klisemfg Chapter 937 The Location of Qingying! Yu Hai!
Chapter 937 The Location of Qingying! Yu Hai!
This night.
Within the forbidden area of the Nangong clan, frost and mist shrouded the area, and tranquility reigned as ever.
Under the cover of the nine luminaries.
The Zhao family stayed deep inside the Sixth Ancestral Temple, cramming on the knowledge of the Nangong clan with Xiao Nangong.
As the saying goes.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs?
Now that the intentions of the Nangong family have been determined, the best course of action is to play the role of the Sixth Ancestor, blend in with them, and act accordingly.
"Second Patriarch, Third Patriarch, Sixth Patriarch, Eighth Patriarch, Eleventh Patriarch, Thirteenth Patriarch."
"So, at present, only these six elders are still active?"
Xi Jinping has reached a crucial point.
My aunt and Shuyue also left the catalog together.
He is currently asking this question with a furrowed brow.
After all, the power structure and peak combat strength of the Nangong clan are crucial to the success of their trip.
Zhao Qing remained silent, chuckling as he observed his aunt's puzzled expression, pondering a similar question to himself.
Xiao Nangong stayed by the side of the Bone Woman.
She nodded slightly and said earnestly, "As far as I know, that is indeed the case."
"Among them, the thirteenth ancestor was a Celestial Lord who had reached the pinnacle of immortality, and was rarely known within the Holy Continent..."
Um--
Zhao Qing understood but remained silent.
The Thirteen Shrines are the relatives of Xiao Nangong.
Previously, Zhuang Han's soul search revealed that Xiao Nangong had many relatives and even concubines, who were currently recuperating in the Thirteen Shrines.
To be honest, it's only about 200 miles from here.
Unfortunately... it's like an insurmountable chasm.
Yao Mei had absolutely no chance to meet her relatives.
"Where's the rest?"
Si He raised her eyes slightly and asked casually, not caring how many ancestors were among them.
After all... even the Thirteen Shrines are unlikely to be their teammates.
They weren't here to seize power; they were just petty thieves...
Xiao Nangong heard this.
With a serious expression, he carefully recounted, "The rest are the three ancestral halls that are currently in power, and the three ancestors are also immortal lords..."
"In addition, the three ancestors of the Second, Eighth, and Eleventh Temples are all at the Void Refinement stage and have been quite active in the last hundred years, without going into seclusion."
"As for the remaining ancestral halls, either the ancestor has gone into seclusion or has not been in the clan for many years."
hiss--
It's not too complicated.
Zhao Qing frowned slightly and summed it up in one sentence: "So, besides our six ancestral halls and the three ancestral halls on the patriarch's side, there are also the second, eighth, and eleventh ancestral halls now getting involved in clan affairs?"
According to Xiao Nangong, these few ancestral halls have been the most prosperous and active in recent years, while the thirteen ancestral halls are currently recuperating...
in other words.
If his portrayal of the Sixth Patriarch goes wrong...
He would only fail in front of the Third Patriarch, the Second Patriarch, the Eighth Patriarch, and the Eleventh Patriarch.
Among them, the three ancestors and the three ancestral halls are the core of the entire Nangong clan today.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Nangong's almond-shaped eyes flashed with astonishment, and she was speechless for a moment, looking embarrassed.
What does "our six ancestral halls" mean?
—It's your Six Shrines!
However, she also understood the meaning behind Zhao Qingyan's words.
After giving them a speechless glare, he said softly, "There's no need to worry about running into them."
“Each ancestral hall has its own ancestor, and apart from matters of the survival of the clan, there is basically no communication between them, and they rarely leave their respective temples.”
"Even major events like the change of the family head usually only involve three or four patriarchs. The rest of the ancestors acquiesce, and that's considered a done deal..."
Oh?
Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing was overjoyed.
I don't need to get involved...
That's okay.
Within these six shrines, the Nine Luminaries, at the Dao Integration level, provide cover, and with the presence of Sihe Stepmother and Phoenix Maiden Ancestor Grandmother—it's incredibly stable...
Just then!
Si He, who had been leaning against the icy couch with her legs crossed, raised an eyebrow in surprise and glanced at everyone before saying, "Stop fiddling with this."
