74. Phantom Demon
The three people standing on the right side of the ring were the defenders who had successfully defended the ring before returning to the Yuan. Two of the three people in the investigation team knew each other, one was a white-eyed old man who said that the world was not ancient when he was queuing up before, his beard was white, and he looked very fairy-like, and the other was a middle-aged man in a pitch-black robe. There was also a young man that Gui Yuan had never seen before, and he was also the first to successfully defend the ring, and the young man looked like a scholar, wearing a square scarf and holding a feather fan in his hand, dressed as a scholar and scribe.
Gui Yuan walked towards the three-person exploration team, first politely pinched the Taoist hand salute to the three people, and then bowed his hand to report to the door of the family and said: "In the lower Xuanguang Sect Lin Guiyuan, I am fortunate to join this exploration team, if there is any deficiency in the future, please bear with me and give me advice!" ”
The middle-aged man in the black robe was still disdainful of Gui Yuan, holding a stern black face, and had never returned to Yuan at all, as if he hadn't seen anyone in front of him at all, as if he was an old pedant who didn't like women to show their heads outside.
However, the white-eyed old Taoist attitude in the world is slightly better, and after Guiyuan finished the Taoist hand salute, he also returned to Guiyuan, and then bowed slightly. After that, he shook off the snow-white dust in his hand, closed his eyes and stopped moving.
However, the young man that Gui Yuan had never seen, that is, the first defender who successfully defended the ring, not only happily returned Gui Yuan's salute, but also introduced the three people in the exploration team to Gui Yuan with great interest.
After the young man was introduced, Gui Yuan had a preliminary understanding of the three people, according to the young man, he himself was a disciple of the Heavenly Seal Sect, named Qianlu Chan, this time he came to Yangzhucheng for the Jiping auction, and later accidentally received the Jiying post, because it was still some time before the Jiping auction began, and he was idle anyway, so he came over to join in the fun.
The middle-aged man in the black robe was the preacher of the famous aristocratic academy near Yangzhu City, Misong Academy, Kang Ying. Because the Misong Academy accepts the children of the nobles to carry out systematic preaching and cultivation, and thousands of years ago it also taught the Yuanying monks, so the prestige of the Misong Academy in Yangzhu City is still quite high, and even with this preacher it seems to have a bit of a clear height that is difficult to melt into the turbid world. Therefore, this time, Kang Ying was willing to come to the muddy water, and it was also because the Wang steward of the Jin family specially brought a heavy gift and personally went to Misong Academy to invite Kang Ying.
And the white-eyed old road is a Kuining Taoist with a virtual view of incense flourishing in Yangzhu City, and I heard that the virtual view is supported by the Jin family, so this Kuining Taoist has to come.
After Guiyuan knew the origin of everyone, he couldn't help but feel silently embarrassed in his heart, so in this way, was he just here for the spirit stone? And you're either here for a reason, or you're just here to join in the fun?
After about an hour, the defender who had successfully defended the ring finally appeared, which meant that the five-member team of the exploration team was full. It was a young male cultivator with a pale face and a gloomy look, with an ordinary appearance, and he also took a name that was extremely inconsistent with his temperament and image, diametrically opposite, Chiyang. Chiyang is the kind of person who makes people want to take a second look after one look, and it can be said that even standing next to him will make people feel panicked by the yin wind. If it weren't for everyone who saw with their own eyes how he fought with others, everyone would have wondered if he had practiced some evil cultivation of the Yin Poison Exercises.
At this point, the five-person exploration team with each heart and mind was gathered. Then under the leadership of Steward Wang, everyone went to the place of the incident, the Jinjia Lingshi Mine on the northern outskirts of Yangzhu City. When everyone arrived at the spirit stone mine, the sunset had already sloped westward, and now the spirit stone mine was barren, uninhabited, and there were only red □□ mountain rocks on the spirit stone mine from a distance, except for a few large wooden houses scattered on the spirit stone mine, and the bottomless, like the mouth of a giant beast in the mine, there were no other living creatures to see. And the only thing that can be clearly felt here is the whistling mountain wind, and the faint wisps of fishy air in the cold. Therefore, it was because if they went down to the mine at this time, the exploration team would have to take some risks, so Steward Wang asked everyone to rest in the mine for a night, and then make another plan after sunrise tomorrow. And he himself went back to Yangzhu City to report to the Jin family.
It's night. Since only Gui Yuan was a woman in the exploration team, Gui Yuan was also fortunate to be here, and he was assigned a large wooden house alone, but the monk's five senses were extraordinary, it was just an ordinary wooden house, and it couldn't cover anything, and it was just a night off, and it was a bit complicated to set up a formation or set up a ban, and it was not necessary at all. Therefore, everyone simply sits cross-legged in the wooden house, closes their eyes and recuperates, and does not meditate and cultivate.
At three moments, the mountain wind that had been whistling outside the house seemed to suddenly change its tone, and in an instant, the original 'woo woo' sound suddenly changed to a woman's mournful crying and whimpering. The people in the wooden house immediately noticed that something was wrong, because at this time, the aura in the wind also became chaotic and violent with the terrible crying and whimpering, and it must be that something was wrong with the mine outside. Unexpectedly, it happened so suddenly, making people unprepared at all.
