1.

"Here...... Is that where the water source of Ruofeng Village is? But why can't you see the stream path or the river?"

Ye Xin looked at the foggy jungle around him and asked suspiciously. The air here seems to be much heavier because of this fog barrier, and breathing for a long time gives people an extremely oppressive discomfort.

Lin Xiao shook his head and said, "I don't know, but we all asked Brother Yunxi, and he did say that he was here, so there shouldn't be any mistakes." So saying, he squatted down, picked up a few wet rotten leaves from the ground, twisted a handful of the same wet dirt, and then put his hand to his nose and sniffed it.

"Do you see anything?"

Lin Xiao threw down the wet and sticky soil in his hand and said, "Brother Yunxi said before that these streams and rivers in Ruofeng Village have gradually begun to dry up after being polluted, and they should have been almost dry from more than twenty years ago to now. There is a large accumulation of dead leaves, which decay and then regenerate the soil layer that covers the bottom of the river. The river should have been buried under our feet. ”

Ye Xin said: "But we can't find the river, how can we follow the trail to find the water source, and how do we know whether the pollution and depletion of the water source is caused by the half of the residual map." ”

"If that half of the remnant map really has this kind of power, then the original hatred of Tiancheng has a complete collection of maps, I'm afraid that the surrounding grass, trees, bamboos and stones should be rotten!" Lin Xiao stood up, "It may be just a coincidence that the remnant map resonates with this place, and it shouldn't have much to do with the problem of water sources here." ”

Ye Xin glared at him coldly: "Then you still swore to me yesterday that the two things are connected?!"

Lin Xiao smiled helplessly: "I'm just saying that there is a little bit of a coincidence in time, and the residual picture in the Qiankun bag does resonate with somewhere in this mountain...... However, the specific problems still need to be analyzed in detail. What can be concluded now is that the remnant map did indeed stay on this mountain, and there is also the fact that the remnant map has no connection with the water source problem in Ruofeng Village. ”

"Then we still can't check it......" Ye Xin asked coldly.

Lin Xiao glanced back at her: "Check! Why don't you check? You have boasted in front of others, and you return empty-handed like this, you don't want to lose face, I still want it!"

"Face?" Ye Xin sneered, "Do you have it?!"

Lin Xiao was choked by her words, his face was red, he couldn't speak for a while, and only after a while did he say, "What do you know about a demon from an outsider's origin...... This is the sense of responsibility of our Xianmen upright disciples, and the face or something...... It's okay!"

Ye Xin glanced at him and then turned to the side, too lazy to talk nonsense with him again.

"Okay, let's be serious. Lin Xiao put away his joking expression and said, "I briefly smelled the soil here just now and found a small problem. I think there is something to do with the water problem in Wakakaze Village. ”

Ye Xin turned around, also squatted down, reached out to the ground and twisted a small handful of soil, leaned to his nose and sniffed it, carefully identified it for a moment, and his face suddenly changed slightly.

"Did you smell it?" Lin Xiao looked at Ye Xin playfully.

Ye Xin nodded: "It's a heavy smell of rotting corpses." ”

"You say...... Could it be that there was a major murder in this neighborhood before, and a lot of people died? Piles of corpses blocked the source of the upper reaches and polluted the water here. Lin Xiao speculated.

Ye Xin shook his head in denial: "If it is short-term water pollution and water depletion, there is indeed such a possibility. But more than 20 years have passed, and even if there were piles of corpses blocked here at the beginning, it should have been completely corroded for such a long time, how could there be such a far-reaching impact. ”

"Yes. Lin Xiao thought about it and felt that something was wrong, "And this is only the largest water source in Ruofeng Village, not the only water source." Unless corpses are piled up all over the mountain, how can all the sources be blocked?"

"There are two other points, I don't know if you've noticed. Ye Xin continued, "First, even if the streams and rivers are exhausted, Ruofeng Village can also dig wells to draw underground water sources, but I observed yesterday that those wells in the village are all dry, indicating that the water veins in the village have been broken, and it is not as simple as blocking and drying up the source. ”

"Second, Brother Yunxi mentioned it yesterday - someone was poisoned by drinking sewage by mistake. Although it is true that the infiltration of corpses will pollute the water, it is poisoning...... Probably exaggerated. Unless ......"

