Qingchuan Valley was a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. Within the valley was a primeval forest, and it was very vast. This mountain range was called Qingchuan Mountain, and it was marked on the map. A few hundred miles to the right was the Heavenly Fire Cave, and far to the left was the famous Heavenly Jade Mountain.
In terms of strength and influence, Heavenly Jade Mountain was far superior to Red Swallow Mountain. It had been dominating the region for many years, and Tianmen Province had failed to take it down several times.
"If you need anything, use this seal. Feiyu Dojo is preparing for the banquet. Don't waste too much time. It's best if you come with me when we return."
Staring at the vast mountains and forests, Su Fang was in a dilemma about how to find the specific location of the fortifications. Luo Muxue recalled her celestial sword, and flew to the right after saying that.
Watching her leave, Su Fang immediately rushed to the valley with his longing for his father, his promise to his mother, and his grandfather.
Entering the forest, it was almost like entering a primeval world. All kinds of strange plants appeared in front of him, and the wild grass was much taller than a person.
Su Fang stepped on the wild grass to search. As long as he passed by a place, he used his mortal vision to search carefully. Even so, he didn't find anything for several days.
In front of a stream in the depths of the valley, Su Fang was washing his face with water. However, he was surprised to see some bones lying at the bottom of the two-foot-deep water.
He immediately followed the stream upstream and searched along the shore. As he expected, there were more and more bone fragments. Only when he found two skulls did he confirm that they were human bones.
"There are so many bones somewhere near here. It should be the fortifications that were to be built back then, and also the place where my father met with an accident."
He felt a chill in his heart. Through thousands of rivers and mountains, through his own hard work, step by step, he became a Great Perfection Cultivator. He changed his fate and relied on himself to touch the gate of heaven to become a cultivator.
His purpose was to find his father. He hoped from the bottom of his heart that his father was still alive, but it was too far away and his father couldn't come home.
He didn't want to find his father's remains, nor did he want to find the family's lost treasures.
Suddenly, he felt that if he didn't find any news about his father, he would still have some hope and perseverance in his heart. At this moment, he regretted it.
He continued to search upstream. Human bone fragments were everywhere. When he came to the source of the stream, he saw a natural karst cave located at the foot of the mountain. It was like a divine dragon opening its mouth, and spewing clear and sweet water from the stream.
When Su Fang arrived at the karst cave, he was stunned.
In the open space on both sides of the karst cave, there were at least dozens of dried corpses lying on the ground. Although they had become dried corpses, the clothes they wore were recognizable at a glance. They were cultivators from Tianmen Province.
This was most likely the resting place of the cultivators who had been summoned for the mission back then. There were too many corpses, making it hard for Su Fang to breathe. The cave was filled with waves of Yin Qi.
"Weren't these people accidentally attacked by demonic beasts? Why are their corpses so intact? There are no external injuries at all, and it seems like they died here at the same time."
Unable to move a single step, he stood in front of the cave entrance. When he calmed down and saw so many dried corpses, he suddenly had all sorts of doubts.
He strode over to the mummified corpses and sized them up. He then looked at the other mummified corpses, but he didn't find any tokens they carried or anything that could indicate their identity in Tianmen Province. He also looked at the mummified corpses more closely, and to his surprise, he found that the bones of the mummified corpses were actually black.
"They were poisoned, and the poison entered their internal organs. They weren't attacked by demonic beasts, but died from poisoning as a whole. It seems like there was no struggle, and there were no signs of fighting. This is too unusual."
As he continued to study the mummified corpses, Su Fang discovered more things.
The mummified corpses seemed to have been poisoned at the same time. They seemed to have died from the poison without any struggle, as if they had all taken the poison together.
"Father!"
At this time, Su Fang only wanted to find his father's skeleton and take him out of this Cave of the Dead.
More than twenty years had passed. Some of the clothes on the mummified corpses were hard to identify, while others were recognizable. But how could he find his father? Even though Su Fang knew what his father looked like from portraits since he was young, the mummified corpses were all skeleton-like. How could he find his father?
After a long time, he still couldn't find his father's skeleton. Instead, he found three more mummified corpses in an unnatural cave in the depths of the karst cave.
Two of the mummified corpses had their heads separated from their bodies. The other one was complete, but there was a deep sword mark on its neck. These three mummified corpses were not poisoned. Judging from the position of the mummified corpses, they were killed almost at the same time without any reaction.
The clothes on the three corpses seemed to be protective armor before they died, but now only their undergarments were left. Although he couldn't tell if they were disciples of Tianmen Province, judging from the extent of their decay, these three were definitely not ordinary cultivators. He could roughly see their outlines, and the meridians under their skin hadn't completely contracted.
This meant that their meridians were abnormally strong. Naturally, the rate of decay was slower than that of ordinary cultivators. They might be powerhouses of the Secret Path Realm.
"Mm."
The three corpses didn't have anything that could identify them, but Su Fang found something from the corpse with the sword mark on its neck and the right hand curled under its lower abdomen.
Turning over the corpse, he was surprised to find that the corpse was holding something in its right hand. It seemed to have used the last of its strength to hold the thing in its palm.
Taking it down, he saw that it was a piece of cloth woven from golden silk. Even after so many years, this golden cloth still exuded a rich aura. It was obviously not something an ordinary person could own.
Turning the other side of the golden cloth, he saw four words embroidered in silver: "Internal Guard of King Yue"
Internal Guard of King Yue
What did this mean?
Seeing that these three corpses were killed in an instant, and this mummified corpse seemed to be the strongest, but he was also the last to die. Before he died, he even had physical contact with the killer and tried his best to tear off this piece of cloth from the killer. Perhaps he didn't want to die for no reason and wanted someone to discover the killer's identity.
