"What did you say?" Suixin's expression changed slightly, "Can you say it again?"
Hei Lao suppressed his anger and said: "What's the use of me saying it several times? You don't know how terrifying the Five Corpse Gods are. By the time you know it, it will be too late to regret it."
Hei Lao simply ignored Suixin and turned to point at the cave: "Look at what's in the cave."
When several detectives shone their flashlights into the cave, the first thing I saw was a corpse sitting cross-legged. The left leg of the corpse was obviously broken at knee level, just like the detective who died just now.
The cross-legged corpse was covered with poisonous snake fang marks from its face to its legs. Was the iron bark that had just entered the grave chewing on this corpse
I just moved my eyes downwards, and my heart suddenly thumped - there was a knife stuck in the chest of the corpse, Ye Xun's bloody eyes!
The three-foot-long blade was completely buried in the corpse's chest, leaving only a section of the handle exposed. The chest was trembling slightly as the corpse rose and fell.
Ye Xun must have fought with this corpse at close range, otherwise his long knife would not have been able to penetrate the corpse. What happened to Ye Xun? How could he let the body run away without even being able to pull out the knife
I couldn't help but feel a chill running down my body. Hei Lao, who was standing next to me, whispered, "My child, are you scared?"
I trembled: "Yes, yes... look at the dead man's chest... he is still breathing!"
"He is already dead." Hei Lao said in a deep voice, "That knife is not an ordinary thing. It can immobilize the Corpse God Gu. It should at least be a magic knife blessed by a master. Maybe it is a powerful Taoist sword. With weapons on hand, no wonder Corpse God Gu wants to escape. Just leave that knife stuck like that and no one can touch it. Let’s go.”
At this moment, no matter how worried I was about Ye Xun, I had to follow them forward.
Although I didn't touch Ye Xun's bloody eyes, my heart was in a mess.
I have encountered the corpse god Gu twice in a row since I entered this forest. Did Ye Xun and the others also encountered the poison before they cut off contact with me
I began to desperately recall the records in the Wanxiang Sutra. My dad specially marked the legend of Medicine Buddha, so he must have made plans to explore this restricted area. He couldn't have come unprepared.
But what exactly did he prepare
Although I don't have a photographic memory, my memory is very good. As long as I deliberately remember something, I will not forget it for ten or eight years. But after I came out of the Gushan Secret Cave, I couldn’t remember many things, including most of the Wanxiang Sutra.
What on earth did my father write
I tried my best to think back and couldn't help but hit my head with my fist. Hei Lao, who was walking behind me, suddenly said: "Wazi, what are you thinking about that you can't think of?"
I could only say perfunctorily: "I remember the elders talked about the Great Immortal Cave, why can't I remember it?"
Hei Lao's eyes lit up: "Sit down and think about it carefully. Don't move forward in a hurry. Let's talk about it when you think about it."
I simply found a stone and sat down: "What did the elders say..."
Hei Lao reminded from the side: "Think carefully, have the elders ever mentioned herbs or anything? Or great immortals, or what kind of tombs? Think carefully..."
I suddenly slapped my thigh and said: "By the way, there is a grave! The elders said that there is a fox grave in this mountain. The elders said that there used to be a Bai Daxian on the mountain. Later, the Dragon King came, and the Bai Daxian never beat them. I accept him as my godbrother. If you can't ask the Dragon King for help, you can ask Bai Daxian. The Dragon King is very interested in that godmother, and Bai Daxian will definitely help if you say a word."
I actually made this up. My dad once wrote three words "white fox" and "coffin" in the notes. Those things were just to remind himself. There was no need to remember them in such detail. Only he knew what they meant, but he definitely wouldn't write "white fox" three times in a row for no reason.
"Bullshit!" one of the detectives yelled, "You country folk can think of all kinds of troubles! Why don't you say that the vixen is the mistress raised by the Dragon King, my brother, sister, and vixen?"
"How are you talking?" I stood up and roared, "In the mountains, you dare to talk nonsense and risk your life?"
The man hugged his shoulders and sneered: "Let that Bai Daxian come out! See if she can chew a hair on my head?"
"Shut up!" Hei Lao scolded the man, and then said pleasantly, "My dear, can you find Bai Daxian?"
"I don't know." I shook my head and said, "The elders say that Bai Daxian later failed to survive the tribulation and died, but her coffin has always been in the mountains. No one has looked at its specific location."
I changed the subject and said, "The elders said that if you want to find Bai Daxian, you just need to put three eggs behind the tree. Bai Daxian will eat it and come over in the evening. After eating your food, if you beg her again, she will definitely get whatever you ask for."
I said this deliberately to make Bai Daxian's story sound like it was true. Unexpectedly, Hei Lao actually said: "You guys, go look around. You have to give the eggs after all the trouble." I’ll get it back. We’re not leaving, we’ll camp here and wait until tomorrow.”
