Lucheng is located on the eastern edge of the Pinglu Oasis. It is rumored that this place was also a vast Gobi Desert thousands of years ago, with rough gravel everywhere, which is not directly connected to the Pinglu Oasis.

In the deep ridge of Wushaoling, there was a divine deer who practiced Taoism. One day, I saw the mountain at the foot of the mountain being exposed by the sinners who were the mainstream of the ancient Qiang Kingdom in survival and one hoof kicked the steep cliff of the south gate like a sword and a halberd, allowing a stream in the deep mountains to flow out from the deep forests south of Lucheng.

This is the legendary formation of the Lu River; and the Lu River did not converge into the Pinglu Sea to the west, and flowed north for more than a hundred miles from the steep northern slope of Wushaoling, but it was cut off due to the large amount of river water infiltration and loss.

Although the Lu River did not flow into the Pinglu Sea, it was so close that the newly bred oasis on both sides of the Lu River were soon connected to the Pinglu Oasis to the west.

In order to commemorate this divine deer, later generations built a city on the banks of the Lu River and named it Lucheng.

As the first city to enter the Pinglu Oasis from the Xixia Corridor, Lucheng was completely destroyed in the war twenty years ago, but in the past twenty years, business travel has been rapidly reborn because of its increasing prosperity.

Chen Hai led his horse out of a sand ridge. From a distance, Lucheng, built with black sandstone, looked like a black giant beast, lying across the gentle slope on the west bank of the Lu River.

The steep slope of the northern mountain of Wushaoling is more than a thousand feet high, like a huge blue-black barrier, stretching more than a hundred miles south of Lucheng. Chen Hai had amazing eyesight at this time, and he could even clearly see the Lu River rushing out from the cliff of the northern mountain in Wujiling...

Wushaoling stretches 16,700 miles east-west, Tieliu Ridge in the east and Dajinshan in the west, with high mountains and dangerous roads and poisonous miasma everywhere. The northern slope of Wushaoling is particularly steep, with peaks that are tens of thousands of meters high, with high cliffs and dangerous rocks, making it difficult for birds to cross.

Even if the Lu River comes from the mouth of Shixia, Wuqiaoling, is two or three thousand meters high. Looking from a distance, the rushing river water is like several silver chains two or three thousand meters long, pouring out between the stone cliffs on the north slope.

Chen Hai did not rush into Lucheng. After crossing the sand ridge, he rode a horse along the Lu River to the north slope of Wuqiaoling.

Business travelers often run to Lukai Gorge and watch the spectacular scene of the waterfall pouring thousands of feet away. Chen Hai is just an ordinary young man riding a thin horse in front of the guards of Lucheng.

After Zhang Xiong killed Ye Chentian and his son, and after the royal capital was proclaimed as king, although the Zhang family did not send troops to seal the road east of Lucheng, the situation was so tense that Pinglu Shangzhou would not risk losing both people and money to Hexi; the business travelers in Hexi would not make jokes about their own heads. At this time, they crossed the Xixia Corridor and entered the Pinglu Oasis.

However, Lucheng, which claimed to be neutral in this chaos, still gathered a large number of business travelers, waiting for the situation to calm down as soon as possible so that they can embark on a journey again before the winter so that the goods accumulated this year will be sent to Hexi and sold to various cargo warehouses.

So it is not surprising that one or two young men riding alone appear near Lucheng.

Chen Hai rode his horse to the bottom of Lukai Gorge. At this time, he saw the Lu River pouring down from the thousand-foot-high gorge, forming a huge pond with thousands of acres at the foot of the mountain. He could feel the spectacularity of this hanging river.

Unfortunately, there are shallow and short stone ridges around the giant pond, with sparse trees, and the water overflows from the gorge in the north, forming the main river channel of the Lu River. However, it is a pity that there are bottomless sand layers on both sides of the Lu River. The abundant water flowing river channel has only extended for more than a hundred miles and disappeared into the depths of the desert.

