The three nested caves were all searched, and the group found nothing.
The innermost one, Wang Quan, has an underground space right now, but it is also empty inside, and there is nothing left.
Yuan Zhan searched underground and in the cave walls many times, but he did not find any other hidden spaces.
"Maybe it was really emptied by the Dingyue people. But it doesn't matter, let's find some time in their tribe, even if they find the blood stone, they may not be able to use it." Yuan Zhan comforted Yan Mo.
Yan Mo expressed that he didn't care, Kan Luo looked at him helplessly, and promised him that he would dispatch people to look for traces of other people when the morning dawned.
Late at night, Jiuyuan and his party cleared a place in the cave to sleep.
It took so much effort to come here, but came to nothing, did Yan Mo really not care or be disappointed
He was very disappointed, could it be that the twelve sacred blood stones had really been taken away by Ding Yue
Thinking of this possibility, even he was a little depressed.
Ding Yue has a large number of metal-controlling fighters, and their strength is not weak. Coupled with energy weapons, it will definitely be the enemy of Jiuyuan in the future. If they get so many blood stones...
Yan Mo began to regret, thinking that he should come here earlier, but what's the use of coming early, if the blood stone and energy weapons are placed together, it is impossible for Ding Yue to take the energy weapon and not the blood stone, even if they don't know What it is.
Look, they even stripped off all the patterns on the walls and took them away. I am afraid that as long as they can take away in this relic, they took them all away. The evidence is that they did not find even a piece of broken stone in these three caves. .
Suddenly, Yan Mo felt the uncomfortable feeling of being stared at by someone again, he opened his eyes and sat up.
Not far away, a black figure seemed to be squatting on the ground. The other party seemed to be aware that Yan Mo had woken up, but instead of running away, he turned his head to look at the sleeping boy at his feet.
That's a snail.
The moonlight outside was blocked when it hit the hole, but with Yan Mo's eyesight, he could still see the black shadow clearly.
It was an old man with long hair and shawl. The old man was very thin, skin covered with bones, like a skeleton, and there was a circle of tattoos carved on his face.
The old man inserted his fingers into Luo's hair and stroked him gently.
"Who are you?" Yan Mo got up.
Everyone was asleep, including Dobby who had also entered a dormant state.
There was no one watching the night, and with Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo around, there was no need for someone to watch the night.
But Yuan Zhan, who was supposed to be more vigilant than him, still fell asleep on his side, with his arms on the ground, as if he was holding someone in his arms.
The old man stood up slowly and walked slowly out of the cave.
outside the cave
Yan Mo stood still.
When the old man reached the entrance of the cave, he turned around and glanced at him, then turned around again, and walked out without stopping.
Yan Mo didn't hesitate any longer, and heeled up.
The old man walked along the narrow path into the alpine meadow.
Yan Mo followed behind him.
The stars are shining brightly in the sky, the weeds are blown by the night wind, and there are bursts of pleasant fragrance.
Yan Mo stretched out his arm and stretched his fingers to feel for a while, and he confirmed one thing.
The old man stopped in the middle of the meadow, turned around and looked at Yan Mo who was following.
Yan Mo stood three steps away from him.
"You brought Luo back, and Luo told me that you saved him." The old man said the first sentence, and his voice was unusually pleasant, which didn't match his old appearance.
Yan Mo looked at the necklace hanging around the old man's neck and the rope buckle on the animal skin skirt, "Are you the great witch of the Gaoshan Cave Clan?"
The old man did not deny it.
"Who are you, Luo?"
"He is my only blood that is still alive." The old man's voice could not hear any sadness, but Yan Mo could feel that the old man was emitting a sad aura.
"Are all the cave tribes dead? Are you... still alive?"
The old man was not surprised that the young wizard in front of him could see this, "Yes, I am already dead, what you see now is my last strength."
The old man raised his finger and pointed to the place where Yuan Zhan said there was a lot of blood, his eyes showed deep sadness and resentment, "Except for the people who were captured and could never be found, my Gaoshan Cave Clan shed the last drop of blood there .”
