Nightfall Chapter 5: The heavenly book lost in the wasteland
Volume Two, Winter Lake, Chapter Five, The Book of Heaven Lost in the Wasteland
The white-clothed girl disappeared behind the cloth fence and never appeared again. From early morning to evening, Ning Que turned his head and looked towards the mountain stream from time to time. His neck and eyes began to sore, but he still couldn't see the scenery in white clothes and blue waist.
He secretly guessed the identity of the girl, but he could only confirm that it was the female disciple of Mochi Garden in Dahe Country. He couldn't think of any other reasons, so he had to pack up his bags and return to Dongshengzhai.
During the time that the winter spirit began to envelope the wasteland, the situation in Yanbei quietly but clearly changed. The sporadic battles between the Central Plains Allied Forces and the Left Tent King Court added hundreds of cavalry corpses on the wasteland and prevented any trade between the two sides. The mutual determination and bargaining chips have been clearly seen, so the Left Tent King Court Shan Yu sent out the envoy without accident and conveyed his thoughts on peace to the people of the Central Plains.
As Ning Que analyzed, neither the Xiling Temple nor the City of Chang'an regard the Zuo Teng King Court as its true enemy, and the Left Tent King Court is not weak enough to be defeated in one blow. Those whistles swim. Although the barbarian cavalry walking in the winter grass suffered a big loss from the returnees, it does not mean that they are really afraid of the Central Plains, especially the Yan*** team on the Eastern Front, so they only did some On the surface of the reprimand and discussion, the Central Plains coalition forces agreed to the left bill Yu’s request for peace.
Since negotiations are to begin, of course there must be someone who is responsible for unifying thoughts and leading the negotiation process. Naturally, General Xiahou cannot leave Tuyang City to negotiate in the wasteland. It is impossible for Datang to allow Xiling Temple to preside over this matter. After the argument, the final decision is that everyone will go.
The tentative offensive and defensive in the wasteland has nothing to do with Ning Que, and the negotiations that are about to start have nothing to do with him. Although the upper ranks of the aid Yan army know that his background is terrible, he does not have any military status after all. In fact, with his current status and status, it would be fine to negotiate on behalf of Tang Jun, but the counsellors in Tuyang City General's Mansion, as they did in the past two months, how dare to let him venture into the wasteland.
The north wind roared outside the window, and the room was scorching hot. Ning Que was at the table and concentrated on reading with the dim lights.
The school lieutenant glanced at him and said: "Three days ago, someone in Tuyang City pretended to be a caravan leaving the city. The direction should be the wasteland. Although the peace talks are about to begin, the ban on business has not been lifted. I don’t know these people. What anxious, I don't always feel like a spy in a barracks. "
As an imperial dark guard, the lieutenant, after knowing Ning Que's identity, was the only one who looked at him. According to the truth, the dark guard can only report what he knows, not to say any guesses, but think of Tuyang City After all, he did not hold back that strange caravan, tentatively said: "I heard...General Xiahou is the guest of Xiling Temple."
"You don't need to be here like a maiden to test and test, what your majesty wants to do, I don't know what I am going to do in the Yanbei Wasteland, and you don't need to be clear about what I want to do when my majesty is secretly ordered."
Ning Que put down the scroll in his hand, looked at him and shook his head and said, "The whole world knows that General Xiahou is the guest of the Xiling Temple, but what about it? Sword Saint Liu Bai is also the guest of the Temple, and my master is still the Great Priest of the Temple. Min also believes in Haotian, can it be said that this is also a sin?"
Looking at the subordinate who hesitated to speak, he waved his hand with a smile, and continued: "When will General Xiahou want to see the people of the Xiling Temple? I have to sneak in the Yanbei Wasteland during the war. See you? He's not an idiot, don't think too much, just continue to help me look at Tuyang City."
The lieutenant took the order to go out.
Ning Que looked at the faint oil lamp flame on the table, frowning slowly, as he said before, the Tang people respect Haotian, but after all, everyone knows that the empire and the temple are two people, otherwise, how could it be? With the appearance of the South Gate of Haotian, Xiahou, as the great general of the empire, was the guest of the Xiling Temple...Why would the emperor tolerate him so much? Why did your Majesty suddenly distrust Xiahou after many years? If Xiahou really colluded with the Xiling Temple in vain and tried to disadvantage the empire, what could he do, and the most important thing was what the Temple could give him?
