I plant love Gu for Xianjun

After tens of millions of years of erosion, the reliefs on the walls have long been weathered and mottled, the faces of most of the statues are blurred, and the facial features have disappeared.

However, for no reason, Lian Zhuxian recognized Patriarch Taisu at a glance.

Taisu in the relief is slowly separating from the chaos, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, beautiful and fragile.

Different from ordinary human beings, Taisu was born as an adult, naked and with long hair.But in front of him, there was a man putting on a robe for him.

"This is... a member of the Five Immortals Sect?" Unable to get any useful information from the appearance, Lian Zhu Xian had to turn his head to ask the elder teacher.

"I don't think so." Xuantong shook his head, and then took the initiative to remind, "Maybe I can't see clearly, you reach out and touch that person's forehead."

Lian Zhuxian stretched out his hand according to his words, and felt an extremely fine bump on his fingertips.

"This is... the Immortal Seal?!"

"That's right." Xuantong finally told the truth, "This man is the True King Yuqing, the leader of all immortals, and the initiator of the cauldron technique."

"The True King Yuqing, it's actually him..." Lian Zhuxian was stunned, for the scene in front of him didn't exist in the legends he had heard in the past.

However, what Xuantong wants to tell him is another story that he has never heard before.

"Different from the gods who were born when the chaos was first divided, the ancient god Taisu, who was born last, was mastered by the ancient immortals when he was born. Those immortals imprisoned him, enslaved him, and regarded him as a source of strength ...Look, the same scene is painted on the mural."

Lian Zhu Xian was amazed and puzzled: "But why doesn't the legend say so?"

"It's a shameful thing, so why pass it on to future generations. Besides, today is the world of immortals. Some hatred, if it has been talked about for thousands of years, can it still have a peaceful life?"

Xuan Tong's words did make sense.Zhu Xian was not good at practicing political games, so he stopped mentioning it and continued to look at the wall quietly.

Taisu in the relief finally escaped from the confinement of King Yuqingzhen and hid in the mountains.And here I got the support and support of my family members.

The last person who was once weak and helpless gradually revealed the true power of the ancient god.And the final battle between heaven and man is getting closer and closer.

Under Xuantong's reminder, Lian Zhuxian looked up at the height of the stone room.It turned out that what was engraved on the zenith was the grand scene of the battle between heaven and man.Immortals and ghosts kill each other, soldiers burn into a prairie fire, bones fill the river, and the lives of the people are devastated, which is too horrible to look at.

Looking at the chaotic and terrifying scene, Lian Zhuxian quickly found the most important scene - in the center of the battlefield, there were two slender figures, which were particularly eye-catching even in the chaos.

There is no doubt that they are Taisu and Yuqing. Their figures are frozen in this way, passing through tens of thousands of years, and reflected in Lian Zhuxian's eyes.

At first glance, it looks like an untimely hug—two people entangled, as if reunited after a long absence.

However, only when he looked closely, could he find that Tai Su was holding a sharp knife tightly in his hand, piercing deeply into Yuqing's abdomen.

Although the scene was shocking, Lian Zhu Xian knew that such wounds were not fatal.

And the real fatal wound was on Taisu's body.

It was the arm of Zhenwang Yuqing, but it pierced through Taisu's chest like an extremely fierce weapon.And the hand that pierced through the back held a heart tightly.

The stone sculpture has neither color nor movement, but for a moment, Lian Zhu Xian seemed to see that heart was red, bleeding, struggling, and stopped beating bit by bit...

In an instant, tears welled up in his eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Xuan Tong stepped forward to support Lian Zhu Xian.

"I'm fine." Lian Zhuxian wiped away the uncontrollable tears indiscriminately.

But after a while, the great sorrow disappeared as quickly as it had come.Everything disappeared like a dream.Only the position of the heart seems to have been dug out, and it is still empty.

"...Brother, my heart is in a mess."

He tried hard to find a few words to describe his mood at this moment: "I have been in the Valley of Five Immortals for so many years, I always thought that all the separations, all the choices were made by myself. But who knows, although the river is big, But it just flows into the sea along the ditch. And the world...is just a bigger birdcage."

Xuan Tong looked at him quietly for a moment, then asked back: "You said you are not free, are you being kidnapped?"

"No." Lian Zhu Xian shook his head.

Xuan Tong asked again: "Then have you been coerced?"

"nor."

Xuan Tong asked again: "You were neither kidnapped nor coerced, so someone threatened you with a debt of favor and made you make a choice that went against your heart?"

"No, nothing." Lian Zhuxian smiled wryly, "No one forces me to do what I don't want to do... But I feel that my life is already arranged, voluntarily, and follow the rules."

"I think you mean fate, or destiny?"

