1.

Unlike the Aoki family's hidden room under the water, the space behind this copper door is much larger, and the roof is still embedded with large and small fish eye stones, which light up the whole interior with pearlescent light, and it looks a little more comfortable than the previous dim environment.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin covered their mouths and noses, waiting for the fishy rotten smell inside to slowly dissipate. The two of them stood in the doorway, looking at the bones covered with dust and cobwebs, and there were some bits and pieces on the ground, which should have been tables, chairs, scrolls, paper inkstones, and other things that should have been placed here, but now they were all smashed to pieces—in short, looking at the whole room, it was a mess.

Lin Xiao moved his gaze from the ground upwards, only to see that at the other end of the room, half of the painting hanging on the wall had been torn off, and the other half had also lost its original appearance under decades of insect damage. But what really caught his eye was not the dilapidated painting, but the wall on which the painting hung -

A huge hole had been dug into that wall.

"Look at it, there was a terrible battle here - almost all the people who came in died here. Lin Xiao stepped into the secret room, careful not to let himself crush the bones that had fallen apart. "It seems that Hua Feng was hiding here with him, but he was found by the pursuers and killed, and he escaped with a bloody way, and the map is estimated to have been damaged here. ”

Ye Xin frowned and said, "No, this doesn't make sense." If Hua Feng killed everyone who came in and escaped, then why didn't he take the other half of the remnants with him?"

"Then what if the people of your Demon Sect chased and killed here, grabbed half of the map, and let him run away?"

Ye Xin glanced at Lin Xiao: "That half of the remnant picture is not in the hands of Lihate Tiancheng at all, which means that he did not snatch anything from Hua Feng at the beginning, and the place where the remnant picture was lost is another place, this is one of them." Second, our Divine Cult never hides murder, since we dare to release the news of the destruction of the Innocent Family, why bother to seal the mechanism at the entrance with lime, for fear that others will see that there are still people dead down here. ”

Lin Xiao was speechless for a while, and after thinking for a while, he said, "If the mechanism at the entrance was not sealed by your people, then this matter could only be done by someone from the Innocent Family or Hua Feng himself." The people of the Innocent Family should not be okay to seal the entrance to their secret passage, so only Hua Feng is left to be suspicious. ”

"What's the suspicion?" Ye Xin asked coldly.

Lin Xiao said assumedly: "If he hides under this, he is afraid that others will see that he is tired, of course he will seal the mechanism." ”

"If this is what you say, then it is impossible for the pursuers to come in here. Ye Xin said.

Lin Xiao pointed to the huge hole in the wall and said, "How do you explain the hole in the wall? It was obviously dug by man, maybe the people of the Demon Sect entered here by digging a tunnel?"

Ye Xin sneered: "Of course not. First of all, the traces of the excavation around this cave are excavated from the outside in, not from the inside out, so it can be seen that the excavator dug the hole with this secret chamber as the starting point, and his purpose was not to get in, but to get out. ”

"Second, after the entrance organ logo was sealed by lime, there was no trace of destruction, indicating that the pursuers did not find any entrance mechanism at that time, so naturally there was no way to know the existence of this secret room, how could they have a whim, want to dig a tunnel here, and happened to dig into Hua Feng's hiding place?!"

has been denied several times in a row, Rao is Lin Xiao has always maintained a relatively calm attitude, and at this time he couldn't help but get irritable: "This doesn't make sense, that doesn't make sense, do these people all appear here out of thin air?

Lin Xiaoyu changed a few breaths, probably affected by the dirty air quality here, and only felt very uncomfortable for a while, so he forced himself to calm down and walked a few steps, and kicked out at will as if he was out of breath on the way, and kicked it right on a broken skull on the ground.

Lin Xiao's casual kick was purely automatic, and the internal force came out, and the fast skull naturally attached wisps of true qi under Lin Xiao's kick, flew from one end of the door to the other end of the secret room, and smashed on a complete skeleton leaning against the wall, shattering to the ground.

At the same time, Lin Xiao suddenly stopped, and the chaotic aura seemed to be much smoother in that moment. He turned his head to look at the skeleton as he reached over his waist and untied the bag that was tied to his belt.

