Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 435 Huang Jing Lingshi Cave ([-])
435 Chapter 435 Topaz Lingshi Cave ([-])

The passage to the next level has been opened. This time we left the female octopus's hall without stopping.

Before leaving, the female octopus said to us: "Mr. City Lord, little brother, see you next time."

Entering the passage, the entrance gradually disappears behind you. There are towering stone walls on both sides of the passage. There are a pair of lamps made of topaz spiritual stones every one meter. When we walk past a pair of lamps, the pair in front of us will light up. , before the lights were on, there was a dark stone path with no end in sight.

Walking on the stone path, we can hear the echo of our footsteps every step we take. The sounds overlap and echo in the empty stone path, and the sound is a bit special. It feels like there is nothing under the stone slabs under our feet.

After a while, we reached a stone staircase going up, and a broad square and the outline of a huge ancient building suddenly appeared in front of us.

We quickly walked to the building and looked at the house carefully.

I looked at it and said, "This house is really nice, with antique carved beams and paintings, but it's missing some things. Look, if it doesn't have couplets, it doesn't exist. But why doesn't a house with this layout even have a plaque?"

Zhang Qiling looked at the surrounding environment and the layout of the house and said, "This is the ancestral hall."

I repeated: "Ancestral Hall..." and then said: "I have heard of an ancestral hall in Qilin City, but no one seems to have seen it.

Doesn’t it mean that the ancestral hall is equivalent to a Yang house built for the ancestors, a Yang within the Yin, a Yin within the Yang, shouldn’t it be built outside to worship the ancestors?It seems common to have tombs near ancestral halls, but this one was built inside a tomb. "

Zhang Qiling said calmly: "Looking from the secret space, this is the outside."

I immediately said: "Then the places we just passed by are not considered to be in the tomb we are going to?"

He looked at the ancestral hall in front of him quietly, and I pondered what he meant: "You mean that from the perspective of the city, we are already in the tomb, but if we look at this place from the perspective of the tomb, But we are still outside."

Zhang Qiling said: "When building an ancestral hall, we must pay attention to the dragon veins and the source of vitality. The site is usually backed by mountains and faces water. The environment here is very suitable."

I said "Oh" and thought, there is indeed a lot of water on the road ahead, and there is a mountain behind it. The ancestral hall is built in the secret realm, which perfectly avoids densely populated areas. The environment from the outside to here is... The mountains and rivers are beautiful. This is a huge citrine Lingshi Mountain. Not far away is the Wanling Stone Mountain. The aura here is very aura. Qilin City itself is a place with outstanding people. The ancestral hall is built here. It seems that the Feng Shui is really good. .

This is the first time I have seen the ancestral hall in Qilin City. You must know that there are many monsters in Qilin City. There are many nameless people. There are also a few who failed to practice to overcome the tribulation in mortal bodies and their souls were scattered. Most of them have nothing in this world. There is nothing left. Only those who have successfully transcended the tribulation and ascended, or those who continue to practice and have many relatives and friends, may have tombs, temples, ancestral halls, etc. as commemorative places. This ancestral hall is mysterious and mysterious. I don’t know what will be inside. have what.

We looked around the ancestral hall, and there were only entrances and no passages behind. I sighed helplessly and said, "It seems we have to go inside. It's so troublesome to get a dragon scale. Sister Yu Jing said before we came. But they can also come and get the dragon scales, but it will be very troublesome. It will save a lot of trouble if I follow you, but this is not easy at all. The octopus said that someone is testing us. It seems that the things we just experienced are temporary additions. It's all done on purpose, that's why we can't even hide.

According to what she said, the person who arranged the trial was one of my own. The only person in the family who likes to test me most is Brother Xuefeng, but I don’t think the method used this time is like him. He usually makes me use my brain and doesn’t know how to do it. Do it to me.

There are formations here that can only be opened by the Lord of Qilin City. That little guy said that all his work cards were issued by me personally, which means that although this place is hidden, it is indeed the territory of Qilin City, and I am the first city here. Shouldn't the Lord be the biggest? Why should they listen to other people's orders to test me?

The two aquatic products said that I have been here before. Since I have been here, it is verified, so why do you need to test me again?
Although Brother Xuefeng doesn't like to say anything, he will tell me in detail every detail that I should pay attention to when going out to do errands. But this time he only threw me a piece of jade and said nothing. I felt that Brother Xuefeng came here. There were a few anomalies along the way.

I feel like those two old men I have never met are trying us. In other words, those two old men have a higher status than me. Even Brother Xuefeng has to listen to their arrangements.

The two aquatic products didn't really attack us before, they just caught us off guard. No matter what, they are just gatekeepers. How can they be merciful to me, the city lord? I can also be rude to them, but this time the gate Arranged in the ancestral hall, we usually worship spirits, and each one has its own independent consciousness. If there is an elder guarding the door, one is fine, but if there are several, I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it. "

Zhang Qiling naturally knew that the ancestral ancestral hall was a place where no mistakes could be made, and the girl must be under great pressure. He took the girl's little hand and walked towards the gate of the ancestral hall.

Pushing the door open, a dark wind blew out, and the girl froze. He took her in.

As soon as you enter the door, you will see four huge pillars. This is a circular patio. The position of the sky is the mountain wall of Huangjing Lingshi Mountain, which has been polished into a vault. The light source of the Lingshi illuminates this area and surrounds it. The gray brick walls and cyan tiles are actually made of stones of similar colors.

