been carefully selected and put a lot of thought into it, so he will not dislike it.
On the other hand, although the things sent by student An Chuer were few, more than 90% contained source energy, and they came from different places. It is not difficult to see that these things were slowly collected by her herself.
The Governor's sister, another student, Yang Ying, did not show up this time. This is because she transferred to Yujing after studying in Qingyang. This is also some kind of arrangement made by Yujing for the Governor's Mansion.
On the fourth day after returning to his old residence, he declined visitors and sat alone in the original quiet room. After sitting there for a while, he took out a few broken stone slabs, as well as some letterheads mixed with ancient writings.
Then spread it out on the table.
This was the stone slab that his adoptive father had left behind, but was taken away by Yan Xulun, the deputy captain of the Shenwei Army, and was later taken back by him.
Judging from the words left on the letterhead, it seems that the adoptive father left this thing intentionally so that he could gain some kind of power from it, and also left clues to find the next stone slab.
It's just that he had his own way to go at that time, so he didn't do such a thing.
Judging from the whereabouts provided in the letter, the other piece is also here in the Dongting Protectorate, and is somewhere in Anshan.
Since he was going there this time, he planned to take this item along with him.
After the night passed, he stood up from the quiet room and walked outside his old residence. He turned around and looked at the room again. He reached out to close the door and walked out of Taiyang Academy.
Xu Chengtong and his party who were stationed in Ruiguang City took everyone on a white boat and headed to the Honghe Pass.
Xu Chengtong looked at Anshan in the distance and said: "The mountains are stretching and majestic. They are patrolling. It seems that there is a wider land beyond this mountain range."
Zhang Yudao: "The territory occupied by Tianxia has been the center of the alternation of foreign forces for several centuries. The rise, fall and destruction are just a matter of course. But here, although the same thing happened, there are more things preserved.
Especially east of Anshan, I suspect there are more ancient things hidden in the depths."
Qing Shu said: "Sir, why doesn't Xuanting send people to explore this place? If there is a threat, it can be eliminated in advance."
Zhang Yudao: "I thought that when Tian Xia established the Protectorate here before, such considerations were actually taken into account. However, the tide of turmoil came later, and now all continents are trying to restore people's livelihood and straighten out their internal affairs. Before the old views were restored,
I don’t think I will set my sights outside anymore.”
It can be seen from Tianxia's current layout on the outside that they focus on defense and there is no sign of taking the initiative to attack.
Roughly speaking, this is correct.
Tianxia, who occupies the inner layer, is increasing in strength every day. There is no need to fight with the forces on the outer layer now. He only needs to defend the inner layer. The longer the time goes, the greater the gap between the two sides.
Just as Su Qian said to him when he came to the Protectorate that day, despite experiencing the turbulent tide, Tian Xia is now stronger than before. Even if he just sits and waits, he can still kill these enemies.
But the enemy is definitely unwilling to wait for death, and will definitely do something, and even come up to fight for his life.
Of course, neither he nor Su Qian can see the power of the middle and lower levels now, and what goes up to that level is not something they can understand yet.
While he was thinking about it, Bai Zhou had already arrived over the Honghe Pass. When he passed here in the early years, there were densely packed military fortresses. But now he can see that most of these military fortresses are empty, but there are a few.
The military fortress is buried underground.
Having had the experience of Qingyang, he could tell at a glance that this was to facilitate the use of the Xuanbing bombing tactic.
Now the Duhu Mansion also has its own Tianjiyuan, which can create mysterious weapons. To deal with the indigenous people and the priests who possess supernatural powers, you don't need thousands of troops at all. Just one mysterious weapon can be leveled.
After the white boat approached, a beam of light shone, and under its guidance, it landed on a rooftop where the boat was parked.
Under the mooring platform, a burly monk was waiting there. It was Dou Chang, who had worked with him in the past. And beside Dou Chang, there was a woman in white holding a bamboo sword and wearing glasses.
Zhang Yu got off the flying boat and when he saw the two of them, he bowed his hands and said, "Senior Brother Dou." He nodded to Xin Chan and said, "Sister Xin, you two are well."
Dou Chang also bowed and laughed loudly, saying: "We have received the summons from Xuanshou. We knew that Junior Brother Zhang was coming here, so we specially waited here."
