Volume 3: Qiongzhou ? Wu Xing Volume Chapter 7: Temple Earthquake How

  Heng Wu understood his senior apprentice even more clearly. An hour ago, he had carefully asked Su Yu and naturally knew that it was because Su Yu saw the white-clothed girl's beauty like a flower and had a close heart that he drew his sword. It was just that his beloved apprentice was anxious and instructed Su Yu to omit this section when telling Fei Sha Daozhang and Dugu Shibo, which is why Su Yu didn't mention it earlier.

  However, Heng Xiao thought for a long time and still didn't know that Su Yu met Chu Jiu of the Diancang Sect and Lin Tian'er.

  It turned out that after the grand ceremony of granting the sword was over, on the second day, Lin Ruochi wanted to get up and go to Emei, wanting to personally go and bid farewell to his beloved daughter. Just as he stepped into the side courtyard where Lin Biyun's house was located, Lian Wanyu rushed over with a letter that Lin Biyun had left behind when she got up early, just in time to look for Lin Ruochi.

  Lin Ruochi was shocked, but remained calm on the surface. She instructed Lian Wanyu and her two female disciples not to mention it again, but secretly told only Da Shixiong and San Shidi to be vigilant.

  He looked at Lin Meng'er's note, smiled wryly, and thought that his beloved daughter's lively personality was not unrelated to the way he had spoiled her. However, he also knew that his youngest disciple, Chu Jiu, who could shake off Shen Que's "Xuan Yang Tian Jian Quan", had extremely high martial arts skills, unparalleled among the younger generation of disciples, and only the first-generation ancestors of various sects were not opponents. Moreover, Chu Jiu was clever and calm by nature, so with her by Lin Meng'er's side, she would naturally be much safer!

  Lin Ruo Chi and Chu Jiu were like father and son, originally after bidding farewell to Lin Ming Er, they would go to the back mountain to find Chu Jiu, and take him on a journey through Jianghu.

  So Lin Rou Chi still acted as if nothing had happened, and after breakfast, he took Lian Tian, Shen Que and others from various sects down the mountain, but none of the major sects knew.

  But Su Yu couldn't recognize Dian Cang's swordsmanship, so it was impossible for the Kongtong Sect to suspect that Dian Cang was under their name.

  "Don't worry, Brother Dugu! That's definitely not going to happen! Master Zhang had specifically written a letter earlier to explain the conflict with the demonic sect this time, and it will surely end in bloodshed. Nothing will happen! However... " Fei Sha Daozhang raised his voice again: "All of you young masters must restrain yourselves these few days, absolutely do not hurt anyone or draw your swords over some small matter in this vicinity! Otherwise, Su Yu's sword and the corpses of 'Feng Jie San' will be the outcome!"

  His inner strength was profound, and with this move, everyone could hear it clearly, as if the sound was right next to their ears. Dugu Xiong's heart ached, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of admiration for him.

  "Fortunately, tomorrow, my fellow disciple Liu Yun, the great sword hero of the Kunlun Sect, and Lin Zhangmen, the leader of the Diancang Sect, will arrive to join us. Let's return to the inn for tonight and make plans again tomorrow!" Chujiao said after hearing Feisha Daozhang's words.

  At this time, Huang Langzi let out a series of loud "Ah-choos", and Ma Qiang hastily asked: "Third Master Brother, what's wrong?"

  "Huang Langzi looked around, his hands clasped tightly around his arms, and said: 'Everyone, did you notice that tonight, this temple is particularly cold, even colder than outside by three times?'"

  As soon as he finished speaking, the disciples of Wudang and Kongtong sects all chimed in unison: "Yes, yes! What Brother Huang said is correct!" "Master, what's going on?" They had naturally discovered this point long ago, but just hadn't had a chance to say it out loud yet!

  On the ninth day, Lin Ming'er saw Huang Langzi and others also sensed this matter, so they concentrated their minds and listened. They too found it strange and wanted to know how the Kunlun Sect and Fei Sha Dao Ren would explain it?

  Dugu Xue was heartbroken and had long been aware of it, but he also didn't know the reason. He asked Feisha Dao Ren: "Brother Dao is familiar with the geography and celestial phenomena here, do you know what's going on?"

  The Taoist priest turned his head to look at the moon outside, which was dimly lit, and seemed hesitant. However, he finally said: "You have all come from afar, unaware of this temple's reputation in Fongjie, Kui Prefecture. It is infamous as a 'Ghost Temple', especially since a major battle took place here over twenty years ago! Thus, I received a message from Brother Dugu this afternoon to meet at the outskirts of town, but I didn't expect him to choose this notorious East Temple of Kui Prefecture as our meeting spot!"

