On the West-Hill Peach Mountain, the Divine Hall of Light seemed very special.
It had been without a master for more than a decade, but it still had a strong hidden power. The people in the Divine Hall of Light also had a firm belief that was hard to imagine by the common people and the priests of other Divine Halls.
This was related to the nature of the Divine Hall of Light and the history of Haotian Taoism. For countless years, the Great Divine Priest of Light seemed to always be the most special one in Haotian Taoism. It was even more so when it came to Wei Guangming.
The creed of the Divine Hall of Light was that light would not make mistakes, so their belief was very firm. It pointed directly to the Great Divine Priest and even gradually overshadowed the majesty of Haotian.
Wei Guangming's imprisonment in the You Prison was an unbearable humiliation for the people in the Divine Hall of Light. In addition, the West-Hill hierarch and the other two Divine Halls spared no effort to suppress and weaken the Divine Hall of Light, which made them extremely angry. How could they believe that the successor chosen by the Great Divine Priest of Light was the Daughter of Yama?
They firmly believed that Sangsang was the Lady of Light and that the storm after the Lanke Temple was just a plot by the West-Hill hierarch and the other forces of Haotian Taoism to suppress the Divine Hall of Light. They believed that it was an extremely dirty thing.
In this case, how could they let the Lady of Light be imprisoned or killed? However, they were relatively weak, so they could only bear it for a long time and then suddenly exerted their strength. They came from all over the world with the sea rain and wind, and kept sacrificing and dying. They used their own lives and souls to escort the black horse carriage through the blockade of the Buddhist and Taoist sects and successfully entered the Wilderness.
Ning Que had no faith, so it was difficult for him to understand it. The Divine Hall of Light's strong and focused faith in Wei Guangming and Sangsang made him even more confused and shocked.
The black horse carriage traveled on the Wilderness.
He looked at the black soil melting outside the window and said, "My whole family and Darkie's entire village died in the hands of your teacher. But I have to admit that your teacher is a very great person."
"A thousand years ago, the Great Divine Priest of Light founded the Enlightenment Doctrine. A thousand years later, you, the Lady of Light, became the Daughter of Yama. In the intervening thousand years, your teacher was probably the biggest anomaly or traitor of the West-Hill Divine Palace. Compared to him, Longqing was nothing."
Ning Que looked at Sangsang and said, "But I don't understand. Wei Guangming has been looking for the Son of Yama all his life, and he has even killed his whole family and resorted to all kinds of means. When he died together with Master on Nameless Mountain, he had already revealed his intention of seeing through your real identity. Then why didn't he tell you?"
In the Lanke Temple, Sangsang's identity was exposed. There was a lot of evidence. When he mentioned this to Sangsang later, Sangsang told him the story on the mountain on the outskirts of Chang 'an. Comparing the two, it could be seen that Wei Guangming already knew that Sangsang was the Daughter of Yama before he died.
Sangsang shook her head and said blankly, "I don't know."
Ning Que stopped thinking about this. He thought of the four priests in red who had self-destructed and the subordinates of the Divine Hall of Light who had died tragically. His expression turned serious and he said, "The Divine Hall of Light will definitely be purged this time. I even suspect that this is a conspiracy of Haotian Taoism. Those bigwigs want to use the opportunity of hunting you to force the Divine Hall of Light to reveal all their hidden strength. Then they will use purging them as an excuse."
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If they could not return to their homeland, where could they settle down?
Sangsang had once asked Ning Que this question. At that time, Ning Que had said that the safest place for them now was the back of the mountain of the Academy, where there was no one else.
The most sparsely populated place in the world was naturally the Wilderness.
From the Lanke Temple to the Western Wilderness through the space passage left by Buddha, and then to Yuelun, Ning Que had thought about the route to the Pamir Mountains in the east, and then to the current route. But he had never thought about going south.
That was because the south of the Yuelun Kingdom had always been too quiet.
The powerhouses of the Buddhism and Taoism sects had always stayed in the east and north of Yuelun. They did not place anyone in the south, which was separated by the primeval forest from the Great River Kingdom and the South Jin Kingdom.
This kind of silence was very strange. In Ning Que's eyes, it was very scary.
That was why he had firmly chosen to go east and north instead of south. Because although there were countless powerhouses of the Buddhism and Taoism sects in the northeast, he could imagine how powerful they were. As for the quiet south, he did not know if it was the sword of the Sage of Sword, Liu Bai, or the hierarch of the Western Cult who was waiting for him. What if the Abbey Dean appeared?
The black horse carriage continued to move into the depths of the Wilderness.
After a few days, a swamp shrouded in fog appeared in front of the horse carriage. At this time, the sky was dim, so the swamp in the fog looked especially quiet and gloomy. Ning Que knew that if he had a good view, he could see that the swamp spread to the north and south, and he could not see where the edge was.
This was the quagmire.
It was a very ordinary and even petty name, but it was the largest wetland swamp in the world.
The Wilderness where the Xuankong Temple and the Right King's Palace were located was called the West Wilderness. To the east was the Great Wilderness where the Golden Palace was located, and this swamp was between the West Wilderness and the Great Wilderness. It was like the vast Min Mountain, which naturally separated the two Wilderness. If one wanted to go to the Golden Palace, then he had to pass through this swamp.
