On the next day peak in the beautiful Shenyue Mountains southwest of Chengdu, a little girl of about 14 years old gradually wakes up from a bed in a room in the incense-filled Wan'an Temple, and the dazzling mountain sunlight is now shining through the window into this unique and exquisitely decorated house.

"This ...... Where is it? I'm not...... Held...... Escaped...... The palace full of fire, is ...... Brother...... Hold me......" The little girl covered her eyes with her right hand and tried to remember the bits and pieces before she fell asleep, and suddenly she tried to support herself as if she had thought of something, and cried out in a louder and louder voice, "Brother? Brother! Brother! Where are you, brother! ”

The increasingly intense shouting alarmed a small monk who happened to pass by in front of this room in the temple, and he hurried in to check the situation, only to see that the little girl had rolled off the bed to the ground and crawled in the direction of the door with difficulty, crying out "brother" in a heart-rending voice as she crawled back.

"Wang ...... Miss Wang, you ...... You're awake, ...... I'll help you to bed first. The little monk saw that the little girl in front of him, who had been asleep in bed for eight years, suddenly woke up and was frightened and panicked, and hurriedly carried the little girl to the bed again despite the little girl's crazy kicking and beating him, and then he hurriedly ran to tell the abbot of the temple about the situation.

"What? You said the little girl woke up? Hurry, quickly send someone to the Lingquan Cave Mansion to inform the Yin Eclipse Commander, in case something happens to Miss Wang, our entire temple will have to be buried together! The abbot was also very surprised to hear the news, and then he hurriedly asked the little monk to go to the Lingquan Cave Mansion to report the news, and he rushed to the room where the little girl was to check the situation, and when he entered the room, the little girl seemed to be too emotional and fell asleep again.

"What? You said that Wang Yu, the sister of the big boss, woke up? Damn, at this time...... "Yin Eclipse speculates that the big boss should already be in the capital at this moment, if he goes to tell the big boss at this time, I'm afraid it will make the big boss's long-planned plan to seize the sword fall short, so he gritted his teeth and decided to take the risk of putting the news aside for the time being, and wait until the big boss gets the sword and comes back, he will tell the big boss the news, before that, he wants to take care of the little girl instead of the big boss."

When Yin Eclipse hurried to the room where the little girl was, he saw that the little girl had indeed woken up, but she curled up in a corner of the bed without saying a word and was trembling with fear for unknown reasons.

"Yin Eclipse Lord, the old man has just tried to stabilize Miss Wang's emotions with a silver needle, but she seems to be hostile to us, poor child, I don't know what happened to her that made her like this." The old abbot sighed and said.

"Alas, what she has experienced has also been experienced by the big boss, it's just that, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, you go first, leave it to me for the time being." Yin Eclipse looked at the pitiful appearance of the little girl, and also sighed deeply. After taking the rest of the temple away, Yin Eclipse tried to talk to the little girl who was still immersed in the scene of the catastrophe eight years ago, before Wang Xiao had told him that this little girl was the sister he cared about the most in the palace that year, and that he would escape from the palace with him even if he risked his life.

However, to Yin Eclipse's disappointment, the little girl was still expressionless and silent in the face of his hard work, and Yin Eclipse had no other way for the time being, so he had to sit quietly on the edge of the bed and curl up beside him, with a gloomy look on Wang Yuqi.

At the same time, in the ghost castle of Xudu, which was far away from Shenyue Mountain, twenty guests from ten sects had been greeted by an old man and walked into the ghost castle that looked gloomy and secluded on the outside. Unexpectedly, when they walked into the hall of the ghost castle, by the bright candlelight of nearly 100 candles lit at the same time, all kinds of golden dragon pattern decorations and solid wood utensils decorated the hall of the ghost castle magnificently and unforgettable.

"Heroes, please come with me to see where the Dragon Soul Sword is." Under the old man's reminder, everyone who was talking about the decoration in the ghost castle immediately became interested again when they heard the dragon soul sword, and followed the old man through a long and dark staircase to the door of a wide stone room under the ghost castle, and at this moment what caught everyone's eyes was the dragon soul sword that was quietly lying on the sword seat in the center of the stone room with a blue light.

"Wow, it is worthy of being the head of the ancient divine soldiers, this surging king momentum is by no means comparable to ordinary weapons!" Chen Xiaohu, the head of the Kunlun faction, was fascinated by the Dragon Soul Sword in front of him, and couldn't help but want to step into the stone room to admire the Dragon Soul Sword more closely, but his behavior was immediately stopped by the old man beside him.

"Hey, Master Xu can't enter!" The old man's panicked stop made the others around feel a little surprised, and Ouyang He instantly wondered if there was a hidden mechanism in this room to protect the Dragon Soul Sword. Sure enough, when the old man then picked up a stone and threw it into the house, dozens of tongues of fire erupted from the dragon's mouths around the stone room and staggered and plunged the entire room into a sea of fire.

"This, but it's just to protect a weapon, Master Tang is too exaggerated, right?" Pei Sheng couldn't help but complain when he saw the sea of fire in front of him.

"Hmph, this mechanism was not designed by Master Tang, but from the wisdom of more ancient ancestors." The old man replied to Pei Sheng with a little mystery, and then he invited everyone to go to the council hall on the second floor, where he would inform everyone in detail on behalf of Tang Ye about the relevant matters related to this round of various sects competing for the Dragon Soul Sword.

