When I heard Rong Lao's heart-rending shout, I quickly withdrew my soul clairvoyance, opened my eyes and looked at Rong Lao beside me.

I saw him looking at the dark blue light beads floating in front of him in an extremely frantic manner, and shouted unwillingly: "Ah———— Qingzhu faction, the old man and you are incompatible!"

I took a closer look at the dark blue bead of light, and then I saw the clue.

It turned out that on the top of the faint blue light beads, some pictures were clearly playing, and the content of these pictures was without exception the poisonous insects that were sent to the underground secret room by Rong Lao before.

Obviously, this should be the news that Rong Lao fed back after calling those poisonous insects just now.

It's just that the poisonous insects in the picture are all very frightened, as if they have seen something extremely terrifying, and they are running wildly in various cracks.

Behind them there is an extremely small turquoise snake chasing them, and whenever the poisonous insect is caught up by this turquoise snake, the small snake will be tightly wrapped around them.

After entanglement in the poisonous insect, this small turquoise snake will bite the poisonous insect in the throat and burrow into it.

Suddenly, the poisonous insect trembled, and collapsed to the ground, and soon the whole body automatically burned into a blue-green flame, and in the blink of an eye, the ashes were extinguished.

And every time Rong Lao saw a poisonous insect turn into ashes, he shouted unwillingly, and his voice was full of deep self-blame, presumably he was also blaming himself for harming these poisonous insects, and inexplicably died tragically under the domineering flames of the blue-green snake.

For a while, I didn't know how to comfort him, so I could only let him scream and vent the anger in my heart, so as not to be stuffy in my heart and harmful to my body.

I was familiar with these little turquoise snakes, as they were exactly the same as the snake whips that had been wrapped around the villagers before.

It's just dozens of times smaller, so it can drill into all kinds of tiny cracks in the cave to hunt down those poisonous insects.

In other words, it was the Qingzhu Sect that killed all the poisonous insects that Rong Lao had sent to the underground secret room to create chaos just now.

I was also shocked by this, I didn't expect that this inconspicuous little sect would have such a domineering method of chasing and killing, and even the little poisonous insects in various cracks could be killed.

Although these poisonous insects were just harassing them just now, at best, they bit a little bit of skin and were slightly poisoned, and they didn't cause any of the Qingzhu Sect disciples to die at all, they didn't even let any of them go!

It is enough to see that this Qingzhu faction really belongs to the kind of mentality that must be retributed, and it is even a little perverted.

At least normal people wouldn't have developed this kind of turquoise snake that kills people without blinking.

In my memory, when I used my soul clairvoyance ability to carefully search the entire underground secret chamber just now, I also scanned the small cracks, and indeed every other distance, there were some fine powders, and I was focused on looking for the villagers, and I didn't pay attention to it.

But in retrospect, isn't that the powder left behind by the poisonous insects after being burned to death by the turquoise snake?

Looking at the little blue-green snake chasing after the faint blue light beads, I couldn't help but worry about the villagers who were bound by the blue-green snake whip.

It's a pity that I can't find where the villagers are now, otherwise it would be the Longtan Tiger's Den, and I would have to break in and rescue them.

After all, it's all my fault, if I hadn't been too confident just now that Xiaoxiao was there, she would notify me in time if she was in danger, so the villagers would never have an accident, I would definitely have turned on my soul clairvoyance ability all the time and paid attention to every move in the secret room.

At that time, I also felt that when there was no crisis, I should not use the limited soul power lightly as much as possible, but leave the soul power when it is most needed, and play a role in turning the tide.

In addition, I think that the Qingzhu faction will not be able to find out the whereabouts of the sword casting secret book for a while, and it will not poison the villagers in a short time, so I can chat with Rong Lao with confidence.

Thinking back now, if I had been a little more cautious at that time, even if I had used my soul clairvoyance ability to check it every once in a while, I should have been able to detect the actions of the Qingzhu Sect earlier, and maybe I would have been able to rescue those villagers in time.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly turned on the soul clairvoyance ability again, focused my attention on the secret room under the Drying Valley, that is, the area where the villagers were kneeling on the ground before, and carefully inspected it again.

My purpose was to see if there was any dust on the ground similar to the one left behind by the poisonous insects burned to death, because when I looked at it, I didn't think that the turquoise snake whip wrapped around the villagers' bodies had the lethal power to burn everything to ashes.

So at that time, it was just to check whether there were any damp areas on the ground to determine whether the villagers might have turned into black water and seeped into the ground.

When I found out that the ground was dry, I thought that the villagers must still be alive.

However, at this moment, after looking at the picture in the dark blue light beads floating in front of Rong Lao's eyes, I knew that the villagers were not in danger of turning into black water, but that they might be burned to ashes, and I knew that it was necessary to re-examine the scene.

If there is no dust left behind by the poisonous insects on the ground, it means that the villagers should not have an accident.

But if there was really that kind of dust on the ground, then there was only one possibility, the villagers had already been exterminated by the disciples of the Qingzhu Sect.

With this speculation, I also looked at them one by one with trepidation.

First of all, I glanced at the place where Xiaoxiao knelt in the first row, and there were traces of kneeling on the ground, and there was no kind of dust, so I was relieved.

