Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 28: In the Mud Pond
On Taoshan Mountain in Xiling, the Temple of Light is very special.
It has been without a master for more than ten years, but it still has powerful hidden strength. The people in the Temple of Light also have a firm belief that the world and the priests of other temples cannot imagine.
This is related to the nature of the Guangming Temple and the history of the Taoist sect. For countless years, the Great Priest of Guangming has always seemed to be the most special one in the Taoist sect, and it was even more so when Wei Guangming came.
The creed of the Temple of Light is that light cannot make mistakes, so their belief is very firm, pointing directly at the throne of God, and has even gradually overshadowed the majesty of Haotian itself.
Wei Guangming was imprisoned in You Pavilion, which was an unbearable humiliation for the people in the Guangming Temple. In addition, the headmaster of Xiling and the other two temples had spared no effort to suppress and weaken the Guangming Temple in recent years, which made them extremely angry. How could they
Do you believe that the successor personally selected by the God of Light will be the daughter of Pluto?
People firmly believe that Sang Sang is the daughter of light, and that the ups and downs in the world since the destruction of Ke Temple are just a conspiracy by the headmaster of Xiling and other Taoist forces to collude with the Buddhist sect to suppress the Temple of Light, which is an extremely dirty and sinister thing.
In this case, how could they just watch and let the daughter of light be imprisoned or killed? However, she was relatively weak, so they had to endure it for a long time, and then suddenly exerted their strength, carrying the sea, rain, and wind from all over the world, and then continued
Sacrifice, die continuously, use your life and soul to escort the black carriage through the interception of the two Buddhist and Taoist sects in an extremely tragic or rather tragic way, and successfully enter the wilderness.
Ning Que had no faith, so it was difficult for him to understand faith. The Guangming Temple's dedicated and extremely powerful faith in Wei Guangming and Sangsang was even more incomprehensible to him. It was a great shock.
A black carriage walks on the wasteland.
He looked at the black soil and melting ice outside the window and said: "My whole family and Xiao Heizi's whole village are all dead at the hands of your teacher, but I have to admit that your teacher is an amazing person."
"Thousands of years ago, the great priest of light founded Mingzong. Thousands of years later, you, the daughter of light, became the daughter of Pluto. During the entire thousand years in between, your teacher was probably the biggest alien or traitor in Xiling Temple.
Compared with him, Long Qing is nothing to mention."
Ning Que looked at Sangsang and said, "It's just that I don't understand. Wei Guangming has been looking for the son of Hades all his life. To this end, he did not hesitate to kill people and destroy the family, and he did everything possible. But when he died with his master on the Wuming Mountain, he had already
It showed that he wanted to see through your true identity, so why didn't he say it?"
In Lanke Temple, Sang Sang's life experience was revealed, and there was a lot of evidence in it. When he mentioned the matter to Sang Sang afterwards, Sang Sang told him the story of the mountain outside Chang'an.
Yin Zhao. It can naturally be seen that Wei Guangming actually knew that Sangsang was the daughter of Pluto before he died.
Sangsang shook his head and said in confusion: "I don't know."
Ning Que no longer thought about this matter, thinking about the four red-clothed priests who blew themselves up during the escape, and those subordinates of the Temple of Light who died tragically, with a slightly stern look on his face. He said: "The Temple of Light will definitely be cleaned this time, I
I even suspect that this was originally a Taoist conspiracy. Those big shots want to take the opportunity of chasing you to force the Temple of Light to reveal all its hidden strength, and then use it as an excuse to cleanse them."
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If you can’t return to your homeland, where can you settle down?
Sang Sang once asked Ning Que this question. At that time, Ning Que said that for them, the safest place now, except for the mountain behind the academy, is a place without people.
The most sparsely populated place in the world is, of course, the wilderness.
From Lanke Temple, through the space passage left by the Buddha, to the extreme western wasteland, and then into the moon wheel, Ning Que thought about the Congling route to the east and the current route, but never thought about going south.
Because the south of Moon Wheel Kingdom has always seemed too quiet.
The strong men of the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism have always stayed in the eastern and northern areas of Yuelun, and the southern area is connected to the Great River Kingdom and the Southern Jin Dynasty across the virgin forest, but they have not deployed any manpower.
This kind of silence seemed very strange, and in Ning Que's opinion, very scary.
So he resolutely chose to go east to north, that is, not to the south, because although there are countless strong men from both Buddhist and Taoist sects in the northeast, those strong men are as powerful as you can imagine, and in the quiet south, he does not know that there is a sword master
Liu Bai's sword is still waiting for him, the master of the Western Sect. What if the master shows up?
The black carriage continued to move deeper into the wilderness.
Not many days later, a swamp shrouded in fog appeared in front of the carriage. The sky was dim at this time, so the swamp in the fog looked particularly quiet and eerie. Ning Que knew that if he had a good vision, he could see this swamp heading towards the carriage.
It spreads to the north and south, and you can't even see where the edge is.
This is the mud pond.
A very common and even petty name, but it is the largest wetland swamp in the world.
The wasteland where the Xuankong Temple and the Youzhang Royal Court are located is called the Western Wasteland. To the east is the Great Wasteland where the Jinzhang Royal Court is located, and this swamp is between the Western Wasteland and the Great Wasteland, just like the vast Minshan Mountains.
