Liu Shangang came over and said to me, "Is the entrance to Baiwu Mountain in the canyon?" ”

This was his first visit to Baiwu Mountain.

I nodded, and Liu Shangang said again: "This place is under martial law, and there are at least twenty people guarding the canyon. ”

I asked Liu Shangang, "What kind of clothes are they wearing?" Is it a white robe, some robes have lines, some don't. ”

Liu Shangang glanced into the canyon again, and asked me with some surprise: "Can you see the style of their clothes?" ”

I said no, I couldn't even see the people in the canyon.

Liu Shangang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I said it." I can't even see things clearly, how can you see clearly. ”

Just now I was still thinking, if all the people guarding the canyon are the disciples of Baiwu Mountain, things will be easier to do, if it is someone else, it means that Baiwu Mountain is likely to be completely occupied by outsiders today, even if we control Zhao Dekai, we can't control these outsiders who don't belong to the major clans.

I sighed and asked Yan Xiaotian again, "Have you contacted Old Man Wei?" ”

Yan Xiaotian nodded: "After contacting, he should spread the news of Yi Qingping's death." ”

In other words, Zhao Dekai will soon know that Yi Qingping is dead.

I realized that I couldn't afford to delay any longer, so I patted Liu Shangang on the shoulder and raised my chin in the direction of the canyon, and Liu Shangang immediately understood, he got up from the dirt bag, and swooped down to the other side of the canyon without a sound.

Liu Shangang's footwork was fast and light, and like a swift ape, he disappeared into the gray environment in just a few seconds.

Little by little, the red of the sky first became brighter, then orange and golden, until the sun rose and the loess slope receded from its gray blue, and returned to its former golden yellow.

The canyon was illuminated, and I could finally see the people guarding along the rim of the canyon, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I saw that they were all dressed in white.

The sun is getting higher and higher, and the light is getting brighter and brighter, but I have never found any trace of Liu Shangang.

It wasn't until two hours later that Liu Shangang somehow emerged from the left side of the dirt bag, and he bent over, and like a gust of wind, he returned to me, put a big black bag on the ground, and said to me, "Change your clothes quickly." ”

When I came to Baiwu Mountain some time ago, I saw two people wearing the same clothes escorting a hall master surnamed Wang from the entrance of the Golden Fire Hall.

I picked the biggest one of these clothes and kept it for myself, and asked Liu Shangang, "Where did you get these clothes?" ”

Liu Shangang sighed: "I just remembered when I went down the mountain bag just now, and you haven't told me where the gate of Baiwu Mountain is." Alas, I wanted to come back and ask you, but at this moment I saw some men in white robes pulling something from a hole at the end of the canyon, and I thought something might be wrong here, so I stayed in the dark and watched for a while, and before long I saw them pull out of the cave five or six men in black robes. ”

Yan Xiaotian interjected: "And then you robbed those people's clothes?" ”

Liu Shangang nodded, and said to me again: "I think, those people in white clothes seem to know each other very well, if we change into white robes, they will be recognized if we don't say it." But those who wore black ignored those who wore white, and the two groups should not have much intersection. ”

While Liu Shangang was speaking, I had already taken off my coat and put the black Taoist coat on my body.

To be honest, the dress was still a little smaller, and I wore it on my body, and I felt very tight in my chest and arms.

After the others finished changing their clothes, Liu Shangang led us into the canyon from a path on the left side of the dirt bag, and when we were about to reach the canyon, Liu Shangang told everyone not to talk much, and when the man in black came out of the end of the canyon just now, he didn't talk to those people in white.

In addition, he reminds us to keep a proud face.

Worried that Yan Xiaotian's identity would be discovered by his fellow disciples, Liu Shangang took out a fisherman's hat from his backpack and asked him to wear it.

By the way, in 0304, the bucket hat seemed to be quite popular.

Walking in the canyon, flanked by Baiwu Mountain Gate people wearing white Taoist clothes, I noticed that when we walked in front of them, they didn't look at us at all, and some of the people with dark tattoos on their clothes even showed impatient expressions.

It seems that the relationship between the disciples of Baiwu Mountain and these outsiders brought in by Zhao Dekai is not harmonious.

When we came to the end of the canyon, we saw a round hole more than one meter wide, which was not where the gate of Baiwu Mountain was located, and the gate should be on the mountain wall on our left.

I had heard the old master say before that Zhao Dekai had made holes in the ground for those outsiders to enter the main altar in order to avoid the fierce gods. And I remember that the last time we came, the end of the canyon was a flat loess, and there was no such hole at all.

We came to the edge of the cave with our front feet, and then a man in a white Taoist robe came up and handed us a steel cable.

We grabbed the steel cable and entered the vertical hole, and after a few minutes of shaking, we finally landed on both feet and came to the main altar of Baiwu Mountain again.

At this time, we were located on the diagonal of the Golden Fire Hall and the Hundred Refining Hall, and when I descended from the height just now, I could easily look down on the whole picture of the two halls.

