The Old Man in the Painting

Chapter 304 The Old Man in the Painting

At the entrance of the abyss, Pangong Tso and a group of great witches and witch kings rushed here. Of the hundreds of magical masters of the Mandi Kingdom, less than a hundred were left, and the rest had died in the mysterious and unpredictable Mingu Forest.

Even though countless waves of great wizards from the Loulan Golden Palace had explored this place before, this large-scale exploration still resulted in heavy casualties among them.

For Pangong Tso, it didn't matter how many people died, as long as it wasn't his own life. The lives of these soldiers, great witches, and even the witch king were expendable at any time. His purpose in bringing these people was to let them protect him and use their bodies to build a road to the center of the Dark Valley.

As an old monster who has lived for thousands of years, he can already ignore the lives of other people. The only thing he cherishes is himself.

“Finally I’m here.”

Pangong Tso stood beside the abyss and looked down with a somewhat obsessed look. The Nether Valley had just come into his sight sixteen years ago. During that spaceship incident, the aliens crashed into the Nether Valley in their treasure ship, which attracted the attention of three forces.

The Loulan Golden Palace, the Heavenly Demon Sect, and the Great Leiyin Temple all focused their attention here. At that time, the Heavenly Demon Sect had no leader, and Tathagata of the Great Leiyin Temple knew some secrets, so neither of them explored this place in depth.

By then he was already very old, and because he valued his life, he did not come in person, but hid in the Golden Palace waiting for his reincarnation. However, the broken sword brought by the Witch King of the Golden Palace of Loulan from the Dark Valley made him realize that this spaceship was extraordinary.

Now that he has successfully reincarnated, he can finally come here. In addition, Luandi Khan is preparing to use troops against Yankang State, so he can borrow Luandi Khan's troops to enter here.

"Gongmu, do you feel it?"

Pangong Co whispered: "This place is full of soul power. The power contained in the broken souls gave birth to these strange lives. This is the best holy place for us great witches to practice."

Beside him, these great witches and witch kings only felt waves of throbbing in their souls. The aura here made their souls and spirits rejoice as well.

This place is filled with the power of spirit and soul, and the spiritual power and soul power are so abundant that they even far exceed the Golden Palace of Loulan!

Along the way, they have seen the strangeness of the life in the Nether Valley. The life in the Nether Valley is a nightmare-like existence for the soldiers of the Mandi Kingdom, but for these great witches, they are walking tonic pills. Of course, this kind of tonic pill is somewhat dangerous.

The Great Witch uses the souls of other living beings as a means of cultivation!

Gongmu Witch King greedily breathed in the breath coming from the abyss. The spiritual power and soul power there were stronger. He exclaimed: "If my Golden Palace can gain a foothold here, it can strengthen the strength of our great witches and make cultivation more efficient! The spiritual power and soul power here are extremely beneficial to the improvement of the Yuanshen!"

The Loulan Golden Palace is originally stronger than the soul and the spirit. They have profound attainments in the soul and the spirit. Other holy places, even the Great Leiyin Temple, are slightly inferior in attainments in the spirit.

It's just that their cultivation method is weird, using the souls of living beings to cultivate, so it is criticized. If they can occupy this place and use the spiritual power and soul power here to cultivate, the Loulan Golden Palace will definitely grow to a level that was unimaginable before!

The rise of this grassland holy land will surely be able to compete for the Central Plains and surpass the holy land of Middle-earth in one fell swoop!

"The most important thing about Hades Valley is not this, but the spaceship."

Pangongcuo looked a little obsessed, and whispered: "What attracts me is not how to use the spiritual power and soul power here to cultivate, but how to break through, break through the boundary between man and God. This ship should have what I want. It came from outer space..."

He didn't say much and jumped down. The other great witch kings and the remaining soldiers of the Mandi Kingdom also jumped down and guarded around him.

After all, Pangong Tso is a place that has lived for ten thousand years and knows a lot of secrets. Other holy places, such as the Taoist sect of the Great Leiyin Temple, rely on the historical records in the holy places, and the records in the classics may be biased.

