I looked at Qingqiu Hu and said, "I want to go to the underground palace where you use the bathroom. It's best to go directly to the pool where the snake flower is."
"No problem!" Qingqiu Hu nodded and opened a secret door: "If you go down this secret passage, you will reach the Bathing Palace. I wish you good luck."
"Protect my friends!" I handed over and walked into the secret passage.
The passage that Qingqiu Fox opened for me was unobstructed, and it only took me a while to appear in the underground palace.
Although the snake anemone there had been burned by the fire, the ashes accumulated in the pool were half a foot thick. Trying to fish out something there was no different from fishing in muddy water.
I took a long knife and poked through the ashes little by little, and finally the blade touched a piece of metal, which was the small coffin that Shekui wanted to give to Xia Qingqing at that time.
I swept away the ashes on the ground several times, dug out the coffin, and placed it on the edge of the inner bath. I raised my hand with one hand and knocked on the coffin lid. After a while, there was a sound coming from the underground palace. An angry fox roared: "Wang Huan, you are looking for death!"
Tu Shanhu couldn't hide his anger. The rolling sound was like thunder, shaking the underground palace. The Nine-Tails Forbidden Zone seemed to be trembling in the anger of the other party. The overwhelming dust fell to the ground with Tu Shan's roar, as if the sky was falling apart. A loud noise also rushed in from a distance.
In his rage, Tu Shanhu no longer cared about taking any secret passages or corridors. He smashed the wall of the underground palace and charged in my direction.
Just a moment later, I saw a wall of the underground palace, which was smashed into pieces by the huge force from back to front. The rocks that were knocked away were like cannonballs, whistling in the air, and I quickly grabbed the coffin to block it. in front of himself.
In the blink of an eye, rocks the size of a washbasin hit the coffin lid one after another. Under the impact of the rocks, I stepped back five steps and spit out a mouthful of blood, but never let go of the coffin with my hands.
The next moment, Tushan Fox, covered in blood, walked slowly into the underground palace on the rubble everywhere: "Wang Huan, are you seeking death?"
I pressed the coffin with one hand and reached out to my backpack with the other: "You must have heard of explosives, right? There are enough explosives in my backpack to hide you in the coffin in an instant. The main body is reduced to ashes, I advise you to calm down before talking to me."
Tu Shanhu's expression changed, and a coldness immediately appeared in his eyes. But I said coldly: "You'd better not use telekinesis. I risk my life to activate Xingtian's fighting will, which is enough to drag you to death together."
Tu Shanhu gritted his teeth and said, "What do you want to do?"
"Wait for your sister to come over. I guess she will be here soon." As soon as I finished speaking, Tu Shanhu screamed: "Shut up, she is not my sister."
"I don't want to talk nonsense to you, let's both shut up now!" I didn't even look at Tushanhu, who was going crazy, and the other party could only stand there and gnashed his teeth.
Tu Shanhu is not like a fox, or in other words, her head is not used for plotting and calculating opponents. Every one of her plans seems too childish, and even a bit cover-up.
Ever since I met the beautiful hawk disguised as Qingqiu Fox, I have been recalling everything that happened in the Nine-Tails restricted area.
The only thing that makes me confused is what is the meaning of Shekui taking out the coffin and handing it to Xia Qingqing
Shekui's move was definitely to confuse Xia Qingqing, but that move seemed unnecessary. Looking back afterwards, it was easy for me to think that the appearance of the coffin was actually intended to make people think it was a prop to confuse the opponent.
In reality? A secret chamber was placed near the coffin to prepare people to stay away from the snake anemone.
The black oil near the bath was superfluous and looked like it was deliberately placed there for people to burn down the underground palace.
The main will of Tushanhu was not too far from the bathhouse, and after we entered the second secret room, he forcibly cut off the secret passage back to the bathhouse.
All the clues are connected together. The only thing I can think of is that the coffin contains the body of Tushan Fox. Everything she did was to make us ignore the coffin. In fact, it draws our attention to the coffin.
I vaguely feel that Tu Shanhu's biggest weakness is that she is not confident in herself. She seriously doubts her ability to layout, and even doubts her ability to control the rhythm.
Otherwise, she would not invade my consciousness again and again to see what I am thinking. What's more important is that Tushan Fox has been following us around, obviously intending to monitor me at all times.
What Tu Shanhu doesn’t know is that if she hides herself and monitors us only by her will, and then appears near us like a ghost at critical moments, it will make people frightened and dare not act rashly.
In this regard, Tushan Fox is not as good as Qingqiu.
While I was silent, the figure of Qingqiu Fox soon appeared in the underground palace.
When Tu Shan saw the other party, his eyes were filled with mist, like a wronged little girl: "Qingqiu, you win. Devour me!"