"somebody is coming."
"A Nascent Soul cultivator."
Someone's coming...
Upon hearing this.
Everyone looked serious and quieted down, pondering and waiting for the situation to unfold.
Zhao Qing remained expressionless and exchanged a glance with his aunt.
They're hiding in these six shrines, aren't they just waiting for someone to come?
Now, in this ice palace...
Shuyue, Auntie, and Ningmei are all present.
Ye Xi and Chu Xin are also outside, observing the situation.
Qinghuan, however, remained unperturbed, smiling as she followed Bian Jingyu to prepare iced drinks for her sisters...
It's quite neat and organized, a result of pooling everyone's wisdom.
In the Heavenly Evolution Record, only the two mothers and the Phoenix Maiden remain.
……
soon.
The incense from the temple converged into a curtain of light, creating a scene within the ancestral hall.
All that could be seen was the dark, dense corridor at the end.
A woman approached, dressed in light armor and with her hair styled in a high, elegant bun.
His gaze swept over the unknown situation in the hall, his expression showing some doubt and confusion.
—Cultivation to the level of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Nangong Yao narrowed her almond-shaped eyes slightly and whispered in her soul breath, "Xiao Lan."
“Born from the Shattered Star clan, a relative of the Three Shrines.”
"I wonder if I can see through the array in the hall..."
Shattered Star, Divine Transformation, High-level Three Shrines!
Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing's expression became even more serious, and his aunt couldn't help but feel uneasy.
This was almost the strongest person they could encounter in the Six Shrines.
His skills and expertise should not be inferior to those of an elder from the Shattered Star Holy Land... but his status is somewhat lower than that of an elder from the Holy Land.
Over here, everyone's eyes were fixed intently on the movements of the woman in the hall.
Inside the dark and oppressive ancestral hall...
Xiao Lan only furrowed her brows slightly for a moment, without taking more than a few steps.
He immediately raised his eyes, looked into the void, bowed, and simply said, "Senior, I'm back."
"The entire 700,000-mile stretch of the Yu Sea has been thoroughly verified."
"The corrected jade slip shall be left here for the convenience of detailed record keeping."
Zhao Qing: ...
? ?
A jade slip with corrections spanning seven hundred thousand miles!?
Upon hearing this, everyone perked up even more; this was a big fish!
The previously corrected jade slips mostly came about in this way...
The people of the Three Shrines...
Zhao Qing pondered for a moment, not yet knowing how the Sixth Patriarch of the past communicated with this Xiao Lan.
So they chose to remain silent.
Let's wait and see.
As the dignified Sixth Patriarch, surely I won't cause any trouble if I don't speak up?
however--
What he hadn't expected was...
He stood there with his head held high, without responding.
Xiao Lan remained silent, her expression slightly respectful, her slender hands clasped in greeting falling to her sides... and she waited quietly.
hiss--
Your mom—
Zhao Qing could easily tease Nangong Qi, after all, he was just a Golden Core cultivator with no important matters on his mind, and he was also his direct descendant.
However, one cannot simply make careless remarks when facing Xiao Lan.
The other party is already at the absolute top level, a powerful executor under each ancestor...
Right now.
My aunt frowned slightly and subtly communicated with everyone.
Unlike Nangong Ruoyou, she wasn't too surprised by the changes in the ancestral hall's layout.
"It is said that he also returned from Yu Hai..."
"Those uncorrected Yu Hai jade slips were recorded in the first year of the Gregorian calendar."
"It's very likely that she has been gone for more than two years and just came back... that's why she wasn't surprised by the changes in the Six Shrines."
Well, that's pretty much it.
She was completely unfamiliar with the recent situation within the Six Shrines, and therefore failed to notice anything amiss. Seeing that her primordial spirit had been sealed, she simply didn't bother looking for the Scripture Pavilion...
My aunt said...
Everyone understood the implication; this situation was easy to predict.
only……
Zhao Qing had no interest in thinking about this.
He is the Sixth Patriarch.
How can I just keep staring at Xiao Lan in silence?
Therefore.
After pondering for a moment, Zhao Qing used the Fire Ze Kui technique to command his divine will to speak, as if his will had descended: "Pay attention to the Southern Xiang Sea, the Jia-character secret realm."
