Zhu Tian: A journey of spiritual practice starting from Joy of Life

Chapter 134 Searching for Lu Family Castle

"Have you checked everything?"

One of the clones complained to the other two, "I've been flying in the mountains for most of the day and haven't even spotted the Lu Family Fort. What's going on over there?"

The other two clones also shook their heads with helpless expressions.

Back then in the border stone forest, Leng Feibai's clone obtained four addresses from the Junshan Society's group of killers.

They are the Junshan Society headquarters, the Ming family in Suzhou, the leader of the Tiecha Society branch in Huizhou, Xu Jingmu, and the lord of the Lu Family Fort in Huangzhou, Lu Changsheng, whom Leng Feibai knows.

When Leng Feibai was in Northern Qi, he had already made a plan. He would use Xu Jingmu and Lu Changsheng as a breakthrough point, use the Shuangquan Hand to get information about more members of the Junshan Society from them, and then try to eliminate all the members of the Junshan Society in the territory of Qing one by one.

The five clones traveled quickly all the way and entered the Jiangnan area under false identities. Then they split into two groups and headed for Huizhou and Huangzhou.

Leng Feibai didn't know much about Lujiabao. He only knew from the memories of those killers that they had lived in a mountain range outside Huangzhou City for generations. Apart from regularly sending people to the city to purchase food and trade mountain products, he didn't know anything else.

Before entering Huangzhou, one of his clones went to Qingfeng Cottage to buy information about Lu Family Castle and Lu Changsheng.

According to the information given by Qingfeng Cottage, Lujiabao is a place that provides aid to common people and shelters refugees, and Lu Changsheng himself is a hero known as a true gentleman of the time.

But Qingfeng Cottage does not know the exact location of Lujiabao.

In desperation, the three of them had to transform into flying birds such as mountain eagles and swifts.

Circling over the mountains surrounding Huangzhou City, searching for the specific location of Lujiabao.

But the three men flew all over the mountains outside Huangzhou City and did not find any trace of Lujiabao.

Just as the three of them were thinking about whether to go to the mountain product shop in the city to inquire about the news, two large carts loaded with mountain products passed by the entrance of the alley.

The three of them looked at each other, and one of them nodded. He used Fenghou Qimen to transform himself into a hunchbacked old man with a cane, locked onto the other person's breath and chased after him.

The carriage soon stopped outside a shop in the city that purchased mountain products. Several servants came out of the yard and were busy unloading the goods.

Leng Feibai bent his body, raised his head and looked over, with golden light in his eyes.

"The carriages were loaded with mountain products like wild vegetables, walnuts, hazelnuts, rabbits, and pheasants."

After confirming the things on the carriage, Leng Feibai touched the purse at his waist and walked in slowly.

As soon as he entered, all kinds of mountain products caught his eye.

Seeing this, a steward stepped forward and asked politely, "Old man, are you looking to buy something?"

Leng Feibai said in a hoarse voice, "The master sent me here to buy three pounds of walnuts and two pounds of hazelnuts. Please hurry up."

The steward looked Leng Feibai up and down and said in a bad tone, "The old man looks unfamiliar. Isn't he from Huangzhou?"

"of course not."

Leng Feibai continued, "We came to Jiangnan from Xuzhou for a tour. The young master was craving walnuts and hazelnuts at the inn, so the master asked me to come and buy some."

The steward didn't doubt anything after hearing this. He turned around and shouted, "Three pounds of walnuts and two pounds of hazelnuts. Pack them up quickly."

Seeing this, Leng Feibai walked over to the guy who was packing things and started talking to him.

"This walnut is good, quite big, but I don't know what the kernel inside is like."

When the clerk heard this, he patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, old man. The mountain products in our store are all sent by people from Lujiabao. Over the years, there has never been any problem with the mountain products they sent."

"Lu Family Castle!"

Leng Feibai pretended to be confused and said, "I've never heard of him. I guess he's just some unknown person."

