Chapter 335: The Immortal Disappears, Zhou Mountain Rise

Ning Fang's plan was very successful.

The Fire Workshop had lost its source of spiritual energy, but in the short term the spiritual energy had not completely dissipated and no changes could be seen. But as time went by, one would surely discover that it was no longer possible to practice Taoism here.

Even the cultivators of the Fire House, no matter what previous grudges they had, had to change their sects if they wanted to continue their ascent to immortality.

No matter whether the source of spiritual energy is destroyed or merged, there will eventually be only one last immortal pavilion left where people can practice the immortal way. This is an indisputable fact.

After Gu Dan installed Feng Qian's head, he no longer had any interest in snatching the elixir - Qingmu Liquid had greater uses, and now was not the time to produce elixir. He knew his base clearly.

Since entering the Fire House, he had already separated from the main force and was not planning to reunite. He just carried Feng Qian's head and left the Fire House without looking back.

Gu Dan returned to Ningfang as quickly as possible and found Zhuang Sheng who was still in the cave.

"Brother Kong?"

Zhuang Sheng was quite surprised to see Gu Dan.

Isn't today the day to attack the Fire Workshop? It's only been less than a day, why did Kong Zhai come back so soon? It can't be that he regretted it as soon as he left the house and planned to escape at the last minute, right? "I have something to ask, and I'd like to ask Brother Zhuang to help me solve this problem."

Gu Dan looked quite serious.

"What is it? Tell me now."

Zhuang Sheng was a little surprised. Even when they were talking about Qi Refiners before, he had never seen Gu Dan look so serious.

"Buzhou Mountain Range, or Zhou Mountain. Do you know anything about it, Brother Zhuang?"

Gu Dan asked without any delay.

"Zhou Shan?"

Zhuang Sheng was stunned, "Why is Brother Kong interested in this?"

"There is one thing I am quite confused about. I would like to ask Brother Zhuang to help me solve this puzzle."

Gu Dan said.

"The predecessor of the Buzhou Mountains is the Zhou Mountains, also known as the Tianzhu Mountains. Brother Kong must know this, right?"

Zhuang Sheng did not ask any more questions. When it came to familiar areas, there was no need to think about it at all. When it came to the study of folk customs and myths and legends, all the cultivators in the Immortal House put together might not be better than him.

"Know."

Gu Dan nodded slightly.

"But you definitely don't know. Based on my research, I found that Zhou Shan's existence may be shorter than anyone imagined."

Zhuang Sheng said seriously: "Zhoushan may only have a history of more than a thousand years!"

More than a thousand years.

If we compare this period of time in the mortal world, it is really extremely long. This prosperous and huge dynasty has experienced several ups and downs and changes of dynasties several times.

But more than a thousand years seems too short when compared to the mountains and rivers, so short that it is unbelievable.

When people talk about friendship, they often use the words "until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble".

The seas dried up; the stones rotted.

It is used to describe an extremely long time or something that is impossible to achieve, to express the firmness of will and unchangeable belief.

That represents people's superficial understanding of the heaven and earth, and also proves that it is extremely difficult for mountains and seas to change much.

Moreover, Zhoushan is not an ordinary hill - it was once called the Pillar of Heaven! It is so high that it cannot be measured, and so deep that even the Grand Master can only sigh at its towering height. For ordinary people, its grandeur is simply unimaginable.

Even though it has fallen down now, it has still turned into a mountain range that connects the sky and the earth, directly destroying several countries and affecting dozens of surrounding countries!

Its grandeur seems so dry and powerless that no words can describe it. Only the simple and pure word "Pillar of Heaven" can barely match it.

But now, the pillar of heaven has collapsed, but the sky has not fallen.

So people gradually stopped calling it by its original name Tianzhu Mountain and started calling it Buzhou Mountain Range instead.

But anyone who has seen the grandeur of the Buzhou Mountains with their own eyes will not think that the former "Tianzhu Mountain" is unworthy of its name.

Even though it fell, it still shocked people.

But now, Zhuang Sheng actually said that such a magnificent and huge mountain range has only appeared for a short period of more than a thousand years? !

This is too unbelievable! If the river changes its course, it is normal for it to change drastically over a thousand years.

But how could such a magnificent mountain range undergo such changes in more than a thousand years? If it was formed by the stirring of the earth veins, why is there only one Tianzhu Mountain?

"It's incredible, but if there is no mistake, this should be the truth."

