I haven't been to Genting Mountain, our village used to walk dozens of miles, and the mountains are treacherous and full of cliffs, the mountain is foggy and humid, the visibility is low and easy to get lost, there are a lot of poisonous snakes and beasts, and there is a terrifying ghost cottage, who is full of food to go there? Except for a very small number of people who collect medicine and hunt, ordinary people generally do not go, and they are even more unique when they climb to the top of the mountain.

Master said, "Your great-master just went to Genting Mountain and never returned. Back then, he told my father that he was looking for the dragon vein, but he had explained everything that should be explained, and he was obviously preparing to go and not return. The so-called dragon vein does not refer to the real dragon vein, but it is just a synonym for the treasure land of feng shui, why did he put his life into it for a cemetery? So I suspect there's something else going on. Later, my father went to look for it a few times, and I went to look for it a few times, and I basically searched for all the places I could reach, and there were no clues...... at all."

"And what about the Ghost Cottage?"

Master's face immediately changed: "He won't be inside, so you definitely don't come close, and if you can't do it, don't go." ”

"Well, I promise not to come close!" I replied in the affirmative, but I only promised not to come close, I would walk in directly, "Master, I promise not to approach, at least you should tell me the story of the ghost cottage, right?" ”

Master probably felt that the words were clear, and that I would not take the risk if my curiosity was dispelled, so he nodded: "Let me start at the beginning." There is a large rift valley under the cliffs on the north side of Genting Mountain, which is narrow and slender, called the Snake Intestine Valley, which is not easy to see from the outside. I don't know when the people in the snake intestine valley began to live, these people rarely went down the mountain, never harassed the nearby villages, and occasionally some hunters and herbs approached only to be stopped by them and persuaded to turn back, and no one knew who they were. ”

While sorting out his memories, Master said: "In the thirties and forties, the world was in turmoil, warlords, robbers and bandits were rampant, and there was a legend that the people in the snake intestine valley of Genting Mountain were the remnants of the previous dynasty and may have guarded the treasures, so some warlords and bandits began to fight their ideas, and the result was that without exception, there was no return. The terrain there is very treacherous, a man is not open, the number of people can not take advantage, the cannon can not be lifted, and the legend that the people in it are all invulnerable, can not be killed at all, in the most serious years of bandits and ruffians, no one near Yunding Mountain dared to occupy the mountain as the king. ”

I was fascinated: "These people are really good! ”

Master continued, "After liberation, the bandits in various places were either exterminated or recruited, and they disappeared, and those people continued to live in them. I went to Genting Mountain to look for my grandfather several times to no avail, and I thought that there might be clues in the Snake Intestine Valley, so I quietly approached, but before I could go in, they politely 'invited' out, and then I went up the mountain to avoid them from a distance. ”

I hurriedly asked, "How do they treat you, and how good are they?" ”

"Their martial arts are so high that they can only be described as unfathomable, they are simply knights in ancient legends, and their formations are very powerful, I was initially trapped by the formation, and then look at the skills shown by others, can I leave without knowing the fun?"

After all, this matter was a bit embarrassing, so Master didn't want to say more, so I asked, "What about those people later?" ”

"About fifteen years ago, I heard from a man who collected medicine that there was no smoke in the Snake Intestine Valley, but I saw a ghost in broad daylight. I'm afraid of martial arts masters, but I'm not afraid of ghosts, I think the opportunity has come, so I rushed to take a look, but I didn't even enter the snake intestine valley when I encountered a ghost hitting the wall...... Even I'm fascinated, do you think how powerful these ghosts are? ”

There are people who have cultivated with full yang energy, strong spirits, and strong will, and ordinary ghosts avoid them for fear and dare not get close at all. However, there are exceptions, such as the big camphor tree incident, where I, Master, and dozens of villagers went out from the west side of the village and came back from the east side for some reason, and later Master and I were fascinated by the camel again, so I don't think it is a big deal for Master to encounter a ghost hitting the wall.

The master wiped a handful of non-existent cold sweat: "I finally broke the ghost wall, but I was surrounded by dozens of ghosts, these ghosts gathered yin qi into a fog, appeared in the daytime, and the naked eye could see it, this simply exceeded the boundary of ghosts, and it can no longer be called ghosts." Thankfully, I didn't attack them recklessly, and some of them probably knew me, so they eventually got out of the way and let me go......"

Ghosts can appear in the daytime, which is a bit unreasonable, I asked, "Ghosts are the people who used to be in the Snake Intestine Valley, how can they become so powerful?" ”

Master shook his head a little dazedly: "I don't know, according to my guess, there are two possibilities: first, somewhere in the Snake Intestine Valley is a natural Yin Gathering Land or Yin Gathering Array, or even the more evil Taiyin Jedi, the people in it will not disperse after death, and they will be nourished by Yin Qi and become particularly strong ghosts; Second, there are masters in the Snake Intestine Valley, who have laid some kind of formation or some kind of curse, and the ghosts of the dead have not disappeared and evolved and mutated. Whatever the reason, it's only going to get scary. ”

"So do you know who killed them? How could they all die with such high martial arts? ”

The master still shook his head: "I don't know, I've been paying attention to inquiring about and collecting snake intestine valleys, and that's all I know." The world has spread false rumors that bandits used to live in the valley of the snake intestines, but in fact they have never robbed and cannot be called bandits. Born as a hero, died as a ghost, they are all amazing people no matter what, but now they are a veritable ghost cottage! ”

It seems to be a group of fierce ghosts who know martial arts, and I am so curious in my heart, but I didn't show it on my face, otherwise Master would not let me go.

