When I woke up the next morning, it was already past seven o'clock in the morning.

I moved my left leg, which had been numb while sleeping, and moved my body with some difficulty, and when I looked up, I saw that the pig's head had woken up and was packing up my things. And the Budai monk, the seventh master, and the second uncle were sitting cross-legged on the side and pranayama with their eyes closed.

I'm a person who doesn't know kung fu, but I don't know what pranayama is, but when I was a child, I meditated with my second uncle and felt that it was really good for my body. While thinking, I asked the pig's head: "What about Liang Ruoyi and the toad?" ”

"Oh, I've woken up a long time ago and gone to explore the way." The pig's head said without looking back.

I answered, rubbed my legs, and staggered to my feet, the wound on my back was a little torn, the medicine had passed, it was itchy and painful, and it was very unbearable.

"This operation is really strenuous......" I walked to the pig's head, watched him finish packing up his things, and prepared breakfast on the side, and complained: "I feel a little lost, why do I have to wade into this troubled water, otherwise, now I am sitting on the sofa, chatting and watching TV, doing a business is hundreds of thousands and millions, it is really not good to exorcise evil spirits, how can I suffer this crime!" ”

The pig's head sneered and glanced up at me: "Hey, seriously, I've been selling meat in Jinan for several years, and there are many rented college students in the surrounding community who are my old customers, and I like you college students!" ”

"Really?" I felt a sense of accomplishment in my heart, even though it was said by a pork seller who may have never been to school, but it was still very useful.

"Hey, hey!" I looked at the pig's head and asked, "Why do you like us college students?" Is there knowledge, quality, and culture? ”

"Hmph, almost!" The pig's head glanced at me again: "It's no money, no knowledge, and pretending to be forced!" ”

I was choked by these words, stared, didn't think of how to refute, reached out and patted the pig's head and fat ears on the head, got up and was just about to escape, when I saw Liang Ruoyi and the toad walking back, and hurriedly asked, "Hey, beauty, how is it?" ”

"Not good...... Liang Ruoyi looked bitter, shook his head, and walked over with the toad.

When the three of them heard that Liang Ruoyi was back, they also hurriedly came over and asked, "How is it?" ”

Liang Ruoyi didn't answer immediately, but took out the map from his bag and spread it on the ground: "You see, according to the map, our current location should be here, the shopkeeper of the Gu family crossed this line, this is where we came down, and here in the middle is the deep valley where we are now." And along these two lines to both sides, that is, on both sides of the deep valley, this is where the problem lies......"

Liang Ruoyi sighed again when he said this, and the toad on one side said: "Yes, the problem is that we explored both sides in the morning, but on both sides, it turned out to be a dead end......

"Dead end?!" Everyone's faces were shocked, and they all looked at the map: the lines on the map were based on the integration of the three maps of Han Jia, the Seventh Master and the Second Uncle, although there were more lines and some changes, but we could still clearly identify our location, as well as the road that extended to both sides.

But what Liang Ruoyi and Toad said that these two sides are dead ends, it really makes us embarrassed.

I pretended to glance at the second uncle inadvertently, and originally thought that the map that the second uncle got from the iron box could help us, but I didn't expect that the second uncle at this time also had a sad look on his face, his brows were furrowed, and he didn't seem to be able to think of any way at all.

There are dead ends on both sides, and dead ends in front and back, that is to say, this deep valley that we have worked so hard to come to is simply like a closed bathtub, and there are dead ends all around!

"What then?!" The pig's head stared at the eyes the size of a mung bean: "Then aren't we going to go back the way we came?" ”

"Hmm, don't worry." The seventh master frowned slightly: "Eat first, and think of a way while eating." This Nanpan Divine Palace has existed for thousands of years, and it is estimated that even the ancestor Liu Bang has not really found it, it must not be so easy, our direction should be correct, so, think about it again......"

Everyone's mood was a little low, and they were silent while eating: this operation can be said to be the most tiring one in more than a year, the goal was unclear at first, and then many people had to be thrown off, and there was such an episode in the middle of the mountain and the plains, and finally the place was determined by mistake, and the black python was encountered, followed by a deep valley of three hundred meters, and the road was bumpy and bumpy to come here, and the result was that he hit a dead end - anyone, but also a sulk.

I looked at the seventh master while eating, and saw that the seventh master was eating in his mouth, but his expression was a little absent-minded, looking at the sky blocked by the fog from time to time, and glancing at the cloth bag monk from time to time, and then looking at the surrounding environment, shaking his head, very funny.

Among those of us, he is the only one who is a master of dragon hunting, and if he can't find any clues, we really have to go back the same way.

