Chapter 661 An Extra Person

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On the morning of the second day, Xu Han and the others arrived at the Ox-Head Tomb mentioned in the nineteen mouths.

He picked open the weeds in front of the tombstone at the top of the mountain and looked at the broken handwriting on the tombstone. He asked, "Is this the place?"

Xiao Nineteen lowered his head absent-mindedly and did not answer Xu Han's question immediately. On the other hand, Zhou Yuan didn't dare to neglect Xu Han. Seeing that Nineteen didn't say anything, he hurriedly smiled and said, "We searched here that day. We also asked many people in the surroundings that they had never heard of a Niutou Village nearby. Later, we met a hunter and found this place."

"Furthermore, according to what he said, a few months ago, he saw a little girl and a little monk come here. From his description, it seemed to be very similar to the person Pavilion Master Xu was looking for, and the time of their appearance was also consistent."

"Yes." Hearing this, Xu Han nodded, but did not comment.

Then, he reached out his hand to wipe the dust off the tombstone. Only then did he see the words on the tombstone clearly: Princess Jingyuan of Dachu, Li Dongjun Li, the foolish husband of his beloved wife Fang Qingqing's tomb.

"Li Dongjun!?" Seeing those last few words, Xu Han's body couldn't help but tremble.

"It's the Li Dongjun you're thinking about." At this moment, a gentle voice sounded in Xu Han's ears. Xu Han turned around and saw Ye Hongjian carrying a thick ancient book and looking at him with deep eyes.

Ye Hongjian's expression was calm, as if nothing unusual had happened. However, the more calm she was, the more uneasy Xu Han felt.

However, Ye Hongjian did not seem to feel this. She walked to Xu Han's side. At that time, the ancient book in her hand was stuffed into Xu Han's embrace. Then, she turned her eyes to look at the tombstone in front of her and said, "Yesterday, after hearing what Nineteen said, I went to Yanxia City and found this city chronicle in the satrap's yamen."

As she spoke, Ye Hongjian reached out her hand to gently pinch some weathered stone fragments from the tombstone and placed them on her palm to carefully examine them.

Xu Han was stunned again. He subconsciously looked at the book in his hand, only to see a few words written on the slightly yellowed title page, "Yan Xia Cheng Zhi".

He hurriedly opened the Chronicle of the City and folded one of the pages in the footer. Xu Han's heart warmed. He also guessed that this must be what Ye Hongjian said. He could probably imagine that Ye Hongjian went to Yanxia City to obtain this item and stayed up all night looking for clues after hearing about it last night. However, he quickly suppressed the throbbing in his heart and looked at the words on the page.

This Chronicle of the City clearly had a few years of history. The pages of the book were yellow and the handwriting on it was somewhat blurry. It took Xu Han a lot of effort to understand what was said above.

Great Zhou calendar three years, dead Chu remnants entrenched in Niutou Mountain, general liuzhuang was ordered to exterminate the enemy.

Three thousand soldiers surrounded Niutou Mountain 67 days, its ascension road, cut its escape gate, the thief army is cold, in the evening of the sixty-seventh day all self-determination on Niutou Mountain.

After Xu Han finished looking at this place, he was still a little confused, but before he could ask, he lowered his head to look at Ye Hongjian, who was holding the stone fragments in his hand, and said again without raising his head, "Look back again."

Xu Han was stunned for a moment before realizing that the footer of another page in the book was also folded by Ye Hongjian.

He did not suspect him, and hurriedly lowered his head to flip through it.

The remnants of Great Zhou were ambushed and executed, and hundreds of corpses piled up like mountains, leaving no one buried. The people in the vicinity often said that there were women's cries at night, as if their souls hadn't dissipated. At that time, the satrap didn't dare to bury himself because of his status as a remnant sinner.

In July of the same year, an eminent monk returned to this place. After practicing for a hundred days in front of this corpse, he finally lost his soul karma and buried it. Thus, Niutou Village was renamed the Ox-Head Tomb.

After reading this article, Xu Han raised his head again and looked at Ye Hongjian and asked, "However, the Chronicles of the City did not mention the identity of that high monk."

At this moment, Ye Hongjian seemed to have finished sizing up the stone fragments in her hand. With a gentle wave of her jade hand, the stone fragments in her hand were blown up under the cold wind and dissipated into dust.

