Xiao Yao followed the young man, turning around along the mountain road, and soon came to a valley. As far as the eye can see, there are dozens of bamboo buildings erected sparsely, and further inside, there seem to be some karst caves.

Xiao Yao appeared behind the boy with a horse, and immediately attracted the attention of the others.

These people are wearing the traditional costumes of the Miao people, but the style and pattern are simpler than the current popular Miao costumes, and many children the same size as Li Song began to gather around Xiao Yao.

One of the girls said to Li Song, "Li Song, how can you bring outsiders to the village. Who is this person? ”

Although Xiao Yao is also dressed in a blue Miao suit, it is obviously much better than the clothes worn by the people in the village, the workmanship and decoration.

"Don't worry about it, I brought him to meet the teacher." Li Song ignored the girl.

And when Li Song mentioned the word teacher, a trace of fear flashed on the faces of all the surrounding children, obviously these children were very taboo about this so-called teacher, so everyone immediately dispersed and no longer mixed with the two.

Xiao Yao followed Li Song towards the inside of the village, there are several karst caves of different sizes in the depths of the village, and a lot of bamboo buildings have been built in the caves, and many people are busy drying all kinds of game and grain.

Led by Li Song, the two soon came to a simple thatched hut, which looked out of place in the bamboo house, with a large open space around the hut and no children playing nearby.

Li Song walked to the side of the hut, and then shouted inside: "Teacher, there is a guest here, someone from Xizhou. ”

But there was no response from inside, and there was no sound.

"Teacher, then I'll bring him in." Li Song seemed to know that there must be someone inside, pushed open the door of the hut, and walked in with Xiao Yao.

The thatched hut looks very simple on the outside, but it is very clean inside, and although the furnishings inside the house are simple, there is a typical literati atmosphere.

The thatched hut is divided into two rooms, inside and outside, there is no one outside, Xiao Yao can't help but look at the thatched hut inside, but Li Song obviously has no intention of entering the inside, just beckons Xiao Yao to sit down outside, and then continues to say loudly to the inside.

"Teacher, the people from Xizhou have arrived, and he said that he is a friend of the little prince of the Peng family."

There was another period of silence, and a quarter of an hour passed, before a sound came from within, and a middle-aged woman in a wide wizard-like cloak stepped out of the room.

It's just that what Xiao Yao didn't expect was that the teacher in Li Song's mouth was actually a woman, although there were some wizards in Miao Jiang who were still women, but that was mainly some witch doctors in the village, and for the real old priests or priests, they were still mainly men.

Seeing Xiao Yao and Li Song sitting on the chair, the middle-aged woman didn't have any expression, just nodded to Xiao Yao simply, and then said, "You are from Xizhou, what are you doing here?" ”

Xiao Yao obviously didn't expect the other party to ask so directly, and thought to himself, this woman is estimated to belong to the type of old leftover girl, no wonder the children in the neighborhood are afraid of her.

From Li Song's words, Xiao Yao could also tell that the other party was a respected wizard in their village.

"In Xia Xiaoyao, from Xizhou, he is a friend of Peng Shan." After speaking, Xiao Yao took out the token of Peng's Tusi Mansion again.

But this Li Song's sorceress didn't look at the token at all, and just continued to ask: "Then what are you doing in our village, and what do you want to do when you come to Phoenix Mountain?" ”

Xiao Yao felt more and more that the woman in front of him had a strange personality, but he didn't want to deal with her. "Originally, I wanted to enter the Witch God Temple, meet with a few witch gods, and report the current situation of Miao Jiang to them. It's just that the watchtower of the Witch Temple is now blocked, and I can't get in, so I want your help. ”

Hearing that Xiao Yao wanted to enter the watchtower of the Witch God Temple, this woman's face finally had a trace of expression, but she couldn't tell whether she was happy or unhappy at all, only her facial muscles twitched a few times.

"Who sued you, I can help you?" The middle-aged woman asked Xiao Yao, but her eyes looked at Li Song beside Xiao Yao.

"Teacher, I sued him. I told him that he couldn't enter the towers of the Witch Temple right now, unless he asked for your help. Li Song, who was on the side, stuck out his tongue as he spoke.

The middle-aged woman looked at Xiao Yao carefully, and then sat on the chair opposite.

"What did you go to the Witch Temple for?" Obviously, she didn't believe Xiao Yao's previous words.

"The war between the Central Plains and Miaojiang is about to break out, and I came to the Wushen Temple in the hope that the Wushen Temple can unite all groups in Miaojiang and defend against foreign enemies."

Since the other party is willing to deal with Pengshan and sends someone to Xizhou City, then the other party will not be ignorant of the current situation in Miao Jiang, which no one in Miao Jiang can stay out of.

The middle-aged woman obviously knew about the change in the situation that Xiao Yao said, and she was silent for a long time, the other party just looked at Xiao Yao for a while, Li Song for a while, and walked back and forth in the room for more time.

