After the tomb returned to calm, the four of them came to the stele.

There are a few lines of strange characters engraved on the stone tablet, which are very similar to the structure of Chinese characters, but they are not Chinese characters. Xie Shuci doesn't know a single word.

Chu Guiyi looked at the writing on it, pondered for a moment, and said: "It looks like a shape but not a shape, the left side is long and the right is narrow, the mouth opens down, and the sun opens up, it should be the writing of the Banxia clan."

"Ban Xia?"

Chu Guiyi explained: "The Banxia clan lived with water, and they took birds with frightened feathers as their tribal totems. They were afraid of fire and light, and they were good at controlling water. It is the 'Water God'. According to the records in the book, the Banxia clan and the frightened feather bird are both auspicious in the world, one is water and the other is fire, which is the balance of yin and yang."

"Is this the tomb of the Banxia people?" Xie Shuci asked.

Chu Guiyi nodded and said: "It should be that the Banxia clan is afraid of fire and light, so it is reasonable to place the mausoleum ten feet below Wuxue."

"Then what is written on it?" Chu Wenfeng asked curiously.

Chu Guiyi shook his head: "After the Banxia clan disappeared, there are only a few descriptions about them in later generations."

Hearing this, Xie Shuci couldn't help sighing, maybe there are some important clues on the stele.

There was silence in the tomb, at this moment, Xie An suddenly stepped forward.

"Xie young master?" Chu Guiyi shouted in surprise.

In the faint candlelight, Xie An stood in white clothes in front of the stele. The dim candlelight hid one side of his face in the shadows, his long eyelashes covered the emotions in his eyes, the corner of his clothes was blown by the wind, and half of his body was hidden in the darkness. This picture looks inexplicably paradoxical.

He stood in front of the stele without moving for a long time, as if melting into the background, his back was lonely and far away.

For some reason, seeing this picture, Xie Shuci's heart hung tightly.

Suddenly at this moment, he felt an insurmountable distance between himself and Xie An, and a trace of coolness climbed up his back along his back, which made him feel unspeakable fear.

After a long time, Xie An leaned down and pressed his slender fingers against the words carved on the stone tablet. Although Chu Guiyi and the others felt puzzled, they did not make a sound to disturb them.

After all, Xie An's sense of smell and hearing are more sensitive than the average person's, maybe he sensed some clues.

Sure enough, after some exploration, Xie An immediately noticed something strange.

When his finger touched a font on the lower right, a wisp of limestone suddenly rolled down. Xie An stopped immediately, looked back at the three of them, his lips moved slightly, as if he had said something.

Chu Guiyi turned around and asked Xie Shuci: "What did Young Master Xie say?"

Xie Shuci's face turned pale, and when he looked over, he dodged his eyes and said, "He said, these characters can be moved."

Chu Guiyi nodded, "Got it."

After doing all this, Xie An returned to Xie Shuci's side, and returned to his indifferent appearance.

Xie Shuci gave him a complicated look, but said nothing.

Chu Guiyi returned to the stone tablet, and pressed his hand on the lettering on the lower right corner. In Chu Guiyi's words, it was the word "日" with an upper opening. He thought for a moment, then pushed the font upwards, the stone tablet made a "bang" sound, and the lime fell down. Chu Guiyi hurriedly stepped back half a step, frowned, and dusted off the dust on his body.

With the sound of the stele, the font on it seemed to come alive, moving left and right on the stele, and finally heard a "click", as if all the gears were buckled together, and the stele finally returned to calm.

As soon as it stopped, Xie Shuci and the others immediately surrounded it.

When they saw what was on the stele, the faces of the three people except Xie An changed drastically.

On the top of the stele, all the characters are spliced ​​together, and the twelve ear chambers are connected to form a circle, enclosing the "sun" on the upper opening in the middle, which is the so-called main tomb chamber, and one ear chamber is parked in each ear chamber. The bird-like font turned into a strange pattern, and everyone in Xie Shuci had seen this pattern before!

"This tomb is a huge magic circle..." Xie Shuci murmured with a pale face.

If nothing else, the pattern on the stele is the structure diagram of the entire tomb, and it is also the formation that Xie Shuci has seen twice before the dog demon and He Lianzhu died!

The twelve ear chambers correspond to the twelve frightened birds, and the main tomb in the middle corresponds to the dog demon and He Lianzhu...

A frame suddenly flashed in Xie Shuci's mind, and he froze in place.

