The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 68 A sudden turn of events
Wu Chengyu was in a daze, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind. When he came to his senses, the boat had already arrived at Yanziwu.

The area of ​​Yanziwu is nearly half the size of the Wang family’s island, and there are many more buildings on the island, but they are all ruins.

Wu Chengyu walked silently on the island. He used the same trick again, reconstructing a three-dimensional map every hundred meters, measuring the entire island bit by bit.

However, as he had taken most of the island and still found nothing, Wu Chengyu became increasingly depressed. Although he still held onto some hope, when hope was about to turn into a luxury fantasy, he could not help but feel discouraged.

Along the way, he didn't find anything valuable. Occasionally, he found a dilapidated kitchen. The kitchen utensils left in it, although worn out, were obviously arranged neatly at first, without any sign of panic as if they had been moved out in a hurry.

The same is true for other rooms. Although there are some things left, they are all useless things abandoned here. All other useful things should have been taken away neatly.

Just as Wu Chengyu had initially expected, the people of Murong's family should have moved out of here in a planned manner, taking away everything that should be taken away, not even thinking about the martial arts secrets.

It would be fine if they suddenly encountered a powerful enemy and moved away in a hurry, but if that were the case, the good things would have been looted. Why would they wait for Wu Chengyu to pick up the spoils?

After walking a few more steps, I thought I had found the Huanshi Water Pavilion. The building was well preserved, at least the roof and walls were intact. The walls were tall and thick, and were made of basalt.

I think the Murong family invested some money in building this place, but unfortunately when I looked in through the window, there were only empty frames inside.

Wu Chengyu did not rush in. He first formed the layout of the Huanshi Water Pavilion in his mind. After observing for a moment, he bent down, picked up a few stones, and shot them one by one with the technique of hidden weapons. The stones hit the water pavilion, and there were more than a dozen sounds of mechanisms clicking.

The next moment, sharp arrows shot out from several directions in the water pavilion. There were also some places that made creaking sounds and then there was no movement for a while. The mechanism inside had failed.

After all the mechanisms had been activated, Wu Chengyu stepped in.

He casually looked around the corners and found nothing, then found some clues from the three-dimensional picture.

He walked to the bookshelf on the east side of the water pavilion and bent over to look for a mechanism around it. He tried several but none of them worked. Finally, he looked at the supporting legs under the bookshelf.

This supporting leg was slightly thicker than the other three. He reached out and touched it, exerting force with his wrist. After some effort, the outer circle of the middle section of the supporting leg finally began to rotate. From somewhere in the water pavilion came the sound of mechanisms turning, and then a hole appeared on the floor in the southeast corner of the water pavilion, large enough for one person to enter and exit.

There was indeed a secret room here. Wu Chengyu stood at the entrance of the secret room, waited for the foul air in the secret room to dissipate, and then bent down and went in.

The secret room was not small. After exploring, there was no mechanism. There was no bookshelf, only a table against the wall. Unfortunately, Wu Chengyu's last hope was finally dashed.

The table was empty. There was no wooden box that would reveal the secret book of Dou Zhuan Xing Yi when opened, and the things in the secret room had been emptied long ago.

The entire secret room was now filled with dust and only eight large characters carved on the wall: Treat others as you would like to be treated.

The eight characters were written in a very domineering manner. This should be the last echo of the Murong family's dominance in the martial arts world. However, it is of no use to Wu Chengyu.

Wu Chengyu crawled out of the secret room and left the Huanshi Water Pavilion. The only corner left in the entire Yanziwu was the northwest corner he had not set foot on. He knew it was useless to go there, but perhaps he was still unwilling to give up, so his feet unconsciously walked towards that side.

This place looks like it used to be a cemetery. When Murong Bo faked his death, he placed his grave here. I don’t know how many time travelers have come here to dig graves.

