"The master wanted to visit Baiya Mountain back then. It was all due to his excessive curiosity." Shen Cha smiled and looked at Prince Dai and Wu Qingruo, "Uncle Huang and Uncle Wang have known the master for a long time, and they also know him well. What kind of person he is, you know that he has an inexplicable obsession with many strange rumors and unresolved legends."
"That's right." Prince Dai nodded, "People say that my family members are pure in their six senses and don't care about mundane things, but he is a monk. He goes wherever there is excitement and runs wherever there is strange things. But think about it. That's right, he is surrounded by friends and brothers like us who are good at causing trouble, so it's very difficult to keep his six senses pure."
"He himself is not someone who can quietly find a temple to practice, so let's not talk about the brothers and friends around him." Wu Qingruo snorted, "However, his disciples are all the same, master, uncle, senior brother and junior brother The disciples and nephews below all take it as their own duty to save the common people, and as for Buddhist inheritance and the like, it seems that they don’t particularly value it.”
"That's right." Shen Cha nodded, "The master himself told us that he had heard about the Heroes Conference in Baiya Mountain before he left school. When he heard about it, he felt suspicious. After hearing it, he became even more suspicious. He felt that if the heroes competing in the world were so easily fooled, it would take at least twenty years to completely destroy the previous dynasty. Therefore, he has always felt that the Heroes Conference is very problematic, and has always wanted to go to it. Look." She took the tea cup that Shen Haolin handed to her mouth, took a small sip, and continued, "Many years later, when he passed by Wuzhou City, he heard pilgrims at the temple where he was temporarily staying. After chatting about the legend of Baiya Mountain, I remembered the doubts I had when I was young. Coupled with the legend of Baiya Mountain, I wanted to fulfill my wish and visit Baiya Mountain to see the scorched earth left by the fire. , let’s see if we can find out the truth that has been buried for many years in the ruins of the Heroes Conference.”
"The biggest problem in Huilan's life is that he thinks too much, cares too much, and does too much." His Highness Prince Ning sighed softly, "However, if there were not people like him, generations of people would Even if you work hard, the world won't become so good, right?" Seeing that everyone agreed with him, he smiled and looked at Shen Cha, "By the way, what does he think is wrong with the Heroes Conference?"
"The master said that he thinks the problem is huge. He and his father, Uncle Xue and Uncle Huang have all discussed this issue. They all doubt the true purpose of the Heroes Conference." Shen Cha looked at Wu Qingruo and shook his head at him, "No As for the purpose of killing people and wiping them all out in one fell swoop, there are other purposes. After I took over the Cuiyao Pavilion, I specifically checked the archives related to Baiya Mountain and Wuzhou City, and I also discovered some strange things."
"Weird things?" Wu Qingruo thought for a while, "You are saying that we found sneaky people near Baiya Mountain before and after the Heroes Conference, right?" Seeing Shen Cha nod, he sighed softly. , "This is something I haven't figured out for so many years."
"The Heroes' Conference was nominally held in Baiya Mountain three months before Emperor Gaozu's uprising in Yuezhou. In fact, it was not." Shen Cha shook his head at them, "Before the Heroes' Conference, one In March, there was a small-scale gathering in Baiya Mountain, but this gathering was not even detected by Cuiyao Pavilion. At that time, Xian Boyuan, as the person in charge of Wuzhou City of Cuiyao Pavilion, had no idea that there was such a thing. Therefore, There is no corresponding record in the archives of Cuiyao Pavilion."
"Then this small-scale gathering is..." Wu Qingruo looked at Shen Cha, "What did Huilan find out?"
"This gathering should be that Emperor Mo and the Grand Master invited some talented people from the world to discuss how to find one or more things they want in Baiya Mountain."
"What do they want?" His Highness Prince Ning touched his chin and said hesitantly, "Is it some kind of treasure?"
"No!" Shen Cha shook his head gently, "This is about a widely circulated legend in Baiya Mountain... Oh, no, to be precise, it should be considered a strange news. Master also heard this strange news, Ignoring the obstruction of the temporary abbot of the temple, I must go to Baiya Mountain to investigate."
"Why did the abbot of the temple in Wuzhou City stop Huilan?"
"Because all the monks and Taoists with very advanced cultivation levels in and around Wuzhou City have already been there. After coming back, some couldn't afford to get sick, some had brain problems, and some kept silent and locked themselves in In the room, I stayed in seclusion for several years or decades.”
"So evil?" Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Cha in disbelief, "What did they encounter? Are they so scared?"
"Yeah, how could it be so evil?"
"Uncle Huang and Uncle Wang also traveled around when they were young, right?" Seeing Wu Qingruo and Prince Dai nodding, Shen Cha continued to ask, "Have those two been to Wuzhou City? Have they ever heard of Wuzhou City? Are there widespread rumors that Baiya Mountain is haunted?”
"No." Wu Qingruo shook his head gently, "The two of us have never been to Wuzhou City, and we have never heard of any rumors about being haunted."
"Is it really haunted?" Prince Dai frowned slightly, "But aren't there rumors of haunting everywhere? There are some weird stories everywhere, right? Not to mention other places, even Xijing City. There is even one in the palace. It is said that the Dongleng Palace in the harem is actually some kind of haunted house. Every night in Mitsui, you will hear the cries of the palace maids. In fact, these are just to scare people. The rumors in the palace have long been broken. Well, the little chamberlain stole something from the palace and wanted to send it out of the palace quietly, so he deliberately pretended to be a ghost and made people think that the cold palace in the east was haunted, so that everyone would not come near it at night, so that he could smuggle things out of the palace. ." He spread his hands, "So, is there anything particularly strange about Baiya Mountain being haunted?" He saw Shen Cha smiling mysteriously, thinking back to what they had just talked about, "You mean, Bai Yashan is haunted? In the villages near Yashan, there are not only the farmers who originally lived near Baiyashan, but also other people, right?"
"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded, "Master said that those people have a very different background. They are wary of people coming from outside. They never communicate or chat with outsiders. If they ask questions, they will act like they can't hear them, or they will say nothing in reply. Know something like that.”
"So, the haunting has something to do with them?"
"Yeah!" Shen Cha nodded, "Different from the haunting in the palace, the haunting in Baiya Mountain does not happen every day. Master, I heard from the host master that it only happens on the first and fifteenth day of July and the first day of September every year. Only on the nights of January and Fifteenth will you hear a horrifying cry coming from the Baiya Mountain Col. You can’t tell whether it’s a woman or a man. Anyway, the sound is very weird. This horrifying sound will definitely last until the next morning. When the sun rises.”
"Is it so fixed?" Wu Qingruo frowned slightly, "Why is it these four days?"
"The Heroes Conference many years ago was held on the first day of September. The fire in Baiya Mountain was actually extinguished on September 15th." Prince Dai gently knocked on the table, "It can be said that these two days have been the last time the innocent souls died. But in July..." He raised his eyebrows and sneered, "Do you really want to pretend to be a ghost?" Seeing Shen Cha nod slightly, he snorted twice, "For the sake of something that may not necessarily exist in Baiya Mountain. thing?"
"Yes." Shen Cha looked at Wu Qingruo, then at Prince Dai, and finally at Xue Ruitian, and said, "Actually, the real purpose of Emperor Mo and Grand Master is not only to wipe out all those who oppose them in the world, but also to The most important thing is to dig out the treasure hidden by their ancestors in Baiya Mountain. It is said that once the treasure is found, it can ensure that the previous dynasty can survive for at least two hundred years."