The two wastelands are naturally separated. If you want to go to the Golden Horde, you must pass through this swamp.
The black crows were circling and flying over the carriage, emitting a few harsh caws from time to time. The company lasted for so long that Ning Que had already become accustomed to it and became numb. Anyway, there was nothing he could do with these black crows. He just pretended that he could not see the black crows.
They became more and more courageous, and two of them even landed on the carriage.
The swamp is very dangerous. The fog never dissipates all year round. It is very easy to get lost. There are many destructive dark pools hidden in the mud covered with shallow water moss. Even Ning Que does not have full confidence to go out.
The black carriage stopped at the edge of the swamp, resting and tidying up for a while. Ning Que made some simple and calorie-rich food, had a hearty meal with Sang Sang's big black horse, made medicine for Sang Sang to drink, and then stood on the roof of the car to explore.
road.
Two black crows squatted at his feet, looked up, looked at the iron tube-like thing in his hands, and quacked, as if they wanted to ask him what it was.
Ning Que was a little upset by the sound of crows. He stretched out his legs to drive away the two black crows, then jumped off the roof of the car and walked to the window. He handed the binoculars to Sang Sang and put it away, looking a little uneasy.
"Can't you see the road?" Sangsang asked.
Ning Cao nodded and said: "The fog in the swamp is too heavy. I haven't seen the gravel paths and the talisman arrays in the carriages that the herdsmen mentioned before. I'm not worried. I'm just worried that Dahei will fall in."
Hearing what he was talking about, the big black horse neighed twice.
Sang Sang walked down with a big black umbrella. Ning Que guessed what she was going to do. He shook his head in disapproval and said, "I told you not to use black umbrellas as much as possible. And your body is so weak now."
"I just used it in Chaoyang City, and I didn't realize anything happened. If Pluto really used the black umbrella to find me, why haven't I seen him in so many years?"
Sangsang said with a smile. Seeing that he still disagreed, he led the big black horse, stepped on the saddle and stepped on the horse's back. Then he climbed to the roof of the car, and with a mistake of his hands, he opened the big black umbrella.
On the edge of the swamp, a black flower blooms on the roof of the car.
I don't know how much time passed, but Sangsang signaled Ning Que to carry her down.
Ning Que noticed that her face became paler. Her body temperature was still normal, and he felt a little relieved.
"The swamp is too deep, I can't see very far, but there are indeed gravel roads, but those roads are covered with mud and water plants, making it difficult to find. The other seven masters are only sixty miles away from us."
After saying this, Sang Sang rubbed her painful eyebrows, and suddenly she felt sick in her chest and abdomen. She coughed repeatedly. What was disconcerting was that what she coughed was not blood, but some black foam.
Ning Que took out a handkerchief and wiped away the black foam from the corner of her lips. He found that the black foam looked very clean. It didn't smell fishy and even had a faint sweet aroma. He smiled and said, "It's really like black sesame paste.
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Sangsang frowned slightly and said sadly, "It's so disgusting."
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According to common sense, swamps and wetlands should only appear in hot, humid and watery areas in the south. This place is deep in the wilderness and is bitterly cold and lacks water all the time. There should not be any swamps at all.
It's just that the mud pond is really strange. There are countless geothermal sources underground in this wasteland. For countless thousands of years, hot spring steam has been spraying towards the surface of the wasteland, and it will not freeze all year round, so this large swamp is created.
Even in the cold winter, there will be no ice, and there will only be a shallow layer of frost on the surface of the swamp. At this time, spring is about to enter, and the hot springs flow quietly and spread, and the thin frost disappears, making the swamp even more muddy.
The front hooves of the big black horse were completely submerged in the wet mud of the swamp, making a snapping sound, and its chest was touching the ground. It seemed extremely dangerous, but it just rested its head in the mud and water in boredom, as if it was resting.
Ning Que stepped on two large pieces of iron and walked up to it, stretched out his hand to grab the reins, and with a little luck, his right arm used a strong force to lift it out of the wet mud.
The big black horse quickly turned aside and finally walked to a slightly firmer ground. It kept shaking its head, but it couldn't get rid of the mud on it, and it looked very embarrassed.
Sang Sang's health was a little better. The water mist in the swamp was steaming and the temperature was not low, so she kept sitting on the shaft of the car to relax in the wind. Looking at this scene, she couldn't help laughing.
At this time, they had reached the depths of this large swamp called Nitang, and there were no longer any pursuers behind them. What they had to resist now was no longer the human world, but nature.
The ground of the swamp is extremely soft, and it is difficult for plants to grow in the water that is rich in sulfur and other things. There are only endless moss growing there, which makes walking even more slippery, and it is easy to fall into the dark pool.
For ordinary people, if this swamp is a vicious place that can eat people without bones, although Ning Que and his party will not worry about being swallowed by the swamp, it is still extremely difficult to walk, and they often cannot find the things mentioned by the herdsmen underground in the tundra.
Walking on a gravel road, wading through water and treading mud, the speed becomes very slow.
Fortunately, the talisman array made the carriage as light as a feather. Otherwise, he would never have been able to walk two miles in this swamp. However, there were several times when he encountered a large area of water and could not find his way across, so Ning Que had no choice but to expend a lot of mental energy.
, I attached several wind talismans to the big black horse to get over the difficulty.
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