In front of Mu Qingyao's eyes was a jade wall more than ten feet long.
It is three feet high, like a magnificent mural.
There are mysterious patterns carved on the stone walls.
Mu Qingyao carefully identified it and quickly saw the whole picture.
That's a painting.
There are clouds in the sky and mountains and lakes on the ground.
In addition to the scenery, there are five people in the painting, or five mysterious strong men.
Four of them are suspended in mid-air.
They are a Thousand-Armed Jade Buddha, a short-haired Taoist with a sword hanging behind his back, a long-sleeved Confucian scholar holding a scroll, and a weirdo with three heads and six arms.
There is only one person painted on the ground.
A warrior holding a single sword, his body was thin, but his eyes were always looking at the top of his head, and the sword in his hand was pointing straight into the air!
This huge mural gave Mu Qingyao an indescribable shock!
With Mu Qingyao's knowledge, he could see the meaning of the painting at a glance.
The five people in the mural represent the five cultivation systems in the world.
The Thousand-Hand Jade Buddha represents Buddhism, the short-haired Taoist represents Taoism, the long-sleeved Confucian scholar represents Confucian scholars, and the weirdo with three heads and six arms represents witchcraft.
The people on the ground are warriors despised by practitioners from all walks of life!
The most despised martial artist in the world, the being at the bottom of the chain that practitioners despise, actually fights four in a mural!
It can be seen from the mural that the four figures in the sky are by no means ordinary practitioners.
Mu Qingyao really couldn't imagine the situation in which four strong men joined forces to deal with a martial artist.
This goes beyond the laws of the spiritual world!
Yun Que raised his head and looked at the jade wall, saying:
"I stumbled across this place last year when I was chasing that pile of sand. The princess is very knowledgeable and can help me identify it."
Mu Qingyao suppressed the shock in her heart and said:
"I have never seen this kind of scroll. There are many paintings left in the Imperial Palace of the Jin Dynasty, and there are also many from the previous dynasty. But judging from the style of painting, it is not from the Jin and Yan periods. This style of painting is very old, and the carvings are His skills are extremely exquisite, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a master of craftsmanship.”
"My guess is that this mural is a remnant from an even more ancient period than the Yan Kingdom, and is the work of many great craftsmen."
"The five strong men depicted on the mural may be related to the secrets of some kind of cultivation world. The warriors on the ground can actually fight one against four without losing. It shows that the warriors are by no means as weak as the world's practitioners imagine."
Mu Qingyao's eyes lingered behind the warrior on the mural.
In the blank space behind the warrior, there is a strange vertical pupil carved, which is twice as big as the warrior's body. It is very weird and gives people a strange feeling.
"As for what this vertical pupil represents, I can't see..."
Mu Qingyao frowned slightly and fell silent after expressing her opinion.
She vaguely felt that there was something evil about those vertical pupils, which made her uncomfortable after looking at them for a long time. She felt like she was being stared at by a poisonous snake.
Boom, boom, boom.
Yun Que knocked on the stone wall and said:
"I'm afraid the princess has misunderstood. I'm not interested in what I drew. I just want to know if this thing is worth anything."
"Priceless treasure." Mu Qingyao made a dumbfounding comment.
Yun Que rubbed his hands happily and said:
"In this case, I am not a stingy person. I have a share. Each of us will get half of it, and we will dig it out and share it equally! This thing is buried too deep, and the excavation project is too big. I really can't get it by myself. If it weren't for chopping If it doesn’t move, it has already been cut into pieces and taken out.”
Mu Qingyao was helpless after hearing this and could only smile bitterly.
Yun Que's plan was no less than cutting up famous people's calligraphy and paintings into pieces and selling scrap paper.
Such a priceless gift from heaven, to think of cutting it into pieces and taking it away is really a waste of nature.
What’s even more outrageous is that they actually chopped it!
After thinking about it, Mu Qingyao felt relieved again.
How is it different from being worthless to guard a treasure mountain without being able to take it away?
