Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 127 Shanyin Sect

Luo Yuanying agreed. "Yes, I asked us to start investigating a few months ago, but they hid the evidence perfectly. Every time the government officials led a team to search, they couldn't find any clues. Many boys and girls sent to Shanyin Sect are missing, and most of them are from other places, so we can't verify them."

"This time they didn't even try to hide their intentions and attacked directly in the village outside the sect. Are they going to go all out and tear their relations apart?" Pei Nai deduced.

"It's about escaping." Han Ruize added.

During the half day they were talking, Gu Jinheng had taken out a piece of special paper. The divine energy of Huo Jiangyin Gong scraped across the paper and engraved the words he wanted to write.

He stuffed a roll of thin paper into a small cylindrical letter box, took out a military token, and handed them to Du Ling, "Tell the Yuezhou garrison to send 5,000 elite soldiers to encircle and suppress the Shanyin Sect!"

The military token represents the identity of Duke Duan Ding. The letter box contains his orders, which must be destroyed once opened to prevent malicious theft.

This was the adjustment made by Gu Jinheng after the incident with Ji Wei and Jiang Wentao.

"Yes!" Du Ling took the military token and the letter box and set off immediately. He handed the horse to Gu Jinheng's guards, and then walked along the road, like light dissipating, leaving only an elusive black shadow.

"How do we get to Shanyin Sect?" Pei Nai asked immediately.

Zhong Lin pointed the way: "I went to Shanyin Sect in this direction before."

"That's great! Please lead the way, Brother Zhong Lin." Pei Naiyan said, then pulled the reins and changed direction.

The crowd rode their horses along the official road, passing through the towering mountains. When they stepped out of the mountain pass, a vast scene suddenly appeared before their eyes.

An entire emerald lake is surrounded by mountains. There are five steep and towering peaks on the lake, which are independent of each other but connected by winding corridor bridges.

On top of the cliff are ancient sectarian buildings of varying heights, with arched eaves and pavilions rising from the walls, towering high in the sky, a daunting sight.

This is the location of the Shanyin Sect.

There were no boats moored on the lakeshore, only a lone boat parked in the middle of the lake not far away.

Han Ruize went ahead, jumped into the water with his light Kung Fu skills, and with the help of the small boat in the lake, he flew into the air again and soon reached the other side of the lake. He waved to everyone, indicating that the other side was safe.

Pei Nai, Gu Jinheng, Da Xian and the five guards crossed the water one after another, stepped on the small boat halfway, and then landed on the island shore under the mountain wall of Shanyin Sect.

When Daxian jumped next to Pei Nai, Pei Nai turned back in surprise: "You can do it too?"

Hearing this, Da Xi'an pretended to be angry and asked, "What do you mean I can do it too? What misunderstanding do you have about me?"

"This way!" Han Ruize shouted not far away.

Shao Liran stayed on the opposite bank to escort Da Xi Shangle, Luo Yuanying and others to prevent the enemy from attacking from the rear, while waiting for the guards to row the boat back and arrive in batches.

When Pei Nai came over, he heard the sound of the waterfall in the center of the five peaks, which was loud and loud.

After following Han Ruize and going around the mountain wall in front of us, we saw the two wrathful giant statues built on the peak in the center of Shanyin Sect. They were hideous and ferocious, like evil spirits from hell or demons.

At this moment, two giant statues of evil spirits looked down from a high place, giving people an infinite feeling of suffocation and oppression.

There were several iron chains as thick as tree trunks in the sky, crisscrossing and blocking out more than half of the light.

The sky outside is clear, but entering this place is like entering Mount Fengdu, where darkness covers the sky and oppresses one's senses.

The water of the waterfall originates from the palms of the two giants, cascading down from a great height and converging into the black stone pool in the center.

"What is that?" Daxian asked when he saw a sticky black object squeezed into a ball in the middle of the pool.

"It's a person, and he's dead." Because of his Yin Gong, Gu Jinheng could identify him from a distance.

From a distance before entering, I saw that the Shanyin Sect's buildings were simple and majestic, and the surrounding mountains and forests were dense and overgrown with lush vegetation, not much different from the orthodox large sects.