He clearly remembered that when the formation appeared on the dog demon, no frightened bird appeared, but when He Lianzhu died, a frightened bird appeared out of thin air... What does this mean?

If the dog demon was the first person to make a deal with the formation, then could it be that the first frightened bird was the dog demon? !

And those who set up the formation need twelve sacrifices corresponding to the twelve frightened birds!

Chu Guiyi's mind was quick, and he noticed something strange in an instant, and his expression was extremely solemn, "This formation is very similar to the formation that He Lianzhu appeared when he was about to die, plus the frightened bird that suddenly appeared... Twelve ears The tomb corresponds to twelve frightened birds... The main tomb corresponds to He Lianzhu. When Helianzhu died, one frightened bird appeared, and there were eleven left. People like Helianzhu will appear again. Eleven!"

"Ten." Xie Shuci took a deep breath, "There will be ten more sacrifices like He Lianzhu. Before Xie An and I came to Luofang City, a spirit beast also died in the formation , They... made a deal with a person named Bixie."

When the matter reached such a point, Chu Guiyi and the two had obviously been involved, and it was pointless for Xie Shuci to conceal it any longer, so he simply told the whole story.

"The first one to die in the formation was a demon dog who had cultivated for two hundred years. Before he died, he said that he had made a deal with others, and exchanged his own life for the chance of the clan dog being reincarnated as an adult. He Lianzhu also made a deal with others. I made a deal, I don't know the content of the deal, but he told me that the person who made the deal with him was to ward off evil spirits."

The expressions of Chu Guiyi and the two were shocked, and their eyes were full of disbelief.

Chu Wenfeng said: "What is his purpose in making a deal with a person who is about to die and will be expelled by the laws of heaven and earth?"

Chu Guiyi also seemed to have been shocked, and murmured in a daze: "The twelve frightened feather birds... people who are not tolerated by heaven and earth... The former symbolizes the way of heaven, and the latter is abandoned by the way of heaven. The second frightened feather bird is in this world..."

Do not! It's not "bringing twelve frightened birds to the world"! It was "Twelve Scared Feather Birds Severely Injured"!

At the end, Chu Guiyi's voice was mixed with a slight tremor.

In contrast to the shock the three received, Xie An was always like an outsider, with empty eyes, looking down at the ground.

Chu Guiyi didn't continue talking, and Xie Shuci and Chu Wenfeng also fell silent at the same time, telling them intuitively that they couldn't help digging into the inside story of this matter.

A monster bred by the evil in the world may be doing something shocking to the world. They are mere mortals, and they are probably just courting death if they get involved in it.

If other people saw the pattern on the stele, they would probably think that it was just the internal structure of the fairy tomb, but the four of them got together, pieced together various information, and came up with an unimaginable conjecture!

After a while of silence, Chu Guiyi spoke first: "No matter what the inside story of the book is, it has nothing to do with you and me. The purpose of our coming here is for the mirror of heaven and earth."

Xie Shuci opened his mouth, feeling a sense of powerlessness in his heart, maybe this matter has something to do with him, maybe there is some secret hidden in him that even he himself doesn't know, that's why the dog monster asked him to ask for help to ward off evil spirits. But this matter was too complicated for Xie Shuci, he just wanted to help Xie An recover his spiritual power, and then make alchemy to support himself and Xie An, and then live a good life.

He doesn't want to get involved in other things, and he doesn't have the ability.

"I know, can you tell where the Eastern Yin Chamber is from the pattern?"

Chu Guiyi shook his head, "It's impossible to determine the direction based on the pattern alone. We need to find the main tomb first."

"Would you like to go to the tomb next door?"

While the few people were talking, a spirit butterfly flew in along the corridor. It landed silently in Xie An's cuff, and before it could make any move, it was crushed into powder by Xie An and scattered in the air. into the air.

After discussing, the four decided to go to the tomb on the other side of the corridor to check the situation.

After they left the tomb one after another, the words on the stele began to move and returned to the previous arrangement.

Walking back to the middle of the corridor, Xie Shuci looked up, and saw that the entrance to the robbery cave they had come down just now had been sealed by heavy snow.

"Om—"

Suddenly there was a huge vibration under the feet of the four people, as if the whole tomb was tilted back a little bit, the originally straight corridor suddenly had an upward arc, dust rushed down from the cracks in the bricks, and rushed into the nose unexpectedly, blurred vision.