"This tombstone is two hundred years old. It can be matched in time." Ye Hongjian clearly intended to make things difficult for Xu Han. She did not even look back at Xu Han and said to herself, "According to the records of Great Xia, five years after Chu, the fourth year of the Great Zhou calendar, Li Dongjun returned from the west. Since then, Long Yin Temple has changed its neutral attitude and fully supported Great Xia's Great Ancestor, Li Hanbing." "It was precisely because of this that Li Hanbing was able to unify the rulers of the Northern Territory in a short period of three years and establish a Great Xia Dynasty that could contend against Great Zhou."

This period of history could not be considered as Xin Mi. The reason Li Dongjun was respected as a State Teacher by the Great Xia Royal Court was largely because of his ability to bridge the gap between the two. That was why Long Yin Temple had fallen to the Great Xia bloodline.

However, Xu Han was still puzzled and asked, "But even if that's the case, I'm not sure if this Li Dongjun is that Li Dongjun."

Although Xu Han was extremely skeptical about Li Dongjun's life and death, and even about good and evil, he was still a world-renowned Saint Monk. Xu Han did not dare to speculate on such a matter that was contrary to the Buddhist Dao.

Hearing that Ye Hongjian was hiding, she couldn't help but turn her head and fiercely glance at Xu Han. However, she seemed to feel that this was inappropriate and quickly withdrew her gaze.

That inadvertently flowed out of all sorts of amorous feelings, that suddenly awakened after caution. The two interweaved together and landed on the proud girl, causing one to feel especially distressed.

"The scripture pavilion of Long Yin Temple has a lot of documents about Li Dongjun's life, "Of course, it's true or false, but most of the things he recorded in the first half of his life had mentioned a woman. Some said that this woman was the princess of Da Chu, some said that she was the first grandson of an immortal, and some said that she was the first grandson of an immortal. Although the words were different, without exception, this woman's identity was presumably incomparably noble."

"The book once said that Li Dongjun went to Chang'an, the capital of the Great Chu Kingdom, to impart Buddhist dharma after he had just learned it in the Long Yin Temple. However, it was already the end of the Great Chu Empire, and Emperor Chu was almost unable to extricate himself from the superstition of the Half-Demon Dharma. He disdained Buddhist dharma and even hated it."

"So after hearing that Li Dongjun opened an altar under his eyes to teach, extremely angry, once ordered the army to capture Li Dongjun, is also the woman to protect Li Dongjun. However, judging from the situation in Da Chu at that time, it seemed that only the princess' body of a thousand gold could accomplish this. Later on, there were even rumors that after Li Dongjun returned to Long Yin Temple, because she admired Li Dongjun, the woman had rushed all the way to Long Yin Temple to obtain the Buddhist dharma from Long Yin Temple. "Even when Li Dongjun decided to head west to Kunlun to pay respect to the Mahayana Buddha Dharma of his ancestors, that woman had also appeared in the group that sent him off."

"After Da Chu perished, There are records of a direct descendant of the Da Chu royal family, the daughter of a royal family, who brought the remnants of the Da Chu family to fight against the rising dukes after the destruction of Da Chu. "However, after several defeats, the records of the remnant's whereabouts became blurry. The last time it appeared was in the vicinity of Qingzhou, two years after Chu, and the title of the daughter of the royal family at that time was the word Jingyuan!"

Ye Hongjian's long speech caused everyone present to be stunned. After a while, they finally reacted.

"But what does this have to do with what happened to us today?" Seeing that the atmosphere was silent, Zhou Yuan asked cautiously after a moment of hesitation.

"Yeah, Aunt Hongjian, what are you talking about? Isn't this the little monk called Guang Lingui we're looking for? What does it have to do with Li Dongjun?" Nineteen, who was at the side, regained his senses from the disappointment of not finding his master yesterday and not responding to Zhou Yuan today. Then, he looked at Ye Hongjian strangely with a puzzled expression on his face.

Ye Hongjian, who had only been in her twenties this year, was called an aunt. Naturally, she was extremely unhappy. Azure veins bulged around her beautiful face and temples.

She glanced carelessly at Xu Han, and then said faintly, "I just sigh. A person lives for a lifetime, but for decades, life and death are fleeting. I think when Li Dongjun erects such a tombstone, he will definitely feel regret in his heart. So..."

When she said this, she intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Xu Han and said meaningfully, "So even a sage would have such distress. The lesson from the past is still there, and we shouldn't let down this glorious time."

Nineteen naturally did not understand, but Xu Han and Qin Keqing's expressions changed at that time, their expressions inexplicable.

