Qi Hufei returned to the ruins of Hongshi Village again.

He felt something wrong with the red stones.

After careful research, he discovered that the root of the problem might lie in the ancient formation in the ruins of Redstone Village.

He had a strange feeling that this formation was releasing some kind of energy. However, it is different from ordinary mana fluctuations.

Just like the formation itself, it does exist, and you can see its whole picture clearly from the air, and it is arranged according to a certain Qimen principle.

But it's not so real, because it doesn't produce change, and the most important thing about Qimen is change. It doesn't seem to have an effect on the tourists who come here every day either.

However, Qi Jufei knew that this almost illusory formation was really affecting him.

However, if the hallucinations started with coming to the ruins of Redstone Village, then what happened before that should be real.

But now that I think about it, it's wrong.

He first met Ye Chunlai's family in the woods outside the formation, when Ruan Shaoxiong's men were about to bury them alive.

However, how vain and unreasonable is the fact that a small town of evil and a few gangsters would dare to bury people alive at will!

If none of this is true, then are the gangsters who were killed by Kunnu real? Does Nguyen Shaoxiong really exist? How did he meet Ye Chunlai's family?

The energy of the Red Stone Village formation is becoming more and more obvious, and there is a special sense on him.

Qi Hufei took out the piece of phoenix soul jade.

With divine sense, the phoenix-shaped texture in the jade danced as if it was alive, and the rhythm of the phoenix's wings was in line with the rhythm of the energy released by the entire ruins.

Could it be that this piece of jade is playing tricks?

There must be an eye in this array, and maybe that's the key.

However, at this time, tourists are coming in and out, and it is not very convenient to study.

Qi Hufei walked around the Red Stone Village and left. He decided to come back in the evening.

In the afternoon, Ye Chunlai took him to the abandoned mine.

Walking all the way west from Hongshi Village, through the long yellow sand, the air became hotter and hotter, and soon entered no man's land.

The car traveled about a hundred miles, and Ye Chunlai stopped the car and took them on foot.

"This is a real mountain of flames." Ye Chun said, "There have been some hand-drawn papers left by our ancestors in Hongshi Village before, according to those drawings, there is a very large redstone rock mine at the bottom of the mountain, at least a dozen mines, but only one can enter and exit from the ground. The rest of the openings were in the depths of the Flaming Mountain, where even the detection machines couldn't get in, let alone people. ”

Qi Hufei grabbed a handful of sand from the ground, slowly flowed out of his palm, and asked, "This place was also covered by the flames of the Flame Mountain before, right?" ”

Ye Chun said: "That's what the experts said. Judging from the changes in the landform of the Flaming Mountain, the temperature here used to be quite high, and it stands to reason that it is impossible for people to enter. But if people can't get in, who opened this mine under the mountain? How did we build Redstone Village? So the experts can't say clearly. ”

They came to the mouth of the mine.

It was a crimson rocky slope surrounded by yellow sand. There is a hole in the rocky slope that is large enough for a car to enter and exit.

It's a no-man's land, plus it's too hot, and not many people come here to visit.

The main thing is that there really is nothing to see. There is a blocked mine road, and the scenery that can be seen here can be seen elsewhere.

The inside of the cave is not as shady as expected, but more stuffy.

Ye Chunlai took them a few steps inside, and began to drink water, and their clothes were already soaked with sweat.

He took out mineral water from his backpack and distributed it to everyone.

Of course they don't need it, and if they can't even bear this bit of heat, then they don't need to practice.

Ye Chunlai said enviously: "Your physique is so good in martial arts, you won't sweat when it's so hot, and you don't even need to drink water." ”

Qi Hufei didn't say much, and followed Ye Chun back and forth.

The further you go in, the smaller and hotter the passage becomes.

Ye Chunlai was already a little overwhelmed.

Xiaoqing took out a banana fan and quietly fanned a few fans, and the cave suddenly became cool.

Ye Chunlai said curiously: "Hey, where did the wind come from?" Could it be that the collapsed place in front of it is open? ”

I walked a little further, and sure enough, I came to the end.

Ahead is a red rock wall with traces of tool excavation.

Ye Chun said: "This is it." The expedition team once came in and said that the rock blocking the mine road in front of it was at least 100 meters thick, and it should be caused by the collapse of the entire mountain. ”

Qi Hufei said: "No one wants to dig it up again? ”

Ye Chun said: "The excavation is too difficult. The point is, it's worthless! Inside is the red igneous rock of Red Rock Village, and it does not have the luster of marble, and it is not as efficient as red bricks to build houses. If it's an open-pit mine, maybe there will be people to mine it, and the cost of mining under the mountain is so high, and it's worthless to dig it out, who will do it? ”

Qi Hufei said: "Then if I want to, can I come to mining?" I'll pay for it. ”

Ye Chun said: "Of course you can." What's so bad about developing the town's economy? Go talk to the mayor, and he'll be happy. Strictly speaking, this is no longer the land of Fenglai Town, and it doesn't even belong to the Sacrifice Country. But what do you want this kind of stone for? ”

Qi Hufei smiled and said, "There are no red stones in the mountains over there, I think it's pretty beautiful." ”

Ye Chun said: "There are a lot of red bricks, they are cheap and easy to use. ”

"A house made of bricks doesn't look good."