Mu Qingyao understood Yun Que's thoughts.
After all, martial arts training consumes a lot of money. If you want to achieve success, you must rely on the accumulation of a large number of heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
"I can start this matter when I return to the imperial city. I will send people to cooperate with you to dig out this jade wall."
Mu Qingyao smiled and said: "As for the value, it all belongs to you, I don't want any of it."
"It's better to add two to one and make five. I don't want to take the risk of sending you back to the imperial city for half a jade stone wall. If the princess dies on the way, I can find other people to cooperate. Although I am greedy for money, I am even more greedy for life. "Yun Que said.
"Okay, whatever, I'd like to take a closer look at the painting."
Mu Qingyao was not disappointed. She knew that Yun Que would not be fooled by this little trick.
Taking the torch from Yun Que, Mu Qingyao approached the stone wall and carefully looked at the characters on the mural.
The warrior on the ground could tell that he was a young man. He was carved vividly and his appearance was very unfamiliar.
However, when Mu Qingyao focused the light of the torch on the top, Princess Lingyun's expression changed little by little.
From calm, to inexplicable surprise!
"This is... Confucian Sage!"
Mu Qingyao exclaimed out of control, and the arm holding the torch trembled subconsciously.
Mu Qingyao finally recognized it.
Among the four figures in the sky, the long-sleeved Confucian scholar holding a scroll is the legendary sage of Confucianism and Taoism, the founder of Confucianism!
The reason why they can be recognized is because both in the Star Observation Tower of Si Tianjian and the Confucian Hall of Tianqi Academy, there are statues of Confucian saints enshrined.
The long-sleeved Confucian scholar in the mural is the same as the statue of the Confucian sage in both shape and appearance!
Before, she was far away and the surroundings were too dark, so Mu Qingyao couldn't see it for a while, but now that she was closer, she was sure of it immediately.
The Confucian scholars in the painting are Confucian sages!
"The one holding the book is a Confucian sage?" Yun Que asked.
"You can't be wrong. I have seen statues of Confucian saints many times in the academy."
Mu Qingyao's mood was ups and downs at this moment, and she said in surprise: "If one of them is a Confucian saint, then the Thousand-Armed Jade Buddha should represent the Buddha! The short-haired Taoist is the Taoist, and the three weirdos are the witch gods!"
Characters who can appear in the same mural must have the same status.
"The Confucian Sage, the Buddha, the Taoist Master, and the Witch God can make four powerful men who are beyond the first level join forces to defeat him..." Mu Qingyao looked at the warrior on the ground solemnly, and said to herself: "Who is he? "
The world's cultivation system ranges from the ninth level to the first level. This has been the law in the world of cultivation for thousands of years.
However, there are several legendary level experts who have broken through the constraints of this system and reached a level beyond the first level.
Above the first level of Taoism is Tao Zun!
Above the first level of Buddhism is the Buddha!
Above the first level of Confucianism is the Confucian Sage!
Above the first level of witchcraft, there is the witch god!
As for warriors above the first level, there is no record left in the practice world, only a blank.
There are extremely powerful people in various cultivation systems. Even the demon clan has people who are stronger than the first level. Only martial arts, the first level is the highest.
This is one of the reasons why warriors are often despised.
But this jade mural deep underground broke the law that the spiritual world had adhered to for thousands of years.
Mu Qingyao said in surprise:
"It turns out that among warriors, there are existences beyond the first rank! The secret contained in this painting may be more valuable than itself!"
Yun Que said nothing, looking at the warrior in the painting with somewhat complicated eyes.
What he is looking at is not the warrior himself, but the vertical pupil behind the warrior.
"Maybe someone painted it blindly. Do you believe this? I can also draw an old hen that can kill immortals and gods." Yun Que said.
Although it was said in a vulgar way, Mu Qingyao felt that it made some sense.
After all, it is just a jade painting, and the content on it comes from the sculptor and cannot be judged as the truth.
