Demolition

Lu Chen agreed too readily, which made Ji Chuan a little uncomfortable

"Young master, have you thought about it?"

Lu Chen came back to his senses, but he was afraid that his thoughts would be detected, so he yelled loudly

"Quickly ask, don't wait for me to repent."

Ji Chuan nodded and held out a finger

"First question, what did you see in Chaohu Lake?"

"Chaohu Lake is the former site of Taiyi Xuanmen, but most of the things inside have been destroyed, only some ruins remain, and I found traces of Yinxiao Tower."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, it is very likely that the Yinxiao Tower led to the destruction of the Taiyi Xuanmen."

"Is there nothing else? Think about it carefully and don't miss any details."

"Well, I also found a wooden box containing how to make a lotus root figure, a stag tail handle engraved with 'Tiger is a tiger', and a stone tablet with engraved words."

"What are the words on the stele?"

"It's not too important, it's just a description of the appearance of Daoist Taiyi."

"Read it to me." Ji Chuan was so insistent that Lu Chen had no choice but to recite that passage to him. Ji Chuan's face was serious, and he stretched out his second finger after a moment of contemplation.

"Did En Gong mention the three-legged crow to you? Or anything you've never heard of, the name."

Lu Chen is in trouble

"It's the first time I saw the text about the three-legged crow in the local chronicles. As for the others, isn't the scope too broad?"

Ji Chuan was a little hesitant, as if he didn't know what it was

"For example, has he told you that you must not tell outsiders."

"If you want to talk about this, I guess it means that the Taiyi Xuanmen sword cannot be used lightly. My father has always been upright, and there is nothing shameful."

"And have you ever seen, um, that he always carries things that have never been out of anyone's hands?"

"Probably the 'Zeng Guang Xian Wen' he gave you."

Lu Chen's answer obviously did not meet Ji Chuan's expectations, his face showed obvious disappointment, Lu Chen asked tentatively

"Do you know what it is? It's been a long time, maybe I forgot it."

Ji Chuan smiled, shook his head to indicate no need, and then stretched out his third finger

"What clues do you have about the case of the Lu family's extermination?"

In fact, Lu Chen always thought that Ji Chuan would ask about his relationship with Ying Yuanzhi, who knew that Ji Chuan didn't seem to be interested in this at all, but this last question really stumped Lu Chen.He never thought of discussing the death of his parents with anyone, even if this person was Ji Chuan.His own hatred should be his own.

Ji Chuan said

"I don't want to help you, but I want to confirm some guesses, so please tell me all the details. Please forgive me if I offend you."

His politeness made Lu Chen uncomfortable as if he was being pricked by burrs. He twisted under the quilt before he opened his mouth and said

"Actually, I don't know much. There are two points in total. First, the people of that day wore iron masks with special patterns on them. They seemed to be the killers of a certain organization; second, they were looking for a Something, it should be a book, but I couldn't find it."

"Young master, can you draw that pattern?"

This is not a problem for Lu Chen. He copied the graphics in his mind after three times, five times and two divisions. After reading it, Ji Chuan did not raise any objections, and put it away.

"What progress has been made in the investigation of the young master for so many years?"

"Not at all," Lu Chen sighed, "I've searched all the information that the Ministry of Criminal Justice can find, and none of the organization's patterns can match the ones on their masks, and there is no similar case happening again. But I I feel that the book they are looking for is the legendary "Taiyi Real Person Book", but I have never seen this book, it is just a fiction. They must have some other purpose in killing my parents. I After carefully looking at the cases my father has handled in those years, there is no place to be suspicious except Anqing Mansion."

"Are there any other clues?"

Lu Chen shook his head, Ji Chuan's expression was a little weird, but he stopped

"I'm done asking."

"that's it?"

"that's it."

"Then, what secret do you want to tell me?" Lu Chen was a little nervous, but Ji Chuan took out the 'Zeng Guang Xian Wen' from his pocket.

"What does it mean?"

"This is the secret I want to tell you."

"What! Are you kidding me? Isn't this the book you showed me a long time ago, the book my father gave you!"

"It was indeed given to me by your father, but it was only kept for you. This is not some 'Zengguang Xianwen', it is the legendary 'Taiyi Real Man's Book'."