Xuantong hit the point with his words, and raised his head again, looking at the relief on the top of the stone chamber: "Do you know? In fact, there is a saying in the Five Immortals Sect that all those who can successfully accept the life-protecting Gu and become followers of the religion will have their own life. They are not human beings, but incarnations of mountain spirits and water monsters, and members of Taisu Patriarch. And the person who can become the leader of the Five Immortals is the comrade in arms who once fought side by side with Taisu in the battle between heaven and man. Believe it, but some people don't think so... Maybe, there is indeed a force in the dark that attracts us, and gathers us from all directions to this small valley in the corner of Nanzhao. But so what? You will be happy because of this Do you want to betray the Five Immortals? You said that although the river is big, it just flows into the sea. Then you know that even if it flows in the same way for thousands of years, the river is changing rapidly. If you change your foot, you can step into it again. are not the same river."

"Brother..." Lian Zhuxian's eyes flickered if he realized something.

Xuan Tong rubbed his forehead as if to comfort a child, and said with a pun: "But do good deeds, don't ask about the past."

-

After leaving the secret room under the ruined hall, Xuan Tong said that he still had something to deal with in the meeting hall, so Lian Zhu Xian said goodbye to him and returned to the painting area alone.

In the densely forested bamboo hut, there is silence at this moment.Feng Zhangjun was leaning on the bamboo couch alone, with the hairband still covering his eyes.He lay motionless on his side, seemingly resting with his eyes closed.However, when Lian Zhu Xian's footsteps sounded, he reacted immediately.

"……You're back."

"There are no outsiders here." Lian Zhu Xian stepped forward and helped him remove the cloth strips from his eyes, "Is there any other changes in the body?"

"Everything is as usual." Feng Zhangjun shook his head and asked, "How is your side?"

"Hey..." Lian Zhuxian sighed without saying a word, then sat on the edge of the bamboo couch, leaned over Feng Zhangjun's body: "I keep cutting and straightening it out."

"What's the matter?" Feng Zhangjun embraced him with one hand, stroking his back, "Speak slowly if it's complicated, don't worry."

Lian Zhuxian thought for a while, but he asked rhetorically, "Have you ever dreamed about your past life? Or related scenes?"

"Past life?" Feng Zhangjun was puzzled, "I don't remember what my previous life was, even if I dreamed about it, how do I know it was my previous life, and not the product of some wild imagination?"

There is some truth in these words, Lian Zhuxian changed his words again: "Then have you ever dreamed about me?"

"..." Feng Zhangjun didn't answer with words, but judging from his expression, it was obvious that he did.

So Lian Zhuxian asked again: "In your dream, what did we do?"

Feng Zhangjun still didn't answer, but he suddenly tightened his grip on Lian Zhuxian's waist.

Lian Zhuxian was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood the content of the dream, and quickly put aside the topic with a cough: "I mean, have you ever dreamed of meeting me in battle, and even took out my heart with your own hands?"

Feng Zhangjun's expression froze: "No. Why do you say that? Is it related to the previous life?"

Up to now, there is no need to hide anything anymore, Lian Zhuxian told Feng Zhangjun everything he saw just now, including his hallucinations and speculations.

"I also understand that such an inference is a bit absurd. But I do suspect that my previous life is related to that Taisu Patriarch; and you may be the reincarnation of Yuqingzhen King."

"This is unreasonable." Feng Zhangjun immediately put forward a different opinion, "Leaving aside other things, Taisu and Yuqing are both characters from ancient times. Even if they both died, it is reasonable to say that they should be reincarnated several times. Ten, or even hundreds of times. Why don't you have memories of other lives, but only remember things from the ancient times?"

"Maybe we have never been reincarnated." Lian Zhuxian speculated: "Maybe after you killed me, you sealed my soul. And you lived as an ancient immortal without reincarnation until 100 years ago because of something, That's what caused you and me to be reincarnated into who we are today."

"That's impossible." Feng Zhangjun still shook his head, "You may have heard little about it in Nanzhao, but shortly after the battle between heaven and man, King Yuqingzhen retired. After that, there are rumors that he came to the lower realm and traveled all over the world. He disappeared afterwards; some people said that he had consumed too much power due to the war, and chose a treasured place in the lower realm to sleep forever... In any case, people agree that King Yuqingzhen has passed away long ago, and it is absolutely impossible for him to be reincarnated 100 years ago. "

"But..." Although he denied it flatly, Lian Zhu Xian's doubts obviously did not dispel.

Feng Zhangjun stretched out his hand to gently support Lian Zhuxian's chin: "What, are you afraid?"

"Fate can guide us to meet again, will it make us go back to the old road." Lian Zhu Xian did not hide his worries, "Suppose we were really enemies in the previous life, if one day our memories wake up, Will you and I turn against each other, or even kill you to the death?"

This question also made Feng Zhangjun fall into deep thought.

