Chapter 73 The mastermind behind the scenes
This drink made Zhao Fang tremble with fright: "I have never gone in, I, I have heard... My senior sister Xi said that when the sect master was still there, she also took senior brother Liu in once. After senior brother Liu came out, he secretly I told everyone below that I originally thought that Ranshan was not as good as the less popular sects with greater influence in the surrounding areas, but when I went to the fantasy world, I found that it was indeed the authentic Xuanmen sect, and it really had the foundation..."
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The crowd became slightly agitated, and Feng Ji's anger seemed to subside a little: "Then think about it again, did your senior brother say where he got in from? Where did your master take him?"
"Senior brother didn't say where he went... that is to say, in the sect, after the master cast spells, wrote talismans, and performed rituals, he fell into a trance and was in an illusion."
Feng Ji stared at him for a while, then turned around and said to everyone: "Okay, everyone heard it. It must be in the sect. I guess it may be some kind of secret room or secret passage - in the afternoon We have been searching for a long time, let’s search carefully this time, don’t miss every inch. Let me say one more thing, don’t make trouble!”
Some people responded a few times, while others ignored him. When Feng Ji said "Okay" again, the crowd immediately dispersed.
Li Wuxiang also followed the crowd to the back of the screen wall and saw the appearance of Ranshan Sect.
To be honest, he was a little disappointed. Behind the screen wall is a small square, similar to the Chen family's courtyard. On both sides of the square are two rows of low stone houses, which are very similar to the two rows of wing rooms of the Chen family. They are also covered with black tiles, but there are two rows in total. In the middle, facing the main house of the Chen family, is a large two-story house, also covered with black tiles. There is a plaque hanging on the top of the door with the words "Taiyi Palace" written on it. There seems to be a yard behind the big house, but from a vague look, it's not very big.
Looking at it this way, Ranshan Sect, one of the thirty-six authentic sects, is not even as good as some of the small temples where he came from.
A group of people from all walks of life have already rushed into the courtyard and rummaged in the house again in twos and threes. Judging from their appearance, they have indeed searched the place from top to bottom in the afternoon. This time, they specifically searched under the trees and between the rocks in front and behind the house. Look at places like this. Everywhere you go, you have to step hard on the ground to see if it is hollow underneath.
Seeing this group of people starting to search, Lao Guo was also worried. Li Wuxiang glanced at him: "You can go if you want to, I didn't say you have to go with me."
Lao Guo hesitated for a moment, seeming to think that it would be better to search with him, a young hero with a mysterious background. However, he looked at the people who had gone deep into the courtyard and felt a little jealous. Finally, he said: "Okay, I'll go first." Take a look, if you find something and you're not sure, I'll come back to discuss it with you. After all, young hero, your vision must be higher than ours..."
He walked while talking, and before he finished speaking, he rushed into the house on the left.
Li Wuxiang stood next to the screen wall and waited for a while. After the group of people slowly walked deeper and the area became clearer, he walked to the door of the wing on the right.
He walked into the rooms one by one and looked around slowly. He saw that the furnishings in the first row of rooms were very simple. They were basically made of rammed black earth. There were incense cases placed against the walls. There were a few old futons on the floor. On the incense cases Everything was gone, leaving only an empty table. It must have been ransacked. This should be the place where Ranshan disciples meditated and practiced.
He went out and walked to the second row. The rooms in the second row were all covered with large kangs. They should be the residences of Ranshan disciples. Of course, all the bedding and the like were gone, leaving only the bamboo mats. .
As he watched, he groped on the wall with his hands. It's not like that group of people wanted to see if there was any mechanism or something like that - Zhao Pup used a brick to hide it in the stove, and Zhao Qi could use talisman paper to enter the painting, so Ranshan's illusion would definitely not be some kind of "mechanism" Secret passage".
But because he felt that the stones in Jianran Mountain should be extraordinary. After looking at it for a while, Li Wuxiang felt that the buildings of the Ranshan Sect seemed to be broken and strong at the same time. Broken means that the black tiles on the roofs of many houses were missing, but new tiles were not replaced. It is filled with thatch, wooden tiles and the like. Many of the stone bricks on the walls outside the house were broken and broken, but they were just left there and no one was going to fix them.
In the impression of a building in this condition, if it is pushed or pulled a little, the stone bricks and the like will loosen.
But there is a brick in front of Li Wuxiang now - at the corner of the outer wall of the house, the top bricks seem to be loose, and there are large gaps between them. The inside is filled with dust and some moss has grown. . Most of the bottom piece is exposed, and it looks like it can be pulled out with just a little tug. So Li Wuxiang tried to twitch it, wanting to pick it up and take a closer look. But when he tried hard, he found that the brick was extremely difficult to move. He finally took out the knife, dug out some of the soil underneath, and then pried it out bit by bit, and finally pulled out the brick.