The wind and rain always wash away the glory. This place should have been the burial place of countless generations of ambitious people from the Murong family. No matter how many ambitions and schemes they had, they were eventually buried in the yellow earth. But to Wu Chengyu's surprise, all the tombs in front of him had been dug up long ago.

All the tombs are empty. Judging from the situation at the scene, they were not dug up maliciously. There are no scattered bones, and it seems more like the graves were moved.

Wu Chengyu shook his head and sighed. When the Murong family moved away, they really moved away cleanly without leaving any regrets. This treasure hunt ended in failure.

He placed the failed scholar in his hand in front of a grave. Since he was in someone else's cemetery, he wanted to pay some tribute to him.

It seems that the Murong family moved away in a planned manner for some reason and completely left Yanziwu and even Gusu. The name of Murong family has not been seen for a hundred years. I think they changed their name.

At this point, the clues have been completely cut off. Wu Chengyu has no illusions about the passage of time. In such a big world, where can he find the trace of the Murong family? Unless a master suddenly appears in the world and uses the same method on them.

Things had come to this point, and there was no point in staying any longer. Wu Chengyu said goodbye to the only remaining tombstone here and turned to leave, but when his peripheral vision caught sight of it, he stopped again.

All the tombstones here were facing up, with dozens of people buried there. Wu Chengyu didn't bother to check which tombstone belonged to Murong Bo and which one belonged to Murong Fu. Only the tombstone on his left was facing up. However, the things engraved on the tombstone looked very familiar to Wu Chengyu.

He took a few steps closer and reached out to brush away the dust on the tombstone. A red deer appeared in Wu Chengyu's eyes. It had the same shape, the same branch-like antlers, and even the posture and the direction its eyes were looking were the same, just like the jade plaque left by his mother Mu Qingyin.

Wu Chengyu pondered for a moment, turned around and turned over the other tombstones around him one by one. Sure enough, the same sika deer was carved on the back of each tombstone.

At this moment, Wu Chengyu's heart was struck by lightning and thunder, and he was shocked on the spot.

The Murong family is a descendant of the Xianbei, a nomadic people of that time.

In ancient China, every nomadic people had its own totem. If Wu Chengyu remembered correctly, the totem of the Xianbei people seemed to be the red deer.

When Wu Chengyu saw Mu Qingyin's jade pendant, he didn't think much about it. He just thought it was a bit strange that a red deer appeared on the jade pendant. Generally, carved jade ornaments mostly used sika deer, which was more auspicious. But now he had to think about it.

Could it be that the "Mu" in Mu Qingyin is the same as the "Mu" in Murong, and the mother of this body is the descendant of Murong that he has been looking for?

So Wu Chengyu can be considered a descendant of Murong and has Xianbei blood in her body?
Just now you entered a treasure trove but came back empty-handed, and now you are in a treasure trove without even realizing it?

At this moment, Wu Chengyu suddenly hated those time travelers who ran to Yanziwu to search for secret books. It turned out that all you took were my things.

Ever since he got Mu Qingyin's inheritance, Wu Chengyu knew that his mother's family was definitely extraordinary, but without any other evidence, he just thought that it was pointless to investigate since the person was dead.

Now it seems that if Mu Qingyin is a descendant of the Murong family, and according to Wu Chengyu's memory, the entire Mu family has no descendants, then the jade token is the only clue to finding the Murong family's martial arts.

What is a twist of fate? What is there is always a way out? At this moment, Wu Chengyu could not think of these adjectives at all. He just wanted to go home immediately and study Mu Qingyin's relics again, or rather, Murong Qingyin's relics.

In fact, I admire the readers very much. When I was writing about Mu Qingyin, a reader left a message asking if Mu was the Mu of Murong. I deliberately did not reply to him at that time. I did not want to lie to him but I could not tell the truth because I had already planned it in my mind. I would give Wu Chengyu two major sources of martial arts, one is Quan Xing and the other is Murong's family. After all, the others are too far away and there are too many variables.

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