Xie Shuci covered his mouth and nose and coughed violently. Xie An stabilized his body and stroked his back to help him breathe.

"Shu Ci, are you all right?" Chu Guiyi and Chu Wenfeng leaned on the other side of the corridor, and walked towards Xie Shuci after the vibration of the tomb stopped and the dust dispersed.

Xie Shuci waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

Chu Guiyi looked at the ear chamber at the end of the corridor, which was slightly higher than their horizontal position, and said in a deep voice: "There is not much information about the fairy tomb recorded in the Dragon Tooth Illustration, but this is the tomb of the Banxia Water God after all. , the danger is probably beyond our imagination, everyone must be careful."

Xie Shuci nodded and said: "If something unexpected happens, I will open the Fu Long magic weapon."

"Um."

The inclination in the corridor was not high, and the four of them continued to approach the ear chamber at the end.

Walking outside the door of the tomb, Chu Wenfeng went to explore the way first, and after confirming that there was no mechanism, he nodded to the three of them.

Xie Shuci was sandwiched between Chu Guiyi and Xie An. After entering the tomb, by the candlelight on the wall, he could see that the tomb was empty, but it was more than twice as large as the other tomb.

As Xie An walked into the tomb, a stone door suddenly descended behind him. The four of them turned their heads at the same time, and found that the only exit in the tomb had been blocked.

Xie Shuci tensed his body, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the tomb surrounded by stone walls, and the ever-burning lamp on the wall was blown out just like that!

What ever-burning light? Bad review!

"Fuck..." Xie Shuci let out a low voice, the sudden darkness made his nerves extremely tense.

Although he firmly stated that he believed in science, the existence of this fucking world is unscientific!

The wind blowing from nowhere was mixed with the smell of blood, as if in the invisible tomb, there was a pair of eyes hiding, quietly staring at the four of them.

Xie Shuci had goosebumps all over his body, he stepped back half a step, grabbed back, and touched Xie An's hand.

"Then what... Let's, let's light a lamp first, shall we?"

"hiss"

As soon as Xie Shuci finished speaking, a strange sound of gasping suddenly sounded from the surroundings. Xie Shuci was sure and sure that this voice did not belong to any of the four of them!

"There's a ghost... Woo!"

Xie Shuci completely lost his mind in an instant, just after shouting two words, a hand stretched out behind him, tightly covering Xie Shuci's mouth and nose.

Xie Shuci suddenly broke out in cold sweat, and subconsciously wanted to struggle, while the other hand wrapped around his waist even faster, and Xie Shuci's back fell into an embrace. After getting nervous, he realized that it was Xie An, and then he loosened heavily. in one breath.

Seeing that he was no longer struggling, Xie An let go of his hand.

But Xie Shuci didn't catch his breath, and suddenly felt a chill blowing in his ears. At the same time, a few cold fingers touched Xie Shuci's shoulders, and a strange light fragrance lingered in his nose.

"Woo!"

Xie Shuci opened his eyes wide in horror, his muscles were as stiff as a stone, all the senses of his body were gathered under that cold finger, Xie Shuci whimpered wildly, hoping that the other three people could notice the strangeness on his body .

Science science science!

hallucination hallucination hallucination!

Believe in science! Everything is an illusion!

Although Xie Shuci kept hinting to himself in his heart, that hand was as cold as ice. From Xie Shuci's right shoulder to his collarbone, he even felt a body exuding a chill that was soft and boneless. On his shoulder, blowing softly into his ear.

Help! Little blind man, help me!

Xie Shuci roared wildly in his heart, but it was a pity that he couldn't make a sound. The other three didn't seem to notice him at all, and there was no movement. Xie An just stood behind him and didn't notice the unknown person lying on him. What the hell is that.

"Ah……"

In the quiet and silent tomb, Xie Shuci suddenly heard an ethereal laughter in his ears.

At the same time, that icy hand was attached to Xie Shuci's cheek, and the cold breath came from his right ear all the way to the tip of his nose. Xie Shuci straightened his neck, for fear that if he didn't pay attention, he might have a fight with that thing in the dark. What intimate contact.

"Stay here with me, okay?"

A face suddenly appeared in front of Xie Shuci's eyes, with small and exquisite features, tender eyes, very close to Xie Shuci, when she spoke, she raised the corners of her lips, revealing two shallow dimples on her cheeks.

