"Puff-" Zhen Cheng felt that his eyes were full of stars, his head was black, and he lay motionless in the stone cave.

The bones all over his body seemed to be falling apart, and the bursts of tearing sensation in the dantian made Zhen Cheng's forehead sweat in pain.

In order to return to the peak before dawn, Zhen Cheng gritted his teeth and rushed at the risk of more serious internal injuries.

Lying in the cave, Zhen Cheng couldn't even remember how he climbed to the top.

Maybe it was the will to survive, or maybe he was unwilling to fall off the cliff and die, his hands were grinding out blood, and Zhen Cheng barely climbed to the top.

When Zhen Cheng climbed to the top, the first rays of the sun came directly, and the time was just right.

Zhen Cheng didn't rest immediately, quickly entered the stone cave, stuffed the three animal skin bags into his change of clothes, and then endured the pain, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and transported the three bamboo baskets of guano outside the cave.

"Can't sleep, can't sleep!" Yao Lao likes to go to bed late and get up late, if he doesn't want to arouse Yao Lao's suspicion of himself, then he has to give a reasonable reason. Zhen Cheng closed his eyes and tried hard to remind himself to deal with the aftermath.

How many pills were in the three animal skin bags, Zhen Cheng wanted to know. But his arms didn't even have the strength to lift up, and Yao Lao might float over silently at any time, Zhen Cheng didn't dare to gamble his luck again.

If it is said that it is lucky to be able to kill Ge Hongtao with ingenious design; Then it is too difficult to deceive Yao Lao.

"Stinky boy, don't get up to work yet, the sun is shining on your ass!" When Zhen Cheng was thinking about how to explain to Yao Lao, Yao Lao's sharp voice suddenly sounded in front of the entrance of his stone cave.

"I'm taking a day off for a day off!" In a hurry, Zhen Cheng said weakly.

"Rest? Did you get a woman out of power last night? "Yao Lao doesn't understand what it's like to take leave, but he still understands when he rests. Yin and Yang teased angrily, thought about it and added, "You rest, but there is no pill to be sent to you, aren't you afraid of starving to death?" ”

"I'm good to eat the waste pill! The herbs don't need to be fertilized and watered today, so you can do your own alchemy today! I don't want today's pills, I'll take a look at the situation tomorrow, and if my body is better, I'll accompany you to the old alchemy! ”

"Sick?" Zhen Cheng reluctantly sat up, Yao Lao looked at Zhen Cheng's face as pale as paper, and asked suspiciously and with concern.

"Nothing big! I am a doctor myself and am well aware of the condition! Take a day off and it should be fine! Maybe I'm used to staying on the top of the mountain, and suddenly I got to the bottom of the mountain, and my body didn't adjust well! Plus ate some messy stuff, so that's it! It should be a cold, just take a day off to recuperate! Zhen Cheng felt that his head was confused for a while, and he wanted to fall down and sleep directly, but Yao Lao was still chattering and asking.

"I know the alchemy and medicine, I can't cure the disease, you rest, I'll do it myself!" Yao Lao pondered for a moment and ordered solemnly, "If the injury is too serious, I can find someone to help you treat your illness!" ”

"Poof-" Zhen Cheng even forgot to say it, there was a sharp pain in the dantian, his head turned black, and he hurriedly ran the deadwood technique quickly, and fell straight down.

Yao Lao glanced at Zhen Cheng and left with a very ugly face.

Although Yao Lao could not cure diseases, Yao Lao clearly knew that Zhen Cheng was not suffering from wind and cold, but from internal injuries.

Zhen Cheng didn't say it, and Yao Lao didn't bother to ask. But Yao Lao felt very uncomfortable, because Zhen Cheng must have been bullied at the foot of the mountain.

"Damn, the person who dares to bully me! Hum! Hum! Yao Lao snorted coldly, and his face drifted back to his alchemy cave.

Although Zhen Cheng is still a handyman in the medicine garden, sometimes he is angry with the medicine elder. But thinking about his subordinates being bullied by the people of the second village, Yao Lao was very unhappy. It depends on the owner to beat the dog, his little handyman came back injured when he went down the mountain for the second time, it wasn't bullied by the people of the second village, what else could it be?