Ye Xin also looked at the skeleton, and then looked at the Qiankun bag in Lin Xiao's hand, and a surprised light flashed in his deep eyes-

The skull that Lin Xiao had just kicked out had spiritual power attached to it, and while it smashed on the skeleton, it also shook away the fragmented bones, dust, cobwebs and other miscellaneous filths covered on it. At this time, the Qiankun bag containing half a volume of remnants heated up again, and even the lines of the bag emitted wisps of crystal light.

There was a resonance between the remnant and the skeleton, and the reaction was more violent than at any previous moment!

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin glanced at each other, and they both read a sentence from each other's eyes-

The owner of the skeleton had come into contact with the other half of the fragments!

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin stepped forward together, brushed aside the broken remains, and walked to the complete skeleton.

"The closer you get to it, the more obvious the resonance reaction of the Qiankun bag, it seems that it is it!" Lin Xiao said to Ye Xin while stretching out his fingers to gently wipe away the dust and cobwebs on the skeleton.

"But this person is not with the others. Ye Xin first carefully observed the skeleton, and then briefly looked at several other corpses around him, and then made such a judgment.

Lin Xiao asked, "What do you say?"

"The condition of this man's death, as can be seen from the bones, is different from others. Ye Xin pointed to a few places on the skeleton and said, "Let's not mention that this person has traces of the soul imprint on the remnant map, but in terms of the preservation of the corpse, it is the only one here that is the most intact." ”

"But the strange thing is that the bones of the man's head and neck, as well as his limbs, are intact, but all the bones in his chest and abdomen are very neatly broken in two, as if something has exploded from his chest and abdomen, and all the bones in his position have been blown off. ”

"And that's not all. Lin Xiao said as he moved his face closer to the skeleton, "Look at these fractures on this person's bones, the cracks are spreading from the inside out. If something did explode in his chest and abdomen, it must have exploded from the inside of his body. ”

Ye Xin was slightly startled: "Inside the body?"

"I think it's weird too, but that's just the way it is. Lin Xiao also bit the nail on his thumb and wondered, "Could it be that this person swallowed explosives in his stomach?"

"If he really swallowed the explosives in his stomach, shouldn't all the bones in his body be blown to pieces?" Ye Xin frowned, "Could he still come up with any special way to only explode at a fixed position inside his body?!"

Lin Xiao touched his chin and thought: "It's not that you can't use the 'blasting talisman' to achieve fixed-point blasting, but this kind of talisman will explode directly once it is urged by internal force, and cultivators like us who have practiced true qi want to swallow the 'blasting talisman', and once you squeeze it in your mouth, your jaw will be directly blown up, so where can you wait for him to swallow it in his stomach." ”

"If I were you, I would observe his hand more. ”

A joking female voice came from behind the two, Lin Xiao and Ye Xin turned their heads to look behind together, only to see Hongchen leaning against the wall on the side of the secret room and looking at them with a smile on her face, not caring at all whether the filthy dust on the wall would stain the bright red dress on her body, and she was still playing with a skull in her hand, and there was a hint of evil in her beauty.

Lin Xiao snorted fiercely: "Can you not suddenly drill out like a ghost every time......

She was right. Ye Xin interrupted Lin Xiao's words, his eyes staring straight at the position of the fingers of the skeleton's two hands, "You take a closer look at the index fingers and middle fingers of this person's hands. ”

Lin Xiao turned his head, carefully picked up the arms and arm bones of the skeleton, and observed it carefully. I saw that the fingers of the index finger and middle finger of the skeleton were covered with numerous scars, as if someone had scraped the bone knife several times, and what was even more strange was that the phalanx of the index finger and the middle finger were more than a knuckle distance away from the other phalanges.

Lin Xiao couldn't help but be surprised: "Why are these two fingers of this person so long?"

Ye Xin stood up straight: "I think I know who he is." ”

Lin Xiao looked up at her and asked, "Who is he?"

Ye Xin looked directly at the two hollow eyeholes on the skull of the skeleton, and said, "The last generation of the Innocent Family's head - Gu Beichen!"

2.

Lin Xiao repeated in a tone of disbelief: "He is the last head of the Innocent Family?!"

Seeing Ye Xin nodded, he turned back to look at Hongchen, but found that she had turned into a sword shape and ran back into the scabbard at some point, and there was no movement at this time. However, Lin Xiao faintly felt that even if Hongchen was still there, what he got would be the same result - after all, the proposal to observe the finger itself was made by her.

