After more than two days of driving, Chu Feng and the three of them finally came to the outside of Cangyun Village, which is surrounded by towering mountains and ancient forests, Cangyun Village is located in the depths of this mountain forest, leading to the inside, there is only a rugged mountain road, since this place has been cursed by the Emperor River, few people have come in here, almost isolated from the outside world.

Chu Feng and Feng Yuerong drove the carriage on this rugged mountain road, the mountains were deep and the forests were quiet, the road was tortuous, and some of them were not easy to walk.

Feng Yuerong exclaimed: "This place is so secret, we have hardly seen anyone along the way, and this place looks like it has been forgotten by the outside." ”

Chu Feng was a little worried: "I don't know what happened to Cangyun Village now, people outside say that this is a cursed place, no one dares to enter it at all, and no one inside comes out, Cangyun Village was also a very famous place in Yongzhou back then, but now it has become like this, hey......"

Feng Yuerong said: "Chu Feng, don't worry too much, we have now found the heart of the Emperor River, I believe that we will definitely be able to lift the curse of the Emperor River here." ”

With Feng Yuerong's encouragement, Chu Feng nodded with a smile, and then sped up the speed of the car and headed inside.

In this realm of mountains, walked for more than three hours, and finally walked out, after coming out, there is a very open flat land in front of you, at a glance, it is like a basin, surrounded by mountains in it, if it is not for the curse of the emperor here, now it looks, it really looks like a paradise.

Along the mountain road, Chu Feng drove the carriage and thought about walking inside the village, and halfway through, he met a lady who looked to be in her forties, leaning over and carrying a medicine basket, and walked over slowly.

Chu Feng stopped the carriage, then went over to greet him, "Auntie, are you from this village?"

Suddenly seeing outsiders coming in, the lady was also a little surprised, and then nodded and said, "I'm from this village, are you from outside?"

Chu Feng said, "We are from outside, what are you going to do?"

The eldest lady looked at Chu Feng and Feng Yuerong and said, "There is no medicine at home, I am going to go into the mountains to collect medicine." ”

Chu Feng looked at the person in front of him, although he was only in his forties, but his face was full of vicissitudes, he felt like he was in his sixties, and he had no energy, he was very weak at first glance, and his qi and blood were insufficient.

"Auntie, I see that your face is not very good, are you sick?"

The woman said: "I have always been like this, and I can't say that I am sick, and everyone else in our village is like this. ”

Feng Yuerong said: "Could it be that it is because of the curse of the Emperor Jiang that you have all become like this?"

The woman looked at Feng Yuerong and said, "Girl, what you said is right, it's really because of the curse of Dijiang, our people here are all like this, like me, they are already considered to be older, and many people are about the same as me in their thirties." ”

Chu Feng said: "This Emperor Jiang curse is really powerful, after so many years, the people here have been tormented by the Emperor Jiang curse. ”

Feng Yuerong continued: "Yes, it was because of that Wen Baiyan back then who stole the heart of the Emperor River that made this place what it is now. ”

The woman asked, "We haven't had outsiders here for a long time, so what are you doing here?"

Chu Feng said: "Auntie, we just learned that this place was cursed by the Dijiang, so we came here to lift the curse of the Dijiang here." ”

After the woman was surprised, she grabbed Chu Feng's arm and said with excitement on her face: "Is what you said true, you guys, are you really helping us lift the curse of Dijiang?"

Feng Yuerong said with a smile: "Auntie, we are really here to help you lift the curse of Dijiang, Auntie, do you know who he is, his name is Chu Feng, his maternal great-grandfather is Chu Gongjin Chu's predecessor, back then, he was the patriarch here." ”

The woman looked at Chu Feng in shock, and looked at Chu Feng in disbelief: "You, are you really a member of the Chu family, are you really a member of the Chu family?"

