Taoyuan Village, surrounded by high mountains, is like a natural wooden basin, with steep mountains and steep roads. It is precisely because of this that Taoyuan Village is like a paradise, isolated from the world.

Taoyuan Village is named after the peach blossom forest on the basin. It's just that in Taoyuan Village today, on the scorched flat ground, there is less than half a peach blossom tree, or even a peach blossom. Only the most central part, the mirror-like lake, is still like this, and in the sun, it looks particularly dazzling.

Under the lake, it is far more than what the villagers see. At the bottom of the lake, which was covered by the water, in a hall that existed like a large hall, there was a square ice bed, and the ice bed was filled with a thick cold air. The fog formed by the cold air fills the entire hall, and it looks like a fairyland.

On the ice bed sat an eight-year-old child, thinly dressed. Under the ice bed, a cyan python as thick as an adult's arm crawled back and forth in the sea of fog formed by the cold air.

The child's hands were closed, and his pale face was covered with sweat. The corners of his mouth trembled, and occasionally a "don't" sound could be heard. After a few breaths, the child opened his eyes with a scream.

Tang Xi woke up and wiped the sweat from his face. I don't know if it was the fright from the nightmare, or the chill from the cold ice bed, which made Tang Xi's body tremble slightly. As soon as Tang Xi was about to stand up from the ice bed, there was pain all over his body, as if his body was about to be split, so that Tang Xi had to sit back on the ice bed again.

It was this pain that made Tang Xi feel alive at the moment. Tang Xi stretched out his right hand, trying to stand up, but he saw a wound on his wrist, the wound was dark red, and he didn't see blood flowing out, and he couldn't even feel the pain. Tang Xi held on to the ice bed and slowly moved outward.

After a cup of tea, Tang Xi slowly adapted to his body in pain. Shifting with difficulty, he looked around. Except for the Qinglin Mang, who slipped back and forth in the cold fog and had a lot of fun, there was no Tianchi boy.

"Old liar, where are you?" Tang Xi shouted in a weak voice.

The bottom of the lake is clear, and there is no response. Tang Xi hugged his arms and squatted on the ground. He secretly said in his heart: "Old liar, if you don't show up again, I will be frozen to death." ”

Tang Xi's voice alarmed Qing Linmang, who was playing in the sea of fog. Qinglin slipped in front of Tang Xi, holding his triangular head and spitting out letters.

"Eat what you want, don't look at me. You are all bad people, you either want my blood, or you want to eat me, you give me a good time!" Tang Xi lowered his head, as if talking to himself. Tang Xi remembered at this moment that the fifth uncle told the story of Tang Xuanzang's learning scriptures in the west. At this moment, Tang Xi really has the same feeling, he is surnamed Tang, and he meets all bad people.

Qinglin tilted his head, as if he could see that Tang Xi was cold. So the snake tail swung and hit the button under the futon, and the "boom" sound was heard, and the ice bed disappeared into the hall.

After the ice bed disappeared, the temperature in the hall turned back slightly. Half an hour later, the fog formed by the cold air dissipated in the hall. Tang Xi looked at the futon, the raised ball was the place where Qinglin's snake tail had touched before. Tang Xi said secretly: "It turns out that this ball is a mechanism to control the ice bed. ”

Tang Xi also saw a yellowed ancient book and a letter on the futon. Tang Xi picked up the letter, only to see that the letter said: "The old man has something to go out, this book is Xuanyin decision, cultivation can dissolve the poisonous blood in your body, otherwise, you will die in half a year." If you don't know, I'll give you the answer when the old man returns. Qinglin Mang is temporarily in your care. ”

Tang Xi dropped the letter and flipped through the yellowed ancient book. I flipped a book from beginning to end and looked at it at random. There are villains in the book, there are words, and there is handwriting marked by a red pen. After a cursory review, Tang Xi knew that this book was divided into three parts: Xuanyin Mental Method, Xuanyin Meditation Finger, and Xuanyin Great Array. It's just the Xuanyin Great Array, there are only two articles, and the last one is not complete, as if it has been torn up.

Tang Xi sat on the futon and already had a general understanding of this Xuanyin recipe. The mental method is to cultivate internal force and open up the major meridians, which is commonly referred to as internal cultivation. As for the Xuanyin Meditation Finger, it is a move. Thinking back, Tianchi Boy pointed at two fingers, and Tang Xi naturally understood. It's just that this incomplete formation, Tang Xi looks at it very casually.

After Tang Xi dropped the book, his mind recalled everything that had happened. I can't remember where this poisonous blood came from. It's just that from the grip of the hand, on the dark red wound, you can see a few points. Soon, the "grunting" sound in his stomach pulled Tang Xi back from his memories.

Qinglin recklessly crossed his body, like black pearl eyes, looking at Tang Xi. He even put his head in front of Tang Xi's stomach and listened to the voice. Qinglin spit out the letter recklessly, tilting his head to the left and right, and occasionally staring at Tang Xi, without any sense of fear.

Tang Xi stretched out his right hand and pressed down Qinglinmang's head. As soon as I pressed it down, my head stuck out again. Tang Xi thought about the letter left by the Tianchi boy, and said to himself: "Now that I can't move myself, you still want me to help you raise snakes." If it's hungry, it doesn't matter if it doesn't swallow me. ”

Qinglin tilted his head, bit Tang Xi's clothes, and then looked into the passage. Tang Xi glanced at it, and then ignored it. Then, Qing Lin Mang stretched out his head, opened his mouth in front of Tang Xi, took a few bites of air, and then swallowed it again.

"I'm still hungry, you won't really eat me!" Tang Xi looked at Qinglin's cute movements, revealing helplessness.

Qinglin Mang saw Tang Xi sitting on the futon and not moving, so he bit the air again and made several movements back and forth. But Tang Xi simply closed his eyes and ignored what Qing Linmang did. Qing Lin Mang finally opened his mouth to bite Tang Xi's shirt and dragged it towards the passage.

Tang Xi was helpless, his already weak body had to choose to follow behind Qinglin Mang. Dragged to the back of the passage by Qing Lin Mang, Qing Lin Mang's dark eyes stared at the small hole in the stone wall, and then looked at a key like a wire next to the small hole.

Tang Xi understood what Qinglin Mang meant, took out the key, and inserted it into the hole. The stone wall was opened like a door. A chilly air came over the room, and the room was filled with all kinds of dry food, vegetables, rice, and some livestock, and it was still very fresh.

"Wow, there's a kitchen here, too. Tang Xi smiled, patted Qinglin Mang's head, picked up a piece of halva and started to nibble. Qinglin Mang came to the full table of meat, and directly swallowed a piece of meat far larger than his own body into his stomach.

It was the first time Tang Xi had seen a snake eating, and looking at Qinglin's reckless movements, the shortbread in Tang Xi's hand fell directly to the ground, revealing horror.

After swallowing the meat, Qinglin Mang's belly was uneven, Qing Lin Mang came to Tang Xi's side, and saw Tang Xi motionless, tilting his head, as if he was puzzled.

The scream of his stomach brought Tang Xi back to his senses. Tang Xi didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and continued to eat with shortbread.

A piece of shortbread had just been halfway eaten, and a mellow sound came, like a ghost crying, and the shortbread in Tang Xi's hand fell to the ground again.