But after contemplating, he asked Lian Zhuxian: "So, in your eyes, the past life is more important than this life?"

"How is it possible, of course not!" Lian Zhu shook his head and argued, "Even if everything in the past life is true, it has nothing to do with me now. There is only one you in front of me. I am just worried..."

Feng Zhangjun chuckled: "Are you doubting me? Suspecting that I will hurt you, who I care most about, for something that I don't care about at all—this is simply an insult to me."

Lian Zhu Xian whispered: "When did you become so good at talking?"

"Say what you really want to say, nothing will happen."

Feng Zhangjun pressed him into his arms, half-forced him to listen to his heartbeat: "If what you said is true, if you are indeed Taisu and I am Yuqing, and I dug out your heart with my own hands .Then I won’t apologize to you for this matter—because I am me, and you are you. Everything in the past has nothing to do with us. If anyone wants to use those to design us, even if it is my mentor, I will Will not forgive."

The power from Feng Zhangjun's arm imprisoned Lian Zhuxian, making him feel a little pressure.However, the steady heartbeat coming from the chest close to the ear is like a silent comfort, solid and reliable.

Slowly, Lian Zhu Xian's tense body relaxed, even if the peace of mind at this moment was just a momentary enjoyment, he couldn't bear to miss it.

-

The powder that Lian Zhu Xian retrieved from the cauldron furnace in the secret room of Yinshan is being jointly identified and analyzed by several medical and poison experts. According to the preliminary judgment, the composition is very strange. As for the definite result, it may take a few days to come out.Therefore, the two decided to temporarily stay in the Valley of the Five Immortals for a few days and make a long-term plan.

Lian Zhu Xian originally thought that these few days would be a rare moment of peace and happiness between himself and Feng Zhangjun.However, he never expected that only two days later, bad things came to him from the east again.

It rained all night last night, and in the morning there were still thick clouds in the sky.The water vapor in the Valley of the Five Immortals is saturated, the gray mist billows against the ground, and the wind is full of the fragrance soaked from the leaves of plants and trees.

Lian Zhu Xian was just about to wake up, when he suddenly felt the people around him move.He subconsciously snuggled into it, but was suddenly held down by a warm palm.

"A-Ting, A-Ting..." Feng Zhangjun's deep voice called in his ear, "Wake up, it seems that someone is coming!"

As soon as the words were finished, Lian Zhuxian also noticed that there was indeed a slight rush of footsteps, running towards the bamboo house through the row of banana trees at the entrance of the painting environment.

Instantly awake, Lian Zhu Xian turned over and sat up.He first looked at Feng Zhangjun who was beside him with his chest open, then looked down at himself who was also disheveled, and immediately bent over to pick up a pile of clothes, divided them randomly, and began to put them on his body.

Perhaps because he felt that it was too late to do it now, Mr. Fengzhang was not in a hurry to get his clothes, but asked him instead: "You people here can break into other people's houses casually?"

"It's not someone." Lian Zhu Xian kept his hands on for a moment, and he was already dressed in obscene clothes in a blink of an eye, "There is only one person who dares to break in like this, and that kid is back!"

While speaking, the abrupt sound of footsteps had already reached the door of the bamboo house, without even saying hello, he was about to push the door and rush in.

It was too late to say it, and then I saw Feng Zhangjun grab a lotus seed from the lotus pod placed on the small table beside the bed, and flicked it lightly with his fingertips.The lotus seed drew a white light, which happened to pass through the gap between the doors, and hit the forehead of the person outside the door impartially.

Only after hearing the man's "Ouch", did he stop.Standing outside the door, he revealed his identity with a loud voice: "Ah! Brother Xianjun! It's me, we came back from the Central Plains all the way!!"

-

After a quarter of an hour, listen to the waterfall.

Xuan Tong, the leader of the Five Immortals Sect who was harassed earlier than Lian Zhu Xian, was leaning on the soft couch, rubbing his forehead with one hand and gently rubbing his temples to relieve his depressed mood at this time.

Beside him are Lian Zhu Xian and Feng Zhangjun who also look bad.

But at this moment, it was Lin Ziqing, Yan Ying and Li Tianquan who appeared in front of them in a hurry.

Since the farewell to Dong Xianyuan, the three boys have lost weight for more than ten or 20 days, and there are different degrees of bruises and scars on their faces and hands. They look like they ran somewhere There was a big scene.However, their mental state is not bad, they should have rested in Dongxianyuan,

Although Xuan Tong has been ordering people to keep in touch with Dong Xianyuan during this period, what he knows is only superficial after all, so it is a good time to ask clearly at this moment.

Since it was the first time for Xuan Tong to meet Yan Ying and Li Tianquan, Lian Zhu Xian gave a brief introduction.And Feng Zhangjun had to explain the problem about the eyes again.After explaining all these trivial matters, Lian Zhu Xian finally took the lead in getting to the point——

"So, have you figured it out this time? What is the relationship between you two?"