When I started with stone bricks, there was nothing unusual about their weight. Li Wuxiang took it and knocked it hard on the corner of the wall. With a bang, half of the stone brick was knocked off, revealing the blue-gray stone core inside - there was nothing wrong with this brick.
But the piece at the corner that collided with it was a bit strange. There was no damage on it, not even a white mark.
So Li Wuxiang slowly pried off this piece, and then used it to knock against the other piece - this piece also broke, and the piece on the wall still left no mark.
He slowly breathed out and stood up. When used as part of a building, stone bricks are extremely strong, but once removed, they become ordinary stones. Perhaps it is because these houses were under a spell when they were built?
But the strange thing is not this, but the way these houses are damaged - some have loose bricks in the corners like here, some have a few bricks recessed in the middle of the wall, and some have a few bricks protruding, as if they were giant The force hit. But when we look inside the house, we see that the walls are smooth and regular. It can be seen that the impact was not from inside the house, but rather from the inside of the wall.
It was already dark at this time, and people in the distance lit torches, so Li Wuxiang slowly walked to Taiyi Hall again. The main hall is authentically enshrined in the Eastern Emperor Taiyi. Looking outside the door, the upper body of the statue is no different from the statues enshrined in the temples where he came from. They are all whitewashed clay bodies, draped in red and green, and covered with hoods. He wears a cloak and has long eyebrows and long eyes. He is not as weird as the Stove Lord of Jinshui.
But when you look at the lower body, you can see that the ones sitting on the statue are neither lotus flowers nor auspicious clouds, but seven little people with vague faces. The faces should not have been eroded by the years, but they were not molded during the molding process. come out. Li Wuxiang looked at it and felt that the seven at the bottom might be the other seven great gods in the Eight Mysterious Sects - no wonder they said that the Thirty-Six Sect was a heretical sect.
Everything that could be taken away from the incense tables elsewhere had been looted, but the incense pots and copper bowls on the incense table in front of the Taiyi statue were still in good condition, and there were even some offerings that had shriveled long ago. and so on.
When Li Wuxiang walked to the door of the hall, he saw four people in the hall. He recognized one of them as Feng Ji, the other two were his helpers, and the fourth person was Zhao Fang. There was also a person guarding the door outside the hall, who must also be Feng Ji's helper. He looked serious, as if he had regarded the Taiyi Hall in Ranshan as his own territory.
He was still standing on the steps and could vaguely hear the people inside talking.
Feng Jizheng frowned and held something in his hand: "...Yes, there is indeed something wrong with my gem. Since it shines, there must be something fishy in Ranshan Sect, but I can't see what is wrong... ...Sigh, the thirty-six sects and the way of swordsmanship should not be underestimated, the third and fourth sons——"
Feng Ji looked at the two helpers beside him: "You continue to go out and keep an eye on those people you are looking for behind. If you find anything wrong, come back and tell me immediately."
The two people said yes, stepped out of the palace gate, and hurried back.
Li Wuxiang stepped up the steps and walked to the door of the palace. The man guarding the door immediately moved to the middle: "Friend, we have already searched here, go elsewhere."
Li Wuxiang looked into the palace: "This is my first time on Ranshan Mountain. I want to see what the palace is like. I can take a quick look and leave."
The gatekeeper snorted and raised his chin: "I said I had already looked for it."
Li Wuxiang smiled: "I really just had a look. Otherwise -"
He walked to one side of the door and looked into the side hall, then walked to the other side: "Why don't I go in and take a look at the head office?"
The gatekeeper took a step forward: "You want to cause trouble, don't you?" Feng Ji turned around inside the door: "Second brother, what's wrong?"
The gatekeeper stared at Li Wuxiang: "This guy said he wanted to come in and have a look."
Feng Ji took a step back and looked sideways at Li Wuxiang. Seeing that he had a young face, he raised his head towards him: "Friend, you look strange. You are not usually near Deyang, right?"
Li Wuxiang nodded: "I was passing by to join in the fun."
Feng Ji smiled coldly: "Some of the excitement is not just casual. Seeing that you are young, you must have just laid the foundation, and the days to come will be long. I give you a piece of advice, listen to others and live a long life. Where else can you go? Go and watch the fun, Ranshan is not where you should come.”
Li Wuxiang looked at the side hall on the other side and cupped his hands: "You are right."
Then he turned around and walked down the steps and walked back to the yard.
Feng Ji and Lao Er frowned and looked at each other. Feng Ji said, "Go and stare at him and ask where he came from."
