Xiang Nan immediately rode to Tianshan Mountain.
After traveling day and night for half a month, we finally arrived at the foot of Tianshan Mountain.
However, the Tianshan Mountains are five thousand miles long from east to west and six hundred miles wide from north to south on average. They are the largest independent latitudinal mountain system in the world.
Lingjiu Palace is a branch of the Xiaoyao Sect and has always disliked being ostentatious and mysterious. Even Murong Fu, who has been walking around in the world for a long time, has never heard of the name of the Tianshan Child Elder.
Therefore, although Xiang Nan arrived at Tianshan, it still took him about half a year to find out where the Lingjiu Palace was.
In the past six months, he had traveled almost all over the Tianshan Mountains, looking for elders and asking for news about Piaomiao Peak. It was really hard work.
Fortunately, he has not completely wasted these six months.
He happened to meet a Persian businessman in the Western Regions, learned Persian writing from him, and perfected the martial arts skills from the Holy Fire Order.
The Holy Fire Order records the essence of the martial arts of the old man in the mountains, which is very different from the martial arts of the Middle Earth. It goes from front to back, from left to right. It is mysterious and wonderful. It is the pinnacle of heretical learning.
However, the level of this martial arts is actually not high. It still relies on moves to win. It is only equivalent to the first level of swordsmanship in Dugu Qiubai. It does not even reach the level of [Da Qiao Bu Gong]. It is a fancy martial arts. It treats real masters very badly.
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As the saying goes, hard work pays off. After half a year of searching, Xiang Nan finally found out the location of the Piaomiao Peak Lingjiu Palace from a herdsman.
It turned out that when his grandmother was ill, she had been treated by people from Lingjiu Palace. After his grandmother recovered from her illness, she went to Piaomiao Peak with the most delicious mutton, the most mellow cheese, and the sweetest fruits to express her gratitude, and was lucky enough to enter the Vulture Palace.
According to what she said when she came back, Lingjiu Palace was like a fairyland. It is majestic and magnificent, with thousands of scenes, beauties like clouds, laughter and laughter, eating delicacies and drinking nectar, which is completely unlike the food in the world.
It is precisely because of this that it left a deep impression on the herdsmen, and they imagined countless times that they could climb Piaomiao Peak, enter the Vulture Palace, and live the life of a god.
It's just that Piaomiao Peak is hidden in the mountains and is heavily guarded. If you climb it without invitation, you will be beaten at the least, or lose your life at the worst.
Therefore, for hundreds of years, no one around the people dared to climb the mountain at will, and it was regarded as a forbidden area.
After Xiang Nan found out, he was overjoyed and immediately headed to Piaomiao Peak.
When I came to the foot of the mountain, I looked up and saw that the mountain peak was covered with clouds and mist, and it was indeed worthy of the name of Piaomiao Peak.
Xiang Nan used Qinggong and climbed up the ladder.
What surprised him was that he didn't see any of the maids from Lingjiu Palace along the way. Instead, he saw some bones scattered on both sides of the mountain road.
"Is the Lingjiu Palace no longer there?" Xiang Nan couldn't help but wonder when he saw this.
He rushed straight up and passed many natural dangers on the way, but he passed them all one by one.
An hour later, he came to a cliff. Under the cliff is a bottomless valley, and on the opposite side are some faint pavilions, hidden in the clouds and mist, looming.
"That must be the Vulture Palace." Xiang Nan was delighted, and then he took out the rope he had prepared and threw it far away to the opposite side, wrapping up a big tree.
Xiang Nan then pulled the rope, and he flew over the cliff at high speed, landed steadily on the opposite mountain, and then continued to follow the path to the peak.
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After walking for about an hour, we reached the top of Piaomiao Peak. I saw that the top was shrouded in clouds and mist, and there were pine trees as far as the eye could see, but not a single sound of human beings could be heard.
Moreover, more and more bones were seen along the way, as well as some swords, shields, crossbows, hidden weapons, etc. Most of them were damaged and rusted, which showed that there had been fierce fights before.
Xiang Nan felt something was wrong in his heart, so he continued walking along a road paved with bluestones. After walking less than two miles, he saw a huge stone castle standing majestically in front of him. There were stone statues on the left and right of the castle gate. The eagle is more than three feet tall, has a sharp beak and huge claws, and is an extraordinary horse.
However, if you look closely, you can see that the outer wall of the stone castle is mottled and charred, obviously showing signs of being set on fire. Moreover, the fort gate is also covered with marks of slashing with knives and axes. Even after decades, one can still imagine the brutality of the battle at that time.
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Xiang Nan stepped into the stone castle and saw that the stone castle was even more dilapidated, with broken walls, dead branches and leaves, rugged bones, and rampant snakes and ants.
Xiang Nan couldn't help frowning when he saw this.
He then searched the castle carefully and saw that although the entire Lingjiu Palace occupies an extremely large area with hundreds of houses, there was not a single complete room at this time.
And every house showed signs of being burned, so that nothing of value was left. As for the classics and books collected in the Vulture Palace, there are none, and it seems that they have all been emptied out.
Xiang Nan also found that most of the bones of the deceased present were black, which was obviously a sign of poisoning.
According to his guess, about thirty years ago, the Vulture Palace was collectively poisoned and then bloodbathed. Afterwards, the Vulture Palace was completely evacuated and burned to the ground. The huge foundation, accumulated over hundreds of years, was reduced to ashes.
However, Xiang Nan knew that the most valuable things in Lingjiu Palace were not gold, silver, jewelry, or rare and exotic objects, but those that were external to the body.
Its most precious thing is the stone carvings in the stone chamber, which are where the martial arts essence of Lingjiu Palace lies. As long as the stone carvings remain, even if the Vulture Palace is destroyed, there is still the possibility of a comeback.
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Xiang Nan immediately went to the garden of Lingjiu Palace according to the records in the book "The Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", and then tried to move the rockery in the garden.
The originally beautiful and unique rockery rocks in the garden were smashed to pieces, which made Xiang Nan feel pity when he saw it. It can also be seen from this that the person who took action really hated Lingjiu Palace, so he refused to let go of the rockery and had to smash it to pieces to be happy.
After Xiang Nan cleared away the rubble, he found a passage and walked in holding a candle.
Because he knew that this passage was full of hidden weapons and traps, Xiang Nan walked very carefully along the way. Fortunately, he had learned machine learning from Huang Yaoshi, and with his profound martial arts skills, even ordinary machines could not do anything to him, so there were no dangers along the way.
After twisting and turning and spiraling downward for about two miles, there was finally no way ahead.
Xiang Nan calmed down, and then pushed the rock on the left with all his strength, revealing a huge stone hall.
Xiang Nan stepped in, came to the stone wall, held up a candle to shine, and suddenly his heart felt cold. It can be seen that the stone walls here are also covered with pits and pits, and the stone carvings on them have long since disappeared.
"Made, who is so cruel that you won't leave any scum for me?" Xiang Nan was speechless.
He was greedy enough, but he didn't expect this person to be even greedier than him. He went to the Shaolin Temple to steal scriptures, but he only read them and did not empty the Shaolin Temple's scripture cave. But this person moved all the stone carvings in Lingjiu Palace and Xixia Palace and uprooted them. This was really too much.
"You can practice martial arts if you move here? Those martial arts are harmful if you don't have internal strength. Just seek death." Xiang Nan couldn't help cursing.
