Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 345 The thief never escapes
Seeing this, the senior sister was a little disappointed, "It's not the jade seal?"

"Normal. This tower was built to enshrine the Buddha's finger." Following the principle of the Gou Chen Si that no task should be left empty-handed, Ren Yuan reached out and put the piece of Buddha's bone relic into his sleeve.

"The jade seal is not here," Senior Sister said in a muffled voice, "Then we have worked in vain, haven't we?"

"No, Zu Sima would never lie to anyone but his son." Ren Yuan said firmly, "Look for it again, there may be another trick."

As he said this, he moved out the small altar table, and sure enough, he saw two rows of long depressions underneath. Ren Yuan counted them, and found that there were eight digits on both the top and bottom. He didn't even look at the question, and directly placed the counting chips on the table:
Three one four one five nine two six.

Three one four one five nine two seven.

This is the value of pi obtained when cutting into a 192-gon!

As the last counting chip was placed, the light of a teleportation formation appeared under their feet.

The next moment, he disappeared on the top floor of the tower...

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When the two appeared again, they found themselves still in the tower.

Although it looked no different, their spiritual sense told them that they had come underground.

This floor has no mechanism, but is used for offerings like the first floor. However, what is offered are not Buddha statues, but seven portraits of emperors wearing crowns and robes.

Ren Yuan looked at them one by one, and saw that they were:

'Statue of Emperor Gaozu of the Great Qi Dynasty';
'Portrait of Emperor Xuan of the Great Qi Dynasty';
'Statue of Emperor Wu of the Qi Dynasty'

'Portrait of Emperor Jing of the Great Qi';
'Portrait of Emperor Gaozong Ming of the Great Qi Dynasty';
'Statue of Emperor Shang of the Great Qi Dynasty';
'Da Qi and the Emperor's Statue'.

There is an offering table in front of each statue, with incense, candles and offerings on it.

Ren Yuan could only barely recognize that Emperor Taizu Gao should be Xiao Daocheng, Emperor Gaozong Ming should be Xiao Luan, and as for the fat Emperor Shang, he should be Donghun Hou...

"This should be the Seven Temples privately set up by Xiao Zong." After all, A Yao had also tasted incense, so she understood it at a glance.

"It's not easy for him to collect all these decades together." Ren Yuan sneered.

"The emperor has seven temples, three for the emperors, three for the emperors, and the temple for the emperor Taizu, making it seven." A Yao shook his head and said, "The Qi Dynasty did not have so many emperors, they just made it up."

"I understand." Ren Yuan nodded, glanced at the incense sticks on the altar that had not yet burned out, and said, "He just came here not long ago."

"It's even possible that he hasn't left yet." After a pause, he swept his spiritual sense and saw the golden candlestick on Xiao Baojuan's altar, which was obviously much brighter than the ones on other altars.

Ren Yuan walked over, stretched out his hand and tried to turn it, and saw a secret door on the ground open with a click, and light came out from the lower level.

He was just about to exchange glances with his senior sister when A Yao had already rushed forward on his sword.

Ren Yuan is so embarrassed. Although senior sister has always been a man of action, she is particularly reckless today!

He quickly activated his golden elixir to its strongest level and rushed down.

I saw that the second underground floor was arranged as a bedroom and a study. In addition to daily living utensils, there were also pens, ink, paper, inkstone, books and documents... Although it was also very simple, it looked much more normal than the bedroom in the governor's office.

Xiao Zong really hadn't left yet, or rather, he was living here. At this moment, he was sitting on the bed, with a sword-wielding female demon in front of him, confronting A Yao.

The demon girl had an extremely beautiful appearance, with jade-like scales on her forehead, eyes as blue as the deep sea, and black hair like seaweed that fell to her waist, covering a pair of snow-white breasts with graceful curves.

Her lower body was wrapped only with a piece of gauze as thin as a cicada's wing, and her pair of straight white legs were faintly visible. Her ankles were adorned with a string of pearls, sparkling brightly in the dark room.