Zhuang Sheng continued without any ambiguity: "According to the various historical books I have acquired, the first records of 'Tianzhu Mountain' and 'Zhou Mountain' appeared in the 'Records of Diyi', which was 1,132 years ago, and a historical book called 'Daxing Zhengdian'.

Although they use different descriptions, based on comparison, both are referring to the Buzhou Mountains today. This is the oldest verifiable record of Mount Zhou. Before that, it seems that this mountain never existed.

Even the various myths and legends about Zhoushan were compiled by the people over the past thousand years.”

Mentioning these things, Zhuang Sheng spoke eloquently, confidently, and said: "The most widely circulated and well-known legend is that Mount Zhou did not exist at the beginning, but under the territory covered by Mount Zhou, there was a country called 'Hu'.

The king was cruel and inhuman, bloodthirsty and crazy, and liked to eat human hearts. Even his people were cruel and vicious, often slaughtering refugees from all directions. Even the surrounding countries suffered terribly. As a last resort, many kings set up altars and asked the gods to punish the Hu people.

So after seven days of prayer, a mountain that connected the sky and the earth was built on the ground, burying the Hu Kingdom completely. Its king and people were also suppressed on Mount Zhou for generations, and could no longer wreak havoc on the world.

Zhoushan is the gate where immortals guard the human world, suppressing all evil spirits and monsters, and protecting the world's unrepaired monument, which contains the great power of immortals. "

Gu Dan had also heard this legend.

Just laugh it off.

The reason is very simple. This kind of legend is just like the delicacies that are passed down from some remote places. They have to be related to someone in order to give themselves a glorious resume, increase the aftertaste and memory points, and are just for fun.

As for the various metaphors in the myths and the details buried in them - sorry, there are too many legends, and there are more than just this one legend about Zhoushan? Maybe there really was a Hu country thousands of years ago, and it often conquered everywhere, so the surrounding countries hated it, so all kinds of arrangements were arranged, which is also a very normal thing.

If every myth and legend were to be taken out, broken down and carefully considered, then there would be nothing to do. The key point is that those myths and legends are in great conflict with each other. Who should we believe and who should we not believe?

Just knowing how to distinguish them is enough to give you a headache!

Most people don't have the leisure and elegance to do this.

Fortunately, Zhuang Sheng is not an ordinary person.

"In addition to the widely circulated legend of 'Zhoushan suppressed the Hu', there are also legends saying that Zhoushan was used to suppress an ancient evil demon, and that Zhoushan was used to fix the weight of heaven and earth, and so on.

However, no matter how we verify these myths and legends, the earliest time they appeared is no more than 1,300 years ago. The history before that is almost impossible to verify. They contain too many stories about immortals, and when it comes to immortals, there is no reason to talk about them. "

Finally, Zhuang Sheng said this.

It is true that immortals have the ability to change the world.

And it is precisely because immortals have this ability that the rulers of the mortal world, those emperors, would never say that they are mortals. If they don't give themselves some kind of "fate", it would be a waste of their lives and they wouldn't even be able to sit on the throne securely.

At the time of birth, at least a lucky beast would come down from the sky and wander around for ten days or half a month. The more impolite ones would simply have purple air coming from the east for thirty thousand miles. There were even cases where the mother stepped on a giant's footprint and got pregnant inexplicably, and could speak human language at birth, with the constitution of heaven in her body! It can be said that there is no most outrageous, only more outrageous.

Even during the Great Moon period when Emperor Zong Ming was in power, if there were not ten or so auspicious signs in a year, that year would be considered wasted.

Even the Imperial Hospital had created an auspicious sign called the 'Five-Colored Tai Sui', and Gu Dan himself had experienced it firsthand.

When thinking about the past from today's perspective, we don't need to think of the ancients as being too noble. Although the people are no longer the same people as they were then, the events are still the same events as then.

If this incident was recorded in the classics, how would future generations view it thousands of years later? This is the biggest difficulty in trying to understand the situation at that time based on various classics.

Judging from the ancient records that have been left behind, the immortals should have still been around more than a thousand years ago.

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The more this happens, the more difficult it becomes to distinguish true from false, and it is unclear whether it was really an immortal who had nothing to do, or whether later generations wrote about it in order to add to the resumes of the nobles of the time and win their admiration.

Gu Dan thought carefully for a moment. Zhuang Sheng's statement was undoubtedly very credible. At least he had verified it and there was no big problem with the logical reasoning. No matter why Zhoushan existed here, at least Zhoushan must not have stood there from ancient times to the present.

