Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Which is more important, the mountain rules or her?
When she woke up again, she didn't know whether she was alive or dead.
However, her body still hurt terribly. Her broken body was already covered in countless wounds, new and old, and she had never been one to be sentimental, so her body had never fully recovered.
At this time, new and old grudges from her physical body came back to her.
The good thing is that, at least, the pain proves that she is alive.
Her mind was burning like a ball of paste. She blinked slowly and thought to herself, I don’t know how many days I have been locked up here.
In the darkness, one has no concept of time. Time is like a long, stretched tendon; no matter how much time passes, it remains the same.
She was in the dark and wanted to turn over.
But suddenly I felt a breath on my face.
She was not afraid of ghosts, and immediately thought that the ground was covered with collapsed and broken clay statues, and she didn't know what she was looking into.
I was trying to turn over again in frustration, only to find that I didn't even have the strength to do so.
She was emotionless and had no energy left.
If she can't turn over, then she can't turn over. It doesn't matter if her head is cut off and stuck to her face. She is tired.
Yeah, I'm really tired.
No one will come to save her. If anyone wanted to, they would have come long ago.
Besides, no one cared about her life at all.
At this moment, I suddenly thought of that person at an inappropriate time.
Gu Zhi.
Would such a kind person come to rescue her if he heard that she was imprisoned in the underground palace?
Maybe not.
In the darkness, she thought vaguely that perhaps Gu Huaijin loved her a little.
But love is such a vain and powerless thing.
Who, if he is wise, would count on love?
To save her, the underground palace under the pool must be easily opened.
If it costs a lot and takes a lot of trouble...
She had no such expectations at all.
After all, she laughed sarcastically. After all, when she was at her wit's end, it was too shameless to expect someone who should have died in her hands to save her.
But, he is indeed... a good person.
In the darkness, in the trance of a high fever, she vaguely thought that if she had not been born in the Gate of Rebirth, perhaps she would have treated him a little differently.
*
It only took two and a half days to summon all the elders of Tianshan Mountain.
When the elders received the letter from the carrier pigeon, which symbolized urgency, they all thought that something extremely urgent had happened in the mountains.
When they hurried back to the mountain, they found out that their usually steady and prudent young leader had called everyone back with a letter just to save a person imprisoned under Hualongtan.
An outsider who has nothing to do with Tianshan, a person who knows no martial arts, is sick and frail, and whose origins are unknown.
A woman for whom he had recently broken the law many times.
Gu Zhi's face was as calm as water, and he stood calmly and composedly where the elders' gazes met.
Song Yaojie had no idea where his calm and self-assured confidence came from.
He answered the questions of the elders on the mountain one by one in an official tone. Only when asked, "Why did you force the Dragon Pond to be opened for this person?" did he purse his lips and utter no words.
He just said, "Miss Chu is an ordinary person living at the foot of the mountain. She shouldn't be involved in this or suffer this disaster, so she wants to open the Hidden Dragon Pool to save her."
The Second Elder, Yan Nantian, who had been in retirement for many years and had been living happily on Mount Bujiao, was called back by a letter. At the age of eighty, he had used light skills to jump all the way back day and night. He raised a small branch-like crutch and glared at him:
"We all obeyed the Young Master's orders, believing him to be a discerning judge. He wouldn't have called us back from so far away unless something serious had happened. Little did we know it was for something like this!"
"If a disciple accidentally entered a trap, this kind of thing happens dozens of times every year, if not hundreds. Why mobilize a large army and even use the Mountain Guarding Jade Plate?"
Gu Zhi quietly let people scold him without a word of rebuttal, but just refused to save him.
The two sides held out for nearly five hours. Finally, the elders, too old to stand up to a young man at the height of his powers, also considered him the only son of the secluded Gu Sect Leader, the young Sect Leader who had been on the mountain for nearly ten years. Seeing his insistence on his own way, and knowing that this, while a violation of the precepts, would not necessarily harm the foundations of Tianshan, they were exhausted and unwilling to intervene.
I just wanted to find a more convincing reason so that the disciples on the mountain wouldn't feel unfair.
Huide sat high up in the hall, his voice echoing through the hall. "If the elders have no objections, this matter can be settled. However, the weather in Tianshan has warmed up recently, the snow has melted, and it's the rainy season. The water level in Hidden Dragon Pond is probably quite high. Even if we use the Mountain Guarding Jade Plate to force it open, it won't be easy."
Gu Zhi stood in the middle of the hall, his voice steady and calm, "I've already thought about this. We can use the Xingchen Pavilion to control the mechanisms on the mountain and open the seventeen mechanisms around Hualongtan. This will divert water into the four small lakes surrounding it, and the underground palace will be exposed. Then, we can open it and rescue the people."
"Drain the water from Hualongtan..." Yan Nantian was practically stunned when he heard that, and then he kept swiping his little cane in the air. "This is appalling! Absolutely appalling! Not to mention that the purple smoke hasn't dissipated yet, and forcing open the Xingchen Pavilion could easily result in loss of life. Hualongtan is a Feng Shui treasure land, located on the dragon vein and dragon eye. Spiritual energy is gathered there, and the fish in the pond may turn into dragons at any time. And you actually want to drain the water for just one person!"