Yep!
The Southern Sea, a hidden paradise!
They simply threw down a place name, saying nothing else, adopting a wait-and-see approach.
Inside the ancestral hall.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lan's eyes clearly showed understanding.
He gave a slight bow and spoke concisely and forcefully: "The head of the family has given other instructions. I will go and investigate the Southern Chancellor in six months."
Ok……
Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing pondered to himself.
How can we respond to that?
Can you say... yes?
Saying...it's been hard?
He hesitated for a moment, then took out a jade slip and tossed it to Si He. Inside was a nautical chart of the Southern Xiang Sea.
Even though the two had given up on each other.
Si He immediately understood, chuckled, raised his eyes and casually tore through the void, directly throwing the jade slip towards the woman in the hall!
Inside the dark and oppressive ancestral hall.
Xiao Lan was not at all surprised by the void rifts that appeared around him.
With a slight pause in his gaze, he raised his hand and took the jade slip into his hand.
...A simplified map of the southern sea area.
She pondered for a moment, then bowed again before turning and leaving the sixth ancestral hall.
……
After a while.
The figure in the picture finally disappeared.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help exchanging helpless glances.
The jade slip that Xiao Lan had just left behind was already in Si He's hands, and she tossed it to Zhao Qing to examine.
His beautiful wife's bright eyes were full of resentment.
He spoke softly, "Didn't the Sixth Patriarch leave behind a storage ring?"
Are you kidding...
This is so difficult to act!
She could clearly sense that her husband's mind must have been in complete chaos just now, feeling like he was caught in a dilemma.
"Oh, no—"
Zhao Qing chuckled, examining the newly acquired jade slip, and casually responded.
Si He chuckled lazily, glancing back at his little wife's expression: "A Void Refinement expert can create a small secret realm by hand, basically without needing a storage ring."
Oh……
That's it.
Shuyue lowered her eyes helplessly, propping her chin up with her slender hand as she pondered alone.
In this regard.
Zhao Qing also felt very awkward and helpless.
Previously, Zhuang Han's disguise was fine, with all the necessary details...
When they arrived at the Sixth Patriarch's side...
They died so decisively, leaving nothing behind except an alternate account.
Let alone storage rings...
He couldn't even see what the Sixth Patriarch looked like at the time!
All I know is that he was roughly middle-aged. Luckily, Xiao Nangong had met the Sixth Patriarch before, and it was she who helped adjust the illusion later.
No wonder the Phoenix Maiden struck so swiftly with her blade.
Although the Phoenix Girl is reckless, she is definitely not stupid.
In this ancestral hall, the Sixth Patriarch is at the Void Refinement stage, and behind the three halls, the shadows of other masters are faintly visible. If you are too slow in killing them, there may be unexpected consequences.
Even the slightest commotion is considered a complete disaster.
Think about this.
Both Zhao Qing and the Bone Woman couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
tsk...
Zhuang Han was killed too early.
If they had held on to their last breath, they could ask more questions now and patch up the loopholes in the disguise...
And the next moment!
As Zhao Qing was pondering this,
His expression suddenly turned serious, then joy flashed in the depths of his sword-like eyes, only to quickly turn into surprise and doubt... incredibly complex!
Everyone saw this.
They immediately gathered their divine senses to examine the jade slip together.
See only—
The Yu Hai Jade Slip and Sea Chart left by Xiao Lan!
The place where Zhao Qing's divine sense lingered!
Among those incredibly tedious annotations... there was one extremely inconspicuous record!
[Yu Hai Ruins, Section C17.]
[Primitive spiritual energy, the immortal path is waning, Foundation Establishment National Preceptor, 22nd year of Zheng Hong.]
this sentence.
It stands out as particularly ordinary and unremarkable amidst the incredibly complex nautical chart annotations...
Compared to those specially marked secret realms and ruins, and those specially verified spiritual minerals and rare treasures, it's as if they were just casually marked.
There wasn't even a note indicating which cultivator had checked and corrected it!
It's obvious that Xiao Lan is only in charge of verification; she couldn't possibly be the only one in the entire Yu Hai Wilderness... she clearly has quite a few cultivators under her command.
now.
