klisemfg Chapter 933 Nighttime Intrusion into the 6th Ancestral Temple
Chapter 933 Nighttime Intrusion into the 6th Ancestral Temple
The refinement of secret realms and relics in the world mostly relies on the external world.
Within the secret realm, the sun and moon, and the four seasons, rotate in the same way as the outside world.
It is now late autumn.
The cold wind howled and howled in the dead of night.
Dark clouds covered the sky, and the moon was nowhere to be seen when looking up.
Within Qingwu Lane, a spirit boat soared into the sky, heading straight deep into the heart of the Nangong clan...
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The spirit boat was not large.
The one leading the boat was naturally Zhuang Han, played by Zhao Qing.
A phantom spirit followed him, and the short girl looked somewhat solemn.
The other side.
The white-haired demon god was languid and indifferent, a stark contrast to his usual demeanor, making quite a show of his status as a stepmother...
Originally, Si He planned to use Qiu Lin's disguise when traveling.
however.
A phoenix maiden will accompany them on this trip.
Zhao Qing suggested to the Phoenix Pavilion Master, "Why don't you also give it a try?"
The results are obvious.
The Phoenix Maiden remained unmoved, simply going about her business as usual. Dressed in a magnificent palace gown, she was currently in the Spirit Boat Pavilion.
Sihe saw this.
If even a phoenix maiden doesn't conceal her identity, then what's the point of her concealing it?
Isn't she a Daoist attuned?!
Anyway... if anything goes wrong, Phoenix Girl will be there to cover for us.
Therefore, because Phoenix disdains role-playing.
What was originally a difficult covert investigation... turned into a blatant act of disrupting someone's business.
—It mainly relies on the Phoenix Maiden's vast cultivation to sustain it. As for whether or not something unusual will be discovered, that is no longer within Zhao Qing's consideration.
It seems that the Phoenix Pavilion Master doesn't necessarily need to change his appearance to secretly go somewhere... his methods are too ugly.
...The spirit boat sped along, catching the night.
Now that Zhao Qing is Zhuang Han's identity, he doesn't need to suppress his Nascent Soul cultivation too much, and can even occasionally use teleportation to travel.
He and Nangong Yao talked a lot along the way.
Si He remained aloof, occasionally glancing sideways to strike up a conversation.
Phoenix simply watched from inside the pavilion, remaining silent.
In this regard.
Zhao Qing was already used to it.
Master's best friend is truly aloof, rarely showing any emotional fluctuations.
To be precise, it is likely that the Twelve Lords of the Jade Capital, such towering figures, were all of this kind of majestic presence.
Qingjun... was an accident.
The unexpected thing was that his master liked to play on alternate accounts.
He and Sister Zhang followed him around, and as they played around, they seemed to become much more friendly.
The short girl beside him spoke in a rambling, incessant manner... frantically trying to impress the Phoenix Queen right under her nose.
“The sixth ancestor of the Nangong clan already held considerable influence within the clan during the Central Plains period.”
"Most of the other patriarchs are in seclusion."
“Even the Daoist Immortal Lord of our Thirteen Shrines has been detached from worldly affairs for many years.”
"And this sixth ancestor was the evergreen of power in the clan. Over the past thousand years, the six ancestral halls have produced many heads of the family."
Zhao Qing nodded slightly as he listened.
Of course I understand what Nangong Yao means.
The Nangong clan has two Dao-Merging Immortal Lords.
One of the statues is from the thirteenth ancestral hall where she was born, while the other is from the three ancestors.
However, once one reaches that level of status, and is within a clan bound by blood ties, even a Dao-Merging Immortal Lord rarely interferes with power shifts within the clan...
For such beings, every shrine is a place of their own bloodline and descendants.
As for the other patriarchs, those whose lifespans were nearing their end mostly went into seclusion.
This Sixth Patriarch, however, almost never went into seclusion, making him a perennial figure of power for nearly a thousand years.
This is the true essence of this ancient clan.
It sounds like there's no real power struggle or infighting; it's as if it's a matter of who cares and who cares, unless it involves the survival of the tribe...
Of course, this was only the situation of the Nangong Ancient Clan in the past.