"After rescuing the people, we can restore the mechanism to its original state. The water in the pond will naturally flow back in. We won't let the Spirit Pond dry up."
"How can you take this for granted! Once the Feng Shui is broken, it may take a hundred years to recover, and you actually—"
"Junior," Gu Zhi's voice sounded like the clash of jade and stone in the hall, clear and gentle, "Which is more important, feng shui or human life?"
The answer on the mountain is naturally Feng Shui.
But no one in the Tianshan Sect, which prides itself on being the righteous sect in the martial arts world, dares to speak this answer openly.
Yan Nantian stopped talking for a moment.
Song Yaojie was so angry that she asked sternly, "Which is more important, the mountain rules or human life?!"
Gu Zhi looked at her, neither dodging nor avoiding, and said frankly, word by word, "I said, human life."
She was furious for a moment, but after looking around, she found that none of the elders dared to say directly that "the rules of the mountain are more important than human life." So she could no longer bear it and turned away with her eyes rolled back.
Huide looked down from above and slowly waved his hand, interrupting the two of them.
He said, "I would like to ask you a question, Young Master."
The voice is long and echoing:
"In that case, which is more important, the mountain rules or her?"
The hall suddenly fell silent. The man who had stood there calmly and eloquently amidst the crowd's questioning suddenly turned pale and remained silent.
His lips were trembling, but his face was sullen and he didn't utter a single word.
The hall was surrounded by elders, looking down at the stubborn young leader in the middle.
A gust of wind blew, and the petals outside the palace fell like rain, rolling up to the horizon and scattering in the clear sky.
After a while, he spoke.
I don’t know whether it is addressed to the people in the palace or to myself.
The voice was soft, and he said, "Shan Gui."
*
There was an unfamiliar wooden table, with a tattered copy of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" on it and a vase of flowers on the corner.
It was dusk, and the afterglow shone warmly through the window. It was not the kind of sad, scorching afterglow, but a quiet, warm, and peaceful evening glow.
This is what is being done.
Nan Qiong Shuang looked at her hands in surprise.
But where did her painted nails go?
The door was slammed open, and the door panel bounced against the wall. The visitor rushed in in the backlight of dusk, panting.
"Sister." Sui An came over with thumps, the wooden floor making a dull sound, and a bowl of steaming food was placed in front of her without any explanation.
"Medicinal porridge. It replenishes blood and qi." He turned around and brought over a bowl of medicinal soup. "It detoxifies."
He put down the two bowls and walked away. After a few steps, he turned back. The backlight reflected the fine hair ends into a ball of fluffy gold.
"Drink it all. I'll come back to check later."
Nan Qiong Shuang was stunned for a moment and looked at the person in front of her in surprise.
Sui'an wrinkled his nose like a little animal and pointed at her: "If you dump it secretly again, you're done."
She blinked: "An An..."
Sui'an turned around in confusion.
"You... redeemed yourself? From the general?"
As soon as she said this, she remembered that General Hu had been killed by her a long time ago.
"...What?" Sui An was stunned for a moment, thinking she was mentally ill, scratching his head, "What redemption, what general?"
"You..." She chose her words carefully, "where are you from?"
"Where did I come from?" she wondered. "Sister, why are you so mad? We were born here, what do you mean by 'where did I come from'?"
She was stunned again.
Sui'an came over and placed his warm palm on her forehead. He then touched his own forehead and compared it with hers, muttering, "Your brain is burned out. No, it's not."
Nan Qiong Shuang rubbed her temples and sighed.
What's going on.
She couldn't remember where she was or what she was doing.
But suddenly he saw that the tattered "Classic of Mountains and Seas" on the table had opened itself at some point.
“…its head is called Zhaoyao Mountain, which overlooks the Western Sea. It is rich in laurel, gold, and jade. There is a grass there, which looks like leek and is green and bright. It is called Zhuyu. Eating it will not make you hungry. There is also a tree there…”[1]
She was stunned.
A mountain of gold and jade.
What was she going to do in the Mountain of Gold and Jade?
Redeem yourself. She thought about it.
She smiled with a sense of relief. "It's good that you're free now. Don't worry about me. Go find the mountain of gold and jade, and don't come back."
Sui'an scratched his head, bent down and looked at her at a right angle, staring at her like a fool for a long time, and then said cautiously:
"Sister, are you stupid?"
Nan Qiong Shuang sighed: "How can you talk like that?"
"No, but..." Sui'an walked to the window and put his hand on the dull brown-red window panel.
Push it open with a loud noise.
Suddenly, the light became brighter, the golden light opened up, and the whole room was filled with swaying bright light.
Nan Qiong Shuang's eyes suddenly widened.
Outside the window, golden mountains are stacked and rugged, large chunks of white jade are scattered on the hillside, and lush green jade is dotted beside the winding mountain path.
Cranes with a red dot on their heads flew in a straight line and entered the mountain in a line amidst the clouds and mist.
The mountain path is full of osmanthus flowers.
Nan Qiong Shuang was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground.
The almost fierce golden light reflected in her eyes, and Sui An said suspiciously:
"——We live in the Gold and Jade Mountain."
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