one person's life

Chapter 211 Sneaking into the Gao Family’s Ancestral Land
After Xuan Cheng jumped into the Songhua River, he was protected by colorful rays of light and could not be invaded by the river. He opened his mouth and stuck out his pink tongue, and a small cyan box radiating bright light flew out of his mouth and rushed into the rushing river. .After the small box entered the water, it seemed to dive under Tang Muzhi's body consciously. Tang Muzhi was stabilizing his center of gravity in the water when he felt that his feet were being lifted up as if they were stepping on the hull of a ship. He looked down and saw that the small green box gradually changed into Large, it eventually turned into the bronze coffin. On the bronze coffin, the dark green innate energy emerged, exuding a faint light under the river.

Only then did Tang Muzhi remember this magical weapon that was born with Xuan Cheng's transformation!There is a distinction between innate and acquired magical artifacts. Innate magical artifacts are treasures created by heaven and earth that only exist in legends. Acquired magical artifacts are artifacts made by humans. Although Xuancheng's bronze coffin is made of ordinary bronze, it is still in shape. The process was tainted with some innate cause and effect. Tang Muzhi saw that Xuan Cheng had used it. The bronze coffin could be large or small, integrating offense and defense, and had extraordinary power.Xuan Cheng also stood on the coffin lid and hid behind Tang Mu.

Tang Muzhi clasped the coffin lid with his right hand, bent his knees and crawled on the coffin, and said to Xuancheng, "Go down a little further, so that no one will discover you."

"OK!" At the same time it sank, submerged below the surface of the water.

"what……"

Not long after diving into the water, Xuan Cheng let out a sigh as if he had discovered something. Tang Muzhi asked him what was going on. He didn't care whether Tang Muzhi saw it or not. He pointed far ahead and replied: "There is a similar person in front of you! The smell...well, it’s definitely an old bastard!”

"Immortal family?" Tang Muzhi frowned. Xuancheng's kindred spirits were elves, and with the strength of the Gao family, it was obviously impossible to allow any elves of unknown origin to be hidden within the territory. So the "old bastard" in Xuancheng's mouth should be We have a cooperative relationship with the Gao family, so it is not impossible to make a special trip to protect their waterways.

"How to avoid it?" This was what Tang Muzhi asked. Although his skill in hiding and hiding Qi was superb, elves have the ability to sense the surrounding environment. Not to mention underwater, even on land, it was difficult for Tang Muzhi to be in a place. Sneaking under the nose of the elves without being noticed.

After hearing this, Xuan Cheng thought for a while. He scratched his head and said uncertainly: "How about... I go talk to this guy? We are all brothers in the four seas. We are all children of heaven and earth."

Okay, when you are tortured to death by the heavenly tribulation, you will yell at the thief that God will not give you a way to survive, and at other times you will call yourself a child of heaven and earth!But this is not wrong. Everything in the world, whether dead or alive, are not children of heaven and earth.

Tang Muzhi was thinking about the feasibility of this matter. The Northeast has a vast land and abundant resources, and there are many elves that have been bred—that is, fairy families. They are not a harmonious group.He was relieved of Xuan Cheng's strength, but if the conversation with the "Old Bastard" suspected to belong to the Gao family broke down, Tang Muzhi would have to force his way in, and the risk of being discovered would increase a lot.

While Tang Muzhi was hesitating, Xuan Cheng seemed to have found an excellent idea. He laughed and said, "Yes, that's good. I'll tell him about my experience of transformation. There are no elves in the world." If you don’t want to transform, that old bastard Bagong has been cultivating for hundreds of years, but his realm is not as good as that of a kid like me who has been practicing for more than 200 years. He must really want to know how I transformed! Hehe.”

Tang Muzhi thought about it and thought that even if Xuan Cheng's negotiation failed, the two of them would just barge in and the consequences would not be unacceptable.Tang Muzhi has many methods, and even against a top-notch master, it is difficult to see his path in a short period of time. The same goes for Xuan Cheng. Although he also learned the Phantom Body Barrier at Tang Muzhi's request, he relied more on his innate abilities. .

Xuan Cheng waved his hand in the water, and a bright light emerged from the bronze coffin and enveloped Tang Muzhi, invulnerable to water and fire. Then he swung his tail, twisted his body and swam forward.

Tang Mu was constantly observing the movements around him. One of the characteristics of elves fighting was that they were extremely loud. After all, the biggest characteristic of elves besides their longevity was their huge energy.If Xuancheng fought with that bastard in the water, Tang Muzhi would be able to detect and react immediately.