Alas - I sighed inwardly, and it looked like I was going to start looking for a target again this time. When I finished eating, I leaned to the side and looked at the empty valley around me, the few trees that were sparse and not stout, and because of the faint mist in the air, the whole valley looked dim and gloomy.

"Hmm......" The seventh master was eating, and suddenly stopped chewing his mouth to chew food, and looked at the sides thoughtfully.

Everyone looked at him, who knew that after waiting for a few seconds, the seventh master didn't say a word, everyone looked at each other, sighed and continued to eat, but he didn't expect that as soon as he moved his mouth, the seventh master clapped his hands and greeted the pig's head: "Pig's head, take the thorn spoon!" ”

The pig's head was stunned for a moment, hurriedly responded, took out a small burlap bag from his backpack, opened it, and pulled out a thin iron tool inside.

I took a closer look, and immediately recognized that this was something that the old clam often used when exploring the burrow, the iron rod with the thickness of the fingers, telescopic, stretched and elongated, it was about three meters long, and I don't know how it was tempered, the tenacity was beyond imagination, the bottom end was very sharp, like a slender iron thorn, and there were two small hollows with strange shapes on both sides of the iron thorn, and when it was inserted into the ground and pulled out, it was able to bring out the soil inside.

When I first saw him, I also asked the old clam why the soil brought out was the deepest, not the surface soil that had just pierced in, and the old clam said that it was because of the weirdly shaped hollowout, with physics in it, according to the effect of pressure, the soil brought out was the deepest - of course, it is estimated that he only knew a little about the fur, anyway, I didn't understand the principle.

The Seventh Master paced, looked at the map, visually inspected both sides, seemed to be looking for a middle point, observed for a while, walked to a position and said: "Here, six feet down!" ”

The pig's head nodded, walked over with a small hammer in his hand, smashed the thorn spoon down, and when it was almost six feet, he slowly pulled it out, poured the soil inside into his hand, sniffed it, and then handed it to the seventh master.

The Seventh Master held the pinch of black dirt in his hand and pulled it down, sniffed it, and nodded: "It's almost here." ”

After that, the Seventh Master sprinkled the soil, walked forward along that point, walked to the opposite stone wall, and turned around: "If you guess correctly, this should be the momentum of heaven and earth, this side is the sky, this side is the earth, and the middle is the dust, the place where the Nanpan Shrine is located should be the left heaven and the right earth, standing in the dust, I have already said before that the power of the dragon veins here, judging from the location of this place, our way out should be here!" ”

The position that the Seventh Master was pointing to turned out to be the gray stone wall behind him.

"It's going to explode?!" I instinctively blurted out.

"Huh!" The seventh master shook his head with a smile: "Definitely, what I said is the general trend, not artificial." ”

"So, how do you get in?" I was stunned for a moment, and opened my mouth to ask.

"Dark Vein!" The pig's eyes suddenly lit up: "I know!" Seventh Master, you're talking about the dark vein, right? ”

The seventh master didn't seem to expect the pig's head to suddenly open up, he was stunned for a moment and nodded with a smile, and said approvingly: "That's right, you are about to become an apprentice." ”

I glanced at Liang Ruoyi on the side, in the previous actions of Xindao, this pig's head was a lot of tricks in front of me and Liang Ruoyi, usually there are seven masters, looking at this inconspicuous thing, I secretly don't know how much I have learned.

"What do you mean by a dark vein?" Liang Ruoyi was a little foggy while listening, and hurriedly asked.

"River, underground river?" The pig's head groaned for a few seconds, looked tentatively at the seventh master and asked.

The Seventh Master still nodded.

"So, you don't mean that little stream we walked in that hollow outside?!" Seeing that the seventh master nodded, the pig head frowned and asked rhetorically.

"That's right, that's it!" The seventh master was happy: "In the mountain recess outside, it burst out of the ground, and after a distance of seven or eight feet on the ground, it actually fell into the ground, which is an obvious trend of dark veins, and we ignored them all before." After that, in the cave, the stream has been flowing along the direction of the cave, which has already started, and the most important point, because the grass and flames of the cave have been ignored by us again - that is, after we ran out of the hole, we did not find the direction of the stream, and further on, it is the mountain wall that we climbed down yesterday, and it is obvious that the stream is in the hole, and unconsciously returned to the ground again, and it is a dark vein! ”

"Well, I seem to understand a little bit too." The second uncle, who had been listening carefully, nodded and said: "What the Seventh Master means is that this dark vein just coincides with the dragon vein of the general trend of heaven and earth in Yunshan, one bright and one dark, however, according to what you said before, although this place is a good place, it is not suitable for going down to the cave because of the impermanence of the sky." ”

"The shopkeeper is right." The Seventh Master's brows were completely relaxed: "So, as long as we find the dark veins of that small stream, we can continue to move forward!" ”