The Land Temple is located in a mountain col and is surrounded by mountains on three sides.

After Shangguan Xiu rushed to the Land Temple, he didn't rush into it directly, he first found a big tree that grew to a high place, quickly climbed to the top of the tree, hid in the branches and leaves of the old tree, and looked into the Land Temple.

The land temple is deserted, but its scale is still there, the outermost layer is a high courtyard wall, which is overgrown with weeds and vines, the temple door is spacious and tall, but the door panel has long been demolished, wide open.

Shangguan Xiu looked at the tree for a while, and looked at the front, middle, and back courts of the Land Temple, but he didn't see a single figure.

He frowned, could it be that the ghost head was lying to him, or that group of Jiangyang thieves had transferred away after kidnapping Qingling?

But even if they were to move away, at least there should be some traces of people living in the Land Temple.

He pondered for a moment, jumped down from the tree, and approached the Earth Temple quickly.

The abandoned land temple is eerie and terrifying, and even the temperature inside seems to be much lower than the outside, making people shudder when they enter it.

Shangguan Xiu's face was not afraid, he walked through the main entrance, walked into the vestibule, and looked around, the ground was full of weeds and rubble, and he found nothing abnormal, he strode into the main hall.

When you enter, the first thing that catches your eye is a statue of a land god.

The statue was at least three or four meters tall, with a fierce appearance, bared teeth, a sword in one hand and a pen in the other. Because of the disrepair, most of the gold paint on the statue has fallen off, and many parts are damaged, which looks dilapidated and even more terrifying. しし已upload

He walked around the hall slowly, but found nothing, not even a trace of a fire.

He shook his head, bypassed the statue, walked through the main hall, and came to the atrium, like the vestibule, there was no trace of human habitation here, Shangguan Xiu was unwilling to search the back court, and the result was still the same, there were no traces and clues.

He searched the entire land temple and found nothing, not to mention that he could not find anyone, and there was not even a trace of anyone who had lived here.

Looking at it this way, it's not that the Jiang Yang thieves have moved away, but that they haven't lived here at all, and the ghost head has given him fake news.

Thinking of this, Shangguan Xiu was furious, and was about to go back to the city to settle accounts with the ghost, but suddenly he felt that something was not right, the land temple had been abandoned for several years, was it too clean here, except for the weeds all over the ground and the vines on the wall, there was not even a little beast dung.

Could it be that there is still the spirituality of the land god in this abandoned land temple, and the beasts dare not come in to make a mistake? Shangguan Xiu frowned, slowly sat down in a room that looked like a monk's house, bowed his head and pondered, and when he was pondering, suddenly there was a rustling of footsteps outside.

The sound was very soft, so light that it seemed like the weeds in the courtyard hanging by the mountain wind. Shangguan Xiu's body was shocked, and he hurriedly stood up, he walked to the window of the courtyard, and squinted through the broken window paper.

I saw a person walking quickly into the backyard on the side of the nave, this person was in his twenties, not tall, thin and small, looking at his face, he was born with a roe deer's eyes, and when he walked to the backyard, he kept looking around.

He walked through the courtyard and went straight to the courtyard where Shangguan Xiu was.

Shangguan Xiu took a deep breath and raised his breath, and when the thin young man walked into the house, Shangguan Xiu just jumped onto the beam of the roof. He lay flat on top of a beam, tilted his head slowly, and looked down.

After the thin young man came in, he looked outside for a while, and seemed to confirm that no one was following, so he closed the door tightly.

Then he turned around and walked into the inner room, jumped on the kang mat with a familiar car, lifted a corner of the kang mat at one end, and Shangguan Xiu, who was on the beam of the house, took a closer look, only to find that there was a secret door hidden under the dilapidated kang mat.

This is too unexpected, there is still a secret room hidden in a land temple that has been abandoned for many years, if it is not seen with his own eyes, Shangguan Xiu may be difficult to believe.

The thin young man opened the secret door under the kang mat with ease, and there was a rumbling inside, he jumped in without any worries, the space inside the secret door seemed to be small, and after he entered, his mind was still exposed.

He stretched out his hand and closed the secret door tightly, and the kang mat that was lifted also covered it.

After a while, Shangguan Xiu's figure lying on the beam of the room flipped to the side and fell to the ground lightly.

He jumped onto the kang with arrows, three steps into two steps, came to the secret door, slowly lifted the kang mat, and then he knelt down and listened to the movement inside.

I don't know if it's because the secret passage is too deep or the sound insulation is too good, Shangguan Xiu listened carefully for a long time and didn't hear any sound.

He blinked, pondered for a moment, lifted the mat all, and then tore off the hem of his shirt and tied it to the tab of the secret door.

After that, he gently pulled the tab of the secret door to open it, and as he opened the secret door, a cold wind blew out of it.

