Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 130 Jin Taiyuan
The older girl was slightly surprised to see Yang Zhong, and then she suddenly realized, "So Brother Yang is here too."

"Do you know each other?" Chen Baxian looked at Yang Zhong, then at the woman. The two seemed to be in a superior-subordinate relationship.

"Yes." Yang Zhong nodded, knowing that his identity as a traitor had been exposed. He immediately thought about the pros and cons and made up his mind, "This is the lady Lingzhi, the fortune teller of our Gou Chen Division."

Ren Yuan and Chen Baxian's pupils shrank immediately.

"My surname is Chen." The Lingzhi girl was not annoyed when her identity was revealed. She said calmly, "You three are Master Ren, Master Chen, and the little master from the Sutra Translation Institute, right?"

The atmosphere on the boat suddenly froze.

"That's right." Ren Yuan and Chen Baxian were also calm and nodded calmly. The latter smiled and said, "We were one family five hundred years ago."

Faxiu knew that he couldn't escape, so he said bluntly: "I have a name, my name is Faxiu."

"Don't be nervous, everyone. We are in a dream now. The Gou Chen Division is looking for you in reality, so what does it have to do with the dream?" Chen Lingzhi smiled gently and said, "Besides, this boat should be a powerful magic weapon. We are two weak women, and we can still recognize our situation."

"Okay." Ren Yuan nodded: "Miss Chen is a smart person, we like to deal with smart people."

"Me too." Chen Lingzhi smiled and said, "This boat should be able to help people like us get rid of nightmares, right?"

"How do you know?" the little monk asked curiously.

"Stupid, this is no different from a monk's head of lice - it's obvious." Chen Baxian knocked him on the head and said softly, "It's been a few days since the translation of the Sutra Academy, and you're still on the boat."

"Miss Chen is right. As long as you don't get off the boat, you will go directly to the boat every night in your dreams, and you won't have to suffer the torture of recurring nightmares anymore." Ren Yuan also admitted generously: "I can also allow you to stay on the boat."

"What conditions do you need?" Chen Lingzhi asked, "Like Brother Yang, I will help you escape our pursuit?"

Yang Zhong's old face turned red, and he was so embarrassed that his toes could have dug through the deck.

"No need." Ren Yuan said, "Just promise to protect Brother Yang after you return to reality and don't let him get hurt because of our affairs."

"Brother." Yang Zhong looked at Ren Yuan gratefully and whispered, "Change the conditions. You don't know how capable Miss Lingzhi is. It's not worth using it on me."

"Brother Yang, you are too kind." Chen Lingzhi said frankly: "It's just that there are too many people who owe me favors. In fact, most people owe it to my father..."

Then he asked Ren Yuan: "Do you need to change the conditions?"

"No need." Ren Yuan didn't hesitate at all.

"My eldest sister, there are two of you, so there must be two conditions." Chen Baxian interrupted.

"That makes sense." Chen Lingzhi nodded and said with a friendly smile, "Then let our eldest brother propose this condition."

"Help us find a sword master." Chen Baxian said without hesitation.

"This really stumps me." Chen Lingzhi frowned slightly when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he asked the little girl behind him, "Do you know?"

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl shook her head and said crisply, "Ever since Emperor Gao of Qi, Xiao Daocheng, searched for magic swords all over the world forty years ago and failed to refine the Emperor's Sword, sword cultivation has been extinct."

"You can't find any?" Chen Baxian asked unwillingly. "You, don't you understand what I'm saying?" The rude girl was indeed rude.

"Hey, don't be so absolute." Chen Lingzhi shook his head and said to everyone, "Wait a moment, I'll tell you a fortune."

After that, he performed a number with his sleeves, pondered for a long time, and then said: "This number is very strange. In the past, divination may get the name of a person or a place. This time, I only got four words - Jin Taiyuanzhong."

"During the Taiyuan Period of the Jin Dynasty, that was more than a hundred years ago, and the world was still ruled by the Sima family." Chen Baxian asked, "Does that mean that sword cultivators only appeared more than a hundred years ago?"

"I just said that sword cultivators became extinct forty years ago!" The little girl retorted, "Sister, do you want to recalculate it again?"

"The principles of yin and yang have their own destiny, how can it be inaccurate?" Chen Lingzhi shook his head and said, "It's just that the secrets of heaven have always been like this, and you still need to comprehend it yourself."

"I know what it means." Ren Yuan thought for a while, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "During the Taiyuan period of the Jin Dynasty, people in Wuling made a living by fishing..."

"Walking along the stream, I forgot how far I had gone, and suddenly I came across a peach blossom forest." Chen Lingzhi's eyes lit up and he said, "Peach Blossom Spring, the sword cultivator you are looking for is in Peach Blossom Spring!"

"What is Peach Blossom Spring?" Chen Baxian had not read enough books after all, so he was confused. Yang Zhong was no exception.

The young monk Faxiu took the opportunity to show off: "They are talking about an article by Mr. Wu Liu, Tao Yuanming, called "Peach Blossom Spring", and the first four words are 'Jin Taiyuan period'."

"Well, I'll look for it later." Chen Baxian felt embarrassed.

"No need, I can recite it to you." Faxiu said, and then recited "Peach Blossom Spring" aloud.

The beautiful words brought everyone into that paradise. They all stopped talking and listened attentively to the little monk reciting.

"…When he arrived at the county, he went to the governor and told him what had happened. The governor immediately sent people to follow him and search for the place he had marked, but they got lost and could not find the way." The article was not long, and Faxiu recited it to the end quickly:
"Liu Ziji of Nanyang was a noble man. Hearing about this, he was delighted to go there. But he failed and died of illness soon after. No one asked about his visit since then."

After hearing this regretful ending, Chen Baxian was silent for a long time before asking, "Has no one ever found the Peach Blossom Spring again?"

"Many, many people have searched for it, and all of them have come to the same conclusion as Liu Ziji." Chen Lingzhi sighed regretfully, "To be honest, I have also used divination to search for it before, but to no avail."

But just in case, Chen Lingzhi still started the lesson again on the spot, silently calculating for a long time, and then shook his head and said, "It's still the same."

"The Peach Blossom Spring is so mysterious, there must be a way to it." Ren Yuan said happily: "I thought it was just a legend before, but now it seems that it really exists. Now we finally have a target."

"Are you planning to go look for the Peach Blossom Spring?" Chen Lingzhi was fascinated and said, "It's a pity that I can't leave the capital, otherwise I really want to join."

"It's okay, we will report the progress to you every night." Chen Baxian said with a smile.

"I'm really looking forward to it." Chen Lingzhi smiled brightly and reminded them, "Although the Wuling area where the Peach Blossom Spring is located is still the territory of Daliang, it is not the sphere of influence of our Gou Chen Division. It will be difficult for me to help you there."

"It's okay. We will feel more comfortable that way." Chen Baxian said with a smile, "I have been worried every day recently and I can't sleep well."

"I will continue to hunt you down." Yang Zhong said at this time.

"Good brother!" Chen Baxian patted his shoulder hard. Of course, everyone understood what Yang Zhong meant.

(End of this chapter)