Zhao Qing knew perfectly well what was going on.
Xiao Nangong chattered on and on, giving a serious introduction.
In reality, he was speaking to the Phoenix Maiden, helping some members of the Nangong Clan to shift the blame.
He then curried favor with Xiao Nangong, occasionally making a small talk and inquiring about the past situation of each ancestral hall...
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soon.
Zhao Qing's imperial boat approached the core area of the Nangong clan.
There were many shops along the way.
Occasionally, a cultivator would glance at it with their divine sense, but no one could sense Si He's presence, let alone the Phoenix.
Zhuang Han, who bore a heavy responsibility, would only greet most of the cultivators he encountered without saying a word.
Now we've arrived outside this forbidden area of our tribe.
It went quite smoothly.
"The ancestral hall is still there."
"The sorting position is the same as that of Zhongzhou."
"Due west, seventy li away, is the second palace."
Xiao Nangong watched from afar, and before he knew it, his words became somewhat cautious.
Zhao Qing nodded slightly.
He also felt a surge of relief.
Beyond the barrier lies the core territory of the Nangong clan.
Within a radius of three hundred miles, there were nearly ten Void Refinement cultivators... and two potentially existing Immortal Lords...
He couldn't help but glance sideways, meeting Si He's gaze and asking her a question.
It was precisely at this moment.
Outside the small pavilion aboard the spirit boat, the Phoenix Maiden finally stepped out. The woman was dignified and elegant, and casually strolled over.
She wasn't worried at all about anyone discovering her existence.
He glanced down at the clan's restrictions and said calmly, "Her soul is involved; go to your life palace."
Um! ?
Who?
Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing...
He immediately understood and put away Nangong Yao's soul lamp.
Xiao Nangong also understood the situation.
Phoenix is saying that... as the core bloodline of the Nangong clan, entering now would involve the perception of certain ancestral halls.
This is normal.
When she was on the verge of death, it was the ancient clan's bloodline restriction that protected her infant soul...
Neither of them spoke at the moment.
They were directly combined into one.
— Xiao Nangong's soul was hidden by Zhao Qing's life palace.
Now, Zhao Qingyuan's cultivation is profound, and his life palace is no longer as weak as before, with a true infant spirit guarding it.
When Xiao Nangong entered, it was merely a remnant soul that had possessed him, and it lingered briefly in his life palace.
In no more than five breaths.
The original group of four was directly optimized into a group of three.
Besides Zhao Qing, there were two Dao-merging beings.
Zhao Qing glanced sideways, but saw that Huang Nu didn't respond.
Only then did he retrieve Zhuang Han's restrictive jade slip and step directly through the ancient clan's great forbidden passage...
to be frank.
As he flew past the vast barrier, his heart still couldn't help but clench.
It wasn't because of concerns about safety.
...This is the instinct of a thief.
In particular, there were two swaggering female thieves following behind them.
Right now!
A vast and powerful aura of primordial spirit swept over us, crashing straight down!
He glanced at Zhao Qing casually, ignoring him completely.
Just as the primordial spirit was about to approach Huang Nu and Si He!
The tower master simply raised his narrow phoenix eyes slightly, and his primordial spirit brushed past the two of them without any unusual reaction!
Upon seeing this, Zhao Qingsihe was momentarily stunned, but then he understood.
This is the true way to return to simplicity.
There's absolutely no need to hide it!
It almost fundamentally distorts the other party's perception, making them blind and deaf to it!
Not only that.
The Phoenix Pavilion Master strolled gracefully, walking on air as if he were in an empty place.
He then said calmly, "Let's go."
Zhao Qing: ...
you.
He glanced at the two stunningly beautiful women, who looked like goddesses.
It made me feel even stranger.
The way you guys are doing this... I'm not feeling safe doing this!
……
The main problem is that this ancient forbidden area, spanning nearly three hundred miles, is completely silent.
All I could hear was the mournful sound of the wind.
The sudden words from the Phoenix Maiden were truly hard for him to accept.
Anyone who didn't know better would think they'd gone home...
Zhao Qing instinctively remained silent.
He just nodded.
