The small pagoda-shaped ancient cave was dark.

After the footsteps stopped about two or three meters away, there was no movement.

Fortunately, the Gu snake blocked the entrance of the cave, which made Ji Yiming feel a little secure in his heart: "Zhou Ze, is it you?"

There was no answer.

Fang Cai's pale face and stiff movements in the dim light flashed in his mind, as well as the extremely strange footsteps when he finally "escaped", Ji Yiming couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

This guy ...... Is it a resurrection from the dead?

In the darkness, there was a slight vibration from the coiled Gu Snake's body.

Then I heard it "hiss" a few times, and its tail flicked as if it had touched something, making a dull crashing sound. After less than half a second, a crisp sound of something breaking sounded, and then Ji Yiming only heard the footsteps outside that seemed to change from feet to limbs crawling, but he quickly moved away without slowing at all.

He wasn't sure if the person just now had shown his face as "Zhou Ze", but he was sure that it was definitely not Ying Xingtian or those grandmasters of other organizations.

What exactly is it?

In the dark, Ji Yiming suddenly unexpectedly found that the chill around his body that was frozen into the bone marrow seemed to have subsided a little.

He patted the Gu snake's body with some uncertainty, and when it opened the hole, he found that the outside temperature had reached about zero degrees that could not affect him. From more than 30 degrees before, it has dropped all the way to more than 20 degrees below zero, and then back to zero......

With such a drastic temperature fluctuation in a short period of time, although his physical activity ability quickly recovered with the flow of the "Taiyi Longevity Technique", he felt more and more that the atmosphere in this ancient porcelain city became more and more weird.

Turn on the goggle lights, and there is no trace of the thing on the ground.

There were no wounds on the tail of the Gu snake, only a little white powder. Ji Yiming rubbed it with his hands, and it felt a bit like scrap from the porcelain.

Looking at the footsteps leaving the direction, I don't know whether to continue to check the three brick kilns, or chase them to find out.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally patted the head of the Gu Snake, and walked into the darkness by the light above his head—the three brick kilns had been marked on the outer cornerstones, and he couldn't find the relationship between the numbers and claw marks inside for the time being. But the strange and inexplicable "Zhou Ze" may be a breakthrough to solve the mystery of this ancient kiln city.

(I don't know if Jiang Zhiyou has encountered the same situation, if so, he should also leave corresponding clues, right?)

The direction of the sound disappeared happened to be due south, and after walking for a while, he simply went all the way forward and continued to check the signs in the ancient kiln, but unfortunately he never found the target marked "458".

I don't know how long it was, but I inspected six brick kilns and advanced about a kilometer. Ji Yiming, who went all the way to the south, finally came to the end of the entire ancient kiln city, and saw the boundless blue brick city wall, as well as the "raccoon" pattern carved on it - as a top student of the history department, he was no stranger to the role of the nine sons of the dragon on the city wall.

It's just this discovery that made Ji Yiming, who had already made a judgment in his heart, wonder again.

In fact, not far from Cixi City, in Shangyu, a famous town in the south of the Yangtze River, under the jurisdiction of Shangpu Town, Nanxiang, there is a custom with a history of at least 800 years - "Raccoon Dragon Dance".

It is said that this is the fishing place of Yu Shun in those years, in order to commemorate Emperor Shun and in the "fishing temple" in Yupu Village, when this dance with a long history is held every year, more than a dozen people will dance a 16-meter-long "raccoon dragon", accompanied by centipedes, poisonous scorpions, poisonous snakes, poisonous bees, poisonous spiders, these five kinds of highly poisonous things, parade through the streets.

The dragon is responsible for supervising the evil things of the world, and is most commonly used in prisons.

It's just that Emperor Jin Cheng burned the kiln group of funeral goods for himself and the queen, why is it related to the prison?

His mind suddenly flashed with those strange paw prints in the three kilns.

314、277，211、458。

Could it be that in these ancient kilns where Jiang Zhiyou deliberately left clues, they were not "trial works" written in seal carvings, but to imprison something?

(It's not entirely impossible, Emperor Jin Cheng was not in power before the first year of Xiankang.) Prior to this, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had experienced several small rebellions, and even Sima Yan's own life had been threatened several times, and the danger between the change of imperial power was ...... If it involves the cultivators at that time, it is also reasonable to use this ancient kiln city for firing burial vessels. ）

Paw prints, prisons, and the resurrection of "Zhou Ze".

These many new clues are intertwined, and Ji Yiming always has the feeling that he is about to solve the truth of the puzzle, but he has never been able to find the most critical "thread".

What's more, I have inspected so many caves with different shapes along the way, and I have never found any particularly huge or similar formations to the treasure phase pattern decoration. The "great unification" array mentioned by Yan Siguang is still nowhere to be seen.

As he was thinking, an extremely strong light suddenly lit up from a distance, and after a few searchlights, it swept left and right a few times before searching for his figure.

"Hiss !!"

The golden-headed black-bodied Gu Snake let out a roar of rage, turning into a golden lightning bolt and shooting towards the light source.

It was only at this time that Ji Yiming realized that this Gu snake, who followed him for no reason and rubbed his face and stuck out his tongue from time to time, and liked to wag his tail like a dog, was a terrifying existence raised by the three Gu Dao Grandmasters!

This speed alone had already surpassed the few grandmaster-level masters he had just seen.

He only hesitated for less than half a second, and then quickly picked up the "Taiyi Longevity Formula" mental method, and also went in the direction of the light source.

It's not that I feel that I am qualified to participate in the battle between the grandmasters, but it is a very normal logical analysis - the Gu snake is raised by the "Worm Dao" Gu Dao Grandmaster, although it is so close to him for some reason, but the IQ it shows should not be devouring the master.