The black crows circled above the horse carriage, cawing from time to time. They had accompanied them for too long, and Ning Que was already used to it. Anyway, he could not do anything to these black crows, and he could only pretend that he did not see them. The black crows became bolder and bolder, and at this time, two of them even landed on the horse carriage.
The swamp was very dangerous. The fog lingered all year round, and it was very easy to get lost. In the mud covered with shallow water and grass, there were many hidden pools that could devour people. Even Ning Que did not have full confidence to walk out.
The black horse carriage stopped at the edge of the swamp and rested for a while. Ning Que made some simple but high-calorie food, and ate it with Sangsang and the Big Black Horse. He also decocted medicine for Sangsang to drink, and then stood on the roof of the horse carriage to explore the way.
Two black crows squatted at his feet, and looked up at the iron cylinder-like thing between his hands. They cawed, as if they wanted to ask him what it was.
Ning Que was a little annoyed by the crows' cawing. He stretched out his feet to chase the two black crows away, and then jumped off the roof. He walked to the window and handed the binoculars to Sangsang, looking a little uneasy.
"Can't you see the way?" Sangsang asked.
Ning Que nodded and said, "The fog in the swamp is too thick, and I can't see the gravel path that the herdsmen mentioned before. There is a talisman array in the horse carriage, so I'm not worried. I'm just worried that the Big Black Horse will fall into it."
The Big Black Horse softly neighed when it heard that.
Sangsang walked down with the big black umbrella. Ning Que guessed what she was going to do, and shook his head disapprovingly. He said, "I told you not to use the black umbrella, and your body is so weak now."
"I used it in Chaoyang City, and I didn't feel anything happened. If Yama really used the black umbrella to find me, why haven't I seen him for so many years?"
Sangsang said with a smile. Seeing that he still did not agree, she led the Big Black Horse, stepped on the saddle, stepped on the horse's back, and then climbed to the roof of the carriage. She crossed her hands and opened the big black umbrella.
At the edge of the swamp, a black flower bloomed on the roof of the carriage.
After a long time, Sangsang motioned for Ning Que to carry her down.
Ning Que noticed that her face became paler, but her body temperature was still normal, so he was a little relieved.
"The swamp is too deep, and I can't see far. But there are indeed gravel paths, but they are covered by mud and water plants, so it's hard to find them. Besides, Master Qi Mei and the others are only 30 miles away from us."
After saying this, Sangsang rubbed her slightly painful eyebrows. She suddenly felt annoyed in her chest and abdomen, and coughed repeatedly. What made people feel helpless was that what she coughed up was not blood, but some black foam.
Ning Que took out a handkerchief and wiped the black foam off the corner of her mouth. He found that the black foam looked very clean and did not smell fishy. It even had a faint sweet smell. He smiled and said, "It really looks like black sesame paste."
Sangsang frowned slightly and said uncomfortably, "It's too disgusting."
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According to common sense, swamps and wetlands should only appear in hot and humid areas in the south. This place was deep in the Wilderness, and it was cold and short of water all day long. There should not be any swamps at all.
However, the quagmire was really strange. There were countless geothermal sources under the Wilderness. For tens of thousands of years, they constantly spewed hot spring steam to the surface of the Wilderness. It never froze all year round, which was why there was such a large swamp.
It would not freeze even in the cold winter, and there would only be a thin layer of frost on the surface of the swamp. It was almost spring now, and the hot springs quietly flowed and spread. The thin frost had all melted, and the swamp became even more muddy.
The Big Black Horse's front hooves all sank into the wet mud of the swamp, and there was a smacking sound. Its chest was touching the ground, and it looked extremely dangerous. However, it was just bored and put its head in the mud, as if it was resting.
Ning Que stepped on two large pieces of iron and walked to its side. He reached out and grabbed the reins. He activated the Great Spirit slightly, and a strong force appeared in his right arm, and he forcibly lifted it out of the wet mud.
The Big Black Horse hurriedly turned to the side, and finally walked to a slightly firmer ground. It kept shaking its head, but the mud on its head could not be shaken off no matter how hard it tried, and it looked very embarrassed.
Sangsang's body was slightly better. The water vapor in the swamp was rising, and the temperature was not low, so she had been sitting on the shaft of the carriage to relax. Looking at this scene, she could not help but laugh.
At this time, they had already reached the depths of the swamp known as the quagmire, and there were no longer any pursuers behind them. What they had to resist now was not the human world, but nature.
The ground of the swamp was extremely soft, and it was difficult for plants to grow in the water that was rich in sulfur and other things. There was only endless wild moss, which made it even more slippery to walk, and it was easy for them to sink into the dark pool.
For ordinary people, this swamp was equivalent to a dangerous place. Although Ning Que and his group were not worried about being swallowed by the swamp, it was still extremely difficult to walk. They often could not find the pebbles that the herdsmen had mentioned under the moss, and they had to wade through the mud, which made their speed very slow.
Fortunately, the talisman array made the carriage as light as a feather. Otherwise, they would not be able to walk more than two miles in this swamp. There were a few times when they encountered a large area of water, and they really could not find a way through. Ning Que had to spend a lot of Psyche Power to stick several wind talismans on the Big Black Horse, and they finally got through the difficulties.
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