In order to prevent the further spread of the plague, the surviving villagers of several villages united and built two huge crematoriums on this hill to incinerate those who died due to the plague, and this hill was also named the crematorium.

Later, although the plague slowly subsided, the nearby villagers would still send some people who died of strange diseases to be incinerated, and some villagers would also send their deceased relatives here to be buried and erected, and over time, this place became a large cemetery, and the collapsed tomb mentioned by the chief of the guard was one of them.

After listening to the words of the chief guard, Chi Muyan asked again, "Do you know which family the collapsed tomb belongs to?"

The head of the guard shook his head, "That family has been moving to the desert for many years, and that tomb was also erected decades ago, and I have never seen anyone from that family come back to the grave for so many years, and that kind of red monster has frequently appeared in the village in the past two days, so even if someone is curious, they don't dare to go down to check the situation inside." ”

Chi Muyan nodded after hearing this, and asked the bamboo forest guards to go back to the village first to help the villagers rebuild their houses and courtyards, and he took Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan to the crematorium post.

The crematorium was very close to the dry well, and the speed of the cloud lion quickly reached the destination, and at this time, there happened to be a middle-aged couple burning paper money in front of the crematorium, and the three of Chi Muyan walked towards them.

When they approached, the couple happened to burn the paper money in their hands and got up to leave, but they were stopped by three strangers.

Chi Muyan put on his innocent young smile again, and asked the couple: "Two big brothers and sisters, please go slowly, I want to ask the two of you, do you know where the tomb that collapsed two days ago near here is?"

The middle-aged couple's faces suddenly changed when they heard this, and the woman grabbed Chi Muyan's cuffs and dissuaded: "This son is the descendant of that family?" If not, don't go to death because of curiosity, yesterday there was a young man in our village who went down to the big pit that collapsed out of the tomb because of curiosity, and when he went in, he was still a good living person, and when he came out, he was like having lost his mind, and told others everywhere that he saw a big monster in the hole, and others didn't believe it, so he opened his mouth and bit people, and someone found him dead at home early this morning, and the people in the village said that it was because the yin qi in the tomb was too heavy, and he must have been evil in it. ”

After hearing this, Chi Muyan smiled lightly at the woman, and pulled Hong Shiyan beside him, "This eldest sister, my brother is the descendant of that family, and this time I heard that the tomb of my ancestors collapsed, so I made a special trip back to repair it." After speaking, seeing that Hong Shiyan hadn't reacted, he quietly stretched out his hand behind Hong Shiyan and pinched his waist.

Hong Shiyan felt pain in his waist, and then he realized what Chi Muyan meant, and hurriedly nodded in response: "Yes, yes, I'm here to repair it." ”

The woman hesitated slightly, then pointed out the general direction to the southeast, and repeatedly told them to be careful.

The three men thanked the woman, and walked in the direction she had pointed, and the nearer they got to the graves on either side, the more they grew, and when they had gone some distance they saw the great crater that had collapsed.

Chi Muyan walked to the pit, picked up the staff and threw a lighting ball of light into the pit, the ball of light slowly fell all the way, and finally touched the bottom of the pit, the three of them were surprised to find that there was actually a rotating stone ladder carved out along the pit wall in the collapsed grave, all the way to the bottom of the pit, the three exchanged glances, nodded in unison, and decided to go down to find out.

It was still the formation of Chi Muyan heading, and the three of them walked down the rotating stone staircase layer by layer. After going down to the bottom floor, the three of them found that at the end of the stone staircase, there was indeed a pitch-black road leading to nowhere, but it was much wider than the one that Chi Muyan and the others had encountered before.

The three of them stood at the entrance of the corridor, and Chi Muyan threw a ball of lighting light inside, and after the ball of light rolled out of the corridor for a distance, it was quietly extinguished. At this moment, a cloud of black gas suddenly came out of the corridor, and the black scar on Hong Shiyan's back began to hurt hotly.

Chi Muyan hurriedly asked Hong Shiyan to take off his shirt to check his scar, only to see that the long black scar on his back seemed to echo with the black qi in this corridor, beating like a pulse, Chi Muyan looked at his expression distorted with pain, and fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

Chi Muyan's heart tightened, knowing that it was not appropriate to let Hong Shiyan get close to here again, so he asked Hong Jiu'er to accompany Hong Shiyan back to the top of the tomb to wait for him, and walked into the pitch-black corridor alone.

The black gas was still overflowing in the corridor, Chi Muyan held the staff all the way to disperse it, and after walking out for a while, Chi Muyan suddenly heard the wheezing sound of a large beast coming from the corridor, so he quickly extinguished the light on the staff, put one hand on the inner wall of the corridor, and quietly touched it following the sound.

The more he walked in, the clearer the sound became, and Chi Muyan was sure that he had not entered the fork in the road, and after a while, a bronze gate appeared in front of the road, and the door was not all closed, but there was a gap, and there was still a fire faintly shining inside.

Chi Muyan leaned over lightly, leaned in against the crack in the door, and saw a woman in purple in the bronze gate holding a torch and looking down at something, Chi Muyan followed the woman's gaze and found that there was a cloud of black smoke squirming under the woman's feet, and in front of the black fog was a mountain of phantom grass, and this black mist was like a living thing that was constantly squirming forward to devour those phantom grasses.