I'm not afraid whether there are eggs or not. It's just a legend. If the eggs are there or not, who can really dig into it? Hei Lao wants to camp here, but it just suits my idea - I want to rush there at night to see if Ye Xun has left any clues on the knife.
It wasn't until midnight that I quietly climbed up from the edge of the camp and carefully touched the stone grave. I hadn't gone far when I heard Suixin's voice: "Hei Lao, why do you trust that leader so much? He's just full of nonsense..."
"No!" Hei Lao said, "The legends he told are getting closer and closer to the truth. You have never been in contact with Yaowang Valley, so you probably don't know that there is actually a treasure in Yaowang Valley called 'Yaohu', right?"
Hei Lao didn't wait to ask questions and explained: "It is said that Yaowang Valley will feed the alien spirit fox with herbs. After a few years, the spirit fox will turn into a pure white body and resemble white jade. At that time, the medicine fox will turn into a stone sculpture. It’s something, but cutting Yaohu’s veins can release blood, and Yaohu’s blood is a kind of holy medicine.”
Hei Lao said in a deep voice: "Although I don't know what the medicine fox blood can do, I do know that Yaowang Valley has cultivated three medicine foxes, one of which was given to the Five Poison Sect, and the other one was given to the Five Poison Sect many years ago. Missing. Later, there was only one medicine fox left in the Medicine King Valley."
I was slightly startled when I heard this. Could it be that the white jade fox Douduzi saw in the Fox Fairy Cave was a medicinal fox
Hei Lao said: "The Five Corpse Gods will not sneak into this barren mountain for no reason. If the people from Yaowang Valley had been here back then, that would be a different matter. I suspect that the Bai Daxian that the boy is talking about is a Yaowang." fox."
Hei Lao's voice was obviously getting farther and farther away. Was she moving forward? Isn't that just the direction of the stone tomb? What do they want to do
I quickly quickened my pace and followed them, but I didn't dare to follow them too close, so I could only land more than twenty meters away from them. If I go further, I might be able to find my whereabouts.
I followed some distance away, and Suixin's voice came faintly again: "Hei Lao, what are we doing?"
"Go get that magical sword!" Hei Lao said, "The five corpse gods were rampant back then, but they could not leave the Miao territory. The most fundamental reason is that Taoist magic can restrain the corpse god Gu. The vanguard of the enemy against the five corpse gods back then was medicine. King Valley.”
Suixin said in surprise: "Is Yao Wang Valley still practicing Taoism?"
Hei Lao was also surprised and said: "You should know this better than me! Don't you know?"
"I don't know!" Suixin shook his head and said, "According to the results of our investigation, the descendants of Yaowang Valley have never practiced Taoism, and their martial arts are not unique. They have many similarities with the Taoist martial arts school. Yaowang Valley's Masters are not outstanding in the arena."
"It seems that too much time has passed." Mr. Hei muttered to himself in a low voice, "The world has long forgotten the horrors of the Five Poison Sect and the Medicine King Valley."
Suixin seemed to say casually: "If Yaowang Valley is really as mysterious as the legend, it won't be easily wiped out, right?"
Hei Lao asked tentatively: "Were you the ones who destroyed Yaowang Valley?"
"This matter..." Suixin suddenly stopped when he was talking about the key point, and pulled out his weapon with a "噌lang" sound. I quickly squatted down and looked in the direction of Sui Xin, but what I saw was a corpse with one leg standing on its own and a long knife stuck in the body.
The one-legged corpse in the stone grave was taken out of the grave at some unknown time. He stood on the hillside in the distance with his back to Sui Xin. Not only was only half of the blade filled with cold light revealed from his back, Still shrinking back little by little—someone stood in front of the corpse and drew a knife
I quickly lowered my head to the ground and looked forward, but there was nothing under the single leg of the corpse.
The person who stood in front of the corpse and drew the knife either leaned sideways and pressed the corpse with his shoulder, pulling the knife outward little by little; or the person had no body at all...
I couldn't help but stretched my hand to the handle of the knife, and asked in a deep voice: "Which friend over there is pretending to be a ghost? Since he is here, why don't you come out and see him?"
The man hiding behind the corpse not only did not speak, but instead sped up, and the bloody eyes that pierced the corpse suddenly retracted half a foot with the sound of a blade scraping bones. The corpse with its back to us also seemed to be unable to bear the severe pain of the blade being withdrawn, and bent down facing its toes.
The blade on the corpse's back was pointed straight up to the sky. As the cold light on the knife slowly flowed from the blade to the body's back, the inexplicable coldness caused by it could make people suddenly feel palpitations a few meters away. I couldn't help but press the handle of the knife.
Hei Lao put his hand into the pocket slung across his waist and lowered his voice and said: "You try to turn the dead man around. I want to see what is on the front of the body."
After Suixin hesitated for a moment, he pulled out a flying claw with a rope from his backpack and held it in his hand.
Is she going to use her flying claws to turn the body around