Cao Zhe understood Huang Xiang's hint.
However, he deliberately changed the subject.
Huang Xiang is still too young.
Almost meaningless.
As for whether Huang Xiang would encounter Huang Rong again if he went to the capital alone, Cao Zhe was not worried about her.
Before meeting him, wasn't Huang Xiang hiding well by himself?
Just to convey the news, his whereabouts were accidentally exposed.
As long as Huang Xiang is more careful in the future, there is a high probability that he will not encounter Huang Rong again.
After all, the world is so big and crowded with people.
In a modern society where cameras are everywhere, it is not easy to find someone who wants to hide something.
What's more, in ancient societies where transportation and information were not developed enough?
Finding someone depends on luck.
After bidding farewell to Huang Xiang who was reluctant to leave, Cao Zhe, who felt inexplicably like a scumbag for once, headed south without any burden, preparing to go to Wudang Mountain.
It is of course false to say that he is looking for an apprentice from some hermit master.
But Wudang Mountain, as the place where Zhang Sanfeng started, may be helpful to his current 'identity' growth.
After all, Cao Zhe had noticed the change in his understanding a long time ago.
A change of one or two points may not seem like much, but it must be useful. If there is an increase of nearly ten points, it is equivalent to raising the already otherworldly understanding to another level.
It's not a big deal to go to Wudang Mountain, but you can try to see if you can 'activate' the potential of Zhang Junbao's identity.
"Before going to Wudang Mountain, you can take a turn outside Xiangyang City and try to find the Sword Tomb of Dugu Qiubai, the Sword Tomb, the Kunlun Secret Realm, and the Langhuan Paradise. These are the places where the three major novices of the gold system can open treasure chests. , there is no way to justify not going there... Of course, although Yang Guo's growth trajectory has changed, his status as a 'protagonist' should not have shifted, so is there any adventure in this world that can be easily obtained? It should take the initiative to crash into him, maybe the treasure chest of the Sword Tomb has been opened by Yang Guo." Cao Zhe walked through it, thinking all the way, and at the same time looking at the world that had been changed by the contestants.
"A lot of roads have been built around the city, connecting the surrounding villages and towns more closely with the city. Roads are also being built between cities. Of course, more of them are in the repair process, with cement and explosives being used. Infrastructure construction is under way, but the relative shortage of labor and the backwardness of engineering equipment still pose constraints. Many places along the Yellow River and Yangtze River that are easy to pour have reinforced their dams with cement, and some crops with significantly higher yields have also Experiments were carried out in some land of plenty, and most of the people I met along the way had smiles on their faces. There were also some refugees on the road, but they were far from numerous. Caravans trade frequently, indicating that commerce is becoming more active and developed... .”
"This is a prosperous era. For the ordinary people, the changes brought about by the Dayue Dynasty have truly benefited them."
Just seeing this, Cao Zhe didn't regret exposing the Bald Head Society's conspiracy.
Perhaps from the perspective of the Bald Head Club, they want to win at all costs and gain a better life in the competition of all worlds. In a sense, it seems that it cannot be wrong.
However, Cao Zhe also firmly believes that there is no problem with his choice.
Many things in this world are like this.
It’s just perspective and stance.
According to Cao Zhe's journey, it took less than half a month to get from the ferry near Luoyang to Xiangyang.
Living in the open air made Cao Zhe's appearance look like he had grown several years older and had a more weathered appearance.
"The Dugu Sword Tomb should be in some kind of barren mountain outside Xiangyang City. There is a valley near the barren mountain. In the valley and forest, there should be many Bodhisattva snakes with horns on their heads. They walk like the wind and are extremely difficult to catch. .”
Cao Zhe planned to go to Xiangyang City first and ask some hunters who were selling fur goods.
As the place of Longxing of Dayue Wu Emperor Guo Jing, Xiangyang City looks extremely lively.
Although the Dayue Dynasty set the capital in Jinling, Xiangyang was still defined as the companion capital, and its political status was second only to Jinling.
This also makes Xiangyang's prosperity and excitement in this era absolutely top-notch.
Businessmen from all over the world, knights from all walks of life, as well as various religions, all gathered here.
After Cao Zhe borrowed the silver scroll from some wealthy businessmen, he waved the silver scroll to find some hunters to inquire about the whereabouts of the Bodhisattva Snake.
Of course, you can't let those hunters talk nonsense, you have to come up with real evidence... such as a living Bodhisattva snake, at least there must be a corpse.
After asking for nearly seven or eight days, I received a lot of false information, but no real clues.
Just when Cao Zhe was about to give up and take a boat directly to Wudang Mountain, a woodcutter who was cutting wood came to the door.
The woodcutter took out half of the body of the Bodhisattva Snake. The body of the snake was as thick as an arm. It looked like it had been torn apart by something sharp, leaving only a shriveled body.
Cao Zhe observed carefully for a while, asked the woodcutter where he found the snake corpse, and gave him fifty taels of silver as reward.
Then he quickly packed his bags and rushed to Tongbai Mountain.
Tongbai Mountain is actually quite far away from Xiangyang City, so it cannot be considered 'closer'.
This is indeed because Cao Zhe didn't think clearly.
In the original text, Yang Guo stayed in the Guo Mansion in Xiangyang. After his arm was broken by Guo Fu, he rode out of the city on horseback and ran to a remote place to avoid the Mongolian army. He vaguely found the divine eagle and was taken to the Dugu Sword Tomb.
This led to Cao Zhe thinking that the sword tomb was near Xiangyang, not too far away.
However, in fact, in order to resist the Mongolian attack, Guo Jing's residence should have been outside the city at Dasheng Pass. It was not inside the city, but at a pass on a narrow mountain pass.
Following the woodcutter's guidance, Cao Zhe entered Tongbai Mountain to find the whereabouts of the sword tomb.
It took three days to find the first Bodhisattva snake in a valley in the mountain.
Then he followed the traces and found traces of the eagle's movements.
Finally, one afternoon, the location of the sword tomb was found.
At the Sword Tomb in the Deserted Valley, what Cao Zhe saw was the messy traces of bombs that had been bombed all over the ground.
Dugu Qiubei's tomb seems to have disappeared, but the divine eagle is still there, but half of its wings are missing... Fortunately, it can't fly, and it doesn't rely on its wings to survive, otherwise it would have starved to death long ago.
Seeing someone coming, he looked at the increasingly ugly divine eagle and let out a warning chirp, but his eyes inevitably revealed a bit of fear.
Apparently he was frightened by someone using explosives.
Cao Zhe said hello several times, but the divine eagle ignored him. Instead, he stayed away from him and just watched vigilantly from a distance.
Cao Zhe could only go in uninvited and search among the ruins.
Come to a cliff.
The cliff is like a huge screen, rising into the sky, but there are many ugly bullet holes on it.
In the middle of the cliff, about twenty feet above the ground, there is a large stone three to four feet square, which looks like a platform. There are words faintly carved on the stone.
At this time, Cao Zhe certainly knew that all the swords in the sword tomb should have been taken away.
But he didn't care, he didn't come for the sword, he just wanted to see the words left by Dugu Qiubei. He hoped that the person who did such a thing would not be so bored that he would also destroy the words on Dugu Qiubei, leaving him in vain. Take a trip.
(Thanks to Long Haomiao for his 100 points, Amakusa Cangzhu for his 1,500 points, Memories for his 5,000 points, and 008 for his 100 points for the novel! Thank you all!)