Qi Hufei said a perfunctory sentence casually, and walked to the rock wall, touching the rock wall with his hand, and his mind penetrated into the rock.

At the beginning, except for the temperature of the rock wall was a little high, it was still a normal rock as far as the Divine Sense could see. But a moment later, the front suddenly emptied, and the divine consciousness entered an inexplicable space.

But Qi Feifei was sure that it was not that his divine consciousness had passed through the rock wall and reached the depths of the mine, but that he had suddenly entered nothingness, like a person walking on the road and falling into a sewer with an uncovered manhole cover.

Ye Chunlai didn't notice his movements and demeanor, nodded and said, "Also, if you want to build a palace in the mountain, you will naturally use large stones to look magnificent." ”

And Qi Hufei was a little turbulent at this time, his divine consciousness was in the void, and he had nowhere to go, surrounded by a vast sea of fire, knowing that he was standing in front of the rock wall, but his divine consciousness could not return to himself.

Xiaoqing and Kunnu both noticed the abnormality and shouted at the same time, "Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

Qi Feifei heard their voices, but he couldn't tell the direction of the sounds.

There were blazing flames everywhere, and the soul could not escape the siege. He could hear the voice, but he couldn't answer.

Xiaoqing hurriedly used a banana fan to fan Qi Feifei.

The wind blew through Qi Hufei's body, making him feel a little cool, but the flames around him did not go out.

Then, he saw a figure in the firelight. He couldn't see her face clearly, only that he was wearing a big red trench coat.

At this moment, he heard a phoenix chirp, which sounded like an air raid siren.

The voice pulled him back to reality all at once.

Hallucination!

He felt that it was very likely that all the abnormal things today were caused by the Phoenix Soul Jade.

It is likely that this piece of jade triggered his hallucinations.

But mere hallucinations don't seem to make sense.

His experience of this day was as if there were two parallel worlds that suddenly intersected at some point, and the overlap of the two spaces caused things to become fragmented, some real and some false, or everything was both real and false.

He withdrew his palm and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Ye Chunlai didn't know what was going on, he saw him wiping his sweat and said, "You are finally sweating, now I am relieved." ”

Qi Hufei said: "I didn't feel at ease? ”

Ye Chun said: "If you don't sweat anymore, I think you are not a normal person." We've handed it over to you, but what if you're a youkai? ”

Qi Hufei smiled: "Monsters can also sweat. ”

Ye Chun said: "Aren't all monsters all capable of spells, and they can go to both water and fire?" ”

Qi Hufei saw that he was covered in sweat and was about to collapse, knowing that it was not easy for him, as an ordinary person, to persist in such an environment until now, and fortunately, Xiaoqing had been fanning the wind with a banana fan, so he said, "Okay, let's go back first." ”

When they returned to Fenglai Town, it was already night.

Ye Qiuhuang's family was waiting for them to have dinner.

After eating, Qi Hufei took out the phoenix soul and asked Ye Qiuhuang: "Teacher Ye, how many generations have you passed on this piece of jade?" ”

Ye Qiuhuang saw him take out the phoenix soul jade, he looked a little confused at first, and suddenly became very surprised and a little excited, pointing to the jade in Qi Feifei's hand and saying, "This is ...... Is this the legendary phoenix soul? How could it be in your hands? ”

the groove

Qi Hufei had an urge to hit someone.

It's not that he wants to beat Ye Qiuhuang, because he doesn't feel that Ye Qiuhuang is playing tricks on him.

He wanted to beat up the entire town of Fenglai.

He felt like the town was fake, maybe it didn't exist at all.

Qi Hufei even began to wonder if he had never left Pansiling, this was all a dream, this was a dream town.

He even wondered if he hadn't crossed at all, and he was stunned to work overtime in the company, writing code and hallucinating.

Ye Qiuhuang felt that something was wrong with Qi Feifei, so he asked, "Mr. Qi, what's wrong?" ”

Qi Hufei took a deep breath and asked, "You just said that you haven't seen this jade pendant?" ”

Ye Qiuhuang said: "I haven't seen it." However, there is a record of this piece of jade in the books left by our ancestors, and the shape and color are very similar to the one in your hand. Can you show me? ”

Qi Feifei gave the jade pendant to Ye Qiuhuang.

Ye Qiuhuang took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and finally nodded: "That's right, it's exactly the same as the painting on the ancient book, and even the feel to the touch is the same as recorded." ”

"What does that book say, can you show me?"

"When I was a child, there was a fire in my house, and those books burned down long ago."

Ye Qiuhuang's face showed regret, as if he had lost some treasure.

"But fortunately, I have loved reading since I was a child, and I used to go to those old books when I was a child, so I remember some of them.