"Snail's Eminem?"
"She's dead too." The old man bent even more.
Yan Mo frowned, "But according to the information I got, didn't it say that some people escaped?"
Old man, "It wasn't my people who escaped. The Dingyue man who came to stop him found out too late. When he found out, all the people from my Gaoshandong people who knew the Holy Land the most had been killed, and finally escaped in the chaos. All of them are from the nearby tribes, and like our Dong tribe, they were all captured by Ding Yue and used as slaves for digging mountains."
"Dig the mountain? Where is it?" Yan Mo didn't remember seeing traces of being excavated along the way.
The old man didn't answer immediately, he stared deeply at Yan Mo, and after a long time, he said: "The Dingyue people didn't get all the treasures, what they took away was only the outermost part."
Yan Mo's heart skipped a beat, this old witch
The old man is old, but his eyes are very clear, "I know you have many questions, I will answer you, but I hope you can promise me one thing."
"What's up?"
"Avenge my Gaoshan Cave Clan."
Yan Mo didn't expect the conditions raised by the old man, but he didn't agree immediately, but asked: "What kind of revenge do you want? To kill all the Ding Yues, to defeat them and make this tribe disappear, or to kill only the chief evildoer? "
The old man was silent for a while, then asked, "How much can you do?"
Yan Mo, "I can kill all Dingyue people, but I won't do that."
"I know, you are a benevolent witch."
This misunderstanding was beneficial to him, Yan Mo didn't deny it, he thought that maybe the old man had communicated with his descendants before contacting him.
The old man probably also knew that it was impossible for the other party to help him kill all the Dingyue people—how could a sorcerer who would even sacrifice his life force to save a slave kill all of them for a little treasure
So the old man clarified his conditions: "I want the lives of Ding Yue's chief and their great witch! I want the blood of Ding Yue's chief and the great witch not to continue!"
Yan Mo shook his head, "The chieftain and great witch of Dingyue destroyed your tribe, as the entrusted person, I can help you kill them and teach Dingyue a lesson, but as long as their descendants don't take the initiative to commit crimes, I will not Are you okay with doing it to them?"
The old man was reluctant, "Do you know how important that treasure is? The Dingyue people only got a small part and dared to dream of being the master of the Eastern Continent. If you Jiuyuan got all of it..."
"Even if we in Jiuyuan didn't get the treasure here, we are still the boss of the Eastern Continent." Yan Mo changed his tone, "In this way, besides promising to help you kill Dingyue's Chief Fudian and their great witch Zheli, I will try my best to help you find your clansmen who are living outside, and help them get rid of their status as slaves, and I will also focus on cultivating your blood snail."
The old man was moved.
Yan Mo continued his efforts, "What's the point of killing a few Dingyue people? Your people are already dead. Instead of thinking about the dead, it's better to care about the living. When the living grow up, they want to take revenge on Dingyue." Well, it doesn’t matter if you want to rebuild the Gaoshan Cave Clan, as long as they are reasonable, I will help them.”
The old man finally made up his mind, "Okay! You swear by your soul that you must do what you said. If you can't do it, I and my tribe will curse you even if we die!"
Yan Mo put his right hand on his chest, "I, Yan Mo, the Priest of Jiuyuan hereby swear to the gods that as long as the great witch of the Gaoshan Cave Clan tells me all the secrets of the Land of Ruins and allows me to obtain the remaining treasures in the Land of Ruins, I will avenge him and the Gaoshan Cave Clan, and I will definitely kill Dingyue’s Chief Fudian and the Great Witch Zheli within ten years. In addition, I will try my best to find the Gaoshan Cave Clan’s wandering people, help them get rid of their slave status, and focus on cultivating Conch. If you break this oath, heaven and earth will not tolerate it!"
A blood-red mark split into two in the sky, entering Yan Mo's and the old man's soul respectively.
