Xuanxia

Chapter 542: Tracking
Let’s go back in time to not long ago.

"Uu——"

With a long whistle, the horses stopped.

The Mingjian Pavilion secret envoy holding a torch turned around and said loudly: "Commander-in-chief! Master Ning! This must be the place!"

The emissary jumped off his horse, stood on the top of the mountain, and looked down the hill at the long dragon-like team of torches.

The firelight illuminated the hundreds of secret envoys from Mingjian Pavilion and book guests from Paishulou, as well as the three people at the end of the team.

"Finally, I found it!"

At the end of the team, Yue Heng was pale and struggling to lie on the horse's back, but his face was full of joy: "Master Li, Master Ning, let's go quickly..."

Before he could finish his words, his face suddenly changed, and he jumped off his horse, crawling and rolling. He hugged a tree and started vomiting loudly.

Li Jingzhe and Ning Wuwang looked at each other, both of them had helplessness in their eyes.

"It seems that Mr. Yue has not ridden a horse much."

Ning Wuwang smiled slightly and said softly, "Come here, help Mr. Yue and calm him down."

"Yes."

Two men who looked like scholars jumped off the horses nearby and took good care of Yue Heng. They patted his back to help him calm down and fed him some pills.

They are the people in the Mingjian Pavilion's book collection building, also known as "book guests".

In the past, most of them were responsible for the clerical and logistical work in Mingjian Pavilion. Of course, everyone who could enter the Book Collection Building and become a book guest was a person who practiced magic, and naturally they often provided magical assistance to the secret envoys who were carrying out their missions.

Watching Yue Heng gradually recover his breath, Li Jingzhe finally spoke leisurely: "Mr. Yue, let's take a quick look at the specific location of the target."

"well."

Yue Heng gasped heavily, took out a scroll from his arms and unfolded it in his hands.

It was actually a landscape painting in ink. The ink in the painting seemed alive and kept surging. Eventually, it flowed and combined into a new landscape painting. Everything in the painting was exactly the same as the forest they were in!
Not only that, the painting even outlined a large group of hundreds of people, and even the torches in their hands appeared vividly in the painting.

Yue Heng exhaled gently and chanted a spell.

Before this, he sent a message to Concubine Zi, and it didn't take long before he received a reply from the palace - the person who came to contact him was an old eunuch.

The old eunuch bowed and nodded to him respectfully, and with a wave of his hand, a group of young eunuchs followed him and presented him with magic weapons and documents recording their uses.

The most important thing is this map.

According to the requirements recorded in the document, Yue Heng asked Si Yu to hold the map and light the talisman paper that could locate Qiu Chan. Then the mountains and water on the map appeared, faintly pointing to the mountains and forests about thirty miles northwest of the capital.

After he determined the location, the old eunuch squinted his eyes, wrinkled his orange peel face, and whispered to him that the elite troops that could be mobilized in the entire Mingjian Pavilion were waiting for him to set off together...

Yue Heng vaguely knew that there seemed to be a huge conspiracy behind Fu Qingzhou's investigation of Wuli Village.

But... this conspiracy seems to be even bigger than he imagined!

So, without thinking too much, he immediately responded to the old eunuch's request, climbed onto the horse brought by the eunuchs with difficulty, and hurried to meet up with Mingjian Pavilion. After that, he galloped all the way to this place.

As for the sisters from Ziqi Xianfeng Temple...

According to the old eunuch, the affairs of Mingjian Pavilion involve serious cases of the court, and irrelevant people are not allowed to participate...

Along the way, Yue Heng relied on the scroll in his hand to repeatedly determine the location of Qiu Chan and the others. The location became more and more accurate, and finally landed on the hill in front. At this time, he finished chanting a spell, and a bright light slowly flashed on the circle, as if a small firefly had landed on the scroll and stopped at the top of the hill.

"right here!"

His eyes lit up and he spoke decisively.

Li Jingzhe and Ning Wuwang showed understanding expressions when they heard this.

"Mr. Yue."

Ning Wuwang smiled and said, "You are not feeling well, so please wait here for a while. I and Lord Li will go ahead and take a look."

Li Jingzhe also said slowly: "There is nothing on this mountain. The person we are looking for is probably in the mountain below... If we want to go deeper, I am afraid it will take some effort. Mr. Yue, please wait for a while."

Yue Heng knew their identities and positions, and also knew that he could not help at the moment, so naturally he did not dare to have any opinions and quickly bowed in response.

Li and Ning waved their hands, and the secret envoys and scholars swarmed to the top of the mountain. They used their abilities to investigate what was so special about the mountain.

"Master Li."

After walking a little further, Ning Wuwang said softly, "The emperor actually personally issued an order, asking us to temporarily follow Mr. Yue's words and come here to look for people and clues. And it seems that Mr. Yue was also involved in the last incident at Jinchan Temple."

"He is someone close to Fu Qingzhou." Li Jingzhe said leisurely, "He injured a member of the Lan family and was put in jail. He also implicated our Mingjian Pavilion. Your Paishulou was also implicated. Have you forgotten?"

"Haha, now that you mention it, I remember it."

Ning Wuwang smiled and said, "It seems that this Fu Qingzhou and his friends have climbed onto the emperor's high branch and are about to soar to the sky."

"Humph."

Li Jingzhe snorted softly: "Before he approached His Majesty, he had already had a very good relationship with your sister. Even the Master Swordsman ordered him to investigate the case. You should know this."

"Of course I know." Ning Wuwang still maintained a faint smile: "It seems that before long, this Young Master Fu and this Mr. Yue will become our colleagues in the court."

As they were talking, the two of them had already ridden their horses to the top of the mountain.

A group of secret envoys and book guests had been struggling here for a long time. When they saw them coming, several of them came over one after another.

"Tell me, what did you find?"

Li Jingzhe asked condescendingly while sitting upright on horseback.

"Your Excellency." A secret envoy saluted and said, "My colleagues in the Book Office have done a divination and found that there should be an ancient tomb in this mountain."

"Tomb?"

Li Jingzhe was a little surprised: "Who would build a tomb so close to the capital? Is the feng shui here good?"

“Haha, not good.” Ning Wuwang laughed and said, “On the contrary, the situation on this mountain is scattered and chaotic, the dragon veins are not gathered, and the vitality is difficult to retain… Although the mountain is steep, there is no sign of wind and energy gathering. Instead, it is scattered and leaked. This is a very unlucky feng shui.”

"A cemetery is meant to be a place of peace, but this mountain tomb is easily occupied by evil people and is difficult to preserve. There is even the worry of extinction of the descendants."

Hearing this, Li Jingzhe said "Oh" lightly, but raised his eyebrows: "Interesting, it seems that some villain has occupied this ancient tomb and is doing something..."

He glanced at Ning Wuwang, who nodded slightly to him.

The two reached a consensus, and Li Jingzhe ordered in a deep voice: "Then don't delay, open up the passage from here to the ancient tomb as quickly as possible!"

(End of this chapter)