Zhao Yi suddenly remembered that Xi Lin had said before that Grandpa Song was the "gatekeeper" of Tianfu Hall, and without his permission, outsiders could not enter Tianfu Hall.

The village entrance is a pine, which obviously has the intention of welcoming guests, but here it is used to reject guests.

At that time, Zhao Yi and Cui Shusheng didn't pay attention to Xilin's words.

Unexpectedly, the old man in front of him shook his head and said, "I'm just a shousongman." ”

Just as Zhao Yi was thinking about it because he had guessed wrong, the old man added: "However, if you want to say that I am the pine tree, in fact, it is also true, after a long period of thousands of years, I have long been integrated with it, the body is it, but the soul is mine." ”

Zhao Yi thought about the old man's words a little, and roughly understood, he turned his head to look at Xilin, and saw that she stopped crying at this time, but her face was still pear blossom with rain, and there was not much fear in her tearful eyes, but more sadness and despair.

Zhao Yi nodded at Xilin, sent an encouraging look, and didn't care if she could feel her heart, turned her head to look at the old man standing in front of her, and continued to ask: "Grandpa Song, do all the villagers who live in Futang have any origins?"

"It's just poor people, and it's only a matter of time before they become food for those who exist. ”

The old man looked up again, and suddenly his face turned happy, and his voice trembled a little because of his joy, "The time I have been waiting for is coming, I can finally escape from this hellish place." ”

Zhao Yi also raised his head and followed the old man's gaze to look up, but he didn't see anything, and he was puzzled in his heart, but he heard Xi Lin speak: "Grandpa Song is waiting for the arrival of the night of the winter solstice." ”

The old man nodded approvingly, the joy on his face had not yet faded, "The girl is worthy of being a person with the purest heart, and she actually understands the old man's mind." ”

As he spoke, the old man walked back and forth on the ground in front of them with his hands behind his back, and the joy on his face did not decrease but increased, as if the happiness he had been thinking about for a long time was finally coming, and the heart that could not express his joy could no longer be suppressed, so that the old man changed his usual peaceful demeanor and seemed a little carried away.

"Well, I'll tell you about my plans, so that you can see how the old man escaped the confinement that those beings have imposed on me. I was originally a medicine farmer, and when I was young, I often listened to the older generation of people in the village talk about the deeds of Nanshan, and they said that there were many strange treasures in Nanshan, and I became greedy, and I wanted to go into Nanshan to find the legendary elixir, and I thought that I could also become a saint who would be admired for generations like the 'King of Medicine'. ”

The old man suddenly stopped when he said this, his dry eyes narrowed, and his gaze became blurred, as if he was recalling the old past that had been submerged in the years.

"What happened?" Zhao Yi asked.

"Later?"

The old man's expression remained unchanged, and he muttered like a dream: "I entered Nanshan, and I also saw many rare treasures that I had never seen before, or even heard of, I was suddenly overjoyed, and I couldn't help myself, I felt that I was about to become a character like the King of Medicine. At that moment, I was convinced that I could become the king of medicine. ”

The old man's face gradually became a smile again, and even his dry skin seemed to become rosy.

Immediately, the old man's face changed, and his eyes showed a look of horror, "In front of that huge stone gate, they suddenly appeared, it was an existence I had never seen before, I saw them like ants looking at elephants, and finches looking up at Dapeng." They imprisoned me in a pine tree and asked me to help them guard the mausoleum, so that I could gain eternal life and go into Nanshan to collect medicine at will, but only if I could never leave this ghost place. ”

"Have you really lived for thousands of years?" Zhao Yi couldn't help but ask.

The old man turned to face Zhao Yi, stretched out his arms, and said with a hideous face: "Yes, because I am no longer human, I am a monster who is not a human or a ghost." ”

The young man who had heard the words of ghosts and gods, but had never seen them, for the old man in front of him, the words that had come out of his mouth shook his heart.

Regarding the cause and effect of the incident, Zhao Yi finally roughly understood, but the "terrible existence" in the old man's mouth, what kind of people he was, the old man was reluctant to mention it, and Zhao Yi couldn't guess even if he wanted to break his head.

"Grandpa Song, will you let Brother Zhao go? I'm willing to help you open the confinement. Celine said suddenly.

Zhao Yi turned his head to look at Xi Lin, and saw that her face was calm, her eyes were firm, and she looked fearless. Zhao Yi was moved in his heart and blurted out: "Xilin!"

Xilin also looked at Zhao Yi, and in those clean and dust-free eyes, there was tenderness like autumn water, and Zhao Yi's heart was about to melt.