However, before Xu Han and the others could digest Ye Hongjian's sudden sigh, Ye Hongjian quickly said again, "Of course, apart from sighing, Li Dongjun's identity has a lot to do with us."

Saying this, the expression on Ye Hongjian's face immediately became solemn.

She said, " Guang Lingui once said that he came from a remote temple in Great Xia, but he didn't know the name of that temple. He didn't even know the name of the old monk who had accompanied him since he remembered it."

'"Let's not talk about the strange part of this for the time being, but that time, Liu Dingdang lost control. After forcefully breaking into Long Yin Temple, a monk who claimed to be Li Dongjun once projected out from Guang Lingui 's body. From this, it can be seen that this little monk must have some connection with the missing Li Dongjun."

"Furthermore, the hall master of Dark Asura Hall who claimed to be the King of Ksitigarbha seemed to know about this matter. He did not reveal much surprise when he saw Li Dongjun's appearance that day, and it was not difficult to tell from his words at that time that he seemed to know Li Dongjun very well."

Xu Han listened to Ye Hongjian's words, and after pondering for a bit, he also took over the conversation.

"Ever since the first time Linglong Pavilion saw Guang Lingui , I have noticed that this little monk is unusual. He is lacking in Hongjian s … as Miss Hongjian s said …" Xu Han said with a slight stagnation. He did not seem to be used to this change in address. However, it seemed that apart from Ye Hongjian, the rest of the people who were focused on finding out why the Niutou Village had disappeared out of thin air did not notice Xu Han's brief pause.

"The relationship between Guang Lingui and Grand Xia Imperial Teacher Li Dongjun is extremely suspicious, but the strangest thing is … if Niu Tou Village really doesn't exist, then where did Guang Lingui go after the Linglong Pavilion Battle?"

"Could it be that some Guang Lingui lied to Uncle?" Nineteen raised her doubts on the basis of the principle of judging others by herself.

"Probably not" Xu Han frowned and said. He, Guan Guang Lingui , had risked his life for that Liu Ding Dang. At that time, Liu Ding Dang was in danger and was almost devoured by the half-demon energy in his body. Fortunately, Xu Han saved Liu Ding Dang's life with the Emperor's blood essence.

Even if Guang Lingui wasn't grateful to Xu Han, Liu Dingdang's situation was extremely unstable. It seemed that Guang Lingui wouldn't lie to Xu Han about this matter because of Liu Dingdang.

"Besides, didn't you say before there is also a hunter has seen the wide forest ghost and liu dingdang back here? If they really want to deceive me, they shouldn't come back here on their own, because if we come looking for him, we will definitely discover their tracks. "I think it's more likely that they think the same way in their hearts about the existence of Niutou Village ."

Such a deduction could not be said to be unreasonable, but there were still some unimaginable and even unexplainable details.

Zhou Yuan frowned and thought for a moment. He then said, "I see what you mean, You mean someone created an illusion, Or use some kind of divine ability to change the cognition of the two of you. Furthermore, it is said that after Guang Lingui and Liu Dingdang were exterminated in Niutou Village, Liu Dingdang developed a strange illness. Then, the Ksitigarbha appeared, and Liu Dingdang was also transformed into a half-demon. In other words, it is very likely that all of this was done intentionally by the Ksitigarbha. But... "

Before Zhou Yuan could finish his words, Xu Han's body suddenly trembled when he heard those words. He seemed to have thought of something. He suddenly stretched out his hand to block Zhou Yuan's path. He frowned and said, "What did you just say?"

Zhou Yuan was stunned, but he didn't dare to disobey Xu Han. He was afraid that he had said something wrong that angered Xu Han, so he carefully said, "I say if all of this has anything to do with the Ksitigarbha King."

"Something's wrong." However, this time, he was interrupted by Xu Han again before he had a chance to finish his sentence. "Just one more sentence..."

The surrounding people were also puzzled by Xu Han's strange attitude at this moment, so they all looked at Xu Han.

Zhou Yuan became even more frightened. He carefully sized up Xu Han's expression and said tentatively again, "It was Guang Lingui and Liu Dingdang who were annihilated in Niutou Village."

"Yes!" Xu Han slapped his forehead nervously at that time. Then, he swept his gaze across the crowd. Then, he lowered his head and raised his eyes. In a strange and gloomy tone, he asked faintly.

"If Niutou Village didn't exist from the beginning..."

"Then who is Liu Dingdang who has been following Guang Lingui?"