Go forward and step onto the stone ridge to reach the main hall. There is a main niche in the middle and auxiliary niches on the left and right. Different from human ancestral halls, here are not memorial tablets, but the original forms of spirits, including dragons, unicorns, and unicorns. Phoenix has a nine-tailed fox, and it should be placed according to the arrangement of the family tree.

The God Lord placed in the pavilion is very conspicuous. It is a pure golden unicorn and a bouquet of delicate red flowers. The flowers look very familiar.

There are light golden unicorns and red unicorns in the row below them. There are more people in the row below them, including those flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water.

The white hornless unicorn and the light yellow dragon that have been reminding everyone to come here are in the row below him.

There is only one purple unicorn among the unicorns of the same generation as the white unicorn. As a cousin, this unicorn is very special. There are iron chains tied to his spirit body, and the shrine is covered with a layer of fog, and there is a death inlay on the outside. On the iron fence, there are many spirits in the branches below it that are very empty and appear to be absent. Only one normal and clear one is connected to one of the descendants below the white unicorn.

There are still many empty niches here, and there is no writing on them. The short long table where the sacrifices are placed has only an incense burner and no tribute at all.

The girl looked confused and sighed frequently: "Brother, should I prepare something? It should be right to prepare for the sacrifice." Zhang Qiling glanced at the girl, so he said that the preparation for the sacrifice needed to be "perfect", Zhang Qiling said that the girl took out her treasure bag just as he said. After a while, she took out a new incense table, an incense burner, a big red candle, ten cups of rice wine, red chopsticks...

The little girl was holding the things and had no idea where to put them. Zhang Qiling asked the girl to continue preparing the "eight treasures" while arranging the incense table.

The girl asked him: "Eight...eight treasures?"

Zhang Qiling said: "Eight Chengwu utensils."

The girl immediately followed the instructions, prepared eight exquisite and deep porcelain plates, placed them on the incense table, and then looked at him blankly.

Zhang Qiling picked up things that were easy to understand and found and told the girl: "Babao prepared a pair of bats cut from red paper, pine branches, books, a black silk thread and a red silk thread, some hundred-yuan banknotes, peanuts, fresh bamboo shoots, and longan."

I saw the girl asking him while taking things: "How to cut the bat, and what kind of knot is it?"

After preparing the "eight treasures" and "three animals", place a pair of red candles, six plates of fresh fruits, six plates of cakes and candies, six plates each of meat and vegetables, ten cups of tea, and a basket of flowers.

Zhang Qiling said: "I want another pair of big red candles."

The girl said "shua" and took out two candles that were much larger than those lit on both sides of the incense burner and showed him.

Zhang Qiling said: "Too small."

The girl asked him: "How big will it be?"

Zhang Qiling gestured about tens of centimeters. The girl looked at the incense table and saw that it was already too full to hold the big candle, so she asked, "Is it okay to put it on the floor?"

Zhang Qiling said "Yes", and the girl picked up a one-meter-long red candle and placed it on the ground. She also said, "This is definitely big enough."

After burning a pair of one-meter-high red candles on each side of the incense table, the two arranged seven small red candles in the shape of the Big Dipper in front of the incense table, lighting up the "seven stars" that symbolized "a bright future" together.

The two rearranged the place according to the rules of ancestor worship, and Zhang Qiling told the girl step by step the order of worship.

After setting up the incense table and burning incense and candles, he asked the girl to respectfully go to the incense table and put incense, handed the "eight treasures" and "three animals" to the girl, and asked her to offer sacrifices and kneel down to bow to the statue of the ancestor.

After going through the whole process, Zhang Qiling also lit some incense and bowed. The girl waited for him to bow and asked him: "Brother, what happens next?"

Zhang Qiling said: "Just say what you want to say."

But the girl didn't know where to start. She stayed for a moment and stuttered: "Uh... Dear ancestors and gods, I am Xiaoxun, the current leader of Qilin City. I am here... I am here to take some dragon scales back. , I’m begging...please tell me..."

Before I finished speaking, an old man suddenly jumped out of Jin Qilin's niche and stood in front of me.

With long golden hair, golden eyebrows and a long beard, a golden costume coat, and golden boots, he was dressed in a golden outfit. He couldn't help but mutter: "Wow... so exaggerated..."

The old man curled his lips, put his hands behind his back, held his head high and said "um". Zhang Qiling hurriedly covered the girl's mouth and said: "The child is ignorant, don't be surprised."

The covered girl frowned and whispered "hum" when she heard Zhang Qiling calling herself a child.

The old man turned around and looked at Zhang Qiling for a moment and said: "If you want to get the dragon scales, just go to the backyard and remove the Qilin statue in the temple. The entrance is under the statue, but non-Qilin City residents are not allowed to enter. Young man, you don't seem to be Qilin City yet. He is such a person." He looked at Zhang Qiling with sharp eyes.

The girl opened Zhang Qiling's hand and said to the old man: "Who said he is not anymore? He is my person, so I said he is."

The old man frowned and raised his voice an octave: "Who is older, you or me?"

The girl blinked and said, "You're older, but you don't have to say who he is."

Zhang Qiling heard that the girl's temper was rising again, and immediately covered her mouth again. He knew that the girl did not mean to contradict the old man, but just said what was in her heart, but in front of the ancestors, what was in her heart was just a thought.

The old man scolded the little girl who looked unconvinced, stroking his long beard with his hand, shaking his head and saying, "This kid is still the same." Then he looked at Zhang Qiling and asked, "Young man, what are you doing? What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)