  "Excuse me, Brother Dao," asked Cheng Man hurriedly, "what's so strange about this temple?" Fei Sha Dao Ren replied, "As for the specifics of the strangeness, I'm not entirely clear either. However, before I came down from the mountain, our sect leader said that he had calculated that on the night of the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th, a strange phenomenon would occur in this temple in the east of the city, and monsters would emerge from the earth. The Wudang Sect will also send another brother to clean up the mess. Now, with the air being so cold and gloomy without any wind, I think it's because of these monsters!"

  Dugu Xue was heartbroken after hearing this, and he feared that there might indeed be some kind of monster or evil spirit present. Although Fei Sha Dao Ren's words seemed absurd, he was a high-ranking master of the Daoist sect, and his words carried weight. According to him, when the world is on the verge of chaos, it is possible for monsters to appear. Moreover, he knew that the current leader of Wudang was Wu Lin Tai Shan Bei Dou, a renowned figure in the martial arts world and a master of the Daoist sect's mystical arts. His words were not to be taken lightly. As the temple grew colder, Dugu Xue's apprehension towards monsters increased, and he didn't want to stay there for another moment!

  "So let's not bother with this gloomy reason, it has nothing to do with us. Let's just go back to the city and rest at the inn!"

  As soon as this was said, all the disciples cheered loudly. The ancestral hall seemed to be getting colder and colder, and they naturally couldn't ask for a better decision.

  Then, the crowd below all got up and left one after another. Finally, Wang Dao packed up his things, extinguished the lights, and with a few younger brothers, casually dug a hole in the empty space on the left side of the temple to bury "Feng Jie San Fei". They also drifted away, and the temple returned to darkness once again.

  It was a long time before Mr. Chu Qi waited for the surroundings to be completely quiet, and then he waved his hand and said: "Xiu Jiuxian, Tang Meier Xiangniang, let's go down!" He and Xiujiu, Lin Meier floated down from the beam together.

  Lin Meng'er's first adventure, tonight was so stimulating. She wore the night-traveling clothes for the first time and successfully eavesdropped. Her heart was bursting with joy. As she landed on the ground, leaving the warmth of her body behind, she felt a chill creeping up her bones again. "Seventh Uncle, this temple is really cold!"

  "Disciple sister, the ancestral hall is for worshiping ancestors, I'm afraid it's so cold that there are ghosts!" Lin Meng'er let out a sharp cry and said in a delicate voice: "Seventh Uncle, quickly help me control my disciple brother, he's scaring me!"

  Mr. Chu Qi saw that Chu Jiu and Lin Ming'er were playing like this, he also smiled and nodded: "Chu Jiu, a good nephew, Ming'er, a good niece, you two can persist on the big beam for so long in such a cold weather, your inner strength is really not weak! The inner strength of Diancang Sect is indeed the orthodox sect of the world's Xuanmen, evil demons and external paths cannot invade, it's true!" He didn't know that part of the credit was due to "Xuan Qing Liu Yang Huan"!

  Chu Jiu smiled and said, "Seventh Uncle is overpraising me. However, Seventh Uncle's predictions this morning about Su Yu's broken sword and the three bandits' deaths were both accurate to the minute, which is truly astonishing!" Lin Ming'er added, "Elder Brother's words are correct! I was just thinking of saying that too - Seventh Uncle is indeed famous for a reason!"

  Mr. Chu Qi shook his head and smiled humbly: "It's just a small trick of mine, not worth mentioning!"

  At the beginning of the ninth day, I recalled the words of Fei Sha Dao Ren earlier and was excited again. "Seventh Uncle, who is this Wu Shan? Are the middle-aged couple and two children in the tea shop at noon Wu Shan people? It seems that their reputation is even respected by Wudang and Kongtong schools. Why don't I and my fellow sister know? The prestige of Wu Shan is still above the seven major sects?"

  Mr. Chu's face suddenly showed a mysterious color, his eyes gazing far into the distance for a long time before he withdrew them and said: "You are still young, this is a secret of several decades in the Jianghu, you will know later!" After a pause, he said: "We will return to the inn now, tomorrow we will go to Baidi City, that demonic sect elder has appeared again! There's more good show to come!"

  "But if tomorrow is really a fierce battle between good and evil, I'm afraid there will be bloodshed or even loss of life. But I don't like it!"

  Mr. Chu Qi heard what was said on the ninth day, and he was stunned. He stared at the ninth day, sighed in his heart: "Ninth day, your fate is destined by heaven, Jianghu and the world will have a great relationship with you. How can you put aside such bloodshed and fighting?"

  He is the world's number one master of mysterious skills, and at first glance, he knew that Chun Jiu's fate was predetermined by heaven. He is not a common person, so he took the initiative to calculate Chun Jiu's fortune!

