Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 177: Beautiful Mountains and Waters, and a Great Person
Tang Xiaotang's question was exactly the question Tang Zheng wanted to ask, but of course there was no way to answer it for her.
In fact, except for Li Zhi, it would have been no problem for Lu Wantang or Xu Feng to apply for a formal temporary nameplate. However, they chose to go the crooked way instead of going through the formal channels. Tang Zheng really didn't believe that they were just there for a "visit".
Leng Zhan, Jiang Wuyan, and Meng Fenghua did not say anything, but whenever someone in their team fell behind, they would tacitly follow that person. In the end, only Tang Zheng and Tang Xiaotang were left, and they followed Lu Wantang closely.
As he passed by the side door of the academy, Tang Zheng saw a familiar figure at the door, who was making a handover with the academy's steward...
Aren’t those two white horses pulling the carriage his and Xu Qingyan’s Snow Region warhorses?
Tang Zheng vaguely heard the words "wine" and "prohibition of alcohol", and knew that Xu Qingyan was probably discussing with the deacon the issue of transporting wine into the academy.
It seems that Xu Qingyan acted quite quickly, as he managed to get the wine that he wanted to use to "bribe" Li Xiaoren and sent it to him so quickly.
However, the focus now seems not to be on wine...
Just as Tang was thinking this, another person jumped off the carriage.
Ning Mo!
Tang Zheng's eyelids twitched.
If it was just to deliver wine, Ning Mo would definitely not come, but the fact that he came in with Xu Qingyan meant that there must be something going on.
Ning Mo was a former instructor at Yisu Academy. With his permission, Xu Qingyan and the wine in his carriage were of course allowed to enter freely.
"Master..." Tang Xiaotang pointed at Xu Qingyan and the others.
"Ignore them and follow Lu Wantang first." Tang Zheng shook his head. "Neither Xu Qingyan nor Ning Mo are the kind of people who can't make their own decisions."
As they spoke, they followed Lu Wantang and went into a maple forest near the side door.
The maple leaves in the maple forest of Yisuli Academy are not as bright red as those in the maple forests outside for some reason. They are sparse and not beautiful. However, they are quite suitable for concealing one's tracks.
"Uh, they stopped." Tang Xiaotang even stopped breathing, fearing that she would be discovered by Lu Wantang and the others.
"It's okay, it's still far." Tang Zheng patted her shoulder, signaling her not to be nervous.
Sure enough, Lu Wantang and one of his followers did not stop just because they discovered any clues. Lu Wantang took out a scroll from his pocket and looked at it carefully for a long time.
Before he could say anything, Tang Zheng immediately pulled Xiaotang and hid behind a tree.
"Master, didn't you just say..." Tang Xiaotang was about to speak but was stopped by Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng lowered his voice and smiled: "Just now was just now, now is now..."
Tang Xiaotang looked puzzled.
Tang Zheng shrugged: "To put it simply, they took the wrong road."
"..." Tang Xiaotang's puzzled expression turned into speechless one.
Facts proved that Tang Zheng was right. Lu Wantang and his follower turned back the same way and entered the maple forest from another fork in the road. Tang Zheng waited for them to walk for a while before following them with Xiaotang.
After passing through the maple forest, there is an entrance to the back mountain.
The terrain of the back mountain of Yisuli Academy is very complex, which is why the last test to enter the academy was chosen here. There are many entrances to the back mountain, but it can be confirmed that each one is within the academy.
"There is a real-life martial arts arena, a medicinal herb garden, and... a warehouse in the back mountain of the academy." Tang Zheng followed them inside.
"Where exactly is their goal?"
"It shouldn't be a warehouse, right? Although they took a shortcut, a large group of people may be arriving soon. Wouldn't they be bored?" Tang Xiaotang said.
"Hmm..." Tang Zheng watched and saw that they did not go towards the warehouse.
We walked deep into the back mountain and came to a big banyan tree. Suddenly, a few people came out from another direction.
Tang Zheng and Tang Xiaotang saw that the person who would be with Lu Wantang and the others was Li Zhi, and Lan Shaoze who was following behind him.
There were a few bloodstains on Lan Shaoze's body. They should be the blood of some animals that he had been attacked by in the back mountain just now.
Tang Zheng looked behind them again. The one who should have been following Li Zhi and Lan Shaoze was Jiang Wuyan, but at this time, Xu Qingyan and Ning Mo were also beside Jiang Wuyan.
If Lu Wantang and Li Zhihe reconcile, Tang Zheng and Jiang Wuyan will naturally reconcile as well.
Tang Zheng, Xiao Tang, Jiang Wuyan, Xu Qingyan and Ning Mo were all hanging far behind Lu Wantang and Li Zhi. Ning Mo saw Tang Zheng and said, "I got the news from Mr. Ban of Jubao Pavilion. Lu Wantang bought something in the inner cabinet of Jubao Pavilion - [Flying Flow Stopping]!"
"Has the rushing water stopped?" Tang Xiaotang asked.
"Mr. Ban said that just a tiny grain of this stuff can freeze the Great Falls 300 feet above and 300 feet below. If it's a bottle..."
