Yao, in ancient times, was the same as "Yao", which means high mountain. The so-called Yao people cannot be called a nation or a tribe, they should be a community in the mountainous area where the primitive society lives. With the development of society, the Yao people gradually merged with the communities in the plains, and the Yao people in the real sense no longer existed. The group where the mysterious man is located is the only place where he still calls himself a Yao person.

From an early age, the mysterious man, like many children of the same age, wanted to get a hunting knife of his own, but he preferred to go through the canyon in front of the wall, over a high mountain, and perhaps a green oak forest.

To this day, no one knows what his name is, only one is called "Shantai". Shantai heard the elders of the clan talk about the prosperity of Dali, and listened to his father describe the majesty of the Jinsha River, and his father also told him that people outside are sinister. His mother always held a piece of yam and handed it to his mouth, persuading him to find a good girl and give birth to a doll as soon as possible.

He sat on the bamboo tower, looking at Afterglow, worried that he would be like those uncles who carried firewood knives. Day after day, the teenager looked forward to a twist of fate.

One calm morning, he was about to go to collect firewood with his father, when he saw a strange man dressed strangely, with a short and thick build, and a delicate scimitar hanging from his waist.

Because there were few outsiders in the village, my father looked at this man a few more times, stepped forward and asked, "Who are you?" ”

But the man was at a loss, and the father shook his head and continued his journey up the mountain.

The boy was attracted by the long knife at his waist and did not want to leave, but his father dragged him on. The man suddenly shouted, "I'm looking for the patriarch!" ”

The father looked at the strange man suspiciously, and then turned back, not knowing what he had said, and the man looked a little depressed. When the young man saw that his father had turned back again, he was overjoyed, so he told his father that he wanted to go home and get something, and his father nodded and went up the mountain first.

The boy walked up to the 'stranger' and said to him with a smile, 'If you want to find the patriarch, I'll take you there.' After speaking, he looked hopefully at the long knife at the man's waist.

The man laughed, touched the boy's head, took off his long knife and handed it to him. The young man was full of joy and led the man to the patriarch, who was first startled when he saw the man, and waved his hand to signal him to retreat.

The young man fiddled with the long knife, and he didn't have the heart to chop wood, seeing that the blade was slender and sharp, and his bamboo bench was actually split in half.

At dusk, the boy was constantly wiping the sharp long knife with the corner of his clothes, and when the father came back, he saw his son playing with the knife, and before the boy could react, he lifted the fat and beat him.

The young man hid in the corner of the wall and looked at his father helplessly, but suddenly heard a crisp sound of a gong, which was a signal of the Yao people's urgent deliberations, and his father turned around and cursed, and hurriedly ran out.

The boy also ran out of the house after his father's buttocks, and the clansmen surrounded the city in the center of the stockade, with the patriarch and the strange man standing in the middle. The young man couldn't help but wonder, the patriarch's position in the clan was unshakable, and no one dared to sit on an equal footing with the patriarch during the deliberations, and he didn't know what this strange man was capable of.

The patriarch waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, pointed to the strange man beside him, and said loudly to everyone: "This is the warrior of Dongying, who wants to practice Gu art here with us, starting tomorrow, each family will send one person to help this warrior who has come from afar to practice." ”

The clansmen were puzzled when they heard this, they had never heard of any Dongying or any samurai, but the patriarch had to do what he ordered.

The young man admired the samurai very much, and the next morning he went to the patriarch's house to report without his father's permission, and the samurai always greeted him with a smile and looked very kind.

The patriarch saw that the people were almost there, so he whispered in the samurai's ear for a while, the samurai nodded, and then the patriarch said to everyone: "The samurai wants you to configure the 'Five Poison Transformations'. ”

Everyone shook their heads after hearing this, the Five Poison Transformations are Gu techniques that have long been lost, and the legend is that they can resurrect the dead, which is extremely vicious.

Not to mention that there is no configuration, even if there is, there is not so much energy. However, the only person in the clan who could match the five poisonous transformations did not show up, and it was the young man's father.

The young man scratched his head and said to the patriarch, "As long as someone is willing to help me, I can!" ”

The patriarch nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, and the corners of the warrior's mouth were also lightly raised.

A few days passed, and the young man's father didn't know what his son was doing every day, going in and out of the house, and finally couldn't bear it, and followed his son to the patriarch's house, and saw that a group of people were circling around his son, and the father sniffed with his nose, but heard a young voice in the crowd shouting: "Haha succeeded!" ”

Father was stunned on the spot, he had already sniffed out that it was the strange Gu wafting in the air - the five poisonous changes, and his father's face changed color. mentioned his son and walked out of the patriarch's house.

The boy didn't understand why his father couldn't see his grades, he just beat and scolded him, and just said that he was in trouble.

That night, he and his father were so angry that they did not come home, but took the long knife with them, and withered in the oak forest for the night. When I woke up in the morning, my stomach was bulging.

When he returned to the village, he was devastated, and the mother was throwing down a child of the clan, biting at her, and the patriarch staggered out of the house, only to be thrown to the ground by the mad samurai. What he saw was not something that an eleven or twelve-year-old could bear.

After the samurai knocked down the patriarch, he pounced on him with red eyes, and he subconsciously pulled out the long knife, rounded it and slashed at the samurai's neck, there was no blood, but the head flew out of the distance.

He couldn't believe that everything in front of him was true, and he didn't dare to look at everything that was really happening in front of him, only that he was in trouble. He wanted to make amends, to save his people, but now he could only escape.