In that book, it is said that the Flame Mountain was first called Phoenix Mountain, and the Fenglai Town was called Fenglai Valley. At that time, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, and it was a good place in the world. Later, a fire fell from the sky and turned this place into a flaming mountain.

Our ancestors used to dig red igneous rock mines at the foot of the mountain. It is said that this kind of stone house has many advantages, what kind of formation, portal, etc., at that time I was young, I couldn't understand it, and I wasn't interested, so I skipped it.

Later, when they were mining, they dug up this piece of jade, and the texture inside was very similar to a phoenix, and if it was burned on the fire, the texture would flow, as if the phoenix was flying, and the cry of the phoenix could be heard.

The shape and texture of this piece of jade were still drawn on that book, and I was very yearning for it at the time, so I remembered it very deeply, and I recognized it as soon as I saw this piece of jade in your hand just now. ”

Qi Hufei asked, "Then where did the jade go?" ”

Ye Qiuhuang said: "It was not said in the book, because out of curiosity, I also asked my grandfather about this question. My grandfather told me that the redstone mines under the Flaming Mountains had long since been abandoned, and that the people of Redstone Village had moved to the current place thousands of years ago and no longer used that kind of stone to build houses.

When his father, my great-grandfather, was young, there was a fairy-like couple in town. They paid for the abandoned mine, re-excavated the tunnels, and took the townsmen to mine the red igneous rocks there, and then transported them to a distant land, and no one knew what they wanted them for. But they pay a lot of money, so everyone is willing to work. My great-grandfather was one of them.

If you stay in a dark place underground for a long time, you may experience hallucinations. My grandfather had hallucinations at that time, and often heard the cry of a phoenix, and said that he had seen a phoenix. Then he went crazy.

Later, for some unknown reason, the mine owner did not come. If there is no money to take, no one wants to go to the mine, and the redstone mine is abandoned. Only my grandfather often went there alone, and he still brought this ancestral piece of jade. When the mine collapsed again, he was buried inside. ”

Qi Hufei fell into thought after hearing this.

If Ye Qiuhuang didn't lie to him, then when did this piece of jade come to him?

He thought about it and remembered that when he first entered the Flaming Mountain, when he approached the central area of the Flaming Mountain, he didn't really enter because the roce could not withstand the high temperature there, but when he passed, he faintly heard a strange chirp in the howling wind.

I didn't know what it was at the time, but now that I think about it, it should be the same sound as the phoenix chirping I heard recently.

If Feng Ming's voice came from the Phoenix Soul Jade, then it was likely that when he passed through the Flame Mountain, this piece of jade would have reached him.

In this way, it can push everything onto the Phoenix Soul Jade, but it makes itself make a mistake in perception and hallucinate.

But now Qi Hufei was not sure of anything.

Jade is right in front of you, if it can make people hallucinate, then what you are experiencing now is real? Could the story Ye Qiuhuang tell him also an illusion?

Ye Qiuhuang returned the jade to Qi Feifei.

Qi Hufei said: "Since it is your ancestor's thing, then I will return it to you." ”

Ye Qiuhuang excused himself: "It's just a record in a book I read when I was a child, and it can't prove that the thing is ours." Even if it's true, that's already lost. More than 100 years have passed since my grandfather entered the mountain. How can I get something back that has been lost for more than a hundred years? ”

Qi Hufei was already determined to throw away this hot potato, so he said: "I lost it, but now it's not back." If God didn't want to give it back to you, why would I show it to you for some reason? ”

Ye Qiuhuang felt that it made sense, but he was still embarrassed to take it.

Qi Hufei put the jade into the palm of his hand, clenched his fist, and said, "Okay, so be it." If one day you lose it again and I pick it up again, then I won't return it. ”

While they were chatting, Xiaoqing and Kunnu were instructing Ip Man in his cultivation.

Ye Wentian didn't go out all day, on the one hand, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to suppress the true fire in his body, and his body would have problems. On the other hand, according to Qi Hufei's requirements, he had at least four hours of breathing and breathing every day, true qi guidance, plus some other basic foundation building skills, he didn't have time to go out at all.

When Qi Hu flew over to see them, Xiaoqing was fanning Ye Wentian with a banana fan.

Qi Hufei checked his cultivation and saw that his dantian true fire was stable and his whole body's breath was running smoothly, so he was relieved. Then he gave him some mana, guided by his divine sense, to run in his meridians, and helped him strengthen his body.

Later, he asked Ye Wentian to meditate and practice by himself.

This homework is done until late at night.

Ye Wentian had consumed a lot of energy and physical strength, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse, if it weren't for his strong willpower, he would have been unable to hold on for a long time.

Qi Feifei saw that he had reached his limit, so he gave him a small pill before letting him go to sleep and rest, and told him to get up before the first rays of sunlight tomorrow morning, absorb the qi of the rising sun, and then continue the day's homework.

After Ye Wentian finished taking the medicine, he immediately fell into a deep sleep.

Xiaoqing and Kunnu also went back to their rooms to rest.

Qi Hufei went out again and came to the ruins of Hongshi Village.