Lu Chen was dumbfounded, but Ji Chuan kept talking

"I have an unfeeling request, please consider it, young master."

"What, what?"

"Please tell me the contents of the book after reading it, young master."

"What? You, this book has always been with you, why don't you read it yourself?"

Ji Chuan shook his head

"In my eyes, this book is just a stack of blank paper, and only the descendants of Taiyi can witness its true content."

"But, but I'm not a serious Taiyi successor either!"

Lu Chen was at a loss, the book was like a hot potato, so many people wanted to find it, so many weird and bizarre legends surrounded it, and the divine book that had been discussed by the world for a few years was always in his eyelids Underneath, pretending to be a relic from the previous dynasty.If Emperor Ying knew that Lu Jie brought an ancient divine book with him every day, he wouldn't dare to think about it.And Lu Jie was so unpredictable that he entrusted this book to a crow before he died to avoid falling into the hands of thieves.Lu Chen tremblingly picked up the book, but looked up at Ji Chuan as if thinking of something

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Sir, please tell me."

"My father, why do I trust you so much? It's not that I don't believe what you mean, but this is the Taiyi real person's book, which many people dream of. You, you are a crow after all. Well, I'm not saying that crows are bad, crows are very Okay, that's it..." Lu Chen didn't get what he said, but Ji Chuan chuckled and looked out the window.

The sun shines through the window paper, dimly sprinkled on his face, and the high bridge of the nose casts a shadow on the side of his face, making his expression at the moment blurred, as if recalling the past, he said

"Because I'm a crow. I'm a crow, so I have no choice."

In Lu Chen's understanding, the Taiyi real book is only useful to humans, not to crows. Ji Chuan didn't explain more, but just motioned him to read it quickly.Lu Chen took a deep breath, and with awe and disbelief, he opened the book that had been lost for a hundred years.

What is impressively written on the first page is the words engraved on the stone tablet in Chaohu Lake, but the content is more complete

Servant Tian Yan is close at hand, his forehead is wide and round, and he is close to the emperor's palace.

With delicate features and beautiful eyes, the sky is high and wide, and it should be rich if it is not expensive.

The ground pavilion is long and sharp, and there are many worries or insufficient homes.

The nose is like hanging gallbladder, and the life is full of wealth and wealth.

If the ear is connected to the cheek, it is famous and famous.

Because of his late fame, his muscles and bones were severely injured.

Green He doesn't live long, and people are short.

The mouth has no edges and corners, and it ends up talking right and wrong.

If your lips contain pills, you will moisten your body and house for the rest of your life.

It is often worrying and far-sighted, just for the eyebrows.

However, there are more good luck than bad luck, all because of eye traps.

Injured flesh and blood, you must know the tears in your eyes.

Harm family affection, but avoid anger and joy.

Desiring to know that his heart is not good, his eyesight is deviated.

You must know that his heart is bad, his lips are thin and his tongue is thin.

The teeth are square and dense, smart and diligent in reading poetry and books.

The face is moist and long, and the ambition runs through the past and present.

If you know high and low, you can clearly see it when you look closely.

If the lips are flipped, the words are false and treacherous.

The eyes are as deep as dew, deceitful and powerful.

The Five Sacred Mountains are not upright, and they are not perfect people.

The two eyes are male and female, how can it be the son of righteousness and benevolence.

The color changes as usual, and the name will be later.

The sound is like a broken gong, and there are many tortures and disharmony.

Eyebrows are like a word, how can they enrich the house and enrich the family.

If the back is like a screen, it will eventually seal the wife and shade.

The abdomen is drooping and the waist is wide, the clothes and food are sufficient and the warehouse is full.

The breasts are exposed and the kidneys are high, the family business is ruined and the source of life is few.

If it is the uprightness of the heavenly court, the magistrate will have no worries.

If the eyebrows are long and bright, it will be of great benefit.

The body should be wide and upright, not flat.

Dimensional body is short at the top and long at the bottom, which is hard to say.

If the husband walks slowly, he should be benevolent.

If you sit still and watch dignifiedly, you will be blessed.

The gods want to hide but not show their majesty, they are expensive but knowable.

The color should be upright and the spirit should be clear, rich but not false.

The color should be carefully inspected to judge good or bad.

The shape should be elaborated, the dialect is high or low.