Although Xie Shuci can't move his body, his consciousness is very clear. Based on his experience in reading movies (horror movies) for many years, there must be a demon when something goes wrong. There are only two kinds of women who appear in a place like a tomb. Possibility: first, she is a ghost; second, this is an illusion.

Realizing this, Xie Shuci tightly closed his eyes in order not to let himself be deceived, and silently recited the society in his heart. Socialist core values.

I love my motherland and my motherland love me, monsters and ghosts leave quickly, leave quickly!

I beg you, you fucking go away!

The woman's soft arms were hooked on his shoulders, and he let out a soft breath towards Xie Shuci, "Xiao Langjun, open your eyes and look at me..."

Xie Shuci felt that a woman was approaching him, and he pressed his lips tightly. Although this was his illusion, he didn't want to give his first kiss to an imaginary woman, it's not romantic at all!

As the woman gradually approached, Xie Shuci suddenly felt a hand stretched out from behind. The next moment, the woman screamed, and the hand stretched out behind her forcefully lifted her off Xie Shuci's body. go down.

At this time, Xie Shuci found that he had regained the right to control his body.

He opened his eyes out of breath, and what caught his eyes was a dark room of candlelight. For some reason, Xie An walked in front of him, and pinched a dark, shadow-like thing in his palm with his right hand. Like Xie Shuci, Chu Guiyi seemed to have fallen into some kind of illusion. When he opened his eyes, a trace of embarrassment flashed across his face, and when he looked at Chu Wenfeng again, he lifted the black shadow clinging to him with one hand. It was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"How is this going?"

Xie Shuci looked at the black shadows on the ground and said in shock.

Chu Guiyi let out a sigh of relief while leaning on a wooden stick, and explained: "Earth yin ghosts. According to the Dragon Tooth Illustrated Book, living people can come and go freely in the immortal tomb, while the dead will be trapped in the tomb forever and buried with the owner of the tomb." .There is only one way for them to get out of here, and that is to take the house of the living."

Xie Shuci felt a chill running down his back, "It asked me to stay here with her just now, if I agree, will I be taken away?"

Chu Guiyi nodded, "Well, once the house is seized, you will replace it as an Earth Yin ghost and guard the underground palace."

"Fortunately, I didn't agree to it." Xie Shuci said with a look of fear on his face.

With a whip, Chu Wenfeng scattered the ghosts on the ground, and said in a cold voice, "If Xie An hadn't helped you catch it and break the illusion they set up, the result would be hard to say."

Xie An's expression was a little gloomy, and he lifted the Earth Yin Ghost up. Although the Earth Yin Ghost was not human-shaped, it could still be seen. It struggled and roared frantically in Xie An's palm, and the sound it made was shrill and terrifying. The gentle voice is completely different.

Xie An violently threw it in front of Chu Wenfeng, and Chu Wenfeng whipped it up, turning it into smoke and disappearing into the air.

"Are you okay?" Xie Shuci walked up to the little blind man and looked him up and down.

Xie An shook his head sullenly, indicating that he was fine.

Xie Shuci breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Chu Guiyi: "If you die here, will your soul never be able to get out?"

"good."

Xie Shuci choked up, said earlier! If he had known earlier, he would never have come to this damned place.

After dealing with the earth ghost, the three of them went back to the stone gate and checked it carefully. After making sure that it could not be opened easily, they searched for other clues in the tomb.

"There's something here!"

Xie Shuci and Xie An stood at the southwest corner and found a large area of ​​murals painted on the stone wall, and immediately called Chu Guiyi and the others over.

Chu Guiyi came to the relief and wiped off the dust with his hands, revealing the original appearance of the mural.

There are many small people painted on the murals. They are sitting around a big dry river, with their hands folded and their eyes closed, as if they are praying devoutly;

Soon after, there was a torrential rain around them, and the villain stood up joyfully, playing various musical instruments to celebrate, and the big river was gradually filled with rainwater;

The land of the little people is no longer dry, and the crops are harvested. During the busy season, the adults gather together to celebrate, and the children play separately;

Children came to play by the river, one of them accidentally fell into the river, and was quickly swept away by the rapids, and the other children pulled one by one, and all fell into the river;

After the child died, the adults were very sad and knelt by the river to beg for justice. At this time, a wizard passed by. After the adults talked with the wizard, a group of villains lit torches and came to a tribe with the frightened bird as a totem. torches thrown in;

The fright-feather's totem was burned, and the tribe behind it lay in ruins.