Although Chi Muyan was very surprised in his heart, in order not to expose himself, he just continued to watch quietly. After the black mist swallowed some of the phantom grass, it seemed to be more energetic, and the devouring speed was greatly accelerated, and after a while, it ate the phantom grass that was piled up all over the cave, and then seemed to squirm around the cave with unfinished thoughts, and finally suddenly jumped up and attacked the woman in purple.

Chi Muyan was shocked when she saw it, but the woman in purple was not frightened, she had already expected to insert the torch in her hand into a hole in the inner wall of the cave, and then actually opened her hands to grab the black mist, the black mist struggled in her hands, and made that sound like a beast gasping, but the woman did not let go, but kneaded and squeezed the black mist with both hands with great force, and finally kneaded the black mist into a black pill. After that, the woman put the pill in her hand and looked at it, as if she was not satisfied with the size of the pill, and put the pill in the palm of her hand and pinched it hard, the pill immediately shrunk, the woman glanced at the black pill, determined the size that she was satisfied with, put the pill into the medicine gourd hanging from her waist, and then opened a portal and walked in.

After Chi Muyan waited for the woman to leave, he immediately entered the bronze gate, walked to the direction where the woman opened the portal and used tracking techniques to explore the woman's whereabouts, and finally found that the other side of the portal was in the southeast corner of the Royal Dragon Forest, and there was the location of the branch of the Horn Invasion Regiment.

The Horn Regiment was originally an organization in the desert region that made a living by robbing past caravans, but the branch in the Royal Dragon Forest area colluded with the Dark Guild, which has always been a big problem for the chambers of commerce and the people in the Royal Dragon Forest area, and at this time, it involved the water demon, Chi Muyan could only shake his head and sigh, this is really a good thing, and a lot of bad things.

When Chi Muyan was thinking about whether to go over with him to find out, he suddenly heard Hong Jiu'er's shout faintly coming from outside the cave, "Chi Muyan, Chi Muyan, come out and see what is going on with the big rock!"

Chi Muyan's face changed, and he hurriedly rushed out of the cave, at this time the black gas in the corridor had dissipated, and Chi Muyan rushed all the way to the rotating stone ladder, directly stepping vertically on the edge of the stone ladder, and jumped up.

As soon as Chi Muyan landed and stood firmly, he saw Hong Shiyan slumped to the ground, the expression on his face was also distorted by pain, the long black scar behind his back was spreading on his back like countless thin snakes, and Hong Jiu'er beside him was purifying him with a faint white light, while shouting to Chi Muyan for help in the tomb.

When Chi Muyan was practicing in Lingjian Mountain, he knew that Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan were not good at spells, so he hurriedly walked up to the front and raised his staff, and the dazzling white light suddenly shrouded Hong Shiyan, after a while, Chi Muyan watched Hong Shiyan's expression gradually stretch, and the black scar on his back also improved and no longer spread, so he temporarily stopped the movement in his hand and summoned the cloud lion to carry the two of them back to Zhulin Village.

On the way, Hong Jiu'er, who was sitting at the front, asked Chi Muyan behind him, "Did you find anything in that cave for so long?"

Chi Muyan thought for a moment and replied, "I found a woman who used demonic qi to pinch pills. ”

Hong Jiu'er didn't understand what he said at all, blinked her blue eyes, turned her head and asked, "Ah, what kind of woman who pinched pills?" Chi Muyan, can you talk well?"

Ji Muyan didn't continue to explain, and replied: "I'm a good talker, but you still haven't understood, so you can't blame me." ”

Hong Jiu'er was annoyed, "Chi Muyan, who can understand your whimsical statement, I remember that it wasn't like this when you came to Lingjian Mountain before." ”

Chi Muyan smiled at her, "Didn't I learn from our elders?" ”

Between the words, Yun Shi had already carried the three of them back to the bamboo house where they lived in Zhulin Village, it was nearly midnight, the villagers had already slept, Chi Muyan and Hong Jiu'er did not want to alarm the villagers who had worked hard all day, so they quietly turned over and got off the cloud lion, and helped Hong Shiyan into the bamboo house together.

After entering the bamboo house, the two of them first helped Hong Shiyan onto the bamboo bed, and then Chi Muyan asked Hong Jiu'er to eat something first, and then go to rest earlier, and then he raised his staff to continue to purify the demonic qi in Hong Shiyan's body.

Hong Jiu'er saw that he really couldn't help much, so he listened to what Chi Muyan said, ate some things and went to the back room to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find that although Chi Muyan looked tired, he was still continuing to purify the demonic qi for Hong Shiyan, but Hong Jiu'er could only stay quietly aside.

Chi Muyan's purification lasted until noon before finally stopping, he possessed and checked the black scar behind Hong Shiyan, although the shallow marks that spread out yesterday had all disappeared, but the deepest black mark was still untouched.

Chi Muyan could only shake his head helplessly, wiped away the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, and condensed the memory of seeing the black scar behind Hong Shiyan into a memory ball, and sent it to Cang Lan along with a spirit letter, the only thing to be thankful for was that this time he finally received Cang Lan's reply.