Shangguan Xiu narrowed his eagle eyes, and after waiting for a while, he jumped into the secret passage.

The secret passage is really shallow, and it looks like it is more than a meter high. He bent down and walked towards the depths of the secret passage, with the light shining in from the entrance, Shangguan Xiu could only see the distance of about four or five meters, how deep the secret passage was, he couldn't see it, the only thing he could be sure of was that it was a secret passage that was inclined downward.

He licked his dry lips and walked deeper into the secret passage.

The floor of the passage is flat and straight, so you don't have to worry about tripping or hitting the wall even if there is no light. The deeper he went, the more the tunnel extended underground, and the top was higher, and gradually, Shangguan Xiu was able to straighten his waist.

He walked for a while, and finally there was light in front of him.

Shangguan Xiu's spirit was shocked, and he subconsciously quickened his pace. From the time he saw the light to the time he walked to the exit of the secret passage, it was a long distance. Finally reaching the exit of the secret passage, he leaned against the wall and looked out of the secret passage.

What catches your eye is a huge underground karst cave, the cave is at least four or five meters high, and countless stalactites of different lengths hang down from the top, and in a clearing in the center of the cave, there are eight or nine people sitting or standing.

What made Shangguan Xiu's heart beat wildly was that Gu Qingling, who had been kidnapped by the gangsters, was sitting next to the group of people, with loops of rope tied to her body, her mouth was also gagged, and she was sitting on the ground leaning on a stalactite, her eyes full of horror.

The thin young man was talking to the kidnappers with a smile on his face.

"Big boss, I just saw the eighth master in the city. ”

"What did the Eighth Master say?" asked a man with a big face in a deep voice.

"The eighth master said, let's take care of the meat ticket first, and when the matter is completed, fifty thousand taels of silver will not be given to us less. ”

Hearing his words, everyone present showed excitement, but the man in his thirties was expressionless, snorted coldly, and muttered: "The eighth master is really good at trading, and he wants to send us away for 50,000 taels of silver? Who is she? It is Gu Chunyuan's eldest daughter, if we go directly to Gu Chunyuan, let alone 50,000 taels, even if it is 500,000 taels, he has to give it to us!"

The thin young man grinned again and again when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Big boss, we can't afford to offend the eighth master, besides, this transaction is also found by the eighth master, and we don't have much effort, it is equivalent to taking the 50,000 taels of silver for nothing, why not?"

"Well, Le San is right!" A young woman in clothes who was nearly thirty years old walked up to the big man and said, "Big brother, if we bring her to Anjun, it will be a long way and the risk is too great, and now the eighth master has not given us much silver, but we don't have to take the risk." If we fall out with the eighth master, we will not be able to move an inch in the future. ”

The big-faced man frowned, looked at the thin young man and the young woman in clothes, and then at the others, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Big brother, we all listen to you, you can do whatever you say!" said a young man with a sword under his ribs, "However, I also don't think it's appropriate to fall out with the eighth master." Fifty thousand taels of silver is really a lot, enough for us to live the rest of our lives without worrying about food and clothing!"

"Yes, big brother......" The rest of the people also persuaded with gossip.

Shangguan Xiu, who was hiding at the entrance of the secret passage, could hear clearly, who did these kidnappers mean by the Eighth Master? It sounded like the whole thing was planned by this Eighth Master, and it was he who instructed these Jiangyang thieves to kidnap Qingling, and promised to give them 50,000 taels of silver as a reward. This is not a small amount, even in the entire Shangjing, there are not many people who can come up with so much silver at once.

The big-faced man glanced around at everyone, snorted coldly, and said, "You are content with 50,000 taels of silver?

Everyone looked at each other, and the thin young man named Le San said with a dry smile: "Anyway, as long as we follow the big boss, we will definitely be right, and we won't have to worry about eating and drinking spicy food in the future." ”

The big man smiled on his back and said, "You kid can talk!"

Le San smiled, his eyes turned and fell on Gu Qingling on the side, he stepped forward with a wicked smile on his face, and said, "The eldest lady of the Gu family is really beautiful!"

The young woman gave him a blank look and asked, "When did the eighth master say to give us the silver?"

The thin young man turned around and said, "The eighth master said, three days at the latest." ”

"Sure?"

"You can't be wrong, the eighth master never breaks his word. ”

"It's better to be like that. She reminded everyone: "We have to be extra careful in the past three days, and try not to go out if we can, because something goes wrong and something bad happens." ”

The big man with a big face nodded, and said with a straight face: "Fifth sister is right, we have done everything, and now there is only one last step left, and we must not travel to the pool!"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the thin young man, and saw that he was untying the ropes on Gu Qingling's feet, he frowned and asked, "Le San, what are you doing?"

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