After that, I looked at another villager beside Xiaoxiao, and found that there was no such regrettable dust, and I quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, on the surface of the marks left by the knees of the third villager, I finally saw the dust that I didn't want to see, that is, there were still villagers who were turned to ashes by the snake whip of the Qingzhu faction.

In my heart of great self-remorse and remorse, I continued to read.

After about half an hour, I looked at all the areas where the villagers were kneeling, and the final count made my heart ache.

That is, there were three hundred and twenty-eight people on the surface of the traces of the villagers kneeling on the ground, and eighty-one people had no dust.

In other words, more than 300 villagers in the secret room were reduced to ashes, and only 81 survived.

Obviously, the disciples of the Qingzhu Sect still killed most of the villagers, but only took a few villagers away.

When I was recalling this bloody casualty figure, I suddenly remembered one thing, that is, before the village chief Xia took Ning Er and them to the ancestral tomb of the Xia family, he casually told me that the opening method of the ancestral tomb of the Xia family had changed from the original way that he could only open it, to the way that in addition to him, Ning Er and the eighty-one villagers in the village could also open it together.

He also said that the Qingzhu Sect would never dare to kill any villager before determining the list of the specific eighty-one villagers, otherwise they would not want to enter the ancestral tomb of the Xia family.

Because the anti-theft mechanism of the ancestral tomb of the Xia family has a self-destruct device, once the mechanism is not opened in a completely correct way, or if the mechanism is violently destroyed, everything in the tomb will be automatically burned.

At that time, those who want to intruder will not get anything, so the disciples of the Qingzhu Sect will either capture the Xia Village Chief alive, or on the premise of catching Ning'er, and then gather the eighty-one villagers, they will also be able to open the ancestral tomb of the Xia family and get the secret treasure map.

After recalling the number eighty-one that Village Chief Xia told me, I also suddenly thought of the reason why there was no dust on the ground where there were eighty-one villagers kneeling at the scene, that is, these eighty-one villagers were those specific villagers who had cooperated with Ning Er to open the ancestral tomb of the Xia family, so they survived.

It's just that I think it's very strange for me to have one thing, because Village Chief Xia also said before that these eighty-one villagers were all collected and sealed by him after he personally met alone at the ancestral tomb of the Xia family.

Moreover, none of these eighty-one villagers knew who was chosen by Village Chief Xia, and only Village Chief Xia himself knew it completely, so I didn't understand why this Qingzhu Sect disciple was able to accurately identify these eighty-one villagers in such a short period of time.

Another thing that I don't understand is that what about the village chief Xia and Ning Er who went to the ancestral tomb of the Xia family, and where are the accompanying Hua Tsai and Ah Bao and their patrol guards?

If they also fall into the hands of the disciples of the Qingzhu Sect, then the Qingzhu Sect only needs to threaten the lives of Ning Er and the villagers of the whole village, and they will already be sure to let the Xia Village Chief obediently open the ancestral tomb of the Xia family and get the secret book treasure map.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly used my soul clairvoyance ability to shift my gaze to the door of the Xia family's ancestral tomb, which was the location where the Xia village chief and several of them had disappeared.

I also used the same way to check if there was any special dust, and confirmed the life and death of Village Chief Xia and the others.

It turned out that there were a total of eight piles of dust on the bamboo raft, and there were ten people who went to the ancestral tomb of the Xia family at that time, including Village Chief Xia and Ning Er, which means that only two of them survived.

Obviously, the only two people who survived could be Village Chief Xia and Ning Er.

That is to say, in the entire Tianjian Village this time, except for me and Rong Lao, the people who survived were Village Chief Xia and Ning Er, as well as the eighty-one villagers, as well as Xiaoxiao.

However, I soon remembered that there was also a big wolf who went with Village Chief Xia, so was the big wolf also taken away by the Qingzhu faction?

Because I didn't see the dust on the raft that could be a big wolf.

When I finally confirmed the list of casualties of all the villagers, I also retracted my soul clairvoyance again with a heavy heart, opened my eyes and looked at Rong Lao beside me again.

I saw that he had withdrawn the dark blue light and was lying on the ground silently, lost in thought with a sad expression.

I also don't know whether to tell him the reality that only eighty-one villagers survived.

I'm worried that he, who is kind-hearted, will be hit hard again.

After all, if he hadn't talked to me about Rong Zi'er, that is, the Jingbao Fairy, with a sad face just now, maybe the two of us would have been able to find out about the Qingzhu Sect's extermination of the villagers in time, and we would have been able to stop it.

Even if they can't all be saved, at least they won't suffer so many casualties like they do now.

"Whew-"

Just as I was silent with Rong Lao, a silent tribute to the dead villagers, a familiar voice came from the direction of the underground river.

It also interrupted the mourning of Rong Lao and me, and we both looked at the voice with puzzled expressions.

I saw a soaked wolfdog running towards the two of us.

"Big wolf!"

I stood up in surprise and shouted.

"Woo-woo-woo-"

When the big wolf rushed in front of me and Rong Lao, he howled with a sad face.

Although it didn't speak, I already understood what it meant, that is, Village Chief Xia and the others really had an accident......