Lin Xiao took over the conversation: "Unless the corpse itself is poisonous." ”

"That's right. But the point is that a single corpse is poisonous, and the flowing river water can purify itself of the toxins, and if it is to pollute the river on a large scale, then it means that all the corpses piled up here are toxins."

"But that's obviously ridiculous, isn't it - the only people who can be poisoned here are probably the villagers who live here. Even if there really is a poison of slaughtering a city like the 'Nine Sections Jade', who would use it on a small village deep in the mountains?!"

Lin Xiao suddenly moved his gaze to Ye Xin and looked at her directly.

Ye Xin was furious when he looked at him: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

"This kind of thing...... Shouldn't it be what your Demon Sect is best at?" Lin Xiao spat out faintly.

Ye Xinsenran said: "Although the people in our Divine Sect are deviant and perverse, they will not be so mad that they will attack a group of helpless rural people for no reason!"

Lin Xiao said indifferently: "Back then, the incident of the Giant Sword Village in the Cold Iron Mountain, wasn't there also a group of sword forgers who had no martial arts cultivation, and in the end, they were all killed by the people of your Demon Sect!"

"Back then, there were traitors in the sect who fled into the Cold Iron Mountain, relying on the cover of the swordsmith to hide in the giant sword village, and we did it. Ye Xin said coldly, "I know that you self-proclaimed and decent guys don't despise the practices of our Divine Sect, but our principle is 'rather kill the wrong than let go', if the rebels still have any backhand in that Zhuangzi, then it is us who will suffer later!"

"I'd rather kill the mistake than let it go?!" Lin Xiao sneered.

Ye Xin looked at him squarely, and did not hide the evil aura revealed by his body at all: "Not bad." Chop the grass without removing the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again!"

"You ...... Wait!" Lin Xiao suddenly stopped talking in amazement, "I'd rather kill the wrong one than let it go...... Chop the grass and don't remove the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again?"

Ye Xin said angrily: "What's the matter?"

"What if the people here died for that reason?"

"What did you say?"

"I said," Lin Xiao's eyes widened, as if he had thought of some terrifying possibility, "if someone had really hunted down the survivor who had escaped from the Innocent Family for the sake of that half of the remnants, and that survivor had fled into a village in the mountains. Then according to the logic of your Demon Sect, aren't the villagers in this village ......?"

The coldness on Ye Xin's face suddenly turned into a stunned look.

"You mean......" Ye Xin said.

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of breaking the air from behind him, and then Lin Xiao shouted: "Be careful!" Ye Xin's heart tightened, and he flew up with the strength under his feet, only to feel that something was flying under his feet. The next moment, Lin Xiao snorted, and that thing quickly hit him across Ye Xin's body, directly knocking him into the layers of thick fog behind him.

2.

The flying thing was extremely powerful, and it lifted Lin Xiao's whole person off the ground. Then, that thing came again, and through the fog, it looked like an extremely thick python, and in mid-air it tightly wrapped around his waist, pushing him to the side of the tree.

Lin Xiao was in mid-air, unable to borrow strength, and the giant python-like thing was tightly wrapped around his waist, "Changqiang", "Shenque" and other acupoints were blocked, the real air circulation was not smooth, and the cold qi in the body that had not yet been purified felt suppressed and weakened, so he took the opportunity to rebel and make trouble, it was really miserable, and for a time he couldn't even make the most basic "jack pendant", and he couldn't help but crash into the tree.

There was a loud "bang", and Lin Xiao's back hit the trunk of the tree hard. At the same time, he let go of the red dust in his hand.

A dazzling red light suddenly flashed between the foggy trees, and the red dust came out of its sheath, and the flying sword rose up, killing with the sword qi of the red mang, and cutting off the python-like thing wrapped around Lin Xiao's waist with a sword. The thing seemed to have some kind of spirituality, and it twitched in pain, and then shrank back at the same speed as before, and disappeared into the mist.

