Hearing Wu Feng's question, the white-haired old man's eyes immediately had a look of silence, he removed his eyes from Wu Feng's body, and looked at a swarthy hole in the distance, as if recalling the past, and only said lightly after a long time: "This matter is a long story, since the old man began to cultivate the Tao at the age of nineteen, he studied the Taoist scriptures every day, and worked hard to cultivate, and at the age of forty-nine, he came to Juqu Mountain to create a line of Maoshan Mountain, teaching apprentices and passing on arts, and helping the surrounding people to cure diseases; With the passage of time, decades have passed in a flash, the old man has been cultivating all his life, seeing that he is about to come to the end of his life, but he can't find the way to immortality, he is really unwilling, people like us who cultivate the Tao, exhaust the strength of their lives, it is nothing more than the pursuit of immortality and feathering into immortals. 56 At that time, seeing that the old man's limit was approaching, he would soon die in the world, as the saying goes, people die like lights go out, after swallowing the last breath, the old man's skin will be like ordinary people, turning into dust, and there will be no more me in the world! ”

Speaking of this, the white-haired old man paused, slowly closed his eyes, and waited for a while before he continued: "In this life, the old man has studied the Tao Law very deeply, especially the study of corpses, especially how to control corpses, and how to make corpses into eighteen different types, what each kind of corpse will look like after transformation, and under what conditions it needs to be generated. To put it mildly, although the old man has been cultivating all his life, he still can't see through life and death, and the old man is also afraid of death, just like everyone is afraid of death, just when the old man expected that he would die soon, he secretly left Juqu Mountain and looked for this secret place, this place is halfway up the cliff, ordinary people can't find this place at all, and the old man also found this place when he was looking for medicinal herbs by chance.

After the old man came to this place, in order not to let other people disturb the old man, he planted a plant all over this cliff, called "ghost hand vine", this plant is a kind of man-eating grass that the old man found from the Western Regions, this plant usually looks no different from ordinary vines, but when it encounters living creatures, it will be attracted by the breath of living creatures, and the whole body will dance, wrapping around the bodies of those living creatures, and then barbs will quickly grow on their stems. Piercing into the bodies of living creatures and sucking their blood, eventually sucking them completely into a skin. This cave is covered with this "ghost hand vine" and some other plants, and I don't know how many years the old man has been waiting for him. There are still some big white rats living in this cave, you must have seen it, when the old man came here, the size of these rats is not as big as you see now, since the old man came, the ghost hand vine often preys on some living creatures near the cliff and at the bottom of the cliff, they generally drag these living creatures to this cave, after sucking the blood, those rats will come out to eat the corpses that have been sucked dry by the ghost hand vine, and over time, the size of these big white mice is getting bigger and bigger, Some of them eventually grew to the size of calves. With these white-haired rats, it can be regarded as a barrier into the cave, and the old man didn't care about them anymore, but after a while, he let the two big bats around the old man catch a few and eat them. ”