Half an hour later, they came again to the little courtyard, where the little child was still watering.

"Not bad! Not bad!" Zhao Muzhi looked at the yard and stroked his gray beard, and said with a smile: "This kid is not lazy today!"

When he was still a hundred meters away from the courtyard, Zhao Muzhi suddenly stopped, his hands slowly exerted force, and he said "Go!" in his mouth, only to see a purple gas flying towards the courtyard.

The purple qi first hit the chaimen, emitting a burst of purple light, and then the purple light quickly expanded along the low wall of the small courtyard.

After a few seconds, the purple light disappeared, and the whole courtyard did not change in any way, except that the color of the low wall became more vivid, as if it had been washed by water.

"Hehe! deep mountains and mountains, you have to guard against it!" Zhao Muzhi smiled at the two.

"Little cub, I'm back!" Zhao Muzhi shouted at the door.

When the child inside heard the voice, he quickly put down the wooden barrel in his hand, ran to open the door, and when he saw Zhao Muzhi, he immediately locked his neck and untied the turtle from behind him, and greeted Zhao Muzhi with a smile on his face, "Master, you have worked hard." "Master, are you tired?" "Master, are you thirsty?"

looks like a servile, without the slightest arrogance before.

This is called one thing descending from one thing, Duan Feng thought with a wry smile, back then he was also unruly and unruly, and there was no one in his eyes, but he only treated his father with respect, and he didn't dare to slack off.

"Hmm. Fortunately, hurry up and pickle this turtle, remember to use blue salt, not sea salt, put more weak water, it will die if there is less water. ”

Duan Feng and the others were confused, what kind of pickling method is this, it is necessary to marinate it with salt without letting it die? What is the point of pickling? The two watched the child jump up and down with the turtle in his arms and run into a grass hut next to him.

"Xing'er, I still have some things, after marinating the turtle, I will pour the vegetable patch, and I will go back. ”

"Hey, I got it, Master!"

Zhao Muzhi took the two of them to leave the courtyard again, walked along a rugged mountain road, walked for more than an hour, and came to a cave entrance, the outside of the cave entrance was full of thorns, and poisonous snakes often appeared, and few people appeared at a glance.

"Let's go, let's go in. Zhao Muzhi walked in front, his hands constantly swinging in front of him, and the thorns in front of him slowly dodged a path under the swing of his hands.

The cave is very damp, the stone walls on both sides are covered with moss, and the feet are wet, and from time to time water droplets will drip from the roof of the cave.

A quarter of an hour later, their eyes suddenly opened up and brightened, and they came to an open-air sinkhole, above which was a huge sinkhole a hundred feet square, and they were at the bottom of the sinkhole, and in front of them was a bottomless cave, the entrance of the cave was about a hundred meters, and it was dark and dark.

"What kind of place is this?" Duan Feng asked.

"This is where the dead man was born, and I gave it a name called the Spirit Cave. Zhao Muzhi said lightly, "As long as a person jumps here and stays for half an hour, he will come out of another hole, and then he will become a dead man." ”

Saying that, Zhao Muzhi took the two of them around the Spirit Cave and walked to the front of another cave, compared to the Spirit Cave, this cave is very small, only one zhang square, and can only accommodate more than a dozen people to climb out of it at the same time.

"I call it the Door of Life and Death. Zhao Muzhi looked at the entrance of the cave and said.

"Why did they become dead soldiers, what is inside this spirit cave?" Duan Feng wondered.

"I don't know, no living person has ever been able to come out of it, and those dead people who come out of it have also become devoid of emotions and desires, and at the same time they can't speak, they seem to forget the existence of the spirit cave, I think this is also a way for the spirit cave to protect itself, it doesn't want people to know about its existence. ”

Duan Feng poked his head into the Spirit Cave and looked inside, it was like a black hole, without any light.

"It's just that I heard that there is an ancient evil immortal living in it, who specializes in sucking people's souls to make a living, but no one has confirmed it. ”

"And how did you find this place?"

"Me?" Zhao Muzhi shook his head and said, "This is not what I discovered, this is also what my master told me." ”

"Then your master must have told you how to kill the dead?" Duan Feng asked.

"Well, it is true that at that time the master did tell me the way to restrain the dead, but because I was young and frivolous at the time, and a little debauched, I was not able to learn the art well, and in the end I was not able to learn that method, and after a long time, I thought that no one would think about it again, so I gradually forgot about it. ”

"Don't you remember?" Duan Feng looked at Zhao Muzhi suspiciously.

"That's all for the sake of it, do I still have to lie to you?" Zhao Muyi said with an innocent face.

"That's not right, right, since you don't know how to restrain the dead, then who knows, is it your master?"

"No way, my master and his old man have been dead for more than forty years. ”

"That's strange, does anyone still know about this?" Duan Fenghu wondered.

Zhao Muzhi also thought quickly, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, "Could it be him?"

"Who?"

"Yes, it must be him, only he has the ability. ”

"Who the hell is it?"

"Du Sanliang!" Zhao Mu said word by word, his tone mixed with resentment.

