The longevity of the heavens begins with Mingyu Gong

Chapter 32 The Red Mansion in the Ice

Wharfs all over the world, gathering places of goods and materials, coins from Suzhou and Hangzhou, grain from Huaiyin, salt from Weiyang, goods from Linqing and Jining, chariots and mules from Xuzhou, the city god of the capital, antiques from Dengshi, rice from Wuxi, books from Jianyang, Porcelain from Fuliang, kaolin from Ningtai, fanship from Xiangshan, concubine from Guangling, and lacquerware from Wenzhou are among the best overseas.

When Song Xing went south by boat and came to Zhangzhou Yuegang, he saw the prosperous scene as described in "Guang Zhi Yi" as soon as he got off the boat.

In the end of the Ming Dynasty, the prohibition and opening of maritime trade lasted through hundreds of years of Ming Dynasty rule. When Ming Taizu founded the country, in order to prevent the remnants of warlords and pirates, he ordered that no boards should go to sea.

The descendants of later generations have been vacillating between banning the sea and opening up sea trade. It was not until Shenzong's father, Long Qingchao, who allowed private merchants to do business overseas, that the sea trade barrier was officially opened.

During the reign of Shenzong, with the prosperity of the country and the huge profits brought by maritime trade, the trade between Nanming and overseas reached its peak.

Hundreds of commodities such as tea, rice salt, silk, and porcelain from the Central Plains were traded in Yuegang, and local specialties such as precious metals, spices, and animal skins from Fusang and Nanyang were also transported to the inland of the Central Plains through here.

In addition, Nanming also collected a large amount of taxes through trade, making Yuegang the most prosperous port in the country.

Song Xing, who walked off the sailboat with a long sword on his back, was hidden in the turbulent flow of people, and did not attract much attention. The prosperity of Yuegang created a huge flow of people every day, and there would not be too strict inspections. It is very easy to enter the city after paying the city entrance tax.

Entering the city, Song Xing found that this place is more lively and prosperous than the wharf. Among the crowd, Han Chinese, Fusang people, and Orientals wearing various costumes were shuttling in the crowd, either selling or shopping, but all of them were in a hurry. state.

According to the transcript submitted by the Jade Snake Lord, Song Xing traveled down the Minjiang River and came to this small city attached to Yuegang.

A hundred years of vicissitudes, things are different, Song Xing inquired many times in the city, but there was no news of Xiuyu Valley, which made him wonder whether he came to the wrong place.

Song Xing simply took advantage of the night to climb over the wall and enter the county government office, and found the county annals in the county government office that recorded the local conditions and customs, and finally got new clues.

"In the 36th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was the year when the earth dragon turned over, the land of the three states was exhausted, the water came out and the ground trembled, many houses and houses in the city collapsed, and 790 people were killed. At the same place, build a city wall."

Song Xing also dug out the books about mountains and rivers geography in the county annals, combined with the records of the county annals, and finally locked the former site of the original county seat that was destroyed in the earthquake decades ago.

According to the description in a few words in the daily record, Song Xing visited another [-] miles, and finally found a valley that was quite consistent with the record in the record three days later.

The mountain road is rugged and the road is dangerous. If it weren't for Song Xing's high-level martial arts, his physical cultivation is even more sacred, and he deliberately searched, it would be really difficult for ordinary people to find the valleys in these mountain basins.

Entering the valley, there are dense forests and overgrown weeds. A waterfall flows straight down from the top of the mountain, running through the entire valley, making the whole valley feel cool.

Song Xing strode forward, the terrain in the valley became more and more steep, and there would be one or two cliffs from time to time, which made people daunting, but Song Xing became more and more sure that he had found the right place.

With force under his feet, Song Xing walked briskly, like walking on flat ground, easily crossed dangerous places, and finally stopped in a crevice of a cliff. After carefully looking at it for a while, he slipped in without hesitation.

After advancing another hundred meters, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly came to another valley.

This is the real Xiuyu Valley, the hidden valley in the valley, and this is the real place where Yihua Palace is located.

The climate in the valley is pleasant, the four seasons are like spring, mountains, rivers and lakes are dotted around, and there are many buildings around the lakes. You can imagine the scene where the people of Yihua Palace practiced martial arts and swords here.

But now, there is only a piece of dilapidated ruins left here, the Yihua Palace is still there, but the gatekeepers of the Yihua Palace are nowhere to be seen.

What he saw in front of him made Song Xing a little strange. He thought that Yihua Palace had lived in seclusion here for a hundred years and had never walked in the rivers and lakes. Who would have expected to see such a dilapidated scene when he came here.

No one has taken care of it for many years, and there are vines all over the ruins of the collapsed houses. Song Xing strolled among them, not to mention people, not even half of the snakes, insects, rats and ants, as if there was some kind of horror in front of him, even after a hundred years, Still frightening the valley.

The further he walked in, Song Xing began to feel a chill, not the kind of cold in the late autumn night, but a chill that penetrated into the bone marrow, as if he was in a layer of ice.

It's still hot summer outside, but in front of Yihua Palace, every step you take, you can feel the sharp drop in temperature.

Song Xing took a step forward, and the sound of amalgam flowing came from his body, and the blood boiled, generating huge heat to counteract the cold that wanted to invade the bone marrow.

After another hundred meters, Song Xing finally saw the gatekeeper of Yihua Palace,

To be precise, they are ice corpses frozen in layers of ice.

Dozens of youthful young girls in gorgeous clothes looked terrified on the front, facing Song Xing, as if they wanted to escape from the cage behind them, but before it was too late, they were directly frozen to kill all life by the terrifying cold current.

The chill is so deep that even after a hundred years, these ice corpses are still vivid, retaining the desire and struggle for life in the last moment before they were alive.

Such a strange way of death made Song Xing instantly vigilant, and he did not see any movement. The Longevity Sword had already appeared in his right hand, and the alchemy in his body was circulating. With a special breathing rhythm, the power in the 'Golden Elixir', Slowly release to the limbs of the body.

After reaching Dan Jin, his control over his body and strength has reached the level of the rumored golden cicada's induction. Any part of the body that is hurt can be sensed immediately and counterattacked accordingly.

In his induction, there is a chill in the air that is enough to freeze and kill ordinary people, and he always wants to get into his body. If he lets it enter his body, even with Song Xing's control over the physical body, he will be hurt to varying degrees .

And this is the cold air at the outermost edge.

Song Xing's face became more dignified, and he moved his blood vigorously to make himself like a burning Buddha in his consciousness, forcing all the cold air out of his body, stepping over the ice corpse, and walking towards the source of the cold air.

All the cold currents originated from a huge red building among the majestic buildings in front of Song Xing.

Antique, with red jade as the top, mahogany as the wall, double eaves roof of glazed tiles, carved dragons and phoenixes, three points of solemnity revealed in the vermilion lacquer door, on the Hongtai, there is a plaque in the shape of a lone moon and a lone star in the center, and the purple clouds of Tiangang above it The pattern, the flame pattern below, and the three inscriptions of Yihua Palace in the middle.

Thick cold air leaked out from behind the door, because this huge red building was frozen in it by a huge ice block as a whole.

Song Xing was shocked by the scene of the huge red building with a radius of [-] zhang.

It was hard for him to imagine how powerful it was to make this scene appear in front of his eyes.

(End of this chapter)