Yanjia Village, Liansheng Country, in the morning.

It has been another hour since the old village chief came to the entrance of the village.

In this hour, the old village chief first inquired about Yan Wuhuo and Yerong, who were the first to arrive at the stone monument at the entrance of the village, and learned that there was once a mysterious phantom old man in the stone monument, and it was this unidentified old man who sacrificed himself to slow down the sinking speed of the stone monument, otherwise Yanjia Village would no longer exist at this moment.

Of course, in order to conceal the fact that he was not a mortal, Yan Wuhuo and Ye Rong had the same caliber, and they were very wise not to completely tell the old village chief the real story.

It's just that the old man advised them on his deathbed that this stele was cursed, and if the curse could not be broken, when the stele sank completely, Yanjia Village would sink to the bottom of the lake, and all the villagers of Yanjia Village would die.

He also said that all the villagers should not try to escape this disaster by leaving Yanjia Village, once someone leaves Yanjia Village within a radius of ten miles, they will die because of the curse possession and petrification all over their bodies, so the only way out is to break the curse.

As for the old man's identity as the Emperor of the Ice Moon Clan of the Moon Palace, and the fact that he was sealed in the stone tablet by the black-tailed demon cicada and the ice and fire spider on the Moon Palace, there was no mention of whether there was no fire or his imperial grandson.

After all, all this is too unbelievable for ordinary mortals, and no one will believe it if they say it, and if they don't get it right, it will make the villagers feel that Yan Wuhuo is confusing the public, so as to achieve what ulterior motives are there.

As for Yuan Xunshuang, who was listening silently on the side, although she didn't know what was going on between Yan Wuhuo and the Phantom Old Man, with her keen intuition, she still felt that this matter was not as simple as Yan Wuhuo said.

There must be something hidden in this, because she saw Yan Wuhuo's magical experience in front of the stone tablet through the picture of the birthmark in her palm, so she didn't think that Yan Wuhuo really didn't know the phantom old man, so she must have had a last resort.

It's just that she won't question and expose it, firstly, she saw that Aunt Yerong beside Yan Wuhuo was also helping him hide the truth, and secondly, she didn't want to hurt Aunt Yerong and Yan Wuhuo because of exposing the truth, especially Yan Wuhuo was still the uncle of Yan Mingxuan who she cared about.

After listening to Yan Wuhuo and Yerong's narration, the old village chief pondered for a while and made a series of arrangements.

First of all, he asked a part of the villagers with good water quality and strong health to form a search and rescue team to conduct a carpet search of the whole village, ensuring that the old and young women and children in the village, as well as the villagers with limited mobility, were placed on the roofs of every household, and those with large wooden basins should sit in the wooden basins as much as possible, so as to avoid the tragedy of villagers drowning when the village continues to sink and the water level rises in the future.

Secondly, let some skilled craftsmen start to make a batch of rafts for future evacuation of villagers, also in case the water level of Yanjia Village exceeds the roof of the house and really becomes a lake, and no villagers will be killed or injured as a result.

Thirdly, the villagers were arranged to dig small caves on the broken soil walls that had sunk more than a foot at present, and the purpose of this was to take into account that all the villagers would not be able to leave Yanjia Village before the curse was broken, and they would have a place to live.

Because in less than a day, Yanjia Village will become a vast lake, and during this time, no one can guarantee that they will be able to break the curse in the stone tablet, so it is necessary to build a temporary residence within the Yanjia Village.

In the end, it was the old village chief who selected a group of knowledgeable, well-informed, and quick-witted villagers from the village to form a team to study and crack the curse of the stone tablet, which was responsible for breaking the curse.

Yan Wuhuo was naturally left by the old village chief to study the stele together, after all, he had seen the phantom old man before, and he was the first person to arrive at the scene.

And Ye Rong pulled Yuan Xunshuang to volunteer to join the search and rescue team to rescue the old and young women and children trapped at home by the water, after all, they are both humanoids incarnated by golden-crowned black-tailed frogs, with excellent water nature, no one can compare, but other villagers don't know.

Most of the villagers had no objection to the old village chief's arrangement, but a few villagers did not believe the phantom old man's statement.

They thought it was just a hallucination caused by the fright.

He repeatedly insisted on leaving Yanjia Village, intending to settle in a nearby big town and never return.

In this regard, Yan Wuhuo naturally persuaded him again and again, but he couldn't reveal his identity, let alone tell the truth. So it was not enough to convince the villagers who insisted on leaving.

Moreover, even if he did tell the truth, most of the villagers would not believe it, unless he turned into an eighteen-year-old in front of everyone to prove that he was extraordinary.

Obviously, he couldn't do this at all, because every time he transformed into an eighteen-year-old, he was summoned by the imperial grandfather in the stone tablet, and after coming to the stone tablet and absorbing the Ice Moon Heart Method in the moonlight, he became younger.