"I guess you also know the reason why the Witch God Temple sealed the watchtower, even if you enter the Witch God Temple, they may not be willing to come out to help you." After a few more minutes, the middle-aged woman finally spoke again.

"The four provinces of Miaojiang are about to fall into war, and I can't afford to have more choices." Xiao Yao replied immediately.

"You are also Han, why do you want to help us Miao people?" The middle-aged woman said.

Hearing the middle-aged woman's words, Li Song immediately stood up, and then stood beside the middle-aged woman, looking at Xiao Yao vigilantly, obviously he didn't recognize Xiao Yao as not a Miao, but a Han.

"This has nothing to do with whether I am a Han or a Miao person, I just don't want Miao Jiang to fall into war, which is a good thing for the Miao people, and it is also a good thing for the Han people, so that more people do not have to die on the battlefield." Xiao Yao said righteously.

"Say what you really mean." The middle-aged woman obviously didn't believe Xiao Yao's statement.

"There are many conflicts between me and the Qin Cha before the imperial court, I injured his son, so he wants to put me to death, the last Phoenix Mountain Rebellion, Qin Cha also died here, so I don't want the imperial army's army to enter Miao Jiang to prevent them from further investigating the cause of Qin Cha's death."

Xiao Yao said his true thoughts, but the middle-aged woman still had an indifferent expression.

"Why should I help you?" The middle-aged woman asked bluntly.

"It's not to help me, but to help the tens of millions of Li people in Miaojiang, do you want them all to fall into war?" Xiao Yao asked rhetorically.

This time, the middle-aged woman did not continue to ask questions, and seemed to agree with Xiao Yao's statement.

"I don't care if you have any other intentions, but the situation in Miao Jiang is already like this, I can't imagine that the Jiuli tribe back then has fallen to this point now, I can help you enter the Witch God Temple, but you have to promise me one condition." The middle-aged woman stared at Xiao Yao and said.

"On what terms?" Xiao Yao asked.

"This condition is easy for you, once the war spreads to Phoenix Mountain, you have to leave here with Li Song." The conditions of the middle-aged woman surprised Xiao Yao very much.

"I promise you, can you tell me now how I entered the watchtower of the Witch God Temple?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Diaolou Stone Seal, have you heard of this?" The middle-aged woman began to introduce slowly.

This watchtower was the last barrier to protect the great witch god and the witch king, but later there was no witch king, and it became the territory of the witch temple.

At the same time as the construction of the watchtower, also a lot of stones are hidden in the dark lattice of the four walls of the watchtower, in the event of an accident, the stone will be in accordance with the pre-set direction, from the outside to wrap the watchtower, block the enemy outside.

And the designer of this watchtower stone seal is the last generation of ghosts, and later the ghosts led some of the clansmen to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and the new ghosts also changed their titles to be called ghost Fang, and the ghost side is equivalent to the patriarch of this village.

However, the descendants of the ghost Hou did not forget the ancestral training of guarding Phoenix Mountain, but due to the continuous decline of the clansmen, the scale of the village became smaller and smaller, so in the future, it was impossible to compete with forces such as the Witch God Temple, so it lost the actual ability to defend Phoenix Mountain.

But this tribe has not forgotten their mission, and the most important thing is that they know all the ways to connect the dark river under the Phoenix Mountain, and there is also a special envoy ability to discern the direction in the underground dark river, which is also the survival of this tribe.

But with the death of the tribe, there are fewer and fewer people who can use this skill.

In this generation, there are only two people who can use this skill, one is Li Song's elder brother Li Zhen, and because of this, he was chosen by everyone as the ghost party.

It's a pity that he is in Xizhou, and the other one is, of course, this middle-aged woman.

It's just that the middle-aged woman can't walk for a long time because of the failure of the practice, let alone walk through the dark river.

There are only two ways to enter the watchtower that has been sealed by stone, the first is that after a year, the stone seal will be automatically opened, and you can naturally enter.

The other is to enter the pool in the middle of the watchtower from the underground river, so as to enter the inside of the watchtower.

It's just that the underground dark river under the Phoenix Mountain is criss-crossed, and there is no daylight, ordinary people enter it, they will only lose their way, and they can't find the specific location of the watchtower waterhole at all. So the Witch Temple never worries about this.

After listening to the middle-aged woman's introduction, Xiao Yao was secretly speechless in his heart, others couldn't find the way in the dark river below, and they couldn't find the way either

Moreover, Xiao Yao has experienced the underground dark river several times in Phoenix Mountain, and he knows the difficulty of identifying the direction in it, and it is estimated that only the master of the transformation realm can use the Yuan Shen to freely identify the direction in that environment.

Now that his realm has slipped, he has no choice but to rely on the help of the other party.