When Shen Shuyi's heart was like ashes, the strange face stopped in front of him, and only a pair of blood-red eyes stared at him, motionless.

The blood corpse was unconscious, and it stands to reason that it should have pounced directly on him and bit him a few times, but this thing did not move for a long time. He was slightly suspicious in his heart, but it was better not to pounce than to pounce, so he didn't dare to move.

After a long while, the bloody corpse finally had enough of him, and his mouth began to make a "ho-ho" sound again, which sounded more like a low roar when he heard it closely, and the sour smell from his mouth made people's eyes black.

Then, the giant face suddenly began to slowly retreat, and disappeared into the white mist in a few breaths.

And that's it? Shen Shuyi was a little surprised, and waited motionless for a long time, but it was like a dead silence in a pure white world, and the sound of "ho-ho", the sour smell of decay, and the black shadow all disappeared without a trace.

No zongzi will let go of the human flesh delivered to the eyes, let alone the bloody corpse, and I don't want to know the weirdness of it. But he didn't dare to delay any longer, and opened the door of the ancestral hall and slipped in, for fear that the bloody corpse would kill him and eat him in one bite.

There are no windows in the ancestral hall of the Shen family, and in the dark, Shen Shuyi groped in the direction of the incense case, this section of the road can be regarded as a frequent walk, and the distance and direction have long been memorized, so the subtle differences are more obvious.

This difference is not big, that is, the position of the desk is half a meter closer than his impression, he thought it had arrived, but he stretched out his hand but touched the air, the incense case is not the incense case in the Shen family ancestral hall now, the desktop is empty, not to mention, there is no ornamentation, and the feel is no different from the ordinary wooden table.

In addition, there is a point that makes him even more suspicious. Usually the ancestral hall will burn incense day and night, by his father personally every two hours to change the incense, the night is also uninterrupted, this rule heard that since the ancestral hall put the first tablet so far, there has never been a generation of interruption, hundreds of years of incense The smell of burning incense has long been immersed in this big house, and it will not disperse if it is not lit for a long time, but now, there is only mildew in the dark room in the south of the Yangtze River in this house.

Thinking of the scene in the courtyard, there was only one guess left in his heart, this may be the Shen Family Ancestral Hall, but it should not be the current Shen Family Ancestral Hall.

He also has a well-founded reason for thinking so, the system and appearance of this house are the same as reality, although the past and present scenes alternate in the Dark Sun Mirror, there is never anything unreasonable, so even if this is not the Shen family ancestral hall he is familiar with, it must be from a certain time in the past.

Yang Xian once said that many clansmen of the Shen family have been in the mirror for generations, and it is not strange that there is a time of time, as for this time, it is very likely that it is the time when the Gu family is broken.

Shen Shuyi lowered his eyes and pondered, more than three hundred years ago, how was the Shen family at that time? A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and the incense had not yet been lit in the ancestral hall, indicating that the tablet had not yet been released, that is, during the Wanli period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was only one person in the Shen family, Shen Lingxi.

The records in the ancestral home are complete since Shen Lingxi, but there is no record of him and his previous affairs. There are many Chinese families, many of which have a thousand-year-old heritage, but only the Shen family, which is only a few hundred years old, is still famous in the south of the Yangtze River.

What is the predecessor of the Shen family is already a big mystery, this mystery is not only unknown to outsiders, but also the Shen family itself does not know, the only record is that Shen Lingxi came to Quyun with his wife, and later slowly built the Shen family.

Shen Lingxi is not his real name, he once had the name "Lingxi Daoren", and built a family surnamed Shen, from which the name Shen Lingxi came from.

In other words, the man himself is a mystery!

Thinking of this, he was a little happy, if this ancestral hall was really what it looked like during the Wanli period, maybe these mysteries could be solved? Moreover, since the Gu family's incident happened when Shen Lingxi first arrived in Quyun, a reasonable explanation should be found here.

Shen Shuyi took out matches and candles from the cloth bag, and after lighting them, he impatiently observed the scene inside the ancestral hall. correct

As he imagined, it was extremely empty, except for two long tables on either side of the lobby, which were filled with white candles of uneven height.

When Shen Lingxi first built the Shen family, he could only afford to build this ancestral hall, and now the Shen family was built by his children and grandchildren who worked hard for two generations to buy land one after another.

Only this small candle was naturally not enough, he lit a few white waxes on both sides, and the lobby became bright, and he looked closely, and found that there was a tablet standing behind the incense case, but a white cloth was properly covered, and he could not see the name engraved.

He slowly approached and pulled down the white cloth, only to find that the tablet was blank and not engraved.

It is naturally strange to put a wordless tablet in the ancestral hall, especially this tablet is taken care of very cleanly, which should be very valued by Shen Lingxi, but it is a pity that after a hundred years, it is difficult to explore the deep meaning.