But the imperial grandfather is no longer there, and it is daytime, the sun is in the sky, and the sun is shining, and he can't change the appearance of an eighteen year old no matter what.

Or maybe he could make Yerong transform into a golden-crowned black-tailed frog to prove that neither he nor Yerong were mortals, but the risk of doing so was still high.

Although it is possible for the villagers to believe that Ye Rong is not a mortal, why should they believe that he is the prince of the Moon Palace, who is one level higher than mortals!

And even if the villagers believe that Ye Rong is not a mortal, maybe they will suspect that Ye Rong, a demon girl, bought him and deceived the villagers together.

At that time, not only did they fail to keep these villagers, but they harmed Ye Rong and Ye Shuang'er, so they were besieged by suspicious villagers, which backfired.

When the old village chief saw that Yan Wuhuo was refuted by the villagers who were afraid that they would continue to stay in Yanjia Village and drown, he wanted to stop talking, and when he was speechless, he also guessed that Yan Wuhuo might really have something unspeakable.

However, if Yan Wuhuo did not have conclusive evidence that could fully prove that the villagers would be cursed to death after leaving Yanjia Village, he could not force the villagers to stay in Yanjia Village.

In desperation, the old village chief had no choice but to announce in public that the villagers would stay voluntarily, and he would not forcibly keep them, but he would bear the consequences.

After listening to the words of the old village chief, the villagers were silent for a while, and most of them said that they believed in the words of smoke and fire, and also believed in the old village chief, and were willing to continue to follow the old village chief to fight against the stone tablet curse and live and die together.

The villagers, who insisted on leaving, came to the fault stone wall more than a foot high and discussed how to climb out.

Fortunately, one of them was very good at climbing the cliff with his bare hands, and he climbed up after dividing five by two.

Then he threw the rope down and pulled the other villagers up one by one.

After witnessing the departure of these villagers who were determined to give up Yanjia Village, everyone was not in a very good mood, after all, they had been together for so many years, and they might never see each other again in this life.

However, sadness is sadness, everyone understands that the most important thing at the moment is to implement the old village chief's plan immediately, and maybe everyone will have a better life in the future.

After that, most of the remaining villagers took their places and went their separate ways to do what they had to do according to the old village chief's instructions.

Although the phantom old man mentioned by Yan Wuhuo slowed down the sinking speed of the stone stele, every other hour, the stone stele would shake violently, and then sink a little in an instant, and the entire Yanjia Village area would suddenly sink about a foot because of this.

The stagnant water, which was originally more than a foot deep, also quickly rose to almost three feet, and it was obvious that in a few hours, it would only be a matter of time before the entire Yanjia Village was submerged in the water.

Before I knew it, two hours had passed. It's late afternoon.

Except for the old village chief, who studied the stone tablet, he still did not make the slightest progress, and the other villagers were doing well.

All the old and young women and children were moved to their respective roofs, and the children and the elderly who were weak in their legs were placed in large wooden basins, so that even if the water level rose above the roof, they would not sink into the water and cause accidents.

As for the raft, it is also in the process of being made, and it is estimated that it will be ready for use in another hour.

The villagers who excavated the cave on the mud wall exposed after sinking are also busy in full swing, after all, this is related to the safety of the whole village, so everyone is also very careful to dig and reinforce, every time a little more space is excavated, it means another chance for the villagers to survive.

During this period, some villagers with good water properties dived into the water, picked some of the vegetables and fruits in the field, and distributed them to everyone, which was a simple lunch.

When Shen Shi arrived in the afternoon, most of the houses in the entire village were submerged in water, and the original road in the village was no longer accessible to people except for swimming.

Fortunately, at this moment, the raft can already be used, and under the arrangement of the old village chief, they are waiting in important positions in the whole village, and once a villager's house collapses because it has been soaked in water for too long, they will immediately go to the rescue.

They were then transported to the excavated caves on rafts, so there were no major casualties, even though several of the villagers' houses suddenly collapsed.

Just when everyone was busy with high mental tension, they didn't expect that the small number of villagers who had insisted on leaving Yanjia Village before came back.

It's just that their expressions are extremely frightened, and their bodies run quickly and stiffly, as if some monster is chasing them behind them.

After seeing them returning, the old village chief naturally stepped forward to ask what had happened.

Some of the other busy villagers stopped what they were doing and gathered around curiously, wondering why they had returned.

It stands to reason that after these three hours, they should have almost reached the nearby town.

When everyone saw that only half of the villagers who had returned were left, and that some of them had turned to stone, they were all stunned!

Only then did I remember that Yan Wuhuo had warned before, that is, once he left Yanjia Village for more than ten miles, his whole body would gradually be petrified and die.

At the time, everyone thought it was a bit too absurd and alarmist, but at this moment, everyone understood that the curse was indeed real......