The two of them are facing east and west at the moment, the land temple is on the right side of the passage, it is built with gray bricks and stones, no more than five feet high, no more than three steps wide, and there is a mud tire of the land lord sitting inside, because of the age, and the cave is very damp, the mud tire has long been deformed, and the appearance of the land is no longer recognizable.

The Land Temple occupies half of the passage, and to the east it is still a rugged passage, which is not significantly different from the scenery outside the stone wall.

"Amitabha." Iron shoes rush to the land temple and chant Buddha, the land temple does not belong to Taoism, to be exact, they belong to Confucianism, and anyone who sees it can say hello out of etiquette.

Iron Shoes is very curious, but he doesn't always ask questions, because sometimes he can't find them at all, just take this place as an example, this land temple appears very strange, but he doesn't feel anything unusual.

Iron shoes can be careless, Zuo Dengfeng can't, at this moment he is frowning and looking at this land temple, the blue brick of the door frame of the land temple is engraved with handwriting, although there are spiders in the cave but they do not weave webs, there is no spider web to cover Zuo Dengfeng quickly recognized the pair on the door frame is "no monk wind sweeps the floor, less lights and moon lighting." ”

This is a common pair of land temples, this pair shows that the land temple was not built three thousand years ago, but only in the later period, and the age will not be earlier than the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the age of this pair is also in that period, in addition, the land temple is only worshiped by the Han people, which shows that the land temple was built by the Han people.

"Let's go." Iron Shoes urged, and at this time, Thirteen and the boss had already taken the lead in running to the front to open the way.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded, and then walked away, the builder of this land temple must have been the residents who lived here back then, and the intention was nothing more than to suppress evil spirits and keep them safe.

Chinese have the habit of holding Buddha's feet in battle, very lack of forward-looking thinking, closed eyes and confusion accounted for the majority, unless something happens, otherwise will not be prepared in advance, this land temple is built here must be because they encountered something, that is to say, there are monsters in this cave that they are afraid of.

"Master, hurry up, there may be a giant python in here." Zuo Dengfeng said to the iron shoes.

"Where?" Iron shoes look around to the left and right.

"I haven't seen it yet." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.

"Then how do you know there is a python?" Iron Shoes asked suspiciously.

"Guess." Zuo Dengfeng responded casually.

"I guess there are." Iron Shoes nodded when he heard this, his guess was a real guess, there was no basis, and Zuo Dengfeng's guess was actually an analysis of things, the land temple was built in the depths of the ground ten miles away from the exit, which showed that the poisonous insects in it had run out to harm people before this, so the people outside would invite people from the Daomen to kill it, and run so far to build a land temple here to suppress it, the passage that was ten miles long before was very narrow in many places, and it was difficult for animals with thick bodies and limbs to pass through, And even if the small animals go out, they can't harm people, only those large animals without limbs can go out and get to and from the cave smoothly, and the only large animals without limbs are snakes.

At this moment, the shouts of the thirteen and the boss came from the corner in front of them, and the shouts were not abnormal, and the two of them quickly followed when they heard the sound, and around the corner, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a spacious space appeared in front of the two of them.

The cave is not all narrow passages, there are also spacious areas, this two-mile radius area is high in the west and low in the east, half of the east side is immersed in water, and the place near the passage on the west side is higher and relatively flat, there are no stalagmites protruding from the ground, and the first thing the two of them found here was a huge animal skeleton, which was the skeleton of this animal that made Thirteen and the boss scream.

"Amitabha, it's really a snake." The iron shoes were the first to speak, the skeleton of this animal was three feet long, the time of death was not short, the skin and flesh had been rotted, according to the bones, there was no doubt that it was a snake.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, and turned to the area with water on the east side, what he was most afraid of was the appearance of this horseshoe-shaped terrain, but there was the appearance of this kind of terrain, the appearance of this terrain made his heart very heavy, to sneak underwater is one of the reasons, and another reason is that the funeral procession three thousand years ago could not pass through this terrain, that is to say, Ba Wang Ji Qian was not buried from here, whether this cave can lead to the tomb of Ba Wang is still unknown.

The waterhole occupies half of the area of the cave, there is a mile in a radius, the water is very clear, you can see the bottom at a glance, after making sure that there are no hidden monsters in the water, Zuo Dengfeng turned around and carefully looked at the skeleton of the snake.

The head of this snake is separated from the skeleton, which indicates that it was killed by someone who cut off its head, and the corpse showed a multi-knotted and orderly curve, with its head close to the waterhole and its tail behind, which shows that it was trying to escape into the waterhole but was chased and killed.

The head of this snake is not far from the skeleton, it is as big as a basin, and the upper and lower jaws have fangs, whether there are poisonous fangs or not is one of the criteria for judging whether a snake is a poisonous snake or a python, there is no doubt that this big snake is poisonous, it is not a python, but a snake.

The skull of this venomous snake is not quite the same as the common skull, with a bony protrusion like a crane top on the top of the head, and the eye sockets of this venomous snake are smaller than those of ordinary venomous snakes, which indicates that its vision has deteriorated, and overall this venomous snake is not much different from the common venomous snakes outside.

Even so, Zuo Dengfeng is still deeply worried about this, because the evolution process of reptiles is very slow, and their appearance generally does not change, but the appearance of this poisonous snake has changed, although it has not changed much, but it is enough to show that the ecological environment here is completely different from the outside world.