- The Qingqiu, who could transform into a giant, was seriously injured by Win Xingtian, and even if he didn't die, he lost his combat power.

The only possibilities left are naturally Win Xingtian and the last new third-party forces.

With a fifty percent odds, it's worth the gamble.

I didn't run a few steps before the sound of a clash of energy not far away soon sounded. Ji Yiming sensed it slightly, and suddenly his heart was settled, and he shouted all the way and rushed over: "My own people, don't fight!"

Over there, Ying Xingtian had already grabbed the snake's head and lifted it up, and when he heard this, he stopped his fist at seven inches of the snake's body.

The Gu snake turned its head to look at Ji Yiming, and its big golden eyes showed a look of grievance.

The latter narrowed his eyes to block the dazzling light, and asked first, "Why is your light so bright?"

On the right side of the goggles: "Strong light mode, there is a switch for this." ”

Ji Yiming: "......"

……

……

Listening to Ji Yiming's words about the series of strange things that happened after being taken away, Ying Xingtian looked down at the honest Gu snake in his palm, with a strange expression: "It should be the most yin and evil thing that was raised by the three Gu Dao masters of the Worm Dao, why would it be so affectionate with you......

"Zhou Ze, come back from the dead?"

Ying Xingtian closed his eyes, and then shook his head slightly: "I also encountered an attack in the dark, although I broke the other party, but that touch should also be porcelain." What you see is definitely not Zhou Ze!"

Although he had already guessed in his heart, Ji Yiming couldn't help but feel a chill when he heard this, and subconsciously looked around.

"After the kiln fire went out, it was a strange situation. It seems that space and time are a little distorted, you just stay by my side and don't leave, and wait until you find those guys and solve all the little troubles, and then you can explore. ”

Under the light of the snow, Ying Xingtian's expression was indifferent, and even if the situation gradually got out of control, he did not show any worried expression, which made Ji Yiming's heart settle down a little, and he explained the matter of Jiang Zhiyou leaving two strings of numbers corresponding to the four caves.

"Xiao You has already studied so deeply?" the former frowned, and his fingers lightly tapped the head of the Gu snake that was coiled next to him and didn't dare to move: "In this way, it seems that she entered the Ancient Kiln City earlier than we thought, at least not after Yan Siguang's formation teleportation. ”

Speaking of this, he let out a long breath, and there was a hint of sadness in his eyes: "For the sake of that ethereal legend, so many peers' lives are in danger." Xiao You, you are really too willful! I hope that this time, the price of five or six lives paid by our Qianlong Yuan can make you sober up a little. ”

Ji Yiming hesitated for a while, and finally told his various speculations about the age of the ancient kiln city, Emperor Du Lingyang of the Jin Dynasty, and the year name of Emperor Kang of the Jin Dynasty, and the alternation of the throne.

"Emperor Sima Yan of Jincheng ......" Ying Xingtian pondered for a while, and nodded slightly: "We guessed wrong before, the name of the founding year should correspond to Sima Yue, King of Langya, not Emperor Wu of Han." In this way, I think of the Chenggong Empress Du Lingyang you said died in the seventh year of Xiankang, and was finally buried with Sima Yan in Xingping Mausoleum. ”

——Xingping Mausoleum is located in Jilong Mountain, Jiangning County, Jiangsu Province, hundreds of kilometers away from Cixi. In history, the love story between the emperor and the queen is still a widely circulated story.

"In the spring and March of the seventh year of Xiankang, the folk women of Jiankang City suddenly wore white sand fruit flowers on their heads, and it was rumored that the Weaver Girl would return to heaven. ”

The head of the Gu snake was lightly buckled by Ying Xingtian's fingers, and he made a "bangbang" sound, but he didn't dare to resist in the slightest, and only looked at Ji Yiming with an aggrieved expression in his big eyes. The latter hurriedly pulled it back to himself and touched his head to comfort: "I remember this paragraph, Du Lingyang died of illness three months later, and it is rumored that she is the reincarnation of the Weaver Girl. A year later, Sima Yan also fell seriously ill and died, and it was said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were reunited in the heavenly court. ”

"In fact, in the records of our cultivation world classics, Du Lingyang was the Gu Dao Grandmaster of that era, and he once left a mental method of "Golden Cicada Transformation Dafa". There are still people practicing this exercise, but unfortunately the corresponding formation is also incomplete, and no cultivator has cultivated to the Grandmaster realm since the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Ying Xingtian glanced at the Gu snake, who shrunk his neck and turned his head away to hide behind Ji Yiming, and quietly spat out the letter: "If this ancient kiln city is really built by Sima Yan for Du Lingyang to burn the funeral vessels, then the death of the two of them ...... Maybe there's something wrong with them. ”

"Fake death?"

"Death is not necessarily fake death, but the most primitive version of the legendary "Golden Cicada Transformation Dafa" can make the spirit of the Gu Dao Grandmaster immortal and the cicada reincarnated. Ying Xingtian turned his head to look at the "raccoon" sculptures on the city wall, and his eyes shrank slightly: "But I have to find the main formation 'Great Unification' before I can confirm my inference." ”

(If that's right, the situation inside this ancient kiln city...... It should be more complicated than you think. ）

Ji Yiming nodded, touched the head of the Gu snake and did not speak again.

Although Ying Xingtian didn't say it explicitly, combined with the clues left by Jiang Zhiyou, he actually had a certain guess in his heart.

"The Great Law of Golden Cicada Metamorphosis".

The spirit is immortal, and the cicada is reborn.

——At this moment, he is wearing the piece of Han Badao mutton fat white jade around his neck, also known as Chanda.