Yan Mo raised his eyebrows. He has never seen such a "swearing" method before swearing. Could it be that this special restraint can only be seen in the soul state
And I thought: No wonder the natives of this world attach so much importance to the soul oath, it turns out that this world really has the power to restrain the oath.
The old man also saw the blood-red oath, which made him smile for the first time, "Follow me. That holy place is used by Ding Yue to charm the eyes, so that even if someone gets the news, they will think that the ruins found by the Ding Yue people The place is there."
Yan Mo secretly said cunningly, the great witch of Ding Yue was really very cunning, before leaving, he set fire on purpose to make people focus all their attention on that cave.
"Why did the fire go out when it reached the entrance of the cave?" Yan Mo asked the old man, "But I didn't find anything abnormal at the entrance of the cave."
The old man turned his head back, "That's because they deliberately used birds and beasts to deceive your eyes and ears, and they extinguished the fire by themselves. I heard the great witch Zheli say that you have the blood of the good-talking clan and can hear the voices of all things, and you also There is a human-faced Kunpeng. Kunpeng is the king of all birds and beasts. Wherever he goes, all birds and beasts must obey his orders. With a human-faced Kunpeng, you can definitely get information from birds and beasts that humans cannot know. In order to deceive you, they set up many traps in the Nasher Mountains, have you gone to those places?"
"No, although I don't know exactly where the ruins are, but the approximate location can be calculated, and with Luo leading the way, we came here directly." Yan Mo smiled.
"You are a good person, that's why the gods bless you like this. You saved the snail and found this place directly. This is God's blessing to you, and it is also a pity for so many dying lives in our family." The old man looked at Yan Mo's words. The eyes are very... gentle? But soon he changed his expression, "Those Dingyue people would never have imagined that I would still retain my soul power after death, and let you come here before my last power dissipated."
Yan Mo couldn't help but congratulate himself secretly. Relying on his ability to listen to the language of all creatures, he thought that he would definitely be able to find things that others could not, but he forgot that maybe someone would use his ability to deceive him. Because he never thought that the birds, beasts, insects and ants would lie to him.
In fact, it is not that birds and beasts will lie to him, but that human beings can confuse their eyes with their own behavior.
The old man looked up at the starry sky, "If this is not God's will, what is it? If you hadn't brought the snails and made him grateful to you, I wouldn't have come out to see you."
"On the contrary, you will try to lure us away so that Luo can get the real inheritance, right?" Yan Mo said indifferently.
The old man looked at Yan Mo flatly, "Yes, I will lure you away, but I will not let Luo inherit these things, he cannot afford them and cannot keep them. I will only let him escape into the mountains and leave his life behind."
"What happened back then?" Yan Mo couldn't help asking.
The old man let out a long sigh and told an unexpected past, "Our clan is actually slaves of the Bone Refining Clan. Back then..."
The Bone Refining Clan had many slaves. After the last war, their surviving population fled to the Western Continent, and most of the slaves were left behind.
The Gaoshan Cave Clan is also one of them, but with the passage of time, no one remembers about it except for the great shaman who accepted the inheritance from the clan.
And in the past few thousand years, even the great witch doesn't remember this incident. The Gaoshan Cave Clan lived in the deep mountains and old forests just like any ordinary tribe. Later, they began to contact the outside world, learned a common language, learned how to train warriors, and knew what bone tools were.
But at that time they still didn't know what they were guarding until eleven years ago.
"The cave we came out of just now is the holy land of our family, and the spring inside is our holy spring. The previous great witch only told me that he wanted me to guard the holy land and the holy spring, but he didn't tell me anything else. It's not that he didn't say anything, but He didn’t know either. We only thought that the clansmen would be blessed by their ancestors when they received the holy spring washing in the holy place, and thought that the murals on the walls were left by the ancestors, and we couldn’t understand them, they didn’t destroy them, and they didn’t have special protection.”
The old man fell into memory.
