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Chapter 180 Digging the Grave

On the file found by Tang Li, it records the events of the fifth year of Guanghua.

In the fifth year of Guanghua, that is, the fifth year of the establishment of the Great Xia Dynasty, the world has just recovered from the chaos of war.In the winter of this year, Emperor Yaoguang made a private visit in a micro-clothes and passed through Lin'an, so he came to Gushan to visit in the snow.

At that time, the patriarch of Jiange was still alive, and the two of them cooked snow and discussed Taoism in the small building in the heart of the pavilion, sitting for a whole day.

The content recorded in the dossier is nothing special, except for one thing - Emperor Yaoguang and Jiange Patriarch are very familiar with each other as brothers and sisters, and there is even a sentence "conglonggonggong" mentioned in it.

"When did Patriarch die?" Meng Qiqi asked hastily.

Tang Li flipped through the file in a hurry, and finally found the record after a long time, "It was the first year of Chengwu, died of illness in Gushan."

The first year of Chengwu.

Meng Qiqi muttered in her heart, frowning.After Guanghua is Chengwu, that is to say, the second year after Yaoguang's death, the patriarch went.

If the patriarch had the merit of following the dragon, then he had a share of the credit for the establishment of Da Xia.As the master of the Jiange Pavilion, he has the key to open the secret realm, and he must know everything about the secret realm.

It can be said that he is one of the few people most likely to be close to the truth besides Emperor Yaoguang.But when Emperor Yaoguang died, he also died immediately.

Did he really die of illness, or was he assassinated?

When Meng Qiqi and Jin Man were in the small building in the secret realm, they guessed that someone deliberately erased all the truth about the secret realm.

Place names such as Jiancheng and Da'an represent the disappearance of a period of history for no reason.The erasure of historical records that should have existed should be done by Emperor Yaoguang, and only he can do it.

But after his death, the truth passed down among the few people was also cut off, and the black hand behind the scenes was most likely the White Mask.

They are planning in the dark, killing those who know the truth one by one, blinding the eyes of the world, and blocking the ears of the world.When everyone becomes ignorant, they will jump out swaggeringly and stir up wind and rain majestically under the eyes of the world.

Because everyone doesn't know the truth.

I don't know who the enemy is, and I don't know how to stop it.

They don't even know that their actions are helping themselves and helping others.

If this is the case, then Patriarch's death is unlikely to be an accident.

Meng Qiqi stared at Xue Manshan, and said, "Eldest brother, I want to know the time and reason of death of those who hold the key to the secret realm among all sects that master the secret realm. The focus is within 30 years after the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty. This is very important."

Xue Manshan frowned and said, "What are you doubting?"

"The body of the patriarch of the Wuhou Mansion appeared in the mountain, and a beast king was suppressed below. Then can we explain it this way-before Yao Guang proclaimed himself emperor, he faced not only ordinary enemies, but also countless monsters. Beast. He worked with the ancestors in the fairy gate to create secret realms, build barriers, and dig tiankengs to suppress the beast king. The senior in the Wuhou Mansion died in the process of suppressing the beast king, so he was piled up in the into the mountain of corpses."

After the words fell, several senior brothers looked at each other in blank dismay, speechless for a long time.

After a long time, Tang Li's eyes slowly widened, "What do you say, don't you...don't you mean that we once lived on the same land as monsters?"

Xue Manshan said in a deep voice: "Maybe the secret realm already exists, but thousands of years ago, the ancestors also faced the same problem as us. Therefore, they worked together to trap the monsters in the secret realm forever."

Hearing this, Tang Li felt much better immediately.

But Meng Qiqi didn't think so.Because if the secret realm existed, why was that period of history erased so completely?Since it is something that already exists, there is no need to cover it up.

Covering up the truth in such an extreme way proves that the truth must be sensational.

Of course, Meng Qiqi didn't want to say too much before confirming it.

It's just that there was still a very serious question in front of Meng Qiqi. He glanced at the faces of the three senior brothers, hesitated for a moment, and quickly made a decision.The people here are the people he trusts the most besides Chen Boyan, Shen Qingya and Zhou Ziheng. If he can't even trust these people, then his life will be in vain.

Thus, Meng Qiqi told in detail about Tang Hua and Gui Luoluo's resurrection.

In the end, he lowered his voice, scanned the faces of the three senior brothers with scorching eyes, and said, "Do you think the Patriarch is really dead?"

Tang Li shivered suddenly, the summer was scorching hot, he felt a cold sweat on his back.

Xue Manshan also felt his throat tighten, "If he hadn't died, where would he be after a thousand years?"

"Yes, this is not a matter of a hundred years, but a thousand years. So many people died in a thousand years, if everyone does not enter the cycle of reincarnation, wouldn't all the people walking in the world today be the living dead?!" Pei Yuan said.

Meng Qiqi shook her head solemnly, "So far we have only found these two people, as for the others, there is no conclusion yet."

The four of them looked at each other in blank dismay, their breathing seemed to be short of breath by the heavy truth.

After discussing with no results, the four of them began to rummage through the sea of ​​files again.According to Meng Qiqi's instructions, what they were looking for was still the dossiers from the 30 years before and after the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Holding the oil lamp, Meng Qiqi searched back and forth on the bookshelves. After a while, she actually found a manuscript written by a certain generation of Jiange pavilion masters. She held it in her hand and read it carefully.

There is no sun and moon in the book, and Meng Qiqi spent more than half an hour reading a manuscript.It wasn't until he finished reading the last word and rubbed his sore eyes that he realized the passage of time.

