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Chapter 399 9. The main hall statue and Daomiao Zhenren

"The possibility is very high. The diving detector will enter the ancient city to observe and look for traces of Master Shan. The others will be ready to sneak into the vicinity of the ancient ship to arrest the mountain bandit Zhou Jiu."

Zheng Yun made two arrangements.

The ancient building that sunk at the bottom of the lake is probably Shanlaoye Temple. Shanlaoye may have some reason that prevents it from leaving the vicinity of Shanlaoye Temple, and even if it goes out, it cannot go too far.

Master Shan is most likely in the temple.

Among the myths and legends circulated among the people, this kind of situation is also common. Monsters and ghosts live in a certain place and cannot leave.

Moreover, this place has been blocked by Haiwei. With Haiwei's style, since the entire Shanlaoye Temple has been sunk, Shanlaoye will definitely be unable to escape and will be completely suppressed by Haiwei at the bottom of the lake.

"it is good."

Everyone took action immediately.

Zheng Yun and Niya controlled the detectors in their hands and headed towards the ancient building at the bottom of the lake, observing inch by inch among the swirling sand, looking for all traces of Master Shan's whereabouts.

Regardless of whether a Taoist temple is evil, its appearance must be mostly decent. It is impossible for evil Taoists to write the word "evil" clearly on the door plaque. It is really impossible to be sure without going in and taking a closer look.

Ji Dao gave an example.

Ji Dao quickly recognized the ancient building.

The detector keeps moving forward.

"Master Immortal, you can go near the main hall. If Master Shan is really here, there is a high probability that he will be in that area."

Ji Dao patted Zhang Ergou on the shoulder.

"I think so too."

The Tiangong Taoist Temple covers a huge area, with countless buildings and palaces. There are important and dangerous places left by the Tiangong ancestors everywhere, so it is difficult to distinguish the priorities, and everything is of vital importance.

"You still understand."

Zheng Yun controlled the detector to go to the main hall. The thruster was not affected by the sediment and continuously transmitted data back to the surface.

A statue of a god disintegrated on the spot, but the disintegrated pieces were suspended in place, maintaining a state of aloofness, as if restrained and frozen by some strange divine power.

The deep main hall is connected from top to bottom, and a collapsed statue stands in the middle, but the collapsed fragments are floating in the air, like huge rocks, suspended everywhere on the water.

Zhang Ergou stared at the picture and nodded.

Everyone in the venue was shocked.

Just like the weightless state of outer space, broken objects disintegrate in space. The distance between each fragment is equal. With a little help from external forces, it can be pieced back to its original shape.

The eaves walls, attic beams, and wall decorations of these ancient buildings were all accurately photographed by detectors.

All the ancient buildings at the bottom of the lake are displayed.

This is clearly a Taoist temple. The standard specifications are the same as those of traditional Taoist temples, but the internal details are very different. It looks both orthodox and some kind of wild way.

Both of them are Taoists. Even if only the top of the ancient building at the bottom of the lake is exposed, they can still recognize the Taoist temple from various details.

Faced with this small dojo.

"Is it this building?"

"Look with this."

Zhang Ergou's eyelids twitched slightly and he did not dare to answer Jidao's words. He just stretched out his hand and pointed a way to Zheng Yun on the screen.

This scene is too bizarre.

"There are so many schools of Taoism that we can't determine the origin and good or evil of this Taoist temple. Just like the Qianxian Taoist temple back then, it looked pretty decent from the outside."

But the searchlight couldn't shine through.

Ji Dao really can't guarantee that he can see the most important points at a glance, but Zhang Ergou will be more familiar with it.

Wow.

Compared with the collapse and damage of other buildings, the main hall of the Taoist temple still stands at the bottom of the lake, but it is covered with cracks and there are several hideous wounds running through the entire main hall from top to bottom.

The detector has special instruments that can filter interference and enhance the optical presentation. Similar to a night vision device, it illuminates the dim interior of the main hall and turns it into gray and white lines.

It was like sticking a mobile phone camera under a dusty bed. Everything in front of you was fine floating dust. It was pitch black in the depths, and you couldn't even see the general outline of the object.

The screen was filled with white light, and the bottom of the deep lake was reflected by searchlights like noon. The vicissitudes of ancient buildings were soaked in the water, and the sediment attached to the surface undulated and swayed in the light.

"This seems to be a Taoist temple, but it's different from ordinary Taoist temples. I don't know who built it."

Nia reached out and operated it.

It's really incomprehensible.

Zheng Yun controlled the camera to stick to the gap, and the searchlight spread the light into the gap, trying to peek into the main hall and observe what statues were enshrined in the main hall.

The Yin soldiers by the underground lake have already been in place.

The main hall of the Taoist temple at the bottom of the lake is about 12 meters high on four floors, of which ten meters are submerged in the mud. Only the uppermost floor is exposed, with the tiles broken and covered with mud.

The probe swam toward the crack.

A strange picture appeared.

You can jump off the cliff at any time, go straight to the five ancient ships on the lake, break into the deck cabin and capture the bandit Zhou Jiu.