"What kind of mission did they come here for that they ended up being killed to silence all of them?"
Holding the golden cloth, Su Fang looked at the three corpses and thought of the mummified corpses that were killed by the poison. Only then did he realize that all of this was not simple.
And his father's death was not an accident, but a man-made one.
Su Fang went to the karst cave and searched the corpses one by one, but he didn't find any weapons. It seemed that the Falling Moon Blade that his father brought was also missing.
Obviously, the killer wanted to destroy everyone's identity here and took away anything that could prove their identity, leaving behind only the cold corpses.
"Buzz!"
Unable to identify his father's remains, and unable to find the family treasure, the Falling Moon Blade, Su Fang was disappointed and listless. He felt powerless, as if everything he had done was in vain.
The token at his waist suddenly moved slightly, and Su Fang immediately walked out of the karst cave. In just a short while, Luo Muxue flew over.
After Luo Muxue landed, she immediately saw a large number of mummified corpses in the karst cave. With her cultivation and knowledge, she immediately realized something. "Could it be that the disciples who carried out the mission back then all died here?"
Ignoring Su Fang, she went straight into the karst cave and quickly came outside. "There are secrets in here, and they are secrets that ordinary people can't know. Killing so many people to silence them doesn't seem like an outsider's doing. Otherwise, how could there be no traces of fighting? Although Heavenly Jade Mountain is very close to here, they can't kill so many people in such a short time without anyone noticing."
"Tianmen Province closed the case with a Demonic Beast attack. It's very likely that they sent people here to investigate. If it was really done by Heavenly Jade Mountain, Tianmen Province won't let it go."
Su Fang clenched his fists tightly, because his father was killed in this deserted place. He had been lying here for more than twenty years, but there was no explanation.
How could he not be angry?
He wanted to seek justice for his family.
"Milord." Su Fang handed the golden cloth to Luo Muxue and said, "My father has been lying here for more than twenty years. As his son, I can't even find his bones. Milord, please help me find the murderer. I want to take revenge for my father so that he can rest in peace in the underworld."
After Luo Muxue learned where the cloth came from, she fell into deep thought for a while. It seemed that Su Fang could see that it wasn't that Luo Muxue couldn't recognize the cloth, but that the cloth had a great background that made it difficult for her.
Suddenly, Luo Muxue asked seriously, "Do you really want to avenge your father?"
Su Fang understood and frowned. "I must avenge him. If there's one person, I'll kill one person. If there's ten thousand people, I'll kill ten thousand people."
The latter said coldly, "Then you must be prepared. The King of Yue's Internal Guards are the soldiers under his command. Who is the King of Yue? He's one of the three Princes of the State of Zhao, which means that other than the current Emperor of the State of Zhao, the three Princes are the most powerful existences. Even ten Tianmen Province can't compare to the power of one Prince. The Princes can command Tianmen Province and any forces around the State of Zhao. With one order, they can send an army to Red Swallow Mountain and Heavenly Jade Mountain and destroy these forces. Under the Princes, there are countless cultivators and experts. Among them, there are many experts who have reached the Dharma Insight Realm and the Supernatural Realm. Not to mention those experts, even the Princes' strength is comparable to the current Tianmen Saint Emperor."
"Isn't he like a giant elephant?" Su Fang felt suffocated. "The Princes are like elephants.
They're high and mighty. Other than the Emperor, the State of Zhao is incomparably powerful. It's an empire of cultivators. Tianmen Province is just an existence that guards the State of Zhao. If the State of Zhao wants to destroy Tianmen Province, it'll only take a day. Su Fang, your enemy is such an unshakable existence. Do you still want to avenge him? "
"Of course I will. Even if he's the Emperor, I'll take his head. Master, I have to enter the State of Zhao and get close to the King of Yue. I'll find a chance to kill him. Can you help me?"
"Kill the King of Yue, Su Fang. With your Secret Path Realm cultivation, you can't even see his shadow, let alone kill him. How can you kill him? I can help you. During the banquet in Tianmen Province, there's a messenger from the State of Zhao who works for Prince Langjun. I can introduce him to you. If he likes you, you can be directly transferred to the State of Zhao to work for the Prince."
"King Langjun."
One King of Yue, and another King Langjun. Su Fang felt that the road to revenge was like a road to heaven with no end in sight.
"Think about this carefully. If you want to find the enemy who killed your father, it's undoubtedly more difficult than going to heaven. Once you've embarked on this path, you won't have the chance to turn back. Think about it and tell me through Bai Ling. If something happens to you in the State of Zhao in the future, you'll implicate me. If I offend the King of Yue, I'll end up like this mummy."
Luo Muxue handed the golden cloth to Su Fang and solemnly reminded him.
Su Fang thought for a while, picked up a piece of black bone, and followed Luo Muxue on the immortal sword, leaving the Qingchuan Mountains.
Tianmen Province
Before they got close to Tianmen Province, Luo Muxue left Su Fang and rushed back to Tianmen Province alone.
"King of Yue."
Su Fang, on the other hand, found a quiet place deep in the mountains. He took out the black bone that he took from the Qingchuan Valley and studied it.
Su Fang transmitted a thought, "Xuan Huang, let Dao Wuliang out. I have something to ask him."
"Okay, this old fox has been very obedient recently. He won't be able to cause any trouble." Xuan Huang immediately responded, and his right arm was covered with a mysterious Xuan Guang.
Then, the shadow of a pagoda flickered, and a yellow figure shot out.
The author's words:
It's the weekend again, and the Spring Festival is getting closer. There are many people and cars, so be careful when you go out.
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