The waiter, a simple-minded man, immediately refuted after hearing this, "That's because the Lu Family Fort has been secluded in the mountains for many years and has no contact with the outside world. The large cart outside the gate is what the Lu Family Fort uses to transport mountain products."

Leng Feibai said nothing after hearing this. He took the wrapped walnuts and hazelnuts, paid the money and left the mountain goods store.

"Those two large carts are indeed used by Lujiabao to transport mountain products."

As Leng Feibai walked, he sent a message to his two clones hiding in the shadows, while sensing the shop assistants chasing him from behind. "I'm being followed by someone from the shop. You two should follow them immediately and find the exact location of Lu Family Fort. We'll start tonight."

After Leng Feibai finished speaking, he still walked into an alley nearby with the gait of an elderly person.

Seeing this, the errand boy of the mountain goods store hurriedly chased after him, but after chasing in the alley for a while, he could not find the old man.

At the same time, the other two clones staying in the dark also used Fenghou Qimen to transform into ordinary birds and chased the two carts out of the city.

After speeding all the way, the two clones followed the cart to the mountains thirty miles west of the city.

The cart stopped immediately, and a man dressed as a farmer jumped off the cart. He walked to a small temple about the height of a leg near the mountain, took out four silver incense sticks, and inserted them into the incense burner.

"click"

The sound of a mechanism locking was heard, and a huge rock on the mountain slowly rose up, revealing a cave that could accommodate three people side by side.

"There's actually a mechanism, it's hidden quite secretly."

The two clones secretly complained and flew into the cave with the cart.

Anyway, these two clones have 70% of Leng Feibai's strength, so even if there is a net of heaven and earth in front of them, they can tear it apart.

The cave was very cold. Looking carefully, one could find that there was an ice jar placed every forty meters or so. Inside the ice jars were many ice cubes, and buried in the innermost part was a night-shining pearl the size of a pigeon egg for lighting.

"hiss"

The two clones couldn't help but gasp, wondering how rich the people in Lujiabao were to be so extravagant as to use night pearls for lighting.

The winding cave is about 30,000 meters long.

When they reached the end of the cave, a ray of golden sunlight appeared in their eyes.

When the clone flew out of the cave, it arrived at a place with green mountains and the sun was setting in the west.

The two clones found a nearby branch and landed on it, looking at each other in disbelief.

No wonder they searched all the mountains near Huangzhou but couldn't find the location of Lujiabao. They didn't expect that the territory of Huangzhou in the drama was so far away.

The two of them quickly sent a message to the third clone who stayed in Huangzhou, and continued to chase the convoy in the direction it left.

Not long after they flew out, a fortress consisting of multiple villages and gardens appeared in their eyes.

If you ask the two of them to comment on it, the layout here is a bit like the Wohu Mountain in Zuoshan Diao.

The public security of Lujiabao is guarded by five large mountain strongholds on the periphery, followed by several gardens of about five or six acres in area, which are used to grow and raise various mountain products.

Looking further inside, there is a large and densely populated manor.

"It's hard to deal with!"

The two clones looked at each other and prepared to find a tongue at night, extract his memory to determine Lu Changsheng's appearance and his location and then make plans.

The sun sets in the west and the cold moon rises in the east, but Lujiabao is illuminated by many candles, and the entire Lujiabao is as bright as day.

“Is this place so rich?”

The three clones looked at the manor in front of them and couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"Whether it's the Nanqing Imperial Palace or the Northern Qi Shangjing City, I've never seen them light so many candles so late at night!"

Another clone continued, "But it's so bright, I'm afraid it's going to be hard for us to sneak in. Looks like we can only use the invisibility talisman!"

After hearing this, the clone frowned slightly and said, "Of course we can, but don't forget that we are not the original body after all. The effect of using the talismans drawn by the Tongtian Talisman will definitely be greatly reduced. We must withdraw quickly to avoid alerting the enemy!"

"Then set the time to within a quarter of an hour!"

The third clone said seriously, "How about this, I'll go in and take a look first. Once I find out what I want, you two can come in and help me."

(End of this chapter)