Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Now Li Lijun couldn't sit still.

How can there be a heartbeat in the mountains?Unless there's a human being in it, a living human being.

And as far as Li Lijun knew, there was indeed a person buried in Bald Mountain—or Ice Crystal Peak—who didn't know whether he was dead or alive, and that was Patriarch Lin Yuan of the Shangqing School.But it was thousands of years ago that he was buried there.Although monk Nascent Soul did have a thousand-year lifespan, since he was defeated by that mighty man and pushed into the bottom of the mountain, it is impossible for him to be safe and sound.Whether he can live for so many years is still unknown.Although the members of the Shangqing faction seem to believe that he is still alive, Li Lijun is a little skeptical about this.

She just held the idea of ​​"maybe", and planned to ask the mouse king to dig the mountain to find out. It would be better if he could find someone, and it didn't matter if he couldn't find someone. Anyway, there were still spirit stones to harvest.

But now, the Mouse King told them that there was indeed something alive in the mountain, and she couldn't help hesitating again.

Is the owner of this heartbeat really Patriarch Rin Yuan?After thousands of years of suppression, he can still hear such a loud heartbeat, so there shouldn't be any problem with him, right?

The Wannian Lingbing Toad who was suppressed in the mountains with him back then should have died long ago, right?Otherwise, the cold air on this mountain would not be so severe.That heartbeat...should have nothing to do with it, right?

Countless messy thoughts flashed through Li Lijun's mind, and he finally decided that he had to go to the scene to have a look in person and hear what the Rat King said with his own ears, so that he could feel at ease.

She first observed the situation of the Rat King through the mirror, and saw that it was eating and sleeping well, staying obediently in the nest of the small cave, except going to the entrance of the cave at night to take advantage of the moonlight and stars to practice, and would not go out at all. step.Erhong and Shi Qing had prepared enough food for it in advance, and it was quite tolerant of loneliness. The excitement of digging up the spirit stone seemed to make it forget the loneliness of working alone, and it didn't mind this kind of life at all.

However, as the Mouse King said, it has harvested too many things. Not only are all the storage tools full, but even the small space opened on the side wall of the cave is full of various spirit stones. and something suspicious looking.Li Lijun looked at the past through the mirror, a little suspicious that it was the remains of some small monsters, but how could there be such things in the belly of the mountain?

Surrounded by the pile of spiritual stones, the Rat King was sleeping soundly.Li Lijun didn't intend to manipulate the little paper crane to wake it up, so he tidied up, changed his clothes, and planned to take a trip to Bald Mountain overnight.

Both Erhong and Qiuxiang wanted to follow her there, but Li Lijun said: "Erhong has been busy for a few days, and he should take a break. By the way, we will simply handle the elixir and spiritual materials we collected this time, so that they can be conveniently stored. Qiuxiang Give Erhong a shot. If there is heavy work, call Lu Siyun in to do the work." It was easier for her to go to Bald Mountain alone.She didn't forget that the people of Zhenxian Temple were having trouble with the Shangqing faction.They were entangled every day at the northern foot of Bald Mountain. If she didn't want to take a long way, she would definitely meet them.She was on her way alone, and she was even more sure of avoiding it far away.

However, to Li Lijun's surprise, when she arrived not far from the northern foot of Bald Mountain, she did not see any members of the Shangqing sect. Instead, she saw Li Wenqi and another disciple of Zhenxianguan Xunshan on the northern slope. Wandering around, seems to be looking for something.

She hurriedly found a hidden place to hide, not only took several breath-holding charms on herself, but also asked the system to install a shielding halo on herself.

Li Wenqi and his companions didn't find any trace of Li Lijun at all. They seemed to encounter something puzzling, so they wandered around the side of the mountain.The two met and discussed a few words, then they split up.Li Wenqi stayed where he was, while the other went around the mountain for inspection.When the latter came back, it was Li Wenqi's turn to patrol the mountains again, but the patrol routes were decided by them and they did not overlap.But no matter how they patrolled, they all looked disappointed.

When they met again to discuss, Li Lijun took out the binoculars.It was also her luck that Li Wenqi happened to be facing her direction, and the starlight was quite bright tonight, allowing Li Lijun to see the change of his mouth clearly.

What he said was: "What's the matter? They haven't come all day?"

The other person said a few words to him face to face, because Li Lijun said it with his back turned, and she didn't know the content, only saw Li Wenqi respond and said: "This matter is unusual. Could it be that the Shangqing faction noticed Guanzhu's intentions?" agree?"

The other person said a few more words, and Li Wenqi's face suddenly turned ugly: "I told you I was on leave beforehand! Besides, after I came back, the Shangqing faction acted as usual, and it didn't disappear until today. Even if someone neglected their duties, it shouldn't be my responsibility!"

The two quarreled for a few words, looked at each other angrily, and decided to review the report together, and neither of them would even want to carry another black letter.

The two left together, and before leaving, they cast several spells on that hillside.From such a distance, Li Lijun only vaguely recognized the detection and warning spells in it, hesitated for a while, did not dare to act rashly, decided to make a big circle, and then went up the mountain from the south slope.

She made a big circle with the fastest speed, and when she arrived at the small cave, it was almost dawn.

The Rat King just woke up from his sweet dream, and he laughed aloud. When he saw Li Lijun, he couldn't believe it: "Little lady, why are you here? You didn't even tell me."

Li Lijun stared at the huge pile of spirit stones beside it, as well as the unidentifiable remains of some monsters, and couldn't help but said: "Seeing your situation here, how dare I delay? These are all what?!"

"I don't know either." The Rat King hurriedly jumped up and said, "They are all powerful...I can feel that each of them is a hundred times stronger than me when they are alive!"

But even if they were very powerful when they were alive, they have long since become corpses. They are still corpses that have been frozen hard and sealed in the mountains for an unknown number of years. The aura in their bodies has almost dissipated, and there is no threat left.However, their bodies are still useful. Some furs are so tough that they can be used as armor; Wanted to make myself a new spare set of claw guards.There were a few of them, it felt that there was something rare in their bodies, maybe the little lady and the owner would need it, so it didn't touch a single hair, and just kept them in the cave.

But these are secondary.The mouse king is happiest because he has dug up a lot of spirit stones, and there are also one or two particularly precious spirit mines.It memorizes the locations where it has dug into the spirit mines, and waits to dig them when needed in the future.As for the spirit stones, it didn't dig them on purpose, it's really... If it wants to dig a path in the mountain that it can pass through, it must dig out these spirit stones.

The more you dig into the belly of the mountain, the denser the distribution of spirit stones becomes.In the past two or three days, it felt that it was no longer digging a mountain, but a huge spiritual stone.For the sake of its claws, it also tried to dig in another direction and another way, but it was useless. No matter which direction it chose, as long as it led to the mountainside, there were only spirit stones in it.

And the heartbeat it heard was located in the very center of the spirit stone, very clear.

Li Lijun couldn't help becoming nervous when he heard it, and held his breath: "My lord, do you think this heartbeat... is a human heartbeat?"

"Of course it's a human!" The Mouse King looked at Li Lijun puzzled, "He's a cultivator, a very powerful cultivator! I can feel it. He looks a bit like you, little lady, but he's a lot stronger than you. A hundred times!"