But it's clearly a cult inside!
"The Shanyin Sect has a history of more than 300 years. It was normal at the beginning. Why has it become like this in recent decades?" Pei Nai frowned and asked Gu Jinheng: "Is Huo Jiangyin Gong also related to this?"

Gu Jinheng shook his head. "Li Sanniang is learning the righteous Huo Jiangyin Kungfu, which uses self-injury to break the poison and cultivates the divine qi, not the lives of others. She couldn't stand the practices of the Shanyin Sect's leader and elders decades ago, so she left them." Pei Nai looked up at the two giant evil ghost statues, "What do they call this?"

"Fu Yin God." Gu Jinheng replied.

The sound of the water crashing down disturbed Gu Jinheng's hearing, so he stood quietly for a moment before determining where the Shanyin Sect's crowd was gathering at the moment.

The crowd walked over the splashing waves and entered the corridor stairs inside the mountain from the foot of the mountain on the opposite side.

It was dark in front of him, but Gu Jinheng could sense the danger in advance and cleared a path ahead.

After climbing up to a height of at least two floors and turning several corners and intersections, a shocking scene appeared before my eyes through the light coming through the hollow stone windows.

Countless disciples dressed in the robes of the Shanyin Sect were staring in their direction with their eyes rolled outward as if they were on the verge of death.

Pei Nai was about to pull out his spear when Gu Jinheng stopped him: "They are all dead."

Pei Nai could see clearly then that the bodies of the Shanyin Sect disciples who were sitting in several circles not far away were already stiff. Their postures were strange, with their five fingers in the shape of claws, deeply inserted into the backs of the sect members in front of them, leaving a bloody mess.

In the very center was a fire that had been extinguished for a long time, and kneeling on it were three women whose bodies had been burnt beyond recognition.

The Shanyin Sect disciples relied on deepening their suffering, transmitting and absorbing the body Qi released by the human body due to the heart-wrenching pain, ignoring their struggles, and wanted to practice evil skills.

"Eighteen people formed a large formation, but their body Qi was not flowing smoothly, causing everyone to explode and die suddenly." Gu Jinheng took a glance and knew the cause of death of everyone.

This place was already an aerial palace. Gu Jinheng pointed to the covered bridge at the other end of the building. Everyone understood what he meant and moved to the other side.

The covered bridge bends upward and leads to higher-level palaces.

As they walked, they saw a figure appearing from behind the wall in a hidden corner.

A child and his mother were huddled in a corner, not daring to say a word. The mother covered the boy's mouth, her eyes were evasive, and her body was shaking slightly.

They must be villagers kidnapped from nearby villages by the Shanyin Sect.

"What happened here just now? Did you see anyone wearing Tianyao military uniform? Or a foreigner holding a meteor hammer?" Pei Nai asked the woman.

The child's mother was frightened and had no trust in her, so she still didn't speak.

Pei Nai pointed at the Hunxi Whip on Han Ruize's waist and said, "This is the Wanyue Blood Whip. We are here to save you. Can you tell us what happened just now?"

The child's mother looked at the whip with trembling eyes and was about to speak.

When the boy heard the words "Wan Yue Blood Whip", he removed his mother's hand and said in a crisp voice, "Just now, an uncle in white clothes rescued us from the bad guys and told us to run, but we couldn't tell the way and got separated from the others, and couldn't find the exit."

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at Han Ruize and asked, "Are you Han Ruize's brother?"

Han Ruize took two steps forward and touched his head. "It's me. You guys stay inside and don't run around. Someone will come to pick you up. Remember to protect your mother."

The little boy nodded obediently.

The group continued to go deeper, and they met many children and women running around on the way, all of whom were rescued by the "man in white" and escaped.

Who was that person? They were full of doubts.

Until Gu Jinheng heard a clear voice and led them to quicken their pace.

After climbing countless steps and turning more than ten forked roads, the sound of weapons clashing came from the front.

On the way there, Pei Nai looked out through the hollow stone window at hand. This place was right behind the head of one of the giant evil ghost statues.

(End of this chapter)