Lin Ziqing and Yan Ying looked at each other with identical faces, and it was Lin Ziqing who spoke: "I figured it out, we are not brothers, but we are closer than brothers!"

Closer than brothers, what is the relationship?It can't be father and son, right?Lian Zhu Xian urged the three of them to stop being a secret and explain the matter clearly.

So, things went back to the few days after the rebellion in Weiyang City had just been quelled.

Since both Lin Ziqing and Yan Ying were born near Liuquan City, they went straight to Liuquan City together with Li Tianquan.

After arriving in Liuquan City, the three of them immediately began to inquire about whether strange things happened there more than 100 years ago.However, Liuquan City is the headquarters of the Fazong, and weird things happen almost every day; and for ordinary people, a hundred years is equivalent to the span of three or four generations, and the number of people who remember things is becoming more and more limited.

After several rounds and bumps, it was Li Tianquan who took advantage of his status to look up the records of major events in Liuquan City and the surrounding suburbs a hundred years ago in Fazong's library. After several layers of screening, one of the contents attracted the attention of the three of them.

"More than 100 years ago, shortly before Ah Ying and I were born, there was an earthquake on the outskirts of Liuquan City. It is said that the area affected by the earthquake was very small, almost a few villages and towns outside the city. Although there were no civilian casualties, But houses and land are gone, and the mountains have slipped a few times, and many people have been forced to go out to flee the famine."

"Earthquake... Escape..."

Feng Zhangjun suddenly remembered something, and turned to Lian Zhuxian who was beside him: "Ah, do you still remember that the man who sold you to Shanguo Temple back then also mentioned the earthquake? ?”

"Indeed." Lian Zhu Xian nodded for confirmation, "He said that my mother fled to the town near Shanguo Temple because of the earthquake."

Lin Ziqing was stunned: "Speaking of which, it's not just me and Aying, but Ayi and Brother Xianjun are about the same age as us. Could it be that this matter has something to do with the four of us?"

Among the six people present, Xuan Tong, who was the oldest, interrupted him impatiently, urging him to explain something important.

So it was replaced by the youngest Li Tianquan and began to state——

The earthquake more than 100 years ago did not cause too obvious sequelae. Within a few years after the earthquake, people gradually moved back to their original places to live.Only one small village named "Shinto" disappeared from the ground permanently.

Because, there has become a "vast ocean".

It is an exaggeration to say that it is the sea, but it is indeed an extremely vast body of water.Since the local residents fled after the earthquake, no one witnessed the birth of the lake.However, according to the records, the most commonly accepted theory is that the earthquake collapsed a cliff near Shendao Village, and the hidden river in the mountain broke out of the rocks.

It doesn't sound unreasonable, but the blame is also on this "too reasonable".

Li Tianquan went on to say that he had read many internal records of Fazong, but there was only one and only one that mentioned this Shendao Lake.

In addition, this record also mentions that an important person from Fazong once personally verified the situation of Shendao Lake—that person is Miaoxuanzi.

"This is where the problem lies." Yanying emphasized the key point of this record, "Since Shendao Lake is just a coincidence caused by an ordinary earthquake, why did you send someone from Fazong to verify it? If I remember correctly , 100 years ago, Miao Xuanzi was already in a high position, so is it not surprising that such a high-ranking and powerful person would personally investigate a small matter?"

"That's right, there must be something wrong with Miaoxuanzi!" Lin Ziqing also fully agreed with him.

"Hey, you two don't interrupt." Lian Zhu Xian was impatient, and hurriedly urged Li Tianquan to continue talking.

Anyway, there were no other clues at hand, so the three of them unanimously agreed to go to the Shendao Lake to try their luck.

It was a coincidence that they walked all the way to see them and found that the ruins of the mass grave where Yanying was abandoned back then were just downstream of the Shendao Lake.Before Lin Ziqing was sold into Shanguo Temple, she happened to live nearby.

And when they finally arrived at Shendao Lake, both Yanying and Ziqing were excited in unison.

"It must be that place, that's right!"

Ah Qing covered her chest with one hand, as if she could still feel the excitement at that time: "That lake is at the foot of a big mountain. It happened to be in the morning when we arrived, and the lake was covered with golden light. Near the center of the lake, there was a lake that had been destroyed. The submerged stone pagoda, only the spire is exposed... I have never been there, but it looks familiar, so familiar!"

"Me too." Yanying agreed calmly.

"So, what's the problem with Shendao Lake?" Lian Zhu Xian asked, "It's been more than 100 years, can we still trace the clues?"

"Other places may not work, but Shendao Lake can." Lin Ziqing nodded, "Because everything is sealed under the water."