"Let's go. We'll talk about it later when we are short of money."
Yun Que took the torch and left the stone wall with the little princess and walked back.
As the fire light faded away, the stone wall was once again engulfed in darkness.
in the darkness,
The vertical pupil on the stone wall swayed silently, and gradually shrank, staring at the retreating figures of the two men like living creatures.
While walking, Mu Qingyao suddenly felt that the hairs all over her body stood on end!
A huge feeling of fear suddenly enveloped me, as if I was being stared at by an evil dragon, making it difficult to move.
Mu Qingyao had never experienced this terrible feeling in her life. She was frozen in place, her body trembling with fear.
Mu Qingyao even felt that she was about to be swallowed by an invisible mouth!
It wasn't until her trembling little hand was grasped by Yun Que's big hand that Mu Qingyao returned to normal.
Mu Qingyao did not dare to look back and allowed herself to be led away from the grotto by Yun Que.
As the sand-solidified boulders closed together, this mysterious underground grotto was sealed again.
When she walked out of the mine and breathed in the fresh air from the ground, Mu Qingyao felt as if she had escaped from death and been reborn.
It was completely dark.
The bright moon hangs high.
Yun Que's expression became solemn and he said:
"As expected, you also felt it. You just discovered something."
Mu Qingyao: "It turns out that what you asked me to see was not the content of the mural, but the stone wall itself. When I left just now, a terrible feeling suddenly came over me. In front of that terrible feeling, I felt as small as an ant. "
Yun Que said: "That stone wall is alive."
Mu Qingyao: "There is no breath of living things in the jade, and there are no signs of spirits wandering around. It doesn't look like living things."
Yun Que said: "It's not that there are living things in the jade, but that the whole jade is alive, or it is a special thing between living things and dead things. I can't say what it is specifically, but last year The pile of sand that I chopped to death must be related to the stone wall."
Mu Qingyao: "The sand is stone, could it be that the weird living sand comes from the jade wall!"
Yun Que said: "It's possible. Keep the Shibi matter a secret for me. You'd better not come by yourself, otherwise I won't guarantee that you can leave alive."
Mu Qingyao: "Don't worry about this. I won't covet your things, let alone publicize them outside. How do you plan to deal with the jade wall? Keep it, or dig it out if you have the opportunity in the future."
Yun Que said: "Keep it for now and wait until there is no more money."
Mu Qingyao: "My advice is to stay away. I have only seen the feeling just now in my life. Even Master Jianzheng doesn't have such a frightening aura. The jade stone wall is very dangerous, no! It should be said to be extremely dangerous!"
Yun Que said: "We poor people have a low life. If we are about to starve to death, even if the gods and Buddhas show up, we will have to go up and take a bite, let alone a jade wall."
Mu Qingyao was stunned, unable to refute Yun Que's statement.
Yun Que is always so straightforward.
Vulgar survival wisdom.
When you are alive, you have everything; when you die, everything is empty.
It's late at night.
After returning home, Yun Que fell directly on the bed, holding the knife, facing inward, yawning and saying:
"If the princess finds it inconvenient, you can pay and stay in an inn."
Mu Qingyao looked at the only wooden bed in the room, hesitated for a moment, and then lay down on the outside with her clothes on.
Looking at the bright moon through the window lattice, the little princess could not fall asleep for a long time.
"You recognize the painting on the ground, right? You know that it shows Confucianism, Taoism, Buddha, and the witch god." Mu Qingyao said.
"Can you tell?" Yun Que asked.
"Well, because when I mentioned Confucian Sage, although you were surprised, the level of shock in your expression was far from enough." Mu Qingyao said.
"It's powerful enough to be able to see spirits, and you can also peer into people's hearts. A woman who is too powerful will be careful not to get married in the future." Yun Que said.
"I'm not as powerful as you think. I also have times when I'm weak. I'm just used to being strong... Yun Que, do you recognize who the warrior in the painting is? I'm very curious about his origins." Mu Qingyao said.
