When we entered, the sky was clear and the night was white, but when everyone came out, the night was already dark.
Dots of starlight support the bright moon in the center, casting a faint light down.
Li Jing sat on the bluestone steps under the stone statue, holding the ancient book brought up from below, and glanced at the people surrounding him.
"This is the reason why Twelve Cave is a refuge from the world..."
Chi Meng suddenly realized it and patted the stone statue behind Li Jing with his hand: "So, this stone man is the Li Chunfeng you mentioned?"
Li Jing nodded, stood up and looked at the headless stone statue, looking thoughtful.
"During the Zhenguan period, Li Chunfeng was appointed by Emperor Taizong as a general minister as a Taoist priest, and he was appointed as Taishi Cheng. He was in charge of the sun and moon divination in the sky for forty years... At that time, Twelve Dongs wanted to cause military disaster to avenge Maple Leaf's humiliation, but Li Chunfeng was A word of dissuasion..."
"He is truly a man of God..."
But when I come to this world, it can be considered that I have disturbed the secret of heaven...
"Little Guoguo, is this Li talking about you? Do you have anything to do with Li Chunfeng?"
Li Jing put her hands between her thighs and looked at the empress with stern eyes. Knowing that she also thought of the man named Li as him, she pondered for a moment: "Maybe it's me... But no matter who it is, this clue is indeed He left it to us, let’s find Twelve Cave first.”
Chi Meng took the ancient book in Li Jing's hand and opened it backwards.
"Then the flowers falling into the water are traced, the beautiful flowers are bound in the clouds, the moon is dominated by thousands of black flowers and pink daisies, and the empty door moves through the twelve palaces... What does it mean?"
The empress withdrew her eyes from Li Jing, frowned and looked at the ancient book in Chi Meng's hand: "Didn't it say that the hexagram is in the south? How about we go all the way to the south to find it?"
Li Jing hissed, a little worried.
In the anime, Li Xingyun was able to decipher this meaningless sentence after learning "Yi Si Zhan". He knew nothing about this divination. He only knew that this Qianwu should be the Luohua Cave girl...
The Girl from the Luohua Cave?
Li Jing's eyes lit up, and she turned to look at Hou Qing, who had been deep in thought, and called out: "Zizu, when you went to search for Twelve Cave, did you find a place full of women?"
Hou Qing was stunned for a moment, then carefully patted his palms with the bone flute.
"There was such a place once, but I thought women were troublesome, so I didn't look for it anymore."
Li Jing laughed, took the ancient book, and pointed at the words on it: "Qianwu Fendai dominates the moon. This Qianwu should be the woman from that place, the Luohua Cave Girl!"
Chi Meng was surprised and said: "Girls in the Luohua Cave, isn't it the story that my father told me before? It is said that there is a group of female dolls who live in seclusion in the world and are silently waiting for the gods they believe in to marry them. ..I always thought it was a legend!”
Hou Qing was stunned for a moment, and curiously took the ancient book from Li Jing's hand: "Back then, I secretly searched for the Twelve Cave, and all the clues pointed to a place called Huagu. However, because it was across from the Luohua Cave, I didn't look for it again. Go down. From this point of view, it is really possible that it is behind..."
The empress glanced at Li Jing suspiciously, refrained from speaking, looked at Hou Qing and asked, "Then do you remember where you are?"
Hou Qing pointed his bone flute towards the south.
"The southern boundary of the Miao territory...but it may take some time to get there from here."
Chi Meng stood up from the steps happily and said excitedly: "Then let's set off quickly! If we find this Luohua Cave girl, we can enter the Twelve Cave!"
Li Jing nodded and put the sword box aside again.
"Then let's set off..."
Chi Meng cheered and ran ahead, the mottled starlight shining on her brisk figure.
Hou Qing played the bone flute and followed slowly, lowering his head and wondering what he was thinking.
Looking at the backs of several people, Li Jing was just about to put the ancient book in his arms and follow him. An inexplicable breeze blew over, and the ancient book placed on the bluestone table began to flip through, and finally stopped at the page with the hexagrams written on it. This is the last page of this ancient book.
Li Jing frowned and bent down to pick it up, but saw that the page of the book was slowly turned backwards.
Li Jing's fingertips just touched the page and froze in place.
"The word Jing, the five elements of fire, the light of beautiful jade."
"Those who are famous can win the crown if they are humble; if they stand up after being broken, they can turn the world upside down..."
"Written by divination in the ninth year of Zhenguan."
This extra white page in the ancient book seems to be rooted in the original. The same yellowed page trembles slightly in the wind, but the writing on it is still clearly visible.
The empress walking in front paused, turned around, and frowned slightly: "What's wrong?"
Li Jing's palm covered the pages of the book, then picked it up and put it into his arms.
"It's okay, I was blinded by the wind, let's go, let's go, there are still several days to go..."
Walking to the side of the empress, Li Jing found that the empress was still looking at him up and down with a frown, and couldn't help but said happily: "What an expression, there are so many people named Li, we just happened to find them... Maybe it's left to Li Xingyun Well...he, Li Chunfeng, is not a god."
The empress shook her head gently, and the expression on her face turned gentle: "I believe it's you."
Li Jing chuckled, took the empress' hand, and entangled his fingers with her green jade fingers.
"That would be me..."
The empress' body stiffened, and a blush appeared on her originally cold face. Her eyes glanced at the two figures in front of her, but the hand she was holding did not pull away.
With a smile on her face, Li Jing pulled her forward and followed the two people in front of her.
And where the empress couldn't see her, Li Jing's back was already soaked with cold sweat.
Under the moonlight, the headless stone statue still stood quietly.
…
In the beautiful fields of Qianmo, farmers are quietly tending to the water seeds.
Yellow hair hanging down, happy in oneself, tall bamboo buildings, small streams flowing...
The further south you go, the more fascinating the scenes you see become. Even Chi Meng, who grew up in the Miao border, has rarely seen such pastoral scenery.
Several people traveled under the stars and night, and spent two days before entering this land and water.
"Is this the Peach Blossom Land my mother talked about?"
Amid Chi Meng's sigh, Hou Qing looked at everyone with a serious face: "Only if a person can act like Senior Chunfeng, this life is not wasted...Brother Li, can the bad handsome guy you mentioned really know how to tell fortunes?"
Chi Meng covered his face and sighed.
"Zizu, you've said it so many times in the past two days! That bad handsome man is a bad person. Do you really want to learn fortune-telling from him?"
Li Jing smiled and said: "His hexagram skills should be the best in the world now. If you can let him teach you, you can also know what will happen in the next five hundred years."
Hou Qing put the bone flute into his waist and shook his head seriously: "Forget it, it's no challenge to find the best in the world to learn hexagrams. If you can learn hexagrams by yourself and then compete with bad guys, that will be good enough."
Li Jing laughed loudly, then looked forward, and patches of fiery red gradually appeared in his eyes.
"Maple Leaf Forest, here we are..."
Hou Qing nodded and pointed forward with his hand: "Go through here, where the group of women are staying."
"Luohua Cave."