Of course, it is precisely because the terrain of Lu River and Pinglu Lake is slightly higher and there is a large amount of river water. The lake water seeps into the ground, and the slightly lower Black Mountain will pass through the underground river and a large number of springs are generated.

Unfortunately, it is not a simple matter to accurately detect the underground river veins. Otherwise, by digging deep wells, an oasis corridor can be artificially cultivated between Montenegro and Pinglu Oasis, rather than letting Montenegro hang alone outside the Pinglu Oasis.

The scenery of the hanging waterfall in Luheyuan is so magnificent. Before Chen Hai, several people had left the city to see the scenery, and some even tried to climb the cliff to see the wonders at the mouth of Shixia.

After coming out of Lukai Gorge, it is roughly divided into three sections of stone cliffs, each section is seven or eight hundred meters high, with waterfalls splashing, and the stone cliffs are wet and slippery. Although you have the foundation in the middle and late stages of Tongxuan Realm, you can try to climb such a high stone cliff, but the terrain is complicated at this time, and gusts of wind-strong whirlwinds are produced from time to time. At this time, you must have the cultivation level of the Spirit-Bijing Realm to withstand such a strong whirlwind and steadily attached to the stone wall.

If the water flow is unfortunately blown by the whirlwind, the martial artists in the Spirit Realm are very likely to fall to pieces.

Therefore, most people are satisfied after running to the bottom of the cliff and seeing the waterfall and the stone pond; only those who have not cultivated themselves or martial arts will rise up in front of the waterfall and fly to the mouth of the gorge to see the wonders in the Lukai Gorge.

At this time, three young men were climbing on the moss-covered stone wall next to the waterfall, carefully avoiding the water column that was swept by the whirlwind, and climbing towards the gorge with their hands and feet. Seeing that their cultivation level was in the middle and late stages of the Xuan Realm.

"These boys are really not afraid of tigers. They don't know how to stop even if they don't fall down their arms and legs." Several travelers at the bottom of the cliff couldn't help but shake their heads and said.

Chen Hai smiled slightly, thinking that if it were him, even if he had the cultivation level of Tongxuan Realm, he would not be able to help but climb up to see the magnificent scenery when he saw such a strange scene.

Chen Hai took the thin black horse that he had finally picked out from the Black Mountain and took a poplar tree beside the lake, moved his seemingly clumsy luggage behind him, and also climbed towards the three-kilometer-high Lukai Gorge step by step by step by step, using the stone nests stepped out by his predecessors.

This scene caused many tourists who were watching the scenery under the waterfall to shake their heads, as if they believed that Chen Hai was an overestimating boy and had to suffer so that they would not easily challenge the natural danger at the Gorge.

Chen Hai did not want to expose his cultivation. Even if he did not use the slightest true energy magic power, climbing the cliffs of two or three thousand meters was easy. After following the three young men, he quickly climbed up Lukai Gorge step by step. But in the eyes of others, there were several more thrilling times, but he was lucky enough to avoid the past without any danger.

As Chen Hai thought, on the other side of Lukai Gorge is a hanging lake with a radius of four or five thousand acres.

The weather in Pinglu Oasis is colder than in the mainland of Yanzhou. After autumn, the grass and trees withered yellow. The terrain of Lukai Gorge is more than 3,000 meters higher than the flat ground, and the weather is even colder. The distant mountains are covered with ice and snow that have not melted for years. The snow line has begun to slowly move toward the top of the mountain. For about another month, Lukai Gorge will also be covered by ice and snow.

Then there will be a different scene here.

Chen Hai climbed Lukai Gorge alone, but he didn't come here to enjoy the scenery.

The formation conditions of sand ore lake mud are very special. First of all, there must be a large number of shallow metal veins upstream.

After years of weathering, the shallow rock layers of the ore veins are crushed into gravel, transported by streams and rivers, intercepted and enriched by special terrain, which will form lake mud rich in a large amount of metal sand ore.