"How do you see it just by a skeleton?"

"As you can see, it's a matter of fingers. Ye Xin glanced at the two finger bones on the skeleton's hand again, and said slowly: "In the whole world, except for the Innocent Family, no one will have such almost deformed fingers. Speaking of this, she paused slightly, and then continued: "Have you heard of 'Faqiu Zhonglang General'?"

Lin Xiao frowned and said: "The title of general or something sounds good, but to put it bluntly, he is not a tomb robber." ”

Ye Xin sneered: "You hundred schools of immortal sects claim to be famous and upright, so they often despise us, criticize the people in our divine sect as evil demons, and everything you do is contrary to orthodoxy. In fact, how many Xuanmen families have been innocent from the beginning, if you really want to check it out to the bottom of it, who can guarantee that your family's family history is completely unstained?!"

Although Ye Xin's words sounded very harsh from the perspective of a person in her Demon Sect, what she said was indeed a tacit fact that no matter whether it was black or white, Lin Xiao couldn't refute: "So what do you want to say?"

Ye Xin slightly put away her mocking tone and continued coldly: "According to legend, Faqiu Zhonglang will have a unique secret skill, and his index and middle fingers are extremely long and extremely sensitive. When needed, you can reach into small places to probe the inside story, and you can also easily crack the small mechanisms in the tomb. This kind of kung fu needs to be practiced from a young age, and the specific practice of the law is unknown to outsiders, only that the process is miserable. ”

"Then do you know that the founding patriarch of the Innocent Family, at the very beginning, was born as a tomb robber. Ye Xin looked at Lin Xiao's gradually changing expression and said slowly with interest.

Lin Xiao's face did change, but he had already made a certain amount of psychological preparation when Ye Xin said a lot of opening words, so now it sounds like he is only shocked: "You mean that the Innocent Ancestor was originally a tomb robber, and then he washed his hands in the golden basin and founded the Innocent Family-this sounds a bit similar to the story created by the Liaoyuan Family, but the specific process is different." ”

Ye Xin nodded and said, "It's quite similar, but now is not the time to discuss this." This Innocent Ancestor, that is, the last generation of the old Gu family, is not an ordinary person, this person's talent in martial arts is far higher than his talent in inverted fighting, he has changed on the basis of Faqiu Zhonglang's 'two-finger exploration', and created a unique assigned kung fu, which is later the family heirloom of the Innocent Family-Wuxiang Robbery Finger. ”

Lin Xiao said with understanding: "Therefore, if you want to practice this 'Phaseless Robbery Finger', you must first start with the kung fu of 'Two-Finger Cave Exploration', and the kind of practice method of Faqiu Zhonglang will inevitably make the cultivator's fingers become deformed like this." ”

Ye Xin said: "Not bad. And the most important point is that although this 'unphased robbery' kung fu does not pay attention to 'passing on men to women', only the head of the family can practice it. So at the moment, this corpse can only be Gu Beichen. ”

Ye Xin rubbed the fractures and cracks on Gu Beichen's bones, and said thoughtfully: "Lord of the Hall, why would you be trapped in a sealed secret room with a group of people, and there are traces of the soul imprint on the remnant picture on your body, and the death is so weird......

"It seems that this case back then is really interesting, it has been so long, and it can still be linked to what is happening now!"

Lin Xiao frowned and said, "If the Innocent Family Master appears here, then our previous conjectures about Hua Feng hiding in the secret room will be completely wrong - it is impossible for him to retreat with the remnants of the family master and the pursuers." ”

"That hole in the wall?"

"Maybe someone dug it when they were running for their lives, but it was definitely not Hua Feng. If he was really blocked here by two gangs of people, he wouldn't have had the life to dig this passage at all. ”

"But don't you think this statement is ridiculous - how could the head of the dignified Immortal Sect family team up with the enemy to deal with his own people?!"

"So there must be something wrong here, and the soul imprint appeared on Gu Beichen's body, which means that the person who entered this place with the map at that time was not Hua Feng, but him. ”

Lin Xiao squatted down with his head in his hands, patted his head vigorously, and muttered to himself: "I really miss Ling Ying too much now, if he is here, just a 'Ask Ling' will be over, where will he have no clue about a group of dead people like now!"