The last time I came to Baiwu Mountain, the hall of the Golden Fire Hall was in danger of collapsing, and now the roof at the entrance of the hall has been completely dented, and the tiles are falling everywhere, and the hall master of the Golden Fire Hall is not knowing where to go.

On the other hand, Zhao Dekai's Bailian Hall is more magnificent than the last time, but I can't hear the laughter and scolding like last time, although the building is still wrapped in vulgar lanterns, showing a kind of luxury full of bad taste, but at this time it is as quiet as the rest of Baiwu Mountain.

As soon as we landed, we were greeted by several other men in black robes, all of whom looked relieved when they saw us.

One of them, who looked like a little boss, came up to me and said with a smile, "You're here." ”

He acted as if he knew me well, but I was sure that I had never met this person.

I nodded at him and didn't speak.

He asked me again, "What is the situation on Mr. Jiang's side now?" ”

What is a situation? I didn't understand what he meant at all, but said vaguely, "Still like that." ”

The other party sighed, shook his head again, and then climbed the rope with a few people behind him.

It wasn't until the figures of these people disappeared into the darkness overhead that Liang Houzai whispered to me: "It seems that these outsiders are different from the people of Baiwu Mountain Gate, they should be a group of people who have been put together temporarily, and they don't know each other. ”

I nodded and said, "Listening to what the person just said, there should be a group of people rushing over from Jiang Bin's side now, and this group of people is going to hand over to them." ”

Liang Houzai: "Alas, it seems that we are running out of time, if these two groups meet halfway, we will be exposed." ”

I glanced towards the brightly lit entrance of the Hundred Refining Hall, although it was quiet, it did not mean that there was no one on the other side of the hall, on the contrary, under the light, I saw many people in black robes patrolling back and forth near the entrance of the hall.

I feel that these people are not here to protect Bailian Hall, the purpose of their parade here is to spy on Zhao Dekai.

Liu Shangang also stared at Bailian Hall for a while, and then shook his head helplessly: "No, there are too many whistles, and they are all mobile whistles, and they don't leak." If we want to get in, we can only fight our way out. ”

What are you kidding, fight your way out? At this time, there were at least fifty people at the entrance of the Hundred Refining Hall, and there were six people on our side. As long as we dare to rush, these people will immediately surround us.

Just when I was thinking about whether to go over and talk to these people first and feel the situation, Yan Xiaotian beckoned to everyone and said, "I know a secret way, come with me." ”

As he spoke, he walked into an ancient building on the side of the road.

This is also a very dilapidated old building, but the other old buildings in Baiwu Mountain are relatively dry, but this building is extremely damp, and as soon as you enter the door, you can smell a strong musty smell.

Yan Xiaotian said that there is a passage under the building, which connects to one of the largest water houses in Baiwu Mountain, but these water houses have not been used for many years, so few people know about them.

I asked Yan Xiaotian what a water room was, but Yan Xiaotian didn't answer me.

Due to the perennial dampness of this passage and the lack of necessary maintenance, there is a section of the road wall that has a lot of damage, and these road walls are built with large stones one meter square, and the reason for the damage is that the stones at the bottom have become very fragile due to perennial moisture, and they cannot bear the weight of the upper stone bricks, and are fractured and crushed.

Yan Xiaotian once secretly came here to play when he was a child, and accidentally found that several stone bricks on the road wall had been completely shattered, forming two square holes one meter wide and nearly one meter high, at the other end of the hole, there was an earthen wall with a thickness of only about one foot, and on the other side of the earthen wall was the cellar used by the Bailian Hall to store food.

I was curious how Yan Xiaotian knew that the earthen wall was only one foot thick, and how did he know that the other side of the earthen wall was the cellar of the Hundred Refining Hall.

Yan Xiaotian just smiled embarrassedly at this question, and didn't explain it to me, so I didn't ask more.

But why would he be embarrassed?

Yan Xiaotian led us to the location of the square hole, and Liu Shangang and I used a pickaxe and a sapper shovel to make a hole in the earth wall that was large enough for one person to walk through.

In order to open such a hole, we spent a full two hours, in fact, it is very cost-effective, in case the people who met us just now met the person who handed over the shift, now Zhao Dekai may have learned in advance that there are unknown people mixed into the Baiwu Mountain General Altar, so as to be more vigilant.

But in any case, it is much more reliable to take such a path than to assault the main gate of the Hundred Refining Hall.

We entered the cellar through the breach, only to find that it had long been abandoned, with no food in it, only a few rusty iron shelves.

The iron door of the cellar was also corroded and became very fragile, and Liu Shangang only gently pushed the door panel with his hand, and the metal door panel broke off from the middle, and scattered rust stains were splashed everywhere.

I looked at the broken iron door and gave Yan Xiaotian another puzzled look.

I don't understand how the contents of this cellar could rot to such an extent.

Yan Xiaotian spread his hands and whispered to me, "Everything in Baiwu Mountain is like this. ”

With that, he lightly removed the remaining panels and led us away to a stone staircase that spiraled upwards.