He recorded history through memory and had experienced a great deal.

Moreover, although his life span was not as long as the history of the Great Leiyin Temple and Taoism, Pangong Tso was once a high-ranking official in Taoism and the Great Leiyin Temple, and he had even been to Xiaoyujing and seen the secrets recorded there.

"This ship might have come from that mysterious place. It might be the only place in the world where one can become a god. No matter what, I must get this ship and go there!" he thought to himself.

In mid-air, they were attacked by all kinds of strange creatures in the abyss. Many soldiers, great wizards and wizard kings took action and tried their best to protect Pangong Tso. They left behind more than a dozen corpses before they reached the bottom of the abyss.

On the treasure ship, Qin Mu looked at the demonic energy that was constantly retreating, feeling a little hesitant.

There must be a very terrifying existence in this evil energy, I don't know if it is a creature from Youdu, but its strength is extremely powerful, even surpassing the two white bats. With just one sentence of Youdu language from Qin Mu, this existence retreated. There seems to be something strange here.

After the evil spirit receded, the shrill screams that lingered here suddenly disappeared, and the surroundings became extremely quiet. The strange creatures that came from the Netherworld were also nowhere to be seen.

Because it was so quiet, it seemed even more eerie.

“The terrifying existence that exhausted those two monks to death may have already arrived on this ship!”

Qin Mu frowned. The ship was now so quiet that it was a little scary.

"Long Pang, Yuchun, Yuqiu, let's go in and take a look. If we encounter any danger, retreat immediately!" Qin Mu said in a deep voice and took the lead to step forward.

Fu Yuchun and Fu Yuqiu hurried forward, flapped their wings and flew up. The two white bats flew silently, upside down in front of Qin Mu. Long Qilin followed behind Qin Mu, ready for battle.

They moved forward from the left side of the treasure ship and encountered a honeycomb seal when they reached the center of the treasure ship. The honeycomb seal here was still very tight, with only faint demonic energy leaking out from the cracks.

Suddenly, there was a creaking sound from the building next to us, and a door creaked open, and a faint light came from inside.

Two white bats quickly dodged, hung upside down on both sides of the door, and looked into the room.

This room was one of the buildings on the deck of the treasure ship. The room was seven zhang long and wide. There was a screen and a jade table. The candlestick on the jade table was still lit. A bronze crane was holding an incense burner in its mouth, and smoke was rising from the incense burner.

There was no one in the room, but judging from the candlesticks and incense burner, it seemed that someone had been here just now.

"It's safe here!" said Fu Yuchun.

Qin Mu opened his Qingxiao Sky Eye to look, but didn't see anything wrong. He then scanned again with his Danxiao Sky Eye, but still didn't see anything wrong.

They walked into the room and looked around. Fu Yuqiu said, "Strange, this door has never been opened before, why is it opened today..."

"Never opened it before?" Qin Mu was slightly stunned.

The two white bats nodded. "The door on this ship cannot be opened. No matter how hard we try, it still can't be opened. It's very strange."

There were not many things in this room. The screen was embroidered with green mountains and green waters, a small boat in the middle of the river, and an old man sitting at the bow fishing. A white bat came to the jade table and wanted to pick up a candlestick for lighting, but it couldn't lift it, so it had to give up.

Qin Mu looked around the place and felt vaguely that something seemed to be watching them, but he couldn't sense the source of the gaze, and he was secretly alert.

He looked around and the feeling of being watched was still there. Qin Mu turned his head suddenly, but still didn't see anything.

His vital energy surged out and turned into a mirror reflecting the surroundings. Suddenly, he saw the old man fishing in the painting on the screen quietly turned his head and secretly looked at them.

Qin Mu quickly turned around and rushed towards the screen. The old man who was fishing was panicked. He quickly dropped his fishing rod and ran from the screen to the wall with great agility. He spread his legs and went through the wall to another door.

