Holy Bone

Chapter 1632: Clues to the Immortal Cauldron of Gewu, Jinan Plants Pears Again

That night.

Taoist temple of the five internal organs.

Fatty Li, who had the good fortune to stay with Jin'an in Zunyi Palace to have a meal today, boasted insolently under the envious gazes of the old Taoist priest, old dog and other animals.

The old Taoist priest asked with great interest, "Did Prince Zunyi really call Master Yiyun back to his mansion for dinner?"

Fatty Li nodded: "That's a must."

"Zunyi Wang is following the words of his parents, how dare Princess Hanyun disobey?"

The old Taoist said with a tut-tut sound: "Does Young Master Yiyun know that the young brother is in Prince Zunyi's mansion? What was the first thing she said when she saw the young brother after returning to the mansion?"

Fatty Li glanced at Jin An secretly, then lowered his voice and said, "Princess Hanyun asked why Taoist Jin An didn't stay at the Jade Capital Palace today. What brought Taoist Jin An, who is so busy with all kinds of affairs, to Prince Zunyi's Palace?"

After that, Fatty Li added, "Don't you think it's strange? Taoist Jin'an has been away from Yujing Jinque for several days. Princess Hanyun couldn't have been unaware of this. Why did Princess Hanyun mention Yujing Jinque again when she saw Taoist Jin'an?"

You here are the old Taoist priests, sword-carvers, goats, and old dogs who have stuck their heads out to join in the fun. Even the Peacock Goddess has flown from the roof to the tree branches, pretending to be calm and eavesdropping.

  Snapped!

The old Taoist priest slapped his thigh heavily, his face full of regret: "I only regret that I was not there at the time. It would be hard to miss such a grand occasion again."

  Wang!Wang!

The old dog barked.

The old Taoist priest, who was still beating his chest and stamping his feet, was reminded by the dog barking and reacted. He quickly asked Fatty Li: "The old dog is right. What happened later? How did you answer in front of Prince Zunyi and Master Yiyun?"

Fatty Li was stunned with astonishment. He looked at the old Taoist priest, then at the old dog that was still barking, with a stunned expression.

The old Taoist priest and the old dog were both dissatisfied and kept urging Fatty Li: "Fatty Li is asking you a question, what happened later?"

Fatty Li was shocked and responded, "Master Chen, you can speak animal language and understand dog calls?"

The old Taoist rolled his eyes at Fatty Li and said, "You think I am worse than an animal? I can speak both human and animal language. Just look at the old dog's expression and anyone can tell what it wants to express."

Fatty Li: “?”

Master Chen, you can say whatever you want, but why are you scolding me? Anyone can see that...

After a burst of urging, Fatty Li replied: "Prince Hanyun was interrupted by Prince Zunyi before Taoist Jin'an could speak. Prince Zunyi scolded Princess Hanyun for being disrespectful, saying that Taoist Jin'an was a distinguished guest at Prince Zunyi's mansion today, and then asked Princess Hanyun to apologize to Taoist Jin'an."

The old Taoist priest showed disappointment in the first half of the sentence, as if he was regretting that the imagined scene did not happen. But when he heard the second half of the sentence, the old Taoist priest immediately became energetic again: "Did Master Yiyun apologize?"

Fatty Li chuckled and said, "I apologize, but..."

Fatty Li saw that everyone was looking at him unkindly, and immediately continued, "After we had our meal, Prince Zunyi asked Princess Hanyun to accompany us around the palace, and then we said goodbye and left the palace. During this time, Princess Hanyun said to Taoist Jin'an 81 times in total, 'I'm sorry, Taoist Master', 'I'm sorry, Taoist Master'..."

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Fatty Li imitated Master Yiyun's demeanor and repeated the same sentence over and over again like a parrot.

He glanced sideways, smiled without really smiling, spoke the most polite words in a cold tone, and his imitation of subtle grievance was simply amazing. The old Taoist priest slapped his thigh and exclaimed that it was amazing.

Only the big blue ox lay listlessly in the sheep shed, his eyes dull and hopeless, his heart secretly depressed: "It's over, the martial arts immortal is entangled with the daughter of the Zunyi Wang family, which means he is entangled with the late emperor. The Wuzang Taoist Temple is in turmoil!"

Fatty Li's parrot-like imitation directly pushed the emotions of the crowd of onlookers in the Wuzang Taoist Temple to the highest point. They all urged Fatty Li to tell the follow-up. How did Jinan deal with the jealous Master Yiyun?

Fatty Li was just about to imitate Jin An, but happened to meet Jin An's smiling gaze, which frightened him so much that his two hundred pounds of fat trembled violently. The cocky attitude he had just shown disappeared in an instant, and he stood obediently aside without saying a word.

The old Taoist priest yelled, "It's boring, it's boring, little brother."

Then he asked the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue whether it had seen what happened next. The Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue replied loudly, "That's Prince Zunyi's Mansion. I am just a stone statue. I don't have the courage of a bear or a leopard. How dare I spy on Prince Zunyi's Mansion?"