How exactly is this done.

This place is not a place of weightlessness.

But the gray and white picture is too blurry, and the details of the stone statue cannot be seen clearly, and no clues can be found. Even the face of the statue cannot be identified, and it is not known what is carved on the statue.

"Master Immortal, this seems to be a stone statue, broken into dozens of pieces, but how can it float in the water?"

Ji Dao was also extremely confused.

I have read extensively in Tiangong Sutra Pavilion and have read so many records of gods and ghosts, but I have never seen such an outrageous situation.

"It should be caused by being pulled by the iron rope."

Zheng Yun frowned and made a guess. The only reasonable explanation he could think of at the moment was that the iron ropes tied the fragments of the statue, preventing the fragments from sinking to the bottom of the water.

This guess is also logical.

It is reasonable for Haiwei to seal this Taoist temple and seal the statues of gods enshrined in the Taoist temple with iron chains.

As long as the iron rope completely blocks the statue, even if the statue breaks into pieces afterwards, there will still be restraints from the iron rope to prevent it from collapsing, pulling it and suspending it in the water, resulting in strange results.

But being able to create such a scene shows that Triton used an extremely large number of iron ropes to almost tie up the statue, and drove in a large number of iron nails to pull all the broken pieces.

"Master Immortal is right."

Zhang Ergou nodded frequently.

Master Xian is indeed a quick thinker. This explanation is undoubtedly the most reasonable, and it makes people realize it as soon as they hear it.

"Still very weird."

Ji Dao's eyelids twitched slightly.

Everyone can imagine that kind of scene. The statue of the god is fixed to the wall of the main hall by countless iron ropes from all directions, hanging in the air like a spider's thread.

This situation is still weird.

Not much worse than natural suspension.

Comparing the idol to the human body, it means that a person is pulled and fixed by iron cables. Even if the person dies and the body becomes corrupted, the bones of the whole body must be fixed in the air and maintain the appearance before death.

"What kind of laws did this idol violate that led the sea guards to treat it like this, making it unable to even pray for death? Master Tao, is there any precedent for this kind of treatment in history?"

Zhang Ergou looked at Ji Dao and asked.

"Yes, there is, but Haiwei usually doesn't do this. If you encounter something like this, it would be easier to throw it into the Immortal Burial Valley."

Ji Dao frowned and thought deeply.

He couldn't tell at the moment what it meant for the statue to be treated like this, whether it was because the statue was so dangerous, or whether there were other reasons.

Because there is a basic logic here.

If the danger level reaches a certain level, Haiwei will use other means to deal with it. The most common one is to move it into places such as the Immortal Burial Valley to ensure that the statues can no longer act as monsters.

The level of iron chain sealing is actually not high.

When encountering magic-level magic methods, there is basically no opportunity for iron ropes to appear, and there is no need for iron ropes at all.

So this scene is very contradictory. Triton used iron ropes to tie the statue into this state, making it difficult to tell the level of this object.

"Perhaps there was no Immortal Burial Valley at that time."

Zheng Yun continued to speculate after Ji Dao's words.

Many questions have to refer to time, and it is difficult to guess ancient things from a modern perspective. This is not only true for modern people such as Zheng Yun, but also applies to Ji Dao.

The construction age of this ancient ruins is in all likelihood earlier than the construction age of the ancient city of Nanze, and earlier than the migration of people in Nanze. It should belong to the later years of the early Ming Dynasty.

Where did the Immortal Burial Valley come from in that era?

There were not as many ways to deal with gods and ghosts as there were in later generations. The ancients at that time were in the early stages of exploring ways to deal with gods and ghosts. When they encountered many difficult things to solve, they could only use stupid methods.

If you can't control it, just leave.

As long as there are enough iron ropes, it can be restrained.

"Master Immortal, look carefully. This statue is huge, but it is empty inside. Is it possible that Master Shan came out of the statue?"

Zhang Ergou followed closely and continued.

Everyone looked at it one after another. Where Zhang Ergou pointed, it was obvious that the crack in the statue was empty. The statue had a hollow structure with a shell on the outside.

“Is this a clay statue?”

Ji Dao stared at the crack carefully.

"This is not uncommon. In ancient times, many statues of gods used in temples and monasteries were made of clay. After the statues were shaped, the details and colors were painted with paint."

Nia also added a few words. Although she is a Westerner, she knows a lot about the ancient East. She couldn't add anything to the previous discussion, but she could say a few words about these basic common sense.

"Find a way to go in and have a look."

Zheng Yun turned the detector and looked around.

There are cracks on all sides of the main hall, some wide and some narrow. There should be a place to accommodate the detector, but you have to look for it slowly.

Not long after.

Nia was the first to make a discovery. In the area where the main hall was submerged by sand, a very large breach was found. Almost the entire wall collapsed under the water.

"With such a big mouth, Master Shan will definitely be able to come out!" Zhang Ergou exclaimed as soon as he saw it.

"Go in."

Zheng Yun said to Nia.