Thinking about the bamboo card he gave Zhen Cheng, Yao Lao made up his mind to help Zhen Cheng improve his identity. Otherwise, Zhen Cheng will always be injured, and his own alchemy is boring, not to mention, this dissolving medicine fan is a troublesome thing.

What Yao Lao thinks and thinks, and the sleeping Zhen Cheng is not clear. What a big turmoil caused by Ge Hongtao's death, it was equally unimaginable for Zhen Cheng to lie in the stone cave.

When the sky was dark, Ge Hongtao's body was found by the villagers of the second village.

The villagers quickly reported to the deacon of the foundation building period in the east of the village, and the deacon led many villagers in the second village to conduct a carpet search around Ge Hongtao's body.

Seven bodies lined up, two apparently dead not long ago, and the other five apparently dead for days.

The mask on Ge Hongtao's face was cut by a tree branch, and when the curious person lifted it, it was a young and handsome face.

When he saw this pretty face, the deacon in charge of the night patrol turned pale and trembled.

The other six people together are not as expensive as Ge Hongtao's life. Something big is wrong, something is wrong! When all the deacons saw Ge Hongtao's face, they lamented loudly in their hearts.

The closed disciple of the Eighth Patriarch, Ge Hongtao, a second-layer monk in the foundation building period, was actually killed in the woods between the first village and the second village.

However, no matter how unwilling the deacon on the night patrol was, he still had to go to the ancestral house in a village to report to the Seventh Ancestor with a dead face.

When the sun rose to the height of a bamboo pole, there were several rows of people kneeling outside the Seven Ancestors House, and behind the rows of people, seven corpses wrapped in bamboo mats were placed.

All the deacons who patrolled the night last night, the Dharma protector who was responsible for blocking everyone's dantian, and the representatives of the entertainment workshop who had seen Ge Hongtao last night all knelt respectfully, waiting for the ancestor's orders.

The Seventh Ancestor's face was full of depression, because he would be able to change shifts with the Eighth Ancestor in five days, but he didn't expect that before he could leave, a homicide occurred.

According to the rules, the Seventh Ancestor must investigate the whole matter before he can hand over to the Eighth Ancestor, and only then can he return to the back mountain to meditate and cultivate, which is the rule that the nine people set together.

His own apprentice died unexpectedly, how could the Eighth Ancestor stay out of it?

Sitting side by side with the Seventh Ancestor in the big room with a gloomy face, the Eighth Ancestor with his eldest apprentice Ge Hongshuang and Ge Hongcai standing beside him, his face was gloomy like the bottom of a black pot, and he glared angrily without saying a word.

Although the Eight Ancestors were married, they had no children under their knees. accepted three apprentices, all with their own surnames. The name of the Eight Ancestors, except for the other eight Ancestors, no one knows what it is called.

Like many fathers, the older generation likes their little apprentices, and the Eighth Ancestor's love for Ge Hongtao is also like this. In terms of age, Ge Hongtao can be the grandson of the Eighth Ancestor. But the Eighth Ancestor still did not hesitate to give his Zuihou an apprenticeship to Ge Hongtao, who was still a doll at the beginning.

Ge Hongtao has a sweet mouth and will please the eight ancestors! Therefore, although the cultivation qualifications were not good, under the cultivation of the Eight Ancestor Pills, he quickly broke through the Qi cultivation period and built a foundation.

Every time he came out with Ge Hongtao, the Eight Ancestors felt extremely proud. Because among all the foundation building monks, Ge Hongtao is the youngest.

But the Eighth Ancestor never dreamed that the apprentice who left him eight months ago and said that he would go to one village and two villages to relax would end up in this way. The Eight Ancestors were heartbroken, there was a kind of grief for the loss of a child in old age, and even more anger that was ready to tear everything apart.

Just looking at the appearance of the Eight Ancestors, at first glance, those who don't know about it will definitely think of him as a peasant.