"Did you find anything?" Xue Manshan came over and asked.

"No, it's all about cultivation experience." Meng Qiqi was helpless, but still happy.For him today, it is always good to read more notes from his predecessors, and learn from others.

Xue Manshan said quickly: "I see that your complexion is not very good, but you have been backlashed by the forbidden technique again? You are so nonsense, why don't you take a rest earlier."

"I'm not tired." Meng Qiqi rubbed her cheeks to make them look more rosy, but Tang Li's big face suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the bookshelf, and her whole head was almost stretched out from the opposite side.

"Guess what I found!"

"Speak well, don't be disrespectful." Xue Manshan scolded.

Tang Li was devastated, when Pei Yuan appeared behind him, pulled him back, and took a glance at the yellowed paper in his hand.It's just that he didn't see why, so he handed the paper to Meng Qiqi again.

Meng Qiqi looked at it, but her expression changed suddenly.At the bottom of this piece of paper, it was written impressively—Young brother, Ping An, was buried in Jiancheng on June [-], Dingmao year.

Building a city, building a city, isn't that the same as building a city!

"Who wrote this?" Meng Qiqi asked nervously.

"It's the patriarch, there's a mourning poem on it." Tang Li said.

A combination of excitement and solemnity flashed across Meng Qiqi's eyes. His slightly pale face made him look sick, but this did not stop him from pursuing the truth in the slightest.

He wished he could dig up the grave of the patriarch immediately and open the coffin for an autopsy, but that would be disrespectful.

How about going secretly at night?

But Xue Manshan knew him so well, once he saw his expression, he knew what he was up to, so he asked again and again.

Meng Qiqi was still reluctant to say it at first, he was afraid that if he did, the matter would become unrevealed.But Xue Manshan was worried about his safety, so he was not allowed to go to Yinshan to threaten him, so he had to compromise.

"We'll open the coffin for an autopsy right away!" Meng Qiqi said with a determined tone.

"Are you crazy?!" Pei Yuan said.

"I'm not crazy, this is to seek the truth, for the entire Jiange, for the people of the world, is it possible that the Patriarch can still come back alive and strangle me to death? How could he blame us!" Meng Qiqi was righteous.

"But digging your own ancestral grave by yourself..." Tang Li said, he felt that this behavior was a bit absurd.That's the patriarch, not someone else.

Meng Qiqi immediately said sternly: "What we worship is the patriarch, not a tomb. To practice extraordinary methods in extraordinary times, this coffin must be opened!"

At this moment, Meng Qiqi seemed to be the embodiment of righteousness, awe-inspiring and inviolable.

The three senior brothers didn't understand the character of the younger senior brother, they could tell the truth from the false in this statement, but Meng Qiqi's words were indeed reasonable.

Tang Li and Pei Yuan looked at Xue Manshan together, Xue Manshan pondered for a moment and said, "Open the coffin."

So the four of them didn't look for the files, and rushed to the ancestor's grave in Houshan at night, and Pei Yuan took four big shovels from the firewood room.A pavilion master, two pavilion elders, and a junior martial uncle dug up the grave of the patriarch of the dignified Gushan Jiange.

There was silence all around, except for the sound of digging the soil with one shovel after another.

When the coffin, which had been dusty for thousands of years, was exposed in the air again, a dank and muddy smell rushed over.Holding the torch, Meng Qiqi jumped into the pit. The black coffin looked ordinary, without any pattern.

In the night wind, everyone seemed to be able to hear their own heart beating faster and faster.

A bug jumped onto the coffin, as if wondering why these people came here late at night.Meng Qiqi lightly brushed it off, said in a deep voice, "Disciple offended", and decisively pushed the coffin board away.

With a dull slamming sound, the coffin board was pushed aside.Meng Qiqi, Xue Manshan, Pei Yuan, and Tang Li all looked into the coffin, only to see a skeleton belonging to an adult man lying in it.

There is no sword in the coffin, because everyone in the Jiange will put the sword into the sword grave after death.

The patriarch was still there, which made Meng Qiqi feel happy or worried.

He moved the torch closer, carefully observed the skeleton, and asked, "Is it him?"

Xue Manshan also leaned over and touched the skeleton's right leg—it was recorded in the file that the patriarch had broken his leg, so his leg bones should be different from ordinary people.

He groped carefully for a while, and sure enough, he touched the broken bone.Comparing to the figure of this skeleton again, he said: "It should be the patriarch."

"Huh? Do you think the color of this bone is a bit wrong?" Tang Li's voice suddenly sounded.

"Color?" Meng Qiqi immediately moved the torch closer and took a closer look. Sure enough, the bones were not as white as ordinary people's bones, and there was a faint trace of purple-black in the cracks and joints.

Meng Qiqi and Xue Manshan looked at each other, and immediately inspected the skeleton carefully from the inside out to the toe.

Tang Li asked: "Could this be poisoning?"

"It's possible." Meng Qiqi said, suddenly, he smelled a familiar smell from the thousand-year-old corpse.He hastily picked up a bone and put it under his nose to sniff it carefully, confirming again and again.

Seeing this, Tang Li once again sighed in his heart: Junior brother is really a warrior.

Don't blame the patriarch, don't blame the patriarch.

Xue Manshan looked at Meng Qiqi quietly, waited for him to put down the bones, and then asked, "How?"

Meng Qiqi narrowed her eyes, "To determine the correct cause of death, I have to dig another grave."

"Dig one more? Whose?" Pei Yuan clenched the shovel in his hand, anyway, he dug up the grave of the patriarch.

"Hou Muyun." Meng Qiqi said.