Shen Shuyi sighed slightly, re-covered the white cloth, and began to check the rest of the room.

Another thing worth seeing in the lobby was the four paintings hanging on the walls on both sides, which happened to be the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter at a glance, and he approached and looked at them one by one.

There are no inscriptions or seals on the four paintings, and the paper attached to the wall is also unframed, as if it was just a whim of the painter.

The first is a scene of early spring, there is a grass pavilion in the painting, the top of the pavilion is covered with snow sporadically, and there are several children of five or six years old standing in the pavilion, talking and laughing and playing, which is a happy and comfortable picture.

The second is the scene of the end of summer, the lotus flowers in the lake have bloomed, the lotus pods have been picked by the fishermen, two young people stand on the shore, one of them is carrying a burden, the other is only the back, it should be a parting scene.

The third is the scene of the early autumn, in the fiery red mountain forest, there is an open white umbrella placed between the blood color everywhere, the umbrella surface is painted with lifelike green bamboo, this is a picture in the picture, the white umbrella is not stained with blood at all, the painter may have a deep intention.

Finally, there is a scene of winter, in which many black figures stand in the snow, all holding torches in their hands, facing the top of the mountain in the distance, but the top of the mountain is empty, as if the author had forgotten to add the most crucial stroke.

The four paintings should be about the experience of the same person, and this person should be Shen Lingxi himself. In the first picture, it can be seen that he was once a member of a certain family, and then there must have been an accident, and the relatives gradually left, and this change killed everyone, only he ran away to the wilderness, but those people came to surround him in the snowy night.

He felt that what he wanted to express was probably like this, as for whether it was right or wrong and whether it was said or not, Shen Lingxi naturally had no way to prove it.

Shen Shuyi took the above content to heart and walked towards the back hall.

The layout of the Shen family ancestral hall, first of all, is the front and back halls, there is a compartment on each side of the front hall, on the left is the tea room, usually where you eat and sleep, etc., and on the right is the place where the magic weapons are stored.

There are two wings on the left side of the back hall, one for ancient books, the other for practice, and on the right side, it is the ghost room that Shen Shuyi has been holding in his heart.

The Shen family's magic is more related to ghosts, and there are often some ghosts that are caught by his father and may endanger ordinary people when they are not reincarnated, leaving these ghosts who have made mistakes is intended for him to practice Taoism.

The purpose of these rooms in the ancestral hall has been used to this day, so he crossed the two compartments in the front hall and went straight to the room in the back hall where the ancient books were stored on the left hand.

Pushing the door in, it was empty, there were only two books in the bookcase on the right wall, a table on the left, and a book spread out on the desk, and not counting the chair, but there were no other objects.

Shen Shuyi walked in, and there were two books on the shelf, one was "Zhou Yi", the other was a childlike picture book, and the table was spread out a "Water Scripture Note", and there were many small characters left by Shen Lingxi on it.

He flipped through the entire book, only to find that only these pages had been annotated, and the location mentioned above it should be near Shaanxi Province.

What was there about that place that caught Shen Lingxi's attention? Shen Shuyi wanted to get a little information from the annotations, but found that he didn't recognize the font on it at all, so he could only stare dryly.

Unable to give any information, he began to rummage through the drawer again, and finally found only a letter, signed "Xiao Youqing" on the envelope.

Shen Shuyi was shocked in his heart, among everyone today, there happens to be a family with the surname of 逄, and it happens to be located in Shaanxi!

Is this a coincidence? Unlikely, he believed that nine times out of ten it was the Xiao family, but this family was different from families like the Shen family, their livelihood for generations was tomb robbing!

There are only two possibilities for dealing with the Xiao family, one is to ask Shen Lingxi to help visit the tomb, and the other is the opposite, Shen Lingxi invites someone to rob the tomb. The "Notes on the Book of Water" is marked with the terrain of Shaanxi, and it is obvious that the former is more likely.

He opened the letter and looked at it, but found that there were only a few words on the paper, and the meaning of it made him even more confused:

"A hundred ghosts are gathered, and the golden silkworm will come out."

What is Hyakki? What does the golden silkworm refer to? What does this have to do with the Gu family? The Mirror Realm will never give him these clues in vain, but he can't understand the real meaning of these things for sure at the moment.

Putting the letter back in its place, Shen Shuyi thought of the next room to take a look, but he couldn't push the door, not because it was locked and couldn't be opened, but because it didn't move at all, as if it was nailed to the wall as a whole.

What does this mean? He was naturally puzzled, but after thinking about it, it became clear that there must be something unrelated to the Gu family's affairs inside, and the Stygian Mirror obviously didn't want him to know anything that had nothing to do with the appearance.