Leading the way, they headed straight for the location of the Sixth Ancestral Temple.
Inside the Life Palace, Xiao Nangong was also on high alert, not even communicating with Zhao Qing's Nascent Soul, not daring to disturb him.
It only took a few dozen breaths.
Zhao Qing then easily arrived outside the Six Shrines.
A phoenix maiden was by his side.
He and Si He had an incredibly smooth time together, as if they were in an empty place.
It was as if everyone in this entire forbidden area of the clan was blind, turning a blind eye to the Phoenix Maiden Sihe!
Even the primordial spirit of some unknown Void Refinement expert swept over it.
They didn't scrutinize Zhao Qing, who was concealed by the illusionary magic, with any unusual scrutiny...
This is the end.
Zhao Qingcai was finally completely relieved.
He simply pretended that his two fathers behind him didn't exist.
Carrying the forbidden jade slip, they headed directly into the depths of the Six Shrines.
The enormous palace was made of extremely high-quality materials, clearly brought directly from the Central Plains three years ago when the clan migrated.
Being in it, the vast true energy of heaven and earth becomes extremely active.
However, divine sense could not probe out to investigate.
What you could see with the naked eye was a dark mass, with memorial tablets and shrines everywhere...
This was Zhao Qing's first time entering such a place.
It feels... a bit like the underworld.
Fortunately, Xiao Nangong often went to the ancestral hall and spoke in his life palace to guide people: "Some of these ancestral halls are still alive, but most of them have already perished."
"Be respectful, just go directly there."
"Go underground."
"On the first underground floor, there is the cultivation area of the core lineage of the Six Shrines, and the Sutra Repository is located there."
Oh, I see... underground.
Zhao Qing nodded knowingly.
Hmm—it's even more sinister now.
He remained calm, mainly wary that the Sixth Patriarch might suddenly become overly friendly.
After all, as Zhuang Han, he couldn't just randomly scan the ancestral hall with his divine sense...
And this moment.
The Phoenix Maiden, who had spoken softly earlier, fell silent, simply following quietly in the darkness.
Look at the posture.
The ancestral hall contains the remains of the Sixth Patriarch.
She didn't want to pay attention to it for the time being, nor did she want to be discovered and cause chaos overseas... Although her demeanor remained elegant and noble, she had actually become much more docile.
As for Si He, he remained mostly silent throughout, exchanging glances with Zhao Qing in private.
After all, Xiao Saolong's best friend was by his side.
She has no right to show off.
Besides, there's nothing to pretend about being with Zhao Qing and Xiao Nangong.
Inside the ancestral hall.
The lighting was dim, and the atmosphere was oppressive.
Zhao Qing assumed he was Zhuang Han, who had come to check the names and organize the jade slips.
Guided secretly by Xiao Nangong, they walked through rows of memorial tablets, followed by two silent women.
One person had long, narrow, indifferent phoenix eyes and wore a palace gauze dress.
A woman with snow-white hair, stunning beauty, and flowing robes.
As Zhao Qing walked among the steles, he neither extended his divine sense nor looked back. Occasionally, out of the corner of his eye, he would catch a glimpse of his clothes and feel as if two white impermanences were following behind him...
however!
Just as he reached the end and stepped onto the jade steps of the next level!
Suddenly, a soft whisper came from below—
"Senior Brother Zhuang?"
"You came……"
Zhao Qing: ???
This is a divine transmission of sound; it's Nangong Ruoyou's doing!
She's on the floor below!
Although I didn't sense the other person, the other person clearly sensed me!
There is no other reason.
The other party wasn't there to steal, so they had nothing to hide and weren't afraid of the ancestor's attention. They would occasionally probe with their divine sense...
"Ruoyou."
"Are you looking for a cultivation technique?"
"Let me take a look..."
Zhao Qing had searched Zhuang Han's soul and was very familiar with his way of communicating with this young lady.
When she is with someone, she is called Ruoyou. When they are traveling together, she is called Ruoyou Junior Sister. When she is traveling alone in the Nangong Clan, she is called Miss.
However, he had a slight doubt in his heart.
"Isn't it said that Nangong Ruoyou is a descendant of the Three Shrines?"