"Hey, miss, look, what a beautiful vase!" Yuxin was attracted by a cyan vase made of Tang Sancai at the top of the staircase, but when she turned the vase to take a closer look, the other side of the vase was sprayed with a large red stain of blood for some reason. Although the bloodstains had become inconspicuous with the passage of time, their sudden appearance made Yuxin scream in fright.

"This ...... What the hell are these blood stains......" Ouyang He heard Yuxin's screams and hurried over to check the situation, and when she saw the blood stains on the vase, she was also a little shocked like the others around her.

"Those are the traces of the tragedy that happened in this ghost castle two years ago, if you want to know, come with me." The old man stood on the steps and sneered mysteriously before continuing towards the second floor, while Ouyang He softly comforted the frightened Yuxin and walked at the end of the upstairs line.

When everyone sat down around the large table in the quaintly decorated council hall, the old man took out a letter from his bosom and prepared to open it and read the contents of the letter to everyone.

"This senior, I've been in this ghost castle for a long time, why haven't I seen Master Tang show up to welcome guests? That's too rude, isn't it? Huansha Pavilion Master Chen Deng asked the silent old man in front of him because he really couldn't help the doubts in his heart.

The old man did not answer him directly, but held a piece of paper taken out of the envelope in both hands and said to the people in front of him: "Master Tang's instructions to the old man to inform you have all been written on this letter paper, and Master Tang himself will appear when the time is ripe to meet the winner who finally obtained the Dragon Soul Sword, and then the old man will tell you the full content of the letter, and please listen patiently." ”

According to the old man, it turned out that this ghost castle was built decades ago by the former Shu Qiande Emperor Wang Yan before he ascended the throne, when as a prince, he heard some legends about the capital on the rivers and lakes and decided to build a huge underground palace here for the royal family and nobles to relax and play, and the ghost castle is only the entrance to this palace in the planning. However, due to Wang Yan's indulging in fun after ascending the throne, the former Shu finances could not make ends meet, and the construction progress of this little-known underground palace in Xudu has been very slow. When the Later Tang army invaded Chengdu and Wang Yan surrendered and was killed, the palace legend has only completed the construction of corridors and some rooms.

As everyone listened attentively, the old man went on to say that since Chengdu was broken by the Tang army, some of the imperial relatives who had escaped by luck had gathered from all corners of Shu to the ghost fort and continued to live a luxurious life relying on the wealth stored in the ghost fort. Until one night two years ago, two mysterious passers-by, a man and a woman, knocked on the door of the ghost castle on the pretext of staying overnight, and then handed the owner of the ghost castle a few gold bars to get a chance to live in the ghost castle temporarily. The people in the ghost castle continued to sing and dance in the halls of the ghost castle at this moment, and the two of them quietly lit a mysterious musk all over the ghost castle. Gradually, when the smoke of musk filled the entire ghost castle, the people who were still laughing and playing before suddenly fought each other like crazy, and the screams and shouts filled the entire ghost castle, people shouted and pushed and ran to each other, and the floor of the ghost castle with rivers of blood reflected the cold moonlight of the night, and the whole ghost castle suddenly became a purgatory on earth.

"How many people survived? Who are the men and women? Pei Sheng showed an incredible expression and asked the old man in a low voice.

"Alas, according to the letter from the head of Tang, none of the residents who were alarmed around the ghost fort that night had seen a survivor come out of the ghost castle, and the man and woman have disappeared since then." The old man sighed deeply and said.

"Heh, no wonder the contemptible people have found many places in the fort that are suspected to have heavy blood stains, it turns out that this is the case." Zhou Kehe, the leader of the Nanhai Gang, said thoughtfully, "Then I don't know what Master Tang's intention is to tell us about these old things at this moment?" It's not going to scare us twenty people out of the ghost castle like this, is it? ”

In the middle of everyone's discussions, there was a sudden violent ground movement in the ghost castle, and at the same time, a piercing sound reached everyone's ears with the ground movement, making everyone feel a little frightened.

"You don't have to panic, it's just that the stone chamber where the Dragon Soul Sword is placed is closed by a stone wall, what you have to do next is to enter the underground palace that has not yet been completed to find another way to reach the stone chamber where the Dragon Soul Sword is located, whoever reaches the stone chamber first will naturally belong to the Dragon Soul Sword, and at the same time, there is a general mechanism in the stone chamber that can instantly close all the mechanisms of the entire ghost castle. So...... Now, please...... Ladies and gentlemen...... ......"The old man gradually became slurred, and his originally thick voice gradually became trembling. As he finished his last sentence with a strange smile on his face, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fell straight to the ground.

He ...... ...... dead" Ouyang He rushed to the old man's side and checked the old man's pulse with his hand to check the situation, but the old man had already died on the spot after she confirmed it.

Immediately afterwards, the gate of the ghost castle was blocked by a heavy iron wall hanging from above, and the windows of the ghost castle were instantly closed by barbed wire with spikes hidden in the cracks of the windows.

"This ...... What's going on here? With the sound of the mechanism opening in the ghost castle one after another, Ouyang He and the other nineteen people looked at each other in the face of the sudden change in front of them, and they really felt incomprehensible about this. Outside the ghost castle, the heavy clouds gradually obscured the previous bright sun, with the howling wind in the mountains, the downpour fell instantly, and the originally quiet ghost castle was like opening a bloody mouth in vain to devour everything in the mountains.