Looking at the old woman who was so excited, as if her tears of excitement were about to fall, Chu Feng said: " I am really a descendant of the Chu family, some time ago, we went to the tomb of my maternal great-grandfather, and saw my maternal great-grandfather left a spiritual sense, and I already knew about the things of the year, because my maternal great-grandfather was not optimistic about the heart of the emperor, which led to the occurrence of the curse of the emperor, and my maternal great-grandfather has always been very self-blaming, has been looking for the heart of the emperor, but has not been found, and now, we have finally found the heart of the emperor, so we hurried over. ”

Hearing Chu Feng say this, the old woman sobbed excitedly, and grabbed Chu Feng's arm tightly: "Great, great, we are finally saved, I want to tell the patriarch quickly." ”

Subsequently, the old woman took Chu Feng and others to Cangyun Village, and outsiders suddenly came to the village, which also aroused the curiosity of many people.

Chu Feng and Feng Yuerong looked at the people here, most of them were people in their first or twenty years old, but almost all of them had no spirit, their faces were a little pale, as if they were sick, and they didn't even have a single monk. The houses here are all made of trees, and occasionally there are some stone houses made of stones, most of whom are dressed in shabby clothes and do not live very well.

When they came to Cangyun Village, several people came to the place where the patriarch lived, and after the old woman and the patriarch told Chu Feng and the patriarch about the intentions of the others, the patriarch also hurriedly ran out of the room.

After seeing Chu Feng, the patriarch shouted excitedly, "Are you the descendant of the patriarch of Chu?"

Chu Feng hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I am, you are the patriarch." ”

The patriarch looked at Chu Feng excitedly and said, "I am the current patriarch of Cangyun Village, it's great that you can come here, do you really have a way to lift the curse of Dijiang here from us?"

Chu Feng was not completely sure, but since he had already come here, he must go all out: "Patriarch, we have found the heart of Dijiang, and the descendants of Wen Baiyan who stole the heart of Dijiang back then are also here, I think we should be able to get Dijiang's forgiveness and lift the curse of Dijiang." ”

Feng Yuerong took the old beggar to Chu Feng's back, and the patriarch said, "Great, hurry up and invite in the house, please." ”

After entering the house, the patriarch personally poured water for a few people, and then said: "Gongzi Chu, back then, the old patriarch thought of countless ways in order to lift the curse of Dijiang, and even ignored his own home, and finally died in a foreign land, the people of the Chu family were the most cursed by Dijiang, many people died of illness when they were in their twenties, we all thought that the old patriarch had no descendants, but I didn't expect to see Gongzi Chu today, it was really good, the old patriarch finally had descendants." ”

Chu Feng took a sip of water, and then asked, "Patriarch, what kind of situation is Cangyun Village like now, you can tell us more carefully." ”

"Hey. ”

The old patriarch sighed deeply, and then said: "This Dijiang curse really harmed our Cangyun Village, almost the whole village died, in the end, it was the Chu family who sacrificed their own lives, which survived the catastrophe of the year, but the Dijiang curse did not disappear, but it was weaker than at the beginning."

Now, most of the people we have here live to be thirty or forty years old, and only half of the babies who can survive, so the current Cangyun Village is completely different from before, many people are frail and sick, and they have not been cured. ”

Feng Yuerong asked, "Patriarch, how many years has this been the case?"

The patriarch thought for a moment and said, "It's been more than a hundred years. ”

"More than a hundred years, that's several generations. Feng Yuerong said with some heaviness.

The patriarch sighed and said: "Hey, back then, we also had tens of thousands of people here, but since the curse of the Emperor River, now there are not even a thousand people, and people outside dare not come in, and we can't go out, for generations, it has been like this." ”

After learning about the situation here, Chu Feng hurriedly took out the Heart of the Emperor River from the storage bag and said, "Patriarch, this is the Heart of the Emperor River, we have found it, and now we can return it." ”

Seeing the heart of the emperor, the patriarch quickly stood up excitedly, took the heart of the emperor with both hands excitedly, and looked at the heart of the emperor that had become like this, and couldn't help asking: "This heart of the emperor, why is it like this?"