Master said, "I have searched all the places that ordinary people can reach, but I have not seen people alive or dead, there are some cliffs that I cannot climb, and there are some deep caves that I have not explored to the end. Now what you have to do is to go with your second master, he is the most experienced in climbing the cliff and going down the cave, and he has explored many caves deeper than me. ”

I have long heard the second master Lao Linzi say that there are a large number of natural caves in Yunding Mountain, such as cold caves, hot caves, wind caves, well caves, bat caves, etc., most of these names were taken by Lao Lin himself. When he was in his twenties, he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and his curiosity was extremely strong, and he heard rumors that there were ancient treasures in the deep caves of Genting Mountain, so he looked for them one by one, but many caves were unfathomable, and in the end he could not reach the bottom.

When I left Master's house, I felt a little excited, but at the same time, I also felt a faint uneasiness, Master's illness might be more serious, otherwise he would not have entrusted me with such a dangerous and difficult task as finding Great Master. I'm twenty-three years old now, seven years away from the thirty-year-old Kan, and the yin and yang technique has not yet been practiced, so he is in a hurry to ask me to find my great-master.

I want to dig up all the secrets that Master won't tell me, but not at the expense of Master's health, and if I have one of the two, I'd rather not know anything, as long as Master is healthy and lives a long life. In any case, I will pay more attention to his condition in the future and forcibly send him to the hospital if necessary.

Lao Lin has always been uncertain, but recently they are all in our village, mixed with Wu Zhangya, the two often run to Xianyan, looking for the boiling stone Taoist to study something, every time I ask them, they are mysterious and refuse to say.

When I arrived at Wu Zhangya's house, I bumped into Wu Zhangya's mother-in-law head-on, this woman always had a straight face, as if I owed her 800 yuan. I really don't understand how Wu Zhangya, who reads poetry and books and is proficient in medical science, could marry an ugly and fierce yellow-faced woman, but their family's affairs are all handled by this yellow-faced woman, Wu Zhangya often runs out, so it's no wonder that the yellow-faced woman straightens up when she sees someone looking for him.

The yellow-faced woman said that Wu Zhangya and Lao Lin were hiding in the room, I went over to knock on the door, and as soon as the door was opened, a puff of smoke rushed out, and the two big men looked panicked, as if they had done something wrong.

I looked strange: "Second Master, Uncle Wu, you hide in the house in the middle of the day and close the door so tightly, what kind of adultery is there?" ”

"Rape you, looking for a beating!" Lao Lin jumped over and pretended to beat me.

"Don't talk nonsense, we are psychologically normal, clean and self-loving, where there will be any adultery." Wu Zhangya said seriously.

I smiled strangely and said: "When I say adultery, I mean something that is dark and dare not see the light, Uncle Wu, you are so nervous, could it be that there are no three hundred taels of silver here?" ”

At this time, Wu Zhangya also went berserk, picked up a pack of "friendship" and threw it at me......

Lao Lin scolded, and then asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Master told me to go to Genting Mountain with you."

Lao Lin and Wu Zhangya were shocked and asked in surprise, "How did you (Master) know that we were going to Genting Mountain to collect medicine?" ”

I immediately used the magic stick method passed on by my master, and pretended to be profound: "What's strange about this, my master will know it by calculating a hexagram." ”

The two were really stunned, and Lao Lin asked, "What are you going to do with you?" ”

I was worried that Lao Lin would not help me find Master Zeng, and I was also worried that he would not go to the Fierce Ghost Cottage with me, so I didn't tell the truth, but only said that I was going to learn herbal medicine with them.

I set off early the next morning, because Lao Lin and Wu Zhangya went with me, so my mother didn't worry too much.

Lao Lin and Wu Zhangya both carried a big bamboo basket, of course, medicine hoes, fire guns, daggers and the like, this time it will take at least two or three days, and they will spend the night in the wild, so they should also bring sleeping bags, dry food, water bottles, etc. In addition, they had to climb the deep stream under the cliff, ropes, iron hooks, belts, flashlights, etc., which were also essential, adding up to almost filling their two large bamboo baskets.

I carry less things, I don't have to worry about everything when I follow Lao Lin up the mountain, I have hunted with him a few times before, just be a fart. I have all the props I need to use to cast the spell neatly, such as the psychic god wood seal, the peach wood sword, the willow bow and peach arrow, the stinger dagger, and the Kunpeng mirror are all in the backpack. The psychic god wood seal is carved from the heart of the demonized camphor tree, and there are two seals on it: "psychic"; The Kunpeng mirror is the ancient mirror picked up from the camel cave, I don't know the origin and use, because there is a pattern of Kunhua Peng on the back, so it is tentatively called the Kunpeng mirror. I have studied this ancient mirror for a long time, and I have found no other use except for its strong metallic spiritual power.