"Can it freeze the entire waterfall?" Tang Xiaotang widened his eyes.
Ning Mo remained silent.
Ning Mo has been an instructor at Yisuli Academy for so many years. When he heard that Lu Wantang had bought this thing, his first reaction was the big waterfall on the back mountain of Yisuli Academy!
Tang Zheng was not unfamiliar with that big waterfall!
Not long ago, Li Xiaoren took him to practice footwork and martial arts at the mouth of the waterfall river. The sword marks on the mountain wall indicated that a great battle had taken place here.
That place is called Victory Cliff!
"Ning Mo, you are really good." Tang Zheng said with narrowed eyes.
"What do you mean?" Ning Mo looked at Tang Zheng in confusion.
"I can't even make my old classmate, that stubborn old man who values the reputation of Jubao Pavilion more than his life, reveal customer information...even I can't do it!" Tang Zhengdao.
"The key point!" Tang Xiaotang thought Tang Zheng had some brilliant ideas, but it turned out that Tang Zheng actually had the leisure to care about the teacher's professional ethics!
Before Tang Xiaotang could complain, she heard Tang Zheng say "hush" softly.
Xu Feng and others, who were taking a different route from Li Zhi and his group, met up with them not far ahead!
Of course, Leng Zhan and Meng Fenghua, who followed Xu Feng and the others, also reunited with Tang Zheng and the others.
"Why are there so many people?" Leng Zhan looked at Xu Qingyan and Ning Mo, "Instructor Ning is here too?"
"I'm sorry. I'm a slave now, so I can't be called instructor by Master Leng." Ning Mo immediately shook his head, skipped the topic, and talked about business. "If my intelligence is correct, then... the location of Master Leng's grave can be almost determined."
Leng Zhan stared into Ning Mo's eyes: "In this academy?"
Ning Mo nodded: "Because they bought the [Flying Flow Stopping] which is worth thousands of gold...so, the entrance to the cemetery, or the entrance to a large tunnel, is at the waterfall mouth of Desheng Cliff, where the water flow is the most turbulent!"
Leng Zhan's face froze for a moment. He had never thought that Desheng Cliff, the place where the ancestor of the Leng family became famous, was also his burial place?
Such beautiful scenery is truly worthy of the name Leng Xianyuan!
In fact, Leng Xianyuan did not have much fame in the Leng family before he entered the Seven Stars. After all, there were thousands of Leng family members, and the competition among them was fierce. Although it was certainly no problem for the children of the aristocratic family to have enough food and clothing, it was not so easy to leave a name in history.
Not to mention where Leng Xiangyuan was born and buried, few people know it, and even his real name is rarely remembered.
This is because there are too few records of how Leng Xiangyuan struggled among the millions of Leng family children in his early years and how he stood out step by step… Even if there are, most of them are some “heroic pasts” fabricated by later generations after he arrived at Qixing. The plots of these heroic pasts are more or less the same, and are all stories told by his so-called early classmates, early instructors, and early neighbors, and their credibility is basically zero.
For Leng Zhan, at this moment his anger towards the tomb robbers had been suppressed by an inexplicable excitement.
He had never thought that he would have the opportunity to know where Leng Xiangyuan's grave was in his lifetime, and even have the chance to touch the weathered boulders between the mountains and rivers and under the waterfalls with his own hands...
"We're almost there." Tang Zheng reminded everyone.
They hid behind a huge rock, using the sound of the huge waterfall to conceal their movements.
However, still be careful.
Because Tang Zheng had seen how cautious Lu Wantang was.
Once there is any problem with them, Lu Wantang will definitely notice it.
Fortunately, Lu Wantang and his companions were more nervous than the people behind Tang Zheng. When they reached the edge of Shengya Cliff, they looked at the turbulent water and frowned, saying, "Are you sure? Is this really the place?"
The sound of water is like the roar of a wild beast, which makes people feel scared.
Even a nine-star great being who has the ability to split mountains and cut rivers would still feel awe when standing in front of this wonderful nature.
"Young City Lord, we can't stay in the academy for too long... there's no time to lose!" Li Zhi reminded him.
"Yeah." Lu Wantang was not the kind of person who was indecisive. He took out a small bottle from his arms and poured it directly into the rushing water...
Behind the huge rock, Tang Zheng and the others stretched their necks.
All they could hear was the rushing water, the sound of "gurgling" gradually weakened, and streams of cold air blew towards them along the riverbed, forcing Lu Wantang and the others to take several steps back.
Even Tang Zheng and his companions who were behind the boulder felt a distinct chill.
As the saying goes, a three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight.
But the rapids suddenly froze, and it didn't even take a day. The water behind collided with the frozen water in front, creating layers of waves, which then froze again in the air, and ice peaks formed instantly...
Such a spectacular sight of glaciers and icebergs is crystal clear and beautiful.
But now no one has the heart to appreciate this view.
Because, after the narrowest and most turbulent riverbed was frozen, the waterfall not far away lost its source of water flow, revealing the mountain wall that had not seen the sun for many years...
A huge statue ten people tall appeared on the mountain wall!
