A human head.

White head.

The strange expression condensed on that familiar face, and his second brother's eyes widened and stared straight ahead, as if he had seen something incredible—it was exactly the same as Li Chun's death.

"Second Brother ......"

Bai Xiu muttered, he remembered something, and hurriedly rummaged through his clothes.

Soon, a familiar note came into his eyes, and he took a deep breath and slowly opened it

"I find it much more fun to kill the person you care about than to kill the person you hate, I feel extremely happy just thinking about your grief-stricken appearance, who do you think I should choose next?

This madman!

Bai Xiu didn't have time to grieve, wrapped his second brother's head around his back with clothes, turned around and hurried in the direction he came.

He only hates himself now, why didn't he find out this person in the first place, and finally killed his second brother, and also caused Fang Xin to fall into a more dangerous situation.

"Ah Xin!"

It wasn't long before the dilapidated hut reappeared in front of him, and he didn't care if they would find out, shouting his lover's name.

Unfortunately, there was boundless silence in his answer, and he had a faint bad premonition in his heart, so he walked over and pushed open the door to see that there was no one inside.

He couldn't help but comfort himself, it had been a while since he had been gone, and it was normal for Fang Xin to leave here.

Bai Xiu searched carefully in the vicinity for a while, and finally found some footprints, his heart was relieved, and he hurriedly followed these footprints.

It was almost half an hour's journey, and the path under his feet gradually came to an end, replaced by a forest that was many times denser than before.

This undoubtedly increased the difficulty of tracking, Bai Xiu was bent on finding them, and he didn't care, but he walked less than two hundred meters in this dense forest before he completely lost the clue.

But don't get me wrong, it's not that he's lost his way in it, it's that the trail left by the three of them has been interrupted for no apparent reason, as if they had vanished into thin air here.

It's so weird that even if they were attacked unsuspectingly, the scene couldn't have been so clean.

Unless this is the connection between the two layers of the Illusion Heart Secret Realm, Fang Xin and they triggered some mechanism and entered the next layer.

This possible existence made Bai Xiu, who was immersed in anxiety, grasp a life-saving straw, perhaps for him, no news at the moment is the best news.

He walked out in a daze, trying to calmly consider his next plan, but his mind went blank, and the sudden bad news grabbed his reason and made him hesitate in grief.

By the time he realized something was wrong, he was in the middle of a forest.

A forest of trees, there is nothing to be surprised about, but this is not an ordinary forest, the smallest of these trees in front of me are hugged by three or four people.

His gaze couldn't help but stay on one of them, its diameter was enough to exceed ten meters, and even the boil on its waist was the size of a water tank, and he really didn't know how many years it had grown in the original world.

It was also strange that there were no shrubs among the many giant trees, not even a single weed, only the ground was full of fallen leaves, which smelled of decay.

Bai Xiu was vigilant, he clearly remembered that he was going outside the deep forest, but he ended up here inexplicably.

But here he is, this place is so weird, maybe there are some clues that can guide him to find Fang Xin.

He looked for a direction and continued to walk down, and the forest of giant trees finally came to an end, and a huge figure appeared in front of him.

Bai Xiu was stunned at first, walked over quickly to take a look, and didn't know what to say for a while.

It's a tower.

That's right, another tower.

However, compared to the Lingling Tower, this tower can be said to be extremely majestic, he visually measured that the diameter of the light was one or two hundred meters, not to mention the height, he couldn't see the top at all when he stood under the tower.

There is such a colossus in the world...... Bai Xiu stared at it intently, and finally decided to go in and have a look.

The tower also appears to be a semi-hollow tower, with only one door on the first floor in each of the eight directions.

He tentatively pushed the nearest one, but after a few soft clicks, it actually opened.

He didn't go in immediately, but hid and listened for a moment to make sure there was no danger before sneaking in.

The space in the tower was unusually large, but unfortunately it was empty, he could see the edge at a glance, and there was a gap in the middle of it, but there was not a dungeon below, but a staircase after a staircase.

A strange thought popped up in his mind, could it be that this majestic tower is just a decoration, and the real "tower" is actually these staircases?

After a little consideration, Bai Xiu took out the flashlight that Cheng Lu had prepared in advance, and walked down the stairs carefully, there were no clues at the moment, so it was better to go down and find out.

It didn't take long for the stairs under his feet to diverge, one continuing down, the other turning upward, and he didn't know where it led.

Bai Xiu chose the upward one, he didn't know how deep the direction to the ground was, but the distance between his current position and the ground was limited, and this path should be completed quickly.

As he expected, he walked for about three minutes, and the fork in the road was at the end.

However, he was no less suspicious than he had just now, because it was connected to a very strangely shaped room.

The room was a little smaller than an ordinary suite, and it was unusually damp, and as soon as he entered, his hair was stained with a layer of small droplets......

Could it be—

He subconsciously looked up at the height of the room, and finally came to a seemingly absurd conclusion - he seemed to be in a tree.

The question arises as to why the builders hollowed out these trees, just as they did in the tunnels during the war years, to hide from invaders.

Bai Xiu continued to walk down while thinking, and after five minutes, he came across the second upward staircase, and when he went up, he saw that it was still the same "room", and a big tree was hollowed out entirely.

