Chapter 26: Gelong, Tiandao Academy
One person and four foxes were holding ropes and were taken to the sky by ropes. After a while, they landed on the cliff and saw that the cliff was as steep as a blade, but on the other side was a gentle hillside, with the stream gurgling, flowing down from the hillside.
This stream converges with the streams flowing under other peaks at the foot of the mountain, becoming a river that flows from west to east to the valley.
Su Yun had never been here, and did not dare to move at all, and kept saying, "What did you see? What did you see?"
He has never been here.
For the blind, every blind man has a map in his mind. This map is only lit up in his own life, while other places are dark and chaos.
The terrain of Burial Longling is steep and difficult to climb. This is Su Yun’s first time here. It is clearly in the afternoon of autumn and it is still early, but in his mind, there is darkness around him, full of unknowns.
He opened his eyes hard, but could not see anything.
He could only feel like a giant beast crawling in this unknown darkness, hideous and terrifying.
He was frightened and asked several times, but no one around answered him.
Su Yun asked several more times. After a while, the flower fox was the first to come to his senses and murmured: "Xiaoyun, we saw a dragon... There is really a dragon here!"
Hearing his voice, Su Yun's heart calmed down.
The flower fox carefully described the geography of the burial of Longling, helping Su Yun quickly build the geography of the burial of Longling in his mind. Other fox monsters listened quietly on the side without interrupting. If the flower fox had something missing, the fox would not help but add a few more words.
This is a habit that has been developed over the years.
Since Huahu and Su Yun became classmates, the geography near Tianmen Town has been mostly told by Huahu to Su Yun, and then took him along. Only then did Su Yun know the geography around him and not get lost.
Their friendship is the best.
Each person, one fox said and one listened. Soon Su Yun figured out the rough geography of the Burial Dragonling, and the geographical map in his mind had a rough outline.
There is indeed a dragon in the Burial Dragon Tomb. He just sensed that there were giant beasts crawling in the darkness, but there was no mistake in the response.
This Longling is worthy of its name. There is a dragon burial here, but there is also a place where the Longling is not worthy of its name, because there is no dragon tomb here.
Burial Longling is a long earth slope, two or three meters high and about a hundred feet long, with trees and thorns growing on it.
The dragon that fell from the sky climbed here from the Dragon Valley and died of serious injuries. The residents nearby should have just buried him without any tombs.
After a long period of weathering, the dragon's corpse was exposed from the soil slope, and more naked appeared.
Especially the dragon's skull, which is almost completely exposed outside, is very large, and there are even trees that only two people can hug together in the skull's eye sockets.
Although the trees buried in Longling are very dense, strangely, there are no birds and beasts here, and even one insect cannot be seen!
Walking here gives people a feeling of being in the bottom of their hearts, as if some extremely ferocious beast rushed out at any time to break himself open.
"There is a house next to the Longling Mausoleum."
Huahu continued to describe the scenery of the Longling Mausoleum and said: "The house is a wooden and stone building, two buildings, seven buildings, three buildings on the east side of the Longling Mausoleum, and four buildings on the west side. The house should have been abandoned for a long time, very broken, and the wood has almost corroded. There are still some stone tablets on the mountain, and there are mountains around, and some stone tablets have fallen."
"Thank you, Brother Hua."
Su Yun constructed the shape of these seven houses in his mind and said, "There are few people here, why are there houses?"
Huahu was also quite puzzled: "Not to mention that people are rarely visited, even animal traces cannot be seen. The dragon is left with only bones and is very fierce. How could anyone choose to live here?"
Su Yun's heart was slightly moved. This dead dragon could not be buried next to someone else's village, so the house could only be built later.
When built near the Burial Dragon Mausoleum, there is only one possibility besides guarding the tomb.
"Some people want to steal the dragon corpse. But the dragon corpse is too big and they will be unable to dig out the dragon corpse for a while, so they built a house here."
Su Yunsixu said: "The people nearby have no relatives and no reason to do so, so it is naturally impossible for them to guard the tomb for him, so they can only come to steal the dragon's corpse."
Hu Buping said quickly: "The dragon's corpse is obviously here, why didn't they steal it?"
"Maybe they couldn't move away because it was too big. Or maybe it was because they suddenly died while digging the dragon corpse."
Huahu thought to himself, "After all, the Earth Lord said that a dragon's spirit flew out and rescued the whole village for dinner. After the dragon died, most of his spirits still guarded his body."
Su Yun nodded, Hua Hu's guess made sense.
They walked down the hillside carefully and walked towards the Zanglongling. Su Yun followed Huahu carefully, and tried his best to calm down, saying, "We should not try to dig out the dragon bones, nor can we take anything away. Let's just go to those few houses to take a look. I heard from Mr. Shuijing that some strong people's spirits will turn into ghosts and gods, which are very ferocious. However, ghosts are afraid of the sun and will not appear during the day. Therefore, we must leave before the sun sets!"