At this moment, the relationship between the statue and Mr. Shan cannot be determined. The fact that Mr. Shan shed his shell from the statue sounds too weird, and it is basically impossible to imagine the scene.

But there is precedent for this.

That's what the ghost figurines are like.

The surface of the Yin Ghost Warriors is like fine white porcelain, and it is about four meters long. It was originally sealed in a deep-sea pontoon by iron ropes, and its limbs and head were also firmly tied by iron ropes.

And the Yin ghost figurines can indeed shed their skin.

There are real ghosts in the bodies of the Yin ghost figurines, which can shed their shells. But until now, Zheng Yun didn't know what the Yin ghosts looked like or what methods the Yin ghosts had.

So it cannot be ruled out.

Maybe the statue is also a kind of ghost figurine.

"I'm in."

Nia reports on progress.

On the screen, the detector has penetrated into the main hall and can directly use the camera to take pictures of the internal situation.

Same as previous speculation.

The statues in the main hall were indeed firmly secured by a large number of iron ropes, pulled and fixed in mid-air in the main hall. Even if the statues disintegrated and shattered, they still maintained roughly their original appearance.

The statue is a Taoist statue, which can be vaguely recognized. It depicts a middle-aged man with a vague and incomplete face, but there is a vision behind him and he is holding a magic weapon in his hand.

The iron ropes are densely packed.

Like a dragnet.

The weird picture makes people shudder.

The entire main hall is like a silk hole, with the limbs of the male statue inserted into the water horizontally and vertically.

"But neither the life detector nor the thermal imaging found any signs of ordinary life here."

Nia swept around with the detection equipment.

"I seem to have seen this statue before. Master Tao, look at its hands. The patterns on its wrists don't look like that."

Zhang Ergou stared straight at the statue and said.

"like what?"

Jidao was slightly stunned when he saw it. He actually knew both Zhang and Ergou, but he couldn't remember the statue himself.

"On the boundary of Qianxian Terrace near the sea, Qianxian Dojo is the largest dojo, but it is not the only dojo. There are many large and small dojos up and down the mountain, at least hundreds of dojos."

"One of the Taoist temples is called the Three Destinations Temple. The three destinies in the name are marriage, mortal destinies, and ghost destinies. However, the statues they worship have nothing to do with these so-called three destinies."

"This statue in front of me."

"It's the same as the concept of Three Conditions."

Zhang Ergou immediately told the details.

"What a mess of a Taoist temple. How could a Taoist know such a small Taoist temple? What should I say?"

Ji Dao breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as Zhang Ergou said those words, Ji Dao's mind wandered and he thought of various possibilities, some of which were extremely horrifying. They were all famous evil creatures in history, including many immortals and ghosts.

In the end, Zhang Ergou came to the small Taoist temple on Qianxiantai. Did he really think that this Sanyuan Temple was very famous?
"Don't worry, Taoist Master. The origin of the Sanyuan Temple is not trivial. I went to see it inside the temple. The master of the Sanyuan Temple studied under Daomiao Zhenren from Changxian Yingzhou. Is this person considered famous?"

Zhang Ergou continued to explain.

"Daomiao Zhenren of Changxianying..."

Ji Dao's expression suddenly changed, and when he heard the name Daomiao Zhenren, his face became very serious.

"What's wrong with this person?"

Zheng Yun looked at Ji Dao and asked.

He knew nothing about the history of Taoism. He had never heard of Dao Miao Zhenren and did not know his origins.

But Zheng Yun knew Qianxiantai.

There are also orthodox righteous Taoist temples all over Qianxiantai, but they are probably not many in number. There are probably only a dozen righteous Taoist temples among the hundreds of Taoist temples, and the rest are all evil sects.

The three-causal view actually also includes Yin karma.

It doesn't sound serious at first glance.

"Master Immortal, this Miao Zhenren is indeed of great origin, but it is also extremely controversial. Legend has it that this person has a magical method of immortality, which cannot make people live forever, but can extend their lives for decades.

"As early as the early Ming Dynasty, this man relied on this life-extending method to serve as the Celestial Master of the day. He specialized in brewing life-extending medicine for the emperor in the palace, but he killed three generations of emperors."

"Three generations of emperors are all around 100 years old."

"This wonderful master lived a hundred and sixty years."

"Even a fool can see that something is wrong. This wonderful master must have the real art of immortality, but he only enjoys it for himself and deliberately hides his clumsiness from the emperor."

"Once the emperor becomes suspicious."

"It would be very difficult for Master Daomiao to die."

"Zhenren Daomiao knew he was in trouble, so he took advantage of a vassal disaster and fled to Changxianying to build a Taoist temple. He was at odds with the Ming Dynasty, and his disciples were all rebellious."

Ji Dao slowly told the story.

As expected from Zheng Yun, this Miao Zhenren was indeed not a decent person, nor was his disciple a serious Taoist, at least from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty.

But this is quite funny.

Daomiao Zhenren worshiped the Heavenly Master with the method of extending his life, but dared to live longer than three generations of emperors. What on earth did he think... I really don't know how to evaluate it.

(End of this chapter)