Qin Mu immediately chased after him, opened the door and rushed in. Suddenly, there was a bang of a door closing behind him. Qin Mu was startled and stepped back hastily. The Worry-Free Sword behind him flew into the air and turned into a cloud sword to protect his body. At the same time, he stretched out his hand to push open the door behind him and said in a deep voice: "Brother Fu, Fatty Long, come in quickly! Brother Fu..."

Qin Mu turned his head and was slightly startled. He saw that the door was not the room he came from, but another room. This room looked like a woman's embroidery room!

And the room he had just entered had disappeared without a trace!

The two white bats and the dragon unicorn also hurriedly pushed open the door, but there was no trace of Qin Mu. Their faces changed drastically and they hurriedly opened other doors, but they couldn't find any trace of Qin Mu either.

"wrong!"

Long Qilin used his claws to slap the door behind him open, poked his head out to take a look, and said in a lost voice: "This is not the room we came in from! There is something strange about the rooms on this ship!"

The two white bats closed the door, and when they opened it again, the room had changed, and they were in another room. This happened again and again, and every time they closed and opened the door, the room was different!

“It’s over!”

Fu Yuchun's face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "If we don't find him, and wait for the poison to explode, our White Bat Tribe will be extinct!"

"Don't panic."

Long Qilin said: "There must be a total number of rooms here. There can't be an infinite number of rooms. As long as we find the same room, we can find the pattern. By the way, how good are your attainments in numerology?"

Qin Mu's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately walked into the embroidery room. He closed the door behind him, looked around, and thought, "I came in from this door, and when I came out from this door, how come it was a different room? There must be some space folding method used here. Although this ship is very large, the rooms in the building cannot be endless, they must be limited. As long as the number of rooms is limited, we can find the pattern."

He calmed down and looked around. There was a wall lamp on in this embroidery room, and several women's embroideries were hung on the wall. Below was a table, and on the side of the table was a handkerchief with a picture of a dragon playing with the wind.

The desk is at a lower level, with brushes, ink, paper and inkstone on it. There is a cushion below for sitting, and the ink on the paper is not yet dry: "The dew wets the delicate yellow, and the wind sways the green. The evening beauty of the world is not unintentional, the fairy's light makeup is as beautiful as the sky. Who can compare?"

I suddenly stopped writing here. I guess I encountered something urgent and couldn't finish it.

Qin Mu checked the handwriting and secretly praised it in his heart: "The handwriting is not inferior to mine, it's just a little more delicate."

At this moment, the old man who was fishing suddenly entered the painting in front of him and winked at him. Qin Mu sneered and picked up the brush to wipe it down. The old man quickly jumped onto the table, ran to the wall, and escaped from another door.

Qin Mu immediately picked up his pen and chased after him. The old man in the painting entered another room and disappeared, and no one knew where he was hiding.

Qin Mu entered the room and looked around. This room was a study. The books in the study were very old. Qin Mu took out a book and wanted to open it, but he couldn't open it.

Suddenly the old man in the painting jumped out of his book and into another book.

Qin Mu hurriedly pulled out the book, and this time he was able to open the book. He flipped open the book and saw that it was a family tree.

"In this era, Kaihuang Qin Huiye is the common ruler of the world..."

Qin Mu was stunned. "The Kaihuang who created an ocean of blood with his sword? This Kaihuang also has the surname Qin, which is the same as mine."

This family tree was very thick, and it recorded the life and marriage of each Qin person in just a few words. Qin Mu quickly flipped through it, looking for the old man in the painting. When he turned to the last page, he saw the words: "The 107th generation is Han Zhen's son, Feng Qing."

The family tree ends here.

————I am still in Shanghai. I got off the plane last night and rented a hotel. Then I caught a cold and couldn't go home today. Now my throat is inflamed. I am staying in the hotel and plan to go home tomorrow. I have been away from home for more than ten days. I miss my home and children. I feel a little drifting. I will try to update the second time in the evening. If I can't do it, I will make up for it after I recover from the illness.