With the real arrival of winter, Yanbei ushered in the first snow, and Dongshengzhai also ushered in a formation division. Because of the freezing, the Chinese Army Account was worried that the defensive formations in the frontier defense lines would be damaged, so he sent himself to check and repair it.
There are very few practitioners in the world, and Talisman formations are even rarer. Whether in a prosperous city or a bitter cold frontier, such a person is always honorable, especially on the battlefield. There is an excellent formation and a military line of defense. Just waiting for the natural stability of several points, so the arrival of this formation division was warmly welcomed by the generals and ordinary soldiers.
General Dongshengzhai graciously welcomed the formation division into the account, and was about to slaughter the sheep and cook the cattle for a good hospitality, but unexpectedly, the formation division waved away the soldiers who were serving, watching no one around. With a serious expression, he asked, "Mr. Thirteen, is there?"
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The jet black waistband doesn't seem to reflect any light, it's dull and dark but doesn't feel dirty, it's more like a piece of black jade that has been soaked in the ink pond of the great river country.
The two waist cards approached slowly, and when they were only one line apart, they seemed to have some kind of suction, and they were automatically attracted to each other. The hidden charms that looked inconspicuous, but were actually wonderful, perfectly wedge. In one place.
Ning Que looked at the waist cards in one place, and curiously said, "It turns out that there are such uses."
"The waist cards at Tianshu are all specially made, even Xiling Temple is difficult to forge, so as long as you see the waist cards, you can confirm the identity of the holder."
The formation master from the Central Military Account explained a few words to Ning Que, then stood up and gave a long bow, respectfully saying: "Tianshu Formation Master Qu Xiangge, I have seen adults."
Ning Que looked at Master Zhen’s gray hair and didn’t want to receive the gift, so he quickly helped him up and said, “I’m just a non-staff member of the Tianshu office. What kind of adult is it?”
Looking at the black waist card in his hand, the array master sighed and smiled in his eyes, and explained: "My lord, your waist card is not something that a non-staff person can hold. The power of the waist card is extremely high, except for the Master of the National Normal University and the chief official of Tianshu, even walking in the south gate will not move you."
Ning Que took the waist card back and held it in the air for a long time, but didn’t see why. He thought that when he entered the palace that day, when His Majesty finally gave such a waist card, he was still quite dissatisfied. If this waist card is really as powerful as this person said, I seem to have wronged your Majesty.
"Even if you don’t think of Tianshu as an official position, I am the 34th generation disciple of the South Gate of Haotian. You are the heir of Master Yan Se, and you are considered my master by generation. Is it your lord that you want me to kneel? Come down and bow to you?"
Ning Que smiled and waved his hand and said: "I know that I have a high level of generation, but I really didn't expect to be so high that I will not gossip. You came to me today, presumably you have important things to say." /
"The deserted people went south and forced the Zuozhen Wangting tribe to move south. This matter is not a big deal, so when the temple issued an edict, the court has always felt a little strange, even if it is fear of the remnants of the Demon Sect. There is no reason for the desolate people to rise again, and there is no reason for such a big battle."
"It’s nothing more than the **** cavalry. It can be explained that the temple wants to declare force to the believers in the world. However, in addition to the prince Longqing, I heard that the temple has also sent more powerful men. There are many secret spies in the ruling division. Dive into the wasteland and don't know the end, what do they want to do?"
The Array Master looked at Ning Que’s eyes and said seriously: “The court asked Tianshu to investigate, what is the reason why the temple is so aggressive, we mobilized a lot of people, and even used the same door in the temple..." /
Hearing this sentence, Ning Que raised his brows slightly and asked: "There are actually people in the temple at our Tianshu?"
The formation master nodded and explained with a smile: "The South Gate and the Temple are in the same line after all. The Temple must have hidden people in the South Gate. Naturally, the South Gate can also hide people in the Temple. The people at the South Gate are naturally our heaven. People at the pivot."
"The explanation is clear enough, please continue."
"It took us a month to find out that this incident should be related to the legendary seven books of the heavens. But my lord, I'm sorry that we have no evidence, but just got a cloth corner."
The master took out a piece of cloth corner from his sleeve. From the seam line, the corner of the cloth should be the hem of the shirt, and then it was torn with brute force. There are two dark red and ink writing on the corner of the cloth: " Mingjuan".