Li Wuxiang walked to the door of a row of wing rooms on the west side and sat down on the steps. It was completely dark at this time, and the surroundings were dark. Only the inside and back of the main hall door were still a little bright.
He sat down and straightened his hem a little, and then the second child walked over menacingly from the darkness and stopped three steps away from him. Just as he was about to speak, Li Wuxiang glanced at him: "What's your name?"
The second child was stunned for a moment: "What?"
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"Feng Ji calls you Lao Er, so I'll call you Feng Er." Li Wuxiang raised his chin toward the back of the palace, "We've searched it all, and there's no such thing as a secret room, right?" < br>
Feng Er stared: "You ask me? Who are you?"
Li Wuxiang smiled: "Just now your boss clearly said that we all came together to hunt for treasures, but now he is staying in the palace and asking you brothers to stare everywhere. Doesn't this mean that others are doing things for him? Since You have already saved yourself some trouble, so why not ask me to save some trouble too?”
Feng Er stared at him for a while, then put on his face, smiled angrily, and strode forward: "How can a little thing not know the heights of the world and save trouble? Are you worthy? I call you -"
"You want me to say that I am Xu Xianren? Is Xu Xianren worthy of asking you this?"
Feng Er only took one step, stopped immediately, and blinked quickly: "You...are you Xu Xianren?"
"So?"
Feng Er turned and glanced in the direction of the main hall, but Feng Ji seemed to be talking to Zhao Fang. He could only turn his face: "Well...yes, I have searched it several times, but I can't find a darkroom or anything like that. Well, Xu Xianren, why didn't you show up before? Our brothers..."
"Oh, I'm not Xu Xianren." Li Wuxiang couldn't help laughing, "I'm just asking you if you are worthy of Xu Xianren."
Feng Er was stunned again and raised his eyebrows suddenly: "You!"
He was about to have an attack when he saw Li Wuxiang's eyes suddenly turned white. He was startled, and saw that his mouth opened again, occupying half of his face at once, but there were layers of mouths inside it - and a ball of white beard suddenly spurted out!
Feng Er was so frightened that his whole body went numb, his head buzzed, and he almost sat down on the ground. But when he looked again - the boy in front of him was still a handsome boy, but his expression became colder, as if what he just saw was an illusion: "Do you think I look like an immortal? Haha, go back!"
After he finished speaking, he jumped towards the roof and disappeared.
Feng Er took a few deep breaths, took a few steps back and looked up at the roof - no one could be seen, so he immediately ran back to the main hall.
Li Wuxiang leaned against the black tiles on the roof and saw Feng Er go in first to say a few words to Feng Ji. Feng Ji's expression changed, he strode out of the palace door and looked around, then hesitated for a moment and left again. go back.
Li Wuxiang could roughly guess what the two people said - the young man seemed to be a strange thing, and he didn't know where he came from. But Feng Ji would not want to cause more trouble at this juncture. Firstly, they want to hunt for treasure. Secondly, as Zhao Qi and Zeng Jianqiu said, they have seen along the way that it is troublesome to provoke enemies with unknown origins in this world. It is better to do more than to do less. It is best to take care of the immediate things first.
But what he wanted to see was not Feng Ji's reaction, but that of Zhao Fang beside him.
Feng Ji said that Xu Xianren might be among their group. Li Wuxiang didn't know if he really thought so, or he planned to use Xu Xianren's power to tell the Jianghu guests to behave themselves and not cause trouble. But as far as he is concerned, there are really two objects of suspicion - the mastermind behind the scenes is observing secretly among the crowd. He has heard too much about this kind of thing where he comes from.
One is the person who brought Zhao Fang. But when the crowd dispersed, he saw that man greeting the other two people. He should be acquainted with them, so he ruled them out for the time being.
The second one is Zhao Fang. Because of what he said before, Li Wuxiang felt something was wrong. "After the master casts the spell, writes the talisman, and performs the method" - Ranshan's talisman paper does not need to be written, it is drawn. This statement may be that his senior brother described the painting as writing, but Ranshan's talisman does not seem to require "making method".
And now, when Feng Ji walked to the door and glanced in his direction, Zhao Fang, who had been standing submissively behind him, also turned and glanced in this direction - his expression was solemn and his brows were slightly furrowed, completely different from before. That Zhao Fang expression changed.
Li Wuxiang felt that he was sure that he was Xu Xianren.
In fact, after meeting this group of people before and hearing what Zhao Fang said, he knew what the "Ranshan Fantasy" might be and where it was.
He originally planned to wait until the group of people dispersed before quietly taking what he wanted, but since "Xianren Xu" might really be here, he didn't want to delay it any longer. It's a pity. He had planned to learn more about the customs and customs from these strangers.
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