He was even more curious, what was the place under this tower?

An hour later, he had finally walked the staircase, so frightening in depth that it moved anyone.

And the sight below was even more unexpected to him - there was nothing here, yes, just like above, empty.

If such a huge project is just a person who wants to play tricks in, it will be too unreasonable, and it is difficult to find any clues hidden in the shadows.

Bai Xiuzai searched carefully and carefully, and sure enough, there was a harvest.

He found a groove in a loose floor in the corner, half the size of a palm, roughly in a circular shape, with only one notch.

The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this shape was a little familiar, and he immediately reacted, isn't this the keyhole inlaid with Phantom Heart Jue on the Spirit Tower?!

He couldn't help but feel a little helpless, if this was the entrance to the second layer of the Illusory Heart Secret Realm, it was estimated that only those who held the Illusory Heart Jue could open it.

The question that came to his mind before, Fang Xin and the three disappeared into the dense forest, where did they go, could it be that it was also an entrance?

It seemed that he had to confirm the matter, at least to find out what was going on at the time, and where the group really went.

Bai Xiu made a decision, naturally he didn't want to stay here, but after walking for so long, he was extremely tired physically and mentally, so it was better to take a good rest now, so that he could deal with emergencies with all his might in the future.

He untied the burden from his back and sat aside with it.

After this pause, he suddenly realized that the things in his arms were very heavy—he never thought that his second brother would leave before him.

Since he was a child, because his body may be ghosted at any time, he is ready to return to Huangquan every day, such a pessimistic attitude towards the world, his aunt has always scoffed, only his second brother always encourages him.

If there is anything delicious, Bai Che is the first to bring it to him;

Where is the scenery beautiful, even if he can't go, Bai Che will tell him like a river;

When he was a child, he was timid, because he was afraid of sleeping alone, he went to Bai Che, and Bai Che would not pierce his timidity.

He always knew that his unruly second brother was actually a very careful and considerate person.

The time spent with the two kept flooding back in his mind, and his tears finally couldn't help falling, gradually wetting the clothes wrapped outside.

At this moment, a vision suddenly appeared!

The green flames instantly ignited from the inside of his clothes, and Bai Xiu didn't have time to react at all, and the entire head in his arms was burned into ashes.

With a local sound, a small iron box fell to the ground, he picked it up in a daze, opened it and saw that there was a piece of white and flawless jade jue lying inside.

Phantom Heart.

Seeing it, Bai Xiu was not surprised in his heart, he numbly took out the Phantom Heart Jue, and there was indeed a note at the bottom of the box.

He paused in his hand movements, unfolding it flat.

"Didn't it scare you? I thought about it, anyway, people are dead, what's the use of keeping your head, why don't you give you a surprise, with Phantom Xinjue, you can open the mechanism you want to open, happy?"

Bai Xiu stared at the handwriting on it tightly, inexplicably calmed down, if the murderer regarded this killing as a prank, he was not afraid to deal with the other party to the end, before the end of the story, no one knew who would perish first.

A force rampaged through his heart, and he didn't rest, taking out a waterproof bag and collecting the ashes of Bai Che's skull into it.

The world makes people, this waterproof bag was asked by Cheng Lu at the beginning, and he has always carried it with him, but he didn't expect it to come in handy now.

Bai Xiu put it away carefully, and then opened the "lock" with Phantom Heart Jue.

Jingle bells, jingle bells –

A sudden sound of bells rang out, and it grew stronger and stronger, until finally it rang in his ears like a raging storm.

When it counted forty-nine, it weakened again, and the surroundings finally fell silent.

There was another voice above his head, he listened carefully, and his heart was shocked, this seemed to be Fang Xuanqian's voice, could it be that she still had accomplices?

Without having time to think about it, Bai Xiu walked back, if the two of them were also coming down, the only place he could avoid them was those trees in the room.

Unfortunately, as soon as he turned around, he had to stop, and there was no staircase in front of him, and there was clearly only a tree.

The tree was five or six meters high, with most of its torso underneath, and the treetops broke through the ground, leaving a hole one or two meters wide, from which the sound of Fang Xuanjian was revealed.

Bai Xiu immediately thought of a situation, could it be that he had already reached the second layer of the Illusory Heart Secret Realm, so there was a spatial transformation, and she happened to pass by here by chance?

As his thoughts raced, he quietly climbed up the trunk of the tree, sniffing through the hidden foliage.

"Why are you following me, don't you go to find the fragments of the Raider's Tripod?" Fang Xuanqian sneered, the other party seemed to be someone she was familiar with, but not her companion.

However, the man didn't speak, and Fang Xuanqian was still speaking: "Why don't we continue to cooperate?"

After a short silence, she smiled: "Don't look at me like that, didn't you mean me a joke last time?"

Listening to her words, Bai Xiu felt a little strange feeling in his heart, he wanted to investigate deeply, but he couldn't grasp that little bit of aura.

"Why, you can't help but do it with me? Hmph, don't you forget, you're not my opponent at all!"

As soon as Fang Xuanjian's voice fell, the sound of a fight followed.

Bai Xiu finally understood where the strange feeling just now came from, how similar their "conversation" was to the recording he heard on Li Chun's mobile phone at that time!

Could this be the ......