Zhao Qing's expression was particularly solemn. He looked at his aunt Si He and whispered, "Yu Hai, Ruins C17."
"The twenty-second year of Zheng Hong..."
Zhao Qing didn't know exactly which year it was, the twenty-second year of Zheng Hong.
But he had experienced a period of time at Qingying as if in a dream!
I have clearly seen some cast iron coins!
—Zhenghong Tongbao!
In Qianyue County, the Ranfu government pays its servants a stipend every three months, and this is what they receive!
Iron casting, large coin, obverse cast Zheng Hong, reverse cast Dang Bai, six coins issued!
Think about this.
Zhao Qing couldn't help but take a deep breath, unsure whether it was a tense moment of relief or a genuine sigh of contentment...
at last……
found it!
Yu Hai, the site of the Bing 17th relic!
now.
Zhao Qing was almost certain that Qingying was inside these ruins!
See this annotation.
Auntie Bone Girl, Whale Girl Xiao Nangong... Everyone exchanged glances, their expressions ranging from joy to confusion.
Zhao Qing's feelings were even more complicated.
After parting ways with Sister Zhang.
It's been almost three years since we went to sea.
Now that we've finally found a clue to Master's whereabouts, all we need to do is sneak over there quietly and we'll be able to meet him!
The search across the vast ocean was extremely difficult and lengthy.
It's like finding a needle in a haystack!
Can--
However, they had only been in contact with the Nangong family for about a month.
As for becoming the Sixth Patriarch.
It's only been five days!
Almost in the blink of an eye, they found traces of the Zheng Hong Tong Bao...
Yet it seemed too smooth, so smooth that it was unbelievable!
My aunt's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.
After careful consideration, he said in a low voice with suspicion, "There shouldn't be any mistake. The clue of the Zheng Hong Calendar... the Nangong family couldn't possibly know about it."
Um--
In this regard.
Zhao Qing understood, of course; he was simply surprised that things had gone so smoothly—something he hadn't even dared to imagine.
I thought I'd have to play the role of the Sixth Patriarch, sitting here for five or ten years, slowly gathering information and investigating one by one.
Who would have thought, it's only been three days!
Based on Zhao Qing's intuition honed over many years...
There are only two possibilities!
The first type is the reverse scale left by Qingjun, which is drawn by fate.
It's time to hurry and fetch our master; it's time to wrap things up during our expedition beyond the realm of immortals...
The second.
Could it be that they've been exposed?
The three shrines were using them to help retrieve the jade slips...that's why it went so smoothly...
Damn it, doesn't that mean he's been caught?!
But no matter what.
The Nangong family certainly doesn't know Qingying's whereabouts.
That’s a good thing…
It wasn't that Zhao Qing was paranoid; the main problem was that he hadn't even fully grasped the basics of the various ancestral halls of the Nangong clan yet.
Little Sao Long's clue came right to my doorstep, that was too fast, wasn't it?
at the moment.
Although he pondered this, he did not hesitate at all.
He stood up decisively and exchanged a glance with his wife.
Then she said to her aunt, Ningmei, "I'm going to see the Phoenix."
My aunt looked serious.
They clearly share the same concerns.
Seeing that Shuyue was about to send her husband back to the secret realm, she didn't respond at all.
Instead, he got up and followed Ningmei.
See this.
Sihe stopped lying down and wandered around outside the city for two or three years... eventually they managed to find Qingying's location.
Of course, I also went back to the catalog to see what the Phoenix had to say.
Bone Maiden Ye Xi was equally tempted, and they all followed suit, gathering around the edge of the illustrated book...
Seeing this, Zhao Qing chuckled helplessly and shook his head, then led everyone back...
Just as he was about to remind the whale girl to help keep an eye on the ancestral hall.
Suddenly, something else came to mind.
Whispering to Whale Girl, she reminded her, "Don't tell Jin Yi yet; communication methods aren't reliable."
The whale girl raised an eyebrow slightly, gave a soft hum, and then nodded.
Of course, I understand that it's inconvenient to send messages right now.
After all, she was part of the Nangong clan, and the Nangong clan was helping Cuiyuan make the communication jade, so it was indeed better to be on the safe side...