The old Taoist priest, who was still regretting, muttered a few more words and then brought up another topic: "Little brother, you guys were supposed to stay at Prince Zunyi's mansion for lunch at noon, so why did you not come back until dark?"

The talkative Fatty Li couldn't stay idle for a moment, and immediately answered: "Because we went to the Tianlong Taoist Temple on the way to retrieve the evidence that King Zunyi had deposited in the Tianlong Taoist Temple for more than ten years, and then returned to the Wuzang Taoist Temple."

"Where's that thing?"

"What was retrieved?"

  This time even the big blue ox became excited and poked its huge head out of the sheep shed, wanting to see what the evidence of the death looked like.

The death of the late emperor Xianzhu was too strange and full of doubts, especially Xianzhu himself. The subsequent series of events all started with Xianzhu.

Why did all the people on the Shenzhou ship die, and why did only Xianzhu survive? What happened on the ship, and what happened to Xianzhu? This unsolved case from more than a decade ago has attracted the attention of many people, including the secular world and the spiritual world, who are curious and want to know the answer behind it.

Jin An did not answer the question immediately, but kept looking at Fatty Li.

Fatty Li was puzzled: "Master Jin'an, why are you looking at me all the time?"

Jin An: "You won't interrupt me this time? I thought you wanted to take the initiative to tell everyone what we got from the Tianlong Taoist Temple."

Fatty Li: “Huh?”

"That thing only passed through your hands, Taoist Jin'an. How can I tell you?"

Jin An: "You won't answer first this time?"

Fatty Li shook his head like a rattle: "No more rushing to answer, no more rushing to answer."

Fatty Li lowered his head guiltily, he knew Jin An was blaming him for being too talkative.

Next, Jin An took out the things he had obtained from the Tianlong Taoist Temple.

It was a clay jar with two yellow talismans pasted crosswise on the seal of the jar.

"Hey, this is the talisman for closing the sky gate and the earth door!" said the old Taoist priest in surprise.

After the old Taoist's explanation, I learned the uses of these two yellow talismans. One closes the door to the sky, and the other closes the door to the earth. It is equivalent to sealing the four directions and the universe, isolating the things in the jar from being affected by the outside world.

"This talisman has not been torn off yet, little brother, you haven't seen what's in the jar yet?" The old Taoist priest looked around the clay jar and said in surprise again. Jin An nodded: "The Heaven Gate Closing Talisman and the Earth Door Closing Talisman are not difficult to identify. When I learned that the jar was sealed with these two yellow talismans, I immediately understood that the master of the Tianlong Taoist Temple didn't want the things in the jar to leak out, so he specially suppressed these two yellow talismans."

"And just in case, in order not to bring trouble to the Tianlong Taoist Temple, I did not open the jar to check."

Urged by everyone's curious voices, Jin An tore open the yellow talisman on the mouth of the jar, and huh -

The things in the jar seemed to be able to breathe. As the yellow talisman was torn open, it felt like a crack appeared in the jar. There was an extremely slight air flow disturbance, gently stirring the nearby air.

In fact, the feeling that the jar is cracked is just an illusion. The real situation is that the seal is loose and the air in the jar is leaking out.

Jinan raised his hand and quickly opened the seal, then slowly tilted the clay jar, and a small red cloth ball, which was wrapped tightly in layers, slipped out of the clay jar.

The old Taoist priest widened his eyes in surprise and urged, "It's wrapped so tightly, little brother, open it and see what it is."

As Jin'an uncovered the red cloth bags layer by layer, the evidence that had been sealed for more than ten years was finally presented to the world again.

"what?"

"Ugh?"

"This is?"

There was a chorus of surprised and exclaimed voices, filled with disbelief and astonishment.

"Martial Dao Immortal, are you sure that the old master of Tianlong Taoist Temple is not blind or has memory disorder? Why did he only give you a fragrant pear?"

"How is this fragrant pear related to the unsolved cases that shocked the secular and spiritual worlds more than a decade ago?"

The thousands of eyes on the body of the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Statue were all stunned and cried out in shock.

"It really is a fragrant pear. It is truly an amazing wonder in the history." Even the old Taoist priest was surprised and astonished.

There was a fragrant pear in the red cloth ball, or to be more precise, a black rotten and dried fragrant pear, similar to a black frozen pear that had lost its juice and was shriveled and wrinkled.

This pear looks like a frozen pear, and at first glance it is black and ugly, and it is hard to associate it with the fruit pear. However, through some details, the shadow of the pear from more than ten years ago can be vaguely seen, so the Thousand-Eyed Taoist God statue and the old Taoist priest have a surprised expression, as if they dare to recognize it but don't dare to recognize it.

"Could it be that... this fragrant pear is the food stored in the Gewu Immortal Cauldron from more than ten years ago?"