Xin Chan gave him a wish, her eyes were fixed on him for a moment, and then she said: "Junior brother Zhang, it's been a long time no see."
Dou Chang said in a deep voice: "I heard that junior brother is going to Anshan this time?"
Zhang Yudao: "Exactly."
Dou Chang said: "Now there is no need to worry about going five hundred miles from the pass. If you go further, you need to be careful, because the turbid tide there is much thicker than here."
Zhang Yudao: "Thank you, Senior Brother Dou, for reminding me."
At this moment, the earth shook once, and then again. Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw a vague giant figure appearing in the distance. It looked like a giant elephant on all fours, with scattered trees around it.
It was easily pushed aside like weeds.
Dou Chang glanced at it and said in a deep voice: "It's another spiritual creature that ran out from the depths of Anshan. There have been dozens of times in the past two years, but such a big one saves us from having to come forward."
Not long after his voice fell, a silver light passed through the air from behind and landed in front of the huge creature. Following closely behind, a flickering light also fell from the sky.
In an instant, a dazzling flash of light burst out from the front. At this moment, it felt like the entire sky around him was dimming. Then, there was a huge sound that rumbled and shook the earth. It could be seen that the soil and forest ahead were surging in all directions like waves.
.
When everything calmed down, when I looked again, I saw that the place had turned into a white field, and the huge spiritual creature had disappeared.
Dou Chang said: "This thing is to blame because it is too big and moves too slowly. It is the target of Xuan soldiers, but some dexterous spiritual creatures are not easy to deal with."
Xin Chan said: "Many suspicious areas near the pass have been blasted with Xuanbing. Junior Brother Zhang can avoid a lot of trouble by walking along these areas."
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Thank you, Senior Sister Xin, for reminding me."
After chatting with the two for a few words, he boarded the airship again and went deeper along the boundary where the mysterious soldiers exploded.
The letter his adoptive father gave him contained a brief description of how to find the next stone slab, but it all used something in the dense forest as a reference, a huge mountain shape, or a unique plant.
But now after the Xuanbing bombing, the plants can no longer be found, but fortunately some mountain shapes still remain. Moreover, it is not as difficult to distinguish the direction here as before when the turbid tide was strong, so it only took him half a day.
Found the place mentioned on the letterhead.
This is a mountain full of exposed rocks. It is actually not far from the pass. It can be seen that it has been impacted by the aftermath of the Xuanbing, but this mountain is still strong.
Zhang Yuning stared at it for a while, then said after a long time: "You guys wait for me here."
Xu Chengtong and others said yes.
Zhang Yu came out of the white boat. His figure suddenly flashed and he appeared on the top of the mountain. His eyes dropped, and he reached out and flicked his sleeves. A large piece of gravel was removed, and an open door was revealed on the side wall of the mountain.
cave.
He slowly lowered his figure, stretched out his hand to put on his hood, and walked inside.
It can be seen that the ground under his feet was dug out by man. The surrounding mountain walls are flat and tight, and there are many reliefs of strange creatures carved on them. Those empty eyes seem to be staring at him at the moment.
He walked slowly here. The passage was a little narrow at the front, but became wider toward the back.
After walking through a collapsed stone door, what is revealed in front is a straight passage. At the end of the front is a round stone door, which is now half broken. On the left and right sides of the passage, there are two rows of tall niches.
There are human-shaped pottery pots made of clay standing in the niches. It seems that they have been painted with some kind of paint, but now they are mottled and peeled off, and they are blurry.
He stopped here and took a look around. Judging from the traces, this place should have been an ancient ruin, but it should have been used and transformed later.
He turned his eyes and glanced at one of the pottery pots beside him. As his mental strength aroused, the pot suddenly made a peeling sound, cracked slightly, and finally shattered into pieces.
What was exposed inside was a stone statue of a humanoid creature with a pointed head and webbed limbs.
But there are no traces of carvings on this thing from the inside out, and there are still structures of bones and internal organs inside the body. This undoubtedly shows that this thing was originally a living being, and it was only transformed after being invaded by some supernatural power.
It became what it looked like in front of me.
But he felt in his heart that this matter might not be that simple, but the level of these things was not high, so there was no need to delve into it.
He walked through the passage filled with pottery jars and reached the end. At this time, he glanced through the broken hole of the round stone door and saw a somewhat familiar figure half-kneeling there.