Lin Xiao fell from the tree, and stood firm with a "flat sand and falling geese" method, enduring the discomfort of cold poison and the pain on his back. The Purple Sun Divine Skill was free of the blockage in the acupuncture path, and its operation became smooth, suppressing the cold power, and then opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of dark red blood.

The Red Dust Sword flew around in the mist of the forest several times, but he didn't see where the thing had gone, so he went back the way he came, and inserted it back into the scabbard. A crimson aura flowed from the sword, gradually becoming real from the void, and transforming into the body of the sword spirit.

Hongchen picked up the spirit sword body from the ground, brought it to Lin Xiao's side, stretched out his finger and pointed at several acupoints on his body, inputting pure internal force into his body, and asked with concern, "How do you feel?"

Lin Xiao's face was not very good-looking at the moment, and he looked even more pale in the mist. Although the residual poison of the cold in his body had been suppressed, the chill brought by the reaction just now had not been eliminated immediately, and the fog in the forest was already relatively wet and cold, cold both inside and outside, which made him feel a little numb and stinging for a while, and he couldn't help gritting his teeth and said, "It's okay...... Some time ago, the poison was not removed, and just now my true qi was blocked and the flow was not smooth, so I was a little backfired. ”

Hongchen sighed and said, "I told you a long time ago that the power of yin and cold attached to that cold jade rune should not be underestimated. You always don't take my words to heart, so you should believe that what I say is not an exaggeration. ”

"It seems to be a little reliable, ha......," Lin Xiao smiled bitterly.

Hongchen asked, "By the way, do you see clearly what that thing that attacked you is?"

"Didn't you cut off a piece just now?" Lin Xiao said, "Look for it, it must be around here." As he spoke, he lowered his head to look for the object that had just been cut off by the blade of the sword. Unexpectedly, as soon as he lowered his head and leaned over, he heard Hongchen shout: "Get out of the way!"

Lin Xiao moved when he heard the sound, and quickly dodged and took a step to the side, only to feel that a force rolled up on the left side, which was rushing past the place where he was standing just now, and hit the red dust behind him.

Hongchen had already taken precautions when he reminded Lin Xiao, Rao was like this, that thing was so fast, it was even half a beat faster than her. Before Hongchen raised his hand to seal the seal, he had already hit her first.

Hongchen felt a pain in his waist, and he was already pushed backwards by that thing and retreated four or five steps in a row. She took advantage of the situation and retreated half a step again, with luck under her feet, spiritual power everywhere, and directly blasted out a shallow pit on the ground, and for a while dust and blades flew one after another, so she stood still.

"Tight!" Lin Xiao shouted.

"Do you still need to remind you?!" Hongchen responded indifferently, Hao's wrist coiled and turned slightly, and he made a move "Crane Fetch Water", which was the clever trick in the "Crane Control Hand", and suddenly grabbed the thing that was wrapping around his waist and pulled it straight.

The thing kept trembling, as if trying to break free from the grasp of the red dust, and something under the skin was squirming slightly disgustingly.

Lin Xiao looked fixedly: "This is ......"

Hongchen couldn't help frowning: "...... A vine?!"

It was a vine that was tightly held in Hongchen's hand. It's just that this vine is as thick as a child's arm, and it can twitch back and forth flexibly and freely, and at first glance in this fog, it looks like a vicious long snake and a giant python.

At the same time as Hongchen grabbed the vine, another long shadow suddenly burst out from the side, breaking through the dull and viscous air, and another tentacle-like vine flung towards Hongchen's waist.

Hongchen was shocked in his heart, and he didn't know how many such vines there were, so he took off his hand and let go of the vine he was holding tightly in his hand, raised his foot and kicked on the trunk behind him, took three steps, and the whole person turned upside down, making a "hanging upside down" posture to avoid the vines thrown at his waist. Her move was so precise that the vines swept right above her head from below, and if she made the slightest mistake, the blow would hit the head right in the head, which was truly thrilling.