Xi Lin shook her head slowly, and said softly: "Brother Zhao, you still have a lot of things to do, you can't die, let Xi Lin take care of you." ”

Zhao Yi's heart was sour, and the string buried in the deepest part of his heart was instantly touched, and a sour feeling rushed to his head at once, and then occupied his whole person, "Xilin, thank you, Brother Zhao won't let you die alone." ”

A girl who met in Pingshui was able to put her own safety at risk to save his life, Zhao Yi felt that his heart, which had become a little cold and stiff, was a little loose.

"You don't need to be sad, you can be a companion on the Huangquan Road, and you won't feel lonely. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and waved at the two, and he himself took a few steps back, away from the two. Zhao Yi felt that the ground under his feet began to shake, and a huge rumbling sound came from the ground, as if the mountain was collapsing and the ground was cracking.

He turned his head to look at Xi Lin, and saw that she was also looking at him with a frightened face, Zhao Yi's heart was hot, and he shouted loudly: "Xi Lin, don't be afraid, I will accompany you." ”

The old man in the distance floated off the ground, his hands kept pointing in front of his chest, and his originally rickety body became erect at this moment, and his long gray hair spread out, covering his face, making the old man more and more mysterious.

With Zhao Yi and Xi Lin as the center, the place with a radius of one zhang slowly rose in the rumbling vibration, gradually rising above the surrounding ground, and the gray mist also emerged from the ground, surrounding the two of them, and began to flow slowly, and finally formed a mysterious vortex between the two.

"This is the formation I have figured out by myself, so that the strength and softness of the qi hedge, forming the power of Qiankun, and then breaking through the seal of the pine tree in one fell swoop, and then I can go out. ”

The old man's voice sounded in the ears of Zhao Yi and Xi Lin.

Zhao Yi secretly mobilized the qi of his whole body and struggled hard, trying to break free from the shackles of the roots, but these roots were like cold iron, and Zhao Yi's efforts several times were in vain, but the roots became tighter and tighter.

Zhao Yi was anxious in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Dead old man, just if you have broken free from imprisonment, aren't you afraid that those people will detain you again?"

The old man's expression was already a little crazy, and he laughed and said, "They are all still asleep, and they won't wake up for the time being." Do you know why I chose the night of the winter solstice? Because this night is the longest of the year, and by the time they wake up, I will be gone. ”

In the chaos, Xilin was still crying loudly: "Grandpa Song, please let Brother Zhao go, you can do whatever you want Xilin." ”

It's just that the old man turned a deaf ear to Celine's pleading, he had already activated the formation, and the whole person fell into the peak of ecstasy, and there was nothing else that could make him change his mind.

As the ground under his feet gradually rose, the fog that filled the ground became heavier and heavier, and Zhao Yi felt that in the mysterious vortex between him and Xi Lin, two air currents began to hedge, making the vortex rotate faster, and the suction force of the vortex gradually increased. At the same time, Zhao Yi felt that his essence began to be pulled by the force of suction, resulting in leakage, which was still a little bit at first, but with the enhancement of the power of the whirlpool, the leakage of essence gradually increased, and the speed of essence leakage was also accelerating.

Zhao Yi gritted his teeth and tried his best to fight against the force involved, but it didn't help, and he still couldn't stop the loss of his own essence. When he turned to look at Celine, he saw that her face was also painful, but her mouth was still pleading, but her voice was noticeably quieter than before.

In this cavernous space, the qi was chaotic, the clouds and mist were rolling, and strong winds shot out from the vortex and began to tear the surrounding space.

Zhao Yi has given up resisting, and in the face of such a great power of heaven and earth, no matter how much he struggles, it is in vain. Feeling that his life force was losing little by little, Zhao Yi's heart calmed down.

He no longer paid attention to the vortex that had become terrifying, nor did he pay attention to the old man who had become a little crazy suspended in the air, but turned his head to look at the girl not far away, his eyes calm and peaceful, this state of mind that he had never had since the changes in his own life.

Death is really a relief for him, whether it is hatred, self-blame, shame, responsibility, or the pursuit hidden in the depths of his heart, he can ignore it all, this kind of relief after the relaxation, just like lying in his mother's arms and enjoying his mother's caress when he was a child, just enjoy it to the fullest, and don't need to pay attention to anything.

Zhao Yi suddenly laughed.

With such a young girl accompanying him to his death, what could he not be satisfied with, maybe after his death, he could take Celine to see his father and mother together.

This is the most gratifying thing for Zhao Yi, God treats him well, and he did not let him go to Huangquan alone when he died.

That vortex suction has invaded Zhao Yi's mud pills, Jiang Palace, and Qi Sea's three acupoints, these three acupoints are for Taoist cultivation, that is the place where the gods are cultivated, and for martial arts qi training, they are also the place where the true qi is stored, and it is the source of internal force.

At this time, Zhao Yi, like the lord of a city who had given up resistance, ordered all the city gates to be released, and let the enemy army come in and rampage, smashing Huanglong.

Seeing that the city is about to be destroyed, people are dying.