There is no more context for the murals here.

"The Banxia clan didn't suddenly disappear in the torrent of time."

After a long silence, Chu Guiyi sighed softly.

Xie Shuci understood the murals on the wall. A group of people begged for rain, and the Banxia tribe brought rain. In the end, the child drowned in the river. After talking with the wizard-like person, they blamed the Banxia tribe for all the reasons. And burned their tribe with the flame that the Banxia clan was most afraid of.

Chu Wenfeng said: "No wonder the world has only a few records about the Banxia clan. This group of people is really shameless."

Xie Shuci only felt powerless. The stories recorded in the murals happened tens of thousands of years ago, which has already become an unchangeable fact.

However, Xie Shuci was a little puzzled.

"If humans burned the Banxia clan to death, why did they build a tomb for them?" Xie Shuci asked puzzled.

Chu Guiyi pondered for a moment, "Perhaps, their purpose is not to sacrifice, but to trap the souls of the Banxia people."

Living people can come and go freely in the tomb, but the soul cannot take a step from here. Perhaps the reason why there are earth ghosts is not to be buried with the owner of the tomb, but to become a victim by accident.

Xie Shuci couldn't help but turn pale with shock after hearing this, "You mean, the souls of the Banxia tribe may still be in the tomb?"

Chu Guiyi shook his head, "Dragon Tooth Secret Realm has existed for tens of thousands of years, maybe they have already successfully seized their homes and left here. The most important thing is——"

Having said that, Chu Guiyi stopped.

"What?" Xie Shuci asked in confusion.

"The Dragon Tooth Secret Realm has been opened more than once, and we are not the only monks who have entered the Immortal Tomb, but no one in the cultivation world knows the truth. And there is no record of murals in the Dragon Tooth Illustration, which means that before this, I have seen None of the people in this mural can leave the fairy tomb."

When Xie Shuci and the others heard this, their expressions suddenly became serious.

Xie Shuci turned around and looked around the tomb, and suddenly bowed forward, "Master Water God, in fact, the four of us are all blind, so we didn't see the murals on the wall. No... Are there murals on the wall? We didn't see anything at all! We just went the wrong way, your lord should bypass us in large numbers!"

The other three: "..."

No matter how serious the atmosphere was, the three couldn't help but laugh.

Chu Wenfeng smiled and said: "Xie Shuci, are you scared stupid? Lord Water God wants you to go out and reveal the truth to the public. You worshiped the wrong person."

Xie Shuci: "..."

Makes sense!

"Master Water God, this is your territory, please protect us from here safely. When we return to the cultivation world, we must put up small advertisements everywhere, telling the world what happened to you and your people!"

Chu Guiyi smiled helplessly: "The ones who don't want the truth about Banxia's extermination to come to the world are the people who built the tomb back then. Now that tens of thousands of years have passed, they are probably no longer alive. The only thing that will stop us from leaving is the Qimen Dunjia in the tomb. And ghosts, I know a thing or two about the mystery, and this supposed tomb can't trap us."

"That's good, that's good." Xie Shuci heaved a sigh of relief. "The most urgent thing to delay is to find the main tomb as soon as possible."

Not long after, the four found a passage leading to the next ear chamber in the tomb.

When the four of them walked into the corridor, the tomb tilted again.

This time the degree of inclination was much higher than the previous one, and the entire corridor was inclined backwards in a vertical direction. Xie Shuci yelled, grabbed a rock protruding from the stone wall to stabilize his figure, and then went to see the other three. people.

Chu Wenfeng was holding an outer brick, his back was pressed against the wall, and he was holding the bird's nine-section whip in his right hand. Chu Guiyi grabbed the end of the whip and hung it in mid-air.

Seeing that the two were safe, Xie Shuci adjusted his posture and looked back at where Xie An was.

However, there was no one in the long corridor behind him.

The dark abyss at the bottom of the feet is like the throat of a giant beast, always waiting to devour them.

"Xie An..."

Xie Shuci's face turned pale, and his hands and feet suddenly became weak, and he almost couldn't grasp the rock.

Chu Guiyi and the two also noticed something was wrong, and when they turned their heads and saw that Xie Shuci was the only one behind, their expressions also changed accordingly.

Xie Shuci's lips trembled, and his eyes immediately turned red.

"Xie An fell..."