Ning Que looked at the two words on the corner of the cloth, frowned, stretched out his hand and gently touched the dark red-haired black handwriting, and said: "This is a blood book."
The Array Master looked at him and said in a low voice: "The companions in the temple tried every means to only send out this cloth corner, and then there was no more news. It is estimated that someone should have discovered it."
Being able to discover such a big secret in a place like Xiling Temple, and to send out this secret, it is conceivable that the spy who was buried in Xiling at Tianshu's position is not low in the temple.
Ning Que frowned and looked at the two blood characters on the corner of the cloth. After a long silence, he said, "Only these two characters...why is it related to the seven books of heaven? If not, isn't he dead? What a pity?"
The Array Master said: "After seeing the two blood characters on the corner of the cloth, no one in the Tianshu Department connected this with the legendary seven-volume heavenly book. After the Master of the National Teacher saw it, he confirmed that The scroll is one of the seven books of heaven."
Ning Que grabbed the cloth corner in his hand, looked up at his eyes, pondered for a moment, and asked: "Then how can it be confirmed that the temple sent the strong into the wasteland is related to this matter?"
"Because this book of heaven is very likely to be in Huangren's place." The formation master said.
Ning Que asked in a puzzled way: "The Devil Sect is from the deserted tribe, why is the Haotian Sect's book in the deserted tribe?"
Jianshi looked at him with a complicated expression, and was very puzzled by this master’s direct disciple. The future Datang Master would not know the most famous piece of history in the world of practice.
"My lord... countless years ago, Huangren occupied the northern part of the mainland, spanning north and south, and claimed to be the strongest country. At that time, the Haotian Temple sent the great priest of Guangming into the wasteland to preach, and he wanted to bring the Huangren into the Haotian Divine Bright In."
"However, no one would have imagined that, in the process of preaching to the ridiculous people, the brilliant priest with superb doctrine and high respect, he thought and tranced into a strange way, creating a kind of practice completely different from the right way. ."
Ning Que rubbed his head, and asked in disbelief: "Is this kind of cultivation method the magic skill?"
"Not bad."
The first ancestor of the Demon Sect was actually the great priest of the Xiling Temple? Ning Que didn't know about this dusty past until today, and was shocked, thinking that it turned out that everyone was a family.
The Array Master then recounted: "The great priest of Guangming is very advanced in learning, strict in discipline, and best at enlightening mortals. Back then, the temple placed great expectations on him when he entered the wilderness and even asked him to bring a volume of heavenly books. And when he founded the Demon Sect and became the eternal enemy of the temple, this celestial book naturally remained on the wasteland and never appeared in the Central Plains again."
"Decades ago, the sect of the Demon Sect hidden in the Central Plains was wiped out by the Central Plains Zhengdao. Even the mysterious mountain gate of the Demon Sect was cut into ruins by a senior expert with a single sword, but still no one found it. That book of heaven."
Shan Jian rushed into the mountain and cut the Demon Sect Mountain Gate into ruins. Listening to the deeds of the senior master, Ning Que seemed to see those scenes before. His mood was agitated, and his skin was slightly numb, but he did not know why, he faintly Jian always felt that the senior master should have something to do with him, at least with the academy.
"Who is that senior master?"
"I don't know."
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"Since there is no such book in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, there is only one possibility, that is, it has been taken by the desolate people to the extreme northern cold region thousands of years ago. The extreme northern cold region is bitterly cold and far away, and the wilderness People are tough, and even major practitioners in the realm of fate do not dare to venture into it lightly, so this conjecture has always remained in the conjecture. But now that the wild people have moved south from the extreme north and cold regions, the temple of course must look for the book of heaven. Come back."
At this moment, Ning Que finally understood why the court made such a judgment on the intentions of the temple. He also believes that in order to regain a certain volume of the heavenly book that has been lost for thousands of years, the Xiling Temple will definitely not hesitate to start a **** war, not hesitate to let thousands of people shed blood and sacrifice for it, and even not hesitate to let Prince Longqing and even more important people take risks.
From the emperor to the traffickers, everyone in the world knows that the seven-volume heavenly book is the most sacred classic of the Haotian Taoist school, but almost everyone does not know what the seven-volume heavenly book is and what is recorded in it.