"Because there is nothing in the Holy Land, only a holy spring, so apart from outsiders, my Gaoshan Cave people can enter and leave the Holy Land at will, especially those children who like to run around. In summer, it is cool there, so they like to stay there and play. One day, the patriarch's son came to me with a group of children, saying that the holy spring spewed out something that looked like bone and stone.
I took the bone to look at it. At that time, I didn't know what it was. I just thought that this bone sprayed out by the holy spring was very precious, because its surface was smooth, shiny, and very hard. Later, a traveling merchant passed by, and the winter was extremely cold and wet that year, and many children fell ill. Our herbs could not cure the children, so we had to beg the traveling merchant. I know these wandering merchants love bones, and after I took out our best furs and bacon, and they weren't happy, I took out the bone. "
A look of extreme remorse appeared on the old man's face, "And this is the beginning of the extermination of my Gaoshandong clan!"
Later, the traveling merchant left some medicine and left with the strange bone.
Half a year later, a group of people led the traveling merchant to find their tribe.
Those people were Dingyue people, and the traveling merchant went to many places after leaving their tribe, among them was Dingyue, and then the strange bone that even the most powerful bone craftsman could not see was taken away by Dingyue. People take a fancy to it.
The Dingyue people wanted the traveler to bring them more of these strange bones, but the traveler refused—he guessed from the attitude of the Dingyue people that this special bone must be very precious, and he wanted to go back to the cave from the high mountain. To get more bones like this go to Uptown Nine.
Dingyue people are all robbers. Seeing the travel merchants evading the excuses, they simply robbed and kidnapped the travel merchants, and then forced the travel merchants to lead them to find the Gaoshan Cave Clan.
Until then, the traveling merchant and the Gaoshan Cave Clan didn't know that the non-bone non-stone thing was actually a novel thing called metal. It is said that this thing has only been discovered by the Dingyue people, and it is also related to their divine blood ability.
In the old man's description, metal is called a strange stone, but Yan Mo changed it to metal for the convenience of understanding.
Afterwards, the Dingyue people asked the Gaoshan Cave Clan to hand over more metal, how could the Gaoshan Cave Clan hand it over
But the Dingyue people didn't believe it, maybe that kind of metal was really important to them, and they actually put on a posture that they must win.
If the two sides can't agree, they can only resolve it with fists.
"Our Gaoshan Cave Clan has been defeated. Those Dingyue people are more vicious than beasts. You see, this grassland is very beautiful, but ten years ago, it was burned into a sea of flames. Those Dingyue people are all They are some lunatics! They want to burn us all to death, and then look for more strange stones. How many people of my people died to prevent the fire from burning down the mountain?" The old man was in grief.
Yan Mo didn't know how to comfort him, and at the same time, he was more vigilant towards the Dingyue people. These people can even do crazy things like burning mountains, what else can't they do
The old man calmed down, "After the fire was extinguished, the Dingyue people took advantage of the situation and arrested us. In order to threaten me and find out where the strange stone came from, many people from the clan were killed by them, and some younger ones were killed by them. They were sold to other places as slaves, and the young women were all taken away. I concealed it repeatedly, but there are always people in the clan who are afraid of death and pain. Everyone in the clan knows that strange stones are erupted from the holy spring. The Dingyue people occupied the holy land like this, and began to sneak under the holy spring to find strange stones."
"Did they find it?" Yan Mo asked.
The old man nodded, "They found it, and one of them, a warrior named Shuyi, could control that kind of strange stone. It was only then that I realized that the stones around the holy spring were not stones, but that kind of strange stone, but that Shuyi Said that strange stones are different from strange stones, he said that the strange stones collected in the cave below the holy spring are purer and more precious."
"Apart from strange stones, what else did they find?"
"There are still bone tools, a large number of bone tools." The old man became more and more sad, they are guarding Baoshan without knowing it!
"But those Dingyue people don't seem to be very interested in bone tools. They prefer the strange stones they found. Later, they suspected that there were good things in the opposite Niujiao Mountain, so they started to capture people from the mountains as their slaves and dig mountains for them. .”