"Do you want to go into the water?" Iron Shoes asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, wait for me to take a closer look." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said, he is used to evaluating and speculating before acting, and he will never rush in stunned and be startled by what is inside.

Zuo Dengfeng carefully looked at the skeleton of this poisonous snake, and after careful observation, he found two strange phenomena, the first is that the chest cavity of this poisonous snake is very small, which indicates that the environment in which it lived before its death is scarce in food, and there is also a situation that makes him feel puzzled is that the tail of this snake is bald, but there are several small tailbones at the end of the corpse near the tail, there are two explanations for this situation, one is that it was born with this kind of bone, and the other is that its tail has a regenerative function.

Then Zuo Dengfeng stepped on the snake bone, trying to judge the approximate time of death by the crisping degree of the snake bone, but after getting off the foot, he found that the snake bone was extremely hard, Zuo Dengfeng squatted down and stretched out his hand to extend the aura and broke a section of the ribs of the poisonous snake, and found that the snake's bones were not empty, almost solid, which showed that it lived in the cave all year round, and the water in the cave contained a lot of calcium, making its bones extremely hard.

"Thirteen, come here." Zuo Dengfeng beckoned to Thirteen, and Thirteen ran over from the waterhole when he heard the words, and Iron Shoes also followed the boss with him under curiosity.

"Scratch it." Zuo Dengfeng handed the snake bone to Thirteen.

Thirteen immediately stretched out his red claws from the claw sheath and quickly scratched at the snake bone, and after grabbing it, the snake bone broke.

"Boss, grab it." Zuo Dengfeng broke a piece of snake bone again and handed it to the boss.

As the saying goes, things become good when they are old, although the boss looks funny, but it is one of the twelve earthly branches, it not only understands people's words, but its own strength is also strong, and the snake bone is also scratched by it after a claw.

This situation reassured Zuo Dengfeng, Thirteen and the boss were the pioneers of this trip, and whether they could restrain this large poisonous snake was directly related to the success or failure of this trip.

"Get in the water and see how far it is from here to the other side." Zuo Dengfeng pointed to the waterhole and gave an order to the boss.

"It's so dangerous here, you let it go into the water." Iron Shoes frowned and looked at the left peak.

"Master, don't underestimate the boss, it is the water branch of the earth, and in the water it is the overlord." Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand and spoke.

Iron Shoes wanted to say something when he heard this, but the boss had already quickly run to the waterhole and got in, and Iron Shoes hurriedly ran to the water's edge and looked down nervously.

Zuo Dengfeng then returned to the water's edge, but he did not look into the water, but slowly opened the skull of the poisonous snake, the crane top-shaped bulge above the snake's head was empty, Zuo Dengfeng pondered for a long time to understand the effect of this bulge, the bone bulge is directly connected to the nasal cavity, which can store a certain amount of oxygen, this mutation allows this poisonous snake to lurk in the water for a longer time without showing its head to breathe.

It didn't take long for the boss to come back, and after going ashore, he cooed and shouted, this was to invite merit to the iron shoes, and also to show off to Thirteen, who glanced at the boss when he heard the sound, and turned his head to look away.

"Master, this place is not far from the other side, wrap your clothes in linoleum, and prepare to dive over." Zuo Dengfeng said to the iron shoes.

Iron Shoes knew that he would not be able to get off this level sooner or later, so he quickly took off the new single clothes that Zuo Dengfeng bought for him, and the things in the wooden box of the two had been wrapped before this, and there was no need to wrap them again.

"Your robe has cotton, and it sinks when it gets wet." Iron shoes remind the left to ascend to the peak.

Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, and quickly opened the skull of the snake's head, he wanted to determine the brain capacity of this poisonous snake, the size of the brain capacity is roughly proportional to the degree of intelligence, and the brain of this poisonous snake is small and pitiful, which means that it is very stupid.

It stands to reason that Zuo Dengfeng should be happy to find that his opponent is stupid, but he didn't feel happy at all, on the contrary, he was very worried, the smart opponent would dodge after being hit, and if this kind of poisonous snake was stupid enough not to know that it was afraid, it would be troublesome.

After sighing, Zuo Dengfeng threw away the snake's head, quickly took off his robe, and immediately went into the water after getting ready, the more hesitant he was in this environment, the more scared he became.

The pool water is very cool, the visibility in the water is very good, the two began to dive after inhaling, the boss took the lead in swimming ahead, although the thirteen is like a cat but not a cat, it is also very flexible in the water, but compared with the boss is still a lot inferior, it has no webbing between its paws, and the speed alone is down.

Dive a few meters, there is a waterway in front, the waterway is not long, only less than two zhang, the two quickly swam over, and when they floated, they found that the hole above was very small, only a foot wide and narrow, the boss took the lead in drilling out, thirteen followed, Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand to widen the hole and followed, the iron shoes last.

After surfacing the water, a rugged and narrow passage appeared in front of him, and there were a few small reptiles in the passage, these animals were extremely strange-looking, and they quickly fled into the depths of the cave after being chased by Thirteen and the Boss.

"What's wrong?" The iron shoes finally surfaced, and when he saw Zuo Dengfeng, he asked with an ugly face.

"The animals here are all moving fast and weird-looking, and I don't know any of them." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.

"You don't even know the tortoise." Iron Shoes pointed to a slowly crawling turtle in the cave.

"That's what I know." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and smiled bitterly.

As soon as Zuo Dengfeng's words fell, the shouts of Thirteen and the Boss came from the front, this time the shouts were eager and angry, and it was obvious that they had met a strong opponent......