  At this time, Lin Meng'er let out another loud "Wow" of excitement, she wanted to shout out all the thrilling and exciting joy in her heart tonight.

  For a moment, the three of them walked out of the ancestral hall, and outside was also gloomy and desolate!

  Suddenly, Mr. Chu Qi's head slightly shook, he waved his hand and said: "Slow!"

  On the ninth day, he was startled to know that Mr. Chu Qi must have discovered something unusual! He leaned his ear to listen carefully and indeed heard a "rustling" sound coming from underground, which made him concentrate his mind and calm his breath to listen, but he was greatly shocked in his heart.

  Lin Meng'er, however, was unaware and hastily asked: "Seventh Uncle, Shixiong, what's going on? What happened?" Before she could finish speaking, she felt a sudden dizziness, Lin Meng'er let out an "ah" as her body tilted to the side. Chujiu quickly supported her, and in the surrounding air, at some unknown point, a layer of thin fog had appeared, hazy and indistinct!

  Mr. Chu's face turned solemn, his five fingers pinched together as he made a quick calculation, and then let out a sigh, saying: "Alas, it's all fate!"

  "Seventh Uncle, what's going on? Why is the ground shaking?"

  On the ninth day, he still didn't understand and asked: "Seventh Uncle, what is this 'heaven's will' you speak of?"

  Mr. Chu Qi had not yet responded, but on the ninth day, he suddenly discovered that under a layer of soil to the left of the ancestral hall, something was rising and falling, moving forward continuously, as if someone was walking underground!

  In a moment, the soil undulated and arrived at a mound of earth on that side. It stopped and no longer moved forward, but the mound was undulating ceaselessly, with a rolling motion, just like waves on the surface of the sea. Could it be that there were people moving underground?

  "He pointed to a mound of earth over there and exclaimed: 'Seventh Uncle, Shifu, quickly look, what is that over there?'"

  Mr. Chu Qi naturally had already discovered it, but didn't think it was strange. Lin Meng'er looked at him and saw that he was shaking all over, and involuntarily trembled with fear, saying: "Seventh Uncle, Shifu, isn't the disciple of the Cuiyun Sect buried in that mound? Why is there movement in the grave now? Could it be a real ghost? Is it the ghost of San Fei?"

  She finished speaking, and her whole body shook again. The surrounding yin energy became even colder. She hurriedly leaned against Chuyi's body unintentionally, and indeed felt warmth emanating from his body, making her feel much warmer!

  She has been playing with Chujiu since childhood, and the aura on Chujiu's body is so familiar that neither of them thinks it's strange!

  At the beginning of the ninth hour, the chest is a piece of scorching heat. The "Xuan Qing Liu Yang Huan" is now a piece of scorching heat, and the warm current flows along the meridian of the beginning of the ninth hour, spreading throughout the whole body of the beginning of the ninth hour, and also transmitting to Lin Ming'er, so Lin Ming'er also feels warmth.

  On the ninth day, I thought of the three unexplained corpses again. Who sent them? So I asked Mr. Chu Qi: "Seventh Uncle, is there someone in this tomb or... a ghost?"

  Lin Meng'er's voice trembled as she said, "Big Brother Shifu, how can it be a person?" Chu Jiu asked, "Seventh Uncle, wasn't it also someone who unknowingly brought the corpse to the temple entrance just now?" Lin Meng'er's eyes lit up and she said, "Right! Both I and Big Brother Shifu didn't notice who brought the corpse!"

  In their minds, they hadn't seen how the corpses appeared just now, and thought that it was also a mysterious phenomenon in the tomb.

  Mr. Chu Qi also closely watched the movement over there, but said: "No, earlier someone sent a corpse over, but the method was too fast, and Uncle Qi only saw a shadow of a person at the door, you didn't see it either, which is normal!"

  Chu Jiu said in disappointment: "So there really is someone coming, and it's not from underground. Are they still around? Could they be underground right now?"

  Mr. Chu Qi laughed and said, "Xu Jiuxian, Tang Xiaotang, it's not like that! The person who came to put down the corpse has already returned! They just wanted to give a warning to the Cuiguang Sect and the Wudang Sect, so they didn't stay. Now I'm afraid they are twenty miles away!"

  He paused for a moment, then continued: "I didn't intend to tell you about the old friend of this city's eastern temple tonight, but unexpectedly, we three have met by chance! If I'm not mistaken, the tomb below is probably..."

  Lin Meng'er had Chu Jiu by her side, and with renewed courage, she hastily asked: "Traveler, could you be the mysterious visitor from Wu Shan? Seventh Uncle, quickly speak up! What is that thing underground? Could it really be the ghost of San Pao?"

  Mr. Chu Qi's tone changed and he smiled: "Of course not! Ninth Master Xian, what do you think is under that mound of earth?"