In Jinyan Prefectures, shallow metal veins are rare; this kind of special river terrain is located downstream of shallow metal veins, which are beneficial to intercept and enrich for sand ores, and is rare; what is even more rare is that such special river veins need to be stable for thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years without frequent changes, which is even more rare.

The Tianxuan Lake in the upper reaches of the Lu River is very similar to Juquanling in many ways; regardless of whether this stone gorge is like the legend, a giant deer demon who has practiced and has kicked it away with one hoof, it can be inferred from the many existing legends that the stable existence of this hanging lake has exceeded six thousand years.

Six thousand years have passed, and the hanging lake has not been filled with a large amount of upstream alluvial matter, which only means that this side of the hanging lake was a very deep rift six thousand or seven thousand years ago.

But is this Tianxuan Lake like Juquanling? There are many weathered shallow metal veins on both sides of the upper river channel. Chen Hai has no way to organize people to survey one by one, but as long as he dives into the bottom of the lake, it can still be easily verified.

There is nothing to see from shallow silt at the bottom of the lake. The density of quenching gold sand is extremely high. Even if it accumulates at the bottom of the hanging lake, it is necessary to continue digging down from the bottom of the lake for two or three hundred meters to find it.

Chen Hai came over alone to verify this.

Ye was eager to restore the country and did not want time to continue to delay.

Ye Qinglin was worried that once Zhang Xiong, Kong Peng and other rebels completely controlled all the cities of Pinglu Oasis, even if they had the support of the Dong family in Hexi, it would be even more difficult to restore the country. He hoped that the Jingjue Protectorate could jointly send troops as soon as possible, even if they occupied one or two cities on the edge of the Pinglu Oasis and formed a stalemate with the rebels, they could prevent all clans of the Western Qiang Kingdom from joining Zhang Xiong, Kong Peng and other dog thieves.

Ye Qinglin's consideration was reasonable. Chen Hai promised that the Jingjue army could send troops to occupy a city on the edge of the Pinglu Oasis to restrain the rebels, but it was required as a condition. He asked the occupied city to be included in the jurisdiction of the Jingjue Protectorate in the future.

Heishan is too barren. Without the strong support of Hexi, he is unable to raise tens of thousands of soldiers. Chen Hai hopes to occupy one more city on the edge of the Pinglu Oasis, and there are more than 40 cities in the Pinglu Oasis. In order to restore the country as soon as possible, Ye Qinglin agreed.

However, Chen Hai needs to come and see the Tianxuan Lake in person to confirm whether the first city was Lucheng.

Their ability to seize a city on the edge of the Pinglu Oasis is already the limit that Ye Qinglin and Ye can agree, so this city cannot be chosen.

Chen Hai untied the bags that did not contain a few valuable clothes and the old gray burqa worn outside, stuffed them into a cliff, and then wore a short-clad jacket close to his body, preparing to sneak into the bottom of the lake to find out.

"This brother, although everyone has the urge to swim in Tianxuan Lake, Tianxuan Lake is connected with the stream deep in Wushaoling. Who doesn't know if there are any powerful water beasts dormant? Please think twice before you go!" Seeing Chen Hai jumping into the lake and climbing onto Lukai Gorge before he was three young men, one of whom had curly beards on his face shouted over, and kindly reminded Chen Hai not to sneak into the lake and play easily.

Chen Hai smiled in his heart, turned his ears and pretended to be stupid for a while, pretending that the wind and water were loud and sounding, he couldn't tell what the man opposite was saying.

On this day, even when it was late at night, tourists would come to enjoy the scenery. The three young men were untiing their bags and taking out their wine and meat to put them on the ground. Who knew how long they would spend at the lake? Chen Hai didn't have so much spare time to avoid everyone's eyes and ears and dive into the bottom of the lake to find out.
Chapter completed!