Either the appearance is clean and then blessed, or the appearance is ancient and has a future.

Weird and strange, it must be carefully examined.

Don't use goodness as blessing, don't use ugliness as evil.

This name is Taiyi Zhenrenshu, and it is called Xianjiashen Tasting.

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This text should be based on the appearance of Daoist Taiyi, teaching the people in the sect how to behave.Lu Chen read it word by word carefully, Ji Chuan nodded his thanks, but Lu Chen didn't know, so he had to turn to the second page.The second page is a picture. In the picture, there is an old man with long eyebrows and drooping beard, standing leisurely under a tree, and a bird stands on his raised left arm.The bird was none other than a crow.Looking carefully at the old man's facial features, it is just as gentle as the description on the previous pages, but the funny picture of Daoist Taiyi and a crow is actually drawn in the fairy book, no matter how well-informed Lu Chen is, he still can't understand the mystery.

He described the content of the picture to Ji Chuan, but Ji Chuan was not as surprised as he was, but just motioned him to continue reading.Lu Chen had no choice but to continue scrolling down. In this Taiyi real person's book, apart from boasting about the real person's appearance at the beginning, the latter ones are like comic books sold in bookstores, which are all comic books.The content of the painting is also confusing:

The crow in the painting is like a pet bird raised by a real person. It is not only fed and watered on time, but also plays the piano and reads poems to him. The difference is that this bird eats a special kind of grass every night. This grass looks ordinary, but it is grown by real people watering it with their own blood every day.In addition, every few pages will appear that the crow brings back ordinary daily necessities such as drinks and books for the real person, just like a servant, very intelligent.

One day, a man came to visit Zhenren. He seemed to be very dissatisfied with the real person's crows.Things get tricky with Zhen Zhen being alone and sad.In order to comfort its master, the crow actually put its wings on the shoulders of the real person, and the relationship between one person and one bird is very close.

On the next page, the style of the painting changed suddenly, and it came to the battlefield in a blink of an eye. However, this battlefield is not an enemy of humans and crows. The enemy should be invaders from overseas. There are countless warships in the painting, and crows hover over the soldiers of the country. It's like acting as a scout.With only a few strokes of the painter, the tragic situation of the battle is vivid on the paper. Compared with humans, the crows seem to be more serious. They stand in front of the army and bear a large part of the firepower. Dozens of crows surround a soldier to protect him. The posture of the crows is covered with paper, and they even rushed into the enemy's formation with physical fights, fighting for their lives. Many crows were torn apart, and their corpses sank into the sea, densely packed.The war ended with driving out the invaders and winning a complete victory. Everyone happily returned to the court, but the emperor was a little dissatisfied.

Lu Chen noticed that the high-ranking person in the painting here was not from the Ying family, but the layout of the palace seemed familiar. The most important thing was that the emperor was wearing a crown on his head.

"The king of ancient times, crowned and moved forward." 'The crown is the crown of the emperor. Since the establishment of the northern and southern dynasties, both the southern emperor and the northern emperor have reached a tacit agreement not to wear the crown of the emperor to show peace. The emperor wearing the crown shows that this story has been at least a hundred years. history.In fact, this is not surprising, even the Taiyi Gate has been destroyed for almost 100 years, and the time when Taiyi Daoist is still alive must be even longer.

The emperor's dissatisfaction was aimed at the crows who had suffered heavy sacrifices in the war.Although the crow has made great contributions, since ancient times, kings have been afraid of the occurrence of great achievements, let alone a small beast.The story of the crow's bravery and fighting skills spread to the people, and many people began to respect the crow. They not only worshiped the crow privately, but even believed that they were divine birds sent from heaven to save the people.The emperor was naturally not happy.

It is not difficult to understand that the emperor is called the real dragon emperor, which means that the royal family is the bloodline chosen by the heavens, and their rule is based on their own people's awe of the imperial power and the gods.This is why sacrifices have always been a link that the royal family attaches great importance to, in order to strengthen the hearts of the people to worship through this amplified sense of ritual and thus consolidate their status.Fortunately, a divine bird suddenly appeared to save people from the fire and water.This is no longer an ordinary treason that can be summed up, it directly challenges the supremacy of the imperial power.