The four demon foxes looked at each other, Qingqiuyue and Li Xiaofan hurriedly blocked the fox's mouth. The fox's whimpered a few times, and thought to himself: "The ghosts and gods in Tianmen Town are more fierce than dragons, and they will appear during the day!"
One person, four foxes came to the Burial Dragon Mausoleum and walked into the first house.
The house has four rooms, with scattered corpses and accessories left after the clothes were corroded into ashes.
Su Yun squatted down and groped for a while, pondering: "From the state of the corpse being lodged, they should have encountered an unexpected change suddenly and rushed out of the house. However, the pursuit of them was too fast, and they all died before they could escape from the house."
Huahu also discovered something: "Their back, ribs and spine are broken, and the cut surface is diagonally cut. It should be cut from behind with extremely sharp weapons. There are three such weapons in total, and the wounds are almost parallel. This person was cut into four sections..."
Su Yun touched it and said, "There is no such weapon, it is the wound cut from the claws."
Hua Hu smiled and said, "Xiaoyun, a monster with extremely sharp claws, how could it appear in the house with these people? Although this house is big, it can't accommodate such a huge creature at all! Unless..."
“Unless there is no entity.”
Su Yun said: "There is no entity in the spirit. If it is a dragon's claw, it will be possible."
Hua Hu frowned and said, "Let's go to the house to take a look!"
What made them wonder was that the room was full of book cases, and the messy pens, inkstones and paper were placed on the book cases. It was not like a room for a tomb robber, but rather like a room for a great scholar who was well-read about poetry and books!
Unfortunately, the pen tips here have rotted and the paper has long turned into mud.
"They were not here to steal the dragon corpse!"
Su Yun suddenly said, "They are scholars who study things and learn from them!"
Hua Hu was stunned and also woke up: "Yes! When Mr. Shui Jing taught us that the crocodile dragon roared, he took us to the crocodile dragon pond to observe the crocodile dragon, observe the shape, habits, and actions of the crocodile dragon. He used the practice of the transformation of the furnace to activate his own vitality and blood to simulate the crocodile dragon, and visualize the crocodile dragon with his own consciousness. Mr. Shui Jing said that this is called investigating things to obtain knowledge. Through observation experiments, he studied the essence of things and the principles of things, so as to gain knowledge."
The other three little foxes had also heard Mr. Shui Jing's lecture and immediately recalled it.
Qingqiu Yue hurriedly said: "Mr. Shuijing said that when the official schools with financial resources, they often organize scholars to find the divine beasts to visualize and observe and study when learning some kind of martial arts and magical powers. Could it be that some scholars come to observe this dragon?"
Li Xiaofan looked at the corpses all over the ground and frowned: "They are from Shuofang City? How could they die here?"
Su Yun touched a jade plaque under a decayed corpse. There were words on it. He strove it carefully and said, "They come from an official school called Tiandaoyuan."
The fox demons came forward and saw that although there was soil on the jade plaque, it was flawless and not infected. It was obviously carved from valuable jade.
The front of the jade plaque is the three characters "Tiandaoyuan", with clouds and thunder textures around it, and the back is carved with semi-displayed scrolls, which are very exquisite.
"There is an official in Shuofang City named Tiandaoyuan? The name is very grand."
Huahu said: "The jade plaque has a good texture. You may be able to sell it for a few five-zhu coins and find a few more dollars! We will definitely need to use money when we enter the city in the future!"
The fox demons searched around and found a few jade plaques, which were also from the Heavenly Daoyuan, but they were all damaged, and only the one that Su Yun found was complete.
They found nothing else, so they left here and headed for the second house.
The house is on the other side of the dragon's tail, and the two houses are one by one, so they should be responsible for observing the different directions of the dragon.
A few hundred steps to Long Tai is a concave valley. Huahu looked up and saw huge scratches on the two walls of the valley!
Each scratch penetrated the stone wall several times, several feet long, and the stone seemed to be cut by the sharpest knife, which was shocking.
They guessed correctly that the dragon falling from the sky fell into the Dragon Valley, and used the last strength to struggle and crawl all the way, climbed here, and then swallowed.
"What caused such a dragon to be injured and killed here?" Hua Hu murmured.
They came outside the second house and were about to walk in when they suddenly saw a man in black limping towards him. The four foxes screamed in unison and each made a defensive gesture.
"Senior Snake."
Su Yun felt a little moved and bowed and said, "Senior invited us to go to watch the ceremony last night. I have watched it for a long time and have gained a lot. Thank you for your care."
Hua Hu was shocked and whispered: "Xiaoyun, do you mean he is having a meal in the whole village? Why did he change his appearance?"
Chapter completed!