There are many legends about the seven-volume heavenly book. Some people say that the heavenly book records the will of Haotian to the world. Some people say that the heavenly book carries the prophecies about the world. Some people say that the heavenly book itself is a condensing heaven and earth. There are also rumors that mortals can practice with one glance at the heavenly book, the cultivator can break the realm with a glance at the heavenly book, the ghosts in the underworld can be purified and reborn with a glance at the heavenly book, and the saints can become immortals with a glance at the heavenly book.
Ning Que had heard of these legends, but at that time his life was too far away from things like the seven-volume book of heaven. He didn’t care at all. He even didn’t believe in the existence of the book of heaven. Today he finally knows that the seven-volume book is Really, but he still didn't believe those rumors, and felt that the seven-volume heavenly book was more likely to be the unspoken secret of the Haotian Taoist school, some kind of earth-shattering peerless practice method.
At this time, he didn't know that his name had appeared in the first volume of the heavenly book.
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"The Book of Heaven is very important, everyone wants it, but what does it have to do with me?"
After all, he is a disciple on the second floor of the academy. Although the realm of strength is still weak and a bit too much, he is still more or less contaminated with the infatuation and pride of the brothers and sisters of Houshan. Ning Que has not been named by the seven-volume book. The number was shocked for too long, and soon he woke up, looking at the Zhenshi and asked.
The Array Master glanced out the window, leaned in his ear and whispered: "The National Master asked me to bring you a message. It is difficult to find the heavenly book in the wasteland. Ordinary practitioners have no power in front of the temple. After all, he and Master Yan Se are both the great priests of the temple, it is not convenient to shoot, and you happen to be in Yanbei, so..."
"So this matter fell on my head?" Ning Que asked, staring at him.
"Exactly, even this piece of cloth corner with blood written on it was personally ordered by the Master of the National Normal University and sent someone to bring it to you from Chang'an City."
Ning Que stared at the snowflakes floating outside the window and was silent for a long time. Then he suddenly asked: "What does the heavenly book look like?"
Master array replied respectfully: "I don't know."
Ning Que set his eyes on his face and continued to ask: "The size?"
Master Zhen answered honestly: "I don't know."
Ning Que's eyebrows twitched slightly, suppressing his emotions forcibly, and then asked: "What volume did the temple lose?"
The Array Master shook his head and said, "I still don't know."
Then he pointed to the corner of the cloth held in Ning Que's palm, and said, "It should be the Ming scroll."
Ning Que took the cloth corner and looked at it twice, frowning and asked: "Mingju... which volume is it?"
The Array Master coughed twice and watched him cautiously and said: "I said before, I don't know the humble position."
Ning Que angrily said: "I don't know anything, how can I find it!"
The formation master looked at him with an innocent expression, and Nana said: "I heard that even the temple is not qualified to enshrine the seven books of the heavens. The heavens are from an unknown place. How can ordinary people like humble people know?"
Hearing the five words of the Unknowable Land, Ning Que's brow furrowed deeper. He remembered the truth about Chen Pipi's life experience that half of his fat face was exposed, and he remembered the few words he occasionally heard in the academy, and felt that this thing was really true. Some trouble.
"My lord, you are the future national teacher of my Datang, and also a direct disciple of the master. You practice in the back hills of the academy every day, and you can touch countless stories higher than that of a humble position. You should know the book master better. What it looks like."
Ning Que was taken aback, thinking that he was busy practicing archery all day in the back mountain of the academy, so he had never cared about the top legends of the world of practice, nor had he had the opportunity to ask the brothers and sisters about the story. Should this kind of thing be told? you?
After the array teacher left, Ning Que sat by the window watching the wind and snow hitting the wasteland, thinking for a long time.
Until today, he discovered that after entering the second floor of the academy, he still underestimated himself. He did not expect that even legendary items such as the seven-volume heavenly book would begin to contact him. If he had known this, he would definitely use crab porridge. Lure Chen Pipi to tell her birth experience and ask the secrets of those unknown places and the seven books of heaven.
Suddenly, he remembered that the General's Mansion of Tuyang City sent people into the wasteland disguised as a caravan, and his eyebrows were slowly frowned. Could it be that Xiahou also wanted to get the book of heaven that was lost for a thousand years? If this is the case, it seems that no matter how difficult it is, he must plan well after entering the wasteland.
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