Gui Yuan immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the aura around him, so he immediately got up and went to the wooden house where the other four members of the exploration team were to join everyone, after all, it was not a good thing to be alone at this time.
But as soon as Angelica Yuan stepped out of the wooden house, the scenery in front of him changed immediately, from the barren spiritual stone mine to a forest hut surrounded by trees and birds and flowers. Guiyuan immediately found out that something was wrong, this is the phantom array? Why is there a phantom array on the spirit stone mine in this barren mountain range?
In another wooden house, the four members of the exploration team saw that Gui Yuan had not come to meet for a long time, and their divine sense could not find out where Gui Yuan was, so the four of them had a disagreement. Oh no, it's two.
"Only women and villains are difficult to raise, and at the beginning, Steward Wang shouldn't have let those who shouldn't have come into the exploration team, so he didn't have to drag people back. Hum! Even this kind of critical moment can disappear for half a day and disappear out of thin air. I really don't know what to do with those people in the team, it's just a futile incident to defile people's eyeballs! Mr. Kang Ying, the evangelist of Misong Academy, did not hide his dissatisfaction and disgust with Guiyuan's joining the team, and snorted coldly.
"According to what I can see below, that Guidaoyou must not be the kind of person who does not distinguish between importance and importance, Kang Daoyou, you are left-handed, Guidaoyou may be entangled by something in the future, she can't get out, and she didn't do it intentionally." Qianlu Chan of the Heavenly Seal Sect had long been a little displeased with Kang Ying, whose eyes were on his head, and when he saw Kang Ying's statement that he considered himself superior, he couldn't help but refute it.
"Why did Qiandaoyou say this? If I'm not mistaken, Qiandaoyou, you just got along with that person for a long time and chatted a few more words, what's the matter? So do you know the human nature of others? Or are you already talking to each other? Am I left-sexual? Hehe~" Kang Ying saw that Qianlu Zen not only said good things for the eventful Guiyuan, but also said that he was left-handed, and at the moment, Qinggao, who did not melt into the turbid world, immediately jumped out to express his displeasure.
"Kang Ying! You! You! Dirty people's innocence out of thin air! Qianlu Chan was choked by Kang Ying and couldn't speak, he didn't expect Kang Ying to say such nonsense as a teacher, for a while, Qianlu Chan's handsome face was like a boiled shrimp, and he took the feather fan in his hand and pointed at Kang Ying in front of him in a daze, opening his mouth wide but not knowing what to say.
"Kang Daoyou, Qiandaoyou, please be a little restless, don't be impatient, let the old Taoist say a word first, if the old Taoist just speaks in vain, you will listen to it in vain. I think everyone knows in their hearts what we are here for, and now that the situation outside the house is urgent, we should put aside our personal grievances and prejudices first, and work together to solve the trouble outside the house. The white-eyed old Taoist Kui Ning Dao Chang really couldn't see the behavior of the two people, so he had no choice but to interject and start a peacemaker to mediate the problem between the two. I really can't imagine that they are all foundation building monks anyway, and they would be like shrews in the market at such a time.
However, Chiyang, the pale-faced young man, had been sitting quietly in the corner with his eyes closed, never even lifting his eyelids from beginning to end.
"Humph!" Kang Ying waved his sleeves, turned his back and said no more. It seems to agree with the white-eyed old Taoist Kui Ning Dao Chang's mention of yì.
"Humph!" Qianlu Chan put down the feather fan in his hand, snorted coldly and stopped talking.
"Since everyone doesn't object, then we'll integrate the formation and go out to clean up the monster!" Seeing that the two of them were finally at peace at this time, Kui Ning Dao couldn't help but breathe a long sigh in his heart. If it weren't for the many poor orphans who had no father and no mother in the illusion, I really didn't want to come to this muddy water that I couldn't see and couldn't touch.
This compartment was only after the persuasion and was ready to attack, but the Gui Yuan of the chamber had been in the phantom array for a long time, and Gui Yuan went back and forth several times outside the hut in the forest, but still did not see anything unusual. Don't think about it, just when Guiyuan was at a loss, a turning point came
A middle-aged man with a sturdy figure carrying a bulging package, looked excited, and walked briskly from the forest path outside.
"Lady, the wages in the mine are paid today, look at what I brought back to you and Yue'er!" When the man entered the cabin, he shouted with joy.
"But Xianggong is back?" At this time, a woman wearing a coarse cloth short shirt and a Confucian skirt, a blue and white apron, a delicate appearance and a silver hairpin, pushed the door out of the small wooden house and responded. Then, a little girl with pigtails suddenly came out behind her, and she was still walking wobbly.
This sudden Qiē was confused, why did they seem to be completely unable to see themselves in front of them? What's going on? You must know that your divine sense had not detected any signs of any living beings in this wooden house before, including the middle-aged man who suddenly walked on the path outside the forest