So the emperor ordered that all the crows be strangled.As soon as this order came out, there was an uproar.All the ministers wrote to oppose it.

At this point in the story, the judges are probably puzzled.In the current world, crows are synonymous with treachery and evil, and there are crow demolishers who specialize in dealing with crows. How could killing crows arouse complaints from the government and the opposition?But Lu Chen understands that the relationship between crows and humans in this story is not hostile, on the contrary, crows, as birds with great aura, have become an indispensable helper for humans.As small as the pet bird of Daoist Taiyi to do chores for the master, and as large as the pivotal strategic position against foreign enemies, it is far beyond the comprehension of this generation.And there is a detail revealed everywhere in the story, that is, these abilities of the crow are all deliberately done by humans.Thinking about it, how could a beast with aura be so smart if it hadn't been specially trained.

In this way, the voice of opposition will not be abrupt. To cultivate the crow as one's right-hand man, but also despise the other party's outstanding ability, no matter how you say this matter, you are not authentic.If you are only afraid of crows, then you just need to put in more control and restraint. It is too cold-blooded and cruel to wipe out all the subordinates of your former alliance.

But the emperor insisted on his own opinion. It was strange to say that there was also a real person among the group of people who opposed it. Although it was not conspicuous, this was the book of Taiyi real person after all, so it could still be seen that Taiyi real person was very opposed to this will.But I don't know whether it was the artist's negligence or the development of the situation too fast. On the first page, the two camps were still able to fight against each other, but in the next page, it turned out that the real Taiyi was fighting alone, fighting against the whole court and even the emperor with one person.

Daoist Taiyi has always been single and weak, seeing that he is unable to win back the emperor's heart, he secretly hides in Chaohu Lake with the surviving crow.The scene of Chaohu Lake in the painting is similar to what Lu Chen saw, but it is much more prosperous than what he saw. Those honeycomb-like caves are filled with fluorescent lights and treasures. Self-cultivation.The days can be called leisurely and peaceful.But the good times didn't last long. The emperor found their hiding place. Chaohu Lake is a land of immortals, and ordinary people can't get close to it.The crows wandered around with their hair fried, and one crow acted as the leader, always comforting his companions.

Lu Chen recognized this crow as the one raised by Immortal Taiyi at the beginning of the story, not because of its special appearance, but because the artist took extra care when depicting this crow, and other scenery and characters were scribbled. The crow is so detailed that even its feathers are lifelike, and its eyes are black and bright like stars, which makes people notice it involuntarily.

The human army surrounded Chaohu Lake with the momentum of a protracted war. The strange thing was that only a few people would fight outside with Daoist Taiyi, while most of them stayed at the bottom of the lake.These few people are powerful in force, but they have been sacrificing due to the limitation of the number of people. In the end, only Daoist Taiyi was left.The real person seemed very distressed. He found the crow he had been raising, and he didn't know what the real person said to the crow. The crow's eyes showed sadness.

Turning another page, the paper is full of black feathers.

This is the last painting. Although Lu Chen already knew the ending, he was still very puzzled by the abrupt ending of the plot. Lu Chen raised his own questions while describing the scene he saw.It's just that Ji Chuan's face at this moment is really not kind.

Ji Chuan's appearance is not loyal, and he has been traveling around all the year round to add a bit of self-importance, but he always has a playful smile on Lu Chen, which makes Lu Chen have the illusion that Ji Chuan has a good temper At first glance, he had a straight face, and there was a hint of fear.Not to mention his relationship with Ji Chuan, just based on his many years of experience in Yinxiao Tower, this kind of thinking is absolutely unreasonable.

It's just that Lu Chen couldn't describe Ji Chuan's expression at this time. It was more disappointment than resentment. The killing intent revealed because of disappointment was somewhat sad and hesitant, as if he was abandoned in the snowy wilderness and struggled. The sadness and helplessness of forging ahead.That kind of complicated emotion was accumulated from his more than ten years of unknown life, Lu Chen didn't know it, Lu Jie didn't know it, no one knew it, probably not even Ji Chuan himself.

An invisible ravine silently straddled the two of them. Below the ravine was the bottomless darkness. Lu Chen thought that his fear might come from the dark valley bottom. The secret buried deep below blocked all attempts to cross over. A person who accuses all the evils in the world.