Chu Feng explained: "Patriarch, after this Heart of Emperor Jiang fell into the hands of Wen Baiyan, some changes occurred, and his disciple Gongsun Xu absorbed all the spiritual power, and even the Wen family almost all died in the hands of Gongsun Xu, and now, the Wen family, he is the only one left, this time, he came with us, that is, he learned that it was because his grandfather stole the Heart of Emperor Jiang that so many things happened, so he came with us, and he came to atone for his sins." ”

The patriarch looked at the old beggar and said, "Well, if we can really lift the curse of Dijiang this time, we will no longer resent their Wen family." ”

Feng Yuerong said: "Patriarch, then let's hurry up and take a look at Dijiang and put the heart of Dijiang back in its place." ”

The patriarch nodded and replied, "Okay, then you can come with me." ”

Afterwards, several people followed the patriarch to a courtyard three miles away, the courtyard was not large, there was a house made of stones, and a few trees were planted in the yard that did not grow very well, and they also looked sick.

The patriarch said: "This is the ancestral hall of our Cangyun Village dedicated to Dijiang, let's go in." ”

The yard is very clean, there is a smell of incense in the yard, after a few people walk into the stone house, there are some incense candles lit on the desk inside, the smoke is filled, after walking here, it makes people feel that this place is very sacred, not to be desecrated.

On the platform behind the desk, there is a corpse of Di Jiang, although it has no vitality, but the corpse is still very well preserved, at a glance, it looks like it is real.

Feng Yuerong looked at this corpse of Di Jiang and said in surprise: "It's really exactly the same as the painting in the book, it's really shocking to see it with your own eyes now." ”

Chu Feng looked at this Dijiang corpse, and was also shocked, it was similar to the first time he saw a dragon, as a divine beast, even if he was dead, his body still exuded a divine aura.

The patriarch said: "Now, we are finally going to return the Heart of the Emperor River, hoping to lift the curse of the Emperor River here from us." ”

Subsequently, the patriarch knelt in front of Dijiang's corpse, put on three incense sticks very reverently, and after saluting, he carefully put this heart of Dijiang back into Dijiang's corpse, and then bowed to Dijiang's corpse.

After doing all this, the old beggar also stepped forward, and just like the patriarch did just now, he put on incense and candles, knelt down and saluted, Chu Feng and Feng Yuerong each offered incense and saluted.

After doing all this, Feng Yuerong asked, "Is the Dijiang curse lifted now?"

The patriarch said: "I don't know yet, the ancestor said that if the curse of the Emperor River is lifted, the nine-petal fairy lotus here will be reopened, and if we see the open nine-petal fairy lotus, it means that the curse of the emperor has been lifted." ”

Feng Yuerong was surprised: "Nine-petal Immortal Lotus, legend has it that this is a very holy spiritual creature that can cure all kinds of diseases in the world, and it is very difficult to find. ”

The patriarch nodded and said: "Yes, we have a nine-petal immortal lotus growing here, but since the Dijiang curse happened, no one has ever seen a nine-petal immortal lotus, if we can find the nine-petal immortal lotus this time, then the Dijiang curse here will finally be lifted." ”

Chu Feng asked, "Then how can we find this nine-petal immortal lotus?"

The patriarch said: "The nine-petal immortal lotus grows on the top of the high mountain here with us, and in the past, it was always the people of the Chu family who could only find it on the top of the mountain, and it was difficult for others to find it. ”

Chu Feng said, "Okay, patriarch, I'll go and find this nine-petal immortal lotus." ”

Feng Yuerong continued: "I'll go with you." ”

The patriarch nodded and said, "Young Master Chu, you are now the only descendant of the old patriarch, and the matter of finding the nine-petal immortal lotus will be entrusted to you." ”

Chu Feng said: "Patriarch, don't worry, we will definitely find the nine-petal immortal lotus." ”

At this time, the old beggar said: "Patriarch, back then, my grandfather offended Dijiang Immortal Venerable, and now I am willing to stay here to atone for my grandfather's sins and serve him for the rest of my life." ”

The patriarch looked at Chu Feng and saw that Chu Feng did not object, so he said, "Okay, then you can stay in this ancestral hall to clean up in the future." ”

The old beggar saluted respectfully and said, "Thank you, Patriarch." ”

Subsequently, the patriarch arranged for the old beggar to be here and became a person who cleaned the ancestral hall, and Chu Feng and Feng Yuerong were taken to live elsewhere temporarily, and then discussed the matter of finding the nine-petal immortal lotus.