The old Taoist priest continued in amazement, "If it is really something from the Gewu Xianding, it can be regarded as the only clue to its existence. It is understandable that King Zunyi kept it so solemnly."

"The more you talk, the more outrageous it gets. The fragrant pears from a few years ago haven't rotted into dust yet! Although they are bad fruits and cannot be eaten, the fact that they have not rotted after more than ten years is really beyond common sense! Why do I suddenly feel that the things in this Gewu Xianding are not normal things that normal people can eat!" Fatty Li also put his head close to observe, and said in a loud voice.

As soon as Fatty Li finished speaking, he immediately attracted many eyes to watch: "Fatty Li, aren't you always bold enough to want to encounter evil? You even dared to lick the blood and flesh of the mountain god that was dried from a thousand-year-old bacon. It doesn't seem like you can say such words."

Fatty Li didn't like what he heard, and he argued loudly: "The dried meat is just air-dried but not spoiled, while the bad fruit is really bad, how can the two be the same? I am brave, but that doesn't mean I am stupid. I knew it was bad fruit and would cause poisoning and diarrhea, but I still ate it."

"It's like putting bacon and rotten fruit in front of you and you can only choose one as food. Which one would you choose to eat?"

At first, everyone nodded their heads, thinking it made sense. But after thinking about it carefully, they felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't find a way to refute it.

At this time, driven by curiosity, the big blue ox walked out of the sheep shed, leaned close to the black fruit fragrant pear, smelled and looked at it: "The speed of decay is so slow, could it be because it has been sealed in the jar by the Shut the Heaven Gate Talisman and the Shut the Earth Door Talisman?"

The Big Blue Ox said this to the old Taoist priest.

The old Taoist priest looked a little doubtful and answered uncertainly, "More than ten years old fruit, more than ten years old Heaven Gate Closing Talisman and Earth Gate Closing Talisman. This is the first time I have seen them today, so I am not sure... But I have never heard that Heaven Gate Closing Talisman and Earth Gate Closing Talisman can preserve food. They are usually used to perform rituals to subdue resentful spirits and evil spirits and to isolate evil spirits and negative energy."

"Little brother, has the old abbot of the Tianlong Taoist Temple, who is in charge of its safekeeping, ever told you about the situation of this fragrant pear?" The old Taoist looked at Jin'an.

Sitting on a stone bench in the backyard, Jin An tapped the stone table with his fingertips rhythmically, and said with a thoughtful look on his face, "No. I asked the old abbot, but he didn't know what was in it. He was asked by King Zun Yi to seal the jar in front of King Zun Yi and never touched it again."

"King Zunyi acted very carefully back then. In order to leave as few clues as possible, even the old master of Tianlong Taoist Temple did not reveal too much information."

The old Taoist frowned and said, "It seems that I have to go to Prince Zunyi's mansion again during the day to find out more about the situation from Prince Zunyi."

"After all, none of us have actually seen the Immortal Cauldron of Gewu, and we still don't know the true situation of the Immortal Cauldron of Gewu. All the clues come from fragmentary records in history books. This fragrant pear has not rotted after more than ten years, and no one can say for sure whether it is because of the Immortal Cauldron of Gewu, or because of the Heaven Sealing Gate Talisman and the Land Sealing Household Talisman, so we have to investigate from many aspects."

"The food in the Gewu Xianding from more than ten years ago, I didn't expect that King Zunyi had such a big backup plan. I don't know how King Zunyi got the food in the Gewu Xianding..." The old Taoist sighed that King Zunyi was so good at hiding.

knock--

knock--

Jin An tapped his fingertips rhythmically on the stone table, looking at the black rotten pear in the red cloth ball, with a gleam in his eyes: "Starting directly from the fragrant pear itself, the investigation will be the most labor-saving and convenient."

Jinan didn't want to disturb King Zunyi with everything.

Since King Zun Yi handed over such an important piece of evidence, which was the only clue back then, to him, it showed his trust in him, not only in his character, but also in his ability to handle the case.

He would naturally not let down King Zunyi's trust.

The old Taoist's eyes lit up: "Little brother, have you come up with a good idea?"

Jin An nodded and smiled: "I can think of a few ways. The Gewu Xian Ding can store so much food. Fortunately, King Zunyi left fruits instead of chicken, duck, fish, meat, rice, flour and cakes."

"I plan to plant pears to track."

As soon as the word "planting pears" was mentioned, the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li's eyes lit up. They both thought of their experiences in Wuzhou Prefecture and missed the days of stealing pears in Jinan.

The fragrant pears stolen from Jinan are always juicy, sweet, plump and delicious.

Even Xue Jian, who had been silent all this time, subconsciously looked up at Jin'an when he heard the word "planting pears".

The newly arrived big blue ox, the Thousand-Eyed Taoist statue, the old dog, and the Peacock Goddess did not know about Jin'an's pear planting story. They looked at the overreaction of the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li and were a little confused for a moment.

Fatty Li winked and said, "Master Jin'an secretly...planted pears. You will have something to eat later."