At this point, half of the secrets about the Ruins Land have been unlocked.
But Yan Mo still has a lot of questions, such as: "You said that you don't remember that you are slaves of the Bone Refining Clan in your inheritance, so how do you know this now? And you are guarding such a big treasure, and there are not many pieces of it. Have the powerful bone tools been passed down?"
The old man gave a wry smile, turned around and walked forward, "I only found out after I died. As for why I didn't know until after I died, you will understand later. I will take you to the Niujiao Mountain on the right first, but it is also empty."
The old man walked quickly in the grass, and Yan Mo followed him all the way to Niujiao Mountain on the right.
The old man pointed to the mountain wall.
Yan Mo looked over, only to see weeds and vines growing on the mountain wall in front of him, without any larger gaps.
"Push it away." The old man motioned.
Yan Mo wanted to say that his state might not be able to touch the real object, but since the old man should have his reasons for saying this, he stretched out his hand and pushed towards the mountain wall.
The arm penetrated the mountain wall without hindrance.
The old man disappeared, Yan Mo slammed into the mountain wall, his body was empty, and he appeared in a small space.
this is? Yan Mo's eyes shone brightly, the darkness receded, and the surroundings could be seen clearly.
There are traces of excavation on the mountain wall, which is a mountainside road that was excavated manually.
When the old man appeared, he saw Yan Mo's bright eyes, and seemed a little envious, "Your soul power is very powerful."
"thanks."
The old man patted the mountain wall and sneered, "This is where the Dingyue people dug. They found the holy land and some leftover treasures in the belly of Niujiao Mountain on the left, so they decided that there must be some on the opposite right. They tortured My clansmen and I finally found a large number of slaves to dig out the Niujiao mountainside on the right, and they were lucky enough to actually dig out something for them.”
Yan Mo asked the old man with his eyes: Do you still want to go forward
The old man shook his head, "They are not the chosen ones, and they cannot get real good things. I brought you here to let you not spend your time here tomorrow."
"Then where should I go?" Yan Mo asked with a smile.
The old man said again: "Follow me."
This time they returned to the alpine meadows again.
Near the Niujiao Mountain on the right, there is a small alpine lake with bottomless water, and the bright moon and stars in the sky are reflected on the water surface.
The old man stopped by the lake, "This is the real treasure entrance. If you want to get all the treasures, you can only enter from here. The things placed in the two horn mountains are used to confuse those greedy people."
Yan Mo was surprised and thought: Even energy weapons can be used to confuse people's eyes, so how precious are the things in this lake
"Dingyue people didn't expect to dig here?"
"Of course they thought of it! Such a group of greedy jackals have dug up the Niujiao Mountains on both sides, how could they let go of the middle one? It's just that they don't have enough time. They planned to get more slaves to come and hollow out the middle mountain. But they were defeated by you and had no choice but to leave here." The old man seemed to be crying and smiling.
"But no matter how many people they find, they still don't want to dig out the secrets hidden in this mountain!" The old man's eyes suddenly became a little crazy, "They don't know, no one knows, what is buried under this mountain! That is, that is the ability of God..."
The old man fell silent suddenly, and he pointed to the lake water, "Originally, you had to kill Chief Dingyue and the Great Witch before I would lead you into the real entrance. If you dig through a mountain, you won't find the entrance. But you saved my blood, and saved him from being a miserable eunuch. I heard from Ding Yue's population that you have killed Chief Ding Yue, Then I can take you down now, but I don’t know what you will encounter after entering, I only know that those who want to get the treasure must be the chosen ones.”
Yan Mo grinned, "The chosen one? Are there any conditions?"
"I don't know. I'm just showing the way."
Yan Mo lowered his head and looked at the deep lake, all kinds of thoughts raced: Who is the chooser? Bone refiners? Or the Pan'a family? What secrets are hidden here
He originally thought that he was just here to get the twelve sacred blood stones, but he didn't expect that there were even bigger surprises waiting for him.
But is this really a surprise
What if he is not the chosen one