C15 Rescue Spider
At this time, Wang Meng's pursuers had already taken a detour halfway down the mountain to the bottom of the rock. They saw two horses galloping in two different directions and immediately split up to give chase.
Wang Meng himself and a few soldiers walked over suspiciously.
Dong Jialuo was still unhurriedly falling down his food cap. In the sound of "Dong Dong Dong", the buckle in front of him had gradually turned into mincemeat for the pigs to feed. This was something that must be done by the farmers of this generation.
Wang Meng stared at the rock for a long time. Other than the messy tracks of the horses' hooves, there was nothing else.
The four devils of the Wang family then galloped over, ordering the soldiers who were following them to go through all the bucketloads.
Those soldiers were all experts of the imperial court, and all of them were as fierce as wolves or tigers, throwing their swords, spears, and halberds straight into the pile of buckwheat.
Except for the pile of chaff in front of Dong Jialuo, all the buckwheat had been turned over.
"Hey!" Old man. Did you see anyone come down from the top of the cliff? Where did they all go? " Yang Meng glared at Dong Jialuo and spoke viciously.
Dong Jialuo stopped what he was doing. He did not speak, pretending to be afraid, only mumbling, ah ah ah ah, trembling body nodded and bowed, finally pointing upstream direction, and then pointing downstream direction.
Lee Hengfang knew that the river flowing from the east to the west was actually the Xi Er River. However, when they stood at the time of the Nanzhao, the Xi Er River was sparsely populated and desolate.
Yang Meng believed that the upper reaches of the river contained the Erhai Lake, while the sides were the Purple City. Duan Siping wouldn't go that way, so two people went west to report to the Purple City. He pointed his mace to the lower reaches of the river and chased after them.
When Dong Jialuo saw Yang Meng and his group pass the mountain pass, he immediately pulled away the buckwheat, pulling Duan Siping towards the northern hill pathway and started climbing.
Daoist Everlasting and Lee Hengfang rose up along their climbing route.
Just as the two of them climbed to the halfway point of hill, Wang Meng and the others who had just turned around suddenly returned.
Having lost Dong Jialuo, Wang Meng became angry out of embarrassment. He shouted loudly and dismounted from his horse, walking on foot as he chased after Dong Jialuo.
Duan Siping and the others reached the hill. The hill was the entrance to a temple. The gate of the mountain had been broken down, but one could still clearly see the three words "Te En Temple" on the gate's plaque.
Without any time to think, the two of them pushed open the mountain gate.
The three doors were three to four Zhang away from the stone steps at the back of the great hall. In the yard of the mud field, it had been raining for some time before it started to get wet.
Duan Siping was about to walk in, but he was stopped by Dong Jialuo.
"Master's Qing Gong is famous. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let you fly down from the top of the mountain. I just don't know if you can reach the stairs without leaving a footprint." Dong Jialuo asked.
Duan Siping heard this and did not say anything. He took a deep breath and jumped forward about seven to eight feet; when his body was about to fall down, the two hands moved down like swallows' wings, and then with a left kick on his right foot, the body rose up again and flew forward another four to five feet. Then, he did the same action again and leaped forward another two to three feet before landing steadily on the stone steps in front of him and turning back to look at Dong Jialuo.
"Swallow!" Lee Hengfang was secretly surprised.
Wu gave his Master a thumbs up, then took off his shoes and cautiously walked back to Duan Siping with bare feet on the muddy ground.
Duan Siping saw Dong Jialuo had arrived at the other side before putting on his shoes. He quickly understood the purpose of his advisor's words, and a look of admiration appeared on his face.
The two people that flew above them after a thousand years also secretly admired Dong Jialuo.
The door of the temple was slightly ajar. Duan Siping and the others went in and closed the door.
As soon as Daoist Everlasting chanted the spell, they were already standing in the middle of the temple.
At this time, on the other side of the mountain gate, Wang Meng and his men were gasping for breath while swearing.
"Are we walking in the wrong place? The Duan Clan brat hasn't come up yet and no one is walking in here. We only see him walking out!" Someone said so.
Then came Yang Meng's voice: "I'm indeed very tired to carry several kilograms of mace up here. You guys can go to the temple and search. Don't let them fool you again. I'll take a break and come to the temple to take a look!"
When Duan Siping and Dong Jialuo heard this, they hurriedly turned around and stood behind the dejected statue as if they had received some guidance.
Behind the statue was a cliff. So this temple was built on top of a mountain rock.
There was a small hole in the cliff face, close to the ground. It was big enough for only one person to crawl through.
The master and the servant duo drilled their way in one after another.
Yang Meng's men came in and searched everywhere, but there was nothing.
Yang Meng finally couldn't stop worrying and followed after him. The temple was silent, devoid of anything.
Yang Meng was completely disappointed. He didn't even have time to breathe as he swung the Wolf Teeth Rod. With a kacha sound, he smashed the clay statue of the deity into pieces.
With the deity statue gone, the cave behind him immediately appeared.
However, no one would think that Duan Siping and Dong Jialuo were hiding inside the cave because the entrance of the cave was covered in spider webs.
Wang Meng did not dare to delay. He rested for a moment before leading his men down the mountain.
After a long while, Duan Siping and Dong Jialuo finally crawled out of the cave. Knowing that the spiders had saved him, they knelt down before the shattered statue.
Duan Siping promised that he would one day fulfill his long-cherished wish and rebuild the temple, then remake the golden body and believe in the Buddha for generations to come.
At this moment, at the cave entrance that Duan Siping and co. climbed out from, the spider was weaving the web again. It jumped up and down, swaying left and jumping up and down, and very quickly, it formed the pattern of a gossip.
Duan Siping was completely engrossed in the gossip. His advisor, Dong Jialuo, was also engrossed in the gossip.
Duan Siping actually stood up and took a step forward according to the order in which the spider jumped on the Eight Trigrams.
Dong Jialuo watched on the side.
The set of steps followed the gossip and headed north to south. His left foot first stepped onto the ground, while his right foot moved towards the Qiangfang Golden Gate.
Duan Siping learnt it over and over again, then respectfully left the temple gate, doing his best to demonstrate it in the courtyard.
There was a flash of white light, jumping left and right like a bolt of lightning.
"Profound Rippling Steps!" Dong Jialuo exclaimed.
Actually, when Taoist Wuji saw his expression, he had also been able to see through this advisor's heart.
Dong Jialuo thought that the spider was also giving him a strategic hint, which was that the spider wanted him to blossom in a central flower before killing everyone in its path.
The spider had ended up hanging itself on a thread and had circled from east to west for three days, which should have meant that the day of their attack should have been three years later.
Daoist Everlasting brought Lee Hengfang to see the process of Duan Siping's successful escape.
However, according to the records, while Duan Siping was hiding at his uncle's house practicing martial arts, his advisor, Dong Jialuo, was not idle because during this period of time, the cows in all parts of Nanzhao were all calling out in one voice: "Duan Siping, sit under the heavens!"