Ye Xin had already cleared the location around Gu Beichen's skeleton and said, "Although I can't figure out how Gu Beichen used to explode from the inside of his body, he must have tried his best to make others get within a few steps of him before completing this action, so that when the blast occurs, even if the door is not far away, no one can escape there alive." ”

Except for Gu Beichen, the deaths of the others were all similar, they were all shattered by this inexplicable blasting force and died of limbs and hundreds of skeletons, and the closer the person was, the more fragmented the skeletons were. ”

Lin Xiao said: "There must be one person alive, otherwise the passage dug in this wall cannot be explained." He got up and walked to the big hole in the wall, wiped a handful of dust from the wall of the cave with his hand, and could vaguely see the marks of knives and axes on it, and looked at the broken and damaged blades in the four places, "This passage was dug out by someone with a blade weapon, and at least one person survived at that time." After the blast, he must have triggered the mechanism of the secret room and locked all the space here, so he thought of digging a passage to escape. ”

Ye Xin couldn't help but be stunned and said: "Dig a passage from here alone and run out? Let's not talk about whether he can dig a way to escape from here to the ground with his own strength, how can he survive so many days without food and water here." ”

"The potential that a person can explode under the impetus of the desire to survive is unlimited, and if he really wants to live, it is not difficult to dig a passage alone. As for food-" Lin Xiao suddenly sneered: "You are a member of the Demon Sect, can't you still figure this out? You may lack everything in this space, but there is no shortage of food!"

Ye Xin's face changed violently, his expression was cold, and there was a faint paleness.

Lin Xiao looked at her silently while pointing to the bones scattered on the ground.

"Tell me something else to distract yourself," Lin Xiao reached out and patted Ye Xin twice on the shoulder, "I feel like you're going to vomit if you hold it any longer." ”

Ye Xin stroked his chest, let out a sigh, and continued: "I also discovered just now that the other corpses other than Gu Beichen also have a common feature - their skulls all have signs of spiritual power attached, and this sign shows that they received an extremely strong soul impact before they died, and they directly shattered the three souls and seven spirits. In this case, the closer you get to Gu Beichen's position, the more obvious it becomes. ”

"Soul impact?" Lin Xiao couldn't help but be stunned: "Why is there another cause of death, weren't these people killed by the explosion?"

"My guess is that the three souls and seven spirits were scattered before they were killed. ”

Lin Xiao paced back and forth while biting his nails, straightening out the intertwined clues in his mind one by one, and re-searching for the key points. After about a pillar of incense, he suddenly turned his head to look at Ye Xin and asked, "Let me ask you a question." ”

"You say. ”

"If a large amount of true qi is poured into an object with soul power, can the soul power on that object overflow due to saturation, and then produce a blasting effect?"

Ye Xin pondered for a moment and replied, "Theoretically, it can." However, the spiritual power that the human body can output is also limited, and if you want to saturate the soul power on the object, you must cultivate above the Eight Heavens, and you must exhaust almost all the true qi in your body to do this. ”

A strange light flashed in Lin Xiao's eyes: "Then what if you let this object be infinitely close to the location of the origin of the true qi of the human body......?"

"There is no such if. Ye Xin interrupted Lin Xiao's words, with a slight hint of impatience in his tone, "If you want this object to be infinitely close to the dantian and the sea of qi, can you still swallow ......it?"

Before the words fell, Ye Xin's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the smile that gradually appeared on Lin Xiao's face in a daze, and filled in what he wanted to say just now: "...... Swallow it!"

Lin Xiao snapped his fingers and threw a punch into the air hard, as if he was venting some kind of emotion, and then scolded with a smile: "you/the Innocent Family! you/Gu Beichen! you/Hua Feng!

Ye Xin also said in disbelief: "He really swallowed that half of the remnant?!"

"Everything, from Hua Feng's undercover theft of the map, to the division of the map, to the destruction of the door, and finally Hua Feng's escape - all of these things have been planned a long time ago!" Lin Xiao said, "We have always thought wrongly, Hua Feng has never betrayed the Innocent Family, nor has he done any dirty things to kill people with a knife. These things are all a game set up by him and Gu Beichen—"

3.