The flowing red dress on Hongchen's body opened into a red cloud in the air, which was extremely eye-catching in the white fog in the forest, and the spring light that appeared under the red skirt and the two slender and white legs exposed were enough to make every young man with strong blood and blood swell.

It's just that the situation is critical now, and Lin Xiao, who is with her, can't take care of these beautiful scenes, what he cares about is the crisis hidden behind the fog.

Hongchen floated to the ground, separated his legs into a line of horses, lowered his body, and then leaned back half of his waist, and avoided the second attack of the vines with a "soft bone stool" and half a "iron plate bridge"; This time, it was not the "crane control hand", but the "dragon and phoenix" in the "dragon capture skill".

"Here comes the sword!" Hongchen shouted.

Lin Xiao's right hand flicked lightly, the long sword reversed and turned the hilt towards Hongchen, and was about to throw the sword, when suddenly he only felt a tightness on his wrists, and two vines had come out of the fog barrier behind him at some point, wrapping around his hands one left and one right, slowly tightening and tightening. The two acupoints on Lin Xiao's wrist, "Inner Guan" and "Outer Guan", were restricted, and his hands were suddenly sore, and as soon as the long sword was taken off, it fell to the ground.

Immediately afterward, there was a strong force from the two vines, which was about to pull him into the fog barrier. Lin Xiao was really angry, he was heavy, his heels rubbed a series of rotten leaves on the ground, and he barely stopped, so he was not pulled off the ground like before.

"Hell!" Lin Xiao scolded secretly, snapped his fingers lightly with his right hand, and the Red Dust Sword rose in response, turning into a red light and flying towards the Red Dust. Unbeknownst to him, the vine was actually conscious, and when Hongchen was about to take the sword in his hand, suddenly another long snake-like vine tentacle burst out of the fog and drew towards the flying long sword.

With a bang, the sound of metal clashing came from the fog.

A long knife flew at the other angle, and struck the Red Dust Sword first. The long sword underwent a subtle deflection just as it was about to be drawn by the vines, and it fell into Hongchen's hands impartially.

The swept vines struck the flying blade, and the long knife bounced upside down and plunged into the ground beside it. The slender blade flashed with a cold light, reflecting the light in Lin Xiao's eyes.

Blade like snow, that's—Blade of Despair!

The diffuse mist was suddenly pierced by a shadow, Ye Xin flew over, reached out and wiped it on the hilt, and took the Ruthless Blade back into his hand. She put the knife back into the sheath, and her tone was as cold and indifferent as before, so that no one could hear the slightest emotion: "I'm sorry, I was entangled in that thing, and it took me a while to find here." ”

Lin Xiao's spirit was lifted, the true qi in his body was condensed, and the internal force on his wrists tore off the vines wrapped around his hands, shook his hand and smiled: "No, the timing is just right." ”

On the other side, Hongchen took the sword in his hand, and waved the sword with a move "Fire Tree Silver Flower", and the sword qi filled his body, twisting the few vines rolled by his side into a cloud of pieces. The remaining broken vine branches twisted a few times and retracted into the mist, and the forest was silent again.

Hongchen waved his hand and threw the spirit sword body in his hand into the scabbard in Lin Xiao's hand accurately, and said in surprise at the same time: "What kind of ghost vine is this, why is it so evil?!"

Lin Xiao tore off the small piece of vine that was broken on his wrist, and saw that the thing was still squirming slightly; if he looked closely, the inside of the vine was actually melted with a mass of rotten and smelly flesh inside, and a few drops of green and slimy juice were hanging down from the cross-section of the fracture, which was disgusting.

Lin Xiao hurriedly threw the thing to the ground: "What the hell!"

Ye Xin's face was like frost, and he said coldly: "The vine is the skin, and the corpse is the viscera." ”

Hongchen frowned and said, "How can such a thing appear here?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely not the only one that is at risk. ”

Lin Xiao looked around: "You see that there is a lot of fog here, the miasma is very heavy, and there are strange things everywhere, if you stay here for a while, it will be more dangerous." We must find a way out and leave as quickly as possible, and as for the rest, we will wait until we get back to consider the long term. ”

【To be continued】