"The Mermaid." Ren Yuan exclaimed in admiration and said to Xiao Zong, "Your Highness is quite charming." According to legend, the Mermaid's tears can turn into the most precious pearls, so it is impossible for her to be bought with money.

He looked relaxed, but he was secretly nervous. According to the files of the Gou Chen Division, Jiao Xiaonu was a great demon who had passed the twelve levels, which was equivalent to the nine orifices of humans...

Xiao Zong sat on the bed, putting on his clothes in an orderly manner, and said coldly: "Who allowed you to trespass into my bedroom?"

"Please, this is under the White Pagoda of Daming Temple, how come it has become the prince's bedroom?" Ren Yuan put his hands in his sleeves, shrugged with a look of contempt, but his fingers were secretly drawing a silver talisman quickly.

Yes, after obtaining the golden elixir, he can use the silver talisman, which is stronger than the purple talisman, to fight the enemy.

"This is the place where I meditate in Daming Temple. Naturally, it is also my bedroom." Xiao Zong was dressed neatly and tied his hair simply behind his head.

"What a good way to practice meditation, it's almost like dual cultivation." Ren Yuan sneered.

"You have disrespected me several times, so die here today." Xiao Zong stopped talking nonsense and ordered the girl, "Kill them."

The mermaid nodded, and the mermaid silk on her body instantly turned into a hundred-foot-long silk thread, which wrapped around Ren Yuan and A Yao at the same time.

"Don't look down on others!" A Yao gave a delicate shout, and the Ziwei sword shot out like lightning. With a swish, it cut a big hole in the thin and impervious mermaid silk, and then fought with the Cangming sword of the mermaid girl in a flash.

At the same time, Ren Yuan also disappeared out of thin air, avoiding Jiao Xiao's stranglehold, and appeared in front of Jiao Xiao in a blink of an eye, with a "Five Mountains Pressing Down Divine Talisman" slapped towards her head.

In an instant, the five mountains turned into a huge rock weighing tens of millions of tons and smashed down on the head of the Mermaid.

This is not an ordinary Mount Tai pressing down on one's head. The mountain is also engraved with soul-calming inscriptions. Not only will the gravity be increased a hundred times, but the opponent will be restrained in place and unable to dodge. Not only will the body of the person hit by it be destroyed, but the soul will also be forever suppressed under the Five Mountains.

Come to think of it, this was taught to him by his teacher's nephew Tao Hongjing...

But the Mermaid was indeed a great demon who had passed the twelve levels. She once raised a huge wave in extreme anger and overturned dozens of ships of the imperial navy.

At this moment, her legs turned into a fish tail with silver-blue scales, which raised huge waves and slammed heavily towards the Five Mountains that were pressing down!

The tower on the ground began to shake due to the violent shock wave underground, and the monks who were chanting scriptures in front of the tower were knocked to the ground and lay all over the ground.

"What? An earthquake?" The monks looked around in a daze until they heard someone shouting, "Run! The pagoda is going to collapse!"

The chanting monks finally got up and scattered to hide, but dozens of them were still crushed to death by the collapsed white pagoda...

The surviving monks looked at the collapsed pagoda with lingering fear. It was not until the dust settled that they saw that it was actually a man and a woman fighting a half-human, half-fish monster.

"Where did this monster come from? How dare you come to our temple and cause trouble?!" The abbot who came upon hearing the news was furious and led the monks to rush over.

Although both sides are probably not good people, the inhuman appearance of the mermaid still attracted most of the hatred.

The Mermaid did not expect that this pair of men and women, who looked too young, could actually fight with her.

Seeing the bald donkeys rushing towards her again, she slapped her tail fiercely, causing a ten-foot-high wave. The crests of the waves condensed into ice blades, which rolled over the enemies.

The monks hastily brandished their weapons and frantically fought back. When the wave finally passed, they were all soaked to the skin. The one man and two women who were fighting in the arena had all disappeared.

"Who did this?!" The abbot did not bother to chase them, and hurriedly sensed the presence of the Buddha's bones, but he could not sense anything, and his defense was immediately broken.

"My Buddhist sect will not forgive them!"

(End of this chapter)