Fortunately, this situation did not happen in the end. A quarter of an hour later, the Songhua River was still calm, and Xuan Cheng swam towards him with an excited look on his face.

"It's done?"

"Yeah!" Xuan Cheng couldn't hide the joy on his face. He was like a child waiting for praise from his parents for doing something good.

"Well done." Tang Muzhi complimented him casually, and then asked: "Is that elf really looking after the ancestral forest for the Gao family? How did you convince him?"

Xuan Cheng said with a smile: "Yes, Mo Zhen said, it lost the bet with the ancestors of the Gao family, and it will protect the ancestral forest of the Gao family for 300 years. The time is almost up. As for how I convinced it? Of course it was to transform into Tell it your skills."

It seems that "Mo Zhen" is the name of that tortoise. These elves are not uneducated, and their names are quite pleasant.

Tang Muzhi was stunned immediately, "What technique?"

"Don't kill, don't set fire, take from heaven and give back to heaven, and also learn from Lei Feng and do good deeds!"...

In this way, Tang Muzhi and Xuancheng passed through the Songhua River water area behind the ancestral forest safely with Mo Zhen turning a blind eye. According to Xuancheng, Mo Zhen's body would usually release when he slept nearby. It was a realm designed to hurt people's souls. Once outsiders broke into the soul, they would be shocked. Fortunately, Tang Muzhi didn't have to experience all this. The two of them quickly arrived at the outer forest of their ancestral land.

There was still snow in the forest. The tall trees were densely blocking the sunlight. The forest was hidden in darkness. The snow on the ground was very thick. Tang Muzhi and Xuancheng used their methods to eliminate the traces from the waterway and sweep away the accumulated snow. When it snowed, I unexpectedly discovered that there were still remaining footprints nearby.

"It seems that someone secretly sneaked into the Gao family through water not long ago!" Tang Muzhi stood there and observed carefully for a while. Judging from these footprints, it was obvious that they were left by the Qi Refiner, and there were four people in total: three The body weight of each person is about the same, 1.7 to 1.8 meters, and the weight estimate is not accurate; there is another footprint that is wider and the mark is more solid. It seems to be a fat man.

The footprints extended along the depths of the ancestral forest, but the footprints of one of them suddenly disappeared halfway, without even a trace of jumping away nearby. Tang Muzhi was confused. These four people seemed to be the same. They were walking, and they obviously didn't care whether they left traces and exposed their whereabouts. Why did a person disappear like this for no reason?If I had known earlier, I would have asked Xuan Cheng to ask more questions. Those people were coming by water, and they had obviously passed through Mo Zhen.

However, there is no more time to wander here now. Tang Muzhi's purpose is to directly enter the Gao family's ancestral tombs to investigate. Sooner or later, these places will be found by the people in the hall.

Regardless of whether Xiong Feiyan is dead or alive, the people organized by the hall have corresponding means to conduct a large-scale search. The only place they have not used any means to search is the ancestral grave of the Gao family, and they have never reached an agreement with the Gao family.

Xuan Cheng knew the location of the Gao family's ancestral tomb, but they had never been in it. The two of them judged the approximate location of the ancestral tomb, determined the direction, and rushed there.

The outer forest was not small. Tang Muzhi and Xuan Cheng were concerned about the traps that might appear at any time along the way. Their speed was neither fast nor slow, and they did not approach the Gao family's ancestral grave until the sunset.

Tang Muzhi had previously thought about how the Gao family would protect their ancestral graves, but he never expected that they would use such a simple and crude method: surrounding the ancestral graves with a circle of invisible threads attached to weak true energy. The installation surrounds the ancestral tombs layer by layer!

It’s not surprising that Xuan Cheng, a great demon with five senses that are as sensitive as ordinary people, didn’t notice this, because the entire encirclement was buried underground, and the hidden mechanisms around the forest were not filled with true energy from the beginning and were hidden around it. It can be described as a perfect fit among the trees!After Tang Muzhi's careful analysis and bold guess based on the little mechanism skills he had learned, he found that when the encirclement buried underground detected that a person entered the ancestral grave, it would trigger the automatic mechanism main string. The main string and the Qi source of the mechanism array were connected to each other, and the Qi source activated After that, the Qi will be transmitted to the mechanisms hidden in the forest in the form of diffusion. At that time, all the mechanisms will be activated, and it will be difficult to break in with brute force.

Tang Muzhi failed to notice the surrounding encirclement after using various methods. He used the secret detection function of Dixingxian to detect the rectangular mechanisms hidden in the branches of several nearby trees, and then deduced based on the principle of the operation of the mechanism array. There must be an extremely concealed trigger device nearby.