I don't know how far he ran, through that canyon, over a big mountain, an oak forest, and many villages, he arrived in Dali and passed out on the side of the road.

He was rescued by a shaman priest who had traveled here, but the young man was very stubborn, saying that he would go back to see the village and his own people, and he believed that he could solve the five poisonous changes that he had arranged haphazardly.

The priest saw that he was stubborn and had a great appetite for him, so he took him as a disciple. The young man studied with the priest for a few years, and his mind was a little calm, but he always felt guilty, and secretly configured the medicine Gu that he thought could save the clan, and returned to the Yao clan with his junior brother through the mountains and valleys. The mysterious man saw that the clansmen were lying on the ground heavily, and shouted excitedly, he was going to use the medicine Gu he configured to detoxify the clansmen.

But the junior brother beside him frowned, looking at these corpses lying on the ground, I don't know how many years of spring and autumn, these corpses are exposed but not decomposed, I can't say when they will burst out and hurt people. Looking at the crazy senior brother in the distance, I don't know whether to stop it.

Sure enough, when the mysterious man was about to walk into a corpse, the corpse received the breath of the living person, and suddenly bounced up, and the mysterious man did not expect that he was bitten by the walking corpse, but he was numb and did not react, and the other corpses also got up one after another and threw themselves towards the mysterious man.

However, at this moment, the mysterious man stayed there, looking at the familiar faces, full of hope, and dropped the medicine Gu on the head of the walking corpse, but there was no effect he imagined, and more walking corpses rushed towards him one after another. The mysterious man collapsed on the ground, allowing the walking corpse to bite.

Seeing this scene, the junior brother hurriedly drew his long sword and took the heads of the walking corpses, and one by one the heads flew into the air, and a cavity without a head also fell to the ground. The mysterious man stared blankly at his junior brother, screamed and knocked the man down, biting his sword-wielding right hand with all his might.

The junior brother did not struggle, looked at the crazy senior brother, and shed a line of tears.

The mysterious man had been drinking and fighting ever since, and the priest was angry and expelled him. And he has no children under his knees, and always treats the mysterious man as his own son, and watching the mysterious man fall all day long, he also fell on the sickbed on a big fire.

And the reason why Ji Weiqi knows these is all because of the junior brother of the mysterious person, it turned out that in order to investigate shamanism, Yuling sent a capable descendant to be an undercover agent, and successfully won the trust of the priest and accepted him as an apprentice. Providence makes people, I never thought that such a heinous person would have so much suffering when he was a child. Ji Weiqi also shook her head and sighed lightly after speaking.

"Sister Qi, what happened then?"

"Shamanism withdrew from the stage of history, but Shantai escaped, he later set up his own door, with the shamanism next to the branch of the blood religion as the banner, recruited a group of followers, hiding in the mountains of western Zhejiang, although there is no climate, but over the years, we have been paying attention to him."

"But this doesn't mean anything, his background is at most a little related to shamans, what does it have to do with 'shadow'?"

"Maybe the so-called 'shadow' you have promised him some benefits, more than thirty years ago, the mysterious man began to use Yelang Town as a base to carry out evil deeds, and all he asked for was one thing, that is, eternal life, which is the key."

I nodded, "So, he further controlled the Zhao family's father and son and helped him do some shady things." ”

The weather after the snow was cold, and I couldn't help but shiver, and after seeing it, Ji Weiqi took off the robe and draped it over me, looked at the map again, and nodded.

The wolves were still watching us from afar, and the cold wind could not stop their desire to survive.

"Coming to an end?" I looked ahead at the deep valley and asked Ji Weiqi.

Ji Weiqi shook her head: "According to the instructions on the map, there should be an iron chain here, but ......"

After listening to this, I looked around, except for a white snow, there were only a few dead old trees left, and there were no iron chains. I couldn't see what was on the other side of the deep valley, but it seemed that there were always black shadows passing through it, black shadows darker than the night.

I was beating a drum in my heart, watching Ji Weiqi rub the snow on the ground with her feet nearby, and I also leaned over to help Ji Weiqi clear the snow, and a large patch of snow was cleared away to reveal the frozen ice.

Although it has just entered winter at the foot of the mountain, it is not uncommon to see ice in all seasons on this Changbai Mountain, but the next scene made me stunned, and I saw a little dim light through the thick ice.

I looked at the sky, the waning moon was obscured by black clouds at some point, obviously this light could not be reflected by the moonlight, I clung to the placket of Ji Weiqi's clothes, and saw that her expression was solemn, as if she did not have the slightest scruples about the bright light in the ice.

Ji Weiqi looked at the starry light under the ice and said: "If there is fire in the three-foot ice, it is the 'Huangquan Lamp', and there are mostly children holding a lantern under the ice, and there are mostly martyrs in the mausoleum. There are also some extremely cold areas, in order to prevent the living from getting lost, so bury this lamp, but most of them are cows and horses, I don't know what is the doorway for a boy to hold the lamp, is it possible that there is a mausoleum at the foot? ”

I swallowed my saliva, although I knew that there was Ji Weiqi who couldn't do anything wrong here, but across the deep valley was the "ghost stock" infested by evil beasts in his mouth, and it seemed that this place was not clean.

"This is the Yellow Spring Lantern? Who is buried on this mountain, what should they do? I asked Ji Weiqi suspiciously.

Ji Weiqi shook her head after hearing this, and said to me: "The ghost in front of me is the obstacle laid by Sima Yizhao in order to prevent idlers from entering. ”

After listening to it, I secretly said that this Sima Yizhao's tomb covers a larger area than the air-raid shelter, and I really don't know why he built such a large mausoleum.