"Du Sanliang! Yes, that's right, it's the dead soldier he led people to kill. ”

"That's right, it must be him. ”

"How would he know about this?"

"Hey!" Zhao Muzhi said regretfully: "It's all because the master was too soft-hearted back then and let go of this traitor!"

"Traitor?" Duan Feng wondered, "You are senior brothers?"

Zhao Muzhi showed a disdainful expression on his face, "Senior brother, he is also worthy? He is a despicable villain who eats inside and out, if it weren't for the master, he would have been violent on the street back then, and later betrayed the master for a monster, and stole the master's "Night Grass Collection", and the method of restraining the dead is recorded in that book. ”

Duan Feng was not interested in the grievances of their master, he only wanted to know about the dead soldiers.

"Well, he also knows the secrets of the dead. Duan Feng said thoughtfully, "It seems that if we want to know the secret of the dead man, we just need to find that book of Night Grass." ”

"It's not that simple, if you want to restrain the dead, in addition to the methods recorded in the book, you also need the executor to have strong spiritual power, otherwise there is no way to use it. ”

"Hmm. Thank you for your advice. After Duan Feng thanked Zhao Muzhi, he and Han Qing left the cave directly, and didn't stay long, they had already dragged on for too long, and now they had to find the book as soon as possible.

Looking at the two who were far away, Zhao Muzhi stroked his gray beard and nodded slightly, and then quickly returned to his small courtyard.

"Where are we going to find Du Sanliang?" Han Qing looked at Duan Feng with a disappointed expression, "He doesn't know where he is now, even if he finds it, he won't obediently teach us the book, right?"

Duan Feng's mouth twisted from side to side, and after thinking for a while, he said, "We don't have to go to Du Sanliang. ”

"What do you mean?"

"This matter, I think Du Tong must know something, let's go to him first, he must have a way. ”

But Dutong always thought his father was dead. ”

"He thought his father was dead, but Du Sanliang left everything to him when he was dying, I don't believe it, he didn't leave any clues. ”

"It seems that this is the only way to go. ”

The two of them stepped on their swords and hurried towards the north.

After Duan Feng and Du Tong broke up in the Far North Domain, Duan Feng returned directly to the Human Realm, but Du Tong did not leave immediately, but only told Duan Feng that he would stay in the Far North Region for a while, as for how long, he didn't know.

By the time they reached the Far North, it was already approaching evening, and the northern sky was shrouded in a layer of blue-purple auspicious clouds.

The ground beneath his feet had turned a silvery white, the surrounding trees had dried up, and the river had dried up, leaving only patches of white riverbeds that had cracked due to lack of water.

In just over a year, the originally vibrant Far North has become a place of death, and there is no living creature in sight for thousands of miles.

Dragon Slayer Valley is surrounded by a group of barren mountains, and the dry trees on the mountains are stumbling into several sections under the attack of the strong wind.

The wind mixed with white sand filled the entire Dragon Slayer Valley, and the two of them hovered in the sky for a moment, and then flew down to the place where Tianwen originally lived, the yard was full of mess, dry branches fell all over the courtyard, and there were several rotten bird corpses on the roof.

"Let's go. Duan Feng glanced at the courtyard, there had been no signs of human activity here for a long time.

The two of them continued to fly north, and soon came to the Elven Forest, which was just an empty shelf supported by countless dry tree trunks, and the cold wind mixed with dead leaves shuttled between the tree trunks.

The two landed in front of a courtyard gate, Duan Feng looked up at the plaque on the door, although it looked a little dim under the wind blowing the sun mountain, but the two big characters "Qingyuan" on it were still very obvious.

"He's here?" Han Qing wondered.

"Well, according to the agreement, if I want to find him, I can come here. ”

The two pushed open the hidden gate, and a puff of dust fell from above, and the two walked into the courtyard, which was empty except for the sound of the wind whistling in the air.

The two of them walked along the bluestone slab road, and the bluestone slab under their feet also cracked in the movement of the earth's veins.

The two gradually walked to the end of the courtyard, and in front of them was a stone mountain more than 100 feet high, and there was obviously a sign of collapse on the mountain wall.

Duan Feng walked in and saw that the traces were not far away, it should have not been formed for a long time, and the cracks had not yet been filled with sediment.

Duan Feng took a few steps back, brandished his ice sword, and slashed towards the mountain wall.

"Boom!"

With the sound of gravel falling, a one-foot high hole appeared on the mountain wall, and the two entered through the hole, and there were torches lit on the cave wall inside, and the fuel on the torches was still sufficient, and it had just been lit.

Following the light of the torches, the two came to a stone gate, which was also hidden, and from inside came bursts of animal chirping, and the air was mixed with the smell of animal feces.

Pushing open the stone door, the scene in front of them surprised the two of them, only to see hundreds of huge birds flying back and forth on the top of the huge grotto, countless kinds of strange beasts under the grotto are running to each other, fighting, roaring, as if the animals of the entire extreme north have been driven here, on a high stone platform in the center of the grotto, there is a bright ball, and the light of the entire grotto comes from that small ball.