Xu Jianguo stared at the top of the mountain, wondering who on earth had built this structure there? And what was it used for?
"No, I have to go and take a look. I'm really curious!" Xu Jianguo muttered and walked forward.
As the old saying goes, "If you run too fast, you'll kill the horse." Although the mountain didn't seem very far away, it took Xu Jianguo more than 20 minutes to reach it at his speed.
Looking at the strange cubic mountain in front of him, Xu Jianguo felt more and more incredible.
However, after Xu Jianguo circled the mountain, the incredible feeling had turned into shock and even fear.
Xu Jianguo originally wanted to find a way to go up the mountain, but after walking around, he found that the mountain was surrounded by cliffs at right angles of 90 degrees on all four sides, and there was no way to go up the mountain at all. He also roughly calculated that the distance between each side of the mountain was 80 meters, which means that the platform area on the top of the mountain was about 6,400 square meters.
"Is this really a masterpiece of nature?" Xu Jianguo thought to himself, and then he flashed into the space. After arriving at the main hall, Xu Jianguo stood in front of the portal, raised his hand and held the door handle, imagining the location of the top of the mountain in his mind.
A moment later, he pushed open the space portal and stepped into a white light.
When the white light disappeared, Xu Jianguo was already standing in a jungle. He looked around and found that the trees here were extremely tall and dense. Standing in the forest, he could not see the scenery outside the forest at all.
There was no other way, Xu Jianguo could only choose a direction at random and walk forward.
After walking for a while, Xu Jianguo noticed that the scenery in front of him had changed. When he walked out of the woods, he found that he had come to the edge of a cliff.
"My luck is really not that good!" Xu Jianguo stood on the edge of the cliff and looked out, and suddenly he felt like he was looking down on all the other mountains.
After choosing a new direction, Xu Jianguo continued to move forward.
After walking for a while, a clearing appeared outside the woods ahead. In the center of the clearing was a pool made of bluestone. In the center of the pool was a spring that was constantly gushing out clear spring water.
Next to the pond, various wild flowers are blooming, and not far away, the outline of a building can be vaguely seen.
Xu Jianguo was very surprised when he looked at the spring in the pool. There was only a water inlet in the pool, and no outlet was seen. However, the water in the pool did not overflow, and he didn't know why.
He didn't pay much attention to the pool, but walked towards the building.
When he reached the edge of the forest, a somewhat dilapidated building appeared in front of Xu Jianguo.
Standing in front of the gate of the building, Xu Jianguo found that there were three buildings here, arranged with the front low and the back high. The top of the last building, although dilapidated, still showed a metallic luster. This should be the shining place he saw before.
Looking at the collapsed courtyard wall, the missing plaque, and the beams covered with cobwebs, Xu Jianguo walked in.
The yard was overgrown with knee-high weeds, and many of the building's eaves and tiles had fallen off, making the roof look incomplete and revealing rotten gray wooden beams.
After walking a few steps, Xu Jianguo felt something under his feet. He looked down, and just this one glance made him stunned.
He was standing on a large broken plaque. Although the paint on it had long since fallen off, the word "Qingyun" on it could still be vaguely seen.
"Qingyun? Is this the Qingyun Temple?" Xu Jianguo exclaimed in shock.
In Xu Jianguo's impression, according to what the old Taoist said, life in Qingyun Temple was just hard because there was not enough food, so he sent all his disciples down the mountain. He himself took his youngest disciple Mingzhen, also known as Funiu, down the mountain to seek medical treatment, but he didn't expect to encounter an accident and that's how he met Xu Jianguo.
However, since the discovery of Mingkong's bones and messages, and the current dilapidated Qingyun Temple, Xu Jianguo had reason to believe that the old Taoist priest was taking Funiu to hide from something, or even to escape for his life.
As to whether they really encountered an accident or deliberately wanted to meet Xu Jianguo, it doesn’t matter. During the time he spent with Funiu, the little girl’s innocent and lovely personality made up for most of the family affection he had missed in his two lifetimes.
Although he still doesn't have the love of his parents, and this sister has no blood relationship with him, she doesn't call him brother for nothing. From the degree of dependence the little girl has on him, it can be seen that it really doesn't matter whether she is a biological sister or brother.
Compared with blood relationship, the most important thing is that two people can rely on each other and survive together.
Thinking of Funiu, a smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth.
After calming his mind, Xu Jianguo continued to walk towards the first building. If this was really Qingyun Temple, he really wanted to know what had happened here.
The door and plaque of the first hall had long disappeared. Xu Jianguo walked in and what caught his eye was a statue that had been pushed to the ground, as well as the altar and incense burner that had been overturned.
Xu Jianguo walked up and looked at the statue carefully, and found that it was a god wearing golden armor and a red robe, with a red face and beard, and three eyes.
It holds a wind-fire wheel in its left hand and a steel whip in its right hand, and looks extremely majestic and brave.
Xu Jianguo didn't know much about the Taoist gods, but in order to find out whether this was the Qingyun Temple, he had to know, so he could only ask for help from the system.
"System, may I ask, who is this statue in front of me?"
[Ding, this is the Taoist guardian deity, Wang Lingguan.]
"Got it, thank you!"
When Xu Jianguo heard the name Wang Lingguan, some impressions came to his mind. He had also visited some Taoist temples in his previous life. Now that he thought about it, it seemed that Wang Lingguan was enshrined in the first hall of most Taoist temples.
According to legend, Wang Lingguan stood facing the mountain gate, and the third eye on his forehead was a golden eye that could distinguish truth from falsehood and detect good and evil. Therefore, there is a saying that "Whether you go up the mountain or not, you must first pay your respects to Wang Lingguan."
After Xu Jianguo confirmed that the statue was a Taoist guardian deity, he became more certain that this was the Qingyun Temple.
Without stopping, Xu Jianguo continued walking towards the second hall.
After just a few steps, something under his feet caught Xu Jianguo's attention.
Squatting down, Xu Jianguo pushed aside the weeds on the ground and saw a yellow metal object appear in front of him.
When Xu Jianguo saw the object on the ground, his eyes widened and he exclaimed in surprise, "Bullet shell? How could there be such a thing here?"
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