Qingqiu shook his head sadly and said, "How come you still don't understand? I never wanted to devour you."
"You're talking nonsense!" Tu Shan screamed: "You don't want to devour me, so why have you been guarding the underground palace for thousands of years, so that I don't even dare to show my face?"
Qingqiu shook his head and said: "Wang Huan, let me tell her!"
I sighed: "Actually, Qingqiu already knows where your body is and has enough power to swallow you up."
"Nonsense!" Tu Shanhu couldn't stop his tears from flowing down: "You guys colluded and wanted to deceive me, right?"
Tu Shanhu pointed at Qingqiu and said: "Qingqiu, I have lost, what else do you want? You can't even let me die in peace?"
While Qingqiu shook his head and sighed, I couldn't help but said: "Tushan, do you think you are hiding a secret? I found you out less than three days after entering the Nine-Tails restricted area. Not to mention, in the beginning, Qingqiu also participated in the construction of the Nine-Tails Forbidden Zone. Simply put, the thousands of years she has been in the underground palace are enough for her to find you."
"Fart!" Tu Shanhu screamed: "You must have been deceived by Qingqiu, and you are talking nonsense just to make her happy."
I pointed to the wall of the underground palace and said: "All the tunnels you opened are under Qingqiu's control. Why can't she find your true body? Even if you are proud of being born in a rotation, Qingqiu is deliberately letting you down." . Do you think that with her wisdom, she can’t see your little tricks?”
Tu Shanhu looked at Qingqiu with a pale face, and then looked at me: "I don't believe it, I don't believe a word of it."
Tu Shanhu actually believed what I said, but she just refused to admit it.
My eyes wandered around the two foxes for a while before falling on Qingqiu's face: "Are we going to start?"
"Almost!" Qingqiu nodded and said, "It will start soon."
Tu Shanhu couldn't stop crying.
Tushan wiped away her tears and faced Qingqiu stubbornly, raising her face and assuming an unyielding posture. She wanted to maintain her dignity before dying.
Qingqiu Fox strolled up to me: "Before the last moment begins, shall I tell you a story?"
I looked at Qingqiu and nodded slowly: "I'm all ears."
Qingqiu Fox eloquently said: "A long time ago, there was a very powerful fox. It was so powerful that it could rival the gods. However, she wanted to be even more powerful. She wanted to become perfect."
"Is there anything in this world that is flawless? Even the legendary ancient saints cannot achieve perfection. No matter whether you are a human or a fox, as long as you can accept your imperfections, you can live a happy life ah!"
"However, the fox turned this flaw into an irresolvable obsession. She had to erase all the flaws. She thought of countless ways but failed."
"Later, she discovered that humans can continuously improve themselves. In order to learn from the strengths of humans, she agreed to their request and became the patron saint of a human race."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but interrupt the other party: "Is it the same as what was painted in the mural? In the end, she was betrayed by the human race?"
"Yes!" Qingqiu Fox nodded: "After she was betrayed by the human race, she also began to take crazy revenge. You may have guessed these things. However, the reason why the fox finally copied itself was not because of healing. . Rather, it’s because she wants to kill three corpses.”
"Behead three corpses?" I couldn't help but frown.
It is a Taoist theory that "by beheading three corpses, one can attain immortality".
In Taoist beliefs, the "three corpses" represent the three "evil desires" inside the human body, and their prototypes are three types of insects.
The corpse insect is called Peng Hou. It is inside the human head and makes people stupid and devoid of wisdom.
The corpse insect in the middle is called Peng Zhi. When it is in the human chest, it makes people have troubles and delusions, and they cannot be at peace.
The name of the corpse insect is Peng Jiao. When it is in the human belly, it makes people covet men and women for food and drink.
If a Taoist monk wants to embark on the road to immortality, he must eradicate and destroy the "roots of the three corpses." It is said that Taoist disciples take elixirs to eliminate the three corpses in their bodies.
There is also a saying that the three corpses are human obsessions. Only by getting rid of your own obsession can you achieve enlightenment.
Qingqiu Fox saw me narrowing his eyes and couldn't help laughing: "You think the time is wrong, right? I told you that the fox wanted to kill three corpses, just to make it easier for you to understand. After all, that fox At the time when the fox lived, the prototype of Taoism had not yet appeared.”
When the nine-tailed fox appeared, it was earlier than Dayu. At that time, the world was still dominated by witches, and Taoist ideas had not yet appeared, so naturally there was no idea of killing three corpses.
Qingqiu Fox continued to point at Tushan Fox and said: "That fox split the weaknesses of his character in the form of his mind, turning them into three other nine-tailed foxes."
I took a sharp breath and said, "There is also a nine-tailed fox."