Ye Xin was shocked: "The map was not damaged in the melee, but was torn apart by Hua Feng and Gu Beichen?!"

"Not bad. If my expectations were right, that was the case. Lin Xiao analyzed while pacing, "Hua Feng stole the map of the Dark Demon Evil God Record from the Heavenly City of Hatred at that time, was chased and killed by the Demon Sect, and fled all the way back here to pay tribute to the head of the family, Beichen. But Gu Beichen knew that the pursuers of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect would soon be killed, and no matter how Hua Feng escaped, it would be difficult to guarantee that he would not be caught, and at that time, he would fall short, and even the Innocent Family would not escape death. So, this amazing family master came up with a solution once and for all!"

Ye Xin said in a deep voice: "The dead cannot be traced, he plans to use the entire Innocent Family to protect Huafeng and that map." ”

Lin Xiao nodded: "That's why I said that he is amazing, even if he buries the Innocent Family, as long as Hua Feng is still alive and takes that map and goes away and disappears, then the negative impact on the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect will be permanent." ”

In order to successfully attract the attention of the pursuers, Gu Beichen and Hua Feng divided the map into two halves, Hua Feng fled with half of them in advance, and the other half remained on himself, so that a part of the soul power remained in the Unsullied Family along with half of the remnants. ”

Ye Xin asked, "Why is the mechanism at the entrance of the secret room sealed with lime, and how did the pursuers find here?"

"The matter of the organ should have been what Gu Beichen told Hua Feng to do. Lin Xiao continued, "After Gu Beichen opened the entrance, he brought the remnant picture into the secret room. Because the mechanism of this entrance was very troublesome to crack, he simply opened the passage to the secret room directly, and asked Hua Feng to seal the gossip pattern on the rockery with lime, first, to save trouble, second, to attract the firepower of the pursuers, and thirdly, not to affect his follow-up plans. ”

"What's the plan?"

"When the pursuers arrived, they began to massacre the entire Unsullied Family. After they killed the others, they also quickly discovered the location of the secret room, and found Gu Beichen here. ”

They asked Gu Beichen to hand over Hua Feng and the map, but what they didn't expect was that the map was indeed on Gu Beichen, but it was not on his body, but he swallowed it into his belly. ”

Lin Xiao circled around this secret room: "This is why Gu Beichen chose to come to this secret room, the space here is very limited, even if something happens and wants to escape, it can't all be evacuated in a short time." He took advantage of the approaching of the other party to urge the true qi of his whole body, and the internal force in his body and the sea of qi burst out together, causing the spiritual power on the map fragment to overflow, and the soul power exploded in an instant, and almost all the people in this room were spared. And the powerful impact triggered the secret room mechanism, sealing it all here, and in the case that Hua Feng sealed the hint of the mechanism at the entrance, no one would be able to find this place at all. ”

Lin Xiao pointed to Gu Beichen's bones and said: "Gu Beichen's bones are well preserved, only the bones in the chest and abdomen are broken, and the traces of the cracks are from the inside out, because the soul power is blasted at the distance from his 'body' qi sea to the dantian, and the powerful force that erupted from the inside out instantly evaporated the flesh and viscera of his body, leaving only the hardest bones. ”

"And the hole that was dug out?

"Although Gu Beichen's strategy is good, but human calculation is not as good as heaven after all, what he didn't expect was that his urging of soul power was fundamentally unstable, and he couldn't control this power to cover the entire secret room, so there would be a layered death phenomenon. From this I can conclude that the last person standing in the line escaped the disaster. ”

Lin Xiao walked to the entrance of the cave and touched the traces of knives and axes on it with his hand: "This person is a lucky person, he took the half of the remnants in Gu Beichen's body, but unfortunately the original road has been sealed, and he has to open another way." In this way, he forcibly dug out a passage to escape with the weapons of everyone here, and when he was hungry and thirsty, he used the corpses here to satisfy his hunger...... In this way, the surviving figure dug through the passage and escaped with the other half of the fragments. ”

Ye Xin frowned and said: "But the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect didn't recover the remaining half of the remnants back then, this person brought the remnants but didn't return to the sect, where did he go?"

Lin Xiao looked at the dug passage and said slowly: "Well, this should be another unknown story!"

【To be continued】