A weather-beaten public face is covered with deep wrinkles, two small eyes are unusually bright because of anger, the hands of the Eight Ancestors are the size of a small thin fan, each finger is so thick that it seems that it can't be bent, the skin is wrinkled, a bit like tree bark, there is no appearance of fairy wind bones at all, sitting with the Seven Ancestors, this contrast is even stronger.

But if a careful person carefully observes the two hands of the Eighth Patriarch, they will definitely find that the Eighth Patriarch actually only has nine fingers, and the mutilated little thumb of the right hand is easy to be ignored by everyone.

Among the nine ancestors, the temper of the eighth ancestor is the hottest, and the protection of his subordinates is also the most powerful.

"Seventh brother, I'll deal with this matter, you go back to the back mountain to cultivate!" The Eighth Ancestor, who had been silent, said in a dark voice as if he was from hell, "As long as I catch this person, I will definitely cramp his tendons!" ”

The Buddha-like face of the Seventh Ancestor did not move at all, and when he heard the words of the Eighth Ancestor, his head did not move, and he said coldly and solemnly, "Rules are rules, and the nine of us must take the lead!" The incident happened while I was on duty, so the seventh brother will definitely find out what happened, and he will definitely give the eighth brother a satisfactory answer! How to deal with the murderer when he is caught, this is the matter of the Law Enforcement Hall! ”

"Humph!" The Eighth Ancestor was very dissatisfied with the official affairs of the Seventh Ancestor, and it was not good to be dissatisfied in front of so many people, so he snorted coldly and shouted at the Dharma Protector who was on duty in the entertainment workshop last night, "Wang Tianyi, you give me death!" ”

Wang Protector didn't dare to get up, and crawled into the big house from the outside. Under the anger of the Eight Ancestors, the possibility of killing people was extremely high, and Wang Tianyi did not dare to bet his own life. "Junior Wang Tianyi is willing to bear all punishments!"

"Wang Tianyi, were you on duty at the entertainment square last night? Did you seal my apprentice's dantian? The Eight Ancestors' eyes were on fire, and they asked loudly.

"The people who enter the entertainment workshop, the dantian is sealed by me! But Senior Brother Ge was wearing a mask and pretending to be a middle-aged man. Although when I sealed my junior brother Dantian, it was also a little strange that there were monks from the foundation building period to play in the entertainment workshop, but after thinking about it, I didn't dare to ask! Although Wang Tianyi was frightened, his answer was extremely smart.

"In your impression, how many times has Ge Hongtao been to the entertainment shop?" The Seventh Ancestor didn't wait for the Eighth Ancestor to speak, and asked in a serious manner.

"Counting last night, it's six times! Within this month, Senior Brother Ge is the highest person to cultivate in the entertainment workshop! When Wang Tianyi answered, he subconsciously glanced at the Eight Ancestors.

What do you mean by that? Do you want to say that the other six were killed by my apprentice? "The Eight Ancestors are not stupid, as soon as Wang Tianyi said this, he immediately became angry and threatened loudly, "Do you believe it or not, I will split you now?" ”

"Eighth brother!" The Seventh Ancestor's face was very ugly, after all, he was on duty, and even if the Eighth Ancestor was sad, he had to figure things out, right? "What Wang Tianyi said is the truth, what are you excited about! Six times, eight times, Wang Tianyi also told the truth, you think about it randomly, how can you blame Tianyi's nephew for things? ”

Wang Tianyi hurriedly kowtowed, not daring to interject indiscriminately, but cast a grateful glance at the Seventh Ancestor.

The Eighth Ancestor was a little unreasonable, and he didn't speak, but he was making calculations in his heart. Wang Tianyi shouldn't be lying, according to this speculation, the scope of the person who killed the apprentice is too large. Sealed cultivation, as long as it is above the Qi cultivation period, it will be forcibly sealed in the strength of the Great Perfection in the late stage of the Heavenly Order. In a situation of equal strength, if two people besiege it, it is really difficult to find out the cause of death of his apprentice.

"Go out and call the deacon who is in charge of surveying the scene in!" Seeing that the Eighth Ancestor stopped speaking, the Seventh Ancestor glanced at Wang Tianyi indifferently and commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Wang Tianyi stood up, hunched his waist, and slowly retreated.