"Why at the Six Shrines?"
He whispered to Xiao Nangong.
Behind him, the Phoenix Maiden remained calm, as if she didn't care at all, and continued to follow Zhao Qing at a distance that was neither too close nor too far.
Si He raised her eyebrows slightly, already somewhat surprised and curious about this situation. She couldn't say whether something had gone wrong, but she certainly hadn't expected to run into a Golden Core cultivator.
Zhao Qing remained unperturbed, a smile on his face.
He continued deeper, his divine sense responding to the woman's movements.
soon.
Nangong Ruoyou's divine sense arrived once more.
He said in a relaxed tone, "It's alright, Senior Brother, you go ahead with your work."
"I will fetch a few jade slips for the patriarch."
"I'll take the documents from the two secret realms in the Southern Sea area with me first... and then bring them over later."
Oh……
such.
Nanxiang sea area.
Zhao Qing took a moment to note, then chuckled and replied, "Okay, just put it back in its original place when the time comes."
The jade slips here are mostly filled with complex sea charts, which are extremely inconvenient to replicate. Since he is now in Zhuang Han's position, he naturally responded in this way.
soon.
The woman's voice came again, accompanied by light footsteps, getting closer.
"Alright, Ruoyou, I'll take my leave."
In the darkness, a faint fragrance wafted in.
Nangong Youruo and Zhuang Han exchanged a glance from afar, chatted casually with smiles, and then exited the ancestral hall from another direction...
From beginning to end.
He didn't even glance at Huang Nu and Si He, completely unaware of their presence.
"call……"
Zhao Qing felt a little relieved.
Look at the posture.
Nothing's wrong at all!
Then what's the point of saying anything... get to work!
According to Zhuang Han's previous investigation in his memory sea, apart from the two jade slips that Nangong Ruoyou had just taken away, everything else was still in the depths of the scripture pavilion.
Nanxiang sea area...
Zhao Qing kept an eye on it, planning to check the news from the Southern Xiang Sea area later to see if there was anything unusual.
And in his life palace.
Xiao Nangong's expression was indifferent. Although he didn't completely disdain Nangong Ruoyou, he certainly didn't find her pleasing to the eye.
at last……
Zhao Qing had been a thief all his life.
From a remote island overseas, I somehow stumbled upon the scripture pavilion of the Nangong Clan Ancestral Hall!
This brings us to the majority of the information that the Nangong family has gathered overseas over the past two years!
Inside the library, an array of lights illuminated the space as bright as day.
Zhao Qing and his two companions strolled leisurely.
They walked straight through the main hall where cultivation techniques and supernatural powers were stored, and went deep into a circular forbidden area that resembled an underground library.
What you see!
The unique circular forbidden area is only about two zhang in circumference...
But its depth is a full ten zhang!
The walls are covered with countless niches, each containing a jade slip, which is marked with the sea area and secret realm from which it came!
"Qiguang Island Group..."
"The remains of the character '甲'..."
"Second-tier spiritual energy, the immortal path has been severed..."
“Transcribed from the spring of the third year of the Gregorian calendar by the monk Zhong Suhua, without verification or correction.”
Si He glanced at it only once.
His expression had already changed, with an unexpected and inexplicable strangeness.
After searching for it everywhere, I finally found it without any effort!
It's organized like a dictionary; you can search anywhere...
To find clues about Xiao Saolong and to investigate the true intentions of the Nangong family, just flip through the pages!
Soon, the key words...
Qianyueze, Qianyue County, Ranfu, Liang Family, Zhenghong Tongbao...
It's hard to find in the vast ocean, but it's still hard to find with a dictionary?
Unless the Nangong family hasn't been able to include it yet...
Upon seeing this, the Phoenix Maiden...
His originally indifferent and dignified expression finally showed a slight change.
A smile played on the woman's lips as she gracefully sat down at the table in the center of the forbidden area, casually flipping through several jade slips with a wave of her hand...
The trip went incredibly smoothly.
Zhao Qing was also full of anticipation. Now that he was in the ancestral hall and still a thief, he couldn't sit with Huang Nu Si He.
He went straight to the wall and started checking his own...