But more than a thousand years ago, one day, Zhoushan suddenly appeared.

"As Fellow Daoist Zhuang said, if we don't care what the purpose of Zhoushan is, Zhoushan should have existed for about a thousand years."

Gu Dan agreed with Zhuang Sheng's statement, and then said quietly: "Then, what major event happened during that time?"

For a moment, the two looked at each other in silence.

At the time when Zhoushan appeared, two major events occurred that were worthy of being recorded in the history books of various places.

One thing, the immortal disappeared.

Another thing that Gu Dan was very familiar with and had heard many times.

The Grandmaster's Disaster!

But the Grandmaster's disaster was actually a series of reactions triggered by the disappearance of the immortal.

So if we really summarize this matter, there was actually only one major event at the point where Zhou Shan appeared.

The immortal disappeared.

The immortal disappeared and the surrounding mountains rose up.

But now, Zhou Shan has fallen. A chill runs through Gu Dan's heart.

He didn't believe that this matter had anything to do with immortals.

Don't forget that the reason why Zhoushan collapsed was not because of itself, but because of the falling stars that Gu Dan witnessed in the Gu family courtyard during the Dayue period ninety years ago! That's how the things that happened later happened.

The immortal had nothing to do, so he had to destroy Zhou Mountain before coming back? What hatred or grudge was that?

A mere mountain, no matter how tall or magnificent it is, is still a dead object. How can it attract the hostility of the immortal? Even before returning, he had to find a way to knock down Zhoushan? Does this mean that the immortal is afraid of Zhoushan, or even something on Zhoushan? ! So, he had to strike first! After the collapse of Zhoushan, a source of spiritual energy suddenly appeared. When the immortal should not have returned, he could start practicing the immortal way . The two were silent for a long time.

Until Gu Dan coughed lightly, forced out a slightly pale smile, and continued to ask: "Do you know about Master Huang Chao?"

"Master Huang Chao?"

Zhuang Sheng was stunned. The leap from the historical mystery of the Buzhou Mountains to the Huang Dynasty was too big and too rigid.

"I remember you said that you and he are from the same hometown. The bravery of Master Huang Chao is the only one I have ever seen in my life, so I want to learn more about him."

Gu Dan didn't explain anything, just said so.

But Zhuang Sheng was of course a smart man. He understood that since Gu Dan asked this, he must have discovered something. He frowned and thought for a long time before slowly saying, "Master Huang Chao has not changed much! My master once crossed paths with him, and when we met again, he never said anything wrong with Master Huang Chao.

Occasionally, he talked to us about old things and was very clear, without any inappropriateness. "

"Your master?"

Gu Dan grasped the thread. Zhuang Sheng's master must be Qing Ping Zi. However, he had not seen Qing Ping Zi for such a long time. "Where is your master now?"

"My master did not choose to come to Ningfang, but joined Shuifang. He himself has water spiritual roots."

Zhuang Sheng simply said this and did not want to involve Qing Pingzi.

"Well, that's fine."

Gu Dan was not disappointed even though he didn't get any useful information about the Huang Dynasty from Zhuang Sheng.

Just the news about Buzhou Mountain was enough to make the trip worthwhile.

What's more, he has a price in his hand, so he can try it out himself.

No matter what the result is, Kong Zhai's alias will never be used again, and he is not worried whether such a test will lead to different inquiries.

Anyway, if the other party really has the ability to catch him, it will be the same whether he tries or not.

But for Gu Dan, it is a different matter whether he has confidence or not.

"This time, I was lucky enough to kill Feng Qian, the owner of the Fire Workshop. I am also going to ask the head of the Huang Chao Hall for the reward."

After asking all the questions he wanted to ask, Gu Dan smiled and mentioned the package, "I believe that Master Huang Chao is a man of his word."

“.”

Zhuang Sheng silently looked at the man in front of him who said calmly that he had killed a foundation-building cultivator, with a slightly strange look in his eyes.

This person Three days later, the cultivators from Ningfang who secretly conquered Huofang returned.

The Huang Dynasty was also among them.

Gu Dan did not delay at all. As soon as he got the news, he went to look for Huang Chao with Feng Qian's head in his hand.

He wanted to see the spiritual energy of nature, he wanted to see the source of Ningfang's spiritual energy.

(End of this chapter)