The Gao family's mechanisms are magical enough. To put it bluntly, these rectangular mechanisms are automatic crossbow barrels that are activated by Qi energy. When triggered, they will shoot out poisonous arrows. But the strange thing about these mechanisms is that they are not activated when they are not activated. It does not come with Qi, and it can be perfectly integrated with living trees. The trees keep growing. The position of these crossbows does not change, and it is guaranteed to be activated and triggered at all times. I don’t know how powerful it is, but its hidden function is definitely Not bad; so is that strange encirclement.

Knowing the triggering method of the mechanism, it is not difficult to crack it. Tang Muzhi dug underground very accurately without violating the encirclement detection, and finally dug out a vague encirclement. Yin and Yang Qi surrounded it and surrounded it. A section of the true Qi on it was quietly devoured. As expected, the mechanism array had no intention of being triggered, but the two ends of the thin line that lost the Qi support would still transmit the Qi quickly. In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Tang Muzhi experimented over and over again, but he was bored. Xuan Cheng, however, was impatient and looked left and right at the nearby mechanisms. In the blink of an eye, he actually dismantled a crossbow machine that grew with the trees.Tang Muzhi didn't care very much. These rectangular crossbows were just ordinary mechanical devices without real energy. Even if they were dismantled, they would not be noticed by the Gao family.

Tang Muzhi finally finished the experiment and called Xuan Cheng back - he was still holding a small crossbow machine that had just been dug out of a tree. Tang Muzhi first activated Yin and Yang Qi to swallow up all the real Qi on the line, and then took advantage of the gap. After crossing the encirclement and entering the Gao family's ancestral grave, this process did not disturb the Gao family, nor did it trigger the main organ.Tang Mu and the two of them happened to be on a raised hill. After climbing over this hill, they saw dense tombs standing on this empty land. In front of the tombs not far away, there were tomb caps and tombs made of white stone and wood. At the base, Tang Muzhi was shocked to find that there was a short wooden tower standing in the distance. Even further away was the dark jungle again. The wooden tower only had three floors. Looking at its scale, it would be enough to put a body on one floor. Difficult matter.

Tang Muzhi had done some homework before. Although the Gao family was Han, their architectural style and customs were similar to those of the Manchus, that is, the ancient Jurchen tribe. Their method of dealing with the remains of their ancestors was mostly burial, but in the past there were also cremation or In the custom of stone burial, the ashes left after cremation are put into a jar and then lifted up into the grave.If the deceased made a significant contribution to the family during his lifetime, there are various exceptions, such as a thick burial with a silk shroud filled with scriptures and a nanmu coffin or enshrining the ashes elsewhere - although the short tower looks It seems shabby, but it may be a place where the ashes of important people are stored.

The Gao family attaches great importance to sacrifices. It was ten o'clock in the evening, and the forest was filled with the smell of burning sacrificial incense. There was snow everywhere in the outer forest, but there was no snowflake in the ancestral tombs of the Gao family. In the silent night, the waning moon quietly Rising, the weak moonlight shines on the bare tombs. It is rare that this place does not have a gloomy feeling. Instead, this simple structure gives people a sense of solemnity and uprightness... This is something related to Feng Shui. Tang Muzhi didn't understand, but he could tell that this was a good place to hide wind and gather energy.

The remains of his ancestors were buried underground. Of course, it was not easy for Tang Muzhi to use the Earthly Immortal to sneak into the ground and secretly investigate. Tang Muzhi had no choice but to turn on his physical eyesight to inspect carefully without missing any details. When he walked around, he turned on the phantom body barrier. He held his body and ordered Xuan Cheng to stay where he was.

The Gao family's ancestral tomb is not small. It is certainly not a problem for Tang Muzhi to search so slowly. Finding clues also requires skills. You can't just focus on the ground. Tang Muzhi first climbed up a tree to look down. It is difficult to see the whole Gao family's tomb from here. But if the cemetery is divided into northern and southern areas, the entire southern area will come into Tang Mu's eyes. Tang Muzhi carefully explores along the encirclement, and the first clue he finds is the footprints of those three people!
Tang Mu checked under the tree. He had gone straight ahead according to the location of the Gao family's ancestral tomb in Xuan Cheng's memory. He was different from this group of people. Unexpectedly, he ended up arriving at the same destination by different routes. They had also been here.

However, this time the footprints of the three people were facing the direction they came from, and the overall mark was much clearer. It was obviously left not long ago.This time point is close to the time when the outside world first spread the news that the Gao family was hiding Gao Gen. It seems that these three people or the one whose footprints disappeared are undoubtedly full-blooded people.

(End of this chapter)